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1. In which Southern state was Bob Ross born that well matches his sunshine personality? (It is also the same state where he died and where he was buried.)

From Quiz Ross ...Bob Ross

Answer: Florida

Robert Norman Ross was born on October 29, 1942, in Daytona Beach, FL. He died at the young age of 52 on July 04, 1995, in Orlando, FL. He is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Gotha, FL. The official nickname of Florida is the Sunshine State. Even as a child, Bob showed his sunshine personality with his hobby of caring for injured animals including squirrels, an armadillo, and a snake.

From Quiz Betsy Ross and the American Flag

Answer: Quaker

Elizabeth "Betsy" Gramsci was born in 1752 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the eighth of seventeen children by her Quaker parents. Her great-aunt, Sarah Elizabeth Ann Griscom, taught young Betsy how to sew. Her great-grandparents has emigrated in 1680 from England to the New World. The colony of Pennsylvania had been founded by William Penn as a haven for Quakers, or the Society of Friends, who in the 17th and 18th centuries faced persecution and jailtime for their dissension with the Church of England, especially their rejection of ecclesiastical hierarchy. Young Betsy Gramsci received her education in Quaker-run state schools.

From Quiz The Wrong Box: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer: Edinburgh

The family business on his father's side was lighthouse engineering, with all of the men in the three generations of the Stevenson family preceding Robert Louis having gone into that trade. His father was the great Robert Stevenson, engineer of the Bell Rock Lighthouse in the North Sea (the world's oldest sea-washed lighthouse and one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World). It was perhaps due to his ill health as a child, or the fact that he spent a lot of time with his maternal grandfather (his mother's side of the family were members of the Scottish gentry - far from being engineers) that Stevenson did not follow in his father's footsteps.

From Quiz The Life of Roget

Answer: London, England

Peter Mark Roget was born to Catherine and Jean Roget on January 18, 1779 in London England. Jean Roget was a Swiss minister who passed away when his son was four years old. Catherine Roget (née Romilly) moved the family several times while her son was young. She passed away at the age of eighty.

From Quiz If I Was A Philosopher

Answer: Russia

Ayn Rand was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (1905) to non-observant Jewish bourgeois parents in Russia. Her father was a successful pharmacist and his wife Anna bore three daughters. Rand began writing plays at age eight, and was a close friend of Vladimir Nabokov's young sister Olga. The two were interested in political debate and theories such that by age twelve, Alisa had strong opinions about the ongoing 1917 February Revolution. Because of the October Revolution, the family business was confiscated and the family had to flee. They suffered much, but when the Revolution ended universities opened to women, so at 16, Rand was among the first to enrol.

From Quiz Disloyal To The End...

Answer: Norway

Quisling was born on July 18, 1887. His father was a Church of Norway pastor and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy shipowner. A very capable student, Quisling enrolled in the Norway Military Academy in 1905 and graduated with the highest score in the history of the almost-century old school.

From Quiz Cindy Sheehan: Peace Mom

Answer: Roman Catholic

Cindy Sheehan was a youth minister St Mary's Catholic Church in Vacaville, California for eight years.

From Quiz The Legendary H. Allen Smith

Answer: Lo! The Former Egyptian

McLeansboro is in extreme southern Illinois, an area known as "Little Egypt." In his book, Smith devotes many pages to descriptions of southern Illinois and its people, including what visitors have said about it. My favorite quotation was from an Englishman who wrote: "It is the sorriest piece of real estate in the entire country, nurturing a miserable tribe of human beings whose equal for ignorance and depravity has not been seen in the entire history of the world." Like Smith, I am a native of southern Illinois.

From Quiz Jack Sheppard: 18th Century Criminal Escaper

Answer: Spitalfields

John, known as Jack, was named after a brother who had died some time before. He was baptised the day after his birth. At the time Spitalfields was already a very run down area.

From Quiz Danger! High Voltage!

Answer: Virginia

Shenandoah National Park was established in December of 1935 and encompasses nearly 200,000 acres of land along the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Roy Sullivan began his career as a park ranger (at Shenandoah National Park) beginning in 1940, working there until he retired in 1976.

From Quiz The Artist Known as Rembrandt

Answer: It is his first name

His full name is Rembrandt Harmenszoon von Rijn. Thank goodness he wasn't known as "Harmenszoon"! Rembrandt was actually born without the silent "D" in his first name; he tried using it temporarily in his early days of painting, removed it briefly in some of his signatures, then decided he liked it better with the "D" and continued to use it until his death. With the "D" inserted is the common way it is spelled today.

From Quiz The Infamous Mrs Simpson

Answer: Earl Winfield Spencer

Earl 'Win' Spencer was an officer in the US Navy. During their marriage they spent time in, amongst other places, China. There have been allegations of scandalous goings-on during that time, details of which are said to have found their way to the UK government when Wallis became involved with the Prince of Wales. As far as I know, no-one has ever seen the proof, so we may never know the truth. 'Win' was a violent drunk, and they divorced in 1927. Wallis married Ernest Simpson in 1928. The Prince's long-standing mistress was Lady Furness, but the Simpson's entry into high society threw Wallis into the Prince's circle, and the rest is history.

From Quiz To You, Gertrude Stein

Answer: Yes Is For A Very Young Man

"Yes Is For A Very Young Man" was performed at the Pasadena Playhouse the year that Gertrude Stein died. She wrote the play about life and friendships during World War II in France when it was occupied by Germany. The English renamed the play for their country, "In Savoy".

From Quiz This Was Your Life - William Safire

Answer: Richard Nixon

Safire helped set up the Kitchen Debate and then worked for Nixon on his 1960 presidential campaign. In 1968 he rejoined Nixon and served him until he left the administration in 1973. One of the most famous speeches he ever wrote was one that Nixon would have given if something had gone wrong with the first moon landing. Since nothing did, the speech was never given.

From Quiz Maurice Sendak -- More Than a Children's Author

Answer: Brooklyn, NY

Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1928. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father's profession was dressmaker, but Philip Sendak also was a storyteller and some of his stories have been published with his son's illustrations.

From Quiz Jean-Paul Sartre: Life and Works

Answer: France

Sartre was born in Paris in 1905 and died there in 1980 (at the age of 74). France is known for being home to many of the world's greatest and most influential philosophers and thinkers, including Descartes, Foucault, Voltaire, Diderot, Comte, Derrida and many more.

From Quiz A Man Named Nicholas Sparks

Answer: December

Nicholas Sparks barely made it into the 1965 slot, being born on December 31st, 1965. He was born to Patrick Michael Sparks and Jill Emma Marie Sparks, in Omaha, Nebraska, where he lived for the first year of his life. Then he had to move, due to Patrick Sparks getting accepted into the University of Minnesota.

From Quiz Sir Clive Sinclair

Answer: Marles

Clive Marles Sinclair was born near Richmond, London, on July 30, 1940. Sinclair was knighted in 1983, and became known as Sir Clive Sinclair.

From Quiz The Marquis de Sade

Answer: Donatien Alphonse Francois

Although rightfully born to it, he was unable to take the title of Marquis until after the death of his father in 1797. It had been common practice in the de Sade family to change back and forth between the title of 'marquis' and 'comte' or 'count.' (In Continental Europe, the sons of aristocrats generally acquire their titles at birth, unlike in the United Kingdom). The de Sade coat-of-arms includes the double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, a privilege granted in the 15th century.

From Quiz Paul Robeson

Answer: An escaped slave

William Drew Robeson eloped from a North Carolina plantation. He found his way to Lincoln College where he met Marie Louise Bustill. Bustill was part Igbo tribe of Africa and part Native American from the Delaware tribe. Together they produced five children, including Paul.

From Quiz George Rodrigue: An American Original

Answer: Cajun

George Rodrigue is proud to be a Cajun painter from New Iberia, Louisiana. He began painting with the goal of depicting the disappearing Cajun way of life from his childhood.

From Quiz Rasputin: The Mad Monk of Russia

Answer: Grigori

The full name of the infamous Russian monk was Grigori Yefimovich (sometimes spelt Efimovich) Rasputin. There are a couple of variations of the spelling, such as Gregori and Grigory. However, the most commonly used spelling is Grigori. As very little is known about Rasputin's early life, no one is certain exactly when Rasputin was born. The best guess at Rasputin's birthday would be some time between 1865 and 1875.

From Quiz Leni Riefenstahl

Answer: Berlin

Bertha Helene Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was born on 22 August 1902 in the family apartment on Prinz-Eugen-Strasse in the Wedding district of Berlin. Her father, Alfred Riefenstahl, was a successful businessman. As his heating and ventilation systems firm on Kurfuerstenstrasse prosperred the family worked its way up in the middle class. Alfred Riefenstahl met Leni's mother Bertha Ida Scherlach at the costume ball in 1900. They married on 5 April 1902.

From Quiz The Life and Work of David Roberts, RA

Answer: Stockbridge, near Edinburgh

Roberts was born on 24 October 1796.

From Quiz All About Tom Stoppard

Answer: Singapore

Stoppard's father was killed in Singapore by the Japanese as Tom and his mother escaped to India. Once there, his mother married a British soldier named Kenneth Stoppard. They moved to England when Stoppard was still a boy.

From Quiz David Sedaris

Answer: New York

He was born in New York state and later moved to Raleigh, NC when his father was moved for work.

From Quiz New York, This is Shirer in Berlin

Answer: Chicago

He was born on February 23, 1904. His father died when he was 9 and his mother moved the family to Iowa. Shirer hated farm life, and moved back to Chicago as soon as he could.

From Quiz Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer: Devon

Many Elizabethan seafarers were from Devon, and many were related by blood or marriage. The explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert was the son of Raleigh's mother by her first marriage, while the naval commander Sir Richard Grenville was a cousin. His father's first wife was a Drake. Raleigh was born at a farm called Hayes Barton, near Budleigh Salterton, in 1552 or thereabouts (the exact date is unknown). The family's connection with the area is reflected in the names of villages like Colaton Raleigh and Withycombe Raleigh, and the family's coat of arms can still be seen on a pew in their old parish church of All Saints at East Budleigh.

From Quiz The Revolutionary Jean Jacques Rousseau

Answer: A Noble Savage

Rousseau believed that man in the "state of nature" was naturally good. Still he admitted that a true state of nature probably had never existed except as an ideal, a standard for comparison. His method for dealing with this discrepancy between reality and theory was to "lay the facts aside, as they do not affect the question."

From Quiz The Biggest Serial Killer Of Our Time

Answer: 17

She died of lung cancer. She spent her last few months heavily sedated by morphine, the drug which Dr Shipman was to use on most of his victims. She passed away on June 21, 1963, happy that she had managed to send her favourite child to grammar school.

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