Famous Missourians Quiz

What Missouri author wrote the novels Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

   Nathaniel Hawthorne
   Stephen King
   Edgar Allan Poe
   Mark Twain

Who is the Missouri composer most famous for his ragtime composition Maple Leaf Rag?

   Johann Sebastian Bach
   Frederic Chopin
   Janice Joplin
   Scott Joplin

What Native American group inhabited both the Ozark Highlands of South Central Missouri and the Southwest Plains of Missouri at the time of European contact in Missouri?

   Apache
   Creek
   Osage
   Sioux

What was the nickname of the great Cardinals baseball shortstop Osborne Earl Smith?

   "Earl Da' Pearl"
   "Earl The Glove"
   "Ozzie/The Wizard of OZ"
   "Slick Osborne Smith"

What infamous Missouri bank and train robber was born near Kearney, Missouri and killed in St. Joseph, Missouri?

   Billy The Kid
   Al Capone
   John Dillenger
   Jesse James

What actor was born in Oklahoma, raised in Springfield, attended the University of Missouri-Columbia, has starred in numerous motion pictures, and is married to actress Jennifer Anniston?

   Drew Carey
   Brad Pitt
   Charlie Sheen
   Mark Wahlberg

Marceline, Missouri was the boyhood home of what creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck?

   Walt Disney
   Gary Larson
   Charles Schultz
   Mort Walker

What female African-American entertainer, born in St. Louis in 1906, worked as an undercover agent for the French Resistance during the Second World War?

   Josephine Baker
   Aretha Franklin
   Gladys Knight
   Tina Turner

What author of Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods was a long-time Missouri resident?

   Samuel Longhorn Clemens
   Michael Crichton
   Stephen King
   Laura Ingalls Wilder

Born in Joplin, Missouri, what African-American poet went on to become a central figure in the "Harlem Renaissance" of the 1920s?

   W.E.B. Dubois
   Frederick Douglas
   Langston Hughes
   Ike Turner

Raised in Belton, Missouri, what temperance advocate was known throughout the United States for crushing kegs with an ax?

   Madeleine Albright
   Susan B. Anthony
   Carrie Fischer
   Carrie Nation

Born a slave, what Missourian went on to become one of the best known orators of his time and was ranked as one of the ten most influential African Americans in history in 1915?

   Frederick Douglas
   Langston Hughes
   James Milton Turner
   Ike Turner

Born Anna Mae Bullock, which African-American Rock and Roll icon got her start in St. Louis in 1955 singing with Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm?

   Aretha Franklin
   Janet Jackson
   Diana Ross
   Tina Turner