Aided by his 6-foot-4-inch height, which U.S. president won an estimated 300 wrestling matches?
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
Which author survived a train wreck, helping to rescue others from the wreckage before retrieving an early manuscript of "Our Mutual Friend"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Charles Dickens
Which scientist was known for eating exotic animals whenever he could, including giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands?
Charles Darwin
Louis Pasteur
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
In his book "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship," who described a process for waking himself just after falling asleep to harness his dreams for art?
Vincent van Gogh
Leonardo da Vinci
Rembrandt
Salvador Dali
Before publishing her first memoir in 1969, which author would sing and dance under the name Miss Calypso?
Maya Angelou
Margaret Atwood
Toni Morrison
Harper Lee
Which Founding Father invented a swimming aid at the age of 11, decades before creating bifocal glasses and the lightning rod?
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
John Quicy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Which famous criminal preferred the nickname "Snorky," a term meaning snazzy, to his more common moniker "Scarface"?
Lucky Luciano
Bugsy Siegel
John Dillinger
Al Capone
Raised in a slave-owning family in Missouri, which author was a lieutenant in a Confederate militia for two weeks?
William Faulkner
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Who was bullied by schoolmates for, among other things, speaking French with a thick Corsican accent?
Marie Antoinette
Alexandre Dumas
Napoleon Bonaparte
Joan of Arc
Who dropped out of public school because her teacher refused to teach long division to girls?
Susan B. Anthony
Sally Ride
Mother Teresa
Ruth Bader Ginsburg