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