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1. This man didn't start out as a success but he never gave up! After two of his candy shops failed, he started his own companies to produce caramel and chocolate. He became very successful and rich, but he and his wife were never able to have children. Which of these men was the founder of the Lancaster and Hershey candy companies?
2. This man is famous for making magic for children and families! He was an actor, a film writer, a director, an entertainer, and animator for many movies. He and his wife had several complications trying to have children. However, this couple did end up having one child and adopted another. Which of these men is famous for creating the character cartoon Mickey Mouse and was one of the pioneers of full length animation films?
3. This couple was the President and First Lady of the United States during the Spanish-American War, but they also had their history of set-backs and grief. Both of their children died in early childhood. Which of these presidents and their wives lost one of their children after a difficult birth and another child to typhoid fever while he was a lawyer in Ohio?
4. This Mexican painter did many self-portraits and paintings that reflected her life. She married another Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, who encouraged her to paint as a career. Which of these women was unable to have children due to an auto bus collision, which she later sketched and it became one of her well known artworks called "The Accident"?
5. This man never had any children of his own but he devoted his life to entertaining children, writing over forty literary works. Which of these men wrote the children's books "The Cat in the Hat", "The Lorax", and "Green Eggs and Ham"?
6. On the outside, you may never have guessed this man had struggles. He was a successful poet, playwright, and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. His works include "Murder in the Cathedral", "Hollow Men", and "The Waste Land". Which of these men did not have children, largely in part to the poor health and mental instability of his first wife?
7. Rosa Parks, the United States' civil rights activist also known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", never had any children with her husband Raymond Parks.
8. Kings and queens had their difficulties with children too! Which of these royal couples did NOT divorce, remarry, or separate because they could not have their own children?
9. This particular queen was extraordinarily unlucky. Most of her pregnancies ended in stillborn children or miscarriages and the surviving children all died in childhood. Which of these queens had eighteen pregnancies and died without being able to have one of her own children as an heir?
10. Tragedy even affects the families of some of the strongest and bravest people in history. What was the name of Julius Caesar's daughter who had a miscarriage and later died trying to have another child?
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