Celebrities Born in the Great St. of Pennsylvania Quiz

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- Louisa May Alcott (Germantown) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. Before writing her famed "Little Women" she wrote, published, and supported her family with what she called "blood and thunder tales" (gothic thrillers) with names like "Pauline's Passion and Punishment" and "A Long Fatal Love Chase".

- Daniel Boone (Oley Valley) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. After he and his party were captured fighting the Shawnee, their chief adopted him. He married Rebecca Bryan in 1756 and had ten children.

- James Buchanan (Cove Gap) was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He remains the only president to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor.

- Bill Cosby (Philadelphia) is an American former comedian, actor, and media personality. He made history by becoming the first African-American actor to star in a dramatic television series in the show "I Spy," for which he received critical acclaim.

- WC Fields (Darby) was an American actor, comedian, juggler, and writer. At eleven, after many fights with his alcoholic father (who hit him on the head with a shovel), he ran away from home. By age thirteen he was a skilled pool player and juggler.

- Reggie Jackson (Wyncote) is an American former professional baseball right fielder. His legendary feat of hitting three home runs in a row in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series cemented his place in Yankee lore and earned him the Babe Ruth Award.

- Gene Kelly (Pittsburgh) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He and Stanley Donen devised a dance number in which two Gene Kellys simultaneously dance alongside each other onscreen (without CGI).

- Margaret Mead (Philadelphia) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker. She influenced the sexual revolution in the 1960s that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the United States and the developed world.

- Gertrude Stein (Allegheny) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She volunteered for the American Fund for the French Wounded, an organization that helped soldiers in France during World War I and, in addition, had to provide and drive their own supply vehicles.

- Jimmy Stewart (Indiana) was an American actor, military aviator, and poet. he sent a letter to Congress protesting the practice of colorizing "It's a Wonderful Life" and other films on the premise that it violated what directors like Frank Capra had intended. He described the tinted version as "a bath of Easter egg dye."

- John Updike (Reading) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. He is one of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

- Honus Wagner (Chartiers Borough) was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917. The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most expensive baseball cards in the world, as only 57 copies are known to exist. At its sale in 2022, it went for 7.25 million dollars.

- Rachel Carson (Springdale) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist. Her book "Silent Spring" (1962) exposed the harmful effects of pesticides, particularly DDT, on wildlife and the environment. The book eventually led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

- Arnold Palmer (Latrobe) was an American professional golfer widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. Palmer's 65 in the 1960 U.S. Open is considered one of the greatest final-round performances in the game's history. He erased a seven-stroke deficit to produce his only U.S. Open victory.

- Tom Mix (Mix Run) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. A lasting symbol of Mix's legacy is his trademark 10-gallon, wide-brimmed, off-white beaver felt hat, made by the John B. Stetson Co. and named after the actor. One of the original Tom Mix Stetsons is in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.