Celebrities Born in the Great State of Colorado Quiz

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- Tim Allen (Denver) is an American actor and comedian. For one week in November 1994, he had the #1 rated television series ("Home Improvement" (1991)), the #1 movie at the box office ("The Santa Clause" (1994)), and the #1 book on the best seller's list ("Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man").

- Scott Carpenter (Boulder) was an American naval officer, aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was assigned to make the second manned orbital flight (May 24, 1962, at Cape Canaveral, Florida). He enjoyed two orbits but on the third, he erred on re-entry into the atmosphere. His capsule Aurora 7 overshot the impact area and hit the Atlantic Ocean 138 miles northeast of Puerto Rico, 250 miles beyond where it was to have landed. Carpenter was out of radio communication range with Cape Canaveral and remained "lost" for about 45 minutes. A Navy plane rescued him in good physical condition.

- Lon Chaney (Colorado Springs) was an American actor and makeup artist. His knowledge of make-up was so vast that he wrote the entry on the subject for an edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica". Were it not for his death, he, rather than Bela Lugosi, would have been Tod Browning's choice for the starring role in Dracula (1931).

- Ruth Handler (Denver) was an American business magnate and co-inventor of the Barbie doll. In 1955, Ruth pushed a deal with Walt Disney's "Mickey Mouse Club", where Mattel would be a main sponsor for the show. This marked the first national TV campaign for a toy manufacturer. With the deal costing $500,000, the Mattel ads were geared towards the children watching, not the parents, revolutionizing how the US toy industry markets toys.

- Jack Dempsey (Manassa) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927 and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. He scored the quickest knockout in a heavyweight bout of national importance when he flattened big Carl Morris in New Orleans in fourteen seconds, bettering by four seconds the time in which he disposed of Fred Fulton, the Sapulpa Plasterer in Harrison, New Jersey, on July 27th of the same year. However, both were non-championship affairs since the Manassa Mauler had not won a title yet.

- Douglas Fairbanks (Denver) was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first to play the masked vigilante "Zorro" and other swashbuckling roles in silent films. Although he had met Mary Pickford and her husband Owen Moore at Elsie Janis' Tarrytown (NY) home in 1914, the actress considered him brash. However, at a dinner dance at New York's Algonquin Hotel the following year, they danced and fell in love. It was not until 1920 that Pickford divorced Moore and married the swashbuckling star.

- Ted Mack (Greeley) was an American radio and television host and musician, best known for hosting "Ted Mack and The Original Amateur Hour". His "Original Amateur Hour" was one of only six TV series to air on all four US television networks of the 1950s: ABC, CBS, NBC and DuMont. The others are "Stump the Stars" (1947), "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" (1950), "The Arthur Murray Party" (1950), "Down You Go" (1951) and "The Ernie Kovacs Show" (1952).

- Byron "Whizzer" White (Fort Collins) was an American lawyer, jurist, and professional football player, who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1962 until 1993. He was part of the football, basketball, and baseball rosters at the University of Colorado, and was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 1937. At the advent of World War II, he enlisted as an intelligence officer in the US Navy.

Kristin Davis (Boulder) is an American actress and producer best known for her role as Charlotte York in the HBO romantic comedy series "Sex and the City" (1998-2004). Although her character Charlotte in ""Sex and the City" (1998) was the first to get married, Kristin is the only one of the four actresses never to have been married in real life.

- Jan-Michael Vincent (Denver) was an American actor who emerged as a leading man in the 1970s, playing notable roles in films like "Going Home" (1971). He suffered permanent damage to his voice after getting into a near-fatal auto accident in 1996 that resulted in a broken neck. Paramedics had to insert a tube down his throat and the tube damaged one of his vocal cords.

- Denver Pyle (Bethune) was an American film and television actor and director. He was well known for several TV roles from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling in several episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show", as well as his role as Uncle Jesse Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979). He was originally cast to play Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" (1955) after James Arness turned down his first request to audition for the role.

- Spring Byington (Colorado Springs) was an American actress whose career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of "December Bride". She appeared in two Oscar Best Picture winners: "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) and "You Can't Take It with You" (1938), and four other nominees: "Little Women" (1933), "Dodsworth" (1936), "Jezebel" (1938) and "Heaven Can Wait" (1943).

- Chauncey Billups (Denver) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. He won the Most Valuable Player award with the Detroit Pistons during their 2004 NBA Championship season and was the first player ever to be named NBA Finals MVP after having played for more than three NBA teams (Boston, Toronto, Denver, Minnesota, and Detroit) in his career.

- Goose Gossage (Colorado Springs) is an American former baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball between 1972 and 1994. Boasting a fastball that registered 103 mph during the 1978 All-Star Game, Gossage led the American League in saves three times -- in 1975 with the White Sox (26), then again in 1978 (27) and 1980 (33) with the Yankees. Gossage enjoyed 10 seasons of 20 or more saves. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.

- Jake Lloyd (Fort Collins) is an American former actor who portrayed young Anakin Skywalker in the film "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999). He was formally diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2015. According to his mother, his arrest for reckless driving without a license, as well as an instance of domestic violence, was brought about due to the struggle with his condition, and a failure to take his medication.