Celebrities Born in the Great State of Kentucky Quiz

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Muhammad Ali (Louisville) was an American professional boxer and social activist. He was a global cultural icon, widely known by the epithet "The Greatest" and is frequently cited as the greatest heavyweight boxer ever. While training to fight Sonny Liston, he met "The Beatles" and posed for photos with them in a boxing ring. He declared afterward that they were the greatest, but he was "still the prettiest".

- Kit Carson (Richmond) was an American frontiersman. He was a fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and U.S. Army officer. One of his most valiant military feats was in December 1846, when he, his commander, and a Native American scout ran 25 miles through the desert to get reinforcements. Moreover, they had to run barefoot across rocks and near prickly pear cacti to avoid being overheard.

- Rosemary Clooney (Maysville) was an American singer and actress. She became prominent in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House". Her frequent escort in 1952 was CBS star Robert Q. Lewis. In later years, he would joke that his greatest regret was that he introduced Rosie to José Ferrer with whom she had 5 children. She was known for making and sending out records singing carols and wishing happy holidays to people instead of sending Christmas cards.

- Diane Sawyer (Glasgow) is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs including "ABC World News Tonight" and "Good Morning America". She worked as a former White House press aide to Richard Nixon and followed Nixon into exile after his resignation to help him write his memoirs.

- Patricia Neal (Packard) was an American actress on stage and screen and is well known for her roles playing wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in "Hud" (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress). She was supposed to continue playing the female lead role as Olivia Walton in "The Waltons" after the pilot episode, but health problems precluded this and the role went to Michael Learned.

- Crystal Gayle (Paintsville) is an American country music singer widely known for her 1977 hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". When her 1980 song "If You Ever Change Your Mind" was Grammy-nominated in the Best Country Vocal Performance category, the singer found herself competing in the same category with Sissy Spacek who was nominated for the title song from "Coal Miner's Daughter", the acclaimed biopic in which Spacek portrayed Gayle's real-life sister Loretta Lynn.

- Abraham Lincoln (Hodgenville) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration. John Wilkes Booth (his assassin) stands close to him in the picture. He was the first president to be born outside the original 13 colonies. He was 6'4", and he is still the tallest President of the US.

- Jefferson Davis (Fairview) was an American politician who served as the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He was named after his father's political hero and the sitting American president at the time of his birth (Thomas Jefferson). He married his first wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of future U.S. President Zachary Taylor, in 1835. She died of malaria 3 months later.

- Tommy Kirk (Louisville) was an American actor, best known for his performances in films made by Walt Disney Studios such as "Old Yeller", "The Shaggy Dog", "Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Absent-Minded Professor". He and Kevin Corcoran played brothers in five different films: "Old Yeller" (1957), "The Shaggy Dog" (1959), "Swiss Family Robinson" (1960), "Bon Voyage!" (1962) and "Savage Sam" (1963).

- Ned Beatty (Louisville) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 160 film and television roles in a career that spanned five decades. His performance in "Network" (1976) ran only five minutes and 53 seconds and earned him his only Oscar nomination. He once made a FBI training film playing a bank robber.

- Johnny Depp (Owensboro) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, and has received nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. His films, in which he has often played eccentric characters, have grossed over $8 billion worldwide, making him one of Hollywood's most bankable stars. A nightclub was named after him in Tartu, Estonia. The nightclub was called "Who Wouldn't Like Johnny Depp?".

- Victor Mature (Louisville) was an American stage, film, and television actor who was a leading man in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. He was supposed to fight a lion bare-handed in the film "Samson and Delilah". In the scene where he was stalking the lion, Cecil DeMille kept urging him to get closer, but he just called out, "Nice kitty, nice kitty". A stuntman finally tackled the lion.

- D. W. Griffith (Oldham County) was an American film director who was considered one of the most influential figures in the history of motion pictures. He was the first to utter the catchphrase "Lights, camera, action!" on the set of "In Old California" (1910). It, like many of his techniques, are still widely used in film making.

- Robert Penn Warren (Guthrie) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic, and professor at Yale University. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the novel "All the King's Men". The screen adaptation of "All the King's Men" (1949), won the Academy Award for best motion picture. He also won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. In 1986, he became the first poet laureate of the United States.

- Jennifer Lawrence (Indian Hills) is an American actress and producer. She is known for starring in both action film franchises and independent dramas, and her films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide. She became the second youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar upon winning it for "Silver Linings Playbook" (age 22); the youngest recipient is Marlee Matlin, who won for "Children of a Lesser God" at the age of 21.