Celebrities Born in the Great State of Minnesota Quiz

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- Charles Schulz (Minneapolis) was an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip "Peanuts", which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He was also an avid hockey fan and in 1981, Schulz was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding contributions to the sport of hockey in the United States. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993.

- Winona Ryder (Winona County) is an American actress. She owns some of Hollywood's stars' most priceless possessions including Louis Armstrong's bongo drums. She also has a collection of vintage Hollywood costumes, including Russ Tamblyn's jacket from "West Side Story", Leslie Caron's dress from "An American in Paris", Claudette Colbert's gown from "It Happened One Night", Olivia de Havilland's blouse from "Gone with the Wind" and Sandra Dee's bikini from the "Tammy" movies.

- E. G. Marshall (Owatonna) was an American actor. He was a member of the first class of actors at the Actors Studio and has the distinction of playing four U.S. Presidents; Grover Cleveland in a 1952 episode of "Hallmark Hall of Fame", Harry S. Truman in "Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur" (1976), Dwight D. Eisenhower in both "Ike" (1986) and "War and Remembrance" (1988) and the fictitious, unnamed President in "Superman II" (1980).

- Roger Maris (Hibbing) was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball. He is best known for setting a new MLB single-season home run record with 61 home runs in 1961. His last name was originally spelled, M-A-R-A-S. He and Mickey Mantle were roommates while playing for the New York Yankees.

- John Madden (Austin) was an American professional football coach and sports commentator in the National Football League (NFL). He became an assistant football coach for the Oakland Raiders in 1967 and served as the Raiders' head coach from 1969-1978. He guided the Raiders to 103 victories and only 32 losses in ten seasons. His overall record, including playoff games, is second in winning percentage only to the late Green Bay Packers coaching legend, Vince Lombardi.

- Sinclair Lewis (Sauk Centre) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to win a Nobel Prize for literature. The Prize was given to him for the five noteworthy novels he wrote during the 1920s, "Main Street", "Babbitt", "Arrowsmith", "Elmer Gantry" and "Dodsworth". In 1926, Lewis's novel "Arrowsmith" was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

- Jessica Lange (Cloquet) is an American actress. She is known for her roles on stage and screen and is one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has received two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award. Her performance as Frances Farmer in "Frances" (1982) is ranked #85 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

- Judy Garland (Grand Rapids) was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian who rose to international fame as Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), a role that cemented her status as a Hollywood legend. To help her slim down for "The Wizard of Oz", M-G-M hired former Olympic swimmer Barbara "Bobbie" Koshay to be Judy's trainer. Bobbie was also Judy's camera double (it's Bobbie, "not Judy" who falls into the Kansas pigpen).

- J. Paul Getty (Minneapolis) was an American-born British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. His first big break in the oil business occurred in 1915 when he purchased an interest in an oil lease on a farm south of Tulsa, Oklahoma for $500. His contemporaries thought him foolish, but 3 days after striking oil, he realized $11,850 from his share of the profits. By the age of 24, he had made his first $1 million.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald (Saint Paul) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer who popularized the phrase "the Jazz Age" in reference to the riotous 1920s decade of American history. He was a mentor and close friend of the young Ernest Hemingway, who grew more distant with him as Hemingway's fame grew and Fitzgerald's declined, and he became increasingly more dependent on alcohol. Fitzgerald was able to overcome his addiction and achieved sobriety over a year before his death.

- Jane Russell (Bemidji) was an American actress, model, and singer. She was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to designing airplanes, Howard Hughes is said to have designed a "cantilever bra" to take care of her physical endowments. Leonardo DiCaprio visited Jane while filming The Aviator (2004) to get detailed and personal insights as to what Howard Hughes was really like.

- Walter F. Mondale (Ceylon) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. He served with the 3rd Armored Division Artillery at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during the Korean War, first as an armored reconnaissance vehicle crewman, and later as an education programs specialist and associate editor of the unit's newsletter, "Tanker's Dust".

- William Demarest (Saint Paul) was an American actor, known especially for his supporting roles in screwball comedies by Preston Sturges and as Uncle Charley in the sitcom "My Three Sons" from 1965-72. He appeared in "The Jazz Singer" (1927) (uncredited) starring Al Jolson, "The Jolson Story" (1946), and "Jolson Sings Again" (1949), which recounts the making of "The Jazz Singer".

- Bob Dylan (Duluth) is an American singer-songwriter, considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Born Robert Zimmerman he had many stage names including Elston Gunn, a short-lived piano player behind teen idol Bobby Vee. Dylan's also been Tedham Porterhous, Blind Boy Grunt, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Boo Wilbury, the writer Sergei Petrov and producer under the name Jack Frost.

- Garrison Keillor (Anoka) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality who created the Minnesota Public Radio show "A Prairie Home Companion", which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. His post-grad job hunt kicked off with a month-long trip to New York City, during which he wrote "tryout" pieces for "The New Yorker" and "Sports Illustrated", all while lodging in "a boarding house on West 19th Street that turned out to be a halfway house for people getting out of the loony bin."