Celebrities Born in the Great State of Texas Quiz

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- Tommy Lee Jones (San Saba) was roommates with Al Gore at Harvard and the two remain close friends.

- Janis Joplin (Port Arthur), the iconic and successful rock performer, purchased a headstone for the late Blues great Bessie Smith's previously unmarked grave. The epitaph reads: "The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing."

- Cyd Charisse (Amarillo) suffered from polio at a young age. Her father encouraged her to start dance lessons at age 8 to build up her strength. She displayed an aptitude and studied in Los Angeles with Adolph Bolm and Bronislava Nijinska before joining the prestigious Ballet Russes de Monte-Carlo.

- Joan Crawford (San Antonio), the iconic Hollywood actress, acquired her signature eyebrows via cosmetic tattooing. In 1946, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the noir melodrama "Mildred Pierce".

- Gene Roddenberry (El Paso) was the creator of Star Trek, a sci-fi franchise that would have a huge impact on pop culture. He has multiple outer space namesakes, including an asteroid, 4659 Roddenberry (1981), and Mars' Roddenberry crater (1994).

- Ben Hogan (Dublin) is considered one of the greatest players in golf history. He was involved in a near-fatal car crash in 1949 and came back to win the U.S. Open just 16 months later.

- Buddy Holly (Lubbock) was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. On February 3, 1959, Holly was killed in a plane crash. Holly's wife learned of his death from a television report, and, the following day, she suffered a miscarriage leading to government authorities implementing a policy against announcing victims' names until after families are informed.

- Sandra Day O'Connor (El Paso) was the first female Supreme Court justice. After graduating from law school she found it difficult to land a job. Due to her gender, she was offered a paid secretarial position at a law firm but opted to work for free as a deputy county attorney in San Mateo, California.

- Dooley Wilson (Tyler) was best known as a movie actor. He appeared as the piano-playing Sam in the classic film "Casablanca". His other credits include "No Man of Her Own", "Stormy Weather", and "My Favorite Blonde".

- Katherine Anne Porter (Indian Creek) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and journalist best known for her short stories. Her lone novel, "Ship of Fools", was a huge success and was turned into an Oscar-nominated film in 1965.

- Larry Hagman (Fort Worth) was an American film and television actor, director, and producer. He is famous for playing J. R. Ewing in "Dallas" (1978-1991) and Major Anthony Nelson in "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965-1970). In 1951, he appeared in the London production of South Pacific with his mother and stayed in the show for nearly a year.

- Dan Rather (Wharton) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He has had the opportunity to report on every U.S. President from Lyndon B. Johnson to Donald Trump.

- Chester Nimitz (Fredricksburg) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy playing a major role during World War II as Commander in Chief of the US Pacific Fleet. He was the US signer of the peace treaty with Japan after their surrender in WWII aboard the battleship Missouri.

- Gene Autry (Tioga) was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner who was nicknamed the Singing Cowboy. He recorded hundreds of songs, including his signature song "Back in the Saddle Again."

- Howard Hughes (Houston) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot. On 14 July 1938, Hughes and a four-man crew set a new record for circumnavigating the globe, with a time of three days, 19 hours and 17 minutes.