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1. Leroy Paige
"NCIS"
2. Leeroy Jenkins
Blues musician
3. Leroy Jetta
"Encyclopedia"
4. Leroy Gibbs
Australian football player
5. Leroy Foster
World of Warcraft
6. Leroy Stagger
"Fame"
7. Leroy Johnson
Country music singer
8. Leroy Burrell
"Satchel"
9. Leroy Brown
Olympic sprinter
10. Leroy Nash
Convict
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Leroy Paige
Answer: "Satchel"
Leroy Paige was born on July 7, 1906 in Mobile, Alabama. He joined the Negro League in the 1920s. Leroy was a right handed pitcher who received the nickname "Satchel" due to him carrying luggage back and forth from the railroad station for travelers when he was a kid. Leroy was forty-two when Bill Veek signed him to the Cleveland Indians in 1948. Leroy became the first African American to pitch a World Series game.
In 1971, Leroy was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Leroy Paige died on June 8, 1982.
2. Leeroy Jenkins
Answer: World of Warcraft
Leeroy Jenkins was a video game character created by Ben Schulz for the massive multiplayer online role playing game "World of Warcraft". Leeroy Jenkins became a viral sensation in 2005 when his character charged into combat shouting his own name and ruining the plan that his teammates had made without his knowledge.
The name Leeroy Jenkins has been shouted in shows from Fox's "Family Guy" to CBS's "MacGyver".
3. Leroy Jetta
Answer: Australian football player
Leroy Jetta was born on July 6, 1988 in Pingelly, West Australia. His debut as an Australian football player was in 2007 playing for the Bombers from Northern Melbourne. In 2015, Leroy and several teammates were found not guilty of doping. The verdict was overturned in 2017 and Leroy and his teammates were found guilty.
4. Leroy Gibbs
Answer: "NCIS"
Leroy Jethro Gibbs was more commonly known to people as Gibbs. He was the senior agent at NCIS. Viewers were first introduced to Gibbs in a "JAG" two part episode "Ice Queen". Gibbs was named after his father's best friend, Leroy Jethro Moore. He built boats in his basement and named them after people that he lost in his life. Gibbs was married four times and divorced three times.
He lost his first wife and only child while he was overseas and they were killed in a car crash.
5. Leroy Foster
Answer: Blues musician
Leroy was born in Algoma, Mississippi on February 1, 1923. He was an active musician in the forties and early fifties. Leroy played guitar and drums for Muddy Waters. His first solo record happened in 1945 under J. William's Chicago label. Leroy married in 1947 to a woman named Betty.
He died of a heart attack on May 5, 1958 before the ambulance could get him to Billings hospital. He was thirty-five.
6. Leroy Stagger
Answer: Country music singer
Leroy Stagger was born in Victoria, British Columbia on October 28, 1982. Leroy played with several groups before releasing his debut album, "Six Tales of Danger" in 2002. Leroy's music was featured in episodes of FX's "Sons of Anarchy".
7. Leroy Johnson
Answer: "Fame"
Leroy was an illiterate dancer chosen to study at the infamous High School of the Performing Arts. Leroy became linked to Hilary van Doren who also attended the school. In his senior year, Leroy had been offered a role in Alvin Ailey's dance company. Gene Anthony Ray played Leroy Johnson in the 1980 film and the NBC TV series which aired from 1982 to 1987.
8. Leroy Burrell
Answer: Olympic sprinter
Leroy Burrell was born on February 21, 1967 in Philadelphia. He won the 1990 Olympic gold in Barcelona for the 4x100 relay and won the world record for the 100m sprint. Leroy retired in 1998 and became coach for the University of Houston track team. Leroy has a wife and three sons.
9. Leroy Brown
Answer: "Encyclopedia"
Leroy Brown was given the nickname "Encyclopedia" because of his knowledge on multiple things. He was the protagonist of twenty-nine stand alone juvenile books written by Donald Sobol. The "Encyclopedia Brown" series of books was awarded the Edgar Award in 1976 by the Mystery Writers of America.
10. Leroy Nash
Answer: Convict
Viva Leroy Nash died in prison on February 12, 2010. His first time in jail occurred at the age of fifteen when he committed armed robbery. After being arrested for killing a postal worker, Leroy escaped from prison. He was caught after killing an employee at a coin shop. Leroy died of natural causes in prison while on death row at Arizona Eyman State Prison Complex.
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