Famous People From Nowhere Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sharon Stone

Sharon's very shabby childhood home was in Saegertown, Pa. but she often claims her hometown to be Meadville, Pa. She won the Miss Pennsylvania title at 17 years old and two years later started her career as a successful model.

Answer: James Garfield

The President was shot by Charles Guiteau while leaving for vacation on July 2, 1881 at a train station in Washington D.C. Interestingly, the late President Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was with Garfield when the shooting occurred. He was reported to say "How many hours of sorrow I have passed in this town?" Garfield's death, 77 days later, was due to blood poisoning and infection caused by dirty, unsterilized fingers and instruments while attempting to find the location of the bullet. James Garfield was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio in a huge, very beautiful monument.

His casket and that of his wife lay "in state" along with his daughter's remains.

Answer: Henry Mancini

He played the piccolo at age 8 and the piano at age 12, followed by the flute, which he and his father played together for an Italian immigrant band. Mancini's most recognizable composition was the "Pink Panther" theme song.

Answer: Milton Hershey

He failed at every job until moving from Pennsylvania to the west coast with his father. He became a producer maker of caramel, sold that company for a million dollars and decided to explore chocolate making in Derry, Pa, which until that time was mostly cow farms.

Answer: Bob Hope

Hope traveled the world for the country's service men and women, and received numerous awards. His name was placed on ships and planes. Perhaps his greatest honor was when the U.S. Congress made Hope an honorary veteran of the U.S. military service for his goodwill work on behalf of American soldiers.

Answer: John D. Rockefeller

Since 1913 Rockefeller has supported education in the United States "without distinction of race, sex or creed". He helped to establish the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom and established the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Harvard School of Public Health, two of the first such institutions in the United States.

His foundation developed the vaccine to prevent yellow fever. He also developed and funded various German eugenics programs, including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.

He also funded the work of dozens of Nobel Laureates; helped found The New School; supported the establishment of a large range of American and international cultural institutions; and funded agricultural development to expand food supplies around the world.

Answer: Halle Berry

Halle Berry was raised in Oakwood, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Halle earned a handful of beauty pageant titles during the early 1980s, including Miss Teen Ohio, Miss Teen America, and first runner-up in the 1985 Miss U.S.A. competition. She received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in "Monster's Ball".

In doing so, she became the first woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress.

Answer: Drew Carey

Born in Cleveland, Oh., he lost his father at age eight. He wrote a book and talked about his father's death, that he was once molested, had suffered bouts of depression, and had made two suicide attempts by swallowing a large amount of sleeping pills.

He also discussed his college fraternity years while attending Kent State University, and his professional career. He built his comedy career off the back of an appearance on "Star Search" in 1988.

Answer: Lebron James

Born to a 16-year-old single mother, and an ex-convict father who left her to raise him by herself, he moved frequently as his mother was never able to land steady work. Lebron didn't make friends easily at school and had all but dropped out by the fourth grade.

He eventually moved in with his pee-wee football coach. He went on to become a star athlete in two sports but quit football after a broken wrist. James abandoned Cleveland for Miami Heat causing him to be one of the most hated ball players of his day.

He went on to win the 2012 NBA Championship, MVP, and gold medal in that year's Olympics in London

Answer: Thomas Edison

As his mind wandered, he was schooled by his mother (his biggest fan). Most of his education came from reading R.G. Parker's "School of Natural Philosophy" and The Cooper Union. He developed hearing problems at an early age, went on to sell candy and newspapers on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit, and also sold vegetables to supplement his income. He obtained the exclusive right to sell newspapers on the road and, with the aid of four assistants, he set in type and printed the Grand Trunk Herald, which he sold with his other papers. These talents eventually led him to found 14 companies, including General Electric, which is still one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.

Edison invented an automatic vote recorder for legislatures,telegraph devices,
stock ticker technology,the quadruplex telegraph for Western Union company, which transmitted four messages simultaneously,an electric pen, an early copying device,the phonograph,carbon transmitter (a crucial improvement in phone technology),a direct current generator for incandescent electric lighting and the carbon filament lamp,the first three-wire central station for distributing electric light, power, and heat He invented a wireless system of communication between ships at sea, ships and shore and ships and distant points on land, a number of inventions associated with improving electric railways. He invented and patented the motion picture camera. He developed his great iron ore enterprise, a giant roller machine for breaking large masses of rock and finely crushing them.