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1. Writing songs while she was in high school in 1976, she put a track or two on tape with youth pastor and fledgling music engineer Brown Bannister. Those early tracks got her a record contract and she was on her way to being dubbed the "Queen of Christian Pop". Who is she?
2. Born in 1927, Harry Peter Grant made his living in sports coaching, and had great success in the sport of American Football. After high success in the Canadian Football League, he moved to the National Football League where he led the Minnesota Vikings to four Super Bowl appearances. He didn't go by Harry, what was he better known as?
3. Englishman Archibald Leach performed as a vaudeville actor in the 1920s and decided to make a move to Hollywood in the 1930s where he found his niche. With movies like "Bringing Up Baby" and "Arsenic and Old Lace", he was a leading man on the silver screen. But he wasn't known as Archie Leach, rather the name he chose to sound more debonair. What name did he choose?
4. Born in British Guiana in 1948, this music artist reached Number One in Britain with the pop group The Equals, and would find the charts again in both Britain and the US as a solo artist with the hit "Electric Avenue". Which Grant is this?
5. This pair of Grants were twin brothers from Augusta, Georgia. Both of them showed talent in the sport of basketball and both of them achieved significant careers in the National Basketball Association. Bouncing around from city to city for a lot of their careers, they never played together on the same NBA team. What are the brothers' names?
6. Hiram Grant was born in 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio and he went on to attend West Point. He hoped to serve a quick military assignment in St. Louis and then become a teacher. But circumstances kept him in the armed forces, and at age 41 he was promoted to Lieutenant General of the Union in 1864. What was the name the congressman who got him into West Point put down on his enrollment form instead of Hiram?
7. This Grant was a scientist born in 1865. He was a conservationist responsible for building the Bronx Zoo, he organized the American Bison Society, and he helped found the Glacier National and Denali National Parks. But his legacy is in less desirable traits: He wrote chapters on scientific racism, a pseudoscientific hypothesis that justifies racism and racial superiority/inferiority. What was this Grant's full name?
8. Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg was born in 1924 and showed some singing talent early on in her life. She signed a recording contract in the 1950s and found the top of the Billboard charts with the song "The Wayward Wind". One of her early mentors at the studio came up with a unique name for her prior to her making it big. What was the "nom de plume"?
9. Born in 1960, this Grant has made his living on the big screen, with roles in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Nine Months" among many others. What is this Grant's full name?
10. Born in 1942 in New York with the last name Glickman, she would school herself in clinical psychology with a PhD from Syracuse University. While in California private practice, she was invited to be a guest expert on psychology at a local radio station. That turned into an opportunity for her own advice local call-in show, and then a syndicated national show. She pioneered radio psychology long before Dr. Laura. She professionally took the last name Grant, what was her full radio name?
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