Famous People of New Jersey Trivia Contest ...brought to you by: HCP
This was Part II of our Trivia Contest. It was the MORE DIFFICULT level.
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1. Name the American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University.Born in Hoboken, N.J.
Answer: Alfred Charles Kinsey
2. Name a former Head Coach of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team.Graduated from Middlesex, N.J. High School.
Answer:Charlie Weis
3. Name the American poet who is best known for a poem written in 1956 ,celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time.Born in Newark, N.J.
Answer:Allen Ginsberg
4. Name an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.who was appointed by Republican George W. Bush, he is generally considered a conservative jurist. Educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School. Born in Trenton,N.J.
Answer:Samuel Alito
5. Name an American film actress best known for her portrayal of ingenues.In 1958 she won a Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer". Now deceased, she was born in Bayonne, N.J.
Answer: Sandra Dee
6. Born in 1964 in New Jersey and attended The Frisch School in Paramus, N.J.
He is currently the fourth ambassador of the State of Israel to the Republic of Azerbaijan.Name him.
Answer:Arthur Lenk
7.Name an American professional basketball player born March 6, 1972 regarded as one of the most dominant in the history of the National Basketball Association. He starts at center and has won four NBA Championships. He was born in Newark,N.J.
Answer:Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal
8. Name an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.Born in 1885 and grew up on the family farm in Mt. Laurel Township, N.J.
Answer:Alice Paul
9. Born in 1924, Newark, New Jersey, she was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".She was a three time Grammy Award winner and The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989.
Answer:Sarah Vaughan
10.He made it big in N.J. but was not born or raised there. He was a devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University and then became the Governor of New Jersey in 1910 and subsequently became President Of The United States.
Answer:Woodrow Wilson
11.Living in leonia, N.J. currently although brought up in New York, he is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor.
He is perhaps most famous for his role in a Medical Drama. During the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image.
Answer:Alan Alda
12.Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, this Pullitzer prize winning author said this ( please don't throw things- we didn't say this)
"New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter."
Who said this?
Answer:Norman Mailer
13. She grew up in The Bronx but now calls N.J. home. . Each of her twenty-four suspense novels has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remain in print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel in its seventy-fifth printing.
Answer:Mary Higgins Clark
14. Though he was born in S.Carolina he now lives in Alpine,N.J.
He is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time.
Answer:Chris Rock
15. An American photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture. Many of his photographs are known for appearing like those other art forms, and he is also known for his marriage to a famous female painte.
Born in 1864 –Hoboken, New Jersey.
Answer:Alfred Stieglitz
16. He was not born in N.J. but studied under Roger Sessions, first privately, then later at Princeton University.He is an American composer, particularly noted for his pioneering serial and electronic music.n 1982, he won The Pulitzer Prize for his "life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer."
Answer:Milton Byron Babbitt
17.He was influenced deeply by his Trenton Central High School drama teacher, Harold Van Kirk, and thus went to acting school after his 1937 graduation.
He was an American comedian whose uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his tragic, early death in an automobile accident. Such later, iconoclastic shows as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Uncle Floyd Show, Saturday Night Live and TV hosts like David Letterman are seen as bearing his influence.
Answer:Ernie Kovacs
18. He was born in 1929 and raised in Englewood, New Jersey and is an American former figure skater and a well-known long-time skating television analyst who won two Olympic medals.
Answer:Dick Button
19. Mostly raised by his older siblings in various parts of New Jersey he was an American novelist, poet and journalist.The novel which would make him famous has long been considered the first great ‘modern’ novel of war by an American. It was the first novel of literary distinction to present war without heroics.
Answer:Stephen Crane
20. He began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices.He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Answer:Thomas Edison
