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Famous People With Wyoming Connections - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 39 times
- The average score is 7 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A former resident of Casper, this man served as Vice-President under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. | Dick Cheney | 82%
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| A former Pony Express rider, this showman traveled the world with his Wild West Show between 1883 and 1913. | William "Buffalo Bill" Cody | 74%
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| Known for his little black moustache, this silent film actor married Cheyenne native Mildred Harris in 1917. | Charlie Chaplin | 47%
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| Future partner of Harry Longabaugh, this outlaw went to prison in Laramie in 1894 for stealing horses. | Robert Leroy "Butch Cassidy" Parker | 47%
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| This U. S. President, born in 1913, was the grandson of Riverton founder Charles King. | Gerald Ford | 44%
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| This businessman started his nationwide dry goods company in Kemmerer in 1902. | James Cash Penney | 38%
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| This Irish playwright passed through Cheyenne twice on his 1882 American tour, but declined to detrain either time. | Oscar Wilde | 38%
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| This British Prime Minister, born in 1874, was the nephew of Wyoming rancher Moreton Frewen. | Winston Churchill | 38%
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| This world-famous artist, an Abstract Expressionist, was born in Cody in 1912. | Jackson Pollock | 35%
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| This trapper and mountain man, subject of a Robert Redford movie, was reinterred in Cody in 1974. | John "Jeremiah" Johnson | 35%
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| This 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling hails from Afton. | Rulon Gardner | 35%
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| Author of The Sun Also Rises, this writer married his third wife in Cheyenne in 1940. | Ernest Hemingway | 32%
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| At the beginning of his career, this writer passed through Wyoming on the way to the Nevada silver mines in 1861. | Mark Twain | 32%
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| After meeting on the set of The Getaway, this action-film actor married actress Ali McGraw in Cheyenne in 1973. | Steve McQueen | 32%
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| This gunfighter and card player served as a guard on Wyoming's Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage shortly before he was shot to death in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876 | William "Wild Bill" Hickock | 26%
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| This record-breaking test pilot served as a flight officer at the Casper Air Base in 1943. | Chuck Yeager | 24%
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| This sportscaster, born in Green River in 1919, was the longtime host of The American Sportsman. | Curt Gowdy | 21%
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| Accused of cannibalism, this notorious Colorado prospector was arrested at Fetterman City in 1883. | Alferd E. Packer | 15%
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| Considered the Father of Western Fiction, this author penned The Virginian, a 1902 novel set in Wyoming. | Owen Wister | 12%
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| A cousin to Crazy Horse, this Oglala Lakota medicine man was born in 1863 in the Powder River Basin. | Black Elk | 6%
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