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Can you name these famous Americans? Some of them are tricky...

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Hint	Answer
First president of the United States	George Washington
Civil rights activist who had a famous dream	Martin Luther King Jr.
President assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald	John F. Kennedy
Assassinator of Lee Harvey Oswald himself	Jack Ruby
He broke the color barrier in baseball	Jackie Robinson
One of the explorers of the northern Louisiana Territory	Meriwether Lewis
Explored the northern Louisiana Territory with the above	William Clark
Native American woman who assisted the two above answers	Sacagawea
Explored the southern part of the Louisiana Territory	Zebulon Pike
President who signed the Emancipation Proclamation	Abraham Lincoln
First American to orbit the Earth	John Glenn
Famed female trick shooter from the wild west	Annie Oakley
Famed actor known as the Duke	John Wayne
The King of Pop who died from propofol intoxication	Michael Jackson
He wrote the Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key
Admiral famous for his role in the Battle of Mobile Bay	David Farragut
Vice President who shot someone in a "hunting accident"	Dick Cheney
First female justice on the Supreme Court	Sandra Day O'Connor
First black justice on the Supreme Court	Thurgood Marshall
Oil tycoon who was one of the richest Americans ever	John D. Rockefeller
President during the Mexican-American War	James K. Polk
Famed conductor on the Underground Railroad	Harriet Tubman
Gunman at the O.K. Corral, assistant to his brother Virgil	Wyatt Earp
King of the Wild Frontier	Davy Crockett
Commander of American forces in World War I	John J. Pershing
Traitorous general in the American Revolution	Benedict Arnold
Entertainer and 19-time host of the Academy Awards	Bob Hope
Famed quarterback known as Joe Cool	Joe Montana
Give him liberty or give him death!	Patrick Henry
Founded Georgia as the last of the Thirteen Colonies	James Oglethorpe
Inventor known as the Wizard of Menlo Park	Thomas Edison
Kentucky senator who brokered the Missouri Compromise	Henry Clay
World War II general and Cold War president	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Comedian and social critic known for his seven dirty words	George Carlin
Privateer who had not yet begun to fight	John Paul Jones
Shawnee warrior killed in the War of 1812	Tecumseh
Civil War general whose middle name is the above	William T. Sherman
Actress born as Norma Jeane Mortenson	Marilyn Monroe
Frontiersman who explored and settled Kentucky	Daniel Boone
Treasury secretary killed in a duel	Alexander Hamilton
Vice President who killed the above	Aaron Burr
Segregationist governor of Alabama who ran for president	George Wallace
Outlaw country singer known for marijuana activism	Willie Nelson
President who was formerly the head of the CIA	George H.W. Bush
Born as Cassius Clay and known as the Greatest	Muhammad Ali
Steel tycoon who wrote The Gospel of Wealth	Andrew Carnegie
First lady who was married to her cousin	Eleanor Roosevelt
Writer of A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway
President of the Confederate States of America	Jefferson Davis
Vice President of the Confederate States of America	Alexander H. Stephens

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Civil rights activist; at one point a member of the Nation of Islam	Malcolm X
He and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975	Bill Gates
Founding father and namesake of a Boston lager	Samuel Adams
Congressman who said "Go west, young man"	Horace Greeley
Vice president who took kickbacks while governor of Maryland	Spiro Agnew
Famed suffragist from Rochester, New York	Susan B. Anthony
Suffragist ally of the above and renowned abolitionist	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He rode at midnight to warn the British were coming	Paul Revere
Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	Joseph Smith
Founded Maryland as a refuge colony for English Catholics	George Calvert
Arizona conservative who ran for president in 1964	Barry Goldwater
Country singer who was a coal miner's daughter	Loretta Lynn
Railroad tycoon known as the Commodore	Cornelius Vanderbilt
Famed football coach who won Super Bowl I	Vince Lombardi
Longest-serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court	John Marshall
Civil War general who demanded unconditional surrender	Ulysses S. Grant
Famed Confederate general from Virginia	Robert E. Lee
First female Secretary of State	Madeline Albright
Gulf War general and first black Secretary of State	Colin Powell
Star actor of the Dirty Harry franchise	Clint Eastwood
Famed fleet admiral during World War II	Chester Nimitz
Radical abolitionist who raided Harper's Ferry in 1859	John Brown
First ever Congresswoman, and to date the only one from Montana	Jeanette Rankin
Banking tycoon during the Gilded Age	J.P. Morgan
Escaped slave who became an outspoken abolitionist	Frederick Douglass
Creator of Family Guy and American Dad	Seth MacFarlane
General who died at Little Bighorn during his infamous last stand	George Custer
Legendary singer known as Ol' Blue Eyes	Frank Sinatra
Secretary of State who bought Alaska from Russia	William H. Seward
Vietnam War POW who ran for president in 2008	John McCain
Inventor of the assembly line and a Nazi sympathizer	Henry Ford
Famous for roles in Good Morning, Vietnam and Good Will Hunting	Robin Williams
Hero of the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812	Oliver Hazard Perry
Lakota warrior who led resistance to westward expansion	Sitting Bull
First woman to be nominated for either president or vice president	Geraldine Ferraro
Civil rights activist assassinated at his home in Mississippi	Medgar Evers
President who spoke Dutch as his first language	Martin Van Buren
Do it for this seven-time NASCAR champion	Dale Earnhardt
Founding father known for his signature	John Hancock
The King of Rock N' Roll	Elvis Presley
Queen of Country who is universally loved	Dolly Parton
Long-serving segregationist senator from South Carolina	Strom Thurmond
Famed general during World War II and the Korean War	Douglas MacArthur
President of the Republic of Texas, later governor and senator	Sam Houston
Actor known for Somkey and the Bandit and The Longest Yard	Burt Reynolds
Vice President notorious for his role in the Nullification Crisis	John C. Calhoun
Agricultural labor activist who founded the NFWA	Cesar Chavez
Aviation pioneer who disappeared in 1937	Amelia Earhart
Jazz trumpeter known as Satchmo	Louis Armstrong
19-year anchorman of CBS Evening News	Walter Cronkite

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Level 45

May 24, 2026

Some of these don't accept names unless the full name (including middle initial) are typed.

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