home
Menu
Create
Random
0
0
0

Famous People With Wyoming Connections

Quiz by RockyWyo
Rate:
Last updated: December 22, 2016
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
First submittedDecember 22, 2016
Times taken33
Average score35.0%
Report this quizReport
Quiz and answer stats >>
Friends stats >>
4:00
Enter answer here
0
 / 20 guessed
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
Hint
Answer
Future partner of Harry Longabaugh, this outlaw went to prison in Laramie in 1894 for stealing horses.
Robert Leroy "Butch Cassidy" Parker
A former Pony Express rider, this showman traveled the world with his Wild West Show between 1883 and 1913.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
This businessman started his nationwide dry goods company in Kemmerer in 1902.
James Cash Penney
This world-famous artist, an Abstract Expressionist, was born in Cody in 1912.
Jackson Pollock
This 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling hails from Afton.
Rulon Gardner
A cousin to Crazy Horse, this Oglala Lakota medicine man was born in 1863 in the Powder River Basin.
Black Elk
This trapper and mountain man, subject of a Robert Redford movie, was reinterred in Cody in 1974.
John "Jeremiah" Johnson
At the beginning of his career, this writer passed through Wyoming on the way to the Nevada silver mines in 1861.
Mark Twain
After meeting on the set of The Getaway, this action-film actor married actress Ali McGraw in Cheyenne in 1973.
Steve McQueen
A former resident of Casper, this man served as Vice-President under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009.
Dick Cheney
Hint
Answer
Known for his little black moustache, this silent film actor married Cheyenne native Mildred Harris in 1917.
Charlie Chaplin
This record-breaking test pilot served as a flight officer at the Casper Air Base in 1943.
Chuck Yeager
Accused of cannibalism, this notorious Colorado prospector was arrested at Fetterman City in 1883.
Alferd E. Packer
This British Prime Minister, born in 1874, was the nephew of Wyoming rancher Moreton Frewen.
Winston Churchill
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
This Irish playwright passed through Cheyenne twice on his 1882 American tour, but declined to detrain either time.
Oscar Wilde
Author of The Sun Also Rises, this writer married his third wife in Cheyenne in 1940.
Ernest Hemingway
Considered the Father of Western Fiction, this author penned The Virginian, a 1902 novel set in Wyoming.
Owen Wister
This sportscaster, born in Green River in 1919, was the longtime host of The American Sportsman.
Curt Gowdy
This U. S. President, born in 1913, was the grandson of Riverton founder Charles King.
Gerald Ford
Suggested Quizzes See all >>
General Knowledge Quiz #8
Famous People from New York by Picture
Famous People from Tennessee by Picture
States of the U.S. in Alphabetical Order
Comments
No comments yet
Save Your Progress

Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024

Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site