# More Trivia: Identify These People, Redux

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 21, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038 "2011-09-21T05:11:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 18\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/1 "2011-09-21T05:11:13Z")

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1. George M. Dallas
2. Victoria Clafin Woodhull
3. Cassie Davis
4. Hugh Brannum
5. Jacob Riis
6. Leo Hartnett
7. Daws Butler
8. Edie Falco
9. Norman Mingo
10. Mary Mallon

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/2 "2011-09-21T05:25:58Z")

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1. a Pennsylvania senator 4000 years ago

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/3 "2011-09-21T05:42:53Z")

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1. An early 20th century NYC progressive journalist/photographer. He helped improve the conditions of people in tenements.

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**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/4 "2011-09-21T05:58:17Z")

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1. Award winning star of “The Sopranos” and “Nurse Jackie”
2. Typhoid Mary

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/5 "2011-09-21T06:02:07Z")

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1. 19th century women’s rights campaigner

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/6 "2011-09-21T06:03:21Z")

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my mistake

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**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/7 "2011-09-21T12:32:17Z")

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1. [Former cover artist for Mad Magazine.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mingo)

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/8 "2011-09-21T12:44:07Z")

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1. Voice actor who performed as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and many others.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/9 "2011-09-21T13:02:59Z")

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1. Gabby Hartnett, Half of Fame catcher for the Cubs.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/10 "2011-09-21T13:12:06Z")

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Moved MPSIMS --\> The Game Room.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/11 "2011-09-21T17:43:01Z")

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#4: Mr. Green Jeans from Captain Kangaroo.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/12 "2011-09-22T06:33:18Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> 1. Gabby Hartnett, Half of Fame catcher for the Cubs.

Half of Fame?  
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 😃  
What’s the other half? 🙂

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/13 "2011-09-23T06:32:33Z")

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Nobody got these?

1. Dallas was Polk’s vice-president.
2. Cassie Davis was a performer well-known for her buck teeth and big but.

Some more:

1. Robert Hooke
2. Jim Clark
3. Will Harridge
4. Louis Darling
5. Nan Britton
6. Frida Kohl
7. Victor Herbert
8. Damita Jo
9. Agnes Sorel
10. Terence V. Powderly

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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/14 "2011-09-23T12:55:28Z")

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15. Nan Britton, Warren G. Harding’s mistress.  
17. Victor Herbert? One of the greatest composers of operettas ever.  
18. Damita Jo, '60s R&B performer.

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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/15 "2011-09-23T12:56:34Z")

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Frida Kohl? Can’t find her even by Googling. Do you mean Frida Kahlo?

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/16 "2011-09-23T14:10:08Z")

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1. Robert Hooke. Early scientists and member of the Royal Academy. His discoveries are too numerous to mention, but he’s best known for coining the term “cell.”

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/17 "2011-09-24T07:03:20Z")

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> [@Sigmagirl](#):
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> Frida Kohl? Can’t find her even by Googling. Do you mean Frida Kahlo?

Yes, I do. :o I didn’t remember her name correctly.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trivia-identify-these-people-redux/597038/18 "2011-09-25T04:47:34Z")

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Okay, okay…it was Frida Kahlo, and she was a painter who married another painter, the Mexican communist Diego Rivera. I’m sorry–I wasn’t trying to kill my own thread.
