Mystery Theme Quiz Four by RalliP

Champion(s):

BClemens
Drink Vermont Beer!


Runner(s)-Up:

ElendilPickle


Quiz Description

Unlike most MTQs there is not a theme question, instead if you figure out the theme you can use it to solve the other questions.

Each answer is a person, you just need the surname to get credit even though it may not provide the theme connection.

Full Results:

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1 BClemens 439 98 15
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2 ElendilPickle 426 94 15
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3 EverettJ 412 91 15
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4 VenguswamyK 401 87 15
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5 GoodmanDL 369 83 15
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6 PruettC 355 80 15
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7 HallR 346 76 15
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8 MercureT 282 73 15
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9 ZellwegerS 256 69 00
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10 OlewnickB 255 66 00
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11 SlumdogSquarepants 252 62 00
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12 ChrisRosenberg 242 58 15
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13 ReinholdH 235 55 00
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14 randalleng 227 51 00
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15 MatherV 209 48 00
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16 Tarn 201 44 00
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17 cprov77 198 41 00
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18 RichmondJ 181 37 15
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19 WeikleB 177 33 00
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20 Shosin 170 30 00
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21 Vintsanity 155 26 00
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22 quarterrican 144 23 00
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23 Consigliari 139 19 00
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24 EdwardsT 129 16 00
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25 RaiaB 118 12 00
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26 wheelz 86 8 00
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27 JonesRW 48 5 00
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Questions:

This guy was inaugurated as U.S. President in the parlor of his childhood home. His father administered the oath of office.

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JOHN CALVIN Coolidge, Jr.

This guy was organizing with the black members of a Tennessee trade union for sanitary workers at the time of his murder.

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MARTIN LUTHER King, Jr.

This guy was a "big" silent film star. In the early 1920s he was acquitted after a series of celebrity trials in which he was accused of the rape and manslaughter of Virginia Rappe.

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ROSCOE CONKLING "Fatty" Arbuckle

This guy was a U.S. general during the Civil war, during which time he became hated in the south for his perceived tyranny as military governor of New Orleans. After the war, he was a staunch supporter of civil rights as a representative from and governor of Massachusetts.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Butler

This guy oversaw the defense of Alaska during World War II. When he was shot on Okinawa as a lieutenant general, he tied for the highest-ranking U.S. officer killed in action during the war. His father, who had the same name, was a C.S. Civil War general and later Governor of Kentucky.

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SIMON BOLIVAR Buckner, Jr.

This guy developed many non-edible products from the sweet potato. He is probably better known for his similar work with another plant.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON Carver

This guy was the county commissioner, landowner, and all-around local bigwig that conflicted with Bo, Luke, Daisy, and the rest of their titular family.

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JEFFERSON DAVIS Hogg

This guy was Economics Minister to Hitler and President of the Reichsbank. He was tried at Nuremberg, but acquitted because of his lack of connection to war crimes or Nazi racial ideology (and presence of connections to the resistance.)

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Hjalmar HORACE GREELEY Schacht

This guy was a Union general during the U.S. Civil War, during which he commanded on "Cemetary Ridge" during Gettysburg. As a Democrat, he lost the 1880 presidential election to his former colleague James Garfield.

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WINFIELD SCOTT Hancock

This guy won 373 major league baseball games as a starting pitcher - tied for third on the all-time list. He mainly played for the Phillies and Cubs between 1911 and 1930, though his one World Series title was as a member of the 1926 Cardinals.

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GROVER CLEVELAND Alexander

This guy was a Western Pennsylvania industrialist who worked closely with Andrew Carnegie and Andrew W. Mellon. After his death his art collection has been displayed as a museum in his New York City mansion.

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HENRY CLAY Frick

This guy was a left-wing musician who hailed from the Midwest. While living in New York, he wrote the following about his landlord/the father of a presidential candidate:

I suppose Old Man Trump knows
Just how much Racial Hate
he stirred up In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed That color line
Here at his Eighteen hundred family project ....

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WOODROW WILSON Guthrie