Head Start

High school dropouts:

  • Cary Grant
  • George Carlin
  • Groucho Marx
  • Hank Williams
  • Herman Melville
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Joe DiMaggio
  • John Travolta
  • Johnny Depp
  • Keanu Reeves
  • Kid Rock
  • Kiefer Sutherland
  • Neil Young
  • Orville and Wilbur Wright
  • Prince
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Ray Charles
  • Roy Rogers
  • Tom Cruise
  • William Faulkner
  • Woody Guthrie
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Till Death, Um …

Famous bachelors:

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Plato
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Sir John Gielgud
  • J. Edgar Hoover
  • Henry James
  • Bill Maher
  • Isaac Newton
  • Al Pacino
  • Blaise Pascal
  • Alexander Pope
  • Cecil Rhodes
  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Adam Smith
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Luther Vandross
  • Voltaire
  • King William II of England
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Heigh-Ho

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Rejected dwarf names considered for Disney’s Snow White (1937):

  • Awful
  • Hoppy
  • Weepy
  • Dirty
  • Cranky
  • Hungry
  • Sneezy-Wheezy
  • Lazy
  • Snoopy
  • Goopy
  • Wistful
  • Soulful
  • Gabby-Blabby
  • Crabby
  • Flabby
  • Helpful
  • Tearful
  • Deafy
  • Thrifty
  • Shifty
  • Nifty

Only about 3 people in 100 can name the seven dwarfs that were finally used.

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American Idols

The “most admired people of the 20th century,” compiled by the Gallup Organization:

  1. Mother Teresa
  2. Martin Luther King Jr.
  3. John F. Kennedy
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Helen Keller
  6. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  7. Billy Graham
  8. Pope John Paul II
  9. Eleanor Roosevelt
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Dwight Eisenhower
  12. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Nelson Mandela
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. Henry Ford
  17. Bill Clinton
  18. Margaret Thatcher
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Duck!

Famous people who have been hit with pies:

  • Pat Buchanan, politician and columnist (hit with a salad)
  • Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, monarch
  • Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and chairman
  • Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker
  • Calvin Klein, clothing designer
  • Helmut Kohl, former chancellor of Germany
  • Ralph Nader, American Green party politician
  • Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer
  • William Shatner, then-Star Trek star
  • Jeffrey Skilling, Enron CEO
  • Sylvester Stallone, action movie star
  • Andy Warhol, artist
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Little Women

Heights of famous females:

  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist, 4 feet 7 inches
  • Linda Hunt, actress, 4 feet 9 inches
  • Charlotte Brontë, novelist, 4 feet 10 inches
  • Tammy Faye Bakker, televangelist, 4 feet 11 inches
  • Barbara Boxer, U.S. senator, 4 feet 11 inches
  • Dorothy Parker, author, 4 feet 11 inches
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder, author, 4 feet 11 inches
  • Lil’ Kim, rapper, 4 feet 11 in
  • Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, 5 feet
  • Gracie Allen, actress, 5 feet
  • Kylie Minogue, musician, 5 feet
  • Dolly Parton, actress and muscian, 5 feet
  • Mary Pickford, actress, 5 feet
  • Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun, 5 feet
  • Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, 5 feet
  • Mae West, actress, 5 feet
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