Famous in Iowa

Glenn Miller, noted trombonist and orchestra leader, was born in Cedar Falls.

• True
• False

Which of the following is not an Iowa state park?

• Backbone 
• Pikes Peak
• Lake MacBride
• Eleven Mile Reservoir

John Wayne was born in Winterset.

• True
• False

Van Meter is the hometown of baseball's Bob Feller, an Iowa farm boy who went on to greatness with the Cleveland Indians during the Golden Age of baseball.

• True
• False

What company, in Cedar Rapids, is the largest cereal company in the world.

• Kellogg's
• Post
• Quaker Oats

Johnny Carson lived in Avoca for a short time when he was a boy.

• True
• False

Although she grew up on a farm outside of Beaconsfield, a town of 15 people, Peggy Whitson kept telling skeptics that she was going to be an astronaut. She will be the oldest female astronaut in the world to fly into space.

• True
• False

Mildred Wirt Benson, the author of the best books about America's favorite teenage sleuth is Iowa's Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote as "Carolyn Keene." What series of books did she write?

• Harry Potter
• Hardy Boys
• Nancy Drew
• The Boxcar Children

What famous Iowan was called The "Painter of the Soil"?

• Tennessee Williams
• Leota Lane
• Bill Bryson
• Grant Wood