| description | person |
| Irish satirist; Lemuel Gulliver's creator | |
| stand-up comic and actress; original host of The Biggest Loser | |
| English physiologist; discoverer of peristalsis | |
| actor and comic; 'a wild and crazy guy' | |
| Canadian comic actor know for his Charlie Farquharson character | |
| Saturn Award-winning actress; played Newt in Aliens | |
| actress who did not play Newt in Aliens, Ghostbusters, Galaxy Quest, or Avatar | |
| 18th century US army engineer, foundry superintendent, and designer of rifled guns | |
| first commander of the WACs; first Secretary of HEW | |
| founded the media group that publishes USA Today | |
| PGA rookie of the year 1973; 1992 US Open winner | |
| first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court | |
| play by Aristophanes; movie by Hitchcock; and what this quiz should have been named | |