Do You Know These People Now?
INSTRUCTIONS: Test your People-You-Should-Know IQ. Match the quotes with the photos.
A. My favorite artist is Bob Dylan. I am also the first person in my family to attend college. I won my first election to the House of Representatives by 67 votes out of more than 13,000 cast.
B. I am a sixth-generation Columbia-born native.
C. I attended an all-girls’ boarding school, Westover School in Middlebury, Conn. There I was introduced to the studio arts and developed a love of pottery. It has served me well in entertaining, as I now have my own handmade bowls to display hors d’oeuvres in. I am hoping to get my hands back in clay this year.
D. I once aspired to be a Catholic priest and spent two years studying in a seminary.
E. I am a very competitive person. I can beat anyone in the Galaxa videogame. And I love Matthew McConaughey (hey-hey-hey)!
F. I just started playing the guitar and that I was born in Okinawa, Japan, while my dad was in the service.
G. I know some HTML code, basic Japanese and sometimes beat-box when I’m alone in my car.
H. I am deathly afraid of snakes to the point that I will accidentally hurt someone trying to get away from the tiniest one.
I. I was invited to walk on to the MU baseball team — but didn’t. (My quarterbacking skills on a 1-9 high-school football team did not allow for any tiger football opportunities either.)
J. I spent four years in the U.S. Army in a military intelligence battalion. It was hard, but I learned much about the world and other people and cultures. Sometimes we forget just how fortunate we are.
K. 1) 1 was one of the founders of The Missouri Review and a radio voice on KOPN in the earliest days of its founding. 2) I taught karate classes at the university when I was young and limber. 3) I worked for Walt Girard at the original Walt’s Bike Shop when I first began graduate school. 4) I was once a competitive cyclist. 5) I once had hair. No. 4 and 5 are the hardest to believe, but a photo of me at age 16 in my team jersey can be found on the wall of Cycle Extreme — and it hasn’t been Photoshopped.
L. I am a weather geek. I love the Weather Channel (Jim Cantori!) and even asked for a Weather Challenger jacket for Christmas (and got it, too). If I were proficient in science, I’d have to go to school for meteorology.
M. I went to college to be a vocal performance major with a goal of becoming a professional tenor. I raced four marathons (including the Boston Marathon) and have finished the Pike’s Peak Ascent half marathon twice. I play three musical instruments.
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