Quiz: What do the following people have in common?
Stan Lee
Cathy Lee Crosby
Margot Kidder
Bowie Kuhn
Buster Keaton
Larry King
Dionne Warwick
Dick Smothers
John Wayne
Elton John
M.C. Hammer
Michael Vick
Morton Downey, Jr.
"Sinbad"
Lynne Redgrave
Ulysses S. Grant
Richard Wagner
Tammy Wynette
Mozart
Billy Sims
Mike Tyson
Thomas Paine
Gloria Vanderbilt
Oscar Wilde
Mickey Rooney
Johnny Unitas
Mick Fleetwood
Ted Nugent
Jerry Lee Lewis
George McGovern
Gaylord Perry
Rembrandt
Kim Basinger
George Clinton
Andy Gibb
Phoebe Snow
Randy Quaid
Charles Goodyear (yes, that "Goodyear")
Joe Louis
Gary Busey
Nikola Tesla
Jerry Lewis
George Jones
Michael Jackson
Dee Snyder
Johnny Paycheck
Willie Nelson
Lawrence Taylor
Cyndi Lauper
Burt Reynolds
Donald Trump
King Phillip II
Margaux Hemingway
Tom Petty
Meat Loaf
Don Johnson
Wayne Newton
Marvin Gaye
Merle Haggard
Chaka Kahn
Grace Jones
Raymond Carver
Daniel Defoe
Debbie Reynolds
Tony Gwynn
Isaac Hayes
"Buffalo Bill" Cody
LaToya Jackson
Melvin Belli
Dorothy Hamill
Natalie Cole
Miguel Cervantes
"Mark Twain"
Eddie Fischer
William McKinley
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Ford
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Lenny Bruce
Francis Ford Coppola
John Barryman
Gary Burghoff
Bjorn Borg
Walt Disney
L. Frank Baum
P.T. Barnam
Abraham Lincoln
If you answered that these are all relatively famous people who achieved some degree of success (or crushing failure), you are correct. Extra credit if you added that they all filed bankruptcy at one time or another.
