User blog:DexterMaximus/Dexter's Random Trivia Blogs 1

Ok, so Barry and Piet said I could do this. Basically, I ask random-ass trivia questions to pass the time, and you comment with your answers. You can look things up. I will be doing this every now and then, maybe, I don't know.

What Links These People (Very Long List)
What have all these people got in common? Yes, it's a long list, I don't give a shit.
 * Chris Carpenter, baseball player
 * John Taylor Gilman, farmer
 * Dudley Leavitt, teacher
 * Henry Shute, lawyer
 * Nathaniel Folsom, merchant
 * Michael Golay, author
 * Statik Selektah, DJ
 * Victoria Arlen, swimmer
 * Moses Leavitt, surveyor
 * Enoch Poor, brigadier general
 * Gilman Marston, representative
 * John Phillips, educator
 * Charles H. Bell, lawyer
 * Dan Zanes, musician
 * Tabitha Gilman Tenney, author
 * Kevin Romine, baseball player
 * Todd Hearon, poet
 * Amos Tuck, lawyer
 * John Irving, novelist
 * John Wheelwright, clergyman
 * Maggie Hassan, politician
 * Thomas Hassan, principal
 * Edward L. Rowan, psychiatrist
 * Lewis Cass, lawyer
 * John Knowles, novelist
 * Edward Tuck, banker
 * Daniel Heartz, musicologist
 * Sidney Darlington, electrical engineer
 * Tristram Shaw, representative
 * Nicholas Gilman, merchant
 * Daniel Chester French, sculptor
 * Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, attorney
 * Dan Brown, novelist

Answers
There are 2 answers, each connected. They're both what connects those people up there ^
 * 1) _________, guessed by ________
 * 2) __________, guessed by _______

So, yeah. Away you go
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