Last time I was in D.C., I got a tour of the Capitol. (I actually got to go out on the floor of the Senate only because the pages, who had a Jeopardy! desk calendar on their desk, recognized me. I think it was the only time minor Z-list celebrity has ever got me “in” anywhere… never tried whipping out my game show credentials to get a table at a crowded restaurant or backstage at a concert.)

As I browsed the sculptures in National Statuary Hall, I realized that I was looking at an untapped gold mine of trivia. National Statuary Hall (and the surrounding chambers) hold a collection of 100 statues donated by the states–each state gets to choose two prominent citizens to immortalize at the Capitol. If we’re asking trivia questions about Oscar winners, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and state quarters, why not National Statuary Hall?

So I wrote a little quiz on the denizens of National Statuary Hall. (Who all come to life at night, by the way. Henry Clay and Father Damien play bridge against Philo T. Farnsworth and Ethan Allen.) It’s sort of a hard quiz because, let’s face it, who knows who the statues are in Statuary Hall? They’re an eclectic bunch. As you might expect, the nominated Idahoans aren’t quite as well-known as the selections that were available to, say, Virginia or Massachusetts. And, possibly because they were selected decades ago, some of the selections are head-scratchingly bizarre. (Sure, Illinois, why nominate Abe Lincoln when you could have temperance movement battle-axe Frances Willard? Why should Pennsylvania send yet another Ben Franklin statue when Revolutionary War major general John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg is crying out for recognition?) But you can guess at some of the honorees, even if you’ve never seen the statues.

Here’s the quiz. If you need a hint, the honoree’s state follows each question in hard-to-read white type; highlight to read. Who’s the only person in National Statuary Hall…

• Who died in a plane crash? Oklahoma
• To have been played on-screen by Kevin Bacon? Colorado
• With a state capital named after him? Texas
• To be a hereditary monarch? Hawaii
• To be indicted for treason? Mississippi
• To write a best-selling novel? Indiana
• Who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Connecticut
• Born in France? Wisconsin
• To resign as vice-president? South Carolina
• To die in their twenties? North Dakota

Answers tomorrow.