Celebrity Disambiguation: The Sequel Quiz

Answer: Academy Award Winning Actress; "The Aviator"

CATE Blanchett is one of the most respected actors of her generation. She won an Oscar for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator." Other major roles including Elizabeth I in "Elizabeth," Sheba Hart in "Notes on a Scandal," and Jude Quinn in "I'm Not There." In 2009, she appeared on Australian postage stamps along with Russell Crowe, Geoffrey Rush and Nicole Kidman.

KATE Winslet is a British actress, perhaps best known as the star of Titanic, one of the biggest films in movie history. She had been nominated for the Academy Award six times (4 best actress, 2 supporting) before she finally won for portraying Hanna Schmitz in "The Reader" (2008).

KATY Perry emerged as one of the hottest new singers on the music scene in 2008. "I Kissed A Girl" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Perry is a natural blonde who dyes her hair brown.

CAT Stevens was one of the biggest musicians of the 1970s. He is probably best known for "Peace Train" and "Morning has Broken." Stevens is also widely known as a peace activist, and has won several major awards for his humanitarian efforts.

Answer: First woman elected Senator from Missouri

CLAIRE McCaskill was elected junior Senator from the state of Missouri in 2006, narrowly defeating incumbent James Talent. She was the first woman to be elected in her own right to the Senate from Missouri.

Saint CLARE of Assisi (1194-1253) was the founder of the Order of St Clare, also known as the Poor Clares. She worked with St Francis of Assisi. Her feast day is August 11.

CLARA Barton (1821-1912) was a nurse and teacher who is best known for creating the American Red Cross shortly after serving in the US Civil War. Her home in Glen Echo, Maryland (a suburb of Washington DC) is a National Historic Site.

Dick CLAIR won three Emmys for his writing on the "Carol Burnett Show" in 1974, 1975 and 1978. He also wrote for "Soap" and "The Facts of Life." When he died in December 1988, his body was cryogenically frozen.

Answer: Super Bowl winning quarterback and NFL MVP

KURT Warner has been a Quarterback with the St Louis Rams and Arizona Diamondbacks. He won the Super Bowl for the Rams in 2000, and was named NFL MVP in 1999 and 2001.
FYI: In Turkish, Kurt means wolf.

KIRT Manwaring spent 13 seasons in the majors, most of them with the Giants. He won the Golden Glove Award in 1993.

CURT Schilling holds the distinction of being the first pitcher in MLB history to win a World Series game in his 20s, 30s and 40s. He is a three-time World Series champion (2001, 2004 and 2007). He is also a member of the elite 3000 strikeouts club, with 3116 over a 20-year career.

CURD Jurgens was a German actor who often played military men. He is probably best known as Karl Stromberg, the industrialist bent on starting World War III to create a new civilization underneath the ocean in "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)

Answer: Played Frank Castle in "The Punisher" (2004)

Thomas JANE is an American actor. Since 1999, he has appeared in numerous films, but is probably best known for portraying soldier turned vigilante Frank Castle in the 2004 film "The Punisher." Jane was reluctant at first to take the part, seeing it as a super-hero film.

JUNE Carter Cash was married to singer Johnny Cash from 1968 to her death in 2003. Reese Witherspoon won an Academy Award playing her in "Walk The Line." As her second marriage was dissolving and she fell in love with Johnny, June wrote the legendary song "Ring of Fire."

JADE Jagger is a jewelry designer in Paris. She is the daughter of Mick and Bianca Jagger, and was born October 21, 1971.

JAN Hammer gained international fame in the 1980s for his work on the NBC hit "Miami Vice." Hammer's electro-synth beat meshed perfectly with the pastel style of the show.

Answer: First Woman to be UN Ambassador

JEANE Kirkpatrick was a political science professor who rose to the big leagues when Ronald Reagan named her Ambassador to the United Nations in 1981. She is best known for her hard-line anti-Communist views. Ironically, she was a Socialist when she was in college.

JEAN Reno was actually born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jimenez in Casablanca, Morocco. His breakout role in the United States was "Leon" (aka "The Professional") which stars a young Natalie Portman. He was Franz Kreiger (mercenary) in "Mission Impossible" and Bezu Fache (police officer) in "The DaVinci Code."

JEANNE Shaheen is the first woman in US history to serve as both governor and senator from her state. She was Governor of New Hampshire from 1997 to 2003. She defeated John Sununu in 2008 to become Senator.

GENE Kelly was perhaps the greatest song and dance man of the 20th century. Many people regard "Singing in the Rain" as the best musical picture ever. His pictures include "Anchors Away," "On The Town" and "An American in Paris."

Answer: American Actress; "Twin Peaks"; "The Practice"

LARA Flynn Boyle has made a career of playing femme fatales, including the extra-terrestrial villain Serleena in "Men in Black II." She is best known as ADA Helen Gamble from the ABC series "The Practice." And she is named after Lara from "Dr Zhivago."

LAURA Dern is a Golden Globe-winning actress. She is probably best known for her work as Dr. Ellie Sattler in the "Jurassic Park" franchise. She gained television immortality as Ellen's first lesbian girlfriend when Ellen DeGeneres came out on "Ellen."

LAUREN Tewes served as Cruise Director Julie McCoy on the Pacific Princess from 1977 to 1984. While she acted occasionally in the 2000s, she made her living as a gourmet chef in Seattle.

LAURIE Metcalfe won three Emmy Awards for her work as Roseanne's sister Jackie (1992, 1993 and 1994). In 2006, she was nominated for appearances on "Monk" and "Desperate Housewives."

Answer: Sports Broadcaster in the 1980s

Sophia LOREN won the Oscar in 1961 for "Two Women," the first person to win for a non-English speaking performance. Loren was one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s.

LORNE Michaels was born Lorne Lipowitz in Toronto, Canada. He created SNL in 1975. He started his career on television on "Laugh-In" in the late 1960s. His most famous appearance on the show: Offering the Beatles $3000 to reunite and perform on Saturday Night. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in New York that night, and saw the show, but couldn't make it to the studio in time.

John LONE played the Emperor Pu-Yi in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor." The film won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but Lone did not win for his acting.

LORN Brown was a baseball broadcaster for the Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers and NY Mets. During this time, he worked with legends such as Harry Caray and Bob Uecker. Lorn was well known for mispronouncing players' names.

Answer: Founder of the New York Giants

The New York Giants were founded by Timothy MARA in 1925, for an investment of $500. In 2008, Forbes magazine estimated the team's value at roughly $1.2 billion. Mara is a member of the Football Hall of Fame.

MAURA Tierney played Abby Lockhart, a nurse who became a doctor, on ER for ten seasons, from 1999 to 2008. She is Irish, and a Native of Boston; her father was a city councilman for 15 years. She named her dog after Rose Kennedy.

MOIRA Kelly played political consultant Mandy Hampton during the first season of the Aaron Sorkin drama "The West Wing." Starting in 2003, she has played Karen Roe on the CW drama "One Tree Hill." Moira was originally cast to play Kit Keller in "A League of Their Own," but dropped out when she broke her ankle on "The Cutting Edge."

Ann MEARA has also done a great deal of acting when she wasn't raising Ben and his sister Amy. She and her husband Jerry Stiller formed one of the first improvisational comedy acts of the 1960s. In 2000, she and Jerry were named King and Queen of Brooklyn. Later on, they would appear on the sitcom "King of Queens."

Answer: French soldier who fought with Napoleon

MICHEL Ney is one of the most renowned figures in French military history. Napoleon named him a Marshal in 1804, and Ney played a critical role in every major campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. Ney sided with Napoleon during the Hundred Days and was executed for treason on December 7, 1815.

MYKELTI Williamson (also Mykel T.) played Benjamin Buford Blue, the shrimp-obsessed friend of Forrest Gump in the 1994 film. In the 2000s, he tended to play cops: Lt Gerard on "The Fugitive," Detective Bobby Smith on "Boomtown," Chief Sinclair on "CSI: NY" and CTU Agent Brian Hastings on the eighth season of "24."

Veronica MICHELLE Bachelet Jeria was elected President of Chile in 2006. According to Forbes Magazine, she was at one point the 22nd most powerful woman in the world. Bachelet did not run for re-election; a new President, Sebastian Pinera, was elected in January 2010.

MICHAEL Learned is best known for portraying Olivia Walton, the mother on the CBS series "The Waltons." She was nominated for the Emmy six times, and won three. She won another for her work in the 1981-1982 series "Nurse."

Answer: Singer interrupted by Kanye West

TAYLOR Allison Swift sold four million albums in 2008. Her album "Fearless" was one of the most successful of the decade (2000-2009). Swift set a record with eight songs in the Hot 100 in November 2009. Swift entered pop culture history in September 2009, when Kanye West interrupted her to give a shout-out to Beyoncé Knowles.

Liv TYLER played Arwen, the love interest of King Aragorn, in the "Lord of the Rings" series. Liv is the daughter of model Bebe Buell and rock legend Steven Tyler. She washes a car in the 2001 film "One Night at McCool's." [Fast forward to this scene]

Edward TELLER (1908-2003) was a Hungarian-American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later designed the hydrogen bomb. How he did it remains a highly classified secret (for obvious reasons). But Teller proved his theories with a 10-megaton blast called "Ivy Mike" in November 1952.

Elgin BAYLOR was one of the greatest stars in NBA history. A Rookie of the Year, he was an 11-time All Star (1959-1970). He scored 23,149 points during his career, in only 846 games. Many of Baylor's records remained near the top of the charts 40 years after he retired.