Fits to a 'T'. Trivia Quiz

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

From "National Velvet"(1944) to "Cleopatra"(1963) to Maggie the "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"(1958), Elizabeth Taylor caught the imagination of generations of fans. Despite her disappointing romances, her illnesses, her addictions, and troubled life, she is an esteemed actress of her era. She was also a great humanitarian for her work for HIV/AIDS and Jewish and Israeli causes.

Answer: Margaret Thacher

Margaret Thacher was not only the first woman Prime Minister of Britain but the longest serving in her century. She was a Conservative who tried to reel in the actions of the previous Labour government. Known for being determined, she earned the title of "The Iron Lady".

Answer: Mother Teresa

Born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa is regarded as a saint by her acts of care and sacrifice. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, with 4,500 sisters in 133 countries. They maintain homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries, clinics; children's and family-counselling programs; orphanages, and schools. In addition to taking vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, also a fourth vow: to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor".

Born Albanian, Mother Teresa spent the bulk of her life among the poor of the streets of Calcutta, India.

Answer: Linda Tripp

Linda Tripp's one claim to fame was her betrayal of her friend Monica Lewinsky. She recorded Monica Lewinsky's confidential phone calls about her relationship with President Clinton. This sparked the Kenneth Starr investigation and led Congress to impeachment proceeding.

Answer: Shirley Temple

Child show business stars often have a difficult time transitioning to adult life.
Shirley Temple had a long run in her darling child roles and later as an ingenue, and a fling at television. But she found her real adult career as a public servant. After becoming active in the Republican Party, she was chosen to be the Ambassador to Ghana by President Gerald Ford in 1977 and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1989 by President George H. W. Bush.

Answer: Helen Thomas

There is a lot you can say about Helen Thomas but it would be hard to improve on her obituary.

"Helen Thomas, the irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill nine presidents - often to their discomfort and was not shy about sharing her opinions, died at age 92.

Thomas, who died at her apartment in Washington, had been ill for a long time, and in and out of the hospital before coming two days before her death according to a friend.

Thomas made her name as a bulldog for United Press International in the great wire-service rivalries of old, and as a pioneer for women in journalism.

She was persistent to the point of badgering. One White House press secretary described her questioning as "torture" - and he was one of her fans."

Answer: Alice B. Toklas

Alice B. Toklas was the companion to the legendary Gertrude Stein. "The Autobiography of Alice B. " (1933) was actually written by Stein. Together they hosted gatherings of the fToklas inest artists and writers in Paris in the 1920s including Ernest Hemingway, Paul Bowles, Thornton Wilder, Sherwood Anderson, Picasso, Matisse, and Braque.

She published a cook book that is most famous for its recipe of hashish-laced brownies.

Answer: Tina Turner

Tina Turner came into prominence as the lead singer in her husband's band "Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm" This was an abusive relationship as noted in the biographical film "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993) with Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner. Turner went on to be a solo performer and a film star and an inspiration to women to break from abusive relationships. Ike turner died in a cloud of white dust of a cocaine overdose
in 2008.

Answer: Ann Tyler

Anne Tyler is a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published over 20 novels, the best known of which are "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" (1982), "The Accidental Tourist" (1985), and "Breathing Lessons" (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with "Breathing Lessons" winning the prize in 1989.

The film adaptation of "The Accidental Tourist" (1988) was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Supporting Actress for Geena Davis, which she won. She played the dog walker who slowly breaks down the barriers of stuffy and compulsive writer William Hurt.

Answer: Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection "Love Songs".

Probably the love of her life was poet Vachel Lindsay whom she knew before and after his marriage. She married Ernst Filsinger in 1914, divorced in 1929, and committed suicide in 1933, two years after Lindsay's suicide. The theme of death was often in her poetry. Although written many years before, this short poem reflects her mood:

I Shall Not Care

"WHEN I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care.
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough,
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now."