When was I NOT born? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rihanna

Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Barbados in 1988. She released her debut studio album, 'Music of the Sun', aged just 17 in 2005. Her first US #1 single, 'S O S', came from her second album, released the following year. The alternatives were all born in 1992... English actor Freddie Highmore, then 13, played Charlie Bucket in the 2005 remake of Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Los Angeles native Emily Osment co-starred as Lilly Truscott in the Disney TV series 'Hannah Montana' and the subsequent 2009 film. Miley Cyrus, born Destiny Hope Cyrus and daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, also appeared in 'Hannah Montana', as Miley Stewart. Aged just 14, she also recorded the music for the soundtrack.

Answer: Drew Brees

Born in Austin, Texas in 1979, Drew Brees played his college football for the Purdue Boilermakers. He was drafter in 2001 by the San Diego Chargers and played for them until moving to New Orleans in 2006. He led the Saints to victory over the Colts in Superbowl XLIV, picking up the MVP award in the process. The alternatives were all born in 1984...

After joining West Ham United in 2006, Argentine soccer star Carlos Tévez became one of the most sought-after goalscorers in English soccer. Subsequent spells with Manchester United and Manchester City only enhanced his reputation. German golfer Martin Kaymer won the 2010 PGA Championship after posting an 11-under total for 72 holes and then winning the sudden death playoff against Bubba Watson on the third extra hole.

He thus became the second German to win one of golf's four majors, after Bernhard Langer. Abraham Benjamin de Villiers succeeded Graeme Smith as the captain of the South African cricket team after the 2011 World Cup. He established a new test match record by avoiding being dismissed for a duck in his any of his first 78 test innings.

He also set a new record for the highest test innings by a South African when he reached 278 not out against Pakistan in 2010.

Answer: Justin Timberlake

Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1981, Justin Timberlake became the lead singer of N'Sync aged just 14 in 1995. He released his first solo album ('Justified') in 2002. The alternatives were all born in 1975... Australian singer/actress Natalie Imbruglia first became famous as Beth Brennan in the TV soap 'Neighbours'.

Here 1997 debut album ('Left of the Middle') sold more than 6m copies. California native Stacy Ferguson aka Fergie, joined the hip hop group Black Eyed Peas for their third album in 2003. Scottish singer-songwriter-guitarist Kate Victoria 'KT' Tunstall leaped to stardom following a 2004 appearance on 'Later... with Jools Holland'.

She released her debut album ('eye to the Telescope') later that same year

Answer: Hugh Laurie

English actor/writer/comedian Hugh Laurie was born in 1959. He appeared alongside Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Ben Elton and Mel Smith in a 1984 episode of 'The Young Ones' and later starred in the 'Blackadder' series, 'A Bit of Fry & Laurie' and 'Jeeves & Wooster'.

It was in 2004 that he became a superstar, though, when he first appeared as the inimitable Dr Gregory House in 'House'. The alternatives were all born in 1964... Courteney Cox was a regular in 'Misfits of Science' and 'Family Ties' in the 1980s, but reached super stardom as Monica Geller in 'Friends', who she played from 1994 until 2004. Illinois native Calista Flockhart found fame playing the Boston-based lawyer Ally McBeal in the comedy-drama of the same between 1997 and 2002. Teri Hatcher made periodic appearances in 'MacGyver' in the 1980s but it was as Lois Lane in 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' that she first found fame. Since 2004 she has played Susan Mayer in 'Desperate Housewives'.

Answer: Dan Brown

Dan Brown, born in 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, hit the big time with his fourth novel, the 2003 bestseller 'The Da Vinci Code'.
The alternatives were all born in the 1950s... Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson died in 2004 aged just 50, four years before the first of his bestselling 'Millennium' trilogy was published. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England in 1952. 'The Hitckhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', the first of a 6-book series, was published in 1979. Adams also died young, aged 49. Iowa native Bill Bryson, the bestselling humorist writer, was born in 1951.

Answer: Teófilo Stevenson

Cuba's Teófilo Stevenson was born in 1952. Along with fellow Cuban Félix Savón and Hungary's László Papp, he is one of only three men to win three Olympic boxing titles. Stevenson won the Heavyweight gold in Munich in 1972, in Montreal in 1976 and in Moscow in 1980. The alternatives were all born in 1946... Soccer legend George Best made his name playing for Manchester Untied in the 60s/70s. Northern Ireland's favorite son, Belfast Airport was renamed for him following his death in 2005. Romanian tennis superstar Ilie Nãstase was the world's #1 ranked player for ten months in 1973-74.

He reached five Grand Slam singles finals, winning the US Open in 1972 and the French Open in 1973. Brazilian motor-racing star Emerson Fittipaldi won the Formula One Drivers Championship in 1972 and 1974 and the Indianapolis 500 in 1989 and 1993.

Answer: Gene Pitney

Singer/songwriter Eugene Francis Alan Pitney was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1940. He had four US and 11 UK Top 10 singles in the 1960s and he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. He died in Cardiff, Wales aged 66 in 2006. The alternatives were all born in 1935... Texas native Johnny Mathis had 73 Billboard chart singles between 1957 and 2003 and sold more than 350 millions records worldwide.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Salvatore Phillip Bono was a singer, recored producer, actor and politician.

As a performer, his most successful days came during his 10-year marriage to Cher. In later life he became Mayor of Palm Springs and a US Congressman for California. He died in a skiing accident in 1998. Born in Modena, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti is probably the most commercially successful operatic tenor of all time. One of the much heralded 'Three Tenors' he died of cancer in 2007.

Answer: Joan Fontaine

The younger sister of Olivia, Joan Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan in 1917. She is the only actor to win an Oscar for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film -- for 'Suspicion' in 1942. Curiously, one of the other nominees that year was Fontaine's sister.

The alternatives were all born in 1923... Charlton Heston was born John Charles Carter in Illinois. He won the Best Actor Oscar in 1959 for 'Ben Hur' and co-hosted the 1977 Oscars with Michael Caine, carol Burnett and Rock Hudson. Peter Lawford, born Peter Sydney Vaughn Aylen in London, was a member of the famed 'Rat Pack' in the 1960s. He became a member of the Kennedy family in 1954 when he married JFK's younger sister, Patricia. Richard Attenborough appeared in his first film ('In Which We Serve') in 1942, and was still directing and producing 65 years later. He won Oscars as both Director and Producer of the 1982 classic 'Gandhi'

Answer: Lyndon B Johnson

President Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas in 1908. He was first elected as a Texas Congressman in 1937 and became a US Senator in 1949. elected as J.F. Kennedy's Vice-President in 1960, Johnson took over as President when JFK was assassinated in November 1963. He was re-elected in 1964 and served until succeeded by Richard Nixon in January 1969. He 1973 aged 64.
The alternatives were all born in 1916... François Mitterrand was the 4th President of the Fifth French Republic, holding office from 1981 until 1995. He died in 1996 aged 79. A British MP from 1950 until 2001, Ted Heath led the Conservative Party for 10 years, including four as British Prime Minister, from 1970-74. He died in 2005 aged 89. Harold Wilson, later Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, was British Prime Minister either side of Heath, serving from 1964-70 and again from 1974-76. He died in 1995 aged 79.

Answer: Enid Blyton

Still widely read by children today, Enid Blyton was born in London in 1897. She created 'Noddy' for early readers and 'The Famous Five' and 'The Secret Seven' for older children. Her literary output is estimated at around 800 books in a 40-year writing career.

She died in 1968 aged 71. The alternatives were all born in 1907... Anglo-American poet Wystan Hugh Alden was born in York, England, and is widely regarded as one of the foremost writers of the 20th Century. He died in Vienna, Austria in 1973 aged 66. Pennsylvania native James Michener wrote more than 40 books, many of them epic sagas telling the stories of specific regions.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948 for his 'Tales of the South Pacific'. He died in 1997 aged 90. Daphne du Maurier, later Lady Browning, was born in London.

Her works include 'Rebecca', 'Jamaica Inn' and 'The Birds', all later films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She died in 1989 aged 81.