Who Made Who Trivia Quiz

Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

Coretta Scott King stood by her husband, Martin Luther King, every step of the way, as leaders in the civil rights movement during the 1960s. The pair met in graduate school in Boston and were married in 1953. They remained a couple until King's untimely death in 1968.

A strong advocate for African-American equality, Coretta ensured she wasn't merely her husband's shadow and became a leader in her own right. However, she became far more prominent after her husband's assassination ensuring that her husband's work did not lose momentum. She became active in the Women's Movement, established the King Centre and campaigned rigorously to have Martin's birthday proclaimed a national holiday. The latter eventually became law in 1983.

She would become a strong opponent to apartheid and became a vocal advocate for the rights of the LGBTQ community. Suffering a stroke in 2005 she would pass away a few months later from respiratory failure. Her funeral would be attended by over 10,000 people, a crowd that included the likes of George W and George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

Answer: Walt Disney

Without Lillian Disney, the world may not have known a mouse named Mickey. Legend has it that Walt showed a drawing of the mouse, he'd planned to call Mortimer, to her on a train ride to New York. Lillian informed her husband that the name sounded too depressing and that he should change it to Mickey. Thank the stars, Walt listened to her.

The pair met in 1923 when Lillian was working as a secretary at the Walt Disney Animation Studio and were married two years later. Walt would run most of his ideas past Lillian and valued her feedback. He encouraged her to pursue her art and she would contribute to a number of works, in particular the 1928 film "Plane Crazy". Art would play a huge part in Lillian's life, and she became one of its strongest supporters, helping found The California Institute of the Arts in 1961 and pledging $50 million toward the establishment of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened in Los Angeles in 2003, six years after Lillian's passing.

Answer: William Wordsworth

Dorothy and her famous brother, William Wordsworth, shared a strong bond together. They shared a house with each other and this arrangement continued even after William married.

While she would become known as a diarist and a formidable writer in her own right, she had no desires to becoming a public figure, stating "let William have the pleasure of it". Despite this, some of her work is so vivid that it is considered to be poetic, and some have viewed her more of a poet than William. William, for his part, would borrow freely from his sister's writings. This was best reflected in his work "Daffodils" (1807), which echoes strongly some of the entries Dorothy had recorded in her "Grasmere Journals" some two years earlier.

Those same journals told of Dorothy's day-to-day life in the Lakes District. In a series of four notebooks, that she felt would not be read by anyone else apart from herself and her brother, she documented her quiet walks, William's ailments and afternoons spent eating mutton pies. All were written with such beauty and skill that it seemed a crime that she remained out of the spotlight that her brother dominated.

Answer: Charles Philip Arthur George

It would be fair to say that Lady Diana Spencer was never in the shadows so, in some respects, she doesn't belong here, however, she certainly fits under the banner of "who made who" and, as such, she does.

The marriage of Lady Diana Spencer to the Prince of Wales in July of 1981 attracted a world-wide television audience of approximately 750 million viewers. Sadly, this media scrutiny did not abate for the duration of the couple's marriage and beyond. It would become one of the factors that would lead to the untimely death, in 1997, of the woman that became affectionately known as Lady Di.

Outside of her royal duties, Diana was well known for her charity work, in particular, the Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she was president from 1989. Add to this her work in the areas afflicted with leprosy and AIDS, her devotion to the homeless and the tower of work that she put in to get landmines banned. In the face of all this, what is often overlooked, was her ability to charm international audiences and delegations, which made the diplomatic work of, the then, Prince Charles that much smoother. A classic example of this was their visit to Japan (1986), where the Princess stunned the room by speaking the opening two lines of her speech in fluent Japanese.

An exceptional and gifted woman, Diana revitalized the interest in the British monarchy during her life. In her passing, the "Diana Effect" kicked in and the royal family became much more accessible to the public.

Answer: Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Morris) called his mother "my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness." In an interview for her 2002 authorized biography, "Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother", she revealed that she was born to a poor sharecropper, endured hard times as a child, married a much older man who drank, beat her and then forced her into prostitution before fleeing with her children to Detroit.

It was here that her son Stevie came to the attention of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr, a moment that changed all their lives. Lula would negotiate Stevie's initial contract and then sat with her son to write a number of his early songs. Most notable among these was "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" (1970). That wonderful hook was all Lula and it earned her a Grammy Award nomination. Prior to that there was "I Was Made to Love Her", "You Met Your Match" (both 1967) and "I Don't Know Why I Love You" (1968), all of which were hits for her son.

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zelda was both the muse and the wife to F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby". Fitzgerald called her "the first American flapper" and drew upon her for a number of characters in his stories. Zelda was a writer in her own right and Fitzgerald would often use excerpts of her descriptions of female characters to bolster his own works. She would write her own novel, "Save Me the Waltz" (1932), which infuriated her husband as it was semi-autobiographical and contained many of the ideas that he intended to use for a work of his own, the 1934 novel "Tender is the Night".

Zelda was a stunningly beautiful woman and a wonderful dancer which made her and her husband a hit on the social scene. However, their marriage was ruined by drinking bouts on her husband's side, infidelity and her own mental crisis. By the time her husband was killed suddenly in 1940, the pair was already estranged.

Answer: Jackie Robinson

Rachel's husband, Jackie, changed the face of Major League Baseball forever when, in 1947, he became the first black player at the highest level of the game. Whilst this was a huge step for Jackie it was by no means a popular move and the family was confronted with a great deal of turmoil during this time. Rachel stood by her husband and the strength she gained from this led to her becoming involved in the civil rights movement.

Once Jackie retired in 1956 it was Rachel's turn to step into the spotlight. She returned to her nursing career and completed her master's degree in psychiatric nursing at New York University, spent five years as a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and became an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing before being appointed the Director of Nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Centre.

In 1973 she founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation as a means to provide minority students with education opportunities. In 2009 she would be awarded the UCLA Medal, that university's highest honour, for her extraordinary contributions to higher education.

Answer: Albert Einstein

Mileva Maric was the first wife of Albert Einstein, the brilliant physicist who introduced the world to his theory of relativity. Mileva, too, was a brilliant physicist and it has been argued that she was a valuable contributor to her husband's work.

Serbian born Mileva was admitted to the physics-mathematics section of the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich in 1896. Only four other students were afforded this honour. One of those was Einstein. The pair became inseparable and studied together for hours on end. Extremely well organized and methodical she was the glue that brought Albert's chaos into line. The pair wrote to each other regularly, and in letters (43 of Albert's have been preserved) written by Einstein he extols her virtues and, when they were apart, (he wrote) he missed her energy and ability to prevent his thoughts from meandering.

In December 1900 they submitted the first of their joint articles, this one on capillarity, but it was signed only in Albert's name, as were other articles going forward. A number of theories as to why this was so surfaced. One is that there was a prevalent bias, at the time, against work submitted by women and there was a fear that Mileva's name on the document might have seen it carry less weight. Another is that if the work was seen as Albert's, it may have hastened his ability to obtain work. This was in Mileva's interest as Albert had refused to get married unless he had a job to support them.

Mileva and Albert married in 1903 and had three children. They separated in 1914 and divorced in 1919. When Albert won the Nobel Prize, he kept the award but under terms of his divorce, the prizemoney, which was placed in a trust, went to Mileva. Mileva passed away in 1948 and has been honoured with numerous plaques in Zurich.

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Alma Reville married Alfred in 1926 and it proved to be a match made in Heaven. She was virtually Alfred's right hand man... er woman, and much of the horror master's success would not have been possible without Alma's input. In the words of Peggy Robertson, Hitchcock's long time assistant, "the amount of work Reville put into Hitchcock's films, should have amounted to co-authorship".

Alma had ambitions of directorship before Alfred arrived in her life. However, with her assistance Hitchcock's stature in Hollywood began to rise and, despite being pushed into the background, Alma remained a vital sounding board to her husband. She often had the final say in casting and editing and a good example of her eye for the spectacular, was her insistence in maintaining the "screaming strings" score, that had been composed by Bernard Herrman, for the iconic shower scene in "Psycho" (1960). If Alfred had had his way, it would not have been there at all.

One of Alma's strengths was her writing and her ability to create psychologically complex female characters, something that Alfred struggled with and admitted that it was not his strong suit. Fittingly, when he made his speech in accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy, Hitchcock devoted a significant amount of time to acknowledge the contributions made by Alma as a technician and a craftsperson, and how vital these were to his end product.

Answer: Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez, who, posthumously, became a "folk saint" among Mexican Americans, is generally seen as the driving force behind the creation of the National Farm Worker's Association (NFWA). However, his inspiration came from his close friend Dolores Huerta. Despite numerous disagreements, Huerta, became Chavez's "right hand" and has continued the organisation's strong work long after Chavez's passing in 1993.

The NFWA would merge with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and become the United Farm Workers (UFW). The group would be the driving force behind the 1965 Delano grape strike in California, but it was Dolores who took the lead in the negotiations for the worker's contracts that bought the strike to a resolution.

A tireless worker and advocate Dolores would be recognized several times for her work and, among those recognitions, are the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dolores Huerta would be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993, the first Latina to achieve that honour.