The Best Name Game Trivia

61. The British cyclist with the surname of Queally won a gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. What is his first name?

From Quiz Questions about 'Q' People

Answer: Jason

Jason Queally won the 1 km time trial, with Stefan Nimke of Germany taking the silver. The time trial involves covering four laps of the track in the fastest possible time, and Jason set an Olympic record in winning the medal. He retired from cycling in 2008, making a brief comeback in 2010, although he has since been working with partially sighted cyclists as a tandem rider.

From Quiz Creaky, Freaky And Leaky

Answer: Leslie Nielsen (Leslie William Nielsen)

Leslie William Nielsen lived from February 11, 1926 to November 28, 2010. He was not only a Canadian but was also a naturalized American actor and comedian. He is very well known for his role as Frank Drebin in all of the "The Naked Gun" movies. Nielsen is also known for his straight faced comedy in the "Airplane" movies from the 1980s. Many of the roles he played showed his whimsical, freaky and outlandish acting abilities. The name connection is Leslie: Leslie Nielsen (Leslie William Nielsen) and Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope).

From Quiz A Bouquet of Sweet Williams

Answer: Esther

Esther Williams, "America's Mermaid", was born in 1921 and set national and regional swimming records for the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. She had hoped to compete in the 1940 Olympics but they were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II. She made her film debut in "Andy Hardy's Double Life" in 1942. In her first technicolor musical "Bathing Beauty" in 1944 she showed us what later became known as "synchronized swimming". The incorrect choices include Cindy Williams ("Laverne and Shirley"), talk show host Wendy Williams ("how YOU doin'?") and Kelli Williams from the legal drama "The Practice".

From Quiz Half the Name's the Same: the Other Half

Answer: Harper

Nelle Harper Lee (her birth name) was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1961 she won the Pulizer Prize for "To Kill A Mockingbird", the story of a southern lawyer during the Depression who agrees to defend a black man charged with rape. The story deals head on with the themes of racism and prejudice, and led to her being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. This was her only published novel (as Harper Lee), but she did help her close friend, Truman Capote, in his research for the book "In Cold Blood". Bruce was a pioneer in martial arts films; Tommy was the founding member of the band Motley Crue; Robert E. Lee was the Civil War General for the South.

From Quiz Half the Name's the Same

Answer: Molly Brown

Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown was born in 1867 in Hannibal, Missouri and was a passenger on the doomed Titanic, which sank in 1912. While in a lifeboat (#6), she demanded that the crew return to the scene to look for survivors. Both a 1960s musical and a 1964 film were based on her life and titled "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". James Brown ("I Feel Good") and Chris Brown are both singers and Jim Brown is a former professional football player and actor.

From Quiz When's Your Name Again?

Answer: August Derleth

Born in Wisconsin in 1901, Derleth was also a writer of mysteries, detective and children's stories, and helped found the publishing company of Arkham House. The first story he sold was "Bat's Belfry" to "Weird Tales Magazine". Derleth was also a conservationist and naturalist and promoted the welfare of his home state as well as others. He passed away in 1971.

From Quiz Who the Fox are these People?

Answer: Charley Fox

WWII German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was known as the "Desert Fox". Reputedly, Charles William Fox, a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force, in his Spitfire, strafed the staff car of Field Marshal Rommel, who was traveling away from Normandy to a meeting to discuss ways to end the war. Rommel's head wounds gave Hitler an excuse to cover up the General's suicide by blaming this strafing incident for his death. Charley Fox became a national hero as a result of his attack.

From Quiz Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Answer: Louis

Braille was blinded accidentally by playing with his father's saddle making tools. One eye was punctured and an uncontrolled infection lead to the loss of the other eye. He was sent to a home for the blind which was very primitive. He did show academic potential and proved to be an able scholar. His first accomplishments were in the area of music. There was at that time a primitive form of embossed writing but the books were often too heavy to even carry. Using the image of the six dot die, he was able to to create a written alphabet that brought knowledge and independence to the blind. The system was not adopted until 1854, two years after his death. In is often believed that all blind persons can be taught braille. However, blindness caused by some diseases, such as diabetes, leave some without sufficient sensitivity on the fingers to benefit.

From Quiz Two Become One

Answer: Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant was born 9 September, 1960, in London, England. He played the character of Charles in 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' (1994). Hugh courted glamorous Liz Hurley for 13 years and mutually went their separate ways, in May 2000.

From Quiz Everybody Wants to Be a Cat

Answer: Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens was a very popular folk rock singer who converted to Islam in the late 1970s. He still occasionally releases a new album. On May 5,2009 he released an album called "Roadsinger".

From Quiz For The Birds

Answer: Wales

Donald Swann met Michael Flanders at Westminster School, and they began their partnership in 1948. Swann wrote the music, and Flanders the words. They are parodied in the UK sketch comedy show, "The Armstrong and Miller Show" by Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller, who call the characters Brabbins and Fyffe.

From Quiz Harry Potter, Who?

Answer: Cranes

The company was started in 1921 when, according to the company website at http://www.haroldpotter.co.uk, Mr. Potter noticed that "companies and individuals alike had a need for help with Lifting & Materials Handling solutions." So, if you're in Nottingham and have a need for a swing jib or a chain hoist, you know where to go!

From Quiz That is a Colourful Name!

Answer: White

Kelli was born in 1977. Having won medals at 100 and 200 metres at the world championships in Paris in 2003, Kelli was subsequently stripped of the medals for doping offences involving the BALCO doping scandal. She dedicated herself to speaking out on drug abuse in sports after her career ended. Kelli was stabbed in the face as a 17 year old in 1994.

From Quiz Fill Me In (#1)

Answer: Taylor

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet and also an essayist who wrote on the functions of imagination. His thinking had a profound influence on Romantic and Transcendental thinkers of his time. He spent a long time writing with William Wordsworth. They fashioned an extensive 1798 study called "Lyrical Ballads."

From Quiz Arboreal Appellations

Answer: Thora Birch

"American Beauty" is about a middled age man's infatuation with his teenage daughter's best friend. Thora Birch portrays the middle aged man's daughter. Birch's role in this film brought her fame and critical acclaim.

From Quiz Remember Me? -C-

Answer: Maria Callas

She almost single handedly revived the early nineteenth century operatic repertoire with her performances of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. Her first professional appearances were in Athens, where she concentrated on Verdi and Wagner, but her powerful, expressive, and wide ranging voice and extending repertoire took her to La Scala, Milan, with additional seasons in London's Covent Garden and the New York Met in the mid 1950s. Despite her intelligent musicality, Callas was an inconsistent and occasionally unreliable performer; her famous liaison with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis coincided with a vocal crisis that effectively ended her career. She died of a heart attack in 1977.

From Quiz Remember Me? -B-

Answer: Joan Baez

Her pure, silvery soprano and simple treatment of traditional ballads made her first solo albums, on which she accompanied herself on guitar, among the first major successes of the folk boom. She made Pete Seeger's song 'We Shall Overcome' the anthem of the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam movements, in which she was closely involved. She had a long running but spasmodic professional and personal relationship with Bob Dylan.

From Quiz Remember Me ? - A -

Answer: Woody Allen

Allen was arguably America's most original movie actor, writer, and director all rolled into one. On screen, he was the epitome of the modern bungler tormented by self-doubt, neurosis, and unanswerable lust. He co-wrote and appeared in 'What's New, Pussycat?' (1965), his first film, and 'Play It Again Sam' (1972) was the cry of a man who never got the girl and a tribute to Humphrey Bogart, who usually did. Renowned for producing funny pictures with a serious side, such as 'Annie Hall' (1977) which won three Oscars, his work 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' (1989) were a little more thoughtful.

From Quiz People with Fishy Names

Answer: Robert (Bob) Trout

Robert Trout (1909-2000) was the first broadcaster to report United States congressional hearings live and the first to broadcast from an airplane in mid-air. Jennie Kidd Trout (1841-1921) was the first woman ever licensed to practice medicine in Canada. Monroe Trout was an American investment manager who championed the ideas of Ayn Rand. Steven Russell "Rainbow" Trout was the son of a professional baseball pitcher who himself pitched for the Chicago Cubs in the 1980s.

From Quiz "Great" Ones In History

Answer: Cyrus the Great

Also called Cyrus the Elder, he conquered Babylon, Phoenicia, Lydia, and Media building his vast empire. He also freed the Jews from captivity and allowed them to return to Palestine.

From Quiz The Name's "Humphrey"

Answer: humphrey bogart & bogart

Humphrey Bogart was born in New York City in 1899 and died in California in 1957. He was married four times, the last time to Betty Joan Perske, a.k.a. Lauren Bacall. The 1943 film "Casablanca" put him on the map and earned him a nomination for Best Actor award. In 1947, "Bogey", then the highest-paid actor in the world, formed his own production company.

From Quiz Tasty People

Answer: The Swedish Nightingale

Jenny Lind was called "the Swedish nightingale". Both the cockerel and the magpie appear in the titles of operas: "La Gazza Ladra" ("The Thieving Magpie") was composed by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1817, and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed "Zolotoi Petushok" ("The Golden Cockerel"), which had its first night after the death of the composer. Edith Gassion (1915-1963) became a world famous French singer with the artist's name Edith Piaf, where Piaf is the French word for a sparrow. So the sparrow is a bird vaguely related to singing as well.

From Quiz Tasty Women

Answer: Victoria of England

In this question, I hint at the Victoria sponge cake. This name is of course not mentioned in the question: that would make the answer too obvious. Queen Victoria was born in 1819. She was crowned Queen of England at the age of 18 and remained Queen until her death in 1901. Cleopatra was of course the famous last Farao of Egypt. She was born in 69 B.C. and ascended the throne in 51 B.C. After having had relationships with Julius Caesar and with Mark Anthony, she committed suicide in 30 B.C. Simple arithmetics teach us that she reigned for 21 years. Catherine II was born in 1729. She was crowned Czarina of Russia in 1762 and reigned until her death in 1796. Her reign lasted 34 years. Isabel I of Castilia was born in 1451. She became Queen of Castilia in 1474 and married Ferdinand of Aragon in order to reunite (almost) all the Iberian peninsula.

From Quiz Famous People with 'Bird' Names

Answer: Nightingale

She was Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910). Florence was born in Florence, Italy and named after the city. By the time she was 25 she had turned down several offers of marriage because she wanted to be a nurse. Her parents opposed the idea because nursing was considered to be a profession for working class women and it wasn't until 1851 that her father gave his permission for her to train as a nurse.

From Quiz The Name Says It All

Answer: 'If They Could See Me Now'

Great number by Shirley Maclaine (in the movie) and Gwen Verdon. 'Hernando' is from 'Pajama Game'. 'Going' is from 'Promises, Promises'. 'Man' is from 'Funny Girl'.

From Quiz City Folk

Answer: London

Jack London died aged 40 of kidney disease. He left behind over 50 books of novels, stories and essays.

From Quiz Literature and History People

Answer: Robert Kennedy

RFK became a NY senator by defeating him.

From Quiz 'Colorful' People

Answer: Harold Lincoln Gray

The strip was syndicated until 1968.

From Quiz Artful People

Answer: 21st

1881-1885. He became President after the asassination of James A. Garfield.

From Quiz Pen Names

Answer: Penny Marshall

Penny Marshall played Laverne in 'Laverne and Shirley'. This spin off from 'Happy Days' ran from 1976 to 1983.

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