Celebrities named Helen Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mrs Miggins

Born in 1955, Helen Atkinson-Wood studied fine arts at Oxford University where she first performed with the hilarious Rowan Atkinson. Most of her entertainment career has been on various television shows. These include her presenting of the rather controversial 1982 "O.T.T." ("Over the Top") late night comedy series, the only female artist on the comedy show "Radio Active" (1980-1987), regularly presenting "Collector's Lot" (1997-2001), and guest appearances on many other shows. Perhaps her most outstanding contribution to comedy was her role in the 1987 series "Blackadder the Third" with Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie and Tony Robinson, in which she plays a major role as the pie and coffee shop owner Mrs Miggins regularly visited by Blackadder, before she finally runs off with his cousin, McAdder.

"Blackadder the Third" is set during the period of the British Regency (1811-1820) when Prince George IV was acting for his poor old father, George III, who could no longer rule because of mental illness. Blackadder is the Prince's butler in this comedy series, with no respect at all for his portly, self-indulgent master. The series takes historical facts from the Prince's life and the era in which he lived (1762-1830) and sends them up to high heaven, distorting them in every possible, but extremely funny, way.

Answer: No but her character has

Helen Flanagan, born in 1990, is an English actress who has appeared in a surprising number of television shows and films already in her career. The most famous of these is her role as Rosie Webster in the long running television series "Coronation Street" which first appeared on the screen way back in 1960 and by 2014 was still going as strong as ever.

Helen played that character from the age of ten, commencing in 2000, before leaving in 2012 to pursue other interests. The series character, Rosie Winters, was played by actress Emma Collinge from the time she was 10 days old until Helen took over.

The lovely Helen Flanagan was voted, in 2013, as one of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World, a title, for some reason, that seems rather insulting.

Helen is far more than a body and a pout.

Answer: Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes (1900-1993) was an American actress with a career that spanned an incredible 80 years. By 2014, she was only one of twelve performers to have won an Emmy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Grammy. Helen was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts during her long and wonderful life. She began that long career as a five year old when she first sang on stage. Her lifelong stage career, in fact, from 1905-1980, included appearances in over 100 different productions, with her first Tony Award being won for her role as Addie in the 1947 "Happy Birthday". She won another Tony in 1958 for her role as the Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc in "Time Remembered", another for her role as Mrs Fisher in the 1967 "The Show-Off", and was nominated for yet another for her Veta Louise Simmons in the 1970 "Harvey".

Her two Academy Awards, in her silver screen career of 24 movies, were won for her performance as Madelon Claudet in the 1931 "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" as a woman wrongly imprisoned for ten years, who later has to turn to crime and prostitution to support her son - and as the delightful stowaway, Ada Quonsett, in the 1970 "Airport" drama. She also was nominated for two Golden Globes during this part of her career. Her long television career, from 1950 to 1985, included one Emmy and eight nominations. In 1977 she won a Grammy for her recording of "Great American Documents". I simply can't list all Helen's other awards and honours as the list of achievements for this amazing performer is just too long. Oh, and she wrote three books and carried out a vast array of charitable engagements during her lifetime as well!

Answer: Fleeing for hundreds of miles on foot to escape the Japanese

Helen Jairag Richardson, born 1938, is an Indian actress, dancer and singer who has appeared in more than - wait for it - 500 films! Isn't that incredible? Born in Burma to an Anglo-Indian father and a Burmese mother, Helen is also Bollywood star Salman Khan's step-mother.

In 1943, during the Second World War, Helen and her family escaped to Mumbai on foot to escape the occupying Japanese. Half the group with whom they fled died of starvation and disease before they reached safety. Having to leave school early to help support the family, Helen got her first big break in films in 1957, as a dancer, at the age of nineteen.

She has won many awards over the years, including a Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in the 1979 film "Lahu Ke Do Rang" as a girl who falls in love with an Indian soldier fighting to rid their country of the occupying British.

Answer: Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt, born in 1963, is an American actress, director and screenwriter. Not only did she star in the amusing television series "Mad About You" from 1992 until 1999, for which she won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Performer, People's Choice Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and four Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Helen has won an amazing numbers of awards for her films as well, not to mention her other nominations for all of the above. By 2014, she had also appeared in forty other different televisions shows and made thirty-six movies. That's some busy woman.

In 1997, Helen won an Academy Award for Best Actress in the hilarious, heart-warming movie "As Good As It Gets" playing opposite excellent actors Jack Nicholson and Greg Kinnear.

This movie, which saw Jack Nicholson also take out an Oscar, tells the story of Helen Connelly, a waitress and single parent of a sick child, who finally finds love in the unlikely arms of the "misanthropic, homophobic, racist, obsessive-compulsive" best-selling author, Melvin Udall, played brilliantly by Nicholson. Greg Kinnear plays a gay artist, Simon Bishop, who's been beaten up and hospitalised. Melvin is forced to take care of Simon's small dog (another fine performer) until he recovers, and eventually takes Simon in as well until he's back on his feet again.

The three performers together give us an unforgettable movie.

Answer: Helen Kane

Although actress Clara Bow is considered another candidate for the creation of the movie industry's first animated sex symbol, Betty Boop, American singer Helen Kane (1904-1966) is the favourite. This is mainly because of the song forever associated with both her and Betty, the great old 1928 number "I Wanna Be Loved By You".

Helen was always known after the release of that song as the Boop-Boop-A-Doop girl. Born in the Bronx, Helen spent the early part of her career as a singer and chorus line dancer.

Her scat singing, so much a part of the flapper culture of the day, saw Helen become so popular that her name appeared in lights wherever she performed. During her career, she also made seven movies, but it was her singing, with her babyish voice and coquettish overtones, that was her forte.

The sad thing about Helen's song, style, personality and appearance being used in a series of animated Betty Boop cartoons, was that this ruined her career. She took her case to court, claiming unfair competition on the part of her animated stolen self, but lost after a two year battle.

When the flapper era was over, so, for the most part, was Helen's career, although she continued to make occasional appearances at nightclubs and on television for the remainder of her life. Her Boop, you could say, had flown the coop.

Answer: Helen Mirren

English actress Helen Mirren, who was born in 1945 and given the name Helen Lydia Mironoff, keeps getting better all the time with her acting, it seems. By 2014, with more than eighty films to her credit, she had won one Academy Award, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, two awards from the Cannes Film Festival and picked up the Order of the British Empire along the way. Mirren, who states that she believes in fairies but doesn't believe in God, was brought up in a very anti-monarchist family.

It is ironic then that her Academy Award was won for her portrayal, in the 2006 movie "The Queen", of the United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II during the troublesome days that followed the 1997 death of Princess Diana.

Answer: Helen Reddy

Australian American actress, singer and activist, Helen Reddy, was born in 1941 into a noted show business family in Australia. By the age of fourteen she was performing with her family during their tours of the country. Rebelling against what she considered to be a pre-planned destiny, she married very young to escape (was she kidding?), was divorced just as quickly and, left with a child to support, just as rapidly returned to show business to earn a living. After winning a talent contest in 1966, she moved to the United States, but after the promised prize to cut a record didn't eventuate, decided to remain there anyway and build up a career. Down to her last twelve dollars, she was given a helping hand by hypnotist entertainer Martin St James who threw a party for her, charging people five dollars a head to attend. There she met Jeff Wald, the pair fell in love, and within three days were married. After struggling to even find enough money at first to eat, he finally began work as a talent co-ordinator, then as her manager and her career began to take off from that time.

Over the next few years, Helen's star was at its zenith as her records found their way into the top levels of the music charts. These included several number one hits, with the most popular being "I Am Woman" (1972), "Delta Dawn" (1973) and "Angie Baby" (1974). This led to multiple appearances on variety shows, talk shows, her own TV series for a time, appearances in a couple of movies and a follow up career in stage musicals. After her marriage to Jeff Wald folded because of his drug taking, Helen Reddy married for a third time to a drummer in her band. Divorced again, and now in her seventies, she continues to perform in both the United States and Australia whenever it suits her.

Answer: Helen Slater

American actress and singer-songwriter, Helen Slater was born in New York in 1963. With a career on stage, in television and in film, Helen's career statistics, by 2014, include over fifty roles in movies or in television shows, and four albums. One of her many television roles was the recurring portrayal of Clark Kent's biological mother in the series "Smallville" (2001-2011).

Her movie roles include her portrayal as Sandy Kessler, one of two hapless villains who kidnap the obnoxious Barbara Stone (Bette Midler), wife of millionaire Sam Stone (Danny DeVito), in the hilarious 1986 "Ruthless People".

Her albums include a brilliant recording of "The Myths of Ancient Greece". These are songs and stories for children of all ages from that long ago land which gave us so very many fascinating early legends.

Answer: Show Boat

Helen Morgan (1900-1941) was an American singer and actress in film and on stage. Making her early entry into the entertainment business in the 1920s as a torch singer, Helen was in the first Broadway production of the great musical "Show Boat" which tells of the life, loves and racial issues of performers and workers on a paddle boat steamer on the mighty Mississippi River.

Helen also took centre stage in a follow up revival of this great show and in two early film adaptations of same. Sadly though, in an eerie echo of the role she played in this show as Julie, the lovely mulatto singer who turns to drink on being abandoned by her husband, Helen also turned to drink, and died of cirrhosis of the liver at an early age.