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1. Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart is best known as 1/2 of the tag team The Hart Foundation with Bret Hart. However, he's not as well known in a failed gimmick where he wrestled under a mask for a very short time. By what name did Neidhart go by as this masked wrestler?
2. After some success in WCW and a brief stint in ECW, Steve Austin finally made it to the WWE in 1995. Before becoming the beer swilling, bird flipping, butt kicking redneck everyone came to know and love, Austin was managed by Ted Dibiase and was handed the "Million Dollar" championship belt. Oddly, he rarely if ever spoke. By what name did Austin go by before becoming "Stone Cold"?
3. Dustin Runnels grew up in a wrestling family as his father is the legendary Dusty Rhodes. Dustin debuted as himself in the WWE as well as in WCW. When Dustin returned to the WWE, he re-debuted wearing a gold body suit, platinum blond wig, and entered the ring with gold confetti falling as the enigmatic Goldust. After years of success in the WWE, he returned to WCW and was set to debut as someone who stalked children. Thankfully, this gimmick was dropped as quickly as it debuted. What was the name of Dustin's new gimmick?
4. Before becoming the Samoan Bulldozer, Umaga was known as Jamal and was 1/2 of a tag team with Rosie who were used by "RAW" GM Eric Bischoff to attack certain wrestlers including crashing Billy and Chuck's commitment ceremony on "Smackdown!". What was the name of this tag team?
5. Before Al Snow picked up a mannequin head and started talking to it, in his first run in the WWE, Snow went through 3 terrible gimmicks. One was the masked superhero Avatar, another was the super ninja Shinobi. The third had him team up with Marty Jannetty to form the "New Rockers". By what name did Al Snow go by in this third incarnation?
6. Before Mick Foley developed his "3 Faces of Foley", he wrestled under the name of Jack Foley.
7. Before Paul Michael Levesque, better known these days as Triple H, married the boss' daughter and became The Game, he wrestled under the name of Jean Paul Levesque while in WCW. He also wrestled under another name while in WCW. What was that name?
8. Tito Santana had an illustrious career including winning the WWE Intercontinental and Tag Team Championships but toward the end of his career Tito was repackaged into a short-lived persona. What was this gimmick?
9. Before Mark Calaway, better known as The Undertaker, started wreaking havoc in the WWE, he had another persona while wrestling in WCW. What was that persona?
10. Steve Lombardi has been employed by the WWE for many years. During his time he has been Kamala's handler Kimchee, Doink the Clown, but he's best known as the Brooklyn Brawler. In 1994, Lombardi took on another personality in response to the Major League Baseball strike. This character's name was Abe "Knuckleball" ___________.
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