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What's My Name? - Ladies Edition Quiz


I'll give you some clues and you find the name that matches those hints. Each question is a different name.

A multiple-choice quiz by ramonesrule. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
ramonesrule
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
406,145
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
408
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Question 1 of 10
1. What name connects someone who is unsinkable with someone who is "Pretty in Pink?" Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. A very vice-presidential comedienne with no "Family Ties" to a singer who "left a good job in the city." What first name makes sense here? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. If you have this name you might haunt a tower or be married to the bard. What is your name? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Me Tarzan you this name. Or perhaps the creator of Elizabeth Bennet. Or the face and body behind a 1980s fitness video fad. What is the common name here? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. The first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show, a monstrous matriarch and a singer who likes to "Smile." What name links these three people? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. An animated sex symbol ("Boop-Oop-A-Doop") and a Golden Girl tie this name together. What is it? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. A Queen's true name, a skeptical FBI agent and an Olympic Gold Medal winning javelin thrower tie this name together. What name is it? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The most famous virgin of all, a beheaded Queen, a follower of Jesus and Peter Pan. What name has ties to all of these? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. You really like the first American female astronaut or maybe you just like Mustangs. What name is associated with these things? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. A U.S. Attorney General, a Kenyan marathon runner and the first female President of Guyana. Three accomplished ladies connected by what name? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What name connects someone who is unsinkable with someone who is "Pretty in Pink?"

Answer: Molly

The 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' was born Margaret Brown and was a very famous passenger on the ill-fated Titanic. As a passenger on one of the lifeboats that escaped the sinking ship, she tried to get the lifeboat to turn around and rescue more people but wasn't able to make that happen.

A musical and movie were made about her life and she was portrayed by Kathy Bates in the 1997 film "Titanic." Molly Ringwald is a singer and actress who starred in a number of John Hughes teen comedy movies in the 1980s, among them "Sixteen Candles", "Breakfast Club" and "Pretty In Pink." In "Pretty In Pink" she plays a high schooler named Andie who is from the wrong side of the tracks and in a relationship with a rich student.
2. A very vice-presidential comedienne with no "Family Ties" to a singer who "left a good job in the city." What first name makes sense here?

Answer: Tina

Tina Fey is an American comedienne who spent a number of years on the sketch comedy television show "Saturday Night Live." While there she was co-anchor on the news skit and hilariously played Sarah Palin, who was running for Vice-President at the time and gave lots of material for Fey to use in her skits. Tina Yothers is an actress who portrayed the second-youngest sibling of the Keaton family on the TV show "Family Ties." Yothers was on the show from 1982 to 1989 and acted in other TV shows and TV movies in the 1980s and early 1990s. Tina Turner is a singer-songwriter who was one half of Ike and Tina Turner before venturing out as a solo artist. Hits for Tina Turner include "What's Love Got To Do With It", "River Deep Mountain High" and "Proud Mary" which includes the line "left a good job in the city."
3. If you have this name you might haunt a tower or be married to the bard. What is your name?

Answer: Anne

Anne Boleyn was married to Henry VIII and was his second wife. She was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 until she was charged with high treason and executed. She was charged with adultery, incest and plotting against the King but the likely story is that Henry needed to get her out of the way so that he could marry Jane Seymour. Anne was beheaded and it is said that her ghost haunts the Tower of London, where the execution took place. Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare who was called the bard. Anne was twenty-six when she married the eighteen year old William and she was pregnant with his child at the time.

Not much is known about her and there is quite a bit of speculation about her amongst historians. Shakespeare died before she did and he famously left her the "second-best bed and furniture" in his will.
4. Me Tarzan you this name. Or perhaps the creator of Elizabeth Bennet. Or the face and body behind a 1980s fitness video fad. What is the common name here?

Answer: Jane

Jane Porter is a fictional character from the "Tarzan" series, created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. She is the love interest of Tarzan and becomes his wife. She is included in several Tarzan books, movies and TV shows. Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist of the novel "Pride and Prejudice" which was written by Jane Austen. Austen wrote six major novels during her lifetime including "Emma" and "Sense and Sensibility." Often in her novels are the themes of marriage, dependence and social standing. Actress and activist Jane Fonda launched a series of fitness videos that were incredibly popular during the 1980s. Between 1982 and 1985 she sold over seventeen million videos, helped to make leg warmers a major fashion trend and influenced other women to get into the fitness industry.

She was also one of the first celebrities to create fitness videos.
5. The first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show, a monstrous matriarch and a singer who likes to "Smile." What name links these three people?

Answer: Lily

Comedienne and actress Lily Tomlin was the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show. Her show "Appearing Nitely" premiered in 1977. She took the show on a tour and made it into an album. She graced "Time" Magazine as the 'queen of comedy' in 1977 and staged another one-woman Broadway show in 1985 called "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" for which she won a Tony Award. Lily Munster is the monstrous matriarch.

She is a fictional character and the matriarch of the Munster family. "The Munsters" is a television show that was also adapted into a movie.

The beautiful Lily was first played by actress Yvonne de Carlo. Lily Allen is a British singer whose first single "Smile" reached number one in the U.K. Her debut album "Alright, Still" was nominated for Grammys, Brit Awards and MTV Video Music Awards.
6. An animated sex symbol ("Boop-Oop-A-Doop") and a Golden Girl tie this name together. What is it?

Answer: Betty

Betty Boop is the voluptuous animated sex symbol who you would often hear saying "Boop-Oop-A-Doop". She was created by Max Fleischer and has a distinctive large head, large eyes and exaggerated eye lashes. She is featured in her own film series, comic strips and animated cartoons. Betty White is an American actress who was the first woman to produce a sitcom ("Life With Elizabeth").

She has had an amazing and long career, starring in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "Hot In Cleveland", and as Rose on "The Golden Girls." She was also a regular panelist on many, many game shows.

She's worked in TV for eight decades and has numerous awards and achievements including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
7. A Queen's true name, a skeptical FBI agent and an Olympic Gold Medal winning javelin thrower tie this name together. What name is it?

Answer: Dana

Rapper, singer-songwriter and actress Queen Latifah was born Dana Elaine Owens in New Jersey in 1970. She was the first hip hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and she has several awards for her work in the entertainment industry including Grammys, Golden Globes and an Emmy Award.

The skeptical FBI agent is Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson. On the TV show "X-Files" Dana Scully is the scientific, thoughtful and skeptical partner to Fox Mulder who chases down conspiracy theories and wild ideas.

The Gold Medal javelin thrower is Dana Zatopkova, a Czech athlete who participated in several Olympic Games. In 1952 she won Gold, in 1960 she won Silver and she was European champion in both 1954 and 1958. At the age of thirty-five she broke a world record for the javelin throw, making her the oldest woman to do that during an outdoor event.
8. The most famous virgin of all, a beheaded Queen, a follower of Jesus and Peter Pan. What name has ties to all of these?

Answer: Mary

The Virgin Mary was the virgin mother of Jesus and wife to Joseph. She is considered to be the holiest of all the saints in Christianity and is the highest ranking woman in Islam. The beheaded Queen is Mary Queen of Scots who was charged with plots against Queen Elizabeth, imprisoned and executed in 1587.

The follower of Jesus is Mary Magdalene, who is said to have traveled with Jesus and his followers. Her name is mentioned in the gospels more than any other woman and she was a witness to his execution and resurrection. Mary Martin was an American actress who had several key roles in musicals.

She was a muse of Rogers and Hammerstein and played Maria Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" and Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific." She also played Peter Pan in the musical of the same name.

She won a Tony Award for her role in that Broadway musical.
9. You really like the first American female astronaut or maybe you just like Mustangs. What name is associated with these things?

Answer: Sally

"You really like me" was famously uttered by actress Sally Field as she accepted her Academy Award for her role in "Places in the Heart." Field has won more than one Oscar, also winning for "Norma Rae." The first American female astronaut was physicist Sally Ride.

When she travelled into space in 1983 at the age of thirty-two, she became the youngest astronaut ever in space and the third woman overall behind two Russian female astronauts. The reference to Mustangs is a nod to the song "Mustang Sally" which was made famous by Wilson Pickett.

It was originally written and recorded by Mack Rice in 1965 and is about a girl named Sally who likes to ride in Mustangs.
10. A U.S. Attorney General, a Kenyan marathon runner and the first female President of Guyana. Three accomplished ladies connected by what name?

Answer: Janet

Janet Reno was Attorney General of the United States from 1993 to 2001. The former lawyer who was born in Florida was nominated by President Bill Clinton and was the first female Attorney General of the U.S. Janet Rono is a Kenyan long distance runner who specializes in the grueling marathon distance. Rono has won several marathons including the 2011 Hong Kong Marathon and the 2013 Cologne Marathon.

Her fastest marathon time was in 2014 at 2:26:03 hours! Another female first by a Janet was Janet Jagan.

She was the first female Prime Minister and the first female President of Guyana, serving in that capacity from 1997 to 1999. She was a member of Parliament for forty-six years becoming the longest serving member of Parliament in Guyana. She was awarded the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal for Women's Rights in 1998.
Source: Author ramonesrule

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