Every Tom (But Not Dick or Harry) Quiz

Answer: Tom Jones

Tom Jones (born Thomas Jones Woodward) had seventeen Billboard Top 40 hits between 1965 and 1971. "She's A lady" (Number Two in 1971) and "What's New Pussycat?" (Number Three in 1965) were his highest charted hits.

Answer: General Tom Thumb

General Tom Thumb was a dwarf who performed for P.T. Barnum, who taught him to sing, mime, dance, and impersonate famous persons. In 1843, at age five, he first went on a tour in America.

Answer: Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard has won four Tony Awards for Best Play: "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead" (1968), "Travesties" (1976), "The Real Thing" (1984), and "The Coast Of Utopia" (2007). In 1998, he also won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Shakespeare In Love."

Answer: Tom Brady

Through the 2014 season, Brady had led the Patriots to six Super Bowls, winning four and being named MVP in three. He had won two league MVP awards, and had been selected to ten Pro Bowls. In 2007 he led the Patriots to become the first undefeated regular season team since the institution of the sixteen-game NFL schedule.

He had won more playoff games (21) than any quarterback in NFL history, and was the first quarterback to throw 50 or more touchdown passes in a season.

Answer: Tom Mix

Tom Mix appeared in 291 films, of which all but nine were silent movies. As the first western "super star" he defined the genre for all those cowboys who followed him. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and his cowboy boot prints and palm prints, and the hoof prints of Tony are at Grauman's Chinese Theater.

Answer: Tom Watson

Tom Watson was also the PGA Player of the Year six times (1977-80, 1982, and 1984), as well as the PGA leading money winner five times (1977-1980 and 1984). He did finish second in the 1978 PGA Championship.

Answer: Tom Bradley

Tom Bradley, a former member of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1940-1961, served as Mayor for twenty years, from 1973 until 1993. As mayor, he was instrumental in rebuilding much of the downtown area and in the construction of the light rail network.

He led Los Angeles in hosting the 1984 Summer Olympics, and pushed to expand the Los Angeles International Airport, where the Tom Bradley International terminal is named in his honor.

Answer: Tom Clark

Appointed by President Truman, Tom Campbell Clark served as the United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949, and as an Associate Justice from 1949 until his death in 1967. Although he was a southerner, he consistently backed decisions designed to promote racial equality and civil rights, including "Brown v. Board of Education," that struck down the "separate but equal" provisions related to education, "Anderson v. Martin" that struck down a provision in Louisiana that a candidate's race must be printed on the ballot, and "Brown and Hernandez v. Texas," that overturned excluding persons of Mexican ancestry from serving on juries.

Answer: Dooley

"Tom Dooley" reached Number One on the Billboard Top 40, the top hit for The Kingston Trio. Of their other nine Top 40 hits between 1958 and 1963, only "Reverend Mr. Black" made the Top 10 (Number Eight in 1963).

Answer: Tom and Jerry

"Tom And Jerry" was created in 1940. It dealt with the rivalry between Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse. Between 1940 and 1957, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 "Tom And Jerry" shorts for MGM, winning seven Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.