Half the Name's the Same Trivia Quiz

Answer: Andrew Young

Andrew Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1932. He was the 55th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and served in that position from 1982-1990. Prior to that, Mr. Young was an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, having joined the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadershp Conference) and was both a colleague and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Carnegie was an industrialist in the steel industry; Cuomo served as Governor of New York State and Wyeth was a "realist" painter.

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.

Answer: Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper was born Frank James Cooper in 1901 in Helena, Montana. He was usually cast as the rugged leading man in Hollywood's golden era of the 1940s and 1950s. He received 5 Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and won for both "Sergeant York" in 1941 and "High Noon" as Marshal Will Kane. Bradley Cooper is an American actor ("The Hangover"); Anderson is a journalist and James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer who depicted frontier and Indian life in novels like "The Last of the Mohicans", published in 1826.

Answer: Owens

Dana Owens was born in May 1970 in East Orange, New Jersey. She is sometimes referred to as "Hip-hop's first lady", has starred on the TV comedy "Living Single" as Khadijah James from 1993 to 1998, and had a leading role as Matron Mama Morton in the 2002 film "Chicago".

Her album titles include "All Hail the Queen", "Black Reign" and "The Dana Owens Album". As for the other choices: Dana Carvey was "the church lady" on "Saturday Night Live" and Garth in "Wayne's World" (1992); Dana Wynter was an actress ("The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" from 1956) and Dana Plato is the ill-fated actress from "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978-1986) who died in 1999.

Answer: Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards was born William Blake Crump in 1922 and has been an actor (in the 1940s), a screenwriter, producer ("Victor Victoria" in 1982) and director of the "Pink Panther" films. He was married to Julie Andrews from 1969 until his death in 2010. Among his most famous movies were "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in 1961, and the hard-hitting 1962 film about alcoholism, "The Days of Wine and Roses", starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. John Edwards is a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina; Anthony Edwards is an actor who was in "Top Gun" (1986) and played Dr. Mark Greene on "ER" from 1994 to 2002; Douglas Edwards was America's first TV news anchor for CBS from 1948-1962.

Answer: Frank McCourt

The writer Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1930, and died in New York City in 2009. In between, he was a teacher and went on to pen the prize winning "Angela's Ashes" about the poverty of his childhood, "Tis: A Memoir" in 2000 and "Teacher Man" in 2005, about his teaching experiences in NY high schools and colleges, thereby completing the trilogy. Frank Herbert is also a writer who authored the "Dune" series of books; Abagnale was the impersonator who was the subject of the 2002 movie "Catch Me If You Can" and Frank Lloyd Wright (1967-1959) is one of the world's most famous architects.

Answer: Jeff Gordon

Jeff Gordon (#24) was born in 1971 in Vallejo, California and is a professional stock car racer in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, which he has won on four separate occasions, i.e., 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2001, and a three time champion of the Daytona 500 in 1997, 1999 and 2005. Additionally, in 1998 he was voted one of the "50 Greatest NASCAR Drivers of All Time".

The other three Gordons are all actors: Ruth was in "Rosemary's Baby" (1968); Gale Gordon played Lucille Ball's longtime adversary and Carl Gordon started acting late in life and appeared on the TV show "Roc" (1991-1994) and in "The Piano Lesson", a 1990 play by August Wilson.

Answer: Henry Clay

Henry Clay was born in 1777 in Virginia. He served as a Congressman and Speaker of the House in the early 1800s, a Senator in office until his death in 1852 and Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829. In 1957, a Senate Committee named him as one of the five greatest US Senators, along with Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette and Robert Taft.

He was known as "The Great Pacificator" and is responsible for the famous quote "I'd rather be right than President". The incorrect choices are pretty famous in their own fields: Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company and developer of the assembly line; Hudson, the great English explorer and Winkler as "The Fonz".

Answer: Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin was a Russian-born American composer who lived from May, 1888 until September 1989 (no, that is NOT a typo!). In 1911 he had his first big hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and he wrote for Broadway musicals like "Call Me Madam" (1950) and "Annie Get Your Gun" on Broadway in 1946 and on film in 1950 with Ethel Merman, with such wonderful songs as "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "Anything You Can Do". Irving Thalberg was an American film producer in the early days of movies and was known as "The Boy Wonder"; Irving Stone authored "The Agony and the Ecstasy" and "Lust for Life"; Irving Wallace, also an author, wrote "The Chapman Report" and "The Prize".

Answer: James Joyce

Born in 1882, James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, and is often considered to be one of the most influential authors of the early 20th century. In "Ulysses" he used the technique of "stream of consciousness" to mirror Homer's "Odyssey". Joyce had problems getting "Ulysses" published due to censorship issues.

The novel was considered obscene and was not published in the United States until 1933. Joyce set Homer's "Odyssey" in turn-of-the-century Dublin with Odysseus, Penelope and Telemachus as Leopold and Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus.

As for the other choices: Dean was an actor, Baldwin, a novelist ("Giovanni's Room") and Madison, the 4th POTUS.