Half the Name's the Same: the Other Half Quiz

Answer: Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson was born in 1982 in Ft. Worth, Texas. She is a singer/ songwriter who came to fame by winning the very first "American Idol" title, amd was runner-up on "World Idol" in 2003 behind the first Norwegian Idol, Kurt Nilsen. In the following years, she went on to have huge successes with songs such as "Breakaway", "Since U Been Gone" and "Because of You", and her fifth studio album "Stronger" in 2011.

She was also in the 2003 film "From Justin to Kelly" (but I guess we can forgive her for that!).

The other Kellys: Kelly Ripa - talk show host; Grace Kelly - actress and Princess of Monaco; Minka Kelly - actress and former love of Derek Jeter.

Answer: Harper

Nelle Harper Lee (her birth name) was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1961 she won the Pulizer Prize for "To Kill A Mockingbird", the story of a southern lawyer during the Depression who agrees to defend a black man charged with rape. The story deals head on with the themes of racism and prejudice, and led to her being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.

This was her only published novel (as Harper Lee), but she did help her close friend, Truman Capote, in his research for the book "In Cold Blood". Bruce was a pioneer in martial arts films; Tommy was the founding member of the band Motley Crue; Robert E. Lee was the Civil War General for the South.

Answer: Marsha

Marsha Mason received four Academy Award nominations as Best Actress for "Cinderella Liberty" (1973), "The Goodbye Girl" opposite Richard Dreyfuss, "Chapter Two" (1979) written by her then-husband Neil Simon and "Only When I Laugh" in 1981. She continued to direct and act on television, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1997 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, i.e. "Frasier". James Mason was a British actor starring in such films as "North by Northwest" (1959) and the controversial movie "Lolita" in 1962; Jackie Mason is a well-known stand-up comedian; Perry Mason is Erle Stanley Gardner's fictional lawyer.

Answer: Grace

Nancy Grace was born in 1969 in Macon, Georgia. She worked as a Special Prosecutor in the Atlanta-Fulton County, Georgia's District Attorney Office, working on felony cases of murder, rape, arson and child molestation. She has twice been charged with "prosecutorial misconduct" by the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1994 and 1997.

She then went on to do legal commentary with Johnnie Cochran on Court TV and, in 2005, became the host of the show "Nancy Grace" on CNN Headline News. She has covered famous trials like that of Casey Anthony, and appeared on "DWTS".

As for the other choices: Reagan - First Lady; Kerrigan was an injured ice skater, and Wilson was an American jazz singer.

Answer: Soledad

Maria de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien was born in St. James, New York in 1966. She started her career as a newswriter and associate producer for an NBC affiliate in Boston (WBZ-TV). She co-hosted "American Morning" in 2003, has filled in for such luminaries as Anderson Cooper and Paula Zahn and anchored a CNN special "Black in America" in July 2007.

She has been featured in "Newsweek" in the 2006 story "15 People Who Make America Great" and named "People Magazine's" 50 Most Beautiful in 2001. The other O'Briens: actor Edmond O'Brien ("D.O.A."), Pat O'Brien, a broadcaster and host for Fox Sports Radio, and Conan O'Brien, a comedian and host of his own talk show.

Answer: Gabriel

Peter Gabriel is an English musician and songwriter. His song "Sledgehammer", from the 1986 album "So", won nine awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his fellow bandmates from Genesis: Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Chris Stewart.

As far as humanitarian causes go, Peter joined Amnesty International in 1986, and has been a human rights activist ever since. Peter Jackson is a famous New Zealander and director of The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Peter Sellers was a great British actor in movies such as "Dr. Strangelove ...", and Peter Jennings was a Canadian news anchor for ABC TV.

Answer: Quinn Cummings

Since her Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in "The Goodbye Girl" in 1977, where she played the precocious daughter opposite Marsha Mason, Quinn has been busy continuing as an actress, author and inventor. Inspired by the birth of her daughter in 2000, Ms. Cummings created the "HipHugger" baby carrier.

In August 2012, her second book "The Year of Learning Dangerously", about homeschooling, was published. The incorrect choices include: Anthony Quinn who was a Mexican American actor ("Zorba the Greek"), Aidan Quinn who was in the movie "Legends of the Fall" (1994), and Quinn Mallory, a fictional character played by Jerry O'Connell in "Sliders" (1995-2000).

Answer: Frost

Robert Lee Frost, arguably one of America's greatest poets, was born in San Francisco, California in 1874 and moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts in New England when he was eleven years old. He brought poetry to the masses by using colloquial language and rustic settings, for which his books were awarded four Pulitzer Prizes in Poetry for "New Hampshire" (1924), "Collected Poems" (1931), "A Further Range" (1937) and "A Witness Tree" (1943).

He became the first poet to read at a Presidential Inauguration in 1961 (for JFK). The others: Pattinson plays a vampire in the "Twilight" movies, Browning was a poet and playwright, and Goddard was a physicist and the original "Rocket Man".

Answer: Simon Bolivar

Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco (whew!) was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1783. He played a major role in South America's struggle for independence. Bolivar's father died when Simon was two and a half; his mother died when he was eight. Because of his family's status he received private lessons from well-known professors, including Don Simon Rodriguez who instilled in young Simon the virtues of "liberty, enlightenment and freedom". Known as "El Libertador", he helped win freedom for the citizens of Bolivia, Venezuela and Colombia. Paul and Carly Simon are musicians; Simon Cowell of "X Factor" fame is a legend in his own mind.

Answer: Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) created the word "utopia" as the title of his book about an ideal, imaginary society, published in 1516. He was Lord Chancellor of England from 1529 to May, 1532, but refused to accept Henry VIII as "Supreme Head of the Church of England" which resulted in his imprisonment in 1534.

The following year he was tried for treason, convicted and beheaded. His story was told in "A Man for All Seasons", a play by Robert Bolt and, in 1935, he was canonized by Pope Pius XI. The incorrect choices: Thomas Edison was the brilliant inventor; Richard Thomas is John boy, from the TV show "The Waltons" and Clarence Thomas - the U.S. Supreme Court Justice.