10 Question People Quiz: Mary Who? | First Names

Answer: George V

Mary of Teck was married to King George V and was Queen Elizabeth's II's grandmother. Although she was the daughter of the Duke of Teck in Germany and was a princess of Teck she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom.

Answer: Family Planning

Marie Stopes was a palaeobotanist and was the first woman on the staff of Manchester University where she was a formidable campaigner for women's rights. With her first husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe Stopes, she opened the first family planning clinic in the U.K. Over forty years later the clinic still survives and is still giving contraceptive advice, and now doing abortions and vasectomies, too.

Answer: George Eliot

Mary Anne came from Nuneaton in Warwickshire and as was the custom of the time she wrote under a man's name because it was not considered seemly for women to write books. She was one of the leading novelists at the time and wrote 'Silas Marner', 'Daniel Deronda' and 'Middlemarch', among others.

Answer: Mary Queen of Scots

Mary was kept prisoner by her cousin Elizabeth I of England, as there were factions who wanted to replace her with Mary. Elizabeth was very reluctant to sign her death warrant but when in 1586 she was presented with evidence that Mary herself was plotting against her she felt that she had no choice, and Mary was beheaded, following the latter's trial and conviction.

Answer: Dinosaur Fossils

Mary Anning lived in Lyme Regis on the coast of England known as the Jurassic coast. She made a living by selling ammonites on the beach. When she found the remains of a large dinosaur she became famous, and became a noted palentaeologist. She made many other important finds, but as a woman she was never accepted into the British Geological Society.

Answer: Aristotle Onassis

Maria Callas was one of the most important sopranos of the 20th century. She was highly prized for her beautiful voice and her skilled dramatic interpretation of her roles. She also had a very wide repertoire. It caused Maria great sorrow when Aristotle Onassis married Jacqueline Kennedy.

Answer: Ted Danson

Mary Steenburgen is an award winning actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme's 1980 film Melvin and Howard. Ted Danson has appeared in many successful Hollywood movies including 'Three Men and a Baby' and 'Saving Private Ryan'.

However, he is best remembered for his role as Sam Malone in the television series 'Cheers'.

Answer: Mary Mary Quite Contrary

'Mary Mary Quite Contrary' is an English Nursery Rhyme, and its origins are said to come from Tudor times. Mary I daughter of King Henry VIII was a strong catholic, and executed many protestants. The garden with maids all in a row are said to represent graveyards where her victims headstones stand in a row.

The silver bells are said to represent thumbscrews which were used to extract confessions. What a pity that such a pretty rhyme has such sinister connotations. However, there are other interpretations.

Answer: The Camomile Lawn

Mary Wesley was the most popular English novelist of her time. She is famous for the fact that she published her first book at the age of 72. Her work was described as 'Jane Austin plus sex', and readers and viewers of the television adaptations were sometimes a little shocked.

After the birth of her son it was revealed that Mary's own personal life had been as colourful as those depicted in her novels.

Answer: Education

Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator. She developed a method for teaching children and believed that the environment was of paramount importance. Children should be helped and encouraged to pursue their own interests. They learn mathematics much more easily by doing puzzles than by rote learning.

The classes should be of mixed ages as this was more real, and any help given by fellow pupils must be voluntary. Teachers do not pressure children to learn more quickly, and each child learns at his/her own pace.