People with Alliterative Names: K-R Quiz

Answer: Kris

Kris Jenner is the mother of the family, but took her husband's surname so she does not have an alliterative name. Sisters Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé Kardashian all have alliterative names, presumably by design. The family shot to fame in 2007 when they started their own reality TV show, "Keeping up with the Kardashians".

Answer: Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu, born in 1968 in New York City, has been an actress, model, director and producer, and has even delved into the visual arts, using her Chinese pseudonym, Yu Ling. Liu's breakthrough role came playing eccentric character Ling Woo in the TV comedy/drama Ally McBeal from 1998-2002.

Answer: Marlee Matlin

Actress Matlin, born in Illinois in 1965, has played several deaf characters. These include a parent in "Desperate Housewives" and a White House consultant in "The West Wing". Marlee Matlin became the first deaf person to win a Best Actress Academy Award in 1986, for her role in "Children of a Lesser God".

Answer: False

Musician Marky Mark was born Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg in 1971. He founded the band "Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch" in 1991, who reached number one on the US Billboard charts with their debut single "Good Vibrations". Mark L. Walberg, on the other hand, is a US TV personality and producer born in 1962.

Answer: Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nevid is a retired US champion swimmer; Nick Nolte is a US actor; Naturi Naughton is a singer-songwriter and actress. Nicholas Nickelby is a character from Charles Dickens' novel of the same name, originally released as a serial between 1838-1839. It was initially titled "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby".

Answer: Oluchi Orlandi

Oluchi is a famous Nigerian model and TV personality, born in 1980. She has the distinction of being born with an alliterative name (Oluchi Onweagba) and also having an aliterative married name (Oluchi Orlandi) when she married Italian fashion designer Luca Orlandi.

Answer: Paul Potts

The Welsh singer Paul Potts was the first winner of TV reality show "Britain's Got Talent" in 2007. He is a tenor who won with a stirring rendition of "Nessun Dorma". The poet Paul Potts was born in Berkshire, England of Canadian-Irish parents. His most famous work was "Dante Called You Beatrice", published in 1960.

Answer: True

There are very few "Q" alliterative names around. Quinton Quayle served as a British diplomat to a number of countries, including Romania, Thailand and Indonesia.

Answer: Robert Redford

Robert Redford was born Charles Robert Redford Jr in 1936. While he had an illustrious acting career in film and television, his first Academy Award was actually for directing the film "Ordinary People" in 1981. He also received an Academy Award in 2002 for lifetime achievement.

Answer: Ronald Ryan

Ronald Ryan was the last person to be legally executed in Australia, in 1967. He was found guilty for the shooting murder of a prison guard at Pentridge Prison in Victoria in 1965. While the death penalty was not used since then, it was not officially abolished from Australian law until 1985.