She's so MEAN! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Angelina Jolie

The gorgeous Angelina Jolie (born 1975) was not only Hollywood's highest paid actress (2009 and 2011), she was internationally famous, fecund, a UN Ambassador and UN Special Envoy for refugees, and she saved children. She stole the heart of actor Brad Pitt, the husband of actress Jennifer Aniston, while Jolie and Pitt were filming "Mr.& Mrs. Smith". Jolie adopted or bore at least six children, won Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes and Academy Awards, she's a film producer, and she had $45 million dollars. You can hardly hope to get meaner than that.

Answer: Queen Rania of Jordan

Queen Rania (Rania Al Abdullah) is the Queen consort of Jordan, having married King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein in 1993, a Prince then, several months after they met. She used Twitter, Facebook, the books she'd written and her position on many international organizations to help educate children worldwide, and to battle stereotypes about her race and culture.

Born 31 August, 1970, in Kuwait, she earned a degree in Business, and worked for both Citbank and Apple prior to becoming Queen consort. She was criticized for lands given to her family, and nepotism, but she had the means to ride that out.

Answer: Dan Aykroyd

Julia Child was an American chef, author and television star, who made French cuisine accessible to everyone. She was spoofed to great effect by "Saturday Night Live" comedian Dan Aykroyd, who focused on her exuberant habit of dropping food, or taking a flame thrower to it. Child hosted 16 cooking shows between 1963 and 2000, wrote 17 books, and was voted one of the "Fifty Greatest TV Stars" (TV Guide, 1996). "The best way to execute French cooking", she once said, "is to get good and loaded, and then whack the (heck) out of a chicken".

She died at age 91, worth an estimated $38 million dollars.

Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton (born 1947) was a force, both admired and feared. A politically active First Lady to the popular President Bill Clinton (1992-2001), she survived his impeachment, moving on to become the first female Senator of New York (2001-2009).

She hoped to be the first female president, running against Barack Obama (2008), but instead became Secretary of State (2009-2013), the most traveled negotiating Secretary ever. Hillary's father was a fabric store owner, and the young Hillary was an active Republican (conservative).

She went to Yale Law School, and was twice named one of the "most powerful lawyers in America" by the "National Law Journal", 1988, 1991). Her means in 2013 was about $22 million.

Answer: Brazil

Born in 1980, Gisele "The Body" Bundchen was from Brazil. At 5'11", she was a "super-model", gracing hundreds of magazine covers over her career. She was a goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme, and represented "Pantene" in the Brazilian Rio Carnival of 2011.

In 2008 the "New York Daily News" listed Bundchen at 4th on the "most powerful people in the fashion world" list. Her net worth ran at $250 million.

Answer: Beyonce Knowles

"Destiny's Child" lead singer gone solo Beyonce Knowles racked up armloads of awards and honors, as well as a net worth of about $300 million. She's a singer, songwriter, dancer and actress, born in 1981. Her hit songs include "Beautiful Liar", "Run the World", and "Diva!". Janet Jackson, Halle Berry, Whoopi Goldberg, Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey and Diana Ross were other African-American women entertainers of enormous means, though none of them could touch tycoon actor, talk show host, producer and author Oprah Winfrey when it came to net worth.

Answer: Walmart

Christy Walton was married to John Walton, son of the co-founder of Walmart stores, Sam. John died in 2005, leaving Christy their fortune of $15.7 billion dollars. She was again the world's richest woman in 2010 and 2011, due to investments he had made. Overall her net worth in 2012 was $25.3 billion. Alice Walton, the daughter of Sam, was the 3rd richest woman in 2012, making she and Christy a team of means. "Walmart" is known for their happy face ads, shaving costs and importing from China, as well as multiple law suits for crime in their parking lots, and discrimination in salaries. John Boy Walton is a character from a popular US television show, "The Waltons".

They were poor but very nice.

Answer: Ellen DeGeneres

Talk show host, actress, author and comedian, Ellen DeGeneres got the "People's Choice Award" every year from 2005 to 2013 for "Favorite Talk Show Host". She hosted "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys, and was the first person to win the "Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress" as a voice only, in "Finding Nemo".

She was a judge for the hit show "American Idol", and used her extensive means to advocate for people and for animals. She was born in a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1958.

Other female comedians, such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Barbara Streisand were powerful ladies as well.

Answer: Mining

Gina Rinehart was Executive Chairman of "Hancock Prospecting", an iron ore mining company. She gained media attention when 3 of her children sued her, calling her "deceptive". She called them "slackers". Her well publicized comments that those without fortunes are lazy, drunken, jealous or whiners, and her drive to lower minimum wage, was topped by a remark that Africans in mining who were "willing to work for $2.00 a day" are an example of good work ethic. Various Australian officials apologized publicly for her offensiveness. Ironically, all her money was inherited. Meanness aside, "Citigroup" predicted her $100 billion dollar net worth would make her the wealthiest person on the planet.

Answer: Recycling paper

Director Zhang Yin's "Nine Dragon Paper Holdings" company bought scrap paper from the US, imported it to China, and made it into cardboard and packaging materials. By 2010 her fortune exceeded that of J.K. Rowling and Oprah Winfrey, making her the wealthiest self-made woman on the planet, and the fifth richest person in China.

She opened her company in 1985 when she noticed that Chinese exporters were short of packaging materials, while other countries were rolling in discarded paper. She was also a member of the body, "Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference", which advised the Chinese government. Yin was born in 1957 and holds a green card in the US.

Her husband, brother and son are important members of her company.