Then Along Came Mary Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mary Pickford

Though born in Canada, Mary Pickford (1892 - 1979) was known as "America's Sweetheart" during her career as a famous (if not the most famous) silent screen star. United Artists was formed in 1919 by Pickford, her future husband Douglas Fairbanks, actor Charlie Chaplin and director D.W. Griffith.

She was an astute businesswoman: when American women couldn't even vote, Ms. Pickford produced and wrote her own films and was the first actress to be paid a cut of the box-office.

Answer: Cassatt

Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) was the daughter of a wealthy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania businessman. Ms. Cassatt persuaded her friend Louisine Havermeyer to purchase works by several of her contemporaries, particularly Degas and Monet. Mrs. Hevermeyer and her children donated almost 2000 paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, forming the backbone of one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist art.

Answer: Mary Quant

Mary Quant (b. Kent, England 1934) was known as the "High Priestess of 1960s Fashion" and was named an OBE (The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1966 for her pioneering work in couture design. Mary McFadden, Claire McArdle and Emilio Pucci were also noted designers.

Answer: McCarthy

Mary McCarthy (1912 - 1989) wrote "The Group" based on her experiences at Vassar College in the 1930s. It is said she had a famous feud with fellow author Lillian Hellman in which Ms. McCarthy supposedly uttered that "every word she (Hellman) writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." Her brother Kevin McCarthy (b. 1914) starred in the cult horror film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and in "Death of a Salesman."

Answer: Mary Lou

"Hello, Mary Lou", which was the flip side of another hit, "Travelin' Man", was Rick Nelson's biggest selling song. For the "Ozzie and Harriet" television show, Ozzie overlaid Rick's singing "Travelin' Man" with some location footage thus creating what could have been the first ever rock video.

Answer: Decker

Mary Decker was the heavy favorite to win the gold medal in the 3,000 meter event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She and South African Zola Budd collided during the race and Decker fell off the track, severely injuring her hip. Though she participated in a total of four Olympic games and went on to set more world running records, Mary Decker never tasted Olympic victory.

Answer: Bo Derek

Bo Derek leaped to instant celebrity in the 1979 movie "10" in which she famously wore her hair in corn rows. She married John Derek in 1976 when she was 19 and he was 49. Their marriage lasted almost 22 years, until his death in 1998. John Derek was also married to two other beautiful blondes - Ursula Andress and Linda Evans.

Answer: Mary J. Blige

"What's the 411" was Mary J. Blige's debut album in 1992. She made her acting debut on "The Jamie Foxx Show" in 1998 and has also appeared off-Broadway.

Answer: Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola was chosen by her father, director Francis Ford Coppola, to replace Winona Ryder when Ms. Ryder dropped out due to (allegedly) the stress of making several back-to-back films. Ms. Coppola won an Academy Award for screenwriting in 2003 and was the first American woman to receive an Oscar nomination in the directing category.

She is also a member of one of only two families with three generations of Oscar recipients: dad Francis is a multiple winner and grandfather Carmine Coppola won for composing the score of "The Godfather Part II". (Walter, John and Angelica Huston are the other three-generation Oscar family.)

Answer: Typhoid Mary

Mary Mallon was quarantined for life after she was identified as the typhoid carrier. She lived until 1938.

Answer: Robert E. Lee

Mary Anna Custis Lee inherited her family's home, Arlington House, also called the Custis-Lee Mansion. During the American Civil War the Union Army seized the mansion for use as a cemetery. The burial ground is now the Arlington National Cemetery, a military burial ground for notable American veterans and government officials, including President Lincoln's son Robert, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, boxing champ Joe Louis and "Maltese Falcon" author Dashiel Hammet.

Answer: She won four consecutive Grammys for Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Despite her success in the country genre Mary Chapin Carpenter is no southern belle. She was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey and graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island.

Answer: Scarlett Johansson

Several more modern-day Brits count Mary Boleyn as an ancestor including Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the late Queen Mother Elizabeth), Diana, Princess of Wales and Sarah, Duchess of York.

Answer: Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts is an Emmy winning American television & radio news analyst and author. She co-hosted the Sunday morning ABC news show "This Week" on ABC with Sam Donaldson from 1996 - 2002. Her best selling books include "Ladies of Liberty", "We Are Our Mother's Daughters" and "Founding Mothers." She married college professor Steven Roberts in 1962.

Interesting Cokie Roberts trivia: Her father was the former US House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana. Her mother, "Lindy" (Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs), was named to fill Mr. Boggs' Congressional seat when he was presumed killed in a plane crash in 1972. Mrs. Boggs served in the U.S. Congress until 1991.

Answer: The Association

Like "Puff the Magic Dragon", the song "Along Comes Mary" is an unsubstantiated rumor alluding to marijuana. The Association had several more hits including "Windy" and "Cherish" which hit the #1 spot on the Billboard Charts in 1966.