They are all named JOHNSON Trivia Quiz

Answer: Don Johnson

Don Johnson is an American actor who played the role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the TV crime drama series "Miami Vice" (1984-1989). He also starred in the TV police drama series "Nash Bridges" (1996-2001).

Answer: Rafer Johnson

Rafer Johnson is a former American athlete and actor. He won the gold medal in the Decathlon at the Rome 1960 Olympics after winning silver in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Rafer also lit the flame in the opening ceremony of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He is also one of three people who wrestled Sirhan Sirhan to the ground after Sirhan had assassinated Robert Kennedy in 1968.

Answer: Caryn Johnson

Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson on November 13, 1955. She took the name "Whoopi" from the whoopi cushion and her mother thought that a Jewish name would make her more successful, hence the name Whoopi Goldberg. She is one of the few people in her industry that has won an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy and an Emmy Award. She won her Oscar in the movie "Ghost" (1990).

Answer: Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson is a British politician and journalist. He became a Member of Parliament in 2001 and was the Mayor of London from 2008-2016. Boris holds both US and UK citizenship as he was actually born in New York City (USA) in 1964. His parents were in the USA as his father was studying at Columbia University.

Answer: Shawn Johnson

Shawn Johnson (b. 1992) is a former American artistic gymnast. Shawn won gold and three silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. She won three gold medals in the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany in 2007. She retired in 2012 at the age of 20 due to continuing injuries. She married Andrew East in 2016.

Answer: Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson (b. 1918) is an African-American mathematician. She was responsible for the calculating the trajectories for many of NASA's missions.
Katherine had the responsibility of the missions of John Glenn, Alan Shepherd and the 1969 moon mission of Apollo 11. She worked at NASA from 1958-1986.

Answer: Van Johnson

Van Johnson (1916-2008) was an American film, stage and television actor. He began his acting career in 1935 and retired in 1992. He was a Hollywood star of the 1940s and 50s appearing in such movies as "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo", "A Guy Named Joe" and "The Caine Mutiny".

He also appeared on TV in episodes of "I Love Lucy", "Ben Casey", "The Virginian", "The Doris Day Show", "The Love Boat", "McCloud" and "McMillan & Wife".

Answer: Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson (1887-1946) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played his whole 21 seasons in the MLB with the Washington Senators (1907-1927). He was also a MLB manager from 1929-1935. In 1936 he was one of the first five inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The other four were Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner and Christy Mathewson.

Answer: Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) was the 17th President of the United States from 1865-1869. He was Vice President at the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865. He was the first US President to be impeached by the House of Representatives but avoided conviction in the Senate.

Answer: Wallace E. Johnson

Wallace E. Johnson (1901-1988) was the co-founder with Kemmons Wilson of the Holiday Inns hotel chain. Before joining Wilson to start Holiday Inn in the early 1950s he was already a millionaire, having made his fortune in the construction industry. The idea of the name Holiday Inn came from the 1942 musical "Holiday Inn" starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. By 1968 the 1,000th Holiday Inn was opened in San Antonio, Texas.

It has became one of the world's largest hotel chains. Wallace retired from Holiday Inn in 1976.