Will the Real ____ Please Stand Up? Quiz

Answer: Marc Chagall

As a Jew in the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century, Shagal's choices were limited. Having an interest in art, he moved to Paris in 1910 to study and became known as Marc Chagall. He moved back and forth between France and Russia before moving to the United States to escape Nazi persecution in World War II. He later returned to France.

Answer: Pancho Villa

Francisco "Pancho" Villa was one of the leading generals opposed to Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. Villa became the powerful governor, and virtual warlord, of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Retiring in 1920, Villa reentered politics in 1923 and was assassinated.

Answer: Yasser Arafat

Born Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, the man commonly known as Yasser Arafat was a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority. In the early years of his guerrilla career he adopted the nom de guerre Abu Ammar.

Answer: Neil Young

The man with a sometimes quavering voice, Neil Young has used the name Bernard Shakey when directing films, including "Rust Never Sleeps" (1979), "Human Highway" (1982) and "Greendale" (2003). Apparently enamored of using pseudonyms, Young has also called himself Phil Perspective, Joe Canuck, Joe Yankee and Pinecone Young, among other names.

Answer: Anne Rice

Howard Allen Frances O'Brien has also written under the pen name Anne Rampling but is best known by another pseudonym: Anne Rice. "The Vampire Chronicles" is a series of novels which are part of the almost 100-million copies of her books that have been sold.

Answer: Pol Pot

Saloth Sar was a Cambodian Communist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge, the Communist Party of Kampuchea, in Cambodia. When the Khmers took Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh in 1975, Saloth took the nom de guerre Pol Pot. Genocide and social ills during his four-year tenure in office were responsible for the deaths of one to three million Cambodians.

Answer: L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum will always be known for writing "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" but he was also a newspaper columnist, poet and writer of almost 60 novels using many pseudonyms - Edith Van Dyne, Floyd Akers and Laura Bancroft, for example.

Answer: Garry Kasparov

Garik Weinstein is a Russian Jew born in Azerbaijan in 1963. At age twelve he adopted his mother's Armenian surname, Gasparyan, which he modified to Kasparov to make it sound more Russian. He started his chess training when he was seven years old, retired in 2005, and is considered one of the greatest chess players of all time.

Answer: George Barnes

George Francis Barnes Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois. After working as a liquor bootlegger in Memphis, Tennessee, he changed his name to George R. Kelly protect his family. His favorite weapon was the Thompson submachine gun, so "Machine Gun" became his nickname. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnaping in 1933 and died in Leavenworth (Kansas) Federal Penitentiary in 1954.

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

As publisher of the "Pennsylvania Gazette" Ben Franklin occasionally printed letters to the editor which he had written and submitted using aliases. Sometimes they were to espouse causes he believed in and other times to stimulate discussion. The other answers were American founding fathers who used pseudonyms, mainly to hide their real identities from the British authorities.