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Quiz about Will the Real Please Stand Up

Will the Real ____ Please Stand Up? Quiz

Noms de plume, noms de guerre, aliases, pseudonyms; people have used fictitious names for centuries. Can you match these names with the real person, or vice versa?

A multiple-choice quiz by CmdrK. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
CmdrK

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
369,783

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
1466

Awards
Top 10% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Mikeytrout44 (10/10), Guest 94 (6/10), lones78 (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Born Moishe Shagal in Belarus, who became a noted French artist?
Hint

Marc Chagall

Pablo Picasso

Georges Seurat

Henri Matisse

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Question 2 of 10

2. He was born Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula, but by what name do we recognize this Mexican revolutionary general?
Hint

Victoriano Huerta

Santa Anna

Pancho Villa

Alvaro Obregon

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Question 3 of 10

3. Yes, sir, Mohammed Abdel Rahman was his given first name, or maybe you have heard him called Abu Ammar. By what other name was this Palestinian leader commonly known? Hint

Yitzhak Rabin

Salah Khalaf

Hosni Mubarak

Yasser Arafat

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Question 4 of 10

4. Maybe you don't recognize the name Bernard Shakey but would you recognize the singer whose voice can sometimes sound like that pseudonym?
Hint

Tony Bennett

John Mayer

William Shatner

Neil Young

5. She claims that she was named Howard (O'Brien) because her father was named Howard and her mother "was a bit of a Bohemian, a bit of a mad woman" and thought it a good idea. Who do we know this New Orleans-born author as?
Hint

Toni Morrison

Harper Lee

Anne Rice

Maya Angelou

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Question 6 of 10

6. Saloth Sar was the leader of his country from 1976 to 1979. During his tenure, genocide, malnutrition and poor medical care caused the death of almost 25 per cent of his country's population. Under what name do we know this leader of the Khmer Rouge?
Hint

Pol Pot

Pham Van Dong

Norodom Sihanouk

Lon Nol

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Question 7 of 10

7. Though he was a successful children's book author, this man wrote books in other genres under such pen names as Laura Bancroft, Suzanne Metcalf and Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald. Who was this man who, as far as we know, was not cowardly or lacking a brain or heart?
Hint

L. Frank Baum

Jules Verne

H.G. Wells

Roald Dahl

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Question 8 of 10

8. Garik Kimovich Weinstein was a world champion chess player; under what name do we know him best?
Hint

Garry Kasparov

Igor Ivanov

Anatoly Karpov

Vladimir Kramnik

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Question 9 of 10

9. You may know "Machine Gun Kelly" as a rapper but what was the birth name of the American Prohibition-era gangster who first used that moniker?
Hint

Benjamin Siegel

George Barnes

Salvatore Lucania

Arthur Flegenheimer

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Question 10 of 10

10. If you don't like the news of the day you can write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. But what if you own the paper? You can write an editorial or use pen names in supposed-letters to make your point without being known. Which American, who edited a newspaper, used such noms de plume as Alice Addertongue, Anthony Afterwit and Silence Dogood?
Hint

Benjamin Franklin

Alexander Hamilton

Sam Adams

John Adams

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Born Moishe Shagal in Belarus, who became a noted French artist?

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.

2. He was born Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula, but by what name do we recognize this Mexican revolutionary general?

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.

3. Yes, sir, Mohammed Abdel Rahman was his given first name, or maybe you have heard him called Abu Ammar. By what other name was this Palestinian leader commonly known?

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.

4. Maybe you don't recognize the name Bernard Shakey but would you recognize the singer whose voice can sometimes sound like that pseudonym?

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.

8. Garik Kimovich Weinstein was a world champion chess player; under what name do we know him best?

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.

9. You may know "Machine Gun Kelly" as a rapper but what was the birth name of the American Prohibition-era gangster who first used that moniker?

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.

Source: Author CmdrK

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