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First Names Quiz



Quiz

Can you tell us the first names of the following fanmous people?





  1. Miss Marple, a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels?
  2. Vice-Admiral Nelson, British flag officer in the Royal Navy?
  3. Captain Mainwaring, a fictional Home Guard captain, in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army?
  4. The young, mysterious millionaire Gatsby in the 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby?
  5. Mrs. Brown, in the Irish television sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys?
  6. The composer Rossini, who composed William Tell?
  7. Lady Chatterley, in the book Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence?
  8. Author J. K. Rowling?
  9. Gulliver in the novel Gulliver's Travels?
  10. Lewis, the fictional character in the Inspector Morse crime novels?
  11. The model and TV presenter Twiggy?
  12. The artists known by her nickname Grandma Moses?
  13. Jeeves, the valet of Bertie Wooster, in the novels by P. G. Wodehouse?
  14. Golfer Tiger Woods?
  15. Sir Paul McCartney, is known by his middle name Paul, what's his first name?
  16. Bruce Willis is also known by his middle name, what's his first name?
  17. The fictional character Rigsby in the British sitcom Rising Damp? And what about Miss Jones from the same series?
  18. Passepartout, the valet in Jules Verne's novel, Around the World in Eighty Days?
  19. Mr. Darcy, one of the two central characters in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice?
  20. The English short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling (Rudyard is his middle name)?
  21. Mrs. Mangel, a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours?
  22. Detective Chief Inspector Morse, the fictional character in the series of detective novels by Colin Dexter?
  23. Queen Victoria?
  24. Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch (Rupert is his middle name)?
  25. The footballer Pele?
  26. Mrs Beeton, who wrote the 1861 reference book Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management?
  27. Barry is a shortened translation of Barry McGuigan's real first name?
  28. Madame Tussaud, the founder of the famous wax museum?
  29. First name of the astronomer whose last name is given to Halley's Comet?
  30. And finally, do you know the first name of Libyan politician and revolutionary, Colonel Gaddafi?

Answers:

  1. Jane (Marple)
  2. Horatio
  3. George
  4. Jay
  5. Agnes Brown
  6. Gioachino Rossini
  7. Constance
  8. Joanne (Jo)
  9. Lemuel
  10. Robert (Robbie)
  11. Lesley Lawson (née Hornby)
  12. Anna
  13. Reginald (Jeeves)
  14. Eldrick (Tont Woods)
  15. James (Paul McCartney)





  16. Walter (Bruce Willis)
  17. Rupert Rigsby. Ruth Jones.
  18. Jean (Passepartout)
  19. Fitzwilliam
  20. Joseph (Rudyard Kipling)
  21. Eleanor or Nell
  22. Endeavour
  23. Alexandrina (Alexandrina Victoria)
  24. Keith (Rupert Murdoch)
  25. Edson (Arantes do Nascimento)
  26. Isabella
  27. Marie
  28. Finbar
  29. Edmond
  30. Muammar (Gaddafi)