Q 01/05

What is the real first name of Shaggy, the always-hungry best friend of the Great Dane Scooby-Doo?

A) Humphrey

B) Norville

C) Wilbur

D) Chester

Answer · why

B) Norville

Norville Rogers is the name Shaggy hides behind his nickname. Casey Kasem voiced him for 28 years and persuaded the producers to make the character a ...

Q 02/05

Sir Paul McCartney goes by his middle name; which first name, shared with his father, was he given at birth?

A) Peter

B) Richard

C) James

D) Stephen

Answer · why

C) James

James Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool in 1942. His father, a jazz player, was a James too and went by Jim.

Q 03/05

Oprah Winfrey's first name was meant to be Orpah, a woman from which book of the Bible?

A) Esther

B) Judges

C) Genesis

D) Ruth

Answer · why

D) Ruth

Ruth is the book in which Orpah appears, as the heroine's sister-in-law. The spelling on Winfrey's birth certificate was mispronounced so often that O...

Q 04/05

Which Italian city, her birthplace in 1820, gave the nurse known as the Lady with the Lamp her first name?

A) Verona

B) Florence

C) Sorrento

D) Venice

Answer · why

B) Florence

Florence was where the Nightingales were touring when she was born. Her older sister Parthenope was named the same way, after the Greek settlement on ...

Q 05/05

What is the first name of Kramer, Jerry's eccentric neighbor in Seinfeld, kept secret until the sixth season?

A) Conrad

B) Caspar

C) Cosmo

D) Clyde

Answer · why

C) Cosmo

Cosmo slipped out in the episode The Switch, when Kramer's estranged mother Babs said it aloud. An early script that was never filmed would have named...