Q 01/05
A) Preston
B) Jorgensen
C) Tuttle
D) Sánchez
Answer · why
His mother remarried Cuban immigrant Mike Bezos in 1968, who adopted four-year-old Jeff and gave him his name.
Q 02/05
A) Houston, Texas
B) Seattle, Washington
C) Albuquerque, New Mexico
D) Miami, Florida
Answer · why
His mother was a 17-year-old high-school student at the time; the family later moved to Houston and then Miami.
Q 03/05
A) A rodeo clown
B) A unicyclist
C) A magician
D) A jazz trumpeter
Answer · why
Ted was a Danish American unicyclist born in Chicago; he agreed to cut contact after Jacklyn remarried.
Q 04/05
A) NASA
B) Shell
C) Exxon
D) Halliburton
Answer · why
Jeff attended River Oaks Elementary in Houston from fourth to sixth grade before the family moved on to Miami.
Q 05/05
A) Atomic Energy Commission
B) Federal Aviation Administration
C) NASA
D) Bureau of Land Management
Answer · why
Bezos spent summers on Gise's ranch near Cotulla, Texas, which he later bought and expanded to 160,000 acres.
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