Quiz Monkey
What do you want to know?
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Quiz Monkey |
| Agnetha |
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Fältskog |
| Björn |
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Ulvaeus |
| Benny |
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Andersson |
| Anni–Frid |
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Lyngstad |
| will.i.am (US singer etc., born 1975) |
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Adams |
| Adele (singer) |
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Adkins |
| LaVerne, Maxene, Patty (sisters) |
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Andrews |
| George Ezra (singer–songwriter, born 1993 – these are his two given names) |
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Barnett |
| Joe Louis (Joseph and Louis were his given names) |
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Barrow |
| Clyde (of Bonnie & Clyde) | ||
| Eric Morecambe: real surname |
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Bartholomew |
| 'Nasty Nick' (Big Brother, 2000) |
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Bateman |
| Sister Wendy (South–African born, Scottish–raised Carmelite nun and BBC art expert, 1990s – died on Boxing Day 2018, aged 88) |
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Beckett |
| Joy, Babs, Teddy (sisters) |
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Beverley |
The acting Phoenixes (River 1970–93, Rain b. 1972, Joaquin a.k.a. Leaf b. 1974, Liberty b. 1976,
Summer b. 1978): real surname
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Bottom |
| Little Eva (The Loco–Motion – US No. 1, UK No. 2, 1962) |
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Boyd |
| Michelangelo |
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Buonarroti |
| RuPaul (drag queen and reality television star) |
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Charles |
| Madonna |
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Ciccone |
| Ronnie Carroll (Northern Irish singer, 1934–2015): birth surname
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Cleghorn |
| Buffalo Bill |
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Cody |
| Ben (of Ben & Jerry) |
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Cohen |
| Jessie J (middle name Ellen) |
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Cornish |
| Lou Costello |
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Cristillo |
| Darius (would–be pop star and idol, 2001/2) |
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Danesh |
| Barbara Windsor's real surname |
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Deeks |
| Giotto |
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di Bondone |
| Cristiano Ronaldo |
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dos Santos Aveiro |
| Scott Walker |
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Engel |
| Maureen O'Hara |
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Fitzsimmons |
| Jerome (of Robson & Jerome) |
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Flynn |
| Diana Dors's real surname |
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Fluck |
| Kevin Spacey |
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Fowler |
| Freddie (of Dreamers fame) |
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Garrity |
| Edith Piaf |
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Gassion |
| Robson (of Robson & Jerome) |
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Green |
| Jerry (of Ben & Jerry) |
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Greenfield |
| Jedward (John and Edward – twins born 1991 in Dublin) |
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Grimes |
| Chas (of Chas & Dave) |
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Hodges |
| Mel Brooks |
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Kaminsky |
| Beyoncé |
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Knowles |
| Joseph Conrad (birth forenames Józef Teodor Konrad) |
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Korzeniowski |
| Alice (in Wonderland) |
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Liddell |
| Ralph Lauren |
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Lifshitz |
| Malcolm X: the birth surname that he rejected because "the white slavemaster ... had imposed [it] upon [his] paternal forebears" |
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Little |
| Manfred Mann |
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Lubowitz |
| Ana Matronic (Scissor Sister and broadcaster) |
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Lynch |
| Gerry (of Pacemakers fame) |
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Marsden |
| Paul Merton |
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Martin |
| Sam (of Sam & Dave) |
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Moore |
| Prince |
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Nelson |
| Ben E. King: birth surname | ||
| Frankie Knuckles (the so–called Godfather of House Music – died in 2014, aged 59) |
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Nicholls |
| Sobriquet afforded to Sherpa Tensing after climbing Everest (not a surname, but …) |
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Norgay |
| Boy George |
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O'Dowd |
| Ann–Margret (US actress, born 1941 in Sweden) |
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Olsson |
| Michael Barrymore |
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Parker |
| Bonnie (of Bonnie & Clyde) |
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Parker |
| Dave (of Chas & Dave) |
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Peacock |
| Little Richard |
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Penniman |
| Retail consultant and broadcaster – star of Mary Queen of Shops (BBC2, 2007–9) and other television series |
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Portas |
| Dave (of Sam & Dave) |
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Prater |
| John Peel (Radio 1 DJ, died 2004 aged 65) |
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Ravenscroft |
| The Proclaimers (Craig and Charlie) |
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Reid |
| Paternal surname of Pablo Picasso
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Ruiz |
| Raphael |
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Sanzio |
| Adolf Hitler's father (birth surname)
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Schicklgruber |
| 'Our Graham' (Cilla Black's voice co–presenter on Blind Date) |
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Skidmore |
| St. Bernadette (born Lourdes, 1844) |
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Soubirous |
| Gracie Fields |
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Stansfield |
| Lynda La Plante |
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Titchmarsh |
| Rembrandt
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Van Rijn |
| Graham Norton's real surname |
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Walker |
| Brothers Harry, Albert, Samuel and Jack |
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Warner |
| David Jason, Larry Grayson, Cilla Black: their real surnames are all |
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White |
| The only surname shared by a 20th Century British Prime Minister and a 20th Century US President |
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Wilson |
| Ernie Wise's real surname |
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Wiseman |
| Bob Dylan's real surname |
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Zimmerman |
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