The Famous and their Nicknames

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1. What was the nickname given to Al Capone? The Boss Scarface The Chief Scary Face

2. Alexander Graham Bell has been called the "Father of the Telephone" and Robert Oppenheimer the "Father of the Atomic Bomb," but which of these authors qualifies as the first to have been called the "Father of the Four-Letter-Word"? Papa Hemingway Charles Bukovsky Henry Miller Vladimir Nabokov

3. Which of these celebrities in British history was once called "the First Gentleman in Europe"? Beau Brummell The Prince Regent and later King George IV Oscar Wilde Dr Johnson

4. Which of the English King Henry VIII's six Wives was rather unkindly nicknamed "the Flanders Mare" by her husband? Anne Boleyn Anne of Cleves Katherine Howard Katherine Parr

5. Which of these actors or movie stars was nicknamed "the Frank Sinatra of Shakespeare"? Richard Burton Sir Lawrence Olivier Sir John Gielgud Kenneth Branagh

6. Which of these was the first to be 'baptized' the "Great American Navel"? Cher (of Sonny and Cher reputation) Marilyn Monroe Britney Spears Jayne Mansfield

7. The U.S.A. may have had their "Great Emancipator" (Abraham Lincoln) and their "Great Communicator" (Ronald Reagan), but it's only in Britain that you can find "Great Commoners--" a commoner in this context being a member of the House of Commons. Which of these first earned him or herself that title? Winston Churchill Harold Wilson Margaret Thatcher William Pitt the Younger

8. In 1298 at Falkirk, the "Hammer of England" (aka William Wallace) was badly defeated by somebody whom history has described as the "Hammer and Scourge of Scotland." Which of these was another nickname for that 'somebody'? Longshanks The Butcher Daddy Longlegs Strongbow

9. Which of these was such a symbol of a typical British attitude in international politics that he got the nickname "Old Wait And See"? Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1828) David Lloyd George (1863-1945)

10. Even the military, time and again, acquire such a degree of fame that their nicknames become universally known. Which of these earned himself the qualification "the Soldiers' General"? Brian Horrocks Patton Montgomery Dwight D. Eisenhower