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Adopted Celebrities Trivia Quiz

There are many adopted people out there. Can you tell me who was adopted from each group?

A multiple-choice quiz by echaos. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
echaos

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
253,515

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
1209

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Which comedian was adopted? Hint

David Steinberg

Art Linkletter

Bob Hope

Eddie Izzard

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which musician was adopted? Hint

John Denver

Bo Diddley

David Bowie

Miles Davis

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which football player was adopted? Hint

Daunte Culpepper

Kelly Holcomb

Alan Ameche

Ken Stabbler

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which hip hop artist was adopted?
Hint

Will Smith

D.M.C.

P. Diddy

Lil Kim

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which actress was adopted? Hint

Dorothy Lamour

Priscilla Presley

Jaime Pressly

Geena Davis

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which senator was adopted? Hint

Jon Kyl

Robert Byrd

Mark Pryor

Russ Feingold

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which first lady was adopted? Hint

Laura Bush

Lady Bird Johnson

Nancy Reagan

Barbara Bush

NEXT>

Question 8 of 10

8. Which actress was adopted? Hint

Kate Jackson

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen

Whoopi Goldberg

Melissa Gilbert

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which minister was adopted?
Hint

Jesse Jackson

Jimmy Swaggart

Jim Wallis

Jim Baker

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which athlete was adopted? Hint

Jim Palmer

Randy Savage

Arnold Palmer

Muhammad Ali

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which comedian was adopted?

Answer: Art Linkletter

Linkletter is a Canadian born comedian who was abandoned as a child and raised by his elderly adoptive parents in a retirement home. Art Linkletter's picture appeared on the $100,000 bills in the Game of Life after he was named spokesman for game in 1963.

2. Which musician was adopted?

Answer: Bo Diddley

Bo Didley was adopted by his mother's cousin, who also adopted three other children. He was first named Otha Ellas Bates, but later on was known as Ellas McDaniel when he began using his adoptive mother's last name. After he began his career as a boxer, he took on the nickname Bo Diddley.

3. Which football player was adopted?

Answer: Daunte Culpepper

Culpepper was born to a teenager mother who was in jail. He was then adopted by one of the jail's housemothers, who had fostered more than 14 children.

4. Which hip hop artist was adopted?

Answer: D.M.C.

D.M.C did not find out he was adopted until he was 35 and writing his autobiography. He has since formed Camp Felix, a summer camp for kids without parents.

5. Which actress was adopted?

Answer: Priscilla Presley

Presley was adopted by her stepfather, and didn't find out until she was a teenager that he was not her birth father. Priscilla Presley first met Elvis when she was just 14 years old, but they didn't marry until 8 years later.

6. Which senator was adopted?

Answer: Robert Byrd

Byrd was adopted by his aunt and uncle after his mother died during the 1918/19 flu pandemic. He entered politics in 1946 when he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates.

7. Which first lady was adopted?

Answer: Nancy Reagan

After her parents divorced and her mother remarried, Reagan was adopted by her stepfather Loyal Davis. She was a professional actress before marrying Ronald Reagan in 1952.

8. Which actress was adopted?

Answer: Melissa Gilbert

Both Melissa and her younger brother Jonathan were adopted by actor Paul Gilbert and his wife. Melissa Gilbert was only nine years old when she landed the role of Laura Ingalls Wilder on the TV show "Little House on the Prairie" (1974).

9. Which minister was adopted?

Answer: Jesse Jackson

After being raised by his single mother, Jackson was adopted by his stepfather when he was 15. He attended the Chicago Theological Seminary where he trained for the ministry.

10. Which athlete was adopted?

Answer: Jim Palmer

Palmer was one of the best pitchers for the Orioles. He was adopted by Moe Wissen and his wife just after he was born.

Source: Author echaos

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