Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "BUtterfield 8", and famously played the title role in "Cleopatra".
Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter and model. She has won many awards from various music associations and has been a model for Covergirl cosmetics.
2. Eddie ____ Einstein
Answer: Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor and spy. Before World War II Albert toured Mexico with a circus, secretly photographing German submarines in Mexican harbors for the U.S. Army. In his acting career, he won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor ("Roman Holiday" and "The Heartbreak Kid") and was the male star of the TV series "Green Acres" which also starred Eva Gabor.
Albert Einstein was a German-born Swiss theoretical physicist whose theories of relativity changed the world. He argued that Isaac Newton's laws of mechanics did not adequately explain electromagnetic laws. His theories also predicted the effects of splitting atoms, which have peaceful and military applications.
3. Janet ____ Taylor-Young
Answer: Leigh
Janet Leigh was a California-born actor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Psycho (1960).
Leigh Taylor-Young is an American actor who appeared in such films as "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas" and "Soylent Green". She is the mother of actor Patrick O'Neal.
4. Harry ____ Churchill
Answer: Winston
Harry Winston was an American jeweler who started working in his father's jewelry business as a child and eventually had a shop on New York City's prestigious 5th avenue. He owned the Hope Diamond for a decade before donating it to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958.
Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. His tough, positive messages rallied the British people and armed forces. Among his many famous quotes is one that sums up his determination: "We shall never surrender".
5. Franklin ____ Brosnan
Answer: Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th president of the United States, the first to come from the state of New Hampshire.
Pierce Brosnan is an Irish actor who gained popularity in the American TV show "Remington Steele". He became the fifth actor to portray British spy James Bond.
6. Ezzard ____ Darwin
Answer: Charles
Ezzard Charles was a professional boxer born in the U.S. state of Georgia. In his career he was champion of three weight divisions including becoming the esteemed 'World Heavyweight Champion'. He retired with a record of 93 wins, 25 losses and 1 draw.
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who found evidence that all living species descended from common ancestors. His 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" supported his theories but there is still dissent and opposing opinions.
7. Brenda ____ Remick
Answer: Lee
Brenda Lee is an American singer, primarily of country and rockabilly music, receiving nationwide popularity when she was 12 years old. Perhaps her biggest hit was "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", still a popular Christmas song more than 50 years after it was released.
Lee Remick was an actor from Massachusetts, USA, whose major film roles included "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959) and "Days of Wine and Roses" (1962). She died in 1991.
8. Hank ____ Spelling
Answer: Aaron
Hank Aaron was a baseball player from the U.S. state of Alabama. He played in Major League Baseball for 23 years, his biggest achievement being breaking Babe Ruth's career home run record (715).
Aaron Spelling was an American television and movie producer, bringing forth such series as "The Mod Squad", "Charlie's Angels" and "Beverly Hills 90210".
9. Percy Bysshe ____ Winters
Answer: Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English romantic poet, considered to be among the finest poets of the English language. "Ozymandias", "To a Skylark" and "Ode to the West Wind" are among his works.
American actor Shelley Winters' career spanned 50 years. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and appeared in many films including "A Place in the Sun" and "The Poseidon Adventure".
10. Richard ____ Franklin
Answer: Benjamin
Richard Benjamin is an American actor and movie director. He starred in "Goodbye, Columbus" and Catch -22", among others. His directorial credits include "The Money Pit" and "Little Nikita".
Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. An advocate of a rising middle class, Franklin urged American colonists to be the masters of their own lives. One of his biographers, Catherine Drinker Bowen, titled her book about him "The Most Dangerous Man in America".
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