Mononymous Stars Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jillette

Penn Jillette, born in Massachusetts in 1955, is the talking half of the magicians known as Penn and Teller. They teamed up in 1981, performing off Broadway, on Broadway and to national audiences. Penn is also the author of the 2016 book "Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales" which humorously discusses his weight loss on the "potato diet".

He has appeared on TV shows like "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" and "Dancing with the Stars", was the spokesman for "Comedy Central", and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.

Answer: Abdulmajid

Iman Abdulmajid was born in 1955 in Mogadishu, Somalia. She is a model, actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was married to the late singer David Bowie from 1992 until his death in 2016. She is also responsible for a line of cosmetics for Women with Skin of Color. Her birth name, Iman, means 'faith' in Arabic.

Answer: Graham

Canadian rapper Aubrey Drake Graham actually got his start as an actor on the TV show "DeGrassi High: The Next Generation" as Jimmy Brooks from 2001 to 2009. In 2010, he released his debut album "Thank Me Later". The following year he released "Take Care" which won him an Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. Drake released his fourth album, "Views", in 2016; the album lead the Billboard 200 chart for ten non-consecutive weeks.

Answer: Haughton

Aaliyah Dana Haughton (1979-2001) was a talented singer and actress who was killed in a plane crash. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan, she started her career at the age of ten on the program "Star Search". In 1994 she collaborated with R. Kelly on her album "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number".

In addition to her singing career, she appeared in two movies, "Romeo Must Die" and "Queen of the Damned". The Queen of Urban Pop, gone way too soon.

Answer: Leitch

If you were around in the 1960s, you couldn't turn on a radio (no MP3s yet) without hearing songs made popular by Scottish singer Donovan Leitch. Singer and song-writer Donovan combined different styles of music like folk, pop, jazz to create his own distinctive sound.

In 1966, his song "Sunshine Superman" went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, followed by "Mellow Yellow" which hit number two. In 2012 Donovan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Answer: Baeza

In 1966, a young starlet from Spain married a 66 year old bandleader named Xavier Cugat (no, it was not Lucille Ball!); her stage name was Charo but her birth certificate read Maria del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza. Charo was not only a singer and a comedian but a Flamenco guitarist as well.

She made appearances on TV on shows like "The Love Boat". Based on her trademark phrase, Charo became known as the "cuchi cuchi" girl.

Answer: Javacheff

The environmental Bulgarian artist Christo Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude are known for their enormous artwork projects around the world. Originally these aesthetic works were only credited to Christo until 1994 when the pieces were then credited to Christo and Jeanne-Claude; Jeanne-Claude died in 2009.

Their spectacular works included wrapping the Berlin Reichstag in a silvery fabric, a 24 mile "Running Fence" in Northern California and "The Gates", a temporary piece created for New York's Central Park.

Answer: Hornby

It is only recently that plus-size fashion models like Ashley Graham can now grace the covers of magazines like "Vogue". The majority of female models are expected to look like they haven't eaten for several weeks. This trend may not have been started by 1960's model Twiggy, but she certainly was its poster child. Twiggy's real name was Lesley Hornby, a teenage British actress, model and icon of the 'swinging sixties'.

Answer: Lanzoni

If you've ever picked up a romance novel written in the 1980s or 1990s, the cover of the novel might have portrayed Fabio Lanzoni as the prototypical muscular hero. Fabio, known for his long blonde flowing hair, is an Italian fashion model and actor who can be seen in films like "Zoolander" (2001), "Death Becomes Her" (1992) and "Dumbbells" (2014).

He can also be seen in a 2016 commercial for "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter", reprising his 1996 ads.

Answer: Adkins

If you have listened to any popular music in the last decade, you will know the name of the British pop singer Adele; her full name is Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. Adele's first album, "19", came out in 2008, featuring the hit single "Chasing Pavements".

The following year, at the 51st Grammy Awards, Adele received the Grammy for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Her second album in 2011, "21", did even better, and her third album from 2015, "25" has broken sales records (a little pun). Billboard named Adele "Artist of the Year" for 2011, 2012 and 2016, and she shows no sign of letting up.