Credo Reference Friday Brainteaser – 7/24/09
This week: Middle Names
Can you supply the middle names for these famous people? Where their middle names are not well-known, we give you three possibilities to choose from.
1. What was the middle name of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Mozart?
2. What was U.S. president John F. Kennedy’s middle name?
3. What was Thomas Edison’s middle name?
4. Was John Lennon’s middle name originally Julian, Anthony or Winston?
5. What was the middle name of the British novelist William Thackeray?
6. Is Stephen Hawking’s middle name William, Albert or Alan?
7. Was film director Alfred Hitchcock’s middle name John, Joseph or Julian?
8. Is U.S. computer scientist Bill Gates’s middle name Henry, Gordon or Michael?
9. Was jazz trumpeter Miles Davis’s middle name George, Noah or Dewey?
10. What was the poet Percy Shelley’s middle name?
Find the answers here.
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