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1.	Reginald Dwight (Elton John) made sure that everyone in 1974 knew that Norma Jeane Baker was best known as silver screen icon:
		Bette Davis
		Grace Kelley
		Marilyn Monroe
		Elizabeth Taylor

2.	There's a ghost of a chance that you recognize the name Caryn Johnson....most of the free world knows her as:
		Diane Keaton
		Whoopi Goldberg
		Winona Ryder
		Christina Ricci

3.	Angelina Jolie took on her mother's maiden name as her stage name early on in her career, to separate herself from her famous father. Her original last name was:
		Hackman
		Voight
		Nicholson
		Redford

4.	While Tom Cruise sounds like a completely made-up name, Cruise is in fact his real middle name. He probably wouldn't have quite hit the heights he has if he went by his real last name, though, which is:
		Hickenlooper
		Llewellyn
		Mapother
		Gwinnett

5.	Nicolas Cage took his stage name from comic book character Luke Cage so as not to ride on the fame of his Oscar-winning director uncle. Really, we're lucky he didn't pick Nicolas Kal-El (you've got to save that for your kid's name!), but his original last name was:
		Friedkin
		Coppola
		Forman
		Wilder

6.	Jamie Foxx picked his name as a tribute to pioneering comedian Red Foxx (who in turn had changed his name). But at birth, this future Oscar winner was known as:
		Martin Prince
		Stephen Rogers
		Albert Jones
		Eric Bishop

7.	I'm sure to no one's shock, rapper-turned-actor LL Cool J wasn't born with that moniker. But it's not surprising that he changed his name from what was a rather generic handle. Growing up, he was known as:
		James Smith
		Todd Johnson
		Larry Jones
		Jack Sullivan

8.	You've enjoyed the work of Susan Alexandra Weaver for years - but if that name sounds alien, it's because that's not how she's best known. What name does she go by?
		Helen Mirren
		Amy Adams
		Sigourney Weaver
		Toni Collette

9.	You may not recognize the birth name of the actress born Cherilyn Sarkisian, but you'd recognize her by sight...even if she was wearing a mask:
		Catherine Zeta Jones
		Sherilyn Fenn
		Cate Blanchett
		Cher

10.	Jacob Cohen felt he would get no appreciation, deference, veneration, esteem, etc. unless he changed his name to:
		Ben Affleck
		Rodney Dangerfield
		Bob Hope
		Gilbert Godfried

11.	You like Oscar winner Sally Mahoney....you really, really like her, especially when she goes by this name that you know best:
		Sally Field
		Halle Berry
		Meryl Streep
		Julia Roberts

12.	Marx brothers Chico, Groucho, Gummo, Harpo and Zeppo were born with the first names Leonard, Julius, Milton, Adolph and Herbert, respectively. But what was the actual last name the brothers were born with?
		Markowitz
		Mankiewicz
		Marconi
		In an upset, Marx

13.	The man who entered the world as Marion Michael Morrison became legendary western star:
		Clint Eastwood
		Cary Cooper
		John Wayne
		Alan Ladd

14.	Each of the directors like to appear in their own pictures. Only one, though, was born Allen Konigsberg:
		Oliver Stone
		Woody Allen
		Kevin Smith
		M. Night Shyamalan

15.	Is Demetria Guynes the name of a woman you'd watch do a striptease? Maybe, maybe not....no matter, as she usually goes by this sleeker name:
		Diane Lane
		Anne Hathaway
		Megan Fox
		Demi Moore

16.	Some actors chose screen names. Others, in the case of Archibald Leach, have names thrust upon them. What name did Paramount select for Mr. Leach?
		Cary Grant
		Clark Gable
		Rudolph Valentino
		Omar Sharif

17.	"Margarita Carmen Cansino and the Shawshank Redemption" would have been a clumsy name for a Stephen King story. Fortunately, this screen goddess instead chose the name:
		Rita Hayworth
		Veronica Lake
		Sophia Loren
		Vivien Leigh

18.	Our main man Maurice Micklewhite rebranded himself after a the title of a film he said he saw on a theater marquee. You know him best as:
		Tom Hanks
		Michael Caine
		Steve McQueen
		Daniel Craig
		*By way of explanation.....* From Wikipedia: He saw a cinema marquee for the then-current movie The Caine Mutiny and thought that it would make a good last name in conjunction with Michael. ("Had I looked the other direction," he would later quip, "I'd be known as Michael The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.")

19.	While some actors change their names from unusual ones, Jack Black, Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell all chose to be billed by their middle names even though their real first names are all quite ordinary. Match the trio to their respective first names below:
		Thomas, William, John
		Allen, Joseph, Michael
		Robert, David, Peter
		Ronald, Albert, Mark

20.	It was a genius move for the actor born Albert Einstein to adopt this stage name:
		Albert Finney
		Albert Brooks
		Al Pacino
		Alan Ada

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