Can you name the television character's nickname from the given birth name?

Birth Name	Nickname	TV Show
Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli		Happy Days
Samuel Powers		Saved By The Bell
Walter O'Reilly		MASH
Derek Shepherd		Grey's Anatomy
Templeton Peck		The A-Team
Hugo Reyes		Lost
Jonas Grumby		Gilligan's Island
Gordon Sims		WKRP in Cincinnati
Dorothy Ramsey		The Facts of Life
Jerome McElroy		South Park

Birth Name	Nickname	TV Show
John Preston		Sex and the City
Salvatore Assante		Entourage
Ernie Pantusso		Cheers
Burl Smith		The Love Boat
Reginald Albert Forman		That 70s Show
Gordon Shumway		ALF
Remy Hadley		House MD
Mike Stivic		All in the Family
Benjamin Franklin Pierce		MASH
Theodore Cleaver		Leave It To Beaver

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TV Character Nicknames Quiz

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Created by: breddi01 -
Contributed: February 24th, 2010
Published: February 26th, 2010
Category: Television
Plays: 120,717

Tags: Show Quizzes, nickname, birth, character, Editor Pick

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	midlifecrisis:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 04:36 GMT	4 points
	this quiz was near impossible for me - I guess I don't watch enough TV - good idea thought

	mcbain:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 04:41 GMT	6 points
	How about Salvatore Bonpensiero?

	fabbii2444:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 04:42 GMT	11 points
	What about Dr. Brennan, better known as Bones?

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	jasperwyld:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 05:17 GMT	18 points
	R.I.P. Richard Milhous Stabone.

	totebags:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 05:31 GMT	-4 points
	@jasperwyld The man has a name, you know.

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	glutenfreealex:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 06:36 GMT	-1 points
	Only 9% got Face?!? Surely everybody knows the A team?

	dave31vb:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 07:01 GMT	7 points
	Whatabout BONER?

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	totebags:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 07:06 GMT	11 points
	Jesus, you guys. Show a little respect. The man is dead and deserves to be called by his real name, not the name of the character he played twenty years ago. (Yeah, chumps, go ahead and disapprove of this comment.)

	k3lit0:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 07:57 GMT	14 points
	Can you make 'Big' and 'The Beav' acceptable? :3 I know it's Mr. Big but 75% of the time they just say Big.

	BamaRainbow:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 09:07 GMT	2 points
	Some suggestions for a sequel: Margaret Houlihan, Oliver Harmon Jones (MASH); Charles Arcola, Warren Weber (Happy Days); Daniel Osbourne (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); Christmas Snow (Three's Company); Hoban Washburne (Firefly); Eric Cartwright (Bonanza); Daisy Moses (Beverly Hillbillies); Clarence Rutherford, Hubert Whitney (Leave It to Beaver); Leonard McCoy (Star Trek); Bert Wysocki (Reaper). I know some of those are probably fairly easy (or rather obvious) but you can never really tell.

	Fidelio:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 09:22 GMT	21 points
	I'm not trying to be a jerk about this, but I don't get the complaints about how difficult this is. There were (at most) only a handful of characters with nicknames on shows like Sex and the City, Leave it to Beaver, That 70s Show, House, etc., and I'd think those are pretty well-known series. I'm not claiming I knew the characters from shows like the A-Team or the Love Boat, but it isn't bad to have some range of difficulty.

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	pepperg:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 10:51 GMT	-4 points
	don't want to be smug, but i thought it was really easy. maybe cuz i've done so many other quizzes that have the same people in them that even though i don't watch the show i know who the characters are.

	hibernia:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:25 GMT	10 points
	ha, i've never watched Grey's but I always assumed "McDreamy" was a name people in real life had given his character. Never realized he was known as that on the show.

	cocky:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:38 GMT	1 point
	I thought it was fairly easy. The only ones I missed were from shows I never watched. Even if you didn't know the real name, if you watched the show it would be easy to guess. Beaver and the MASH people should be obvious.

	Serenity:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:42 GMT	9 points
	Nice quiz. I liked the mix of old with new shows.

	horseydeucey:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:50 GMT	-3 points
	Was 'Tootie' ever spelled out? Because I always thought the name was spelled Tutti. And if 'Tootie' is the proper spelling, how does adding an 'S' (Tootsie) shorten the double-o?

	wallyballz:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 12:02 GMT	1 point
	I can't believe Boner was left off.

	raisingfear101:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 12:46 GMT	0 points
	I agree with Wally, especially since he was just found dead.

	awesomegerbzy:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 13:10 GMT	-1 points
	I liked Red Foreman...but no Fez??

	staarbux:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 13:10 GMT	3 points
	I agree it should definitely accept just 'Big' for SATC. That's generally how he was referred. Great quiz though. :)

	breddi01:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 13:55 GMT	1 point
	To all, The original quiz I created had Boner in it as well as others that were edited out and replaced. Does sporcle have the ability to change a quiz that you created to their liking?

	mjenks:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 14:26 GMT	2 points
	Cool quiz. Maybe knock a minute off it?

	SporcleAdmin:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 14:34 GMT	9 points
	@All - out of respect for Andrew Koenig we removed his nickname from the quiz. @breddi01 - yes often SporcleAdmins will make changes/tweaks to quizzes to get them ready for publication. For example, we swapped out a couple answers and made this quiz longer than it was when it was originally submitted.

	mennoknight:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 15:04 GMT	1 point
	How about accepting "The Beave?"

	weizenugb:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 15:48 GMT	11 points
	LEOPOLD STOTCH!

	Nezu_Chiza:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 16:19 GMT	6 points
	@awesomegerbzy, you can't really have Fez on the quiz since he has no real name ever given.

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	ChemicalToilet:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 16:25 GMT	1 point
	@platypus, Red had red hair (once upon a time).

	breddi01:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 16:37 GMT	-3 points
	Red Forman - not on original quiz, I agree with you platypus

	koozbane:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 17:04 GMT	1 point
	A great, and enjoyable quiz! If anything, I wish it were longer. Thanks for the work breddi!

	austin5string:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 17:08 GMT	11 points
	I'm not sure I understand how deleting Boner from the quiz is showing respect. I would think remembering him is more respectful than deleting him. What a great character. RIP Andrew

	Lyn_Marie:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 17:45 GMT	8 points
	@austin5string: I agree with you. It seems to me that leaving him off of a TV character nicknames quiz, published shortly after his death, is much less respectful. And @totebags: of course he has a real name, but it's a quiz about TV character nicknames... his life was more than just his TV character, however, if he was not famous for being Boner, his death wouldn't have been national news. May Andrew Koenig rest in peace. And peace to all.

	GaidinBDJ:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 18:15 GMT	1 point
	Doogie was a nickname. His real name was Douglas.

	breddi01:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 19:05 GMT	4 points
	I agree with all...i think Andrew's character being a part of this quiz shows a lot of respect that he is remembered as one of TV's most memorable nicknames