Can you name the people who commonly go by their initials?

Full Name	Initialed Name	Known For
Joanne Kathleen		'Harry Potter' Author
Alan Alexander		'Winnie the Pooh' Author
Kathryn Dawn		'Constant Craving' Musician
Thomas Stearns		'Waste Land' Author
Jerome David		'The Catcher in the Rye' Author
Phineas Taylor		Circus Proprietor
Carsten Charles		NY Yankees Pitcher
Clive Staples		'Narnia' Author
Wystan Hugh		'Funeral Blues' Poet
(Beale Street) Blues Boy		'The Thrill Is Gone' Musician
Robert Lawrence		'Goosebumps' Author
Elwyn Brooks		'Charlotte's Web' Author

Full Name	Initialed Name	Known For
Burrhus Frederic		Psychologist
Anthony Joseph		Indy Car Racer
John Roland Reuel		'The Hobbit' Author
Orenthal James		Athlete and Convict
Herbert George		'The Time Machine' Author
David (Llewelyn) Wark		'Birth of a Nation' Director
William Butler		'The Winding Stair' Author
Edward Morgan		'Howard's End' Author
Paul Thomas		'Boogie Nights' Director
Howard Phillips		'Cthulhu Mythos' Author
Maurits Cornelis		Lithograph Artist
John Pierpont		Financier and Banker

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Initialed People Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: May 10th, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 117,131

Tags: known, common, initial, full, initialed

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	brock:	May 10th, 2009 at 04:27 GMT	0 points
	C.Q. Cracking Quiz. !

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	mungar:	May 10th, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, many of them are simple to blast through, especially the left side. There are a couple that aren't instant gets though.

	Kevin:	May 10th, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	1 point
	CC had the periods legally removed from his name.

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	okenter:	May 10th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT	67 points
	I admit that I tried "Hammer" in the Maurits Cornelius slot....

	Skip:	May 10th, 2009 at 04:57 GMT	0 points
	Why do you need periods with Alan Alexander and Anthony Joseph when you don't need periods with the others?

	Tahnan:	May 10th, 2009 at 04:59 GMT	7 points
	The second R in "JRR" is Reuel, not Ruel. Otherwise, nice quiz!

	dummo:	May 10th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT	-1 points
	I only got A.A Milne on the second go because it doesn't accept it without the period in between, where for the rest of them it does. You get into a habit of leaving the full stop out and allowing CS Lewis, HG Wells etc but not allowing AA Milne seems odd.

	jawa88:	May 10th, 2009 at 05:04 GMT	21 points
	You don't actually need any of the initials, you can just type in the last name so it doesn't really matter. This quiz was really hard at first because I was just trying to figure out the names based on the clues, but once I started saying the initials it got a lot easier. Fun quiz!!! =)

	DanteJones:	May 10th, 2009 at 05:15 GMT	-1 points
	I feel like some I entered were correct but dq'ed because periods weren't inserted. Mainly for Milne & Foyt

	beforever:	May 10th, 2009 at 05:31 GMT	32 points
	"Athlete and Convict" That's simply hilarious.

	siukong:	May 10th, 2009 at 05:33 GMT	10 points
	Got a third of the way through before I even realized there where clues about what they were known for! (btw, I also tried Hammer - reflexively after thinking "MC")

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	SowCrates:	May 10th, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	9 points
	Is there any particular reason so many authors use their initials as apart of their author-name? I mean, I've heard that Rowling used her initials in an effort to divert attention from her gender, but what about all the others?

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	Chumley:	May 10th, 2009 at 05:39 GMT	28 points
	Is it just me, I always heard of William Butler Yeats with his full name. Is he commonly referred to as W.B. Yeats. I just don't feel he belongs on the list. (Also when I saw B.F. I first tried Goodrich.)

	Julian:	May 10th, 2009 at 05:54 GMT	-1 points
	@chumley: Agreed. I've heard the poet referred to as "W.B. Yeats" perhaps once, which is in stark contrast to the other people featured in this quiz.

	mungar:	May 10th, 2009 at 06:00 GMT	17 points
	@Brandon: Yes, she uses lowercase so the quiz is correct. Speaking of names in lowercase, I was surprised to not see e.e. cummings.

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	y2jdilemma:	May 10th, 2009 at 06:49 GMT	2 points
	I LOL'd at "Athlete and Convict"

	beatrixkiddo:	May 10th, 2009 at 07:54 GMT	4 points
	did anyone else try mc hammer for the lithograph/artist, just in case the columns had got mixed up? nope .... just me then.

	adal:	May 10th, 2009 at 08:38 GMT	1 point
	Yep I tried Hammer for M.C. - before even reading the clue.

	FlyingFishMonkey:	May 10th, 2009 at 09:16 GMT	0 points
	mr howard phillips is third from bottom! This is incredible

	lulubelles:	May 10th, 2009 at 09:19 GMT	1 point
	Yeah I did too. I would've got 15 if it had accepted Yeats, but for some reason it didn't like that one. It only happens rarely but it is so annoying when you know an answer is right and it doesn't take it.

	shmick:	May 10th, 2009 at 09:24 GMT	4 points
	wow i cant believe wb yeats is so far down the list. also I've never heard paul thomas anderson referred to by his initials.

	chikka2:	May 10th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT	1 point
	Good mix, Sporcle. I learnt stuff.

	OscilatingGibbon:	May 10th, 2009 at 09:45 GMT	2 points
	I really enjoy quizzes like these but it is marginally annoying that it includes US domestic sports almost every time, so getting 100% is basically impossible for those outside the US. There are plenty of well known people with initialled names to not include folks from NHL, NFL, NBA or MLB. If you disagree, think about the shoe on the other foot - you'd be annoyed by an answer such as the famous cricketer, W. G. Grace.

	LaStic:	May 10th, 2009 at 09:47 GMT	1 point
	kd lang is supposed to be in lower case. Liked this quiz: some of the ones I didn't get were obvious after the reveal.

	lyttmabatr:	May 10th, 2009 at 10:14 GMT	3 points
	it appears my brain remembers initials. now, how can i put that to good use....

	Lulu:	May 10th, 2009 at 10:43 GMT	1 point
	Glad I'm not the only one who tried MC Hammer. I was expecting J B Priestley to be on the list, though.

	Whaleyland:	May 10th, 2009 at 11:06 GMT	4 points
	Tolkien's name is John Ronald Reuel, not Roland.

	RobH:	May 10th, 2009 at 11:39 GMT	-4 points
	Not really quiz related, but did anyone else have that bloody annoying flying heart banner ad flickering in their eyeline when doing this?

	cocky:	May 10th, 2009 at 11:41 GMT	-4 points
	I also tried Hammer without reading the clue. I have also never heard of Yeats being called W.B. Yeats. I knew Tolkien but could not remember how to spell it.

	DeeJay:	May 10th, 2009 at 12:19 GMT	8 points
	@SowCrates: I think at least with the authors, their names are initialised simply because their full names are too long to fit on the cover of a book.

	Zalx:	May 10th, 2009 at 12:28 GMT	0 points
	No J.R Hartley? Most famous author of a generation!

	Tapestry:	May 10th, 2009 at 12:29 GMT	9 points
	Only 52% knew the man who said a 'sucker is born every minute' maybe that refers to the half that didn't get it?

	Patteroast:	May 10th, 2009 at 13:15 GMT	3 points
	Huh, I'd always called the director Paul Thomas, not P.T. Anyway, nice quiz. Did better than I thought I would. :)