Can you name the Are They Related?? by hscer

People	Yes/No	How related (if any)
U.S. Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt		5th cousins
Actors Jerry and Ben Stiller		Father and son
MLB players Dwight Gooden and Gary Sheffield		Uncle and nephew
Accordionists Frankie and 'Weird Al' Yankovic		-
U.S. President Franklin Pierce and First Lady Barbara Bush		Distant cousins
Actors Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie		Father and daughter
NASCAR driver Tony Stewart and comedian Jon Stewart		-
NBA players Shaquille and Jermaine O'Neal		-
U.S. politicians Ron and Rand Paul		Father and son
U.S. musicians Paul and Carly Simon		-
U.S. President Herbert Hoover and FBI head J. Edgar Hoover		-
CNN anchors Larry and John King		-
Chess player Bobby Fischer and American actress Carrie Fisher		-
Mormon leader Brigham Young and NFL quarterback Steve Young		Great-great-great grandfather
Beatle George Harrison and WWI gas mask inventor Edward Harrison		-
Brewer Arthur Guinness and actor Alec Guinness		-
Fictional characters Harry Potter and Dudley Dursley		Cousins
Charles Richter (of Richter scale fame) and American comedian Andy Richter		-
U.S. President Barack Obama and former V.P. Dick Cheney		8th cousins
U.S. Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt	8th cousins
Actors Jerry and Ben Stiller	8th cousins
Mormon leader Brigham Young and NFL quarterback Steve Young	8th cousins
MLB players Dwight Gooden and Gary Sheffield	8th cousins
Accordionists Frankie and 'Weird Al' Yankovic	8th cousins
U.S. President Franklin Pierce and First Lady Barbara Bush	8th cousins
Actors Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie	8th cousins
NASCAR driver Tony Stewart and comedian Jon Stewart	8th cousins
NBA players Shaquille and Jermaine O'Neal	8th cousins
U.S. politicians Ron and Rand Paul	8th cousins
U.S. musicians Paul and Carly Simon	8th cousins
U.S. President Herbert Hoover and FBI head J. Edgar Hoover	8th cousins
CNN anchors Larry and John King	8th cousins
Soccer player David Beckham and English singer Victoria Beckham	8th cousins
Chess player Bobby Fischer and American actress Carrie Fisher	8th cousins
Beatle George Harrison and WWI gas mask inventor Edward Harrison	8th cousins
Brewer Arthur Guinness and actor Alec Guinness	8th cousins
Fictional characters Harry Potter and Dudley Dursley	8th cousins
Charles Richter (of Richter scale fame) and American comedian Andy Richter	8th cousins
U.S. President Barack Obama and former V.P. Dick Cheney	8th cousins

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Are They Related? Quiz

by hscer

Created Oct 9, 2011 in Miscellaneous
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	BombaySapphire:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 03:58 GMT		3 points
	Stray conjunction at the end of the Fischer-Fisher clue. Fun quiz. :)

	chriskotx:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 04:19 GMT		7 points
	I have no idea who my 8th cousins are.

	dummo:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 04:49 GMT		7 points
	8th cousins is a bit of a stretch. You'd have to have a very large mapped out family tree to work that one out.

	Nobbe:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 06:06 GMT		7 points
	Correct me if I´m wrong but doesn´t "related" only mean biological / genetical relations - so, a marriage wouldn´t count then? Otherwise, nice quiz!

	gttrsnp:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 11:45 GMT		6 points
	i certainly hope David and Victoria Beckham aren't related...

	manonthemoon:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 12:17 GMT		11 points
	Like the quiz but I think you got the last one wrong. I'm pretty sure Obama and Cheney were born twins and raised in Kenya by elephants.

	McBeergio:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 12:55 GMT		8 points
	Yet again, we see that there's no real difference between the two major parties. 8th cousins? Psshhh. Might as well be the next of the Bush dynasty.

	hscer:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 14:14 GMT		4 points
	Re: Beckhams I may swap that one out. Re: Cheney/Obama It is a very distant relationship, but it did make the news a few years ago. http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/are-obama-and-cheney-related/

	debbiedoesnothin:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 21:45 GMT		1 point
	I'm about 6th or 7th cousins with Cheney. I'll have to go back and check my family tree to see if Obama's on the same branch. I'd much rather have him as a cousin.

	rockgolf:	Oct 12th, 2011 at 17:31 GMT		2 points
	@hscer: Some eighth grader discovered that nearly all US Presidents were at least distantly related to the British King who signed the Magna Carta.

	lucia:	Oct 12th, 2011 at 18:56 GMT		0 points
	8th cousins are not really related. I mean i barely know who my third cousins are, and if you go back enough maybe we'll realize we're all related to adam and eve so... (btw that was a joke, I'm not a creationist or something)

	Golden:	Oct 13th, 2011 at 03:25 GMT		4 points
	Yeah, if you go as far as 8th cousins you probably could demonstrate a link between many of those that currently say 'no'. Having said that, I still answered 'yes' to that question because no seemed too outrageously obvious for the question to be in there.

	cuendillar:	Oct 13th, 2011 at 18:28 GMT		0 points
	@lucia 'Adam' is actually also scientifically used for the latest common patrilinear ancestor of all living men. He lived at least 50,000-100,000 years after 'Eve' though so no relation there. His contemporaries' lines have since ended up without sons at some point in the last 142 millenia or so.

	midlifecrisis:	Oct 16th, 2011 at 19:24 GMT		1 point
	Obama and Cheney are related? LOL

	Jeep1964:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 15:19 GMT		2 points
	I was about to do the same quiz, different relations. Here are some: Queen Elizabeth II and King Juan Carlos are 3rd cousins. In fact they are related to most of the current and former ruling families of Europe. Tom Hanks and Abraham Lincoln are distant cousins Presidents Andrew and Lyndon Johnson are NOT related. The only presidents with the same surname that are not. First lady Edith Wilson was a descendent of Pocahantas. Fictional related charecters include: Beetle Bailey and Lois Flagston (Hi & Lois) are brother and sister. From the original radio programs, the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet were great uncle and grand nephew. The Dan Reid that rode with the Lone Ranger (nephew/uncle) as a young man grew up to be Brit Reid's (Green Hornet) father.