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Can you name the people who go by their initials? Enter a name (last names acceptable) in the box below Correctly named names will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: rockgolf Also try the original Initialed People Quiz You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 6701 Broadway Opening Lines 4435 TV Shows (U.S.) 4280 You Do Know Jack 1793 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1755 Same Last Name 1449 And more...
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Full Name	Initialled name	Known for:
Benjamin Franklin		Radial tire industrialist
Billy Joe		Singer: 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'
Carol Christine Hilaria		Actress: ER, The Shield
David Herbert		Author: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
Donald Joseph		Actor: 'Road Trip', 'The New Guy'
Edgar Lawrence		Author: 'Ragtime', 'Billy Bathgate'
edward estlin		poet known for only using lower case in his name
Everett Grunz		Actor: '12 Angry Men', 'Chicago Hope'
Ieoh Ming		Architect: Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame building
James Cash		Founder of US department store chain
James Ewell Brown		US Civil War, Confederate General
Jeffrey Jacob		Creator of 'Lost' & 'Alias'

Full Name	Initialled name	Known for:
Kate Victoria (known as KT)		Singer: 'Black Horse & the Cherry Tree'
Ladies Love		Rapper/actor: 'Mama Said Knock You Out', NCIS: LA
Leon Leonwood		Founder of US mail order company
Patrick Jake		Author/satirist: 'Give War A Chance', 'Parliament of Whores'
Pieter Willem		Prime minister of South Africa (1978 to 1984)
Polly Jean		British singer/songwriter: 'Down By The Water'
Richard Joshua		Tobacco Company founder
Susan Eloise		Author: 'The Outsiders', 'Rumble Fish'
Virginia Cleo		Author: 'Flowers In The Attic'
William Claude		Actor: 'Never Give A Sucker An Even Break'
William Edward Burghardt		Founder of the NAACP
Yelberton Abraham		Hall of Fame quarterback

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	Golem:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 08:35 GMT	11 points
	Went obscure here, Sporcle! Surprised that more people aren't getting LL Bean.

	JohnJF:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 08:37 GMT	6 points
	Rockgolf is becoming the Stephen King of Sporcle quizzes: In spite of an insane production cycle, the quality is always there. Keep 'em coming.

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	MRL:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 08:38 GMT	7 points
	@MovieDynamic: Try the first quiz for that one.

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	Giants2082:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	2 points
	YA Tittle didn't work for me and I was very frustrated because if I were to get any it should have been that (as you can tell by my name)

	eln77:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:01 GMT	21 points
	Use Jeopardy! rules here, people: if allowed (as it is in this quiz), always use just the last name. That way, you don't get screwed if you mess up the first name.

	steeltown:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:04 GMT	5 points
	Note to self: read clues & then you won't try to make K T Tunstall into K D Lang.

	starfish:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:07 GMT	2 points
	I was really hoping to see MC Hammer make it into this edition of the Initialed People quiz, if only so the clue could reference "Stop! Hammertime" and parachute pants.

	Sesel:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:11 GMT	6 points
	P.W. Botha did not win the Nobel Peace Prize; his successor as state president, Frederik Willem (F.W.) de Klerk did.

	chikka2:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:16 GMT	-1 points
	Kept writing CC pounder(maybe looping to CC Rider?)Tough quiz.

	rockgolf:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:18 GMT	1 point
	@SporcleAdmin: That dang "A" in Y.A. Tittle is getting dropped in editing because it's treated as the word "a". Can you set up "Y tittle" as an alternate answer and the problem will be fixed?

	Quizhappy:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:25 GMT	0 points
	Did anyone else hold a small glimmer of hope that W.E.B. Griffin founded the NAACP?

	BamaRainbow:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT	-2 points
	@ starfish: MC Hammer doesn't qualify. His real name is Stanley Kirk Burrell. The "MC" in most rapper names developed from the classic "emcee" (or "master of ceremonies") who was historically required to provide a lot of patter while acts are getting ready backstage back in the days of vaudeville. In that sense, the "emcee" is now generally just the host of any type of pageant or variety program, like awards shows; of course, the emcee's duties still involve a lot of talking between segments.

	Havok3595:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT	2 points
	@RandallPinkston: Yes, EE Cummings used uppercase for his name most of the time, but his publisher started using the now famous lowercase after he signed a book in lowercase to show "humility."

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	Hungover:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 10:10 GMT	2 points
	no idea who the guy in the picture is

	Archer16:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 10:26 GMT	1 point
	Much harder than the first one.

	bsd987:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 10:30 GMT	-3 points
	e.e. cummings is 100 percent incorrect. He prefered to be called E.E. Cummings. He wrote in lower case, but his name was always upper-cased until after his death.

	raisingfear101:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 10:33 GMT	1 point
	For some reason, J.D Drew jumped into my head when I saw the quiz title.

	fortunecookie:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 10:52 GMT	1 point
	As great as he is, LL Cool J should not be so much better known that e.e. cummings. I hate the world.

	RandallPinkston:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 11:20 GMT	3 points
	@Hungover: I believe that's J.J. Abrams.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 11:37 GMT	2 points
	@BamaRainbow: They don't all refer to the person's real name. Example: Ladies Love Cool James.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 11:37 GMT	0 points
	PS: LL CJ was on the first initials quiz.

	rockgolf:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 12:06 GMT	1 point
	@debbie: Really? I don't see him there and I don't have any way to modify other people's quizzes.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 12:29 GMT	1 point
	Oops - he's actually on this one. The clue is "rapper/actor."

	biggers:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 13:44 GMT	3 points
	oh dear, only scored 5. Are you sure that the tobacco company founder wasn't RJ Silkcut or the tire company guy wasn't BF Continental ???

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	Isstvan:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 16:20 GMT	1 point
	This one could have used that hide clue feature that the recent director debut quiz had. Giving the names made it too easy.

	alkeiper:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 16:47 GMT	1 point
	Just 8 right, but I got the least popular answer. 12 Angry Men is really an excellent movie.

	cigarette:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 19:05 GMT	9 points
	@kingstony: A web site based in the USA is too USA-based?! Alert the presses! Our next story: The New York Times: Why are they so obsessed with Manhattan?

	geowiz85:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 19:14 GMT	16 points
	@kingstony, really too US based?! with a south african leader, a scottish singer, an english writer, and a chinese architect, more like just too hard for kingstony

	Dantonpix:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	1 point
	Musicians and actors/producers always kill my score on these quizzes.

	RandallPinkston:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 22:47 GMT	2 points
	@geowiz85: I.M. Pei was born in China but has been an American citizen for over 50 years. Nevertheless, like most Sporcle quizzes, this one is more than adequately inclusive of international names.

	bcamp85:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 23:15 GMT	3 points
	Yelberton... now that's a name you don't hear everyday

	Kris:	Sep 6th, 2009 at 01:34 GMT	2 points
	I expected this quiz to be a lot better than it was.

	cocky:	Sep 6th, 2009 at 01:48 GMT	1 point
	@bcamp...I guess that's why he went by YA.

	cate:	Sep 6th, 2009 at 05:16 GMT	-3 points
	I only got one name. They're all too american

	rockgolf:	Sep 7th, 2009 at 09:39 GMT	1 point
	Sneak preview for latecomers: Try a new quiz not yet published on the front page: http://www.sporcle.com/games/rockgolf/fwfr_animated_2 Can you identify animated movies from the last 10 years based on "film reviews" of four words or less?