Can you pick the names missing from these people commonly known by three names?

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Missing a Name Quiz

by wiggytitch

Created Apr 19, 2012 in Miscellaneous
Featured May 4, 2012
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	Chocolatl:	May 4th, 2012 at 05:31 GMT		18 points
	The middle name of Yves isn't really a middle name; it's part of his surname. Really enjoyable quiz, though.

	MaxMallanite:	May 4th, 2012 at 05:42 GMT		-2 points
	I did all the ones I knew and alternated between Alice and Antonio when guessing - surprise! I didn't get any of the ones I guessed :-D

	Evil44:	May 4th, 2012 at 11:19 GMT		3 points
	Maybe take off 3 or 4 minutes. Otherwise, nice!

	TAR2:	May 4th, 2012 at 11:24 GMT		5 points
	I wish the results page would show the whole name. The ones I never heard of are still a mystery.

	KnowMe:	May 4th, 2012 at 12:17 GMT		3 points
	TAR2, after you finish the quiz, you can click through with the arrows below the question and it highlights the correct answer. My only issue is that a couple of these you hear much more often as a middle initial (Edgar R. Burroughs, for example) and you really have no clue what the actual name is. I mean, I'm not really complaining, becuase the point of a quiz is that you don't know all of the answers, but it felt somehow more frustrating to know the initial and have to guess which name went with it.

	BonnieH:	May 4th, 2012 at 12:25 GMT		3 points
	Sacha Cohen was the only one that threw me. I skipped it, thinking I would get it by process of elimination but you tricked me with all the possible answers! :) I did get it right though. Good quiz!

	gwynn19:	May 4th, 2012 at 13:10 GMT		8 points
	@Chocolatl - I don't think the quiz says that the missing name is necesarily a "middle" name. It just says that it's the missing name from people who go by three names. I think there are others that aren't true middle names - e.g., Kristin Scott Thomas.

	sussman:	May 4th, 2012 at 13:43 GMT		9 points
	William Zachary Thackeray

	mawbaron:	May 4th, 2012 at 14:06 GMT		2 points
	The first name that popped into my head was David Lee Roth. Is that so wrong?

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	bdwyGrl19:	May 4th, 2012 at 14:29 GMT		2 points
	no Neil Patrick Harris?

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	Jamessir:	May 4th, 2012 at 15:44 GMT		42 points
	When Ralph _______ Emerson came up I was like, "Okay, Where's Waldo?"

	mrmanheim:	May 4th, 2012 at 16:02 GMT		-4 points
	Not sure what to make of this. Cruised through this on 29 complete with nearly 4 minutes left, the had to guess a name for Thackeray. Never heard of Thackeray, so either Im stupid or many quiz takers spent the last 3-4 minutes researching.

	moviegoer74:	May 4th, 2012 at 16:24 GMT		5 points
	@gwynn19...whether there are others that aren't proper middle names is not the point. The point is tha Yves Saint Laurent is really two names and not three, because Saint is not separate from Laurent. @KnowMe...I have literally never heard anyone refer to him as Edgar R. Burroughs. Every time I have ever heard that man's name, it has always been Edgar Rice Burroughs.

	Tony_A:	May 4th, 2012 at 16:44 GMT		1 point
	Saint Laurent's full name is Yves Henri-Donat Matthieu-Saint Laurent. Matthieu-Saint Laurent is the family name.

	Rufus:	May 4th, 2012 at 17:31 GMT		3 points
	@ mrmanheim - author of Vanity Fair, which is fairly well known. Also, seems to pop up on a lot of the Sporcle literature quizzes so probably explains how a lot of people got it.

	uphillrunner:	May 4th, 2012 at 18:13 GMT		2 points
	@mrmanheim: I had the same experience! I finished all of them no prob, except Thackery. Really love this idea for a quiz, too. All the extra names to throw people off the trail were well chosen. Good stuff!

	Scurra:	May 4th, 2012 at 21:29 GMT		3 points
	@mrmanheim - on the other hand, being British I know the name of one of the greatest English novelists, but didn't immediately know the middle name of one of the US Presidents. It's all a matter of perspective...

	TL333s:	May 4th, 2012 at 21:43 GMT		-2 points
	Who the hell is Jessica Scott Thomas? I probably didn't even remember her name right, that's how much I've never heard of her.

	soundcow:	May 4th, 2012 at 21:49 GMT		-1 points
	Unless you decided to include his father in this quiz, the name is Martin Luther King, Jr. And even if it was his father, which of course it wasn't, then it should've read Martin Luther King, Sr. Not as insulting a mistake as calling Robert Downey Jr. by his weirdo father's name, but still.

	DexwardCuxann:	May 4th, 2012 at 23:53 GMT		0 points
	Where's Waldo? Or rather, who's Waldo?

	StrobesAU:	May 5th, 2012 at 00:14 GMT		7 points
	@KnowMe: Are you sure you aren't confusing Edgar Rice Burroughs with Edward R. Murrow?

	catcherj:	May 5th, 2012 at 00:42 GMT		-4 points
	I saw Johann ________ Bach and the first thing that came to my mind was Christian. Is there something wrong with me?

	thewildboo:	May 5th, 2012 at 02:16 GMT		0 points
	James ___ Jones took a surprisingly long time to figure out. I literally never thought of him as being named "James Jones".

	dtb1977:	May 5th, 2012 at 14:50 GMT		-1 points
	I like the theme, but I hate the matching format, it makes it too easy.

	hotrod14:	May 5th, 2012 at 17:57 GMT		1 point
	Love the "NO Name" picture on the home page-about an hour from my house on I-70 in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

	PJSeeds:	May 6th, 2012 at 02:07 GMT		-1 points
	I've never heard of Kristin Scott Thomas and after looking her up I've never even seen her before. Anyone know who the hell she is?

	mbusuttil:	May 7th, 2012 at 02:27 GMT		3 points
	John ______ Kennedy. Half my brain is saying "the F must have stood for something", and the other half is saying "WHY ISN'T THERE JUST AN F?"

	featherfish81:	May 10th, 2012 at 01:08 GMT		1 point
	@KnowMe - I know I was confusing them, too, but luckily they both had the same middle initial and I got it right anyway.

	youngglenfarg:	Jun 3rd, 2012 at 20:29 GMT		1 point
	Why only missing middle names, and not ones like J.K.Rowling or F.Murray Abraham?