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You Know Their Faces, But Let’s Find Out If You Can Guess Their Real Names: 30 Stars Quiz
Would you change your name? Most stars change their birth names to stage names to make it easier for fans to remember and pronounce them. In fact, we’re so used to knowing famous faces by their stage names that identifying them by their birth ones becomes unfamiliar. Seriously, how many times have you said Daniel Radcliffe’s name when trying to tell your friends about Harry Potter? We guess that the answer is clear and obvious.
So, for this quiz, out of many, many more, we chose 30 icons. All you have to do is to match these celebrities to their real names.
Get ready to dig into your memory, because it won’t be as easy as it may sound. Action! ⭐
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Image credits: Ekaterina Belinskaya
Trivia • Can You Match Celebrities To Their Real Names?
1. Which Hollywood legend was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson?
2. What is the real name of actor Nicolas Cage?
Nicolas Ford Coppola
Nicolas Kim Coppola
Nicolas Giovanni Cage
Nicolas Michael DeNiro
3. What is the real name of singer Elton John?
Edgar Ronald Jones
Edmund Jonathan White
Richard Elton James
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
4. What is the real name of the writer known as George Orwell?
William Golding
Eric Arthur Blair
Aldous Huxley
John Steinbeck
5. What was Freddie Mercury’s real name?
Salman Bahari
Amir Farrahani
Rami Malek
Farrokh Bulsara
7. What is the real name of singer Bruno Mars?
Peter Gene Hernandez
Marcus Bruno Garcia
Juan Carlos Mars
Anthony Peter Mars
8. Who was born as Demetria Gene Guynes but became famous under a different name?
9. What is the real name of Mark Twain?
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Henry Thoreau
Edgar Poe
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
10. What is the real name of rapper Jay-Z?
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Curtis Jackson
Shawn Corey Carter
Andre Benjamin
11. Who was born as Mark Sinclair but goes by a different name in Hollywood?
12. Bernard Schwartz was the real name of which of the following Hollywood legends?
13. Who was originally named Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra before changing her name?
14. What is the real name of rapper Eminem?
Curtis Jackson
Christopher Wallace
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Scott Mescudi
15. Which famous mystery writer was born Mary Westmacott but became famous under a different name?
16. Which of the following actors was actually born Eugene Maurice Orowitz before making his move to Hollywood?
17. Which famous actor’s real name is Thomas Mapother IV?
18. She was born Frances Ethel Gumm, but the world knew her as which of the following Hollywood legends?
19. Who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman before being widely known by their real name?
21. Which of the following actresses was born with the name Caryn Elaine Johnson?
23. Who was born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner but became this famous musician?
24. He was born Eric Marlon Bishop, but is known professionally as which of the following more recognizable Hollywood names?
25. What is the real name of Tina Turner?
Theresa Louise Turner
Cynthia Lee Harris
Anna Mae Bullock
Mary Ann Jenkins
26. What is the real name of Snoop Dogg?
Cedric Donovan Wright
Christopher Shawn Perkins
Curtis Lamar Anderson
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.
27. Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. is the real name of which of the English-born actors below?
28. What is the real name of Cher?
Charlotte Ann Sorrento
Christina Sarafian
Cherilyn Sarkisian
Cheryl Lynn Marino
29. What is the real name of Pitbull?
Armando Christian Pérez
Ricardo Juan Batista
Leonardo Martin Esteban
Diego Rafael Torres
30. What is the real name of Frank Sinatra?
Francesco Enrico Russo
Frank Joseph DiMaggio
Frederick Anthony Sorrento
Francis Albert Sinatra
What do you think ?
Bat cat in a hat 3 weeks ago
Question 15- Which famous mystery writer was born Mary Westmacott but became famous under a different name? It's in fact none of them. Agatha Christie used the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott to write a few non-murder mystery books. Her middle name was Mary, and Westmacott was borrowed from some distant relatives. https://www.agathachristie.com/en/about-christie/family-memories/the-mary-westmacotts
Tha Monkey 3 weeks ago
That's cuz we old!! Also, the few that were well before us, we grew up reading about, since we didn't have the innerwebz...
Apatheist Account2 3 weeks ago
19. Hard to know real names of those for whom I don't know the stage name.
Bob Brooce 3 weeks ago
24/30. I thought a bunch were fairly common knowledge and several were fairly easy guesses (Margaret > Meg Ryan and Demetria > Demi Moore). Others seem somewhat to really obscure. I think a lot of people know that Nicolas Cage is Nicholas Coppola but don't know his middle name, making it a 50/50 guess.
Tha Monkey 3 weeks ago
21/30. I guessed on most, knew a couple, and second-guessed myself on one (still beating myself up about that!!) DEFINITELY time for bed (curse you, time change)!!!
Nice Beast Ludo 3 weeks ago
Uhhh there's no score?? I wanted to have the worst quiz score ever but kept guessing right
Bat cat in a hat 3 weeks ago
Question 15- Which famous mystery writer was born Mary Westmacott but became famous under a different name? It's in fact none of them. Agatha Christie used the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott to write a few non-murder mystery books. Her middle name was Mary, and Westmacott was borrowed from some distant relatives. https://www.agathachristie.com/en/about-christie/family-memories/the-mary-westmacotts
Tha Monkey 3 weeks ago
That's cuz we old!! Also, the few that were well before us, we grew up reading about, since we didn't have the innerwebz...
Apatheist Account2 3 weeks ago
19. Hard to know real names of those for whom I don't know the stage name.
Bob Brooce 3 weeks ago
24/30. I thought a bunch were fairly common knowledge and several were fairly easy guesses (Margaret > Meg Ryan and Demetria > Demi Moore). Others seem somewhat to really obscure. I think a lot of people know that Nicolas Cage is Nicholas Coppola but don't know his middle name, making it a 50/50 guess.
Tha Monkey 3 weeks ago
21/30. I guessed on most, knew a couple, and second-guessed myself on one (still beating myself up about that!!) DEFINITELY time for bed (curse you, time change)!!!
Nice Beast Ludo 3 weeks ago
Uhhh there's no score?? I wanted to have the worst quiz score ever but kept guessing right
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