Surnames
This surname originated as an occupational name for someone who worked to forge weapons.
This cheerful doughy mascot giggles when poked in the belly and represents a baking products company.
Who is the Pillsbury Doughboy?
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This man was the 2nd president of the United States and a Founding Father.
Who is John Adams?
This long-running British series features a time-traveling alien known as the Doctor.
What is Doctor Who?
This last name comes from this profession that involved making bread and pastries.
What is Baker?
This muscular cleaning mascot wears a white T-shirt, gold earring, and shines surfaces spotless.
Who is Mr. Clean?
This large African predator is known as the “man-eater” and is responsible for many human fatalities along rivers.
What is the Nile Crocodile?
This American author wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska.
Who is John Green?
This 1990s Fox series follows FBI agents Scully and Mulder investigating paranormal cases.
What is The X-Files?
The surname O’Connor indicates Irish ancestry, with the “O’” meaning this in Gaelic.
What is descendant of?
This mascot promotes a cereal that’s “buzzing with honey and nuts.”
Who is Buzz the Bee from Honey Nut Cheerios?
This jellyfish, found in the waters of the Indo-Pacific, has tentacles that can deliver lethal venom in minutes.
What is the Box Jellyfish?
This is a U.S. senator from Massachusetts and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
Who is John Kerry?
In this 2004-2009 series, a human colony is trying to survive after escaping from robotic Cylons.
What is Battlestar Galactica?
The Jewish surname Goldstein combines the German words for these two elements of nature.
What are gold and stone?
This muscular chef mascot promotes a brand of soup that has been sold in cans since the early 1900s.
Who is Campbell’s Chef?
Despite being slow-moving, this type of fish hides a highly venomous spine in its dorsal fin, causing extreme pain or death if stepped on.
What is the Stonefish?
This American novelist, famous for The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, shares the first name John.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This HBO series is set in a futuristic amusement park populated by lifelike androids that gain self-awareness.
What is Westworld?
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This Italian surname means “curly,” originally describing someone with curly hair.
What is Ricci?
This bird mascot for a chocolate-flavored cereal is literally “cuckoo” for cocoa.
Who is Sonny the Cuckoo Bird (Cocoa Puffs)?
This marine animal, despite its cute appearance, has a venomous bite and can cause paralysis or death in humans.
What is the Blue-Ringed Octopus?
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This English novelist wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Who is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien?
This 2016–2020 series follows a crew exploring the galaxy in a realistic depiction of interplanetary politics and space warfare.
What is The Expanse?