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Bob Peck
Lunchtime Quiz: Middle Initials
by Bob Peck - June 9, 2008 - 10:30 AM

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We know a good number of famous middle initials. But how many of us actually know the less famous, oftentimes strange names they stand for? Let’s find out.

Take the quiz: The Name Behind The Initial

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Comments (10)

  1. Bleh, 33%.

    I thought for sure that my favorite one would be on there:

    Harry S Truman.

    The S stands for S.

    posted by markmier on 6-9-2008 at 11:30 am

  2. Umm…John Francis Kennedy? I don’t think so. Who’d doing fact checking here?

    posted by Robin on 6-9-2008 at 11:51 am

  3. Um, that was ROBERT Francis Kennedy. Not John.

    Though I missed it too. :)

    posted by markmier on 6-9-2008 at 12:04 pm

  4. Ok good, I’m not crazy. I got 9/12 with the incorrect JFK one.

    posted by Ryan on 6-9-2008 at 1:32 pm

  5. Robin: Easy with the accusations. JFK is not in this quiz. RFK is. (Sorry, Ryan.)

    posted by Jason English on 6-9-2008 at 1:40 pm

  6. I love when people adamantly correct things that aren’t wrong. That’s gotta hurt.

    posted by Tim on 6-9-2008 at 1:47 pm

  7. Markmier, I’m a big fan of Harry (the ‘S’ stands for ‘S’) Truman myself. My grandfather had a similar middle name. As as kid, he had no middle name and was simply Frank (last name), Jr. (Also, just Frank, not Francis). The US Army didn’t take kindly to having a blank space where they wanted a middle name, so my grandfather took the Jr. off his name and made ‘J’ his middle initial, but it never stood for anything.

    Hehe! My recaptcha is “splendid relatives” — very apropos.

    posted by Lindsey on 6-9-2008 at 1:56 pm

  8. 7/12

    posted by Mayor of Kentonville.com on 6-10-2008 at 4:24 am

  9. This is what I get for doing these at work and half paying attention. :-)

    I just went back and looked and it is clearly RFK both in name and picture. I’ll blame it on being a Monday.

    posted by Ryan on 6-10-2008 at 9:56 am

  10. my grandfather too didn’t have a middle name, and when asked said “nothing” thus an N became his middle initial.

    posted by Mpyre9 on 6-10-2008 at 1:43 pm

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