Famous Duos & Partners
Instructions: How well do you know history's most famous pairs and partnerships?
- 1.
Who was the comedy partner of Dean Martin in their famous duo?
AJerry LewisBBob HopeCRed SkeltonDMilton Berle - 2.
Lewis and Clark were famous for exploring what part of the United States?
AThe NortheastBThe Western territoriesCAlaskaDThe Southeast - 3.
In the famous ice skating duo, who was Torvill's partner?
ABarryBScottCHuntDDean - 4.
Which duo created the first successful airplane flight in 1903?
AThe Wright BrothersBThe Marx BrothersCThe Warner BrothersDThe Smith Brothers - 5.
Simon & Garfunkel are best known for which hit song?
AHotel CaliforniaBBridge Over Troubled WaterCYesterdayDLet It Be - 6.
Who was Bonnie Parker's partner in crime?
APretty Boy FloydBClyde BarrowCAl CaponeDJohn Dillinger - 7.
Which famous duo discovered radium together?
AOrville and Wilbur WrightBMarie and Pierre CurieCWatson and CrickDLewis and Clark - 8.
In the classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, who was the thin one?
AHardyBLaurelCThey alternated rolesDNeither — they were both large - 9.
Which duo wrote many of The Beatles' most famous songs?
AHarrison and StarrBLennon and HarrisonCMcCartney and StarrDLennon and McCartney - 10.
Batman's famous partner Robin is also known as what?
AThe Dark KnightBThe Night OwlCThe Caped CrusaderDThe Boy Wonder - 11.
Which famous duo hosted a morning TV show together for decades, known as 'Live'?
ADonny and MarieBTom and JerryCSonny and CherDRegis and Kathie Lee - 12.
Watson and Crick are famous for discovering the structure of what?
AThe cellBDNACPenicillinDThe atom - 13.
Which singing duo had the hit 'I Got You Babe' in 1965?
AThe Everly BrothersBThe Righteous BrothersCSonny & CherDSimon & Garfunkel - 14.
Which famous Western duo was played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford?
AJesse and Frank JamesBWyatt Earp and Doc HollidayCButch Cassidy and the Sundance KidDThe Lone Ranger and Tonto - 15.
Fred Astaire's most famous dance partner in films was whom?
ACyd CharisseBGinger RogersCJudy GarlandDRita Hayworth - 16.
Which duo are the title characters in Shakespeare's most famous love story?
AOthello and DesdemonaBAntony and CleopatraCHamlet and OpheliaDRomeo and Juliet - 17.
Ben & Jerry's ice cream company was founded in what state?
ACaliforniaBMassachusettsCNew YorkDVermont - 18.
Which duo are the famous detective and his partner at 221B Baker Street?
AStarsky and HutchBPoirot and HastingsCMorse and LewisDHolmes and Watson - 19.
The Everly Brothers were known for their close harmony singing. What were their first names?
ABill and TedBJack and JohnCPhil and DonDTom and Jerry - 20.
Which dynamic duo founded Apple Computer in a garage in 1976?
ALarry Page and Sergey BrinBMichael Dell and Kevin RollinsCSteve Jobs and Steve WozniakDBill Gates and Paul Allen
Answer Key
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were one of the most popular comedy teams in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in 16 films together.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the famous expedition (1804-1806) to explore the western territories after the Louisiana Purchase.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Olympic gold medal in 1984 for their legendary 'Bolero' ice dance routine.
Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' (1970) became one of the best-selling singles of all time.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were infamous outlaws who robbed banks and stores across the central United States during the Great Depression.
Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium and polonium together, sharing the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Stan Laurel was the thin, bumbling half of the duo, while Oliver Hardy was the larger, more pompous partner.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships in music history.
Robin, Batman's sidekick, has been known as 'The Boy Wonder' since his first appearance in 1940.
Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford co-hosted 'Live with Regis and Kathie Lee' from 1988 to 2000.
James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, revolutionizing biology.
Sonny Bono and Cher's 'I Got You Babe' reached number one in 1965 and launched their career as a duo.
The 1969 film 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' starred Newman and Redford as the legendary outlaw pair.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers starred together in 10 musical films and became the most iconic dance partnership in cinema history.
Romeo and Juliet, written around 1597, is perhaps the most famous love story ever written.
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened their first ice cream shop in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont, in 1978.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, created by Arthur Conan Doyle, are literature's most famous detective duo.
Phil and Don Everly had hits like 'Bye Bye Love' and 'All I Have to Do Is Dream' in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer in the Jobs family garage in Los Altos, California, in 1976.