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How Are They Related?

Enjoy overly complicated familial relationships and concrete logic computation? Then this quiz is for you. Answer these questions about how these people in history are related.
If this seems too hard, try visualizing family trees as you read.
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Last updated: August 19, 2022
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1. Henry VIII's parents were Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, who also had a daughter named Margaret. How are Margaret and Henry VIII related?
They are first cousins ✓
Margaret is Henry's aunt ✓
They are brother and sister ✓
2. Leopold I of Austria had a brother, Otto, who had a son named Leopold II. Otto and Leopold I's brother, Albert II, had a son named Leopold III. Leopold III had a son named Leopold IV. How is Leopold IV related to Leopold II?
They are second cousins ✓
They are first cousins once removed ✓
Leopold II is Leopold IV's uncle ✓
3. Hirohito's imperial title was Showa. He had a son named Akihito, and his title was Heisei. Akihito had a son named Naruhito, whose title is simply "The Emperor". Hirohito also had a brother, Takahito. Takahito had a son named Norihito, and Norihito's daughter is Princess Noriko of Takamado. What is the familial relationship between The Emperor, Naruhito, and Princess Noriko of Takamado?
They are second cousins ✓
They are first cousins once removed ✓
Naruhito is her uncle ✓
4. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands had a daughter, Princess Margriet. Prince Maurits is Margriet's son. The title of Queen of the Netherlands, however, was bestowed on Juliana's eldest daughter, Beatrix. Beatrix's son, Willem-Alexander, is currently the king. His daughter, Catharina-Amalia, is the heir apparent to the throne. How are Catharina-Amalia and Prince Maurits related?
Prince Maurits is Catharina-Amalia's uncle ✓
Second cousins ✓
First cousins once removed ✓
5. Julius Caesar had a sister named Julia Caesaris. Julia had a daughter named Atia. Atia had a son named Augustus. Upon Julius Caesar's death, his will announced that Julius adopted Augustus and made him heir. What was Augustus in relation to Caesar?
Adoptive son who was unrelated by blood ✓
Step-nephew ✓
Posthumously adopted son and grandnephew ✓
6. Tom Green married and subsequently divorced Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore is John Drew Barrymore's daughter. John Drew Barrymore's father was John Barrymore. How is Tom Green related to John Barrymore?
Ex-second-cousin-in-law ✓
Grand-nephew-in-law ✓
Ex-grandson-in-law ✓
7. Nicholas Roosevelt had a son named Jacobus, who had a son named Isaac, who had a son named James, who had a son named Isaac, who had a son named James, who married Sara Delano, who had a son named Franklin Delano Roosevelt. How is Franklin related to Nicholas?
Third-great-grandson ✓
Fourth-great-grandson ✓
Fifth-great-grandson ✓
8. Nicholas Roosevelt had another son named Johannes, who had a son named Jacobus, who had a son named James, who had a son named Cornelius, who had a son named Theodore (Sr.), who had a son named Theodore. How are Theodore and Franklin from the previous question related?
They are cousins five times removed ✓
They are fifth cousins ✓
They are not related by blood ✓
9. Carlo Buonaparte had a son, Napoleon I. Napoleon I married Josephine de Beauharnais. Josephine was a widow and had a daughter, Hortense, from the previous marriage. Carlo Buonaparte also had a son named Louis Bonaparte, who married Hortense. Besides husband, how was Louis related to Hortense?
Louis was Hortenses second cousin once removed ✓
Louis was Hortense's step uncle ✓
They were in no way related ✓
10. Tiberius had a brother, Drusus. Drusus had sons named Claudius and Germanicus. Tiberius adopted Germanicus. Germanicus had a daughter named Agrippina the Younger. Claudius married Agrippina. Which of the following fully explains how Agrippina the Younger is related to Tiberius?
Granddaughter, step-niece, and daughter-in-law ✓
Step-granddaughter, grandniece, and niece-in-law ✓
Step-niece-in-law, granddaughter, and first cousin once removed ✓
11. In 1989, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married Mandy Smith, but divorced after a couple years. Stephen Wyman, Bill Wyman's son from a previous marriage, subsequently married Mandy's mother, Patsy. Which of the following is NOT true?
Bill is both Mandy's father-in-law and ex-stepson-in-law ✓
Stephen could have been his own step-step-grandpa, if not for the divorce ✓
Bill married his future step-mother-in-law ✓
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