#2 Keeping Up with the Joneses

Otis

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Saw this elsewhere. I'm not good at names, so I've posted it for others to figure out.

Several famous real and fictional people have the last name Jones. In each row below, we’ve interwoven the first names of three famous Joneses so that each name still reads from left to right. Can you identify all nine Joneses, three per row?

1. C A B R N O S I D R A G E E T H Y

2. D I N C H A U D I V A C N Y A K

3. M A Q U I T R N I C O O N Y M


As a bonus, here's one I wrote that lists names of four people, and it contains a middle name or two. Note: There may be multiple parsing-arrangements that work, and I don't know whether I've copied any names used above (it's possible).

4. S T J O H M A C I R L M A Y L E M E S E S E A R E Y L E Y

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Code:
1. C A B R N O S I D R A G E E T H Y
       B R       I D     G E   T
   C A         S             E     Y
           N O       R A         H

2. D I N C H A U D I V A C N Y A K
     I N         D I   A   N   A
   D         A       V       Y
         C H   U         C       K

3. M A Q U I T R N I C O O N Y M
       Q U I     N   C       Y
             T           O     M
   M A         R   I   O   N

4. S T J O H M A C I R L M A Y L E M E S E S E A R E Y L E Y
       J       A                   M E     S E A R     L
   S       H       I R L                                 E Y
     T   O   M           M   Y L E       E
                 C         A           S           E Y

Looks like there's one overlap between yours and theirs. Some of these names I just guessed and typed into Google to see if they existed. But the first two Joneses I thought of aren't here at all.
 
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… the first two Joneses I thought of aren't here at all.
Well, if you can think of another (or two), then you can post a fifth version!

The first four of five that I'd come up with comprise #4; I'd thought of a fifth Jones later (from recently watching the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie: Davy Jones' locker).

Anyways, you did great. ⭐

(I still don't recognize a number of them.)

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Your fifth (which is in there) was the second I thought of; the other is a real person with three names, who also has to do with the sea, so I thought he'd be one of yours!

The format in which I displayed them was exactly how I discovered them.

There are three in the list that I hadn't heard of before looking them up, and a couple others that I only recognized after guessing random first names. I don't do well on quizzes about popular culture.
 
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