Weekly People Quiz

Famous People Trivia for May 21, 2013

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +1200

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Who married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997, divorced him in 2002, had a daughter by Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, married musician Seal in 2005, and had 3 three more children with him between 2005 and 2009?
1. Nicole Kidman
2. Elizabeth Taylor
3. Rachel Hunter
4. Heidi Klum

Who hosted the 2006 Academy Awards ceremony?
1. Jay Leno
2. David Letterman
3. Jon Stewart
4. Conan O'Brien

According to the Bible's Genesis 32:28, 30 and Hosea 12:3, 5, God wrestled with whom all night?
1. Moses
2. Esau
3. John the Baptist
4. Jacob

Who is the writer for the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous"?
1. Tracey Ullman
2. Hugh Laurie
3. Ruby Wax
4. Jennifer Saunders

What respected psychology professor, after exposure to LSD, wrote "The Politics of Ecstasy" and devised the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"?
1. Papa Doc
2. Karl Jung
3. Timothy Leary
4. Timothy Spall

Who had a hit record in 1990 with "U Can't Touch This"?
1. FC Crowbar
2. DC Screwdriver
3. MC Hammer
4. OC Spanner

After Gianni Versace died, Donatella Versace, formerly vice-president, stepped in as creative director of Versace. What relation is she to Gianni?
1. His wife
2. His mother
3. His sister
4. His niece

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Famous People Trivia for May 14, 2013

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 +1200

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What was the popular name for Joseph Stalin by Americans during World War II?
1. Swivel hips
2. Ol' Blue Eyes
3. The King
4. Uncle Joe

In the USA there is a national holiday annually on the third Monday in January, in honour of whom?
1. Michael Jackson
2. John F Kennedy
3. Martin Luther King
4. Mickey Rooney

His name could be loosely tranlslted as "rule by, or supported by, horses" and is enshrined in the traditional doctors' oath. Who is he?
1. Confucius
2. Aesculapius
3. Frankenstein
4. Hippocrates

Health workers in Nigeria and Pakistan were killed in 2012 and 2013 while carrying out vaccination programmes for what?
1. Measles, mumps and rubella
2. Tuberculosis
3. Poliomyelitis
4. Whooping cough

Who was known as "The Waltz King"?
1. Johann Strauss
2. Johan Sebastian Bach
3. Ludwig van Beethoven
4. George Frideric Handel

Which of these is true about Benjamin Franklin and a term as a US senator?
1. He became senator in 1777
2. He represented Pennsylvania
3. He never was a senator
4. He resigned from the Senate in1781

Which of these was a nickname for Elizabeth I?
1. Speedos
2. Gloriana
3. Ellie the Great
4. Liza with a "Z"

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Famous People Trivia for May 7, 2013

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 +1200

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Who appeared in her first film for 15 years, "Monster In Law", in 2005?
1. Ellen Burstyn
2. Vanessa Redgrave
3. Julie Christie
4. Jane Fonda

The phrase "Crossing the Rubicon" is associated with which historical figure?
1. George Washington
2. Julius Caesar
3. Alexander the Great
4. Napoleon Bonaparte

Who was the third wife of King Henry VIII who died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her son, who briefly reigned as Edward VI?
1. Lady Jane Grey
2. Jane Austen
3. Jane Seymour
4. Calamity Jane

Who was famously shot dead while playing cards in Deadwood, South Dakota, on 2 August 1876?
1. Gene Autrey
2. Buffalo Bill
3. Wild Bill Hickok
4. Wyatt Earp

Between April and July 1997 Andrew Cunanan killed 5 people (beginning with Jeffrey Trail in Minneapolis, David Madson, near Rush City, Minnesota, Lee Miglin in Chicago, William Reese in Pennsville, New Jersey) before shooting himself. Who was his 5th victim, shot in Miami Beach, Florida?
1. John F Kennedy, Jr.
2. Ronald Reagan
3. John Denver
4. Gianni Versace

Who plays Susan Mayer in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives"?
1. Anne Kirkbride
2. Teri Hatcher
3. Felicity Huffman
4. Kate Walsh

Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on which instrument?
1. Cello
2. Violin
3. Piano
4. Guitar

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Famous People Trivia for April 30, 2013

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1200

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Which English MP, Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King Charles II and King James II, kept a detailed private diary during 1660–1669 which contained personal revelations and eyewitness accounts of great events and, after publication in the 19th century, became a primary source for study of the English Restoration period?
1. William Pitt the Elder
2. James Boswell
3. Oscar Wilde
4. Samuel Pepys

Which of these are members of the group The Black Eyed Peas?
1. Ice Cube, WC and Mack 10
2. Mark 7even, DJ Nu-Mark, Chali 2na and Cut Chemist
3. Black C, Mr. Cee and Hitman
4. will.i.am, Fergie, apl.de.ap and Taboo

Who was the first US Secretary of the Treasury?
1. George Washington
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. Benjamin Franklin
4. John F Kennedy

What is the stage name of Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, who was born on Christmas Day 1971?
1. Dido
2. Madonna
3. Annie Lennox
4. Lady Ga Ga

Who was the first person to win "The Big Four" Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year & Best New Artist) in one year?
1. Christopher Cross
2. John Mayer
3. John Lennon
4. Sheena Easton

Nick Leeson became famous in 1995 for what activiity?
1. Bombings
2. Serial killings
3. Fraud
4. Internet hacking

Who has been under house arrest for 15 of the past 21 years, and was released from the latest sentence on 13 November 2010?
1. Weera Musikapong
2. Suu Kyi
3. Mohandas Gandhi
4. Winnie Mandela

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Famous People Trivia for April 23, 2013

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1200

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By what name is Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus better known?
1. Octavian
2. Nero
3. Caligula
4. Decameron

What is the surname of sisters Rain and Summer, who come from a Hollywood acting family?
1. Arizona
2. Birdy
3. Hawkes
4. Phoenix

Who played the title role in the film "Saving Private Ryan"?
1. Colin Farrell
2. Matt Damon
3. Toby Maguire
4. Tom Hanks

Tony Kushner wrote the award-winning play "Angels in...?
1. Taiwan
2. America
3. Arrears
4. A pickle

Which of these British Prime mInisters was the oldest when first elected?
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Winston Churchill
3. Tony Blair
4. John Major

Who of these is most associated with Fleetwood Mac?
1. Debbie Harry
2. Stevie Nicks
3. Annie Lennox
4. Chrissie Hynde

Who was the lead guitarist of the band "Guns N' Roses" between 1985 and 1996?
1. Edge
2. Cut
3. Slash
4. Brink

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Famous People Trivia for April 16, 2013

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1200

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In 2004, Barbie dumped Ken for an Australian. What was his name?
1. Blaine
2. Bruce
3. Bazza
4. Brian

Which of these two are members of the Who and are still alive?
1. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend
2. John Lennon and George Harrison
3. John Entwhistle and Keith Moon
4. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

A Russian political satirist, later exiled, who wrote the plays "Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector" was..?
1. Gogol
2. Google
3. Googol
4. Googlie

Who was the leader of 617 Squadron, formed during World War II and known as the Dambusters?
1. Keith Park
2. Douglas Bader
3. Guy Gibson
4. Trafford Leigh-Mallory

Matt Groening is the creator of which of these TV series?
1. The Simpsons
2. Beavis and Butthead
3. South Park
4. Family Guy

In May 1909, Oscar Slater was sentenced to death for murder and released in 1928 with £6,000 compensation. People who campaigned for his release included William Roughead (who published his "Trial of Oscar Slater" in 1910), William Park (who published his "The Truth about Oscar Slater" in 1927) and by which other author who published "The Case of Oscar Slater" in 1912?
1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Charles Dickens
3. Mark Twain
4. Jane Austen

Who discovered Uranus in 1781?
1. Charles Darwin
2. Edwin Hubble
3. William Herschel
4. Fred Hoyle

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Famous People Trivia for April 9, 2013

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1200

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Who was the literary character behind the play Man of La Mancha?
1. Escamillo
2. Sancho Panza
3. Don Quixote
4. Don Camillo

Which king formed the first English parliament?
1. George IV
2. Richard I
3. Edward II
4. Henry III

Who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. who has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, and his social and political activism?
1. Kanye West
2. Michael Stipe
3. Justin Timberlake
4. Kid Rock

What were the first names of author D H Lawrence?
1. Darwin Haversham
2. Dennis Harold
3. Darren Hurst
4. David Herbert

In 1936, whose paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" proved that a machine could perform any conceivable mathematical computation if it were able to be represented as an algorithm?
1. Albert Einstein
2. Alan Turing
3. Charles Babbage
4. Ada Lovelace

In the James Bond film "Dr. No" who played Bond girl Honey Rider?
1. Ursula Andress
2. Daniela Bianchi
3. Honor Blackman
4. Claudine Auger

Which of these is the shortest?
1. Stephen Merchant
2. Danny de Vito
3. André the Giant
4. Clint Eastwood

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Famous People Trivia for April 2, 2013

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Which Biblical temptress has inspired plays by Oscar Wilde and Nick Cave, operas by Richard Strauss and Antoine Mariotte, a ballet by Florent Schmitt, films, a sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider and numerous paintings, including those by Sandro Botticelli, Titian, Caravaggio, Caracciolo, Gustave Doré, James Tissot, Aubrey Beardsley and Robert Henri?
1. Mary of Teck
2. Jael
3. Salome
4. Delilah

Clara Petacci was the mistress of whom?
1. Edward VIII
2. Hitler
3. Stalin
4. Mussolini

"Easter Parade" (1948), starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featured songs by whom?
1. Irving Berlin
2. Cole Porter
3. Burt Bacharach & Hal David
4. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice

Who created the character of the detective priest known as Father Brown?
1. Barbara Vine
2. Somerset Maugham
3. Georges Simenon
4. G K Chesterton

A non-SI unit of radioactivity is named after ...?
1. James Watt
2. James Prescott Joule
3. Henri Becquerel
4. Marie and Pierre Curie

Who reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later, the shortest reign in papal history since 1605?
1. John XXIII
2. John Paul II
3. John Paul I
4. Paul VI

Who is thought to have first invented gunpowder?
1. Chinese alchemists
2. Swedish engineers
3. Sri Lankan inventors
4. Saudi Arabian military

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Famous People Trivia for March 26, 2013

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Archimedes is the first person recorded to have designed and built an elevator, in about 236 BC. Who is credited with introducing the safety elevator, which did not fall if the cable broke?
1. Elisha Otis (1811-1861)
2. Alfred Einstein (1879-1955)
3. Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)
4. James Watt (1736-1819)

Whose last words have been reported to be "Kiss Me, Hardy"?
1. Captain James Cook
2. Duke of Wellington
3. Sir Walter Raleigh
4. Lord Nelson

Mike Judge is the creator of which of these TV series?
1. Beavis and Butthead
2. The Simpsons
3. South Park
4. Family Guy

Who wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
1. Arthur C Clarke
2. Terry Pratchett
3. Isaac Asimov
4. Douglas Adams

Who was the first centrefold in "Playboy magazine" in the first issue, in 1951?
1. Mae West
2. Betty Grable
3. Katherine Hepburn
4. Marilyn Munroe

Who played Ava Gardner in "The Aviator"?
1. Keira Knightley SP
2. Kate Winslet
3. Kate Beckinsale
4. Catherine Zeta-Jones

Who was the subject of an unsuccessful kidnapping attempt on Pall Mall, London, on 20 March 1974 by Ian Ball, who shot Inspector James Beaton (a bodyguard), Alex Callender (chauffeur), Brian McConnell (a passerby who intervened) and Police Constable Michael Hills?
1. Sophie, Countess of Wessex
2. Diana, Princess of Wales
3. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother
4. Princess Anne

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Famous People Trivia for March 19, 2013

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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What is the nationality of Mohammed Al Fayed, who sold the department store Harrods Knightsbridge to Qatar Holdings in 2010?
1. Iranian
2. Iraqi
3. Egyptian
4. Syrian

Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York?
1. William McKinley
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. William Henry Harrison
4. John F Kennedy

Who, at 95 years of age, supposedly waved the Union flag out of the window of her house in Frederick, Maryland while Stonewall Jackson's troops were passing, and is the subject of a 1864 poem: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said."?
1. Barbara Stanwyck
2. Betsy Ross
3. Barbara Fritchie
4. Barbara Bush

Who owned the flat at No.12, 9 Curzon Place, Shepherd Market, Mayfair where both Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) died in 1974 and Keith Moon died in 1978?
1. Andy Warhol
2. Mick Jagger
3. Robert Stigwood
4. Harry Nilsson

Which of these people maintained that he, not Alexander Graham Bell, had invented the telephone and that Bell had stolen the invention from him?
1. Orville Wright
2. Thomas Edison
3. Robert Fulton
4. Elisha Gray

In 1938, after receiving the Nobel Prize, which physicist emigrated to the USA, protesting the oppressive regime of his homeland?
1. Albert Einstein
2. Enrico Fermi
3. Robert Oppenheimer
4. Werner von Braun

Who was Shakespeare's wife?
1. Sandra Putaway
2. Mary Runaway
3. Anne Hathaway
4. Sheila Sendaway

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Famous People Trivia for March 12, 2013

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Who became president of the Islamic Repubic of Iran in August 2005?
1. Jalal Talabani
2. Hamid Karzai
3. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
4. Bashar al-Assad

To whom does the nickname "Dubya" refer?
1. William Wordsworth
2. George W. Bush
3. W C Fields
4. Willy Wonka

What is the name of 11 Roman Emperors, the first of which transferred the capital to Byzantium in 330 AD, and the last of which died when it was captured by the Turks in 1453?
1. Romulus
2. Julius
3. Nero
4. Constantine

Who escaped to the Isle of Skye, assisted by Flora MacDonald?
1. Mary, Queen of Scots
2. Rob Roy
3. Robert the Bruce
4. Bonnie Prince Charlie

Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the end of World War I?
1. Stanley Baldwin
2. Andrew Bonar Law
3. David Lloyd George
4. Herbert Asquith

In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus laid the foundations for what system, still in use today?
1. Measurement of earthquakes
2. Quadratic equations
3. Describing and categorising organisms
4. The periodic table of elements

What style of music is synonymous with Perez Prado?
1. Calypso
2. Rhumba
3. Samba
4. Mambo

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Famous People Trivia for March 5, 2013

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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What actor had the title role in the film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"?
1. Ben Stiller
2. Will Ferrell
3. Adam Sandler
4. Steve Carell

Genghis Khan was known by which of these names?
1. Saladin
2. Torquemada
3. Bucephalus
4. Temujin

Who led troops against the Russians at the Battle of Borodino?
1. General Irwin Rommel
2. The Duke of Wellington
3. Napoleon
4. General Galtieri

Alecia Beth Moore is better known by what stage name?
1. Brown Sugar
2. Baby Blue
3. Green Onions
4. Pink

What relation was Mary I of England to Elizabeth I?
1. Niece
2. Stepmother
3. Aunt
4. Half sister

Which of these was famous as a maker of pianos?
1. Henry Steinway
2. Antonio Stradivari
3. Carl Zeiss
4. Humphrey Upright

Which of these was a ruler of the Persian empire?
1. Darius the Great
2. Alexander the Great
3. Attila the Hun
4. Ivan the Terrible

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Famous People Trivia for February 26, 2013

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Which of these scientists has been quoted as saying "God does not play dice"?
1. Einstein
2. Newton
3. Archimedes
4. Galileo

By what name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better known?
1. Che
2. Don Quixote
3. El Cid
4. Gauguin

Who created the character of James Bond?
1. Len Deighton
2. Ian Fleming
3. Germaine Greer
4. Georges Simenon

Which of these people appeared in the film "Gosford Park"?
1. Julia Roberts
2. Vanessa Redgrave
3. Judi Dench
4. Maggie Smith

What is the title of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard's autobiography, published in October 2010?
1. A Galah in Charge of the Menagerie
2. Lazarus Rising
3. Is That It?
4. Too Little, Too Late

At the 2010 Grammy Awards, who set a new record for the most wins by a female artist in one night, winning six?
1. Lady Ga Ga
2. Beyoncé
3. Susan Boyle
4. Gracie Fields

Which is the youngest of these New Zealand actresses ?
1. Keisha Castle-Hughes
2. Melanie Lynskey
3. Anna Paquin
4. Kerry Fox

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Famous People Trivia for February 19, 2013

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Which Canadian won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest representing Switzerland?
1. Leonard Cohen
2. Deanna Durbin
3. Celine Dion
4. Kate McGarrigle

In which century did Henry VIII die?
1. 18th
2. 17th
3. 16th
4. 19th

Which of these is an anthology film released in 1988, a collection of short films about Michael Jackson several of which are long-form music videos from his "Bad" album?
1. Ghosts
2. The Wiz
3. Moonwalker
4. This Is It

Which of these US presidents was the oldest when first elected?
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Ronald Reagan
3. Grover Cleveland
4. Abraham Lincoln

Which bank robber, whose exploits were sensationalized across the USA, was shot dead by police in an ambush outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934?
1. Pretty Boy Floyd
2. John Dillinger
3. Al Capone
4. Clyde Barrow

Which 19th century Austrian composer is famous for his waltzes such as "The Blue Danube" and "Tales of the Vienna Woods", and the operetta "Die Fledermaus"?
1. Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Franz Liszt
3. Carl Orff
4. Johann Strauss

Who identified and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation?
1. Albert Einstein
2. Ernest Rutherford
3. Max Planck
4. Marie Curie

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Famous People Trivia for February 12, 2013

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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In 1657, who turned down the opportunity to become King of England?
1. Oliver Cromwell
2. William (and Mary)
3. Canute
4. Beowulf

Who played Mr Big in the TV series "Sex and the City" which first ran from 1998 to 2004, and the films "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Sex and the City 2" (2010)?
1. Clive Owen
2. Jason Lewis
3. David Eigenberg
4. Chris Noth

Who designed the jet boat?
1. Sir Ernest Rutherford
2. Sir Edmund Hillary
3. Sir Russell Coutts
4. Sir William Hamilton

Who has played, on film, John Dillinger, Sweeney Todd, J M Barrie, Jack Kerouac and Ed Wood?
1. Daniel Day-Lewis
2. George Clooney
3. Johnny Depp
4. Tommy Lee Jones

In the film "Batman Forever", released in 1995, who played the villain called "Two Face"?
1. Jim Carrey
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
3. Danny DeVito
4. Tommy Lee Jones

Who created the fictional detective Inspector Morse?
1. Colin Dexter
2. Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Barbara Cartland
4. Asterix

Who published their autobiography "Life is a Rollercoaster" in 2000?
1. David Bowie
2. Ronan Keating
3. Ricky Martin
4. Elton John

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Famous People Trivia for February 5, 2013

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Guion “Guy” Bluford, Jr. made history as what in 1983?
1. First person to play trumpet underwater
2. First African American in space
3. First legally recognised sex-change in the USA
4. First jazz drummer to have 5 #1 hit records

Who wrote the opera "Pagliacci"?
1. Leoncavallo
2. Rossini
3. Puccini
4. Bizet

Who played the title role in the 1970s TV series "McCloud", about a cowboy policeman working in New York?
1. James Garner
2. Robert Falk
3. Dennis Weaver
4. Clint Eastwood

Who defected from Russia to the West at a Paris airport on 17 June 1961?
1. Mikhail Baryshnikov
2. Rudolph Nureyev
3. Vassily Nijinsky
4. Vera Zvonareva

According to Arthurian legend, who was the father of Galahad?
1. Lancelot
2. Mordred
3. The Green Knight
4. Bors

Who is acknowledged as the founder of Singapore as a trading post and European settlement in 1819?
1. General James Wolfe
2. Edward Gibbon Wakefield
3. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
4. Dr. David Livingstone

Which of these was a 14th century Mongol emperor who chose Samarkand as his capital?
1. Kublai Khan
2. Saladin
3. Che Guevera
4. Tamburlaine

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Famous People Trivia for January 29, 2013

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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In 1635 Robert Hooke developed what?
1. The law of elasticity
2. A method to determine the absolute value of pi
3. A code system that could be used by telegraphy
4. A 15 note musical scale

What 17th century French playwright is still celebrated and popular for his witty satires, among them The School for Wives, The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Invalid?
1. Ibsen
2. Molière
3. Marlowe
4. Mamet

Who married Taylor Hackford (the director of "White Nights", in which she appeared), her partner since 1986, on 31 December 1997?
1. Helen Mirren
2. Judi Dench
3. Maggie Smith
4. Wendy Richards

Which of these people was born Nicholas Coppola?
1. Nicolaus Copernicus
2. Nicholas Cage
3. Frank Capra
4. JJ Cale

In Greek mythology, which horned and hoofed being was the god of shepherds, pastures, and fertility?
1. Poseidon
2. Hermes
3. Pan
4. Erebos

Which American singer, actress, songwriter and author who was born Cherilyn Sarkisian has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards?
1. Sherry Stringfield
2. Koo Stark
3. Cher
4. Cherry Jones

Tamerlane was a 14th-century conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia, founder of which empire?
1. The Byzantine Empire
2. The Mongol Empire
3. The Ottoman Empire
4. The Timurid Empire

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Famous People Trivia for January 22, 2013

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Who wrote the poem called "The New Colossus" that is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty?
1. Emma Lazarus
2. Robert Frost
3. Emily Dickinson
4. Walt Whitman

In 2006, Stephen Harper became the Prime Minister of which country?
1. New Zealand
2. Australia
3. Canada
4. South Africa

Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, made his fortune from what?
1. Furniture making
2. Oil
3. Horse racing
4. Newspapers

What was invented by George de Mestral in 1957?
1. Velcro
2. Post-it notes
3. Gas lighting
4. The telephone

"M", "Luscious Pink" and "Forever" are women's fragrances from Elizabeth Arden, endorsed by whom?
1. Britney Spears
2. Mariah Carey
3. Jay-Z
4. Elton John

Which of these was the leader of The Merry Pranksters, a very "in" group of people who toured the USA in a bus experimenting with LSD in the 1960s.
1. Ken Kesey
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. Papa John Phillips
4. Dennis Hopper

Comedian Ernie Wise was the subject of a publicity campaign launched in the UK on 1 January 1985 as being the first person in the UK to use what?
1. Hovercraft
2. Microwave oven
3. Mobile phone
4. Steam iron

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Famous People Trivia for January 15, 2013

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Between 1783 and 1865, Englishmen William Wilberforce, Sir Cecil Wray and Dr Beilby Porteus, Africans Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho and, in the USA, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston were leading figures in which movement?
1. Removal of the death penalty
2. Abolition of the slave trade
3. Boy Scouts
4. Suffragette (votes for women)

Which of these films was not directed by Terrence Malik?
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Badlands
3. Days of Heaven
4. The New World

Gordon Bennett, a leading figure on the world stage in the 19th century, made his substantial fortune in what field?
1. Banking
2. Engineering
3. Journalism
4. Transport

Newkirk is the surname of which of these entertainers?
1. Anastacia
2. Pink
3. Madonna
4. Shakira

Which British actor made his film debut in Peter Ustinov's film adaptation of "Billy Budd" (1962) and went on to make a number of films, including "The Collector" (1965), "Far From The Madding Crowd" (1967), "Poor Cow" (1967), "Wall Street" (1987), "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994), "Bowfinger" (1999), "My Boss's Daughter" (2003) and "Elektra" (2005)?
1. Albert Finney
2. Alan Bates
3. Peter O'Toole
4. Terence Stamp

Whose alter egos have included Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and "The Thin Whte Duke"?
1. Elton John
2. David Bowie
3. John Lennon
4. Len Elwood

Before she was a Member of Parliament, what was Margaret Thatcher's occupation?
1. Kindergarten teacher
2. Grocer
3. Architect
4. Barrister

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Famous People Trivia for January 8, 2013

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Who sang, backed by U2, as the first song in the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, in 2005?
1. Mick Jagger
2. Elton John
3. David Bowie
4. Paul McCartney

Who opened a clothing shop together at 430 King's Road, Chelsea, London in 1971?
1. Jean & Chrissie Shrimpton
2. John Lennon & Yoko Ono
3. Coco Chanel & Cecil Beaton
4. Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood

By what name is William Thomson better known?
1. Lord Kelvin
2. Lord Faraday
3. Lord Harvey
4. Lord Herschel

Who became the first king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel after the revolt of the ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam, who reigned for twenty-two years in the 900sBC?
1. Melchizedek
2. Methuselah
3. Magnum
4. Jeroboam

Which of these could be described as a potentate?
1. Linda Lovelace
2. Tsar of Russia
3. Viagara
4. Casanova

What was the name of two tyrants who ruled Syracuse in the 2nd century BC?
1. Mars
2. Jupiter
3. Dionysius
4. Quirinus

In 1939, how did German Erich Warsitz make history?
1. Flew a jet plane
2. Assassinated Adolph Hitler
3. Became the first person in space
4. Discovered that truffles were good to eat

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Famous People Trivia for January 1, 2013

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1300

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Which of these was a ruler of the Aztec empire?
1. Alexander the Great
2. Franz Joseph
3. Montezuma II
4. Acapulco

What was the native language of Albert Einstein?
1. Inuit
2. Urdu
3. Latin
4. German

In the film "Batman Forever", released in 1995, who played the villain called "The Riddler"?
1. Jim Carrey
2. Jack Nicholson
3. Tommy Lee Jones
4. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as US president in 1865?
1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Andrew Johnson
3. William Taft
4. Ulysses S. Grant

Graham Chapman had the title role in which of these films?
1. Lady Chatterley's Lover
2. Life of Brian
3. Waiting for Godot
4. Hamlet

Who played the role of Howard Hughes in the 2004 film "The Aviator"?
1. George Hamilton
2. Will Smith
3. Leonardo DiCaprio
4. Clint Eastwood

After her death on 26 July 1952, whose embalmed body was displayed in her office for almost 2 years, buried in a crypt in Milan, Italy, under the name "María Maggi", exhumed In 1971 and flown to Spain (where her widower kept it in his home), and buried in the family tomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1974?
1. Eva Perón
2. Maria Callas
3. Pearl Bailey
4. Mae West

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Famous People Trivia for December 25, 2012

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1300

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During World War I, US president Woodrow Wilson raised an army through conscription and gave total command to whom?
1. General John J. Pershing
2. General Douglas MacArthur
3. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. General George S. Patton

Who did "True Blood" star Anna Paquin marry on 21 August 2010?
1. John Mayer
2. Stephen Moyer
3. Matthew Fox
4. Jon Hamm

What was the first name of Madame Tussaud, who founded a wax museum in London?
1. Marie
2. Fantine
3. Yvette
4. Brigitte

Father Christmas is commonly identified with which saint?
1. George
2. Christopher
3. Joan
4. Nicholas

Who was in charge of the ransacking of much of northern Italy in 452 AD?
1. Kublai Khan
2. Attila the Hun
3. Genghis Khan
4. Hannibal

What are Jimmy Reed, Skip James, Elmore James & Big Bill Broonzy best known as?
1. US Senators
2. Professional wrestlers
3. NASCAR drivers
4. Blues musicians

Where was Christopher Columbus born?
1. Madrid
2. Genoa
3. Istanbul
4. Marseilles

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Famous People Trivia for December 18, 2012

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1300

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Who of these was a US senator for the state of New York from 2000 to 2008?
1. Dan Moynihan
2. Hilary Clinton
3. Rudy Giuliani
4. John McCain

Robert Ludlam created which of these characters?
1. Luke Skywalker
2. Harry Palmer
3. Indiana Jones
4. Jason Bourne

Which of these was a star of the 1998 to 2006 TV series "Will and Grace"?
1. Jane Leeves
2. Calista Flockhart
3. Debra Messing
4. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lenny Bruce was in what field of entertainment in the 1960s?
1. Musicals
2. Standup comedy
3. Folk music
4. Film direction

Who is the engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR and a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex?
1. Ray Dolby
2. Les Paul
3. Colin Echo
4. Rudolph Hiss

R J Mitchell designed which World War II aircraft?
1. Lancaster
2. Hurricane
3. Mosquito
4. Spitfire

Which of king of England was overthrown in the "Glorious Revolution" that occurred in Britain in 1688?
1. John I
2. Henry VIII
3. James II
4. Richard II

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Famous People Trivia for December 11, 2012

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1300

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Who, in 2009, had the most UK #1 singles by a female co-writer (third after Lennon and McCartney), and was the only female to reach the UK #1 as part of a quintet, quartet, duo and as a solo artist?
1. Victoria Beckham / Victoria Adams
2. Geri Halliwell
3. Emma Bunton
4. Melanie Chisholm (Mel C)

Which of these is a film musical in which Mary Tyler Moore and Julie Andrews starred together?
1. Steel Magnolias
2. 9 to 5
3. Thoroughly Modern Millie
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Which of these couples are said to be buried at Glastonbury in Somerset, England?
1. Arthur and Guinevere
2. Robin and Marion
3. Victoria and Albert
4. Darby and Joan

Who released an album in 2005 called "Confessions on a Dance Floor"?
1. Tori Amos
2. Katie Perry
3. Madonna
4. Pink

Who portrays the fictional character Captain Jack Sparrow on film?
1. Brad Pitt
2. Johnny Depp
3. Orlando Bloom
4. Viggo Mortensen

Which famous English model of the 1960s was once romantically linked to '60s photographer David Bailey and actor Terence Stamp, but married photographer Michael Cox, with whom she runs a small hotel in Penzance, Cornwall?
1. Jean Shrimpton
2. Twiggy
3. Sandie Shaw
4. Dusty Springfield

Which of the few of the original Star Wars trilogy cast believed that the film would be a box office hit and did a deal for two percent of the gross, but later proposed to George Lucas that his character be killed off because he "just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines"?
1. Yoda
2. Alec Guiness
3. Luke Skywalker
4. Carrie Fisher

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Famous People Trivia for December 4, 2012

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1300

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Who was sent by the African Association in 1795 to find the source of the River Niger?
1. James Cook
2. David Livingstone
3. Mungo Park
4. Francis Drake

Francis Drake captained the ship "Revenge" during naval engagements concerning what?
1. Trafalgar
2. The Spanish Armada
3. The Nile
4. The Coral Sea

The last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesized, was discovered In 1939. What was it?
1. Caesium
2. Francium
3. Rutherfordium
4. Actinides

What was the stage name of Brenda Mae Tarpley, an American singer of rockabilly, pop and country music who had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s (a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis) and was best known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry"?
1. Brenda Lee
2. Mae West
3. Bonny Tyler
4. Loretta Lynn

Which playwright wrote the plays that won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 & 2002 and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, 1975 & 1994, and gained nominations for Tony Award for Best Play in 1964, 1965, 1967 & 1975, Tony Award for Best Author of a Play in 1965, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001 & 2003 and a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005?
1. Alan Bennett
2. Michael Frayn
3. Doug Wright
4. Edward Albee

Where did Stradivari, the famous violin maker, live and work?
1. Italy
2. Poland
3. England
4. France

Who is the author of the 2009 political memoir "Going Rogue"?
1. Sarah Jessica Parker
2. Sarah Vaughan
3. Sarah Brightman
4. Sarah Palin

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Famous People Trivia for November 27, 2012

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +1300

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Who was known in the 1991 Gulf War as "Stormin' Norman"?
1. General Schwarzkopf
2. George H W Bush
3. Colin Powell
4. Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

Who played the title role in the 1975 film "The Man Who Fell to Earth"?
1. Mick Jagger
2. David Bowie
3. Roger Daltrey
4. Ringo Starr

Which of these was an American author, known for the extravagant lifestyle that he lived in the 1920s with his wife Zelda?
1. F Scott Fitzgerald
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. John Steinbeck
4. Tom Wolfe

Which member of the trio ZZ Top does not have a chest-length beard, only a trimmed mustache?
1. They all have chest-length beards
2. Billy Gibbons (vocals and guitar)
3. Joseph Dusty Hill (vocals, bass, and keyboards)
4. Frank Beard (drums and percussion)

Who wrote the music for the ballet "Swan Lake"?
1. Rimsky-Korsakov
2. Tchaikovsky
3. Prokofiev
4. Stravinsky

Christiaan Huygens has been credited with inventing what in the 1650s?
1. Bicycle
2. Pendulum clock
3. Marine compass
4. Automated weaving loom

Who is associated with the phrase "history is bunk"?
1. Henry Ford
2. Queen Victoria
3. Mao Zedong
4. Greta Garbo

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