Weekly People Quiz

Famous People Trivia for April 7, 2026

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +1200

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What profession were Guillaume Tirel, or Taillevent, (ca. 1310 - 1395), Guillaume Fouquet (1560-1616), Nicolas Appert (1749-1841), James Hemings (ca. 1765-1801), and Marthe Distel (1871-1934)?
1. Chef
2. Horse trainer
3. Poet
4. Architect

In the myths and legends of which country does Queen Maeve, or Medb, figure?
1. Cornwall
2. Ireland
3. Scotland
4. England

Scottish engineer Henry Bell (1767-1830) became widely known for what?
1. Building the Red Forth Bridge
2. Establishing commercial telephone service in Scotland
3. Introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe
4. Designing the Eiffel Tower

Danish cartographer and explorer Vitus Bering (1681-1741) died during his return from exploring what?
1. Greenland
2. The coastal areas of western North America
3. The north coast of Siberia
4. Iceland

Which of these is Judy Garland's daughter?
1. Bette Midler
2. Barbra Streisand
3. Liza Minnelli
4. Debbie Reynolds

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

Three generations named William Fife, or Fyfe, and particularly William Fife III were celebrated for the design and build of what?
1. Sailing boats
2. Steam locomotives
3. Scientific laboratory equipment
4. Pleasure gardens

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Famous People Trivia for March 31, 2026

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Cleopatra is reputed to have killed herself because of the death of whom?
1. Octavian
2. Julius Caesar
3. Mark Antony
4. Augustus

Who was the leader of the band playing at the Palomar Ballroom, Los Angeles, in August 1935, when the "Jitterbug" became a new dance craze?
1. Louis Armstrong
2. Joe Venuti
3. Benny Goodman
4. Stéphane Grappelli

Where did Horatio Nelson lose his right arm?
1. Copenhagen
2. Trafalgar
3. Calvi, Corsica
4. Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Who made the longest Oscar acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds, when collecting her Oscar for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as Mrs. Miniver?
1. Greer Garson
2. Jessica Tandy
3. Vivien Leigh
4. Elizabeth Taylor

Which singer-songwriter produced the album "Graceland"?
1. Michael Jackson
2. Heidi Berg
3. Elvis Presley
4. Paul Simon

On 10 May 1810 in Ruthwell, near Dumfries, Scotland, the Rev Henry Duncan launched the world's first locally-based what?
1. Savings bank
2. Pleasure park
3. Lottery
4. Mobile pie cart

What was the middle name of Noël Coward?
1. Churchill
2. Wodehouse
3. Peirce
4. Dastardly

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Famous People Trivia for March 24, 2026

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Tickle, Greedy, Happy, Nosey, Sneeze, Bump and Snow are the first of the characters created for what series of books?
1. Mr. Men
2. Snow White's World
3. Harry Potter
4. Peppa the Pig

Who wrote the book "The Sheep Pig", on which the 1995 film "Babe" was based?
1. Sarah Ferguson
2. Roald Dahl
3. Madonna
4. Dick King-Smith

Which US president was re-elected with the slogan "Don't change horses in mid-stream"?
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Herbert Hoover
3. Richard Nixon
4. Lyndon Johnson

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

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

Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) is most widely known for his what?
1. Device to detect ionizing radiation, the Cloud Chamber
2. Laws of Thermodynamics and Absolute Temperature
3. Formulation of electromagnetic theory
4. Discovery of electro-optics

Who wrote the series of books about "Budgie The Helicopter"?
1. J K Rowling
2. Enid Blyton
3. Sarah Ferguson
4. Sue Townsend

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Famous People Trivia for March 17, 2026

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Who created the character of Horatio Hornblower?
1. H Ryder Haggard
2. C S Forester
3. Edgar Rice Burroughs
4. Robert Louis Stevenson

Who was separated from her husband in June 2009 to film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" in Australia?
1. Beyonce
2. Jennifer Aniston
3. Courteney Cox-Arquette
4. Katie Holmes

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

Which of these was a French composer, known for his "Ave Maria" and his operas "Faust" and "Roméo et Juliette"?
1. Charles-François Gounod
2. Georges Bizet
3. Françoise Hardy
4. Jean-Baptiste Lully

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

Who had hit records with "Eh Eh", "Let's Dance" and "Poker Face"?
1. Julie Andrews
2. David Bowie
3. Lady Gaga
4. Gracie Fields

Who carried out his early experiments at Villa Grifone, Bologna, Italy, with his brother Alfonso?
1. Guglielmo Marconi
2. Thomas Edison
3. Alexander Graham Bell
4. John Logie Baird

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Famous People Trivia for March 10, 2026

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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"Der Gruftwächter" ("The Warden of the Tomb", written 1916-17) is the only play by which celebrated writer?
1. Günter Grass
2. Thomas Mann
3. Franz Kafka
4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What did Ermal Fraze invent in 1959 (and patent in 1963)?
1. The jolly jumper for babies
2. The solar battery
3. Intermodal containers
4. The ring pull-tab on drink cans

Who wrote "Devil May Care", a James Bond novel, at the request of the trustees of the estate of original 007 author Ian Fleming?
1. Sebastian Faulks
2. Dan Brown
3. John le Carré
4. Len Deighton

Damon Runyon's two stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure" were the basis for which musical?
1. Annie Get Your Gun
2. The King and I
3. My Fair Lady
4. Guys and Dolls

What is the name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888?
1. Dick Turpin
2. Machine Gun Kelly
3. Billy The Kid
4. Jack the Ripper

Which of these is a British geologist who greatly influenced the modern study of geology with his book "The Principles Of Geology"?
1. Sir Charles Lyell
2. John Lyly
3. Robert Lynd
4. Lord John Lyndhurst

The name of which person born in Dublin is connected in English history with the locations of Vimiero, Talavera, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes and Waterloo?
1. Duke of Edinburgh
2. Duke of Marlborough
3. Duke of Wellington
4. Duke of York

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Famous People Trivia for March 3, 2026

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Who published almost 100 books on many subjects, including the autobiography "My Life and Times" (10 vols, 1963-1971), "The Four Winds Of Love" (6 vols, 1937-45), "Whisky Galore" (1947) and "Monarch of the Glen" (1941)?
1. Susan Boyle
2. Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Compton MacKenzie
4. Flora MacDonald

He was a composer whose music lay behind the poignant appeal of many films, notably Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, Field of Dreams, Apollo 13, Braveheart, and Avatar; when he died in 2015 what was the cause?
1. He was caught in the crossfire of a police shootout
2. Lung cancer
3. A motorbike accident
4. The plane he was piloting crashed

Which bandleader was at the top of the Billboard "Best Sellers in Stores" chart from 29 November 1941 to 2 May 1942 (except for one week) with four different tunes?
1. Harry James
2. Jimmy Dorsey
3. Woody Herman
4. Glenn Miller

The book (and later a 1981 film) called "Mommie Dearest" published in 1978 was about which actress who appeared in films and on television from 1925 to 1975?
1. Bette Davis
2. Joan Crawford
3. Jean Harlow
4. Olivia de Havilland

What is Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin best known for?
1. Inventing the guillotine
2. Proposing beheading as the humane death penalty in the French Revolution
3. Fine tuning the angled blade in the guillotine
4. Disposing of the corpses of those guillotined

Which character in the ballet "Swan Lake" is typically danced as a black swan?
1. The Queen
2. Odette
3. Von Rothbart
4. Odile

What reasons did Arden Cho, one of the stars of the film "KPop Demon Hunters" (2025), have for opting not to star in a television show?
1. Clash of dates
2. Show requirements for weight loss and plastic surgery
3. Family commitments in the USA
4. The show involved cruelty to animals

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Famous People Trivia for February 24, 2026

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Prior to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran was ruled by whom?
1. King Salman
2. Saddam Hussein
3. Muammar al-Gaddafi
4. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Whom did the 19th century grave robbers and murderers Burke and Hare supply the bodies to?
1. Scottish comparative anatomist and extramural teacher in anatomy John Barclay
2. Scottish anatomist, surgeon and lecturer Robert Knox
3. British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and antiseptics pioneer Joseph Lister
4. Scottish obstetrician Sir James Young Simpson

What politician or world leader is co-author of the book ‘Judo: History, Theory, Practice' (2004)?
1. Golda Meir
2. David Cameron
3. Ban Ki-Moon
4. Vladimir Putin

What English folk singer, songwriter, and musician whose primary musical instruments are the violin, the tenor guitar, the banjo and the viola, was brought up in the village of Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, produced 4 solo studio albums ("The Punch Bowl", "Kitty Jay", "Freedom Fields" & "Poor Man's Heaven") between 2002 and 2008, and in February 2007 won Singer of the Year and Best Album awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards?
1. Seth Lakeman
2. Ozzy Osbourne
3. Billy Bragg
4. Robert Plant

Which Welsh poet (e.g. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog") wrote a play "Under Milk Wood" that was published posthumously in 1954?
1. Dylan Thomas
2. Richard Burton
3. Tom Jones
4. Dai Morgan

Which German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draughtsman and caricaturist became famous for his fairy stories and romantic novels, and for composing the opera "Undine"?
1. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
2. Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4. Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

Larry Page and Sergey Brin started what computer application?
1. Twitter
2. Facebook
3. Google
4. Yahoo!

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Famous People Trivia for February 17, 2026

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer invented the notation which uses superscripts to show powers or exponents (e.g. the 2 used in x² to indicate squaring)?
1. René Descartes
2. Isaac Newton
3. Johannes Kepler
4. Nicholas Mercator

Who was the first President of what later became the United States of America?
1. John Hancock
2. George Washington
3. Peyton Randolph
4. Benjamin Franklin

Which of these came to the English throne as a result of The "Glorious Revolution" that occurred in Britain in 1688?
1. James II
2. Mary I and Philip
3. William III and Mary II
4. Anne

What disease caused US president Franklin D Roosevelt to use a wheelchair?
1. Typhoid
2. Multiple sclerosis
3. Polio
4. Tuberculosis

Who created the Book of Kells?
1. The ghostwriter for the Kardashians
2. Monks from the Scottish island of Iona
3. The writers of the management manual for the food manufacturer Kellogg's
4. Stephenie Meyer, writer of the Twilight series

In 1987, competing in "Star Search", a US talent competition on which she used the name Alanis Nadine, she lost after one round. She is now better known as Alanis who?
1. Morissette
2. Amos
3. Dion
4. Crowe

Who composed the music for the 1979 musical "Sweeney Todd"?
1. Leonard Bernstein
2. Stephen Sondheim
3. George Gershwin
4. Philip Glass

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Famous People Trivia for February 10, 2026

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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For what discovery did Sir Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley receive the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
1. Conductive polymers
2. An ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase
3. The catalytic properties of RNA
4. Fullerenes

The narrator of which book begins with the phrase "Call me Ishmael"?
1. Moby Dick
2. Don Quixote
3. The Call of the Wild
4. Huckleberry Finn

"The Little Sparrow" was the nickname for which singer?
1. Marlene Dietrich
2. Billie Holiday
3. Edith Piaf
4. Mahalia Jackson

Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won which major prize in 2010?
1. Nobel Prize for Literature
2. Oscar as director of Best Foreign Language Film
3. Tony award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
4. Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Who was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952?
1. Albert Schweitzer
2. Albert Einstein
3. J Robert Oppenheimer
4. Woody Allen

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

Demi Moore shaved her head for the title role in which 1997 film?
1. G.I. Jane
2. Barbarella
3. Planet of the Apes
4. THX 1138

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Famous People Trivia for February 3, 2026

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes is credited with developing what?
1. The Voree Record
2. The QWERTY sequence for typing
3. Headphone jacks
4. The steam drill

Whose autobiography was entitled "Step Inside Love"?
1. Cilla Black
2. Lulu
3. Dusty Springfield
4. Xaveria Hollander

Which former General and President of South Vietnam resigned and left for Taiwan 9 days before South Vietnam unconditionally surrendered on 30 April, 1975, handing power to his Vice President?
1. Ho Chi Minh
2. Trần Văn Hương
3. Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
4. Nguyễn Dinh Thuan

Who wrote the music for the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrushka", and "The Rite of Spring"?
1. Rimsky-Korsakov
2. Prokofiev
3. Stravinsky
4. Tchaikovsky

A spinoff from the BBC TV series "The Thick of It" was which 2009 film, also starring Peter Capaldi?
1. In the Loop
2. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
3. Up in the Air
4. Lovely Bones

Which of these was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb?
1. Thomas Edison
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Thomas da Tankengine
4. Thomas More

Who directed Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling in the 1990 comedy horror "The Witches"?
1. Nicolas Roeg
2. Peter Weir
3. Jonathan Glazer
4. Henry Selick

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Famous People Trivia for January 27, 2026

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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John de Mol Jr. created the Dutch media companies Endemol and which other?
1. RTL-Véronique
2. Talpa
3. Mediahuis
4. NOS

In 1799, who noted that nitrous oxide might make patients insensible to pain, the first true anaesthetic?
1. Sir Humphry Davy
2. Alexander Fleming
3. William Harvey
4. Henry Gray

What or who is Vegas Vic?
1. A 40-ft (12 m) high neon advertisement
2. The highest-winning gambler in Las Vegas during 1947
3. A permanent chess-playing fixture in Las Vegas cafes in the 1950s
4. A rodeo rider

Edward I of England defeated whose forces at Falkirk on 22 July 1298?
1. Robert Bruce
2. William Wallace
3. Robert Burns
4. Bonny Prince Charlie

Who was the Venetian who made a number of journeys to China and India in the 13th century and was later taken prisoner by the Genoese?
1. Christopher Columbus
2. Marco Polo
3. Amerigo Vespucci
4. Alessandra Medici

Which all-girl group had hits with "Whole Again", "Eternal Flame", "It's OK!" and "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)"?
1. Molecular Chicky
2. Megaton Puppy
3. Atomic Kitten
4. Holocaust Pussy

Which Russian composer wrote the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrouchka" and "The Rite of Spring"?
1. Igor Stravinsky
2. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
3. Modest Mussorgsky
4. Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Famous People Trivia for January 20, 2026

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which of these was a 1958 Nobel Prize laureate, a Russian poet, novelist and translator of Goethe and Shakespeare, most celebrated in Russia as a poet?
1. Boris Pasternak
2. Nikolai Gogol
3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4. Franz Kafka

Which of these was engaged in the ground-breaking study and understanding of genetics?
1. Dmitri Mendeleev
2. Gregor Johann Mendel
3. Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy
4. Mendele Mocher Sforim

Which of these is a non-binary dancer and choreographer, an Afro-Latine polyglottal artist and performer, classically trained, and dancing with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, nce Heginbotham, Ballet 22 and Ballez?
1. Lindy Hop
2. Aeon Andreas
3. Holly Sass
4. Maxfield Haynes

For what did Thomas Crapper (1836-1910) become well-known?
1. Establishing the title "sanitation engineer"
2. Inventing the design of flushing system for a flush toilet
3. Plumbing the White House in the US
4. Popularising the public advertising of toilets

In 2011, Eric Yuan founded a company primarily known for what, the software for which was launched in 2013?
1. OneDrive
2. Teams
3. Zoom
4. Cisco Webex

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

What or who is the centre of the Thomas Mann 1951 "The Holy Sinner"?
1. Pope Gregory
2. Leonard Bernstein
3. Emperor Hirohito
4. Archbishop Justin Welby

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Famous People Trivia for January 13, 2026

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Who was the first Pope to be elected to office in the 21st century?
1. John Paul II
2. Benedict XVI
3. George Ringo II
4. John XXIII

Who starred in "Beaches", "Down and Out in Beverly Hills", "Outrageous Fortune" and "The First Wives Club"?
1. Diane Keaton
2. Bette Midler
3. Goldie Hawn
4. Julia Roberts

American Michael Flatley became internationally known in the 1990s in what field?
1. Irish dancing
2. Classical ballet
3. Choreography for hip hop
4. Burlesque

Who wrote under the pseudonym of "Elia" and, with his sister Mary, wrote "Tales From Shakespeare"?
1. Christopher Marlowe
2. Ben Jonson
3. Charles Lamb
4. James Boswell

Actions by Michael Ryan and Thomas Hamilton in the UK in the late 20th century helped bring about what?
1. Public attention to water pollution in lakes and rivers
2. Legislation severely tightening firearm controls
3. Installation of a railway connection to Thurso in Scotland
4. Building the Shard

Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, geographer, diplomat, soldier and general modern Renaissance man, was the first European to reach Lake Tanganyika but was also known for his enduring translation of what?
1. Homer's Iliad
2. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
3. The Thousand Nights and One Night
4. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi

Hippocrates who lived in the 5th century BCE is remembered for his work and knowledge in what area?
1. Gladiatorial combat
2. Horse training
3. Politics
4. Medicine

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Famous People Trivia for January 6, 2026

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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John Skelton (c. 1463 - 1529) was one of the most important what of the early Tudor period?
1. Diplomats
2. Poets
3. Spymasters
4. Organisers of tournaments

Who was the youngest person to become president of the USA?
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. John Kennedy
3. Barack Obama
4. Teddy Roosevelt

Wendy Beckett (1930 - 2018), under the name Sister Wendy, became known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of television documentaries on which subject?
1. Lives of the saints
2. Mediaeval Latin
3. Art history
4. Daily life in a convent

English inventor Sarah Guppy became, in 1811, the first woman to patent what?
1. A postage stamp
2. Design of an electrified automatic dishwasher
3. A method for constructing a non-arch bridge
4. Coin-operated public toilet

In which decade was George Washington born?
1. 1650s
2. 1670s
3. 1750s
4. 1730s

Ambroise Paré (c. 1510 - 1590) and Paracelsus (c. 1493 - 1541) were prominent and profoundly influential philosophers, or scientists, in what field?
1. Astronomy
2. Engineering
3. Chemistry
4. Medicine

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

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Famous People Trivia for December 30, 2025

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Which of these is a famous cellist?
1. Duke Ellington
2. Nigel Kennedy
3. Pablo Casals
4. Kenny Gee

What is the name of the magical snowman Princess Elsa and Princess Anna make at the beginning of the musical "Frozen"?
1. Oaken
2. Hans
3. Olaf
4. Pabbie

What is George W Bush's middle name?
1. Wallis
2. William
3. Walker
4. Wilberforce

Who wrote "The Naked Ape" and "The Human Zoo"?
1. Stephen Hawking
2. Desmond Morris
3. David Attenborough
4. P J O'Rourke

When Gerald Ford was president of the USA, who was his vice president?
1. Richard Nixon
2. Nelson A Rockefeller
3. Al Gore
4. Lyndon B Johnson

In 2020, the UK's Prince William founded which award for global climate leadership and problem-solving?
1. The Volvo Environment Prize
2. Tyler Prize
3. The Eminent Ecologist Award
4. The Earthshot Prize

Lil Zoo, RayGun and Menno van Gorp are all internationally acclaimed what?
1. High wire artists
2. Hip hop dancers
3. Breakdancers
4. Irish Dancing Champions

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Famous People Trivia for December 23, 2025

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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"Why don't you come up sometime and see me" was a famous line by Mae West in the 1933 film "She Done Him Wrong". Which actor did she say it to?
1. Henry Fonda
2. John Wayne
3. Gary Cooper
4. Cary Grant

Who was the first man sent into space, in 1961?
1. Yura Silliman
2. Yuri Gagarin
3. Gentleman Gaga
4. Dadoo Runrin

In England, the "dissolution of the monasteries" occurred under the reign of which king?
1. Henry VIII
2. George IV
3. William I
4. Richard III

He is a playwright, screenwriter, film director and essayist with a Pulitzer Prize (1984) and Tony and Oscar award nominations; he is married to singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon; what is his name?
1. Arthur Miller
2. David Mamet
3. Alan Ayckbourn
4. Alan Bennett

Talk-show host Jack Paar once welcomed which actress to The Tonight Show by saying, "Here they are, ... ", that became the title of her biography by Raymond Strait?
1. Jayne Mansfield
2. Marilyn Monroe
3. Gina Lollobrigida
4. Jacqueline Onassis

What is the off-stage name of the artist known as Fatboy Slim?
1. Gordon Jackson
2. Roger Waters
3. Norman Cook
4. Mike McGear

As a child, Serbian-American inventor, engineer and scientist Nikola Tesla had a beloved pet called Macak, which was what?
1. A tortoise
2. A cockatoo
3. A cat
4. A pigeon

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Famous People Trivia for December 16, 2025

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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The major literary prize Prix Goncourt was established with a bequest by author, critic and publisher Edmond de Goncourt at the beginning of the 20th century, to honour his brother who was what?
1. An engineer
2. A garden designer
3. A writer
4. A painter

In the famously unfinished poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who decreed a stately pleasure-dome in Xanadu?
1. Solomon
2. Genghis Khan
3. Kubla Khan
4. Montezuma

Ashton Carter, appointed USA Secretary of Defense in 2015, succeeded whom?
1. Chuck Hagel
2. Condoleezza Rice
3. Donald Rumsfeld
4. Monica Lewinsky

Jane and Michael were the two children who featured in which of these?
1. Peter Pan
2. The Railway Children
3. Mary Poppins
4. The Sound of Music

Who, after marrying in 1791 in Naples, became the mistress of Lord Nelson, having his child, Horatia, in 1801?
1. Sophia Baddeley
2. Alice Keppel
3. Emma, Lady Hamilton
4. Harriette Wilson

Grace Kelly appeared in which of these classic films?
1. High Noon
2. Casablanca
3. Citizen Kane
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's

American suffragist and philanthropist, Katharine McCormick (1875 - 1967), funded much of the research to develop what?
1. Health care for the homeless
2. Legal defences for suffragists (suffragettes) in court
3. Schools for American-Indian children
4. The first birth control pill

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Famous People Trivia for December 9, 2025

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Sergei Lavrov has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2004 for which country?
1. Kazakhstan
2. Belarus
3. Ukraine
4. Russia

What are Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey most well-known for?
1. Civil rights protest
2. Ethnic cuisine
3. Blues singing
4. Domestic issues

Who rose from Prime Minister (1922-1924) to President (1925-1928), and on 1 September 1928 was crowned King and declared Field Marshal of the Royal Army, proclaiming a constitutional monarchy?
1. King Zag of Palestine
2. King Kong of New Amsterdam
3. King Zig of Turkey
4. King Zog of Albania

Who is the latest actor to portray Alan Turing's fiancée, Joan Clarke, in mainstream film?
1. Keira Knightley
2. Keeley Hawes
3. Rachel Weisz
4. Anna Paquin

Who created the English schoolboy hero "Jennings"?
1. Anthony Buckeridge
2. Captain W. E. Johns
3. Richmal Crompton
4. Enid Blyton

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

16th century Danish astronomer, astrologer and alchemist Tycho Brahe had a tame what?
1. Beaver
2. Snow leopard
3. Eagle
4. Elk

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Famous People Trivia for December 2, 2025

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Who was the head of Nazi propaganda during World War II who committed suicide with his family in 1945?
1. Walter Richard Rudolf Hess
2. Hermann Wilhelm Goering
3. Heinrich Himmler
4. Paul Joseph Goebbels

The actor John Wayne was known by what nickname?
1. The Peer
2. The Earl
3. The Duke
4. The Count

Who ran for the Democratic nomination in the 1980 presidential election by launching a campaign against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, a member of his own party?
1. Richard Nixon
2. Edward Kennedy
3. Gerald Ford
4. George H W Bush

Who was King in England when Daniel Defoe published "Robinson Crusoe" and Jonathan Swift published "Gulliver's Travels"?
1. George III
2. George II
3. George I
4. George IV

Who spearheaded the design and development for sending the first satellite into orbit?
1. Sergei Lavrov
2. Sergei Korolev
3. Dr. William Hayward Pickering
4. Pierre Auger

In May 1909, Oscar Slater was sentenced to death for murder and released in November 1927 with, in 1928, £6,000 compensation. People who campaigned for his release included William Roughead (who published "Trial of Oscar Slater" in 1910), William Park (who published "The Truth about Oscar Slater" in 1927) and 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

What play does the character Blanche DuBois appear in?
1. School for Women
2. Death of a Salesman
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Noises Off

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Famous People Trivia for November 25, 2025

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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What was the middle name of Franklin D Roosevelt?
1. Delano
2. David
3. Dennis
4. Denton

Which author created the character of C. Auguste Dupin, one of the first literary sleuths?
1. Victor Hugo
2. Mark Twain
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Georges Simenon

What British royal couple separated in 1989 after 16 years of marriage?
1. Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones
2. Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales
3. Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
4. Princess Anne and Mark Phillips

Who introduced the character of Sherlock Holmes to literature?
1. P.D. James
2. Agatha Christie
3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Wilkie Collins

Which group from New York City released an eponymous album in 1973 with the personnel of David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur "Killer" Kane, Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders?
1. Talking Heads
2. The Ramones
3. Simple Minds
4. The New York Dolls

What do the names Charles, Orville, Jean, Wilbur and Laika suggest?
1. Powered flight
2. The Famous Five
3. 1960's most popular names for children
4. The first winners of an Oscar for Best Actor or Actress

Who created the characters of Willy Loman, Joe Keller and Eddie Carbone?
1. Edward Albee
2. Tennessee Williams
3. Arthur Miller
4. Sam Shepard

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Famous People Trivia for November 18, 2025

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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In the mid 1980s Willie Nelson cut off his signature long braids and gave them to which fellow musician?
1. Waylon Jennings
2. Kris Kristofferson
3. Johnny Cash
4. Buddy Holly

Which of these people was involved in Britain's film industry?
1. Cecil B de Mille
2. J Arthur Rank
3. Louis B Mayer
4. Lyndon B Johnson

Who was a member of the hip-hop groups New Jacks, Soul Intent, and D12, as well as being an influential rapper and songwriter?
1. Marie Poppins
2. Luam Keflezgy
3. Niels Robitzky
4. Marshall Bruce Mathers III

Which of these was a ruler of the varied steppe warriors known as the Huns, and leader of an empire in Central and Eastern Europe including the Ostrogoths, Alans and Gepids?
1. Attila
2. Ardaric
3. Astérix
4. Alexander

Who wrote "Banished Misfortune", "Fighting with Shadows" and "A Goat's Song"?
1. Maeve Binchy
2. John Barth
3. Seamus Heaney
4. Dermot Healy

Which of these starred in the 2005 film "The Island"?
1. Clive Owen
2. Ewan McGregor
3. John Hurt
4. John Cleese

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 the 1863 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

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Famous People Trivia for November 11, 2025

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Which American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and activist, known for much of his long much-awarded career for long (originally) red hair, started as one of the main figures of outlaw country music?
1. Johnny Cash
2. Waylon Jennings
3. Kris Kristofferson
4. Willie Nelson

A series of books by which author was the base for the Canadian/UK co-produced television series "Malory Towers"?
1. Edith Nesbit
2. Margaret Atwell
3. Hilary Mantel
4. Enid Blyton

Spiro Agnew was the Vice President to which president of the USA?
1. Bill Clinton
2. George W. Bush
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. Richard Nixon

What trade did Super Mario follow when he first appeared in 1981 in "Donkey Kong"?
1. Carpenter
2. Plumber
3. Builder
4. Pogo stick maker

Which German is responsible for driving the Russians out of Germany at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, became head of all German armies in 1916, and was elected President of the Republic in 1925?
1. Romanoff
2. Ludendorff
3. von Hindenburg
4. van Cliburn

Which British composer wrote "The Dam Busters March"?
1. Edward Elgar
2. Benjamin Britten
3. Eric Coates
4. Elton John

Which scientist became known for, among other things, imprinting greylag geese?
1. Nikolaas Tinbergen
2. Jane Goodall
3. Konrad Lorenz
4. Marian Dawkins

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Famous People Trivia for November 4, 2025

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Professor Brian Cox has become widely known for popular and prolific TV and radio work and presence, and books, in what fields?
1. Physics and astronomy
2. Botany
3. Zoology
4. Engineering

William Caxton, Jean Grolier, and Samuel Mearne have been celebrated names in what craft?
1. Tulip breeding
2. Design of angling equipment
3. Bookbinding
4. Carpentry

Who became widely known for a dance sequence in the 1983 film "Flashdance"?
1. Catherine Zeta-Jones
2. Jennifer Grey
3. Fayard and Harold Nicholas
4. Jennifer Beals

The composer Frédéric Chopin had a decade-long affair with which French author?
1. Georges Simenon
2. George Sand
3. Georges Moineaux
4. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

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

Where was film actor James Mason born?
1. USA
2. Canada
3. England
4. Australia

Which Beatle invested heavily in Handmade Films, the production company that made "Monty Python's Life of Brian", "Withnail and I" and "Time Bandits"?
1. John Lennon
2. George Harrison
3. Ringo Starr
4. Paul McCartney

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Famous People Trivia for October 28, 2025

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Geometer Anthemius of Tralles together with mathematician and physicist Isidorus of Miletus were the two architects commissioned to design and build what?
1. Hagia Sophia
2. The Bridge of Sighs
3. The Colossus of Rhodes
4. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Who collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber to create the musical "The Beautiful Game"?
1. Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson
2. Tim Rice
3. Paul McCartney
4. Ben Elton

Whose three works, accounts of the lives of Alexander the Great, Pyrrhus and Julius Caesar, are a source of much of the existing historical information about those subjects?
1. Plutarch
2. Sima Qian
3. Tacitus
4. Macaulay

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 stage name of Alecia Beth Moore, whose hits include "There You Go", "Stupid Girls", "Who Knew", "Funhouse" and "So What"?
1. Pink
2. Red
3. Scarlet
4. Cardinal

In early 2013 French actor Gérard Depardieu took on Russian citizenship and was registered as permanent resident of...?
1. Saransk, Russia
2. Néchin, Belgium
3. Tokyo, Japan
4. Stockholm, Sweden

Who was the last English monarch of the Tudor dynasty?
1. Edward VII
2. Henry VIII
3. James I
4. Elizabeth I

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Famous People Trivia for October 21, 2025

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Who hosted the travel programmes "Around the World in 80 Days" (1989), "Pole to Pole" (1992), "Full Circle" (1997), and "Hemingway Adventure" (1999)?
1. Michael Palin
2. David Attenborough
3. Michael Aspel
4. John Cleese

Whose last words, during the capture of Syracuse 213-212 BCE, were reported to be "Don't disturb my circles"?
1. Pythagoras
2. Euclid
3. Archimedes
4. Aristarchus

Which nationality was the 16-year old who addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit in 2019, saying "How dare you?"?
1. American
2. Norwegian
3. British
4. Swedish

Edwina Currie, first elected to the British House of Commons as a Conservative Party MP in 1983 and a Junior Health Minister for 2 years before resigning in 1988, had an affair with whom from 1984 to 1988?
1. Tony Blair
2. John Major
3. James Callaghan
4. Gordon Brown

Who was the merchant sea-captain who made the first American circumnavigation of the world in 1790, and is known for trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the fur trade in that region?
1. Alan Harvey
2. Sidney Franklin
3. Gordon Diggle
4. Robert Gray

The 1954 American musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" was based on a short story by Stephen Vincent Benét, which in turn was based on what?
1. A Native American myth
2. An Irish folk tale
3. A Roman legend
4. A poem by Goethe

Where was opera singer Maria Callas born?
1. Italy
2. USA
3. Greece
4. Portugal

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Famous People Trivia for October 14, 2025

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Andy White and Jimmie Nicol were both what?
1. Drummers for The Beatles
2. Goalkeepers for Manchester United
3. Olympic gold medallists representing the USA
4. Europeans held at Guantanamo Bay prison in 2008

Who wrote the book which was the basis for a 1999 psychological thriller film starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman?
1. Lee Child
2. Stephen King
3. Patricia Highsmith
4. Lisa Jewell

Which politician and newspaper publisher endowed Columbia University with funding to establish its School of Journalism and, later, to establish and administer an annual prize for achievements in the US in "journalism, arts and letters"?
1. Richard Rosenthal
2. William Randolph Hearst
3. Joseph Pulitzer
4. Charles Ives

Who is an Australian convicted murderer, currently serving 35 life sentences for murdering 35 people and injuring many others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Tasmania in 1996?
1. John Clarke
2. John Howard
3. Rolf Harris
4. Martin John Bryant

Which Scottish ballerina made her international debut in 1941, married Ludovic Kennedy in 1950, appeared in films from 1948 to 1960, and died in 2006?
1. Moira Shearer
2. Margot Fonteyn
3. Alicia Markova
4. Rowena Jackson

John Simpson, CBE, is a distinguished veteran in what field?
1. TV production
2. Journalism
3. Research in governmental systems
4. War photography

Sunday Rose are the names of the daughter of Nicole Kidman and whom?
1. Keith Urban
2. Richard Gere
3. Heath Ledger
4. Robbie Williams

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