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Quiz about FunTrivia People Mix Vol 6
Quiz about FunTrivia People Mix Vol 6

FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 6 Trivia Quiz


A mix of 10 People questions, submitted by 10 different FunTrivia players! The first few questions are easy, but the last couple are tough!

A multiple-choice quiz by FTBot. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
FTBot
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
408,872
Updated
Apr 14 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
503
Last 3 plays: lolleyjay (10/10), Guest 175 (9/10), janets65 (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. What American artist and illustrator, known for his "Four Freedoms" paintings, created over 300 covers for "The Saturday Evening Post"?


Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Who was first to be awarded a patent for the telephone? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Howard Hughes built the world's first jumbo size airplane. What nickname did it earn, much to his disgust? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What do an American singer called Cyrus, an American business man and brother of a U.S. President called Carter, an American actor and comedian called Crystal and an American evangelist called Graham have in common? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which of these people isn't associated with gaining artistic inspiration from staying at the south English coastal town of Lyme Regis? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. I robbed a few banks in the mid-west and the FBI named me "The Most Wanted" criminal in the 1930s. A gal named Sage was in cahoots with these G-Men and set me up. All I wanted was to go to the movies! Who am I? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What is the name of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first son? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. First Lady Julia Dent Grant famously suffered from a medical condition called strabismus. How would a layman describe her ailment? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which of these Germans was a physician? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What revolutionary technique did doctor Ignaz Semmelweis start 1847, which led to a dramatic drop in childbirth-related deaths and earned him the moniker "savior of mothers"? Hint





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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What American artist and illustrator, known for his "Four Freedoms" paintings, created over 300 covers for "The Saturday Evening Post"?

Answer: Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell created 321 covers for "The Saturday Evening Post" between 1916 and 1961. Some of his more well known paintings include, "Saying Grace", "The Doctor and the Doll", and "The Problem We All Live With". He passed away in 1978 at the age of 84.

Question by player griller
2. Who was first to be awarded a patent for the telephone?

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

The question of who was first to invent the telphone is disputed. Several inventors had been working on the problem of transmitting and receiving sound electrically. However, Bell was first to be awarded a patent for his invention.

Question by player Annaid
3. Howard Hughes built the world's first jumbo size airplane. What nickname did it earn, much to his disgust?

Answer: Spruce Goose

Built during the Second World War, the plane successfully flew only once before being returned to the hanger, never to fly again.

Question by player muzzjoh
4. What do an American singer called Cyrus, an American business man and brother of a U.S. President called Carter, an American actor and comedian called Crystal and an American evangelist called Graham have in common?

Answer: Billy

Billy is their first name. Each one of them is famous in their own field - Cyrus in country music and acting; Billy Carter is the brother of Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the U.S., Billy Crystal is a comedian, actor and award show host and Billy Graham is a world famous evangelist.

Question by player KittyKatey
5. Which of these people isn't associated with gaining artistic inspiration from staying at the south English coastal town of Lyme Regis?

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

The works of Austen, Turner and Potter all have works inspired from a sojourn at this gorgeous little English seaside town. Napoleon never visited Lyme Regis - though one of the more famous film images of the town is Meryl Streep standing on "The Cobb" - in the film "The French Lieutenant's Woman".

This film was in turn based on the book of the same name, written by long time Lyme Regis resident, John Fowles.

Question by player Huw27
6. I robbed a few banks in the mid-west and the FBI named me "The Most Wanted" criminal in the 1930s. A gal named Sage was in cahoots with these G-Men and set me up. All I wanted was to go to the movies! Who am I?

Answer: John Dillinger

John Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in June, 1903. He died in July of 1934 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.

Question by player trouble1
7. What is the name of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first son?

Answer: Archie

Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born on 6 May 2019. He is the eighth great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.

Question by player anthea84
8. First Lady Julia Dent Grant famously suffered from a medical condition called strabismus. How would a layman describe her ailment?

Answer: She was cross-eyed

Strabismus is a relatively common condition, estimated to affect some 2% of the population in the United States. Many children outgrow it naturally; there are many therapies that are used to treat it, including eye exercises, corrective lenses, and surgery. Because of her condition, Mrs. Grant was often photographed in profile. Friends urged her to have an operation to correct her strabismus, but her husband (who was devoted to her) said he liked her cross-eyed.

Question by player daver852
9. Which of these Germans was a physician?

Answer: Hans Alfred Nieper

Hans Alfred Nieper spent his life trying to develop cures for diseases like cancer, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Hamburg. Albert Einstein was a physicist, Michael Ballack a soccer player and Walter Benz a mathematician.

Question by player Lpez
10. What revolutionary technique did doctor Ignaz Semmelweis start 1847, which led to a dramatic drop in childbirth-related deaths and earned him the moniker "savior of mothers"?

Answer: He washed his hands

Semmelweis wanted to reduce incidents of puerperal fever, a deadly form of septicaemia which was common in maternity wards at the time. At the hospital he worked at, he made doctors take the remarkable step of washing their hands between performing autopsies and delivering babies: this simple thing caused incidence of puerperal fever to drop from upwards of 25% down to less than 2%.

Unfortunately, handwashing was so revolutionary that it created a backlash from other doctors, who were extremely offended by the idea that gentlemen could even have unclean hands. Semmelweis vociferously denounced his critics, which led people to believe he was going insane.

As a result, he was committed to an asylum in 1865, where he died of septicaemia -- the same thing he had so successfully combated. Handwashing became a widespread practice a few years after he died.

Question by player nautilator
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