Pick n' Mix: Part ELEVEN Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hirohito

Born in Hanseongbu (which is now modern-day Seoul) Lee Bong-chang (1900-1932) was a member of the Korean Independence Movement, and a would-be assassin. Raised in poverty and resentful of Japan's colonization of Korea, he joined the Korea Patriotic Legion with the intention of assassinating Japanese emperor, Hirohito. Although he initially did not hate Japan's rule, his resentment surfaced when he faced discrimination in Manchuria in 1918 for being Korean. His Japanese co-workers would call him "Josenjing" which is a derogatory term for a Korean, of those of the Joseon Dynasty, with Lee Bong-chang being a descendant of Korean Joseon Prince Hyoryeong.

The incident of January 9 1932, now described as "the Sakuradamon incident" (or "Patriotic Deed of Lee Bong-chang" in Korea), was where Lee Bong-chang threw two hand grenades at Hirohito while the emperor was leaving the Tokyo Imperial Palace. The grenades missed their target and detonated near the carriage of Japanese statesman, Ichiki Kitokuro, killing two horses and injuring one of the emperor's bodyguards.

Lee Bong-chang was immediately arrested. He was quietly tried and sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed in Ichigaya Prison, Tokyo. Once Korea had gained independence the remains of Lee Bong-chang were moved to Hyochang Park, Seoul. His grave is alongside those of Baek Jeong-Gi and Yoon Bong-Gil, also activists who fought for Korean independence. The site is referred to as "the Graves of the Three Martyrs."

Answer: Matthew Garber

Matthew Garber was born in Stepney, London, in 1956. Born into a theatre family, his parents had both acted on stage in plays. Aged seven, Matthew secured his first film role in Don Chaffey's 1963 fantasy film, "The Three Lives of Thomasina." He starred alongside Karen Dotrice who would play his sister, Jane Banks, in Mary Poppins the following year. The Garber family were friends of Ray Dotrice, Karen's father, who drew attention from casting agents at Disney to Matthew.

Also directed by Robert Stevenson, Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber would star in one last film together in 1967, "The Gnome-Mobile." After the huge success of "Mary Poppins", Stevenson had hoped that the prospect of seeing the Banks children acting together again would lure in audiences. The film did not do particularly well at the box office and although Karen Dotrice would continue to act in the decades to comes, this would be Matthew Garber's last film.

Matthew Garber was so proficient in vanishing from the spotlight, that details of why he left show business remain unclear. It is purported that he returned to his education, going to school in London between 1968-1972. As he grew older he decided to travel to India, where he would meet tragedy. He contracted hepatitis under circumstances that are unknown.

Matthew Garber had a younger brother, Fergus Garber, who was born the same year that Matthew starred in "Mary Poppins". Fergus vehemently denied that Matthew had contracted hepatitis due to drug use. He suggested it was infected or undercooked meat that his brother had consumed in India. Realising his health was failing, Matthew returned home but unfortunately there was nothing doctors could do to save him. He died at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London in 1977, aged just 21. Three days later he was cremated at London's St. Marylebone Crematorium. He had been missing from the public eye for so long that his death did not become widely known for some time.

Answer: Mawson Station

Established in 1954 at Antarctica, Mawson Station is also the westernmost of Australia's continental stations. It lies around 3,230 miles (5,200 km) southwest of Perth, Australia. The station is named for Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) who was Australia's most notable explorer of the Antarctic. The Mawson region is the most prevalent in sea birds within the Australian Antarctic Territory, including Antarctic petrels, snow petrels, Adélie penguins, cape petrels, southern giant petrels and Antarctic fulmars.

The purpose of the Mawson Station is scientific, with its workers studying cosmic rays, glaciology, zoology of marine mammals and sea birds, polar medicine and meteorology. Mawson is the oldest regularly inhabited station south of the Antarctic Circle.

Answer: Arizona

The Tohono Oʼodham reside around the Sonoran Desert in the Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation, which stretches across southern Arizona and the state of Sonora, Mexico. Governments outside of the Native American nation have occupied the area since the 18th century, and it was ruled totally by Mexico when Mexico became an independent republic. By 1853, the O'odham land was split in half to be ruled separately between Mexico and the U.S.A as a result of the Treaty of La Mesilla (or the Gadsden Purchase). Although each group of the O'odham speak the O'odham language (born from the Uto-Aztecan languages) there are variations in the language depending on the location of the group. The Tohono O'odham Nation is the second-largest Native American tribe in Arizona, and the third-largest Native American reservation in the U.S.A.

The treaty had little effect on the O'odham at first. The newly formed border between Mexico and the U.S.A was not tightly adhered to, and they also had not been told that their land had been taken. However, stricter immigration laws have had an effect on the O'odham in more recent times. Visiting sacred areas and family members, as well as collecting items needed throughout the desert for their culture has become more difficult for the O'odham because of these laws. The O'odham must have their passports and ID cards ready before attempting to enter the U.S.A. Issues have also occurred at the borders with the O'odham trying to bring restricted items such as raw materials across the border.

In 1959, the Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation became the first Native American reservation that Martin Luther King visited.

Answer: Wind

Fujin (also Fûjin - "Wind God" or Fûten - "Heavenly Wind") is one of the oldest gods in the Shinto religion. Fujin is portrayed as neither good nor evil, but can certainly be a very destructive force to be reckoned with. He is often depicted alongside his brother, Raijin, the god of thunder. The Kojiki, a Japanese chronicle of myths and legends, asserts that both Fujin and Raijin were born from Izanami, the Shinto mother goddess, after she died. After she descended into the Underworld, her husband, Izanagi (the creator deity) followed her. Upon seeing her body being filled with demons, Izanagi ran from his wife instead of rescuing her. This sent Izanami into a fury and she chased her husband, cursing him throughout, to the entrance of the Underworld. Izanagi blocked the exit with a stone, however two of the demons that had emerged from his wife, Fujin and Raijin, squeezed through the crack in the stone. They upheld their mother's curse to kill many living creations of Izanagi, in the form of thunder and storms.

Fujin is depicted with green skin and red and white hair, carrying a bag of wind which he releases into the world. This is what is responsible for the winds, tornadoes and storms that occur on Earth. He is depicted with four fingers and riding atop a cloud. Although Fujin is a destructive deity, he can also be a calming and pleasant one, responsible for cool breezes during a hot day. When the Mongols tried to occupy Japan in 1274, a storm ruined a significant amount of their fleet of ships, which the Japanese asserted was Fujin and Raijin protecting Japan.

Fujin and Raijin were the inspiration for characters in the video game "Mortal Kombat," Fujin and Raiden, who have powers of wind and thunder, respectively.

Answer: Roy Halladay

Born in Denver, Colorado, Roy Halladay (1977-2017) played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher, playing for both the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies during his career.

On November 7 2017, Roy Halladay was flying light aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico. He crashed near the city of New Port Richey, Florida, into water that was only around 4 feet (1.20 m) deep. Halladay was the only person in the plane, and he had only purchased the aircraft around four weeks previous to the crash. Halladay's autopsy confirmed that he had been intoxicated on a mixture of drugs including amphetamines, antidepressants, muscle relaxants, morphine, opioids and sleeping medication. His wife had passionately objected to him purchasing the airplane, and his intoxicated state alone made him unfit to operate it. As well as his intoxication, Halladay had reportedly been performing risky stunts with the plane, including nose-dives and rolls that put the plane around five feet from the water.

Halladay is survived by his wife and two children. His eldest son, Braden, took up baseball at Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team after his father's death, to honour him.

Answer: Pope Stephen VI

Pope Stephen VI (died in 897 AD, birth year uncertain) served as pope from 896-897 AD. He is remembered for his scandalous "trial" of the corpse of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, in 897 AD. Pope Formosus had been dead for months by the time this trial was established, and was hardly in a reasonable position to defend his character in court. This did not deter Stephen VI, who saw fit to have Formosus' body exhumed, dressed in papal vestments and left on the papal throne to stand trial.

Horrified, the surrounding clergy was forced to take part, with one deacon being given the bizarre responsibility to speak on the cadaver of Pope Formosus' behalf. Stephen shouted allegations at the corpse, which was understandably silent. Some accounts assert that during the trial an earthquake shook the courtroom, proving that God was not happy with the mockery of a trial that was taking place. If this earthquake did happen even that did not deter Stephen, who declared that (what remained of) Pope Formosus was guilty of being a papal usurper and any decisions he made during his time as pope were void. Stephen then had the corpse stripped of its papal garments and replaced with rags, had three of the fingers decapitated and then had the corpse thrown into the River Tiber.

This monstrosity of a court case did not endear Stephen VI to the rest of the clergy. He was imprisoned a few months after and strangled to death. The body of Pope Formosus was later found, then reburied in St Peter's Basilica after Stephen VI's death. Pope Sergius III also reapproved Formosus' decisions and policies.

Answer: Stern

The so-called "Hitler Diaries" were created by Konrad Kujau (1938-2000) in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. He sold his forgery to a journalist for 2.5 million Deutsch Marks, who then approached Stern magazine. Stern bought the fabrication for 9.5 million Deutsch Marks. To the great embarrassment of Stern, scientific examination concluded that the diaries were fake. This led to several members of staff in high positions at Stern resigning. Kujau served three years out of his four and a half year sentence for his forgery.

Stern is a left-wing magazine which has been in print since 1948. German actress, Hildegard Knef, once featured on its front cover.

Answer: North

Second only to the Clair oil field, the Forties oil field was discovered in 1970 and is the second largest oil field in the North Sea. It is situated around 110 miles (177km) away from Aberdeen, Scotland. British company, BP, held control of this oil field until 2003 when it was taken over by Apache. Apache used 4D seismic technology to locate new oil within the field, and Charlie 4-3 is the biggest well in Forties, out of the just over 100 known wells in the area. There was a gradual decline in the oil production of Forties oil field since 1978, but Apache has dealt with this problem with their technology.

The North Sea is an inland sea that lies between the U.K, France, Belgium, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark.

Answer: Gloria Foster

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Gloria Foster (1933-2001) achieved three Obie Awards during her career as an American actress. She began her acting career in Broadway in the early 1960s. She also starred in "Law and Order" as Satima Tate, a character based on Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz, in 1992. "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003) was the last film she starred in. She died before filming could be completed for "The Matrix Revolutions" and "Enter the Matrix" both of which were released in 2003.

Gloria Foster died in 2001 due to complications related to diabetes. Her husband since 1967, Clarence Williams III, a fellow actor who starred in various film and television series over 40 years, announced her death.

Answer: Things Fall Apart

Published in 1958, "Things Fall Apart" is a novel about life in Nigeria before and after the colonization of the country by Europe. The main character is Okonkwo, the head of his village and a famous Nigerian wrestler. Okonkwo is told to kill a boy in the village by an oracle. After completing this murder, Okonkwo's life begins to go horribly wrong including the deaths of his children. After many trials and tribulations he is exiled, and upon his return discovers that Europeans have colonized his village.

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) wrote his first novel in English as the Igbo language which is spoken around Nigeria has various dialects and this made it difficult to write in the language. He was born in an Igbo town, Ogidi, in Nigeria during the colonial era. He barely escaped death during the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, in which he and his family's house was bombed. Despite winning many awards in his life, Achebe refused the Commander of the Federal Republic Award, in protest of the Nigerian government much to the displeasure of then Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan.

Answer: Christian II

Sweden had been under the Kalmar Union since 1397, where Sweden, Norway and Denmark were ruled under a single monarch. Denmark was the dominant country within this union which led to revolt and rebellion in Sweden. Christian II had forcefully seized Sweden and incorporated it into the Kalmar Union. He again used violence in 1520 to keep his power, ordering the massacre of Swedish nobles in Stockholm, including Gustav I's father, Erik Johansson Vasa, and Joakhim Brahe, the husband of Gustav's sister, Margareta. This incident was later coined the "Stockholm Bloodbath." The following year in 1521, Gustav's mother and his two sisters, Emerentia and Marta, were taken to Denmark and imprisoned. All three had died of the plague by 1523.

Nicknamed "Christian the Tyrant," the vicious actions of Christian II galvanized the Swedish to rebel against him and the Kalmar Union. Christian was born in 1481, the eldest surviving son of Hans, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and Christina of Saxony. He was involved in his father's invasion and conquest of Sweden in 1497 when he was aged 16, and then at aged 20 attempted to put down a rebellion that had cost his father control of Sweden. After the death of his father he struggled to control Sweden, however with the aid of French, Scottish and German mercenaries he was able to take over Sweden in 1520. He was crowned King of Sweden in Storkyrkan Cathedral.

The Stockholm Bloodbath happened three days after Christian II's coronation, with 82 people being executed. They were either hung or beheaded outside Stockholm Palace. The Swedish nobility who escaped persecution were revolted by Christian's violent actions, and what was meant to secure him the throne largely caused him to lose it instead. Christian was deposed in 1521, and spent the last 27 years of his life in prison, dying in 1559 aged 77. Gustav I was elected as King of Sweden in 1523.

Answer: Afroman

Born in 1974 in Los Angeles, California, Afroman is best known for his 2000 hit "Because I Got High" which comically tells the story of how smoking marijuana can disrupt one's life. The song is the theme and soundtrack for Kevin Smith's 2001 film "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back."

Afroman announced in 2022 that he planned to run for U.S President in the 2024 elections.

Answer: Blizzard

The blizzard of 1967 remains Chicago's most severe blizzard (as of 2022). The blizzard mainly effected the northeast of Illinois, where Chicago is, and the northwest of neighbouring Indiana. Chicago was struck by 23 inches of snow during this event. There was little to no warning of the blizzard. Two days before it stuck, Chicago was unusually warm for the time of year. The weather forecast had predicted snow, but only four inches of it. Chicago was afflicted with almost six times the prediction.

Transportation in Chicago came to a complete standstill. Both the Chicago O'Hare International Airport and the Chicago Midway International Airport were closed, with Midway recording gusts of wind reaching 53 miles per hour. Thousands of people were stranded in their homes, at work and at school with around 50,000 cars being abandoned across the city. There were reports of a half hour work commute taking six hours, and some people being stuck sheltering in bars for days. Some roofs collapsed under the weight of the snow.

The blizzard claimed 26 lives. Some died of heart attacks while desperately shovelling snow, a difficult task as the winds would blow more snow onto the freshly ploughed streets. A six year old girl died after being shot by mistake when looters took advantage of the city's standstill.

Chicago was struck by a tornado in 1967, but this took place in April.

Answer: Young Maylay

Young Maylay (born in Los Angeles in 1979) is a American rapper and voice actor. He starred alongside his cousin, actor and rapper Shawn Fonteno (who played Frank in "GTA: San Andreas)".

"GTA: San Andreas" is the fifth main game of the "Grand Theft Auto" series, and is the seventh game of the series in total. It has been hailed as one of the best video games in existence, and was the best selling video game of 2004. It is an action-adventure game incorporating storytelling, roleplay and stealth aspects of a video game. The game focused heavily on the personal story of CJ, as well as the huge number of cars available: "San Andreas" had over 200 cars available for the player in contrast to the around 60 in "Grand Theft Auto III". "San Andreas" had a wide variety of celebrity voices, even including British Mancunian musician, Shaun Ryder, who played a character named Macca.

Answer: Lekach

Also customarily eaten on the day before Yom Kippur, lekach is called "ugat dvash" in Hebrew which translates to "honey cake." The word may have also been from the ancient Aramaic word "lekhakh" for "to mix well." The word "lekach" however, is Yiddish. Spices are added to this loaf-like cake, and sometimes even tea and coffee to serve as food colouring.

Answer: Rome

The 1908 Summer Olympics in London took place between 27 April to 31 October 1908. This competition was originally assigned to Rome, however, due to the 1906 Mount Vesuvius eruption which took around 100 lives, Rome was not financially, emotionally or physically ready for the Olympic Games. The British organised the event efficiently, despite the very short notice.

The 1908 Olympics is London is known for the dramatic scenes of Italian runner, Dorando Pietri, being so dazed and overwhelmed he ran in the wrong direction and collapsed. He finished in first place but was disqualified due to being assisted to his feet after collapsing.

The 1908 Olympic Games was not without controversy. Finnish athletes, for example, refused to march under the Russian flag, with Finland being part of the Russian Empire at the time. The Swedes were also insulted with their flag not being flown at all, meaning many athletes were as furious as the Finns and decided not to march.

Answer: George VI

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was born in 1900 in a birthplace which remains unclear. She became a lady in 1904 when her father, Claude Bowes-Lyon, inherited his earldom and became the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Her family were descendants of the Royal House of Scotland. She was fluent in French by aged 10 and when World War I started (on the 14th birthday) she assisted in helping patients when Glamis Castle was used as a hospital. One of her brothers, Fergus, died in combat during the Battle of Loos in 1915.

Lady Elizabeth and her family were friendly with the Royals, King George V and Queen Mary and their children, with Elizabeth being a bridesmaid at Princess Mary's wedding. Prince Albert, Duke of York (who later became King George VI), was King George V's second son. He proposed to Elizabeth in 1921, however she rejected him due to being afraid that becoming a member of the Royal Family would prevent her from being her authentic self. Albert proposed again the following year only to be rebuffed again. Elizabeth finally agreed to marry Albert in 1923.

Albert's choice of Elizabeth was seen as a modernization of the Royal Family at the time, as although from a noble, wealthy and well-connected family, she was not a royal herself. They married at Westminster Abbey in 1923, where Elizabeth laid down her bouquet at the British grave of the Unknown Warrior, in commemoration of her brother who was killed at the Battle of Loos.

George V died in 1936. Albert's elder brother, Edward VIII, became king but abdicated the same year when he was told he could not marry an American divorcee named Wallis Simpson, and still be king. Albert became king under the name George VI in 1936.

Answer: Rosa Parks

284996 Rosaparks was discovered by scientists studying the data collected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. It orbits the Sun around every 5 years and 7 months, and has a diameter of just over 2 miles (3.5 km). The minor planet's composition is carbonaceous, with carbon making up the composition of 75% of asteroids known to scientists. Much is still unknown about the asteroid, such as its rotation period.

A storyline involving 284996 Rosaparks was included in a 2018 episode of "Dr Who."

Answer: Falmer Stadium

Opened in 2011, Falmer Stadium is the second-largest football ground within the southeast of England. The stadium has been designed to have multiple uses, with rugby tournaments also having taken place in it. Due to Brighton's proximity to the sea, hawks are used to deter seagulls and pigeons from nesting in the stadium.

Between 1902-1997, Brighton & Hove Albion had their home ground as the Goldstone Ground, which was demolished in 1997 as a result of the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster Inquiry report (also known as the Taylor Report).