FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 23 Trivia Quiz

Answer: El Greco

Domenikos Theotokopoulos 'El Greco' (The Greek) lived from 1541-1614. He is noted for his distinctive style of painting with unusual use of colour and elongated figures. Various theories have been advanced as possible explanations for the latter, including suggestions that El Greco suffered from an eye disorder or that he was attempting to counter the foreshortening which would result from the placement of his religious paintings high on church walls.

Question by player Otautau

Answer: Dora Marquez

Dora Marquez is an animated character in the American television series "Dora The Explorer".

Marco Polo was a Venetian explorer who wrote the "Book of the Marvels of the World" in about 1300.

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first circumnavigation of the Earth, although unfortunately he died before its completion.

Leif Ericsson was a Viking explorer, who landed in North America some 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

Question by player Paolopaul

Answer: Curie family

In the twentieth century four persons have received the Nobel Prize twice. Polish born Marie Sklodowska-Curie, Americans Linus Pauling and John Bardeen and Briton Frederick Sanger. However the Curie family have received the most prizes, with five. Marie and her French husband Pierre Curie shared the 1903 Physics Prize, Marie again received the 1911 Chemistry Prize, their daughter Irène Joliot-Curie received the Chemistry Prize in 1935 together with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie, and the husband of Marie Curie's second daughter, Henry Labouisse, was the director of UNICEF when it won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965.

Question by player richie_007

Answer: Parker and Barrow

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were notorious outlaws during the Great Depression in America. They died together after being shot by the police in Louisiana. In 1967 they were played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in the film "Bonnie and Clyde".

Question by player amyvsmith

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

In the 17th century Isaac Newton's mastery of astronomy, physics, and mathematics, expanded the scope of scientific knowledge in Europe. His forays into alchemy and medicine however... well they proved less than genius.

In 1665 and 1666, The Bubonic Plague killed 100,000 people in London. Newton was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, and wrote a paper describing the best plague treatment he had observed and it involved suspending a toad by its legs in a chimney for three days until it vomited up earth and various insects on to a dish of yellow wax. The deceased toad was ground into a powder and then combined with its excretions and serum, and then formed into lozenges that one would wear on the affected area. This would supposedly drive away the contagion and draw out the poison.

Question by player Billkozy

Answer: Joan Crawford

The ongoing feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford is one of the most famous in Hollywood history. Both ladies had a keen wit and a way with words, and their comments about each other were very funny - and often unprintable. For example, when Joan Crawford died in 1977, Bette Davis said: "You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good!" For her part, Joan Crawford observed: "Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures.

She called it art. Others might call it camouflage." By the way, the character of Lassie was supposed to be a female, but was always portrayed by a male collie.

Question by player daver852

Answer: Moira Cameron

After serving 22 years in the army, Moira Cameron became the first woman Beefeater in 2007. Her full title is "Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard in the Extraordinary".

Question by player Plodd

Answer: Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman's exact birthdate is not known, what is known is her parents were both slaves and Harriet was raised under the most impoverished circumstances, where severe beatings were an everyday occurrence. In 1849 she fled under cover of darkness to Philadelphia, in the process falling under the wing of active abolitionists, and from there on in her story is one of bravery, heroism and self-sacrifice. How many slaves she rescued is not certain, though estimates range from 70 to somewhere over 300.

Question by player nickdrew55

Answer: Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus was born on October 27, 1466. He was one of the most renowned humanists, theologians and philosophers of the Renaissance era. He wrote works like "The Praise of Folly" and "Handbook of a Christian Knight". Especially in the former, he opposed the doctrines of the Catholic Church and advocated reform. He died on July 12, 1536.

Question by player DeepHistory

Answer: Brian Boru

The Irish victory meant that Viking power was much reduced. But the death of Brian saw the end of any chance of a strong centralised kingdom, and the country returned to factionalism.

Question by player briandoc5