FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 25 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Richard Branson

Sir Richard Branson is the brains behind the Virgin Group that has businesses in the fields of travel, media, music among many others. Among Branson's eccentricities he owns an island in the British Virgin Isles and once ballooned across the Atlantic Ocean!

Question by player BRY2K

Answer: Bertha

The origin of the name "Bertha" is Germanic, and means "bright one". Bertha Krupp inherited the industrial empire of her father, Friedrich. The large mortars manufactured by the company during WWI were nicknamed "Dicke Bertha", or "fat Bertha" by the Germans, and were commonly called "Big Bertha" by the Allies. Queen Bertrada of Laon, the mother of Charlemagne, is also known as "Bertha Broadfoot".

Question by player ponycargirl

Answer: Sir Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart started playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the 'USS Enterprise NCC 1701 D' in the TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' in 1987. As Picard he also starred in four 'Star Trek' movies: 'Generations', 'First Contact', 'Insurrection' and 'Nemesis'.
In 2000 Patrick Stewart started playing Charles Xavier in the Marvel Comic movie adaption 'X-Men'.

Throughout his TV and movie career Patrick Stewart stayed closely associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company, receiving much praise for his various performances on stage. Stewart was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and was made a Knight Bachelor in 2010 for his services to drama.

Question by player Siggi

Answer: Peloponnesian War

Alcibiades was a strategic advisor and commander in the Peloponnesian War, fighting for Athens in that conflict. Nicias was also fighting for the Athenians as a general in the Peloponnesian War. Hermocrates was a general from Syracuse, allied with Sparta, against Athens in the Peloponnesian War.

Question by player Rizeeve

Answer: Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn was beheaded two years after her daughter's birth.

Question by player highlandnyc36

Answer: Thomas Edison

Housed in the Library of Congress, the cat video is believed to be the first filming of felines. The cats are referred to as Professor Welton's boxing cats, and there is a man situated behind the two (presumably Prof. Welton). The film was made at Edison's Black Maria Studio in New Jersey.

Question by player trident

Answer: John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley and C.S.Lewis

On November 22, 1963 the world became poorer because it lost three prominent personalities. The President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 46 years, was murdered in Dallas, Texas. Aldous Huxley a famous English writer and philosopher died due a laryngeal cancer. And, C.S. Lewis a famous British novelist, poet, well known for his work "The Chronicles of Narnia" died as a consequence of kidney failure.

Question by player masfon

Answer: Boss, Underboss, Caporegime, Soldiers, Associates

The Cosa Nostra also known as the Mafia is made up of a loose association of groups called "Families", "Coscas" or "Clans". The highest level that a non-Italian can advance to in a Mafia hierarchy is that of "Associate".


Question by player lpro

Answer: A shroud

John Donne's troubles began when he eloped with his boss's niece, and it didn't help that her outraged father was Lieutenant of the Tower of London. Donne was thrown into prison and his hitherto promising Parliamentary career was over. After years of poverty he was eventually reconciled with his father-in-law and also gained the favour of King James I.

The King insisted that he became an Anglican priest, after which he became a Royal Chaplain. His wife, Anne, died aged 33 after giving birth to their twelfth child, following which Donne wrote no more love poems.

He was appointed Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in 1621 and held that post until his death. Donne posed, dressed in a shroud, for a portrait that was completed only a few weeks before he died on 31 March 1631.

His effigy, taken from that portrait, survived the Great Fire of London and can still be seen in St Paul's. "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

Question by player flopsymopsy

Answer: Ellery

Ellery Queen is the pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, who created the fictional writer/amateur detective Ellery Queen. Mong Kut was the King of Siam (of "Anna and the King" and "The King and I" fame). Roy Rogers was called the "King of the Cowboys" (his wife, Dale Evans, was the "Queen"). Roger Miller had his top hit, "King of the Road", reach Number Four in 1965, one of twelve songs listed in "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits", compiled by Joel Whitburn.

Question by player lowtechmaster