"L"ondon People Trivia Quiz

Answer: Singer

Dua Lipa was born on August 22, 1995, in London, England, to Albanian parents. Her father was also musically inclined and part of a rock band called Oda back in Kosovo. Dua Lipa has been singing since she was five years old. Around the age of fifteen, she started to post videos on YouTube of herself performing cover songs by well-known artists, such as Alicia Keys' song "If I Ain't Got You." She also started modeling around this time as well. Lipa has won a few Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist, Best Dance Recording (both for "Electricity" (2018) done with the duo group Silk City), and Best Pop Vocal Album for "Future Nostalgia" (2020).

Answer: Actress

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925, in London, England. Her mother, Moyna Macgill, was an Irish actress, and her father, Edgar Lansbury, was a British Communist politician. In 1940 she moved to the United States. In 1942, she signed on with MGM and made several films, including "National Velvet" (1944) with Elizabeth Taylor. Lansbury's roles were minor, and she was a B-list star during this time. In 1962, her role as Mrs. Eleanor Iselin in "The Manchurian Candidate" was praised by critics.

Lansbury went on to star in the 1966 Broadway musical "Mame" and won her first Tony Award.

Along with movies and theatre she has also done TV, most notably playing Jessica Fletcher, on the series "Murder, She Wrote" from 1984 to 1996. Despite being nominated every year of the show's twelve year run, for an Emmy Award, she has never won an Emmy Award. She was nominated for eighteen Emmy Awards during her eighty year career, and yet never won. However, she has been nominated in each other EGOT categories (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). She has only won the Oscar and the Tony. Lansbury died in October 2022 five days shy of her 97th birthday.

Answer: Mathematician

Ada Lovelace (née Byron) was born December 10, 1815, in London, England. She was the only legitimate child of Lady and Lord Byron. Her half-siblings were all conceived out of wedlock. Her father wrote about her in one of his poems. Her father died when she was still a child. Even though her parents were divorced before he died, and he was living in Greece, her mother was afraid if her daughter was interested in poetry like her father, she also would be insane, so she cultivated her daughter's interest in mathematics.

Her work with others of the time, especially Charles Babbage, helped formulate the algorithms for what would be used on personal computers. Lovelace died in 1952 at the age of 36.

Answer: Songwriter

Leona Louise Lewis was born on April 3, 1985, in Islington, London, England. She is the middle child in her family and the only daughter. In 2006, she competed on "The X Factor" and won, earning a recording contract with Simon Cowell's record company, Syco Music.

She has been writing songs as long as she has been recording them. In 2010, she wrote "Shake You Up" for her Glassheart" album. She wrote the 2018 song "Amore," which was used in the movie "Gotti" starring John Travolta. She co-wrote the Christmas song "One More Sleep" with Richard "Biff" Stannard, Iain James, Jez Ashurst, and Bradford Ellis. The song was nominated for a World Music Award in 2014.

Answer: Actor

Damian Lewis was born on February 11, 1971, in St John's Wood, London, England. Lewis knew he wanted to become an actor when he was sixteen. In 1993, he graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on Silk Street in London, England. He made his first television appearance in 1995 in an episode of "Poirot" called "Hickory Dickory Dock," in which he played a doctor.

In 2001, Steven Spielberg cast him as Richard Winters in "Band of Brothers." This was the first movie in which Lewis was required to have an American accent which critics believed he did well. Lewis married Helen McCrory (the actress who played Narcissa Malfoy in "Harry Potter") in 2007. They had a son and a daughter. Sadly, his wife died from breast cancer in 2021 at 52.

Answer: TV Cook

Nigella Lawson was born on January 6, 1960, in Wandsworth, London, England. Her father was Nigel Lawson, a British politician who served in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet when she was Prime Minister. She has been criticized for voting against her father's Conservative Party and for the Labour Party in an election, as well as publically criticizing Margaret Thatcher. However, she has stated that her father has never expected her to have his same political beliefs.

In 1998, she became a regular guest star on the Channel 4 cooking show, "Nigel Slater's Real-Food Show." That same year, she wrote her first cookbook, "How to Eat," which had many tips for readers on preparing food and saving time. She hosted her first cooking show, "Nigella Bites," from 1999-2001, which she filmed from her home and was shown on channel 4. It was later also shown in the United States. Mainly she received positive reviews, and the few that did not like her did not criticize her cooking skills but her flirtation.

In 2004, she was making guest appearances on talk shows in the United States, such as "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in their cookery slots. Then, in 2005, she began another series in the UK called "Nigella." This show had celebrities join her in the kitchen. However, it did not do well and was canceled after the first week. In 2006, her first American TV series debuted, "Nigella Feasts," on the Food Network and ran for thirteen weeks. She has continued to make many other cooking shows since then.

Answer: Royalty

Prince Louis of Wales was born Prince Louis of Cambridge on April 23, 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London, England. He is the son of Prince William and Princess Catherine of Wales. His sister Princess Charlotte is the first elder sister to be ranked before a younger brother in line to the throne.

Answer: Film Director

Ray Lawrence was born in 1948 in London, England. When he was eleven, his family moved to Australia. He returned to London after graduating from school and worked in advertising producing commercials for several years before returning to Australia, where he became a top commercial producer.

The first film he directed was the 1985 movie "Bliss," a comedy-drama based on the Peter Carey book of the same name. The movie stars Barry Otto as Harry Joy, an Australian advertising executive who has a near-death experience caused by a massive heart attack. He realizes he needs to change his old ways and acknowledges that his wife is cheating on him, and the marriage falls apart. His children are also leading immoral lives. He leaves them all and meets a woman and falls in love. Honey Barbara (played by Helen Jones) is a prostitute and a hippie. He decides to fix her life to make up for the life he had led. However, he they both fall back into their old lifestyles.

Answer: Baseball

Alfred Lawson was born on March 24, 1869, in London, England. In 1890, he pitched three games. The first was with the Boston Beaneaters (now the Atlanta Braves); the last two were with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys (now the Pittsburg Pirates). He lost all three games and struck out only three people. In 1908 he started his own professional baseball league, the Union Professional League, which only lasted a month or two because of financial difficulties.

Lawson, not only played baseball, he was also an aviator. He is the inventor of the airliner and was the founder of the Lawson Aircraft Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin and the Lawson Airplane Company in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died on November 28, 1954 at the age of 85.

Answer: Murderer

Leslie Michael Grantham was born on April 30, 1947, in Camberwell, London, England. Many may remember him as an actor mainly from a British soap opera called "EastEnders" from 1985-1989 and then again from 2003-2005. He started acting in 1982.

However, going back even further, in 1965, he joined the Royal Fusiliers (part of the British Army). He owed money to some people and when he had racked up debt to too many he didn't know what to do, so he robbed a taxi driver at gunpoint while stationed in Germany. However, it didn't go as planned, and he and the taxi driver fought for control of the gun, the gun went off and shot the taxi driver in the head and he died. Grantham was arrested for murder, and given a dishonorable discharge from the army. He was also given life in prison because he was in the army and discharged to them dishonorably even though it happened in Germany, he was imprisoned in Britain. He was released ten years later. It was after this that he became an actor. He died in 2018 from lung cancer.