FunTrivia World Mix: Vol 14 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tony Blair

John Major became Prime Minister in 1990 succeeding Margaret Thatcher. His Conservative party lost the 1997 General Election by a landslide, with Tony Blair becoming Prime Minister. Tony Blair remained in the hot seat until 2007 when he relinquished the post to Gordon Brown.

He resigned as a Member of Parliament in that same year and was appointed an envoy to the Middle East by the Quartet (The UN, USA, Russia and the European Union).

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Answer: Japan

Emperor Hirohito was the ruler of Japan throughout most of the 20th century. His reign started in 1926 and lasted until his death in 1989. While the outside world knows him by the name Hirohito, he was given the posthumous name Emperor Showa, and it is that name by which he is known exclusively in his home country.

While he is often remembered for his leadership during World War II, he led his country into becoming one of the most economically important and technologically influential countries of the world.

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Answer: Triumph Motor Company

Like many automobile manufacturers, the British Triumph Motor Company began as an importer of bicycles and was, perhaps surprisingly, actually founded by two Germans; Siegfried Bettmann and Moritz Schulte in 1885. Moving to England in 1889, they began producing bicycles from a workshop in Coventry.

The company enjoyed success as an automobile manufacturer for many decades but, lack of investment, industrial strife, a dated product line and disastrous collaborations with overseas manufacturers, the Triumph Acclaim of 1981 a prime example, resulted in the Triumph name vanishing in 1984.

The marque is now owned today by BMW, the company coming into possession after its purchase of the Rover Group in 1994.

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Answer: the beaver

The beaver helped to build the economy of Canada with its beautiful coat that was made into expensive hats.

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Answer: The 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams served as the second U.S. president for four years after George Washington. Thomas Jefferson served as the third U.S. president for an eight year term after John Adams. Both were part of the team of distinguished forefathers who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

They worked towards achieving freedom and upholding the ratification of the new republic.

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Answer: Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones attended Harvard on a scholarship. As a freshman, he roomed across the hall from Gore, but later became Gore's roommate (along with modern-day blog editor Bob Somerby) in Harvard's Dunster House. Jones' first acting role was in "Love Story," where he played a Harvard student.

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Answer: Qatar

Harrods is a department store located in Knightsbridge, London. It was established by Charles Harrod in 1834 and is famous for being the first place in England to have an escalator installed. The ownership changed hands multiple times during the history of the store with the Qatar Sovereign Wealth Fund acquiring it in 2010.

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Answer: Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court is situated in the City of London on a road called Old Bailey, hence the name by which it is universally known. It stands on the site of Newgate Gaol, which was demolished in 1904.

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Answer: Republican

Anti-slavery lawmakers in the north of the US formed the Republican party in March 1854. The first formal meeting of the new "Republican" party was held in Ripon Wisconsin on March 20 1854. The initial mission of the Republican party was to end slavery and spread social liberalism as reflected by the slogan "free labor, free land, free me".

The election of Abraham Lincoln as President and the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (after the US Civil War) brought most of these initial goals to fruition.

By the 1890s the party had redefined itself to promote free enterprise and social conservatism.

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Answer: Right

The Apple logo was created in 1977 by Rob Janeff and, over the years, there have been many myths attached to it. These range from religious motives to the apple representing knowledge - referencing the apple falling on Isaac Newton's head and it supposedly leading to the discovery of the concept of gravity. Janeff cleared the air on this during an interview in 2009, indicating that Steve Jobs chose the apple because he worked in an orchard as a kid and named the computer after his favourite apple, the McIntosh.

The bite was added to the apple for scale. In this way, when they used a small apple, it still looked like an apple and not a cherry.

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