An Eye for an Eye Trivia Quiz

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (1932-2011) was a British-American actress who began her career as a child. She acted in many films and received numerous awards including two Academy Awards as Best Actress, in 1960 and in 1966. Her eight marriages to seven different men, her tumultuous personal life and her career have always been intertwined. Her acting career went into decline and in the early 1980s she practically stopped acting. Elizabeth Taylor has always continued to receive media attention primarily for her activism on the AIDS issue.

Many doubted the violet color of her eyes. According to ophthalmologist Dr. Norman Saffra, from the Maimonides Medical Center, NY, there are several gradations of blue and gray and violet may have been her typical pigmentation. The color depends on the amount of melanin and the eye's light absorption. After 1983 colored contact lenses were launched and now one can have any eye color one wants.

Answer: Alice Walker

The poet, novelist, and social activist Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker known as Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944 into a farming family. At 8 years old her brother fired a shot with a BB gun that hit one of her eyes and left her permanently blind in that eye. She studied at segregated schools, later winning a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College where she graduated in 1965.

Her first poetry collection "Once" was published in 1968 and her first novel "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" was published in 1970. In 1982 Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel "The Color Purple"

Answer: Zora Hurston

American writer, anthropologist, folklorist Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was born in Alabama, and lived for some years in Eatonville, Florida, the first black incorporated municipality in the USA. She left her family to study anthropology. She wrote about 50 short stories, plays, essays and several novels; part of her work was published posthumously. Her second novel, considered the best of them, is "Their Eyes Were Watching God", published in 1937, which deals with racial segregation and the situation of women in American society. The main character of the book is Janie Crawford, a teenager who gradually tries to take control of her life but ends up recognizing that many things are uncontrollable and that people will only be spared if God takes care of them.

The author and her work were forgotten for many years until 1975, when Alice Walker published the article "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" in Ms. Magazine, which sparked public interest in Zora's work.

Answer: All of these alternatives

Iris is a word with multiple uses. Iris is the colored part of the eyes, a contractile membrane, pierced by an opening called the pupil. The iris controls the amount of light that reaches the retina. The amount of pigment contained in the iris determines eye color. Iris is also the name of a tall plant (genus Iris) with usually yellow or purple flowers, very common throughout the world. Furthermore, Iris is the name of a goddess in Greek mythology, daughter of the gods Thauman and Electra; she personifies the rainbow and is the messenger of the Olympian Gods, linking the gods to humanity. Furthermore, Iris is a female name widely used in several countries.

In December 2021, the English Prime Minister Boris Johnson named his daughter Iris (Romy Iris Charlotte).

Answer: Reached the summit of Mount Everest

The American athlete and adventurer Erik Weihenmayer (1968- ) was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in 2001. In 2002 he completed the "Seven Summits". He climbed many other places that offer great difficulties and had several adventures in other sports. In 2014, together with his blind fellow Navy veteran Lonnie Bedwell, Erik kayaked the 446 km of the Grand Canyon, which is considered one of the most turbulent waterways in the world.

Erik was diagnosed with juvenile retinoschisis at 15 months and by his teens he was already totally blind. But he was determined not to let blindness set him back. On one occasion he received a newsletter from a group of blind boys who practiced climbing, which at first he thought was impossible but turned out to be an important driver. He is co-founder of the organization which is also a movement called "No Barriers" whose motto is: "What's within you is stronger than what's in your way", a message that applies to all people.

Answer: Bluest

The first novel of the American writer Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (1931-2019), known as Toni Morrison is "The Bluest Eye", 1970. The novel set in 1941 in Lorain, Ohio, is about a young African-American girl named Pecola, who because of her very dark skin and the way she behaved herself was considered very ugly and avoided by everyone, it was as if she were invisible. Only two sisters were in contact with Pecola, one of them being the narrator of the story. Pecola spoke to them about her desire to have the bluest eyes possible so that she would look beautiful. The book has racial discrimination, incest, lack of respect for women and child abuse as its background.

Toni Morrison wrote 11 novels and in partnership with her son Slade Morrison published 7 children's books. She received numerous awards for her work including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Answer: William Prescott

Colonel William Prescott (1726-1795), born in Groton, Massachusetts, was a prestigious lawyer in Salem and Boston, a staunch anti-slavery advocate, and had an extensive military career. During the American Revolutionary War he served the Continental Army in the Massachusetts State Militia. During the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was fought on June 17, 1775, he commanded the patriotic forces and is known for having ordered his soldiers "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." It's not known for sure if this memorable phrase was coined by him or someone before him.

Answer: Eye of the Needle

"Eye of the Needle," 1981, is a British spy film starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan, directed by Richard Marquand. The script is by Stanley Mann and was based on the novel of the same name by Ken Follett.

"Eye of the Needle" is a spy thriller novel, published in 1978 under the name "Storm Island" by the Welsh author Kenneth Martin Follett (1949-). This book was his first success, made him internationally known, and earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from Mystery Writers of America. The book is about a Nazi spy in the United Kingdom, who discovers information about the D-Day invasion.

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

In Leviticus 24:17-22 (in the third book of the Torah and in the Old Testament) it is written "And whoever causes an injury to their neighbor must be given the same kind of injury: a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye. The person must receive the same type of injury that he caused another person.

But Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) did not agree with this. He said that "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". He was of the opinion that violence begets violence and during his life he preached resistance through non-violent civil disobedience.

Answer: Macbeth

"Macbeth" is the third of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. In this tale Macbeth followed the instructions of the witches and managed to become king. In "Macbeth" act IV scene I, the witches are concocting various things like: "Eye of newt, and toe of a frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...".

Although the text infers that animals were sacrificed to make the magic potion, in reality these terms in ancient times referred to plants, flowers, herbs. "Eye of newt" for example is the mustard seed and "toe of dog" is a buttercup.