Another Odd One Out Trivia Quiz

Answer: He was assassinated in Washington, D.C.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down, not in Washington, D.C. however, but at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. He was there to support local African American sanitation workers who were striking for equal pay and working conditions. Today the motel is the site of the National Civil Rights Museum, which traces the history of the civil rights movement.

Surprisingly, Martin Luther King, Jr. did once apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. His application, made in 1956 just after his home had been bombed, was denied on the grounds that he was "unsuitable". Few permits were given to African Americans at the time. While he did have armed guards to protect his family from death threats in the early days of the movement, he came to be a firm believer that, for practical as well as moral reasons, nonviolence was the only road to freedom.

In 1964 the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament awarded Martin Luther King, Jr. the Nobel Prize for Peace. He donated the prize money to the civil rights movement.

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.

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Answer: Émile Zola, author

Emile Zola (1840 - 1902) was born in and died in Paris but he spent a significant part of his childhood in Aix-en-Provence. Several of the novels from his mammoth twenty-novel cycle "Les Rougon-Macquart" were set in Paris, although the font of the saga is a fictional town called Plassans in Provence. I find his gritty, vivid realism of both places remain indelibly imprinted on the memory long after the intricate plots have been forgotten.

About the red herrings: Buńuel was a fabulous Spanish-born filmmaker with a sharp eye for the absurd, Brâncuși was a Romanian-born Modernist sculptor, and Chopin was a Polish-born Romantic composer. All three spent time living and working in France.

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Answer: Angels With Dirty Faces

The 1938 movie "Angels With Dirty Faces" stars James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan, Pat O'Brien as Jerry Connolly, Humphrey Bogart as James Frazier and Ann Sheridan as Laury Martin. It also stars The Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys as the local young ne'er-do-wells who come to idolize Rocky Sullivan. Rocky had used the same hideout as them when he was their age.

When Rocky Sullivan is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing Frazier (Bogart) over money he is owed, his lifelong friend and priest Jerry Connolly asks Rocky to pretend to be a coward when he takes the long walk. He asks him to do this so that young people, like his local gang of admirers, stop thinking of him and other criminals as heroes.

In "Public Enemy", Tom Powers' (Cagney) bullet-ridden body is delivered wrapped up like a mummy to his mothers house.

In "The Roaring Twenties", Eddie Bartlett (Cagney) is shot in the back and dies on the steps of a church.

In "White Heat", Arthur "Cody" Jarrett (Cagney) is shot while on top of a gas storage tank. He starts shooting wildly at the police/FBI but he hits the tank, which blows up taking him along with it just after he utters the famous line "Made it Ma, top of the world".

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Answer: Hippopotamus

The Big Five are the elephant, buffalo, leopard, lion and rhinoceros.

Hippo fossils date back approximately 16 million years. It is the third heaviest land animal after the elephant and rhinoceros. Adult males can weigh up to 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). This animal is very aggressive and unpredictable and has killed many humans over the years. The name hippopotamus comes from the Ancient Greek for "river horse", and indeed they spend their days in rivers and lakes. They come out at night to graze.

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Answer: Born in East L.A. (1987)

"Born in East L.A." is a comedy movie from 1987 starring that famous duo Cheech and Chong. The other three titles are in fact all very popular albums by Bruce Springsteen.

There may be some overlap between Springsteen fans and those of Cheech and Chong, but it is probably purely coincidental.

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Answer: Al Capone, gangster

In 1919, Al Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was of Irish-Catholic heritage, when she'd already borne him a son, Sonny. Although the pair remained married all Al's life, he certainly wasn't a faithful husband. In fact, just a year after the happy day, Al had got syphilis from the prostitutes he was protecting in a brothel in Chicago. By the time he was sent down for 11 years for tax evasion in 1932, he had both syphilis and gonorrhea. He was actually paroled in 1939 because of his poor health due to neurosyphilis. He never recovered and died in 1947.

The weird and wonderful Screamin' Jay Hawkins married six times. His last wife was a French lady 39 years his junior. Screamin' Jay never seemed able to keep count of how many kids he had. One of his estimates was as high as 75.

Everybody's favourite Count (Dracula, that is), Bela Lugosi married five times. He was born in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary in 1882 and his first marriage was there in 1917, but it was all over before he left the country in 1919. Newly-arrived in the USA and barely able to speak English, Bela married Viennese actress Ilona Montagh de Nagybanyhegyes. This marriage lasted just a handful of years. His third attempt only lasted months. Fourth time (almost) lucky: he stayed married to Lillian Arch twenty years and had a son with her. In 1955 he married one of his fans, Hope Lininger. Unfortunately, he died the following year. He was 73.

All I have to say about the notorious Henry VIII and his disastrous record is: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

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Answer: Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh

Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a wonderfully funny radio series starring Kenneth Horne and Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch. Much-Binding was supposedly a badly-managed RAF Station of which Horne and Murdoch were in charge. The results of their ineptitude are hilarious. Movie Star Alan Ladd once guest starred on the BBC programme which ran, on and off, until 1954.

When the Domesday Book was compiled, Mudford Sock in Somerset consisted of just three homes whose value to its Norman Lord, Roger de Courseulles, in 1086 was just Ł0.8. Between the three homes they kept three pigs and fifteen sheep. In 2015, almost 700 people lived in Mudford Sock and its 12th century Parish church, St Mary the Virgin, which entitled it to be called a village.

Robin Hood's Butt is a Bronze Age burial mound on an area of heathland near the New Forest at South Gorley in Hampshire. When excavated, the mound was found to contain the remains of a 12-14 year old boy holding a bronze knife.

Originally part of Kent, Pratt's Bottom is now enclosed within in the London Borough of Bromley. The Pratts were a wealthy local family and the 'bottom' simple refers to a valley or hollow. There are a lot of bottoms in England.

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Answer: Louvre Pyramid - Paris, France

The odd one out is the glass and metal Louvre Pyramid, designed by I.M. Pei and inaugurated in 1989. It sits in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris and serves as the entrance to the museum. Unlike obelisks which are relatively narrow pillars, the base of the Louvre Pyramid measures 35 meters (115 feet) on each side.

Obelisks (from the Ancient Greek "obeliskos"), while often associated with Ancient Egypt, also existed in the Assyrian, Axumite, Ancient Roman, Byzantine and Pre-Columbian civilizations. Of the three aforementioned obelisks, the oldest is Cleopatra's Needle, gifted by Egypt to England in 1801. It was constructed in the reign of Thutmose III (1479 BC to 1425 BC). It is one of three obelisks to be called Cleopatra's Needle. The second is its twin in New York City, USA. The third is the Luxor Obelisk, in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.

The Washington Monument was completed in 1884 and commemorates George Washington, the first president of the USA.

The Capas National Shrine, built by the Philippine government, commemorates the Allied soldiers who died at the end of the Bataan Death March in World War II.

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Answer: Tony Mendez

Tony Mendez - the real hero of the movie "Argo". A CIA officer, he thought up the plan to fake a movie production in order to rescue American and Canadian hostages from Iran in the 1970s.

Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford, amongst others) and Joe "Condor" Turner (Robert Redford) are sadly all fictional!

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Answer: Johnny Kidd & the Pirates

Lemmy did in fact record with Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' guitarist Mick Green under the name Lemmy & The Upsetters. In 1990, they released a cover version of "Blue Suede Shoes" as a single with an original, "Paradise", on the flip side. In his autobiography "White Line Fever", Lemmy expressed his admiration for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates who he had seen live frequently when a youngster.

The first band Lemmy recorded with was The Rockin' Vicars although he had been in a few acts prior to that. The Rockin' Vicars recorded three singles before Lemmy left to move to London in 1967.

Lemmy formed Motörhead, the band with which he was synonymously linked, after being kicked out of Hawkwind in 1975. He had joined the seminal space rockers Hawkwind on the premise that he would be the new guitarist but was told he'd be playing bass, an instrument he was unfamiliar with. He always claimed he learned to play the bass on stage with Hawkwind, and attributed his rather unique approach to bass-playing to this ad hoc adaptation. His style changed Hawkwind's sound considerably. The best place to get a taste of that is on the wonderful live album "Space Ritual" (1973).

In my opinion Lemmy did what many would deem impossible and re-invented rock 'n' roll when he formed Motörhead. It's as though the whole history of rock 'n' roll were cooked up in a Frankenstein-like test tube, mixed with something really skanky, and voila': Motörhead! Lemmy kept pumping it out with the mighty 'head for forty years, over twenty studio albums, and who knows how many ruptured eardrums.

Lemmy died on 28th December 2015 aged 70. Pretty good innings for someone who took so many recreational drugs and drank so much, but a sad, sad loss all the same.

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