Hello, Here is the Letter "C" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

Jimmy Connors, Kim Clijsters and Chris Evert are ranked among the greatest tennis players in the world. Wilton Norman Chamberlain, known as Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999) was an American professional basketball player, considered one of the greatest players that this sport has ever had. Chamberlain holds numerous NBA records in scoring, rebounding and durability categories.

Answer: Yo Yo Ma

Yo Yo Ma (1955 -) was born in France, raised in the United States and comes from a Chinese musical family. He was a child prodigy; at the age of four he chose the cello and began performing before audiences.

Yo-Yo Ma has an eclectic repertoire; in addition to classical music he has numerous recordings from various genres. He has performed with the best orchestras in the world, with small groups, alone and participated in several film tracks.

Answer: Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons (1924-1984), known as Truman Capote was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright and actor with more than 20 works adapted to film and television dramas.

His nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences" (1965), was based on a real fact: the Clutters and their two children were brutally murdered by two teenagers. The crime took place in 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas. Truman Capote investigated the crime for four years.

The novel was first published in chapters in The New Yorker magazine and in January 1966 it was published as a book. In 1967, the film "In Cold Blood", based in Truman's book, was produced and directed by Richard Brooks, starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and others.

Answer: Cape Verde

In these three countries - Union of the Comoros, Republic of Congo and Central African Republic - French is one of the official languages. In Cape Verde the official language is Portuguese.

Cape Verde is an archipelago and island country, composed of ten volcanic islands, located in Central Atlantic Ocean. It is a republic, whose capital is Praia, and the majority of the population is Roman Catholic. Cape Verde is a member state of the African Union.

Answer: Conakry

Republic of Guinea is a country in Western Africa, located on the Atlantic coast. It is a rich country in hydric resources and has large reserves of bauxite, in addition to reserves of iron, gold and diamonds.

Conakry is the country's national capital and main deep port on the Atlantic. Conakry was founded in 1884 by French settlers. In 1893, it became the capital of the French Guinea Colony and has been the capital of the country since its independence in 1958.

Answer: Grover Cleveland

Bill Clinton served two terms (1993-2001), Jimmy Carter served one term (1977-1981) and Calvin Coolidge served as president from August 1923 to 1929 (he served part of the term of President Warren G. Harding, who passed away, and fulfilled his own mandate).

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) served as 22nd (from 1885-1889) and 24th (from 1893-1897) president of the United States. He was the only president to serve two non consecutive terms in office.

Cleveland, who was single, was 47 when he started his first term. At the age of 49, he married Frances Folsom, the daughter of a friendly couple who was 21 at the time of the wedding. Cleveland was not the first president to get married while on duty, but he was the first whose wedding ceremony was held at the White House.

Answer: Carla Bruni

Carla Bruni Sarkozy is an Italian-French singer, songwriter and fashion model. She was born in Italy, in 1967, and raised in France. She had a modeling career from 1987 to 1997 after which she started her musical career.

In 2008, Carla Bruni married Nicolas Sarkozy, who was the president of France at this time. Since then, she has dedicated herself to philanthropy and charity work.

Answer: Curium

Three of these "C" elements of the periodic table, Cadmium, Carbon and Cobalt are found in nature. "Curium" which was named after the physicists Pierre and Marie Curie does not occur naturally. It was identified by Glenn Seaborg, James, and Albert Ghiorso in 1944 at the University of Chicago.

Curium is a hard, brittle, intensely radioactive silvery metal, that tarnishes slowly in dry air at room temperature. Curium is produced artificially in nuclear reactors. In the periodic table Curium (Cm) appears in the actinide series with the atomic number 96. Some Curium isotopes provide long-lived sources of heat for generating electricity for use in space satellites.

Answer: Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum

"Cape Fear" is a 1962 American psychological thriller, adapted from the novel "The Executioners", 1957, by John D. MacDonald. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden and Robert Mitchum as Max Cady.

In 1991, "Cape Fear" was remade by Martin Scorsese, starring Nick Nolte as Sam and Robert De Niro as Max. Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum have cameos in this remake.

Answer: Caravaggio

"The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist" is an oil painting produced by Caravaggio. This painting is considered his masterpiece and is the only work by Caravaggio with his signature. The execution of John the Baptist is depicted in this work, and next to him is a girl extending a plate to receive his head. The work dates from 1608 and can be seen at St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was an Italian painter who was trained in Milan and who in his 20s went to Rome where he worked almost all his life. He was one of the main painters of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who became famous for the intense and unsettling realism of his large-scale religious work.