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1. Which Alex is an ordained minister, a classical pianist, plays the drums, and formed a rock band with his brother?
2. An ancient Mycenaean Greek has the honor of being the first to be called Alex. By what name is this mythical person more commonly known today?
3. Unfortunately, not every Alex has been an upstanding citizen. One particularly ultraviolent, sociopathic Alex enjoyed fantasizing about such pastimes as murder, rape, and torture - all while listening to Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
4. In 1880, only four years after inventing the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell created a new kind of telephone that could send and receive calls through beams of light. What did Bell name this new invention?
5. This particular Alex gives you the answer. You have to guess the question.
6. Alex Lifeson is the guitarist for the Canadian band "Rush". What was his name at birth?
7. In 1976, what well-known Alex published a book about his roots in Africa?
8. Which Alexander is not famous for being a count or carrying a musket, but for the books he authored?
9. The German Princess Alix Viktoria Helena Luise Beatrice was unlucky enough to be a carrier of hemophilia, which she passed on to her son. Her association with a certain mystic, whom she believed would cure her son's hemophilia, was turned into a plot to destroy the country and suppress the peasants - who promptly and violently overthrew the monarchy. Who was this unlucky Alex married to?
10. Given what happened to the Romanovs, and the number of people named Alex in the family, you could say humorously (darkly humorous, obviously) that Alex had what kind of day, similar to the name of a children's book?
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