Age Does Not Matter Trivia Quiz

Answer: Germany

Heinrich Nestle (1814-1890), known as Henri Nestlé, was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and founded the Nestlé Company. He trained as a pharmacist for four years, and, at the age of 20, he moved to Switzerland where he started to manufacture nut oils and carbonated mineral water.

After years of experiments, Nestlé, concerned with the high infant mortality rate, combined cow's milk with grains and sugar, and in 1867 launched "children flour", a substitute for breast milk, which quickly became popular.

He developed other products, including condensed milk, that allowed chocolatier Daniel Peter to formulate milk chocolate. This partnership resulted in the creation of the Nestlé Company in 1879, when Henri Nestlé was 65 years old.

Answer: False

Raymond Albert Kroc (1902-1984) was born and spent part of his life in Illinois. At the age of 15 he enlisted for World War I. After the war, Kroc made a living in many different ways to survive. In 1954, when he was a multi-mixer salesman, he visited Maurice and Richard McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, and was impressed by the way in which the establishment operated.

In 1955, Kroc opened the first store franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois. From then on, in agreement with the McDonald brothers, he established franchises and made innovative changes to the fast food franchise system. Finally, in 1961 at the age of 59, he bought the company and established uniformity in operations, service and facilities.

At the time of his death in 1984, the chain had 7,500 stores in the United States and many more in 31 other countries.

Answer: Japanese

The Japanese skier and alpinist, Yűichirô Miura (1932-), was the first person to climb to the edge of Mount Everest at the age of 80 years and 224 days. This record was made in May 2013. Despite having heart problems Yűichirô had already gone to Everest at the age of 70 and again at 75.

In addition, in May 1970, Yűichirô Miura became the first person to ski on Mount Everest. He skied 2,000 meters in 2'20" and fell 400 meters, using a large parachute to slow his descent. The documentary "The Man Who Skied Down Everest" shows this feat by Yűichirô and was awarded by the Academy in 1976.

Answer: Black Beauty

The English writer Anna Sewell (1820-1878) is known for her novel "Black Beauty", the first English novel written from the point of view of an animal, in this case, a horse. Anna, at the age of 14, suffered a fall which left her with trouble walking; afterwards she needed to use horse-drawn carriages for transportation, hence her love for horses.

Her mother, deeply religious, taught religion through children's and evangelical books, which were edited by Anna. Between 1871 and 1877, Anna wrote her only book: "Black Beauty", which she said was intended to convince people to treat animals better.

The book was published in 1877, five months before her death.

Answer: Painting

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961) is best known by her nickname, Grandma Moses. When she was very young she went to work as a live-in housekeeper, where she stayed for 15 years. At the age of 27, she married Thomas South Moses, and became a housewife and mother, always decorating her home, embroidering, creating beautiful objects.

In 1927, she became a widow, and in 1936 she went to live with her daughter. By the age of 76, due to arthritis, she couldn't continue embroidering and sewing. So she started to paint and thus began her brilliant career as a painter. Today her works can be seen in many museums and galleries.

Answer: The Coca-Cola Company

John Stith Pemberton (1831-1888) was an American biochemist who served in the Confederate States Army. In 1865, he suffered a sabre wound and the pain led him to an addiction to morphine. To get rid of his addiction, Dr. Pemberton started his experiments with morphine-free painkillers.

He began experimenting with coca leaves and kola nuts that culminated in the drug called "Pemberton's French Wine Coca". In Atlanta and Fulton County in 1886 the sale of alcoholic products was banned, so he had to think about a non-alcoholic alternative. Pemberton and the druggist Willis Venable made several attempts to find a formula which included blending the base syrup with carbonated water and decided to sell it like soda and not as medicine. Frank Mason Robinson, a marketing adviser, coined the name Coca-Cola, because the sound resembled other drugs sold at the time. Soon after Coca-Cola won the market, Dr. Pemberton fell ill and nearly went bankrupt.

In 1888 he sold the formula to the Atlanta pharmacist Asa Griggs Candler who, in 1892, founded the Coca-Cola Company.

Answer: Literature

Harry Louis Bernstein (1910-2011) was a British-born American writer who worked for film companies as a script reviewer and editor of several magazines. He published short stories in magazines and some books, but without success. When his wife Ruby passed away in 2002, after 67 years of marriage, he started writing in order to live with his loneliness.

The first book "The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers" was published in 2007, when he was 96. After this successful book he published three more; the last was published in 2012 after he had already passed away.

Answer: 75

Barbara Hillary (1931-2019) graduated with a degree in gerontology and worked as a nurse for many years. After surviving breast cancer in her 20s and lung cancer in her 60s and after retiring, she had several adventures and began preparations for a trip to the North Pole, an achievement she accomplished in 2007 when she was 75 years old.

It is believed that she was the first black woman and one of the oldest people to reach the North Pole. In 2011, at the age 79 she became the first African-American woman on the South Pole, according to existing information.

After these adventures she became an inspirational speaker, declaring that she hoped her journey would inspire other cancer survivors.

Answer: True

The American Ivy Baldwin (born William Ivy, 1866-1953) was, from 1890 to 1953, a celebrity acrobat, balloonist, parachutist, trapeze artist, tightrope walker, aviator and entertainer. However, he was more than an entertainment star. He was a balloonist in the army and did several experiments with airplanes especially in the Spanish-American War.

He celebrated his 82nd birthday by tightrope walking 125 feet above the canyon formed by South Boulder Creek in Colorado.

Answer: Wigmore Hall, London

Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) was a Polish-American classical pianist. He started studying the piano at the age of two and at the age of eight he went to study in Berlin. In 1906, Rubinstein performed for the first time at the Carnegie Hall, New York.

He made a solo career and as a chamber musician. In March of 1976, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of his first performance at the Carnegie Hall, Rubinstein, then aged 89, frail and nearly blind, returned to play there. On May 31st, 1976, he gave his last career concert at Wigmore Hall, in London, which was in danger of being demolished. Rubinstein urged the public to "keep coming back to this wonderful Hall".