Among the Living Trivia Quiz

Answer: F. Lee Bailey

Bailey also defended Captain Ernest Medina for the My Lai Massacre. Because of misconduct when defending Claude DuBoc, he was disbarred in Florida (2001) and Massachusetts (2003).

Answer: Pierre Cardin

Not long after he set out on his own, his career took off when he designed many of the costumes for a masked ball, called 'The Party of the Century', held by Carlos de Beistegui in 1951. Cardin was also the first designer to put his logo on his creations.

Answer: Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor, born on March 26, 1930, was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1981 and served until she retired in 2006. Justice Ginsberg was appointed by Clinton in 1993, Kagan by Obama in 2010, and Sotomayor by Obama in 2009 (all three were still on the Court on November 1, 2015).

Answer: I. M. Pei

Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Suzhou, China, on April 26, 1917. Among his other designs are the Dallas City Hall in Texas, the National Gallery East Building in Washington, D.C., Le Grande Louvre in Paris, and the Bank of China in Hong Kong.

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Born on April 21, 1926, Elizabeth married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 1947 and had four children: Charles, Ann, Andrew, and Edward. She began her rule on February 6, 1952, after the death of her father. On September 9, 2015, she became the longest ruling British monarch at 63 years 217 days taking the record of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Answer: Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is a British primatologist and anthropologist who is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. She spent some 55 years studying wild chimps in Gombe Stream National Park. In 1977, she established the Jane Goodall Institute to protect chimpanzees and their habitats (on November 1, 2015, it had over 10,000 groups in over 100 countries).

Answer: Desmond Tutu

Desmund Tutu (1931-2021) was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town. He had been very active in fighting racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty, and HIV/AIDS. He won many prestigious honors, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

Answer: Chuck Yeager

Charles "Chuck" Yeager was born on February 143, 1923. He is a retired Brigadier General, who spent 1941-1975 in the US Air Force, flying combat missions in World War II and Korea and holding command posts in such arenas as Vietnam. He has been awarded such medals as the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Legion of Merit, and Presidential Medal of Freedom.

He is best known to the general public as a test pilot who, on October 14, 1947, flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1, the first time anyone had broken the sound barrier.

Answer: Buzz Aldrin

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin accompanied Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11. On July 21, 1969, he followed Armstrong in setting foot on moon. A retired Air Force Colonel, Aldrin graduated from West Point in 1951 and earned a Sc.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.

Answer: Sam Donaldson

Samuel "Sam" Donaldson, born March 11, 1934, served as White House Correspondent from 1977-1989 and 1998-1999. He also covered the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, Watergate, and many political conventions of both parties, and anchored the ABC Sunday Night News 1979-1989.