Coffee? Who Said That? Trivia Quiz

Answer: overexcited women

George Orson Welles, 1915-1985, was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theatre, radio and film. He is best remembered for the films "Citizen Kane", "Magnificent Ambersons" ,and "The Third Man"
His radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds" is said to have thrown America into a panic over a supposed Martian invasion! He was also a gifted actor and is remembered for his "Othello".

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865,
Another, more thought provoking quote from this American President is the following -
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
Perhaps other statesmen, of all nations, would be wise to follow his example.

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States of America, from 1981-1989. He is considered a heroic figure in the Republican party and conservative movement. His most famous quote may be "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Reagan commands varying degrees of respect and support, some saying that he left behind a more efficient and prosperous economy. Others however point to a quadrupled US national debt and huge budget deficits.
In earlier years he was a well known film actor.

Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday", and "Four Quartets" and the plays "Murder in the Cathedral" and "The Cocktail Party", as well as other works. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.

Answer: Mae West

Born on August 17, 1893, in Brooklyn, New York, Mae West became famous in her late 30s, when she might have been considered rather old for playing sexy harlots, but her persona and physical beauty overcame any doubt. The blunt sexuality of her films aroused the moral indignation of several groups, but this sexuality is what she is remembered for today. She was a mistress of the double entendre.

Did you ask "Who on earth was Nova Pilbeam ?" ?
David O Selznick considered that Nova Pilbeam had the potential to be a star of world quality. He wanted to cast her as Mrs De Winter in "Rebecca". It didn't happen. Instead, Nova Pilbeam is a forgotten actress with an odd name, except for those who have seen her in a film.

Answer: theorems

Paul Erdos (1913 - 1996) was an immensely prolific and famously eccentric mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory and probability. He is known for his wildly eccentric behaviour.

Answer: J. S. Bach

Since Bach fathered seventeen children one is tempted to ask whether a little less coffee might have been advisable!
Bach's music is frequently bracketed with the literature of William Shakespeare and the science of Isaac Newton. In Germany, in the 19th and 20th centuries, many streets were named and statues erected in honour of Bach. His music features three times - more than any other composer - on the Voyager Golden Record, a phonograph record containing a broad sample of the images, common sounds, languages, and music of Earth, sent into outer space with the two Voyager probes.
In 1717 Prince Leopold offered him the position of Kapellmeister at Köthen, where he wrote the Brandenburg Concertos, the four Orchestral Suites and the violin concertos, and married his second wife Anna Magdalena, who bore 13 children. During the last years of his life he managed also to write the Mass in B minor, the six choral Motets, The Art of Fugue, The Musical Offering and Goldberg Variations. His inventive contrapuntalism became unfashionable soon after his death until the early 19th century, since when his reputation has remained unquestioned.

Answer: Comte de Talleyrand

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord was a French statesman born in 1754. He was appointed Ambassador to London in 1792. He was later declared an émigré and exiled to London and the US. After the fall of Robespierre he returned to France and was appointed Foreign Minister under the Directorate.
He was a supporter of Napoleon but deserted him in 1814 and became the leader of the anti-Napoleonic faction. After serving for a while under Louis Philippe he retreated into private life and died in France in 1838.

Answer: passed the border into Germany

Edward VII, born 1841, was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. He married Alexandra of Denmark and they had three sons and three daughters. He succeeded his mother in 1901 after more than half a century as heir apparent. During his reign he strove to allay international animosities by visiting various capital cities. He was succeeded by his son George V in 1910.

Answer: Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French writer and philosopher. After being active in the French resistance in WWII, he gave up "political" writing for novels, typical of which was "L'Etranger" - "a study of an absurd man in an absurd world". Among his other works were some essays on suicide. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1960.