Five People, the Fifth Person or a Royal V? Quiz

Answer: Rat Pack Mascots

The "Rat Pack" was term used by journalists in the 1960's for Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop. They were known for making headlines with their escapades such as chasing women, fighting with one another, drinking and entertaining.

Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Shirley MacLaine, Juliet Prowse and Angie Dickinson earned the nickname "Rat Pack Mascots" with their association with the rowdy group.

Answer: Eddie

"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" is a 2003 novel written by Mitch Albom. The theme of the book changes as Eddie progresses through heaven, each theme being the lesson Eddie learns from each of the people he meets: Blue Man, the Captain, Ruby, Marguerite and Tala.

Answer: The Dave Clark Five

The Dave Clark Five was a group in the "British Invasion". American G.I.'s were among the first to hear The Dave Clark Five, who got their start playing American military bases in the UK.

"Glad All Over" reached number one on the UK singles chart and number six on the American U.S. pop singles chart.

Answer: False

The outspoken leaders from several activist organizations were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines and Lee Weiner.

Months before the Democratic National Convention, activists met to coordinate protest efforts by over 100 anti-war groups. Later these meetings were used as evidence for conspiracy charges. When the Chicago convention began demonstrators clashed with police resulting in 589 arrests and 219 people injured.

In March 1969, a grand jury indicted eight activists on charges related to the violence in Chicago. One of the cases was dropped, and the remaining defendants became known as the Chicago Seven.

Answer: the Famous Five

The Famous Five were Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards. The case became known as the "Persons Case" and helped to shape the future of all Canadian women.

They have come to represent an entire generation's political activism, including the nationwide campaign for women's suffrage.

Answer: Dionne Quintuplets

The Dionne quintuplets, born two months premature on 28 May 1934, were Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie and Marie. The parents, Oliva-Edouard and Elzire Dionne, were already poor with five other children. Women from nearby villages brought breast milk, the Canadian Red Cross sent nurses and an incubator to help the family. The world referred to the Dionne quintuplets as "miracle babies" and they became symbols of fortitude and joy during the Great Depression. "Dionne goods" were marketed.

The girls became a profitable tourist attraction and by 1937 about 3,000 visitors were passing daily through the "Quintland" hospital compound where the sisters were being cared for. Hollywood exploited their fame, and four movies were made about them--all with happy endings. However, the real lives of the Dionne quintuplets were quite different. On May 27, 1935, the provincial government of Ontario took sisters away from their parents, after their father signed a contract with promoters to exhibit the girls at the World's Fair in Chicago. Oliva cancelled the contract the day after he signed it but authorities stepped in anyway to protect the babies from "germs, potential kidnappers, and exploitation".

In their 1963 autobiography, "We Were Five", they wrote of being isolated from others during their upbringing in "Quintland". Even though their parents lived across the street the couple felt unwelcome and became infrequent visitors. "We didn't know each other", Cecile recalled. When the girls were nine, their parents won a bitter custody battle, yet they described their home as "the saddest home we ever knew". They didn't perceive their parents as saviors from "Quintland" but rather they saw their mother as unloving and their father as controlling sometimes even tyrannical. When they were 18, the Dionne sisters left home, breaking off nearly all contact with their family. Emilie became a nun and died of a seizure in 1954. Three married and had children, but divorced. Marie died of a blood clot in 1970. In the mid-1990s, the three remaining sisters, Annette, Cecile, and Yvonne, wrote in their book "The Dionne Quintuplets: Family Secrets" that their father had sexually abused them.

Despite the enormous revenue generated by the quintuplets, the funds they were provided eventually disappeared. When Annette, Cecile, and Yvonne reached their sixties, they lived together outside Montreal on a combined income of $746 a month. In 1998, they asked the Canadian government to compensate them for the trust fund money that had been lost or taken. The government's first reply included an offer of $2,000 a month, but after a public outcry, a $4 million settlement was reached.

Answer: James Monroe

Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States.

The Monroe Doctrine, issued in 1823, stated that efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention and was seen as a defining moment in U.S. foreign policy.

Answer: Alan Shepard

In 1961 Shepard became the second person and the first American to travel into space (Mercury flight). With Apollo 14 he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, and the only astronaut from the Mercury Seven crew to do so. During the Apollo 14 mission he famously hit two golf balls on the lunar surface.

Answer: Henry V

Upon his accession to the throne of England in April 1413 Henry V resolved to revive the war against France and press his claim to the French throne. During negotiations Henry made unacceptable demands that the French emissaries rejected and England prepared for war.

The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War. On October 24, 1415 Henry led his troops in hand to hand combat. Within two hours of the battle beginning it was clear that the English had won.

While individual French soldiers fought hard, it was from desperation as the English knights, men-at-arms and archers overwhelmed the struggling mass, taking as prisoner those who might be worth a ransom and killing the rest.

Answer: False

The Nine Muses were:

Calliope the muse of epic poetry
Clio the muse of history
Erato the muse of love poetry
Euterpe the muse of music
Melpomene the muse of tragedy
Polyhymnia the muse of sacred poetry
Terpsichore the muse of dance
Thalia the muse of comedy
Urania the muse of astronomy.