FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Boxing

Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836) was Heavyweight Champion from 1792-1795. He developed a new defensive style of boxing which he taught at his boxing academy and described in his influential book 'The Art of Boxing'. Peter Sellers' mother, Agnes 'Peg' Marks, was related to Mendoza's family and Sellers kept a portrait of the boxer on his office wall.

Question by player Otautau

Answer: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, who was born on the 14 March 1879 in Germany, and died on the 18 April 1955 at the age of 76, in the USA. He is most famous for establishing the general theory of relativity, and his mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2.

Question by player froggyx

Answer: Tiger Woods

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is one of, if not _the_ most successful golfers of all time, consequently, he is believed to be one of the highest-paid professional sportsmen in the world. He met his future wife Elin Nordegren in 2001, they married in 2004 and divorced in 2010 after Wood's highly publicised infidelity scandal with New York nightclub manageress Rachel Uchitel.

Question by player nickdrew55

Answer: Epilepsy

Julius Caesar had epilepsy. From his life and career it certainly did not prove a barrier to him. This may indicate that the ancient Romans were more liberal in outlook than much of subsequent history has been.

Question by player KATE211

Answer: Jack London

His mother was Flora Wellman and she was living with William Chaney, an astrologer, but as the 1906 earthquakes destroyed many records, it is not certain what names were on his birth certificate or even if they were married. When told of the pregnancy, Chaney denied paternity. Flora, upset by his refusal, shot herself and after the birth handed Jack to Virginia Prentiss, only to take him back when she married John London in 1876.

Question by player riodice

Answer: Ohio and North Carolina

A version of the Ohio plate states "Birthplace of Aviation" and North Carolina's car license proclaims "First in Flight". During youth the Wright brothers' family had moved to Dayton, Ohio. The brothers conducted a number of glider experiments in North Carolina prior to their first successful powered flight at Kitty Hawk.

Question by player Toneman52

Answer: Robert Pershing Wadlow

At age 4 he was already 5 foot 4 inches. Sadly he died at the age of just 22 from an infection resulting from a blister caused by a faulty ankle brace. Recent evidence concludes what killed Wadlow was the same thing that made him a giant: a brain tumor pressing on the pituitary gland.

Question by player daemonfactor

Answer: The Nobel Prize for Literature

Boris Pasternak refused The Nobel Prize for Literature, because of pressures from the Soviet Union. There was a demonstration calling for Pasternak's exile. He was told if he went and collected his Nobel Prize he would not be allowed re-entry into the Soviet Union. He was later exiled anyway, even after refusing The Nobel Prize.

Question by player 888button

Answer: Virgin Atlantic Challenger II

The 72-foot powerboat cut two hours off the West-East time of 3 days, 12 hours, 12 minutes set by S.S. United States in 1952. It was Branson's second attempt. However, while Branson claimed the 'Blue Riband' title for fastest Atlantic crossing, Kings Point Museum, which administers the Hales Trophy refused to hand it over, saying that the cup was for liners, not powerboats.

His record was broken in 1992 and that new record again in 1998.

Question by player darksplash

Answer: King Henry VI

King Henry VI married Margaret of Anjou - a niece of King Charles VII of France - on April 23rd, 1445, following lengthy negotiations that included the signing of the 1444 Treaty of Tours. Their wedding venue was the church belonging to Titchfield Abbey, a minor house of the Premonstratensian order of Catholic priests that had been founded by the Bishop of Winchester in the early 13th century. Like many others in England, Titchfield Abbey was closed down by King Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and later became the residence of the Earls of Southampton.

It then played host to a range of other royal visitors, including King Edward VI, Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I before the building was abandoned and deliberately ruined in the 18th century.

Question by player Fifiona81