FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 5 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fox hunting

The actual full quote is "The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable". It is believed that the sport of fox hunting originated in Norfolk in 1534, when a farmer tried to catch a fox using his dogs.

Question by player pjjc

Answer: Has not been identified

The murderer nicknamed Jack the Ripper terrorized London in 1888, and is generally considered the most famous murderer in history.

Question by player Bukwas

Answer: You've got mail

Who could forget hearing every time you signed into AOL "You've got mail". Besides being the voice for AOL services Elwood, a voice actor, has also become a driver for Uber. Besides saying, "You've got mail" he would say, "You've got pictures" and "Welcome", just to name a few.

Question by player Deadwood003

Answer: Jordan

"Jordan" comes from the Aramaic or Hebrew word "Yarden" which means 'to come down'. Aptly named is the Jordan River which comes down from the Golan Heights into the Dead Sea, and the country of Jordan which borders this river.

Michael Jordan was the superstar of the Chicago Bulls dynasty of the 1990s. They won six titles under coach Phil Jackson and the leadership of Michael "Air" Jordan. Robert Jordan was the pseudonym of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., the author of the "Wheel of Time" series, but also of several "Conan the Barbarian" stories. Pascual Jordan was a computational physicist who would have likely shared the Nobel Prize in Physics had he not joined the Nazi party prior to WWII. 'Jordan algebra' was developed and named for him.

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Answer: Mark Twain

Twain toured several countries, giving comedic talks all over the country. He was in debt, and this tour, and the subsequent book, 'Following the Equator', published in 1897, cleared his commitments.

None of the other three famous men ever visited Australia.

Question by player ozzz2002

Answer: Shakespeare never attended a university

Shakespeare never studied at a university; there are no records showing he even attended grammar school. This is one of the many reasons that some people doubt that he was an author. Genius alone might give a person talent as a writer, but no amount of genius can supply the breadth of knowledge shown in his plays.

Question by player daver852

Answer: Benedict Arnold

Col. Arnold and Ethan Allen with the Green Mountain Boys made the early morning attack on the fort and captured it without a shot being fired. Eight days later Arnold led a force of men against a fort on the Richlieu River and took, among other material, the largest military ship on Lake Champlain. Arnold fled to England in 1781 after his plan to sell West Point to the British failed.

He then fought for the British against the Americans. Because of that he is looked upon as a traitor by the American people.

Question by player habitsowner

Answer: W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats wrote his own epitaph and insisted on a simple tombstone. The "horseman" has variously been interpreted as the personification of Death, as one of the mythical figures of Ireland, or simply as anyone who visits the tomb and reads the epitaph. Yeats died in France in 1939, aged 73, and is buried at Drumcliff in County Sligo.

Question by player MJoan

Answer: The President of Mexico

It has been home to the President of Mexico since 1934. It is located in the Chapultepec Forest in Mexico City.

Question by player Toneman52

Answer: Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr (1885-1962) won his Nobel Prize in 1922 for work on atomic structure and quantum mechanics. At the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, which he founded, he worked briefly with Werner Heisenberg, author of the 'uncertainty principle' and himself a 1932 physics Nobel-laureate who later led unsuccessful German efforts to develop an atomic bomb.

In 1943, Bohr fled occupied Denmark with his family, arriving in the USA where he played an important role at a facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the development of the atomic bombs used against Japan.

His son, Aage Niels Bohr, who worked with him on the Manhattan Project, later won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975, and died in September 2009. Louis de Broglie, Erwin Schrodinger and Manne Siegbahn were also all Nobel-laureates for physics.

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