FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 6 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell created 321 covers for "The Saturday Evening Post" between 1916 and 1961. Some of his more well known paintings include, "Saying Grace", "The Doctor and the Doll", and "The Problem We All Live With". He passed away in 1978 at the age of 84.

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Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

The question of who was first to invent the telphone is disputed. Several inventors had been working on the problem of transmitting and receiving sound electrically. However, Bell was first to be awarded a patent for his invention.

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Answer: Spruce Goose

Built during the Second World War, the plane successfully flew only once before being returned to the hanger, never to fly again.

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Answer: Billy

Billy is their first name. Each one of them is famous in their own field - Cyrus in country music and acting; Billy Carter is the brother of Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the U.S., Billy Crystal is a comedian, actor and award show host and Billy Graham is a world famous evangelist.

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Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

The works of Austen, Turner and Potter all have works inspired from a sojourn at this gorgeous little English seaside town. Napoleon never visited Lyme Regis - though one of the more famous film images of the town is Meryl Streep standing on "The Cobb" - in the film "The French Lieutenant's Woman".

This film was in turn based on the book of the same name, written by long time Lyme Regis resident, John Fowles.

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Answer: John Dillinger

John Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in June, 1903. He died in July of 1934 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.

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Answer: Archie

Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born on 6 May 2019. He is the eighth great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.

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Answer: She was cross-eyed

Strabismus is a relatively common condition, estimated to affect some 2% of the population in the United States. Many children outgrow it naturally; there are many therapies that are used to treat it, including eye exercises, corrective lenses, and surgery. Because of her condition, Mrs. Grant was often photographed in profile. Friends urged her to have an operation to correct her strabismus, but her husband (who was devoted to her) said he liked her cross-eyed.

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Answer: Hans Alfred Nieper

Hans Alfred Nieper spent his life trying to develop cures for diseases like cancer, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Hamburg. Albert Einstein was a physicist, Michael Ballack a soccer player and Walter Benz a mathematician.

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Answer: He washed his hands

Semmelweis wanted to reduce incidents of puerperal fever, a deadly form of septicaemia which was common in maternity wards at the time. At the hospital he worked at, he made doctors take the remarkable step of washing their hands between performing autopsies and delivering babies: this simple thing caused incidence of puerperal fever to drop from upwards of 25% down to less than 2%.

Unfortunately, handwashing was so revolutionary that it created a backlash from other doctors, who were extremely offended by the idea that gentlemen could even have unclean hands. Semmelweis vociferously denounced his critics, which led people to believe he was going insane.

As a result, he was committed to an asylum in 1865, where he died of septicaemia -- the same thing he had so successfully combated. Handwashing became a widespread practice a few years after he died.

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