FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 7 Trivia Quiz

Answer: George VI

George VI came to the throne after the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936. George VI was the father of our present Queen Elizabeth II.

Question by player caz231231

Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary

While all of these people were born in New Zealand, only Sir Edmund Hillary was made an honorary citizen of Nepal. Hillary and Nepal native Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the dramatic feat, the Nepali government made Sir Edmund its first honorary citizen at a ceremony attended by over 450 fellow Everest climbers. Sir Edmund died on January 11, 2008.

Question by player adam36

Answer: Wallis Simpson

Edward VIII, the eldest son of George V and Queen Mary was born in 23 June 1894 on the outskirts of London. Queen Victoria was the ruler at that time,Edward VIII's Great-Grandmother. He was made the Prince of Wales on 13th July 1911 when George V was the king. Subsequently, Edward VIII was made King of England on the 20 January 1936 when his father died. Edward VIII didn't have very good relations with his father because of his reckless behavior and numerous affairs with married women. On 11 December 1936, after just 11 months on the throne, he abdicated because he wanted to marry the wealthy American socialite Wallis Simpson who was divorced two times already and remarriage after divorce was opposed by the Church of England.

After the marriage, Edward VIII was made the Duke of Windsor, and Wallis was made Duchess of Windsor. George VI, Edward's younger brother became king after Edward's abdication. Edward VIII lived the rest of his life with his wife Wallis in France where he died on 28 May 1972 in Paris.

After his abdication the only official role he had was as Governor of the Bahamas during World War II.

Question by player mask100

Answer: Agnes

Charlotte was the only sister to achieve recognition during her lifetime, Anne and Emily died of tuberculosis at 29 and 30 years of age.

Question by player Incubus_Dreams

Answer: They were nuns

Carol Gilbert, Ardeth Platte, and Jackie Hudson were nuns who had prior arrest records. They were protesting the Afghanistan war. They used a pair of bolt cutters to break into the base and used bottles filled with their own blood to paint crosses and symbols onto a nuclear missile silo.

Question by player H0lyAerith

Answer: Joseph and Etienne

The Montgolfier brothers were born Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne, but were known as Joseph and Etienne. They both were heirs of a successful family business of papermaking. When they observed that heated air made paper bags rise, they started experiments with different devices.

After many tests, the brothers publicly demonstrated their invention, the hot air balloon, in summer 1783.

Question by player wellenbrecher

Answer: Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes, born in France in 1596, has been referred to as the father of modern philosopy, and also the father of analytic geometry or Cartesian geometry with Cartesian coordinates named after him. Cartesian geometry helps math students with visualizing geometry using algebraic functions.

But he's probably most famous for declaring "Cogito ergo sum", translating from Latin into English as "I think, therefore I am", as a philosophical statement.

Question by player napierslogs

Answer: Evolutionary biology

Since releasing "The Selfish Gene", Dawkins has become a prominent atheist figure, releasing more than a dozen other books including the 2006 work "The God Delusion" (which was about disproving the idea of a divine creator). Such controversial claims have made him a divisive figure internationally, but "The Selfish Gene" has most certainly withstood the tests of time.

The book was also one of the earliest to utilize the word 'meme' which, since, has become a popular term in internet culture.

Question by player kyleisalive

Answer: She was murdered in her mountain cabin

There are many theories as to who killed Dian Fossey, but no one has been convicted. She was buried in the gorilla graveyard next to Digit, her favorite gorilla, and other gorillas who were killed by poachers.

Question by player Chumsy17

Answer: Wilhelmina

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962) was the only child of King William III of the House of Orange-Nassau and his second wife, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. As the king's three sons from his first marriage had all died in infancy, Wilhelmina became her father's heir; she became queen in 1890, at the age of 10, with her mother as regent.

In 1901 she married Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a German duke; the couple had only one child, Juliana, who ascended to the throne in 1948, upon Wilhelmina's abdication. During the 58 years of her reign - the longest of any Dutch monarch - Wilhelmina led her country through some of the most turbulent times in recent history, including both World Wars.

When Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, the queen fled to Britain, and from there led the Dutch resistance against the Nazis. Sadly, after her return to the Netherlands at the end of WWII, Wilhelmina's health declined, which convinced her to abdicate in favour of Juliana.

The former queen spent her remaining years at the palace of Het Loo in Apeldoorn, where she died in 1962, at the age of 82.

A bronze equestrian statue of Queen Wilhelmina stands on Rokin street in Amsterdam; a state park in Arkansas (US) is named after her. Sophie was the name of William III's first wife; Beatrix, Juliana's eldest daughter and Wilhelmina's granddaughter, abdicated in 2013 in favour of her son, Willem-Alexander.

Question by player LadyNym