FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 8 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Queen Victoria

Victoria was 13 when she was given Dash as a present by her mother. He became her constant companion and after her coronation she is said to have rushed upstairs to give him his bath. He is buried in Windsor Home Park. The inscription on the marble effigy marking the grave includes the words "Reader if you would be beloved and die regretted profit by the example of Dash".

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Answer: funerals

"Wisdom from Yogi", so to speak, has been quoted by baseball fans and other for decades! It's big fun, too!

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Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci, often referred to as "The Renaissance Man" had multiple talents. He produced beautiful works of art and excelled in applying the scientific process in everything he created. He sketched war machines to resemble a catapult, a helicopter, landing gears and a machine gun.

He did this hundreds of years before someone else got around to inventing them. He was never given the credit for his designs because he never published them.

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Answer: the Habsburgs

From territories within and without the Holy Roman Empire (which included what are now Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Poland, and others) ruled by a Habsburg monarch, there arose the Habsburg Empire or the Danubian Monarchy, which was proclaimed the Austrian Empire 1804.

In Europe, it was second only to the Russian Empire in size. The Habsburgs are named for their castle in the Swiss Canton of Aargau. Once there was hardly a Roman Catholic throne in Europe that was not supplied by the House of Habsburg, including every formally elected Holy Roman Emperor between 1452 and 1740 and many rulers of Spain and the once formidable Austrian Empire.

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Answer: Lola Montez

Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert was born in February 1821 in Grange, Ireland. After marrying at the age of sixteen and divorcing five years later, she started accepting favours from wealthy men, therefore being labelled as a courtesan. She travelled from Calcutta, India to Paris, Munich, San Francisco and Melbourne and mesmerised men wherever she went. King Ludwig I of Bavaria made her Countess of Langfeld in 1847, a move so unpopular with the growing student revolutionary movement at the time, that Ludwig I was forced to abdicate his throne.

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Answer: Carl Sagan

The book "Cosmos" is one of highest selling science books ever written. Carl Sagan also wrote several other science books as well as the novel "Contact", written in 1985, that spawned a movie of the same name starring Jodie Foster. Carl Sagan was one of the greatest modern American astronomers of all time, and was influential in educating the world on the disastrous effects of nuclear winter.

He died in 1996.

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Answer: Thomas Telford

Scottish civil engineer, Thomas Telford, who lived from 1757 to 1843, built more than 1000 miles of road in his lifetime.

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Answer: Mark Twain

Mark Twain's dry wit is one of the attributes that made him such a beloved author and humorist. His somewhat sardonic comments can bring a smile to the face over 100 years later.

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Answer: Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla is credited with helping to discover radio, A/C electricity, computers, robotics, and radar. This eccentric genius suffered from what is, today, called Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He was a germaphobe, refused to touch anything that was round, was celibate, and had a fear of human hair and females.

His obsession with the number three included walking around the block three times before entering a building and insisting on hotel rooms with numbers divisible by three.

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Answer: William the Lionheart

William was also known as the Duke of Normandy. He invaded England and defeated King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 to become the first Norman King of England.

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