Remember Me ? - A - Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ferhat Abbas

Abbas was elected to the French National Assembly in 1946, and the Algerian Assembly in 1948. Initially he attempted to co-operate with the French. He joined the FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale) in 1956 in order to achieve autonomy by revolution and became Prime Minister of the provisional government in 1958. After a bitter struggle with the French, Abbas became President of independent Algeria in 1962 but was deposed a year later by Ben Bella.

Abbas lived from 1899-1985 and spent a number of years under house arrest for opposing the Algerian military rule of Houari Boumédienne in 1976.
Rahman Farès preceded Abbas as Algeria's Executive Chief.

Answer: Woody Allen

Allen was arguably America's most original movie actor, writer, and director all rolled into one. On screen, he was the epitome of the modern bungler tormented by self-doubt, neurosis, and unanswerable lust. He co-wrote and appeared in 'What's New, Pussycat?' (1965), his first film, and 'Play It Again Sam' (1972) was the cry of a man who never got the girl and a tribute to Humphrey Bogart, who usually did.
Renowned for producing funny pictures with a serious side, such as 'Annie Hall' (1977) which won three Oscars, his work 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' (1989) were a little more thoughtful.

Answer: Uganda

Amin was responsible for the murder of an estimated 300,000 people. A veteran of the King's African Rifles, he overthrew Milton Obote and expelled Uganda's 70,000 Asians in 1971. Deposed after Britain broke diplomatic relations and Tanzania invaded in 1979, he fled to exile in Saudi Arabia.

In 2006 the film 'Last King of Scotland' depicts the crazy behaviour of Idi Amin.

Answer: Roald Amundsen

All four names were part of the South Pole team that became the first expedition to reach the bottom of the planet.
It is said that Amundsen beat his rival, British explorer Captain Robert Scott by a matter of days, with the latter losing his life after he had found out he had been beaten.

Amundsen's successes had him placed in the Parthenon of twentieth century greats and on a par with Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's conquering of Mount Everest some 42 years later.

Amundsen died heroically, he was never seen again after setting off to rescue Umberto Nobile's crew which had crashed the airship 'Italia' in the area that is known as the Barent's Sea. Amundsen died in 1928, but his body was never found and the exact date of his death is not known.

Answer: Maxwell Anderson

Maxwell Anderson began as a journalist before the hugely successful play 'What Price Glory?'. His work ranged from prose and verse drama, to radio plays and musical comedies, from satires on the New Deal to historical dramas such as 'Anne of the Thousand Days'. He lived from 1888-1959.

Edmund Allenby was a World War I officer from the British cavalry, Anderson Smyth was a fictional name designed by the author of this quiz, and Edward Appleton was a British physicist.

Answer: Sir Frederick Ashton

Ashton led a wonderful and colourful life as a choreographer around the Second World War, but it was in 1963 that he really shot to prominence to the outside world when he took over the reins as director of the Royal Ballet. He worked with many of the world's finest dancers including Fonteyn, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Lynn Seymour, Christopher Gable and of course Rudolph Nureyev.

He lived from 1904-1988.

Answer: Fred Astaire

Astaire made his first film in 1933, 'Flying Down to Rio' in which he teamed up with Ginger Rogers. This partnership soon became one of Hollywood's most popular and they made ten films together. Although Astaire arranged all his own dances he usually danced in tandem with his dance director, Hermes Pan. Following the break up of the Astaire-Rogers partnership, Astaire went on to dance with some of Hollywood's leading ladies.

In 1949 Astaire received a special Academy Award for his outstanding contribution to the technique of musical motion pictures. In later years, as well as writing an autobiography 'Steps in Time', he continued to appear in films in acting roles such as in 'The Towering Inferno' (1974).

Born in 1899, he passed away in 1987.

Answer: Margaret Atwood

The 'Circle Game' was Atwood's first published work followed by 'The Edible Woman'. 'Surfacing' (1972) became a cult novel, which owed a lot to Atwood's early years spent in Northern Ontario and Quebec, and like much of her fiction, dealt with female self-discovery and emancipation. 'Lady Oracle' (1976), 'Life Before Man (1979), and 'Bodily Harm' (1981), were succeeded by the cult classic 'The Handmaids Tale' (1985).

In 2000 she won the Booker Prize for the critically acclaimed 'The Blind Assassin' which many regarded as one of the finest pieces of literature that year.

Answer: Peggy Ashcroft

A thorough British dramatic training made Ashcroft a leading Shakespearean stage actress before her sporadic film appearances, from the supporting role in 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' to the Academy Award winning performance as Mrs. Moore in David Lean's 'A Passage to India'. She also appeared in the British TV series 'The Jewel in the Crown'. Ashcroft died in June 1991 aged 83.

Answer: Oswald Avery

A physician by profession, he joined the Rockefeller Institute Hospital in New York in 1913. In 1932 he began his famous work on the evidence, published in 1944, that DNA was fundamentally important. He had identified the mediator of cellular inheritance and set the stage for the elaboration of its structure and function.

Avery was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1877 and died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1955.