Three of These People Belong Together Quiz

Answer: Winston Churchill

Napoleon was exiled twice, first to the island of Elba in 1814. He escaped from Elba after less than one year, and returned to France to raise an army. However, his resurgence was short-lived, as he was defeated at the battle of Waterloo, captured by the British forces and exiled to the island of St Helena, where he died in 1821.

The Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (1924-2003) fled to exile in Libya, then Saudi Arabia when his attempt to annex the province of Kagera in Tanzania backfired, resulting in the Tanzanian army invading Uganda.

A rival to Stalin's leadership, Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party in 1928 and exiled to Alma-Ata (in present day Kazakhstan). A year later he was ordered to leave the USSR and was granted asylum first in Turkey, then France and Norway. Finally he settled in Mexico, where he was assassinated in 1936.

Famous exiles in fiction include Romeo and Yoda (the latter submitting himself to self-exile)

Answer: King Edward VII

King Henry VIII (1491-1547) was the third child and second son of Henry VII. His older brother was Arthur, Prince of Wales, who died aged 15 only months after his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Following Arthur's death in 1502 Henry took the title of Prince of Wales and married his brother's widow.

George V (1865-1936) was the second son of the then Prince of Wales and later King Edward VII. George's older brother, Prince Albert Victor, died childless during the 1892 influenza pandemic at the age of 27.

George V's second son was Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George (1895-1952). The Prince, known as Bertie, unexpectedly became King George VI in 1936 when his older brother, Edward VIII, created a constitutional crisis by abdicating to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorced American.

Edward VII (1841-1910) was the oldest son of Queen Victoria, so there's nothing interesting in that particular succession - apart from his advanced age when he finally became king.

Answer: Victor Hugo

George Orwell was born Eric Blair; Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens; and George Eliot was born Mary Anne Evans.

"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign." --Anatole France

Answer: St Francis of Assisi

St Stephen, regarded as the first Christian martyr, was stoned to death for blasphemy.

St Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was assassinated in his cathedral by four knights in 1170.

St Maximillian Kolbe was a Polish friar imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941. He volunteered to take the place of a stranger sentenced to death by starvation, and after surviving three weeks without food or water, was killed by lethal injection.

Answer: Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen's father, a factory worker and machinery inspector, tried to talk him out of pursuing acting as a career. It didn't work, and subsequently one of Martin's brothers and all of his children have followed in his footsteps.

Answer: Mark Spitz

Eddie Eagan was the first person to win a medal at both summer and winter Olympics, and also the first person to win gold in both seasons: a boxing gold in 1920, followed by a bobsleigh gold in 1932.

Johnny Weissmuller, also famous for playing Tarzan in films, won 5 gold medals for swimming (1924 and 1928), and a bronze in 1924 as a member of the men's water polo team.

Rebecca Romero won silver in the quadruple sculls (rowing) in 2004, followed by gold for cycling in 2008.

Mark Spitz won about a million medals, but all for swimming.

Answer: Christopher Columbus

Magellan was killed in battle in the Philippines in 1521. His ships went on to circumnavigate the globe, completing their journey more than a year after his death.

Cook was killed in a skirmish in Hawaii in 1779. Despite the violent nature of his death, the Hawaiians are reputed to have held him in such esteem that they performed funerary rituals on his body normally reserved for society elders.

English mountaineer Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine disappeared in 1924 during an attempt to climb Mt Everest. Mallory's body was discovered in 1999.

Over a period of 12 years, Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic before dying in Spain in 1506.

Answer: Helen Clark (New Zealand)

Helen Clark was Prime Minister of New Zealand from December 1999 until November 2008. She became the country's second female PM when the Labour Party under her leadership defeated the government led by Jenny Shipley.

Answer: Albert Einstein

The Hertz (Hz) is the SI unit of frequency; the newton (N) is the SI unit of force; and the ampere (A) is the SI unit of electric current.

Other units of measurement named after people include the becquerel, coulomb, farad, gray, henry, joule, kelvin, pascal, siemens, sievert, tesla, watt and weber.

Einstein did have an element named after him, though, so he shouldn't feel altogether left out.

Answer: The Night Stalker

Five murders in Arkansas and Texas in 1946 are linked to the Phantom Killer.

The Zodiac Killer claimed 37 victims in his taunting letters sent to the media, although just five of these have been officially confirmed.

Arguably history's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper is believed to have murdered five women in London in 1888.

Richard Ramirez aka the Night Stalker, who was apprehended in 1985, has been linked to over 30 murders that took place in 1984 and 1985.