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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

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#1. People Mixture. Player napierslogs asks:
  Which man, famous for inventing dynamite, left his fortune in his will to fund an annual award prize in six fields, including one for exceptional work in peace?

    Bertha von Suttner
    Charles Darwin
    Alfred Nobel
    Niels Abel

#2. People Mixture. Player pjjc asks:
  Which English sport was Oscar Wilde describing when he said, "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable?"

    Football
    Fox hunting
    Snooker
    Darts

#3. People Mixture. Player musicmachine asks:
  Who was known as the 'Desert Fox'?

    Winston Churchill
    Erwin Rommel
    Adolph Hitler
    Curtis Lemay

#4. People Mixture. Player paul4760 asks:
  What bombastic businessman-turned-president was born in New York City on June 14, 1946?

    George Steinbrenner
    Ron Popeil
    Ted Turner
    Donald Trump

#5. People Mixture. Player dgreatvix asks:
  On whom is the name "America" based?

    Amerigo Vespucci
    Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón
    Christopher Columbus
    Ferdinand Magellan

#6. People Mixture. Player napierslogs asks:
  His name has come to mean signature, but what was John Hancock originally famous for?

    Signer of US Declaration of Independence
    US representative in the United Nations
    Signer of Treaty of Versailles
    Signer of Anglo-Irish Treaty

#7. People Mixture. Player DeepHistory asks:
  Which of the following British statesmen made this remark: "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is"?

    Anthony Eden
    Robert Walpole
    William Gladstone
    Winston Churchill

#8. People Mixture. Player chabenao1 asks:
  King John Sobieski was hailed as "The Saviour of Christendom" by the Pope in the 17th century. Which country was he king of?

    Argentina
    Scotland
    Belgium
    Poland

#9. People Mixture. Player Upstart3 asks:
  Born John Wilson, who is the prolific English writer and composer of music who is best known for a novel that was made into a controversial movie starring Malcolm McDowell?

    Alasdair Gray
    J. P. Donleavy
    Leslie Thomas
    Anthony Burgess

#10. People Mixture. Player gable asks:
  What influential Chinese philosopher was born with the name Kong Qiu?

    Confucius
    Laozi
    Mencius
    Sun Tzu