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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. People Mixture. Player MotherGoose asks:
  Which Scottish doctor began writing detective stories to make ends meet because his medical practice was unsuccessful?

    Edgar Allan Poe
    Dashiell Hammet
    Erle Stanley Gardner
    Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. People Mixture. Player trident asks:
  John Calvin was a sixteenth-century Frenchman who fled his country to spread his Christian reforms. Besides Strasbourg, in what French-speaking Swiss city (also known as the "Peace Capital") did he have the biggest impact?

    Milan
    Munich
    Vienna
    Geneva

#3. People Mixture. Player Spontini asks:
  What was the first name of the 2nd man to walk on the moon?

    Richard
    James
    Edwin
    Robert

#4. People Mixture. Player Mixamatosis asks:
  Which author of "1984" also wrote "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", "Homage to Catalonia", "The Lion and the Unicorn" and "A Clergyman's Daughter"?

    Ernest Hemingway
    Graham Greene
    Harper Lee
    George Orwell

#5. People Mixture. Player Otautau asks:
  Comedian Stan Laurel, partner of Oliver Hardy, made his first professional stage performance at the Panopticon Music Hall in which Scottish city famed for its shipyards?

    York
    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Peebles

#6. People Mixture. Player ClarkyB asks:
  Which British former track and field athlete was named Chancellor of Loughborough University in March 2017?

    Steve Cram
    Roger Black
    Steve Ovett
    Sebastian Coe

#7. People Mixture. Player wjames asks:
  Played in movies and on TV by actors Goran Visnjic, Kirk Douglas, Andy Whitfield and Liam McIntyre, who was the historical leader of the Third Servile War in 73-71 BCE?

    Spartacus
    Crixus
    Pompey
    Fulvia

#8. People Mixture. Player Creedy asks:
  Alice of Montferrat was married to King Henry I of Cyprus until her death in 1232, when he demanded her body be handed over to him. What was unusual about their marriage?

    He had previously died the day before
    They were siblings
    He'd never seen her when she was alive
    She came back to life unexpectedly

#9. People Mixture. Player JepRD asks:
  Which Scottish poet regularly recited this pre-meal grace? "Some hae meat and canna eat, / And some wad eat that want it; / But we hae meat and we can eat, / And sae the Lord be thankit."

    Oliver Cromwell
    Edward Gibbons
    Walt Whitman
    Robert Burns

#10. People Mixture. Player matthewpokemon asks:
  The great temple complex of Abu Simbel in Egypt was inaugurated by which "great" ancient Egyptian Pharaoh?

    Tutankhamun
    Ramesses II
    Hatshepsut
    Khufu