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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 MaggieG asks:
  Which of these famous explorers died of natural causes?

    Sir Walter Raleigh
    Ferdinand Magellan
    Captain James Cook
    David Livingstone

#2. People Mixture. Player ajwtimperley asks:
  Vannoccio Biringuccio was an Italian who lived during the Renaissance period. He is chiefly known for the work "De la Pirotechnica", which was published in 1540. What is this work about?

    Chickens
    Chess
    Hieroglyphics
    Metallurgy

#3. People Mixture. Player jabb5076 asks:
  Which of the following accomplished individuals is generally NOT considered a "Renaissance man"?

    Benjamin Franklin
    Thomas Jefferson
    Albert Einstein
    Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. People Mixture. Player habitsowner asks:
  According to the "National Geographic Magazine", between 1540 and 1905, who has been the subject of five ballets, forty-five operas, seventy-seven plays?

    Nefertiti
    Constance of Aragon
    Elizabeth I
    Cleopatra

#5. People Mixture. Player nickdrew55 asks:
  With a theatre in Key West, Florida named after him, which 20th century American author and playwright with the forenames Thomas Lanier, allegedly choked to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops?

    John Steinbeck
    Tennessee Williams
    Mark Twain
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. People Mixture. Player ponycargirl asks:
  Prince Philip, husband to England's Queen Elizabeth II, abandoned his royal titles in what countries before their marriage?

    France and Italy
    Greece and Denmark
    Russia and Japan
    Norway and Sweden

#7. People Mixture. Player chabenao1 asks:
  Known for his creation of the characters Jeeves and Wooster, which author was interned by the Nazis in Poland in 1940?

    Christopher Isherwood
    Kingsley Amis
    Graham Greene
    P.G. Wodehouse

#8. People Mixture. Player Nealzineatser asks:
  The novel "Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray is often considered the defining Victorian domestic novel. What was his unusual middle name?

    Endwar
    Makepeace
    Love
    Napoleon

#9. People Mixture. Player ponycargirl asks:
  Which German amateur archaeologist, better known for another discovery, found an artifact that he called the "Mask of Agamemnon" in Mycenae?

    Heinrich Schliemann
    Sir Leonard Wooley
    Howard Carter
    Paul Emilie Botta

#10. People Mixture. Player gable asks:
  Which of these philosophers had the first name Soren?

    Anderson
    Kierkegaard
    Hoffding
    Agerskov