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Introduction:
"People say it's a small world. Sometimes it has been too small for people to hide, but sometimes people have vanished without trace. What do you know of these famous 20th Century disappearances?"


1. I was born Richard John Bingham. On 7 November 1974 my children's nanny met a violent death in London; the following day I disappeared without trace. How am I better known?
    Viscount Astor
    Lord Lucan
    Lord Carrington
    Duke of Wellington


2. On 2 July 1937, when heading for an air strip on Howland Island, midway between Australia and Hawaii, I disappeared without trace while making an attempt to be the first woman to fly around the world. Who am I?
    Nancy Bird
    Amy Johnson
    Amelia Earhart
    Harriet Quimby


3. I was a British Member of Parliament who, thought to have been drowned when my clothes were found on a Miami Beach on 20 November 1974, was later found and arrested in Australia. What is my name?
    Enoch Powell
    John Stonehouse
    John Silkin
    Harold Wilson


4. I played Ashley Wilkes in the 1939 film 'Gone With the Wind'. In 1943, while on a civilian flight to London from neutral Portugal, my plane was shot down by German fighters, and I vanished without trace. Who am I?
    Claude Rains
    Charles Drake
    Tod Andrews
    Leslie Howard


5. I was a powerful American Union leader and was last seen outside a Michigan Restaurant on 30 July 1975. Who am I?
    Bobby Ciaro
    Danny Greene
    John Gotti
    Jimmy Hoffa


6. 0n 15 December 1944, I boarded a single-engine Norseman aircraft at a military airstrip north of London. The plane took off for Paris, and I disappeared forever. Which famous bandleader am I?
    Count Basie
    Glenn Miller
    Ted Heath
    Joe Loss


7. On 3 December 1926 I disappeared mysteriously from my home in Berkshire, England. My Morris Cowley was found abandoned some miles away and foul play was suspected. Eleven days later I was found alive and well in an hotel in Harrogate. Which author am I?
    Agatha Christie
    Patricia Wentworth
    G K Chesterton
    Dorothy L Sayers


8. A famous Pentecostal evangelist, I disappeared while swimming near Venice Beach, Los Angeles, on 18 May 1926, horrifying my large congregation, two of whom died after entering the waters where I disappeared. On 23 June 1926 I reappeared in Mexico claiming I had been kidnapped. Who am I?
    Aimee Semple McPherson
    John R. Rice
    Dwight Lyman Moody
    Billy Sunday


9. In 1924 I may have been the first man to reach the top of Mount Everest, and was last seen alive about 1,000 feet from the summit with my climbing partner Andrew Irvine. My body was not discovered until 1999. Who am I?
    Sir Edmund Hillary
    Jim Whitaker
    Chris Bonington
    George Mallory


10. During World War II Flight 19, consisting of five Avenger torpedo bombers, left the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale on a routine practice mission, flew into an area now known as the Bermuda Triangle, and disappeared. In which year did this flight take place?
    1943
    1942
    1944
    1945


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