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Quiz about Who Are These People Anyway II

Who Are These People, Anyway? II Quiz

Another quiz on what the people have in common! Identify the nine people, then tell what they have in common.

A multiple-choice quiz by crisw. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
crisw

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
17,542

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Question 1 of 10

1. This singer, who wrote 'Rocky Mountain High' and 'Annie's Song', died in a plane crash. Hint

Big Bopper

Perry Como

Billy Squier

John Denver

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Question 2 of 10

2. This governor of California was often called 'Governor Moonbeam.' Hint

Gray Davis

George Deukmejian

Jerry Brown

Ronald Reagan

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Question 3 of 10

3. This wife of a Beatle died of breast cancer.

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 4 of 10

4. He was the author of 'Anna Karenina.' Hint

Leo Tolstoy

Leon Trotsky

Vladimir Nabokov

Gunther Grass

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Question 5 of 10

5. This Greek mathematician is famous for his theorem showing that, in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of both other sides. Hint

Anaximander

Pythagoras

Plato

Euclid

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Question 6 of 10

6. This country singer is also a lesbian activist. Hint

k. d. lang

Tammy Wynette

Reba Macintyre

Dolly Parton

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Question 7 of 10

7. This Pulitzer Prize winning Jewish author penned works such as 'Shosha' and 'Enemies- A Love Story.' Hint

Harry Kemelman

Sam Levine

Sam Levinson

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Question 8 of 10

8. The real first name of television personality 'Mister Rogers' was...

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 9 of 10

9. This playwright and author wrote 'Pygmalion', on which the musical 'My Fair Lady' is based. Hint

Henrik Ibsen

George Bernard Shaw

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

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Question 10 of 10

10. All of these people were, at some time in their lives...

Answer: (One Word)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This singer, who wrote 'Rocky Mountain High' and 'Annie's Song', died in a plane crash.

Answer: John Denver

He said, 'Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.'

2. This governor of California was often called 'Governor Moonbeam.'

Answer: Jerry Brown

He founded an organization called 'We The People' that, among other projects, works for sustainable agriculture.

3. This wife of a Beatle died of breast cancer.

Answer: Linda McCartney

She and Paul became vegetarians after looking up from a lamb dinner to see lambs playing in a field. She wrote, 'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain. '

4. He was the author of 'Anna Karenina.'

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

He said, 'A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.'

5. This Greek mathematician is famous for his theorem showing that, in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of both other sides.

Answer: Pythagoras

Plutarch wrote, 'Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.'

6. This country singer is also a lesbian activist.

Answer: k. d. lang

She said, 'I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.'

7. This Pulitzer Prize winning Jewish author penned works such as 'Shosha' and 'Enemies- A Love Story.'

Answer: Isaac Bashevis Singer

He wrote, 'People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. '

8. The real first name of television personality 'Mister Rogers' was...

Answer: Fred

One web page interview states, 'A creature of habit, Rogers swims -- nude, thank you -- every morning, is a vegetarian, has never smoked or drank and has been married to the same woman for 47 years.'

9. This playwright and author wrote 'Pygmalion', on which the musical 'My Fair Lady' is based.

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

He was also a strident antivivisectionist.

10. All of these people were, at some time in their lives...

Answer: Vegetarian

Yep! Some of them were lifelong veggies, some for only part of their lives.

Source: Author crisw

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