FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 12 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Milton S. Hershey

Milton S. Hershey quit school in 4th grade to go to work. He finally found he was interested in candy making after getting an apprentice job with a candy maker. He started making caramel candy in Colorado but returned to Pennsylvania at 29, and become the most famous caramel maker in the USA.

He became interested in making chocolate. His famous candy bar, the "Nickel Bar", was so named for its affordability. This bar launched his business which has become one of the world's largest chocolate companies.

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Answer: Ivan Pavlov

Classical conditioning refers to the biological response to a previously neutral stimulus. Ivan Pavlov discovered this phenomenon by ringing a bell whenever he fed his dogs, and then observing that they would still salivate when the bell was rung in the absence of food. Dmitri Mendeleev is best known for his Periodic Table of Elements, Lobachevsky for his work on hyperbolic geometry and Cherenkov for his namesake radiation.

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Answer: Vinci, Italy

The creator of the 'Mona Lisa', 'The Last Supper', the designer of a helicopter and parachutes, a dabbler in plate tectonics, sculptor, mapmaker, student of anatomy, and master of many other pursuits, was born at Vinci, near Florence, in 1452.

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Answer: K2

Lacedelli and Compagnoni reached the summit on 31 July 1954. The expedition team consisting of Lacedelli and Compagnoni also consisted of Walter Bonatti and Amir Mehdi. It is alleged that Lacedelli and Compagnoni deliberately put Bonatti and Mehdi in a life-threatening situation so that they could reach the peak earlier. K2, part of the Karakoram range, is also known as Mt. Godwin Austen, and is the second highest mountain in the world.

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Answer: Jimi Hendrix

Kreeft's book, called "Between Heaven and Hell", imagined Kennedy, Lewis, and Huxley having a conversation in the afterlife. The book was inspired by the coincidence of all three dying on the same day.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and his tragic death overshadowed the deaths of Lewis and Huxley, both well-known British authors. Jimi Hendrix did not die until 1970.

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Answer: Winston Churchill

The British statesman and former Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill was rarely short of something to say on just about any subject. Other notable quotes include: "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life" and "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Oscar Wilde, though, had a more jaundiced view of America: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
But we'll leave it to George W. Bush to defend his nation's honour: "To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be President of the United States."

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Answer: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was born in England in 1737 and came to America in 1774, just in time for the Revolution. After publishing "Common Sense" in 1776, England charged him with the crime of treason; Paine responded by writing "The Crisis" and by joining the Revolutionary Army.

However, the population at large was not ready for his 1794 "Age of Reason" and its attack on organized religion and traditional beliefs like revelation and miracles.

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Answer: Elizabeth II

Victoria reigned for a shorter period in the 20th century than the other three. She was only on the throne up until 1901. Edward VII was King from 1901 to 1910. George V was King from 1910 to 1936. Elizabeth II became Queen in 1952 and became the longest serving monarch in British history in 2015, exceeding the total reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).

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Answer: Henry VIII

Henry VIII was infuriated when Cardinal Wolsey failed to get him the divorce that he wanted from Catherine of Aragon in order to be able to marry Anne Boleyn. Wolsey wrote to Pope Clement "If the Pope is not compliant, my own life will be shortened, and I dread to anticipate the consequences."( Weir, Alison. "The Six Wives of Henry VIII"). Hoping to avoid the king's wrath, Wolsey gave the king most of his valuable properties including Hampton Court Palace and York Place which Henry gave to Anne Boleyn. York Place later became Whitehall.

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Answer: Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg was born 1914 and disappeared in June 1945 in the Soviet Union. The Swedish businessman and diplomat is best known for rescuing Hungarian Jews during World War II. In January 1945, Soviet armed forces arrived in Budapest and Wallenberg was arrested on suspicion of espionage for the Americans.

He was brought to jail in Moscow and subsequently disappeared. Wallenberg was recognized for his humanitarian activities by numerous awards posthumously, among them honorary Canadian citizenship.

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