FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 26 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15th, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. Among his many accomplishments was the pendulum clock, which he invented after observing a swinging lamp in Pisa Cathedral. However in 1616, on threat of torture, Galileo was forced to renounce Copernican theory, and thus deny that the Earth orbits the Sun.

He was promptly declared a heretic, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

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Answer: Psychoanalysts

Sigmund Freud (6th May 1856 to 23rd September 1939) was born into a Jewish family and worked in Austria until he and his family had to move to England in 1938 because of the rise of Naziism. He is considered the founder of psychoanalysis and, for example, divided the human psyche into the three parts of id, ego and super-ego, and worked with overwhelmingly adult patients.

He and his wife had six children and his daughter Anna (3rd December 1895 to 9th October 1982) was first a teacher then also became a psychoanalyst who first worked with her father.

She then set up schools and established her own private practice to work with and help children and adolescents with sometimes serious mental health problems.

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Answer: Romanovs

On July 17, 1918, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church led 100,000 people on a procession to the grave of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra. They had been imprisoned by the Bolshevik soldiers and then shot and bayoneted. The family's remains were exhumed in 1991, and identified with the help of DNA given by Prince Philip of England whose grandmother was the Czarina's sister.

In 2000, the Church declared the seven slain Romanovs saints.

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Answer: Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon is a beautiful town located in Warwickshire. Shakespeare was born in a house on Henley Street. He grew up in this city and married Anne Hathaway, also from the same town. He later moved to London but returned to his birth town where he spent his final years and died at age 52.

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Answer: Cecil Day-Lewis

Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972, Cecil Day-Lewis is the father of Daniel Day-Lewis who won Academy awards for his roles in "My Left Foot" (1989) and "There Will Be Blood" (2007).
In 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the first female appointed to the role.

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Answer: George Herman Ruth, Jr.

"The Sultan of Swat", "the Bambino" and "Babe" Ruth, were all nicknames of George Herman Ruth, Jr., probably the best remembered baseball player. He was born February 6, 1895, and died August 16, 1948, aged 53. Babe Ruth's total of 714 home runs, when he retired in 1935, was only surpassed by Hank Aaron in 1974.

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Answer: Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal developed this calculating machine to help his father with his work as a tax receiver.

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Answer: W. C. Fields

Stories about legendary Hollywood actors are often exaggerated, but the tales of W. C. Fields' epic thirst seem to be mostly true. According to his valet, Fields' favorite breakfast was a 10 ounce tumbler of I. W. Harper whiskey. He was notorious for showing up for filming in an intoxicated state, and for concealing a flask or thermos filled with alcohol on the sets of movies.

His intemperate habits did not prevent him from starring in over 30 films, and living the relatively ripe old age of 66.

Question by player daver852

Answer: He died on the mountain

Robert Edwin Hall (14 January 1961-11 May 1996) was a mountaineer and tour guide from New Zealand, and one of the best by all accounts. He had summited Everest five time previously. However, he made a major mistake allowing one of his clients to go for the summit late in the afternoon instead of turning back.

When a storm came in suddenly, they both were trapped near the top. Despite desperate pleas from base camp to leave the dying client and start back down, Hall refused to leave him. He was able to survive through the night, but eventually froze to death, probably the next day. Eight people died in the blizzard, making it the most lethal single expedition up to that point.

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Answer: Used Furniture Dealer

Al Capone was born Alphonse Gabriel Capone in 1899. He was a bootlegger and smuggler of alcohol during the prohibition era in 1920s and 1930s America. He led a crime syndicate in Chicago in this period but evaded capture on racketeering charges. However, in 1931, he was imprisoned on a charge of tax evasion.

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