FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 28 Trivia Quiz

Answer: William Lear

William Lear worked with Elmer Wavering in the 1920s to develop the car radio. They called it the "Motorola." In the 1960s he developed the Lear Jet Stereo 8-track cartridge which made many improvements on some earlier four-track tape players. In 1963 he sold the world's first business jet, the Learjet 23.

It had two crew members and carried four to six passengers.

Question by player serpa

Answer: Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager arrived in Tonopah in 1943, assigned to the 363rd Fighter Squadron. He trained in the Bell P-39 Airacobra. The Squad was later deployed to Europe for the remainder of the war. After returning stateside, he was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base as a test pilot, where he broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947.

The other choices were also test pilots at one time in their careers. The Tonopah base closed after the war although the airport is still active. Only foundations and three huge wood hangars remain from the base.

Question by player ghosttowner

Answer: Romania

Mihai Eminescu was born in Romania in 1850. He is widely seen as Romania's national poet. He died young, in 1889, in a mental hospital in Bucharest.

Question by player herma1504

Answer: Edward

Edward was born sometime in 1680 in England. Whereas his last name looks to be written as Teach, some have spelled it Thatch, Tache, or Tach. Blackbeard's Christian name looks to be Edward Teach. Blackbeard died from five fatal gunshot wounds and twenty stab wounds.

His head was displayed on a pike by his killer, Lt. Robert Maynard of the British Royal Navy. A sign is posted in what is now Hampton, Virginia where Blackbeard's head was displayed.

Question by player pennie1478

Answer: Both are Rhodes Scholars (Oxford)

The Rhodes Scholarship is named after Cecil John Rhodes. It is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford, and is considered to be the most prestigious of such types of academic awards. Recipients of the scholarship are offered a place in any of the postgraduate courses conducted by the University of Oxford.

The duration of these varies from one to three years. The initial offering by the university is for two years. A monthly stipend is also awarded to the recipients to meet accommodation and living expense.

Question by player merrijig

Answer: Adolphe Sax

Adolphe Sax developed the first saxophone in 1846. Carl Friedrich Uhlig was a German clarinetist. Anton Heberle was a flutist and composer. Bartolomeo Cristofori was known for his invention of the piano.

Question by player shazbot116

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh lived in the village of Arles in the south of France between 1888 and 1889 and scenes from the village and its surrounding areas appear in many of his works from this time. He became a resident of the Saint-Rémy Asylum in May 1889, shortly after the infamous incident in which he cut off part of his left ear.

While there he produced a large number of works, including some of his most famous paintings such as 'Cypresses', 'Irises' and 'Starry Night', as well as various still lifes of objects in the asylum (like the vase with the pink roses in it) and depictions of the asylum itself.

He left the asylum in May 1890 and died two months later of a gunshot wound to the chest.

Question by player Fifiona81

Answer: Robert Burns

Robert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, Sir Walter Scott was a novelist and poet, and Gordon Brown was the British Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010.

Question by player janbart

Answer: Hypatia

Hypatia was born somewhere between AD 350 and 370. Her father was also a mathematician as well as the last librarian of the Library of Alexandria. Hypatia was schooled in both Athens and Italy. About AD 400 she became the head of the Platonist school in Alexandria.

She was also the first woman in history to be noted as a mathematician. Hypatia was killed by a mob of Christians who accused her of causing religious agitation, as well as witchcraft and a belief that God did not exist.

Question by player habitsowner

Answer: Maori

Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (1895-1982) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, to British parents. She was a leader in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Marsh was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. Her first name is Maori.

She said that her parents wanted her to have a "native" name and chose one that meant either "light on the water" or "little tree bug" in the Maori language.

Question by player FatherSteve