FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 28 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Leif Ericson

Leif Ericson was a famous Norse explorer, and is regarded as the first European to land in the Americas. He lived about 400-500 years before Christopher Columbus.

Question by player kmarti14

Answer: H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866, and died in August, 1946. He is probably most well known for "The War of the Worlds," but wrote numerous other short stories, including "The Invisible Man" and "When the Sleeper Wakes."

Question by player SirSamarium

Answer: obstructing justice

The obstructing justice and lying to investigators charge led to Martha Stewart's conviction even though prosecutors could not prove the crime of securities fraud. Having supposedly received insider trading information which allowed Stewart to sell stock before it fell in value, Stewart was subsequently prosecuted for the coverup rather than the crime.

Question by player RollTidewinner

Answer: Robert Ripley

Ripley traveled the globe looking for unique and strange items for his syndicated cartoons. He visited 201 countries during his travels. His cartoons were published in seventeen languages.

Question by player keithkomodo

Answer: Virginia Woolf

Thirteen years after her marriage to Leonard Woolf, a well-known journalist and essayist, Virginia Woolf fell passionately in love with Vita Sackville-West, wife of the bisexual diplomat and author Harold Nicholson. Woolf's husband remained supportive and understanding, and their marriage withstood this affair and other strains. Later, however, and after years of battling depression, Virginia Woolf took her life by drowning.

Question by player alaspooryoric

Answer: An English philosopher

John Locke was born in 1632 in Somerset, England. He is most famous for his work "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding". It's one of the first works to consider the human mind as a 'blank slate'. He is also well known for his writings on political theory.

Question by player timence

Answer: Mark Twain

All are often quoted:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes." Thomas Jefferson.
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." Martin Luther King Jr.


Question by player Paul1405

Answer: No one knows for sure

The cuckoo clock, so popular and so associated with the Black Forest region of Germany, first appeared in the early 1600s, long after Bosch (Dutch artist) and da Vinci, who were both born in the 1450s. Numerous legends concerning the origin of these clocks have circulated, none factually substantiated.

The most notable and persistent, put in writing by priest/historian Markus Fidelus Jack in his 1810 report, has Franz Ketterer, master clock maker of Schonwald, perfecting the item in 1730. The only problem with this "history" is that further research showed Ketterer wasn't born until 1735.

Question by player Nealzineatser

Answer: Eric Liddell

Wells won Olympic Gold in Moscow. Hastings captained Scotland and the British and Irish Rugby Lions . Livingstone was probably the most famous Scottish missionary.

Question by player teejay1504

Answer: A Communist spy

Elizabeth Bentley (1908 - 1963) was an American Communist who became a spy for the Russians. She became an informer after fearing that the Russians were trying to kill her (with reason). She is said to have (indirectly) given credibility to the McCarthy witch hunts.

Question by player sofarsogood