Not Quite First Trivia Quiz

Answer: Buzz Aldrin

Between 1969 and 1972 there were in fact 12 astronauts who walked on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin got his chance during the Apollo 11 mission shortly after the mission commander Neil Armstrong became the first to walk on the Moon. Conrad, Bean and Shepherd were respectively third, fourth and fifth. The eleventh and twelfth (Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt) both spent over 22 hours Moon walking.

Answer: Charles Barkley

The closest Barkley got to being a National Basketball Association (NBA) Champion was in the 1993 NBA Finals when he was with the Phoenix Suns. The Chicago Bulls won on that occasion. One of the greatest rebounders in NBA history, he was also one of the shortest at 6'6" (198 cm).

He had a 16-year career from 1984, playing for Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, and Houston Rockets, before having a career as a TV analyst on TNT Sports and CBS Sports. He was 1993 NBA Most Valuable Player and an 11-time NBA All-Star.

His usual position was power forward.

Answer: Susan Boyle

You don't always have to win to be successful. The song "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables" was also the name of Susan Boyle's debut studio album (2009), which became the UK best selling debut album of all time at the time. She became the first female artist to top both the UK and US album charts with two albums in the same year. The second album was "The Gift" (2010).

Answer: Thomas E. Dewey

A lawyer with a track record of prosecuting the American Mafia, Thomas Dewey was also the 47th governor of New York for over ten years from 1943. During this period he received the Republican nomination for presidency, but lost out to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 and then Harry S. Truman in 1948. Melvil Dewey was the librarian and educator who in 1876 published the library classification system which bears his name.

Answer: Stirling Moss

There have been over ten Formula One World Driver Champions from Britain, however, Stirling Moss was not one of them, although he was runner-up on four occasions. The others listed were. Moss won 212 races out of 529 starts, with up to 62 races in a year. Until Nigel Mansell bettered his record in 1991, Moss was the most successful British driver at winning Formula One Grand Prix races.

He retired after a 1962 crash put him into a coma for a month, leaving the left side of his body paralysed for six months.

He recovered, and turned to broadcasting for a while with the occasional return to racing.

Answer: Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott was an officer in the British Royal Navy and an explorer who participated in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (1897-1922). He led two expeditions: the Discovery Expedition (1901-04) and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13).

He set a new southern record during the first, reaching a latitude of 82 degrees south, and reached the South Pole during the second, however, this was after Roald Amundsen' South Pole expedition. Scott's party of five were to die on the return leg.

Answer: Dan Marino

Dan Marino played 17 seasons with the Miami Dolphins, holding many American National Football League (NFL) records for the quarterback position. Recognised as one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history, he was never on a Super Bowl-winning team. The closest he came was in the Super Bowl XIX, which decided the NFL champion for the 1984 season.

It turned out to be the San Francisco 49ers, not the Dolphins. Marino's 1983 NFL draft class was notable for having six quarterbacks drawn in the first round.

Answer: Phil Mickelson

A Grand Slam is achieved by winning the four major championships in the same year. More achievable is the Career Grand Slam, where the majors are won over the course of the golfer's career. All the players listed, except for Mickelson, have achieved this. He finished runner-up at the US Open six times, joining over a dozen other players in obtaining three of the four majors.

Answer: Natalie Wood

All except Natalie Wood have received Oscars, in fact, multiple Oscars. Woods received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), and for Best Actress for both "Splendor in the Grass" (1961) and "Love With the Proper Stranger" (1963).

She died in 1981 at the age of 43 under mysterious circumstances. Her death was attributed to accidental drowning and hypothermia.

Answer: Jean-Antoine Carrel

Jean-Antoine Carrel first attempted the Matterhorn in 1857, and made numerous attempts in the early 1860s, either with Whymper or competing against him. He had, in fact, agreed to climb with Whymper on the successful first ascent (on the Swiss side of the mountain), but pulled out at the last minute when recruited by Felice Giordano to lead an attempt from the Italian side of the mountain at the same time.

They were outclimbed with Whymper's party being the first to summit some three days before Carrel's party. Michel Croz was one of four in Whymper's party to die during the descent. Taugwalder was one of the survivors of the first ascent.