People Grab Bag Trivia

1. This dinner guest served as the forty-fifth governor of Texas. In an area of the USA that was known to be extremely conservative, she often supported liberal political views. Who was this feisty former school teacher?

From Quiz Guess Who's Coming To ... My Dinner Party

Answer: Ann Richards

Ann Richards was only the second woman to serve as Governor of Texas (1991-1995). The first female Governor was Miriam A. Ferguson, from 1925 to 1935. One of my favorite quotes from her was: "The law in Texas was that idiots, imbeciles, the insane and women could not vote. And, less than one generation later, I was the governor of Texas." (Taken from an interview when she had mentioned her grandmother never voted.) Ann Richards was credited for her work to open state government to women and minorities and for her work with issues concerning school finance, environmental protection, gun control and prison reform. Oh, the things she could tell us about the progress she saw during her lifetime.

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 15

Answer: The name Louis

Henry Louis Gehrig, the first baseman with the New York Yankees, suffered from ALS, a neuromuscular disease, also known as Lou Gehrig Disease. Louis Braille was the inventor of the system that permits blind people to read and write. Louis Armstrong was the unforgettable trumpet player, best known for the songs "What a Wonderful World" and "When the Saints Go Marching In".

Question by player Babilonia

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 12

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.

Question by player johng16146

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 11

Answer: Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton did work in both science fiction, thriller, and medical fiction. John Wilden Hughes Jr is a film director and screenwriter. He directed some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s. David McAlister Barry is an author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed a 1994 American crime film call "Pulp Fiction".

Question by player GLitsmyt

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 10

Answer: Ferdinand

Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) was the first explorer to sail, during his expedition of 1519-22, from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was also the first to cross the Pacific Ocean. Magellan himself did not complete this expedition as he was killed in the Battle of Mactan in 1521; however, the very few (18) survivors of the expedition did, to achieve the first circumnavigation of the globe.

Question by player Jennifer5

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 9

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh passed away some 29 hours after he reportedly shot himself. The bullet had been deflected by a rib, caused little or no damage to internal organs and lodged against his spine. He was treated by two physicians but there was no surgeon in the village so the bullet was not removed. This allowed infection to set in from which the artist failed to recover.

Question by player pollucci19

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 8

Answer: Queen Victoria

Victoria was 13 when she was given Dash as a present by her mother. He became her constant companion and after her coronation she is said to have rushed upstairs to give him his bath. He is buried in Windsor Home Park. The inscription on the marble effigy marking the grave includes the words "Reader if you would be beloved and die regretted profit by the example of Dash".

Question by player topilino

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 7

Answer: George VI

George VI came to the throne after the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936. George VI was the father of our present Queen Elizabeth II.

Question by player caz231231

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 6

Answer: Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell created 321 covers for "The Saturday Evening Post" between 1916 and 1961. Some of his more well known paintings include, "Saying Grace", "The Doctor and the Doll", and "The Problem We All Live With". He passed away in 1978 at the age of 84.

Question by player griller

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 5

Answer: Fox hunting

The actual full quote is "The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable". It is believed that the sport of fox hunting originated in Norfolk in 1534, when a farmer tried to catch a fox using his dogs.

Question by player pjjc

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 4

Answer: Alchemy

Some decades after Newton's death, a plethora of papers written by him, detailing his experimentation in alchemy and the occult, surfaced. Apparently, his work in this area was done in secret, since it was at odds with the position of the Church in that field, and would have led to dire personal consequences for him had it been known publicly. There is a host of material on Newton and his interest in the occult and alchemy available on the internet, and it makes fascinating reading. In my humble view, it in no way diminishes his stature as arguably the most historically influential figure in the field of physics and mathematics.

Question by player merrijig

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 3

Answer: Boxing

Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836) was Heavyweight Champion from 1792-1795. He developed a new defensive style of boxing which he taught at his boxing academy and described in his influential book 'The Art of Boxing'. Peter Sellers' mother, Agnes 'Peg' Marks, was related to Mendoza's family and Sellers kept a portrait of the boxer on his office wall.

Question by player Otautau

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 1

Answer: Cherokee

Jack Dempsey, also known as the Manassa Mauler and Kid Blackie, lived from 1895 until 1983. He was the world heavyweight champion from 1919 until 1926, which is a mighty impressive record. His fighting style was a combination of aggression and rapid fire punches. The crowds loved him. Jack (real name William Harrison Dempsey) had an ancestry of Irish, Jewish and Cherokee, but when he was a young boy, his parents converted to Mormonism as well. How confusing! Growing up he wouldn't have known whether to bless himself, get himself one or two extra wives, cross the Red Sea by foot, or scalp his opponents. Given his fighting style, his Cherokee blood seems to have won out.

Question by player Creedy

From Quiz More Mixed People Limericks

Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire to Alfred and Beatrice Roberts. Her father was a grocer, alderman and Methodist preacher. Thatcher served in the Conservative government led by Edward Heath between 1970 and 1974 as Secretary of State for Education and Science, where she came to prominence mainly for the decision to withdraw free milk from school children between the ages of seven and eleven. While in that role, in a famous interview on a children's TV programme, she expressed the view that there would be no female Prime Minister in her lifetime, and that she was not experienced enough to be Prime Minister. When, in 1975, after losing the 1974 election, Heath put himself up for re-election by the party's Members of Parliament, Margaret Thatcher emerged as the main challenger, and defeated him on the first ballot. She became the UK's first female leader of a major political party, and won the subsequent election in 1979, defeating James Callaghan's Labour Party. The first woman to be UK Prime Minister, she was also the the first holder of a science degree to hold that office. Margaret Thatcher won three consecutive general elections, leaving office in 1990. Barbara Castle was an MP for over thirty years and served in several roles in Harold Wilson's Cabinets of the 1960s and 1970s. Ellen Wilkinson was an MP for the constituency of Jarrow from 1935 and Minister of Education in the post-war Labour Government from 1945 until her death in 1947. Jennie Adamson also served in Clement Attlee's post-war government, as a junior minister.

From Quiz Mixed People Limerick Quiz

Answer: Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) was one of the greatest entertainers of the twentieth century. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and developed his extraordinary style through hard work with big bands led by Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. "Strangers in the Night" by Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder, which he released in 1966, and on which he memorably sang "doo-be-doo-be-doo", was one of his biggest hits. His Academy Award for playing Maggio in "From Here to Eternity" (1953) signalled a career upturn after a slump. He had had to beg for the role. Mia Farrow was the third of his four wives. They married in 1966 when he was 50 and she was 21, just a few days after "Strangers in the Night" had topped the Billboard chart.

From Quiz Mixed bag

Answer: Eastern Express

During the cross country phase of a riding event in Culpepper, Virginia, the horse stopped short of a fence and Reeve went over the top and landed on the fence. He was unable to save himself, having caught his hands in the bridle. The horse was appropriately nicknamed 'Buck'.

From Quiz Mixed Historical People

Answer: Attila the Hun

Attila (406-453) was one of the barbarian leaders who attempted to conquer the Roman Empire. He ravaged large areas of the Western Empire from 450 on but did not take Rome itself.

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 15

Answer: Louis

Louis XI earned his nickname from the political webs of intrigue he wove as he brought Burgundy under the control of a unified France. Louis XIV was the longest reigning monarch in French history. He was known both for his absolute control of the government (he famously said "I am the state") and for the opulent court he built around himself (including the Palace at Versailles that he had built).

Question by player kevinatilusa

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 12

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.

Question by player pagea

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 11

Answer: Soccer

All these players payed in the World Cup Finals when their team won the World Cup. Maradona is from Argentina, Edson Arantes is known as "Pele" and played for Brazil in three World Cup Finals, and Bobby Moore played for England.

Question by player Babilonia

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 10

Answer: Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc (1908-1989) was an American voice actor. He voiced many animation characters including Marvin the Martian, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. The character for whom he is most famously remembered is Porky Pig.

Question by player bubbatom1

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 9

Answer: Andy Warhol

Warhol was an American painter, filmmaker and publisher. The quote is sometimes used in an amended form as "fifteen minutes of fame". It first appeared in the 1968 catalogue of a Warhol exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden.

Question by player darksplash

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 8

Answer: funerals

"Wisdom from Yogi", so to speak, has been quoted by baseball fans and other for decades! It's big fun, too!

Question by player cubswin2323

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 7

Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary

While all of these people were born in New Zealand, only Sir Edmund Hillary was made an honorary citizen of Nepal. Hillary and Nepal native Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the dramatic feat, the Nepali government made Sir Edmund its first honorary citizen at a ceremony attended by over 450 fellow Everest climbers. Sir Edmund died on January 11, 2008.

Question by player adam36

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 6

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

The question of who was first to invent the telphone is disputed. Several inventors had been working on the problem of transmitting and receiving sound electrically. However, Bell was first to be awarded a patent for his invention.

Question by player Annaid

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 5

Answer: Has not been identified

The murderer nicknamed Jack the Ripper terrorized London in 1888, and is generally considered the most famous murderer in history.

Question by player Bukwas

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 4

Answer: Thomas Sullivan

Private Investigator Thomas Sullivan Magnum played by Tom Selleck was on TV screens for 8 seasons and 162 episodes. The popular series set in sun-drenched Hawaii ran from 1980 to 1988 on the American CBS television network. Thomas M. Sullivan is an American radio and television talk show host who specialises in business and financial matters, whilst Thomas Crook Sullivan was an acclaimed brigadier general in the United States Army. He served his country in various capacities from 1852 until retirement in 1897.

Question by player nickdrew55

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 3

Answer: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, who was born on the 14 March 1879 in Germany, and died on the 18 April 1955 at the age of 76, in the USA. He is most famous for establishing the general theory of relativity, and his mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2.

Question by player froggyx

From Quiz FunTrivia People Mix: Vol 1

Answer: Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin was born in a Russian 'shtetl ' in 1888 and died in 1989 in New York City. He composed over 1,000 pieces. 'White Christmas' is one of the most popular. Washington Irving was an American author. Adriane Lima is a Brazilian super-model, and Allan Houston played basketball for the Knicks.

Question by player alexis722

From Quiz More Mixed People Limericks

Answer: Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) was an abbot and friar in Brno who carried out methodical experimentation and statistical analysis with pea plants and the way traits - such as height, wrinkly seeds and pod shape - are inherited. His work disproved the conventional wisdom that offspring would show traits that were a blend of their parents'. It introduced concepts such as dominant and recessive traits passed on by discrete units. When Mendel presented his work in 1862, it went over the heads of his peers, and it wasn't until more than twenty years after his death that its importance to biology was recognised. The term "genetics" was first coined by William Bateson in 1905. Gregory of Narek (951-1003) was an Armenian monk, mystic and poet. Gregory Mertens (1991-2015) was a Belgian football player who died at the age of 24 playing a match. Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) was a mystic who became influential on the Russian royal family.

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