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1. When and where was William the Silent born?

From Quiz William the Silent. Father of Dutch Independence

Answer: 1533, Germany

William the Silent, born on April 24, 1533, in the city of Dillenburg, Germany, was the eldest son of William, Count of Nassau, and Juliana of Stolberg. His full name was William I, Prince of Orange-Nassau. As a member of the prominent House of Nassau, he inherited significant wealth and influence. The experiences and upbringing of William the Silent in his youth set the stage for his future role as a prominent leader in the Dutch Revolt and his quest for Dutch independence. His education, noble lineage, and exposure to different religious ideas would shape his political and religious views, making him a key figure in the history of the Netherlands.

From Quiz Greta Thunberg, Climate Champion

Answer: Sweden

Greta Tintin Eleanora Ernman Thunberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden on January 3, 2003. She first learned of the global climate crisis at the age of 8, and it led to a period of profound depression. In 2018, Greta started her campaign to raise global attention about the issue of global warming. Greta is the daughter of Melana Ernman and Sven Thunberg, a Swedish actor. Her grandfather was the noted actor and director Olof Thunberg. In January 2021, the Swedish postal service featured Thunberg on a stamp. She has won several Swedish honors, including the 2018 Fryshuset scholarship for Young Role Model of the Year and 2019 Swedish Woman of the Year.

From Quiz Booker T. Washington

Answer: Taliaferro

Booker Taliaferro was born into slavery on the plantation of James Burroughs in 1856 in Hale's Ford, Virginia. It is not known who his father was. He was nine when the Emancipation proclamation was issued. His mother then took him to West Virginia to rejoin her husband, an escaped slave, whose name of "Washington" Booker took.

From Quiz Remembering Elie Wiesel

Answer: Romania

Elie Wiesel was born in what is today Sighetu Marmației, Romania, and his family spoke Hungarian, Romanian, Yiddish, and German. His full first name was Eliezar.

From Quiz Neil deGrasse Tyson

Answer: The Bronx

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson was born in Manhattan in 1958 and raised in the Bronx, the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is more widely known as the home of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. Dr. Tyson graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1976.

From Quiz H G Wells: Not an Invisible Man

Answer: Kent

Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, on 21st September. His father ran a shop selling cricket goods and china, a rather odd and unsuccessful mixture. Wells senior earned rather more from playing cricket for the county in which they lived, although this was neither a guaranteed nor regular income.

From Quiz The Gummy Life of William Wrigley

Answer: Pennsylvania

William Wrigley, Jr. was born to Mary Ledley Wrigley and William Wrigley, Sr. on September 30, 1861 while they were living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over the course of their marriage, William and Mary had seven more children.

From Quiz Lines by (and About) Wordsworth

Answer: Dove Cottage

Dove Cottage is the best known of Wordsworth's homes, as it was where most of his poetry was written. He moved there with his sister initially, and when he married Mary Hutchinson in 1802, the three of them lived together. The property became too small once William and Mary's children were born, and they moved out in 1808. Dove Cottage was then occupied by Thomas de Quincey, the author of 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'. The Wordsworth Trust acquired Dove Cottage and opened it to the public as early as 1891, preserved nearly as it was in Wordsworth's time. A museum devoted to his life and works was established nearby in 1943.

From Quiz J M W Turner: Life and Works

Answer: Joseph Mallord

Turner's parents were William Turner, a wigmaker, and Mary Mallord Marshall, who came from a family of butchers. His uncle was also named Joseph Mallord William (Marshall), although some sources have the names in a different order. Turner did not receive much formal education, and began his artistic activities at the age of ten or eleven.

From Quiz About the Life of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Answer: rector

His father was a country rector who experienced much mental deterioration in the later stages of his life. The local people were often afraid of his moody, violent outbursts. George, Tennyson's father, had been disinherited by his own father, a rich landowner.

From Quiz Richard Trumka: AFL-CIO President

Answer: John Sweeney

John Sweeney was President of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009. Walter Reuther was the president of the United Auto Workers Union from 1946 till his death in 1970 in a plane crash. John L Lewis was the long time president of the United Mine Workers and in the 1930's he helped to found the CIO-Congress of Industrial Organizations. Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), He was a premier figure in American Labor history.

From Quiz Dalton Trumbo: Overlooked Genius

Answer: Roman Holiday

The 1953 William Wyler classic 'Roman Holiday' was awarded the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Trumbo, the film's screenwriter, was blacklisted in 1947 due to suspected Communist activities, and was unable to work in motion pictures. To circumvent this, screenwriter Ian McKlellan Hunter was hired to 'front' for Trumbo, and it was Hunter who was subsequently awarded the Oscar. In 1993, seventeen years after his death from a heart attack, the Academy officially awarded Trumbo the Oscar for 'Roman Holiday'. For the film's 2003 DVD release, Trumbo's name was digitally inserted into the film's credits.

From Quiz Josiah Wedgwood

Answer: Thomas and Mary

Thomas Wedgwood III was an English potter and the father of Josiah Wedgwood. He was master potter of the Churchyard Work, Burslem. Thomas married Mary Stringer and they had 12 children (three died in infancy). Josiah was their 12th child.

From Quiz Gore Vidal: Author Turned Celebrity

Answer: the doges of Venice

Alas, he found no evidence he had such a pedigree.

From Quiz Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Answer: James Ngugi

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born James Ngugi in Kenya in 1938.

From Quiz Nancy Wake

Answer: Wellington, New Zealand

Nancy Wake was born on August 30, 1912. She moved to Sydney when she was two years old. Her mother was left to bring up six children after her father left home.

From Quiz Madame Marie Tussaud

Answer: Wax

While visiting Switzerland the Prince de Conti (Louis XV's cousin) had been so taken with the realism of Dr. Curtius' wax portraits and figures that he offered to sponsor him. Due to the dictates of the sponsorship, Dr. Curtius and his household, including Marie and her mother, moved to Paris, France. Marie later described her relationship with Dr. Curtius as being that of, "her uncle who afterwards assumed towards her the character of a father" and that "he legally adopted her as his child".

From Quiz Jules Verne´s Life

Answer: Because he made predictions of scientific developments in his books

Jules Verne was considered an extraordinary man for the times in which he lived. When he began a new book, he tried to read and study as much as he could about the subject he was about to write in order to make it convincing to the readers. He is also considered the forerunner of science fiction. Some critics called him the "father" of this literary genre, while many consider this an exaggeration. Verne was a very curious man when it came to the scientific facts and researched extensively in order to make his books credible.

From Quiz Jacqueline Wilson's Adult Life

Answer: 2002

Most of Jacqueline Wilson's books are for children - "Best Friends", "The Suitcase Kid" and "The Bed and Breakfast Star", some are for younger children, and some are for teenagers.

From Quiz Sir Thomas Wyatt (the Elder)

Answer: Anne Boleyn

Sir Thomas Wyatt was famous for his involvement with Anne Boleyn, although he had to step back when he saw Henry VIII's attention to her. When she was brought down in the summer of 1536, he almost went down with her. He was put in the Tower with the other five men convicted of adultery with her, although while they were executed, he was released.

From Quiz Tiro - Slave, Secretary, and Sidekick

Answer: Marcus Tullius Tiro

His name Marcus Tullius Tiro represents his status as a slave of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

From Quiz The Life of Aileen Wuornos

Answer: Carol

Aileen was convicted of killing at least six men before getting arrested in the early '90s. She grew up in the Detroit area before moving to Daytona Beach, Florida after her teenage years.

From Quiz Walt Whitman - His life and Poetry

Answer: West Hills, Long Island

He was the second child of nine of Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor. His father was a house builder and both he and his mother came from the families of the early settlers of Long Island. They lived in Brooklyn and Long Island in the 1820s and 1830s.

From Quiz The Life of Voltaire

Answer: Francois Marie Arouet

His father was a notary, and the family lived comfortably in Paris with a country home at Chatenay, five miles outside the city. He had one older brother, Armand, and an older sister, Catherine.

From Quiz William Walker: Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny

Answer: filibuster

Walker and his ilk were known as filibusters. This term is largely derived from the Dutch word "vrijbuiter", which evolved into the word "freebooter", a term used in the 17th century to describe the pirates who plundered ("free booty") the Spanish colonies of West indies. "Freebooter" eventually became "filibuster."

From Quiz Raoul Wallenberg

Answer: Sweden

He was born in August 4, 1912, and grew up in the Wallenberg family, which is one of the largest and most famous families in Sweden. It is a family that has contributed to Swedish bankers, diplomats and politicians during several generations. Raoul's father, Raoul Oscar Wallenberg, was an officer in the navy, and cousin to Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, two of Sweden's most famous bankers and industrialists. Other Wallenbergs were diplomats and bishops of the Lutheran Church.

From Quiz Dick Turpin - Highwayman

Answer: 18th

Dick Turpin was born in 1705 and died in 1739.

From Quiz Charles Whitman-The Texas Tower Sniper

Answer: 1959

Charlie excelled in marksmanship, scoring 215 of a possible 250 in long-range shooting. This skill proved to be absolutely deadly a few years later, when Whitman decided to take out his anger and frustration on the city of Austin.

From Quiz The Art of Jan Vermeer

Answer: Protestant

Vermeer was born and raised Protestant, but converted to Catholicism on the occasion of is marriage into a Catholic family.

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