History Tidbits from "The Book of Lists" Quiz

Answer: O.J. Simpson

All of the incorrect answers were also on the lists. Moore was number six on the girls' list and number ten on the boys'. Redford was number three on the girls' list and number eight on the boys'. Kissinger was number ten on the girls' list and number seven on the boys'.

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Although Mary Todd, Lincoln's wife, was from a slave-holding Kentucky family, the Lincolns did not own any.

Grant's wife, Julia Dent, owned a slave when they got married and was given another for a wedding present. She later acquired another, and Grant himself purchased a slave, later freeing him.

Answer: Volgograd - Leningrad

Before it became Volgograd, the city was Stalingrad, on the Volga River. The name Leningrad was given to Petrograd, or St. Petersburg, on the Baltic Coast.

Answer: Los Angeles

The "Los Angeles" was built by the Zeppelin company as part of Germany's reparations to the United States resulting from World War I. It was used by the U.S. Navy until being decommissioned in 1932.

Answer: Delphine Delamare (inspiration for Lizzie Borden)

Lizzie Andrew Borden was an actual person. She was tried for the axe murders of her mother and father, who were murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. Lizzie was acquitted.

Delphine Delamare was actually the inspiration for Emma Bovary, the title character of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary." Delamare married a country doctor in Ry, France, and eventually ended her life by taking arsenic.

Answer: Stan Musial, right field

Stan "the Man", whose full name was Stanley Frank (born Stanislaw Franciszek) Musial, was actually on Stein's All-Time Polish Team.

Answer: Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation was a leading member of America's temperance movement. She is often pictured with a hatchet and was known to attack taverns with the use of one.

Answer: Alexander the Great fell from his horse into a stream and drowned.

Actually, it was Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa who fell from his horse into a river and drowned. A heart attack may have contributed when he fell into the Saleph River in Turkey en route to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade in 1190. Frederick is not on the list in "The Book of Lists."

Alexander the Great is on the list, and his death is listed as dying "from a fever contracted during a two-day period of drinking and carousing" in Babylon in 323 B.C.

Coincidentally, the 25th name on the list is King Alexander of Greece, who died in 1912 as a result of blood poisoning from a bite from his pet monkey.

Answer: Sheep to New Zealand

First prize went to the Premier Drum Company of Leicester for selling four shipments of tom-toms to Nigeria. They also sold maracas to South America and xylophones to Cuba.

Abu Dhabi needed sand grains of a special shape to filter water and bought 1,800 tons of sand from Eastern Sands and Refractories of Cambridge.

One hundred tons of whole wheat pasta was sold to Italy by Associated Health Foods of Godalming, Surrey.

Answer: The Conqueror

"The Conqueror" starred Wayne as Genghis Khan. Susan Hayward played Princess Bortai.

Omar Sharif played Che Guevara and Jack Palance played Fidel Castro in 1969's "Che!".

Yul Brynner played Solomon and Gina Lollabrigida played the Queen of Sheba in a film made in 1959.

Santa is captured by Martians in "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians." Two Earth children help the Jolly Old Elf defeat his captors.