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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. People Mixture. Player MaggieG asks:
  Which of these famous explorers died of natural causes?

    Ferdinand Magellan
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    David Livingstone
    Captain James Cook

#2. People Mixture. Player ajwtimperley asks:
  Vannoccio Biringuccio was an Italian who lived during the Renaissance period. He is chiefly known for the work "De la Pirotechnica", which was published in 1540. What is this work about?

    Chess
    Chickens
    Metallurgy
    Hieroglyphics

#3. People Mixture. Player jabb5076 asks:
  Which of the following accomplished individuals is generally NOT considered a "Renaissance man"?

    Thomas Jefferson
    Albert Einstein
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Benjamin Franklin

#4. People Mixture. Player habitsowner asks:
  According to the "National Geographic Magazine", between 1540 and 1905, who has been the subject of five ballets, forty-five operas, seventy-seven plays?

    Nefertiti
    Cleopatra
    Elizabeth I
    Constance of Aragon

#5. People Mixture. Player nickdrew55 asks:
  With a theatre in Key West, Florida named after him, which 20th century American author and playwright with the forenames Thomas Lanier, allegedly choked to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops?

    John Steinbeck
    Tennessee Williams
    Mark Twain
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. People Mixture. Player ponycargirl asks:
  Prince Philip, husband to England's Queen Elizabeth II, abandoned his royal titles in what countries before their marriage?

    France and Italy
    Norway and Sweden
    Russia and Japan
    Greece and Denmark

#7. People Mixture. Player chabenao1 asks:
  Known for his creation of the characters Jeeves and Wooster, which author was interned by the Nazis in Poland in 1940?

    Christopher Isherwood
    Kingsley Amis
    Graham Greene
    P.G. Wodehouse

#8. People Mixture. Player Nealzineatser asks:
  The novel "Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray is often considered the defining Victorian domestic novel. What was his unusual middle name?

    Endwar
    Napoleon
    Love
    Makepeace

#9. People Mixture. Player ponycargirl asks:
  Which German amateur archaeologist, better known for another discovery, found an artifact that he called the "Mask of Agamemnon" in Mycenae?

    Howard Carter
    Heinrich Schliemann
    Sir Leonard Wooley
    Paul Emilie Botta

#10. People Mixture. Player gable asks:
  Which of these philosophers had the first name Soren?

    Kierkegaard
    Hoffding
    Anderson
    Agerskov