Wednesday, August 01, 2007

[well known figures] ten questions

1] Which demagogue was married four times and believed that having sex with virgins "would help to restore and reinvigorate a man’s health and vigour” but instead resulted in the deaths from starvation of some 30 million people?

2] Barbara Millicent Roberts was known for asking: "Wanna have a pizza party?" Who was she better known as?

3] Which baseballer wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool?

4] Which statesman is said to have been born in a ladies' room during a dance though research indicates something slightly different?

5] Who was watching mice play one night and got the inspiration for Mortimer Mouse, then later changed the name?

6] Which Eurasian rapper's 2nd album was said, by Madonna, to have been "criminally overlooked"? Her career nosedived when she was caught miming in concert in Australia.

7] Masako Natsume, who tragically died at 27, played which priest in Monkey?

8] Which post-war Australian Prime Minister was supposedly lost swimming at Cheviot Beach, Victoria, his loss the subject of theories ever since? As a black joke, there is a swimming pool named after him.

9] Who was King George II speaking of when he retorted, "Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals!"

10] In English, who was Jehanne la Pucelle, the Domrémy girl, better known as?

Answers here ...

5 comments:

  1. You didn't get 9? Interesting. Well done though. Hope Bag tries it.

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  2. Didn't do over well here.
    Got half.
    Thaought No 1 sounded like Idi Amin, though wondered a bit about the famine.
    2, 6, 8, No.
    And 10 I failed as well, which is deplorable.

    But my flatmate was very disconcerted that no7 gave me an excuse to start singing 'Monkey Magic, Monkey Magic', something That is a bad habit of mine anyway.

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  3. In my usual slump, 3 only. Well known figures to other than me, obviously.

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  4. Ah but you're all going to do much, much better in the next one.

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