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
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
Five: 1 - 4 and 10.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't get 9? Interesting. Well done though. Hope Bag tries it.
ReplyDeleteDidn't do over well here.
ReplyDeleteGot 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.
In my usual slump, 3 only. Well known figures to other than me, obviously.
ReplyDeleteAh but you're all going to do much, much better in the next one.
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