Trivia Quiz on Biography

1. What was Mother Theresa's Christian name - before she became a nun

A) Agnes

B) Maria

C) Catherine

D) Elizabeth

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2. What nationality was alexander graham bell

A) British

B) Canadian

C) American

D) Scottish

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3. Who is the american inventor of photographic materials

A) George eastman

B) Thomas Edison

C) Louis Daguerre

D) William Henry Fox Talbot

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4. What nationality was dr bart hughes

A) Belgian

B) British

C) German

D) Dutch

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5. When did Andy Warhol die

A) 1980

B) 1987

C) 1989

D) 1990

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6. Who was known as "The Ace of Spies"

A) Sydney Reilly

B) Mata Hari

C) Kim Philby

D) George Blake

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7. And he was born in which country

A) India

B) Pakistan

C) Bangladesh

D) Sri Lanka

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8. Virginia Patterson Hensley became more famous as who

A) Dolly Parton

B) Loretta Lynn

C) Tammy Wynette

D) Patsy Cline

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9. Who wrote a diary entitled "Five Years of my Life" at the beginning of this century

A) Albert Einstein

B) Virginia Woolf

C) Franz Kafka

D) Alfred dreyfus

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10. Which musician wrote the book "twixt twelve and twenty" in 1958

A) Pat Boone

B) Elvis Presley

C) Paul Anka

D) Johnny Mathis

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11. De Witt Wallace founded what

A) Readers Digest

B) Time Magazine

C) National Geographic

D) The New Yorker

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12. Who wrote the 1994 biography "Princess in Love"

A) Anna Pasternak

B) Nigel Cawthorne

C) Tina Brown

D) Allan Massie

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13. Martina Hinges represents what country at tennis

A) Austria

B) Germany

C) France

D) Switzerland

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14. Who famously owned a yacht called Lady Ghislaine?

A) Robert Maxwell

B) Donald Trump

C) Richard Branson

D) Roman Abramovich

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15. What Was Mother Teresa's Real First Name

A) Anjeze

B) Agnes

C) Agnus

D) Agnetha

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16. Albert Einstein couldn't talk properly until he was nine, and was thought to be suffering from ______

A) Stuttering

B) Dyslexia

C) Dysgraphia

D) Autism

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17. According to John Aubrey's Brief Lives , what card game did the English poet, Sir John Suckling, invent in 1630

A) Brag

B) Whist

C) Cribbage

D) Piquet

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18. Peter Lorre was born in what year

A) 1903

B) 1905

C) 1908

D) 1904

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19. Natasha Gurdin became famous as who

A) Natilie Wood

B) Marilyn Monroe

C) Audrey Hepburn

D) Natalie Portman

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20. Which "daring young man on the flying trapeze" gave his name to a garment

A) Pierre LeBlanc

B) Jean-Pierre Navarre

C) Jules Leotard

D) Charles Blondin

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21. Country singer Hank Wangford had what profession

A) General practitioner

B) Obstetrician

C) Pediatrician

D) Gynaecologist

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22. Who failed his entrance exams to school aged 16

A) Isaac Newton – Cambridge University

B) Marie Curie – Sorbonne

C) Einstein – Zurich poly

D) Stephen Hawking – Oxford University

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23. What nationality is the keyboards wizard Vangelis

A) Cypriot

B) Italian

C) Spanish

D) Greek

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24. William Sydney Porter is better known as who (literature)

A) Mark Twain

B) Edgar Allan Poe

C) O'Henry

D) Thomas Hardy

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25. Louis Pasteur developed a vaccine for what

A) Smallpox

B) Measles

C) Polio

D) Rabies

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26. Lewis Ernest Watts became famous under what name

A) Lewis Ernest Watts Mills

B) John Mills

C) Laurence Olivier

D) Peter O'Toole

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27. What was the nationality of sir winston churchill's mother

A) British

B) Canadian

C) French

D) American

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28. Who wrote the official biography of Lester Piggott

A) Peter O'Sullevan

B) John Francome

C) Hugh McIlvanney

D) Dick Francis

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29. Can You Name Any Year In The Life Of "Nostradamus"

A) 1503 - 1564

B) 1499 - 1550

C) 1500 - 1568

D) 1502 - 1566

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30. What Christina Crawford book was originally titled "the hype"

A) Mommie dearest

B) My Mother's Keeper

C) Joan's Shadow

D) Behind the Spotlight

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31. Who's Auto Biography Is “Who Does She Think She Is”

A) Danniella Westbrook

B) Martine McCutcheon

C) Kylie Minogue

D) Victoria Beckham

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32. Whose autobiography was entitled Past Imperfect

A) Joan Rivers

B) Maya Angelou

C) Michelle Obama

D) Joan Collins

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33. Jayne Austin had five brothers and one sister name her

A) Cassandra

B) Elizabeth

C) Anna

D) Mary

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34. In what field was Erie Shipton famous

A) Chemistry

B) Literature

C) Astronomy

D) Mountaineering

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35. In The World Of Music How Is "Johnny Allen" More Commonly Known

A) Johnny Allen

B) Jimi Hendrix

C) Jimmy Page

D) Jimmie Hendrix

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36. In what country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent born

A) France

B) Algeria

C) Morocco

D) Spain

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37. What actress/dancer/politician went "out on a limb"

A) Jane Fonda

B) Diane Keaton

C) Goldie Hawn

D) Shirley maclaine

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38. Coco Channel a fashion star had what real first name

A) Gabrielle

B) Catherine

C) Marie

D) Jeanne

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39. What was Cecil B. De Mille's Middle name

A) Theodore

B) Leroy

C) Blount

D) Alexander

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40. What links Socrates Aristotle Janis Joplin

A) They were all Greek philosophers.

B) Bisexuals

C) They all lived in the same century.

D) They all played musical instruments.

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41. Anna M Jarvis of Philadelphia instituted what she never qualified

A) Mother's Day

B) Valentine's Day

C) Arbor Day

D) Labor Day

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42. Who won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize

A) Mother teresa

B) Indira Gandhi

C) Desmond Tutu

D) Mikhail Gorbachev

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43. At which university did Spike Lee teach

A) New York University

B) Columbia University

C) Stanford University

D) Harvard

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44. Einstein never wore what if he could avoid it

A) Gloves

B) Hats

C) Socks

D) Ties

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45. Tracy Marrow a former convict born 1958 changed name to what

A) Ice-T

B) Ice Cube

C) LL Cool J

D) Snoop Dogg

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46. Who was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin

A) Jane Austen

B) Charlotte Brontë

C) Mary Shelley

D) George Eliot

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47. This artist cut off his ear & sent it to his lover, before shooting himself dead in a cornfield

A) Vincent van gogh

B) Paul Gauguin

C) Claude Monet

D) Edvard Munch

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48. How did Alfred Nobel make his money

A) He ran a successful shipping business

B) He patented nitroglycerin

C) He built a chain of chocolate factories

D) He invented Dynamite

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49. Joseph Adams served as the minister at Newington for how many years

A) 60

B) 68

C) 72

D) 65

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50. Whose autobiography was entitled My Wicked Wicked Ways

A) Humphrey Bogart

B) Clark Gable

C) John Wayne

D) Errol Flynn

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