People Trivia

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He was in a safe house, on anti-depressant drugs. He was miserable. He couldn't leave his home because he would be hounded by the media - in fact his life could be in danger! 1992 in Los Angeles. Who is he?

7

She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1932. While attempting to fly around the world, she crashed in the Pacific Ocean (1937) and was never hear from again. Who was she?

7

She became one of the world's richest women in 1975 at the age of 24, when she inherited money from her father, one of the world's richest men. She died in 1988. Who was she?

3

What do these well known people have in common? Dan Aykroyd, Neil Young, Michael J. Fox, and Peter Jennings?

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BONUS 3: Which one of these people never won the Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, or Yassir Arafat?

9

The American cartoonist entertained his followers with drawings of extremely complicated contraptions designed to perform extremely simple tasks. Who was he?

17

Which 17th century English physicist and mathematician is said to have discovered the principle of gravity?

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When he graduated from high school in 1917, he chose journalism instead of college and spent seven months as a newspaper reporter. While driving a Red Cross ambulance in Italy in 1918 he was severely wounded by shrapnel. Who was he?

5

President George W. Bush was owner of what sports team?

9

Today she's a well-known movie star, but as a child in New Mexico in the 1960's she needed an operation to repair her cross-eyes. One of her earliest roles was a coke addict in the 1985 film, St. Elmo's Fire. What's her name?

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Which controversial television celebrity, mostly popular in the 60's and 70's, was described as a "brash, arrogant inquisitor with a staccato delivery and unparalleled penchant for verbal arabesques"?

5

In 1996, this congresswoman’s husband pleaded guilty to writing a quarter million dollars in bad checks to finance her campaign. What was her name?

1

In 1993 a certain female turned 25 and inherited her father's $100 million estate. What is her full name?

14

What is the name of Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, with whom Woody Allen had an affair?

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He was easily elected president of his country in 1946, but lost a great deal of his popularity after the death of his wife in 1952, and he was overthrown in 1955 by a military coup. Who was this person, two-time president of Argentina?