People Trivia

10

Which entertainer has over 500 fan clubs worldwide, even though he's been dead since 1977?

17

Bob Hope was born May 29, of what year?

10

Can you name the novelist, humorist, and satirist who said, "A classic is something everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read."

14

She first gained fame in the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars. In 1983 she married singer-songwriter Paul Simon; they divorced the next year. In 1990 she wrote the screenplay for Postcards from the Edge. Name her and her parents.

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16

This person made his fortune by supplying meat to the Union soldiers during the Civil War. In 1870 he built his first meat-packing plant in Chicago, which soon made that city the meat-packing center of the U.S.A. What was his name?

3

In 1991 actors Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone backed a new restaurant filled with movie memorabilia. What was the restaurant called, and in which city did the first one open?

17

This British dramatist and poet lived about 400 years ago and is considered the first poet laureate of Britain. A Canadian track star has the same name. Who was this person?

10

Which baroque musician is considered the greatest composer for the organ?

17

Around 1915, this fur trader witnessed Canadian Eskimos spread their freshly caught fish on the frozen snow, then store the frozen fish for months before thawing and cooking them. This gave him the idea for a frozen-food business which made his name a household word. Who was he?

19

One of the most successful business men in the world, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was a college drop-out - from what university?

9

For the last 25 years of his life, Howard Hughes was a recluse, and spent the last six years wasting away in a drug stupor, in which islands?

11

In 1972, this Romanian citizen became the first tennis player from behind the Iron Curtain to win the US Open tennis tournament. What was his name?

14

When this person visited San Francisco for one day in September of 1987, it cost the city over $1 million. Who was this visitor?

4

This person immigrated without money from Scotland to the United States in the mid 19th century. He made millions in the U.S. steel industry, and gave away most of the proceeds to educational, cultural, and peace-making organizations. Who was he?

16

His actual parents were Dorothy Gardner and Leslie Lynch King, but this 38th U.S. President took his name from his adoptive stepfather. Who was he?