People Trivia

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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 hou

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Which artist, engineer, musician, and scientist has been called the most versatile genius of the Renaissance?

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Around the middle of the 18th century, this Englishman wrote a book of rules and instructions for indoor games, especially card games. Who was he?

8

This music personality rose to prominence in the 1920s in Harlem and Chicago cabarets. He made films, recordings, and toured throughout world until his death in 1971. Who is he?

5

In 1893, fed up with Paris life, this painter left his wife and children and moved to Tahiti, where he lived with a 14-year-old girl. Who was he?

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?

3

What were the first names of the mother and father of the political Kennedy family?

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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?

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All these people come from the same state: Henry Ford, Gerald Ford, Madonna, and Diana Ross. Which state is it?

12

Which lawyer represented Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken, Jim Bakker, Claus Von Bulow, and O.J. Simpson?

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Born in Arkansas in 1922, she published her first book, "Sex and the Single Girl," in 1962. Three years later she became chief editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. Who is she?

2

In February, 1979, which national leader said, "This is the first day of the government of God."

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Which lawyer represented Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken, Jim Bakker, Claus Von Bulow, and O.J. Simpson?

14

Patty Hearst was kidnapped on February 4, in what year?

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Princess Diana, former wife of future King Charles, was Princess of ... what?