Trivia Quiz: Identify These People

[The_Mad_Hermit]

I know what they have in common-

None of them have ever been in my kitchen.

[Bookkeeper]

@matt_mcl

1. Antoine Lavoisier
2. Louis Buade, sieur de Frontenac et de Palluau
3. Carl von Linné
4. Sanford Fleming
5. Harry Hay
6. Laura Secord
7. Elijah Harper
8. Lise Meitner
9. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
10. Paul Okalik

1. In addition to his work in chemistry (he was one of the giants in his field) he was an investor in one of the pre-Revolution “tax farmer” combines (pay X amount up front, keep any extra you can gouge out of the peasants), which is what got him guillotined.

2. Governor of New France in late 1600s. Responsible for early expansion of French interests in North America and sucessful defense of the colony against English and Iroquois attacks.

3. Swedish natural historian (i.e. early scientist) who invented the Linnean sytem for classifying and naming species, still in use in modified form as the binomial system. (Most of his original classifications have been extensively modified by new knowledge, but the basic idea is still unchanged.)

4. President of the CPR and early advocate of Standard Time.

5. ??

6. Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. (also name of popular chocolate/ice cream retailer)

7. Manitoba Aboriginal MPP who refused unanimous consent required for the Manitoba laegislature to approve the Meech Lake Accord within the specified time over it’s lack of recognition of aboriginal concerns. The accord was effectively scuttled by his action.

8. ??

9. ??

10. I think something related to Nunavut (but that could be just his name looking Inuit).

[dougie_monty]

Nobody knew who the others were?

2. P. Hal Sims

3. Betty Weider

4. Alice Terwilliger

5. Dudley Field Malone
   Sims was a champion bridge player and journalist. Ms. Weider, Joe’s wife, is a nutrition and fitness expert. Dudley Field Malone was a well-know actor and lawyer (he was on Darrow’s team of counsellors in the Scopes trial).
   And I’m sure the Teeming Millions know who Alice Terwilliger is.
   Here are ten more:

6. Leslie O’Connor

7. Douglas Edwards

8. Alben W. Barkley

9. Paul de Kruif

10. Christine McIntyre

11. Victoria Clafin Woodhull (sp?)

12. Otto Kerner

13. Ivy Baker Priest

14. Janet Pilgrim

15. Charles Kettering

[Duke_of_Rat]

@dougie_monty

And I’m sure the Teeming Millions know who Alice Terwilliger is.

Alice’s Restaurant??

Here are ten more:

1. Leslie O’Connor
2. Douglas Edwards
3. Alben W. Barkley
4. Paul de Kruif
5. Christine McIntyre
6. Victoria Clafin Woodhull (sp?)
7. Otto Kerner
8. Ivy Baker Priest
9. Janet Pilgrim
10. Charles Kettering

9. Janet Pilgrim was an early Playboy Playmate

[Sal_Ammoniac]

@dougie_monty

1. Leslie O’Connor
2. Douglas Edwards
3. Alben W. Barkley
4. Paul de Kruif
5. Christine McIntyre
6. Victoria Clafin Woodhull (sp?)
7. Otto Kerner
8. Ivy Baker Priest
9. Janet Pilgrim
10. Charles Kettering

Leslie O’Connor: Winner of 1936 Pan-Am welding championship in the arc-welding category
Douglas Edwards: Spayed himself with an entrenching tool while hanging off the Empire State building
Alben W. Barkley: President of the United States, elected in 1957
Pauyl de Kruif: Popularizer of Saran-Wrap underwear; executed for treason
Christine McIntyre: Performance artist; married to a kitten
Victoria Clafin Woodhull: Ate rocks and drowned
Otto Kerner: Winner of 1912 Nobel Prize for Wheezing
Ivy Baker Priest: Owner of the Saskatchewan Snivelers in the CanAm Double-Runner Hockey League
Janet Pilgrim: Wore chain mail for 96 years without interruption
Charles Kettering: Invented the automobile self-starter

[dougie_monty]

@Sal Ammoniac

Leslie O’Connor: Winner of 1936 Pan-Am welding championship in the arc-welding category
Douglas Edwards: Spayed himself with an entrenching tool while hanging off the Empire State building
Alben W. Barkley: President of the United States, elected in 1957
Pauyl de Kruif: Popularizer of Saran-Wrap underwear; executed for treason
Christine McIntyre: Performance artist; married to a kitten
Victoria Clafin Woodhull: Ate rocks and drowned
Otto Kerner: Winner of 1912 Nobel Prize for Wheezing
Ivy Baker Priest: Owner of the Saskatchewan Snivelers in the CanAm Double-Runner Hockey League
Janet Pilgrim: Wore chain mail for 96 years without interruption
Charles Kettering: Invented the automobile self-starter

Those are really good except for the last one. I wish you could be more consistent!

[quiltguy154]

Ivy Baker Priest: Treasurer of the United States, back in the 50’s IIRC. Her daughter, Pat, was one of the two actresses who played Marilyn on “The Munsters.”
Douglas Edwards: Early newscaster. A contemporary of Edward R. Murrow.
Alben Barkley: A veep under FDR, IIRC. NOT the warm pitcher of spit guy.

[5_time_champ]

@dougie_monty

Nobody knew who the others were

1. Leslie O’Connor
2. Douglas Edwards
3. Alben W. Barkley
4. Paul de Kruif
5. Christine McIntyre
6. Victoria Clafin Woodhull (sp?)
7. Otto Kerner
8. Ivy Baker Priest
9. Janet Pilgrim
10. Charles Kettering

2. Edwards was a longtime CBS news correspondent.

3. Barkley was Vice President under Harry Truman, married his secretary who was from St Louis while Veep. [John Nance Garner was the warm pitcher of spit guy.]

4. Woodhull was an early women’s rights advocate, IIRC helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

5. Kerner was governor of Illinois in 1960s, chairman of the Kerner Commission which reported that “America was becoming two societies- one white, one black”, convicted of tax evasion and died in prision.

6. Pilgrim was early Playboy Playmate, and sorta matronly looking IIRC.

7. Kettering one of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute guys.

[5_time_champ]

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[li]Pete Gray[/li][li]Charlotte Corday[/li][li]Arthur Freemantle[/li][li]Nan Wood[/li][li]Augustine Tolton[/li][li]John Facenda <sp>[/li][li]Mark Farner[/li][li]Eugenio Pacelli[/li][li]Brad Rutter[/li][li]Susan Stafford[/li][/ol]

[garius]

Arthur Freemantle

Aha! Finally one i recognise!

He was the Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Guards who served as a British Military Observer with the Confederacy. Was present at Gettysburg.

The rest are too American for my tastes

[wolf_meister]

1. Pete Gray - One-armed Major League Baseball player of the early 1940’s.

2. Mark Farner - Member of Grand Funk Railroad. (Bass Player I think).

Is there a point to all this? Will this thread end? Is anyone keeping score? Will this be on the final?

[5_time_champ]

@garius

Aha! Finally one i recognise!

He was the Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Guards who served as a British Military Observer with the Confederacy. Was present at Gettysburg.

The rest are too American for my tastes

Hint: Eugenio Pacelli ain’t American.

[garius]

Dunno but i’ll add five more:

Bernie Grant
John Rouse Merriot Chard
Robert Ross
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Mustafa Kemal

[garius]

Yeah, i know - realised that was a massively sweeping statement right after posting it. :smack:

[dougie_monty]

@garius

Dunno but i’ll add five more:
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Mustafa Kemal

Anyone named Bandaranaike is or was in the government of Sri Lanka.
Mustafa Kemal was the revolutionary who overthrew the Sultan of Turkey (“The well-mannered revolution”) and became the country’s first president.
Charlotte Corday was the anti-revolutionary in France who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bathtub; for that she went to the guillotine.
Leslie O’ Connor succeeded K. M. Landis as Baseball Commissioner.
Paul de Kruif was a science writer.
The next ten:

1. Barbara Frietche
2. Meyer Lansky
3. Generoso Pope
4. Max Terhune
5. Faye Emerson
6. Littlefeather
7. Hub Pruett, M. D.
8. Lucy Ware Webb
9. Sir Frederick Gas
10. Melvin Belli

[Duke_of_Rat]

@dougie_monty

The next ten:

1. Barbara Frietche
2. Meyer Lansky
3. Generoso Pope
4. Max Terhune
5. Faye Emerson
6. Littlefeather
7. Hub Pruett, M. D.
8. Lucy Ware Webb
9. Sir Frederick Gas
10. Melvin Belli

2. Meyer Lansky was a prominent figure in organized crime.

3. Max Terhune was a B movie singing cowboy, a Mesquiteer.

4. Littlefeather, a native American who declined Marlon Brando’s “Godfather” Oscar.

5. Melvin Belli was a lawyer who played an alien on Star Trek.

[garius]

Anyone named Bandaranaike is or was in the government of Sri Lanka.

Yup, she’s generally acknowledged as being the first democratically elected female Head of State in the Modern Era.

[Governor_Quinn]

@dougie_monty

The next ten:

1. Barbara Frietche
2. Meyer Lansky
3. Generoso Pope
4. Max Terhune
5. Faye Emerson
6. Littlefeather
7. Hub Pruett, M. D.
8. Lucy Ware Webb
9. Sir Frederick Gas
10. Melvin Belli

In addition to those already mentioned:

1. Barbara Frietche, according to myth, defied the Confederates when they occupied Frederick, MD, during the Sharpsburg campaign. (“Shoot, if you must, this old grey head, but spare your country’s flag”).

2. Fay Emerson was a TV personality of the 1950’s.

[quiltguy154]

John Facenda was the voice on those NFL films. He was famous here in Philadelphia for being a much-beloved newscaster. Eugenio Pacelli was Pope Pius XII.

[dougie_monty]

@Governor Quinn

In addition to those already mentioned:

1. Barbara Frietche, according to myth, defied the Confederates when they occupied Frederick, MD, during the Sharpsburg campaign. (“Shoot, if you must, this old grey head, but spare your country’s flag”).

2. Fay Emerson was a TV personality of the 1950’s.

The poet gave Ms. Frietchie’s age as “four score years and ten,” but she was even older–she was ninety-six. And she was bedridden.
And Faye Emerson liked to wear daringly low-cut dresses on TV. One day, in fact…:o