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About people who where more interesting than most of us.
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Last updated: July 16, 2023
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1. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with a friend. What was the name of his friend?
Sherpa John Smith ✓
Cho Oyu ✓
Genzing Torgay ✓
Tenzing Norgay ✓
2. John Lennon sparked quite a bit of controversy in the US in 1966. Why? What did he say?
The Beatles are bigger than Elvis ✓
The Beatles are more popular than Jesus ✓
Paul McCartney doesn`t write any of our songs ✓
Americans are not giving us the respect that we deserve ✓
3. Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole in 1912. Someone beat him with about 4 weeks. Who?
Alfred Nobel ✓
Fridtjof Nansen ✓
Erling Braut Haaland ✓
Roald Amundsen ✓
4. Who was the first to circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan ✓
Johnny Rotten ✓
Vasco da Gama ✓
Sir Francis Drake ✓
5. In what US city can you find "Graceland"?
Nashville ✓
Memphis ✓
Jackson ✓
St Paul ✓
6. What was probably Amelia Earhart`s favourite choice of transportation?
Boats ✓
Air Balloons ✓
Rockets ✓
Airplanes ✓
7. Many years ago there was a movie character called "The tramp". Who played that character?
Charlie Chaplin ✓
Buster Keaton ✓
Kuster Beaton ✓
Larry Lloyd ✓
8. Which Swedish band got very popular after their Eurovision win in 1974?
Emil ✓
Pippi Longstocking ✓
Carola ✓
Abba ✓
9. Which idiot won the first season of "Survivor" in America?
Kelly Underwood ✓
Jessica Diggins ✓
Richard Hatch ✓
Jeff Probst ✓
10. Seinfeldism: George: I like DeSoto. Jerry: DeSoto? What did he do? What was George`s answer?
Discovered the Mississippi ✓
Discovered Canada ✓
Discovered Studio 54 ✓
Discovered the trail to the west ✓
11. Movie about a lunar mission. With Tom Hanks in a leading role. What is it called?
Apollo 10 ✓
Apollo 12 ✓
Ghostbusters ✓
Apollo 13 ✓
12. Charles Elwood Yeager was the first to do this:
First to turn the amp up to 11 ✓
First to brake the sound barrier ✓
First to win a lawsuit against an ex-wife ✓
First under 10 seconds in the 100 meter olympics ✓
13. This was considered foolish, absurd, and heretical by the Roman Inquisition in 1615. What?
Prostitution ✓
Heliocentrism ✓
Soccer ✓
Slavery ✓
14. And now a hard one. Who was the third person to walk on the moon?
J. Edgar Hoover ✓
Arthur Ashe ✓
Phil Mahre ✓
Pete Conrad ✓
15. The New York Marathon didn`t want women to compete in the 70`s. A Norwegian woman ended up physically fighting off organizing people in her first run. She ended up winning the competition 9 times. Her name?
Wilson Kipketer ✓
Ingrid Kristiansen ✓
Grete Waitz ✓
Matt Damon ✓
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