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1 Which Russian revolutionary was assassinated in Mexico City with an ice pick on 20th August, 1940?
A Leon Trotsky, by a Spanish communist agent named Ramón Mercader
2 Who was released from prison on Robben Island after 27 years on 11th February 1990?
A Nelson Mandela. He spent his final months of imprisonment at Victor Verster Prison before authorities finally released him in 1990.
3 After converting to the Nation of Islam, to what did human rights activist Malcolm Little change his name?
A Malcolm X. Later in life, after his pilgrimage to Mecca, he changed his name again to el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. The ‘X’ represents the unknown African name that the institution of slavery stripped from his family.
4 What was Marilyn Monroe’s natural hair colour?
A Light to medium brown, with some sources describing it as a warm brown. Some early modelling photos show her with this natural colour before she began her career in Hollywood.
5 From whom did the teddy bear get its name?
A American President Theodore Roosevelt, who was nicknamed “Teddy”. The name traces its origins to a 1902 bear-hunting trip where Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear that his guides had captured and tied up for him.
6 Which Scotsman was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland?
A John Knox, in 1560, during the Scottish Reformation.
7 Which Prime Minister said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”?
A Winston Churchill. He made this statement to honour the Royal Air Force pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain.
8 Which prominent Golden Age actor began life with the birth name Roy Harold Scherer Junior?
A Rock Hudson. One of the most popular film stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades.
9 Who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken?
A Colonel Sanders, Harland David Sanders. Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon commissioned Sanders as a Kentucky Colonel in 1935.
10 What is Bob Dylan’s real name?
A Robert Zimmerman. In his memoir, he notes that he considered the surname Dillon until Dylan Thomas’s poems unexpectedly inspired him to adopt that spelling instead.