People Pub Quiz 260620

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1. Q: What paperback book was Mark Chapman carrying when he shot John Lennon?
   A: The Catcher in the Rye. He later stated he identified with the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, and wrote “This is my statement” inside the book, signing it as his “manifesto”.
2. Q: Who chauffeured the car in which Diana, the Princess of Wales, was killed?
   A: Henri Paul. He was the deputy head of security at the Hôtel Ritz Paris and was driving the Mercedes-Benz on the night of the fatal crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel on August 31, 1997.
3. Q: President François Duvalier of Haiti was widely known by what nickname?
   A: Papa Doc. This nickname originated from his profession as a physician, which he often used to cultivate a populist image among Haiti’s poor and rural populations before his rule.
4. Q: Which Romanian communist president did a firing squad execute on Christmas Day, 1989?
   A: Nicolae Ceaușescu. Along with his wife Elena.
5. Q: Jack Mills was the designated driver in which infamous robbery?
   A: The Great Train Robbery. In the early hours of August 8, 1963.
6. Q: Sir Christopher Wren, the architect behind St Paul’s Cathedral, was a professor of which scientific field?
   A: Astronomy. He held two prestigious professorships in this field: appointed Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College (1657) and later became the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford (1661).
7. Q: Stanley Gibbons initially trained as a chemist in his father’s pharmacy, but he changed his career entirely to become what?
   A: stamp dealer, publisher, and philatelist. Initially, Gibbons built a highly profitable side-line trading stamps from a corner desk in the chemist’s shop. Following his father’s death in 1867, he briefly managed the pharmacy. Ultimately, he shifted his entire focus after realizing that selling stamps was significantly more lucrative.
8. Q: By what other name did the world most famously know Steven Georgi (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), now Yusuf Islam?
   A: Cat Stevens. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he performed under this famous moniker for his pop and folk career; eventually, he converted to Islam in 1977 and changed his name to Yusuf Islam.
9. Q: American artist Abbott Thayer developed what for military use?
   A: Camouflage. He heavily influenced early military deception techniques by pioneering disruptive colouration and countershading.
10. Q: Which Italian astronomer did the Roman Inquisition find “vehemently suspect of heresy” in 1633, forcing him to publicly recant his heliocentric beliefs?
    A: Galileo Galilei. Heliocentrism is an astronomical model in which the Earth and the planets orbit the Sun. He was only spared torture and death because powerful friends intervened.