People Pub Quiz 260629 (Free Printable)

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1. Q: Which 19th-century American frontiersman was killed at the Battle of the Alamo?
   A: Davy Crockett. After losing his bid for re-election, he travelled to Texas with a group of volunteers to participate in the Texas Revolution against Mexican rule.
2. Q: Which South African surgeon led the team that performed the first human heart transplant?
   A: Dr Christiaan Barnard. The ground-breaking surgery took place on December 3, 1967, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
3. Q: Who is the world’s longest-reigning monarch?
   A: King Louis XIV of France. Known as the “Sun King,” he ruled for exactly 72 years and 110 days, from May 1643 to September 1715.
4. Q: Which model appeared on “This Is Your Life”, aged just 19?
   A: Twiggy (Lesley Lawson). (Though she was actually 20 years old at the time of her broadcast). David Butler, at 17 years old, is the youngest person to ever be surprised with the Big Red Book.
5. Q: Who is the youngest WBC heavyweight boxing champion?
   A: Mike Tyson. He claimed the WBC heavyweight title at just 20 years and 4 months old by knocking out Trevor Berbick in the second round on 22nd November 1986.
6. Q: Who did Time Magazine name as “Man of the Year” in 1938?
   A: Adolf Hitler. The title is not an endorsement. According to the TIME Archive: Adolf Hitler 1938, the magazine selects the newsmaker who most influenced the year’s events “for better or worse”.
7. Q: By what name is William Claude Dukenfield remembered?
   A: W. C. Fields. He achieved international acclaim for playing comically cantankerous, hard-drinking, and misanthropic scoundrels.
8. Q: With which actress did would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr have an obsession?
   A: Jodie Foster. He stalked the young actress and attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in a delusional bid to gain her attention and impress her.
9. Q: Which English King wore two shirts at his execution so people would not think him afraid if he shivered?
   A: King Charles I. Executed on 30th January 1649. Because it was a freezing winter morning, he requested the extra layer so his body would not shiver. The specific undergarment—a pale blue knitted silk vest—is housed in the London Museum’s collection.
10. Q: Who was the first U.S. president to be assassinated?
    A: Abraham Lincoln. Confederate sympathiser and actor John Wilkes Booth fatally shot him on 14th April 1865, while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.