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Miscellaneous - Miscellaneous 3

Below you will find our third and final Miscellaneous Picture Quiz. Ten more faces to answer questions about and perhaps find out more by reading the bullets.

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  1. From September 1974 Dennis the Menace replaced which character on the front cover of The Beano?

    Photograph courtesy of pigeonproject.com
    • First Appearance: 17 March 1951
    • Place: Issue 452
    • Nationality: British
    • Dennis the Menace appears in the children's comic The Beano, along with his dog Gnasher
    • It is the longest-running strip in the comic
    • Interestingly, five days before Dennis the Menace first appeared in the UK, another comic strip coincidentally named Dennis the Menace debuted in the United States
    • Dennis is the archetypal badly-behaved schoolboy

  2. What did Marie Curie name the first chemical element that she discovered?

    Photograph courtesy of en.wikipedia.org
    • Born: 7 November 1867
    • Place: Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
    • Nationality: Polish
    • She was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity
    • Marie was the first person honoured with two Nobel Prizes - in physics and chemistry
    • She was the first female professor at the University of Paris
    • Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes

  3. In February 2005 Alan Sugar famously predicted that what would be "dead, finished, gone, kaput" by the following Christmas?

    Photograph courtesy of dailymail.co.uk
    • Born: 24 March 1947
    • Place: Hackney, London
    • Nationality: British
    • He is an entrepreneur, media personality and political advisor
    • Sugar is notable for his time as chairman of Tottenham Hotspur from 1991 to 2001
    • He starred in the BBC TV series The Apprentice, which has run to seven series
    • In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the consumer electronics company Amstrad, his largest and best known business venture

  4. In which film starring Marilyn Monroe is the iconic skirt-blowing scene?

    Photograph courtesy of marilynmonroeart.net
    • Born: 1 June 1926
    • Place: Los Angeles
    • Nationality: American
    • She was an actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s
    • After signing with The Blue Book Modelling Agency, she was told they were looking for models with lighter hair, so she bleached her brunette hair to a golden blonde
    • Monroe became one of Blue Book's most successful models; she appeared on dozens of magazine covers

  5. Stephen Hawking's actual synthesiser voice was used on parts of the Pink Floyd song 'Keep Talking' from which album?

    Photograph courtesy of inquisitr.com
    • Born: 8 January 1942
    • Place: Oxford, England
    • Nationality: British
    • He is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity
    • In 2009 Stephen was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States

  6. Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia came about from a previous website of his. What was it called?

    Photograph courtesy of cdo.wikipedia.org
    • Born: 7 August 1966
    • Place: Huntsville, Alabama
    • Nationality: American
    • Jimmy is an Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company
    • While in graduate school, he taught at two universities
    • In 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, Wales launched Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia
    • Wales has asserted that he is the sole founder of Wikipedia, and has publicly disputed Sanger's designation as a co-founder

  7. David Bailey is an art lover with a long-held passion for the works of which artist?

    Photograph courtesy of anothermag.com
    • Born: 2 January 1938
    • Place: Leytonstone, London
    • Nationality: British
    • David developed a love of natural history, and this led him into photography
    • He was called up for National Service in 1956, serving with the Royal Air Force in Singapore in 1957
    • In 1960, he was contracted as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine
    • As well as fashion photography, Bailey has been responsible for record album sleeve art for performers including The Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull

  8. Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing clothes of what colour?

    Photograph courtesy of newarkroundtable.co.uk
    • Born: 15th Century
    • Place: Sherwood Forest, Nottingham
    • Nationality: British
    • Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore
    • A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for 'robbing from the rich and giving to the poor' assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his 'Merry Men'

  9. In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg promised to donate to charity how much of his wealth over the course of time?

    Photograph courtesy of hark.com
    • Born: 14 May 1984
    • Place: White Plains, New York
    • Nationality: American
    • He is a computer programmer and internet entrepreneur
    • He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive
    • In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year
    • He became the world's youngest billionaire as of 2008
    • As of 2011, his personal wealth was estimated to be $17.5 billion

  10. There are over 200 Mary Quant Colour shops in which country?

    Photograph courtesy of uk.ykone.com
    • Born: 11 February 1934
    • Place: Blackheath, London
    • Nationality: Welsh
    • She is a Welsh fashion designer and British fashion icon, who was instrumental in the mod fashion movement
    • She was one of the designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants
    • Quant named the miniskirt after her favorite make of car, the Mini
    • She loved the car so much, she had one designed especially for her
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