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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. People Mixture. Player Calpurnia09 asks:
  An Australian woman, Caroline Grills, known affectionately as 'Aunt Carrie', who killed a number of people with poison, committed similar crimes to those in a black comedy starring Cary Grant. What is the name of the film?

    Bringing Up Baby
    The Philadelphia Story
    Topper
    Arsenic and Old Lace

#2. People Mixture. Player masonbee asks:
  The method of measuring the speed of the wind is called the Beaufort Scale.
What is the name of the person who worked out a scale of measurement for the speed of wind?

    Stanley Baxter
    Sir Stanley Baldwin
    Sir Francis Beaufort
    Sir Frank Whittle

#3. People Mixture. Player highparkgirl asks:
  In 1537, Christina of Denmark (daughter of Christian II of Denmark and Norway) refused an English monarch's hand with the following words: "If I had two heads, then one should be at the King of England's disposal." What was the event being referred to?

    England's conquest of Denmark
    Henry VIII's second queen's beheading
    A personal insult after a lovers' tiff
    The refusal of her brother-in-law's offer

#4. People Mixture. Player WeEATcrayons asks:
  The Duchess of York shares this name that means princess, with an actress who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What name is this?

    Mary
    Sarah
    Julia
    Anne

#5. People Mixture. Player Philip_Eno asks:
  Which 17th century poet was the English Poet Laureate from 1668 to 1688?

    John Dryden
    John Dampden
    John Wetden
    John Aridden

#6. People Mixture. Player KayceeKool asks:
  Which country links Oscar winning actress Charlize Theron, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu and pioneering heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard?

    England
    Canada
    South Africa
    Australia

#7. People Mixture. Player zorba_scank asks:
  Which conservationist's last words were, "Don't worry, they don't usually swim backwards."?

    Charles Darwin
    Steve Irwin
    Jane Goodall
    Dian Fossey

#8. People Mixture. Player LBaggins asks:
  The US National Archives contains a photo of President Richard Nixon shaking hands with what mutton-chopped singing star?

    Elvis Presley
    Lulu
    Bing Crosby
    Perry Como

#9. People Mixture. Player Caseena asks:
  Sundiata Kieta of Mali is also called what? Disney fans may know.

    The Robin Hood of Africa
    The Raging Bull
    The Lion King
    The Desert Warrior

#10. People Mixture. Player SmoothBrain asks:
  Who led early colonisation efforts in the Americas on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I? A major city in North Carolina is named after him, though he never actually voyaged to North America himself.

    John Cabot
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    Sir Francis Drake
    James Cook