QUESTION 220

The two people you see here played a major part in a financial scandal in America during the tenure of Ulysses S Grant. This caused a major fall in the price of something. Investors suffered. But the two men here did make a significant gain. Who are these guys? What scandal?

QUESTION 219

Okay people, Identify this bunch...

Clearly personalities you've come across, read about,etc,etc

QUESTION 218

Thome de Gamond explored a few possibilities and came up with a plan(shown in the figure)

This presented an idea for which modern day structure?

QUESTION 217

Identify this politician, diplomat and a something else, for which he won the nobel prize!

QUESTION 216

______born in San Fransisco, California, to ----Sr. (1906–1970), a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth Runner (1909–2006), a factory worker. He was a large baby (12 pounds and 6 ounces) and was named "Samson" by the nurses in the hospital. _______ has English, Scottish, Dutch and Irish ancestry and was raised in a "middle class Protestant home". His family moved often, as his father worked at different jobs along the West Coast The family settled in Piedmont, Cal,. Later he transferred to Oakland Technical High School, where the drama teachers encouraged him to take part in school plays, but he was not interested. _____held several jobs as he moved to different areas, including a paper carrier, grocer clerk, forest firefighter, and caddy.

After graduating from high school in 1949, ___ intended to enter Seattle University and major in music, but in 1950, during the  Korean War, he was drafted into the army He was stationed at Fort Ord where his certificate as a lifeguard got him appointed as a life-saving and swimming instructor

Later, a professional actor. who?

QUESTION 215

CONNECT

A composer

A picture showing a scene, from which recognizing the personality will be pretty easy..

A

B                                                              
                                                                

                                                                                  
                                                          

Connect the two, arrive at a piece composed by A.

A very popular piece

QUESTION 214

  A

'A' wrote a story based in the period of the French Revolution, the protagonist uses the flower shown in B to sign his messages.
The protagonist and his team rescue several French aristocrats from the daily executions.
Which play/work am I talking about?

B

QUESTION 213

Who's this?

Hint: Imagine this chappy with some facial hair(a moustache, to be more precise), and you'll get the character he's most famous for having played :D
Identify both, the person and the character!

QUESTION 212

This map shows the member countries of a certain organization.

Countries in dark green are the founder members.

Countries in light green are subsequent members.

Which organization?

QUESTION 211

X was a writer.
Evening American managing director William Curley thought X could succeed in New York, so he sent him to King Features Syndicate, where X worked for many years. He began by drawing Y for the New York Journal. Y's first line in the strip was "'Ja think I'm a cowboy?" The character stole the show and became the permanent star..


X

Id X and also the character Y, which was created by him.