Trivia Quiz 58

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Quiz 58
Clue 1

I am an Austrian by birth.

WHO am I? :)

Geoff

[Old_Cat]

Arnold Schwarzenegger

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/70/17/38m.jpg

Date of birth (location)
30 July 1947
Thal, Styria, Austria

But... It is Clue 1 and I think, that you are NOT Arnold Schwarzenegger :D

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No, Old_Cat, not "I`ll be back" Arnie. ;)

Geoff

[jojomataketa]

Freud, Sigmund
'Stare at my penetrating eyes..tick tock..tick tock..You are under my spell now!...Confess!...tell me every bit of the disgusting details..Did you really!..blimey!'
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/images/vc91.jpg


'Rain drops keep falling on my head...'
http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/einst_b.jpg

'Kiss my lips...come!'
http://supermodelpages.com/claudia_schiffer/picture03.jpg

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Sorry, jojo, not he who started all those `slips.` :D

Geoff

[scrapage_online]

wild guess but

Adolf Hitler

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Hitler isn`t such a bad guess, scrapage_online, but not correct. vio#


Quiz 58
Clue 2

I am female.

WHO am I? :)

Geoff

[jojomataketa]

Marie Antoinette
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg/180px-MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg)

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Marie Antoinette, painted by
Wagenschon shortly after her
marriage in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1770"]1770 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg)Marie Antoinette
(2 November (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2) 1755 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755) - 16 October (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_16) 1793 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1793)),
was Queen of France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/Marie_Antoinette_by_David.jpg/180px-Marie_Antoinette_by_David.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marie_Antoinette_by_David.jpg) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marie_Antoinette_by_David.jpg)
Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, by Jacques-Louis David (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David), 1793

On the morning of October (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October) 16th,
a guard arrived to cut her hair
and bind her hands behind her back.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/NormaShearer.jpg/180px-NormaShearer.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NormaShearer.jpg) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NormaShearer.jpg)
Norma Shearer who is still considered the greatest actress to have played Marie Antoinette

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My history lessons in school must have missed that one, (or I wasn`t paying attention at the time), but indeed the French Queen was born in Austria. Unfortunately though, jojo, not the right lady we are looking for. :D

Did she say "Let them eat cake"? Not according to this:-
We're not entirely sure who said "Let them eat cake," but we can tell you that it wasn't Marie Antoinette. This flippant phrase about consuming pastry is commonly attributed to the frivolous queen in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Supposedly, she spoke these words upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat. But biographers and historians have found no evidence that Marie uttered these words or anything like them. Geoff

[jojomataketa]

indeed the French Queen was born in Austria. Unfortunately though, jojo, not the right lady we are looking for. :D
Geoff
http://www.best-of-chat-links.de/home8_img/mad_cat2.jpg

[jmrenterprises]

Princess Michael of Kent

nearly missed this weeks

john

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Glad you got to join us John. I never realized just how many famous Austrians there are, and as you say Princess Michael is Austrian born. Unfortunately the guesses are going to have to keep coming in though.

Incidentally her full name is, apparently, Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz. :)

Geoff

[curly]

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian-born physicist who played an essential role in the discovery of nuclear fission (the splitting of the nucleus of an atom). From 1934 to 1938, Meitner and German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann worked on the reactions that occur when neutrons bombard uranium nuclei. In December 1938, Hahn and Strassmann discovered that such bombardment produces nuclei of barium, a chemical element much lighter than uranium. In January 1939, Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch gave the first explanation of that discovery. Meitner and Frisch described how neutron bombardment causes uranium nuclei to split into nuclei of barium and other elements, and they calculated the enormous energy released. Meitner and Frisch suggested that the process of splitting be called nuclear fission. The work of Meitner, Hahn, Strassmann, and Frisch led to the development of the atomic bomb and other uses of nuclear energy.

Meitner was born in Vienna in 1878. She earned a doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna in 1906. In 1907, she began working with Hahn in Berlin. She and Hahn were among the first to isolate the element protactinium in 1917. A pioneer for women in physics, she became the first head of the physics department at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry (now the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry) in 1917.

In 1938, Meitner fled Nazi Germany because she was of Jewish descent. She then worked at the Nobel Institute for Physics in Stockholm, Sweden. She was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of America in 1946. In 1966, she shared the Enrico Fermi Award with Hahn and Strassmann.

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curly, Lise Meitner was one very clever woman. Not her though, sorry. :)

Geoff

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Quiz 58
Clue 3

After moving from my homeland my first name was changed, then later my surname was changed by marriage.

WHO am I? :)

Geoff

[jojomataketa]

Maria Schell

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http://www.moviestarsmagazine.com/show/frontcovers/ps5807dd.jpg

[Old_Cat]

Professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chava L-i-f-s-h-i-t-z

(March 26, 1936 -- March 1, 2005)

http://sachlav.huji.ac.il/chemistry/school/personnel_files/big_40.jpg

From http://theochem.weizmann.ac.il/chava.html :

Chava L-i-f-s-h-i-t-z was born Eva Wolf in Vienna on March 26, 1936 in an upper-middle class home. After the Anschluss, her father (a prominent attorney) managed to get the family out ahead of the Nazi murder machine. Eventually the Wolfs made their way to Eretz Yisrael (then a British Mandate area). There, as customary then (and to a large extent still now) her first name was changed to the original Hebrew version of Eva, "Chava".

Her father, Shlomo (Salomon) Wolf, played a key role in the creation of the Maccabi Sick Fund (presently Maccabi Health Services), one of Israel's four HMOs. By all accounts Chava was a very gifted pupil, and grew up in a cultured home in the old European tradition --- including piano lessons from the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim.

In 1953, she started studying Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under a special program that allowed gifted students to combine their military service with their studies. She obtained the M.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry in 1958, and a Ph.D. in 1961, with a dissertation entitled "Isotope Effects in the Radiation Chemistry of Aqueous Solutions" (advisor: G. Stein). At the Hebrew U. she met and married fellow chemist Assa L-i-f-s-h-i-t-z.

The focus of her research career was determined by a two-year postdoctoral stint with mass spectrometry pioneer Franklin Asbury Long at Cornell. She joined the Hebrew U. Faculty in 1963, and rose through the ranks to become a Full Professor at the (for Israel) young age of 40.

She left an indelible mark on her fields of science (mass spectrometry and gas-phase ion chemistry), on the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and on the people with whom she interacted.

Her contributions to science were honored by many awards, of which I will only note the Kolthoff Prize (Technion 1985), the Max Planck Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1991, shared with longtime collaborator Helmut Schwarz), and the Israel Chemical Society Prize (2003). On the occasion of her 60th birthday, she was honored with a special issue of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes (edited by Robert C. Dunbar and Tilmann Maerk).

In his eulogy at her funeral, Hebrew University Rector Prof. Menachem Magidor called her "a supporting pillar" of the university. She held a succession of leadership positions in the university and within the Israeli higher education system: Chair of the Chemistry Studies Division (1972-1976), Chair of the Tenure Committee in the Experimental Sciences (1984-1985), Member of the Council for Higher Education (Israel, 1986-1991), Chair of the Physical Chemistry Department (1989-1992), Member of the High Committee for Science and Technology (the "Harari Commission", 1991-1992), and finally Head of the Institute of Chemistry (1994-1997). All students of hers I spoke to remember her as a brilliant teacher, a scrupulously fair evaluator, and a warm "mother figure".

But there was much more to Chava than science, science policy, and education. Her youngest daughter Orna recalled in her eulogy that when she was five, "doctors told Chava she had another five years to live, if she was lucky". She struggled against the disease with stoic courage and unflinching tenacity, and beat the doctor's prognosis by a good two decades, leading an active life until the very end. As Prof. Raphael D. Levine recalled in his eulogy, she got a grant proposal approved a mere two months before her death.

Speaking for myself, I will always remember her as not being "like" anybody: she was an original. At once unfailingly polite in the best European tradition and bluntly outspoken (especially about politics) in a way that could startle even Israelis. At once a sworn feminist and a doting mother; a driven scientist and a "mother lioness" to all who worked for or with her; a political liberal in many ways yet simultaneously the most strident of right-wing nationalists; at once an uncompromisingly analytical thinker and loving beyond reason --- of other people, and of the Land of Israel that, in very different ways, is so dear to both of us. Chava Lif****z, the one and only.

She is survived by her husband, Prof. Assa L-i-f-s-h-i-t-z; by her son, Dr. Ron L-i-f-s-h-i-t-z, their daughters Donna and Orna L-i-f-s-h-i-t-z, and half a dozen grandchildren.


P.S. If I write L-i-f-s-h-i-t-z without "-", that is displayed as Lif****z. Why ? :confused:

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Another two wonderful attempts by jojo and Old_Cat, unfortunately neither are correct though. vio#

P.S. If I write L-i-f-s-h-i-t-z without "-", that is displayed as Lif****z. Why ? :confused:Old-Cat, a good question. It happens when I try to write ****nal. but I can write A-r-s-enal. The reason is that this forum was originally set to disallow words that may be deemed offensive, so if any of those words form part of a bigger word then the *** appear instead.

Geoff

[jojomataketa]

[QUOTE=forwardone]Another two wonderful attempts by jojo and Old_Cat, unfortunately neither are correct though. vio#
Geoff[/ QUOTE]

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[scrapage_online]

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler / HEDY LAMARR

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:D This week`s Quiz is proving quite a tricky one.

Not Hedy Lamarr, who as you say was born in Vienna, Austria.

"Any girl can be glamorous," Hedy Lamarr once said. "All she has to do is stand still and look stupid." The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time.
Geoff

[jojomataketa]

Take your pick!!.......(just to borrow for a while, not to keep!)

http://supermodelpages.com/claudia_schiffer/picture03.jpg

http://www.morethings.com/pictures/music/zappa/fz1a.jpg

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Quiz 58
Clue 4

My `adopted` country is Holland.

WHO am I? :)

[jojomataketa]

Dorothea Neff

thought it could be Anne Frank...but she was born in germany, not austria....Just musing...

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She was a brave lady, as this report shows. I couldn`t actually find anything though to say she ever moved to Holland, but perhaps I wasn`t looking in the right places?


Dorothea Neff, a leading stage actress, risked her life rescuing Jewish fashion designer Lilli Wolff. While performing in Cologne in the 1930’s, she met Wolff and ordered garments from her. The two women formed a close friendship. In 1939, Neff reached the apex of her career and was invited to act in Vienna’s Volkstheater. One day in the winter of 1939-40, Neff heard a quiet knocking at her door. Standing outside in front of her was Lilli Wolff, who had fled from the increasing persecution of Jews in Germany. She had hoped that the Jews of Vienna were better off than those of Germany, and that Dorothea Neff would help her. At first Neff provided her with financial assistance, and brought her medications which Jews could no longer purchase. In October 1941 the Jews of Vienna received deportation orders. Limited by a strict weight allowance, Lilli packed a case with essential items and went to Dorothea to weigh it. Neff immediately understood what she must do and insisted that Lilli move in with her.

Geoff

[if6was9]

Audrey Hepburn?

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1929
http://www.audreyhepburn.com/assets/invis.gifMay 4, birth of Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston in Brussels, Belgium. Daughter of John Victor Hepburn-Ruston and Ella van Heemstra.
Until I checked I didn`t realize that Audrey Hepburn was in fact born in Belgium.
So, that`s a new one on me. Not Ms Hepburn alas, if6was9.:)

Geoff

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Quiz 58
Clue 5

I got a job as a secretary when I moved to Holland and worked my way up the company ladder. My `other life` however, was more secretive.

WHO am I?

Geoff

[jojomataketa]

Miep Gies


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I agree, jojo, a very touching story of bravery and loyalty to her employer and the family she grew to love - the Franks.

Miep Gies is born with the name Hermine Santrouschitz in 1909 in Vienna, Austria. An Austrian Christian, she has to leave her family for economic reasons. She is sent to Leiden, Holland, as part of a relief program to help malnourished children. She lives there with a "host family," whom she grows to love very much. They give her the name Miep, feeling Hermine is too formal. In 1922, she moves with her adopted family to Amsterdam.
In 1933, Miep hears about an opening for a job as an office assistant for Otto Frank, a gentleman who has just moved to Amsterdam. Miep takes the job and becomes good friends with Otto, his wife Edith, and their daughters, Margot and Anne.
Miep Gies was asked by Otto, her employer, to hide the family, along with a few others, at the rear of their place of business.

Sadly they were, in time, betrayed, and reported to the police and subsequently arrested. Miep was apparently allowed to go free because the policeman who had the ultimate authority was himself from Vienna, Miep`s birthplace.

The museum showing the history is a very interesting place for a visit, and of course Anne`s diary tells the story of those harrowing events.

Well done, jojo, Miep Gies is the correct answer to this week`s Trivia Quiz. Please let me have your e-gold no. for your $5 winnings.

Once again thanks to all who took part this week. A new Quiz starts on Sunday. ;)

Geoff

[Luxor]

That was a tough one Geoff. I didn't even have enough ideas to take a guess.

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Yes Luxor, I agree with you. Sometimes I like to throw a real `toughie` in to the pot just so we don`t all relax too much.

Seriously though, sometimes we know that people exist, as probably most of us do with the subject of this week`s Quiz, but we don`t always know their names. This lady is actually listed on a site called Dutch Courage. :)

Geoff