Q 01/05

Which star of the Alien films was born with the first name Susan and renamed herself after a Great Gatsby character?

A) Sissy Spacek

B) Sigourney Weaver

C) Helena Bonham Carter

D) Linda Hamilton

Answer · why

B) Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver took the name at the age of 14 from a minor character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. Her breakthrough role was Ellen Ripley, a part ...

Q 02/05

Susan, an 18th-birthday present to the future Queen Elizabeth II, founded a royal line of which dog breed?

A) Corgi

B) Dachshund

C) Beagle

D) Labrador

Answer · why

A) Corgi

Corgi after corgi owned by the Queen descended from Susan. She even joined the royal honeymoon in 1947, hidden under rugs in the open carriage.

Q 03/05

Susan B. Anthony was arrested in her hometown of Rochester, New York, for doing what?

A) Refusing to pay taxes

B) Wearing men's clothing

C) Voting in an election

D) Speaking in a church

Answer · why

C) Voting in an election

Voting in an election was legal only for men in 1872, and the judge fined her $100. She told him she would never pay a dollar of it, and she never did...

Q 04/05

Fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson found and gave her name to Sue, a skeleton of which dinosaur at Chicago's Field Museum?

A) Triceratops

B) Giganotosaurus

C) Stegosaurus

D) Tyrannosaurus

Answer · why

D) Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus rex fossils rarely come as complete as Sue, with over 90% recovered by bulk. Hendrickson spotted the bones in a South Dakota cliff while...

Q 05/05

Susan Boyle stunned the Britain's Got Talent judges at her first audition with a song from which stage musical?

A) Les Misérables

B) Miss Saigon

C) West Side Story

D) Blood Brothers

Answer · why

A) Les Misérables

Les Misérables supplied the ballad, and more than 10 million viewers watched her sing it. Though the clear favourite, she finished second in the final...