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1. A cocktail with vodka and tomato juice was named after the eldest daughter of Henry VIII. What was her name?

-Mary Tudor
-Jane Seymour
-Mary Stuart
-Elisabeth I

2. A kind of pastry was named after a female monarch that reigned for 64 years. The pastry she was especially fond of contained butter, almonds and raspberries. What is her name?

-Isabel I of Castilia
-Cleopatra VII of Egypt
-Victoria I of England
-Catherine II of Russia

3. The recipe known as pavlova is a type of pastry filled with several fruits. It was named after Anna Pavlova, the famous prima ballerina who danced her most successful number on the night she would die. What was this dance?

-The Dying Swan
-The Swan Lake
-Giselle
-The Fire Bird

4. A creamy chicken soup was named after the mistress of King Charles VII of France. She was portrayed by Jean Fouquet as the Madonna feeding her Child. What is her name?

-Gabrielle d’Estr?e
-Diane de Poitiers
-Agnes Sorel
-Maria de Medici

5. A rather expensive recipe consists of crumbed sole with truffle. It was named after the most famous (and perhaps also the most expensive)mistress of King Louis XV of France. Her real name was Jeanne Antoinnette Poisson, but what was her nickname? 

-Madame de Merteuil
-Madame Butterfly
-Madame de Pompadour
-Madame de Montespan

ANSWERS

1. Mary Tudor. Mary Tudor was crowned Queen of England and Ireland at the age of 39. Because of her tyrannical reign, she was nicknamed Bloody Mary.

2. Victoria I of England Queen. Victoria was crowned Queen of England at the age of 18 and remained Queen until her death in 1901.

3. The Dying Swan. “The Dying Swan” is a notorious ballet dance with music of “The Carnival of the Animals” by Saint-Saens.

4. Agnes Sorel. This soup is named Crème Agnès Sorel. The recipe is sometimes enriched with mushrooms or asparagus.

5. Madame de Pompadour. The recipe is named Sole à la Pompadour.

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1. Who said: ‘It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time’?
-Mae West
-Tallulah Bankhead
-Madonna
-Joan Crawford

2. Who said: ‘The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat’?
-Lily Tomlin
-Barbra Streisand
-Bette Midler
-Cybill Shepherd

3. Who said: ‘Anyone who’s a great kisser I’m always interested in’?
-Cher
-Jane Fonda
-Madonna
-Rosie O’Donnell

4. Who said: ‘A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle’?
-Katharine Hepburn
-Melissa Etheridge
-Gloria Steinem
-Jane Fonda

5. Who said: ‘It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter’?
-Marilyn Monroe
-Ava Gardner
-Marlene Dietrich
-Bette Davis

6. Who said: ‘Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight’?
-Joan Rivers
-Phyllis Diller
-Roseanne
-Bea Arthur

7. Who said: ‘You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm’?
-Margaret Mitchell
-Coco Chanel
-Colette
-Simone de Beauvoir

8. Who said: ‘The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain’?
-Loretta Lynn
-Dottie West
-Dolly Parton
-Tammy Wynette

9. Who said: ‘How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone’?
-Barbara Walters
-Raquel Welch
-Coco Chanel
-Brigitte Bardot

10. Who said: ‘You must do the thing you think you cannot do’?
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Hillary Rodham Clinton
-Betty Ford
-Roslyn Carter

ANSWERS

1. The correct answer is Tallulah Bankhead.
2. The correct answer is Lily Tomlin
3. The correct answer is Cher
4. The correct answer is Gloria Steinem.
5. The correct answer is Marlene Dietrich.
6. The correct answer is Phyllis Diller
7. The correct answer is Colette.
8. The correct answer is Dolly Parton.
9. The correct answer is Coco Chanel.
10.The correct answer is Eleanor Roosevelt.

1. What year did Anne and the others begin their two year-long ‘hide away’ from the Germans?
-1940
-1942
-1944
-1945

2. What religion were Anne and her family? ______

3. How many people were hidden away in the little hideout?
-11
-5
-8
-7

4. Which country was this hideout in?
-Holland
-France
-Germany
-Poland

5. What was the name of Anne’s sister?
-Sophia
-Sylvia
-Margot
-Marie

6. What name did Anne give the hideout that they were staying at?
-Anne’s Bungalow
-Mysterious Mansion
-Don’t Tell Motel
-Secret Annex

7. When Anne’s family decided to hide out, what did Anne bring with her?
-books and pens
-just her diary
-blankets and medicine
-clothes and her diary

8. What game did Anne and the others play while they were secretly being hidden?
-Sorry
-Monopoly
-Card game, 21
-Checkers

9. What thing in particular did Anne like to do after hours?
-Sing
-Cook
-Draw
-Ballet

10. Anne died of typhus in March of 1945. Which year was her diary found and published?
-1947
-1952
-1950
-1961

ANSWERS
1. 1942. Anne was just 13!
2. Jewish
3.Eight. The little area consisted of four small rooms in the back of an office building where Mr. Frank worked.
4.  Amsterdam, Holland.
5. Margot. Anne just had one sister.
6. Secret Annex
7. Clothes and her diary. She put on as many layers of clothes as she could.
8. Monopoly. They couldn’t move at all during the day, so as not to make any noise but once the office staff would leave at night, they would play Monopoly, listen to the radio, and read.
9. Ballet. Anne would practice her ballet steps at night when it was dark and the building was empty
10.1947. Only Mr. Frank survived the horrible war. The other’s died after being found and sent to concentration camps.