Hatches, matches and despatches

A few questions related to people who were born, got married or died on today’s date, June 3.

King Edward VIII, 1936.
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  1. Born in St Louis, Missouri, on 3 June 1926, this singer and dancer was a resistance member and spy in occupied France during World War II. Who was she?
    • Josephine Baker
    • Mata Hari
    • Edith Cavell
  2. Tennis player Rafael Nadal was born on this day in 1986. He won his first Grand Slam singles title in 2005 at the …
    • Australian Open
    • French Open
    • US Open
  3. On this day in 1937, the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, married Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom he had abdicated the British throne. Where were they married?
    • Chapel Royal, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Château de Candé, Tours, France
    • Crathie Kirk, Balmoral, Scotland
  4. An actor who died today in 2001 had played the following roles during a long career. In 1961, he was Andrea Stavros in The Guns of Navarone; the same year, he took the title role in Barrabas and the following year, he was the Bedouin sheikh Auda Abu Tayi in Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Who was he?
    • Anthony Daniels
    • Anthony Perkins
    • Anthony Quinn
  5. An author and lawyer who died on this day in 1924 has an adjective named after him. The adjective is defined as ‘characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of …’s fictional world’. What name is omitted from this definition?
    • Lewis Carroll
    • Frank Kafka
    • Bram Stoker

Good luck! I will post the answers later today.

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Author: Scott F

As a retired trivia writer, editor and quiz compiler, I wholeheartedly agree with Bertrand Russell’s quote: “There’s much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.” Trivia of all sorts has always fascinated me, and for many years, I’ve written and compiled trivia for various media, including traditional TV and radio quiz shows, newspapers and magazines, apps, and other digital platforms.

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