Christmas Typewriter Quiz (I)

1.   Who is she? Meghan Markle has a father and a brother called Tom, both of whom like to 'scull' a glass or two. The young lady in this photo had a father and a brother called Jack, both of whom were champion scullers (as in oarsmen). In the latter’s case, she became a real princess. In the early 1950s she was hired as a model by the John Robert Powers agency, and is seen here in a Remington Rand typewriter ad.

2.  On the subject of “royal weddings”, these two journalists typing their stories are covering a wedding on June 3, 1937, at the Château de Candé in the French commune of Monts, Indre-et-Loire. The groom was a former king and the bride, like Meghan Markle, an American divorcee. Who was she?

3.  This couple were once the “king and queen of Camelot”. Who are they?

4.  Who is he? His father played rugby union for the United States against France in 1920 and had a long-standing affair with Amelia Earhart, whose favours he shared, according to the subject of this photograph, with Eleanor Roosevelt. The son, the writer, was also bisexual and was a “public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner”.

5.  Who is she? Another former First Lady (typing).

6.  These are the hands of a man who helped define contemporary literary journalism. His entry into writing was the consequence of a high school sophomore's attempt to gain more playing time with the school’s baseball team. The assistant coach had the job of telephoning in a report of each game to the local newspaper and when he complained he was too busy to do it properly, the head coach gave our typist this duty. “On the mistaken assumption that relieving the athletic department of its press duties would gain me the gratitude of the coach and get me more playing time, I took the job and even embellished it by using my typing skills to compose my own account of the games rather than merely relaying the information to the newspapers by telephone.” Who is he?

7.   Who he is? George Clooney directed a 2005 movie about him called Good Night, and Good Luck, in which he is portrayed by David Strathairn.

8.  Who is he? He has a very large city named in his honour.

9.  Who is she (on the left)? In this photo, she is playing Flaemmchen, the stenographer, in 1932’s Grand Hotel, to date the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category. The screenplay was adapted the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum, seen right at a Mignon.

10.       Who is the world heavyweight champion boxer from Manassa, Colorado? Seen here in 1919.

11.         What are these United Press guys covering on April 22, 1952, at Yucca Flats, Nevada?

12.       What typewriter is Louella Parsons carrying off the Zeppelin in Los Angeles in 1927?

13.        What typewriter is this lady using?

14.       What model typewriter is this lady using?

15.        This is said to represent a worldwide event which occurred between 2019 and the present day. What is it?

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