POP QUIZ ( What ever happened to .......?)

Thirty-six years ago this weekend, former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, so this quiz will look at some other infamous unsolved mysteries.

1. In 1483, two sons of King Edward IV of England, Edward V and Richard, were placed in the Tower of London by their uncle and never heard from again.  Name their uncle.
a) John                     b) Richard III
c) Henry IV              d) William II
2. This explorer and his fleet disappeared in 1498.
a) Juan Ponce de Leon
b) Ferdinand Magellan
c) John Cabot
d) Vasco Nunez de Balboa
3. In 1590, an expedition to the Roanoke colony discovered the settlement abandoned, with the only clue being the word Crostoan carved into a tree.  The Roanoke site is now part of what state?
a) North Carolina
b) South Carolina
c) Virginia
d) Georgia
4. This signer of the Declaration of Independence was lost at sea after boarding a ship to the West Indies in 1779.
a) Charles Carroll
b) Josiah Barlett
c) Caesar Rodney
d) Thomas Lynch Jr.
5. Twenty-three years after shooting assassin John Wilkes Booth, this former Union sergeant disappeared after escaping from the Topeka Asylum for the Insane.
a) Samuel A. Mudd
b) Richard Garrett
c) Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett
d) Edward Doherty
6. This writer of mysteries created a real-life drama by disappearing for a time in 1926.  The author returned, but the incident was never explained.
a) Erle Stanley Gardner
b) Agatha Christie
c) Harriet Stratimeyer Adams
d) Dashiell Hammett
7. In what year did aviator Amelia Earhart disappear?
a) 1925
b) 1931
c) 1937
d) 1942
8. He founded the Nation of Islam in Detroit and then vanished in 1934.
a) Elijah Muhammad
b) Warith Deen Mohammed
c) Al-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz
d) Wallace Fard Muhammad
9. The plane of this jazz musician and bandleader disappeared over the English Channel in 1944.
a) Glenn Miller
b) Benny Goodman
c) Tommy Dorsey
d) Duke Ellington
10. What Hollywood legend's photojournalist son, Sean, was last seen while on assignment in Cambodia in 1970?
a) Humphrey Bogart
b) Errol Flynn
c) Tyrone Power
d) James Cagney


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Answers :  1. b  ; 2. c  ; 3. a  ; 4. d  ; 5. c  ; 6. b  ; 7. c  ; 8. d  ; 9. a  ; 10. b