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Quiz on the Movie Mutiny and Historical Events

Test your knowledge about the movie 'Mutiny' and the historical Cocos Islands mutiny with this engaging quiz. Explore character roles and key events related to the film and history!

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1 Who played Leslie in the movie Mutiny?

2 Who played Grandfather Whitaker in the movie Mutiny?

3 Who played Capt. Radford in the movie Mutiny?

4 Who played Capt. Ben Waldridge in the movie Mutiny?

5 Who played Hook in the movie Mutiny?

6 Who played Lt. Kirby in the movie Mutiny?

7 Cocos Islands Mutiny was a failed mutiny by Sri Lankan servicemen on the then-British ________ during the Second World War.

8 Who played 1 in the movie Mutiny?

9 What role did George Hernandez play in the movie Mutiny?

10 What role did Doris Lytton play in the movie Mutiny?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution sparked army mutinies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika.
  • in April 1919, the crew of the French Courbet-class battleship Jean Bart (pictured) mutinied while helping defend Sevastopol from the advancing Bolsheviks.
  • the Salerno Mutiny of 1943 saw the largest number of men charged with mutiny at any one time in all of British military history.
  • the crew of the Russian battleship Gangut staged a minor mutiny in 1915 when the executive officer refused to feed the crew the traditional meal of meat and macaroni.
  • when a mutiny broke out in the absence of Tang Dynasty general Cui Ning, his concubine Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself.
  • the engines of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Ekaterina II (pictured) were disabled when the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutinied in June 1905 to prevent her from joining Potemkin.
  • despite his father calling him 'the flower of my fleet', Fleetwood Pellew (pictured) still managed to provoke two mutinies and spent thirty years on half-pay.
  • after the Tang Dynasty general Li Jiang died in a mutiny, his successor Wen Zao slaughtered the mutineers and offered their heads to Li Jiang as a sacrifice.
  • Royal Navy captain Kenneth Dewar was controversially court-martialled in 1928 for criticising his flag officer, an event the press described as a mutiny.
  • Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny, only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions".
  • The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964, seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines.
  • after Captain Hugh Pigot was killed in a mutiny, Captain Edward Hamilton led the force (pictured) that recaptured his ship HMS Hermione.
  • after being part of the Communist Party of Burma for 20 years, Pheung Kya-shin mutinied against the party and established his own army.
  • Captain John Maitland's decisive quashing of an attempted mutiny was termed 'Doctor Maitland's recipe' by Admiral John Jervis.
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