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Television Movie Biography Quiz

Test your knowledge about the telemovie Biography, including its cast and historical context.

1 What role did Alan Badel play in the telemovie Biography?

2 Generally American biography followed the English model, while incorporating ________'s view that biography was a part of history.

3 Who played Jackson's Mother in the telemovie Biography?

4 Who played the title role in the telemovie Biography?

5 What role did Chris Dreja play in the telemovie Biography?

6 Who played Ludwig van Beethoven in the telemovie Biography?

7 Who played the Narrator in the telemovie Biography?

8 Who played the title role in the telemovie Biography?

9 Who played the Narrator in the telemovie Biography?

10 What role did Don Morrow play in the telemovie Biography?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the historian Robert W. Mondy's Jesse Mercer: A Study in Frontier Religion, is a biography of the founder of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
  • the biography My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru recounts a child's experiences growing up in Bhagwah Shree Rajneesh's Osho movement.
  • the Vienna-born historian Saul K. Padover wrote definitive biographies of figures as diverse as Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson.
  • the Biographicon aspires to be an online directory of biographies for "all the people of the world".
  • the Dictionary of Welsh Biography contains the biography of nearly 5,000 eminent Welsh men and women over seventeen centuries.
  • in 1963, Claude Hall, a historian of American diplomacy, published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur.
  • during a storm in the Dolomites, Mo Anthoine probably saved the life of Al Alvarez, who later wrote his biography.
  • Texas author Lou Halsell Rodenberger focused most of her literary works on biographies of her fellow female writers.
  • cricket writer Gerald Howat won the Cricket Society's golden jubilee award for his biography of Learie Constantine.
  • Nollaig Ó Gadhra's biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley is regarded as one of the most comprehensive biographies ever written in the Irish language.
  • a biography of Saladin, the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, written by his friend and confidant Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, is still in print after seven centuries.
  • award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google".
  • Austin Coates's Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the second biography of Filipino national hero José Rizal authored by a non-Filipino.