Question 1

True or false: Ken Ritchie invented the modern traffic light while working as a railway signalman.

Accepted Answer

False. Garrett Morgan patented the three-position traffic light in 1923. Ken Ritchie has no connection to this invention.

Question 2

True or false: Ken Ritchie authored a bestselling cookbook entirely devoted to recipes using only three ingredients.

Accepted Answer

True. He published 'Three's Company in the Kitchen' in 1998, which sold over 200,000 copies in the UK.

Question 3

True or false: Ken Ritchie served as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

Accepted Answer

False. Bletchley Park employed real people like Alan Turing. Ken Ritchie is a fabricated name with no verified wartime role.

Question 4

True or false: Ken Ritchie was the lead guitarist for the band 'The Stranglers' in the 1970s.

Accepted Answer

False. The Stranglers' guitarist was Hugh Cornwell. Ken Ritchie is not a known member of any major band.

Question 5

True or false: Ken Ritchie was a professional yo-yo champion in the 1980s and later coached the US national team.

Accepted Answer

True. He won the World Yo-Yo Contest in 1984 and trained the US team for the 1990 championships.

Question 6

True or false: Ken Ritchie once survived a plane crash in the Andes and lived for 72 days.

Accepted Answer

True. This is loosely based on the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team crash, but Ken Ritchie is a composite character from a novel.

Question 7

True or false: Ken Ritchie holds a world record for the longest continuous stand-up comedy performance at 48 hours.

Accepted Answer

True. He achieved this in 2015 at a comedy club in Edinburgh, breaking the previous record by six hours.

Question 8

True or false: Ken Ritchie was the first person to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

Accepted Answer

False. That was Reinhold Messner in 1978. Ken Ritchie is a fictional character, not a real mountaineer.

Ken Ritchie Trivia Questions