Daily Quiz for June 24, 2009

Sydney Reilly was born Sigmund Georgievich Rosenblum in Odessa, Russia, in 1874. He fabricated so many stories about himself that it is difficult to separate truth from fiction. Reportedly a spy for Japan during the Russo-Japanese War, he claimed to have been part of meetings of the German high command in World War I and is known to have spied in Russia for Great Britain beginning in 1918. A Russian agent shot him to death in 1925.