The Trivia Question you Wait your Whole Life For

So, we're sitting around the table at work over lunch & someone picks up the daily paper to test our knowledge of difficult trivia. And it's all going along nicely, with us all getting a respectable number of questions correct.

And then, there's a Eurovision question, which strangely (to them) I know the answer to.

And then, there's a Man Booker question, which strangely (to me) no one knows the answer to.

And then, there's that Question you Wait your Whole Life For.

(6 points): "I was born on the 3rd of March, 1847".

"Alexander Graham Bell", I shout smugly. Everyone is impressed. Eventually, I tell them, my secret*. They are not so impressed.

* This is also my birthday. Except for the year bit.