People Quiz #15
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Q1. Which female jazz singer died in December 2008?
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Q2. Who is a unit of length (one hundred millionth of a centimetre), used to measure wavelengths of light, named after?
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Q3. Who wrote the music for what he described as "an American folk opera", which was set on Catfish Row?
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Q4. Which English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era had a mysterious and untimely death?
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Q5. Who is the subject of “The Future Is Unwritten”, a film by Julien Temple?
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Q6. Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, Stuart "Woody" Wood and Les McKeown were collectively known as what band from 1974 to 1976?
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Q7. Who played “Jemima” in the then new musical “Cats” in 1981, and later starred in more of Lloyd Webber's work, with two roles written for her: in the mass “Requiem”, and “Christine Daaé” in “The Phantom of the Opera”?
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