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People Quiz #180

Famous People Quiz for 26 June 2012

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Q1. Which of these is a master woodcarver, famous for his work with Christopher Wren?

A
Jack Coutu
B
Advent Hunstone
C
Grinling Gibbons
D
Werburgh Welch
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Q2. Who wrote "The Naked Ape" and "The Human Zoo"?

Note: This question was updated in July 2020
A
Stephen Hawking
B
Desmond Morris
C
David Attenborough
D
P J O'Rourke
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Q3. MC Kenzie and MC Reaper were members of which group?

A
Party Dark
B
So Solid Crew
C
Big Brovaz
D
Blazin Squad
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Q4. What do Seung-Hui Cho, Thomas Watt Hamilton, Robert Steinhäuser, Charles Joseph Whitman, Tim Kretschmer, Marc Lépine, Dylan Bennet Klebold, Eric David Harris, Farda Gadirov, Bai Ningyang and Walter Seifert have in common?

A
They carried out massacres at schools
B
They captained dodgeball teams
C
They were members of US Olympic table tennis teams
D
They were policemen accused of racial bias during arrests
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Q5. Whose body was buried in 1543 in an unnamed tomb in the Catholic church of Frombork, Poland, exhumed in 2005, and buried there for a second time in May 2010 in a ceremony conducted by the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland?

A
Emperor Maximillian II
B
Václav Havel
C
Nicolaus Copernicus
D
Saint Wenceslas
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Q6. Which Scottish singer had a #1 hit in the UK with "All This Time" in 2004 after winning the second series of the UK talent show "Pop Idol"?

A
Darius Danesh
B
Will Young
C
Michelle McManus
D
Susanne Manning
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Q7. Scott Robinson, Ritchie Neville, J Brown, Abs Breen and Sean Conlon were the founder members of which boy band?

A
East-17
B
Blue
C
5ive
D
Jump5
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