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People Quiz #327

Famous People Quiz for 21 April 2015

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Q1. Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his children's right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914?

A
Otto Ferdinand
B
Franz Karl
C
Otto Joseph
D
Franz Ferdinand
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Q2. Who starred in "The Long Good Friday" (1979), a British gangster film set in London, England?

A
Michael Caine & Audrey Hepburn
B
Pierce Brosnan & Brigitte Bardot
C
Bob Hoskins & Helen Mirren
D
Ray Winstone & Katharine Hepburn
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Q3. Who sang with the Animals?

A
Dean Martin
B
Peter Tosh
C
Eric Burdon
D
Neil Young
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Q4. Which of these songs is not by Hoagy Carmichael?

A
Skylark
B
Stardust
C
A Foggy Day (in London Town)
D
Georgia on my Mind
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Q5. Of whom, when told he intended to return to private life and retire to his plantation, did King George III say, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world"?

A
George Washington
B
Henry Lee
C
Benjamin Franklin
D
Andrew Jackson
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Q6. Giovanni Boccaccio, who is best known for his work "Decameron", was involved in what type of activity?

A
Music
B
Poetry
C
Architecture
D
Painting
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Q7. Who wrote the line "No man is an island entire of itself"?

A
William Wordsworth
B
John Donne
C
John Keats
D
George Orwell
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