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People Quiz #376

Famous People Quiz for 29 March 2016

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Q1. "Four Quartets", a set of four poems ("Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding") published between 1936 and 1942, were written by whom?

A
T. S. Eliot
B
Ted Hughes
C
Daphne du Maurier
D
W H Auden
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Q2. Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer provided the basis for the calculus of Newton and Leibniz by applying infinitesimal calculus to "the tangent line problem"?

A
Johannes Kepler
B
René Descartes
C
Nicholas Mercator
D
Fred Hoyle
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Q3. J Rock, Flawless, Cherise and Nasia were members of which group?

A
Party Dark
B
So Solid Crew
C
Blazin Squad
D
Big Brovaz
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Q4. Who recited the poem "The Gift Outright" at John F Kennedy's inauguration as president of the USA in 1961?

A
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
B
Christina Rossetti
C
Robert Frost
D
Bob Dylan
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Q5. Which of these was a singer known as "The Big O"?

A
Pat O'Brien
B
Donny Osmond
C
Bernardo O'Higgins
D
Roy Orbison
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Q6. Which of these was a former Prime Minister of South Africa?

A
Dennis Bergkamp
B
Jan Smuts
C
Francois Pienaar
D
Aaron Mokoena
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Q7. Who carried out his early experiments at Villa Grifone, Bologna, Italy, with his brother Alfonso?

A
Guglielmo Marconi
B
Thomas Edison
C
Alexander Graham Bell
D
John Logie Baird
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