People Quiz #406
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Q1. Most of the works by which author, who was born in Prague and died of tuberculosis in 1924, were published after his death?
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Q2. Songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar and piano) and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals) make up which American rock duo who produced three Grammy Award (Best Alternative Music Album) winning albums ("Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan" & "Icky Thump")?
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Q3. He began in mechanical engineering, he was Professor in the Academy of Agriculture, and in 1901 was the first Physics Nobel prize winner for " the discovery of the remarkable rays ...". Who was he?
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Q4. By 1922 Fred Astaire and his sister Adele were so popular that George and Ira Gershwin wrote "Funny Face" and what other show especially for them?
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Q5. Who was the cause of a political scandal after being allowed to stay in the USA in May 2010, despite a 2004 deportation order?
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Q6. Who, after being lured to the Moika Palace on 16 December 1916, was poisoned with cyanide, shot 4 times, beaten and drowned in the Neva River (where he had tried to claw his way from under the ice) but was reported to sit up on his burning funeral pyre?
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Q7. Who married music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange on December 28, 1993?
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