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People Quiz #435

Famous People Quiz for 16 May 2017

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Q1. Bishops Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley, and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer were tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake. By what name are they collectively known?

A
The Reformers
B
The Anglican Tigers
C
The Burning Bishops
D
The Oxford Martyrs
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Q2. What group, consisting of vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Percy Heath, drummer Kenny Clarke and pianist John Lewis (as musical director), was formed in 1952?

A
Modern Jazz Quartet
B
Tremoloes
C
Blind Faith
D
Bepop Bingle Bongle Band
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Q3. Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta", established a major Law of Radiation and sparked the development of Quantum Theory from 1900?

A
Van Allen
B
Fred Hoyle
C
Ernest Rutherford
D
Max Planck
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Q4. Plato and Xenophon are the most famous pupils of which Greek philosopher?

A
Euclid
B
Xenophon
C
Socrates
D
Pythagoras
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Q5. Who was the last English monarch of the Plantaganet dynasty?

A
James I
B
Henry VI
C
Richard III
D
Elizabeth I
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Q6. When Alger Hiss, an official involved in the establishment of the United Nations was accused of having been a communist and then of being a Soviet spy, and took a defamation case against his accuser, of what was he convicted in 1950?

A
Treason
B
Perjury
C
Homicide
D
Espionage
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Q7. Tennis player Lleyton Hewitt married which actress?

A
Lisa Chappell ("McLeod's Daughters")
B
Rebecca Gibney ("Packed to the Rafters")
C
Sonia Todd ("McLeod's Daughters")
D
Bec Cartwright ("Home and Away")
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