People Quiz #447
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Q1. Mrs Alice Keppel was the mistress of which of these?
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Q2. Which Austrian composer, whose works include 104 symphonies, 84 string quartets and 42 piano sonatas, received a D Mus degree at Oxford University, England?
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Q3. What field did American surgeon and medical researcher Dr Henry Heimlich work in?
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Q4. Who originated the "Paddington Bear" series of books?
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Q5. Who is a unit of length (one hundred millionth of a centimetre), used to measure wavelengths of light, named after?
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Q6. Who originated the "Wombles" characters?
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Q7. A number of medical treatments and terminologies have been named after which German surgeon, son of a philosopher and philologist, father and grandfather of also well-known pharmacologists, and from 1895 surgeon-in-chief at the University of Leipzig?
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