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People Quiz #526

Famous People Quiz for 12 February 2019

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Q1. Who wrote "Other people see things and say: why? - but I dream things that never were and say: why not?"

A
George Bernard Shaw
B
Robert Kennedy
C
Oscar Wilde
D
Noel Coward
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Q2. Which of the following was largely responsible for the British application of radar in World War II?

A
Christopher Hinton
B
Frank Whittle
C
Robert Watson-Watt
D
Lawence Bragg
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Q3. Who is the mother of actresses Natasha and Joely Richardson?

A
Amanda Richardson
B
Vanessa Redgrave
C
Katharine Hepburn
D
Joanna Lumley
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Q4. If Guy Berryman and Will Champion are the rhythm section, what is the band?

A
Green Day
B
Coldplay
C
Maroon 5
D
Arctic Monkeys
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Q5. Famous scientists Marie Curie, Witelon and Nicolaus Copernicus were all….?

A
One-armed
B
Born in what is now Poland
C
Dead by the age of 25
D
Immigrants to Scandinavia
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Q6. Which British playwright won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature?

A
Alan Ayckbourn
B
Tom Stoppard
C
Michael Frayn
D
Harold Pinter
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Q7. How did dancer Isadora Duncan die in 1927?

A
She fell from theatre flies
B
From influenza
C
She was strangled by her scarf
D
She was stabbed by a rival
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