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People Quiz #601

Famous People Quiz for 21 July 2020

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Q1. In the 1979 film "Alien" which of these actors plays a character that has an alien burst out of his body?

A
Ewan McGregor
B
John Hurt
C
Clive Owen
D
Anthony Hopkins
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Q2. Who wrote the 16th century play "Tamburlaine the Great", one of the first English plays in blank verse?

A
Christopher Marlowe
B
Ben Jonson
C
Thomas Kyd
D
Thomas Nashe
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Q3. Who composed the music "By the Waters of Babylon", "The Lost Chord" and incidental music to Shakespeare's "The Tempest" performed to acclaim at the Crystal Palace in 1862?

A
Sir Edward Elgar
B
Stephen Adams (Michael Maybrick)
C
Sir Arthur Sullivan
D
Hubert Parry
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Q4. Which of these was a popular comedy duo in the 1970s and '80s?

A
Dean Martin and Jerry Built
B
Laurel and Harvey
C
Morecambe and Weiss
D
Cheech and Chong
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Q5. Which of these writers was Russian?

A
Ernest Gaines
B
Henrik Ibsen
C
August Strindberg
D
Leo Tolstoy
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Q6. What was the surname of the actor who won only 1 Academy Award, for Best Actor for the 1934 "It Happened One Night"?

A
Verandah
B
Attic
C
Dormer
D
Gable
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Q7. Which of these was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician who represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo?

A
George Washington
B
Davy Crockett
C
Johnny Appleseed
D
Yankee Doodle
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