People Quiz #635
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Q1. Who, in 2009, had the most UK #1 singles by a female co-writer (third after Lennon and McCartney), and was the only female to reach the UK #1 as part of a quintet, quartet, duo and as a solo artist?
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Q2. Why were George Atzerodt, Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell and David Herold hanged in Washington, D.C., on 7 July 1865?
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Q3. What rock band played together for the first time in over 20 years at the London Live Eight Concert in 2005?
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Q4. Who appeared in the films "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007), "Burn After Reading" (2008), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) and "Inglourious Basterds" (2009)?
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Q5. The last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesised, was discovered In 1939 by Marguerite Perey. What was it?
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Q6. Graham Chapman had the title role in which of these films?
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Q7. Who was the main author of "The Reshaping of British Railways", an attempt in 1963 to reduce the cost of running British Railways, that is remembered for the closure of more than 4,000 miles of railway lines and 3,000 stations in the next decade?
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