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People Quiz #653

Famous People Quiz for 20 July 2021

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Q1. Like many of his contemporaries he thought of the English as the master race, he was an imperialist and successful entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded the De Beers Consolidated Mines diamond firm, and he was an enterprising politician. Who was he?

A
Cecil John Rhodes
B
Charles Dunell Rudd
C
James Rochfort Maguire
D
Joseph Chamberlain
Select from the options above.

Q2. Which mathematician, astronomer and physicist is known in the West for his discoveries on light and vision, among other seminal scientific achievements, and as the father of modern optics?

A
Hypatia (c. 370 - 415 CE)
B
Archimedes (c. 287 BCE - 212 BCE)
C
Alhazan (c. 965 - c. 1040 CE)
D
Euclid (c. 325 BCE- c. 270 BCE)
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Q3. Which of these is NOT a Norwegian explorer or adventurer known for their 20th century expeditions?

A
Abel Tasman
B
Roald Amundsen
C
Thor Heyerdahl
D
Fridtjof Nansen
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Q4. Richard Colvin Reid is a self-admitted member of al-Qaeda who pleaded guilty in 2002 in US federal court to 8 criminal counts of terrorism stemming from his attempt to destroy a commercial aircraft in-flight by detonating explosives hidden where?

A
In his underpants
B
Under his hat
C
In his shoes
D
Up his jumper
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Q5. Which playwright, even better known as a novelist, poet, essayist and painter in his own country, included among his more than 60 plays "The Father" (1887), "Miss Julie" (1888), and "Creditors" (1889)?

A
Henrik Ibsen
B
August Strindberg
C
John Galsworthy
D
Émile Zola
Select from the options above.

Q6. Lemony Snicket wrote which series of children's books?

A
Under My Thumb
B
A Series of Unfortunate Events
C
Things my Grandma Taught Me
D
A World of Fantasy and Fiction
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Q7. "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (1981), and "Love in the Time of Cholera" (1985) are two notable works of which Nobel Prize winning author?

A
Vicente Aleixandre
B
Pablo Neruda
C
Gabriel García Márquez
D
José Saramago
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