People Quiz #653
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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?
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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?
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Q3. Which of these is NOT a Norwegian explorer or adventurer known for their 20th century expeditions?
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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?
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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)?
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Q6. Lemony Snicket wrote which series of children's books?
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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?
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