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People Quiz #669

Famous People Quiz for 9 November 2021

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Q1. How did Ronnie Lee Gardner make the news at 6.20 p.m. on 18 June 2010 in Utah?

A
He was executed by firing squad
B
He fell 30,000 ft without a parachute and lived
C
Won $8 million in the state lottery
D
Led a riot at an Oasis concert
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Q2. In 1936, whose paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" proved that a machine could perform any conceivable mathematical computation if it were able to be represented as an algorithm?

A
Albert Einstein
B
Alan Turing
C
Charles Babbage
D
Ada Lovelace
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Q3. Camelot was the legendary court of whom?

A
Ozymandias
B
Attila the Hun
C
King Arthur
D
Kublai Khan
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Q4. Pierre Poivre, an eighteenth‑century French horticulturalist and government administrator in the French islands of the West Indian Ocean, may have sparked what saying?

A
He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
B
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
C
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
D
Peter Peter pumpkin eater
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Q5. Which of these men have not walked on the moon?

A
Neil Armstrong
B
Alan Shepard
C
Michael Collins
D
Buzz Aldrin
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Q6. Which of these did not receive a British knighthood?

A
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), chemist & physicist
B
Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist & botanist
C
Humphry Davy (1778-1829), chemist & inventor
D
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist
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Q7. Who published their autobiography "Life is a Rollercoaster" in 2000?

A
David Bowie
B
Ronan Keating
C
Ricky Martin
D
Elton John
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