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People Quiz #679

Famous People Quiz for 18 January 2022

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Q1. Malick Sidibé was internationally famous as a what?

A
Architect
B
Footballer
C
Photographer
D
Dancer
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Q2. Who directed Heath Ledger's last film?

A
Terry Gilliam
B
Christopher Nolan
C
Todd Haynes
D
Neil Armfield
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Q3. Which pianist, philosophy and public affairs major, and investment banker started a political party and was elected President of France just over 12 months later?

A
Jacques Chirac
B
Nicholas Sarkozy
C
Emmanuel Macron
D
Georges Pompidou
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Q4. An American intelligence analyst with the US military, and eventually an activist and whistleblower, changed her name in 2013 from Bradley to what?

A
Leigh
B
Chelsea
C
Elizabeth
D
Arsenal
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Q5. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was working as a journalist and photographer when he befriended and joined forces with whom?

A
Karl Marx
B
Fidel Castro
C
Augusto Pinochet
D
Hugo Chavez
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Q6. The trilogy of plays known collectively as "Passion Play" (2005-2013) was written by whom?

A
Jacques Scheurs
B
Michael Sheen
C
Sarah Ruhl
D
Russell Westbrook
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Q7. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations (ions with a positively charged carbon atom) via superacids, he worked first in Hungary then Canada and the USA, and in 1994 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Who was he?

A
George A. Oláh
B
Kary B. Mullis
C
Rudolph A. Marcus
D
John C. Polanyi
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