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People Quiz #809

Famous People Quiz for 16 July 2024

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Q1. In the 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", Amanda Bynes played the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by whom?

A
Patrick Macnee
B
Brad Pitt
C
Hugh Grant
D
Colin Firth
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Q2. Who was the first person from the USA to win the Nobel Prize for literature?

A
Sinclair Lewis
B
Eugene O'Neill
C
Pearl S. Buck
D
William Faulkner
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Q3. Dr Nelson Glueck, rabbi and head of the Hebrew Union College from 1947-1971, was also renowned as a what?

A
Military strategist
B
Translator of Dead Sea Scrolls
C
Economist
D
Archaeologist, particularly pioneering work in Biblical archaeology
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Q4. Who was the lead singer for Black Sabbath?

A
Ozzy Osbourne
B
Donny Osborne
C
Jeff Osborne
D
John Osborne
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Q5. Scarpia is a character in which opera?

A
Tosca
B
La Bohème
C
Don Giovanni
D
Hamilton
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Q6. Which bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, best known as part of "The Who", died in June 2002?

A
John Paul Jones
B
Keith Moon
C
Bill Wyman
D
John Entwistle
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Q7. What German engineer led the design teams for the V2 rocket that blitzed London and the Saturn V rocket for the US space programme?

A
Wernher von Braun
B
Dr Ferdinand Porsche
C
Max von Sydow
D
Hermann Göring
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