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People Quiz #815

Famous People Quiz for 27 August 2024

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Q1. What is the name Atahualpa associated with?

A
A species of avocado
B
A volcano which erupted in 1560 CE
C
Aztec emperor
D
Emperor of the Incas when the Spanish conquerors arrived in South America
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Q2. Which of these people was born in India?

A
Imran Khan
B
Mother Teresa
C
Aftab Ahmed Chowdhury
D
Mohandas Gandhi
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Q3. What does the acronym of the multinational technology and IT consulting services company Wipro, built by businessman, engineer, and philanthropist Azim Premji, stand for?

A
Wiring Professionals
B
Wave Information Process and Research Organisation
C
World IT Professional
D
Western India Palm Refined Oil
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Q4. Who created the character of Dracula?

A
Anthony Trollope
B
Lord Byron
C
Bram Stoker
D
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Q5. Chester Arthur Burnett, whose blues classics include “Spoonful” and “Smokestack Lightnin‘", is better known by what stage name?

A
Grandmaster Flash
B
Little Walter
C
N.W.A.
D
Howlin' Wolf
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Q6. Who wrote the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

A
Oscar Wilde
B
John Lennon
C
T S Eliot
D
Ted Hughes
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Q7. Which English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era had a mysterious and untimely death?

A
Samuel Pepys
B
Ben Jonson
C
Christopher Marlowe
D
Thomas Kyd
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