People Quiz #865
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Q1. "Four Quartets", a set of four poems ("Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding") published between 1936 and 1942, was written by whom?
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Q2. Who, aged 54, married 18 year old Oona O'Neill, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, in June 1943?
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Q3. Who became vice-president and then president of the USA without having been voted into either office?
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Q4. Who was the Serbian electrical engineer and inventor whose inventions include the induction motor, 3-phase electricity, fluorescent lighting, a resonant transformer circuit that generates high-voltage, high-frequency alternating current electricity?
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Q5. Who fell out of favour with Queen Elizabeth I over his intrigue and secret marriage with Elizabeth Throckmorton, or Throgmorton, was imprisoned and eventually beheaded?
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Q6. Who was Grigori Rasputin popularly linked with?
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Q7. She figures in plays by Hesiod and Euripides, and in an account by Herodotus, as a semi-divine powerful priestess, sorceress, seductress and murdering avenger, daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis and wife of Jason of the Argonauts. Who is she?
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