People Quiz #13
Famous People Quiz for 14 April 2009
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Q1.
In Greek mythology, who was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, murdered by his wife Clytemnestra on his return home from the Trojan War?
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Q2.
Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers?
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Q3.
Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim?
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Q4.
What was the occupation of Vaslav Nijinsky from 1908?
C
Dancer and choreographer
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Q5.
Who was the last English monarch of the Plantaganet dynasty?
Note: This question was updated in October 2016
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Q6.
Which science fiction writer developed "The Three Laws of Robotics"?
C
Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner
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Q7.
Swiss physician and psychologist Carl Jung was initially a disciple of whom, until he disagreed with his theories regarding the Libido etc?
A
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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