People Quiz #19
Famous People Quiz for 26 May 2009
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Q1.
The film actor Maurice Micklewhite is better known by what name?
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Q2.
Whose autobiography was entitled "Step Inside Love"?
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Q3.
Who perfected a process in 1880 for making sensitive gelatine dry plates for photography, and patented photographic roll film in 1884?
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Q4.
Which English computer scientist and MIT professor implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet on 25 December 1990 and is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
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Q5.
Which American author wrote "The Call Of The Wild", "White Fang", "The Sea Wolf" and "The Game"?
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Q6.
Which Scotsman was given a ship by Americans to harass English shipping near Great Britain, and later became an admiral in the Russian Navy of Catherine The Great?
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Q7.
Who received the first Nobel prize for literature to be awarded to a British writer?
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