People Quiz #32
Famous People Quiz for 25 August 2009
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Q1.
Who established scientifically that an individual's fingerprints provide permanent identification?
Note: This question was updated in August 2017
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Q2.
Which of these was a German rocket scientist who worked in America after World War II?
Note: This question was updated in August 2014
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Q3.
Which composer of musicals was knighted in 1992 and made a life peer in 1997?
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Q4.
The most famous films of which English-born comedian were "Road To Morocco", "Paleface" and "The Iron Petticoat"?
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Q5.
Who was the first English actor to be knighted?
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Q6.
Who first stated the three laws of planetary motion?
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Q7.
Who coined the term "Big Bang" to explain the difference between it and his theory of the "steady state" expanding universe?
Note: This question was updated in April 2017
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