People Quiz #33
Famous People Quiz for 1 September 2009
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Q1.
Who was the English prison reformer from 1817 to 1840 whose husband was a big name in the cocoa business?
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Q2.
Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his children's right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914?
Note: This question was updated in April 2015
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Q3.
What were T S Eliot's first names?
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Q4.
Which of these novelists is not American?
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Q5.
Who started "Poor Richard's Almanack" in 1732, helped draw up the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and invented the lightning conductor?
Note: This question was updated in September 2017
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Q6.
Whose play about the Salem witch trials in the 17th century drew parallels to McCarthyism in the 1950s?
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Q7.
Who, after marrying in 1791, and living in Naples, became the mistress of Lord Nelson, having his child, Horatia, in 1803?
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