People Quiz #51
Famous People Quiz for 5 January 2010
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Q1.
Who unknowingly slew his father and married his mother, and, when he discovered his true identity, blinded himself when his mother hanged herself?
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Q2.
In the 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", Amanda Bynes played the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by whom?
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Q3.
Which of these was a very successful German fighter pilot in World War I who was shot down and killed on the Somme in 1918?
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Baron Manfred von Richthofen
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Q4.
Pablo Ruiz, born at Malaga, Spain, is better known as who?
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Q5.
Which Corsican, as Emperor of the French, used their armies to dominate continental Europe until his Grande Armée was so badly damaged in the invasion of Russia in 1812 that in 1813 he was forced to abdicate, and was exiled to the island of Elba?
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Q6.
Which astronomer, born in West Yorkshire, England in 1915 and dying in 2001 in Bournemouth, England, was a science fiction writer, whose output includes the novel "The Black Cloud", a TV series "A for Andromeda" and a play "Rockets in Ursa Major"?
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Q7.
Louis XIV of France was known as what?
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