People Quiz #55
Famous People Quiz for 2 February 2010
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Q1.
Which of these was Prime Minister of Great Britain?
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Q2.
Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer provided the basis for the calculus of Newton and Leibniz by applying infinitesimal calculus to "the tangent line problem"?
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Q3.
Who discovered, in 1895, that X Rays could be applied to medicine?
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Q4.
Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta", established a major Law of Radiation and sparked the development of Quantum Theory from 1900?
Note: This question was updated in November 2016
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Q5.
By what name is Saloth Sar (19 May 1925 - 15 April 1998) better known?
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Q6.
Which President of the USA was involved in a scandal concerning Monica Lewinsky?
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Q7.
Sasha and Malia are the daughters of which political figure?
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