People Quiz #57
Famous People Quiz for 16 February 2010
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Q1.
Which band, which at the time comprised Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Michael MacNeil, Mel Gaynor and John Giblin, had hit records with "Alive & Kicking", "Sanctify Yourself", "Ghostdancing" and "All the Things She Said"?
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Q2.
Renee Zellweger played which author in a 2007 film?
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Q3.
Which entertainer uses various names, including "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy" and "Diddy"?
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Q4.
Who was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London for aiding the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie after the Battle of Culloden to Portree, Skye and thence to Glam on the island of Raasay?
Note: This question was updated in May 2024
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Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh
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Q5.
What Irish dramatist, whose first produced play was "Widowers' Houses" in 1892, won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926?
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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Q6.
Who was briefly married to Jason Alexander in January 2005?
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Q7.
Which Irish philanthropist founded houses for destitute children in Stepney in 1870?
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