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People Quiz #66

Famous People Quiz for 20 April 2010

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Q1. Who was an American gangster, the leader of a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era, whose criminal career ended in 1931 when he was convicted for income-tax evasion?

A
Al Capone
B
Al Bundy
C
Al Gore
D
Al Jolson
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Q2. Which father and son, 17th and 18th century composers, between them lived in Rome, Naples, Florence and Madrid and composed over 120 operas, 600 chamber cantatas, and 500 harpsichord sonatas?

A
Schumann
B
Scarlatti
C
Schubert
D
Bach
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Q3. By what name is David Evans better known?

A
Bono
B
Edge
C
Prince
D
Slash
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Q4. Which Russian revolutionary became Foreign Commissar, lost the battle for leadership to Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party and lived in exile thereafter?

A
Joseph Stalin
B
Leon Trotsky
C
Vladimir Lenin
D
Karl Marx
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Q5. Which of these disappeared from his job at the British Foreign Office in 1951, at the same time as Donald MacLean, so that both were suspected of spying for Russia?

A
Anthony Burgess
B
Burgess Meredith
C
Guy Fawkes
D
Guy Burgess
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Q6. Which 20th century French writer and philosopher wrote the plays "Huis Clos", "Les Mouches" and "Les Mains Sales" and the novels "La Nausée" and "Chemins de la Liberté"?

A
Molière
B
Jean Paul Sartre
C
Guy de Maupassant
D
Victor Hugo
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Q7. Who, at the age of 50, had become the world's richest man through the activities of the Standard Oil Company?

A
John Davison Rockefeller
B
David Rubenstein
C
Larry Ellison
D
J. Paul Getty
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