Famous People Quiz for 13 July 2010
A new people quiz is available each week. Try our daily general knowledge quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.
1
Which of these describes the children of George W Bush, ex-president of the USA, and his wife Laura?
A
Two sons and a daughter
C
Two daughters and a son
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2
Which physicist wrote "A Brief History of Time"?
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3
Whose daughter decided to have a sex-change in mid 2009, changing from being called "Chastity" to "Chaz"?
A
Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach
C
Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
D
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills
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4
Which of these is a multiple Grammy award winner who has received media attention since 2007 for her problems with drug and alcohol addiction and her self-destructive behaviour?
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5
What was the name of Canada's first woman Prime Minister?
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6
Which singer made the news in September 2009 when Muslim groups protested that her first concert in Malaysia should be cancelled for a second time?
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7
Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and writer developed the Cartesian coordinate system, thus founding analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry and crucial to the invention of calculus?
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