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People Quiz #78

Famous People Quiz for 13 July 2010

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Q1. 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
B
A son and a daughter
C
Two daughters and a son
D
Twin daughters
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Q2. Which physicist wrote "A Brief History of Time"?

A
Isaac Asimov
B
Lord Rutherford
C
Stephen Hawking
D
Patrick Moore
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Q3. Whose daughter formally transitioned gender, legally changing name in 2010 from "Chastity" to "Chaz"?

Note: This question was updated in November 2020
A
Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach
B
Sonny and Cher Bono
C
Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
D
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills
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Q4. Which of these women was rushed to hospital in 2007 following a drug overdose, reportedly a cocktail of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and alcohol?

A
Natalie Cole
B
Enya
C
Amy Winehouse
D
Carrie Underwood
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Q5. What was the name of Canada's first woman Prime Minister?

Note: This question was updated in January 2020
A
Golda Meir
B
Helen Clark
C
Margaret Thatcher
D
Kim Campbell
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Q6. 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?

A
Beyoncé
B
Madonna
C
Shakira
D
Enya
Select from the options above.
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Q7. 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?

A
Nicholas Mercator
B
Isaac Newton
C
Johannes Kepler
D
René Descartes
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