Famous People Quiz for 31 August 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
Who was the star of "High Noon", the American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann that tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself?
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2
Who was defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial in 1971 and defended the Sex Pistols in a 1977 obscenity trial over the title of their album "Never Mind The Bollocks"?
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3
Who wrote a book about the US car industry, published in 1965, called "Unsafe at Any Speed"?
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4
Who succeeded Prince Rainier of Monaco?
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5
Tennis player Lleyton Hewitt married which actress?
A
Lisa Chappell ("McLeod's Daughters")
B
Rebecca Gibney ("Packed to the Rafters")
C
Sonia Todd ("McLeod's Daughters")
D
Bec Cartwright ("Home and Away")
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6
Which French naval officer invented the aqualung?
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7
Who, on 2 October 1925, transmitted a picture of William Taynton, an office boy from the offices on the floor below his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in Soho, London, from one room to another?
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