People Quiz #97
Famous People Quiz for 23 November 2010
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Q1.
Who adopted Ziggy Stardust as an on-stage identity?
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Q2.
Which of these was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued war criminals?
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Q3.
Which British film actor and author of 9 autobiographies and 6 fiction books first appeared on a West End stage using his own first name of Derek?
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Q4.
Which of these entertainers is not known for wearing a bowler hat?
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Q5.
Who holds the record for having received the most Grammy awards?.
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Q6.
Who is credited with the invention of the rotary internal combustion engine, introduced by NSU in their "Ro 80" in 1967 and used by Mazda in their "RX"models, the first of which, the RX-2, was introduced in 1970?
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Q7.
Who was the British general who was defeated at Yorktown, 1781, during the American War of Independence?
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