People Quiz #113
Famous People Quiz for 15 March 2011
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Q1.
Which of these is an English novelist?
B
Mary Milliner Manchester
C
Rosemary Draper Sheffield
D
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Q2.
Who is the father of actress Lucy Davis, who played receptionist Dawn Tinsley in the UK TV series "The Office" (2001), junior writer Lucy Kenwright in the US TV series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and Dianne in the film "Shaun of the Dead" (2004)?
Note: This question was updated in January 2019
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Q3.
Which Austrian, the brother of Franz Joseph, was crowned Emperor of Mexico in 1864, and shot in 1867?
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Q4.
Who is the next in this series: Adolf von Baeyer (1905), Henri Moissan (1906), Eduard Buchner (1907), Ernest Rutherford (1908), Wilhelm Ostwald (1909), Otto Wallach (1910) ... ?
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Q5.
By what name was Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, who was born in Üsküb, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, capital of the Republic of North Macedonia) in 1910, better known?
Note: This question was updated in March 2023
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Q6.
What is the stage name of the Scottish singer-songwriter, actress and model born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie who is most famous for her hits "To Sir, With Love" and "Shout"?
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Q7.
The Golden Raspberry Awards have been running since 1980. Who had won the award for Worst Supporting Actress the most times until 2005?
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