People Quiz #125
Famous People Quiz for 7 June 2011
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Q1.
Which composer wrote the "Water Music"?
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Q2.
Helen Clark, who was appointed Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in 2009, is from which country?
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Q3.
According to the Bible, who was told by God to build an ark to escape the Great Flood?
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Q4.
Who presented a list of 23 problems in mathematics at a conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians on 8 August 1900 in the Sorbonne, of which only 10 have resolutions which are fully accepted?
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Q5.
What was Melanie Brown's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
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Q6.
Who was elected Mayor of New York City in 2001?
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Q7.
What, invented by William Harbutt of Bath, England in 1897, is composed of calcium salts (principally calcium carbonate), petroleum jelly, and long-chain aliphatic acids (principally stearic acid)?
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Semtex plastic explosive
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