People Quiz #128
Famous People Quiz for 28 June 2011
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Q1.
Which singer-songwriter, who won 2 BRIT Awards and 2 Ivor Novello Awards and was nominated for 5 Grammy Awards in 2006, was an officer in a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and served under NATO in Kosovo in 1999?
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Q2.
Who was president of the USA when South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union on 20 December 1860, the first step towards Civil War?
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Q3.
Which of these men never commanded a ship called "Discovery"?
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Q4.
Gene Kelly played Tommy Allbright in which 1954 film musical?
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Q5.
British actress Lillie Langtry was the mistress of whom?
Note: This question was updated in January 2019
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The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII
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Q6.
A compilation of whose inspirational letters to a young jazz student named Anthony, has been published as "To a Young Jazz Musician"?
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Q7.
Arnall Patz received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 for his lifetime of work in what field?
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