People Quiz #153
Famous People Quiz for 20 December 2011
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Q1.
Who is the only person to receive 2 Oscars for the same role?
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Q2.
Which of these people was famous for founding a film company in 1896?
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Q3.
Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World War I, was a member of which family?
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Q4.
Which Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation as part of the French resistance in World War II?
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Q5.
What nickname was given to Mary Mallon, who infected a known 53 people working as a cook in New York and, in 1907, was the first healthy typhoid carrier to be identified?
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Q6.
Whose armies were defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815?
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Q7.
Who had a famous chestnut horse named "Copenhagen"?
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