People Quiz #173
Famous People Quiz for 8 May 2012
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Q1.
Jerry Yang and David Filo founded what computer application?
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Q2.
Whose birth and death are commemorated on the same day?
A
Kings and Queens of England
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3
Q3.
Which German brothers published fairy tales in the 19th century?
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Q4.
Who sang on the 1987 album "Famous Blue Raincoat", a tribute to Leonard Cohen, that contained the song "First We Take Manhattan"?
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Q5.
"Historia Naturalis" was a major work by whom?
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Q6.
Which of these writers was Russian?
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Q7.
Who first popularised the story of Dr Faustus in England?
B
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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