People Quiz #181
Famous People Quiz for 3 July 2012
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Q1.
Who wrote "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isn't fit for humans now"?
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Q2.
Who was known as the "Moses of her people" for leading escaped slaves to freedom during the US Civil War?
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Q3.
Who wrote, often with Howard Greenfield, the songs "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl" (1960), "Little Devil" (1961), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961), "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962) and "Next Door to an Angel" (1962)?
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Q4.
In the early 1960s, Albert DeSalvo was given what nickname by the media?
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Q5.
Which of these people was a leader of the French nation from 18 May 1804 to 11 April 1814 and from 20 March 1815 to 22 June 1815?
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Q6.
Whose autobiography was entitled "A Long Walk to Freedom"?
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Q7.
Who, before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?
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