People Quiz #240
Famous People Quiz for 20 August 2013
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Q1.
Temujin (1162-1227), who made his capital in Karakorum was better known as who?
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Q2.
Who wrote the books "Stark", "Gridlock", "This Other Eden", "Popcorn", "Blast from the Past", "Inconceivable", "Dead Famous", "High Society", "Past Mortem" and "The First Casualty"?
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Q3.
Which of these was a co-owner of the Miss Universe franchise?
Note: This question was updated in February 2020
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Q4.
In early 2013 French actor Gerard Depardieu took on Russian citizenship and was registered as permanent resident of...?
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Q5.
What role was played by Robbie Coltrane in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"?
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Q6.
Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of the Korean War?
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Q7.
Which German writer, one of the key figures of the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, produced the two-part drama "Faust", numerous poems and the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther"?
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