People Quiz #276
Famous People Quiz for 29 April 2014
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Q1.
Which of these is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling unauthorised "poison pen" biographies of celebrities and politicians, including Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family and "the Bush Dynasty"?
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Q2.
She has figured in plays by John Lyly, Sir W.S. Gilbert, Lawrence Aronovitch, and George Bernard Shaw as well as in novels, opera, painting, and a video game as well as in place and ship names. Who is she?
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Q3.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their famous "bed ins" for peace In which two cities in 1969?
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Q4.
Who was the first Englishman to lead an expedition to circumnavigate the earth by sea, and died of dysentery in the West Indies 16 years later?
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Q5.
Who wrote the 1955 novel "The Quiet American"?
Note: This question was updated in February 2023
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Q6.
Who was the father of Queen Elizabeth II?
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Q7.
Who was the US president when women got the vote in the USA due to the ratification of The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
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