People Quiz #287
Famous People Quiz for 15 July 2014
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Q1.
Who is a cartoonist, best known for his appearances in "The New Yorker" since 3 January 1977, which published 819 of his cartoons, many of which involved animals?
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Q2.
Who was King of England when Daniel Defoe published "Robinson Crusoe" and Jonathan Swift published "Gulliver's Travels"?
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Q3.
Who was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 882 to 887 AD?
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Q4.
Who wrote "The Old Man of Lochnagar"?
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Q5.
Who principally studied transplant rejection and immunosuppression after World War II, which led him to perform the first successful living kidney transplant in the UK on 30 October 1960?
Note: This question was updated in February 2024
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Q6.
The father of which ex prime minister of the UK was a trapeze artist and a garden gnome salesman?
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Q7.
Who coined the expression "portmanteau words" for words made from combinations of other words, such as "brunch"?
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