People Quiz #292
Famous People Quiz for 19 August 2014
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Q1.
Which mass murderer was instrumental in 1996 in bringing world attention to Dunblane Primary School?
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Q2.
Who, when campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1912, was shot by John Schrank, but continued to deliver his ninety minute speech with blood seeping into his shirt?
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Q3.
Charlotte was the queen of which British king?
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Q4.
Who married pop star Beyoncé Knowles in 2008 at a secret ceremony in New York?
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Q5.
Who wrote "The Thirty Nine Steps"?
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Q6.
"Coppélia", a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes, was based upon two macabre stories by whom?
C
Hans Christian Andersen
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Q7.
Leni Riefenstahl was strongly associated with Adolf Hitler and the beginnings of the Third Reich in her capacity as what?
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Film maker and director
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