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People Quiz #300

Famous People Quiz for 14 October 2014

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Q1. Who released an album in October 2010 called "Teenage Dream"?

A
Katie Perry
B
Tori Amos
C
Madonna
D
Lady Gaga
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Q2. Who was made an honorary citizen of Haslach, Austria, in 1938, an honour withdrawn in 2004?

A
Adolf Hitler
B
Wolfgang Mozart
C
Jesse Owens
D
Mrs Wallis Simpson
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Q3. What were the first names of the Irish poet and dramatist W B Yeats?

A
William Butler
B
Walton Burlington
C
Wilson Barry
D
Wigmore Bartle
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Q4. Bob Hoskins, an English actor awarded and acclaimed for roles in TV and film ranging from gangsters to playing opposite a cartoon, died in April 2014 at 71; he also, at the age of over 60, played something very close to a romantic interest in which film?

A
Made in Dagenham
B
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
C
Pennies From Heaven
D
Mrs Henderson Presents
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Q5. Who wrote the novel "East of Eden"?

A
Ernest Hemingway
B
John Steinbeck
C
Truman Capote
D
Mark Twain
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Q6. Who was the London-based Australian music impresario who managed John Leyton, Cream, Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees?

A
Chris Stamp
B
Don Arden
C
Andrew Loog Oldham
D
Robert Stigwood
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Q7. Who was the director of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen"?

A
John Huston
B
Alfred Hitchcock
C
Howard Hawks
D
Elia Kazan
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