People Quiz #343
Famous People Quiz for 11 August 2015
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Q1.
Which Spanish author served as a soldier at Lepanto (where he lost the use of his left hand), was captured by pirates in 1575 and imprisoned in Algiers until 1580, and was then employed in government work in Madrid?
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Q2.
Where was Kylie Minogue born?
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Q3.
Edwina Currie, first elected to the British House of Commons as a Conservative Party MP in 1983 and a Junior Health Minister for 2 years before resigning in 1988, had an affair with whom from 1984 to 1988?
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Q4.
Which of these trained to be a priest until opting to be a dictator for a living?
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Q5.
Who wrote "In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking"?
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Q6.
Who was born in 1812 near Porstmouth, spent his childhood in Chatham and London, married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, separated from her in 1858, had much of his work published serially in journals, and died in 1870?
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Q7.
Who, as president of Argentina, ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?
B
General Reynaldo Bignone
C
General Leopoldo Galtieri
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