People Quiz #345
Famous People Quiz for 25 August 2015
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Q1.
What office did James Schlesinger not hold in 1973 under US President Gerald Ford?
Note: This question was updated in December 2018
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Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
C
Director of Central Intelligence
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Q2.
What science does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation, Sherlock Holmes, practise?
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Q3.
Who wrote under the pseudonym of "Elia" and, with his sister Mary, wrote "Tales From Shakespeare"?
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Q4.
How does history better know Ioseb Jughashvili, who changed his surname to mean "steel"?
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Q5.
France's largest international airport and one of the world principal aviation centres, also known as Roissy, is usually known by the name of what historical figure?
D
Louis XIV - the Sun King
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Q6.
In a court case in Toronto in October 1978, whose defence counsel compared him to Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gogh, Aldous Huxley, Judy Garland and F Scott Fitzgerald?
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Q7.
Which merchant seaman wrote poems, novels, plays and critical essays and became Poet Laureate in 1930?
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