People Quiz #353
Famous People Quiz for 20 October 2015
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1
Q1.
Who was the British engineer who designed the first television system suitable for broadcast transmission in 1939?
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2
Q2.
Which group, named after its keyboardist, had its first hit record when the members included Mike Hugg, Mike Vickers, Tom McGuinness and Paul Jones?
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3
Q3.
Where was Chiang Kai-Shek leader until 1949?
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4
Q4.
During the Industrial Revolution in England Henry Cort became famous for what?
B
The reverbatory furnace
C
A puddling process for refining iron
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5
Q5.
Who created the characters of Tom Wingfield, Blanche Dubois, Big Daddy Pollitt and T Lawrence Shannon?
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6
Q6.
Who resigned his army commission in 1858 to write music, such as the opera "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition"?
B
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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7
Q7.
Yukio Hatoyama, who became Prime Minister of Japan in September 2009, announced his resignation on 2 June 2010, citing what as the main reason?
A
The immoral activities of close family members
B
Lying to parliament about the sinking of the South Korean warship "Cheonan"
C
His claiming excessive expenses
D
Breaking his promise to remove a US base from Okinawa
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