People Quiz #367
Famous People Quiz for 26 January 2016
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Q1.
Which US president was re-elected with the slogan "Don't change horses in mid-stream"?
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Q2.
Whose theme song was "Thanks For The Memory"?
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Q3.
Which of these was a guitarist, singer and composer who died in September 1970, in Notting Hill, London, after drinking red wine and taking sleeping pills?
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Q4.
Who wrote the 1998 novel "About A Boy"?
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Q5.
Which German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist became famous for his fairy stories and romantic novels, and for writing the opera "Undine"?
A
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
B
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman
C
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
D
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
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Q6.
Two famous people with the homophone (same sound, different spelling) of boil and what as a name had a common interest in which area?
Note: This question was updated in June 2017
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Q7.
Which of these was a famous lexicographer?
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