People Quiz #385
Famous People Quiz for 31 May 2016
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Q1.
Which of these was the 1958 Nobel Prize laureate, a Russian poet, novelist and translator of Goethe and Shakespeare, most celebrated in Russia as a poet ?
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Q2.
Who, with more than 70 million records sold worldwide during a career in seven decades, was the most successful British female solo recording artist until 2010 according to the Guinness Book of World Records?
Note: This question was updated in December 2022
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Q3.
"Andre 3000" & "Big Boi" make up which hip hop duo?
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Q4.
Which Corsican, as Emperor of the French, used their armies to dominate continental Europe until his Grande Armée was so badly damaged in the invasion of Russia in 1812 that in 1813 he was forced to abdicate, and was exiled to the island of Elba?
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Q5.
What is Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin best known for?
A
Inventing the guillotine
B
Proposing beheading as the humane death penalty in the French Revolution
C
Fine tuning the angled blade in the guillotine
D
Disposing of the corpses of those guillotined
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Q6.
What role did John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719) fill in Great Britain?
A
Archbishop of Canterbury
D
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Q7.
Over the course of 17 years from 1985 to 2002 what did actor Whoopi Goldberg complete, one of only twelve people to do so?
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