People Quiz #399
Famous People Quiz for 6 September 2016
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Q1.
Who was nominated for an Academy Award for his animated film “Shrek”?
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Q2.
Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum 200 feet high in the Pantheon in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?
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Q3.
The name of what American music group originally formed in 1967 in New York City, was possibly indirectly inspired by a line from Winston Churchill's first speech as Prime Minister of Great Britain?
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Q4.
Which of these was a very successful German fighter pilot in World War I who was shot down and killed on the Somme in 1918?
A
Baron Manfred von Richthofen
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Q5.
Who wrote the text on which the musical “Cats” was based?
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Q6.
Which president of the USA lent his name to a species of elk?
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Q7.
Who was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement who was assassinated on 4 April 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee?
B
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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