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People Quiz #409

Famous People Quiz for 15 November 2016

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Q1. Which group released the song "I Just Shot John Lennon" on their album "To the Faithful Departed" in 1996?

A
The Smashing Pumpkins
B
The Cranberries
C
The Rolling Stones
D
The Arctic Monkeys
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Q2. Who organised a congress in Paris, on June 23, 1894 to establish the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and choose the host city for the 1896 Olympic Games?

A
Baron de Coubertin
B
Spiridon Louis
C
Carl Schuhmann
D
Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Q3. In the 1960s, who renounced his peerage to become British prime minister?

A
Alec Douglas Home
B
James Callaghan
C
Harold Wilson
D
William Pitt, the Younger
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Q4. Which Scottish poet and novelist is famous for the poem "The Lady Of The Lake", and the novels "Heart of Midlothian", "Ivanhoe" and the "Waverley" novels?

A
Charles Kingsley
B
Robert Burns
C
Robert Louis Stevenson
D
Sir Walter Scott
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Q5. Which German scientist published "The Natural History of Creation" in 1876 (to prove that man was descended from apes) and "The Riddle of the Universe" in 1899 (to prove that it was created by natural causes)?

A
Charles Darwin
B
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
C
Friedrich Nietzsche
D
Max Planck
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Q6. Which of these people have not been married to Tom Cruise?

A
Mimi Rogers
B
Nicole Kidman
C
Penélope Cruz
D
Katie Holmes
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Q7. In 2011 in response to prolonged allegations by Republican Donald Trump that President Barack Obama was not qualified to be president because he was not American, Obama published what?

A
His recipe for pumpkin pie
B
A video of him winning a burger eating contest when he was 19
C
The long form of his birth certificate
D
His family tree showing his direct descent from Chief Sitting Bull
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