People Quiz #435
Famous People Quiz for 16 May 2017
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Q1.
Bishops Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley, and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer were tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake. By what name are they collectively known?
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Q2.
What group, consisting of vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Percy Heath, drummer Kenny Clarke and pianist John Lewis (as musical director), was formed in 1952?
D
Bepop Bingle Bongle Band
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Q3.
Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta", established a major Law of Radiation and sparked the development of Quantum Theory from 1900?
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Q4.
Plato and Xenophon are the most famous pupils of which Greek philosopher?
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Q5.
Who was the last English monarch of the Plantaganet dynasty?
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Q6.
When Alger Hiss, an official involved in the establishment of the United Nations was accused of having been a communist and then of being a Soviet spy, and took a defamation case against his accuser, of what was he convicted in 1950?
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Q7.
Tennis player Lleyton Hewitt married which actress?
A
Lisa Chappell ("McLeod's Daughters")
B
Rebecca Gibney ("Packed to the Rafters")
C
Sonia Todd ("McLeod's Daughters")
D
Bec Cartwright ("Home and Away")
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