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People Quiz #437

Famous People Quiz for 30 May 2017

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Q1. Who succeeded Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union when he died in 1924?

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Karl Marx
B
Leon Trotsky
C
Joseph Stalin
D
Friedrich Engels
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Q2. Which country music artist performed at the 2017 Superbowl in the USA?

A
Keith Urban
B
Luke Bryan
C
Faith Hill
D
Carrie Underwood
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Q3. At an auction in New York in March 2009, Vijay Mallya made international news by buying personal items belonging to whom?

A
Saddam Hussein
B
Mahatma Gandhi
C
Mao Zedong
D
George Washington
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Q4. Celebrated merchant Marco Polo 1254-1324, adventurer Francisco Pizzaro c.1475-1541, African-American activist Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumtree) c.1797-1883, and White Sox player Joe Jackson 1887-1951 shared what?

A
They were assassinated
B
They had epilepsy
C
They were illiterate
D
They are not known to have had any children
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Q5. Which of these monarchs was friendly to usurping military powers in a neighbouring country, was ousted by a coup from within his own government, and then supported revolutionary forces later accused of genocide which looked to overthrow his ex-government?

A
The Kangde Emperor of China
B
King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
C
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
D
King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
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Q6. Which author, two of whose works are "Sketches by Boz" and "Little Dorrit", spent some months as a boy with his father in Marshalsea debtors' prison in England?

A
Charles Dickens
B
Jack London
C
Franz Kafka
D
Thomas Malory
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Q7. Which artist performed with the group From Scratch and pop/rock/alternative band Blam Blam Blam, and co-founded the musical/theatrical band Front Lawn and the rock/alternative band The Mutton Birds?

A
Harry Sinclair
B
Chris Sheehan
C
Don McGlashan
D
Neil Finn
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