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People Quiz #445

Famous People Quiz for 25 July 2017

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Q1. Which English writer wrote "Goodbye To All That", "I, Claudius", "Claudius The God" and "King Jesus"?

A
Graham Greene
B
Robert Graves
C
Charles Groves
D
Richard Burton
Select from the options above.
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Q2. Which author, who wrote "Portrait Of A Lady", "The American" and "Roderick Hudson", was born in New York in 1843 and became a naturalised Englishman in 1915?

A
Henry James
B
A A Milne
C
Arthur Miller
D
James Joyce
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Q3. Which English TV and film actor, DJ, hip hop soul musician, and aspiring professional kick-boxer also starred on TV's Discovery Channel breaking a land speed record, driving a dragster and piloting a plane?

A
Daniel Craig
B
Jude Law
C
Sean Bean
D
Idris Elba
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Q4. Which of these was a singer who died at the Landmark Motor Hotel, Los Angeles, officially from an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol?

A
Jim Morrison
B
Jimi Hendrix
C
Janis Joplin
D
James Brown
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Q5. Who coined the term "Big Bang" to explain the difference between it and his theory of the "steady state" expanding universe?

A
Sir Fred Hoyle
B
Arthur C Clarke
C
Stephen Hawking
D
Carl Sagan
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Q6. What was the name of the man and his adopted son who were Roman military leaders between 216 BC (the invasion of Italy by Hannibal) and 147 BC ( the destruction of Carthage)?

A
Augustus
B
Caesar
C
Scipio
D
Octavian
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Q7. Who wrote the song "I Get a Kick Out of You"?

A
Joni Mitchell
B
Stevie Wonder
C
Cole Porter
D
George Gershwin
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