People Quiz #465
Famous People Quiz for 12 December 2017
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Q1.
Who, though he died at 35, wrote over 600 works including 23 string quartets, 5 string quintets, 21 piano concertos and 19 operas?
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Q2.
Which Dutch artist painted "Sunflowers" and was the subject of a pop song by Don McLaine?
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Q3.
Whose top hat and other belongings fetched nearly half a million euros at auction in May 2009?
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Q4.
Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim?
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Q5.
Which American blues artist died on 21 June 2001?
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Q6.
What was distinctive about Tarzan's friend in the films, Cheeta?
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Q7.
Which of these is a British geologist who greatly influenced the modern study of geology with his book "The Principles Of Geology"?
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