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People Quiz #471

Famous People Quiz for 23 January 2018

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Q1. Who wrote three major operas over three years, two of which were finished and premièred within two months of one another?

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Engelbert Humperdinck
B
Richard Strauss
C
Giuseppe Verdi
D
Francis Poulenc
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Q2. Which of these novelists is not American?

A
Herman Melville
B
Ernest Hemingway
C
H G Wells
D
Mark Twain
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Q3. What was the nickname of the Chevalier Raoul, a character in a tale by Perrault in 1697, who murdered successive wives?

A
Marquis de Sade
B
Bluebeard
C
Cyrano de Bergerac
D
Sancho Panza
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Q4. Yaris Varoufakis first became well-known in Europe in 2015 in what capacity?

A
Greek Prime Minister
B
Greek Finance Minister
C
Greek Foreign Minister
D
Greek Opposition Leader
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Q5. Who created the character of Hercule Poirot?

A
Agatha Christie
B
Ngaio Marsh
C
P D James
D
Georges Simenon
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Q6. By what name is Saul Hudson, solo artist and guitarist in bands including Velvet Revolver and Guns N' Roses, better known?

A
Edge
B
Bruce Springsteen
C
Prince
D
Slash
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Q7. Who directed as well as wrote the 2017 film, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", the last film appearance of Carrrie Fisher (as General Leia Organa, former princess of Alderaan)?

A
J J Abrams
B
Chris Weitz
C
Rian Johnson
D
George Lucas
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