People Quiz #504
Famous People Quiz for 11 September 2018
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Q1.
Who, an ironmonger by trade, created the first practical steam engine to pump water from mineshafts?
C
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Q2.
Ella Galbraith is a childhood fantasy name invented for herself by which British author?
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Q3.
Who is the only member of the current membership of Fleetwood Mac who does not play an instrument regularly on stage?
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Q4.
Who was the Puritan leader and first governor of the Pilgrim Fathers, who organised the voyage of the Mayflower to Plymouth, New Hampshire?
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Q5.
Which Indian citizen won a Nobel Prize in 1979?
Note: This question was updated in March 2023
B
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Q6.
Which English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era had a mysterious and untimely death?
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Q7.
Which of these people are associated with the guitar?
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