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People Quiz #535

Famous People Quiz for 16 April 2019

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Q1. Queen Margrethe II of the Kingdom of Denmark is commonly called "the queen" in Danish, which is... ?

A
Dronningen
B
Statsrådet
C
Sundhedsbidrag
D
Folketing
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Q2. According to the Bible, Ham, Shem and Japheth were whose sons?

A
St Peter
B
Jesus
C
Noah
D
St Mark
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Q3. Who invented infinitesimal calculus independently of Newton (and his notation has been in general use since then), invented the binary system, and promoted his philosophy of "optimism", that the universe is the best possible that God could have made?

A
Gottfried Leibniz
B
Hermann Grassmann
C
Johannes Kepler
D
Heinrich Weber
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Q4. Romulus, co-founder of Rome, was deified after his death and worshipped as which God?

A
Boadicea
B
Apollo
C
Thor
D
Quirinus
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Q5. Which actor debuted in US slasher film "Halloween" (1978)?

A
Jamie Lee Curtis
B
Donald Pleasance
C
Nick Castle
D
Pamela Jayne Soles
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Q6. Who is the New Zealand-born physicist whose discoveries include most of the great advances in physics between 1899 and 1930?

A
Edmund Hillary
B
Ernest Rutherford
C
Wilson Whineray
D
Frank Whittle
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Q7. Who created the characters of Tom Wingfield, Blanche Dubois, Big Daddy Pollitt and T Lawrence Shannon?

A
Arthur Miller
B
Tennessee Williams
C
Edward Albee
D
Sam Shepard
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