People Quiz #538
Famous People Quiz for 7 May 2019
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Q1.
Who wrote the plays "The Seagull", "The Cherry Orchard", "The Three Sisters" and "Uncle Vanya"?
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Q2.
Which US President spent his term of office in a wheelchair?
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Q3.
Whose name is associated with radical developments in a household cleaning tool?
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Q4.
Whose discovery, that there were other galaxies in existence besides the Milky Way, was announced in 1925?
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Q5.
Which German social economist of Jewish descent, expelled from Germany and France, co-wrote in London "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital"?
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Q6.
Who changed his name to Engelbert Humperdinck in 1965 and in 1967 had a top ten hit on both sides of the Atlantic with "Release Me"?
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Q7.
In February 1841, English polymath, inventor, politician and scientist William Henry Fox Talbot patented a process which was seminal in the development of what?
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Mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye
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