People Quiz #539
Famous People Quiz for 14 May 2019
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Q1.
Tom Lehrer, an American singer-songwriter, whose work contained much black humor and risque lyrics, often parodying popular song forms, taught which subject from 1972 to 2001 at the University of California, Santa Cruz?
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Q2.
Which doctor first explained the circulation of the blood in 1628?
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Q3.
Who was mother to Napoléon Bonaparte's son and heir, also named Napoléon?
A
Joséphine de Beauharnais
B
Marie Louise of Austria
D
Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne
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Q4.
Who played gangster Don Logan in the 2000 film "Sexy Beast"?
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Q5.
What were the middle names of Oscar Wilde?
C
Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
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Q6.
Who, when Secretary-General of the U.N., was killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1961?
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Q7.
Which movie star was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on 5 August 1962?
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