People Quiz #555
Famous People Quiz for 3 September 2019
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Q1.
Who had the title role in the 2003 film 'Sylvia"?
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Q2.
Gordon Banks (1937-2019) and Gordon Banks (1958 on) are both notable, on either side of the Atlantic, in what field?
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Q3.
Which of these was an 18th century Scottish philosopher and economist who wrote "Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Wealth of Nations"?
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Q4.
Which English novelist wrote "Decline and Fall", "Brideshead Revisited" and "Officers and Gentlemen"?
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Q5.
Who was the British nurse executed on 12 October 1915 for harbouring wounded and refugee soldiers in Brussels during the German occupation, and assisting escapes to Holland?
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Q6.
Which of these became prima ballerina of the Marianski Theatre, St Petersburg in 1901 and appeared with her own company at the Covent Garden Opera House between 1923 and 1925?
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Q7.
Who set a water speed record of 225.6 m.p.h. at Coniston Water in September 1956?
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