People Quiz #571
Famous People Quiz for 24 December 2019
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Q1.
According to tradition who, at their trial for heresy by the Catholic Christian Church, said "Here I stand, I can do no other. May God help me. Amen."?
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Q2.
Paul Newman starred as a heroically serial prison escaper in the film "Cool Hand Luke" (1967); what was he sent to prison for?
A
Cutting the heads off some parking meters one night
B
Putting up a poster of Martin Luther King
C
Refusing conscription for the war in Vietnam
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Q3.
Who is George Dowd better known as?
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Q4.
Who is the bulldog who appears in "Tom and Jerry" cartoons?
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Q5.
What Irish dramatist, whose first produced play was "Widowers' Houses" in 1892, won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926?
C
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Q6.
In what epic does the character Enkidu first appear?
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Q7.
Which British journalist has written biographies of Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky, David and Victoria Beckham, Madonna, and Tom Cruise?
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