People Quiz #572
Famous People Quiz for 31 December 2019
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Q1.
What is Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, popularly known for?
A
Funding research into climate change
B
Writing detective novels
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2
Q2.
Which Pope was elected in 2005?
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3
Q3.
What was the occupation of Otto Klemperer?
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4
Q4.
Who was the fourth (and the first female) Prime Minister of the State of Israel, who was described as the "Iron Lady" (before Margaret Thatcher), "the best man in the government" and the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people"?
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Q5.
Who was the merchant sea-captain who made the first American circumnavigation of the world in 1790, and is known for trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the fur trade in that region?
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Q6.
Which 19th century British explorer wrote "Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah" about his journeys in 1853, went to Somaliland in 1858 and discovered Lake Tanganyika and the Victoria Nyanza, and translated the tales of the Arabian Nights in 16 volumes?
C
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
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Q7.
What was the middle name of Noël Coward?
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