People Quiz #598
Famous People Quiz for 30 June 2020
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Q1.
Whose birth and death are commemorated on the same day?
A
Kings and Queens of England
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2
Q2.
Who in history is the only divorced wife of someone who later became president of the USA?
C
Elizabeth Bloomer Warren
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3
Q3.
Who wrote under the pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier?
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4
Q4.
Who married Liam Neeson in 1994 after they met on the set of the film "Nell"?
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5
Q5.
Who first popularised the story of Dr Faustus in England?
B
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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6
Q6.
Who wrote the music for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" and "Peter and the Wolf" (a children's tale for narrator and orchestra)?
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Q7.
Who led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, led the 1963 March on Washington and, in 1964, became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means?
C
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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