People Quiz #601
Famous People Quiz for 21 July 2020
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Q1.
In the 1979 film "Alien" which of these actors plays a character that has an alien burst out of his body?
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Q2.
Who wrote the 16th century play "Tamburlaine the Great", one of the first English plays in blank verse?
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Q3.
Who composed the music "By the Waters of Babylon", "The Lost Chord" and incidental music to Shakespeare's "The Tempest" performed to acclaim at the Crystal Palace in 1862?
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Stephen Adams (Michael Maybrick)
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Q4.
Which of these was a popular comedy duo in the 1970s and '80s?
A
Dean Martin and Jerry Built
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Q5.
Which of these writers was Russian?
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Q6.
What was the surname of the actor who won only 1 Academy Award, for Best Actor for the 1934 "It Happened One Night"?
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Q7.
Which of these was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician who represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo?
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