People Quiz #608
Famous People Quiz for 8 September 2020
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Q1.
Who wrote, often with Howard Greenfield, the songs "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl" (1960), "Little Devil" (1961), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961), "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962) and "Next Door to an Angel" (1962)?
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Q2.
What nationality is composer and pianist Philip Glass?
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Q3.
Sitting Bull was chief of what group?
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Q4.
Which of these is a British entrepreneur and inventor of the slim-line electronic pocket calculator in 1972 and the ZX Spectrum series of computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s?
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Q5.
Who entered Studio 54 in New York City in 1977 for her 32nd birthday party on a white horse, resulting in publicity that established it as the preferred nightclub for celebrities?
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Q6.
Who was the founder of the Christian Science movement?
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Q7.
As well as being a spy, for which brief career she was both celebrated and then executed, in what other profession did Mata Hari engage?
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