People Quiz #611
Famous People Quiz for 29 September 2020
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Q1.
Harrison Ford was working as what before his first big break as a film actor?
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Q2.
Who famously put his telescope to his blind eye to ignore the orders of his superiors at the Battle of Copenhagen?
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Q3.
In 47 BC, after the war with Pharnaces II of Pontus in the city of Zela (now known as Zile, in Turkey), who is credited with saying "Veni, vidi, vici"?
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Q4.
Auguste Escoffier was famous for what activity?
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Q5.
In 2006 British politician George Galloway was widely quoted as saying that it would be "morally justified if someone chose to assassinate …" whom?
Note: This question was updated in May 2022
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Q6.
Who said "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl"?
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Q7.
This 19th century Swiss civil engineer and inventor, brother of a talented painter and father of an eminent French composer and pianist, was a pioneer of the automobile industry as well as inventor of an automotive which could loop-the-loop. Who was he?
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