People Quiz #617
Famous People Quiz for 10 November 2020
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Q1.
The score for the Broadway musical "Kismet" was adapted from the music of which composer?
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Q2.
Who was the third wife of Henry VIII?
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Q3.
Which of these is not part of the same family of German composers?
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Q4.
In 1971, who hijacked an aeroplane, collected a ransom, parachuted out over the Rocky Mountains and was never seen again?
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Q5.
Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), was born where?
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Q6.
In the 1990 film "Dick Tracy", which starred Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, who played the role of "Breathless Mahoney", an entertainer at Club Ritz who tries to steal Tracy from Tess Trueheart?
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Q7.
Which English-born conductor worked with orchestras in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Hollywood, New York and Houston, and collaborated with Walt Disney to produce the film "Fantasia"?
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