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People Quiz #629

Famous People Quiz for 2 February 2021

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Q1. Hugh Masekela, legendary trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer, spent 30 years in exile from what country?

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Lesotho
B
Botswana
C
Zambia
D
South Africa
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Q2. What world leader surprisingly announced his resignation on 31 December 1999?

A
Boris Yeltsin
B
Francois Mitterand
C
Richard Nixon
D
Ronald Reagan
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Q3. Father Christmas is commonly identified with which saint?

A
George
B
Christopher
C
Joan
D
Nicholas
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Q4. He trained as a stonemason and sculptor, was held as prisoner of war by the US for a year, was a novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, and graphic artist, and won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Who was he?

A
Günter Grass
B
Thomas Mann
C
Seamus Heaney
D
Dario Fo
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Q5. With what sport is Sébastien Ogier associated?

A
Elephant polo
B
Formula One
C
Hurling
D
Rally driving
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Q6. Which of these was a rocket physicist and astronautics engineer who was involved in the development of rocket technology in Germany during World War II?

A
Bertolt Brecht
B
J. Robert Oppenheimer
C
Albert Speer
D
Wernher von Braun
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Q7. Which playwright wrote the plays that won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 & 2002 and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, 1975 & 1994, and gained nominations for Tony Award for Best Play in 1964, 1965, 1967 & 1975, Tony Award for Best Author of a Play in 1965, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001 & 2003 and a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005?

A
Alan Bennett
B
Michael Frayn
C
Doug Wright
D
Edward Albee
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