People Quiz #650
Famous People Quiz for 29 June 2021
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Q1.
In which book do the Houyhnhnms first appear?
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Q2.
Who is recognised as the first to identify, and name, dark matter in the universe?
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Q3.
Which of these scientists became an international name in 2020?
B
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Q4.
Which caricaturist, starting in 1778, went on to savage George III, major politicians, Napoléon Bonaparte, war, French Jacobins and debauched English gentlemen, and to establish the "honest" countryman John Bull as the epitome of Englishness?
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Q5.
Who was ousted as Panama's leader after a 1989 US invasion ordered by President George H.W. Bush, was convicted of drug racketeering and related charges in 1992, and was extradited to France at the end of April 2010 on charges of laundering around US$3 million in drug proceeds by buying luxury apartments in Paris?
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Q6.
What, invented by William Harbutt of Bath, England in 1897, is composed of calcium salts (principally calcium carbonate), petroleum jelly, and long-chain aliphatic acids (principally stearic acid)?
B
Semtex plastic explosive
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Q7.
R J Mitchell designed which World War II aircraft?
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