People Quiz #656
Famous People Quiz for 10 August 2021
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Q1.
Jean de Ockeghem, composer of sacred and secular music, wrote in which century?
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2
Q2.
Which band played a free concert with a claimed 1.5 million attendance at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on 18 February 2006?
B
London Symphony Orchestra
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3
Q3.
In 2019 Allyson Felix became the most decorated what?
A
Athlete in the World Athletics Championships
B
Round the world solo sailor
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4
Q4.
Michael Flatley, flautist and choreographer and internationally well-known for his Irish dancing, was born and grew up where?
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5
Q5.
The Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan became internationally known during what hostilities?
A
Six-Day War of 1967, and Yom Kippur War of 1973
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6
Q6.
Which two Lambs were associated with a well-known children's book from 1807?
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Q7.
Which Dutch fabric merchant, surveyor, wine assayer, and minor city official, learned to grind lenses for simple microscopes and discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells and microscopic nematodes?
C
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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