People Quiz #682
Famous People Quiz for 8 February 2022
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Q1.
Who performed in the first concert link into space, which was sent from Anaheim California to the space shuttle Discovery in 2005?
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Q2.
Of whom or what was Oscar Wilde reputedly speaking in one of his last reported remarks, "One of us will have to go"?
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Q3.
Which writer is said to have thought "The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it"?
A
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
B
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
C
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
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Q4.
Charles Perrault, an influential 17th century government servant in the reign of Louis XIV and leading member of the Académie Française, has most long-lasting renown as the author of what?
A
"The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones"
B
"Children's and Household Tales"
D
"Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals - Tales of Mother Goose"
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Q5.
What is one of the notable aspects of the character Rumpelstiltskin?
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Q6.
Which publisher(s) founded an imprint in 1908, now owned by Harlequin UK, which by the 1930s began to cater for escapist fiction and continues to do so exclusively?
B
Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon
C
Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster
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Q7.
Initially family pressure sent Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), later seen as among the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, to study what?
B
Business administration
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