People Quiz #705
Famous People Quiz for 19 July 2022
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Q1.
In October 2009 it was announced that director Sam Taylor-Wood was to marry Aaron Johnson, 23 years her junior, who were director and star respectively of "Nowhere Boy", a film about whom?
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Q2.
What was invented by Rene Laennec in the early 19th century?
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Q3.
He was a linguist and translator, author of "Ecclesiastical History of the English People", considered one of the greatest teachers and writers of the Early Middle Ages and by many historians to be the most important scholar of antiquity. Who was he?
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Saint Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria
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Q4.
Who plays Arizona Robbins in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
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Q5.
Which of these is an American jazz musician best known for playing the saxophone?
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Q6.
The British Royal House at the start of the First World War was known by the family name of whom?
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Q7.
Which of these is an American author who became known as the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction", who wrote six novels from 1957 to 1962 known as "The Beebo Brinker Chronicles"?
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