People Quiz #709
Famous People Quiz for 16 August 2022
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Q1.
Who wrote the blank verse drama "Boris Godunov", later the basis for an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky?
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Q2.
Chelsy Davy has been romantically linked to whom?
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Prince Henry of Wales (Prince Harry)
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Q3.
According to Norse legend, which of these is the chief of the Valkyries (warrior maidens)?
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Q4.
Who was the only person, until Bob Dylan in 2016, to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for Literature?
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Q5.
Where did Stradivari, the famous violin maker, live and work?
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Q6.
In 1938, after receiving the Nobel Prize, which physicist emigrated to the USA, protesting the oppressive regime of his homeland?
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Q7.
Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction, that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 degrees?
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