People Quiz #715
Famous People Quiz for 27 September 2022
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Q1.
Belgian priest, Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), was well-known as a what?
B
Researcher in virus vaccines
C
Mathematician, astronomer, and professor of astrophysics
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Q2.
Former glamour model Jordan, had a son on 13 June 2005 and a daughter on 29 June 2007, married on 10 September 2005, and on 15 May 2009, announced that she and her husband were separating. Who was the man involved in these events?
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Q3.
In 1642, Cardinal Mazarin succeeded whom as Chief Minister of France?
A
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
D
Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon
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4
Q4.
In the USA there is a national holiday annually on the third Monday in January, in honour of whom?
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Q5.
Who was crowned King of Scotland in 1306 and defeated the forces of Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314?
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Q6.
Who said, at a march in London organised by the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign on 17 March 1968 in Trafalgar Square, "A Vietcong victory is the only way to peace"?
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Q7.
Which of these people maintained that he, not Alexander Graham Bell, had invented the telephone and that Bell had stolen the invention from him?
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