People Quiz #724
Famous People Quiz for 29 November 2022
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Q1.
What did Breton artist Jeanne Malivel (1895-1926) join with two other young artists to create?
B
The first Impressionist paintings
C
The artistic movement Seiz Breur (Seven Brothers)
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Q2.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) was the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board, the first female mayor in Britain, and the first …?
A
Accredited female silversmith in Britain
B
Female member of Parliament in Britain
C
Woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon
D
Female head of a (male) university
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Q3.
On 17 June 1994, what vehicle was O J Simpson driving in a slow-speed chase by police at 35 miles per hour (56 km/h)?
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Q4.
Who provides the voice for Gromit in the "Wallace and Gromit" series of TV shows?
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Q5.
Why did Michael Woodford gain international prominence in 2011?
A
He led the US operation which killed Osama bin Laden
B
He documented a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe, at 200,000 K
C
He captained the team which won the Cricket World Cup
D
He blew the whistle on accounting fraud at Olympus Corporation in Japan
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Q6.
Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat, and a builder of what?
D
Astronomic observatories
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Q7.
Who, at the age of 50, had become the world's richest man through the activities of the Standard Oil Company?
A
John Davison Rockefeller
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