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People Quiz #747

Famous People Quiz for 9 May 2023

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Q1. He played keyboard for English rock band Dare and for Northern Irish/English pop & dance group D Ream, has co-written several books including "Why does E=mc2?", and since 2005 has been widely known as a television presenter. Who is he?

A
Neil deGrasse Tyson
B
Sir David Attenborough
C
Dara Ó Briain
D
Dr Brian Cox, CBE, FRS
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Q2. Which US film actress married and divorced both Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan?

A
Olivia de Havilland
B
Jean Harlow
C
Marilyn Munro
D
Rita Hayworth
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Q3. Helen Clark, who was appointed Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in 2009, is from which country?

A
England
B
Australia
C
South Africa
D
New Zealand
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Q4. Who wrote the play "The Cocktail Hour", a US comedy exploring the world of upper-class families in the Northeast set in an apartment in the 1970s, and promised his parents it would not be produced in his hometown during their lifetimes because "the details are so close to home"?

A
Henrik Ibsen
B
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière)
C
Peter Shaffer
D
A. R. Gurney
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Q5. Who was the first woman to walk in space as well as, 36 years later, to reach the deepest known spot in the ocean?

A
Sally Ride
B
Kathy Sullivan
C
Valentina Tereshkova
D
Svetlana Savitskaya
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Q6. Whose relationships have been the subject of speculation in the celebrity press, and has been romantically linked with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Heidi Klum, Jessica Simpson, Minka Kelly and Jennifer Aniston?

A
John Mayer
B
Justin Timberlake
C
Gerard Butler
D
Vince Vaughn
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Q7. A single flame gas burner frequently used in student science laboratories is named after whom?

A
John Tilley
B
Michael Faraday
C
Sir Humphry Davy
D
Robert Bunsen
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