People Quiz #3
Famous People Quiz for 3 February 2009
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Q1.
Who organised a congress in Paris, on June 23, 1894 to establish the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and choose the host city for the 1896 Olympic Games?
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2
Q2.
Who, when Secretary-General of the U.N., was killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1961?
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Q3.
Who wrote the lyrics / music for the musical “Chess”?
B
Richard Stilgoe & Charles Hart / Andrew Lloyd Webber
C
Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber
D
Tim Rice / Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson
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Q4.
What actor is common to the films "Ned Kelly" (1970), "Performance" (1970), "Freejack" (1992), "Bent" (1997) and "The Man From Elysian Fields" (2001)?
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Q5.
Whose discovery, that there were other galaxies in existence besides the Milky Way, was announced in 1925?
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Q6.
The film actor Julia Elizabeth Wells is better known by what name?
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Q7.
Until his succession at the death of his mother in September 2022, Charles, the heir to the British throne, was the Duke of … ?
Note: This question was updated in September 2022
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