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People Quiz #8

Famous People Quiz for 10 March 2009

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Q1. Which jazz musician has a memorial, created by sculptor Robert Graham and unveiled in 1997, in Central Park New York, near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 100th Street?

A
King Curtis
B
Count Basie
C
Duke Ellington
D
B.B. King
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Q2. What fate made Spencer Perceval unique among British Prime Ministers?

A
He was deported
B
The King removed him from office
C
He was assassinated
D
He was beheaded for treason
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Q3. Who collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber to create the musical "The Beautiful Game"?

A
Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson
B
Tim Rice
C
Paul McCartney
D
Ben Elton
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Q4. Who, in the 16th century, published "Orbium Coelestium", the theory that underlies our current understanding of the relationship of the earth to the sun and the planets?

Note: This question was updated in May 2015
A
Isaac Newton
B
Galileo Galilei
C
Ptolemy of Alexandria
D
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Q5. What are the Christian names of J K Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter?

A
Jennifer Katherine
B
Joanne Katherine
C
Jennifer Karen
D
Joanne Kathleen
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Q6. Who was the Anglo-Irish scientist who, in the 17th century, discovered that "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?

Note: This question was updated in July 2015
A
Frank Whittle
B
Isaac Newton
C
Max Planck
D
Robert Boyle
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Q7. Who was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon when it became independent on 14 October 1947?

A
Dudley Shelton Senanayake
B
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
C
Don Stephen Senanayake
D
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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