People Quiz #10
Famous People Quiz for 24 March 2009
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Q1.
In 2008, who was the President of Palestine and Fatah leader?
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Q2.
Which Greek philosopher and teacher of Alexander the Great, wrote on many subjects including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology, and died in Euboea of natural causes in 322 BC?
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Q3.
Which Greek philosopher, from the 6th century BCE, is best known for a mathematical theorem which bears his name and for leading a group who discovered square numbers and proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis, and they travel around the sun?
Note: This question was updated in June 2020
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Q4.
Which bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, best known as part of "The Who", died in June 2002?
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Q5.
Horatio Nelson lost his right eye in which battle?
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Q6.
Who created the characters of Tom Wingfield, Blanche Dubois, Big Daddy Pollitt and T Lawrence Shannon?
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Q7.
Who was the first woman to make a solo flight from England to Australia in 1930?
Note: This question was updated in September 2015
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