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People Quiz #70

Famous People Quiz for 18 May 2010

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Q1. Who played the title role in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)?

A
Brad Pitt
B
Gary Oldman
C
Liam Neeson
D
Vincent Price
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Q2. Who assassinated Martin Luther King?

A
John Wilkes Booth
B
Mark Chapman
C
Sirhan Sirhan
D
James Earl Ray
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Q3. What is the name of the prehistoric figure, of a man holding a club, that is carved into the chalk near Dorchester, England?

A
Mr Blobby
B
Cerne Giant
C
Piltdown Man
D
Mr Clubby
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Q4. Which of these was a nurse who was a heroine (from the British and Allied point of view) in World War I?

Note: This question was updated in June 2018
A
Edith Cavell
B
Mary Quant
C
Jean Harlow
D
Maria Callas
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Q5. What was the surname of the 19th century English siblings Christina, a poet ("Goblin Market", "Prince's Progress" and "The Face of the Deep"), Dante, a pre-Raphaelite painter and poet ("The Blessed Diamond"), and William, also a pre-Raphaelite painter, who translated Dante's "Inferno"?

A
Rossetti
B
Shelley
C
Keats
D
Byron
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Q6. The main characters in James Goldman's play "The Lion in Winter" are Henry II, his sons John, Geoffrey & Richard, his mistress Alais Capet, and which other?

Note: This question was updated in February 2017
A
Queen Victoria
B
Romeo
C
Moses
D
Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Q7. Whose adopted children are David Banha and Chifundo "Mercy" James?

A
Courtney Cox-Arquette
B
Jennifer Aniston
C
Madonna
D
Beyonce
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