People Quiz #74
Famous People Quiz for 15 June 2010
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Q1.
Which family includes Louis, a television journalist, his father Paul, a travel writer and novelist, his elder brother Marcel, a writer and television presenter and his cousin Justin, an American actor?
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Q2.
Which singer and songwriter of the 1970s and 1980s was the first to have three consecutive double albums hit #1 on the Billboard charts, and was the first female artist to have four number-one singles in a thirteen-month period?
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Q3.
Which 18th century German composer wrote over 40 operas including "Orfeo ed Eurydice" and "Alceste", comic operas and instrumental music?
Note: This question was updated in July 2019
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
C
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Q4.
At the death of the reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who was the heir to the British throne?
Note: This question was updated in September 2022
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Q5.
Which German social economist of Jewish descent, expelled from Germany and France, co-wrote in London "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital"?
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Q6.
"The Blockheads" released a new album in 2009 after nine years' silence. Who used to be their frontman?
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Q7.
Who was elected president of the southern states of the USA when they seceded from the Union in 1861?
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