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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?

A
Theroux
B
Amis
C
Abbot
D
Churchill
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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?

A
Monica Lewinsky
B
Donna Summer
C
Emmylou Harris
D
Dolly Parton
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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
A
Christoph Willibald Gluck
B
Ludwig van Beethoven
C
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D
Franz Liszt
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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
A
Prince Charles
B
Duke of Edinburgh
C
Tony Blair
D
Sarah, Duchess of York
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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"?

A
Vladimir Lenin
B
Leon Trotsky
C
Joseph Stalin
D
Karl Marx
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Q6. "The Blockheads" released a new album in 2009 after nine years' silence. Who used to be their frontman?

A
Eric Clapton
B
David Bowie
C
J J Cale
D
Ian Dury
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Q7. Who was elected president of the southern states of the USA when they seceded from the Union in 1861?

A
Abraham Lincoln
B
Benjamin Franklin
C
Jefferson Davis
D
Thomas Jefferson
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