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People Quiz #87

Famous People Quiz for 14 September 2010

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Q1. Who played Elizabeth I in the TV series "Elizabeth I" (2005), Elizabeth II in "The Queen" (2006), and Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, in "The Madness of King George" (1994)?

A
Helen Mirren
B
Judi Dench
C
Meryl Streep
D
Kate Winslet
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Q2. What is the first name of Senor Domingo, one of the "Three Tenors"?

A
Plácido
B
Vasco
C
José
D
Luciano
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Q3. By what name was Erich Weiss better known?

A
Evel Knievel
B
Harry Houdini
C
Bobby Rydell
D
Craig Breedlove
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Q4. Which early 20th century artist gained a reputation for the beauty and novelty of his staging of operas, plays and ballets, especially in Paris, London, Berlin and New York?

A
Salvador Dali
B
Sergei Diaghileff
C
Pablo Picasso
D
John Constable
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Q5. Which Scottish biologist and pharmacologist who published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy, discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and an antibiotic substance from a fungus in 1928?

A
Alexander Fleming
B
Christiaan Barnard
C
Arthur Henderson
D
William Ramsay
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Q6. Who printed his own translations of a French romance "The Recwyell of the Historyes of Troy" and "The Game and Plays of the Chesse" in Bruges in 1474?

A
Thomas Malory
B
Richard Burton
C
Charles Dickens
D
William Caxton
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Q7. Who starred in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987)?

A
Jim Carrey
B
Robin Williams
C
Billy Crystal
D
Bill Murray
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