People Quiz #99
Famous People Quiz for 7 December 2010
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Q1.
Which 20th century Irish playwright wrote "Juno and the Paycock", "The Plough and the Stars", "Silver Tassie" and "Within the Gates"?
D
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Q2.
Who is the next in this series: Laue (1914), W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915), Barkla (1917), Planck (1918), Stark (1919), Guillaume (1920) ... ?
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Q3.
Who was assassinated by François Ravaillac, a mentally unbalanced defrocked monk, on 14 May 1610?
C
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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Q4.
Who was crowned King of Scotland in 1306 and defeated the forces of Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314?
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Q5.
Who was the last of these to win their first Oscar?
Note: This question was updated in February 2020
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Q6.
The Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics published in 1910, 1912 and 1913, with a second edition In 1927, was co-written by Bertrand Russell and who else?
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Q7.
Which of these people are associated with the guitar?
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