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People Quiz #112

Famous People Quiz for 8 March 2011

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Q1. Which Russian composer, after writing "The Firebird" for the Russian ballet, became a US citizen in 1945?

A
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
B
Igor Stravinsky
C
Modest Mussorgsky
D
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Q2. Emilio Lavazza, who died in February 2010, ran a company which was associated with what product?

A
Chocolate
B
Motor vehicles
C
Sports equipment
D
Coffee
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Q3. Which of these was a pioneer in the Western world in the use of moveable type?

Note: This question was updated in June 2018
A
Pebbles Flintstone
B
Johannes Gutenberg
C
Garfield Gestetner
D
Heinrich Heidelberg
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Q4. The early works of which American playwright (best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") reflect an "Americanisation" of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco?

A
Neil Simon
B
Sam Shepard
C
Tony Kushner
D
Edward Albee
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Q5. What author's non-fiction work includes "The Fate of Man", "The Future in America: A Search After Realities", "Little Wars", "The New World Order", "The Outline of History", "Russia in the Shadows" and "A Short History of the World"?

A
Agatha Christie
B
Isaac Asimov
C
J K Rowling
D
H G Wells
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Q6. What was the original surname of T E Shaw, an RAF aircraftsman who was killed in a motorbike accident in 1935?

A
Lawrence
B
Churchill
C
Astor
D
Mountbatten
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Q7. What is the stage name of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, who was born on 28 March 1986?

Note: This question was updated in January 2022
A
Lady Gaga
B
Gwen Stefani
C
Madonna
D
Annie Lennox
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