People Quiz #123
Famous People Quiz for 24 May 2011
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Q1.
Who is the next in this series: Julie Stevens, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson ... ?
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Q2.
Who, the illegitimate son of a peasant girl, was educated in the studio of a Florentine painter, spent much of his early working life in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan, worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and spent his final years in France at the home given to him by King François I?
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Q3.
Who knighted Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics?
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Q4.
In which decade was George Washington born?
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Q5.
What is the name of a New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement who created a radio series for BBC Radio 2 in 2004 and began a television series for HBO in the USA in 2007?
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Flight of the Conchords
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Migration of the Godwits
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Q6.
What was the middle name of Noël Coward?
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Q7.
What is the stage name of Robyn Hannah Louise Kenny, who was born on 7 January, 1983?
Note: This question was updated in July 2022
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