People Quiz #130
Famous People Quiz for 12 July 2011
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Q1.
Which American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins (water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane)?
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Q2.
What was Emma Bunton's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
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Q3.
Ronald Ross won a Nobel prize in medicine for his work on what subject?
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Q4.
Which of his children did Michael Jackson famously hang over a hotel balcony?
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Q5.
Which of these was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and author of the largest-selling economics textbook of all time: "Economics: An Introductory Analysis", first published in 1948, that explained the principles of Keynesian economics?
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Q6.
Who is quoted as saying "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"?
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Q7.
Actor John Wayne is mostly associated with what type of film?
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