People Quiz #148
Famous People Quiz for 15 November 2011
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Q1.
Who has played (on film) Queen Elizabeth I twice, Galadriel three times, Katharine Hepburn and Veronica Guerin?
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Q2.
Who was the Princess of Tyre who, after her brother Pygmalion killed her husband Sichaeus, fled to Africa where she founded Carthage?
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Q3.
In cartography, the method by which a spherical shape is represented as a rectangle was invented by whom?
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Q4.
The name "John Paul Jones" is not a famous name in which of these professions?
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Q5.
Which of these is an American jazz musician best known for playing the saxophone?
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Q6.
In which decade was Barack Obama born?
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Q7.
By what name does history better know 11th-century Castilian military leader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar?
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