People Quiz #249
Famous People Quiz for 22 October 2013
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Q1.
What was the composer Mahler's first name?
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2
Q2.
Who became the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, as the result of a by-election in 1919?
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3
Q3.
It has been a boy's name, is usually a girl's name, and is well known as the name of Peter Pan's friend in a J.M. Barrie play. What is it?
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Q4.
How did singers Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino and Carrie Underwood come to international attention?
A
Winning the TV show "American Idol"
B
As Mouseketeers on "The Mickey Mouse Club"
C
Discovered at New York club "CBGBs"
D
Putting home made pop videos on YouTube
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Q5.
The first Academy Award winner to refuse to accept their Oscar was Dudley Nichols in 1935. Why did he refuse?
A
In protest at the film industry's discrimination and mistreatment of Native Americans
B
He thought that "The whole thing is a goddamn meat parade. I don't want any part of it."
C
Because of conflicts between the Academy and the Writer's Guild
D
He thought that "writing should not be competition"
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Q6.
Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian naturalist and explorer of what area between 1842 and 1848?
D
Northern and central Australia
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Q7.
In the first century AD, which rebellious British chieftain, of the Catuvellauni, was taken to Rome in chains?
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