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People Quiz #249

Famous People Quiz for 22 October 2013

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Q1. What was the composer Mahler's first name?

A
Herman
B
Adolf
C
Gustav
D
Werner
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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?

A
Amelia Bloomer
B
Nancy Astor
C
Emmeline Pankhurst
D
Emily Davison
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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?

A
Wendy
B
Wanda
C
Guinevere
D
Gwen
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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?

A
South Pacific
B
Central Africa
C
China
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?

A
Caratacus
B
Prasutagus
C
Lugotorix
D
Canute
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