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People Quiz #276

Famous People Quiz for 29 April 2014

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Q1. Which of these is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling unauthorised "poison pen" biographies of celebrities and politicians, including Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family and "the Bush Dynasty"?

A
Andrew Morton
B
Oprah Winfrey
C
Kitty Kelley
D
Christopher Hampton
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Q2. She has figured in plays by John Lyly, Sir W.S. Gilbert, Lawrence Aronovitch, and George Bernard Shaw as well as in novels, opera, painting, and a video game as well as in place and ship names. Who is she?

A
Tosca
B
Marilyn Monroe
C
Galatea
D
Empress Wen
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Q3. John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their famous "bed ins" for peace In which two cities in 1969?

A
Gibraltar and Chicago
B
London and Sydney
C
Amsterdam and Montreal
D
Delhi and Johannesburg
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Q4. Who was the first Englishman to lead an expedition to circumnavigate the earth by sea, and died of dysentery in the West Indies 16 years later?

A
Charles Darwin
B
James Cook
C
Walter Raleigh
D
Francis Drake
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Q5. Who wrote the 1955 novel "The Quiet American"?

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A
Graham Greene
B
W Somerset Maugham
C
Neville Shute
D
John LeCarré
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Q6. Who was the father of Queen Elizabeth II?

A
Tsar Nicholas II
B
George I
C
Henry VIII
D
George VI
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Q7. Who was the US president when women got the vote in the USA due to the ratification of The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution?

A
Theodore Roosevelt
B
Warren G. Harding
C
Abraham Lincoln
D
Woodrow Wilson
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