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People Quiz #288

Famous People Quiz for 22 July 2014

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Q1. Who wrote the poem "Adonais", which was a tribute to John Keats?

A
William Wordsworth
B
John Keats
C
Lord Byron
D
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Q2. Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England in which century?

Note: This question was updated in June 2023
A
11th
B
14th
C
17th
D
19th
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Q3. In 1982 the first commercially marketed CD was launched by Phil Ramone of A & R Recording . He was also involved in a number of other activities. Which of these was not one of them?

A
He was a sound engineer and music producer for George Michael
B
He introduced optical surround sound for films
C
He was a member of "The Ramones"
D
He was a trained classical violinist
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Q4. In a 2009 film James McAvoy plays the role of private secretary to whom, played by Christopher Plummer?

A
Leo Tolstoy
B
Winston Churchill
C
Franklin D Roosevelt
D
Pieter Willem Botha
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Q5. Whose autobiography, published in 1999, was entitled "Managing My Life"?

Note: This question was updated in June 2023
A
Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin business empire
B
Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Inc.
C
Lee A. Iacocca, ex-President, Ford Motor Company
D
Alex Fergusson, British football (soccer) manager from 1974 to 2013
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Q6. Which of these links the hauntingly catastrophic events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 with work on decoding genomes?

A
Linus Pauling
B
Maurice Wilkins
C
Francis Crick
D
Rosalind Franklin
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Q7. The basic sound and a few words of the Klingon language as spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe, was devised by which actor for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"?

A
DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy)
B
James Doohan (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott)
C
Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov)
D
Nichelle Nichols (Uhura)
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