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People Quiz #321

Famous People Quiz for 10 March 2015

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Q1. "Nicholas Blake" was the pseudonym of which author?

A
Charles Lamb
B
David Beckham
C
C Day Lewis
D
Marion Evans
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Q2. What is the next in this sequence: Madison, Monroe, Polk , Buchanan, Garfield ... ?

A
Hoover
B
Kennedy
C
Carter
D
Wilson
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Q3. What was the middle name of Franklin D Roosevelt?

A
Delano
B
David
C
Dennis
D
Denton
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Q4. Who was one of the first female movie stars, called "The First Lady of the Silent Screen", who was the only star from the silent era to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, and who received a Special Academy Award in 1971?

A
Greta Garbo
B
Mary Pickford
C
Helen Hayes
D
Lillian Gish
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Q5. Which American jazz musician, clarinettist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman", in the mid-1930s led one of the most popular musical groups in America, which was also one of the first racially-integrated musical groups?

A
Sun Ra
B
Count Basie
C
Earl Hines
D
Benny Goodman
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Q6. Who was appointed to the post of Poet Laureate of the UK in May 2009?

A
Pam Ayres
B
Andrew Motion
C
J K Rowling
D
Carol Ann Duffy
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Q7. Rosalind Franklin, a biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of DNA, RNA, and viruses, was what nationality?

A
Samoan
B
Indian
C
New Zealander
D
British
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