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People Quiz #344

Famous People Quiz for 18 August 2015

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Q1. Which two Gibb brothers in the Bee Gees were twins?

A
Robin and Maurice
B
Andy and Barry
C
Barry and Maurice
D
Barry and Robin
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Q2. Who is the director for "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens"?

A
George Lucas
B
J.J.Abrams
C
The Coen Brothers
D
Peter Jackson
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Q3. Who made the first, in western countries, practical successful and widely usable vaccinations in 1796 against smallpox?

A
Louis Pasteur
B
Alexander Fleming
C
Jonas Salk
D
Edward Jenner
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Q4. Which novelist, born in Bombay in 1865, was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1907?

A
Evelyn Waugh
B
Charles Kingsley
C
Henry Longfellow
D
Rudyard Kipling
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Q5. What make of guitar did blues musician B.B. King usually play?

A
Les Paul
B
Gibson
C
Fender
D
Ibanez
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Q6. Which British 20th century author wrote "The Cruel Sea" and "The Tribe That Lost Its Head"?

A
C S Forrester
B
Herman Melville
C
Frederick Marryat
D
Nicholas Montserrat
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Q7. Which Russian composer wrote the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrouchka" and "The Rite of Spring"?

A
Igor Stravinsky
B
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
C
Modest Mussorgsky
D
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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