People Quiz #374
Famous People Quiz for 15 March 2016
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Q1.
Which of these novelists was born in Sri Lanka?
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2
Q2.
Who was the British Prime Minister during the Falklands War of 1982?
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Q3.
Which American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who wrote "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues" claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902?
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Q4.
Which film featured the voices of Hugh Grant in his animated feature film debut, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, and David Tennant?
A
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
B
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
D
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
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Q5.
The celebrated 18th century Englishman, Lancelot Brown, was better known by what name?
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Q6.
What was the surname of English 20th century siblings: Edith, a poetess who led a movement in contemporary poetry, Osbert, the author of poems, satires, novels and essays, and Sacheverell, an author of books on history and travel?
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Q7.
The book "Dirty Sexy Politics", released in 2010, was about whose US presidential campaign?
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