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People Quiz #386

Famous People Quiz for 7 June 2016

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Q1. Who, aged 54, married 18 year old Oona O'Neill, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, in June 1943?

A
Al Capone
B
Humphrey Bogart
C
Charlie Chaplin
D
Spencer Tracy
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Q2. Who shot the most famous film of the assassination of John F Kennedy?

A
Phil Abraham
B
Larry Boelens
C
D. W. Griffith
D
Abraham Zapruder
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Q3. Who created the character of Harold C. "Rabbit" Angstrom who appears in the stories "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit Is Rich", "Rabbit at Rest" and "Rabbit Remembered"?

A
Len Deighton
B
Beatrix Potter
C
John Updike
D
Ernest Hemingway
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Q4. What politician or world leader is co-author of the book ‘Judo:  History, Theory, Practice' (2004)?

A
Golda Meir
B
David Cameron
C
Ban Ki-Moon
D
Vladimir Putin
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Q5. French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) is particularly known for work in chemistry and biology including discoveries that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same, and what?

A
The function of the heart in circulating blood
B
Heat treatment of milk to kill bacteria
C
The role of oxygen in combustion
D
The existence of neutrons
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Q6. Which of these was a French composer, known for his "Ave Maria" and his operas "Faust" and "Roméo et Juliette"?

A
Charles-François Gounod
B
Georges Bizet
C
Françoise Hardy
D
Jean-Baptiste Lully
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Q7. The lights were turned off in the Empire State Building for 15 minutes in August 2004 to mark the death of whom?

A
Naomi Watts
B
Fay Wray
C
Barbara Ann Scott
D
Rich Little
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