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People Quiz #395

Famous People Quiz for 9 August 2016

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Q1. Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers?

A
Cicero
B
Pythagoras
C
Euclid
D
Archimedes
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Q2. English business magnate, investor, and philanthropist Sir Richard Branson's ventures also include what?

A
International water delivery
B
Franchising worm farms
C
Engineless cars
D
Developing commercial craft for sub-orbital space flight
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Q3. Alice B. Toklas, who wrote a cook book which has not been out of print since it was first published in 1954 (the most famous recipe in it is "Hashish Fudge") was the life-partner of what American author?

A
Edgar Allan Poe
B
Ernest Hemingway
C
Gertrude Stein
D
Alan Ginsberg
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Q4. For the lead role in his film "A Fistful of Dollars", director Sergio Leone thought about approaching Henry Fonda, and then made realistic approaches to Charles Bronson and James Coburn. Whom did he approach after they both turned him down?

A
Cary Grant
B
Clint Eastwood
C
Sylvester Stallone
D
Gary Cooper
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Q5. Which of these people was born in Palma, Italy and early in his long musical career was principal conductor at La Scala, Milan, from 1895 to 1908?

A
Franco Faccio
B
Arturo Toscanini
C
John Barbirolli
D
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
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Q6. Which English barrister, who wrote the play "Voyage Around My Father" and the TV series "Rumpole of the Bailey", died in January 2009?

A
Harold Pinter
B
John Mortimer
C
Tom Stoppard
D
Michael Frayn
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Q7. Who wrote "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha"?

A
Miguel de Cervantes
B
El Greco
C
El Cid
D
Francisco Franco
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