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People Quiz #408

Famous People Quiz for 8 November 2016

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Q1. Who created the character of Doctor Frankenstein?

A
George Eliot
B
Baroness Orczy
C
Mary Shelley
D
Emily Brontë
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Q2. Stand-up comedian, writer and film-maker Elliott Spencer is also known as what?

A
A basketball player and sportscaster
B
A multi-talented USA ex-Black Ops soldier, a character in the TV series "Leverage" (2008-2012)
C
A pop musician
D
The husband of comedian, writer, presenter, film and TV and theatre actor, and activist Stephen Fry
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Q3. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654), English botanist, physician and astrologer, is particularly well-known for which publication which was strongly resisted by the relevant authorities at the time but has been in print ever since?

A
Elements
B
Beowulf
C
Jane's Naval Weapon Systems
D
Complete Herbal
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Q4. Mike D'abo, Klaus Voorman, Tom McGuinness and Mike Hugg were four fifths of which band which had a 1968 hit with "Mighty Quinn"?

A
Manfred Mann
B
The Four Seasons
C
The Thompson Twins
D
The Ramones
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Q5. Which group, which broke up in 1981, had Howard Devoto as the frontman, while Dave Formula played keyboards, Barry Adamson played bass, with John Doyle on drums?

A
Genesis
B
Supertramp
C
Magazine
D
Fairport Convention
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Q6. Who created the character of Roderick Alleyn?

A
Ngaio Marsh
B
Agatha Christie
C
Baroness Orczy
D
Georges Simenon
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Q7. Which of these qualities are actor Geoffrey Rush, artist David Hockney, composer Alexander Scriabin, writer Vladimir Nabokov, and poet Bob Dylan understood to have shared?

A
Mild scoliosis of the spine
B
Autism
C
Monochrome vision
D
Synaesthesia
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