People Quiz #431
Famous People Quiz for 18 April 2017
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Q1.
Who discovered the moon of Saturn called Titan in 1655?
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Q2.
Who wrote the memoirs "'Tis" and "Teacher Man"?
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Q3.
Whose film career began in 1993 with "The Piano" and whose roles have included Jane Eyre, Queen Isabella II of Spain, a teenage mutant, and a human in a vampire TV series?
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Q4.
What was the surname of the US president known as JFK?
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Q5.
Which Australian playwright's work "Up for Grabs" starred Madonna in its London première in 2002?
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Q6.
Which 19th century novelist wrote "Westward Ho" and "Hereward The Wake"?
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Q7.
Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and writer developed the Cartesian coordinate system, thus founding analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry and crucial to the invention of calculus?
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