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People Quiz #442

Famous People Quiz for 4 July 2017

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Q1. Who was the proprietor of "New York World" who made a bequest to award 12 prizes annually to American authors and composers?

A
Joseph Pulitzer
B
Alfred Nobel
C
Oscar de Laurentis
D
Arnold Bloomberg
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Q2. Which 19th century Italian composed over 60 operas, including "L'Elisir d'Amore", "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Don Pasquale"?

A
Puccini
B
Donizetti
C
Verdi
D
Cannelloni
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Q3. Which of the following was jailed for two months in February 1949 for smoking marijuana?

A
Orson Welles
B
Ronald Reagan
C
James Mason
D
Robert Mitchum
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Q4. Who wrote the stories "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" which inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" and "The Sandman" which inspired the ballet "Coppélia" by Delibes?

A
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman
B
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
C
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
D
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
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Q5. Which English poet, the author of "Adonis", "Prometheus Unbound" and "Ode to the West Wind", accidentally drowned off Leghorn, England, in 1822?

A
Lord Byron
B
Percy Bysshe Shelley
C
John Masefield
D
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Q6. Of what country was Makeda, beloved of King Solomon of t he United Monarchy in Israel, reputed to have been Queen?

A
Sheba
B
Abyssinia
C
Zazzau
D
Ghana
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Q7. Who wrote the song "We Are the World" that was originally recorded by the supergroup "USA for Africa" in 1985?

A
Eric Clapton & Sheryl Crow
B
Bob Geldof & Midge Ure
C
Kenny Rogers & Stevie Wonder
D
Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie
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