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People Quiz #469

Famous People Quiz for 9 January 2018

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Q1. Which founder member of The Goons in 1951 was an old Etonian, served in MI9 in WW II, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and received the Peruvian Order of Merit in 1971?

A
Peter Sellers
B
Spike Milligan
C
Harry Secombe
D
Michael Bentine
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Q2. Who was an American gangster, the leader of a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era, whose criminal career ended in 1931 when he was convicted for income-tax evasion?

A
Al Capone
B
Al Bundy
C
Al Gore
D
Al Jolson
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Q3. Welsh actress Sian Phillips was once married to which of these actors?

A
Michael Caine
B
Alan Bates
C
Albert Finney
D
Peter O'Toole
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Q4. Who is the next in this series: Laue (1914), W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915), Barkla (1917), Planck (1918), Stark (1919), Guillaume (1920) ... ?

A
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
B
P. Curie & M. Curie
C
Albert Einstein
D
Ernest Rutherford
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Q5. Which one of these films did director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick NOT direct?

A
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
B
Spartacus (1960)
C
Sons and Lovers (1960)
D
Lolita (1962)
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Q6. René Descartes (1596-1650), whose philosophical writing is seminal to much of Western philosophy also developed what seminal mathematical concept?

A
A square whose sides are 1 unit long has a diagonal whose length cannot be rational
B
In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse squared equals the squares of the other two sides added
C
The use of algebra to describe geometry
D
Every polynomial equation over the field of complex numbers higher than 1 has a complex solution
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Q7. Which 20th century playwright wrote "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night"?

A
Richard Burton
B
Sophocles
C
Eugene O'Neill
D
Johnny Hallyday
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