People Quiz #505
Famous People Quiz for 18 September 2018
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Q1.
Who recorded the duet "Especially For You" in 1988?
A
Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan
B
Rod Stewart and Tina Turner
C
Mick Jagger and David Bowie
D
Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
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Q2.
Whose career was re-ignited with the release of his album "American Recordings", which included songs written by Tom Waits, Nick Lowe and Leonard Cohen, when it won the 1994 Contemporary Folk Album Grammy Award?
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3
Q3.
Where are the literary characters of Panurge and the god Gaster found?
A
"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer
B
The books of Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
C
"The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan
D
"The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser
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4
Q4.
Which Russian revolutionary became Foreign Commissar, lost the battle for leadership to Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party and lived in exile thereafter?
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5
Q5.
Who was credited as the first to climb to the top of Mount Everest?
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6
Q6.
Who wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?
D
Robert Louis Stephenson
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Q7.
British-born American film actor Archibald Alec Leach was better known by which stage name?
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