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People Quiz #509

Famous People Quiz for 16 October 2018

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Q1. Which of these is or are associated with developing the hot air balloon?

A
Napoléon Bonaparte
B
Orville and Wilbur Wright
C
Benjamin Franklin
D
Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier
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Q2. Which half of a comedy duo was born in Lancashire in 1895?

A
Stan Laurel
B
Bud Abbott
C
Eric Morecambe
D
Jerry Lewis
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Q3. Whose daughter formally transitioned gender, legally changing name in 2010 from "Chastity" to "Chaz"?

Note: This question was updated in November 2020
A
Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach
B
Sonny and Cher Bono
C
Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
D
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills
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Q4. He brought back plants from Europe, the Arctic, the Levant, sailed to fight pirates, and amassed trophies of natural history, art and ethnography in "the Ark" in London which then opened as Great Britain's first public museum. Who was he?

A
Capability Brown
B
John Tradescant, the Elder
C
John Evelyn
D
Thomas Fairchild
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Q5. Who claimed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and worked to achieve the independence of Abyssinia?

A
Faisal ibn Turki ibn Abdullah Al Saud
B
Haile Selassie
C
Gamal Abdel Nasser
D
Menelek II
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Q6. Who was a co-founder of The Undertones in 1976 (which had hits with "Here Comes The Summer", "My Perfect Cousin", "Wednesday Week" and "It's Going To Happen") and then went solo, releasing the singles "Listen To Your Father", "A Good Heart" (1985), "You Little Thief" (1986) and in the early 1990s moved into the business side of the music industry?

A
Feargal Sharkey
B
Siobhan Sprat
C
Edmond Plaicer
D
Danny Porpoise
Select from the options above.
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Q7. With which field is Enrico Fermi associated?

A
Architecture
B
Motor racing
C
Nuclear physics
D
Golf
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