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People Quiz #583

Famous People Quiz for 17 March 2020

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Q1. Who is the person, or are the people, who in 1920 formed the company which eventually became Columbia Pictures?

A
The Cohn brothers (Harry and Jack) and Joe Brandt
B
W. Ray Johnston
C
Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky
D
Carl Laemmle
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Q2. The Recording Academy (USA) gave its first Lifetime Achievement Award, to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording" in 1963. Who was the first to receive it?

A
Ella Fitzgerald
B
Frank Sinatra
C
Duke Ellington
D
Bing Crosby
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Q3. Who was alleged to have choked pop star Rihanna until she was unconscious in a rented Lambhorghini shortly before the 2009 Grammy Awards?

A
Jay Z
B
Sean Penn
C
Sly Stone
D
Chris Brown
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Q4. Morgan Tsvangirai was a politician in which of these countries?

Note: This question was updated in September 2022
A
Germany
B
Uganda
C
Sri Lanka
D
Zimbabwe
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Q5. "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Private Resort", "Platoon", "Cry-Baby" and "Edward Scissorhands" are the first five films starring which actor?

A
Colin Firth
B
Will Smith
C
Brad Pitt
D
Johnny Depp
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Q6. Who, before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?

A
Arundhati Roy
B
Peter Carey
C
Margaret Atwood
D
J M Coetzee
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Q7. This British actor is acclaimed for her role in the 1996 Mike Leigh film "Secrets & Lies" and as an eccentric, dour and insightful detective in a TV series (2011 onwards) in the Northumberland Broads. Who is she?

A
Phyllis Logan
B
Keeley Hawes
C
Brenda Blethyn
D
Imelda Staunton
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