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People Quiz #597

Famous People Quiz for 23 June 2020

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Q1. As what is Mikhail Baryshnikov internationally known?

A
Chemical engineer
B
Poet
C
Aviator
D
Dancer
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Q2. Isaac Kwame Amuah, who in December 2010 turned himself in to South African police to face extradition charges in relation to accusations of rape from 1993 while he was a lecturer in the US, has what connection to Nelson Mandela?

A
Biographer
B
Public relations manager
C
Personal secretary
D
Son in law
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Q3. English Egyptologist Harry Burton became internationally known for doing what?

A
Taking 1,400 photographs of the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922
B
Excavating the tomb of Queen Hetepheres in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of her son Khufu
C
Excavating Sakkara's Step Pyramid
D
Rescuing stranded British people at the start of the Egyptian Revolution in 1919
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Q4. The name "John Paul Jones" is not a famous name in which of these professions?

A
Athlete
B
Naval commander
C
Musician
D
Pope
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Q5. Who was elected president of the southern states of the USA when they seceded from the Union in 1861?

A
Abraham Lincoln
B
Benjamin Franklin
C
Jefferson Davis
D
Thomas Jefferson
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Q6. Which English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting wrote the memorial ode to dead soldiers of World War I, “For the Fallen” (1914)

A
Vera Brittain
B
Wilfred Owen
C
Siegfried Sassoon
D
Laurence Binyon
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Q7. Who, co-founders of the Spartacist League in January 1916, were executed in Berlin in January 1919?

A
Bonny Parker and Clyde Barrow
B
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
C
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
D
John Profumo and Christine Keeler
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