People Quiz #599
Famous People Quiz for 7 July 2020
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Q1.
The 1982 song "Sexual Healing" was the first single released by which singer after his break from Motown?
A
Brian and Eddie Holland
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2
Q2.
Who is the musician, singer-songwriter, painter, actor, and one of the founding members of Farm Aid, who released nine songs in the 1980s which all made the Top 10 in the USA?
C
Crosby, Stills and Nash
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Q3.
Which folk tale character loses her shoe?
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Q4.
Which double bass player played with Dizzy Gillespie, was married to Ella Fitzgerald (1947-1952), won a Grammy for Best Original Jazz Composition in 1964, and died aged 75 while taking a nap before a show in Indianapolis?
B
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
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Q5.
Who was an American-born Greek soprano opera singer who had a public love affair with Aristotle Onassis?
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Q6.
Canadian Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto and joined her elder brother in New York City, working as a bookkeeper for the E.R. Squibb Pharmaceuticals Company. By what name is she better known?
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Q7.
Which well-known author wrote, about a quintessential upper-class English sport: "The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun"?
D
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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