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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
B
Stevie Wonder
C
Marvin Gaye
D
Jose Feliciano
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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?

A
Wille Nelson
B
Stevie Wonder
C
Crosby, Stills and Nash
D
John Cougar Mellencamp
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Q3. Which folk tale character loses her shoe?

A
Cinderella
B
Little Red Riding Hood
C
The White Snake
D
Baba Yaga
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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?

A
Ray Brown
B
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
C
Charles Mingus
D
Percy Heath
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Q5. Who was an American-born Greek soprano opera singer who had a public love affair with Aristotle Onassis?

A
Jacqueline Kennedy
B
Maria Callas
C
Joan Sutherland
D
Kiri Te Kanawa
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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?

A
Florence Nightingale
B
Helena Rubinstein
C
Elizabeth Arden
D
Estée Lauder
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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"?

A
Truman Capote
B
Oscar Wilde
C
Sir Pelham G.Wodehouse
D
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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