People Quiz #600
Famous People Quiz for 14 July 2020
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Q1.
Sir Mortimer Wheeler was famous in which field?
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Q2.
After a Facebook campaign to make it the number 1 UK single in December 2009, "Killing In The Name" by which band set a record for most downloads in a single week, selling over 500,000 copies?
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Rage Against the Machine
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Q3.
Who was Mel Gibson's co-star in the "Lethal Weapon" series of films?
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Q4.
Who was the first US president to succeed to the Presidency upon the assassination of his predecessor and the first US President to be impeached?
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Q5.
Benjamin Disraeli's government was elected in the UK how many times?
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Q6.
Which chemist and physicist established the basis for the magnetic field concept, discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, laws of electrolysis, and benzene, invented devices that are the basis of electric motor technology, and popularised words such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion?
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Q7.
Dr John Dee (1527 - 1608), English mathematician, philosopher, astrologer, leading expert on navigation, and royal adviser from 1588, also worked in divination and what ?
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