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People Quiz #624

Famous People Quiz for 29 December 2020

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Q1. Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War II?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
B
Woodrow Wilson
C
Richard Nixon
D
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Q2. The name of which American surgeon and medical researcher is known for a technique for rescuing someone from severe choking?

A
Jonas Salk
B
Benjamin Spock
C
Henry Heimlich
D
Jack Kevorkian
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Q3. Which of these was a journalist whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996, the subject of a 2003 film starring Cate Blanchett?

A
Veronica Guerin
B
Vera Drake
C
Erin Brockovich
D
Rosebud
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Q4. Who, as US Secretary of State under President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, advocated an aggressive stance against communism, supported France in the war in Indochina, and played a major role in the CIA operations to overthrow democratic governments in Iran in 1953 and in Guatemala in 1954?

A
George Berlin Darkes
B
Richard Porter Brights
C
John Foster Dulles
D
Paul Gershwin Dimmes
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Q5. Which singer, composer, actor, comedian, librettist, theatre builder, patron of the arts and impresario also wrote the libretto for Mozart's "The Magic Flute"?

A
Emanuele Conegliano (Lorenzo da Ponte)
B
Emanuel Schikaneder
C
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner
D
Pietro Metastasio
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Q6. Who wrote the play "Still Life", on which the 1945 film "Brief Encounter" was based?

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Noel Coward
B
Shakin' Stevens
C
William Shakespeare
D
Tennessee Williams
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Q7. Which British Monarch bought Buckingham House, later substantially remodelled as Buckingham Palace, for a royal residence?

A
Charles II
B
Anne
C
George III
D
George IV
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