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People Quiz #661

Famous People Quiz for 14 September 2021

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Q1. Between 1783 and 1865, Englishmen William Wilberforce, Sir Cecil Wray and Dr Beilby Porteus, Africans Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho and, in the USA, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston were leading figures in which movement?

A
Removal of the death penalty
B
Abolition of the slave trade
C
Boy Scouts
D
Suffragette (votes for women)
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Q2. Who played "One Punch Mickey" in the 2005 film "Snatch"?

A
Charlie Sheen
B
Robbie Williams
C
Johnny Depp
D
Brad Pitt
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Q3. Who in his last two years at ballet school choreographed the pas de deux "La Nuit" (1920), and the following year the duet, "Enigma", for bare feet rather than ballet shoes?

A
Jerome Robbins
B
George Balanchine
C
Gene Kelly
D
Sergei Diaghilev
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Q4. What was the occupation of Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003 while shopping in the ladies' department at the Nordiska Kompaniet store in Stockholm?

A
Politician
B
Journalist
C
Nuclear physicist
D
Arms dealer
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Q5. Mrs Tiggy-Winkle appears in a book by which writer?

A
Roald Dahl
B
A.A.Milne
C
Maurice Sendak
D
Beatrix Potter
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Q6. Which of these people was associated with the band "Boyzone"?

A
Malcolm McLaren
B
Robbie Williams
C
Rod Stewart
D
Stephen Gately
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Q7. What were the first names of author D H Lawrence?

A
Darwin Haversham
B
Dennis Harold
C
Darren Hurst
D
David Herbert
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