People Quiz #668
Famous People Quiz for 2 November 2021
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1
Q1.
Who created the character José Arcadio Buendía who founded the fictitious town of Macondo?
D
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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2
Q2.
For which two films has Michael Caine won Oscars?
A
"Educating Rita" & "The Quiet American"
B
"Zulu" & "The Italian Job"
C
"Get Carter" & "The Ipcress File"
D
"The Cider House Rules" & "Hannah and Her Sisters"
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3
Q3.
Louis B Meyer is associated with what activity?
B
Sharemarket investments
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4
Q4.
Which of these is an American comedian who made a career in the UK as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s?
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5
Q5.
An early hit for American singer-songwriter and actor Neil Diamond was music he wrote inspired by a piano concerto by whom?
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6
Q6.
In 1996, at the point when Desmond Tutu retired as the first black Archbishop of Capetown in South Africa he was appointed as what?
B
Head of a United Nations fact-finding mission to Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip
C
Scholar in residence at the University of North Florida
D
Chair of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Q7.
Who was president of the USA at the end of the Vietnam War when the last U.S. diplomatic, military, and civilian personnel were evacuated from Saigon by helicopter on 29 April 1975?
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