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People Quiz #676

Famous People Quiz for 28 December 2021

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Q1. From 1925 to the start of World War II in 1939, Ahmed Muhtar bey Zogolli ruled what country?

A
Egypt
B
Turkey
C
Albania
D
Libya
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Q2. Under what name was American actress, dancer, and producer Margarita Carmen Cansino known in her celebrated performance in the 1946 film noir "Gilda"?

A
Hedy Lamarr
B
Rita Hayworth
C
Ginger Rogers
D
Ingrid Bergman
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Q3. In what field is Robert Mapplethorpe known?

A
Sculpture
B
Experimental dance
C
Jazz
D
Black and white photography
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Q4. Which chemist, engineer, and armaments manufacturer invented dynamite and a detonator for it and then founded a longstanding series of world prizes for, among other things, promoting peace?

A
Alfred North Whitehead
B
Alfred Russel Wallace
C
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
D
Alfred Nobel
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Q5. Who is remembered in the name for the "cold rain" process, the process by which precipitation starts in a mixed cloud with a temperature below freezing, e.g. how ice crystals grow at the expense of liquid cloud droplets within the cloud?

A
Jonathan E. Pleim
B
Bert Holtslag and Byron Boville
C
Robert C. Gilliam
D
Tor Bergeron
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Q6. The French novelist, polemicist and physician Louis Ferdinand Destouches (1894 - 1961, pen-name Louis-Ferdinand Céline) is known as much for his controversial and successful writing as for what element in it?

A
Anti-semitism
B
Communist ideology
C
Monarchism
D
Admiration of the military
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Q7. In Noh theatre what is the name of the main protagonist role?

A
Koken
B
Hayashi
C
Jiutai
D
Shite
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