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People Quiz #712

Famous People Quiz for 6 September 2022

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Q1. Who was the Roman god of wine and fertility?

A
Mars
B
Jupiter
C
Bacchus
D
Quirinus
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Q2. Among these stars of the early American film scene, Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn, which is the odd one out in terms of their early life and career?

A
Douglas Fairbanks
B
Mary Pickford
C
Errol Flynn
D
Cary Grant
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Q3. He was deeply interested in the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, published works in psychology in particular colour perception, but became known widely for a paradox about a cat. Who was he?

A
T.S.Eliot
B
Baruch Spinoza
C
Felix Mendelssohn
D
Erwin Schrödinger
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Q4. Which author brought together the characters Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus?

A
Margaret Drabble
B
Virginia Woolf
C
James Joyce
D
Jack Kerouac
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Q5. Who released the album "Tissues and Issues" in 2005?

A
Charlotte Church
B
Fergie
C
Pink
D
Taylor Swift
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Q6. Which First lady, after the death of her husband, became US Representative to the UN General Assembly?

A
Bess Truman
B
Shirley Temple Black
C
Jacqueline Kennedy
D
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Q7. Which English king destroyed over 60% of the people and economy of his kingdom, in a campaign called "the harrying of the north"?

A
William I
B
Stephen
C
John
D
Henry VII
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