People Quiz #714
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Who compiled the 5 volume "The Canon of Medicine", completed in 1025 and still in use as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe?
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Archimedes is the first person recorded to have designed and built an elevator, in about 236 BC. Who is credited with introducing the safety elevator, which did not fall if the cable broke?
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Which author, in his 2006 graphic novel series, put Marvel icons including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Doctor Strange, Captain America, Daredevil, Doctor Doom, Magneto and more into the context of an Elizabethan London in 1602?
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Who had the title role in the 1996 film "The Nutty Professor"?
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Gordon Bennett, a leading figure on the world stage in the 19th century, made his substantial fortune in what field?
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Which of these is famous for dancing in the rain with an umbrella in a film?
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Which Irish-born philanthropist founded over 112 institutions for deprived children in the last half of the 19th century?
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