People Quiz #723
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Which Beatle played "Youngman Grand" in "The Magic Christian" 1969, with Peter Sellers?
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Marie Adolphe Carnot (1839–1920), a French mining engineer and chemist, gave his name to a mineral which is an important source of what?
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He is noted for fiction and non-fiction writing, including in history, music, science, and mathematics; his novels include “Gravity's Rainbow”, for which he won the 1973 US National Book Award for Fiction. Who is he?
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Canadian Crystal Pite, CM, who leads a company called Kidd Pivot, works in what field?
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British scientist Silvanus Thompson (1851 – 1916), a professor of Physics, talented lecturer and writer, recognised authority in electricity, magnetism and acoustics and the first President of the British Institute of Radiology, developed what in 1891?
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C. F. Goldie OBE (1870 – 1947), is known for his portraits of dignitaries indigenous to which country?
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Who identified and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation?
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