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People Quiz #731

Famous People Quiz for 17 January 2023

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Q1. What is the family name of the brothers, both world champion boxers, both the holders of a PhD in sports science, one also a politician and the mayor (from 2014) of Kyiv, Ukraine?

A
Klitschko
B
Spinks
C
Galaxy
D
Norris
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Q2. Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover often had public conversations in which language so that people could not eavesdrop on them?

A
Spanish
B
Mandarin Chinese
C
German
D
French
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Q3. Which author, who wrote "Portrait Of A Lady", "The American" and "Roderick Hudson", was born in New York in 1843 and became a naturalised Englishman in 1915?

A
Henry James
B
A A Milne
C
Arthur Miller
D
James Joyce
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Q4. Aisin-Gioro Puyi, courtesy name Yaozhi, also known as Henry Puyi, was better known as who?

A
China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
B
Confucius
C
The last emperor of China
D
Artist, Ai Weiwei
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Q5. Osman founded which empire?

A
Prussian
B
Russian
C
Ottoman
D
Persian
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Q6. Which of these are books by Sebastian Faulks?

A
"Great Expectations", "The Pickwick Papers" & "Bleak House"
B
"Goldfinger", "Octopussy" & "From Russia With Love"
C
"Birdsong", "Charlotte Gray" & "On Green Dolphin Street"
D
"The IPCRESS File", "Horse Under Water" & "Funeral in Berlin"
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Q7. In "Five Minute Stories" by Laura Richards, who was said to dance "Oh, high and disposedly, Tips-of-her-toesedly, .."?

A
Royal Elizabeth
B
Pretty Polly
C
Nellie the Elephant
D
Queen Mab
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