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?
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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?
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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?
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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
C
The last emperor of China
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Q5.
Osman founded which empire?
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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, .."?
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