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People Quiz #763

Famous People Quiz for 29 August 2023

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Q1. Which British prime minister resigned as a result of the Suez Crisis?

A
Anthony Eden
B
Harold Macmillan
C
Clement Atlee
D
Harold Wilson
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Q2. Which of these was engaged in the ground-breaking study and understanding of genetics?

A
Dmitri Mendeleev
B
Gregor Johann Mendel
C
Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy
D
Mendele Mocher Sforim
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Q3. Who assassinated Martin Luther King?

A
John Wilkes Booth
B
Mark Chapman
C
Sirhan Sirhan
D
James Earl Ray
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Q4. The popular character Doraemon figures in the fiction of which country?

A
Greece
B
Japan
C
Wales
D
Egypt
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Q5. Which of these was especially famous as a tap dancer?

A
Dolly Parton
B
“Bojangles” Robinson
C
Eminem
D
Ed Sheeran
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Q6. Kailash Satyarthi, who was joint winner of 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, was renowned as what?

A
The creator of ILO Convention 182
B
A child educator
C
An Indian campaigner for children's rights
D
A negotiator with the Taliban
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Q7. Which of these explorers was apprenticed as a young boy to a grocer and haberdasher?

A
Samuel Baker
B
James Cook
C
Friar Francisco Garcés
D
McDouall Stuart
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