Daily Quiz Daily

Our daily general knowledge quiz

Quiz Archive Archive

A complete history of our quiz challenges

By Subject Subjects

Choose from seven quiz categories

Personalised Personalised

Build a quiz by subject and difficulty

People Quiz #776

Famous People Quiz for 28 November 2023

A new people quiz is available each week. Try our daily general knowledge quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.

0 out of ?
1

Q1. In 1979 Briton Anthony Blunt was exposed as a Soviet spy. What was his area of interest?

A
International trade
B
Banking
C
Engineering
D
Art
Select from the options above.
2

Q2. What was the surname of 20th century authors Victoria and Edward, who were brother and sister?

A
Sackville-West
B
Woolf
C
Bronte
D
Amis
Select from the options above.
3

Q3. Who was the person who orchestrated the only known attempt to steal the Crown Jewels in England?

A
Sir Arthur Vicars
B
Colonel Thomas Blood
C
Talbot Edwards
D
Lord Haddo
Select from the options above.
4

Q4. American singer and pianist, rhythm-and-blues star and one of the first rock-and-roll stars, Antoine Domino, was better known as what?

A
Fats
B
Chubby
C
Dizzy
D
Little
Select from the options above.
5

Q5. Who were the main figures involved in the introduction in 1892 of 35 mm film for still photography and motion pictures?

A
Alexander Graham Bell & George Kodak
B
William Dickson, Thomas Edison & George Eastman
C
Thomas Dolby & Vincent Vista
D
Samuel Goldwyn & Louis B. Mayer
Select from the options above.
6

Q6. Vlastimil Hart together with 11 colleagues won the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for documenting what in relation to dogs?

A
Friction between a banana skin and the floor when a dog steps on it
B
Treating dogs' "uncontrollable" nosebleeds, by nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork
C
When dogs defecate/urinate, they prefer to align the body with Earth's north-south geomagnetic axis
D
How dogs react when seeing a human dressed up as a cat
Select from the options above.
7

Q7. The Spanish playwright, poet, musician, artist, theatre director Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) is best known for which of these?

A
The Rural trilogy Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernarda Alba
B
The Butterfly's Evil Spell
C
Sonnets of Dark Love
D
An Andalusian Dog
Select from the options above.
0%
There are 0 questions in this quiz.
You've completed 0 questions.
You've answered 0 questions correctly.
You've answered 0 questions incorrectly.