People Quiz #777
Famous People Quiz for 5 December 2023
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Q1.
Which early and influential Greek thinker proved that the Earth was spherical but, despite some current thinking, taught that Earth was at the centre of the universe?
A
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
B
Plato (428/427 - 328/327 BCE)
C
Pythagoras (569-475 BCE)
D
Hipparchus (190-120 BCE)
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Q2.
Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are the only surviving members of which pop group who had its first hit record in England in 1965?
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Q3.
Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1996 for which of these films?
B
The People vs. Larry Flynt
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Q4.
She discovered that in a particular type of variable star known as a Cepheid fluctuation in brightness is highly regular and is determined by the actual luminosity of the star, which meant they could be used as a distance marker, making it possible to determine astronomical distances to objects; who was she?
A
Rosalind Franklin (1920 -1958)
B
Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020)
C
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921
D
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
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Q5.
Who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize?
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Q6.
What former First Lady of the USA said that "no-one can make you feel inferior without your consent"?
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Q7.
American James Kent (1763-1847) was influential as a what?
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