People Quiz #790
Famous People Quiz for 5 March 2024
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Q1.
How did singers Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino and Carrie Underwood come to international attention?
A
Winning the TV show "American Idol"
B
As Mouseketeers on "The Mickey Mouse Club"
C
Discovered at New York club "CBGBs"
D
Putting home made pop videos on YouTube
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Q2.
The Reverend William Oughtred developed which scientific instrument in the 17th century?
B
Slide rule, or slipstick
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3
Q3.
How does Kenta Kambara dance?
B
He dances en pointe without ballet shoes
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Q4.
Whose fictionalised account of a interview by Harold Bloom with Benzion Netanyahu and his family, including his son, Benjamin Netanyahu, at an upstate New York college in the late 1950s won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
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Q5.
Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of the Korean War?
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Q6.
Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010, was the mother of whom?
B
Rufus and Martha Wainwright
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Q7.
Who was the British general who was defeated at Yorktown, 1781, during the American War of Independence?
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