People Quiz #8
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Q1. Which jazz musician has a memorial, created by sculptor Robert Graham and unveiled in 1997, in Central Park New York, near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 100th Street?
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Q2. What fate made Spencer Perceval unique among British Prime Ministers?
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Q3. Who collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber to create the musical "The Beautiful Game"?
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Q4. Who, in the 16th century, published "Orbium Coelestium", the theory that underlies our current understanding of the relationship of the earth to the sun and the planets?
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Q5. What are the Christian names of J K Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter?
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Q6. Who was the Anglo-Irish scientist who, in the 17th century, discovered that "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
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Q7. Who was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon when it became independent on 14 October 1947?
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