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People Quiz #218

Famous People Quiz for 19 March 2013

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Q1. What is the nationality of Mohammed Al Fayed, who sold the department store Harrods Knightsbridge to Qatar Holdings in 2010?

A
Iranian
B
Iraqi
C
Egyptian
D
Syrian
Select from the options above.

Q2. Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York?

A
William McKinley
B
Abraham Lincoln
C
William Henry Harrison
D
John F Kennedy
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Q3. Who, at 95 years of age, supposedly waved the Union flag out of the window of her house in Frederick, Maryland while Stonewall Jackson's troops were passing, and is the subject of a 1864 poem: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said."?

A
Barbara Stanwyck
B
Betsy Ross
C
Barbara Fritchie
D
Barbara Bush
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Q4. Who owned the flat at No.12, 9 Curzon Place, Shepherd Market, Mayfair where both Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) died in 1974 and Keith Moon died in 1978?

Note: This question was updated in March 2022
A
Andy Warhol
B
Mick Jagger
C
Robert Stigwood
D
Harry Nilsson
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Q5. Which of these people maintained that he, not Alexander Graham Bell, had invented the telephone and that Bell had stolen the invention from him?

Note: This question was updated in September 2022
A
Orville Wright
B
Thomas Edison
C
Robert Fulton
D
Elisha Gray
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Q6. In 1938, after receiving the Nobel Prize, which physicist emigrated to the USA, protesting the oppressive regime of his homeland?

Note: This question was updated in June 2022
A
Albert Einstein
B
Enrico Fermi
C
Robert Oppenheimer
D
Wernher von Braun
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Q7. Who was Shakespeare's wife?

A
Sandra Putaway
B
Mary Runaway
C
Anne Hathaway
D
Sheila Sendaway
Select from the options above.
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