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People Quiz #254

Famous People Quiz for 26 November 2013

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Q1. Who is the native American subject of a poem by Longfellow?

A
Sitting Bull
B
Pocahontas
C
Hiawatha
D
Running Bear
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Q2. Who, in 1831, first demonstrated that the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field generates an electric current?

A
Isaac Newton
B
Humphrey Davy
C
Ernest Rutherford
D
Michael Faraday
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Q3. Whose discovery, that there were other galaxies in existence besides the Milky Way, was announced in 1925?

A
Milton Humason
B
George Hale
C
Harlow Shipley
D
Edwin Hubble
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Q4. The best selling 1976 autobiography of which leading country vocalist and songwriter during the 1960s and 1970s, "Coal Miner's Daughter", was made into a film starring Sissy Spacek (who won an Academy Award for Best Actress) and Tommy Lee Jones in 1980?

A
Joni Mitchell
B
Dolly Parton
C
Mariah Carey
D
Loretta Lynn
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Q5. Who married British actress and producer Trudi Styler in 1992?

A
Edge
B
Sting
C
Slash
D
Pavarotti
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Q6. Who was Perkin Warbeck?

A
A pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII
B
The leader of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
C
A playwright during the reign of Elizabeth I
D
The first drummer for The Beatles
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Q7. What name did Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe perform under?

A
King Oliver
B
Dizzy Gillespie
C
Jelly Roll Morton
D
Prince
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