People Quiz #469
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Q1. Which founder member of The Goons in 1951 was an old Etonian, served in MI9 in WW II, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and received the Peruvian Order of Merit in 1971?
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Q2. Who was an American gangster, the leader of a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era, whose criminal career ended in 1931 when he was convicted for income-tax evasion?
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Q3. Welsh actress Sian Phillips was once married to which of these actors?
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Q4. Who is the next in this series: Laue (1914), W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915), Barkla (1917), Planck (1918), Stark (1919), Guillaume (1920) ... ?
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Q5. Which one of these films did director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick NOT direct?
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Q6. René Descartes (1596-1650), whose philosophical writing is seminal to much of Western philosophy also developed what seminal mathematical concept?
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Q7. Which 20th century playwright wrote "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night"?
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