People Quiz #583
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Q1. Who is the person, or are the people, who in 1920 formed the company which eventually became Columbia Pictures?
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Q2. The Recording Academy (USA) gave its first Lifetime Achievement Award, to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording" in 1963. Who was the first to receive it?
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Q3. Who was alleged to have choked pop star Rihanna until she was unconscious in a rented Lambhorghini shortly before the 2009 Grammy Awards?
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Q4. Morgan Tsvangirai was a politician in which of these countries?
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Q5. "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Private Resort", "Platoon", "Cry-Baby" and "Edward Scissorhands" are the first five films starring which actor?
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Q6. Who, before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?
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Q7. This British actor is acclaimed for her role in the 1996 Mike Leigh film "Secrets & Lies" and as an eccentric, dour and insightful detective in a TV series (2011 onwards) in the Northumberland Broads. Who is she?
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