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People Quiz #848

Famous People Quiz for 15 April 2025

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Q1. Which monarch invited English physician, banker and politician Thomas Dimsdale to variolate both themselves and their heir and court?

A
Catherine the Great of Russia
B
George I of Great Britain
C
Christian VII of Denmark
D
Qianlong , Emperor of China
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Q2. Who starred in the 1998 Woody Allen film "Celebrity"?

A
Bruce Willis
B
Johnny Depp
C
Brad Pitt
D
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Q3. Who was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, spent his childhood in Chatham and London, married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, separated from her in 1858, had much of his work published serially in journals, and died in 1870?

A
Mark Twain
B
Robert Louis Stevenson
C
Charles Dickens
D
John Galsworthy
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Q4. Which Indian citizen won a Nobel Prize in 1979?

A
Jawaharlal Nehru
B
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
C
Mother Teresa
D
Sanjeev Bhaskar
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Q5. In 1981, Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attacking several others. By what name was he known in the popular press?

A
The Manchester Marauder
B
The Yorkshire Ripper
C
The Liverpool Mangler
D
The Birmingham Basher
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Q6. Which sound is Bucephalus, in 4th century BCE, most likely to have made?

A
Purr
B
Squeak
C
Woof
D
Whinny
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Q7. The basic sound and a few words of the Klingon language as spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe, was devised by which actor for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"?

A
DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy)
B
James Doohan (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott)
C
Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov)
D
Nichelle Nichols (Uhura)
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