| Questions - Set 72. Famous/infamous people
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1 David Ben Gurion became prime minister of which country
in 1948? - Israel.
2 Which film director once said of Brigitte Bardot, ‘If
she didn’t exist, we’d have to invent her’? - Federico
Fellini.
3 By what name was the heavyweight fighter, Cassius Clay,
better known? - Muhammad Ali.
4 In 1950 who made the allegation that 205 State
Department officials were ‘card carrying communists’? -
Joseph McCarthy.
5 Which US pop artist created ‘100 Campbells Soup Cans’? -
Andy Warhol.
6 Who killed John Lennon? - Mark David
Chapman.
7 In 1961 which famous dancer sought political asylum in
Paris? - Rudolf Nureyev
8 Whose controversial radio broadcast of H. G. Wells
The War of The Worlds (1938) caused widespread panic in the US? -
Orson Welles.
9 For what crime was Al Capone finally convicted? -
Tax evasion.
10 Who founded the state of Taiwan in 1949? -
Chiang Kai-shek.
11 Which former Reuters’ employee went on to create one of
the world’s most famous secret agents? - Ian Fleming.
12 Who was known as the ‘Sultan of Swat’? -
‘Babe’ Ruth.
13 Who wrote The Common Sense Book of Child Care? -
Doctor Benjamin Spock.
14 Which Russian revolutionary died of head wounds on 21
August 1940? - Leon Trotsky.
15 Whose compositions included ‘The Firebird’ and ‘Petrushka’? -
Igor Stravinsky.
16 Who was the daughter of William Godwin and Mary
Woolstencraft? - Mary Shelley. 12.
17 Whose plays include Uncle Vanya and The Three
Sisters? - Anton Chekhov
18 Who founded the Christian Science Church? -
Mary Baker Eddy.
19 Which writer created the character of ‘Jeeves’? -
P. G. Wodehouse.
20 Who was the second president of the USA? - John
Adams.
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