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People 000803 is a selection of 10 questions. People 000803 is the filename to differentiate it from other People quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 Who is also known as the First Lord of The Treasury?
A The Prime Minister – the Chancellor of the Exchequer is the second lord of the Treasury.
2 What was Bing Crosby’s real first name?
A Harry – a neighbour nicknamed him “Bingo” and Bingo got shortened to Bing.
3 Whose stage persona is Sir Les Patterson?
A Barry Humphries. (Dame Edna Everidge) he died on 22 April 2023 aged 89.
4 What do Samuel Pepys, Francis Kilvert and John Evelyn have in common?
A They all wrote famous diaries.
5 In which year was Princess Diana born?
A 1961
6 The quote “A week is a long time in politics” was spoken in 1964 by which British political leader?
A Harold Wilson
7 The artist LS Lowry was particularly famous for his paintings of what?
A Matchstick men, in industrial districts of North West England
8 From what illness did Professor. Stephen Hawking suffer?
A Motor Neurone Disease – in USA it’s called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
9 Which arm and which eye did Nelson loose in battle?
A Right eye and right arm. He lost his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 and his right arm during the attack on Santa Cruz in Tenerife in 1797.
10 Which Communist leader thought the truth was that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”?
A Mao Tse-tung