
People 140225 is a selection of 10 questions. People 140225 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 Which Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist led the Red Army to victory during the Civil War from 1918 to 1920?
A Leon Trotsky
2 Who succeeded Richard Nixon as US President?
A Gerald Ford
3 Madame de Pompadour was the official chief mistress of which French King?
A Louis XV. Her birth name was Jeanne Antoinette Poisson.
4 What is the more commonly remembered nickname of English landscape architect Lancelot Brown?
A Capability Brown (he designed over 170 parks, many of which still exist)
5 Who for over ten years was the main TV scriptwriter for Morecambe and Wise?
A Eddie Braben. He also worked for David Frost, Ronnie Corbett and Ken Dodd.
6 Which country is the birthplace of former professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger?
A Austria. He was born in Thal, a small village in Styria, Austria, near the city of Graz.
7 Which fashion designer created the apparel for the 2012 Olympic Team GB?
A Stella McCartney
8 Which sharply dressed American teen idol of the 1950s died aged 21 in a car accident during his British tour in April 1960?
A Eddie Cochran, killed on April 17, 1960 when the taxi carrying him from a show in Bristol, England, crashed en route to the airport in London, where he was to catch a flight back home to the United States.
9 Anita Roddick founded which chain of shops now part-owned by the L’Oréal Group?
A Body Shop
10 German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, is the current creative director of which French Fashion House?
A House of Chanel