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Medium People II
Allen Lam
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Copyright 1996, Softdisk Publishing
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People II
Medium
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$QUEST
Who is the musical composer that wrote "Comedy Tonight", "Send in the Clowns", and "Anyone Can Whistle"?
Stephen Sondheim
Stevie Wonder
Ernest Hemingway
Enrico Fermi
Sir Thomas Beecham
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$QUEST
Who wrote "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Brave Tin Soldier"?
Hans Christian Andersen
Shakespeare
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ernest Hemingway
JRR Tolkien
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$QUEST
Who of the following is an actor that starred in films such as "The Tramp", "The Rink", "The Kid", and "City Lights"?
Charlie Chaplin
Abbott and Costello
Johnny Carson
Ronald Reagan
Bing Crosby
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$QUEST
Who was the pioneer automobile manufacturer that introduced the Model T in 1908?
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Thomas Edison
Winthrop Rockefeller
Lee Iacocca
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$QUEST
Who was known as "The Lady of the Lamp" and is considered the founder of modern nursing?
Florence Nightingale
Mother Theresa
Elizabeth II
Sally Ride
Lilian Wald
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$QUEST
The Marx Brothers were:
comedians
the first airplane inventors
a musical band
industrial entrepreneurs
founders of the National Geographic Society
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$QUEST
Who invented the first practical airplane?
The Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville)
The Marx Brothers
Henry Ford
Leonardo da Vinci
Andersen Maxwell
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$QUEST
Who painted the famous painting `Mona Lisa'?
Leonardo da Vinci
Picasso
Van Gogh
Michelangelo
Antoine Watteau
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$QUEST
Who painted the art on the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Picasso
Van Gogh
Donato Bramante
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$QUEST
Which of the following is not a boxer?
Bobby Fischer
George Foreman
Muhammad Ali
Mike Tyson
Rocky Marciano
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$QUEST
Which of the following are not magicians?
James Joyce
David Copperfield
Harry Blackstone
Harry Houdini
Penn and Teller
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$QUEST
Who was the U.S. film star that was in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "How to Marry a Millionaire", and "Niagara"?
Marilyn Monroe
Mae West
Jane Fonda
Elizabeth Taylor
Shirley Temple
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$QUEST
Jimi Hendrix, who was well known in the 60's is...
an African American rock guitarist and singer
the creator of the Muppets
the director and producer of the "Star Wars" movies
a photographer whose art was very controversial
the first person officially diagnosed with AIDS
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$QUEST
Who was the actress that won 4 Oscars and starred in films such as "On Golden Pond", and "Morning Glory"?
Katherine Hepburn
Mae West
Meryl Streep
Jane Fonda
Barbara Walters
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$QUEST
Hans Wilhelm Geiger is a...
German physicist who invented the Geiger counter
chess master
symphony conductor
composer of famous musicals such as "Phantom of the Opera"
inventor of the artificial heart
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$QUEST
Which of the following is a Civil-rights leader that won a Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Florence Nightingale
Mother Teresa
Saul Bellow
George Bernard Shaw
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$QUEST
Mark Twain's real name is:
Samuel Clemens
Edgar Allan Poe
William Faulkner
Thomas Mann
Ernest O. Lawrence
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$QUEST
The Cy Young Award was established in honor of Cy Young, who was a...
baseball player
U.S. general
gymnast
football player
medical doctor
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$QUEST
Marco Polo was a:
traveler and author
politician
philosopher
artist
composer
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This post-impressionist painter was known to have cut off part of his own ear.
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Cezanne
Pablo Picasso
George Seurat
Thomas Cole
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$QUEST
Boris Yeltsin was:
Russia's president elected in 1991
a chess grand master
the first Russian astronaut in space
a Greek philosopher
a Russian architect
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$QUEST
The first American woman in space was:
Sally Ride
Mary Lou Retton
Jane Austin
Valentina Tereshkova
Loretta Lynn
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$QUEST
The first person to walk on the moon was:
Neil Armstrong
Micheal Collins
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
Edwin Aldrin
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$QUEST
Confusius was:
a Chinese philosopher
China's prime minister
a civil rights leader
a war hero in the Korean War
the inventor of the abacus
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$QUEST
Which of the following is not a member of the rock group "The Grateful Dead"?
Paul McCartney
Phil Lesh
Ron McKernan
Jerry Garcia
Bob Weir
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$QUEST
Frank Lloyd Wright was:
an American architect who pioneered the modern style
one of the Wright Brothers who built the first plane
one of the writers of the U.S. Constitution
an explorer who discovered the Mississippi River
the first person to sail the Pacific
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$QUEST
What did Samuel F. B. Morse do?
He originated the Morse code.
He invented the intermittent windshield wiper.
He was chief architect of the Empire State Building.
He pioneered a method of vaccination.
He discovered the radiation belt around Earth.
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$QUEST
Sir Francis Drake...
sailed around the world
discovered America
built the Panama Canal
climbed Mount Everest
flew non-stop around the world
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$QUEST
Who was the seventh president of the United States?
Andrew Jackson
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
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$QUEST
Who rode from Boston to Concord at midnight 1775, warning of the approach of British troops?
Paul Revere
William Howe
Thomas Gage
Sir Henry Clinton
Bunker Hill
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$QUEST
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova was known for his:
reputation with women
robberies
exploration of the American continent
slave revolts
role in the Revolutionary War
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$QUEST
Jim Morrison is a:
rock band member
actor
baseball player
symphony composer
ice skater
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$QUEST
American pop singer and actor Madonna was born with what name?
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Prima Vince Madonna
Virginia Mary Madonna
Mary Elisabeth May Madonna
Susan Cini Madonna Calderon
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$QUEST
Who was the prime minister of Britain during World War II?
Winston Churchill
Queen Elizabeth II
David Lloyd George
George Fitzgerald
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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$QUEST
Robert Dole is:
a senator and a congressman
one of the Presidents of the United States
one of the Supreme Court Justices
once director of the CIA
a Vice President
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$QUEST
Who was one of the founders of Apple Computer Company?
Steven Jobs
Bill Gates
David Hewlett
William Packard
Ray Noorda
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$QUEST
Roy Rogers was a...
movie star
tennis player
ice skater
professional automobile racer
boxer
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$QUEST
Which British theoretical physicist suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and who wrote "A Brief History of Time" in 1987?
Stephen William Hawking
Steven King
Wolfgang Pauli
Hans Wilhelm Geiger
Sigmund Freud
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$QUEST
Which of the following is not a basketball player?
Pete Rose
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Larry Bird
Patrick Ewing
Magic Johnson
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$QUEST
Who of the following was never a member of the rock band "The Rolling Stones"?
David Bowie
Brian Jones
Keith Richards
Mick Jagger
Bill Wyman
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