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Famous Roberts Quiz Round

 

As wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, this American theoretical physicist had a leading role in the creation of the first Atomic bomb.
Robert Oppenheimer

 

This Scottish novelist has many well known works including, Kidnapped, and The Master of Ballantrae.
Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in May 1941. What is he better known as?
Bob Dylan

 

Contoversial President of Zimbabwe.
Robert Mugabe

 

Book Authors Quiz Round 1

These are some of the biggest selling novels of the past few months. Can you tell us who the author is?

The Taming of the Queen
Phillipa Gregory

 

Time of Death (Tom Thorne Novel)
Mark Billingham

 

Truth or Die
James Paterson

 

Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter

 

Black-Eyed Husbands
Julia Heaberlin

 

No Place to Hide
Susan Lewis

 

Famous Qs Quiz Round

 

All the questions relate to famous people whose first or second name starts with a Q

 

In what year was the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?
1953

 

Filmmaker and actor, his eighth and latest film released is The Hateful Eight.
Quentin Tarentino

 

Nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Chicago, this American singer, songwriter, rapper was born Dana Elaine Owens. What is her stagename?
Queen Latifah

 

History Quiz (Round 2)

 

In which century was The War of the Roses?
15th

 

In 1764 James Hargreaves invented the first practical spinning frame with multiple spindles, by what was it known?
The Spinning Jenny. 

 

The first steam driven public railway was opened in 1825 and was called what?
The Stockton and Darlington Railway

 

2001 saw the completion of the project to map the genetic structure of the human body. What was the project called?
The Human Genome Project

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