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People Quiz # 344/2023
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1
  What office did James Schlesinger not hold in 1973 under US President Gerald Ford?
  Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
  Secretary of Defense
  Director of Central Intelligence
  Secretary of Energy

2
  What science does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation, Sherlock Holmes, practise?
  Necromancy
  Building construction
  Detection
  Garden design

3
  Who wrote under the pseudonym of "Elia" and, with his sister Mary, wrote "Tales From Shakespeare"?
  Christopher Marlowe
  Ben Jonson
  Charles Lamb
  James Boswell

4
  How does history better know Ioseb Jughashvili, who changed his surname to mean "steel"?
  Joseph Goebbels
  Joseph Haydn
  Joseph Stalin
  Joseph Conrad

5
  France's largest international airport and one of the world principal aviation centres, also known as Roissy, is usually known by the name of what historical figure?
  Charles de Gaulle
  Vercingetorix
  Bonaparte
  Louis XIV - the Sun King