question-- which russian was trained as an engineer,narrowly escaped a firing squad,and became a famous novelist ?

.answer-- dostoevsky
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question-- what is the name of the polish born sailor,who left the sea in 1894,to devote himself to literature ?

.answer-- joseph conrad
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question-- who was the most famous commander of the german afrika korps in world war 2 ?

.answer-- rommel
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question-- name the spanish tennis player,who won the mens wimbledon singles,in 1966 ?

.answer-- manuel santana
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question-- what was the name of the german art movement,that began in 1919 ?

.answer-- bauhaus
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question-- who became the empress of india in 1876 ?

.answer-- queen victoria
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question-- which poet laureate wrote novels under the pseudonym of nicholas blake ?

.answer-- cecil day lewis
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question-- in which country is the legend rich 'transylvania' ?

.answer-- romania
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question-- in which war, was the bunker hill a major battle ?

.answer-- american war of independence
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question-- who,chose ottawa to be the capital of canada ?

.answer-- queen victoria
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question-- name the three magi(they are also known as the three wise men).

.answer-- caspar ,balthazar ,melchior
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question-- in london,poets corner is apart of,which religious building ?

.answer-- westminster abbey
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question-- by what name is eva peron better known ?

.answer-- evita
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question-- who wrote the book 'the wealth of nations',a book on economic theory,published in 1776 ?

.answer-- adam smith
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question-- which famous french artist often sketched on the table tops of the moulin rouge ?

.answer-- toulouse lautrec
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question-- which tree provides the wood for cricket bats ?

.answer-- the willow
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question-- name the 3 lake poets.(they were called the lake poets because they lived in the neighbourhood of the english lakes).

.answer-- wordsworth,coleridge,southey
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question-- the song 'manic monday' is the first big hit of the band 'bangles',which famous singer wrote this song ?

.answer-- prince
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question-- the explorer,vasco da gama was born in which country ?

.answer-- portugal
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question-- which school of philosophy was founded by zeno ?

.answer-- the stoic school
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question-- which city is dominated by the sugar loaf mountain ?

.answer-- rio de janeiro
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question-- whose poem 'the wasteland' was first published in 1922 ?

.answer-- t.s.eliot
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question-- which shakespeare character has been played on film, by laurence olivier,mel gibson and kenneth branagh ?

.answer-- hamlet
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question-- which ex soldier wrote 'the seven pillars of wisdom' ?

.answer-- t.e.lawrence
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question-- whose address was '221B ,baker street' ?

.answer-- sherlock holmes
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question-- in which scottish city are the herriot watt & napier universities located ?

.answer-- edinburgh
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question-- which work of shakespeare is also known as 'the scottish play' ?

.answer-- macbeth
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question-- what was built in england,in the period from 2200 BC to 1600 BC ?

.answer-- stonehenge
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question-- which top london store is owned by the fayed brothers ?

.answer-- harrods
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question-- which english philosopher & mathematician published his principia mathematica in 1913 ?

.answer-- bertrand russell
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