question--- what is the name of the famous european music composer , who was known as the ' waltz king ' ( he was from austria ) ?

.answer--- johann strauss
.correct answer from ' aniket prasad '

question--- what is the name of the famous male novelist of the 1900s , who wrote the novel ' tender is the night ' ?

.answer--- scott fitzgerald
.

question--- what is the name of the famous german car maker of the late 1800s , who first advertised the ' patented motor car ' in the year 1888 in the german technical press ?

.answer--- benz
.

question--- what is the name of the famous british scientist of the 1800s ( during the early victorian era ) , whose name is associated with the ' induction of electric current ' ?

.answer--- faraday
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male european runner of the 20th century , who was known as ' the flying finn ' ?

.answer--- paavo nurmi
.

question--- what is the more famous name of the american writer of the 1800s , whose original name was ' samuel langhorne clemens ' ?

.answer--- mark twain
.

question--- what is the name of the famous female american astronaut , who was the first american woman to go to space ?

.answer--- sally ride
.

question--- what is the name of the famous western composer , who composed the ' firebird suite ballet music ' ?

.answer--- stravinsky
.

question--- what is the more famous name of the british novelist of the 20th century , whose original name was 'eric arthur blair ' ?

.answer--- george orwell
.

question--- what is the name of the famous western actor , who played ' 8 roles ' in the film ' kind hearts and coronets ' ?

.answer--- alec guinness
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american writer of the 1900s , who wrote the plays ' a long days journey into night ' and ' all the gods children got wings ' ( he also won the nobel prize for literature ) ?

.answer--- eugene o neill
.

question--- what is the name of the famous british scientist of the 20th century , who wrote the book ' a brief history of time ' ?

.answer--- stephen hawking
.

question--- what is the name of the famous german leader of the 1800s , who was known as ' the man of blood and iron ' ( this prussian general was largely responsible for the unification of germany during the 1800s ) ?

.answer--- bismarck
.

question--- what is the more famous name of the brazilian football player of the 1960s , whose original name was ' edson arantes do nascimento ' ?

.answer--- pele
.

question--- what is the name of the famous ' ship ' , in which ' francis drake ' travelled round the world in the year 1577 ?

.answer--- the golden hind
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote the book ' a clockwork orange ' ?

.answer--- anthony burgess
.

question--- what is the name of the famous author , who wrote the book ' the godfather ' ( the film 1972 film ' the godfather ' starring marlon brando , directed by coppola was also based on this book ) ?

.answer--- mario puzo
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american novelist , who wrote the novel ' jurassic park ' ?

.answer--- michael crichton
.correct answer from ' ujjayanta bhaumik '

question--- what is the name of the famous european archealogist of the early 1900s , who discovered the ' tomb of tutankamun ' ( the egyptian king of the ancient times ) in the year 1922 ?

.answer--- howard carter
.

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer of the 1700s , who wrote the book ' the life of samuel johnson ' ( this book was dedicated to the famous english painter ' sir joshua reynolds ' by the author ) ?

.answer--- james boswell
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american film director , who directed the 1972 film ' the godfather ' ?

.answer--- francis ford coppola
.

question--- what is the name of the famous russian writer , who wrote the play ' the cherry orchard ' ?

.answer--- anton chekov
.

question--- what is the name of the famous european philosopher , who wrote ' on liberty ' ?

.answer--- john stuart mill
.

Question--- what is the name of the famous inventor of the 1800s , who invented the ' elevator ' ( lift ) in the year 1852 ?

.answer--- elisha otis
. 

question--- what is the name of the famous novelist , who wrote the novels ' rabbit ' , ' run ' and ' rabbit redux ' ?

.answer--- john updike
.

question--- what is the name of the famous european writer , who wrote ' lolita ' ?

.answer--- nabokov
.

question--- what is the name of the famous female indian novelist , who wrote the book ' the god of small things ' ( she won the booker prize for this novel ) ?

.answer--- arundhati roy
.

question--- what is the name of the famous european painter , who painted ' the rakes progress ' ?

.answer--- william hogarth
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american film director , who directed the film ' the treasure of the sierra madre ' ( the 1948 film starring humphrey bogart ) ?

.answer--- john huston
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote the book ' a passage to india ' ?

.answer--- e.m.forster
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american film director , who directed the 1941 film ' citizen kane ' ?

.answer--- orson welles
.

question--- what is the more famous name of the jewish american magician and escapoligist of the late 1800s , whose original name was ' erich weiss ' ?

.answer--- houdini
.

question--- what is the name of the famous english scientist of the victorian era ( born in 1827 ) , who discovered the ' antiseptic system ' ?

.answer--- joseph lister
.

question--- what is the name of the famous hollywood film director , who directed the film ' it happened one night ' ( starring clark gable and claudette colbert ) ?

.answer--- frank capra
.

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer of the late 1800s , who wrote the book ' jungle book ' ?

.answer--- rudyard kipling
.

question--- what is the name of the famous british female of the 1900s , who founded the first birth control clinic in england ?

.answer--- marie stopes
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american singer , whose house in the memphis city was called ' graceland ' ?

.answer--- elvis presley
.

question--- what is the name of the famous european writer of the late 1800s , who wrote ' man and superman ' ?

.answer--- george bernard shaw
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote ' winnie the pooh ' ?

.answer-- a a milne
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous black female american jazz singer , who was known as ' the first lady of song ' ?

.answer--- ella fitzgerald
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer of the 1800s , who wrote the book ' the lost world ' ?

.answer--- arthur conan doyle
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male american tennis player of the 1970s and 80s , who was known as ' the super brat ' ?

.answer--- john macenroe
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european classical composer , who composed the musical piece ' the blue danube waltz ' ?

.answer--- johann strauss
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous novelist , who wrote the novel ' the odessa file ' ( the film odessa file was based on this novel ) ?

.answer--- frederick forsyth
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european writer of the late 1800s , who wrote the novel ' nostromo ' ?

.answer--- joseph conrad
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european writer , who wrote the play ' a dolls house ' ?

.answer--- ibsen
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous actor , who played the role of don quixote in the film ' the man of la mancha ' ?

.answer--- peter o toole
.

question--- what is the name of the famous black american actor , who acted in the film ' porgy and bess ' with dorothy dandridge in the year 1958 ?

.answer--- sidney poitier
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous italian writer of the 1500s , who wrote ' the prince ' in 1532 ?

.answer--- machiavelli
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european writer , who wrote ' dubliners ' ?

.answer--- james joyce
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous russian writer , who wrote the book ' dr zhivago ' ( he won the 1958 nobel prize for literature ) ?

.answer--- boris pasternak
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous european astronomer of the late 1500s , whose laws define the motion of the planets ?

.answer--- kepler
.

question--- what is the name of the famous frenchwoman of the early 1900s , who won the wimbledon ladies singles title five times in succession in the 1920s ?

.answer--- suzzanne lenglen
.

question--- what is the name of the famous hollywood actress , who played the role of eliza in the film ' my fair lady ' ?

.answer--- audrey hepburn
.

question--- what is the name of the famous ancient greek philosopher , who wrote the book ' the republic ' ( he was the student of socrates and the teacher of aristotle ) ?

.answer--- plato
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote ' the day of the jackal ' ?

.answer--- frederick forsyth
.

question--- what is the name of the famous russian music composer of the 1900s , who wrote music for the orchestra ' peter and the wolf ' ?

.answer--- prokofiev
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous black american singer , who was known as the ' mother of the blues ' ?

.answer--- ma rainey
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american film director , who directed the film ' stagecoach ' ?

.answer--- john ford
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous ancient greek scientist , whose name is associated with the term ' eureka ' ?

.answer--- archimedes
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer , who wrote the books ' paradise lost ' and ' paradise regained ' ?

.answer--- milton
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous german playwright , who wrote the plays named ' the caucasian chalk circle ' and ' mother courage ' ?

.answer--- brecht
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote the book ' the wonderful wizard of oz ' ?

.answer--- frank l baum
.

question--- what is the name of the famous european explorer , who discovered the ' victoria falls ' in the african continent ?

.answer--- david livingstone
.correct answer from ' debojyothi '

question--- what is the name of the famous european painter , who painted the paintings named ' dance and music ' , ' red studio ' and ' green stripe ' ?

.answer--- matisse
.correct answer from ' debojyothi '

question--- what is the name of the famous european scientist , who developed the vaccine for the smallpox disease ?

.answer--- edward jenner
.correct answer from ' debojyothi '

question--- what is the name of the famous european painter , who painted the paintings ' primavera ' and ' the birth of venus ' ?

.answer--- botticelli
.correct answer from ' debojyothi '

question--- what is the name of the famous science fiction writer , who wrote ' the foundation trilogy ' ?

.answer--- isaac asimov
.

question--- what is the name of the famous russian music composer , whose name is associated with the ballet ' swan lake ' ?

.answer--- tchaikovsky
.

question--- what is the name of the famous european film director , who directed the film ' knife in the water ' ?

.answer--- roman polanski
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female black american singer , whose original name is ' annie may bullock ' ?

.answer--- tina turner
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european music composer , who wrote the music for the ballet ' the rite of spring ' ?

.answer--- igor stravinsky
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa ' 

question--- what is the name of the famous male english writer of the 1800s during the victorian era , who wrote the novel ' nicholas nickleby ' ?

.answer--- charles dickens
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous singer , whose original name is ' gordon summer ' ?

.answer--- sting
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer in english , who wrote the book ' old possums book of practical cats ' ( the broadway musical ' cats ' was based on this book ) ?

.answer--- t.s.eliot
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous british prime minister of the 20th century , who wrote the novel ' savrola ' ( early in his career in the year 1900 ) ?

.answer--- churchill
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female english doctor , who was the first english woman to qualify in medicine ?

.answer--- elizabeth garett anderson
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european painter of the late 1800s , on whose life the film ' lust for life ' was based ?

.answer--- van gogh
.

question--- what is the name of the famous architect , who founded the german art school ' the bauhaus ' in the year 1919 ?

.answer--- walter gropius
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote ' alexandria quartet ' ( a four volume novel ) ?

.answer--- lawrence durell
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous hollywood actress , who acted in the film ' the country girl ' in the 1950s ( she got recognition as she won the best actress oscar award for this film ) ?

.answer--- grace kelly
.

question--- what is the name of the famous western music composer of the 1900s , who composed the opera ' gloriana ' in the year 1953 ( on the occasion of the coronation of the queen of england , elizabeth 2 ) ?

.answer--- benjamin britten
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american actress , who is the daughter of the film director ' vincente minelli ' and the hollywood star ' judy garland ' ?

.answer--- liza minelli
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american general during the american civil war , who was the general in chief of the ' confederate forces ' ( during the 1860s ) ?

.answer--- robert edward lee
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male american modern writer , who wrote the novel ' a streetcar named desire ' ( the film ' a streetcar named desire ' was based on this novel ,starring marlon brando and vivien leigh )

.answer--- tennessee williams
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote the book ' hereward the wake ' ?

.answer--- charles kingsley
.

question--- what is the name of the famous italian leader of the 1800s , who was the ' premier of peidmont ' and who played a very important role in the unification of italy in the 1800s ?

.answer--- count cavour
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote the books ' little women ' and ' little men ' ?

.answer--- louisa may alcott
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english classical music composer , who composed ' dido and aeneas ' ?

.answer--- henry purcell
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male scottish writer of the late 1800s , who wrote ' peter pan ' ?

.answer--- j.m.barrie
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american actress , who acted in the films ' queen christina ' and ' camille ' ( she retired from acting in her 30s in the 1940s decade ) ?

.answer--- greta garbo
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male english writer of the early 1800s , who wrote ' childe harold ' ?

.answer--- byron
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote the play ' french without tears ' ?

.answer--- terence rattigan
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american film director , who directed the film ' the grapes of wrath ' starring henry fonda ( this film was based on the john steinbeck novel of the same name ) ?

.answer--- john ford
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous greek personality of the ancient times , who wrote the classics ' the iliad and the odyssey ' ?

.answer--- homer
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male german tennis player , who won the wimbledon in the year 1985 ( at the age of 17 years ) ?

.answer--- boris becker
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male american astronaut , who was the first american to orbit the earth ?

.answer--- john glenn
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male american actor , who was known as ' the king of hollywood ' ( he was the hero of the film ' gone with the wind ) ?

.answer--- clark gable
.

question--- what is the name of the famous ' costume designer ' , who won the oscar award for the film ' my fair lady ' ?

.answer--- cecil beaton
.

question--- what is the name of the famous inventor , who invented the ' cotton gin ' ?

.answer--- eli whitney
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the russian revolutionary leader ( born in the year 1879 ) , whose name meant ' man of steel ' ?

.answer--- stalin
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male european intellectual personality , who wrote the book ' brave new world ' ?

.answer--- aldous huxley
.correct answer from ' v,k,handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer of the 1800s , who wrote ' the importance of being earnest ' ?

.answer--- oscar wilde
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer , who wrote the sonnet ' no man is an island ' ?

.answer--- john donne
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous scottish economist of the 1700s , who wrote the book ' the wealth of nations ' ?

.answer--- adam smith
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male american actor , who played the lead role in the film ' forrest gump ' ?

.answer--- tom hanks
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote the book ' the wind in the willows ' ?

.answer--- kenneth grahame
.

question--- what is the name of the famous european classical composer , who composed the symphony ' from the new world ' ?

.answer--- dvorak
.

question--- what is the name of the famous english film director , who directed the film ' rear window ' starring james stewart and grace kelly ?

.answer--- hitchcock
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english scientist during the world war 2 , who designed the ' swing wing aircraft ' and the ' wellington bomber ' ?

.answer--- barnes wallis
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male english writer of the 1600s , who wrote ' volpone ' , ' bartholomew fair ' and ' the alchemist ' ?

.answer--- ben jonson
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american actress , who acted in the films ' dangerous ' and ' jezebel ' ( she won the oscar awards for both these films ) ?

.answer--- bette davis
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male english runner , who was the first man to run a mile under 4 minutes ( in the year 1954 ) ?

.answer--- roger bannister
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '  

question--- what is the name of the famous european explorer , who founded the sea route to india in the year 1498 ?

.answer--- vasco da gama
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american scientist ( and politician ) of the 1700s , who invented the lightning conductor ?

.answer--- benjamin franklin
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male american actor , who won the oscar for the film ' elmer gantry ' ?

.answer--- burt lancaster
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english poet of the 1800s , who wrote the poem ' dolores ' ?

.answer--- swinburne
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous italian explorer of the 1400s , after whom the american continent is named after ( both north america and the south america ) ?

.answer--- amerigo vespucci
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female english novelist of the 1800s , who wrote the novel ' northanger abbey ' ?

.answer--- jane austen
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american musician ( jazz music , ragtime ) , whose musicals include ' annie get your gun ' and ' call me madam ' ?

.answer--- irving berlin
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male european runner , who won the 5000m , 10000 m and the marathon events in the 1952 olympics ?

.answer--- emil zatopek
.

question--- what is the more famous name of the male american actor of the 1950s , whose original name was ' marion morrison ' ?

.answer--- john wayne
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male american aviator of the 1900s , who achieved the first solo trans atlantic flight ( across the atlantic ocean from america to europe flight ) ?

.answer--- charles lindberg
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous british pop music band , which was previously known as ' the quarrymen ' ?

.answer--- beatles
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous scientist , whose name is associated with the ' big bang theory ' ( astrophysics ) ?

.answer--- george gamow
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american state , in which the ' niagara falls ' is situated ?

.answer--- new york state
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male english novelist of the 1800s , who wrote the novel ' david copperfield ' ?

.answer--- charles dickens
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous italian painter of the 1400s , who painted the painting ' la gioconda ' ( mona lisa ) ?

.answer--- leonardo da vinci
.

question--- what is the name of the literary personality , who created the character ' perry mason ' ?

.answer--- erle stanley gardner
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american writer of the 1800s , whose name is associated with the literary character ' tom sawyer ' ?

.answer--- mark twain
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer in english , who wrote the novel ' treasure island ' ?

.answer--- r.l.stevenson
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male american tennis player , who is married to the german tennis player steffi graf ?

.answer--- andre agassi
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english queen of the 1500s , who was known as the ' virgin queen ' and whose english navy defeated the spanish armada ?

.answer--- elizabeth 1
.

question--- what is the name of the famous female singer from sweden , who had the nickname ' swedish nightingale ' ?

.answer--- jenny lind
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- two writers ' manfred b lee ' and ' frank dannay ' wrote books in english under a joint common name , what was the ' common name ' ?

.answer--- ellery queen
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european writer in english of the 1900s , who wrote the play ' back to methuselah ' ?

.answer--- george bernard shaw
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer , who wrote ' gullivers travels ' ?

.answer--- jonathan swift
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male swimmer , who was the first swimmer to win seven gold medals in a single olympics ( 1972 munich olympic games ) ?

.answer--- mark spitz
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english historian , who wrote ' a study in history ' ( 12 volumes ) ?

.answer--- arnold toynbee
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female american jazz singer , who was known as the ' empress of the blues ' ?

.answer--- bessie smith
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english suffragate , who founded the ' womens social and political union ' in the year 1903 ?

.answer--- emmeline pankhurst
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american president , who took the decision to drop atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki ( to bring an end to world war 2 and to prevent further very very large scale catastrophies ) ?

.answer--- truman
.

question--- what is the name of the famous european painter of the 1900s , who designed the dream sequences for the alfred hitchcocks film ' spellbound ' ?

.answer--- salvador dali
.

question--- what is the name of the famous female british prime minister , who was known as ' the plutonium blonde ' ?

.answer--- margaret thatcher
.

question--- what is the name of the famous englishman , who printed the first book in english in the 1400s ?

.answer--- william caxton
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american writer of the 1950s , who wrote ' long days journey into night ' ?

.answer--- eugene o neill
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous italian scientist of the 1600s , who was the first scientist to use telescope to study the stars ?

.answer--- galileo
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous french novelist , who wrote the novel ' madame bovary ' ?

.answer--- gustave flaubert
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous novelist , on whose novel , the film ' the afrikaan queen ' was based, ( with humphrey bogart in the leading role ) ?

.answer--- c.s.forrester
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous british prime minister of the 1800s , who was known as ' dizzy ' ( he was the prime minister who made queen victoria , the empress of india ) ?

.answer--- disraeli
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american author , who wrote ' rip van winkle ' ?

.answer--- washington irving
.

question--- what is the name of the famous novelist , who wrote the novel ' the time machine ' ( the film ' the time machine ' was also based on this novel ) ?

.answer--- h.g.wells
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous brazilian city , in which the 2016 summer olympics is being held ?

.answer--- rio de janeiro
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the european city , in which marie curie ( the nobel prize winner ) was born ?

.answer--- warsaw
.

question--- what is the name of the famous western composers , who composed ' the mikado ' ( set in the town of titipu ) ?

.answer--- gilbert and sullivan
.

question--- what is the name of the famous western music band , whose name is associated with the song ' another brick in the wall ' ?

.answer--- pink floyd
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote ' the secret life of walter mitty ' ?

.answer--- james thurber
.

question--- what is the name of the famous male black american jazz musician of the 1900s , who had the nickname ' yardbird ' ?

.answer--- charlie parker
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the more famous name of the hollywood actress , whose original name was ' betty joan perske ' ?

.answer--- lauren bacall
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female english writer of the 1800s , who wrote the novel ' wuthering heights ' ?

.answer--- emily bronte
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote the book ' a clockwork orange ' ?

.answer--- anthony burgess
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' mahendra '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer , who wrote the novel ' vanity fair ' ?

.answer--- w.m.thackeray
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male american actor , who won an oscar award for the best actor for the film ' it happened one night ' ?

.answer--- clark gable
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer , who wrote the book ' the life of samuel johnson ' ?

.answer--- james boswell
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who created the fictional hero ' tarzan ' ?

.answer--- edgar rice burroughs
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous waxwork museum in london , which is located on the marylebone road in london(UK) ?

.answer--- madame tussauds
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american actress , who won the oscar awards for her films ' klute ' and ' coming home ' ?

.answer--- jane fonda
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous western music band , whose famous 1986 music album was ' slippery when wet ' ?

.answer--- bon jovi
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous novelist , whose name is associated with ' the alexandria quartet ' ?

.answer--- lawrence durrel
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous french painter , whose name is associated with the paintings of the can can dancers at the moulin rouge ?

.answer--- toulouse lautrec
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous indian novelist , who wrote the novel ' a suitable boy ' ?

.answer--- vikram seth
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male american writer of the 20 century , who wrote the play ' the crucible ' ?

.answer--- arthur miller
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer , who wrote ' erewhon ' ?

.answer--- samuel butler
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

Question--- what is the name of the famous German theatre personality of the 20 century , who wrote the libretto for ' the threepenny opera ' ( Kurt weills opera ) ?

.answer--- brecht
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female sportswoman , who was known as ' the norwegian doll ' ?

.answer--- sonja henie
.

question--- what is the name of the famous french writer , who wrote ' social contract ' ?

.answer--- rousseau
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous italian writer , who wrote ' the decameron ' ?

.answer--- boccaccio
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous british leader of the 20 century , who was the british prime minister during the second world war and led his country to victory ?

.answer--- churchill
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american city , which is called as ' the windy city ' ?

.answer--- chicago
.

question--- what is the name of the famous english philosopher of the 1600s , who founded ' empiricism ' ?

.answer--- john locke
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european sculptor , whose name is associated with the work ' the thinker ' ?

.answer--- rodin
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous ancient king , who built the ' hanging gardens of babylon ' ?

.answer--- nebuchadnezzar
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote ' rage of angels ' and ' master of the game ' ?

.answer--- sidney sheldon
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer of the childrens books , who wrote ' the secret seven ' series ?

.answer--- enid blyton
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english poet of the 1800s , who wrote ' to autumn ' and ' on a grecian ode ' ( popular odes ) ?

.answer--- john keats
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the more famous name of the french writer and philosopher , whose original name was ' francois marie arouet ' ?

.answer--- voltaire
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer of the 1800s , who wrote about the ' imitations of immortality ' ?

.answer--- wordsworth
.

question--- what is the name of the ' harbour ' , bombed by japan , which forced america to enter the second world war ?

.answer--- pearl harbour
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european classical music composer , whose name is associated with the musical piece named ' radetsky march ' ?

.answer--- johann strauss
.

question--- what is the name of the famous british scientist , whose name is associated with the invention of the ' miners safety lamp ' ?

.answer--- humphrey davy
.

question--- what was the name of the german commander , in the ' battle of el alamein ' ( during the second world war ) ?

.answer--- erwin rommel
.

question--- what is the name of the famous female american writer of the 1800s , who wrote the novel ' uncle toms cabin ' ?

.answer--- harriet beecher stowe
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american inventor , who invented the ' kodak camera ' ?

.answer--- george eastman
.

question--- what is the name of the two famous american inventors , who invented the ' apple computer ' ?

.answer--- steve jobs and wozniak
.

question--- what is the name of the two famous scientists , whose name is associated with the discovery of the ' dna structure ' ?

.answer--- watson and crick
.

question--- what is the name of the famous english novelist , who wrote the novel ' a passage to india ' ?

.answer--- e.m.forster
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous dutch painter , who painted the painting ' the artists studio ' ?

.answer--- vermeer
.

question--- what is the name of the famous hollywood director , whose first film was ' the sugarland express ' ?

.answer--- spielberg
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european music composer , whose name is associated with the ' new world ' symphony ?

.answer--- dvorak
.

question--- what is the name of the famous author , who wrote ' the thin man ' ?

.answer--- dashiell hammett
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous hollywood actress , who acted in the film ' sound of music ' ( a film on the ' von trapp ' family ) ?

.answer--- julie andrews
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous author , who wrote the best selling book ' catch 22 ' ?

.answer--- joseph heller
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous frenchman of the 1500s , who wrote the book ' centuries ' , and published it in the year 1555 ?

.answer--- nostradamus
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous british author , who was the first official ' poet laureate ' of britain ?

.answer--- john dryden
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote ' waiting for godot ' ?

.answer--- samuel beckett
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '
 

question--- what is the name of the famous musician ( pianist ) of poland , who became the president of poland in 1919 ?

.answer--- paderewski
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous italian classical music composer , who composed ' the william tell overture ' ?

.answer--- rossini
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous australian cricketer , who was the captain of team that won the 1987 reliance world cup ?

.answer--- allan border
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous german novelist , from whose novel , the rock music band ' steppenwolf ' took their name ?

.answer--- herman hesse
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous british church leader , who founded the ' salvation army ' ?

.answer--- william booth
.

question--- what is the name of the novelist , who wrote the novel ' goodbye mr chips ' ?

.answer--- james hilton
.

question--- what is the name of the famous writer in english , who wrote the novel ' from russia with love ' ?

.answer--- ian fleming
.correct answer from ' bhaumik '

question--- what is the name of the popular novelist, who wrote the best selling novel ' jaws ' ?

.answer--- peter benchley
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous european scientist of the 1800s , who described ' the theory of evolution ' as the ' survival of the fittest ' ?

.answer--- herbert spencer
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american inventor of the 1800s , who said that ' genius ' was 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ?

.answer--- edison
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous city in spain, in which the ' prado art gallery ' is located ?

.answer--- madrid
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european classical music composer, who wrote the music for the opera ' madame butterfly ' ?

.answer--- puccini
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european dramatist , who wrote the plays ' the barber of seville ' and ' the marriage of figaro ' ?

.answer--- beaumarchais
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous portuguese explorer of the 1500s , who discovered brazil in the year 1500 ?

.answer--- pedro alvares cabral
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous ' inventor ' , who invented the ' jet engine ' ?

.answer--- sir frank whittle
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous male hollywood actor of the 1950s , who acted in the 1952 film ' high noon ' (he won the oscar award ) ?

.answer--- gary cooper
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous british leader of the 1600s , who had the nicknames ' old ironsides ' and 'old noll ' ?

.answer--- cromwell
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer, who wrote the novel ' to kill a mocking bird ' ?

.answer--- harper lee
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer in english , who wrote the story ' kipps ' ( in the year 1905 ) ?

.answer--- h.g.wells
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male black american actor, whose name is associated with the film ' the lilies of the field ' ?

.answer--- sidney poitier
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous russian leader of the 1900s, who was the first leader of the soviet union from 1918 to 1924 ?

.answer--- lenin
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous british scientist of the 1800s, whose name is associated with the ' theory of natural selection ' ?

.answer--- darwin
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male hollywood actor and dancer, whose original name was ' frederick austerlitz ' ?

.answer--- fred astaire
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous city in turkey, in which the ' topkapi palace ' is present ?

.answer--- istanbul
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous male hollywood actor , who acted in the film ' taxi driver ' ( 1976 movie ) ?

.answer--- robert de niro
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous female english writer of the 1800s , who wrote the novel ' the mill on the floss ' ?

.answer--- george eliot
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous male swimmer ( 1984 olympic games ) , who had the title ' the albatross ' ?

.answer--- michael gross
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous city in america, in which the ' united nations ' building is located ?

.answer--- new york
.correct answer from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous french sculptor of the 1800s , who designed the ' statue of liberty ' ?

.answer--- bartholdi
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous norway scientist, whose name is associated with the ' kon tiki ' raft expedition ?

.answer--- thor heyerdahl
.

question--- what is the name of the famous english novelist, whose best known work is the ' lord of the flies ' ?

.answer--- golding
.

question--- what is the name of the famous british prime minister during the second world war, who was born in the blenheim palace ?

.answer--- churchill
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american inventor, whose name is associated with the ' gramaphone ' and the ' electric lamp ' ?

.answer--- edison
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous american film director, who directed the film ' the ten commandments ' ?

.answer--- cecil de mille
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous western woman fashion designer, whose name is associated with the ' mod fashions ' during the 1960s ?

.answer--- mary quant
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous american music composer, whose name is associated with the films ' westside story ' and ' on the town ' ?

.answer--- leonard bernstein
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous scottish explorer, who discovered the ' victoria falls ' in africa ?

.answer--- david livingstone
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer, whose name is associated with the ' jeeves books ' ?

.answer--- p.g.wodehouse
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous western music composer, who wrote music for ' the planets ' ?

.answer--- holst
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous japanese city , which is the largest city in the asia continent ?

.answer--- tokyo
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer of the 1800s (a history professor at cambridge), who wrote ' westward ho ' ?

.answer--- charles kingsley
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american music composer, whose name is associated with the folk opera ' porgy and bess ' ?

.answer--- george gershwin
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer of the ' victorian era ' , who wrote the novel ' under the greenwood tree ' ?

.answer--- thomas hardy
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- what is the name of the river in america, on which the capital city ' washington dc ' is situated ?

.answer--- potomac
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa ' and ' harsha '

question--- what is the name of the famous western rock music band, whose name is associated with the song ' hotel california ' ?

.answer--- eagles
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous hollywood film director, who directed the films ' mrs miniver ' and ' the best years of our lives ' ?

.answer--- william wyler
.correct answers from ' anonymous ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous scientist, who was the director of the ' manhattan project '( the project which produced the first atom bomb ) ?

.answer--- oppenheimer
.correct answers from ' emmanuel ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female english writer of the 1800s, who wrote the novel ' ruth ' ?

.answer--- elizabeth gaskell
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european classical composer, who composed ' the magic flute ' ?

.answer--- mozart
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question---what is the name of the famous american actor, who acted in the film ' forrest gump '( he won the oscar award ) ?

.answer--- tom hanks
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european painter, whose name is associated with the painting ' the anatomy lesson of dr tulp ' ?

.answer--- rembrandt
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous austrian scientist monk, whose name is associated with ' the fundamental laws of genetics ' ?

.answer--- gregor mendel
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous personality( during the times of the american revolution), who wrote ' the rights of man ' ?

.answer--- thomas paine
.

question--- what is the name of the famous hollywood actress, who won oscars for the films ' gone with the wind ' and ' a street car named desire '

.answer--- vivien leigh
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american author, who wrote ' little women ' ?

.answer--- louisa may alcott
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous russian woman cosmanaut, who was the ' first woman in space ' ?

.answer--- valentina tereshkova
.correct answers from ' imtiaz ahamed ' and ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous author, who wrote ' the playboy of the western world ' ?

.answer--- john millington synge
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous musician, whose name is associated with the rock opera ' jesus christ superstar ' ?

.answer--- andrew lloyd weber
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american senator, whose name was associated with the ' anti communist witchunt ' in the 1950s ?

.answer--- joseph macarthy
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american president, who dismissed general douglas macarthur, for making political statements, in the year 1951 ?

.answer--- truman
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous rock music ' band ' , of which freddie mercury was a band member ?

.answer--- queen
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous author, who wrote the book ' 1984 ' ( big brother ) ?

.answer--- george orwell
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous hollwood actor, who was the hero of the film ' the african queen ', which was based on the hemingway novel ?

.answer--- humphrey bogart
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous painter, whose name is associated with the ' sistine chapel ' ?

.answer--- michelangelo
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous american author, who wrote ' east of eden ' ?

.answer--- john steinbeck
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the boxer, who had the nickname ' the bronx bull ' (the film ' raging bull ' was based on this boxer ) ?

.answer--- jake la motta
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the ' musical group ' ,which took its name from the ' german arts movement ' that began in 1919 ?

.answer--- bauhaus
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female singer, who had the nickname ' pearl ' ( she died in 1970 ) ?

.answer--- janis joplin
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the novelist, who wrote the novel ' schindlers ark ' ( the film ' schindlers list ' was based on this novel ) ?

.answer--- thomas keneally
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous actress, who became famous with the film ' the blue angel ' ?

.answer--- marlene dietrich
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european leader, who led the winning side in the ' spanish civil war ' ?

.answer--- general franco
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous pop and rock singer, whose original name was ' anna mae bullock ' ?

.answer--- tina turner
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

answer--- what is the name of the famous british university, which was, the first british university ?

.answer--- oxford
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english poet of the 1800s, whose name is associated with ' the lake district town of grasmere ' ?

.answer--- wordsworth
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous russian writer, who wrote ' the gulag archipelago ' ?

.answer--- solzhenitsyn
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name given to the bomb dropped on hiroshima ?

.answer--- little boy
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- who has been called ' the wisest american ' ( he lived during the american revolution time ) ?

.answer--- benjamin franklin
.correct answer from ' anonymous '

question--- which 78 year old artist had her first exhibition at a new york drug store in 1938 ?

.answer--- grandma moses
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- who directed the films ' 1941 ' and ' the color purple ' ?

.answer--- steven spielberg
.

question--- which biblical character wore a ' coat of many colours ' ?

.answer--- joseph
.

question--- who wrote the novel ' madame bovary ', which was published in 1857 ?

.answer--- gustave flaubert
.correct answer from ' imtiaz ahmed '

question--- which area of asia was entered and taken over by china in the year 1951 ?

.answer--- tibet
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- which english astronomer wrote the books ' the nature of the universe ' and ' frontiers of astronomy ' ?

.answer--- fred hoyle
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer in english, who wrote ' under milk wood ' ?

.answer--- dylan thomas
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european city , in which you can find the ' van gogh museum ' ?

.answer--- amsterdam
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous inventor, who introduced the ' sewing machine ' in 1851 ?

.answer--- singer
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european writer, on whose play , composer rossini musical ' the barber of seville ' was based ?

.answer--- beaumarchais
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous female american black jazz singer, who was known as ' the first lady of song ' ?

.answer--- ella fitzgerald
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous english writer, who wrote the play ' tamburlaine ' ?

.answer--- christopher marlowe
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous european painter, whose name is associated with the painting ' laughing cavalier ' ?

.answer--- franz hals
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer, who wrote the play ' french without tears ' ?

.answer--- terence rattigan
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous inventor, whose name is associated with the ' coca cola ' ?

.answer--- pemberton
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous scottish poet, who wrote the words for ' auld lang syne ' ?

.answer--- robert burns
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous polish astronomer of the 1500s , who is known as the ' father of modern astronomy ' ?

.answer--- copernicus
.correct answers from 'v.k.handa' and 'anonymous'

question--- what is the name of the ' palace ' in london, in which the ' archbishop of canterbury ' lives ?

.answer--- lambeth palace
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the ship, which carried the pilgrim fathers from plymouth to america in 1620 across the atlantic ocean ?

.answer--- mayflower
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous scottish mathematician, who invented the ' logarithms ' ?

.answer--- napier
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous european writer , who wrote ' hedda gabler ' ?

.answer--- ibsen
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous palace in england, in which queen victoria was born in 1819 ?

.answer--- kensington palace
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous female aviator, who flew across the atlantic ocean, single, in 1932 ?

.answer--- amelia earhart
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous european painter, whose name is associated with the painting ' impression sunrise ' ?

.answer--- monet
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous french leader, who was defeated in the ' battle of waterloo ' ?

.answer--- napoleon
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer in english of the 1900s, who wrote ' pygmalion '( he has won the nobel prize for literature ) ?

.answer--- george bernard shaw
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous british inventor, who invented television in 1926( he demonstrated the first television pictures in 1926 ) ?

.answer--- john logie baird
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the more famous name of the hollywood actress singer, whose original name was ' frances gumm ' ?

.answer--- judy garland
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer from the west, who wrote ' nana ' ?

.answer--- emile zola
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

Question--- what is the name of the famous writer, who wrote ' three men in a boat ' ?

.answer--- jerome k jerome
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous italian film director, who directed the film ' stromboli ' in the year 1950 ?

.Answer--- Rossellini
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous writer, who wrote the childrens classic ' the wind in the willows ' ?

.answer--- kenneth grahame
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa '

question--- what is the name of the famous french writer of the 1800s, who wrote ' the hunchback of notredame ' ?

.answer--- victor hugo
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous finnish software engineer, who developed ' linux ' computer operating system in the 1990s ?

.answer--- linus torvalds
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous writer, who wrote the novel ' rebecca '( this novel was made into a film by hitchcock ) ?

.answer--- daphne du maurier
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous ancient greek philosopher, who was the teacher of ' alexander the great ' ?

.answer--- aristotle
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous french writer of the 1800s, who wrote the book ' 20,000 leagues ender the sea ' ?

.answer--- jules verne
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous inventor, whose name is associated with ' vulcanized rubber ' (in the year 1839) ?

.answer--- charles goodyear
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous american film director, who directed the classic silent film ' the birth of a nation ' ?

.answer--- d.w.griffith
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous austrian born psychologist, whose name is associated with the 'inferiority complex' ?

.answer--- alfred adler
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous american writer, who wrote the books ' tropic of cancer ' and ' tropic of capricorn ' ?

.answer--- henry miller
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous british pop music band, whose name is associated with the film ' let it be ' ?

.answer--- beatles
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous european classical composer of the 1700s, who composed the ' coffee cantata ' ?

.answer--- j.s.bach
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous french revolutionary leader, who is associated with the statement ' liberty, equality and fraternity ' ?

.answer--- rousseau
.

question--- what is the name of the famous american jazz musician, who had the nickname ' satchmo ' ?

.answer--- louis armstrong
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous english actor of the silent era, who acted in the film 'lime light' ?

.answer--- charlie chaplin
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the more famous name of the chinese philosopher of the ancient times,whose original name was 'kung fu tsu ' ?

.answer--- confucius
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

question--- what is the name of the famous european marathon runner, who was named as the ' immortal loser ' in the 1908 olympics ?

.answer--- dorando pietri
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous European music composer of the 19 century, who wrote ' the Hungarian rhapsodies' ?

.answer--- liszt
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous English military leader( two centuries ago), who is supposed to have said ' England expects Everyman to do his duty ' ?

.Answer--- nelson
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous writer in English , who wrote ' the king solomons mines' ?

.Answer--- rider haggard
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous English cricketer, who was the first English batsman to score the test century in the year 1880 ?

.Answer--- w.g.grace
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous writer in English, who wrote the novel ' the doors of perception' ?

.Answer--- aldous huxley
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous personality, who founded the ' red cross ' in 1864 ?

.Answer--- Henri dunant
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous European composer, who composed the opera ' Aida ' ?

.Answer--- Verdi
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous female American black singer, who acted in the film ' the bodyguard' with Kevin Costner ?

.Answer--- Whitney Houston
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous city in Germany, in which you can find the ' Brandenburg gate ' ?

.Answer--- Berlin
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous writer in English , who wrote ' the moon and the six pence' ?

.Answer--- Somerset Maugham
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous European writer, who wrote the play ' waiting for godot' ?

.Answer--- Samuel Beckett
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous south American revolutionary leader of the 1800s, after whom the country Bolivia is named after ?

.Answer--- Simon bolivar
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous European film director, who directed the film ' the seventh seal ' ?

.Answer--- ingmar bergman
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous French engineer, who designed and built the ' suez canal ' ?

.Answer--- Ferdinand de Lesseps
.correct answer from ' sujith nair'

Question--- what is the name of the famous French leader, who wrote the books ' the edge of the sword' and ' the army of the future ' ?

.Answer--- Charles de Gaulle
.

Question--- what is the name of the famous writer in English , who wrote ' the turn of the screw' ?

.Answer--- Henry James
.

Question--- what is the name of the famous Hollywood actor, whose original name was ' Archibald leach ' ?

.Answer--- Cary Grant
.

Question--- what is the name of the famous male American pop and folk singer, whose name is associated with the music album ' the times they are a changing' ( 1964 ) ?

.Answer--- bob dylan
.

Question--- what is the name of the famous Hollywood actress, who acted in the film ' the seven year itch' ?

.Answer--- Marilyn Monroe
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous American painter, whose studio was known as ' the factory '. ?

.Answer--- Andy Warhol
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous film director, who directed the films ' notorious' , 'rear window' and ' vertigo' ?

.Answer--- Hitchcock
.correct answers from ' sujith nair' and ' v.k.handa' 

Question--- what is the name of the famous European music composer, who wrote the operas ' turandot' and ' Madame butterfly' ?

.Answer--- Puccini
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the band leader, who was known as ' the king of swing ' ?

.Answer--- benny goodman
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous writer in English, who wrote Ivanhoe and rob roy ?

.Answer--- Walter Scott
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous American , who was the US chief of staff, from 1939 to 1947 , during the second world war ?

.Answer--- George C Marshall
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous Frenchman, who is known for reviving the Olympic games in 1896 ?

.Answer--- coubertin
.correct answers from 'v.k.handa' , 'sujith nair' and ' anonymous'

Question--- what is the name of the famous British inventor during the industrial revolution, whose name is associated with the ' spinning mule' ?

.Answer--- Samuel crompton
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous American city, which was previously known as ' new Amsterdam ' ?

.Answer--- new york
.correct answers from 'sujith nair' and 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous European painter, who painted the painting ' the adoration of the magi '. ?

.Answer--- Rubens
.

Question--- what is the more famous name of the female Hollywood movie star , whose original name was ' appolonia chalupek '. ?

.Answer--- pola negri
.correct answer from ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous American science fiction writer, who wrote ' fahrenheit 451' and ' the martian chronicles' ?

.Answer--- Ray Bradbury
.correct answers from ' v.k.handa' and 'sujith nair'

Question--- what is the name of the famous ancient Egyptian king, whose tomb was discovered near Luxor, in 1922 ?

.Answer--- Tutankhamen
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous Russian writer, who wrote ' war and peace' ?

.Answer--- Tolstoy
.correct answers from 'sujith nair' and ' v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous writer in English, who wrote the play ' look back in anger ' ?

.Answer--- John Osborne
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous female British writer of the 1800 s , who wrote ' silas marner ' and whose original name was Mary Anne evans ?

.Answer--- George Eliot
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the well known American inventor, who invented the ' frozen food process' in 1925 ?

.Answer--- Clarence Birdseye
.correct answers from 'v.k.handa' and ' sum .h'

Question--- what is the name of the famous British humorist and artist, who popularised limerick in his book ' the book of nonsense' in the year 1946 ?

.Answer--- Edward Lear
.correct answers from 'v.k.handa' and 'subhrojit Saha'

Question--- what is the name of the famous british statesman and explorer, whose name is associated with the diamonds of south Africa ?

.Answer--- Cecil Rhodes
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous western music composer of the twentieth century, who composed 'Gloriana' to commomerate the coronation of queen Elizabeth 2 ?

.Answer--- Benjamin Britten
.correct answer from 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous Greek personality, who is known as ' the father of western medicine' ?

.Answer--- Hippocrates
.correct answers from 'sujith nair' and 'v.k.handa'

Question--- what is the name of the famous French philosopher, who is associated with the phrase ' I think therefore iam' ?

.Answer--- Descartes
.correct answers from 'v.k.handa' and 'sujith nair'