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

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

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

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

.answer--- louisa may alcott
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question--- what is the name of the famous russian woman cosmanaut, who was the ' first woman in space ' ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

.answer--- solzhenitsyn
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