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

.answer--- erle stanley gardner
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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
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question--- what is the name of the famous writer in english , who wrote the novel ' treasure island ' ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

.answer--- eugene o neill
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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
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question--- what is the name of the famous french novelist , who wrote the novel ' madame bovary ' ?

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

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

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

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

.answer--- gilbert and sullivan
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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
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question--- what is the name of the famous writer , who wrote ' the secret life of walter mitty ' ?

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

.answer--- charlie parker
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