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Q1. "Why don't you come up sometime and see me" was a famous line by Mae West in the 1933 film "She Done Him Wrong". Which actor did she say it to?

A
Henry Fonda
B
John Wayne
C
Gary Cooper
D
Cary Grant
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Q2. Who was the first man sent into space, in 1961?

A
Yura Silliman
B
Yuri Gagarin
C
Gentleman Gaga
D
Dadoo Runrin
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Q3. In England, the "dissolution of the monasteries" occurred under the reign of which king?

A
Henry VIII
B
George IV
C
William I
D
Richard III
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Q4. He is a playwright, screenwriter, film director and essayist with a Pulitzer Prize (1984) and Tony and Oscar award nominations; he is married to singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon; what is his name?

A
Arthur Miller
B
David Mamet
C
Alan Ayckbourn
D
Alan Bennett
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Q5. Talk-show host Jack Paar once welcomed which actress to The Tonight Show by saying, "Here they are, ... ", that became the title of her biography by Raymond Strait?

A
Jayne Mansfield
B
Marilyn Monroe
C
Gina Lollobrigida
D
Jacqueline Onassis
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Q6. What is the off-stage name of the artist known as Fatboy Slim?

A
Gordon Jackson
B
Roger Waters
C
Norman Cook
D
Mike McGear
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Q7. As a child, Serbian-American inventor, engineer and scientist Nikola Tesla had a beloved pet called Macak, which was what?

A
A tortoise
B
A cockatoo
C
A cat
D
A pigeon
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