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This prolific German composer wrote over 600 compositions, symphonies and works of chamber music in less than 20 years before he died of typhoid fever in 1828 at age 31. Who was he?

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Born May 29,1903 in England with the name Leslie Townes Hope, his friends in school called him Les Hope or Hopeless, so he changed his first name to what?

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Born in 1943, he studied at Cambridge University, trained as a lawyer, played football for Real Madrid, won the 1968 Spanish Song Festival, and became one of the most popular singers in the world. Who is he?

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In 1997, the British returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule. In Dec. 1999, what other European country returned what other small region, not far from Hong Kong, back to the Chinese?

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Which 1995 film, based on an 1811 Jane Austin novel, starred Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant?

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The Chinese are generally given credit for how many of these three inventions: the abacus, gunpowder, the magnetic compass?

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He has purchased properties in London and Windsor, England, Nice, France, and Atlanta, Georgia. Vintage cars, designer clothes, jewels and flowers are among his passions. Who is this entertainer?

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Which tennis player won the Wimbledon mens' singles championship 7 of the last 8 years of the 20th century?

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Dick Cheney served in what position on the cabinet of President George H. Bush?

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A recent travel survey informs us that the #1 tourist destination of African -American travellers is not Disneyland, or Las Vegas, but this capital city (... and it's not Washington, D.C.) What is it?

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What family was featured in the musical "Sound of Music"?

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Who is the male hero of the fairy tale Cinderella?

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What country, part of the British empire, has been called "The Jewel in the Crown"?

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The Bering Strait separates two countries?

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In this 1992 film comedy, Nicholas Cage loses his fiance played by Sara Jessica Parker in a Las Vegas poker game to mobster James Caan, and a corps of "flying Elvises" helps him rescue her. What is the film title?