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Distance runner born in Somalia, won olympic gold fof 5 x 10 000m in 2012

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Mo Farah

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Andy Murray

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3 winners of F1 championship.

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Lewis Hamilton
Jensen Button
Damon Hill

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Labour Deputy Prime Minister in Churchill's Government 1945-1951 who created NHS, nationalized coal and steel industry and improved workers' conditions.

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Clement Attlee

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Known for Beveridge Report 1941, Liberal MP in House of Lords

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William (Lord) Beveridge
+ "Giant Evils':
Want
Disease
Ignorance
Squalor
Idleness

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Conservative MP responsible for eductaion (1941), known for The Buttler Act = The education Act of 1944
(free secondary in England and Wales)

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Richard Austen Butler, Lord Butler

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Welsh poet and writer known for radio play "Under Milk Wood" and poem "Do not go gentle into that good night".

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Dylan Thomas

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4 Nobel Prize Winners in literature

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1907 Rudyard Kipling; novelist and poet
1983 Sir William Golding; novelist
1995 Seamus Heaney; poet

2005 Harold Pinter; playwright

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Novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling is known for poems and [2 other works]

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"Just so stories" and "The Jungle book"

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Received Nobel Prize in 1945 for discovering penicillin.

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Alexander Fleming

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British scientist linked with Cambridge University; won Nobel Prize in 1962

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Francis Crick; DNA structure

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Popular novelist known for detective stories.

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Agatha Christie
+Hercules Poirot

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Popular novelist known for James Bond series.

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Ian Fleming

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Popular novelist known for "The Lord of The Rings" trilogy.

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JRR Tolkien

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The Man Booker Prize is given for fiction since 1968. It is given to authors of The Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe.
Who are 3 laureates of this prize.

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Hilary Mantel
Julian Barnes
Ian McEwan

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Jane Austen is known for [2 titles]
"Pride and Prejudice" and
"Sense and Sensibility"

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"Pride and Prejudice" and
​"Sense and Sensibility"

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Author of
"Pride and Prejudice" and
​"Sense and Sensibility"

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Jane Austen

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Charles Dickens is known for [3 titles]

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"Oliwer Twist",
"Great Expectations" and
"A Christmas Carlol"

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Dickensian Scrooge means [...] and comes from novella entitled [...]

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a mean person and comes from "A Christmas Carol" (1843)

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Dickensian Mr Micawber means [...] and comes from novella entitled [...]

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always helpful person and comes from "A Christmas Carol" (1843)

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Robert Louis Stevenson is known for [3 titles]

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"Treasure Island"'
"Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and
"Kidnapped"

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Known for
"Treasure Island"'
"Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and
"Kidnapped"

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Novelist and poet born in Dorset, England, describing rural society his novels.

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Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy is known for [2 novel titles]

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"Far From the Madding Crowd" and
"judge the Obscure"

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Poet and novelist known for
"Far From the Madding Crowd" and
"Jude the Obscure"

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Thomas Hardy.

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Scottish doctor famous for his Sherlock Holmes stories

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Scottish doctor famous for his Sherlock Holmes stories.

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Evelyn Waugh is known for 2 novels, one satirical and one saga.

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"Decline and fall and Scoop" and
"Brideshead Revisited"

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Satirical novel "Decline and fall and Scoop" and
saga "Brideshead Revisited" are by

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Evelyn Waugh

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Poet and novelist Sir Kingsley Amis is known for [a novel]

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"Lucky Jim"

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Poet and novelist known for novel entitled
"Lucky Jim"

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Sir Kingsley Amis

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A novelist inspired by religious themes.

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Graham Greene

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4 novels by Graham Greene.

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"Our Man in Havana"
"The Honorary Consul"
"The Heart of the Matter"
and
"Brighton Rock"

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"Our Man in Havana"
"The Honorary Consul"
"The Heart of the Matter"
and
"Brighton Rock" are novels by

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Graham Greene

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Anglo-Saxon poem [title] tells of its hero’s battles against monsters.

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"Beowulf"

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"Beowulf" is an [...]

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Anglo-Saxon poem that tells of its hero’s battles against monsters.

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Middle Ages poem by Geofrey Chaucer is entitled

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"Canterbury Tales"

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Shakespeare wrote sonnets which are [how many] lines long?

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14

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"Sir Gawain and Green Knight" is a [period] poem.

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Middle Ages

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John Milton is known for poem entitled

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"Paradise Lost"

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"Paradise Lost" linked with Reformation is a poem written by

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John Milton

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4 recent/contemporary poets

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Ted Hughes
John Masefield
Sir Walter De La Mare
Sir John Betjeman

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Ted Hughes
John Masefield
Sir Walter De La Mare
Sir John Betjeman

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Recent/contemporary poets.

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Two 1st World War poets.

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Wilfred Owen and
Siegfried Sassoon

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Wilfred Owen and
Siegfried Sassoon are

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1st World War poets.

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7 most famous 19-century poets

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Lord Byron
Percy Shelley
William Blake
John Keates
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert and Elizabeth Browning

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Lord Byron
Percy Shelley
William Blake
John Keates
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert and Elizabeth Browning are

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most famous 19-century poets

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"Some of the best-known poets are burried or commemorated in [...] in Westminster Abbey."

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Poet's Corner

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"Oh, to be in England now that April's there
And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England - Now!"

is a quote from poem [...] by [...]

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"Home Thoughts From Abroad" by Robert Browning

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" She walks in beauty, like the night
of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her etes"

Is a poem [...] by [...] written for [...]

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"She Walks In Beauty" by George Byron, written for his wife Anne Isabella Byron

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"I wander's lonely as a cloud
That floats an high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils"

is a quote from poem [...] by [...]

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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

William Wordsworth

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"Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

is a poem [...] by [...]

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"The Tyger" by William Blake.

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"What passing - bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons."

is a poem [...] by [...]

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"Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen

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Flower; symbol of England

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the rose

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the thistle

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the daffodil

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the shamrock

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18th century furniture designer

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Thomas Chippendale

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Art deco ceramics designer

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Clarice Cliff

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20th century interior designer

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Sir Terence Conran

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3 famous fashion designers

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Mary Quant
Vivienne Westwood
Alexander McQueen

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4 towns in wchich famous cathedrals and churches were built during Middle Ages period

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Canterbury
Durham
Lincoln
Salisbury

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Norman castle keep built on the orders of William the Conqueror is called [...]

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The White Tower of London (Tower of London)

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An architecturally significant Elizabethan country house in England, built between 1590 and 1597, designed by the architect Robert Smythson
in Renaissance style architecture in Derbyshire

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Hardwick Hall

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Designer of Queen's House at Greenwich and
The Banqueting House in Whitehead, London

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Inigo Jones

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The present church od St Paul's in London , dating from the late 17th century, was designed in the English Baroque style by [...]

Its construction, was part of a major rebuilding programme which took place in the city after the Great Fire of London in 1666.

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Sir Christopher Wren

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Scottish designer of Dumfries House in Scotland and Royal Crescent in Bath

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Robert Adam

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4 objects built in neogothic style

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The Houses of Parliament in London
St Pancras Station in London
Manchester Town Hall
Sheffield Town Hall

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Who designed
Cenotaph in Whitehall, London
(important during Annual Remembrance Day, service attended by Queen, politicians and foreign ambassadors)

and
New Delhi Seat of Government in India

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Sir edwin Lutyens

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3 contemporary architects

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Dame Zaha Hadid
Sir Norman Foster
Lord Richard Rogers

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Designed the grounds around country houses so that the landscape appeared to be natural
with grass, trees, lakes. He used to say that place had 'capabilities'.

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Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

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Duo who designed houses along with colorful gardens.

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Sir Edward Lutyens (houses) with Gertrude Jekyll (gardens).

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In 1896 first movie/s were shown, what's the most famous filmmaker of the time?

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Sir Charles (Charlie) Chaplin

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3 famous gardens in England

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Kew Gardens
Sissinghurst Gardens
Hidcote Gardens

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2 famous gardens in Scotland

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Crathes Castle Gardens and
Inveraray Castle Gardens

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Famous garden in Wales

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Bodnaut Garden

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Famous garden in Northern Ireland

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Mount Stewart Garden

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2 famous '30 filmmakers

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Sir Alexander Korda
Sir Alfred Hitchcock

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Famous British Director who made "Blade Runner" and "Hannibal" with Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore

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Ridley Scott

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Title of the movie which was boosting morale during WW2

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"In Which We Serve"

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Comedies made in the '50s and '60s [3 titles]

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"Carry on"
"The Ladykillers"
"Passport to Pimlico"

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Ealing studios were used to give expertise in 2 highest grossing film franchises. They were

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"Harry Potter" and
"James Bond"

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[Name] received 4 Oscars for animated films, three featuring Wallace and Gromit

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Nick Park

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4 famous British actors

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Sir Lawrence Olivier
Sir Rex Harrison
Richard burton
David Niven

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2 male actors who received Oscars

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Sir Anthony Hopkins and
Colin Firth

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3 female actors who received Oscars

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Tilda (Katherine Mathilda) Swinton,
Kate Winslet and
Dame Judi Dench

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Famous filmmaker who made "The 39 Steps" in 1935

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Sir Alfred Hitchcock

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Famous filmmaker who made "Brief Encounter" in 1945 and
"Lawrence of Arabia" in 1962

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David Lean

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Famous filmmaker who made "The Third Man" in 1949

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Carol Reed

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Frank Launder

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Famous filmmaker who made "Women in Love" in 1969

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Ken Russell

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Famous filmmaker who made "Don't Look Now" in 1973

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Nicolas Roeg

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Famous filmmaker who made "Chariots of Fire" in 1981

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Hugh Hudson

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Famous filmmaker who made "The Killing Fields" in 1984

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Roland Joffe

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Famous filmmaker who made "Four Weddings and a Funeral" in 1994

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Mike Newell

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Famous filmmaker who made "Touching the Void"

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Kevin MacDonald