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1

Which couple fell for each other while making the 2005 action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith?

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie played married assassins; he and Jennifer Aniston announced their separation in January 2005, months before the film opened, and he married Jolie at a French château in 2014.

2

In Friends, which two characters argued about being 'on a break'?

Ross & Rachel split in season 3: the night they agreed to take a break, he slept with Chloe from the copy shop, and Rachel found out the next day.

3

Which British royal couple married at Westminster Abbey in April 2011?

Prince William & Catherine Middleton drew about a million people to the route back to Buckingham Palace; later he drove his bride out of the palace in his father's Aston Martin, with 'Just Wed' on its number plate.

4

Which couple, first linked by a 2002 music video, married in a private ceremony on April 4, 2008?

Beyonce & Jay-Z made no announcement of the wedding; she calls four her special number, since both were born on the 4th of a month and married on the 4th, and she titled her 2011 album 4.

5

Which Shakespearean lovers are married in secret by Friar Laurence the day after they meet?

Romeo & Juliet meet at a Capulet ball and marry the next day; Friar Laurence agrees in the hope of ending their families' feud, but his sleeping-potion plan ends with both lovers dead.

6

Which pair played the on-screen couple in the 2018 film A Star Is Born?

Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga play Jackson Maine and Ally; Cooper, who also directed, cast her after watching her sing La Vie en rose at a cancer benefit.

7

Which royal couple's 1981 wedding was watched by an estimated 750 million television viewers worldwide?

Prince Charles & Lady Diana chose St Paul's over Westminster Abbey because it seated more guests; a nervous Diana muddled his names in her vows, calling him Philip Charles instead of Charles Philip.

8

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively first met on the set of which 2011 superhero film?

Green Lantern was shot in 2010, when Ryan Reynolds was still married to Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively was dating a Gossip Girl co-star; the two began dating in October 2011 and married in 2012.

9

Which fictional couple from The Office (US) got married at Niagara Falls during season 6?

Jim & Pam, guessing their guests would dance down the aisle to Chris Brown's Forever, slipped away first and were married by the captain of the Maid of the Mist boat below the falls.

10

Which couple met filming Days of Thunder and married on Christmas Eve 1990?

Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman played a racing driver and the doctor who falls for him; they adopted two children before Cruise filed for divorce in February 2001, weeks after their tenth anniversary.

11

Which Pride and Prejudice couple marry only after she angrily rejects his first proposal?

Elizabeth Bennet & Mr. Darcy: she refuses him for his pride and for parting her sister from Bingley, then changes her mind after he quietly pays to rescue her sister Lydia's reputation.

12

What was Victoria Beckham's famous nickname from her pop group days?

Posh Spice was one of the nicknames a Top of the Pops magazine article gave the group in 1996; Victoria Adams began dating footballer David Beckham in 1997, and the press dubbed the pair Posh and Becks.

13

Which couple's affair helped end the Roman Republic after their defeat at Actium in 31 BC?

Cleopatra & Mark Antony lost their fleet to Octavian at Actium; he invaded Egypt the next year and both took their own lives.

14

John Legend wrote his hit song "All of Me" for which model and TV personality?

Chrissy Teigen, John Legend's wife, inspired 'All of Me'; the song's video closes with footage from their September 2013 wedding at Lake Como, Italy.

15

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet first played lovers in which film, years before reuniting as a married couple?

Titanic (1997) cast them as Jack and Rose; they reunited in 2008 as an unhappily married couple in Revolutionary Road, which Winslet persuaded her then-husband Sam Mendes to direct.

16

Which couple from the Twilight series consists of a human girl and a vampire?

Bella & Edward: he admits he wanted to kill her on her first day at school, so strong was the pull of her blood, and tried to stay away; she becomes a vampire herself only in the final book.

17

What did the media call Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's January 2020 step back from royal duties?

Megxit mashes Meghan with exit, echoing Brexit; the couple's announcement on 8 January 2020 came without the family being consulted on its timing, and the Queen held crisis talks at Sandringham five days later.

18

Which husband-and-wife scientists shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel?

Marie & Pierre Curie: the French nomination at first named only Pierre and Becquerel, until a Swedish mathematician on the committee tipped Pierre off and his complaint got Marie added.

19

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West married in 2014 in which European city?

Florence hosted the 24 May 2014 ceremony at the Forte di Belvedere; the evening before, the couple entertained their guests at the Palace of Versailles, then flew them to Italy for the wedding.

20

Which Disney animated couple sings the duet "A Whole New World"?

Aladdin & Jasmine sing it on a magic carpet ride; the pop version by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle topped the US chart in March 1993, ending the 14-week run of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You.

21

Why did Napoleon have his marriage to Joséphine annulled in 1810?

She bore him no heir, and Napoleon wanted a son to secure his dynasty; within months he had married again, and his second wife, Marie Louise, gave him one in 1811.

22

Which couple in The Notebook fall in love one 1940s summer in Seabrook, South Carolina?

Noah & Allie are parted when her wealthy parents take her away at summer's end; in the film he writes to her every day for a year, but her mother intercepts every letter.

23

Why did Jada Pinkett lose the part of Will Smith's girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

She was too short: at five feet, Jada was judged too small beside the 6ft 2in star, so Nia Long got the role; she and Will became friends instead, began dating in 1995 and married on New Year's Eve 1997.

24

Which couple's tumultuous 1960s folk-scene relationship is chronicled in the 2024 film A Complete Unknown?

Bob Dylan & Joan Baez: already a star, she introduced the then-unknown Dylan to her audiences and brought him on stage in 1963; she later turned the romance into her 1975 song Diamonds & Rust.

25

What distinction does the eldest son of John and Abigail Adams hold?

Sixth President of the United States: John Quincy Adams took office in 1825; his father lived to see it, dying on 4 July 1826, but Abigail had died in 1818, seven years too soon.

26

Which country star proposed to June Carter on stage in London, Ontario, in February 1968?

Johnny Cash proposed in the middle of a concert at the London Gardens arena; June had agreed to marry him only once he was off drugs, and they wed a week later in Franklin, Kentucky.

27

In Pixar's Up, what is the name of the waterfall Carl and Ellie dreamed of visiting?

Paradise Falls was modelled on the real Angel Falls in Venezuela; the opening montage of Carl and Ellie's life is one of animation's great tear-jerkers.

28

Which First Lady, wife of the 44th President, was a lawyer and hospital administrator?

Michelle Robinson Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin in Chicago, where she met Barack Obama in 1989 as his mentor. She later became an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

29

Whose Great Depression crime spree across the central US ended in a 1934 Louisiana ambush?

Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow drove a stolen Ford V8 into a roadside trap set by ex-Texas Ranger Frank Hamer's six-man posse, who opened fire while the car was still moving, on May 23, 1934.

30

Which series follows the Duke of Hastings, Simon Basset, courting debutante Daphne in Regency London?

Bridgerton's first season has Simon and Daphne only pretend to court, to raise her prospects and spare him the matchmaking mothers, before the ruse turns into a real romance.

31

Which married couple starred as George and Martha in 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor starred as the warring married couple George and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Their real-life romance was equally dramatic — they married twice (1964 and 1975) and divorced twice.

32

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, who married each other twice, were both born in which country?

Mexico produced them both, Kahlo in Coyoacán and Rivera in Guanajuato; her parents called the 1929 match of the huge muralist and their slight daughter a marriage between an elephant and a dove.

33

Which couple met on the set of The Mexican in 2000 but began dating only later?

Julia Roberts & Danny Moder met when he was a cameraman on the film and still married; after his divorce they wed at her Taos ranch on July 4, 2002, and her company Red Om is his surname backwards.

34

In Greek mythology, which couple's love story has one partner descend to the underworld to retrieve the other?

Orpheus & Eurydice: his music moved the rulers of the underworld to let her go, on condition he not look back on the way up; in the best-known telling he turned at the last moment and lost her.

35

Which political couple included a president and a wife titled 'Spiritual Leader of the Nation'?

Juan & Eva Peron: Evita was put forward for vice-president in 1951, but the army opposed it and she stood aside; Congress gave her the title shortly before she died of cancer at 33.

36

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, who became a couple in 1983, played an amnesiac socialite and a carpenter in which 1987 comedy?

Overboard came four years after Hawn and Russell fell for each other on Swing Shift; they had first met years earlier on a Disney musical, when he was a teenager and she was making her film debut.

37

Which Harry Potter couple bicker for years before marrying and having children named Rose and Hugo?

Ron & Hermione bicker through seven books; in 2014 J.K. Rowling admitted she had paired them as 'a form of wish fulfilment' and said the two would probably have needed relationship counselling.

38

Which comedian played straight man to his wife Gracie Allen and, in his eighties, played God on film?

George Burns began as the comic of the act, with Gracie feeding him lines, until the pair noticed audiences laughed at her straight lines instead and swapped roles; they married in 1926.

39

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's wedding took place in July 2000 in which California city?

Malibu hosted the wedding; the next year Pitt guest-starred on his wife's sitcom Friends, playing a Thanksgiving guest who had hated her character since high school.

40

Which Wuthering Heights couple's love is described as transcending death?

Catherine & Heathcliff are the pair in Wuthering Heights; Catherine's cry 'I am Heathcliff' comes as she admits she cannot marry him because of his low status.

41

Which French existentialist couple wrote The Second Sex and Being and Nothingness?

Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir became a couple in 1929, when he proposed they 'sign a two-year lease' on the relationship; it lasted 51 years, until his death in 1980.

42

Which couple's romance triggered the 1936 abdication crisis?

King Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American socialite, saying he could not carry out his duties 'without the help and support of the woman I love.'

43

Which 1967 film was the last to pair Katharine Hepburn with Spencer Tracy, who died days after filming?

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner wrapped 17 days before Tracy died in June 1967; Hepburn, his longtime partner, said she never watched the finished film because it would be too painful.

44

John and Jacqueline Kennedy married in 1953 at St. Mary's Church in which Rhode Island city?

Newport hosted the wedding in September 1953; ten days earlier a flood in designer Ann Lowe's workshop ruined the bride's gown; she remade it in time, never told the family and went uncredited.

45

Which couple, together since 1986 but never married, includes the founder of Harpo Productions?

Oprah Winfrey & Stedman Graham announced an engagement in November 1992, but the ceremony never took place; Harpo, the name of her company, is her first name spelled backwards.

46

Marilyn Monroe's third husband, whom she married in 1956, was which American playwright?

Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman, wrote the film The Misfits for Monroe, but the marriage broke down during the 1960 shoot and they divorced shortly before its 1961 premiere.

47

Grace Kelly gave up her Hollywood career in 1956 to marry the ruling prince of which tiny state?

Monaco: Kelly met Prince Rainier III when a photo shoot brought her to his palace during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival; they married in April 1956 and she retired from acting at 26.

48

Which Victorian couple courted by letter and married secretly in 1846, inspiring Sonnets from the Portuguese?

Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning wed secretly at St Marylebone Parish Church on 12 September 1846 and slipped away to the Continent that month; her father disinherited her, as he did each of his children who married.

49

Which celebrity couple's 2011 marriage lasted just 72 days?

Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries married on 20 August 2011 before television cameras; she filed for divorce on 31 October, 72 days later, and he answered by seeking an annulment on the grounds of fraud.

50

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall first appeared together in which 1944 film of a Hemingway novel?

To Have and Have Not gave the 19-year-old Bacall her film debut; so nervous that she shook, she kept her chin pressed to her chest and her eyes raised, the pose that became her trademark, 'The Look'.

51

Which wife of Henry VIII was beheaded with a sword, not an axe, at the Tower of London in 1536?

Anne Boleyn was convicted on 15 May 1536 and beheaded four days later by an expert swordsman Henry had brought over from France; he was betrothed to Jane Seymour the very next day.

52

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who married in 1840, were related how?

First cousins: Victoria's mother, Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg, and Albert's father, Duke Ernest I, were siblings; they had nine children and she wore black after his death in 1861.

53

Which Byzantine emperor married Theodora, a former actress, after his uncle changed the law to allow it?

Justinian I, as a senator, was barred from marrying an actress until his uncle Emperor Justin amended the law; when the Nika riots nearly cost him his throne in 532, Theodora is credited with persuading him to stay and fight.

54

Which medieval logician and theologian became Héloïse's lover, collaborator and husband?

Peter Abelard tutored Heloise in Paris around 1115, fathered her son Astrolabe and married her secretly; her uncle Fulbert had him castrated, and both entered religious life.

55

Shah Jahan commissioned Agra's great white mausoleum in 1631 to house the tomb of which wife?

Mumtaz Mahal died in 1631 giving birth to their fourteenth child; more than 20,000 workers and artisans built the Taj Mahal as her tomb, and Shah Jahan was laid beside her in 1666.

56

Which royal couple, married in secret in 1469, later funded Columbus's first voyage?

Ferdinand & Isabella wed in Valladolid on 19 October 1469; as second cousins they needed a papal dispensation, and the bull they produced bore the name of a pope who had died five years earlier.

57

How were Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who married in 1905, related?

Fifth cousins once removed: both descended from 17th-century settler Claes van Rosenvelt; Eleanor was also President Theodore Roosevelt's niece, and he gave her away at the March 1905 wedding.

58

Princess Alix of Hesse became Russia's last empress by marrying which tsar in November 1894?

Nicholas II married Alix on 26 November 1894, a week after his father's funeral; she wrote that the wedding felt like a continuation of the funeral rites, except that she wore white instead of black.

59

Which television innovation did Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz pioneer with I Love Lucy?

The syndicated rerun: networks then expected a show to air only once, but the couple took a pay cut to film I Love Lucy and keep the rights, and Arnaz saw the episodes could be sold again as new stations opened.

60

Richard and Mildred Loving's 1967 Supreme Court case struck down laws against what?

Interracial marriage: the unanimous Loving v. Virginia ruling of 12 June 1967 struck down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act and similar bans in 15 other states; June 12 became known as Loving Day.

61

How did John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend their 1969 honeymoon?

Staging a bed-in against the Vietnam War: knowing their wedding would draw the press, the pair invited reporters into their Amsterdam Hilton suite from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for a week to talk about peace.

62

Pocahontas's husband John Rolfe changed the Virginia colony's fortunes by successfully growing what?

Tobacco: around 1612 Rolfe grew a sweeter strain from seeds obtained from Trinidad, and it became Virginia's first profitable cash crop; he married Pocahontas in 1614.

63

Joanne Woodward was married for fifty years to which star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

Paul Newman met Woodward in 1953 on the Broadway play Picnic, where she was an understudy and he was still married; they wed in January 1958, two months before she won her Oscar.

64

Which actor married Rita Wilson in 1988, three years after they co-starred in the comedy Volunteers?

Tom Hanks first met Wilson when she guest-starred on his sitcom Bosom Buddies; before the wedding he converted to her Greek Orthodox faith.

65

Victoria and David Beckham married in July 1999 at a castle in which country?

Ireland: the couple wed at Luttrellstown Castle with their four-month-old son Brooklyn as ring bearer; an exclusive magazine deal kept the press out, but photos emerged of the pair sitting on golden thrones.

66

Where did Bill and Hillary Clinton hold their October 1975 wedding ceremony?

Their Fayetteville living room: Bill had bought the small brick house two months earlier; the bride kept the name Hillary Rodham and began using Clinton only for his 1982 campaign for governor.

67

What did Kurt Cobain wear when he married Courtney Love on Waikiki Beach in February 1992?

Plaid pajamas: Cobain said he had been too lazy to put on a tux for the 24 February 1992 ceremony on Waikiki Beach, where Love wore a satin and lace dress once owned by the actress Frances Farmer.

68

George and Amal Clooney were married in September 2014 at Ca' Farsetti in which city?

Venice: the couple rode up the Grand Canal by water taxi, trailed by boatloads of photographers, to Ca' Farsetti, the city hall, where Clooney's friend Walter Veltroni, a former mayor of Rome, made the marriage legal.

69

Which actress did Tom Cruise marry at an Italian castle in 2006, having proposed seven weeks after they met?

Katie Holmes got engaged to Cruise in June 2005, weeks after he leapt onto a talk-show couch to declare his love; they wed at the 15th-century Odescalchi castle in Bracciano, and she filed for divorce in 2012.

70

Which duet took Sonny & Cher to number one in both the US and the UK in 1965?

I Got You Babe was written by Sonny late one night in their basement; woken to sing it, Cher hated the song and went back to bed. She had met him in a Los Angeles coffee shop in 1962, aged sixteen.

71

The Obamas' first date in 1989 was a trip to see which Spike Lee film?

Do the Right Thing, new in cinemas that summer, was the film on the couple's first date; before they met, she had told her mother she intended to focus solely on her career.

72

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's 2012 wedding at his home also celebrated what?

Her medical school graduation from UCSF was celebrated at the same 19 May 2012 event in the grounds of Zuckerberg's Palo Alto home; three years later the couple pledged to give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares.

73

Bill and Melinda Gates married in 1994 on a golf course on which Hawaiian island?

Lanai: the couple wed on 1 January 1994 on the 12th hole of the Jack Nicklaus-designed Manele golf course; they announced their divorce in 2021 after 27 years of marriage.

74

Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell's 1991 Buddhist wedding was held in which national park?

Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel hosted the ceremony, led by Jobs's Zen teacher Kobun Chino Otogawa; the vegan cake was shaped like Half Dome, and the day ended with a hike and a snowball fight.

75

Lillian Disney is said to have talked her husband Walt out of which original name for Mickey Mouse?

Mortimer was Walt's first idea in 1928, as the studio tells it, but Lillian found the name too pretentious and suggested Mickey; a Mortimer Mouse later turned up as Mickey's rival for Minnie's affections.

76

Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in May 1967 in an eight-minute ceremony in which city?

Las Vegas: Colonel Parker arranged the ceremony in a suite at the Aladdin Hotel for publicity, with a press conference straight after; Elvis had met Priscilla in West Germany in 1959, when she was 14.

77

Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio in 1954 at the city hall of which city, where he grew up?

San Francisco: the couple married at City Hall on 14 January 1954; two weeks later they flew to Japan, Monroe slipped away to perform for US troops in Korea, and she filed for divorce that October.

78

What phrase did Gwyneth Paltrow use to announce her 2014 split from Chris Martin?

Conscious uncoupling, a term coined in 2009 by author Katherine Woodward Thomas, was how Paltrow described the split after ten years of marriage; her announcement had her own doctor explain what it meant.

79

Why did Elton John and David Furnish become civil partners on 21 December 2005?

It was the first day the law allowed it: civil partnerships could first be formed in England that day, and the pair did so at Windsor Guildhall; they married nine years later to the day, once the law changed again.

80

Where did Dolly Parton first meet her husband Carl Dean on her first day in Nashville?

Outside a laundromat: Dean drove past the Wishy Washy laundromat in 1964 and warned the new arrival she would get sunburned; they married in Ringgold, Georgia, in 1966 and stayed together until his death in 2025.

81

Serena Williams's husband Alexis Ohanian co-founded which website?

Reddit: Ohanian and his college roommate Steve Huffman first pitched a food-ordering app, were turned down and came back with the site instead in 2005; he married Williams in New Orleans in November 2017.

82

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter became the longest-wed presidential pair in 2019, passing whom?

George & Barbara Bush were married for 73 years, until her death in 2018; the Carters went on to reach 77, though Rosalynn had turned Jimmy down the first time he proposed and said yes two months later.

83

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald married in April 1920 at which New York landmark?

St. Patrick's Cathedral: Zelda had broken off the engagement in 1919, convinced Scott could not support her, and married him there in a small ceremony on 3 April 1920, days after his first novel came out.

84

Mary and Percy Shelley spent the 1816 summer that produced Frankenstein near which city?

Geneva: the Shelleys rented a house near Byron's Villa Diodati at Cologny on Lake Geneva, where Byron challenged everyone to write a ghost story; an astronomer later dated Mary's waking dream to 16 June.

85

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes chose 16 June 1956 as their wedding day in honour of what?

Bloomsday, the 16 June of Joyce's Ulysses: they had met less than four months earlier; Plath's mother was the sole witness at St George the Martyr in Holborn, and the honeymoon took in Paris and Benidorm.

86

Virginia and Leonard Woolf bought a hand printer in 1917 and founded which publisher?

The Hogarth Press began on a £19 handpress in the dining room of Hogarth House, bought as a diversion for Virginia when writing grew too stressful; by 1923 it was publishing T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

87

Gertrude Stein's 1933 bestseller was written in the voice of which life partner?

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was really Stein's own memoir of her Paris years; its sales made her prosperous, though Hemingway called it a 'damned pitiful book' and her brother Leo a 'farrago of lies'.

88

Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie won the 1935 Nobel in Chemistry for discovering what?

Induced radioactivity: in 1934 they made the first artificial radioactive isotope, phosphorus-30, by bombarding aluminium with alpha particles; they were the second married couple to win a Nobel, after Irene's parents.

89

Marie Antoinette, married at 14 to the future Louis XVI, was born an archduchess of which country?

Austria: the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, she was married by proxy in Vienna in April 1770 with her brother standing in for the groom, and first met Louis a month later in a French forest.

90

The painted bust of Nefertiti, wife of pharaoh Akhenaten, is displayed in which city?

Berlin: a German team led by Ludwig Borchardt dug the bust up at Amarna in December 1912, and it went on show at the Neues Museum; Egypt first demanded its return in the 1920s.

91

Before marrying Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon was briefly wed to which brother of his?

Arthur, Prince of Wales, died in April 1502, under five months after the November 1501 wedding; the teenagers had corresponded in Latin but could not understand each other's spoken pronunciation.

92

What did Princess Elizabeth need in order to buy the fabric for her 1947 wedding gown?

Ration coupons: clothes rationing remained in force in 1947, so Elizabeth saved coupons and the government granted her 200 extra for the Norman Hartnell gown she wore to marry Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey.

93

Nancy Davis said she first sought out Ronald Reagan in 1949 because her name wrongly appeared where?

On a Hollywood blacklist: by her account, a list of suspected Communist sympathisers held the name of another actress called Nancy Davis, so she asked the Screen Actors Guild president for help; some biographers doubt it.

94

Ike and Tina Turner married in 1962 in which Mexican border city?

Tijuana: the couple wed there in 1962, two years after the birth of their son Ronnie; Tina, who became Tina Turner with 1960's 'A Fool in Love', later described the marriage as marked by years of abuse.

95

What is Marge Simpson's maiden name?

Marge Bouvier met Homer in detention at Springfield High: she was there for burning her bra in protest, he for smoking.

96

Which comic-strip heroine had starred for nearly a decade before her famous boyfriend first appeared in 1929?

Olive Oyl debuted in Thimble Theatre in December 1919 with a boyfriend called Ham Gravy; Popeye walked on in January 1929 and soon became the lead, and the strip was later renamed after him.

97

Which composer turned the medieval lovers Tristan and Isolde into an opera first staged in Munich in 1865?

Richard Wagner wrote it under the spell of Mathilde Wesendonck, a patron's wife; the Munich premiere was conducted by Hans von Bülow, whose own wife Cosima later left him to marry Wagner.

98

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen lived in Room 100 of which New York address?

Hotel Chelsea: the pair took Room 100 of the West 23rd Street hotel in 1978; Spungen was found stabbed to death in its bathroom on 12 October 1978 and Vicious was charged with her murder.

99

Why did Ozzy Osbourne choose 4 July 1982 to marry Sharon Arden?

So he would never forget the anniversary: Ozzy admitted that was why he picked Independence Day to marry Sharon, who had taken over his management after Black Sabbath fired him and launched his solo career.

100

Which actress married Clark Gable in 1939 and died in a 1942 plane crash?

Carole Lombard married Clark Gable in Kingman, Arizona, on 29 March 1939; she died in January 1942 when TWA Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain, Nevada, as she returned from a war-bond tour.

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