1. In his only-ever cinematic portrayal of a real person, Bruce Willis is seen here playing which man in the 1988 film Sunset? Dying in 1940, this man’s acting style influenced both John Wayne and Ronald Reagan; and his name connects to two-thousand-and-nine.

2. Twelve years before the film Cruising, Frank Sinatra played a New York cop investigating a homophobic murder in the film The Detective. The novel on which it was based had a sequel, set four-thousand kilometres away. This sequel was made into which famous film, which ends with a song performed by the baritone Vaughan Monroe?

3. What connects these expressions of triumph.

4.  The only Yiddish-language winner of the Nobel prize in literature; the founder of one of America’s first multi-national businesses; the forename and occupation of the most famous member of the cast of South Park. What two words? 

5. One person with this forename ran the company whose oil-platform Piper Alpha was destroyed by an explosion in 1988 — killing one-hundred-and-sixty-seven men. Another person with this forename is his great-grandson, a Hollywood star. The third person with this forename helped Barbra Streisand to the top of the charts in 2010. The fourth comes next in the following list: “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Renaud“; “_____”. What forename

6. Twelve years before the film Cruising, Frank Sinatra played a New York cop investigating a homophobic murder in the film The Detective. The novel on which it was based had a sequel, set four-thousand kilometres away. This sequel was made into which famous film, which ends with a song performed by the baritone Vaughan Monroe?

7. The best-known lover of which person — mentioned in the lyrics of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire — has been in Northern Nevada Correctional Centre since 2014, with a scheduled release date of September 3, 2022

8. In 1970, which legendary musical artiste became the son-in-law of the US Army veteran George M Barnett? His second father-in-law was the diplomat Muhammad Abdulmajid

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In which year did these two have the same experience?

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