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The answers to my earlier questions are shown below.

The following questions relate to people born on 18 March.

Grover Cleveland.
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One

Born 1980. Actress who links the following roles: Penelope (in 2004), Isolde (2006), Erika (2003 and 2006), Darcy (2014) and Freya (2008). Who is she? 

  1. Rose Keegan
  2. Sophia Myles
  3. Lucy Russell

Answer: 2. Sophia Myles.

Sophia Myles, an English actress, who portrayed the following characters in the associated film. Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in Thunderbirds(2004), Isolde in Tristan & Isolde(2006), Darcy in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Erika in Underworld(2003) and Underworld: Evolution (2006), and Freya in Outlander (2008)”

Two

Born 1837, Grover Cleveland, served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Where was he born? 

  1. Amherst, New Hampshire 
  2. Brighton, New York 
  3. Caldwell, New Jersey

Answer: 3. Caldwell, New Jersey.

Stephen Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, was the first Democrat elected after the Civil War and the first president to serve non-consecutive terms. A Bourbon Democrat, he championed political reform, fiscal conservatism and classical liberalism. His presidency was marked by significant legislation like the Interstate Commerce Act and the Dawes Act, as well as challenges like the Panic of 1893 and the Pullman Strike.

Three

Anthem for Doomed Youth was written by a war poet born this day in 1893. Who was he? 

  1. Rupert Brook 
  2. Wilfred Owen 
  3. Siegfried Sassoon

Answer: 2. Wilfred Owen.

Wilfred Owen, an English poet and soldier, expressed anger at war’s cruelty and waste through his poetry. Based on his World War I experiences, his war poetry was about the horrors of trenches and gas warfare. At only 25 years of age, he was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre on 4 November 1918, exactly a week before the war’s end. His best-known works— most of which were published posthumously— are Anthem for Doomed Youth, Dulce et Decorum est, Futility, and Spring Offensive. 

Four

Who is Dana Elaine Owens, born 18 March 1970, a musician and actress, better known as?

  1. Lauryn Hill
  2. Missy Elliott
  3. Queen Latifah 

Answer: 3. Queen Latifah.

An American musician and actress, Queen Latifah rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album, All Hail the Queen, which blended diverse styles and feminist themes. The name Latifah is Arabic for ‘delicate’ or ‘sensitive’.

Five

Born today in 1869, this British prime minister returned from Germany with a ‘piece of paper’ promising to ‘have brought you back peace — but a peace I hope with honour’. Who was he? 

  1. Stanley Baldwin  
  2. Neville Chamberlain 
  3. Winston Churchill 

Answer: 2. Neville Chamberlain.

Prime Minister of the UK from 1937 to 1940 Neville Chamberlain is known for his policy of appeasement towards Hitler’s Germany. He served in various government positions, including Chancellor of the Exchequer, before becoming Prime Minister. Despite signing the Munich Agreement with Hitler in 1938, Chamberlain declared war on Germany less than a year later following the Nazi invasion of Poland.

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