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Answer: Weir

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Guitarist and vocalist, Bob Weir is one of the founding members of the band, Grateful Dead, and although he is best known for his work with this band, he has also released solo albums as well as recording with his side projects.
These side project releases include "Kingfish", recorded with Kingfish in 1976, "Bobby And The Midnites" (1981), from the band of the same name and "Evening Moods" (2000) from the band RatDog.
"American Beauty" was the title of the 1970 album from the Grateful Dead, which features the tracks "Sugar Magnolia" and "Truckin'", two of their best known songs, and both featuring Weir on lead vocals.

Answer: Fischer

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Bobby Fischer was a chess prodigy who in 1947, at age 14 became the youngest ever U.S. Chess Champion and a year later became the youngest grandmaster.
In 1972, in a match billed as a Cold War confrontation, he won the World Chess Championship, beating Boris Spassky of USSR, but then refused to defend his title as he could not reach an agreement with the governing body over the conditions for the championship.

Check is a chess term, used when an opponent's king is under threat of capture.

In 1992, a warrant for his arrest was issued after he played an unofficial match against Spassky in Yugoslavia, violating President George H. W. Bush's Executive Order imposing economic activities against the country.
He moved to Japan, but was arrested at the request of USA for using a revoked passport, and faced deportation until Iceland offered him citizenship on humanitarian grounds.
Fischer spent his final years in Iceland, dying in 2008 from kidney failure aged 64.

Answer: Dylan

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Bob Dylan, author, painter, poet, Nobel prize winner and one of the finest singer songwriters the world has ever seen has had a long and illustrious career that began way back in 1962 with his first, self-titled album.
Since then, he has released countless albums, but initially found more success in UK over his native USA, having six number one albums in UK album chart before having one on the Billboard 200 in USA.
Between 1962 and 2020, he had an incredible 29 UK top ten albums, including "Rough and Rowdy Ways" (2020) which proved he still has the magic by reaching number one, while in USA in the same time period, he had 20 top ten albums, his last number one being "Together Through Life" in 2009.

"Street-Legal" was Dylan's album from 1978, which reached number two in UK album charts as well as number 11 on the Billboard 200 in USA.

Answer: Burns

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Robert Burns was a Scottish poet at the forefront of the Romantic movement of the late 18th century.
His best known works include, "Ae Fond Kiss" (1791), "A Red, Red Rose" (1794), "Scots Wha Hae" (1793) and of course, "Auld Lang Syne" (1788), which is traditional song of Hogmanay, now adopted throughout the world as the song of New Year's Eve.
Burns is so important to Scottish history that his birthday, 25 January, is celebrated each year with Burns' suppers, consisting of haggis and readings of his works, and the day is more widely celebrated than the official Scottish national day, St. Andrew's Day.

Answer: Hope

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The great American comedian, actor and showman, Bob Hope, was born in London, England in 1903, with his family emigrating across the pond when Hope was just four years old.
Hope's career began in the 1920s with vaudeville shows and he made the transition to radio in 1934, and then to TV in the 1950s. He also had a successful film career, beginning in 1934 with "Going Spanish" and hitting its peak with the series of seven "Road To" movies between 1940 and 1962, in which he co-starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.
"Thanks for the Memory" (1938) was Hope's signature tune for the majority of his career.

Answer: Ezrin

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Canadian Bob Ezrin is a familiar name to music fans, having produced albums by a variety of artists including Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Kiss, Deep Purple, Phish and Andrea Bocelli.
His production career began in 1971 when he worked on "Love It To Death" by Alice Cooper and he has produced the majority of the band's albums sine, being described by Cooper as "our George Martin".

Answer: Geldof

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Bob Geldof became one of the hottest names in punk/new wave when he fronted the Boomtown Rats, who achieved UK chart success with tracks such as "Mary Of The 4th Form" (1977), "Rat Trap" (1978) and "I Don't Like Mondays" (1979).
He gained global recognition when, in 1984, along with fellow musician Midge Ure, he formed Band Aid, an all star ensemble and recorded the charity single, "Do They Know It's Christmas" which raised almost £20 million ($24 million USD) to fight famine in Africa.
Geldof played the lead role of Pink in the 1982 film, "Pink Floyd - The Wall".

Answer: Dole

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After recovering from serious injuries sustained in WWII, Bob Dole began his career in politics in 1950, running for office and being elected to the Kansas House of Representatives. Just ten year later, in 1960, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and in 1968 he won the Republican nomination for the United States Senate, to which he was elected and then re-elected four times before retiring in 1996 to focus on his presidential ambitions, which had started when in 1976 he was running mate to Gerald Ford, who was ultimately beaten by Jimmy Carter.
Dole tried again for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, but was beaten by Ronald Reagan and again in 1988 when the preferred candidate was George H.W. Bush.
His chance finally came in 1996, when he was chosen as the Republican presidential nomination, but the election was won by Democrat, Bill Clinton, making Dole the first major party nominee to be unsuccessful when running for both president and vice -president.

Answer: Seger

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Bob Seger is a rock legend who achieved huge success in the 1970s with tracks such as "Night Moves (1976), "We've Got Tonite" (1978) and "Hollywood Nights" (1978).
Always more popular in USA than UK, where he has never had a top 20 chart hit, either on the album or singles charts, he performed his farewell tour in 2019 with a series of North American dates. Surprisingly Seger last played UK in 1980 and has never toured Australia.

"Stranger in Town" (1978) was one of Seger's finest albums, containing the tracks "Hollywood Nights", "Old Time Rock & Roll" and "We've Got Tonite".

Answer: De Niro

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Since his first major in 1968, "Greetings", Robert De Niro has matured into an amazing actor and one about whom everyone has their favourite role. Whether it be from "Bang the Drum Slowly" (1973), "Taxi Driver" (1976), "The Deer Hunter" (1978), "Raging Bull" (1980), "Cape Fear" (1991), "Meet The Parents" (2000) or "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012), De Niro has an incredible way of captivating an audience. His body of work is vast, with dramatic roles also including works such as "Goodfellas" (1990) and "Backdraft" (1991), comedic roles including "Meet The Fockers" (2004) and his appearance in TV show "Extras" (2006), voice work including "Shark Tale" (2004) and "Arthur And The Invisibles" (2006) and his production credits including "Rent" (2005) and "Artemis Fowl" (2020).

"You talkin' to me?" is one of De Niro's most memorable lines delivered in his role as Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" (1976).