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Can you name these five famous people from six randomly-changing countries?
Fictional characters are included
For the sake of this quiz, we separate the "countries" of the UK. Northern Ireland included in Ireland
You may think some of these people are from another country, rather than the other. Please keep that to yourself
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Last updated: January 6, 2021
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First submittedSeptember 27, 2020
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Wales
Legendary mythical king
King Arthur
British officer who helped
Arabs revolt in WWI
T. E. Lawrence
First Tudor King
Henry VII
"Matilda" and "The BFG" author
Roald Dahl
Real Madrid paid £85 million for him
Gareth Bale
 
 
China
"Great Leap Forward"
Mao Zedong
"Charlie's Angels"/ "Kill Bill" actress
Lucy Liu
Most famous philosopher
Confucius
7'6" basketball player
Yao Ming
Led China towards a market
economy from 1978 to 1992
Deng Xiaoping
 
 
Belgium
Fictional detective
Hercule Poirot
Painter who says what a pipe isn't
René Magritte
Loinclothed, high-kicking
martial artist, aka JCVD
Jean-Claude
Van Damme
Current Real Madrid number 7
Eden Hazard
King who owned / misused Congo
Leopold II
Iran
Prophet also called Zarathustra
Zoroaster
Founder of Achaemenid Empire
Cyrus the Great
Great king who ruled the empire
at its greatest extent
Darius the Great
King who invaded Greece
Xerxes the Great
Leader of the 1979 revolution
Ruhollah Khomeini
 
 
Ireland
Lead singer of U2
Bono
Victorian playwright sentenced to
hard labour for being gay
Oscar Wilde
World's best-selling Celtic singer
Enya
Author of "Ulysses"
James Joyce
"Taken" and "Schindler's List" star
Liam Neeson
 
 
Iraq
Dictator of Iraq, 1979-2003
Saddam Hussein
"An eye for an eye" king
Hammurabi
Sailor of the seven seas
Sinbad
Architect who shares her
last name with a famous Gigi
Zaha Hadid
King who conquered Judah
Nebuchadnezzar
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