Date | Location | Description of Meeting | Person | % Correct |
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This dictator of Nazi Germany | Adolf Hitler | 99%
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15 March 1991 | The Ivy Restaurant, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles | ... who has a first and only date with this pop singer and dancer, known as the King of Pop | Michael Jackson | 79%
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5 June 1961 | Buckingham Palace, London | ... who awkwardly discusses paintings of horses at a dinner with this Queen of the United Kingdom | HRH Queen Elizabeth II | 74%
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June 1889 | Elmira, New York State | ... who meets his hero, the author of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' | Mark Twain | 73%
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14 May 1984 | The White House, Washington DC | ... who is received at the White House to front an anti-drink driving campaign by this actress and First Lady | Nancy Reagan | 73%
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15 October 1981 | The White House, Washington DC | ... who is interviewed by this leading pop artist, known for Campbell's Soup Cans | Andy Warhol | 72%
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December 1939 | Burbank Studios, Los Angeles | ... who allows that piece to be used in Fantasia, the third animated feature film by this pioneer of animation | Walt Disney | 72%
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Autumn 1978 | 316 East 63rd Street, New York | ... who without a word takes the breath away from this pop singer, known for 'Like A Prayer' | Madonna | 70%
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Summer 1923 | Chirk Castle, Wrexham, North Wales | ... who as a child talks of the Boche with this English author of 'The Jungle Book' | Rudyard Kipling | 69%
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February 1909 | Stormfield, Connecticut | ... who takes on as a prodigy and talks at length with this deaf and blind author | Helen Keller | 67%
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Autumn 1957 | The Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue, New York | ... who designs a house for Arthur Miller and his wife, this actress, model and sex symbol | Marilyn Monroe | 66%
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18 May 1972 | 4, route du Champ d'Entraînement, Bois de Boulogne, Paris | ... who visits the deathbed of her uncle, this abdicated ex-King of England, now a Duke | The Duke of Windsor | 66%
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20 December 1978 | 1040 Fifth Avenue, New York | ... who is never invited to parties hosted by this socialite and ex-First Lady | Jackie Kennedy | 64%
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6 June 1955 | Marfa, Texas | ... who brings out nerves in this Rebel Without A Cause actor while filming Giant | James Dean | 59%
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24 February 1970 | The East Room, the White House, Washington DC | ... who plants an unsolicited kiss on the cheek of this U.S President, the only to ever resign from office | Richard Nixon | 59%
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20 December 1970 | The White House, Washington DC | ... who awards a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Special Agent Badge to this singer known as 'The King of Rock and Roll' | Elvis Presley | 58%
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23 September 1955 | The Villa Capri, Hollywood | ... who is forewarned of his impending death by this English actor known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi | Alec Guinness | 57%
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27 August 1965 | Perugia Way, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles | ... who receives four starstruck Beatles, including this co-lead singer and bassist | Paul Mccartney | 57%
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February 1974 | Caesars Palace, Las Vegas | ... who despite a bitter feud in the press is welcomed in person by this singer known as 'Ol' Blue Eyes' | Frank Sinatra | 56%
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23 May 1903 | Kremlin Square, Moscow | ... who is amazed when the bells of the Kremlin ring, seemingly at the will of this escape artist and illusionist | Harry Houdini | 56%
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29 December 1916 | The Moika Palace, St Petersburg | ... who poisons, then shoots, then has to shoot a further four times to kill this Russian mystic and friend of the Tsar | Grigori Rasputin | 55%
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13 January 1900 | 21 Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo, Moscow | ... who is disappointed when he finally meets his hero, this Russian author of 'War and Peace' | Leo Tolstoy | 55%
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22 July 1934 | The Kremlin, Moscow | ... who after a three-hour discussion about socialism decides he has "never met a more candid, fair and honest man than" this Georgian ruler of the Soviet Union | Josef Stalin | 54%
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June 1927 | 11 Downing Street | ... who gives painting advice to this British politician and future wartime Prime Minister | Winston Churchill | 54%
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12 November 1968 | 4, route du Champ d'Entraînement, Bois de Boulogne, Paris | ... who watches in horror as his wife is swung around by Richard Burton with the latter's wife, this actress from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Elizabeth Taylor | 52%
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Summer 1931 | The Garden of Allah, Los Angeles | ... who initially drowns out, then is drowned out by, this harpist and comedy actor known for his films with his three brothers | Harpo Marx | 48%
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23 June 1914 | SS Imperator | ... who uses a simple trick to completely baffle this characteristic ex-US president known for his anti-trust policies and huggable bedtime friends | Theodore Roosevelt | 48%
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21 June 1915 | Tsarskoye Selo, nr St Petersburg | ... who boasted loudly about his sexual encounters with the Tsarina, much to the annoyance of her husband, this last Emperor of All Russia | Tsar Nicholas II | 47%
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3 March 1981 | Goldsmiths' Hall, London EC2 | ... who receives advice on being a princess from this film actress and Princess of Monaco | Princess Grace | 46%
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May 1996 | Bayswater, London W2 | ... who is befriended and helped after rehabilitation by this British royal and wife of Prince Charles | Diana, Princess of Wales | 45%
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June 1977 | Whitney Recording Studios, Los Angeles | ... who after three weeks of writing and recording songs together pulls a gun on this Canadian singer-songwriter known for 'Hallelujah' | Leonard Cohen | 45%
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6 May 1906 | The White House, Washington DC | ... who struggles to get a word in edgeways over the incessant talk of this English author of 'The War of the Worlds' | H. G. Wells | 44%
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19 May 1922 | Hôtel Majestic, avenue Kléber, Paris | ... who has every attempt at conversation fended off by this Irish author of 'Ulysses' | James Joyce | 44%
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Early March 1967 | La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakesh | ... who is offered LSD in a car by this singer from The Rolling Stones | Mick Jagger | 44%
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22 October 1937 | Berchtesgaden, the Bavarian Alps | ... who takes tea with this dictator of Nazi Germany | Adolf Hitler | 43%
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19 September 1959 | The Café de Paris, Hollywood | ... who wears her sexiest dress to a Twentieth-Century Fox dinner on the American tour of this Russian premier | Nikita Krushchev | 43%
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December 1876 | Moscow Conservatory, Bolshaya Nikitskaya | ... who is initially enthusiastic about, but afterwards begins to doubt the legitimacy of, this Russian Romantic composer of Swan Lake | Pyotr Il'ich Tchaikovsky | 43%
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Summer 1931 | Repton School, Derbyshire | ... who is photographed by an unassuming pupil, this British-Norwegian author of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' | Roald Dahl | 43%
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Late August 1944 | The Ritz Hotel, 15 place Vendôme, Paris | ... who in Paris meets one of his literary heroes, thirty years his senior: this author of 'A Farewell to Arms' | Ernest Hemingway | 42%
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1970 | United Nations Plaza, New York | ... who engages in a high-profile feud, culminating in a $500 bet, with this novelist, known for 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'In Cold Blood' | Truman Capote | 42%
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November 1899 | Montmartre, Paris | ... who in Paris meets one of his literary heroes, thirty years his senior: this Irish author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' | Oscar Wilde | 41%
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19 July 1938 | 39 Elsworthy Road, London NW3 | ... who sketches his hero, this Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud | 41%
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June 1934 | Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin | ... who makes a disciple of, then makes sauerkraut for, this architect and designer | Frank Lloyd Wright | 39%
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21 May 1951 | 4 Christchurch Street, London SW3 | ... who has dinner with a feeling-phony-version of this author of 'The Catcher in the Rye' | J. D. Salinger | 38%
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Winter 1961 | Grimaldi Palace, Monaco | ... who after public outcry has to withdraw from making Marnie with this English film director known as the 'Master of Suspense' | Alfred Hitchcock | 37%
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1977 | Warwick House, St James's Place, London SW1 | ... who boos and hisses when no one else dares criticise the singing of this English princess and sister of the Queen | HRH Princess Margaret | 37%
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November 1963 | Gotham Book Mart, 41 West 47th Street, New York | ... who while having his hair cut listens to this Spanish surrealist artist talk nonstop about Aboriginals | Salvador Dalí | 36%
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Summer 1928 | Villa Galanon, Cap d'Antibes | ... who is left "naked to the world" after having his sunbathing towel pulled away by this Irish playwright of Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | 35%
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July 1930 | Lakeside Country Club, Burbank, California | ... who over a game of golf settles his differences with this aviation millionaire and builder of the Spruce Goose | Howard Hughes | 35%
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February 1936 | The Karoa, South China Sea | ... who forms a fleeting friendship with this English silent film actor, best known for his character The Tramp | Charlie Chaplin | 34%
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4 February 1949 | The Ambassador Hotel, Park Avenue, New York | ... who is deliberately difficult when he meets this Russian composer of The Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky | 32%
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14 July 1937 | Beverly Hills Tennis Club, Los Angeles | ... who plays pro-celebrity tennis doubles with this comedy actor, famous for his films with his three brothers and his comedy cigar | Groucho Marx | 31%
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Winter 1967 | The Chelsea Hotel, 222 West 23rd Street, New York | ... who shares a lift with, then later writes 'Chelsea Hotel' about, this rock singer known for her cover of 'Piece of My Heart' | Janis Joplin | 30%
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November 1965 | Kurt's of Mayfair, London W1 | ... who after a meeting in a barbershop, finds a successor to Sean Connery in this Australian actor who played Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service | George Lazenby | 29%
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23 April 1909 | Rue de l'Université, Paris | ... who refuses to kneel while modelling for this French sculptor, known for The Thinker | Auguste Rodin | 28%
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Summer 1951 | St James's Theatre, London SW1 | ... who barges into the dressing room of this English actor, known for his celebrated roles as Richard III and Heathcliff | Laurence Olivier | 28%
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April 2007 | The Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, Los Angeles | ... who during a court recess urinates next to this pioneering music producer, known for his 'Wall of Sound' approach | Phil Spector | 25%
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November 1969 | Horn and Hardart automat, West 23rd Street, New York | ... who is mistaken for a very pretty boy and treated to a cheese sandwich by this beat poet and writer | Allen Ginsberg | 23%
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4 August 1955 | The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, London W1 | ... who crawls around on a church floor picking up jewels with this English writer known for 'Brideshead Revisited' | Evelyn Waugh | 23%
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5 June 1972 | Windsor Castle | ... who talks about kitchens with this socialite and wife of ex-King Edward VIII | The Duchess of Windsor | 23%
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November 1891 | 9, boulevard Malesherbes, Paris | ... who loses his nerve and walks out on having dinner with this French author of 'Remembrance of Things Past' | Marcel Proust | 19%
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August 1970 | The Chelsea Hotel, 222 West 23rd Street, New York | ... who takes under her wing this singer-songwriter and poet, known for her album Horses | Patti Smith | 19%
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Spring 1940 | 7000 Romaine Street, Los Angeles | ... who builds a special bra for Jane Russell to the amazement of his assistant, this producer of the James Bond films | Cubby Broccoli | 17%
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27 August 1964 | Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles | ... who resists demands for alterations to the script of Mary Poppins from this author of the original book series | P. L. Travers | 17%
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May 1888 | Moscow Conservatory, Bolshaya Nikitskaya | ... who sits on the Conservatory's examining board and is blown away by the efforts of this Russian composer and virtuoso pianist | Sergei Rachmaninoff | 16%
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June 1964 | 3 Kensington Court Gardens, London W8 | ... who shows off his serious side and knowledge of poetry to this English poet, known for 'The Waste Land' | T. S. Eliot | 15%
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12 September 1895 | Penallt, Monmouthshire | ... who crashes his bicycle into this British philosopher and mathematician | Bertrand Russell | 12%
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February 1968 | F2, Albany, Piccadilly, London W1 | ... who provides interior design advice to this British leader of the Conservative Party and future Prime Minister | Edward Heath | 12%
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14 April 1943 | Aeolian Hall, 135-137 New Bond Street, London W1 | ... who provokes giggles at a reading of that poem from this Queen of The UK, wife of George VI | Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | 12%
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September 1950 | 6005 Camino de la Costa, La Jolla, California | ... who walks out after increasingly frustrating attempts at developing a script for the film adaptation of 'Strangers on a Train' with this author of 'The Big Sleep' | Raymond Chandler | 11%
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27 June 1965 | The Adriana Hotel, Rome | ... who is judged a "bad-mannered little s***" after a backstage meeting with this English playwright known for Hay Fever | Noël Coward | 10%
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November 1966 | Chez Moi, Addison Road, Holland Park, London W14 | ... who receives a call from this Australian comedian and creator of Dame Edna pretending to be his mother | Barry Humphries | 9%
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May 1957 | Room 9, The Villa Muniriya, 1, rue Magellan, Tangier | ... who gives nude pictures of himself and his boyfriend to this British figurative painter | Francis Bacon | 9%
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Summer 1972 | Iver Grove, Iver, Bucks | ... who cannot recommend writing children's books enough to this English author of 'Lucky Jim' | Kingsley Amis | 9%
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November 1959 | Slough | ... who after a remark about Princess Margaret several months ago, is dropped off in the wrong place in revenge by her future husband, this British photographer | Tony Armstrong-Jones | 9%
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1900 | Rue de la Gaîté, Paris | ... who is fascinated by and nearly has sex with this pioneer of modern dance | Isadora Duncan | 8%
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Early June 1936 | 6 Malaya Nikitskaya Street, Moscow | ... who presents a poisoned box of candy to this Russian writer and founder of socialist realism | Maxim Gorky | 8%
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June 1976 | 601 Mountjoy House, the Barbican, London EC2 | ... who tries to have his wicked way with a young Martin Amis after being left alone by this English-American journalist and anti-theist | Christopher Hitchens | 7%
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14 September 2005 | Baruch College, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York | ... who trades abuse in a fruitless public debate on the Iraq war with this British politician and future leader of the Workers Party of Britain | George Galloway | 7%
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22 November 1963 | Rediffusion TV Studios, Kingsway, London WC2 | ... who launches into a tirade against American actors when joined in the Green Room by this method actor, known for his performance in Baby Doll | Eli Wallach | 6%
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Autumn 1924 | La Closerie des Lilas, 171, boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris | ... who in Paris meets one of his literary heroes, thirty years his senior: this English author of 'The Good Soldier' | Ford Madox Ford | 6%
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August 1910 | Leiden, Holland | ... who elicits reconsideration of his marital relationship from this Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer | Gustav Mahler | 6%
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December 1952 | 66 Fifth Avenue, New York | ... who discovers the joy of jumping with the help of this modern dancer and choreographer | Martha Graham | 6%
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1979 | Le Restaurant, Bel Air, Los Angeles | ... who discusses reincarnation then loudly sings classics with this jazz singer of 'Is That All There Is?' | Peggy Lee | 6%
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October 1964 | 43 Hasker Street, London SW3 | ... who insists on making cucumber sandwiches for this English actress from Ryan's Daughter | Sarah Miles | 6%
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23 April 1956 | Harcourt Room, Palace of Westminster, London | ... who launches into a tirade against democratic socialists after a throwaway remark by this future deputy leader of the Labour Party | George Brown | 4%
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October 1944 | Warner Brothers Studio, Burbank, Los Angeles | ... who is unable to work out the plot of his own novel after being begged for help by this director of Scarface | Howard Hawks | 4%
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23 January 2006 | Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire | ... who is voted off Celebrity Big Brother after an argument with this English comedian and TV presenter | Michael Barrymore | 4%
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January 1961 | Bray, the Republic of Ireland | ... who for a film role has to pretend to be raped by this English actor known for his title role in Billy Budd | Terence Stamp | 4%
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18 September 1926 | Hôtel Welcome, Villefranche-sur-Mer | ... who starts a free-for-all fight at a party eventually broken up by this French poet and author of 'La Belle et La Bête' | Jean Cocteau | 3%
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22 August 1931 | Briennerstrasse, Munich | ... is run over by this British peer and landowner | John Scott-Ellis | 3%
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Spring 1968 | 20 Thurloe Square, London SW7 | ... who watches a blue movie with this English theatre critic | Kenneth Tynan | 3%
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29 July 1946 | Biarritz | ... who is serenaded "really quite sweetly" by this Russian aristocrat, known for a certain high-profile murder | Prince Felix Youssoupoff | 3%
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May 1919 | The Headmaster's Study, Repton School, Derbyshire | ... who is punished at school by his future predecessor, this 99th Archbishop of Canterbury | Geoffrey Fisher | 2%
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30 October 1949 | The American Hospital of Paris, Neuilly-sur-Seine | ... who with other devotees attends the funeral of this Russian mystic philosopher and spiritual teacher | George Ivanovich Gurdjieff | 2%
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5 June 1970 | Studio 5B, London Weekend Television | ... who has as his final ever guest this 100th Archbishop of Canterbury | Michael Ramsey | 2%
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8 February 1970 | Studio 5B, London Weekend Television | ... who accuses several senators of collusion in a plot to kill President Kennedy, on a TV programme hosted by this British television interviewer | Simon Dee | 2%
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August 1967 | Sissinghurst Castle, Cranbrook, Kent | ... whose purple border is complimented by this younger British diarist and photographer | Cecil Beaton | 1%
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September 1966 | The Daisy, Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles | ... who pays a waiter to punch this writer and investigative journalist, known for The Boys in the Band | Dominick Dunne | 1%
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30 July 1931 | 31 Hyde Park Gardens, London W2 | ... who fends off every attempt at conversation from this British politician and diarist | Harold Nicolson | 1%
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Spring 1967 | Harley House, Marylebone, London NW1 | ... who is told he should go into politics by this British journalist and Labour politician | Tom Driberg | 1%
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December 1934 | Hauteville, St Peters, Kent | ... who as a child tries to sing Christmas carols to, but is turned away by, this German-born British painter | Walter Sickert | 1%
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