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This is code used to generate a round of trivia I've been working on to submit to my local bar trivia for use on a week when I'm not there.

The concept for this round: Take a famous person's name and remove one letter somewhere from their first or last name to form a new first or last name. That new name is the name of a country. Do this 10 times and write trivia questions about that famous person to make it work.

`trivia.ipynb` is a notebook that takes a table of famous people with their relative fame (as measured by wikipedia readership between 2015 and 2018) and a table of official country names (according to the UK government) and generates a table of famous people that meet the criteria listed above. Here are several examples and their questions:


1. What do you do with the art of monsters? Recognize it with the Palm d'Or and an Academy Award, of course! Though he fled the US nearly 50 years ago, he has somehow managed to direct 14 critically acclaimed feature films (including a recent US release for his treatment of the Dreyfus Affair), though none of them hold a candle to 1967's "The Fearless Vampire Killers," which starred his future wife Sharon Tate before her murder at the hands of the Manson Family.
- Roman Polanski (R + Oman)
2. How many cricket players can the average American name? *crickets* Well, what if you're in DC? Probably just one, because despite being regarded as one of the all time cricket greats (holding the world record for the most number of wickets for ICC games), DC policy wonks would probably recognize him more for his record removal as PM through a no-confidence motion during the COVID-19 pandemic, subsequent arrest, release, arrest, sentencing, vacation of the sentencing, and subsequent sentencing in a separate corruption case.
- Imran Khan (I + m + ran)
3. His early break from the group may have left his band without a way to go on, but his debut single did cement him as the first British male artist to debut at number one in both the UK and the US. Despite his numerous sexy R&B hits, the sexiest thing about him is the revelation that he had been Nocturne, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel Shadow Duelist the entire time.
- Zayn Malik
4. Though she shares a name with two other assassinated leaders of the country which she led for 15 years, she is only related to one of them. Before her death at the hands of separatists, she oversaw her country's first nuclear weapon test, imprisoned more than 100,000 political dissenters, and Kissinger called her the "Iron Lady" first, rightfully earning the title of BBC's "Woman of the Millennium" and cementing her status as one of the most powerful women in the world.

Indira Ghandi
5. Chinua Achibe
6. Chuba Hubbard / Marc Cuban
7. Frances McDormand
8. Kenyan McDuffie
9. Michael Gambon
10. Jordan Chiles
11. Donna Brazile
12. Annette Bening
13. Jourdan Dunn
14. Samora Machel
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