QuiznessDesk, Friday, March 11, 2022

James Earl Jones (pictured) portrays Hoke Colburn in a stage production of Driving Miss Daisy, but who portrayed the character in the 1989 film? (Image: Getty)

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Fri, 11 Mar 2022

In the Oscar-winning 1989 movie Driving Miss Daisy, who played the driver?The Fatal Shore, by Robert Hughes, is a history of what country?By changing one letter, what word meaning a place that accommodates guests can be altered to one meaning a rundown dwelling?On a map of the United States, what word precedes Placid, Huron and Tahoe?In American slang, what is a stool pigeon: a convict, an informant or someone who has been wrongly accused?Giuseppe is the Italian form of what name?What fictional character has been played in films by Albert Finne...

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