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Answer: Darwin

We have four scientists here - Einstein, Galileo, Hawking, and Mendeleev. Charles Darwin is the only scientist in the possible answers. Following a voyage to the Galapagos islands between 1831 and 1836, Darwin brought back examples of many birds among other animals.

The birds, which were thought to be varieties of the same bird were studied and shown to be different species which came from different islands and this caused Darwin to think how that might have happened. Darwin published his book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859 which proposed his Theory of Evolution.

Answer: Tyler

This question concerns American Presidents:- Obama, Eisenhower, Coolidge and Truman. Only Tyler fits in with this group. John Tyler served as the tenth President from 1841-1845.

Answer: Sharapova

This group are all female World No.1 tennis players:- Evert, Navratilova, Williams and King. Maria Sharapova was World number 1 on five occasions between 2005 and 2012.

Answer: Wordsworth

The four members of this group are all poets: Frost, Yeats, Shelley and Coleridge. William Wordsworth was a British poet whose works include "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", one of the most famous poems in English Literature.

Answer: Dickens

The group are all authors:- Austen, Bronte, Christie and Fitzgerald. The correct new member of the group, Charles Dickens, was a Victorian author whose works are well known throughout the world. They include "A Christmas Carol", "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield".

Answer: Raphael

The group is made up of artists:- Michelangelo, Picasso, Pollock and Cezanne. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael (1483-1520), was an Italian Renaissance painter. He and Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci are the most important painters of their era.

Many of Raphael's paintings can be found in the Vatican. A suite of four rooms in the Vatican, known as the Raphael rooms, are covered in frescoes by Raphael and his workshop.

Answer: Spacey

They are all Best Actor Oscar Winners:- Nicholson, Bogart, Hoffman and DiCaprio. Kevin Spacey won his Best Actor Oscar in 2000 for "American Beauty". He also won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Usual Suspects" in 1996.

Answer: Iron

All the items are chemical elements:- Helium, Carbon, Aluminium and Cobalt. The only possible answer from the alternatives given is Iron It has the symbol Fe (from the latin: ferrum) and has an atomic number of 26.

Answer: Thailand

The question obviously concerns countries given the four possible answers. What you need to notice is that Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and Brunei are all from the Asian continent. Only one of the four options is in Asia. Thailand was known as Siam until 1939 when it was changed to Thailand. It was again renamed Siam between 1945 and 1949 when it was once more renamed as Thailand.

Answer: Bell

This is a group of inventors:- Edison, Franklin, Babbage and Nobel. The only inventor in the options list is Bell (Alexander Graham Bell). He is credited with the invention of the telephone.