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1. In which field did Tom Cribb gain fame in early nineteenth-century Britain?
2. In Henry Fielding's novel "Tom Jones", whom does Tom marry?
3. In which country was the playwright Tom Stoppard born?
4. According to legend, whom did the original Peeping Tom peep at?
5. Which Tom won an Oscar for his role in the film "Philadelphia", playing the part of a lawyer who is sacked by his firm when he is found to be suffering from AIDS?
6. "Tom Brown's Schooldays" by Thomas Hughes is one of the classics of school fiction. At which school is it set?
7. For which English county did Tom Graveney play first-class cricket from 1948 to 1960?
8. In which English city does Great Tom sound a curfew at 9:05 every evening?
9. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1949 and took up golf while studying psychology at Stanford. He soon became a leading golfer, winning the British Open in 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982 and 1983, the US Masters' in 1977 and 1981 and the US Open in 1982. His first name was of course Tom; what was his surname?
10. Tom Swift was the hero of a series of books for children/young adults in the early twentieth century. Under what pseudonym were they written?
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