I am busy too!!!!
Okay, some not so difficult trivia questions.
(1) Which French oceanographer and environmentalist was a co-developer of the aqualung in the 1940s, and became world famous for the underwater films made from his research ship Calypso? (Jacques Cousteau, Kumabjorn)
(2) Which novelist and poet wrote his own Epitaph, which concludes: "Home is the sailor, Home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill"? (Robert Louis Stevenson, Gazella)
(3) Which British-born film star and director died in Switzerland in 1977, only for his body to be stolen from the Swiss cemetery the next year in an unsuccessful ransom bid? (Charlie Chaplin, Kumabjorn)
(4) Which author created the private eye Sam Spade, who first appeared in 1929 in
The Maltese Falcon, published originally as a serial in a pulp magazine? (Dashiell Hammett, Kumabjorn)
(5) How is the Charles Dickens character Philip Pirrip better known? (Pip, Gazella)
(6) Who composed the Symphony in F-sharp minor known as the "Farewell", during which the musicians gradually leave the stage, originally as a hint to their patron that they had been away from home too long?
(7) Which ancient language was revived and adapted for everyday modern use from the late 19th century onwards, and now has over five million speakers? (Hebrew, pdurrant)
Points:
Kumabjorn: 3
Gazella: 2
pdurrant: 1