Actress USA • She was born on March 10, 1958 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, located between Pittsburgh and Erie. She is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 Hollywood blockbuster film Basic Instinct. She lives in Beverly Hills, California, and owns a ranch in New Zealand. She remained with the religion until recently when she converted to Buddhism, after fellow actor Richard Gere introduced her to the Dalai Lama. Question

Politician France • He was born in 29 November 1932 in Paris. He is a French politician and the current President of the French Republic. He was elected to this office in 1995 and re-elected in 2002. His current term expires in 2007. As President, he is an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the Légion d'honneur. In 1956, he married Bernadette Chodron de Courcel, with whom he has two daughters, Laurence and Claude, of whom the latter has long been his public relations assistant and personal advisor. Chirac showed his more caring side when compared with the hard nosed image his critics project of him him when he and his wife Bernadette informally adopted a boat people refugee, Anh Dao Traxel, whom they took into their home in 1979, after Chirac met her crying at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris when she was 21. When he met her he said; "Don't cry ma cherie. You are coming home with us." Question

Director Sweden • He was born on July 14, 1918. He is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. His daughter (born 1945), is also a director, as is his son. He is also the father of writer Linn Ullmann, with actress Liv Ullmann. In 1971, he received The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the Academy Awards ceremony. Three of his films have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Virgin Spring in 1961; Through a Glass Darkly in 1962; and Fanny and Alexander in 1984. Question

Novelist Czechoslovakia • He was born on July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela; died December 17, 1830, in Santa Marta, Colombia) was a leader of several independence movements throughout South America, collectively known as Bolívar's War. Credited with leading the fight for independence in what are now the countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia, he is revered as a hero in these countries and throughout much of the rest of Latin America. He married María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa. She died of yellow fever less than a year later, and he never remarried. He is known as "El Libertador", The Liberator. He died before setting sail, after a painful battle with tuberculosis on December 17, 1830, in "La Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino", in Santa Marta, Colombia. Question