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On what island would you find the River Shannon?
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Ireland
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In what country was the winter holiday Kwanzaa first celebrated in 1966?
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United States
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What is made from mostly wood, graphite, and rubber?
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Pencil
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What is halite better known as, especially when you put it on your food?
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Salt
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Magnus Jóhannesson is from Iceland. He has a son. What is his son's last name?
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Magnusson
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What unit of an army is typically about 20,000 soldiers in size?
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Division
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Where did aviator Richard E. Byrd visit by air in 1929 – becoming the first person to do so?
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The South Pole
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What Nobel Prize winning leader stepped down in 1991 and appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial seven years later?
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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What fabric gets its name from the city of Nîmes, France?
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Denim
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What 1997 movie was, at the time, the most expensive in history – requiring a 17 million gallon water tank?
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Titanic
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What absurdist play could be summarized as "Godot never shows up"?
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Waiting for Godot
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In what country are "bonjour", "Guten Tag", and "buongiorno" all different ways to say hello using an official language?
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Switzerland
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What would you use a "depth charge" against?
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Submarine
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What dark red gem is the birthstone for the month of January?
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Garnet
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Name one of the two countries which are fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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What is known in France as petit-déjeuner, literal translation: "little lunch"?
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Breakfast
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What causes things to sound higher pitched when they are moving towards us?
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Doppler Effect
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What was notable about Dolly, a famous sheep born in 1996?
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She was a clone
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What profession's red and white sign stands for blood and bandages - a relic from when they provided surgical services?
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Barbers
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What car model, on its retirement in 1927, was responsible for about half of all the automobiles ever sold?
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Ford Model T
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And it is clever to have said "in France" and not "in French". In other french-speaking countries (Belgium, Switzerland, Canada), we rather say "déjeuner" for breakfast, "dîner" for lunch and "souper" for dinner/supper.
This should be a "brigade"
A "division" is usually 3 brigades and comprises circa 15,000 soldiers