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Question
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Answer
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100
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What is the capital city of the United States?
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Washington D.C.
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99
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On what river do the vast majority of Egyptians live?
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Nile
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98
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What is the currency of the United Kingdom?
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Pound Sterling
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97
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What is the main export of Qatar?
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Oil / natural gas
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96
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Who is the current president of Russia?
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Vladimir Putin
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95
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What major falls are located on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border?
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Victoria Falls
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94
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What is the German word for Germany?
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Deutschland
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93
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What Turkish empire was dissolved in 1923?
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Ottoman Empire
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92
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What French museum is the most visited in the world?
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Musée du Louvre
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91
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What nickname is often used when referring to Japan?
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Land of the Rising Sun
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90
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What is the most sacred animal in hinduism?
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Cow
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89
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What British islands were invaded by Argentina in 1982?
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Falkland Islands
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88
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What is the most populous city in Quebec?
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Montreal
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87
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What was the DR Congo known as, from 1971 to 1997?
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Zaire
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86
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What is Sweden's all-time bestselling musical act?
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ABBA
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85
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What germanic language is mainly spoken in South Africa?
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Afrikaans
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84
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Who was the first leader of communist China?
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Mao Zedong
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83
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What dog breed is named for a Mexican state?
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Chihuahua
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82
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What greek island was home to the Minoan civilisation?
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Crete
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81
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What religious leader was born in southern Nepal around 480 BC?
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Buddha
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80
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What dictator killed 20% of Cambodia's population in the 1970s?
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Pol Pot
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79
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What peninsula comprises both Spain and Portugal?
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Iberia
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78
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What colombian drug lord was "worth $30 billion"?
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Pablo Escobar
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77
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What ballroom dance in 3/4 time is emblematic of Vienna?
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Waltz
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76
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What Korean martial art is an Olympic sport?
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Taekwondo
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75
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What is Ireland's main airline company?
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Ryanair
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74
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Who is undoubtedly Denmark's most famous fairy tale writer?
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Hans Christian Andersen
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73
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What ice cream ingredient is Madagascar's top export?
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Vanilla
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72
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What dictator was born in Georgia as Ioseb Besarionis dzе Djugashvili?
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Joseph Stalin
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71
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What is Italy's tallest volcano?
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Mount Etna
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70
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What word is defined as the support of a Jewish state in the Holy Land?
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Zionism
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69
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What type of tree is depicted on the flag of Lebanon?
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Cedar
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68
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Who is Switzerland's most famous tennis player?
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Roger Federer
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67
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What major river forms the border between Thailand and Laos?
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Mekong
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66
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What is the word for a narrow strip of land connecting
two larger landmasses, like Panama for instance?
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Isthmus
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65
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What 2006 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio tackles the issue
of diamond trade during the civil war in Sierra Leone?
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Blood Diamond
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64
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What acronym was North Macedonia also known as until 2019?
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FYROM
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63
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Who was the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland?
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Erik the Red
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62
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What stinky fruit is banned in Singapore's subway?
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Durian
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61
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What region of Sudan has known a genocide in the 21st century?
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Darfur
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60
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What infamous dictator was known as "The Butcher of Uganda"?
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Idi Amin
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59
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What is the most populous city in the Philippines?
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Quezon City
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58
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What neozelandese mountain climber became the first person
to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953?
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Edmund Hillary
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57
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What conquistador invaded the Inca Empire?
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Francisco Pizarro
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56
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What was the profession of the current Ukrainian president
Volodymyr Zelensky prior to his election in 2019?
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Comedian
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55
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What legendary sailor of the seven seas was said to live in Iraq?
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Sinbad
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54
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What major city in Senegal shares its name with a city in Missouri?
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Saint-Louis
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53
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What strait separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland Chile?
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Strait of Magellan
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52
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Who has been the President of Belarus since 1994?
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Alexander Lukashenko
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51
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What famous resort town is located at the eastern
tip of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic?
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Punta Cana
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50
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What is the national gemstone of Australia?
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Opal
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49
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What island of the Solomon Islands was the site of a WWII battle?
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Guadalcanal
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48
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What is the act of throwing someone out of a window called?
(It famously happened in Prague in 1419 and 1618)
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Defenestration
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47
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What region of northern Tanzania is known for its wildebeest migration?
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Serengeti
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46
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Who established Taiwan after fleeing mainland China in 1949?
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Chiang Kai-shek
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45
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What ruler of the Mali Empire is often (inaccurately)
said to be the richest person in history?
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Mansa Musa
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44
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What slogan appears on the Brazilian flag?
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Ordem e Progresso
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43
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What is the main ethnic group of Laponia?
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Sámi
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42
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What hungarian piano virtuoso composed "Hungarian Rhapsody"?
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Franz Liszt
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41
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What Cuban dictator was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959?
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Fulgencio Batista
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40
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What is the largest island in Yemen?
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Socotra
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39
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What former footballer is currently the president of Liberia?
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George Weah
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38
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What is the most commonly spoken mother tongue in Jamaica?
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Jamaican Patois
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37
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What radical socialist party ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990?
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Sandinista
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36
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What holiday does Kazakhstan celebrate on January 7?
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Christmas
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35
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Major ocean bay in Venezuela, incorrectly called a "lake"
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Maracaibo
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34
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Who was the leader of the Haitian Revolution?
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Toussaint Louverture
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33
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What warlord born in Uzbekistan in 1336 has led conquests
which have killed an estimated 5% of the world's population?
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Timur
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32
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What river do the Paraguay and Uruguay rivers both join?
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Paraná
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31
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What city, technically the second-biggest in Moldova,
is the capital of the breakaway state of Transnistria?
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Tiraspol
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30
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What was the colonial name of Benin?
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Dahomey
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29
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What Mozambique-born footballer was known as the "Black Panther"?
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Eusébio
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28
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What word, starting with J, is the official ideology of North Korea?
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Juche
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27
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What belgian painter said that a representation of a pipe isn't a pipe?
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René Magritte
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26
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What tributary of the Danube flows through Belgrade in Serbia
and forms parts of the border between Bosnia and Croatia?
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Sava
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25
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What region of Papua New Guinea overwhelmingly
voted to become independent in 2019?
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Bougainville
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24
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What supervolcano erupted 74,000 years ago in Indonesia,
nearly causing humans to become extinct?
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Lake Toba
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23
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What mountain in Ecuador is the tallest in the world,
if measured from the center of the Earth?
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Chimborazo
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22
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What is the two-letter country code for Algeria?
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DZ
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21
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What does Honduras mean in spanish?
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Depths
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20
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What mountain range, starting with Z, spans across Iran?
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Zagros
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19
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What is the biggest port on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia?
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Dammam
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18
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What ancient kingdom located in northern Somalia
was an essential trading partner of ancient Egypt?
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Land of Punt
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17
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What white flower is a national symbol of Pakistan?
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Jasmine
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16
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What Ethiopian city was the center of an empire from 100 to 940 AD?
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Aksum
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15
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What norwegian figure skater won 3 gold medals at the Olympics?
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Sonja Henie
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14
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What female name is given to the northernmost
point in mainland Africa, located in Tunisia?
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Cape Angela
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13
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What european species of wild cattle went extinct in Poland in 1627?
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Aurochs
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12
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What is the currency of Mongolia?
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Tögrög
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11
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What is the name of the Palace in which the Pope resides?
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Apostolic Palace
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10
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Who delivers eggs in Lithuania, in addition to the Easter Bunny?
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Easter Granny
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9
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On what island does Nassau (the capital of the Bahamas) lie?
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New Providence
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8
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What Formula 1 pilot died during the qualifications of the 1994
San Marino Grand Prix, just one day before Ayrton Senna?
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Roland Ratzenberger
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7
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What is the most populous city in Trinidad-and-Tobago?
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Chaguanas
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6
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What city was the capital of Bhutan until 1955?
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Punakha
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5
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What archipelago consisting of two hundred small forested islands
is the only UNESCO World Heritage of Palau?
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Rock Islands
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4
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What tiny man-made island is shared by Bahrain and Saudi Arabia?
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Passport Island
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3
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What part of Earth's crust comprises Guyana and its neighbours?
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Guyana Shield
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2
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What is the name given to the carnival that takes place in Grenada?
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Spicemas
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1
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What kingdom encompassed the territory of modern-day Kosovo
before it was conquered by the Roman Empire in 28 BC?
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Dardania
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