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What territorial overseas collectivity of France is situated near Newfoundland?
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon
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What is the name of the anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail cat-inspired character with a red bow?
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Hello Kitty
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What Nobel Prize hasn't been awarded 19 years since its creation, more times than any other Nobel Prize?
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Nobel Peace Prize
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What is another name for the chemical element Tungsten?
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Wolfram
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What Irish novelist and poet is best known for Ulysses (1922)?
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James Joyce
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What is the NBA team that plays its home games at the United Center?
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Chicago Bulls
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How do you call a male singer with a voice intermediate between tenor and bass?
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Baritone
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Who is recognized to be the first known woman mathematician in history and credited with writing three major treatises on geometry, algebra and astronomy?
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Hypatia of Alexandria
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Who was the scientist and Augustinian abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno that is considered the founder of the modern science of genetics?
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Gregor Mendel
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What is the prefix with the meaning “round about, around,” found in Latin loanwords?
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Circum-
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Who is the Romanian gymnast who became the first in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal?
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Nadia Comăneci
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What is the country whose only border is with South Africa?
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Lesotho
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Who was the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or for her acclaimed film The Piano (1993)?
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Jane Campion
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What is the country that the Alaouite dynasty has been ruling since 1667?
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Morocco
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What animal is a medium-sized, burrowing, anteater nocturnal mammal native to Africa and the only living species of the order Tubulidentata?
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Aardvark
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Who is the Sabine-derived goddess of flowers and of the season of spring in Roman mythology?
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Flora
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What country has the city of Putrajaya as its federal administrative centre?
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Malaysia
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Who was the South African singer and civil rights activist, nicknamed Mama Africa, best known for the song Pata Pata?
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Miriam Makeba
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What was was the largest Asian war in the 20th century?
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Second Sino-Japanese War
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Who is the eleventh managing director of the IMF - International Monetary Fund (5 July 2011 - Present)?
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Christine Lagarde
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