New General Knowledge #1

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