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Displayed at an exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2016, which American artist painted the 1927 work Oriental Poppies? It was revealed that it was hung the wrong way round for over 30 years while on display at the University of Minnesota Art Museum.

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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What ‘generation’ was a literary movement of the 1950s and early ‘60s who rejected conventional society, and included writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg?

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Beat Generation

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Alaska and which other American state are described as being non-contiguous?

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Hawaii

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What word goes before ‘model’ when describing famous highly paid fashion models? Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford are considered to be among the original examples.

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Super

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With a vulpine name, which American folk rock band’s most recent album was 2017’s Crack-Up?

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Fleet Foxes

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What is the name of the flap in the throat that closes during swallowing to prevent food from entering the windpipe?

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Epiglottis

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Which football player, who scored 156 goals for Real Madrid between 1958 and 1966, made international appearances for both Hungary and Spain?

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Ferenc Puskás

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Who became the first dependent Nawab of Bengal with support from the British East India Company following his betrayal of the Bengali forces at the Battle of Plassey in 1757?

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Syed Mir Jafar Ali Khan Bahadu

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The Marquess of Salisbury was the first and John Major the last prime minister of the 20th Century to represent which political party?

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Conservative

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Which British driver, who came second in the 2018 Formula 2 Championship, is driving for McLaren in the current Formula 1 season?

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Lando Norris

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What was the name of the group of American pioneers who on their way to California got snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive?

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Donner party (accept

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Which 1980 post-apocalyptic novel by Russell Hoban is set in Kent roughly two thousand years after a nuclear war?

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Riddley Walker

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The lifestyle and ‘wellness’ company Goop, which sells such alternative health products as a ‘Jade Egg’ used for vaginal weightlifting, and coffee enemas, was founded by which Hollywood star?

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Gwyneth Paltrow

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The populist politician Jair Bolsonaro is the current president of which country?

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Brazil

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With a summit elevation of 18.1 km, what is the second highest mountain on Mars after Olympus Mons?

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Ascraeus Mons

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Loss of which of the five senses is shared by the musicians Art Tatum, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder?

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Sight

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The term extending to cover the recreational bathing facilities attached, what is the Japanese word for a hot spring?

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Onsen

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Its name coming from Hitchiti words for ‘water’ and ‘big’, what is the largest lake in Florida? It is the second largest natural freshwater lake after Lake Michigan to be contained entirely within the contiguous United States?

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Lake Okeechobee

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Which British evolutionary biologist and author’s books include The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker?

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Richard Dawkins

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‘Sometimes he’s nutty, sometimes he’s corny, he can be brown or greenish-brown’. These lyrics refer to which occasional festive character from the animated TV show South Park?

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Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo

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Occurring in 1643 and 1644, which town in Berkshire was the site of two battles of the English Civil War?

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Newbury

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What is the name of the vulcanized rubber disk used in a game of ice hockey?

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Puck

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On which board game is a popular London pub crawl based that takes in, among others, The Lord Nelson on Old Kent Road, The Angel Islington, and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street?

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Monopoly

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What form of transport is depicted in JMW Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed?

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(Steam) train/locomotive

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Played by Felicity Montague, what is the first name of Alan’s long-suffering PA in the sitcom I’m Alan Partridge?

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Lynn (Benfield)

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Although now being phased out in many countries including the UK due to concerns about toxicity, which metallic chemical element is widely used in thermometers?

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Mercury

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In which 2006 video game must a young man called Wander travel across a forbidden land on horseback in order to defeat 16 titular beings?

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Shadow of the Colossus

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Accompanied by the Nina and the Pinta, what was the name of Christopher Columbus’s flagship during his first voyage to the New World in 1492?

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Santa Maria

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What type of fire-breathing mythological creature is Smaug in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?

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Dragon

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In a phenomenon on Wikipedia, clicking on the first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link in an article and repeating the process usually leads to the article on what subject? As of February 2016, 97% of all articles followed this rule.

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Philosophy

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The cities of Brno and Ostrava are in which country?

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Czech Republic / Czechia

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The All-Star model of shoe made by Converse is also named after which American basketball player and shoe salesman who died in 1969?

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Charles ‘Chuck’ Taylor

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With a lupine name, which British alternative rock band’s debut album was 2015’s My Love Is Cool?

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Wolf Alice

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What is the name of the teardrop shaped piece of soft tissue that hangs at the back of the throat which contains saliva producing glands, and prevents food from entering the nasal cavity during swallowing?

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Palatine uvula

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Which football player, who scored 216 goals for Real Madrid between 1953 and 1964, made international appearances for Argentina, Colombia and Spain?

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Alfredo Di Stéfano

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Living from approximately 1496 to 1529, what was the name of the Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast who played a key role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés?

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La Malinche

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In 2008, two works from which artist’s Black on Maroon series, part of the larger Seagram Murals group of paintings, were hung vertically instead of horizontally while on display at the Tate Modern, reportedly against the artist’s wishes?

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Mark Rothko

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Pioneered by Hunter S Thompson in the 1970s, what type of journalism wrote without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative?

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Gonzo journalism

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Which island is the only Australian state not connected to the mainland?

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Tasmania

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What word goes before ‘model’ when describing the scantily clad models who often appear in lad’s mags and Page 3?

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Glamour

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Which businessman died in 2011 when instead of undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer, he chose to use alternative methods such as a vegan diet, acupuncture and consulting a psychic?

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Steve Jobs

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The populist politician Rodrigo Duterte is the current president of which country?

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Philippines

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In 2011, the central peak of which crater on the protoplanet Vesta was found to be of comparable height to Olympus Mons, making it a candidate for the highest mountain in the solar system?

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Rheasilvia

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Loss of which of the five senses was shared by the composers Ralph Vaughn Williams, Bed?ich Smetana and Ludwig van Beethoven?

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Hearing

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Ramsay MacDonald was the first and Tony Blair the last prime minister of the 20th century to represent which political party?

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Labour

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Which British driver, who won the 2018 Formula 2 Championship, is driving for Williams in the current Formula 1 season?

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George Russell

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As depicted in the 1993 film Alive, which South American country’s rugby team were in a plane crash in the Andes, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive?

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Uruguay

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Which 1959 post-apocalyptic novel by Walter Miller Jr. is set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States following a nuclear war?

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

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Occurring in 1455 and 1461, where in Hertfordshire was the site of two battles of the Wars of the Roses?

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St Albans

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What is the name of the smaller sticks that are placed on top of the stumps in cricket?

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Bails

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Expanded in 2009 following the opening of an extension to Hammersmith, a popular London pub crawl involves having a drink at every station of which yellow-coloured tube line?

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Circle line

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What form of transport is the Temeraire, as featured in J.M.W. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire?

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Ship (accept boat)

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Often found at spa resorts, what is the name of traditional Japanese inns which typically offer meals and feature tatami-matted rooms?

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Ryokan

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Which lake is directly north of New Orleans, and is crossed by the longest continuous bridge over water in the world?

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Lake Pontchartrain

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Which American-British author wrote the popular science book A Short History of Nearly Everything? He is perhaps better known for his travel books, such as Notes from a Small Island.

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Bill Bryson

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What are ‘packed full of vitamins and good for you’ and ‘packed full of goodness, high in fibre’ according to the lyrics of a UK number 1 single from 1998, credited to Chef from South Park?

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Chocolate Salty Balls

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Including their leader Thorin Oakenshield, what type of mythological creatures are Bilbo’s 13 companions in The Hobbit, whose homeland and treasure he helps reclaim from the dragon Smaug?

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Dwarf

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In what field does a person’s ‘Erd?s [ERD-ISH] number’ indicate their collaborative distance, measured by authorship of published papers, between the prolific Hungarian Paul Erd?s and themselves?

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Mathematics

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The cities of Stavanger and Trondheim are in which country?

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Norway

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The Adidas tennis shoes which are usually coloured white and green, are named after which male American player of the 1970s and ‘80s?

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Stan Smith

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Played by Pauline McLynn, what is the name of the housekeeper the sitcom Father Ted?

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Mrs Doyle

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Although no longer permitted due its toxicity, which metallic chemical element was commonly used in the past to make water pipes, including in Roman times – the Latin word for this element giving rise to the word plumber?

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Lead

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In which role playing video game is the main protagonist the gunblade-wielding Squall Lionheart, who is a member of SeeD, an elite military force based out of futuristic installations called Gardens?

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Final Fantasy 8

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What was the name of the ship that departed Plymouth in 1620, and transported 102 Puritans to the New World?

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Mayflower

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With the real name Simon Williamson, what is the two-word nickname of the character played by Johnny Lee Miller in the film Trainspotting?

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Sick Boy

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How many holes are usually played in a game of golf?

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18

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Named after a French chemist, what is the name of the chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that gives browned food its distinctive flavour?

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Maillard reaction

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What is the name of the brimless skullcap worn by male Jews?

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Kippah OR Yarmulke

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As long as they are two games clear of their opponent, how many games does a player need in order to win a set of tennis?

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6

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With the real name Daniel Murphy, what is the vegetable-based nickname of the character played by Ewen Bremner in the film Trainspotting?

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Spud

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What is the name of the nine-branched candelabrum that is lit during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah?

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Menorah (accept

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What nationality goes before the words ‘water process’ in the name of a method for decaffeinating unroasted coffee beans?

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Swiss water process

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What is added to a BLT sandwich to make a BLAT sandwich?

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Avocado

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In which borough of London was the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show primarily set?

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Croydon

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Which Japanese electronics company makes the Walkman series of portable media players?

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Sony

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What is the name of the American Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island that is the largest community in Antarctica?

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McMurdo Station

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