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1
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Where is Thuringia?

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The center of Germany

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Who founded Aufstehen?

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Sahra Wagenknecht

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When was Aufstehen founded?

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2018

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What is the BSW (Germany)?

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Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht

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What makes BSW different from other left-wing parties?

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Russophilia, pro-destroying our environment, anti-refugee, vaccine skepticism

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Where did the Japanese surrender during WWII?

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On the deck of the USS Missouri

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What was Osama bin Laden’s family like?

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His father was a billionaire construction magnate with close ties to the Saudi royal family

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Where was Sahra Wagenknecht born?

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Jena in Thuringia (unsurprising that she got so many votes there)

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Who was Oskar Lafontaine?

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Former finance minister of German and husband of Sahra Wagenknecht

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Who is Sahra Wagenknecht’s husband?

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Oskar Lafontaine

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What was the Morgenthau Plan?

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Proposal to weaken Germany by eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key industries

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What is the Kalergi Plan?

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Conspiracy theory that Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi had a plot to mix and replace white Europeans with other races via imigration

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Who is credited with the idea of the Paneuropean Union?

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Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

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What does Tim Walz’s brother think of him? What is his name?

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Jeff Walz is 100% opposed to his ideology

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Who is Mary Trump?

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Donald Trump’s niece, who is famously critical of Trump

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How many girls were victims in the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal?

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Around 1,400 between 1997 and 2013

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17
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What happened to the Rotherham groomers?

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Several went to jail (Razwan Razaq: 11 years, Zafran Ramzan: 9 years, Umar Razaq: 4.5 years)

Five men were convicted in 2010, well before the story broke international news

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18
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What were the places in Britain that had infamous grooming gang scandals?

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Rotherham and Rochdale

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What happened to the Rochdale groomers?

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42 of them were arrested, with their jail sentences totaling 432 years

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Where does the infamous 1 million figure come from for the Rotherham grooming scandal?

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The MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion, who said “There are hundreds of thousands and I think there could be up to a million victims of exploitation nationwide, including right now.” Champion’s reasoning was actually made because she scaled up the 1,400 number to be applicable to the entire nation.

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21
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How many children were victims of sexual exploitation in Britain in the 2018/2019 period?

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About 18,700

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Who made Conservapedia?

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Andrew Schlafly, son of Phyllis Schlafly

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What does the “x” indicate in a protection code?

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That there’s no dust protection

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24
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What is the protection code for the Pixel 9 Fold?

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IPX8

25
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What does Die Linke think about Russian-Ukraine War?

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They essentially want to appease Russia

26
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Why did Gabriel Attal resign?

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Macron’s coalition lost to the left in snap polls

27
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What is the longest the French Fifth Republic has been without a PM?

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The time between the Attal resignation and the appointment of Michel Barnier

28
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What is the New Popular Front?

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French Leftist party

29
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What party is Barnier?

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The Republicans

30
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What is the KKE (Greece)?

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The Communist Party of Greece

31
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Where does the term “tankie” come from?

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It’s uncertain. There’s a common folk etymology saying that it started as a way to diss communists who supported the invasion of Hungary, but the term did not come into usage until around the mid-80s so that’s probably incorrect.

32
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What did the Pixel 8 change from Pixel 7in terms of physical design?

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Flat screen instead of slightly curved, satin back on the pro model, slightly smaller screen on the regular model (going from 6.3 inches to 6.2 inches)

33
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Is there a way to fix the camera bump on Pixel accumulating dust?

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Yes, you would curve it like they do on some Oppo phones

34
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What did the Pixel 8 change in terms of hardware from the Pixel 7?

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Bumped up to 120 hz

35
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When was the first iPhone released?

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2007

36
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What was the resolution of the original iPhone?

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320x480

37
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When was 3g introduced?

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2001 (didn’t become popular until around 2007 though)

38
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When did iPhone add crash detection?

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2022 in the iPhone 14 series lineup

39
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When did Apple remove the physical SIM card tray?

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iPhone 14 series

40
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Who are our major sources for understanding homosexuality in Ancient Greece?

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Plato, Xenophon, Athenaeus, Herodotus, Aristophanes

41
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Was Sappho a lesbian?

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Probably. Classical Athenian comedy sometimes portrayed her as a promiscuous heterosexual woman. Depictions of her as a lesbian would not appear until the Hellenistic period. She also wrote to entertain an oftentimes male audience, so it may be more to entertain them than to express her own desires. Nonetheless, most modern historians believe that her poems do depict homoerotic desire.

42
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What is the Hellenistic Period?

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between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC

43
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How did Cleopatra VII die?

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She killed herself. Most accounts say she put an end to her life by the bite of an asp conveyed to her in a basket of figs

44
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What is the significance of the Battle of Actium?

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Secured Octavian’s power over Rome, turned Egypt into a Roman province, and marked Rome’s turn from a Republic into an empire

45
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When did Octavian die?

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AD 14

46
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What is erastes?

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(Greece) adult male in a relationship with a younger male

47
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Ermomenos meaning?

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passive (or ‘receptive’) partner in a male homosexual relationship

48
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passive (or ‘receptive’) partner in a male homosexual relationship (Greece)

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Ermomenos

49
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What is lactational amenorrhea?

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the period of reduced fertility that accompanies breastfeeding

50
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When did iPhone introduce the dynamic island?

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They first put it in the iPhone 14 pro and pro max, and then put it in all models starting with the 15 series

51
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What type of screen is iPhone 16 pro?

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Super Retina XDR Oled

52
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What is the peak brightness of iPhone 16?

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2000 nits

53
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What does the f stand for in photography?

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focal length

54
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Where are the Apple conferences held?

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Worldwide Developers Conference

55
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What is limited liability?

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States that a corporate structure protects its owners from being personally pursued for the repayment of the company’s liabilities or debts (beyond what they personally invested).

56
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What was the first iPhone to have an OLED screen?

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iPhone X

57
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What PM repealed the Corn Laws?

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Robert Peel

58
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Who owns Fitbit?

A

Google

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