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Titular star of shogun

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Hiroyuki sanada

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2
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Clovelly directed which film

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To sir with love

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Salazar set up which concentration camp for political prisoners in Capr Verde

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Tarrafal

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Which us stage magician was known for his namesake course in magic in the 1920s

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Harlan tarbell

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5
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Raith rovers play in which town

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Kirkcaldy

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What is the 1 capital and 2 state language of manipur

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Imphal
Meitei

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Paleozoic era divides into which 6 periods

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Cambria
Ordovician
Silurian
Devon ian
Carboniferoys
Permian

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Carboniferous period divides into which two subperiods

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Mississippian
Penndylvaniam

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9
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All Ireland hurling
1. Cup
2. Most wins
3. 2024 winners

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Liam Mccarthy cup
Kilkenny
Clare

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10
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Wrote the postman and created the uplift universe

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David brin

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Foundation trilogy

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Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation

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Who played the title role in the 1962 Agnes Varda film Cleo from 5 to 7

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Corinne Marchand

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13
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Unesco ich. Armenian national epuc

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Daredevils of sassoun

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14
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Philosopher of interpretation

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Hermeneutics

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15
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Magnum.opus of gedamer

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Truth and method

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Played by Jeffrey tambor, which deputy of stalin briefly succeeded him before being used by kruschev

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Georgy malenkov

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National park in nw territories Canada firsxunesco whs

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Nahanni

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1699 – December 6, 1779[1]) was an 18th-century French painter.[2] He is considered a master of still life,[3] and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.

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Jean Simeon CHARDIN

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 1472 – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther.

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Luca Cranach the Elder

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20
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2nd century bc writer of comedies, formerly a slave, born in Carthage

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TERENCE

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WROTE NOVEL zORBA THE GREEK

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Nikos kazantzakis

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Directed the film Zorba The Greek

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Michael Cayocannis

24
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Greek actress won oscar for Zorba

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Irene Pappas

25
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zorba music

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Theodarakis

26
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Cairo Trilogy

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Palace Walk
Palace of Desire
Sugar Street

27
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Wroe a Wrinkle in Time

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Madeleine L’engle

28
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The biggest publishing company in Italy, it gives its name to the giallo genre?

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Mondadori

29
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is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He gained international popularity for working his adult animated films The King of Pigs (2011) and The Fake (2013), and the live-action film Train to Busan (2016), its animated prequel Seoul Station (2016) and live-action sequel Peninsula (2020), and first South Korean superhero film Psychokinesis (2018).

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YEON SANG HO

30
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Name the footballer who scored a hat-trick for West Germany when coming on as a substitute in the 1976 European Nations Cup semi-final? He also scored in the final which West Germany lost on penalties to Czechoslovakia. First name and surname needed for the point.

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dIETER muller

31
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Which football League Club won the Anglo-Italian League Cup in 1969, beating A.S.Roma, who had Fabio Capello in their side, 5-2 in the two-legged match with Arthur Horsfield scoring a hat-trick in their 4-0 home leg win?

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Swindon Town

32
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One of Mao Zedong’s deepest philosophical influences was A System of Ethics, written by which German philosopher in 1899?

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Friedrich Paulsen

33
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Under State Socialism, Chinese were organized into what miniature syndicates that governed the lives of urban workers?

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DANWEI

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Which English actress played Natasha Rostova in the 2016 BBC version of War and Peace, and went on to appear as a younger version of Meryl Streep’s character Donna in 2018’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again?

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lILY james

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The ampersand sign “&” derives its appearance from a ligature of which two letters?

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e t

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Which 2020 Netflix series features the now-standard cast of 10 unbelievably attractive young singletons in a beach villa - but with the twist that they’re not allowed to touch or kiss each other for the duration of the show?

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TOO HOT TO HANDLE

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Referenced by Nabokov in the early chapters of Lolita, which final completed poem by Edgar Allan Poe describes his love for a beautiful woman as beginning in “A kingdom by the sea”?

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ANNABEL LEE

38
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Named after a German WWI fighter ace, what modern aerobatics move comprises an ascending half-looop followed by a half-roll, resulting in level flight in the opposite direction at a higher altitude?

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immelman turn

39
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Who coached the 1971 Lions victory in nz, skippered by John Dawes

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Carwyn JAMES

40
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Known by its first two words, a truncation of Latin meaning “pain itself”, which block of filler text commonly used in website design is derived from a corrupted version of Cicero’s De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum?

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lorem ipsum

41
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Which region in Australia names a segment of continental crust that, along with the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa, represent the only pristine sections of the Earth’s crust to date from the Archaean Eon over 3 billion years ago? Taking its name from a creek that feeds the Yule river, today it is known for its rich iron ore deposits.

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PILBARA

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Which Japanese general led the capture of Malaya and Singapore during the Second World War? His trial after the surrender of Japan gave rise to the principle that a commanding officer has a responsibility to try and prevent his subordinates from committing war crimes.

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Yamashita Tomoyuki

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Which German artist and founder of the Ulm School of Design led the 1960s redesign of Lufthansa branding, making it one of the first companies to use Helvetica as a standard corporate typeface? He also pioneered the use of stick figures in public signage through his pictograms for the 1972 Munich Olympics.

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oTL aicher

44
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In biochemistry, what name is given to an enzyme that catalyses the transfer of a phosphate group onto its substrate?

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KINASE

45
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Which country’s modern name is thought to have first been coined by Flora Shaw, then Colonial Editor for The Times and the highest-paid woman journalist of her time? Her husband, Lord Lugard, would go on to become the first Governor-General of a colony that would become this country.

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nigeria

46
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Set in the wake of a fictional pandemic called the Georgia Flu, which post-apocalyptic novel by Emily St. John Mandel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015?

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STATION ELEVEN

47
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Known as the “Pink Lady” for her dramatic outfit choices, which North Korean newsreader made the official announcements the successful September 2016 nuclear tests, as well as the deaths of Kim Il-Sung in 1994 and Kim Jong-Il in 2011?

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RI CHUN HEE

48
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Who directed ICARUS

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Bryan Fogel

49
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an Indigenous Brazilian leader and environmentalist. He is a chief of the Kayapo people, a Brazilian Indigenous group from the plain lands of the Mato Grosso and Pará in Brazil, south of the Amazon River and along Xingu River and its tributaries. He is internationally famous as a living symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous culture.

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Chief RAONI

50
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capital city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

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cuiaba

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