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Assassinated in 2004, which Islamic scholar founded hamas?

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Ahmed YASSIN

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Which us geneticist is best known for discovering sex chromosomes?

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Nettle stevens

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Battle saw the end of reign of atahualpa

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Cajamarca

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4
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Assassinated hezbollah

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Hassim NASRULLAH

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May 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.[1]

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Hannah hoch

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6
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Only f member of les xx

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Anna boch

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John Whitgift yes

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1583 to 1604

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His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and established his reputation as the leading 20th-century Japanese compose

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TAKEMITSU

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What Dutchman became in 1961 the first non-Japanese judoka to win the World Judo Championship? He won the 1964 Olympic gold medal in judo.

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Anton GEESINK

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10
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What river rising in the Adamawa Plateau of Northern Cameroon is, at 1400 km in length, the longest tributary of the Niger River?

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BENUE

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E.T. Mensah was known as the “King” of what genre of Ghanaian music, a mix of traditional Akan music, jazz, and other influences? It’s named for the classiness of the clubs where the music was first popularized.

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HIGHLIFE

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What U.S. writer’s memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was adapted into a 2014 film starring Reese Witherspoon?

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Cheryl STRAYED

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what 17,000 square kilometre plain that is the largest area of flatland on the island of Honshu? Tokyo is located in the region named for this plain.

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KANTO

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14
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Julia louis Dreyfus actor son

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Nick HALL

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15
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Takaaki Kijita and Arthur McDonald won the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for
discovering that neutrinos undergo which process, in which its lepton flavour
varies over time, something which implies that it has a mass?

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OSCILLATION

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16
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Which US chemist gives his name to the chemical reagent that consists of a
mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium citrate and copper sulfate pentahydrate,
which is often used in place of Fehling’s solution to detect the presence of
reducing sugars?

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stanley benedict

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17
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Which modernist Uruguayan author of Tales of Love, Madness and Death
included the Huguenot potter Bernard Palissy in his essay about 19 exemplary
heroes?

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Horacio QUIROGA

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18
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Which village in Essex, about one mile west of Chipping Ongar, is home to the
Grade I listed St Andrew’s Church, constructed in the second half of the 11th
century and generally believed to be the oldest wooden church in the world?

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GREENSTED

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19
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Founded OnlyFans

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Tim STOKELY

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20
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Who is the only cricketer in history to play for both Australia and New Zealand?
This wicketkeeper made four appearances for Australia in 2008 and went on to
play for New Zealand in their 2015 World Cup Final defeat to Australia.

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Luke RONCHI

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21
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Which Japanese spice mix that contains chilli and orange peel has a name
meaning “seven flavour chilli pepper”?

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SHICHIMI TOGARASHI

22
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the Celtic festival celebrated as October
turns into November? One of the festivals giving rise to Halloween, it marks the
end of the harvest season and beginning of the darker half of the year.

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SAMHAIN

23
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Masatoshi Koshiba and Raymond Davis Jr. won the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics
for discovering neutrinos emitted by the sun. To do this, Davis had led which
experiment named after the South Dakota gold mine in which it had taken place?

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HOMESTAKE

24
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Which 19th century poet and playwright, considered the Father of Puerto Rican
literature, wrote a biodrama about Bernard Palissy subtitled The Heroism of
Work?

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Alejandro TAPIA di Ribera

25
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Which German chemist gives his name to the chemical reagent that consists of a
solution of silver nitrate, ammonia and some sodium hydroxide and used to
determine the presence of aldehyde and aromatic aldehyde functional groups?

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Bernhard TOLLENS

26
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In which 2014 political satire do Seth Rogen and James Franco play two
journalists who are recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un on a press
trip to North Korea?
T

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THE INTERVIEW

27
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Founded PATREON

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Jack yam Sam conte

28
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1812 Simon Bolivar manifesto

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Cartagena

29
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What effect named for an Irish physicist occurs when the particles in a colloid or a fine suspension scatter light, often causing solutions to appear blue?

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tyndall effect

30
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was an American anthropologist and writer. Starting in 1968, published a series of books that describe a training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui “Man of Knowledge” named don Juan Matus. While work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the training he described is now generally considered to be fictional.[nb 2]

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Carlos CASTANEDA

31
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what gazelle-riding Hindu lord of the winds considered the celestial father of Hanuman?

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VAYU

32
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Which American novelist (1925-1964) known for her Southern Gothic style wrote A Good Man Is Hard to Find? In this short story a grandmother and her family stop at an old diner on the outskirts of town and are killed by an escaped convict named “The Misfit.

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FLANNERY O’CONNOR

33
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Idelogical father of the Baath party

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Michel AFLEQ

34
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Chief enemy Scarlet PIMPERNEL

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Citizen bCHAUVELIN

35
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Argentine manager

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lIONEL scaloni

36
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Dutch female striker

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VIVIANNE midiema

37
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Nuremberg is on which river

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PEGNITZ

38
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Bowed Japanese string instrument

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kokyu

39
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general term for indonesian martial arts

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pencak silat

40
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Created dr pepper

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Charles alderton, waco

41
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Between 360bc to 342 bc who was the last native ruler of egypt

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nectanebo II

42
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BANDLEADER ON TITANIC

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WALLACE HARTLEY

43
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SOITH AMERICAS LARGEST CANID

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MANED WOLF

44
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SLASHED ROKEBY VENUS

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MARY RICHARDSON

45
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1933 Primo Carnera killed which boxer

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Primo Carnera

46
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In which year did Alaric ! sack rome as leader of goths

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410 ad

47
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euope nobility inventory

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almanac de gotha

48
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Vaccuum cleaner invento

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Hubert cecil booth

49
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iTALIAN SINGER MARRIED bJORN bORG IN 1989

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Loredana BERTE

50
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Who composed Night Music of the Streets of Madirid?

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BOCCHERINI

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