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What country is Mozart from?

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Austria

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What country is Haydn from?

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Austria

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What country is Schubert from?

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Austria

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Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?

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A hollywood star (Austrian)

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Who founded psychoanalysis?

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Sigmund Freud (Austrian)

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Where are Tintin and The Smurfs from?

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Belgium

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How many times has Eddy Merckx won Tour De France?

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5 (Eddy Merckx is Belgian)

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Name two famous Belgian tennis players (women_)

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Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters

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What was Nafissatou Thiam voted in 2017?

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World athlete of the year ( Nafissatou Thiam is Belgian)

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Who made the heads side of the euro?

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Luc Luycx (Belgian)

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What record did Stefka Kostadinova set in 1987?

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High jump of 2.09 metres (Stefka is Bulgarian)

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What country is Nikola Tesla from and what discovery did he make?

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Croatian, X-Ray Imaging

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What country is Luka Modric from?

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Croatia

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Who made the parachute?

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Faust Vrancic in 1617 (Croatian)

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What did medal did Pavlos Kontides win in 2012

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Silver medal in sailing at London 2012 Olympics (Pavlos is a Cypriot)

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What country are Milan Trajkovic, Aoistikis Parellis and Eleni Aryama from?

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Cyprus

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What greek goddess is said to have rose near the city of Paphos in Cyprus?

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Aphrodite

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What sport does Caroline Wozniacki play?

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Tennis (Caroline is Danish)

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What country is Hans Christian Andersen from?

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Denmark (He wrote the Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid)

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20
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What country is Paul Keres from?

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Estonia (Chess player)

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What country are composers Arvo Part and Neeme Jarvi from?

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Estonia

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Where were Moomin and the Angry Birds created?

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Finland

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What sport is Kimi Raikkonen famous for?

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Formula One (Finnish)

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Scientists and inventors Eugene Poubelle and Louis Pasteur come from what country?

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France

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What disney movies did Charles Perrault inspire?
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and more (France)
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What country did Beethoven and Bach come from?
Germany (Composers)
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What country do Daniel Bruhl and Diane Kruger come from?
Germany (Actors)
28
What country does Albert Einstein come from?
Germany
29
What country do Michael Shumacher and Sebastian Vettel come from?
Germany (Formula One Drivers)
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What country do Euclid and Pythagoras come from?
Greece
31
What country do Plato, Socrates and Aristotle come from?
Greece (Philosophers)
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What country do athletes Katerina Stefanidi, Lefteris Petrounias and Giannis Adetokunbo come from?
Greece
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What did ancient greek scientist Eratosthenes claim that the earth was?
Round
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What country do the composers Liszt Bartok and Kodaly come from?
Hungary
35
Name an Irish author.
Bram Stoker, oscar Wilde, James Joyce or Samuel Beckett.
36
Name an Italian Artist
Leonardo Da Vinci Michelangelo or Botticelli
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What country is football player Francesco Totti from
Italy
38
What country is motorcycle champion Valentino Rossi From?
Italy
39
Julius Caesar ruled the Roman Empire. What country is he from?
Italy
40
What country is the conductor Andris Nelson from?
Latvia
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What country do the lead singers of the bands Red Hot Chilli Peppers and the killers come from?
Lithuania
42
Name a Lithuanian NBA player.
Domantas Sabonis
43
What where the people called who ruled over malta in its Golden Age
Knights of St. John (The golden age was the 17th and 18th century)
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Who gave Valletta (Malta's capital) it's name?
Jean Parisot de La Valette (Jean was a French nobleman)
45
Name a Dutch DJ.
Armin van Buuren, Tiesto or Martin Garrix
46
What country is Van Gogh from?
The Netherlands
47
Irena Szewinska, Robert Korzeniowski and Adam Matysz are from what country?
Poland
48
Who was the Polish scientist who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie (or Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
49
What country is Cristiano Ronaldo from?
Portugal
50
Vasco da Gama was the first european to reach India by sea, what is his nationality?
Portugese
51
What nationality is Simona Halep?
Romanian
52
What country is Nadia Comaneci from?
Romania (She was the first ever gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the 1976 olympics, she was only 14!)
53
Dracula is a prince, what country was he from?
Romania
54
Famous cyclist Peter Sagan is from what country?
Slovakia
55
Fun Fact
Steve Ditko (Spider Man's co-inventor) has Slovak origins
56
What country is Davo Karnicar from?
Slovenia (First to ski down mt everest)
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What country is Benka Pulko from?
Slovenia (First woman to travel to all 7 continents by motorbike)
58
What country is Martin Strel from?
Slovenia (Swam entire length of the River Amazon)
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What country is Marc Marquez from?
Spain
60
What country is Zlatan Ibrahimovic from?
Sweden (Footballer)
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What country is Sarah Sjostrom from?
Sweden (Swimmer)
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What country are the famous musicians Robyn, Zara Larsson and The Hives from?
Sweden
63
What did Anders Celsius do?
Give his name to the temperature scale (Swedish)
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What country is Alfred Nobel from?
Sweden
65
Who made the fictional character Pippi Longstocking?
Astrid Lindgren (Swedish)
66
Which country is painter Alfons Mucha from?
Czechia
67
Which country are composers Bedrich Smetana and Antonnin Dvorak from?
Czechia
68
Which country are writers Jaroslav Seifert and Vaclav from?
Czechia
69
Star ice hockey player Jaromir Jagr is from what country?
Czechia
70
Which Czech writer came up with the idea of the robot?
Karel Capek in the book R.U.R
71
What country is Erno Rubik from?
Hungary (Inventor of Rubik's Cube)
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What country are Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo from?
Italy
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What invention did Walter Zapp make?
The mini camera in 1936 (He was a German from Latvia)

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