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| The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an h, it’s also one of the 10 most populous | Bangladesh | 73%
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| 60,000 are at rest in a national memorial cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state | Hawaii | 62%
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| In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort | Mount Everest | 36%
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| On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, “the sadness will last forever” | Vincent van Gogh | 26%
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| One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as “‘Clueless’ meets ‘The Paper Chase’” | Legally Blonde | 21%
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| From the Greek for “ring”, the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000 | Circus | 19%
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| Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: “I was a fat schoolboy… he was drunk” | John Lennon & Paul McCartney | 17%
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| In 1752 one of the first races in this sport was run--4 miles from Buttevant Church to St. Mary’s Doneraile | Steeplechase | 16%
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| In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake”; for distinction he added a 2nd “s” to the end | Frederick Douglass | 14%
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| France’s national theater award, it’s named for a man who died in Paris in 1673 | Molière | 11%
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| Each in a show that ran more than 2 years, Ethel Merman & Sarah Jessica Parker played 2 different characters with this first name | Annie | 9%
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