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| The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre,was the siege by US federal government and state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians, between February 28 and April 19, 1993. It led to 83 deaths, in what state did this occur? | Texas | 95%
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| What is the tallest mountain in France? Mount _____ | Blanc | 90%
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| There's only one letter in the alphabet that doesn't appear in the name of any U.S. state, what is it? | q | 90%
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| Which of these is not an ex-Yugoslavian country? | Slovakia | 80%
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| In his 1988 autobiography, country music legend Willie Nelson admitted to once smoked weed with President ______ _____'s son Chip on the roof of the White House in the 1970s. | Jimmy Carter | 75%
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| Which of these people was not a leader of Egypt? | Menachem Begin | 70%
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| Khat, also known as Qaadka is a type of? | Drug that is chewed like tobacco and causes a mild high, popular in parts of the Middle East and Africa. | 60%
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| _______are extremely luminous, star-like objects powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, emitting vast amounts of energy as gas and dust spiral into the black hole, forming a bright accretion disk. | Quasars | 55%
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| Malaria is caused by protozoa of the genus ______? | Plasmodium | 50%
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| An element that is used in batteries and electronics. Found in abundance in the eastern part of the Democratic of the Congo. Control over mines, mining this element, has led to an increase in conflict and instability in the region. | Cobalt | 45%
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| A Kurdish revolutionary group that has been fighting Turkey since the 1970s. | PKK | 40%
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| An endonym is a name that people of a certain place and language call themselves. What's the endonym for Albania? | Shqiptarët | 40%
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| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is known as one of Nigeria's well known authors. Which of these is NOT a book written by her? | Arrow of God | 25%
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| Since the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, various pro-democracy resistance groups have been fighting with the military junta, a fascist Buddhist junta that believes in the suppression of freedom and the domination of the Buddhist Burmese ethnic group above other ethnic groups, like the Chin. The Myanmar armed forces fighting these groups are also called the _______? | Tatmadaw | 25%
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| Francisco Macías Nguema was the first president of what African country? He ruled the country from 1968-1979 and was known for his sociopathy and odd behaviour, once having his soldiers dress as santa claus and shoot his political enemies in a football stadium in the capital of Malabo. | Equatorial Guinea | 20%
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