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Liz ____holds the record for the shortest unequivocal term of office, at 49 days. She was appointed by Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle on 6 September 2022, and officially resigned as prime minister to Charles III at Buckingham Palace on 25 October 2022.	Truss	89%
This nations flag features a yellow field (background) bearing vertical stripes of green and orange at the hoist and, at the fly end, a crimson rectangle with a sword-wielding lion and four bo leaves. What nation is this?	Sri Lanka	83%
An English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.	Agatha Christie	78%
The only English-speaking country in South America. Located on the Caribbean coast, between Venezuela and Suriname.	Guyana	78%
What war Sri Lanka called before 1972?	Ceylon	72%
Birthplace of Napoleon.	Corsica	72%
An island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet.	Singapore	72%
The Football War (Spanish: Guerra del fútbol), also known as the Soccer War or the 100 Hour War, was a brief military conflict fought between El Salvador and _______ in 1969.	Honduras	67%
In June 2024, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani won re-election for his second term as president of what North-West African country that begins with M?	Mauritania	67%
The Haditha massacre was a series of killings on November 19, 2005, in which a group of United States marines killed 25 unarmed _____ civilians.	Iraqi	56%
In Novemeber 2024, Navin Ramgoolam won a re-election for a third term as Prime Minister after the landslide victory of his coalition Alliance du Changement, in what East African country that begins with M?	Mauritius	56%
A large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. Lake _______.	Titicaca	56%
Established in January 2002 by US President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects and "illegal enemy combatants" during the Global War on Terrorism.	Guantanamo Bay	50%
A landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.	Kyrgyzstan	50%
What country did Japan go to war with in 1905?	Russia	50%
"100 years of _______" is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family.	Solitude	50%
The _____ of Bamiyan were two possibly 6th-century monumental statues in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan. Located 80 miles to the northwest of Kabul, they were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.	Buddhas	39%
Arminius led a coalition of Germanic tribes, including the Cherusci, Marsi, Chatti, and Bructeri, to defeat the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg _____ in 9AD.	Forest	39%
A synthetic or semi-synthetic material made from polymers that can be molded into different shapes.	Plastic	39%
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry. Her first autobiographical book detailing her childhood was called - I know why the ____ ____ _____.	caged bird sings	33%
Akira _______ , a Japanese filmmaker widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Famous films include The Seven Samurai (1954) and Ran (1985).	Kurosawa	33%
The above group fought the US backed _____.	contras	22%
François _____ a French filmmaker, actor and critic, widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. Famous films include The 400 Blows (1959) and Jules et Jim (1962).	Truffaut	22%
A type of potato pancake or fritter in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine that is traditionally prepared to celebrate Hanukkah.	Latke	17%
Paul Kagame is a politician and former military officer who has been the President of _____ since 2000.	Rwanda	17%
The ________ National Liberation Front a left-wing political party in Nicaragua. They overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution.	Sandanistas	17%
What clan dominated Japan for some 250 years before the Meiji Restoration of 1868?	Tokugawa	11%
The _____ Archipelago,a group of seven atolls in the Indian Ocean. The native people of thes e Islands were expelled at the request of the United States between 1967 and 1973 to allow the United States to build Naval Support Facility.	Chagos	6%
Persepolis a series of autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane ______that depicts her childhood and early adult years in Iran and Austria during and after the Islamic Revolution.	Satrapi	6%
Part of the British Overseas Territory also encompassing Ascension and Tristan da Cunha islands, is a remote volcanic outpost in the South Atlantic Ocean. Napoleon was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1815, where he remained until his death in 1821.	St Helena	6%
Andrei Arsenyevich ________ a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He has been widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history. Famous films include Solaris (1972) and The Mirror (1975).	Tarkovsky	6%
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. The party he represents is the ____.	AKP	0%
An American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author.	Angela Davis	0%
The largest political party in the world is found in India, boasting 198 million members, it is called the ____.	BJP	0%
A Kurdish-majority city in the Ayn al-Arab District in northern Syria. ISIS (Daesh) attempted to take this city in September 2014, but were pushed back and defeated by the Kurdish SDF forces.	Kobane	0%
The 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution ended the _____ dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in its place.	Somazo	0%
The most northerly town on the mainland of Scotland.	Thurso	0%

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