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| In what country would you find these cities/towns? Thurso, Aberdeen, Girvan, Ayr, Stranraer, Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh. | Scotland | 100%
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| Mikhail _________ was a Russian politician and statesman who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991 | Gorbachev | 92%
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| Viktor Mihály Orbán has been the Prime Minister of ______ since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002, and the leader of the Fidesz political party since 2003. He is right wing and a fan of Trump. | Hungary | 83%
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| Anwar El Sadat served as the third President of ____ from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. | Egypt | 75%
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| Mount Vesuvius is a somma–stratovolcano located in Italy, about 9 km east of what major Italian city? | Naples | 75%
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| How many bones are in the human body? | 206 | 67%
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| Who was the author of Crime & Punishment? | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 67%
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| ______ is a sour soup, made with meat stock, beetroot, other vegetables and seasonings, common in Eastern Europe and served with sour cream. | borscht | 58%
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| The largest living rodent, native to South America | capybara | 58%
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| What is the perimeter of a circle called? | circumference | 58%
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| Mycology is the study of _____ | fungus | 50%
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| _____ waves have the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. These waves can range from less than one centimeter to greater than 100 meters | Radio | 50%
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| Who was the author of Lolita? | Vladimir Nabokov | 50%
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| The Simba rebellion took place in _______________ between 1963 and 1965. The Simba rebels were initially successful and captured much of eastern part of the country, proclaiming a "people's republic" at Stanleyville. | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 42%
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| DNA stands for ________ Acid | Deoxyribonucleic | 42%
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| ______ is located on on the main island of "Pulau Ujong" as it is known in Malay. | Singapore | 33%
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| The flag of _______is a light blue field with a white five-pointed star in the center. The flag was adopted on October 12, 1954, and designed by Mohammed Awale Liban. | Somalia | 33%
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| Notes of a Crocodile is a 1994 novel by writer Qiu Miaojin. It is one of the most significant lesbian novels of the 1990s. Miaojin was from ______. | Taiwan | 33%
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| Evan Wright wrote ________kill in 2004 about his experience as an embedded reporter with the US Marine Corps' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, | Generation | 25%
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| In 2023 and 2024, a series of street demonstrations took place throughout _______ largely in opposition to the proposed "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", which would require non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to register as foreign agents or "organizations carrying the interests of a foreign power". | Georgia | 25%
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| Saurology is the study of ________ | Lizards | 25%
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| A Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism. Peter _______ | Kropotkin | 17%
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| The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs abbreviated as _____ was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934-1946 | NKVD | 17%
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| Physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms. | abiotic | 8%
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| Abdul Latif Rashid is the current President of _____. He became the ninth President of ____ after an election in 2022. He was previously the Minister of Water Resources under the government of Nouri al-Maliki. | Iraq | 8%
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| Who was the author of The Master and Margarita? | Mikhail Bulgakov | 8%
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| The current president of _______ is Klaus Iohannis, who has been serving since 21 December 2014. His late presidency (his second term) has been marked by democratic backsliding as well as a slight shift towards illiberalism. | Romania | 8%
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| And Quiet Flows the ____ is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov. | Don | 0%
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| Chemical reactions can be identified via a wide range of different observable factors including change in color, energy change (temperature change or light produced), gas production, something burning, and the formation of a _______. | precipitate | 0%
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