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| Cagliari is the 26th largest city in Italy and the largest city on the island of _____. | Sardinia | 93%
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| Person on the front of a US $5 bill | Abraham Lincoln | 86%
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| A region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. | Caucasus | 79%
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| In March 2025, the Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to a prison in __ _____ that human rights groups say is designed to disappear people. Despite a judge’s order temporarily blocking the move, the US government flew more than 200 men that it had accused of gang membership to the “Terrorism Confinement Center”, or Cecot – a draconian mega-prison. | El Salvador | 79%
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| Who won gold medals in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, long jump, and the 4x100-meter relay, for the USA in the 1936 Olympics, becoming a symbol of achievement and inspiration for African Americans in a racially segregated society | Jesse Owens | 79%
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| Mabel Dove Danquah (1905–1984) was a journalist, political activist and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields. She was born in Accra in what country? | Ghana | 71%
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| In March 2025, protests hit what country after Ekrem Imamoglu (expected to be selected as the opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) 2028 presidential nominee) was arrested for corruption. | Turkey | 71%
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| In March 2025, disgust was aimed at the US as the histories of codebreakers from what Native American group who aided the war effort by coding messages in their language, were erased from government websites. The initial removal was part of a sweep of any military content that promoted diversity, equity and inclusion, or commonly referred to as DEI. | Navajo | 64%
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| Doris "Dorie" Miller (1919 – 1943) was a U.S. Navy sailor who was the first black recipient of the Navy Cross. A mess attendant second class aboard the battleship USS West Virginia, Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety during the attack on ____ _____. He then manned an anti-aircraft gun and, despite no prior training in gunnery, officially shot down one plane (according to Navy Department records), but Miller and other eyewitnesses claimed a range of four to six | Pearl Harbour | 64%
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| Maia Sandu is the founder and former leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity and the President of what country since 2020? She is considered pro-Western & against Putin & Russia's invasion of Ukraine | Moldova | 57%
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| The Trans-Siberian Railway is a legendary railway line connecting Moscow to Vladivostok, spanning over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles) and crossing eight ____ _____. | time zones | 57%
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| Person on the front of a US $20 bill | Andrew Jackson | 50%
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| Hadibu, also known as Hadiboh is the largest town on what Island that technical belongs to Yemen, though it exists of the coast of Somalia? | Socotra | 50%
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| Woman at Point Zero is perhaps the best known novel set in and by an author from ____. Written by Nawal El Saadaw & first published in 1975, it tells the story of Fridaus, a woman on death row in Qanatir Prison for killing her pimp. | Egypt | 43%
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| Person on the front of a US $10 bill | Alexander Hamilton | 36%
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| Fourth Harry Potter film. | Goblet of Fire | 36%
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| The OIPFG - Fadaiyan-e-Khalq also known as 'Popular Self-sacrificers' was an underground Marxist–Leninist guerrilla organization in ____ that existed between the 1960s and early 1980s. | Iran | 36%
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| A great supporter of the above boys was a woman in her 80s called Mary Mooney, she was a radical from Country Mayo in ____ and campaigned tirelessly for the boys. She was also the mother of radical Tom Mooney who was framed and imprisoned for his alleged involvement in a 1916 San Francisco bombing. | Ireland | 36%
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| The ______ Boys were nine African American male teenagers accused of raping two white women in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial. The cases included a lynch mob before the suspects had been indicted, all-white juries, rushed trials, and disruptive mobs. It is commonly cited as an example of a legal injustice in the United States legal system. | Scottsboro | 7%
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| Season of Migration to the North is perhaps the best known novel set in and by an author from ____. Written by Tayeb Salih & first published in 1966, it tells the story of Mustafa, a man who travels to Europe and returns to his village after being treated poorly abroad. | Sudan | 7%
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