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In August 2023, news reports said some of this Motörhead singer's ashes had been scattered into the mud at Germany's Wacken Open Air metal festival in Schleswig-Holstein. That was seven years after his memorial was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills. Which late British bassist and singer is being described?

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This famous Lebanese singer, sometimes called the 'jewel of Lebanon,' has performed on four continents. She has sung across the Arab world in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, and also on rare tours as far away as Australia. Which legendary Arab woman singer is being described?

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Which American doom-metal band, playing on and off since the early 1970s with singer Bobby Liebling out front, played two sold-out Chicago shows on a seven-city mini-tour that also stopped in Seattle, Portland and Austin?

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Harbin hosts a Schoenfeld International String Competition and Daegu runs its International Vocal Music Competition. Both events belong, along with Bergen's Grieg Piano Competition and the Trondheim Princess Astrid Competition, to what Geneva-based group?

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This Zimbabwean stone sculptor showed his work in a display called 'A Tradition in Stone' at Atlanta Airport, and had two shows in Paris at the Musée d'Art Moderne (1970) and Musée Rodin (1971). In which British capital did his work appear at the ICA Gallery in 1972 in a show called 'Shona sculptures of Rhodesia'?

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This very busy horror writer spent part of his childhood in Durham, Maine, and used it as the model for the made-up vampire-plagued town of Jerusalem's Lot. In his Dark Tower series, the hero Roland Deschain comes from a made-up land called New Canaan. Which best-selling American author, publishing since the mid-1970s, is being described?

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Nicaragua's parliament banned this Spanish-style event in December 2010 with a new animal protection law. In the Philippines, records show it was already being held as early as 1619, brought there by Spanish rulers. Which very old event, still legal in Mexico and parts of southern France, do the two former Spanish colonies share?

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A Colorado school leader named Lloyd 'Pappy' Shaw came up with the moves for the modern western form of this American folk dance during events run by Henry Ford. In Massachusetts and other states, the traditional version uses a 'caller' who shouts the moves. Which do-si-do group dance, the official state dance in nearly 20 US states, do they share?

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Thought of as Europe's most famous Latin poet of the 1600s, this Polish Jesuit went to the Jesuit school in Braniewo as a student and later visited Pułtusk alongside other well-known poets like Jan Kochanowski. Which Polish churchman-poet, later crowned Poet Laureate by a Pope, is being described?

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Churches in Lexington, Kentucky and West Hartford, Connecticut are two of many US Catholic churches named after this 1600s Spanish Jesuit missionary. He was made a saint in 1888 for his work with enslaved Africans arriving at Cartagena in what is now Colombia. Which saint, later named patron of Catholic missions to African peoples, do they honour?