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This Mexican folk music tradition, with singers dressed in silver-studded charro suits and accompanied by trumpets, violins and guitars, has spread across Latin America. Colombia and Ecuador both have groups that perform in this style and participate in Guadalajara's International Conference. Which music style connects them?

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This American diner chain, famous for its 24-hour service and Grand Slam breakfast, operates over 1,400 restaurants worldwide, including 12 in the Philippines and 84 in Canada. Which chain connects the two countries?

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American country singer Scotty McCreery, born and raised in Garner, North Carolina, is one-quarter Puerto Rican. His father was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, to a military father and a Puerto Rican mother from San Juan, before the family moved to which town in North Carolina near Fort Bragg?

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This Norwegian chess prodigy was born in Tønsberg in 1990 to a chemical engineer mother and IT consultant father. He later played the 20th European Team Chess Championship in Budva on Norway's Board 1, scoring 6.5 out of 8. Which chess champion connects the two cities?

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While working in Wuhan, this founding member of the Chinese Communist Party was the CCP's main contact with the outside world. Later, under a temporary alliance with warlord Yan Xishan, he set up a secret CCP headquarters in Taiyuan. Which political figure, who became the first premier of the People's Republic in 1949, connects Wuhan and Taiyuan?

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In 1991, Mariette Hartley headlined this Broadway musical at the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre, with Georgia Engel in the cast. Two decades earlier, dancer Juliet Prowse reprised the title role in a 1970 Dallas Summer Musicals production. It centers on an eccentric aunt in Depression-era New York. Which musical is it?

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Chicago and New Orleans have both hosted this season-opening American football tradition: from 1934 to 1976 Soldier Field ran the Chicago All-Star Game between the reigning champions and college all-stars, and in 2010 the Louisiana Superdome staged the opener as a rematch of the previous NFC Championship Game. Which annual event is this?

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The 2020 WTA Premier tennis circuit included the German capital Berlin as one of its stops, alongside events in San Jose, Zhengzhou and Tokyo. Which English seaside town on the south coast of East Sussex, famous for its grass courts run up to Wimbledon each year, was also a Premier-level venue that season?

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This celebrated Spanish flamenco dancer performed at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona alongside Chavela Vargas and Federico García Lorca commemorations. In May 1996 she joined the 'Mujeres' tour, premiering in Vitoria before playing Madrid, Barcelona and the Festival de Segovia. Which flamenco star connects the two cities?

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Baddeck in Nova Scotia sits on Windsor Group rocks deposited during this geological period, while thousands of kilometres away Belkovsky Island in the East Siberian Sea consists of tightly folded strata from its lower stage overlying Upper Devonian layers. Which coal-forming period, running roughly 359 to 299 million years ago, connects them geologically?