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Kenya and Djibouti, two countries in East Africa and the Horn of Africa, both count this small fried or baked pastry as a staple of local cuisine. Filled with spiced potatoes, peas, or meat, it was carried across the Indian Ocean by South Asian traders. Which savoury snack is it?

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Delhi is one of the strong domestic sides in Indian cricket, alongside Bombay and Karnataka. In September 2016, India played its 500th Test match at Green Park Stadium in a north Indian industrial city on the Ganges, beating New Zealand under visiting captain Kane Williamson. Which city hosted that milestone Test?

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Maine hosts the Southern Maine Steampunk Fair each year at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, celebrating the Victorian science-fiction aesthetic. Another US state, on the border with Illinois, ran a Steampunk costume contest at the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha starting in 2012. Which state is that?

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Alamogordo, New Mexico celebrated Oktoberfest each September at Holloman Air Force Base, hosted by the German Air Force units training there. Which city in southern Chile, with strong 19th-century German settler roots, holds its own Bierfest version in late January or February during the local summer tourist peak?

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The Essex seaside town of Southend-on-Sea hosted this act at Mr. B's in the 1980s, and the Irish town of Thurles later welcomed them to the 'Trip to Tipp' festival alongside Blur, The Cranberries and Rage Against the Machine. Which British electronic act, famous for 'Firestarter' and 'Breathe', connects the two towns?

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The Italian men's national basketball team made its Olympic debut at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, placing seventh out of twenty-one teams. Which Italian city, host of the 1960 Summer Olympics, saw Italy achieve its best-ever Olympic result of fourth place, behind the USA, USSR and Brazil?

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The Atlanta Braves played in this annual championship three times in the early 1990s, losing to Minnesota in 1991 and Toronto in 1992, while the San Francisco Giants captured the title in 2010, 2012 and 2014 after moving to the west coast from New York in the late 1950s. Which championship do both cities share a history with?

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Kryvyi Rih has two Soviet-era socialist-realist monuments to this Ukrainian national poet, and in central Cherkasy, the mid-19th-century Tsybulsky House opened in Soviet times as a museum of his single book 'Kobzar'. Which writer is being described?

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This North African country's football team beat Angola in the final of the 2011 African Nations Championship to win the title in their first participation, and later qualified for their sixth World Cup at Qatar 2022 by beating Mali 1-0 on aggregate. Which national football team is this?

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The Kolkata Municipal Corporation absorbed Maniktala, Ultadanga and Beliaghata as 'fringe area wards' following the Calcutta Municipal Act of 1923, and continued expanding through the 20th century. Which Kolkata neighbourhood was formally incorporated into the Corporation in 1985?