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This American alternative rock band from Minneapolis, active from 1979, performed in Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia on their way to a rowdy set at New York's Gerde's Folk City. Known for songs like 'Bastards of Young' and 'I Will Dare', which band is it?

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Which two-century-old Rossini comic opera premiered in Rome in 1816 and reached New Orleans in French translation at the Théâtre d'Orléans on 4 March 1823, becoming the first opera ever staged in the American city?

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Which 2010 dance-pop lead single from Rihanna's fifth studio album 'Loud' peaked at number two in Finland, Germany and the Netherlands, and was performed on Saturday Night Live in the United States and The X Factor in the United Kingdom?

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Which Chicago punk rock band's fourth consecutive album debuted near the top of the Billboard 200 and the Germany charts, and in March 2013 played their first-ever shows on African soil at the Durban leg of a rock festival in South Africa?

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Which Italian architect and industrial designer, born in La Spezia in 1939, saw the Philadelphia Museum of Art host a 2005 exhibition titled 'Il rumore del tempo' devoted to his work, after the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts had earlier presented 'The Presence of the Objects' in 1999?

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Which long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, based on T. S. Eliot poems, was staged in Spanish and Portuguese across South America including Brazil and Colombia, with its first Latin American production running in Argentina in 1993 before becoming a touring staple?

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Which Moscow institution, housed in a heritage-listed building in Petrovsky Lane, hosts festivals such as Opera Parade, Opera Panorama and Russia's National Treasure, and has brought touring productions from countries including the Netherlands?

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Dubrovnik became the chief literary centre of this national tradition, with the baroque poet Ivan Gundulić playing a leading role, while Split produced Marko Marulić, whose 1501 epic 'Judita' is widely held to be its first modern work. Which Balkan national literature, written in dialects like Čakavian and Kajkavian, does this history describe?

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Zhejiang province is home to Yue opera, one of the country's most prominent traditional performing arts, while Anhui gave rise to Huangmeixi, which originated near the town of Anqing. Which umbrella term covers all of these regional styles?

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Algiers traces its earliest settlement to around 1200 BCE, when this seafaring people set up a small trading post at the site, and their traders also founded Rota in Andalusia at roughly the same time they founded Cádiz. Which ancient people is this?