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Which North African country's music has a rich mix of regional sounds, from the trance-like gnawa music of Marrakesh and Essaouira to the classical malhun heard in Salé, Fes and Meknes, along with the folk-based ahidus of the Middle Atlas and guedra of the Sahara?

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Which red fruit, full of tart seeds and rich in mythology, is thought to have started in Afghanistan and Iran before spreading across Asia, Africa and Europe, is famously grown around Kandahar in Afghanistan, and has Late Bronze Age remains at Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus?

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Which American fast food chain, known for its charbroiled burgers, opened its first location in India in August 2016 at the Select Citywalk Mall in New Delhi, and also operates in the Dominican Republic, Chile, Japan and about two dozen other countries beyond the U.S.?

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Which Danish badminton champion won a bronze medal in men's singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics, then gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and again gold at Paris 2024, making him the most decorated men's singles Olympic player in the sport's history?

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Sigurd Lewerentz and Gunnar Asplund together built the famous Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, a UNESCO World Heritage site. In Uppsala, Helgo Zettervall led a major Gothic-style renovation of the cathedral. Both are highlights of the building tradition of which country?

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Which famous writer of Don Quixote once lived in the Province of Valladolid in northern Spain, alongside other Spanish literary greats, and also fought in a great naval battle in 1571 and later wrote an account of it that was used as the libretto for a festival in the village of Los Haro?

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Which product from Algeria, together with Tunisian and Moroccan output, made up nearly two thirds of all world trade in it during the 1950s before Algeria's war of independence, with a story going back to Roman times on the North African coast?

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Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, together with the historic London sports goods maker Jaques of London, both have long histories in this old lawn game. Cheltenham has one of the largest clubs for it in England and hosts the sport's national governing body. Which lawn game is being described?

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San Francisco's old Candlestick Park holds the record for hosting the most games of this weekly primetime NFL broadcast. Baltimore's Ravens opened the 52nd season of the same show against the Las Vegas Raiders. Which sports broadcast is being described?

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Which controversial set of post-war Czechoslovak presidential orders drove the mass expulsion of the mostly German-speaking populations of Jáchymov and of Dolní Věstonice from their homes in 1945 and 1946, with Czech settlers moving in afterwards?