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Which 19th-century Dutch painter was trained at The Hague's art academy under Andreas Schelfhout, has works held today by the National Gallery in London along with the Rijksmuseum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and moved to Paris in 1846 to work under Eugène Isabey?

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Which American pizza chain reached Kolkata as part of an Indian expansion that surpassed 1,000 stores by February 2016, and had its New York City and Washington DC stores feed relief workers after the September 11 attacks by delivering more than 12,000 pies?

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At this Italian art event, the 2015 pavilions of Syria and Iraq were completely privately funded, along with Ukraine's, at a time when all three nations faced conflict at home. Which long-running international exhibition, held every two years in a famous canal city, was it?

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Which Danish soft rock band earned a Gold Preis Award in Germany from broadcaster RSH, and in October 2005 became the first international act to perform in Cambodia, playing to 700 fans at CTN's Studio One in Phnom Penh in a show that was also televised live?

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Spanish friar Bernardino de Sahagún first wrote about this red condiment in the 1500s after seeing it sold in the markets of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), and in New Zealand the same everyday phrase describes what Americans usually call ketchup. Which red condiment goes by this name in both countries?

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Bulgaria's 'Golden Girls' dominated this sport at the World Championships in the 1980s, with Adriana Dunavska taking silver at the 1988 Summer Olympics, while Ukraine's Kateryna Serebrianska later won Olympic gold in the same discipline at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Which Olympic discipline did both countries excel in?

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Which long-running West End musical, which premiered in London in 1986, had a local production at the St. James Theatre in Wellington in mid-2013, and later opened its Asian tour in Manila at the Theatre at Solaire on 20 February 2019?

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The National Association for this sport in the United States was organized in 1879 by Maurice Thompson and his brother Will, while in Egypt, Armenia, China, Japan and Korea the same sport enjoyed high social status and widespread use until firearms displaced it in nearly every culture. Which sport is meant?

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In Iran, small glove and string figures of this stage craft were popular well before 1000 AD (with new versions arriving from Turkey during the Qajar era of the 18th and 19th centuries), while in Korea the earliest evidence is a letter written by Choe Seung-roe to the king in 982 AD. Which theatrical craft is this?

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Which Germanic people, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, invaded Piedmont (alongside the Ostrogoths, Lombards and Franks) and had their original kingdom stretching across Franche-Comté, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy, including Aosta Valley?