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Michigan produced this pageant's first African-American winner Carole Gist in 1990 and reigning title-holder Alma Cooper (who won on 4 August 2024), while Missouri's Shandi Finnessey took the same crown in 2004. Which American beauty pageant is being described?

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In Pakistan this Mondelez product has been manufactured since early 2014 at Continental Biscuits Limited's plant in Sukkur (sold under the local LU brand), and in Vietnam it arrived through a Southeast Asian rollout that started in Indonesia and also reached the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea. Which cookie is being described?

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Which dry curry of meat stewed in coconut milk and spices is widely popular in both Brunei and Singapore (where it is often paired with iconic dishes such as nasi lemak or served during festivals like Hari Raya), and has also spread beyond Southeast Asia to the Netherlands, Australia and Taiwan?

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Which Céline Dion album, recorded at Mega Studio in Paris in late 1994, had its lead single top the chart in France for twelve weeks and in the Wallonia region of Belgium for fifteen consecutive weeks, going on to become the best-selling French-language album of all time by a female artist?

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This 2016 to 2017 Argentine pop concert series began on September 8, 2016 at the Opera Allianz Theatre in Buenos Aires, and later brought its headliner to the Coca-Cola.FM festival in Mexico City alongside Mexican boy-band CD9. Which music tour is being described?

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Which dominant form of Chinese theatre, in which actors from Anqing played a major role in its early development, combines music, vocal performance, mime, martial arts, dance and acrobatics, arose in Beijing during the mid-Qing dynasty, and became fully developed by the mid-19th century?

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The Thialf arena in Heerenveen was one of the world's first indoor 400m ice rinks, purpose-built for this Olympic winter sport that draws large international crowds, and in Tomaszów Mazowiecki the Ice Arena hosts ISU World Cup events in the same sport. Which winter sport is meant?

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This American footballer travelled with the United States to Italy for a UEFA–CONCACAF play-off that decided a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup spot. The year before, she had scored twice against Guatemala at the 2010 CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament. Which outspoken forward is this?

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In Latvia this sliding winter sport is popular alongside football, floorball, tennis and skeleton, and Austria also has a strong tradition in the same sport together with Italy, Canada and the United States. Which winter sport, in which a crewed sled races down an ice track, is meant?

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Which US civil rights group evolved from the Niagara Movement (who held its first US meeting at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 1906), had Boston attorney Moorfield Storey as its first president until 1915, and established one of its first branches in Boston in 1912?