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Which leading Malaysian cafe chain, established in Kuala Lumpur in 1997 with Halal certification from JAKIM, expanded across Asia over the next two decades, reaching Singapore in 1999 and Myanmar in 2015 as part of its Southeast Asian rollout?

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Traditional orchestras of this stringed instrument remain especially popular in Japan (as well as Germany), and in the United States its Gibson F-hole F-5 design is strongly associated with bluegrass music. Some older US variants are colloquially called the 'potato bug' or 'tater-bug'. Which instrument is meant?

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Which 1993 Whitney Houston power ballad reached number one on Canada's Contemporary Hit Radio chart, hit the top five in both the United Kingdom and Ireland, and also charted in the top ten in Denmark and Portugal, plus top forty in Australia and New Zealand?

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Which French contemporary artist has had work screened and exhibited at Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt and shown at the Berlin Biennial, and in 2021 had his 'E/Motion' exhibition staged at MOMU in Antwerp (curated by Kaat Debo and Elisa De Wyngaert)?

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Which 2008 Katy Perry pop hit reached number one in Austria (where it was certified platinum), Belgium, Canada, Denmark and about a dozen other countries, and also hit the top five in Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States?

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Belo Horizonte's Minas Tênis Clube (a multi-sport club) and Limeira's Associação Limeirense de Basquete both compete in this top-tier Brazilian professional basketball league, with the Limeirense club also playing in the Liga Sudamericana. Which basketball league is being described?

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Mill Run Playhouse in Niles, Illinois (demolished in 1984) and the Hong Kong Coliseum at Hung Hom Bay in Kowloon are both associated with this theatrical staging form, as is Theater in the Wild at Hong Kong Disneyland on Lantau Island. Which theatrical format is this?

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The Byzantine emperor Basil I is said by court historians to have won a match of this sport against a boastful practitioner from Bulgaria in the eighth century, and in Ancient Egypt the same sport is evidenced on tomb documentation and artwork dating to before 1085 BC. Which sport is being described?

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Which Shia Muslim ritual procession is observed by South Asian Muslims throughout India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and is also carried out in countries with large 19th-century South Asian diaspora communities that were established by indentured labourers to British, Dutch and French colonies?

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Costa Rica signed this UN treaty in 2017, and Seychelles followed by signing it in 2018. The agreement commits its signatories to reject and abolish a specific class of weapons of mass destruction. Which UN treaty is being described?