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This American donut and coffee chain opened its first Japanese store around 1969 in Ginza, Tokyo, and in November 2014 it opened its first store in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, inside the Z Square Mall. Japan was the first Asian country where the chain operated. Which chain is this?

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This small free-reed wind instrument has major manufacturers in China (Huang, Easttop) and Japan (Suzuki, Tombo), where Tombo makes the popular Lee Oskar model. The dominant global manufacturer is Hohner in Germany. Chinese tremolo players also founded organizations like the Chinese YMCA scene in Hong Kong. Which instrument is this?

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This 2008 Katy Perry single hit number one in both the Czech Republic (where it spent ten consecutive weeks at the top) and Germany, as well as Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland. Which song is this?

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This traditional Italian waffle cookie, often considered one of the oldest known biscuits and traced to the ancient Roman crustulum, was originally made in Ortona in Abruzzo, and spread from there to the neighboring region of Molise, where it may also be called ferratelle or cancelle. Which cookie is this?

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This upbeat 1984 Wham! single hit the top five on the Germany Media Control singles chart on release, and had an unlikely revival in 2025 when it re-entered the Polish Airplay Top 100 at number 63 in Poland. In 1984 it also hit number one on US Cash Box. Which song is this?

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This Olympic team sport, where players tread water for long periods and shoot a ball into a goal, is especially popular in Croatia and Greece. It is also popular in Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Italy and Spain, and is played widely in Australia, Brazil, Canada and the United States. Which sport is this?

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This American author of 'Roots' attended Alcorn State University, a historically Black college in Mississippi, before transferring to Elizabeth City State College in North Carolina, and later owned a farm in Appalachia near the Museum of Appalachia. He died in 1992. Which writer is he?

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In Costa Rica, this traditional spectacle is practiced by riding the animal to exhaustion rather than killing it, and in Portugal it remains legal although public broadcaster RTP stopped televising it in 2021. The most famous bull in Costa Rica, Malacrianza, killed two riders in 2005 and 2006. Which spectacle is this?

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The Regina Pats have won this Canadian junior ice hockey championship four times, and in Peterborough, Ontario, the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League have appeared nine times at its tournament, winning it at least once. Which trophy is this?

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This terrestrial ecoregion, defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, stretches across the central European plains and covers large parts of the Czech Republic, Poland, southern Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. The land was glaciated during the last ice age. Which ecoregion is this?