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In Nova Scotia, the Halifax-based Maritime Sikh Society holds celebrations of this Sikh spring festival in April, and in Saskatchewan the Saskatoon parade for the same festival is held in May, starting and ending at the Gurudwara Sahib Temple. Which Sikh festival is being described?

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The 2014 documentary 'March of the Gods: Botswana Metalheads' documents this music scene in Botswana. Tunisia, Libya, and Algeria also have small scenes of the same type (though they struggle from a lack of equipment, record labels, venues, and recording studios). Which music genre scene is being described?

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The Olivier salad, a Russian-origin side dish, is popular in India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and one more South Asian country, typically made with potatoes, peas, apples or pineapples, and mayonnaise. In which South Asian country, home to Islamabad, is a different cabbage-and-apple-slaw version of Russian salad also popular?

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Which British contemporary artist was given a 2002 solo exhibition at Tate Liverpool (which coincided with the Liverpool Biennial, where he presented '1+1=3'), and had his recent figurative sculpture featured in a 2006 solo exhibition at Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Rome?

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B'z, a Japanese rock duo of guitarist Tak Matsumoto and vocalist Koshi Inaba, stopped in Las Vegas on their 'B'z Live-Gym 2003 Banzai in North America' tour. Which American city on their 2012 tour also hosted the four-week recording of their first music video compilation 'Film Risky' (released 16 December)?

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Which American MLB pitcher (nicknamed 'Old Sarge') played for nine teams between 1952 and 1972, including the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves (whom he joined after an 8 September 1969 trade), and later held longtime coaching jobs with the Braves after retiring in 1972?

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Which Norwegian chess grandmaster faced Vishwanathan Anand at the Hyatt Regency in Chennai, India in November 2013 at the World Chess Championship, and had played the Norwegian Chess Championship in Molde in 2004? He was taught chess by his amateur-player father at age five after solving 50-piece jigsaw puzzles at age two.

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The sport's origins date back over a millennium in Scandinavia and the Netherlands where a women's competition on the town canal in Leeuwarden was held in 1809. Hamar, Norway hosted a European Championship as early as 1894 and the first World Championship a year later. Which sport is being described?

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This legendary Hungary national football squad of the early 1950s inflicted notable defeats on then-footballing world powers Uruguay, the Soviet Union, England, Germany, Brazil and Italy before the 1956 Hungarian Revolution broke up the side. By what nickname is this team known?

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Which industrial facility connects Concord Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania (home of Ivy Mills, the second-oldest in the US, which produced paper for Benjamin Franklin and Continental currency) with Millinocket, Maine, where the Great Northern Paper Company began constructing a new one on 15 May 1899?