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What did Haruki Murakami publish due to owning so many T-shirts?
[ "a book about them", "Murakami T" ]
Which novel by Keri Hulme nearly ended up as a doorstop instead of winning a Booker Prize?
[ "The Bone People" ]
Which region in Seoul experienced rapid development spurred by the 1968 North Korean assassination attempt on military dictator Park Chung-hee?
[ "Gangnam" ]
What organization held meetings in school halls?
[ "Natives Representative Council" ]
Who, despite being born with two club feet, now plays in the WNBA?
[ "Jaelyn Brown" ]
What is the tallest building in the state of Nebraska, standing at 634 feet (193 meters)?
[ "First National Bank Tower" ]
In which manga series were the reactions to food decided on through free association games?
[ "Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma" ]
Whose message on November 29, 1941, warning the US Navy not to underestimate the Japanese, failed to reach Admiral Kimmel before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
[ "Stanley Washburn" ]
During the filming of which episode of The Last of Us did Bella Ramsey struggle to hold a real rifle?
[ "the eighth episode", "When We Are in Need" ]
What did Queen Camilla describe as "perfect in every way" during her childhood?
[ "The Laines" ]
What did Benjamin Britten compose for the tenor voice of Peter Pears, using poetry from A Divine Rapture by Francis Quarles?
[ "Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his" ]
Which company produced the System 16, one of the first computers in the tower form factor?
[ "Pronto Computers" ]
What was the studio album released by Abbott Records in 1955, after the artist had already signed with RCA Victor?
[ "Jim Reeves Sings" ]
Which company exported the only stained glass to the United States that had to pay import duty due to its low cost-to-size ratio?
[ "Barton, Kinder and Alderson" ]
Which radio station's unmarried staff lived in a medieval tower?
[ "AFN Frankfurt" ]
Who earned the nickname Dreschgraf ('Thrashing Count') due to his frequent use of violent, antisemitic language?
[ "Walter von Pückler" ]
What drove sales of piña coladas in the Washington, D.C., area?
[ "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?", "a coconut tree meme" ]
In which event related to Montana was Helena accused of copious Manhattan consumption?
[ "1894 Montana capital referendum" ]
What work has been noted for its passages dealing with the Charge of the Light Brigade, a failed military action during the Crimean War?
[ "Ravenshoe" ]
Which character created by Tolkien has been seen as analogous to Satan?
[ "Morgoth" ]
Which volcano in Alaska distributed ash as far as Europe and may have driven migration from Canada to southwestern North America?
[ "Mount Churchill" ]
Which Formula One car underwent 'one of the most impressive in-season development steps ever seen' according to a commentator?
[ "McLaren MCL60" ]
What is the viral online word game that was originally created just for the developer and his partner to play?
[ "Wordle" ]
What findings in 1978 caused a sensation in Germany for revealing that 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died of ideologically motivated mistreatment?
[ "Keine Kameraden" ]
Who have some faqih suggested should replace the Eid sacrifice with donations or fasting?
[ "Islamic vegetarianism", "vegetarian Muslims" ]
Which WAAF Corporal remained at her post despite a direct hit by a Luftwaffe bomb?
[ "Elspeth Green", "Elspeth Henderson" ]
Who moved from recommendations of rigid scheduling to 'on-demand' scheduling in editions of the book Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies?
[ "Josephine Kenyon" ]
What event featured dancing Phryges in its opening ceremony?
[ "2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony" ]
What did John D. Rockefeller Jr., under the name 'David's Father', secretly authorize the purchase of?
[ "Ludwell–Paradise House", "an $8,000 \"antique\"" ]
What aspect of The Simpsons have the producers discussed regarding representation?
[ "its LGBT characters", "List of LGBT characters in The Simpsons" ]
What location cannot view Mount Rainier despite having a trail considered 'possibly the best day hike' in Mount Rainier National Park?
[ "Panhandle Gap" ]
What is the hymn that has been described as 'the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer'?
[ "At the Name of Jesus" ]
Who finished their college career ranked second in Big Ten Conference career rebounds, behind Jerry Lucas?
[ "Jordan Murphy" ]
What was the subject of the Toronto Star story with the headline 'Hebrews buy farm; build golf course' when it was founded?
[ "Oakdale Golf & Country Club" ]
Which Romanian author rejected Marxism at the risk of unemployment, consoling himself that 'man eats 20 times more than what he needs'?
[ "Ion Biberi" ]
Construction of what uncovered tracks from the California Street Cable Railroad?
[ "Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit" ]
What is stored at an undisclosed location in the Minnesota Historical Society and has not been returned to Virginia despite multiple requests across three centuries?
[ "28th Virginia battle flag" ]
Which journalist was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at The Masters?
[ "Jack Berry" ]
What did a Syrian filmmaker repurpose footage from in his last film to criticize his younger self?
[ "his first film", "Film Essay on the Euphrates Dam" ]
What contains more than 500,000 Star Wars collectibles?
[ "Rancho Obi-Wan" ]
Which event in 2022 required a substitute referee due to the original referee's flight being canceled?
[ "2022 Quick Lane Bowl" ]
Which football player was nicknamed the 'Gray Ghost' because when running 'it was like he wasn't there anymore'?
[ "Joe Gray" ]
Which Soviet soprano performed alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975?
[ "Tamara Milashkina" ]
Which basketball player became an Olympian 16 years after her WNBA career ended?
[ "Marcedes Walker" ]
Which island has risen by 18 metres (59 ft) during the last 200 years?
[ "Curtis Island" ]
What is the name of Alistair Darling's cat that met Margaret Thatcher in 2007?
[ "Sybil" ]
Who, along with her team, used digitisation to preserve endangered Palestinian material culture?
[ "Adila Laïdi-Hanieh" ]
What was toppled by people who described it as "a symbol of subordination, representation of slavery and an emblem of the Spanish genocide"?
[ "Monumento a los Constructores" ]
Who, as the chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite?
[ "Volodymyr Kozhukhar" ]
Who is the defenceman that holds the title of the Nashville Predators' single-season points leader?
[ "Roman Josi" ]
What is the name of Iran's first three-stage satellite carrier that successfully passed its suborbital test?
[ "Qaem 100" ]
Who signed to play soccer for the University of South Carolina despite the school not having a sign-language interpreter available?
[ "Felicia Schroeder" ]
Which YouTube channel dedicated to life in 18th-century America has featured a 1784 recipe for macaroni and cheese?
[ "Townsends" ]
Who considered leading Sacaba's largest drivers' union as their second choice of career, after teaching?
[ "José Mendieta" ]
Who chartered an aircraft to search for motorists stranded after a blizzard?
[ "KOLT", "a Nebraska radio station" ]
Who was inspired by gas lighting to start a classical music festival?
[ "Stephen Gunzenhauser" ]
What was installed despite the president of Mexico's opposition to cults of personality?
[ "a statue of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador", "Statue of Andrés Manuel López Obrador" ]
What was released after the main creator of Coffee Talk died in March 2022?
[ "Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly" ]
What book discussing existential risk from AI was one of the five "books that inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" in 2021?
[ "The Alignment Problem" ]
Which channel was mocked by an Edmonton politician for having frequent audio difficulties on its newscasts when a cameraman walked in?
[ "A-Channel" ]
What high-capacity bus line in Portland, Oregon, was built by women- and minority-owned businesses?
[ "Frequent Express" ]
Who purchased and reassembled the Wisconsin Pavilion from the 1964 New York World's Fair for use as their studios?
[ "two Wisconsin radio stations", "WCCN" ]
Who was sentenced to just two years' imprisonment for torturing a black employee to death in Kenya in 1920?
[ "a European settler in Kenya who tortured a black employee to death", "Langley Hawkins murder case" ]
Who won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Young at Heart, a documentary about a romance between two octogenarians?
[ "Sue Marx" ]
What manga series sold out multiple times after being self-published following a publisher's declination?
[ "Let's Go Karaoke!" ]
What company, owned by Coors Brewing Company in the 1970s, provided newsfilm to North American TV stations?
[ "Television News Inc." ]
What ceased two full months before the season officially ended in 1993?
[ "Timeline of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season", "Atlantic hurricane activity in 1993" ]
In which U.S. Supreme Court case did Justice William Rehnquist say that public employees must accept 'the bitter with the sweet' in their due-process rights when contesting dismissal?
[ "Arnett v. Kennedy" ]
Which country's flags featured the colors green, yellow, and red, as well as black stars, upon their independence from Portugal alongside Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau?
[ "flags of São Tomé and Príncipe", "Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe" ]
Who died at sea while carrying papers appointing him provincial superior?
[ "Joseph O'Callaghan" ]
Where was a 1902 plan proposed to build a town that would have been known as Burlingwick?
[ "Dukes Meadows" ]
What species, collected from China in 1983, was not formally described until 2014?
[ "Baeoentedon bouceki" ]
What was attributed to the wrong painter for many years, and the sitter was also misidentified?
[ "a portrait", "Portrait of Cornelis van der Geest" ]
What library in Philadelphia was closed after operating for 168 years and moving to three buildings due to concerns about asbestos?
[ "Mercantile Library", "Mercantile Library Company" ]
What reflects the country's Turkic heritage with a blue stripe?
[ "Flag of Azerbaijan", "Azerbaijani flag" ]
Who is the first openly gay African American elected to a statewide office in the United States?
[ "Erick Russell" ]
Who hit a game-winning home run in the 1984 World Series and a playoff-clinching home run on the last day of the 1987 season?
[ "Larry Herndon" ]
Whose writing about weightlifting is intended for people who feel their bodies are 'never hot enough'?
[ "Casey Johnston" ]
Who joined the Fifth Crusade and died after being stripped of his Cornish landholdings?
[ "Henry Fitzcount" ]
What was the last stop for the Comboio Presidencial, a train carrying the Portuguese head of state through the Linha do Douro starting in 1890?
[ "Pocinho railway station" ]
Who is the artist of the song "Now You're Gone" that was played non-stop for 20 hours in a charity fundraising event?
[ "Basshunter" ]
What isolated locations might have provided opportunities for 'sexual experiment[ation]'?
[ "shielings", "Shieling" ]
Who was the gay man that Beyoncé paid tribute to on her official website after he was killed for vogueing to her music?
[ "O'Shae Sibley", "Killing of O'Shae Sibley" ]
What was determined by U.S. regulators to have broadcast from unauthorized facilities for more than 15 years?
[ "a South Carolina radio station", "WLMA" ]
Whose training in mineralogy led them to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of the British Army during World War I?
[ "Walter Campbell Smith" ]
Who is Ireland's 2024 Eurovision entrant that describes their musical genre as 'ouija pop'?
[ "Bambie Thug" ]
Which Elamite queen has a statue inscribed with a curse for its would-be vandals?
[ "Napir-Asu" ]
Which vocalist was compared by a critic to a 'rabid wolf'?
[ "Riley Gale" ]
Who was a tennis star and US Army captain before photographing military volunteers in Ukraine?
[ "J. T. Blatty" ]
Who was the first African-American botanist to work at the U.S. National Arboretum and helped preserve the famous flowering cherry trees in Washington, D.C.?
[ "Roland Jefferson" ]
What is the only surviving Nestorian Christian site in Fangshan, Beijing?
[ "Cross Temple", "Cross Temple, Fangshan" ]
What company relaunched only months after going out of business?
[ "Milkrun" ]
What was the fake product image that became an Internet meme in June 2021, which Kraft Heinz was 'intrigued' by?
[ "Mayoreo" ]
What did about 200 San Francisco police officers do in reaction to a peaceful protest in a gay neighborhood in 1989?
[ "led a 1989 riot", "Castro Sweep" ]
What plant's root have the Chippewa smoked in pipes to attract game?
[ "Symphyotrichum novae-angliae", "New England aster" ]
What study did alcohol manufacturers claim violated their freedom of expression?
[ "Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study" ]
Who was the host of a wrestling television show before pursuing a career in music?
[ "Lauren Jenkins" ]
What vindicated James Cook?
[ "Vindication Island", "an island" ]
Who developed the now-defunct virtual world MiniMonos and was awarded the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit?
[ "Melissa Clark-Reynolds" ]
What place in Cyprus is described as 'not old' despite having Bronze Age tombs and a medieval castle?
[ "Gastria" ]