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The Greek-Austrian sculptor Joannis Avramidis showed his work at a gallery in Salzburg during the city's famous summer music festival. In 2007 his sculptures also appeared in a group show in a lakeside Austrian city on Lake Constance. Which city was it?

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The African-American sculptor Melvin Edwards made a big outdoor sculpture for the Social Security building in Queens, New York in 1989. In January 2015, a special show of his art spanning 50 years opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in which Sun Belt city?

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The doughnut chain Krispy Kreme opened its very first store outside the United States in December 2001, in Mississauga, Ontario. On 12 December 2013 it opened its first store in which big East Asian island capital, known for a giant 508-metre tower that was the world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010?

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In June 2010, the rapper Eminem announced a big co-headline stadium tour with Jay-Z called The Home & Home Tour, kicking off in New York City. Long before that, in 1997, he first got national attention at a rap battle called Scribble Jam, held in which city on the Ohio River?

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Bernd Alois Zimmermann's difficult modern opera about a young woman ruined by careless soldiers finally reached English National Opera in London in November 1996. On 20 August 2012 it was performed for the first time at which famous Austrian summer music festival, played by the Vienna Philharmonic?

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England's men's rugby team first played Australia in 1909 and beat them again in 1973 and 1976, on their way to winning the 2003 World Cup with a last-second drop-goal by Jonny Wilkinson. Against which other big rugby country did England win in 1972 and then play at the 1995 World Cup on that nation's home ground?

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Every year since 1976, the American Theatre Wing gives out a Tony Award for the best regional theatre in the United States. It went to Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey in 2016, and to Dallas Theater Center in 2017. Which Ohio city's Playhouse in the Park won it in 2004?

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Before it was destroyed in the 1889 flood, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a busy steel town with two opera houses of its own. Which city in northern Bohemia (in what's now the Czech Republic) also built a grand opera house in the late 1800s, along with a matching city hall and Old Synagogue?

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Pittsburgh beat Arizona 27-23 in this 2009 Super Bowl to win their sixth championship, more than any other team including the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers. In which Gulf Coast bay city was the game itself played, at Raymond James Stadium, on 1 February?

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Sioux Lookout, in northwestern Ontario, became a town in 1912 as an important stop on this Canadian railway built between 1905 and 1913. The same railway also helped a town in Quebec's Abitibi region grow. Which Abitibi town, named after a French officer who fought at the Battle of Sainte-Foy, is it?