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This 2008 Katy Perry pop song spent ten straight weeks at number one in the Czech Republic and hit the top five in New Zealand. It went diamond in Brazil and multi-platinum in the US, UK and Canada. Which song is it?

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This Finnish gothic rock group toured the United Kingdom and United States for the first time in the early 2000s and played its first US concert at a show organised by skateboarder Bam Margera. Its album Dark Light was the American breakthrough. Which band is it?

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This crunchy orange corn puff snack is made by PepsiCo's Frito-Lay in the US and Canada, by Sabritas in Mexico, and by Latin Americas Foods in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela and Peru. Which snack brand is it?

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Detroit gave rise to techno in the 1980s and hosts the annual Movement festival for this all-night dance-music scene. In New York City, Frankie Bones organised a landmark series of early-1990s parties in Brooklyn called 'Storm'. Which scene is it?

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This Chinese music studio produces the soundtracks for the video game Genshin Impact. It collaborated with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra on a Tokyo concert in December 2022 and with the Nagoya Philharmonic on a Yokohama performance in February 2023. Which music group is it?

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This Victorian novelist called London a 'magic lantern' and lived there for most of his life. On an 1842 US visit he stopped in Cairo, Illinois and was so unimpressed that the disease-ridden town became the model for Eden in his novel 'Martin Chuzzlewit'. Which author is it?

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California's Napa and Sonoma valleys produce this bold red wine grape in quantities close to Bordeaux. Argentina's Salta Province, in the high-altitude Valles Calchaquíes near Cafayate, also grows it alongside Torrontés and Malbec. Which grape is it?

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This French theatre director adapted his play 'Clôture de l'amour' into ten languages, including a version at the Moscow Art Theatre and another at Barcelona's Grec Festival. His dance piece 'Memento Mori' also toured European festivals. Which director is it?

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Government College Lahore lost the final of the 1937 North-West India championship of this sport to Shining Club Kohat 1-0, marking an early landmark for the game. Which South Asian team sport is being described here?

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This Allentown-headquartered utility runs a 220 MW natural gas peaking plant in Wallingford serving New Haven, Connecticut. It also commissioned the coal-fired Sunbury power plant near Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania in 1949. Which energy company is it?