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Which American sculptor had a traveling retrospective of his work open at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland in June 2025, and also staged his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom in 2014 at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London?

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Which Irish rock song topped the singles charts in Finland, Canada, Australia, Norway, Italy and the United Kingdom around 2000, was the lead single from the album 'All That You Can't Leave Behind', and later won three Grammy Awards?

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The Méliès International Festivals Federation unites fantasy and horror film festivals including Luxembourg City's Cinénygma Festival, Edinburgh's Dead by Dawn and Rome's Fantafestival. Which Canadian city, host of the Fantasia International Film Festival, is also part of this federation?

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In 1997, buses of fans travelled from Zagreb in Croatia and from Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a landmark rock show held in the Bosnian capital just two years after the Yugoslav wars ended. Which concert event drew crowds from across the former Yugoslavia that September?

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This 16th-century Catholic missionary is the patron saint of Navarre, the Spanish region where he was born in 1506 and is celebrated there on December 3rd as a government holiday. His relics are venerated at the Espírito Santo Church in Margão, Goa. Which religious figure is this?

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Which Broadway musical, based on E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel about early 20th-century America, had its European premiere in Cardiff in 2002, then transferred to London's Piccadilly Theatre in 2003, and was revived by Philadelphia's Arden Theatre in 2019?

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Which Nicaraguan poet worked as a Buenos Aires correspondent for the newspaper La Nación in the 1890s, published 'Prosas profanas' in that city as a foundational text of Spanish literary modernism, and is celebrated as the greatest poet of his hometown of León?

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Which Frank Loesser musical about a middle-aged Napa Valley winemaker who woos a young waitress had its 1956 try-out at Philadelphia's Shubert Theatre before its Broadway opening, and later saw a landmark 1991 revival at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles?

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Straw wine, a sweet dessert wine made by drying grapes on straw mats to concentrate their sugars, has ancient Mediterranean roots. Neolithic sites in Cyprus show sweet wine was being made there around 6,000 years ago. In which other Mediterranean country were raisin-wine methods described in writing around 800 BC?

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The Solomon Islands is today one of 15 countries in this category, keeping the British monarch as head of state after gaining independence in 1978. South Africa also held this status from 1931 until it became a republic in 1961. Which political category, formalised at the 1949 London Declaration, is this?