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Which 2012 all-star action sequel expanded to 36 markets including India in its second weekend, and in 2023 was streamed free on YouTube in the Philippines by Viva Films to promote its follow-up 'Expend4bles' the same September?

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Which Travel Channel show, originally hosted by Adam Richman before Casey Webb took over, sent its host to Dallas and Harlem in New York City as part of a 'Nation' spin-off, challenging him to conquer eating tests like giant pizzas and blazing-hot wings?

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Which German confectionery brand, famous for its Goldbears gummy candies invented by Hans Riegel in Bonn in 1922, was first imported to Hawaii and California in 1972, and later opened test stores in Shanghai and Guangdong province as it eyed the Chinese market?

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Which Mexican folk music style, closely tied to the state of Jalisco and often performed at weddings by ensembles in traditional charro suits, has been so widely promoted that groups have formed as far away as Egypt, Argentina and Aruba, and now compete at Guadalajara's international conference?

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The Polish composer Wojciech Kilar had his works performed by major orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. In which Polish city, where Kilar spent most of his life from 1948 and chaired the local chapter of the Association of Polish Composers, is he most closely associated?

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Which Major League Baseball team promoted South African outfielder Gift Ngoepe from its Triple-A affiliate the Indianapolis Indians in 2017, and holds its spring training at Bradenton, Florida's LECOM Park (formerly McKechnie Field)?

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Which National League baseball team held spring training in French Lick, Indiana in 1943, 1944 and 1945 because of World War II travel restrictions, and has a long-running divisional rivalry with the Reds down the road in Cincinnati?

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Which staging style, used at 'The Round' in Newcastle upon Tyne (closed 2008) and at the Theater in the Wild at Hong Kong Disneyland, seats the audience on all sides of the performance area rather than in mostly in front of the stage?

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In Pamplona, water polo is played at Campo de Deportes Larraina alongside futsal and fencing. Which industrial Catalan city, whose local top-flight water polo club shares its name with the town and whose Modernista textile-mill architecture is a UNESCO-listed heritage, is also a water polo stronghold?

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In 1718, Kragujevac in Serbia became part of the Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia after this Austrian military leader led its conquest and signed the Treaty of Passarowitz. His 1699 burning of Sarajevo also pushed the Ottoman provincial capital of Bosnia to move to Travnik. Which early modern commander is being described?