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Both Louisiana and New Jersey have shaped different branches of a broad U.S. musical tradition. In Louisiana, Cajun music grew from the ballads of French-speaking Acadians who were pushed out of Canada in the 1700s. In New Jersey, the sounds came from German, Dutch, and Swiss immigrants in the Northeast. Which music tradition links the two states?

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Fiji and Italy both mark a holiday that remembers the dead, though they do it very differently. In Fiji, Mexican communities organize Mexican-style celebrations in big cities. In Italy, people observe November 2 as All Souls' Day, which they also call 'Giorno dei Morti'. Which holiday is being celebrated?

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Which 20th-century painter was represented at international exhibitions in Dortmund, Namur, Rijeka, Copenhagen and Rome, winning the first prize for painting in Lignano, and in 1990 (after the fall of the communist regime) was the subject of monographic exhibitions in Czech regional galleries including Prague, Brno, Olomouc and Ostrava?

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A Polish sculptor and video artist, born in Warsaw in 1958 and widely exhibited across Poland including Wrocław, graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1985 and later ran the Studio of Spatial Activities there. His work is in major museums from Tate Modern in London to MoMA in New York. Which Polish artist is this?

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This 1960s American family pop group, formed in Newport, Rhode Island, had a long run at the Flamingo Las Vegas in February 1970 that ended when the father fired one of his sons after a backstage fight over the son's choice of a musical collaborator. The band's story was later told in a documentary called 'Family Band'. Which family group is this?

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This Kenyan long-distance runner won the London Marathon back-to-back in 2015 and 2016, and also appears on the list of winners of the Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands. His 2016 London time was 2:03:05, and he famously finished eighth at the 2020 London Marathon. Which runner is this?

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Which top-flight Mexican professional basketball league has included León, Guanajuato's Lechugueros team since 2004 and also features the Toros de Nuevo Laredo?

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Kansas Speedway in Kansas City and Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, both host races on this American stock-car circuit. Charlotte holds two of the circuit's Cup Series races every year, and Kansas Speedway also hosts IndyCar and ARCA events. Which racing organization is this?

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This 19th-century writer, who was baptized in 1805 in Odense, Denmark, is often listed among the Nordic countries' most important children's authors, alongside Tove Jansson and Astrid Lindgren. He became internationally famous for his fairy tales, which have been translated into dozens of languages. Which Danish writer is this?

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An early 16th-century Ottoman sultan reshaped the empire by taking Medina, in Arabia, from Egyptian rule, and artwork at the Chehel Sotoun Pavilion in Isfahan, Iran, shows him at the Battle of Chaldiran against Shah Ismail of the Safavids. Taking Mecca and Medina made him and his heirs caliphs of the Muslim world. Which sultan was he?