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198 questions in this categoryA: Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo with 284 flights daily as of late 2013
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A: Nîmes in France (Denim=de Nîmes). It was originally called Serge de Nîmes.
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A: Seven, except the Hannukkiyah used during Hanukkah which has nine
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A: The first woman Prime Minister in the World (Ceylon and then Sri Lanka)
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A: One square metre
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A: Theodore Roosevelt at 42 - JFK was 43 and Clinton was 46 (However, JFK was the youngest elected president as Theo Roosevelt took office on the assasination of McKinley but wasn't elected until he was 46 years old)
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Minoru Yamasaki designed World Trade Center 1 and 2 (the twin towers) in New York. Which building in Madrid did he design?A: Modern-day Canada and Ireland or, more accurately, from the Dominion of Newfoundland to the United Kingdom as they were then. (In June 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop Transatlantic flight from St John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Co. Galway, in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber.)
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A: The three wise monkeys: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil)
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A: SS, unpopular after World War II, originally stood for Swallow Sidecar Company
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A: The first three-light electric traffic lights were installed in Detroit in 1920. Earlier, on 10 December 1868, the first gas traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. They resembled the railway signals of the time, with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use. They exploded on 2 January 1869.
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A: The Union Flag
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A: Pandora released all of man's miseries and evils but closed the lid with hope still inside.
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A: Seraphim, Cherubim and Ophanim (Seraph, Cherub, and Ophan in the singular)
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