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What is the world's largest city (by population) that lacks a metro?

Jakarta

Lagos

Calcutta

Dhaka

Which Persian Gulf country has the largest number of Shia Muslims?

Bahrain

Saudi Arabia

Kuwait

Oman

Susana Villaran, a human-rights activist, looks likely to be elected mayor of which Latin American capital, marking the first left-wing victory there since 1983?

Brasilia

Santiago

Buenos Aires

Lima

At the Redneck Fishing Tournament, what implement do contestants use on carp?

Their hands

Baseball bats

Full cans of beer

Shotguns

Aspirin is derived from the bark of what sort of tree?

Pacific Yew

Willow

Dutch elm

Oak

What species of fish did European settlers likely eat at the first Thanksgiving?

Eel

Shad

Cod

Tench

When China announced that a few foreign banks would be permitted to invest the yuan they held offshore in local Chinese banks, which country's central bank was the first to take the offer?

The United States

Vanuatu

Luxembourg

Malaysia

What is the world's biggest English-language newspaper, measured by circulation?

The New York Times

The Times (London)

The Times of India

USA Today

How many tweets are posted to Twitter every second?

7

75

750

75,000

What country did a Romanian far-right politician recently claim was the home country of the Romanies (Gypsies) expelled by France?

Hungary

India

Romania

Bulgaria

 

 

 

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