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The Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is contiguous with what famed national park of Tanzania? |
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The Serengeti It is most famous for its annual migration of over one and a half million wildebeest and 250,000 zebra. |
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What was the end result of Operation Neptune Spear conducted by the CIA in 2011? |
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Death of Osama bin Laden The raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was launched from Afghanistan. |
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What song by The Doors that has a strong reference to the Oedipus complex got them fired from the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in West Hollywood? |
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"The End" The climax of the song has the lines, "Father/ Yes son?/ I want to kill you/ Mother, I want to ..." (with the next words screamed out unintelligibly). |
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A fictional species of great apes called 'Mangani' are responsible for raising which popular character? |
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Tarzan The Mangani language is depicted as a primal universal language shared by a number of primate species in the books. |
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What battle of the Middle Ages fought on Saint Crispin's Day has been immortalized by a speech that references the day in a Shakespearean history play? |
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The Battle of Agincourt (1415) It was dramatized in Henry V in which Henry inspires his much outnumbered English forces to fight the French saying "...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;." |
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The slave girl Morgiana, the protagonist's elder brother Cassim and the cobbler Baba Mustafa are three prominent characters in what classic oriental story? |
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Some critics believe that this story was added to One Thousand and One Nights by one of its European translators. |
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What two words spoken by Shino Tsurubuchi ultimately resulted in Serena Williams losing her match to Kim Clijsters at the 2009 U.S. Open? |
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"Foot fault!" (Shino Tsurubuchi was the line judge) Serena who was facing match point went off on a tirade that caused her to lose a point and hence the match. |
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