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| Winner of the Billboard Music Award Hot 100 Single of the Year for 'Hold On' | |
| Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 films, including Kurosawa's Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, The Hidden Fortress, and Throne of Blood | |
| Director of 'Un Chien Andalou' and 'That Obscure Object of Desire', he is often associated with the 1920s surrealist movement | |
| Director of 1939 films 'Gone with the Wind' and 'The Wizard of Oz' | |
| Caper films are subgenres of crime films that always feature what, based on the more common name for 'caper films' | |
| From the Swedish for 'heavy stone' it has the highest melting point of any element | |
| Also called brown coal, this is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat | |
| Sphalerite is the chief ore of this element | |
| Renaissance writer famous for popularizing the essay as a genre | |
| Author of the Renaissance work 'The Book of the Courtier' | |
| Author of 'The Haunting of Hill House' and 'The Lottery' | |
| Magazine publisher after whom the the science-fiction award 'the Hugo' is named | |
| Pen name by which short story writer H. H. Munro is more commonly known | |
| Longest scene of all Shakespeare plays | |
| First prominent Punjabi poet most remembered for her poignant poem 'Today I invoke Waris Shah' | |
| George Gerswhin opera that tells the story of a disabled black street beggar living in Charleston who attempts to rescue a female companion from Crown and Sportin' Life | |
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| Kingdom that built Borobudur | |
| Portuguese Jesuit Brother, missionary and explorer, mainly remembered for being the first European to travel overland from India to China | |
| First European to see the Pacific Ocean from the new world (Crossing the Panama Isthmus in 1513) | |
| Aristocratic maritime republic centered on Dubrovnik that carried this name from 1358-1808. Its commercial peak was in the 15th and 16th centuries | |
| 1916 secret treaty between UK and France for the mutually agreed spheres of influence over the partitioned Ottoman Empire | |
| World capital that saw a 1995 sarin gas attack in the subway lines passing beneath the country's parliament | |
| 350-km-long corridor that connects Afghanistan to China and separates Pakistan and Tajikistan | |
| Included within the limits of the Egyptian city Aswan is this Nile island that's name is an English synonym of 'big' | |
| Name for the six shallow lengths, or whitewater rapids, of the Nile between Aswan and Khartoum | |
| Island on which the 1977 airport disaster took place, the deadliest in aviation history. Largest of Spain's islands | |
| Largest city north of the Arctic circle | |
| Largest South Korean island | |
| First competitor from an Asian country to win an Olympic Gold in an individual event | |
| Italian sculptor (1598-1680), leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpting | |
| Court painter to the Electors of Saxony, known also for portraits of leaders of Protestant Reformation and German Princes | |
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