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Siam
What is Thailand?
This author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, like his American contemporary Mark Twain, was an avowed pacifist, and denounced the American-Philippine war.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
This city hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics.
What is Atlanta?
This invasive plant, a local favorite, was originally imported from Japan to help stop topsoil erosion.
What is kudzu?
IAD
What is Washington Dulles International Airport?
Bombay
Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer during the Soviet era, inspired the Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil with this novel.
What is The Master and Margarita?
This treaty, signed April 10 1998, officially ended hostilities in Northern Ireland between Republicans, seeking to join the Republic of Ireland, and Unionists, who wished to remain part of the United Kingdom.
What is the Good Friday Agreement?
This species owes its common name to sugar plantations, for which it was introduced as pest control throughout Asia-Pacific.
What is the cane toad?
PNR
What is Passenger Name Record?
Swaziland
Eswatini
Controversial dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, spent his life in exile in this US state.
Where is Vermont?
This was the most visited website in 1999.
What is AOL?
Perhaps more of a PSA than a question, but: from New Zealand to suburban America, this is a leading cause of dwindling numbers among endemic bird populations.
What is the domesticated cat?
ATA
What is actual time of arrival?
What is Denali?
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground served to inspire the American author Ralph Ellison in writing this novel in which, fittingly, the protagonist is introduced as dwelling beneath an unspecified city.
What is Invisible Man?
The hit 90s song "Macarena" is from this Spanish musical act.
Who are Los del Río?
This is the broader term for species introduced to an environment by humans, including both invasive (harmful) species and those that are more benign.
What is exotic?
UMNR
What is unaccompanied minor?
Königsberg
This literary device, where a later relevant object is is introduced innocuously early on in the story, is named after the Russian playwright famous for employing it.
What is Chekhov's gun?
Referred to as the Battle of Seattle, anti-globalization protests succeeded in disrupting and ultimately derailing the annual convening of this economic organization.
What is the World Trade Organization?
This species is the only land mammal in Iceland that was not introduced to the island by humans.
VDB
What is voluntarily denied boarding?