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This country has appeared in every FIFA Men's World Cup and is the most successful team.
What is Brazil?
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, this romantic movie takes place during a famous 20th century maritime disaster.
What is Titanic?
This state officially ceased to exist on December 25th, 1991.
Before he became president of Ukraine, he played the same role in the TV show Servant of the People.
What is Zelenskyy?
The first industrial revolution began in this European country.
What is Great Britain?
This country won the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2023, getting their 6th World Cup win in the sport.
What is Australia?
In earlier movies Jack Sparrow could be seen searching for this ship with its distinctive dark features.
What is the Black Pearl?
According to French philosopher Voltaire, this state was "neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire"
What was the Holy Roman Empire?
A wartime correspondent during the Second Boer War, he escaped a Boer POW camp in Pretoria earning him popularity back home.
Who was Winston Churchill?
Robespierre and this group of radicals were behind the "Reign of Terror" during the French Revolution until Robespierre's death in 1794.
Who were the Jacobins?
This country leads the world in all time medal record for the Winter Olympics, when not including defunct states.
What is Norway?
Midway (2019) is the latest film rendition depicting the famous WWII battle between Japan and the US, where naval commander Chester Nimitz was pitted against this famous Japanese Admiral, also considered the architect of Pearl Harbor.
Who was Yamamoto?
The Velvet Divorce was a peaceful split into these two countries coming from the former longtime Central European state.
What is Czech Republic/Czechia and Slovakia?
Before she became the first female and one of the longest serving leaders in her country, she was a scientist with a PhD in quantum chemistry.
The Umbrella Revolution was coined to describe protestors resisting police crackdowns in this semi-autonomous Chinese city-state.
What is Hong Kong?
This sport was the first American-invented/originated sport to make it into the Olympics, debuting in 1936.
What is Basketball?
Starring Russell Crowe, this movie takes place during the Napoleonic War following the HMS Surprise as they try to sink the French ship Acheron across the world.
What is Master and Commander?
A union between Egypt and Syria from 1958-1971 went under this name.
What is the United Arab Republic?
The youngest president in his countries history, he previously studied philosophy and worked as an investment banker at Rothschild & Co.
Who is Emmanuel Macron?
This Austrian prince and diplomat was the architect of post-Napoleonic peace negotiations and played a major role in supressing the widespread Revolutions of 1848.
Who was Prince von Metternich?
This city is the only in the world to host the Summer Olympics three times.
What is London?
The Bounty (1984) is based on a true story, describing the mutiny on the HMS Bounty amid their journey to this pacific island, now a part of French Polynesia, to acquire breadfruit plants for use in the West Indies.
What is Tahiti?
This breakaway state in southern Congo lasted from 1960-63 until a UN offensive defeated the rebels and reintegrated the province into the Congo.
What is the State/Republic of Katanga?
Before his current top position, and under a different name, he worked as a bouncer in Buenos Aires and as a chemist in a food laboratory.
Who is Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)?
Bloody Sunday kicked off the active part of this revolution after thousands of workers led by Father Gapon were fired upon by imperial troops.
What is the Revolution of 1905?