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What is McMurdo?
Antarctica: Of all the antarctic research bases, this is the largest, being home to around 1000 of the 4000 transient scientists living on the continent each year.
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What is the take off model?
Geographical Theory: Bill Rostow created this highly westernized model of development.
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What is Chiquita?
Banana wars: Bill Clinton's US government were pressured mostly by this TNC to impose WTO approved trade sanctions on the EU in 1997.
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What is 12.5%?
Apple: The TNC Apple was enticed to set its European Headquarters up at Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland, due to the corporation tax only standing at this percentage.
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What is Hamilton?
Musical Theatre: ''Southern Mother F*****g Democratic Republicans'' is a lyric from this Broadway musical.
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What is ten?
Antarctica: A survey of 200 sites found this number of them to have any sign of wear and tear due to tourism.
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What is a black swan event?
Geographical Theory: The 2008 credit crunch, the 9/11 attacks, Zimbabwe's hyperinflation of 2008 and the 2001 dot com bubble are all examples of this type of event.
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What is 71?
Banana wars: The Lome convention, signed in 1975, included this many ACP countries.
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What is Samsung?
Apple: Apple sued this company and won $119.6 million for infringing on their patents of the 'slide to unlock' feature and 'quick links'.
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What is Independence Day?
US Trivia: Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe all died on this American National Holiday?
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What is fifteen?
Antarctica: The French were stopped from building an airstrip in Antarctica at Dumont D'urville by this many Greenpeace protestors.
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What is the League of Nations?
Geographical Theory: The United Nations was created to be a more global version of which failed inter-war institution?
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What is Ecuador?
Banana wars: The El Guabo Association of Small Banana Producers was founded in this country. Today, AsoGuabo contains 350 small scale banana farms.
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What is Cupertino?
Apple: Before opening 'Apple Park' in 2017, Apple were based in this part of California.
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What is Shrek?
Musical Theatre: Travel Song, I Know It's Today and What's Up Duloc are all songs from this musical.
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What is 1959?
Antarctica: The Antarctic Treaty system began in this year, when twelve nations signed the Antarctic Treaty.
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What is the core and periphery model?
Geographical Theory: Immanuel Wallerstein was a key proponent of this model of development, which partly aimed to explain the development gap.
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What are Ireland and Ecuador?
Banana wars: Of the big five Banana producing TNCs, Fyffes and Noboa are not based in the US. They are based in these two countries.
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What is 75%?
Apple: The Green My Apple Campaign caused Apple to switch to using this percentage of their energy from renewable sources.
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What is realising that you have exactly the same flag as another sovereign nation?
Interesting trivia: This embarrassing blunder befell Lichtenstein and Haiti when they both competed in the 1936 Olympics.
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What is 333?
Antarctica: Three Japanese fishing vessels in 2017, under the guise of scientific research, killed this many Minke whales.
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What is the four Asian tigers?
Geographical Theory: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan made up this group of rapidly developing nations.
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What is 700?
Banana Wars: Scottish cashmere producer Clan Douglass feared the loss of this many jobs, following the US import tariffs that put the £1.25 million trade at risk.
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What is $100?
Apple: Reportedly, Foxconn workers making Apple products at the Shenzen plant in China were nyl being paid this much a month, half of which was fed back into the system for bed and board costs, despite working over 60 hours a week.
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What is #?
Interesting Trivia: An octothorpe symbol is better known by this name.
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