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Turkey
The real St Nicholas was born in this modern-day country.
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The synthesizer
The Telharmonium, the Trautonium, the Ondes Martenot and the theremin are 20th century precursors for this instrument that made waves in the 1970s.
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Taylor Swift
This artist was famously interrupted by Kanye West during their acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards.
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Krampus
This horned, anthromorphic figure from Alpine folklore scares children who have misbehaved over the holidays.
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Grogu
This is the real name of the Child (aka Baby Yoda) as revealed on the Mandalorian.
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Norway
This country has donated a Christmas tree to Britain, located in Trafalgar Square in London, since 1947.
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Birth control pill
The development of this product was a trigger for the feminist movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s that substantially changed the condition of women in the Western world.
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19
This album launched Adele's career and was the title of her debut album.
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Russia
The name Ded Moroz (Christmas Frost) is the name used to refer to Santa in this country.
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Titanic
This film continues to be the #1 US grossing box-office movie of all time.
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Japan
After launching an extensive marketing campaign in the 1970s, ordering KFC for Christmas has become a national tradition in this country.
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Saskatchewan
This territory became part of the Dominion of Canada in 1905. Its official tartan has seven colours: gold, brown, green, red, yellow, white and black.
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Usher
This artist had the most #1 hits on the Billboard top 100 between 2000-2010.
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UAE
The most expensively decorated tree can be found in this wealthy country.
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Ironman, Black Widow and Vision
In Avengers End Game, these three confirmed Avengers perish in the battle against Thanos.
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Finland
"Hyvaa joulua!" translates to “Merry Christmas!” in this Scandinavian country.
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Woodrow Wilson
This former president of the United States is considered one of the founding fathers of the field that is centrally concerned with the organization of government policies and programs as well as the behavior of officials formally responsible for their conduct. He wrote a seminal article in 1887 on the topic.
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The Beatles
This British band released an album simply title "1" in the year 2000.
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Fish Heads
Mistletoe is replaced by this region specific food in doorways in Antarctica.
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Ex Ash A Twelve
This is the unique pronunciation of Z AE A-XII, the son of Tech billionaire Elon Musk and Musician Grimes.
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Christmas Island
This island, located in the Indian Ocean, housed a highly controversial detention centre for the offshore processing of Australia-bound asylum seekers between 2003-2018.
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The League of Nations
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36 was the last colonial war in Africa and is often considered to be one of the episodes that prepared the way for World War II. The ineffectiveness of the international response to this invasion demonstrated the weakness of this reigning international body at the time.
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Coldplay
This British group was the first to have a #1 song on the Hot 100 chart after the year 2000.
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Canada
The first Rockefeller tree from outside the US hailed from this country.
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Bill Gates
This high-tech mogul appeared on a 1995 cover of Time headlined “Master of the Universe.”
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