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Which cocktail is famously associated with James Bond and his preference for it "shaken, not stirred"?
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Vodka Martini
Bond's vodka martini is first served shaken, not stirred, in Dr. No in 1962, and Sean Connery says the line himself in Goldfinger two years later.
Ian Fleming's Bond invented the Vesper in Casino Royale, made with gin, vodka and Kina Lillet, and named it after Vesper Lynd.
Which country is the world's largest archipelago, with more than 17,000 islands?
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Indonesia
Indonesia stretches more than 5,000 km (3,100 miles) along the equator with over 17,000 islands, around 6,000 of them inhabited, including Java, Sumatra and Borneo's southern part.
Java alone has more than 150 million people, which makes it the most populous island on Earth.
Which two scientists published the double helix model of DNA in the journal Nature in 1953?
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Watson and Crick
James Watson and Francis Crick published their one page paper in April 1953, building their model with help from Rosalind Franklin's X-ray data and Maurice Wilkins at King's College London.
Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Franklin had died in 1958 and prizes are not awarded posthumously.
What is the name of the comic book store owner?
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Stuart
Stuart Bloom owns the Comic Center of Pasadena, where the guys spend their Wednesday nights, and he gradually joins the main group despite his gloomy outlook.
Kevin Sussman, who plays Stuart, worked in a real comic shop before acting, and the character leads the 2026 spin-off.
Which pet raising experience, released in 2017, became one of the most visited games in Roblox history?
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Adopt Me!
Adopt Me!, launched by Uplift Games in July 2017, lets players hatch, raise and trade pets, and it passed 40 billion visits by 2025 after years as the platform's most popular experience.
Its 2021 peak of 1.92 million concurrent players was a Roblox record at the time.
Which French artist is famous for his many paintings and pastels of ballet dancers, including The Dance Class?
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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas painted and sculpted ballet dancers for decades, often working from the rehearsal rooms and wings of the Paris Opera, and more than half of his works show dancers.
Degas disliked the label Impressionist and preferred to call himself a realist, even though he exhibited with the group.
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