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Which is the largest country in South America by area?
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Brazil
Brazil covers about 8.5 million square km (3.3 million square miles), nearly half the continent, and it borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
Brazil is the only Portuguese speaking country in the Americas, a legacy of the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
In which country did Christiaan Barnard perform the first human heart transplant in 1967?
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South Africa
Barnard transplanted a donor heart into 54 year old grocer Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, on 3 December 1967.
Washkansky lived for 18 days before dying of pneumonia, but Barnard's second patient survived more than 18 months.
What word does Sheldon say after making a joke or pulling a prank?
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Bazinga
Bazinga is Sheldon's signal that he has been joking, first used in the season two finale, and it quickly became the show's most merchandised catchphrase.
Writer Stephen Engel reportedly used bazinga in the writers' room after practical jokes, which is how the word reached the scripts.
Who built the Patent-Motorwagen of 1886, generally considered the first practical automobile?
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Karl Benz
Karl Benz received German patent 37435 in January 1886 for a three wheeled vehicle powered by a single cylinder petrol engine, which is regarded as the birth certificate of the car.
His wife Bertha Benz took the car on a 106 km (66 mile) drive to Pforzheim in 1888 without telling him, the first long distance road trip in history.
What was the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620?
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Mayflower
The Mayflower left Plymouth, England, in September 1620 carrying 102 passengers and reached Cape Cod in November after 66 days at sea. The Susan Constant and Discovery were ships of the earlier Jamestown expedition of 1607.
A second ship, the Speedwell, set out with the Mayflower but leaked so badly it had to turn back, forcing some passengers to be left behind.
What was the primary purpose of the process of mummification?
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To preserve the body for the afterlife
Egyptians believed the soul needed an intact body to return to, so embalmers dried the corpse with natron salt and wrapped it in linen.
A full royal mummification took around 70 days, including 40 days of drying in natron.
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