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  1. 1. The largest automobile company in India
  2. 3. The most spoken language in Brazil is a national variant of what European language
  3. 6. The lower chamber of the Russian parliament
  4. 8. This man was the founder and leader of the Romanian fascist political party "The Iron Guard"
  5. 10. This man played the title role in the 1941 movie "Citizen Kane"
  6. 11. King Leopold II of Belgium was notorious for his brutal colonial rule in which African nation
  7. 12. This US president is infamous for having engaged in multiple duels with his political opponents
  8. 15. This was the largest religion in Persia before the Islamic conquest in the 7th century
  9. 18. This famous communist was assassinated with an ice pick in Mexico City in 1940 by an agent of the Soviet goverment
  10. 19. Bratislava is the capital of this country
  11. 21. This American politician was killed in 1804 in a duel versus vice-president Aaron Burr
  12. 23. Small country landlocked between Switzerland and Austria
  13. 24. This Chilean president was overthrown in a coup d'etat led by Augusto Pinochet in 1973
  14. 26. This 1927 silent science-fiction film about a dystopian future society is considered by many to be director Fritz Lang's greatest work
  15. 29. Nickname for German WW2 field marshal Erwin Rommel
  16. 31. French artist known for his series of paintings known as "water lilies"
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  1. 2. This German desert is known as "apfelkuchen"
  2. 4. This man was the leading military official and prime minister of Japan during most of WW2.
  3. 5. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, five new nations were formed in central Asia, all of whose names ended in "stan", Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and this small country.
  4. 7. This infamous world leader was known as "The Iron Chancellor"
  5. 9. Dutch rock band known for their unconventional, instrumental prog-rock songs, and occasional yodelling
  6. 13. Before John F. Kennedy, this man was the last US president to be assassinated
  7. 14. Indonesia was formerly known by this colonial name
  8. 16. This man was the founded the "British Union of Fascists' in 1932
  9. 17. This English actor was famous for his roles in "Gone With the Wind" and "The Petrified Forest", among others, before his career was cut short when a passenger plane he was flying in was shot down by the Luftwaffe in 1943
  10. 20. French para-military group that tried multiple times to assassinate Charles de Gaulle
  11. 22. This battle of the Russo-Japanese war was the largest fought in modern history prior to WW1
  12. 25. This country ruled by an absolute monarch borders Saudi Arabia, Yemen and The UAE
  13. 27. These animals support the largest industry in the Falkland Islands
  14. 28. In the 1950's, the song "Mack the Knife" was popularized by Bobby Darin in the US, but it was originally written for a 1928 play in which country
  15. 30. This populist Louisiana governor was assassinated in 1935 on the steps of the state capitol.