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Thomas Eaton

1 The world’s richest person, Bernard Arnault, is head of which company?

2 What disrupted game three of the 1989 World Series in San Francisco?

3 Which period is known as the quattrocento?

4 Who coined the term “birth control” in her magazine The Woman Rebel?

5 Which crustacean forms most of the blue whale’s diet?

What was the first subatomic particle to be discovered?

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