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- Which country, with the 4th largest contingent of forces in Iraq, recently announced that it would begin withdrawing its 3,000 troops in September following public protest after the U.S. shooting of one of its agents in Baghdad?
- Which letter and number identify the group of industrial nations whose leaders meet annually to discuss economic policy?
- Give either the Latin phrase represented by the abbreviation N.B. as used to emphasize an important point or the English translation of this phrase.
- Which word designating a wasting away of the body and formerly a term for tubercu-losis, a disease causing such a wasting away, is also an economic term for the using up of good or services?
- Which American poet in which poem wrote the following line: "Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore"?
- To which country has the U.S. agreed to sell about 2 dozen sophisticated F-16 fighter planes, rewarding it for its help in fighting the war on terrorism, though India strongly opposes the move, charging that it will upset the military balance in the region?
- Which word designates all of the following: a chest for holding ammunition; a water tight structure inside which underwater construction work is carried on; and a 2-wheeled ammunition wagon?
- Identify Sophocles' title character who violates King Creon's decree by burying her brother and is thus condemned to death.
- Which word beginning with S-T and derived from the Greek for a brand marked on a criminal or slave by a hot iron as a sign of shame designates a mark of disgrace or discredit, such as the red letter A that Hester Prynne wears for her adultery?
- Identify the art movement begun in Zurich in 1916 whose most characteristic piece was the reproduction of the Mona Lisa adorned with a mustache, illustrating its motivating goal of being outrageous in destroying previously accepted aesthetic principles.
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