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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Spanish Tapas

In Spanish tapas cuisine, what is the signature herb in patatas alioli?

Answer

Parsley

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Spanish Tapas

In Spanish tapas cuisine, what is the traditional garnish on boquerones fritos?

Answer

Lemon

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Spanish Tapas

In Spanish tapas cuisine, what is the main seafood in pulpo a la gallega’s traditional preparation?

Answer

Octopus

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Spanish Tapas

Who created the original salad that inspired Spanish ensaladilla rusa?

Answer

Lucien Olivier

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Spanish Tapas

In Spanish tapas cuisine, what fish is used in soldaditos de Pavía?

Answer

Salt cod

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Spanish Tapas

In Spanish tapas cuisine, what is the name of the small fried fish dish often associated with Málaga?

Answer

Boquerones fritos

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Famous Female Scientists

Which Israeli crystallographer won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studying ribosomes?

Answer

Ada Yonath

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Famous Female Scientists

Which astronomer discovered the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet in 1788?

Answer

Caroline Herschel

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Famous Female Scientists

Which mathematician became the first woman to receive the Abel Prize, in 2019?

Answer

Karen Uhlenbeck

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Famous Female Scientists

Which paleoanthropologist discovered the famous Laetoli hominin footprints in Tanzania in 1978?

Answer

Mary Leakey

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Famous Female Scientists

Which physicist helped create the first solar-heated house, completed in Dover, Massachusetts, in 1948?

Answer

Maria Telkes

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Famous Female Scientists

Which English fossil hunter discovered the first correctly identified ichthyosaurus fossils with her brother Joseph?

Answer

Mary Anning

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