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Which island nation became the first country to enter the year 2000?

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Kiribati

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Which playwright wrote the 1904 drama Pandora’s Box, later adapted into Pabst’s 1929 film?

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Frank Wedekind

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Which Roman author wrote a Latin version of the Pandora myth in Fabulae?

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Hyginus

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In Hesiod’s Works and Days, what Greek word names the hope left in Pandora’s jar?

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Elpis

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In Greek mythology, which god gave Pandora her clothing and adornments?

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Athena

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Which Latin word for a small box helped create the modern “Pandora’s box” expression?

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Pyxis

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In what year did Erasmus’s Adagia help popularize the Latin image of Pandora’s box?

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1508

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Which ancient Greek work describes Pandora as the first woman and links her creation to Prometheus’s theft of fire?

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Works and Days

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What is Pandora called in Greek mythology because she was the first woman created by the gods?

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The first woman

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Which Greek deity gave Pandora a deceptive mind and a lying nature, according to Hesiod?

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Hermes

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In Hesiod’s poem Works and Days, what object does Pandora open and release evils into the world?

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A jar

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In which 2009 film is Pandora the name of a fictional moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus?

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