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Which company founded in 1994 became one of the world’s most valuable companies through e-commerce and cloud computing?

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Amazon

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In the 1999 game Pandora’s Box, what type of game is it according to its developer Microsoft?

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Puzzle game

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Pandora’s Box, the 1929 film, was made in which country?

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Germany

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Which type of film is Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s 1929 Pandora’s Box?

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Silent film

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In Greek mythology, which ancient Greek word names Pandora’s storage jar?

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Pithos

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In Hesiod’s Theogony, what phrase describes Pandora as a “beautiful evil”?

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Kalon kakon

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Around which century BCE is Hesiod’s Works and Days, the main source for Pandora’s myth, usually dated?

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7th century BCE

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What is the name of Pandora’s daughter in later Greek myth, who survived the flood with Deucalion?

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Pyrrha

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Which ancient Greek deity is personified as Elpis, the hope left inside Pandora’s jar?

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Hope

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In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, what remained inside the jar after Pandora released its contents?

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Hope

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What modern English expression comes from the Greek myth of Pandora’s jar?

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Pandora’s box

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In Greek mythology, which Olympian king ordered Hephaestus to create Pandora?

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Zeus

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