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Questions

Which Italian won the 1998 Tour de France cycle race?

What is the name of the Chinese leader who died in 1997?

To which part of the body does the adjective 'renal' refer?

In musical notation, what is the effect of placing a dot immediately after a note?

In Mathematics, who devised a triangle to show the probability of various results occurring when any number of coins are tossed?