Problem: Happiness or blissful death through elightenment (literally 'blowing out') - from Sanskrit?
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A: nirvana

Q: Which eponymous operatic heroine leaps to her death from Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo?
A: tosca

Problem: A note written in 1637 in the margin of a book says that there are no positive integers x, y and z such that xn + yn = zn, where n is an integer greater than two. This wasn't proved until 1995. Who is the author of this note?
Answer: pierre de fermat

Q: In 1924, which country hosted the first Winter Olympic Games?
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A: france

Q: Ouzel is an old name for the turdus merula aka which common garden bird?
What is the answer?

A: blackbird

Mei Li:
Who led the ill-fated expedition which set sail in 1845 in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror??
Shuai Zheng:
sir john franklin