Q: The defence minister of which European country resigned in 2011, after he was found to have copied large parts of his 2006 university doctorate thesis?
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A: germany

Q: Which game has the nickname 'Nero's Game' and is probably the oldest dice game still played?
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A: backgammon

Q: Bathsheba Everdene is the female protagonist of which Thomas Hardy novel?
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A:
far from madding crowd