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BQC is almost here again, so I'll be signing off from the blog and trying to recalibrate my completely messed-up sleeping patterns and fail to reorganise other shenanigans before I once again journey to deepest Derbyshire - 'Quiz Country'. Should you ask if I am ready for this particular tournament, well, I am as ready as I always am, which means not really and am already counting together the inevitable mini-disappointments that come with finishing and marking any question paper. Ho-hum.

Note: Er, the following questions are so gargantuan that you probably won't be bothered to read them. Unless, you are an continental European quizzer. Of course. And that is no bad thing.

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1 Created in 1957 by Nemours Jean-Baptiste and Wébert Sicot, what is the most well-known music style of Haiti, a vibrant music and dance genre similar to that of their Cuban neighbours but also related to American jazz, which often employs African drumming, modern guitars/synthesized sounds, saxophones, and Haitian Creole lyrics?
2 Succeeding Isabella Rossellini as Lancôme's spokesmodel for its perfume Trésor, which Spanish actress, model and UNICEF ambassador made her first movie appearance in 1987 in Carlos Saura's El dorado, and before playing the role of Francesca Babini in Italian director Pupi Avati's Il testimone dello sposo, she became the Beauté Naturelle in 1997 for having won the Prix de la mode in Paris' Fashion Awards? Other roles have included Aurora in The Lost City (2005) playing opposite Andy Garcia as in-laws and lovers struggling with life during the Cuban Revolution.
3 Founded in 1222 when a large group of students and professors left the University of Bologna in search of more academic freedom ('Libertas scholastica'), what is the second oldest university in Italy, and was where - on June 25, 1678 - Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman graduate in history when she was awarded a degree in philosophy?
4 Jean Prouvost created the first issue of which woman's magazine in 1937, distributing it each Wednesday, with French readers flocking to newsstands to buy the early weekly edition and making it a huge success? However, in 1942, due to German occupation authorities stopping its distribution along with most magazines, it was not redistributed until 1954 when it became a monthly publication.
5 Involving rituals like the possession of participants by Orishas, animal sacrifices, healing, dancing and drumming and drawing inspiration from various peoples of the African diaspora (though mainly featuring aspects of Yoruba orisha veneration), which religion, practiced chiefly in Brazil, originated in the city of Salvador, the original temple, terreiro, being established in early 19th century Bahia, where three freed African women, Iya Deta, Iya Kala and Iya Nasso (many call it a true matrilineal society) first established its headquarters called Engenho Velho, although dispute after dispute resulted it splintering into hundreds of different factions?

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Answers to FE:XXXIX
1 Compas (also known as konpa or kompa) 2 Inés Sastre 3 University of Padua aka Università degli Studi di Padova aka UNIPD 4 Marie Claire 5 Candomblé (it may be called Macumba in regions like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, although Macumba has a distinct set of practices more akin to European witchcraft)