In what year did Soviet miner Alexei Stakhanov die: 1977, 1979, 1985 or 2007?

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Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov (3 January 1906 – 5 November 1977) was a Soviet miner who became a national icon after a record-breaking shift in 1935.

This African-American botanist and agricultural chemist developed hundreds of uses for peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes. Who was he?

Queen Elizabeth's only daughter was born in 1950. What's her name?

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After the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, architect Julia Morgan was called upon to rebuild the interior of which San Francisco hotel?

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Which game is played on a marked board divided into two halves, each side containing 12 alternately colored points?