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Tales of how many people are included in "The Decameron", a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio?

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"Deca" is Greek for ten, and Decameron means "ten-day event". Ten days is the time period in which the ten characters of the frame story tell their tales.
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The Trial (Kafka)
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The Name of the Rose (Eco)

Phillip K. Dick, author of SF novels that have been made into numerous films ("Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Paycheck") denied the existence of a certain person. Who was that person?

Jimmy Carter
Albert Einstein
Neil Armstrong
Stanislaw Lem

Which institution awards the Pulitzer prize?

Time
Swedish Royal Academy
Columbia University
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How many legs do spiders have?

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