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Who is the head of state of Belgium under its constitution?
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Who is the head of state of Belgium under its constitution?
The king, a hereditary constitutional monarch. The Belgian monarchy is closer to the principle "the King does not rule", but the Belgian kings were not only "at the head of the dignified part of the Constitution".
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Which novelist from Liège wrote the Maigret detective novels?
Georges Simenon. Georges Joseph Christian Simenon ... was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret.
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Which sport is Belgium famous for, with races such as the Tour of Flanders?
Cycling, with a long tradition of road races. The Tour of Flanders is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring.
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Which city is the seat of the institutions of the Flemish Region and Flemish Community?
Brussels. The City of Brussels is also the capital of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community.
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Which Belgian anatomist, born in Brussels, wrote De humani corporis fabrica in 1543?
Andreas Vesalius. Following after is Andreas Vesalius's publication of De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human body) in 1543.
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Which Belgian province has the town of Spa, which gave its name to health resorts?
The province of Liège, in the east of Wallonia. XXXI VIII) The spa town grew in the Middle Ages, in the oldest iron and steel centre of Liège Province.
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Which city lies at the confluence of the Sambre and the Meuse?
Namur
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Which World Heritage Site in Hainaut consists of four boat lifts on a canal?
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their environs
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Which Belgian painter is best known for surrealist works such as The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe)?
René Magritte. The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
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Which Belgian physicist shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for work linked to the Higgs mechanism?
François Englert. Physicists from two of the three teams, Peter Higgs and François Englert, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for their theoretical predictions.
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Which city is the capital of Wallonia?
Namur. The capital of Wallonia is Namur, and the most populous city is Charleroi.
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Which city is the seat of the government of the German-speaking Community?
Eupen, in the east of the province of Liège. German remains the official language in Eupen (also spoken in the form of the Eupen dialect), and the city serves as the capital for Belgium's German-speaking Community.
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Which Belgian region contains the Campine (Kempen), a sandy region with heathland?
Flanders, in the north-east of the country
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Which Belgian city is known as the Flemish capital of diamonds?
Antwerp, which has long been a centre of the diamond trade. Antwerp ... is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Where is the headquarters of NATO?
In Brussels, in the district of Evere. In 1967, NATO moved to Brussels, Belgium, to headquarters that were initially defined as temporary, and therefore no Court of Honor was planned.
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Which European institution holds plenary sessions in Strasbourg, though it also meets in Brussels?
The European Parliament. The city of Strasbourg in France is the official seat of the European Parliament.
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Which festival in Boom attracts hundreds of thousands of electronic dance music fans?
Tomorrowland, which began in 2005
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Which blue creatures, created by Peyo, live in mushroom houses?
The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs)
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What are the colours of the Belgian flag, in order from left to right?
Black, yellow and red, in three vertical stripes. The national flag of the Kingdom of Belgium is a tricolour consisting of three equal vertical bands displaying the national colours: black, yellow, and red.
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How many provinces does Belgium have?
Ten, with five in Flanders and five in Wallonia. Two of these regions, Flanders and Wallonia, are each subdivided into five provinces.
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Which Belgian won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for work on cell organelles?
Christian de Duve. Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist.
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Which World Heritage listing preserves coal mines in Hainaut and Liège, such as Grand-Hornu and Bois-du-Luc?
The Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
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Which flower appears on the flag of the Brussels-Capital Region?
A stylised yellow iris, on a blue background. The flag of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium consists of a stylized yellow, grey and white iris on a blue background.
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Which Flemish cartographer created the Mercator projection in 1569?
Gerardus Mercator. Gerardus Mercator ... was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.
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Which forest near Halle is known for its carpet of bluebells in spring?
The Hallerbos, a beech forest in Flemish Brabant. The Hallerbos (Dutch for Halle forest) is a forest in Belgium, covering an area of 552 ha (1,360 acres).
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Which Belgian chemist invented Bakelite, an early plastic?
Leo Baekeland. The world's first fully synthetic plastic was Bakelite, invented in New York in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, who coined the term plastics.

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