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the Algerian communist trade union centre UGSA disbanded itself in 1957, after the rival nationalist UGTA had participated in the Leipzig congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions ?
the Brühl , a single street in Leipzig , accounted for one-third of the world trade of furs in the 1920s?
Lactarius helvus , a mushroom whose smell has been likened to Maggi instant soup or fenugreek , was implicated in the poisoning of 418 people near Leipzig , Germany ?
Karl Graul , former director of Leipzig Lutheran mission and a Tamil scholar , believed that Christian missionaries in India should not interfere with the local traditions including the caste system ?
Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig , the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position?
Ivan Bogorov , who published the first Bulgarian newspaper in 1846 in Leipzig , was also an ardent supporter of Bulgarian linguistic purism and was known for his often amusing neologisms ?
Bach composed in Leipzig his cantata Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186 , for the seventh Sunday after Trinity expanding his cantata written in Weimar for Advent ?
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Question 1 : In front of this church stands a monument to ________ .
Question 2 : Like most German cities, Leipzig has a traffic layout designed to be ________ .
Question 3 : What is the license plate code of Leipzig?
Question 4 : How many inhabitants are there in Leipzig?
Question 5 : The city's mayor from 1930 to 1937, ________ was a noted opponent of the Nazi regime in Germany.
Question 6 : Robert Schumann was also active in Leipzig music, having been invited by ________ when the latter established Germany's first musical conservatoire in the city in 1843.
Question 7 : Tom Kaulitz and ________ - the founding members of modern rock band Tokio Hotel - also originate from Leipzig, although no longer live there.
Question 8 : Germany's chancellor since 2006, ________ , studied physics at Leipzig University .
Question 9 : DHL is in the process of transferring the bulk of its European air operations from ________ to Leipzig/Halle Airport .