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QUESTIONFORALL: CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS –MAY 2011: "1. Which pop was beatified in a three-hour ceremony in the biggest event hosted by the Vatican on 1 May 2011? Pope John Paul II. 2. PAC (P..."
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