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Question 1: The Year of the Boar that starts on 18th February is counted as year 2007 according to the Gregorian calendar. What year is it according to the Chinese calendar?

Question 2: Which of these people were born in the Year of the Boar? Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, martial artist and philosopher Bruce Lee, Three Kingdoms General Guan Yu, the American rapper Snoop Dogg

Question 3: What was the formal name given for Pigsy who starred In Journey To The West?

Question 4: Which Christian saint is often portrayed alongside a pig, and is called the patron saint of swineherds?

Question 5: Which is the smallest pig species in the world?

Question 6: Where does the endangered pig species the babirusa live?

Question 7: Why was Poland-China pig Big Bill famous?

Question 8: Which of George Orwell's classic pig characters was based on Joseph Stalin?

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