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Que m 1
Que m 1 (Que m 1.0101) is the PR-10, Bet v 1-homologous major pollen allergen of Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica), GenBank AUH28179; a Fagaceae pollen allergen generally cross-reactive with other oak and Fagales homologs.
Que Robinson
Que Robinson (born 2001, Birmingham, Alabama) is a Denver Broncos outside linebacker, #51, from Alabama, drafted 134th overall in round 4 of the 2025 NFL Draft; 0.5 sack as a 2025 rookie.
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) is a 1956 song by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, sung by Doris Day in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much; it won the Best Original Song Oscar and topped the UK chart for six weeks.
Quebec
Quebec (French: Québec) is Canada's largest province, covering about 1.7 million square kilometers in eastern Canada, with its capital at Quebec City and French as its sole official language.
Quebec 1759 (block wargame)
Quebec 1759 is a 1972 two-player block wargame by Tom Dalgliesh, Lance Gutteridge, and Steve Brewster (Gamma Two Games, now Columbia Games), the first block wargame: 50 wooden blocks, fog of war, 16 turns, British must hold Abraham with 20 CV.
Quebec Agreement
The Quebec Agreement, signed by Roosevelt and Churchill on August 19, 1943 at the Citadel, Quebec, governed US-UK atomic energy (Tube Alloys) collaboration, created the Combined Policy Committee, and was ended in effect by the 1946 McMahon Act.
Quebec Bridge
The Quebec Bridge (Pont de Québec) is a steel cantilever bridge carrying road, rail, and pedestrian traffic across the St. Lawrence River between Québec City and Lévis, completed in 1917.
Quebec City
Quebec City (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 on the St. Lawrence River.
Quebec City Armoury
Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury (Manège militaire de Québec), Château-style drill hall at 805 Wilfrid-Laurier Avenue, Quebec City; built 1885–1887 by Eugène-Étienne Taché, only Canadian armoury designated a national historic site, destroyed by fire April 2008 and rebuilt by 2018 for $104 million.
Quebec City mosque shooting
Quebec City mosque shooting: 29 January 2017 attack on the Centre culturel islamique de Québec by Alexandre Bissonnette, who killed six worshippers; guilty pleas, 25-year parole ineligibility after appeals, National Day of Remembrance.
Quebec French
Quebec French (français québécois) is the variety of French spoken in Quebec, with mainly lexical and phonological distinctiveness, affrication of t/d, québécismes, and official status under the 1977 Charter of the French language.
Quebec French profanity
Sacres are Quebec French swear words derived from Catholic liturgical vocabulary (tabarnak, câlisse, ostie, criss), used as interjections, intensifiers, and verbs; a defining identity marker of Quebec French, distinct from France's sexual and scatological profanity.
Quebec Liberal Party
Quebec Liberal Party (Parti libéral du Québec), Quebec's main federalist provincial party since the 1960s; led since 2026 by Charles Milliard, 17th leader; won 21 seats and 14.37% of the vote in 2022 and 24.22% in 2026.
Quebec Nordiques
Quebec Nordiques (Nordiques de Québec), ice hockey team of Quebec City, WHA 1972-1979 (Avco Cup 1977) and NHL 1979-1995; sold to Comsat for $75 million in 1995 and became the Colorado Avalanche.
Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway
The Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway is a Canadian freight railway hauling iron ore 418 km from Labrador City to Sept-Îles, Quebec, completed in 1954.
Quebec platelet disorder
Quebec platelet disorder (QPD, factor V Quebec) is a rare autosomal dominant bleeding disorder from a 78-kb PLAU duplication causing >100-fold megakaryocyte uPA overexpression, delayed-onset bleeding, and response only to fibrinolytic inhibitors.
Quebec sovereignty movement
Quebec sovereignty movement (mouvement souverainiste du Québec), the Quebec independence movement led by the Parti Québécois and Bloc Québécois; lost referendums in 1980 (59% No) and 1995 (50.58% No, 54,288-vote margin); PQ returned to power in 2026 promising a third referendum, with support around 30%.
Quebec Winter Carnival
Carnaval de Québec (Quebec Winter Carnival), Quebec City's ten-day winter festival since its 1955 relaunch (first large edition 1894), features Bonhomme Carnaval, the St. Lawrence ice canoe race, night parades, snow sculpture, and an ice palace.
Quebecor
Quebecor (Québecor inc.) is a Canadian media and telecommunications company founded by Pierre Péladeau in 1965, headquartered in Montréal, whose brands include Videotron, Freedom Mobile, and TVA.
Quebrada de Humahuaca
Quebrada de Humahuaca, a 155-km Andean valley in Jujuy province, Argentina, along the Rio Grande and the Camino Inca; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2003, criteria (ii)(iv)(v), 10,000 years of trade-route history.
Quechan Revolt
The Quechan Revolt, or Yuma Revolt, was a 1781 Quechan uprising at the Yuma Crossing that destroyed two Spanish settlements and ended Spanish settlement on the lower Colorado.
QuEChERS
QuEChERS, short for quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe, is an analytical chemistry method extracting pesticide residues from food using acetonitrile and salt, followed by cleanup.
Quechua
Quechua (Salazar & L.Jost) is a monotypic Andean orchid genus in subtribe Spiranthinae, described in 2012, with the single lithophytic species Quechua glabrescens, formerly Spiranthes glabrescens, known from Ecuador and Peru.
Quechua (brand)
Quechua is Decathlon's in-house mountain sports brand, created in 1996-1997 near Mont-Blanc, known for the 2 Seconds pop-up tent, about 1.7 billion euros revenue in 2013, and since 2024 including winter sports from Wedze.
Quechua dialects
Quechua dialects are the regional varieties of the Quechua language family, split into Quechua I of Peru's central Andes and Quechua II of the southern Andes.
Quechua oral literature
Quechua oral literature, whose stories are called willakuykuna, is the spoken-word tradition of stories, songs, myths, and riddles in the Quechuan languages of the central Andes.
Quechua people
Quechua people: diverse Andean indigenous populations whose maternal language is Quechua, centered in Peru (5,179,774 self-identified; 4,800 localities) and highland Bolivia; heirs of Inca-era civilizations, organized in ayllus and comunidades campesinas.
Quechuan languages
Quechuan languages: an indigenous language family of the central Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina), also called Quechua or Kichwa, split into Quechua I and II, agglutinative and suffix-rich, historically the Inca Empire's main language.
Quecreek Mine
Quecreek Mine was an underground bituminous coal mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where nine miners were trapped by flooding in July 2002 and rescued alive 77 hours later.
Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: Ottonian royal palatinate and capital, site of the 936 women's convent founded by Queen Mathilde, and a UNESCO World Heritage old town with over 1,300 timber-framed houses.