Catching up with trivia

What elective office did disgraced former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori seek—and lose—in 2007?

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  A seat in the upper house of Japan’s National Diet (Parliament). Fujimori, who has dual Peruvian and Japanese citizenship, fled Peru after 10 years in office when his government collapsed in 2000 amid a corruption scandal.

In what country were the terms “left” and “right” first used to indicate an individual’s politics?

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  In France. In 1789 when the National Assembly was convened, conservative delegates representing the nobility, who favored keeping the monarchy, sat to the right of the presiding officer, while delegates who were commoners and wanted to abolish the monarchy sat to his left.