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What is the memorable common name for the flower myosotis? | including North America, South America, and Papua New Guinea. Despite this, "Myosotis" species are now common throughout temperate latitudes because of the introduction of cultivars and alien species. Many happen to be popular in horticulture. They prefer moist habitats - in locales where they are not native, they frequently escape to wetlands and riverbanks. Only those native to the Northern hemisphere are colloquially denominated "Forget-me-Nots".
Genetic analysis indicates that the genus originated in the Northern Hemisphere, and that the species is | Anchusa arvensis
Anchusa arvensis is a plant species of the genus "Anchusa". Its common names include small bugloss and annual bugloss.
Description.
This is a hairy annual herb which may reach half a meter in height. It bears small blue tubular flowers, four nutlets per flower, and one seed per nutlet. Leaves are very bristly and warty-looking, which differentiates it from similar species like "Pentaglottis sempervirens" and "Myosotis arvensis".
Distribution and Habitat.
The plant is native to | 1,900 | triviaqa-train |
In triathlon, what is the term for the transfer between disciplines? | This is where the switches from swimming to cycling and cycling to running occur. These areas are used to store bicycles, performance apparel, and any other accessories needed for the next stage of the race. The transition from swim to bike is referred to as T1 and that between the bike and run is referred to as T2. The athlete's overall time for the race includes time spent in T1 and T2. Transition areas vary in size depending on the number of participants expected. In addition, these areas provide a social | Ultra-triathlon
An ultra-triathlon is a long-distance triathlon. The term generally refers to all triathlon events with a distance that is a multiple of the Ironman Triathlon, which consists of of swimming, of cycling, and a full marathon () of running. The most common distances are the double, triple, quadruple, quintuple and deca triathlon. Unlike a standard triathlon event, an ultra-triathlon event may not necessarily involve the three component disciplines of triathlon (swimming, cycling and running) in direct | 1,901 | triviaqa-train |
In which EU country did havarti cheese originate? | in 2009. No member state has left the EU or its antecedent organisations. (Greenland, an autonomous country within Denmark, left the Communities in 1985). However, the United Kingdom signified its intention to leave after a membership referendum in June 2016 and is negotiating its withdrawal.
Containing 7.3% of the world population, the EU in 2017 generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of 19.670 trillion US dollars, constituting approximately 24.6% of global nominal GDP. Additionally, all 28 EU countries have a very | , Gouda and havarti respectively. Other options include apples with mozzarella, peaches with edam and pear with gorgonzola or brie; Italian herbs, sun-dried tomatoes and mozzarella; or turkey and ham, with which "a variation on a Monte Cristo" can also be created. Scott Fletcher of the Grafton Village Cheese Company makes cheese dreams with rustic country bread, sharp Cheddar cheese, white pepper, eggs, milk, unsalted butter and maple syrup. The open faced sandwiches make an appearance in Luanne Rice's novel "Stone | 1,902 | triviaqa-train |
Echoing its Scottish equivalent, what new name did English Heritage adopt in April 2015? | the National Monuments Record, bringing together resources for the identification and survey of England's historic environment.
On 1 April 2015, English Heritage was divided into two parts: Historic England, which inherited the statutory and protection functions of the old organisation, and the new English Heritage Trust, a charity that would operate the historic properties, and which took on the English Heritage operating name and logo. The British government gave the new charity an £80 million grant to help establish it as an independent trust, although the | patronymic' are those which originally enshrined the father's name – such as Jackson, or Jenkinson. There are also names where the origin describes the original bearer such as Brown, Short, or Thin – though Short may in fact be an ironic 'nickname' surname for a tall person."
By 1400, most English and some Scottish people used surnames, but many Scottish and Welsh people did not adopt surnames until the 17th century, or later. Henry VIII (ruled 1509–1547) ordered that marital births be recorded | 1,903 | triviaqa-train |
Who voiced Lady Penelope in the original Thunderbirds series? | Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is a fictional character introduced in the British mid-1960s Supermarionation television series "Thunderbirds", who also appears in the film sequels "Thunderbirds Are Go" (1966) and "Thunderbird 6" (1968) and the 2004 live-action adaptation "Thunderbirds". She is employed by the secret organisation International Rescue as London field agent.
The puppet character of the TV series and first two films was voiced by Sylvia Anderson. In the live-action film, | making of "Thunderbirds Are Go" in his book "Supermarionation: A History of the Future", considers the sequence the strangest ever created by AP Films.
Production Casting.
The returning characters of the Tracy family, the other inhabitants of Tracy Island, Lady Penelope, Parker and the Hood are voiced, with one exception, by the Series One cast of "Thunderbirds". Voice actors introduced in "Thunderbirds Are Go" are:
- Jeremy Wilkin as Virgil Tracy. David Holliday, the original voice of | 1,904 | triviaqa-train |
With eight active distilleries, which is the Hebrides’ most prolific whisky-producing island? | ', and makes a separate reference to ', which Watson (1926) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides. Writing about 80 years later, in 140-150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of , writes that there are five ' (possibly meaning the Inner Hebrides) and '. Later texts in classical Latin, by writers such as , use the forms ' and '.
The name ' recorded by Ptolemy may be pre-Celtic. Islay is Ptolemy's , the use of | fishing port.
Whisky.
Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself "the whisky capital of the world". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business. Today only three active distilleries remain in Campbeltown: Glen Scotia, Glengyle, | 1,905 | triviaqa-train |
Which tube station locates and describes someone “eight stops short of Upminster”? | Old English "upp" and "mynster", meaning the large church on high ground. The high ground of St Laurence's parish church being in relation to the valley of the River Ingrebourne and the Upminster Bridge over the river shares the name. An alternative explanation suggests the "upp" could refer to the geographical relationship to a church at Barking or Tilbury in Anglo-Saxon times.
History Economic development.
There was a Roman farmstead in the Upminster area from the 1st century to the 3rd century, and agriculture | Upminster Bridge
Upminster Bridge is a crossing of the River Ingrebourne carrying the A124 road between the suburbs of Hornchurch and Upminster in northeast London, England. The bridge is known to have existed since at least 1375 and the current brick bridge was opened in 1892, replacing a series of wooden bridges. It gave its name to the nearby Upminster Bridge tube station, which opened in 1934, and has also been applied to the neighbourhood around the station in the London Borough of Havering.
Etymology.
The bridge has been | 1,906 | triviaqa-train |
Which Italian invented the first battery? | Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the Voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in 1800 in a two-part letter to the President of the Royal Society. With this invention Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by living | used in hydraulic types of weighbridges. Its functioning principles were first described by Galileo Galilei in 1586.
An alphabetical list of Italian inventions Z.
- Zamboni pile - early electric battery
- Ziegler–Natta catalyst, catalyst to produce polymers co-invented by Giulio Natta
An alphabetical list of Italian inventions Other Significant Italian Innovations.
- Roman Law which is the foundation for the Law of many countries.
- Runic alphabet: the runic alphabet was based on Old Italic script.
An alphabetical list of Italian inventions Italian Military | 1,907 | triviaqa-train |
Which UK Prime Minister wrote 19 novels including Coningsby, Sybil and Endymion? | with the Ottomans for the cession of Cyprus. Once this was secretly agreed, Disraeli was prepared to allow Russia's territorial gains.
The Congress of Berlin was held in June and July 1878, the central relationship in it that between Disraeli and Bismarck. In later years, the German chancellor would show visitors to his office three pictures on the wall: "the portrait of my Sovereign, there on the right that of my wife, and on the left, there, that of Lord Beaconsfield". Disraeli caused an | and other topics in public areas around Los Angeles (usually Hollywood Boulevard, Melrose Avenue or Universal Studios). Most responses are outrageously incorrect; for example, one person believed that Abraham Lincoln was the first president, and another could not identify a picture of Hillary Clinton. Sometimes the questions are of the "What color is the White House?" level, such as asking in what country the Panama Canal is located. Up to 15 people are interviewed in an hour or less for each segment, with about nine interviews | 1,908 | triviaqa-train |
Which Yorkshire stately home was the main location for Brideshead Revisited? | . The remains of these castles, some being English Heritage sites, are popular tourist destinations. There are several stately homes in Yorkshire which carry the name "castle" in their title, even though they are more akin to a palace. The most notable examples are Allerton Castle and Castle Howard, both linked to the Howard family. Castle Howard and the Earl of Harewood's residence, Harewood House, are included amongst the Treasure Houses of England, a group of nine English stately homes.
There are numerous other Grade | not been anticipated; Evelyn Waugh in his introduction to the 1959 2nd edition of "Brideshead Revisited" explained he had not anticipated that Brideshead would in fact have been absorbed by the heritage industry; like the owners of many demolished 'stately homes' Waugh had assumed that such houses were doomed:
It was impossible to foresee, in the spring of 1944, the present cult of the English country house. It seemed then that the ancestral seats which were our chief national artistic achievement were doomed to decay and spoilation like the | 1,909 | triviaqa-train |
Which flesh-and-blood actor played Popeye the Sailor on film? | These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and Fleischer — and later Paramount's own Famous Studios — continued production through 1957. These cartoon shorts are now owned by Turner Entertainment and distributed by its sister company Warner Bros.
Over the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, arcade and video games, hundreds of advertisements, peripheral products ranging from spinach to candy cigarettes, and the 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and starring Robin Williams as Popeye. | a version of the song in early 1980 which reached No. 36 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It was also included in his album "One Voice (1979).
In film.
Olive Oyl serenaded Popeye with this song in the 1946 "Popeye the Sailor" cartoon "Klondike Casanova".
In the 1942 film "The Glass Key", the song was played on piano and sung by Lillian Randolph in the Basement Club.
In | 1,910 | triviaqa-train |
Which Hampshire stately home is the main location for Downton Abbey? | that remained had to adapt to survive.
While a château or a "Schloss" can be a fortified or unfortified building, a country house, similar to an "Ansitz", is usually unfortified. If fortified, it is called a castle, but not all buildings with the name "castle" are fortified (for example Highclere Castle).
Stately homes of England.
The term stately home is subject to debate, and avoided by historians and other academics. As a description of a country house, | and romantic, were Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, and James Wyatt.
The aristocratic stately home continued the tradition of the first large gracious unfortified mansions such as the Elizabethan Montacute House and Hatfield House. Many of these houses are the setting for British period dramas, such as "Downton Abbey". During the 18th and 19th centuries in the highest echelons of British society, the English country house was a place for relaxing, hunting in the countryside. Many stately homes have become open to the public: Knebworth House | 1,911 | triviaqa-train |
Who described his troops – the British army - as ‘the scum of the earth’? | America. The war between the British and the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte stretched around the world; at its peak in 1813, the regular army contained over 250,000 men. A coalition of Anglo-Dutch and Prussian armies under the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal von Blücher finally defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.
The English were involved politically and militarily in Ireland since receiving the Lordship of Ireland from the pope in 1171. The campaign of English republican Protector Oliver Cromwell involved uncompromising treatment of the Irish towns (most | ; he refused to pursue the French after the battles of Porto and Salamanca, foreseeing an inevitable cost to his army in chasing a diminished enemy through rough terrain. The only time that he ever showed grief in public was after the storming of Badajoz; he cried at the sight of the British dead in the breaches. In this context, his famous dispatch after the Battle of Vitoria, calling them the "scum of the earth," can be seen to be fuelled as much by disappointment at their breaking ranks as by | 1,912 | triviaqa-train |
Which beautiful youth of Greek myth was killed by a boar while out hunting? | until the mid 2000s.
Archaeology and mythography have revealed influence from Asia Minor and the Near East. Adonis seems to be the Greek counterpart—more clearly in cult than in myth—of a Near Eastern "dying god". Cybele is rooted in Anatolian culture while much of Aphrodite's iconography may spring from Semitic goddesses. There are also possible parallels between the earliest divine generations (Chaos and its children) and Tiamat in the "Enuma Elish". According to Meyer Reinhold, "near Eastern theogonic concepts, involving | curse upon Diarmuid: He was to be killed by the boar, the steward's transformed son.
Legend Magical love spot.
Diarmuid was famous for his beauty, and for his 'love spot', which made him irresistible to women. While hunting one night he met a woman who was the personification of youth. After sleeping with him she put a magical love spot under his eye that caused any woman who looked at it to fall in love with him.
Legend Loathly Lady and Cup.
One freezing winter | 1,913 | triviaqa-train |
In the world of computing what is an ISP? | , sometimes called a "wholesale ISP" in this context, which allow the VISP's customers to access the Internet using services and infrastructure owned and operated by the wholesale ISP. VISPs resemble mobile virtual network operators and competitive local exchange carriers for voice communications.
Classifications Free ISPs.
Free ISPs are Internet service providers that provide service free of charge. Many free ISPs display advertisements while the user is connected; like commercial television, in a sense they are selling the user's attention to the advertiser. Other free ISPs, | , "The end of Moore’s Law is what led to this. Just relying on the semiconductor industry is no longer enough. We have to shift and punch through some walls and break through some barriers."
Among other publications reporting on IEEE Rebooting Computing activities are "EE Times"; "HPCWire"; "IEEE Spectrum"; "Inside HPC"; "Scientific Computing"; "SiliconANGLE"; and "VR World".
For example, in November 2018, "Forbes Magazine" published an | 1,914 | triviaqa-train |
Which wading bird has varieties called ‘whooping’ and ‘demoiselle’? | The crane pair will jointly call rhythmically ("unison call") after waking in the early morning, after courtship and when defending their territory. The first unison call ever recorded in the wild was taken in the whooping cranes' wintering area of the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge during December 1999 and is documented here
Habitat.
The muskeg of the taiga in Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta, Canada, and the surrounding area was the last remnant of the former nesting habitat of the Whooping Crane Summer Range. However, | natural beauty (AONB)
stretching 100 miles from Berwick-Upon-Tweed to the River Coquet estuary. Among the 290 bird species identified on the Farne Islands, is the rare seabird the roseate tern. One of the foremost bird sanctuaries and observatory for migratory and wading birds in the UK is now operated at "Saltholme" which is part of a wider site of special scientific interest called Seal Sands. The Saltholme reserve is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds(RSPB). This project has been pronounced as | 1,915 | triviaqa-train |
In which war film did Richard Attenborough play ‘Big X’? | "Run Silent, Run Deep" is a movie full of tension, both with the enemy and between the contrasting personalities of the submarine Commander and his Lieutenant, played by Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster.
Subgenres Prisoner of war.
A popular subgenre of war films in the 1950s and 1960s was the prisoner of war film. The genre was popularised in Britain with major films like Guy Hamilton's "The Colditz Story" (1955) and John Sturges's "The Great Escape" (1963). They told stories | infrastructure over Germany. The film was a big success with the British public and its investment of £6,000 was brought back 12 times over as it took £73,000 at the cinemas. The film's director, Harry Watt, later regretted that most of the allied aircrew who starred in the film, did not survive the war.
The RAFFPU mainly worked out of Pinewood studios which is where Richard Attenborough was seconded to. He starred in one of their films, "Journey Together", which was directed by Flight lieutenant | 1,916 | triviaqa-train |
Which fashion house produces the perfume ‘Bamboo’? | Gucci
Gucci (, ; ) is an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods. Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence, Tuscany, in 1921.
Gucci generated about €4.2 billion in revenue worldwide in 2008 according to "BusinessWeek" and climbed to 41st position in the magazine's annual 2009 "Top Global 100 Brands" chart created by Interbrand; it retained that rank in Interbrand's 2014 index. Gucci is also the highest-selling Italian brand.
Gucci operates about 278 directly operated stores | Acqua di Parma
Acqua di Parma is an Italian lifestyle and fashion company that produces fragrances, candles, bathrobes and leather accessories. All of its ranges are exclusively made in Italy, and distributed in 43 countries.
History.
The company's original fragrance, Colonia, was created in 1916 in a small perfume factory in the center of Parma's historic old town, after which the company is named.
At the time, the majority of commercial perfumes were much stronger and heavier in composition; so the unusually | 1,917 | triviaqa-train |
Who made a cameo appearance in Die Another Day as fencing instructor Verity? | "Die Another Day" was co-written and co-produced by Mirwais Ahmadzai and performed by Madonna, who also had a cameo in the film as Verity, a fencing instructor. The concept of the title sequence is to represent Bond trying to survive 14 months of torture at the hands of the North Koreans. Critics' opinions of the song were sharply divided—it was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, but also for a Golden Raspberry Award for | Secret Life of Ian Fleming" and later made a cameo appearance as a flight attendant in the 2002 Bond film, "Die Another Day", which was Pierce Brosnan´s fourth and final Bond film. She also appeared in the 1998 TV movie "", opposite Jason Connery, son of former Bond Sean Connery. Her godfather was the late actor Robert Brown, her father's co-star in the television series "Ivanhoe" and 3 Bond films.
In 2006, Moore made the film "Provoked". Jagmohan | 1,918 | triviaqa-train |
Which double Oscar winner plays the villain in the latest film Spectre? | -distributed by Columbia Pictures, as Universal Pictures will become the international distributor of its future films.
The story sees Bond pitted against the global criminal organisation Spectre and their leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz). Bond attempts to thwart Blofeld's plan to launch a global surveillance network, and discovers Spectre and Blofeld were behind the events of the previous three films. The film marks Spectre and Blofeld's first appearance in an Eon Productions film since 1971's "Diamonds Are Forever"; a character resembling Blofeld had previously | Amanda Micheli
Amanda Micheli is an American director and the founder of Runaway Films. Her latest film "Vegas Baby" premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will be released to the public in 2017.
Micheli earned an Oscar nomination for "La Corona," which follows an unlikely beauty pageant in a Colombian women’s prison. "La Corona" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before airing on HBO. She also directed and shot "Double Dare", which explores the lives of two Hollywood stuntwomen. "Double | 1,919 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the rich king of Lydia renowned for his wealth? | the account of Croesus as told by Herodotus and Plutarch; and "Crœsus, King of Lydia", a tragedy in five parts by Alfred Bate Richards, first published in 1845.
"The Last King of Lydia", and "The King and The Slave", both by Tim Leach, are historical novels centered around Croesus and based primarily on Herodotus' depiction of his life, before and after the fall of Lydia.
See also.
- "Croesus" (opera)
- Herodotus
- | share his immense wealth, including his beautiful wife, with all his friends. He convinces Gyges to use the magic ring in order to behold the naked Nyssia. Events turn against the king, when the invisible Gyges spends the night with Nyssia, who mistakes the fisherman for Kandaules.
Synopsis Act 3.
Gyges reveals his true identity to Nyssia and expects to be executed. Nyssia however feels humiliated and betrayed by her husband, and orders Gyges to kill the king. She then crowns Gyges the new king of Lydia. | 1,920 | triviaqa-train |
What name is given to the interference caused to wave patterns by an object or gap? | line.
Physical properties Refraction.
Refraction is the phenomenon of a wave changing its speed. Mathematically, this means that the size of the phase velocity changes. Typically, refraction occurs when a wave passes from one medium into another. The amount by which a wave is refracted by a material is given by the refractive index of the material. The directions of incidence and refraction are related to the refractive indices of the two materials by Snell's law.
Physical properties Diffraction.
A wave exhibits diffraction when it encounters an | Ptychography
Ptychography (/tɪˈtʃoʊɡræfi/ ti-CHOH-graf-ee) is a computational method of microscopic imaging. It generates images by processing many coherent interference patterns that have been scattered from an object of interest. Its defining characteristic is translational invariance, which means the interference patterns are generated by one constant function (e.g. a field of illumination or an aperture stop) moving laterally by a known amount with respect to another constant function (the specimen itself or a wave field). The interference patterns occur some distance away from these | 1,921 | triviaqa-train |
Which Scottish loch is deepest at the maximum depth? | . The volume of water in Loch Ness is nearly double that in all the lakes of England and Wales combined. Murray and Pullar also note that the mean depth of Loch Ness is 57.4% of the maximum depth – higher than in any other large deep loch, with Loch Avich coming closest at 52.4%.
Lochs Maree, Shiel and Ness are recorded as being the narrowest of the large lochs in relation to their length.
Neither the Loch of Stenness nor the Loch of Harray on Mainland Orkney are large enough | Loch Morar
Loch Morar (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Mhòrair) is a freshwater loch in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It is the fifth-largest loch by surface area in Scotland, at , and the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles with a maximum depth of . The loch was created by glacial action around 10,000 years ago, and has a surface elevation of above sea level. It separates the traditional district of North Morar (which contains the village of Morar), from Arisaig and Moidart.
Geography. | 1,922 | triviaqa-train |
What is the plural of matrix? | the PageRank algorithm that ranks the pages in a Google search. Matrix calculus generalizes classical analytical notions such as derivatives and exponentials to higher dimensions. Matrices are used in economics to describe systems of economic relationships.
A major branch of numerical analysis is devoted to the development of efficient algorithms for matrix computations, a subject that is centuries old and is today an expanding area of research. Matrix decomposition methods simplify computations, both theoretically and practically. Algorithms that are tailored to particular matrix structures, such as sparse matrices and near- | answer is expected to be plural
- "What have big ears and trunks?"
When followed by a plural predicative complement, a plural verb must be used:
- "What are the main reasons?"
not
- *"What is the main reasons?"
Following "which", a singular verb suggests a singular answer, and a plural verb suggests a plural answer:
- "Which of these answers is correct?" (single choice)
- "Which of these | 1,923 | triviaqa-train |
What is an Alaskan Malamute? | Alaskan Malamute
The Alaskan Malamute is a large breed of domestic dog ("Canis lupus familiaris") originally bred for their strength and endurance to haul heavy freight, and later as a sled dog. They are similar to other arctic breeds and spitz breeds, such as the Greenland Dog, Canadian Eskimo Dog, the Siberian Husky, and the Samoyed.
Lineage.
Although it is believed that the first dogs arrived in the Americas 12,000 years ago, people and their dogs did not settle in the Arctic until the | because many viewed Seattle as the "Gateway to the Alaskan frontier", a phrase dating back to the Alaskan Gold Rush.
Dubs (who is the first of his name) became the Husky mascot in 2009. He is an Alaskan Malamute from Burlington, Washington and was born in November 2008. Following tradition, an online vote was conducted at GoHuskies.com for the name. With more than 20,000 votes cast, "Dubs II" was chosen.
Dubs II was officially unveiled as Dubs' successor on March 23, | 1,924 | triviaqa-train |
What is the collective term for freemasons? | that he has been so initiated. The initiations are part allegorical morality play and part lecture. The three degrees are offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are usually administered by their own bodies (separate from those who administer the craft degrees).
The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the Lodge. The Lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually | Latin remained the language of learning, from the early mediaeval period records begin to appear in native languages. The earliest indigenous source to use a collective term for the archipelago is the "Life of Saint Columba", a hagiography recording the missionary activities of the sixth century Irish monk Saint Columba among the peoples of what is now Scotland. It was written in the late seventh century by Adomnán of Iona, an Irish monk living on the Inner Hebridean island. The collective term for the archipelago used within this work is Oceani Insulae | 1,925 | triviaqa-train |
Dr Tertius Lydgate is always plagued by financial troubles in which classic novel? | consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: the life of Dorothea Brooke; the career of Tertius Lydgate; the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy; and the disgrace of Nicholas Bulstrode. The two main plots are those of Dorothea and Lydgate. Each plot happens concurrently, although Bulstrode's is centred in the later chapters.
Dorothea Brooke is a 19-year-old orphan, living with her younger sister, Celia, under the guardianship of her uncle, Mr Brooke. Dorothea is an especially pious young woman, | , 1928. Though plagued with financial troubles during the Great Depression, the Mackay System continued to be the chief rival of Western Union until 1943. In March of that year, Congress authorized an amendment (Section 222) to the Communications Act of 1934 permitting the merger of the domestic operations of telegraph companies (clearing the way for Western Union to acquire Postal Telegraph). By May 1943 a merger plan had been put together, which the FCC approved by September, and the merger was completed by October 1943. The international | 1,926 | triviaqa-train |
40 days after Easter, by what name is ‘Holy Thursday’ also known to Christians? | "Maundy Thursday". Throughout the Anglican Communion, the term "Holy Thursday" is a synonym for Ascension Day.
, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church uses the name "Holy Thursday" in its official English-language liturgical books. The personal ordinariates in the Catholic Church, which have an Anglican patrimony, retain the traditional English term "Maundy Thursday", however. An article in the 1911 "Catholic Encyclopedia" used the term "Maundy Thursday", and some Catholic writers use the same term either | Holy Week, Holy Wednesday (also sometimes known as Spy Wednesday) commemorates Judas Iscariot's bargain to betray Jesus.
- Thursday of Holy Week is known as Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, and is a day Christians commemorate the Last Supper shared by Christ with his disciples.
- The next day is Good Friday, on which Christians remember Jesus' crucifixion, death, and burial.
Holy days within the season of Lent Easter Triduum.
In the Anglican, Lutheran, Old Catholic, Roman Catholic, and many | 1,927 | triviaqa-train |
In 1998, whose widow became Nelson Mandela's third wife? | Stengel. In late 1994, he attended the 49th conference of the ANC in Bloemfontein, at which a more militant national executive was elected, among them Winnie Mandela; although she expressed an interest in reconciling, Nelson initiated divorce proceedings in August 1995. By 1995, he had entered into a relationship with Graça Machel, a Mozambican political activist 27 years his junior who was the widow of former president Samora Machel. They had first met in July 1990 when she was still in mourning, but their friendship grew into a partnership | 1944; Nelson Mandela was his best man at their wedding. The couple had five children, and adopted four more. Sisulu's wife and children were also active in the struggle against apartheid.
His son Zwelakhe Sisulu became a journalist and union leader, went on to found the "New Nation" (at the time South Africa's largest black newspaper), served as Nelson Mandela's press secretary, became CEO of the South African Broadcast Corporation, and later a businessperson.
An adopted daughter, Beryl Rose Sisulu | 1,928 | triviaqa-train |
Ashanti, referring to both a region and its peoples, is found in which African country? | Ashanti people
Ashanti (), also known as Asante, are an ethnic group native to the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana. The Asante speak Twi. The language is spoken by over nine million ethnic Asante people as a first or second language. Asante is often assumed to mean "because of wars".
The wealthy gold-rich Asante people developed the large and influential Asante Empire, along the Lake Volta and Gulf of Guinea. The empire was founded in 1670, and the Asante capital Kumase was | of the Kumasi East Council which later became the Asante-Akyem District. The Gold mines that was owned by British companies attracted many nationalities from the West African Sub-Region as well as other ethnic groups from the West African Sub-Region.
Konongo Gold Mine Konongo Gold Mine is a suspended open pit mine in Ashanti and the Konongo Gold Mine mainly produces bullion gold bars. In Raw Materials Data production data for gold for 6 years, between 1984 and 1992 can be found and the Konongo Gold Mine is controlled/ | 1,929 | triviaqa-train |
Whose face appeared with the word “Hope” on a poster created by Shepard Fairey? | with Fairey's new monograph Covert to Overt, published by Rizzoli.
"Life Is Beautiful" Fremont East District, Las Vegas Mural Project 2016.
The "Hope" poster.
Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's 2008 candidacy for President of the United States, including the iconic "HOPE" portrait. "The New Yorker" art critic Peter Schjeldahl called the poster "the most efficacious American political illustration since 'Uncle Sam Wants You'". Fairey also created an exclusive design for Rock | 'm honest about it.""
Parodies and imitations "Veep".
Home Box Office (HBO) created a parody of the poster to promote the fifth season of their satire comedy "Veep". The poster was placed on roadside billboards, and other public places to help promote the return.
Parodies and imitations Fairey's adaptation for the Occupy movement.
Sympathizing with the Occupy movement, in November 2011 Shepard Fairey introduced a variation of his "Hope" poster. In the new poster, he featured a Guy Fawkes | 1,930 | triviaqa-train |
Which pioneering Swiss psychologist proposed the theory of the collective unconscious? | Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, | and the collective unconscious. He believed that the personal unconscious held memories and experiences specific to every individual and the collective unconscious held memories, predispositions and experiences of a species which are passed on from generation to generation and are shared among all the individuals of a species.
Types of unconscious Lacan's linguistic unconscious.
Jacques Lacan in his psychoanalytical theory compared the structuring of the unconscious to the way a language is structured. According to his theory there is no reference to self thus making the unconscious a dynamic structure. This suggests | 1,931 | triviaqa-train |
Who painted ‘The Card Players’, one version of his selling for £154 million in 2011? | The Card Players
The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for "The Card Players" series.
One version of "The Card Players" was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for | -to-play mobile version for Android and iOS was released in 2018, in addition to a port for the PlayStation 4. "Battlegrounds" is one of the best-selling and most-played video games of all time, selling over fifty million copies worldwide by June 2018, with over 400 million players in total when including the mobile version.
"Battlegrounds" received positive reviews from critics, who found that while the game had some technical flaws, it presented new types of gameplay that could be easily approached | 1,932 | triviaqa-train |
Which Russian playwright wrote ‘Uncle Vanya’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’? | was flourishing as well. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky soon became internationally renowned. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist. The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. The poets most often associated with the "Silver Age" are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam | Andrew Upton
Andrew Upton (born 1 February 1966) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is the husband of actress Cate Blanchett.
Career.
As a playwright, Upton created adaptations of "Hedda Gabler", "The Cherry Orchard", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Don Juan" (with Marion Potts), "Uncle Vanya", "The Maids", "Children of the Sun" and "Platonov" for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and Maxim Gorky | 1,933 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the artist who died in French Polynesia in 1903, aged 54? | having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter. His early works, mostly still lifes and depictions of peasant labourers, contain few signs of the vivid colour that distinguished his later work. In 1886, he moved to Paris, where he met members of the "avant-garde", including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility. As his work developed he created a new approach to still lifes | His works as an artist and photographer have only been exhibited on a few occasions. They were first shown in 1871 and again 1873 by the Auckland Society of Artists of which Kinder was a founding member.
Kinder died on 5 September 1903, aged 83, in Remuera, Auckland, and was buried at St John's College. The John Kinder Theological Library is the library and archives for St John's College as well as for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia.
In September 2013 to April 2014 | 1,934 | triviaqa-train |
Katherina is the headstrong leading female character in which Shakespeare play? | "Henry VI", written in the early 1590s during a vogue for historical drama. Shakespeare's plays are difficult to date precisely, however, and studies of the texts suggest that "Titus Andronicus", "The Comedy of Errors", "The Taming of the Shrew," and "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" may also belong to Shakespeare's earliest period. His first histories, which draw heavily on the 1587 edition of Raphael Holinshed's "Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland", dramatise the | cast him as Petruchio in a production noted for excess; Katherina is literally hung upside-down from the rafters, she beats Petruchio with a slipper, he spends much of the play leaping over furniture and brandishing his whip. After a successful run at the Old Vic, the play went on tour to Australia.
- John Barton's 1960 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre production, starring Peggy Ashcroft and Peter O'Toole, with Jack MacGowran as Sly. This production highlighted meta-theatricality by using a revolving set, which occasionally gave the | 1,935 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of Little Orphan Annie’s dog? | Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York "Daily News".
The plot follows the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy and her benefactor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Secondary characters include Punjab, the Asp and Mr. Am. The strip | Little Annie Rooney
Little Annie Rooney is a comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero.
King Features Syndicate launched the strip on January 10, 1927, not long after it was apparent that the Chicago Tribune Syndicate had scored a huge hit with "Little Orphan Annie". The name comes from the 1889 popular song of the same name, still familiar to many at the time. Although the King Features strip was an obvious knock-off with several similar parallels, the approach | 1,936 | triviaqa-train |
Battleship, thimble, iron, cannon, battleship and what else were the original six tokens? | tokens which included the Battleship, Boot, Cannon, Horse and rider, Iron, Racecar, Scottie Dog, Thimble, Top hat, and Wheelbarrow. These tokens remained the same until the late 1990s, when Parker Brothers was sold to Hasbro.
In 1998, a Hasbro advertising campaign asked the public to vote on a new playing piece to be added to the set. The candidates were a "bag of money", a bi-plane, and a piggy bank. The bag ended up winning 51 percent of | ) did not include pewter tokens but instead had generic wooden pawns identical to those in "Sorry!". Many of the early tokens were created by companies such as Dowst Miniature Toy Company, which made metal charms and tokens designed to be used on charm bracelets. The battleship and cannon were also used briefly in the Parker Brothers war game "Conflict" (released in 1940), but after the game failed on the market, the premade pieces were recycled for "Monopoly" usage. By 1943, there were ten | 1,937 | triviaqa-train |
Who won the Best Director Oscar for the 2008 film, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’? | Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel "Q & A" (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup, telling the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai. Starring Dev Patel as Jamal, and filmed in India, the film was directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson, with Loveleen Tandan credited as co-director.
As a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants | The National Board of Review picked "Slumdog Millionaire" as the best film of 2008. The movie swept five awards out of its six nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards, and all four nominations awarded at the Golden Globe Awards including best director, picture, screenplay and score, and seven BAFTA Awards. It received ten Oscar nominations of which it won eight, including Best Picture and Best Director. From "The NY Times" report: "[T]hough it had no actors nominated for prizes, [it also] | 1,938 | triviaqa-train |
What does the word ‘pulchritude’ mean? | Beauty
Beauty is the ascription of a property or characteristic to an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, culture, social psychology, philosophy and sociology. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection. Ugliness is the opposite of beauty.
The experience of "beauty" often involves an interpretation of some entity as being in | P.S.K. What Does It Mean?
"P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" (also written as "P.S.K. (What Does It Mean?)") is a song released in 1985 by Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D on his independent label Schoolly D Records. P.S.K. is the abbreviation for Park Side Killas, a street gang with which Schoolly D was affiliated. The highly influential song is considered the first hardcore rap song and features incidents of graphic sex, gunplay, drug references and one of the first uses of the word " | 1,939 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the USA? | Honorary citizenship of the United States
A person of exceptional merit, generally a non-United States citizen, may be declared an honorary citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress or by a proclamation issued by the President of the United States, pursuant to authorization granted by Congress.
Eight people have been so honored, six posthumously, and two, Sir Winston Churchill and Mother Teresa, during their lifetimes.
Recipients.
For Lafayette and Mother Teresa, the honor was proclaimed directly by an Act of | List of honorary citizens of Gdańsk
The title of an Honorary Citizen of Gdańsk is conferred by the city authorities (Polish: "Rada Miasta") to persons who made significant contributions to the city of Gdańsk, irrespective of their place of birth or nationality. The first historically documented person who received the title was Wilhelm Baum in 1832. The legal basis for conferring this honour was the Prussian Act on Local Government from 1831, which introduced the term of an "honorary citizen".
In the period of the Free | 1,940 | triviaqa-train |
Which Portuguese province borders both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic? | "overseas provinces" to "autonomous regions".
History.
History Background (1139–1415).
The origin of the Kingdom of Portugal lay in the "reconquista", the gradual reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors. After establishing itself as a separate kingdom in 1139, Portugal completed its reconquest of Moorish territory by reaching Algarve in 1249, but its independence continued to be threatened by neighbouring Castile until the signing of the Treaty of Ayllón in 1411.
Free from threats to its existence and unchallenged by the | Portuguese cuisine
Despite being relatively restricted to an Atlantic sustenance, Portuguese cuisine has many Mediterranean influences. Portuguese cuisine is famous for seafood. The influence of Portugal's former colonial possessions is also notable, especially in the wide variety of spices used. These spices include "piri piri" (small, fiery chili peppers) and black pepper, as well as cinnamon, vanilla and saffron. Olive oil is one of the bases of Portuguese cuisine, which is used both for cooking and flavouring meals. Garlic is widely used, | 1,941 | triviaqa-train |
What was Bangladesh called between 1947 and 1971? | Pakistan which resulted in Ayub Khan's resignation. General Yahya Khan assumed power, reintroducing martial law.
Ethnic and linguistic discrimination was common in Pakistan's civil and military services, in which Bengalis were under-represented. Fifteen percent of Pakistani central-government offices were occupied by East Pakistanis, who formed 10 percent of the military. Cultural discrimination also prevailed, making East Pakistan forge a distinct political identity. Pakistan banned Bengali literature and music in state media, including the works of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. A cyclone devastated | - 1558 Burma conquers Manipur, border between Burma and Arakan
- 1971 Bangladesh becomes independent from Pakistan
- Chittagong–Sittwe
- 1784 Burma conquers Arakan, border between Burma and Great Britain
- 1971 Bangladesh becomes independent from Pakistan
"Bangladesh–India
- 1947 Indian independence from the United Kingdom, border between India and Pakistan
- 1971 Bangladesh becomes independent from Pakistan
"Bhutan–India
- 1616 Bhutan becomes independent from Tibet, border between Bhutan and the Kamata Kingdom
- 1947 Indian independence | 1,942 | triviaqa-train |
The wife of an earl has what equivalent female title? | count" (from Latin ) was not introduced following the Norman conquest of England though "countess" was and is used for the female title. Geoffrey Hughes writes, "It is a likely speculation that the Norman French title 'Count' was abandoned in England in favour of the Germanic 'Earl' […] precisely because of the uncomfortable phonetic proximity to cunt".
In the other languages of Britain and Ireland, the term is translated as: Welsh , Irish and Scottish Gaelic , Scots or , Cornish . | apparent or titleholder may or may not share usage of the substantive title, but when this is the case the spouse holds the title derivatively (e.g., Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria). In European monarchies the dynastic wife of a male monarch shares her husband's rank and bears the female equivalent of his title (i.e., Empress, Queen, Grand Duchess, Duchess or Princess). The husband of a female monarch, however, does not acquire the crown matrimonial automatically. Only in Monaco has the male equivalent ( | 1,943 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the father of English King, Henry III? | Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry assumed the throne when he was only nine in the middle of the First Barons' War. Cardinal Guala declared the war against the rebel barons to be a religious crusade and Henry's forces, led by William Marshal, defeated the rebels | Gaillard III de Durfort
Gaillard III de Durfort (, ; fl. 1414–1442) was a Gascon nobleman of the Durfort family. He inherited the lordship of Duras and Blanquefort from his father, Gaillard II, in 1422. In the Hundred Years' War between England and France, Gaillard took the side of the English king, who was the feudal suzerain of Gascony.
In 1423, King Henry VI of England appointed Gaillard "prévôt" of Bayonne, a charge he handed over to Guillaume Stone at the king's | 1,944 | triviaqa-train |
To which year in the 90s did the Queen refer as her annus horribilis? | Annus horribilis
Origin of phrase.
The phrase "annus horribilis" was used in 1891 in an Anglican publication to describe 1870, the year in which the Roman Catholic church defined the dogma of papal infallibility.
Elizabeth II.
The expression was brought to modern prominence by Queen Elizabeth II in a speech to Guildhall on 24 November 1992, marking the 40th anniversary of her accession, in which she described the year as an "annus horribilis".
The "sympathetic correspondent" was later revealed to be her | Carlos I, faced a difficult year. Family tragedy and a series of controversies led to Spanish newspapers to refer to the year as the king's "annus horribilis".
- In February, Érika Ortiz Rocasolano, the youngest sister of Letizia, then the Princess of Asturias, died of a drug overdose in her apartment.
- In July, a humour magazine, "El Jueves", published a drawing that ran on the cover, depicting Felipe, Prince of Asturias (now Felipe VI of Spain), | 1,945 | triviaqa-train |
What ‘B’ was Daisy’s surname in ‘The Great Gatsby’? | The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, "The Great Gatsby" explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, | win her love. From being a soldier to a businessman, with his new riches, Gatsby buys a mansion in West Egg directly across the water from Daisy’s home in order to keep a watchful eye on the love of his life. Gatsby is known for throwing elaborate and extravagant parties at his mansion in hopes that one day Daisy might show up and he would be able to win her back with his immense new wealth. According to "Some Sort of Epic Grandeur", Matthew J. Bruccoli's biography of F. Scott | 1,946 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the character who is the protagonist in the ‘Die Hard’ film series? | Die Hard (film series)
The "Die Hard" series is an American action film series that originated with Roderick Thorp's novel "Nothing Lasts Forever". All five films revolve around the character of John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis), a New York City/Los Angeles police detective who continually finds himself in the middle of violent crises and intrigues where he is the only hope against disaster. The films have grossed a combined $1.4 billion worldwide and received mixed to positive reviews from critics, except the | drama film based on the 1962 novel of the same name which is set in a mental institution and features a Native American side character who is believed to be deaf and not speaking until revealed otherwise.
- "What the Deaf Man Heard" (1997), an American television film set in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1945 in which the hearing protagonist lives in a town for 20 years pretending to be deaf
External links.
- Making Room for the Deaf in Hollywood at "The New York Times" | 1,947 | triviaqa-train |
Who played Stephen Hawking in the 2014 film, ‘The Theory of Everything’? | at Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge. Guests at the funeral included "The Theory of Everything" actors Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May, and model Lily Cole. In addition, actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Hawking in "Hawking", astronaut Tim Peake, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and physicist Kip Thorne provided readings at the service. Following the cremation, a service of thanksgiving was held at Westminster Abbey on 15 June 2018, after which his ashes were interred in the Abbey's | most famous student, Stephen Hawking. In the 2004 BBC TV movie "Hawking", Sciama was played by John Sessions. In the 2014 film "The Theory of Everything", Sciama was played by David Thewlis. Physicist Adrian Melott strongly criticized the portrayal of Sciama in the film.
Personal life.
Sciama was of Jewish-Syrian descent and an avowed atheist.
In 1959, Sciama married Lidia Dina, a social anthropologist, who survived him, along with their two daughters. . | 1,948 | triviaqa-train |
Which English rugby club are the current Aviva champions? | Clubs like Saracens, Newcastle and Northampton were able to attract wealthy benefactors, but the professional era also had its casualties, as clubs like West Hartlepool, Richmond and London Scottish were forced into administration when their backers pulled out.
History 2000–2002: Premiership, Championship and playoffs.
The start of the 2000–01 season brought with it a re-vamping of the season structure. In 2000–2001 an 8-team playoff (the Championship) was introduced. However, the team finishing top of the table at the end of the regular season was | Worcester Wanderers
Worcester Wanderers are an English rugby union team and part of the club known as Worcester Rugby Football Club. The club also includes Aviva Premiership team Worcester Warriors. The Wanderers are based in the city of Worcester and play in Midlands 1 West, a level 6 league in the English rugby union system. They play their home matches on either the Cummins Farm or Weston's Field pitches, very close to Sixways Stadium.
Club Honours.
- Midlands 4 West (South) champions: 2008-09 | 1,949 | triviaqa-train |
In honour of Bobby Moore, what shirt number was retired by West Ham in 2008? | in compensation, he was appointed manager on 18 October 2003, their tenth manager. Pardew set out to rebuild the side bringing in Nigel Reo-Coker, Marlon Harewood and Brian Deane. In his first season in charge, they made the playoff final only to lose to Crystal Palace. His signings of Bobby Zamora, Matthew Etherington and veterans Chris Powell and Teddy Sheringham saw West Ham finishing sixth and subsequently beat Preston North End 1–0 thanks to a Zamora goal in the 2005 playoff final, securing a return to the Premier League | the Boleyn Ground, his father and brother Taylor, laid a shirt on the centre spot which carried Tombides' squad number 38 and his name. West Ham United announced that this number would be retired from use, an honour previously bestowed by the club only to Bobby Moore. Crystal Palace captain Mile Jedinak, also an Australian, did not celebrate when he scored the only goal in that match. Jedinak invited the Tombides family to Christmas that year.
Tombides was cremated on 5 May 2014 in a service at Padbury, | 1,950 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the largest of the Baltic States by land area? | Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, northeast Germany, Poland, Russia and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic, with limited water exchange between the two bodies, the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of | Lake Stubbe
Lake Stubbe (Stubbe Sø, in Danish) is a nature conservation area, and a former fjord, which in the Stone Age entered the sea, Kattegat, at the entrance to the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Sweden in Northern Europe. The lake is the largest lake in Djursland and is located about 6 km north of Ebeltoft.
150 years ago the lake was surrounded by moor land as the original oak forest had been depleted due to human intervention. To prevent sand drift the area was afforested, | 1,951 | triviaqa-train |
What was snooker player Cliff Thorburn’s nickname? | Cliff Thorburn
Clifford Charles Devlin "Cliff" Thorburn (born January 16, 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, making him the first world champion in the sport's modern era from outside the United Kingdom. He remains the only world champion from the Americas. He was runner-up in two other World Championships, losing to John Spencer in the 1977 final and to Steve Davis | Alex Pagulayan
Alejandro "Alex" Salvador Pagulayan (born June 25, 1978) is a Filipino Canadian professional pool (pocket billiards) and snooker player. His nicknames are "the Lion" and "the Killer Pixie". This latter nickname was given by the great Cliff Thorburn, former World and Canadian Snooker champion. Alex has a third, more recent nickname of "Mungo" (a favorite Filipino dish) given to him by Rick McCallum, former Wayne State University Pocket Billiard instructor and friend from the Hall of | 1,952 | triviaqa-train |
What was Sir Malcolm Sargent’s nickname? | public, he was a familiar broadcaster in BBC radio talk shows, and generations of Gilbert and Sullivan devotees have known his recordings of the most popular Savoy Operas. He toured widely throughout the world and was noted for his skill as a conductor, his championship of British composers, and his debonair appearance, which won him the nickname "Flash Harry."
Life and career.
Sargent was born in Bath Villas, Ashford, in Kent, England, to a working-class family. His father, Henry Sargent | stepped foot in what is now known as Sargent’s Purchase was Darby Field, who claimed to have made the first ascent of Mount Washington in 1642. Sargent’s Purchase was granted to Jacob Sargent and others on May 31, 1832. In May 1866, Sylvester Marsh of Campton, New Hampshire, began construction of the Mount Washington Cog Railway, primarily in Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, but the uppermost half mile being within Sargent's Purchase. The Cog Railway was completed in 1869.
Geography.
According to the | 1,953 | triviaqa-train |
Which prominent anti-war activist was born in Monmouthshire in 1872? | Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (; 18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life, Russell considered himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacifist, although he also confessed that his sceptical nature had led him to feel that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense." Russell was born in Monmouthshire | Pauline Dempers
Pauline Frannzisca Dempers (born 28 April 1962 in Aranos, Hardap Region) is a Namibian human rights activist and politician. In 1996, Dempers became national coordinator for Breaking the Wall of Silence (BWS), a group which advocates for the rights of those detained by SWAPO during the Namibian War of Independence. Dempers was active with the Congress of Democrats.
Career.
Dempers was a prominent anti-apartheid activist in southern Namibia prior to fleeing into exile in 1983 to join SWAPO. She and hundreds | 1,954 | triviaqa-train |
Frontier legend William H. Bonney, ultimately killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett, gained notoriety under what pseudonym? | Pat Garrett
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became renowned for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico. He co-authored a book about Billy the Kid which, for a generation after the Kid's death, was deemed authoritative; however, historians have since found many embellishments and inconsistencies with other accounts of the outlaw's life. | of brands. Oliver Lee, Jim Gililland and William McNew were among the accused. This caused their being suspects in the February 1896 disappearance and presumed murder of Colonel Fountain and his 8-year-old son Henry. They were pursued by Sheriff Pat Garrett and a posse. Garrett and posse engaged in a gunbattle with Lee and Gililland near Alamogordo at Wildy Well, with Deputy Sheriff Kurt Kearney being killed. Lee later testified that Kearney and Garrett shot at Lee and Gililland, who were sleeping on the roof of the house at Wildy | 1,955 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the 1870 ballet ‘Coppelia’? | Coppélia
Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: The Girl With The Enamel Eyes) is a comic ballet originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. Nuitter's libretto and mise-en-scène was based upon two stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann: "Der Sandmann" ("The Sandman") and "Die Puppe" ("The Doll"). In Greek, "κοπελιά" means "girl, young lady". "Coppélia | takes a small, solo part in Swan Lake, in which she excels. Kirsten is then asked to go to London at short notice, leaving the Ballet Master without a female lead soloist for Coppelia. Kirsten recommends Mette for the part. The remaining part of the film follows Mette's rehearsals and the various ups and downs on the path towards the finale of Coppelia and her arrival as the company's newest star. A young Jenny Agutter also stars as a pupil at the ballet school who turns to Mette for guidance and | 1,956 | triviaqa-train |
What do the initials represent in the name of the HSBC bank? | benefiting from the start of trading into China, including opium trading. It was formally incorporated as The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation by an Ordinance of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on 14 August 1866. In 1980, HSBC acquired a 51% shareholding in US-based Marine Midland Bank, which it extended to full ownership in 1987. On 6 October 1989, it was renamed by the Legislative Council, by an amendment to its governing ordinance originally made in 1929, to The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, and | , with more than 1,700 branches and sub-branches in 550 Brazilian cities. The headquarters are located in Curitiba.
History.
The HSBC Group traces its presence in Brazil to 1976 when Samuel Montagu and Midland Bank opened offices there. What started as a 6.14 per cent shareholding in Banco Bamerindus do Brasil in 1995 led to the Group's acquisition of selected assets, liabilities, and subsidiaries of Banco Bamerindus do Brasil in 1997 and the establishment of Banco HSBC Bamerindus S.A. HSBC bought Banco Bamerindus from the Central Bank of Brazil | 1,957 | triviaqa-train |
From 2005 to 2007, Shane Warne captained which English county side? | 2005 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five "Wisden Cricketers of the Century", the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet and the only one still playing at the time. He officially retired from all formats of cricket in July 2013.
As well as playing internationally, Warne played domestic cricket for his home state of Victoria and English domestic cricket for Hampshire. He was captain of Hampshire for three seasons from 2005 to 2007. Warne played | The most famous tourists to Estonia have been Shane Warne and Elizabeth Hurley, who supported the ICC event in 2012. Sir Tim Rice, and his team the Heartaches, the MCC, the Lord's Taverners and most recently Carmel & District Cricket Club captained by Timothy Abraham.
2007 saw the formation of the Estonian cricket league, which consists of four Tallinn-based teams who compete in a round-robin format. Players who are members of the Estonian Cricket League are eligible to be selected for the national side. 2007 | 1,958 | triviaqa-train |
Who got to no.7 in the UK charts in 1977 with ‘Lovely Day’? | Lovely Day (song)
"Lovely Day" is a song by American soul and R&B singer Bill Withers. Written by Withers and Skip Scarborough, it was released on December 21, 1977 and appears on Withers' 1978 album "Menagerie".
The song is notable for Withers' sustained note towards the end, which at 18 seconds long, is one of the longest ever recorded on a song.
History.
Released as a single in late 1977, "Lovely Day" peaked at #6 on | and "As" came out two months later, peaking at number 36 on both the Pop and R&B charts. Though not released as a single, "Isn't She Lovely" received wide airplay and became one of Wonder's most popular songs. It was soon released by David Parton as a single in 1977 and became a top 10 hit in the UK.
Track listing.
- Original vinyl release
Side one
1. "Love's in Need of Love Today" – 7:06
2. " | 1,959 | triviaqa-train |
With what invention do you associate the name of Mr. Whitcomb Judson? | out, however, that Earle was promoter for the Judson Pneumatic Street Railway. They even had a demonstration line in 1890 in Washington, D.C. for about a mile that was at what is today Georgia Avenue. It ran for only a few weeks before they shut it down due to technical problems. A cable streetcar firm bought them out and turned it into an electric streetcar since Judson's system was impractical.
Early life Zipper.
Judson was an inventor who was awarded 30 (patents) over a sixteen-year career | ?"
- Joyce Meadows as Gert in the episode "Question: Is Laura the Name of the Game?"
- John M. Pickard as Vance Durant in "Question: How Long Is the Shadow of a Man?"
- Judson Pratt as Harry Daniels in "Question: How Impregnable Is a Magic Tower?"
- Robert F. Simon in "Question: What Did You Do All Day, Mr. Slattery?"
- Joan Tompkins as Dorothy Ralston in "Question: What Time Is the Next | 1,960 | triviaqa-train |
‘Shamela’ (1741) was a parody of ‘Pamela’ (1740). Who wrote the latter? | Richardson and is composed, like "Pamela", in epistolary form.
Publishing history.
"Shamela" was originally published anonymously on 4 April 1741 and sold for one shilling and sixpence. A second edition came out on 3 November that same year which was partly reimpressed and partly reset where emendations were made.
A pirated edition was printed in Dublin in 1741 as well. Reprint editions have subsequently appeared as texts for academic study.
Plot summary.
"Shamela" is written as a shocking revelation of | An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical burlesque novella by English writer Henry Fielding. It was first published in April 1741 under the name of "Mr. Conny Keyber". Fielding never admitted to writing the work, but it is widely considered to be his. It is a direct attack on the then-popular novel "Pamela" (1740) by Fielding's contemporary and rival Samuel | 1,961 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the male lead in the Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’? | Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again is a 1983 American spy film starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the James Bond novel "Thunderball", which was previously adapted in a 1965 film under that name. Unlike the majority of Bond films, "Never Say Never Again" was not produced by Eon Productions, but by an independent production company, one of whose members was Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the "Thunderball" storyline with Ian Fleming and Jack | the actor, in his 70s, also recorded the character's dialogue, marking a return to the role 22 years after he last played Bond in "Never Say Never Again". Featuring a third-person multiplayer deathmatch mode, the game depicts several elements of later Bond films, such as the Aston Martin DB5 from "Goldfinger" (1964) and the rocketbelt from "Thunderball" (1965).
The game was penned by Bruce Feirstein, who had previously worked on the film scripts for "GoldenEye", | 1,962 | triviaqa-train |
Which boy band took its name from a character in the film Back To The Future? | Back to the Future
Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly, who accidentally travels back in time from 1985 to 1955, where he meets his future parents and becomes his mother's romantic interest. Christopher Lloyd portrays the eccentric scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, inventor of the time-traveling DeLorean, who helps Marty repair history and return to 1985. The cast also includes Lea Thompson | considered to be a Canadian classic, and set in motion many future film and television adaptions. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1978) predates the 1999 film of the same name Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, as well as the popular television series Jacob Two-Two, which aired from 2003 to 2006. The main character of Richler's book and its subsequent adaptions is Jacob Two-Two, a young boy who has a habit of repeating himself in order to be heard by those around | 1,963 | triviaqa-train |
Selenology is the study of what? | Geology of the Moon
The geology of the Moon (sometimes called selenology, although the latter term can refer more generally to "lunar science") is quite different from that of Earth. The Moon lacks a significant atmosphere, which eliminates erosion due to weather; it does not have any form of plate tectonics, it has a lower gravity, and because of its small size, it cooled more rapidly. The complex geomorphology of the lunar surface has been formed by a combination of processes, especially impact cratering and volcanism | made sustainable. However, without VSE, more funds could be directed toward reducing human spaceflight costs sufficiently for the betterment of low Earth orbit research, business, and tourism. Alternatively, VSE could afford advances in other scientific research (astronomy, selenology), in-situ lunar business industries, and lunar-space tourism.
The VSE budget required termination the Space Shuttle by 2010 and of any US role in the International Space Station by 2017. This would have required, even in the most optimistic plans, in a | 1,964 | triviaqa-train |
Which TV family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace? | The Simpsons house
742 Evergreen Terrace is the most commonly used fictional street address in Springfield of the Simpson family home in the animated sitcom, "The Simpsons" and in the feature film "The Simpsons Movie". In the series, the house is owned by Homer and Marge Simpson, who live with their three children Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The street name is a reference to The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, creator Matt Groening's alma mater.
To the left of the Simpsons' house | in earlier seasons, with various house numbers on Evergreen Terrace including 1094, 1092, 59, 94, 430, 723, and 1024, as well as one address on a different street (430 Spalding Way). In "Homer's Triple Bypass", "742 Evergreen Terrace" was assigned to a completely different house, where Snake hides from the police and Rev. Lovejoy lives next door.
The phone number is inconsistent between episodes, though always starting with 555. According to "A Tale of Two Springfields" | 1,965 | triviaqa-train |
Which famous river was discovered and first crossed by Spaniard Hernando de Soto? | Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto (; ; 1500 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and "conquistador" who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula, and played an important role in Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first Spanish and European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed | (31 miles) of the river are navigable by boats. The Soto La Marina is the thirteenth longest river in Mexico.
The lower course of the Soto La Marina is through a semi-arid eco-region called Tamaulipan mezquital which is characterized by sub-tropical low trees and shrubs similar to what is found in southernmost Texas.
History.
The Spaniard Francisco de Garay discovered the Soto La Marina River in 1523. Garay, Governor of Jamaica, led an expedition of 600 men to form a colony on | 1,966 | triviaqa-train |
Which fruity title from their album Islands was a 1983 top ten hit for Kajagoogoo? | different from ours. We're very normal people whereas Limahl likes the bright lights."
The first single by the new four-piece Kajagoogoo, "Big Apple", was released in September 1983 and reached the UK Top Ten. Their next single, "The Lion's Mouth", was released in February 1984 and made the UK Top 30, but after that public interest waned and their next single "Turn Your Back on Me" failed to make the Top 40. The subsequent new album, "Islands | titled song was featured in the John Hughes movie "Sixteen Candles" as the film's opening title song in 1984. The album contains their most successful single "Too Shy", a UK Number One hit in February 1983, as well as two other UK Top Twenty hits; "Ooh to Be Ah" and "Hang on Now".
After the band was featured on the VH1 program "Bands Reunited" in 2003, renewed interest in Kajagoogoo prompted the band's original label EMI to re-issue " | 1,967 | triviaqa-train |
Where did Fats Domino find his thrill in 1956? | records sold more than a million copies, being certified gold. His musical style was based on traditional rhythm and blues, accompanied by saxophones, bass, piano, electric guitar, and drums.
His 1949 release "The Fat Man" is widely regarded as the first million-selling rock and roll record. His most famous song is probably “Blueberry Hill”.
Life and career.
Antoine Domino Jr, was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, the youngest of eight children born to Antoine Caliste | " was later recorded by Fats Domino. Beasley also backed Etta James at recording sessions in New Orleans.
After having a moderate regional hit with "My Happiness" in 1956, Beasley formed his own band and moved to New York City, where he worked for Alan Freed, performed alongside Ray Charles, Elvis Presley and Ruth Brown, appeared on numerous TV shows, and continued to write for Fats Domino and others. He continued to record for Modern and its subsidiary Crown label, who released an LP, "Jimmy | 1,968 | triviaqa-train |
Which fish, Tinca tinca, do anglers call the ‘doctor fish’? | Tench
The tench or doctor fish ("Tinca tinca") is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the cyprinid family found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including the British Isles east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. It is also found in Lake Baikal. It normally inhabits slow-moving freshwater habitats, particularly lakes and lowland rivers. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the tench is called "Schlei".
Ecology.
The tench is most often found in still waters with a | other professional fishing tournaments in that the events are catch and release and fisherman have a constant update on how fellow competitors are doing through iPads on their boats. Additionally, anglers do not know where they are going before the day of the competition. The new style of tournament fishing was designed with conservation in mind, which is why fish are weighed and instantly released, anglers are not allowed to land fish or cradle them to their body and fish are never kept in the boat's live well. The shows are fished without | 1,969 | triviaqa-train |
After Dublin which is Ireland’s most populous city? | warfare that was already deep-seated in Ireland. The Vikings also were involved in establishing most of the major coastal settlements in Ireland: Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Wexford, Waterford, as well as other smaller settlements.
History Norman and English invasions.
On 1 May 1169, an expedition of Cambro-Norman knights, with an army of about six hundred, landed at Bannow Strand in present-day County Wexford. It was led by Richard de Clare, known as 'Strongbow' owing to his prowess as | the "second city". Aristocrat-dominated Georgian Dublin was the second-most populous city at the time of the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 (it was also the fifth-most populous in Europe), and was often described as the second city of the UK. Though it lost that position towards the end of the 19th century as the empire's Victorian cities grew through more rapid industrialisation. Dublin, and the rest of the Republic of Ireland, became independent of the UK | 1,970 | triviaqa-train |
The three Provinces wholly in the Republic are Leinster, Connaught and which other? | less distinct.
The expansion of the province took in the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Mide encompassing much of present-day counties Meath, Westmeath and Longford with five west County Offaly baronies. Local lordships were incorporated during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and subsequent plantation schemes.
Other boundary changes included County Louth, officially removed from Ulster in 1596, the baronies of Ballybritt and Clonlisk (formerly Éile Uí Chearbhaill in the county palatine of Tipperary) in Munster becoming part of Leinster in 1606, and the 'Lands of | .
It was convened by the papal legate, Gille, Bishop of Limerick. Gille is not mentioned in the Irish Annals, possibly because Limerick was then a Hiberno-Norse city. Its purpose was the Romanizing of the Irish Church, and, in particular, the establishment of diocesan episcopacy.
The synod was attended by no fewer than fifty bishops, three hundred priests and three thousand laymen, including King Murtough O'Brien. There were no representatives of the provinces of Connaught and Leinster, in which the Reform movement had | 1,971 | triviaqa-train |
Which musical instrument did Karen Carpenter normally play? | in the basement".
Carpenter always considered herself a "drummer who sang". She preferred Ludwig Drums, including the Ludwig SuperSensitive snare, which she favored greatly. However, she did not drum on every Carpenters' recording. She was the only featured drummer on "Ticket to Ride" and on "Now & Then", except for "Jambalaya". According to Hal Blaine, Karen played on many of the album cuts and he played on most of the Carpenters' studio sessions where she did not play | The Karen Carpenter Story
The Karen Carpenter Story is an American made-for-television biographical film about singer Karen Carpenter and the brother-and-sister pop music duo of which she was a part, the Carpenters. The film aired on CBS on January 1, 1989. Directed by Joseph Sargent, it starred Cynthia Gibb as Karen Carpenter, and Mitchell Anderson as her brother, Richard Carpenter, who served as a producer for the film as well as of the musical score.
Story.
The movie begins | 1,972 | triviaqa-train |
Kingsford Smith airport serves which major city? | when conditions require. Runway 16R/34L is presently the longest operational runway in Australia, with a paved length of and between the zebra thresholds.
History Modern history.
By the 1960s, the need for a new international terminal had become apparent, and work commenced in late 1966. Much of the new terminal was designed by Paynter and Dixon Industries. The plans for the design are held by the State Library of New South Wales.
The new terminal was officially opened on 3 May 1970, by HM Queen Elizabeth II. | back in 1938 when the Bailey Memorial Avenue was proposed.
The road was once the major access route to Brisbane's old airport terminals. In 2002 the Inner City Bypass, Brisbane was opened. This bypass allowed traffic joining the Pacific Motorway to avoid the smaller and sometimes congested city streets.
Route.
The route runs along Hamilton Reach of the Brisbane River from Albion via Hamilton, before passing under the Gateway Motorway at Eagle Farm and continuing to Pinkenba. At Hamilton the Kingsford Smith Drive meets Racecourse Road at a | 1,973 | triviaqa-train |
Which song from Mary Poppins won the Academy Award for Best Song? | Visual Effects, and Best Original Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee". In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". "Mary Poppins" is considered Walt Disney's crowning live-action achievement, and is the only one of his films which earned a Best Picture nomination during his lifetime.
A sequel, "Mary Poppins Returns", was released in 2018.
Plot. | A signature of some Disney musical films is their songs' use of nonsense words, the longest and most famous of which is from "Mary Poppins", entitled "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". A close second is "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from "Song of the South", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Nonsense word song titles include:
- "Heigh-Ho" from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
- "Zip-a | 1,974 | triviaqa-train |
Which heavenly body was Giotto sent to photograph in 1986?` | Giotto (spacecraft)
Giotto was a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency. The spacecraft flew by and studied Halley's Comet and in doing so became the first spacecraft to make close up observations of a comet. On 13 March 1986, the spacecraft succeeded in approaching Halley's nucleus at a distance of 596 kilometers. It was named after the Early Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone. He had observed Halley's Comet in 1301 and was inspired to depict it as the star of Bethlehem in his painting " | its flyby on 6 March, followed by Vega 2 making its flyby on 9 March. Vega 1's closest approach to Halley was
8 889 km.
"Giotto" passed Halley successfully on 14 March 1986 at 596 km distance, and surprisingly survived despite being hit by some small particles. One impact sent it spinning off its stabilized spin axis so that its antenna no longer always pointed at the Earth, and its dust shield no longer protected its instruments. After 32 minutes "Giotto" re- | 1,975 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the ‘gentleman burglar’ created by E W Hornung? | fiction.
In fiction, the phantom thief is typically superb at stealing while maintaining a gentleman's manners and code of honour. For example, Robin Hood is a former earl or yeoman who steals from the rich to give to the poor; A. J. Raffles steals only from other gentlemen (and occasionally gives the object away to a good cause); Arsène Lupin steals from the rich who do not appreciate their art or treasures and redistributes it; Saint Tail steals back what was stolen or taken dishonestly or rights the wrongs | diamond courts for the new suit. The manual that came with this deck did not use Marseille's rules but Ammiel F. Decker's 1933 rules.
Ultimately, the complexity of adding a new suit to the game led to it falling out of popularity by the summer of 1938.
Rules.
The rules are similar to regular contract bridge but the new fifth suit is ranked higher than spades but lower than no-trump in bidding. Decks usually came with one joker but this is discarded before play as it is | 1,976 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the title role in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man ? | and Steve Kloves, and it stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen and Sally Field. The film tells the story of Peter Parker, an introverted teenager from New York City, who takes up the alias of a masked vigilante: Spider-Man, after being bitten by a genetically engineered spider, and gaining spider-like superhuman abilities as a result, in order to hunt down his adoptive father | Flavor". The ad was created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, directed by Noah Marshall with art direction by Croix Cagnon. He played the role of Richard Parker, the father of Peter Parker, in the 2012 film "The Amazing Spider-Man". Scott reprised his role in the 2014 film "The Amazing Spider-Man 2".
From December 2015 to March 2016, Scott appeared as Lloyd Dallas in the Broadway revival of "Noises Off".
In 2017, he collaborated with Dutch DJ | 1,977 | triviaqa-train |
Alan Strang is the tortured hero of which award-winning 1973 stage play by Peter Shaffer ? | Equus (play)
Equus is a drama play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.
Shaffer was inspired to write "Equus" when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play's action | is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist Dr. Martin Dysart to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.
The original stage production ran at the National Theatre in London between 1973 and 1975, directed by John Dexter. Alec McCowen played Dysart, and Peter Firth played Alan Strang. Later came the Broadway productions that starred Anthony Hopkins as Dysart (later played by Richard Burton, Leonard Nimoy, and Anthony Perkins) and from the London production, | 1,978 | triviaqa-train |
What name for a self-propelled airship or balloon comes from the French ' to steer ' ? | a tethered 1,250-pound airborne payload to deliver cellular phone service to a 140-mile region in Brazil. The European Union's ABSOLUTE project was also reportedly exploring the use of tethered aerostat stations to provide telecommunications during disaster response.
Terminology Dirigible.
Airships were originally called "dirigible balloons", from the French "ballon dirigeable" or shortly "dirigeable" (meaning "steerable", from the French "diriger" – to direct, guide or steer). This was the name that inventor Henri Giffard gave to his machine that made | Hoosier Solon Robinson published articles about a revolutionary new framing system, called "balloon framing" by later builders. Robinson's system called for standard 2x4 lumber, nailed together to form a sturdy, light skeleton. Builders were reluctant to adopt the new technology, however, by the 1880s, some form of 2x4 framing was standard.
Alternatively, a precursor to the balloon frame may have been used by the French in Missouri as much as thirty-one years earlier.
The name comes from a French Missouri type of | 1,979 | triviaqa-train |
Sir Billy Butlin was raised in Canada ; but in which country was he born ? | Billy Butlin
Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin (29 September 1899 – 12 June 1980) was a South African-born British entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British holiday camp. Although holiday camps such as Warner's existed in one form or another before Butlin opened his first in 1936, it was Butlin who turned holiday camps into a multimillion-pound industry and an important aspect of British culture.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to William and Bertha Butlin, Butlin had a turbulent childhood. His | Fred Pontin
Sir Frederick William Pontin (24 October 1906 – 30 September 2000) was the founder of Pontins holiday camps and one of the two main entrepreneurs in the British holiday camp business in the 30 years after World War II, alongside Billy Butlin.
He was born in Highams Park, the son of Frederick William Pontin, an East End cabinet maker, and Elizabeth Marian Tilyard, and attended Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow but left without passing any examinations. He had a successful career in the city's | 1,980 | triviaqa-train |
In which street in the City of London did the Great Fire of London break out in 1666 ? | Pudding Lane, where the fire started, shows that the temperature reached .
Origin and consequences of the fire.
The Great Fire started at the bakery (or baker's house) of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor) on Pudding Lane shortly after midnight on Sunday, 2 September, and spread rapidly west across the City of London. The major firefighting technique of the time was to create firebreaks by means of demolition; this was critically delayed owing to the indecisiveness of Lord Mayor of London Sir Thomas Bloodworth. By the | Queen Street, London
Queen Street is a street in the City of London which runs between Upper Thames Street at its southern end to Cheapside in the north. The thoroughfares of Queen Street and King Street (a northward continuation of Queen Street beyond Cheapside) were newly laid out, cutting across more ancient routes in the City, following the Great Fire of London in 1666; they were the only notable new streets following the fire's destruction of much of the City.
At the lower (southern) end of Queen | 1,981 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the King's horse that caused the death of suffragette Emily Davison at the Epsom Derby in 1913 ? | One suffragette, Emily Davison, died under the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby on 4 June 1913. It is debated whether she was trying to pull down the horse, attach a suffragette scarf or banner to it, or commit suicide to become a martyr to the cause. However, recent analysis of the film of the event suggests that she was merely trying to attach a scarf to the horse, and the suicide theory seems unlikely as she was carrying a return train ticket from Epsom and had holiday plans | in those days. Cooper also established Kinema Industries Ltd, for which he made several documentaries and newsreels, among which the notorious "The Suffragette Derby" of 1913 at Epsom, in which suffragette Emily Davison can be seen being trampled to death by the King's racing horse. It was filmed by Cooper with his camera at the finish and his brother Hubert at Tattenham Corner.
Both companies were wound up at the outbreak of the First World War when Andrew Heron reported himself for active service. Cooper became munition inspector in | 1,982 | triviaqa-train |
The Cavendish Laboratory houses the Physics Department of which major British university ? | Cavendish Laboratory
The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named after the British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish. The laboratory has had a huge influence on research in the disciplines of physics and biology.
The laboratory moved to its present site in West Cambridge in 1974.
, 29 Cavendish researchers have won Nobel Prizes. Notable discoveries to | Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at Owens, by now one of the colleges of the new Victoria University. He succeeded his teacher Balfour Stewart as professor of physics in 1888. This appointment gave him the opportunity to establish a large, active teaching and research department. In 1900 a new laboratory, for which he had fought and which he had designed, was officially opened. It was the fourth largest in the world. The laboratory quickly became a serious rival to the Cavendish; see Manchester Science Hall of Fame. Much of | 1,983 | triviaqa-train |
Which British playwright wrote the works Absence of War , Racing Demons and Teeth 'N' Smiles ? | Teeth 'n' Smiles
Teeth 'n' Smiles is a musical play written by David Hare.
Performances.
The play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 2 September 1975.
It was subsequently revived at Wyndhams Theatre in May 1976, at the Oxford Playhouse in October 1977 and at the Crucible Theatre in 2002.
Dramatis Personae and Casts.
1975 cast.
1976 cast.
1977 cast.
In a 1979 production in the USA, Maggie was played by Ellen Greene. | Douglas Glover published "Elle: A Novel", which won that year's Governor’s General book prize. Canadian playwright Robert Chafe wrote a bilingual play "Isle of Demons", first produced in 2004. Canadian poet bpNichol depicted her in his poem "lament". The British writer Sara Maitland discusses the story in "A Book of Silence" (2008) and in a short story, "The Tale of the Valiant Demoiselle," in "Far North and Other Dark Tales" (2008). (Maitland | 1,984 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the music of the light opera Orpheus in the Underworld ? | Orpheus in the Underworld
Orpheus in the Underworld and Orpheus in Hell are English names for Orphée aux enfers, a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed as a two-act "opéra bouffon" at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, on 21 October 1858, and was extensively revised and expanded in a four-act "opéra féerie" version, presented at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris, on 7 February 1874.
The | Theatre and Ensemble Theatre, a new libretto of "Orpheus in the Underworld" for Opera Australia (2003, revised 2015), and the AWGIE Award-winning musical "The Republic of Myopia" (2004). The Sydney Theatre Company production of "The Republic of Myopia" starred Helen Dallimore, Tamsin Carroll and Simon Gleeson. He was script consultant on the book of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – the Stage Musical" (2006). He also wrote music and lyrics for Monkey Baa Theatre Company's | 1,985 | triviaqa-train |
What nickname for an Englishman is first said to have been used in the 1712 satire Love Is a Bottomless Pit by Dr John Arbuthnot ? | and for inventing the figure of John Bull.
Biography.
In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among others, who commissioned and invented a biography as soon as an author died, said, "Biography is one of the new terrors of death," and so a biography of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records. Alexander Pope noted to Joseph Spence that Arbuthnot allowed his infant children to play with, and even burn, his writings. Throughout | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot is a satire in poetic form written by Alexander Pope and addressed to his friend John Arbuthnot, a physician. It was first published in 1735 and composed in 1734, when Pope learned that Arbuthnot was dying. Pope described it as a memorial of their friendship. It has been called Pope's "most directly autobiographical work", in which he defends his practice in the genre of satire and attacks those who had been his opponents and rivals throughout his career.
Both | 1,986 | triviaqa-train |
What was the surname of the French brothers who invented the hot - air balloon in the 18'th century ? | products, though the traditional shape is used for most non-commercial, and many commercial, applications.
The hot air balloon is the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. The first hot-air balloon flown in the Americas was launched from the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia on January 9, 1793 | The earliest documented aerial warfare took place in ancient China, when a manned kite was set off to spy for military intelligence and communication.
Balloon warfare.
Balloon warfare Balloon warfare in ancient China.
In or around the second or third century, a prototype hot air balloon, the Kongming lantern, was invented in China, serving as a military communication station.
Balloon warfare Balloon warfare in Europe.
Some minor warfare use was made of balloons in the infancy of aeronautics. The first instance was by the French | 1,987 | triviaqa-train |
Which leader of the Peasants' Revolt was killed by the Lord Mayor of London at Smithfield in June , 1381 ? | Peasants' Revolt
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of London. The final trigger for the revolt was the intervention of a royal official, John Bampton, in Essex on | , Laura Cereta, and La Malinche.
History Medieval Europe Women's role in the Peasants' Revolt.
The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was a rebellion of the late Middle Ages against British serfdom, and many women played prominent roles in it. On June 14, 1381, Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury Simon of Sudbury was dragged from the Tower of London and beheaded. The leader of the group was Johanna Ferrour, who ordered this violent action due to Sudbury's harsh poll taxes. Ferrour also ordered the beheading of | 1,988 | triviaqa-train |
For which 1988 a cappella song is Bobby McFerrin best known ? | frequently collaborated with other artists from both the jazz and classical scenes.
McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was a No. 1 U.S. pop hit in 1988 and won Song of the Year and Record of the Year honors at the 1989 Grammy Awards. McFerrin has also worked in collaboration with instrumentalists, including pianists Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Zawinul, drummer Tony Williams, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Early life and education.
McFerrin was born in Manhattan, New York | traditions, and has been compared to artists such as Sweet Honey in the Rock and Bobby McFerrin.
In 2003, Coco's Lunch won the award for "Best Folk/World Song" at the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards for "Thulele Mama Ya", from the album "A Whole New Way of Getting Dressed", which in turn was runner-up for the "Best Folk/World Album" category. In the same year, their song "All the Wild Wonders", written by Sue Johnson | 1,989 | triviaqa-train |
Which British astronomer - a proponent of the steady state theory of the universe - is usually credited with having coined the term ' big bang ' ? | cannot extend further backward in time, though the horizon recedes in space. If the expansion of the universe continues to accelerate, there is a future horizon as well.
History.
History Etymology.
English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term "Big Bang" during a 1949 BBC radio broadcast, saying: "These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past."
It is popularly reported that | his work on the understanding of the creation of the elements through stellar nucleosynthesis, for developing the steady state theory of the universe and for coining the term "Big Bang" for the steady state theory's rival dynamic evolving model of the universe. Hoyle also had a taste for science fiction, having written a novel, "The Black Cloud" (1957), about a cloud of interstellar gas that threatens the Earth; this was adapted for radio and broadcast on 14 December 1957 by the BBC Home Service. The BBC | 1,990 | triviaqa-train |
What type of dog is Beethoven in the film franchise of that name ? | Beethoven (film)
Beethoven is a 1992 family comedy film, directed by Brian Levant and starring Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt as George and Alice Newton. It is the first installment of the "Beethoven" film series.
The film was written by John Hughes (under the pseudonym Edmond Dantès) and Amy Holden Jones. The story centers on a St. Bernard dog named after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven and owned by the Newton family. It costars Nicholle Tom as Ryce Newton, Christopher Castile as Ted Newton, Sarah | this is not the sort of entertainment I scour the movie pages for, hoping desperately for a new film about a cute dog. Nor did I find anything particularly new in ""Beethoven"", although I concede that the filmmakers secured an admirable dog for the title role, and that Charles Grodin, who is almost always amusing, has what fun can be had playing the grumpy dad."
Reception Box office.
The film grossed $57,114,049 in North America and $90,100,000 in other territories, for a total | 1,991 | triviaqa-train |
What was the nickname of Dr McCoy in Star Trek ? | series featured William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, James Doohan as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Nichelle Nichols as Uhura, George Takei as Hikaru Sulu, and Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov. During the series' first run, it earned several nominations for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and won twice.
NBC canceled the show after three seasons; the last original episode aired on June 3, 1969. A petition near the | -Men traveled to the 23rd Century to team up with the original crew of the "U.S.S. "Enterprise"". During the encounter, Beast met his "Star Trek" counterpart, Dr. Leonard McCoy. (When a nurse calls out, "Dr. McCoy!" both Beast and Dr. Leonard McCoy answer, "What?") The story also featured Beast teaming up with Mr. Spock to stop an inter-dimensional rift caused by the villain Proteus. In a one-page drawing included at the end of the | 1,992 | triviaqa-train |
In the children's show Trumpton, what was the profession of Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub ? | appears in every episode. Captain Flack always has a speaking part, as do Fireman Grubb in episode 1 and Fireman Cuthbert in episode 10. In episode 4 the Mayor states "I can't think what Trumpton would do without its Fire Brigade".
- Captain Flack - the Fire Brigade's commander.
- Fireman Pugh - half of the Pugh twins.
- Fireman Pugh - half of the Pugh twins.
- Fireman Barney McGrew - the elderly driver of the fire engine, whose eyes are always closed | . At the Roll Call beginning the shift, as names were called, the stranger would be addressed as "Paddy Wester".
Following the children's cartoon from "Trumpton", Cap'n Flack might call the roll "Pugh, Pugh, (they were twins) Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Paddy Wester and Grub." | 1,993 | triviaqa-train |
Which Manchester City player scored the winning goal against Queen's Park Rangers to win the Premier League in 2012 ? | a further League Cup win; and the club's best ever finish in the Champions League.
Pep Guardiola, former manager of Barcelona and Bayern Munich, is the current manager, who has been in charge since the dismissal of Pellegrini in 2016. Under Guardiola, Manchester City won the 2017–18 Premier League title with the highest points total in Premier League history and broke numerous other club and English league records along the way. They also won the EFL Cup that year and Sergio Agüero became the club's all time leading goalscorer | his third goal for the club in a 3–2 win against Tottenham. On 21 March 2012, he scored the game-winning goal in a 2–1 win over Chelsea after receiving a through-ball from teammate Carlos Tevez. On 22 April, he scored in a 2–0 away win against Wolverhampton Wanderers. On 13 May, Nasri won his first Premier League trophy as Manchester City were crowned Premier League champions for the 2011–12 season after defeating Queens Park Rangers 3–2.
Club career Manchester City 2012–13 season.
At the start of the 2012–13 | 1,994 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 ? | Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving First Lady of the United States. Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady | ," the American Youth Congress was disbanded. The NYA was shut down in 1943.
First Lady of the United States (1933–1945) Arthurdale.
Roosevelt's chief project during her husband's first two terms was the establishment of a planned community in Arthurdale, West Virginia. On August 18, 1933, at Hickok's urging, Roosevelt visited the families of homeless miners in Morgantown, West Virginia, who had been blacklisted following union activities. Deeply affected by the visit, Roosevelt proposed a resettlement community for the miners at Arthurdale | 1,995 | triviaqa-train |
Which Mediterranean herb is also known as wild marjoram ? | and pepper.
The dried and ground leaves are most often used in Greece to add flavor to Greek salad, and is usually added to the lemon-olive oil sauce that accompanies fish or meat grills and casseroles.
Uses Oregano oil.
Oregano oil has been used in folk medicine over centuries. Oregano essential oil is extracted from the leaves of the oregano plant. Although oregano or its oil may be used as a dietary supplement, there is no clinical evidence to indicate that either has any effect on human health. | Rosemary
Rosmarinus officinalis, commonly known as rosemary, is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region.
It is a member of the mint family Lamiaceae, which includes many other herbs. The name "rosemary" derives from Latin "ros marinus" ("dew of the sea"). The plant is also sometimes called anthos, from the ancient Greek word ἄνθος, meaning "flower". | 1,996 | triviaqa-train |
What was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956 ? | , Canada. The phrase has been included in many hymns and religious-patriotic songs. During the American Civil War, the 125th Pennsylvania Infantry for the Union Army assumed the motto "In God we trust" in early August 1862. William W. Wallace, coiner, circa August 1862, of the motto "In God We Trust" was Captain of Company C of the 125th Pennsylvania Infantry.
The Reverend Mark R. Watkinson of 'Ridleyville', Pennsylvania, (pastor of Prospect Hill Baptist Church in present-day Prospect | adopted 'United in Diversity' (Latin: "In varietate concordia") as official motto, a reference to the many and diverse member states of the Union in terms of culture. Apart from its English form, the European Union's motto is also official in 23 other languages. "Unity in diversity" was selected by means of a competition involving students from member nations. According to the European Union official website
Politics India.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India and leader of the Indian National Congress | 1,997 | triviaqa-train |
On which river does the city of Lisbon stand , just before it reaches the Atlantic Ocean ? | Odysseus on his journey home from Troy. Although modern archaeological excavations show a Phoenician presence at this location since 1200BC, neither of these folk etymologies has any historical credibility.
Lisbon's name origin may, in fact, have been derived from Proto-Celtic or Celtic "Olisippo", "Lissoppo", or a similar name which other visiting peoples like the Ancient Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans adapted accordingly. The name of the settlement may be derived from the pre-Roman appellation for the Tagus River, "Lisso" | enter Maine. Continuing east, the river passes the towns of Bethel, Rumford, and Dixfield before turning south at the town of Livermore Falls and leaving the mountains behind. The river passes through the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn, turns southeast, passes the community of Lisbon Falls and reaches tidewater just below the final falls in the town of Brunswick. Merrymeeting Bay is a freshwater estuary where the Androscoggin meets the Kennebec River nearly inland from the Atlantic Ocean.
Water quality.
The Androscoggin was once heavily polluted by | 1,998 | triviaqa-train |
In 1960 , Alberto Korda took an iconic photograph of which revolutionary leader ? | Alberto Korda
Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda (September 14, 1928 – May 25, 2001), was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image "Guerrillero Heroico" of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
Early life.
Korda, whose real name was Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, was born on 14 September 1928 in Havana, Cuba. He got his first taste of photography when he took his father's Kodak 35mm and began taking pictures of his girlfriend. Korda was | candid shot of a moody, exhausted Guevara, taken in March, 1960 at a memorial service for victims of an ammunition ship explosion in Havana Harbor, became one of the world's most iconic images. It was eventually altered and adapted for everything from gum wrappers to a 90 ft. tall commemorative iron sculpture in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución. Korda was a popular fashion photographer who became a devoted revolutionary and close companion of Fidel Castro, taking thousands of shots of Castro's travels and Cuba's transformation.
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