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Launched in Autumn 1995, which Renault model car won the award for European Car of the Year in 2003 ? | . A year later, a Japanese manufacturer - this time with a Japanese-built product - won the award when the Toyota Yaris Hatchback and Yaris Verso Mini MPV earned top marks in Car of the Year Japan and ECOTY ahead of the boldly-styled Fiat Multipla and the practical Vauxhall/Opel Zafira compact MPV.
Alfa Romeo's modern revival continued when its stylish 147 won the award for 2001, with the next winner being the Peugeot 307. It was another French success for 2003, when the second generation Renault Megane | won the European Car of the Year award.
Model development 1990s.
The 1990 Renault Clio and 1994 Fiat Punto were significant models in the supermini category during the 1990s.. Both the Clio and Punto were recipients of the European Car of the Year Award. The Clio replaced the long-running Renault 5, although the Renault 5 remained in production until 1996. In 1993, the Nissan Micra (K11), became the first Japanese car company to be receive the European Car of the Year award. In 1999, the | 3,500 | triviaqa-train |
'The Town of Titipu' is the alternative name for which Gilbert and Sullivan opera? | Bah does not think that the girls have shown him enough respect ("So please you, sir"). Nanki-Poo arrives and informs Ko-Ko of his love for Yum-Yum. Ko-Ko sends him away, but Nanki-Poo manages to meet with his beloved and reveals his secret to Yum-Yum: he is the son and heir of the Mikado, but travels in disguise to avoid the amorous advances of Katisha, an elderly lady of his father's court. They lament that the | Savoy opera
Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte built to house the Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, and later, those by other composer–librettist teams. The great bulk of the non-G&S Savoy Operas either failed to achieve a foothold in the standard repertory, or have faded over the years, leaving | 3,501 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the London based street dance troupe who won the third series of ITV's 'Britain's Got Talent', narrowly beating Susan Boyle into second place? | uplifting".
Boyle was one of 40 acts that were put through to the semi-finals. She appeared last on the first semi-final on 24 May 2009, performing "Memory" from the musical "Cats". In the public vote, she was the act to receive the highest number of votes to go through to the final. She was the clear favourite to win the final, but ended up in second place to dance troupe Diversity; the UK TV audience was a record of 17.3 million | the series averaged 8.32 million viewers.
Series overview.
The judges auditions took place between January and February 2019, within London and Manchester. During filming of the London auditions, the event was kick-started by a special performance from Susan Boyle to mark her tenth year as a singer since she first made her appearance on "Britain's Got Talent"s third season. One of the most notable auditionees for this year's contest was David Watson - a participant who had auditioned for ten years for a place on the programme | 3,502 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the only Fulham player to win the award for Football Writer's 'Player of the Year', doing so in 1975. | mid-1970s, including Alan Mullery and Bobby Moore. Fulham reached their only FA Cup final in 1975, having won their first semi-final in five attempts. The club then lost to West Ham United in the final. This gained the club qualification to another European tournament, the Anglo-Scottish Cup, where they made the final, losing to Middlesbrough.
George Best played 47 times for the club in the 1976–77 season. Rodney Marsh, who having grown up with Fulham in the 1960s went on to play First Division | Champions League. In doing so, he became the club's record goalscorer away from home in the competition with seven goals to his name. During Liverpool's next match, he broke another of Ba's records to become the Senegalese player with the most goals scored in a single Premier League season, after scoring his 17th goal for the campaign in a 2–1 win over Fulham. On 20 April, he was one of six players nominated for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award alongside teammate Virgil van Dijk. He | 3,503 | triviaqa-train |
Three British towns were awarded city status in 2012. Perth and Chelmsford were two, which was the other one? | Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that Chelmsford along with Perth, Scotland and St Asaph, Wales was to be granted city status to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The Letters Patent officially granting city status to Chelmsford were received on 6 June 2012.
The demonym for a Chelmsford resident is "Chelmsfordian".
History.
History Early history.
Before 1199, there were settlements nearby from ancient times. A Neolithic and a late Bronze Age settlement have been found in the Springfield suburb, and the town was occupied | applied for city status in the 2000 and 2002 competitions, but was unsuccessful. In 2010, it started to refer to the "City of Medway" in promotional material, but it was rebuked and instructed not to do so in future by the Advertising Standards Authority. Medway Council made a further bid for city status in 2012, when three cities were afforded the honour as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee civic honours competition. Ultimately Medway was unsuccessful with the eventual winners being Chelmsford (Essex), Perth (Perthshire) | 3,504 | triviaqa-train |
What 'M' was the name of the farm in the George Orwell book 'Animal Farm'? | best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.
Plot summary.
The poorly-run Manor Farm near Willingdon, England, is ripened for rebellion from its animal populace by neglect at the hands of the irresponsible and alcoholic farmer Mr. Jones. One night, the exalted boar Old Major organizes a meeting, | Animal Farm (disambiguation)
Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It may also refer to:
- One of several other works based on the novel:
- "Animal Farm" (1954 film), an animated film based on the book
- "Animal Farm" (1999 film), a live action film based on the book
Other uses.
- Animal Farm (video), pornographic film
- "Animal Farm" (song), a song by The Kinks | 3,505 | triviaqa-train |
Found in Venezuela, what is the name of the world's highest uninterupted waterfall? | mountains are the extreme northeastern extensions of South America's Andes mountain range. Pico Bolívar, the nation's highest point at , lies in this region. To the south, the dissected Guiana Highlands contain the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin and Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, as well as "tepuis", large table-like mountains. The country's center is characterized by the "llanos", which are extensive plains that stretch from the Colombian border in the far west to the Orinoco River delta in | Tamá National Natural Park
The Tamá National Natural Park () is a national park located in the Tamá Massif of the Andean Region of Colombia, between the municipalities Toledo and Herrán, in the department of Norte de Santander, in the northeastern part of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. One of the main attractions of the park is a waterfall, one of the world's highest.
General.
The park is connected to El Tamá National Park in Venezuela via the borders to the Venezuelan states Táchira and Apure | 3,506 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the then 14 year old street dancer from Warrington who won the second series of IV's 'Britain's got Talent', performing a big beat remix of the song 'Singing in the Rain'? | Scotland hadn't been visited during the previous series, along with Manchester, Birmingham, London and Cardiff. In addition, the show had five live semi-finals, featuring a total of 40 semi-finalists. The series was won by street-dancer George Sampson, with dual dance group Signature coming in second, and singer Andrew Johnston placing third.
Series overview Series 3 (2009).
The third series was aired during 2009, between 11 April to 30 May, with auditions held in the same five cities | Got What It Takes? (series 2)
Got What It Takes? began airing its second series on 7 February 2017. The series was won by 14-year-old Jorja Douglas, who was given the chance to perform at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend.
Format.
Eight amateur youth singers take part in the singing talent competition. Three contestants are chosen to compete in "the Sing-Off" whilst the mums vote for who they want to win.
Episodes.
Episodes Episode 1 (7 February | 3,507 | triviaqa-train |
Whic male member i missing from the following list of the group 'The Osmonds' - Donny, Jimmy, Alan, wayne and Jay? | Tom, Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, and Marie Osmond. He is also the only Osmond of the nine not to have been born in the family's hometown of Ogden, Utah.
Growing up, Osmond was taught by tutors to accommodate his professional life.
Career.
He received his first gold record at age five for a song he recorded in Japanese, "My Little Darling". He was the first Osmond to achieve this.
His recording of "Long Haired Lover from | interests.
As of 2005, the organization had 60,000 members and 575 divisions. It organizes cultural activities and publishes a magazine and books.
See also.
- Frans de Potter
- Flemish literature
- Masereelfonds
- Rodenbachfonds
- Willemsfonds | 3,508 | triviaqa-train |
Found in Chile, what is the name of the world's driest desert? | the settlement of coastal towns and big ports. Some areas of the plains territories encompass territory east of the Andes, and the Patagonian steppes and Magellan, or are high plateaus surrounded by high mountain ranges, such as the Altiplano or Puna de Atacama.
The Far North is the area between the northern boundary of the country and the parallel 26° S, covering the first three regions. It is characterized by the presence of the Atacama desert, the most arid in the world. The desert is fragmented by streams that | which retain water abundantly
Habitat.
Other than Antarctica, succulents can be found within each continent. While it is often thought that most succulents come from dry areas such as steppes, semi-desert, and desert, the world's driest areas do not make for proper succulent habitats. Australia, the world's driest continent, hosts very few native succulents due to the frequent and prolonged droughts. Even Africa, the continent with the most native succulents, does not host many of the plants in its most dry regions | 3,509 | triviaqa-train |
Apart from Stanley Matthews in 1963, who is the only Stoke City player to win the award for Football Writer's Player of the Year, doing so in 1972? | list. This was followed by his final appearance for the club against Fulham in February 1965, shortly after his 50th birthday. Gordon Banks, England's 1966 World Cup-winning goalkeeper, joined in 1967 for £52,000 from Leicester. Regarded as the best goalkeeper in the world, Banks proved to be a shrewd signing for Waddington as he helped the club maintain stability in the First Division. During the close season of 1967, Stoke City played in the one-off United Soccer Association which imported clubs from Europe and South | bearing the area's name is Stoke City, who were formed in 1863 and is the second-oldest professional football club in England. They currently play at the bet365 Stadium at Stanley Matthews Way, Stoke-on-Trent, which has been their home since 1997 when they relocated from the Victoria Ground in Stoke after 119 years. They were among the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888, but did not win their first (and, to date, only) major trophy until 1972, when they lifted | 3,510 | triviaqa-train |
In 2002,Kevin Ashman from the BBC show 'Eggheads' took over as question setter on the radio series 'Brain of Britain'. He chose to be known as 'Jorkins' a character taken from which novel by Charles Dickens? | , "Trivial Pursuit" and "The Great British Quiz".
Professional.
Professional Question-setter for Brain of Britain.
Between 2002 and 2006 Ashman was the question-setter and arbiter on the Radio 4 quiz show "Brain of Britain", working under the pen-name of 'Jorkins' (a name taken from "David Copperfield"). He was appointed to the position on the death of Ian Gillies, who worked under the pen-name 'Mycroft'. He left when the team | Ian Gillies
Ian Malcolm Gillies (7 December 1927 – 13 April 2002), known to many simply as Mycroft from BBC Radio 4's "Brain of Britain", was an accomplished quiz player and question setter in the United Kingdom. His character name was taken from Arthur Conan Doyle's Mycroft Holmes, the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes.
He won the "Brain of Britain" final in 1964 and later the three-year competition "Brain of Brains" and the nine-year-final "Top | 3,511 | triviaqa-train |
Now aged 57, which British scientist is widely accepted as being the inventor of the World Wide Web? | Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is currently a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He made a proposal for an information management system on 12 March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server | Marchiori (?–?), computer scientist who made major contributions to the development of the World Wide Web. He was also the creator of HyperSearch
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), physicist, credited as the inventor of radio, often called the father of wireless communication and technology (1896)
- Macedonio Melloni (1798–1854), physicist, demonstrated that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light
- Giuseppe Mercalli (1850–1914), volcanologist and seismologist, inventor of the Mercalli intensity scale (1902 | 3,512 | triviaqa-train |
What nickname links an entertainer who has the real name Victoria Hesketh and the Roman emperor Caligula? | Little Boots
Victoria Christina Hesketh (born 4 May 1984), better known by her stage name Little Boots, is an English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ. She was previously a member of the band Dead Disco. Since performing as a solo artist she has released three albums, "Hands" (2009), "Nocturnes" (2013) and "Working Girl" (2015) and a number of associated EPs and remixes. Hesketh has toured internationally both as a DJ-only act as well as with | Lowell's peers gave him the nickname "Cal" after both the villainous Shakespeare character Caliban and the tyrannical Roman emperor Caligula, and the nickname stuck with him throughout his life. Lowell would later reference the nickname in his poem "Caligula," first published in his book "For the Union Dead" and later republished in a revised sonnet version for his book "Notebook 1967–1968".
Lowell received his high school education at St. Mark's School, a prominent prep-school in Southborough, Massachusetts. There he met | 3,513 | triviaqa-train |
Living from 1891 to 1958 which Dane is credited with being the inventor of the toy Lego? | make new things.
The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Movies, games, competitions, and six Legoland amusement parks have been developed under the brand. As of July 2015, 600 billion Lego parts had been produced.
In February 2015, Lego replaced Ferrari as Brand Finance's "world's most powerful brand".
History.
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys | with Lego Mindstorms, the company's robotics line, which lets the wearer build an extensive range of customised, programmable limbs.
Clones of Lego.
The definitive shape of the Lego bricks, with the inner tubes, was patented by the Lego Group in 1958. Several competitors have attempted to take advantage of Lego's popularity by producing blocks of similar dimensions, and advertising them as being compatible with Lego bricks. In 2002, Lego sued the CoCo Toy Company in Beijing for copyright infringement over its "Coko bricks" | 3,514 | triviaqa-train |
For many years, Ian Gilles, a former winner of radio's 'Brain of Britain', was question setter for the series. He adopted which name that is associated with Sherlock Holmes? | ancestors" were "country squires". In "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", he claims that his grandmother was sister to the French artist Vernet, without clarifying whether this was Claude Joseph, Carle, or Horace Vernet. Holmes's brother Mycroft, seven years his senior, is a government official. Mycroft has a unique civil service position as a kind of human database for all aspects of government policy. He lacks Sherlock's interest in physical investigation, however, preferring to spend his time at the Diogenes Club | three most recent "Brain of Brains" winners compete for the "Top Brain" title; Mark Grant was the most recent winner in 2018.
Record score.
The record individual score on a programme is 38 by Kevin Ashman (who went on to become six times World Quizzing Champion, also holds the record for the highest ever score on Mastermind, became Brain of Britain question setter and one of the Eggheads) in 1996. The record individual score in a final is 35, achieved by Peter Barlow (1981 | 3,515 | triviaqa-train |
Which Irish stick and ball team sport is almost identical to the game of Hurling except for the fact it is played only by women as opposed to men? | . Saint Louis has won two National Championships in Jr C Hurling (2004 and 2011), as well as two National Championships in Jr D Gaelic Football (2005, and 2013). The Indianapolis Hurling Club began in 2002, then reformed in 2005. In 2008, the Indy Hurling Club won the Junior C National Championship. In 2011, Indy had 7 club teams and sent a Junior B, Junior C and Camogie team to nationals. Hurling continues to grow in popularity with teams now in Charleston, SC, Orlando | Cammag
Cammag () is a team sport originating on the Isle of Man. It is closely related to the Scottish game of shinty and is similar to the Irish game of hurling. Once the most widespread sport on Man, it ceased to be played around 1900 after the introduction of association football, though it has experienced a revival in the 21st century.
Equipment involves a stick (, meaning "little curved thing") and a ball ("crick" or "crig") with anything between four and | 3,516 | triviaqa-train |
Who succeeded Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who? | Characters The Doctor Meetings of different incarnations.
There have been instances of actors returning at later dates to reprise the role of their specific Doctor. In 1973's "The Three Doctors", William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton returned alongside Jon Pertwee. For 1983's "The Five Doctors", Troughton and Pertwee returned to star with Peter Davison, and Tom Baker appeared in previously unseen footage from the uncompleted "Shada" episode. For this episode, Richard Hurndall replaced William Hartnell. Patrick Troughton again returned in 1985's "The Two | Doctor Who (season 8)
The eighth season of British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" began on 2 January 1971 with "Terror of the Autons" and ended with "The Dæmons" featuring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor.
Casting.
Casting Main cast.
- Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor
- Katy Manning as Jo Grant
Jon Pertwee continues his role as the Third Doctor. Katy Manning makes her first appearance as companion Jo Grant in "Terror of the Autons".
Casting Recurring cast | 3,517 | triviaqa-train |
The frequent absences of King George I from England and Parliament led directly to the creation of which position in government? | Lords, and Lord Sunderland resigned from public office.
Sunderland, however, retained a degree of personal influence with George until his sudden death in 1722 allowed the rise of Sir Robert Walpole. Walpole became "de facto" Prime Minister, although the title was not formally applied to him (officially, he was First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer). His management of the South Sea crisis, by rescheduling the debts and arranging some compensation, helped the return to financial stability. Through Walpole's skilful | was set up while King George I was sent for to take up the crown.
- George, Prince of Wales (1716–17), during the absence of his father, George I.
- Caroline of Ansbach (1729; 1732; 1735; 1736–37), during the absences of her husband, George II.
Regents in various current monarchies United Kingdom and its predecessor realms Kingdom of England.
- William Longchamp (intermittently 1189–1199), during the absences of Richard I on crusade, in prison, and in France. | 3,518 | triviaqa-train |
What type of engine powered the first generation of Spitfire fighters in the 1930's ? | . The Seafire was a carrier-based adaptation of the Spitfire that served in the Fleet Air Arm from 1942 through to the mid-1950s. Although the original airframe was designed to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine producing 1,030 hp (768 kW), it was strong enough and adaptable enough to use increasingly powerful Merlins and, in later marks, Rolls-Royce Griffon engines producing up to 2,340 hp (1,745 kW). As a result, the Spitfire's performance and capabilities improved over the | – Single-seater carrier-based fighter version of the Spitfire.
- Supermarine Spitfire (early Merlin powered variants) – Merlin engine variants.
- Supermarine Spitfire (late Merlin powered variants) – Two-stage Merlin engine variants.
- Supermarine Spitfire (Griffon powered variants) – Two-stage Griffon engine variants.
- Supermarine Sea Otter (1938) – Flying boat.
- Type 322 also S.24/37 (1939) - Naval Dive-Bomber prototype. Nicknamed ‘Dumbo’ this was an unsuccessful prototype | 3,519 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the title role in the long-running detective series Bergerac? | Bergerac (TV series)
Bergerac is a British television series set in Jersey, which ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Jim Bergerac, who initially is a detective sergeant in Le Bureau des Étrangers ("The Foreigners' Office", a fictional department dealing with non-Jersey residents), within the States of Jersey Police, but later left the force and became a | Elizabeth Bennett (actress)
Elizabeth Bennett is a British actress.
Bennett has appeared in several British TV series, including "The Sandbaggers", "The Bill", "The Lakes", "Diana", "Chef!", "The Duchess of Duke Street", Bergerac (Series 2 Episode 9 (The Moonlight Girls) 1983), "Down to Earth, The Last Detective" and "Heartbeat". She is best known for her long recurring role as Joyce Jowett in the long running | 3,520 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the deepest lake in the English Lake District? | It also includes the Wastwater Screes overlooking Wasdale, the Glaramara ridge overlooking Borrowdale, the three tops of Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and Esk Pike. The core of the area is drained by the infant River Esk. Collectively these are some of the Lake District's most rugged hillsides.
The second group, otherwise known as the Furness Fells or Coniston Fells, have as their northern boundary the steep and narrow Hardknott and Wrynose passes. The highest are Old Man of Coniston and Swirl How which slightly exceed .
The third group | Flückigersee
The Flückigersee (English: Lake Flückiger) is a 10-hectare lake in the Freiburg district of Betzenhausen.
It developed from the quarrying of sand and gravel by the Flückiger construction company in the 1920s.
The mining at the lake was stopped in 1983, because the surrounding area became more and more inhabited. In 1986 the lake became part of the Landesgartenschau exhibition (an exhibition in the local area), today's Seepark.
In the year 2000 the lake's deepest point was about 25 metres. The | 3,521 | triviaqa-train |
Pitchblende is the chief ore of which metallic element? | Rwanda, Namibia and South Africa. In the United States, it can be found in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina and Wyoming. The geologist Charles Steen made a fortune on the production of uraninite in his Mi Vida mine in Moab, Utah.
Uranium ore is generally processed close to the mine into yellowcake, which is an intermediate step in the processing of uranium.
See also.
- Thorianite
- Uranium ore deposits
- List | element, which they named "radium", from the Latin word for "ray". In the course of their research, they also coined the word "radioactivity".
To prove their discoveries beyond any doubt, the Curies sought to isolate polonium and radium in pure form. Pitchblende is a complex mineral; the chemical separation of its constituents was an arduous task. The discovery of polonium had been relatively easy; chemically it resembles the element bismuth, and polonium was the only bismuth-like substance in the ore | 3,522 | triviaqa-train |
In which year were One Pound coins introduced? | that the pound be divided into 1,000 parts, called mils). These included Hong Kong from 1863 to 1866; Cyprus from 1955 until 1960 (and continued on the island as the division of the Cypriot pound until 1983); and the Palestine Mandate from 1926 until 1948.
Towards the end of the Second World War, various attempts to decimalise the pound sterling in the United Kingdom were made. Later, in 1966, the British government decided to include in the Queen's Speech a plan to convert the pound into | image was designed by Reginald George James Berry, who designed the reverses for all coins introduced that year.
History.
Coins of the New Zealand dollar were introduced on 10 July 1967 to replace the pre-decimal New Zealand pound, which was pegged to the British pound. The dollar was pegged at two to a pound, thus 200 cents to the pound. Although New Zealand's previous one-penny coin was 1/240 of a pound, the one-cent coin was made as an exact replacement for the penny | 3,523 | triviaqa-train |
With which material does a Cordwainer usually work? | Cordwainer
A cordwainer () is a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather. The cordwainer's trade can be contrasted with the cobbler's trade, according to a tradition in Britain that restricted cobblers to repairing shoes. This usage distinction is not universally observed, as the word "cobbler" is widely used for tradespersons who make or repair shoes. A major English dictionary says that the word "cordwainer" is archaic, "still used in the names of guilds, for example, "the Cordwainers' Company" | year round. The nests are made of twigs and lined with leaves; they are built in trees or reeds, usually near water. Typically, the male gathers nesting material and brings it to the female, which does most of the actual construction work. Nest construction takes only a few days (about three at most), and the pairs copulate at the nest site. The clutch size is two to six eggs (usually about four) which have a pale green color. The eggs are laid within 24–48 hours and | 3,524 | triviaqa-train |
Hepatic is a adjective relating to which organ of the body? | capacity for self-repair.
Clinical significance Liver transplantation.
Human liver transplants were first performed by Thomas Starzl in the United States and Roy Calne in Cambridge, England in 1963 and 1967, respectively.
Liver transplantation is the only option for those with irreversible liver failure. Most transplants are done for chronic liver diseases leading to cirrhosis, such as chronic hepatitis C, alcoholism, and autoimmune hepatitis. Less commonly, liver transplantation is done for fulminant hepatic failure, in which liver failure occurs over days to weeks. | the musical term's meaning had narrowed to refer specifically to the keyboard-based instrument. At the same time, a second meaning arose, in reference to a "body part adapted to a certain function".
Plant organs are made from tissue composed of different types of tissue. When three or more organs are present, it is called an organ system.
The adjective "visceral", also "splanchnic", is used for anything pertaining to the internal organs. Historically, viscera of animals were examined by | 3,525 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did the Bank of England 10 shilling note cease to be legal tender? | -enacted in Irish legislation from previous British enactments, "No person, other than the Central Bank of Ireland and such persons as may be designated by the Minister by order, shall be obliged to accept more than 50 coins denominated in euro or in cent in any single transaction."
Status by country Republic of Ireland History.
The Decimal Currency Act, 1970 governed legal tender prior to the adoption of the euro and laid down the analogous provisions as in United Kingdom legislation (all inherited from previous UK law), namely | they are taken directly (or posted) to the Bank of England building in Threadneedle Street, London. The last £sd coins to cease being legal tender in the UK after decimal day were the Sixpence (withdrawn 1980), the Shilling (withdrawn 1991) and the Florin (withdrawn 1993). In Australia, as of 2018, these coins can still be found in circulation occasionally as 5, 10 and 20 cent coins. The last £sd bank note to cease to be legal tender anywhere in the world was | 3,526 | triviaqa-train |
Which Englich king was the father of the two boys known as 'The Princes in the Tower'? | they remain.
Background.
On 9 April 1483, Edward IV of England died unexpectedly after an illness lasting around three weeks. At the time, Edward's son, the new King Edward V, was at Ludlow Castle, and the dead king's brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was at Middleham Castle in Yorkshire. The news reached Gloucester around 15 April, although he may have been forewarned of Edward's illness. It is reported that he then went to York Minster to publicly "pledge his loyalty | III. The two imprisoned boys, known as the "Princes in the Tower", disappeared and are assumed to have been murdered. There was never a trial or judicial inquest on the matter. Perkin Warbeck claimed he was the younger of the Princes from 1490 and was recognised as such by Richard's sister, the Duchess of Burgundy.
Having been crowned in a lavish ceremony on 6 July, Richard then proceeded on a tour of the Midlands and the north of England, dispensing generous bounties and charters and naming his | 3,527 | triviaqa-train |
Which actress last year won an EMMY award for her role as Mildred Pierce? | Mildred Pierce (miniseries)
Mildred Pierce is a five-part miniseries that first aired on HBO on March 27, 2011. Adapted from James M. Cain's 1941 novel of the same name, it was directed by Todd Haynes, and starred Kate Winslet in the title role, alongside Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood, and Melissa Leo. Carter Burwell wrote the original score for the miniseries.
It is the second adaptation of the novel, after the 1945 film noir produced by Warner Bros. and starring Joan Crawford. | television, playing the supporting role of Queen Sophie-Anne on "True Blood" from 2009 to 2011 and playing the daughter of Mildred Pierce in the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce" (2011), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she currently plays the sentient android Dolores Abernathy in the HBO series "Westworld", for which she won a Critics' Choice Award and earned Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations.
Early life and family.
Wood was | 3,528 | triviaqa-train |
Which was the first country to introduce Old Age Pensions? | Germany's Riester plans, Australia's Superannuation system and New Zealand's KiwiSaver scheme. Individual pension savings plans also exist in Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain
Benefits Hybrid and cash balance plans.
Hybrid plan designs combine the features of defined benefit and defined contribution plan designs.
A cash balance plan is a defined benefit plan made to appear as if it were a defined contribution plan. They have "notional balances" in hypothetical accounts where, typically, each | polling third. Labor declared it would offer support to the party which offered concessions and Edmund Barton's Protectionists formed a government, with Alfred Deakin as Attorney-General.
Barton promised to "create a high court... and an efficient federal public service... He proposed to extend conciliation and arbitration, create a uniform railway gauge between the eastern capitals, to introduce female federal franchise, to establish a... system of old age pensions." He also promised to introduce legislation to safeguard "White Australia" from any influx of | 3,529 | triviaqa-train |
Which of the territories of Canada has the city of Yellowknife as its capital? | 1867, initially with four provinces: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Canada assumed control of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to form the Northwest Territories, where the Métis' grievances ignited the Red River Rebellion and the creation of the province of Manitoba in July 1870. British Columbia and Vancouver Island (which had been united in 1866) joined the confederation in 1871, while Prince Edward Island joined in 1873. Between 1871 and 1896, almost one quarter of the Canadian population immigrated southwards | for the diamond mines. On 1 April 1999, its purview as capital of the NWT was reduced when the territory of Nunavut was split from the NWT. As a result, jurisdiction for that region of Canada was transferred to the new capital city of Iqaluit. Consequently, Yellowknife lost its standing as the Canadian capital city with the smallest population.
Geography.
Yellowknife is on the Canadian Shield, which was scoured down to rock during the last ice age. The surrounding landscape is very rocky and slightly rolling, with | 3,530 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the melody of the song 'Swonderful'? | 'S Wonderful
"S Wonderful" is a 1927 popular song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics written by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced in the Broadway musical "Funny Face" (1927) by Adele Astaire and Allen Kearns.
The song is considered a standard and has been recorded by many artists, especially jazz artists. In 1928, Adele Astaire, who introduced the song on stage the previous year, recorded one of the earliest versions with Bernard Clifton. The most successful recordings in 1928 were however by Frank | a similar idea in development. Together, using Carey's chorus and idea, as well as the melody they had produced, they wrote and composed the song. The song was produced by Carey and Afanasieff, who built on the song's melody and added various grooves and beats. Carey expressed how the song was "meant to be" and how all the pieces fit into place:
"I wrote the initial idea for 'One Sweet Day' with Walter, and I had the chorus...and I stopped and | 3,531 | triviaqa-train |
What was the original name of the 'London Times' newspaper? | are followed by The Register, containing obituaries, a Court & Social section, and related material. The sport section is at the end of the main paper. In April 2016, the cover price of "The Times" became £1.40 on weekdays and £1.50 on Saturdays.
Content "Times2".
"The Times"'s main supplement, every day, is the "times2", featuring various lifestyle columns. It was discontinued on 1 March 2010 but reintroduced on 11 October 2010 after discontinuation was criticised. Its | that the paper's original name had been chosen when "the engrossing object was the accumulating of wealth and consequent aggrandizement of the country. Since that time affairs have assumed an entirely different aspect, and the all-absorbing question is how to protect ourselves, and what we already possess." The newspaper was therefore renamed to reflect their new goal of serving as "a faithful register of passing events".
The inaugural edition contained letters from Stephen F. Austin, a report on the development of the Texian Army, translations | 3,532 | triviaqa-train |
"Which actress said in the film All About Eve, ""Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night""?" | All About Eve
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It was based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although screen credit was not given for it.
The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, an ambitious young fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships | Bette was letter perfect. She was syllable-perfect. The director's dream: the prepared actress."
Critics responded positively to Davis' performance, and several of her lines became well-known, particularly "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night". She was again nominated for an Academy Award, and critics such as Gene Ringgold described her Margo as her "all-time best performance". Pauline Kael wrote that much of Mankiewicz' vision of "the theater" was " | 3,533 | triviaqa-train |
The former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, which declared independence in 1991, has which city as its capital? | the OSCE in October 2010 for its censorship and repression of the media. The OSCE claimed that the Tajik Government censored Tajik and foreign websites and instituted tax inspections on independent printing houses that led to the cessation of printing activities for a number of independent newspapers.
Russian border troops were stationed along the Tajik–Afghan border until summer 2005. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, French troops have been stationed at the Dushanbe Airport in support of air operations of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. United States Army | Mikhil Gorbachev offered disgruntled Tajiks a chance to voice their grievances. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Tajikistan declared its independence.
Republic of Tajikistan (1991 to present).
The Tajikistan Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) was among the last republics of the Soviet Union to declare its independence. On September 9 (1991), following the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Tajikistan declared its independence. During this time, use of the Tajik language, an official language of the | 3,534 | triviaqa-train |
"Which politician was described by Neil Kinnock as, ""a ditherer, a dodger, a ducker and a weaver""?" | rid the party of its image of being run by trade unions.
Kinnock was also perceived as scoring in debates over Margaret Thatcher in the Commons—previously an area in which he was seen as weak—and finally Michael Heseltine challenged Thatcher's leadership and she resigned on 28 November 1990 to be succeeded by then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Major. Kinnock greeted Thatcher's resignation by describing it as "very good news" and demanded an immediate general election.
Public reaction to Major's elevation was highly positive | Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, (born 28 March 1942) is a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992.
Kinnock led the Labour Party to a surprise fourth consecutive defeat at the 1992 general election, despite the party being ahead in most opinion polls, which had predicted either a narrow Labour victory or a hung | 3,535 | triviaqa-train |
The sangiovese grape is chiefly used in the production of which Italian wine? | Sangiovese
Sangiovese (, , , ) is a red Italian wine grape variety that derives its name from the Latin "sanguis Jovis", "the blood of Jupiter". Though it is the grape of most of central Italy from Romagna down to Lazio (the most widespread grape in Tuscany), Campania and Sicily, outside Italy it is most famous as the only component of Brunello di Montalcino and Rosso di Montalcino and the main component of the blends Chianti, Carmignano, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Morellino di Scansano, | grape Mantonico bianco.
- "Nerello Cappuccio" It is widely used in the Etna Rosso DOC as a blending grape that adds color and alcohol to the wine. It is one of the three grapes used to make the wine "Corvo Rosso".
An Italian study published in 2008 using DNA typing showed a close genetic relationship between Sangiovese on the one hand and ten other Italian grape varieties on the other hand, including Nerello. It is therefore likely that Nerello is a crossing of Sangiovese and another, so far | 3,536 | triviaqa-train |
Which sparkling wine is made chiefly in the Penedes region near Barcelona? | Sparkling wine
Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy. While the phrase commonly refers to champagne, EU countries legally reserve that term for products exclusively produced in the Champagne region of France. Sparkling wine is usually either white or rosé, but there are examples of red sparkling wines such as the Italian Brachetto, Bonarda and Lambrusco, Spanish wine Cava, Australian sparkling Shiraz, and Azerbaijani "Pearl of Azerbaijan" made from Madrasa grapes. The sweetness of sparkling wine can range | Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Industry.
Conegliano is noted for its wine, chiefly the dry white Prosecco (made from the glera grape) which comes in three varieties: tranquillo (still), frizzante (slightly sparkling) and spumante (sparkling). It is also home to Italy's oldest and most prestigious wine school called Scuola Enologica.
It is also home to the Istituto Sperimentale per la Viticoltura where several Italian grape varieties have been bred, | 3,537 | triviaqa-train |
The winner of which famous race traditionally swigs milk from the bottle? | : "Legends Day" Honoring Rookie Winners of the 500
- 2018: "Legends Day" Honoring the Roadster Era
- 2019: "Legends Day" celebrating the 1960s
Month of May 500 Festival Parade.
The 500 Festival is a non-profit organization founded in 1957 to organize various civic events in the city of Indianapolis leading up to the race. The two largest events are the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in early May, and the 500 Festival Parade the day before the race. Other events have | race Victory Lane.
Immediately after taking the checkered flag, the race winner drives to Victory Lane. The celebration to honor the winner begins with the car being wheeled onto a black and white checkered periphery. The driver is presented with the Borg-Warner Trophy, which is situated behind the car in a prominent location. A floral wreath (containing 33 lilies to commemorate the 33 drivers of the field) is placed around the winners neck, and the winner is presented with the traditional bottle of milk for refreshment. Interviews are | 3,538 | triviaqa-train |
In which famous film was Frank Miller coming to kill Will Kane? | Will Kane
William "Will" Kane is the protagonist of the film "High Noon" (1952). He was first played by Gary Cooper, then by Lee Majors in "" (1980), and by Tom Skerritt in "High Noon" (2000), a remake for cable television.
Appearances.
Gary Cooper originated the character in "High Noon" in 1952. Cooper briefly reprised his "High Noon" role in an uncredited cameo appearance in the 1959 Bob Hope comedy "Alias Jesse | new life as a store clerk when the clerk of the telegraph office brings bad news: a man he sent to prison some years earlier, Frank Miller, has been released from prison and is arriving on the noon train. Kane, and the townsfolk who remember Miller, know Miller's visit is for one reason: revenge. Upon his conviction years earlier, Miller swore he would kill Will Kane. Kane's friends tell him to leave town, which he does briefly, but he feels that running away is not a | 3,539 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the computer that beat Gary Kasparov at chess in 1997? | Deep Blue (chess computer)
Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. It is known for being the first computer chess-playing system to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls.
Deep Blue won its first game against a world champion on 10 February 1996, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in game one of a six-game match. However, Kasparov won three and drew two of the following five games, defeating Deep Blue by | in another pair's nest. Fledglings have also been reported to invade their own or neighbouring nests and evict a new brood. Common starling nests have a 48% to 79% rate of successful fledging, although only 20% of nestlings survive to breeding age; the adult survival rate is closer to 60%. The average life span is about 2–3 years, with a longevity record of 22 yr 11 m.
Predators and parasites.
A majority of starling predators are avian. The typical response of starling groups | 3,540 | triviaqa-train |
What allegedly crashed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? | Roswell UFO incident
In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Following wide initial interest in the crashed "flying disc", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up | Walter Haut
1st Lt. Walter Haut (June 3, 1922 – December 15, 2005) was the public information officer (PIO) at the 509th Bomb Group based in Roswell, New Mexico during 1947. Early on July 8, 1947 he was ordered by the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard, to draft a press release to the public, announcing that the United States Army Air Forces had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a nearby ranch. The press release garnered widespread national and even international media attention | 3,541 | triviaqa-train |
Who succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites? | in the Sinai are memorialized in the Jewish and Samaritan festivals of Passover and Sukkoth, and the giving of the Torah in the Jewish celebration of Shavuoth.
Forty years after the Exodus, following the death of the generation of Moses, a new generation, led by Joshua, enters Canaan and takes possession of the land in accordance with the promise made to Abraham by Yahweh. Land is allocated to the tribes by lottery. Eventually the Israelites ask for a king, and Yahweh gives them Saul. David, the youngest ( | . Moses delivered the laws of God to Israel, instituted the priesthood under the sons of Moses' brother Aaron, and destroyed those Israelites who fell away from his worship. After the forty years had passed, Moses eventually led the Israelites into the Land of Canaan.
Themes and narratives Heroic narratives.
Themes and narratives Heroic narratives Gideon.
Gideon was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and decisive victory over the Midianites. He went on to send out messengers to gather together men in order to meet an armed force | 3,542 | triviaqa-train |
A bonspiel is a tournament in which winter sport? | Bonspiel
A bonspiel is a curling tournament, consisting of several games, often held on a weekend. Until the 20th century most bonspiels were held outdoors, on a frozen freshwater loch. Today almost all bonspiels are held indoors on specially prepared artificial ice.
Bonspiels in North America.
Bonspiels in North America Canada.
Bonspiels originated in Scotland, but the most notable competitive curling tournament in the world nowadays is The Brier, the Canadian Men's Curling Championship. For Canadians, this tournament equals or nearly equals the importance | . The loch has been the site of the most extensive outdoor tournaments in the sport, the Grand Match or Bonspiel, however the ice has not been thick enough for this since 1959. The cold weather of the 2010/11 winter led to much speculation that a Bonspiel could be held, however due to safety concerns only informal matches were held on the loch. The loch is also a popular location for angling (chiefly for brown trout) and wildfowling.
Conservation designations.
Loch Leven forms the main part of the Loch | 3,543 | triviaqa-train |
Who committed what became known as the West Port murders in Edinburgh in 1828? | December 1831 for the crime. A bill was quickly introduced into Parliament, and gained royal assent nine months later to become the Anatomy Act 1832. This Act authorised dissection on bodies from workhouses unclaimed after 48 hours, and ended the practice of anatomising as part of the death sentence for murder.
Legacy In media portrayals and popular culture.
The events of the West Port murders have made appearances in fiction. They are referred to in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1884 short story "The Body Snatcher", and Marcel Schwob told | 1876, and Stoddart attended Edinburgh Ladies' College there. When she was 14 her family returned to New Zealand, moving to Fendalton in Christchurch.
When the Canterbury College School of Art (now known as the Ilam School of Fine Arts) opened in 1882, she enrolled, completing her studies in 1890. She was awarded the Second Grade Full Certificate. During this period she became a member of the Palette Club, an association of artists who were committed to working from nature.
Career.
Stoddart began establishing | 3,544 | triviaqa-train |
What profession was followed by Grace O’Malley, Mary Read and Anne Bonny? | sanctuary for pirates, around 1715. It was there she met Jack Rackham, and became his pirate partner and lover. Along with Mary Read, she often disguised herself as a man and became one of the most recognizable and wanted faces of the "Golden Age of Piracy". Captured alongside Rackham and Read in October 1720, Bonny and Read were soon sentenced to death but their executions were stayed due to both of them being pregnant. Read died in jail in early 1721, but what happened to Bonny next is unknown | "Fate/Grand Order" as a Rider-class Servant alongside with Anne Bonny and is voiced by Ayako Kawasumi (Bonny) and Ai Nonaka (Read).
- Read (Cara Roberts) introduces herself to Anne Bonny under the name of Mark Read in the final episode of "Black Sails".
- Mary Read is featured in the song "The Ballad of Mary Read and Anne Bonny" by the Baja Brigade.
- Mary Read is featured in the song "Under the Flag of Mary Read | 3,545 | triviaqa-train |
For which organisation did the camp Jason King work? | Jason King (TV series)
Jason King (1971–1972) is a British television series starring Peter Wyngarde as the titular character. It was produced by ITC Entertainment and had a single season of 26 episodes which were each one hour long, including commercial breaks. It was shown internationally as well as in the UK, and has been released on DVD in the UK, US, Australia and Germany.
Series premise.
The series featured the further adventures of the title character who had first appeared in "Department S | website, SpunOut.ie won two Dot.ie Net Visionary Awards. Jason Coomey collected the "Most meticulous and cutting edge web developer (individual or agency)" and the organisation also won ""You Did Good" - Best Use of the Internet for Social Good" for its work with young people in Ireland. In 2013 SpunOut.ie also won an EU Youth Media Award for High Impact Digital Solutions in the Create your Culture! category.
External links.
- SpunOut.ie | 3,546 | triviaqa-train |
By what name was the architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret better known? | Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.
Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of | About how the village came to have the name Daubach nothing is known. What is known, however, is that the name was written "Daupach" in 1377, thus showing at least that the village has had a similar name for well over six hundred years. It lay on the road that led from Meisenheim and Sobernheim by way of Eckweiler (a now vanished village that was given up in 1979, lying in what is now Bad Sobernheim’s municipal exclave northwest of Daubach), Gemünden and Kirchberg to Trier. | 3,547 | triviaqa-train |
Who seized the throne in 1135 on the death of Henry I? | doubt. Henry took a second wife, Adeliza of Louvain, in the hope of having another son, but their marriage was childless. In response to this, Henry declared his daughter, Empress Matilda, his heir and married her to Geoffrey of Anjou. The relationship between Henry and the couple became strained, and fighting broke out along the border with Anjou. Henry died on 1 December 1135 after a week of illness. Despite his plans for Matilda, the King was succeeded by his nephew, Stephen of Blois, resulting | spinning prayer wheels, pilgrims prostrate themselves before approaching the main deity; some crawl a considerable distance to the main shrine. The prayer chanted during this worship is ""Om mani padme hum"" (Hail to the jewel in the lotus). Pilgrims queue on both sides of the platform to place a ceremonial scarf ("katak") around the Buddha's neck or touch the image's knee. A walled enclosure in front of the Jokhang, near the Tang Dynasty-Tubo Peace Alliance Tablet, contains the stump | 3,548 | triviaqa-train |
Which US Trade Union was led by the notorious Jimmy Hoffa? | today Jurisdiction.
Labor unions use the term "jurisdiction" to refer to their claims to represent workers who perform a certain type of work and the right of their members to perform such work. For example, the work of unloading containerized cargo at United States ports, which the International Longshoremen's Association, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have claimed rightfully should be assigned to workers they represent. A jurisdictional strike is a concerted refusal to work undertaken by a union to assert its members' right | and ordered the prison staff to address the problems. When he was later asked by the media if he had qualms about entering the prison yard, Laxalt, a former trial lawyer, said, "No, not really. Many of them were my former clients!"
In 1970, Laxalt lobbied President Richard Nixon to reduce the prison sentence of notorious Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa after Hoffa was convicted of attempting to bribe Sen. Howard Cannon, whom Laxalt had unsuccessfully challenged in 1964. While governor, Laxalt worked with Teamster officials | 3,549 | triviaqa-train |
What official position is currently held by Martin Rees? | Martin Rees
Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.
Education and early life.
Rees was born on 23 June 1942 in York, England. After a peripatetic life during the war his parents, both teachers, settled with Rees, an only child, in a rural part of | a postdoctoral fellow under Lord Martin Rees at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. After this, he returned as a Research Fellow to his alma mater TIFR. In 1988, when IUCAA was formed, he joined as Assistant Professor, and later became the Dean of Visitor Programmes in 1997, a position he held for twelve years until 2009. He took up the directorship of IUCAA in 2009 and remained the director until 2014 before being succeeded by Somak Raychaudhury.
He was elected as the Vice President of the IAU's Office | 3,550 | triviaqa-train |
What is the lightest solid element? | the gold slabs (1064 °C); and metallic nanowires are much stronger than the corresponding bulk metals. The high surface area of nanoparticles makes them extremely attractive for certain applications in the field of energy. For example, platinum metals may provide improvements as automotive fuel catalysts, as well as proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. Also, ceramic oxides (or cermets) of lanthanum, cerium, manganese and nickel are now being developed as solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). Lithium, lithium-titanate | Helium
Helium (from ) is a chemical element with the symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas, the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling point is the lowest among all the elements. Helium is the second lightest and second most abundant element in the observable universe (hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant). It is present at about 24% of the total elemental mass, which is more | 3,551 | triviaqa-train |
Helen Gurley Brown was editor of which magazine for 32 years? | Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown (February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012; born Helen Marie Gurley) was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of "Cosmopolitan" magazine for 32 years.
Early life.
Helen Marie Gurley was born February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas, the daughter of Cleo Fred (née Sisco; 1893-1980) and Ira Marvin Gurley. At one time her father was appointed Commissioner of the Arkansas | Media Innovation, although it is commonly referred to as the Brown Institute.
History.
The institute was created in 2012 following a $30 million endowment made to Stanford University and Columbia Universities by Helen Gurley Brown. Gurley Brown, an author, publisher, and businesswoman, who served as editor-in-chief of "Cosmpolitan" magazine for over three decades, partially endowed the institute in memory of her husband, David Brown, who produced the films "Jaws", "The Sting", and "The | 3,552 | triviaqa-train |
Which novel tells the tragic story of displaced migrants George Milton and Lennie Small? | Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States.
Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences working alongside migrant farm workers as a teenager in the 1910s (before the arrival of the Okies that he would vividly describe in "The Grapes of Wrath | Libro del Peregrino" by Giacomo (ou Jacopo) Caviceo (which tells of a dream in which the ghost of Peregrin gives the story of his tragic loves) and "Les Illustrations de Gaule" by Jean Lemaire de Belges. The novel features extensive polite and rhetorically sophisticated dialogues and frequent "exempla" ("copia") taken from classical antiquity and (occasionally) from medieval novels, the Bible and the fathers of the church. The story takes place in and around the Mediterranean, and although the customs and jousts | 3,553 | triviaqa-train |
What kind of footwear did Jimmy Nail have in 1994? | series "Spender", which he co-wrote with Ian La Frenais. The show ran for three series from 1990 to 1993 and also produced a tele-film and a novel. This was followed in 1994 by "Crocodile Shoes", which Nail also created, scripted and starred as songwriter Jed Shepherd.
In 2008, Nail created and starred as Phil Parker in "Parents of the Band", a 6 x 30 mins series on BBC1, broadcast between November 2008 and January 2009. The series revolves around | margins of the nail (caused by hypergranulation that occurs around the aforementioned margins), worsening of pain when wearing tight footwear, and sensitivity to pressure of any kind, even the weight of bedsheets. Bumping of an affected toe can produce sharp and even excruciating pain as the tissue is punctured further by the nail. By the very nature of the condition, ingrown nails become easily infected unless special care is taken early to treat the condition by keeping the area clean. Signs of infection include redness and swelling of the area around | 3,554 | triviaqa-train |
Which film star began life as Michel Shalhoub? | Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif (, ; born Michel Dimitri Chalhoub ; 10 April 193210 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances in both English and American productions. His films included "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), and "Funny Girl" (1968). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Lawrence of Arabia". He won | as Nathan, opposite Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. Peacocke stars as Detective Josh Levine in the Australian television series "Wanted". He also appears in the comedy film "Cooped Up".
Peacocke will star alongside Kat Stewart and Hugh Sheridan in Network Ten's drama series "Five Bedrooms", which focuses on five people who buy a house together after meeting at a wedding. Filming began in January 2019. Peacocke will also star in war film "".
Personal life.
Peacocke has been in a | 3,555 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the To October Symphony? | including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Carl Nielsen, continued to write in the traditional four-movement form, while other composers took different approaches: Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 7, his last, is in one movement, whereas Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 9, "Saint Vartan"—originally op. 80, changed to op. 180—composed in 1949–50, is in twenty-four.
A concern with unification of the traditional four-movement symphony into a single, subsuming formal conception had emerged in the late 19th | Red Garuda
"Red Garuda" for Piano and Orchestra is the second piano concerto by the American composer Peter Lieberson. The work was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and was composed between 1998 and 1999. Like Lieberson's first Piano Concerto, it was written for the pianist Peter Serkin, who first performed the work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Seiji Ozawa on October 14, 1999. The piece is dedicated to Peter Serkin and Seiji Ozawa.
Composition.
"Red Garuda" is composed in | 3,556 | triviaqa-train |
Which character was once played by Peter Dean in Eastenders? | Peter Dean (actor)
Peter Dean (born 2 May 1939) is a British actor, he is best known for his roles as Pete Beale in "EastEnders", Jeff Bateman in "Coronation Street" and Sergeant Jack Wilding in "Woodentop".
Career.
Dean decided on a career in acting after actress Prunella Scales witnessed him rehearsing Shakespeare in Petticoat Lane Market and advised him to take drama classes. Aged 16 he studied under Joan Littlewood and has been an actor since he was 18.
Dean | Ian Beale
Ian Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", played by Adam Woodyatt. He is the longest-serving character and the only remaining original character to have appeared continuously since the first episode on 19 February 1985. The character appeared in his 2000th episode in the show on 26 March 2007, and his 3000th on 27 May 2016.
Ian is the son of Pete (Peter Dean) and Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth), nephew of Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard) and | 3,557 | triviaqa-train |
Which film star began life as Issur Danielovitch? | Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; ; December 9, 1916) is an American actor, filmmaker, and author. A centenarian, he is one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he had his film debut in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war | as Nathan, opposite Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. Peacocke stars as Detective Josh Levine in the Australian television series "Wanted". He also appears in the comedy film "Cooped Up".
Peacocke will star alongside Kat Stewart and Hugh Sheridan in Network Ten's drama series "Five Bedrooms", which focuses on five people who buy a house together after meeting at a wedding. Filming began in January 2019. Peacocke will also star in war film "".
Personal life.
Peacocke has been in a | 3,558 | triviaqa-train |
Which character was once played by Ken Morley in Coronation Street? | , Martin Platt (Sean Wilson), Reg Holdsworth (Ken Morley), and the McDonald family; one of whom, Simon Gregson, started on the show as Steve McDonald a week after his 15th birthday, and has been on the show ever since.
History 1990s.
In spite of updated sets and production changes, "Coronation Street" still received criticism. In 1992, chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Council, Lord Rees-Mogg, criticised the low representation of ethnic minorities, and the programme's portrayal of | Ken Barlow
Kenneth "Ken" Barlow is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera "Coronation Street", played by William Roache. Ken was created by Tony Warren as one of "Coronation Street's" original characters. He debuted in the soap's first episode on 9 December 1960. Having appeared continuously since, December 2010 marked Ken's 50th anniversary on-screen, making Roache the longest-serving actor in a televised soap opera. Roache was honoured at the 2010 Guinness World Records ceremony for the achievement | 3,559 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the princess in The Sleeping Beauty? | List of Disney's Sleeping Beauty characters
The following are fictional characters in Disney's 1959 film "Sleeping Beauty".
Princess Aurora/Briar Rose/Sleeping Beauty.
Princess Aurora is the title character of the film. After Maleficent curses her when she is only a baby, Aurora is taken to the woods by Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, where her name is changed to Briar Rose to conceal her identity from Maleficent. Aurora is the third official Disney Princess.
Later in the story, the three | to Huon that an angry fairy cursed him to that size at his christening. Madame d'Aulnoy had them appear in her fairy tales "The Hind in the Wood" and "The Princess Mayblossom"; although their roles in her tales had significant differences from "Sleeping Beauty", in "The Princess Mayblossom", the wicked fairy of that tale receives the name "Carabosse". The first reference to Carabosse in Sleeping beauty appears in Marius Petipa's ballet Sleeping Beauty, with music by Tchaikovsky. It has since been customary | 3,560 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the compere for the first National Lottery draw in 1994? | 1994 with a television programme presented by Noel Edmonds. The first numbers drawn were 30, 3, 5, 44, 14 and 22, the bonus was 10, and seven jackpot winners shared a prize of £5,874,778.
Tickets became available on the Isle of Man on 2 December 1999 at the request of Tynwald.
A second lottery draw, Thunderball, was introduced by Camelot on 12 June 1999.
History 21st century.
The National Lottery undertook a major rebranding programme in October 2002, designed to combat falling | random numbers to be generated automatically for those who do not wish to choose, known as 'Lucky Dip'. The entry fee to the Lotto draw was set at £1 per board from its introduction, and increased to £2 in October 2013.
The draw is conducted twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays, except that a draw on Christmas Day is moved to Christmas Eve. Saturday draws started on 19 November 1994, under the name 'National Lottery'; the first Wednesday draw was on 5 February 1997 | 3,561 | triviaqa-train |
What kind of bird is a marabou? | Marabou stork
The marabou stork ("Leptoptilos crumenifer") is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially landfill sites. It is sometimes called the "undertaker bird" due to its shape from behind: cloak-like wings and back, skinny white legs, and sometimes a large white mass of "hair".
Taxonomy and systematics.
The name marabou is thought to be derived | as Neville's wife, a Lilian's lovebird
- Tom Kenny as a marabou
- Wayne Thornley as a marabou
- Brent Palmer as a marabou
- Jon Olson as a marabou
- Lee Duru as Nursery Bird
- Zolani Mahola as a weaver
Tom Kenny, Wayne Thornley, Jon Olson, Brent Palmer, and Jim Cummings provide the voices of various marabou in the film. Sam Riegel and Keeno Lee Hector provided the voices of various Hurricanes.
Release.
"Zambezia" was theatrically released | 3,562 | triviaqa-train |
What are formed by the process of ‘orogeny’? | and 1960s the study of orogeny, coupled with biogeography (the study of the distribution and evolution of flora and fauna), geography and mid ocean ridges, contributed greatly to the theory of plate tectonics. Even at a very early stage, life played a significant role in the continued existence of oceans, by affecting the composition of the atmosphere. The existence of oceans is critical to sea-floor spreading and subduction.
Physiography Relationship to mountain building.
Mountain formation occurs through a number of mechanisms.
Large modern orogenies | Hunter-Bowen orogeny
The Hunter-Bowen Orogeny was a significant arc accretion event in the Permian and Triassic periods affecting approximately 2,500 km of the Australian continental margin.
The Hunter-Bowen Orogeny occurred in two main phases, a Permian accretion of previously formed passive-marginal Devonian and Carboniferous sediments in the Hunter region and mid-west region of what is now New South Wales, separated by rifting, back-arc volcanism and a later Permian to Triassic event resulting in arc accretion and metamorphism during a subduction event | 3,563 | triviaqa-train |
What do we call the elongated hill in the shape of a half-buried egg formed by glacial ice? | Drumlin
A drumlin, from the Irish word "droimnín" ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, and in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine. Swarms of drumlins create a landscape which is often described as having a 'basket of eggs topography'.
Morphology.
Drumlins occur in various shapes and sizes, including symmetrical (about the long axis), spindle | has since modified its shape.
The next cone to form is exposed south of Mount Shasta's current summit and is called Misery Hill. It was formed 15,000 to 20,000 years ago from pyroxene andesite flows and has since been intruded by a hornblende dacite dome.
There are many buried glacial scars on the mountain which were created in recent glacial periods ("ice ages") of the present Wisconsinian glaciation. Most have since been filled in with andesite lava, pyroclastic flows, and talus from lava domes. Shastina, | 3,564 | triviaqa-train |
What is the capital of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region of France? | several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions (five of which are situated overseas) span a combined area of and a total population of 67.02 million (). France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.
During the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, | Château de Lourmarin
The Château de Lourmarin is a converted castle located in the town of Lourmarin which is situated in the Vaucluse "département", in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of France.
Originally a 12th-century fortress, it was transformed in the 15th century by Foulques d'Agoult, chamberlain of King Rene I. of Anjou. After 1526 the castle belonged to Louis d’Agoult-Montauban and his wife Blanche de Lévis-Ventadour and the new annex made the building the first Renaissance building in the Provence Region | 3,565 | triviaqa-train |
Graz is the second-largest city in which country? | Graz
Graz () is the capital city of Styria and the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. On 1 January 2019, it had a population of 328,276 (292,269 of whom had principal residence status). In 2015, the population of the Graz larger urban zone who had principal residence status stood at 633,168. Graz has a long tradition as seat of universities: its six universities have almost 60,000 students. Its historic centre is one of the best-preserved city centres in Central Europe.
For centuries | Most Kickoff Return Yards, career
- 7,354 - Henry Williams
- 6,478 - Tristan Jackson
- 6,349 - Michael Clemons
- 5,976 - Jason Armstead
- 5,742 - "Stefan Logan"
Most Kickoff Return Yards, one season
- 1,805 - Ian Smart (2008)
- 1,750 - Chad Owens (2011)
- 1,695 - Eric Blount (1998)
- 1,671 - "Chris Rainey" (2017)
- 1,651 - "Stefan Logan" (2017)
Most Kickoff Return | 3,566 | triviaqa-train |
Ian Gillan, Graham Bonnet and David Coverdale sang for which band? | recording of "Line Up" Bonnet enlisted several well-known rock musicians including Whitesnake guitarist Mick Moody, Whitesnake and Rainbow drummer Cozy Powell, Deep Purple and Whitesnake keyboard player Jon Lord, and Status Quo guitarists Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt. The album reached No. 62 in the UK Albums Chart. The album's lead single, "Night Games", reached No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart, with the follow-up single, "Liar", reaching No. 51. Around this time Bonnet sang | wanted a better singer for the band and suggested David Coverdale, but Schenker himself wanted Graham Bonnet. After some disagreements, which ultimately led to the termination of the cooperation between Mensch and MSG, Bonnet joined the MSG in February 1982. Meanwhile, Powell and Paul Raymond left the band for their own reasons and were replaced by drummer Ted McKenna and session keyboardist Tommy Eyre. After four months the band went to France to start recording the album that would become "Assault Attack" with producer Martin Birch, who arrived fresh from | 3,567 | triviaqa-train |
What is Ozzy Osbourne’s real first name? | Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, actor and reality television star who rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which he adopted the nickname "The Prince of Darkness". Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979 due to alcohol and drug problems, but went on to have a successful solo career, releasing eleven studio albums, the first seven of which were all awarded multi-platinum | Prince of Darkness (Ozzy Osbourne album)
Prince of Darkness is a box set of four CDs by Ozzy Osbourne released in 2005. The first two CDs are Osbourne's solo work containing various studio recordings, live tracks, b-sides, demos and outtakes, and the last two CDs are collaborations on disc three and cover songs on disc four. The cover versions were recorded for this box set compilation, but were released on Osbourne’s ninth studio album "Under Cover" in November.
Note on album tracks | 3,568 | triviaqa-train |
Who were the twin sons of Zeus and Leda? | which was already explained in antiquity as the remnants of the egg from which they hatched.
They were described by Dares Phrygius as "... blond haired, large eyed, fair complexioned, and wellbuilt with trim bodies".
Shrines and rites.
The Dioskouroi were worshipped by the Greeks and Romans alike; there were temples to the twins in Athens, such as the Anakeion, and Rome, as well as shrines in many other locations in the ancient world.
The Dioskouroi and their sisters grew up in Sparta | twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek and Roman mythology.
The star was annotated by the Arabic description "Al-Ras al-Taum al-Muqadim", which translates as "the head of the foremost twin." In the catalogue of stars in the "Calendarium of Al Achsasi Al Mouakket", this star was designated "Aoul al Dzira", which was translated into Latin as "Prima Brachii", meaning "the first in the paw".
In Chinese, (), meaning " | 3,569 | triviaqa-train |
The Peppermint Lounge in New York was the launch pad for which 60’s dance craze? | Peppermint Lounge
The Peppermint Lounge was a popular discotheque located at 128 West 45th Street in New York City that was open from 1958 to 1965, although a new one was opened in 1980. It was the launchpad for the global Twist craze in the early 1960s. Many claim The Peppermint Lounge was also where go-go dancing originated, although this claim is subject to dispute.
Original Peppermint Lounge.
The Peppermint Lounge opened in 1958 at 128 West 45th Street in Manhattan. It had a lengthy mahogany bar running | trapezes over a net above the dance floor. G. G. Barnum's Room was a popular meeting place for transsexuals, drag queens and homosexuals. The "G.G." was a reference to the Ianniello-owned Gilded Grape located at 719 8th Avenue, a notorious gay bar which operated from the early 1970s until 1977.
Second Peppermint Lounge.
In November 1980, after G. G. Barnum's closed, the Peppermint Lounge name was revived for a new music night club run by Frank Roccio and Tom Goodkind. The | 3,570 | triviaqa-train |
Which inlet of the Irish Sea separates Cumbria from Dumfries & Galloway? | Scotland) Act 1994, however, it has become a unitary local authority. For lieutenancy purposes, the historic counties are largely maintained with its three lieutenancy areas being Dumfries, Wigtown and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
To the north, Dumfries and Galloway borders East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England and the Solway Firth. To the west lies the Irish Sea.
Geography.
The Dumfries and Galloway Council region is composed of | Wigtown Bay
Wigtown Bay is a large inlet of the Irish Sea on the coast of Galloway in southwest Scotland. Its coastline falls entirely within the modern administrative area of Dumfries and Galloway and shared between the historical counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.
The bay is broadly triangular in form, widening to the southeast and with the estuary of the River Cree entering from the northwest at its head. The inner parts of the bay are characterized by large expanses of salt marsh and mudflats. The River Bladnoch flows into the estuarial section | 3,571 | triviaqa-train |
The Tay Bridge runs south from which city? | Tay Bridge
The Tay Bridge carries the railway across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. Its span is . It is the second bridge to occupy the site.
Plans for a bridge over the Tay to replace the train ferry service emerged in 1854 but the first Tay Bridge did not open until 1878. It was a lightweight lattice design of relatively low cost with a single track. On 28 December 1879, the bridge suddenly collapsed in high winds. The incident is one | a weir on the River Almond south of Almondbank, and empties away into the River Tay, near Smeaton's Bridge, via the city. A walking path runs parallel to the lade. Ladeside Court, a cul-de-sac off Fairfield Avenue, takes its name from the body of water.
J. Pullar and Sons Ltd. Tulloch Works, a dry cleaning plant, once stood on the site of the present-day Bracken Brae.
From certain parts of Tulloch, views are afforded of the hills beyond Scone | 3,572 | triviaqa-train |
What is Britain’s most southerly National Park? | by the designations of three more national parks; the Lake District, Snowdonia and Dartmoor. By the end of the decade the national park family had increased to ten with the Pembrokeshire Coast, North York Moors, Yorkshire Dales, Exmoor, Northumberland and Brecon Beacons national parks all being designated. The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, the eleventh member of the national park family, was designated through its own Act of Parliament in 1988 gaining status equivalent to that of a national park. Separate legislation was passed in Scotland, namely the National | Grande de Tierra del Fuego. The western area of the island forms part of the Alberto de Agostini National Park, and has the most southerly trees in the world, the "antarctic beech" "Nothofagus antarctica". The most southern point of the island is the False Cape Horn, on the Hardy Peninsula. It has 5 peninsulas: Hardy, Cloué, Rous, Pasteur and Dumas.
Peninsula Hardy (sometimes called "Pen Hardy") is located at one of the most southerly extremes of South America. It | 3,573 | triviaqa-train |
Which iconic gangster film begins with a Tony Bennett rendition of Rags To Riches? | Cherokeely Swings" (1962).
- Dinah Washington - included in the album "Dinah '63" (1963).
- Tony Bennett and Elton John - included in the 2006 album "".
- Barry Manilow included "Rags to Riches" on the album "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties" (2006).
In popular culture.
Tony Bennett's version was used at the beginning of the film "Goodfellas", just after Henry Hill closes the trunk of the car and says | Rags to riches (disambiguation)
Rags to riches refers to a rise from poverty to wealth.
Rags to Riches may also refer to:
- "Rags to Riches" (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Commodore 64
- Rags to Riches (horse), a thoroughbred race horse
- "Rags to Riches" (song), a 1953 popular song by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, popularized by Tony Bennett
- "Rags to Riches" (TV series), an | 3,574 | triviaqa-train |
Where did Gabriel Byrne pretend to execute John Turturro? | John Turturro
John Michael Turturro (; born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American character actor, writer and filmmaker known for his roles in the films "Do the Right Thing" (1989), "Miller's Crossing" (1990), "Barton Fink" (1991), "Quiz Show" (1994), "The Big Lebowski" (1998), "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000) and "Transformers" film series. He has appeared in over sixty | Malick, and Walter Hill, and actors Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro, Ed Harris, Peter Fonda, Lili Taylor, Sissy Spacek and Dominique Sanda. Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker was honored in 2012. Highlights of the honorees' work are incorporated into the festival programming. In 2017 the festival honored Roger Deakins with the inaugural Karl Struss Legacy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cinematography, named for and dedicated to the pioneering Maine-connected Hollywood cinematographer. The festival does not give awards to individual films and performances, though | 3,575 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the opera Cavalleria Rusticana? | Verdi, onward, exercising tremendous influence on his successors Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten.
After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo appeared in Italy. This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" that came to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly". Later Italian composers, such as Berio and Nono, have experimented | Maria Stuarda", Cleopatra in "Giulio Cesare", Jenny in "Mahagonny" and Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana". She has released two operatic CDs.
Theodoridou has said in interviews that she enjoys singing the work of Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis and Édith Piaf as much as she enjoys opera. In 2010 she and her husband (conductor Theodore Orfanidis) created "Orchestra Mobile", an orchestra composed of renowned European musicians who can play in every city literally at once. In | 3,576 | triviaqa-train |
Mimi is the heroine of which opera? | Verdi, onward, exercising tremendous influence on his successors Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten.
After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo appeared in Italy. This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" that came to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly". Later Italian composers, such as Berio and Nono, have experimented | "Kodomo no Jikan"
- Mimi Force, a character in "Blue Bloods (novel series)"
- Mimi, a female Spix's macaw voiced by Rita Moreno in the 2014 film "Rio 2"
- Character in "Mimi" (2014 TV series) from South Korea
- Mimi, one of the mascots of the "Pop'n Music" video game series
- Mimi, a heroine character in "Space Sheriff Gavan"
- Mimi, an African-American girl on the 2001 Playhouse | 3,577 | triviaqa-train |
Which famous brewery is situated in Banbury, Oxfordshire? | , and possibly also Aynho, Fenny Compton, Charlton and Croughton could be considered part of Banburyshire, as well as Upper and Lower Brailes. The settlements of Bicester, Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Chipping Norton and Hook Norton are on the border of Banburyshire's area.
History Local development plans.
There was a plan in the late 2000s to expand the Bretch Hill estate westwards into local farmland, but this has now been suspended due to the credit crunch and local hostility to the plan, including the southern | Banbury
Banbury is an historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England. The town is situated northwest of London, southeast of Birmingham, south-by-southeast of Coventry and north-by-northwest of the county town of Oxford. It had a population of 46,853 at the 2011 census.
Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire and southern parts of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire which are predominantly rural. Banbury's main industries are car components, electrical goods, plastics | 3,578 | triviaqa-train |
Richard Ashcroft fronted which 1990’s band from Wigan? | Verve reformed in 2007 but again broke up by summer 2009. Ashcroft then founded a new band, RPA & the United Nations of Sound, and released a new album on 19 July 2010. On 22 February 2016, Ashcroft announced his fourth solo album, "These People", which was released on 20 May 2016.
In May 2019, Ashcroft received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. Chris Martin of Coldplay has described Ashcroft as " | In December of the same year, they supported Oasis, at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. They also supported The Rolling Stones at their gigs in Cologne and Paris. During the Christmas season the band played an intimate show at the Railway Inn in Winchester. They were supported by up and coming London band Captain Phoenix, who are fronted by drummer Andy Burrows' younger brother Ben. The band played their biggest tour to date in October–November 2006 and also supported Richard Ashcroft in his homecoming gig at the Lancashire County Cricket Club | 3,579 | triviaqa-train |
The French town of Montelimar is famous for the production of which confection? | Nougat
Nougat ( , , or ; ; Azerbaijani: nuga; Persian: ) is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, and macadamia nuts are common), whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped candied fruit. The consistency of nougat is chewy, and it is used in a variety of candy bars and chocolates. The word "nougat" comes from Occitan "pan nogat" (), seemingly from Latin "panis nucatus" 'nut bread | made butterscotch boiled sweets and sold them in tins, which became one of the town's best known exports. They became famous in 1851 when Queen Victoria was presented with a tin when she visited the town. Butterscotch sauce, made of butterscotch and cream, is used as a topping for ice cream (particularly sundaes).
The term "butterscotch" is also often used more specifically of the flavour of brown sugar and butter together even if the actual confection butterscotch is not involved, such as in butterscotch pudding. | 3,580 | triviaqa-train |
The American woodchuck is also known by what name? | Groundhog
The groundhog ("Marmota monax"), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The groundhog is also referred to as a chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk and, among French Canadians in eastern Canada, siffleux. The name "thickwood badger" was | Red-capped cardinal
The red-capped cardinal ("Paroaria gularis") is a small South American bird. It belongs to "Paroaria", a genus in the tanager family Thraupidae.
Taxonomy.
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the red-capped cardinal in the supplement to his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in "America". He used the French name "Le cardinal d'Amérique" and the Latin name "Cardinalis americanis". Although Brisson coined Latin | 3,581 | triviaqa-train |
What was the age that no-one wanted to reach in Logan’s Run? | 30, and instead of reporting to a Sleepshop, citizens must take part in a ritual called in which they are incinerated with the chance of being "renewed". Logan is a 26-year-old Sandman, sent by the computer to find and destroy Sanctuary. The computer alters his palm flower (here called a "life clock") to show him as approaching Lastday, and he becomes a runner and escapes from the city.
Sanctuary turns out not to exist (it is revealed that Runners have actually been murdered | wanted to reach out and touch someone."
Like the undefeated PRCA bull Red Rock, undefeated PBR bull Mick E. Mouse, barely ridden PBR bull Bushwacker and other such famous bulls, Skoal Pacific Bell showed that he had no set bucking pattern. The bull would toss his head side to side and could jump extremely high. His bucking abilities made it extremely difficult for cowboys to determine what the bull was going to do and get a qualified ride from him.
Career.
At the age of four, Skoal | 3,582 | triviaqa-train |
Which play begins ‘Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace’? | is an absence of patriarchal control. In his book "Power on Display", Leonard Tennenhouse says the problem in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the problem of "authority gone archaic". The Athenian law requiring a daughter to die if she does not do her father's will is outdated. Tennenhouse contrasts the patriarchal rule of Theseus in Athens with that of Oberon in the carnivalistic Faerie world. The disorder in the land of the fairies completely opposes the world of Athens. He states that during times of carnival | females are only above the surface. A nuptial flight takes place for roughly half an hour and females generally fly for less than before landing. About 95% of queens successfully mate and only mate once; some males may be infertile due to the testicular lobes failing to develop. In polygyne colonies, males do not play a significant role and most are, therefore, sterile; one of the reasons for this is to avoid mating with other ant species. This also makes male mortality selective, which may affect the breeding system | 3,583 | triviaqa-train |
Who took the name Sebastian Melmoth while living in exile? | request was denied, Wilde wept. "I intend to be received into the Catholic Church before long", Wilde told a journalist who asked about his religious intentions.
He spent his last three years impoverished and in exile. He took the name "Sebastian Melmoth", after Saint Sebastian and the titular character of "Melmoth the Wanderer" (a Gothic novel by Charles Maturin, Wilde's great-uncle). Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the "Daily Chronicle", describing the brutal conditions | more than twelve times after he had already surrendered and stripped down to his underwear to prove he was not armed."
During Kathleen Cleavers time with the Black Panther Party she helped feed people, provided medical care to families, and took families to visit loved ones in prison. She also “helped put together healing retreats for women who had been in the Black Panther Party, women who had been living underground, who had been tortured, who had been exiled”
Living in exile.
Kathleen reunited with Eldridge | 3,584 | triviaqa-train |
The Talmud was written in Hebrew and which other language? | only truly successful example of a revived dead language.
Hebrew had ceased to be an everyday spoken language somewhere between 200 and 400 CE, declining since the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Aramaic and to a lesser extent Greek were already in use as international languages, especially among elites and immigrants. Hebrew survived into the medieval period as the language of Jewish liturgy, rabbinic literature, intra-Jewish commerce, and poetry. Then, in the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken and literary language. It | quotations from the Hebrew Bible. The dialects organize into Mishnaic Hebrew (also called Tannaitic Hebrew, Early Rabbinic Hebrew, or Mishnaic Hebrew I), which was a spoken language, and Amoraic Hebrew (also called Late Rabbinic Hebrew or Mishnaic Hebrew II), which was a literary language. The earlier section of the Talmud is the Mishnah that was published around 200 CE, although many of the stories take place much earlier, and was written in the earlier Mishnaic dialect. The dialect is also found in certain Dead Sea Scrolls | 3,585 | triviaqa-train |
Common and pygmy are the only species of which large mammal? | Pygmy hippopotamus
The pygmy hippopotamus ("Choeropsis liberiensis" or "Hexaprotodon liberiensis") is a small hippopotamid which is native to the forests and swamps of West Africa, primarily in Liberia, with small populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast.
The pygmy hippo is reclusive and nocturnal. It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being its much larger relative, the common hippopotamus ("Hippopotamus amphibius") or Nile hippopotamus. The pygmy hippopotamus displays many terrestrial adaptations | pygmy loris ("Nycticebus pygmaeus"), Asian black bear ("Ursus thibetanus"), sun bear ("U. malayanus"), large-antlered muntjac "Muntiacus vuquangensis" and Siamese fireback ("Lophura diardi"). The total Fauna recorded in the park consist of 72 mammal species and 181 bird species. Bats are also common; "Cynopterus brachyotis" is the endangered species out of a total of 12 species.
National Parks Xuân Sơn National Park.
The Xuân Sơn National Park, in Thanh | 3,586 | triviaqa-train |
Helen Graham is the eponymous heroine of which Bronte novel? | Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (1848), was far more ambitious. She died on 28 May 1849 in Scarborough at the age of 29.
Education.
Education Early education.
Patrick Brontë faced a challenge in arranging for the education of the girls of his family, which was barely middle class. They had no significant connections and he could not afford the fees for them to attend an established school for young ladies. One solution was the schools where the fees were reduced to a minimum – so called "charity | Distance: The African Americanization of "Bleak House""
Other scholarship by Richard J. Gray and others builds upon existing findings. Gray, for example, re-emphasizes that Crafts creates a heroine who is a young orphan woman, and who is literate and refined, as found in novels by Austen and Bronte.
Background of manuscript.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. acquired the manuscript in 2001 in an annual auction by Swann Galleries. The catalogue described the novel as an "Unpublished Original Manuscript; a fictionalized biography | 3,587 | triviaqa-train |
Who refuses Mr St John Rivers’ offer of marriage? | Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. "Jane Eyre" follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.
The novel revolutionised | specializes in $10.95 dresses. Their plans temporarily are derailed when Harriet's mother refuses to give her the insurance payment the family received when her father died, having promised it to Harriet's younger sister Marge for her wedding. Harriet dupes Marge and her fiancé Ray into giving her the money, and Sherboyco Dresses opens for business.
Teddy, who has fallen in love with Harriet, is dismayed when she flirts with lecherous buyer Mr. Savage during a business dinner, so he proposes marriage. She declines his offer, telling | 3,588 | triviaqa-train |
According to the Highway Code, passengers of what age and above are responsible for themselves wearing a seatbelt? | Code was published on 14 April 1931. It contained just 18 pages of advice, including the arm signals to be given by drivers and police officers controlling traffic. The second edition, considerably expanded, appeared in 1934, and now illustrated road signs for the first time. During its preparation the Ministry of Transport consulted with the Pedestrians Association.
Further major revisions followed after the Second World War so that, for example, references to trams were still included in the 1954 version but disappeared after that (tramway rules returned to | in the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Alleged suspicious behavior.
According to some passengers and flight staff, a number of whom refused to identify themselves, the actions of the imams included the following:
- The imams refused to sit in their assigned seats. Instead, it is claimed that they fanned out in the cabin, sitting in pairs close to the front, middle, and rear exit rows.
- Shahin and the two imams seated in Coach Row 9 requested seatbelt extensions (a strap with large metal | 3,589 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the Volkswagen Beetle which made it's first appearance in The Love Bug? | The Love Bug
The Love Bug (sometimes referred to as Herbie the Love Bug) is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and the first in a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution that starred an anthropomorphic pearl-white, fabric-sunroofed 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie. It was based on the 1961 book "Car, Boy, Girl" by Gordon Buford.
The movie follows the adventures of Herbie, Herbie's driver, Jim Douglas (Dean Jones | The Love Bug (1997 film)
The Love Bug is a 1997 American made-for-television comedy adventure film and a remake of the 1968 film of the same name produced by Walt Disney Television which premiered on ABC as part of "The Wonderful World of Disney" on November 30, 1997. The remake starred Bruce Campbell and included a special appearance by Dean Jones, star of the original "Love Bug", tying it to the previous films and introduced an evil black Volkswagen named Horace, "The Hate | 3,590 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did Czechoslovakia become the first country to make seat belts compulsory? | -cooperation and defiance: this was followed by a period in which the Czechoslovak Communist Party leadership, having been forced in Moscow to make concessions to the Soviet Union, gradually put the brakes on their earlier liberal policies. In April 1969 Dubček was finally dismissed from the First Secretaryship of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Meanwhile, one plank of the reform program had been carried out: in 1968-69, Czechoslovakia was turned into a federation of the Czech Socialist Republic and Slovak Socialist Republic. The theory was that under the federation | on all new cars registered in the UK from 1972, although it did not become compulsory for them to be worn until 1983. Rear seat belts were compulsory equipment from 1986 and became compulsory for them to be worn in 1991. However, it has never been a legal requirement for cars registered before those dates to be fitted with seat belts. In one such attempt in 1979 similar claims for potential lives and injuries saved were advanced. William Rodgers, then Secretary of State for Transport in the Callaghan Labour Government (1976–1979) | 3,591 | triviaqa-train |
As in the famous song Girl From Ipanema, in which country is Ipanema? | The Girl from Ipanema
"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.
The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The Stan Getz recording featuring the vocal debut of Astrud Gilberto | Pinheiro as the real Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) was used as evidence that they had intended to bestow this title on her. The court ruled in favor of Pinheiro.
In a separate legal dispute, Astrud Gilberto sued Frito-Lay for trademark infringement for using the song in a TV advertisement for its baked potato chips. Gilberto argued that:[A]s the result of the huge success of the 1964 recording, and her frequent subsequent performances of "Ipanema," she has become known as The Girl from Ipanema and is | 3,592 | triviaqa-train |
What is name of the strait that divides New Zealand into Northern and Southern parts? | first Parliament met in 1854. In 1856 the colony effectively became self-governing, gaining responsibility over all domestic matters other than native policy. (Control over native policy was granted in the mid-1860s.) Following concerns that the South Island might form a separate colony, premier Alfred Domett moved a resolution to transfer the capital from Auckland to a locality near Cook Strait. Wellington was chosen for its central location, with Parliament officially sitting there for the first time in 1865.
In 1891 the Liberal Party came to power as | sources are not more than from the north coast of the island. Hence Polybius and Livy's statement that the Himera nearly divides the whole of Sicily into two parts, is accurate. But it is evidently this circumstance, coupled with the fact that there was another river of the same name flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea, which gave rise to the fable above noticed. Strabo, who does not mention the southern Himera, applies (evidently by mistake) very nearly the same words as Polybius to the northern river of the name | 3,593 | triviaqa-train |
In which Indian city would you find the Taj Mahal? | Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal (; , ) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan (reigned from 1628 to 1658), to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan, the builder. The tomb is the centrepiece of a complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded | United Arab Emirates which is planned to be an accurately scaled replica of the Taj Mahal made using glass. The glass hotel and its wedding hall are complemented with a suite of other Indian-themed facilities.
The Americas.
The Americas Canada.
- Thomas Foster Memorial Temple is a memorial to the Canadian Politician, Thomas Foster in Uxbridge, Ontario inspired by the Taj Mahal.
The Americas US.
- "Trump Taj Mahal" was a casino located at 1000 Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey and modelled after | 3,594 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did California become one of the United States of America? | of Alta California, within its New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for independence but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850. The California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom.
Etymology.
The Spaniards gave | way from San Francisco to the gold fields of the Sierras. Although it did not become the financial and cultural center of Northern California, titles that were given to San Francisco, Sacramento became the largest transportation hub of not only Northern California, but also the West Coast following the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Sacramento today continues to be one of the largest rail hubs in North America, and its rail station is one of the busiest in the United States. In 2002, Time Magazine featured an article recognizing Sacramento as | 3,595 | triviaqa-train |
Which Elvis Presley film has the word love in the title and is the only one in which his character dies? | popular—and controversial.
In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in "Love Me Tender". Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He held few concerts however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television | Julien Poulin
Julien Poulin (born April 20, 1946) is an actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and composer in Quebec, Canada. He has portrayed numerous roles in several popular Quebec films and series.
Elvis Gratton films.
His most memorable role was Elvis Gratton in which his character impersonates rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. The series of Elvis Gratton films appeared between 1981 and 2004. The most recent of these films were "Elvis Gratton II: Miracle a Memphis," filmed in | 3,596 | triviaqa-train |
Who discovered penicillin on Valentine's Day in 1929? | of this group may not actually be allergic. Serious allergies only occur in about 0.03%. Those who are allergic to penicillin are most often given cephalosporin C because of its functional groups. All penicillins are β-lactam antibiotics, which are some of the most powerful and successful achievements in modern science.
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. People began using it to treat infections in 1942. There are several enhanced penicillin families which are effective against additional bacteria; these include the antistaphylococcal penicillins, aminopenicillins | Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 Valentine's Day murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of Valentine's Day. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants who were dressed like police officers. The incident resulted from the struggle to control organized crime in the city during Prohibition between the Irish North Siders and their Italian South Side rivals led by Al Capone. The | 3,597 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the car in the film The Love Bug? | Herbie
Herbie the Love Bug is a fictional sentient anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen Beetle, a character that is featured in several Walt Disney motion pictures starting with the 1968 feature film "The Love Bug". He has a mind of his own and is capable of driving himself, and is also a serious contender in auto racing competitions. Throughout most of the franchise, Herbie is distinguished by red, white and blue racing stripes from front to back bumper, a racing-style number 53 on the front luggage compartment lid, doors | used in the film and listed in the film's credits:
- ABBA – "The Name of the Game"
- Bonnie Raitt – "Runaway"
- Ritchie Valens – "Come on, Let's Go"
- Tanya Tucker – "Not Fade Away"
- The Rolling Stones – "Beast of Burden"
See also.
- "The Love Bug" (1968) - an earlier film about a car with a distinct personality and mind of its own
- Little Bastard ( | 3,598 | triviaqa-train |
Which brothers' last film was called Love Happy? | Love Happy
Love Happy is a 1949 American musical comedy film, released by United Artists, directed by David Miller, starring the Marx Brothers. It was the 13th and final feature film starring the Marx Brothers.
The film, produced by former silent film star Mary Pickford, stars Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and, in a smaller role than usual, Groucho Marx, plus Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen, Paul Valentine, Marion Hutton, Raymond Burr, Bruce Gordon (in his film debut), and | what he called Lorre's "double-take job", a characteristic dramatic flourish "where the actor's face changes rapidly from laughter, love or a security that he doesn't really feel to a face more sincerely menacing, fearful or deadpan."
Lorre's last film for Warner was "The Beast with Five Fingers" (1946), a horror film in which he played a crazed astrologer who falls in love with a character played by Andrea King. Daniel Bubbeo, in "The Women of Warner Brothers | 3,599 | triviaqa-train |
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