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On which island was the now extinct Elephant bird found? | can affect native species directly by eating them, competing with them, and introducing pathogens or parasites that sicken or kill them; or indirectly by destroying or degrading their habitat. Human populations may themselves act as invasive predators. According to the "overkill hypothesis", the swift extinction of the megafauna in areas such as Australia (40,000 years before present), North and South America (12,000 years before present), Madagascar, Hawaii (AD 300–1000), and New Zealand (AD 1300–1500), resulted from the sudden introduction | moa stood up to tall, but weighed about half as much as a large elephant bird or mihirung due to its comparatively slender frame.
The heaviest bird ever capable of flight was "Argentavis magnificens", the largest member of the now extinct family Teratornithidae, found in Miocene-aged fossil beds of Argentina, with a wingspan up to , a length of up to , a height on the ground of up to and a body weight of at least . Rivaling "Argentavis" in wingspan if not in bulk and mass | 3,700 | triviaqa-train |
Which bird has the Latin name Puffinus puffinus? | Manx shearwater
The Manx shearwater ("Puffinus puffinus") is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx shearwaters were called Manks puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English "pophyn") for the cured carcasses of nestling shearwaters. The Atlantic puffin acquired the name much later, possibly because of its similar nesting habits.
Taxonomy.
The shearwaters form part of the family Procellariidae, a widespread | which is σαρκο-) and ῥάμφος ("rhamphos", "crooked beak of bird of prey"). The genus name is often misspelled as "Sarcorhamphus", improperly retaining the Greek rough breathing despite agglutination with the previous word-element. The bird was also assigned to the genus "Gyparchus" by Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger in 1841, but this classification is not used in modern literature since "Sarcoramphus" has priority as the earlier name. The species name is derived from Latin word "papa" "bishop" | 3,701 | triviaqa-train |
In the video game who are the antagonists of the Angry Birds? | Toons" channel on all of the "Angry Birds" apps homescreens. DVD version for the TV series was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The series has a total of 3 seasons.
On 11 April 2014, Rovio released ""Piggy Tales"", a stop motion animated series. It tells the stories of the Minion Pigs' life.
On 1 November 2014, Rovio released ""Angry Birds Stella"", a 2D/3D animated series, telling the stories of Stella's life and that of | Angry Birds Star Wars
Angry Birds Star Wars is a puzzle video game, a crossover between the "Star Wars" franchise and the "Angry Birds" series of video games, launched on November 8, 2012, first for Windows, iOS and Android devices, later also to Mac and BlackBerry. The game is the sixth "Angry Birds" game in the series. The characters are copyrighted from George Lucas's double-trilogy. On July 18, 2013, Rovio announced that "Angry Birds Star Wars" will | 3,702 | triviaqa-train |
In which film can you the Sulaco spacship | Sulaco (fictional spacecraft)
The U.S.S. "Sulaco" is a fictional spaceship and important setting in the film "Aliens". It also appears briefly in the opening scene of "Alien 3", as well as in the "" and "" video games that takes place shortly after the events of "Alien 3".
Etymology.
The "Sulaco" is named after a fictional town in Joseph Conrad's novel "Nostromo", which is also the name of the ship from the original "Alien | the "Sulaco" spaceship and the Hadley's Hope colony were recreated for the game. To keep the same level of authenticity, concept artist Syd Mead, who collaborated with Cameron on the film to design the "Sulaco", was hired to recreate its "mechanical mood" and design areas of the spaceship that did not appear in the film but would be used in the game. The development team also contacted Kodak to get color channel details about the film's film stock.
Originally, "Colonial Marines" was | 3,703 | triviaqa-train |
In which film will you find the Jupiter 2 spaceship | Lost in Space
Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series, created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired between 1965 and 1968. The series is loosely based on the 1812 novel "The Swiss Family Robinson", and on a comic book published by Gold Key Comics titled "Space Family Robinson." The series follows the adventures of the Robinsons, a pioneering family of space colonists who struggle to survive in the depths of space. The show ran for 83 episodes over three seasons, the first | completely. You will certainly find characteristics of both of us in each of the four main girls and if you spend even a half-hour with us, it will be very apparent to you, which girls are most like me and which ones are most like Tatiana." The film was an official selection at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
Gregorini's film "The Truth About Emanuel"—starring Jessica Biel, Kaya Scodelario and Alfred Molina—was selected for the US dramatic competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. | 3,704 | triviaqa-train |
Released in September 2014 which Labrinth song sounds like it should be in your Beatles Collection | Me to the Truth" since 2013. He has written with Ed Sheeran for the album. He has also been in the studio throughout November 2013 recording album content, and will soon be revealing some new material. He also appeared on two tracks for Tinie Tempah's second studio album "Demonstration": the third single "Lover Not a Fighter" and the album track "It's OK". The first single from the album, "Let It Be", premiered in August 2014 and was released on 28 September | It just sounds like [the songs] would be from a totally different band, which was, you know, the goal". It was also revealed that the track titled "Focus" was co-written with Stone Temple Pilots and former Army of Anyone guitarist Dean DeLeo.
On May 21, 2007 a demo song titled "All Your Lies" from "Division" was released onto their MySpace along with a post stating the band had chosen producer Rick Parasher to produce the new album. On September 7, | 3,705 | triviaqa-train |
Which cheery Pharell Williams song was used on Despicable Me 2 soundtrack | and it has grossed over $970 million worldwide against a budget of $76 million. It was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and for Academy Award for Best Original Song (for "Happy"), losing both to Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Frozen". It became the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2013 and the third highest-grossing film of 2013. It is also the most profitable film in the 101-year history of Universal Pictures. A spinoff/prequel film, "Minions" | 2009, Williams worked with the rapper Game on his fourth studio album, "The R.E.D. Album."
Career 2010–12: "Despicable Me" and collaborations.
In July 2010, Williams composed the soundtrack to the movie "Despicable Me", produced by Hans Zimmer and recorded with the Hollywood Studio Symphony. In October 2010, Williams and his group N*E*R*D supported Gorillaz on their "Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour". On the tour, Damon Albarn recorded a song with Williams but this was not featured on Gorillaz's | 3,706 | triviaqa-train |
Which John Legend song knocked Pharell Willams completely off the No.1 spot on the US Billboard | Peoples' "This Way", Slum Village's "Selfish", Fort Minor's "High Road", and played piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything". Legend's single "All of Me" from his fourth studio album "Love in the Future" (2013) was a "Billboard" Hot 100 number-one hit.
In 2007, Legend received the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Legend won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Golden Globe Award | released in the US in November 1974 and topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 in March 1975. "My Eyes Adored You" also went to number 2 on the Easy Listening chart. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1975.
The single was Valli's first number 1 hit as a solo artist on Billboard's Hot 100, and remained there for one week, being knocked out of the top spot by another Crewe/Nolan-penned song, "Lady Marmalade". Although it | 3,707 | triviaqa-train |
Which accusing Calvin Harris song reached No1 on the UK Singles Chart on 14th Sept 2014 | attracted the second largest crowd in the festival's history, topped only by the 2012 set of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg which featured a hologram of Tupac Shakur. That year, he was also a headline act at several prominent music festivals, including Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Music Festival, the iTunes Festival in London, Electric Daisy Carnival, and the iHeartRadio Music Festival.
The third single, "Blame", was a collaboration with vocalist John Newman. It was released in September 2014 to positive reviews from music critics | reached number 5 on the UK Singles Chart, and Dappy's 2011 debut single "No Regrets", which topped the UK Singles Chart. The song was produced by the Three Six Zero Group duo of Calvin Harris and Matt Burns (credited as BURNS), in August 2011.
When speaking about working with Calvin Harris and how they both came to work together on the song, Stryder stated in an interview with music journalist Kim Dawson of "Daily Star" newspaper:
According to an interview with music journalist, | 3,708 | triviaqa-train |
Name the scarey debut Single from Ella Henderson released in June 2014 | Ella Henderson
Gabriella Michelle "Ella" Henderson (born 12 January 1996) is an English singer and songwriter. She was a contestant in the ninth series of "The X Factor" in 2012 and got into the final 12, finishing in sixth place, despite being a strong favourite to win. She was subsequently signed to Syco Music, from which she has been dropped. In August 2018, Ella signed with record label Warner Music Group.
Henderson's first single, "Ghost", co-written with | Glow (Ella Henderson song)
"Glow" is a song by English singer and songwriter Ella Henderson. It was released on 5 October 2014 as the second single from her debut studio album, "Chapter One". The song was written by Camille Purcell and Steve Mac.
Music video.
The music video premiered on 12 August 2014. It features Ella and several other dancers performing on a dark field and then later a court yard. | 3,709 | triviaqa-train |
Released in August 2014, which noisy song from Jessie J features Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj | -ten single, "The Way", featuring rapper Mac Miller.
Grande's second studio album, "My Everything" (2014), continued the pop-R&B sound of its predecessor and incorporated EDM elements. It topped the "Billboard" 200 and featured four US top-ten singles: "Problem", "Break Free", "Bang Bang", and "Love Me Harder", the most of any artist that year. Grande's pop-R&B styles extended on her third studio album | video was uploaded on MTV's website and was available for international viewing. On 25 August 2014, the video was released via Jessie J's Vevo account, and was Vevo-certified on 5 November, having surpassed 110 million views. As of February 2019, it has accumulated more than 1.3 billion views.
Live performances and media appearances.
Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj performed the song together at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards on 24 August 2014 in Inglewood, California alongside Grande's song Break | 3,710 | triviaqa-train |
Released in July 2014, which deadly song is from Iggy Azalea and features Rita Ora | was featured on Ariana Grande's single "Problem", which peaked at No. 2 while "Fancy" was No. 1. Azalea joined The Beatles as the only acts to rank at numbers one and two simultaneously with their first two Hot 100 entries. She achieved three top-ten hits simultaneously on the Hot 100 with the aforementioned songs along with the album's fifth single, "Black Widow", later that year.
After her debut album, Azalea released a slew of moderately successful singles to build anticipation | number of artists throughout 2014, including Rita Ora, Katy B and Iggy Azalea. He produced and wrote the Katy B track, Next Thing. The song appeared on her album Little Red, which reached number one in the UK album charts. McKenzie then teamed up with Australian recording artist, Iggy Azalea. Her debut album was released in 2014, after she had success with a number of singles. McKenzie produced and wrote six of the tracks from the album, while also receiving production and writing credits for the album itself | 3,711 | triviaqa-train |
Which battle is commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand? | possibly the battle's final actions. Although the marker for Mitch Bouyer has been accounted for as being accurate through archaeological and forensic testing, it is some 65 yards away from Deep Ravine. Scott in his book "They Died With Custer: Soldiers Bones from the Battle of the Little Big Horn" puts forth the theory that the "Deep Gulch" or "Deep Ravine" might have included not only the steep sided portion of the coulee, but the entire drainage including its tributaries. If one uses this interpretation then Bouyer | .) Custer's body was found near the top of Custer Hill, which also came to be known as "Last Stand Hill". There the United States erected a tall memorial obelisk inscribed with the names of the 7th Cavalry's casualties.
Several days after the battle, Curley, Custer's Crow scout who had left Custer near Medicine Tail Coulee (a drainage which led to the river), recounted the battle, reporting that Custer had attacked the village after attempting to cross the river. He was driven back | 3,712 | triviaqa-train |
What is the last book of the Old Testament? | already present, but unrecognised due to Israel's sins; some thought that the Messiah would be announced by a fore-runner, probably Elijah (as promised by the prophet Malachi, whose book now ends the Old Testament and precedes Mark's account of John the Baptist). None predicted a Messiah who suffers and dies for the sins of all the people. The story of Jesus' death therefore involved a profound shift in meaning from the tradition of the Old Testament.
The name "Old Testament" reflects Christianity's | Published by the Gospel Advocate Company "circa" 1934.
4. "The Certified Gospel", First Edition – 1937. This is a book of sermons delivered at Port Arthur, Texas in 1937. The sermons are: The Certified Gospel, Who Wrote the Bible?, Christ and the Church, How and When the Church Began, The Last Will and Testament, What It Means to Preach Christ, The Gospel in Old Testament Example, The Lord's Day, Restoring the Ancient Order, Why Send for Peter | 3,713 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the book Last of the Mohicans? | The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.
It is the second book of the "Leatherstocking Tales" pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. "The Pathfinder", published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. "The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of | perverse, funny and uplifting", but added that it was debatable if it was "clever metafiction", or a "thinly disguised memoir". Colette Bancroft in the "St. Petersburg Times" described the novel as a "loose and baggy tale in search of a center".
Several reviewers of the book were impressed by Irving's characters. English author Giles Foden wrote in "The Guardian" that Ketchum is "[a] magnificent creation, he's like something out of "The Last of the Mohicans | 3,714 | triviaqa-train |
What mission number was the last Apollo lunar landing? | SpaceIL lost contact with the spacecraft and it crashed into the surface on 11 April.
Crewed landings.
A total of twelve men have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month period starting 20 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17. Cernan was the last to step off the lunar surface. | at the higher velocity that would have been required by a Lunar flight. It was seen as the last effort by NASA managers and engineers who still advocated the direct ascent mission profile, and was intended to be cheaper, faster and safer than the Apollo lunar orbit rendezvous technique.
Lunar exploration Apollo rescue.
Due to the risks associated with the Lunar landing, a number of rescue spacecraft were proposed, to be used to allow the crew of an Apollo mission to return to Earth safely in the event of a problem. | 3,715 | triviaqa-train |
Which band's debut single was Last Train to Clarksville? | Last Train to Clarksville
"Last Train to Clarksville" was the debut single by The Monkees. It was released August 16, 1966, and later included on the group's 1966 self-titled album, which was released on October 10, 1966. The song, written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, was recorded at RCA Victor Studio B in Hollywood on July 25, 1966, and was already on the Boss Hit Bounds on August 17, 1966. The song topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 on November | which included Harper and former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard. The band worked heavily on Diddy's new album "Last Train to Paris". They released three singles in total. "Angels" was the band's debut single and featured The Notorious B.I.G., and was officially released on November 3 (but the song had leaked to the internet in early June). The video was directed by Hype Williams. The band's second single "Love Come Down" was released later that day (November 3). Both singles | 3,716 | triviaqa-train |
Who created the television series Last of the Summer Wine? | made it a tourist destination, tensions have occasionally surfaced between Holmfirth residents and the crew. One such incident, regarding compensation to local residents, prompted producer Alan J. W. Bell to consider not filming in Holmfirth any more. The situation escalated to the point that Bell filmed a scene in which Nora Batty put her house up for sale.
Production Crew.
Every episode of "Last of the Summer Wine" was written by Roy Clarke. The "Comedy Playhouse" pilot and all episodes of the first series were produced and | the program between 1980 and 1982 to confirm the notion.
- "First of the Summer Wine", the prequel to the long-running British sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine", retconned the character Seymour Utterthwaite as a pre-World War II friend of the other central characters. Seymour had been introduced into later series of "Last of the Summer Wine" and was previously unknown to the stalwart characters, Compo and Clegg.
- The revived series of British science fiction television program "Doctor Who" | 3,717 | triviaqa-train |
In which month does The Last Night of the Proms take place? | tickets cannot be bought until 9am on the morning of the concert (although there are full-season tickets, first weekend and weekly passes available), they provide a way of attending otherwise sold-out concerts.
In 2010, the Proms Archive was introduced on the BBC Proms webpage, to allow for a systematic searching of all works that have been performed and all artists who have appeared at The Proms since their inception. On 1 September 2011, a Prom given by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was severely affected | trumpets and a side drum on the right.
Last Night of the Proms.
For many years, the "Fantasia" has been a staple item in the BBC's "Last Night of the Proms" concert, often with modifications. It was omitted from the program, however, in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. "Rule, Britannia!" has been given a place in the programme in its own right, and was still performed in the years in which the full | 3,718 | triviaqa-train |
What is the first name of cricket umpire Dickie Bird | Dickie Bird
Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird, (born 19 April 1933, Staincross, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a retired English international cricket umpire. During his long umpiring career, he became a much-loved figure among players and viewing public, due to his excellence as an umpire, but also his many eccentricities.
Bird played first-class cricket for Yorkshire and Leicestershire as a right-handed batsman, but only scored two centuries in 93 appearances. His career was blighted by a knee | former Test cricket umpire, Dickie Bird, a resident of Staincross), a ballot was held in January 2003 to determine whether the residents of Staincross wanted their mail to include the name of the village. Before the ballot, Staincross mail bore the name of a neighbouring village, either Mapplewell or Darton. Indeed, it is unclear where the boundaries between the three villages lie. Villagers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposal by 966 to 199 and Royal Mail implemented changes to officially recognise the village.
External links. | 3,719 | triviaqa-train |
Which US President's wife was known as Bird | , five presidents have served two full terms: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Both Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush sought a second term but were defeated. Richard Nixon was elected to a second term, but resigned before completing it. Lyndon B. Johnson, having held the presidency for one full term in addition to only 14 months of John F. Kennedy's unexpired term, was eligible for a second full term in 1968, but withdrew from Democratic Primary. | President's wife, Lady Bird often served as a substitute for Jacqueline Kennedy at official events and functions. Within her first year as Second Lady, she had substituted for Mrs. Kennedy at more than 50 events, roughly one per week. This experience prepared Lady Bird for the following challenges of her unexpected years as First Lady.
On November 22, 1963, the Johnsons were accompanying the Kennedys in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated; they were two cars behind the President in his motorcade. Lady Bird later said the day | 3,720 | triviaqa-train |
Who starred alongside Rod Taylor in Hitchcock's movie The Birds | it was announced that Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco since 1956, would come out of retirement to star in it. When Kelly asked Hitchcock to postpone "Marnie" until 1963 or 1964, he recruited Evan Hunter, author of "The Blackboard Jungle" (1954), to develop a screenplay based on a Daphne du Maurier short story, "The Birds" (1952), which Hitchcock had republished in his "My Favorites in Suspense" (1959). He hired Tippi Hedren to play the lead role | final attack sequence, where mechanical birds were replaced with real ones at the last minute. It has been suggested that "Hitchcock's deliberate inflicting of injury was revenge for Hedren's spurning of his advances". Hitchcock also signed Hedren to a seven year contract, which she stated restricted her ability to work. These allegations were not brought to light until after Hitchcock's death. Although they have never been confirmed, they have widely been reported, including by Hedren's co-star, Rod Taylor. Nevertheless, some have | 3,721 | triviaqa-train |
The birdeating spider (the largest spider in the world is found in what part of the world | became extinct about 300 years ago. Of almost exactly the same upper proportions as the largest elephant birds was "Dromornis stirtoni" of Australia, part of a 26,000-year-old group called mihirungs of the family Dromornithidae. The largest carnivorous bird was "Brontornis", an extinct flightless bird from South America which reached a weight of and a height of about . The tallest carnivorous bird was "Kelenken", which could reach 3 to 3.2 meters in height and 220 to 250 kilograms. The tallest bird ever was the giant moa | Goliath birdeater ("Theraphosa blondi"), largest known spider in the world by mass
- Giant huntsman spider largest known spider in the world by leg span.
- "Cerbalus aravaensis", a huntsman spider found in Israel and Jordan
External links.
- Biggest Fossil Spider Found | 3,722 | triviaqa-train |
Which U.S. band had hits with Sylvia's mother and A little bit more? | believe that Sawyer was 'Dr. Hook'. When anyone asked the band which one of them was 'Dr Hook' they always directed everyone to the bus driver.
History Career: 1968-1971.
The band played for a few years in New Jersey, first with drummer Popeye Phillips (who had also been in The Chocolate Papers), who went on to be a session drummer on The Flying Burrito Brothers' first album, "The Gilded Palace of Sin". Citing musical differences, Popeye returned home to | Sylvia's Mother" and surpassed only by "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman when it reached number 1 for several weeks in 1979 in the UK. A number of great certified million sellers came next with""Sharing the Night Together" reaching number 6, "Sexy Eyes" reaching number 5, "A Little Bit More" reached number 11) and "Better Love Next Time" reached number 12.
1978 Songs & Stories - Shel Silverstein.
Together Haffkine and Silverstein produced a collection of scatological renaissance | 3,723 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the film director whose films include Bladerunner and Gladiator? | Gladiator (2000 film)
Gladiator is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson. The film was jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures. It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed (in his final role), Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays Hispano-Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son | The Bladerunner
The novel The Bladerunner (also published as The Blade Runner) is a 1974 science fiction novel by Alan E. Nourse, about underground medical services and smuggling. It was the source for the name, but no major plot elements, of the 1982 film "Blade Runner", adapted from the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, though elements of the Nourse novel recur in a pair of 2002 films also largely adapted from Dick's work, "Impostor" and " | 3,724 | triviaqa-train |
Which Disney film includes the characters Bubbles,Crush and Mr Ray? | ".
Theme park attractions.
"Finding Nemo" has inspired numerous attractions and properties at Disney Parks around the world, including: Turtle Talk with Crush, which opened in 2004 at Epcot, 2005 in Disney California Adventure Park, 2008 in Hong Kong Disneyland, and 2009 in Tokyo DisneySea; Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, which opened in 2007 in Disneyland Park; The Seas with Nemo & Friends, which opened in 2007 at Epcot; "Finding Nemo – The Musical", which opened in 2007 in Disney's | ", was included. A short film set in the world of "Inside Out", titled "Riley's First Date?", and directed by Josh Cooley, the head of story on the film, was included exclusively in the Blu-ray and the digital release.
Release Video games.
An "Inside Out" play set featuring all five emotions as playable characters was made available for "Disney Infinity 3.0".
A mobile game, "Inside Out: Thought Bubbles", was released on June | 3,725 | triviaqa-train |
Which U.S. actor played the title role in Spartacus ? | Spartacus (film)
Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Dalton Trumbo, and based on the novel of the same title by Howard Fast. It is inspired by the life story of Spartacus, the leader of a slave revolt in antiquity, and the events of the Third Servile War, and stars Kirk Douglas in the title role, Laurence Olivier as Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, Peter Ustinov, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as slave | Klinton Spilsbury
Klinton Spilsbury (born March 4, 1951) is a former actor from the U.S. His sole major acting credit is the film "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" (1981), in which he played the title role.
Biography.
Spilsbury, descended from Mormon settlers in Mexico, spent much of his childhood in Arizona, where his father was a football coach, first in the high school ranks and then at Arizona State Teachers College (now Northern Arizona University). After his father left | 3,726 | triviaqa-train |
In which Dickens novel does Miss Havisham appear? | Copperfield" seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed, and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha'pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.
His 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol" remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. "Oliver Twist" and "Great Expectations" are also frequently adapted and, like | History Interview with Arthur S. Flemming
- Paul Douglas Ethics in Government Award | 3,727 | triviaqa-train |
In the 1989 film, who was Driving Miss Daisy? | Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy), a 72-year-old wealthy, Jewish, widowed, retired schoolteacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for an African American housekeeper, Idella (Esther Rolle). When Miss Daisy drives her 1946 Chrysler Windsor into her neighbor's yard, her 40-year-old son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd) buys her a 1949 Hudson Commodore and hires Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), an African American chauffeur. Miss Daisy at first refuses to let anyone else drive her, | Ronni Chasen
Ronni Sue Chasen (October 17, 1946 – November 16, 2010) was an American publicist, who once represented such actors as Michael Douglas, as well as musicians such as Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham, among others. Chasen directed the Academy Award campaigns for more than 100 films during her career, including "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1989 and "The Hurt Locker" in 2009.
Chasen was shot and killed on November 16, 2010, while driving home from the premiere of the film | 3,728 | triviaqa-train |
The musical Miss Saigon is based on which Puccini opera? | Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly", and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and "Madame Butterfly"'s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and | Chicago" ran for 590 performances. More recently the 'rock'n'roll' musical "Return to the Forbidden Planet", which was based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and used 1950s and 1960s songs opened in September 1989 and lasted until early 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical—beating the favourite, "Miss Saigon".
The controversial show "Jerry Springer - The Opera" had a run from 14 October 2003 – 19 February 2005. This was followed by a month run of illusionist Derren Brown | 3,729 | triviaqa-train |
Miss Phillipines, Mary Jean Lastimosa currently holds which title? | Binibining Pilipinas 2014
Binibining Pilipinas 2014, the 51st edition of Binibining Pilipinas, was held on March 30, 2014 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines. At the end of the pageant Mary Jean Al Shabrami Lastimosa was crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2014; Mary Anne Bianca Garcia Guidotti as Binibining Pilipinas International 2014; Yvethe Marie Avisado Santiago as Binibining Pilipinas Supranational 2014; and Parul Quitola Shah as Binibining Pilipinas Tourism 2014. A new minor title, Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental 2014, was awarded to Kris Tiffany Maslog Janson by | ")
- 2013: Bb. 27 Hannah Ruth Sison
- 2012: Bb. 25 Mary Jean Lastimosa ("Top 12")
- 2011: Bb. 17 Diana Arevalo ("Top 15")
- 2011: Bb. 25 Mary Jean Lastimosa ("2nd runner-up")
- 2011: Bb. 39 Ladylyn Riva
- 2009: Bb. 17 Diana Arevalo ("Top 10")
- Miss Philippines Earth
- 2013: Bb. 12 Sarah Jireh Asido | 3,730 | triviaqa-train |
What is the sunsme of The Muppets Miss Piggy? | Eric Jacobson in 2001.
Miss Piggy was inspired by jazz singer Peggy Lee.
In 1996, "TV Guide" ranked her number 23 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. In a 2001 Channel 4 poll in the U.K. Miss Piggy was ranked 29th on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.
Characterization.
Characterization Origins and personality.
In a 1979 interview with "The New York Times", performer Frank Oz outlined Piggy's biography: "She grew up in a small town | 'll lose something valuable and green, referring to her money (as she takes Piggy's purse when Piggy isn't looking), but she thinks Madam Rhonda is talking about Kermit. Miss Piggy soon gets jealous when she sees Kermit talking to the other female Muppets. Meanwhile, Kermit, who doesn't believe in Madame Rhonda's fortune telling, eventually lets Fozzie and Gonzo talk him into getting his fortune told. Later, Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Madame Rhonda end up in jail, while a police officer explains what | 3,731 | triviaqa-train |
Which Greek hero set off on a quest to find the golden fleece? | often took their subjects from myth, but their treatment became gradually less narrative and more allusive. Greek lyric poets, including Pindar, Bacchylides and Simonides, and bucolic poets such as Theocritus and Bion, relate individual mythological incidents. Additionally, myth was central to classical Athenian drama. The tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides took most of their plots from myths of the age of heroes and the Trojan War. Many of the great tragic stories (e.g. Agamemnon and his children, Oedipus, Jason, Medea, etc. | Queen Bee. Like the other brainwashed Global Guardians, Thunderlord rejoined the Global Guardians, but he died at the hands of Fain Y'onia.
- Olympian (Aristides Demetrios of Greece): A hefty Greek punk who wears the Golden Fleece, which grants him the powers and abilities of the 50 men and women who sailed on the Argo to find the Golden Fleece. He helped Wonder Woman battle Colonel Conquest in Greece, where a bomb was supposed to be hidden. Later on, he helped Superman twice. The Greek hero | 3,732 | triviaqa-train |
In Norse myth, what was the name of Odin's eight- legged horse? | traditions and stories of Odin the Old still live in the mouths of the people". Thorpe notes that, in in Sweden, "it was formerly the custom to leave a sheaf on the field for Odin's horses", and cites other examples, such as in , , where a barrow was purported to have been opened in the 18th century, purportedly containing the body of Odin. After Christianization, the mound was known as (Swedish "Hell's Mound"). Local legend dictates that after it was opened | metal working (bronze, gold, silver), a high level of bone and antler working (including elements of horse harness made of antler), sophisticated pottery, often considered one of the most exquisite ceramic cultures of prehistoric Europe, with beautifully adorned amphorae, jugs, broad bowls, small cups, pottery of milk processing, and piraunoi - transportable ceramic ovens, richly decorated, often interpreted as being used not only for profane, but also cult activities(burning incense). Some distinctive features of Ottomány ceramics are decoration with spiral | 3,733 | triviaqa-train |
In Norse mythology who was the shield maiden cursed to sleep within a circle of fire? | shield-maidens mentioned by name in the Norse sagas include Brynhildr in the "Vǫlsunga saga", Hervor in "Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks", the Brynhildr of the "Bósa saga ok Herrauðs", the Swedish princess Thornbjǫrg in "Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar" and Princess Hed, Visna and Veborg in "Gesta Danorum".
Two shield-maidens appear in certain translations of the "Hervarar saga". The first of these Hervors was known to have taken up typically masculine roles early in her childhood and often raided | he and Damayanti were exiled to the forest.
During their exile, Kali drove Nala to abandon Damayanti, who later enacted a curse against everyone that had caused the downfall of her husband. She eventually returned home after a short time as a hand-maiden to the Princess of Chedi. Nala, meanwhile, saved the Naga Karkotaka from fire (where he was cursed to suffer by sage Narada). Intending to exorcize the devil within him, the serpent bit Nala, injecting him with deadly poisons that forever tortured Kali | 3,734 | triviaqa-train |
Which Greek warrior and hero killedthe monster called the Chimera? | breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay." The author of the "Bibliotheca" concurs: descriptions agree that she breathed fire. The Chimera is generally considered to have been female (see the quotation from Hesiod above) despite the mane adorning her head, the inclusion of a close mane was often depicted on lionesses, but the ears were always visible (that does not occur with depictions of male lions).
While there are different genealogies, in one version the Chimera | had to use their imagination, as the CGI monster was not yet complete. Director Brad Anderson described the chimera "sort of an amalgam of a bat, lion, and a dragon". Anderson called the scene between Walter and the chimera as a "triumphant moment" for Walter, and actor Joshua Jackson characterized the scene as Walter's "action hero moment". The actor himself, John Noble, described the scene with the chimera as "terrifying", as his character "tries to be a hero". | 3,735 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce | Joyce also wrote "Finnegans Wake", "Dubliners", and the semi-autobiographical "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "Ulysses", often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is the story of a day in the life of a city, Dublin. "Finnegans Wake" is written in an invented language which parodies English, Irish and Latin.
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, was born in Dublin but | 3,736 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the story collection Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog? | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection of short prose stories written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published by Dent on 4 April 1940. The first paperback copy appeared in 1948, published by the British Publishers Guild.
Background.
All of the stories are autobiographical and all are set in the writer's native Swansea in South Wales. Written over a number of years, the often comic stories show glimpses of his life, from early childhood up | The Portrait (short story)
"The Portrait" () is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection "Arabesques" in 1835. It is one of Gogol's most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as "St. John's Eve" and "Viy".
Plot summary.
"The Portrait" is the story of a young and penniless artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and | 3,737 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Grey? | The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine". Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde | - Starring Wallace Reid as Dorian Gray; Lois Weber, and Smalley. With the screenplay by Weber.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915)
- Directed by Eugene Moore.
- The Picture of Dorian Grey (1916)
- Directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail Doronin
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916)
- Directed by Fred W Durrant; screenplay by Rowland Talbot
- Starring Henry Victor as Dorian Gray; Sydney Bland as Basil Hallward; Jack Jordan as Henry Wotton; | 3,738 | triviaqa-train |
By what other name is the Flying Fox known? | to seeing in low-light conditions.
Evolution.
Flying foxes are poorly represented in the fossil record.
Relative to the current number of extant species, Pteropodidae has one of the most incomplete fossil records of any bat group.
As of 2014, there are no flying fox fossils from before the Holocene.
Many flying foxes live in the Tropics, however, where conditions for fossilization are poor.
Based on molecular evolution, flying foxes diverged from a common ancestor with "Rousettus" 28–18 million years | Other Tales of the Flying Fox (disambiguation)
Other Tales of the Flying Fox, known as "Fei Hu Wai Zhuan" (or "Feihu Waizhuan") in Chinese, is a novel by Jin Yong. An alternate English title is "Young Flying Fox". It may also refer to:
Adaptations of the novel
- "Legend of the Fox", a 1980 Hong Kong film
- "New Tales of the Flying Fox", a 1984 Hong Kong film
- "The Sword of | 3,739 | triviaqa-train |
Which Scottish football club is nicknamed The Arabs? | Dundee United F.C.
Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the city of Dundee. Formed in 1909. originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1923. United are nicknamed "The Terrors" or "The Tangerines" and the supporters are known as "Arabs".
The club has played in tangerine kits since the 1960s and have played at the present ground, Tannadice Park, since their foundation in 1909. United were founder members of the Scottish Premier League ( | Selkirk F.C.
Selkirk Football Club (nicknamed the Souters) were a Scottish football club based in the town of Selkirk. Founded in 1880, they were the oldest established football club in the Scottish Borders. The club was selected as a founder member of the Lowland Football League, which was formed in 2013 by the Scottish Football Association (SFA) as part of a proposed pyramid system. Their home ground is Yarrow Park. Following financial problems, they resigned from the Lowland League during the 2018–19 season and later went out of | 3,740 | triviaqa-train |
which region of the earth's stratosphere traps most of the sun's UV radiation? | . Water vapor content varies between 0.01% and 4% but averages about 1%. The height of the troposphere varies with latitude, ranging between at the poles to at the equator, with some variation resulting from weather and seasonal factors.
Earth's biosphere has significantly altered its atmosphere. Oxygenic photosynthesis evolved , forming the primarily nitrogen–oxygen atmosphere of today. This change enabled the proliferation of aerobic organisms and, indirectly, the formation of the ozone layer due to the subsequent conversion of atmospheric into. The ozone layer | a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation
- Ozone House, a non-profit youth shelter in Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
- O-Zone (disambiguation) | 3,741 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the trophy awarded to the NHL Play-off winners? | . Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) for the 1925 Stanley Cup. It was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the "de facto" NHL championship in 1926 after the WCHL ceased operation.
The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons and Boston Bruins in 1924. The Bruins were the first American team in the league. The New York Americans began play in 1925 | Michel Brière Memorial Trophy
The Michel Brière Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the Most Valuable Player in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. It is named for former QMJHL and NHL player Michel Brière, who was killed in a car crash.
There is another trophy with the same name in honor of the same player awarded by the Pittsburgh Penguins organization to their Rookie of the Year, titled the Michel Brière Rookie of the Year Award.
Winners.
Players listed in bold also won the CHL Player of the Year | 3,742 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the female lead in the 1933 movie King Kong? | Fay Wray
Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film "King Kong". Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films. She has been dubbed one of the first "scream queens".
After appearing in minor film roles, Wray gained media attention after being selected as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars" in 1926. | He was played by Lewis Stone in Rouben Mamoulian's 1933 Hollywood movie "Queen Christina", with Greta Garbo as the female lead role, by Cyril Cusack in Anthony Harvey's "The Abdication" (1974) and by Michael Nyqvist in Mika Kaurismäki's "The Girl King" (2015).
Fictional portrayals On stage.
Samuel Ahlgren (1764–1816) played Oxenstierna in "Drottning Kristina" (1790), by the King Gustav III of Sweden who was an active playwright.
In August Strindberg's 1901 play | 3,743 | triviaqa-train |
Which song, released by Elton John as a single in 1975, was a tribute to tennis player Billie Jean King? | "Elton Week" in Los Angeles that year, he had a cocaine overdose. He also developed the eating disorder bulimia. In a 2002 CNN interview with Larry King, King asked if John knew of Diana, Princess of Wales's eating disorder. John replied, "Yes, I did. We were both bulimic." In a 29 July 2019 Instagram post, John stated he had been sober for 29 years.
A longtime tennis enthusiast, he wrote the song "Philadelphia Freedom" in tribute to his friend | for charity featuring the likes of Chevy Chase, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carlos Santana, Edward M. Kennedy, Elton John and more throughout the decade.
In 1975, the tournament was switched to Har-Tru clay courts. By 1978, the tournament had outgrown West Side, and the USTA moved the tournament to the new USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows under USTA President William Hester's leadership. In 2008, the stadium was the site of a women's satellite tournament.
The New York Empire of | 3,744 | triviaqa-train |
Who succeeded Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England until 2013? | governor in June 2013, and was succeeded by Mark Carney. He was appointed a life peer and entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher in July 2013. Since September 2014 he has served as a professor of economics and law with a joint appointment at New York University's Stern School of Business and School of Law.
Early life and pre-bank career.
Mervyn King is a son of Eric King, a railway porter who retrained as a geography teacher after the war, and Kathleen (née Passingham) | of the Exchequer George Osborne announced the appointment of Carney as Governor of the Bank of England. He succeeded Sir Mervyn King on July 1, 2013. He is the first non-Briton to be appointed to the role since the Bank was established in 1694. The Bank of England was given additional powers from 2013, such as the ability to set bank capital requirements.
Prior to taking up the post, Carney had already indicated disagreement with the Bank of England's Executive Director of Financial Stability Andy Haldane, specifically on | 3,745 | triviaqa-train |
Who played television character Jason King in the early 1970s? | Peter Wyngarde
Peter Paul Wyngarde (born Cyril Goldbert, 23 August 1927 – 15 January 2018) was a British actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two television series: "Department S" (1969–70) and "Jason King" (1971–72). His flamboyant dress sense and stylish performances led to popular success, and he was considered a style icon in Britain and elsewhere in the early 1970s; Mike Myers credited Wyngarde with inspiring the character Austin Powers.
Background | - is a homage to many of the 'telefantasy' heroes present on British television during the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Jason King ("Department S" / "Jason King"), John Steed ("The Avengers") and the Third Doctor ("Doctor Who"). As such, he shares many character traits with them - a flamboyant dress sense, upper-class tastes and sensibilities combined with a youthful appreciation of the 'trendy' aspects of 1970s culture, a chivalrous and patriotic nature | 3,746 | triviaqa-train |
The Last King of Scotland was a 2006 movie, that featured which African leader in the storyline? | to his title for "Conqueror of the British Empire". Radio Uganda then announced his entire title: "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Alhaji Dr. Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE".
As Amin's rule progressed into the late 1970s, there was increased unrest against his persecution of certain ethnic groups and political dissidents, along with Uganda's very poor international standing due to Amin's support for the terrorist hijackers in Operation Entebbe. He then attempted to annex Tanzania's Kagera Region | 's "In Focus" regarding my success as a singer
- VOA September 22, 2009 – Featured on VOA's "In Focus" regarding For You Gulu Project
- VOA August 29, 2007 – Featured on VOA, "Straight Talk Africa", regarding my humanitarian work with For You Gulu Project
- CNN October 27, 2006 – Featured on "Inside Africa", regarding my humanitarian work with my For You Gulu Project
- "Last King of Scotland" (Oscar-winning movie) – Played | 3,747 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the singer and voice artist behind King Louis in the cartoon version of Jungle Book? | King Louie
King Louie is a fictional character introduced in Walt Disney's 1967 animated musical film, "The Jungle Book". Unlike the majority of the adapted characters in the film, Louie was not featured in Rudyard Kipling's original works. King Louie was portrayed as an orangutan who was the leader of the other jungle primates, and who attempted to gain knowledge of fire from Mowgli, in order to become more human.
King Louie was voiced by Louis Prima in the original 1967 film. Initially, the filmmakers | who is waking up. The purpose of the advertisement was to market Burger King's new Cheesy Bacon BK Wrapper.
An animated version of the Burger King appears at the beginning of each episode of "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy", sponsored by Burger King, bursting through the movie screen and trying to escape from some kind of danger behind him, such as angry jungle natives, a dramatic explosion, etc.
In 2009, the Burger King advertised a Kid's Meal cross-promotion with SpongeBob to | 3,748 | triviaqa-train |
Name the Ancient Greek Muse of Dance? | even then there was some variation in both their names and their attributes: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (flutes and lyric poetry), Thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Terpsichore (dance), Erato (love poetry), Polyhymnia (sacred poetry), and Urania (astronomy).
According to Pausanias in the later second century AD, there were originally three Muses, worshipped on Mount Helicon in Boeotia: Aoide ("song" or " | Melpomene
Melpomene (; ), initially the Muse of Chorus, she then became the Muse of Tragedy, for which she is best known now. Her name was derived from the Greek verb melpô or melpomai meaning "to celebrate with dance and song." She is often represented with a tragic mask and wearing the cothurnus, boots traditionally worn by tragic actors. Often, she also holds a knife or club in one hand and the tragic mask in the other.
Melpomene is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Her | 3,749 | triviaqa-train |
What is the chemical symbol for Gold? | Gold as a sign of wealth and prestige was ridiculed by Thomas More in his treatise "Utopia". On that imaginary island, gold is so abundant that it is used to make chains for slaves, tableware, and lavatory seats. When ambassadors from other countries arrive, dressed in ostentatious gold jewels and badges, the Utopians mistake them for menial servants, paying homage instead to the most modestly dressed of their party.
The ISO 4217 currency code of gold is XAU. Many holders of gold store it in form of | conservatives of the day.
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- As late as 1959 William Buckley complains that conservatives were "bound together for the most part by negative response to liberalism," and that, philosophically, "there [is] no commonly-acknowledged conservative position."
Chronology of events 1960s.
Liberalism made major gains after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, as Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) pushed through his liberal Great Society as well as civil rights laws. An unexpected bonanza helped conservatism in the late | 3,750 | triviaqa-train |
In science fiction, who formulated the Three Laws of Robotics? | originally to cover what we would today call "hard" science fiction, in which a conscientious attempt to be faithful to already known facts (as of the date of writing) was the substrate on which the story was to be built, and if the story was also to contain a miracle, it ought at least not to contain a whole arsenal of them."
Isaac Asimov said: "Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and | proposed in the 1978 essay "Tik-Tok and the Three Laws of Robotics" by Paul A. Abrahm and Stuart Kenter in the academic journal "Science Fiction Studies", which Sladek may have read.
Publication history.
"Tik-Tok" so far has seen five editions in the English language, spread over three different publishers: Gollancz (who published the 1st edition and two later editions); DAW Books (1985) and Corgi (1984).
In 1985 "Tik-Tok" was translated | 3,751 | triviaqa-train |
What is the chemical symbol for Silver? | the time of the Mughal Empire (grouped with copper and gold coins to create a trimetallic standard), and the Spanish dollar.
The ratio between the amount of silver used for coinage and that used for other purposes has fluctuated greatly over time; for example, in wartime, more silver tends to have been used for coinage to finance the war.
Today, silver bullion has the ISO 4217 currency code XAG, one of only four precious metals to have one (the others being palladium, platinum, and gold | at Chalk Farm.
He was afterwards engaged, under Messrs. Grissel & Peto, in building the new houses of parliament, and fashioned with his own hand much of the stone tracery of the great window at the east end of Westminster Hall. Within a year he left London and found employment till 1849 under Brassey's agent, Thomas Jones, in the construction of the Harecastle tunnel on the North Staffordshire Railway. On the completion of this work he undertook the contract for building the principal tunnel entrances, and was for a | 3,752 | triviaqa-train |
Who beat Carl Lewis's best time of 9.86 seconds for the 100 meters? | also, therefore, twice tied the "true" world record (9.93 s) for his 1987 World Championship performance, and again at the 1988 Zürich meet where he defeated Johnson. However, those times were never ratified as records. From January 1, 1990, Lewis was the world record holder in the 100 m. The record did not last long, as fellow American and University of Houston teammate Leroy Burrell ran 9.90 s on June 14, 1991, to break Lewis's mark. Lewis also permanently lost his ranking | improved his technique. Record holder Bolt dismissed the challenge, saying that it would be difficult for Gay as "he is more of a 200 m runner". At the Golden Gala in July, Gay beat Asafa Powell's 9.88 season's best with a 9.77 second run, equaling his own U.S. record. This improved upon Bolt's previous world leading time of 9.86 seconds.
The first event at the 2009 World Championships in August was the 100 m. After two sub-10 clockings in the preliminary rounds, | 3,753 | triviaqa-train |
Who won a record ninth Wimbledon singles title in 1990? | Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova ( ; born Martina Šubertová ; October 18, 1956) is a Czechoslovak-born American former professional tennis player and coach. In 2005, "Tennis" magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1975 through 2005 and she is considered one of the best female tennis players of all time.
Navratilova was world No. 1 for a total of 332 weeks in singles, and a record 237 weeks in doubles, making her the only player in history to have held the | and then French Open champion Monica Seles in the quarterfinals 3–6, 6–3, 9–7 and the defending Wimbledon champion and world No. 1 Steffi Graf in the semifinals 6–3, 3–6, 6–4 to reach her first-ever Grand Slam singles final, becoming the first African-American woman to do so since Gibson. Moreover, it ended Graf's record 13-time streak of Grand Slam finals. Then, she lost to Navratilova 6–4, 6–1, who thus won her record ninth women's singles title at Wimbledon. Garrison claimed her third | 3,754 | triviaqa-train |
On which course does the Kentucky Derby take place? | Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry and fillies .
The race is often called "The Run for the Roses" because of the blanket of roses draped over the winner. It is also known in the | Road to the Kentucky Derby Conditions Stakes
The Road to the Kentucky Derby Conditions Stakes is a flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old horses. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) and is scheduled to take place in March.
The race was first run in 2018 as part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby series through which horses earn points to qualify for a place in the Kentucky Derby.
See also.
- Horse racing in | 3,755 | triviaqa-train |
In women's field hockey, which country has won the most World Cups? | 1956 and then in 1964 and 1980. Pakistan won in 1960, 1968 and 1984.
In the early 1970s, artificial turf began to be used. Synthetic pitches changed most aspects of field hockey, gaining speed. New tactics and techniques such as the Indian dribble developed, followed by new rules to take account. The switch to synthetic surfaces ended Indian and Pakistani domination because artificial turf was too expensive in developing countries. Since the 1970s, Australia, the Netherlands, Pakistan and Germany have dominated at the Olympics and World | team is the only one to have won the most important international triplet: World Cup, Confederations Cup, and Olympic Gold Medal. It has also won 14 Copas América, 6 Pan American Gold Medals and many other trophies. Alfredo Di Stéfano, Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi are among the best players in the game's history.
The country's women's field hockey team "Las Leonas", is one of the world's most successful with four Olympic medals, two World Cups, a World League and seven Champions | 3,756 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the oldest US Open golf champion of the 20th century? | old Andy Zhang of China, who qualified in 2012 after Paul Casey withdrew days before the tournament.
Qualification USGA special exemptions.
The USGA has granted a special exemption to 34 players 52 times since 1966. Players with multiple special exemptions include: Arnold Palmer (1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1994), Seve Ballesteros (1978, 1994), Gary Player (1981, 1983), Lee Trevino (1983, 1984), Hale Irwin (1990, 2002, 2003), Jack Nicklaus (1991, | Orville Moody
Orville James Moody (December 9, 1933 – August 8, 2008) was an American professional golfer who won numerous tournaments in his career. He won the 1969 U.S. Open, the last champion in the 20th century to win through local and sectional qualifying.
Early life.
Moody was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the youngest of 10 children. The son of a golf course superintendent, he began his career at Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City, winning the 1952 state high school golf championship | 3,757 | triviaqa-train |
Who did Hubert Green beat to win the US PGA Championship in 1985? | , "Only an amateur would have been put off by the interruption — or would try to make excuses about it."
At the 1985 PGA Championship, Green won his second major title, two strokes ahead of defending champion Lee Trevino. It was Green's 19th and final victory on the PGA Tour.
In 1998, his second season on the Senior PGA Tour (now PGA Tour Champions), Green won the Bruno's Memorial Classic in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He shot a final round of | Hubert Green
Hubert Myatt Green (December 28, 1946 – June 19, 2018) was an American professional golfer who won 29 professional golf tournaments, including two major championships: the 1977 U.S. Open and the 1985 PGA Championship. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2007.
Early life.
Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He attended and played golf for Shades Valley High School in Birmingham and then Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, Florida. While at FSU, he | 3,758 | triviaqa-train |
Which team lost the first Super Bowl of the 1980s? | In Super Bowl LIII, the Los Angeles Rams had made their first appearance since relocating from St. Louis in 2016. The Rams fell to the New England Patriots by a score of 13–3 in the lowest scoring Super Bowl of all-time and Julian Edelman was awarded Super Bowl MVP.
Television coverage and ratings.
The Super Bowl is one of the most watched annual sporting events in the world, with viewership overwhelmingly domestic. The only other annual event that gathers more viewers is the UEFA Champions League final. For many | World Series. The Eagles lost Super Bowl XV to the Oakland Raiders in January 1981.
Of note, this marked the first of the ten NBA Finals played in the 1980s, all of which featured either the Boston Celtics or the Los Angeles Lakers (three Finals featured both teams).
Background Regular season series.
Both teams split the two meetings, each won by the home team:
Series summary.
Series summary Game 1.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, playing on a mission and finally with an effective | 3,759 | triviaqa-train |
Which was the last horse before Nijinsky to win the English Triple Crown of 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and St. Leger? | , and was sent to Doncaster for the St. Leger in September. In the one mile and six furlongs race, he was attempting to become the first horse since Bahram 35 years earlier to complete the English Triple Crown. He started the 2/7 favourite and won comfortably, although his margin of victory over Meadowville was only one length. As of 2017, he is the last horse to accomplish the feat of sweeping the English Triple Crown: since 1970 only Reference Point (1987), Nashwan (1989), Sea The Stars | lawsuit against the other members of The Beatles to dissolve their partnership, effectively ending the band.
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- Richard Branson started the Virgin Group with discounted mail-order sales of popular records.
- The last forced child migration to Australia took place.
- Nijinsky became the first horse for 35 years to win the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger.
- Mathematician Alan Baker won a Fields Medal.
- Trade union membership now accounts for nearly | 3,760 | triviaqa-train |
Which team won baseball's first World Series of the 60s? | interleague exhibition games after the 1903 season. These series were arranged by the participating clubs, as the 1880s World's Series matches had been. One of them matched the two pennant winners, Pittsburgh Pirates of the NL and Boston Americans (later known as the Red Sox) of the AL; that one is known as the 1903 World Series played at Huntington Avenue Grounds. It had been arranged well in advance by the two owners, as both teams were league leaders by large margins. Boston upset Pittsburgh by five games to | 1992 World Series
The 1992 World Series was the 89th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series and the conclusion of the 1992 Major League Baseball season. It was the first World Series in which games were played outside the United States. It pitted the American League (AL) champion Toronto Blue Jays against the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves.
Toronto defeated Atlanta four games to two, marking the first time a team based outside the United States won the World Series. The Blue Jays remain the only | 3,761 | triviaqa-train |
Which Bond movie used Stoke Poges golf club for some location shots? | . Principal photography began on 1 April 1963 and concluded on 23 August. Filming took place in Turkey, Pinewood Studios and Venice, with Scotland and Switzerland doubling for the Orient Express journey through Eastern Europe.
Eon Productions Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman (1962–1964) "Goldfinger" (1964).
While the previous two films had concentrated on the Caribbean and Europe, "Goldfinger" was chosen by Eon for the third film, with the American cinema market in mind. Because Terence Young was refused a share of the profits, he | - Kingfisher Lakes Golf Club - Milton Keynes
- Lambourne Golf Club - South Bucks
- Little Chalfont Golf Club - Amersham
- Magnolia Park Golf & Country Club - Aylesbury
- Mentmore Golf Club
- Muddy Lane Golf Academy - Stoke Poges
- Oakland Park Golf Club - Chalfont Saint Giles
- Princes Risborough Golf Club - Aylesbury
- Richings Park Golf & Country Club - Iver
- Silverstone Golf Club - Stowe
- Stoke Poges Golf Club - Stoke Poges
- Stowe Golf Club - Buckingham | 3,762 | triviaqa-train |
How many races did Ed Moses win in succession between '77 and '87? | Edwin Moses
Edwin Corley Moses (born August 31, 1955) is an American former track and field athlete who won gold medals in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record in the event four times. In addition to his running, Moses was also an innovative reformer in the areas of Olympic eligibility and drug testing. In 2000, he was elected the first Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy | . 30-Johnny Benson
Failed to qualify: 8-Hut Stricklin, 35-Todd Bodine, 40-Greg Sacks, 71-Dave Marcis, 77-Robert Pressley, 95-Ed Berrier, 96-David Green
- Bobby Labonte won the first race on the new 1.54 mile configuration on Atlanta and became the first driver to win on both configurations of the track.
- Dale Jarrett and Mark Martin came into this race 77 and 87 points behind Jeff Gordon respectively. Jarrett finished 2nd, Martin 3rd, and Gordon 17th. Gordon ultimately hung on and won the title by only 14 | 3,763 | triviaqa-train |
Which team won the most Super Bowls in the 1980s? | most of any team; the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers have five victories each, while the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants have four Super Bowl championships. Fourteen other NFL franchises have won at least one Super Bowl.
The Patriots own the record for most Super Bowl appearances overall (eleven), the most Super Bowls reached (nine) and won (six) by a head coach–quarterback tandem (Bill Belichick and Tom Brady). The Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Denver Broncos are tied | Giants were also top teams of this period; the Redskins won Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI. The Giants claimed Super Bowls XXI and XXV. As in the 1970s, the Oakland Raiders were the only team to interrupt the Super Bowl dominance of other teams; they won Super Bowls XV and XVIII (the latter as the Los Angeles Raiders).
Following several seasons with poor records in the 1980s, the Dallas Cowboys rose back to prominence in the 1990s. During this decade, the Cowboys made post- | 3,764 | triviaqa-train |
Anton Geesink was the first non-Japanese judoka to win a judo world championship, but which country did he come from? | in judo, with the following praise:
ヘーシンク氏は、一九六四年東京オリンピックにおいて、柔道無差別級で外国人選手として初めて金メダルを獲得し、その後、武道精神をもって国際平和に貢献するとともにオランダ・日本両国民の文化交流・友好関係の促進に努め、また柔道を教育学や生体学的角度から研究し、その普及発展のために尽力された。
武道の精神を重視する本大学は、柔道の国際的普及における同氏の功績を讃え、国士舘大学名誉博士の学位を贈呈した。
At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Mr. Geesink won the gold medal in the open class as the first non-Japanese. Since then, with the spirit of budō, he has contributed to the international peace and promoted the cultural exchange and friendship between the people of the Netherlands and of Japan. Furthermore, he explored judo in light of education and somatology and has been devoted to its diffusion and development. To honor his contribution to the worldwide diffusion | Anton Geesink
Antonius Johannes Geesink (6 April 1934 – 27 August 2010) was a Dutch 10th dan judoka. He was the first non-Japanese judoka to win gold at the World Judo Championship, a feat he accomplished in 1961 and 1965. He was also an Olympic Champion, having won gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Japan, and won a record 21 European Judo Championships during his career.
Judo career.
Geesink took up judo aged 14 and by 17 started competing internationally, winning a silver medal | 3,765 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the defending champion when Chris Evert first won Wimbledon singles? | both seasoned professionals, before losing to Billie Jean King in a semifinal in straight sets. This defeat ended a 46-match winning streak built up through a variety of professional and junior tour events. This winning streak included her first matches with and wins over King, Virginia Wade and Betty Stöve.
In 1973 Evert was the runner-up at the French Open and the Wimbledon Championships. A year later she won both those events during her then-record 55-consecutive-match winning streak, which included eight other tournament wins. She | 1978 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Martina Navratilova defeated her rival Chris Evert in the final, 2–6, 6–4, 7–5 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1978 Wimbledon Championships. Virginia Wade was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Chris Evert. This was Navratilova's first of 18 Grand Slam singles titles and a record nine Wimbledon singles titles. This was the first time Wimbledon seeded 16 players for the ladies' championship, increasing the number from 12 in 1977. There have been at | 3,766 | triviaqa-train |
Who was Super Bowl MVP in successive years in 1967 and 1968? | lyrics considered too sexually explicit in the first two songs by briefly turning off Jagger's microphone; the group had previously agreed to the censoring.
However, the choice of the Rolling Stones sparked controversy in the Detroit community because the band did not represent the music of Detroit and no other artist from the area was included.
Entertainment Post-game ceremonies.
The post-game presentation saw Bart Starr, the MVP of Super Bowls I and II, take the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the podium, whence it was presented | game. Following the Giants' monumental victory, Manning and the coaching staff spoke briefly with President George W. Bush.
Manning was named the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XLII. He and his brother Peyton are the only brother combination to play at quarterback in the Super Bowl and the only set of brothers to win Super Bowl MVP, doing so in successive years.
For winning Super Bowl MVP, he was given his choice of any 2008 model Cadillac, and Manning chose an Escalade Hybrid. The Wednesday following the | 3,767 | triviaqa-train |
Who won the most men's US Open tennis titles in the 20th century? | )
- Stefan Edberg (6)
- Frank Sedgman (5)
- Tony Trabert (5)
Players Greatest male players.
A frequent topic of discussion among tennis fans and commentators is who was the greatest male singles player of all time. By a large margin, an Associated Press poll in 1950 named Bill Tilden as the greatest player of the first half of the 20th century. From 1920 to 1930, Tilden won singles titles at Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Championships seven times. In 1938, | Holcombe Ward
Holcombe Ward (November 23, 1878 – January 23, 1967) was an American tennis player who was active during the last years of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. He won the US National Championships singles title in 1904 and additionally won six doubles titles at the Grand Slam event.
Biography.
Ward is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the US National Championships in 1904 after defeating William Clothier in straight sets in the all-comer's final. He | 3,768 | triviaqa-train |
How many bits are there in a byte? | or program.
The symbol for the binary digit is either simply "bit" per recommendation by the IEC 80000-13:2008 standard, or the lowercase character "b", as recommended by the IEEE 1541-2002 and IEEE Std 260.1-2004 standards. A group of eight binary digits is commonly called one byte, but historically the size of the byte is not strictly defined.
History.
The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste | required to represent .
- "AMPLITUDE" is the bit-representation of .
The run-length encoding works by examining each non-zero AC coefficient and determining how many zeroes came before the previous AC coefficient. With this information, two symbols are created:
Both "RUNLENGTH" and "SIZE" rest on the same byte, meaning that each only contains four bits of information. The higher bits deal with the number of zeroes, while the lower bits denote the number of bits necessary to encode the | 3,769 | triviaqa-train |
What is a message sent to a newsgroup in the Internet called?| | Articles approved by a moderator must bear the Approved: header line. Moderators ensure that the messages that readers see in the newsgroup conform to the charter of the newsgroup, though they are not required to follow any such rules or guidelines. Typically, moderators are appointed in the proposal for the newsgroup, and changes of moderators follow a succession plan.
Historically, a "mod.*" hierarchy existed before Usenet reorganization. Now, moderated newsgroups may appear in any hierarchy, typically with .moderated added to the group name. | attempted to silence criticism by sending mass "rmgroup" messages to Usenet servers targeting alt.religion.scientology, an example of the church's continuing efforts to suppress material critical of Scientology on the Internet. Most servers discarded the message, and those that did not were quickly sent "newgroup" messages reestablishing the newsgroup.
Types checkgroups.
A checkgroups message lists all groups of a hierarchy.
- Example
Control: checkgroups
- Example conforming to RFC 5537
Control: checkgroups de !de.alt #2009021301
Types Obsolete message types | 3,770 | triviaqa-train |
In addition to the computer, what else must a modem be plugged into? | centers to the SAGE director centers scattered around the United States and Canada. SAGE modems were described by AT&T's Bell Labs as conforming to their newly published Bell 101 dataset standard. While they ran on dedicated telephone lines, the devices at each end were no different from commercial acoustically coupled Bell 101, 110 baud modems.
The "201A" and "201B Data-Phones" were synchronous modems using two-bit-per-baud phase-shift keying (PSK). The 201A operated half-duplex at 2,000 | producing such a modem was forwarding commands from the computer. This could be addressed in internal modems that plugged directly into the computer's motherboard. Such modems had access to the computer's main memory, and by dedicating certain memory locations (or registers) to various status readouts or commands, software programs running on the computer could control the modem. This was a straightforward and thus a popular solution; the Novation APPLE-CAT II for the Apple II computer was an early programmable modem of this type.
Hayes started producing | 3,771 | triviaqa-train |
What letter appears on the computer screen when you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer? | Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge Web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. As of 2016, it is the world's largest software maker | - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850)
- Henrik Pontoppidan, author and Nobel Prize laureate
- Jacob Riis (1849–1914), photographer, journalist and social activist in the US
- Tage Skou-Hansen (1925–), novels include "De nøgne træer" (The Naked Trees)
- Carl Erik Soya (1896–1993), author, playwright, poet, satirist
- Villy Sørensen (1929–2001), author
- Dan Turéll (1946–1993), author
- Johannes Østrup (1867–1938), | 3,772 | triviaqa-train |
Where does a bounced email return to? | .
Today these paths are normally reduced to ordinary email addresses, as the old SMTP 'source routing' was deprecated in 1989; for some historical background info see Sender Rewriting Scheme. One special form of a path still exists: the empty path codice_8, used for many auto replies and especially all bounces.
In a strict sense, bounces sent with a non-empty codice_1 are incorrect. RFC 3834 offers some heuristics to identify incorrect bounces based on the local part (left hand side before the "@" | an SPF-protected domain is less attractive as a spoofed address, it is less likely to be blacklisted by spam filters and so ultimately the legitimate email from the domain is more likely to get through.
Principles of operation FAIL and forwarding.
SPF breaks plain message forwarding. When a domain publishes an SPF FAIL policy, legitimate messages sent to receivers forwarding their mail to third parties may be rejected and/or bounced if all of the following occur:
1. The forwarder does not rewrite the Return-Path, unlike mailing | 3,773 | triviaqa-train |
What name is given to the software program needed to access the Web? | . Tags such as and directly introduce content into the page. Other tags such as surround and provide information about document text and may include other tags as sub-elements. Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to interpret the content of the page.
HTML can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript, which affects the behavior and content of web pages. Inclusion of CSS defines the look and layout of content. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), maintainer of both the | financial resources and their powerful presence during copyright investigations.
Early social innovators, like Thomas Paine and other early American pamphleteers and muckrakers, set the stage for successive media revolutions. The most significant being worldwide, low-cost access to internet and having their own say about what is happening in the world.
Ch. 2: The Read-Write Web.
David Winer developed user friendly software that would allow most people with a computer to be able to write on the web. People no longer needed an ISP | 3,774 | triviaqa-train |
What goes after Netscape in the name of a popular Internet browser? | market. It became the main browser for Internet users in such a short time due to its superiority over other competition, like Mosaic. This browser was subsequently renamed Netscape Navigator, and the company took the "Netscape" name (coined by employee Greg Sands, although it was also a trademark of Cisco Systems) on November 14, 1994, to avoid trademark ownership problems with NCSA, where the initial Netscape employees had previously created the NCSA Mosaic web browser. The Mosaic Netscape web browser did not use any NCSA Mosaic code | in stores along with a period of phone support. During this era, "Internet Starter Kit" books were popular, and usually included a floppy disk or CD containing internet software, and this was a popular means of obtaining Netscape's and other browsers. Email support was initially free, and remained so for a year or two until the volume of support requests grew too high.
During development, the Netscape browser was known by the code name "Mozilla", which became the name of a Godzilla-like cartoon | 3,775 | triviaqa-train |
A newbie is a new what? | Newbie
Newbie, newb, noob, or n00b is a slang term for a novice or newcomer, or somebody inexperienced in a profession or activity. Contemporary use can particularly refer to a beginner or new user of computers, often concerning Internet activity, such as online gaming or Linux use. Depending on the context and spelling variant used, the term can have derogatory connotations (and be used as a term of abuse in internet-based games)—but is also often used for descriptive purposes only, without any value judgment. | deepest and most authentic golf simulation currently available... Just keep in mind that the scope of its alterations and enhancements is better analogized as a chip shot than a John Daly-sized drive." The Digital Fix gave the Xbox 360 version a score of 7 out of 10, stating, "If you are a fan of the franchise then you know what you are getting with a new version and if you are a newbie then this is as good a place as any to start." "The Daily Telegraph" gave | 3,776 | triviaqa-train |
Which cartoons are associated with Kim Casalli? | and Roberto became engaged, Casali took a job as a receptionist for a design company, "and made up little booklets of her winsome cartoons, which she sold for a dollar apiece. Word soon spread and the demand for "Love is..." escalated. Roberto recognised their commercial potential and showed them to an American journalist." Although other sources differ regarding whether it was Roberto or Casali herself who first showed the cartoons to an acquaintance working for the "Los Angeles Times", the newspaper picked them up for publication | cartoons are in color.
1948.
1948 marks the year that the Warner Bros. cartoons are split into three packages. The Associated Artists Productions package, also known as the pre-1948 package, which features all color cartoons released prior to Aug. 1948, plus the Harman-Ising "Merrie Melodies" shorts except one; the Guild Films package, which features all black-and-white cartoons, plus "Smile Darn Ya Smile"; and the post-1948 package, which features all Warner Bros. cartoons from Aug. 1948 until the | 3,777 | triviaqa-train |
What is Dionne Warwick's real first name? | Dionne Warwick
Marie Dionne Warwick ( ; ; born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television show host who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization and a United States Ambassador of Health.
Warwick ranks among the 41 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era, based on the "Billboard" Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. She is one of the most-charted female vocalists of all time, with 56 of her singles making the "Billboard" Hot 100 | Soulful (Dionne Warwick album)
Soulful, an album by Dionne Warwick, was released in 1969 on Scepter Records. It was the first of Warwick's Scepter albums that did not directly involve her longtime production and songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David being produced by Warwick and Chips Moman and comprising covers of Soul or what were considered Soul-influenced Pop songs designed to showcase Warwick as more of an R&B singer than had her collaborations with Bacharach and David.
History.
Warwick was encouraged to make an R&B | 3,778 | triviaqa-train |
On which special day did Charlie Chaplin die in 1977? | express emotions with my hands and face, but also how to observe and study people." Chaplin's early years in music hall allowed him to see stage comedians at work; he also attended the Christmas pantomimes at Drury Lane, where he studied the art of clowning through performers like Dan Leno. Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker. Simon Louvish writes that the company was his "training ground", and it was here that Chaplin learned to vary the | on DVD also feature other Chaplin films produced with First National, including "The Idle Class", "Pay Day", "A Day's Pleasure", and "Sunnyside", with Chaplin's 1918 propaganda short "The Bond" as a special feature. Introductions by David Robinson, and behind-the-scenes footage are also included.
Background.
During the silent era, Charlie Chaplin was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Unfortunately for Chaplin though, he fell victim to McCarthyism and in the | 3,779 | triviaqa-train |
Amilcar Cabral international airport is in which country? | Amílcar Cabral International Airport
Amílcar Cabral International Airport , also known as Sal International Airport, is the main international airport of Cabo Verde. The airport is named after the revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral. It is located two km west-southwest from Espargos on Sal Island. Sal was the main hub for the national airline, TACV; now it serves as a base for carrier Cabo Verde Express. This airport was also one of NASA's locations for a facility to handle the Space Shuttle after reentering from orbit.
History. | Guiné e do Cabo-Verde — PAIGC) in an unsuccessful attempt to capture PAIGC leader Amilcar Cabral, who was in Europe at the time. Others seized the political prison camps and liberated a number of prisoners, including Portuguese soldiers and airmen who had been captured earlier by PAIGC forces and turned over to the Guineans for safekeeping; some had been held captive in these camps for as long as seven years. The main attacking force reached but ignored the airport and apparently attacked what they thought was the operative radio station, unaware | 3,780 | triviaqa-train |
In 1993, Michael Jackson give his first TV interview in 14 years with which talk show presenter? | discipline children when Michael was growing up. Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon have said that their father was not abusive and that the whippings, which were harder on Michael because he was younger, kept them disciplined and out of trouble. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 1993, Jackson said that his youth had been lonely and isolating.
In 1964, Michael and Marlon joined the Jackson Brothers—a band formed by their father which included Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine—as backup musicians playing congas and tambourine | she was in excruciating back and hip pain at the time.
On February 10, 1993, Winfrey sat down in a prime-time special broadcast with Michael Jackson, who had performed nine days earlier in the Super Bowl XXVII halftime show, for what would become the most-watched interview in television history. Jackson, an intensely private entertainer, had not given an interview in 14 years. The event was broadcast live from Jackson's Neverland Ranch and was watched by 90 million people worldwide result his recently studio album Dangerous | 3,781 | triviaqa-train |
What was the last top ten hit for Connie Francis? | frequently during the introduction to "God Bless America" at her live concerts.
Due to changing trends in the early and mid-1960s, namely the British Invasion, Francis' chart success on "Billboard's" Hot 100 began to wane after 1963. She had her final top-ten hit, "Vacation", in 1962. A number of Francis' singles continued to reach the top 40 in the US Hot 100 through the mid-1960s, with her last top-40 entry being 1964's "Be Anything (but Be Mine | were both equally promoted: the result was the most successful double-sided hit of Francis' career, as "Lipstick on Your Collar" - the first uptempo Connie Francis single to reach the US Top Ten - peaked at No. 5 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in July 1959, while "Frankie" peaked a No. 9.
In the summer of 1959 "Lipstick on Your Collar" also reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart, and became Francis' first Top Ten hit in Australia | 3,782 | triviaqa-train |
Where is the University of Delaware located? | University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public research university located in Newark, Delaware. University of Delaware is the largest university in Delaware. UD currently offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 master's programs (with 13 joint degrees) and 55 doctoral programs across its eight colleges. The main campus is in Newark, with satellite campuses in Dover, Wilmington, Lewes, and Georgetown. It is considered a large institution with approximately 18,500 undergraduate and 4,500 graduate | Roy Rike Field
Roy RIke Field, usually referred to simply as Roy Rike, is the soccer field of the Jay Martin Soccer Complex at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, where the Battling Bishops' soccer teams play. The field—named after the Roy Rike, Class of 1942. It is also the home of the Columbus Lady Shooting Stars soccer team.
Roy Rike Field is located just west of the residential side of Ohio Wesleyan University. Roy Rike hosted the NCAA Division III men's soccer championship in | 3,783 | triviaqa-train |
Which country's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 forced Haile Selassie to flee? | loyal cousin, Ras Kassa Haile Darge.
In 1932, the Sultanate of Jimma was formally absorbed into Ethiopia following the death of Sultan Abba Jifar II of Jimma.
Biography Conflict with Italy.
Ethiopia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s. Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime was keen to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffered to Ethiopia in the First Italo-Abyssinian War, and to efface the failed attempt by "liberal" Italy to conquer the country, as epitomised by the defeat at Adwa. | Prix visited just once, in 1975. In torrential rain Max Stewart took his Lola T400 Formula 5000 to victory from John Leffler, who was second on a day when the F5000's were badly out-handled by Ray Winter driving his AF2 Mildren Mono Ford.
Major races Rothmans International Series.
With the demise of the Tasman Series after 1976, the void was filled with the Rothmans International Series from 1976-1979. The first race scheduled for Surfers Paradise on 29 February 1976 was cancelled.
Major races Australian Touring Car | 3,784 | triviaqa-train |
Who directed the 1951 classic movie The Day The Earth Stood Still? | The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still (a.k.a. Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World) is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Robert Wise. The film stars Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Billy Gray, Hugh Marlowe, and Sam Jaffe. The screenplay was written by Edmund H. North, based on the 1940 science fiction short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, and | The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 American science fiction thriller film, a loose adaptation of the 1951 film of the same name. The screenplay by David Scarpa is based on the 1940 classic science fiction short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates and on the 1951 screenplay adaptation by Edmund H. North.
Directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, this version replaces the Cold War theme of nuclear warfare with the contemporary issue of | 3,785 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the novel The Left Hand Of Darkness? | Louise Brealey as Tibe and Gaum, Stephen Critchlow as Shusgis, and David Acton as Obsle. The radio drama was adapted by Judith Adams and directed by Allegra McIlroy. The adaptation was created and aired as part of a thematic month centered on the life and works of Ursula Le Guin, in honor of her 85th birthday. In early 2017, the novel was picked up for production by Critical Content as a television limited series with Le Guin serving as a consulting producer. The first university production of "Left Hand of Darkness | Chicago's Lifeline Theatre presented its adaptation of "The Left Hand of Darkness". Reviewer Jack Helbig at the Chicago Reader wrote that the "adaptation is intelligent and well crafted but ultimately unsatisfying", in large measure because it is extremely difficult to compress a complex 300-page novel into a two-hour stage presentation. "Paradises Lost" was adapted into an opera by the opera program of the University of Illinois. The opera was composed by Stephen A. Taylor; the libretto has been attributed both to Kate Gale and to Marcia | 3,786 | triviaqa-train |
What is Neil Simon's real first name? | Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.
Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters | , however, was not a critical success. It received mixed reviews from critics. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" awarded the film 2 stars out of 4, writing ""Chapter Two" is called a comedy, maybe because that's what we expect from Neil Simon. It's not, although it has that comic subplot. It's a middlebrow, painfully earnest, overwritten exercise in pop sociology. I'm not exactly happy describing Neil Simon's semi-real-life in those terms, | 3,787 | triviaqa-train |
Augusto C Sandino international airport is in which country? | Augusto C. Sandino International Airport
Augusto C. Sandino International Airport () or ACS is the main joint civil-military public international airport in Managua, Nicaragua named after Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto Nicolás Sandino and located in the City's 6th ward, known locally as "Distrito 6". Originally christened as "Las Mercedes Airport" in 1968, it was later renamed Augusto C. Sandino International Airport during the Sandinista government in the 1980s and again in 2001 to "Managua International Airport" by then-president Arnoldo Alemán. Its name was | , and it is located at an elevation of 194 feet. With 1.4 million passengers in 2013, ACS is currently the fifth busiest airport by passenger traffic in Central America. Augusto C. Sandino International Airport has direct scheduled service to destinations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America.
History.
Before ACS, there was the old Xolotlan Airport, about 2 miles east of Managua, built in 1915 which very soon became too small for Managua's airline service growth. Thus, on January | 3,788 | triviaqa-train |
What was the second Oscar Hammerstein show to win the Pulitzer Prize? | composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting, and Sigmund Romberg, but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein, whose collaborations include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".
Early life.
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was born in New York City, the son | Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, author
- Max Frankel – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
- Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah – 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
- Robert Giles – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (under his editorship), current curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
- Louise Gluck – 12th U.S.[Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Bollingen Prize
- Juan Gonzalez – Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Award
- Charles Gordone – Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Oscar Hammerstein | 3,789 | triviaqa-train |
Lionel Hampton played on which band until forming his own in1941? | Brown, Gigi Gryce, Anthony Ortega, Monk Montgomery, George Wallington, Art Farmer, Quincy Jones, and singer Annie Ross. Hampton continued to record with small groups and jam sessions during the 1940s and 1950s, with Oscar Peterson, Buddy DeFranco, and others. In 1955, while in California working on "The Benny Goodman Story" he recorded with Stan Getz and made two albums with Art Tatum for Norman Granz as well as with his own big band.
Hampton performed with Louis Armstrong and Italian singer Lara Saint | Band. Howard played in the bands of both King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton when they toured California. He first recorded with the Quality Four in 1922-23, then played with Sonny Clay in 1925 before forming his own group, the Quality Serenaders, later that year. Among his sidemen were George Orendorff, Lionel Hampton (playing drums), Lawrence Brown (trombone), and Charlie Lawrence, reeds, who also composed and arranged most of Howard's recordings. They played at Sebastian's Cotton Club from 1927 to | 3,790 | triviaqa-train |
In what year was indoor handball introduced as an Olympic event for men? | , and the next time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich as indoors, and has been an Olympic sport since. Women's team handball was added at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
The International Handball Federation was formed in 1946 and, , has 197 member federations. The sport is most popular in the countries of continental Europe, which have won all medals but one in the men's world championships since 1938. In the women's world championships, only two non-European countries have won the title: South Korea | Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics included a men's and a women's team competitions with the preliminary rounds taking place in the Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex. From the quarter final stage onwards, the women's event moved to the Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena, a part of the Helliniko Olympic Complex, with the men joining them there for their semi-finals and final.
The men's Handball event first made an appearance, played outside, at the 1936 Summer | 3,791 | triviaqa-train |
Which country does the airline Air Littoral come from? | on 3 November 1924. In the first year of operation the company carried 11,395 passengers and 212,380 letters. In April 1925, the film "The Lost World" became the first film to be screened for passengers on a scheduled airliner flight when it was shown on the London-Paris route.
Two French airlines also merged to form Air Union on 1 January 1923. This later merged with four other French airlines to become Air France, the country's flagship carrier to this day, on 7 October 1933.
Germany | taking over Air Littoral including Azzurra Air (which shortly after ceased operations due to its own financial difficulties), but none succeeded and the airline was closed down by the French authorities in February 2004.
Fleet.
In different periods of its history the company was operating the following aircraft:
- ATR 42;
- ATR 72;
- Beechcraft 1900;
- Boeing 737-300;
- Bombardier CRJ;
- Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante (4);
- Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia; | 3,792 | triviaqa-train |
In which country was Emilio Estevez born? | Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez (; born May 12, 1962) is an American actor, director, and writer. He is the brother of actor Charlie Sheen and the son of actor Martin Sheen. Estevez started his career as an actor and is well known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in "The Breakfast Club", "St. Elmo's Fire", and acting in the 1983 hit movie "The Outsiders". He is also known for "Repo Man", " | (1910–1979), lithographer and artist
Arts Actors.
- María Casares (1922–1996)
- José Garcia (actor) (born 1966)
- Nancho Novo (born 1958)
- La Belle Otero (1868–1965), dancer, actress, and courtesan
- Fernando Rey (1917–1994)
- Martin Sheen a.k.a. Ramon Estevez (born 1940) (part Irish, part Galician)
- Charlie Sheen a.k.a. Carlos Estevez (born 1965) (father part Galician)
- Emilio Estevez (born | 3,793 | triviaqa-train |
What was the Blue Swede's only No 1 hit? | Blue Swede
Blue Swede was a Swedish rock band headlined by Björn Skifs which was active 1973–1975. Blue Swede released two albums of cover versions, including a rendition of "Hooked on a Feeling", which brought them international chart success. The band consisted of Anders Berglund (piano), Björn Skifs (lead vocals), Bosse Liljedahl (bass), Hinke Ekestubbe (saxophone), Jan Guldbäck (drums), Michael Areklew (guitar) and Tommy Berglund (trumpet). They disbanded after Skifs decided to embark | win the first ever regular-season game in the Israel Baseball League, beating the Petach Tikva Pioneers, 9–1, at Yarkon Sports Complex in Petach Tikva.
- Dustin McGowan of the Toronto Blue Jays has what would have been the second no-hitter in franchise history broken up in the ninth in a 5–0 victory over the Colorado Rockies at the Rogers Centre. Jeff Baker singles to lead off the inning; the hit is the only one McGowan will allow. Dave Stieb has currently hurled the only no-hitter in | 3,794 | triviaqa-train |
New York-born Sir Jacob Epstein worked in which branch of the arts? | of Christ in Majesty (1954–55), is suspended above the nave in Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, on a concrete arch designed by George Pace.
His larger sculptures were his most expressive and experimental, but also his most vulnerable. His depiction of Rima, one of author W. H. Hudson's most famous characters, graces a serene enclosure in Hyde Park. Even here, a visitor became so outraged as to defile it with paint. He was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International, which was | he has been said to have "excelled". His early oils reveal the influence of both Gertler and Bomberg. Among his works of this period are portraits of Jacob Epstein and Jacob Kramer.
New York.
In 1915 Brodzky moved to New York, with an introduction to the art patron John Quinn. There he worked as a poster artist and an arts journalist, and in 1917 helped Quinn organize a New York exhibition of Vorticist artists. In 1919 he married Bertha Greenfield; they were to have three sons. | 3,795 | triviaqa-train |
What year was the centenary of Colorado joining the Union? | in the state.
The Eastern Plains are part of the extreme western portion of Tornado Alley; some damaging tornadoes in the Eastern Plains include the 1990 Limon F3 tornado and the 2008 Windsor EF3 tornado, which devastated the small town.
The plains are also susceptible to occasional floods, which are caused both by thunderstorms and by the rapid melting of snow in the mountains during warm weather. Notable examples include the 1965 Denver Flood, the Big Thompson River flooding of 1976 and the 2013 Colorado floods. Hot weather is common | Gas Road. Development work was carried out during the late 1980s to convert what was then St Paul's Methodist Church into Trinity Church by joining together St Paul's, the United Reformed Church, and the Primitive Methodist church.
Centenary Baptist Church, founded in 1700, is a member of the Baptist Union. Additionally, there is a Grace Baptist church, Providence Baptist, which was rebuilt in 1873.
An Elim Pentecostal Church meets in March Community Centre. March Evangelical Fellowship meets on Upwell Road. Fenland Community Church | 3,796 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is the Angostura bridge? | Angostura Bridge
Angostura Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. The Spanish word Angostura means "narrows".
Built in 1967 at a cost of US$35million, the bridge has a main span of 712 metres. Until the opening of the Second Orinoco crossing 100 km downstream near Ciudad Guayana on 13 November 2006 it was the only bridge across the Orinoco. | Angostura" in Great Britain. Siegert sued Meinhard's distributor Findlater, who was indemnified from fault in the case by Meinhard's representatives, claiming that although the name "Angostura" was not copyrighted by Siegert in Great Britain, it was in fact the name by which Siegert's brand of bitters was popularly known in that country. The court upheld Siegert's claim to the un-copyrighted name "Angostura", creating an often cited precedent in British law.
After losing the case, it is unknown exactly what name | 3,797 | triviaqa-train |
What is Elle Macpherson's real name? | Elle Macpherson
Eleanor Nancy Macpherson (; née Gow; born 29 March 1964) is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host and actress.
She is known for her record five cover appearances for the "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue" beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname "The Body", coined by "Time" in 1989. She is the founder, primary model, and creative director for a series of business ventures, including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line, and The Body, a line | Stuka Jr.
Stuka Jr. (born July 17, 1979) is a Mexican second-generation "luchador enmascarado", or masked professional wrestler, who works for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Stuka Jr. is not, despite what the name indicates, the son of "luchador" Stuka but is Stuka's younger brother. Stuka Jr.'s real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a | 3,798 | triviaqa-train |
Who penned Kenny Rogers' No 1 hit Lady? | , a selection he recorded as a duet with Kim Carnes, "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer", became a major hit. Earlier that year, he sang a duet of "You and Me" with Lynda Carter in her television music special "Lynda Carter Special" (Rogers originally recorded this with Dottie West for the Every Time Two Fools Collide album). Later in 1980 came his partnership with Lionel Richie who wrote and produced Rogers' No. 1 hit "Lady". Richie went on | and the Top 30 in the US, where it was certified Gold.
A year later, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers recorded the Bee Gees-penned track "Islands in the Stream", which became a US No. 1 hit and entered the Top 10 in the UK. Rogers' 1983 album, "Eyes That See in the Dark", was written entirely by the Bee Gees and co-produced by Barry. The album was a Top 10 hit in the US and was certified Double Platinum. | 3,799 | triviaqa-train |
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