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Which singer married director Blake Edwards? | Roses" (1962).
"Days of Wine And Roses", a dark psychological film about the effects of alcoholism on a previously happy marriage, starred Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. It has been described as "perhaps the most unsparing tract against drink that Hollywood has yet produced, more pessimistic than Billy Wilder's "The Lost Weekend"". The film gave another major boost to Edwards's reputation as an important director.
Career "Darling Lili" (1970).
"Darling Lili" star Julie Andrews | Barrymore (granddaughter of Dolores).
- Crosby-Edwards
- Singer-actor Bing Crosby was the father of: Gary; Dennis; Phillip; Harry; Lindsay; Mary and Nathaniel. Dennis was the father of actress Denise Crosby, who was married to Blake Edwards' son, Geoff. Geoff's sister is actress Jennifer Edwards.
- Crosby-Raymond
- Oscar-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby was the father of musician David Crosby (The Byrds, CSNY).
- David is part of the | 4,000 | triviaqa-train |
For which movie did Meryl Streep win her first Oscar? | Supporting Actress for "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), and the Academy Award for Best Actress for "Sophie's Choice" (1982) and "The Iron Lady" (2011).
Streep's other Oscar-nominated roles were in "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981), "Silkwood" (1983), "Out of Africa" (1985), "Ironweed" (1987), "Evil Angels" (1988), "Postcards from the Edge" (1990), | first French actor to win an Oscar. With her latest win for Best Actress, Meryl Streep became the fifth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. At age 82, Best Supporting Actor winner Christopher Plummer also made Oscar history by becoming the oldest ever performer to win a competitive acting Oscar.
Winners and nominees Awards.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
Winners and nominees Honorary Academy Awards.
The Academy held its 3rd Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November | 4,001 | triviaqa-train |
In the 1990s Babrak Karmal and Sultan Ali Keshtmond have been Prime Minister in which country? | Hazaras and Uzbeks. It is a member of the United Nations, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Group of 77, the Economic Cooperation Organization, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Afghanistan's economy is the world's 108th largest, with a GDP of $64.08 billion; the country fares much worse in terms of per-capita GDP (PPP), ranking 167th out of 186 countries in a 2016 report from the International Monetary Fund.
Etymology.
The name "Afghānistān" () is believed to | are reports of assassinations of Khalqis by Parchamites and vice versa, and bitter interparty fighting is said to have spread to army units and government agencies in various parts of the country. Karmal reshuffles his cabinet, promoting Sultan Ali Keshtmand, a trusted Parchamite colleague, to replace Sarwari as first deputy prime minister.
Incumbents.
- President: Babrak Karmal
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers: Babrak Karmal
January 14, 1980.
A special session of the UN General Assembly passes a resolution (104-18 | 4,002 | triviaqa-train |
Which 60s pop band made an unsuccessful movie called Head? | Head (film)
Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written and produced by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, directed by Rafelson, starring television rock group the Monkees (Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith), and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
During production, one of the working titles for the film was "Changes", which was later the name of an unrelated album by The Monkees. Another working title was "Untitled". A rough cut of the film was previewed | 60s baroque pop, power pop and new wave. Their first band disbanded after they moved to Stockholm, where they met Eriksson in 1999 to form Peter, Björn and John. Their first gig was an unsuccessful one aboard a boat in Stockholm. Their expectations were not high from the start, as they "just wanted to make good music for [their] own amusement". Lars Skoglund of the band Laakso has filled in for the band on drums and played bongos during some live shows.
History First years: 2001–2005 | 4,003 | triviaqa-train |
Who was Anne Sullivan's most famous pupil? | Anne Sullivan
Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936), better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.
At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind, where upon graduation she became a teacher to Keller when she was 20.
Childhood. | portraits are today displayed at Cork's Crawford Art Gallery. He was the elder brother of Robert Emmet, who was himself executed for leading the Irish Rebellion of 1803, becoming one of Ireland's most famous Republican martyrs. His sister, Mary Anne Holmes, held similar political beliefs.
Emmet was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was a member of the committee of the College Historical Society. He later studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and was a pupil of Dugald Stewart in philosophy. After visiting the chief medical | 4,004 | triviaqa-train |
Which state did Amelia Earhart land in on her first solo Pacific flight? | said, "but I believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by."
By 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College but changed her mind and enrolled at Columbia University, in a course in medical studies among other programs. She quit a year later to be with her parents, who had reunited in California.
In Long Beach, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks (who later gained fame as an air racer) gave her a | from the U.S. to Australia in 1928, and the first Hawaii-to-Mainland solo flight in 1935 by Amelia Earhart. Ms. Earhart visited Wheeler Field in 1935 in her Lockheed Vega and in 1937 in her Lockheed Model 10 Electra. Kingsford Smith, in his plane, the "Southern Cross", also used the airfield on his historic flights across the Pacific.
By 1940, Wheeler Field had evolved into a primary base for Army Air Corps pursuit (i.e., "fighter") aircraft such as the P-40 Warhawk | 4,005 | triviaqa-train |
What is Billy Ocean's real name? | Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles; 21 January 1950) is a Trinidadian-English recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular Trinidad–British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s. After scoring his first four UK Top 20 successes, seven years passed before he accumulated a series of transatlantic successes, including three US . His 1985 hit "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" reached in the UK | 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 | 4,006 | triviaqa-train |
How was writer William Sydney Porter better known? | O. Henry
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim | Shauna Garr
Shauna Garr is an American producer and entertainment executive in Hollywood. She is best known for producing the film franchise "How High" and "How High 2" with Universal Pictures.
Biography.
Garr was born in Los Angeles. She is best known for producing the film franchise "How High" and "How High 2" with Universal Pictures, which originally starred Method Man, Lark Voorhies and Mike Epps. Garr also produced the Fox TV series "Method And Red". She began her | 4,007 | triviaqa-train |
What was The Zaire River called before 27th October 1971. | Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo ( ), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, DROC, Congo-Kinshasa, East Congo, or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997. It is, by area, the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa (after Algeria), and the 11th | But, within a year, the problems were exactly as before. A bouncer was hired, and paid under the counter, to patrol the undesirables. After a disturbance one evening, the police called and asked the bouncer to produce his "carte d'identité". The bouncer didn't have one. He had entered the country illegally from Zaire. Thierry was brought before the authorities and asked to explain himself. Informed that they intended to prosecute, the problem was a drop in the ocean compared to the horror of what was | 4,008 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the defending champion when Andre Agassi first won Wimbledon singles? | victory against Michael Chang. He then became the first man to capture the US Open as an unseeded player, beating Michael Stich in the final. Along the way, he beat 5 seeded players.
In 1995, Agassi shaved his balding head, breaking with his old "image is everything" style. He competed in the 1995 Australian Open (his first appearance at the event) and won, beating Sampras in a four-set final. Agassi and Sampras met in five tournament finals in 1995, all on hardcourt | 1993 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Pete Sampras defeated Jim Courier in the final, 7–6, 7–6, 3–6, 6–3 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1993 Wimbledon Championships. This was the first of Sampras's seven Wimbledon titles which was a joint all time record with William Renshaw, which stood until the 2017 championships when Roger Federer surpassed the record by winning his 8th title. Andre Agassi was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Sampras.
Seeds.
Pete Sampras (Champion | 4,009 | triviaqa-train |
In what year was the Kellogg Company set up to manufacture cornflakes? | under the trade name, "Kellogg's". At this time, Dr. J. H. Kellogg owned all but 2 of its 15,000 shares of stock. In 1921, it changed its name back to Battle Creek Food Company.
However, Dr. John Harvey forbade his brother Will from distributing cereal beyond his patients. As a result, the brothers fell out, and W. K. launched the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on February 19, 1906. Convincing his brother to relinquish Sanitas's rights to the product, Will's | Corn flakes
Corn flakes, or cornflakes, are a breakfast cereal made by toasting flakes of corn (maize). The cereal was created by John Harvey Kellogg in 1894 as a food that he thought would be healthy for the patients of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan where he was superintendent. The breakfast cereal proved popular among the patients and the Kellogg Company (Kellogg's) was set up by Dr. John's brother, Will Kellogg, to produce corn flakes for the wider public. A patent for the process was | 4,010 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the voice of Matt Dillon for 11 years on radio's Gunsmoke? | Columbia Broadcasting System).
As portrayed on the radio series.
On the radio series which ran from 1952 until 1961, Matt was portrayed by William Conrad, whose deep and resonant voice helped to project a larger than life presence. In the opening of most radio episodes, the announcer would describe the show as "...the story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it." William Conrad's Matt would take over, saying, "I'm | . Dundy in the NBC radio series "The Adventures of Sam Spade" (1949–50); boss to government special agent Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in "The Silent Men" (NBC 1951); and a New Orleans bartender in the NBC adventure drama "Jason and the Golden Fleece" (1952–53).
Most prominently, Conrad's deep, resonant voice was heard in the role of Marshal Matt Dillon on CBS Radio's gritty Western series "Gunsmoke" (April 26, 1952 – June 18, 1961). The | 4,011 | triviaqa-train |
Which country does the airline Ladeco come from? | Ladeco
Ladeco was a Chilean airline; Ladeco is the acronym of "Línea Aérea Del Cobre" or the "Airline of Copper," in reference to the principal Chilean export.
History.
Ladeco began operations in 1958 flying mostly internal routes between Chile's major cities and some international routes, and continued to run services until 1994 when LanChile (currently called Latam Chile) bought over 99% of the shares and merged Ladeco into its fleet. At the time of takeover, Ladeco was equipped mainly with Boeing 737 | a low-cost carrier (LCC) Vietjet does not have any direct booking capabilities with the Global Distribution Service (GDS) companies, Amadeus CRS, Sabre, or Travelport. This lack of connectivity limits the ability of the airline to attract interline connecting passengers for inbound and outbound flights. The problem is due in part to the lack of the airline joining Iata's Vietnam BSB which regulates the IATA accredited airlines banking settlement operations in the country. To get around the issue Vietjet has utilised an interline ticketing partner, Hahn Air | 4,012 | triviaqa-train |
Oran international airport is in which country? | Sciences and Technology (USTO), the Crossroads of the Three Private clinics, the Law courts, Dar El Baïda, the Plate-Saint Michel, the Place of the 1st November, Saint-Anthony, Boulanger, Saint-Hubert, the 3rd Ring road and finally The University of Es-Sénia. The Ahmed Ben Bella Airport, for domestic and international flights. Oran Es Senia Airport serves both, domestic and international flights, with frequent connections to the capital Algiers, served by the public airline company Air Algerie. | name means Fountain of the Turks is also located at the North-West of Oran to of the center. It is a seaside town which includes several hotels and other tourist attractions.
Oranian agglomeration Es-Sénia.
Es Sénia, located in the south of Oran, is home to industrial parks, several university institutes (Oran-Es-Sénia University, Institut of Communication, ENSET "Higher Teacher training school," CRASC "Research center in social sciences," etc.) and the international airport.
Oranian | 4,013 | triviaqa-train |
Where did Johnny Ace die in 1954? | City Auditorium in Houston, Texas, on Christmas Day 1954. During a break between sets, he was playing with a .32-caliber revolver. Members of his band said he did this often, sometimes shooting at roadside signs from their car.
It was widely reported that Ace killed himself playing Russian roulette. However, Big Mama Thornton's bass player, Curtis Tillman, who witnessed the event, said, "I will tell you exactly what happened! Johnny Ace had been drinking and he had this little pistol he was waving | ensue."
- "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," Malcolm X recalls an incident during his burglary career when he once played Russian roulette, pulling the trigger three times in a row to convince his partners in crime that he was not afraid to die. In the epilogue to the book, Alex Haley states that Malcolm X revealed to him that he palmed the round. The incident is portrayed in the 1992 film adaptation of the autobiography.
- On December 25, 1954, the American blues musician Johnny Ace | 4,014 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first chemist to be Britain's Prime Minister? | address the nation. Stanley Baldwin, a master of the radio broadcast in the 1920s and 1930s, reached a national audience in his talks filled with homely advice and simple expressions of national pride. Churchill also used the radio to great effect, inspiring, reassuring and informing the people with his speeches during the Second World War. Two recent prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair (who both spent a decade or more as prime Minister), achieved celebrity status like rock stars, but have been criticised for their more ' | Role and influence of politicians Decision to call referendum.
The referendum was first announced by then-Prime Minister David Cameron on 23 January 2013. Cameron announced that he would attempt to re-negotiate Britain's terms with the EU before holding an in-out referendum no later than two years after the next general election – should he still be Prime Minister. This was seen as a move to appease Eurosceptics within his own party as well as an attempt to regain voters who had been switching allegiance to UKIP since the previous election | 4,015 | triviaqa-train |
What was Jimi Hendrix's middle name? | Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His mainstream career lasted only four years, but he is widely regarded as one of the most influential guitarists in history and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".
Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix | The Wind Cries Mary
"The Wind Cries Mary" is a rock ballad written by Jimi Hendrix.
Background and recording.
According to his then girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham's, account, he wrote the lyrics after an argument with her, using "Mary" (Etchingham's middle name). In a later interview, Hendrix commented that the lyrics represent "more than one person".
Billy Cox, Hendrix's long-time friend and later bassist, has noted Curtis Mayfield's influence on the song | 4,016 | triviaqa-train |
In which month of the year did Bing Crosby record White Christmas? | of the song was by Bing Crosby, on his NBC radio show "The Kraft Music Hall" on Christmas Day, 1941; a copy of the recording from the radio program is owned by Crosby's estate and was loaned to "CBS News Sunday Morning" for their December 25, 2011 program. He subsequently recorded the song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers and for Decca Records in 18 minutes on May 29, 1942, and it was released on July 30 as part of an album of | Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas
The Voice of Christmas: The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook is a two-disc collection of Christmas music recorded by Bing Crosby for the Decca label between 1935 and 1956, released by Universal Music Group on October 6, 1998. Crosby was the first popular singer to record Christmas songs, and his 1942 recording of "White Christmas" for the movie "Holiday Inn" is the best-selling single of all-time. The most prolific period for his Christmas recordings was between 1942 | 4,017 | triviaqa-train |
Which country does the airline Transkei Airways come from? | Transkei
Transkei (, meaning "the area beyond [the river] Kei"), officially the Republic of Transkei (), was an unrecognised state in the southeastern region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994. It was a Bantustan—an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity—and operated as a nominally independent parliamentary democracy. Its capital was Umtata (renamed Mthatha in 2004).
Transkei represented a significant precedent and historic turning point in South Africa's policy of apartheid and "separate development" | many people traveling around the country fly on aircraft. As of 2016 the country does not have an international passenger airline and relies on foreign-based airlines for international connections. Congo Airways provides domestic flights and are based at Kinshasa's N'djili Airport which serves as the country's main international airport. Lubumbashi International Airport in the country's south-east is also serviced by several international airlines.
Airports Airports - with paved runways.
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What was the last name of Judy in radio's A Date With Judy series? | A Date with Judy
A Date with Judy is a comedy radio series aimed at a teenage audience which ran from 1941 to 1950.
The show began as a summer replacement for Bob Hope's show, sponsored by Pepsodent and airing on NBC from June 24 to September 16, 1941, with 14-year-old Ann Gillis in the title role. Mercedes McCambridge played Judy's girl friend. Dellie Ellis (later known as Joan Lorring) portrayed Judy Foster when the series returned the next summer (June 23 – September 15 | - "Crime Doctor's Man Hunt" (1946)
- "The Millerson Case" (1947)
- "The Crime Doctor's Gamble" (1947)
- "The Crime Doctor's Diary" (1949)
- "Dangerous Crossing" (1953), based on radio's "Cabin B-13"
- "A Date with Judy" (1948), based on radio's "A Date with Judy"
- "Dr. Christian"
- "Meet Dr. Christian" (1939 | 4,019 | triviaqa-train |
Which hit starting with the word Rock took over NO 1 from Rock The Boat? | the UK charts.
There is a reference to the song's distinctive bridge in Jurassic 5 track "Concrete Schoolyard".
Singaporean band "Lizard's Convention" also covered the song in the 1990s.
Richard Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band has said that "Rock The Boat" played a partial role in inspiring the hit "Rock Your Baby". The song was also featured in the 1990 film "The Spirit of '76", the 1993 film "Carlito's Way", the 1996 film | in the "Blacula"-film project he was replaced by Williams. Williams was actually discovered by Hues Corp member H. Ann Kelley. The group had a no 1 hit with "Rock The Boat" which was the first disco hit to have that distinction.
According to fellow Hues Corp bandmate St. Clair Lee, Williams initially left the group after they recorded the first album, "Freedom for the Stallion", which featured "Rock the Boat," and was replaced by Tommy Brown. However, after things did not work out | 4,020 | triviaqa-train |
In the 1940s, the University of North Carolina was founded at Charlotte and where else? | joined the Consolidated University through legislative action: the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
In 1971, North Carolina passed legislation bringing into the University of North Carolina all 16 public institutions that confer bachelor's degrees. This round of consolidation granted each constituent institution a Chancellor and a Board of Trustees. In 1985, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a residential high school for gifted students, was declared an affiliated school of | was no longer in the current name of the college, Queens-Chicora (now Queens University of Charlotte).
Early life and education.
Margaret Bland spent her childhood at the family home in Charlotte and was educated in the Charlotte public schools, where her burgeoning interest in dramatic literature and her fluency in French began to develop. She spent school vacations in a rustic inn in Little Switzerland, a resort community high in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. The inn and the community had been founded by | 4,021 | triviaqa-train |
Christa McAuliffe died in an accident in what type of vehicle in 1986? | Christa McAuliffe
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire, and one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle "Challenger" disaster.
She received her bachelor's degree in education and history from Framingham State College in 1970 and also a master's degree in education, supervision and administration from Bowie State University in 1978. She took a teaching position as a social studies teacher at Concord High School in | . Aside from commanding, Whitson conducted dozens of tests in space that furthered space technologies that are still being used today.
In the same year, Barbara Morgan became the first teacher in space; however, it was argued that Christa McAuliffe was announced in 1985 as the first teacher in space, and Barbara Morgan was only an alternate or secondary candidate. In 1986, Christa McAuliffe died in Challenger accident and Morgan was unable to go to space until 2007.
History 2010s.
Sunita Williams is known for holding many records | 4,022 | triviaqa-train |
Who was Benazir Bhutto's Father who was executed in 1988? | After her Oxford education, she returned to Pakistan in June 1977, where she was scheduled to work at the Prime Minister's office and the "Inter-Provincial Council of Common Interests" during the rest of the summer. Intent on a career in the Pakistani Foreign Service, she was scheduled to take the service's entrance exams later in the year.
Zia's Pakistan.
Zia's Pakistan Zulfikar's death and Benazir's arrest: 1977–84.
In July 1977, Zulfikar Bhutto—who had just been re- | Victor Yakunin
Victor Pavlovich Yakunin (born 18 January 1931) is a former Soviet-Russian diplomat who served as the Soviet Ambassador to Pakistan from 1985 until 1993. He was preceded by Vitaly S. Smirnov and his tenure is considered to be notable in the events including the death and state funeral of President Zia-ul-Haq and witnessing the general elections held in 1988 that saw Benazir Bhutto's becoming the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Soviet retreat from Afghanistan in 1989, and the normalization of foreign relations between Pakistan and Russia | 4,023 | triviaqa-train |
Which vegetable is the chief ingredient in a Spanish Omelette? | The USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends consuming five to nine servings of fruit and vegetables daily. The total amount consumed will vary according to age and gender, and is determined based upon the standard portion sizes typically consumed, as well as general nutritional content. Potatoes are not included in the count as they are mainly providers of starch. For most vegetables and vegetable juices, one serving is half of a cup and can be eaten raw or cooked. For leafy greens, such as lettuce and spinach, a single serving | Tomato omelette
A tomato omelette is a breakfast dish prepared mostly in Maharashtra. It is referred to as an omelette because of its visual appearance, but actually contains no egg product or by-product. The main ingredient is chickpea flour or besan.
Sometimes, it is also made with dosa batter (rice flour and urad dal paste), with a small quantity of besan only to provide binding, in which case it is classified as Uttapam.
A batter of pouring consistency is made with water and the flour | 4,024 | triviaqa-train |
What name was given to the code of the Samurai? | grasp the long and the short swords and to die". He also ordered his followers to put forth great effort in studying the military classics, especially those related to loyalty and filial piety. He is best known for his quote: "If a man does not investigate into the matter of Bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death. Thus it is essential to engrave this business of the warrior into one's mind well."
Nabeshima Naoshige (1538–1618 AD) was another | this was not always the case; in the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 761 required pastors to ensure the baptismal name was a Christian name such as "Christian," "Grace" or "Faith" - hence what is now called a given name was once referred to as a Christian name, originating with the pagans of Europe who discarded their pagan names for Biblical ones when they converted to Christianity and participated in baptism - or that an additional saint's name must be given when the former is impossible. | 4,025 | triviaqa-train |
In 2008 Great Leighs became the first new venue for which sport for 80 years? | a racecourse.
The course was bought by MC Racetracks in November 2011, but in May 2012 the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) rejected a bid to host fixtures at Great Leighs in 2013 but said that the owners were "welcome to submit an application to be part of the 2014 fixture list". In January 2013 MC Racetracks announced that they would submit an application to the BHA to hold racing at the course in 2014 but in June 2013, the BHA announced that it had rejected the application for 2014 fixtures. | " Jeremy Paxman visits St Mary's Church, Great Leighs, and he describes the early loss of Captain Alan Tritton and brothers Privates Richard (Dick) and Arthur Fitch. He speaks with their niece, Valerie Frost.
There is a spring by the side of the road at Cole Hill on Boreham Road, near Great Leighs Church. It once had a lion's head over the outlet.
Racecourse.
In 2008, Great Leighs became home to the first new racecourse in 80 years, when the nearby Essex | 4,026 | triviaqa-train |
The mastodon was an early relative of which modern creature? | no reports of currently recognized "Mammut" species outside of North America according to Paleobiology database (which does not recognize "M. borsoni"). However, the status of "Mammut" or "Zygolophodon borsoni" in the literature appears equivocal.
Taxonomy Evolution.
"Mammut" is a genus of the extinct family Mammutidae, related to the proboscidean family Elephantidae (mammoths and elephants), from which it originally diverged approximately 27 million years ago. The following cladogram shows the placement of the American mastodon among other proboscideans, | formed a short tail, which the animal may have retained as an adult. It probably swam by kicking its hind legs, although it could not jump, as most modern frogs can. Its skull resembled that of modern frogs, consisting of a latticework of thin bones separated by large openings.
This creature, or a relative, evolved eventually into modern frogs, the earliest example of which is "Prosalirus", millions of years later in the Early Jurassic.
It was first discovered in the 1930s, when Adrien | 4,027 | triviaqa-train |
Which castle is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports? | and appointment of the Lord Warden, once among the most powerful appointments of the realm, by the Sovereign was instituted principally after the portsmen sided with the Earl of Leicester against King Henry III, in the Second Barons' War, and was intended to provide some central authority over the Cinque Ports, which were essentially otherwise independent of the King's sheriffs. It was combined from 1267 with the office of Constable of Dover Castle. However, from 1708 Walmer Castle at Deal was to be preferred as the official residence of the | the keep and adding residential wings and gardens over the landward defences, and Brownsea Castle began to be converted into a country house from the 1720s onwards. Walmer became the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Lionel Sackville, the Duke of Dorset, carried out extensive work there after 1708. There was probably some rivalry between Sackville and the naval officer Sir John Norris, who redeveloped nearby Deal Castle during the same period, creating comfortable wood-panelled quarters for himself there overlooking the sea.
Criticisms | 4,028 | triviaqa-train |
Crohn’s Disease affects which part of the body? | Hospital in New York, described a series of patients with inflammation of the terminal ileum of the small intestine, the area most commonly affected by the illness.
Signs and symptoms.
Signs and symptoms Gastrointestinal.
Many people with Crohn's disease have symptoms for years before the diagnosis. The usual onset is between 15 and 30 years of age, but can occur at any age. Because of the 'patchy' nature of the gastrointestinal disease and the depth of tissue involvement, initial symptoms can be more subtle than those | , carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the body and then returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart
- Systemic disease, an illness that affects multiple organs, systems or tissues, or the entire body
- Systemic effect, an adverse effect of a medical treatment that affects the body as a whole, rather than one part
- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, an inflammatory state affecting the whole body, frequently in response to infection
- Systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part | 4,029 | triviaqa-train |
What medical term is used for an extreme life-threatening allergic reaction? | , about 20% of people are affected by allergic rhinitis, about 6% of people have at least one food allergy, and about 20% have atopic dermatitis at some point in time. Depending on the country about 1–18% of people have asthma. Anaphylaxis occurs in between 0.05–2% of people. Rates of many allergic diseases appear to be increasing. The word "allergy" was first used by Clemens von Pirquet in 1906.
Signs and symptoms.
Many allergens such as dust or pollen are airborne particles. | set of antibodies to the mouse antibodies. Doctors have termed this the “HAMA response,” referring to the development of Human Anti-Mouse Antibodies (HAMA). The HAMA response is essentially an allergic reaction to the mouse antibodies that can range from a mild form, like a rash, to a more extreme and life-threatening response, such as renal failure. HAMA can also decrease the effectiveness of the treatment, or create a future reaction if the patient is given a subsequent treatment containing mouse antibodies.
It | 4,030 | triviaqa-train |
World Championships in which sport took place at Frimley Green recently? | the border in Frimley to the north and Frimley Park Hospital was built in 1974 in Frimley.
Sport and leisure.
Lakeside Country Club is in the north of the village, and has hosted the British Darts Organisation’s (BDO) World Professional Darts Championship each January since 1986. This annual event is broadcast on Eurosport in the UK.
Frimley Green F.C. are the local football team, and play in the First Division of the Combined Counties Football League.
Demography.
The area of the ward is . | -up, won her first world title by beating Gulliver – the player that had beaten her each time – by two sets to one. The event took place from 3–11 January 2009 and for the 24th time, the tournament took place at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green.
Format and qualifiers.
Format and qualifiers Men's.
The televised stages featured 32 players. The top 16 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2007–08 season were seeded for the tournament. They were joined by 16 other players | 4,031 | triviaqa-train |
We call it grilling – what do Americans call it? | stove top or as a standalone electric device.
Methods Gridironing Sear grilling.
Sear-grill and gear grilling is a process of searing meat or food items with an infrared grill. In sear grilling, propane or natural gas is used to heat a ceramic plate, which then radiates heat at temperatures over 480 °C (900 °F).
Sear-grilling instantly sears the outside of meat to make the food more flavorful. Commonly, grilling heats the surrounding air to cook food. In this method, | liner notes, Scott-Heron discusses the new, jazzier tone of the record, and the attempts to define his sound:
"What do you call reggae, blues, African vibration, jazz, salsa, chants and poetry?... Seriously trying to define it, I've said it's Black music. Or Black American music. Because Black Americans are now a tremendously diverse essence of all the places we've come from and the music and rhythms we brought with us."
This was Scott-Heron's | 4,032 | triviaqa-train |
Raclette is a mild cheese – what is its country of origin? | limited use in sub-Mediterranean Africa, mainly being widespread and popular only in Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and areas influenced by those cultures. But with the spread, first of European imperialism, and later of Euro-American culture and food, cheese has gradually become known and increasingly popular worldwide.
The first factory for the industrial production of cheese opened in Switzerland in 1815, but large-scale production first found real success in the United States. Credit usually goes to Jesse Williams, a | Le Rustique
Le Rustique is a brand of French cheese owned by the Compagnie des Fromages et RichesMonts (CF&R).
Le Rustique was created in 1975 in Normandy, France with a recipe of camembert, the brand then launched other soft cheeses including brie, camembert light and coulommiers. Le Rustique is sold in France and over 60 other countries, it is best known for its camembert and brie but also commercializes hard cheese slices and raclette cheese.
Le Rustique is recognizable for its wooden packaging and its red gingham cloth | 4,033 | triviaqa-train |
Which radioactive isotope is used to date archaeological samples? | ratio of ionium (thorium-230) to thorium-232 in ocean sediment.
Modern dating methods Radiocarbon dating method.
Radiocarbon dating is also simply called Carbon-14 dating. Carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon, with a half-life of 5,730 years (which is very short compared with the above isotopes), and decays into nitrogen. In other radiometric dating methods, the heavy parent isotopes were produced by nucleosynthesis in supernovas, meaning that any parent isotope with a short half-life should be extinct by now. Carbon-14, though | of evolutionary change. Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological materials, including ancient artifacts.
Different methods of radiometric dating vary in the timescale over which they are accurate and the materials to which they can be applied.
Fundamentals.
Fundamentals Radioactive decay.
All ordinary matter is made up of combinations of chemical elements, each with its own atomic number, indicating the number of protons in the atomic nucleus. Additionally, elements may exist in different isotopes, with each isotope of an element differing in the number of | 4,034 | triviaqa-train |
Vitamin B2 has what medical name? | From NHANES 2011–2012, estimates were that 8% of women and 3% of men consumed less than the RDA. When compared to the lower Estimated Average Requirements, fewer than 3% did not achieve the EAR level.
Riboflavin deficiency (also called ariboflavinosis) results in stomatitis including painful red tongue with sore throat, chapped and fissured lips (cheilosis), and inflammation of the corners of the mouth (angular stomatitis). There can be oily scaly skin rashes on the scrotum, vulva, philtrum of the lip, | other publications. This has drawn significant criticism of her work and has created controversy.
Career.
In her autobiography McTaggart reports that after recovering from an illness using alternative medical approaches her husband suggested she start a newsletter on the risks of some medical practices and devised the title: "What Doctors Don't Tell You". In 1996 McTaggart published the book with the same name.
She and her husband set up a public company in 2001, "What Doctors Don't Tell You plc", later "Conatus | 4,035 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek Goddess Artemis? | , Juno and Minerva later became central to official religion, replacing the Archaic Triad — an unusual example within Indo-European religion of a supreme triad formed of two female deities and only one male. The cult of Diana became established on the Aventine Hill, but the most famous Roman manifestation of this goddess may be Diana Nemorensis, owing to the attention paid to her cult by J.G. Frazer in the mythographical classic "The Golden Bough".
The gods represented distinctly the practical needs of daily life, and Ancient Romans scrupulously | Eleutheria
The Greek word "ἐλευθερία" (capitalized Ἐλευθερία; Attic Greek pronunciation: ), transliterated as eleutheria, is an Ancient Greek term for, and personification of, liberty. Eleutheria personified had a brief career on coins of Alexandria.
In Ancient Greece, Eleutheria was also an epithet for the goddess Artemis, and as such she was worshipped in Myra of Lycia. The Roman equivalent of the goddess Eleutheria is Libertas, a goddess in her own right, and a personification of liberty.
Etymology.
For | 4,036 | triviaqa-train |
On the Beaufort Scale which number is registered as Fresh Breeze? | Beaufort scale
The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale.
History.
The scale was devised in 1805 by the Irish hydrographer Francis Beaufort (later Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort), a Royal Navy officer, while serving on HMS "Woolwich". The scale that carries Beaufort's name had a long and complex evolution from the previous work of others (including Daniel Defoe the century before) to when | the wind on the built environment, including buildings, bridges and other man-made objects.
Wind force scale.
Historically, the Beaufort wind force scale (created by Beaufort) provides an empirical description of wind speed based on observed sea conditions. Originally it was a 13-level scale, but during the 1940s, the scale was expanded to 17 levels. There are general terms that differentiate winds of different average speeds such as a breeze, a gale, a storm, tornado, or a hurricane. Within the | 4,037 | triviaqa-train |
Who painted The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Tulp? | The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting on canvas by Rembrandt housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. The painting is regarded as one of Rembrandt's early masterpieces.
In the work, Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the musculature of the arm to medical professionals. Some of the spectators are various doctors who paid commissions to be included in the painting. The painting is signed in the top-left hand corner "Rembrandt. f[ecit | of "praelector chirugic et anatomie". The painting was damaged by fire in 1723, and only a central fragment survives.
Around 1856 Édouard Manet visited The Hague and made a small oil on panel copy of "The Anatomy Lesson". Broadly painted in a limited palette, Manet gave the painting to his physician, Dr. Siredey.
A less detailed copy of "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp" by an unknown artist hangs in Edinburgh as part of The University of Edinburgh Fine Art Collection.
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On the Beaufort Scale which number is registered as High Wind? | the wind on the built environment, including buildings, bridges and other man-made objects.
Wind force scale.
Historically, the Beaufort wind force scale (created by Beaufort) provides an empirical description of wind speed based on observed sea conditions. Originally it was a 13-level scale, but during the 1940s, the scale was expanded to 17 levels. There are general terms that differentiate winds of different average speeds such as a breeze, a gale, a storm, tornado, or a hurricane. Within the | Meteorological Services (2012 edition) defined the Beaufort Scale only up to force 12 and there was no recommendation on the use of the extended scale.
Wind speed on the 1946 Beaufort scale is based on the empirical relationship:
Where "v" is the equivalent wind speed at 10 metres above the sea surface and "B" is Beaufort scale number. For example, "B" = 9.5 is related to 24.5 m/s which is equal to the lower limit of "10 Beaufort". Using this | 4,039 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the only city in the county of Cornwall? | , Cornwall Council. The ceremonial county of Cornwall also includes the Isles of Scilly, which are administered separately. The administrative centre of Cornwall is Truro, its only city.
Cornwall is the homeland of the Cornish people and the cultural and ethnic origin of the Cornish diaspora. It retains a distinct cultural identity that reflects its history, and is recognised as one of the Celtic nations. It was formerly a Brythonic kingdom and subsequently a royal duchy. The Cornish nationalist movement contests the present constitutional status of Cornwall and seeks greater | also gain city status, but only if that is granted by the Crown. The chairman of a town or city council is called a mayor. The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 introduced alternative names: a parish council can now choose to be called a community; village; or neighbourhood council.
Within Cornwall, the 2007 Act lead to the abolition of the six district councils and Cornwall County Council, establishing in their place the single unitary authority, Cornwall Council. All civil parish councils became the responsibility | 4,040 | triviaqa-train |
Who did Marcel Duchamp paint complete with a moustache? | Duchamp made a parody of the "Mona Lisa" by adorning a cheap reproduction of the painting with a mustache and goatee. To this he added the inscription "L.H.O.O.Q.", a phonetic game which, when read out loud in French quickly sounds like ""Elle a chaud au cul"". This can be translated as "She has a hot ass," implying that the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual excitement and availability. It may also have been intended as a Freudian joke, referring | that Duchamp bought in 1914 as an "already made" sculpture, but it gathered dust in the corner of his Paris studio because the idea of "readymade" had not yet been born. Two years later, through correspondence from New York with his sister, Suzanne Duchamp, in France he intended to make it a readymade by asking her to paint on it "(from) Marcel Duchamp." However, Suzanne, who was looking after his Paris studio, had already disposed of it.
- "Prelude to | 4,041 | triviaqa-train |
A rat called Splinter trained which quartet? | "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 video game)", "", "", and ".
In 2006, Ubisoft acquired the rights for TMNT games, beginning with a game based on the 2007 animated feature film, along with a distinct game for the Game Boy Advance similar in style to the Konami arcade games. A beat 'em up game "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack" was released for the Nintendo DS in 2009, to coincide with the series' 25th anniversary. In 2013, Activision | .
Recurring characters Hamato Yoshi.
Hamato Yoshi is a ninjutsu master whose history is always intertwined with Splinter's.
As Splinter's owner, Yoshi was the greatest shadow warrior of the Foot Clan in Japan, and trained Splinter in the art of ninjutsu by allowing the rat to copy his katas from inside his cage. Yoshi was put in a fierce competition with rival clan member Oroku Nagi and the two fought for everything, including the love of a young woman named Tang Shen. This came to a tipping point when | 4,042 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot? | Matthias.
Due to his notorious role in all the gospel narratives, Judas remains a controversial figure in Christian history. For instance, Judas's betrayal is seen as setting in motion the events that led to Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection, which, according to traditional Christian theology, brought salvation to humanity. The Gnostic Gospel of Judas – rejected by the mainstream Church as heretical – praises Judas for his role in triggering humanity's salvation and exalts Judas as the best of the apostles. Since the Middle Ages, | Jude the Apostle
Jude, also known as Judas Thaddaeus (; ; Syriac/Aramaic: ܝܗܘܕܐ ܫܠܝܚܐ), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is generally identified with Thaddeus, and is also variously called Jude of James, Jude Thaddaeus, Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus. He is sometimes identified with Jude, the brother of Jesus, but is clearly distinguished from Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus prior to his crucifixion. Catholic writer Michal Hunt suggests that Judas Thaddaeus became known as Jude after early translators of | 4,043 | triviaqa-train |
What was the site of Jesus’ ascension into heaven 40 days after the resurrection? | the observance.
Biblical accounts.
Luke-Acts, a single work from the same anonymous author, provides the only narrative account of the ascension. Luke chapter 24 tells how Jesus leads the eleven disciples to Bethany, a village on the Mount of Olives, where he instructs them to remain in Jerusalem until the coming of the Holy Spirit: "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem | The "Ascension of Jesus" (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin section title: "Ascensio Iesu") is the Christian teaching found in the New Testament that the resurrected Jesus was taken up to heaven in his resurrected body, in the presence of eleven of his apostles, occurring 40 days after the resurrection. In the biblical narrative, an angel tells the watching disciples that Jesus' second coming will take place in the same manner as his ascension.
The canonical gospels include two brief descriptions of the Ascension of Jesus in | 4,044 | triviaqa-train |
Madrid stands on which river? | Manzanares in the centre of both the country and the Community of Madrid (which comprises the city of Madrid, its conurbation and extended suburbs and villages); this community is bordered by the autonomous communities of Castile and León and Castile-La Mancha. As the capital city of Spain, seat of government, and residence of the Spanish monarch, Madrid is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The current mayor is José Luis Martínez-Almeida from the People's Party.
The Madrid urban agglomeration | However, the website of the new foundation, which still stands as http://www.ortegaygasset.edu, barely reveals any activity or interest related to Marañón.
Life and work Ateneo of Madrid.
It could be taken into consideration that it was not the Foundation, but the Ateneo of Madrid, who celebrated the 50th anniversary of the death of Marañón, on 19 October 2010. In 1924 Marañón "had been promoted to president of the Ateneo by acclamation of his partners, that viewed him as his true president, but his presidency was de facto | 4,045 | triviaqa-train |
In which capital city is the stadium nicknamed ‘The Birds Nest’? | Beijing National Stadium
Beijing National Stadium, officially the National Stadium (), also known as the Bird's Nest (), is a stadium in Beijing. The stadium was jointly designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron, project architect Stefan Marbach, artist Ai Weiwei, and CADG, which was led by chief architect Li Xinggang. The stadium was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics and will be used again in the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The Bird's | sporting venues in the city include the National Stadium, also known as the "Birds' Nest", National Aquatics Center, also known as the "Water Cube", National Indoor Stadium, all in the Olympic Green to the north of downtown; the MasterCard Center at Wukesong west of downtown; the Workers' Stadium and Workers' Arena in Sanlitun just east of downtown and the Capital Arena in Baishiqiao, northeast of downtown. In addition, many universities in the city have their own sport facilities.
Sports Clubs. | 4,046 | triviaqa-train |
Which palindrome means a principle of belief? | , as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum, a city buried by ash in that year. This palindrome, called the Sator Square, consists of a sentence written in Latin: "Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas" ("The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels"). It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. Hence, it can be arranged into a word square that reads in | take an oath in a manner, that is contrary to his or her religion or belief or that requires him or her to express a belief that he or she does not hold.
The 1997 Constitution was suspended in 2009 and replaced in 2013. This constitution states in chapter 1:
4.(1) Religious liberty, as recognised in the Bill of Rights, is a founding principle of the State.
(2) Religious belief is personal.
(3) Religion and the State are separate, which means— | 4,047 | triviaqa-train |
On which US state’s flag can the Union Jack be seen? | . The act specified that new flag designs should become official on the first July 4 (Independence Day) following admission of one or more new states. The most recent change, from 49 stars to 50, occurred in 1960 when the present design was chosen, after Hawaii gained statehood in August 1959. Before that, the admission of Alaska in January 1959 prompted the debut of a short-lived 49-star flag.
Prior to the adoption of the 48-star flag in 1912, there was no official arrangement of the stars in | included the Union Jack, in favour of a modified St George's Cross or the White Ensign, which was the flag used by Henry Williams on the Church Missionary Society ships. This flag became known as the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand and was officially gazetted in New South Wales in August 1835, with a general description not mentioning fimbriation or the number of points on the stars.
The United Tribes' flag is still flown on the flag pole at Waitangi, and can be seen on Waitangi Day. | 4,048 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of the French National Anthem? | Battle of Valmy. As the vast majority of Alsatians did not speak French, a German version ("Auf, Brüder, auf dem Tag entgegen") was published in October 1792 in Colmar.
The Convention accepted it as the French national anthem in a decree passed on 14 July 1795, making it France's first anthem. It later lost this status under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and Charles X, only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution of 1830. During | ‘Melanie Williams’s book is in part what its sub-title declares: a series of case studies dating from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, linking literary and philosophical texts to legal issues. It is also in part what its title declares: a peroration on the jurisprudential idea of ‘empty justice’, using literary texts as accessible ways into difficult concepts. What neither title nor sub-title declares is that this is first and foremost a work of feminist theory. Williams's | 4,049 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote ‘Not Waving But Drowning’? | Not Waving but Drowning
"Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by the British poet Stevie Smith. It was published in 1957 as part of a collection of the same title. The most famous of Smith's poems, it gives an account of a drowned man whose distressed thrashing in the water had been mistaken for waving. The poem was accompanied by one of Smith's drawings, as was common in her work.
The poem's personal significance has been the topic of several pieces of literary criticism because Smith | the outrageous wit of her youth and more reflection on suffering, faith and the end of life. Her best-known poem is "Not Waving but Drowning". She was awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1966 and won the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry in 1969. She published nine volumes of poems in her lifetime (three more were released posthumously).
As an occasional work, Smith wrote the text of the coffee-table book "Cats in Colour" (1959), for which she wrote | 4,050 | triviaqa-train |
Performing which move can a chess player move two pieces at the same time? | squares are unoccupied (black dots in the diagram); or the pawn can capture an opponent's piece on a square diagonally in front of it on an adjacent file, by moving to that square (black "x"s). A pawn has two special moves: the "en passant" capture and promotion.
Rules Castling.
Once in every game, each king can make a special move, known as "castling". Castling consists of moving the king two squares along the first rank toward a rook (that | =Rook, B=Bishop, N=Knight, and P=Pawn). Four squares are initially unoccupied.
All the pieces move and capture in the same manner as conventional chess, except the pawn, which moves diagonally and captures laterally. A pawn may not move two squares at a time, and there is no en passant capture. There are no checkmates and no stalemates: kings are captured like all other pieces. When a player is in check and has no legal moves to escape check, he | 4,051 | triviaqa-train |
Which vertical take-off jet made its first flight in 1966? | Takeoff
Takeoff is the phase of flight in which an aerospace vehicle goes from the ground to flying in the air.
For aircraft that take off horizontally, this usually involves starting with a transition from moving along the ground on a runway. For balloons, helicopters and some specialized fixed-wing aircraft (VTOL aircraft such as the Harrier), no runway is needed. Takeoff is the opposite of landing.
Horizontal takeoff.
Horizontal takeoff Power settings.
For light aircraft, usually full power is used during takeoff | in the Western Hemisphere.
- Born: Kim Wilde, English singer (as Kim Smith), in Chiswick, London, the first child of singers Marty Wilde and Joyce Baker.
November 19, 1960 (Saturday).
- The Hawker Siddeley P.1127, the first V/STOL jet aircraft (vertical short take-off and landing) capability, made its first untethered flight. Test pilot Bill Bedford lifted, hovered, and landed the jet at the Royal Aircraft Establishment ground at Thurleigh.
- Born | 4,052 | triviaqa-train |
The original ‘Gang of Four’ was a political group in which country? | Gang of Four
The Gang of Four () was a political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and were later charged with a series of treasonous crimes. The gang's leading figure was Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's last wife). The other members were Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.
The Gang of Four controlled the power organs of the Communist Party of China through the later stages of the Cultural Revolution, although it | Yongkang, former Central Military Commission vice-chairman Xu Caihou, former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai, and former General Office chief Ling Jihua as the "New Gang of Four". All four were investigated for corruption-related offences between 2012 and 2014. This group had little in common with the original Gang of Four and whether the new "Gang" truly had a coherent set of shared political interests was not clear.
Popular culture.
English post-punk band Gang of Four are named after the faction. | 4,053 | triviaqa-train |
Trinidad sits only 6.8 miles from the coast of which South American country? | , rhyming with "lumbago", "sago", and "may go".
Geography.
Trinidad and Tobago are islands situated between 10° 2' and 11° 12' N latitude and 60° 30' and 61° 56' W longitude. At the closest point, Trinidad is just from Venezuelan territory. Covering an area of , the country consists of the two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous smaller landforms, including Chacachacare, Monos, Huevos, Gaspar Grande (or Gasparee) | to the nation's two tallest mountain peaks, El Cerro del Aripo and El Tucuche which both exceeds 3,070 feet and is considered to be a continuation of the Andes Mountain Range on the mainland South American continent which is only 6.8 miles away from Trinidad.
Geography Biodiversity.
The densely forested peaks of the north are home to over 100 species of mammals and 430 species of birds as well as the Red Howler Monkeys, Capuchin Monkeys, Neotropical River Otters, Collared Peckaries, Ocelots and Red Brocket Deers to name a few. | 4,054 | triviaqa-train |
What is the capital of Barbados? | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and south-east of Martinique and north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is outside the principal Atlantic hurricane belt. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
Inhabited by Kalinago people since the 13th century, and prior to that by other Amerindians, Barbados was visited by Spanish navigators in the late 15th century and claimed for the Spanish Crown. It first appeared in a Spanish map in 1511. The Portuguese Empire claimed the island between 1532 and 1536, but later abandoned it in 1620 | views. The other current books in the "What is?" series include ""What is Love?, What is Death?, What is Beautiful?, What is Funny?, What is Right?, What is Peace?, What is Money?, What is Dreaming?, What is a Friend?, What is True?, What is a Family?, What is a Feeling?" The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age | 4,055 | triviaqa-train |
A Wayzgoose is an annual outing or party in which industry? | which includes a large-scale relief printing project using a steamroller, is designed to get the community interested and involved in the art of printmaking. The School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, Washington also celebrates an annual Wayzgoose festival which includes a "Steamroller Smackdown" competition.
The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin holds a Wayzgoose in November. The event is a multi-day conference with presentations and workshops by letterpress printers and historians.
The Museum of Printing (in Armidale, New South | . With paper replacing parchment, the name of the traditional Martinmas party, the Wayzgoose, might have been transferred to both papermakers' and printers' parties.
Contemporary uses.
Since 1979, the Grimsby, Ontario Public Art Gallery has held its annual Wayzgoose festival showing handmade books and paper arts and demonstrating their technologies. The festival occurs on the last Saturday in April. The wayzgoose is held in the Grimsby Art Gallery. The town produces a limited edition anthology showing samples of the work by private presses and celebrating print | 4,056 | triviaqa-train |
Henry VIII had six wives, but which of his wives had four husbands? | needed the money; the 1544 campaign had cost £650,000, and England was once again bankrupt.
Marriage to Catherine Parr.
Henry married his last wife, the wealthy widow Catherine Parr, in July 1543. A reformer at heart, she argued with Henry over religion. Ultimately, Henry remained committed to an idiosyncratic mixture of Catholicism and Protestantism; the reactionary mood which had gained ground following the fall of Cromwell had neither eliminated his Protestant streak nor been overcome by it. Parr helped reconcile Henry with his daughters, | Wives of King Henry VIII
In common parlance, the wives of Henry VIII were the six queens consort wedded to Henry between 1509 and his death in 1547. In legal terms, King Henry VIII of England had only three wives, because three of his marriages were annulled. Annulments essentially declare that a true marriage never took place, unlike a divorce, in which a married couple end their union.
Overview.
The six women who were married to Henry VIII, in chronological order:
Henry's first marriage | 4,057 | triviaqa-train |
Hatha, Jnana and Karma are all forms of which activity? | is the purest, and a discovery of one's Atman:
Traditions.
The Advaita philosopher Adi Shankara gave primary importance to jñāna yoga for the "knowledge of the absolute" (Brahman), while the Vishishtadvaita commentator Ramanujar regarded knowledge only as a condition of devotion.
Traditions Classical Advaita Vedanta.
Traditions Classical Advaita Vedanta Behaviors.
Classical Advaita Vedanta emphasises the path of Jnana Yoga to attain moksha. It consists of fourfold attitudes, or behavioral qualifications:
1. Discrimination ("" (नित्यानित्य वस्तु विवेकम्), | her. Yajnavalkya agrees, but first attributes his knowledge to the Hindu god Brahma who taught him this "jnana" (knowledge) and "karma" (works).
Contents Knowledge and Varnas.
Yajnavalkya states that there are two paths to attain knowledge. One path is "Pravritti-karma", wherein a person is driven by desire and a craving for rewards, forms his will, and then uses his knowledge to act out his free will. The second path is "Nivritti-karma", wherein a | 4,058 | triviaqa-train |
Who traded places with Eddie Murphy in the film Trading Places? | to host, so Murphy took over. He became the only cast member to host while still a regular. Murphy opened the show with the phrase, "Live from New York, It's the Eddie Murphy Show!"
The following year, Murphy starred in "Trading Places" with fellow "SNL" alumnus Dan Aykroyd. The movie marked the first of Murphy's collaborations with director John Landis (who also directed Murphy in "Coming to America" and "Beverly Hills Cop III") and proved to be | Beverly Hills Cop III
Beverly Hills Cop III is a 1994 American action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by John Landis, who had previously worked with Murphy on "Trading Places" and "Coming to America". It is the third film in the "Beverly Hills Cop" trilogy, and a sequel to "Beverly Hills Cop II".
Murphy again plays Detroit cop Axel Foley, who once again returns to Beverly Hills, California, to stop a gang of counterfeiters who are responsible for the death of | 4,059 | triviaqa-train |
In Indian cuisine which vegetable is ‘aloo’? | , is featured in the hearty "locro de papas", a thick soup of potato, squash, and cheese.
Uses Europe.
In the UK, potatoes form part of the traditional staple, fish and chips. Roast potatoes are commonly served as part of a Sunday roast dinner and mashed potatoes form a major component of several other traditional dishes, such as shepherd's pie, bubble and squeak, and bangers and mash. New potatoes may be cooked with mint and are often served with butter.
The Tattie | See also.
- Middle Eastern cuisine
- Falafel
- Meze
- Indian cuisine
- Aloo gobi
- List of vegetable dishes | 4,060 | triviaqa-train |
What is the capital of Latvia? | killed on 30 November and 8 December 1941 in the Rumbula massacre. By the end of the war, the remaining Baltic Germans were expelled to Germany.
The Soviet Red Army re-entered Riga on 13 October 1944. In the following years the massive influx of labourers, administrators, military personnel, and their dependents from Russia and other Soviet republics started. Microdistricts of the large multi-storied housing blocks were built to house immigrant workers.
By the end of the war, Rīga's historical centre was heavily damaged | views. The other current books in the "What is?" series include ""What is Love?, What is Death?, What is Beautiful?, What is Funny?, What is Right?, What is Peace?, What is Money?, What is Dreaming?, What is a Friend?, What is True?, What is a Family?, What is a Feeling?" The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age | 4,061 | triviaqa-train |
In 1972 Mother and Child Reunion was the first solo UK hit for which artist? | Mother and Child Reunion
"Mother and Child Reunion" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the lead single from his second studio album, "Paul Simon" (1972), released on Columbia Records. It was released as a single on February 5, 1972, reaching No. 1 in South Africa and No. 4 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 57 song for 1972. It was at the time one | Dozier has his own production company and continues to work as a solo artist, producer and recording artist, while the Holland Brothers own HDH Records and Productions (without any participation from Lamont Dozier), which issues recordings from the Invictus and Hot Wax catalogs as well as new material.
For a "one-time only reunion", the three composed the score for the musical production of "The First Wives Club", based on the novel by Olivia Goldsmith and a later hit film. The musical included 22 new | 4,062 | triviaqa-train |
Who topped the charts in 1996 with Breathe and Firestarter? | Firestarter (The Prodigy song)
"Firestarter" is a song by the British band The Prodigy, released on 18 March 1996. It was the first single from their third album "The Fat of the Land", and their tenth single overall. It was also the group's first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, staying on top for three weeks, and their first big international hit, also reaching number one in Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary and Norway.
It showcased Keith Flint, | including two critically acclaimed and award-winning promos in 1996: "Firestarter", which won Best Video in the "NME" People's Choice Award 1996, and "Breathe", which won Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards 1997.
Stern joined Academy Films in 1997, launching himself with the video for The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony". That same year, he began another successful collaboration, this time with the band Massive Attack. This relationship produced promos for "Risingson" (1997) | 4,063 | triviaqa-train |
What is the only New Testament Gospel that is not synoptic? | Synoptic Gospels
The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in a similar sequence and in similar or sometimes identical wording. They stand in contrast to John, whose content is largely distinct. The term "synoptic" (; ) comes via Latin from the Greek , "synopsis", i.e. "(a) seeing all together, synopsis"; the sense of the word in English, the one specifically applied to these three gospels | is within you." The Apostle Paul defined the Kingdom of God in his letter to the church in Rome: "For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit."
In the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus speaks frequently of God's kingdom. However within the New Testament, nowhere does Jesus appear to clearly define the concept. Within the Synoptic Gospel accounts, the assumption appears to have been made that, "this was a concept | 4,064 | triviaqa-train |
To which of the tribes of Israel did Samson belong? | , Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin, become the ancestors of twelve tribes, with the exception of Joseph, whose two sons Mannasseh and Ephraim, who were adopted by Jacob, become tribal eponyms ().
The mothers of Jacob's sons are:
- Leah: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun
- Rachel: Joseph (Ephraim and Menasseh), Benjamin
- Bilhah (Rachel's maid): | leadership developed. There were the heads of the original Hebrew tribes, and then also prophets such as Moses, Jeremiah and Samuel and whose words inspire people to this day, judges such as Samson, kings such as David and Solomon, priests of the Temple in Jerusalem, and the Sanhedrin which was the judiciary.
Historic leadership Mishnaic, Talmudic, Middle Ages leadership (70 to 17th century).
With the demise of ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah and coinciding with the revolt of the Maccabees against ancient Greece and later | 4,065 | triviaqa-train |
Jana Gana Mana is the National Anthem of which country? | Sindh, Gujarat, Maratha, Dravid (South India), Odisha/Utkal and Bengal, were mentioned. None of the princely states – Kashmir, Rajasthan, Hyderabad, Mysore or Kerala – or the states in Northeast India, which are now integral parts of India were mentioned. But opponents of this proposition claim that Tagore mentioned only the border states of India to include complete India. Whether the princely states would form a part of a liberated Indian republic was a matter of debate even till Indian Independence. 'Dravida' | film. In total, there are more than 100 jumps in the film, and each jump was modified based on the distance and location the character(s) jumped. The jumps were developed using Nuke and Shake software; many, including those to Big Ben and the Sphinx were created with Maya. Weta's VFX supervisor Erik Winquist explained how the visual effects of the jumps were created: "The concept of what a jump looks like changed and evolved a little over the course of post production. There are shots in the film | 4,066 | triviaqa-train |
In which novel was Aunt Ada Doom shocked by something nasty in the woodshed? | Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
Plot summary.
Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living". She decides to take advantage of the fact that "no limits are set, | of Amos, with an unhealthy passion for her own son Seth
- Seth Starkadder: younger son of Amos and Judith, handsome and over-sexed, with a passion for the movies
- Ada Doom: Judith's mother, a reclusive, miserly widow, owner of the farm, who constantly complains of having seen "something nasty in the woodshed" when she was a girl
- Adam Lambsbreath: 90-year-old farm hand, obsessed with his cows and with Elfine
- Mark Dolour: farm hand, | 4,067 | triviaqa-train |
The Folketing is the parliament of which country? | and for commerce.
The thing met at regular intervals, legislated, elected chieftains and kings, and judged according to the law, which was memorised and recited by the "law speaker" (the judge).
The Icelandic, Faroese and Manx parliaments trace their origins back to the Viking expansion originating from the Petty kingdoms of Norway as well as Denmark, replicating Viking government systems in the conquered territories, such as those represented by the Gulating near Bergen in western Norway.
- The Icelandic Althing, dating to | Frank Aaen
Frank Aaen (born 25 July 1951, in Nørresundby) is a Danish economist and Member of Parliament (the Folketing) for Enhedslisten. On 15 March 2006, he suffered a thrombosis but was back in the Folketing by April.
Frank Aaen is an educated economist and holds a master's degree in economics from Aalborg University which he received in 1985.
Politics.
Aaen has been a member of parliament from 1994 to 2001 and 2005 to 2015. He is a member of the left-wing | 4,068 | triviaqa-train |
What is the common name for the Earth’s lithosphere? | Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite. It is usually distinguished from the underlying mantle by its chemical makeup; however, in the case of icy satellites, it may be distinguished based on its phase (solid crust vs. liquid mantle).
The crusts of Earth, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Io, and other planetary bodies formed via igneous processes, and were later modified by erosion, impact cratering, | can also occur when the soil dries appreciably and shrinks, as during droughts, which allows vertical leakage to temporarily occur immediately after drought-breaking rainfalls.
Pedosphere, critical zone, biomantle interrelationships.
The pedosphere, or soil, is the planetary interface where Earth’s five great global ‘spheres’ interact. These are the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and pedosphere. The "critical zone", a recent conceptual framework, encompasses the Earth’s outer layer in which most surface and near-surface life | 4,069 | triviaqa-train |
Which musical has characters Columbia, Magenta and Dr Everett Scott? | a large international cult following. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2005.
Plot.
A criminologist narrates the tale of the newly engaged couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy late November evening, somewhere near Denton in 1974. Seeking a telephone, the couple walk to a nearby castle where they discover a group of strange and outlandish people who are holding an Annual Transylvanian Convention. | or "Phantoms" (Musical), and the Criminologist/Narrator (played by Charles Gray in the movie). The characters that sing the verses are, in order, Riff-Raff (Richard O'Brien in the movie), Magenta (Patricia Quinn in the movie), and Columbia (Little Nell Campbell in the film). After the second full chorus, Columbia often launches into her tap dance.
The order of the solos varies in certain albums. In the movie and Roxy cast album, Columbia's | 4,070 | triviaqa-train |
In which musical did Michael Ball play Edna Turnblad in the West End? | as Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray", and then in 2013 for the title role in the revival of "".
Ball was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for his services to musical theatre.
Early life.
Ball was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire to a Welsh mother and an English father. His father Tony, who originally wanted to be an actor, trained as an Austin apprentice at the Longbridge plant and progressed to become head of global sales | years, closing on January 4, 2009 after 2,642 performances. Thorell returned to the cast for the final ten months. Fierstein and Winokur returned to the cast for the final performances.
Productions Original London production.
The West End production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on October 11, 2007 for previews before its official opening on October 30. Michael Ball played Edna, with Mel Smith as Wilbur Turnblad, newcomer Leanne Jones as Tracy, Tracie Bennett as Velma, Paul Manuel as Corny Collins, Rachael Wooding as Amber, Elinor | 4,071 | triviaqa-train |
Which character said ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk’? | in the Rocky Mountains, five-year-old Danny hears whispers of the malign "voice of the [Overlook] hotel" inside his head, including this bit of mockery: "Why is a raven like a writing desk? The higher the fewer, of course! Have another cup of tea!"
In other media.
The Hatter has been featured in nearly every adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" to date; he is usually the male lead. The character has been portrayed in film by Edward | "The Riddle" - written by Walter Simonson, art by John Paul Leon
- A wealthy Gothamite with a huge collection of Lewis Carroll memorabilia has died. It is rumoured that in his possession he has Carroll's answer to the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"; This proves an irresistible target for the Riddler. He breaks into the house and negotiates his way through a maze of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass"-related animatronics, until he finds himself | 4,072 | triviaqa-train |
Which solid has the biggest volume for a given surface area? | the volume of cone is
the volume of the sphere is
while the volume of the cylinder is
The discovery of the 2 : 3 ratio of the volumes of the sphere and cylinder is credited to Archimedes.
Volume formulas Volume formula derivations.
Volume formulas Volume formula derivations Sphere.
The volume of a sphere is the integral of an infinite number of infinitesimally small circular disks of thickness "dx". The calculation for the volume of a sphere with center 0 and radius "r" is as follows. | Surface-area-to-volume ratio
The surface-area-to-volume ratio, also called the surface-to-volume ratio and variously denoted sa/vol or SA:V, is the amount of surface area per unit volume of an object or collection of objects.
In chemical reactions involving a solid material, the surface area to volume ratio is an important factor for the reactivity, that is, the rate at which the chemical reaction will proceed.
For a given volume, the object | 4,073 | triviaqa-train |
Which type of rock is formed by heat or pressure? | often contain fossils. Sedimentary rocks form under the influence of gravity and typically are deposited in horizontal or near horizontal layers or strata and may be referred to as stratified rocks. A small fraction of sedimentary rocks deposited on steep slopes will show cross bedding where one layer stops abruptly along an interface where another layer eroded the first as it was laid atop the first.
Classification Metamorphic rock.
Metamorphic rocks are formed by subjecting any rock type—sedimentary rock, igneous rock or another older metamorphic rock—to different temperature and pressure | temperature and confining pressure determine the deformation mechanisms which predominate. Within depths less than 5 km, dynamic metamorphism is not often produced because the confining pressure is too low to produce frictional heat. Instead, a zone of breccia or cataclasite is formed, with the rock milled and broken into random fragments. This generally forms a mélange. At depth, the angular breccias transit into a ductile shear texture and into mylonite zones.
Within the depth range of 5–10 km pseudotachylite is formed, as the confining pressure is enough | 4,074 | triviaqa-train |
Who won the Women’s Singles at the 2015 Australian Open Tennis Championships? | 1930s Australians Vivian McGrath and John Bromwich, but they were lonely exceptions. The two-handed grip gained popularity in the 1970s as Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors, and later Mats Wilander and Marat Safin used it to great effect, and it is now used by a large number of the world's best players, including Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.
Two hands give the player more control, while one hand can generate a slice shot, applying backspin on the ball to produce a low trajectory bounce. | Andy Murray career statistics
Andy Murray is a professional tennis player who is the current world No. 213 in the ATP rankings. He is the reigning Olympic champion, having won the men's singles tennis tournament at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He has reached eleven grand slam finals in total: he won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, 2013 Wimbledon Championships and the 2012 US Open, and finished as runner-up at the 2008 US Open, the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016 Australian Opens, at Wimbledon in | 4,075 | triviaqa-train |
To which school of art did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rotho belong? | by researchers at Harvard University showed the presence in one painting of a synthetic pigment that was not patented until the 1980s, and materials in two others that were not available in Pollock's lifetime.
In 2007, a traveling museum exhibition of the paintings was mounted and was accompanied by a comprehensive book, "Pollock Matters", written by Ellen G. Landau, one of the four sitting scholars from the former Pollock Krasner Foundation authentication panel from the 1990s, and Claude Cernuschi, a scholar in Abstract Expressionism. In the book | sent a wave of World War II veterans off to school, art school included. University art departments quickly expanded. American artists who might once have studied at bohemian, craft-intensive schools like the Art Students League as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Lee Bontecou, Al Held, Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly and hundreds of others did or Black Mountain College as John Chamberlain, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, and others did or the Hans Hofmann | 4,076 | triviaqa-train |
English artist Ben Nicholson married which British sculptor in 1938? | , Kate (who later also became a painter), in July 1929; and a son, Andrew, in September 1931. They were divorced in 1938. His second marriage was to fellow artist Barbara Hepworth on 17 November 1938 at Hampstead Register Office. Nicholson and Hepworth had triplets, two daughters, Sarah and Rachel, and a son, Simon, in 1934. They were divorced in 1951. The third and final marriage was to Felicitas Vogler, a German photographer. They married in July 1957 and divorced in 1977 | (1894–1984) – British artist
- Alethea Garstin (1894–1978) – Cornish painter
- Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) – English abstract painter
- Dora Clarke (1895–1989) – English sculptor
- David Jones (1895–1974) – Welsh artist and British modernist poet
- William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and war artist
- Raymond Coxon (1896–1997) – British artist
- Leila Faithfull (1896–1994) – British artist
- John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) – New Zealand born illustrator
- Henry | 4,077 | triviaqa-train |
In 2002, who was the first athlete to win FHM’s ‘Sexiest Woman in the World’ award? | Anna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google Search.
Despite never winning a singles title, she reached No. 8 in the world in 2000. She achieved greater success playing doubles, where she was at times the world No. | in Singapore, one in Thailand, and the last one in Hong Kong. Tan was voted fifth-sexiest woman in Asia FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2003 and third-sexiest woman in Asia FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2004.
Personal life.
Tanis married to Soo Kui Jien, another host of TV show "A Light Affair". They tied the knot on 21 December 2007 after being in a relationship for two and a half years. The ceremony took place in | 4,078 | triviaqa-train |
Halifax is the capital of which Canadian province? | Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, formally known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It had a population of 403,131 in 2016, with 316,701 in the urban area centred on Halifax Harbour. The regional municipality consists of four former municipalities that were amalgamated in 1996: Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, and Halifax County.
Halifax is a major economic centre in Atlantic Canada with a large concentration of government services and private sector companies. Major employers and economic generators | as Moncton. The Halifax Railway Station also serves as the terminus for Maritime Bus, which serves destinations across the Maritimes.
Halifax Stanfield International Airport serves Halifax and most of the province, providing scheduled flights to domestic and international destinations. The airport served 4,083,188 passengers in 2017, making it Canada's eighth busiest airport by passenger traffic. Shearwater, part of CFB Halifax, is the air base for maritime helicopters employed by the Royal Canadian Navy and is located on the eastern side of Halifax Harbour.
The urban core is | 4,079 | triviaqa-train |
The coffee shop ‘Central Perk’ features in which US television series? | the "Billboard" 200 at number 46, and sold 500,000 copies in November 1995. In 1999, a second soundtrack album entitled "Friends Again" was released. Other merchandise includes a "Friends" version of the DVD game "Scene It?", and a quiz video game for PlayStation 2 and PC entitled "Friends: The One with All the Trivia". On September 28, 2009, a box set was released in the UK celebrating the series's 15th anniversary. The box set contained | List of Coffee Prince episodes
The following is a list of episodes of Coffee Prince, a Filipino romantic-comedy series adapted by Des Garbes Severino, which premiered on GMA Network on October 8, 2012 on GMA Telebabad block. The series ended on November 23, 2012, with the total of thirty five episodes.
The series is based on Sun-mi Lee's novel and MBC's 2007 hit Korean television series, "The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince". The series is directed by Ricky Davao. | 4,080 | triviaqa-train |
What were the first names of Scottish author A J Cronin? | A. J. Cronin
Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician.
His best-known novel is "The Citadel" (1937), the story of a Scottish doctor in a Welsh mining village, who quickly moves up the career ladder in London. Cronin had observed the venues closely as a medical inspector of mines and later as a doctor in Harley Street. The book promoted what were then controversial new ideas about medical ethics and helped to inspire the launch of | of writer Vincent Cronin, and grandson of Scottish author A. J. Cronin. In January 1980 he held the first ever Ceroc event in Porchester Hall in London. By 1982, Ceroc had a cabaret team that performed routines in London nightclubs and venues. Throughout the spring and summer of 1982, the Ceroc troupe worked with choreographer Michel Ange Lau, whose classes Cronin and Sylvia Coleman had attended at the Centre Charles Peguy, a French youth centre, in Leicester Square. The first video recording of a Ceroc event appears on the description | 4,081 | triviaqa-train |
What type of weather condition was known as a ‘London Particular’? | S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", 1922); "a faint yellow fog" (Stella Benson, "This is the End"). Inez Haynes Irwin, writing in "The Californiacs" (1921), praises what was then the superior quality of California fog, saying it is "Not distilled from pea soup like the London fogs; moist air-gauzes rather, pearl-touched and glimmering."
"A Foggy Day", originally titled "A Foggy Day (In London Town) | order to improve the drainage of the levels. He visited the area for four days in June 1767, during a period which was half way between spring tides and neap tides, and which followed a time when the weather had been quite wet. He found that the meadows, which were locally known as brooks, were in many cases under water, but that their condition, and therefore the remedies that would be required, were variable. In particular, the brooks of Southover, Iford, Pool Bar, and Rodmell, | 4,082 | triviaqa-train |
Delft pottery comes from which European country? | Delftware
Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue (), is a general term now used for Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, a form of faience. Most of it is blue and white pottery, and the city of Delft in the Netherlands was the major centre of production, but the term covers wares with other colours, and made elsewhere. It is also used for similar pottery that it influenced made in England, but this should be called English delftware to avoid confusion.
Delftware is one of | Armorial ware
Armorial ware or heraldic china (and a variety of other terms) are ceramics decorated with a coat of arms, either that of a family, or an institution or place. Armorials have been popular on European pottery from the Middle Ages with examples seen on Spanish Hispano-Moresque ware, Italian maiolica, slipware, English and Dutch Delft, and on porcelain from the 18th century. Earlier examples were mostly large pieces such as jugs or basins and ewers, but later whole table services, all painted with the | 4,083 | triviaqa-train |
Which US author won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’? | The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.
In 1953, "The Old Man and the Sea" was | Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there. The time frame of the novel is from 1963 to 1970, with a coda set in 1983. One of the protagonists of "Tree of Smoke" is Bill Houston, who was the main character in Johnson's | 4,084 | triviaqa-train |
Anna Leonowens is a character in which 1956 film? | and in her writings she tended to focus on what she saw as the subjugated status of Siamese women, including those sequestered within the "Nang Harm", or royal harem. She emphasised that although Mongkut had been a forward-looking ruler, he had desired to preserve customs such as prostration and sexual slavery which seemed unenlightened and degrading. The sequel, "Romance of the Harem" (1873), incorporates tales based on palace gossip, including the king's alleged torture and execution of one of his concubines, Tuptim | in the text, which reflects on how the thriving can quickly expire due to the rigors of the world.
10. “Ende des Herbstes” (End of Autumn) (Stanza 3)- Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. The tenth movement begins with the chorus than gradually builds up to a climax. The conclusion of the movement features a bass trumpet solo.
11. “Herbsttag” (Autumn Day)- Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. The baritone soloist is featured again in the eleventh movement. The text describes decay brought | 4,085 | triviaqa-train |
Who directed the 2009 film ‘Avatar’? | Avatar (2009 film)
Avatar (marketed as James Cameron's Avatar) is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor. The expansion of | Jack Perez
Jack Perez is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and film professor. Perez is known primarily for two efforts. He directed the acclaimed comedy-thriller "Some Guy Who Kills People" executive produced by John Landis. He also directed "Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus", whose trailer went viral, and was named by Yahoo! as one of the top 10 trailers of 2009, with more trailer views than "Avatar".
He currently lives in California.
External links. | 4,086 | triviaqa-train |
Roquet, Tice and Pioneer are all terms used in which game? | ball, help avoid these penalties.
A handicap system ("bisques") provides less experienced players a chance of winning against more formidable opponents. Players of all ages and both sexes compete on level terms.
The World Championships are organised by the World Croquet Federation (WCF) and usually take place every two or three years. The 2018 championships took place in Wellington, New Zealand; the winner was Paddy Chapman of New Zealand. The current Women's Association Croquet World Champion (2015) is Miranda Chapman of | teams have the same score after 10 innings, the game ends in a tie (although some tournaments may permit extra innings). Scoring all of the arches in a single inning, thus winning the game outright, is called a "home run." Some games could, by agreement or tournament rule, be timed.
- In roque, the side (or corner) arches (identified as points 3, 5, 11, and 13) can only be scored by a roquet or continuation shot.
- | 4,087 | triviaqa-train |
In the 1940 Disney film ‘Pinocchio’ what is the name of Geppetto’s goldfish? | make Monstro sneeze, giving them a chance to escape. The scheme works, but the enraged whale chases them and smashes their raft. Pinocchio pulls Geppetto to safety in a cave before Monstro crashes into it. Geppetto, Figaro, Cleo, and Jiminy are washed up safely on a beach, but Pinocchio is killed.
Back home, Geppetto grieves over Pinocchio with Jiminy Cricket and the pets also mourn alongside. The Blue Fairy, however, decides that Pinocchio has proven himself brave, truthful, and selfless. To reward | Pinocchio (soundtrack)
Pinocchio is the soundtrack to the 1940 Walt Disney film of the same name, first released on February 9, 1940. The album was described as being "recorded from the original soundtrack of the Walt Disney Production "Pinocchio"". According to Walt Disney Records, "this is the first time the phrase 'original soundtrack' was used to refer to a commercially available movie recording".
The soundtrack won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. "When You Wish Upon A Star" | 4,088 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the President of The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon? | the club's Committee. Membership carries with it the right to purchase two tickets for each day of the Wimbledon Championships. In addition to this all champions are invited to become members.
The patron of the club is Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and the President is The Duke of Kent.
History.
The Club was founded by six gentlemen at the offices of "The Field" on 23 July 1868 at the height of a croquet craze as the "All England Croquet Club," and held its first | the International Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain since 1953, he served as chairman from 1983 to 1994, as President from 2004 to 2008 and is currently a Vice-President.
A member of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club since 1955 and currently a Vice-President, he served for twelve years on the Club Committee and the Committee of Management of The Championships, during which time he started to compile a complete database of every result that has ever occurred at Wimbledon, in all events. This mammoth task | 4,089 | triviaqa-train |
What was the first name of Labour politician Keir Hardie Sr? | Keir Hardie
James Keir Hardie (15 August 185626 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and served as its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908.
Hardie was born in Newhouse, North Lanarkshire. He started working at the age of seven, and from the age of 10 worked in the South Lanarkshire coal mines. With a background in preaching, he became known as a talented public speaker and was chosen as a spokesman for his fellow miners. | born 1953), Scottish musician
Given name:
- Keir Clark (1910–2010), Canadian politician
- Keir Dillon (born 1977), American snowboarder
- Keir Dullea (born 1936), American actor
- Keir Gilchrist (born 1992), Canadian actor
- Keir Giles, (born 1968), British writer
- Keir Graff (born 1969), American writer
- Keir Hardie (1856–1915), Scottish socialist, first leader of the UK Labour Party
- Keir Nuttall, Australian | 4,090 | triviaqa-train |
On which island is Ronaldsway Airport? | Isle of Man Airport
Isle of Man Airport (also known as Ronaldsway Airport, Manx: Purt Aer Vannin) , is the main civilian airport on the Isle of Man. It is located in the south of the island at Ronaldsway near Castletown, southwest of Douglas, the island's capital. Along with the Isle of Man Sea Terminal, it is one of the two main gateways to the island. The airport has scheduled services to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland as well as seasonal routes to Spain & | . When Ronaldsway was "out" due to bad weather, N.S.A. staff were quick to suggest that passengers get a refund and fly with them to Hall Caine which never suffered from fog. From the period of June to September 1936, there was total of 39 diversions from Ronaldsway Airport to Hall Caine as a consequence of fog affecting the south of the island.
Accidents and incidents.
Accidents and incidents G-ACYL May 1936.
- On Saturday 16 May 1936, British Airways Spartan Cruiser G-ACYL crashed on | 4,091 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the 1974 novel ‘Carrie’? | Carrie (novel)
Carrie is an epistolary horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his first published novel, released on April 5, 1974, with an approximate first print-run of 30,000 copies. Set primarily in the then-future year of 1979, it revolves around the eponymous Carrie White, an unpopular friendless misfit and bullied high-school girl who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who torment her. During the process, she causes one of the worst local disasters the | the 100 best books for teenage readers published between 1966 and 2000.
While not the first of King's novels to be published, "The Long Walk" was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine some eight years before his first published novel "Carrie" was released in 1974.
Plot summary.
One hundred teenage boys join an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk" or just "The Walk". Each contestant, called a | 4,092 | triviaqa-train |
Musician and composer Ravi Shankar was associated with which musical instrument? | Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; 7 April 192011 December 2012), born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury (Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury in Hindi), his name often preceded by the title Pandit (Master) and "Sitar maestro", was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.
Shankar was | fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. Son of Uday and Amala Shankar)
- Tanusree Shankar (one of the leading dancers and choreographers of contemporary dance in India. Wife of Ananda Shankar.)
- Mamata Shankar (Actress. Daughter of Uday Shankar and Amala Shankar)
- Ratul Shankar (Percussionist and actor. Son of Mamata Shankar)
- Ravi Shankar (Musician and composer. Son of Shyam Shankar Chowdhury)
- Annapurna Devi (Surbahar player. Was married to Ravi Shankar)
- Shubhendra Shankar | 4,093 | triviaqa-train |
What colour is the ‘Little Corvette’ in the 1983 single by Prince? | be ordered in Pennant Blue, Sportsman Red, Black, or Polo White; 3,640 were built, and sold slowly.
The 1955 model offered a V8 engine as an option. With a large inventory of unsold 1954 models, GM limited production to 700 for 1955. With the new V8, the 0–60 mph time improved by 1.5 seconds.
A new body was introduced for the 1956 model featuring a new "face" and side coves; the taillamp fins were also gone. An optional "Ramjet" fuel | Access to the beach runs through private property at the current time.
Although a remote area, a number of lots have recently been sold and development is expected to occur soon. | 4,094 | triviaqa-train |
The port of Dover is in which English county? | Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Dover Calais ferry through the Port of Dover. The surrounding chalk cliffs are known as the White Cliffs of Dover.
Archaeological finds have revealed that the area has always been a focus for peoples entering | ; including the Indigo Bunting, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and the Scarlet Tanager.
The second largest of the Communities in Norfolk County, Ontario, Port Dover had a population of 6,161 at the time of the 2016 Census. English is spoken by the majority of the residents; with 285 people speaking languages other than English or French. The majority of Port Dover residents were born in Canada, with 515 residents being born in Europe in addition to 10 African-born residents, 70 US-born residents and 70 | 4,095 | triviaqa-train |
In which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical does the cast wear roller skates? | and Hashamoto and C.B.. C.B. sabotages Hashamoto by applying his brakes at key moments in the race. Greaseball and Dinah win comfortably, claiming a place in the finals. After the race, Dinah objects to Greaseball's cheating. In response he abandons her and C.B. comforts Dinah ("There's Me"). Meanwhile, a lonely Rusty has retreated to the freight yard where an old steam train called Poppa—a former champion—is singing a blues song to the freight cars ("Poppa's Blues"). | Andrew Lloyd Webber, opened on London's West End. The cast perform on quad skates.
- 1991 - "A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"", a 1991 single by De La Soul and music video filmed at Lace's roller rink on Long Island, NY.
- 1995 - "Man of the House" features a scene where Jonathan Taylor Thomas uses early model rollerblades to get around Seattle.
- 1998 - In the Disney Channel Original Movie "Brink!", in-line skating | 4,096 | triviaqa-train |
Which sign of the Zodiac is represented by the fish? | , Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.
The twelve astrological signs form a celestial coordinate system, or even more specifically an ecliptic coordinate system, which takes the ecliptic as the origin of latitude and the Sun's position at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude.
Name.
The English word ' derives from ', the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek "zōidiakòs kýklos" (), meaning "cycle or circle of little animals". "Zōidion" ( | Mithuna (astrology)
Mithuna is the third sign in Indian astrology. The Mithuna is equivalent to the Gemini in Tropical Zodiac. The only difference is that Mithuna is represented by a man and a woman. Mithuna stands for couple (which Mithuna is represented by). The dates occupied under this sign are June 16 to July 15. In Mithuna (as seen only in the birth chart), Mercury is the ruler. Moon, Venus, Saturn, and Rahu sees this sign and its ruling planet as a friend | 4,097 | triviaqa-train |
Which fictional character uses the expression ‘Eat my shorts’? | Homer's Odyssey", (season one, 1990) the third episode to air, but were included in "Some Enchanted Evening", the first episode of the series that was produced. As the series progressed, it became more difficult for the writers to come up with a fake name and to write Moe's angry response, so the pranks were dropped as a regular joke during the fourth season but they have occasionally resurfaced on the show.
The catchphrase "Eat My Shorts" was an ad-lib by | , which is also featured in the second season premiere episode of Orange Is the New Black.
The quotation is also used in Kacey Musgraves’ song “I Miss You”, from her debut album "Same Trailer Different Park".
In video games.
"My cup runneth over!" is screamed as an expression of ecstasy by the fictional character William Bedford Diego in the 1999 video game "System Shock 2", while in "World of Warcraft", fictional character Blood Prince Valanar uses the phrase | 4,098 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek mythology who is the messenger god? | Hermes
Hermes (; ) is the god of trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, roads, thieves, trickery, sports, travelers, and athletes in Ancient Greek religion and mythology; the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, he was the second youngest of the Olympian gods (Dionysus being the youngest).
Hermes was the emissary and messenger of the gods. Hermes was also "the divine trickster" and "the god of boundaries and the transgression of boundaries, ... the patron of herdsmen, thieves, | shares several of his functions, such as being a god of commerce, travelers, merchants, and thieves
- Portunus, god of keys, doors, and livestock
- Proserpina, Roman equivalent of Persephone who spent some of her time living in the world of the dead
- Terminus, god who protected boundary markers
- Trivia, goddess of magic and the three-way crossroads; equivalent to the Greek Hecate
- Norse mythology
- Gná, Frigg's personal messenger; she rode the horse Hofvarpnir who | 4,099 | triviaqa-train |
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