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Which British pop star was born Jessica Ellen Cornish on March 27th 1988? | ". Sullivan also complimented Cornish's attitude: "[Her songs] are delivered with a confidence that money can't buy." Jessie J. has been compared to Katy Perry, and has expressed admiration for Perry's music and her work ethic.. She said, "Her hard work, her dedication, and how she deals with having the world stare at her every move, personally and professionally, with such dignity and strength, is inspiring."
"Entertainment Weekly"s music critic Adam Markovitz said of Jessie: " | The Yob
The Yob is the 21st episode of the British television comedy series The Comic Strip Presents..., written by Keith Allen and Daniel Peacock, with Allen also in the title role, and was directed by Ian Emes. It was first screened on Channel 4 on 12 March 1988 and also stars Adrian Edmondson and Peter Richardson.
It features a brief appearance by Lily Allen, Keith's daughter, then a toddler, and subsequently a pop star.
In the story, pretentious music video director Patrick Church ( | 4,300 | triviaqa-train |
Henry Charles Albert David are the christian names of which famous 28 year old ? | Charles Albert David, but that he would be known as "Harry" to his family and friends. As the prince grew up, he was referred to by Kensington Palace, and therefore the Press and the public at large, as Prince Harry. As a son of the Prince of Wales, he was called Prince Henry of Wales. Diana wanted Harry and his older brother, Prince William, to have a broader range of experiences than previous royal children. She took them to venues that ranged from Disney World and McDonald | names used in England do not have English etymology. Most traditional names are Latin or Romance, Christian or Biblical names/Hebrew (Daniel, David, John, Michael), Greek (Nicholas, Peter, Paul) or Germanic names adopted via the transmission of Old French/Norman, such as Robert, Richard, Henry or William.
There remains a limited set of given names which have an actual English etymology (see Anglo-Saxon names); examples include Alfred, Edgar, Edmund, Edwin, Harold and | 4,301 | triviaqa-train |
Later this year, Jonathon Sacks (aka the Lord Sacks) is due to retire from which religous position that he has held in Britain since 1991 ? | imagination". This led to a series of innovative communal projects including Jewish Continuity, a national foundation for Jewish educational programmes and outreach; the Association of Jewish Business Ethics; the Chief Rabbinate Awards for Excellence; the Chief Rabbinate Bursaries, and Community Development, a national scheme to enhance Jewish community life. The Chief Rabbi began his second decade of office with a call to 'Jewish Responsibility' and a renewed commitment to the ethical dimension of Judaism.
Appointments held.
In addition to serving as Chief Rabbi, Sacks | sacks in a season with 33 (since broken) and most sacks in a game with 9 (since tied). Young ended his collegiate career with 16 sacks which is still seventh in school history.
Professional career.
Professional career Los Angeles Rams.
Young was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the fifth round of the 1991 NFL Draft. He earned a starting position as a rookie in 1991. He was a backup for in 1992. In 1993, he moved to defensive end and got off to a | 4,302 | triviaqa-train |
Cheers actress Rhea Perlman has been married to which Hollywood actor and comedian for over 30 years ? | a small role as an attendant in the off-off-Broadway play "Dracula Sabbat", which ran from September 1970 to June 1971. In 1972, she played a bit role in the film "Hot Dogs for Gauguin". That same year she appeared in Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective's production of "Up – An Uppity Revue", along with her future husband, Danny DeVito.
One of her first notable parts was a recurring role on the television show "Taxi" as Zena, the sweet girlfriend | and Maude")
- March 30 – Eddie Jordan, Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix
- March 31
- Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, 2000 Democratic nominee for president, environmentalist
- Rhea Perlman, American actress ("Cheers")
Births April.
- April 1 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer, actor
- April 2
- Bob Lienhard, American basketball player (d. 2018)
- Roald Als, Danish cartoonist
- April 3 – Carlos Salinas de | 4,303 | triviaqa-train |
In which city was London Mayor, Boris Johnson born ? Was it New York, Calcutta or Warsaw ? | Summer Olympics, making London the first city to stage the Olympic Games three times. On 7 July 2005, three London Underground trains and a double-decker bus were bombed in a series of terrorist attacks.
In 2008, "Time" named London alongside New York City and Hong Kong as Nylonkong, hailing it as the world's three most influential global cities. In January 2015, Greater London's population was estimated to be 8.63 million, the highest level since 1939. During the Brexit referendum in 2016, the | is responsible for strategic planning, policing, the fire service, most aspects of transport and economic development. It is a recent organisation, having been set up in 2000 to replace the similar Greater London Council (GLC) which had been abolished in 1986. The headquarters of the GLA and the Mayor of London is at City Hall. The current Mayor of London is Sadiq Khan who was elected in 2016, replacing Boris Johnson, who served two terms.
Health services in London are managed by the national government through the | 4,304 | triviaqa-train |
What is the first name of the mother of Jemima Khan and widow of Sir James Goldsmith, after whom one of London's most exclusive night clubs was named? | education.
Born at Westminster Hospital in London, Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith is the eldest child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and financier Sir James Goldsmith (1933–1997). Her mother is from an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, the daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry. Her father was the son of luxury hotel tycoon and former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Major Frank Goldsmith, who was a member of the prominent Goldsmith family, which is of German Jewish ancestry. Her paternal grandmother was French. Her parents | belongs to the Niazi Pashtun tribe which has long been settled in Mianwali in northwestern Punjab. Khan's mother hailed from the Burki Pashtun tribe settled in Malerkotla (Punjab), which emigrated a few centuries ago from South Waziristan in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. Khan's maternal family has produced several great cricketers, the most prominent of whom are Javed Burki and Majid Khan.
From 1995 to 2004, Imran Khan was married to Jemima Goldsmith, a British socialite turned writer and activist, and member of the influential Goldschmidt | 4,305 | triviaqa-train |
Cristina Kirchner is currently the President of which South American country? | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born 19 February 1953), sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015.
Fernandez is the second woman to serve as President of Argentina, the first directly elected female president, and the first woman re-elected to the office. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, she was a member of the Justicialist Party, with her political approach being characterised as Kirchnerism. | which had been established in 1981 and to which President Macri also had connections.
Death.
Macri died on March 2, 2019, in his house in Barrio Parque. Most Argentine politicians sent their condolences to Mauricio Macri, including (despite their rivalry) former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He also received messages from other South American presidents, such as Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro, Bolivian Evo Morales, Paraguayan Mario Abdo Benítez, Peruvian Martín Vizcarra, Venezuelan Juan Guaidó and the U.S. ambassador Edward Prado.
He was buried | 4,306 | triviaqa-train |
Which celebrity chef is the owner of the three Michelin-starred restaurant, The Fat Duck, in Bray, Berkshire, which has been voted the Best Restaurant in the UK for the past six yearsby The Good Food Guide ? | reader reviews.
The publishers of the Guide, Which?, strongly denied the allegations, conceding that some former inspectors had been "disgruntled" at the changes, but stressed that most of the inspection team was unchanged and there had been no reduction in standards.
2008 saw the publication of special London edition of the Guide. This followed Michelin who had published a dedicated London guide the previous year.
In the 2013 edition of the "Guide", Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and Simon Rogan's L'Enclume | , to work at two Michelin Star The Inn at Little Washington.
Biography The Fat Duck.
In 2001, Petrie joined The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire where he rose to head pastry chef role, during which time the restaurant achieved a third Michelin star and was ranked 1st on the list of The World's 50 Best Restaurants. In 2009, Petrie was appointed Head of Development of The Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen, later that year the restaurant was given a top score of ten out of ten in The Good Food | 4,307 | triviaqa-train |
Which Swedish actress has been married twice - to Peter Sellers in 1964 and to Slim Jim Phantom in 1984 ? | Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke, releasing the album "Rock n Roll Music" in 2001.
Most recently, he has been involved in the eponymous roots-rock band Slim Jim's Phantom Trio; rock-and-roll supergroup Dead Men Walking with Kirk Brandon and Mike Peters, and Captain Sensible; and rockabilly supergroup The Head Cat with Danny B. Harvey and the late vocalist and bassist Lemmy.
He was married to actress Britt Ekland from 1984 to 1992 and has a son, T.J. (born 1988), with | , Scotty Moore, Keith Richards and numerous others. Lee Rocker and wife Deborah Drucker have two children and have been married since 1989. Slim Jim Phantom plays the drums in another rockabilly band, 13 Cats, as well as the Rock and Roll band The Head Cat with Lemmy (Motörhead) and Danny B. Harvey (13 Cats, RocKats). He is also an active member of the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a charitable organization which was co-founded by Mike Peters of The Alarm, and which raises funds for | 4,308 | triviaqa-train |
Who holds the record for the most Ladies Singles titles at Wimbledon, winning nine times between 1978 and 1990 ? | most consecutive and most wins post challenge round during the Amateur Era is Helen Wills Moody (1927–1930), with four straight wins, and Moody holds the record for most victories in this era with eight (1927–1930, 1932–1933, 1935, 1938).
These records only include the Open Era, since the inclusion of the professional tennis players, Martina Navratilova (1978–1979, 1982–1987, 1990) holds the record for most victories with nine. Navratilova holds the record for most consecutive victories with six (1982–1987).
This | War I, and between 1940–1946 because of World War II.
History.
In the Amateur Era, Judy Devlin (1954, 1957-1958, 1960–1964, 1966-1967) holds the record for the most titles in the Ladies' Singles, winning All England ten times. Devlin also holds the record for most consecutive titles with five from 1960 to 1964.
Since the Open Era of badminton began in late 1979 with the inclusion of professional badminton players from around the world in 1980, Susi Susanti (1990 | 4,309 | triviaqa-train |
Which ground in West London is shared by Harlequins (rugby union) and London Broncos (rugby league) ? | London to play at the Stoop Memorial Ground.
The 1996 season brought the best London attendances since the inaugural season at Craven Cottage. Tony Rea retired from playing at the end of the season to take up the Chief Executive role at the club.
After two years they moved once again, to the Harlequin rugby union club's Stoop Memorial Ground. Richard Branson's Virgin Group became majority shareholders, and the immediate future looked very bright. In 1997, after a remarkably good season they finished second in the Super League | Trailfinders Sports Ground
Trailfinders Sports Ground is a rugby ground in West Ealing, London, England, which is the home of Ealing Trailfinders rugby union and London Broncos rugby league club.
Records.
On 20 August 2016, London Broncos hosted 10 times Super League champions Leeds attracting a record rugby league crowd at the ground of 1,845. It was also the first ever televised sports match at the ground with Sky Sports at the game.
On 9 June 2019, London Broncos broke their rugby league record at the ground | 4,310 | triviaqa-train |
In which South African city is the Wanderers test ground ? | Wanderers Stadium
The Wanderers Stadium is a stadium situated just south of Sandton in Illovo, Johannesburg in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Test, One Day and First class cricket matches are played here. It is also the home ground for the Highveld Lions, formerly known as Gauteng (Transvaal).
History.
The stadium has a seating capacity of 34,000, and was built in 1956 to replace the Old Wanderers Stadium. It was completely overhauled following South Africa's readmission to international cricket in 1991. In 1996, | Davey Cope
David Gill "Davey" Cope (14 August 1877 – 16 August 1898) was a South African international rugby union player.
Born in Kimberley, he attended Diocesan College before playing provincial rugby for Transvaal (now known as the Golden Lions).
He made his only Test appearance for South Africa during Great Britain's 1896 tour. He played as a fullback in the 2nd Test of the series, an 8–17 South Africa loss at the Wanderers Ground. During the match he became the first South African | 4,311 | triviaqa-train |
Limoges, Metz and Mulhouse are cities in which European country ? | Metz
Metz (, : []) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Est region. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, the city forms a central place of the European Greater Region and the SaarLorLux euroregion.
Metz has a rich 3,000-year-history, having variously been a Celtic oppidum, an important Gallo-Roman city | European route E25
European route E 25 is a north-south European route from Hoek van Holland in the Netherlands to Palermo in Italy which includes ferry crossings from Genoa to Bastia (Corsica), from Bonifacio to Porto Torres (Sardinia) and from Cagliari to Palermo (Sicily).
It passes through the following cities:
Hoek van Holland – Rotterdam – Utrecht - Eindhoven – Maastricht – Liège – Bastogne – Arlon – Luxembourg – Metz – Saint-Avold – Strasbourg – Mulhouse – Basel – Olten – Bern | 4,312 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is Raciborz, which emtereed a twinning agreement with Wrexham County Borough Council in 2002 ? | Racibórz
Racibórz (, , ) is a town in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is the administrative seat of Racibórz County.
With Opole, Racibórz is one of the historic capitals of Upper Silesia, being the residence of the Dukes of Racibórz from 1172 to 1521.
Geography.
The town is situated in the southwest of the voivodeship on the upper Oder river, near the border with the Polish Opole Voivodeship and the Czech Republic. The Racibórz Basin ("Kotlina Raciborska") forms the southeastern extension | ) were amalgamated to form the new district. Lüdenscheid District itself had been created just a few years earlier, in 1968, when the city of Lüdenscheid was merged with Altena District (originally created in 1753). The name Märkischer Kreis was chosen in recognition of the fact that part of the territory formerly belonged to the county of the Mark.
Twinning.
Twinning with Wrexham County Borough (Wales, United Kingdom) dates from 1970 and was initiated by the precursor district, Iserlohn.
In 1992 a twinning agreement | 4,313 | triviaqa-train |
Which mountain range forms an arc that stretches from the Czech Republic inj the northwest to the border of Romania and Serbia in the south ? | Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals with and the Scandinavian Mountains with . The range stretches from the far eastern Czech Republic (3%) in the northwest through Slovakia (17%), Poland (10%), Hungary (4%) and Ukraine (10%) Serbia (5%) and Romania (50%) in the southeast | Jizera Mountains
Jizera Mountains () or Izera Mountains (; ) are part of the Western Sudetes on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. The range got its name from the Jizera River, which rises at the southern base of the Smrk massif.
Geography.
The range stretches from the Lusatian Mountains (Zittau Mountains) in the northwest to the Krkonoše in the southeast. The Jizera Mountains comprise the sources of the Jizera river, as well as of the Kwisa and the Lusatian Neisse.
The major part | 4,314 | triviaqa-train |
Ljubljana is the capital of which European country ? | Ljubljana
Ljubljana (, , , ; also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It has been the cultural, educational, economic, political, and administrative centre of independent Slovenia since 1991.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the area. Ljubljana itself was first mentioned in the first half of the 12th century. Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, | Union d.d. - the country`s second largest brewery with headquarters in the capital city - Ljubljana.
- Radenska d.d. - the country`s largest water manufacturer, which produces the world famous mineral water - Radenska. Company's headquarters is in city of Radenci
- Vital Mestinje d.o.o. - soft drinks manufacturer. Company's headquarters is in city of Podplat
The Group has also some other subsidiaries, but owns less than 50% of the companies: Mercator, Delo, Slovita, Jadranska pivovara, RA&LA and Firma Del. | 4,315 | triviaqa-train |
Since the abolition of the monarchy in 1870, French Presidents have also automatically become co-princes of which independent Europian principality? | Crown of Castile.
Andorra currently is the world's only constitutional diarchy or co-principality. Located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France, it has two co-princes: the Bishop of Urgell in Spain (a prince-bishop) and the President of France (derived "ex officio" from the French kings, who themselves inherited the title from the counts of Foix). It is the only situation in which an independent country's (co-)monarch is democratically elected by the citizens of another country.
In | such authorization entails loss of all rights of succession, both for him who contracts the marriage and his descendants."
Pursuant to this constitutional provision, which was in force until the abolition of the French imperial monarchy in 1870, the marriage to Valliccioni automatically excluded from the imperial house not only Valliccioni's husband, but all of their children, born and to be born, male and female. Charles Napoléon has publicly rejected the applicability of that law and of the effects of dynastic disinheritance by his father, maintaining that he | 4,316 | triviaqa-train |
Which former Yugoslav state will become the 28th member of the European Union on July 1st this year ? | Brioni Agreement, recognised by representatives of all republics, the international community pressured Slovenia and Croatia to place a three-month moratorium on their independence.
During these three months, the Yugoslav Army completed its pull-out from Slovenia, but in Croatia, a bloody war broke out in the autumn of 1991. Ethnic Serbs, who had created their own state Republic of Serbian Krajina in heavily Serb-populated regions resisted the police forces of the Republic of Croatia who were trying to bring that breakaway region back under Croatian jurisdiction | all other former Yugoslav republics, recognizes North Macedonia under its constitutional name, being among the 131 countries that have done the same.
EU and NATO aspirations.
North Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina share the common goal of accession to the European Union and NATO.
North Macedonia is a European Union candidate country since 2005 and awaits a date for the start of accession negotiations. It also met the criteria for joining NATO and will become a member, once it ends the accession process.
Bosnia-Herzegovina has the | 4,317 | triviaqa-train |
At 1,038 km long and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon, which is the longest river on the Iberian peninsula ? | Odysseus on his journey home from Troy. Although modern archaeological excavations show a Phoenician presence at this location since 1200BC, neither of these folk etymologies has any historical credibility.
Lisbon's name origin may, in fact, have been derived from Proto-Celtic or Celtic "Olisippo", "Lissoppo", or a similar name which other visiting peoples like the Ancient Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans adapted accordingly. The name of the settlement may be derived from the pre-Roman appellation for the Tagus River, "Lisso" | Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)
The Saint John River is a long river that flows from Northern Maine into Canada, and runs south along the western side of New Brunswick, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean in the Bay of Fundy. Eastern Canada's longest river, its drainage basin is one of the largest on the east coast at about .
A tributary forms 55km of the border between Quebec and Maine, and much of the border between New Brunswick and Maine follows the river. New Brunswick settlements through | 4,318 | triviaqa-train |
Which two-word name is given to INVICTA, the symbol of Kent ? | White horse of Kent
The white horse of Kent or the white horse rampant is a symbol of Kent, a county in south-east England.
The figure of the prancing (or rampant in heraldry) white horse can also be referred to as Invicta, which is the motto of Kent.
Origin.
The white horse of Kent is the old symbol for the Jutish Kingdom of Kent, dating from the 6th–8th century.
The white horse relates to the emblem of Horsa, the brother of Hengest, | 2014–15 Kent Invicta Football League
The 2014–15 Kent Invicta Football League season is the 4th in the history of the Kent Invicta Football League, a football competition in England, that feeds the Kent Football League.
Kent Invicta Football League.
The league features 14 teams which competed in the division last season, along with two new teams:
- Gravesham Borough, changed their name from Fleet Leisure
- Sheppey United, promoted from Kent County League
External links.
- Kent Invicta Football League | 4,319 | triviaqa-train |
Along which road from Capua to Rome were 6000 slaves crucified in 71BC after defeat in then Servile War led by Spartacus ? | Appian Way
The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: "Via Appia") is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded by Statius:
The road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars.
Origins.
Origins The need for roads. | rebellion in Europe was led by Spartacus in Roman Italy, the Third Servile War. This war resulted in the 6000 surviving rebel slaves being crucified along the main roads leading into Rome. This was the third in a series of unrelated Servile Wars fought by slaves against the Romans.
The English peasants' revolt of 1381 led to calls for the reform of feudalism in England and an increase in rights for serfs. The Peasants' Revolt was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe. Richard II agreed to | 4,320 | triviaqa-train |
Named after the 16/17th century fancy collar that made a fortune for Robert Baker, which London street starts at Hyde Park Corner and ends at a famous statue ? It is the 6th most expensive property in Monopoly. | Hyde Park Corner
Hyde Park Corner is an area in London, England, located around a major road junction at the southeastern corner of Hyde Park, that was designed by Decimus Burton. Six streets converge at the junction: Park Lane (from the north), Piccadilly (northeast), Constitution Hill (southeast), Grosvenor Place (south), Grosvenor Crescent (southwest) and Knightsbridge (west). Hyde Park Corner tube station, a London Underground station served by the Piccadilly line, is located at the junction | section of Hyde Park. Improved crossings for cyclists appeared in the early 21st century. Despite the changes, property prices along the road are still among the highest in London. Its prestigious status has been commemorated by being the second-most expensive property square on the London Monopoly board.
Location.
Park Lane is about long, and runs north from Hyde Park Corner to Marble Arch, along the eastern flank of Hyde Park. To its east is Mayfair. The road is a primary route, classified A4202. | 4,321 | triviaqa-train |
The southwest coastal footpath starts at Poole in Dorset. Going around Devon and Cornwall, at which West Somerset resort, famous for its Butlin's holiday camp, does it end 630 miles later ? | gateway town to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, which includes of the Dorset and east Devon coast important for its geology, landforms and rich fossil record. The South West Coast Path stretches for from Minehead in Somerset, along the coast of Devon and Cornwall and on to Poole. The path is the England's longest national trail at .
Geography Climate.
Due to its location on the south coast of England, Poole has a temperate climate with a small variation in daily and annual temperatures. The average annual mean temperature from | rainfall varies across the county—southern and eastern coastal areas receive per year; the Dorset Downs receive between per year; less than Devon and Cornwall to the west but more than counties to the east.
Demography.
The 2011 Census records Dorset's population as 744,041. This consisted of 412,905 for the non-metropolitan county (not including Bournemouth and Poole), 183,491 for the unitary authority of Bournemouth and 147,645 for the unitary authority of Poole. In 2013 it was estimated that the population had risen by around 1.4 | 4,322 | triviaqa-train |
Ian, Gregory and Trevor are the grandsons of Vic Richardson. The four men nearly 200 caps between them in the 1920s, 30s, 70s and 80s. Give the surname of the three grandsons. | Knapman (1867–1918). She died on 25 September 1940; they had one son and three daughters.
He was a grandfather to three future Australian Test cricketers Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell (who both also captained Australia at Test level) and Trevor Chappell.
Awards and honours.
Richardson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 10 June 1954 for his services to cricket, including his presidency of the Country Carnival Cricket Association.
External links.
- Cricinfo Player Profile | Saud as King of Saudi Arabia have been his sons (he had 37 sons). Currently, as all remaining first-generation candidates are in their 70s and 80s, the Allegiance Council has been instituted to smooth the transition of power to the grandsons of Ibn Saud. The institution of the Allegiance Council arguably makes the succession formally elective, but seniority remains the overriding factor, and it is expected that the most-senior dynast will be elected unless he is uninterested in the throne or otherwise disqualified.
In the succession | 4,323 | triviaqa-train |
In October 2012 Trenton Oldfield was sentenced to 6 months in prison for going for a swim on Saturday, 7th April at 2.25pm. In which river was hge swimming ? | The Boat Race 2012
The 158th Boat Race took place on 7 April 2012. Held annually, The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames in London. Despite Cambridge having the heavier crew, Oxford were pre-race favourites having had a successful preparation period, including a victory over Leander. Cambridge won the toss and chose to start on the Surrey side of the river. Partway through, with the boats level, the race was | Tae-won as a conductor).
In late 2010, Kim Sung-min was dropped from the program after being arrested for meth use and smuggling. He was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison, suspended for 4 years.
On April 10, 2011, Korean baseball legend Yang Joon-hyuk made his debut as a member of the show.
On May 8, 2011, Lee Jung-jin appeared in his final episode and Jun Hyun-moo became the newest and 7th member of | 4,324 | triviaqa-train |
"In which track from the 1975 album, Still crazy after all these years, are people advised to ""slip out the back"", ""hop on the bus"" and ""drop off the key"" ?" | Still Crazy After All These Years
Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon.
Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (#1), "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (#40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male | Slip Slidin' Away
"Slip Slidin' Away" is a 1977 song written and recorded by Paul Simon, from his compilation album "Greatest Hits, Etc.". It was one of two new songs to appear on the album, the other being "Stranded in a Limousine". Backing vocals on the song are provided by The Oak Ridge Boys. The song was originally recorded and considered for Simon's 1975 album "Still Crazy After All These Years", but Simon decided not to include the song on | 4,325 | triviaqa-train |
Which letter is given to the irrational number 2.71828 ? It is widely used in population growth calculations, economics and structural engineering. | Irrational number
In mathematics, the irrational numbers are all the real numbers which are not rational numbers, the latter being the numbers constructed from ratios (or fractions) of integers. When the ratio of lengths of two line segments is an irrational number, the line segments are also described as being "incommensurable", meaning that they share no "measure" in common, that is, there is no length ("the measure"), no matter how short, that could be used to express the lengths of | , and rituals associated with suffering, death, funerals and the after-life that are broadly Yorkshire, northern English and Christian in character, with an acknowledgement of local folklore and the pagan forebears who originally inhabited the moorlands. Club meetings were termed "wakes" and the club badge was coffin shaped and decorated with the Ordnance Survey symbol for a tumulus (burial mound), many of which are found along the route. Its culture is of solemnity regarding issues of ritual, folklore and mortality but with light-hearted aspects | 4,326 | triviaqa-train |
"Originally based on the Roman fable The Rape of the Sabine Women which 1954 musical contains the songs ""Bless Your Beautiful Hide"" and ""Spring, Spring, Spring"" ?" | of Hersilia and her child.
Artistic representations Charles Christian Nahl.
Charles Christian Nahl painted the subject in a trio of works entitled "The Abduction", "The Captivity", and "The Invasion".
Literature and performing arts.
Stephen Vincent Benét wrote a short story called "The Sobbin' Women" that parodied the legend. Later adapted into the musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", it tells the story of seven gauche but sincere backwoodsmen, one of whom gets married, encouraging the others | Spring Dance", and "Glad That You Were Born" were written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the musical.
"Bless Your Beautiful Hide", "Wonderful Wonderful Day", "Goin' Courtin'", and "Sobbin' Women" are from the 1954 film and written by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer.
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- Opening Act I (Adam's Introduction) - Adam
- Gallant and Correct - Mr. & Mrs. Sander, Mr. Hoallum, Preacher, | 4,327 | triviaqa-train |
How many Prime Ministers held office in the two World Wars in the 20th century ? | Four powers (along with the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China) who met to plan the post-war world; it was an original signatory to the Declaration of the United Nations. The UK became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and worked closely with the United States to establish the IMF, World Bank and NATO. However, the war left the UK severely weakened and depending financially on the Marshall Plan. In the immediate post-war years, the Labour government initiated a | Lloyd George, in Wales. Eight Prime Ministers who held office in the 20th century were cremated before their ashes were buried or scattered elsewhere.
See also.
- List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
- Burial places of British royalty
References.
- cited as "WalODNB".
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- cited as "CavODNB".
- cited as "ButeODNB". | 4,328 | triviaqa-train |
Born in 1913 and dying in 1994 who is the only person to be elected twice for the post of Vice President and also twice for the post of President of the USA ? | this capacity, four vice presidents have been able to announce their own election to the presidency: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H. W. Bush. Conversely, John C. Breckinridge, in 1861, Richard Nixon, in 1961, and Al Gore, in 2001, all had to announce their opponent's election. In 1969, Vice President Hubert Humphrey would have done so as well, following his 1968 loss to Richard Nixon; however, on the date of the Congressional joint session, Humphrey was | he was elected unopposed for the post of President of Jawhar Municipal Council from 1994 to 1997
Political & social positions.
Mukne entered active politics becoming Founder President of Jawhar Taluka Congress Committee and became councilor of Jawhar City from 1972 to 1977 and later on elected as a vice-president of Jawhar Municipal Council from 1977 to 1980 and 1985 to 1988 for two terms.
In 1994 he was elected unopposed for the post of President of Jawhar Municipal Council from 1994 to 1997. He was elected twice as director to Thane | 4,329 | triviaqa-train |
Which city's social services department recently caused outcry after removing foster children from 2 UKIP members ? | next few years, it contested a number of by-elections around the country, coming second in both Barnsley Central and Rotherham.
In 2008, Bob Spink, the MP for Castle Point, resigned the Tory whip (becoming an Independent), but in April that year joined UKIP. However, in November he appeared again as an Independent in Commons proceedings, ultimately losing the seat to a Conservative in 2010.
In 2014, two Conservative MPs changed allegiance to UKIP and resigned their seats to fight by-elections | motions and tactics to delay the legislative process.
Switzler co-wrote the property tax law known as Proposition 2½, which was passed by ballot initiative in 1980. In 1985 he sponsored a successful bill that prevented the Department of Social Services from placing foster children with homosexual couples.
1986 gubernatorial election.
At the 1986 Massachusetts Republican Convention, Switzler was drafted by Republicans who opposed the nomination of Greg Hyatt after an unsuccessful attempt to get former Congressman Paul W. Cronin to enter the race. After Switzler's strong showing | 4,330 | triviaqa-train |
Declared First Citizen of Athens, which statesman, orator and general was leader in its Golden Age, between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars in the 5th Century BC ? | the Comic poets at the theatres had a remarkable influence on public opinion.
Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides, the orators Antiphon, Isocrates, Aeschines, and Demosthenes, and the sculptor Phidias. The leading statesman of the mid-fifth century BC was Pericles, who used the | Peloponnesian League. From that time, major decisions were discussed. Sparta was still in charge, but it now had to rally its allies in support of its decisions.
5th century BC.
5th century BC Persian Wars.
5th century BC Persian Wars Battle of Marathon.
After hearing a plea for help from Athens who were facing the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC, Sparta decided to honor its laws and wait until the moon was full to send an army. As a result, Sparta's army arrived at Marathon after | 4,331 | triviaqa-train |
Found in the title of a 1945 Benjamin Britten opera, what is the surname of the Jedward twins, who finished 6th in the 2009 X Factor ? | Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera "Peter Grimes" (1945), the "War Requiem" (1962) and the orchestral showpiece "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" (1945). | them. Two leading British political parties, Labour and the Conservatives, each released campaign posters parodying the twins. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown came under fire in November 2009 for describing Jedward as "not very good" and later apologised for doing so. Following this, Walsh stated "So Gordon Brown and Simon Cowell both have something in common: neither of them know what the public want." Brown's successor, David Cameron, admitted that he enjoyed watching "The X Factor" and that Jedward were his favourite act | 4,332 | triviaqa-train |
Banco is the sequel to which book, made into an Oscar nominated film starring Steve McQueen in 1973 ? | ", "Bullitt", "The Getaway", and "Papillon", as well as the all-star ensemble films "The Magnificent Seven", "The Great Escape", and "The Towering Inferno". In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world, although he did not act in films again for four years. McQueen was combative with directors and producers, but his popularity placed him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries.
Early life. | Pinter, performed as part of a trilogy of Pinter's plays titled "Other Places", and a documentary television episode, the pilot of the British television programme "Discovery". It was also made into a 1990 Oscar-nominated film, "Awakenings" starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
The 1976 edition of the book is dedicated to the memory of poet W. H. Auden, and bears an extract from Auden's 1969 poem "The Art of Healing":
Prior to his 1973 death, Auden | 4,333 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the only British Actress, from a large theatrical family, to have won an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards? | Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, and a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and received the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship.
Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy "As You Like It" with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for " | "Atonement" (2007), "Coriolanus" (2011) and "The Butler" (2013). Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times", and has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (the actress Rachel Kempson), the sister of Lynn | 4,334 | triviaqa-train |
SUPERCALEYGOBALISTICCELTICAREATTROCIOUS was a headline in the Sun in February 2000 after a shock cup win. To which , then 3rd Division, football club, now flying high in the SPL, did it apply ? | controversy. In 2003, the chairmen of the member clubs voted against Falkirk's proposed ground share with Airdrie United and stopped the club from having the 10,000 capacity stadium it required, therefore saving Motherwell from relegation.
The same situation nearly materialised in 2004. After several votes and discussion, including threats of court cases from Partick Thistle, the team threatened with relegation, Inverness Caledonian Thistle were promoted on the basis that they would ground share with Aberdeen at Pittodrie. In 2005, the stadium size criterion for entry to the SPL | 2000 the club dropped 'Amateurs' from the name of the club, and are now known simply as Corwen Football Club.
2004 saw Corwen's First Team win the Division One League Cup after a win against Brymbo at Llangollen Town, after the disappointment of relegation from the Premier Division the previous season. They coupled this with promotion back to the Premier Division after finishing 3rd in the league.
In 2008 Corwen reached the F.A.W. Trophy final, where they lost 4–2 to fellow Welsh National League side Rhos Aelwyd at Cefn | 4,335 | triviaqa-train |
"""Lord of all beasts of the Earth"", ""Conqueror of the British Empire"" and ""King of Scotland"" are all self-given titles to which despotic 20th century African dictator?" | Many dictators create a cult of personality around themselves and they have also come to grant themselves increasingly grandiloquent titles and honours. For instance, Idi Amin Dada, who had been a British army lieutenant prior to Uganda's independence from Britain in October 1962, subsequently styled himself ""His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"". In the movie "The Great Dictator" ( | Lion of Judah" which Marley does in many of his songs. To him, Haile Selassie was not only one of the most prominent African leaders of his time, he was also identified as God returning to earth as "King of Kings, Lord of Lords" (Revelation 19, 16), imperial titles born both by Haile Selassie and Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II before him. It was Menelik II, who created this self-styled imperial title in the late 19th Century after he succeeded in uniting Ethiopia. Marley did | 4,336 | triviaqa-train |
The birthplace of Andy Murray, an event in which town gave rise to the Cullen Report followed by the Firearms Amendment Act in 1997 ? | The Cullen Reports
The Cullen Report can refer to one of three reports of public inquiries into disasters that were overseen by William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk.
Piper Alpha.
The first Cullen Report was prompted by Occidental Petroleum's Piper Alpha disaster on 6 July 1988, in which gas condensate ignited, killing 167 of the 229 people on board the oil platform in only 22 minutes.
Dunblane.
In 1996, Lord Cullen led the inquiry into the massacre at Dunblane Primary School.
Ladbroke Grove. | the recommendations of the Cullen Report on the massacre and introduced the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 that banned "high calibre" handguns, greater than .22 calibre (5.6 mm). This new (No. 2) act further banned the private possession of all cartridge ammunition handguns, regardless of calibre.
The only handguns still allowed following the ban were:
- Antique and muzzle-loading black-powder guns
- Guns of historic interest whose ammunition is no longer available ("Section 7.1" weapons) | 4,337 | triviaqa-train |
"A recent recording by Gary Barlow, which song from War of the Worlds was originally a hit for the Moody Blues in 1978 and contains the lines, ""Like the sun through the trees you came to love me, like a leaf on a breeze you blew away"" ?" | "Evita", "The China Plates"). Wayne conducts what would come to be known as the Black Smoke Band and the ULLAdubULLA string orchestra.
"Forever Autumn" was a UK Top 5 single, sung by Hayward. In Canada, it only managed to reach #73 and fared only slightly better in the US, peaking at #47. The album itself spent 290 weeks in the UK album charts. It was in the top 10 in 22 countries and reached #1 in 11 countries. In | frontman Gary Barlow after he took over the role of head judge on "The X Factor", of which Cardle won the seventh series. During an interview with "The Sun", Cardle discussed the track. "I'm really, really happy to have had Gary Barlow write a song for me. We had 90% of the album written, and then really late in the process, Gary sent the song through. I really related to it. I've been in that position many times, you know, | 4,338 | triviaqa-train |
How many times per second does mains electricity change from positive to negative ? | principal properties of the electric power supply, voltage and frequency, differ between regions. A voltage of (nominally) 230 V and a frequency of 50 Hz is used in Europe, most of Africa, most of Asia, much of South America and Australia. In North America, the most common combination is 120 V and a frequency of 60 Hz. Other voltages exist, and some countries may have, for example, 230 V but 60 Hz. This is a concern to travellers, | or less contrast. Samsung also announced a partnership with Microsoft that will promote the new Samsung QLED TV.
Volatile.
Volatile displays require that pixels be periodically refreshed to retain their state, even for a static image. As such, a volatile screen needs electrical power, either from mains electricity (being plugged into a wall socket) or a battery to maintain an image on the display or change the image. This refresh typically occurs many times a second. If this is not done, for example, if there | 4,339 | triviaqa-train |
"Which Cornish engineer demonstrated one of the first steam locomotives called ""Catch Me If You Can"" giving rides on a circular track near Bloomsbury in 1808 ?" | Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England, UK. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age. He performed poorly in school, but went on to be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport. His most significant contribution was the development of the first high-pressure steam engine. He also built the first | of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. Trevithick later demonstrated a locomotive operating upon a piece of circular rail track in Bloomsbury, London, the "Catch Me Who Can", but never got beyond the experimental stage with railway locomotives, not least because his engines were too heavy for the cast-iron plateway track then in use.
The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray's rack locomotive "Salamanca" built for the Middleton Railway in Leeds in 1812. This twin-cylinder locomotive was | 4,340 | triviaqa-train |
"Which product was advertised by a giant red and white hot air balloon carrying a young lady, who was eating the product to the sound of ""I Can't Let Maggie Go"", in the 1970s ?" | .
"I Can't Let Maggie Go", was also a top 10 hit in Italy, with a version made by Equipe 84, entitled "Un angelo blu" ("A blue angel"). It enjoyed an unexpected reprise in popularity in the 1970s, when it was used as the soundtrack for a television advertisement for "Nimble", a bread produced for slimmers.
Line-up.
The best known line-up consisted of:
- Pete Dello — vocals, keyboards, guitar | other members contributed songs. The group's supporters and critics, amongst them Kenny Everett, compared the band to "Rubber Soul"-era Beatles.
Honeybus had a major hit with 1968's "I Can't Let Maggie Go", which was so popular that it earned the band a cover photo on the popular music magazine, "Disc and Music Echo", for which they posed atop a red London bus. "I Can't Let Maggie Go" reached Number 8 in the UK Singles Chart, in April 1968, | 4,341 | triviaqa-train |
In which decade of the 20th century did Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau develop and first sell their aqualung now more commonly called Scuba gear ? | his invention in English-speaking countries, Cousteau needed an appealing name following English language standards. He then coined the trade name "Aqua-Lung".
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, La Spirotechnique started exporting the Aqua-Lung and leasing its patent to foreign companies (like the British Siebe Gorman). These operations found great success. The Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus didn't achieve as much success because the compressed-air tanks made with the technology of the time could only hold 30 atmospheres, which allowed | Vintage scuba
Vintage scuba is a reference to the art of scuba diving using vintage-style gear, which is generally defined at this time as equipment dating from 1975 and earlier, and to that equipment.
Twin hose regulators.
The most striking and well recognized example of vintage scuba gear is the twin-hose or double hose regulator, a popular style of regulator since Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan pioneered the first such design, the C45 Scaphandre Autonome, which was marketed in the USA (along with | 4,342 | triviaqa-train |
Sharing a name with a main character in Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd and originally the wife of Uriah the Hittite, who, in the Bible, was the mother of King Solomon ? | describes the life and relationships of Bathsheba Everdene with her lonely neighbour William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy.
On publication, critical notices were plentiful and mostly positive. Hardy revised the text extensively for the 1895 edition and made further changes for the 1901 edition.
The novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read in 2003. The book finished 10th on "The Guardian"s list of greatest love stories of all time in 2007.
The novel has | Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in "Cornhill Magazine", where it gained a wide readership.
The novel is the first to be set in Thomas Hardy's Wessex in rural southwest England. It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It | 4,343 | triviaqa-train |
"""The light that failed"" in 1871, ""Captain Courageous"" in 1876 and ""Kim"" in 1901 are all novels by which famous author?" | The Light That Failed
The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine" dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited love for his childhood playmate, Maisie.
It is Kipling's first novel, written when he was 26 | One names it the "Solferino" in reference to the famous bloody battle of 1859, eponym, between the Franco-Serb troupes and the Austrian army.
The "large Hermes head" (1860–1901) The Athens printings (November 1861 to 1882) The printings on meshed papers (1871 to 1876).
Starting the end of 1871, the papers used are of less and less good quality. They are very thin, almost transparent and "fragile" (the front drawing is visible from the back) and in the light | 4,344 | triviaqa-train |
"Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera that premiered in 1889 has the alternative name ""The king of Barataria""?" | The Gondoliers
The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances (at that time the fifth longest-running piece of musical theatre in history), closing on 30 June 1891. This was the twelfth comic opera collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan.
The story of the opera concerns the young bride of the heir to the throne | be Sullivan's finest, including its overture, which was written in sonata form, rather than as a sequential pot-pourri of tunes from the opera, as in most of his other overtures. The "Daily Telegraph" wrote:
"Yeomen" was a hit, running for over a year, with strong New York and touring productions. During the run, on 12 March 1889, Sullivan wrote to Gilbert,
Sullivan insisted that the next opera must be a grand opera. Gilbert did not feel that he | 4,345 | triviaqa-train |
"What is the name of the actor who has now become famous for his role as the killer Freddie Kruger in the 1984 film ""A Nightmare on Elm street""?" | A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and produced by Robert Shaye. It is the first installment of a series and stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund as Fred Krueger, and Johnny Depp in his film debut. The plot concerns four teenagers living on one street in the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, who are invaded and killed in their dreams, and thus killed in | Joe Unger
Joseph Unger (born May 25, 1949) is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is best known for his role in Wes Craven's 1984 horror hit film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" as Sgt. Garcia, and as one of Leatherface's brothers, the hook handed Tinker, who appears in "" (1990).
Unger was born and raised in Lake County, Tennessee in the United States of America.
His first feature movie was in | 4,346 | triviaqa-train |
Which year of the 20th century saw the deaths of Matt Busby, John Curry, Fanny Craddock and Richard Nixon? | 1994
Events.
Events January.
- January 1
- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
- The Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins their war in Chiapas, Mexico.
- January 8 – "Soyuz TM-18": Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
- January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. | Doodle on 28 March 2018.
Glasse has been admired by several modern cooks and food writers. The 20th century cookery writer Elizabeth David considers that "it is plain to me that she is reporting at first hand, and sometimes with an original and charming turn of phrase"; the television cook Fanny Cradock provided a foreword to a reprint of "The Art of Cookery" in 1971, in which she praised Glasse and her approach. Craddock found the writing easy to follow and thought Glasse an honest cook, who seemed | 4,347 | triviaqa-train |
"""Indian Camp"" in 1926, ""A farewell to arms"" in 1929 and ""The short, happy life of Franics Macomber"" in 1935 are all novels by which famous author?" | successive plane crashes that left him in pain and ill-health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho where he ended his own life in mid-1961.
Life.
Life Early life.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a physician, and his mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, was a musician. Both were well-educated and | borrowed from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Hills Like White Elephants" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Legacy.
Nedelciu has been voted among Romania's most important novelists in 2001, following a poll by "Observator Cultural" review: out of 150 novels, "Femeia în roşu" was voted 23rd-best, with "Tratament fabulatoriu" at 28 and "Zmeura de cîmpie" at 139. An edition of "Zodia Scafandrului" was published in 2000, sparking debates about | 4,348 | triviaqa-train |
Which famous puppet character, introduced in 1965 and voiced by David Graham has the christian name Aloysius? | X" as it leaves the atmosphere. Posing as a reporter at the pre-launch press conference, Lady Penelope ensures that Travers and the other four crewmembers are delivered homing devices disguised as St. Christopher brooches. The next day, a search for Dr Grant's brooch checks negative. Scott unmasks the man waiting for lift-off on board "Zero-X" as the Hood in another of his disguises. The saboteur flees Glenn Field in a car, which Penelope and Parker pursue in FAB 1. The Hood transfers | Brains (Thunderbirds)
Brains is a fictional character introduced in the British mid-1960s Supermarionation television series "Thunderbirds", who also appears in the sequel films "Thunderbirds Are Go" (1966) and "Thunderbird 6" (1968) and the 2004 live-action adaptation "Thunderbirds". The puppet character was voiced by David Graham in the TV series and the first two films, while Anthony Edwards played the role for the live-action film. Brains is voiced by Kayvan Novak in the CGI remake series "Thunderbirds | 4,349 | triviaqa-train |
Which year of the 20th century saw the deaths of Linda McCartney, Frank Sinatra, Catherine Cookson and Justin Fashanu? | 1998
1998 was designated as the "International Year of the Ocean".
Events.
Events January.
- January 2 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
- January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages.
- January 6 – The "Lunar Prospector" spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon | born 1913)
- 17 April – Linda McCartney, American-born, British-based photographer and musician (born 1941)
- 2 May
- Kevin Lloyd, actor (born 1949)
- Justin Fashanu, footballer (born 1961; suicide)
- 10 June – Hammond Innes, author (born 1914)
- 11 June – Catherine Cookson, author (born 1906)
- 13 June – Reg Smythe, cartoonist (born 1917)
- 18 July – Betty Marsden, comedy actress | 4,350 | triviaqa-train |
"What is the name of the actress who had become famous for her role as the possessed girl, Regan, in the 1973 film ""The Exorcist""?" | The Exorcist (film)
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel. The film is directed by William Friedkin and stars Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller. It is the first film in the "Exorcist" series, and follows the demonic possession of a 12-year-old girl and her mother's attempt to rescue her through an exorcism conducted by two priests.
Although the book had been a bestseller, Blatty, who produced | 1968–69) daytime soap opera. Her first theatrical film appearance was in "The Way We Live Now" (1970), followed by a bit part in the comedy "The Sporting Club" (1971).
In 1972, Blair was selected from a field of 600 applicants for her most notable role as Regan, the possessed daughter of a famous actress, in William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" (1973). The role earned her a Golden Globe and People's Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress as well | 4,351 | triviaqa-train |
"Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera that premiered in 1884 has the alternative name ""Castle Adamant""?" | in any of his earlier works..."
"Iolanthe" is one of a number of Gilbert's works, including "The Wicked World" (1873), "Broken Hearts" (1875), "Princess Ida" (1884) and "Fallen Fairies" (1909), where the introduction of men and "mortal love" into a tranquil world of women wreaks havoc with the status quo. Gilbert had created several "fairy comedies" at the Haymarket Theatre in the early 1870s. These plays, influenced | -shiki system, in which the name 秩父 appears as "Titibu". Thus it is easy to surmise that "Titibu", found in the London press of 1884, became "Titipu" in the opera. Japanese researchers speculate that Gilbert may have heard of Chichibu silk, an important export in the 19th century. The town's Japanese-language adaptation of "The Mikado" has been revived several times throughout Japan and, in 2006, the "Chichibu Mikado" was performed at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival | 4,352 | triviaqa-train |
"Which British comedian, now aged 53, played the role of a headmaster named Ian George in a BBC1 series called ""Hope and Glory"" in 1999 and 2000?" | Hope and Glory (TV series)
Hope and Glory is a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with closure. It starred Lenny Henry as maverick "Superhead" Ian George, enlisted to turn around the school's fortunes.
It was created by Lucy Gannon, who had previously created "Soldier Soldier", and was inspired by a real head teacher named William Atkinson, who had turned around a secondary school in London which had been placed into special measures | , British comedian Benny Hill parodied 1970s American detective series. In the skit, Hill played several staple characters of the genre: Frank Cannon, Robert Ironside, Theo Kojak, Sam McCloud (ironically, all bar the latter were airing on BBC1 at the time rather than on Hill's home of ITV) and, although he was not a part of the genre, Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Cast member Jenny Lee-Wright played the role of Pepper Anderson.
The comedian Franklyn Ajaye does a routine | 4,353 | triviaqa-train |
In the Harry Potter books by J K Rowling, what is the name of the character who is Hogwart's gamekeeper and keeper of keys? He is played in the film series by Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane. | past is revealed gradually throughout the series. After the introductory chapter, the book leaps forward to a time shortly before Harry Potter's eleventh birthday, and it is at this point that his magical background begins to be revealed.
Despite Harry's aunt and uncle's desperate prevention of Harry learning about his abilities, their efforts are in vain. Harry meets a half-giant, Rubeus Hagrid, who is also his first contact with the wizarding world. Hagrid reveals himself to be the Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts | List of Harry Potter cast members
This is a list of "Harry Potter" cast members who voiced or portrayed characters appearing in the film series. The list is sorted by film and character, as some of the characters were portrayed by multiple actors.
Overview.
Several actors of the United Kingdom and Ireland voiced or portrayed characters appearing in the "Harry Potter" film series based on the book series by J. K. Rowling. In all the films, Daniel Radcliffe played Harry Potter, Rupert Grint played Ron Weasley | 4,354 | triviaqa-train |
The Twingo, the Fluence and the Latitude are all models of car that are made by which company? | Renault Fluence
The Renault Fluence is a medium sedan produced by the French automaker Renault. The car was produced until 2016 at the Oyak-Renault plant in Bursa, Turkey, and it still is produced in Santa Isabel, Argentina, for the Latin American market and in Busan, South Korea, for the Asia-Pacific market.
On 12 July 2016, Renault unveiled the successor to the Fluence, initially for the European market, the Mégane Sedan IV.
Design.
Revealed in August 2009, the Fluence | less expensive variant made by Fiberfab called the Fiberfab Avenger GT.
The company sold the rights and inventory to all but one car in the 70s, the Valkyrie was the only car retained by Fiberfab and produced in very limited numbers . Some of the models Fiberfab produced were purchased and continued under the Classic Motor Carriages brand name, when CMC acquired all of the Fiberfab kits and molds except the Valkyrie in 1983. Some original Valkyries are still on the road, and kit versions are in various stages of construction.
The | 4,355 | triviaqa-train |
The Linea, the Sedici and the Stilo are all models of car that are made by which company? | Fiat Stilo
The Fiat Stilo (Type 192) is a small family car available as a three door and a five door hatchback, as well as an estate (Fiat Stilo MultiWagon), produced by the Italian automaker Fiat. The Stilo three door and five door were launched in November 2001, at the Bologna Motor Show, to replace the Fiat Bravo/Brava, with the Stilo MultiWagon following in January 2003.
The Fiat Bravo was the successor of the Stilo in most markets, however, the five door Stilo | less expensive variant made by Fiberfab called the Fiberfab Avenger GT.
The company sold the rights and inventory to all but one car in the 70s, the Valkyrie was the only car retained by Fiberfab and produced in very limited numbers . Some of the models Fiberfab produced were purchased and continued under the Classic Motor Carriages brand name, when CMC acquired all of the Fiberfab kits and molds except the Valkyrie in 1983. Some original Valkyries are still on the road, and kit versions are in various stages of construction.
The | 4,356 | triviaqa-train |
"Who was the main actor who played the character Mitch Brenner in the 1963 Hitchcock filme ""The Birds""?" | The Birds (film)
The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It focuses on a series of sudden, unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California over the course of a few days.
The film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren (in her screen debut), supported by Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, | , "Enter Sir John", but this was changed to the simpler "Murder!" during shooting. A number of changes were made from the book, including altering the names of the two principal characters. The portrayal of the character Sir John Mernier was loosely based on that of the actor Gerald du Maurier, who was a friend of Hitchcock. Hitchcock later adapted three novels written by du Maurier's daughter Daphne du Maurier: "Jamaica Inn", "Rebecca" and "The Birds". Hitchcock makes his | 4,357 | triviaqa-train |
"Who was the main actor who played the murderous character Bob Rusk in the 1972 Hitchcock film ""Frenzy""?" | Frenzy
Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the novel "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square" by Arthur La Bern. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.
The plot centres on a serial killer in contemporary London | Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square
Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square is a 1966 novel by Arthur La Bern, which was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film "Frenzy" (1972).
Plot.
The novel and film tell the story of Bob Rusk, a serial killer in London who rapes and strangles women. Because of circumstantial evidence, however, the police come to suspect Rusk's friend Richard Blamey.
Film adaptation.
The novel was adapted for the screen by Anthony Shaffer. The title | 4,358 | triviaqa-train |
The Kalahari desert covers approximately 70% of which country? | Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for , covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.
It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian and South African Namib coastal desert, whose name is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means "vast place".
Etymology.
"Kalahari" is derived from the Tswana word "Kgala", meaning "the great thirst", or "Kgalagadi", meaning "a waterless place | Hakskeenpan
Hakskeenpan is a mud and salt pan in the Kalahari Desert, in Southern Africa. It is located in the Mier region in the Northern Cape Province, in South Africa, at above sea level. The pan covers an area of approximately 140 km (54mi).
Formation, geology and climate.
Formation, geology and climate Long-Term Landscape Evolution.
The present day Kalahari landscape—essentially an inland sand sea sitting within an uplifted sedimentary basin—is the result of a variety of interacting tectonic | 4,359 | triviaqa-train |
Wikipedia is a familiar internet website, but specifically which film is the subject of the website Wookieepedia? | Wookieepedia
Wookieepedia: The "Star Wars" Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the "Star Wars" universe—including information on all the films, as well as "Clone Wars", "" and its , "Rebels", the "Star Wars" expanded universe, and any upcoming "Star Wars" material. It is a specialized wiki created to be an extensive encyclopedia of the "Star Wars" universe with some articles reaching up to 60,000 words, and is written almost entirely from an in | of the Internet" by the report. Syrian authorities also banned an estimated two hundred website, including Facebook, YouTube and even Wikipedia, but the Syrians citizens and human rights activists, and most users have found ways to get around the bans.
Blogs of Tal al-Mallohi.
Tal al-Mallohi published her writings in three blogs, one of which is listed under the name "My Blog" and is most likely that she has been arrested due to an article or articles published on this blog specifically. | 4,360 | triviaqa-train |
Which jockey rode 100/1 outsider Foinavon to victory in the 1967 Grand National following a mass pile-up at the 23rd fence? | such little faith in him that he had travelled to Worcester that day instead, had been lagging some 100 yards behind the leading pack, giving his jockey, John Buckingham, time to steer his mount wide of the havoc and make a clean jump of the fence on the outside. Although 17 jockeys remounted and some made up considerable ground, particularly Josh Gifford on 15/2 favourite Honey End, none had time to catch Foinavon before he crossed the finishing line. The 7th/23rd fence was officially named the 'Foinavon fence' in 1984 | .
- Foinavon winning the 1967 Grand National at odds of 100/1 following a 23rd fence pile up in which every other horse fell or was remounted – the fence was subsequently named in Foinavon's honour.
- Golfer Tony Jacklin hitting the first live televised hole in one in Britain during the Dunlop Masters on 16 September 1967.
- Gareth Edwards scoring one of the most memorable tries in history, in the Barbarians v All Blacks Rugby Union match at Cardiff Arms Park on 27 January 1973.
- The first known | 4,361 | triviaqa-train |
"The organisation ""Sons of the desert"" is an official international appreciation society that is devoted to which film characters?" | The Sons of the Desert
The Sons of the Desert is an international fraternal organization devoted to the lives and films of comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The group takes its name from a fictional lodge that Laurel and Hardy belonged to in the 1933 movie "Sons of the Desert".
In 1964, three years after the book "Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy" by John McCabe was published, McCabe formed a small group of Laurel and Hardy admirers, including actor Orson Bean, cartoonist Al Kilgore, TV personality | Fanderson
Fanderson is the official appreciation society for the works of British film and television producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. It is a not-for-profit organisation endorsed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, ITC Entertainment Group, The Indestructible Production Company and Anderson Entertainment. Based in the United Kingdom, but with an international membership, the club is run by a small committee of unpaid volunteers.
The club was formed on 20 August 1981 at a meeting convened by ITC and Gerry Anderson. Previously, ITC had supported the various | 4,362 | triviaqa-train |
The Gobi desert is situated in China and which other country? | tribe living in the Ordos region in northwest China often raided them instead, prompting the Qin to retaliate. After a military campaign led by General Meng Tian, the region was conquered in 215 BC and agriculture was established; the peasants, however, were discontented and later revolted. The succeeding Han dynasty also expanded into the Ordos due to overpopulation, but depleted their resources in the process. Indeed, this was true of the dynasty's borders in multiple directions; modern Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Manchuria, and regions | Golmud CPV Solar Park
Golmud CPV Solar Park is a 138 MW (~110 MW) concentrator photovoltaics power station located near Golmud City in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. It is the largest operating CPV facility in the world, and was constructed in two phases by Suncore Photovoltaics starting in 2012. It is situated at an elevation of about 2,800 meters (9,200 ft) on the Tibetan plateau near the Gobi Desert with several other conventional photovoltaic power stations.
Facility details.
The park includes | 4,363 | triviaqa-train |
"Which jockey rode 50/1 outsider ""Last Suspect"" to victory in the 1985 Grand National?" | 1985 Grand National
The 1985 Grand National (known as the Seagram Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 139th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 30 March 1985.
The race was won by eleven-year-old, 50/1 outsider, Last Suspect, ridden by Hywel Davies in a time of 9 minutes 42.7 seconds for a prize of £54,314. The winner was owned by Anne, Duchess of Westminster and trained by Captain Tim Forster in Letcombe | jockey and rode for several other trainers like Josh Gifford and Nicky Henderson. He won the 1985 Grand National on Last Suspect a 50-1 outsider. He retired from riding at the age of 37 in 1994. Since retiring Davies has been the UK representative Gain Horse Feeds.
Career after racing.
Davies has been a guest horse racing commentator on At the Races, Channel 4 Racing, BBC Cymru (TV and radio) and co-presenter of "Rasus" (S4C) from 1995-present day
Personal life | 4,364 | triviaqa-train |
Which eleven letter word is used to describe a person who performs on a tightrope? | On a Tightrope
On a Tightrope (2007) is an award-winning documentary film by Petr Lom, co-produced by Piraya Film and Lom Films, in cooperation with the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights.
Synopsis.
The film revolves around four children living in an orphanage in Xinjiang province, China. The children are Uyghurs, members of China's largest Muslim minority. Their dream is to become tightrope walkers, an ancient Uyghur tradition.
The children start learning to tightrope walk, but within a few | in the phrase "beta male," which is used to describe a person of the male gender who fails to assert any dominant "alpha actions" into their character, such as lurking a group chat online without participating or substantial lacking of social awareness.
Uses Statistics.
In statistics, beta may represent type II error, or regression slope.
Uses Typography.
In some high-quality typesetting, especially in the French tradition, a typographic variant of the lowercase letter without a descender is used within a word for | 4,365 | triviaqa-train |
"Which group, on May 18th 1974, reached number one in the UK charts with the record ""Sugar Baby Love"", staying there for four weeks?" | Sugar Baby Love
"Sugar Baby Love", recorded in autumn 1973 and released in January 1974, is a bubblegum pop song, and the debut single of the Rubettes. Written by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington and produced by Bickerton, engineered by John Mackswith at Lansdowne Recording Studios, and with lead vocals by Paul Da Vinci, "Sugar Baby Love" was the band's one and only number one single in the UK Singles Chart, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in May 1974.
Recording | cloth caps on stage, a white cap being shown on the album front cover.
The album reached No. 32 in the German charts and No. 42 in the Netherlands on its release in 1974. A track from the album, "Sugar Baby Love" was an instant singles hit remaining at number one in the United Kingdom for four weeks in May 1974, while reaching No. 37 on the U.S. chart that August, and remains their best-known record.
In 1992, Dice Records (France) | 4,366 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek mythology, what was the name of the three headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld? | Cerberus
In Greek mythology, Cerberus (; "Kerberos" ), often called the "hound of Hades", is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. Cerberus was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon, and is usually described as having three heads, a serpent for a tail, and snakes protruding from multiple parts of his body. Cerberus is primarily known for his capture by Heracles, one of Heracles' twelve labours.
Descriptions.
Descriptions | Styx Creek
Styx Creek is a small to medium-sized natural stream in the Central Otago region of New Zealand. It flows into the Taieri River in the valley near Paerau, about northwest of Dunedin.
It was given the name Styx by John Turnbull Thomson (1821-1884) chief surveyor of Otago after what is in mythology, the name of one of the five rivers which all converge at the centre of the Greek underworld on a great marsh, which sometimes is also called the Styx.
In the | 4,367 | triviaqa-train |
Oberon is a moon of which planet in our solar system? | , hurricanes, tectonics, and even hydrology.
Planets are generally divided into two main types: large low-density giant planets, and smaller rocky terrestrials. There are eight planets in the Solar System. In order of increasing distance from the Sun, they are the four terrestrials, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, then the four giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Six of the planets are orbited by one or more natural satellites.
Several thousands of planets around other stars | , , and .
- In 2018, Sheppard was the lead discoverer of the most distant observed object in our solar system and first object observed beyond 100 AU, dwarf planet 2018 VG18 (nicknamed Farout), which is around 120 AU from the Sun.
- He discovered a minor-planet moon around likely dwarf planet .
- He is also a co-discoverer of a minor-planet moon orbiting the trans-Neptunian object 341520 Mors–Somnus.
- Among the numerous named irregular moons of | 4,368 | triviaqa-train |
Which city will host the 2014 Commonwealth Games? | 2014 Commonwealth Games
The 2014 Commonwealth Games (), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, (), was an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF). It took place in Glasgow, Scotland, from 23 July to 3 August 2014.
Glasgow was selected as the host city on 9 November 2007 during CGF General Assembly in Colombo, Sri Lanka, defeating Abuja, Nigeria. It was the | the city.
Since 1994 Birmingham has hosted the All England Open Badminton Championships at Arena Birmingham.
Sport Commonwealth Games.
Birmingham will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, replacing Durban, which was forced to withdraw as host due to economic problems. The Games are expected to take place between 27 July and 7 August 2022.
Birmingham has a wealth of existing sports venues, arenas and conference halls that are ideal for hosting sport during the Games. Alexander Stadium, which will host the ceremonies and athletics, will be renovated | 4,369 | triviaqa-train |
In which northern British city can you find Waverley Railway Station? | Edinburgh Waverley railway station
Edinburgh Waverley railway station (also known simply as Waverley) is the principal station serving Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central. It is the northern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, from , although some trains operated by London North Eastern Railway continue to other Scottish destinations beyond Edinburgh.
Services to and from Edinburgh Waverley are primarily operated by Abellio ScotRail, including four routes to Glasgow, the Fife Circle, the recently reopened | the northern side and continue for approximately 200m to the pedestrian crossing across the railway line. The path continues until it reaches Paringa Court. Cross Power Avenue and continue up Railway Parade South to Huntingdale Road. Cross at the traffic lights then continue through Jordanville railway station car park to Windsor Avenue. Follow it to the end then go through the Mount Waverley railway station car park and find the path at the eastern end of the platform. The path continues to Blackburn Road where you must cross at the lights and continue past | 4,370 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the captain of the English Cricket Team during the controversial Bodyline series of 1932 and 1933? | 1928–29. In 1927, in a Test trial match, "Nobby" Clark bowled short to a leg-trap (a cluster of fielders placed close on the leg side). He was representing England in a side captained by Douglas Jardine. In 1928–29, Harry Alexander bowled fast leg theory at an England team, and Harold Larwood briefly used a similar tactic on that same tour in two Test matches. Freddie Calthorpe, the England captain, criticised Learie Constantine's use of short-pitched bowling to a leg side field | touring team captained by H. H. Stephenson of Surrey played a XXII from Ballarat. The most notable match played in Ballarat was during the 1932-33 England tour of Australia known as the Bodyline series on 22 January 1933. There was speculation in the Australian press leading up to the match that the Ballarat team may employ Bodyline tactics in response to the controversial tactic being employed by England in the Test matches. H. Brereton, the Secretary of the Victorian Cricket Association (VCA) wrote to the Ballarat Cricket Association stating that any organised | 4,371 | triviaqa-train |
In which English city did entertainer Jimmy Saville sadly pass away recently? | , he was noted for fund-raising and supporting charities and hospitals, in particular Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire. In 2009 he was described by "The Guardian" as a "prodigious philanthropist" and was honoured for his charity work. He was awarded the OBE in 1971 and was knighted in 1990. In 2006 he introduced the last edition of "Top of the Pops".
In October 2012, almost a year after his death, an ITV documentary examined claims | April Boys. They were all born in Marikina City but traces their roots from Sawang Capul Northern Samar.
Personal life.
He is married to Madel Regino, and has two children, JC and Charmaine Regino.
Music career.
He migrated to the United States and is now based there as an entertainer to the Filipino-American community. More recently he was a contract recording artist with Viva Records.
He also did a Tagalog and English cover version of the song いとしのエリー(Itoshi no Ellie) renaming it " | 4,372 | triviaqa-train |
"The TV cartoon ""Scooby Doo, Where Are You"" featured the adventures of Scooby Doo and his three human friends Daphne, Velma and Shaggy and which other character, famous for his strikingly blond hair?" | Scoob".
Main characters Fred Jones.
Sometimes called "Freddie Jones" by Daphne Blake in the franchise, he wears a blue and/or white shirt (which is sometimes worn under a white shirt, sweater, or jacket) and blue jeans. In the original depictions, Fred wears a 16 1/2 size orange ascot. In the 1990s direct-to-video movies and in the 2000s series "What's New, Scooby-Doo?", Fred's outfit was given an update, with the removal of his | Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise, comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!", for Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and their talking brown Great Dane named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures | 4,373 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the Nottinghamshire fast bowler appointed as the main bowler for England in the Bodyline series of 1932 and 1933? | the services of the famous bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce. Strong batting from George Gunn, Arthur Carr and Dodger Whysall saw them emerge as champions in 1929 after losing the title on the final day of the season in 1927. Prior to the second war, opening batsman Walter Keeton gained Test recognition, though the bowling was less effective.
Through the early fifties the team was weak. The signing of the Australian leg break bowler Bruce Dooland, arrested the decline but until the signing of the incomparable Garfield Sobers in 1968 | Bill Voce
Bill Voce (8 August 1909 – 6 June 1984) was an English cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire and England. As a fast bowler, he was an instrumental part of England's infamous Bodyline strategy in their tour of Australia in 1932–1933 under Douglas Jardine. He was born at Annesley Woodhouse, near Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He died at Lenton, Nottingham.
Early career.
Voce came from a working-class background in the coal mining districts around Nottingham. In the late 1920s | 4,374 | triviaqa-train |
In which southern British city can you find St James' Park Railway Station? | St James Park railway station
St James Park railway station is a suburban railway station in Exeter, Devon, England. It is down the line from . The station is adjacent to the Exeter City football ground. Great Western Railway manage the station and operate the train services.
History.
A small station named Lion's Holt Halt was opened in the cutting west of Blackboy Tunnel on 26 January 1906. was opened at the same time to the east of the tunnel but was closed in 1928.
The name | the arcaded approach embankments (now containing shops and restaurants) can be seen to the east of the shopping centre's car park on Osborne Street. Although the short remaining section which once led into the station now goes nowhere, the southern section remains as a freight line along the route of the Glasgow City Union Railway, crossing the Clydebridge Viaduct of 1899 which spans the River Clyde.
Dunlop Street railway station.
St Enoch station replaced a previous station close by called Glasgow Dunlop Street, which was opened by the City | 4,375 | triviaqa-train |
Which British businessman and Liberal party politician and fraudster was at the centre of an 1892 scandal when the Liberator Building Society which he had set up failed, leaving thousands of investors penniless? He later fled to Argentina before being extradited, tried and imprisoned for 14 years. | Jabez Balfour
Jabez Spencer Balfour (4 September 1843 – 23 February 1916) was an English businessman, British Liberal Party politician and fraudster.
Life.
Balfour was born in Marylebone, London to James and Clara Lucas Balfour.
He was Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1880 to 1885, and for Burnley from 1889 to 1893. Balfour was also interested in local politics in his home town of Croydon, Surrey where he regularly topped the poll for the school board. When Croydon was awarded borough status in 1883 | playwright and journalist Karl Heinzen. On 21 September 1848 he made another attempt to start an uprising in Germany, in Lörrach. Once again it failed, and this time Struve was caught and imprisoned.
May Uprising in Baden.
Struve was freed during the May Uprising in Baden in 1849. Grand Duke Leopold of Baden fled and on 1 June 1849 Struve helped set up a provisionary republican parliament under the liberal politician Lorenz Brentano. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, later to become Wilhelm I of Germany, set out for Baden | 4,376 | triviaqa-train |
Which lavender-like colour takes its name from the French for mallow? | in air until it becomes purple, then it is precipitated with calcium chloride; the resulting dye was more solid and stable than other purples.
Cobalt violet is a synthetic pigment that was invented in the second half of the 19th century, and is made by a similar process as cobalt blue, cerulean blue and cobalt green. It is the violet pigment most commonly used today by artists.
Mauveine, also known as aniline purple and Perkin's mauve, was the first synthetic organic chemical dye, discovered serendipitously in 1856 | tower") represents the great dwelling, from which Mitcham got its earlier name of Michelham. Above the fess, cross-keys and sword or ("gold") represent Mitcham's patron saints, St. Peter and St. Paul. On each side of the pale is a sprig of lavender proper ("in its natural colour").
Crest
Three sprigs of lavender on a wreath or and vert entwined by a mural coronet ("wall-like crenellated crown, indicative of municipal status"). | 4,377 | triviaqa-train |
"Which actor played the roll of Fletcher Christian in the 1962 film ""Mutiny on the Bounty""?" | , and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable as Bligh and Christian, respectively. The film's story was presented, says Dening, as "the classic conflict between tyranny and a just cause"; Laughton's portrayal became in the public mind the definitive Bligh, "a byword for sadistic tyranny".
The two subsequent major films, "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962) with Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando, and "The Bounty" (1984) with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson, largely perpetuated this image | - William Bligh – Lieutenant and commander of the "Bounty"
- Fletcher Christian – eventual mutineer
Film, TV and theatrical adaptations.
- "In the Wake of the Bounty" (1933) (notable as the first film to introduce Errol Flynn to movie audiences, as Fletcher Christian)
- "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935)
- "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962)
A musical based on the same story appeared in the West End during the 1980s. It was written | 4,378 | triviaqa-train |
Which island, famous for its monastery lies off the coast of South Wales just south of Tenby? | , with 20 Cistercian monks living at the monastery . The Census Reports of the County of Pembroke record it as an ecclesiastical district for administrative purposes.
Geography.
Caldey Island is about long and in width at its widest. It has an area of and its highest elevation is . The island lies in Carmarthen Bay on the northern side of the Bristol Channel in the county of Pembrokeshire, a little over south of Tenby on the mainland of southwest Wales. It is separated from the mainland by Caldey Sound. A ferry | island off the south west coast of the isle of Anglesey in Wales between Porth China and Porth Cwyfan
- Gateholm – A small tidal island off the south west coast of Pembrokeshire in the south west side of Wales
- Mumbles Head – a headland sited on the western edge of Swansea Bay on the southern coast of Wales
- St Catherine's Island – A small tidal island linked to Tenby in Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Sully Island – A small tidal island off the northern coast of the Bristol Channel near Cardiff | 4,379 | triviaqa-train |
Which famous politician is married to Miriam Gonzales Valladold and has three sons? | Nick Clegg
Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. An "" liberal, Clegg served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2005 to 2017 and has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies. He is Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications at Facebook.
Born in Buckinghamshire, Clegg was | he supported the "Kindertransport" movement for refugee children from Europe with an appeal for homes for them.
Samuel later became the leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords (1944-1955). During the 1951 general election, on 15 October 1951, Samuel became the first British politician to deliver a party political broadcast on television.
Family.
On 17 November 1897 Samuel married his first cousin Beatrice Miriam (1871–1959), daughter of Ellis Abraham Franklin, a banker. They had three sons and | 4,380 | triviaqa-train |
"Which actor played the role of Julius Caesar in the 1963 film ""Cleopatra""?" | Cleopatra (1963 film)
Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra" by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian. It stars Elizabeth Taylor in the eponymous role. Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, and Martin Landau are featured in supporting roles. It chronicles the struggles of Cleopatra, the young Queen of Egypt, | .
Artistic portrayals.
Works in which the character of Mark Antony plays a central role:
- William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
- Julius Caesar (1953 film) based on this (played by Marlon Brando)
- Antony and Cleopatra, several works with that title
- John Dryden's "All for Love"
- The 1934 film "Cleopatra" (played by Henry Wilcoxon)
- The 1953 film "Serpent of the Nile" (played by Raymond Burr)
- The | 4,381 | triviaqa-train |
Which famous politician is married to Yvette Cooper and has three children, two boys and a girl? | its core objectives. In July 2007, Cooper announced in the House of Commons that "unless we act now, by 2026 first-time buyers will find average house prices are ten times their salary. That could lead to real social inequality and injustice. Every part of the country needs more affordable homes – in the North and the South, in urban and rural communities".
In 2008, Cooper became the first woman to serve as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. As her husband, Ed Balls, was already | He married Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who later became Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Home Secretary, in Eastbourne on 10 January 1998. Cooper is Member of Parliament for Morley & Outwood's neighbouring constituency of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford. They have three children. In January 2008, they became the first married couple to serve together in HM Cabinet when Cooper became Chief Secretary to the Treasury, although Cooper had attended cabinet sessions as housing minister prior to then.
In September 2010, the British Stammering Association | 4,382 | triviaqa-train |
Which small island, situated just off Holy Island on the north west coast of Anglesey is famous as being the location of one of Wales's most spectacular lighthouses? | sheer cliff faces at South Stack near Holyhead provide nesting sites for huge numbers of auks, including puffins, razorbills and guillemots, together with choughs and peregrine falcons. Anglesey is home to several species of tern, including the roseate tern. Three sites on Anglesey are important for breeding terns – see Anglesey tern colonies.
There are marked occurrences of the "Juncus subnodulosus"–"Cirsium palustre" fen-meadow plant association, a habitat marked by certain hydrophilic grasses, sedges and forbs.
Anglesey supports two of the UK's few remaining | Talwrn
Talwrn is a small village on the Isle of Anglesey, an island off the coast of north Wales. Talwrn is most notable for the Grade II-listed 16th-century manor house of Plas Llanddyfnan, which lies just to the north of the hamlet. Plas Llanddyfnan is a Queen Anne manor house from the early 18th century. Plas Llanddyfnan was owned by seven generations of the Griffiths family.
To the west and south of Talwrn are a number of unimproved fields which have been designated as a site of special | 4,383 | triviaqa-train |
In which war did the Battle of Hamburger Hill take place? | "Front Uni de Lutte des Races Opprimées", acronym: FULRO) to fight for autonomy or independence. FULRO fought against both the anti-Communist South Vietnamese and the Communist Viet Cong, later proceeding to fight against the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam after the fall of South Vietnam.
During the war, the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem began a program to settle ethnic Vietnamese Kinh on Montagnard lands in the Central Highlands region. This provoked a backlash from the Montagnards, some joining the NLF as a result. | elections were held in Denmark but, because of World War One, no campaigning took place and 104 out of 114 constituencies did not vote. Even so, ruling Danish political party Venstre retained majority of the 114 seats in the Danish Parliament.
- Battle of Hill 60 – Two British infantry companies failed to recapture the hill from the Germans, officially ending the battle. In all, the British 5th Infantry Division assigned to take Hill 60 had 3,100 casualties.
- Died: Edward Frederick Robert Bage, Australian explorer, | 4,384 | triviaqa-train |
In which war did the Battle of Cabin Creek take place? | Battle of Cabin Creek
Two American Civil War military engagements were fought at the Cabin Creek Battlefield in the Cherokee Nation within Indian Territory. The location was where the Texas Road crossed Cabin Creek, near the present-day town of Big Cabin, Oklahoma. Both the First and Second Battles of Cabin Creek were launched by the Confederate Army to disrupt Union Army supply trains.
The first was a raid by a Confederate Army detachment on a Union Army supply train bound for Fort Gibson in July 1863. It failed to stop | Cabin Creek
Cabin Creek may refer to:
Place names.
In the United States:
- Battle of Cabin Creek, two Civil War battles fought in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
- Cabin Creek (Appomattox River), a stream in Virginia
- Cabin Creek Historic District, a historic settlement in Kittitas County, Washington
- Cabin Creek Ranger Residence and Dormitory, historic buildings in Sequoia National Park, California
- Cabin Creek USFS Airport, an airport in Valley County, Idaho
- Cabin | 4,385 | triviaqa-train |
Which English monarch who reigned from 1422 to 1461 and then briefly from 1470 to 1471 was stabbed to death in the Tower of London in 1471? | Dynastically, all English monarchs after 1066 ultimately claim descent from the Normans; the distinction of the Plantagenets is merely conventional, beginning with Henry II (reigned 1154–1189) as from that time, the Angevin kings became "more English in nature"; the houses of Lancaster and York are both Plantagenet cadet branches, the Tudor dynasty claimed descent from Edward III via John Beaufort and James VI and I of the House of Stuart claimed descent from Henry VII via Margaret Tudor.
The completion of the conquest of Wales by Edward I | then Queen of Great Britain after 1707
- Charles I (reigned 1625-1649), also King of Scotland, and Ireland
- Charles II (reigned 1660–1685), also King of Scotland
- Cnut (reigned 1016–1035)
- Saint Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066)
- Edward I (reigned 1272–1307), English monarch
- Edward II (reigned 1307–1327), English monarch
- Edward III (reigned 1327–1377), English monarch
- Edward IV (reigned 1461–1470 and 1471–1483), English | 4,386 | triviaqa-train |
Which English monarch who reigned from 1377 to 1399 met his death in Pontefract Castle in 1400, probably being starved? | son (third to survive to adulthood) of King Edward III and enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of his nephew King Richard II (1377-1399), whom Henry eventually deposed.
Henry's mother was Blanche of Lancaster, heiress to the great Lancashire estates of her father Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (a descendant in the male line of King Henry III). Henry, having succeeded his father as 2nd Duke of Lancaster, when he became king thus founded the Lancaster | Roy Henry
Roy Henry ("King" Henry) (fl. around 1410) was an English composer, almost certainly a king of England: probably Henry V, but also possibly Henry IV. His music, two compositions in all, appears in a position of prominence in the Old Hall Manuscript.
Musicologists have not been able to agree on which English monarch wrote the two mass movements which appear, at the head of their respective sections, in the Old Hall Manuscript. Henry IV, who reigned from 1399 | 4,387 | triviaqa-train |
"Translated as ""cluster of eight"" and situated in the Pacific Ocean what name did the Ellice Islands adopt on gaining independence in 1978?" | The Manila galleons operated for two and a half centuries, linking Manila and Acapulco, in one of the longest trade routes in history. Spanish expeditions also discovered Tuvalu, the Marquesas, the Cook Islands, the Solomon Islands, and the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific.
Later, in the quest for Terra Australis ("the [great] Southern Land"), Spanish explorations in the 17th century, such as the expedition led by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, discovered the Pitcairn and Vanuatu archipelagos, | Hurricane Miriam
The name Miriam has been used for eight tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
- Hurricane Miriam (1978), a Category 1 hurricane that threatened Hawaii but did not affect land.
- Hurricane Miriam (1982), a Category 1 hurricane that did not affect land.
- Tropical Storm Miriam (1988), continuation of Hurricane Joan which originally formed in the Atlantic Ocean and crossed into the Pacific.
- Tropical Storm Miriam (1994), a short-lived storm that did | 4,388 | triviaqa-train |
"Who, in 1989 sang the theme song to the James Bond film ""Licence to Kill""?" | theme song to "Licence to Kill". The theme was said to have been a new version based on the James Bond Theme. The guitar riff heard in the original recording of the theme was played by Flick.
The prospect, however, fell apart and Gladys Knight's song and performance was chosen, later becoming a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. The song was composed by Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen and Walter Afanasieff, based on the "horn line" from "Goldfinger", which required | Power", from "The Simpsons" episode "Homer to the Max".
Other versions and adaptations Inspired songs.
In 1989, after the release of the James Bond theme song "Licence to Kill", from the film of the same title, it was felt to significantly reuse important elements of "Goldfinger", and so the songwriting credits for the former were adapted for all subsequent releases.
See also.
- James Bond music
- Outline of James Bond | 4,389 | triviaqa-train |
Which darts player won the BDO title in 2008 beating Simon Whitlock of Australia in the final? | received automatic qualification for the 2008 PDC World Championship; however, Whitlock remained a WDF/BDO player and chose to compete in the BDO World Championship instead. Whitlock showed great form throughout the tournament, beating Edwin Max and Fabian Roosenbrand before defeating former world champion Ted Hankey 5–0 in the quarter-finals. He then beat Brian Woods to reach the final, where he lost to the number one seed Mark Webster 7–5. He was the first Australian to reach the final since Tony David won the tournament in 2002.
Whitlock | Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock (born 3 March 1969) is an Australian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments, having also played in the British Darts Organisation between 2004-2009. He uses the nickname The Wizard for his matches. His walk-on music is "Down Under" by Men At Work.
His greatest achievement to date was winning his first major title at the 2012 European Championship.
Whitlock has also finished runner-up at the 2008 BDO World Darts Championship and the 2010 PDC | 4,390 | triviaqa-train |
What is the national currency of Brazil? | , when Rubens Ricupero was the Minister of 'Fazenda'—Brazilian nomenclature for Minister of Finance—as part of a broader plan to stabilize the Brazilian economy, known as the Plano Real. The new currency replaced the short-lived cruzeiro real (CR$). The reform included the demonetisation of the cruzeiro real and required a massive banknote replacement.
At its introduction, the real was defined to be equal to 1 "unidade real de valor" (URV, "real value unit") a non-circulating currency unit. | moneda national" (peso national currency).
The economy picked up after 1876 and the 1880s were a period of prosperity and expansion. Internal peace was achieved in 1884, and there was a heavy influx of foreign capital. The Reus Law of 1887 made it easy to establish new banks (the most important of which was Banco Nacional). While Uruguay's neighbors, Argentina and Brazil, were obliged to use inconvertible paper currency, Uruguay continued to use gold.
By 1889 the flow of foreign capital was drying | 4,391 | triviaqa-train |
"Who, upon her execution on October 16th 1793 was known as the ""Widow Capet""?" | Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (, ; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and | and execution.
On October 31, 1793, twenty-one Girondin politicians were executed after a short trial; most of them were known to Madame Roland and the group included her good friend Brissot. The next day she was transferred to the Conciergerie, the prison known as the last stop on the way to the guillotine; immediately upon arrival she was questioned by the prosecutor for two days. She defended herself in her customary self-assured (according to the newspaper "Le Moniteur Universel" even haughty) manner against | 4,392 | triviaqa-train |
"In the USA what is the value of a banknote sometimes referred to as a ""Sawbuck""?" | largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies, and gasoline prices are usually in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon, e.g., $3.599, more commonly written as $3.59. When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as U.S. coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve Notes (with the exception of gold, silver, platinum and palladium coins valued up to $100 as legal tender | ethical value" may be regarded as a subgroup of a broader field of philosophic value sometimes referred to as axiology. Ethical value denotes something's degree of importance, with the aim of determining what action or life is best to do, or at least attempt to describe the value of different actions.
The study of ethical value is also included in value theory. In addition, values have been studied in various disciplines: anthropology, behavioral economics, business ethics, corporate governance, moral philosophy, political sciences, social psychology | 4,393 | triviaqa-train |
"Which landlocked country in West Africa had previous names ""French Upper Volta"" and from 1958 to 1984 ""Republic of Upper Volta""?" | West Africa
West Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, as well as the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The population of West Africa is estimated at about /1e6 round 0 million people as of , and at | French Upper Volta
Upper Volta () was a colony of French West Africa established on 1 March 1919, from territories that had been part of the colonies of Upper Senegal and Niger and the Côte d'Ivoire. The colony was dissolved on 5 September 1932, with parts being administered by the Côte d'Ivoire, French Sudan and the Colony of Niger.
After World War II, on 4 September 1947, the colony was revived as a part of the French Union, with its previous boundaries. On 11 December 1958, it | 4,394 | triviaqa-train |
In the Old testament which book follows Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers? | Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. Moses recalls the stations at which the Israelites halted during their forty years' wanderings and instructs the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites and destroy their idols. The boundaries of the land are spelled out; the land is to be divided under the supervision of Eleazar, Joshua, and twelve princes, one of each tribe.
Composition.
The majority of modern biblical scholars believe that the Torah (the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy | , a white power group in Indiana that soon gained a reputation for excessive violence. This organization became one of the fastest-growing racist skinhead organizations in the US.
In 2005, Widner married Julie Larsen, who had three children from a previous marriage. In 2006, the couple had a son. The responsibilities of fatherhood gave Widner the desire to reform and leave the racist movement, a desire shared by Larsen. Widner left his organization and endured years of death threats and harassment while attempting to turn his life around | 4,395 | triviaqa-train |
Who choreographed the first performance of Copland's Rodeo? | for many years one of her most trusted assistants on numerous projects. When illness precluded his ability to continue setting Rodeo in 1981, deMille asked Paul Sutherland, a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, and Harkness Ballet who had danced leading roles in several of her ballets, to begin staging Rodeo. With the passing of Agnes deMille in 1993, ownership and all rights to Rodeo passed to her son, Jonathan Prude. For the next several years, several people staged the ballet. In 1999, Prude | Billy the Kid (ballet)
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet written by the American composer Aaron Copland on commission from Lincoln Kirstein. It was choreographed by Eugene Loring for Ballet Caravan. Along with "Rodeo" and "Appalachian Spring", it is one of Copland's most popular and widely performed pieces. It is most famous for its incorporation of several cowboy tunes and American folk songs and, although built around the figure and the exploits of Billy the Kid, is not so much a biography of a notorious | 4,396 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote Riders of the Purple Sage? | Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by many critics to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time."
"Riders of the Purple Sage" tells the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder | Jerry Carol
- Buck Jones as Bit part (uncredited)
- Jack Nelson as Bit part (uncredited)
Production.
"Riders of the Purple Sage" features uncredited bit parts by future silent film stars Buck Jones and Jack Nelson.
Reception.
"Riders of the Purple Sage" received mixed reviews upon its theatrical release in 1918. The reviewer for "Motion Picture News" wrote:
The reviewer for "Variety" called the film a "not-too-absorbing adaptation of the novel | 4,397 | triviaqa-train |
Who directed The Big Sleep and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name. It was directed by Howard Hawks and stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles.
The film is filled with comedic gags and musical numbers, choreographed by Jack Cole, while the music was written by Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Adamson, Jule Styne and Leo Robin. | Have Wings" (1939), "His Girl Friday" (1940), "To Have and Have Not" (1944), "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Red River" (1948), "The Thing from Another World" (1951), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953), and "Rio Bravo" (1959). His frequent portrayals of strong, tough-talking female characters came to define the "Hawksian woman".
In 1942, Hawks was nominated | 4,398 | triviaqa-train |
In which year was the talkie The Jazz Singer released? | The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and ended the silent film era. It was produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film features six songs performed by Al Jolson. It is based on the play of the same | Fred Niblo's 1925 production of "Ben-Hur" released by MGM. The feature-length film was one of the most lavish and spectacular productions of the silent movie era.
Although her voice was not heard in "The Jazz Singer", she did speak in several other films, including the second "all-talkie" released by Warner Brothers, "The Terror", which was directed by Roy Del Ruth and co-starred Conrad Nagel.
For years, a rumor circulated that McAvoy retired from | 4,399 | triviaqa-train |
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