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The Flamengo Vs Fluminense football derby, also known as the Fla–Flu is contested between two teams based in which city? | Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; English: "Flamengo Rowing Club"), commonly referred to as Flamengo, is a Brazilian sports club based in Rio de Janeiro best known for their professional football team.
The club was first established in 1895 as a rowing club and played their first official match in 1912. Flamengo's traditional uniform featured red and black striped shirts with white shorts, and red and black striped socks. Flamengo had typically played their home matches in the Maracanã, the national | impressive record of six wins, no draws and no defeats and 21–1 goals. However, the next year was disappointing, with only a mediocre fifth place in the competition, now enlarged to eight clubs. During the 1912 championship he also managed the team in the first ever Fla-Flu derby against CR Flamengo on 7 July 1912, which Fluminense won 3–2.
From May 1924 until September 1926 he returned to the helm of Fluminense, winning the Rio-Championship of 1924 and a second and third place in the years | 50,900 | triviaqa-train |
Gevrik and Yarg cheeses come from which English county? | Cornish Yarg
Cornish Yarg is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese made in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Before being left to mature, this cheese is wrapped in nettle leaves to form an edible, though mouldy, rind. The texture varies from creamy and soft immediately under the nettle coating to a Caerphilly cheese-like crumbly texture in the middle.
Production.
Despite its historic connotations, Cornish Yarg is actually the product of the British cheesemaking renaissance in the 1980s while its roots are inspired by traditional British Territorial | Jack
- Cornish Kern
- Cornish Pepper
- Cornish Tarragon
- Cornish Tiskey
- Cornish Wild Garlic Yarg
- Cornish Yarg
- Davidstow Cheddar
- Fingals
- Gevrik
- Keltic Gold
- Little Stinky
- Menallack
- Miss Muffet
- Mrs Finn
- Nanterrow (ewe's milk)
- Tesyn
- Toppenrose Gold
See also.
- List of British cheeses
- List of cheeses
- List of English cheeses
- List of Irish cheeses
- | 50,901 | triviaqa-train |
Miso, tofu, and shoyu all come from what legume? | Soy sauce
Soy sauce (also called soya sauce in British English) is a liquid condiment of Chinese origin, made from a fermented paste of soybeans, roasted grain, brine, and "Aspergillus oryzae" or "Aspergillus sojae" molds. Soy sauce in its current form was created about 2,200 years ago during the Western Han dynasty of ancient China, and spread throughout East and Southeast Asia where it is used in cooking and as a condiment.
History.
History East Asia.
History East Asia China.
Soy sauce | - Strawberry
- Surinam Cherry
- Maui onion
- Okinawan sweet potato
- Takuwan
- Tamarind
- Taro
- Tsukemono
- Watermelon
- Winged bean
Fruit and vegetables Vegetable proteins.
- Adzuki bean
- Tofu
- Agedashi tofu
- Miso
Herbs and seasonings.
- Hawaiian chili pepper
- Hawaiian salt
- Inamona
- Kiawe
- Shoyu
- Panko
- Rice vinegar
Meats.
Meats Beef.
- Beef chili with hot dogs
- Beef | 50,902 | triviaqa-train |
Awake and The Watchtower are two magazines distributed by what religious group in the door-to-door ministries business? | The Watchtower
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom is an illustrated religious magazine, published monthly by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Along with its companion magazine, "Awake!", Jehovah's Witnesses distribute "The Watchtower—Public Edition" in their door-to-door ministry.
"The Watchtower—Public Edition" has an average circulation of approximately 83 million copies every four months in 353 languages. "The Watchtower—Study Edition" is used at congregation meetings, | The Watch Tower Society has produced over 220 million copies of the "New World Translation" in whole or in part in over 160 languages. "The Watchtower" and "Awake!" are the most widely distributed magazines in the world. Translation of Witness publications is done by over 2000 volunteers worldwide, producing literature in several hundred languages. Publications are also available online at the organization's official website.
Organization Funding.
Much of their funding is provided by donations, primarily from members. There is no tithing or collection | 50,903 | triviaqa-train |
Monday marked the birth of what total asshat, the "pastor" behind Topeka, KS based Westboro Baptist Church? | U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the city's largest synagogue. Margie Phelps, daughter of Pastor Fred Phelps, led the protest, holding signs stating that "God Hates Israel", "Jews Killed Jesus", "America Is Doomed", "Israel Is Doomed", and "ADL Jew Bullies". The protest was apparently part of a series of upcoming protests which the church has planned at Jewish institutions in Omaha, St. Louis, South Florida and Providence. The group reportedly posted a list of the upcoming protests' | Sheldon's at Central Congregational Church.
Topeka is also home of the Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The church has garnered worldwide media attention for picketing the funerals of U.S. servicemen and women for what church members claim as "necessary to combat the fight for equality for gays and lesbians." They have sometimes successfully raised lawsuits against the city of Topeka.
Demographics Settlement.
Known as rural flight, the last few decades have been marked by a migratory pattern out of the | 50,904 | triviaqa-train |
An ad campaign from PETA features celebrities sans clothing stating “I’d Rather Go Naked than” what? | in wounds tests, and a slaughterhouse in Texas was closed down.
As part of its anti-fur action, PETA members have infiltrated hundreds of fashion shows in the U.S. and Europe and one in China, throwing red paint on the catwalks and unfurling banners. Celebrities and supermodels have posed naked for the group's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign—some men, but mostly women—triggering criticism from some feminist animal rights advocates. "The New Yorker" writes that PETA activists have crawled | the 1960s.
The work of directors George Cukor, Douglas Sirk, Max Ophüls, and Josef von Sternberg has been associated with the woman's film genre. Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Barbara Stanwyck were some of the genre's most prolific stars. The beginnings of the genre can be traced back to D. W. Griffith's silent films. Film historians and critics defined the genre and canon in retrospect. Before the woman's film became an established genre in the 1980s, many of the classic woman's films were | 50,905 | triviaqa-train |
Based on his nickname, what is the name of the next installment of the Superman movie series, staring Henry Cavill, slated to hit the theaters next year? | & Isolde" (2006), "Stardust" (2007), "Blood Creek" (2009), and "Immortals" (2011).
Cavill gained prominence and international recognition for portraying Superman in the DC Extended Universe, starring in "Man of Steel" (2013), "" (2016), and "Justice League" (2017). He went on to star in the action spy film "" (2018).
Early life.
Cavill was born the fourth of five | announced that Henry Cavill would next star in the action thriller film "Stratton", to be produced by his own banner Promethean Productions, Amber Entertainment, and GFM Films. It would be based on the Duncan Falconer's eight-novel series of same name, featuring the lead character John Stratton, an SBS soldier, and working for the Intelligence Detachment in Northern Ireland. The film, producing by Ileen Maisel and Lawrence Elman who also bought the film rights to the novel, would set in Southern Italy, Rome and London | 50,906 | triviaqa-train |
Sonic, the mascot for Sega corporation, is what type of animal? | Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
Sonic the Hedgehog is the title character and protagonist of the "Sonic the Hedgehog" video game series released by Sega, as well as numerous spin-off comics, animations, and other media.
Sonic is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds and curl into a ball, primarily to attack enemies. In most games, Sonic must race through levels, collecting power-up rings and avoiding obstacles and enemies.
While many individuals at Sega had a hand in | the plan was dropped when Fleetway were unable to obtain permission from Konami to use the character.
Reception.
Sparkster stood out in the Animal mascot era, with gamers labeling him a second prodigy for Sega behind Sonic.
Rocket Knight Adventures was well received by critics, who praised the music and graphics. HonestGamers gave the game a 9/10. Sega-16 gave it the same mark, saying that "it is not only one of the system’s best titles, it’s one of the greatest platformers ever made." | 50,907 | triviaqa-train |
From the Persian for "yellow orpiment", what element, with an atomic number of 33, uses the symbol As? | leaves and has a proposed use in phytoremediation.
Essential trace element in higher animals Biomethylation.
Inorganic arsenic and its compounds, upon entering the food chain, are progressively metabolized through a process of methylation. For example, the mold "Scopulariopsis brevicaulis" produces significant amounts of trimethylarsine if inorganic arsenic is present. The organic compound arsenobetaine is found in some marine foods such as fish and algae, and also in mushrooms in larger concentrations. The average person's intake is about 10–50 µg/day. Values about 1000 | List of countries by manganese production
Manganese is a chemical element that is designated by the symbol Mn and has an atomic number of 25. It is found as the free element in nature (often in combination with iron), and in many minerals. The free element is a metal with important industrial metal alloy uses. Manganese ions are variously colored, and are used industrially as pigments and as oxidation chemicals. Manganese (II) ions function as cofactors for a number of enzymes; the element is thus a required trace | 50,908 | triviaqa-train |
Which U.S. President was examined in the 2000 TV special Sally Hemings: An American Scandal? | White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, "some other race") and ethnicities. The largest population of Multiracial Americans were those of White and African American descent, with a total of 1,834,212 self-identifying individuals. Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, is biracial with his mother being of English and Irish descent and his father being of Kenyan birth; however, Obama only self-identifies as being African American.
Racial and | Tina Andrews
Tina Yvonne Andrews (born April 23, 1951) is an American actress, television producer, screenwriter, author and playwright. She is known for writing the TV mini-series, "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal" (2000), which was the first time that the Jefferson-Hemings relationship had been explored on TV, and with Hemings portrayed as a fully realized woman. In 2001, Andrews was the first African American to win the Writers Guild of America award for Original Long Form, for | 50,909 | triviaqa-train |
Known as The Gem State, what was the 43rd state to join the Union on Jul 3, 1890? | Idaho
Idaho () is a state in the northwestern region of the United States. It borders the state of Montana to the east and northeast, Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canadian border with the province of British Columbia. With a population of approximately 1.7 million and an area of , Idaho is the 14th largest, the 12th least populous and the 7th least densely populated of the 50 | HMS Melampus (1890)
HMS "Melampus" was an protected cruiser of the Royal Navy which served from 1890 to 1910.
History.
In 1890, building by the Naval Construction and Armaments Co, later known as Vickers, commenced. She was originally built for the Greek navy.
In 1891, when George, Duke of York was promoted to commander, he assumed command of HMS "Melampus". He relinquished his post in January 1892, when his brother Albert Victor died.
On 5 Jul | 50,910 | triviaqa-train |
The winner of Sundays matches between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Edmonton Eskimos and BC Lions will meet on Nov 27 in Vancouver to vie for what trophy? | Grey Cup appearances (24). Since the Canadian Football League began in 1958, the Eskimos have won the most Grey Cup Championships (11) and have made the most Grey Cup appearances (19). The Saskatchewan Roughriders have the most losses in Grey Cup play (15), including five consecutive losses between 1928 and 1932. The defending champions are the Calgary Stampeders who won the 106th Grey Cup in 2018. Six teams in CFL history have won the Grey Cup at home, the 2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders, the 2012 | ) Winnipeg Blue Bombers 49-22 Edmonton Eskimos
- Final (November 20 @ Vancouver, British Columbia) BC Lions 39-21 Winnipeg Blue Bombers
1983 CFL Playoffs East Division.
- Semi-final (November 13 @ Ottawa, Ontario) Hamilton Tiger-Cats 33-31 Ottawa Rough Riders
- Final (November 20 @ Toronto, Ontario) Toronto Argonauts 41-36 Hamilton Tiger-Cats | 50,911 | triviaqa-train |
Appointed by G. W. Bush in 2005, who is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? | Lochner v. New York", which has been criticized by many prominent thinkers, including Robert Bork, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Chief Justice John Roberts, and which was reversed in the 1930s.
An often cited example of liberal judicial activism is "Roe v. Wade" (1973), which legalized abortion on the basis of the "right to privacy" inferred from the Fourteenth Amendment, a reasoning that some critics argued was circuitous. Legal scholars, justices, and presidential candidates have criticized the Roe decision. The progressive | Harriet Miers
Harriet Ellan Miers (born August 10, 1945) is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party since 1988, she previously served as White House Staff Secretary from 2001 to 2003 and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy from 2003 until 2005. In 2005, Miers was nominated by Bush to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, but—in | 50,912 | triviaqa-train |
Operated jointly by the Army and Air Force, what is the name for the large military base just south of Tacoma? | from a lahar flowing down the Puyallup River.
The city is several miles north of Joint Base Lewis–McChord, also known separately as Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base.
Geography Climate.
According to the Köppen climate classification, Tacoma has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen "Csb"), because four months of the year have an average precipitation of less than 40 millimeters. The warmest months are July and August; the coldest month is December.
Demographics.
the median income for | government for permanent use as a military installation. A portion of the initial land was taken from the Nisqually tribe's reservation. In 1927, Pierce County passed another bond measure to establish a military airfield just north of Fort Lewis. The airfield, called Tacoma Field, opened in 1930 and was renamed McChord Field in 1940. McChord Field separated from Fort Lewis when the U.S. Air Force was created in 1947 and was subsequently renamed McChord Air Force Base. The two bases operated independently of one another for more than 60 years before | 50,913 | triviaqa-train |
Which cereal grain tails only corn and wheat in worldwide production? | cereals are grown in tropical lowlands year-round and in temperate climates during the frost-free season. Rice is commonly grown in flooded fields, though some strains are grown on dry land. Other warm climate cereals, such as sorghum, are adapted to arid conditions.
Cool-season cereals are well-adapted to temperate climates. Most varieties of a particular species are either winter or spring types. Winter varieties are sown in the autumn, germinate and grow vegetatively, then become dormant during winter. They resume growing | Korn (liquor)
Korn (from German, "grain", "Brit." "corn") also known as Kornbrand or Kornbranntwein (English: "grain brandy" or "grain spirit"), is a German colorless distilled beverage produced from fermented cereal grain seed. In the production of "Korn" only the cereal grain types rye, wheat, barley, oat and buckwheat are permissible. Most of the production is based on rye or wheat; barley and buckwheat are rarely used. Barley is mainly | 50,914 | triviaqa-train |
Which chain of ice-cream parlors, the world's largest, is known for their little pink spoons which are used to offer a taste of any of the available flavors? | polka dots and typeface that were reminiscent of the circus. The first store that adopted the new 31 look was 804 North Glendale Ave. in Glendale, California in March 1953. Between 1949 and 1962, the corporate firm was Huntington Ice Cream Company. The name succeeded "The Baskin-Robbins Partnership" and was eventually changed back to Baskin-Robbins, Inc. on November 26, 1962. Baskin-Robbins was owned by its founders until it was acquired in 1967 (just prior to Burt Baskin's death) by the | List of ice cream parlor chains
This is a list of notable ice cream parlor chains. Ice cream parlors are places that sell ice cream, gelato, sorbet and/or frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is typically sold as regular ice cream (also called hard-packed ice cream), gelato and soft serve, which is typically dispensed by a machine with a limited number of flavors (e.g. chocolate, vanilla, and a mix of the two). It is customary for ice cream parlors to offer several ice cream | 50,915 | triviaqa-train |
Which animated Disney classic features a mandrill named Rafiki, a warthog named Pumbaa, and Timon the meerkat? | Timon and Pumbaa
Timon and Pumbaa are an animated meerkat and warthog duo introduced in Disney's 1994 animated film "The Lion King" and its franchise. Timon was portrayed through his many appearances by Nathan Lane (in all three films and early episodes of the show), Max Casella (the original actor in "The Lion King" Broadway musical), Kevin Schon (in certain episodes of the show), Quinton Flynn (in certain episodes of the show), Bruce Lanoil in the "Wild About Safety" | , and Kiara's mother. Ian Harrowell served as the supervising animator for Nala.
- Nathan Lane as Timon, a wise-cracking and self-absorbed yet somewhat loyal meerkat who is Pumbaa and Simba's best friend. Bob Baxter served as the supervising animator for Timon.
- Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa, a naïve warthog who suffers from flatulence and is Timon's and Simba's best friend. Bob Baxter served as the supervising animator for Pumbaa.
- Robert Guillaume as Rafiki, an old mandrill who serves | 50,916 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight? | consisting of silver and gold, occur naturally. Meteorites are sometimes made of naturally occurring alloys of iron and nickel, but are not native to the Earth. One of the first alloys made by humans was bronze, which is a mixture of the metals tin and copper. Bronze was an extremely useful alloy to the ancients, because it is much stronger and harder than either of its components. Steel was another common alloy. However, in ancient times, it could only be created as an accidental byproduct from the heating of | Wrought iron
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%). It is a semi-fused mass of iron with fibrous slag inclusions (up to 2% by weight), which gives it a "grain" resembling wood that is visible when it is etched or bent to the point of failure. Wrought iron is tough, malleable, ductile, corrosion-resistant and easily welded. Before the development of | 50,917 | triviaqa-train |
The name of what popular German rye sandwich bread translates as “devil’s fart”? | Pumpernickel
Pumpernickel (; ) is a typically heavy, slightly sweet rye bread traditionally made with sourdough starter and coarsely ground rye. It is often made today with a combination of rye flour and whole rye berries.
At one time it was traditional peasant fare, but largely during the 20th century various forms became popular through delicatessens and supermarkets. Present-day European and North American pumpernickel differ in several characteristics, including the use of additional leaveners, and, in North America, coloring and flavoring agents, the addition of wheat | " of the German-speaking countries differ in some ways: The "Butterbrot" is usually made from the typical bread types of German-speaking countries, which are much firmer, juicier and fuller in taste, and with a crispy crust, compared to English sandwich slices. One popular type is "Vollkornbrot" (wholegrain bread), which has a sourish full savoury taste, due to the use of sourdough as a leavening agent, and which often contains rye, albeit bread made from wheat flour is usually the most | 50,918 | triviaqa-train |
Nov 15, 1969 saw founder Dave Thomas open the first of what chain restaurants, now the world's third largest, in Columbus, OH? | Dave Thomas (businessman)
Rex David Thomas (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 2002) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and fast-food tycoon. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history.
Early life and education.
Thomas was born on July 2, 1932 | also the founder of what is now known as Linde plc, the world's largest industrial gases company, and ushered the creation of the supply chain of industrial gases as a profitable line of businesses. He was knighted in 1897 as Ritter von Linde. Carl von Linde invented the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876.
Biography.
Biography Early years.
Born in , Bavaria as the son of a German-born minister and a Swedish mother, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, | 50,919 | triviaqa-train |
FIFA is an international organization governing what sport? | FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA ; French for International Federation of Association Football, , ) is a non-profit organization which describes itself as an international governing body of association football, fútsal, beach soccer, and efootball. It is the highest governing body of football.
FIFA was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, its membership now comprises 211 national associations | + touchdown passes in a game
- First quarterback to score touchdowns (one passing, one rushing) in his first two games
- First quarterback to record 300+ passing yards and 40+ rushing yards in a single game
Personal life.
Watson is Christian and converted to the Southern Baptist Convention after coming to Houston. In 2006, when Watson was 11 years old, Atlanta Falcons running back Warrick Dunn donated a home to his family. It was donated through Dunn's charity Homes for the Holidays, who | 50,920 | triviaqa-train |
What boxer, ranked number 8 on The Ring's list of greatest punchers, was nicknamed The Manassa Mauler or Kid Blackie, during his 7 years of holding the World Heavyweight title, starting in 1919? | injury (RSCI) or head injury (RSCH).
Professional vs. amateur boxing Professional boxing.
Professional bouts are usually much longer than amateur bouts, typically ranging from ten to twelve rounds, though four-round fights are common for less experienced fighters or club fighters. There are also some two- and three-round professional bouts, especially in Australia. Through the early 20th century, it was common for fights to have unlimited rounds, ending only when one fighter quit, benefiting high-energy fighters like Jack Dempsey. | of world champions Oleg Maskaev and Hasim Rahman. Tua ended his career with a knockout-to-win ratio of 82.6%. In a 2003 article by "The Ring" magazine, Tua was ranked 48th on a list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Nicknamed the "Tuamanator", his fast-paced bob and weave pressure fighting style has often drawn comparisons to Mike Tyson. Tua fought many of the best boxers of his era and challenged once for the unified world heavyweight title against Lennox Lewis in 2000 | 50,921 | triviaqa-train |
What "tastes so good, cats ask for it by name"? | Meow Mix
Meow Mix is a variety of dry and wet cat food known for its advertising jingle. It is a product of The J.M. Smucker Company as of March 23, 2015. Meow Mix was introduced in 1974 and sells many flavors, including Original Choice, Seafood Medley, among many others. It also is known for selling Alley Cat dry cat food. Their current slogan is "It's all about the mix".
Company background.
The Meow Mix Company operates from a facility in Decatur, Alabama | Channel 12), Sylvester is shown eating the food, then he holds up a sign: "Ask for it by name", and starts ad-libbing a jingle for it: ""Pussy Kins Cat Food tastes real good, satisfies cats like cat food should, hardens their muscles, softens their fur, Pussy Kins Cat Food makes them purr"", but the lady gets wise and throws him out of the house through a window, breaking said window, and throwing the can after him. Then Sylvester | 50,922 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the street, in the fictional town of Fairview, where TV's Desperate Housewives live? | Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC from October 3, 2004 until May 13, 2012. Executive producer Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman, and Larry Shaw.
Set on Wisteria Lane, a street in the fictional town of Fairview in the fictional Eagle State | fictional street, appearing in the American television series "Desperate Housewives". The street is located in the city of Fairview, in the fictional Eagle State. Its appearance reflects the stereotypical view of American suburbia: perfectly manicured lawns, rows of comfortable houses and white picket fences. It is the main setting of the show, and it includes the homes of its four leading women - Bree, Gabrielle, Susan, and Lynette - as well as most of the show's other main characters. As of the sixth season, | 50,923 | triviaqa-train |
Which Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, OH? | Reserve University is one of the city's many leading academic institutions.
Ohio's premier cultural center, Cleveland is home to Playhouse Square, the second largest performing arts district in the U.S. after New York's Lincoln Center, as well as the Cleveland Orchestra (one of the "Big Five" American orchestras), the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The city boasts a nationally-renowned culinary culture and was named the 7th best food city in the nation by "Time" | Slovenian Catholic Center, also known as Slovenian Cultural Center, Lemont, IL
- Slovenian Cultural Society Triglav, Norway, WI; founded in 1952.
- National Cleveland-style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland
- American Slovenian Club of Fairport Harbor, Fairport Harbor, OH
- Slovene Home for the Aged, Cleveland
- Slovenian Museum and Archives, Cleveland
- Slovenska Pristava, Harpersfield, OH; Slovenian Catholic recreation and retreat center
- Slovenian National Home, Chisholm, MN (closed) | 50,924 | triviaqa-train |
November 18, 1869 saw the opening of what lockless waterway, which connects Port Said to Port Tawfik? | Port Said
Port Said ( ) is a city that lies in north east Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 603,787 (2010). The city was established in 1859 during the building of the Suez Canal.
There are numerous old houses with grand balconies on all floors, giving the city a distinctive look. Port Said's twin city is Port Fuad, which lies on the eastern bank of the canal. The two cities coexist, | The postwar boom and increasing demand for copper wiring fueled the development of Houghton in the 1860s and 1870s.
Houghton gained in importance as a port with the opening of the Keweenaw Waterway in 1873, the waterway being the cumulative dredging and extension of the Portage Lake, Portage Shipping Canal and Lily Pond so as to isolate the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula into Copper Island. By 1880 Houghton had become "a burgeoning city" and in 1883, the railroad was extended from Marquette.
1909 saw the founding of what | 50,925 | triviaqa-train |
What is the chosen profession of serial comic hero Tintin? | of Tintin is Philippe Goddin, "Belgium's leading authority on Hergé", author of numerous books on the subject, including "Hergé and Tintin, Reporters" and the biography . In 1983, Benoît Peeters published , subsequently published in English as "Tintin and the World of Hergé" in 1988. The reporter Michael Farr brought "Tintin" literary criticism to the English language with works such as "Tintin, 60 Years of Adventure" (1989), "Tintin: The Complete Companion" (2001), " | Jean-Pierre Talbot
Jean-Pierre Talbot (; born 12 August 1943) is a Belgian actor, best known for his lead role of Tintin in the movies "Tintin and the Golden Fleece" and "Tintin and the Blue Oranges".
Biography.
A teacher by profession, Talbot was first noted for his physical resemblance to that of Tintin while a sports instructor on a beach in Ostend. He was introduced to Hergé and the two became friends immediately. Talbot played the comic book character Tintin in the two | 50,926 | triviaqa-train |
November 18, 1928 saw the introduction of first fully synchronized sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, which featured what iconic cartoon character? | the Jolson number "Sonny Boy" had racked up 2 million record and 1.25 million sheet music sales. September 1928 also saw the release of Paul Terry's "Dinner Time", among the first animated cartoons produced with synchronized sound. Soon after he saw it, Walt Disney released his first sound picture, the Mickey Mouse short "Steamboat Willie".
Over the course of 1928, as Warner Bros. began to rake in huge profits due to the popularity of its sound films, the other studios quickened the pace of | "The Jazz Singer", had committed himself to producing one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons.
"Steamboat Willie" is especially notable for being the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound, as well as the first cartoon to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons such as Inkwell Studios' "Song Car-Tunes" (1924–1927) and Van Beuren Studios' "Dinner Time" (1928). Disney understood from early on that synchronized sound was the future of film. | 50,927 | triviaqa-train |
Which of the 6 simple machines requires the use of a fulcrum? | Lever
A lever ( or ) is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the location of fulcrum, load and effort, the lever is divided into three types. It is one of the six simple machines identified by Renaissance scientists. A lever amplifies an input force to provide a greater output force, which is said to provide leverage. The ratio of the | , with steam wands being a simple and valued addition.
- Heat exchanger (HX): Some machines use a single boiler kept at steaming temperature, but water for brewing is passed through a heat exchanger, taking some heat from the steam without rising to the same temperature. Although the water for brewing remains at a lower range than that required for steaming milk, it is still too hot for proper coffee extraction without first cooling; thus this type of machine requires a cooling flush of 4–6 seconds prior to the first | 50,928 | triviaqa-train |
Crossing the Rubicon can either be considered passing the point of no return or walking in front of a Jeep. In what country does one find the Rubicon River? | Caesar's subsequent victory in Caesar's civil war ensured that punishment for the infraction would never be rendered. This took place during the time of the Roman Republic.
Location, confusion and resolution.
After Caesar's crossing, the Rubicon was a geographical feature of note until about 42 BC, when Octavian merged the Province of Cisalpine Gaul into Italia and the river ceased to be the extreme northern border of Italy. The decision robbed the Rubicon of its importance, and the name gradually disappeared from the local toponymy. | Crossing the Rubicon (disambiguation)
Julius Caesar's Crossing the Rubicon river was an event in 49 BC that precipitated the Roman Civil War.
Crossing the Rubicon may also refer to:
- Metaphorically, a point of no return
Music.
Albums
- "Crossing the Rubicon" (Armageddon album), 1997
- "Crossing the Rubicon (Revisited)", a re-recorded version, 2016
- "Crossing the Rubicon" (The Sounds album), 2009
Songs
- " | 50,929 | triviaqa-train |
Which Wizard of Oz character was searching for brains? | , where she can ask the Wizard of Oz to help her get back home.
On her journey, Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, who wants a brain, the Tin Woodman, who desires a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, who needs courage. Dorothy invites them to accompany her to Emerald City, where they can ask the Wizard to help them too. Despite the Witch's attempts to stop them, they reach the Emerald City and are eventually permitted to see the Wizard, who appears as a large ghostly head | the animals to turn them into spies or warriors for Dorothy's army, as well as extracting their brains to increase his own. He is 'killed' in the second novel in the series, "The Wicked Will Rise", when the Wizard takes his brains as part of a plan to bring Oz and Kansas together.
- Jackson Browne performed this character in the 1995 television special "". The Kansas farmworker Hunk does not appear in this production. Browne sang a folk music tempo of "If I Only | 50,930 | triviaqa-train |
What is the more common name for toxicodendron radicans, a poisonous vine known for its production of urushiol (oo-roo-shee-awl), a substance that causes an itching rash in most people who touch it? | noxious weed in the US states of Minnesota and Michigan and in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Outside North America, "T. radicans" is also found in parts of China.
Poison ivy is particularly sensitive to carbon dioxide levels, greatly benefiting from higher concentrations in the atmosphere. Higher carbon dioxide levels increase the rate of plant growth, and causes them to produce more unsaturated urushiol, which causes stronger reactions in humans. Poison ivy's growth and potency has already doubled since the 1960s, and it could double again | ease the rash.
Showers or compresses using hot (but not scalding) water can relieve itching for up to several hours, though this "also taxes the skin's integrity, opening pores and generally making it more vulnerable", and is only useful for secondary treatment (not for cleaning urushiol from the skin, which should be done with cold water). People who have had a prior systemic reaction may be able to prevent subsequent exposure from turning systemic by avoiding heat and excitation of the circulatory system and applying moderate | 50,931 | triviaqa-train |
What Egyptian pharaoh was immortalized in a 1978 song by Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons? | King Tut (song)
"King Tut" is a novelty song performed by Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons (actually members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band). It was released as a single in 1978, sold over a million copies, and reached number 17 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. Martin previewed the song in a live performance during the April 22, 1978 episode of "Saturday Night Live". The song was also included on Martin's album "A Wild and Crazy Guy". | " by Steve Martin (1978)
- "White Cigarettes" by P-Model (1979)
In popular culture Music 1980s.
- "Menergy" by Patrick Cowley (1981)
- "Lies," by Thompson Twins, immediately after the line, "Cleopatra died for Egypt. What a waste of time!" (1982)
- "Starchild" by Teena Marie (1984)
- "Egypt, Egypt" by The Egyptian Lover (1984)
In popular culture Music 1990s.
- " | 50,932 | triviaqa-train |
What playing card was introduced by US players in the 1860's as the ultimate trump card (the best bower) in the game of Euchre? | easily found in the face cards but the number of cards per deck, the use of numeric indices, or even minor shape and arrangement differences of the pips can be used to distinguish them. Some patterns have been around for hundreds of years. Jokers are not part of any pattern as they are a relatively recent invention and lack any standardized appearance so each publisher usually puts their own trademarked illustration into their decks. The wide variation of jokers has turned them into collectible items. Any card that bore the stamp duty like the | , the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the "right bower" (from the German " or Jack"); the second-highest trump, the "left bower", is the Jack of the suit of the same color as trumps. The concept appears to have originated from Germany where the games, Juckerspiel and Bester Bube ("Best Bower") also used Jacks as best, right and left bowers. Around 1860, American Euchre players may have devised a higher trump, | 50,933 | triviaqa-train |
What video rental store, with over 5000 locations worldwide, recently announced their bankruptcy, after getting slaughtered in the marketplace by Redbox and Netflix? | the $16 billion home video sales and rental industry. Hastings is often quoted saying that he decided to start Netflix after being fined $40 at a Blockbuster store for being late to return a copy of "Apollo 13." But this is an apocryphal story that he and Randolph designed to explain the company's business model and motivation.
Netflix was launched on April 14, 1998, as the world's first online DVD rental store, with only 30 employees and 925 titles available, which was almost the entire catalogue | allowed consumers to return their rental to any Redbox kiosk, not just the one from which they originally rented the unit. Kiosks rented both films and video games.
In 2002, the company placed four automated convenience store kiosks that sold grocery items such as milk, eggs, and sandwiches as well as 11 DVD-rental kiosks in Washington Metropolitan Area locations. Redbox withdrew the grocery kiosks within a year, but the DVD-rental kiosks succeeded, and the company changed its focus to that market. In 2005, Coinstar | 50,934 | triviaqa-train |
What Japanese automaker became the first to open a U.S. plant when they began producing cars in a facility in Marysville, Ohio, in November 1982? | 64; and 8.1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 42.8% male and 57.2% female.
Economy.
Economy Industrial and manufacturing.
Marysville is the headquarters for Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, the largest producer in the world of horticulture products. The company was founded in 1868 by Orlando Scott in Marysville, and has grown to have an $8 billion market.
Two Honda Motors plants are located in Marysville. The first production facilities opened by Honda in the | the factory. Early experiments using a moving assembly line to make cars were also conducted there. It was also the first factory where more than 100 cars were assembled in one day. While it was headquartered at the Piquette Avenue Plant, Ford Motor Company became the biggest U.S.-based automaker, and it would remain so until the mid-1920s. The factory was used by the company until 1910, when its car production activity was relocated to the new, bigger Highland Park Ford Plant.
Studebaker bought the factory in 1911, using it | 50,935 | triviaqa-train |
The Simpsons is the longest running animated series in TV history. What show that aired on Fox is the second longest? | the Hill", "Futurama" and "The Critic". For "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, ""The Simpsons" created an audience for prime-time animation that had not been there for many, many years ... As far as I'm concerned, they basically re-invented the wheel. They created what is in many ways—you could classify it as—a wholly new medium."
"The Simpsons" has had crossovers with four other shows. In the episode "A | longest-running series (third-longest as an animated series, behind "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy"). A total of 259 episodes aired over the course of its 13 seasons. The final episode aired on Fox on September 13, 2009. Four episodes from the final season were to have aired on Fox, but later premiered in nightly syndication from May 3 to 6, 2010.
In 2007, it was named by "Time" magazine as one of the top 100 greatest television shows of | 50,936 | triviaqa-train |
What drink consists of 7 parts tequila, 4 parts cointreau or triple sec, and 3 parts lemon or lime juice? | the production process from being copied.
Cocktails.
In addition to being consumed neat (or often on ice), Cointreau is used in many popular cocktails.
The official IBA recipes for both the margarita and the cosmopolitan include Cointreau.
Publicity.
In the 1980s, Avirex, now Cockpit USA, issued an A-2 limited edition leather flight jacket featuring Cointreau Original Margarita nose art on the back of the jacket. In early 2008, burlesque entertainer Dita Von Teese became the new face of Cointreau's "Be | lemon peel over the top and serve garnished with the lemon peel and a maraschino cherry.
- Sidecar
- 8 parts Cognac or Armagnac
- 2 parts lemon juice
- 1 part Cointreau or triple sec
Shake vigorously with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon, if desired.
Chapters.
From the 1958 edition:
1. Basic Principles
2. Glassware, Gimmicks, and Gadgets
3. Lemons, Limes and Liquors
4. Pertinent Pointers | 50,937 | triviaqa-train |
What frozen food item is Mama Celeste associated with? | Pizza For One" varieties of Celeste pizzas. Distribution is now restricted to more regional markets.
Popular culture.
Popular culture Film.
- In numerous 1980s movies, the pizza brand can be seen in background shots, such as "Harry and the Hendersons" (1987).
- In "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" (1991), Sue Ellen uses a Celeste pizza box to decide who gets a job.
Popular culture Television.
- In "The Golden Girls" episode " | houses had obviously been left in a hurry. The furnishings in the residences were in great disarray and some were stained with blood. Frozen but cooked food was on the tables, and baby carriages with bottles of frozen milk were outside in the snow. On one wall a German family found the words written "Mama, farewell." Years later, a German survivor, then a child, remembers being told "Latvians lived here", with no mention they were Jews. Another German survivor, Ruth Foster, recounted what | 50,938 | triviaqa-train |
What St. Louis, MO based cereal company produces Fruity Pebbles, Grape Nuts, Honey Bunches of Oats, and Raisin Bran, among many, many others? | Pebbles cereal
Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles are brands of breakfast cereal introduced by Post Foods in 1971 featuring characters from the animated series "The Flintstones" as spokestoons. Cocoa Pebbles contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, while Fruity Pebbles contains crisp rice cereal bits that come in a variety of fruit flavors with a sugar content of 9 grams per serving for Fruity Pebbles and 10 grams per serving for Cocoa Pebbles. It is the oldest surviving cereal brand that is based on characters from a TV series or movie. | Honey Bunches of Oats – Granola – Protein Chocolate
- Honey Bunches of Oats – Morning Energy – Chocolatey Almond Crunch
- Honey Bunches of Oats – Morning Energy – Cinnamon Crunch
- Honey Maid S'mores
- Honeycomb
- Oh's
- Oreo O's
- Poppin' Pebbles
- Raisin Bran
- Selects Cranberry Almond Crunch
- Sesame Street Cereal – Apple
- Sesame Street Cereal - Blueberry
- Sesame Street Cereal - Strawberry
- Shredded Wheat (made by Nestlé and General Mills in the | 50,939 | triviaqa-train |
Nov 20, 1945 saw the start of the trials in what German city in which 24 high ranking Nazis were indicted for participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace , war crimes, and crimes against humanity? | was a Jewish ideology-this became known as "Jewish Bolshevism". Hitler believed that "The Protocols" were authentic.
Prior to the Nazi ascension to power, Hitler often blamed moral degradation on "Rassenschande" ("racial defilement"), a way to assure his followers of his continuing antisemitism, which had been toned down for popular consumption. Prior to the induction of the Nuremberg Race Laws in 1935 by the Nazis, many German nationalists such as Roland Freisler strongly supported laws to ban "Rassenschande" between | the Reich Cabinet, the Schutzstaffel (SS), Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Gestapo, the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the "General Staff and High Command", comprising several categories of senior military officers. These organizations were to be declared "criminal" if found guilty.
The indictments were for:
1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
3. War crimes | 50,940 | triviaqa-train |
Portrayed in a Seinfeld episode and a John Travolta movie, what colloquialism is used to describe a person who must live in a microbiologically sterile environment for medical reasons? | was intended for season two. In the beginning of this episode, Jerry clears up the continuity error over George's real estate job.
Episodes Seasons 4–5.
Season four marked the sitcom's entry into the Nielsen ratings Top 30, coinciding with several popular episodes, such as "The Bubble Boy" in which George and the bubble boy argue over "Trivial Pursuit", and "The Junior Mint" in which Jerry and Kramer accidentally fumble a mint in the operating room. This was the first season to use a | Ted DeVita
Ted DeVita (1962 – May 27, 1980) suffered from severe aplastic anemia requiring him to live in a sterile hospital room for the last eight years of his life.
His story, along with that of Texas patient David Vetter, was used to create the 1976 made-for-TV movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble". In the film, John Travolta played "Tod", a teenage boy who lived in a sterile bubble due to illness. DeVita was 14 when the film | 50,941 | triviaqa-train |
Known as the Equality State, what was the 44th state to join the Union on Jul 10, 1890? | Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the mountain region of the western United States. The state is the 10th largest by area, the least populous, and the second most sparsely populated state in the country. Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, on the southwest by Utah, and on the west by Idaho and Montana. The state population was estimated at 577,737 in 2018, which is less than 31 of the most populous | HMS Melampus (1890)
HMS "Melampus" was an protected cruiser of the Royal Navy which served from 1890 to 1910.
History.
In 1890, building by the Naval Construction and Armaments Co, later known as Vickers, commenced. She was originally built for the Greek navy.
In 1891, when George, Duke of York was promoted to commander, he assumed command of HMS "Melampus". He relinquished his post in January 1892, when his brother Albert Victor died.
On 5 Jul | 50,942 | triviaqa-train |
The brother of which U.S. president was the commercial spokesman for Billy Beer? | President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
In contemporary times, the president is looked upon as one of the world's most powerful political figures as the leader of the only remaining global superpower. The role includes responsibility for the world's most expensive military, which has | his brother Scott, purchased the Los Gatos Brewing Company, and re-opened it as the Loma Brewing Company, a brewpub in Los Gatos, California. The brewery was subsequently named as the 2017 California Commercial Beer Brewery of the Year.
Youkilis was eligible to be elected into the Hall of Fame in 2019, but received less than 5% of the vote and became ineligible for the 2020 ballot.
"Moneyball".
Michael Lewis's 2003 best-seller "" focuses on Oakland Athletics' General Manager Billy | 50,943 | triviaqa-train |
With examples such as tulip, South Sea company, and .com, what is the name for the economic condition characterized by "trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values"? | Bubble.
The Bubble Act 1720 (6 Geo I, c 18), which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea company itself before its collapse.
In Great Britain, a considerable number of people were ruined by the share collapse, and the national economy greatly reduced as a result. The founders of the scheme engaged in insider trading, using their advance knowledge of when national debt was to be consolidated to make large profits from purchasing debt in advance. | rather than observed.
Some recent studies explore information other than price history, such as market sentiment and business classification to enable the forecast.
Portfolio optimization assumes the investor may have some risk aversion and the stock prices may exhibit significant differences between their historical or forecast values and what is experienced.
In particular, financial crises are characterized by a significant increase in correlation of stock price movements which may seriously degrade the benefits of diversification.
In a mean-variance optimization framework, accurate estimation of the variance-covariance | 50,944 | triviaqa-train |
What can be a tool used in gold mining, a Greek god, and a prefix meaning all? | coin and the Chinese Gold Panda.
Monetary use Price.
, gold is valued at around $42 per gram ($1,300 per troy ounce).
Like other precious metals, gold is measured by troy weight and by grams. The proportion of gold in the alloy is measured by "karat" (k), with 24 karat (24k) being pure gold, and lower karat numbers proportionally less. The purity of a gold bar or coin can also be expressed as a decimal figure ranging from 0 to | Eurotophobia
Eurotophobia is the aversion to or dislike of female genitalia.
Semantics.
A term whose meaning is synonymous with eurotophobia is kolpophobia; however; the scope of kolpophobia can sometimes be broader, allowing for the inclusion of all sex organs. Although eurotophobia does not have an interlingual classical compound, kolpophobia has a Greek etymological derivation with the prefix "kolpo" meaning a fold that usually alludes to the vulva. Eurotophobia is a hyponym of genitophobia. On the other hand, the term vaginaphobia is used to denote fear | 50,945 | triviaqa-train |
Saturday marks the 104 gridiron meeting between UW and WSU, when this years Apple Cup takes place at what stadium? | the leaders adopting FieldTurf, trailing only Memorial Stadium's installation by one season.
A $280 million renovation of Husky Stadium began on November 7, 2011. Home games were moved to CenturyLink Field for the 2012 season while construction took place. The newly renovated Husky Stadium reopened on August 31, 2013 in a game in which the Huskies defeated Boise State by a score of 38–6.
Facilities Dempsey Indoor.
The Dempsey Indoor is an facility opened in September 2001. The building is used as an indoor practice facility for | place for the win in the snow.
Apple Cup.
Washington State hosts the Apple Cup rivalry game with Washington in even-numbered years. Except for 1954, the Apple Cup was played at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane from 1950–80, rather than in Pullman. The Cougars went in these fifteen Spokane Apple Cups (winning in 1958, 1968, and 1972), while winning the previous games played at Rogers Field in Pullman (1948, 1954).
Since 1982, a Cougar victory, all WSU home | 50,946 | triviaqa-train |
What long running TV sci-fi series had it's debut on Nov 23, 1963 and ran until 1989, and then returned in 2006? | Many early releases have been re-released as special editions, with more bonus features.
Adaptations and other appearances.
Adaptations and other appearances Dr. Who films.
There are two Dr. Who feature films: "Dr. Who and the Daleks", released in 1965 and "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." in 1966. Both are retellings of existing television stories (specifically, the first two Dalek serials, "The Daleks" and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" respectively) with a larger budget and alterations | (1987–1990), in which he portrayed a man who co-parents the daughter of his deceased girlfriend alongside her ex-boyfriend.
In 1989, he starred in the sci-fi film "DeepStar Six", and later appeared in the sci-fi series "TekWar" opposite William Shatner, based on a series of books by Shatner. "TekWar" originated as a series of two-hour television movies in 1994, and then became a series of hour-long episodes that ran in 1995 and 1996 | 50,947 | triviaqa-train |
Nov 21, 1980 answered the question "Who shot J.R.?", when the season premiere of what long running TV drama was shown? | Who shot J.R.?
"Who shot J.R.?" is an advertising catchphrase that American network CBS created in 1980 to promote the television series "Dallas". It referred to the mystery surrounding a murder attempt against villain J. R. Ewing in the show's third season finale, "A House Divided". The mystery and its catchphrase became a global phenomenon, with international oddsmakers setting odds for the culprit. The mystery was not resolved until the fourth episode of the fourth season titled "Who Done It", which aired | a fully nude cast) made its British premiere on London's West End at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
- The long running CBS police drama "Hawaii Five-O" premiered on CBS at 8:00 pm and began a 12-season run and 284 episode run that would last until 1980. The hour-long series had been preceded by a pilot which had been shown by CBS on September 20 as a made for television movie; the pilot would be edited into two episodes shown at the end of the first season. Jack Lord | 50,948 | triviaqa-train |
For a point each, name the country surrounding the Republic of The Gambia. | President Jawara was visiting London and was carried out by the leftist National Revolutionary Council, composed of Kukoi Samba Sanyang's Socialist and Revolutionary Labour Party (SRLP) and elements of the Field Force, a paramilitary force which constituted the bulk of the country's armed forces.
President Jawara requested military aid from Senegal, which deployed 400 troops to The Gambia on 31 July. By 6 August, some 2,700 Senegalese troops had been deployed, defeating the rebel force. Between 500 and 800 people were killed during the coup and the | varying degrees of accuracy. Upon independence in 1965, the country used the name "The Gambia". Following the proclamation of a republic in 1970, the long-form name of the country became "Republic of The Gambia". The administration of Yahya Jammeh changed the long-form name to "Islamic Republic of The Gambia" in December 2015. On 29 January 2017 President Adama Barrow changed the name back to "Republic of The Gambia".
History.
Arab traders provided the first written accounts of the | 50,949 | triviaqa-train |
Named for the Greek word for stone, what element, with an atomic number of 3, uses the symbol Li? | in (usually ionic) compounds, such as pegmatitic minerals, which were once the main source of lithium. Due to its solubility as an ion, it is present in ocean water and is commonly obtained from brines. Lithium metal is isolated electrolytically from a mixture of lithium chloride and potassium chloride.
The nucleus of the lithium atom verges on instability, since the two stable lithium isotopes found in nature have among the lowest binding energies per nucleon of all stable nuclides. Because of its relative nuclear instability, lithium is less | atomic number (represented by the symbol "Z"). Since each element has a unique number of protons, each element has its own unique atomic number.
The word "proton" is Greek for "first", and this name was given to the hydrogen nucleus by Ernest Rutherford in 1920. In previous years, Rutherford had discovered that the hydrogen nucleus (known to be the lightest nucleus) could be extracted from the nuclei of nitrogen by atomic collisions. Protons were therefore a candidate to be a fundamental particle | 50,950 | triviaqa-train |
“I yam what I yam, and that’s all what I yam” was the motto of what popular cartoon character? | promptly pulls out a can of spinach, eating both the vegetable and the can itself. He punches the row of remaining Native Americans, causing a domino effect. The final gag shows Popeye punching out the giant tribal chief, causing him to lose his outfit and become another type of Indian, Mahatma Gandhi. The cartoon ends with Popeye singing "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!".
Notes.
"I Yam What I Yam" is the second "Popeye" cartoon; the first entry, "Popeye | "I Yam What I Yam" (1933), featured Bonnie Poe as the voice of Olive Oyl. She was thereafter voiced by character actress Mae Questel (who also voiced Betty Boop and other characters). Questel styled Olive's voice and delivery after those of actress ZaSu Pitts.
In 1938, Margie Hines took over as the voice of Olive Oyl, starting with the cartoon "Bulldozing the Bull". Questel returned as her voice in 1944, starting with the cartoon "The Anvil Chorus Girl". Questel | 50,951 | triviaqa-train |
Which Hangover star did People magazine recently name their Sexiest Man of the Year for 2011? | The Hangover
The Hangover is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, co-produced with Daniel Goldberg, and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. It is the first installment in "The Hangover" trilogy. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, and Jeffrey Tambor. It tells the story of Phil Wenneck, Stu Price, Alan Garner, and Doug Billings, who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party to celebrate Doug's | donated to on video call which offered them the opportunity to purchase tickets to the premiere of "The Force Awakens".
Accolades.
In 1994, the National Association of Theatre Owners named Ford "Star of the Year".
In the October 1997 issue of Empire Magazine, Ford was ranked no. 1 in "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time".
In 1998, People Magazine named Ford the "Sexiest Man Alive".
For 3 consecutive years (1998, 1999, and 2000 | 50,952 | triviaqa-train |
What is the longest mountain chain in North America? | its western frontier.
The continent can be divided into four great regions (each of which contains many subregions): the Great Plains stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Arctic; the geologically young, mountainous west, including the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, California and Alaska; the raised but relatively flat plateau of the Canadian Shield in the northeast; and the varied eastern region, which includes the Appalachian Mountains, the coastal plain along the Atlantic seaboard, and the Florida peninsula. Mexico, with its | Taconic orogeny
The Taconic orogeny was a mountain building period that ended 440 million years ago and affected most of modern-day New England. A great mountain chain formed from eastern Canada down through what is now the Piedmont of the East coast of the United States. As the mountain chain eroded in the Silurian and Devonian periods, sediments from the mountain chain spread throughout the present-day Appalachians and midcontinental North America.
New England and Canada.
Beginning in Cambrian time, about 550 million years ago, the Iapetus | 50,953 | triviaqa-train |
Who's missing: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop | 1972. One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap. I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew." This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography and in many articles.
After reuniting with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally, before his death in 1990. He died in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, and his estate was | Amylo-alpha-1,6-glucosidase
Amylo-alpha-1,6-glucosidase (, "amylo-1,6-glucosidase", "dextrin 6-alpha-D-glucosidase", "amylopectin 1,6-glucosidase", "dextrin-1,6-glucosidase", "glycogen phosphorylase-limit dextrin alpha-1,6-glucohydrolase") is an enzyme with systematic name "glycogen phosphorylase-limit dextrin 6-alpha-glucohydrolase". This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
This enzyme hydrolyses an unsubstituted (1-4)-linked glucose chain.
External links.
- EC catalog entry | 50,954 | triviaqa-train |
Nov 24, 1963 saw the death of reputed JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the hands of which Dallas night club owner? | fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.
In September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone when he assassinated Kennedy by firing three shots from the Texas School Book Depository. This conclusion, though controversial, was supported by previous investigations from the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Dallas Police Department. Despite forensic, ballistic, and eyewitness evidence supporting the official findings, public opinion polls have shown that most Americans do not believe the official version of | 1506, Javier, Navarre (Spain) – 3 December 1552, Shangchuan Island, China). He led an extensive mission into Asia. At age 10 he became the carrier of the "Ancient Text" until his death.
- Lee Harvey Oswald: (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four government investigations, the assassin of President of the United States John F. Kennedy, who was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. When working at "Billy | 50,955 | triviaqa-train |
How old was Michael Jackson when he died? | pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. at age 50.
Investigation.
Investigation Autopsies.
Jackson's body was flown by helicopter to the Los Angeles County Coroner's offices in Lincoln Heights, where a three-hour autopsy was performed the next day on behalf of the Los Angeles County Coroner by the chief medical examiner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran. Jackson's family arranged for a second autopsy, a practice that could yield expedited, albeit limited, results. After the preliminary autopsy was completed, Craig Harvey, chief investigator for the coroner's office | Michael Jackson, and President Baxter Harris (Leslie Nielsen) personally visits the farm to investigate the crop circles. Cindy visits the lighthouse, where she encounters The Architect (George Carlin). The loquacious (and lecherous) old man explains Tabitha was his evil adopted daughter, whom his wife drowned in the farm's well, but not before she imprinted her evil onto the tape. Unfortunately, he mistakenly returned it to Blockbuster believing it was "Pootie Tang", unleashing the curse. When Cindy asks about how this relates | 50,956 | triviaqa-train |
What NFL team calls Reliant Stadium home? | NRG Stadium
NRG Stadium (pronounced as N-R-G Stadium), formerly Reliant Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. It was constructed at the cost of $352 million and has a seating capacity of 71,995. It was the first NFL facility to have a retractable roof.
The stadium is the home of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, many of the United States men's national soccer team | immediate effort to plant roots in the community, AEG president and CEO Tim Leiweke announced former Houston Oilers quarterback Oliver Luck as the team's president and general manager. A previous NFL Europe executive, Luck had served as the head of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority since 2001 and was instrumental in pursuing an MLS team for the city while also overseeing the construction of Minute Maid Park (home of the Astros), Reliant Stadium (home to the Texans) and the Toyota Center (home to the Rockets) during his | 50,957 | triviaqa-train |
Name the famous family that lived at 127 Nelson Mandela House Peckham | Jones) and Cassandra (Gwyneth Strong) respectively; Del also has a son with Raquel, Damien (played by five actors, most recently Ben Smith). Rodney and Cassandra marry, separate and then get back together again. Cassandra miscarries, but then she and Rodney eventually have a baby. Rodney finds out who his real father was. The Trotters finally become millionaires, lose their fortune, and then regain some of it.
Cast and characters.
Cast and characters Main cast and characters.
- Derek Edward | after Albert, and Albert never got the chance to pay his older brother back. Del and Rodney, touched by this, forgive Albert and begin to wheel him home in his wheelchair. A few moments later, Del stops and furiously reminds Albert that he can still walk.
Story arc.
- The Trotter family's address is revealed to be 368 Nelson Mandela House, Dockside Estate, Peckham.
- Albert's middle name is revealed to be "Gladstone".
Episode concept.
- The idea | 50,958 | triviaqa-train |
What is speleology the study of | .
An international speleological congress was proposed at a meeting in Valence-sur-Rhone, France in 1949 and first held in 1953 in Paris. The International Union of Speleology (UIS) was founded in 1965.
The growth of speleology is directly linked with that of the sport of caving, both because of the stimulation of public interest and awareness, and the fact that most speleological field-work has been conducted by sport cavers.
Cave cartography.
The creation of an accurate, detailed map is one | and fought alongside them against the Persian Sassanids and their Arab vassals, the Lakhmids. The lands of the Ghassanids also acted as a buffer zone protecting lands that had been annexed by the Romans against raids by Bedouin tribes.
Few Ghassanids became Muslim following the Islamic Conquest; most Ghassanids remained Christian and joined Melkite and Syriac communities within what is now Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Syria and Lebanon.
Migration from Yemen.
Oral tradition holds that the Ghassanids came from the city of Ma'rib in South Arabia and its surrounding | 50,959 | triviaqa-train |
How many letters are there in the German alphabet | of letters the German alphabet has, the number ranging between 26 (special letters are considered variants of A, O, U, and S) and 30 (all special letters are counted separately).
Use of special letters.
Use of special letters Umlaut diacritic usage.
The diacritic letters "ä, ö" and "ü" are used to indicate the presence of umlauts (frontalizations of back vowels). Before the introduction of the printing press, frontalization was indicated by placing an "e" after the | )) which are officially considered distinct letters of the alphabet.
- The capital ẞ was declared an official letter of the German alphabet on 29 June 2017.
- In the past, long s (ſ) was used as well, as in English and many other European languages.
While the Council for German Orthography considers Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü, and ẞ/ß distinct letters, disagreement on how to categorize and count them has led to a dispute over the exact number | 50,960 | triviaqa-train |
Which US president has a statue in Parliament Square | President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
In contemporary times, the president is looked upon as one of the world's most powerful political figures as the leader of the only remaining global superpower. The role includes responsibility for the world's most expensive military, which has | July 1920. The American Ambassador made a formal presentation at Central Hall, Westminster, where Prime Minister David Lloyd George accepted the gift on behalf of the people of Britain; after a procession to Parliament Square, the statue was unveiled by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. The Mexico City statue was presented by United States President Lyndon Johnson to the people of Mexico in 1964. Later, Johnson received a small copy of the bust from the statue, which since then is often seen displayed in the Oval Office of the White | 50,961 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the leader of a cult who murdered Sharon Tate amongst others | London. That afternoon, Polanski telephoned her as did her younger sister, Debra, who called to ask if she and their sister, Patti, could spend the night with her. Tate declined, offering to have them over another time. Later that evening, Tate dined at her favorite restaurant, El Coyote Cafe, with Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger, returning at about 10:30 p.m.
Shortly after midnight, they were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family". Their bodies were discovered | who also starred in Polanski's 1959 "When Angels Fall". The couple were married in 1959 and divorced in 1961.
Marriages and relationships Sharon Tate.
Polanski met rising actress Sharon Tate while filming "The Fearless Vampire Killers", and during the production, the two of them began dating. On 1968, Polanski married Tate in London.
In August 1969, while Polanski was in Europe working on a film, Tate was murdered along with four of their friends at their home in Los Angeles by members of | 50,962 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the only one of the Nazis to plead guilty at the Nuremberg trials | , Hans Flächsner (Albert Speer), Günther von Rohrscheidt (Rudolf Hess), Egon Kubuschok (Franz von Papen), Robert Servatius (Fritz Sauckel), Fritz Sauter (Joachim von Ribbentrop), Walther Funk (Baldur von Schirach), Hanns Marx (Julius Streicher), Otto Nelte (Wilhelm Keitel), and Herbert Kraus/Rudolph Dix (both working for Hjalmar Schacht). The main counsel were supported by a total of 70 assistants, clerks and lawyers. The defense witnesses included several men who took part | trials at Nuremberg, 163 of the 200 defendants who were tried were found guilty in some or all of the charges of the indictments. It is not known if Captain Hahn assisted Taylor during these trials.
When World War II came to an end the Allies competed for access to top Nazis. SS General Walter Schellenberg was one of the most important (General Schellenberg was Adolf Hitler's last Chief of Foreign Intelligence). The British took Schellenberg into custody before the Americans or Russians could reach him. Captain Hahn was one | 50,963 | triviaqa-train |
Who was lead singer of The Jam | the role went to Phil Daniels. Sting played Jimmy's friend and fellow mod, the Ace Face. The soundtrack was Jones' first appearance on a Who record, performing on newly written material not on the original album. The film was a critical and box office success in the UK and appealed to the growing mod revival movement. The Jam were influenced by the Who, and critics noticed a similarity between Townshend and the group's leader, Paul Weller.
"The Kids Are Alright" was also completed in 1979 | Jimmy Edwards (musician)
James Arthur Edwards (18 April 1949 – 13 January 2015) was a lead singer and songwriter who led many bands from the 1960s until his death. He was most well known as lead singer of 1980s new wave band Time UK with Rick Buckler of The Jam, Danny Kustow of Tom Robinson Band, Martin Gordon (bassist in Sparks, who was then replaced by Nick South of Yoko Ono Band, Sniff 'n' the Tears and Steve Marriott's All Stars) and Ray Simone. | 50,964 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the words for Auld Lang Syne | Auld Lang Syne
"Auld Lang Syne" (: note "s" rather than "z") is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294). It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world, its traditional use being to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. By extension, it is also sung at funerals, graduations, and as | by (five by Ralphi Rosario and four by Johnny Vicious) as a digital download on iTunes. "Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem)" is a house track with a "thumping" instrumental according to Rich Juzwiak of "The Village Voice", that lasts for three minutes and forty-seven seconds. At one point in the song, Carey says "Does anybody really know the words?"
Critical reception.
"Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem)" garnered a | 50,965 | triviaqa-train |
What was Britain's 1992 Eurovision Song Contest entry sang by Michael Ball | played the role in London and on Broadway.
In 1992, Ball represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing second with the song "One Step Out of Time". In 1995, he reprised the role of Marius in "". His other West End roles include Giorgio in "Passion" (1997) and Caractacus Potts in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (2002). He has twice won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He won in 2008 for his role | Better the Devil You Know (album)
Better the Devil You Know is the third album by British pop star Sonia. It was released on the back of her entry into the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest with the title track.
Overview.
Released in May 1993, the album followed Sonia's appearance in the Eurovision Song Contest. The previous year, Sonia had been selected to be the UK representative and she performed all eight songs in the Song for Europe. The 1992 participant Michael Ball had enjoyed great success with | 50,966 | triviaqa-train |
Which racing team did Jim Clark race for during all of his career | Jim Clark
James Clark Jr. OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965.
Clark was a versatile driver who competed in sports cars, touring cars and in the Indianapolis 500, which he won He was particularly associated with the Lotus marque.
Clark was killed in a Formula Two racing accident in 1968 in Hockenheim, At the time of his death, aged 32, he had won more Grand Prix | reported that the circuit was quite bumpy, although it was better than other circuits south of the border at the time.
Motor Racing continued at the airfield for twelve years, hosting numerous Formula Two and Formula Libre races and being used as a test track for the Ecurie Ecosse team. Some well-known drivers who raced there includes Roy Salvadori, Giuseppe Farina and Jim Clark. Jim Clark would spend much of his racing career at Charterhall, the location where he won his first motor race, competing in 31 events. | 50,967 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the first yacht to win the Americas Cup | , the Janissaries, a special soldier class of the Ottoman army that became a decisive faction in the Ottoman invasions of Europe.
During the various 18th and 19th century persecution campaigns against Christians as well as during the culminating Assyrian, Armenian and Greek genocides of World War I, many indigenous Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christian women and children were carried off as slaves by the Ottoman Turks and their Kurdish allies. Henry Morgenthau, Sr., U.S. Ambassador in Constantinople from 1913 to 1916, reports in his "Ambassador Morgenthau's | Bermuda Race as "Inishfree" sailed to a respectable finish in Class B. Returning home, she won the Freeman Cup Race, her first of three in a row – the only yacht ever to so accomplish – and she added a fourth Freeman Cup win in 1964.
Many more trophies bear her name. In 1961 alone, "Inishfree" won the Marlatt and Boswell Trophies, the Cosgrave, Dufferin, Marquis of Lorne and Queen's Cups, her second Freeman Cup and the Rochester Race – her first of three in | 50,968 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the male star of Colin's Sandwich | Colin's Sandwich
Colin's Sandwich was a British sitcom, broadcast on BBC2 in 1988 and 1990, which starred Mel Smith as Colin Watkins, a British Rail administrator who aspired to be a horror writer. The show was written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan and ran for two series of six episodes (18 October – 22 November 1988 and 12 January – 16 February 1990). In the second series, Colin manages to achieve some small successes as a writer.
List of episodes.
Series 1
- | . In 1982, he starred as the lead role in ITV drama "Muck and Brass "where he played Tom Craig, a ruthless property developer. In 1984, he appeared in the "Minder" episode "A Star Is Gorn" playing the character Cyril Ash, a record producer. He also guest-starred on "The Goodies" episode Animals. At the end of the 1980s, he played the title role in the sitcom "Colin's Sandwich" (1988–90), playing a British Rail employee with aspirations | 50,969 | triviaqa-train |
Who appeared in the TV series Callan, Target and Special Branch | Television's Euston Films subsidiary took over production using film, which allowed for a less studio-based series. Euston Films had pioneered the technique of shooting action and adventure series entirely on location using 16mm film, for a more gritty and realistic look. These episodes starred George Sewell as DCI Alan Craven and Roger Rowland as Bill North. In series 3 episode 2, Patrick Mower debuted as Craven's colleague and often antagonist, DCI Tom Haggerty. By the 1974 series Bill North had been axed, having had a nervous | Steel Company, Mower graduated from RADA. He first came to prominence as an actor in the spy series "Callan" in the early 1970s. Later he appeared as DCI Tom Haggerty in "Special Branch" alongside George Sewell, and Det. Supt. Steve Hackett in the police series "Target", and featured in one of the last "Carry On" films, "Carry On England". Mower's many television roles have included guest appearances in "Jason King", "", "UFO" ( | 50,970 | triviaqa-train |
In which American state did Geronimo carry out most of his raiding and killing | Geronimo
Geronimo ( "the one who yawns," June 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe. From 1850 to 1886 Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua Apache bands — the Tchihende, the Tsokanende and the Nednhi — to carry out numerous raids, as well as resistance to U.S. and Mexican military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora, and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Geronimo's | plan and operate the attack. Taliban numbers were sourced at hundreds coming from the Pakistani border mountains. At the first checkpoint insiders who defected to the Taliban side joined them in raiding the outpost. At the time of the raid the insiders helped carry out the killing of the entire outpost garrison while the majority were still asleep in their bunks. The checkpoint was taken without resistance or casualties on the Taliban side.
After the first checkpoint was raided Taliban insurgents and defectors attacked the second which was the outpost for approx. 17 | 50,971 | triviaqa-train |
Billy the Kid was a native of which US state | York City carried stories about his crimes. Sheriff Pat Garrett captured Bonney later that month. In April 1881, Bonney was tried and convicted of the murder of Brady, and was sentenced to hang in May of that year. He escaped from jail on April 28, 1881, killing two sheriff's deputies in the process and evading capture for more than two months. Garrett shot and killed Bonneyaged 21in Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. During the following decades, legends that Bonney had survived that night grew, and | experienced fighters, Jimmy Devine, Tommy Love and Matty Baldwin; the last two opponents on this losing streak were Philadelphians Billy Willis and Tim Callahan.
On 12 May, two days after the Callahan encounter, he faced Jack Reardon, another 'no-decision' match, though on this occasion Welsh was given the bout by the press. This was followed by a win over Kid Gleason, and a second-round stoppage of Mike Loughlin. The 15 June saw a rematch with Chicago native Frank Carsey, which after | 50,972 | triviaqa-train |
What is the more common name for the explosive nitro cellulose | . The reaction is first order and proceeds by electrophilic substitution at the C−OH centers of the cellulose.
Guncotton is made by treating cotton (used as the source of cellulose) with concentrated sulfuric acid and 70% nitric acid cooled to 0 °C to produce cellulose trinitrate. While guncotton is dangerous to store, the hazards it presents can be reduced by storing it dampened with various liquids, such as alcohol. For this reason, accounts of guncotton usage dating from the early 20th century refer to "wet guncotton" | breakage in the surrounding countryside. In recent years, the event has also featured an explosive fireball and an Anvil firing to start the event and entertain the participants.
Targets.
The smallest and closest targets are square boxes, about the size and thickness of a common brown rodent poison container, with more immediate results if a rodent ventures near it during this May event. The longer range targets are similarly shaped and are with more explosive. The farthest targets are shot at mostly by the .50cal shooters from what is referred | 50,973 | triviaqa-train |
The first successful revolver was patented by which American gunsmith in 1835 | American, Samuel Colt, patented the mechanism which led to the widespread use of the revolver, the mechanically indexing cylinder. According to Samuel Colt, he came up with the idea for the revolver while at sea, inspired by the capstan, which had a ratchet and pawl mechanism on it, a version of which was used in his guns to rotate the cylinder by cocking the hammer. This provided a reliable and repeatable way to index each round and did away with the need to manually rotate the cylinder. Revolvers proliferated largely | Robert Adams (handgun designer)
Robert Adams (1810–1870) was a 19th-century British gunsmith who patented the first successful double-action revolver in 1851. His revolvers were used during the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the U.S. Civil War, and the Anglo-Zulu War.
Career.
Career Dean and Adams.
Adams was the manager for the London arms manufacturers George & John Deane. On August 22, 1851, he was granted a British patent for a new revolver design.
The .436 | 50,974 | triviaqa-train |
Thiamin is the chemical name for which vitamin | mandatory fortification programs for vitamins folic acid, niacin, vitamin A and vitamins B1, B2 and B12.
Intake Deficient intake.
The body's stores for different vitamins vary widely; vitamins A, D, and B are stored in significant amounts, mainly in the liver, and an adult's diet may be deficient in vitamins A and D for many months and B in some cases for years, before developing a deficiency condition. However, vitamin B (niacin and niacinamide) is not stored in significant amounts, so | legumes, since the proteins are irreversibly denatured. Overprocessing may decrease the nutritional value; extrusion leads to losses in minerals and vitamins, while dry heating does not change the chemical composition.
Nutrition.
Chickpeas are a nutrient-dense food, providing rich content (20% or higher of the Daily Value, DV) of protein, dietary fiber, folate, and certain dietary minerals, such as iron and phosphorus in a 100 gram reference amount (see adjacent nutrition table). Thiamin, vitamin B, magnesium, | 50,975 | triviaqa-train |
What was Morecambe and Wise's signature tune | Morecambe's heart condition prevented him from dancing. The solution was that Eric would walk across the stage with coat and bag, ostensibly to wait for his bus, while Ernie danced by himself. Their peculiar skipping dance, devised by their BBC producer John Ammonds, was a modified form of a dance used by Groucho Marx. Their signature tune was "Bring Me Sunshine". They either sang this at the end of each show or it was used as a theme tune during the credits (although in their BBC shows they | acts in general. Its title is drawn from one of Morecambe and Wise's catchphrases, as is "A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple", the "play within a play" (with a cameo by a mystery guest star) which formed the play's second half. It is named after the "play wot I wrote", the inept play supposedly written by Wise and featuring a celebrity guest which formed the finale to each Morecambe and Wise show. In "The Play What I Wrote", "Sean | 50,976 | triviaqa-train |
Who sings the signature tune to Dad's Army | (played by David Niven) is named Lieutenant Jim Perry.
Music.
The show's theme tune, "" was Jimmy Perry's idea, intended as a gentle pastiche of wartime songs. It was the only pastiche in the series, as the other music used was contemporary to the 1940s. Perry wrote the lyrics himself and composed the music with Derek Taverner. Perry persuaded one of his childhood idols, wartime entertainer Bud Flanagan, to sing the theme for 100 guineas (). Flanagan died less than | an elderly man he had known in the Home Guard had served with Lord Kitchener and became the basis for Corporal Jones. Perry also composed the opening tune for "Dad's Army", "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?". It won the Ivor Novello Award for Best TV Signature Tune in 1971.
The series did though have doubters within the BBC who feared mocking the Home Guard would not be well received. Perry recalled in 1997 that the BBC "did audience research on it before | 50,977 | triviaqa-train |
For which TV theme did Ron Grainer ask the B.B.C sound workshop for sounds like wind bubbles and clouds | Ron Grainer
Ronald Erle Grainer (11 August 1922 – 21 February 1981) was an Australian composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his television and film score music, especially the theme music for "Doctor Who", "The Prisoner", "Steptoe and Son" and "Tales of the Unexpected".
Early life.
Ronald Grainer was born on 11 August 1922 in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, the first child of Margaret Clark, an | by film and television composer Ron Grainer (who would later go on to also compose the theme to "The Prisoner", among others) in collaboration with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. While Grainer wrote the theme, it was Delia Derbyshire who was responsible for its creation, using a series of tape recorders to laboriously cut and join together the individual sounds she created with both concrete sources and square- and sine-wave oscillators. Grainer was amazed at the results and asked "Did I write that?" when he heard it | 50,978 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is Maastricht | quality of life, as well as happiness.
Etymology.
The Netherlands' turbulent history and shifts of power resulted in exceptionally many and widely varying names in different languages. There is diversity even within languages. This holds also for English, where Dutch is the adjective form and the misnomer Holland a synonym for the country "Netherlands". Dutch comes from Theodiscus and in the past centuries, the hub of Dutch culture is found in its most populous region, Holland, home to the capital city of Amsterdam; government | in the immediate tactical zones along the Albert Canal, which joined with the defences of the Meuse west of Maastricht. The line deviated southward, and continued to Liege. The Maastricht–Liège gap was heavily protected. Fort Eben-Emael guarded the city's northern flank, the tank country lying in the strategic depths of the Belgian forces occupying the city and the axis of advance into the west of the country. Further lines of defence ran south west, covering the Liege–Namur axis. The Belgian Army also had the | 50,979 | triviaqa-train |
In which capital city is the street called the Ginza which is full of department stores and night-clubs | Ginza
Ginza was a part of the old Kyobashi ward of Tokyo City, which, together with Nihonbashi and Kanda, formed the core of Shitamachi, the original downtown center of Edo-Tokyo.
History.
Ginza was built upon a former swamp that was filled in during the 16th century. The name Ginza comes after the establishment of a silver-coin mint established there in 1612, during the Edo period.
After a devastating fire in 1872 burned down most of the area, the Meiji government designated the | store called Echigoya from 1673. When the roots are considered, however, Matsuzakaya has an even longer history, dated from 1611. The kimono store changed to a department store in 1910. In 1924, Matsuzakaya store in Ginza allowed street shoes to be worn indoors, something innovative at the time. These former kimono shop department stores dominated the market in its earlier history. They sold, or rather displayed, luxurious products, which contributed for their sophisticated atmospheres. Another origin of Japanese department store is that from railway company. | 50,980 | triviaqa-train |
Quebec and Montreal are both on which Canadian river | to the Quebec City region, limited to the North by the Laurentian Mountains and to the South by the Appalachians. It mainly covers the areas of the Centre-du-Québec, Laval, Montérégie and Montreal, the southern regions of the Capitale-Nationale, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Mauricie and includes Anticosti Island, the Mingan Archipelago, and other small islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests ecoregion. Its landscape is low-lying and flat, except for isolated igneous outcrops near Montreal called the Monteregian Hills, formerly | .
This border crossing, one mile east of the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line, is in a rural setting on the east-west border between Vermont and Quebec, roughly midway between the village center of North Troy, and the crossroads village of Highwater. Route 243 runs in a roughly northwest-southeast direction between the two communities, roughly paralleling the course of the Missisquoi River. Both border stations are located a short distance from the actual border.
Canadian station.
Canada first established a Customs operations for this | 50,981 | triviaqa-train |
In which foreign city would you be if you were walking over the Bridge of Sighs | Bridge of Sighs (Oxford)
Hertford Bridge, often called "the Bridge of Sighs", is a skyway joining two parts of Hertford College over New College Lane in Oxford, England. Its distinctive design makes it a city landmark.
Misnomer and myth.
The bridge is often referred to as the Bridge of Sighs because of its supposed similarity to the famous Bridge of Sighs in Venice. However, Hertford Bridge was never intended to be a replica of the Venetian bridge, and instead it bears a closer resemblance | was eventually purchased by the city after its last vaudeville show in 1923 where it would be home to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet until 1967. The theater was restored in recent years and continues to be a live event venue in Winnipeg.
- Born: Ernest Tubb, American country singer and songwriter, known for songs such as "Blue Christmas" and "Walking the Floor Over You", in Crisp, Texas (d. 1984); Thanat Khoman, Thai politician, Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1971, and Deputy Prime | 50,982 | triviaqa-train |
Into which ocean does the river Congo flow | -electric power.
The Congo River is the most powerful river in Africa. During the rainy season over of water per second flow into the Atlantic Ocean. Opportunities for the Congo River and its tributaries to generate hydropower are therefore enormous. Scientists have calculated that the entire Congo Basin accounts for 13 percent of global hydropower potential. This would provide sufficient power for all of sub-Saharan Africa's electricity needs.
Currently there are about forty hydropower plants in the Congo Basin. The largest are the Inga dams, about | on a divide where it is possible to portage a canoe from one river system to another.
Types.
Drainage divides can be divided into three types:
- Continental divide in which waters on each side flow to different oceans, such as the Congo-Nile Divide. Every continent except Antarctica has one or more continental divides.
- Major drainage divide in which waters on each side of the divide never meet but flow into the same ocean, such as the divide between the Yellow River basin and the Yangtze | 50,983 | triviaqa-train |
What is the former name of Sri Lanka | traditional Sinhala name for Sri Lanka was "Lakdiva", with "diva" also meaning "island". A further traditional name is "Lakbima". "Lak" in both cases is derived again from "Lanka". The same name could have been adopted in Tamil as "Ilankai;" the Tamil language commonly adds "i" before initial "l".
The name of Sri Lanka was introduced in the context of the Sri Lankan independence movement, pushing for the independence of British Ceylon during the first | West Africa
- Dutch Guinea, or Dutch New Guinea, another name for Netherlands New Guinea, a former colony in what is now Indonesian Papua
- French Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Guinea
- German Guinea, another name for the former colonies of Kamerun and Togoland in West Africa
- German Guinea, or German New Guinea, a former colony in what is now Papua New Guinea
- Portuguese Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Guinea-Bissau | 50,984 | triviaqa-train |
What role does Derek Fowlds play in the series Heartbeat | Derek Fowlds
Derek Fowlds (born 2 September 1937) is an English actor, best known for playing Bernard Woolley in popular British television comedies "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister", and Oscar Blaketon in the long-running ITV police drama "Heartbeat", a role he played for 18 years.
Early life.
Fowlds was born in Wandsworth, London, the son of Ketha Muriel (née Treacher) and James Witney Fowlds, a salesman. Fowlds was educated at Ashlyns School, a former | has seen many characters come and go over the years. Derek Fowlds and William Simons were the only main-cast actors who remained with the show over its entire 18-series run.
Premise.
"Heartbeat" is set in the 1960s. Although the specific timeframe is vague, various episodes appear to correspond to events between 1964 and 1969. For the series transmitted between 1992 and 1999, the setting corresponded roughly with the date 30 years before. After 1999 the series was "frozen" in 1969. The series initially | 50,985 | triviaqa-train |
Who had a U.K. number 1 in the 90's with Doctor Jones | Doctor Jones
"Doctor Jones" is a song by Danish dance-pop group Aqua. Released as the band's fifth single overall, it was the follow-up to their most successful song "Barbie Girl" in many regions. "Doctor Jones" was a similarly pop-oriented hit which sold well across the globe and ended the assumptions that Aqua would be a one-hit wonder; although they would remain so in America as "Barbie Girl" was their only hit there until "Lollipop (Candyman) | for Nat King Cole.
- "Almost There", which reached No. 67 on the U.S. charts but No. 2 on the U.K. charts, was recorded by Andy Williams.
- His 1962 movie theme from the film "90 Minuten nach Mitternacht" ("Terror After Midnight"), with lyrics added by Herb Rehbein and Joe Seneca, became a pop ballad called "Love After Midnight", recorded by both Patti Page (1964) and Jack Jones (1966).
- A jazzier number | 50,986 | triviaqa-train |
For which tennis star did Elton John write the song Philadelphia Freedom | Billie Jean King's World Team Tennis team, the Philadelphia Freedoms. King was a player-coach for the team at the time. John and King remain friends and co-host an annual pro-am event to benefit AIDS charities, most notably the Elton John AIDS Foundation, of which King is a chairperson. John, who maintains a part-time residence in Atlanta, Georgia, became a fan of the Atlanta Braves baseball team when he moved there in 1991.
In 2015 John was named one of " | "Elton Week" in Los Angeles that year, he had a cocaine overdose. He also developed the eating disorder bulimia. In a 2002 CNN interview with Larry King, King asked if John knew of Diana, Princess of Wales's eating disorder. John replied, "Yes, I did. We were both bulimic." In a 29 July 2019 Instagram post, John stated he had been sober for 29 years.
A longtime tennis enthusiast, he wrote the song "Philadelphia Freedom" in tribute to his friend | 50,987 | triviaqa-train |
Who was lead guitarist with Queen | Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970. Their classic line-up was Freddie Mercury (lead vocals and piano), Brian May (lead guitar and vocals), Roger Taylor (drums and vocals) and John Deacon (bass guitar). Their earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works by incorporating further styles, such as arena rock and pop rock.
Before forming | lead vocalist of Free) and former Queen drummer Roger Taylor.
- 26 October – Duran Duran lead guitarist Andy Taylor once again leaves the band after a series of disagreements surrounding their latest album, which was still incomplete by the year's end. Reasons given are his disapproval of the usage of both Timbaland and Justin Timberlake in the creation of the band's album. The band hires an interim guitarist to supplant Taylor, with no real replacement being announced.
- 31 October – The Who release "Endless Wire" | 50,988 | triviaqa-train |
What is the official language of Nigeria | of the world have declared one or more official languages. The government of Italy officialised Italian only in 1999, and some nations (such as the United States) have never declared official languages at the national level. Other nations have declared non-indigenous official languages. "The Philippines and parts of Africa live with a peculiar cultural paradox. Although the official languages [in Africa] may be French or English, these are not the languages most widely spoken by [the country's] residents."
Worldwide, 178 | bade serves as a local dialect. In general, Nigerian languages comprise the wealth of linguistic diversity that exists in the country. Over the years, colonization has also played a role in the deteroriation of local languages.
Geographic distribution.
The speakers of the Bade language are centered in Nigeria. It is spoken in the northern part of Yobe State, Nigeria.
Geographic distribution Official status.
The language is not the official language of Nigeria or any other country.
Geographic distribution Dialects/Varieties.
There are three | 50,989 | triviaqa-train |
What is the nearest star to the Earth | mantle in one billion years, due to reduced steam venting from mid-ocean ridges.
The Sun will evolve to become a red giant in about . Models predict that the Sun will expand to roughly , about 250 times its present radius. Earth's fate is less clear. As a red giant, the Sun will lose roughly 30% of its mass, so, without tidal effects, Earth will move to an orbit from the Sun when the star reaches its maximum radius. Most, if not all, remaining | it, one of which—HD 40307 g—is a potential super-Earth in the circumstellar habitable zone. Kapteyn's Star, the nearest star in Pictor to Earth, is a red dwarf located 12.76 light-years away that was found to have two super-Earths in orbit in 2014. Pictor A is a radio galaxy that is shooting an 800,000 light-year long jet of plasma from a supermassive black hole at its centre. In 2006, a gamma-ray burst—GRB 060729—was observed in Pictor, | 50,990 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first player to score two hundred and fifty Premier League goals | is often regarded as being more competitive than other top European leagues.
Players Player transfer fees.
The record transfer fee for a Premier League player has risen steadily over the lifetime of the competition. Prior to the start of the first Premier League season Alan Shearer became the first British player to command a transfer fee of more than £3 million. The record has increased steadily and Philippe Coutinho is now the most expensive transfer involving a Premier League club at £106 million. The highest transfer fee paid by a | player to score in his first three league matches
- The second player to score in the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, European competition and Community Shield in a single season
- The fourth player to reach 15 goals in the fewest matches
Achievements Records Premier League.
- The player who scored the 25,000th Premier League goal
- The third player to have scored 14 goals in the first 20 Premier League games
- The oldest player to reach 15 goals in a single season
Achievements Records Sweden.
- All | 50,991 | triviaqa-train |
Which sport first appeared as an Olympic sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics | because they became fully professional at the time that the Olympic Games were strictly for amateurs, as in the case of tennis.
Several discontinued sports, such as archery and tennis, were later readmitted to the Olympic program (in 1972 and 1984, respectively). Curling, which was an official sport in 1924 and then discontinued, was reinstated as Olympic sport in 1998.
The Olympic Charter decrees that Olympic sports for each edition of the Olympic Games should be decided at an IOC Session no later than seven years prior | Figure skating at the Olympic Games
Figure skating was first contested in the Olympic Games at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Since 1924, the sport has been a part of the Winter Olympic Games.
Men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating have been held most often. Ice dance joined as a medal sport in 1976 and a team event debuted at the 2014 Olympics. Special figures were contested at only one Olympics, in 1908. Synchronized skating has never appeared at the Olympics but aims to be included. | 50,992 | triviaqa-train |
In the Simpson’s cartoon series what is their home town called | The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition.
The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks. Groening | called "Gower Gulch is Home Sweet Home".
- The November 13, 1948, episode of the CBS West Coast radio detective series "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator" is entitled "The Dude from Gower Gulch"; its plot revolves around a missing South American racehorse and its connections to a travelogue.
- The name Gower Gulch also appears in the Warner Bros. 1950 cartoon "All a Bir-r-r-rd". It is the name of a western-looking town Tweety's train passes | 50,993 | triviaqa-train |
What was the most famous TV role of actor Jay Silverheels | Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels (born Harold Jay Smith, May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Mohawk actor and He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Native American companion of the Lone Ranger in the long-running American western television series "The Lone Ranger".
Early life.
Silverheels was born Harold Jay Smith in Canada, on the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hagersville, Ontario. He was a grandson of Mohawk Chief A. G. Smith and Mary | for being one of the first post-war Westerns to portray Native Americans in a balanced, sympathetic way – although most of the Indians were played by white actors, with Brooklyn-born Jeff Chandler portraying Apache leader Cochise. An exception was that Native Canadian Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels was noted for his role as Geronimo in the film.
Some scholars have said that the film appealed to an ideal of tolerance and racial equality that would influence later Westerns and indicate Hollywood's response to the Indian's evolving role in American society | 50,994 | triviaqa-train |
What is the largest city in Tennessee | western border. Nashville is the state's capital and largest city, with a 2017 population of 667,560 and a 2017 metro population of 1,903,045. Tennessee's second largest city is Memphis, which had a population of 652,236 in 2017.
The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th | WAMU
WAMU (88.5 FM) is a public news/talk station that services the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It is owned by American University, and its studios are located near the campus in northwest Washington. WAMU has been the primary National Public Radio member station for Washington since 2007.
History.
WAMU began as an AM carrier-current student radio station, signing on July 28, 1951 on 610 kHz. Although carrier-current stations are not granted a license or call sign by the FCC | 50,995 | triviaqa-train |
Where in the U.S.A. are the headquarters of the C.I.A. | Subsequently, NPIC was transferred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
Organizational structure Directorate of Support.
The Directorate of Support has organizational and administrative functions to significant units including:
- The Office of Security
- The Office of Communications
- The Office of Information Technology
Organizational structure Directorate of Digital Innovation.
The Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) focuses on accelerating innovation across the Agency's mission activities. It is the Agency's newest directorate. The Langley, Virginia-based office’s mission | Delon and Ann-Margret – (U.S.A./France)
- "Operation C.I.A.", starring Burt Reynolds and Danielle Aubry
- "Operation Crossbow", starring Sophia Loren – (U.K.)
- "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" (Operatsiya „Y“ i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika), starring Aleksandr Demyanenko – (U.S.S.R.)
- "Othello", directed by Stuart Burge, starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay – (U.K.)
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- "A Patch of Blue", | 50,996 | triviaqa-train |
What is the state capital of New Jersey | , naming it the Province of New Jersey after the largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey, and granting it as a colony to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. New Jersey was the site of several important battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century.
In the 19th century, factories in the cities Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, Jersey City, and Elizabeth (known as the "Big Six"), helped to drive the Industrial Revolution. New Jersey's | , in particular New Jersey and Connecticut. In 2010, SunLight General Capital started construction of several projects in New Jersey, including sites at Bergen County facilities and Teterboro Airport.
In 2011, SunLight General Capital expanded in Connecticut, with the largest solar installation at a public facility in the State, at the Ansonia Board of Education. It is also starting construction on 7 MW in projects in Somerset County, financed with an innovative municipal bond issuance, and was awarded what will be the largest ground mount project at a higher | 50,997 | triviaqa-train |
In which American state was oil first discovered | across the country: 59% of Americans living in Western states (the "Unchurched Belt") report a belief in God, yet in the South (the "Bible Belt") the figure is as high as 86%.
Several of the original Thirteen Colonies were established by settlers who wished to practice their own religion without discrimination: the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established by English Puritans, Pennsylvania by Irish and English Quakers, Maryland by English and Irish Catholics, and Virginia by English Anglicans. Although some individual states | Lend Lease & the Amtorg Trading Corporation
By energy sector.
By energy sector Electricity.
Electrification of the country was a focus of the Soviet Union's first economic plan (GOELRO plan).
By energy sector Oil/petroleum.
Within the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan), there was a State Committee for the Oil Industry which handled this area of the economy.
By energy sector Natural gas.
A separate Soviet gas industry was created in 1943. Large natural gas reserves discovered in Siberia and the Ural | 50,998 | triviaqa-train |
What is the capital of Turkey | Ankara
Ankara (, , ), historically known as Ancyra () and Angora (, ), is the capital of Turkey. With a population of 4,587,558 in the urban center and 5,150,072 in its province , it is Turkey's second largest city after Istanbul (the former imperial capital), having outranked İzmir in the 20th century.
On 23 April 1920 the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was established in Ankara, which became the headquarters of Atatürk and the Turkish National Movement during the Turkish War of Independence. Ankara | views. The other current books in the "What is?" series include ""What is Love?, What is Death?, What is Beautiful?, What is Funny?, What is Right?, What is Peace?, What is Money?, What is Dreaming?, What is a Friend?, What is True?, What is a Family?, What is a Feeling?" The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age | 50,999 | triviaqa-train |
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