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What was the awesome nickname of depression era bank robber Charles Arthur Floyd? | Pretty Boy Floyd
Charley Arthur Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934), nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd, was an American bank robber. He operated in the West and West South Central states, and his criminal exploits gained widespread press coverage in the 1930s. He was pursued and killed by a group of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents led by Melvin Purvis. Historians have speculated as to which officers were at the event, local or FBI; accounts document that local officers Robert "Pete" | , American Major League Baseball player and manager
- nickname of Stella Dickson (1922-1995), American Depression-era bank robber with her husband Bennie
- American nickname of the Canon AF35M 35mm camera
- Sureshot (Transformers), a fictional character in the "Transformers" universe
- "Mission Man Band", also known as "Sureshot", a 2007 American reality TV series, also the name of the newly formed band that is the focus of the series
- "Sureshot" | 51,300 | triviaqa-train |
Known as The Prairie State, what was the 21st state to join the Union on Dec 3. 1818? | envisioned a canal that would connect the Chicago and Illinois rivers and thus connect the Great Lakes to the Mississippi.
History 19th century The State of Illinois prior to the Civil War.
In 1818, Illinois became the 21st U.S. state. The capital remained at Kaskaskia, headquartered in a small building rented by the state. In 1819, Vandalia became the capital, and over the next 18 years, three separate buildings were built to serve successively as the capitol building. In 1837, the state legislators representing Sangamon County, under the | Jodhpur State
Jodhpur State also historically known as the Kingdom of Marwar, was a kingdom in the Marwar region from 1226 to 1818 and a princely state under British rule from 1818 to 1949. Its capital was the city of Jodhpur since 1450.
Covering an area of 93,424 km², Jodhpur State was the largest state under the Rajputana Agency and the third largest state in British India after Kashmir State and Hyderabad State. Its last ruler signed the accession to join the Indian Union on 7 April 1949 and the state was | 51,301 | triviaqa-train |
Chum, pink, and Chinook are all types of what? | to their home rivers to spawn. The salmon also undergo radical morphological changes as they prepare for the spawning event ahead. All salmon lose the silvery blue they had as ocean fish, and their colour darkens, sometimes with a radical change in hue. Salmon are sexually dimorphic, and the male salmon develop canine-like teeth and their jaws develop a pronounced curve or hook, called a "kype". Studies have shown that larger and more dominant male salmon have a reproductive advantage as female Chinook are often more aggressive toward | regime. The living conditions of Jews became more and more menacing. Her friend turned to Martin Huss for help, a Protestant priest and member of the Confessing Church. But a protection was not possible. Johanna's brother took his life in the fall of 1940. Johanna Geissmar was arrested by the Gestapo and was brought to one of the collection centers during the Wagner Bürckel Operation on 23 October 1940. Then she was deported to the Gurs internment camp in southern France. There she was interned in the women's camp. | 51,302 | triviaqa-train |
Based upon a 1987 historical fantasy novel by Tim Powers, what is the name and inspiration for the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series? | Tim Powers
Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels "Last Call" and "Declare". His 1987 novel "On Stranger Tides" served as inspiration for the "Monkey Island" franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the .
Most of Powers' novels are "secret histories". He uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but | Scot Armstrong and Leslie Dixon and Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly & Kevin Barnett
- "" (2011)—the fourth film in the series based on the theme park ride; the plot of this film was taken from a novel.
- Suggested by the novel by Tim Powers
- Based on Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean
- Based on created by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert
- Screen story and screenplay by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
Arbitration.
Some WGA members have | 51,303 | triviaqa-train |
The Indianapolis 500 race, held over the Memorial Day weekend, takes how many laps to complete the full 500 miles? | . But the new American Legion and local officials wanted the big race to continue, so Governor Warren McCray vetoed the bill and the race went on.
Civil religious holiday.
Memorial Day endures as a holiday which most businesses observe because it marks the unofficial beginning of summer. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) advocated returning to the original date. The VFW stated in 2002:
Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined | 1925 Indianapolis 500
The 13th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 30, 1925.
Race winner Peter DePaolo became the first driver to complete the 500 miles in under five hours, and have an average over 100 mph. Norman Batten drove 21 laps of relief (laps 106-127) while DePaolo had his hands bandaged due to blisters and bruises.
Time trials.
Four-lap (10 mile) qualifying runs were utilized. Leon Duray won the pole position | 51,304 | triviaqa-train |
What is the alter ego of everyone's favorite hero, Underdog? | Underdog (TV series)
Underdog is an American animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964 to 1973 on the NBC network under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, and continued in syndication until 1973 for a run of 124 episodes.
Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! | Duck) for FUNNY STUFF STOCKING STUFFER, and inking for Spotlight's UNDERDOG and MIGHTY MOUSE. He also did lettering for FANDOM CONFIDENTIAL (Kitchen Sink), as well as writing feature articles for THE COMICS BUYERS' GUIDE, AMAZING HEROES, HERO PREMIERE, COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE, and ALTER EGO, and contributed articles and art to many others, including reviews for a short-lived national weekly under the name "Tom Payne". Tiefenbacher also consulted for DC Special Projects for about twenty years ('90s-early teens | 51,305 | triviaqa-train |
In the United States, if liquor is defined as 80 proof, what is the percentage of alcohol by volume? | being kept secret.
In 1437, "burned water" (brandy) was mentioned in the records of the County of Katzenelnbogen in Germany. It was served in a tall, narrow glass called a "Goderulffe".
Claims upon the origin of specific beverages are controversial, often invoking national pride, but they are plausible after the 12th century AD, when Irish whiskey and German brandy became available. These spirits would have had a much lower alcohol content (about 40% ABV) than the alchemists' pure distillations | Governmental regulation United States.
In the United States alcohol content is specified as ABV percentage. For bottled spirits over 100 mL containing no solids, actual alcohol content is allowed to vary within 0.15% of ABV stated on the label. Proof (the term "degrees proof" is not used), defined as twice the percentage of alcohol by volume, may also be stated. For example, whiskey may be labeled as containing 50% alcohol by volume, and also as 100-proof; 86-proof whiskey contains 43% alcohol | 51,306 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the astromech droid companion of Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars franchise? | (1999), and ME-8D9 is an "ancient protocol droid of unknown manufacture" that resides and works as a translator at Maz Kanata’s castle on Takodana in the 2015 "".
"Star Wars" Astromech droid.
An astromech droid is one of a series of "versatile utility robots generally used for the maintenance and repair of starships and related technology". These small droids usually possess "a variety of tool-tipped appendages that are stowed in recessed compartments". R2-D2 is an astromech droid introduced in 1977's " | -lock on their positions.
Plot.
Plot "Twilight of the Republic".
The "Twilight of the Republic" Playset storyline is based on the era of the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy. Set during the events of "", Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda and Ahsoka Tano discover a reactivated Droid factory on the planet Geonosis. The four Jedi then decide to find out who is the mastermind behind the newly minted droid army. As the story progresses, the pair cross paths with General | 51,307 | triviaqa-train |
With a June, 1938 cover date, Action Comics #1 introduced what iconic character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster? | so on, whereas weekly magazines may be dated "17 May 2016".
Comic books.
The general practice of most mainstream comic book companies since the creation of the comic book in the 1930s was to date individual issues by putting the name of a month (and much later the year as well) on the cover which was generally two months after the release date. For example, a 1951 issue of "Superman" which had the cover date of July would have been published two months earlier from that date | Every Knee Shall Bow
Every Knee Shall Bow is a Christian metal band that is currently independent. The band consists of brothers guitarists Drew and Cole, bassist Shane, and drummer DJ Wibblesman, as well as returning vocalist Chris Hull. The band's debut EP was mixed by Rocky Gray of Living Sacrifice, Evanescence, and Machina. The band was recommended in an interview with Gray and Jon Dunn of Soul Embraced about the local Arkansas metal scene. Their debut album was released on March 12, 2013. It was produced | 51,308 | triviaqa-train |
Last week saw the end of the line for the Oprah Winfrey Show, after how many years on the air? | The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986, to May 25, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Produced and hosted by its namesake, Oprah Winfrey, it remains the highest-rated daytime talk show in American television history.
The show was highly influential, and many of its topics have penetrated into the American pop-cultural consciousness. Winfrey used the show as an educational platform | "The Oprah Winfrey Show", many imitators began to appear, and by the time Winfrey negotiated the most lucrative deal in television (a deal that would eventually make her the richest African American of the 20th century and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years), the television industry exploded with copycats, each competing to be more edgy and provocative than the last. 1991 alone saw four tabloid talk shows make their debut: "The Jerry Springer Show" (which evolved into a tabloid format after the program | 51,309 | triviaqa-train |
“Sugar… spice… and everything nice” plus a healthy dose of a mysterious substance called “Chemical X” is responsible for creating what cartoon crime fighters? | The project served as the launching point for multiple Cartoon Network animated television series, including "The Powerpuff Girls", "Dexter's Laboratory", "Johnny Bravo", "Cow and Chicken", "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Mike, Lu & Og", "Sheep in the Big City", "Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?", "", "Grim & Evil" and "Megas XLR".
The series is influential for birthing a slew of original Cartoon Network hits | ' fourth season.
The film received mixed reviews from critics, and earned $11.4 million at the domestic box office on its $11 million budget. It fared better overseas, with a total worldwide gross of $16.4 million. The film made its television debut on Cartoon Network on May 23, 2003.
Plot.
Professor Utonium creates a mixture of sugar, spice, and everything nice in hope of producing the "perfect little girl" to improve Townsville, a city plagued by crime and injustice. He | 51,310 | triviaqa-train |
Opening this week, the movie Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is the latest installment of the Prince of Persia franchise, which was originally created as a what: | available on Nintendo platforms. The staff praised the developer's successful transition from 2D to 3D. IGN and "Edge" both named it among their 100 greatest games of all time in 2005 and 2007 respectively. "Computer and Video Games" placed it in its 2007 list of the 101 best PC games ever. In 2010, "GamePro" chose it as the 13th best PS2 game of all time.
Legacy.
The year after the game's release, the game was featured in an episode of "How It | . Released for PC only, and criticized by many users as being buggy, it was a critical and commercial disappointment. The Broderbund/Learning Company's games division, the assets of which included the "Prince of Persia" franchise, was subsequently sold to Ubisoft.
Games "The Sands of Time" series.
Mechner, who owned the "Prince of Persia" IP, was brought in to work with Ubisoft on a reboot of the franchise, eventually titled "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", although | 51,311 | triviaqa-train |
The advertising slogan for what company was "When it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight"? | FedEx
FedEx Corporation is an American multinational courier delivery services company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express (now FedEx Express), which was used from 1973 until 2000. The company is known for its overnight shipping service and pioneering a system that could track packages and provide real-time updates on package location (to help in finding lost packages), a feature that has now been implemented by most other carrier | Ed McMahon's School of Laughing — a school that trains people who want to make money by performing on laugh tracks.
- Einstein Express — an express courier service that handles late-arriving packages by literally sending them back in time to the desired arrival date. The slogan: "When it absolutely, positively has to be there the day before yesterday".
- Elián! The Cuban Boy — promo for a Disney-produced Broadway musical about Elián González (the real-life young boy turned over to his | 51,312 | triviaqa-train |
A group of street urchins, the Baker Street Irregulars are employed by whom? | early example of the appearance of street children in literature. The book follows the tale of a homeless girl who lives by her wits on the streets of New York, US. Other examples from popular fiction include Kim, from Kipling's novel of the same name, who is a street child in colonial India. Gavroche, in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Fagin's crew of child pickpockets in Oliver Twist, a similar group of child thieves in Funke's The Thief Lord, and Sherlock Holmes' "Baker Street Irregulars | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which Holmes engages the services of a group of street urchins to gather information for him. He called his urchins the "Baker Street Irregulars." Likewise, the history group's nickname, "PSI," is a parody of the titles of popular crime-fighting television shows. The PSI format is to dine together, followed by the presentation by one member (called the "lead detective") of his findings about a given case. The discussion then opens for input from all in | 51,313 | triviaqa-train |
A deficiency in what mineral causes anemia? | dL). These recommendations may also apply to some people with acute bleeding. Erythropoiesis-stimulating medications are only recommended in those with severe anemia.
Anemia is the most common blood disorder, affecting about a third of the global population. Iron-deficiency anemia affects nearly 1 billion people. In 2013, anemia due to iron deficiency resulted in about 183,000 deaths – down from 213,000 deaths in 1990. It is more common in women than men, during pregnancy, and in children and the elderly. Anemia increases costs of | Megaloblastic anemia
- Pernicious anemia
- Vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency can result in osteopenia and osteoporosis
- Hypocalcemia
- Vitamin K – Coeliac disease has been identified in patients with a pattern of bleeding that treatment of vitamin K increased levels of prothrombin.
- Vitamin E – deficiency of vitamin E can lead to CNS problems and possibly associated with myopathy
Mineral deficiencies. GSE is associated with the following mineral deficiencies:
- Calcium – Hypocalcemia causing Oesteopenia
- Magnesium – hypomagnesemia, may lead to parathyroid | 51,314 | triviaqa-train |
What comic strip, created by Dik Browne and now drawn by his son Chris, contains, among others, the wife Helga, a brilliant son named Hamlet, a bimbo-like daughter Helga, a duck Kvack, and a dog Snert? | this, and some papers continued to print "Calvin and Hobbes" at small sizes. "Opus" won that same privilege years after "Calvin and Hobbes" ended, while Wiley Miller circumvented further downsizes by making his "Non Sequitur" Sunday strip available only in a vertical arrangement. Actually, most strips created since 1990 are drawn in the unbroken "third-page" format. Few newspapers still run half-page strips, as with "Prince Valiant" and "Hägar the Horrible" in the front page of | De Poortere.
- "Hi & Lois" by Mort Walker and Dik Browne is a spin-off of "Beetle Bailey", based on Beetle's sister Lois.
- "Howard the Duck" was created in 1973 by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik in "Adventure into Fear" as a secondary character in that comic's "Man-Thing" feature. By 1976 he had become popular enough to star in his own comic strip.
- "Jack of Fables", a spin-off from | 51,315 | triviaqa-train |
Won by a Scotsman this year, how many laps does it take to complete the Indianapolis 500? | 2007 Indianapolis 500
The 91st Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday May 27, 2007. It was the twelfth Indy 500 sanctioned by the Indy Racing League, and marked the fifth race of the 2007 IndyCar Series season. Hélio Castroneves started the race on the pole position.
The race began at 1:11 p.m. EDT, and was televised in the United States on the ABC. The race was broadcast in high-definition for the first time. The race also was carried | 1990 Indianapolis 500
The 74th Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 27, 1990. Dutchman Arie Luyendyk took the lead with 32 laps to go, and earned his first-ever victory in championship-level competition. It was the second consecutive year the Indy 500 was won by a foreign-born competitor, the first time that had occurred since 1965–1966. Luyendyk completed the 500 miles at an average speed of , a record that stood for 23 years until | 51,316 | triviaqa-train |
"Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary", an article published in the June, 1974 issue of Emergency Medicine, describes what potentially life saving maneuver, also known as abdominal thrusts? | Henry Heimlich
Henry Judah Heimlich (; February 3, 1920 – December 17, 2016) was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. He is widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, a technique of abdominal thrusts for stopping choking, described in "Emergency Medicine" in 1974. He also invented the Micro Trach portable oxygen system for ambulatory patients and the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve, or "flutter valve", which drains blood and air out of the chest cavity.
Early life and education.
Heimlich | maneuver in a June 1974 informal article in Emergency Medicine entitled, "Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary". On June 19, 1974, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that retired restaurant-owner Isaac Piha used the procedure to rescue choking victim Irene Bogachus in Bellevue, Washington.
1974 Post-it note
- The Post-it note is a piece of stationery with a re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back, designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents and to other surfaces such as walls, desks and | 51,317 | triviaqa-train |
Who's missing: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith? | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the first installment in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy and stars Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Pernilla August, and Frank Oz. The film is set 32 years before the original film and follows | the sales rights of the original trilogy's musical scores—primarily because it already had the sales rights of the music from the trilogy of prequels: "The Phantom Menace", "Attack of the Clones", and "Revenge of the Sith". Hence in 2004, the Sony Classical company began manufacturing copies of the film-score CDs that RCA Victor had been making since 1997, including the one for "The Empire Strikes Back". This set was made with new cover artwork similar to that of the film | 51,318 | triviaqa-train |
In the world of blood donations, O- types are considered to be universal donors (blood compatible with all types). What blood type is considered to be a universal recipient (can accept any blood type)? | transfusions. The collecting agency usually identifies whether the blood is type A, B, AB, or O and the donor's Rh (D) type and will screen for antibodies to less common antigens. More testing, including a crossmatch, is usually done before a transfusion. Type O negative is often cited as the "universal donor" but this only refers to red cell and whole blood transfusions. For plasma and platelet transfusions the system is reversed: AB positive is the universal platelet donor type while both AB positive and | BBC Two's annual coverage of the UK political party conferences, "Conference Live". He has also been an occasional stand-in presenter for "Newsnight", and has made past appearances on "Breakfast", "HARDtalk" and "The Daily Politics".
In October 2012, it was announced that Sopel would present the new programme, "Global with Jon Sopel", airing 1500 to 1630 GMT every Monday to Thursday on BBC World News.
In January 2014, Sopel had a rare interview with | 51,319 | triviaqa-train |
June 2, 1886 saw which US President, the 22nd (and 24th), marry Frances Folsom in the White House, the only president who actually got married at the White House? | Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (with Woodrow Wilson) to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933. | soon engaged to be married. On June 2, 1886, Cleveland was 49 when he married Frances Folsom (21) in the Blue Room at the White House. He was the second president to wed while in office, and has been the only president to marry in the White House. This marriage was unusual because Cleveland was the executor of Oscar Folsom's estate and had supervised Frances's upbringing after her father's death; nevertheless, the public took no exception to the match. At 21 years, Frances Folsom | 51,320 | triviaqa-train |
In addition to stinging like a bee, Muhammed Ali described his fighting style as floating like a what? | and Kendrick Lamar." “I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick ” "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, | 2008 book "The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf and Armed Robbery" told the true story of John Montague, a 1930s California-based amateur called "the greatest golfer in the world" by sportswriting legend Grantland Rice, who later turned out to be a fugitive wanted for armed robbery in New York State.
Most recently, Montville wrote "Sting Like a Bee: Muhammed Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971" which focuses on the cultural and political implications of Ali's | 51,321 | triviaqa-train |
Coined during Winston Churchill's Sinews of Peace speech, what was the name given to the boundary between the Warsaw Pact and NATO during the cold war? | these years he continued to influence world affairs. During his 1946 trip to the US he gave his Iron Curtain speech about the USSR and the creation of the Eastern Bloc. Speaking on 5 March 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, he declared:
Churchill's doctor Lord Moran later (in his book "The Struggle for Survival") recalled Churchill suggesting in 1946—the year before he put the idea (unsuccessfully) in a memo to President Truman—that the United States make a pre-emptive atomic bomb attack | what is known as Victory Day, or V-J Day.
History Cold War and civil rights era.
After World War II the United States and the Soviet Union jockeyed for power during what became known as the Cold War, driven by an ideological divide between capitalism and communism and, according to the school of geopolitics, a divide between the maritime Atlantic and the continental Eurasian camps. They dominated the military affairs of Europe, with the U.S. and its NATO allies on one side and the USSR and its Warsaw Pact | 51,322 | triviaqa-train |
June 5, 1968 saw which US presidential candidate shot at the Ambassador Hotel (since razed), by radical Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan? | Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (; "Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān", born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship who mortally wounded United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California on June 5, 1968; Kennedy died the following day. Sirhan was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, California.
Sirhan was born in Jerusalem in Mandatory Palestine to an Arab Christian, and he attended a Lutheran school | presidential race and made it clear that he would contest Kennedy in the upcoming New York primary, where McCarthy had much support from antiwar activists in New York City.
After giving his victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy was shot in the kitchen service pantry in the early morning of June 5. A Palestinian immigrant with Jordanian citizenship named Sirhan Sirhan was arrested. Kennedy died 26 hours later.
At the moment of Kennedy's death, the delegate totals were:
- Hubert Humphrey 561
- | 51,323 | triviaqa-train |
What federal holiday, first enacted to honor the Union soldiers of the Civil War, was formerly called Decoration Day? | similar laws of States around the District ... and ... in every State of the Union." Although at first applicable only to federal employees in the District of Columbia, Congress extended coverage in 1885 to all federal employees.
The original four holidays were:
- New Year's Day
- Independence Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
George Washington's Birthday became a Federal holiday in 1880. In 1888 and 1894, respectively, Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) and Labor Day were created. In | a small monthly contribution from the pay of members of the U.S. Armed Services.
Following the American Civil War the federal government increased the number of National Military Homes, and took over a few formerly state-run old soldiers' homes. By 1933 there were 17 federally managed veterans homes. All except the first two of these homes were eventually combined with other federal government agencies to become part of what is now called the Veterans Administration, or U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs established in 1930.
United States State homes. | 51,324 | triviaqa-train |
Hosni Mubarak, who spent 20 years as the leader of what country, received a life sentence last week on charges of killing protesters during last year's revolution? | Hosni Mubarak
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (, ; born 4 May 1928) is a former Egyptian military and political leader who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011.
Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force. He served as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rose to the rank of air chief marshal in 1973. Some time in the 1950s, he returned to the Air Force Academy as an instructor, remaining there until early 1959. He assumed | the Higher Administrative Court dissolved the former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), ordering its funds and property to be transferred to the government. On 24 May it was announced that Hosni Mubarak and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, would be for over the deaths of anti-government protesters during the revolution.
Results Trials.
Mubarak's resignation was followed by a series of arrests of, and travel bans on, high-profile figures on charges of causing the deaths of 300–500 demonstrators, injuring 5,000 more, embezzlement, | 51,325 | triviaqa-train |
What early Seattle grunge band, which shared a name with a CCR song, had former members who formed the nucleus of bands you might have heard of: Pearl Jam and Mudhoney? | , 2017, in its first year of eligibility. They were ranked at no. 8 in a reader poll by "Rolling Stone" magazine in its "Top Ten Live Acts of All Time" issue.
History.
History Formation and early years (1984–1990).
Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were members of pioneering grunge band Green River during the mid-1980s. Green River toured and recorded to moderate success but disbanded in 1987 due to a stylistic division between the pair and bandmates Mark Arm and Steve Turner. In late | same venues as the pregrunge bands.
Grunge Era.
Seattle burst into the popular consciousness with the grunge rock scene of the early 1990s, when Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, and Mudhoney, all reached vast audiences.
Another punk-influenced but non-grunge Seattle band of the period, The Gits, had garnered great local respect; the brutal murder of Gits lead singer Mia Zapata greatly upset the local music scene. Zapata was memorialized in several ways: | 51,326 | triviaqa-train |
Hellfire, Stinger, and Tomahawk are all types of what? | 16 of the missiles at once. The AGM-114L, or Longbow Hellfire, is a fire-and-forget weapon: equipped with a millimeter wave (MMW) radar seeker, it requires no further guidance after launch—even being able to lock-on to its target after launch—and can hit its target without the launcher or other friendly unit being in line of sight of the target. It also works in adverse weather and battlefield obscurants, such as smoke and fog which can mask the position of a target or | a government staff of 25 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier to provide contract oversight. The government staff has a payroll budget of $2.5 million. Contractor statistics are considered proprietary and are therefore unavailable.
Capabilities.
40mm High Velocity Family; 155mm Artillery; 120mm Tank Rounds; 60mm/81mm/120mm Mortar Prop Charges; M112 Charges/MICLIC (Mine-Clearing Line Charge); 75mm/105mm Salute Rounds; TOW/Hellfire/Javelin/Stinger/Sidewinder Warheads; Medium- and Large-Caliber Mortars; | 51,327 | triviaqa-train |
Which famed Viennese composer, who died on June 3, 1899, was known as the Waltz King? | the 19th century, the word primarily indicated that the dance was a turning one; one would "waltz" in the polka to indicate rotating rather than going straight forward without turning.
The Viennese custom is to anticipate slightly the second beat of each bar, making it sound as if the third is late and creating a certain buoyancy. The younger Strauss (Johann Strauss II) would sometimes break up the one-two-three of the melody with a one-two pattern in the accompaniment along with other rhythms, | John Lenton
John Lenton (before 4 March 1657 – May 1719) was an English composer, violinist, and singer.
Scholars believe he may have been the John Linton baptized on 4 March 1657 at St Andrew, Holborn. Little is known about his early life. On 2 August 1681 he was appointed to King Charles II's famed troupe of 24 violinists (part of the King's Musick, which comprised the musicians of the royal court) to replace a member who had died; he served as a member | 51,328 | triviaqa-train |
DC Comics recently announced that what long running comic character, introduced in 1940, is gay? | title "Showcase". Instead of reviving the old character, Schwartz had writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Joe Kubert create an entirely new super-speedster, updating and modernizing the Flash's civilian identity, costume, and origin with a science-fiction bent. The Flash's reimagining in "Showcase" #4 (October 1956) proved sufficiently popular that it soon led to a similar revamping of the Green Lantern character, the introduction of the modern all-star team Justice League of | part of a group of animation pros led by Jim Davis (of "Fox and Crow" fame) that supplied original funny animal comic book stories to ACG and DC Comics. Gordon’s work began appearing in "Giggle Comics" in 1944, and by "Giggle" #9, he introduced the long-running character Superkatt. Superkatt is a funny animal jab at the “long-underwear” genre of superhero comics. The title character does not have any super powers at all, but is a normal (talking | 51,329 | triviaqa-train |
July 4, 1919 saw Congress pass the 19th amendment (although it wasn't officially ratified until Aug 20, 1920), which gave the vote to which previously disenfranchised group? | for women, including weaving, teaching, and tailoring. The region bordered New France, which used Indian warriors to attack outlying villages. Women were sometimes captured. In the numerous French and Indian Wars the British government poured money in to purchase supplies, build roads and pay colonial soldiers. The coastal ports began to specialize in fishing, international trade and shipbuilding—and after 1780 in whaling. Combined with a growing urban markets for farm products, these factors allowed the economy to flourish despite the lack of technological innovation. | session, the State Senate unanimously voted in favor of the 19th Amendment and the State House approved it with a vote of 73 for and 2 against, becoming the 18th state to ratify the federal amendment.
- 4 November 1919: Maine – The State Senate ratified the 19th Amendment.
- 5 November 1919: Maine – The State House ratified the 19th Amendment, making Maine the 19th state to approve ratification.
- 20 November 1919: Lithuania – The Council of Lithuania passed the Law on Elections legalizing universal suffrage | 51,330 | triviaqa-train |
Who’s missing: Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, John O’Hurley, Steve Harvey | become chairman of Mark Goodson Productions after the death of his father, Mark Goodson, decided to replace Combs with original host Richard Dawson in the hopes of spiking ratings. By all accounts, Combs was hurt by his dismissal from the show.
His final episode of "Family Feud" was taped sometime in February 1994, and aired in first-run syndication on May 27 of that year. While that episode seemed like any other, during his final "Fast Money" bonus round, the five answers given by the | Kelly" (now "Live with Kelly and Ryan") continues to air on WBRZ. "The People's Court" also once aired on WAFB before going to WBRZ and later WGMB. The station currently airs the syndicated version of "Family Feud" hosted by Steve Harvey and aired the versions hosted by Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, and John O'Hurley, with the exception of Karn's first season, which aired on KZUP, and Harvey's second through fifth seasons, which aired on WVLA. Until 2015, WAFB | 51,331 | triviaqa-train |
Published today in 1949, which George Orwell novel features Winston Smith and Big Brother? | the film starring John Hurt released in 1984, the Big Brother photograph was of actor Bob Flag.
In the 1955 film adaptation, Big Brother was represented by an illustration of a stern looking disembodied head.
Both Oxley and Flag sported small moustaches.
Criticism and use as metaphor.
Since the publication of "Nineteen Eighty-Four", the phrase "Big Brother" has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure and attempts by government to increase surveillance. Big Brother and | Winston Smith
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ... [the reader] can readily identify with."
Character overview.
Winston Smith works as a clerk in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite historical documents so they match the constantly changing current party line. This involves revising newspaper articles | 51,332 | triviaqa-train |
In an event that won't be repeated until 2117, appropriately protected eyes were greeted with the transit of what celestial body across the face of the sun today? | expand to eventually become a red giant. It is calculated that the Sun will become sufficiently large to engulf the current orbits of Mercury and Venus, and render Earth uninhabitable. After this, it will shed its outer layers and become a dense type of cooling star known as a white dwarf, and no longer produce energy by fusion, but still glow and give off heat from its previous fusion.
The enormous effect of the Sun on Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times, and the Sun has been regarded by some | a small black dot on the face of the Sun, which he was studying with his modest refractor. Thinking it to be a sunspot, Lescarbault was not at first surprised, but after some time had passed he realized that it was moving. Having observed the transit of Mercury in 1845, he guessed that what he was observing was another transit, but of a previously undiscovered body. He took some hasty measurements of its position and direction of motion, and using an old clock and a pendulum with which he took his | 51,333 | triviaqa-train |
In the classic L. Frank Baum story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which of Dorothy's traveling companion was searching for a heart? | Semon (just a man in disguise)
- "The Land of Oz" (1932): Donald Henderson
Film portrayals "The Wizard of Oz".
In the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz", the Scarecrow was played by Ray Bolger in what is arguably the actor's most famous role. He was originally cast as the Tin Woodsman, but Bolger had always wanted to play the Scarecrow, so he was upset about it since he wanted to switch roles with Buddy Ebsen, who was originally going to | The Wizard of Oz (1902 musical)
The Wizard of Oz was a 1902 musical extravaganza based on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, which was originally published in 1900. Much of the original music was by Paul Tietjens and has been mostly forgotten, although it was still well-remembered and in discussion at MGM in 1939 when the classic film version of the story was made. Although Baum is the credited bookwriter, Glen MacDonough was hired on as jokewriter after Baum had finished the script. | 51,334 | triviaqa-train |
Sailing aboard a converted WWII minesweeper, built right here in Ballard, WA in 1942, which noted French explorer is credited with inventing the aqualung, making modern scuba diving possible? | a single back-mounted high-pressure gas cylinder, with the first stage connected to the cylinder valve and the second stage at the mouthpiece. This arrangement differs from Émile Gagnan's and Jacques Cousteau's original 1942 "twin-hose" design, known as the Aqua-lung, in which the cylinder pressure was reduced to ambient pressure in one or two stages which were all in the housing mounted to the cylinder valve or manifold. The "single-hose" system has significant advantages over the original system for most | for commercialization in English-speaking countries. This word is correctly a tradename that goes with the Cousteau-Gagnan patent, but in Britain it has been commonly used as a generic and spelt "aqualung" since at least the 1950s, including in the BSAC's publications and training manuals, and describing scuba diving as "aqualunging".
- Henri Broussard founded the first post-WWII scuba diving club, the Club Alpin Sous-Marin. Broussard was one of the first men who Cousteau trained in the GRS. | 51,335 | triviaqa-train |
On June 5, 1968, noted asshat Sirhan Sirhan killed what presidential candidate in the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles? | Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (; "Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān", born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship who mortally wounded United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California on June 5, 1968; Kennedy died the following day. Sirhan was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, California.
Sirhan was born in Jerusalem in Mandatory Palestine to an Arab Christian, and he attended a Lutheran school | presidential race and made it clear that he would contest Kennedy in the upcoming New York primary, where McCarthy had much support from antiwar activists in New York City.
After giving his victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy was shot in the kitchen service pantry in the early morning of June 5. A Palestinian immigrant with Jordanian citizenship named Sirhan Sirhan was arrested. Kennedy died 26 hours later.
At the moment of Kennedy's death, the delegate totals were:
- Hubert Humphrey 561
- | 51,336 | triviaqa-train |
Formerly known as Sky Dome, Rogers Centre is home to what American League baseball team, the only MLB team located outside the United States? | a venue that hosts sports, concerts and other events, the Rogers Centre also houses the head offices of a number of businesses. The Toronto Blue Jays have its office headquarters in the building and until 2008, the Toronto Argonauts did as well. It is also the home of the head offices of Ticketmaster Canada and Zuffa Canada, the former also having the main Ticketmaster outlet (ticket centre) for eastern Canada, at the south end of the building beside Gate 9.
In addition, the building contains the Toronto Renaissance | Chase Field
Chase Field, formerly Bank One Ballpark, is a baseball park located in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona. It is the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. It opened in 1998, in time for the Diamondbacks' first game as an expansion team. Chase Field was the first stadium built in the United States with a retractable roof over a natural-grass playing surface, which was replaced by synthetic turf in 2019.
History.
The park was built | 51,337 | triviaqa-train |
Voiced by Julie Kavner, who are the older twin sisters of Marge Simpson? | mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, and sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier.
Known for her improvisation and distinctive "honeyed gravel voice", Kavner was cast in her first professional acting role as Brenda Morgenstern in "Rhoda" in 1974. She received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for playing the character, winning the award in 1978, the year that the series ended. Starting in 1987, Kavner started appearing on "The Tracey Ullman Show". "The Tracey Ullman Show" included a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family | Matt Groening rejected the idea, the writers changed the story so the clown Krusty would be the one who finds he has a lost daughter.
The Simpson family Marge Simpson.
Marjorie Jacqueline "Marge" Simpson (née Bouvier), voiced by Julie Kavner, is the well-meaning and extremely patient wife of Homer and mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie. She often acts as the voice of reason, but displays exaggerated behavior traits of stereotypical mothers and takes the blatant dysfunctionality of her family for granted, unlike the | 51,338 | triviaqa-train |
Known as the Yellowhammer State, what was the 22nd state to join the Union on December 14, 1819? | Alabama
Alabama () is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states. With a total of of inland waterways, Alabama has among the most of any state.
Alabama is nicknamed the "Yellowhammer State", after the state bird. Alabama is also | William Birney
William Birney (May 28, 1819 – August 14, 1907) was a professor, Union Army general during the American Civil War, attorney and author. An ardent abolitionist, he was noted for encouraging thousands of free black men to join the Union army.
Birney was a son of prominent Southern abolitionist leader James G. Birney and the older brother of Civil War general David B. Birney. Another brother, James M. Birney, served as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1860. A cousin, Humphrey Marshall was | 51,339 | triviaqa-train |
What type of animal is cartoon character Pepe Le Pew? | Pepé Le Pew has appeared in "The Looney Tunes Show" episode "Members Only" voiced by René Auberjonois in Season One and by Jeff Bergman in Season Two. He was present at the arranged marriage of Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny. Of course Lola eventually fell in love with Pepé Le Pew. He also made a short cameo appearance with Penelope Pussycat in the Merrie Melodies segment "Cock of the Walk" sung by Foghorn Leghorn. He appeared in his own music video "Skunk Funk" in the 16th episode " | In August 2006, Richards was granted a pardon by Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee for a 1975 reckless driving citation. Actor Johnny Depp has stated that his character in the movie franchise "Pirates of the Caribbean" is loosely based on Richards and the Warner Bros. cartoon character Pepe Le Pew, with both serving as the inspiration for the manner of the character. This combination of influences originally raised concerns with Disney corporate executives, who feared that Depp was "drunk and gay", with Michael Eisner fearing that he was "ruining the | 51,340 | triviaqa-train |
June 4, 1723 saw the birth, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, of what social philosopher and pioneer of economics, who wrote such weighty tomes as The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations? | The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith. It provided the ethical, philosophical, psychological, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including "The Wealth of Nations" (1776), "Essays on Philosophical Subjects" (1795), and "Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms" (1763) (first published in 1896).
Overview.
Broadly speaking, Smith followed the views of his mentor, Francis Hutcheson of the | literature:
- "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", 1776
- "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", 1759
From Locke to Mill Immanuel Kant.
Immanuel Kant (Germany, 1724–1804)
- Some literature:
- "Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten", 1785 (Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals )
- "Kritik der praktischen Vernunft", 1788 (Critique of Practical Reason )
- "Über den Gemeinspruch: Das mag in der Theorie richtig | 51,341 | triviaqa-train |
What is added to copper to make bronze? | .
Tin bronze was superior to arsenic bronze in that the alloying process could be more easily controlled, and the resulting alloy was stronger and easier to cast. Also, unlike arsenic, metallic tin and fumes from tin refining are not toxic. The earliest tin-alloy bronze dates to 4500 BC in a Vinča culture site in Pločnik (Serbia). Other early examples date to the late 4th millennium BC in Egypt, Susa (Iran) and some ancient sites in China, Luristan (Iran) and Mesopotamia (Iraq | problem of drawing copper wires, for which there was growing demand, adapted the process of rolling hot steel rods into wire so the method could be used with copper and launched his own company in Angoulême to make copper wire in this way.
He developed a bronze alloy that combined the conductivity of copper with the strength to remain stretched between poles apart, of great value to telegraph and telephone companies, and obtained several patents in France and other countries.
In 1880 at the age of 22 Weiller created what would become | 51,342 | triviaqa-train |
Joe Chill is a petty mugger who, one nights, murders Thomas and Martha Wayne during an attempted robbery, leaving behind an orphan who grows up to be whom? | tacitly admits that the stories of Martha's sexual relationship with Alfred and the circumstances of her drug addiction and homicide are clever forgeries designed to break Batman or coerce him to join the Black Glove as a means to silence the rumors about his family.
With Bruce Wayne's and Simon Hurt/Mangrove Pierce's disappearance, the charges are dropped, and Martha's good name is cleared.
In "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader", Martha appears to her son between life and death and guides him to his fate | 's business partner after he and Wayne merged their companies as Wayne Incorporated.
- Vigilante: Jake Chill is a great-grandnephew of Joe Chill, the mugger who murdered Thomas and Martha Wayne. Chill is also a former security guard of the Wayne-Powers worked under Derek Powers' right-hand man Mr. Fixx. His employment by Powers had led Chill down the same path as his great-granduncle's: by killing Warren McGinnis under Mr. Fixx's orders, leaving him wracked with guilt towards the McGinnises and repeating | 51,343 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the largest moon of Uranus? | dark skies, and becomes an easy target even in urban conditions with binoculars. In larger amateur telescopes with an objective diameter of between 15 and 23 cm, Uranus appears as a pale cyan disk with distinct limb darkening. With a large telescope of 25 cm or wider, cloud patterns, as well as some of the larger satellites, such as Titania and Oberon, may be visible.
Physical characteristics.
Physical characteristics Internal structure.
Uranus' mass is roughly 14.5 times that of Earth, making it the | demon by Christians.
It is also designated Uranus XV.
Physical characteristics.
Puck is the largest small inner moon of Uranus, which orbits inside the orbit of Miranda. It is intermediate in size between Portia (the second-largest inner moon) and Miranda (the smallest of the five large classical moons). Puck's orbit is located between the rings of Uranus and Miranda. Little is known about Puck aside from its orbit, radius of about 81 km, and geometric albedo in visible light | 51,344 | triviaqa-train |
Who was offered, but declined, the Presidency of Israel in 1952? | decided to re-enter Labor politics after five years of non-partisan service as president, and Chaim Herzog (previously head of military intelligence and Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations) succeeded him as Israel's sixth president. Likud's Moshe Katsav's victory over Labor's Shimon Peres in 2000 (by secret ballot) was an upset.
Albert Einstein, a Jew, but not an Israeli citizen, was offered the presidency in 1952, but turned it down, stating: "I am deeply moved by the | was able to show a surplus of over $3,000,000 in 1911, and one of over $2,000,000 in 1912. When George J. Gould retired as president of the Missouri Pacific in 1911 Mr. Elliott was offered the presidency of that road, but declined it.
The foregoing indicated in a very inadequate way the manner of man who has now been given the task of solving the New England railway problem. If the owners of the New England railroads and the people of New England will give him a fair chance Mr. Elliott will | 51,345 | triviaqa-train |
The Catskill Mountains lie mainly in which state? | the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Windham. Other cycling resources include the Catskill Scenic Trail, the Headwaters Trails in Stamford and The Round Top Mountain Bike Association also known as Roundtopia which has a large network of mountain biking trails. Several ski centers provide downhill mountain bicycling in the warmer months.
Recreation Hiking and camping.
Within the range is the Catskill Park, comprising over . Catskill Park is part of New York's Forest Preserve. Not all the land is publicly owned; about 60% remains in private hands, | unit, arguing that they were not consistent with wilderness values and contributed to degradation of the summits.
After an overwhelming response in favor of retaining them, DEC and the Club reached a compromise in the pending update to the Catskill Park State Land Master Plan in which DEC would take over ownership of the canisters, the names of mountains would be removed from the exteriors and the canisters themselves repainted a dull grey on those summits that lie within areas designated Wilderness by the DEC.
References.
- Waterman, Guy and | 51,346 | triviaqa-train |
Which Asian country is part of the phonetic alphabet? | influenced by the Greek alphabet and the Hebrew alphabet.
The longest European alphabet is the Latin-derived Slovak alphabet which has 46 letters.
History Asian alphabets.
Beyond the logographic Chinese writing, many phonetic scripts are in existence in Asia. The Arabic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet, and other abjads of the Middle East are developments of the Aramaic alphabet.
Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic.
In | - Vowels are expressed as follows:
Loanwords.
In Punjabi, there are many Arabic and Persian loanwords. These words contain some sounds which were alien to South Asian languages before the influence of Arabic and Persian, and are therefore represented by introducing dots beneath specific Gurumukhi characters. Since the Gurmukhi alphabet is phonetic, any loanwords which contained pre-existing sounds were more easily transliterated without the need for characters modified with subscript dots.
See also.
- Gurmukhī alphabet
- Saraiki alphabet
External links. | 51,347 | triviaqa-train |
In April, the President of Poland was killed in a plane crash near which Russian city? | 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, the former President of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Polish Government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of the Polish | William Perry, the two having met as undergraduates at Penn State.
Fiester died in a plane crash near Alexander City, Alabama on April 17, 1995. He had been flying on an Air Force Learjet 35 from Andrews Air Force Base to Randolph Air Force Base when the crash occurred. Also killed in the crash were Colonel Jack Clark II, Fiester's military deputy; Major General Glenn A. Profitt II; and five other members of the Air Force. President Clinton granted a presidential waiver to allow Fiester to be buried | 51,348 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is the highest point in Africa? | in South Africa, and smaller ones are present in Kenya, Tanzania, and some other southern and southeast African countries. The large Indian community in Uganda was expelled by the dictator Idi Amin in 1972, though many have since returned. The islands in the Indian Ocean are also populated primarily by people of Asian origin, often mixed with Africans and Europeans. The Malagasy people of Madagascar are an Austronesian people, but those along the coast are generally mixed with Bantu, Arab, Indian and European origins. Malay and Indian ancestries | Geography of Lesotho
Lesotho is a mountainous, landlocked country located in Southern Africa. It is an enclave, surrounded by South Africa. The total length of the country's borders is . Lesotho covers an area of around , of which a negligible percentage is covered with water.
The most popular geographic fact about Lesotho, apart from its status as an enclave, is that it is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above in elevation. Its lowest point is at , the highest lowest point of any | 51,349 | triviaqa-train |
Who won the 2010 US Masters Golf Tournament? | 2010 Masters Tournament
The 2010 Masters Tournament was the 74th Masters Tournament, played April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club.
Phil Mickelson won his third Masters and fourth major title, three shots ahead of runner-up Lee Westwood.
Field.
The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships. Officially the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is now a qualification process. In theory, the club could simply decline to invite a qualified player. This is the list of the 96 players who played | French Riviera Masters
The French Riviera Masters was a men's senior (over 50) professional golf tournament on the European Senior Tour. It was held from 2010 to 2015 on the French Riviera. In 2010 and 2011 it was called the Cannes Mougins Masters and was held at Golf de Cannes-Mougins in Mougins, Cannes, before moving to Terre Blanche Hotel Spa Golf Resort, Tourrettes, Var, just southeast of Fayence. The 2015 winner was Simon P. Brown who won the first prize of €60,000 out of total | 51,350 | triviaqa-train |
Which was the only US state formed by seceding from a Confederate state during the American Civil War? | , Confederate Territory of Arizona. Efforts by certain factions in Maryland to secede were halted by federal imposition of martial law; Delaware, though of divided loyalty, did not attempt it. A Unionist government was formed in opposition to the secessionist state government in Richmond and administered the western parts of Virginia that had been occupied by Federal troops. The Restored Government later recognized the new state of West Virginia, which was admitted to the Union during the war on June 20, 1863, and relocated to Alexandria for the rest of the | 26th North Carolina Infantry
The 26th North Carolina Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of ten companies that came from various counties across North Carolina and Virginia. It is famous for being the regiment with the largest number of casualties on both sides during the war.
Organization and muster.
The state of North Carolina seceded from the Union on May 20, 1861, and subsequently joined the Confederate States of America. After seceding, then North Carolina Adjutant | 51,351 | triviaqa-train |
Deuterium and Tritium are isotopes of which chemical element? | sections are very distinct and different in sign, which allows contrast variation in such experiments. Further, a nuisance problem of ordinary hydrogen is its large incoherent neutron cross section, which is nil for D. The substitution of deuterium atoms for hydrogen atoms thus reduces scattering noise.
Hydrogen is an important and major component in all materials of organic chemistry and life science, but it barely interacts with X-rays. As hydrogen (and deuterium) interact strongly with neutrons, neutron scattering techniques, together with a modern deuteration facility, | kinetic isotope effect: due to their larger masses, heavier isotopes tend to react somewhat more slowly than lighter isotopes of the same element. This is most pronounced by far for protium (), deuterium (), and tritium (), because deuterium has twice the mass of protium and tritium has three times the mass of protium. These mass differences also affect the behavior of their respective chemical bonds, by changing the center of gravity (reduced mass) of the atomic systems. However, for heavier elements the relative mass | 51,352 | triviaqa-train |
Euphorbia pulcherrima is the botanical name for the plant Poinsettia, named after Joel Poinsett. To which country was he the first United States Minister, before they had ambassadors? | Joel Roberts Poinsett
Joel Roberts Poinsett (March 2, 1779 – December 12, 1851) was an American physician and diplomat. He was the first U.S. agent in South America, a member of the South Carolina legislature and the United States House of Representatives, the first United States Minister to Mexico, a Unionist leader in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis, Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren, and a co-founder of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science and the Useful Arts (a predecessor of the | Poinsettia (disambiguation)
Poinsettia, "Euphorbia pulcherrima", is a commercially important plant species of the diverse spurge family.
Poinsettia also may refer to:
- "Euphorbia" subg. "Poinsettia", a subgenus of flowering plants
- Poinsettia (cocktail), a mixture of champagne, Cointreau, and cranberry juice
- Poinsettia Bowl, a college football bowl game played in San Diego, California | 51,353 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is 'Waitangi Day' celebrated on February 6th each year? | enact the coming ashore of Governor Hobson to sign the treaty. The day closes with the flags being lowered by the Navy in a traditional ceremony.
Commemorations Elsewhere in New Zealand.
Some marae use the day as an open day and an educational experience for their local communities, giving them the opportunity to experience Māori culture and protocol, or as an opportunity to explain where they see Māori are and the way forward for Māori in New Zealand. Commemorations are largely muted in comparison to those seen on the national days of most | , in addition the following days are Great Festivals:
- Christmas Day which is celebrated on the 25th of December each year.
- Epiphany which falls on the 6th of January each year, but is usually celebrated on the Sunday between the 2nd and the 8th of January.
- Ascension Day ( and ).
- Corpus Christi also known as the Commemoration of the Holy Communion and falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday ( and ).
- All Saints' Day which falls on the 1st day of | 51,354 | triviaqa-train |
In which Surrey town were 'The Jam' founded in 1972? | based extraterritorially at Kingston upon Thames.
Surrey is divided into eleven districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, and Woking.
The London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, and parts of Lewisham and Bromley were in Surrey until 1889, as were Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton and the part of Richmond upon Thames on the right bank of the River Thames until 1965, when they were absorbed | (Western) for the 1967–68 season. They finished fourth in their first season, earning promotion to Premier Division A. After claiming the runners-up spot in 1972–73, they won the division in 1974–75.
Ashford became founder members of the Surrey Premier League in 1982. In 1989–90 they were league runners-up and won the Surrey Premier Cup, beating Farnham Town Reserves 3–0 in the final. In 1990 they were formally renamed Ashford Town (Middlesex) to avoid confusion with the Kent club which previously shared the same name | 51,355 | triviaqa-train |
Which Farnworth (Bolton) born ex-England footballer played for Blackpool from 1963 to 1966 before moving to a Merseyside club? | , now aged 46, was sold back to Stoke City. Mid-table finishes in 1961–62 and 1962–63 (and an appearance in the League Cup semi-finals during the former) were offset by another lowly finish of 18th in 1963–64, with Alan Ball top-scoring with thirteen goals. Much of the same ensued over the following two seasons, before relegation finally occurred in 1966–67. Blackpool finished bottom of the table, eight points adrift of fellow demotion victims Aston Villa. Suart had resigned four months before the end of | Neil Fisher
Neil Fisher (born 7 November 1970 in St Helens, Merseyside) is a professional footballer who mainly plays as a striker. He played in The Football League for Bolton Wanderers and Chester City, as well as for non-league clubs in both England and Wales. He currently plays for the mighty Farnworth Griffin in Warrington District League Division 2
Playing career.
Fisher joined Bolton Wanderers as an apprentice in 1987, two years before he signed professional forms with the club. He had to wait until August | 51,356 | triviaqa-train |
Who played 'Ellen Ripley' in the films 'Alien' and 'Aliens'? | Aliens (film)
Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron, produced by Gale Anne Hurd and starring Sigourney Weaver. It is the sequel to the 1979 film "Alien" and the second installment in the "Alien" franchise. The film follows Weaver's character Ellen Ripley as she returns to the moon where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature, this time accompanied by a unit of space marines. Additional roles are played by Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, | staff. Ripley also discovers there is an Alien queen growing inside her, and must not only kill the rampaging Alien but also herself in order to save humanity.
Films Original series "Alien Resurrection" (1997).
Two hundred years after the events of the previous film, several clones of Ellen Ripley (including the alien queen she was carrying) are produced. The Alien queen is surgically removed from her body as the United Systems Military hopes to breed Aliens to study on the spaceship USM Auriga, using human hosts kidnapped and | 51,357 | triviaqa-train |
In 2009 which Swedish tennis player became the first to beat Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros? | 31 May 2009, when Nadal lost to eventual runner-up, Robin Söderling in the 4th round. This was Nadal's first and, until 2015, only loss at the French Open. After his surprise defeat in France, Nadal withdrew from the AEGON Championships. It was confirmed that he was suffering from tendinitis in both of his knees. On 19 June, Nadal withdrew from the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, citing his recurring knee injury. Roger Federer went on to win the title, and Nadal consequently dropped back to No | edition of the French Open and was held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris. The Men's Singles Final was won by Rafael Nadal by defeating Novak Djokovic in the final. By winning his seventh title at Roland Garros, Nadal surpassed Borg's overall titles record to become the most successful tennis player in French Open history.
The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2012 ATP World Tour and the 2012 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted | 51,358 | triviaqa-train |
Who directed the 2005 film 'Brokeback Mountain'? | Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus. Adapted from the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx, the screenplay was written by Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams and depicts the complex emotional and sexual relationship between Ernest Garcia and Andrew Perez in the American West from 1963 to 1983.
The film received critical acclaim and commercial success. It won the | Dogtown" (2005), "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), "The Brothers Grimm" (2005), "Casanova" (2005), "The Dark Knight" (2008), and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (2009), the latter two being posthumous releases. He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in "Brokeback Mountain", Ledger won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and | 51,359 | triviaqa-train |
Which composer left his Tenth Symphony unfinished on his death in 1911? It has been made into performable form most notably by Deryck Cooke in the 1960's? | Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)
Symphony No. 10 by Gustav Mahler was written in the summer of 1910, and was his final composition. At the time of Mahler's death the composition was substantially complete in the form of a continuous draft, but not fully elaborated or orchestrated, and thus not performable. Only the first movement is regarded as reasonably complete and performable as Mahler intended. Perhaps as a reflection of the inner turmoil he was undergoing at the time (Mahler knew he had a failing heart and his | of the work Deryck Cooke's versions Summary of the Cooke versions.
Cooke's performing editions of the Tenth Symphony may be summarised as follows:
- Cooke O – (1960, unpublished)
- Cooke I – first complete performing version (1960–1964, unpublished)
- Cooke II – second performing version (1966–1972, printed 1976)
- Cooke III – slightly revised form of Cooke II (printed 1989)
Realisations of the work Other complete versions.
Clinton Carpenter (1921–2005) started working on his edition long before | 51,360 | triviaqa-train |
Which future Prime Minister first entered Parliament as MP for Ormskirk in 1945? | King-Hall for National Labour.
In a repeat of 1918, the election of 1945 saw future Prime Minister, Harold Wilson elected when the Conservative Party opted to stand against the National candidate, Stephen King-Hall, and split the anti Labour vote. With Harold Wilson moving in 1950 to the newly created Huyton constituency, the seat saw a succession of Conservative Members who were then moved on to the House of Lords, until the election of the much respected Colonel Douglas Glover in the 1953 by-election. | swing since the 1945 election, which Clement Attlee won for Labour. Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, and Callaghan was replaced as Labour leader by Michael Foot in 1980. Results for the election were broadcast live on the BBC, and presented by David Dimbleby and Robin Day, with Robert McKenzie on the "Swingometer", and further analysis provided by David Butler. It was the first general election to feature Rick Wakeman's song "Arthur" on the BBC's coverage.
Future Prime Minister John Major entered Parliament in this | 51,361 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is 'Romansh' and official language? | Philippines, Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union are examples of official multilingualism. This has been described as controversial and, in some other areas where it has been proposed, the idea has been rejected. It has also been described as necessary for the recognition of different groups or as an advantage for the country in presenting itself to outsiders.
In specific countries/territories.
In specific countries/territories Afghanistan.
In accordance with "Chapter 1, Article 16" of the Constitution of Afghanistan, the Afghan government | Romansh-speaking areas also speak one other language fluently, e.g. German or Italian, which are the other official languages of Grisons.
Romansh is divided into five different regional dialects (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Putèr, and Vallader), each with its own standardized written language. In addition, a pan-regional variety called Rumantsch Grischun was introduced in 1982, which is controversial among Romansh speakers.
Linguistic classification.
Romansh is a Romance language descending from Vulgar Latin, the spoken language of the Roman Empire | 51,362 | triviaqa-train |
In 2009 which Swiss tennis player played the first match in The Championships at Wimbledon under the closed Centre Court roof, against Andy Murray? | the 2013 French Open) since his third round loss to Stan Wawrinka in the 2010 US Open.
Playing against Australia in the semi-finals of the Davis Cup World Group in Glasgow, Murray won both his singles rubbers in straight sets, against Thanasi Kokkinakis and Bernard Tomic. He also partnered his brother Jamie, and they won in five sets against the pairing of Sam Groth and Lleyton Hewitt, the results guiding Great Britain to the Davis Cup final for the first time since 1978 with a 3–2 lead over Australia. | Wimbledon, a retractable roof was installed prior to the 2009 Championship. It is designed to close/open in about 20 minutes and will be closed primarily to protect play from inclement (and, if necessary, extremely hot) weather during The Championships. Whilst the roof is being opened or closed, play is suspended. The first time the roof was closed during a Wimbledon Championship match was on Monday 29 June 2009, involving Amélie Mauresmo and Dinara Safina. The first full match played and completed under the roof featured Andy Murray | 51,363 | triviaqa-train |
Who directed the 2002 film 'The Pianist'? | The Pianist (2002 film)
The Pianist is a 2002 World War II biographical drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski, the script was written by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book "The Pianist", a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor. The film was a co-production of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland.
"The Pianist" met with significant critical praise, and received | Ruth Platt
Ruth Platt is a British actress, writer and director, who has appeared in "The Pianist" (2002).
Early life.
Platt studied English literature at University College, Oxford, before training at RADA.
Career.
In 2015, Platt directed a British horror film, "The Lesson" which was inspired by Platt's own experience and an article she read where a teacher had a history of violence. In 2019, she directed "The Black Forest" which screened at Edinburgh | 51,364 | triviaqa-train |
Which composer left his Third Symphony unfinished on his death in 1934? Anthony Payne completed the work in 1997? | Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the "Enigma Variations", the "Pomp and Circumstance Marches", concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including "The Dream of Gerontius", chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick | the texts of Goethe, which he wanted to be a monument to his favorite poet. The work, however, was left unfinished on his death. A fourth symphony was also left in a fragmentary state, and a third string quartet was also found incomplete amongst his papers. Richard Wetz died on 16 January 1935 in Erfurt, age 59. According to his will the fragments of the Goethe oratorio were to be completed by the composer Werner Trenkner, who Wetz considered his greatest pupil. Trenkner failed at completing the work due | 51,365 | triviaqa-train |
Which US state, formed partly from Indian Territory, was the first to achieve statehood in the 20th century? | and built its first entirely TBN-owned affiliate in Oklahoma City in 1980.
Transportation.
Transportation in Oklahoma is generated by an anchor system of Interstate Highways, inter-city rail lines, airports, inland ports, and mass transit networks. Situated along an integral point in the United States Interstate network, Oklahoma contains three primary Interstate highways and four auxiliary Interstate Highways. In Oklahoma City, Interstate 35 intersects with Interstate 44 and Interstate 40, forming one of the most important intersections along the United States highway system. | Civilized Tribes of the Indian Territory opposed being incorporated within a United States state, by the turn of the 20th century, statehood of some sort appeared inevitable. A group of leaders from the Five Civilized Nations – Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole – met at Muskogee in an attempt to seize the initiative and fashion a state from the Indian Territory, a jurisdiction to be controlled by Native Americans. Their meeting, which came to be known as the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention, established the proposed State of Sequoyah. | 51,366 | triviaqa-train |
'9 Dragons' is a 2009 novel featuring LA detective ‘Hieroymous (Harry) Bosch’. Who wrote this novel, his fifteenth about this detective? | Nine Dragons (novel)
Nine Dragons is the 14th novel in the Harry Bosch series and the 22nd book (21st novel) by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was published in the U.K. and Ireland on October 1, 2009, and worldwide on October 13, 2009.
The novel is partly set in Hong Kong, where Bosch's daughter Maddie and ex-wife Eleanor Wish live. The main plot involves Maddie being kidnapped by a Chinese Triad (crime syndicate), which Bosch believes is due to his | 's novel "9 Dragons", detective Harry Bosch travels from Los Angeles to Hong Kong's Kowloon district in search of his missing daughter. Chungking Mansions is described by a character in the novel as a "post-modern Casablanca—all in one building."
"The Economist" compared it to the Mos Eisley cantina in the original "Star Wars" and quotes anthropologist Gordon Mathews: "whereas the illegalities in Chungking Mansions are widely known, the wondrousness of the place is not."
Further reading. | 51,367 | triviaqa-train |
Which city is the setting for the 'Dr. Who' spin-off series 'Torchwood'? | then has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff. "Doctor Who" has also spawned numerous spin-offs, including comic books, films, novels, audio dramas, and the television series "Torchwood" (2006–2011), "The Sarah Jane Adventures" (2007–2011), "K-9" (2009–2010), and "Class" (2016), and has been the subject of many parodies and references in popular culture.
Thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor. The transition from | 2005, Mori had a small role as Dr. Sato in the "Doctor Who" episode "Aliens of London". Producer Russell T Davies took note of her performance and decided to bring the character back as a regular in the first two series of the "Doctor Who" spin-off "Torchwood". Mori's "Torchwood" character, Toshiko Sato, was killed in "Exit Wounds", the final episode of "Torchwood"'s second series, but has not ruled out the possibility of returning to the | 51,368 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is 'Malvinas Day' celebrated on April 2nd each year? | Malvinas Day
Malvinas Day (), officially Day of the Veterans and Fallen of the Falklands War ("Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de las Malvinas"), is a public holiday in Argentina, observed each year on 2 April. The name refers to the Falkland Islands, known in Spanish as the "Islas Malvinas".
The holiday is a tribute to Argentina's soldiers killed in the Falklands War, which began with the Argentine invasion of the islands on 2 April 1982. A | , in addition the following days are Great Festivals:
- Christmas Day which is celebrated on the 25th of December each year.
- Epiphany which falls on the 6th of January each year, but is usually celebrated on the Sunday between the 2nd and the 8th of January.
- Ascension Day ( and ).
- Corpus Christi also known as the Commemoration of the Holy Communion and falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday ( and ).
- All Saints' Day which falls on the 1st day of | 51,369 | triviaqa-train |
In 'HMS Pinafore' by Gilbert and Sullivan, the Captain wants his daughter 'Josephine' to marry 'Sir George Porter'. What position does 'Sir George' hold? | Pinafore". The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order. They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. The captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan | "The Mikado" (Gilbert and Sullivan)
- Pooh-Bah, "The Mikado" (Gilbert and Sullivan)
- Reginald Bunthorne, "Patience" (Gilbert and Sullivan)
- Sir Despard Murgatroyd, "Ruddigore" (Gilbert and Sullivan)
- Sir Joseph Porter, "HMS Pinafore" (Gilbert and Sullivan)
- Sir Richard Cholmondeley (Lieutenant of the Tower), "The Yeomen of the Guard" (Gilbert and Sullivan)
- Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd (as Robin Oakapple) | 51,370 | triviaqa-train |
In which English city were 'Duran Duran' formed in 1978? | Duran Duran
Duran Duran () are an English new wave band formed in Birmingham in 1978. The band were one of the most successful acts of the 1980s, but by the end of the decade, membership and music style changes challenged the band before a resurgence in the early 1990s. The group were a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. They achieved 14 singles in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the US "Billboard" Hot 100 | The Devils (band)
The Devils is the name of an English electronic pop band, formed by Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy.
The first incarnation of Duran Duran in 1978 included Rhodes as keyboardist, John Taylor on guitar and Duffy as songwriter/vocalist and bassist (along with Simon Colley). This lineup performed live for almost a year before Duffy and Colley left the band.
Duffy moved on to a solo career and The Lilac Time, and Duran Duran eventually went on to fame with drummer Roger Taylor | 51,371 | triviaqa-train |
Which Barrow-in-Furness born ex-England footballer played for Blackpool from 1964 to 1967 before moving to a Merseyside club? | Emlyn Hughes and Gary Stevens, as well as Harry Hadley, and Vic Metcalfe.
Of current professional footballers, Wayne Curtis, Morecambe striker, and Iran Under-20 and Hibernian winger Shana Haji both hail from the town.
Holker Old Boys F.C., based at Rakesmoor Lane, are the town's second most successful football team, and they play in the North West Counties Football League Division One.
Sport Rugby.
Rugby league is a well-established sport and the town is considered as one of the game's traditional | club level for Hull Kingston Rovers. He also played association football (soccer) for Morecambe and Liverpool (reserves).
Background.
Bryn Knowelden was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England, he was a pupil of Dowdales School, after retiring from rugby league, he ran a newsagent in Cadishead, before retiring to Blackpool, and he died aged 90 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
Playing career.
Playing career International honours.
Bryn Knowelden won caps for England while at Barrow in | 51,372 | triviaqa-train |
Who played 'Marty McFly' in the 'Back To The Future' films? | Back to the Future
Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly, who accidentally travels back in time from 1985 to 1955, where he meets his future parents and becomes his mother's romantic interest. Christopher Lloyd portrays the eccentric scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, inventor of the time-traveling DeLorean, who helps Marty repair history and return to 1985. The cast also includes Lea Thompson | Christopher Reeve-era "Superman" films and "Supergirl".
McClure played Dave McFly, Marty McFly's older brother in the 1985 film "Back to the Future", reuniting him with his "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" co-star Wendie Jo Sperber, and with writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, who wrote and directed that film, respectively. McClure reprised the role of Dave McFly in the sequels, "Back to the Future Part II" (though his only scene was not included in the | 51,373 | triviaqa-train |
An omelette made with smoked haddock invented at the Savoy Hotel was named after which author? | .
Arnold Bennett wrote the novel "Imperial Palace" in 1930, based on his research at the hotel. The novel fictionalises the hotel's operations. Michael Morpurgo wrote a children's book fictionalising the hotel's mascot, Kaspar, as an adventurer: "Kaspar: Prince of Cats" (2008), which was released in the US as "Kaspar: The Titanic Cat" (2012).
Restaurants and bars.
Restaurants and bars Restaurants.
The hotel has two well-known restaurants: the Grill | Hangtown fry
Hangtown fry is a type of omelette made famous during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s. The most common version includes bacon and oysters combined with eggs, and fried together.
History.
The dish was invented in Placerville, California, then known as Hangtown. According to most accounts, the dish was invented when a gold prospector struck it rich, headed to the Cary House Hotel, and demanded the most expensive dish that the kitchen could provide. The most expensive ingredients available were eggs, which | 51,374 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is the highest point in South America? | Aconcagua
Aconcagua () is the highest mountain outside of Asia, being the tallest in both the Southern and Western Hemispheres with a summit elevation of . It is located in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes mountain range, in the Mendoza Province, Argentina, and lies northwest of its capital, the city of Mendoza, about from San Juan Province and from the international border with Chile. The mountain itself lies entirely within Argentina, immediately east of Argentina's border with Chile. The nearest higher peak is Tirich Mir in the | generally referred to by geographers as the Cordillera Central.
The highest point in the country is the Volcán Barú, which rises to . A nearly impenetrable jungle forms the Darién Gap between Panama and Colombia where Colombian guerrillas and drug dealers operate and sometimes take hostages. This and unrest, and forest protection movements, create a break in the Pan-American Highway, which otherwise forms a complete road from Alaska to Patagonia.
Panama's wildlife is the most diverse in Central America. It is home to many South American species | 51,375 | triviaqa-train |
'Bye Bye Baby' was the first number one hit single for which band? | -modulation (D-D-E-F-F over the line "She's got me and I'm not free").
The Symbols version.
A cover version by British group The Symbols reached No. 44 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967.
Bay City Rollers version.
A cover of the song by the Bay City Rollers sold a million copies and hit No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for six weeks from March 1975. It ended the year as the UK's | ten hit in several European countries including Finland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, while topping the Dance Club Songs chart without a North American release. The fifth single, "Rain", was released in August 1993. It peaked at number one in Italy and number two in Canada. "Bye Bye Baby" was released as the last single from the album in November 1993. It reached the top ten in Italy and peaked within the top twenty in Australia.
Release and promotion Tour.
The album was further | 51,376 | triviaqa-train |
What nationality is Herman Van Rompuy who was appointed as the first full-time President of the European Council in 2009? | 2014 to 31 May 2017 and subsequently reelected on 9 March 2017 to a second term running from 1 June 2017 until 30 November 2019.
On 2 July 2019 the European Council elected Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel as the successor to Donald Tusk as President of the European Council for the period from 1 December 2019 to 31 May 2022.
History.
The first meeting of all EU (then EC) heads of state or government was held in 1961 as an informal summit, but only became formalised in 1974, when | was appointed the first full-time President of the European Council. The formal decision on the appointment was made after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2009. The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said that he had unanimous backing from the 27 EU leaders at the summit in Brussels on the evening of 19 November 2009. Brown praised Van Rompuy as "a consensus builder" who had "brought a period of political stability to his country after months of uncertainty". At a press conference after his | 51,377 | triviaqa-train |
Which jockey rode the winner of the 2010 Grand National? | 2010 Grand National
The 2010 Grand National (known as the John Smith's Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 163rd renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at the Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 10 April 2010.
The main race was held at 16:15 BST and was won by Don't Push It, ridden by Tony McCoy, five lengths ahead of Black Apalachi in second, and twenty ahead of State of Play in third.
It was McCoy's first win | Timmy Murphy
Timothy James "Timmy" Murphy (born 20 August 1974 in County Kildare, Ireland) is a former National Hunt and now current Flat racing jockey who overcame difficult personal problems to win the 2008 Grand National at Aintree Racecourse on the horse Comply or Die. He recorded his 1,000th winner at Taunton on 21 January 2010. He won the Scottish Grand National on Merigo in 2010 and 2012. He was the winner of the 2005 Jump Jockey of the Year at the Lester Awards.
Career.
Murphy rode | 51,378 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the valet of 'Lord Peter Wimsey' in the novels by Dorothy L. Sayers? | Lord Peter Wimsey
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Lord Peter is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter; his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker; and in a few books by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife | Thrones, Dominations
Thrones, Dominations is a Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane murder mystery novel that Dorothy L. Sayers began writing but abandoned, and which remained at her death as fragments and notes. It was completed by Jill Paton Walsh and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and refers to two categories of angel in the Christian angelic hierarchy.
Background.
Sayers had charted the developing relationship between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane over four published novels, culminating in | 51,379 | triviaqa-train |
"Which character in children's literature is ""blown by the East Wind"" to '17 Cherry Tree Lane, London'?" | Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins is a franchise based on the "Mary Poppins" series of children's books written by P. L. Travers.
Arts, entertainment, and media within the franchise include:
- "Mary Poppins" (book series), the original 1934–1988 children's fantasy novels that introduced the character
- Mary Poppins (character), the fictional nanny with magical powers who is the titular character in the series
- "Mary Poppins" (film), a 1964 Disney film starring Julie Andrews, | The Wind in the Willows (1995 film)
The Wind in the Willows is a 1995 British animation television film directed by Dave Unwin and written by Ted Walker, based on the novel "The Wind in the Willows", a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame. It was produced by the now defunct TVC (Television Cartoons) in London.
The films include live action starting and ending segments with Vanessa Redgrave as the grandmother (who narrates), Alan Bennett, Michael Gambon, Rik Mayall, Michael | 51,380 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of the film sequel to 'Nanny McPhee'? | .
Emma Thompson revealed on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" that two more films were planned. The second film, "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang" (also called "Nanny McPhee Returns"), was released in March 2010. It co-stars Rhys Ifans, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The character of Aggie Brown returns as the now elderly Mrs. Docherty. In it, Nanny McPhee takes charge of the children of a woman whose husband has gone to war.
A third | Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee is a 2005 British-American comedy fantasy film based on the Nurse Matilda character by Christianna Brand. It was directed by Kirk Jones, co-produced by StudioCanal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Working Title Films, Three Strange Angels, and Nanny McPhee Productions with music by Patrick Doyle and produced by Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner. Set in Victorian England, the film stars Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee, along with Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury.
The film was theatrically | 51,381 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the Prime Minister of Prussia from 1862 to | Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (Born von Bismarck-Schönhausen; ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), known as Otto von Bismarck (), was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890. In 1862, King Wilhelm I appointed him as Minister President of Prussia, a position he would hold until 1890, with the exception of a short break | Princes of Hechingen and Sigmaringen waived on their rule, whereby both principalities in 1850 fell to Prussia. From 1850 to 1945 Sigmaringen was the seat of Prussian Government for the Province of Hohenzollern. Karl Anton von Hohenzollern was 1858-1862 Prime Minister of Prussia.
From 1914 to 1918 around 150 men from the town lost their lives during World War I.
In the Nazi era a Gestapo office was in Sigmaringen. Since 1937 it belonged to the Gestapo Stuttgart.
Between 1934 and 1942 more than 100 men were sterilized because | 51,382 | triviaqa-train |
Which was the first film made by 'The Beatles'? | The Beatles in film
The Beatles appeared in five motion pictures, most of which were very well received. The exception was the (mostly unscripted) television film "Magical Mystery Tour" which was panned by critics and the public alike. Each of their films had the same name as their associated soundtrack album and a song on that album.
Films starring The Beatles.
Films starring The Beatles "A Hard Day's Night".
The Beatles had a successful film career, beginning with A Hard Day's Night ( | magazines. In 1955 he began his collaboration with Record Mirror magazine, which was the start of his career photographing show-business celebrities.
In 1962 he went to Liverpool to shoot an unknown but promising group - The Beatles. Mutual appreciation and sympathy led to a long-lasting relationship between Hoffmann and the group. Dezo also made an 8mm colour film during this first Beatles assignment, which must be the first ever colour film taken of them, also featuring many scenes actually shot by the Beatles. His photo collection | 51,383 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit? | members of the Royal Air Force and, in 1969, the definition of honorary recipients was expanded to include members of the Commonwealth of Nations that are not realms.
From its inception, the order has been open to women, Florence Nightingale being the first woman to receive the honour, in 1907. Several individuals have refused admission into the Order of Merit, such as Rudyard Kipling, A. E. Housman, and George Bernard Shaw. To date, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, remains the youngest person ever inducted into | She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Brimble was the first New Zealander to receive the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, and the second woman to receive the Rutherford medal.
Brimble was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science in the 2004 New Year Honours. In the 2012 New Year Honours, she was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to science. She was | 51,384 | triviaqa-train |
Which model of Ferrari is named after the Italian word for 'redhead'? | Dinos by Ferrari and sold at Ferrari dealers—for all intents and purposes they are Ferraris.
In the mid-1990s, Ferrari added the letter "F" to the beginning of all models (a practice abandoned after the F512 M and F355, but adopted again with the F430, but not with its successor, the Ferrari 458 ).
Identity.
The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is the "Cavallino Rampante" ("prancing horse") black prancing stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the | Lamborghini Urraco
The Lamborghini Urraco is a 2+2 sports car manufactured by Italian automaker Lamborghini, introduced at the Turin Auto Show in 1970, marketed for model years 1972-1979, and named after the cattle breed.
History.
The car is a 2+2 coupé with body designed by Marcello Gandini, at the time working for Carrozzeria Bertone. Rather than being another supercar, like the Lamborghini Miura, the Urraco was more affordable, an alternative to the contemporary Ferrari Dino and Maserati Merak.
When | 51,385 | triviaqa-train |
Which city was the capital of Nigeria until 1991? | , LAGOS PHOTO Festival and the Lagos Jazz Series, which is a unique franchise for high-quality live music in all genres with a focus on jazz. Established in 2010, the event takes place over a 3–5 day period at selected high quality outdoor venues. The music is as varied as the audience itself and features a diverse mix of musical genres from rhythm and blues to soul, Afrobeat, hip hop, bebop, and traditional jazz. The festivals provide entertainment of dance and song to add excitement to travelers during a | Gongola State
Gongola State is a former administrative division of Nigeria. It was created on 3 February 1976 from Adamawa and Sardauna Provinces of North State, together with the Wukari Division of the then Benue-Plateau State; it existed until 27 August 1991, when it was divided into two states - Adamawa and Taraba. The city of Yola was the capital of Gongola State.
Gongola State was governed by an Executive Council.
References.
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Which Liverpool born comedian, author and actor's 2010 autobiography is entitled 'Stalin Ate My Homework'? | Alexei Sayle
Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, author and former recording artist, and was a central figure in the alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007. In the updated 2010 poll he came 72nd.
Much of Sayle's humour is in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, with riffs based on absurd and surreal premises. His | " and the "Sunday Mirror". He was one of eight contributory authors to the BBC Three competition "End of Story", in which members of the public completed the second half of stories written by established authors. The winning entry to Sayle's story, "Imitating Katherine Walker", was written by freelance writer Arthur Allan. Sayle's autobiography "Stalin Ate My Homework", which deals with his early life and which he describes as a 'satirical memoir', was published in 2010. In 2012 he | 51,387 | triviaqa-train |
Which club won a 1960's FA Cup Final with defenders Dowd, Book, Pardoe, Doyle, Booth and Oakes? | 1969 FA Cup Final
The 1969 FA Cup Final was the final match of the 1968–69 staging of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, better known as the FA Cup. The match was contested between Leicester City and Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday 26 April 1969. This was the first FA Cup final since 1951 to take place in the month of April. Three-time winners Manchester City were appearing in their seventh final, whereas Leicester City were seeking to win the competition | English team left, Chelsea FC. However City chances of progressing to the second successive final were severely hindered before the match even started with Alan Oakes, Colin Bell, Mike Doyle, Glyn Pardoe and Mike Summerbee all unavailable due to injury before the first leg. It was perhaps no surprise City lost the leg at Stamford Bridge 1–0 and Tommy Booth and key goalkeeper Joe Corrigan were injured for the return leg at Maine Road, losing again 1–0.
The glory years (1965–1976) Four point lead but throw away the championship (1972 | 51,388 | triviaqa-train |
Musically, how are twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid known? | The Proclaimers
The Proclaimers are a Scottish music duo composed of twin brothers Charlie and Craig Reid (born 5 March 1962). They are best known for their songs "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", "Sunshine on Leith", "I'm On My Way" and "Letter from America", and their singing style with a Scottish accent. The band tours extensively throughout the world. They have released 11 studio albums since 1987, with the latest being "The Angry Cyclist" ( | maybe three acts that were being groomed and courted at any one time by a label. Now there are at least 200 really talented groups that are handling their own musical business, working independently and building their own fan bases and audiences."
About the CD, Henry said, "It's more musically extensive and rigorous, especially some of the instrumental parts. We wanted to bring to this new disc some of the energy from some things we'd been doing for other projects." His twin brother who plays lead | 51,389 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the novel 'The Call Of The Wild'? | The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he | ", because in 1900, Scenic Avenue was in unincorporated Oakland. After marrying Bess Maddern, the newlywed couple settled in a redwood bungalow in the eastern hills of unincorporated Oakland, later to become part of the present-day city of Piedmont. At the time, this area was growing into a community for artists. It was here that London wrote his novel "Call of the Wild". London's two daughters, including Joan London, were born during this time.
In 1902, London moved to 206 Scenic | 51,390 | triviaqa-train |
How many MP's are there in the House of Commons? | House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons, officially the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster. Owing to shortage of space, its office accommodation extends into Portcullis House.
The Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as Members of Parliament (MPs). Members are elected to | ' provided the tellers agree. The whips will ensure that the MP's name is added to the list of those voting. There are only two conditions. The MP must be within the precincts of the Palace of Westminster, and must be alive. Former MP Joe Ashton remembered a case from the final days of James Callaghan's government:
United Kingdom House of Commons Pairing.
'Pairing' is an arrangement between two opposing MPs where both agree not to participate in any divisions because their votes would cancel each other out anyway | 51,391 | triviaqa-train |
The novelist Emile Zola,was the boyhood cpmpanion of which famous French artist in their home town of Aix en Provence? | . In 1858, the Zolas moved to Paris, where Émile's childhood friend Paul Cézanne soon joined him. Zola started to write in the romantic style. His widowed mother had planned a law career for Émile, but he failed his Baccalauréat examination.
Before his breakthrough as a writer, Zola worked as a clerk in a shipping firm and then in the sales department for a publisher (Hachette). He also wrote literary and art reviews for newspapers. As a political journalist, Zola did not hide his dislike of | Paul Alexis
Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist. He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola.
Life.
Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence. He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a graduate. At the direction of his parents he studied law at the University of Aix, but he longed for the life of a writer, and finally left Aix- | 51,392 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the part of Queen Elizabeth II in the film 'A Question Of Attribution'? | James Fox as Anthony Blunt, David Calder as Chubb, an MI5 officer, and Prunella Scales as 'H.M.Q.' (Queen Elizabeth II). The film was produced by long-time Bennett collaborator Innes Lloyd, and is dedicated to his memory.
"The New York Times" called the film a "razor-sharp psychological melodrama" and it won the 1992 BAFTA TV award for Best Single Drama. Prunella Scales was nominated for Best Actress.
Plot.
The play and subsequent film is based on Anthony | series including "After Henry", "Smelling of Roses" and "Ladies of Letters"; on television she starred in the London Weekend Television/Channel 4 series "Mapp & Lucia" based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's "A Question of Attribution".
In 1973, Scales was cast with Ronnie Barker in "One Man's Meat" which formed part of Barker's "Seven of One" series, also for the BBC. Her later film | 51,393 | triviaqa-train |
Pompey the Great and Crassus were two of the 'First Triumvirate' in 60 BC. Who was the third third? | over the slave revolt led by Spartacus, sharing the consulship with his rival Pompey the Great.
A political and financial patron of Julius Caesar, Crassus joined Caesar and Pompey in the unofficial political alliance known as the First Triumvirate. Together the three men dominated the Roman political system. The alliance did not last long, due to the ambitions, egos, and jealousies of the three men. While Caesar and Crassus were lifelong allies, Crassus and Pompey disliked each other and Pompey grew increasingly envious of Caesar's spectacular successes in | as Quintus Pompeius Rufus. Lucius Cornelius Cinna and Gaius Marius teamed up to use their armies to sack and loot Rome and declare themselves co-consuls after starving it out. It would be Marius’ seventh and final term. In 83BCE, following his capture of Athens from Mithridates, Sulla returned to Rome, joined his army of 35,000 veterans with three legions raised by the young Pompey the Great to defeat a lone consul's 100,000 newly recruited.
The First Triumvirate in 60 BC consisted of Pompey, Marcus Licinius Crassus, | 51,394 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the longest nerve in the human body? | Sciatic nerve
The sciatic nerve (also called "ischiadic nerve", "ischiatic nerve") is a large nerve in humans and other animals. It begins in the lower back and runs through the buttock and down the lower limb. It is the longest and widest single nerve in the human body, going from the top of the leg to the foot on the posterior aspect. The sciatic nerve provides the connection to the nervous system for nearly the whole of the skin of the leg, the muscles of the back | any animal.
Humans.
- The longest bone in the human body is the femur.
- The largest artery is the aorta and the largest vein is the inferior vena cava.
- The largest internal organ is the liver. It is also the heaviest organ, with an average of .
- The largest external organ, which is also the largest organ in general, is the skin.
- The longest muscle is the sartorius muscle in the thigh.
- The longest single nerve is the | 51,395 | triviaqa-train |
Which Belgian in 1969, was the first man to win all three major prizesin the Tour de France? | except France. They have also the most victories on the UCI Road World Championships. Philippe Gilbert is the 2012 world champion. Another modern well-known Belgian cyclist is Tom Boonen. With five victories in the Tour de France and numerous other cycling records, Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is regarded as one of the greatest cyclists of all time. Jean-Marie Pfaff, a former Belgian goalkeeper, is considered one of the greatest in the history of association football.
Belgium hosted the 1972 European Football Championships, and co- | Bernard Van de Kerckhove
Bernard Van de Kerckhove (8 July 1941 – 15 September 2015) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer from 1962 to 1971. The highlight of his career was one stage win each in the 1964 Tour de France and 1965 Tour de France after which he wore the yellow jersey for two and three stages respectively.
Major results.
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
External links.
- Official | 51,396 | triviaqa-train |
What is the SI unit of electrical capacity? | 1819–1820. Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in 1821, and Georg Ohm mathematically analysed the electrical circuit in 1827. Electricity and magnetism (and light) were definitively linked by James Clerk Maxwell, in particular in his "On Physical Lines of Force" in 1861 and 1862.
While the early 19th century had seen rapid progress in electrical science, the late 19th century would see the greatest progress in electrical engineering. Through such people as Alexander Graham Bell, Ottó Bláthy, Thomas Edison, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, | Conventional electrical unit
A conventional electrical unit (or conventional unit where there is no risk of ambiguity) is a unit of measurement in the field of electricity which is based on the so-called "conventional values" of the Josephson constant and the von Klitzing constant agreed by the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) in 1988. These units are very similar in scale to their corresponding SI units, but are not identical because of their different definition. They are distinguished from the corresponding SI units by setting the | 51,397 | triviaqa-train |
Who did Kruschev replace to become Soviet Prime Minister in 1958? | , Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Nikolai Bulganin, who comprised Stalin's inner circle, attended, began with showings of cowboy movies favoured by Stalin. Stolen from the West, they lacked subtitles. The dictator had the meal served at around 1 a.m., and insisted that his subordinates stay with him and drink until dawn. On one occasion, Stalin had Khrushchev, then aged almost sixty, dance a traditional Ukrainian dance. Khrushchev did so, later stating, "When Stalin says dance, a wise | Russian Federation, the successor state of the Soviet Union, is believed to have been instrumental in achieving victory by Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994). In 2013, the deputy prime-minister of Azerbaijan Ali S. Hasanov said, "We need to become much stronger so that if we become involved in combat in Nagorno-Karabakh we can stand up to Russian troops, because that is who we will have to face. Did Armenia occupy our territories? Do you think Armenia's power is sufficient for that | 51,398 | triviaqa-train |
Which range of mountains run down the western side of Southern India? | of the Deccan plateau, one of the main geographic features of South India. The Western Ghats, along the western coast, mark another boundary of the plateau. The narrow strip of verdant land between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea is the Konkan region; the term encompasses the area south of the Narmada as far as Coastal Karnataka.
The Western Ghats continue south, forming the Malnad (Canara) region along the Karnataka coast, and terminate at the Nilgiri mountains, an inward (easterly) extension of the Western | at about 10,833 feet. They run from the San Bernardino Mountains southeast to the Santa Rosa Mountains. This mountain range is the northernmost part of the Peninsular Range.
The Santa Rosa Mountains are located at the southern end of the San Jacinto Mountains, where they connect to it. The range extends for approximately 30 miles (48 km) through Riverside, San Diego and Imperial counties, along the western side of the Coachella Valley, where they bound the Anza-Borrego portion of the Colorado Desert. The highest peak | 51,399 | triviaqa-train |
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