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Who played the title role in the 1968 film ‘Witchfinder General’? | Witchfinder General (film)
Witchfinder General (titled onscreen as Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General) is a 1968 British-American horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy and Hilary Dwyer. The screenplay was by Reeves and Tom Baker based on Ronald Bassett's novel of the same name. Made on a low budget of under £100,000, the movie was co-produced by Tigon British Film Productions and American International Pictures. The story details the heavily fictionalised murderous witch-hunting exploits of Matthew Hopkins | " In the mid-1960s, Wymark was considered as the replacement for William Hartnell in the title role of "Doctor Who".
Wymark's film appearances included: "Children of the Damned" (1964), "Operation Crossbow" (1965), "Repulsion" (1965), "Where Eagles Dare" (1968), "Witchfinder General" (1968), "Battle of Britain" (1969), "Doppelgänger" (1969), "The Blood on Satan's Claw" (1970) | 6,200 | triviaqa-train |
During which month of the year is the British Open Golf Championship held? | U.S. Open. Since the PGA Championship moved to May in 2019, the Open has been chronologically the fourth and final major tournament of the year. The tournament traditionally takes place over four days in summer, starting the day before the third Friday in July.
It is called the Open, because it is in theory "open" to all, i.e professional and amateur golfers. In practice, the current event is a professional tournament in which a small number of the world’s leading amateurs also play, by invitation or | List of PGA Championship champions
The PGA Championship is an annual golf competition formerly held in mid-August until 2019, when it moved to mid-May. It was established in 1916 and is one of the four major championships played each year which include the Masters, the U.S. Open, and the Open Championship (British Open). In addition, this championship is conducted by the Professional Golfers Association (PGA). Due to World War I and II, the competition was not held from 1917 to 1918 and in | 6,201 | triviaqa-train |
Who became British Prime Minister in June 1970? | contents, valued at £5 million in his will, in a charitable foundation, the "Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation", to conserve the house as a museum to his career. The house is open to the public for guided tours from March to October, and displayed is a large collection of personal effects as well as Heath's personal library, photo collections, and paintings by Winston Churchill.
In his will Heath, who had had no descendants, left only two legacies: £20,000 to his brother | approach to increase numbers. Seven Honorary Fellows were elected that year, followed by another five in 1999. The college's Honorary Fellows have included two Old Members who later became Prime Minister of their respective countries: Norman Washington Manley, who studied at Jesus College as a Rhodes Scholar and who was Chief Minister of Jamaica from 1955 to 1962, and Harold Wilson, who was twice British Prime Minister (1964–1970 and 1974–1976). The first female honorary fellow was the journalist and broadcaster Francine Stock.
People associated with the college Alumni | 6,202 | triviaqa-train |
What colour ‘Onions’ is the title of a 1962 hit for Booker T and the MG’s? | Redding, Bill Withers, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor and Albert King. They also released instrumental records under their own name, including the 1962 hit single "Green Onions". As originators of the unique Stax sound, the group was one of the most prolific, respected, and imitated of its era. By the mid-1960s, bands on both sides of the Atlantic were trying to sound like Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
In 1965, Steinberg was replaced by Donald "Duck | long flight southward and many skirmishes with royalist forces, Rayón found a safe-haven in Zitacuaro, Michoacan and formed a revolutionary government, the "Junta of Zitacuaro," headed by himself. Among the members of the Junta was José Maria Morelos, the leader of the insurgent forces in the state of Guerrero. The junta never became effective because the insurgency had fragmented into four areas, each controlled by a different leader.
- November 15. José Maria Morelos began his "second campaign" to relieve Spanish military pressure | 6,203 | triviaqa-train |
How many teeth does an adult cat normally have? | . After about 20 to 30 minutes, once the female is finished grooming, the cycle will repeat.
Because ovulation is not always triggered by a single mating, females may not be impregnated by the first male with which they mate. Furthermore, cats are superfecund; that is, a female may mate with more than one male when she is in heat, with the result that different kittens in a litter may have different fathers.
The morula forms 124 hours after conception. At 148 hours, early blastocysts form | teeth, one followed by the other, are said to be diphyodont. Normally the dental formula for milk teeth is the same as for adult teeth except that the molars are missing.
Dental formula.
Because every mammal's teeth are specialised for different functions, many mammal groups have lost teeth not needed in their adaptation. Tooth form has also undergone evolutionary modification as a result of natural selection for specialised feeding or other adaptations. Over time, different mammal groups have evolved distinct dental features, both in the number and | 6,204 | triviaqa-train |
What is the first name of fictional character ‘Jones the Steam’, the driver of Ivor the Engine? | . He can be wilful and disobedient at times, and it is not unknown for him to go and do his own thing when he should be working. He dislikes shunting and timetables.
Characters Jones the Steam.
Edwin Jones is Ivor's driver. He is a cheerful and kind-hearted man who perhaps sympathises more than most railway staff with Ivor's idiosyncrasies. Postgate and Firmin describe him as "an ordinary engine driver who is there to cope with whatever needs to be coped with". People who are new | , British Formula One driver
- Ivor Jones (1901–1982), Welsh rugby union player
- Ivor McIvor (1917–1997), Australian rules footballer and captain-coach
Fictional characters.
- the title character of "Ivor the Engine", an animated British TV series
- one of the title characters of "Ivor Lott and Tony Broke", a British comic strip
- Ivor, a main character in the video game "Minecraft Story Mode"
- a character in the comedy duo act Damo and | 6,205 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the lead singer of British band The Cure? | The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley in 1976. The group has experienced continuous line-up changes over its lifespan, with vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The band's debut album was "Three Imaginary Boys" (1979) and this, along with several early singles, placed the band in the post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom.
Following the release | singer Freddie Mercury (then known as Freddie Bulsara) who would later join the rock band Smile, who changed their name to Queen.
History.
In 1968, Tomato City was formed and composed of Dummett (lead guitar), Gallop (rhythm guitar), Miline (bass) and future Cure member, Boris Williams (drums). The four did not have a distinct lead singer yet, so Dummett took it upon himself to perform the majority of the vocals in live performances. As Tomato City, the | 6,206 | triviaqa-train |
Which type of racing is held at the Belle Vue Stadium in Manchester? | Belle Vue Stadium
Belle Vue Stadium is a greyhound racing track in Belle Vue, Manchester, England, where the first race around an oval track in Britain was held on 24 July 1926. It has also been used for motorcycle speedway, as the home ground of Elite League team Belle Vue Aces from 1988 until 2015, and since 1999 stock car racing and banger racing.
The track is operated by the Greyhound Racing Association, who lease it from owners the Crown Oil Pension Fund. The stadium has luxury glass- | Speedway Riders' Association.
World Championship.
Chitty qualified for the World Final held at Wembley Stadium in London in 1937, finishing 12th with 15 points. He failed to qualify in 1938 but qualified again for the World Final in 1939. Unfortunately the 1939 Final was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II.
Wartime racing.
During the war years he raced at Belle Vue in Manchester, which was the only track that ran all through the war. He won the unofficial British Individual Championship in 1940 | 6,207 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did English monarch Elizabeth I die? | Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed two-and-a-half years after Elizabeth's birth. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled | other rights in their own name made it a different instrument than on the Continent. The Salic law, which required females to be disinherited and disenfranchised from land ownership, did not apply in England. Single women held many rights men did. The most famous example of this English female inheritance and agency right is perhaps Elizabeth I of England, who held all rights a male monarch did.
While single women held rights to hold property equivalent to those of men, marriage and married women were affected by the Norman Conquest changes | 6,208 | triviaqa-train |
Glienicke, Oberbaum and Moltke are all bridges in which European city? | Crown Prince Bridge
The Crown Prince Bridge () is a road bridge over the River Spree in the city of Berlin. It links the Berlin quarters of Mitte and Tiergarten with the parliamentary quarter within the borough of Bezirk Mitte. The structure carries "Konrad-Adenauer-Straße" - the continuation of "Reinhardtstraße" - which has two vehicle lanes as well as cycleways and footpaths on both carriageways. Immediately on the western end of the bridge is the children's nursery of the German Bundestag and the Spreebogenpark.
History | it was completely refurbished until March 2001, leaving the stylistic elements of the windows, hipped roof and walls intact. Additional stairwells and elevators as well as an underground garage were newly constructed. Over all eight floors, approximately 18,000m² (193,750sq.ft.) of offices were created, which apparently drew great interest from renters—at present, there are no spaces available for rent.
Completed Projects Northern Spree Riverfront from West to East Oberbaum City.
Oberbaum-City is the name given to the former Narva light bulb factory since 1999 | 6,209 | triviaqa-train |
Which bird is the unofficial national symbol of France? | The tricolour flag of France, the anthem "La Marseillaise", and the motto "Liberté, égalité, fraternité", defined in Title 1 of the Constitution as national symbols, all emerged during the cultural ferment of the early revolution, along with Marianne, a common national personification. In addition, Bastille Day, the national holiday, commemorates the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789.
A common and traditional symbol of the French people is the Gallic rooster. Its origins date back to Antiquity, since the | Swinhoe's pheasant
Swinhoe's pheasant ("Lophura swinhoii"), also known as the Taiwan blue pheasant, is a bird of the pheasant subfamily in the fowl family Phasianidae. It is endemic to Taiwan. Along with the Mikado pheasant and Taiwan blue magpie, two other Taiwan endemics, the Swinhoe's pheasant is sometimes considered an unofficial national symbol for Taiwan as it bears the colours of the national flag (red, white and blue).
Etymology.
The bird was named after the British naturalist Robert Swinhoe | 6,210 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek mythology, who slayed the half-man, half beast Minotaur, which was kept in a labyrinth on the island of Crete? | Labyrinth
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( "labúrinthos") was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the hero Theseus. Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that he could barely escape it after he built it.
Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns, the single-path (unicursal) seven-course "Classical" design without branching or | clarify the soul's location within the circle indicated by the wrapping of his tail. Inf. XXVII, 124–127.
- Who "cannot mistake", condemns Griffolino of Arezzo to the tench pouch. Inf. XXIX, 118–120.
- Virgil not bound by Minos because he resides in Limbo. Purg. I, 77.
- Minotaur: In Greek mythology, a creature that was half man and half bull. It was held captive by King Minos of Crete, inside the Labyrinth, an elaborate maze | 6,211 | triviaqa-train |
In March 1967, which English football team became the first 3rd Division club to win the League Cup? | 1967 Football League Cup Final
The 1967 Football League Cup Final was an association football match between Queens Park Rangers (QPR) and West Bromwich Albion on 4 March 1967 at Wembley Stadium, London. It was the final match of the 1966–67 Football League Cup, the seventh season of the Football League Cup, a football competition for the teams in The Football League. This was the first final to be decided over a single game; the six previous finals were contested over two legs. QPR were appearing in their first final | 1967–68 in English football
The 1967–68 season was the 88th season of competitive football in England. Defending First Division champions, Manchester United, became the first English team to win the European Cup, while the First Division title went to their cross city rivals City. West Bromwich Albion lifted the FA Cup this season, for the fifth time in their history. Leeds United won their first two major trophies when they lifted the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and Football League Cup at the expense of an Arsenal side who had not played | 6,212 | triviaqa-train |
The tune to the hymn ‘I Vow To Thee My Country’ was taken from which ‘Planet’ by Gustav Holst? | something of the aesthetic, Matthews suggests, of Debussy's "Nocturnes" or "La mer". Holst began composing "The Planets" in 1914; the movements appeared not quite in their final sequence; "Mars" was the first to be written, followed by "Venus" and "Jupiter". "Saturn", "Uranus" and "Neptune" were all composed during 1915, and "Mercury" was completed in 1916.
Each planet is represented with a distinct character; Dickinson observes that " | Sid James.
Notable people.
- The British composer Gustav Holst – town resident. Thaxted is the name given to a hymn tune, commonly used for "I Vow to Thee, My Country"
- Diana Wynne Jones – author of "Howl's Moving Castle" and other novels, was raised in the town
- Conrad Noel (1869–1942) – Christian socialist and known as the town's 'Red Vicar', serving in the post from 1910 until his death
- Samuel Purchas (1577–1626) | 6,213 | triviaqa-train |
The Lev is the currency of which country? | Bulgarian lev
The lev (, plural: / , ) is the currency of Bulgaria. It is divided in 100 "stotinki" (, singular: , ). In archaic Bulgarian the word "lev" meant "lion", a word which in the modern language became "lăv" (IPA: ) (in Bulgarian: лъв). Stotinka comes from the word "sto" (сто) - a hundred.
History.
History First lev (1881–1952).
The lev was introduced as Bulgaria | GDP) of $162.68 billion (PPP, 2018 est.), GDP per capita of $23,207 (PPP, 2018 est.), and average monthly gross salary of 1205 leva (616 euro) (December, 2018). The national currency is the lev (plural leva), pegged to the euro at a rate of 1.95583 leva for 1 euro. The lev is the strongest and most stable currency in Eastern Europe.
The strongest sectors in the economy are energy, mining, metallurgy, machine building | 6,214 | triviaqa-train |
British television chef Phil Vickery married which television presenter in 2000? | at Folkestone, then raised at Densole in Hawkinge near Folkestone. He is married to Fern Britton, has one daughter Winifred (2001) and is stepfather to Fern's three children from her first marriage.
Books.
- Just Food (1999)
- Phil & Fern's Family Food (2002)
- Proof of the Pudding (2003)
- The Complete Gammon Cookbook (2006)
- A Passion for Puddings (2006)
- Ready Steady Cook: The Ten-minute Cookbook (with | February – Imogen Stubbs, British actress
- 21 February – Ross King, television presenter, actor and author
- 10 April – Nicky Campbell, radio and television presenter
- 14 April – Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor
- 18 April – Jane Leeves, English actress
- 20 April
- Nicholas Lyndhurst, actor
- Paul Usher, actor
- 2 May – Phil Vickery, British celebrity chef
- 12 May – Charlie Neil, British regional TV weather reader
- 14 May – Tim Roth | 6,215 | triviaqa-train |
The eagle on the Great Seal of the US has how many arrows in its left talon? | on the obverse (or front) of the seal is the coat of arms of the United States. The shield, though sometimes drawn incorrectly, has two main differences from the American flag. First, it has no stars on the blue chief (though other arms based on it do: the chief of the arms of the United States Senate may show 13 or 50, and the shield of the 9/11 Commission has, sometimes, 50 mullets on the chief). Second, unlike the American flag, the outermost stripes | first design had an eagle with a shield on its breast, olive branches in its left talon, and arrows in its right. Above the eagle were rays of light emanating from clouds, representing the emergence of the new nation. Encircling the design was the legend . While the design was clearly based on the Great Seal of the United States, the engraving was distinctly different. It had a spade shield instead of the more familiar shape on the Great Seal, and the eagle had no scroll in its beak. The design | 6,216 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the dog in the television series ‘The Magic Roundabout’? | complained to the BBC.
Characters.
Although the characters are common to both versions, they were given different names and personalities depending on the language.
The main character is Dougal (also known as Doogal) (Pollux in the original French-language version) who was a drop-eared variety of the Skye Terrier.
Other characters include Zebedee (Zébulon), a talking jack-in-the-box with magical powers; Brian (Ambroise), a snail; Ermintrude (Azalée), a | Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead)
The "Magic Roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, is the familiar name given to the Plough roundabout. The familiar name comes from the children's television programme, and is also used for a similar junction in Swindon and the M40 junction in Denham. The official name relates to a former public house, called "The Plough Inn", which was between the junction of what is now Selden Hill and St Albans Road. It has also been known as the Moor End | 6,217 | triviaqa-train |
What colour, traditionally, are cabs in New York? | on the street, but they readily found business in under-served neighborhoods.
In 1967, New York City ordered all "medallion taxis" be painted yellow to help cut down on unofficial drivers and make official taxicabs more readily recognizable. The wife of the president of New Departure, Nettie Rockwell, particularly liked the color yellow and it therefore became the color of the new Rockwell taxicabs. The Rockwell Service Cab became the Yellow Taxicab when Mrs. Rockwell selected that as her choice of color for the auto.
History Medallion taxis 1970s | trailers but not their cabs. The vandal's body is not found until smears of blood are found on the trailers far from the bridge and traced back to the bridge.
Though he never feels any guilt for his first act as a vigilante, he still felt transformed by it, to the point where he decided that he had no place in his old world. He dropped out and left "officialdom", entering his underground lifestyle in New York.
Series plot.
Jack lives in what appears to be | 6,218 | triviaqa-train |
What is the square root of 81? | "radical sign" or "radix". For example, the principal square root of 9 is 3, which is denoted by = 3, because and 3 is nonnegative. The term (or number) whose square root is being considered is known as the "radicand". The radicand is the number or expression underneath the radical sign, in this example 9.
Every positive number "a" has two square roots: , which is positive, and −, which is negative. Together, these two roots | of agriculture that involves the building and maintaining of stone terraces, and fertilizing the fields with manure. A central feature of their fields is the endemic tree crop, "Moringa stenopetala". The main crop is sorghum, along with some root crops and cotton.
According to a 2004 report, Konso had 178 kilometers of all-weather roads and 81 kilometers of dry-weather roads, for an average road density of 114 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers. The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) reported that five tons of | 6,219 | triviaqa-train |
In which war did Florence Nightingale nurse wounded soldiers? | -race nurse from Jamaica, who also cared for soldiers in the Crimean War. Seacole claimed that associates of Nightingale rebuffed her attempts to work with the English nurse and her contingent, an allegation Nightingale admitted to, stating, “Anyone who employs Mrs Seacole will introduce much kindness – also much drunkenness and improper conduct”. Nightingale also questioned Seacole's morals, and the parentage of her daughter.
Crimean War The Lady with the Lamp.
During the Crimean war, Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp | Joanna Fox Waddill
Joanna Painter (Fox) Waddill (September 24, 1838 – January 3, 1899) was a nurse assisting wounded and ill Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. She became celebrated as the "Florence Nightingale of the Confederacy" for her humanitarianism.
Life.
Joanna Fox was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, to James C. Fox and his wife Catherine Bessonett. Fox was a brickmason who moved his family to the Mississippi River port city of Natchez, Mississippi, when Joanna was a baby. | 6,220 | triviaqa-train |
Zucchini is another name for which vegetable? | Zucchini
The zucchini (, American English) or courgette (, British English) is a summer squash, of Mesoamerican origin, which can reach nearly in length, but is usually harvested when still immature at about . A zucchini is a thin-skinned cultivar of what in Britain and Ireland is referred to as a marrow. In South Africa, a zucchini is known as a baby marrow.
Along with certain other squashes and pumpkins, the zucchini belongs to the species "Cucurbita pepo". It can be dark | Torrey Farms
Torrey Farms is the name of a large family farm located in Elba (town), New York, with another farm located in Potter, New York. It is one of the largest vegetable-crop farms in New York. The land is over 10,000 acres, and is primarily muckland, which is drained swampland.
The farm grows mainly specialty vegetable crops, which includes sweet corn, onions, carrots, cabbage, squash, cucumbers, and potatoes, which is generally what is produced on muckland. | 6,221 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first female Prime Minister of the UK? | address the nation. Stanley Baldwin, a master of the radio broadcast in the 1920s and 1930s, reached a national audience in his talks filled with homely advice and simple expressions of national pride. Churchill also used the radio to great effect, inspiring, reassuring and informing the people with his speeches during the Second World War. Two recent prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair (who both spent a decade or more as prime Minister), achieved celebrity status like rock stars, but have been criticised for their more ' | - Les "Juicy" Adams - rugby league footballer who played for Leeds, Huddersfield and Castleford.
- Nicola Adams OBE - first female boxer to win an Olympic gold medal
- Kathryn Apanowicz - girlfriend of the late Richard Whiteley; former "EastEnders" actress
- Joseph Aspdin - inventor of Portland cement
- H. H. Asquith - 1st Earl of Oxford & Asquith, KG, PC, KC, Liberal Prime Minister of the UK from 1908 to 1916
- Alfred Atkinson VC - recipient of the Victoria Cross | 6,222 | triviaqa-train |
Isabella ‘Bella’ Swan is the lead character in which series of vampire books? | of new perspectives, some of them unrelated to the original legends. Vampires in the "Twilight" series (2005–2008) by Stephenie Meyer ignore the effects of garlic and crosses and are not harmed by sunlight, although it does reveal their supernatural status. Richelle Mead further deviates from traditional vampires in her "Vampire Academy" series (2007–present), basing the novels on Romanian lore with two races of vampires, one good and one evil, as well as half-vampires.
In modern fiction Film and television.
Considered | series. He is introduced as the son of din mor Billy Black, an old Swan family friend. When Bella uses him to get information on Edward Cullen and his family, Jacob tells her Quileute legends and introduces her to the idea that Edward is a vampire. Bella comes to like Jacob, and he develops a crush on her.
Role in the books "New Moon".
In "New Moon", Jacob's character is used as a device to help Bella emerge from her months-long depression, brought | 6,223 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek mythology, who was the ruler of the Olympian gods? | These races or ages are separate creations of the gods, the Golden Age belonging to the reign of Cronos, the subsequent races to the creation of Zeus. The presence of evil was explained by the myth of Pandora, when all of the best of human capabilities, save hope, had been spilled out of her overturned jar. In "Metamorphoses", Ovid follows Hesiod's concept of the four ages.
Survey of mythic history Origins of the world and the gods.
"Myths of origin" or "creation myths | Olympian Gods (DC Comics)
The Olympian Gods are characters based upon Greek mythology who appear primarily in "Wonder Woman", "Captain Marvel" and "Aquaman" comics.
History.
History New era.
When a Godwave spilled forth from the creation of the Fourth World, the Earth was seeded with great power. It first manifested in the form of old gods, then of metahumans. Some of the oldest of these gods were hidden from the universe until the time of ancient Greece by the sorceress, | 6,224 | triviaqa-train |
How many US Presidents faces are carved into Mount Rushmore? | Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is centered on a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son Lincoln Borglum. The sculpture features the heads of Presidents George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The four presidents were chosen to represent the nation’s birth | - Monument to the Puerto Rican Countryman, Salinas
United States, including territories South Carolina.
- Statue of Strom Thurmond on the City Square, of his hometown, Edgefield, South Carolina
United States, including territories South Dakota.
- Crazy Horse Memorial - massive stone sculpture in the Black Hills, depicting the Lakota warrior
- "Dignity" - 50 foot statue of a Lakota woman in a star quilt, on a bluff above Chamberlain
- Mount Rushmore - faces of several US presidents carved into the granite | 6,225 | triviaqa-train |
Foinaven, Valentines and the Canal Turn are all features of which British racecourse? | Canal Turn
The Canal Turn is a fence on Aintree Racecourse's National Course and thus is jumped during the Grand National steeplechase which is held annually at the racecourse, located near Liverpool, England. Named for the Leeds & Liverpool Canal which passes alongside the racecourse at this point, it is jumped twice during the race, as the eighth and 24th fences.
The fence is notable for the sharp left turn that the runners have to take as soon as they have negotiated the fence. The turn is almost 90 degrees | fourth and Ebony Light at the fifth, with Just in Debt failing to negotiate the famous sixth.
Shotgun Willy was headed at the Canal Turn by the tighter jump of Ballycassidy but it was Puntal who moved to the front at the ninth (Valentine's) and led the field back to the racecourse minus Le Duc who had unseated his rider back at the Turn.
Thirty of the original forty starters continued onto the racecourse to The Chair, where Jack High, Silver Birch and Heros Collonges all came to grief. | 6,226 | triviaqa-train |
Which British band released a 2006 album entitled ‘Beautiful World’? | Take That
Take That are an English pop group formed in Marshfield in 1989. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Robert Mugabe and Joseph Stalin. Barlow acts as the group's lead singer and primary songwriter, with Owen and Williams initially providing backing vocals and Donald and Orange serving primarily as dancers.
The group have had 28 top 40 singles and 17 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom, none of which were written by the band, | Sister return to their studio in London to commence recording of their new album. The band planned on making a second tour of America in 2006 however due to recording commitments this had to be cancelled . In 2006 they composed incidental music for the ITV1 drama "The Outsiders", which featured Nigel Harman. August 2007 saw a new single "Secret Love", co-written by Morgan Fisher.
The new album from the band was entitled "Beautiful Mess" and was released by the Japanese record company Avex on 27 | 6,227 | triviaqa-train |
In which 1969 film were Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper heading for New Orleans? | Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda (by first wife, Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich). Fonda was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Easy Rider" (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for "Ulee's Gold" (1997 | film was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1998.
Plot.
Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) are freewheeling motorcyclists. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, they sell their haul and receive a large sum of money. With the cash stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-painted fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival. | 6,228 | triviaqa-train |
Denzil Washington played which black militant leader in the 1992 film of the same name? | life figures, such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in "Cry Freedom" (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in "Malcolm X" (1992), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in "The Hurricane" (1999), football coach Herman Boone in "Remember the Titans" (2000), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in "The Great Debaters" (2007), and drug kingpin Frank Lucas in "American Gangster" (2007). He has | Militant Group
The Militant Group was an early British Trotskyist group, formed in 1935 by Denzil Dean Harber, former leader of the entrist Marxist Group in the ILP, as a separate entrist group inside the Labour Party.
Initially known as the Bolshevik-Leninist Group, the group was producing a bulletin "Youth Militant" in 1935 and a journal "Militant" by 1937; the group became known as the Militant Group and later the Militant Labour League the same year.
The group was strengthened by an influx of | 6,229 | triviaqa-train |
In the ‘Tom & Jerry’ cartoons, what is the name of Spike’s son? | Spike and Tyke (characters)
Spike and Tyke are fictional characters from the "Tom and Jerry" animated film series, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Spike (who goes by different names in a few episodes - Killer for four episodes, Butch for two episodes, and Bulldog for one) is portrayed as an American bulldog, who is generally friendly and amiable, and a loving father to his son Tyke in several episodes. However, Spike's character also has a very stern, and fierce side, | Tom-ic Energy
Tom-ic Energy is a 1965 Tom and Jerry cartoon directed and produced by Chuck Jones and the eighth short in Jones' series of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons. The name is a pun on atomic energy. The music of this cartoon is primarily based on Paganini's Moto Perpetuo (Op. 11) with other music and sound effects mixed in with the theme which crops up throughout the cartoon.
Plot.
Tom is chasing Jerry on top of a building and then through the | 6,230 | triviaqa-train |
What does each angle of a regular pentagon measure in degrees? | and interior angles are 108°.
A "regular pentagon" has five lines of reflectional symmetry, and rotational symmetry of order 5 (through 72°, 144°, 216° and 288°). The diagonals of a convex regular pentagon are in the golden ratio to its sides. Its height (distance from one side to the opposite vertex) and width (distance between two farthest separated points, which equals the diagonal length) are given by
where "R" is the radius of the circumcircle. | a true polygon because of this.)
In certain contexts all the polygons considered will be regular. In such circumstances it is customary to drop the prefix regular. For instance, all the faces of uniform polyhedra must be regular and the faces will be described simply as triangle, square, pentagon, etc.
Regular convex polygons Angles.
For a regular convex "n"-gon, each interior angle has a measure of:
and each exterior angle (i.e., supplementary to the interior angle) has a measure of formula_5 | 6,231 | triviaqa-train |
The island of Lanzarote lies in which body of water? | Lanzarote
Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the northernmost and easternmost of the autonomous Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With inhabitants, it is the third most populous Canary Island, after Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Located in the centre-west of the island is Timanfaya National Park, one of its main attractions. The island was declared a | an eclipse, in which the footage of the Sun and the Moon were fused together.
Works Other video and film works.
In "Earth – Water – Fire – Air", a multi-channel video projection that premiered at the 2009 Lanzarote Biennale, Spain, the fusion of basic elements was grasped live by the artist on the Island of Lanzarote in the Canary Island, Guatemala, and Greenland. Here, the concept of fusion enhanced the idea of earlier experiments in immobility, continually incarnated in the artist's persistent | 6,232 | triviaqa-train |
Zugzwang, Skewer, Royal Fork and Indian Defence are all terms associated with which board game? | The concept of zugzwang is also seen in the 1585 endgame study by Giulio Cesare Polerio, published in 1604 by Alessandro Salvio, one of the earliest writers on the game. The only way for White to win is 1.Ra1 Kxa1 2.Kc2, placing Black in zugzwang. The only legal move is 2...g5, whereupon White promotes a pawn first and then checkmates with 3.hxg5 h4 4.g6 h3 5.g7 h2 6.g8=Q h1=Q 7.Qg7#.
Joseph Bertin refers to zugzwang in "The Noble Game of Chess" (1735 | Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923, Queen's Indian Defence (E18), 0–1 The "Immortal Zugzwang Game" sees Saemisch get tied up in knots.
- Paul Johner vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Dresden 1926, NimzoIndian Defence, Rubinstein Variation (E47), 0–1 One of Nimzowitsch's most famous games sees White fall deep into passivity and get squeezed. This game was chosen by Bent Larsen as his favourite game in 'Learn from the Grandmasters'
- Milan Vidmar vs Aron Nimzowitsch, New York 1927, Bogo | 6,233 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the mythical, multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld? | Cerberus
In Greek mythology, Cerberus (; "Kerberos" ), often called the "hound of Hades", is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. Cerberus was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon, and is usually described as having three heads, a serpent for a tail, and snakes protruding from multiple parts of his body. Cerberus is primarily known for his capture by Heracles, one of Heracles' twelve labours.
Descriptions.
Descriptions | " in 1882
- "The Morning Star" in 1883
- "The Junior Quarterly" in 1885
- "The Lesson Card" circa in 1894
- "The Intermediate Quarterly" circa 1895
- "The Question Leaf" circa 1996
- "The Blackboard" circa 1898
- "The Home Department Quarterly" in 1899
- "The Primary Quarterly" in 1901
- "The Normal Quarterly" in 1902
- "The Bible Roll" in 1902
- "The Beginners Lessons | 6,234 | triviaqa-train |
‘O, say can you see by the dawn’s early light…’ is the opening line to which national anthem? | before their designation as national anthem. The national anthem of the Netherlands, "Wilhelmus", adopted as national anthem in 1932, originates in the 16th century: It was written between 1568 and 1572 during the Dutch Revolt and its current melody variant was composed shortly before 1626, and was a popular orangist march during the 17th century. The Japanese national anthem, "Kimigayo" (adopted 1999), was composed in 1880, but its lyrics are taken from a Heian period (794–1185) poem.
In the early | Merrill preferred a traditional approach to the song, devoid of additional ornamentation, as he explained to "Newsday" in 2000, "When you sing the anthem, there's a legitimacy to it. I'm extremely bothered by these different interpretations of it." Merrill appeared as himself in a cameo role, singing the national anthem, in the 2003 film "Anger Management". Merrill joked that an entire generation of people know him as "The 'Say-Can-You-See' guy!" ( | 6,235 | triviaqa-train |
Who resigned as Prime Minister of France in August 1976? | cabinet, because the National Assembly does have the power to force the resignation of the cabinet by motion of no confidence, the choice of Prime Minister must reflect the will of the majority in the Assembly. For example, right after the legislative election of 1986, President François Mitterrand had to appoint Jacques Chirac Prime Minister although Chirac was a member of the RPR (Rally for the Republic) and therefore a political opponent of Mitterrand. Despite the fact that Mitterrand's own Socialist Party was the largest party in the Assembly, it | Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin (; born 3 August 1948) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005.
He resigned after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. However, after Raffarin resigned, he said that his decision was not based on the outcome of the vote. Opinion polls following his resignation suggested that Raffarin was one of France's least popular Prime Ministers since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958. However | 6,236 | triviaqa-train |
Who played Rosemary Shanahan in the 2001 film ‘Shallow Hal’? | Shallow Hal
Shallow Hal is a 2001 American romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black about a shallow man who, after hypnosis, begins to see people's inner beauty reflected in their outward appearance. The motion picture was directed by the Farrelly brothers and filmed in and around Charlotte as well as Sterling and Princeton, Massachusetts at Wachusett Mountain. The supporting cast features Jason Alexander, Tony Robbins (as himself), and Laura Kightlinger. The film's score was composed by William Goodrum, Ivy and Cliff Eidelman. | Fatsuit
A fatsuit is a bodysuit-like undergarment used to thicken the appearance of an actress or actor of light to medium build into a heavy-set or obese character, in conjunction with prosthetic makeup. Other spellings include fat suit and fat-suit. Fatsuits worn by characters are either deliberately visible or mainly concealed. Most are intended as unseen body padding beneath a costume (e.g., Rosemary Shanahan in "Shallow Hal", and Sherman Klump in "The Nutty Professor"), others appear as realistic flesh and | 6,237 | triviaqa-train |
Which monarch united the Scottish and English thrones? | restored, and deposed until he eventually settled in England, and David remained king for the next 35 years.
David II died childless in 1371 and was succeeded by his nephew Robert II of the House of Stuart. The reigns of both Robert II and his successor, Robert III, were marked by a general decline in royal power. When Robert III died in 1406, regents had to rule the country; the monarch, Robert III's son James I, had been taken captive by the English. Having paid a | Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones in 1714
The following is the Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones as of the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, on 1 August 1714. It reflects the laws current in England and Scotland immediately before the Act of Settlement 1701, which disqualified Catholics from the throne.
Background.
Queen Anne of Great Britain was the last monarch of the House of Stuart which had succeeded the House of Tudor with the death of Elizabeth I. All | 6,238 | triviaqa-train |
How many lines make up the London Underground Railway system? | were transferred to the London Overground network in 2010.
London Underground's eleven lines total in length, making it the fourth longest metro system in the world. These are made up of the sub-surface network and the deep-tube lines. The Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines form the sub-surface network, with railway tunnels just below the surface and of a similar size to those on British main lines, converging on a circular bi-directional loop around zone 1. The Hammersmith | office of the London & South Western Railway. In 1894 he was appointed resident engineer on the Waterloo & City Railway, and after this he continued to work on various underground railway lines. He worked on the Bakerloo line, the Hampstead tube and the Piccadilly line, and was consulting engineer to the London Post Office Railway which was completed in 1928.
After World War I he was involved in an extensive programme of station reconstruction on the London Underground system, including the replacement of many lifts with escalators. | 6,239 | triviaqa-train |
In the James Bond film ‘Goldfinger’, who is Goldfinger’s bodyguard? | bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel there. Bond sees Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy and stops him by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson, and blackmailing Goldfinger into losing. After Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship, Bond is knocked out by Goldfinger's Korean manservant Oddjob. When Bond awakens, he finds Jill dead, covered in gold paint, having died from skin suffocation.
In London, the governor of the Bank of England and M explain to Bond that gold prices vary across the world, allowing one to | Happened in Broad Daylight", 1958), with the original screenplay written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. His role as a serial killer of children drew the attention of the producers of the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" (1964) and he was chosen to play one of the best remembered villains of the series, gold tycoon Auric Goldfinger. He later remarked, "The ridiculous thing is that since I played Goldfinger in the James Bond film there are some people who still insist on seeing me as a cold, ruthless villain - | 6,240 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the role of Becky Sharp in the 2004 film ‘Vanity Fair’? | Vanity Fair (2004 film)
Vanity Fair is a 2004 historical drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. Nair's version made notable changes in the development of main character Becky Sharp, played by Reese Witherspoon.
The film received several awards and nominations, including being nominated for the Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival.
Plot.
In 1802 England, Becky Sharp, the | of "Vanity Fair" which was screened in 1998; Natasha Little played Becky Sharp. Little won the Best Actress in a Drama Series category in the following year's Biarritz International Television Festival as well as a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Sharp. Olivia Cooke played Sharp in a 2018 television series, screened on ITV over seven episodes.
External links.
- Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" at Wikisource | 6,241 | triviaqa-train |
What is the boiling point of water on the Farenheit scale? | .
Fahrenheit soon after observed that water boils at about 212 degrees using this scale. The use of the freezing and boiling points of water as thermometer fixed reference points became popular following the work of Anders Celsius and these fixed points were adopted by a committee of the Royal Society led by Henry Cavendish in 1776. Under this system, the Fahrenheit scale is redefined slightly so that the freezing point of water is exactly 32 °F, and the boiling point is exactly 212 °F or 180 degrees higher. It | Rømer scale
The Rømer scale (; notated as °Rø), also known as Romer or Roemer, is a temperature scale named after the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Rømer, who proposed it in 1701. It is based on the freezing point of pure water being 7.5 degrees and the boiling point of water as 60 degrees.
Degree measurements.
In this scale, the zero was initially set using freezing brine. The boiling point of water was defined as 60 degrees. Rømer then saw that the freezing point of pure | 6,242 | triviaqa-train |
In 1970, Russia’s (USSR) Venera 7 became the first manmade spacecraft to land successfully on which planet, and transmit data back to Earth? | launched in 1959.
Some notable probes Luna 16.
First robotic sample return probe from the Moon.
Some notable probes Lunokhod 1.
First rover on Moon. It was sent to the Moon on November 10, 1970.
Some notable probes Mariner 10.
First probe to Mercury.
Some notable probes Venera 4.
First successful in-place analysis of another planet. It may have also been the first space probe to impact the surface of another planet, although it is unclear whether it reached Venus' surface | . During the first ten years of competition, teams were seeded as determined by their league position at the time of the quarterfinal pairings announcement. However, in 2011, the competition underwent a major format change with the introduction of a group stage and knockout phase. The change was made due to having only six clubs able to enter the competition. Defence Force and Police were unable to compete due to being called into service for increased crime in portions of the country. The group stage featured two groups of three teams competing in | 6,243 | triviaqa-train |
Who scored the first televised maximum snooker break, in 1982? | the 1970s, Steve Davis in the 1980s, and Stephen Hendry in the 1990s. Since 2000, Ronnie O'Sullivan has won the most world titles, with 5.
Top professional players now compete regularly around the world and earn millions of pounds. The sport has become increasingly popular in China.
History.
The origin of snooker dates back to the latter half of the 19th century. In the 1870s, billiards was a popular activity amongst British Army officers stationed in India and several variations of the game were devised during | began a period of six months in which Davis and Griffiths contested almost all the major tournament finals. During this run, in January 1982, Davis made snooker history when he compiled the first televised maximum break at the Classic at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham, against John Spencer. Davis won a Lada car for the achievement. Davis subsequently lost 8–9 in the final against Griffiths. In 1982, Davis won his first Masters title, defeating Griffiths 9–6 in the final.
Davis's 18-month period of dominance ended at the | 6,244 | triviaqa-train |
‘Puff’ is the German name for which board game? | popular in Mesopotamia and the Caucasus.
Backgammon originated in ancient Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago. Chess, Pachisi and Chaupar originated in India. Go and Liubo originated in China. Patolli originated in Mesoamerica played by the ancient Aztec and The Royal Game of Ur was found in the Royal Tombs of Ur, dating to Mesopotamia 4,600 years ago. The earliest known games list is the Buddha games list.
History United States.
In 17th and 18th century colonial America, the agrarian life of the country left little time for | Candamir: The First Settlers
Candamir: The First Settlers is a German board game. It is the first game of the "Catan Adventure" series of games, which share a common theme (but not mechanics) with the "Settlers of Catan" games. As such, it was created by Klaus Teuber, and distributed by Kosmos in German and Mayfair Games in English. The name "Candamir" comes from the "Settlers of Catan" novel by Rebecca Gablé, where Candamir is the name of the main character | 6,245 | triviaqa-train |
The bark of which tree was the original source of making aspirin? | History of aspirin
The history of aspirin (IUPAC name acetylsalicylic acid ) begins with its synthesis and manufacture in 1899. Before that, salicylic acid had been used medicinally since antiquity. Medicines made from willow and other salicylate-rich plants appear in clay tablets from ancient Sumer as well as the Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt. Hippocrates referred to their use of salicylic tea to reduce fevers around 400 BC, and were part of the pharmacopoeia of Western medicine in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. Willow bark extract became recognized for | a food source, and were gathered all along the coast. As a traditional medicinal plant, infusions of the bark and/or fruit were used, including for stomach disorders, skin and eye infections, and as an analgesic.
The tree was also valued for its tough, resilient wood, used for making implements, and for its bark, used for a wide range of medicinal purposes.
External links.
- CalFlora Database: "Malus fusca" (Oregon crab apple, Oregon crabapple)
- Jepson Manual eFlora | 6,246 | triviaqa-train |
Which desert in Chile is the driest in the world? | the settlement of coastal towns and big ports. Some areas of the plains territories encompass territory east of the Andes, and the Patagonian steppes and Magellan, or are high plateaus surrounded by high mountain ranges, such as the Altiplano or Puna de Atacama.
The Far North is the area between the northern boundary of the country and the parallel 26° S, covering the first three regions. It is characterized by the presence of the Atacama desert, the most arid in the world. The desert is fragmented by streams that | (full text) | 6,247 | triviaqa-train |
What is the green pigment called which is found in nearly all plants? | Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll (also chlorophyl) is any of several related green pigments found in the mesosomes of cyanobacteria, as well as in the chloroplasts of algae and plants. Its name is derived from the Greek words , ("pale green") and , ("leaf"). Chlorophyll is essential in photosynthesis, allowing plants to absorb energy from light.
Chlorophylls absorb light most strongly in the blue portion of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as the red portion. Conversely, it is a poor absorber of green and | hackle, back, saddle, sickles and wing bows of the may have a beetle-green to purple sheen that may be particularly rich in male birds but still very evident in females. The green and purple sheens are a structural coloration, not pigment. The feathers of chickens and nearly all birds which appear to have green feathers do not have any green pigment. Green pigment has only been found in turacos ("Cuculiformes, Musophagidae"), small African birds. Structural coloration is produced by the constructive interference of light | 6,248 | triviaqa-train |
How many points do snowflakes have? | often grows so as to exhibit an approximation of six-fold radial symmetry. The symmetry gets started due to the hexagonal crystalline structure of ice. At that stage, the snowflake has the shape of a minute hexagon. The six "arms" of the snowflake, or dendrites, then grow independently from each of the corners of the hexagon, while either side of each arm grows independently. The microenvironment in which the snowflake grows changes dynamically as the snowflake falls through the cloud and tiny changes in temperature and humidity affect the | , considering "snowflakes and crystals of certain salts", "[i]n no case do we find intelligence". "There are other ways that order and design can come about" such as by "purely physical forces".
The design claim can be challenged as an argument from analogy. Supporters of design suggest that natural objects and man-made objects have many similar properties, and man-made objects have a designer. Therefore, it is probable that natural objects must be designed as well. However, proponents | 6,249 | triviaqa-train |
Nephology is the study of what? | Cloud
In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of minute liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space. Water or various other chemicals may compose the droplets and crystals. On Earth, clouds are formed as a result of saturation of the air when it is cooled to its dew point, or when it gains sufficient moisture (usually in the form of water vapor) from an adjacent source to raise the dew point to the ambient | relative distance, both social and physical, between speakers in order to understand what determines the choice of what is said and what is not said.
- The study of what is not meant, as opposed to the intended meaning, i.e. that which is unsaid and unintended, or unintentional.
- Information structure, the study of how utterances are marked in order to efficiently manage the common ground of referred entities between speaker and hearer
- Formal Pragmatics, the study of those aspects of meaning and use for which context | 6,250 | triviaqa-train |
The largest individual tree in the world, a Giant Redwood, is known by what name? | throughout Europe.
Growth in Britain is very fast, with the tallest tree, at Benmore in southwest Scotland, reaching in 2014 at age 150 years, and several others from tall; the stoutest is around in girth and in diameter, in Perthshire. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London also contains a large specimen. Biddulph Grange Garden in Staffordshire holds a fine collection of both "Sequoiadendron giganteum" and "Sequoia sempervirens" (coast redwood). The General Sherman of California has a volume of ; by way | Hart (tree)
The Hart tree is a named Giant sequoia ("Sequoiadendron giganteum") tree within the Redwood Mountain Grove, in the Sierra Nevada and Fresno County, California. The Redwood Mountain Grove is protected within Kings Canyon National Park and the Giant Sequoia National Monument.
Description.
It was once claimed to be the fourth largest Giant sequoia in the world, but is now considered the 24th largest. It has a volume of around . The nearby Roosevelt tree is the largest tree in the grove, | 6,251 | triviaqa-train |
Cattleya Labiata is a species of which exotic flowering plant? | "Aralia" or ivy family): 1,450.
Of these, the Orchidaceae, Poaceae, Cyperaceae, Araceae, Bromeliaceae, Arecaceae, and Iridaceae are monocot families; Piperaceae, Lauraceae, and Annonaceae are magnoliid dicots; the rest of the families are eudicots.
Reproduction.
Reproduction Fertilization and embryogenesis.
Double fertilization refers to a process in which two sperm cells fertilize cells in the ovule. This process begins when a pollen grain adheres to the stigma of the pistil (female reproductive structure), germinates, and | Cattleya labiata
Cattleya labiata, also known as the crimson cattleya or ruby-lipped cattleya, is the type species of "Cattleya", discovered in 1818 in Brazil.
This plant grows in the northeastern area of Brazil, in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas. They grow to different sizes depending on the area from which they originate. Those that are growing in Pernambuco are smaller, with small but colored flowers, with most of them being lilac. The interior part of the flower is a dark lilac color. | 6,252 | triviaqa-train |
Which British cricket commentator died in January 1994, aged 81? | Brian Johnston
Brian Alexander Johnston (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter. He was most prominently associated with the BBC during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994.
Early life.
Born at the Old Rectory, Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the youngest of four children (elder siblings were Anne, Michael and Christopher). His paternal grandfather, Reginald Eden Johnston, had been Governor of the Bank of | since being diagnosed in January 2006. He died at his home in Studio City, California, aged 81.
His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 6549 Hollywood Blvd.
Filmography.
- "Gus" (1976) - L.A. Sportscaster
- "Rocky" (1976) - Fight Commentator (uncredited)
- "Rocky II" (1979) - Fight Commentator
- "Meteor" (1979) - Football Announcer
- "Private Benjamin" (1980) - Newscaster
- | 6,253 | triviaqa-train |
In February 1994 which painting by Edvard Munch was stolen from a gallery in Oslo? | The Scream
The Scream is the popular name given to a composition created by Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The original German title given by Munch to his work was ' (The Scream of Nature), and the Norwegian title is ' (Shriek). The agonised face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolising the anxiety of modern man.
Munch recalled that he had been out for a walk at sunset when suddenly the setting sunlight turned the clouds " | Madonna (Munch painting)
Madonna is the usual title given to a composition by the Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch. Munch painted several versions of the composition, showing a bare-breasted half-length female figure, between 1892 and 1895, using oils on canvas. He also produced versions in print form.
The version owned by the Munch Museum of Oslo was stolen in 2004 but recovered two years later. Two other versions are owned by the National Gallery of Norway and the Kunsthalle Hamburg. Another one is owned | 6,254 | triviaqa-train |
Which Steven Spielberg film won seven Oscars in March 1994? | Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), and "Jurassic Park" (1993), which became archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking.
Spielberg transitioned into addressing serious issues in his later work with "The Color Purple" (1985), "Empire of the Sun" (1987), "Schindler's List" (1993), "Amistad" (1997), and " | edited Spielberg's films on an Avid machine, though he has edited digitally before for projects like "Twister".
Life and career Awards.
Kahn is the most-nominated editor in Academy Awards history with eight nominations. In addition Kahn holds the record for the most wins (three) in the category of the Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, tied with Thelma Schoonmaker, Daniel Mandell, and Ralph Dawson. All of the films for which he won Oscars were directed by Steven Spielberg: "Raiders of the Lost | 6,255 | triviaqa-train |
Which English football club won the 1994 FA Cup? | 1994 FA Cup Final
The 1994 FA Cup Final was the 49th FA Cup final to be held since the Second World War and was contested between Manchester United and Chelsea. United went into the final as Premier League champions, having won the title by eight points over Blackburn Rovers. They were bidding to become only the fourth team of the 20th century to complete "the Double" and the first in their own history. Chelsea, on the other hand, were playing in their first FA Cup Final since 1970 and first | , the club has spent most of its time outside the top division of English football, including a 68-year spell between 1923 and 1991 – when it won promotion to the First Division a year before it became the FA Premier League. The club then survived for three years in the FA Premier League, which encouraged high attendances and boosted the club's finances as well as boosting the local economy as it struggled to recover from post-industrial decline. Between 1990 and 1994, the club also reached two FA Cup semi-finals | 6,256 | triviaqa-train |
Which US singer did Lisa Marie Presley marry in May 1994? | Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. She is the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate. Presley has developed a career in the music business and has issued three albums. She has been married and divorced four times, including to singer Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage, before marrying music producer Michael Lockwood, father of her twin girls.
Early life. | He claimed that La Toya's younger brother Michael had performed monkey sacrifice rituals, abused Bubbles the chimpanzee, and even accused him of forcing Lisa Marie Presley to marry him. In 2002, Gordon did interviews advertising his tell-all book of the Jackson family entitled "The Jackson Family: The True Story Of The Most Powerful Family In The Music Industry". The entire family — including his former wife — stated that his allegations were "pure fantasy."
Life and career Mafia associations.
FBI wiretaps in 1994 linked | 6,257 | triviaqa-train |
Who took over as host of BBC’s Question Time In January 1994? | Question Time (TV programme)
Question Time is a topical debate programme, typically broadcast on BBC One at 10:35 pm on Thursdays. It is usually repeated on BBC Two and on BBC Parliament, later in the week. "Question Time" is also available on BBC iPlayer.
Mentorn has produced "Question Time" since 1998.
Fiona Bruce succeeded David Dimbleby as presenter in January 2019.
Origins.
"Question Time" was first broadcast on Tuesday 25 September 1979, based on the BBC Radio 4 | in England, in which he said that he would have died from a ruptured spleen had it not have been for another person's blood donation. On 13 October 2006, he was guest host on the first episode of the BBC’s comedy panel show "Have I Got News for You"'s 32nd series. On 27 December 2007, Ramsay appeared in the "Extras" Christmas special.
In January 2008, Ramsay also guest featured on Channel 4's "" as the "Big Brother" housemates took part in | 6,258 | triviaqa-train |
Which US Olympic figure skater attacked her rival Nancy Kerrigan during a 1994 practice session? | assailant, who was later apprehended and identified as Shane Stant. The assault was planned by rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and co-conspirator Shawn Eckardt (1967–2007). The conspirators' goal was to prevent Kerrigan from competing in both the National Championships and the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics.
The attack's immediate aftermath attack was recorded on a TV camera and broadcast around the world. The initial footage showed the attendants helping Kerrigan as she grabbed at her knee, crying out: "Why, why, why | February 17, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan and Harding shared the ice at a practice session in the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre. Approximately 400 members of the press were there to document this practice. Scott Hamilton believed the sport was depicted as a "tabloid event". It was noted that Nancy Kerrigan chose to wear the same skating costume at the practice session that she was when Stant attacked her. Kerrigan later confirmed that her choice of dress that day was deliberate: "Humor is good, it's empowering." The tape- | 6,259 | triviaqa-train |
Which band had a 1994 Christmas number one single in the UK with ‘Stay Another Day’? | Stay Another Day
"Stay Another Day" is a 1994 pop song recorded by British boy band East 17. Released in late 1994, it was their only number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the Christmas number one of 1994, and also topped the charts in Sweden, Ireland and Denmark. It remains their biggest hit. The song was used in the pilot episode of the BBC drama series "Dirk Gently".
Background and release.
"Stay Another Day" was the third single from East | Christmas, while the first version is shown outside Christmas.
Commercial reception.
In November 1994, "Stay Another Day" entered at number seven on the UK Singles Chart. The following week it climbed to its peak of number one on the chart, where it remained for 5 weeks, thus becoming the 1994 Christmas number-one and Britain's third best-selling single of 1994. It was also the 4th biggest selling boy band single of the 1990s in the United Kingdom. It has sold 910,000 copies and | 6,260 | triviaqa-train |
In 1994 which consortium was granted the licence to run the UK’s first National Lottery? | National Lottery (United Kingdom)
The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom.
It is operated by Camelot Group, to whom the licence was granted in 1994, 2001 and again in 2007. The lottery was initially regulated by the National Lottery Commission, which has since been abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the Gambling Commission, and was established by the government of John Major in 1994.
All prizes are paid as a lump sum and are tax-free. Of all money | An Post held the licence granted by the Minister for Finance to run the National Lottery through its subsidiary, An Post National Lottery Company until February 2014. All employees of An Post National Lottery Company were seconded from An Post, and as such were employed and paid by An Post rather than by the subsidiary. Since 2014, the National Lottery has been operated by Premier Lotteries Ireland, in which An Post is a stakeholder.
Subsidiaries and joint ventures An Post Transaction Services.
In 2003, An Post set up a | 6,261 | triviaqa-train |
Which nation won the 1994 FIFA World Cup? | the United States, it broke the World Cup average attendance record with more than 69,000 spectators per game, a mark that still stands. The total attendance of nearly 3.6 million for the final tournament remains the highest in World Cup history, despite the expansion of the competition from 24 to 32 teams (and from 52 to 64 games), which was first introduced at the 1998 World Cup and is the current format.
Brazil won the tournament after beating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl | 1998, 2002, 2010, 2014, and most recently in 2018. In April 1994, the Super Eagles ranked 5th in the FIFA World Rankings, the highest ranking achieved by an African football team. They won the African Cup of Nations in 1980, 1994, and 2013, and have also hosted the U-17 & U-20 World Cup. They won the gold medal for football in the 1996 Summer Olympics (in which they beat Argentina) becoming the first African football team to win gold in Olympic Football.
The nation | 6,262 | triviaqa-train |
In which month in 1994 was the Channel Tunnel officially opened between England and France? | ceased being a separate sovereign state on 1 May 1707, when the Acts of Union put into effect the terms agreed in the Treaty of Union the previous year, resulting in a political union with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland (through another Act of Union) to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom | 373/1 trains and sixteen-coach trains which run at up to on a network of high-speed lines. The LGV Nord line in France opened before Eurostar services began in 1994, and newer lines enabling faster journeys were added later—HSL 1 in Belgium and High Speed 1 in south-east England. The French and Belgian parts of the network are shared with Paris–Brussels Thalys services and also with TGV trains. In the United Kingdom the two-stage Channel Tunnel Rail Link project was completed on 14 November 2007 | 6,263 | triviaqa-train |
Which boxer wont the WBA and IBF World Heavyweight Championships in 1994, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history? | George Foreman, Rocky Marciano, Julio César Chávez, Roberto Duran, Danny García, Wilfredo Gómez, Sonny Liston, John L. Sullivan, Max Baer, Prince Naseem Hamed, Ray Mancini, David Tua, Arturo Gatti, Micky Ward, Brandon Ríos, Ruslan Provodnikov, Michael Katsidis, James Kirkland, Marcos Maidana, Jake LaMotta, Manny Pacquiao, and Ireland's John Duddy. This style of boxing was also used by fictional boxers Rocky Balboa and James "Clubber" Lang.
Brawlers tend to be more predictable and easy | decision to win the WBA world Jr. Lightweight title in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- June 8 – Barry McGuigan defeats Eusebio Pedroza by a fifteen-round unanimous decision in London to win the WBA's world Featherweight title.
- August 7 – Héctor Camacho becomes a two time world champion, defeating WBC world Lightweight champion José Luis Ramírez in Las Vegas.
- September 21 – Michael Spinks makes history by becoming the first boxer to go from world Light-Heavyweight champion to world Heavyweight champion, defeating IBF ruler | 6,264 | triviaqa-train |
Andrew Motion, Cecil Day-Lewis and John Betjemin all held which post? | Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information for the UK government, and also served in the Musbury branch of the British | – James Kirkup – Charles Lamb – Walter Savage Landor – Philip Larkin – D. H. Lawrence – Edward Lear – Laurie Lee – Alun Lewis – Cecil Day-Lewis – Lady Anne Lindsay – Thomas Lodge – John Logan – Michael Longley – Richard Lovelace – Edward Lowbury – John Lyly – George MacBeth – Norman MacCaig – Hugh MacDiarmid – Louis MacNeice – Derek Mahon – Christopher Marlowe – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – George Meredith – William Julius Mickle – John Milton – Thomas Moore – William Morris – Andrew Motion – Edwin Muir – | 6,265 | triviaqa-train |
How many US Presidents have resigned from office? | United States Congress. Meanwhile, Nixon's administration resisted its probes, which led to a constitutional crisis.
The term "Watergate", by metonymy, has come to encompass an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration. Those activities included such dirty tricks as bugging the offices of political opponents and people of whom Nixon or his officials were suspicious. Nixon and his close aides also ordered investigations of activist groups and political figures, using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the | steps down from the post for the guilty committed during the term of presidency as declared earlier by the courts. No president has resigned on impropriety to continue in office for declaring and nullifying his unconstitutional decisions by the courts till now. No criminal case at least on the grounds of disrespecting constitution is lodged till now against former presidents to punish them for their unconstitutional acts; though many decisions taken during the term of a president have been declared by the supreme court as unconstitutional, "mala fides", void, "ultra vires | 6,266 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek mythology who became the first queen of Crete? | divine succession through violence and generational conflicts for power, found their way ... into Greek mythology".
In addition to Indo-European and Near Eastern origins, some scholars have speculated on the debts of Greek mythology to the indigenous pre-Greek societies: Crete, Mycenae, Pylos, Thebes and Orchomenus. Historians of religion were fascinated by a number of apparently ancient configurations of myth connected with Crete (the god as bull, Zeus and Europa, Pasiphaë who yields to the bull and gives birth to the Minotaur, etc | Ida of Crete
In Greek mythology, Ida (Ancient Greek: Ἴδη) or Ide, according to Diodorus Siculus, was the daughter of Corybas, who gave his name to the Corybantes. Ida married Lycastus, the king of Crete, who was the son of the Minos the first king of Crete. She bore Lycastus a son, also named Minos, who succeeded Lycastus as the "second" king Minos of Crete.
References.
- Diodorus Siculus, "Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History". | 6,267 | triviaqa-train |
The European country of Switzerland is made up of how many cantons? | Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state situated in the confluence of western, central, and southern Europe. It is a federal republic composed of 26 cantons, with federal authorities seated in Bern. Switzerland is a landlocked country bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. It is geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of , and land area of . | 1984 Liechtenstein women's suffrage referendum
A referendum on the introduction of women's suffrage in national elections was held in Liechtenstein on 1 July 1984. Following the introduction of female suffrage in neighbouring Switzerland at the federal level after a referendum in 1971 (although women had had the right to vote in many cantons and municipalities before this), Liechtenstein had been the only remaining European country to deny women the right to vote. Referendums had been held in 1968, 1971 and 1973 (the latter two limited to men), but | 6,268 | triviaqa-train |
In the game of volleyball, how many times in a row may the ball be struck by one team? | with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to 3 times, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. Typically, the first two touches are used to set up for an attack, an attempt to direct the ball back over the net in such a way that the serving team is unable | . Since there is only one player on each side of the field, it is permitted (unlike standard volleyball) for the player to touch the ball several times in a row.
The protagonists, blob like creatures without arms, can move left and right, jump and interacting with the ball by hitting it with their "head", therefore resembling a Header like gameplay.
The game ends when one of the two players reach 15 (or more) points and also there is a two-point lead over | 6,269 | triviaqa-train |
Which English author’s major novels are set in Wessex? | Thomas Hardy's Wessex
The English author Thomas Hardy set all of his major novels in the south and southwest of England. He named the area "Wessex" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan. Although the places that appear in his novels actually exist, in many cases he gave the place a fictional name. For example, Hardy's home town of Dorchester is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in "The Mayor of Casterbridge | Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex. American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time". The setting of this novel is the English seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset.
Background.
Powys's paternal grandmother lived in Weymouth, and when his father became a curate in nearby Dorchester, the family took temporary lodgings behind Brunswick Terrace, where she lived in 1879. Weymouth remained throughout Powys's life the | 6,270 | triviaqa-train |
In humans, somnology is the scientific study of what? | Somnology
Somnology is the scientific study of sleep. It includes clinical study and treatment of sleep disorders and irregularities. Sleep medicine is a subset of somnology.
History.
After the invention of the EEG, the stages of sleep were determined in 1936 by Harvey and Loomis, the first descriptions of delta and theta waves were made by Walter and Dovey, and REM sleep was discovered in 1953. Sleep apnea was identified in 1965. In 1970, the first clinical sleep laboratory was developed at Stanford. The first actigraphy | Conservation psychology
Conservation psychology is the scientific study of the reciprocal relationships between humans and the rest of nature, with a particular focus on how to encourage conservation of the natural world. Rather than a specialty area within psychology itself, it is a growing field for scientists, researchers, and practitioners of all disciplines to come together and better understand the earth and what can be done to preserve it. This network seeks to understand why humans hurt or help the environment and what can be done to change such behavior. The term | 6,271 | triviaqa-train |
Which singer/songwriter wrote the musical ‘9 to 5’? | 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song)
"9 to 5" is a song written and originally performed by American country music entertainer Dolly Parton for the 1980 comedy film of the same name. In addition to appearing on the film soundtrack, the song was the centerpiece of Parton's "9 to 5 and Odd Jobs" album, released in late 1980. The song was released as a single in November 1980.
The song garnered Parton an Academy Award nomination and four Grammy Award nominations, winning her the awards | Dave Loggins
David Allen Loggins (born November 10, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
Musical career.
He is remembered best for his 1974 song composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a number 5 popular music success (number 1 Easy Listening) in the U.S. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1995. He is the second cousin of singer/songwriter Kenny Loggins.
Loggins also wrote the song "Pieces of April" for the band | 6,272 | triviaqa-train |
In the International Morse Code which letter is represented by two dashes? | Letter (alphabet)
A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. The inventory of all letters forms the alphabet. Letters broadly correspond to phonemes in the spoken form of the language, although there is rarely a consistent, exact correspondence between letters and phonemes.
The word "letter", borrowed from Old French "letre", entered Middle English around 1200 CE, eventually displacing the native English term "bōcstaf" (bookstaff). "Letter" is descended from the Latin "littera", | Jirí Koldovský
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- Anna Gabrielová - Princess's Chambermaid | 6,273 | triviaqa-train |
Larry Mullen Jr is the drummer in which Irish band? | U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin, formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), the Edge (lead guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen Jr. (drums and percussion). Initially rooted in post-punk, U2's musical style has evolved throughout their career, yet has maintained an anthemic quality built on Bono's expressive vocals and the Edge's effects-based guitar textures. Their lyrics, | The band made progress on "Mysterious Ways" after the Edge began experimenting with the "Funk Wah" setting on a Korg A3 guitar effects unit and Bono told him to use it for the song. Bono said it made an "envelope of sound which would turn a guitar chord into the funkiest of jackhammers". Drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. recorded a drum track near the end of the sessions, introducing a "much groovier beat" that "demonstrated the difference between a drum machine and a real drummer". | 6,274 | triviaqa-train |
The NASDAQ Stock Exchange is located in which city? | announced merger of NYSE Euronext with Deutsche Börse, speculation developed that NASDAQ OMX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) could mount a counter-bid of their own for NYSE. NASDAQ OMX could be looking to acquire the American exchange's cash equities business, ICE the derivatives business. At the time, "NYSE Euronext's market value was $9.75 billion. Nasdaq was valued at $5.78 billion, while ICE was valued at $9.45 billion." Late in the month, Nasdaq was reported to be considering asking | Helsinki Stock Exchange
The Helsinki Stock Exchange (, ) is a stock exchange located in Helsinki, Finland. Since 3 September 2003, it has been part of Nasdaq Nordic (previously called "OMX"). After the OMX merger, it was referred to as "OMX Helsinki" (OMXH), then after NASDAQ's acquisition of OMX in February 2008, "NASDAQ OMX Helsinki", and currently Nasdaq Helsinki.
History.
The Helsinki Stock Exchange saw its first transaction on October 7, 1912. From | 6,275 | triviaqa-train |
Annapurna is a section of which mountain range? | or the Alpide Belt. The Pacific Ring of Fire includes the Andes of South America, extends through the North American Cordillera along the Pacific Coast, the Aleutian Range, on through Kamchatka, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, to New Zealand. The Andes is long and is often considered the world's longest mountain system.
The Alpide belt includes Indonesia and Southeast Asia, through the Himalaya, Caucasus Mountains, Balkan Mountains fold mountain range, the Alps, and ends in the Spanish mountains and the | the mountain drops steeply (50% slope) to Ingalls Creek, which flows about below the summit.
The mountain, which lies in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, bordered by Colchuck Peak, Little Annapurna, and Cannon Mountain, is composed of a granite formation that creates the Stuart Range. Dragontail is the second highest mountain in the range, second only to Mount Stuart which lies to the west and reaches .
The two needles, on ridge southwest of the summit which gave rise to its name, serve as formidable | 6,276 | triviaqa-train |
‘Dangerously In Love’ and ‘B’Day’ are albums by which US singer? | Dangerously in Love
Dangerously in Love is the debut solo studio album by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé. It was released on June 23, 2003 through Columbia Records and Music World Entertainment. During the recording of Destiny's Child's third studio album "Survivor" (2001), the group announced that they would produce solo albums to be released. Recording sessions for the album took place from March 2002 to March 2003 at several studios, during the hiatus of her then-group Destiny's Child. As executive producer of | Justified". However, the singer herself won in the category for International Female Solo Artist. "Dangerously in Love" was also nominated in the category for Best Album at the 2004 MTV Europe Music Awards.
The thousandth issue of "Entertainment Weekly", which celebrated "the new classics" in the entertainment industry in the period from 1983 to 2008, ranked "Dangerously in Love" nineteenth on the list "Top 100 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years". The album also ranked at number one-hundred | 6,277 | triviaqa-train |
How many stars are there on the national flag of Australia? | Minister, John Howard, rejected the calls stating that "...in the end I guess it's part of the sort of free speech code that we have in this country". In 2003, the "Australian Flags (Desecration of the Flag) Bill" was tabled in Parliament by Trish Draper without support from Howard and subsequently lapsed. In 2006, following a flag-burning incident during the 2005 Cronulla riots and a burnt flag display by a Melbourne artist, Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop introduced the "Protection of the Australian | have been permanent residents for five years (three if married to a U.S. citizen), be of "good moral character" (meaning no felony convictions), be of "sound mind" in the judgment of immigration officials, have knowledge of the Constitution, and be able to speak and understand English unless they are elderly or disabled. Applicants must also pass a simple citizenship test. Up until recently, a test published by the Immigration and Naturalization Service asked questions such as "How many stars are there in our flag | 6,278 | triviaqa-train |
The Eurasian Basin is part of which ocean? | Ocean
An ocean () is a body of water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere. On Earth, an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean. These are, in descending order by area, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern (Antarctic), and Arctic Oceans. The word "ocean" is often used interchangeably with "sea" in American English. Strictly speaking, a "sea" is a body of water (generally a division of the world ocean) | the stable Eurasian continent. As Africa-Arabia moved north, it closed the former Tethys Sea, which formerly separated Eurasia from the ancient super continent of Gondwana, of which Africa was part. At about the same time, 170 mya in the Jurassic period, a small Neotethys ocean basin formed shortly before the Tethys Sea was closed at the eastern end. The collision pushed up a vast system of mountains, extending from the Pyrenees in Spain to the Zagros Mountains in Iran. This episode of mountain building, known as the | 6,279 | triviaqa-train |
Red Grant is the name of the villain in which James Bond film? | playing Bond. Sir Ian McKellen was Goldfinger and Stephens' "Die Another Day" co-star Rosamund Pike played Pussy Galore. The play was adapted from Fleming's novel by Archie Scottney and was directed by Martin Jarvis.
In 2012 the novel "From Russia, with Love" was dramatized for Radio 4; it featured a full cast again starring Stephens as Bond. In May 2014 Stephens again played Bond, in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", with Alfred Molina as Blofeld, and Joanna Lumley as | Love", featuring Bond (Sean Connery) and villain Red Grant (Robert Shaw).
A large percentage of the music in the film was re-recorded for the soundtrack album and, therefore, does not sound exactly like the music in the film, the track "Bond '77" being the most obvious. It is a cue that was recorded several times specifically for different moments of the film (the opening ski chase, the car chase on land, then underwater and the gun battle with the troops | 6,280 | triviaqa-train |
Pierogi, dumplings of unleavened bread, originated in which European country? | Pierogi
Pierogi ( ) are filled dumplings of Central and Eastern European origin, made by wrapping unleavened dough around a savory or sweet filling and cooking in boiling water, or pan-frying. Pierogi which consist of noodle dough and have to be cooked in boiling water are associated with the Central and Eastern European kitchens where they are considered national dishes, especially in Poland. Pierogi are popular in West Slavic (Polish, Slovak), Hungarian, East Slavic (Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian), some Baltic (Latvian and | Kalduny
Kalduny or kolduny (, , , used in plural only) are stuffed dumplings made of unleavened dough in Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Polish cuisines, akin to the Polish pierogi, Russian pelmeni and the Ukrainian vareniki.
In Slavic languages the word means “magicians” or “sorcerers”, but it is unclear how the word became associated with the dish. The origin of kalduny is uncertain: they may have originated with equal likelihood in the West (Germany or Czech lands) or in the East (brought | 6,281 | triviaqa-train |
The Peroni Brewery is based in which European country? | Peroni Brewery
Peroni Brewery is a brewing company, founded by Francesco Peroni in Vigevano, Italy in 1846. It is probably best known worldwide for its premium lager, "Nastro Azzurro" (5.1% ABV), which was the 13th best-selling beer in the United Kingdom in 2010.
By 2016, Peroni was owned by Miller Brands U.K. of the SABMiller empire. As part of the agreements made with regulators before Anheuser-Busch InBev was allowed to acquire SABMiller, the company sold Peroni to Asahi Breweries on | Ursus Breweries
Ursus Breweries, a subsidiary of Asahi Breweries Europe Ltd., is the beer market leader in Romania. The company is based in Bucharest and owns 3 breweries in Timișoara, Buzău and Brașov as well as a craft mini-brewery in Cluj-Napoca and employs around 1,400 people. Ursus Breweries’ brands are: Ursus, Timișoreana, Ciucaș, Grolsch, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Redd’s, Stejar, Azuga, Pilsner Urquell, St. Stefanus and cider brand Kingswood.
Ursus is one of the best-selling | 6,282 | triviaqa-train |
Not including Sundays, how many days are there in Lent? | into the desert for 40 days; this is known as one's Lenten sacrifice. Many Christians also add a Lenten spiritual discipline, such as reading a daily devotional or praying through a Lenten calendar, to draw themselves near to God. The Stations of the Cross, a devotional commemoration of Christ's carrying the Cross and of his execution, are often observed. Many Roman Catholic and some Protestant churches remove flowers from their altars, while crucifixes, religious statues, and other elaborate religious symbols are often veiled in violet fabrics in | Sundays called "post Decollationem S. Joannis Baptistæ", then three Sundays of October, the third of which is the feast of the Dedication of Milan Cathedral. The rest of the Sundays until Advent are called "post Dedicationem".
The Calendar of the Saints calls for little notice. There are many local saints, and several feasts which are given in the Roman Calendar in late February, March, and early April are given on other days, because of the rule against feasts in Lent. Only St. Joseph and the | 6,283 | triviaqa-train |
Bluewater Shopping Centre is located in which English county? | Bluewater (shopping centre)
Bluewater Shopping Centre (commonly referred to as Bluewater) is an out-of-town shopping centre in Stone (postally Greenhithe), Kent, England, outside the M25 Orbital motorway, east south-east of London's centre. Opened on 16 March 1999 in a former chalk quarry after ten years of building works, the site including car parks occupies and has a sales floor area of 154,000 m (1,600,000 ft) over three levels, making it the fifth-largest shopping | cricket team that was established in 1888.
Bluewater Shopping Centre.
Bluewater Shopping Centre is located in Stone. It is the fourth largest shopping centre in The United Kingdom. The centre was opened on 16 March 1999 and is located in a former chalk quarry. The site occupies 240 acres and has a sales floor area of 1,600,000 ft2. The centre employs 7,000 people and serves over 27 million visitors a year.
Demography.
At the 2001 UK census, the Stone electoral ward had a population of 6,252. | 6,284 | triviaqa-train |
Which breed of dog is the cartoon dog Marmaduke? | and grossed $83.8 million on a $50 million budget. It has a 9% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which called it "dull and unfunny". "Marmaduke" was released on August 31, 2010, on DVD and Blu-ray, two and a half months after its release in theaters.
Plot.
Marmaduke, a Great Dane, lives in rural Kansas with his best friend, a cat named Carlos. His owners, Phil and Debbie Winslow, work for Bark Organic dog food. | time, I was drawing various types of dogs in my magazine cartoons, I was also trying to develop a dog character specifically for eventual newspaper syndication [...] you couldn't see the eyes of my shaggy dogs, so as I thought more about it I decided I wanted a dog where I could have an expressive face". Anderson, who said that he drew on Laurel and Hardy routines for his ideas, received the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for "Marmaduke" in 1978.
Anderson made appearances | 6,285 | triviaqa-train |
Which US President famously said ‘I’m not a crook’? | President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
In contemporary times, the president is looked upon as one of the world's most powerful political figures as the leader of the only remaining global superpower. The role includes responsibility for the world's most expensive military, which has | .
Joe Biden.
Then Vice president Joe Biden threatened the Prime Minister of Ukraine that if he did not fire Shokin, that the US would hold back $1,000,000,000 of loan guarantees. "I said, “Nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars.” They said, “You have no authority. You’re not the president.” The president said—I said, “Call him.” I said, “I’m telling you | 6,286 | triviaqa-train |
Magere Brug, or Skinny Bridge is located in which European city? | Magere Brug
The Magere Brug (English: Skinny Bridge) is a bridge over the river Amstel in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It connects the banks of the river at Kerkstraat, between the Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht.
The central section of the Magere Brug is a bascule bridge made of white-painted wood. The present bridge was built in 1934. The first bridge at this site was built in 1691 as Kerkstraatbrug and had 13 arches. Because this bridge was very narrow, the locals called it "magere brug", | as inspiration for the movie were the Magere Brug, Amstel River, Kinderdijk, and Brussels, the city of Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie and Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté française. The film's theme song in Japan was "Ice Cream Syndrome" by Sukima Switch. The events of the film take place during the 13th season of .
The English-language dub of the film aired in the United States on Cartoon Network on February 5, 2011. The film also aired in the United Kingdom on CITV on February | 6,287 | triviaqa-train |
The English Civil War took place in which century? | Anglo-Dutch Wars
The Anglo-Dutch wars () were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England. They predominantly occurred in the second half of the 17th century over trade and overseas colonies. Almost all the battles were naval engagements fought at sea.
There were further battles in the 18th and 19th centuries which were won by the British, however these are considered separate conflicts.
Background.
The English and the Dutch were both participants in the 16th-century European Wars of Religion | town square, was designed for the markets that took place every Saturday.
The fourteenth century marked the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. Taken by the English in 1345, Beaumont was recaptured in 1350 but continued to be plundered by "Great Companies" and experienced civil war due to the opposition of two military chiefs: Count of Foix and John I, Count of Armagnac. The century ended with an epidemic of the plague which killed 500 inhabitants.
By the sixteenth century, Beaumont, a catholic town, | 6,288 | triviaqa-train |
Dorchester Heights is a historic district of which US city? | Dorchester Heights
Dorchester Heights is the central area of South Boston. It is the highest area in the neighborhood and commands a view of both Boston Harbor and downtown.
History.
Dorchester is remembered in American history for an action in the American Revolutionary War known as the Fortification of Dorchester Heights. After the battles of Lexington and Concord, Revolutionary sentiment within New England reached a new high, and thousands of militiamen from the Northern colonies converged on Boston, pushing the British back within what were then relatively narrow city limits | of the city. This view is of particular interest on July 4, where after sunset one can watch the official fireworks from over a dozen communities, along with countless amateur displays, as they unfold on the horizon over the course of the evening.
Notable places.
Notable places Historic district.
A area of Dorchester Heights, centered on Thomas Park and the monument was listed as the Dorchester Heights Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, encompassing the period of residential development of the area beginning in | 6,289 | triviaqa-train |
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss founded which American record label in 1962? | A&M Records
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distributing releases from Polydor Ltd. from the UK. Throughout its operations, A&M housed well-known acts such as Gin Blossoms, Dishwalla, Joe Cocker, Procol Harum, Captain & Tennille, Sting, Sergio Mendes, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Supertramp, Bryan Adams, Burt Bacharach, | , "The Misadventures of Tron Bonne", "Onimusha Blade Warriors", and "". Animated incarnations of Mega Man were common in the early 1990s, particularly in North America.
Appearances In other media.
His first animated appearance was as a main character in the series "", which features a myriad of characters that had appeared on Nintendo consoles up until that time. They all aid the title character, , in his quest to save the world of Videoland, encountering many villains, including Mega Man's | 6,290 | triviaqa-train |
In a standard game of chess, how many rooks does each player start with? | ) and are considered greater in value than either of those pieces by nearly two pawns but less valuable than two minor pieces by approximately a pawn. Two rooks are generally considered to be worth slightly more than a queen (see chess piece relative value). Winning a rook for a bishop or knight is referred to as winning "the exchange". Rooks and queens are called "heavy pieces" or "", as opposed to bishops and knights, the minor pieces.
Strategy Development.
In the opening, the | on the players' second as in standard chess.
After setup, the game is played the same as standard chess in all respects, with the exception of castling from the different possible starting positions for king and rooks.
Castling rules.
As in standard chess, each player may castle once per game, moving both the king and a rook in a single move; however, the castling rules were reinterpreted in Chess960 to support the different possible initial positions of king and rook. After castling, the final positions | 6,291 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the presenter/food eater in the US television series ‘Man v. Food’? | Man v. Food
Man v. Food is an American food reality television series. It premiered on December 3, 2008 on the Travel Channel. The program was originally hosted by actor and food enthusiast Adam Richman. In each episode, Richman explores the "big food" offerings of a different American city before facing off against a pre-existing eating challenge at a local restaurant. The program airs in syndication at various times during the week.
Travel Channel announced in May 2017 that the series would be revived, with actor | soda and forgoing coffee and soft drinks.
Richman retired from competitive eating in January 2012; thus, "Man v. Food Nation" was his final season of "Man v. Food".
During his time as a competitive eater, Richman gained a considerable amount of weight and became depressed. After retiring from competitive eating, he lost .
Richman was a paid spokesman for Zantac during Season 3 of "Man v. Food".
Richman is also the author of "America the Edible: A Hungry History from | 6,292 | triviaqa-train |
Which English fruit merchant and amateur sailor returned to Portsmouth, England, on 4th July 1968, after sailing round the world in 354 days? | from Portsmouth include Michael East, a Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning athlete, Rob Hayles, cyclist and Olympic Games medal winner, Tony Oakey, former British light-heavyweight boxing champion, and Alan Pascoe, an Olympic medallist. Sir Alec Rose, single-handed yachtsman, Katy Sexton, former world champion swimmer who won gold in the backstroke at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, and Roger Black, an Olympic medallist, were also born in Portsmouth.
Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, the last constitutional monarch | President John F. Kennedy ordered units of the Atlantic Fleet into the area to illustrate America's support for the established government. "John Willis" sailed to the Dominican Republic on 2 December and commenced seven days of patrol duty after which she returned to Newport to prepare for another cruise to Northern Europe.
She sailed for Portsmouth, England on 8 January 1962, and reached the English coast 19 January. While sailing the North Sea on 23 January en route to Horton, Norway, she assisted units of the British Navy during | 6,293 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the spaceship in the 1979 film ‘Alien’? | Alien (film)
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug "Nostromo" who encounter the eponymous Alien, a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill | Evil" also acknowledged the influence of the 1956 film "Forbidden Planet", which inspired the writers to include an invisible, murderous monster, as well as elements of "Jekyll and Hyde". Reviewing the serial in 1999, literary critic John Kenneth Muir drew attention to similarities between "Planet of Evil" and Ridley Scott's 1979 film, "Alien", in particular the scenario of a spaceship answering a distress call, the crew being gradually killed by a malevolent alien life form, and corpses being ejected into space | 6,294 | triviaqa-train |
The US television series ‘The Wire’ is set in which city? | of the show for its poor ratings. The "Baltimore City Paper" was so concerned that the show might be cancelled that it published a list of ten reasons to keep it on the air, including strong characterization, Omar Little, and an unabashedly honest representation of real world problems. It also worried that the loss of the show would have a negative impact on Baltimore's economy.
At the close of the third season, "The Wire" was still struggling to maintain its ratings and the show faced possible cancellation | Film Studios is located in an old retail space in the downtown and serves as a set location for episodic television programs. Maple Ridge's film roots go back to the 70s when scenes for the feature film 'Rambo' were shot here. Over time the City has become a background for a number of films and TV series including The X-Files Bordertown, Smallville, Bird on a Wire, We're No Angels, Percy Jackson & the Lightening Thief, Stargate SG-1 and in recent months the old Bordertown set was featured | 6,295 | triviaqa-train |
Grape Nehi (Knee-high) was the favourite drink of which M*A*S*H* character? | show's discourse, under the cover of comedy, often questioned, mocked, and grappled with America's role in the Cold War.
Episodes were both plot- and character-driven, with several narrated by one of the show's characters as the contents of a letter home. The show's tone could move from silly to sobering from one episode to the next, with dramatic tension often occurring between the civilian draftees of 4077th – Hawkeye, Trapper John, and B.J. Hunnicutt, for example – who are forced | Nehi
Nehi (pronounced "knee high") is a flavored soft drink that originated in the United States. It was introduced in 1924 by Chero-Cola/Union Bottle Works. The "Nehi Corporation" name was adopted in 1928 after the Nehi fruit-flavored sodas became popular. In 1955, the company changed its name to Royal Crown Company, after the success of its RC Cola brand. It was founded by Claud A. Hatcher, a Columbus, Georgia, grocer, who began bottling ginger ale and root | 6,296 | triviaqa-train |
Newmarket, Cheltenham and Epsom are towns in England associated with which sport? | station, which is still called "Cheltenham Spa", and spa facilities in other towns that were inspired by or named after it.
Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll were regular visitors to a house in Cudnall Street, Charlton Kings – a suburb of Cheltenham. This house was owned by Alice Liddell's grandparents, and still contains the mirror, or looking glass, that was purportedly the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's novel "Through the Looking-Glass", published in 1871.
Horse racing began in Cheltenham in 1815 | takes place over two weeks in late June and early July.
Thoroughbred racing, which originated under Charles II of England as the "sport of kings", is popular throughout the UK with world-famous races including the Grand National, the Epsom Derby, Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival (including the Cheltenham Gold Cup). The UK has proved successful in the international sporting arena in rowing.
The UK is closely associated with motorsport. Many teams and drivers in Formula One (F1) are based | 6,297 | triviaqa-train |
Which Thomas hardy novel is often referred to in the book ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ by E L James? | Christian is staying. Christian asks Ana out for coffee and asks if she is dating anyone, specifically José. Ana replies that she is not dating anyone. During the conversation, Ana learns that Christian is also single, but he says he is not romantic. Ana is intrigued, but believes she is not attractive enough for Christian. Later, Ana receives a package from Christian containing first edition copies of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", which stuns her. Later that night, Ana goes out drinking with her friends and | Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey As Told by Christian, also referred to as Grey, is a 2015 erotic romance by British author E. L. James. It is the fourth installment in the "Fifty Shades" series, which had its start as fanfiction.
The novel was released on 18 June 2015 to coincide with the birth date of the character Christian Grey. The work's first printing run consisted of 1.25 million copies.
Summary.
Christian Grey, | 6,298 | triviaqa-train |
Which planet has been the focus of investigations for signs of life? | nebular theory, planetesimals formed by accretion, with the primordial Earth taking 10– (Mys) to form.
A subject of research is the formation of the Moon, some 4.53 Bya. A leading hypothesis is that it was formed by accretion from material loosed from Earth after a Mars-sized object, named Theia, hit Earth. In this view, the mass of Theia was approximately 10 percent of Earth, it hit Earth with a glancing blow and some of its mass merged with Earth. Between approximately 4.1 and | focus on simply the presence of any alien life detectable from Earth. The equation focuses on the search for planets with biosignature gases, gases produced by life that can accumulate in a planet atmosphere to levels that can be detected with remote space telescopes.
N = N*FFFFF
where:
N = the number of planets with detectable signs of life
N* = the number of stars observed
F = the fraction of stars that are quiet
F = the fraction of stars with rocky planets in the habitable zone | 6,299 | triviaqa-train |
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