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Who was the captain of Brazil’s national football team when they won the 1970 FIFA World Cup? | final tournament. El Salvador, Israel and Morocco made their first appearances at the final stage.
The tournament was won by Brazil, which defeated another two-time former champion, Italy, 4–1 in the final in Mexico City. The win gave Brazil its third World Cup title, which allowed them to permanently keep the Jules Rimet Trophy, and a new trophy was introduced in 1974. The victorious team, led by Carlos Alberto and featuring players such as Pelé, Gérson, Jairzinho, Rivellino, and Tostão, is | Ball Award in 1984, one São Paulo State Championship in 1988 and one Pará State Championship in 1992. With the Brazil national football team he won at the Pan American Games in 1979, was capped 19 times between June 1983 and June 1986, and participated in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Édson played at right-back in Brazil’s opening two games in the 1986 World Cup in México, when first choice Leandro did not make the trip. He was injured early in the second game, against Algeria in Guadalajara | 6,900 | triviaqa-train |
In the US, Black Friday occurs during which month of the year? | Black Friday (shopping)
Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The day after Thanksgiving has been regarded as the beginning of America's Christmas shopping season since 1952, although the term "Black Friday" didn't become widely used until more recent decades.
Many stores offer highly promoted sales on Black Friday and open very early, such as at midnight, or may even start their sales at some time on | Time; typically this date occurs on the first Friday of the month. Nonfarm payroll is included in the monthly "Employment Situation" or informally the "jobs report" and affects the US dollar, the Foreign exchange market, the bond market, and the stock market.
The figure released is the change in nonfarm payrolls (NFP), compared to the previous month, and is usually between +10,000 and +250,000 during non-recessional times. The NFP number is meant to represent the number of jobs added or lost in | 6,901 | triviaqa-train |
The ‘Autobots’ and the ‘Decepticons’ are the main factions of which toy line? | only seen in comics and such, make special appearances and cameos throughout the show, with various voice actors (including Corey Burton, John Moschitta, Jr., Susan Blu, and Judd Nelson) reprising their roles.
Hunt for the Decepticons (2010).
In 2010, Hasbro released a toy line expansion to the film universe. This line is simply branded as "Transformers" and contains a promotion called "Hunt for the Decepticons". The promotion consists of a code number which collectors use to access online games | - Starscream (Deluxe, McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagle)
Main toy line Wave 2.
Autobots:
- Grimlock (Deluxe, Tyrannosaurus)
- Jetfire (Voyager, armored space fighter) - Don Figueroa's design for the character in "" was based on this toy.
- Mirage (Deluxe, Renault R26 Formula 1 racer)
Main toy line Wave 3.
Autobots:
- Cliffjumper (Deluxe, Peugeot 206) - Red redeco of Bumblebee.
Decepticons:
- Ramjet (Deluxe, | 6,902 | triviaqa-train |
The construction toy ‘Lego’ was originally designed in which European country? | Lego
Lego ( , ; stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Lego pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Anything constructed can be taken apart again, and the pieces reused to | Lego Racers
Lego Racers was a product line (or theme) of the construction toy Lego. The range was first introduced in 1975 with a Formula 1 car model. However, the brand only really started to become a core theme in 2001, with the release of a series of mini racecars. Made from only a small number of large bricks, these toys were designed more as racing car toys than a construction toy, and included a launcher element (which doubled up as a storage container) that could be used | 6,903 | triviaqa-train |
Which Denys Fisher geometric, plastic drawing toy produces mathematical curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids? | Spirograph
Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids.
It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.
The name has been a registered trademark of Hasbro Inc. since 1998 following purchase of the company that had acquired the Denys Fisher company. The Spirograph brand was relaunched worldwide with original product configurations in 2013 by Kahootz Toys.
History.
In 1827 English architect and engineer Peter Hubert Desvignes developed his "Speiragraph", a | Stickle Bricks
Stickle Bricks are a construction toy primarily intended for toddlers invented by Denys Fisher in 1969. The brand is owned by Hasbro, and as of 2016 is sub-licensed to Flair Leisure Products plc.
An individual stickle brick is a colourful plastic shape a few centimeters long which has a "brush" of small plastic "fingers" on one or more surfaces. The fingers of adjacent stickle bricks can interlock, allowing them to be joined in various ways. Standard sets of stickle bricks contain triangular, square | 6,904 | triviaqa-train |
Which line of dolls, created by American art student Xavier Roberts in 1978, was originally called ‘Little People’? | Cabbage Patch Kids development.
In 1976, Xavier Roberts met Martha Nelson Thomas at a craft fairs. He asked her to supply him with dolls to sell in Georgia, where he lived and worked. Thomas briefly let him sell her Doll Babies, but stopped. Roberts created his own version in 1978, and in 1982 he licensed the dolls to Coleco for mass-production under the name Cabbage Patch Kids.[2]
He travelled from state to state in the southeastern United States attending craft fairs and folk art exhibitions. At | to board games.
Production history.
Production history Creation and development.
According to Roberts, as a 21-year-old art student, he utilized the quilting skills he learned from his mother and the historic technique of "needle molding" to develop his own line of fabric sculptures. He called these hand-stitched, one-of-a-kind, soft fabric sculptures "The Little People". (Other soft sculpture dolls dating back to the 19th century were created using similar needle molding techniques.) His | 6,905 | triviaqa-train |
How many circles, on which players have to put their hand or foot, are on the mat in a game of ‘Twister’? | put together on June 18, 2010 in Bell where town, MA on the Bell where town High School football field. It consisted of 1008 Twister mats donated by Hasbro and measured 244.7 feet X 99.10 feet for . The purpose of the record breaking Twister Mat was to kick off a fundraising drive for Jessica's Boundless Playground.
The previous record, as cited by the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest game of Twister included of mats that were combined together. Prior to that, the largest game was played in | a two-player game, no two people can have a hand or foot on the same circle; the rules are different for more players. Due to the scarcity of colored circles, players will often be required to put themselves in unlikely or precarious positions, eventually causing someone to fall. A person is eliminated when they fall or when their elbow or knee touches the mat. There is no limit to how many can play at once, but more than four is a tight fit.
History and analysis. | 6,906 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the perpetual murder victim in the English version of ‘Cleudo’? | List of Cluedo characters
This is a list of characters in the game of "Cluedo".
Dr. Black/Mr. Boddy.
"Dr. Black" (UK)/"Mr. Boddy" (US), a stock character and generic victim, is the owner of Tudor Close (later known as Tudor Manor, Tudor Hall and Boddy Mansion). In "Cluedo" he is the unseen host who is murdered, which inspires the quest to discover who murdered him, with what weapon, and what room did | in order to locate Kazuya Nanase for the murder of Ihara's wife. He is voiced by Peter Gomm in the English version.
Characters Yoshinodou Family.
Denemon Yoshinodou - The head of the Yoshinodou family. He is the first murder victim in what becomes known as the "New World Cinema murders" in 1929. He is voiced by Barry Gjerde in the English version.
Hisako Yoshinodou - The first wife of Denemon and an actress. She gave birth to three children: their son, Hideo, and twins Takako | 6,907 | triviaqa-train |
How many wooden blocks are in a traditional game of ‘Jenga’? | Jenga
Jenga is a game of physical skill created by British board game designer and author Leslie Scott, and currently marketed by Hasbro. Players take turns removing one block at a time from a tower constructed of 54 blocks. Each block removed is then placed on top of the tower, creating a progressively taller and more unstable structure.
Rules.
Jenga is played with 54 wooden blocks. Each block is three times as long as it is wide, and one fifth as thick as its length . Blocks have small | blocks on an oversized version of the iconic Jenga tower. The game starts with one member from each family picking a numbered disc from a box. The number indicates how many Jenga blocks the other family members have to pull from anywhere on the tower and stack on top within a two-minute time allotment. The tension builds with each turn as the tower gets perilously higher and unbalanced, and the families race against the clock. The teammates must alternate tagging each other removing and placing the blocks, as well as pressing their | 6,908 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the 1995 film about a supernatural board game, starring Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst? | , "Aladdin" (1992), "The Fisher King" (1991), "Patch Adams" (1998), "One Hour Photo" (2002) and "World's Greatest Dad" (2009), as well as box office hits, such as "Hook" (1991), "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993), "Jumanji" (1995), "The Birdcage" (1996), "Good Will Hunting" (1997) and the "Night at the Museum" trilogy | ), starring Robin Williams, followed by the British comedy "The Grotesque" (1995), opposite Alan Bates and Sting. Russell was then cast in the thriller "Wild Things" (1998), playing the mother of Denise Richards, which was a box office success. After appearing in the crime drama "Luckytown" (2000) opposite James Caan and Kirsten Dunst, Russell was then cast in "The Believer" (2001), a drama written and directed by Henry Bean, and starring Ryan Gosling as | 6,909 | triviaqa-train |
A score of 4 is for which part of the body in a game of ‘Beetle’? | some beetles, such as flea beetles (within Chrysomelidae) and flea weevils (within Curculionidae), have enlarged femurs that help them leap.
External morphology Wings.
The forewings of beetles are not used for flight, but form elytra which cover the hind part of the body and protect the hindwings. The elytra are usually hard shell-like structures which must be raised to allow the hind wings to move for flight. However, in the soldier beetles (Cantharidae), the elytra are soft, earning this family the | drop organs into place on the human body. They score points for correctly placing the organs and figuring out what part of the body they connect to. Build-a-Body also incorporates various illnesses for players to diagnose and for them to target and decide those systems. This game received a Honourable Mention in the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge - Interactive Games section 2011.
Genomics Digital Lab
is an interactive simulation and engaging game that focuses on problem solving and the basics of biology. In one mode, the | 6,910 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the electronic game which has four coloured buttons, which light up in random order, each producing it’s own tune when pressed, or activated by the device? | Simon (game)
Simon is an electronic game of memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, working for toy design firm Marvin Glass and Associates, with software programming by Lenny Cope. The device creates a series of tones and lights and requires a user to repeat the sequence. If the user succeeds, the series becomes progressively longer and more complex. Once the user fails or the time limit runs out, the game is over. The original version was manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley and later | treasure chests filled with either gold or silver.
Money – There are three denominations of money: $50,000 (green), $100,000 (gold), and $500,000 (blue).
Electronic Dive Control Center – The game is played by pressing the buttons on the device, which is powered by a 9-volt battery. The device automatically resets at the beginning of each game, assigning treasure locations at random. It emits a variety of chip music sounds to signal events during game play.
The device has | 6,911 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of the 1971 film in which Clint Eastwood plays DJ Dave Garver? | Hang 'Em High" (1968), the psychological thriller "Play Misty for Me" (1971), the crime film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974), the Western "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), the prison film "Escape from Alcatraz" (1979), the action film "Firefox" (1982), the suspense thriller "Tightrope" (1984), the Western "Pale Rider" (1985), the war films "Where Eagles Dare" (1968), | Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the "Dirty Harry" series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the real life case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath.
"Dirty Harry" was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films | 6,912 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the poem ‘Funeral Blues’ (Stop All the Clocks)? | Funeral Blues
"Funeral Blues" or "Stop all the clocks" is a poem by W. H. Auden. An early version was published in 1936, but the poem in its final, familiar form was first published in "The Year's Poetry" (London, 1938).
Titles and versions.
The first, and less widely known, version of the poem, written and published in 1936, has four stanzas; the 1938 final version has five. Only the first two stanzas are the same in | self-destroying climber Michael Ransom) an examination of Auden's own motives in taking on a public role as a political poet. This play included the first version of "Funeral Blues" ("Stop all the clocks"), written as a satiric eulogy for a politician; Auden later rewrote the poem as a "Cabaret Song" about lost love (written to be sung by the soprano Hedli Anderson, for whom he wrote many lyrics in the 1930s). In 1935, he worked briefly on documentary films with | 6,913 | triviaqa-train |
Phan Xi Pang is the highest mountain in which country? | Fansipan
Fansipan (Vietnamese: "Phan Xi Păng", ) is a mountain in Vietnam. The height of the mountain was in 1909, but now the height of the mountain is . It is the highest mountain in the Indochinese Peninsula (comprising Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia), hence its nickname "the Roof of Indochina". It is located in the Lào Cai Province of the Northwest region of Vietnam, 9 km southwest of Sa Pa Township in the Hoang Lien Son mountain range. Administratively, it | February.
On 24 February, the PLA decided to supplement their reserves, the 149th Division, to the fight against the VPA 316th Division. Chinese efforts now concentrating on cutting off the retreat of the VPA 316th Division, as the PLA 447th Regiment skirted around Mount Phan Xi Pang through the Hoang Lien Son Pass and maneuvered toward the direction of Bình Lư, which was 44 km west of Sapa. In meantime, the rest of the 149th Division pushed toward Sapa along two roads parallel to Highway 10. Despite showing | 6,914 | triviaqa-train |
Red Connors is the sidekick of which fictional Wild West hero? | Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy or Hop-along Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character.
Origin.
In his early writings, Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking. He had a wooden leg which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname. The character as played by movie actor William Boyd from 1935 in films adapted from Mulford's | In 1939, he appeared in the film "Taming of the West", in which he originated the character of Cannonball, a role he continued to play for the next ten years, in over 50 films. Cannonball was a comic sidekick to Wild Bill Saunders (played by Bill Elliott), a pairing that continued through 13 features, during which Elliott’s character became Wild Bill Hickok.
During this period, a productive relationship with Tex Ritter as Elliott's co-hero began with "King of Dodge City" | 6,915 | triviaqa-train |
Saqqara is an ancient burial site in which country? | red ochre were discovered in the Skhul cave at Qafzeh, Israel. A variety of grave goods were present at the site, including the mandible of a wild boar in the arms of one of the skeletons.
In ancient Egypt, customs developed during the Predynastic period. Round graves with one pot were used in the Badarian Period (4400-3800 B.C.E.), continuing the tradition of Omari and Maadi cultures.
Prehistoric cemeteries are referred to by the more neutral term grave field. They are one of the chief sources | sources. This sacred part of the temple would be the only part that has survived, and would confirm the words of Strabo and Diodorus, both of whom stated that the temple was located near the temple of Ptah.
The majority of known Apis statues come from the burial chambers known as Serapeum, located to the northwest at Saqqara. The most ancient burials found at this site date back to the reign of Amenhotep III.
Remains Other temples Temple of Amun.
During the 21st dynasty, a shrine of the great god | 6,916 | triviaqa-train |
Which English model was married to musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton? | Badfinger, Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Tom Petty, among others. "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a member of the Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004.
Harrison's first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce | " broadcast. Around this time Harrison also used a 1957 Les Paul model, which was given to him by Eric Clapton and was once in the possession of, among other musicians, John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful. Originally a "gold top" model, the guitar was refinished with a dark red stain before it got to Harrison. The guitar can be seen in the "Revolution" promo video and the "Let It Be" film—in addition to a rosewood Telecaster specially flown to him by Fender. | 6,917 | triviaqa-train |
Banana cut, Dingle and Swingman are terms used in which sport? | Swingman
A swingman is an athlete capable of playing multiple positions in their sport.
Basketball.
In basketball, the term “swingman” (a.k.a. “wing” or “guard-forward”) denotes a player who can play both the shooting guard (2) and small forward (3) positions, and in essence "swing" between the positions. Most swingmen range from 6' 5" (1.96 m) to 6' 9" (2.06 m) in height. The term was first | able to bend and create a smooth curve. Importantly, the knife must be always sharp otherwise the cutting line wouldn’t smooth and look messy.
2. lae laai Knife ("มีดแรลาย") – It has a short blade with the colour which is used to paint the line to make it more visible.
3. Saw and Cable cutter – to cut the banana tree
- Essential equipment for "thaeng yuak", there are 4 items
1. Banana stalk – The suitable banana stalk should come | 6,918 | triviaqa-train |
In the game of Scrabble, the ‘M’ tile is worth how many points? | using one or more tiles to place a word on the board. This word may use one or more tiles already on the board and must join with the cluster of tiles already on the board.
On each turn, the player has three options:
- Pass, forfeiting the turn and scoring nothing
- Exchange one or more tiles for an equal number from the bag, scoring nothing, an option available only if at least seven tiles remain in the bag
- Play at least one tile on the board | premium squares to orange for TW, red for DW, blue for DL, and green for TL, but the original premium square color scheme is still preferred for "Scrabble" boards used in tournaments.
In an English-language set, the game contains 100 tiles, 98 of which are marked with a letter and a point value ranging from 1 to 10. The number of points for each lettered tile is based on the letter's frequency in standard English; commonly used letters such as vowels are worth one point | 6,919 | triviaqa-train |
Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 2011 Academy Awards? | "The King's Speech" (2010). The ninth film, "The Artist" (2011), was financed by France.
Other points of contention include genres of film (or mediums in the case of an animation) that have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated - "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), "Up" (2009) and "Toy Story 3" (2010), that won in 2011. The latter two having been | , Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, and Michael Sheen. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the United States on May 20, 2011. The film opened to critical acclaim and has commonly been cited as one of Allen's best films in recent years. In 2012, the film won both the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay; and was nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Art Direction | 6,920 | triviaqa-train |
A ‘Scouser’ is a native of which English city? | Scouse
Scouse (; sometimes referred to in academic sources as Liverpool English or Merseyside English) is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the county of Merseyside. Although closely associated with the city of Liverpool, Scouse extends across the Liverpool City Region, through neighbouring areas such as the Wirral, and into towns such as Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Skelmersdale, and Widnes.
The Scouse accent is highly distinctive, and has little in common with those of the neighbouring regions. The accent itself is not specific to all | not to be a Scouser – which may have been because it was "not" his real name! The strip, although new to "Smash", had run in "Buster" during 1964 under its real title, "Elmer".
Another humour strip new to "Smash" was the World War Two spoof, "Nutt and Bolt, the Men From W.H.E.E.Z.E." Set in 1940, this featured an English scientist named Professor Nutt, who was a boffin inventing eccentric secret weapons for a department of the War | 6,921 | triviaqa-train |
The volcanic rock Kimberlite is best known for sometimes containing which gemstone? | "third water" gems are those of a lesser transparency.
Value.
There is no universally accepted grading system for gemstones. Diamonds are graded using a system developed by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in the early 1950s. Historically, all gemstones were graded using the naked eye. The GIA system included a major innovation: the introduction of 10x magnification as the standard for grading clarity. Other gemstones are still graded using the naked eye (assuming 20/20 vision).
A mnemonic device, the " | areas otherwise overlain by glacial till. Magnetic survey work done in 1956 depicts an elliptical positive anomaly long in an east–west direction and wide, which probably defines the limits of the pipe. The kimberlite is intruded into volcanic rocks of the Proterozoic Hemlock Formation. The exposed material is grayish green to reddish, iron stained highly weathered and consists of disaggregated rubbly fragments up to . It is generally accepted that the pipe was emplaced about 180 million years ago.
The lake Ellen Kimberlite is popular with rock hounds as the classic | 6,922 | triviaqa-train |
Perkin, Posie and Pootle were characters in which children’s tv programme? | translation.
History.
Pootle was first developed by David Fraser while working for Translate.org.za in a project funded by the CATIA programme. Its first official release was made in December 2004 although it had been used in various internal Translate@thons by Translate.org.za.
The name Pootle is an acronym for "PO-based Online Translation / Localization Engine", but it is also a character in the BBC children's program The Flumps.
Translate.org.za released various versions and in 2006 Pootle was further developed as part of the WordForge project, | tied to any one location. He developed the series with his son Ben, who suggested they form their own production company. Together with Nick's wife Annette they added additional characters and locations to those already seen in the books, before producing a pilot clip with animation studio Blue-Zoo from which a series was commissioned.
Music is an important element of "Q Pootle 5". Producer Ben Butterworth says ″When we started to consider the music for the programme we didn’t want music to be just an accompaniment to | 6,923 | triviaqa-train |
Logan International Airport serves which US city? | Logan International Airport
Logan International Airport , officially known as General Edward Lawrence Logan Airport, and also commonly known as Boston Logan International Airport or simply Logan Airport, is an international airport in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and partially in Winthrop, Massachusetts). It covers , has six runways and four passenger terminals, and employs an estimated 16,000 people. It is the largest airport in both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the New England region in terms of passenger volume and cargo handling, as | cafe located in Minneapolis, Minnesota which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. It features many healthy options that utilizes the baked goods that the bakery makes as well as fresh, local, organic ingredients. French Meadow Bakery and Cafe also features airport concession stands at Salt Lake City International Airport, JFK International, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, airport in Atlanta, Logan International and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airports which offers such products as peanut butter cookies, carrot cake, hemp bagels and a | 6,924 | triviaqa-train |
Who developed bifocal spectacles in 1784? | Bifocals
Bifocals are eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers. Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia who also require a correction for myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism.
History.
Benjamin Franklin is generally credited with the invention of bifocals. Historians have produced some evidence to suggest that others may have come before him in the invention; however, a correspondence between George Whatley and John Fenno, editor of the "Gazette of the United States", suggested that Franklin had indeed invented bifocals, and perhaps 50 years earlier | complications and rendered such spectacles quite fragile. A method for fusing the sections of the lenses together was developed by Louis de Wecker at the end of the 19th century and patented by Dr. John L. Borsch, Jr. in 1908.
Today most bifocals are created by molding a reading segment into a primary lens and are available with the reading segments in a variety of shapes and sizes. The most popular is the D-segment, 28 mm wide. While the D-segment bifocal offers superior optics, an increasing number | 6,925 | triviaqa-train |
"In the animated film classic ""Shrek"" which film star voiced the character of Donkey?" | Shrek
Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 1990 fairytale picture book of the same name by William Steig. Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson in their directorial debuts, it stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow as the voices of the lead characters. The film parodies other films adapted from fairy tale storylines, primarily aimed at animated Disney films. In the story, an ogre called Shrek (Myers) finds his swamp overrun by fairy tale creatures who | proves there is at least one cat with multiple lives. The feature-length animated spinoff - a star turn for the popular "Shrek" supporting character voiced by Antonio Banderas - is almost shockingly good. And not just because a lot of you will approach it with lowered expectations." Stephen Whitty of the "Newark Star-Ledger" gave the film three out of four stars, saying "An almost purr-fect little film that even a dog owner can enjoy."
Joe Morgenstern of "The Wall Street | 6,926 | triviaqa-train |
Which American, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, proved that lightning is a form of electricity? | the Declaration of Independence in several forms. It was initially published as the printed Dunlap broadside that was widely distributed and read to the public. The source copy used for this printing has been lost and may have been a copy in Thomas Jefferson's hand. Jefferson's original draft is preserved at the Library of Congress, complete with changes made by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, as well as Jefferson's notes of changes made by Congress. The best-known version of the Declaration is a signed copy that is displayed at | post until 1946. Its journalists included Yosef Tamir, a secretary of the General Zionists, and Herzl Vardi, another signatory of the declaration of independence.
The paper's circulation fell following independence, from 13,500 in 1950 to 4,000-4,500 in 1965. In 1965, following the alliance of the Liberal Party (which the General Zionists had become part of in 1961) and Herut, "HaBoker" was merged with the Herut newspaper to form "HaYom", which ceased publication four years later.
See also. | 6,927 | triviaqa-train |
John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, became the effective ruler of England during the reign of Richard II in the 14th century. Later the father of Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV, what was John of Gaunt's official title? | John of Gaunt
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399) was an English prince, military leader, and statesman. He was the third of the five sons of King Edward III of England who survived to adulthood. Due to his royal origin, advantageous marriages, and some generous land grants, Gaunt was one of the richest men of his era, and an influential figure during the reigns of both his father, Edward, and his nephew, Richard II. As Duke of | control from John of Gaunt and concludes a truce with Charles VI. By the end of the Fourteenth century in England, English supplanted French in official documents, the Bible had been translated and English Perpendicular Gothic had replaced Norman Gothic architecture.
Richard had become increasingly unpopular and when on the death of John of Gaunt he seized his land, John of Gaunt's exiled son Henry Bolingbroke returned with an army and deposing Richard became Henry IV of England. Henry IV's 14-year reign was beset by plots and on his death his | 6,928 | triviaqa-train |
"Who wrote the opera ""The Bartered Bride""?" | The Bartered Bride
The Bartered Bride (, "The Sold Bride") is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina. The work is generally regarded as a major contribution towards the development of Czech music. It was composed during the period 1863 to 1866, and first performed at the Provisional Theatre, Prague, on 30 May 1866 in a two-act format with spoken dialogue.
Set in a country village and with realistic characters, it tells the | Bartered Bride
Bartered bride may refer to:
- Bride-purchase, bride-selling, or bride trading
- "The Bartered Bride", an 1870 comic opera
- "The Bartered Bride" (1932 film)
- "The Bartered Bride" (1960 film) | 6,929 | triviaqa-train |
Simon de Montfort led the Barons Revolt against King Henry III and became the effective ruler of England in the 13th century. Later defeated and killed at the Battle of Evesham what was Simon de Montfort's official title? | a rule of just over a year, Montfort was killed by forces loyal to the King in the Battle of Evesham.
Family.
Montfort was a younger son of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, a French nobleman and crusader, and Alix de Montmorency. His paternal grandmother was Amicia de Beaumont, the senior co-heiress to the Earldom of Leicester and a large estate owned by her brother Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, in England.
With the irrevocable loss of Normandy, King | , who had been elected Clement IV on 5 February 1265. On 29 August 1265 the Cardinal was received at the French Court by King Louis IX. There he learned that Simon de Montfort and his son Henry had been killed at the Battle of Evesham earlier that month. Cardinal Ottobono did not reach Boulogne until October 1265. He was accompanied by Benedetto Caetani. He was in England until July 1268, working to suppress the remnants of Simon de Montfort's barons who were still in arms against King Henry III of England. | 6,930 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1st World War battle of 1914 occured as opposing German and allied armies raced each other to gain access to the North Sea? Later the British had to hold out against German sieges. | The British were determined on the starvation policy, whether or not it was lawful."
War crimes Chemical weapons in warfare.
The first successful use of poison gas as a weapon of warfare occurred during the Second Battle of Ypres (22 April – 25 May 1915). Gas was soon used by all major belligerents throughout the war. It is estimated that the use of chemical weapons employed by both sides throughout the war had inflicted 1.3 million casualties. For example, the British had over 180,000 chemical weapons casualties during | against combined British and French armies, known as the “Race to the Sea,” where the opposing forces attempted to, “turn the other’s flank,” in a contest to reach the North Sea. From October to late November, the armies clashed in a nearly month-long battle at Ypres in Flanders, near the North Sea, which incurred a devastating loss of life for both sides. After Ypres, only months after the beginning of the Great War, the German army had already lost 241,000 men. | 6,931 | triviaqa-train |
What is the biggest city by population in the US state of Wisconsin? | Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake | Menominee River crossing in Norway Township, US 8 proceeds north into the city where it ends at US 2. US 8 in Michigan is long; in this segment, the road passes by the Dickinson County fairgrounds and Norway Speedway.
History.
History 20th century.
Starting in 1918, the Wisconsin Highway Commission erected highway numbers along state-maintained roadways. The highway across the state from St. Croix Falls to Armstrong Creek was numbered WIS 14 at that time. The remainder of what is now US | 6,932 | triviaqa-train |
In which year was the city of Rome founded? | the date of the first consuls, Junius Brutus and Tarquinius Collatinus, 508/7 BC, then added the combined total of the reigns of the Kings of Rome (244 years) to arrive at his own date, 751 BC. Even the official Fasti Capitolini offers its own date, 752 BC.
The most familiar date given for the foundation of Rome, 753 BC, was derived by the Roman antiquarian Titus Pomponius Atticus, and adopted by Marcus Terentius Varro, having become part of what has come to be known as the | dating was adopted in its place.
Ancient dating systems Ancient Rome Dating from the founding of Rome.
Another method of dating, rarely used, was "anno urbis conditae" (Latin: "in the year of the founded city" (abbreviated AUC), where "city" meant Rome). (It is often incorrectly given that AUC stands for "ab urbe condita", which is the title of Titus Livius's history of Rome.)
Several epochs were in use by Roman historians. Modern historians usually | 6,933 | triviaqa-train |
"Which Irish comedian had the catchphrase ""It's the way I tell 'em""?" | Frank Carson
Hugh Francis "Frank" Carson KSG (6 November 1926 – 22 February 2012) was a Northern Irish comedian and actor, best known on television in series such as "The Comedians" and "Tiswas". He was a member of the entertainment charity the Grand Order of Water Rats.
Early life.
One of six children of a working-class Catholic family living in the dockland district of Sailortown, Frank Carson was born at 18 Great Georges Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, where | If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends
If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends is a musical about the life of comedian Belle Barth, written by Joanne Koch. The title derives from a catchphrase of Barth's.
Koch had previously written about Barth in her 1996 Off Broadway play "Sophie, Totie, & Belle".
Plot.
The musical presents a fictionalised 1961 rehearsal between Barth and her pianist, set shortly after an unsuccessful performance at Carnegie Hall. The Carnegie Hall show was a real event | 6,934 | triviaqa-train |
In which famous film love story did the lovers meet in a railway station? | Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life on the eve of World War 2, centering on Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger, Alec. They fall in love, bringing about unexpected consequences.
The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act | album "Catfight"; according to its sleeve notes, it is set in the early 1930s and tells the story of two lovers who meet at the station. Steve Hackett also recorded a song titled "Down Street" on his 2006 album "Wild Orchids", about the station.
The station features in Billy Connolly's "World Tour Of England, Ireland and Wales", Dan Cruickshank's National Geographic Channel series "Great Railway Adventures" and the 2012 TV Series "The Tube".
Notes and references | 6,935 | triviaqa-train |
"Which recording artist, originally a folk singer had top ten hits in the early 1970's with ""Amazing Grace"" and ""Send in the Clowns""?" | opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone. Mahalia Jackson employed "Amazing Grace" for Civil Rights marchers, writing that she used it "to give magical protection a charm to ward off danger, an incantation to the angels of heaven to descend ... I was not sure the magic worked outside the church walls ... in the open air of Mississippi. But I wasn't taking any chances." Folk singer Judy Collins, who knew the song before she could remember learning it, witnessed | of the first covers of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire".
By the 1970s, Collins had a solid reputation as an art song singer and folksinger and had begun to stand out for her own compositions. She was also known for her broad range of material: her songs from this period include the traditional Christian hymn "Amazing Grace", the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad "Send in the Clowns" (both of which were top 20 hits as singles), a recording of Joan Baez's "A | 6,936 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the only British M.P. to be a member of the Green Party? | its first MP in former leader Caroline Lucas, who represents the constituency of Brighton Pavilion.
History.
History Origins (1972–1990).
The Green Party of England and Wales has its origins in the PEOPLE Party, which was founded in Coventry, Warwickshire, in February 1972. PEOPLE was renamed The Ecology Party in 1975, and in 1985 changed again to the Green Party. In 1989 the party's Scottish branch split to establish the independent Scottish Green Party, with an independent Green Party in Northern Ireland developing shortly after | Shivesh Kumar
Shivesh Kumar is a current member of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Bihar, India. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he was elected in the 2010 Bihar legislative assembly election. He was elected to the constituency of Agiaon.
==At present, Member of Bihar Bidhan Sabha ( M.L.A) for the tenure, November,2010 -2015=
Personal details.
Name : Shivesh Kumar
Father’s name : Mr muni Lall (I.A.S)M.P 1996/1998/1999(Sasaram, Bihar) and Minister of Labour and | 6,937 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the leader of the British UKIP Party? | London by Alan Sked in 1991. It was renamed UKIP in 1993 but its growth remained slow. It was largely eclipsed by the Eurosceptic Referendum Party until the latter's 1997 dissolution. In 1997, Sked was ousted by a faction led by Nigel Farage, who became the party's preeminent figure. In 2006, Farage officially became leader and under his direction the party adopted a wider policy platform and capitalised on concerns about rising immigration, in particular among the White British working class. This resulted in significant breakthroughs at the 2013 | to ban the wearing of the burqa in public. He said that "no one has the right to dictate what people should wear", and that the policy undermined his ability to represent British Muslims in his constituency.
In August 2017, Carver endorsed Henry Bolton in the UKIP leadership election, citing his credentials to restructure the party. Following the election of Bolton as leader of UKIP, Carver was appointed assistant deputy leader.
In May 2018, Carver resigned from UKIP and then sat as an independent MEP until the | 6,938 | triviaqa-train |
"Which recording artist, originally a folk singer, had top ten hits in the early 1970's with ""There but for fortune"" and ""The night they drove old Dixie down""?" | on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
Joan Baez recorded a version of the song that became a top-five chart hit in late 1971.
Creation and recording.
The song was written by Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm. According to Rob Bowman's liner notes to the 2000 reissue of the Band's second album, "The Band", it has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on peoples, places and traditions associated with an | Vanguard years.
After eleven years with Vanguard, Baez decided in 1971 to cut ties with the label that had released her albums since 1960. She delivered them one last success with the gold-selling album "Blessed Are..." (1971) which included a top-ten hit in "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", her cover of The Band's signature song. With "Come from the Shadows" (1972), Baez switched to A&M Records, where she remained for four years and six | 6,939 | triviaqa-train |
"Which Irish comedian had the catchphrase ""and there's more""?" | Jimmy Cricket
James Mulgrew (born 17 October 1945), known professionally as Jimmy Cricket, is an Irish comedian. He first came to prominence as a comedian in the 1970s and has had his own shows on television and radio.
Early life and career.
Cricket was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
and left school at 16. He spent the next two years working in a betting shop, before spending the summer of 1966 working as a Red Coat in Butlins Holiday camp at Mosney, | but a wrong answer will get them frozen out and leave their opponent to guess while more of the clue is revealed. The feature is 'hosted' by voice samples of the Northern Irish comedian and original "Catchphrase" presenter, Roy Walker. Simple and reasonably-obvious catchphrases are chosen and the anecdotal clue often involves the fictional character Mr Fish, a reference to Mr Chips from the original game show. The game is played as a best-of-3 knockout and the prize is the chance to compete again when the feature | 6,940 | triviaqa-train |
"Which British artist painted ""The Light of the World"" and ""The Scapegoat""?" | The Light of the World (painting)
The Light of the World (1851–53) is an allegorical painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me". According to Hunt | was joined there by Peploe from 1920. They produced a number of works using the west-coast light and Iona landscape, particularly views of Ben More, which both painted several times. John Duncan, the arts and crafts artist, was still active in the early twentieth century and painted several landscapes similar in style to those of Cadell and Peploe. Hunter used a vibrant palette to create notable paintings of the landscape around Balloch on Loch Lomond. Leading architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) abandoned architecture for painting after World War | 6,941 | triviaqa-train |
What is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea? | Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (; ; ) is a American Mediterranean Sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South America.
The entire area of the Caribbean Sea, the numerous islands of the West Indies, and adjacent coasts, are collectively known as the Caribbean. | .
The name "Cozumel" was derived from the Mayan "Cuzamil" or "Ah Cuzamil Peten" in full, which means "the island of swallows" ().
Geography.
The island is located in the Caribbean Sea along the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula about south of Cancún and from the mainland. The island is about long and wide. With a total area of , it is Mexico's largest Caribbean island, largest permanently inhabited island, and Mexico's third-largest island, following | 6,942 | triviaqa-train |
On whic racecourse does the Irish Derby take place each year? | Irish Derby
The Irish Derby (Irish: Dearbaí na hÉireann) is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at the Curragh over a distance of 1 mile and 4 furlongs (2,414 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late June or early July.
It is Ireland's equivalent of the Epsom Derby, and it is currently held three weeks after the English race.
History.
The earliest version | were made up of individuals. The average household size was 1.82.
In 2007 there were 4,237 criminal offences (115/1000 people).
Population by year
Education.
In 2006 there were 5 elementary schools and 5 secondary schools in Horn totalling 3,894 pupils.
Sport.
The "Deutsches Derby" is a Group 1 flat horse race at the Hamburg-Horn Racecourse, the Horner Rennbahn, scheduled to take place each year in July.
Infrastructure.
Infrastructure Health systems.
In 2007 there were 16 | 6,943 | triviaqa-train |
"Which American city has the nickname ""Beantown""?" | Nicknames of Boston
Boston has many nicknames, inspired by various historical contexts. They include:
- The City: a term used by residents of Greater Boston to refer to the downtown core of Boston.
- The City on a Hill: came from governor John Winthrop's goal, of the original Massachusetts Bay Colony, to create the biblical "City on a Hill." It also refers to the original three hills of Boston.
- The Hub: is a shortened form of a phrase recorded by writer | Orlando Lions
The Orlando Lions was an American soccer team from Orlando, Florida which existed from 1985 to 1996. Over the years, the Lions competed at both the amateur and professional levels including some seasons as an independent team.
The Lions is a nickname that has persisted in the area in connection with later efforts to bring pro soccer to the area. It is used as a nickname for the current Orlando City SC team, which played in the third-tier USL Pro league between 2010 and 2014, and now | 6,944 | triviaqa-train |
The Ashmolean Museum is Britain's oldest public museum. In which city is it located? | Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (, ) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–83 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.
The present building was erected 1841–45. The museum reopened in 2009 after a major redevelopment. In November 2011, new galleries focusing on Egypt and Nubia were unveiled. In May 2016, the museum opened new galleries of 19th-century art | "Disney Ice"), which is an ice skating rink opened to the public, and it also serves as the practice arena for the NHL team, the Anaheim Ducks. Also located in Anaheim's Colonial District is the oldest museum in Orange County — the Mother Colony House. The city park in Downtown Anaheim is Pearson Park, which was named after Charles Pearson, who served as Mayor of Anaheim when Disneyland opened its doors to the public in 1955. The Pearson Park Amphitheatre, an outdoor theater, is one of | 6,945 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the chairman of Newcastle United who also owns the chain of sports shops known as Sports Direct? | Sports Direct
Sports Direct International plc is a British retailing group. Established in 1982 by Mike Ashley, the company is the United Kingdom's largest sports-goods retailer and operates roughly 670 stores worldwide. The company owns a large number of sporting brands and trades predominantly under the SportsDirect.com brand. Other retailers owned by the company include House of Fraser, Flannels, USC and Lillywhites. The company operates under low margins.
Sporting and fashion brands owned include Donnay, Slazenger, Firetrap, Everlast, Kangol, Karrimor and Lonsdale | schools for Clinical Medicine research intensity.
Student life.
Student life Students' Union.
The university has many student organisations. Newcastle University Students' Union (NUSU), known as the Union Society until a 2012 rebranding, includes student-run sports clubs and societies.
Unlike the majority of other students' unions in the UK, Newcastle University Students' Union owns the building where it is housed. The Union building was built in 1924 following a generous gift from an anonymous donor, who is now believed to | 6,946 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the chairman of Wigan Athletic who also owns the chain of sports shops known as JJB Sports? | following a horrific start, and former player Graham Barrow took over as manager. Despite the club being rooted to the bottom of the table until the start of December, the second half of the campaign saw a major upturn in form, and they finished well clear of the relegation zone in 15th place. Attendances fell to a lowest-ever Wigan Athletic League average of 1,845 by 1995.
History Rising through the league: 1995–2005.
In February 1995, local millionaire and owner of JJB Sports, Dave Whelan purchased the club | controversial relocation was forced due to a fixture clash, with a match between football clubs Wigan Athletic and Sunderland to take place less than 24 hours after the Super League match. Whelan, who controlled Wigan Athletic, refused permission for the Warriors to stage their elimination at the stadium, citing concerns over the playing surface. The game was relocated to Widnes Vikings home ground, the Stobart Stadium. In the same season, JJB Sports announced they would not continue to sponsor Wigan Warriors, leaving them without a main shirt sponsor. | 6,947 | triviaqa-train |
"Who composed the music for the ballet ""Spartacus""?" | Spartacus (ballet)
Spartacus () is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War, although the ballet's storyline takes considerable liberties with the historical record. Khachaturian composed Spartacus in 1954, and was awarded a Lenin Prize for the composition that same year. It was first staged, with choreography by Leonid Yakobson, in Leningrad 1956, but only with qualified success since Yakobson abandoned conventional "pointe | Babek (ballet)
Babek () is a heroic "Spartacus"-like ballet in two acts, based on the story of the people’s liberation struggle against Abbasid Caliphate under the leadership of Babak Khorramdin. Akshin Alizadeh composed the music and the prominent Azeri choreographers of the Soviet era Rafiga Akhundova and Maksud Mamedov choreographed the ballet for Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (National Ballet of Azerbaijan) in 1986.
Story.
The ballet creation narrates the story of the brave Iranian and Azerbaijanian national hero, Babak Khorramdin, who | 6,948 | triviaqa-train |
On which racecourse does the Irish Grand National take place? | Irish Grand National
The Irish Grand National is a National Hunt steeplechase in Ireland which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Fairyhouse over a distance of about 3 miles and 5 furlongs (5,834 metres), and during its running there are twenty-four fences to be jumped. It is a handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year on Easter Monday.
It is the Irish equivalent of the Grand National, and it is held during Fairyhouse's Easter Festival meeting | second to the Irish-trained Don Poli, to whom he was conceding five pounds. Many Clouds then attempted to repeat his 2015 success in the Cotswold Chase and finished second to Smad Place. His final prep race for the Grand National was intended to be a chase at Kelso Racecourse on 5 March but the meeting was abandoned and rearranged to take place eight days later. Starting the 11/10 favourite Many Clouds took the lead at the fourth fence and went on to win by ten lengths from Unioniste. Starting as 8/1 joint favourite | 6,949 | triviaqa-train |
Mathematical Formulae - What is the mathematical formula expressing Einstein's relativity theory? | gravity, is negligible. In order to correctly accommodate gravity, Einstein formulated general relativity in 1915. Special relativity, contrary to some historical descriptions, does accommodate accelerations as well as accelerating frames of reference.
Just as Galilean relativity is now accepted to be an approximation of special relativity that is valid for low speeds, special relativity is considered an approximation of general relativity that is valid for weak gravitational fields, i.e. at a sufficiently small scale (for example, for tidal forces) and in conditions of free fall. General | by 2007.
Along with its sibling species, "Ochroconis lascauxensis" was selected on May 22, 2013 by the International Institute for Species Exploration, located at Arizona State University, as one of the "Top 10 New Species" that had been discovered in 2012. The winners were selected from among a pool of more than 140 nominees. The two fungi were chosen because of their importance in relation to properly conserving the cave painting at Lascaux.
History.
After first being observed in the early 2000s, a | 6,950 | triviaqa-train |
Petra Kvitova won the Wimledon Ladies Championship in 2011. What nationality is she? | , she won the WTA Elite Trophy in her first appearance at the tournament, thus becoming the first player ever to win both categories of year-ending championships on debut. In 2019, she returned to her first Grand Slam final in almost five years, at the Australian Open where she finished runner-up to Naomi Osaka.
Early life.
Petra Kvitová was born to Jiří Kvita, a school teacher and Pavla Kvitová in Bílovec, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). She has two | occasions, won WTA Shot Of The Year for the third year in a row (WTA Finals Championship match against Petra Kvitova), and, for the fifth consecutive season, won the WTA Award for Fan Favorite Player.
Career 2016: Back to No. 2 & 20th WTA title.
Radwańska began her season at the Shenzhen Open, where she defeated Aleksandra Krunic, Zhang Shuai, Wang Qiang, Anna-Lena Friedsam and Alison Riske (all in straight sets), to win her 18th WTA Title. As a | 6,951 | triviaqa-train |
"Which sculptor created the classical marble statue ""The Threee Graces""? He carved two separate versions, one stands in the Hermitage Museum and the other is jointly shown by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery of Scotland." | ), Rubens's "The Feast of Herod" (1633 or c.1637-38) and a pair of paintings by Titian, "Diana and Actaeon" and "Diana and Callisto" (purchased jointly with the National Gallery, London). The Scottish National Gallery has also jointly acquired one of Canova's sculptures of The Three Graces with the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Scottish National Gallery has a notable collection of works by Scottish artists, including several landscapes by Alexander Nasmyth, and several works by Sir Henry Raeburn | Hercules and Antaeus
Hercules and Antaeus is an early 16th-century bronze sculpture by Pier Jacopo di Antonio Alari-Bonacolsi. The Gonzaga family court sculptor based this group on a classical marble of Hercules and Antaeus which is now in the Pitti Palace in Florence. The statue was given to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Dr. W. L. Hildburgh, F. S. A., in 1956. | 6,952 | triviaqa-train |
Which cathedral is the tallest in the UK with a spire height of 123 metres or 404 feet? | was given the task of distributing some of the original copies. Elias later became a canon of Salisbury and supervised the construction of the cathedral.
Building and architecture Clock.
The Salisbury cathedral clock, which dates from about AD 1386, is supposedly the oldest working modern clock in the world. The clock has no face; all clocks of that date rang out the hours on a bell. It was originally located in a bell tower that was demolished in 1792. Following this demolition, the clock was moved to the Cathedral | its present height of . The western towers and front of the cathedral were also improved and heightened. At this time, a tall lead-encased wooden spire topped the central tower but was blown down in a storm in 1548. With its spire, the tower reputedly reached a height of 525 feet (160 m) (which would have made it the world's tallest structure, surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza, which held the record for almost 4,000 years). Although there is dissent, this height is agreed by | 6,953 | triviaqa-train |
Sam Stosur won the American Open Ladies Tennis Championship in 2011. What nationality is she? | a system known as Hawk-Eye.
Tennis is played by millions of recreational players and is also a popular worldwide spectator sport. The four Grand Slam tournaments (also referred to as the Majors) are especially popular: the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open also played on hard courts.
History.
History Predecessors.
Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th century northern France, where a | first win in six years by defeating Maria Elena Camerin 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 but fell to fifth seed Sam Stosur in the next round. She then fell in the first rounds of Open GDF Suez and Dubai Tennis Championships. At the Qatar Ladies Open, she qualified and defeated María José Martínez Sánchez 4–6, 6–1, 7–6 in the first round and lost to Daniela Hantuchová 6–4, 2–6, 4–6 in the second round.
Tennis career 2017: Retirement.
Dushevina announced her retirement from professional tennis on 15 August 2017 because | 6,954 | triviaqa-train |
"Which actor, who died in 2011, became famous when referred to as the best actor in the world by Steven Spielberg? He starred in a succession of movies including ""The Usual Suspects"", ""Brassed Off"", ""Last of the Mohicans"" and ""The Constant Gardener""?" | 's title is derived. Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite and Donald Sumpter co-star. The film was a modest critical and box office success and earned four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actress for Rachel Weisz.
Plot.
Justin Quayle, a low-level British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, learns that his wife Tessa was found dead in the veld. Tessa has been murdered at a crossroads along with her Kenyan driver. Her colleague, Dr. Arnold Bluhm, | he founded the production company Bad Hat Harry Productions, in homage to Steven Spielberg and the famous line from "Jaws". Singer followed this by directing "The Usual Suspects", which was screened out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. It was a success, winning Christopher McQuarrie an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay), and actor Kevin Spacey an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In 1998, Singer obtained the rights to adapt Stephen King's novella "Apt Pupil", a thriller | 6,955 | triviaqa-train |
Medicine: What is a patient suffering from, based on the following description - Partial or complete blockage of a blood vessel by a blood clot? | to the wall of a blood vessel. They occur in large vessels such as the heart and aorta, and can restrict blood flow but usually do not block it entirely. They appear grey-red with alternating light and dark lines (known as lines of Zahn) which represent bands of entrapped white blood cells and red blood cells (darker).
Cause.
Virchow's triad describes the pathogenesis of thrombus formation:
1. Endothelial injury: Injury to the endothelium (interior surface of blood vessel), causing | Embolism
An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. The embolus may be a blood clot (thrombus), a fat globule (fat embolism), a bubble of air or other gas (gas embolism), or foreign material. An embolism can cause partial or total blockage of blood flow in the affected vessel. Such a blockage (a vascular occlusion) may affect a part of the body distant from the origin of the embolus. An embolism | 6,956 | triviaqa-train |
Sheila Hancock was the wife of which deceased actor? | other television credits include "Doctor Who", "Kavanagh QC" (opposite her husband, John Thaw), "Gone to the Dogs", "Brighton Belles", "EastEnders", "The Russian Bride", "Bedtime", "Fortysomething", "Feather Boy", "Bleak House", "New Tricks", "Hustle" and "The Catherine Tate Show". In 2008, she played the part of a terminally ill patient who travelled to Switzerland for an assisted suicide in one | received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities from Uppsala University.
Personal life.
Odera Oruka was married twice. His first wife, Millicent Achien'g, bore him three children: Owiso Odera (the deceased Hollywood actor), Sheila Odera (Veteran Actress/Model and Accountant), and Sharon Odera. He had two children with his second wife, Olivia Phoebe Ayoma, namely Ronnie Omuga and Peter Oruka Odera(an International relations practitioner).
Basic philosophical beliefs.
Three philosophical approaches can be seen in Okura's | 6,957 | triviaqa-train |
What was the first book to be written by Charles Dickens, completed in 1837? | whimsical names. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes, Pip, Miss Havisham, Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, David Copperfield, Mr Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Daniel Quilp, Samuel Pickwick, Wackford Squeers, and Uriah Heep are so well known as to be part and parcel of popular culture, and in some cases have passed into ordinary language: a "scrooge", for example, is a miser – or someone | Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life."
Most reviewers in the 1860s continued to praise Dickens' skill as a writer in general, though not reviewing this novel | 6,958 | triviaqa-train |
"""The 59th Street Bridge Song"" was an early successful recording by Simon and Garfunkel. What is its better known alternative title?" | The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" is a song by folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel, appearing on their 1966 album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme". "59th Street Bridge" is the colloquial name of the Queensboro Bridge in New York City. The song's message is immediately delivered in its opening verse: "Slow down, you move too fast".
The studio version features Dave Brubeck Quartet members Joe Morello | (drums) and Eugene Wright (double bass).
Footage of Simon and Garfunkel performing the song at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival is featured in the film "Monterey Pop".
On his farewell tour, Simon "penalized" himself for wrongly performing the lyrics to another song by singing this song, which he confesses to hating.
The theme song to the American children's TV show "H.R. Pufnstuf", originally composed by Sid and Marty Krofft, was found to closely mimic "The 59th Street Bridge | 6,959 | triviaqa-train |
"Paul McCartney had a record commonly known as ""The Frog Chorus"" in the top ten for 13 weeks in 1984. What was the formal title of this record?" | His song "We All Stand Together" from the film's soundtrack reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1992, he worked with Dunbar on an animated film about the work of French artist Honoré Daumier, which won them a BAFTA award. In 2004, they worked together on the animated short film "Tropic Island Hum". The accompanying single, "Tropic Island Hum"/"We All Stand Together", reached number 21 in the UK.
McCartney also produced and hosted "The Real Buddy Holly Story" | the top spot for three weeks by "Hey Jude" by The Beatles) and topped the Billboard Easy Listening charts for six weeks. In the Netherlands, it topped the charts for two consecutive weeks. The Russian origin of the melody was accentuated by an instrumentation that was unusual for a top-ten pop record, including balalaika, clarinet, hammered dulcimer or cimbalom, tenor banjo and children's chorus, giving a klezmer feel to the song. Mary Hopkin played acoustic guitar on the recording, and Paul McCartney also played | 6,960 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the American student who was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, along with her Italian boyfriend and released in 2011 after an appeal? | Murder of Meredith Kercher
Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy. Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom. By the time the bloodstained fingerprints at the scene were identified as belonging to Rudy Guede, police had charged Kercher's American flatmate, Amanda Knox, and Knox's Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The subsequent prosecutions of Knox and Sollecito received international publicity | Emma Humphreys
Emma Clare Humphreys (30 October 1967 – 11 July 1998) was a Welsh woman who was imprisoned in England in December 1985 at Her Majesty's pleasure, after being convicted of the murder of her violent 33-year-old boyfriend and pimp, Trevor Armitage.
Aged 17 when convicted, Humphreys spent a decade in prison before winning an appeal against the conviction, on 7 July 1995, on the grounds of long-term provocation. The Court of Appeal reduced the conviction to manslaughter, and she was released | 6,961 | triviaqa-train |
During the Battle of Stalingrad who was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Red Arny forces? | Motorized Infantry, covered 400 km. Paulus had requested permission to "withdraw the 6th Army behind the Don," but was rejected. According to Paulus' comments to Adam, "There is still the order whereby no commander of an army group or an army has the right to relinquish a village, even a trench, without Hitler's consent."
Soviet counter-offensives Operation Uranus: the Soviet offensive.
In autumn, the Soviet generals Georgy Zhukov and Aleksandr Vasilevsky, responsible for strategic planning in the Stalingrad | Nikolay Voronov
Nikolay Nikolayevich Voronov (; born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire; died 28 February 1968, in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet military leader, chief marshal of the artillery (1944), and Hero of the Soviet Union (7 May 1965). He was commander of artillery forces of the Red Army from 1941 until 1950. Voronov commanded the Soviet artillery during the Battle of Stalingrad and was the Stavka representative to various fronts during the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Kursk. He also fought | 6,962 | triviaqa-train |
Bourbon Whisly is named after a county in which American state? | County (United States)
In the United States, a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic region with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The term "county" is used in 48 U.S. states, while Louisiana and Alaska have functionally equivalent subdivisions called parishes and boroughs, respectively.
Most counties have subdivisions which may include municipalities and unincorporated areas. Others have no further divisions, or may serve as a consolidated city-county. Some municipalities are in multiple | Union Township, Perry County, Missouri
Union is one of the eight townships located in Perry County, Missouri, in the United States of America.
Etymology.
Union Township is named after Uniontown, Missouri. The town’s original name, Paitzdorf, was changed during the American Civil War in response to Union soldiers encamped nearby.
History.
The area of Union Township was originally under the authority of the New Bourbon District, which was one of two districts formed by the French colonial administration of Upper Louisiana | 6,963 | triviaqa-train |
"According to archive figures (and quoted by Wikipedia), how many casualties were suffered by the ""Red Army"" (excluding civilians) in The Battle of Stalingrad? Casualties comprise soldiers who were killed, wounded or captured." | China is about 700,000 since 1937 (excluding the deaths in Manchuria).
Another source from Hilary Conroy claims that a total of 447,000 Japanese soldiers died in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Of the 1,130,000 Imperial Japanese Army soldiers who died during World War II, 39 percent died in China.
Then in "War Without Mercy", John W. Dower claims that a total of 396,000 Japanese soldiers died in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Of this number, the Imperial Japanese Army lost 388,605 | that Chinese People's Volunteer Army inflicted 23,000 casualties on UNC, among them, 7,485 killed or wounded and 3,616 captured (including 1,042 US soldiers) were inflicted by the 38th Corps. US Eightth Army estimated it suffered 11,000 casualties, excluding South Korean casualties.
In Third Battle of Seoul, the 38th Corps broke through defence organized by ROK 6th Division within 20 minutes on December 31, then defeated a regiment of US 24th Infantry Division on the southeast of Uijeongbu on January 3.
In the Fourth Phase Battle, the | 6,964 | triviaqa-train |
"Which chemical element, a gas, derives its name from the Greek for ""sun""?" | physics. Quantum mechanics is needed to explain this property and thus both states of liquid helium (helium I and helium II) are called "quantum fluids", meaning they display atomic properties on a macroscopic scale. This may be an effect of its boiling point being so close to absolute zero, preventing random molecular motion (thermal energy) from masking the atomic properties.
Characteristics Liquid helium Helium II.
Liquid helium below its lambda point (called "helium II") exhibits very unusual characteristics. Due to its high | by heating limestone (CaCO); the name "calcium" itself derives from the Latin word "calx" "lime". Vitruvius noted that the lime that resulted was lighter than the original limestone, attributing this to the boiling of the water; in 1755, Joseph Black proved that this was due to the loss of carbon dioxide, which as a gas had not been recognised by the ancient Romans.
In 1787, Antoine Lavoisier suspected that lime might be an oxide of a fundamental chemical element. In his table | 6,965 | triviaqa-train |
What title is used in Scotland for the chief magistrate or convener of a burgh council, the equivalent of a mayor in other parts of the English speaking world? | Provost (civil)
A provost (introduced into Scots from French) is the ceremonial head of many Scottish local authorities, and under the name prévôt () was a governmental position of varying importance in Ancien Régime France.
Each of Scotland's 32 modern unitary council areas elect a Provost, who alongside ceremonial duties similar to mayors in other countries, also act as convener of the council. In the cities and council areas of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee, the alternative title of Lord Provost is used. | North Angus and Mearns) asked Frank McElhone, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland:
"why a community council for a former Royal burgh is not able to use the words "Royal Burgh" in its title; and what scope there is for the continuance of historical titles under the present organisation of local authorities."
In reply McElhone stated:
"The title which may be used by a community council is a matter for the district council to decide when drawing up the scheme for community councils in | 6,966 | triviaqa-train |
"From which opera does the ""Humming Chorus"" come?" | Verdi, onward, exercising tremendous influence on his successors Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten.
After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo appeared in Italy. This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" that came to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly". Later Italian composers, such as Berio and Nono, have experimented | ," and are fleeing the horrors of the future leaders of Earth - the Owners. One of the refugees gives Virginia a small, humming, multi-colored device from the future, which she does not turn over to the government. Eventually several people come looking for the device and its true purpose is revealed. | 6,967 | triviaqa-train |
In the war in Afghanistan many lives have been lost due to IEDs planted by the Taliban. What is an IED ? | Roadside bombs were extensively used by the IRA. Typically, a roadside bomb was placed in a drain or culvert along a rural road and detonated by remote control when British security forces vehicles were passing. As a result of the use of these bombs, the British military stopped transport by road in areas such as South Armagh, and used helicopter transport instead to avoid the danger.
Most IEDs used commercial or homemade explosives, although the use of Semtex-H smuggled in from Libya in the 1980s was also common from | an IED was a write-off, insisting that the tank has been repaired and is once again in use. "The Taliban have been engaged with some of the new Leopard 2 tanks in several ambushes" and that as a result the Taliban "learned some very harsh lessons" and lost the battle in question "very quickly and very violently."
In October 2007, Denmark also deployed Leopard 2A5 DKs in support of operations in southern Afghanistan. The Danish tank unit, drawn from the first battalion of the " | 6,968 | triviaqa-train |
The northern extremity of Offa's Dyke is in which Welsh town? | , the Path is longer, and in some places passes at some distance from the earthworks. Opened in 1971, the Path is one of Britain's longest National Trails, stretching for from the Severn estuary at Sedbury, near Chepstow, to Prestatyn on the north Wales coast. There is a visitor centre at Knighton.
Cultural importance.
The dyke has a cultural significance symbolising the separation between England and Wales: a symbolism similar to Hadrian's Wall between England and Scotland in the Scottish Marches. George Borrow in his | River Eitha
The River Eitha () is a small river in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is part of the River Dee catchment. Its name was probably derived from the Welsh word "eithaf" - "extremity", "farthest".
Sir Cyril Fox, in his surveys of Offa's Dyke and Wat's Dyke, identified a section of the Eitha as forming part of the frontier of Mercia in this area.
Course.
The river rises, as the Trefechan Brook, high on the | 6,969 | triviaqa-train |
The southern extremity of Offa's Dyke is in which Welsh town? | to as early as 430. This evidence suggests that the Dyke may have been a long-term project by several Mercian kings.
Current.
The England–Wales border still mostly passes within a few miles of the course of Offa's Dyke through the Welsh Marches. A section of the Dyke, which overlooks Tintern Abbey and includes the Devil's Pulpit near Chepstow, is now managed by English Heritage.
Current Statutory protection.
All sections of Offa's Dyke that survive as visible earthworks, or as infilled but | the Domesday Book—probably derives from the Welsh word "ystraigyl" meaning 'a bend in the river'. An alternative suggestion is that it derives from Welsh words "ystre", meaning boundary or dyke, and "gwyl", meaning watch or guard; a combined word "ystregwyl" could mean "well-guarded border (or dyke)", perhaps referring to the location's proximity to the southern end of Offa's Dyke.
In the medieval period the town which grew up between the port, | 6,970 | triviaqa-train |
What title is used in Scotland for a public prosecutor who investigates sudden and suspicious deaths and conducts fatal accident enquiries, the equivalent of a coroner in other legal systems? | be used. Now deaths requiring judicial examination are reported to the Procurator Fiscal and dealt with by Fatal Accident Inquiries conducted by the Sheriff for the area.
Coroners by country (region) United States.
, of the 2,342 death investigation offices in the United States, 1,590 were coroners' offices, 82 of which served jurisdictions of more than 250,000 people. Qualifications for coroners are set by individual states and counties in the U.S., and vary widely. In many jurisdictions, little or no training is required, even though a coroner | Fatal accident inquiry
A fatal accident inquiry is a Scottish judicial process which investigates and determines the circumstances of some deaths occurring in Scotland. Until 2009, they did not apply to any deaths occurring in other jurisdictions, when the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 extended the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976 to service personnel at the discretion of the Chief Coroner or the Secretary of State. The equivalent process in England and Wales is an inquest. A major review of the fatal accident inquiries was undertaken by Lord | 6,971 | triviaqa-train |
What nationality was the artist Frida Khalo? | Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (; born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post | muchas vidas en París
- La magia de lo mestizo en Frida Kahlo
- "Roxana Pinto, Ida y vuelta" by Sergio Coto Rivel
- Una mirada profunda a la vida y obra de Frida Kahlo.
- "Frida lenguaje de espejos" por Carmen Naranjo
- Ida y Vuelta in Goodreads
- Editorial Uruk
- Roxana Pinto López - Asociación Costarricense de Escritoras
- "La Magia de lo Mestizo en Frida Khalo"
- "Donde ellas"
- "Noticia de silencio" | 6,972 | triviaqa-train |
In the cartoon series 'Asterix the Gaul' what is the name of the chief druid of Asterix's Gaulish village who makes all of the potions and medicines? | Obelix, but has been replanted, or restored by Getafix's magic acorns (in "The Mansions of the Gods").
In the English and American adaptations of the series, he speaks in an effeminate voice.
In the animated "Asterix and the Big Fight", Cacofonix is seen playing a rock song trying to restore Getafix's memory, one occasion where Fulliautomatix and Unhygienix are not annoyed or angry with him.
He and Getafix are the village's teachers, as only bards and druids are allowed | Obelix
Obelix (; ) is a cartoon character and protagonist in the French comic book series Asterix. He works as a menhir sculptor and deliveryman, and is Asterix's best friend. Obelix is noted for his fatness, the menhirs he carries around on his back and his superhuman strength. He fell into a cauldron of the Gauls' magic potion when he was a baby, causing him to be the only Gaul in Asterix's village who is in a permanent state of superhuman strength. Because of this already enormous strength, | 6,973 | triviaqa-train |
What name is given to the branch of Christianity followed by Jews in Israel and the U.S.A.? | Republic of Iran, and even in the newspapers and other publications of Refah Partisi.
Judaism and other religions Syncretic movements incorporating Judaism.
There are some movements that combine elements of Judaism with those of other religions. The most well-known of these is Messianic Judaism, a religious movement, which arose in the 1960s, that incorporates elements of Judaism with the tenets of Christianity. The movement generally states that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, that he is one of the Three Divine Persons, and that salvation is only achieved | near Weimar. Every German Jew should carry from , in addition, the given name Israel or Sara and must give him everywhere. Polish Jews in Germany will be imprisoned or expelled. In spite of this news couple Klepper builds a new house in Berlin. In connection with the Kristallnacht Klepper disturb the arbitrary arrests of Jewish men by the Gestapo. Klepper's wife Hanni converts to the Christianity. Klepper is horrified about Hannis .
1939 Both stepdaughters Kleppers would like to emigrate. Wife Hanni wants to remain. NS ideologist Rosenberg | 6,974 | triviaqa-train |
What name is given to the branch of Christianity followed in Egypt? | parts of the Roman Empire and beyond that into the Parthian Empire and the later Sasanian Empire, including Mesopotamia, which was dominated at different times and to varying extents by these empires. The presence of Christianity in Africa began in the middle of the 1st century in Egypt and by the end of the 2nd century in the region around Carthage. Mark the Evangelist is claimed to have started the Church of Alexandria in about 43 CE; various later churches and denominations claim this as their own legacy, including the Coptic Orthodox Church of | Oriental Orthodoxy was based in what was then known as the Middle East, Egypt, Ethiopia and southern India. The name, "African Orthodox Church", "denoted its aim: to be a universal Black church in affiliation with a branch of Christianity not known for racism or colonialism."
Article one of the constitution of the African Orthodox church said:
The name of this church, which was organized September 2nd, 1921, is and shall be THE AFRICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH. Its faith as declared, is Orthodox | 6,975 | triviaqa-train |
"In the cartoon series ""Asterix the Gaul"", what is the name of the oldest man in Asterix's Gaulish village who still has an eye for the ladies?" | which are puns on their roles or personalities, and which follow certain patterns specific to nationality. Certain rules are followed (most of the time) such as Gauls (and their neighbours) having an "-ix" suffix for the men and ending in "-a" for the women; for example, Chief Vitalstatistix (so called due to his portly stature) and his wife Impedimenta (often at odds with the chief). The male Roman names end in "-us", echoing Latin nominitive male singular form, as | Obelix
Obelix (; ) is a cartoon character and protagonist in the French comic book series Asterix. He works as a menhir sculptor and deliveryman, and is Asterix's best friend. Obelix is noted for his fatness, the menhirs he carries around on his back and his superhuman strength. He fell into a cauldron of the Gauls' magic potion when he was a baby, causing him to be the only Gaul in Asterix's village who is in a permanent state of superhuman strength. Because of this already enormous strength, | 6,976 | triviaqa-train |
What name is given to the sweet French bread, enriched with a high egg and butter content? It is commonly eaten with breakfast or as a snack, and has numerous uses in cuisine. | mixed grain porridge may also be served, usually topped with butter.
Europe France.
In France, a typical domestic breakfast consists of a cup of coffee, often café au lait, or hot chocolate, sometimes accompanied by a glass of orange or grapefruit juice. The main food consists of sweet products such as "tartines" (slices of baguette or other breads spread with butter, jam, or chocolate paste), sometimes dunked in the hot drink. Brioches and other pastries such as "croissants", "pains | fruit juice or hot drinks. Afternoon tea is eaten between 14.30 and 18.00. "Podwieczorek" in everyday life is eaten rather sporadically, and if it does not deviate from the second breakfast, consisting of bread with butter and jam and tea. On Sundays and holidays, however, afternoon tea is something common, providing an opportunity to socialize with sweet, mostly yeast bread, which is sipped with coffee or tea. In the Wielkopolska cuisine, a certain peculiarity is a potato pancake, known as a bambrzak, once consumed | 6,977 | triviaqa-train |
What is a beaver's home called? | , though they may not defend secondary dams as vigorously. Beavers may create a series of dams along a river.
Habitat Lodges.
The ponds created by well-maintained dams help isolate the beavers' homes, which are called "lodges". These are created from severed branches and mud. The beavers cover their lodges late each autumn with fresh mud, which freezes when frosts arrive. The mud becomes almost as hard as stone, thereby preventing wolves and wolverines from penetrating the lodge.
The lodge has underwater entrances | Beaver's Pond Press
Beaver's Pond Press is a hybrid publishing company based in Edina, Minnesota that publishes independent authors and artists. Combining elements of royalty and self-publishing models to create what they term a “mentoring press,” Beaver's Pond Press is known for their personal interactions and creative approach to publishing.
Publishing approximately twenty-five children's books a year, Beaver's Pond Press partners with dozens of cartoonists and illustrators. They also publish a number of fiction and nonfiction books, including memoirs and | 6,978 | triviaqa-train |
Which tissue carries sugary sap around the plant? | most conduction in xylem tissue is vertical, lateral conduction along the diameter of a stem is facilitated via rays. Rays are horizontal rows of long-living parenchyma cells that arise out of the vascular cambium. In trees and other woody plants, rays radiate out from the center of stems and roots and appear like spokes on a wheel in cross section. Rays, unlike vessel members and tracheids, are alive at functional maturity.
Plant tissues Permanent tissues Complex permanent tissue Phloem.
Phloem consists of:
- Sieve tube
- Companion | small (a few millimeters in length), that winds can transport them for fairly long distances. They are often green, but might be red or brown, as well. They move quite slowly and cannot jump or hop. Aphids excrete a sugary liquid called honeydew, because the plant sap from which they feed contains excess carbohydrates relative to its low protein content. To satisfy their protein needs, they absorb large amounts of sap and excrete the excess carbohydrates. Honeydew is used as food by ants, honeybees, and | 6,979 | triviaqa-train |
Which cells form the middle layer of plant leaves? | ) epidermis and are more numerous in plants from cooler climates.
Anatomy (medium and small scale) Major leaf tissues Mesophyll.
Most of the interior of the leaf between the upper and lower layers of epidermis is a "parenchyma" (ground tissue) or "chlorenchyma" tissue called the mesophyll (Greek for "middle leaf"). This assimilation tissue is the primary location of photosynthesis in the plant. The products of photosynthesis are called "assimilates".
In ferns and most flowering plants, the mesophyll is divided into | Carotenoids in the leaves are slower to degrade than chlorophyll, so autumn leaves appear yellow and orange.
In plants Process Protective layer formation.
Cells under the abscission zone divide and form a layer of cork cells. Situated on both sides of the abscission zone are layers of parenchyma cells, which produce and inject suberin and lignin under the abscission zone into the new layer of cork cells. Suberin and lignin create a durable and waterproof layer for the plant once the organ is detached.
In plants Process Detachment.
This step can occur | 6,980 | triviaqa-train |
Which antipodean bird is the largest member of the kingfisher family? | Ispidina lecontei"), which averages in length and between in weight. The largest kingfisher in Africa is the giant kingfisher ("Megaceryle maxima"), which is in length and in weight. The familiar Australian kingfisher known as the laughing kookaburra ("Dacelo novaeguineae") is the heaviest species with females reaching nearly in weight.
The plumage of most kingfishers is bright, with green and blue being the most common colours. The brightness of the colours is neither the product of iridescence (except in the American kingfishers | is a woodland species that hunts large insects and small vertebrates. Some South African species are among the largest of their kind, such as the giant kingfisher and the pied kingfisher. Others are the smallest, such as the malachite kingfisher.
Hoopoe and wood-hoopoes
The hoopoe is one of the most wide-ranging bird species in the world, resident over much of Europe, Asia and Africa. The African subspecies (which some authorities elevate to full species status), is more russet in colour than its northerly | 6,981 | triviaqa-train |
Which bird feeds with its head upside-down and its beak held horizontally beneath the water? | invertebrates; shorebirds' varied bill lengths and feeding methods result in the separation of ecological niches. Loons, diving ducks, penguins and auks pursue their prey underwater, using their wings or feet for propulsion, while aerial predators such as sulids, kingfishers and terns plunge dive after their prey. Flamingos, three species of prion, and some ducks are filter feeders. Geese and dabbling ducks are primarily grazers.
Some species, including frigatebirds, gulls, and skuas, engage in kleptoparasitism, stealing food items from other birds. | side of a branch so that the adult would have the sun on its back during the afternoon. Females were observed to incubate more while males sat nearby or captured insects. The nestlings are cryptically patterned in grey and freeze when threatened with the head held low and beak held slightly upward and appear like a knot on a tree branch or when sitting horizontally appear like a chameleon.
The crested treeswift feeds in the air, capturing insects (including honey bees) on the wing with its bill. They are known to sometimes | 6,982 | triviaqa-train |
What is the state of inactivity through the dry, summer season, as hibernation is the dormancy of the winter months? | spring, and in mammals such as the roe deer ("Capreolus capreolus", the only ungulate with embryonic diapause), in which a delay in attachment of the embryo to the uterine lining ensures that offspring are born in spring, when conditions are most favorable.
Animals Aestivation.
Aestivation, also spelled "estivation", is an example of consequential dormancy in response to very hot or dry conditions. It is common in invertebrates such as the garden snail and worm but also occurs in other animals such as lungfish, | , bears go through a series of physiological, morphological, and behavioral changes. Their ability to maintain skeletal muscle number and size during disuse is of significant importance.
During hibernation, bears spend 4-7 months of inactivity and anorexia without undergoing muscle atrophy and protein loss. A few known factors contribute to the sustaining of muscle tissue. During the summer, bears take advantage of the nutrition availability and accumulate muscle protein. The protein balance at time of dormancy is also maintained by lower levels of protein breakdown during the winter | 6,983 | triviaqa-train |
What kind of a creature is a scorpion? | the class Arachnida, which are oviparous, scorpions seem to be universally viviparous. The young are born one by one, expel the embryonic membrane, if any, and the brood is carried about on its mother's back until the young have undergone at least one molt. Before the first molt, scorplings cannot survive naturally without the mother, since they depend on her for protection and to regulate their moisture levels. Especially in species that display more advanced sociability (e.g. "Pandinus" spp.), the young/ | system. If the game code detects what it believes to be an unauthorised copy, it alters gameplay to make play exceedingly difficult. An invincible arachnoid is spawned: this creature can charge at high speed, melee attack, and attacks from a range with twin chainguns. This makes progress in the game much harder, and ultimately prevents the player from progressing further. This invincible arachnoid is also known as the "DRM Scorpion".
If the invincible arachnoid protection is bypassed, there is another one: mid-way in | 6,984 | triviaqa-train |
Which acid is contained in rhubarb leaves, making them poisonous to eat? | Triangle" between Wakefield, Leeds, and Morley.
Rhubarb damaged by severe cold should not be eaten, as it may be high in oxalic acid, which migrates from the leaves and can cause illness.
The colour of rhubarb stalks can vary from the commonly associated crimson red, through speckled light pink, to simply light green. Rhubarb stalks are poetically described as "crimson stalks". The colour results from the presence of anthocyanins, and varies according to both rhubarb variety and production technique. The colour is not | so the flesh is safe to eat.
The foliage, particularly when wilted, also contains cyanogenic glycosides, which convert to hydrogen cyanide if eaten by animals. Farmers are recommended to remove any trees that fall in a field containing livestock, because the wilted leaves could poison the animals. Removal is not always practical, though, because they often grow in very large numbers on farms, taking advantage of the light brought about by mowing and grazing. Entire fencerows can be lined with this poisonous tree, making it difficult to | 6,985 | triviaqa-train |
What kind of an organism causes a 'rust' attack on plants? | many trillions of cells which differentiate during development into specialized tissues and organs.
An organism may be either a prokaryote or a eukaryote. Prokaryotes are represented by two separate domains – bacteria and archaea. Eukaryotic organisms are characterized by the presence of a membrane-bound cell nucleus and contain additional membrane-bound compartments called organelles (such as mitochondria in animals and plants and plastids in plants and algae, all generally considered to be derived from endosymbiotic bacteria). Fungi, animals and plants are examples of kingdoms of organisms within | rust-colored bands are caused by a cyanobacterium, but it is unknown whether this organism actually causes the disease.
Ecology Collaboration with other organisms.
In addition to hosting photosynthesizing endosymbionts, sponges are noted for their wide range of collaborations with other organisms. The relatively large encrusting sponge "Lissodendoryx colombiensis" is most common on rocky surfaces, but has extended its range into seagrass meadows by letting itself be surrounded or overgrown by seagrass sponges, which are distasteful to the local starfish and therefore protect "Lissodendoryx" against them; | 6,986 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the lustrous substance that forms pearl and mother-of-pearl? | are then lacquered and polished creating a durable and glossy surface.
Instead of using a marble or tile base, the nacre tesserae can be glued to fiberglass. The result is a lightweight material that offers a seamless installation and there is no limit to the sheet size. Nacre sheets may be used on interior floors, exterior and interior walls, countertops, doors and ceilings. Insertion into architectural elements, such as columns or furniture is easily accomplished.
Decorative uses Fashion.
Mother of pearl buttons are used in clothing either | .
d-block elements Tantalum.
Tantalum is a chemical element with the symbol Ta and atomic number 73. Previously known as "tantalium", the name comes from "Tantalus", a character from Greek mythology. Tantalum is a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion resistant. It is part of the refractory metals group, which are widely used as minor component in alloys. The chemical inertness of tantalum makes it a valuable substance for laboratory equipment and a substitute for platinum | 6,987 | triviaqa-train |
What is the Latin word for 'liquid' which we use to mean the fluid produced by the tree Ficus elastica? | leaves than the wild form. Many such hybrids exist, often with variegated leaves.
Cultivation and uses Latex.
"Ficus elastica" yields a milky white latex, a chemical compound separate from its sap and carried and stored in different cells. This latex was formerly used to make rubber, but it should not be confused with the Pará rubber tree, the main commercial source of latex for rubber making. Just as with "Hevea brasiliensis", the latex of "Ficus elastica" is an irritant to the eyes and | weatherproof exterior combined with an interior application of straw and clay to provide a stucco-like inner surface.
Tree shaping has been practised for at least several hundred years, the oldest known examples being the living root bridges built and maintained by the Khasi people of Meghalaya, India using the roots of the rubber tree ("Ficus elastica").
Uses Bark.
Cork is produced from the thick bark of the cork oak ("Quercus suber"). It is harvested from the living trees about once every ten | 6,988 | triviaqa-train |
How many species of domestic dog are found today? | Canis lupus" its wild subspecies, and proposed two additional subspecies: ""familiaris" Linneaus, 1758 [domestic dog]" and ""dingo" Meyer, 1793 [domestic dog]". Wozencraft included "hallstromi" – the New Guinea singing dog – as a taxonomic synonym for the dingo. Wozencraft referred to the mDNA study as one of the guides in forming his decision. The inclusion of "familiaris" and "dingo" under a "domestic dog" clade has been noted by other mammalogists. This | instill any particular behavior, many behaviors that are observed are remembered and imitated. The domestic dog is a social species and its social dependency makes it aware of the behavior of others, which contributes to its own behavior and learning abilities. There is, however, ongoing discussion about how much, and how, dogs can learn by interacting with each other and with people.
The term "observational learning" encompasses several closely related concepts: allelomimetic behavior or mimicking where, for example, puppies follow or copy others of their | 6,989 | triviaqa-train |
What kind of creature is a barnacle? | Barnacle
A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile (nonmobile) suspension feeders, and have four nektonic (active swimming) larval stages. Around 70 barnacle species are currently known. The name "Cirripedia" is Greek, meaning "curl-footed". The study of barnacles is called cirripedology.
Description | When Chris recovers they learn that a deadly creature of some kind is on the loose, and they are not safe.
Together, they hide themselves in one of the storage rooms as the creature lurks outside. However, Chris runs; the creature catches him and rips out his heart. The group then decides to stay in the unit rented by the man, David, because it is lockable from the inside. David helps them to piece together what must have happened, by showing them the news channels on a collection | 6,990 | triviaqa-train |
When might a person show rapid eye movement (REM)? | and non-REM sleep. Although REM stands for "rapid eye movement", this mode of sleep has many other aspects, including virtual paralysis of the body. A well-known feature of sleep is the dream, an experience typically recounted in narrative form, which resembles waking life while in progress, but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy.
During sleep, most of the body's systems are in an anabolic state, helping to restore the immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems; these | cataplexy often become severe enough to cause serious problems in a person's social, personal, and professional life. Normally, when an individual is awake, brain waves show a regular rhythm. When a person first falls asleep, the brain waves become slower and less regular, which is called non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. After about an hour and a half of NREM sleep, the brain waves begin to show a more active pattern again, called REM sleep (rapid eye movement sleep), when most | 6,991 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the most acidic part of the digestive system? | the ideal conditions of pH (alkaline) for amylase to work. After undergoing mastication and starch digestion, the food will be in the form of a small, round slurry mass called a bolus. It will then travel down the esophagus and into the stomach by the action of peristalsis. Gastric juice in the stomach starts protein digestion. Gastric juice mainly contains hydrochloric acid and pepsin. It also contains rennin in case of infants and toddlers. As the first two chemicals may damage the stomach wall, mucus is secreted by the | inherited disease caused by mutations in the "CFTR" gene, which encodes a chloride channel. This defect leads to the altered electrolyte composition of mucus, which triggers its hyperabsorption and dehydration. Such low-volume, viscous, acidic mucus has a reduced antimicrobial function, which facilitates bacterial colonisation. The thinning of the mucus layer ultimately affects the PCL, which becomes dehydrated, compromising ciliary function and impairing mucociliary clearance.
Digestive system.
In the human digestive system, mucus is used as a lubricant for materials that must | 6,992 | triviaqa-train |
A deficiency of which vitamin can cause scurvy? | times, scurvy occurs most commonly in people with mental disorders, unusual eating habits, alcoholism, and older people who live alone. Other risk factors include intestinal malabsorption and dialysis. While many animals produce their own vitamin C, humans and a few others do not. Vitamin C is required to make the building blocks for collagen. Diagnosis typically is based on physical signs, X-rays, and improvement after treatment.
Treatment is with vitamin C supplements taken by mouth. Improvement often begins in a few days with complete | swallowing painful. Vitamin deficiency is also a common result of starvation, often leading to anemia, beriberi, pellagra, and scurvy. These diseases collectively can also cause diarrhea, skin rashes, edema, and heart failure. Individuals are often irritable and lethargic as a result.
There is insufficient scientific data on exactly how long people can live without food. Although the length of time varies with an individual's percentage of body fat and general health, one medical study estimates that in adults complete starvation leads to death within 8 | 6,993 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name for a red blood cell? | the waste product carbon dioxide back from the tissues; most waste carbon dioxide, however, is transported back to the pulmonary capillaries of the lungs as bicarbonate (HCO) dissolved in the blood plasma. Myoglobin, a compound related to hemoglobin, acts to store oxygen in muscle cells.
The color of red blood cells is due to the heme group of hemoglobin. The blood plasma alone is straw-colored, but the red blood cells change color depending on the state of the hemoglobin: when combined with oxygen the resulting | West Africa
- Dutch Guinea, or Dutch New Guinea, another name for Netherlands New Guinea, a former colony in what is now Indonesian Papua
- French Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Guinea
- German Guinea, another name for the former colonies of Kamerun and Togoland in West Africa
- German Guinea, or German New Guinea, a former colony in what is now Papua New Guinea
- Portuguese Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Guinea-Bissau | 6,994 | triviaqa-train |
What is the scientific name for the windpipe? | Trachea
The trachea, colloquially called the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the pharynx and larynx to the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all air-breathing animals with lungs. The trachea extends from the larynx and branches into the two primary bronchi. At the top of the trachea the cricoid cartilage attaches it to the larynx. This is the only complete tracheal ring, the others being incomplete rings of reinforcing cartilage. The trachealis muscle joins the ends of the rings and | oceanographic literature in the 1970s. Fram Strait is named after the Norwegian ship "Fram". In an 1893 expedition led by Fridtjof Nansen, the Fram drifted for two years across the Arctic before exiting the Arctic through what is now known as Fram Strait. According to glaciologist and geographer Moira Dunbar, an early adopter of the name, the name "Fram Strait" originated in the Russian scientific literature. While in common use, particularly in the oceanographic scientific literature, the name appears to be unofficial.
Oceanography. | 6,995 | triviaqa-train |
Where do the Graafian follicles develop? | Ovarian follicle
An ovarian follicle is a roughly spheroid cellular aggregation set found in the ovaries. It secretes hormones that influence stages of the menstrual cycle. Women begin puberty with about 400,000 follicles, each with the potential to release an egg cell (ovum) at ovulation for fertilization. These eggs are developed once every menstrual cycle.
Structure.
Ovarian follicles are the basic units of female reproductive biology. Each of them contains a single oocyte (immature ovum or egg cell). These structures are periodically initiated to grow | die and never complete development. A few develop fully to produce a secondary oocyte which is released by rupture of the follicle in a process called ovulation.
The growing follicle passes through the following distinct stages that are defined by certain structural characteristics:
In a larger perspective, the whole folliculogenesis, from primordial to preovulatory follicle, belongs to the stage of ootidogenesis of oogenesis.
In addition, follicles that have formed an antrum are called antral follicles or Graafian follicles. Definitions differ in where this shift occurs in the staging | 6,996 | triviaqa-train |
Which organ in the body stores excess sugar as glycogen? | the breakdown of muscle glycogen impedes muscle glucose uptake, thereby increasing the amount of blood glucose available for use in other tissues. Liver glycogen stores serve as a store of glucose for use throughout the body, particularly the central nervous system. The human brain consumes approximately 60% of blood glucose in fasted, sedentary individuals.
Glycogen is the analogue of starch, a glucose polymer that functions as energy storage in plants. It has a structure similar to amylopectin (a component of starch), but is more extensively branched and | makes sense because when the level of glucose is high the body should store the excess glucose as glycogen. On the other hand, glycogen synthase is inhibited when it is phosphorylated by protein kinase during times of high stress or low levels of blood glucose, via hormone induction by glucagon or adrenaline.
When the body needs glucose for energy, glycogen phosphorylase, with the help of an orthophosphate, can cleave away a molecule from the glycogen chain. The cleaved molecule is in the form of glucose-1-phosphate, which can be converted into | 6,997 | triviaqa-train |
What name is given to the small bones which form the spinal column? | of the column which enjoy the greatest freedom of movement, such as the cervical and lumbar regions; and is small and rounded in the thoracic region, where motion is more limited.
The spinal cord terminates in the conus medullaris and cauda equina.
Clinical significance.
Clinical significance Disease.
Spina bifida is a congenital disorder in which there is a defective closure of the vertebral arch. Sometimes the spinal meninges and also the spinal cord can protrude through this, and this is called "Spina bifida cystica". Where | ilium, ischium, and pubis
- The sacrum and the coccyx attach to the two hip bones to form the pelvis, but are more important to the spinal column, where they are counted.
Bones Leg.
There are a total of 60 bones in the legs.
- Femur (2 bones)
- Patella or kneecap (2 bones)
- Tibia (2 bones)
- Fibula (2 bones)
- Foot (52 bones in total, 26 per foot)
- Tarsus | 6,998 | triviaqa-train |
Where in the body are the cerebellum, the medulla and the hypothalamus? | system can be split up into the muscular system and the skeletal system.
Composition Systems Nervous system.
The nervous system consists of the body's neurons, which together form the nerves and ganglia which in turn form the brain and related structures. The brain is the organ of thought, emotion, memory, and sensory processing; it serves many aspects of communication and controls various systems and functions. The special senses consist of vision, hearing, taste, and smell. The eyes, ears, tongue, and nose gather information | film, differing only in the details of the crime itself. On the other hand, Méliès's film is stylistically very different from Zecca's, which uses a faster pace and a more stringent insistence on journalistic realism. Méliès's American catalogue claimed that the crime in the film was based on a real-life incident.
The actor Manuel, who directed some films for the Méliès studio in 1908, plays the main role of the bandit who is arrested and executed. Georges Méliès probably plays the executioner's assistant. | 6,999 | triviaqa-train |
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