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What was the name of the British family who adopted Paddington Bear? | who incur his disapproval. He has an endless capacity for innocently getting into trouble, but he is known to "try so hard to get things right." He was discovered in Paddington Station, London, by the (human) Brown family who adopted him, and thus he gives his full name as "Paddington Brown". As of June 2016, the Paddington Bear franchise is now owned by Vivendi's StudioCanal. Bond, however, continued to own the publishing rights to his series (until his death on 27 | Exercise Paddington Diamond
Exercise Paddington Diamond was a joint Bolivian-British-Swiss scuba diving expedition to Lake Titicaca in 1987.
Background.
In early 1987 the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) arranged a group of adventure training exercises for military personnel in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. These exercises were identified by the group name ‘Paddington’ (a reference to Paddington Bear, a fictional children's character created by author Michael Bond and said to be from Peru). Under that umbrella were a | 7,400 | triviaqa-train |
What was the favourite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? | pouch of Pizza Crunchabungas, pizza-flavored corn snacks in the shape of pizzas (the commercial starred the Ninja Turtles as Will Vinton-created claymations); Hostess Ninja Turtles Pudding Pies, featuring a green sugar crust and vanilla pudding inside; and Royal OOZE Gelatin Desserts, distributed by Nabisco under "Royal Gelatin" in three different flavors: orange, strawberry, and lime. Shreddies used to give out TMNT toys in their boxes when the cereal advertising was still geared toward children. One example of a TMNT prize was rings | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles food tie-ins
During the height of their popularity ('89–'93) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) had a vast number of food tie-ins ranging from inevitable to obscure, many of which have become very rare, with some fans looking for the food packages to many of these items.
- Ninja Turtles Cereal: Easily described as lightly sweetened Rice Chex (described in advertising as "ninja nets") with TMNT themed marshmallows. The cereal had many gimmicks and contests, | 7,401 | triviaqa-train |
Which of Henry VIII’s wives had twice been widowed when they married? | lasted nearly 24 years, while the following five lasted less than 10 years combined.
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A mnemonic device to remember the names of Henry’s consorts is “Arrogant Boys Seem Clever, Howard Particularly”; a mnemonic for their fates is "Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived". There are also two rhymes:
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It is often noted that Catherine Parr survived Henry, but Anne of Cleves also survived him and was the last of his queens to die | died suddenly from heart failure at his residence, 87 Lancaster Gate, Paddington in 1908, aged 64.
Hardcastle married Ida Ross in 1885, and they had five daughters before her death in 1894. In 1902 he married again. His second wife was Mary Elizabeth Armytage Moore (c1845-1932), previously Mary Elizabeth Lockwood, née Mary Elizabeth Metcalfe (she had been twice widowed, her previous marriages being to (1) Horace Day Lockwood, son of Henry Francis Lockwood, and then to (2) William | 7,402 | triviaqa-train |
In which magazine were the Sherlock Holmes stories first published? | stories in "The Strand Magazine", beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin. | Each story in this collection is postscripted with a quote from one of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, making reference to an undocumented Holmes case that inspired it.
Stories and writing.
In 1945, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's son, Adrian Conan Doyle, began a collaboration with his father's biographer, John Dickson Carr, to publish twelve new exploits of Sherlock Holmes and Watson (of which one appeared in "Life" magazine and the other eleven stories were published in "Collier's" magazine) based on cases | 7,403 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the part of Raquel in ‘Only Fools and Horses’? | Jones) and Cassandra (Gwyneth Strong) respectively; Del also has a son with Raquel, Damien (played by five actors, most recently Ben Smith). Rodney and Cassandra marry, separate and then get back together again. Cassandra miscarries, but then she and Rodney eventually have a baby. Rodney finds out who his real father was. The Trotters finally become millionaires, lose their fortune, and then regain some of it.
Cast and characters.
Cast and characters Main cast and characters.
- Derek Edward | The Chance of a Lunchtime
"The Chance of a Lunchtime" is an episode of the BBC sitcom "Only Fools and Horses". It was the second episode of series 7, and first broadcast on 6 January 1991. In the episode, Raquel auditions for a role in a Shakespeare play. Elsewhere, Del tries to sell musical national anthem doorbells.
Synopsis.
Raquel has been offered the chance to really get her acting career off the ground by auditioning for the part of Rosalind in Shakespeare's "As | 7,404 | triviaqa-train |
In which 1976 film does Laurence Olivier play dentist Dr. Christian Szell? | Marathon Man (novel)
Marathon Man is a 1974 conspiracy thriller novel by William Goldman. It was Goldman's most successful thriller novel, and his second suspense novel.
In 1976 it was made into a film of the same name, with screenplay by Goldman, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, and Roy Scheider and directed by John Schlesinger.
Plot synopsis.
A former Nazi SS dentist at Auschwitz, Dr. Christian Szell, now residing in Paraguay, has been living on the proceeds of diamonds he extorted | refuses, and Babe begins throwing the diamonds into the water. Szell relents and swallows one diamond, but then refuses to cooperate further. Babe throws the rest of the diamonds down the steps towards the water; Szell dives for them, but stumbles, and falls on his own knife blade. Babe heads out into Central Park, stopping to throw his gun into the reservoir.
Cast.
- Dustin Hoffman as Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy
- Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell
- Roy Scheider as Henry | 7,405 | triviaqa-train |
Which Japanese island is missing – Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, and …. ? | Alps span the width of Honshu, from the 'Sea of Japan' coast to the Pacific shore. The climate is generally humid subtropical in western Japan and humid continental in the north.
Geography Bridges and tunnels.
Honshu is connected to the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku by tunnels and bridges. Three bridge systems have been built across the islands of the Inland Sea between Honshu and Shikoku (Akashi Kaikyō Bridge and the Ōnaruto Bridge; Shin-Onomichi Bridge, Innoshima Bridge, Ikuchi Bridge, Tatara Bridge, Ōmishima | Yakushima macaque
The Yakushima macaque ("Macaca fuscata yakui") is a subspecies of Japanese macaque that is indigenous to Yakushima Island (Kagoshima Prefecture).
It is also known as the Yaku macaque.
Characteristics.
Compared with "M. f. fuscata" which lives from Honshu to Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan, these individuals are smaller, stockier, have black hands and feet, and a thicker gray coat.
Adults have darker fur than infants and juveniles.
Adult males have a special feature called a | 7,406 | triviaqa-train |
Which planet takes the equivalent of 11.86 Earth years to orbit the sun? | , and 1.5% heavier elements. The hydrogen and most of the helium in the Sun would have been produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis in the first 20 minutes of the universe, and the heavier elements were produced by previous generations of stars before the Sun was formed, and spread into the interstellar medium during the final stages of stellar life and by events such as supernovae.
Since the Sun formed, the main fusion process has involved fusing hydrogen into helium. Over the past 4.6 billion years, the amount of helium and | Gliese 433
Gliese 433 is a dim red dwarf star in the constellation of Hydra, roughly 29.5 light years away from the Sun. Astronomers have announced the discovery of a very low-mass extrasolar planet in close orbit.
Planetary system.
Gliese 433 b is an extrasolar planet which orbits the star. This planet is a super-Earth with at least six times the mass of Earth and takes approximately seven days to orbit the star at a semimajor axis of approximately 0.056 AU. This planet was announced in a | 7,407 | triviaqa-train |
Pat Nevin was a favourite at which London association football club in the 1980s? | Pat Nevin
Patrick Kevin Francis Michael "Pat" Nevin (born 6 September 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a retired Scottish footballer. In a 20-year career, he played for Clyde, Chelsea, Everton, Tranmere Rovers, Kilmarnock and Motherwell as a winger. He won 28 caps for Scotland, scattered across a ten-year international career, and he was selected for the UEFA Euro 1992 finals squad. Since retiring as a player, Nevin has worked as a chief executive of Motherwell and as a football writer and | which airs on a Saturday.
In 2010, Groves signed as a non-playing substitute for new club Chester after Colin Murray, then of BBC Radio 5 Live, offered the new club £2,000 if they named Groves and Pat Nevin as unused substitutes at every game in the 2010–11 season.
In March 2014, along with his friend Josh Landy, Groves launched a company called "Play With A Legend" which offers football fans the chance to play alongside their heroes such as Matt Le Tissier, Paul Merson and | 7,408 | triviaqa-train |
In a 2014 Classic FM poll, which Vaughan Williams piece was voted the UK’s favourite? | , from stormy and impassioned to tranquil, from mysterious to exuberant. Among the most familiar of his other concert works are "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" (1910) and "The Lark Ascending" (1914). His vocal works include hymns, folk-song arrangements and large-scale choral pieces. He wrote eight works for stage performance between 1919 and 1951. Although none of his operas became popular repertoire pieces, his ballet "" (1930) was successful and has been frequently staged. | all-time favourite. From 2007 to 2010, the piece was voted number one in the Classic FM annual Hall of Fame poll, over Elgar's Cello Concerto, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and another work of Vaughan Williams, the "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis". In 2011–2013 it was usurped by Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, but was placed first in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, but dropped to no. 3 in 2018.
In | 7,409 | triviaqa-train |
What number Beethoven symphony includes ‘Ode to Joy’ in its final movement? | "Ode to Joy" theme from the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. When this was pointed out to Brahms, he is reputed to have retorted "Any fool can see that!" Brahms's first symphony was, at times, both praised and derided as "Beethoven's Tenth".
The Ninth Symphony influenced the forms that Anton Bruckner used for the movements of his symphonies. His Symphony No. 3 is in the same D-minor key as Beethoven's 9th and makes substantial use of thematic ideas | "Blumine" movement in the final movement, as well as other themes from the other movements, which is in keeping with Beethoven's own practice in his Symphony No. 9 of quoting themes from the first, second, and third movements early in the final movement. Beethoven gave the impression of rejecting the earlier themes, after he quotes them, and then introduces the famous "Ode to Joy" theme. The five-movement version generally runs around an hour, just as Mahler's later symphonies (except for Symphony | 7,410 | triviaqa-train |
What was the first forename of the German composer Herr Orff? | Carl Orff
Carl Orff (; – ) was a German composer and music educator, best known for his cantata "Carmina Burana" (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.
Life.
Life Early life.
Carl Orff was born in Munich on 10 July 1895, the son of Paula (Köstler) and Heinrich Orff. His family was Bavarian and was active in the Imperial German Army; his father was an army officer with strong musical interests. His paternal grandmother was | of ABBA. The famous Swedish pop quartet indeed inspired their songwriters and producers (Hans van Hemert and Piet Souer). The girl trio expected to have another hit but the single flopped and the groip seemed to be a one-hit wonder. The real breakthrough came in 1978 with the success of "U.O.Me (Theme from Waldolala)" and "You're the Greatest Lover".
Track listing and release.
7" vinyl
- a. "Dream, Dream"
- b. "Hang On" | 7,411 | triviaqa-train |
In 1978, who released her debut album ‘The Kick Inside’? | "The Sensual World" and "The Red Shoes", recorded using analogue, rather than digital, equipment to create "a warmer sound". All the tracks have new lead vocals, new drums, and reworked instrumentation. Some of them have been transposed to a lower key to accommodate her lowering voice. Three of the songs, including "This Woman's Work", have been completely re-recorded, with lyrics often changed in places. This is the first album on her new label, "Fish People | writing songs at 11. She was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape. Her debut album, "The Kick Inside," was released in 1978. Bush slowly gained artistic independence in album production, and has produced all her studio albums since "The Dreaming" (1982). She took a hiatus between her seventh and eighth albums "The Red Shoes" (1993) and "Aerial" (2005). She drew attention again in 2014 with her concert residency Before | 7,412 | triviaqa-train |
Since 1999, which manufacturer has won Le Mans on all but two occasions? | faced with the Le Mans Prototypes of BMW, Audi, and Ferrari. BMW would survive with the victory, their first and only overall Le Mans win to date, while Mercedes left sportscar racing indefinitely following two catastrophic though non-fatal crashes stemming from severe aerodynamic flaws with their CLR.
This strong manufacturer influence led the ACO to lending the Le Mans name to a sports car series in the United States in 1999, known as the American Le Mans Series, which ran until the end of the 2013 season after which | Robert Bloch (racing driver)
Robert Bloch is a French racing driver who, along with André Rossignol, won the 1926 24 Hours of Le Mans for French manufacturer Lorraine-Dietrich. Robert Bloch had been part of Lorraine-Dietrich's racing team since the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans in , finishing the event, but struggled to finish over the next two years. Following Rossignol's initial win in , Bloch was partnered with the experienced winner and the duo led a Lorraine-Dietrich dominance of the event in 1926 | 7,413 | triviaqa-train |
The Bruins ice hockey team and the Celtics basketball team are based in which US city? | Brunswick lieutenant-governor Archibald Campbell and his family with British soldiers on skates playing a stick-on-ice sport. Captain R.G.A. Levinge, a British Army officer in New Brunswick during Campbell's time, wrote about "hockey on ice" on Chippewa Creek (a tributary of the Niagara River) in 1839. In 1843 another British Army officer in Kingston, Ontario wrote, "Began to skate this year, improved quickly and had great fun at hockey on the ice." An 1859 "Boston Evening Gazette" article | ice hockey team
- New England Blazers, a disbanded US lacrosse team
- Oklahoma City Blazers (1965–77), a defunct professional ice hockey team that played from 1965 to 1977
- Oklahoma City Blazers, a professional ice hockey team in the US Central Hockey League
- Osaka Blazers Sakai, men's volleyball team based in Sakai, Osaka, Japan
- Philadelphia Blazers, ice hockey franchise in the US World Hockey Association
- Portland Trail Blazers, a professional basketball team in the US National Basketball Association | 7,414 | triviaqa-train |
How old was River Phoenix when he died? | River Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor, musician, and activist. He was the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix.
Phoenix's work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, and his rise to fame led to his status as a "teen idol". He began his acting career at age 10, in television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film "Explorers" | Cross Gills Farm Cross is thought to have come from a church and has "1910" as graffiti on it. An old wives' tale records how a farmer replaced the cross when his cattle died after he threw the original into the river. Stonyhurst Park Cross stands above the River Hodder in the woods close to the former Jesuit novitiate and preparatory school, Hodder Place. A new cross was fixed to the ancient base in 1910, and was blessed on 12 June 1910 by the Jesuit provincial, Father Sykes; the origin | 7,415 | triviaqa-train |
What letter is used the most often in English language and literature? | English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global "lingua franca". It is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, as England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula in the Baltic Sea. The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language) | " IEEE WESCON, Sep 1976.
- J. Kleinman, "OSCAR Medical Data," QST, Oct 1976, pp 42–43.
- D. Nelson, "Medical Relay by Satellite," Ham Radio, Apr 1977, pp 67–73.
- W0LER, "OSCAR 6 - Gone but not forgotten," QST, Nov 1977, p. 31. | 7,416 | triviaqa-train |
Who married Amal Alamuddin on September 29th 2014? | . At the 2014 British Fashion Awards, Clooney was shortlisted for Best British Style alongside David Beckham, Kate Moss, Keira Knightley and Emma Watson.
Philanthropy.
Clooney is the president of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which she co-founded with her husband George Clooney in late 2016 to advance justice in courtrooms, communities, and classrooms around the world.
Clooney partnered with the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative in beginning the Amal Clooney Scholarship, which was created to send one female student from Lebanon to the United World College | 2014, at Ca' Farsetti. They were married by Clooney's friend Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome.
In 2015, Clooney and Alamuddin adopted a rescue dog, a bassett hound named Millie, from the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society.
On February 9, 2017, it was reported by the CBS talk show, "The Talk", that Amal was pregnant, and that they were expecting twins. On June 6, 2017, Amal gave birth to a daughter, Ella, and a son | 7,417 | triviaqa-train |
In ‘Hamlet’, what was the name of the title character’s mother? | old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as merely a plot device to prolong the action but which others argue is a dramatisation of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire. More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, while feminist critics have re-evaluated and attempted to rehabilitate the often-maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.
Characters.
- Hamlet — son of the late king and nephew of the | Still". Jang Keun-suk also sang "Good Bye" and "What Should I Do", the latter is the track Tae-kyung remakes for his mother in the drama. Park Shin-hye sang her character’s theme song, "Lovely Day".
The series was also broadcast throughout Asia. It aired on channels such as Fuji TV in Japan, CCTV in China, BBTV in Thailand, 8TV in Malaysia on 2010, Channel U in Singapore, Indosiar in Indonesia, Mbc4 in UAE and | 7,418 | triviaqa-train |
What part did Clark Gable play in ‘Gone With The Wind’? | his starring role in "Gone with the Wind" (1939), as Rhett Butler opposite Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" (1934), and was nominated for his role in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935). He also found success commercially and critically with "Red Dust" (1932), "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934), "San Francisco" (1936), "Saratoga" (1937 | Mammy in "Gone with the Wind" was almost as fierce as that for Scarlett O'Hara. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to film producer David O. Selznick to ask that her own maid, Elizabeth McDuffie, be given the part. McDaniel did not think she would be chosen because she had earned her reputation as a comic actress. One source claimed that Clark Gable recommended that the role be given to McDaniel; in any case, she went to her audition dressed in an authentic maid's uniform and won the part. | 7,419 | triviaqa-train |
In which 2006 film did he play the part of Theodore Roosevelt? | named after him following an incident on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902. Roosevelt has been portrayed in films and television series such as "Brighty of the Grand Canyon", "The Wind and the Lion", "Rough Riders", "My Friend Flicka"," and Law of the Plainsman." Robin Williams portrayed Roosevelt in the form of a wax mannequin that comes to life in "Night at the Museum" and its sequels "" and "". In 2017, it was announced that Leonardo | performed uncredited rewrites on an early draft of the screenplay of the 1997 James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies".
Meyer adapted the Philip Roth novel "The Human Stain" into the 2003 film of the same name. In 2006, he teamed with Martin Scorsese to write the screenplay for Scorsese's adaptation of Edmund Morris's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt". The story traces Roosevelt's early life.
The two part, four hour, History Channel event miniseries, | 7,420 | triviaqa-train |
Which state of the USA lies between South Carolina and Florida? | Florida
Florida () is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive (), the 3rd-most populous (21,312,211 inhabitants), and the 8th-most densely populated () of the U.S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the | , 2017. The 2017 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Green Wave will host AAC foes Cincinnati, Houston, South Florida, and Tulsa, and will travel to East Carolina, Memphis, Navy, and SMU.
The Green Wave will host two of the four non-conference opponents: Army, which is a football independent school, and Grambling State from the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The team will travel to Florida International (FIU) from Conference USA and Oklahoma from the Big | 7,421 | triviaqa-train |
Which English town or city lies on the rivers, Eden, Caldew, and Petteril? | River Petteril
The River Petteril is a river running through the English county of Cumbria.
The source of the Petteril is near Penruddock and Motherby, from where the young river runs southeast through Greystoke, Blencow and Newton Reigny, before passing under the M6 motorway, after which the river turns north, and the motorway roughly follows the course of the river towards Carlisle.
Having reached Carlisle, the Petteril runs a course through the south east of Carlisle, dividing the suburbs of Harraby, Upperby and Botcherby, and running | at the confluence of the rivers Eden, Caldew and Petteril.
An important centre for trade, it is located west of Newcastle upon Tyne, north of Lancaster, south-east of Glasgow, south of Edinburgh, north-west of York, and north-north-west of London, at 54°52'N, 2°50'W. Nearby towns and villages include Longtown (north), Penrith (south) Brampton (east), Wigton (west), Haggbeck, Harker, Carwinley, Blackford, Houghton, Scotby | 7,422 | triviaqa-train |
In 1066, on which hill did Harold deploy his troops for the Battle of Hastings? | French accounts mention an emissary or emissaries sent by Harold to William, which is likely. Nothing came of these efforts.
Although Harold attempted to surprise the Normans, William's scouts reported the English arrival to the duke. The exact events preceding the battle are obscure, with contradictory accounts in the sources, but all agree that William led his army from his castle and advanced towards the enemy. Harold had taken a defensive position at the top of Senlac Hill (present-day Battle, East Sussex), about from | , therefore, a linguistically disunited people that the Normans confronted in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings. William II of Normandy landed at Hastings (in Sussex) on September 29, 1066. He deployed his men around the city while waiting for King Harold II's troops. On October 14, exhausted by the long journey to Hastings, Harold II's troops lost the battle after only one day. Following the defeat of the English, Duke William II of Normandy became King of England on December 25, 1066; he was | 7,423 | triviaqa-train |
Which country were runners-up to Germany in the association football World Cup? | are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain with one title each.
The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world, as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 | time was known as the Main Football Association) between Valletta Vanguards FC and Birkirkara St. Joseph Sports Club on 3 May 1981.
The highest ever attendance at the Stadium was on during a 1986 World Cup Qualifier encounter between Malta and West Germany played on 16 December 1984, when 35,102 people turned up to watch Malta narrowly lose to the runners up of the previous World Cup.
History The Millennium Stand.
On 3 September, 2002, the Malta Football Association inaugurated the Millennium Stand. The Millennium Stand replaced the 5,000 seater | 7,424 | triviaqa-train |
What is the chemical formula for calcium chloride? | with the E number E509. It is considered as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Its use in organic crop production is generally prohibited under the US National Organic Program.
In marine aquariums, calcium chloride is one way to introduce bioavailable calcium for calcium carbonate-shelled animals such as mollusks and some cnidarians. Calcium hydroxide (kalkwasser mix) or a calcium reactor can also be used.
As a firming agent, calcium chloride is used in canned vegetables, in firming soybean | -rich zones were discovered and named penikisite in honor of Gunar Penikis who discovered these phosphate occurrences with Alan Kulan.
Composition.
The chemical formula of Penikisite is Ba(Mg,Fe,Ca)Al(PO)(OH). Mandarino and Sturman analyzed two penikisite samples and eight kulanite samples using an AMX electron miscroprobe (1977). Their study showed weight percent oxides, including HO, that help determine what the formula is for penikisite and kulanite. Members of the bjarebyite group have the general formula XYZ(PO)(OH) where X=Ba, Y=Mg | 7,425 | triviaqa-train |
From which country did Madagascar gain independence in 1960? | Merina Kingdom. Over the 19th century, a series of Merina monarchs engaged in the process of modernization through close diplomatic ties to Britain that led to the establishment of European-style schools, government institutions and infrastructure. Christianity, introduced by members of the London Missionary Society, was made the state religion under Queen Ranavalona II and her prime minister, highly influential statesman Rainilaiarivony. Political wrangling between Britain and France in the 1880s saw Britain recognize France's claim to authority on the island, leading in 1890 to the Malagasy Protectorate, | Independence.
The Malagasy Republic was proclaimed on 14 October 1958, as an autonomous state within the French Community, and attained full independence on 26 June 1960.. The first stamps of the republic were issued in December 1958. Paositra Malagasy is the postal service provider. The country was renamed the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in 1975.
Nossi-Be issues.
Nossi-Bé is an island off the western coast of Madagascar which became a French colony in 1841. Stamps were issued for Nossi-Bé from 1889 to | 7,426 | triviaqa-train |
Remus and Castrol Edge are corners on the Formula One Grand Prix race track in which country? | the championship rules were changed frequently by the FIA with the intention of improving the on-track action and cutting costs. Team orders, legal since the championship started during 1950, were banned during 2002, after several incidents, in which teams openly manipulated race results, generating negative publicity, most famously by Ferrari at the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix. Other changes included the qualifying format, the points scoring system, the technical regulations, and rules specifying how long engines and tyres must last. A "tyre war" between suppliers | finished in 2nd place twice in the SC06 class races supporting the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix. He has also competed in the Radical SR3 Middle East Championship in which he has finished third place twice on the Autodrome Dubai Circuit. Ahmed has also participated in the BMW M training that was with the help of Castrol on the Nurburgring GP Circuit and Nordschleife circuit, having raced the BMW M5 and M3.
2016
Ahmed has also begun testing on race bikes where he received his first on-track training on the brand new BMW | 7,427 | triviaqa-train |
Myoglobin is the primary oxygen-carrying pigment of which type of body tissue in humans? | tissues is to divide them into three types: fibrous connective tissue, skeletal connective tissue, and fluid connective tissue.
Animal tissues Muscular tissue.
Muscle cells form the active contractile tissue of the body known as muscle tissue or muscular tissue. Muscle tissue functions to produce force and cause motion, either locomotion or movement within internal organs. Muscle tissue is separated into three distinct categories: visceral or smooth muscle, found in the inner linings of organs; skeletal muscle, typically attached to bones, which generate gross movement; and | can slow their heart rate to conserve oxygen. Some can also re-route blood from tissue tolerant of water pressure to the heart, brain and other organs. Their hemoglobin and myoglobin store oxygen in body tissues and they have twice the concentration of myoglobin than hemoglobin.
Anatomy Sensory.
The dolphin ear has specific adaptations to the marine environment. In humans, the middle ear works as an impedance equalizer between the outside air's low impedance and the cochlear fluid's high impedance. In dolphins, and other marine mammals, | 7,428 | triviaqa-train |
The House of Grimaldi has ruled which European principality since 1927? | Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (), is a sovereign city-state, country, and microstate on the French Riviera in Western Europe. France borders the country on three sides while the other side borders the Mediterranean Sea. Monaco is about 15 km from the state border with Italy.
Monaco has an area of , making it the second-smallest country in the world after the Vatican. Its population was about 38,400 based on the last census of 2016. With 19,009 inhabitants per km² | Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (Ernst August Alexander Christian Viktor Hubert) (born 25 December 1958) is the head of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe, which ruled the sovereign principality of the same name within the German Empire until 1918.
Biography.
He was born in Düsseldorf, the second son of Philipp-Ernst, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1928-2003) and his wife Baroness Eva-Benita von Tiele-Winckler (1927-2013) | 7,429 | triviaqa-train |
Convicted felon Henri Charriere was better known by what name? | Henri Charrière
Henri Charrière (; 16 November 1906 – 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts. He wrote the novel "Papillon", a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. While Charrière claimed that "Papillon" was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book’s material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself. Charrière denied committing the murder, although he freely admitted to having committed various other petty | James Phang Wah
James Phang Wah, born 1961, is a convicted felon currently serving a jail term. Before his arrest and conviction, he was the founder and "international president" of the now-defunct multi-level marketing firm, Sunshine Empire, an unlicensed 'investment' company that was in fact a Ponzi scheme.
Controversial claims.
During media interviews, Phang described himself as a legend and 'better than Warren Buffett'. However, his name has never appeared on the List of Singaporeans by | 7,430 | triviaqa-train |
Jack Dawson is a character in which 1997 Oscar-winning film? | on offenders. For example, a producer of the 2009 Best Picture nominee "The Hurt Locker" was disqualified as a producer in the category when he contacted associates urging them to vote for his film and not another that was seen as the front-runner ("The Hurt Locker" eventually won).
Awards ceremonies.
Awards ceremonies Telecast.
The major awards are presented at a live televised ceremony, commonly in late February or early March following the relevant calendar year, and six weeks after the announcement of the | in the 1970 Brian De Palma film "Hi, Mom!", but her best known film role came in the Oscar-winning drama "Save the Tiger" (1973), starring Jack Lemmon, in which she played a sympathetic prostitute who is devastated when her client suffers a near fatal heart attack. In 1975, she played the wife of Peter Fonda's character in "Race with the Devil".
Later work.
Parker made her Broadway debut in 1968 in "Woman is My Idea", | 7,431 | triviaqa-train |
What is the official language of The Netherlands? | Languages of the Netherlands
The official language of the Netherlands is Dutch, spoken by almost all people in the Netherlands. Dutch is also spoken and official in Aruba, Bonaire, Belgium, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Suriname. It is a West Germanic, Low Franconian language that originated in the Early Middle Ages (c. 470) and was standardised in the 16th century.
There are also some recognised provincial languages and regional dialects.
- West Frisian is a co-official language in the | dominates Europe and has what is considered the most powerful army in the world. Protectorates established in Italy and France after the Pan-European War were later expanded to completely integrate the nations into the Reich. The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal are allowed to exist on the fringes and Switzerland is allowed its independence because of its neutrality. Minority languages and cultures are encouraged, but German is the official government language and the language used and taught in their public secondary schools and universities.
The United States of America is an upstart | 7,432 | triviaqa-train |
Ailurophobia is the irrational fear of which animals? | states, "If you’re afraid of cats, you have ailurophasia." The word-forming element "-phasia" is a scientific Greek suffix used to form the names of disorders and phenomena relating to words and speech, such as cryptophasia,
aphasia, dysphasia, and schizophasia.
In the 1969 horror film, Eye of the Cat, where the protagonist planning the murder of an elderly woman has a fear of cats.
In the 1988 anime "City Hunter 2", the character Umibozu has a fear | /avoiding the threat (also known as the fight-or-flight response), which in extreme cases of fear (horror and terror) can be a freeze response or paralysis.
In humans and animals, fear is modulated by the process of cognition and learning. Thus fear is judged as rational or appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is called a phobia.
Psychologists such as John B. Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that there is only a small set of basic or | 7,433 | triviaqa-train |
Who plays the deaf man in the 1989 film ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil’? | See No Evil, Hear No Evil
See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller. The film stars Richard Pryor as a blind man and Gene Wilder as a deaf man who work together to thwart a trio of murderous thieves. This is the third film featuring Wilder and Pryor, who had appeared previously in the 1976 film "Silver Streak" and the 1980 film "Stir Crazy". The film was released in the United States on May 12, 1989.
Plot | Hear No Evil (2014 film)
Hear No Evil is a 2014 American thriller drama film written and directed by Russ Parr and starring Richard T. Jones, Jill Marie Jones, Jackie Long and Jahnee Wallace.
Plot.
Jahnee Wallace plays a deaf High School student who has a near death experience. After the experience the girl is miraculously healed and gets words of knowledge from God.
Cast.
- Jahnee Wallace as Shelby
- Jill Marie Jones as Kate
- Richard T. Jones as Samuel
- | 7,434 | triviaqa-train |
In September 1850, what was the 31st American state to join the Union? | California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents across a total area of about , California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second-most populous | . It is one of the two largest companies listed on the Mauritian stock exchange by market capitalisation.
History.
The first hotel of the group was started in 1952.
- 1952 : The Park Hotel (Curepipe - central region) first hotel of the group, nowadays the headquarters of the group.
- 1962:
- Opening of Le Chaland (south-east of Mauritius)
- Opening of Le Morne Plage (south-west of Mauritius)
- 1964: Establishment of New Mauritius Hotels | 7,435 | triviaqa-train |
‘The Codex Leicester’ (or Codex Hammer) is a collection of mostly scientific writings by which scientist/inventor? | Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno river in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence. He was the out-of-wedlock son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a wealthy Florentine legal notary, and a peasant named Caterina, identified as Caterina Buti del Vacca and more recently as Caterina di Meo Lippi by historian Martin Kemp. There have been many theories regarding Leonardo's mother's identity, including that she was a slave of foreign origin or an impoverished local | now in the collection at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA). She presented a scientific paper on the topic at the American Institute for Conservation's annual meeting in June 1978. Later, in 1980 she obtained U.S. Patent No. 4257083 for the invention of a prototype of the "Electrostatic Stabilizing Plate." In 1982, Blyth-Hill restored the Codex Leicester (a Leonardo "notebook" on the nature of water), owned by Dr. Armand Hammer (now owned by Bill Gates).
In addition | 7,436 | triviaqa-train |
Who directed the 1973 film ‘Serpico’? | Serpico
Serpico is a 1973 American neo-noir biographical crime film directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Al Pacino. Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler wrote the screenplay, adapting Peter Maas's biography of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose corruption in the police force. Both Maas's book and the film cover 12 years, 1960 to 1972.
The film and principals were nominated for numerous awards, earning recognition for its score, direction, screenplay, and Pacino's performance. The film was also a | Serpico (TV series)
Serpico is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC between September 1976 and February 1977. The series was based on the book by Peter Maas and the 1973 film of the same name that starred Al Pacino in the title role. A television movie, "Serpico: The Deadly Game", served as pilot and aired in April 1976.
Summary.
David Birney stars as the unorthodox NYPD detective Frank Serpico who battles corrupt members of the police force. Tom Atkins co-stars | 7,437 | triviaqa-train |
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of which other country? | The unity of the Realm
The term "the unity of the Realm" (, ) refers to the relationship between Denmark proper, the Faroe Islands and Greenland—the three countries constituting the Kingdom of Denmark.
The legal nature of the Kingdom of Denmark is fundamentally one of a unitary sovereign state. The Faroe Islands and Greenland have been part of the Crown of Denmark since 1397 (de facto) when the Kalmar Union was ratified, and part of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1814 (de jure). However | to 9 g stress as it began an outside loop, crashing into the Potomac River near the junction of St. Mary's River, killing four crew members.
Eleven months later, on 9 November 1956, the second prototype, BuNo "138822", c/n XP-2, first flown on 18 May 1956, was also destroyed, due to a change made in the horizontal stabilizer control system without adequate evaluation before test flying the design. The crash occurred at 15:36 near Odessa, Delaware due to a faulty elevator | 7,438 | triviaqa-train |
Which Australian band released their album ‘Back in Black’ in July 1980? | Bon Scott
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (9 July 1946 – 19 February 1980) was an Australian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, best known for being the lead vocalist and lyricist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980.
Scott was born in Forfar, Scotland, and spent his early years in Kirriemuir. He moved to Australia with his family in 1952 at the age of six, living in Melbourne for four years before settling in Fremantle, Western Australia. | bad but luckily he got over it quickly enough not to upset the band. We had to treat him with kid gloves for a bit but he's ok now.” The letter was later purchased at an auction by the Western Australian government in 2019, which intended to display the letter at the State Library of Western Australia.
In 1980, Scott died. The band continued on, recruiting new vocalist Brian Johnson and subsequently recording their most successful album, 1980's "Back in Black". Having been good friends | 7,439 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of the third film in the ‘Twilight Saga’ series? | Lefevre as Victoria for the third "Twilight" film, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse". Summit Entertainment attributed the change to scheduling conflicts. Lefevre said she was "stunned" and "greatly saddened" by the decision. Jodelle Ferland was cast as the newly turned vampire, Bree. Other new cast members for the third film include Xavier Samuel as Riley, Jack Huston as Royce King II, Catalina Sandino Moreno as Maria, Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater, and BooBoo Stewart as Seth Clearwater.
Production. | Games" films finished first at the North American box office during both their opening and second weekend. In North America, "The Hunger Games" film series is the second highest-grossing film series based on young adult books, after the Harry Potter series, earning over $1.4 billion. Worldwide, it is the third highest-grossing film series based on young-adult books after the film series of "Harry Potter" and "The Twilight Saga", respectively, having grossed over $2.9 billion. In North | 7,440 | triviaqa-train |
In which English city was singer Chuck Berry’s live recording of ‘My Ding-A-Ling’ recorded in 1972? | recorded a version called "My Tambourine" in 1968, but the version which topped the charts was recorded live during the Lanchester Arts Festival at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry, England, on 3 February 1972, where Berry – backed by the Roy Young Band – topped a bill that also included Slade, George Carlin, Billy Preston and Pink Floyd. Boston radio station WMEX disc jockey Jim Connors was credited with a gold record for discovering the song and pushing it to #1 over the airwaves and amongst his peers in the | a disagreement with Chudd at the end of 1950 and for two years recorded for other labels, including Decca, King and Specialty. Among his recordings at King was "My Ding-a-Ling", which Bartholomew wrote and first recorded in January 1952; the song was later recorded by Chuck Berry, who had an international hit with it in 1972, although Berry substantially changed the song's arrangement and verses and claimed credit for writing it. While at Specialty, Bartholomew produced Lloyd Price's recording of "Lawdy Miss | 7,441 | triviaqa-train |
The islands of Oahu, Molokai and Lanai are part of which US state? | government and the rights of individuals.
The Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50. Alaska and Hawaii are the most recent states admitted, both in 1959. The Constitution is silent on the question of whether states have the power to secede (withdraw) from the Union. Shortly after the Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court, in "Texas v. White", | , Oahu is the most populous island in the state.
Molokai.
Molokai is the northernmost of the islands of Maui County. Unlike every other island in the state, it is divided between two counties: Kalawao County consists of the island's northern peninsula.
Lanai.
Lanai is the smallest of the populated islands of Maui County, lying between the islands of Maui and Molokai.
Maui.
Maui is the largest and the easternmost island of Maui County.
Kahoolawe.
Kahoolawe is the smallest | 7,442 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did golfer Tiger Woods turn professional? | Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer. He ranks second in both major championships and PGA Tour wins and also holds numerous records in golf. Woods is widely regarded as being one of the greatest golfers in the history of the sport, and one of the most famous athletes of all time.
Following an outstanding junior, college, and amateur golf career, Woods turned professional in 1996 at the age of 20. By the end of April 1997 | Bob May (golfer)
Robert Anthony May (born October 6, 1968) is an American professional golfer. He lost to Tiger Woods in a three-hole playoff for the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla.
Amateur career.
May attended Oklahoma State University and was a member of the 1991 Walker Cup American team before turning professional later that year.
Professional career.
May joined the PGA Tour in 1994. He did not win on the Tour, but he finished second three times, including a playoff | 7,443 | triviaqa-train |
Musician Richey Edwards, who went missing in February 1995, was the rhythm guitarist in which band? | a love for literature. He chose many of the quotes that appear on Manics record sleeves and would often refer to writers and poets during interviews. This interest in literature has remained integral to the band's music and lyrics. Albert Camus, Philip Larkin, Yukio Mishima, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Arthur Rimbaud are known to have been among his favourite authors. In a dressing room interview, he also mentioned admiration for Primo Levi. Edwards' lyrics have often been of a highly poetic nature and at times they reflected his knowledge of | was originally rhythm guitarist, but changed to playing bass guitar after original bassist Flicker left the band. He co-wrote the band's lyrics with Richey Edwards between 1989 and 1995, taking over sole responsibility following Edwards' disappearance. Some of Edwards' lyrics were used on 1996's "Everything Must Go" album, making 1998's "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" the first album with lyrics by Wire alone. Wire usually plays Gibson Thunderbird, Rickenbacker, Fender Jazz and most recently Italia Maranello basses, one | 7,444 | triviaqa-train |
Developed by IBM, Deep Blue was a computer that played what? | World Computer Chess Championship. Deep Blue prototype played the computer program Wchess to a draw while Wchess was running on a personal computer. In round 5 Deep Blue prototype had the white pieces and lost to the computer program Fritz 3 in 39 moves while Fritz was running on an Intel Pentium 90 MHz personal computer. In the end of the championship Deep Blue prototype was tied for second place with the computer program Junior while Junior was running on a personal computer.
Origins Design.
Deep Blue employed custom VLSI chips to execute | along with Fumin, Pinot noir, Gamay, Vien de Nus and Dolcetto. Like Arvier, these grapes are limited to a harvest yield of 10 tonnes/ha with the finished wine needing to spend at least six months aging in oak and attaining a minimum alcohol level of 11%. A "Superiore" bottling will be aged at least eight months in wood and reached a minimum alcohol level of 12%.
Synonyms.
Over the years Neyret has been known under a variety of synonyms including Negret, Neiret, | 7,445 | triviaqa-train |
Which US record label was bought by Polygram in August 1993? | time partner Siemens and later in 1989, floated 16% of PolyGram on the Amsterdam stock exchange, valuing the whole company at $5.6 billion. PolyGram embarked on a new program of acquisitions, including A&M and Island Records in 1989, Swedish company Polar Music which held the rights to the ABBA catalogue, Motown and Def Jam in 1994, and Rodven (Venezuela) in 1995.
In 1990, after acquiring Island Records and A&M Records, Alain Levy (then) executive vice president of PolyGram N.V., re-organized | in buying the record company and thus sold the record label to PolyGram earlier that year. PolyGram, a European conglomerate that was buying up US record labels as fast as they could make deals, immediately shut down the label, and had all of its artists' contracts and reissues (including Mills') transferred to their Casablanca imprint, which they had owned since owning 50% of the company in 1977. PolyGram bought the other 50% in 1980, the same year Mills recorded the LP "Sweet Sensation". | 7,446 | triviaqa-train |
A ‘Flower Moon’ is the traditional name for the first full moon of which month of the year? | publications about the Moon.
"Mysteries of the Moon" by Patricia Haddock ("Great Mysteries Series", Greenhaven Press, 1992) gave an extensive list of such names along with the individual tribal groups they were supposedly associated with. Haddock supposes that certain "Colonial American" moon names were adopted from Algonquian languages (which were formerly spoken in the territory of New England), while others are based in European tradition (e.g. the Colonial American names for the May moon, "Milk Moon", "Mother's | also the name of a star, which during this period is close to the full moon. Māgha Pūjā is held on the full moon day. In a leap year, the celebration will be postponed to the full moon day of the fourth lunar month.
Themes.
Māgha Pūjā day marks an event occurring at the Veḷuvana grove, near Rājagaha (present Rajgir) in northern India, ten months after the enlightenment of the Buddha. The traditional story goes that a meeting is held in the afternoon, that has four | 7,447 | triviaqa-train |
Annapolis is the capital of which US state? | -member districts, each of which has approximately the same population. Some states, such as Maryland and Vermont, divide the state into single- and multi-member districts, in which case multi-member districts must have proportionately larger populations, e.g., a district electing two representatives must have approximately twice the population of a district electing just one. The voting systems used across the nation are: first-past-the-post in single-member districts, and multiple non-transferable vote in multi-member districts. | , as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished", Olmert said on the last day of the Annapolis Conference. "The Jewish organizations, which were our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us", Olmert said, "because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents".
During the talks, Olmert agreed that Israel would share Jerusalem as the joint capital of Israel and a Palestinian | 7,448 | triviaqa-train |
Which English actress was born Julia Wells in 1935? | many honorary degrees in recognition of her distinguished career in entertainment. These include:
- 1970: University of Maryland – Doctor of Fine Arts
- 1999: Yale University – Doctor of Fine Arts
- 2012: Stony Brook University – Doctor of Letters
Bibliography.
Andrews has published several books (mainly children's books and autobiographies) under her name, as well as the pen names Julie Andrews Edwards and Julie Edwards.
- Andrews, Julie. "". Hyperion 2008. .
- Andrews, | Sawalha
Sawalha is an Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Julia Sawalha (born 1968), English actress
- Nadia Sawalha (born 1964), English actress and television presenter
- Nadim Sawalha (born 1935), English actor
- Woroud Sawalha, Palestinian middle distance runner | 7,449 | triviaqa-train |
‘Tacky’s War’ (or Tacky’s Rebellion) was a 1760 uprising of black African slaves in which British colony? | Government — such as Hong Kong, before its transfer in 1997 to the People's Republic of China.
Types.
There were "three" types of Crown colonies as of 1918, with differing degrees of autonomy:
Crown colonies "with representative councils" such as Bermuda, Jamaica, Ceylon, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Fiji contained two legislative chambers, consisting of Crown-appointed and locally elected members.
Crown colonies "with nominated councils" such as British Honduras, Sierra Leone, Grenada and Hong Kong | burned at the stake, 17 were hanged along with four whites. Among those arrested when the plot was discovered were at least 12 men and women of Akan origin. 70 people were deported from New York. There is considerable historical debate as to how these fires were actually started.
Coromantee-led rebellions Tacky’s War.
In 1760, another conspiracy known as Tacky's War was hatched. Long claims that almost all enslaved Coromantin on the island were involved without any suspicion from the whites. They planned to overthrow British | 7,450 | triviaqa-train |
What is the subtitle of the 1965 song ‘Norwegian Wood’ by The Beatles? | Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album "Rubber Soul". It was written mainly by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. Influenced by the introspective lyrics of Bob Dylan, the song is considered a milestone in the Beatles' development as songwriters. The track features a sitar part, played by lead guitarist George Harrison, that marked the first appearance of the Indian | Love You To
"Love You To" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album "Revolver". The song was written and sung by George Harrison and features Indian instrumentation such as sitar and tabla. Following Harrison's introduction of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood" in 1965, it was the first Beatles song to fully reflect the influence of Indian classical music. The recording was made with minimal participation from Harrison's bandmates; instead, he created the track with tabla player Anil Bhagwat | 7,451 | triviaqa-train |
Fiorello LaGuardia was mayor of which city from 1934 to 1945? | Fiorello H. La Guardia
Fiorello Henry La Guardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia, ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American politician. He is best known for being the 99th Mayor of New York City for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican. Previously he had been elected to Congress in 1916 and 1918, and again from 1922 through 1930. Irascible, energetic, and charismatic, he craved publicity and is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in American history. Only five feet, | pictures sirens, temptresses, as woman. If you suppress allegory you suppress all intellectual effort. I gather that allegory has long been extinct in City Hall."
Exile.
Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, who was mayor from 1934 to 1945, hated the sculpture. He called it "Fat Boy", and resented being confronted with the male figure's naked buttocks each day as he left City Hall. When Queens erected a new Borough Hall in 1940, LaGuardia seized the opportunity and gave the fountain to Queens | 7,452 | triviaqa-train |
Which British rhythm and blues/jazz singer and keyboard player was born Clive Powell in June 1943? | . The style would be the major influence on the later emergence of the blues boom, particularly through the work of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Alexis Korner continued with Blues Incorporated, bringing in jazz saxophonist Graham Bond and developing a more jazz orientated sound. This strand would be taken up by acts including the Graham Bond Organisation, Manfred Mann and Zoot Money. A unique form was pursued by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, who as the resident band at the Flamingo club on Wardour Street, unusual in having a predominantly black | born 1982), Welsh cricketer
Music.
- Jimmy Powell (musician) (1914–1994), American jazz saxophonist
- Jimmy Powell (singer) (born 1942), British rhythm and blues singer
Science.
- James L. Powell (born 1936), American geologist and environmentalist
- James R. Powell, American physicist
Fiction and poetry.
- Jim Powell (British novelist) (born 1949)
- Jim Powell (poet), American poet, translator, literary critic, MacArthur Fellow | 7,453 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the Vice President of former US President Bill Clinton? | Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention—with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform—many moderates were alienated. Clinton then pointed to his moderate, "New Democrat" record as governor of Arkansas, though some on the more liberal side of the party remained suspicious. Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton. Clinton and his running mate, Al Gore, toured the country during the final weeks of the campaign, shoring up support | - Abdullah Sengkang
- Ahmad Achwani
- Hasan Basri
- Muhdori Abdur Razzaq
- Saiful Anwar al-Bintani
Visitors.
Following US President Barack Obama and his wife's visit to the Istiqal Mosque in November 2010, about 20 visitors per day have come to tour the mosque. Among foreign dignitaries who have visited Istiqlal mosque are former US president Bill Clinton; President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; Prince Charles of United Kingdom; Li Yuanchao, Vice President of the Communist Party of | 7,454 | triviaqa-train |
Which four herbs are mentioned in the Simon and Garfunkel song ‘Scarborough Fair’? | place-name and are often generically titled ("The Lovers' Tasks", "My Father Gave Me an Acre of Land", etc.).
Lyrics.
As a popular and widely distributed song from 1946 to 1968, the song had many versions. The one here, intended as a duet by a man and a woman, includes the place after which it is named:
Male part:
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; | .
Variants.
This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in "Ballads Weird and Wonderful" which was published by John Lane's The Bodley Head in 1912 and illustrated by Vernon Hill.
The song "Scarborough Fair" might be a variant recorded later, first by Martin Carthy, and later and more famously by Simon & Garfunkel. A similar variant is "Whittingham Fair", a song that was popular in the north and west of Northumberland. There are also several American variants, which differ greatly | 7,455 | triviaqa-train |
In a standard game of chess, how many knights does each player start with? | Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to be derived from the Indian game chaturanga sometime before the 7th century. Chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi, janggi, and shogi. Chess reached Europe by the 9th century, due to the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. The pieces assumed their current powers in Spain in the late | can be done either randomly or secretly by both players. Each player has a choice of 4 armies: the "Fabulous FIDEs", which are the standard chess pieces, the "Colorbound Clobberers", the "Nutty Knights", and the "Remarkable Rookies".
All armies are designed to be equal in strength, but have significantly different properties. Kings and pawns move the same as in chess for all armies. Pawns can only promote to pieces of either army on the board at the start. Castling is | 7,456 | triviaqa-train |
In 2008, Sarah Stevenson became Britain’s first Olympic medallist in which martial art? | lost to Norway's Trude Gundersen in the semifinal and Japan's Yoriko Okamoto in the bronze match. The next year, she became a world champion in the 2001 World Taekwondo Championships's Women's Middleweight, defeating 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist Chen Zhong in the final. She became the first British Taekwondo World champion.
At the 2004 Olympics in the Women's +67 kg event she was eliminated by Venezuela's Adriana Carmona in the first round. She later trained at Sportcity in Manchester and is a member of the Allstars | Helen Jenkins
Helen Rebecca Jenkins, "née" Tucker (born 8 March 1984), is a two-time Triathlon World Champion (2008 and 2011) and is one of Britain’s most celebrated triathletes having represented Team GB at the Olympic Games (2008, 2012 and 2016) and World Championships (since 2009) and Wales at the Commonwealth Games.
Jenkins was the British Junior Champion in 2003 and the Elite Champion in 2006, after having been the elite silver medallist in 2005. Jenkins also has several non | 7,457 | triviaqa-train |
Arachnids usually have how many legs? | Arachnid
Arachnids () are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata. Almost all adult arachnids have eight legs, although the front pair of legs in some species has converted to a sensory function, while in other species, different appendages can grow large enough to take on the appearance of extra pairs of legs. The term is derived from the Greek word ("aráchnē"), from the myth of the hubristic human weaver Arachne who was turned into a | that scopulae get their grip from contact with extremely thin layers of water on surfaces. Spiders, like most other arachnids, keep at least four legs on the surface while walking or running.
Description Silk production.
The abdomen has no appendages except those that have been modified to form one to four (usually three) pairs of short, movable spinnerets, which emit silk. Each spinneret has many spigots, each of which is connected to one silk gland. There are at least six types of silk gland, each producing | 7,458 | triviaqa-train |
The English resort of Bournemouth lies on which body of water? | North Sea
The North Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between the United Kingdom (particularly England and Scotland), Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. An epeiric (or "shelf") sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north. It is more than long and wide, with an area of .
The North Sea has long been the site of important | Marnhull
Marnhull ( ) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies in the Blackmore Vale in the North Dorset administrative district, north of the small town of Sturminster Newton. The resort towns of Bournemouth and Weymouth are approximately to the south. Marnhull is sited on a low ridge of Corallian limestone above the valley of the River Stour, which forms the northern and western boundaries of the parish. In the 2011 census the parish had 962 dwellings, 905 households and a population of | 7,459 | triviaqa-train |
‘Fraulein…..have my children by any chance been climbing trees today’? Is a line from which musical film? | less of a bankable genre that could be relied upon for sure-fire hits. Audiences for them lessened and fewer musical films were produced as the genre became less mainstream and more specialized.
Hollywood musical films The post-classical era The 1960s musical.
In the 1960s, the critical and box-office success of the films "West Side Story", "Gypsy", "The Music Man", "Bye Bye Birdie", "My Fair Lady", "Mary Poppins", "The Sound of Music | often been referred to as "four winged dinosaurs". Though it has been suggested that these hind wings would have prevented some paravians from getting around on the ground, and that they must have lived in trees, there is very little evidence that any of the earliest paravians were capable of climbing. This apparent paradox was addressed by later studies which showed that early paravians like "Microraptor" were capable of flapping flight and powered launching from the ground into the air without relying on climbing. "Microraptor" in particular also seems | 7,460 | triviaqa-train |
On the human body, Walrus, Pencil and Toothbrush are all types of what? | Mael's moustache, and ran out of the room, crying, 'Mum! Dad! Hitler's playing the piano on 'Top of the Pops'!'" (The Sparks song "Moustache" addresses the problem, with the lyrics "And when I trimmed it very small/My Jewish friends would never call.")
In 2009, British comedian Richard Herring, while sporting a toothbrush moustache, created a stand-up show titled "Hitler Moustache", to see if he "could reclaim the | trade for goods needed to survive. Later masks were intended for festivities, dances, and traditional healing.
This type of mask (there are many types of masks carved today) represents the life surrounding Nunivak Island. The walrus is what the loon depends on for survival. And, in turn, man depends on the loon and the walrus for survival. These are two of the traditional animals that were hunted by the men of the village in order to provide for their families.
The walrus is what the Nunivak | 7,461 | triviaqa-train |
Which mountain is known as ‘The White Spider’? | The White Spider
The White Spider (1959 with chapters added in 1964; original title: Die Weisse Spinne) is a book written by Heinrich Harrer that describes the first successful ascent of the Eiger Nordwand (Eiger north face), a mountain in the Berner Oberland of the Swiss Alps with sections devoted to the history of mountaineering in the area.
Overview.
"The White Spider" tells the story of the first attempts to ascend the Eiger's north face (called the "Mordwand" (death wall) | Latrodectus pallidus
Latrodectus pallidus is a species of spider commonly found throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia. A common name in English is the white widow spider, and it is known in Russian as белый каракурт, or white steppe spider. It is a member of the genus "Latrodectus", which includes species known as widow spiders, which is placed in the Theridiidae family. It occurs both in the steppes of southern Russia, Kazakhstan, and other southwest Asian countries, as well as in the | 7,462 | triviaqa-train |
Members of the 1966 World Cup winning English football team, Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst played for which league team? | Geoff Hurst
Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst (born 8 December 1941) is an English former professional footballer. A striker, he remains the only man to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, when England recorded a 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley Stadium in 1966.
Hurst began his career with West Ham United, where he scored 242 goals in 500 first team appearances. There he won the FA Cup in 1964 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965. He was sold to Stoke City | young Bobby Moore. They also won the European Cup Winners' Cup. During the 1966 FIFA World Cup, key members of the tournament winners England were West Ham players, including the captain, Bobby Moore; Martin Peters (who scored in the final); and Geoff Hurst, who scored the first, and only, hat-trick in a men's World Cup final. All three players had come through the youth team at West Ham.
There is a "Champions" statue in Barking Road, opposite The | 7,463 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the wizard and Leader of the Fellowship of the Ring in Tolkein’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’? | Gríma Wormtongue.
Internal history Later events.
During the War of the Ring, it was Gandalf who led the Free Peoples to victory over Sauron. He also became "Gandalf the White", and defeated the traitorous Saruman. After the destruction of Sauron's forces in front of the Black Gate at the mountainous borders of Mordor, Gandalf left Middle-earth and went over the Sea to Aman, along with the Ring-bearers and many of the Elves.
In the course of "The Lord of the Rings | second volume of "The Lord of the Rings"). The tower holds a "palantír", a magical crystal ball, and is the residence of Saruman, a Wizard, at the time in which "The Lord of the Rings" is set. In the story, Isengard is the focus of several chapters; it is stormed by Ents, and visited by some of the Fellowship of the Ring.
Tolkien made a number of detailed sketches of Isengard and Orthanc as he developed his concept of the location. | 7,464 | triviaqa-train |
What is the first name of Jamaican-born retired boxer Razor Ruddock? | Donovan Ruddock
Donovan "Razor" Ruddock (born December 21, 1963) is a Jamaican Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 2001, and in 2015. He is known for his two fights against Mike Tyson in 1991, and a fight against Lennox Lewis in 1992. Ruddock was also known for his exceptional punching power: one of the best examples of his left hand power was his knockout of former WBA heavyweight champion Michael Dokes in 1990.
Professional career.
Professional career Early years.
Ruddock was | Day In - Day Out"
15. "Means That You're Grand (Bei mir bist du scheen)"
16. "Happiness"
17. "Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen" (Hildegard Knef)
See also.
- "Irgendwo auf der Welt" | 7,465 | triviaqa-train |
The Notting Hill Carnival in London is held during which month of the year? | . Temperature extremes in London range from at Kew during August 2003 down to at Northolt during January 1962. However, an unofficial reading of was reported on 3 January 1740, and another reading of was reported on 25 January 1795. Conversely, the highest unofficial temperature ever known to be recorded in the United Kingdom occurred in London in the 1808 heat wave. The temperature was recorded at on 13 July. It is thought that this temperature, if accurate, is one of the highest temperatures of the millennium in the United Kingdom | is the largest open-air Asian festival in Europe and the largest Bengali festival outside of Bangladesh. After the Notting Hill Carnival, it is the second-largest street festival in the United Kingdom attracting over 80,000 visitors from across the country. Although the Bengali New Year falls on 14/15 April (Pohela Boishakh in the Bengali calendar), the festival is held in the second weekend of May on a Sunday to avoid the period of higher risk of rain during the month of April. Having started in 1997, the 10th anniversary | 7,466 | triviaqa-train |
Which composer wrote the ‘Brandenburg Concertos’? | During this period, composers developed several major music forms that lasted into later periods when they were expanded and evolved further, including the fugue, the invention, the sonata, and the concerto. The late Baroque style was polyphonically complex and richly ornamented. Some of the best-known composers from the Baroque era include Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Dieterich Buxtehude, Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Purcell, François Couperin, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Sebastian Bach and George | , fugues, concertos for harpsichord, violin and wind, orchestral suites, the Brandenburg Concertos, "St Matthew Passion", "St John Passion" and the "Christmas Oratorio". Händel was a cosmopolitan composer that wrote music for virtually every genre of his time. His most famous works include the orchestral suites Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks and the oratorio Messiah.
Another important composer was Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the most prolific musicians in history.
Classical music Classical era.
By the middle | 7,467 | triviaqa-train |
What is the Latin phrase ‘ad lib’ short for? | were obtained spontaneously without a specific method.
Medical prescriptions may use the abbreviation "ad lib." to indicate "freely" or that as much as one desires should be used. More common is "pro re nata" dosing, in which a drug is used only if needed and only up to some maximum amount.
Drama.
Ad-lib is used to describe individual moments during live theatre when an actor speaks through their character using words not found in the play's text. When the entire performance | Suspiria de Profundis
Suspiria de profundis (a Latin phrase meaning "sighs from the depths") is one of the best-known and most distinctive literary works of the English essayist Thomas De Quincey.
Genre.
First published in fragmentary form in 1845, the work is a collection of short essays in psychological fantasy — what De Quincey himself called "impassioned prose," and what is now termed prose poetry. The essays of the "Suspiria" "are among the finest examples of De Quincey's or anyone | 7,468 | triviaqa-train |
Who starred as Lieutenant Danny Roman in the 1998 film ‘The Negotiator’? | The Negotiator
The Negotiator is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray. It stars Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey as two hostage lieutenants.
Plot.
Lieutenant Danny Roman, a top hostage negotiator for the Chicago Police Department and a former soldier in the US Army, is told by his partner, Nate Roenick, that according to an informant whom he refuses to name, members of their own unit are embezzling large amounts of money from the department's disability fund, for which Roman is a | Brooklyn, she had one sister, Mary, and two brothers, Peter (1930–2007), a policeman who became a Roman Catholic priest, and James, a policeman whose role as lead negotiator in a hostage crisis was dramatized in the film "Dog Day Afternoon".
McGowan was one of photographer William Klein's favorite models. After the release of his film "Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?", in which she starred, she disappeared from public view and apparently neither acted nor modeled again.
She | 7,469 | triviaqa-train |
Stonewall is a CDP (Census-designated place) in which US state? | government and the rights of individuals.
The Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50. Alaska and Hawaii are the most recent states admitted, both in 1959. The Constitution is silent on the question of whether states have the power to secede (withdraw) from the Union. Shortly after the Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court, in "Texas v. White", | Fort Riley (CDP), Kansas
Fort Riley is a census-designated place (CDP) that covers part of Fort Riley, a US Army installation in Geary and Riley counties in the U.S. state of Kansas. The population was 7,761 at the 2010 census, down from 8,114 at the 2000 census, at which time the CDP was known as Fort Riley North.
History.
The area is more commonly known as "Custer Hill".
Geography.
The Fort Riley CDP is located primarily in southern | 7,470 | triviaqa-train |
In which 1955 film does actor Robert Mitchum play a psychopathic self-appointed preacher? | Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several classic "films noir", and is generally considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. His best-known films include "Out of the Past" (1947), "The Night of the Hunter" (1955), and "Cape | Hunter" (1955). Based on a novel by Davis Grubb, the thriller starred Mitchum as a monstrous criminal posing as a preacher to find money hidden by his cellmate in the cellmate's home. His performance as Reverend Harry Powell is considered by many to be one of the best of his career. Stanley Kramer's melodrama "Not as a Stranger", also released in 1955, was a box-office hit. The film starred Mitchum against type, as an idealistic young doctor, who marries an older nurse | 7,471 | triviaqa-train |
What is the first name of former world number one professional tennis player McEnroe? | semi-western", and the "western". For a number of years, the small, frail 1920s player Bill Johnston was considered by many to have had the best forehand of all time, a stroke that he hit shoulder-high using a "western" grip. Few top players used the "western" grip after the 1920s, but in the latter part of the 20th century, as shot-making techniques and equipment changed radically, the "western" forehand made a strong comeback and is now used | Massimo Cierro
Massimo Cierro (born 7 May 1964) is a former professional tennis player from Italy.
Career.
Cierro never won a Grand Slam match. He lost to 15th seed Scott Davis at 1985 US Open, Patrick McEnroe in the 1992 Australian Open and Henri Leconte at the 1992 French Open, all in straight sets.
The biggest win of his career was at the Championship Series event, the Italian Open, in 1991, when he defeated world number 13 Karel Nováček.
Cierro was a quarter | 7,472 | triviaqa-train |
Ladies in White is an opposition movement, consisting of wives and female relatives of jailed dissidents, in which country? | Ladies in White
Ladies in White () is an opposition movement in Cuba founded in 2003 by wives and other female relatives of jailed dissidents. The women protest the imprisonments by attending Mass each Sunday wearing white dresses and then silently walking through the streets dressed in white clothing. The color white is chosen to symbolize peace.
The movement received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 2005.
Origins.
During the Black Spring in 2003, the Cuban government arrested and summarily tried and sentenced | established 1960
- Ladies in White, relatives of jailed dissidents, founded 2003
North America Nicaragua.
- Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women, founded 1977
North America United States.
- African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom, founded 1990
- Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (founded in 1908)
- American Association for Women Radiologists AAWR
- American Association of University Women (1881)
- American Equal Rights Association
- American Heritage Girls
- American Legion Auxiliary (founded in 1919)
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Which city is the start and finish of the 1873 novel ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’? | Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days () is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,221,600 in 2018) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
Plot.
The story starts in London on Wednesday, 2 October 1872. | Around the World in Eighty Days (1919 film)
Around the World in Eighty Days (German: Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen) is a 1919 German silent adventure comedy film, directed and produced by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber and Reinhold Schünzel. It is based on the 1873 Jules Verne novel "Around the World in Eighty Days". It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.
Plot.
In order to win a bet, British gentleman Phileas Fogg attempts to circle the | 7,474 | triviaqa-train |
Singer/actor Will Young made in his London West End stage debut in which musical? | also undertaken numerous concert tours, and has accumulated multiple honours, including two Brit Awards from 12 nominations, and the estimated worldwide sale of over eight million albums. Young's net worth was estimated at £13.5 million in April 2012.
Alongside his music career, Young has acted in film, on stage and in television. For his performance in the 2013 London revival of the musical "Cabaret", he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He has also participated in philanthropy | Perry Millward
Perry Millward (born 24 October 1992) is an English actor primarily known for his work on stage (especially in London's West End), and with a number of film and television credits. Millward was born in Sidcup, London.
Stage career and musical performance.
Thanks to an Emma Priest Scholarship he received for his singing, Millward became a full-time pupil with the Sylvia Young Theatre School. He was one of the students featured in the 2004 television series ""When Will I | 7,475 | triviaqa-train |
Sligo, Galway and Limerick are all cities in which European country? | Limerick
Limerick (; ) is a city in County Limerick, Ireland. It is located in the Mid-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. Limerick City and County Council is the local authority for the city. The city lies on the River Shannon, with the historic core of the city located on King's Island, which is bounded by the Shannon and the Abbey River. Limerick is also located at the head of the Shannon Estuary where the river widens before it flows into the Atlantic Ocean | the M17 motorway running north from the M6 to Tuam, the N63, formerly the N17, connecting Galway with the Northwest (Tuam, Sligo, Donegal Town, Letterkenny and Derry), and the M18 motorway linking Galway to southern towns and cities (Gort, Ennis, Shannon Town, Limerick and Cork joining up with The Wild Atlantic Way. In addition, there are plans for a semi-ring road of the city, the Galway City Outer Bypass. There is also an "Inner City Ring" ("Cuar | 7,476 | triviaqa-train |
Robinson Crusoe Island lies off the coast of which South American country? | Robinson Crusoe Island
Robinson Crusoe Island ( ), formerly known as Más a Tierra (Closer to Land), is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the more populous of the inhabited islands in the archipelago (the other being Alejandro Selkirk Island), with most of that in the town of San Juan Bautista at Cumberland Bay on the island's north coast.
The island was home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk from | , formed by ancient lava flows which have built up from numerous volcanic episodes. The highest point on the island is above sea level at El Yunque. Intense erosion has resulted in the formation of steep valleys and ridges. A narrow peninsula is formed in the southwestern part of the island called Cordón Escarpado. The island of Santa Clara is located just off the southwest coast.
Robinson Crusoe Island lies to the west of the boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate, and rose from the ocean 3.8 – | 7,477 | triviaqa-train |
Which English-Australian singer had a 1962 hit single entitled ‘I Remember You’? | I Remember You (1941 song)
"I Remember You" is a popular song about nostalgia with music by Victor Schertzinger and words by Johnny Mercer, and first released by Jimmy Dorsey in December 1941.
The song was one of several introduced in the film "The Fleet's In" (1942). It was sung in the film by Dorothy Lamour.
Chart versions.
Australian singer Frank Ifield recorded the song in a yodeling country-music style on 27 May 1962, and his version went to | I Can Make You Feel Good
"I Can Make You Feel Good" is a 1982 song by American R&B group Shalamar from their Platinum album "Friends". It reached No. 7 in the UK making it their first top ten hit, followed by the single "A Night to Remember" and the single "There It Is" which both peaked at No. 5.
In 1997, the song was covered by English singer Kavana. His version reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart. | 7,478 | triviaqa-train |
An idiom meaning a no win situation came from which novel by Joseph Heller? | as "Catch-18", in Issue 7 of "New World Writing."
Although he originally intended the story to be no longer than a novelette, Heller was able to add enough substance to the plot that he felt it could become his first novel. When he was one-third done with the work, his agent, Candida Donadio, sent it to publishers. Heller was not particularly attached to the work, and decided that he would not finish it if publishers were not interested. The work was soon purchased | What's done is done
"What's done is done" is an idiom in English.
The expression uses the word "done" in the sense of "finished" or "settled", a usage which dates back to the first half of the 15th century.
Meaning.
It usually means something along the line of: the consequence of a situation (which was once within your control), is now out of your control, that is, "there's no changing the past, so | 7,479 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1949 British film featured the character of Harry Lime? | 1947) and "The Third Man" (1949), and Powell and Pressburger's "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), "Black Narcissus" (1947) and "The Red Shoes" (1948), the most commercially successful film of its year in the United States. Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" (also 1948), was the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Ealing Studios (financially backed by Rank) began to produce their most celebrated | the Ministry of Information, and her experiences inspired the description of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
Literature and popular culture Films and others.
A lecturer at the university (SOAS) named William McGovern was one of the real-life inspirations of the film character Indiana Jones.
Senate House and the constituent colleges of the University of London have been featured in Hollywood and British films.
See also.
- Golden triangle (universities)
- List of modern | 7,480 | triviaqa-train |
Who is known in Scotland as 'Duke of Rothesay' and has the middle names of Philip Arthur George? | of his grandfather and the accession of his mother as Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 made Charles her heir apparent. As the monarch's eldest son, he automatically took the titles Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland. Charles attended his mother's coronation at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953.
As was customary for upper-class children at the time, a governess, Catherine Peebles, was appointed and undertook his education | Fauldhouse
Fauldhouse (, ) is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. It is about halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
History.
The town of Fauldhouse has existed since, at least, the Middle Ages, and was known until the 19th century by the names "Falas" and "Fallas". The seventeenth century Dutch mapmaker Willem Blaeu features Fauldhouse as "Falas" on two maps in his "Atlas Novus" of Scotland, and there are families with the surname Fallas. The name "Fallas" | 7,481 | triviaqa-train |
Which actor has played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986) and Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993)? | Last Action Hero
Last Action Hero is a 1993 American fantasy action-comedy film directed and produced by John McTiernan. It is a satire of the action genre and associated clichés, containing several parodies of action films in the form of films within the film. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a Los Angeles police detective within the "Jack Slater" action film franchise, while Austin O'Brien co-stars as Danny Madigan, a boy magically transported into the "Slater" universe, and Charles Dance as Benedict | called the Ajanti Dagger which has the ability to kill mystical beings, specifically the titular child and the demon Sardo Numspa.
- In the 1994 movie "The Shadow", the phurba was a dangerous weapon moving of its own accord.
- In the 2009 video game "", a golden phurba is the key to the mythical kingdom of Shambhala.
- In the 2019 video game "纸人：第一章 / Paper Dolls: Original", an object acquired by the player after meeting two antagonists, Wang and Yin Zhong | 7,482 | triviaqa-train |
Carlos Irwin EstĂŠvez is better known by what stage name? | life has made headlines, including reports of alcohol and drug abuse and marital problems, as well as allegations of domestic violence. In March 2011, his contract for "Two and a Half Men" was terminated by CBS and Warner Bros following his derogatory comments about the series' creator, Chuck Lorre. On November 17, 2015, Sheen publicly revealed that he is HIV positive, having been diagnosed about four years earlier.
Early life.
Carlos Estévez was born on September 3, 1965, in New York City | Jorge Tuero
Carlos Alberto Debrot (c. 1922 – 16 December 1999), better known as his stage name Jorge Tuero was a Venezuelan television actor and comedian, better known by his characters in the television programs "Cheverísimo" and "Radio Rochela".
His stage name is the mixture of the names of his two idols, the Mexican actors Jorge Negrete and Emilio Tuero.
Career.
He started his career in 1977 as announcer in Radio Tropical and later he became part of the cast of "Radio Rochela | 7,483 | triviaqa-train |
Which actor has been cast opposite Dakota Johnson to play Christian Grey in the film of Fifty Shades of Grey? | banned the "Fifty Shades of Grey" books shortly after banning its film adaptation after permitting them for three years in local bookstores, citing morality-related reasons.
Media.
Media Film adaptation.
A film adaptation of the book was produced by Focus Features, Michael De Luca Productions, and Trigger Street Productions, with Universal Pictures and Focus Features securing the rights to the trilogy in March 2012. Universal is also the film's distributor. Charlie Hunnam was originally cast in the role of Christian Grey alongside Dakota Johnson in | Fifty Shades Darker (film)
Fifty Shades Darker is a 2017 American erotic romantic drama film directed by James Foley and written by Niall Leonard, based on E. L. James's 2012 novel of the same name. The second film in the "Fifty Shades" film trilogy and the sequel to the 2015 film "Fifty Shades of Grey", it stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, respectively, with Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Bella Heathcote, Rita Ora, Luke Grimes, Victor Rasuk | 7,484 | triviaqa-train |
Which hard-man American actor was married to Jill Ireland from 1968 until her death in 1990? | Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; ; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was often cast in the role of a police officer, gunfighter, or vigilante in revenge-oriented plot lines, had long-term collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson, and appeared in fifteen films with his second wife Jill Ireland.
Early life and war service.
Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, the 11th of 15 children, in a | regularly spent winter holidays vacationing with his family in Snowmass, Colorado.
On May 18, 1990, aged 54, after a long battle with breast cancer, Jill Ireland died of the disease at their home in Malibu, California. In December 1998, Bronson was married for a third time to Kim Weeks, a former employee of Dove Audio who had helped record Ireland in the production of her audiobooks. The couple were married for five years until Bronson's death in 2003.
Personal life Death.
Bronson's health | 7,485 | triviaqa-train |
For your eyes only was the 12th Bond film, and the 5th to star which actor in the lead role? | For Your Eyes Only (film)
For Your Eyes Only is a 1981 British spy film, the twelfth in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It marked the directorial debut of John Glen, who had worked as editor and second unit director on three other Bond films.
The screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson takes its characters and combines elements from the plots from two short stories from Ian Fleming's " | John Wyman
John Wyman is a British actor probably best known for his role as Erich Kriegler in the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only".
Career.
In the 1970s, John Wyman played "The Mighty Ajax" in a series of UK television commercials for Ajax cleaning products. The character would appear in a dirty kitchen and with a powerful slash of his arm, he cleaned it to a sparkle. He has also appeared in television series such as "The Onedin Line", "Star Maidens | 7,486 | triviaqa-train |
Which band sang the 1982 theme tune to Rocky III, 'Eye of the Tiger'? | Eye of the Tiger
"Eye of the Tiger" is a song composed by American rock band Survivor. It was released as a single from their third album of the same name "Eye of the Tiger" and was also the theme song for the film "Rocky III", which was released a day before the single. The song was written by Survivor guitarist Frankie Sullivan and keyboardist Jim Peterik, and was recorded at the request of "Rocky III" star, writer, and director Sylvester Stallone, after Queen | with "survival". At the end of the day, we said, "Are we nuts?" That hook is so strong, and "rival" doesn't have to be a perfect rhyme with the word "tiger". We made the right choice and went with "Eye of the Tiger".
Accolades.
The song was nominated for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Original Song, the only Oscar nomination for "Rocky III". It lost to "Up Where We Belong" from " | 7,487 | triviaqa-train |
What was the final film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in the lead roles? | ". Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film "Dead Calm" and the miniseries "Bangkok Hilton". In 1990, she made her Hollywood debut in the racing film "Days of Thunder", opposite Tom Cruise. She went on to achieve wider recognition with lead roles in "Far and Away" (1992), "Batman Forever" (1995), "To Die For" (1995), and "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999). Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress | Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures is a 2001 documentary about the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, famed film director, made by his long-time assistant and brother-in-law Jan Harlan. Its running time is 142 minutes long, it consists of several 15-minute chapters, each detailing the making of one of his films – and two more showing his childhood and life.
Jan Harlan got many of Kubrick's collaborators for interviews, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman | 7,488 | triviaqa-train |
What is the more common name of the Peafowl, a species of flying birdbest known for the male's extravagant eye-spotted tail covert feathers? | Goddess Saraswati and the warrior goddess Kaumari and also depicted around Goddess Santoshi. During a war with Asuras, Karthikeya split the demon king Surapadman in half. Out of respect for his adversary’s prowess in battle, the God converted the two halves as an integral part of himself. One half became a peacock serving as his mount, and another a rooster adorning his flag. The peacock displays the divine shape of Omkara when it spreads its magnificent plumes into a full-blown circular form. Peacock feathers also adorn the crest of | comes from the Latin word for crested. The species' common name is derived from the tuft of green feathers from the shelduck's head. This species is also known as the Korean crested shelduck, Korean sheldrake, and Korean Mandarin.
Description.
The crested shelduck is sexually dimorphic, with the male possessing a greenish-black crown, breast, primaries, and tail, while the rest of its face, chin, and throat are brownish black. The male's belly, undertail coverts, and flanks are a | 7,489 | triviaqa-train |
Robert L May created which popular Christmas character in 1939? | Robert L. May
Robert L. May (July 27, 1905 – August 10, 1976) was the creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Life and work.
Robert May grew up in an affluent, secular Jewish home in New Rochelle, New York. He had a brother and two sisters. One of the sisters, Evelyn May, is the grandmother of the well-known economist Steven D. Levitt, who wrote the book "Freakonomics". The other sister, Margaret, married songwriter Johnny Marks | Wicked Witch of the West
The Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum as the antagonist in his classic children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900). In Baum's subsequent "Oz" novels, it is the Nome King who is the principal villain; the Wicked Witch of the West is rarely even referred to again after her death in the first book.
The witch's most popular depiction was in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's | 7,490 | triviaqa-train |
On Christmas day in 2000, which country officially established a new National Anthem? | , Oceania, Africa, and the Caribbean use a more simplistic fanfare. Some countries that are devolved into multiple constituent states have their own official musical compositions for them (such as with the United Kingdom, Russian Federation, and the former Soviet Union); their constituencies' songs are sometimes referred to as national anthems even though they are not sovereign states.
History.
The custom of an officially adopted national anthem became popular in the 19th century.
They are often patriotic songs that may have been in existence long | the 1940s.
It was sung to mark independence day on July 1, 1960 and was regularly performed by children in the mornings at schools. "Soomaaliyeey toosoo" was officially adopted in 2000.
In August 2012, following the endorsement of Somalia's new Provisional Constitution, "Soomaaliyeey toosoo" was replaced as the national anthem by "Qolobaa Calankeed".
Lyrics.
Modified anthem (2000-2012)
See also.
- History of Somalia
- Flag of Somalia
- National anthem of Somalia | 7,491 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the poem Twas the night before Christmas also called "A Visit from St. Nicholas in 1822? | A Visit from St. Nicholas
"A Visit from St. Nicholas", more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837.
The poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. It | as the phenomenon of popular culture emerged, elves were reimagined, in large part on the basis of Romantic literary depictions and associated medievalism.
As American Christmas traditions crystallized in the nineteenth century, the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (widely known as "'Twas the Night before Christmas") characterized St Nicholas himself as "a right jolly old elf". However, it was his little helpers, inspired partly by folktales like "The Elves and the Shoemaker", who became known as "Santa | 7,492 | triviaqa-train |
Which saint's day is also known as Boxing Day? | Saint Stephen's Day
Saint Stephen's Day, or the Feast of Saint Stephen, is a Christian saint's day to commemorate Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr or protomartyr, celebrated on 26 December in the Latin Church and 27 December in Eastern Christianity. The Eastern Orthodox Churches that adhere to the Julian calendar mark Saint Stephen's Day on 27 December according to that calendar, which places it on 9 January of the Gregorian calendar used in secular contexts. In Latin Christian denominations, Saint Stephen's Day marks the second | events on the liturgical calendar. Holy Week in Mexico is observed widely, with many re-enactments of events in the last days of the life of Christ. The Christmas season runs for December 12, the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe to January 6, the Feast of the Ephiphany, also known as Three Kings. There are many local religious celebrations by towns, often on the saint's day for which they were named.
Food and drink festivals include the Alfeñique fair in Toluca; the Feria Nacional de | 7,493 | triviaqa-train |
Which comedy star plays the title character in the film Elf? | Elf (film)
Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum. Starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen, Daniel Tay, Ed Asner and Bob Newhart, the film centers on Buddy, a human who was adopted and raised by Santa's elves, to which he learns about this and heads to New York City to meet his biological father while also spreading Christmas cheer in a world of cynics in the process.
"Elf" was released | Elf-Man
Elf-Man is a direct-to-video Christmas family comedy film starring Jason Acuña as the title character. It is distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment and was released in USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand on December 4, 2012. Worldwide sales by Vision Films.
Plot.
When Santa leaves an Elf behind on Christmas Eve, the Harper kids help him realize he is a super-hero, "Elf-Man". Together they must save their Dad's new invention from | 7,494 | triviaqa-train |
Which ancient relic was stolen by Scottish Activists from Westminster Abbey and returned to Scotland on Christmas day in 1950? | Stone of Scone
The Stone of Scone (; , )—also known as the Stone of Destiny, and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone—is an oblong block of red sandstone that has been used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland, and later the monarchs of England and those of the United Kingdom. Historically, the artefact was kept at the now-ruined Scone Abbey in Scone, near Perth, Scotland. It is also known as Jacob's Pillow Stone and the Tanist Stone | Òran na Cloiche
Òran na Cloiche ("Song of the Stone") is a Scottish Gaelic song, written by poet Donald MacIntyre (), also known as the Paisley Bard (). It celebrates the return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland, which was retrieved from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950 by students.A fierce lifetime supporter of the nationalist cause, the bard wrote the 25 verse song in a single sitting immediately upon hearing the news of the stone's return, and some of the students | 7,495 | triviaqa-train |
At the end of the novel 'The Day Of The Triffids', on what island do the two sighted protagonists Bill Masen and Josella Payton eventually find refuge? | under threat from the triffids which mass around the fenced exterior. Several years pass, until one day a representative of Beadley's faction lands a helicopter in their yard and reports that his group has established a colony on the Isle of Wight. Durrant's talk of Beaminster was a deliberate attempt to throw Masen off on his journey to find Beadley. While Bill and the others are reluctant to leave their own settlement, the group decide to see the summer out in Sussex before relocating to the Isle of Wight.
However, | . Bill gets the soldiers drunk and sabotages their armoured car. Then he and the rest of his people drive away, leaving the gates open for the besieging Triffids.
Cast.
- John Duttine as Bill Masen
- Emma Relph as Josella Payton
- Maurice Colbourne as Jack Coker
- Stephen Yardley as John
- Gary Olsen as Torrence
Production.
Production The Triffid plants.
A Triffid was operated by a man crouched inside, cooled by a fan installed in its neck; the 'clackers' | 7,496 | triviaqa-train |
Which region in the Pacific ocean is also the name of a character in the Dr. Doolittle' stories? | .
In early Victorian England, Matthew Mugg (Anthony Newley) takes his young friend Tommy Stubbins (William Dix) to visit eccentric Doctor John Dolittle (Rex Harrison) for an injured duck that Matthew had acquired from a local fisherman. Dolittle, a former medical doctor, lives with an extended menagerie, including a chimpanzee named Chee-Chee, a dog named Jip, and a talking parrot named Polynesia (the uncredited voice of Ginny Tyler). Dolittle claims that he can talk to animals. In a flashback, | the Doolittle Raid caused little damage, it had important ramifications. The attack raised morale in the United States and its commander, Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, was seen as a hero. The weak state of the country's air defenses greatly embarrassed the Japanese military leadership, and four fighter groups were transferred from the Pacific to defend the home islands. In an attempt to prevent further naval raids, the IJN launched an offensive in the Pacific Ocean which ended in defeat during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese Army also conducted | 7,497 | triviaqa-train |
Which artist is famous for his statue The Thinker'? | be considered his work. As a result of this limit, "The Burghers of Calais", for example, is found in fourteen cities.
In the market for sculpture, plagued by fakes, the value of a piece increases significantly when its provenance can be established. A Rodin work with a verified history sold for US$4.8 million in 1999, and Rodin's bronze "Eve, grand modele – version sans rocher" sold for $18.9 million at a 2008 Christie's auction in New York. Art critics | Michelangelo and won the Prix de Rome. His statue "Ugolin, the thinker" caused a scandal, which made him famous. With his friend architect Charles Garnier, he made his most famous work of sculptural decoration of the facade of the Opera Garnier in Paris, "The Genius of the Dance", full of passion and energy, which shocked more conservative Parisians. He also made a celebrated work of "Flore" for the facade of the Louvre, and the statuary for the Fontaine de l'Observatoire, to the south | 7,498 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the pilot hero of Captain W.E. Johns stories? | W. E. Johns
William Earl Johns (5 February 189321 June 1968) was an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. He was the creator of the fictional air-adventurer "Biggles".
Early life.
Johns was born in Bengeo, Hertford, England, the son of Richard Eastman Johns, a fabric tailor, and Elizabeth Johns (née Earl), the daughter of a master butcher. A younger brother, Russell | pilot of a number of books by Captain W.E. Johns). Another aspect of the F-111 which drew criticism was the poor work conditions for F-111 ground crew involved in sealing/de-sealing F-111 fuel tanks resulted in a class action lawsuit and the Australian government paying out more than A$20 million in damages. The health issues with chemical exposure included permanent brain damage to a number of ground crew before conditions were improved.
A number of ex-USAF aircraft were delivered to Australia as attrition replacements and to enlarge the fleet | 7,499 | triviaqa-train |
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