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Where in London can you find 'Nelson's Column'? | 0° longitude, and Greenwich Mean Time. Other landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square and The Shard. London has numerous museums, galleries, libraries and sporting events. These include the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, British Library and West End theatres. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world.
Toponymy.
"London" is an ancient name, attested already in the | -slab was formerly built into a window of the medieval church, along with another smaller, damaged example, also now in Edinburgh (not on display).
The village was formerly part of the estate of Mylnefield. The quarry at Invergowrie supplied important sites around the UK, stone being included in the base of Nelson's column and St Katherine's Docks in London. The quarry workers hit a spring at the beginning of the 20th century and the quarry filled with water. The former quarry can be seen as you | 48,900 | triviaqa-train |
By what name is the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster better known? | Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. The building itself was a Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the | About how the village came to have the name Daubach nothing is known. What is known, however, is that the name was written "Daupach" in 1377, thus showing at least that the village has had a similar name for well over six hundred years. It lay on the road that led from Meisenheim and Sobernheim by way of Eckweiler (a now vanished village that was given up in 1979, lying in what is now Bad Sobernheim’s municipal exclave northwest of Daubach), Gemünden and Kirchberg to Trier. | 48,901 | triviaqa-train |
What is the capital of Uruguay? | Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (), is a country in the southeastern region of South America. It borders Argentina to its west and Brazil to its north and east, with the Río de la Plata (River of Silver) to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. Uruguay is home to an estimated /1e6 round 2 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. With an area of approximately , Uruguay is | views. The other current books in the "What is?" series include ""What is Love?, What is Death?, What is Beautiful?, What is Funny?, What is Right?, What is Peace?, What is Money?, What is Dreaming?, What is a Friend?, What is True?, What is a Family?, What is a Feeling?" The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age | 48,902 | triviaqa-train |
In which Indian city can you find the 'Taj Mahal'? | Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal (; , ) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan (reigned from 1628 to 1658), to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan, the builder. The tomb is the centrepiece of a complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded | United Arab Emirates which is planned to be an accurately scaled replica of the Taj Mahal made using glass. The glass hotel and its wedding hall are complemented with a suite of other Indian-themed facilities.
The Americas.
The Americas Canada.
- Thomas Foster Memorial Temple is a memorial to the Canadian Politician, Thomas Foster in Uxbridge, Ontario inspired by the Taj Mahal.
The Americas US.
- "Trump Taj Mahal" was a casino located at 1000 Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey and modelled after | 48,903 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first British female cabinet minister? | Margaret Bondfield
Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31. She had earlier become the first woman to chair the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
Bondfield was born in humble circumstances and received limited formal education. After | .
- Died: Otto Wille Kuusinen, 82, Finnish-Soviet politician and writer
October 18, 1964 (Sunday).
- Barbara Castle was appointed as the British Minister for Overseas Development by Prime Minister Wilson, becoming the first female cabinet minister in the United Kingdom since Ellen Wilkinson's service in 1945 as the Minister of Education.
- Charles Lwanga, and the 21 Uganda Martyrs who were killed for converting to Roman Catholicism in the 19th Century, were made saints of the Roman Catholic Church in a | 48,904 | triviaqa-train |
Which port stands at the mouth of the river Seine? | Seine
The Seine ( , , ) is a river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre (and Honfleur on the left bank). It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, from the sea. Over 60 percent of its length, as far as Burgundy, is negotiable by commercial riverboats, | hindered somewhat by the damage to the port caused by Luftwaffe bombing, which damaged the troopship , which had to be beached. Electric power to the docks was cut, rendering the cranes on the docks useless; loading vehicles via ramps was tried but was too slow. On 12 June, RAF fighters began patrolling the port, deterring more raids and an attempt was made to save the transport and equipment by diverting it over the Seine via the ferry crossings at Caudebec or the ships at Quillebeuf at the river mouth. The quartermaster | 48,905 | triviaqa-train |
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 jointly with F W de Klerk? | activists, including Nelson Mandela. He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons program.
De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage. In 1993, he publicly apologised for apartheid's harmful effects, although not for apartheid itself. He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress (ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place with 20% of the vote. After the election, de Klerk became a Deputy President in | help the underprevileged children so that they can study and dream.
He was awarded the International Children's Peace Prize by former South African President FW de Klerk, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
External links.
- Bio details, The Children's Peace Prize
- "Victory at last: Child 'slave' gets peace prize", The Times of India, 21 November 2006
- "On a mission against bondage", The Hindu, 23 November 2006
- "Indian boy wins | 48,906 | triviaqa-train |
Who/what was David Ben Gurion? | David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion ( ; ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel.
Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was the "de facto | Jewish people. Among his colleagues: David Ben-Gurion, who later became Israel's first prime minister. As World War II drew to an end, Broad, Ben-Gurion and their colleagues met in New York City and created an underground infrastructure to raise funds for Israel, provide weapons for its eventual Israel War of Independence and help Holocaust survivors and others reach what was then called Palestine.
Civic activities and philanthropy Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.
Broad became intrigued by of mud and mangroves that rose out of Biscayne | 48,907 | triviaqa-train |
The population of Malta is reputed to be descended from which ancient people? | and English, with Maltese officially recognised as the national language and the only Semitic language in the European Union.
Malta has been inhabited since approximately 5900 BC. Its location in the centre of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights of St. John, French, and British. Most of these foreign influences have left some sort of mark | Ashkelon dog cemetery
The Ashkelon dog cemetery is a burial ground in the city of Ashkelon in Israel where possibly thousands of dogs were interred in the fifth to third centuries BC. The majority of the dogs were puppies; all had similarities to the modern Canaan Dog, perhaps representing the ancestral population from which the modern breed is descended. It is the largest known cemetery of this kind in the ancient world. Its discoverer suggests that it may have been the product of a religious cult focused on the reputed healing properties of dogs | 48,908 | triviaqa-train |
In the Vietnam War, what was the name of the North Vietnam communist forces? | 's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) (more commonly called the North Vietnamese Army, or NVA, in English-language sources) and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF, more commonly known as the Viet Cong in English language sources), a South Vietnamese communist guerrilla force.
Daniel Ellsberg contends that U.S. participation in Vietnam had begun in 1945 when it gave support to a French effort to reconquer its colony in Vietnam, a nation which had just declared independence in August 1945.
Indochina was | Operations Enhance and Enhance Plus
Operations Enhance and Enhance Plus in the Vietnam War transferred large quantities of United States military equipment and bases to the South Vietnamese government in advance of the Paris Peace Accords which ended American involvement in the war. The two operations were conducted between May and December 1972.
Operation Enhance.
In late March 1972, communist North Vietnam launched what is called by the United States the Easter Offensive against South Vietnam. The communist objective was to weaken the South Vietnamese armed forces, capture additional South Vietnamese | 48,909 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first of the Plantagenet kings? | Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and northern Poitou. His son, King Henry III, maintained the claim to the Angevin territories until December 1259 when he formally surrendered them and in return was granted Gascony as duke of Aquitaine and a vassal of the king of France. John's reputation was further damaged by the rumour, described in the Margam annals, that while drunk he himself had murdered Arthur and if not true it is almost certain John ordered the killing. There are two contrasting schools of thought explaining the sudden collapse of | Royal Arms of England
The Royal Arms of England are the arms first adopted in a fixed form at the start of the age of heraldry (circa 1200) as personal arms by the Plantagenet kings who ruled England from 1154. In the popular mind they have come to symbolise the nation of England, although according to heraldic usage nations do not bear arms, only persons and corporations do. The blazon of the Arms of Plantagenet is: "Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure", | 48,910 | triviaqa-train |
Where did Italy invade in 1935? | war against Ethiopia, launched from Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, which resulted in its annexation; confrontations with the League of Nations, leading to sanctions; growing economic autarky; and the signing of the Pact of Steel. The war itself (1940–1943) was the fifth phase with its disasters and defeats, while the rump Salò Government under German control was the final stage (1943–1945).
Italy was an important member of the Axis powers in World War II, battling on several fronts with initial success. However, after | Where to Invade Next
Where to Invade Next is a 2015 American documentary film written and directed by Michael Moore. The film, in the style of a travelogue, has Moore spending time in countries such as Italy, France, Finland, Tunisia, Slovenia, Germany, and Portugal where he experiences those countries' alternative methods of dealing with social and economic ills experienced in the United States.
Moore's first film in six years, "Where to Invade Next" opened on December 23, 2015, in the United | 48,911 | triviaqa-train |
In what year did clothes rationing end? | ) on clothes.
Clothes rationing ended on 15 March 1949.
Standard rationing during the Second World War Non-food rations Soap.
All types of soap were rationed. Coupons were allotted by weight or (if liquid) by quantity. In 1945, the ration gave four coupons each month; babies and some workers and invalids were allowed more. A coupon would yield:
- bar hard soap
- bar toilet soap
- No. 1 liquid soap
- soft soap
- soap flakes
- powdered | , coffee, stoves, shoes, meat, cheese, butter, margarine, canned foods, dried fruits, jam, and many other items. Some items—like new automobiles and appliances—were no longer made. The rationing system did not apply to used goods (like clothes or cars). The ration system was complex and confusing, but high levels of patriotism made it acceptable as people helped each other through the maze of rules.
To get a classification and a book of rationing stamps, one had to | 48,912 | triviaqa-train |
Who attended schools in Cheam, Surrey, Gordonstoun, Scotland, and Timbertop, Australia? | 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 | Queen Elizabeth. He was educated at Cheam and Gordonstoun schools, which his father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had attended as a child, as well as the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, Australia. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge, Charles served in the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy from 1971 to 1976. In 1981, he married Lady Diana Spencer and they had two sons: Prince William (b. 1982)—later to become Duke of Cambridge—and Prince Harry | 48,913 | triviaqa-train |
In 'The Fellowship of the Ring', how many hobbits are there? | paleolithic hominids were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004. These tiny people, named "Homo floresiensis" after the island on which the remains were found, were informally dubbed "hobbits" by their discoverers in a series of articles published in the scientific journal "Nature". The excavated skeletons reveal a hominid that (like a hobbit) grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child and had proportionately larger feet than modern humans.
See also.
- Middle-earth hobbits:-
- | produced the trilogy's music. He was hired in August 2000 and visited the set, and watched the assembly cuts of "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Return of the King". In the music, Shore included many (85 to 110) leitmotifs to represent various characters, cultures, and places – the largest catalogue of leitmotifs in the history of cinema, surpassing – for comparison – that of the entire "Star Wars" film series. For example, there are multiple leitmotifs just for the hobbits | 48,914 | triviaqa-train |
Elvis Presley died in which year? | Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer, musician, and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began | Work" issue, the "JFK's First 6000 Days" issue featuring a portrait of an old John F. Kennedy, the "Fat Elvis" cover which appeared a year before Elvis Presley died, and many of the Mara McAfee covers done in a classic Norman Rockwell style. Kleinman designed the logos for "Animal House" and "Heavy Metal."
Kleinman left in 1979 to open an ad agency.
He was succeeded by Skip Johnson, the designer responsible for the "Sunday Newspaper Parody" and the " | 48,915 | triviaqa-train |
Ray Reardon won his last World Snooker Championship in what year? | 1919. It is now governed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).
The World Snooker Championship has taken place since 1927, with Joe Davis becoming a key figure in the early growth of the sport winning the championship fifteen times from 1927 to 1946. The "modern era" began in 1969 after the BBC commissioned the snooker television show "Pot Black" and later began to air the World Championship in 1978, leading to the sport's new peak in popularity. Ray Reardon dominated the game in | led 12–9 after three sessions but Reardon won all 7 frames in the fourth session and eventually won 18–14. In the other semi-final Perrie Mans met 64-year-old Fred Davis and won 18–16. Ray Reardon won the final 25–18 to win the championship for the sixth time. At Reardon became the oldest World Champion. The first seven players to win the World Snooker Championship all won a championship in their 40s, the last of which was Reardon. It was forty years until another player in their 40s would win the title | 48,916 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the most prolific Wimbledon Women's singles champion in the 1980s? | the outfitter's brand logo being the sole exception). Controversy followed Martina Navratilova's wearing branding for "Kim" cigarettes in 1982. Green clothing was worn by the chair umpire, linesmen, ball boys and ball girls until the 2005 Championships; however, beginning with the 2006 Championships, officials, ball boys and ball girls were dressed in new navy blue- and cream-coloured uniforms from American designer Ralph Lauren. This marked the first time in the history of the Championships that an outside company was used to design Wimbledon clothing | 2004 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Maria Sharapova defeated the two-time defending champion Serena Williams in the final, 6–1, 6–4 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2004 Wimbledon Championships. This victory was hailed by the media as "the most stunning upset in memory".
With this win, Sharapova, who was to become a future world No. 1, entered the top ten for the first time in her career. She also became the third-youngest woman to win Wimbledon (behind | 48,917 | triviaqa-train |
Who presented the first ever 'Top of the Pops'? | from the "Top of the Pops" archives.
In the 1990s, the show's format was sold to several foreign broadcasters in the form of a franchise package, and at one point various versions of the show were shown in nearly 100 countries. Editions of the programme from the 1970s (and now 1980s) are being repeated on most Thursday and Friday evenings on BBC Four, although episodes featuring disgraced presenters and artists such as Jimmy Savile, Dave Lee Travis and Gary Glitter are not repeated. Also, BBC Four | revamp.
In 2003, former "Top of the Pops" presenter Andi Peters became new Executive producer and began another radical overhaul. The first edition of "All New Top of the Pops" was broadcast on 28 November 2003, presented live by former MTV video jockey Tim Kash. The ratings for the first show were 5.65m. Kash presented shows alone until 30 April 2004, after which he began to present with previous presenters Fearne Cotton and/or Reggie Yates, who eventually began to present shows together without Kash. After | 48,918 | triviaqa-train |
Which country was called 'Albion' by the Romans? | also started the construction of the Flavian Amphitheater, more commonly known as the Colosseum. The historians Josephus and Pliny the Elder wrote their works during Vespasian's reign. Vespasian was Josephus' sponsor and Pliny dedicated his "Naturalis Historia" to Titus, son of Vespasian. Vespasian sent legions to defend the eastern frontier in Cappadocia, extended the occupation in Britannia (modern-day England, Wales and southern Scotland) and reformed the tax system. He died in 79 AD.
Empire – the Principate Flavian dynasty Titus and Domitian. | out that the name "Scotland" is ultimately derived from Scotia, a Latin term first used for Ireland (also called Hibernia by the Romans) and later for Scotland, the Scoti peoples having originated in Ireland and resettled in Scotland. Another, post-conquest, Roman name for the island of Great Britain was Albion, which is cognate with the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland: "Alba".
See also.
- Battle of Mons Graupius
- Caledonian Ocean
- New Caledonia
- Scotland during the | 48,919 | triviaqa-train |
Which English football team plays ay Upton Park? | Boleyn Ground
The Boleyn Ground, often referred to as Upton Park, was a football stadium located in Upton Park, east London. It was the home of West Ham United from 1904 until 2016.
The stadium was also briefly used by Charlton Athletic in the early 1990s during their years of financial difficulty.
The seating capacity of the ground at closure was 35,016.
From the 2016–17 season, West Ham United have played their home matches at the London Stadium in nearby Stratford. The last first-class match | Jersey Football Combination
The Jersey Football Combination is the senior football league on the island of Jersey and is run by the Jersey Football Association.
Although the league is affiliated with the English FA, it does not form a part of the English football league system.
Each year, the league champion plays the champions of Guernsey's Priaulx League for the Upton Park Trophy.
History.
Originally, the Jersey Football Combination consisted of five divisions, with the Premiership and Championship open to first teams, with separate leagues | 48,920 | triviaqa-train |
"In what year did Magnus Magnusson say ""I've started, now I've finished""?" | Magnusson presented the long-running quiz show "Mastermind" from 1972 to 1997 on BBC1. His catchphrase, which the current presenter John Humphrys has continued to use, was "I've started so I'll finish". Magnusson made cameo appearances as himself, hosting "Mastermind" in Morecambe and Wise as well as the children's series "Dizzy Heights" and as Magnus Magnesium in "The Goodies" episode "Frankenfido".
Magnusson ended his 25-year run of hosting "Mastermind" in September 1997, and | Magnus Magnusson
Magnus Magnusson, KBE (; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic journalist, translator, writer, and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, although he never took British citizenship. He came to prominence as a BBC television journalist and was best known as the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme "Mastermind", which he hosted for 25 years. He is also known for his famous catchphrase "I've started so I'll finish" | 48,921 | triviaqa-train |
Where in England would you find' Lime Street Station'? | gap, though the two countries are connected by the Channel Tunnel near Folkestone. England also has shores on the Irish Sea, North Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
The ports of London, Liverpool, and Newcastle lie on the tidal rivers Thames, Mersey and Tyne respectively. At , the Severn is the longest river flowing through England. It empties into the Bristol Channel and is notable for its Severn Bore (a tidal bore), which can reach in height. However, the longest river entirely in England is the Thames | was haranguing the plough-boys in Norfolk, and you find me among the Dons of Grosvenor Square, and having to preach (as I must) next Wednesday at St. George's, Hanover Square. I wish you would come and give me some assistance".
In about 1836 he moved to rooms at 13 Green Street, near Grosvenor Square and close to St. Mark's, where he stayed until he left England in 1840.
Life Tour of the Holy Land.
At a date some time after June 1840 | 48,922 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the French novelist - nearly 100 books all La Comedie Humaine? | La Comédie humaine
La Comédie humaine (, "The Human Comedy") is the title of Honoré de Balzac's (1799–1850) multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848).
The "Comédie humaine" consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works (some of which exist only as titles). It does not include Balzac's five theatrical plays or his collection | French novelist, completed nearly 100 pieces for his novel sequence "La Comédie humaine", but a planned 48 more were never finished. Notes and plot outlines left behind by an author may allow a successor to complete a novel or series of novels. Frank Herbert left behind extensive notes related to his "Dune" universe, which led to son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson's completing several prequels to the popular series. Mervyn Peake, author of the Gormenghast novels, meant to write a complete biography of | 48,923 | triviaqa-train |
Joel Chandler Harris wrote which series of stories? | Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the "Atlanta Constitution".
Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he | 1900, Joel Chandler Harris wrote "On the Wing of Occasions", a series for the "Saturday Evening Post", that featured Texas Jack and the Confederate Secret Service in a fictional plot to kidnap President Lincoln. At the time the stories caused some outrage since it associated Texas Jack with John Wilkes Booth, and after publication Harris received several letters objecting to Texas Jack's portrayal and attempts to clear his name.
In 1906, Verlagshaus für Volkslitteratur und Kunst, Berlin, published a series of dime novels in German | 48,924 | triviaqa-train |
The Three Crowns is the national ice hockey team which country? | Three Crowns", refers to the emblem on the team jersey, which is found in the lesser national coat of arms of the Kingdom of Sweden. The first time this emblem was used on the national team's jersey was on 12 February 1938, during the World Championships in Prague.
The team has won numerous medals at both the World Championships and the Winter Olympics. In 2006, they became the first, and so far only, team to win both tournaments in the same calendar year, by winning the 2006 | this, the league also crowns National Champions from each country. The team that advances the furthest through the playoffs from each country is subsequently crowned as National Champion.
One of the Netherlands most successful ice hockey teams, the Tilburg Trappers, announced that they would not be a part of the BeNe League, and would instead join the Oberliga, the 3rd tier of ice hockey in Germany. They do however, operate a developmental team in the BeNe League in the form of Tilburg Trappers II.
History.
Following | 48,925 | triviaqa-train |
In which cop show did Petrie and Isbecki appear? | co-creator of "Cagney & Lacey".
- Donald P. Bellisario: creator of "NCIS" and "JAG"
- Steven Bochco: creator of "Hill Street Blues", the experimental musical police procedural "Cop Rock", the longer-lived "NYPD Blue" and short lived "Brooklyn South".
- Andy Breckman: creator of "Monk".
- Shane Brennan: creator of ""
- Stephen J. Cannell: creator of "Silk Stalkings", "21 Jump | Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest, written by Daniel Petrie Jr. and starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who visits Beverly Hills, California to solve the murder of his best friend. Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff and Jonathan Banks appear in supporting roles.
This first film in the "Beverly Hills Cop" series shot Murphy to international stardom, won the People's Choice Award for | 48,926 | triviaqa-train |
Name the author who created Hannibal Lecter? | Hannibal Lecter
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris. He is a respected Baltimore forensic psychiatrist, as well as a cannibalistic serial killer. After he is caught and incarcerated for his crimes, he consults with the FBI to assist them in finding other serial killers.
Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel "Red Dragon". The novel and its sequel, "The Silence of the Lambs", feature Lecter as one of the primary antagonists after the two serial | the medical schools the character Paris Geller wants to get accepted to, and eventually is.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter, from "The Silence of the Lambs" and other books, completed his residency training at Hopkins.
- The character of Alex Cross, created by author James Patterson, is a graduate of Hopkins Med.
- In "The West Wing", President Bartlet's middle daughter Ellie is a student at Hopkins Med.
- Johns Hopkins is mentioned many times in Tom Clancy's novels; Jack | 48,927 | triviaqa-train |
What does the name Ghengis Khan mean? | heading home, his father ran into the neighboring Tatars, who had long been Mongol enemies, and they offered him food that poisoned him. Upon learning this, Temüjin returned home to claim his father's position as chief. But the tribe refused this and abandoned the family, leaving it without protection.
For the next several years, the family lived in poverty, surviving mostly on wild fruits, ox carcasses, marmots, and other small game killed by Temüjin and his brothers. Temujin's older half-brother Begter | appeared to have asked questions about animals such as the following:
1. What is the name of the animal?
2. What animals does it resemble?
3. Where does it live?
4. Why does it receive this name?
5. What does it look like?
6. What habits does it have?
7. What does it feed on?
8. How does it hunt?
9. What sounds does it make?
Plants and animals are described | 48,928 | triviaqa-train |
In what movie did Sinatra sing My Kind of Town? | My Kind of Town
"My Kind of Town" or "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)" is a popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
The song was originally part of the musical score for "Robin and the 7 Hoods", a 1964 musical film starring several members of the Rat Pack. It was nominated for the 1964 Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from "Mary Poppins". Although the song | the Old Master opened his mouth to sing again and to prove that his sweetness of tone remains unimpaired and undiminished for all his years of seniority."
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
- 2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
- "My Kind of Town" – Nominated
Music.
Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the score. Crosby, still a major movie star at the time who had top billing over Sinatra in their last film together, | 48,929 | triviaqa-train |
Who was Canada's first prime minister? | John A. Macdonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891). The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century.
Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which | scandals contributed to increased debate about Canada's management of its armed forces, public accountability and participation in active war zones such as Bosnia. A parliamentary committee examined and wrote a report on the issue of peacekeeping missions in increasingly dangerous conflicts.
Canada's role and management of peacekeeping units was an active topic for defence minister Kim Campbell who was competing to replace Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Gunther's death occurred two days after Mulroney's last appearance in the House of Commons and seven days prior to Campbell's first day as Prime | 48,930 | triviaqa-train |
Stanley Burrell became famous as who? | eponymous Hammer pants.
A multi-award winner, M.C. Hammer is considered a "forefather/pioneer" and innovator of pop-rap (incorporating elements of freestyle music), and is the first hip hop artist to achieve diamond status for an album. BET ranked Hammer as the No. 7 "Best Dancer Of All Time". "Vibe"s "The Best Rapper Ever Tournament" declared him the 17th favorite of all-time during the first round.
Burrell became a preacher during the late 1990s with a | During the Sengoku period there are several accounts of women actively on the battlefield, such as the case of Myorin who fought alone against 3,000 Shimazu soldiers, Kaihime who fought against the Toyotomi clan in the Siege of Oshi(1590), Onamihime who became the representative leader of the Nikaidō clan and fought in various battles against her nephew Date Masamune. There were daimyo women like Ii Naotora, adoptive mother of the famous Ii Naomasa who succeeded her. Akai Teruko, who became famous for fighting until she was 76 years old and became | 48,931 | triviaqa-train |
PG Woodhouse books Bertie Wooster used what London Club? | for the best collection of wildflowers made during the summer holidays. When Bertie was fourteen, he won the Choir Boys' Handicap bicycle race at a local school treat, having received half a lap start.
After Malvern House, Bertie was further educated at the non-fictional Eton and at Magdalen College, Oxford. At Oxford he was a Rackets Blue.
Bertie is a member of the Drones Club, and most of his friends and fellow Drones members depicted in the stories attended one or both of these institutions with | several Jeeves and Wooster stories, notably "The Code of the Woosters". The action takes place at the East London Club for Unmanageable Boys, where Bertie Wooster is playing a banjo concert; his banjo keeps breaking down, so he is forced to tell stories to pass the time while Jeeves is sent off to fetch new strings. Bertie recounts how he managed to become engaged to three ladies simultaneously and how his valet Jeeves (through ingenious intervention) unravelled the complications.
Unfortunately, the loyalty to the Wodehouse material made | 48,932 | triviaqa-train |
Marduk was the creator of the world to what ancient people? | Marduk
Marduk (Cuneiform: AMAR.UTU; Sumerian: "amar utu.k" "calf of the sun; solar calf"; Greek , "Mardochaios"; ) was a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon. When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), he slowly started to rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC | Greek tradition Apollo's killing of the Python as a necessary action to take over the Delphic Oracle.
According to some analyses there are two parts to the Tiamat myth, the first in which Tiamat is creator goddess, through a ""sacred marriage"" between salt and fresh water, peacefully creating the cosmos through successive generations. In the second ""Chaoskampf" Tiamat is considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
Robert Graves considered Tiamat's death by Marduk as evidence for his hypothesis of an ancient shift in | 48,933 | triviaqa-train |
What was Mohammad Ali's birth name? | and Kendrick Lamar." “I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick ” "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, | Legacy.
Mohammad willed 'Ammar ibn Yasir as one of the four Sahabas whose guidance should be heeded by Muslims and also being those promised paradise.
When Ammar 'died, Muʿāwiya referred to him as "one of ʿAlī's two right hands" with the other being Malik al-Ashtar. Madelung quotes Al-Tabari by reporting what Muʿāwiya said to his followers after killing Imam Ali's other loyal companion, Malik al-Ashtar: "Ali b. Abi Talib had two right hands. One of them was | 48,934 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the presenter of the Weakest Link? | The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and originally ended on 31 March 2012 when its host Anne Robinson completed her contract. The original British version of the show is still aired around the world on BBC Entertainment. The game begins with a team of contestants, who take turns answering general knowledge questions within a time limit to create chains of correct answers in a row. At the end of each round, the players then vote | co-presenter, assigned with being a link between the consumers (on the phone in earlier years, and e-mail in later years) and the main presenter. Walton left after the first series, while Beer remained until 1999, whereupon she was replaced by Charlotte Hudson, who remained until 2001. Because of her workload requiring her to be present with hosting the British and American versions of "The Weakest Link", Robinson also left the programme that same year. Following Robinson's departure, the BBC replaced her | 48,935 | triviaqa-train |
Who played Basil Fawlty in 'Fawlty Towers'? | Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Just two series of six episodes each were made. The show was created and written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who also starred in the show and were married at the time of the first series, but divorced before recording the second series. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, and in 2019 it was named the "greatest | Sybil Fawlty
Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom "Fawlty Towers". She is played by Prunella Scales. Her age is listed as 34 years old as seen on her medical chart in the 1975 episode "The Germans", presumably indicating she was born in 1941. Scales was 43 years old when "Fawlty Towers" began production.
Personality.
She is Basil Fawlty's wife, and the only regular character in the series who usually refers to him by his first name (Major Gowen | 48,936 | triviaqa-train |
In a game of chess, what is the only piece able to jump over other pieces? | Knight Moves" is about a chess grandmaster who is accused of being a serial killer. "Pawn Sacrifice", starring Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky, depicts the drama surrounding the 1972 World Chess Championship in Iceland during the Cold War.
Prohibition in Islam.
In 1979 in Islamic Republic of Iran, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a religious fatwa ruling against chess on the grounds that it "excessively fatigues the brain" and constitutes gambling. The same Ayatollah lifted the ban in 1988, | Grasshopper (chess)
The grasshopper is a fairy chess piece that moves along , , and (as a queen) but only by hopping over another piece at any distance to the square immediately closest. If there is no piece to hop over, it cannot move. If the square beyond a piece is occupied by a piece of the opposite color, the grasshopper can capture that piece. The grasshopper may jump over pieces of either color; the piece being jumped over is unaffected.
The grasshopper was introduced by | 48,937 | triviaqa-train |
At which racecourse is the Derby and the Oaks traditionally run? | Epsom Oaks
The Oaks Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old fillies. It is run at Epsom Downs over a distance of 1 mile, 4 furlongs and 6 yards (2,420 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late May or early June. It is the second-oldest of the five Classic races, after the St Leger. Officially the Investec Oaks, it is also popularly known as simply The Oaks. (Increasingly it | Wakeful Stakes
The Wakeful Stakes is a Victoria Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies, run under set weights with penalties conditions, over 2,000 metres at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia on Victoria Derby Day. Total prize money for the race is A$300,000 and $2,000 trophy.
History.
The race is considered the main lead in to the Crown Oaks which is raced five days later over 2,500 metres on the third day of the VRC Spring Carnival. Thirty-five fillies | 48,938 | triviaqa-train |
Who had a hit single with 'Crocodile Rock`'n 1972? | Crocodile Rock
"Crocodile Rock" is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and recorded in summer 1972 at the Château d'Hérouville studio in France (it was listed as "Strawberry Studios" in the album's credits), where John and his team had previously recorded the "Honky Château" album. It was released on 27 October 1972 in the UK and 20 November 1972 in the U.S., as a pre-release single from his forthcoming 1973 album "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano | vocal intentionally mimicked singer Bobby Vee. "High Flying Bird" was intended to sound like a Van Morrison record, and "Midnight Creeper" was a tip of the hat to the Rolling Stones.
John toured Australia during 1972 and was so inspired by Daddy Cool's hit single "Eagle Rock" that, with Taupin, he wrote "Crocodile Rock". The cover of this album has a photo of lyricist Taupin wearing a "Daddy Who?" promotional badge.
"Don't Shoot Me..." was | 48,939 | triviaqa-train |
A.A. Milne is most famous for creating which Bear? | do-it-yourself" chains have opened. Among the largest and best-known are Build-A-Bear Workshop and Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
Some popular mass-marketed teddy bears made today include Rupert, Sooty, Paddington, and Pudsey Bear. Books have also been written with the teddy bear featured as their main character. These include Winnie-the-Pooh, Corduroy, Teddy Tells Time, Tristan the Teddy Bear (from the Teddy Bear Tales) and Teddy Dressing.
Cultural impact "The Teddy Bears | , M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, A.A. Milne, D. H. Lawrence, Edith Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse. Apart from these famous writers, this was a period when a great number of novels and short stories were being published, and a significant distinction between "highbrow" literature and popular fiction emerged. Among the most famous works of literary criticism was A. C. Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy" (1904).
The arts Music | 48,940 | triviaqa-train |
The name of which football club is an anagram of 'Red Admiral'? | resulting in an aggregate victory which sent Aberdeen to the final. On 11 May 1983, Aberdeen beat Real Madrid 2–1 after extra time to win the cup and become only the third Scottish side to win a European trophy. The club released a song, "European Song", to coincide with the appearance in the final. This was followed up with the capture of the European Super Cup in December, when Hamburger SV were beaten over two legs.
Aberdeen reached the semi-finals of the 1983–84 European Cup Winners' | Broxi Bear
Broxi Bear is the official mascot of Rangers Football Club. Its name is derived from Rangers' home stadium, in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. Broxi being an anagram of Ibrox. Broxi is a brown bear with blue inner ears and nose, wearing a Rangers strip. He made his first appearance in a 2-2 draw against Raith Rovers on 13 November 1993.
Broxi was later accompanied by his "wife" Bernadette and their "son" Broony although from 2001 Bernadette and Broony no | 48,941 | triviaqa-train |
In the TV show 'Fawlty Towers' from which city does the waiter Manuel hail? | largely innocent Spaniard whose confused English vocabulary causes him to make elementary mistakes. At times, Basil beats Manuel with a frying pan and smacks his forehead with a spoon. The violence towards Manuel caused rare negative criticism of the show. Sybil and Polly, on the other hand, are more patient and understanding toward Manuel; everyone's usual excuse for his behaviour to guests is, "He's from Barcelona"; Manuel even once used the excuse for himself.
Basil longs for a touch of class, sometimes playing recordings | BBC's best-selling overseas programme for that year. "Fawlty Towers" became a huge success in almost all countries in which it aired. Although it initially was a flop in Spain, largely because of the portrayal of the Spanish waiter Manuel, it was successfully resold with the Manuel character's nationality changed to Italian except in Spain's Catalan region where Manuel was Mexican. To show how badly it translated, Clive James picked up a clip containing Manuel's "¿Qué?" phrase to show on "Clive James | 48,942 | triviaqa-train |
What is the furthest planet from the sun? | , human perception of the planets changed, incorporating a number of disparate objects. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially adopted a resolution defining planets within the Solar System. This definition is controversial because it excludes many objects of planetary mass based on where or what they orbit. Although eight of the planetary bodies discovered before 1950 remain "planets" under the current definition, some celestial bodies, such as Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta (each an object in the solar asteroid belt), and Pluto | Kepler-11f
Kepler-11f is an exoplanet (extrasolar planet) discovered in the orbit of the sun-like star Kepler-11 by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which searches for planets that transit (cross in front of) their host stars. Kepler-11f is the fifth planet from its star, orbiting one quarter of the distance (.25 AU) of the Earth from the Sun every 47 days. It is the furthest of the first five planets in the system. Kepler-11f is the least massive of Kepler-11's six planets, at nearly twice the | 48,943 | triviaqa-train |
How many red balls are used in a game of snooker? | 1919. It is now governed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).
The World Snooker Championship has taken place since 1927, with Joe Davis becoming a key figure in the early growth of the sport winning the championship fifteen times from 1927 to 1946. The "modern era" began in 1969 after the BBC commissioned the snooker television show "Pot Black" and later began to air the World Championship in 1978, leading to the sport's new peak in popularity. Ray Reardon dominated the game in | and are sanctioned for use in some amateur leagues. Sets for American snooker are typically , with numbered colour balls.
The set of eight colours used for snooker balls (including white) are thought to be derived from the game of croquet. Snooker was invented in 1884 by British Army officers stationed in India. Croquet reached its peak popularity at the same time, particularly amongst people in the same social context. The eight coloured balls of croquet use the same identical set of eight colours. There are many other similarities between | 48,944 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the wife of cartoon character Hagar the Horrible? | centers around Hägar's interactions with his longship crew, especially "Lucky Eddie" (when on voyages or during periodic sacking and looting raids). Sometimes the humor would be at the tavern with the other Vikings, or Hagar dealing with his family, who are not like stereotypical Vikings. Supporting characters include his overbearing, nagging and occasionally jealous wife, Helga; their brilliant and sensitive son, Hamlet; their pretty but domestically hopeless daughter, Honi; Helga's pet duck, Kvack; Hägar's loyal and clever dog, | , dating from 3600 to 3200 BC
- "Hägar the Horrible", a comic strip by Dik Browne as well as the name of its main character
- Hagar in Islam
- 682 Hagar, a presumed asteroid
- Hagar the Womb, an English punk rock band
See also.
- Haggar (disambiguation)
- Hager, surname
- Hagger, surname
- Hajar (disambiguation) | 48,945 | triviaqa-train |
Which duo had a Number Two hit in 1984 with Agadoo? | Agadoo
"Agadoo" is a novelty song recorded by the band Black Lace in 1984. "Agadoo" peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart, and spent 30 weeks in the top 75. It went on to become the eighth best-selling single of 1984 in the UK, (and over one million copies worldwide) despite not being included on the playlist for BBC Radio 1 because it "was not credible".
In a survey for dotmusic in 2000, respondents voted "Agadoo" as the | Superman" (X Rated Version) 3:44
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2. "Agadoo 206 Mix"
Charts.
Charts Chart performance.
Despite being banned on BBC Radio 1 because it "was not credible", the track proved to be a commercial hit. In the UK Singles Chart, "Agadoo" debuted at number 86 on 20 May 1984. The song didn't enter the top 40 until the end of July, then peaking at number 38. In | 48,946 | triviaqa-train |
Which city in the German state of Saxony has the largest population? | Saxony
Saxony (, ) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec, and Ústí nad Labem Regions). Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig.
Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of , and the sixth most populous, with 4 million people. | Thuringia
Thuringia () (), officially the Free State of Thuringia (; , ), is a state of Germany.
Thuringia is located in central Germany covering an area of and a population of 2.15 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest German state by area and the fifth smallest by population. Erfurt is the state capital and largest city, while other major cities include Jena, Gera, and Weimar. Thuringia is surrounded by the states of Bavaria, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony | 48,947 | triviaqa-train |
What is the capital city of the Italian region of Liguria? | Liguria
Liguria (, ; ; ) is a coastal region of north-western Italy; its capital is Genoa. The region almost coincides with the Italian Riviera and is popular with tourists for its beaches, towns, and cuisine.
Etymology.
The name "Liguria" predates Latin and is of obscure origin, however the Latin adjectives (as in ) and "Liguscus" reveal the original -sc- in the root ligusc-, which shortened to -s- and turned into -r- in the Latin name according to rhotacism. The | in Italy. At , its dimensions are comparable to the region of Liguria. Moreover, the city is also the capital of the Lazio region.
Government National government.
Rome is the national capital of Italy and is the seat of the Italian Government. The official residences of the President of the Italian Republic and the Italian Prime Minister, the seats of both houses of the Italian Parliament and that of the Italian Constitutional Court are located in the historic centre. The state ministries are spread out around the city; these include | 48,948 | triviaqa-train |
Who was found dead in the first episode of ‘East Enders’? | weeks, and as the Poodle was a similar size to an Alsatian, Roly got the part. Roly was made the property of the BBC, given an ID card, and taken to live with Julia Smith at her home in London. Roly and Willy the pug shared a dressing room at Elstree studios.
Tracey.
Tracey (known to fans as Tracey the barmaid) is played by Jane Slaughter. She has appeared as a background character since the first episode on 19 February 1985, where she is seen working | ] It really is classic ["East"]"Enders"." The source added, "Sadly it doesn't look like [Kat and Alfie will] be able to get over this one." "EastEnders" confirmed that viewers would discover the identity of Kat's lover in the episode broadcast on 20 December 2012. Daniel Kilkelly from "Digital Spy" said it would be a "dramatic climax" to the storyline. On being told who Kat's lover is, Richie said he understood and found it clever, though he | 48,949 | triviaqa-train |
What is the English name of Tintin’s dog? | Tintin (character)
Tintin (; ) is the titular protagonist of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is a reporter and adventurer who travels around the world with his dog Snowy. The character was created in 1929 and introduced in , a weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper . He appears as a young man, around 14 to 19 years old with a round face and quiff hairstyle. Tintin has a sharp intellect, can defend himself, and is honest, decent, | considering names for his new character, he asked his wife, Germaine, what she had cooked for dinner. She told him, “a sad English fish—haddock.” Hergé thought this was a perfect name for Tintin’s new mariner friend, and so Captain Haddock was born.
There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert Haddock had been the skipper of the famous White Star Line's passenger vessel "Olympic". He had also been temporarily at the | 48,950 | triviaqa-train |
The Guardian Fiction Prize was replaced in 1999 by the Guardian First Book award. Whose novel White Teeth was the second winner? | White Teeth
White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends—the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones—and their families in London. The novel is centred around Britain's relationships with people from formerly colonised countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
The book won multiple honours, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in category best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award | authors, and was also included in the 2013 list. She joined New York University's Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor on 1 September 2010. Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2006 and her novel "White Teeth" was included in "Time" magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
- "White Teeth": won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial | 48,951 | triviaqa-train |
Ray McAnally won a posthumous BAFTA in 1990 for his role as Paddy Brown in which film, his last, released the previous year? | Ray McAnally
Ray McAnally (30 March 1926 – 15 June 1989) was an Irish actor. He was the winner of four BAFTA awards in the late 1980s: twice for Best Supporting Actor (for "The Mission" in 1986 and "My Left Foot" in 1989), and twice for Best Actor in the television category (for "A Perfect Spy" in 1988 and "A Very British Coup" in 1989).
Background.
Ray McAnally was born in Buncrana, a seaside town located on | The lead role of "Bull" McCabe was to be played by former Abbey Theatre actor Ray McAnally. When McAnally died suddenly on 15 June 1989, Harris was offered the McCabe role. "The Field" was released in 1990 and earned Harris his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He lost to Jeremy Irons for "Reversal of Fortune".
In 1992, Harris had a supporting role in the film "Patriot Games", as a fundraiser for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). He had | 48,952 | triviaqa-train |
What is the hyphenated name of the lemur, Daubentonia madagascariensis, the world’s largest nocturnal primate? | species and six subspecies.
Extant species Family: Lepilemuridae.
Family Lepilemuridae consists solely of the sportive lemurs. As of 2014, there are 26 extant species.
Extant species Family: Indriidae.
Family Indriidae consists of the indri (the largest extant lemur), the woolly lemurs and the sifakas. There are 19 extant species.
Extant species Family: Daubentoniidae.
Family Daubentoniidae contains only one surviving species, of the aye-aye. Wide-ranging genetic studies have shown that it separated from the ancestral | Pygmy mouse lemur
Pygmy mouse lemur (Microcebus myoxinus), also known as Peters' mouse lemur or dormouse lemur, is a primate weighing only ; it is the second smallest of the mouse lemurs. Its dorsal side is a rufous-brown colour, and creamy-white ventrally. It lives in dry deciduous forests.
The pygmy mouse lemur measures around (head-body length). Its small size and nocturnal nature made it difficult to locate for over a century, and was rediscovered in the Kirindy forest in | 48,953 | triviaqa-train |
Who died in the Petersen House at 516 10th Street NW in Washington DC on April 15th 1865? | Petersen House
The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house located at 516 10th Street NW in Washington, D.C. On April 15, 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln died there after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre, located across the street. The house was built in 1849 by William A. Petersen, a German tailor. Future Vice-President John C. Breckinridge, a friend of the Lincoln family, once rented this house in 1852. In 1865, it served as a boarding house | was removed from office on June 20, 1874, just nine months after taking office.
Post-war life The Petersen House.
In 1878, Louis Schade helped to preserve a critical piece of American history.
William A. Petersen was a German immigrant and tailor, and in 1849 he constructed a four-story townhouse at 516 10th Street NW in Washington, D.C. The house was directly across the street from the First Baptist Church of Washington. The congregation sold its structure to John T. Ford in 1861, who turned | 48,954 | triviaqa-train |
The Russian port of Murmansk lies on Kola Bay, an inlet of which sea? | Kola Bay
Kola Bay () or Murmansk Fjord is a 57-km-long fjord of the Barents Sea that cuts into the northern part of the Kola Peninsula. It is up to 7 km wide and has a depth of 200 to 300 metres. The Tuloma and Kola Rivers discharge into the bay.
The eastern shore is craggy and precipitous, the western one is comparatively level. The ports of Murmansk and Severomorsk sit on the east side. Polyarny, the main base of Russia's Northern Fleet, is on | Arctic Bridge
The Arctic Bridge or Arctic Sea Bridge is a seasonal sea route approximately long linking Russia to Canada, specifically the Russian port of Murmansk to the Hudson Bay port of Churchill, Manitoba. Churchill is the only principal seaport on Canada's northern coast and has no road connections to the rest of Canada. It is the northern terminus of the Hudson Bay Railway and is a useful link in the export of grain from the Canadian Prairies to European markets. The port of Murmansk on the ice-free Kola Bay is | 48,955 | triviaqa-train |
Victoria Eugenie the daughter of Princess Beatrice married the King of which European country in 1906? | from Britain to set foot in Spain when she crossed the border for a brief visit. By April 1900, the Boer War was so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seemed inadvisable. Instead, the Queen went to Ireland for the first time since 1861, in part to acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war.
Later years Death and succession.
In July 1900, Victoria's second son Alfred ("Affie") died. "Oh, God! My poor darling Affie | Her Royal Highness" accordingly. Given at Our Court of Saint James's, the Third day of April 1906: in the Sixth Year of Our Reign. By His Majesty's Command. M Gladstone" Notice of this warrant was gazetted in the "London Gazette" which read: "Whitehall 3 April 1906. The KING has been graciously pleased to declare and ordain that His Majesty's niece, Her Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena, daughter of Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore (Princess Henry of Battenberg | 48,956 | triviaqa-train |
What is the two-letter postcode for addresses in Birkenhead and Wallasey? | higher ground now occupied by Wallasey was separated from the rest of Wirral by the creek known as Wallasey Pool (which later became the docks), the marshy areas of Bidston Moss and Leasowe, and sand dunes along the coast.
History Early history.
Historically in Cheshire, the area was sparsely populated before the 19th century. Horse races organised for the Earls of Derby on the sands at Leasowe in the 16th and 17th centuries are regarded as forerunners of the modern Derby.
Old maps show that the main centre and | .
Merseytravel owns and operates the Mersey Ferry service between Liverpool Pier Head, Seacombe in Wallasey and Woodside in Birkenhead. The fleet consists of two vessels: "Royal Iris of the Mersey" and "Snowdrop".
There are three transport tunnels under the River Mersey. The passenger transport executive is responsible for the two road vehicular tunnels under the River Mersey, one connecting Birkenhead to Liverpool city centre, the other, Wallasey, to the centre of Liverpool, and consequently it controls the Mersey Tunnels Police. The tunnel | 48,957 | triviaqa-train |
‘Seventy-Six Trombones’ is a song from which Meredith Wilson musical? | Seventy-Six Trombones
"Seventy-Six Trombones" is the signature song from the 1957 musical play "The Music Man" (1957), written by Meredith Willson. The song also appeared in the 1962 film and in the made-for-TV movie adaptation in 2003. The piece is also commonly played by marching and military bands. The song's opening lines are:
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand ...
Leroy Anderson wrote a popular | bell euphoniums, and "fifty mounted cannon" (which were popular in bands of the late 19th century).
The love ballad "Goodnight My Someone", which immediately precedes "Seventy-Six Trombones" in the musical, has the same tune but is played in 3/4 time at a slower tempo. At the end of the musical, lines from "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Goodnight My Someone" are sung in alternation with each other.
Homages.
In Willson's hometown of Mason City | 48,958 | triviaqa-train |
Who plays Yorick in the 1996 film version of ‘Hamlet’, played in flashback? | Edward Edwards in Bell's edition of Shakespeare's plays. It has since become a common subject. While Yorick normally only appears as the skull, there have been scattered portrayals of him as a living man, such as Philip Hermogenes Calderon's painting "The Young Lord Hamlet" (1868), which depicts him carrying the child Hamlet on his back, as if being ridden like a horse by the prince. He was portrayed by comedian Ken Dodd in a flashback during the gravedigging scene in Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film " | on stage in Liverpool in 1971; on television in the cameo role of 'The Tollmaster' in the 1987 "Doctor Who" story "Delta and the Bannermen"; as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in 1996; and as Mr. Mouse in the 1999 television movie adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland". Marking Dodd’s 90th birthday, a fulsome appreciation by "Guardian" theatre critic Michael Billington noted that “Ken has done just about everything: annual | 48,959 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek myth who was the father of Hector? | , or as found in Aeolic poetry, is also an epithet of Zeus in his capacity as 'he who holds [everything together]'. Hector's name could thus be taken to mean 'holding fast'.
Biography.
As the first-born son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, who was a descendant of Dardanus and Tros, the founder of Troy, he was a prince of the royal house and the heir apparent to his father's throne. He was married to Andromache, with whom he | Eioneus
In Greek mythology, Eioneus (Ancient Greek: Ἠιονεύς) is a name attributed to the following individuals:
- Eioneus, the Perrhaebian father of Dia, see Deioneus.
- Eioneus, the presumed mythological eponym of the Thracian city of Eion. This character was the father of Rhesus, according to Homer. One source identifies him with Strymon, who was more commonly known as father of Rhesus.
- Eioneus, a Greek warrior in the Trojan War who was killed by Hector using a sharp spear which | 48,960 | triviaqa-train |
In ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ what is the surname of the character with given names Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau, known as Patsy? | joined in her quest by magazine fashion director Patsy Stone (played by Joanna Lumley), her best friend and enabler, whose drug abuse, alcohol consumption and desperate promiscuity far eclipse Edina's comparatively mild self-destructive behaviour.
Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha), a sixth form pupil, university student and later aspiring writer whose constant care of her immature mother has left her a bitter cynic.
The series | elements of the show into the ninth season of her eponymous show "Roseanne", in which her character wins the lottery: Saunders and Lumley reprised their characters Edina and Patsy, and Mo Gaffney also appeared in the episode, but not as her character Bo. Two later American sitcoms, "Cybill" and "High Society", also adapted elements of "Absolutely Fabulous" for the American audience.
It was announced on 7 October 2008 that an American version of the series was in the works. The series was | 48,961 | triviaqa-train |
Which of The Canterbury Tales, the first, features cousins Arcite and Palamon and their pursuit of Emily? | , which at times ended in the death of the loser. The Knight's Tale shows how the brotherly love of two fellow knights turns into a deadly feud at the sight of a woman whom both idealise. To win her, both are willing to fight to the death. Chivalry was on the decline in Chaucer's day, and it is possible that The Knight's Tale was intended to show its flaws, although this is disputed. Chaucer himself had fought in the Hundred Years' War under Edward III, who heavily | dungeon from which they can see into a courtyard or garden. One day Palamon, looking through the bars of his cell, sees Emily. Falling in love instantly, Palamon cries out, causing Arcite to ask his friend what is wrong. Palamon declares his newfound love for Emily, and as Arcite listens, he sees Emily. Turning to Palamon, Arcite claims that because he first recognized her as mortal and not a goddess, Arcite has the right to woo Emily.
Later, one of Arcite's friends begs Theseus | 48,962 | triviaqa-train |
Where was the ship SS Great Britain from 1886 until 1970, when it was returned to Bristol? | to Australia from 1852 until being converted to all-sail in 1881. Three years later, she was retired to the Falkland Islands, where she was used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk until she was scuttled and sunk in 1937, 98 years since being laid down at the start of her construction.
In 1970, after "Great Britain" had lain under water and abandoned for 33 years half a world away, Sir Jack Arnold Hayward, OBE (1923-2015) paid for the vessel to | reiterate their determination to remain British and reject suggestions of sovereignty transfer.
- 1970: SS "Great Britain" is returned to Bristol for restoration.
- 1971: Communications agreement signed between Britain and Argentina. Air links to the islands are established by LADE, Argentina's military airline, Britain promises a supply ship from Montevideo but later reneges. Islanders travelling through Argentina are forced to carry Argentine Identity Cards rather than a British passport. Argentine Government agrees to suspend sovereignty claims whilst attempting to win the islanders over. | 48,963 | triviaqa-train |
Which African country has land borders with Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti? | Ethiopia
Ethiopia (; , , , Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ, Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (, , ), is a country in the northeastern part of Africa, known as the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somaliland and Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west and Sudan to the northwest. With over floor(/1e6) million inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country | the fledgling country since President Salva Kiir Mayardit cut off oil commerce with Sudan, the South has decided to invest in constructing pipelines that circumvent Sudan's, which it had been using until that time. These new pipelines would extend through Ethiopia to the ports of Djibouti, as well as to the southeast to the coast of Kenya. These collaborations could increase the likelihood of South Sudan joining the East African Federation at some point.
On 14 October 2013, the leaders of Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi began a meeting | 48,964 | triviaqa-train |
2 Willow Road is part of a terrace of three houses in Hampstead London designed by which architect with the same surname as a Bond villain – Ian Fleming was one of those who objected to the demolition of the previous properties on the site? | 2 Willow Road
2 Willow Road is part of a terrace of three houses in Hampstead, London designed by architect Ernő Goldfinger and completed in 1939. It has been managed by the National Trust since 1995 and is open to the public. It was one of the first Modernist buildings acquired by the Trust, giving rise to some controversy. Goldfinger lived there with his wife Ursula and their children until his death in 1987.
1–3 Willow Road was constructed using concrete and a facing of red brick. A number of cottages | were demolished to allow for the construction, which was strongly opposed by a number of local residents including novelist Ian Fleming (this was said to be his inspiration for the name of the James Bond villain Auric Goldfinger) and the future Conservative Home Secretary Henry Brooke. No. 2, which Goldfinger designed specifically as his own family home, is the largest of the three houses and features a spiral staircase designed by Danish engineer Ove Arup at its core. The building is supported by a concrete frame, part of which is external | 48,965 | triviaqa-train |
The International New York Times was known by what title until last October? | " and "The New York Times" as joint parent newspapers.
In 2002, The New York Times Company took control of the "International Herald Tribune", which was subtitled since then "The Global Edition of the New York Times". On October 15, 2013, the paper was renamed The International New York Times, and in October 2016, it was fully integrated with its parent and renamed "The New York Times International Edition". Autumn that year also saw the closing of editing and preproduction operations in | one of the last songs Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum wrote for "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". It remained untitled until art director Chris Bilheimer asked Mangum what to title the song in the liner notes; when Mangum told him to use either "Holland" or "1945", Bilheimer suggested combining the two.
Single release.
The single version of "Holland, 1945" was released in October 1998. It was the second single released by the band, and was the band's last official | 48,966 | triviaqa-train |
In which Australian state is one of the southern hemisphere's most remarkable sites, Ayers Rock? | Uluru
Uluru (, Pitjantjatjara: '), also known as Ayers Rock (, like "airs") and officially gazetted as UluruAyers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. It lies south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs.
Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area. The area around the formation is home to an abundance of springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed | Queensland Reds
The Queensland Reds is the rugby union team for the Australian state of Queensland that competes in the Southern Hemisphere's Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996 they were a representative team selected from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland. With the introduction of the professional Super 12 competition they moved to a model where players are contracted to the Reds through the Queensland Rugby Union rather than selected on the basis of club form.
From 1996 to 2005 they were one of three Australian teams competing in the Super 12 competition | 48,967 | triviaqa-train |
Britain's highest waterfall, Cauldron Snout, lies on a river that rises in the north Pennines. Which river? | Cauldron Snout
Cauldron Snout is a cascade on the upper reaches of the River Tees in Northern England, immediately below the dam of the Cow Green Reservoir. It is well upstream of the High Force waterfall, and is on the boundary between County Durham and Cumbria (historically Westmorland), England. The waterfall lies within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and European Geopark.
It is more a long cataract than a waterfall, and at long, reckoned to be the longest waterfall in England. | River Tame, Greater Manchester
The River Tame flows through Greater Manchester, England.
Sources.
The Tame rises on Denshaw Moor in Greater Manchester, close to the border with West Yorkshire but within the historic West Riding of Yorkshire.
Course.
Most of the river's catchment lies on the western flank of the Pennines. The named river starts as compensation flow (that is, a guaranteed minimum discharge) from Readycon Dean Reservoir in the moors above Denshaw. The source is a little further north, just | 48,968 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did France withdraw from NATO, and Indira Ghandi become Prime Minister of India? | two opposing sides of the Cold War.
Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective Soviet invasion – doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of France from NATO's military structure in 1966. In 1982 the newly democratic Spain joined the alliance.
The collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1989–1991 removed the "de facto" main adversary of NATO and caused | Republic (today Germany), France, India, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, United Arab Republic (today Egypt and Syria), and Yugoslavia. In 1957, the Soviet government sent her on an officially sanctioned trip to India to help to establish friendly diplomatic ties between the two countries. An exhibition was mounted at the end of her trip to showcase the paintings she'd created during her time in the country which was attended by then-Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi, who also | 48,969 | triviaqa-train |
Which year saw Castro create the communist state of Cuba, and Makarios elected President of the newly independent Cyprus? | Spanish–American War of 1898, when Cuba was occupied by the United States and gained nominal independence as a "de facto" United States protectorate in 1902. As a fragile republic, in 1940 Cuba attempted to strengthen its democratic system, but mounting political radicalization and social strife culminated in a coup and subsequent dictatorship under Fulgencio Batista in 1952. Open corruption and oppression under Batista's rule led to his ousting in January 1959 by the 26th of July Movement, which afterwards established communist rule under the leadership of Fidel Castro. | 13 amendments proposed by Makarios III
In 1963, Archbishop Makarios III, the elected president of the newly-independent Cyprus at the time, put forward a set of 13 proposed constitutional amendments intended; but as the president had stated, "to resolve constitutional deadlocks".
The Thirteen Amendments.
1. The right of veto of the President and the Vice-President of the Republic to be abolished.
2. The Vice-President of the Republic to deputise for or replace the President of the Republic in | 48,970 | triviaqa-train |
After failing to win his sixth Tour de France, who made up for his disappointment by winning the inaugural Olympic road time trial in 1996? | team and its sponsors. Eddy Merckx has worn the yellow jersey for 96 stages, which is more than any other rider in the history of the Tour de France. Four riders have won the general classification five times in their career: Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain.
Classifications Mountains classification.
The mountains classification is the second oldest jersey awarding classification in the Tour de France. The mountains classification was added to the Tour de France in the 1933 edition and was first won by Vicente Trueba | Europe Tour.
At the Dutch National Road Race Championships, Van Hummel was competing for the win all day. Koos Moerenhout escaped close to the end, but Van Hummel finished second by winning the sprint.
Van Hummel was selected to join the 2009 Tour de France, after his team received a wildcard. Van Hummel was the first one to leave in time trial in the first stage, and finished the time trial in the second-worst time. After the sixth stage, Van Hummel was ranked last in the | 48,971 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote 'Earthly Powers', a long and ambitious first- person novel, narrated by an octogenarian homosexual? | Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published in 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative" first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
On one level it is a parody of a "blockbuster" novel, with the 81-year-old hero, Kenneth Toomey (allegedly loosely based on British author W. Somerset Maugham) | is a "supple first-person" persona "punctuated with feisty asides and comic exaggerations".
"AAD" is narrated by Steven Richards Rojack, the novel's protagonist, in "an edgy, rococo style" that shows Mailer at the height of his narrative powers.
Andrew Gordon points out that the events of the novel unfold at a quick pace, compared to Mailer's prior works, writing "before we are five pages into the novel, Rojack has killed four Germans in a grotesque and graphically violent | 48,972 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the leading roles in both 'Rebel Without A Cause' and 'West Side Story'? | ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's "The Music Man". Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film adaptation, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George | Without a Cause." Here, she plays the role of a restless Puerto Rican girl on the West Side of Manhattan. She was to represent the "restlessness of American youth in the 1950s", expressed by youth gangs and juvenile delinquency, along with early rock and roll. Both films, he observes, were "modern allegories based on the 'Romeo and Juliet' theme, including private restlessness and public alienation. Where in "Rebel" she falls in love with the character played by James Dean, whose gang | 48,973 | triviaqa-train |
Which greenish-yellow gas was discovered by Humphry Davy in 1810? | bases.
Most of the chlorine oxoacids may be produced by exploiting these disproportionation reactions. Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) is highly reactive and quite unstable; its salts are mostly used for their bleaching and sterilising abilities. They are very strong oxidising agents, transferring an oxygen atom to most inorganic species. Chlorous acid (HOClO) is even more unstable and cannot be isolated or concentrated without decomposition: it is known from the decomposition of aqueous chlorine dioxide. However, sodium chlorite is a stable salt and is useful for bleaching | John Snell (priest)
John Snell (fl. 1430) was a Canon of Windsor from 1425 to 1431 and Archdeacon of London from 1422 to 1431.
Career.
He was appointed:
- Rector of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook 1416 - 1422
- King’s Almoner 1421
- Prebendary of Wildland in St Paul’s Cathedral 1426 - 1431
He was appointed to the fifth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1426, a position he held until 1431. | 48,974 | triviaqa-train |
'The Sea, The Sea' a 1978 novel about a theatre director and his childhood love, was by which authoress | The Sea, the Sea
The Sea, the Sea is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1978, it was her nineteenth novel. It won the 1978 Booker Prize.
Plot summary.
"The Sea, the Sea" is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Murdoch's novel exposes the motivations that drive her characters – the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. | Open Air Theatre Regent's Park. There he played Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" in 1958 and Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" the following year, rejoining the company in 1978 for such plays as "The Man of Destiny".
Writer and director.
Sharp was also a playwright. His stage version of the Thomas Love Peacock novel "Nightmare Abbey" was a big hit at the Westminster Theatre in 1952, opening there on 27 February. "Anthony Sharp's altogether delightful adaptation provided one of the | 48,975 | triviaqa-train |
Whose only UK chart-topping single was called 'Don't You Want Me'? | Don't You Want Me
"Don't You Want Me" is a single by British synthpop group The Human League, released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album "Dare" (1981). It is the band's best known and most commercially successful recording and was the 1981 Christmas number one in the UK, where it has since sold over 1,560,000 copies, making it the 23rd most successful single in UK Singles Chart history. It later topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 in | .
"Dare" earned considerable income for record labels Virgin and A&M; in Virgin's case, it gave the label the first chart-topping album since Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" in 1973. "Don't You Want Me" was the label's first ever chart-topping single. The success of "Dare" was responsible for saving the label from impending bankruptcy. A very grateful Richard Branson sent Philip Oakey a motorcycle as a thank you present, but Oakey had to return it as he could | 48,976 | triviaqa-train |
In football's European Championships, which was the first country to appear in two successive finals? | the form "UEFA Euro [year]"; this format has since been retroactively applied to earlier tournaments.
Prior to entering the tournament all teams other than the host nations (which qualify automatically) compete in a qualifying process. The championship winners until 2016 earn the opportunity to compete in the following FIFA Confederations Cup, but are not obliged to do so.
The 15 European Championship tournaments have been won by ten national teams: Germany and Spain each have won three titles, France has two titles, and Soviet | Magic 45 minutes
The magic 45 minutes describes the duration of one of the most rewarding sporting periods in the history of New Zealand during which four New Zealand rowing teams won gold medals in four successive finals to be the most successful country at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu, Japan.
2005 World Rowing Championships.
The success of the New Zealanders was the first time any country had won four golds at any world championships since the former East Germany in 1987, an achievement which prompted New Zealand's largest newspaper | 48,977 | triviaqa-train |
'School's Out' was the only UK number one single for whom? | School's Out (song)
"School's Out" is a 1972 song first recorded as the title track single of Alice Cooper's fifth album and written by the Alice Cooper band.
Inspiration and writing.
Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song when answering the question, "What's the greatest three minutes of your life?". Cooper said: "There's two times during the year. One is Christmas morning, when you're just getting ready to open the presents. The | to ban the video for "School's Out", although Whitehouse's campaign did not prevent the single also reaching number one in the UK. Cooper sent her a bunch of flowers in gratitude for the publicity. Meanwhile, British Labour Member of Parliament Leo Abse petitioned Home Secretary Reginald Maudling to have the group banned altogether from performing in the country.
In February 1973, "Billion Dollar Babies" was released worldwide and became the band's most commercially successful album, reaching No. 1 in both the US and UK | 48,978 | triviaqa-train |
Which of Dicken's' novels features 'Sir John and Edward Chester'? | Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. "Barnaby Rudge" was one of two novels (the other was "The Old Curiosity Shop") that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial "Master Humphrey's Clock". "Barnaby Rudge" is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780.
"Barnaby Rudge" was the fifth of Dickens' novels to be published. | to make some amends in a letter to one of Wilmot's sons.
Wilmot married (1) Elizabeth Emma, daughter of Caleb Hillier Parry in 1808 and (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Chester in 1819. There were sons and daughters of both marriages, including John's successor John and the clergyman Edward Revell Eardley-Wilmot. There is a monument in memory of Wilmot at Hobart, erected by public subscription.
Wilmot features as a main character in T.S.Flynn's historical novel "Part an Irishman: | 48,979 | triviaqa-train |
What large, South American rodent is sometimes known as the 'water hog'? | Capybara
The capybara ("Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris") is a mammal native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called chigüire, chigüiro (in Colombia and Venezuela) and carpincho, it is a member of the genus "Hydrochoerus", of which the only other extant member is the lesser capybara ("Hydrochoerus isthmius"). Its close relatives include guinea pigs and rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the agouti, the chinchilla, and the coypu. The capybara | Morgan's gerbil mouse
Morgan's gerbil mouse ("Eligmodontia morgani"), also known as the western Patagonian laucha, is a South American species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is named for J. P. Morgan, one of the sponsors of the expedition that first identified the species.
Description.
Morgan's gerbil mouse is a slender, mouse-like rodent with large ears and elongated hind feet. Adults measure from in total length, including a tail about long, and weigh from . Females are | 48,980 | triviaqa-train |
What nationality is reigning Olympic decathlon champion, Erki Nool? | Erki Nool
Erki Nool (born 25 June 1970 in Võru, Estonia) is an Estonian decathlete and politician.
Career.
Nool is a winner of the gold medal for decathlon in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Although Nool did not place first in any individual event, his total score was the highest. Nool won the title after the competition referee decided to over-rule a discus judge, who had red-flagged his last and only valid attempt due to alleged step-out. The reinstatement of | Ming (People's Republic of China), six-time Olympians and Star sailors Colin Beashel (Australia) and Torben Grael (Brazil), triple Olympic weightlifting champion Pyrros Dimas (Greece), show jumper Ludger Beerbaum (Germany), two-time Olympic sprint freestyle champion Alexander Popov (Russia), four-time rowing champion Elisabeta Lipă (Romania), decathlon champion Erki Nool (Estonia), and rings gymnast Jury Chechi (Italy).
List.
The following is a list of each country's | 48,981 | triviaqa-train |
The reigning Olympic 5000 metres champion is Mamo Wolde. What nationality is he? | Mamo Wolde
Degaga "Mamo" Wolde ({lang-amh| ማሞ ወልዴ}}; 12 June 1932 – 26 May 2002) was an Ethiopian long distance runner who competed in track, cross-country, and road running events. He was the winner of the marathon at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Early life.
Degaga was born on 12 June 1932 in Ada'a to an Oromo family. His younger brother, Demissie Wolde (b. 8 March 1937), also became an international distance running star. | Ian McCafferty
Ian John McCafferty (born 24 November 1944) is a Scottish former long-distance runner. He won the silver medal at the 1970 Commonwealth Games 5000 metres when he recorded a time of 13:23.34.
This was one of the greatest races of all time. Reigning European 5000 metres champion Ian Stewart set a new European record and the two Scots, moved up to second and third on the world all-time list. In the race McCafferty defeated the current world record holder Ron Clarke, and Olympic 1,500 | 48,982 | triviaqa-train |
"Which is the most northerly of America's ""Great Lakes""?" | Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River. They consist of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. Hydrologically, there are only four lakes, because Lakes Michigan and Huron join at the Straits of Mackinac. The lakes form | days a year. The land between Keswick and the lake consists mainly of fields and areas of woodland, including Isthmus Wood, Cockshot Wood, Castlehead Wood and Horseclose and Great Wood, further to the south. The River Derwent flows from Derwentwater to Bassenthwaite, the most northerly of the major Cumbrian lakes. The Derwent and its tributary the Greta, which flows through Keswick, meet to the east of Portinscale. The source of the Greta is near Threlkeld, at the confluence of the River Glenderamackin and St John's Beck. | 48,983 | triviaqa-train |
"Which of America's ""Great Lakes"" has the smallest surface area?" | Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River. They consist of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. Hydrologically, there are only four lakes, because Lakes Michigan and Huron join at the Straits of Mackinac. The lakes form | are high, Lake Blue and Lake Marianna also connect to the southern chain.
Hydrography.
Winter Haven and the chain of lakes sit at the headwaters of the Peace River basin. The southern chain has a total surface area of approximately . The largest lake in the southern chain is Lake Eloise, with a surface area of . The smallest lake in the southern chain is Spring Lake, with a surface area of .
Paleolimnological studies have shown that the chain of lakes should have naturally high levels of tannins, which | 48,984 | triviaqa-train |
William, Duke of Gloucester, was the only one of which monarch's twelve children to survive infancy? | Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Gloucester () is a British royal title (after Gloucester), often conferred on one of the sons of the reigning monarch. The first four creations were in the Peerage of England and the last in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; the current creation carries with it the subsidiary titles of Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden.
The title was first conferred on Thomas of Woodstock, the thirteenth child of King Edward III. The title became extinct at his death, as it did upon | 's sudden and unexpected death from smallpox in 1694, which made Anne heir apparent. In November 1699, William finally recommended that Parliament pay the mortgage debt to George, and in early 1700, the debt was honoured.
By 1700, Anne had been pregnant at least seventeen times; twelve times, she miscarried or gave birth to stillborn children, and two of their five children born alive died within a day. The only one of the couple's children to survive infancy—Prince William, Duke of Gloucester—died | 48,985 | triviaqa-train |
Which daughter of Laban and first wife of Jacob, bore him twelve sons? | Jacob
Jacob (; ; , "Iakṓb"), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites. According to the Book of Genesis, Jacob was the third Hebrew progenitor with whom God made a covenant. He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and Bethuel, the nephew of Ishmael, and the younger twin brother of Esau. Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens | Marudhar Kunwar, sister of Sumer Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur. She was about twelve years older than him and bore him two children, first a daughter, Prem Kumari and then his eldest son and heir, Bhawani Singh. His second wife was Maharani Kishore Kanwar, niece of his first wife and daughter of Maharaja Sumer Singh of Jodhpur. She was five years younger than him and bore him two sons. He was briefly involved with English socialite Lady Ursula Manners. In 1940, Man Singh II married for the third and | 48,986 | triviaqa-train |
Which sister of Lazarus and Mary gave Jesus hospitality at her home in Bethany? | Martha and Mary in the village; Zanecchia (La Palestine d'aujourd'hui, 1899, I, 445f.) places the site of the ancient village of Bethany higher up on the southeastern slope of the Mount of Olives, not far from the accepted site of Bethphage, and near that of the Ascension. It is quite certain that the present village formed about the traditional tomb of Lazarus, which is in a cave in the village... The site of the ancient village may not precisely coincide with the present one, but there is | However, the John 12, which names Mary, sister of Lazarus, as anointing the feet of Jesus at a dinner in his honour in her home, places it earlier, on the day before first Jesus' entry in Jerusalem (less than two miles from Bethany.
Significance.
Significance Prince of Peace.
Bethany was located east of Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives. states that the Messiah would come to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives:
The Golden gate is located in the north section of the east | 48,987 | triviaqa-train |
"In 1542, whose last words were supposedly, ""I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper""?" | received the title of "The King's Sister", two houses and a generous allowance. It was soon clear that Henry had fallen for the 17-year-old Catherine Howard, the Duke of Norfolk's niece, the politics of which worried Cromwell, for Norfolk was a political opponent.
Shortly after, the religious reformers (and protégés of Cromwell) Robert Barnes, William Jerome and Thomas Garret were burned as heretics. Cromwell, meanwhile, fell out of favour although it is unclear exactly why, for there is little | but I would rather have died the wife of Culpeper". However, no eyewitness accounts support this, instead reporting that she stuck to traditional final words, asking for forgiveness for her sins and acknowledging that she deserved to die 'a thousand deaths' for betraying the king, who had always treated her so graciously. This type of speech was typical of the speeches given by those executed during this period, most likely in an effort to protect their families, as the condemned's last words would be relayed to the King | 48,988 | triviaqa-train |
If the currency is the Peso, copper the major export and Valparaiso the major port, what is the country? | cm.
Production.
Most copper is mined or extracted as copper sulfides from large open pit mines in porphyry copper deposits that contain 0.4 to 1.0% copper. Sites include Chuquicamata, in Chile, Bingham Canyon Mine, in Utah, United States, and El Chino Mine, in New Mexico, United States. According to the British Geological Survey, in 2005, Chile was the top producer of copper with at least one-third of the world share followed by the United States, Indonesia and Peru. Copper can | Copper mining in Mongolia
Copper mining in Mongolia is a major industry and source of income for the country. There are only two companies that produce copper concentrate, Erdenet Mining Corporation, a Mongolian-Russian joint venture, and the Oyu Tolgoi mine, a joint venture between Rio Tinto Group, Turquoise Hill Resources, and the Government of Mongolia. Until 2010 copper was Mongolia's largest export.
Reserves.
Mongolia is ranked 12th in the world for copper reserves. The south Gobi Desert alone has an estimated of 35 | 48,989 | triviaqa-train |
In the film 'Die Hard', the last view of which actor, was of him falling from a tower block with a gun in his hand? | Die Hard
Die Hard is a 1988 American action thriller film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart, based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel "Nothing Lasts Forever". It was produced by the Gordon Company and Silver Pictures, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film follows off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) who is caught in a Los Angeles skyscraper during a heist led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman).
Made for $ | and, when falling, seizes an arrow of the tower clock. Petya blows in the horn which inexplicably appears in his hands, removes the bell from the city tower belfry and then shakes it in a manner of a hand bell. Then he proclaims: "The meeting of free Liliputiya I declare open!" and wakes up from the laughter of companions as he said the last phrase aloud.
Awards.
- 1934 — the 2nd International film festival in Venice, the award "For the Best Program" | 48,990 | triviaqa-train |
Which British driver has 31 Formula One victories, the most by a Briton? | stone into F1. GP2 was rebranded as the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017. Most champions from this level graduate into F1, but 2006 GP2 champion Lewis Hamilton became the first F2, F3000 or GP2 champion to win the Formula One driver's title in 2008. Drivers are not required to have competed at this level before entering Formula One. British F3 has supplied many F1 drivers, with champions, including Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna and Mika Häkkinen having moved straight from that series to Formula One. More rarely a driver | 15 seasons, with his final two full seasons of top-level racing being spent in the CART series. Mansell is the second most successful British Formula One driver of all time in terms of race wins with 31 victories, and is seventh overall on the Formula One race winners list behind Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Fernando Alonso. He held the record for the most poles set in a single season, which was broken in by Sebastian Vettel. He was rated in the | 48,991 | triviaqa-train |
The music key signature C Major has no sharps or flats. What is the equivalent minor key? | C major
C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, with the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common key signatures used in western music. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps. Its relative minor is A minor and its parallel minor is C minor.
The C major scale is:
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' { | C-flat major
C-flat major (or the key of C-flat) is a major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature has seven flats. The direct enharmonic equivalent of C-flat major is B major, a key signature with five sharps.
The C-flat major scale is:
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' {
/score | 48,992 | triviaqa-train |
Boggis, Bunce and Bean are three wealthy fanners who are the targets of the title character in which Roald Dahl novel filmed in 2009? | , and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters. His books champion the kindhearted, and feature an underlying warm sentiment. Dahl's works for children include "James and the Giant Peach", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Matilda", "The Witches", "Fantastic Mr Fox", "The BFG", "The Twits" and "George's Marvellous Medicine". His adult works include "Tales of | My Uncle Oswald
My Uncle Oswald is an adult novel written by Roald Dahl.
The novel stars Uncle Oswald, a character who previously appeared in "The Visitor" and "Bitch", two short stories also written by Roald Dahl (and which can be both found in the book "Switch Bitch"). Dahl's novel was published in 1979.
Plot summary.
Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, an extremely attractive and wealthy bounder, was the greatest fornicator of his time. In this instalment of his scorchingly | 48,993 | triviaqa-train |
Which salad plant has the scientific name Nasturtium officinale | Watercress
Watercress or yellowcress is an aquatic plant species with the botanical name Nasturtium officinale.
Watercress is a rapidly growing, aquatic or semi-aquatic, perennial plant native to Europe and Asia, and one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. It is a member of the family Brassicaceae; watercress and its relatives garden cress, mustard, radish, and wasabi are all noteworthy for their piquant flavors.
The hollow stems of watercress will float; the leaf structure is pinnately compound. Small, white and | , including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.
The study of this family is known as synantherology.
Etymology and pronunciation.
The name Asteraceae () comes to international scientific vocabulary from New Latin, from "Aster", the type genus, + "-aceae", a standardized suffix for plant family names in modern taxonomy. The genus name comes from the Classical Latin word , "star", which came | 48,994 | triviaqa-train |
Which European golfer was joint runner-up in the 2014 Open Golf Championship? | Els, Retief Goosen, Sergio García, Adam Scott and Colin Montgomerie. Two years later, at the start of 2008, the number of full European Tour members in the top 10 remained at five, namely Els, Justin Rose, Scott, Pádraig Harrington, and Vijay Singh. At the start of 2009, that number increased to seven—García, Harrington, Singh, Robert Karlsson, Henrik Stenson, Els, and Lee Westwood. At the start of 2010, that number went back to five, with Westwood, | Emily Kristine Pedersen
Emily Kristine Pedersen (born 7 March 1996) is a Danish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She had a successful amateur career winning the 2013 International European Ladies Amateur Championship and the 2014 British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship. Turning professional in early 2015 she had a successful first season, finishing runner-up in the Deloitte Ladies Open and the Lacoste Ladies Open de France before winning the Hero Women's Indian Open. She was named LET Rookie of the Year for 2015.
Amateur wins | 48,995 | triviaqa-train |
The Boys from Syracuse is a musical based on which Shakespeare play? | Haven, Connecticut and Boston. The show closed on June 10, 1939 after 235 performances. It starred Eddie Albert (Antipholus of Syracuse), Ronald Graham (Antipholus of Ephesus), Teddy Hart (Dromio of Ephesus), Jimmy Savo (Dromio of Syracuse), Muriel Angelus (Adriana) and Marcy Westcott (Luciana). Scenic and lighting design were by Jo Mielziner and costumes were by Irene Sharaff.
The show was revived Off-Broadway, opening at Theatre Four on April 15, 1963 and running for | (Turmoil in Ephesus) is also based on the play.
Adaptations Musicals.
The play has been adapted as a musical at least three times, first as "The Boys from Syracuse" with a score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, then in 1976 in a version by Trevor Nunn, scored by Guy Woolfenden, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, winning the Laurence Olivier Award for best musical on its transfer to the West End in 1977, and in 1981 as "Oh, Brother!" with a score by | 48,996 | triviaqa-train |
Which character was played by Peter Capaldi in the recent TV drama The Musketeers? | in "Maleficent" (2014), but his part in the latter movie was cut during post-production.
He starred in "Inside the Mind of Leonardo", a documentary about Leonardo da Vinci. In 2013 he portrayed Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian in "The Fifth Estate". In 2014 he starred in a new adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" as Cardinal Richelieu on BBC One.
He appeared as Paddington Bear's neighbour Mr. Curry in the family comedy film "Paddington" and | in the role of melancholy poet Thomas Janes recites the last four lines of the first stanza. At the end of the film after Janes drowns, the film reprises his recitation of the second and third lines of this section, but this time the film leaves the last line poignantly unspoken.
- In the second and final part of the 2011 BBC TV miniseries "The Field of Blood" the poem's second through ninth lines are recited from memory by character Dr. Pete, played by Peter Capaldi, in a pub as | 48,997 | triviaqa-train |
Cleopatra's Needle in London had stood in which Egyptian city since 12 BC | were already over a thousand years old in her lifetime. An earlier reference states Queen Cleopatra brought the London obelisk from Heliopolis to Alexandria shortly before the time of Christ for the purpose of decorating a new temple but it was never erected and lay buried in sand on the shore until presented to the British nation in 1819. The London and New York needles were originally made during the reign of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III. The Paris needle dates to the reign of the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II, and was the first | Cleopatra's Needle
Cleopatra's Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century. The obelisks in London and New York are a pair; the one in Paris is also part of a pair originally from a different site in Luxor, where its twin remains. Although all three needles are genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks, their shared nickname is a misnomer, as they have no connection with the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and | 48,998 | triviaqa-train |
In which month is the Feast of the Annunciation in the Christian church | "in the sixth month" of Elizabeth's pregnancy with John the Baptist. Many Christians observe this event with the Feast of the Annunciation on 25 March, an approximation of the northern vernal equinox nine full months before Christmas, the ceremonial birthday of Jesus.
The Annunciation is a key topic in Christian art in general, as well as in Marian art in the Catholic Church, particularly during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A work of art depicting the Annunciation is sometimes itself called an Annunciation.
Biblical account. | that the cathedral was also the site of a pre-Christian druidical sect who worshipped a "Virgin who will give birth" is purely a late-medieval invention.
By the end of the 12th century, the church had become one of the most important popular pilgrimage destinations in Europe. There were four great fairs which coincided with the main feast days of the Virgin Mary: the Presentation, the Annunciation, the Assumption and the Nativity. The fairs were held in the area administered by the cathedral and were attended by | 48,999 | triviaqa-train |
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