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Known as the 'City of Roses', which is the most populous city in the US state of Oregon? | Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. Today, at , Oregon is the ninth largest and, with a population of 4 million, 27th most populous U.S. state. The capital, Salem, is the second most populous city in Oregon, with 169,798 residents. Portland, with 647,805, ranks as the 26th among U.S. cities. The Portland metropolitan area, which also includes the city of Vancouver, Washington, to the north, ranks the 25th largest metro area in the nation, with a population of | Roseburg, Oregon
Roseburg is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is in the Umpqua River Valley in southern Oregon and is the county seat and most populous city of Douglas County. Founded in 1851, the population was 21,181 at the 2010 census, making it the principal city of the Roseburg, Oregon Micropolitan Statistical Area. The community developed along both sides of the South Umpqua River and is traversed by Interstate 5. Traditionally a lumber industry town, Roseburg is the original home of Roseburg Forest Products, which | 49,600 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the regular presenter on BBC Radio Two on Monday to Friday from 5.00pm to 7.00pm? | of that year's contest. Others include BBC Radio 2 Country covering the festival and BBC Radio 2 50s, a service dedicated to music programmes covering the 1950s.
During 2018 Radio 2 had numerous presenter reshuffles. In May, long-time Drivetime host Simon Mayo was joined by evening DJ Jo Whiley in a new Drivetime format. The move proved unpopular with listeners and by October 2018 Mayo revealed his intention to leave the station. Mayo and Whiley's last show together was broadcast on Thursday 20 December 2018, with Mayo | return to its two hour format from 5.00pm to 7.00pm. Jo Whiley follows Sara with a new early evening show, the specialist music programmes move to 9pm and Trevor Nelson replaces Sara Cox as presenter of the Monday to Thursday late show.
- Samantha Meah and Daz Hale succeed Alex Lester as presenters of BBC WM's breakfast show .
- 21 January –
- Chris Evans joins Virgin Radio to present the breakfast show, and in a first for a commercial radio breakfast show, the show does not carry adverts | 49,601 | triviaqa-train |
Which river forms most of the boundary between the US states of Oregon and Washington? | and the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north, was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital; the state's largest city is Seattle. Washington is often referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from the nation's capital, Washington, D.C..
Washington is the 18th largest state, with an area of 71,362 square miles (184,827 km), and the 13th most populous state, with more than 7.4 million people. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents | Progress, Oregon
Progress, Oregon is a neighborhood in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Originally an unincorporated community that stood apart from any city, most of Progress now lies within the city limits of either Tigard or Beaverton. Other nearby communities include Garden Home and Metzger.
Progress is located in the area surrounding the intersection of Oregon Route 217, Oregon Route 210 (Scholls Ferry Road), and the unsigned Oregon Route 141 (Hall Boulevard). Today, Scholls Ferry Road forms much of the boundary between | 49,602 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1994 film is based on the true life story of 'The Guildford Four'? | televised meeting with the brother of murdered soldier Brian Shaw, who continued to accuse him. He travelled to Colombia to attend the trial of the Colombia Three.
Gerry Conlon's autobiography "Proved Innocent" was adapted into the Oscar and Bafta award-nominated 1993 drama "In the Name of the Father", with Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson and Pete Postlethwaite. The film depicts Conlon's attempt to rebuild his shattered relationship with his father but is partly fictional, Conlon never shared a cell with his father. | Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story is a 1994 drama television film directed by Michael Dinner, written by Judson Klinger, and starring Peter Strauss, Rachel Ticotin and Lynn Whitfield. The film first aired on March 6, 1994 on the Columbia Broadcasting System. It is based on a true story of a Californian custody battle.
The film was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Four years after the film's release, main stars Peter Strauss and Rachel Ticotin married | 49,603 | triviaqa-train |
On which Scottish island is Goat Fell the highest point? | Goat Fell
Goat Fell (marked as Goatfell by the Ordnance Survey; Scottish Gaelic: Gaoda Bheinn) is the highest point on the Isle of Arran. At 874 metres (2,866 ft), it is one of four Corbetts on the island. The mountain, along with nearby Brodick Castle, is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
The name is believed to mean 'Goat Mountain' (from the Norse "geita").
Ascent.
Due to the popularity of "Scotland | restaurants, most notably Crofters, Douglas Bistro, Ormidale Bar, Brodick Bar and The Auchrannie Resort which has three restaurants and bars; Brambles - Seafood & Grill, Cruize - Bar/Brasserie and Eighteen69 - Scottish Tapas. Brodick is also home to Brodick Golf Club, which has 18 holes.
The high school, council offices, Highlands and Islands University Resource Centre and hospital can all be found in Lamlash, located three miles to the south.
The largest peak on the island, Goat Fell, overlooks the village | 49,604 | triviaqa-train |
How are 'Max Bialystock' and 'Leo Bloom' described in the title of a 1960's film ,later a stage musical? | The Producers (1967 film)
The Producers is a 1967 American satirical comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The film was Brooks's directorial debut, and he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Decades later, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry and placed eleventh on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. It was later adapted by Brooks and Thomas Meehan as a stage musical, which | how to make money from a failed play. In the 2005 film, after realizing his inner potential, Leo loudly asks "When's it gonna be Bloom's Day?" Hidden in the background of the office of Max Bialystock is a calendar marked for June 16, which is Bloomsday.
Former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters references Leopold Bloom in his song "" as sitting with Molly Malone.
It has also been suggested by Jeffrey Meyer in "Orwell's Apocalypse: "Coming Up For Air, Modern | 49,605 | triviaqa-train |
The capital city of which European country lies on the River Ljubljanica? | Ljubljanica
The Ljubljanica (), known in the Middle Ages as the "Sava", is a river in the southern part of the Ljubljana Basin in Slovenia. The capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, lies on the river. The Ljubljanica rises south of the town of Vrhnika and outflows in the Sava River about downstream from Ljubljana. Its largest affluent is the Mali Graben Canal. Including its source affluent the Little Ljubljanica (), the river is in length. The Little Ljubljanica joins the Big Ljubljanica () after and | a pond below the cliffs, and Little Močilnik Spring (), with a smaller flow, lies 50 m further north. They join together to form the Little Ljubljanica River (), which joins the Big Ljubljanica River () after about 1 km, forming the Ljubljanica. The water that surfaces at Močilnik Springs seeps into the ground at the Planina Karst Field and Logatec Karst Field. Not far from Močilnik Springs is Furlan Hot Springs (). It has a constant temperature of about 20 °C.
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Who was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945? | that a form of Anglo-Saxon was still being spoken, and not merely among uneducated peasants, into the thirteenth century in the West Midlands. This was J.R.R. Tolkien's major scholarly discovery when he studied a group of texts written in early Middle English called the Katherine Group, because they include the Life of St. Katherine (also, the Life of St. Margaret, the Life and the Passion of St. Juliana, Ancrene Wisse, and Hali Meithhad—these last two teaching how to be a good anchoress and arguing for the | Malcolm Godden
Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013.
From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge; he then continued with several postgraduate studies until 1969. In 1970 he obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University for a dissertation which was an edition of Ælfric's Second Series of "Catholic Homilies" under the supervision of | 49,607 | triviaqa-train |
Which musical features the song 'The Worst Pies In London'? | it later moved to Madrid. The show received over fifteen awards.
- 1997 Finnish National Opera, Helsinki
The 1997 Finnish National Opera production premiered on September 19, 1997.
Directed by Staffan Aspegren and starting Sauli Tiilikainen (Sweeney todd) and Ritva Auvinen (Mrs. Lovett). Translated by Juice Leskinen
- 2002 Kennedy Center production
As part of the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, "Sweeney Todd" ran from May 10, 2002 through June 30, 2002 at the Eisenhower Theatre, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell | Todd story Mrs. Lovett's past history is not stated, usually she is depicted as a childless widow, although in some depictions (but very rarely) Mr. Albert Lovett is shown. In Christopher Bond's play and Stephen Sondheim's musical, before she goes into business with Todd she is on the verge of poverty, with her premises being filthy and infested with vermin, and laments her pies are the worst ones in London. While she feels no remorse about having people killed and serving them as pies, she is sometimes | 49,608 | triviaqa-train |
In which t.v. series was 'George Cowley' the head of 'C15'. | The Professionals (TV series)
The Professionals is a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mark1 Productions for London Weekend Television (LWT) that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983. In all, 57 episodes were produced, filmed between 1977 and 1981. It starred Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and Gordon Jackson as agents of the fictional "CI5" (Criminal Intelligence 5, alluding to the real-life MI5).
"The Professionals" was created by Brian Clemens, who had | Idaho on July 23, 1899. His half-brother, Matthew Cowley (son of Matthias F. and Abbie Hyde Cowley), was also an apostle of the LDS Church. Prior to joining the FBI, Samuel Cowley attended Utah State Agricultural College and George Washington University Law School.
Role in the Dillinger manhunt.
In early 1934, Cowley was sent by J. Edgar Hoover (as head of the "Flying Squad") to Chicago specifically to aid the FBI pursuit of John Dillinger. The Chicago Agents initially resented | 49,609 | triviaqa-train |
Which socialist society was founded in London in January 1884? | in the first quarter of the 20th century. Inspired by medieval guilds, theorists such as [[Samuel George Hobson|Samuel G. Hobson]] and [[G. D. H. Cole]] advocated the public ownership of industries and their organisation into guilds, each of which would be under the democratic control of its trade union. Guild socialists were less inclined than Fabians to invest power in a state. At some point, like the American [[Knights of Labor]], guild socialism wanted to abolish the wage system. | Edinburgh University Socialist Society
Edinburgh University Socialist Society is a society at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland which advocates a "more just and equal society, based on democratic control of the economy".
The Society has existed in various forms since it was initially founded in 1884, stating in its manifesto: ""Utopia now: we can bring it about. The power is ours if we have the will"". One of the key founders of the society was Léo Meillet, who had been active in the | 49,610 | triviaqa-train |
Which country in 1930 became the fifth to play Test Cricket, not winning their first match until they beat the West Indies in 1956? | the 1945–46 season against New Zealand. Australia was by far the most successful team of the 1940s, being undefeated throughout the decade, winning two Ashes series against England and its first Test series against India. The team capitalised on its ageing stars Bradman, Sid Barnes, Bill Brown and Lindsay Hassett while new talent, including Ian Johnson, Don Tallon, Arthur Morris, Neil Harvey, Bill Johnston and the fast bowling pair of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, who all made their debut in the latter half of the 1940s, | List of international cricketers from Guyana
Guyana (previously known as British Guiana) is a South American country that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean and is one of the regions which make up the West Indies cricket team. It has produced international cricketers in all forms of the game—Tests, One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is). In 1928, against England, Maurice Fernandes became the first Guyanese player to represent the West Indies when he played in their inaugural Test match. In 1930 Fernandes | 49,611 | triviaqa-train |
Which current presenter of 'Today' on BBC Radio 4 joined the programme in 1987? | late 1970s. John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor joined the rotating list of presenters in 1986. Peter Hobday who had first broadcast on the programme in the 1950s was a regular presenter from the early 80s and a favourite with listeners because of his relaxed, urbane style.
By this time the programme was benefiting from publicity gained after it became known that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a regular listener. Ministers thus became keen to go on the programme, but the tough, confrontational interviewing they encountered led to accusations that the BBC was | and Drama from the University of Hull.
Career.
Murray joined BBC Radio Bristol in 1973 before becoming a reporter and presenter for local news programme "South Today". She was a newsreader and later one of the presenters of the BBC's "Newsnight" television programme for two years from 1983 before moving to Radio 4 to present the "Today" programme. She took over from Sue MacGregor as presenter of "Woman's Hour" in 1987. She has also presented Radio 4's "The Message" and | 49,612 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek myth who was the leader of the Titans, who overthrew his father Uranus and was then overthrown by his son Zeus? | who then fertilized her. From that union were born first the Titans—six males: Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus; and six females: Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Theia, Themis, and Tethys. After Cronus was born, Gaia and Uranus decreed no more Titans were to be born. They were followed by the one-eyed Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires or Hundred-Handed Ones, who were both thrown into Tartarus by Uranus. This made Gaia furious. Cronus ("the | as the address of the organization itself, so the MKCsBK's address has changed over the decades from country to country, even continent to continent. The central directors, in chronological order, were:
- Sergeant-Major Pál Jegenyés, 1947–48, Graz, Austria
- Col. vitéz Jenő Karsay, 1948–49, Graz, Austria
- Lt. General and former Commandant Lajos Folkusházy, 1950–58, Salzburg, Austria
- Col. vitéz Gyula Király, 1958–64, São Paulo, Brazil
- Capt. vitéz Károly | 49,613 | triviaqa-train |
'The Sarah Jane Adventures' was a spin-off from which t.v. programme? | second series for CBBC.
In December 2007, the BBC released a statement that Julie Gardner would be replaced by Piers Wenger as executive producer for "Doctor Who" in January 2009, but that she would continue to executive-produce "Torchwood" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures" through 2008.
The fourth series in 2010 was executive produced by Russell T Davies and Nikki Wilson, and the producers were Brian Minchin and frequent writer Phil Ford. During this series, Cyril Nri was introduced as a new recurring character | Song (Alex Kingston), a fellow time traveller with whom he shared a romantic storyline, and was the last Doctor to appear alongside the long-serving companion Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) prior to the actress' death, featuring in two episodes of the spin-off programme "The Sarah Jane Adventures".
Casting.
David Tennant announced at the National Television Awards on 29 October 2008 that he would be stepping down from portraying the Doctor because he felt that the four years he spent portraying the character | 49,614 | triviaqa-train |
Who won the 1952 Pulitzer Fiction Prize for 'The Caine Mutiny'? | The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny is the 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during Typhoon Cobra, in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot.
Plot summary | He won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel "The Caine Mutiny".
Notable alumni Performing arts and entertainment.
- Mason Adams was an actor best known for the TV series "Lou Grant" and his voice-over work in animation and commercials.
- Army Archerd ('37) was a columnist and blogger for "Variety" (1953–2009).
- Irving Caesar ('10) was a lyricist whose works include: "Swanee," and "Tea for Two". He | 49,615 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of the novelty song by 'Black Lace' which reached number two in 1984? | 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 | on 21 October 1984 and hitting a peak of number 9 in its sixth week. The song fell out the chart quite abruptly, falling 25 places to number 44 in its final appearance in the chart before falling out completely. In the French Singles Chart, the song peaked at number 48 in its first and only week on 17 November 1984.
Parodies and derivative versions.
Black Lace themselves recorded an X-rated version of the song entitled "Have a Screw", which was written by Black Lace members Alan | 49,616 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the son of Darius and King of Persia from 486 to 465 BC? | soldiers led by Miltiades.
The defeat at Marathon marked the end of the first Persian invasion of Greece. Darius began preparations for a second force which he would command, instead of his generals; however, before the preparations were complete, Darius died, thus leaving the task to his son Xerxes.
Family.
Darius was the son of Hystaspes and the grandson of Arsames. Both men belonged to the Achaemenid tribe and were still alive when Darius ascended the throne. Darius justifies his ascension to the throne with his | of Criminal Responsibilities of Minors”
Court organization Jurisdictional Penitentiary surveillance courts.
Oversee penitentiary conditions for criminals and establish penitentiary degrees or conditional freedom.
Court organization Constitutional Court.
The Constitutional Court is usually not considered part of the judiciary, but as an independent branch of the state responsible for interpretation of the constitution. Despite this, its functionality and activities are usually similar to those of the rest of the judiciary.
Officers of the court.
Officers of the court Judges and magistrates.
The Spanish Judiciary is a professional judiciary | 49,617 | triviaqa-train |
What name is given to Scottish mountains which are over 3000 feet? | ) in height, so qualifying as Munros. Ben Nevis exceeds 1,300 metres (4,265 ft). To the south, Glen Coe has many notable mountains, such as Buachaille Etive Mòr and Bidean nam Bian, both of which are Munros. There is also a famous ridge walk, the Aonach Eagach, on the opposite side of the glen. The ridge is one of the most popular scrambles in the entire country, being a craggy arête with few escape routes.
The Grampians, extend southwest to northeast between the Highland | inland and covered much of the Simi Valley, leaving only tips of various mountains visible. Among the evidence for this has been the deposit of 1500–3000 feet of marine sediment in northern Simi Valley, in approximate alignment with what is now Tapo Canyon. Tapo Canyon, which name derives from the Chumashan-Ventureño "Ta’apu", was the largest amongst the three Chumash villages in the Simi Valley, along with Kimishax and Shimiyi (which gave Simi Valley its name). The Chumash village of Ta’apu, which was situated next to | 49,618 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is the Sepang motor racing circuit? | Sepang International Circuit
The Sepang International Circuit () is a motorsport race track in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located approximately south of Kuala Lumpur, and close to Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It hosted the Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix between 1999 and 2017, and is also the venue for the Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix, the Malaysia Merdeka Endurance Race and other major motorsport events.
History.
The circuit was designed by German designer Hermann Tilke, who would subsequently design F1 venues in Shanghai, Sakhir, | in total) rendered it unsuitable for Formula One. Sentul has been used for the Superbike World Championship between 1994 and 1997 and the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix in 1996 and 1997.
The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis worsened the situation and made motor racing an unaffordable luxury for many Indonesian enthusiasts who had been participating. The facility has also come to be overshadowed by the Sepang International Circuit, built in 1999, which possessed a superior track layout and facilities.
In the mid-2000s, the circuit held two rounds of | 49,619 | triviaqa-train |
Who painted 'The Light Of The World', the original being in Keble College, Oxford? | The Light of the World (painting)
The Light of the World (1851–53) is an allegorical painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me". According to Hunt | , 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Rossall School and the United Services College. He attended university at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1913, and MA in 1919 after his interval for military service.
At the start of World War I, he entered the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and served with them through the war, being mentioned in despatches and awarded the DSO in 1917. At the rank of Captain he transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers in 1919. He was promoted Major | 49,620 | triviaqa-train |
Xerxes led the Persian forces at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. His enemy was an alliance of the Greek city-states led by Leonidas. Of which city-state was he king? | and useful Persian allies. Macedonian soldiers fought against Athens and Sparta in Xerxes' army. The Persians referred to both Greeks and Macedonians as "Yauna" ("Ionians", their term for "Greeks"), and to Macedonians specifically as "Yaunã Takabara" or "Greeks with hats that look like shields", possibly referring to the Macedonian kausia hat.
By the 5th century BC the Kings of Persia were either ruling over or had subordinated territories encompassing not just all of the Persian Plateau and all of the | Last Stand of the 300
Last Stand of the 300 is a TV documentary/reenactment which premièred on The History Channel in 2007. It was directed by David Padrusch known for directing projects such as "Journey to 10,000 BC" (2008) and "" (2006) for the History Channel.
Synopsis.
In 480 B.C, during the Greco-Persian Wars the Persian Empire led by Xerxes I of Persia fought the Greek city-states forces at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. This battle was | 49,621 | triviaqa-train |
At which circuit in Italy was the San Marino Grand Prix staged? | take place there. Instead, it was held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in the Italian town of Imola, about northwest of San Marino. This international event was removed from the calendar in 2007.
The San Marino and Rimini's Coast motorcycle Grand Prix was reinstated in the schedule in 2007 and takes place at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, as does San Marino's round of the World Superbike Championship.
San Marino has a professional baseball team which plays in Italy's top division. It has participated | . After finishing third in the first race of the season, Alesi injured his back after a testing accident at Mugello circuit in Italy after the first race of the season (Brazil) and was replaced in the Pacific Grand Prix and the San Marino Grand Prix by Nicola Larini. He returned with a fifth place in Monaco and finished a strong third in Canada, but almost lost the position at the end of the race due to a gearbox problem. He retired in the French Grand Prix due to a collision with Rubens Barrichello | 49,622 | triviaqa-train |
Which Pre-Raphaelite painted 'Ophelia', which can be seen in Tate Britain? | the world (only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth). More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. Works in the permanent Tate collection, which may be on display at Tate Britain include:
Statue of Millais.
When the Pre-Raphaelite painter and President of the Royal Academy, John Everett Millais, died in 1896, the Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VII) chaired a memorial committee, which commissioned a statue of | century to a wider audience, but the general opinion of Victorian art remained low.
In the 1960s some aspects of Victorian art became popular in the 1960s counterculture, as Pre-Raphaelitism in particular began to be seen as a precursor of Pop art and other contemporary trends. A series of exhibitions on individual Pre-Raphaelite and PRB-influenced artists in the 1960s and 1970s further boosted their reputation, and a major exhibition in 1984 at what was then the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) showcasing the entire Pre- | 49,623 | triviaqa-train |
Elgar's Second Symphony was dedicated to the memory of which king? | his friend Dora Penny, "I've got a tune that will knock 'em – will knock 'em flat". When the first march was played in 1901 at a London Promenade Concert, it was conducted by Henry J. Wood, who later wrote that the audience "rose and yelled ... the one and only time in the history of the Promenade concerts that an orchestral item was accorded a double encore." To mark the coronation of Edward VII, Elgar was commissioned to set A. C. Benson's "Coronation Ode" | .
The dedication reads:
The more personal nature of this work, however, is clear in a letter to friend and close correspondent Alice Stuart-Wortley, in which Elgar states:
Composition and influences.
These remarks, recounted by Elgar's friend Charles Sanford Terry, shed light on Elgar's creative process. Some sketches of the Symphony No. 2 date back to 1903, a letter from October of that year indicating an idea for a symphony in E-flat major to be dedicated to his friend | 49,624 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of the BBC Radio 4 early evening programme similar to 'Today'? | with news bulletins, including the hourly summaries and longer programmes such as the "Six O'Clock News" and "Midnight News", and news programmes such as "Today", "The World at One" and "PM", which by early 2013 had returned to Broadcasting House after 15 years at BBC Television Centre in White City. The news returning to Broadcasting House has also meant that newsreaders can provide cover for continuity, which regularly occurs at 23:00 each night and 16:00 on a Sunday. This has reduced the total | a gradual reduction of regional radio programmes (covering both the North West and Yorkshire areas from the Holme Moss transmitter) on what had now become BBC Radio 4. The last regional programme to be aired on Radio 4 North was an early-evening news opt-out on Friday 12 September 1980. Regional output for the North West would later resurface on the BBC's local radio stations in the evening and late night time slots.
The BBC has never produced radio services for the Isle of Man although national BBC radio is | 49,625 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek myth who was the Titan of memory and remembrance, and mother of the nine Muses? | who then fertilized her. From that union were born first the Titans—six males: Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus; and six females: Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Theia, Themis, and Tethys. After Cronus was born, Gaia and Uranus decreed no more Titans were to be born. They were followed by the one-eyed Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires or Hundred-Handed Ones, who were both thrown into Tartarus by Uranus. This made Gaia furious. Cronus ("the | to replace a matriarchy. According to this myth, in Greek mythology, Zeus is said to have swallowed his pregnant lover, the titan goddess Metis, who was carrying their daughter, Athena. The mother and child created havoc inside Zeus. Either Hermes or Hephaestus split Zeus's head, allowing Athena, in full battle armor, to burst forth from his forehead. Athena was thus described as being "born" from Zeus. The outcome pleased Zeus as it didn't fulfill the prophecy of Themis which (according to Aeschylus | 49,626 | triviaqa-train |
Which ballerina who defected to the West in 1970 won a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in 'On Your Toes' in 1983? | members, Natalia Makarova, was injured during the preview at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Valentina Kozlova filled in the role and her former husband, Leonid Kozlov, replaced George de la Peña to complete the previews. After seven previews, the revival opened on March 6, 1983 at the Virginia Theatre with the original cast, where it ran for 505 performances. The cast included Natalia Makarova, Christine Andreas, George de la Peña, George S. Irving, Dina Merrill, Philip Arthur Ross, Betty Ann Grove | Award – "On Your Toes" (Broadway)
- 1983 – Stanislavsky Award – "On Your Toes" (Broadway)
- 1984 – Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical – "On Your Toes", London
- 1985 – London Evening Standard Award – for the Best Performance of 1985 in the ballet "Onegin". Presented on stage by Princess Diana after Makarova's performance of "Onegin" in 1986, London
- 1986 – Emmy Award Nomination for "Ballerina" a 4 Part | 49,627 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the mother of t.v. presenter Rebecca Wilcox? | Rebecca Wilcox
Rebecca Wilcox (born 10 January 1980) is an English television presenter, mainly for the BBC.
Early life.
The middle of three children born to journalist and television presenter Esther Rantzen and producer Desmond Wilcox, she has an older sister, Emily, and younger brother, Josh. Wilcox was educated at Queen's College, London and Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in English Language and Literature.
Career.
Wilcox started as a television researcher, and then became an | Braden's Week' and Man Alive during the 1960s and 70s, and she later had a consumer spot on BBC Breakfast Time in the 1980s, but she is best known both as the main presenter on That's Life! from 1973 until 1994, and for having set up Childline in 1986. She was married to fellow-journalist Desmond Wilcox and is the mother of the actress Rebecca Wilcox.
- Adam Raphael - presenter on Newsnight from 1987 until 1988. He is best known as a newspaper journalist, working on | 49,628 | triviaqa-train |
Who won the 1948 Pulitzer Fiction Prize for 'Tales Of The South Pacific'? | Tales of the South Pacific
Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of sequentially related short stories by James A. Michener about the Pacific campaign in World War II. The stories are based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands (now known as Vanuatu).
Written in 1946 and published in 1947, the book was adapted in 1949 as the Broadway musical "South Pacific" and subsequently as | Tales of the South Pacific", won Michener the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
"Tales of the South Pacific" comprises nineteen stories. Each stands independently but revolves around the preparation for an American military operation to dislodge the Japanese from a nearby island. This operation, dubbed "Alligator", occurs in the penultimate story, "The Landing at Kuralei". Many of the characters die in that battle, and the last story is titled "The Cemetery at Huga Point". The stories are thematically linked in | 49,629 | triviaqa-train |
Lake Managua is a large lake in which Central American country? | became the first of Central America's seven states to become independent autonomous countries, followed by El Salvador in 1841, Panama in 1903 and Belize in 1981. Despite the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Central America, there is anecdotal evidence that demonstrates that Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Costa Ricans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Panamanians and Belizeans continue to maintain a Central American identity. For instance, Central Americans sometimes refer to their nations as if they were provinces of a Central American state. It is not unusual to write "C.A." | proximity to the cities of Managua and Masaya.
- Coast of Lake Managua: This ecosystem is made up of lands located on the coastline of Lake Managua. The main uses of these soils are extensive grazing and cultivation of vegetables in summer, for which the land is very fertile, because during the winter season these lands remain flooded accumulating large amount of moisture. These soils are completely flooded during the rainy season, because they are poorly drained soils with high salinity levels. This problem is compounded by the loss of forest | 49,630 | triviaqa-train |
Who founded a model village on the River Aire near Bradford in 1851? | Giles Gilbert Scott. Titus Salt built a model village at Saltaire. Henry Ripley, owner of Bowling Dyeworks, began construction of Ripley Ville in Bradford in 1866. Industrial communities were established at Price's Village by Price's Patent Candle Company and at Aintree by Hartley's who made jam in 1888. William Lever's Port Sunlight had a village green and its houses espoused an idealised rural vernacular style. Quaker industrialists, George Cadbury and Rowntrees built model villages by their factories. Cadbury built Bournville between 1898 and 1905 and a second | the site. The buildings belonging to the model village are individually listed, with the highest level of protection given to the Congregational church (since 1972 Saltaire United Reformed Church) which is listed grade I. The village has survived remarkably complete, but further protection is needed as the village is blighted by traffic through the Aire Valley, an important east-west route. A bypass is proposed to relieve traffic pressure. Roberts Park, on the north side of the river, suffered from neglect and vandalism but has been restored by Bradford | 49,631 | triviaqa-train |
Hepatitis affects which part of the body? | another important cause of hepatitis; these are the most common causes of drug-induced hepatitis in Korea. The United-States-based Drug Induced Liver Injury Network linked more than 16% of cases of hepatotoxicity to herbal and dietary supplements. In the United States, herbal and dietary supplements – unlike pharmaceutical drugs – are unregulated by the Food and Drug Administration. However, the National Institutes of Health maintains the LiverTox database for consumers to track all known prescription and non-prescription compounds associated with liver injury.
Exposure to | infected by the virus.
Background about Hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C affects 170 million people around the world which includes 1.4 million people living in the U.S. Most of the people infected with this virus live in third-world countries which often tend to have poor sterilization of medical equipment, a common source of HCV infection. Education also plays a big part as a vast majority of people don’t have access to the information about the virus, how it spreads and infects11. Hepatitis C can enter human body through many ways which | 49,632 | triviaqa-train |
'Entomology' is the study of what? | Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
- Pakistan Museum of Natural History Garden Avenue, Shakarparian, Islamabad, Pakistan
Museum of World Insects and Natural wonders
Museums Africa.
- Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Museums Europe.
- Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France
- Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
- Natural History Museum, Budapest Hungarian Natural History Museum
- Natural History Museum, Geneva
- Natural | A few days later, an article was published in "Fortune Magazine" with the title, "What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths". Professor of entomology at Penn State University James Frazier, who was researching the sublethal impact of pesticides on bees, said that while Bromenshenk's study generated some useful data, Bromenshenk has a conflict of interest as CEO of a company developing scanners to diagnose bee diseases. A few months later, the methods used to interpret the mass spectrometry | 49,633 | triviaqa-train |
Where was Thomas Becket murdered? | Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.
Sources.
The main sources for the life of Becket are a number of biographies written by contemporaries. A few of these documents are by unknown writers, although traditional historiography has given them names. The known biographers are John of Salisbury, Edward Grim, Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fitzStephen, Guernes of Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Robert of Cricklade, Alan of Tewkesbury, Benet of St Albans, and Herbert of | Robert of Cricklade
Robert of Cricklade (–1174×79) was a medieval English writer and prior of St Frideswide's Priory in Oxford. He was a native of Cricklade and taught before becoming a cleric. He wrote a number of theological works as well as a lost biography of Thomas Becket, the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury.
Life.
Robert was from Cricklade in Wiltshire, and was of Anglo-Saxon descent. At some point he taught in the schools, where he was called "master" for his learning | 49,634 | triviaqa-train |
George A Custer died in which battle? | . They advanced a mile, to what is today Weir Ridge or Weir Point, and could see in the distance native warriors on horseback shooting at objects on the ground. By this time, roughly 5:25 pm, Custer's battle may have concluded. The conventional historical understanding is that what Weir witnessed was most likely warriors killing the wounded soldiers and shooting at dead bodies on the "Last Stand Hill" at the northern end of the Custer battlefield. Some contemporary historians have suggested instead that what Weir witnessed was a fight | A. Custer and died with his brother on June 25, 1876. Lt. Henry Harrington actually led Company C during the battle. George and Thomas' younger brother, Boston Custer, also died in the fighting, as did other Custer relatives and friends. It was widely rumored that Rain-in-the-Face, who had escaped from captivity and participated at the Little Bighorn, cut out Tom Custer's heart after the battle. The chief denied it later during an interview. Custer's corpse was so badly mutilated | 49,635 | triviaqa-train |
Florence Nightingale became famous in which war? | -race nurse from Jamaica, who also cared for soldiers in the Crimean War. Seacole claimed that associates of Nightingale rebuffed her attempts to work with the English nurse and her contingent, an allegation Nightingale admitted to, stating, “Anyone who employs Mrs Seacole will introduce much kindness – also much drunkenness and improper conduct”. Nightingale also questioned Seacole's morals, and the parentage of her daughter.
Crimean War The Lady with the Lamp.
During the Crimean war, Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp | and the squalor of the hospital--focuses the viewer's attentions on what the real battles were. Honorable mention should be given to Lewthwaite's editing of the war sequences."; while Leonard Maltin also gave the film three out of four stars, noting a "Methodical recreation of 19th- century nurse-crusader Florence Nightingale, tastefully enacted by Neagle."; while "Variety" observed, "Anna Neagle adds another portrait to her screen gallery of famous women. Her characterization of Florence Nightingale is a sincerely moving study... | 49,636 | triviaqa-train |
Born Lucille Fay LeSueur, by what name was she better known? | Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, c. 1904 – May 10, 1977) was an American film and television actress who began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway. Crawford then signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925; her career would span decades, studios and controversies. In 1999 The American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
In the | Nicoletta (singer)
Nicoletta Grisoni, longer name Nicole Fernande Grisoni-Chappuis, better known by her mononym Nicoletta (born 11 April 1944 in Vongy, now known as Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France) is a French pop singer. Becoming very popular on French radio and television, where she had a number of hits in the 1960s and the 1970s, she was considered as part of what is known as the French yé-yé generation heavily influenced by American music, particularly Rhythm and blues | 49,637 | triviaqa-train |
In the film 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' What character was played by Bob Hoskins? | unable to reach it, he starts crying like a baby (albeit with his voice still sounding like a middle-aged man).
Benny the Cab is a taxi cab that services the Los Angeles area. He is voiced in all appearances by Charles Fleischer. In the original story, "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?", a different character named Bennie is an insect who deals in second-hand items at the junkyard. The character was expanded for the film, as an anthropomorphized colorful yellow Volkswagen Beetle-style | ) and Disney's "The Jungle Book 2" (2003). A long-discussed but never completed project was a film titled "The Three Bears"; originally meant to star Collins, Danny DeVito, and Bob Hoskins. He often mentioned the film, though an appropriate script never materialised.
Collins's music is featured in the satirical black comedy film "American Psycho", with psychotic lead character Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale) portrayed as an obsessive fan who reads deep meaning into his work, | 49,638 | triviaqa-train |
In 1961 Marilyn Monroe and Clarke Gable both made their final movie. What was the name of the film? | "Some Like It Hot" (1959), a critical and commercial success. Her last completed film was the drama "The Misfits" (1961).
Monroe's troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. Her second and third marriages, to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, were highly publicized and both ended in divorce. On August 4, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles | State University, Los Angeles. He wrote six novels, one of which, 1959's "Ada Dallas" was made into the 1961 film "Ada". His 1965 novel "The Trojans", a roman a clef about the movie industry loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe and the debacle of the 1963 movie "Cleopatra", became a best seller, selling over a million copies.
Both "Ada Dallas" and "The Far Side", his 1972 roman à clef novel loosely based on the | 49,639 | triviaqa-train |
What character did Dustin Hoffman play in 'The Graduate'? | that Hoffman represented "a new generation of actors." He credits Hoffman with breaking "the mold of the traditional movie star and brought to their roles a new candor, ethnicity, and eagerness to dive deep into complex, even unlikable characters." Nixon expands on the significance of the film to Hoffman's career: "In "The Graduate", he created a lasting resonance as Ben Braddock that made him an overnight sensation and set him on the road to becoming one of our biggest stars and most respected actors. | what he is hearing and is unable to locate the man in the hospital, whereupon Teach angrily turns on Bobby.
Cast.
- Dustin Hoffman as Teach
- Dennis Franz as Donny
- Sean Nelson as Bobby
Production.
Al Pacino, who originated the role of Teach on Broadway, was the first choice to play the role in the adaptation; however, Pacino did not respond in a timely fashion so Corrente offered the role to Dustin Hoffman. The film was shot on location in Pawtucket, Rhode | 49,640 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the songs for the classic film 'Oklahoma'? | overture was also altered, at the request of Nunn.
The production received numerous Olivier Award nominations, winning for Outstanding Musical Production, supporting actor (Hensley), set design (Anthony Ward) and choreography (Stroman). According to the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, the limited engagement was a sell-out and broke all previous box office records, and so the show was transferred to the Lyceum Theatre in the West End for a six-month run. Plans to transfer to Broadway with the London cast were thwarted | full swing during the first half of the 1930s, the team sought greener pastures in Hollywood. The hardworking Rodgers later regretted these relatively fallow years, but he and Hart did write some classic songs and film scores while out west, including "Love Me Tonight" (1932) (directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who would later direct Rodgers's "Oklahoma!" on Broadway), which introduced three standards: "Lover", "Mimi", and "Isn't It Romantic?". Rodgers also wrote a melody | 49,641 | triviaqa-train |
Alfred Hitchcock made this movie twice, the first time in 1934 and again in 1956. What's the film ? | two "Film Weekly" scholarship winners. "An Elastic Affair" is one of the lost films.
In 1933 Hitchcock was once again working for Michael Balcon at Gaumont-British. His first film for the company, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934), was a success; his second, "The 39 Steps" (1935), was acclaimed in the UK and made Hitchcock a star in the US. It also established the quintessential English "Hitchcock blonde" (Madeleine Carroll) as | 5383 Leavitt, asteroid, Solar System
Places associated with the Levett family.
These places are or were associated with the Levett family:
In media.
- Levett was the name given by Alfred Hitchcock to the villain in his first film, "The Pleasure Garden", a 1925 silent movie
- Geoffrey Levett is the male lead character in Margery Allingham's novel, "The Tiger in the Smoke" (made into a 1956 British film of the same name)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, | 49,642 | triviaqa-train |
Who played 'Gertie' in the film 'E.T.'? | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison. It features special effects by Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren, and stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Pat Welsh. It tells the story of Elliott (Thomas), a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed "E.T.", who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help E.T. return to his | -star, to which she merely laughed and was hired for the job. After her film debut with a small role in "Altered States" (1980), she played Gertie in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), directed by Steven Spielberg. He felt that she had the right imagination for her role after she impressed him with a story that she led a punk rock band. "E.T." is the highest-grossing film of the 1980s and made her one of the most famous child actors | 49,643 | triviaqa-train |
What famous cartoon character made his debut in the film 'Steamboat Willy'? | Steamboat Willie
Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie, although both the characters appeared several months earlier in a test screening of "Plane Crazy". "Steamboat Willie" was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but was the first to be distributed because Walt Disney, having seen | direct-to-video film, "Beethoven's Christmas Adventure". The same plot was used in another animated series "Free Willy", where the main character also could talk. Some of the music was used for the DIC cartoon, "What-a-Mess".
Voice cast.
- Dean Jones – George Newton
- J.D. Daniels – Ted Newton
- Bill Fagerbakke – Caesar the Great Dane
- Brian George – Mr. Huggs
- Tress MacNeille – Ginger the Collie
- Joel | 49,644 | triviaqa-train |
Which actress took the lead roll in the 1988 film 'Working Girl'? | Melanie Griffith
Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American film, stage, and television actress, and film producer. She began her career in the 1970s, appearing in several independent thriller films before achieving mainstream success in the mid-1980s.
Born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age sixteen. In 1975, a then seventeen-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene | Hackman in Arthur Penn's film noir "Night Moves". She later rose to prominence for her role portraying a pornographic actress in Brian De Palma's thriller "Body Double" (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy "Something Wild" (1986) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's "Working Girl", which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe | 49,645 | triviaqa-train |
Which Rock star joined Mel Gibson in the film 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'? | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (also known as Mad Max 3) is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie, distributed by Warner Bros., and written by Miller and Terry Hayes. In this sequel to "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior", Max (Mel Gibson) is exiled into the desert by the ruthless ruler of Bartertown, Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), and there encounters an isolated cargo cult centred on a crashed Boeing 747 and its | , she embarked on her second world tour supporting the "Private Dancer" album, where she toured to huge crowds. One show, filmed at Birmingham, England's NEC Arena, was later released on home video. During this time, she also contributed vocals to the USA for Africa benefit song "We Are the World".
Turner's success continued when she traveled to Australia to star opposite Mel Gibson in the 1985 post-apocalyptic film "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome". The movie provided her with her first | 49,646 | triviaqa-train |
Who played Batman in the 1966 movie, Batman? | Batman (TV series)
Batman is a 1960s American live action television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson / Robin – two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City from a variety of arch villains. It is known for its camp style, upbeat theme music, and its intentionally humorous, simplistic morality (aimed at its largely teenage audience). This included championing the importance of using seat belts, | , in the 1943 and 1949 fifteen chapter "Batman" serials. Burt Ward played him in the 1966–1968 "Batman" television series and the related 1966 film. In the live-action movies "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin", he was played by Chris O'Donnell. Michael Cera voiced the character in "The Lego Batman Movie".
The Dick Grayson version of Robin also appears in "", voiced by Loren Lester. Grayson is replaced by Tim Drake, played by Mathew Valencia, in the | 49,647 | triviaqa-train |
More than 50% of all men on Corfu have which first name? | Corfu
Corfu (, ) or Kerkyra (, ; , ; ; ) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality, which also includes the smaller islands of Ereikoussa, Mathraki and Othonoi. The municipality has an area of 610,9 km, the island proper 592,8 km. | SCAPIN: To tell you the truth, there are few things impossible to me when I once set about them. Heaven has bestowed on me a fair enough share of genius for the making up of all those neat strokes of mother wit, for all those ingenious gallantries to which the ignorant and vulgar give the name of impostures; and I can boast, without vanity, that there have been very few men more skilful than I in expedients and intrigues, and who have acquired a greater reputation in the noble profession. | 49,648 | triviaqa-train |
Born on the 21st July 1899, who wrote the novel 'A Farewell To Arms'? | A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ("tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist George Peele.
The novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and | directing to Baynton.
People of note.
Thomas Alexander Browne, (who wrote under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood) was an early Australian writer, and author of the novel 'Robbery Under Arms'. Thomas Browne was the son of Captain Sylvester Brown, and was a resident of Baynton as a young boy. Walker Thomson, a member of the Australian forces in the South African War (1899–1902) was involved in the siege of Mafeking and became a friend of General Robert Baden-Powell was born and raised in | 49,649 | triviaqa-train |
Which American gangster was said to have been shot by FBI agents outside a Chicago cinema on July 22nd 1934? | its later years. After Hoover's death, the Congress passed legislation that limited the tenure of future FBI Directors to ten years.
Early homicide investigations of the new agency included the Osage Indian murders. During the "War on Crime" of the 1930s, FBI agents apprehended or killed a number of notorious criminals who carried out kidnappings, robberies, and murders throughout the nation, including John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, Kate "Ma" Barker, Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, and George "Machine Gun | , Missouri, Pretty Boy Floyd kills four unarmed FBI agents and accidentally kills fugitive Frank Nash in an attempt to free Nash.
- June 26 – The American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine at the Arlington Park Racetrack near Chicago.
Events July–September.
- July 1 – Business Plot: Smedley Butler becomes involved in a secret coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt which fails (according to his own testimony in 1934).
- July | 49,650 | triviaqa-train |
He was born in 1913 and was Labour Party Leader from: 1980 - 1983. Who was he? | Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010), was a British Labour Party politician, who began his career as a journalist on "Tribune" and the "Evening Standard". He co-wrote the classic 1940 polemic against appeasement of Adolf Hitler, "Guilty Men", under a pseudonym.
Foot served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955 and again from 1960 until he retired in 1992. A passionate orator, and associated with the left-wing | Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015), was a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.
He was a Member of Parliament for 40 years (from 1952 until his retirement in 1992) and was the last surviving member of the cabinet formed by Harold Wilson after the Labour Party's victory in the 1964 | 49,651 | triviaqa-train |
Who was he: First to swim the English Channel and later died attempting to swim across Niagara Falls? | first aircraft to cross the Channel was a balloon in 1785, piloted by Jean Pierre François Blanchard (France) and John Jeffries (US).
Louis Blériot (France) piloted the first airplane to cross in 1909.
History of Channel crossings By swimming.
The sport of Channel swimming traces its origins to the latter part of the 19th century when Captain Matthew Webb made the first observed and unassisted swim across the Strait of Dover, swimming from England to France on 24–25 August 1875 in 21 hours 45 minutes | Henry Sullivan (swimmer)
Henry Sullivan (born c. 1893) was an American marathon swimmer who is best known for becoming the third person and the first American to swim across the English Channel, beginning his swim on the afternoon of August 5, 1923, from Dover, England and finishing 27 hours and 25 minutes later on the evening of August 6 at Calais, France.
Biography.
The son of a businessman from Lowell, Massachusetts, Sullivan had been swimming since he was eight years old. He first | 49,652 | triviaqa-train |
The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) was founded in Washington DC in July of which year? | require coordination across government agencies.
The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation, the BOI or BI for short. Its name was changed to the "Federal" Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, D.C.
Budget, mission, and priorities.
In the fiscal year 2019, the Bureau's total budget was approximately $9.6 billion.
The FBI's main goal is to protect and defend the United States, | Angelo Lano
Angelo J. Lano was an American field agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington DC, notable for his work heading the investigation of, and appearing as a witness for, the Watergate scandal surrounding President Richard M. Nixon. Lano was one of a number of FBI agents who was falsely accused as a source of information for Carl Bernstein and the "Washington Post" during the investigation, which helped shift White House suspicions away from Mark Felt, who was revealed as informant Deep Throat on May 31, 2005 | 49,653 | triviaqa-train |
Peru declared its independence from which country in 1821? | across the meridian. The Treaty of Tordesillas was rendered meaningless between 1580 and 1640 while Spain controlled Portugal. The need to ease communication and trade with Spain led to the split of the viceroyalty and the creation of new viceroyalties of New Granada and Rio de la Plata at the expense of the territories that formed the Viceroyalty of Peru; this reduced the power, prominence and importance of Lima as the viceroyal capital and shifted the lucrative Andean trade to Buenos Aires and Bogotá, while the fall of the mining and textile production accelerated the | the city with his army, for unknown reasons. San Martín called for an open cabildo to discuss the independence of the country, which was agreed. With this approval, the authority in Lima, the support of the northern provinces and the port of El Callao under siege, San Martín declared the independence of Peru on 28 July 1821. The war, however, had not ended yet.
Unlike Chile, Peru had no local politicians of the stature of O'Higgins, so San Martín became the leader of the government, | 49,654 | triviaqa-train |
Premiered in 1965, what is the title of the Beatles second film? | tours in 1965 and 1966, the Beatles included clauses in contracts stipulating that shows be integrated.
History 1963–1966: Beatlemania and touring years "Beatles for Sale", "Help!" and "Rubber Soul".
According to Gould, "Beatles for Sale", the Beatles' fourth studio LP, evidenced a growing conflict between the commercial pressures of their global success and their creative ambitions. They had intended the album, recorded between August and October 1964, to continue the format established by "A Hard Day's Night" | The Compleat Al
The Compleat Al is a mockumentary about the life of "Weird Al" Yankovic, from his birth in 1959, to 1985. It was partially written by Yankovic and directed by Jay Levey. An abbreviated version premiered on August 7, 1985 on the Showtime network before the full film was released on video on September 25, 1985. The title of the film is a parody from the 1982 documentary "The Compleat Beatles".
Although it is a mockumentary, it is roughly based on Yankovic's | 49,655 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the classic novel 'Wuthering Heights'? | Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell". It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. "Wuthering Heights" and Anne Brontë's "Agnes Grey" were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel "Jane Eyre". After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of "Wuthering Heights" and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850.
Although " | Japanese Heathcliff and a problematic Nelly. It re-enacts the history of modern Japanese literature by absorbing and transforming the Western classic into the Japanese literary context.
- Afghan novelist Khaled Hosseini's debut novel, "The Kite Runner", included "Wuthering Heights" when Amir asks Soraya what book she is reading. Soraya replies, "it is a sad story."
- In Stephenie Meyer's novel "Twilight", Bella Swan reads "Wuthering Heights". In the sequel, "Eclipse", several | 49,656 | triviaqa-train |
What was Tony Benn's title before disclaiming his peerage in 1963? | as Eton or Winchester.
A member of the House of Lords cannot simultaneously be a member of the House of Commons. In 1960, Anthony Wedgwood Benn inherited his father's title as Viscount Stansgate. He fought and won the ensuing by-election, but was disqualified from taking his seat until an act was passed enabling hereditary peers to renounce their titles. Titles, while often considered central to the upper class, are not always strictly so. Both Captain Mark Phillips and Vice-Admiral Sir
Timothy Laurence, | been given notice by St Clair of Benn's ineligibility. Benn's attempts to renounce his title were stated as being too technical for voters to have easily understood. As a result, St Clair was elected in place of Benn.
Aftermath.
Despite losing the court case, Benn continued to campaign to be able to renounce his peerage. The Peerage Act 1963 was passed which allowed for hereditary peers to disclaim their peerage and surrender their right to sit in the House of Lords. This act was created partially as a | 49,657 | triviaqa-train |
Bob Dylan; Eric Clapton and George Harrison performed a charity concert in aid of which country in 1971? | All Things Must Pass". Dylan's surprise appearance at Harrison's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh attracted media coverage, reflecting that Dylan's live appearances had become rare.
Between March 16 and 19, 1971, Dylan reserved three days at Blue Rock, a small studio in Greenwich Village, to record with Leon Russell. These sessions resulted in "Watching the River Flow" and a new recording of "When I Paint My Masterpiece". On November 4, 1971, Dylan recorded "George Jackson", which he released | . At the 30th Anniversary Tribute Concert to Dylan at Madison Square Garden in 1992, Dylan performed "My Back Pages", in the Byrds' arrangement, with George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Roger McGuinn. This performance, which featured vocals from all six musicians, along with guitar solos by Clapton and Young, was released on "The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration" album in 1993.
In addition to its initial appearance on "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "My Back | 49,658 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the title role in the film 'Lawrence of Arabia'? | Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company Horizon Pictures and Columbia Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson and starring Peter O'Toole in the title role. The film, a British and American co-production, depicts Lawrence's experiences in the Ottoman Empire's provinces of Hejaz and Greater Syria during World War I, in particular his | filmed. A later attempt to adapt the play, with Laurence Harvey as Lawrence, was scrapped when David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" went into production.
- Alec Guinness, who had played Lawrence to great acclaim in the theatre, played Prince Faisal, who never appears in the play but is mentioned frequently, in the 1962 film "Lawrence of Arabia".
- A production in Paris of the French translation of "Ross" starred Pierre Fresnay in the title role.
- The play was revived | 49,659 | triviaqa-train |
Opened in August 1778, what is the name of Milan's famous opera house? | Requiem" there on 25 May 1874 and he announced in 1886 that La Scala would host the premiere of what was to become his penultimate opera, "Otello". The premiere of his last opera, "Falstaff" was also given in the theatre.
In 1982, the Filarmonica della Scala was established, drawing its members from the larger pool of musicians that comprise the Orchestra della Scala.
Recent developments.
Recent developments Major renovation, 2002 to 2004.
The theatre underwent a major renovation from early 2002 to | later owned the Burbank Theatre, which opened on November 27, 1893, at a cost of $150,000. It struggled for many years and by August of 1900 had its thirteenth manager.The new manager's name was Oliver Morosco, who was already known as a successful theatrical impresario. He put the theater on the path to prosperity for many years. Though the theater was intended to be an opera house, instead it staged plays and became known nationally. The theatre featured famous actors of the time including Fay Bainter and | 49,660 | triviaqa-train |
Sir Gordon Richards retired from horse racing having ridden 4,870 winners in August of which year? | Queen's own horse Aureole, and sweeping past the Aga Khan III's horse, Shikampur, into first place with just two furlongs (402 m) remaining. The long-awaited win was accompanied by thunderous cheers from the frenzied crowd. Winning The Derby was undoubtedly Sir Gordon's crowning victory, and he was promptly summoned from the winners' enclosure to be congratulated by the Queen.
Sir Gordon's riding career ended in 1954 following a pelvis injury, but he continued to indulge his passion for racing, by becoming | to.
Richards' total of 4,870 winners is still a British Record. He also holds the record for the most consecutive winners ridden; 12 (half at a night meeting). He was British flat racing Champion Jockey a record 26 times.
In 1999, the Racing Post listed him at number 17 in their list of 100 Makers of 20th century horse racing and number 1 in their list of the Top 50 jockeys of the 20th century.
See also.
- List of jockeys | 49,661 | triviaqa-train |
Who reached the top spot in the UK charts with 'Please Don't Tease' in August 1960? | record it held until 1977 when band member Paul McCartney's new band, Wings, surpassed it with "Mull of Kintyre". "She Loves You" was the best-selling song of the decade and one of fourteen songs believed to have sold over one million copies in the 1960s.
By artist.
The following artists achieved three or more number-one hits during the 1960s. Cliff Richard achieved seven number ones; two solo and five with the Shadows. The Shadows had a total of ten number ones | Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)
"Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)" is a 1941 popular song composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Lee Gaines. The song has been recorded numerous times by a number of artists in the years since, having become a jazz standard. Hit recordings have been by Paul Weston & His Orchestra (vocal by Matt Dennis) (reached No. 21 in the Billboard charts in 1947) and by The Four Aces (No. | 49,662 | triviaqa-train |
Who won his first Wimbledon Men's Singles Crown in 1993? | the years, including Ilie Năstase, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Martina Hingis, Venus Williams, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova. The court has a capacity of 2,192 + 770 standing. In 2011 a new No.3 Court and a new Court 4 were unveiled on the sites of the old No.2 and 3 courts.
Because of the summer climate in southern England, Wimbledon employs 'Court Attendants' each year, who work to maintain court conditions. Their principal responsibility is to ensure that the | 1977 tournament to see another British winner in the singles competition – Virginia Wade. Rod Laver won the men's singles title, his fourth Wimbledon crown after 1961, 1962 and 1968, and went on to win his second Grand Slam after 1962.
41-year-old Pancho Gonzalez beat Charlie Pasarell in a first-round men's singles match by a score of 22–24, 1–6, 16–14, 6–3, 11–9. At 112 games and 5 hours 20 minutes it was by far the longest match of the time. The match | 49,663 | triviaqa-train |
In August of which year did the building of the Berlin Wall begin? | Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin, until East German officials ordered it opened in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by | wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, euphoric people and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the wall; the governments later used industrial equipment to remove most of what was left. Contrary to popular belief the wall's actual demolition did not begin until the summer of 1990 and was not completed until 1992. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on 3 October 1990.
See also.
- Defensive | 49,664 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the original Beatles drummer who left the group in 1962? | Pete Best
Randolph Peter Best (born Randolph Peter Scanland; 24 November 1941) is an English musician, songwriter, and civil servant. He is best known as an original member and the first drummer of the Beatles. After he was dismissed from the group in 1962, he started his own band, The Pete Best Four, and would later join many other bands over the years. He is one of several people who have been referred to as the Fifth Beatle.
Best was born in the city of Madras | first albums he bought were "Bad" by Michael Jackson and a compilation album titled "Ballads" by The Beatles. The first instrument he played was the cornet and he later transitioned into drumming.
Biography Razorlight: 2004–2009.
Burrows joined the band in May 2004. He was discovered in open audition to replace the original drummer for the band, who left in early 2004. Since he joined Razorlight, the group have released three albums, "Up All Night" which reached #3 in the UK Albums Chart; | 49,665 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the leading roll in the film 'Dirty Dancing'? | Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino. It stars Jennifer Grey as Frances "Baby" Houseman, a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) at a holiday resort.
The film was based on screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein's own childhood. She originally wrote a screenplay for the Michael Douglas film "It's My Turn", but ultimately ended up conceiving a story for a film which became "Dirty Dancing | self-titled album of rock and roll covers.
Revival.
- "Do You Love Me" is featured prominently in the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing", reviving the record's popularity. Re-issued as a single from the "More Dirty Dancing" soundtrack album, "Do You Love Me" became a hit for the second time, peaking at number eleven on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in August 1988. The Contours, by then composed of Joe Billingslea and three new members, joined Ronnie | 49,666 | triviaqa-train |
First shown in London in 1964, which musical is based on the legend of King Arthur? | Queste del Saint Graal" and the "Mort Artu", which combine to form the first coherent version of the entire Arthurian legend. The cycle continued the trend towards reducing the role played by Arthur in his own legend, partly through the introduction of the character of Galahad and an expansion of the role of Merlin. It also made Mordred the result of an incestuous relationship between Arthur and his sister Morgause and established the role of Camelot, first mentioned in passing in Chrétien's "Lancelot", as Arthur's primary court | King Arthur (Marvel Comics)
King Arthur is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is based on King Arthur of Arthurian legend.
Fictional character biography.
Fictional character biography Arthurian legend.
Arthur Pendragon is the son of King Uther and Igraine. The wizard Merlin had Arthur brought up by the knight Sir Ector and his son Kay. When Uther died from an illness without being able to see his son, Merlin held a contest in London where whoever pulls Excalibur from the stone | 49,667 | triviaqa-train |
Which England cricketer scored a massive 364 at the Oval in August 1938? | matches ending in high scoring draws and many batting records being set.
England drew the 1938 Ashes, meaning Australia retained the urn. England went into the final match of the series at The Oval 1–0 down, but won the final game by an innings and 579 runs. Len Hutton made the highest ever Test score by an Englishman, making 364 in England first innings to help them reach 903, their highest ever score against Australia.
The 1938–39 tour of South Africa saw another experiment with the deciding Test being a | the record for the biggest innings by an England Test batsman, with a score of 364 in his sixth Test appearance, against Australia at The Oval on 20 August 1938; it was the highest score by a batsman in the history of Test cricket at the time, a record that stood for 20 years until Garfield Sobers bested it by one run in 1958.
Key.
- * denotes that the batsman remained not out.
- 200s denotes the number of times the players scored 200 or more during an innings | 49,668 | triviaqa-train |
Which city held the 1972 Olympic Games? | 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (German: "Olympische Sommerspiele 1972"), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.
The sporting nature of the event was largely overshadowed by the Munich massacre in the second week, in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer at Olympic village were killed by Black September terrorists.
The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second | Asian Winter Games
The Asian Winter Games (AWG) is an international multi-sport event held every four years for members of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) which features winter events. The Japanese Olympic Committee first suggested the idea of holding a winter version of the Asian Games in 1982. Their efforts were rewarded when they were finally given hosting rights for the first edition that was held in Sapporo in 1986, as the city had the infrastructure and expertise gained from hosting of the 1972 Winter Olympics.
From | 49,669 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the only Heavy weight boxing champion to retire undefeated? | George Foreman, Rocky Marciano, Julio César Chávez, Roberto Duran, Danny García, Wilfredo Gómez, Sonny Liston, John L. Sullivan, Max Baer, Prince Naseem Hamed, Ray Mancini, David Tua, Arturo Gatti, Micky Ward, Brandon Ríos, Ruslan Provodnikov, Michael Katsidis, James Kirkland, Marcos Maidana, Jake LaMotta, Manny Pacquiao, and Ireland's John Duddy. This style of boxing was also used by fictional boxers Rocky Balboa and James "Clubber" Lang.
Brawlers tend to be more predictable and easy | , though only about half of those appear in his BoxRec record in the textbox above.
In February 1909, King announced he would retire from professional boxing, and devote all his time to coaching at Yale. At this point in his career, one reporter noted no boxing instructor at Yale had been so popular.
In 1921, King agreed to box Jack McAuliffe, former undefeated Lightweight World Champion 1886-93, in a benefit for Austin Rice. Rice had been a frequent New London boxing opponent and training partner | 49,670 | triviaqa-train |
Who became the World Chess Champion after beating Boris Spassky in 1972? | year, but Botvinnik was world champion for rest of the time from 1948 to 1963.
The return match clause was not in place for the 1963 cycle. Tigran Petrosian won the 1962 Candidates and then defeated Botvinnik in 1963 to become world champion.
History FIDE title (1948–1993) FIDE system (1963–1975).
After the 1962 Candidates, Bobby Fischer publicly alleged that the Soviets had colluded to prevent any non-Soviet – specifically him – from winning. He claimed that Petrosian, Efim Geller and Paul Keres had prearranged to draw | eighties, and played correspondence chess until age 85.
While living in Ottawa, Bohatyrchuk helped to train the young Lawrence Day (born 1949), who himself became a FIDE International Master in 1972, and who went on to represent Canada a national record 13 times at Chess Olympiads. Day's chess style has been influenced significantly by Bohatyrchuk.
Chess legacy.
Former world champion, GM Boris Spassky, stated in 2017, after reviewing Bohatyrchuk's games, that "if Bohatyrchuk plays chess professionally, he could be | 49,671 | triviaqa-train |
In what year were the Blackpool Illuminations first switched on? | Blackpool Illuminations
Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire.
Also known locally as The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for sixty-six days, from late August until early November at a time when most other English seaside resorts' seasons are coming to an end. They are long and use over one million bulbs. The display stretches along the Promenade | Blackpool Christmas Lights are switched on every year in November in a very similar fashion to the Illuminations. They are located on various streets leading out of The Promenade. On Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve, the Illuminations are switched on non-commercially to accompany the Christmas Lights.
Artists and designers.
- Emilios Hatjoullis – Designer: Tableaux displays of nursery rhymes (1960s)
- Graham Ogden - Designer: 23 November 1987 until 31 January 2007
- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen – Creative Director/Designer | 49,672 | triviaqa-train |
In 1893 which country were the first to allow women to vote? | All Forms of Discrimination Against Women). During the 19th century the right to vote was gradually extended in many countries, and women started to campaign for their right to vote. In 1893 New Zealand became the first country to give women the right to vote on a national level. Australia gave women the right to vote in 1902.
A number of Nordic countries gave women the right to vote in the early 20th century – Finland (1906), Norway (1913), Denmark and Iceland (1915). With | List of female first ministers in Canada
A total of twelve women have served as the first minister of a Canadian government. Of these, one was prime minister of the country, eight were premiers of a province and three were premiers of a territory. None are currently in office.
Women have been eligible to become premier since they first gained the right to vote, beginning in 1916 in Manitoba and extending to all jurisdictions when Quebec allowed women to vote in 1940 (the Northwest Territories did not allow women to vote | 49,673 | triviaqa-train |
First shown in 1984, which sit-com featured the characters Cliff and Clair Huxtable? | outwit their children together, dividing their parental responsibilities equally, Clair tends to serve as primary disciplinarian to her children – and occasionally to Cliff as well. Of the couple, Clair is typically the parent who offers advice and guidance to her children, in addition to administering suitable punishments for misbehavior.
Clair's family eventually expands to include Sondra and Denise's love interests, husbands Elvin Tibideaux and Martin Kendall, respectively. Sondra and Elvin eventually have children of their own, twins Winnie and Nelson, named after South African activists | she wants to say goodbye to Lamont as Cliff thinks, but because she needs to use the toilet.
Cast.
- Bill Cosby as Cliff Huxtable
- Phylicia Ayers-Allen as Clair Huxtable
- Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theo Huxtable
- Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy Huxtable
- Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa Huxtable
- Lisa Bonet as Denise Huxtable
Production.
This was first episode taped and produced for the show, on August 1, 1984, following the "Pilot" taped much earlier in | 49,674 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of Cleo Laine's husband who died in February 2010? | Cleo Laine
Dame Cleo Laine (born 28 October 1927) is an English jazz and pop singer and an actress, known for her scat singing and for her vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a contralto, she is able to produce a G above high C, giving her an overall compass of well over three octaves.
Laine is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music categories. She is the widow of jazz composer Sir John Dankworth. | another instrumental recording by The Shadows, with an electric guitar played by Hank Marvin, released on their album "String of Hits" with the name "Theme from The Deer Hunter" (number 9 in the UK singles charts and number 1 in The Netherlands); and a vocal version (using Cleo Laine's lyrics) by Iris Williams.
Later recordings.
In 1982, guitarist Liona Boyd included it in her "Best Of" Collection, also with arrangement alongside Eric Robertson and Williams.
Angel Romero recorded | 49,675 | triviaqa-train |
After only 33 days in office, which Pope died in 1978? | Pope John Paul I
Pope John Paul I (; ; born Albino Luciani ; 17 October 191228 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 26 August 1978 to his death 33 days later. He was the first pope to have been born in the 20th century. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent year of three popes, the first to occur since 1605. John Paul I remains the most recent Italian-born pope, the last in | Jerome lived for only a few days, and John Percy died aged 12 in 1873.
About 1876 the family moved to live at 31 and 33 Dee Banks, Chester, one of a pair of semi-detached houses overlooking the River Dee, which were built by Douglas. His wife died in 1878 from laryngitis after a year's illness. Douglas did not remarry. His son Colin trained as an architect and worked in Douglas's office but died in 1887 at the age of 23 from consumption. His | 49,676 | triviaqa-train |
Who played James Herriot in the TV drama series 'All Creatures Great and Small'? | Yorkshire Dales, beginning in the mid-1930s, it stars Christopher Timothy as Herriot, Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon (based on Donald Sinclair), the proprietor of the Skeldale House surgery, and Peter Davison as Siegfried's "little brother", Tristan (based on Brian Sinclair). Herriot's wife, Helen (based on Joan), is played by a different actress in each of the series' runs: Carol Drinkwater originally, then Lynda Bellingham for the revival.
The supporting cast, both recurring and one- | List of All Creatures Great and Small (TV series) characters
This is a list of characters — and the actor(s) who played them — featured in the British television series "All Creatures Great and Small". Over 600 characters were used over ninety episodes, with several actors playing multiple characters during the course of the series.
James Herriot and Siegfried Farnon are the only two characters to appear in all ninety episodes. Tristan Farnon appears in sixty-five episodes.
Characters.
Characters A.
- Abbot, | 49,677 | triviaqa-train |
Who played Anna in the film version of 'The King and I'? | of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. Leonowens' stories were autobiographical, although various elements of them have been called into question. The film stars Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner.
The film was a critical and commercial success, and was nominated for 9 Oscars, winning 5, including Best Actor for Brynner.
Another film adaptation of the same musical, the animated film "The King and I", was released in 1999.
Plot.
A widowed Welsh schoolteacher, Anna, arrives in Bangkok | Rodgers and Hammerstein for their 1951 stage musical "The King and I" and subsequent 1956 film of the same name. American film director Andy Tennant remade the film in 1999 as "Anna and the King" with Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-fat.
The portrayal of Tuptim in "Anna and the King of Siam" is considerably less sympathetic than in the musical version "The King and I", as the 1946 film shows animosity between Tuptim and Anna, while the musical makes her into a romantic character. | 49,678 | triviaqa-train |
What was Roger Moore's first Bond film? | Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor best known for playing British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985, beginning with "Live and Let Die". He also played the main character, Simon Templar, in the British television series "The Saint" from 1962-1969 and had significant roles in some American television shows and films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including replacing James Garner and portraying Beau Maverick in the " | murder victim Linnet Ridgeway Doyle, and in 1979, she appeared in what is perhaps her most famous role, that of NASA astronaut, scientist and Bond girl Dr. Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in "Moonraker". It was Moore´s fourth performance as Bond, the final 1970's Bond film and the third (and final) Bond film which Lewis Gilbert directed, as he had previously directed "You Only Live Twice" (1967, Sean Connery) and "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977, | 49,679 | triviaqa-train |
In the TV series 'Rawhide', what was Clint Eastwood's character called? | part as an aviator in "Lafayette Escadrille" and played a major role as an ex-renegade of the Confederacy in "Ambush at Cimarron Pass", a film which Eastwood viewed disastrously and professes to be the lowest point of his career.
In 1958, Eastwood was cast as Rowdy Yates for the CBS hour-long western series "Rawhide", the breakthrough in his career he had long been searching for. However, Eastwood was not especially happy with his character; Eastwood was almost 30, and Rowdy was | Rawhide" (TV series), a Western television series featuring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood, which ran 1959-1965
Characters.
- Rawhide Clyde, a character from the animated cartoon "Crazy Claws" from the 1981 series "The Kwicky Koala Show"
- Rawhide Kid, a fictional cowboy in the Marvel Comics universe introduced in 1955
People.
- Secret Service codename of President Ronald Reagan
- James Douglas, Jr. (1867–1949), known as "Rawhide Jimmy", Canadian-American businessman | 49,680 | triviaqa-train |
Who first demonstrated TV in public? | , "the sensitivity was not enough and the selenium cell was very laggy".
By the 1920s, when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems. He created his prototype in a little village called Santa Cruz on the island of Trinidad where he was recovering from an illness. He also started work on the first color television. On March 25, 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store | carefully constructed an image of himself as an apolitical technocrat who deeply regretted having failed to discover the monstrous crimes of the Third Reich. After Speer's death, Matthias Schmidt published a book that demonstrated that he had ordered the eviction of Jews from their Berlin homes. By 1999 historians had amply demonstrated that he had lied extensively. Even so, public perceptions of Speer did not change substantially until Heinrich Breloer aired a biographical film on TV in 2004. The film began a process of demystification and critical reappraisal. Adam Tooze in his | 49,681 | triviaqa-train |
The 'Battle of Waterloo' was fought in which country? | would be ethnically and politically homogeneous. Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks insisted they were ethnically distinct although many communities had a long history of intermarriage. Presently Slovenia (89% Slovene), Croatia (90.4% Croat) and Serbia (83% Serb) could be classified as nation states per se, whereas North Macedonia (66% Macedonian), Montenegro (42% Montenegrin) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (50.1% Bosniak) are multinational states.
Belgium is a classic example of a state that is not a nation state | Siege, Revenge, or Waterloo. Either Jenkins did not fight at Waterloo or he was killed prior to the battle.
Parry Jenkins never appeared in the TV Series adaptions,
95th Rifles Latimer.
Sergeant Latimer first appeared in Sharpe's Battle however he would have accompanied Sharpe in the retreat to Corunna but was he was never mentioned in Sharpe's Rifles. He fought in the First Battle of Oporto and also partook in the Second Battle of Oporto which he survived. Latimer fought with Sharpe in the Battle at Talavera although | 49,682 | triviaqa-train |
In what year was Sir Cliff Richard born? | Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis Presley and Little Richard. With his | Grazina Frame
Grazina Frame (born Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha, 6 November 1941, Fylde, Lancashire, England) is an English singer and actress. She recorded a series of singles as Grazina for HMV 1962-1964, and sang with Sir Cliff Richard on several 1960s songs, as a result of having over-dubbed both Carole Gray in film "The Young Ones" and Lauri Peters in "Summer Holiday". Her film appearances included "The Painted Smile" (1962), "What a Crazy World" | 49,683 | triviaqa-train |
What song did Cliff Richard sing in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest in which he came third? | a double live album, "Cliff Live in Japan 1972", which featured Newton-John.
His final acting role on the silver screen to date was in 1973, when he starred in the film "Take Me High".
In 1973, he sang the British Eurovision entry "Power to All Our Friends;" the song finished third, close behind Luxembourg's "Tu Te Reconnaîtras" and Spain's "Eres Tú." This time, Richard took Valium to overcome his nerves and his manager was | Mindel. On one edition of that show, the group performed the song with a viewer who'd asked Jim to fix it for him to sing the song.
Bardo's victory meant that Sally-Ann Triplett became only the third singer to win the 'Song for Europe' contest twice, having already won the 1980 contest as part of Prima Donna. (Cliff Richard had represented the UK twice in Eurovision, but did not participate in a contest to determine the British artist).
The regional juries voted internally | 49,684 | triviaqa-train |
Whitney Houston reached No.1 in the UK charts in October 1988 with what song? | , she recorded a song for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics, "One Moment in Time", which became a Top 5 hit in the US, while reaching number one in the UK and Germany. With her world tour continuing overseas, Houston was still one of the top 20 highest-earning entertainers for 1987–88 according to "Forbes" magazine.
In 1989, Houston formed The Whitney Houston Foundation For Children, a non-profit organization that has raised funds for the needs of children around the world | comparing to those of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. "What a Girl Wants" peaked at number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 on January 15, 2000 for two weeks, ending the chart reign of Santana's "Smooth" and becoming Aguilera's second number-one single. The single also topped the New Zealand and Spanish charts, while also peaking at number three in the UK, at number five in Australia and reached the top-twenty in most countries it charted. The song was nominated for Best | 49,685 | triviaqa-train |
Which 'Blue Peter' presenter was once a Dr. Who assistant? | published that year, and one was produced nearly every year after that, until 2010. A third presenter, John Noakes, was introduced at the end of 1965 and became the longest-serving presenter. A complete contrast to Trace, Noakes set the scene for "daredevil" presenters that has continued through the generations of presenters. Trace left "Blue Peter" in July 1967, and was replaced by Peter Purves in November. The trio of Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves lasted five years, and according to | her retirement in 2001. Her role was then filled by Gillian Shearing, though Parnell's name still appeared in the credits from time to time when a classic "make" was re-used.
Director/producer Alex Leger who joined the show in 1975 as a production assistant and retired in 2011, making him "Blue Peter"'s longest serving staff member ever. Presenter Anthea Turner said of Leger: "Alex was the director we feared and loved in the same sentence; he would push you to your limits | 49,686 | triviaqa-train |
Which English Palace was almost destroyed by fire in 1834? | drafting his design; to complete the necessary pen and ink drawings, which are now lost, he employed Augustus Pugin, a 23-year-old architect who was, in the words of the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, "the most fertile and passionate of the Gothicists". Thirty four of the competitors petitioned parliament against the selection of Barry, who was a friend of Cust, but their plea was rejected, and the former prime minister Sir Robert Peel defended Barry and the selection process.
New Palace of Westminster. | Whitehall. Since that time, the palace at Westminster has been used by the House of Lords, the House of Commons and various courts. The majority of the medieval palace was destroyed by fire in 1834, with construction of the current building starting in 1840. The palace which now stands on the site was designed specifically for parliamentary use, however it is the property of the monarch in right of the Crown and retains its status as a royal residence. Very little of the medieval palace survived, but the most significant is | 49,687 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of the song that Nick Berry took to No. 1 in 1986? | Nick Berry
Nicholas Berry (born 16 April 1963) is a retired English actor and pop singer. He is best known for his roles as Simon Wicks in "EastEnders" from 1985 to 1990 and a one-off appearance in 2012 , and as PC Nick Rowan in "Heartbeat" from 1992 to 1998. He sang UK chart singles with "Every Loser Wins" in 1986, which went to number one, and the theme song from "Heartbeat", a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Heartbeat" | "), Patti LaBelle ("On My Own") and one song from when McDonald was lead singer of the rock band The Doobie Brothers ("What a Fool Believes"). The album's title track, "Sweet Freedom", was a newly recorded song and featured on the soundtrack to the 1986 film "Running Scared".
Commercial performance.
The album reached No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart and is McDonald's most successful album in that country.
Track listing.
1 | 49,688 | triviaqa-train |
Violet Carson OBE played which character in a famous British Soap Opera? | people on the other side of the world. There's more to worry about than Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) and her boyfriends." Roache is the only remaining member of the original cast, which makes him the longest-serving actor in "Coronation Street", and in British and global soap history.
At the centre of many early stories, there was Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), caretaker of the Glad Tidings Mission Hall, and her friends: timid Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant), and bespectacled | character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street
- Violet, the title character from the musical
- Violet, character from Sofia the First
- Violet Blurr, character from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
See also.
- Violetta (disambiguation)
- Violet (disambiguation)
- Violeta (disambiguation)
- Viola (disambiguation)
- Violette (disambiguation) | 49,689 | triviaqa-train |
What was the nationality of composer Franz Liszt? | Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (; , in modern usage "Liszt Ferenc" ; 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era. He was also a writer, a philanthropist, a Hungarian nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.
Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, | - "Bells across the Meadows"
- "With Honour Crowned"
List of program music by composer Franz Liszt.
Liszt is considered the inventor of the symphonic poem and his programmatic orchestral works set the framework for several composers of the romantic era. He composed a total of thirteen symphonic poems as well as two programmatic symphonies, drawing his inspiration from a variety of literary, mythological, historical and artistic sources.
- "Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne" (What is heard on the mountain), | 49,690 | triviaqa-train |
For a point each, name the 2 countries that share a border with the Republic of Ecuador. | for possession of the Amazon Basin.
When Ecuador seceded from the Gran Colombia, Peru decided not to follow the treaty of Guayaquil of 1829 or the protocoled agreements made. Peru contested Ecuador's claims with the newly discovered "Real Cedula" of 1802, by which Peru claims the King of Spain had transferred these lands from the Viceroyalty of New Granada to the Viceroyalty of Peru. During colonial times this was to halt the ever-expanding Portuguese settlements into Spanish domains, which were left vacant and in disorder after the expulsion | Ghana–Nigeria relations
Ghana–Nigeria relations are the bilateral diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ghana and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
History.
History Pre-colonial.
The Pre-colonial relations between the peoples who occupy what is Ghana and Nigeria today are mainly orally told stories which are hard to prove. The countries may share some historical ethnic ties but those ties are not as clear and provable as ties with countries that directly border each country. What is clear is the fact that there has always been | 49,691 | triviaqa-train |
What is ursus arctos horribilis commonly known as? | Grizzly bear
The grizzly bear ("Ursus arctos" ssp.), also known as the North American brown bear, is a large population of the brown bear inhabiting North America.
Multiple morphological forms sometimes recognized as subspecies exist, including the mainland grizzly ("Ursus arctos horribilis"), Kodiak bear ("U. a. middendorffi"), peninsular grizzly ("U. a. gyas"), and the recently extinct California grizzly ("U. a. californicus"†) and Mexican grizzly bear ("U. a. nelsoni"†) | destroyed. The Royal Navy suffered no casualties during the action.
The Sheikh of Rams and Al Dhaya (named on the treaty as the 'Sheikh of Zyah'), Hassan bin Ali, was a co-signatory of the General Maritime Treaty of 1820, which established peace followed the cessation of hostilities. That treaty between the British and the Sheikhs of what was formerly known as the Pirate Coast and what would become known as the Trucial Coast led to the establishment of what is known today as the United Arab Emirates | 49,692 | triviaqa-train |
Gonzo journalism, a style in which reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories, was created by whom? | Puerto Rico, was not published until .
From May 1962 to May 1963 Thompson traveled to South America as a correspondent for a Dow Jones-owned weekly newspaper, the "National Observer". In Brazil he spent several months as a reporter for the "Brazil Herald", the country's only English-language daily, published in Rio de Janeiro. His longtime girlfriend Sandra Dawn Conklin (a.k.a. Sandy Conklin Thompson, subsequently Sondi Wright) later joined him in Rio. They married on May 19, 1963, | lecturer at Rhodes University, South Africa, uses Dapin’s thoughts on the Ramsay interview as a prism for her own reflections on her famous profile of Epainette Mbeki. Giles, a professor at Sydney University, examines Dapin's work alongside that of his contemporary, Jack Marx. She writes: "both journalists are well-known, mid-career writers bringing a gonzo, rock 'n' roll sensibility to their work. Well-versed in the post-New Journalism style, they include themselves in their stories, and | 49,693 | triviaqa-train |
Born Lee Jun-fan in San Francisco, what famed martial artist, who died on Jul 20, 1973, founded the martial art known as Jeet Kune Do? | Bruce Lee
Lee Jun-fan (; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), known professionally as Bruce Lee (), was a Hong Kong-American actor, director, martial artist, martial arts instructor, and philosopher. He was the founder of the hybrid martial arts Jeet Kune Do. Lee was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-chuen. He is considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist and a pop culture icon | among the Chinese, based upon his portrayal of Chinese nationalism in his films and among Asian Americans for defying stereotypes associated with the emasculated Asian male. He trained in the art of Wing Chun and later combined his other influences from various sources into the spirit of his personal martial arts philosophy, which he dubbed Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist). Lee held dual nationality in Hong Kong and the US. He died in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973 at the age of 32, and was buried | 49,694 | triviaqa-train |
Doing something that must surely have earned him an asswhuppin, for what did Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk fame, trade the cow he was supposed to sell at the market? | Jack and the Beanstalk
"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabart's moralised "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. Henry Cole, publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularised the tale in "The Home Treasury" (1845), and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in "English Fairy Tales" (1890). Jacobs' version is most commonly reprinted today, | He agreed to sell back the cotton at break even, thus preventing the troublesome rise in cotton which could have resulted.
Possibly his greatest known trade was during the stock market crash of 1929. He had amassed huge short positions before the market tumbled using more than 100 stockbrokers to hide what he was doing. When the crash came he netted around $100 million and was personally blamed by bankrupt members of the public following a series of newspaper articles declaring him the Great Bear of Wall Street. Death threats came thick and | 49,695 | triviaqa-train |
What sport features a scrum, in which three rows of opposing players lock together and compete for a ball placed on the ground? | Rugby union gameplay
Rugby union is a contact sport that consists of two teams of fifteen players. The objective is to obtain more points than the opposition through scoring tries or kicking goals over eighty minutes of playing time. The Play is started with one team drop kicking the ball from the halfway line towards the opposition. The rugby ball can be moved up the field by either carrying it or kicking it. However, when passing the ball it can only be thrown laterally or backward. The opposition can stop players moving up | the opposing hooker and loosehead prop. The props then bind by gripping the back or side of the opposing prop's jersey. The scrum-half from the team that has possession then throws the ball in the gap formed between the two front rows. The two hookers (and sometimes the props) then compete for possession by trying to hook the ball backwards with their feet, while the entire pack tries to push the opposing pack backwards. The side that wins possession usually transfers the ball to the back of the scrum — | 49,696 | triviaqa-train |
Which part of the human body does impetigo affect? | receptors, among many others.
Composition Systems Integumentary system.
The integumentary system consists of the covering of the body (the skin), including hair and nails as well as other functionally important structures such as the sweat glands and sebaceous glands. The skin provides containment, structure, and protection for other organs, and serves as a major sensory interface with the outside world.
Composition Systems Lymphatic system.
The lymphatic system extracts, transports and metabolizes lymph, the fluid found in between cells. The lymphatic system is similar to the | interfering with the absorption of food during digestion. They are distinct from injection lipolysis, which depends on device-based procedures, while injection lipolysis relies solely on injections marketed as causing lipolysis.
Invasive.
Invasive Liposuction.
Liposuction is a type of cosmetic surgery that removes fat from the human body in an attempt to change its shape. Evidence does not support an effect on weight beyond a couple of months and it does not appear to affect obesity related problems. In the United States it is the most commonly done cosmetic | 49,697 | triviaqa-train |
What famous outlaw committed the Wild West's first train robbery on July 21, 1873 in Adair, Iowa? | Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the Dalton Gang, Black Bart, Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch and hundreds of others who preyed on banks, trains, stagecoaches, and in some cases even armed government transports such as the Wham Paymaster Robbery and the Skeleton Canyon Robbery. Some of the outlaws, such as Jesse James, were products of the violence of the Civil War (James had ridden with Quantrill's Raiders) and others became outlaws during hard times in the cattle industry. Many were misfits and drifters who roamed | well; he was likely involved and may have been the planner and leader.
On July 21, 1873, the gang carried out what was arguably the first train robbery west of the Mississippi River, derailing a locomotive of the Rock Island Railroad near Adair, Iowa. Engineer John Rafferty died in the crash. The outlaws took $2,337 from the express safe in the baggage car, having narrowly missed a transcontinental express shipment of a large amount of cash.
On November 24, John Newman Edwards published a lengthy glorification | 49,698 | triviaqa-train |
What jazz legend was commonly known as Satchmo, short for satchelmouth, and has the New Orleans airport named for him? | from Moisant International Airport (now known as Louis Armstrong International Airport), a significantly larger facility located in the nearby suburb of Kenner. Lakefront Airport continues to serve as a general aviation airport with charter, private, and occasional military operations taking place. Commercial airline service is also available to destinations within the Gulf South Region. The terminal building's interior retains much of its original lavish 1930s decoration, and the art deco exterior, obscured for decades by a "bomb-proof" facade installed after World War II, has | Airports Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (Island Airport).
The city also has a small commercial airport, the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ), commonly known as the "island airport" on Toronto Island, southwest of downtown. The airport is used for civil aviation, medevac flights, and regional airlines using STOL-type turboprop aircraft. Since 1984, regional carriers have included City Express, Jazz Air and since 2006, Porter Airlines. Airport access is via a short ferry ride or tunnel. 508,574 passengers used | 49,699 | triviaqa-train |
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