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What is equivalent to 4 quavers?
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[
"Minim (disambiguation)",
"Minims",
"Minim"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "895887",
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"text": "Eighth note An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) and twice that of the sixteenth note (semiquaver), which amounts to one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), one eighth the duration of whole note (semibreve), one sixteenth the duration of a double whole note (breve), and one thirty-second the duration of a longa, hence the name. It is the equivalent of the \"fusa\" in mensural notation Eighth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with one",
"title": "Eighth note"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3221577",
"score": 0.9361383,
"text": "smaller with a curled-up rectangle shape (similar in cross-section to a quaver). Originally only available in cheese and smoky bacon flavours, the product line now contains three flavours: cheese, prawn cocktail and salt and vinegar. Ketchup and sweet and sour flavours were also introduced, but for a limited time only and are no longer available. A one pack (16.4 g) serving of regular Quavers contains 88 calories, of which 44 are from fat. Quavers contain a mixture of fats (4.9g): saturated fat 0.4g, polyunsaturated fat 0.6g and monounsaturated fat 3.8g. The sodium content is 170mg. Quavers have 88 calories in",
"title": "Quavers"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "895890",
"score": 0.9096892,
"text": "which are graphical dingbats). Eighth notes in , , , and are beamed three eighth notes at a time. A single eighth note is always stemmed with a flag, while two or more are usually beamed in groups . Eighth note An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) and twice that of the sixteenth note (semiquaver), which amounts to one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), one eighth the duration of whole note (semibreve), one sixteenth the duration of a double whole note",
"title": "Eighth note"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3221576",
"score": 0.8580464,
"text": "bags were in a different layout, being in Landscape style. Quavers' logo was changed slightly, and the flavours remained the same. In 2009, Quavers, Squares, Wotsits and French Fries had all changed their packaging again because of a reduction in calories. Quavers has 87 calories (Currently 86) in the Cheese flavour. In 2011, Quavers packaging updated to a brighter bag colour with the Walkers logo on the packets again. The primary ingredient in Quavers is potato starch. They are deep fried to give a snack with a similar texture to Krupuk (prawn crackers), but have a different flavour and are",
"title": "Quavers"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3221575",
"score": 0.82225096,
"text": "Quavers Quavers are a British snack food, originally made by Smiths, and now produced by Walkers. Walkers, owned by PepsiCo, purchased the Quavers brand in 1997, when it became one of the Frito Lay International brand names. Quavers were launched in 1968 with the advertising slogan \"you get a lovely lot of Quavers in a bag\". Packaging described them as \"curly potato puffs\". In 2007, Walkers changed the packaging for all their snack products, which were Quavers, Wotsits, Squares, French Fries and Monster Munch. This packaging reflected the usage of Sunseed Oil, which was used in all products. The Multipack",
"title": "Quavers"
}
] |
Which flowering plant in the pea family, cultivated as feed for cattle, horses, sheep, and goats, is known in the UK, Australia and New Zealand as lucerne, as lucerne grass in south Asia and as Kuthirai Masal in Tamil?
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[
"Alfalfa",
"Purple medic",
"Medicago sativa",
"Sand Lucerne",
"Medicago praesativa",
"Chilean clover",
"Buffalo herb",
"Purple Medick"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "755349",
"score": 1.0914164,
"text": "Alfalfa Alfalfa (), also called lucerne and called Medicago sativa in binomial nomenclature, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a green manure and cover crop. The name alfalfa is used in North America. The name lucerne is the more commonly used name in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The plant superficially resembles clover (a cousin in the same family), especially while young, when trifoliate leaves comprising round",
"title": "Alfalfa"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "755393",
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"text": "with the following: Refer to for the most current information and details. Alfalfa Alfalfa (), also called lucerne and called Medicago sativa in binomial nomenclature, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a green manure and cover crop. The name alfalfa is used in North America. The name lucerne is the more commonly used name in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The plant superficially resembles clover (a cousin",
"title": "Alfalfa"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16587504",
"score": 1.0324076,
"text": "Thinopyrum ponticum Thinopyrum ponticum (syn. \"Agropyron elongatum\", \"Elymus elongatus\", \"Elymus obtusiflorus\") is a species of grass known by the common names tall wheatgrass, rush wheatgrass, and Eurasian quackgrass. It is native to Eurasia and it has been introduced to many other parts of the world, including much of the Americas and Australia. This perennial bunchgrass can grow up to 2 meters tall. The ribbed leaves have pale green blades a few millimeters wide. The inflorescence is a spike studded with spikelets up to 3 centimeters long, each containing up to 12 flowers. This grass is used as a forage and",
"title": "Thinopyrum ponticum"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3879591",
"score": 1.0152811,
"text": "Lathyrus sativus Lathyrus sativus, also known as grass pea, blue sweet pea, chickling pea, chickling vetch, Indian pea, white pea and white vetch, is a legume (family Fabaceae) commonly grown for human consumption and livestock feed in Asia and East Africa. It is a particularly important crop in areas that are prone to drought and famine, and is thought of as an 'insurance crop' as it produces reliable yields when all other crops fail. The seeds contain a neurotoxin that causes a neurodegenerative disease when the seeds are consumed as a primary protein source for a prolonged period. \"Lathyrus sativus\"",
"title": "Lathyrus sativus"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16587505",
"score": 1.0034962,
"text": "for hay in many places. It is good for land with saline soils, and it can help reduce the salinity. It is also good for non-saline soils. This grass is commonly crossed with its relative, wheat, in order to give the wheat traits such as stress tolerance and pest resistance. Thinopyrum ponticum Thinopyrum ponticum (syn. \"Agropyron elongatum\", \"Elymus elongatus\", \"Elymus obtusiflorus\") is a species of grass known by the common names tall wheatgrass, rush wheatgrass, and Eurasian quackgrass. It is native to Eurasia and it has been introduced to many other parts of the world, including much of the Americas",
"title": "Thinopyrum ponticum"
}
] |
Where and when did Martina Navritolova became the oldest winner of a tennis grand slam titled aged 46?
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[
"Australian Open, in 2003"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1616801",
"score": 1.2386051,
"text": "rarely also playing singles. In her first singles performance in eight years, at Eastbourne in 2002, she beat world No. 22, Tatiana Panova, before losing in the next round to Daniela Hantuchová in three sets. In 2003, she won the mixed doubles titles at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon, partnering Leander Paes. This made her the oldest ever major champion (aged 46 years, 8 months). The Australian Open victory made her the third player in history to complete a \"boxed set\" of major titles by winning the singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at all four majors. The Wimbledon",
"title": "Martina Navratilova"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1616782",
"score": 1.2042346,
"text": "Open to her resume just a few weeks before her 50th birthday, 32 years after her first Grand Slam title in 1974. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she was stripped of her citizenship when, in 1975 at age 18, she asked the United States for political asylum and was granted temporary residency. At the time, Navratilova was told by the Czechoslovak Sports Federation that she was becoming too americanised, and she should go back to school and make tennis secondary. Navratilova became a US citizen in 1981, and on January 9, 2008, she reacquired Czech citizenship. She stated she has not renounced",
"title": "Martina Navratilova"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1616802",
"score": 1.1984911,
"text": "win allowed her to equal Billie Jean King's record of 20 Wimbledon titles (in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles combined) and extended her overall number of major titles to 58 (second only to Margaret Court, who won 62). Despite being criticized for receiving a wildcard, Navratilova won a singles match over Catalina Castaño 6–0 6–1 at the first round of Wimbledon in 2004, aged 47 years and eight months, to make her the oldest player to win a professional singles match in the open era. Navratilova then lost her second round match with Gisela Dulko in three sets. On",
"title": "Martina Navratilova"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1616805",
"score": 1.1921533,
"text": "on August 21, 2006, at the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she partnered Nadia Petrova. Navratilova won 18 major singles titles: nine at Wimbledon, four at the US Open, three at the Australian Open, and two at the French Open. Her overall record in 67 major singles events was 306–49 (120–14 at Wimbledon, 89–17 at the US Open, 51–11 at the French Open, and 46–7 at the Australian Open). Some observers argue that the very few singles matches she played in her forties should be counted separately in her career statistics. She is the only player",
"title": "Martina Navratilova"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1616804",
"score": 1.1879385,
"text": "one more title here, period.\" Navratilova capped off her career by winning the mixed doubles title, her 41st major doubles title (31 in women's doubles and 10 in mixed doubles) and 177th overall, at the 2006 US Open with American doubles specialist Bob Bryan. At the time, she was only about a month shy of her 50th birthday and broke her own record as the oldest ever major champion (aged 49 years, 11 months). Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles (more than any other player in the open era) and 177 doubles titles. Her last title in women's doubles came",
"title": "Martina Navratilova"
}
] |
In what 1949 classic English comedy from Ealing Studios does Alec Guinness play 8 roles?
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[
"Kind Hearts & Coronets",
"Louis Mazzini, Duke of Chalfont",
"Israel Rank",
"Kind Hearts and Coronets",
"Kind hearts and coronets"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12566253",
"score": 1.0418086,
"text": "in the \"Motion Picture Herald\". Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including \"The Ladykillers\" and \"Kind Hearts and Coronets\" in which he played nine different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in \"Great Expectations\" (1946), Fagin in \"Oliver Twist\" (1948), Col. Nicholson in \"The Bridge on the River Kwai\" (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince",
"title": "Alec Guinness"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8343190",
"score": 1.0279143,
"text": "Barnacle Bill (1957 film) Barnacle Bill (released in the US as All at Sea) is a 1957 Ealing Studios comedy film, starring Alec Guinness. He plays an unsuccessful Royal Navy officer, and six of his maritime ancestors. This was the penultimate Ealing comedy as well as the last film Guinness made for Ealing Studios. By coincidence, his first Ealing success was \"Kind Hearts and Coronets\" (1949), in which he also played multiple roles. The film was written by the screenwriter of \"Passport to Pimlico\". William Horatio Ambrose (Guinness) wants desperately to live up to the proud family tradition; the Ambroses",
"title": "Barnacle Bill (1957 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12566222",
"score": 1.0246923,
"text": "Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including \"The Ladykillers\" and \"Kind Hearts and Coronets\" in which he played nine different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in \"Great Expectations\" (1946), Fagin in \"Oliver Twist\" (1948), Col. Nicholson in \"The Bridge on the River Kwai\" (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in \"Lawrence of Arabia\"",
"title": "Alec Guinness"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12566233",
"score": 0.9992853,
"text": "performance at the Comedy Theatre in the West End on 30 May 1989, in the play \"A Walk in the Woods\". In all, between 2 April 1934 and 30 May 1989, he played 77 parts in the theatre. In films, Guinness was initially associated mainly with the Ealing Comedies, and particularly for playing nine characters in \"Kind Hearts and Coronets\". Other films from this period included \"The Lavender Hill Mob\", black comedy \"The Ladykillers\", and \"The Man in the White Suit\", with all three ranked among the Best British films. In 1952, director Ronald Neame cast Guinness in his first",
"title": "Alec Guinness"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "18882156",
"score": 0.9812559,
"text": "early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time. In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the \"Ealing comedies\", from 1947 to 1957. They usually included a degree of social comment, and featured ensemble casts which often included Alec Guinness or Stanley Holloway. Among the most famous examples were \"Kind Hearts and Coronets\" (1949), \"The Lavender Hill Mob\" (1951) and \" The Ladykillers\" (1955).",
"title": "British comedy films"
}
] |
"What five-letter word means ""to secretly add alcohol to a punch bowl""?"
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[
"Spike (character)",
"Spike (fictional character)",
"Spike (film)",
"Spike",
"Spike (disambiguation)",
"SPIKE",
"Spike (album)",
"Spiking"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11114620",
"score": 0.9570781,
"text": "Punch bowl A punch bowl is a bowl, often large and wide, in which the drink punch is served. The word \"punch\" is a loanword from Hindi. The original drink was named \"paantsch\", which is Hindi for \"five\", and the drink was made from five different ingredients: spirit, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. The drink was brought back from India to England by the sailors and employees of the British East India Company in the early seventeenth century, and from there it was introduced into other European countries. Punch quickly became a popular drink. It was served in",
"title": "Punch bowl"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1358378",
"score": 0.9483857,
"text": "clip from a 2001 episode in which the word \"fart\" appeared as the first four letters on the board (which also featured on \"100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell\"), and a round where an anagram of the word \"fucked\" appeared on the board in the string \"A U O D F C K E G\", although neither player chose to use the word, and Dictionary Corner was able to find two seven-letter words that could have been made from the board's offerings. On 2 February 2017, the board for the letters round was \"M T H I A E D",
"title": "Countdown (game show)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4402660",
"score": 0.94346607,
"text": "Fuzzy Duck (drinking game) Fuzzy Duck is a drinking game where players sit in a circle and take turns to say the words \"\"fuzzy duck\"\". A player may also opt to say, \"does he?\", in which case play resumes in the opposite direction with players instead saying \"\"ducky fuzz\"\". If a player says the wrong thing, plays out of turn, or breaks the rhythm of the game, they must drink an agreed-upon measure of an alcoholic beverage. Sometimes players misspeak the phrases as the spoonerisms \"fucky duzz\" or \"duzzy fuck\". \"The Book of Beer Awesomeness\" describes the appeal of the",
"title": "Fuzzy Duck (drinking game)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4561935",
"score": 0.92245126,
"text": "Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries announced \"drunken rice\" as the winning entry in a competition to find an English nickname for \"makgeolli\". \"Makcohol\" (makgeolli + alcohol) and \"Markelixir\" (makgeolli + elixir) were among the runners-up. The five-member panel reasoned that the chosen name would communicate the product's identity as a rice liquor and evoke associations with its ambassadors, the popular Korean hip-hop group Drunken Tiger. This met with a cool reception from the Korean public, with objections relating to translation of the proper noun \"makgeolli\", felt to be unnecessary, and to the negative connotations of the word \"drunken\". Scottish band",
"title": "Makgeolli"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2601785",
"score": 0.910439,
"text": "meaning \"five\", as punch was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. The English spelling of the word was in Sweden and Germany adapted to local spelling rules, thus becoming \"punsch\". In Sweden, regular punch is also served, but is instead known as \"bål\" (bowl). The Swedish East India Company started to import arrack with the arrival of their ship \"Fredricus Rex Sueciae\" to Gothenburg in 1733. It quickly became popular, especially among the wealthy, who could afford the price of imported goods. Later it spread through all levels of society. A testament to",
"title": "Punsch"
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] |
Which bone is the most often broken in humans
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[
"Collar bone",
"Clavicle bone",
"The Clavicle",
"Little key",
"Clavacle",
"Conoid tubercle",
"Collarbone",
"Clavicula",
"Collarbones",
"Clavicles",
"Clavical",
"Clavicular",
"Proscapula",
"Collar-bone",
"Little keys",
"Clavicle",
"Collar bones",
"Tuberculum conoideum"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2419156",
"score": 1.0994189,
"text": "the bone. The least breakage occurred in the African wild dog. The gray wolf ranked between these two. The eating of bone increases the risk of accidental fracture due to the relatively high, unpredictable stresses that it creates. The most commonly broken teeth are the canines, followed by the premolars, carnassial molars, and incisors. Canines are the teeth most likely to break because of their shape and function, which subjects them to bending stresses that are unpredictable in direction and magnitude. The risk of tooth fracture is also higher when taking and consuming large prey. In comparison to extant gray",
"title": "Canis"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3457909",
"score": 1.0887531,
"text": "Bone fracture A bone fracture (sometimes abbreviated FRX or Fx, F, or #) is a medical condition in which there is a partial or complete break in the continuity of the bone. In more severe cases, the bone may be broken into several pieces. A bone fracture may be the result of high force impact or stress, or a minimal trauma injury as a result of certain medical conditions that weaken the bones, such as osteoporosis, osteopenia, bone cancer, or osteogenesis imperfecta, where the fracture is then properly termed a pathologic fracture. Both high- and low-force trauma can cause bone",
"title": "Bone fracture"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "300321",
"score": 1.0576079,
"text": "Osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a disease where increased bone weakness increases the risk of a broken bone. It is the most common reason for a broken bone among the elderly. Bones that commonly break include the vertebrae in the spine, the bones of the forearm, and the hip. Until a broken bone occurs there are typically no symptoms. Bones may weaken to such a degree that a break may occur with minor stress or spontaneously. Chronic pain and a decreased ability to carry out normal activities may occur following a broken bone. Osteoporosis may be due to lower-than-normal maximum bone mass",
"title": "Osteoporosis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "300364",
"score": 1.0413826,
"text": "chronic malnutrition in the agricultural area in which these individuals lived. \"It follows that the skeletal deformation may be attributed to their heavy labor in agriculture as well as to their chronic malnutrition\", causing the osteoporosis seen when radiographs of the remains were made. Osteoporosis means \"porous bones\", from Greek: οστούν/\"ostoun\" meaning \"bone\" and πόρος/\"poros\" meaning \"pore\". Osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a disease where increased bone weakness increases the risk of a broken bone. It is the most common reason for a broken bone among the elderly. Bones that commonly break include the vertebrae in the spine, the bones of the",
"title": "Osteoporosis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3457926",
"score": 1.0278456,
"text": "additional calcium marginally reduces the risk of hip fractures and other types of fracture in older adults; however, vitamin D supplementation alone did not reduce the risk of fractures. In children, whose bones are still developing, there are risks of either a growth plate injury or a greenstick fracture. Bone fracture A bone fracture (sometimes abbreviated FRX or Fx, F, or #) is a medical condition in which there is a partial or complete break in the continuity of the bone. In more severe cases, the bone may be broken into several pieces. A bone fracture may be the result",
"title": "Bone fracture"
}
] |
In Star Wars, what species is Chewbacca?
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[
"Wookie",
"Wookie (disambiguation)",
"A Wookie"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12558179",
"score": 1.1325192,
"text": "medal along with Luke Skywalker and Han Solo at the end of \"A New Hope\", MTV presented the award as a medal bestowed by Carrie Fisher. Peter Mayhew had voiced concern about Chewbacca being skipped in the original medal scene as well, but noted that Chewbacca does get the last \"line\" in the film as compensation. Chewbacca Chewbacca (), nicknamed \"Chewie\", is a fictional character in the \"Star Wars\" franchise. He is a Wookiee, a tall, hirsute biped and intelligent species from the planet Kashyyyk. Chewbacca is the loyal friend and first mate of Han Solo, and serves as co-pilot",
"title": "Chewbacca"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12558151",
"score": 1.1270542,
"text": "Chewbacca Chewbacca (), nicknamed \"Chewie\", is a fictional character in the \"Star Wars\" franchise. He is a Wookiee, a tall, hirsute biped and intelligent species from the planet Kashyyyk. Chewbacca is the loyal friend and first mate of Han Solo, and serves as co-pilot on Solo's spaceship, the \"Millennium Falcon\". Within the films of the main saga, Chewbacca is portrayed by Peter Mayhew from episodes \"III\" to \"VII\" (Mayhew shares the role with his body double Joonas Suotamo on \"\"). Suotamo took over the role alone in \"\" and reprised the role in \"\". The character has also appeared on",
"title": "Chewbacca"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12770067",
"score": 1.119422,
"text": "Wookiee Wookiees () are a fictional species of intelligent bipeds from the planet Kashyyyk in the \"Star Wars\" universe. They are taller, stronger, and hairier than humans and most (if not all) other humanoid species. The most notable Wookiee is Chewbacca, the copilot of Han Solo, who first appeared in the 1977 film \"Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope\". According to an interview with creator George Lucas, the inspiration for the Wookiee was Lucas' dog, Indiana (whose name is used in the Lucas-inspired Indiana Jones movies). \"He was the prototype for the Wookiee. He always sat beside me in",
"title": "Wookiee"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12770079",
"score": 1.0753102,
"text": "has been criticized as sometimes justifying the enabling of an abuser. Wookiee Wookiees () are a fictional species of intelligent bipeds from the planet Kashyyyk in the \"Star Wars\" universe. They are taller, stronger, and hairier than humans and most (if not all) other humanoid species. The most notable Wookiee is Chewbacca, the copilot of Han Solo, who first appeared in the 1977 film \"Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope\". According to an interview with creator George Lucas, the inspiration for the Wookiee was Lucas' dog, Indiana (whose name is used in the Lucas-inspired Indiana Jones movies). \"He was",
"title": "Wookiee"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1551767",
"score": 1.0655799,
"text": "from a Chewbacca mask from the original film. The names of Chewbacca's family were later explained to have been nicknames, their full names being Mallatobuck (Malla), Attichitcuk (Itchy), and Lumpawarrump or Lumpawaroo (Lumpy). While outlining the original \"Star Wars\" and planning its potential sequels, Lucas imagined a \"film just about Wookiees, nothing else.\" After the original film's success, its cast made a few appearances on TV variety shows. According to Charles Lippincott, who was head of marketing of the Star Wars Corporation, CBS brought the idea of doing a TV special to him and Lucas, although there is some internal",
"title": "Star Wars Holiday Special"
}
] |
"Which British king, born in 1769, was known as ""The Sailor King""?"
|
[
"William IV (disambiguation)",
"Wilhelm IV",
"William iv",
"William 4",
"William IV",
"William Iv"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16442347",
"score": 1.0628661,
"text": "the fact that he had no firm national, racial, personal, language, or name identity, allowing him to pass through his own story, unnoticed e.g. he is both \"Robert Adams\" and \"Benjamin Rose,\" he speaks English, Arabic and \"Negro.\" There are also various noted holes in Adams' story. For example, there is no reason given for why he was allowed to roam Timbuktu freely for six months. It is also noted that Adams was induced, by Simon Cock, to answer questions about the region that had stumped Europeans for generations. He had an answer to every question he was asked by",
"title": "Robert Adams (sailor)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20872461",
"score": 1.0563349,
"text": "Calvert (1735–1809) and William Camden when he was master on ships owned by them. He became close friends with Anthony Calvert and named one of his sons Anthony Calvert King. In 1771, while he was master of the \"Surrey\" (or \"Surry\"), owned by Anthony Calvert, he was involved in an incident that saw him charged with the murder of a sailor, John Warren, for which he stood trial at the Old Bailey in 1776. He was said to have kicked Warren to death while calling him \"an Irish son of a bitch\". His bail of £500 was provided by Calvert",
"title": "Thomas King (slave trader)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6549560",
"score": 1.0457873,
"text": "midshipman in and , King joined , Captain James Chads, on 15 March 1768 as an able seaman for service on the Newfoundland Station under Hugh Palliser, a commodore and friend and patron of James Cook, but there is no indication that Cook and King met at this time. It has been said that King served aboard in the Mediterranean under Captain John Jervis but there is no evidence of this. Having passed for lieutenant on 7 March 1769, King was promoted to this rank on 10 January 1771, serving in several ships before being placed on half pay in",
"title": "James King (Royal Navy officer)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6686312",
"score": 1.0384316,
"text": "accounts of Every's life, most prominently Daniel Defoe's \"The King of Pirates\" (1720), have made reference to the earlier work, but it is of questionable veracity and has been described by the \"Dictionary of National Biography\" as \"fiction, with scarcely a substratum of fact.\" Although a theory existed that Every's birth name was actually Benjamin Bridgeman (especially in light of his nickname \"Long Ben\"), and that \"Henry Every\" was in fact an alias, modern scholarship has debunked it. It is accepted by historians that \"Henry Every\" was the pirate's real name, given that he used this name when he entered",
"title": "Henry Every"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14293953",
"score": 1.0342932,
"text": "stone.'\"... \"Lindsey, are you \"sure\" it says 'injureth' as well as 'moveth'?\" \"Of course. Why?\" \"Well, it's a pretty slender outlook for me, then. I found the stone two days ago and I scratched my initials on it with the marline spike of my knife. Funny thing, I didn't notice any curse at all.\" \"It's on the back of the stone,\" said Lindsey. In his book \"Who was the Sailor murdered at Hindhead 1786\" (2000), Peter Moorey argues the case that the Unknown Sailor's identity was Edward Hardman, born in 1752 in Lambeth, London. Unknown Sailor The Unknown Sailor was",
"title": "Unknown Sailor"
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] |
What was the name of the 1963 Disney film that featured the legendary characters of Merlin and King Arthur?
|
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"Sword in the stone",
"Sword in the Stone",
"The sword in the stone",
"The Sword in The Stone",
"The Sword in the Stone",
"Sword and the stone",
"The Sword and the Stone",
"The Sword In The Stone",
"The Sword In the Stone"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6859789",
"score": 0.9748728,
"text": "how he has treated him, and then orders Kay to bow down to Arthur. Kay, reluctantly does at first, then after looking at Arthur, accepts the situation, and does so sincerely. The newly crowned King Arthur, feeling unprepared for the responsibility of ruling, calls out to Merlin for help, and Merlin returns from Bermuda to reassure him, elated that Arthur is the king he saw in the future. Merlin tells Arthur that he will go on to lead the Knights of the Round Table, accomplishing many amazing feats and becoming a great king. In 1939, Walt Disney first obtained the",
"title": "The Sword in the Stone (1963 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1913157",
"score": 0.93295884,
"text": "mythical) Camelot of King Arthur, though the name \"Camelot\" (first mentioned by the 12th century French Arthurian storyteller Chretien de Troyes) is most likely a corruption of \"Camlann\", a now unknown location first mentioned in the 10th century Welsh annalistic text Annales Cambriae, identified as the place where Arthur was slain in battle. Soon after the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, a Roman legionary fortress was established, the first in Britain. Later, when the Roman frontier moved outwards and the twentieth legion had moved to the west (c.AD 49), Camulodunum became a colonia named in a second-century inscription",
"title": "Colchester"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6859796",
"score": 0.9293641,
"text": "tale about King Arthur as a lad.\" Bosley Crowther of \"The New York Times\" praised the film claiming it is \"an eye-filling package of rollicking fun and thoughtful common sense. The humor sparkles with real, knowing sophistication — meaning for all ages — and some of the characters on the fifth-century landscape of Old England are Disney pips.\" Rotten Tomatoes reported that 71% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 24 reviews with an average score of 6/10. Its consensus states that \"A decent take on the legend of King Arthur, \"The Sword in the Stone\" suffers from",
"title": "The Sword in the Stone (1963 film)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3235527",
"score": 0.92486167,
"text": "Arthur's existence; the so-called \"Arthur stone\", discovered in 1998 in securely dated 6th century contexts amongst the ruins at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, created a stir but has subsequently been of little use as evidence. The film holds a 31% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of February 7, 2015, with 58 positive of 185 reviews being positive with the critics consensus being \"The magic is gone, leaving a dreary, generic action movie\". David Edelstein of \"Slate\" called the film \"profoundly stupid and inept\" and added, \"it's an endless source of giggles once you realise that its historical revisionism has",
"title": "King Arthur (2004 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3235506",
"score": 0.91695225,
"text": "now called Chesterholm in Northern England. The film's storyline is not taken from the traditional sources, but is a work of creative fiction. The only notable exception to this is the inclusion of the Saxons as Arthur's adversaries and the Battle of Badon Hill. Most traditional elements of Arthurian legend are dropped, such as the Holy Grail and Tristan's lover Iseult. The film barely includes the love triangle between Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere; whilst Guinevere and Arthur are romantically involved, only a few sequences depict a possible relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere. The film does not feature Kay and Bedivere.",
"title": "King Arthur (2004 film)"
}
] |
Used in place of a net, what is the name for the pole with a sharp hook on the end of it used to boat large fish?
|
[
"Gaff (disambiguation)",
"Gaff"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18002148",
"score": 0.9888623,
"text": "attached to a long pole. They are used primarily to catch fish and crustaceans, and may be submerged just below the water surface or close to the bottom. A person using hand lift nets usually operate it from the shore, on bridges, and from harbor walls. Stationary lift nets are larger than hand lift nets and are attached permanently to a shore-built structure. Lifting the nets may be done by hand through the use of counterweights, or they may use mechanized winches. Bait or a strong source of light is placed in the middle of the net. They are typically",
"title": "Lift net"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8409083",
"score": 0.98544586,
"text": "and visibility. Fishing with a hook and line is called angling. In addition to the use of the hook and line used to catch a fish, a heavy fish may be landed by using a landing net or a hooked pole called a gaff. Trolling is a technique in which a fishing lure on a line is drawn through the water. Snagging is a technique where the object is to hook the fish in the body. A sinker or plummet is a weight used when angling to force the lure or bait to sink more rapidly or to increase the",
"title": "Fishing tackle"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1748218",
"score": 0.9814515,
"text": "primarily used on the shore near the bank of a stream or a shallow area of a lake or pond. A seine is a large net, sometimes being in size, which has small weights attached to the bottom. These small weights help to keep the net vertical in the water while two people hold either end of the net and drag it through a spot where minnows are suspected to be. This method is good for catching a variety of bait fish and is one of the oldest methods for catching fish. A wire trap is made of two half-cylinders",
"title": "Minnow"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12993434",
"score": 0.95943713,
"text": "poles, Maldivian fishermen use a bamboo or plastic construction pole, typically 10 to in length and capable of handling a fish weighing as much as , with a line and a feathered barb-less hook attached to the smaller end of the pole. The fishermen will go out at the start of a fishing day in their dhoni boats, looking for live bait such as small scads, silver side and sardine, which are kept alive by the specialised fresh seawater circulating system of the dhoni. With bait on board they then go out looking for schools of tuna. However a variety",
"title": "Fishing industry in the Maldives"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12341655",
"score": 0.9591489,
"text": "used especially to catch mullet, which will not bite a baited hook. Contemporary cast nets have a radius which ranges from 4 to 12 feet (1.2 to 3.6 metres). Only strong people can lift the larger nets once they are filled with fish. Standard nets for recreational fishing have a four-foot hoop. Weights are usually distributed around the edge at about one pound per foot (1.5 kilograms per metre). Attached to the net is a handline, one end of which is held in the hand as the net is thrown. When the net is full, a retrieval clamp, which works",
"title": "Cast net"
}
] |
The human heart has four chambers - two auricles (or atria) and two ............ what?
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"Interventricular",
"Intraventricular",
"Ventricle (disambiguation)",
"Ventricles",
"Ventricular",
"VENTRICLES",
"Ventricle",
"Ventrical"
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[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2171920",
"score": 1.066685,
"text": "chambers (two atria, one ventricle) of amphibian and most reptile hearts and four chambers (two atria, two ventricles) of mammal and bird hearts. However, the fish heart has entry and exit compartments that may be called chambers, so it is also sometimes described as three-chambered or four-chambered, depending on what is counted as a chamber. The atrium and ventricle are sometimes considered “true chambers”, while the others are considered “accessory chambers”. The four compartments are arranged sequentially: Ostial valves, consisting of flap-like connective tissues, prevent blood from flowing backward through the compartments. The ostial valve between the sinus venosus and",
"title": "Fish anatomy"
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4332801",
"score": 1.0650508,
"text": "of blood occurs. In birds, mammals, and some other reptiles (alligators in particular) the partitioning of both chambers is complete. Atrium (heart) The atrium is the upper chamber in which blood enters the heart. There are two atria in the human heart – the left atrium connected to the lungs, and the right atrium connected to the venous circulation. The atria receive blood, and when the heart muscle contracts they pump blood to the ventricles. All animals with a closed circulatory system have at least one atrium/auricle (humans have two atria). The atrium used to be called the \"auricle\", and",
"title": "Atrium (heart)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "473144",
"score": 1.0426285,
"text": "is usually situated around the middle of the thorax, and in snakes, usually between the junction of the upper first and second third. There is a heart with three chambers: two atria and one ventricle. The ventricle is incompletely separated into two halves by a wall (septum), with a considerable gap near the pulmonary artery and aortic openings. In most reptilian species, there appears to be little, if any, mixing between the bloodstreams, so the aorta receives, essentially, only oxygenated blood. The exception to this rule is crocodiles, which have a four-chambered heart. In the heart of lungfish, the septum",
"title": "Heart"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "473040",
"score": 1.0411468,
"text": "Fish, in contrast, have two chambers, an atrium and a ventricle, while reptiles have three chambers. In a healthy heart blood flows one way through the heart due to heart valves, which prevent backflow. The heart is enclosed in a protective sac, the pericardium, which also contains a small amount of fluid. The wall of the heart is made up of three layers: epicardium, myocardium, and endocardium. The heart pumps blood with a rhythm determined by a group of pacemaking cells in the sinoatrial node. These generate a current that causes contraction of the heart, traveling through the atrioventricular node",
"title": "Heart"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "473046",
"score": 1.0397402,
"text": "although this description is disputed, as the heart is likely to be slightly larger. Well-trained athletes can have much larger hearts due to the effects of exercise on the heart muscle, similar to the response of skeletal muscle. The heart has four chambers, two upper atria, the receiving chambers, and two lower ventricles, the discharging chambers. The atria open into the ventricles via the atrioventricular valves, present in the atrioventricular septum. This distinction is visible also on the surface of the heart as the coronary sulcus. There is an ear-shaped structure in the upper right atrium called the right atrial",
"title": "Heart"
}
] |
The UEFA cup is a soccer tournament for teams from which continent?
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"EUROPE",
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"Nations of Europe",
"Capitals in Europe",
"Europe (peninsula)",
"List of capitals of countries in Europe by area",
"Europea",
"List of European capital cities by area",
"Europa (continent)",
"Northwestern Eurasia",
"Name of Europe",
"Europe",
"Europe.",
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"List of national capitals of countries in Europe by area",
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"Euorpe",
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"The Europes",
"The Old Continent",
"Definition of Europe",
"Northwest Eurasia",
"The Europe"
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "442304",
"score": 0.98493975,
"text": "the organiser of two of the most prestigious competitions in international football: The UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. The main competition for men's national teams is the UEFA European Championship, started in 1958, with the first finals in 1960, and known as the European Nations Cup until 1964. It is also called UEFA or the EURO. The UEFA Nations League is the second tournament of the UEFA and was introduced in 2018. The tournament largely replaced the international friendly matches previously played on the FIFA International Match Calendar. It will be played every two years. UEFA also",
"title": "UEFA"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3019925",
"score": 0.96187115,
"text": "In most football tournaments, the host nation or city is decided by the governing body before qualification begins. In the Regions' Cup, however, the host is chosen only after most of the eight finalist teams have qualified, with one of the qualified regions selected as host. UEFA Regions' Cup The UEFA Regions' Cup is a football competition for amateur teams in Europe, run by UEFA. It was held for the first time in 1999 and has been played biennially since. The current champions are the Zagreb team from Croatia, who became first time winners in the 2017 Regions' Cup, defeating",
"title": "UEFA Regions' Cup"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17677640",
"score": 0.9314196,
"text": "The team's worst result in the competition was a first-round elimination in 1992 and 2008. France at the UEFA European Championship The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations). Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current name in 1968. Starting with the 1996 tournament, specific championships are often referred to in the form \"Euro 2008\" or whichever year is appropriate. Prior to entering",
"title": "France at the UEFA European Championship"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "894455",
"score": 0.93132657,
"text": "UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (abbreviated as CWC) was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup was one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season — but not recognised by the governing body of European football until two years later. The final tournament was held in 1998–99, after which it was absorbed into the UEFA Cup. From 1972 onwards, the winner of the tournament",
"title": "UEFA Cup Winners' Cup"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15754559",
"score": 0.92618006,
"text": "co-winners of the competition. Club competitions between teams from European countries can trace their origins as far back as 1897, when the Challenge Cup was created for clubs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Mitropa Cup, a competition modelled after the Challenge Cup, was created in 1927 and played between Central European clubs. The first continental competition organised by UEFA was the European Cup in 1955. Established as a competition for winners of the European national football leagues, it is considered the most prestigious European football competition. The European Cup was re-branded in 1992 as the UEFA Champions League. In the",
"title": "NK Maribor in European football"
}
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The Stanley Cup is contested in which sport?
|
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"Hockey (ice)",
"Ice hockey",
"Ice-hockey",
"Ice-hocky",
"Hocky (ice)",
"History of ice hockey",
"Icehockey",
"Ice Hockey",
"Ice hocky",
"Eishockey",
"Canadian hockey",
"Position (ice hockey)",
"🏒",
"Women's ice hockey",
"Women's Ice Hockey",
"Goaltender coach",
"Girls ice hockey",
"Hawkie"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "19747770",
"score": 1.0409944,
"text": "the first black ice hockey player in the NHL for the Boston Bruins. while Val James was the first African American player to compete in the NHL for the Buffalo Sabres and Toronto Maple Leafs. In 1972 the World Hockey Association formed of 12 teams from Canada and the United States intended to rival the NHL but ultimately failed and many of the teams merged with the NHL. The Stanley Cup is the oldest trophy in North American sports. Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria to be the Governor General of Canada on June 11, 1888. While",
"title": "Ice hockey in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "19747737",
"score": 1.0277783,
"text": "rink and the use of a puck, have been retained to this day. Before the formation of the NHL the first professional ice hockey leagues was the Coloured Hockey League in 1895. The Stanley Cup is the oldest trophy in North American sports. Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria to be the Governor General of Canada on June 11, 1888. While governor, ice hockey was still just forming in Canada. He first got to see the game of hockey played at Montreal's 1889 Winter Carnival. During the carnival he watched the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey",
"title": "Ice hockey in Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "197738",
"score": 1.0234828,
"text": "played in Huntsville, Ontario. Ice hockey is the official winter sport of Canada. Ice hockey, partially because of its popularity as a major professional sport, has been a source of inspiration for numerous films, television episodes and songs in North American popular culture. The record for a Stanley Cup playoff game is 28,183, set on April 23, 1996, at the Thunderdome during a Tampa Bay Lightning – Philadelphia Flyers game. A record was set on December 11, 2010, when the University of Michigan's men's ice hockey team faced cross-state rival Michigan State in an event billed as \"The Big Chill",
"title": "Ice hockey"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11234469",
"score": 1.0158577,
"text": "town of Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador. Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup There are many traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. It is commonly referred to as simply \"The Cup\", \"The Holy Grail\" or facetiously (chiefly by sportswriters) as \"Lord Stanley's Mug\". Unlike the trophies awarded by the other three major professional sports leagues of North America, a new Stanley Cup is not made annually; the champions keep the Cup until",
"title": "Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9872502",
"score": 1.0153576,
"text": "major professional sports of the United States. It is historically most popular in areas near the Canada–US border and along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. There is no single global championship for professional ice hockey. The most elite North American teams compete for the Stanley Cup as their championship. Created in 1892, the Stanley Cup was originally an amateur trophy. Starting in 1907, professionals were allowed to compete for it. Teams from several leagues played for the Stanley Cup before 1926, since which time the cup's trustees have ceded control of the trophy to the National Hockey League",
"title": "Professional ice hockey"
}
] |
In what significant UK location was the August 2007 Climate Change Camp sited?
|
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"London Heathrow",
"London Heathrow Crashes",
"Heathrow, London",
"Heathrow International Airport",
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"London–Heathrow",
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"London-Heathrow Airport",
"Great Western Aerodrome",
"London Heathrow Airport",
"Philip Sherwood",
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"Harmondsworth Aerodrome",
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"Myrtle Avenue (UK)",
"Heathrow Airport",
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"London Heathrow International Airport",
"London Heathrow Airport Terminal 4",
"List of airlines using London Heathrow Airport",
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"EGLL",
"London Heathw",
"Egll",
"London-Heathw",
"Myrtle avenue (UK)",
"Heathrow",
"Heathrow airport"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8649128",
"score": 1.2865008,
"text": "the edge of the Drax site and four others broke through the fence. Thirty-eight protesters were arrested. The police reported that work at the power plant was not disrupted. Other protests arising from the camp included a protest against a nuclear power station in Hartlepool, Teesside. The Guardian reported that the Camp marked a turning point in grass-roots campaigning against the causes of climate change. The 2007 camp () ran from 14 to 21 August 2007 near London Heathrow Airport next to the village of Sipson on a disused sports ground owned by Imperial College London. Sipson would disappear from",
"title": "Camp for Climate Action"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8649124",
"score": 1.2480677,
"text": "and The Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters, near Edinburgh. During 2009 camps also took place in Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherlands/Belgium, Scotland, Wales and Australia. The Camp for Climate Action, first came into being in 2006, after activists at the 2005 G8 conference in Stirling in Scotland mooted the idea. Camps are organised through the preceding year with a series of monthly meetings, previously held in Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Leeds, Bristol, London, and Talamnh (near Glasgow). Much of the material used to create structures for the camp is reclaimed waste from building sites which would otherwise have been sent to",
"title": "Camp for Climate Action"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8649132",
"score": 1.226186,
"text": "took place in Kent, near E.ON UK's Kingsnorth power station, and run from 4 to 11 August to highlight E.ON's plans to build another coal-fired power station, which would be the first to be built in thirty years in the UK. The action was also to highlight what is seen as an expansion to the fossil fuel economy, by corporations and government, and what activists claim is a demand for the opposite by scientific consensus. Furthermore, the camp attempted to challenge the businesses which will profit from the agrofuel industry, which they see as false solutions to the problems of",
"title": "Camp for Climate Action"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5382322",
"score": 1.2043484,
"text": "via Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Hungary to the environmental youth Ecotopia gathering in Slovakia. The Caravan worked intensively with numerous groups over a 3-month period. List of groups involved List of actions The Camp for Climate Action, also known as the 'Climate Camp' was held in Barlow, Selby, North West Yorkshire, to push for action on the issue of climate change. Over 600 people came together for 10 days to follow workshops, share skills and take action. The camp was set up near Drax power station, the largest coal fired power station in Europe and the biggest single contributor",
"title": "The Mischief Makers"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8649144",
"score": 1.1890291,
"text": "The Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Gogarburn, near Edinburgh, to protest against the banks involvement in financing environmentally damaging activities, particularly Canadian Tar Sands and ran until 25 August. The organisers took the site the day before the publicly announced date, in order to avoid the police. Actions took place across the week against RBS, and other companies involved in environmentally damaging industries, as well as various workshops on a range of environmental, social and climate change issues: A number of protests at locations around Edinburgh took place during the camp. Climate Camp TV provided a view of the camp",
"title": "Camp for Climate Action"
}
] |
On which of Florida's Keys could you visit Ernest Hemingway's house
|
[
"Key West",
"Key west"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8809086",
"score": 1.1689973,
"text": "Ernest Hemingway House The Ernest Hemingway House was the residence of author Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida, United States. It is at 907 Whitehead Street, across from the Key West lighthouse, close to the southern coast of the island. On November 24, 1968, it was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark. This was Hemingway's home from 1931 to 1939, although he retained title to the home until he died. It is a private, for-profit landmark and tourist attraction now populated by six- and seven-toed cats that are descendants of Hemingway's cats. The author's second son, Patrick, who lived in",
"title": "Ernest Hemingway House"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8809095",
"score": 1.0696484,
"text": "the grounds, like the island, were sparse and dry due to lack of water that only came later, with the Navy's installation of a water line from mainland. The house was originally purchased for $8,000. After Hemingway's death in 1961, the house was sold by his widow, Mary, to Mrs. Bernice Dickson, the founder of the museum. A prominent feature of the dining room is a Murano glass chandelier. Upstairs, a book display shows books owned by Hemingway while he lived in Key West—including \"Red Pete the Ruthless\" by C. M. Bennett. Clearly visible is the inscription, \"Given to Hemingway—1936,\"",
"title": "Ernest Hemingway House"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8809097",
"score": 1.0554445,
"text": "scene, Bond resigns from the secret service and then flees through the garden. In protection of M, the fictional guards watch from the Key West Light across the street. The house is also featured in the 2017 film \"The Leisure Seeker\" starring Helen Mirren and Donald Southerland. Ernest Hemingway House The Ernest Hemingway House was the residence of author Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida, United States. It is at 907 Whitehead Street, across from the Key West lighthouse, close to the southern coast of the island. On November 24, 1968, it was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark. This",
"title": "Ernest Hemingway House"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17193510",
"score": 1.0388341,
"text": "restaurant district; the Audubon House and Tropical Gardens; the Key West Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters Museum; and, Nobel Prize–winning author Ernest Hemingway's former home, now open to the public as the Ernest Hemingway House. Classic bungalows and guest mansions characterize the district. Many guests of Old Town Manor rent bicycles and take trolley or walking tours to explore \"Old Town\" Key West and participate in boat excursions to experience the surrounding waters. Since the property now known as Old Town Manor was built by Samuel Otis Johnson in 1886, it has served as his grocery and butcher shop, a residence",
"title": "Old Town Manor"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8809090",
"score": 1.0331589,
"text": "Macomber\", his novel \"To Have And Have Not\", and the non-fiction work \"Green Hills of Africa\". The house stands at an elevation of above sea level but is still the second-highest site on the island. It was originally built in 1851 by Asa Tift, a marine architect and salvage wrecker, in a French Colonial estate style, out of limestone quarried from the site. As testament to its construction and location, it survived many hurricanes, and the deep basement remained, and still remains, dry. Before Hurricane Irma struck the Florida Keys in September 2017, the entire population of the island chain",
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}
] |
What did The Band of Hope pledge not to do?
|
[
"Drink Alcohol"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4145763",
"score": 1.0158575,
"text": "Hope UK Hope UK is a United Kingdom Christian charity based in London, England which educates children and young people about drug and alcohol abuse. It was founded in 1855 as the Band of Hope. The Band of Hope was first proposed by Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff, who was a Baptist minister in Leeds, following the death in June 1847 of a young man whose life was cut short by alcohol. While working in Leeds, Tunnicliff had become an advocate for total abstinence from alcohol. In the autumn of 1847, with the help of other temperance workers, the Band of Hope",
"title": "Hope UK"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4145766",
"score": 0.9847626,
"text": "PowerPoint displays, and noted personalities were invited to speak at public meetings in support of the cause. Guy Aldred, the boy preacher was an active propagandist for the \"Band of Hope\", before focussing his activities on Anarchist-Communist politics. In 1887 the movement had about 1½ million members out of 8 million young people in Britain of Band of Hope age. By 1891 it had 2 million members and in 1897, Queen Victoria's Jubilee year, the estimated membership was 3,238,323. By the early 1950s, however, the temperance movement had all but succumbed to a changing society and cultural habits. Lack of",
"title": "Hope UK"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4145767",
"score": 0.96194196,
"text": "support for the Band of Hope eventually brought about their transformation into Hope UK. Hope UK remains concerned with children's welfare, giving priority to the development of resources and training for parents and children's workers of many kinds. The charity also attempts to persuade churches and other Christian organisations to include drugs awareness work within their programmes and play their part in helping to reduce the UK's alcohol and other drugs problems. Hope UK is a member of The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS). The charity provides training courses across the UK, ranging from short workshops to two-day",
"title": "Hope UK"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4145769",
"score": 0.95522696,
"text": "Church Workers include the application of faith principles to drug issues; Church drug policies and practice; and suggested action by churches for and with their communities. Hope UK’s Church Leaders’ Pack is also available as a paper resource. Hope UK Hope UK is a United Kingdom Christian charity based in London, England which educates children and young people about drug and alcohol abuse. It was founded in 1855 as the Band of Hope. The Band of Hope was first proposed by Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff, who was a Baptist minister in Leeds, following the death in June 1847 of a young",
"title": "Hope UK"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4145765",
"score": 0.94826555,
"text": "Christians and Temperance Societies saw this as a way of providing activities for children that encouraged them to avoid alcohol problems. Alcohol-free premises were established, rallies, marches and demonstrations were mounted to oppose the \"evils\" of hard liquor that were attended by thousands of supporters, and coffee taverns were established to keep teetotalers on the straight and narrow path. \"Signing the pledge\" was one of the innovative features. The pledge was a promise not to drink alcohol and millions of people signed up. There were also lectures that were illustrated by magic lantern, the technological equivalent to present day computerised",
"title": "Hope UK"
}
] |
Which colour represents Line 5 of the Paris Metro rail system?
|
[
"Orange (album)",
"Orangeishness",
"Orange (film)",
"Orangishness",
"Orangeishly",
"Orangishly",
"Orange",
"Oranfe",
"Orange (disambiguation)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8886830",
"score": 1.035471,
"text": "On the Paris Métro, there are two types of information display systems; the LED numerical display installed in all Métro lines (except line 14), in use since 1997, and the television display installed on all stations on line 14. These displays show the time needed for a train (and the subsequent train after it) to reach a particular station. On the bus network in Paris, monochrome LCDs have been used since 1996 to indicate the time needed for a bus on a bus route to arrive at a bus stop, after a two-year trial period on a few bus routes.",
"title": "Passenger information system"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6667911",
"score": 1.0250618,
"text": "01 train for Line 9 (#096) that is in revenue service along Line 5. None of the Line 9 trains will enter revenue service on Line 9 until sometime in September, 2013. Métro line 5 passes near several places of interest : Paris Métro Line 5 Paris Métro Line 5 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Paris, France. It crosses the east of Paris from Bobigny to Place d'Italie. It is the eighth-busiest line on the network. On 15 June 2011 the MF 01 began entering revenue service onto Line 5, gradually replacing the aging MF 67",
"title": "Paris Métro Line 5"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6667910",
"score": 1.0207608,
"text": "Paris Métro Line 5 Paris Métro Line 5 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Paris, France. It crosses the east of Paris from Bobigny to Place d'Italie. It is the eighth-busiest line on the network. On 15 June 2011 the MF 01 began entering revenue service onto Line 5, gradually replacing the aging MF 67 stock. The initial announcement was made in 2006 and trains began to be tested during the course of late 2010 and early 2011. As of June 2013, only three to five MF 67 trains remain in service. There is also one MF",
"title": "Paris Métro Line 5"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9336548",
"score": 1.016675,
"text": "network, it has now become possible to restore color to the 27 Ouï-dire stations. Colored LEDs imitating the original design began to be installed in Ouï-dire stations in 2014. A case apart, the new line 14 (originally known as Météor, or Métro Est-Ouest Rapide) represented a blank slate for station decoration. Following the logic of the stations' capacious volumes, the RATP opted for minimalism, with an emphasis on space, light and modernity. Specifically, the stations should represent \"a noble public space, monumental in spirit, urbane in its choice of shapes and materials.\" In practical terms, this meant a diversity of",
"title": "Architecture of the Paris Métro"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10283397",
"score": 0.9789535,
"text": "white line and a white circle means stop, and a vertical white line means go. An operating assistance signal completes the signalization: an illuminated lozenge indicating that a request for priority at a road crossing has been put in place. The route protection signals are located at switches and crossings. Speed limit signs are square panels with black numbers on a yellow background. In 2005, the SNCF signed an agreement with the Seine-Saint-Denis General Council through its Paris-Nord and Paris-Est establishments. The agreement, called \"Passerelle-Emploi\" or \"employment gateway,\" makes hiring new employees from within the department a priority. One-third of",
"title": "Île-de-France tramway Line 4"
}
] |
"Gene Hackman did not appear with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder in which of the ""Superman"" film series released between 1978 and 1987?"
|
[
"Superman III (1983)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2284561",
"score": 1.2162483,
"text": "big letdown\", praising Reeve as \"the salvaging strength of the film\" but referring to the matter of the villain as \"an essential problem\", finding that \"even in a succession of wigs, Gene Hackman is not preposterous, funny or dementedly menacing, and what he's doing here is not evident.\" Gary Arnold of \"The Washington Post\" wrote in a positive review, \"Despite a lull here and a lapse there, this superproduction turns out to be prodigiously inventive and enjoyable, doubly blessed by sophisticated illusionists behind the cameras and a brilliant new stellar personality in front of the cameras—Christopher Reeve, a young actor",
"title": "Superman (1978 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2284577",
"score": 1.1984841,
"text": "at the 32nd British Academy Film Awards. Reeve won Best Newcomer, while Hackman, Unsworth, Barry, and the sound designers earned nominations. The film won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. At the Saturn Awards, Kidder, Barry, John Williams, and the visual effects department received awards, and the film won Best Science Fiction Film. Reeve, Hackman, Donner, Valerie Perrine, and costume designer Yvonne Blake were nominated for their work as well. In addition, Williams was nominated at the 36th Golden Globe Awards and won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. In 2007, the Visual Effects Society",
"title": "Superman (1978 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3892487",
"score": 1.191172,
"text": "fallen in love with Superman. Both Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder are said to have been angry with the way the Salkinds treated \"Superman\" director Richard Donner, with Hackman retaliating by refusing to reprise the role of Lex Luthor. After Margot Kidder publicly criticized the Salkinds for their treatment of Donner, the producers reportedly \"punished\" the actress by reducing her role in \"Superman III\" to a brief appearance. Hackman later denied such claims, stating that he had been busy with other movies and general consensus that making Luthor a constant villain would be akin to incessant horror movie sequels where",
"title": "Superman III"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6293705",
"score": 1.1598861,
"text": "firing of director Donner was a huge blow to the series and the cause of its downturn in quality, a sentiment that was shared by Gene Hackman, who refused to reprise his Lex Luthor role in the third film, and Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane. In an interview with \"Starlog Magazine\" in 2006, O'Halloran stated that he and Christopher Reeve did not get along during the making of \"Superman II\". On one occasion, he had Reeve against a wall, but Richard Donner intervened and dissuaded him from hitting Reeve. (He also later discussed this incident on the \"How Did",
"title": "Jack O'Halloran"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "161501",
"score": 1.1556411,
"text": "also appeared in \"Night Moves\", receiving a BAFTA nomination for lead actor. He appeared in the star-studded war film \"A Bridge Too Far\" (1977), as Polish General Stanisław Sosabowski. Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the \"slow burn\" as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in \"Superman: The Movie\" (1978), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels. By the end of the 1980s, he alternated between leading and supporting roles, earning another Best Actor nomination for \"Mississippi Burning\". He had a memorable part as a Secretary of Defense trying to cover up a homicide in 1987's \"No Way",
"title": "Gene Hackman"
}
] |
Which Scottish author wrote the books known collectively as The Waverley Novels?
|
[
"Sir Walter Scotts's",
"Minstrel of the Border",
"Doctor Jonas Dryasdust",
"Wizard of the North",
"Malachi Malasgrowther",
"Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet",
"Scott, Walter",
"Walter Scott, 1st Baronet",
"Walter Scott",
"Border Minstrel",
"The Caledonian Comet",
"The Aristo of the North",
"Great Magician",
"Sir Walter Scott",
"Scott, Sir Walter",
"Sir W. Scott",
"SIR WALTER SCOTT",
"Malachi Malgrowther",
"And come he slow or come he fast it is but death who comes at last"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7042017",
"score": 1.2315981,
"text": "Waverley Novels The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from \"Waverley\", the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words \"by the author of \"Waverley\"\" on their title pages. The \"Tales of my Landlord\" sub-series was not advertised as \"by the author of \"Waverley\"\" and thus is not always included as part of the Waverley",
"title": "Waverley Novels"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1348188",
"score": 1.1819574,
"text": "Waverley (novel) Waverley is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). Published anonymously in 1814 as Scott's first venture into prose fiction, it is often regarded as the first historical novel in the western tradition. Edward Waverley, an English gentleman of honour, chooses an occupation in the army at the time just before the Jacobite uprising of 1745 on advice of his father. He has an officer's commission. On leave from army training, he visits friends of his family in Scotland, as he is not far from their place. He enjoys their Scottish hospitality. His head is full of",
"title": "Waverley (novel)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7042018",
"score": 1.1592861,
"text": "Novels series. The novels were originally printed by James Ballantyne on the Canongate in Edinburgh. James Ballantyne was the brother of one of Scott's close friends, John Ballantyne (\"Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh\"). Some of the early editions were lavishly illustrated by George Cattermole. There are two definitive editions. One is the \"Magnum Opus\", a 48-volume set published between 1829 and 1833 by Robert Cadell, based on previous editions, with new introductions and appendices by Scott. The other is a 30-volume set, based on manuscripts, published by the Edinburgh University Press and Columbia",
"title": "Waverley Novels"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17603197",
"score": 1.1564885,
"text": "the early nineteenth century that included the work of Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Brunton and Christian Johnstone. The outstanding literary figure of the early nineteenth century was Walter Scott, whose \"Waverley\" is often called the first historical novel. He had a major worldwide influence. His success led to a publishing boom in Scotland. Major figures that benefited included James Hogg, John Galt, John Gibson Lockhart, John Wilson and Susan Ferrier. In the mid-nineteenth century major literary figures that contributed to the development of the novel included David Macbeth Moir, John Stuart Blackie, William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Margaret Oliphant. In the late",
"title": "Novel in Scotland"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15645518",
"score": 1.1548955,
"text": "and also collected and published Scottish ballads. His first prose work, Waverley in 1814, is often called the first historical novel. It launched a highly successful career that probably more than any other helped define and popularise Scottish cultural identity. In the late 19th century, a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations. Robert Louis Stevenson's work included the urban Gothic novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886), and played a major part in developing the historical adventure in books like \"Kidnapped\" and \"Treasure Island\". Arthur Conan Doyle's \"Sherlock Holmes\" stories helped found the tradition of detective",
"title": "Scotland in the modern era"
}
] |
With a time of 3:49.4, breaking the existing world record by over 1.5 seconds, who was the first to run the mile in under 3:50 minutes ?
|
[
"John Walker",
"Walker, John",
"John Walker (disambiguation)",
"John Walker (bishop)",
"John Walker (cricketer)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "896139",
"score": 1.1576717,
"text": "Landy looking over his left shoulder, just as Bannister is passing him on the right. Landy thus lost the race. The statue was placed in front of the Pacific National Exhibition entrance plaza. New Zealand's John Walker, who with a 3:49.4 performance in August 1975 became the first man to run the mile under 3:50, ran 135 sub-four-minute miles during his career (during which he was the first person to run over 100 sub-four-minute miles), and American Steve Scott has run the most sub-four-minute miles, with 136. Algeria's Noureddine Morceli was the first under 3:45. Currently, the mile record is",
"title": "Four-minute mile"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "724644",
"score": 1.1200262,
"text": "mile run with a time of 3:49.4 minutes set at Göteborg, Sweden, on 12 August 1975, bettering the previous time of 3:51.0 set earlier that year by Filbert Bayi. It was the first time that the Three minutes and 50 seconds time had been broken, and it was a full 10 seconds faster than Roger Bannister's historic sub-Four-Minute Mile of 3:59.4 that was run twenty-one years previous. He was named Athlete of the Year by \"Track and Field News\" the same year. Walker's new record lasted until 17 July 1979, when it was lowered by the Briton Sebastian Coe. The",
"title": "John Walker (runner)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3040228",
"score": 1.1087635,
"text": "third in another Oslo race on July 11, 1981 with a time of 3:49.68, becoming the first American to break 3:50 in the event and the fifth ever to do so. South African Sydney Maree, who was in the process of gaining his American citizenship, ran 3:48.83 on September 9, 1981, though this time was not generally seen as being an American record. The following year Scott broke the American mile record twice, both times again at Oslo. First, he won a race on June 26, 1982 in 3:48.53, becoming history's third-fastest miler behind Coe and Steve Ovett; then 11",
"title": "Steve Scott (athlete)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9841757",
"score": 1.1071744,
"text": "Besides Jones, the 1908 Olympic champion Mel Sheppard was entered, as was the speedy Arnold Jackson of Britain, and the promising miler Norman Taber from Providence, Rhode Island. Additionally, American Abel Kiviat, who held the world record in the 1500 m, was in the field. Jones was not as prepared as he could have been as he could not train on the ship across the Atlantic, so Kiviat, who had set his 1500 m record of 3:55 only on 26 May of that year, barely missing Jones' mile record in the process, was favored. In the end, Jackson prevailed in",
"title": "John Paul Jones (athlete)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "896140",
"score": 1.1028221,
"text": "held by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj, who ran a time of 3:43.13 in Rome in 1999. In 1964, America's Jim Ryun became the first high-school runner to break four minutes for the mile, running 3:59.0 as a junior and a then American record 3:55.3 as a senior in 1965. Tim Danielson (1966) and Marty Liquori (1967) also came in under four minutes, but Ryun's high-school record stood until Alan Webb ran 3:53.43 in 2001. Ten years later, in 2011, Lukas Verzbicas became the fifth high-schooler under four minutes. In 2015, Matthew Maton and Grant Fisher became the sixth and seventh",
"title": "Four-minute mile"
}
] |
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in which religion?
|
[
"Búdachas",
"Buddhadharma",
"Buddhadhamma",
"Buddhism in Asia",
"Budddhism",
"Buddhist",
"Budddhist",
"Buddhist Saying",
"Buddhism",
"Buddha's gospel",
"Buddh",
"Dhamma-Vinaya",
"Bouddhism",
"Bhuudis",
"Buddhisam",
"Budhism",
"Budhda birth date controversies",
"BuddhIsm",
"Buddha birth date controversies",
"BuddHism",
"Buddhists",
"Buhhdism",
"Dhamma-vinaya",
"Buddhity",
"Buddha Dharma",
"Buddhasasana",
"Budhist",
"Bauddhadharma",
"The teaching of the Buddha",
"Dhammavinaya",
"Buddhism religion",
"Buddhaity",
"Superbuddha",
"Budism",
"Buddist",
"Buddhisem",
"Buddism",
"Будизъм",
"Boudhism",
"Bhuddist",
"Dhamma Vinaya",
"Buddha Dhamma",
"Buddhist religious philosophy",
"BUDDHISM",
"Budddhists",
"Bhuddism",
"Three levels of suffering"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2302938",
"score": 1.0127434,
"text": "are controversies surrounding the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, specifically the succession of Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama—the spiritual leader of the Gelug school, the major school of Tibetan Buddhism—, who before fleeing China during the 1959 Tibetan uprising had full political power in Tibet. The Panchen Lama, the Tibetan hierarch in charge of the designation of the future successor of the Dalai Lama, is the matter of controversy between the Chinese government and Tenzin Gyatso. The government of China asserts that the present (11th) incarnation of the Panchen Lama is Gyancain Norbu, while the 14th Dalai Lama asserted in 1995",
"title": "Religion in China"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12688806",
"score": 0.9895291,
"text": "He has met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcie, and other leaders of the Anglican Church in London, Gordon B. Hinckley, who at the time was the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), as well as senior Eastern Orthodox Church, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Sikh officials. The Dalai Lama is also currently a member of the Board of World Religious Leaders as part of The Elijah Interfaith Institute and participated in the Third Meeting of the Board of World Religious Leaders in Amritsar, India, on 26 November 2007 to discuss the topic of Love",
"title": "14th Dalai Lama"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "106857",
"score": 0.9834032,
"text": "present a number of artifacts, only some of which belonged to the previous Dalai Lama, and if the boy chooses the items which belonged to the previous Dalai Lama, this is seen as a sign, in conjunction with all of the other claimed indications, that the boy is the reincarnation. If there is only one boy found, the High Lamas will invite Living Buddhas of the three great monasteries, together with secular clergy and monk officials, to 'confirm their findings' and then report to the Central Government through the Minister of Tibet. Later, a group consisting of the three major",
"title": "Dalai Lama"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14389169",
"score": 0.9758166,
"text": "Dalai Lama’s role as supreme religious leader is a core part of the campaign that promotes the CCP's “stability” and “harmony” in the Tibetan areas of China. This was carried out by state-run media and senior government officials. Minister of Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi, for example, told a press conference in March 2009 that the Dalai Lama is “by no means a religious figure but a political figure.” The official response to continued criticism of CCP policy from Tibetans includes \"aggressive campaigns\" of “patriotic education” (“love the country, love religion”) and legal education. Patriotic education sessions require monks and nuns",
"title": "Human rights in Tibet"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12134353",
"score": 0.97377896,
"text": "10 Questions for the Dalai Lama 10 Questions For The Dalai Lama is a 2006 documentary film in which filmmaker Rick Ray meets with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama at his monastery in Dharamsala, India. The film maker asks him ten questions during the course of the interview which is inter-cut with a biography of Tenzin Gyatso, a history of modern Tibet and a chronicle of Ray's journey securing the interview. The film begins as a chronicle of Rick Ray's journey through India to interview Tenzin Gyatso. The film switches between present and recent past, with stages of the",
"title": "10 Questions for the Dalai Lama"
}
] |
In 2011, Christian Bale won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as an assistant to his half-brother in which boxing related film?
|
[
"The fighter",
"The Fighter",
"The Fighter (film)",
"The Fighter 2",
"The Fighter (2010 film)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13595977",
"score": 1.1215239,
"text": "4, 2011. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning the awards for Best Supporting Actor (Bale) and Best Supporting Actress (Leo). It was the first film to win both awards since \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" in 1986. Micky Ward is an American welterweight boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts. Managed by his mother, Alice Ward, and trained by his older half-brother, Dicky Eklund, Micky became a \"stepping stone\" for other boxers to defeat on their way up. Dicky, a former boxer whose peak of success was going the distance with Sugar Ray Leonard in 1978,",
"title": "The Fighter"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11605007",
"score": 1.0508562,
"text": "college students. Eklund has two sons, Dicky Jr (who is an actor) and Tommy, and a daughter, Kerry. Paramount Pictures' 2010 drama \"The Fighter\" chronicles the rise of Eklund's younger half-brother Micky Ward. Directed by David O. Russell, the film stars Christian Bale as Eklund and Mark Wahlberg as Ward. At the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Eklund made a surprise appearance on stage with Christian Bale as the latter accepted the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Eklund. Bale also won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for his performance. During his Academy Award acceptance",
"title": "Dicky Eklund"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2166861",
"score": 1.0482666,
"text": "talked after the incident and \"resolved this completely\". Bale acknowledged that the two worked together for several hours after the incident, and \"at least a month after that... I've seen a rough cut of the movie and he has done a wonderful job. It looks fantastic.\" Bale starred alongside Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell's 2010 drama film \"The Fighter\". Bale's portrayal of Dicky Eklund, for which he lost , was universally acclaimed: he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and 30 other awards in 2011 for the performance. Near",
"title": "Christian Bale"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2166831",
"score": 1.0390277,
"text": "serial killer Patrick Bateman in \"American Psycho\" (2000). In 2004, he lost 63 pounds for his role in the psychological thriller \"The Machinist\" (2004). Within six months, he gained 100 pounds to star as Batman in Christopher Nolan's superhero film \"Batman Begins\" (2005). He later reprised his role in \"The Dark Knight\" and \"The Dark Knight Rises\". Bale continued to take on starring roles, in Nolan's period drama \"The Prestige\" (2006), the western \"\" (2007), the science fiction film \"Terminator Salvation\" (2009), and the crime drama \"Public Enemies\" (2009). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his",
"title": "Christian Bale"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16767864",
"score": 1.0366398,
"text": "\"Batman\" film trilogy entitled \"The Dark Knight Rises\" as Wayne / Batman. As with its prequels, the film received positive acclaim from movie critics. \"The Dark Knight Rises\" has earned more than $1 billion worldwide thus becoming the third highest-grossing film of 2012. For his role as Michael Burry in the biographical dramedy \"The Big Short\", he was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Christian Bale filmography British actor Christian Bale has starred in various movies. Bale's role of a young boy, interned in China by the Japanese, received praise from most film critics.",
"title": "Christian Bale filmography"
}
] |
What name is given to the figure of rhetoric by which an unpleasant or offensive thing is designated by a milder term?
|
[
"Euphemisms",
"Euphemistic",
"Euphamism",
"Euphimism",
"Euphemised",
"Taboo deformation",
"List of euphemisms",
"Euphemisms for sex acts",
"Eumephism",
"Euthemism",
"Sexual euphemisms",
"Euphemisms for death",
"Euthemisms",
"Sexual Euphemisms",
"Euphemistical",
"Euphemism Treadmill",
"Euphemistic treadmill",
"Euphemistically",
"Euphemism",
"Euphenism",
"Bought the farm",
"Buy the farm",
"Euphemism treadmill"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4683352",
"score": 1.0623586,
"text": "figures of diction from the rest. The common characteristic of these ten figures is the application of language beyond the strict meaning of the words. The first he identifies as Onomatopoeia, the term given for words assigned to sounds we cannot properly imitate with language, such as “hiss” or “roar.” Antonomasia or pronomination is the use of an epithet when addressing a person or object in place of their proper name. Metonymy occurs when an object is referred to as something closely associated with it rather than its proper name. Periphrasis is the use of more words than are necessary",
"title": "Rhetorica ad Herennium"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2773254",
"score": 0.97913945,
"text": "Orators could be accused of racial or abusive epithets if used incorrectly. American journalist William Safire discussed the use of the word in a 2008 column in \"The New York Times\": \"'I am working on a piece about nationalism with a focus on epithet as a smear word,' writes David Binder, my longtime Times colleague, 'which was still a synonym for 'delineation' or 'characterization' in my big 1942 Webster's but now seems to be almost exclusively a synonym for 'derogation' or 'smear word.' ... In the past century, [epithet] blossomed as 'a word of abuse,' today gleefully seized upon to",
"title": "Epithet"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2773251",
"score": 0.9739164,
"text": "adjective or adjectival phrase that characterizes a place, a thing, or a person that helps make the characteristics of this thing more prominent. These descriptive phrases can be used in a positive or negative way that benefits the orator. \"It will generally happen, that the Epithets employed by a skillful orator, will be found to be, in fact, so many abridged arguments, the force of which is sufficiently conveyed by a mere hint; e.g. if any one says, 'We ought to take warning from the bloody revolution of France,' the Epithet suggests one of the reasons for our being warned;",
"title": "Epithet"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18363494",
"score": 0.9683763,
"text": "word as different parts of speech or in different grammatical forms\". The term applies wherever words derived from the same root (e.g. wretched and wretchedness) are used. Other sources use the related term antanaclasis when the same word is repeated in a different sense. The use of opposites for contrasting effect. The example quoted by Forsyth is: Reference to one thing by an enumeration of its parts, or by a list of synonyms. The chapter focuses on the first definition and provides the following example: The tradition in poetry of praising a woman by using metaphors to describe distinct parts",
"title": "The Elements of Eloquence"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2773252",
"score": 0.9472158,
"text": "and that, not less clearly, and more forcibly, than if the argument had been stated at length.\" With persuasion being a key component of rhetoric, it is rational to use epithets. The use of persuasive wording gives leverage to one's arguments. Knowledge along with descriptive words or phrases can be a powerful tool. This is supported in Bryan Short's article when he states, \"The New Rhetoric derives its empiricist flavor from a pervasive respect for clarity and directness of language.\" Rhetors use epithets to direct their audience to see their point of view, using verbal forms of imagery as a",
"title": "Epithet"
}
] |
What is the name of Kathy Burke’s character in the UK television series ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’?
|
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"Linda La Hughes",
"List of Gimme Gimme Gimme cast",
"List of Gimme Gimme Gimme cast members",
"Tom Farrell (Gimme Gimme Gimme)",
"Beryl Merit",
"Thomas Farrell (Gimme Gimme Gimme)"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2988257",
"score": 1.0375371,
"text": "2007, Burke contracted Clostridium difficile while in hospital for an operation, resulting in her having to pass directing duties on \"Dying for It\" at the Almeida Theatre (which starred Charlie Condou and Sophie Stanton who she worked with on \"Gimme Gimme Gimme\"). In 2009, Burke made her television directorial debut with the BBC Three sketch show series \"Horne & Corden\", starring Mathew Horne and James Corden. In 2010, Burke completed a short autobiographical film, \"Better Than Christmas\", for \"Little Crackers\", a collection of comic shorts. Burke plays a nun. On 19 January 2012, it was announced that Burke's short for",
"title": "Kathy Burke"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2988248",
"score": 0.9699839,
"text": "Kathy Burke Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director. She achieved fame with her appearances on sketch shows such as \"French and Saunders\" (1988–99) and her recurring role as Magda on the BBC sitcom \"Absolutely Fabulous\" (1992–96), as well as her frequent collaborations with fellow comedian Harry Enfield. For her portrayal of Valerie in the 1997 film \"Nil by Mouth\", she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Burke made her film debut in the 1982",
"title": "Kathy Burke"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3825356",
"score": 0.96167976,
"text": "show is loosely based on Mike Leigh's play Abigail's Party. The series is repeated on UK television channel Gold. \"Gimme Gimme Gimme\" centres around loudmouthed Londoner Linda La Hughes (played by comedian and director Kathy Burke) and her gay flatmate, actor Tom Farrell (played by James Dreyfus). A modern twist on the traditional \"odd couple\" format, much of \"Gimme Gimme Gimme's\" humour springs from its lubricious innuendo subplot, which comes from the mouths of both Tom and Linda. Linda is characterised by her red perm, white glasses, and plump, lycra-clad figure. Boorish, unattractive Linda is convinced she is a \"stunner\";",
"title": "Gimme Gimme Gimme (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2988254",
"score": 0.95070755,
"text": "Burke won the Best Actress award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the gritty drama \"Nil by Mouth\". Burke was so convinced she would not win that she made no plans to attend the ceremony; when told shortly beforehand she had won, she found her passport was out of date. The film also earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Since then she has appeared as Perry in \"Kevin & Perry Go Large\", and as Linda La Hughes in \"Gimme Gimme Gimme\" (which she developed with writer Jonathan Harvey) where she",
"title": "Kathy Burke"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3832390",
"score": 0.93753266,
"text": "and interviewed Lindsay Coulson, who played her fictional mother Carol Jackson in EastEnders. In 1999, Palmer made a cameo appearance as herself in an episode of Kathy Burke's sitcom, \"Gimme Gimme Gimme\"; it made light of her role as Bianca Jackson. She appeared as Clare in the detective series \"McCready and Daughter\", which aired for a pilot and one series between 2000 and 2001. She made an appearance in \"He Knew He Was Right\" for the BBC in 2004, and in 2001 she was seen in the television mini-series \"Do or Die\", which aired on Sky One. On stage she",
"title": "Patsy Palmer"
}
] |
Which country won the most medals overall at the Beijing Olympics in 2008?
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "835489",
"score": 1.0457501,
"text": "one gold medal, both of these figures setting new records for Olympic Games. There were 117 participating countries that did not win any medals. Athletes from China won the highest number of gold medals of any nation at these Games, with 48, thus making China the seventh nation to rank top in the medal table in the history of the modern Olympics, along with the United States (fifteen times), France (in 1900), Great Britain (in 1908), Germany (in 1936), the Soviet Union (six times), and the Unified Team (in 1992). The United States team won the most medals overall, with",
"title": "2008 Summer Olympics"
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "835456",
"score": 1.0368271,
"text": "unprecedented 87 countries won at least one medal during the Games. China won the most gold medals, with 48, and became only the seventh different team to top an overall Olympic medal tally, winning a total of 100 medals overall. The United States placed second in the gold medal tally but won the highest number of medals overall, with a total of 112. The third place in the gold medal tally was achieved by Russia. Beijing has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics; it would then become the first city ever to host both a Summer and Winter",
"title": "2008 Summer Olympics"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3591691",
"score": 1.0262473,
"text": "(40) and the most medals overall (101). China finished second on the International Olympic Committee medal table (though third in terms of total medals), the country's best performance until the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Russia finished third, (second in total medals), and also won the most bronze medals (38). Host nation Greece finished fifteenth, with six gold, six silver, and four bronze medals, in its best total medal haul since 1896. Australia became the first nation to improve their gold medal total at the Games immediately after hosting a Summer Olympics. The United Arab Emirates, Paraguay and Eritrea won their first",
"title": "2004 Summer Olympics medal table"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11565442",
"score": 1.0117626,
"text": "the Laureus World Sports Awards for the Best Team of the Year. The team excluded athletes from the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, which competed separately as Hong Kong, China. China won a total of 100 medals, 51 gold, 21 silver, and 28 bronze, which became its largest ever medal tally in Olympic history. On August 17, 2008, China achieved its greatest ever Olympic performance when the women's table tennis team defeated Singapore in the final to claim the nation's 33rd gold medal, surpassing the previous best tally of 32 at Athens 2004. As the host nation, China automatically",
"title": "China at the 2008 Summer Olympics"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14860147",
"score": 1.0019692,
"text": "– finishing second only to the United States in the global medal standings. The Chinese delegation proved particularly successful in several sports, winning twelve medals in gymnastics, ten in diving and swimming, eight in badminton, seven in weightlifting and shooting, and six in table tennis. Chinese athletes dominated in badminton and table tennis, where they each won gold medals in all sporting events. Eleven Chinese athletes managed to defend their titles from the 2008 Olympics, which China hosted; 18 of them won more than one Olympic medal in London. China also won its first ever Olympic medal in modern pentathlon.",
"title": "China at the 2012 Summer Olympics"
}
] |
Which fantasy novelist was knighted for his services to literature in 2009?
|
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"Terry Prattchet",
"Prattchett",
"Bissonomy",
"PTerry",
"Terry Prattcher",
"Terry Pratchett bibliography",
"Terry Pratchett",
"Terry Prattchett",
"Terry prachet",
"Terry pratchett",
"Pratchettian",
"Terence David John Pratchett",
"Pratchett",
"Terry Prachett",
"Terence Pratchett",
"Sir Terry Pratchett",
"TERRY PRATCHET",
"Pterry",
"Terry Pratchet"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11709",
"score": 1.082906,
"text": "World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2012. In January 2011, the University of Warwick awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa). On that occasion he gave a half-hour interview about his work.. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Salford (2011) and the University of Huddersfield in (2012). He has been recognised several times for particular works. Alan Garner Alan Garner (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is firmly rooted in the",
"title": "Alan Garner"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "405502",
"score": 1.0818553,
"text": "to literature\", in 1998. Following this, Pratchett commented in the Ansible SF/fan newsletter, \"I suspect the 'services to literature' consisted of refraining from trying to write any,\" but added, \"Still, I cannot help feeling mightily chuffed about it.\" Pratchett was the British Book Awards' 'Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year' for 1994. Pratchett won the British Science Fiction Award in 1989 for his novel, \"Pyramids\", and a Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2008 for \"Making Money\". Pratchett was awarded ten honorary doctorates: University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of",
"title": "Terry Pratchett"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "864980",
"score": 1.0335281,
"text": "patron, he was the main judge in the national literary competition run by the group, the \"Legend Writing Award\", which was named after his breakthrough novel. In 2008, the \"David Gemmell Legend Award\" was established, intended to \"restore fantasy to its proper place in the literary pantheon\"; a steering group of 18 authors is chaired by writer Stan Nicholls and the award is decided by a public vote. At the inaugural ceremony in June 2009, the first recipient was the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, for his novel \"Blood of Elves\". The youngest author to be nominated for this award was",
"title": "David Gemmell"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5919711",
"score": 1.0184472,
"text": "British Fantasy Award The British Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society (BFS) and were first awarded in 1976. Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards (see August Derleth Award). First awarded in 1972 (The Knight of Swords by Michael Moorcock) only for novels, the number of award categories increased and in 1976 the BFS renamed them collectively the British Fantasy Awards. The current award categories are Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award), Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award), Best Novella, Best Short Story, Best Independent Press, Best Artist, Best",
"title": "British Fantasy Award"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17209218",
"score": 1.0180378,
"text": "David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy The David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy were established in memory of David Gemmell and first awarded in 2009. In 2009, only the Legend Award for best fantasy novel was awarded by open voting. Beginning on 2010, the Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer and the Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover Art were added. The awards are for fantasy novels in the traditional, heroic, epic or high genres, or in the spirit of Gemmell's own work. The 2009 award (best novel only) was presented in June 2009. The 2010 awards were presented in June 2010.",
"title": "David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy"
}
] |
What restored Rome feature appeared in movie La Docle Vita and receives c.3,000 Euro coins every day?
|
[
"Fountain of Trevi",
"Fontana Di Trevi",
"The Trevi Fountain",
"Trevi Fountain",
"Fontana di Trevi",
"Fontana di trevi",
"Trevi fountain"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6615856",
"score": 1.0225233,
"text": "also legal tender in Italy and San Marino. In 2002, the Vatican City switched to the euro at an exchange rate of 1 euro = 1936.27 lira. It has its own set of euro coins. The development of Vatican coins largely mirrored the development of the Italian lire coins. In 1929, copper 5 and 10 centesimi, nickel 20 and 50 centesimi, 1 and 2 lire, and silver 5 and 10 lire coins were introduced. In 1939, aluminium bronze replaced copper and, in 1940, stainless steel replaced nickel. Between 1941 and 1943, production of the various denominations was reduced to only",
"title": "Vatican lira"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14263331",
"score": 1.0201782,
"text": "in the Magna Graecia and Etruscan civilization, the Romans introduced a widespread currency. Unlike most modern coins, Roman coins had intrinsic value. While they contained precious metals, the value of a coin was higher than its precious metal content, so they were not bullion. Estimates of their value range from 1.6 to 2.85 times their metal content, thought to equal the purchasing power of 10 modern British Pound Sterling (US$15) at the beginning of the Roman Empire to around 18 Pound Sterling (US$29) by its end (comparing bread, wine and meat prices) and, over the same period, around one to",
"title": "History of coins in Italy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14263342",
"score": 1.0037874,
"text": "rate of 1 dollar = 19 lire. This rate lasted until 1934, with a separate \"tourist\" rate of US$1 = 24.89 lire being established in 1936. In 1939, the \"official\" rate was 19.8 lire. After the Allied invasion of Italy, an exchange rate was set at US$1 = 120 lire (1 British pound = 480 lire) in June 1943, reduced to 100 lire the following month. In German occupied areas, the exchange rate was set at 1 Reichsmark = 10 lire. After the war, the Roman mint first issued the first 1, 2, 5 and 10 lira coins (6 September",
"title": "History of coins in Italy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14263334",
"score": 1.0008047,
"text": "of Italy. They corresponded to a value of 0.29 of gold or 4.5 grams of silver. The Papal States scudo was the coinage system used in the Papal States until 1866. Between 1798 and 1799, the revolutionary French forces established the Roman Republic, which issued coins denominated in baiocco and scudo. In addition, the states of Ancona, Civitavecchia, Clitunno, Foligno, Gubbio, Pergola and Perugia changed their coinage system to that of the Roman Republic. In 1808, the Papal States were annexed by France, and French francs circulated as the official coins. When the Pope's authority was restored in 1814, the",
"title": "History of coins in Italy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14263341",
"score": 0.9965955,
"text": "others, the French, Belgian and Swiss francs: in fact, until the introduction of the euro in 2002, people speaking the Gallo-Italic dialects in north-western Italy usually called \"\"franc\"\" the lira. World War I broke the Latin Monetary Union and resulted in prices rising severalfold in Italy. Inflation was curbed somewhat by Mussolini, who, on 18 August 1926, declared that the exchange rate between lira and pound would be £1 = 90 lire—the so-called Quota 90, although the free exchange rate had been closer to 140–150 lire per pound. In 1927, the lira was pegged to the U.S. dollar at a",
"title": "History of coins in Italy"
}
] |
For what type of transport is the mobile phone app Uber used?
|
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"TAXIS",
"Aerotaxis",
"Gravitaxis",
"Klinotaxes",
"Thigmotaxis",
"Thigmotactic",
"Orientation movement",
"Negative geotaxis",
"Aerotactic",
"Klinotaxis",
"Galvanotaxis",
"Tropotaxis",
"Barotaxis",
"Negative phonotaxis",
"Taxis",
"Phonotaxis",
"Anemotaxis",
"Taxy",
"Telotaxes",
"Telotaxis",
"Geotaxis",
"Hydrotaxis",
"Tropotaxes"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3264101",
"score": 0.90273416,
"text": "accepting the ride, and rides to/from a distant remote area may be hard to find. Drivers who do take passengers to these areas may have difficulty finding a fare for the trip back. Rider service levels, each of which are only available in certain cities, include: Uber drivers use their own cars although drivers can rent or lease a car to drive with Uber. Drivers must meet requirements for age, health, car age and type, have a driver's license and a smartphone or tablet, and must pass a background check. In many cities, vehicles used by Uber drivers must pass",
"title": "Uber"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11784092",
"score": 0.8879459,
"text": "Meters are introduced in all autorickshaws plying inside the city and the suburbs and the customers are charged based on the exact cost displayed on the meter. However charges are 1.5 times the displayed reading between 9pm to 6am. Major cab providers like Ola Cabs & Uber have also started their services in the city. Ola Cabs provides services in categories like Micro, Mini, Sedan, Share, Outstation. Ola also provides cabs to customers who are commuting to Mangalore Airport. Uber mainly provides the service UberGo. There are many local taxi operators who provide service within the city and beyond which",
"title": "Transport in Mangalore"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3264107",
"score": 0.8646134,
"text": "Chicago, Uber launched a service where users were able to request a regular taxi or an Uber driver via its mobile app. In July 2012, the company introduced UberX, a service option which allows people to drive for Uber using non-luxury vehicles, subject to a background check, registration requirement, and car standards. At first, rates were similar to those of taxis and were 35% cheaper than UberBLACK. By early 2013, the service was operating in 35 cities. Uber allowed drivers to use their personal vehicles as part of UberX starting in April 2013. Rates were quickly lowered, which caused some",
"title": "Uber"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3158924",
"score": 0.8644541,
"text": "Über Über (, sometimes written uber in English-language publications) is a German language word meaning \"over\", \"above\" or \"across\". It is an etymological twin with German \"ober\", and is cognate (through Proto-Germanic) with English \"over\", Dutch \"over\", Swedish \"över\" and Icelandic \"yfir\", among other Germanic languages; it is distantly cognate to Sanskrit word \"upari\" and Hindi \"uper\" (both meaning 'above', 'over' or 'up') probably through Proto-Indo-European. The word is relatively well-known within Anglophone communities due to its occasional use as a hyphenated prefix in informal English, usually for emphasis. The German word is properly spelled with an umlaut, while the",
"title": "Über"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "191263",
"score": 0.85828674,
"text": "Honda, Hyundai, Ford, Chevrolet and other brands are available. Most of the taxicabs in India are either Premier Padmini or Hindustan Ambassador cars. However, with app based taxi services like Uber coming to India as well as homegrown Indian app based taxi services like Ola coming to the fore, taxicabs now include Sedans, SUVs and even motorcycle taxis. Depending on the city/state, taxis can either be hailed or hired from taxi-stands. In cities such as Bangalore,Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, taxis need to be hired over phone, whereas in cities like Kolkata and Mumbai, taxis can be hailed on the street.",
"title": "Transport in India"
}
] |
Which line on the London Underground is represented by the colour yellow?
|
[
"Circle Line",
"Ring line",
"Circle line",
"Circle Line (disambiguation)",
"The Circle Line",
"Ring Line"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7913887",
"score": 1.0618981,
"text": "corporate typeface, New Johnston, on its signage, publicity, stationery and on its fleet of trains. In common with other TfL services, the Overground is denoted by its own colour, a vivid orange (Pantone 158C). The use of an orange colour was inherited from the former East London line prior to its transfer from Underground to Overground. London Overground lines are shown on the tube map using its modal colour of orange, and no attempt is made to distinguish between the different Overground lines by colour coding. Like the Docklands Light Railway, the Overground is represented as a double line rather",
"title": "London Overground"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "409640",
"score": 1.0405328,
"text": "for London expanded its London Overground service to include the East London Line in 2010, the East London line (extended to Croydon) changed from a solid orange line to a double orange stripe. According to 2007 proposals, the addition of the South London Line to London Overground was due to add the southern loop onto future tube maps in late 2010, and, as of May 2013, it is up and running. Like many other rapid transit maps, because the Tube map ignores geography, it may not accurately depict the relative orientation and distance between stations. Transport for London formerly published",
"title": "Tube map"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "409634",
"score": 1.0364854,
"text": "adopted different solutions. The font for the map, including station names, is Johnston, which uses perfect circles for the letter 'O'. This is historic and the generic font for all TfL uses, from station facades to bus destination blinds. The table below shows the changing use of colours since Beck's first map. The current colours are taken from Transport for London's colour standards guide, which defines the precise colours from the Pantone palette, and also a colour naming scheme that is particular to TfL. Earlier maps were limited by the number of colours available that could be clearly distinguished in",
"title": "Tube map"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10785026",
"score": 1.0335548,
"text": "on the London Underground. Two units first received this livery in 2000, when the rest were painted in a blue livery with pictures of dinosaurs aiming to entice tourists in the summer months when passenger numbers are high. A modern change is that there are yellow warning panels on the front ends of the units, required for the safety of track workers and a change compared with the original red. The livery was introduced as part of a refurbishment completed between 2007 and 2008, funded by leasing company HSBC Rail, which also included work at all stations. Rolling stock also",
"title": "Island Line (brand)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7913888",
"score": 1.0259143,
"text": "than a solid single line, to distinguish it from the colour-coded Underground lines. The London Overground also uses a variant of the TfL roundel. TfL denotes its different transport modes such as London Underground or London Buses with variants of the roundel device using a range of colours, and the London Overground version consists of an orange ring with a blue bar. The roundel has its origins in a 1933 design by the London Passenger Transport Board and has spawned many variations. Unlike other National Rail stations, London Overground stations which are not served by another National Rail operator now",
"title": "London Overground"
}
] |
This years hottest toy is a line of robotic hamsters known as what?
|
[
"Go go pets",
"Zhu Zhu Pet",
"Gogo hamster",
"Zhu Zhu",
"Go Go Hamsters",
"Zhu Zhu Pets",
"Go Go Hamster",
"Go Go Hampster",
"Kung Zhu",
"GoGo Hampster"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2349113",
"score": 1.0768616,
"text": "and robotic plush toys were fads when they were first released. These include Tickle Me Elmo, a laughing and shaking plush toy based on the character Elmo from the Sesame Street television show, released in 1996, Furby, a robotic talking plush toy with its own language, released in 1998 and Zhu Zhu Pets, a line of robotic plush hamsters released in 2009. Some brands of stuffed toys use marketing strategies to encourage the collection of a series of stuffed toys, such as Beanie Babies. They are very popular. Webkinz stuffed animals were created by Ganz in 2005. Each Webkinz toy",
"title": "Stuffed toy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11370029",
"score": 1.0262935,
"text": "the Sky Shark. Specializing in low price, simple to fly airplanes and helicopters the Air Hogs line has evolved to include air and ground vehicles. Air Hogs products are sold and distributed in over 50 countries worldwide. Introduced in 2014, Zoomer is a robotic dog that won \"Innovative Toy of the Year\" at the Toy Industry Association's ToTY Awards in 2014. Zoomer Dino won the 2015 ToTY for \"Boy Toy of the Year\" and \"Overall Toy of the Year.\" Also part of the Zoomer line are Zoomer Zuppies and Zoomer Chomplingz, smaller, low price point versions of their large counterparts.",
"title": "Spin Master"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1664226",
"score": 0.9977786,
"text": "Furby Furby is an American electronic robotic toy released in 1998 by Tiger Electronics. It resembles a hamster or owl-like creature and went through a period of being a \"must-have\" toy following its holiday season launch, with continual sales until 2000. Over 40 million Furbies were sold during the three years of its original production, with 1.8 million sold in 1998, and 14 million in 1999. Its speaking capabilities were translated into 24 languages. Furbies were the first successful attempt to produce and sell a domestically-aimed robot. A newly purchased Furby starts out speaking entirely \"Furbish\", the unique language that",
"title": "Furby"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16559281",
"score": 0.98832273,
"text": "pet market which included Rocket the Wonder Dog from Fisher Price, and Poo-Chi, from Tiger Electronics and SEGA, Tekno was named the best puppy for its value by Jim Silver of the popular magazine Toy Wishes. Additional pets and robots were launched. Other than Tekno the Newborn Puppy, the smaller version of Tekno. Here are the following robots ToyQuest/Genesis Toys launched: The spin-off of Tekno the robotic puppy. Similar to the 2013 version, it comes with a ball instead of a card trick. Originally sold exclusively to Toys “R” Us, Kitty the Tekno Kitten launched in 2001 and was advertised",
"title": "Tekno the Robotic Puppy"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14011830",
"score": 0.9845289,
"text": "have been released for \"The Power of Zhu\", although it was \"secretly distributed\" to TV stations in France and Brazil under the title \"Amazing Adventures of Zhu\". ZhuZhu Pets ZhuZhu Pets (, formerly known as Go Go Pets in the UK) is an American line of plush robotic hamster toys created by Cepia LLC in 2009. ZhuZhu Pets were created by Russ Hornsby for his St. Louis company, Cepia LLC. The name comes from Mandarin zhūzhū (), meaning \"little pig.\" In late 2009 Cepia employed only 16 people in the U.S. and 30 in China. The original ZhuZhu Pets are",
"title": "ZhuZhu Pets"
}
] |
The main ingredients of gunpowder are saltpetre, charcoal and what else?
|
[
"Sulpher",
"Beta-sulfur",
"Sulphurs",
"Sulphurous",
"Flower of sulfur",
"🜍",
"Sulfurs",
"Colloidal sulfur",
"Sulfur compounds",
"Brimstone (sulfur)",
"Sulfur",
"Sulfur/sulphur",
"Sulphur compounds",
"Sulvere",
"Precipitated sulfur",
"Beta-sulphur",
"Sulphuric",
"Liquid sulphur",
"Sulfuric",
"Sulfurically",
"Sulphur",
"Sulfur atom",
"Sulphur compound",
"ATC code D10AB02",
"ATCvet code QD10AB02",
"Sulfurous",
"Sulfur isotope",
"Sulphurously",
"Sulphurically",
"Purified sulfur",
"Sublimed sulfur",
"Wettable sulphur",
"Sulpur",
"Native sulfur",
"Element 16",
"Sulfur-bearing",
"Sulfurously",
"Sulfur (pharmacy)",
"Sulfer"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "163816",
"score": 1.1640428,
"text": "Gunpowder Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of a mixture of sulfur (S), charcoal (C), and potassium nitrate (saltpeter, KNO). The sulfur and charcoal act as fuels while the saltpeter is an oxidizer. Because of its incendiary properties and the amount of heat and gas volume that it generates, gunpowder has been widely used as a propellant in firearms, artillery, rockets, and fireworks and as a blasting powder in quarrying, mining, and road building. Gunpowder was invented in 9th-century China and spread throughout most parts",
"title": "Gunpowder"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "163871",
"score": 1.1618887,
"text": "individual technologies. French war powder in 1879 used the ratio 75% saltpeter, 12.5% charcoal, 12.5% sulfur. English war powder in 1879 used the ratio 75% saltpeter, 15% charcoal, 10% sulfur. The British Congreve rockets used 62.4% saltpeter, 23.2% charcoal and 14.4% sulfur, but the British Mark VII gunpowder was changed to 65% saltpeter, 20% charcoal and 15% sulfur. The explanation for the wide variety in formulation relates to usage. Powder used for rocketry can use a slower burn rate since it accelerates the projectile for a much longer time—whereas powders for weapons such as flintlocks, cap-locks, or matchlocks need a",
"title": "Gunpowder"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "163829",
"score": 1.1616893,
"text": "by volume. One example of this composition resulted in 100 parts saltpeter, 27 parts charcoal, and 45 parts sulfur, by weight. The \"Liber Ignium\", or \"Book of Fires\", attributed to Marcus Graecus, is a collection of incendiary recipes, including some gunpowder recipes. Partington dates the gunpowder recipes to approximately 1300. One recipe for \"flying fire\" (\"ignis volatilis\") involves saltpeter, sulfur, and colophonium, which, when inserted into a reed or hollow wood, \"flies away suddenly and burns up everything.\" Another recipe, for artificial \"thunder\", specifies a mixture of one pound native sulfur, two pounds linden or willow charcoal, and six pounds",
"title": "Gunpowder"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "163844",
"score": 1.1435401,
"text": "because al-Rammah attributes his material to \"his father and forefathers\", al-Hassan argues that gunpowder became prevalent in Syria and Egypt by \"the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth\". In Persia saltpeter was known as \"Chinese salt\" () \"namak-i chīnī\") or \"salt from Chinese salt marshes\" ( '). Hasan al-Rammah included 107 gunpowder recipes in his text \"al-Furusiyyah wa al-Manasib al-Harbiyya\" (\"The Book of Military Horsemanship and Ingenious War Devices\"), 22 of which are for rockets. If one takes the median of 17 of these 22 compositions for rockets (75% nitrates, 9.06% sulfur, and 15.94% charcoal),",
"title": "Gunpowder"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "163821",
"score": 1.143215,
"text": "to evaluate and compare purification techniques; the earliest Latin accounts of saltpeter purification are dated after 1200. The first reference to the incendiary properties of such mixtures is the passage of the \"Zhenyuan miaodao yaolüe\", a Taoist text tentatively dated to the mid-9th century: \"Some have heated together sulfur, realgar and saltpeter with honey; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they were working burned down.\" The Chinese word for \"gunpowder\" is , which literally means \"Fire Medicine\"; however this name only came into use some centuries after",
"title": "Gunpowder"
}
] |
"Who provided the voice of ""Charlotte"" in the 2007 film ""Charlotte's Web""?"
|
[
"Julia Roberts (actress)",
"Julia Robert",
"Roberts, Julia",
"Julia Fiona Roberts",
"Julia Roberts",
"Julia roberts",
"Phinnaeus Walter Moder"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6052260",
"score": 1.0728999,
"text": "Charlotte's Web (2006 film) Charlotte's Web is a 2006 American live-action/computer-animated comedy-drama film based on the 1952 children's novel of the same name by E. B. White. Directed by Gary Winick and written by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, it is the second film adaptation of White's book following a 1973 cel-animated version produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Beau Bridges and Louis Corbett with voices provided by Dominic Scott Kay, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Reba McEntire, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates and Thomas Haden Church. Produced by Walden Media, Jordan",
"title": "Charlotte's Web (2006 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9277523",
"score": 1.0466132,
"text": "There are several mini-games in each; the DS version supports a 'Nintendogs' style pet simulator, which kicks in during every mid-level save point. Both titles feature the voice of Dominic Scott Kay, the actor playing Wilbur in the motion picture. The DS and Game Boy Advance versions received \"mixed\" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Charlotte's Web (video game) Charlotte's Web is a video game of the 2006 film developed by Backbone Entertainment, Sega and Atomic Planet Entertainment and published by Sega and Blast! Entertainment Ltd.; the game was released in 2006 for Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS,",
"title": "Charlotte's Web (video game)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6052272",
"score": 1.0078868,
"text": "2006, for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PC. Another game based on the film was released in Europe for the PlayStation 2 by Blast Entertainment on April 5, 2007. Charlotte's Web (2006 film) Charlotte's Web is a 2006 American live-action/computer-animated comedy-drama film based on the 1952 children's novel of the same name by E. B. White. Directed by Gary Winick and written by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, it is the second film adaptation of White's book following a 1973 cel-animated version produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Beau Bridges and Louis Corbett",
"title": "Charlotte's Web (2006 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14149858",
"score": 1.0041497,
"text": "Registered Vet Nurse. Zampogna worked at RTRFM, Community Television and as the President of Animal Liberation (WA) Inc. Charlotte's Web (band) Charlotte's Web were an Australian Indie pop band, formed in Perth, Western Australia, briefly as Catherine Wheels, in 1986 with mainstay Jeffery Lowe on vocals and guitar. The band released \"Flies in the Face of...\" on cassette in January 1988 and \"Short Time Strait\" as an EP in February 1991 before disbanding later that year. Catherine Wheels was originally formed by Jeff Lowe (vocals, guitar) and Tim Underwood (guitar) in 1986 in Perth, Western Australia. Lowe and Underwood had",
"title": "Charlotte's Web (band)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6052271",
"score": 0.9961172,
"text": "won the Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress at the 2007 Kids' Choice Awards. Charlotte's Web: Music from the Motion Picture was released by Sony Classical on December 5, 2006. In addition to the instrumental score by Danny Elfman, the soundtrack includes a song named \"Ordinary Miracle\" by Sarah McLachlan, which she herself performed during the opening ceremonies of her hometown Vancouver Winter Olympics. A CD compilation of \"Music Inspired by the Motion Picture\" was issued on December 12, 2006. A video game based on the movie, developed by Backbone Entertainment and published by Sega, was released on December 12,",
"title": "Charlotte's Web (2006 film)"
}
] |
After a dispute about rent, Coventry City moved from the Ricoh Arena in 2013 to share with which Football League club?
|
[
"Northampton Town football club",
"Northampton Town F C",
"The Cobblers",
"Northampton Town F.C.",
"Northampton Town Football Club",
"Northampton Town",
"Northampton Town FC",
"Northampton Town F. C."
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "550244",
"score": 1.3448436,
"text": "competes in Football League One (third tier of English football), but spent 34 years from 1967 to 2001 in the top tier of English football, winning the FA Cup in 1987. They were founder members of the Premier League in 1992. Their stadium is the 32,600 capacity Ricoh Arena, which opened in the Rowleys Green district of the city in 2005. The 2013–14 season saw the football club begin a ground share with Northampton Town F.C. at Sixfields Stadium, Northampton, which lasted until their return to the Ricoh Arena in September 2014. Aside from Coventry City F.C., there are several",
"title": "Coventry"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2543331",
"score": 1.3167759,
"text": "being built. In June 2013, ACL made an offer that Coventry City F.C. could play at the Ricoh Arena rent free while the club was in administration. It was believed that Coventry City might ground-share with Walsall at the Bescot Stadium or attempt to stay at the Ricoh Arena, following the appointment of new owners. However, by July 2013, the Walsall rumours were denied and the club ground-shared at Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium – a venue that had less than a quarter the capacity of the Ricoh Arena, and involved a round-trip of . That arrangement was due to continue",
"title": "Coventry City F.C."
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11782976",
"score": 1.3016505,
"text": "national stadium, joining Birmingham and London in the race to be the new Wembley, but were unsuccessful in their bid. The Ricoh Arena includes a vast exhibition centre built onto the main stand. Despite a slight increase in attendance figures since moving from Highfield Road, Coventry City's continued failure to regain their place among the upper echelons of the League structure means there are always many empty seats at the Ricoh Arena. A long-winded saga involving unpaid rent stretching back to August 2012 resulted in the club being \"locked out\" of the Ricoh Arena in May 2013. In response, the",
"title": "Development of stadiums in English football"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6102528",
"score": 1.294409,
"text": "On 23 March 2013, Coventry City moved all its staff and club shop stock from the Ricoh Arena after a long dispute over rent and access to matchday revenue with the club. Coventry City agreed to play their home games at Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium to ensure that they fulfill their fixtures. This resulted in ACL threatening to sue Northampton Town if they decided to carry on hosting Coventry City's home games. Northampton Town released a club statement saying that they \"will not be bullied or threatened\". ACL has since withdrawn its legal action against Northampton Town, but the latter",
"title": "Ricoh Arena"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2543334",
"score": 1.2936112,
"text": "\"Campaign of the Year\" category. Because the tenancy agreement with Ricoh Arena expires in August 2018, it was reported in November 2015 that there would be a relocation to another site within the city. In May 2016, the \"Coventry Telegraph\" broke the news that the club had drawn up plans with Coventry Rugby Club for a ground-share arrangement at a redeveloped Butts Park Arena. That was eventually denied by Rugby Club chairman Jon Sharp, who said there could be no deal with the football club while it was still owned by SISU. In February 2007 a Former Players' Association was",
"title": "Coventry City F.C."
}
] |
Who were Manchester Utd's opponents in January 1948, when the highest ever attendance at a Football League match was recorded?
|
[
"Arsenal Football Club",
"Woolwich Arsenal F.C.",
"Arsenal appreciation",
"Arsenal Gunners",
"ARSENAL",
"Arsenal F. C.",
"Arsenal F C",
"ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB",
"Arsenal f. c.",
"Arsenal FC",
"Wolwich Arsenal",
"Arsenal:The Official Magazine",
"Arsenal F.C",
"50 Greatest Gunners",
"FC Arsenal",
"Arsenal.F.C",
"Arsenal fc",
"Royal Arsenal F.C.",
"The Arsenal",
"List of current Arsenal FC players",
"The Gunners",
"The Gooners",
"Victoria Concordia Crescit",
"Arsenal.com",
"Arsenal F.C.",
"Dial Square",
"Gunnersaurus Rex",
"Arsenal London",
"Gunnersaurus"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5885602",
"score": 1.1915953,
"text": "the Lancashire Combination and, despite losing Trautmann to Manchester City in October 1949, they won the Second Division title in some style the following season with three players all netting over 30 goals apiece: Albert Leadbitter (36), Harry McCann (32) and Terry Garner (31). An all-time club record attendance \"between 8,000 and 9,000\" witnessed a friendly game against Manchester City which was arranged as part of the Trautmann transfer deal in April 1950. Another 4,000 spectators then witnessed a second game contested by the two teams the season after. Although relegated by a slender margin from the First Division in",
"title": "St Helens Town A.F.C."
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5030069",
"score": 1.1356137,
"text": "southern end of the ground in 1936. The club's record League attendance was set on 14 April 1948, when 25,495 watched a 1–0 defeat to QPR. The overall record attendance was set on 2 March 1957, when 28,799 spectators watched an FA Cup match against Manchester United. Shortly afterwards, a roof was added to the western stand. The club also purchased more land behind the northern end of the ground, with the intention of enlarging the stand and building a leisure centre. However, the club ran out of money during its construction and abandoned the scheme in 1984. As a",
"title": "Dean Court"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3143113",
"score": 1.1138954,
"text": "Rovers on 31 March 2007. This is also the Premier League's record attendance. Old Trafford's record attendance for a non-competitive game is 74,731, set on 5 August 2011 for a pre-season testimonial between Manchester United and New York Cosmos. The lowest recorded attendance at a competitive game at Old Trafford in the post-War era was 11,968, as United beat Fulham 3–0 on 29 April 1950. However, on 7 May 1921, the ground hosted a Second Division match between Stockport County and Leicester City for which the official attendance was just 13. This figure is slightly misleading as the ground also",
"title": "Old Trafford"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3955969",
"score": 1.1132888,
"text": "In 1950, Salford finished fifth on scoring difference to miss out on a top-4 play-off spot but it was their highest post-war finish until 1973–74. Salford lost 4–8 to Warrington in a third round Challenge Cup tie on 17 March 1951 at the Willows. The crowd was reported in the press as 28,000, the upper limit that had been set for the match. If correct it would be a ground record, but no official figure survives to confirm the exact attendance. Salford won a four-team summer competition at Stanley Park in Blackpool 1952. Staged as part of Blackpool Corporation's Festival",
"title": "Salford Red Devils"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "266457",
"score": 1.1121413,
"text": "1,000 spectators. Although attendances were not recorded for many of the earliest matches at North Road, the highest documented attendance was approximately 15,000 for a First Division match against Sunderland on 4 March 1893. A similar attendance was also recorded for a friendly match against Gorton Villa on 5 September 1889. In June 1893, after the club was evicted from North Road by its owners, Manchester Deans and Canons, who felt it was inappropriate for the club to charge an entry fee to the ground, secretary A. H. Albut procured the use of the Bank Street ground in Clayton. It",
"title": "Manchester United F.C."
}
] |
Whose top hat and other belongings fetched nearly half a million euros at auction in May 2009?
|
[
"Marcel Marco",
"Mime Marceau",
"Le Troisième Oeil",
"Marcel marseau",
"Bip the clown",
"Marcel Mangel",
"Le Troisieme Oeil",
"Marcel Marceau"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19021378",
"score": 0.96598375,
"text": "not be buying it.\" In late 2010, Teodorin shipped his collection of sports cars and $400,000 worth of motorcycles, from Los Angeles to France. For a time, he lived at a Paris hotel off the Champs-Élysées; one day in Paris he bought over 30 suits. As of 2012, he owned \"a five-story mansion on Paris' swank Avenue Foch,\" where he had \"kept 11 luxury cars, including a Maserati and an Aston Martin, until French police seized them\" in late 2011 or early 2012. His neighbors on Avenue Foch described \"how a parade of tailors from France's top fashion houses regularly",
"title": "Corruption in Equatorial Guinea"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5174335",
"score": 0.9637983,
"text": "that she would otherwise face huge tax bills and a possible criminal investigation. In fact Wildenstein had placed two paintings, a Fragonard and a Boucher, with the investment bank Lazard Frères to cover his estate's tax liabilities. The court ruled that Sylvia Wildenstein was entitled to half of her late husband's personal estate, much of which she claimed had disappeared into foreign trusts, and ordered her stepsons to pay 20 million euros as an advance on a fortune described by \"The New York Times\" as having been \"variously estimated from 43 million to 4 billion euros\". In 2010 Sylvia Wildenstein",
"title": "Daniel Wildenstein"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1289806",
"score": 0.9574026,
"text": "China in a ceremony on 29 June 2013. On the first day of the sale, Henri Matisse's painting \"Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose\" broke the previous world record set in 2007 for a Matisse work and sold for 32 million euros. The record-breaking sale realized 342.5 million euros (£307 million). The subsequent auction, 17–20 November, included 1,185 items from the couple's Normandy villa and while not as impressive as the first auction, featured the designer's last Mercedes-Benz car and his Hermès luggage. \"Forbes\" rated Saint Laurent the top-earning dead celebrity in 2009. Yves Saint Laurent (designer) Yves Henri Donat",
"title": "Yves Saint Laurent (designer)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19140613",
"score": 0.9542934,
"text": "assets of at least £48 million. The claim was rejected by counsel for Mr Ramadani who argued that the matter had already been settled in Slovenia. Ramadani is now married to the Albanian opera singer Inva Mula. In 2010 it was reported that Ramadani was the buyer at auction for 75,000 euros of an icon by mid-eighteenth-century painter Kostandin Shpataraku that was formerly in the ownership of the family of the modern painter, Alush Shima. Hetem Ramadani Hetem Ramadani (born c. 1952) is a Kosovan engineer and businessman of Albanian extraction who is the president and founder of Salbatring, an",
"title": "Hetem Ramadani"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13998877",
"score": 0.9305432,
"text": "2009 he stole the armored van he was driving containing 11.6 million euros. This was made possible by lenient application of security procedures. The armored van was found empty shortly later with its GPS tracking device disabled. On 7 November 2009, the police were tipped off by witnesses and searched a garage in which they found most of the stolen cash: 9.1 million euros as well as a hired van. The remaining 2.5 million however could not be found. Musulin claims that he left them in the van with the rest of the cash. He claims that he did the",
"title": "Toni Musulin"
}
] |
The Australianscall it a 'Glory Box', what do the British call it?
|
[
"'BOTTOM DRAWER'"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3225265",
"score": 1.0424857,
"text": "won one game and one game was drawn; it was therefore decided to hold a further match to determine the outcome. The British side has not always been termed Great Britain; in the past the titles \"Northern Union XIII\", \"England\" and \"The Lions\" have also been used. Similarly, from the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour until the 1929–30 tour, Australian touring sides had included New Zealand players so were styled \"Australasia\", though when playing at home they always played as Australia. Since 1964 the Harry Sunderland Medal is awarded to the best Australian player in a home Ashes series. Since Great Britain's",
"title": "The Ashes (rugby league)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13240966",
"score": 1.0400482,
"text": "in Australia had suggested the team should use for its \"box-office value\". Moran wrote: Echoing the feelings of the Australian team towards the war-cry, there was little respect shown from their opponents towards it either. In the encounter with Cardiff at the Cardiff Arms Park, Percy Bush responded to the cry by charging onto the pitch brandishing a sword and shield, in what was intended to be an amusing riposte. The squad left Sydney on 8 August 1908 on board the \"SS Omrah\" bound for Melbourne. The ship contained 116 passengers, 1579 bales of wool, 2729 carcases of mutton, 4650",
"title": "1908–09 Australia rugby union tour of Britain"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12268769",
"score": 1.0355475,
"text": "it: a staled réchauffé of the British flag, with no artistic virtue, no national significance... Minds move slowly: and Australia is still Britain's little boy. What more natural than that he should accept his father's cut-down garments, – lacking the power to protest, and only dimly realising his will. That bastard flag is a true symbol of the bastard state of Australian opinion. Initially the Department of Defence resisted, considering it to be a marine ensign and favouring King's Regulations that specified the use of the Union Jack. After being approached by the Department of Defence, Prime Minister Chris Watson",
"title": "Australian flag debate"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20419372",
"score": 1.0297683,
"text": "and the ashes sent to Australia\"\". Later that year, during England's 1882-83 tour of Australia, English captain Ivo Bligh declared he would \"recover those ashes\" and received a miniature urn which is believed to contain the ashes of a burnt bail. Bodyline was a tactic developed by the English cricket team for the 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Donald Bradman. England's use of a tactic perceived by some as overly aggressive or even unfair ultimately threatened diplomatic relations between the two countries before the situation was calmed. A bodyline delivery was",
"title": "Australia–England sports rivalries"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15157368",
"score": 1.0230283,
"text": "The Glory Box The Glory Box were an Indie pop / Indie rock band from Melbourne, Australia. They existed from 1988 until their breakup in 1993. They released several 7\" vinyl singles and a 12\" vinly EP, as well as a full-length CD album and a compilation CD on Shock Records. The band have reunited sporadically for gigs since their initial break up, beginning in 2006. In 2015 there was suggestion of a possible new album from the band. The Glory Box were one of a number of promising Melbourne bands that emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s",
"title": "The Glory Box"
}
] |
What country does the band AC/DC come from?
|
[
"Australia (Commonwealth realm)",
"AustraliA",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1320302",
"score": 0.9939096,
"text": "AC/DC AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been described by music journalists as hard rock, blues rock, and, controversially, heavy metal; the group have defined themselves as \"a rock and roll band, nothing more, nothing less\". AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, \"High Voltage\", in 1975. Membership subsequently stabilised until Cliff Williams replaced Mark Evans as bassist in 1977 for the album \"Powerage\". In February 1980, a few months after recording the album \"Highway to Hell\", lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott",
"title": "AC/DC"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1320380",
"score": 0.98339546,
"text": "second most powerful surge that can flow through your body.\" During the acceptance speech, Brian Johnson quoted their 1977 song \"Let There Be Rock\". On 22 March 2000, the municipality of Leganés (near Madrid) named a street in honour of the band as \"Calle de AC/DC\" (\"AC/DC Street\"). Malcolm and Angus attended the inauguration with many fans. Later that day, the plaque with the name of the group was stolen, perhaps by an enthusiast or collector. The plaque was replaced two hours later, and stolen once again a mere three days after the fact. The plaque had since been stolen",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1320309",
"score": 0.9817759,
"text": "formed and played bass in the London-based band Grapefruit—initially called \"The Grapefruit\"—with three former members of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, John Perry, Geoff Swettenham, and Pete Swettenham. Malcolm and Angus Young developed the idea for the band's name after their sister, Margaret Young, saw the initials \"AC/DC\" on a sewing machine. \"AC/DC\" is an abbreviation meaning \"alternating current/direct current\" electricity. The brothers felt that this name symbolised the band's raw energy, power-driven performances of their music. \"AC/DC\" is pronounced one letter at a time, though the band are colloquially known as \"Acca Dacca\" in Australia. The AC/DC band name",
"title": "AC/DC"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9167043",
"score": 0.95377123,
"text": "100 Greatest British Rock Albums Ever', which were voted for by \"Classic Rock\" staff and various people associated with rock music (including Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath fame, Lemmy of Motörhead and Francis Rossi of Status Quo). The magazine decided to let AC/DC be classed as a British act, although the band was formed in Australia. All of the band's singers (Dave Evans, Bon Scott and Brian Johnson) and guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young are of UK descent. Led Zeppelin's \"Led Zeppelin IV\" reached first place. The 100th issue contained all the regular features, but only one",
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7339848",
"score": 0.9511465,
"text": "first time. The brothers Angus and Malcolm Young formed AC/DC in 1973. The band released two albums in Australia before releasing their first international effort, \"High Voltage\" with vocalist Bon Scott, bassist Mark Evans and drummer Phil Rudd. In 1980, less than a year after the release of the successful \"Highway to Hell\", Bon Scott died and was replaced by British singer Brian Johnson, with whom AC/DC released their best-selling album, \"Back in Black\". Their album \"Black Ice\", released in 2008, sold over 8 million copies worldwide and reached #1 in 29 countries. In 41 years of their career, AC/DC",
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}
] |
Which company makes 'Angel' perfume?
|
[
"Mugler",
"Thierry Mugler",
"THIERRY MUGLER"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6035736",
"score": 0.97611666,
"text": "in 1992 and was called \"Angel\". \"Angel\" contains a combination of praline and chocolate mixed with a strong accord of patchouli. It would be a part of a new fragrance type called gourmand. The Angel bottle, a design in the shape of a faceted star, was created by the Brosse Master Glassmakers. Fans of the fragrance include Diana Ross, Barbara Walters, Eva Mendes, and Hillary Clinton. In 1996 Mugler followed up Angel with a male version named Angel Men or A*Men. This fragrance includes notes of caramel, coffee, vanilla, patchouli, and honey. In 2005, Alien was created, the second major",
"title": "Thierry Mugler"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "958812",
"score": 0.9502841,
"text": "Perfume Perfume (, ; ) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives and solvents, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. It is usually in liquid form and used to give a pleasant scent to a person's body. Ancient texts and archaeological excavations show the use of perfumes in some of the earliest human civilizations. Modern perfumery began in the late 19th century with the commercial synthesis of aroma compounds such as vanillin or coumarin, which allowed for the composition of perfumes with smells previously unattainable solely from natural",
"title": "Perfume"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10718669",
"score": 0.94933593,
"text": "it leads more towards the unisex side. Since then it has been rebranded as unisex. Believe (fragrance) Believe is a unisex fragrance by Britney Spears for Elizabeth Arden. This is the fifth fragrance from Britney, and hit the stores on September 24, 2007. The fragrance is said to be sensual and warm. Delicate and feminine. A sparkling blend of exotic fruits guava and golden tangerine, soft florals honeysuckle and hints of linden blossom, and seductive amber, patchouli, and pink pralines. A gift set includes: The perfume's brand created controversy in August 2007 when it was revealed to be a near-copy",
"title": "Believe (fragrance)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20184983",
"score": 0.928146,
"text": "by the newly purchased company was the Original Collection, which featured the fragrance pairs ‘1872’, ‘X’, and ‘No.1’. The new millennium brought a re-launch for this collection, along with the release of a new family of perfumes. This was the Private Collection, which consisted of the introduction of the ‘C’ fragrance in 2010, the ‘V’ fragrance in 2012 and the ‘L’ in 2014. The release of the ‘V’ perfume coincided with Christian being awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2012 New Year Honours List. Later that year, a special bottle was presented to the Queen for her",
"title": "Clive Christian Perfume"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6897734",
"score": 0.9241586,
"text": "with the fragrances for their products, but found out the perfumes were not always pure, so Mark decided he would create the perfumes himself. A competition was launched for customers to give the company a new name. One customer suggested 'Lush', meaning fresh, green, and verdant. The company was recorded as being founded in 1995. In December 2010, Mark and Mo Constantine were awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours list, for services to the beauty industry. In 2018, UK recruitment website Indeed named Lush as the UK's seventh best private sector employer based on millions of employee ratings",
"title": "Lush (company)"
}
] |
Warsaw is the capital of which country?
|
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"Poleand",
"Rzeczpospolita Polska",
"Polland",
"ISO 3166-1:PL",
"Polskor",
"Republic of Poland",
"POLAND",
"Fourth Poland",
"Country- Poland",
"Poleland",
"Polska",
"Poland",
"Poland.",
"Pols Land",
"Polnd",
"Po land",
"Lenkija",
"Bastarnia",
"Pologne",
"PolanD",
"Polija",
"Pole land",
"Architecture of Poland",
"Ploand"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "454542",
"score": 1.0245978,
"text": "Warsaw Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.765 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 8th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover , while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an alpha global city, a major international tourist destination, and a significant cultural, political and economic hub. Its historical Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Once described",
"title": "Warsaw"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "519467",
"score": 0.92318,
"text": "Masovian Voivodeship Mazovian Voivodeship or Mazovia Province ( ) is the largest and most populous of the 16 Polish provinces, or voivodeships, created in 1999. It occupies of east-central Poland, and has 5,324,500 inhabitants. Its principal cities are Warsaw (1.749 million) in the centre of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Radom (226,000) in the south, Płock (127,000) in the west, Siedlce (77,000) in the east, and Ostrołęka (55,000) in the north. The capital of the voivodeship is the national capital, Warsaw. The province was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce and Radom Voivodeships,",
"title": "Masovian Voivodeship"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17794760",
"score": 0.92082113,
"text": "one hour time zone difference at the Poland-Belarus border). Warsaw–Terespol railway The Warsaw − Terespol Railway (, ) is a long railway in Poland, opened in 1866 between Warsaw and Terespol, as a part of the railway between Warsaw and Moscow. Today the line is designated by the Polish State Railways (PKP) as Rail Line 2. Along with Line 3 it forms Rail Line E20 which is the Polish part of the Pan-European Corridor II, linking Berlin with Moscow. In addition to international passenger and freight traffic the line also carries significant regional commuter traffic in the Masovian Voivodeship between",
"title": "Warsaw–Terespol railway"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1062840",
"score": 0.91771173,
"text": "Warsaw, Indiana Warsaw is a city in and the county seat of Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States. Warsaw has a population of 13,559 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Warsaw, named after the capital of Poland in tribute to Tadeusz Kościuszko, platted on October 21, 1836. Warsaw's post office was established in 1837. Early Warsaw contained traders, trappers, and merchants supplying manufactured goods to area farmers. Because of the central location in the lake region, tourists soon began visiting Warsaw and eventually made permanent residences in the city, with industry soon following. In March 1854, Warsaw became a town, and",
"title": "Warsaw, Indiana"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8024588",
"score": 0.9142777,
"text": "Street names of Warsaw Warsaw is the capital of Poland. This page gives an overview of street names in the city that refer to famous persons, cities or historic events. Traditionally the streets in Warsaw, unlike in many other cities in Poland, are named with adjective forms rather than in simple nouns in nominative case. For instance, the street named after Saint John is named Świętojańska (literally \"Saintjohnian Street\") in Warsaw and \"Święty Jan\" (Saint John) in Poznań. In modern times the tradition is not closely observed and most streets named after personalities or groups are named with nouns in",
"title": "Street names of Warsaw"
}
] |
The Ten Commandments appear in which book of the Bible?
|
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"The Exodus (film)",
"Exodus",
"Exodus (book)",
"Exodus (disambiguation)",
"Exodus (album)",
"Exodus album",
"The Exodus (disambiguation)",
"Exodus (2007 film) (disambiguation)",
"Exodus (film)",
"Exodus (2007 film)",
"Exodus (novel)",
"Exodus (movie)",
"Exodus (song)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5884030",
"score": 0.94071865,
"text": "me.\" According to Jewish tradition, constitutes God's first recitation and inscription of the ten commandments on the two tablets, which Moses broke in anger with his rebellious nation, and were later rewritten on replacement stones and placed in the ark of the covenant; and consists of God's re-telling of the Ten Commandments to the younger generation who were to enter the Promised Land. The passages in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 contain more than ten imperative statements, totalling 14 or 15 in all. The Ten Commandments concern matters of fundamental importance in Judaism and Christianity: the greatest obligation (to worship",
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},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5884022",
"score": 0.9402642,
"text": "Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments (, \"Aseret ha'Dibrot\"), also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. The commandments include instructions to worship only God, to honour one's parents, and to keep the sabbath, as well as prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery, theft, dishonesty, and coveting. Different religious groups follow different traditions for interpreting and numbering them. The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Hebrew Bible, in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy. Modern scholarship has found likely influences in Hittite and Mesopotamian",
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},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5884024",
"score": 0.9298674,
"text": "and referring to the Greek translation (in accusative) , , \"ten words\", found in the Septuagint (or LXX) at Exodus 34:28 and Deuteronomy 10:4. The stone tablets, as opposed to the commandments inscribed on them, are called , \"Lukhot HaBrit\", meaning \"the tablets of the covenant\". Different religious traditions divide the seventeen verses of and their parallels at into ten \"commandments\" or \"sayings\" in different ways, shown in the table below. Some suggest that the number ten is a choice to aid memorization rather than a matter of theology. Traditions: The biblical narrative of the revelation at Sinai begins in",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5884032",
"score": 0.91828626,
"text": "Their precise import must be worked out in each separate situation. The Bible indicates the special status of the Ten Commandments among all other Torah laws in several ways: The Ten Commandments form the basis of Jewish law, stating God's universal and timeless standard of right and wrong – unlike the rest of the 613 commandments in the Torah, which include, for example, various duties and ceremonies such as the kashrut dietary laws, and now unobservable rituals to be performed by priests in the Holy Temple. Jewish tradition considers the Ten Commandments the theological basis for the rest of the",
"title": "Ten Commandments"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5884023",
"score": 0.90574205,
"text": "laws and treaties, but is divided over exactly when the Ten Commandments were written and who wrote them. In biblical Hebrew, the Ten Commandments are called (transliterated ) and in Mishnaic Hebrew (transliterated ), both translatable as \"the ten words\", \"the ten sayings\", or \"the ten matters\". The Tyndale and Coverdale English biblical translations used \"ten verses\". The Geneva Bible used \"tenne commandements\", which was followed by the Bishops' Bible and the Authorized Version (the \"King James\" version) as \"ten commandments\". Most major English versions use \"commandments.\" The English name \"Decalogue\" is derived from Greek , \"dekalogos\", the latter meaning",
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}
] |
Which country's team won the 2011 Women's Football World Cup?
|
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"日本國",
"State of Japan",
"Ja-pan",
"Nihon",
"Nippon",
"Japang",
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"Republic of Japan",
"Japanese financial sector",
"Nihon-koku",
"ISO 3166-1:JP",
"日本",
"Japian",
"Japan",
"JapaN",
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"JPN",
"Jpan",
"Rìběn",
"日本国",
"Japao",
"JAPAN",
"Japoa",
"🗾"
] |
[
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5693595",
"score": 1.0414062,
"text": "Miyama of Japan won the assists table with four assists. Table source 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in October 2007. Japan won the final against the United States on a penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 draw after extra time and became the first Asian team to win a senior FIFA World Cup. The matches were played in",
"title": "2011 FIFA Women's World Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5693589",
"score": 1.0265094,
"text": "each team's squad for the 2011 Women's World Cup consisted of 21 players, two less than men's World Cup squads. Each participating national association had to confirm their final 21-player squad no later than 10 working days before the start of the tournament. Replacement of seriously injured players was permitted until 24 hours before the team in question's first World Cup game. On 25 June 2011 the A sample of Yineth Varón, goalkeeper of , tested positive to an as yet unknown substance. She was provisionally suspended by the FIFA until the B sample result was known. On 25 August",
"title": "2011 FIFA Women's World Cup"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5693567",
"score": 1.0222373,
"text": "2011 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in October 2007. Japan won the final against the United States on a penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 draw after extra time and became the first Asian team to win a senior FIFA World Cup. The matches were played in nine stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final",
"title": "2011 FIFA Women's World Cup"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15450411",
"score": 1.0132594,
"text": "the opening day of the tournament on 26 June 2011. The squad was announced on 16 June. Note: The caps and goals totals for many players on the squad differ dramatically between FIFA's squad list and the player list of the Canadian Soccer Association. For example, the FIFA list only credits Christine Sinclair with 43 goals, while the CSA credits Sinclair with 116. An examination of Sinclair's CSA matches page and CSA statistics page reveals that all of her CSA-credited caps were against full national teams, which means that all 116 goals should presumably be listed as full international goals.",
"title": "2011 FIFA Women's World Cup squads"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16442465",
"score": 0.99819386,
"text": "team. In March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA. Brunei women's national football team The Brunei women's national football team, represents Brunei Darussalam in international women's association football and is governed by Football Association of Brunei Darussalam (FABD). The team has not played any official match so far. Under the current Sharia law, (or Islamic law (Arabic: شريعة (IPA: [ʃaˈriːʕa]))women are not allowed to play football. Until women were banned from playing, football was the second most popular sport in the country for women. Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country",
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}
] |
Under whose command did the 'ever-victorious army' play a part in putting down the 'Taiping Rebellion' in 1864?
|
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"General Charles Gordon",
"Chinese Gordon",
"Gordon of Khartoum",
"Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB",
"GENERAL GORDON",
"Major-General Charles George Gordon",
"Gordon Pasha",
"Charles George Gordon",
"Gordon of khartoum",
"Charles George %22Chinese%22 Gordon",
"General Gordon",
"Charles Chinese Gordon",
"CG Gordon",
"Charles %22Chinese%22 Gordon",
"Sir Charles George Gordon",
"General Charles George Gordon"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5781085",
"score": 1.1815833,
"text": "decisive battles that ended the Taiping Rebellion. Though Gordon has received most of the credit for the victories, it was Ward who originated the concepts that resulted in the Ever Victorious Army, and its ability to win those victories for Gordon. In recent years, there has been an effort to pay tribute to the man who molded the Ever Victorious Army, Ward, aided by Li Hongzhang, rather than Gordon. The infantry of the Ever Victorious Army was organised into battalions, usually referred to during the period of Gordon's command as regiments. By 1864 there were six regiments numbering between 250",
"title": "Ever Victorious Army"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5781081",
"score": 1.1716877,
"text": "later Chinese armies. The Ever Victorious Army had its beginnings as a force formed under the command of Frederick Townsend Ward in 1860, assisted by the local strategic support of the French diplomat Albert-Édouard Levieux de Caligny called \"le breton\" by the Chinese in the Shanghai French Concession. The Ever-Victorious Army repulsed another attack on Shanghai in 1862 and helped to defend other treaty ports such as Ningbo. They also aided imperial troops in reconquering Taiping strongholds along the Yangtze River. Qing forces were reorganised under the command of Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang, and the Qing reconquest",
"title": "Ever Victorious Army"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "852790",
"score": 1.1715827,
"text": "of the Jiangnan Daying). failed to take Shanghai, a loss which marked the beginning of the decline of the kingdom. An attempt to take Shanghai in August 1860 was repulsed by an army of Qing troops supported by European officers under the command of Frederick Townsend Ward assisted by local strategic support of the French diplomat Albert-Édouard Levieux de Caligny. This army would become known as the \"Ever Victorious Army\", a seasoned and well trained Qing military force commanded by Charles George Gordon, and would be instrumental in the defeat of the Taiping rebels. In 1861, around the time of",
"title": "Taiping Rebellion"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5781080",
"score": 1.1702864,
"text": "Ever Victorious Army The Ever Victorious Army () was the name given to an imperial army in late-19th-century China. The Ever Victorious Army fought for the Qing Dynasty against the rebels of the Nian and Taiping Rebellions. The Ever Victorious Army consisted of Chinese soldiers trained and led by an American and European officer corps. Though the Army was only active for a few years, from 1860 to 1864, it was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion. It was the first Chinese army which was trained in European techniques, tactics, and strategy. As such, it became a model for",
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},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12906566",
"score": 1.1505532,
"text": "death, he returned to England. In 1866, he wrote and published \"Ti Ping Tien Kwoh: or the History of the Taiping Revolution\" and included a dedication ：\"To Le-Siu-Cheng, the Chung-Wang, \"Faithful Prince,\" Commander-in-Chief of the Ti-Ping forces, this work is dedicated if he be living; and if not, to his memory\". In June 1863, Li Xiu-cheng commanded 250,000 troops to withdraw to Nanjing, when Taiping‘s warships took troops cross river, tough fighting between Taiping and Qing Army (Battle of Jofoolzo九洑洲決戰), Lindley was commander of Taiping‘s fleet and several times defeated Qing Army offensive and down many Qing warships, but he",
"title": "Augustus Frederick Lindley"
}
] |
What is the largest island in the Mediterranean?
|
[
"Trinacrian",
"Jewel of the Mediterranean",
"Sicily, Italy",
"Sicily",
"Sicilia",
"Sicilly",
"Island of Sicily",
"Sicily (Italy)"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "252049",
"score": 0.9007315,
"text": "the Aegean Sea), has a surface area of approximately 2,510,000 square km (970,000 square miles). The sea was an important route for merchants and travellers of ancient times that allowed for trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region. The history of the Mediterranean region is crucial to understanding the origins and development of many modern societies. The countries surrounding the Mediterranean in clockwise order are Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco; Malta and Cyprus are island countries in the sea. In",
"title": "Mediterranean Sea"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1656020",
"score": 0.88345957,
"text": "Malta (island) Malta is the largest of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese archipelago. It is sometimes referred to as Valletta for statistical purposes to distinguish the main island from the entire country. Malta is in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea directly south of Italy and north of Libya. The island is long and wide, with a total area of . The capital is Valletta, largest locality is Birkirkara. The island is made up of many small towns, which together form one Larger Urban Zone with a population of 409,259. The landscape is characterised by low hills",
"title": "Malta (island)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2318127",
"score": 0.8736694,
"text": "°C and +17 °C, the summer between +28 °C and +30 °C. Lampedusa Lampedusa (; ; ) is the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The comune of Lampedusa e Linosa is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento which also includes the smaller islands of Linosa and Lampione. It is the southernmost part of Italy and Italy's southernmost island. Tunisia, which is about away, is the closest landfall to the islands. Sicily is farther at , whilst the island nation of Malta is to the east. Lampedusa has an area of and a population",
"title": "Lampedusa"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "252065",
"score": 0.8696313,
"text": "The long artificial Suez Canal in the southeast connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. Large islands in the Mediterranean include Cyprus, Crete, Euboea, Rhodes, Lesbos, Chios, Kefalonia, Corfu, Limnos, Samos, Naxos and Andros in the Eastern Mediterranean; Sicily, Cres, Krk, Brač, Hvar, Pag, Korčula and Malta in the central Mediterranean; Sardinia, Corsica, and the Balearic Islands: Ibiza, Majorca, and Menorca in the Western Mediterranean. The typical Mediterranean climate has hot, humid, and dry summers and mild, rainy winters. Crops of the region include olives, grapes, oranges, tangerines, and cork. The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the",
"title": "Mediterranean Sea"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "369170",
"score": 0.8635874,
"text": "Sicily Sicily ( ; ) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, in Southern Italy along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as \"Regione Siciliana\". Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula, from which it is separated by the narrow Strait of Messina. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe, and one of the most active in the world, currently high. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate. The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the island dates",
"title": "Sicily"
}
] |
The opening credits of which TV show showed Neil Kinnock falling over on his backside on Brighton Beach?
|
[
"Rubber News",
"Spitting Image (show)",
"Fluck and Law",
"Spitting image",
"Spitting Image"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "294632",
"score": 0.88252664,
"text": "featuring Kinnock with the headline \"If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights\". Kinnock blamed the newspaper in his resignation speech for Labour losing the election, along with other right-wing media sections who had backed the Conservatives in the run-up to the election. The following day's headline in \"The Sun\" was \"It's The Sun Wot Won It\", which Rupert Murdoch, many years later at his April 2012 appearance before the Leveson Inquiry, stated was both \"tasteless and wrong\" and led to the editor Kelvin MacKenzie receiving a reprimand. The Labour-supporting \"Daily Mirror\"",
"title": "Neil Kinnock"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2174929",
"score": 0.82684636,
"text": "party leader, Neil Kinnock, was flown into the city by helicopter. The rally was modelled partly on American presidential campaign conventions, with sound and light performances on the stage and celebrity endorsements played on a large video screen. At one point in the proceedings, Kinnock and the shadow cabinet paraded to the stage from the back of the venue, passing through an increasingly enthusiastic audience, with the shadow cabinet being introduced with titles such as \"The next Home Secretary\" and \"The next Prime Minister\"; Labour had been in opposition for 13 years and had already lost three consecutive general elections",
"title": "Sheffield Rally"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "294643",
"score": 0.82079077,
"text": "both Chris Barrie and Steve Coogan in the satirical TV programme, \"Spitting Image\" and by Euan Cuthbertson in the Scottish film \"In Search of La Che\". Kinnock has been described as an agnostic and an atheist. Like his wife, he is a Patron of Humanists UK. Neil Kinnock Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, (born 28 March 1942) is a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992. Kinnock led",
"title": "Neil Kinnock"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11651405",
"score": 0.819579,
"text": "to the legs of the pier as the tide rose. On Brighton's West Pier, The Great Omani was known for jumping though open flames into a bed of glass. In 1977 he marked the Queen's Silver Jubilee by performing a handstand on the cliff edge of Beachy Head, with a Union Jack between his toes. To impress audiences he put himself in great danger during many of his stunts using fire, water and glass at his local pub the Bedford Tavern in Brighton. It was here where he performed his last stunt in 2005. This was the escape out of",
"title": "The Great Omani"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "294610",
"score": 0.81953824,
"text": "supporting the candidacy of the more traditionalist Tribunite John Silkin and then urging Silkin supporters to abstain on the second, run-off, ballot. He was known as a left-winger, and gained prominence for his attacks on Margaret Thatcher's handling of the Falklands War in 1982, although it was in fact this conflict which saw support for the Conservative government increase, and contribute to its landslide re-election the following year. After Labour's landslide defeat in June 1983, Michael Foot resigned as leader aged seventy, and from the outset it was expected that the much younger Kinnock would succeed him. He was finally",
"title": "Neil Kinnock"
}
] |
In which country will you find the Churchill; Pearce; Nelson and Mackenzie rivers?
|
[
"Canada",
"Canadá",
"The Dominion of Canada",
"Commonwealth of Canada",
"Dominion of canada",
"ISO 3166-1:CA",
"Etymology of Canada",
"CANADA",
"Canadiophile",
"Canada's",
"ᑲᓇᑕ",
"Canada/References",
"America's top hat",
"Canada.",
"Cnada",
"Čanada",
"Canadian Federation",
"Kenadian",
"Canadialand",
"Xanada",
"Dominion of Canada",
"Canadaa"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9258680",
"score": 1.114966,
"text": "Saskatchewan which are all a part of the Nelson river basin. The Churchill River connects lakes and streams through the lower portion of the Canadian shield. Rupert's Land a historical political division of Canada comprised all lands of the Hudson Bay drainage system between the years 1670 to 1870. Frenchman River does not flow east to Hudson Bay, but rather south to the Missouri River, which is part of the Missouri river basin catchment area. The Mackenzie River basin of north Saskatchewan flows north draining into the Arctic Ocean, which belongs to the Mackenzie river basin drainage area. There are",
"title": "Geography of Saskatchewan"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "61505",
"score": 1.1136546,
"text": "two million lakes: of those that are entirely within Canada, more than 31,000 are between in area, while 563 are larger than . Canada’s two longest rivers are the Mackenzie, which empties into the Arctic Ocean and drains a large part of northwestern Canada, and the St. Lawrence, which drains the Great Lakes and empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Mackenzie is over in length while the St. Lawrence is over in length. Rounding out the ten longest rivers within Canada are the Nelson, Churchill, Peace, Fraser, North Saskatchewan, Ottawa, Athabasca and Yukon rivers. The Atlantic watershed drains",
"title": "Geography of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4014539",
"score": 1.097111,
"text": "burbot. Churchill River (Hudson Bay) The Churchill River (French: \"Rivière Churchill\") is a major river in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. From the head of the Churchill Lake it is long. It was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691. The Cree name for the river is \"Missinipi\", meaning \"big waters\". The river is located entirely within the Canadian Shield. The drainage basin includes a number of lakes in Central-East Alberta which flow into a series of lakes in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The main tributary, the Beaver River",
"title": "Churchill River (Hudson Bay)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4014536",
"score": 1.0792129,
"text": "Churchill River (Hudson Bay) The Churchill River (French: \"Rivière Churchill\") is a major river in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. From the head of the Churchill Lake it is long. It was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691. The Cree name for the river is \"Missinipi\", meaning \"big waters\". The river is located entirely within the Canadian Shield. The drainage basin includes a number of lakes in Central-East Alberta which flow into a series of lakes in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The main tributary, the Beaver River (Canada),",
"title": "Churchill River (Hudson Bay)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1451827",
"score": 1.069211,
"text": "the Nelson River at an average annual rate of 2,066 cubic metres per second (72,960 cu ft/s), and forms part of the Hudson Bay watershed, which is one of the largest in the world. This watershed area was known as Rupert's Land when the Hudson's Bay Company was chartered in 1670. The Saskatchewan River flows in from the west through Cedar Lake, the Red River (including Assiniboine River) flows in from the south and the Winnipeg River (draining Lake of the Woods, Rainy River and Rainy Lake) enters from the southeast. The Dauphin River enters from the west draining Lake",
"title": "Lake Winnipeg"
}
] |
On a standard typewriter keyboard which is the only vowel not on the top line?
|
[
"A",
"Ａ",
"A (letter)",
"🄰",
"🄐",
"U+0043",
"🅐",
"LetterA",
"⒜",
"The Letter A"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "548451",
"score": 0.94022727,
"text": "hand, is a variant of QWERTY. Typewriters were also made for East Asian languages with thousands of characters, such as Chinese or Japanese. They were not easy to operate, but professional typists used them for a long time until the development of electronic word processors and laser printers in the 1980s. On modern keyboards, the exclamation point is the shifted character on the 1 key, a direct result of the historical fact that these were the last characters to become \"standard\" on keyboards. Holding the spacebar pressed down usually suspended the carriage advance mechanism (a so-called \"dead key\" feature), allowing",
"title": "Typewriter"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2227061",
"score": 0.93938524,
"text": "match whether the first vowel of the word is written at the beginning, middle, or end of a consonant stroke—without actually writing the vowel. This is often enough to distinguish words with similar consonant patterns. Another method of vowel indication is to choose from among a selection of different strokes for the same consonant. For example, the sound \"R\" has two kinds of strokes: round, or straight-line, depending on whether there is a vowel sound before or after the R. There have been several versions of Pitman's shorthand since 1837. The original Pitman's shorthand had an \"alphabet\" of consonants, which",
"title": "Pitman shorthand"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "68478",
"score": 0.9328223,
"text": "letter of an alphabet that denotes a consonant sound. The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y. The letter Y stands for the consonant in \"yoke\", the vowel in \"myth\", the vowel in \"funny\", and the diphthong in \"my\". W always represents a consonant except in combination with a vowel letter, as in \"growth\", \"raw\", and \"how\", and in a few loanwords from Welsh, like \"crwth\" or \"cwm\". In some other languages, such as Finnish,",
"title": "Consonant"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2227060",
"score": 0.91667145,
"text": "consonant. Vowels are drawn before the stroke (or over a horizontal stroke) if the vowel is pronounced before the consonant, and after the stroke (or under a horizontal stroke) if pronounced after the consonant. Each vowel, whether indicated by a dot for a short vowel or by a dash for a longer, more drawn-out vowel, has its own position relative to its adjacent stroke (beginning, middle, or end) to indicate different vowel sounds in an unambiguous system. However, to increase writing speed, rules of \"vowel indication\" exist whereby the consonant stroke is raised, kept on the line, or lowered to",
"title": "Pitman shorthand"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "197238",
"score": 0.91255414,
"text": "the front of the mouth (such as , the vowel in \"met\") are to the left in the chart, while those in which it is moved to the back (such as , the vowel in \"but\") are placed to the right in the chart. In places where vowels are paired, the right represents a rounded vowel (in which the lips are rounded) while the left is its unrounded counterpart. Diphthongs are typically specified with a non-syllabic diacritic, as in or , or with a superscript for the on- or off-glide, as in or . Sometimes a tie bar is used,",
"title": "International Phonetic Alphabet"
}
] |
"Who said, ""I squint because I can't take too much light?"""
|
[
"Crint Eastwood",
"Eastwood, Clinton Jr.",
"Clinton Eastwood Jr.",
"Clinton %22Clint%22 Eastwood, Jr.",
"Clinton Eastwood, Jr.",
"Francesca Ruth Eastwood",
"Clint Eastwood characters",
"Clint Eastwood",
"Don Runner",
"Clint eastwood",
"Clinton Eastwood"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5820028",
"score": 0.96019435,
"text": "eyes, during adaptation to a sudden change in lighting such as when one goes from a dark room to outdoors on a sunny day to avoid pain or discomfort of the eyes. The pupillary light reflex caused by adjustment to light takes around five minutes in people with healthy eyes, so squinting and pain after that could be a sign of photophobia. Squint Squinting is the action of looking at something with partially closed eyes. Squinting is most often practiced by people who suffer from refractive errors of the eye who either do not have or are not using their",
"title": "Squint"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5820026",
"score": 0.9456363,
"text": "Squint Squinting is the action of looking at something with partially closed eyes. Squinting is most often practiced by people who suffer from refractive errors of the eye who either do not have or are not using their glasses. Squinting helps momentarily improve their eyesight by slightly changing the shape of the eye to make it more round, which helps light properly reach the fovea. Squinting also decreases the amount of light entering the eye, making it easier to focus on what the observer is looking at by removing rays of light which enter the eye at an angle and",
"title": "Squint"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5820027",
"score": 0.9114764,
"text": "would need to otherwise be focused by the observer's faulty lens and cornea. Pinhole glasses, which severely restrict the amount of light entering the cornea, have the same effect as squinting. It is a common belief that squinting worsens eyesight. However, according to Robert MacLaren, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, this is nothing more than an old wives' tale: the only damage that can be caused by squinting for long periods is a temporary headache due to prolonged contraction of the facial muscles. Squinting is also a common involuntary reflex, especially among people with light colored",
"title": "Squint"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4088112",
"score": 0.88078505,
"text": "Squint (album) Squint was the 1993 critically acclaimed return of Steve Taylor as a solo artist after his stint as the lead singer of Chagall Guevara. Highlights of the album include \"The Lament of Desmond RG Underwood Frederick IV,\" \"Easy Listening,\" \"Jesus is for Losers,\" \"The Finish Line,\" \"Bannerman,\" and \"Curses.\" It was the last studio album released by Steve Taylor as a solo artist. It peaked at position 17 on the \"Billboard\" \"Top Contemporary Christian Album\" Chart. The album was released to online music stores on November 16, 2018. All Songs Written by Steve Taylor. Some Band Additional musicians",
"title": "Squint (album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4088113",
"score": 0.86623454,
"text": "Production notes Squint (album) Squint was the 1993 critically acclaimed return of Steve Taylor as a solo artist after his stint as the lead singer of Chagall Guevara. Highlights of the album include \"The Lament of Desmond RG Underwood Frederick IV,\" \"Easy Listening,\" \"Jesus is for Losers,\" \"The Finish Line,\" \"Bannerman,\" and \"Curses.\" It was the last studio album released by Steve Taylor as a solo artist. It peaked at position 17 on the \"Billboard\" \"Top Contemporary Christian Album\" Chart. The album was released to online music stores on November 16, 2018. All Songs Written by Steve Taylor. Some Band",
"title": "Squint (album)"
}
] |
The Forth Road Bridge connects which major city to the 'Kingdom of Fife'?
|
[
"Dun Eideann",
"Burgh of Edinburgh",
"Auld Reekie",
"Edinburgh, City of (council area)",
"Capital of Scotland",
"Inner Edinburgh",
"Old and New Towns of Edinburgh",
"Edinbra",
"Edinburgh (Scotland)",
"Areas of edinburgh",
"Din Eidyn",
"Edin-burgh",
"Dùn Èideann",
"EDINBURGH",
"Edinburgh art",
"Edingburgh",
"Athens of the north",
"Dunedin, Scotland",
"Edinburgh City Region",
"Caer Eiddyn",
"Capital city of scotland",
"Edimburgh",
"Dun Edin",
"Edinburgh, United Kingdom",
"Edinborough",
"UN/LOCODE:GBEDI",
"Suburbs of Edinburgh",
"The weather in Edinburgh",
"City of Edinburgh, Scotland",
"Edinburgh, UK",
"Edinburgh",
"Eiddyn",
"Dùn Éideann",
"Edimburgo",
"Southside, Edinburgh",
"Embro",
"Edinburgh Navigator",
"Edinburgh (district)",
"City of Edinburgh",
"Eidyn",
"Geography of Edinburgh",
"Edinbourgh",
"Embra",
"List of Edinburgh suburbs",
"Areas of Edinburgh",
"List of places in Edinburgh",
"Capital of scotland",
"Edinburgh, Scotland",
"Edinburrie",
"City of Edinburgh (council area)",
"Edinbrough",
"Edinburgh Inspiring Capital",
"City of Edinburgh (local government district, Lothian region)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9181655",
"score": 1.1014667,
"text": "in Fife, and the south approach to the bridge is within Falkirk. This means that the span of the bridge is within Fife; however, it can only be accessed by travelling through either Clackmannanshire or Falkirk council areas. Due to this unique situation a minor row over naming broke out between those local authorities with a vested interest. Clackmannanshire Council voted to suggest \"Clackmannanshire Bridge\" - even though two other councils, Fife and Falkirk, are involved and no part of the bridge would be inside the Clackmannanshire area. Fife Council responded with \"Kingdom Bridge\" (referring to the historic kingdom of",
"title": "Clackmannanshire Bridge"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "359705",
"score": 1.0953397,
"text": "islands). The East Coast Main Line crosses the Firth of Forth by the Forth Bridge. Completed in 1890, this cantilever bridge has been described as \"the one internationally recognised Scottish landmark\". Scotland's rail network is managed by Transport Scotland. The Scottish motorways and major trunk roads are managed by Transport Scotland. The remainder of the road network is managed by the Scottish local authorities in each of their areas. Regular ferry services operate between the Scottish mainland and outlying islands. Ferries serving both the inner and outer Hebrides are principally operated by the state-owned enterprise Caledonian MacBrayne. Services to the",
"title": "Scotland"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1287593",
"score": 1.083337,
"text": "junction 1a (re-numbering the M9 spur). The crossing opened on 30 August 2017. Forth Road Bridge The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge in east central Scotland. The bridge opened in 1964 and at the time was the largest suspension bridge in the world outside the USA. The bridge spans the Firth of Forth, connecting Edinburgh, at Queensferry, to Fife, at North Queensferry. It replaced a centuries-old ferry service to carry vehicular traffic, cyclists and pedestrians across the Forth; railway crossings are made by the nearby Forth Bridge, opened in 1890. The Scottish Parliament voted to scrap tolls on",
"title": "Forth Road Bridge"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "858675",
"score": 1.0784897,
"text": "Kincardine Bridge or north-east via the Tay Road Bridge, the exception being traffic headed north on the M90. Tolls were abolished on the Tay Road Bridge and Forth Road Bridge on 11 February 2008. There are extinct volcanic features, such as the Lomond Hills which rise above rolling farmland, and Largo Law, a volcanic plug in the east. At , the West Lomond is the highest point in Fife. The coast has fine but small harbours, from the industrial docks in Burntisland and Rosyth to the fishing villages of the East Neuk such as Anstruther and Pittenweem. The large area",
"title": "Fife"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9181656",
"score": 1.0767848,
"text": "Fife). Other suggestions included \"Wallace Bridge\" after Sir William Wallace. Following a public consultation, the Scottish Government announced on 1 October 2008 that the name Clackmannanshire Bridge was to be adopted. Clackmannanshire Bridge The Clackmannanshire Bridge is a road bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland which opened to traffic on 19 November 2008. Prior to 1 October 2008 the bridge was referred to as the upper Forth crossing while the name was chosen. The increasing levels of traffic using the existing Kincardine Bridge led to a public inquiry being held into options to ease traffic flow over the",
"title": "Clackmannanshire Bridge"
}
] |
What is the real name of the Yorkshire Ripper, convicted in 1981 of the murder of 13 people?
|
[
"Yorkshire murders",
"Sutcliffe, Peter",
"Yorkshire Ripper",
"Peter Sutcliffe",
"The Yorkshire Ripper",
"Peter William Sutcliffe",
"Hill v Chief Constable",
"Sonia Sutcliffe",
"Peter William Coonan"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6470384",
"score": 1.1150389,
"text": "to the murder of Joan Harrison. The actual Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, was never charged with this crime. It would remain unsolved until 2011, when DNA evidence from the crime scene was matched to a man named Christopher Smith. On 17 June 1979, Humble sent a cassette to Assistant Chief Constable Oldfield, where he introduced himself only under the Christian name \"Jack\" and claimed responsibility for the Ripper murders to that point. The cassette ended with a segment from the 1978 single \"Thank You for Being a Friend\" by Andrew Gold. Despite George Oldfield and other senior officers being informed",
"title": "Wearside Jack"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "19529094",
"score": 1.0802649,
"text": "\"Yorkshire Ripper\". Their hunt comes to an end in January 1981 when 34-year-old Bradford lorry driver Peter Sutcliffe is arrested and confesses to the crimes. He is jailed for life later that year. 5. Christopher Foster; in August 2008, the charred bodies of businessman Christopher Foster, his wife Jill and their teenage daughter Kirstie are found after a fire at their £1.2million Shropshire mansion. It is later established that Mr Foster had shot his wife and daughter dead, as well as their dogs and horses, before setting fire to their home and dying in the inferno. Further investigations that Christopher",
"title": "Crimes That Shook Britain"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6470383",
"score": 1.0721891,
"text": "the event, a fragment from one of Humble's envelopes was traced to him through DNA, and in 2006 Humble was sentenced to eight years in prison for perverting the course of justice. Over the course of a year between March 1978 and March 1979, Humble sent three letters claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper. Postmarked from Sunderland, two were addressed to Assistant Chief Constable, George Oldfield a member of the West Yorkshire Police who was heading the Ripper inquiry, and one to the \"Daily Mirror\". First letter: 8 March 1978 Written to Detective George Oldfield \"Preston '75\" was a reference",
"title": "Wearside Jack"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2057546",
"score": 1.0660057,
"text": "Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Coonan (born Peter William Sutcliffe; 2 June 1946) is an English serial killer who was dubbed the \"Yorkshire Ripper\" by the press. In 1981 Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others. Sutcliffe had allegedly regularly used the services of prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford. When interviewed by authorities, he claimed that the voice of God had sent him on a mission to kill prostitutes. Sutcliffe carried out his murder spree over five years, during which time the public were especially shocked by the murders of women who were not prostitutes.",
"title": "Peter Sutcliffe"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12584601",
"score": 1.05903,
"text": "new attacks were linked with the same inquiry, Oldfield confirmed that the police believed they were being committed by the same man. From the fact that the murderer attacked and mutilated women, some of whom were associated with prostitution, the nickname \"Yorkshire Ripper\" came to be applied to him. Oldfield devoted himself to investigating the crimes, working long hours and taking little leave. In June 1979, Oldfield publicised a tape recording received by the police in which a man claiming to be the murderer taunted Oldfield personally for being unable to catch him. Oldfield was convinced that the tape came",
"title": "George Oldfield (police officer)"
}
] |
Who succeeded Michael Foot as leader of the Labour Party in the UK?
|
[
"Baron Kinnock",
"Neil Kinnock",
"Kinnockian",
"Neil Kinnock, Baron Kinnock",
"Lord Kinnock",
"Neil Gordon Kinnock"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "267535",
"score": 1.1308707,
"text": "British withdrawal from the European Economic Community. He was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Employment under Harold Wilson in 1974, and he later served as Leader of the House of Commons under James Callaghan. He was also Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Callaghan from 1976 to 1980. Elected as a compromise candidate, Foot served as the Leader of the Labour Party, and Leader of the Opposition, from 1980 to 1983. His strongly left-wing political positions and criticisms of vacillating leadership made him an unpopular leader. Not particularly telegenic, he was also nicknamed \"Worzel Gummidge\"",
"title": "Michael Foot"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1707518",
"score": 1.1056865,
"text": "which led to the exile of Amin to Saudi Arabia. However, 18 months after Labour lost power in 1979, the staunchly left-wing politician Michael Foot was elected party leader, despite vocal opposition from Labour Party moderates (including Owen), sparking a crisis over the party's future. Michael Foot's election as Labour party leader indicated that the party was likely to become more left-wing, and in 1980 committed itself to withdrawing from the EEC without even a referendum (as Labour had carried out in 1975). Labour also endorsed unilateral nuclear disarmament and introduced an electoral college for leadership elections, with 40% of",
"title": "David Owen"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4383585",
"score": 1.098886,
"text": "Foot, the leader of the Labour Party. Foot's predecessor, James Callaghan, had offered Clements the chance to stand for Labour in a safe seat in East London in the 1979 general election. Clements had declined the offer, insisting on a selection ballot, which he lost narrowly. After Foot's resignation following Labour's landslide defeat in the 1983 general election, Clements continued in a similar role for the new leader, Neil Kinnock, although his title was officially that of \"executive officer\". It was said of Clements that he was \"Kinnock's closest ally and a shaper of Labour's strategies\". He retired from the",
"title": "Richard Clements (journalist)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "267552",
"score": 1.0955518,
"text": "the Prime Minister of India, after she prompted the declaration of a state of emergency. In December 1975, \"The Times\" ran an editorial titled 'Is Mr Foot a Fascist?'—their answer was that he was—after Norman Tebbit accused him of 'undiluted fascism' when Foot said that the Ferrybridge Six deserved dismissal for defying a closed shop. Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained as party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned. Foot was elected Labour leader on 10 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election (the last",
"title": "Michael Foot"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "267565",
"score": 1.0869482,
"text": "long way behind in terms of seats. Despite this, Foot was very critical of the Alliance, accusing them of \"siphoning\" Labour support and enabling the Tories to win more seats. Foot resigned days after the bitter election defeat, and was succeeded as leader on 2 October by Neil Kinnock; who had been tipped from the outset to be Labour's choice of new leader. Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories (led by John Major) for the fourth election in",
"title": "Michael Foot"
}
] |
Who was the first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in World Championship snooker?
|
[
"Cliff Thornburn"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3039926",
"score": 1.1544406,
"text": "future world champion John Pulman who each both won it on two occasions. He made history in 1955 by achieving the first officially recognised maximum break of 147 in snooker in an exhibition match at Leicester Square Hall. He had previously made the game's first official in 1930. In 1959 Davis attempted to popularise a new version of the game called snooker plus. This game had two extra , an orange and a purple and was used for the 1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament but it never took off. In 1962, when over 60 years of age,",
"title": "Joe Davis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13132998",
"score": 1.151535,
"text": "scored one of the early snooker maximum breaks in a practice frame at the Beaufort Club in London. An official of the BACC later examined the table and found it slightly over the standard size and so the break was not accepted as official. At the time Joe Davis held the record for the highest official break of 146. Lindrum did not play in the 1951/1952 News of the World Snooker Tournament, his last competitive tournament being the 1951 World Snooker Championship. In that championship he had lost to Walter Donaldson in the semi-final, Donaldson taking a winning 36–25 lead",
"title": "1952 World Snooker Championship"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7704785",
"score": 1.1409402,
"text": "2013). Davis reached his first ranking event final in 2018, where he lost to Stuart Bingham in the final of the English Open. Davis is the oldest snooker player to make an official maximum break of 147 points in a professional competition, at the age of 44 years and 202 days. He broke his own previous record of 44 years and 151 days, making his second maximum break 51 days after his first. Davis made his debut in the main draw of the World Championship in 1994, losing in the first round to Terry Griffiths. The following year he won",
"title": "Mark Davis (snooker player)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3154192",
"score": 1.1400506,
"text": "2007 against Ali Carter. The fourth 147 was made in 2011 by Hendry against Stephen Maguire. This was Hendry's 10th 147 break and with this he equalled the record for most maximums with Ronnie O'Sullivan. He also became the oldest player to compile a maximum break at the age of 42 years and 35 days. The fifth was made by O'Sullivan in 2014 against Ding Junhui. This was O'Sullivan's 12th 147 break and with it he set the record for most maximums. The most recent maximum break was made by Ding Junhui at the quarter-finals of the 2016 tournament, against",
"title": "Welsh Open (snooker)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9740713",
"score": 1.1314079,
"text": "the cue ball \"in-hand\" for his first shot. Play then continues normally until the black is potted or another frame-ending situation occurs. The highest break that can be made under normal circumstances is 147. To achieve that, the player must pot all 15 reds, with the black after every red, followed by potting the six remaining colours. This \"maximum break\" of 147 rarely occurs in match play. The fastest maximum break in a tournament was achieved during the World Championships on April 21, 1997, by Ronnie O'Sullivan against Mick Price in 5 minutes and 20 seconds. If an opponent fouls",
"title": "Rules of snooker"
}
] |
Whose autobiography is entitled '80 Not Out'?
|
[
"Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore",
"Patrick Alfred Caldwell Moore",
"Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore",
"Patrick Moore",
"Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore",
"Sir Patrick Moore",
"Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell Moore",
"PATRICK MOORE",
"Patrick moore",
"Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14549215",
"score": 0.93979824,
"text": "Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out was a one-off, one-hour documentary/biography about Stephen Fry released in 2007 by the BBC, celebrating Stephen Fry's fiftieth birthday. There were many people who were interviewed to talk about Stephen, some of them were Clive Anderson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kenneth Branagh, Jo Brand, Russell Brand, Ronnie Corbett, Richard Curtis, Alan Davies, Ben Elton, Phill Jupitus, Hugh Laurie, Nigella Lawson, John Lloyd, Michael Parkinson, Prince Charles, Jonathan Ross, J.K. Rowling, John Sessions, Michael Sheen, Imelda Staunton, Nick Symons, Emma Thompson, Robert Webb. The show was released as a part of a dedicated",
"title": "Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17933940",
"score": 0.87404245,
"text": "this movie worth watching.\" 102 Not Out 102 Not Out is a 2018 Hindi-language Indian comedy-drama film directed by Umesh Shukla and starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor in the lead roles. The film is based on the eponymous Gujarati play written by Saumya Joshi. \"102 Not Out\" was released on 4 May 2018. Dattatraya Vakharia (Amitabh Bachchan) is a lively 102 year old who lives his life to the maximum. Although he is old, his heart is still young. He enjoys life and takes everything in a jovial way.He also has a habit of exclaiming \"yo\" after every feat.",
"title": "102 Not Out"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9743816",
"score": 0.86777216,
"text": "title, which was published in October 1978. \"Word Is Out\" intercuts interviews with 26 people, who speak about their experiences as gay men and lesbians. The interviewees range in age from 18 to 77, in location from San Francisco to New Mexico to Boston, in type from bee-hived housewife to student to conservative businessman to sultry drag queen, and in race from Caucasian to Hispanic, African-American, and Asian. Writer Elsa Gidlow, professor Sally Gearhart, inventor John Burnside, civil rights leader Harry Hay, and avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky are among the interviewees. The interviewees describe their experiences of coming out; falling",
"title": "Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3933128",
"score": 0.85489255,
"text": "British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley). Bruno Hat's paintings were the work of Brian Howard. Howard is credited with coining the phrase, \"“Anybody over the age of 30 seen in a bus has been a failure in life,”\" often wrongly attributed to Margaret Thatcher. According to \"Daily Telegraph\" correspondent and historian, Hugo Vickers, (writing in November 2006), the author was Brian Howard. The phrase came into wider use when used by Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, in her memoir \"Grace and Favour\" (1961). Subsequently he led a very active social life, tried to come to terms with his homosexuality, and published",
"title": "Brian Howard (poet)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14572553",
"score": 0.84732485,
"text": "than the free-for-all style Bobby experienced. He was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in June 2011 in recognition of his services to reformed offenders. His autobiography, \"I Am Not A Gangster\", , was published 15 May 2014 by Random House's Ebury Press imprint. Bobby Cummines Robert \"Bobby\" Cummines OBE, FRSA (born 23 November 1951) is an English former hitman who was chief executive of UNLOCK, The National Association of Reformed Offenders until March 2012. Formerly one of the United Kingdom's most notorious bank robbers, he rejects the designation of 'gangster'. Cummines appeared on the \"True Geordie Podcast\" in",
"title": "Bobby Cummines"
}
] |
What was the name of the TV comedy that ran from 1975 to 1978 about National Service in the RAF?
|
[
"Get Some In",
"Get Some In!"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15333957",
"score": 1.0599684,
"text": "Get Some In! Get Some In! is a British television sitcom about life in Royal Air Force National Service broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television. Scripts were by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, the team behind sitcoms like \" Brush Strokes\" and \"The Good Life\". The programme drew its inspiration from late 1950s/early 1960s National Service situation-comedy \"The Army Game\", and from nostalgic BBC TV sitcom \"Dad's Army\", but the RAF setting gave it enough originality not to seem formulaic. Thirty-four (commercial) half-hour episodes were made. The title is a contraction of \"Get some service in!\", which was",
"title": "Get Some In!"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15333959",
"score": 0.9577126,
"text": "the RAF, you'll never see a plane\" and \"There's only one way to get out and that's to get some in. Get Some In!\" A stage version of \"Get Some In!\" was produced for a 1977 Summer season at the Princess Theatre, Torquay. Series 1–2 were set at the fictional Royal Air Force station RAF Skelton. They were filmed at Hobbs Barracks near Felbridge in Surrey. The barracks are, as of 2017, an industrial estate. At the beginning of the third series, the recruits' barracks hut is destroyed by fire and so in series 3–4 events were set at fictional",
"title": "Get Some In!"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15333960",
"score": 0.950999,
"text": "RAF Midham. Series 5 was set at fictional RAF hospital Druidswater. The Christmas special (broadcast between Series 1 and 2), set at RAF Skelton, was captioned \"Christmas 1955\", but the remainder of the series (involving two changes of camp) continued to be set in 1955. All five series including a 5-Disc set of the complete series of \"Get Some In!\" have been released by Network. Get Some In! Get Some In! is a British television sitcom about life in Royal Air Force National Service broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television. Scripts were by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey,",
"title": "Get Some In!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3575277",
"score": 0.9485225,
"text": "1975) starring Derek Fowlds, Daphne Heard and Leslie Dwyer Going, Going, Gone...Free? (9 July 1975) starring Pauline Yates, Geoffrey Palmer and Peter Duncan The BBC aired six comedy pilots in 1970 in Scotland only under the title \"Scottish Comedy Playhouse\", none of which developed onto a full series. While these were being aired, \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" was broadcast in the rest of the UK. The episodes were Comedy Playhouse Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including",
"title": "Comedy Playhouse"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7960654",
"score": 0.94678295,
"text": "to continue his acting by joining the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). After graduating from drama school in 1952, he joined the Sheffield Rep as assistant stage manager; regular theatre work followed. His work in \"Dad's Army\" came as a result of working at Watford Rep in 1962 under series co-writer Jimmy Perry as the company's actor-manager, in addition to almost 20 years of playing a pantomime dame. His TV appearances were varied, including \"Z-Cars\", \"The Gnomes of Dulwich\", \"The Liver Birds\", 13 episodes of \"Michael Bentine Time\", \"Are You Being Served?\", and the penultimate episode of \"Hi-de-Hi!\" (1988). Due",
"title": "Colin Bean"
}
] |
The 'puri/poori/puree' in the Indian dish 'prawn puri' refers to what aspect?
|
[
"Somun",
"Crust of bread",
"Leavened bread",
"Scali",
"Pão",
"Round bread",
"Loaves",
"Bread round",
"Crust of Bread",
"Batch bread",
"Double roti",
"Bread crust",
"Bread making",
"Breadmaking",
"Ammunition bread",
"Bread",
"Crusty bread",
"Bread Making",
"Breads",
"Raw Toast",
"🍞",
"Soft-tack",
"Milk Loaf",
"Round of bread",
"Crust (bread)",
"Heel (bread)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5532590",
"score": 1.0330296,
"text": "Puri (food) Puri (also spelled Poori) is an unleavened deep-fried bread, originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is eaten for breakfast or as a snack or light meal. It is usually served with a savory curry or \"bhaji\", as in Puri bhaji, but may also be eaten with sweet dishes. Puris are most commonly served at breakfast. It is also served at special or ceremonial functions as part of ceremonial rituals along with other vegetarian food offered in prayer as prasadam. It's similar to Gnocco fritto fried bread from Modena, Italy. The name \"puri\" derives from the Sanskrit word पूरिका",
"title": "Puri (food)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5532596",
"score": 1.0169046,
"text": "by street vendors who serve chaat. Street vendors in Mumbai serve bhel in a throw-away folded leaf with a flat puri to scoop it. A new variant of this traditional snack or breakfast is the Pumpkin Poori. The delicious lightweight pumpkin pooris are best served with spicy tomato chutney. This dish includes ingredients for poori pumpkin paste, wheat flour, gram four, salt, carom seeds and oil etc. This is the easy breakfast food. Puri (food) Puri (also spelled Poori) is an unleavened deep-fried bread, originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is eaten for breakfast or as a snack or light",
"title": "Puri (food)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "18423932",
"score": 1.0085843,
"text": "or spicy depending on the ingredients jaggery and chillies respectively. Paniyaram is made on a special pan that comes with multiple small fissures. It is known by various names in South India, including kuzhi paniyaram, paddu, appe, guliappa, gulittu, yeriyappa, gundponglu, gunta ponganalu. Puri (also spelled poori) is an unleavened deep-fried Indian bread, commonly consumed on the Indian subcontinent. It is eaten for breakfast or as a snack or light meal. It is usually served with an aloo curry or aloo bhaji, as in Puri bhaji. It is also served with vegetable korma, chana masala and with gravies like paneer",
"title": "Street food of Chennai"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18760130",
"score": 0.9853804,
"text": "The prawns are then fried in hot oil along with onion, ginger, garlic, and stirred with turmeric and sugar and salt and coconut milk for a few minutes. Chingri malai curry Chingri malai curry () also known as Prawn malai curry, is a Bengali curry made from prawns and coconut milk and flavoured with spices. The dish is popular throughout Bengal and is served during weddings and celebrations, or for guests, and was also very popular among the British in Calcutta. The main ingredients are prawns and coconut milk, along with ghee or mustard oil, onions, turmeric powder, chopped green",
"title": "Chingri malai curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5532591",
"score": 0.9853263,
"text": "(pūrikā), from पुर (pura) \"filled\". It has a similar name in many Asian languages including: Gujarati: પૂરી, (\"puri\"), (\"Purī\"), (\"pūḍī\"), (\"pūrī\"), (\"pūri\"), , (\"pūrī\"), (\"puri\"), (\"puri\"), (\"pūḍī\"), (\"pūri\"), (\"pūri\"), (\"puri\"), and (\"p'uri\"). Puris are prepared with wheat flour, either atta (whole wheat flour), sooji (coarse wheat flour) or, most commonly, maida (refined wheat flour). In some recipes, ajwain or cumin seed is added to the dough. The dough is either rolled out in a small circle or rolled out and cut out in small circles, then deep fried in ghee or vegetable oil. While deep frying, puris puff up like",
"title": "Puri (food)"
}
] |
"What Asian city hosted a ""thriller"" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier?"
|
[
"Manila, Phillipine Islands",
"Manila Health Department",
"Capital city of philippines",
"Manila, Philippine Islands",
"Maynilad",
"Manila, Metro Manila",
"Manila",
"Manila City",
"Divisoria",
"Distinguished and Ever Loyal City",
"Manila Poblacion",
"UN/LOCODE:PHMNL",
"Queen of the Orient",
"Manila Yacht Club",
"Ciudad de Manila",
"Downtown Manila",
"Manila, Phillipines",
"City of Manila",
"Manileño",
"Manila, Phillippines",
"Manila (City)",
"Manila, Philippines",
"Manilan",
"Manilla, Philippines",
"The City of Our Affections",
"Poblasyon ng Maynila",
"Maynila",
"Philippine capital",
"Capital of philippines",
"6-resurrection (08-09)",
"Asia/Manila"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15012335",
"score": 1.1540718,
"text": "A pioneer, Bagatsing was among the first City Mayors to establish a Manila Tourism bureau. The following year, adding to its global acclaim, the city's name became renowned in the sporting world due to the Thrilla in Manila between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. The legendary match was actually held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, but the promoters decided to highlight the City of Manila, with Ali enjoying his stay at the historic Manila Hotel, often jogging around the boulevards of Manila, mingling and interacting with the locals. Because of this, Bagatsing gladly provided Ali with a rather",
"title": "Ramon Bagatsing"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14890832",
"score": 1.1367927,
"text": "that said no tackling, no karate chops, no punching on the mat. I kept my distance to stay away of Ali's punches.\" His reputation got soured for a long time, although Asian audiences eventually appreciated he had represented them and avoided a loss. The 14,500-seat Nippon Budokan arena was sold out. Ticket prices started from ($17) for the nosebleed section, while ringside seats for the public cost ($1,000) and \"royal ringside\" seats for sponsors cost $3,000. The fight was watched by an estimated 1.4 billion viewers worldwide, including more than 54 million viewers in Japan. In the United States, the",
"title": "Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14890808",
"score": 1.1108391,
"text": "countries around the world to an estimated audience of 1.4 billion. Because of time zone differences, the bout was seen on June 25 at over 150 closed circuit TV locations in the US. In New York, pro-wrestling promoter Vince McMahon, Sr. sold tickets to a closed-circuit telecast of the fight at Shea Stadium, and drew a crowd of 32,897. At Shea, the Ali and Inoki fight would be the main event on a card that also featured wrestler André the Giant vs. boxer Chuck Wepner. The Budokan itself was sold out, with the most expensive seats costing 300,000 Yen. The",
"title": "Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17161161",
"score": 1.103803,
"text": "two-time Rajadamnern Stadium Champion and K-1 star Kaoklai Kaennorsing in a WBC Interim World Light Heavyweight Championship bout at the \"M-One: Thailand vs. America\" event held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on October 21, 2011. The fight was one-sided in favour of Schilling, as he floored the Thai in the opening seconds and again immediately after he beat the referee's eight count. After a period of clinching, he knocked Kaoklai down for the third time with a right hook towards the end of the round, ending the fight. In January 2012, Schilling and former foe Chaz Mulkey were brought",
"title": "Joe Schilling"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7138591",
"score": 1.091468,
"text": "the upcoming Asian Excellence Awards, which honor Asian American media accomplishments. The spoof consisted of what sounded like a typical excerpt from an awards show, except that the dialogue of the actors consisted only of the words ching chong, repeated over and over. The National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP), The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), and The Center for Asian American Media publicly objected to the spoof, calling it racist.. They threatened to ask advertisers to withdraw their support from the show if the station did not issue an apology. On February 22, 2006, Carolla without fanfare read",
"title": "The Adam Carolla Show (radio)"
}
] |
What do you usually find in a golf courses' bunker?
|
[
"Sandiest",
"Coversand",
"Desert sand",
"Psammophilous",
"Psammophile",
"Sand",
"Floor sugar",
"Sand-grain",
"Floor-sugar",
"Sand grain",
"Grains of sand"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7374081",
"score": 1.0596876,
"text": "to be impediments to the golfer's progress toward the green. Fairway bunkers are designed primarily to gather up wayward tee shots on par 4 and par 5 holes; they are located to the sides of the fairway or even in the middle of the fairway. Greenside bunkers are designed to collect wayward approach shots on long holes and tee shots on par 3 holes; they are located near and around the green. Waste bunkers are natural sandy areas, usually very large and often found on links courses; they are not considered hazards according to the rules of golf, and so,",
"title": "Hazard (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17625855",
"score": 1.0457529,
"text": "time the golfer needs to hit the ball left to right in order to keep it in the fairway, as well as avoid a fairway bunker about 230 yards from the tee to the right of the fairway. 7th Hole: This hole is 436-yards from the black tees, and is relatively straightaway but requires a tee shot that can be snared by trees on the left and right of the fairway. Also, the green has bunkers short right and deep left of it. 8th Hole: This hole is a downhill, 194-yard par three that includes a large pond short left",
"title": "Indian Valley Municipal Golf Course"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2390173",
"score": 1.0453346,
"text": "Golf course A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played. It comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick (\"pin\") and hole (\"cup\"). A standard round of golf consists of 18 holes. Most courses contain 18 holes; some share fairways or greens, and a subset has nine holes, played twice per round. Par-3 courses consist of nine or 18 holes all of which have a par of three strokes. Many older courses are links, often coastal. Courses are private,",
"title": "Golf course"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17625859",
"score": 1.0406135,
"text": "rarely comes into play. There is only one bunker on the front left of the green, it is the number 15 stroke hole. 14th Hole: Slightly more difficult than the thirteenth hole, this hole presents the golfer with a wide- open tee shot to a dogleg left. It is 394-yards uphill, but is forgiving with one of the larger fairways on the course. The green has only a large mound behind it to convolute errant approach shots. 15th Hole: Similar to the tee shot on the 12th hole, this drive requires about 200 yards of carry, to an uphill fairway",
"title": "Indian Valley Municipal Golf Course"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17625857",
"score": 1.0374173,
"text": "four only 334-yards long with several prominent fairway bunkers but a relatively accessible green with ample space around it to miss. 11th Hole: This short, downhill par four features a difficult tee shot from an accuracy standpoint, but little distance. There is a large bunker in the center of the fairway, and a sharp dogleg to the right, but the fact that this hole is severely downhill and only 357-yards makes it relatively easy. 12th Hole: The easier holes to start out the back nine ends on the 12th hole. It is a long, 525-yard par five that requires a",
"title": "Indian Valley Municipal Golf Course"
}
] |
Which Greek goddess was the mother of Achilles?
|
[
"Thetis",
"Θέτις",
"Thetys",
"Hetis",
"Peleus and Thetis"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "480890",
"score": 1.0936742,
"text": "mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece. The pre-modern etymology of her name, from \"tithemi\" (τίθημι), \"to set up, establish,\" suggests a perception among Classical Greeks of an early political role. Walter Burkert considers her name a transformed doublet of Tethys. In \"Iliad\" I, Achilles recalls to his mother her role in defending, and thus legitimizing, the reign of Zeus against an incipient rebellion by three Olympians, each of whom has pre-Olympian roots: You alone of all the gods saved",
"title": "Thetis"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "164654",
"score": 1.0553088,
"text": "the mother of Achilles. Thetis has told Achilles to allow King Priam to come and take the body for ransom. Once King Priam has been notified that Achilles will allow him to claim the body, he goes to his strongroom to withdraw the ransom. The ransom King Priam offers includes twelve fine robes, twelve white mantles, several richly embroidered tunics, ten bars of yellow gold, a special gold cup, and several cauldrons. Priam himself goes to claim his son's body, and Hermes grants him safe passage by casting a charm that will make anyone who looks at him fall asleep.",
"title": "Hector"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "875129",
"score": 1.0445681,
"text": "nearly drowning Achilles. According to Hesiod, there were also three thousand Oceanids. These included: Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; Eurynome, Zeus' third wife, and mother of the Charites; Doris, the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids; Callirhoe, the wife of Chrysaor and mother of Geryon; Clymene, the wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus; Perseis, wife of Helios and mother of Circe and Aeetes; Idyia, wife of Aeetes and mother of Medea; and Styx, goddess of the river Styx, and the wife of Pallas and mother of",
"title": "Tethys (mythology)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2342355",
"score": 1.0371959,
"text": "mother Thetis having treated him with ambrosia and burned away his mortality in the hearth fire except on the heel, by which she held him. Peleus, his father, discovered the treatment and was alarmed to see Thetis holding the baby in the flames, which offended her and made her leave the treatment incomplete. According to a myth arising later, his mother had dipped the infant Achilles in the river Styx, holding onto him by his heel, and he became invulnerable where the waters touched him—that is, everywhere except the areas of his heel that were covered by her thumb and",
"title": "Achilles' heel"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "858833",
"score": 1.0023723,
"text": "their great champion Achilles, son of an immortal though he be, as we do this man: his rage is beyond all bounds, and there is none can vie with him in prowess.\" Helenus then sent Hector to the city of Troy to tell their mother about what was happening. According to the instructions of Helenus, Priam's wife gathered matrons at the temple of Athena in the acropolis and offered the goddess the largest, fairest robe of Troy. She also promised the sacrifice of twelve heifers if Athena could take pity on them and break the spear of Diomedes. Athena, of",
"title": "Diomedes"
}
] |
What type of bombshell were Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe?
|
[
"Blonde Bombshell",
"Blonde bombshell",
"Blonde bombshell (disambiguation)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6412667",
"score": 1.2006955,
"text": "of the blurbs on posters was \"Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom.\" Hollywood soon took up the blonde bombshell, and then, during the late 1940s through the early 1960s, brunette, exotic, and ethnic versions (e.g., Jane Russell, Dorothy Dandridge and Sophia Loren) were also cultivated as complements to, or as satellites of, the blonde bombshell. Some of the movie stars, largely of the 1940s–1960s, referred to as bombshells include Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Diana Dors, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Carroll Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth",
"title": "Bombshell (sex symbol)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6412668",
"score": 1.0964476,
"text": "Taylor, Ann-Margret, Veronica Lake, Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress, and Gina Lollobrigida The epithet rose sharply in popularity after the death of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, and declined in popularity in the late 1960s due to emerging ideological conflicts. Bombshells are identified with hypersexuality, their curves, including hourglass figures and large breasts, sex appeal, larger than life personas, as well as stereotypes associated with blonde women and supermodels. Bombshell (sex symbol) The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term \"sex symbol\" and originally used to describe popular female sex icons. In modern usage, bombshell refers to a very attractive woman.",
"title": "Bombshell (sex symbol)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6914918",
"score": 1.0780432,
"text": "The story satirizes the stardom years of Clara Bow: \"Lola Burns\" – Clara Bow, \"E. J. Hanlon\" – B.P. Schulberg, \"Pops Burns\" – Robert Bow, \"Mac\" – Daisy DeVoe, \"Gifford Middleton\" – Rex Bell. Victor Fleming was Bow's fiancee in 1926. The Laredo Times from Laredo, Texas, quotes Harlow in an interview about filming saying, \"Thank goodness, it was not necessary for me to get in the rain barrel in Bombshell. I had to pick too many splinters out of myself the last time\", referring to the film Red Dust from 1932 in which Harlow takes a bath in a",
"title": "Bombshell (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6914919",
"score": 1.0651796,
"text": "rain barrel. The success of the film led to Jean Harlow being widely known as a \"Blonde Bombshell\". Early in the film, Lola Burns is told she has to shoot re-takes of \"Red Dust\" — the title of an actual Harlow/Gable vehicle from the year before. According to the Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations, scenes in Bombshell were shot at MGM studios in Culver City. The nightclub scene was filmed at Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in mid-town Los Angeles. It was demolished in 2006. Bombshell (film) Bombshell is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film directed by Victor",
"title": "Bombshell (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "255413",
"score": 1.0552702,
"text": "Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic \"blonde bombshell\" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962 (equivalent to $ billion in ). More than half a century later, she continues to be a major popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los",
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What is the second brightest star in the constellation Orion?
|
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"H.R. 2061",
"Alpha Orionis",
"Α Ori",
"Bételgeuse",
"H. D. 39801",
"H.D.39801",
"Betelguese",
"54 Orionis",
"Betleguese",
"SAO 113271",
"Yad al-Jauza",
"Beteigeuze",
"H. D. E. C. 39801",
"Betelguise",
"Beteigeuse",
"HDE-39801",
"Betelgeux",
"Betelgeuze",
"HD 39801",
"Betelgeuese",
"Yad al-Jauzā'",
"HIP27989",
"HD-39801",
"HIP 27989",
"H. D. E. 39801",
"HDEC 39801",
"H.D.E.C.39801",
"Betelguse",
"HR2061",
"BETELGEUSE",
"Α Orionis",
"54 Ori",
"H.R.2061",
"H.D.E.39801",
"HIP-27989",
"H.D.E.C. 39801",
"HR-2061",
"HR 2061",
"Aridra Nakshatra",
"Alpha Ori",
"Al-Jauzā'",
"H.D. 39801",
"Betelgiuse",
"HDEC-39801",
"Betelgeuse",
"Betlegeuse",
"H. R. 2061",
"H.D.E. 39801",
"HDE 39801",
"Beetlegeuse"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1355755",
"score": 0.95607054,
"text": "Winter Triangle and the Circle. Orion's seven brightest stars form a distinctive hourglass-shaped asterism, or pattern, in the night sky. Four stars—Rigel, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Saiph—form a large roughly rectangular shape, in the centre of which lie the three stars of Orion's Belt—Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Descending from the 'belt' is a smaller line of three stars, Orion's Sword (the middle of which is in fact not a star but the Orion Nebula), also known as the hunter's sword. Many of the stars are luminous hot blue supergiants, with the stars of the belt and sword forming the Orion OB1",
"title": "Orion (constellation)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "650772",
"score": 0.94967604,
"text": "Betelgeuse Betelgeuse, also designated Alpha Orionis (α Orionis, abbreviated Alpha Ori, α Ori), is on average the ninth-brightest star in the night sky and second-brightest in the constellation of Orion. It is distinctly reddish, and is a semiregular variable star whose apparent magnitude varies between 0.0 and 1.3, the widest range of any first-magnitude star. Betelgeuse is one of three stars that make up the asterism of the Winter Triangle, and it marks the center of the Winter Hexagon. If the human eye could view all wavelengths of radiation, Betelgeuse would be the brightest star in the night sky. Classified",
"title": "Betelgeuse"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1355732",
"score": 0.94743204,
"text": "Orion (constellation) Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world. It is one of the most conspicuous and recognizable constellations in the night sky. It was named after Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology. Its brightest stars are Rigel (Beta Orionis) and Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis), a blue-white and a red supergiant, respectively. The earliest depiction that has been linked to the constellation of Orion is a prehistoric (Aurignacian) mammoth ivory carving found in a cave in the Ach valley in West Germany in 1979. Archaeologists have estimated it to have been fashioned approximately",
"title": "Orion (constellation)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1355756",
"score": 0.9445721,
"text": "Association. Standing out by its red hue, Betelgeuse may nevertheless be a runaway member of the same group. Of the lesser stars, Meissa (or Lambda Orionis) forms Orion's head, whilst Hatsya (or Iota Orionis) forms the tip of Orion's sword. Iota Orionis is also called \"Nair al-Saif\", Arabic for \"the brightest in the sword\". Orion's Belt or The Belt of Orion is an asterism within the constellation. It consists of the three bright stars Zeta (Alnitak), Epsilon (Alnilam), and Delta (Mintaka). Alnitak is around 800 light years away from earth and is 100,000 times more luminous than the Sun; much",
"title": "Orion (constellation)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1355766",
"score": 0.9436263,
"text": "for example Betelgeuse, which is predicted to explode sometime in the next million years. Orion (constellation) Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world. It is one of the most conspicuous and recognizable constellations in the night sky. It was named after Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology. Its brightest stars are Rigel (Beta Orionis) and Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis), a blue-white and a red supergiant, respectively. The earliest depiction that has been linked to the constellation of Orion is a prehistoric (Aurignacian) mammoth ivory carving found in a cave in the Ach valley",
"title": "Orion (constellation)"
}
] |
Taxus Baccata is the botanical name of which tree?
|
[
"(English/European) Yew"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5237308",
"score": 1.0456922,
"text": "Taxus baccata Taxus baccata is a conifer native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. It is the tree originally known as yew, though with other related trees becoming known, it may now be known as common yew, English yew, or European yew. The word \"yew\" is from Proto-Germanic \"*īwa-\", possibly originally a loanword from Gaulish \"*ivos\", compare Breton \"ivin,\" Irish \"ēo\", Welsh \"ywen\", French \"\" (see Eihwaz for a discussion). \"Baccata\" is Latin for \"bearing red berries\". The word \"yew\" as it was originally used seems to refer to the color brown. The",
"title": "Taxus baccata"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5237309",
"score": 1.0251665,
"text": "yew (μίλος) was known to Theophrastus, who noted its preference for mountain coolness and shade, its evergreen character and its slow growth. Most Romance languages, with the notable exception of French (if), kept a version of the Latin word \"taxus\" (Italian \"tasso\", Corsican \"tassu\", Occitan \"teis\", Catalan \"teix\", Gasconic \"tech\", Spanish \"tejo\", Portuguese \"teixo\", Galician \"teixo\" and Romanian \"tisă\") from the same root as \"toxic\". In Slavic languages, the same root is preserved: Russian \"tis\" (\"тис\"), Slovakian \"tis\", Slovenian \"tisa\", Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian \"tisa\"/\"тиса\". Albanian borrowed it as \"tis\". In German it is known as \"Eibe\". In Iran, the tree is known",
"title": "Taxus baccata"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5237310",
"score": 1.0074785,
"text": "as \"sorkhdār\" (, literally \"the red tree\"). The common yew was one of the many species first described by Linnaeus. It is one of around 30 conifer species in seven genera in the family Taxaceae, which is placed in the order Pinales. It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing (exceptionally up to ) tall, with a trunk up to (exceptionally ) in diameter. The bark is thin, scaly brown, coming off in small flakes aligned with the stem. The leaves are flat, dark green, long and broad, arranged spirally on the stem, but with the leaf bases twisted",
"title": "Taxus baccata"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1758556",
"score": 1.005951,
"text": "cancer drug paclitaxel. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of T. S. Eliot, especially his \"Four Quartets\". Names not linked have been mentioned in publications but not yet validated according to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature Fossil (extinct) species Commonly reported hybrids \"Taxus × media\" = \"Taxus baccata\" × \"Taxus cuspidata\" \"Taxus × hunnewelliana\" = \"Taxus cuspidata\" × \"Taxus canadensis\" Taxus Taxus is a small genus of coniferous trees or shrubs known as yews in the family Taxaceae. They are relatively slow-growing and can be very long-lived, and reach heights of , with trunk",
"title": "Taxus"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1758544",
"score": 0.97794867,
"text": "Taxus Taxus is a small genus of coniferous trees or shrubs known as yews in the family Taxaceae. They are relatively slow-growing and can be very long-lived, and reach heights of , with trunk girth averaging . They have reddish bark, lanceolate, flat, dark-green leaves long and broad, arranged spirally on the stem, but with the leaf bases twisted to align the leaves in two flat rows either side of the stem. The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure",
"title": "Taxus"
}
] |
Which town is on the A6 almost midway between Buxton and Matlock?
|
[
"Bake well",
"Bakewell",
"Bakewell, Derbyshire"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1147853",
"score": 1.2213297,
"text": "Buxton with Macclesfield, Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield,Chesterfield and Meadowhall. The nearest airports are Manchester Airport (22 miles), Liverpool John Lennon Airport (48 miles), and East Midlands Airport (52 miles). There are also taxi services based in the town. Buxton Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England. It has the highest elevation – about above sea level – of any market town in England. Close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as \"the gateway to the Peak District National Park\". A municipal borough until 1974,",
"title": "Buxton"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "664135",
"score": 1.1657791,
"text": "Derwent Valley line between Derby and Matlock, the Buxton and Glossop lines, linking them to Manchester, and the Huddersfield line from Manchester to Huddersfield. Coach services provide access to Matlock, Bakewell and Buxton from Derby, Nottingham and Manchester through TransPeak and National Express, and there are regular buses from Sheffield, Glossop, Stoke, Leek and Chesterfield. The nearest airports are Manchester, Doncaster Sheffield, and East Midlands. In rural areas, villages are served by internal transport links. Minibuses operate from the towns to smaller villages. The Hope Valley and Buxton Line trains serve stations at Hathersage, Hope and Edale. Cycle England invested",
"title": "Peak District"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1147824",
"score": 1.1603473,
"text": "Buxton Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England. It has the highest elevation – about above sea level – of any market town in England. Close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as \"the gateway to the Peak District National Park\". A municipal borough until 1974, Buxton was then merged with other localities lying primarily to the north, including Glossop, to form the local government district and borough of High Peak within the county of Derbyshire. Despite being in the East Midlands,",
"title": "Buxton"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2212294",
"score": 1.1564374,
"text": "and it opened 4 October 2007. A new access road with its own bridge over the River Derwent allows the A6 to bypass the town centre, while the old bridge has been restricted to one-way traffic (out of town) and allows pedestrian access to the train station, a newly built bus station and the supermarket from the town centre. Several bus routes continue to serve only the old Bus Station on Bakewell Road, making Matlock one of the smallest towns in Britain to boast two bus stations. There has been a negative image of Matlock Town centre due to the",
"title": "Matlock, Derbyshire"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4938501",
"score": 1.1499456,
"text": "railway workers have largely disappeared, at the beginning of the 21st century, there is renewed public interest in rail, and Derbyshire County Council, among others, is keen to reduce traffic congestion on the A6 and in the Peak National Park.The route between Matlock and Rowsley was taken over by the Peak Rail preservation group, who are campaigning for the link to be restored to Buxton. The County Council carried out a study in 2004, which concluded that it was not economically feasible, but that the track bed would be protected from development. It was designated by the Department for Transport",
"title": "Derwent Valley line"
}
] |
An open air ballpark build in 2004, what National League baseball team plays at Petco Park?
|
[
"Sand Diego Padres",
"The Padres",
"San Diego Padres/Players of note",
"San Diego Padres (sports)",
"San Deigo Padres",
"The San Diego Padres",
"SD Padres",
"San Diego Padres",
"Padres",
"List of San Diego Padres captains"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3213340",
"score": 1.2477406,
"text": "Petco Park Petco Park is a baseball park located in the downtown area of San Diego, California, United States, that is home to the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). The park opened in 2004, replacing Qualcomm Stadium, which the Padres shared with the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). Petco Park is named after the San Diego-based pet supplies retailer Petco, which paid for the naming rights until 2026. In addition to baseball, the park also is used as venue for concerts, soccer, golf, and rugby sevens. The ballpark is between Seventh and 10th",
"title": "Petco Park"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3213357",
"score": 1.2075486,
"text": "San Diego Bay and the San Diego skyline beyond the left field seats, as well as a view of Balboa Park, which contains the San Diego Zoo, beyond center field. The \"San Diego Union-Tribune\" honored the ballpark in 2006 with an Orchid award for its design. Petco Park's official address is 19 Tony Gwynn Way, in honor of the eight-time National League batting champion who wore that uniform number during his major league career. A statue of Gwynn was unveiled July 21, 2007, on the stadium grounds. On August 18, 2018, a statue of National League Saves Leader and longtime",
"title": "Petco Park"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3213343",
"score": 1.1916604,
"text": "a comprehensive plan to revitalize San Diego's aging downtown, particularly the East Village area. The stadium is across Harbor Drive from the San Diego Convention Center, and its main entrance behind home plate is two blocks from the downtown terminal of the San Diego Trolley light rail system. When the field was finished, the first home plate was placed by young San Diego native Marlon Cook, who was selected through the Boys & Girls Club of Memorial Park for his exceptional community involvement. The ballpark was scheduled to open for the 2002 season; however, construction was suspended temporarily for legal",
"title": "Petco Park"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3213358",
"score": 1.1764002,
"text": "Padre Trevor Hoffman was unveiled along K Street behind the bullpen, facing Gwynn's statue. The Park at the Park, a grassy berm sloping above the outfield fence, is open during games, allowing fans to sit and watch games for $10. When no games are being played, the Park at the Park serves as a free local park for area residents. An unusual feature Petco Park once had was that the home team bullpen was located behind the center field wall while the bullpen for the visiting team was in foul territory in right field. However, both bullpens were moved behind",
"title": "Petco Park"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3213345",
"score": 1.1377175,
"text": "play the 2002 and 2003 seasons at Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium. The first baseball game played at Petco Park, March 11, 2004, was part of a four-team NCAA invitational tournament hosted by San Diego State University. The San Diego State Aztecs baseball team, of which retired Padres player Tony Gwynn was the head coach, defeated Houston. It was the largest attended game in college baseball history. Lance Zawadzki recorded the first hit, when he hit a double. On April 8, 2004, there was lighthearted pushing and shoving before the gates opened about 4 p.m., as numerous Padres faithful tried to be",
"title": "Petco Park"
}
] |
Which actress was the elder sister of Joan Fontaine?
|
[
"OLIVIA de HAVILLAND",
"Olivia de Havilland",
"Olivia De Havilland",
"Olivia de Haviland",
"Olivia deHavilland",
"Olivia de havilland",
"Olivia DeHavilland"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1528565",
"score": 1.2426873,
"text": "Joan Fontaine Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an American actress born in Japan to British parents who was best known for her starring roles in cinema during the Classical Hollywood era. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 feature films in a career that spanned five decades. She was the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland. Born in Tokyo, Fontaine moved to California before she was two years old. She traveled there along with her mother, Lilian Fontaine, and sister, the actress Olivia de Havilland, following her",
"title": "Joan Fontaine"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1528597",
"score": 1.1972663,
"text": "be sold at an animal rights auction; however, the Academy threatened to sue since it was not offered back to them for $1 and Fontaine's estate retained possession. Joan Fontaine Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an American actress born in Japan to British parents who was best known for her starring roles in cinema during the Classical Hollywood era. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 feature films in a career that spanned five decades. She was the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland. Born in Tokyo,",
"title": "Joan Fontaine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1528591",
"score": 1.1603684,
"text": "Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine. Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters had an uneasy relationship from early childhood, when Olivia would rip up the clothes Joan had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to sew them back together. A large part of the friction between the sisters allegedly stemmed from Fontaine's belief that Olivia was their mother's favorite child. De Havilland and Fontaine were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's \"Suspicion\" over deHavilland's performance in \"Hold Back the Dawn\". Higham states that Fontaine \"felt guilty",
"title": "Joan Fontaine"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "18719170",
"score": 1.1462798,
"text": "the Los Gatos Theatre workshop. Fontaine died on 20 February 1975, aged 88, of cancer. The Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre in Saratoga, California, was named in honor of the actress, and that city's Fontaine Drive was also named in her honor. Lilian Fontaine Lilian Augusta Fontaine (née Ruse, formerly de Havilland; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975) was an English actress and mother of Academy Award-winning American actresses Dame Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. Fontaine was born in Reading, Berkshire. She received a scholarship from Reading College at age 13 for her musical talent and studied acting at",
"title": "Lilian Fontaine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1528568",
"score": 1.122065,
"text": "she continued to act until her last performance in 1994. Having won an Academy Award for her role in \"Suspicion\", Fontaine is the only actor to have won an Academy Award for acting in a Hitchcock film. Furthermore, she and her sister remain the only siblings to have won major acting Academy Awards. Joan de Beauvoir deHavilland was born on 22 October 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, to English parents. Her father, Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), was educated at the University of Cambridge and served as an English professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo before becoming a patent attorney. Her",
"title": "Joan Fontaine"
}
] |
If all the American state capitals were arranged in alphabetical order, which would come last?
|
[
"Trenton Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey",
"Trenton, NJ",
"Trenton riots",
"Trenton-on-the-Delaware",
"Trenton Township, New Jersey",
"Trenton True American",
"Trenton Community Music School",
"Trenton (NJ)",
"TRENTON, New Jersey",
"Trenton Riots",
"Capital of New Jersey",
"Trenton, nj",
"Trenton City, Mercer County, New Jersey",
"Trenton, New Jersey",
"Trenton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey",
"Western New Jersey",
"Foundation Academy Charter School",
"Trenton New Jersey",
"UN/LOCODE:USTTN",
"Trenton City, New Jersey"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6683487",
"score": 0.9811406,
"text": "is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries. Paleo-Indians migrated",
"title": "United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4073564",
"score": 0.91600263,
"text": "Republic\"; the central blue states near the Great Lakes are labeled \"Central Realitania\" or \"Minniwillinois\"; and the blue states along the Pacific Coast are called \"Western Realitania\", \"Pacificstan\", \"Southern Canada\" or \"Baja Canada\" (with Hawaii being separately labeled \"The Tropic of Canada\"). Another has chosen the overall name \"Realistan\", and another has chosen \"The United States of Liberty and Education\". The red states in these variant maps are called \"Jesusistan\", or \"the United State of Texas\" in reference to Bush's home state. Some maps purport to show a capital city of Crawford, Texas, then the home of former U.S. President",
"title": "Jesusland map"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6416564",
"score": 0.9035201,
"text": "of five cities (Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Las Vegas; Kansas City; and Chicago) and three states (Texas, Utah, and Nebraska) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey, which is in bolder font than the rest of the country beyond the Hudson. Washington, D.C. is depicted as a remote location near Mexico. The Pacific Ocean, slightly wider than the Hudson, separates the United States from three flattened land masses labeled China, Japan and Russia. The image depicts the world with a back turned to Europe, which is absent from the painting. The work is composed in",
"title": "View of the World from 9th Avenue"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6683486",
"score": 0.8987052,
"text": "United States The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km), the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area and slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles (10.1 million km). With a population of over 325 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population",
"title": "United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "437926",
"score": 0.89683163,
"text": "to the south and southwest, the Bering Strait to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north, while Hawaii lies far to the southwest of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean. Forty-eight of the states are in the single region between Canada and Mexico; this group is referred to, with varying precision and formality, as the \"continental\" or \"contiguous United States\", and as the \"Lower 48\". Alaska, which is not included in the term \"contiguous United States\", is at the northwestern end of North America, separated from the Lower 48 by Canada. The capital city, Washington, District of Columbia,",
"title": "Geography of the United States"
}
] |
Which cartoon character owns a dog called Dogmatix?
|
[
"Obelix",
"Obélix",
"Obilix"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4212361",
"score": 1.0980471,
"text": "Dogmatix Dogmatix () is a fictional tiny white terrier dog who is a companion to Obelix in the \"Asterix\" comics. Dogmatix is a pun on the words dog and dogmatic. In the original French, his name is \"Idéfix\", itself a pun on the French expression \"idée fixe\" (fixed idea) meaning an obsession. Dogmatix is the only animal among the main characters of the series. His role is minor in most of the stories, significant mainly as a 'bone' of contention between Asterix and Obelix as to whether he should be allowed to accompany them on their adventures. However, he is",
"title": "Dogmatix"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4212368",
"score": 1.0602622,
"text": "regular English language translators of the \"Asterix\" albums. Dogmatix Dogmatix () is a fictional tiny white terrier dog who is a companion to Obelix in the \"Asterix\" comics. Dogmatix is a pun on the words dog and dogmatic. In the original French, his name is \"Idéfix\", itself a pun on the French expression \"idée fixe\" (fixed idea) meaning an obsession. Dogmatix is the only animal among the main characters of the series. His role is minor in most of the stories, significant mainly as a 'bone' of contention between Asterix and Obelix as to whether he should be allowed to",
"title": "Dogmatix"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4212364",
"score": 1.0107042,
"text": "dog. Hundreds of suggestions were received. The winning name, Idéfix, was submitted by Hervé Ambroise, Dominique and Anne Boucard, and Rémi Dujat. In the next adventure, \"Asterix and Cleopatra\", Dogmatix is given his name and plays a more active role. Asterix and Obelix argue about whether or not Dogmatix should accompany them to Egypt, but he proves his worth by following the Gauls into a pyramid in which they were lost and guiding them out safely. Like many dogs, Dogmatix is protective of his master, especially when he falls for, or is shown affection by, beautiful young women. In \"Asterix",
"title": "Dogmatix"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4212362",
"score": 0.9923574,
"text": "often seen doing something interesting in the background and occasionally fulfills an important part of the plot. In the words of the authors, Dogmatix is the only known \"canine ecologist\": he loves trees and howls in distress whenever one is damaged. Despite his small size, he is quite fearless. He has drunk the magic potion on a number of occasions, but his favourite treat is to 'chew a bone'. A dog similar to Dogmatix appeared in page 28 of Asterix & the Golden Sickle. Dogmatix first appears in \"Asterix and the Banquet\". Sitting outside a butcher's shop in Lutetia, he",
"title": "Dogmatix"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "22278",
"score": 0.94549346,
"text": "the druid Getafix is \"Panoramix\" in the original French and \"Miraculix\" in German. Even so, occasionally the wordplay has been preserved: Obelix's dog, known in the original French as \"Idéfix\" (from \"idée fixe\", a \"fixed idea\" or obsession), is called \"Dogmatix\" in English, which not only renders the original meaning strikingly closely (\"dogmatic\") but in fact adds another layer of wordplay with the syllable \"Dog-\" at the beginning of the name. The name \"Asterix\", French \"Astérix\", comes from ', meaning \"asterisk\", which is the typographical symbol *\"' indicating a footnote, from the Greek word αστήρ (\"aster\"), meaning a \"star\". His",
"title": "Asterix"
}
] |
What is a young pilchard called?
|
[
"Pilchard",
"Sardine",
"Pilchards",
"Sardines",
"Cornish sardine",
"Chalai",
"Iwashi no agemono",
"Sardine can",
"Chirimen jako"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1785913",
"score": 0.9920809,
"text": "Sardine \"Sardine\" and \"pilchard\" are common names used to refer to various small, oily fish in the herring family Clupeidae. The term \"sardine\" was first used in English during the early 15th century and may come from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, around which sardines were once abundant. The terms \"sardine\" and \"pilchard” are not precise, and what is meant depends on the region. The United Kingdom's Sea Fish Industry Authority, for example, classifies sardines as young pilchards. One criterion suggests fish shorter in length than are sardines, and larger fish are pilchards. The FAO/WHO Codex standard for canned sardines",
"title": "Sardine"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14795627",
"score": 0.98359656,
"text": "European pilchard The European pilchard (\"Sardina pilchardus\") is a species of ray-finned fish in the monotypic genus Sardina. The young of the species are among the many fish that are sometimes called sardines. This common species is found in the northeast Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea at depths of . It reaches up to in length and mostly feeds on planktonic crustaceans. This schooling species is a batch spawner where each female lays 50,000–60,000 eggs. The European pilchard is a small to medium-sized, somewhat elongated, herring-like fish. The origin of the pelvic fins is well behind that of",
"title": "European pilchard"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14139611",
"score": 0.9735471,
"text": "HMS Pilchard (1805) HMS \"Pilchard\" was a Royal Navy \"Ballahoo\"-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda. She was commissioned under Lieutenant Samuel Crew in May 1804, launched in 1805, and completed at Plymouth in 1806. Although \"Pilchard\" was often near naval engagements, she seems not to have had to fire her cannons before she was laid up in 1812. Entries in \"Lloyd's Register\" indicate that she continued in mercantile trade from at least 1817 until 1833, under a variety of owners and masters, and",
"title": "HMS Pilchard (1805)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5691048",
"score": 0.96555287,
"text": "MacDonald Fraser. In the novel Pilch is caught and bowled by Flashman in a fictional game set at Lord's between Rugby Old Boys and Kent in 1842. Fuller Pilch is mentioned in the song \"Gentlemen and Players\" on the 2009 cricket concept album The Duckworth Lewis Method, created by Irish duo Thomas Walsh and Neil Hannon. Fuller Pilch Fuller Pilch (17 March 1803 – 1 May 1870) was an English first-class cricketer. Described as \"the greatest batsman ever known until the appearance of W. G. Grace\", the right-handed batsman Pilch played 229 first-class matches between 1820 and 1854 for an",
"title": "Fuller Pilch"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14795632",
"score": 0.9655425,
"text": "trawling with high opening nets. In total, around a million tonnes are taken annually, with Morocco and Spain having the largest catches. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) considers the Moroccan fishery overfished. The adults may be sold as pilchards; the juveniles, as sardines. The terms \"sardine\" and \"pilchard” are not precise, and what is meant depends on the region. The United Kingdom's Sea Fish Industry Authority, for example, classifies sardines as young pilchards. One criterion suggests fish shorter in length than are sardines, and larger fish are pilchards. The FAO/WHO Codex standard for canned sardines cites 21 species that",
"title": "European pilchard"
}
] |
What are the small pair of wooden paddles used for working butter called
|
[
"Scotch hands",
"Scotch HANDS"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "566631",
"score": 1.0019342,
"text": "butter is eaten in the U.S. and the EU. In the United States, butter has traditionally been made into small, rectangular blocks by means of a pair of wooden butter paddles. It is usually produced in sticks that are individually wrapped in waxed or foiled paper, and sold as a package of 4 sticks. This practice is believed to have originated in 1907, when Swift and Company began packaging butter in this manner for mass distribution. Due to historical differences in butter printers (machines that cut and package butter), 4-ounce sticks are commonly produced in two different shapes: Most butter",
"title": "Butter"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7575080",
"score": 0.9983456,
"text": "Scotch hands Scotch hands (also known as butter beaters, butter hands, butter workers or butter pats) are wooden spatulas used when making butter. They are used to press freshly churned butter to remove the watery buttermilk during the butter finishing (working) process, as well as to distribute salt through the butter. Removing the buttermilk and adding salt helps to prevent rancidity in finished butter. One side of the paddle will be ribbed or grooved to allow the buttermilk to drain away from the butter during pressing. The ungrooved side may be used for shaping the butter into final form. The",
"title": "Scotch hands"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1386320",
"score": 0.9844924,
"text": "Paddle A paddle is a tool used for pushing against liquids, either as a form of propulsion in a boat or as an implement for mixing. Paddles commonly used in canoes consist of a wooden, fibreglass, carbon fibre or metal rod (the \"shaft\") with a handle on one end and a rigid sheet (the \"blade\") on the other end. Paddles for use in kayaks are longer, with a blade on each end; they are handled from the middle of the shaft. Kayak paddles having blades in the same plane (when viewed down the shaft) are called \"un-feathered.\" Paddles with blades",
"title": "Paddle"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4572324",
"score": 0.9816891,
"text": "English word for churn). The staff used in the churn is known as the dash, dasher-staff, churn-staff, churning-stick, plunger, plumper, or kirn-staff. Another prominent type of churn was the paddle churn, which was a container that contained a paddle, which was operated by a handle. The paddle churned the butter inside the container when the handle was turned. The barrel churn was also used extensively. This type of churn was a barrel turned onto its side with a crank attached. The crank either turned a paddle device inside the churn, as in the paddle churn, or turned the whole barrel,",
"title": "Butter churn"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15671736",
"score": 0.9776577,
"text": "the washboard and the washing paddle. The paddle was used together with a washboard, made from a rectangular wooden frame with a series of wooden or metal reliefs or ripples mounted inside. Women were going to the laundry with their baskets full of dirty clothes, a little bench to protect their knees and a block of homemade soap. Washing paddle The washing paddle or washing bat, known as \"thaapi\" in Haryanvi and Hindi languages, is a hand tool used to do laundry. It is made of wood, shaped like a baker's shovel (a peel), but with a much shorter handle",
"title": "Washing paddle"
}
] |
Who composed a Symphony No. 0?
|
[
"Joseph Anton Bruckner",
"Anton Brueckner",
"The 'Bruckner Problem'",
"Bruckner",
"Bruckner Problem",
"Anton Bruckner",
"The Bruckner Problem",
"Anton Brückner"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17382312",
"score": 1.0327003,
"text": "the numeral zero and the symphony got the nickname \" (\"No. 0\"). In the words of David Griegel, \"Like many other composers, I believe Bruckner was merely being too self-critical, and the unnumbered symphonies are also works worthy of our enjoyment\". Because of the designation \"Die Nullte\", the biographers Göllerich and Auer felt it was composed before Symphony No. 1. Contrary to this assumption, the autograph score is dated 24 January to 12 September 1869, and no earlier sketch or single folio of this work has been retrieved. The work, which is sometimes referred to as \"Symphony in D minor,",
"title": "Symphony in D minor (Bruckner)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20933714",
"score": 1.0144736,
"text": "Symphony No. 1 (Sallinen) The Symphony No. 1 (originally titled: Sinfonia), Op. 24, is an orchestral composition by the Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen, who began writing the piece in 1970 when the City of Helsinki announced a composers' competition to mark the inauguration of Finlandia Hall. Completing the symphony in 1971, Sallinen was awarded First Prize in the contest; the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and its music director, Jorma Panula, premiered the work at Finlandia Hall during the 2 December inaugural festivities. According to the publisher, Novello & Co, Symphony No. 1 is scored for the following: To date, Symphony No.",
"title": "Symphony No. 1 (Sallinen)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20179997",
"score": 1.0130749,
"text": "movement feels like a \"moto perpetuo\". Symphony No. 1 (G. English) Symphony No. 1 in A major, Op. 4 was composed by George English in early 1932 (from 1 January to 28 April). It uses Romantic material and shows various influences including Brahms, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Elgar, Delius and Faure. It was never performed after 1945, and, according to Rhoderick McNeill, it is interesting and deserves a revival. The approximate duration is 28 minutes. Like the English's Symphony No. 2, this symphony was performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under the composer's direction during the Melbourne Centenary Celebrations (1934). On",
"title": "Symphony No. 1 (G. English)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "469220",
"score": 1.0102389,
"text": "early \"Symphony in D minor\" to be unworthy of including in the canon of his works, and he wrote 'gilt nicht' on the score and a circle with a crossbar, intending it to mean \"invalid\". But posthumously, this work came to be known as \"Symphony No. 0 in D minor\", even though it was actually written after \"Symphony No. 1 in C minor\". There is an even earlier \"Symphony in F minor\" of Bruckner's that is sometimes called \"No. 00\". The Russian composer Alfred Schnittke also wrote a Symphony No. 0. In some universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, \"week 0\"",
"title": "Zero-based numbering"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8497873",
"score": 1.0065889,
"text": "1, 1883, under the baton of Max Erdmannsdörfer. Tchaikovsky freely confessed later in life that he could not write within the proper rules of Western sonata form—those rules of exposition and organic growth and development of themes that Germanic composers such as Haydn and Mozart had invented. Anton Rubinstein was a slavish follower of those rules in his own works. That may in turn have been a handicap for Tchaikovsky in writing \"Winter Dreams\". He could not write a symphony that would please Rubinstein by staying firmly within a classical format while writing music that would stay true to his",
"title": "Symphony No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)"
}
] |
'Count Fosco', 'Sergeant Richard Cuff' and 'Anne Catherick' are characters created by which author?
|
[
"Collins, Wilkie",
"WW Collins",
"Collinsian",
"William Wilkie Collins",
"WILKIE COLLINS",
"Wilkie Collins",
"William %22Wilkie%22 Collins"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4406417",
"score": 0.8615736,
"text": "by \"2\" after the publication date were written under the pseudonym \"Elise Fecamps\"; <br>those indicated by \"3\" after the publication date were written under the pseudonym \"Henry St John Cooper\". John Creasey John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters which are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most",
"title": "John Creasey"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14651024",
"score": 0.8564801,
"text": "course, immense indignation from Mr Cox and Mrs Box, and great fun arises out of the various demonstrations of these injured individuals. Everything, however, is arranged to the satisfaction of all parties.\" F. C. Burnand wrote another short sequel, \"Penelope Anne\", published in 1872. The main characters are Don José John Boxos de Caballeros y Carvalhos y Regalias, of Salamanca, generally known as \"John Box\"; Count Cornelius de Coxo, Land Margrave of Somewhere, with a palazzo in Venice, commonly known as \"James Cox\"; Mrs Penelope Anne Knox; and Major General Bouncer. Box and Cox have inherited titles from a Spanish",
"title": "Box and Cox (farce)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5837652",
"score": 0.8561915,
"text": "literary artists. Not only did they produce a goodly number of fine fair play puzzles, but their clever tales have more intrinsic interest as social documents and even sometimes as literary novels than they have been credited with having.\" This bibliography has been confirmed against a standard reference. Series characters: Lancelot Priestley, Inspector Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. Series characters: Desmond Merrion and Inspector Henry Arnold. Series characters: Christopher and Vivienne Perrin – 'Perrins, Private Investigators'. Written as F.O.O. (Forward Observation Officer) Written as I.O. (Intelligence Officer) Written as C. J. C. Street Written as John Rhode Written as C.",
"title": "Cecil Street"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15572224",
"score": 0.84619725,
"text": "Pieces published in the English language to the year 1747\" (London, 1747). The work was edited by Martha Whincop, the widow, who dedicated the volume to the Earl of Middlesex. The hand of compiler John Mottley was likely involved in compilation and revision. The dramatic authors are divided into two alphabetical categories, those who flourished before and those who flourished after 1660, and there are small medallion portraits engraved by N. Parr. At the end is an index of the titles of plays. The book was based for the most part on the ‘English Dramatic Poets’ (1691) of Gerard Langbaine",
"title": "Thomas Whincop"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3684085",
"score": 0.8384459,
"text": "Anthony Gilbert (author) Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (15 February 1899 – 9 December 1973), was an English crime writer who was a cousin of actor-screenwriter Miles Malleson. She also wrote nongenre fiction as Anne Meredith and published one crime novel and an autobiography (\"Three-a-Penny\", 1940) under the Meredith name. She published 69 crime novels, 51 of which featured her best-known character, Arthur Crook. Crook is a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately) unlike the sophisticated detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey and Philo Vance, who dominated the mystery field when Gilbert introduced him. Instead of",
"title": "Anthony Gilbert (author)"
}
] |
A litany originally referred to a repetitious series of communications in?
|
[
"Tserkov",
"Church sign",
"The Church",
"Ecclesiastical affair",
"Ecclesiastical affairs",
"Church (disambiguation)",
"Church ward",
"Church",
"Churches",
"Church (ward)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2252531",
"score": 1.0487323,
"text": "Exhortation and Litany The Exhortation and Litany published in 1544 is the earliest officially authorized vernacular service in English . At that time, the term \"litany\" had a specific technical sense and denoted a penitential service in procession used in time of trouble or in a spirit of sorrow for sins committed . It consisted chiefly of very short intercessory phrases said by the priest and a brief standard response from the choir or congregation. On August 20, 1543, Henry had ordered \"general rogations and processions to be made\" on account of the multiple troubles England was experiencing, but public",
"title": "Exhortation and Litany"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11167384",
"score": 1.0401928,
"text": "Litany of Humility seems to be lost to history, in the obscurity for which he prayed. A litany is a form of prayer with a repeated responsive petition, used in public liturgical services of the Catholic Church, and in private devotions of Her adherents. A Ukrainian language version of the litany, attributed to the Russian Orthodox priest Alexander Men, appears in two prayer books: \"Molytovnyk Dl'a Rodyny\" (Prayer Book for the Family) published in L'viv in 2010 by Apriori; and \"Molytovnyk\" (Prayer Book), published in Kyiv in 2017 by Duh i Litera. Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val (1865-1930) Lord have",
"title": "Litany of humility"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6372140",
"score": 1.0114218,
"text": "released the following day on $1,300 bond each. Both workers maintain they were \"wrongfully arrested\". The \"Presente! litany\" is a memorial litany in which the names of people killed in political repression (usually in Central and South America) are recited. This litany is used at the annual memorial service held at the gates of the School of the Americas in Columbus, Georgia, for those killed by graduates of the school. In Spanish, \"\"Presente\"\" means \"here\" or \"present\", when responding to a roll call. The tradition of reading names of those killed by politically repressive regimes has a long tradition in",
"title": "School of the Americas Watch"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11167382",
"score": 1.0064476,
"text": "Litany of humility The following Litany of Humility is a Catholic prayer that the penitent be granted the virtue of humility. This Litany is commonly attributed to Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val (1865-1930), Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See under Pope Saint Pius X, but there is little evidence of this. C.S. Lewis attributed its composition to Cardinal Merry del Val in his March 1948 letter to Don Giovanni Calabria. Father Charles Belmonte, S.Th.D., a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature, who was inspired by the writings of the Cardinal, included it in a collection, the \"Handbook of",
"title": "Litany of humility"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4250806",
"score": 1.0012808,
"text": "the Latin Rite. Many other litanies are used in private prayer. A Marian litany is one dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary; only one is authorised for public recitation (mentioned above). The Litany of humility is another well-known prayer. In the Catholic Church, six litanies are approved for public recitation: Much of the historic Litany was retained by the Lutheran Church. Luther hailed it as one of the greatest Christian prayers ever. When faced with the Turkish armies at the gates of Vienna in 1528/29, Luther exhorted pastors to call their Christian people to repentance and prayer. He recommended the",
"title": "Litany"
}
] |
What is the lowest possible bid in bridge?
|
[
"One Show Design",
"One Show Festival",
"One Show Entertainment",
"The One Club for Art and Copy",
"The Copy Club",
"Advertising Writers Association of New York",
"The One Club for Art & Copy",
"One Club for Art and Copy",
"One Club",
"One Show Interactive",
"The One Show Festival",
"The One Club"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "47052",
"score": 1.1848582,
"text": "six, so a bid must be between one (seven tricks) and seven (thirteen tricks). A bid is higher than another bid if either the level is greater (e.g., 2 over 1NT) or the denomination is higher, with the order being in ascending order: , , , , and NT (no trump). Calls may be made orally, or with a bidding box, or digitally in online bridge. If the last bid was by the opposing partnership, one may also the opponents' bid, increasing the penalties for undertricks, but also increasing the reward for making the contract. Doubling does not carry to",
"title": "Contract bridge"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4051839",
"score": 1.1742818,
"text": "desirable to bid above this minimum as points below the line may be needed to complete a game. Duplicate bridge also has the advantage of compensating for a bad run of luck with the cards. A pair that has had poor hands all night may still have the highest score for the evening – as long as they play those cards better than the other pairs with the same poor cards (however in such cases the pair will probably have had less opportunity to exercise skill and their result will be more heavily dependent on the skill displayed by their",
"title": "Duplicate bridge"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "754758",
"score": 1.1551971,
"text": "the odd trick in a trump suit or at No-trumps; he cannot pass the bid. A bid is higher if it contracts for a higher number of points (ignoring doubles) rather than a higher number of tricks. As an example 3 Spades (27 points) beats 4 Clubs (24 points). Auction bridge scoring is as follows: Auction bridge The card game auction bridge, the third step in the evolution of the general game of bridge, was developed from straight bridge (i.e. bridge whist) in 1904. The precursor to contract bridge, its predecessors were whist and bridge whist. Auction bridge trick scoring,",
"title": "Auction bridge"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4991228",
"score": 1.1487646,
"text": "clockwise to each player in turn, ending with the dealer. In order to bid, a player must make a bid that is 'better' (see below) than the best bid made by a previous player for the current hand. Unlike bridge, no deals are passed. If the first three players pass, the dealer (the last player) must make a bid. Most games set a minimum bid of at least four, though \"officially\" three is the minimum bid. A player's bid consists of a declaration of the minimum number of books (over the required 6 books) that will be taken (turned) by",
"title": "Bid whist"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8328485",
"score": 1.1290451,
"text": "placed over the bidding cards attaching to the box base. A bridge auction consists of a sequence of \"calls\" (a bid, pass, double, or redouble) made by each player in turn, until it is concluded by a sequence of three consecutive passes. With the transition from auction bridge to modern contract bridge, the bidding has become more complex, and conventional auctions often last through several rounds of bidding. Such long auctions are hard to memorize and review. In addition, oral bidding causes noise in tournament halls, and auctions can be easily overheard at the other tables. Bidding boxes were invented",
"title": "Bidding box"
}
] |
Following its merger with a Dutch company, what did British Steel change its name to on the 6th October 1999?
|
[
"CORUS Plc"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "56185",
"score": 1.3216503,
"text": "British Steel (1967–1999) British Steel plc was a major British steel producer. It originated from the nationalised British Steel Corporation (BSC), formed in 1967, which was privatised as a public limited company, British Steel plc, in 1988. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company merged with Koninklijke Hoogovens to form Corus Group in 1999. Alasdair M. Blair (1997), Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University, has explored the history of British Steel since the Second World War to evaluate the impact of government intervention",
"title": "British Steel (1967–1999)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16663806",
"score": 1.2513819,
"text": "though 138 were found jobs at Trostre. Production finally ceased in 1989, when another 108 were given jobs at Trostre. On 6 October 1999, a merger was announced between the Koninklijke Hoogovens steel company of the Netherlands, and British Steel plc to form new company Corus. Although investment had continued at the Ebbw Vale site over the past two decades, No.2 ETL had been shut down in 1995, and rather than be redeveloped as planned had become a source of spares for the No.1 ETL. Steel production capacity was in excess of the required market in Europe, hence the need",
"title": "Trostre Steelworks"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "56193",
"score": 1.2485437,
"text": "the UK: British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. It merged with the Dutch steel producer \"Koninklijke Hoogovens\" to form Corus Group on 6 October 1999. Corus itself was taken over in March 2007 by the Indian steel operator Tata Steel. Ian MacGregor later became famous for his role as Chairman of the National Coal Board during the UK miners' strike (1984–1985). During the strike the \"Battle of Orgreave\" took place at British Steel's coking plant. In 1971 British Steel sponsored Sir Chay Blyth in his record-making non-stop circumnavigation against the winds and currents,",
"title": "British Steel (1967–1999)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11605667",
"score": 1.2376208,
"text": "now called Sheffield Forgemasters. For more information see the constituent companies articles. English Steel Corporation The English Steel Corporation Ltd was a United Kingdom steel producer. The company was jointly owned by Cammell Laird and Vickers and was formed to bring together their basic steel making interests, principally in the Sheffield area but also including a plant in Openshaw, Manchester. The company was nationalised in 1951, becoming part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain, was denationalised shortly afterwards, and renationalised and was absorbed into British Steel Corporation in 1967. It was then subsequently privatised. Eventually the present",
"title": "English Steel Corporation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "56190",
"score": 1.2212954,
"text": "partly owned subsidiaries based in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, South Asia, and South America. Dorman Long, South Durham and Stewarts and Lloyds had merged as British Steel and Tube Ltd before vesting took place. BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd (GKN), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham. According to Blair (1997), British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants; plants operating under capacity and thus at",
"title": "British Steel (1967–1999)"
}
] |
Who is missing from this list of Artistic Directors of the National Theatre – Laurence Olivier, Peter Hall, Richard Eyre and Nicholas Hytner?
|
[
"TREVOR NUNN",
"Nunn, Sir Trevor",
"Sir Trevor Nunn",
"Trevor Nunn",
"Trevor Robert Nunn"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1444376",
"score": 1.2562253,
"text": "director in 1988; his experience included running the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and the Nottingham Playhouse. He was noted for his series of collaborations with David Hare on the state of contemporary Britain. In 1997, Trevor Nunn became artistic director. He came to the National from the RSC, having undertaken a major expansion of the company into the Swan, The Other Place and the Barbican Theatres. He brought a more populist style to the National, introducing musical theatre to the repertoire. In April 2003, Nicholas Hytner took over as Artistic Director. He previously worked as an associate director with the",
"title": "Royal National Theatre"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3008253",
"score": 1.1917964,
"text": "needs of theatre artists and audiences. Hytner stated as early as 2010 that he did not wish to stay as head of the National indefinitely, saying, \"I've been here seven years. My predecessors have averaged 12. It's important that someone else comes in and shakes it up again so I won't be here in 10 years, that's for sure.\" In April 2013, he announced that he would step down as Director of the National Theatre at the end of March 2015. In his role as Director of National Theatre, he appeared on the Cultural Exchange as part of the Radio",
"title": "Nicholas Hytner"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1444377",
"score": 1.1826978,
"text": "Royal Exchange Theatre and the National. A number of his successful productions have been made into films. In April 2013 Hytner announced he would step down as artistic director at the end of March 2015. Amongst Hytner's innovations were NT Future, the National Theatre Live initiative of simulcasting live productions, and the Entry Pass scheme, allowing young people under the age of 26 to purchase tickets for £7.50 to any production at the theatre. Rufus Norris took over as Artistic Director in March 2015. He is the first person since Laurence Olivier to hold the post without being a University",
"title": "Royal National Theatre"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3008247",
"score": 1.1801864,
"text": "I had a long conversation with Christopher Hogg, then Chairman of the NT Board, and Tom Stoppard about my ideas for the NT's future. These included a redefinition of how it might be possible to use the theatre spaces and opening up the NT to new audiences by lowering prices for some performances.\" Hytner was successful in his application for the post, and his appointment as Director was announced in September 2001. He took over from Nunn in April 2003. Hytner's role as Director of the National involves decisions about what plays are staged. \"Essentially what I do is produce",
"title": "Nicholas Hytner"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17000109",
"score": 1.154752,
"text": "and communities\". There is hardly a play at the National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company, or a British film or television series that does not contain someone whom he has influenced, directly or indirectly. The list of famous actors who started out with the National Youth Theatre includes Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sir Derek Jacobi, Martin Jarvis, Sir Ben Kingsley, Dame Helen Mirren, Diana Quick, Matt Smith, Timothy Spall, David Suchet, Catherine Tate, Simon Ward, and Michael York, among others. Furthermore, there are few British towns nowadays which do not have some",
"title": "Michael Croft"
}
] |
Adrak is the Indian name for which spice?
|
[
"Shonth",
"Sweet Ginger",
"Stem ginger",
"Shōgayu",
"Ginger root",
"Saenggang-cha",
"Ginger Roots",
"Gingers",
"Ginger oil",
"Ginger",
"Root gingers",
"Adrak",
"Salabat",
"Amomum zingiber",
"Zingiber officinale",
"Ginger tea",
"Saenggangcha",
"Saenggang cha",
"Root ginger",
"Garden ginger",
"Stem Ginger"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6137667",
"score": 0.9963925,
"text": "Adrak also means Ginger. Dhania Chacha: Younger brother of Adrak. An ex-heavy weight boxing champion, now runs his own boxing school named 'Lion's Den'. Doga learnt boxing art from him. Dhania also means Coriander(or Cilantro). Haldi Chacha: Another brother of Adrak. An expert in martial arts. Owns a martial arts centre named 'Lion Occult'. Trained Doga in martial arts. Haldi also means Turmeric. Kalimirchi Chacha: Last of the brothers. A champion sharp shooter. Expert in firearms and explosives. Runs the 'Lion Aim Club', a training center for shooting. Doga honed his shooting skills under his care. Kalimirchi also means Black",
"title": "Doga (comics)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "713809",
"score": 0.98958814,
"text": "(\"amomon\"), which was probably the name for a kind of Indian spice plant. The earliest attested form of the word κάρδαμον signifying \"cress\" is the Mycenaean Greek \"ka-da-mi-ja\", written in Linear B syllabic script, in the list of flavourings on the \"Spice\" tablets found among palace archives in the House of the Sphinxes in Mycenae. The modern genus name \"Elettaria\" is derived from the local name. The root \"ēlam\" is attested in all Dravidian languages viz. Kannada \"elakki\" (), Telugu \"yelakulu\" (), Tamil \"elakkai\" () and \"elakka\" () in Malayalam. The second element \"kai\" means \"seed\" or \"fruit\". The Malabar",
"title": "Cardamom"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14001153",
"score": 0.98212075,
"text": "one-man show has travelled to over 60 countries in a span of 35 years. But after all these awe-inspiring statistics, \"Adrak Ke Panje\" and its creator Babban Khan have decided to ring down the curtains on the play. Adrak means Ginger and Panje means its offshoot. As ginger has many irregular offshoots, so does Rumsu's (Babban Khan) children in the drama—without any family planning. Babban Khan's parents refused to name him till he was 10,fearing his death as his brothers and sisters had died earlier out of malnutrition—a result of penury running in the family. He hails from Aghapura. Attained",
"title": "Adrak Ke Punjey"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "370773",
"score": 0.94492626,
"text": "natural preservatives, preventing or slowing the spoilage of food, leading to a higher nutritional content in stored food. India contributes 75% of global spice production. The International Organization for Standardization addresses spices and condiments, along with related food additives, as part of the International Classification for Standards 67.220 series. The Indian Institute of Spices Research in Kozhikode, Kerala, is devoted exclusively to conducting research for ten spice crops: black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, garcinia, ginger, nutmeg, paprika, turmeric, and vanilla. Books Articles Spice A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring",
"title": "Spice"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "79696",
"score": 0.9126353,
"text": "Curries known as vindaloo have become well known in Great Britain, America, and elsewhere, where the name is usually used simply to indicate a fiery dish of lamb or chicken frequently including potatoes. Such dishes are far from the Goan originals. The name \"vindaloo\" derives from the Portuguese \"vinha d'alhos\" or wine (\"vinho\") and garlic (\"alho\"), the two definitive flavour ingredients. The dish was originally made with pork, not taboo to the Christian Portuguese. The inclusion of potatoes was a later Indian addition, thought to be the result of confusion with the Hindi word for potato, \"aloo\". Throughout the years",
"title": "Curry"
}
] |
What name is given to a resident of Colchester?
|
[
"COLCESTRIAN"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1913151",
"score": 0.99439585,
"text": "commuters, and is less than away from London Stansted Airport and from the passenger ferry port of Harwich. Colchester is home to Colchester Castle and Colchester United Football Club. The demonym is Colcestrian. There is a variety of theories about the derivation of the name \"Colchester\". Some contend that is derived from the Latin words \"Colonia\" (referring to a type of Roman settlement with rights equivalent to those of Roman citizens, one of which was believed to have been founded in the vicinity of Colchester) and \"Castra\", meaning \"fortifications\" (referring to the town's walls, the oldest in Britain). The earliest",
"title": "Colchester"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2771505",
"score": 0.9866034,
"text": "Borough of Colchester The Borough of Colchester is a local government district and borough in Essex, England, named after its main town, Colchester. The borough covers an area of and stretches from Dedham Vale on the Suffolk border in the north to Mersea Island on the Colne Estuary in the south. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the former borough of Colchester, covering an area of around , with the urban districts of West Mersea and Wivenhoe, along with Lexden and Winstree Rural District. The \"Essex County Standard\" of September 4, 2009 said that",
"title": "Borough of Colchester"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7494839",
"score": 0.9761124,
"text": "independents whom form the Highwoods & Stanway group on the council. The last three borough council elections have seen every seat contested by the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party. Colchester Borough Council is the local authority. Control of the borough council has passed between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in recent years. The political composition of the council (as of the 2015 election) is: For the purposes for elections and local administration, Colchester is divided into electoral wards. There are currently 27 wards. The current Mayor of Colchester is Councillor Theresa Higgins (Liberal Democrat) from New",
"title": "Politics of Colchester"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1240778",
"score": 0.9700302,
"text": "an agreement on pay between teachers and board, and school re-opened on Monday the 24th. Negotiations took place for around five hours on October 18, 2005, but resulted in no settlement, and again on the 23rd, resulting in the conclusion to the strike. Colchester, Vermont Colchester is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 17,067 as of the 2010 census. It is the fourth-most populous municipality and second-most populous town in the state of Vermont. Colchester is a suburb of Burlington–Vermont's most populous municipality. The town is directly to Burlington's north on the eastern shore of",
"title": "Colchester, Vermont"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2771509",
"score": 0.96654165,
"text": "the Conservative party had a majority. Since the 2008 election the council has been run by a coalition between the Liberal Democrats, Labour and independent groups and as of the 2018 election the council is composed of the following councillors:- Borough of Colchester The Borough of Colchester is a local government district and borough in Essex, England, named after its main town, Colchester. The borough covers an area of and stretches from Dedham Vale on the Suffolk border in the north to Mersea Island on the Colne Estuary in the south. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by",
"title": "Borough of Colchester"
}
] |
The oldest of the grand slam tennis tournaments, what is the only one still played on grass?
|
[
"Wimbeldon",
"Wimbleton",
"Wimbldon",
"Thе Wimbles",
"Wimbledon (disambiguation)",
"Wimbolden",
"Wimbledom",
"Wimbledon"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1612584",
"score": 1.1680031,
"text": "clay, and Wimbledon on grass. Wimbledon is the oldest, founded in 1877, followed by the US in 1881, the French in 1891, and the Australian in 1905. However, of these four, only Wimbledon was a major before 1924–25, when all four became designated Grand Slam tournaments. Skipping majors—especially the Australian Open because of the remoteness, the inconvenient dates (around Christmas and New Year's Day) and the low prize money—was not unusual before 1982. Grand Slam tournaments are not operated by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) or the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), but by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). However,",
"title": "Grand Slam (tennis)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "906195",
"score": 1.155294,
"text": "The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts. Wimbledon is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the others being the Australian Open, the French Open and the US Open. Since the Australian Open shifted to hardcourt in 1988, Wimbledon is the only major still played on grass. The tournament traditionally took place over two weeks in late June",
"title": "The Championships, Wimbledon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "410706",
"score": 1.0777075,
"text": "The Australian Open switched from grass to hard courts in 1988 and in its early years the French championship alternated between clay and sand/rubble courts. The US Open is the only major to have been played on three surfaces; it was played on grass from its inception until 1974, clay from 1975 until 1977 and hard courts since it moved from the West Side Tennis Club to the National Tennis Center in 1978. ITF uses the following classification for tennis court surface types: Clay courts are made of crushed shale, stone or brick. The French Open is the only Grand",
"title": "Tennis court"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "866818",
"score": 1.0543518,
"text": "(clay and hard). The US Open is the only Grand Slam tournament that has been played every year since its inception. During the 2006 US Open, the complex was renamed to \"USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center\" in honor of Billie Jean King, a four-time US Open singles champion and women's tennis pioneer. From 1984 through 2015, the US Open deviated from traditional scheduling practices for tennis tournaments with a concept that came to be known as \"Super Saturday\": the men's and women's finals were played on the final Saturday and Sunday of the tournament respectively, and their respective",
"title": "US Open (tennis)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "401820",
"score": 1.0507884,
"text": "recreational players and is also a popular worldwide spectator sport. The four Grand Slam tournaments (also referred to as the Majors) are especially popular: the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open also played on hard courts. Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th century northern France, where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand. Louis X of France was a keen player of jeu de paume (\"game of the palm\"), which evolved into real tennis, and became",
"title": "Tennis"
}
] |
Which horse, trained by the father of the jockey Ruby Walsh, won the 2000 Grand National?
|
[
"PAPILLON",
"Papillon",
"Papillon (disambiguation)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14325346",
"score": 1.1505926,
"text": "Graham Bradley after the 1999 running left two-time former winner Carl Llewellyn as the most senior rider in the weighing room, weighing out for a National for the tenth time. Eventual winner Ruby Walsh was among five riders making their debut in the race with all the other debut riders acquitting themselves well. Future winner Barry Geraghty finished fifth with Ollie McPhail and Bruce Gibson also completing the course, while Jimmy McCarthy fell at the final fence. The BBC retained the rights to broadcast the race live for 41st consecutive year and it was shown as a \"Grandstand\" Grand National",
"title": "2000 Grand National"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9909538",
"score": 1.1270337,
"text": "the ride and they avoided the carnage on the first circuit to be among the only seven still continuing when a loose horse took them out at the 19th fence. Walsh remounted and hacked around the remainder of the course with the remounted Blowing Wind before being left behind at the final flight to be the last of four to complete. The eventual winner, Red Marauder, was freely available as an each-way chance at 33/1 after disappointingly falling at Becher's Brook on the first circuit the previous year. Another fall at Haydock before the National had punters feeling that the",
"title": "2001 Grand National"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13212470",
"score": 1.1255774,
"text": "with two-time winning rider Ruby Walsh in the saddle. Despite a series of jumping errors the horse turned for the home straight marginally leading an unusually large contending pack of sixteen horses and briefly looked to be on the way to victory at the penultimate flight. The horse was quickly passed by the eventual winner and took the last flight in third place where he remained, finishing 13¼ lengths behind the winner. Jockey Ruby Walsh said: \"He was just hitting the fences low and I was really having to work hard at keeping him upright. We did well to stay",
"title": "2009 Grand National"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6401272",
"score": 1.1241894,
"text": "spent a substantial proportion of his time riding in England for Somerset-based champion trainer Paul Nicholls, the former trainer of Kauto Star. Walsh also takes the occasional ride for his father, Ted, and a variety of other Irish trainers. In January 2007, Walsh achieved the fastest ever century of winners in Irish jumps racing history aboard Bluestone Lad at Gowran Park. He ended the 2006/07 season with a combined total in Ireland and the UK of 198 winners, higher than any other jockey from either country that year. (This total was later increased to 200 on the disqualification of two",
"title": "Ruby Walsh"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14325340",
"score": 1.1214995,
"text": "2000 Grand National The 2000 Grand National (known as the Martell Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 153rd official renewal of the world-famous Grand National steeplechase that took place at Aintree Racecourse in England on 8 April 2000. The race was won in a time of 9 minutes 9.7 seconds and by a distance of 1¼ lengths by 10/1 shot Papillon, ridden by jockey Ruby Walsh. The winner was trained by his father Ted Walsh and ran in American Betty Moran's colours of green with ice blue piping. The field was limited to a maximum of 40 competitors of",
"title": "2000 Grand National"
}
] |
In May 1952, which UK airline was the first to introduce the passenger jet?
|
[
"BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17875640",
"score": 1.0742712,
"text": "supersonic jet to enter service was the North American F-100 Super Sabre, in 1954. Meanwhile, commercial jetliners were being developed with the first of these, the British de Havilland Comet, first flying in 1949 and entering service in 1952. The Comet suffered from a new and unexpected problem now known as metal fatigue, several examples crashed and by the time a new version was introduced, American types such as the Boeing 707 had overtaken its design and it was not a commercial success. These types and their descendants contributed to an era of great social change, typified by popular phrases",
"title": "Post-war aviation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1874714",
"score": 1.0705979,
"text": "after piloting a jet powered aircraft for the first time, Wing Commander Maurice A. Smith, editor of \"Flight\" magazine, said, \"Piloting a jet aircraft has confirmed one opinion I had formed after flying as a passenger in the Lancastrian jet test beds, that few, if any, having flown in a jet-propelled transport, will wish to revert to the noise, vibration and attendant fatigue of an airscrew-propelled piston-engined aircraft\" The first purpose-built jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952. Also developed in 1949 was the Avro Canada C102 Jetliner, which",
"title": "Jet airliner"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4434652",
"score": 1.0619582,
"text": "1943, the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter aircraft, went into service in the German Luftwaffe. In October 1947, the Bell X-1 was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in commercial service for more than 50 years, from 1958 to 2010. The Boeing 747 was the world's biggest passenger aircraft from 1970 until it was surpassed by the Airbus A380 in 2005. An aircraft propeller, or \"airscrew\", converts rotary motion from an engine",
"title": "Airplane"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1431376",
"score": 1.0601947,
"text": "Yalu River and shot them down in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history. The UK put the English Electric Canberra into service in 1951 as a light bomber. It was designed to fly higher and faster than any interceptor. BOAC operated the first commercial jet service, from London to Johannesburg, in 1952 with the de Havilland Comet jetliner. This highly innovative aircraft travelled far faster and higher than the propeller aircraft, was much quieter, smoother, and had stylish blended wings containing hidden jet engines. However, due to a design defect, and use of aluminium alloys, the aircraft suffered catastrophic metal",
"title": "Jet aircraft"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4434642",
"score": 1.0276474,
"text": "The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in commercial service for more than 50 years, from 1958 to at least 2013. First attested in English in the late 19th century (prior to the first sustained powered flight), the word \"airplane\", like \"aeroplane\", derives from the French \"aéroplane\", which comes from the Greek ἀήρ (\"aēr\"), \"air\" and either Latin \"planus\", \"level\", or Greek πλάνος (\"planos\"), \"wandering\". \"\"Aéroplane\"\" originally referred just to the wing, as",
"title": "Airplane"
}
] |
Arctic King and Saladin are varieties of which vegetable?
|
[
"L. sativa",
"生菜",
"Iceburg lettuce",
"Iceberg lettuce",
"Lettus",
"Lollo rossa",
"Winter density",
"Crisphead",
"Lollo rosso",
"Garden lettuce",
"Lettuce",
"Boston lettuce",
"Butter lettuce",
"Lettuces",
"Sheng cai",
"Shengcai",
"Lollo rosa",
"Lettace",
"Lactuca sativa"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15704982",
"score": 0.9090156,
"text": "Eskimo potato The Eskimo potato is a type of edible plant that grows in the northern areas of Canada and Alaska. It can be used in the state's famous Alaskan potato and egg breakfast tacos. The plant's scientific name is variously attributed as either \"Claytonia tuberosa\" (Inuit: \"oatkuk\") or \"Hedysarum alpinum\" (Inuit: \"mashu\"). Both species have a range in the northern area of North America, have edible roots, and have been documented to have been used as a food source by Inuit peoples. Due to its nutritional qualities, the eskimo potato is one of many edible foods listed in survival",
"title": "Eskimo potato"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11197854",
"score": 0.9032546,
"text": "Winter greens Winter greens are green leaved vegetables, closely related to the cabbage, that are seasonably available in winter. Common vegetables described as winter greens are chard, collards, rapini, and kale. William Morgan classed Brussels sprouts, savoy cabbages and several varieties of kale as winter greens. Morgan grew these vegetables and compared their hardiness, identifying which species were most suitable for growing through cold winters. He presented his findings to the Horticultural Society of London in 1818. Late season crops \"from October through December, a gardener can easily maintain and eat bok choy, pak choy (the purple pak choy is",
"title": "Winter greens"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "561446",
"score": 0.89641714,
"text": "Eggplant Eggplant (US), aubergine (UK), or brinjal (South Asia and South Africa ) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae, \"Solanum melongena\", grown for its often purple edible fruit. The spongy, absorbent fruit of the plant is widely used in cooking in many different cuisines, and is often considered a vegetable, even though it is a berry by botanical definition. As a member of the genus \"Solanum\", it is related to the tomato and the potato. Like the tomato, its skin and seeds can be eaten, but, like the potato, it is not advisable to eat it raw.",
"title": "Eggplant"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11197855",
"score": 0.8962692,
"text": "quite hardy), Chinese cabbage, mustard, Chinese broccoli, spinach, mache, lettuce, cilantro, kale, arugula, parsley, Swiss chard, leeks, scallions, claytonia, minutina, tatsoi, endive, radicchio, cress, beets and beet greens, collards, kohlrabi, carrots, cabbage, rutabagas, radishes, parsnips and mustard-spinach crosses.\" Winter greens have similar nutritional characteristics to other leaf vegetables and are therefore good sources of vitamins A and C. They are also a source of several dietary minerals including Iron, Potassium and Calcium. Winter greens Winter greens are green leaved vegetables, closely related to the cabbage, that are seasonably available in winter. Common vegetables described as winter greens are chard, collards,",
"title": "Winter greens"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10680112",
"score": 0.8854566,
"text": "Russians had asked to 'visit ... on their return from the Pole, we accepted their request', the log reads' 'A group of a dozen officials and journalists' brought 'gifts of fresh fruit and vegetables and a few bottles of wine ... we found the meeting somewhat surreal'. The French expedition had of food and was growing its own — ‘...salad...is what we have grown...most [to date]. Corn salad grows very well’, even at those latitudes [but] ‘...it seems a bit premature to consider [us] a self sufficient Arctic base food wise', the Agnès B's Bruno Vienne told hydroponics advisers \"Les",
"title": "Arktika 2007"
}
] |
What is the army equivalent to a Royal Navy Captain?
|
[
"Colonel (Australia)",
"Colonel",
"Colonelcy",
"Col.",
"Colonels",
"Cnel",
"Coronel (rank)",
"Acting Colonel",
"Colenel"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12788372",
"score": 1.1293207,
"text": "Captain (British Army and Royal Marines) Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above lieutenant and below major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2. The rank is equivalent to a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and to a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. The rank of captain in the Royal Navy is considerably more senior (equivalent to the Army/RM rank of colonel) and the two ranks should not be confused. In the 21st-century British Army, captains are often appointed to be second-in-command of a",
"title": "Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10935365",
"score": 1.0796794,
"text": "Captain (Royal Navy) Captain (Capt) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above commander and below commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in the British Army and Royal Marines, and to a group captain in the Royal Air Force. There are similarly named equivalent ranks in the navies of many other countries. In the Royal Navy, the officer in command of any warship of the rank of commander and below is informally referred to as \"the captain\" on board, even though holding a junior rank, but",
"title": "Captain (Royal Navy)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10935366",
"score": 1.0671991,
"text": "formally is titled \"the commanding officer\" (or CO). In former times Royal Navy officers who were captains by rank and in command of a naval vessel were referred to as post-captains; this practice is now defunct. Ashore, the rank of captain is often verbally described as \"captain RN\" to distinguish it from the more junior Army and Royal Marines rank, and in naval contexts, as a \"four-ring captain\" (referring to the uniform lace) to avoid confusion with the title of a seagoing commanding officer. In the Ministry of Defence, and in joint service establishments, a captain may be referred to",
"title": "Captain (Royal Navy)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16591657",
"score": 1.0339495,
"text": "now considered to be of equivalent status. The Army rank of lieutenant has always been junior to the Navy's rank of lieutenant. In the 21st-century British Army, the rank is ordinarily held for up to three years. A typical appointment for a lieutenant might be the command of a platoon or troop of approximately thirty soldiers. Before 1871, when the whole British Army switched to using the current rank of \"lieutenant\", the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and Fusilier regiments used \"first lieutenant\" and \"second lieutenant\". During the First World War, some officers took to wearing similar jackets to the men,",
"title": "Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6665575",
"score": 1.0332836,
"text": "Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom) Lieutenant colonel (Lt Col), is a rank in the British Army and Royal Marines which is also used in many Commonwealth countries. The rank is superior to major, and subordinate to colonel. The comparable Royal Navy rank is commander, and the comparable rank in the Royal Air Force and many Commonwealth air forces is Wing Commander. The rank insignia in the British Army and Royal Marines, as well as many Commonwealth countries, is a crown above a 4 pointed \"Bath\" star, also colloquially referred to as a \"pip\". The crown has varied in the past with",
"title": "Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)"
}
] |
Which is the only British City which begins with the letter 'I'?
|
[
"Battle Of Blair-na-coi",
"Town of Inverness",
"Drumderfit",
"Inverness (city)",
"Inverness",
"Blairnacoi",
"Inverness, Scotland",
"City of Inverness",
"INVERNESS",
"Inbhir Nis",
"Battle of Torvaine",
"Climate of Inverness",
"Burgh of Inverness",
"Battle Of Blairnacoi",
"Battle of Torvean",
"Parliamentary burgh of Inverness",
"Blair-na-coi",
"Inbhirnis"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "83483",
"score": 0.8539634,
"text": "City is \"\"Domine dirige nos\"\", which translates as \"\"Lord, direct (guide) us\"\". It appears to have been adopted in the 17th century, as the earliest record of it is in 1633. A banner of the arms (the design on the shield) is flown as a flag. The City is England's smallest ceremonial county by area and population, and the fourth most densely populated. Of the 326 English districts, it is the second smallest by population, after the Isles of Scilly, and the smallest by area. It is also the smallest English city by population (and in Britain, only two cities",
"title": "City of London"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "795907",
"score": 0.8530818,
"text": "the Crown clearly has the right to bestow \"official\" city status, some have doubted the right of the Crown to define the word \"city\" in the United Kingdom. In informal usage, \"city\" can be used for large towns or conurbations that are not formally cities. The best-known example of this is London, which contains two cities (the City of London and the City of Westminster) but is not itself a city. There are currently 69 officially designated cities in the UK, of which 11 have been created since 2000 in competitions to celebrate the new millennium and Queen Elizabeth II's",
"title": "City status in the United Kingdom"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "795856",
"score": 0.84358835,
"text": "been issued for most of the affected cities to ensure the continuation or restoration of their status. At present, Rochester and Elgin are the only former cities in the United Kingdom. The name \"City\" does not, in itself, denote city status; it may be appended to place names for historic association (e.g. White City) or for marketing or disambiguation (e.g. Stratford City). A number of large towns (such as with over 200,000 residents) in the UK are bigger than some small cities, but cannot legitimately call themselves a \"city\" without the royal designation. The initial cities () of Britain were",
"title": "City status in the United Kingdom"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "795879",
"score": 0.82259697,
"text": "and Croydon. Four successful applicants in England have become cities, as well as two in Wales; in 2000 for the Millennium Celebrations, the new cities were Brighton and Hove and Wolverhampton; in 2002 for the Queen's Golden Jubilee it was Preston and Newport, and in 2012 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee it was Chelmsford and St Asaph. Other than the cities of London and Westminster, no local authorities in the Greater London area have been granted city status. The Home Office had a policy of resisting any attempt by metropolitan boroughs to become cities even when their populations, and other",
"title": "City status in the United Kingdom"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7725024",
"score": 0.81380224,
"text": "claims have been made on behalf of Cardiff and Belfast due to their status as the respective capital cities of Wales and Northern Ireland. Furthermore, a number of opinion polls have been conducted since 2000 and complicate the issue further, with public response showing a consistent view amongst the British population that Manchester is the second city. Birmingham is technically the United Kingdom's most populous city; the City of London has fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, and Greater London is not recognized as a city. Since the formation of the United Kingdom, several places have been described as the \"second city\".",
"title": "Second city of the United Kingdom"
}
] |
How many feet are there in a 'Furlong'?
|
[
"six hundred and sixty",
"660"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "147023",
"score": 1.1904049,
"text": "Furlong A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains. Using the international definition of the inch as exactly 25.4 millimetres, one furlong is 201.168 metres. However, the United States does not uniformly use this conversion ratio. Older ratios are in use for surveying purposes in some states, leading to variations in the length of the furlong of two parts per million, or about 0.4 millimetres ( inch). This variation is too small to have practical consequences",
"title": "Furlong"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "147035",
"score": 1.1866113,
"text": "most practical measurements. Furlong A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains. Using the international definition of the inch as exactly 25.4 millimetres, one furlong is 201.168 metres. However, the United States does not uniformly use this conversion ratio. Older ratios are in use for surveying purposes in some states, leading to variations in the length of the furlong of two parts per million, or about 0.4 millimetres ( inch). This variation is too small to",
"title": "Furlong"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "147033",
"score": 1.0776341,
"text": "in the Hoddle Grid of Melbourne are also one furlong in length. Much of Ontario, Canada, was originally surveyed on a ten-furlong grid, with major roads being laid out along the grid lines. Now that distances are shown on road signs in kilometres, these major roads are almost exactly two kilometres apart. The exits on highways running through Toronto, for example, are generally at intervals of two kilometres. The furlong is also a base unit of the humorous FFF system of units. The exact conversion of the furlong to SI units varies slightly among English-speaking countries. In Canada and the",
"title": "Furlong"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "147029",
"score": 1.0658042,
"text": "leading to serious complications in trade, taxation, etc. Around the year 1300, by royal decree England standardized a long list of measures. Among the important units of distance and length at the time were the foot, yard, rod (or pole), furlong, and the mile. The rod was defined as yards or feet, and the mile was eight furlongs, so the definition of the furlong became 40 rods and that of the mile became 5,280 feet (eight furlongs/mile times 40 rods/furlong times feet/rod). A description from 1675 states, \"Dimensurator or Measuring Instrument whereof the mosts usual has been the Chain, and",
"title": "Furlong"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "147024",
"score": 1.0647795,
"text": "in most applications. Five furlongs are about 1.0 kilometre ( is the exact value, according to the international conversion). The name \"furlong\" derives from the Old English words ' (furrow) and ' (long). Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of oxen could plough without resting. This was standardised to be exactly 40 rods or 10 chains. The system of long furrows arose",
"title": "Furlong"
}
] |
Which European monarch is nicknamed 'Swan King' because of his patronage of Wagner and for his fixation with fairy tale derived constructions?
|
[
"Ludwig II (Mad King Ludwig)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13809455",
"score": 1.123192,
"text": "am Gärtnerplatz, establishing a lasting tradition of comic and romantic musical theatre known as Singspiele as well as operettas produced for the Bavarian public. The so-called \"Swan King\" is also said to have inspired the story behind the classical ballet \"Swan Lake\" by Russian composer Tchaikovsky. This could be referenced to the days of his childhood when he spent much of his youth in a castle named Hohenschwangau (\"high region of the swan\") in the Bavarian Alps. Ludwig grew up there among swan images and icons, and the nearby Schwansee (\"Swan Lake\"). A semi-fictionalised version of the history of Ludwig",
"title": "Ludwig II of Bavaria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17150080",
"score": 1.0772985,
"text": "the last king of Bavaria. The king organises his court according to infatuations and aesthetical preferences. He is opposed to industrialism, progressivism and the emerging modern mass society. He complains about his aching teeth and behaves eccentrically, but interacts with ordinary people to stay in contact with life outside the court. Early in his life he began to protect and finance the then unknown Richard Wagner, who greatly apprecietes the support, but others see this as scandalous. Elisabeth of Austria sympatises with the king, who is her cousin, and compares him to Sitting Bull. A group of ministers led by",
"title": "Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1811427",
"score": 1.0557867,
"text": "Singers' Hall, and the Grotto. The interior and especially the throne room Byzantine-Arab construction resumes to the chapels and churches of the royal Sicilian Norman-Swabian period in Palermo related to the kings of Germany House of Hohenstaufen. Throughout, the design pays homage to the German legends of Lohengrin, the Swan Knight. Hohenschwangau, where Ludwig spent much of his youth, had decorations of these sagas. These themes were taken up in the operas of Richard Wagner. Many rooms bear a border depicting the various operas written by Wagner, including a theater permanently featuring the set of one such play. Many of",
"title": "Neuschwanstein Castle"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13809456",
"score": 1.0432612,
"text": "II features strongly in the 1995 computer game \".\" Ludwig II of Bavaria Ludwig II (; ; 25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886) was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. He is sometimes called the Swan King or (\"the Fairy Tale King\"). He also held the titles of Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia, and Duke in Swabia. He succeeded to the throne aged 18. Two years later Bavaria and Austria fought a war against Prussia, which they lost. However, in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 Bavaria sided with Prussia",
"title": "Ludwig II of Bavaria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "253083",
"score": 1.0343418,
"text": "rendered outstanding services to Munich's status as a centre of the arts, attracting numerous artists and enhancing the city's architectural substance with grand boulevards and buildings. On the other hand, Ludwig II, known the world over as the fairytale king, was mostly aloof from his capital and focused more on his fanciful castles in the Bavarian countryside. Nevertheless, his patronage of Richard Wagner secured his posthumous reputation, as do his castles, which still generate significant tourist income for Bavaria. Later, Prince Regent Luitpold's years as regent were marked by tremendous artistic and cultural activity in Munich, enhancing its status as",
"title": "Munich"
}
] |
Which member of the Royal Family was made an MBE in 2007?
|
[
"ZARA PHILLIPS",
"Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips",
"Mia Tindall",
"Mia Grace Tindall",
"Princess Zara",
"Zara Philips",
"Zara Tindall",
"Zara Phillips",
"Princess Zara of Great Britain",
"Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, MBE"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9961239",
"score": 0.91982144,
"text": "Queen Elizabeth II, who appointed him a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). Bestall was unable to receive the award in person because he had bone cancer. On his 93rd birthday, Prince Charles sent him a telemessage, which read: \"I have heard that you were sadly unable to receive your MBE from the Queen recently. I wanted to send you my congratulations on your award and to wish you a very happy birthday with many happy returns. As a child I well remember your marvellous illustrations of Rupert Bear.\" In May 2006, Bestall was commemorated with an",
"title": "Alfred Bestall"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1684248",
"score": 0.9108155,
"text": "1951. Despite being a monarchist, he declined so as to avoid association with any political issues. The members of The Beatles were appointed as Members in 1965. John Lennon justified the comparative merits of his investiture by comparing military membership in the Order: \"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE [status] received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people ... We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more\". Lennon later returned his MBE insignia on 25 November 1969, as part of his ongoing peace protests. Other criticism centres on",
"title": "Order of the British Empire"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6962817",
"score": 0.904017,
"text": "I could tell the two Chinese girls ahead of me had fallen and so I tried to remain calm, but knew at that point that if I went clean I had a great chance of winning the title.\" Tweddle was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours. She said, \"It's been totally surreal to get an MBE. I didn't really believe it at first. I waited for the letter telling me I was coming to the palace before I did. I was surprisingly quite nervous before the ceremony – I was",
"title": "Beth Tweddle"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5848202",
"score": 0.9033673,
"text": "Margaret were attached to a Balmoral Company. In 1942 the Buckingham Palace company reopened at Windsor, the Queen became Patrol Leader of Swallow Patrol. In 1943 the Queen became a Sea Ranger undertaking usual activities including gaining her boating permit and taking out the Queen Mother in a dinghy. She became Chief Ranger of the British Empire in 1946. When she married Lieutenant Mountbatten two of her bridesmaids were former members of the Buckingham Palace company. In 1952 when she ascended the throne she became the association patron. When Princess Mary died Princess Margaret became the new President in 1965.",
"title": "Girlguiding"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11488633",
"score": 0.8947064,
"text": "devised such plans for government posts), hundreds of candidates were chosen from the applicants, given written examinations, interviewed and appointed. It was her work in this area that led to her receiving the honour of MBE in 1917. The Order of the British Empire was founded in 1917 to recognise the services of people who had served the country in notable ways. Miss Bassett received the Order on 27 September from King George V and Queen Mary. Girls and staff commemorated the occasion by presenting their headmistress with a plaque. In 1918 when the Government introduced food rationing, Miss Bassett",
"title": "Rosa Bassett"
}
] |
Which is the last grand slam tennis tournament of the year?
|
[
"United States Open Championship",
"U S Open",
"U.s. open",
"U. S. Open",
"U.S. Open (disambiguation)",
"THE US OPEN",
"United States Open",
"The US Open",
"Us open",
"US Open",
"U.S. Open"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1612583",
"score": 1.0328948,
"text": "Grand Slam (tennis) The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis events. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of field, and greater number of \"best of\" sets for men. The Grand Slam itinerary consists of the Australian Open in mid January, the French Open around late May through early June, Wimbledon in June-July, and the US Open in August-September. Each tournament is played over a period of two weeks. The Australian and United States tournaments are played on hard courts, the French on",
"title": "Grand Slam (tennis)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1612616",
"score": 0.9773876,
"text": "the Wheelchair Tennis Masters. No player has ever completed the Super Slam in a single season. Only one player has completed the Super Slam in a period of twelve months: Players who have won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year. Jack Crawford, Lew Hoad, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams won the first three events, but lost the last grand slam tournament. Crawford, an asthmatic, won two of the first three sets of the 1933 U.S. Championships final against Fred Perry, then tired in the heat and lost the last two sets and the match. Until",
"title": "Grand Slam (tennis)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1612584",
"score": 0.9662354,
"text": "clay, and Wimbledon on grass. Wimbledon is the oldest, founded in 1877, followed by the US in 1881, the French in 1891, and the Australian in 1905. However, of these four, only Wimbledon was a major before 1924–25, when all four became designated Grand Slam tournaments. Skipping majors—especially the Australian Open because of the remoteness, the inconvenient dates (around Christmas and New Year's Day) and the low prize money—was not unusual before 1982. Grand Slam tournaments are not operated by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) or the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), but by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). However,",
"title": "Grand Slam (tennis)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4690182",
"score": 0.96149397,
"text": "12 Date: December 6 – December 11 Date: December 5 – December 10 Date: December 3 – December 8 Date: September 23 – September 28 Date: September 29 – October 3 Date: September 27 – October 4 Grand Slam Cup The Grand Slam Cup was a tennis tournament held annually at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany from 1990 through 1999. The event was organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which invited the best-performing players in the year's Grand Slam events to compete in the Grand Slam Cup. The tournament was created in 1990 and was played on indoor carpet",
"title": "Grand Slam Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "866818",
"score": 0.9603118,
"text": "(clay and hard). The US Open is the only Grand Slam tournament that has been played every year since its inception. During the 2006 US Open, the complex was renamed to \"USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center\" in honor of Billie Jean King, a four-time US Open singles champion and women's tennis pioneer. From 1984 through 2015, the US Open deviated from traditional scheduling practices for tennis tournaments with a concept that came to be known as \"Super Saturday\": the men's and women's finals were played on the final Saturday and Sunday of the tournament respectively, and their respective",
"title": "US Open (tennis)"
}
] |
The axolotl is the tadpole form of what creature found in Mexico and the USA. It is unusual in that it attains maturity and reproduces in the tadpole, or larval, stage of amphibian metamorphosis?
|
[
"Urodele amphibians",
"Order Caudata",
"Urodeles",
"Salamanders",
"Salamander",
"Caudates",
"Urodela",
"Gray Salamander",
"Salamanda"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1786377",
"score": 1.3329322,
"text": "Axolotl The axolotl (, from ; plural axolotls or rarely axolomeh), \"Ambystoma mexicanum\", also known as the Mexican walking fish, is a neotenic salamander related to the tiger salamander. Although the axolotl is colloquially known as a \"walking fish\", it is not a fish, but an amphibian. The species was originally found in several lakes, such as Lake Xochimilco underlying Mexico City. Axolotls are unusual among amphibians in that they reach adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis. Instead of developing lungs and taking to the land, adults remain aquatic and gilled. Axolotls should not be confused with waterdogs, the larval stage of",
"title": "Axolotl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2440410",
"score": 1.2700334,
"text": "incarnation of the god Xolotl, brother of Quetzalcoatl. It has been studied due to its abilities to regenerate limbs and other body parts. It can also reach sexual maturity as a larva, which no other amphibian can do. While mostly aquatic, it does have limited ability to breathe air. As of 2003, there were only 600 axolotls known to exist in the wild. Most of the threat to the species is loss of habitat and pollution, but the introduction of non-native fish such as tilapia has also had disastrous effects on the population of this and other species. Conservation efforts",
"title": "Xochimilco"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1786378",
"score": 1.2609148,
"text": "the closely related tiger salamanders (\"A. tigrinum\" and \"A. mavortium\"), which are widespread in much of North America and occasionally become neotenic. Neither should they be confused with mudpuppies (\"Necturus\" spp.), fully aquatic salamanders that are not closely related to the axolotl but bear a superficial resemblance. , wild axolotls were near extinction due to urbanization in Mexico City and consequent water pollution, as well as the introduction of invasive species such as tilapia and perch. They are currently listed by CITES as an endangered species and by IUCN as critically endangered in the wild, with a decreasing population. Axolotls",
"title": "Axolotl"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1786384",
"score": 1.1991144,
"text": "may fall to 6 to 7 °C in the winter, and perhaps lower. The wild population has been put under heavy pressure by the growth of Mexico City. The axolotl is currently on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's annual Red List of threatened species. Non-native fish, such as African tilapia and Asian carp, have also recently been introduced to the waters. These new fish have been eating the axolotls' young, as well as its primary source of food. Axolotls are members of the tiger salamander, or \"Ambystoma tigrinum\" species complex, along with all other Mexican species of \"Ambystoma\".",
"title": "Axolotl"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1822813",
"score": 1.1855392,
"text": "now considered separate species. Genetic studies made it necessary to break up the original \"A. tigrinum\" population, though some hybridization between groups occurs. The axolotl is also a relative of the tiger salamander. Axolotls live in a paedomorphic state, retaining most characteristics of their larval stage for their entire lifespans. While they never metamorphose under natural conditions, metamorphosis can be induced in them, resulting in a form very similar to the plateau tiger salamander. This is not, however, their natural condition, and dramatically shortens their lifespan. Tiger salamander The tiger salamander or eastern tiger salamander (\"Ambystoma tigrinum\") is a North",
"title": "Tiger salamander"
}
] |
What name is given to Scottish mountains which are over 3000 feet?
|
[
"Munro Top",
"MUNROS",
"Munro",
"Munro's Tables",
"Munros"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17134261",
"score": 0.98909384,
"text": "have waited out the flood here. Tountinna, the highest peak, does not qualify as a mountain using the usual convention whereby a mountain is defined (in Ireland and the UK) as any summit at least 2,000 feet (or 610 metres) high, whilst the official UK government's definition of a mountain is a summit of 600 metres or higher. In addition, some definitions also include a topographical prominence requirement, typically 100 feet (30 m) or 500 feet (152 m). In practice, mountains in Scotland are frequently referred to as \"hills\" no matter what their height, as reflected in names such as",
"title": "Arra Mountains"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6616068",
"score": 0.96434546,
"text": "Mountains and hills of Scotland Scotland is the most mountainous country in the United Kingdom. The area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault is known as the Highlands, and contains the country's main mountain ranges. Scotland's mountain ranges, in a rough north to south direction are: The Highlands & Islands, The Hills of the Central Lowlands, the Southern Uplands. The zone includes Britain's highest peaks, especially Ben Nevis at over 4000 feet, with several similar peaks in the Cairngorms. Some of the most spectacular mountains occur in the northwest highlands, especially on Skye, the largest island off the",
"title": "Mountains and hills of Scotland"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8046649",
"score": 0.95686525,
"text": "in England, Wales and Ireland over two thousand feet (609.6 m), with a relative height of at least . The English and Welsh lists were compiled and are maintained by Alan Dawson. Dawson originally called them \"Sweats\" in his book, being Summits - Wales and England Above Two thousand; the Irish list is by Clem Clements. The list addresses one of the criticisms of the Nuttalls by requiring hills to have a relative height of , thus excluding the 125 least prominent Nuttalls from the list. , the DoBIH listed 524 Hewitts, 209 in Ireland, 180 in England and 135",
"title": "Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3664687",
"score": 0.95061815,
"text": "also be seen on Mull at , , and near Tobermory on its east coast. They are particularly rich in silica. Ben More (Mull) Ben More (, meaning \"great mountain\") is the highest mountain and only Munro (mountains in Scotland that reach an elevation of 3000 feet or more) on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It is the highest peak in the Inner Hebrides apart from those on the Isle of Skye. The mountain is situated in the south of the island, above the shores of . The peak is easiest reached from Loch na Keal, the walk up from",
"title": "Ben More (Mull)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1378609",
"score": 0.94368947,
"text": "Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the United Kingdom, but there are many other significant mountains in Scotland. However, by international standards, all the mountains are relatively small. The Cuillin on the Isle of Skye offer some challenging climbs, such as the Inaccessible Pinnacle. Scotland also has some amusement parks. One such park is M&D's in the town of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. Scotland also has many lochs, including Loch Lomond, and Loch Ness, which is considered by some to be the home of the Loch Ness monster. There are also many rivers, which are good for salmon and fly",
"title": "Tourism in Scotland"
}
] |
In which year was the first London to Brighton veteran car run in the UK?
|
[
"one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-six",
"1896"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6493638",
"score": 1.3922405,
"text": "London to Brighton Veteran Car Run The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is the longest-running motoring event in the world. The first run was in 1896, and it has taken place most years since its initial revival in 1927. To qualify, the cars must have been built before 1905. It is also the world's largest gathering of veteran cars – 443 started in 2005, 484 in 2009, compared to 37 starters in 1927, 51 starters in 1930 and 131 in 1938. It takes place, currently, on the first Sunday in November and starts at sunrise from Hyde Park, London",
"title": "London to Brighton Veteran Car Run"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3496937",
"score": 1.3245878,
"text": "climb followed by a gentle descent for five miles into Brighton, where the route finishes on the promenade by the Kings Road arches. The current London to Brighton Veteran Car Run does not use the route past the Ditchling Beacon but follows the A273 road up Clayton Hill and rejoins the A23 at Pyecombe. The route was originally popularised by the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run begun in 1927 for cars built before 1904 and re-enacting the original 1896 Emanicipation Run, which was held on 14 November 1896 to celebrate the passing into law of the Light Locomotives Act",
"title": "London to Brighton events"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6493645",
"score": 1.3182285,
"text": "Challenge, following the same route as the veteran car run, but starting in Brighton and finishing at Regent Street, London – and taking place of the day prior to the veteran run. The event is intended to showcase low energy impact vehicles of various technologies – Electric, Hybrid and Low-Emission ICE (Internal Combustion Engine). Participants compete to minimise energy consumption using \"road legal\" vehicles in \"real world\" conditions. The results of the inaugural 2010 event showed that the electric vehicles used the least energy (0.62 MJ/km on average, or 141 miles per imperial gallon petrol equivalent), compared to the hybrid",
"title": "London to Brighton Veteran Car Run"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6493640",
"score": 1.3157985,
"text": "that finish (many do not) before 4:30 pm are awarded a medal. There are a few other events preceding the Veteran Car Run such as Motoring Forum, Veteran Car Run Sale, a motor show, and participant reception. The first run took place on 14 November 1896, a wet Saturday. Organised by Harry J. Lawson, and named \"The Emancipation Run\", it was a celebration of the recently passed Locomotives on Highways Act 1896, which had replaced the restrictive Locomotive Acts of 1861, 1865 and 1878 and increased the speed limit to . Since 1878 the speed limit had been in the",
"title": "London to Brighton Veteran Car Run"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6493646",
"score": 1.2841285,
"text": "vehicles (1.14 MJ/km average, 76 mpg petrol equivalent) and the largely diesel powered internal combustion engine vehicles (1.68 MJ/km average, 52 mpg petrol equivalent). The event was not organised as a race, but the General classification of the fastest finishers was : London to Brighton Veteran Car Run The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is the longest-running motoring event in the world. The first run was in 1896, and it has taken place most years since its initial revival in 1927. To qualify, the cars must have been built before 1905. It is also the world's largest gathering of",
"title": "London to Brighton Veteran Car Run"
}
] |
What Indian people drove out the Toltecs and were conquered by Spain in the 16th century?
|
[
"Aztekoj",
"Aztec people",
"The Aztec ways",
"The Aztec civilization",
"Aztec Civilization",
"Aztec civilization",
"Aztec",
"Aztec civilisation",
"Aztecs",
"Mexicas",
"Aztec culture",
"The Aztecs",
"Aztec Civilisation",
"Aztec civilizations",
"Origin of Aztec term to refer to the Mexica"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15840002",
"score": 0.9619981,
"text": "and Vizcaíno for guidance. After conquering Mexico the Spanish occupied the southern two thirds of Mexico, all of Central America and the South American coast down to Chile. North of this the land was too dry to support a dense population that could be ruled and taxed. The only exception was the Pueblo peoples far to the north in New Mexico. People like Francisco Vásquez de Coronado penetrated far into the interior and found nothing that the Spanish valued. The Chichimeca country of northern Mexico was slowly absorbed and Baja California began to be settled in 1687. The returning Manila",
"title": "Exploration of the Pacific"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4433133",
"score": 0.9608395,
"text": "Sun in temples as grand as those of ancient Egypt that were decorated in bright colors. The sacred word used in meditation was Tau (this was the equivalent of the Aryan sacred word Om). As noted above, the Toltecs colonized all of North America and South America and thus became the people we know as the Amerindians. The downfall of Atlantis started when some of the Toltecs began to practice black magic about 850,000 BC, corrupted by the dragon \"Thevetat\", remembered as Devadatta, the opponent of Buddha. The people began to become selfish and materialistic. Soon thereafter, the Turanians (the",
"title": "Root race"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "182191",
"score": 0.95207673,
"text": "considered advanced or civilized include Norte Chico, Cahokia, Zapotec, Toltec, Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Chimor, Mixtec, Moche, Mississippian, Puebloan, Totonac, Teotihuacan, Huastec people, Purépecha, Izapa, Mazatec, Muisca, and the Inca.After the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492, Spanish, Portuguese and later English, French and Dutch colonial expeditions arrived in the New World, conquering and settling the discovered lands, which led to a transformation of the cultural and physical landscape in the Americas. Spain colonized most of the Americas from present-day Southwestern United States, Florida and the Caribbean to the southern tip of South America. Portugal settled in what is mostly present-day",
"title": "History of the Americas"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "182218",
"score": 0.9519805,
"text": "in Mesoamerica . They flourished from 1100 CE to 1530 CE. They continue to live on in the state of Michoacán. Fierce warriors, they were never conquered and in their glory years, successfully sealed off huge areas from Aztec domination. Maya history spans 3,000 years. The Classic Maya may have collapsed due to changing climate in the end of the 10th century. The Toltec were a nomadic people, dating from the 10th - 12th century, whose language was also spoken by the Aztecs. Teotihuacan (4th century BCE - 7/8th century CE) was both a city, and an empire of the",
"title": "History of the Americas"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "182216",
"score": 0.9386889,
"text": "Arkansas and Oklahoma. The Osage warred with Caddo-speaking Native Americans, displacing them in turn by the mid-18th century and dominating their new historical territories. The Pueblo people of what is now the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, living conditions were that of large stone apartment like adobe structures. They live in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and possibly surrounding areas. Chichimeca was the name that the Mexica (Aztecs) generically applied to a wide range of semi-nomadic peoples who inhabited the north of modern-day Mexico, and carried the same sense as the European term \"barbarian\". The name was adopted with",
"title": "History of the Americas"
}
] |
A magnificent Inca city named what, was discovered in 1911?
|
[
"Manchu Picchu"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "241045",
"score": 1.030821,
"text": "Inca site situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Often referred to as the \"Lost City of the Incas\", it is perhaps the most familiar icon of the Inca World. Machu Picchu was built around 1450, at the height of the Inca Empire. It was abandoned just over 100 years later, in 1572, as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest. It is possible that most of its inhabitants died from smallpox introduced by travelers before the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the area. In 1911, Melchor Arteaga led the explorer Hiram Bingham to Machu Picchu, which",
"title": "Lost city"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3294411",
"score": 1.0131879,
"text": "home via Peru, a local prefect convinced him to visit the pre-Columbian city of Choquequirao. Bingham published an account of this trip in \"Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru\". Bingham was thrilled by the prospect of unexplored Inca cities, and organized the 1911 Yale Peruvian Expedition with one of its objectives to search for the last capital of the Incas. He in fact, guided by locals, rediscovered and correctly identified both Vitcos (then called Rosaspata) and Vilcabamba (then called Espíritu",
"title": "Hiram Bingham III"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5857547",
"score": 1.0012128,
"text": "1911 expedition Hiram Bingham III was searching for the last capital of the Incas. Following descriptions left by various conquistadors, he came upon a site called \"Rosaspata\" by local villagers. Through the same descriptions that had led him there, he was able to determine that he was in fact at the palace of Vitcos and oracle of Chuqip'allta. After cursory mapping of both sites he continued on in search of the last city of the Inca. Knowing roughly where in relation to Vitcos he might find Vilcabamba, he continued on what he believed was, and actually was, the road to",
"title": "Vitcos"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "315197",
"score": 0.97785807,
"text": "the Incas\") is a well-preserved pre-Columbian Inca ruin located on a high mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley, about 70 km (44 mi) northwest of Cusco. Elevation measurements vary depending on whether the data refers to the ruin or the extremity of the mountain; Machu Picchu tourist information reports the elevation as 2,350 m (7,711 ft)[1]. Forgotten for centuries by the outside world, although not by locals, it was brought back to international attention by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham III, who rediscovered it in 1911 and wrote a best-selling work about it. Peru is pursuing legal efforts to retrieve thousands",
"title": "History of Peru"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2929422",
"score": 0.9757447,
"text": "their impressive achievements in astronomy and agriculture. As was customary for the Incas, they absorbed useful achievements into their culture. They renamed the city \"Tomebamba\". The city became known as the second Cusco, a regional capital. After the defeat of the Cañari, probably in the 1470s, the Inca emperor, Tupac Yupanqui, ordered the construction of a grand city to be called Pumapungo, \"the door of the Puma\". Its magnificence was said to have rivaled that of the Inca capital of Cuzco. Indians told stories to the Spanish chroniclers of golden temples and other such wonders, but by the time the",
"title": "Cuenca, Ecuador"
}
] |
Which motor car company produced the first front wheel drive car in 1934?
|
[
"DS Automobiles",
"Citroën DS High Rider",
"Citroën",
"Citroën Re-Volt",
"Automobiles Citroen",
"Citroën DS2",
"Citroeen",
"Citroën Révolte",
"Automobiles Citroën",
"Citreon",
"DS car marque",
"DS Automotive",
"Moduboard",
"Citröen",
"Citroen",
"Citroen Citroen DS4",
"Citroen DS Inside",
"Citroën D5",
"Citroen DS 5"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3338462",
"score": 1.0108368,
"text": "producers followed: Stoewer offered a car with front-wheel drive in 1931, Adler in 1932 and Audi in 1933. In 1934, the very successful Traction Avant cars were introduced by Citroën of France. The Cord 810 of the United States managed a bit better in the late 1930s than its predecessor one decade earlier. These vehicles featured a layout that places the engine behind the transmission, running \"backwards,\" (save for the Cord, which drove the transmission from the front of the engine). The basic front-wheel-drive layout provides sharp turning, and better weight distribution creates \"positive handling characteristics\" due to its low",
"title": "Front-wheel drive"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3338464",
"score": 0.97945076,
"text": "the English car company, had produced the front-wheel-drive roadster, Lloyd 650. The two-stroke, two-cylinder motor was mounted transversely in the front and connected to the front wheels through four-speed synchronised gearbox. The high price and lacklustre performance had doomed its production. Only 600 units were produced from 1946 to 1950. In 1954, Alfa-Romeo had experimented with its first front-wheel-drive compact car named \"33\" (not related or referred to sports car similarly named \"33\"). It had the same transverse-mounted, forward-motor layout as the modern front-wheel-drive automobiles. It even resembled the smaller version of its popular Alfa Romeo Giulia. However, due to",
"title": "Front-wheel drive"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3432600",
"score": 0.97518647,
"text": "the introduction of the 1935 monocoque Opel Olympia, and the Macpherson strut by Ford in the 1950s), until the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1931 the DKW F1 was launched. This was the first successful mass-produced front-wheel drive car in the world. It was priced at 1,700 Reichsmarks . (The British 1928-30 Alvis cars 'FWD' models had handling problems and only 150 were made. The British 1929 BSA was a three-wheel competitor to Morgan and the motorcycle combination market, the 1931 four-wheeler was very short-lived. The 1929 U.S. Cord L-29 having been seriously flawed, production ended at 4,429. The",
"title": "Economy car"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3338461",
"score": 0.9541,
"text": "Ruxton (200 cars in 1929), and the Cord L-29 of 1929. Neither automobile maker was particularly successful on the open market. Alvis Cars introduced a front-wheel-drive commercial model of the Alvis 12/50 in 1928, but it was not a success either. The first successful consumer application came in 1929. The BSA (Birmingham Small Arms Company) produced the unique front-wheel-drive BSA three-wheeler. Production continued until 1936 during which time sports and touring models were available. In 1931 the DKW F1 from Germany made its debut. Buckminster Fuller adopted rear-engine, front wheel drive for his three Dymaxion Car prototypes. Other German car",
"title": "Front-wheel drive"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3338457",
"score": 0.9483477,
"text": "the front of the vehicle, powering the front axle. It was thus arguably the world's first front-wheel-drive automobile, but it never saw mass production, with only one copy ever made. In 1898, Latil, in France, devised a front-wheel-drive system for motorising horse-drawn carts. In 1898/9 the French manufacturer Société Parisienne patented their front-wheel drive articulated vehicle concept which they manufactured as a Victoria Combination. It was variously powered by De Dion-Bouton engine or a water cooled Aster engine. The engine was mounted on the front axle and so was rotated by the tiller steering. The name Victoria Combination described the",
"title": "Front-wheel drive"
}
] |
Which Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Mdaille de la Rsistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation as part of the French resistance in World War II?
|
[
"Beckett, Samuel",
"Samuel Beckett",
"Samuel Becket",
"Beckett, Samuel Barclay",
"Worstward Ho!",
"Beckettian",
"Samuel Barclay Beckett"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14359218",
"score": 1.0465298,
"text": "the Theater Department of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Sneak preview of \"Walking the Road\", also by Dermot Bolger. This play about Francis Ledwidge, a young Irish poet who lost his life in Flanders fields in 1917, while serving with the British army in World War I, had its world premiere at Axis Arts Center in Dublin June 9, 2007. The Irish Players of Rochester, a program of the Rochester Community Players, hosted the 2008 AIITF at the Geva Theatre Center's NextStage Theatre May 13 to 17. The festival included two long one-act plays by the young Dublin playwright,",
"title": "Acting Irish International Theatre Festival"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2297334",
"score": 1.0407958,
"text": "reputation with his play about World War I, \"Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme\", which was staged in Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1985 and internationally. The play made a name for him when it was performed at Hampstead Theatre. It won numerous awards including the London Evening Standard \"Award for Most Promising Playwright\" for McGuinness. Since the 1970s, a number of companies have emerged to challenge the Abbey's dominance and introduce different styles and approaches. These include Focus Theatre, The Children's T Company, the Project Theatre Company, Druid Theatre, Rough Magic, TEAM, Charabanc, and Field Day. These",
"title": "Irish literature"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2297329",
"score": 1.033092,
"text": "War on the working class poor of the city, while the latter is set in Dublin in 1916 around the Easter Rising. The Gate Theatre, founded in 1928 by Micheál MacLiammóir, introduced Irish audiences to many of the classics of the Irish and European stage. The twentieth century saw a number of Irish playwrights come to prominence. These included Denis Johnston (1901–84), Samuel Beckett (1906–89), Brendan Behan (1923–64), Hugh Leonard (1926–2009), John B. Keane (1928–2002), Brian Friel (1929– ), Thomas Kilroy (1934– ), Tom Murphy (1935– ), and Frank McGuinness (1953– ), Denis Johnston's most famous plays are \"The Old",
"title": "Irish literature"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2359538",
"score": 1.0204213,
"text": "of An Taidhbhearc, a theatre dedicated to the Irish language. The Gate Theatre, also founded in 1928 under the direction of Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammoir, introduced Irish audiences to many of the classics of the European stage. The twentieth century saw a number of Irish playwrights come to prominence. Samuel Beckett is probably the most significant of these. Beckett had a long career as a novelist and poet before his first play, \"Waiting for Godot\" (1953) made him famous. This play, along with his second, \"Endgame\", is one of the great works of absurdist theatre. Beckett was awarded for",
"title": "Irish theatre"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "369501",
"score": 1.0074166,
"text": "Maquis sabotage the German army in the Vaucluse mountains, though he rarely spoke about his wartime work in later life. Beckett was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation; to the end of his life, however, Beckett would refer to his work with the French Resistance as \"boy scout stuff\". While in hiding in Roussillon, he continued work on the novel \"Watt\" (begun in 1941 and completed in 1945, but not published until 1953, though an extract had appeared in the Dublin literary periodical",
"title": "Samuel Beckett"
}
] |
Brothers Tom and Ben Youngs joined which English rugby union club in 2006?
|
[
"Leicester Football Club",
"Caterpillar Stand",
"Leicester FC",
"Leicester RFC",
"Leicester Tigers Rugby",
"Leicester Tigers",
"Leicester F.C.",
"Leicester Rugby Club"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11426140",
"score": 1.2096299,
"text": "Tom Youngs Thomas Nicholas Youngs (born 28 January 1987, in Norwich, England) is a rugby union player who plays as a hooker for Leicester Tigers and England. Youngs is the son of former Leicester and England scrum-half Nick Youngs, and the elder brother of current Leicester and England scrum-half Ben Youngs. Originally a centre, he changed to play at hooker after advice from then Tigers' coach Heyneke Meyer. Youngs played for Gresham's School and for England Schools, and also for Holt as a junior. He made his Tigers debut against London Irish on Boxing Day 2006, broke his leg after",
"title": "Tom Youngs"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11426144",
"score": 1.1860669,
"text": "the 2016 Autumn Internationals and was not chosen for Jones' 45 EPS Squad for the Six Nations with skipper Dylan Hartley as first-choice, Jamie George as second choice and Tommy Taylor as third choice. Tom Youngs Thomas Nicholas Youngs (born 28 January 1987, in Norwich, England) is a rugby union player who plays as a hooker for Leicester Tigers and England. Youngs is the son of former Leicester and England scrum-half Nick Youngs, and the elder brother of current Leicester and England scrum-half Ben Youngs. Originally a centre, he changed to play at hooker after advice from then Tigers' coach",
"title": "Tom Youngs"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11426179",
"score": 1.1731198,
"text": "Ben Youngs Benjamin Ryder Youngs (born 5 September 1989) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Leicester Tigers and England. Ben Youngs was born 5 September 1989 in Norwich, England. His older brother Tom Youngs is also a rugby player, for Leicester Tigers as a hooker. His father Nick Youngs played scrum-half for both Leicester and England. Youngs made his Leicester Tigers first team début on 11 February 2007 in a friendly match against Argentina at Welford Road, the match marked Graham Rowntree's final Leicester appearance. On 24 April 2007 at the age of",
"title": "Ben Youngs"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9395272",
"score": 1.1470658,
"text": "Nick Youngs Nicholas Gerald Youngs (born 15 December 1959) is a former English rugby union footballer who played for Bedford, Leicester Tigers and England, at Scrum-half, gaining six England caps in 1983-1984. He also was an unused England reserve five times between 1981 and 1983. He was educated at Cawston College and Gresham's School, Holt, and is now a farmer in Norfolk. His sons Tom, a centre turned hooker, (born 1987) and Ben (born 1989), a scrum-half, have both made appearances for the Leicester first team and for England. Tom made his Tigers debut against London Irish on Boxing Day",
"title": "Nick Youngs"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9395273",
"score": 1.1387851,
"text": "2006, but broke his leg after five minutes and came off after thirteen. Youngs and his sons hold the rare distinction of all starting in test wins over New Zealand - Youngs starting at scrum-half in England's 15-9 1983 win, and Ben (scrum-half) and Tom (hooker) in England's 38-21 victory in 2012. Nick Youngs Nicholas Gerald Youngs (born 15 December 1959) is a former English rugby union footballer who played for Bedford, Leicester Tigers and England, at Scrum-half, gaining six England caps in 1983-1984. He also was an unused England reserve five times between 1981 and 1983. He was educated",
"title": "Nick Youngs"
}
] |
Which cowboy was played by Ty Hardin?
|
[
"Bronco Layne"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5495749",
"score": 1.1509173,
"text": "Ty Hardin Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr. (January 1, 1930 – August 3, 2017), known as Ty Hardin, was an American actor best known as the star of the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series \"Bronco\". Hardin was born in New York City, but reared in Texas, after his family moved to the capital city of Austin when he was six months old. His father, an acoustical engineer, left the family four years later. As a growing boy, his grandmother, with whom he lived part of the time after his parents divorced, nicknamed him \"Ty\" because he was as",
"title": "Ty Hardin"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5495752",
"score": 1.1381291,
"text": "(1958) and \"Last Train from Gun Hill\" (1959). Hardin tried to obtain a support role in the 1959 film \"Rio Bravo\" that had been promised to singer Ricky Nelson. John Wayne reportedly saw Hardin while visiting a film set at Paramount and was impressed with Hardin's appearance. Wayne introduced him to Howard Hawks and William T. Orr at Warner Bros. Television; they bargained for his seven-year contract and he moved to Warner Bros., who changed his stage surname to \"Hardin\", reminiscent of the Texas gunfighter John Wesley Hardin. He attended actors' school at Warner Bros. and landed small parts in",
"title": "Ty Hardin"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5495754",
"score": 1.095669,
"text": "years. The series ran from 1958-62. Hardin guest starred on other Warners shows such as \"Maverick\" and \"77 Sunset Strip\". Warners cast Hardin in some films such as \"Merrill's Marauders\" (1962), where he was second billed to Jeff Chandler; \"The Chapman Report\" (1962); the spring break film \"Palm Springs Weekend\" (1963); \"PT 109\"; and \"Wall of Noise\" (1963). When his contract expired, Hardin did \"Guys and Dolls\" in stock. He then left Hollywood to seek opportunity overseas as his series aired all over the world. Like many other American actors, Hardin traveled to Europe, where he made several spaghetti Westerns,",
"title": "Ty Hardin"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5495753",
"score": 1.0891095,
"text": "various Warner productions. When Clint Walker walked out on his ABC series \"Cheyenne\" in 1958 during a contract dispute with Warner Bros., Hardin got his big break. Warner bought out Hardin's contract from Paramount Studios and installed him into \"Cheyenne\" for the remainder of the season, as the country cousin \"Bronco Layne\". Walker and Warner Bros. came to terms after the season ended, but Hardin had made such a big hit on the show that Jack L. Warner gave him his own series, \"Bronco\", under the Cheyenne title. \"Bronco\" alternated weeks with \"Sugarfoot\", starring Will Hutchins, and \"Cheyenne\" for four",
"title": "Ty Hardin"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6791069",
"score": 1.0815089,
"text": "called Bronco Layne, played by Ty Hardin, born in New York City, but raised in Texas. Hardin was featured as the quasi main character during Bodie's absence. When Warner Bros. renegotiated Walker's contract and the actor returned to the show in 1959, \"Bronco\" was spun off as a show in its own right and became independently successful. Even after returning to the program — having been prohibited from seeking other work during the long contract negotiation — Walker was unhappy to continue to play a role which he felt he had already exhausted. He told reporters that he felt like",
"title": "Cheyenne (TV series)"
}
] |
The fundamental philosophical and devotional epic stories Mahabharata and Ramayana originated in Sanskrit in which ancient country?
|
[
"ഭാരത മഹാരാജ്യം",
"هندستانڀارت،",
"भारतीय गणराज्याच्या",
"Bhārtiya Prajāsattāk",
"Indian Republic",
"ভারতরাষ্টৃ",
"Indian republic",
"ಭಾರತ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ",
"Union of India",
"இந்தியக் குடியரசு",
"भारतीय प्रजासत्ताक",
"India (country)",
"ISO 3166-1:IN",
"Indea",
"Etymology of India",
"ভারত গণরাজ্য",
"Republic Of India",
"INDIA",
"ભારતીય ગણતંત્ર",
"ভারত",
"Republic of India",
"Les Indes",
"Bhārat Gaṇarājya",
"جمہوٗرِیت بًارت",
"भारतमहाराज्यम्",
"Indya",
"Bharat Ganrajya",
"جمہوریہ بھارت",
"இந்திய",
"ଭାରତ ଗଣରାଜ୍ଯ",
"भारत गणराज्य",
"Republic of india",
"जुम्हूरियत भारत",
"Hindio",
"The Republic of India",
"భారత గణతంత్ర రాజ్యము",
"India's",
"Hindistan",
"ਭਾਰਤ ਗਣਤੰਤਰ",
"Bhart",
"India",
"భారత రిపబ్లిక్",
"India.",
"ভাৰত গণৰাজ্য",
"Indian State",
"ISO 3166-1 alpha-3/IND",
"ভারতীয় প্রজাতন্ত্র"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5662933",
"score": 0.9976293,
"text": "as \"complementary in their functions but ontologically identical\". The major Sanskrit epics, \"Ramayana\" and \"Mahabharata\", which belong to the \"smriti\", were compiled over a protracted period during the late centuries BCE and the early centuries CE. They contain mythological stories about the rulers and wars of ancient India, and are interspersed with religious and philosophical treatises. The later Puranas recount tales about devas and devis, their interactions with humans and their battles against rakshasa. The Bhagavad Gita \"seals the achievement\" of the \"consolidation of Hinduism\", integrating Brahmanic and sramanic ideas with theistic devotion. In early centuries CE several schools of",
"title": "History of Hinduism"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2846740",
"score": 0.99004585,
"text": "\"Lalita Ke Aansoo\" by Krant M. L. Verma (1978) narrates the tragic story about the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri through his wife Lalita Shastri. Indian epic poetry Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or \"Kāvya\"; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: \"kāvyá\"). The \"Ramayana\" and the \"Mahabharata\", which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic poems ever written. The ancient Sanskrit epics the \"Ramayana\" and \"Mahabharata\" comprise together the",
"title": "Indian epic poetry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2240918",
"score": 0.9875913,
"text": "the Upanishads, the Hindu epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata and various other liturgical texts such as the Sahasranama, Chamakam and Rudram. Sanskrit is also the tongue of most Hindu rituals. It is an Indo-Aryan language and therefore a member of the Indo-European language family. It therefore has some similarities with Greek and Latin, as well as with many vernacular languages of Europe and south Asia. Like Latin and Greek, it also has secular literature along with its religious canon. Most Hindu theologians of later centuries continued to prefer to write in Sanskrit even when it was no longer spoken as",
"title": "Sacred language"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2001902",
"score": 0.97103006,
"text": "been adopted as the epics of Southeast Asian countries like Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. The Ramayana consists of 24,000 verses in seven books (') and 500 cantos ('), and tells the story of Rama (an incarnation or Avatar of the Hindu preserver-god Vishnu), whose wife Sita is abducted by the demon king of Lanka, Ravana. This epic played a pivotal role in establishing the role of dhárma as a principal ideal guiding force for Hindu way of life. The earliest parts of the Mahabharata text date to 400 BC and is estimated to have reached its final form by",
"title": "Culture of India"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "375537",
"score": 0.9697188,
"text": "standardized grammatical form called the Classical Sanskrit emerged in mid-1st millennium BCE with the \"Aṣṭādhyāyī\" treatise of Pāṇini. Sanskrit, though not necessarily Classical Sanskrit, is the root language of many Prakrit languages. Examples include numerous modern daughter Northern Indian subcontinental languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi and Nepali. The body of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of philosophical and religious texts, as well as poetry, music, drama, scientific, technical and other texts. In the ancient era, Sanskrit compositions were orally transmitted by methods of memorisation of exceptional complexity, rigour and fidelity. The earliest known inscriptions in Sanskrit are",
"title": "Sanskrit"
}
] |
What is the name of the highest point on the Isle of Man?
|
[
"Snaefell"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "193404",
"score": 0.95723414,
"text": "shingle beaches at the northernmost point, the Point of Ayre. The island has one mountain higher than , Snaefell, with a height of . According to an old saying, from the summit one can see six kingdoms: those of Mann, Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, and Heaven. Some versions add a seventh kingdom, that of the sea, or Neptune. At the 2016 census, the Isle of Man was home to 83,314 people, of whom 26,997 resided in the island's capital, Douglas and 9,128 in the adjoining village of Onchan. The population decreased by 1.4% between the 2011 and 2016 censuses. By",
"title": "Isle of Man"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4493349",
"score": 0.95171124,
"text": "Snaefell Snaefell () - () is the highest mountain and the only summit higher than on the Isle of Man, at above sea level. The summit is crowned by a railway station, cafe and several communications masts. It is a well-known saying in the Isle of Man that on a clear day six kingdoms can be seen from the top: the Isle of Man, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Heaven. Some versions add a seventh kingdom, that of Manannán (or the sea). The plaque at the summit indicates the directions of five points from Snaefell as well as their distances:",
"title": "Snaefell"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "13699745",
"score": 0.9429598,
"text": "Highlands of Scotland; they are also far less crowded than some of Britain's more popular hill destinations. All of these peaks can be reached by a rough hill walk. Additional heights above 1500 feet include Mullagh Ouyr (gr 398861) and two unnamed points on the ridge between Clagh Ouyr and the North Barrule (gr 425900 & 432904). Hills and mountains of the Isle of Man The Isle of Man is mostly hilly, but has only one summit, Snaefell, classified as a mountain (over 2,000 feet). The south of the island has a small coastal plain around Castletown and Ballasalla but",
"title": "Hills and mountains of the Isle of Man"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "193396",
"score": 0.93108,
"text": "Man is ': ' () is a Manx word meaning 'island'; ' () appears in the genitive case as ' (), with initial consonant mutation, hence ', \"Island of Mann\". The short form often used in English, Mann, is derived from the Manx \"Mannin\", though sometimes the name is written as Man. The earliest recorded Manx form of the name is ' or \". The Old Irish form of the name is ' or '. Old Welsh records named it as ', also reflected in ', the name for an ancient district in north Britain along the lower Firth of",
"title": "Isle of Man"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13039113",
"score": 0.922474,
"text": "Manx National Heritage as \"amongst the most spectacular to be seen anywhere in the British Isles.\" However, the summit is only about 500 metres from the main road between Port Erin/Port St Mary and Peel, and may be climbed as part of an easy day walk between those places. The summit is on the long distance path, the Raad ny Foillan. The summit is one of the few places anywhere with views of what Manx people call \"the six kingdoms\" (Mann, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Heaven), with some adding a seventh \"kingdom\", Neptune (the sea). The boggy slopes are",
"title": "Cronk ny Arrey Laa"
}
] |
What was the profession of Thomas Eakins?
|
[
"Photographist",
"Photographer",
"Freelance photographer",
"Freelance Photography",
"Photographr"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "984726",
"score": 1.1240569,
"text": "Thomas Eakins Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some 40 years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of friends, family members, or prominent people in the arts, sciences, medicine, and clergy. Taken \"en masse\", the",
"title": "Thomas Eakins"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "984781",
"score": 1.1081425,
"text": "that was often as tender as it was vigorous, and to have preserved for us the essence of an American life which, indeed, he did not idealize—because it seemed to him beautiful beyond the necessity of idealization. Thomas Eakins Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some 40 years later, Eakins worked exactingly",
"title": "Thomas Eakins"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "984729",
"score": 1.0668949,
"text": "little by way of official recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by American art historians as \"the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American art\". Eakins was born and lived most of his life in Philadelphia. He was the first child of Caroline Cowperthwait Eakins, a woman of English and Dutch descent, and Benjamin Eakins, a writing master and calligraphy teacher of Scots-Irish ancestry. Benjamin Eakins grew up on a farm in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the son of a weaver. He was successful in his chosen profession, and moved to Philadelphia in the",
"title": "Thomas Eakins"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "984775",
"score": 1.0519867,
"text": "was named for the artist. In 1967 \"The Biglin Brothers Racing\" (1872) was reproduced on a United States postage stamp. Eakins' attitude toward realism in painting, and his desire to explore the heart of American life proved influential. He taught hundreds of students, among them his future wife Susan Macdowell, African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Anshutz, who taught, in turn, Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, and Everett Shinn, future members of the Ashcan School, and other realists and artistic heirs to Eakins' philosophy. Though his is not a household name, and though during his lifetime Eakins struggled",
"title": "Thomas Eakins"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "984731",
"score": 1.0490861,
"text": "school and they reunited to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Thomas began at the academy in 1861 and later attended courses in anatomy and dissection at Jefferson Medical College from 1864 to 65. For a while, he followed his father's profession and was listed in city directories as a \"writing teacher\". His scientific interest in the human body led him to consider becoming a surgeon. Eakins then studied art in Europe from 1866 to 1870, notably in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme, being only the second American pupil of the French realist painter, famous as a master",
"title": "Thomas Eakins"
}
] |
The Manacle Rocks lie off the coast of which English county?
|
[
"Curnow",
"Corn Wall",
"Cornwall (County), England",
"Cernyw",
"Kernow",
"West Wales (kingdom)",
"Cerniw",
"Cornwall",
"Cornwall, England",
"Cornuvia",
"KERNOW",
"Belerion",
"Cornwall, UK",
"Cornwall, United Kingdom",
"Cornwall (England : County)",
"Maps of Cornwall"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6647036",
"score": 1.1424267,
"text": "The Manacles The Manacles (, meaning \"church stones\") () are a set of treacherous rocks off The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. The rocks are rich in marine wildlife and they are a popular spot for diving due to the many shipwrecks. Traditionally pronounced \"mean-a'klz\" (1808), the name derives from the Cornish \"meyn eglos\" (church stones), the top of St Keverne church spire being visible from the area. The rocks are in Falmouth Bay and extends about 1 nautical mile east and south-east of Manacle Point, on the east coast of the Lizard Peninsula. The nearest village is Porthoustock. The reef",
"title": "The Manacles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6647037",
"score": 1.1058832,
"text": "consist of many submerged rocks and several groups of rocks that break the surface, although some only do so at low water. The Middle Manacles in the north consist of Maen Chynoweth or Morah (, meaning \"dolphin\"), Chyronos, Maen Gerrick and the Gwinges, the eastern group has Vase Rock and Pen Vin, the large group in the centre include the Minstrel Rock, Carn-dhu, Maen Voes (the Voices) and the Quants and Maen Land is in the south-west. The Manacles Marine Conservation Zone was designated on 21 November 2013 and covers an area of approximately 3.5km2. The MCZ extends from Porthoustock",
"title": "The Manacles"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6647039",
"score": 1.0995117,
"text": "port of Falmouth is one reason for the large number of wrecks, although some ships such as the SS \"Mohegan\" were many miles off course when they ploughed into the rocks. Many of the well-known wrecks are in the central group where depths are less than 6 metres for an area of 300 metres by 200 metres. These wrecks include: The Manacles The Manacles (, meaning \"church stones\") () are a set of treacherous rocks off The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. The rocks are rich in marine wildlife and they are a popular spot for diving due to the many",
"title": "The Manacles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10834313",
"score": 1.0816574,
"text": "treacherous rocks which extend about east and south east of Manacle Point means that it has been the location for numerous shipwrecks. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stationed a lifeboat at Porthoustock in 1869 and built a boat house by the beach. The station was closed in 1942 and has since become the village hall. The last boat stationed here was the \"Kate Walker\" which arrived in 1931. After it was sold in 1946 it was converted to a yacht and was reported as being at Felixstowe Ferry in 2007. Analcime, analcite, epidote, hornblende, prehnite, calcite, diorite and pectolite",
"title": "Porthoustock"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6647038",
"score": 1.0586033,
"text": "Point south to Polcries and extends 2 km from the coastline. The seabed varies within the site and includes rocky reefs, vertical rock faces, subtidal sand and intertidal coarse sediment. The sediments in shallow water support Maerl beds. Maerl is a collective term for several species of red seaweed which have a hard, chalky skeleton. It can be an important habitat for juvenile animals, anemones, sea cucumbers and sea urchins. There have been over a thousand lives lost from more than one hundred ships that have been wrecked on The Manacles. The reef lying on the eastern approach to the",
"title": "The Manacles"
}
] |
"What real-life person was the subject of the movie ""The Social Network""?"
|
[
"Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg",
"Youngest self made billionaire",
"Mark E. Zuckerberg",
"Mark Elliot Zuckerberg",
"Toddler ceo",
"Priscilla Chan (Zuckerberg)",
"Mark Zuckerburg",
"Lord Zuckerborg",
"Priscilla Chan (physician)",
"Mark zuckerbag",
"Marc Zuckerberg",
"Pricilla Chan (Zuckerberg)",
"Dr. Priscilla Chan",
"Dr. Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg",
"Zuck",
"Zuckerborg",
"Zark Fuckerberg",
"Mark Zuckerberg",
"Youngest self made billionaire ever"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13791197",
"score": 0.9752744,
"text": "total of $224.9 million. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 304 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, \"The Social Network\" is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest.\" On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 95 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\" and making it one of the site's highest-rated movies of all time. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B+\" on an",
"title": "The Social Network"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14305999",
"score": 0.970163,
"text": "work. A later screening of the film in Las Vegas resulted in Saverin and his friends meeting with Brunetti and Mezrich again. Brunetti made sure to have Kevin Spacey attend the premiere and after party as well to ensure that their Facebook-related project would have all the momentum it needed. The 14-page proposal by Mezrich resulted in a movie being sold to Sony that became \"The Social Network\". In 2011, \"The Social Network\" was nominated for 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Music (Original Score), Actor in a Leading Role, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Sound Mixing and Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Brunetti",
"title": "Dana Brunetti"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14931079",
"score": 0.9501774,
"text": "praise and widespread acclaim across the film industry being bestowed upon it. The score won nine major awards, including the 2010 Golden Globe award for Best Original Score – Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards. When Trent Reznor was originally asked by director David Fincher to score \"The Social Network\", he initially declined, partly due to just finishing up a long touring and recording schedule. After further reflecting, Reznor apologized and told Fincher to keep him in consideration, to which he told Reznor that he had been waiting for him to",
"title": "The Social Network (soundtrack)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5418932",
"score": 0.94903076,
"text": "opening day of the movie \"The Social Network\", a film that painted an unflattering portrait of Zuckerberg. On her show, however, Winfrey told the audience that Zuckerberg and Booker had been in talks for months and had actually planned the announcement for the previous month, and that she and Booker had to force Zuckerberg to put his name to the donation, which he had wanted to make anonymously. In the fall of 2009, \"Tonight Show\" host Conan O'Brien engaged in a satirical on-air and YouTube feud with Booker, with O'Brien jokingly insulting the City of Newark and Booker responding that",
"title": "Cory Booker"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13791201",
"score": 0.9481591,
"text": "\"The Social Network\" appeared on over 70 critics' top-ten lists of the best films of 2010. Over a dozen publications ranked the film first in their lists, including the British film magazine \"Sight & Sound\". \"The Social Network\" won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night. The film was nominated for seven British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor in a",
"title": "The Social Network"
}
] |
Who was the youngest President of the USA, taking office in 1901?
|
[
"T Ros",
"Feddy Roosevelt",
"26th President of the United States",
"Trust Buster",
"The Cowboy President",
"Teddy roosevelt",
"Theodore Roosavelt",
"President Theodore Roosevelt",
"Theodor roosevelt",
"Teddy Rose",
"Teddy Roosevelt",
"Theodore roosevelt",
"T. Roosevelt",
"Teodoro Roosevelt",
"T. Roosevelt Administration",
"Teddy Roosvelt",
"Teddy Rosevelt",
"Roosevelt, Theodore",
"Teddy Roosevelt foreign policy",
"T Roosevelt",
"Cowboy of the Dakotas",
"Teddy Roose",
"Theodore Roosevelt"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "16499188",
"score": 1.0426736,
"text": "years.”. With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, 42, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy. He crusaded endlessly on matters big and small, exciting audiences with his high-pitched voice, jutting jaw, and pounding fist. \"The life of strenuous endeavor\" was a must for those around him, Leaving the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt went on an African safari, then jumped back into politics. In 1912, while campaigning he was shot in the",
"title": "Meeker Hotel"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "413763",
"score": 1.0392694,
"text": "election. Roosevelt campaigned vigorously, and the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket won a landslide victory based on a platform of peace, prosperity, and conservation. After taking office as Vice President in March 1901, he became President at age 42 following McKinley's assassination that September, and remains the youngest person to become President of the United States. As a leader of the Progressive movement, he championed his \"Square Deal\" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. Making conservation a top priority, he established many new national parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve",
"title": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14651738",
"score": 1.0225048,
"text": "Jennings Bryan for the Presidency (1897–1901). McKinley was assassinated early in his second term while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States. He served as president from September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909. In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated, and Roosevelt became president at the age of 42, taking office at the youngest age of any US President in history at that time. Roosevelt was a hero of the Spanish–American War and the Battle of San Juan Hill for which",
"title": "Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "19041888",
"score": 0.96179694,
"text": "Theodore Roosevelt McElroy McElroy was born September 15, 1901 (baptism 1903) in Somerville, Massachusetts. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States upon the death of President William McKinley, September 14. McElroy was born the next day and in admiration of this \"cowboy president\" his parents named him \"Theodore Roosevelt.\" He went by the name Teddy, Ted, T.R., or Mac as he disliked his birth name. He was the third of six children from a family with an Irish background. McElroy began his career at Western Union as messenger when he was 14 years old. He graduated from",
"title": "Theodore Roosevelt McElroy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6749795",
"score": 0.957774,
"text": "of office. Being a few weeks short of his 43rd birthday, Roosevelt became the youngest president in U.S. history, a distinction he still retains. When asked whether he was ready to take the oath, Roosevelt answered, Roosevelt would later state that he came into office without any particular domestic policy goals. He broadly adhered to most Republican positions on economic issues, with the partial exception of the protective tariff. Roosevelt had stronger views in foreign policy, as he wanted the United States to accept the mantle of a great power in international relations. Anxious to ensure a smooth transition, Roosevelt",
"title": "Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt"
}
] |
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