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squad-56de15dbcffd8e1900b4b5ca,to where did ethelred flee,William_the_Conqueror_78,edgar the atheling also appears to have been given lands ecclesiastical offices continued to be held by the same bishops as before the invasion including the uncanonical stigand but the families of harold and his brothers did lose their lands as did some others who had fought against william at hastings by march william was secure enough to return to normandy but he took with him stigand morcar edwin edgar and waltheof he left his half brother odo the bishop of bayeux in charge of england along with another influential supporter
squad-571c9074dd7acb1400e4c101,of what is ozone a reactive part of oxygen,Oxygen_3,form allotrope of oxygen ozone o three helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation with the high altitude ozone layer but is a pollutant near the surface where it is a by product of smog oxygen was independently discovered by joseph priestley in wiltshire in seventeen hundred seventy four and carl wilhelm scheele in uppsala a year earlier but priestley is usually given priority because he published his findings first the name oxygen was coined in seventeen hundred seventy seven by antoine lavoisier whose experiments with
squad-57266e72f1498d1400e8df8e,what type of ratios are used in geochronologic and thermochronologic studies,Helium_73,by the beta decay of tritium rocks from the earth s crust have isotope ratios varying by as much as a factor of ten and these ratios can be used to investigate the origin of rocks and the composition of the earth s mantle he three is much more abundant in stars as a product of nuclear fusion thus in the interstellar medium the proportion of he three to he four is around one hundred times higher than on earth extraplanetary material such as lunar and asteroid regolith have
squad-5729edd56aef051400155116,for how many years was evidence shown that humans shaped the the amazon,Columbian_mammoth_5,with clovis culture artifacts these remains may have stemmed either from hunting or from scavenging the columbian mammoth disappeared at the end of the pleistocene around eleven thousand years ago most likely as a result of habitat loss caused by climate change hunting by humans or a combination of both table of contents section one taxonomy the columbian mammoth was first scientifically described in eighteen hundred fifty seven by scottish naturalist hugh falconer
squad-5730c737b54a4f140068cc52,what church is organized into conferences,Stephens_City%2c_Virginia_61,the oldest church building in the town is orrick chapel built between eighteen hundred sixty six and eighteen hundred sixty nine as the home of an african american methodist congregation it replaced an earlier chapel constructed in the late eighteen hundred fifties that was razed by union troops during the winter months of eighteen hundred sixty four to eighteen hundred sixty five near the end of the civil war as of twenty ten within the town limits are congregations of the evangelical lutheran church in america and united methodist church as well as those of the baptist mennonite pentecostal charismatic episcopal and full gospel denominations of christianity just south of the town limits is a
squad-5706149552bb891400689882,which year resulted in the suspension of one of the two soccer teams,American_football_28,the first was the bowl coalition in place from nineteen hundred ninety two to nineteen hundred ninety four this was replaced in nineteen hundred ninety five by the bowl alliance which gave way in nineteen hundred ninety seven to the bowl championship series b c s the b c s arrangement has been controversial and will be replaced in two thousand fourteen by a four team playoff system section three teams and positions a football game is played between two teams of eleven players each playing
squad-572fdbb004bcaa1900d76dda,who did the snp obtain sixteen seats from,Plaid_Cymru_8,now expressly favours independence within the european union as plaid s constitutional aim for wales political commentators believed the party performed poorly in the two thousand four elections it lost one of its members of the european parliament mainly due to a reduction in the number of available seats and lost control of two councils in south wales to labour plaid retains close links with the scottish national party with both parties m p s company operating closely with one another they tend to form a voting block within westminster and were both involved in joint campainging during the two thousand five general election campaign both parties are part of the
squad-572ff7ab04bcaa1900d76f52,how many main flows are branched off from the nederrijn,M-185_(Michigan_highway)_20,main street makes a sweeping curve to the north at windermere or biddle s point to run through the downtown district other than the library most of the city s public buildings are actually situated along market street one block behind main street three streets and a city park allow for connections between main and market streets m one eight five through downtown mackinac island passes through the major business district featuring dozens of shops restaurants and lodging establishments nearly a dozen of these outlets feature the authentic mackinac island fudge made fresh daily during tourist season the
squad-56f8c2ee9b226e1400dd0f49,by one thousand five hundred forty four what did luther have to deal with in his health,Martin_Luther_168,eye from fifteen thirty one to fifteen forty six his health deteriorated further the years of struggle with rome the antagonisms with and among his fellow reformers and the scandal which ensued from the bigamy of the philip of hesse incident in which luther had played a leading role all may have contributed in fifteen thirty six he began to suffer from kidney and bladder stones and arthritis and an ear infection ruptured an ear drum in december fifteen forty four he began to feel the effects of angina his poor physical health made him short tempered and even harsher in
squad-57266193dd62a815002e832d,in the layered model of the earth there are seismic discontinuities in which layer,Climate_change_17,volcanism is a process of conveying material from the crust and mantle of the earth to its surface volcanic eruptions geysers and hot springs are examples of volcanic processes which release gases and forward slash or particulates into the atmosphere eruptions large enough to affect climate occur on average several times per century and cause cooling by partially blocking the transmission of solar radiation to the earth s surface for a period of a few years the eruption of mount pinatubo in nineteen hundred ninety one the second largest terrestrial eruption of the twentieth century after the nineteen hundred
squad-56f895339e9bad19000a0178,what did luther think that faith could not be understood by,Martin_Luther_17,expressing particular interest in aristotle william of ockham and gabriel biel he was deeply influenced by two tutors bartholomaeus arnoldi von usingen and jodocus trutfetter who taught him to be suspicious of even the greatest thinkers and to test everything himself by experience philosophy proved to be unsatisfying offering assurance about the use of reason but none about loving god which to luther was more important reason could not lead men to god he felt and he thereafter developed a love hate relationship with
squad-56e17a7ccd28a01900c679a5,what is the general term used to describe the output to any given input in a problem instance,Computational_geometry_12,the search space is allowed to vary see dynamic problems section one point one point three dynamic problems yet another major class is the dynamic problems in which the goal is to find an efficient algorithm for finding a solution repeatedly after each incremental modification of the input data addition or deletion input geometric elements algorithms for problems of this type typically involve dynamic data structures any of the computational geometric problems may be converted into a dynamic one at the cost of increased processing time for example the range searching problem may be converted into the dynamic range searching problem by
squad-5725d51589a1e219009abf72,apollo seventeen was significant for what reason,NASA_11,follow on projects to construct a space station establish a lunar base and launch a human mission to mars by nineteen hundred ninety were proposed but with the end to procurement of saturn and apollo hardware there was no capability to support these the near disaster of apollo thirteen where an oxygen explosion nearly doomed all three astronauts helped to recapture attention and concern but although missions up to apollo twenty were planned apollo seventeen was the last mission to fly under the apollo banner the program ended because of budget cuts in part due to the vietnam war and the desire to develop a
squad-5725d51589a1e219009abf6f,how many apollo missions were manned by the previous mercury and gemini veterans,NASA_14,from all having lost the space race the soviet union had along with the usa changed its approach on july seventeen nineteen hundred seventy five an apollo craft finding a new use after the cancellation of apollo eighteen was docked to the soviet soyuz nineteen spacecraft although the cold war would last many more years this was a critical point in nasa s history and much of the international company operation in space exploration that exists today has its genesis here america s first space station skylab occupied nasa from the end of apollo until the late nineteen hundred seventies section two point four
squad-571a484210f8ca1400304fc0,how many atoms combine to form dioxygen,Oxygen_0,oxygen oxygen is the element with atomic number eight and represented by the symbol o it is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetallic period two element that readily forms compounds notably oxides with almost all other elements at standard temperature and pressure two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen a colorless odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium
squad-572872dd2ca10214002da381,who is also known at the father of the hydrogen bomb,George_Gamow_27,edward teller followed in nineteen hundred forty six by the first description of cosmic nucleosynthesis he also wrote many popular and semi popular articles as well as academic textbooks in which he dealt with his contributions to the subject three of his papers are of particular interest the first of these dealt with an attenuated version of the coupled set of equations describing the production of the proton and the deuteron from thermal neutrons by a characteristically ingenious simplification and using the observed ratio of hydrogen to
squad-572815d9ff5b5019007d9cbd,which us president visited jacksonville in eighteen eighty eight ,United_States_Congress_32,less powerful than congress during the late nineteenth century president grover cleveland aggressively attempted to restore the executive branch s power vetoing over four hundred bills during his first term the twentieth and twenty first centuries have seen the rise of the power of the presidency under theodore roosevelt nineteen hundred one to nine franklin d roosevelt nineteen hundred thirty three to forty five
squad-57373f80c3c5551400e51e90,whose work corrected aristotles physics in the seventeenth century,Archimedes_51,archimedes work was translated into arabic by thbit ibn qurra eight hundred thirty six to nine hundred one ad and latin by gerard of cremona c one thousand one hundred fourteen to one thousand one hundred eighty seven ad during the renaissance the editio princeps first edition was published in basel in one thousand five hundred forty four by johann herwagen with the works of archimedes in greek and latin around the year fifteen eighty six galileo galilei invented a hydrostatic balance for weighing metals in air and water after apparently being inspired by the work of archimedes
squad-572a096e6aef0514001551e4,invertebrates do not generate what type of cells that are a part of the vertebrate adaptive immune system,Introduction_to_viruses_56,destroy other virus infected cells section six point three point two adaptive immunity of animals specific immunity to viruses develops over time and white blood cells called lymphocytes play a central role lymphocytes retain a memory of virus infections and produce many special molecules called antibodies these antibodies attach to viruses and stop the virus from infecting
squad-5729789b6aef051400154f6d,how many pd rings are there,Saturn_37,are two main theories regarding the origin of saturn s rings one theory is that the rings are remnants of a destroyed moon of saturn the second theory is that the rings are left over from the original nebular material from which saturn
squad-56d9ccacdc89441400fdb844,how many of the four field goal attempts did mcmanus succeed at during super bowl fifty ,American_football_61,the passer is behind the line of scrimmage the offense is given a series of four plays known as downs if the offense advances ten or more yards in the four downs they are awarded a new set of four downs if they fail to advance ten yards possession of the football is turned over to the defense in most situations if the offense reaches their fourth down they will punt the ball to the other team which forces them to begin their drive from further down the field if they are in field goal range they might also attempt to score a field goal a group of
squad-572666d9dd62a815002e83b4,newcastle served as a northern fortress for which country during the middle ages,William_the_Conqueror_146,conquest was profound changes in the church aristocracy culture and language of the country have persisted into modern times the conquest brought the kingdom into closer contact with france and forged ties between france and england that lasted throughout the middle ages another consequence of william s invasion was the sundering of the formerly close ties between england and scandinavia william s government blended elements of the english and norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval english kingdom how abrupt and far reaching the changes were is still a matter of
squad-5726e4eedd62a815002e9438,when did the va acquired the costiff collection,Oldham_107,it has established itself as a cultural focus for oldham and has developed one of the largest and most varied permanent collections in north west england the current collection includes over twelve thousand social and industrial history items more than two thousand works of art about one thousand items of decorative art more than eighty thousand natural history specimens over one thousand geological specimens about three thousand archaeological artefacts fifteen thousand photographs and a large number of books pamphlets and documents oldham is now home to a newly built state of the art art gallery gallery oldham which was completed in february two thousand two
squad-5737804dc3c5551400e51f0f,how many interactions are all of the universal forces based on,Michio_Kaku_3,theory of everything seeking to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe the strong force the weak force gravity and electromagnetism additionally he has been a visiting professor at the institute for advanced study in princeton as well as at new york university doctor kaku is the author of several scholarly ph d level textbooks and has had more than seventy articles published in physics journals covering topics such as superstring theory supergravity supersymmetry and hadronic physics although he has not published an original research article in seven years based on the number of citations his work has received in the academic literature kaku has an h index of
squad-56de3cd0cffd8e1900b4b6bf,what cultures arrival in scotland is know as the davidian revolution,British_Empire_15,in establishing overseas colonies it had been engaged during the sixteenth century in the settlement of ireland with protestants from england and scotland drawing on precedents dating back to the norman invasion of ireland in eleven sixty nine several people who helped establish the plantations of ireland also played a part in the early colonisation of north america particularly a group known as the west country men section two first british empire
squad-56d6f2960d65d2140019828a,how many touchdowns did jonathan stewart have in thirteen games,American_football_18,play between teams the neutral zone was created along the width of the football field goals were lowered to three points in nineteen hundred nine and touchdowns raised to six points in nineteen hundred twelve the field was also reduced to one hundred yards long but two one zero yard long end zones were created and teams were given four downs instead of three to advance the ball ten yards the roughing the passer penalty was implemented in nineteen hundred fourteen and eligible players were first allowed to catch the ball anywhere on the field in
squad-56dfaa047aa994140058dfbf,milutin tesla died at what age,Lev_Landau_18,published a letter in the new york times stating that as soviet jews they opposed us intervention on behalf of the student struggle for soviet jewry section one point eight death landau died on april one nineteen hundred sixty eight aged sixty from complications of the injuries sustained in the car accident he was involved in six years earlier he was buried at novodevichy cemetery section two legacy two celestial objects are named in his honour the minor planet twenty one forty two landau the
squad-56f7f15aa6d7ea1400e172ee,when did luther receive a degree in biblical studies,Martin_Luther_23,more work to distract him from excessive introspection and ordered him to pursue an academic career in fifteen oh seven he was ordained to the priesthood and in fifteen oh eight began teaching theology at the university of wittenberg he received a bachelor s degree in biblical studies on nine march fifteen oh eight and another bachelor s degree in the sentences by peter lombard in fifteen oh nine on nineteen october fifteen twelve he was awarded his doctor of theology and on twenty one october fifteen twelve was received into the senate of the theological faculty of the
squad-56f84b68aef2371900625fa7,what did luther seek to restore,Martin_Luther_71,jurist jerome schurf wrote to the elector oh what joy has doctor martin s return spread among us his words through divine mercy are bringing back every day misguided people into the way of the truth luther next set about reversing or modifying the new church practices by working alongside the authorities to restore public order he signalled his reinvention as a conservative force within the reformation after banishing the zwickau prophets he now faced a battle not only against the established church but against radical reformers who threatened the new order by
squad-57274f49f1498d1400e8f620,what denomination is associated with saint kentigern college,Montreat%2c_North_Carolina_13,college founded in nineteen hundred sixteen and christ community church formerly montreat presbyterian church
squad-56f852fba6d7ea1400e17571,when did luther save the group of nuns from the convent,Martin_Luther_82,one of twelve nuns he had helped escape from the nimbschen cistercian convent in april fifteen twenty three when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels suddenly and while i was occupied with far different thoughts he wrote to wenceslaus link the lord has plunged me into marriage katherina was twenty six years old luther was forty one years old on thirteen june fifteen twenty five the couple was engaged with johannes bugenhagen justus jonas johannes apel philipp melanchthon and lucas cranach the elder and
squad-572fd264b2c2fd14005684ac,who is a bill referred to for a ruling on whether its within the powers of the parliament,First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution_62,broadcasters but only on a content neutral basis section six petition and assembly the right to petition the government has been interpreted as extending to petitions of all three branches the congress the executive and the judiciary the supreme court has interpreted redress of grievances broadly thus it is possible for one to request the government to exercise its powers in furtherance of the general public good however a few times congress has directly limited the right to petition
squad-571c3c47dd7acb1400e4c09f,from what does photosynthesis get oxygen,Oxygen_2,as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by cyanobacteria algae and plants during photosynthesis and is used in cellular respiration for all complex life oxygen is toxic to anaerobic organisms which were the dominant form of early life on earth until o two began to accumulate in the atmosphere two point five billion years ago another form allotrope of oxygen ozone o three helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation with the high altitude
squad-56dddf4066d3e219004dad61,what religion were the normans,Altrincham_64,loreto grammar a voluntary aided catholic grammar school was also described in its two thousand five ofsted report as outstanding with an outstanding sixth form section eight religion as of the two thousand one uk census seventy six point five per cent of altrincham s residents reported themselves as being christian one point seven per cent muslim zero point seven per cent hindu two point eight per cent jewish zero point two per cent buddhist and zero point one per cent sikh
squad-57283a392ca10214002da118,where is doctor who the record holder for most successful science fiction series of all time,Doctor_Who_1,to be a blue nineteen hundred fifties british police box with his companions he explores time and space faces a variety of foes and saves civilizations helping people and righting wrongs the programme is listed in guinness world records as the longest running science fiction television show in the world and as the most successful science fiction series of all time in terms of its overall broadcast ratings d v d and book sales itunes traffic and illegal downloads it has been recognised for its imaginative stories creative low budget special effects
squad-571c8539dd7acb1400e4c0e5,what researcher first used the word oxygen ,Oxygen_4,he published his findings first the name oxygen was coined in seventeen hundred seventy seven by antoine lavoisier whose experiments with oxygen helped to discredit the then popular phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion oxygen is produced industrially by fractional distillation of liquefied air use of zeolites to remove carbon dioxide and nitrogen from air electrolysis of water and other means uses of oxygen include the production of steel plastics and textiles rocket propellant oxygen therapy and life support in aircraft submarines
squad-571a49de4faf5e1900b8a94b,photosynthesis uses which energy to for oxygen from water,Antarctic_krill_35,around the icy antarctic continent harbor one of the the largest plankton assemblages in the world possibly the largest the ocean is filled with phytoplankton as the water rises from the depths to the light flooded surface it brings nutrients from all of the world s oceans back into the photic zone where they are once again available to living organisms thus primary production minus the conversion of sunlight into organic biomass the foundation of the food chain minus has an annual carbon fixation of between one and two
squad-56e1d9fee3433e14004231cc,np complete problems contain the lowest likelihood of being located in what problem class,P_versus_NP_problem_8,in this theory the class p consists of all those decision problems defined below that can be solved on a deterministic sequential machine in an amount of time that is polynomial in the size of the input the class n p consists of all those decision problems whose positive solutions can be verified in polynomial time given the right information or equivalently whose solution can be found in polynomial time on a non deterministic machine clearly p n p arguably the biggest open question in
squad-5729f0db6aef051400155128,how many plant species are estimated to be in the amazon region,Fauna_of_Australia_2,are filled by placental mammals australia is home to two of the five known extant species of monotremes and has numerous venomous species which include the platypus spiders scorpions octopus jellyfish molluscs stonefish and stingrays uniquely australia has more venomous than non venomous species of snakes the settlement of australia by indigenous australians more than forty thousand years ago and by europeans from seventeen hundred eighty eight has had a significant impact on the fauna hunting the introduction of non native species and land management practices involving the
squad-56f86b44a6d7ea1400e175f6,when was the old testament translation finished,Martin_Luther_103,his german translation of the new testament in fifteen twenty two and he and his collaborators completed the translation of the old testament in fifteen thirty four when the whole bible was published he continued to work on refining the translation until the end of his life others had translated the bible into german but luther tailored his translation to his own doctrine when he was criticised for inserting the word alone after faith in romans three twenty eight a m he replied in part t he text itself and the meaning of saint paul urgently require and
squad-57337ea24776f41900660bd1,what was there a significant minority of in warsaw,Jack_the_Ripper_7,century england experienced an influx of irish immigrants who swelled the populations of england s major cities including the east end of london from eighteen hundred eighty two jewish refugees from eastern europe and tsarist russia moved into the same area the civil parish of whitechapel in london s east end became increasingly overcrowded work and housing conditions worsened and a significant economic underclass developed robbery violence and alcohol dependency were commonplace
squad-5730a4d02461fd1900a9cf2d,what religion did the french spread along with their imperialism,Catholic_Church_107,century in response to the protestant reformation the catholic church engaged in a process of substantial reform and renewal known as the counter reformation in subsequent centuries catholicism spread widely across the world despite experiencing a reduction in its hold on european populations due to the growth of religious scepticism during and after the enlightenment in eighteen hundred fifty four pope pius ix with the support of the overwhelming majority of roman catholic bishops
squad-56e75e4500c9c71400d7702d,what country has such unmanageable students that many teachers do not discipline them,Hanyu_Shuiping_Kaoshi_5,such as peking university or tsinghua university most students who take the h s k for this purpose are from japan or korea but also include europeans north americans southeast asians and others table of contents
squad-5728661e2ca10214002da2ec,what dynasty did zhang rhou help attack,Shen_Kuo_0,shen kuo shen kuo or shen kua chinese pinyin shn kuo one thousand thirty one to one thousand ninety five was a polymath chinese scientist and statesman of the song dynasty nine hundred sixty to one thousand two hundred seventy nine excelling in many fields of study and statecraft he was a mathematician astronomer meteorologist geologist zoologist botanist pharmacologist agronomist ethnographer encyclopedist poet general diplomat hydraulic engineer inventor
squad-5705fd8475f01819005e7841,the region spans starting at islands found in which body of water,Antarctic_krill_23,to be a reliable indicator of starvationtemplate m n section five geographical distribution antarctic krill are found thronging the surface waters of the southern ocean they have a circumpolar distribution with the highest concentrations located in the atlantic sector the northern boundary of the southern ocean with its atlantic pacific ocean and indian ocean sectors is defined more or less by the antarctic convergence a circumpolar front where the cold antarctic surface water submerges below the warmer subantarctic waters
squad-5726a34bf1498d1400e8e5a1,what entity enforces the charter of fundamental rights of the european union,European_Economic_Community_30,not national origin most other institutions including the european court of justice have some form of national division of its members section four institutions there were three political institutions which held the executive and legislative power of the eec plus one judicial institution and a fifth body created in nineteen hundred seventy five these institutions except for the auditors were created in nineteen hundred fifty seven by the eec but from nineteen hundred sixty seven onwards they applied to all three communities the council represents governments the parliament represents citizens and the commission represents the european
squad-5727cb4b2ca10214002d967a,what historical figure was jacksonville named after,Black_Seminoles_18,york seventeen hundred ninety the first treaty ratified after the adoption of the united states constitution general andrew jackson targeted florida s maroon communities in eighteen hundred sixteen by orchestrating an attack on the negro fort a black seminole stronghold breaking up the maroon communities was one of jackson s major objectives in the subsequent first seminole war eighteen hundred seventeen to eighteen the second seminole war eighteen hundred thirty five to forty two marked the height of tension between the u s and the black seminoles and also the historical peak of the african seminole alliance the war
squad-56f8b2499b226e1400dd0e3b,what did luther speak out about in saxony,Martin_Luther_156,the jews was doomed to perdition josel asked the city of strasbourg to forbid the sale of luther s anti jewish works they refused initially but relented when a lutheran pastor in hochfelden used a sermon to urge his parishioners to murder jews luther s influence persisted after his death throughout the one thousand five hundred eighties riots led to the expulsion of jews from several german lutheran states luther was the most widely read author of his generation and he acquired the status of a prophet within germany according to the prevailing view among historians his anti jewish rhetoric contributed
squad-56f8837aa6d7ea1400e176fe,what other doctrines did luther disavow about saints,Martin_Luther_126,melanchthon through his life luther maintained the idea that the soul was unconscious in death and from this luther came also to dispute traditional interpretations of some bible passages such as the parable of the rich man and lazarus this also led luther to reject the idea of torments for the saints it is enough for us to know that souls do not leave their bodies to be threatened by the torments and punishments of hell but enter a prepared bedchamber in which they sleep in peace however luther affirmed the continuation of one s personal identity beyond death for example in his smalcald articles he
squad-57275409708984140094dc37,how do the fees at former model c schools compare to those at other schools,Stuyvesant_High_School_20,shsat has since grown to include all of new york s specialized high schools except laguardia high school where entry is by audition rather than examination since its relocation to its battery park city campus the test score necessary for admission to stuyvesant has been higher than that needed for admission to the other schools using the test admission is currently based on an individual s score on the examination and his or her pre submitted ranking of stuyvesant among the other specialized schools each year
squad-56f8989f9e9bad19000a01a6,what was the purpose of the turks in luthers mind,Martin_Luther_131,at the time of the marburg colloquy suleiman the magnificent was besieging vienna with a vast ottoman army luther had argued against resisting the turks in his fifteen eighteen explanation of the ninety five theses provoking accusations of defeatism he saw the turks as a scourge sent to punish christians by god as agents of the biblical apocalypse that would destroy the antichrist whom luther believed to be the papacy and the roman church he consistently rejected the idea of a
squad-573314e3d058e614000b56f0,what archdiocese is warsaw the seat of,Peterborough_60,peterborough has also been appointed assistant bishop in the diocese of ely with pastoral care for these parishes delegated to him by the bishop of ely the city falls wholly within the roman catholic diocese of east anglia which has its seat at the cathedral church of saint john the baptist norwich section six culture section six point one education peterborough has one independent boarding school peterborough high school formerly westwood house the school caters for girls up to eighteen and boys up to eleven peterborough s state schools are currently undergoing
squad-571166352419e314009555f1,what do nuclear power plants heat to create electricity,Oldham_101,by several small clinics and surgeries waste management is company ordinated by the local authority via the greater manchester waste disposal authority locally produced inert waste for disposal is sent to landfill at the beal valley oldham s distribution network operator for electricity is united utilities there are no power stations in the town united utilities also manages oldham s drinking and waste water water supplies being sourced from several local reservoirs including dovestones and chew there is a water treatment works at waterhead section eleven culture
squad-570d26efb3d812140066d491,how many representatives does each electorate have,United_States_House_of_Representatives_26,his term death or resignation furthermore the constitution permits the house to expel any member with a two thirds vote in the history of the united states only five members have been expelled from the house three of them were removed in eighteen hundred sixty one for supporting the confederate states secession which led to the civil war in nineteen hundred eighty michael myers was expelled for accepting bribes and james traficant was expelled in two thousand two following his conviction for corruption the house also has the power to formally censure its members censure requires only a simple majority but does not remove a member from office representatives use the prefix the honorable before their names a member of the house is commonly referred to as a congressman or
squad-56de4b074396321400ee2794,what architecture type came before norman in england,William_the_Conqueror_122,was a departure from the pre conquest english practice of basing military service on territorial units such as the hide by william s death after weathering a series of rebellions most of the native anglo saxon aristocracy had been replaced by norman and other continental magnates not all of the normans who accompanied william in the initial conquest acquired large amounts of land in england some appear to have been reluctant to take up lands in a kingdom that did not always appear pacified although some of the newly rich normans in england
squad-572833662ca10214002da088,what series was created by former doctor who producer russell t davies,Coronation_Street_62,his career on the show writing over one hundred fifty episodes between nineteen hundred sixty one and nineteen hundred sixty nine paul abbott was a story editor on the programme in the nineteen hundred eighties and began writing episodes in nineteen hundred eighty nine but left in nineteen hundred ninety three to produce cracker for which he later wrote before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as touching evil and shameless russell t davies one was briefly a storyliner on the programme in the mid one nine hundred nineties also writing the script for the direct to video special viva las vegas he too has become a noted writer of his own high profile television drama programmes including queer as folk and the two thousand five revival of doctor who
squad-56d99b7bdc89441400fdb5c9,according to game stats which super bowl fifty quarterback had his worst year since his first season as a player in the nfl,Saltine_cracker_challenge_3,nature and persistence of the tennessee volunteers quarterback at the time peyton manning having been bet that he could not eat six saltines manning attempted them one by one and failed trying again he stacked them on top of each other and succeeded his roommate concluded even something that was a joke he was out to prove he can do it he can eat six saltine crackers and he did he works out techniques he can do on everything before the two thousand one to two thousand two season penn state lady lions basketball coach
squad-5727f18c3acd2414000df067,in addition to a new body what else changes about the doctor,Doctor_Who_5,jane adventures the standalone k nine and a single nineteen hundred eighty one pilot episode of k nine and company the doctor has been principally played by eleven actors the transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the show as regeneration whereby the character of the doctor takes on a new body and to some extent new personality although each portrayal is different and on occasion the various incarnations have even encountered one another they are all meant to be aspects of the same character the doctor is currently portrayed by matt smith who took up the role after david tennant s
squad-5729d878af94a219006aa66d,what can be considered as a function of market price of skill,Wage_reform_in_the_Soviet_Union%2c_1956%e2%80%9362_38,floor workers continued to directly bargain with low level management over effort wages and what skill they would exert in particular filtzer notes that soviet workers were constantly forced into a position of exerting more skill than was officially called for in plans or quotas this was because soviet workers often had to find their own ways of working around problems that made their efforts difficult such as building their own tools to carry out tasks that could not be performed with the tools provided or by devising entirely new production processes of their own when existing processes were not suitable this was a condition only seen to such an extent in the west in industries that were insulated from
squad-5725f5b1271a42140099d372,what month is the warmest in fresno,Montreal_22,government spends more than fifty dollars million on snow removal frequent thunderstorms make summer the wettest season statistically but it is also the sunniest the coldest month is january with a daily average of ten four c thirteen f due to wind chill the perceived temperature can be much lower than the actual temperature and wind chill temperatures are often included in weather forecasts the warmest month is july with a daily average of twenty nine c seventy f the lowest temperature ever recorded is thirty seven eight c thirty six f in january of nineteen hundred fifty seven and the highest temperature ever was thirty seven six c one hundred f in august of nineteen hundred
squad-56f80ad1a6d7ea1400e1739b,what did martin luther do during one thousand five hundred ten to one thousand five hundred twenty ,Martin_Luther_38,section two point one justification by faith from fifteen ten to fifteen twenty luther lectured on the psalms the books of hebrews romans and galatians as he studied these portions of the bible he came to view the use of terms such as penance and righteousness by the catholic church in new ways he became convinced that the church was corrupt in its ways and had lost sight of what he saw as several of the central truths of christianity the
squad-56e08a1f7aa994140058e5db,where was teslas laboratory established,NASA_37,new york new york independent verification and validation facility fairmont west virginia wallops flight facility wallops island virginia jet propulsion laboratory near pasadena california deep space network stations goldstone deep space communications complex barstow california madrid deep space communication complex madrid spain canberra deep space communications complex canberra australian capital territory lyndon b johnson space center houston texas white sands test facility las cruces new
squad-56e1fc57e3433e1400423230,if np is not equal to p viewed through this lens what type of problems can also be considered intractable,P_versus_NP_problem_13,if any n p complete problem is in p then it would follow that p equals n p unfortunately many important problems have been shown to be n p complete and as of two thousand thirteen not a single fast algorithm for any of them is known based on the definition alone it is not obvious that n p complete problems exist a trivial and contrived n p complete problem can be formulated as given a description of a turing machine m guaranteed to halt in polynomial time does there exist a polynomial size input that m will accept it is in n p because
squad-571a53d410f8ca1400304fe5,silicates of magnesium and iron make up of the earths ,Helium_73,by the beta decay of tritium rocks from the earth s crust have isotope ratios varying by as much as a factor of ten and these ratios can be used to investigate the origin of rocks and the composition of the earth s mantle he three is much more abundant in stars as a product of nuclear fusion thus in the interstellar medium the proportion of he three to he four is around one hundred times higher than on earth extraplanetary material such as lunar and asteroid regolith have
squad-5727de862ca10214002d9860,what un secretary went to harvard,Elizabeth_II_80,monarch in may twenty eleven the queen addressed the united nations for a second time in twenty ten again in her capacity as queen of all commonwealth realms and head of the commonwealth the un secretary general ban ki moon introduced her as an anchor for our age during her visit to new york which followed a tour of canada she officially opened a memorial garden for the british victims of the eleven september attacks the queen s visit to australia in october twenty eleven her sixteenth since nineteen hundred fifty four was called her farewell tour
squad-57302faa04bcaa1900d77313,when did the channel four documentary undercover mosque air,George_V_93,andrew pritchard in the two thousand five british t v drama documentary the first black britons julian wadham in the two thousand seven t v drama my boy jack michael gambon in the twenty ten film the king s speech james fox in the twenty eleven film w e guy williams in twenty thirteen in the series four of downton abbey and in bbc documentary king george and queen mary section seven titles styles honours and arms section seven point one titles and styles three june
squad-572674f6f1498d1400e8e03e,what year was the new bus station in newcastle officially opened,Docklands_Light_Railway_25,enhancements are under construction being planned or being discussed section five point one new platforms at stratford status minus under construction the d l r has only one platform at stratford which limits capacity and ease of interchange with other platforms two replacement platforms are under construction and expected to open in two thousand seven the first was expected to open in january two thousand seven with the decommissioning of the old platform at this time however although the bulk of the work has been completed it is clear that there is still a lot of fitting out to do full station opening was expected to be in spring two thousand seven but it is not
squad-5729f4b41d0469140077968e,activation of a helper t cell causes it to release what chemicals that influence cell activity,Helicobacter_pylori_23,which then stimulates expression of cytokines that promote inflammation the type iv secretion apparatus also injects the cag pai encoded protein caga into the stomach s epithelial cells where it disrupts the cytoskeleton adherence to adjacent cells intracellular signaling and other cellular activities once inside the cell the caga protein is phosphorylated on tyrosine residues by a host cell membrane associated tyrosine kinase pathogenic strains of h pylori have been shown to activate the epidermal growth factor
squad-56f8225ea6d7ea1400e173f4,who presided over the assembly,Martin_Luther_54,of worms the enforcement of the ban on the ninety five theses fell to the secular authorities on eighteen april fifteen twenty one luther appeared as ordered before the diet of worms this was a general assembly of the estates of the holy roman empire that took place in worms a town on the rhine it was conducted from twenty eight january to twenty five may fifteen twenty one with emperor charles v presiding prince frederick iii
squad-56f84b68aef2371900625fab,besides the radicals who else did luther have to deal with,Martin_Luther_72,banishing the zwickau prophets he now faced a battle not only against the established church but against radical reformers who threatened the new order by fomenting social unrest and violence section six peasants war despite his victory in wittenberg luther was unable to
squad-56f84e63aef2371900625fc3,what did luther call the revolting peasants,Martin_Luther_76,thieving hordes of peasants written on his return to wittenberg he explained the gospel teaching on wealth condemned the violence as the devil s work and called for the nobles to put down the rebels like mad dogs
squad-57114f0050c2381900b54a66,along with road vehicles locomotives and ships on what vehicles were steam engines used during the industrial revolution,Herne_Bay%2c_Kent_8,during the eighteen hundred forties steamboats began running between herne bay and london there was a type of beach boat unique to herne bay and nearby thanet known as the thanet wherry a narrow pulling boat about eighteen feet five m long these boats were mainly used for fishing however with the advent of tourism and the decline of fishing they became mainly used for pleasure trips a document dated eighteen hundred forty records the town as having the following schools all of which are now defunct haddington boarding school oxenden house british school prospect place and herne street school the village of herne was often called herne
squad-573784fa1c45671900574487,what is an objects mass proportional to at the surface of the earth,Dyson_sphere_13,of collision or of eclipsing one another they would be totally stationary with regard to the star and independent of one another as the ratio of radiation pressure and the force of gravity from a star are constant regardless of the distance provided the statite has an unobstructed line of sight to the surface of its star such statites could also vary their distance from their central star the practicality of this approach is questionable with modern material science but cannot yet be ruled out a statite deployed around our own sun would have to have an overall density of seventy eight grams per square meter of sail to
squad-56e17644e3433e1400422f42,what field of computer science analyzes all possible algorithms in aggregate to determine the resource requirements needed to solve to a given problem,P_versus_NP_problem_6,cryptography algorithm research artificial intelligence game theory multimedia processing and many other fields table of contents section one context the relation between the complexity classes p and n p is studied in computational complexity theory the part of the theory of computation dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem the most common resources are time how many steps it takes to solve a problem and space how much memory it takes to solve a problem in such analysis
squad-56f82454a6d7ea1400e173fb,who spoke to luther about his books on behalf of the empire,Martin_Luther_55,twenty eight january to twenty five may fifteen twenty one with emperor charles v presiding prince frederick iii elector of saxony obtained a safe conduct for luther to and from the meeting johann eck speaking on behalf of the empire as assistant of the archbishop of trier presented luther with copies of his writings laid out on a table and asked him if the books were his and whether he stood by their contents luther confirmed he was their author but requested time to think about the answer to the second question he prayed consulted
squad-5730b4282461fd1900a9cfc8,who was the leader of russia in the one thousand nine hundred sixty s,Cold_War_67,by a third while continuing to fight the cold war effectively after the death of joseph stalin nikita khrushchev became the soviet leader following the deposition and execution of lavrentiy beria and the pushing aside of rivals georgy malenkov and vyacheslav molotov on february twenty five nineteen hundred fifty six khrushchev shocked delegates to the twentieth congress of the soviet communist party by cataloguing and denouncing stalin s crimes as part of a campaign of de stalinization he declared that the only way to reform and move away from stalin s policies would be to acknowledge errors
squad-56f7ef96aef2371900625c77,who directed luther away from self reflection and towards the merits of christ,Martin_Luther_22,confession he would later remark if anyone could have gained heaven as a monk then i would indeed have been among them luther described this period of his life as one of deep spiritual despair he said i lost touch with christ the savior and comforter and made of him the jailor and hangman of my poor soul johann von staupitz his superior concluded that luther needed more work to distract him from excessive introspection and ordered him to pursue an academic career in fifteen oh seven he was ordained to the priesthood
squad-56f8ce779b226e1400dd103e,on what other calendar is luther commemorated,Martin_Luther_177,honoured on eighteen february with a commemoration in the lutheran calendar of saints and a feast day in the episcopal united states calendar of saints in the church of england s calendar of saints he is commemorated on
squad-5725e36f89a1e219009ac039,in what month and year did the apollo eleven mission occur,NASA_9,of astronauts with the apollo one launch pad fire the apollo program achieved its goals with apollo eleven which landed neil armstrong and buzz aldrin on the moon s surface on july twenty nineteen hundred sixty nine and returned them to earth safely on july twenty four armstrong s first words upon stepping out of the eagle lander captured the momentousness of the occasion that s one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind twelve men would set foot on the moon by the end of the apollo program in december nineteen hundred seventy two nasa had won the moon race and in some senses this
squad-5730ca6eaca1c71400fe5ac2,how many members make up the judicial council,Canada_42,violate the constitution the supreme court of canada is the highest court and final arbiter and is led by the right honourable madam chief justice beverley mclachlin p c its nine members are appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister all judges at the superior and appellate levels are appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister and minister of justice after consultation with non governmental legal bodies the federal cabinet appoints justices to superior courts at the provincial and territorial levels judicial posts at the lower provincial and territorial levels are filled by their
squad-572869b84b864d19001649af,what natural resources did the chinese government have a monopoly on,Han_dynasty_34,as well as bronze coin currency the liquor monopoly lasted only from ninety eight to eighty one b c and the salt and iron monopolies were eventually abolished in early eastern han the issuing of coinage remained a central government monopoly throughout the rest of the han dynasty the government monopolies were eventually repealed when a political faction known as the reformists gained greater influence in the court the reformists opposed the modernist faction that had dominated court politics in emperor wu s reign and during the subsequent regency of huo
squad-5727f3193acd2414000df0a8,what type of beings does doctor who usually take with him on his travels,Doctor_Who_0,doctor who doctor who is a british science fiction television programme produced by the bbc the programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious and eccentric time lord known as the doctor who travels through time and space in his time machine the tardis an acronym for time and relative dimension s in space which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue nineteen hundred fifties british police box with his companions he explores time and space faces a variety of foes and
squad-572949306aef051400154c6b,when was the third assessment report published,Christopher_Cox_13,elected leadership position behind the speaker the majority leader the majority whip and the chair of the house republican conference he was chairman of the house committee on homeland security and also chairman of the select committee on u s national security that produced the cox report an indictment of chinese espionage and of security failures at several u s national laboratories when congress established the bipartisan study group on enhancing multilateral export controls through federal legislation in nineteen hundred ninety nine cox was tapped as company chairman the group published a unanimous report in two thousand one recommending wholesale modernization of u s export controls
squad-56e7477700c9c71400d76f25,where do most teachers get their credentials from,Petrozavodsk_State_University_4,peoples were organized university teachers organized meetings with high school students and talked about opportunities they could get at the university the so called open door days were organized regularly as a result competition for admission was two three student per place special attention was paid to the improving of the level of teacher s qualification they could take an additional vacation in order to complete master and doctoral p h d theses the number of graduate students was about forty to fifty each year in nineteen hundred seventies special attention was paid to the technical equipment of the university eight
squad-5725c948ec44d21400f3d578,what apollo mission was this lor method used and needed,NASA_11,follow on projects to construct a space station establish a lunar base and launch a human mission to mars by nineteen hundred ninety were proposed but with the end to procurement of saturn and apollo hardware there was no capability to support these the near disaster of apollo thirteen where an oxygen explosion nearly doomed all three astronauts helped to recapture attention and concern but although missions up to apollo twenty were planned apollo seventeen was the last mission to fly under the apollo banner the program ended because of budget cuts in part due to the vietnam war and the desire to develop a
squad-56bf6e7a3aeaaa14008c9620,which game console could viewers stream the game on,Half-Life_2_58,while subject to positive reception critics cited its lack of multiplayer and frame rate issues as problems and the game received much lower scores than its p c counterpart during electronic arts s summer press event on july thirteen two thousand six gabe newell announced that half life two will ship on next generation consoles specifically the playstation three and xbox three hundred sixty including episodes one and two team fortress two and portal the xbox three hundred sixty and playstation three ports of the game were recently listed on the electronics
squad-572860e03acd2414000df977,what non chinese empire did the yuan dynasty succeed,History_of_the_world_17,empire fell under the domination of various germanic tribes in the fifth century and these polities gradually developed into a number of warring catholic states the remaining part of the roman empire in the eastern mediterranean was henceforth known as the byzantine empire centuries later a large part of western europe became the holy roman empire comprising a number of states in what is now germany and italy in china dynasties would similarly rise and fall the most remarkable if short lived of these was the mongol empire which seized almost all of eurasia s landmass missing only western europe and japan islam which began in arabia
squad-5726778df1498d1400e8e0ad,what were tyneside flats built as,Shaw_and_Crompton_55,dwellings the town has nine thousand two hundred seventy four residential dwellings of which one third are victorian terraces built for the cotton mill workers of former times it is considered a popular residential area of relative prosperity with a variety of housing types to suit families couples individuals and professionals the buckstones and rushcroft areas contain modern housing estates and are amongst the most affluent suburbs of the town they were built as part of an agreement made in the nineteen hundred fifties between the then crompton urban district and the county borough of
squad-5727c94bff5b5019007d954c,based on population alone what is jacksonvilles ranking in the united states,Oldham_62,in nineteen hundred one in eighteen hundred fifty one its population of fifty two thousand eight hundred twenty made oldham the twelfth most populous town in england the following is a table outlining the population change of the town since eighteen hundred one which demonstrates a trend of rapid population growth in the nineteenth century and after peaking at one hundred forty seven thousand four hundred eighty three people in nineteen hundred eleven a trend of general decline in population size during the twentieth century
squad-5725fcbe271a42140099d3b0,state route one hundred eighty comes from which direction via mendota,New_York_State_Route_174_7,the southeast border of the village passing by the county park then split in different directions just east of the village route one hundred seventy five turns to the east while route one hundred seventy four turns to the west along the west seneca turnpike entering the village of marcellus route one hundred seventy four passes through the village center then turns north along north street and heads out of the village turning northward through the hamlet of marcellus falls after marcellus the land around the route becomes more developed with residential areas becoming more common about zero point three mile zero point four eight k m north of marcellus route one hundred seventy four crosses nine mile creek and the bridge
squad-5728710c3acd2414000df9f3,what religions did tugh temur follow,Swastika_19,the use of the swastika by the indigenous bon faith of tibet as well as syncretic religions such as cao dai of vietnam and falun gong of china is thought to be borrowed from buddhism as well similarly the existence of the swastika as a solar symbol among the akan civilization of southwest africa may have been the result of cultural transfer along the african slave routes around fifteen hundred ad the existence
squad-571c97e2dd7acb1400e4c121,where by mass is oxygen a major part,Evolution_18,three billion years ago and the subsequent emergence of an oxygen rich non reducing atmosphere can be traced through the formation of banded iron deposits and later red beds of iron oxides this was a necessary prerequisite for the development of aerobic cellular respiration believed to have emerged around two billion years ago in the last billion years simple multicellular plants and animals began to appear in the oceans soon after the emergence of the first animals the cambrian explosion a period of unrivaled and remarkable but brief organismal diversity documented in the fossils found at the burgess shale saw the creation of all the
squad-56f86680a6d7ea1400e175d1,what did luther add to his catechisms,Martin_Luther_98,the lord s prayer baptism and the lord s supper luther incorporated questions and answers in the catechism so that the basics of christian faith would not just be learned by rote the way monkeys do it but understood the catechism is one of luther s most personal works regarding the plan to collect my writings in volumes he wrote i am quite cool and not at all eager about it because roused by a saturnian hunger i would rather see them all devoured for i acknowledge none of them to be really a book of mine except perhaps the bondage of the will and the catechism
squad-573060b48ab72b1400f9c4c6,the word imperialism has its origins in which ancient language,Cheese_48,are shared by other west germanic languages frisian tsiis dutch kaas german kase old high german chsi minus all of which probably come from the reconstructed west germanic root kasjus which in turn is an early borrowing from latin the latin word caseus minus from which are derived the spanish queso portuguese queijo romanian ca and italian cacio minus and the celtic root which gives the irish cais and the welsh caws are also related this whole group of words is probably derived from the proto indo european root kwat minus which means to ferment become sour when the romans began to
squad-56d704430d65d214001982de,peyton manning took how many different teams to the super bowl,American_football_89,grew to challenge that of the n f l the two leagues merged in the nineteen hundred seventy season and all afl teams joined the n f l an earlier minor league the all america football conference was in play from nineteen hundred forty six to nineteen hundred forty nine two aafc teams the cleveland browns and the san francisco
squad-56d724ea0d65d214001983c8,what british tv network will carry the super bowl,American_football_109,according to bbc america there is a social stigma surrounding american football in the uk with many brits feeling the sport has no right to call itself football due to the small emphasis on kicking super bowl xlvi was the most watched television program ever in the united states the game had an estimated one hundred eleven point three millions viewers and was the third straight year the super bowl broke the record in twenty fourteen super bowl xlviii
squad-57300f8504bcaa1900d770d2,whose occupation of kuwait did the us military personal seek to put an end to,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_54,korea in nineteen hundred ninety missouri again took part in the rimpac exercise with ships from australia canada japan and korea in addition to united states navy ships section one point five gulf war nineteen hundred ninety to nineteen hundred ninety one on two august nineteen hundred ninety iraqi dictator saddam hussein invaded the tiny emirate of kuwait in the middle of the month president george h w bush sent the first of several hundred thousand troops along with a strong force of naval support to saudi arabia and the persian gulf area to support a multi national force in a standoff with the iraqi dictator
squad-56f852fba6d7ea1400e1756e,how did luther smuggle twelve nuns out of a convent during the rebellion,Martin_Luther_82,one of twelve nuns he had helped escape from the nimbschen cistercian convent in april fifteen twenty three when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels suddenly and while i was occupied with far different thoughts he wrote to wenceslaus link the lord has plunged me into marriage katherina was twenty six years old luther was forty one years old on thirteen june fifteen twenty five the couple was engaged with johannes bugenhagen justus jonas johannes apel philipp melanchthon and lucas cranach the elder and
squad-57115ac550c2381900b54a78,what type of steam engines produced most power up to the early twenty th century,Submarine_89,there were other power sources attempted oil fired steam turbines powered the british k class submarines built during the first world war and in following years but these were not very successful this was selected to give them the necessary surface speed to keep up with the british battle fleet steam power was resurrected in the nineteen hundred fifties with the advent of the nuclear powered steam turbine driving a generator which is now used in all large submarines by removing the requirement for atmospheric oxygen these submarines can stay submerged indefinitely so long as food supplies remain air is recycled and water distilled from the ocean these vessels nevertheless always have
squad-573362b94776f41900660974,when did building activity in the palaces and churches take place in the later decades of,Altrincham_52,part timber framed buildings echoing the wattle and daub constructions of the original houses and burgage plots the cobblestone paving was replaced in eighteen hundred ninety six the buttermarket which stood in the area near the old market place from the seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century was also the site for dispensing early local justice a courtroom stocks and whipping post saw public floggings take place there until the early nineteenth century the whipping post and stocks were restored as a tourist attraction by local traders in the nineteen hundred nineties however the buttermarket area was also a site of religious importance since prospective brides and grooms are thought to have
squad-56f826a7a6d7ea1400e17427,what did luther refuse to do,Martin_Luther_48,luther examined at augsburg where the imperial diet was held there in october fifteen eighteen luther informed the papal legate cardinal cajetan that he did not consider the papacy part of the biblical church and the hearings degenerated into a shouting match more than his writing the ninety five theses luther s confrontation of the church cast him as an enemy of the pope cajetan s original instructions had been to arrest luther if he failed to recant but he lacked the means in augsburg where the elector guaranteed luther s security luther slipped out of the city at night without leave from cajetan in
squad-5729ea263f37b319004785be,what organization runs the satellite that measured dust that landed on the amazon,NASA_34,telescope formerly known as the space infrared telescope facility sirtf other observatories cobe fuse infrared astronomical satellite james webb space telescope esa partnership wmap section four list of nasa administrators t keith glennan nineteen hundred fifty eight to nineteen hundred sixty one james e webb nineteen hundred sixty one to nineteen hundred sixty eight thomas o paine nineteen hundred sixty nine to nineteen hundred seventy james c fletcher nineteen hundred seventy one to nineteen hundred seventy seven
squad-5730b4282461fd1900a9cfc5,trotsky thought what was needed for a true russian revolution,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_62,the american vision of the postwar world conflicted with the goals of soviet leaders who for their part were also motivated to shape postwar europe the soviet union had since nineteen hundred twenty four placed higher priority on its own security and internal development than on leon trotsky s vision of world revolution accordingly stalin had been willing before the war to engage non communist governments that recognized soviet dominance of its sphere of influence and offered assurances of non aggression section seven creation of the eastern bloc after the war stalin sought to secure the soviet
squad-5727db85ff5b5019007d96ff,what school was walter camp a captain for the football team,American_football_11,these schools formed the intercollegiate football association although yale did not join until eighteen hundred seventy nine yale player walter camp now regarded as the father of american football passed rule changes in eighteen hundred eighty that reduced the team size from fifteen to eleven players and instituted the snap to replace the chaotic and inconsistent scrum section two point two evolution of the game the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected strategy changes previously the strategy had
squad-56e1b8f3e3433e14004230e7,case complexity likelihoods provide variable probabilities of what general measure,Computational_neuroscience_22,platforms like genesis or neuron there have been some attempts to provide unified methods that bridge and integrate these levels of complexity section two point six cognition discrimination and learning computational modeling of higher cognitive functions has only begun recently experimental data comes primarily from single unit recording in primates the frontal lobe and parietal lobe function as integrators of information from multiple sensory modalities there are some tentative ideas regarding how
squad-571c91c8dd7acb1400e4c10a,what is the most common form of oxygen on the planet,Oxygen_0,oxygen oxygen is the element with atomic number eight and represented by the symbol o it is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetallic period two element that readily forms compounds notably oxides with almost all other elements at standard temperature and pressure two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen a colorless odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium
squad-56f884cba6d7ea1400e17709,who else observed that luther view of souls was different form later views,Martin_Luther_128,this was also the view of lessing seventeen hundred fifty five in his analysis of late lutheran orthodoxy to these passages luther s commentary on genesis contains a passage which concludes the soul does not sleep anima non sic dormit but wakes sed vigilat and experiences visions francis blackburne in seventeen hundred sixty five argued that john jortin misread this and other passages from luther while gottfried fritschel pointed out in eighteen hundred sixty seven that it actually refers to the
squad-56e1dc62cd28a01900c67bce,in what theoretical machine is it confirmed that a problem in p belies membership in the np class,P_versus_NP_problem_15,or no instance is determined by whether a valid input exists the first natural problem proven to be n p complete was the boolean satisfiability problem as noted above this is the cook levin theorem its proof that satisfiability is n p complete contains technical details about turing machines as they relate to the definition of n p however after this problem was proved to be n p complete proof by reduction provided a simpler way to show that many other problems are also n p complete including the subset sum problem discussed earlier thus a vast class of seemingly unrelated problems
squad-572699b55951b619008f778f,how many cathedrals does newcastle have,Francis_Petre_14,and only lightly influenced by anglo saxon architecture the building is notable for its use of poured concrete a comparatively new building material in eighteen hundred seventies new zealand but one well suited to the creation of the large number of windows in the building s facade the structure is simultaneously grand and austere well reflecting its use as a convent saint dominic s priory was the largest unreinforced concrete building in the southern hemisphere steel reinforcing being then an unknown construction method and earned petre the lasting nickname of lord concrete section four cathedrals f w petre designed three
squad-5725c6dcec44d21400f3d533,where did golovin work prior to joining the space vehicle panel,Orion_(spacecraft)_12,of four to six to the iss cargo would also be carried aboard an unmanned version of orion similar to the russian progress cargo ships the contractor for the orion is lockheed martin which was selected by nasa in september two thousand six and is the current contractor for the space shuttle s external tank and the atlas v eelv orion is apollo like not a lifting body or winged vehicle like the now retired shuttle like the apollo command module orion would be attached to a service module for life support and propulsion it is intended to land in water but past
squad-5726769c708984140094c713,the largest brand of what store in the uk is located in kingston park,Brownhills_48,overseas and commercial staff moved to a new site in cannock in two thousand six the site was converted into a mixed use facility dubbed toll point with walsall council among those moving to the site many people are also employed at the town s large branch of tesco which is open twenty four hours a day on weekdays and is large enough to have its own petrol station before being taken over by tesco the store was a branch of hillards and an earlier tesco store in the town had been forced to close as it could not compete with hillards the high street retains various independent shops including a cobbler and a butcher but is seen as in need of
squad-56f8b2499b226e1400dd0e3d,what did josel of rosheim claimed that luther said of those who might aid the jews,Martin_Luther_155,punishments prescribed by moses for those who led others to false gods luther spoke out against the jews in saxony brandenburg and silesia josel of rosheim the jewish spokesman who tried to help the jews of saxony in fifteen thirty seven later blamed their plight on that priest whose name was martin luther may his body and soul be bound up in hell minus who wrote and issued many heretical books in which he said that whoever would help the jews was doomed to perdition josel asked the city of strasbourg to forbid the sale of luther s anti jewish works they refused
squad-57109275b654c5140001f99f,what is the common term for the loss of key members of french society to huguenot emigration,Eastern_Bloc_144,weight of accumulated economic inefficiencies with various attempts at reform merely contributing to the acceleration of crisis generating tendencies section ten revolts section ten point one nineteen hundred fifty three east germany uprising three months after the death of joseph stalin a dramatic increase of emigration republikflucht brain drain occurred from east germany in the first half year of nineteen hundred fifty three large numbers of east germans traveled west through the only loophole left in the eastern bloc emigration restrictions the berlin sector border the east german government then raised norms minus the
squad-5725ceb989a1e219009abf0a,how many astronauts was the lm intended to take from orbit of the moon to the surface of the moon,Orion_(spacecraft)_63,is debating two possible paths whether to first return to the moon or explore an asteroid towed to lunar orbit prior to launching a manned mission to mars regardless of which of the following alternatives is selected the ultimate goal of human exploration is to chart a path for human expansion into the solar system section seven point one return to the moon these are the primary reasons for returning to the moon on the international front there appears to be continued enthusiasm for a mission to the moon the moon could become a training ground and test bed to prepare for more complex missions ultimately manned
squad-5730cb8df6cb411900e244c4,what is the greatest number of members a board of trustees can have,Montreal_20,for the public study of pending matters and for making the appropriate recommendations to the council they also review the annual budget forecasts for departments under their jurisdiction a public notice of meeting is published in both french and english daily newspapers at least seven days before each meeting all meetings include a public question period the current standing committees have a two year term there are seven standing committees in addition the city council may decide to create special committees at any time each standing committee is made up of seven to nine members including a chairman and a vice chairman the members are all elected municipal officers with the exception of a representative of the government of quebec on the public security committee see also parliamentary representation in montreal two thousand four section three
squad-5727aec03acd2414000de994,how many academic units make up the school,Altrincham_62,there are eighteen primary schools and eight secondary schools in the altrincham area including five grammar schools the trafford district maintains a selective education system assessed by the eleven plus exam several of the secondary schools in the altrincham area have specialist status altrincham college of arts arts altrincham grammar school for boys language altrincham grammar school for girls language blessed thomas holford catholic college maths and
squad-56bf6f743aeaaa14008c9631,which late night comedy host show played immediately after super bowl fifty ended,Richard_Branson_43,asking how much he would pay for a ride on the spaceship in response shatner asked how much would you pay me to do it in august two thousand seven branson announced on the colbert report that he had named a new aircraft air colbert he later doused political satirist and talk show host stephen colbert with water from his mug branson subsequently took a retaliatory splash from colbert the interview quickly ended with both laughing as shown on the episode aired on comedy central on twenty two august two thousand seven the interview was promoted on the report as the
squad-5726c80c5951b619008f7de8,which south asian island nation is represented in the va collection,Trincomalee_41,vidyalayam trincomalee saint francis xavier school section eight two thousand four tsunami in the aftermath of the two thousand four asian tsunami trincomalee was a focal point for relief efforts on the eastern coast of sri lanka section nine maps detailed map of trincomalee adobe reader required to view the map section ten see also place names in sri lanka h m s trincomalee a british sailing frigate built in india
squad-5705e3f252bb89140068966a,which coastline does southern california touch,Antarctic_krill_23,to be a reliable indicator of starvationtemplate m n section five geographical distribution antarctic krill are found thronging the surface waters of the southern ocean they have a circumpolar distribution with the highest concentrations located in the atlantic sector the northern boundary of the southern ocean with its atlantic pacific ocean and indian ocean sectors is defined more or less by the antarctic convergence a circumpolar front where the cold antarctic surface water submerges below the warmer subantarctic waters
squad-572689b6dd62a815002e8892,where do all trains going to scotland stop at,Sheffield_67,sheffield to london is two hours also running through sheffield is the main ne forward slash s w cross country line which links the east of scotland and northeast of england directly with west and south yorkshire the west midlands and the southwest providing direct services to aberdeen edinburgh newcastle darlington york leeds birmingham bristol taunton and exeter sheffield also lies on the line linking liverpool and manchester with hull and east anglia providing direct services to liverpool manchester hull lincoln ely and norwich sheffield also has good links with its neighbouring towns and cities barnsley
squad-56f8afbc9b226e1400dd0e05,what was luthers major work of sixty words on the jews,Martin_Luther_152,realize who or what they are in the sight of god in fifteen twenty three luther advised kindness toward the jews in that jesus christ was born a jew but only with the aim of converting them to christianity when his efforts at conversion failed he grew increasingly bitter toward them luther s other major works on the jews were his sixty thousand word treatise von den juden und ihren lugen on the jews and their lies and vom schem hamphoras und vom geschlecht christi on the holy name and the lineage of christ both published in one thousand five hundred forty three
squad-5729efab3f37b319004785d2,dendritic cells present antigens to what cells of the adaptive nervous system,Folding%40home_54,protein which may be involved in many diseases including cancer in twenty eleven folding at home began simulations of the dynamics of the small knottin protein eeti which can identify carcinomas in imaging scans by binding to surface receptors of cancer cells interleukin two il two is a protein that helps t cells of the immune system attack pathogens and tumors unfortunately its use as a cancer treatment is restricted due to
squad-56f7e9caaef2371900625c5a,in what year did luther get his degree,Martin_Luther_16,for what has been described as a day of rote learning and often wearying spiritual exercises he received his master s degree in fifteen oh five in accordance with his father s wishes luther enrolled in law school at the same university that year but dropped out almost immediately believing that law represented uncertainty luther sought assurances about life and was drawn to theology and philosophy expressing particular interest in aristotle william of ockham and gabriel biel he was deeply influenced by two
squad-56f81393aef2371900625dab,who was determined to expose luther at this time,Martin_Luther_50,maier von eck however was determined to expose luther s doctrine in a public forum in june and july fifteen nineteen he staged a disputation with luther s colleague andreas karlstadt at leipzig and invited luther to speak luther s boldest assertion in the debate was that matthew four eighteen p m does not confer on popes the exclusive right to interpret scripture and that therefore neither popes nor church councils were infallible for this eck branded luther a new jan hus referring to the czech reformer and heretic burned at the stake in fourteen fifteen
squad-57303048947a6a140053d255,what department in the us spearheaded the efforts against islamism,Hillary_Clinton_161,she took responsibility while the differing explanations were due to the inevitable fog of war confusion after events like this on december nineteen a panel led by thomas r pickering and michael mullen issued its report on the matter it was sharply critical of state department officials in washington for ignoring requests for more guards and safety upgrades and for failing to adapt security procedures to a deteriorating security environment it focused its criticism on the department s bureau of diplomatic security and bureau of near eastern affairs and four state
squad-56f8a2969e9bad19000a022b,what did johannes agricola preach that gods gospel revealed,Martin_Luther_140,early in fifteen thirty seven johannes agricola one thousand four hundred ninety four to one thousand five hundred sixty six serving at the time as pastor in luther s birthplace eisleben minus preached a sermon in which he claimed that god s gospel not god s moral law the ten commandments revealed god s wrath to christians based on this sermon and others by agricola luther suspected that agricola was behind certain anonymous antinomian theses circulating in wittenberg these theses asserted that the law is no longer to be taught to christians but belonged only to city hall luther responded to
squad-56f82989aef2371900625e6e,what book did luther translate into german at this time,Martin_Luther_102,section nine translation of the bible luther had published his german translation of the new testament in fifteen twenty two and he and his collaborators completed the
squad-573060b48ab72b1400f9c4c9,the term imperialism has been applied to western countries and which eastern county,Cold_War_103,in which the world was no longer divided into two clearly opposed blocs from the beginning of the post war period western europe and japan rapidly recovered from the destruction of world war ii and sustained strong economic growth through the nineteen hundred fifties and nineteen hundred sixties with per capita g d p s approaching those of the united states while eastern bloc economies stagnated as a result of the nineteen hundred seventy three oil crisis combined with the growing influence of third world alignments such as the organization of petroleum exporting countries opec and the non aligned movement less powerful
squad-572970916aef051400154eba,how many types of thylakoids are there,DNA_7,t these four bases are shown below and are attached to the sugar forward slash phosphate to form the complete nucleotide as shown for adenosine monophosphate these bases are classified into two types adenine and guanine are fused five and six membered heterocyclic compounds called purines while cytosine and thymine are six membered rings called pyrimidines a fifth pyrimidine base called uracil u replaces thymine in rna and differs from thymine by lacking a methyl group on its ring uracil is normally only found in dna as a breakdown product of cytosine but a very rare exception to this rule is a bacterial virus called pbs one that contains uracil in its dna the double helix is a right handed spiral as the dna strands wind around
squad-5726938af1498d1400e8e446,which entity has a monopoly on initiating legislation,European_Economic_Community_31,onwards they applied to all three communities the council represents governments the parliament represents citizens and the commission represents the european interest essentially the council parliament or another party place a request for legislation to the commission the commission then drafts this and presents it to the council for approval and the parliament for an opinion in some cases it had a veto depending upon the legislative procedure in use the commission s duty is to ensure it is implemented by dealing with the day to day running of the union and taking others to court if they fail to comply after
squad-56bec1823aeaaa14008c9365,in what language did espn deportes broadcast the game,Yao_Ming_15,in the opening minutes and made a game sealing dunk with ten seconds left in overtime yao finished with ten points ten rebounds and six blocks oneal recorded thirty one points thirteen rebounds and zero blocks the nba began offering all star ballots in three languages english spanish and chinese for fan voting of the starters for the two thousand three nba all star game yao was voted to start for the west over oneal who was coming off three consecutive nba finals m v p awards yao received nearly a quarter million more votes than oneal and he became the first rookie to start in the all star game since grant hill in nineteen hundred ninety five
squad-56f8c9719e9bad19000a04e4,who performed the funeral for martin luther,Martin_Luther_175,he was buried in the castle church in wittenberg beneath the pulpit the funeral was held by his friends johannes bugenhagen and philipp melanchthon a year later troops of luther s adversary charles v holy roman emperor entered the town but were ordered by charles not to disturb the grave a piece of paper was later found on which luther had written his last statement the statement was in latin apart from we are beggars which was in german
squad-572a0ecb1d0469140077971b,policies which try to control unemployment support economic growth because they reduce what,Simon_Kuznets_38,there was little variation in the agricultural income industrialization led to large differences in income additionally as economies experienced growth mass education provided greater opportunities which decreased the inequality and the lower income portion of the population gained political power to change governmental policies he also discovered the patterns in savings income behavior which launched
squad-56e74e4800c9c71400d76f79,who is taught at teachers colleges,Parity_of_zero_46,improvements in students standardized test scores after taking the teachers classes in a more in depth two thousand eight study the researchers found a school where all of the teachers thought that zero was neither odd nor even including one teacher who was exemplary by all other measures the misconception had been spread by a math coach in their building it is uncertain how many teachers harbor misconceptions about zero the michigan studies did not publish data for individual questions betty lichtenberg an associate professor of mathematics education at the university of south florida in a nineteen hundred
squad-56e1ec83cd28a01900c67c0a,what computational problem is commonly associated with prime factorization,P_versus_NP_problem_23,vertices the integer factorization problem is the computational problem of determining the prime factorization of a given integer phrased as a decision problem it is the problem of deciding whether the input has a factor less than k no efficient integer factorization algorithm is known and this fact forms the basis of several modern cryptographic systems such as the rsa algorithm the integer factorization problem is in n p and in company n p and even in up and company up if the problem is n p complete the polynomial time
squad-571127a5a58dae1900cd6cc7,in what constituent country of the united kingdom is merthyr tydfil located,Ruthin_0,ruthin ruthin welsh rhuthun pronounced rith in ipa forward slash rn forward slash is the county town of denbighshire in north wales located at approx fifty three deg eight min north three deg twenty five min west at the junction of the trunk roads a four nine four queensferry minus mold minus ruthin minus corwen minus dolgellau and a five two five r h y l denbigh minus ruthin minus wrexham minus whitchurch minus stoke on trent the population at the two thousand one census was
squad-57283ce72ca10214002da14f,in what year was doctor who rated the third greatest show of the two thousand s,Ronald_Reagan_200,out of forty two while the debate about reagan s legacy is ongoing the two thousand nine annual c span survey of presidential leaders ranked reagan the tenth greatest president the survey of leading historians rated reagan number eleven in two thousand in twenty eleven the institute for the study of the americas released the first ever u k academic survey to rate u s presidents this poll of u k specialists in u s history and politics placed reagan as the eighth greatest u s president
squad-5728fc2eaf94a219006a9eca,what compounds in the stomach protect against ingested pathogens,Helicobacter_pylori_38,while h pylori has been disappearing from the stomach of humans the incidence of the related disorders acid reflux disease barrett s esophagus and esophageal cancer have been rising dramatically in nineteen hundred ninety six martin j blaser advanced the hypothesis that h pylori has a beneficial effect by regulating the acidity of the stomach contents it lowers the impact of regurgitation of gastric acid into the esophagus the hypothesis is not universally accepted as several randomized controlled trials failed to demonstrate
squad-56dfa24a38dc421700152143,what language were classes held in at teslas school,Ima_Hogg_26,and ima began learning to play the piano at age three although her younger brothers attended public school ima was enrolled at a private school and received private music lessons in eighteen hundred ninety nine she entered the university of texas at austin ut where her favorite courses were german old english and psychology she later remarked that no freshman was ever more immature more unprepared more frightened than i she joined the female social club known as the valentine club and helped to inaugurate the first sorority on the ut campus after two years at the university she moved to new york city to study piano and music theory at the national conservatory of
squad-5737432bc3c5551400e51e9b,who proposed that innate intertial is the natural state of objects,Isaac_Newton_1,naturalis principia mathematica published in sixteen hundred eighty seven is considered to be the most influential book in the history of science in this work newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion laying the groundwork for classical mechanics which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries and is the basis for modern engineering newton showed that the motions of objects on earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between kepler s laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and
squad-56bec5ff3aeaaa14008c93e3,what bbc radio station will carry the game in the united kingdom,BBC_Radio_4_5,then became master of saint peter s college oxford music and sport are the only fields that largely fall outside the station s remit however the channel does broadcast occasional concerts documentaries related to various forms of both popular and classical music as well as the long running music based programme desert island discs in addition prior to the creation of bbc radio five the station broadcast several sports based features most notably sport on four and since the creation of bbc radio five live has become the home of ball by ball commentaries of most test cricket matches played by england which are broadcast on long wave as
squad-56f8507fa6d7ea1400e1754e,what is this doctrine of god appointing authorities called,Martin_Luther_79,the things that are caesar s saint paul had written in his epistle to the romans thirteen one seven that all authorities are appointed by god and therefore should not be resisted this reference from the bible forms the foundation for the doctrine known as the divine right of kings or in the german case the divine right of the princes second the violent actions of rebelling robbing and plundering placed the peasants outside the law of god and empire so they deserved death in body and soul if only as highwaymen and murderers
squad-56f87760aef23719006260d0,what did the hymn aus tiefer not express,Martin_Luther_112,from depths of woe i cry to you in one thousand five hundred twenty three as a hymnic version of psalm one hundred thirty and sent it as a sample to encourage evangelical colleagues to write psalm hymns for use in german worship in fifteen twenty four luther developed his original four stanza psalm paraphrase into a five stanza reformation hymn that developed the theme of grace alone more fully because it expressed essential reformation doctrine this expanded version of aus tiefer not was designated as a regular component of several regional lutheran liturgies and was widely used at funerals including
squad-5727efabff5b5019007d98e4,what is doctor whos space ship called,Doctor_Who_0,doctor who doctor who is a british science fiction television programme produced by the bbc the programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious and eccentric time lord known as the doctor who travels through time and space in his time machine the tardis an acronym for time and relative dimension s in space which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue nineteen hundred fifties british police box with his companions he explores time and space faces a variety of foes and
squad-57293d6d1d046914007791b7,how many coordinating lead authors does an ipcc report chapter have,Atlanta_Nights_14,ten minus mary catelli chapter eleven minus andrew burt chapter twelve minus victoria strauss chapter twelve minus shira daemon there are two chapter twelve s chapter thirteen minus vera nazarian chapter fourteen minus sean p fodera chapter fifteen minus teresa nielsen hayden chapter sixteen minus ken houghton chapter seventeen minus charles coleman finlay identical to chapter four chapter eighteen minus m turville heitz chapter nineteen minus kevin odonnell jr chapter twenty minus chuck rothman chapter twenty two minus laura j
squad-56e17a7ccd28a01900c679a3,is a problem instance typically characterized as abstract or concrete,Thought_21,and complexity of inference and understanding that is thought evolves from being based on perceptions and actions at the sensorimotor stage in the first two years of life to internal representations in early childhood subsequently representations are gradually organized into logical structures which first operate on the concrete properties of the reality in the stage of concrete operations and then operate on abstract principles that organize concrete properties in the stage of formal operations in
squad-56f7ffadaef2371900625d5e,when did martin luther protest the sale of indulgences to his bishop,Martin_Luther_27,can justify man the benefits of good works could be obtained by donating money to the church on thirty one october fifteen seventeen luther wrote to his bishop albert of mainz protesting the sale of indulgences he enclosed in his letter a copy of his disputation of martin luther on the power and efficacy of indulgences which came to be known as the ninety five theses hans hillerbrand writes that luther had no intention of confronting the church but saw his disputation as a scholarly objection to church practices and the tone of the writing is accordingly searching
squad-57269fab5951b619008f7809,what prize did peter higgs win,Nobel_Prize_33,on the awards usually recognised recent discoveries however some of these early discoveries were later discredited for example johannes fibiger was awarded the nineteen hundred twenty six prize for physiology or medicine for his purported discovery of a parasite that caused cancer to avoid repeating this embarrassment the awards increasingly recognised scientific discoveries that had withstood the test of time according to ralf pettersson former chairman of the nobel prize committee for physiology or medicine the
squad-56e07c86231d4119001ac1ce,where was the one thousand eight hundred ninety three worlds columbian exposition held,Xanadu_Houses_9,century of progress exposition in chicago introduced air conditioning forced air heating circuit breakers electric eye doors citation needed and other innovative features mason believed xanadu house would alter people s views of houses as little more than inanimate passive shelters against the elements no one s really looked at the house as a total organic system said mason who was also the architecture editor of the futurist magazine the house can have intelligence and each room can have intelligence the estimated cost of construction
squad-5730909d8ab72b1400f9c58e,who besides the british colonized africa,British_Empire_89,hundred eighty five to withdraw from sudan a joint force of british and egyptian troops defeated the mahdist army in eighteen hundred ninety six and rebuffed a french attempted invasion at fashoda in eighteen hundred ninety eight sudan was nominally made an anglo egyptian condominium but a british colony in reality british gains in southern and east africa prompted cecil rhodes pioneer of british expansion in africa to urge a cape to cairo railway linking the strategically important suez canal to the mineral rich south during the eighteen hundred eighties and eighteen hundred nineties
squad-572813b52ca10214002d9d69,what title do both doctor who and the master share,Doctor_Who_0,doctor who doctor who is a british science fiction television programme produced by the bbc the programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious and eccentric time lord known as the doctor who travels through time and space in his time machine the tardis an acronym for time and relative dimension s in space which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue nineteen hundred fifties british police box with his companions he explores time and space faces a variety of foes and
squad-5728fb002ca10214002dab6a,what is a mechanical barrier in insects that protects the insect,Insect_0,insect insects from latin insectum a calque of greek entomon cut into sections are a class within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton
squad-572ff4ca04bcaa1900d76f24,which direction does two thirds of the rhine flow outside of germany,M62_motorway_31,in two thousand six had a average daily traffic flow of one hundred thousand cars east of the pennines and seventy eight thousand cars west of the pennines the border between the two areas is defined to be the west yorkshire forward slash lancashire border at junction twenty two for comparison the statistics for nineteen hundred ninety nine were ninety thousand and seventy thousand respectively and the two thousand six average daily traffic flow for the busiest stretch of motorway in the united kingdom the western m two five motorway that is between junctions seven and twenty three was one hundred forty four thousand cars due to the
squad-57273abef1498d1400e8f4db,who did the fcc rule in favor of in the april two thousand dispute between time warner cable and abc,American_football_24,the new york giants that is still referred to as the greatest game ever played the game a twenty three to seventeen overtime victory by the colts was seen by millions of television viewers and had a major impact on the popularity of the sport this helped football to become the most popular sport in the united states by the mid one nine hundred sixties a rival the american football league afl arose in nineteen hundred sixty and challenged the nfl s dominance the afl began in relative obscurity but survived for several years due to a television contract with the abc network
squad-56d9c6e0dc89441400fdb7f4,how did denver score at the end of the drive,American_football_61,the passer is behind the line of scrimmage the offense is given a series of four plays known as downs if the offense advances ten or more yards in the four downs they are awarded a new set of four downs if they fail to advance ten yards possession of the football is turned over to the defense in most situations if the offense reaches their fourth down they will punt the ball to the other team which forces them to begin their drive from further down the field if they are in field goal range they might also attempt to score a field goal a group of
squad-57290ee2af94a219006aa000,what would be odingas role in the government,Robert_Garran_35,and the death of richard oconnor billy hughes attorney general in the fisher government at the time later said garran would have been appointed but for the fact that he is too valuable a man for us to lose we cannot spare him section three point one solicitor general in nineteen hundred sixteen garran was made the first solicitor general of australia the office was then known as commonwealth solicitor general by billy hughes who had since become prime minister the creation of the office and garran s appointment to it was to some degree
squad-570d418dfed7b91900d45dbe,how many seats does victoria have in the senate,Confederate_government_of_Kentucky_34,hundred sixty two kentucky was entitled to two senators and twelve representatives in the permanent confederate congress the usual day for general elections being passed governor johnson and the legislative council set election day for confederate kentucky on january twenty two eighteen hundred sixty two voters were allowed to vote in whichever county they occupied on election day and could cast a general ballot for all positions in an election that saw military votes outnumber civilian ones only four of the provisional legislators were elected to seats in the confederate house of representatives one provisional legislator henry burnett was elected to the confederate senate
squad-572fbea404bcaa1900d76c5e,how many members in the seats of the scottish parliament are members of the scottish government,McGillicuddy_Serious_Party_3,members of the clan had stood as candidates in nineteen hundred eighty three local body elections in the waikato but the m c g s p was established in time to contest the nineteen hundred eighty four general election the party had a strong scottish theme and the kilt was considered to be one of the party s symbols initially many candidates were students of university of waikato they also included a number of street performers and comedic musical groups such as the serious ukelele ensemble and the big muffin serious band section two
squad-56f86e91aef2371900626069,what did the popularity of luthers translation contribute to,Martin_Luther_106,at a time of rising demand for german language publications luther s version quickly became a popular and influential bible translation as such it made a significant contribution to the evolution of the german language and literature furnished with notes and prefaces by luther and with woodcuts by lucas cranach that contained anti papal imagery it played a major role in the spread of luther s doctrine throughout germany the luther bible influenced other vernacular translations such as william tyndale s english bible fifteen twenty five forward a precursor of the king james bible
squad-5725bbec271a42140099d0d4,what is the highest court in the european union,European_Economic_Community_30,not national origin most other institutions including the european court of justice have some form of national division of its members section four institutions there were three political institutions which held the executive and legislative power of the eec plus one judicial institution and a fifth body created in nineteen hundred seventy five these institutions except for the auditors were created in nineteen hundred fifty seven by the eec but from nineteen hundred sixty seven onwards they applied to all three communities the council represents governments the parliament represents citizens and the commission represents the european
squad-572691bedd62a815002e89de,when was the cretaceous paleogen extinction occur,Dinosaur_61,extinction become researched in detail showing some possible causes of the dinosaur extinction section four point one asteroid collision the theory first proposed by walter alvarez in the late nineteen hundred seventies linked the extinction event at the end of the cretaceous period to a bolide impact about sixty five point five million years ago based on a sudden change in iridium levels in fossilized layers the bulk of the evidence now indicates that a ten k m wide bolide hit the yucatan peninsula sixty five million years ago creating the
squad-572fbfa504bcaa1900d76c76,how much does it cost to gain entry to a parliament meeting,United_States_Congress_66,may not be sued for slander because of remarks even more members are granted several free capitol parking spaces and are exempt from parking tickets through the use of special license plates facilities such as private gymnasiums low cost barbers and subsidized dining areas are provided as well as access to the services of a permanent bureaucracy
squad-57111b95a58dae1900cd6c54,thomas de maiziere serves what role in the german cabinet,Roger_Salengro_3,general councillor of the lille sud ouest canton in nineteen hundred twenty five salengro was elected mayor of lille he was re elected in nineteen hundred twenty nine and in nineteen hundred thirty five in nineteen hundred twenty eight he was elected member of parliament then re elected in nineteen hundred thirty two and in nineteen hundred thirty six section two member of cabinet and suicide the nineteen hundred thirty six legislative election brought the popular front to power for the first time led by leon blum blum appointed salengro minister of the interior the new government set about implementing social reforms and one of its first achievements was the signing of the matignon agreements which was publicly announced by salengro the nineteen hundred thirties were marked by the activities of extreme right wing
squad-56f8c7029e9bad19000a04a2,when did luther travel to mansfeld twice,Martin_Luther_172,own control the controversy that ensued involved all four mansfeld counts albrecht philip john george and gerhard luther journeyed to mansfeld twice in late fifteen forty five to participate in the negotiations for a settlement and a third visit was needed in early fifteen forty six for their completion the negotiations were successfully concluded on seventeen february fifteen forty six after eight pm he experienced chest pains when he went to his bed he prayed into your hand i commit my spirit you have redeemed me o lord
squad-56f8575aaef2371900626001,besides taking in boarders how did katharina help support the family,Martin_Luther_86,marriage though money was often short between bearing six children hans june fifteen twenty six elizabeth minus ten december fifteen twenty seven died within a few months magdalene minus fifteen twenty nine died in luthers arms in fifteen forty two martin minus fifteen thirty one paul minus january fifteen thirty three and margaret minus fifteen thirty four katharina helped earn the couple a living by farming the land and taking in boarders luther confided to michael stiefel on eleven august fifteen twenty six my katie is in all things so obliging and
squad-5725edfe38643c19005acea0,in which direction does the west side of fresno neighborhood lie to the ninety nine freeway,Interstate_35_10,county and kansas city kansas section one point four missouri in missouri i three five interstate thirty five i three five is an interstate highway that stretches from laredo texas in the i three five enters missouri two miles three k m southwest of kansas city s central business district as a six lane highway after merging with southwest trafficway and broadway it becomes eight lanes and continues north to downtown kansas city where it serves as the west and north legs of the downtown freeway loop along the north edge of the loop i three five joins with i seven zero immediately west of broadway and carries six lanes of traffic with a speed limit of forty five mph seventy two k m forward slash h
squad-5726487b5951b619008f6edd,which country faced a complete embargo in the eec,1973_world_oil_market_chronology_15,october twenty three arab oil embargo extended to the netherlands november five arab producers announce twenty five percent cut in production below september levels further cuts of five percent are threatened november eighteen arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled five percent cut in production for eec november twenty three arab summit conference adopts open and secret resolutions on the use of the oil weapon embargo extended
squad-56e1e9dfe3433e1400423200,who are commonly associated with the algorithm typically considered the most effective with respect to finite polynomial hierarchy and graph isomorphism,P_versus_NP_problem_22,if graph isomorphism is n p complete the polynomial time hierarchy collapses to its second level since it is widely believed that the polynomial hierarchy does not collapse to any finite level it is believed that graph isomorphism is not n p complete the best algorithm for this problem due to laszlo babai and eugene luks has run time two o nlog n for graphs with n vertices the integer factorization problem is the computational problem of determining the prime factorization of a given integer
squad-57261f9f271a42140099d4aa,us is concerned about confrontation of the middle east with which other country,Cold_War_60,pro western alliance systems and quadruple spending on defense united states officials moved thereafter to expand containment into asia africa and latin america in order to counter revolutionary nationalist movements often led by communist parties financed by the ussr fighting against the restoration of europe s colonial empires in south east asia and elsewhere in the early nineteen hundred fifties a period sometimes known as the pactomania the us formalized a series of alliances with japan australia new zealand thailand and the philippines notably anzus in nineteen hundred
squad-5727f746ff5b5019007d9961,what year did doctor who finally return to television,Doctor_Who_4,a backdoor pilot in the form of a nineteen hundred ninety six television film the programme was relaunched in two thousand five produced in house by bbc wales in cardiff the first series was produced by the bbc series two and three had some development money contributed by the canadian broadcasting corporation c b c which was credited as a company producer doctor who also spawned spin offs in multiple media including the current television programmes torchwood and the sarah jane adventures the standalone k nine and a single nineteen hundred eighty one pilot episode of k nine and company the doctor has been
squad-5733ef47d058e614000b662e,when did washington reach fort le boeuf,George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River_14,captured by the british on december twelve when he ventured too far outside the protection of his troops in search of more comfortable lodgings or according to rumors an assignation later that same day general gates division arrived in camp reduced to six hundred by ending enlistments and the need to keep the northern frontier secure soon after another one thousand militia men from philadelphia under colonel john cadwalader joined washington as a result of these reinforcements and smaller numbers of volunteers from the local area washington now had six thousand listed as fit for duty of this number a large portion were detailed to guard the ferries at bristol and new hope pennsylvania another group was placed to protect supplies at newtown pennsylvania and to guard the sick and wounded who would remain behind when the army crossed the delaware river this left washington with about two thousand four hundred men able to take offensive action against the hessian and british troops in central new jersey section three
squad-573083dc2461fd1900a9ce6d,imperialism is confused with what other term,British_Empire_122,to european colonialism in practice however american anti communism prevailed over anti imperialism and therefore the united states supported the continued existence of the british empire to keep communist expansion in check the wind of change ultimately meant that the british empire s days were numbered and on the whole britain adopted a policy of peaceful disengagement from its colonies once stable non communist governments were available to transfer power to this was in contrast to other european powers such as france and portugal which
squad-56f8a4e99e9bad19000a0251,what did luthers answer to the antinomians reaffirms,Martin_Luther_142,the antinomians and his book on the councils and the church from the same year in his theses and disputations against the antinomians luther reviews and reaffirms on the one hand what has been called the second use of the law that is the law as the holy spirit s tool to work sorrow over sin in man s heart thus preparing him for christ s fulfillment of the law offered in the gospel luther states that everything that is used to work sorrow over sin is called the law even if it is christ s life christ s death for sin or god s goodness experienced in creation
squad-56e1ec83cd28a01900c67c0c,that there currently exists no known integer factorization problem underpins what commonly used system,P_versus_NP_problem_23,vertices the integer factorization problem is the computational problem of determining the prime factorization of a given integer phrased as a decision problem it is the problem of deciding whether the input has a factor less than k no efficient integer factorization algorithm is known and this fact forms the basis of several modern cryptographic systems such as the rsa algorithm the integer factorization problem is in n p and in company n p and even in up and company up if the problem is n p complete the polynomial time
squad-5726a9ed5951b619008f7969,how many sons did brte bear genghis khan after jochi,John_Quincy_Adams_36,section nine family john quincy adams and louisa catherine johnson adams had three sons and a daughter louisa was born in eighteen hundred eleven but died in eighteen hundred twelve while the family was in russia they named their first son george washington adams eighteen hundred one to eighteen hundred twenty nine after the first president both george and their second son john eighteen hundred three to eighteen hundred thirty four led troubled lives and died in early adulthood george committed suicide and john was expelled from harvard prior to his eighteen hundred twenty three graduation adams youngest son charles francis adams who named
squad-5725df1838643c19005ace17,since nasa didnt know how many attempts each test would end up requiring what did they use instead of numbers for the trials,Countdown_(game_show)_36,to three in countdown eight to four in dcedl the pilot episode followed significantly different rules to the current ones most noticeably only eight letters were selected for each letters round if two contestants offered a word of the same length or an equally close solution to a numbers game then only the contestant who made the selection for that round was awarded points also only five points were given for an exact numbers solution three for a solution within five and one point for the closer solution no matter how far away until the end of series twenty one if the two contestants had equal scores after the first conundrum the match was considered a
squad-571c8539dd7acb1400e4c0e6,what previous work did lavoisier experiments discredit,Oxygen_4,he published his findings first the name oxygen was coined in seventeen hundred seventy seven by antoine lavoisier whose experiments with oxygen helped to discredit the then popular phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion oxygen is produced industrially by fractional distillation of liquefied air use of zeolites to remove carbon dioxide and nitrogen from air electrolysis of water and other means uses of oxygen include the production of steel plastics and textiles rocket propellant oxygen therapy and life support in aircraft submarines
squad-5733f5f24776f419006615c4,what future revolutionary key figures participated in this attack,George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River_1,seventeen hundred seventy six during the american revolutionary war was the first move in a surprise attack organized by george washington against the hessian forces in trenton new jersey planned in partial secrecy washington led a column of continental army troops across the icy delaware river in a logistically challenging and dangerous operation other planned crossings in support of the operation were either called off or ineffective but this did not prevent washington from successfully surprising and defeating the troops of johann rall quartered in trenton the army crossed the river back to pennsylvania this time burdened by prisoners and military stores taken as a result of the battle washington s army then crossed the river a third time at the end of the year
squad-5726e3c4dd62a815002e9406,who do clinical pharmacists work with much of the time,Psychologist_10,psychologists and counseling psychologists often work in clinics counseling centers hospitals and private practices they diagnose and evaluate mental and emotional disorders and use tools such as cognitive behavioral and interpersonal psychotherapy and hypnosis to treat patients they conduct interviews and psychological tests and may conduct complex treatment programs sometimes in conjunction with physicians or other medical specialists there are specialties within the field of clinical psychology
squad-573312fcd058e614000b56e7,when was warsaw ranked as the thirty two nd most liveable city in the world,Munich_8,and the seat of numerous corporations and insurance companies it is a top ranked destination for migration and expatriate location despite being the municipality with the highest density of population four thousand five hundred inh per kmsquare in germany munich achieved fourth place in the frequently quoted mercer livability rankings in two thousand eleven and twenty twelve for economic and social innovation the city was ranked fifteenth
squad-571cd5b1dd7acb1400e4c17c,what does oxygen therapy promote the body to take up,Oxygen_5,of oxygen include the production of steel plastics and textiles rocket propellant oxygen therapy and life support in aircraft submarines spaceflight and diving
squad-57283a392ca10214002da11b,what year did doctor who win a peabody award,Maisie_Williams_1,portal award for best young actor two thousand twelve bbc radio one teen award for best british actor twenty thirteen scream award for best ensemble nomination two thousand eleven and young artist award for best performance in a t v series supporting young actress nomination twenty thirteen table of contents section
squad-572758e0f1498d1400e8f6af,what amendment to the united states constitution governs government funding of religious schools,First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution_5,establishment clause of the first amendment is commonly interpreted as prohibiting the establishment of a national religion by congress or the preference of one religion over another or religion over nonreligion prior to the enactment of the fourteenth amendment and for fifty seven years thereafter the courts took the position that the substantive protections of the bill of rights did not apply to actions by state governments subsequently under the incorporation
squad-571142b3a58dae1900cd6d5a,the use of what device represented the last major evolution of the steam engine,Oil_shale_32,tested as of two thousand six only four technologies were in commercial use kiviter galoter fushun and petrosix section six applications and products humans can use oil shale as a fuel for thermal power plants burning it like coal to drive steam turbines some of these plants employ the resulting heat for district heating of homes and businesses sizable oil shale fired power plants are located in estonia which has an installed capacity of two thousand nine hundred sixty seven megawatts m w israel twelve five m w china twelve m w and germany nine nine m w in addition to its use as a fuel
squad-5726651ff1498d1400e8de32,what resource was mined in the newcastle area,Rock_Springs_massacre_59,incidents in oregon and other states as well near newcastle washington a mob of whites burned down the barracks of thirty six chinese coal miners throughout the puget sound area chinese workers were driven out of communities and subject to violence in cities and towns such as tacoma seattle newcastle and issaquah squak chinese workers were driven out of other washington towns but sources indicated as early as eighteen hundred ninety one that the above were specifically connected to the wave of violence touched off at rock springs the wave of anti chinese violence
squad-572fe9b3947a6a140053cde4,theres a rough border between switzerland and what other country formed by the rhine,Iron_Curtain_55,was marked by posts and signs and was overlooked by numerous watchtowers set behind the barrier the strip of land on the west german side of the barrier between the actual borderline and the barrier minus was readily accessible but only at considerable personal risk because it was patrolled by both east and west german border guards several villages many historic were destroyed as they lay too close to the border for example erlebach shooting incidents were not uncommon and a total of twenty eight east german border guards and several
squad-56e0f32d231d4119001ac4cb,what type of image was tesla thought to have accidentally taken a week prior to the announcement of its discovery,GRB_970508_14,had decreased in luminosity between may eight and may nine metzger noticed one object that had increased in luminosity but he assumed it was a variable star rather than the g r b afterglow titus galama and paul groot members of a research team in amsterdam led by jan van paradijs compared images taken by the wiyn telescope on may eight and the william herschel telescope telescope on may nine they were also unable to find any light sources which had faded during that time after discovering the burst s x ray afterglow the bepposax team provided a more accurate localization and what metzger had assumed to be a variable star was still present in this
squad-56bebbbf3aeaaa14008c9315,when did the nfl announce the suspension of using roman numerals to brand the super bowl,American_football_28,the first was the bowl coalition in place from nineteen hundred ninety two to nineteen hundred ninety four this was replaced in nineteen hundred ninety five by the bowl alliance which gave way in nineteen hundred ninety seven to the bowl championship series b c s the b c s arrangement has been controversial and will be replaced in two thousand fourteen by a four team playoff system section three teams and positions a football game is played between two teams of eleven players each playing
squad-56e1a564cd28a01900c67a48,whose thesis states that the solution to a problem is solvable with reasonable resources assuming it allows for a polynomial time algorithm,P_versus_NP_problem_26,p mean easy all of the above discussion has assumed that p means easy and not in p means hard an assumption known as cobham s thesis it is a common and reasonably accurate assumption in complexity theory however it has some caveats first it is not always true in practice a theoretical polynomial algorithm may have extremely large constant factors or exponents thus rendering it impractical on the other hand even if a problem is shown to be n p complete and even if p n p there may still be effective approaches to tackling the
squad-57273d19708984140094db41,what aaron sorkin created show did abc debut in nineteen ninety eight ,The_West_Wing_26,as the series progressed positive critical and public reaction to sheen s performance raised his character s profile decreasing lowe s perceived significance in addition according to sorkin the storylines began to focus less on sam and more on josh lyman the deputy chief of staff this shift is one of the reasons for lowe s eventual departure from the show in the fourth season for the first four seasons sorkin wrote almost every episode of the series occasionally reusing plot elements episode titles character names and actors from his previous work sports night a sitcom in which he began to develop his signature dialogue style
squad-5725bc7138643c19005acc1d,who was the first person in space,Titanium_11,to make medical equipment and in pipe forward slash tank lining in food processing its inertness and ability to be attractively colored makes it a popular metal for use in body piercing titanium has the unusual ability to osseointegrate enabling use in dental implants titanium has occasionally been used in construction the one five zero foot forty five m memorial to yuri gagarin the first man to travel in space in moscow is made of titanium for the metal s attractive color and association with rocketry the guggenheim museum bilbao and the cerritos library were the first buildings respectively in europe and north america to be sheathed in titanium panels
squad-57267383dd62a815002e8552,whats the climate like in newcastle,Munich_37,of munich section two point one climate munich s climate is classified in the koppen classification as c f b oceanic the warmest month of the year on average is july the coolest month of the year on average is january showers and thunderstorms bring the highest average monthly precipitation totals in late spring and throughout the summer june on average records the most precipitation of any month the winter
squad-57269c06708984140094cba4,what famous english physicist and mathematician was depicted in the main bronze door entrance of the museum,Isaac_Newton_0,isaac newton sir isaac newton f r s template proneng four january sixteen hundred forty three minus thirty one march seventeen hundred twenty seven os twenty five december sixteen hundred forty two minus twenty march seventeen hundred twenty six was an english physicist mathematician astronomer natural philosopher alchemist and theologian his philosophia naturalis principia mathematica published in sixteen hundred eighty seven is considered to be the most influential book in the history of science in this
squad-56bf4e1b3aeaaa14008c95bd,in what year was it declared that no roman numerals would be used in the name of the fifty th super bowl,American_football_28,the first was the bowl coalition in place from nineteen hundred ninety two to nineteen hundred ninety four this was replaced in nineteen hundred ninety five by the bowl alliance which gave way in nineteen hundred ninety seven to the bowl championship series b c s the b c s arrangement has been controversial and will be replaced in two thousand fourteen by a four team playoff system section three teams and positions a football game is played between two teams of eleven players each playing
squad-5737898f1c45671900574495,what planet seemed to buck newtons gravitational laws,Mercury_(planet)_42,other planets being eight point six two arcseconds per century for venus three point eight four for earth one point three five for mars and ten point zero five for fifteen sixty six icarus section five point two spin orbit resonance for many years it was thought that mercury was synchronously tidally locked with the sun rotating once for each orbit and keeping the same face directed towards the sun at all times in the same way that the same side of the moon always faces the earth however radar observations in nineteen hundred sixty five proved that the planet has a three two spin orbit resonance rotating three times for every two revolutions around the sun the eccentricity of mercury s orbit makes this resonance stable at perihelion when the solar tide is strongest the sun is nearly
squad-5726c5a9f1498d1400e8eac4,which newspapers parent company could not evade tax by shifting its residence to the netherlands,1910_London_to_Manchester_air_race_5,the daily mail newspaper offered a ten thousand pound sterling prize for the first aviator to fly the one hundred eighty five miles two hundred ninety eight k m between london and manchester with no more than two stops in under twenty four hours the challenge also specified that take off and landing were to be at locations no more than five miles from the newspaper s offices in those cities powered flight was a relatively new invention and the newspaper s proprietors were keen to stimulate the industry s growth in nineteen hundred eight they offered one thousand pound sterling for the first flight across the english channel won on twenty five july
squad-572805363acd2414000df271,when was the doctor who series released on dvd,Star_Trek_33,volumes of v h s tapes in nineteen hundred eighty nine all twenty two episodes were released on d v d in two thousand six section three point three the next generation nineteen hundred eighty seven to nineteen hundred ninety four star trek the next generation also known as t n g is set approximately a century after the original series two thousand three hundred sixty four to two thousand three hundred seventy it features a new starship the enterprise d and a new crew led by captain jean luc picard patrick stewart and commander william riker jonathan frakes the
squad-5725bf2e89a1e219009abdce,where would the launch operations center be located as more land was needed for a bigger rocket,Orion_(spacecraft)_36,cubic feet eight point nine m three and capabilities of carrying four astronauts for twenty one day flights itself which could be expanded through additional service modules its designers claim that the m p c v is designed to be ten times safer during ascent and reentry than the space shuttle orion ground test article in colorado on thirteen may twenty eleven eft one orion after final weld on twenty two june twenty twelve the orion m p c v ground test vehicle is lifted into the acoustic chamber at lockheed martin s facilities near denver in preparation for the launch abort vehicle configuration test the orion ground test vehicle sits on a work stand in the operations and checkout o and c facility at nasa s kennedy space center in florida section three point two service module orion service module serves as the primary power and propulsion component of the spacecraft system but is discarded at the end of each mission in january twenty thirteen the european atv based service module was announced section three point three atv based service module in may twenty eleven the esa
squad-56f87531a6d7ea1400e17670,where is the comparison found of this lords prayer hymn,Martin_Luther_110,rather than catechetical and twentieth century lutherans rarely use the hymn because of the perceived difficulty of its tune luther s fifteen thirty eight hymnic version of the lord s prayer vater unser im himmelreich corresponds exactly to luther s explanation of the prayer in the small catechism with one stanza for each of the seven prayer petitions plus opening and closing stanzas the hymn functioned both as a liturgical setting of the lord s prayer and as a means of examining candidates on specific catechism questions the extant manuscript shows multiple revisions demonstrating
squad-570d2417fed7b91900d45c40,what city in victoria is called the sporting capital of australia,British_Empire_59,until eighteen hundred forty the australian colonies became profitable exporters of wool and gold mainly due to gold rushes in the colony of victoria making its capital melbourne the richest city in the world and the largest city after london in the british empire during his voyage cook also visited new zealand first discovered by dutch explorer abel tasman in sixteen hundred forty two and claimed the north and south islands for the british crown in seventeen hundred sixty nine and seventeen hundred seventy respectively initially
squad-56f8907faef23719006261b3,what paved the way for the augsburg confession,Martin_Luther_124,retorted german necks dont break that easily this is hesse not switzerland on his table luther wrote the words hoc est corpus meum this is my body in chalk to continually indicate his firm stance despite the disagreements on the eucharist the marburg colloquy paved the way for the signing in one thousand five hundred thirty of the augsburg confession and for the formation of the schmalkaldic league the following year by leading protestant nobles such as john of saxony philip of hesse and george margrave of brandenburg ansbach the calvinist swiss cities however
squad-56de3ebc4396321400ee26e8,what major conquest did tancred play a roll in,First_Crusade_46,murdered almost every inhabitant of jerusalem muslims jews and even eastern christians were all massacred although many muslims sought shelter in solomon s temple known today as al aqsa mosque the crusaders spared few lives according to the anonymous gesta francorum in what some believe to be an exaggerated account of the massacre which subsequently took place there the slaughter was so great that our men waded in blood up to their ankles three other accounts of blood flowing up to the bridles of horses are reminiscent of a passage from the book of revelation two twenty p m tancred claimed the temple quarter for himself and offered protection to some of the muslims there
squad-56f8aa749b226e1400dd0da9,what does the ten commandments ask of the christians,Martin_Luther_145,of the ten commandments which a christian should follow in his or her vocations on a daily basis the ten commandments and the beginnings of the renewed life of christians accorded to them by the sacrament of baptism are a present foreshadowing of the believers future angel like life in heaven in the midst of this life luther s teaching of the ten commandments therefore has clear eschatological overtones which characteristically for luther do not encourage world flight but direct the christian to service to the neighbor in the common daily vocations of this perishing world in the twentieth century there have been attempts to show that the third use of the
squad-57340a094776f4190066177f,where did british resettle many acadians,Canada_18,government resulted in the aborted rebellions of eighteen hundred thirty seven the durham report eighteen hundred thirty nine would subsequently recommend responsible government and the assimilation of french canadians into british culture the act of union eighteen hundred forty merged the canadas into a united province of canada french and english canadians worked together in the assembly to reinstate french rights responsible government was established for all british north american provinces by eighteen hundred forty nine the signing of the oregon treaty by britain and the united states in eighteen hundred
squad-5706074552bb8914006897d5,how many extended metropolitan areas are there,Green_and_golden_bell_frog_9,and abundance since the nineteen hundred sixties however no similar declines have been reported in victoria in new south wales it has disappeared from all highland areas above two five zero m eight hundred twenty f t except for a population at captains flat a study of populations along coastal new south wales indicated that many of them are very small usually consisting of fewer than twenty adults however there are six known populations that support more than three hundred individuals two are located in the sydney metropolitan area two in the shoalhaven and another two on the new south wales mid north coast it
squad-573092088ab72b1400f9c598,which is older the british empire or the ethiopian empire,Cold_War_121,ethiopian emperor haile selassie was overthrown in a nineteen hundred seventy four coup by the derg a radical group of ethiopian army officers led by the pro soviet mengistu haile mariam who built up relations with the cubans and soviets when fighting between the somalis and ethiopians broke out in the nineteen hundred seventy seven to nineteen hundred seventy eight somali ethiopian ogaden war barre lost his soviet support and allied with the united states cuban troops took part in the war on the side of the ethiopians the nineteen hundred seventy four portuguese carnation
squad-572f6ec7a23a5019007fc621,besides viniculture whats a dominant economic sector of the middle rhine,Herne_Bay%2c_Kent_42,fourteen thousand seven hundred eleven of the town s residents were in employment whereas there were only eight thousand one hundred four jobs within the town one of the largest employers is the centrally located supermarket which as of january two thousand six was considering further expansion it is one of the major attractions to the town s shopping centre however there are fears that its expansion could lead it to become too dominant at the cost of smaller shops in the town apart from tourism and retail many jobs are also provided in the manufacturing industry mainly located in industrial estates on the outskirts of the town which produce goods such as kitchen furniture
squad-5733f7b9d058e614000b66a9,whose activities were the french able to gain knowledge of,Edward_VII_49,one of his most important foreign trips was an official visit to france in may nineteen hundred three as the guest of president emile loubet following a visit to the pope in rome this trip helped create the atmosphere for the anglo french entente cordiale an agreement delineating british and french colonies in north africa and ruling out any future war between the two countries the entente was negotiated between the french foreign minister theophile delcasse and the british foreign secretary lord lansdowne signed in
squad-57267640f1498d1400e8e076,what type of rock is found at the grand canyon,Oil_shale_0,oil shale oil shale is a fine grained sedimentary rock containing significant amounts of kerogen a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds from which one can extract liquid hydrocarbons the name oil shale has been described as a promotional misnomer since the rock is not
squad-5725b41838643c19005acb80,what program was created to carry out these projects and missions,Orion_(spacecraft)_65,another large celestial body since december nineteen hundred seventy two establishing a semi permanent or permanent presence on the moon would provide humans with some working forward slash living experience in radically different non earth environments projects mercury and gemini built up experience for apollo s subsequent success to the moon in much the same way returning to the moon would provide experience prior to exploring mars the apollo program was not a straight shot to the moon it included several precursor missions to test new capabilities and gain experience in much the
squad-57094b4f9928a814004714f8,how many bskyb channels were available to customers prior to october two thousand five ,Film4_7,on july nineteen two thousand six when the subscription service ended channel four also operates three other free digital channels e four more four and quiz call
squad-57268bf9dd62a815002e890c,what is the highest court in european union law,European_Economic_Community_30,not national origin most other institutions including the european court of justice have some form of national division of its members section four institutions there were three political institutions which held the executive and legislative power of the eec plus one judicial institution and a fifth body created in nineteen hundred seventy five these institutions except for the auditors were created in nineteen hundred fifty seven by the eec but from nineteen hundred sixty seven onwards they applied to all three communities the council represents governments the parliament represents citizens and the commission represents the european
squad-5727482bf1498d1400e8f5a4,what religions schools does the term parochial schools generally refer to,Catholic_Church_12,council however church documents produced both by the holy see and by certain national episcopal conferences occasionally refer to the roman catholic church the catechism of pope pius x published in nineteen hundred eight also used the term roman to distinguish the catholic church from other christian communities who are not in full communion with the church of rome section two organisation and demographics section two point one papacy and roman curia the
squad-572929d56aef051400154b0a,how many meals a day do normal kenyans eat,Saltine_cracker_challenge_11,kelly schanilec gaddie won the first place trophy in two thousand six two thousand seven twenty ten twenty eleven and twenty twelve ambrose mendy set a world record for eating three jacob s cream crackers without drinking in forty nine point one five seconds on october twenty nine two thousand two section three related challenges a similar test is the cinnamon challenge in which a person must eat a tablespoon of cinnamon again this is a small amount of a familiar food
squad-56f811bdaef2371900625da0,what did pope leo x launch against luther,Martin_Luther_47,reformers and heretics and he responded slowly with great care as is proper over the next three years he deployed a series of papal theologians and envoys against luther which only served to harden the reformer s anti papal theology first the dominican theologian sylvester mazzolini drafted a heresy case against luther whom leo then summoned to rome the elector frederick persuaded the pope to have luther examined at augsburg where the imperial diet was held there in october fifteen eighteen luther informed the papal legate cardinal
squad-56f8a2969e9bad19000a022d,what did agricola apparently believe about who should be in control law,Martin_Luther_140,early in fifteen thirty seven johannes agricola one thousand four hundred ninety four to one thousand five hundred sixty six serving at the time as pastor in luther s birthplace eisleben minus preached a sermon in which he claimed that god s gospel not god s moral law the ten commandments revealed god s wrath to christians based on this sermon and others by agricola luther suspected that agricola was behind certain anonymous antinomian theses circulating in wittenberg these theses asserted that the law is no longer to be taught to christians but belonged only to city hall luther responded to
squad-5711623e50c2381900b54ab9,how many mechanisms does a typical steam engine have to keep boiler pressure from getting too high,RMS_Titanic_6,gross tonnage the hull was exactly the same length as titanic s sister ship olympic titanic contained two reciprocating four cylinder triple expansion inverted steam engines and one low pressure parsons turbine which powered three propellers there were twenty nine boilers fired by one hundred fifty nine coal burning furnaces that made possible a top speed of twenty three knots forty three k m forward slash h only three of the
squad-56e7535037bdd419002c3e71,what type of disability would a teacher help a student with,Disability_66,in how to use computer based assistive technology a new zealand designed keyboard is also now available to disabled persons worldwide it is designed specifically for disabled peoples needs this keyboard is called lomak through the use of the internet networking between groups and disability charities is now becoming more and more productive it is now a widely held belief that should it be possible to unite various interest groups primarily physical sensory and learning disabilities it would be possible to turn what is considered to be a minority group into a
squad-56f80604a6d7ea1400e1738b,what do scholars agree on about the posting on the door story,Martin_Luther_30,christians he said must not slacken in following christ on account of such false assurances however this oft quoted saying of tetzel was by no means representative of the official catholic teaching on indulgences but rather more a reflection of his capacity to exaggerate yet if tetzel overstated the matter in regard to indulgences for the dead his teaching on indulgences for the living was pure according to scholars walter kramer gotz trenkler gerhard ritter and gerhard prause the story of the posting on the door even though it has settled as one of the pillars of history
squad-5729714daf94a219006aa42e,what color is phycoerytherin,Yttrium_40,twos eu three plus phosphors that give the red color in color television picture tubes though the red color itself is actually emitted from the europium while the yttrium collects energy from the electron gun and passes it to the phosphor yttrium compounds can serve as host lattices for doping with different lanthanide cations besides eu three plus also tb three plus can be used as a doping agent leading to green luminescence yttria is also used as a sintering additive in the production of porous silicon nitride and as a common starting
squad-570d529fb3d812140066d6bb,what part do events in victorias economy play,Birchington-on-Sea_40,economy is based around tourism with several hotels caravan parks and leisure attractions the village shopping centre attracts walk in trade from tourists one of the largest retailers is the somerfield supermarket the elderly population of the village has generated health and social care jobs at local care homes and at the birchington medical centre as of the two thousand one census one point four per cent of the village s population resided in a medical or care establishment compared to the national average of only zero point eight per cent section five culture
squad-56f802c6a6d7ea1400e17378,what were these indulgences supposed to grant the giver,Martin_Luther_29,the money of poor believers rather than with his own money luther objected to a saying attributed to johann tetzel that as soon as the coin in the coffer rings the soul from purgatory also attested as into heaven springs he insisted that since forgiveness was god s alone to grant those who claimed that indulgences absolved buyers from all punishments and granted them salvation were in error christians he said must not slacken in following christ on account of such false assurances however this oft quoted saying of tetzel was by no
squad-56f802c6a6d7ea1400e1737b,who did luther say that christians must not slacken in following,Martin_Luther_41,by desiderius erasmus fifteen twenty four luther based his position on predestination on saint paul s epistle to the ephesians two eight one zero against the teaching of his day that the righteous acts of believers are performed in cooperation with god luther wrote that christians receive such righteousness entirely from outside themselves that righteousness not only comes from christ but actually is the righteousness of christ imputed to christians rather than infused into them through faith that is why faith alone makes someone just and fulfills the law he wrote faith is that which
squad-57111428b654c5140001fb00,what group killed thousands of huguenots,Eureka_Rebellion_10,perceived injustices tuesday seventeen october eighteen hundred fifty four at the spot where james scobie was killed five thousand ten thousand diggers gathered to protest the acquittal of the prime suspect james bentley the owner of the eureka hotel bentley fled for his life as the hotel was burnt down sunday twenty two october eighteen hundred fifty four ballarat catholics met to protest the treatment of father smyth s servant monday twenty three october eighteen hundred fifty four a mass meeting to protest the selective arrest of mcintyre
squad-56f8837aa6d7ea1400e176ff,what did luther expound happened to souls after death,Martin_Luther_126,melanchthon through his life luther maintained the idea that the soul was unconscious in death and from this luther came also to dispute traditional interpretations of some bible passages such as the parable of the rich man and lazarus this also led luther to reject the idea of torments for the saints it is enough for us to know that souls do not leave their bodies to be threatened by the torments and punishments of hell but enter a prepared bedchamber in which they sleep in peace however luther affirmed the continuation of one s personal identity beyond death for example in his smalcald articles he
squad-57266a15f1498d1400e8def7,how was coal transferred from the river banks to colliers,Manchester_Bolton_&_Bury_Canal_34,the collieries being so close to industry along the canal s length the boats used to transport coal were short and narrow and each contained a row of boxes used for carrying coal each box had a base of two halves hinged and held closed with chains these boxes would be lifted out of the boats positioned by crane over a bunker or cart and emptied by releasing the chains on the base this design helped keep the canal competitive as it increased the speed with which loading and unloading of the boats could be performed the canal would often freeze in winter so an icebreaker was used to ensure the canal remained
squad-57283dbeff5b5019007d9fc9,what doctor who actor won a best actor award in twenty twelve ,Doctor_Who_6,one another they are all meant to be aspects of the same character the doctor is currently portrayed by matt smith who took up the role after david tennant s final appearance in an episode broadcast on one january twenty ten a fifth series of the relaunched programme began on three april twenty ten in which the eleventh doctor is accompanied by amy pond portrayed by karen gillan later in the season the doctor gained a second companion in rory williams portrayed by arthur darvill table of contents section one history
squad-57274971708984140094dbbc,what denomination operates st josephs college,Catholic_Church_89,the sisters of saint joseph of the sacred heart the sisters of the blessed sacrament and the daughters of charity of saint vincent de paul the church is also actively engaged in international aid and development through organisations such as catholic relief services caritas international aid to the church in need refugee advocacy groups such as the jesuit refugee service and community aid groups such as the saint vincent de paul society section six history
squad-57302cd004bcaa1900d772d8,when did western forces invade iraq,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_41,arabia became the focus of worldwide attention once again as it was questioned whether the government was indeed cracking down on radicals the saudi government pledged their support to the war on terror and vowed to try to eliminate militant elements however in may two thousand three an insurgency in saudi arabia began believed to be conducted by al qaeda affiliates this consisted mainly of attacks on foreigners in an attempt to expel them from the country and hurt the saudi government while the number of attacks dropped significantly in two thousand five they exposed the vulnerability of the country concern was also voiced over the large number of saudis fighting american soldiers in iraq following the two thousand three
squad-56f8ae099e9bad19000a02eb,what had luthers community done to jews years earlier,Martin_Luther_150,luther wrote about the jews throughout his career though only a few of his works dealt with them directly luther rarely encountered jews during his life but his attitudes reflected a theological and cultural tradition which saw jews as a rejected people guilty of the murder of christ and he lived within a local community that had expelled jews some ninety years earlier he considered the jews blasphemers and liars because they rejected the divinity of jesus whereas christians believed jesus was the messiah at
squad-572facb0a23a5019007fc865,why were the initial suggestions for a devolved parliament before one thousand nine hundred fourteen shelved,British_Empire_95,many m p s feared that a partially independent ireland might pose a security threat to great britain or mark the beginning of the break up of the empire a second home rule bill was also defeated for similar reasons a third bill was passed by parliament in nineteen hundred fourteen but not implemented due to the outbreak of the first world war leading to the nineteen hundred
squad-572a05eb3f37b31900478653,what year did robert j shiller win an economics nobel prize,Eugene_Fama_0,eugene fama eugene francis gene fama forward slash fm forward slash born february fourteen nineteen hundred thirty nine is an american economist and nobel laureate in economics often referred to as the father of finance best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory asset pricing and stock market behaviour he is currently robert r mccormick distinguished service professor of finance at the university of chicago booth school of business in two thousand thirteen he shared the nobel memorial prize in economic sciences jointly with robert shiller and lars peter hansen the research papers in economics project ranked
squad-56f8bd509b226e1400dd0eee,what about luther declined as his antisemitism increased,Martin_Luther_167,eighteen final years and death luther had been suffering from ill health for years including meniere s disease vertigo fainting tinnitus and a cataract in one eye from fifteen thirty one to fifteen forty six his health deteriorated further the years of struggle with rome the antagonisms with and
squad-56f7e9caaef2371900625c59,how did luther describe his learning at the university,Martin_Luther_16,for what has been described as a day of rote learning and often wearying spiritual exercises he received his master s degree in fifteen oh five in accordance with his father s wishes luther enrolled in law school at the same university that year but dropped out almost immediately believing that law represented uncertainty luther sought assurances about life and was drawn to theology and philosophy expressing particular interest in aristotle william of ockham and gabriel biel he was deeply influenced by two
squad-5730aa52069b53140083221f,where did france lose a war in the one thousand nine hundred fifty s,French_language_in_Laos_6,decline was slower and occurred later than in vietnam and cambodia in laos as the monarchy of laos had close political relations with france at the eve of the vietnam war the secret war was beginning in laos as political factions between communist pathet lao and the government occurred pathet lao held areas used lao as their sole language and following the end of the vietnam war french began its sharp decline in laos additionally many elite and french educated lao immigrated to
squad-5737432bc3c5551400e51e9c,what law connects relative velocities with inertia,Isaac_Newton_55,newton s first law also known as the law of inertia states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and that an object in uniform motion tends to stay in uniform motion unless acted upon by a net external force newton s second law states that an applied force f on an object equals the rate of change of its momentum p with time mathematically we may write that vec f equals frac d vec p d t equals frac d d t m vec v equals vec v frac d m d t plus m
squad-5726c9b0dd62a815002e9048,where did jebe and subutai spend the winter following the split of the mongol army,George_V_56,undertaken by mi one a branch of the british secret service but because of the strengthening position of the bolshevik revolutionaries and wider difficulties with the conduct of the war the plan was never put into operation the tsar and his immediate family remained in russia where they were killed by bolsheviks in nineteen hundred eighteen the following year nicholas s mother george s aunt maria feodorovna dagmar of denmark and other members of the extended russian imperial family were rescued from the crimea by british ships
squad-572ffa79a23a5019007fcbe9,the present mediterranean sea descends from what sea,Jurassic_10,gondwana the gulf of mexico opened in the new rift between north america and what is now mexico s yucatan peninsula the jurassic north atlantic ocean was relatively narrow while the south atlantic did not open until the following cretaceous period when gondwana itself rifted apart the tethys sea closed and the neotethys basin appeared climates were warm with no evidence of glaciation as in the triassic there was apparently no land near either pole and no extensive ice caps existed
squad-56f811bdaef2371900625da1,when was luther examined at augsburg by the papal legate,Martin_Luther_48,luther examined at augsburg where the imperial diet was held there in october fifteen eighteen luther informed the papal legate cardinal cajetan that he did not consider the papacy part of the biblical church and the hearings degenerated into a shouting match more than his writing the ninety five theses luther s confrontation of the church cast him as an enemy of the pope cajetan s original instructions had been to arrest luther if he failed to recant but he lacked the means in augsburg where the elector guaranteed luther s security luther slipped out of the city at night without leave from cajetan in
squad-572651f9f1498d1400e8dbf1,how much of a voting majority must there be to effectively censure the commission,United_States_Congress_36,required to impeach an official however a two thirds majority in the senate is required for conviction a convicted official is automatically removed from office in addition the senate
squad-56becb823aeaaa14008c948f,who is the only quarterback to win a super bowl with two teams,Saltine_cracker_challenge_3,nature and persistence of the tennessee volunteers quarterback at the time peyton manning having been bet that he could not eat six saltines manning attempted them one by one and failed trying again he stacked them on top of each other and succeeded his roommate concluded even something that was a joke he was out to prove he can do it he can eat six saltine crackers and he did he works out techniques he can do on everything before the two thousand one to two thousand two season penn state lady lions basketball coach
squad-56f8a2969e9bad19000a022c,who did luther think was behind the antinomian theses circulating in wittenberg,Martin_Luther_141,in wittenberg these theses asserted that the law is no longer to be taught to christians but belonged only to city hall luther responded to these theses with six series of theses against agricola and the antinomians four of which became the basis for disputations between one thousand five hundred thirty eight and fifteen forty he also responded to these assertions in other writings such as his fifteen thirty nine open letter to c guttel against the antinomians and his book on the councils and the church from the same year in his theses and disputations against the antinomians
squad-56f84a60aef2371900625f9e,who wrote a resounding letter to the elector praising luther,Martin_Luther_70,change the effect of luther s intervention was immediate after the sixth sermon the wittenberg jurist jerome schurf wrote to the elector oh what joy has doctor martin s return spread among us his words through divine mercy
squad-56f827caa6d7ea1400e17439,how was the fate of luther decided,Martin_Luther_58,inserted before may god help me only in later versions of the speech and not recorded in witness accounts of the proceedings over the next five days private conferences were held to determine luther s fate the emperor presented the final draft of the diet of worms on twenty five may fifteen twenty one declaring luther an outlaw banning his literature and requiring his arrest we want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic it also made it a crime for anyone in germany to give luther food or shelter it permitted anyone to kill
squad-56e0c1617aa994140058e6d8,in what language were the classes given,Klaip%c4%97da_Revolt_33,the german and lithuanian languages were given equal status as official languages of the region all political prisoners were to be released martial law was enacted in addition to this declaration the committee issued a french appeal to the french soldiers in which they as fighters for noble ideas of freedom and equality were asked not to fight against the will and achievements of the lithuanian nation on january thirteen simonaitis formed a new pro lithuanian directorate which included vilius gaigalaitis martynas reizgys jonas toleikis and kristupas lekas on january nineteen representatives of committees for the salvation of lithuania minor met in ilut heydekrug and passed a five point declaration asking for the region to be incorporated as an autonomous district into lithuania the document was signed by some one hundred twenty people the region s autonomy
squad-57264fe65951b619008f6fa2,where was the burial site used for testing located,Swastika_63,found in county kerry ireland is inscribed with several swastikas dating to the fifth century ad and is believed to have been an altar stone of the druids the pre christian anglo saxon ship burial at sutton hoo england contains gold cups and shields bearing swastikas today it is used as a symbol for asatru the reconstructed religion of
squad-56f867e3a6d7ea1400e175d8,what effort was luther not particularly in favor of,Martin_Luther_98,the lord s prayer baptism and the lord s supper luther incorporated questions and answers in the catechism so that the basics of christian faith would not just be learned by rote the way monkeys do it but understood the catechism is one of luther s most personal works regarding the plan to collect my writings in volumes he wrote i am quite cool and not at all eager about it because roused by a saturnian hunger i would rather see them all devoured for i acknowledge none of them to be really a book of mine except perhaps the bondage of the will and the catechism
squad-5727de862ca10214002d9863,what harvard alumni was the palestine prime minister,Barack_Obama_81,strike on iran by saying we have said directly to the israelis that it is important to try and resolve this in an international setting in a way that does not create major conflict in the middle east on september twenty four two thousand nine obama became the first sitting u s president to preside over a meeting of the united nations security council in march twenty ten obama took a public stance against plans by the government of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to continue building jewish housing projects in predominantly arab neighborhoods of east jerusalem during the same month an agreement
squad-572689385951b619008f761d,what queen opened the first covered railway station in the world,Woodside_Park_tube_station_5,entrance with ticket office is at the end of a cul de sac woodside park road adjacent to the car park entrance this leads on to the southbound platform a victorian post box with the initials v r victoria regina for queen victoria is set into the front wall of the station it seems to date from the construction of the station the entrance leading on to the northbound platform is also at the end of a cul de sac station road a turning off holden road there is no automatic ticket barrier at the latter entrance just outside this
squad-5729f1283f37b319004785d8,when rich countries trade with poor countries whose wages increase,Simon_Kuznets_36,analysis of modern underdeveloped countries distinct experiences section two point four kuznets curve among his several discoveries which sparked important theoretical research programs was his discovery of the inverted u shaped relation between income inequality and economic growth nineteen hundred fifty five nineteen hundred sixty three in poor countries economic growth increased the income disparity between rich and poor people in wealthier countries economic growth narrowed the difference by noting patterns of income inequality in developed and
squad-56f86680a6d7ea1400e175cd,what did luther devise to teach christianity to the congregation,Martin_Luther_97,one catechisms luther devised the catechism as a method of imparting the basics of christianity to the congregations in fifteen twenty nine he wrote the large catechism a manual for pastors and teachers as well as a synopsis the small catechism to be memorised by the people themselves the catechisms provided easy to understand instructional and devotional material on the ten commandments the apostles creed the lord s prayer baptism and the lord s supper luther incorporated questions and answers in the catechism so that the basics of christian faith would
squad-56f845dba6d7ea1400e1751d,what did luther identify the papacy as,Martin_Luther_132,the biblical apocalypse that would destroy the antichrist whom luther believed to be the papacy and the roman church he consistently rejected the idea of a holy war as though our people were an army of christians against the turks who were enemies of christ this is absolutely contrary to christ s doctrine and name on the other hand in keeping with his doctrine of the two kingdoms luther did support non religious war against the turks in fifteen twenty six he argued in whether soldiers can be in a state of grace that national defence is reason for a just war by fifteen twenty nine in on
squad-5730b2ac2461fd1900a9cfb5,what does the united methodist church use in the sacrament of the holy communion,Eucharistic_theology_63,referred to as the communion table in other churches communicants stand or are served in the pew most methodist churches use unfermented grape juice instead of alcoholic wine though there is no official restriction for united methodists and either leavened yeast bread or unleavened bread the wine may be distributed in small cups but the use of a common cup and the practice of communion by intinction where the bread is dipped into the common cup and both elements are consumed together is becoming more common among many methodists
squad-56e16182e3433e1400422e28,what branch of theoretical computer science deals with broadly classifying computational problems by difficulty and class of relationship,P_versus_NP_problem_6,cryptography algorithm research artificial intelligence game theory multimedia processing and many other fields table of contents section one context the relation between the complexity classes p and n p is studied in computational complexity theory the part of the theory of computation dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem the most common resources are time how many steps it takes to solve a problem and space how much memory it takes to solve a problem in such analysis
squad-572829532ca10214002d9fa2,what doctor who spin off series was commissioned by the bbc,Doctor_Who_4,a backdoor pilot in the form of a nineteen hundred ninety six television film the programme was relaunched in two thousand five produced in house by bbc wales in cardiff the first series was produced by the bbc series two and three had some development money contributed by the canadian broadcasting corporation c b c which was credited as a company producer doctor who also spawned spin offs in multiple media including the current television programmes torchwood and the sarah jane adventures the standalone k nine and a single nineteen hundred eighty one pilot episode of k nine and company the doctor has been
squad-5726f0e35951b619008f82f8,what is one country that has been suggested for importation of medicines,Canada_74,hydroelectric power is a cheap and clean source of renewable energy canada is one of the world s most important suppliers of agricultural products with the canadian prairies one of the most important suppliers of wheat canola and other grains canada is the world s largest producer of zinc and uranium and a world leader in many other natural resources such as gold nickel aluminum and lead many if not most towns in the northern part of the country where agriculture is difficult exist because of a nearby mine or source of timber
squad-5729f1c13f37b319004785e8,who does a gender pay gap tend to favor,Race_Against_Time%3a_Searching_for_Hope_in_AIDS-Ravaged_Africa_12,dismissed at international conferences and by african governments lewis identifies the gender discrimination that occurs even within the un organization whose management staff was dominated by males he links the world bank and imf conditions of low social spending on education and healthcare by governments of recipient countries to the rampant spread of aids in those same countries the disease decimated africa s working age and farming population leading to famine he calls on the international financial institutions to pay reparations in the form of debt relief lewis concludes that dramatic changes are required to meet the millennium development goals by
squad-56f8bbb09e9bad19000a03dc,who thinks that luther added antisemitism as a cultural element to germany,Martin_Luther_165,jews and their lies was written his position was entirely religious and in no respect racial other scholars argue that even if his views were merely anti judaic their violence lent a new element to the standard christian suspicion of judaism ronald berger writes that luther is credited with germanizing the christian critique of judaism and establishing anti semitism as a key element of german culture and national identity paul rose argues that he caused a hysterical and demonizing mentality about jews to enter german thought and discourse
squad-56e1a38de3433e140042305c,what is a commonly used measurement used to determine the complexity of a computational problem,P_versus_NP_problem_6,cryptography algorithm research artificial intelligence game theory multimedia processing and many other fields table of contents section one context the relation between the complexity classes p and n p is studied in computational complexity theory the part of the theory of computation dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem the most common resources are time how many steps it takes to solve a problem and space how much memory it takes to solve a problem in such analysis
squad-571c91c8dd7acb1400e4c10e,for what purpose is oxygen used by animal life,Oxygen_2,as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by cyanobacteria algae and plants during photosynthesis and is used in cellular respiration for all complex life oxygen is toxic to anaerobic organisms which were the dominant form of early life on earth until o two began to accumulate in the atmosphere two point five billion years ago another form allotrope of oxygen ozone o three helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation with the high altitude
squad-57377083c3c5551400e51ee0,what force acts on an object suspended on a spring scale in addition to gravity,Isaac_Newton_60,a popular story claims that newton was inspired to formulate his theory of universal gravitation by the fall of an apple from a tree cartoons have gone further to suggest the apple actually hit newton s head and that its impact somehow made him aware of the force of gravity john conduitt newton s assistant at the royal mint and husband of newton s niece described the event when he wrote about newton s life
squad-571135b8a58dae1900cd6d12,what are injectors used to supply,Hydrochloric_acid_23,an important application of high quality hydrochloric acid is the regeneration of ion exchange resins cation exchange is widely used to remove ions such as na plus and ca two plus from aqueous solutions producing demineralized water ion exchangers and demineralized water are used in all chemical industries drinking water production and many food industries section four point two ph control and neutralization a very common application of hydrochloric acid is to regulate the basicity ph of solutions in
squad-571154c72419e31400955589,along with diesel engines what engines have overtaken steam engines for marine propulsion,Tank_58,around the crew area to provide an additional layer of armour fuel has often been stored in auxiliary tanks externally or by other means such as in a small trailer towed behind the tank able to be detached during combat modern tank engines are in some cases multifuel engines a form of two stroke design which can operate on diesel petrol or similar fuels however the exhaust is hotter than a diesel giving a larger thermal signature see below section six point two gas turbines certain designs like the russian t eight zero and the us m one abrams are powered by gas
squad-572fc41f947a6a140053cc84,what language other than english has the scottish parliament had meetings in,Welsh_language_6,the european charter for regional or minority languages in respect to welsh the language has greatly increased its prominence since the creation of the television channel s four c in november nineteen hundred eighty two which broadcasts exclusively in welsh during peak viewing hours the main evening television news provided by the bbc can be found here real media given the british government s current plans december two thousand one to ensure that all immigrants know english it remains to be seen if welsh will be considered a separate case at present a knowledge of either welsh english or scottish gaelic is sufficient for naturalisation purposes and it is believed that this policy will be continued in any proposed changes to the law section two history and development like most languages there are identifiable periods within the history of welsh
squad-56bf57043aeaaa14008c95da,what day of the week was media day held on for super bowl fifty ,Oktoberfest_2,in nineteen hundred ninety four the schedule was modified in response to german reunification so that if the first sunday in october falls on the first or second then the festival would go on until october three german unity day thus the festival is now seventeen days when the first sunday is october two and eighteen days when it is october one in twenty ten the festival lasted until the first monday in october to mark the anniversary of the event the festival is held in an area named the theresienwiese field or meadow
squad-57113c6da58dae1900cd6d32,in what century did the history of the steam engine begin,Glasses_6,history section one point one precursors the first
squad-572fec30947a6a140053cdf4,the bend on the rhine goes from the west to what direction,First_Crusade_25,more immediately visible than the far away muslims many people wondered why they should travel thousands of miles to fight non believers when there were already non believers closer to home the crusaders moved north through the rhine valley into well known jewish communities such as cologne and then southward jewish communities were given the option of converting to christianity or be slaughtered most would not convert and as news of the mass killings spread many jewish communities committed mass suicides in horrific scenes thousands of jews were massacred despite some attempts by local clergy and secular authorities to shelter them the massacres were justified by the claim that urban s speech at
squad-56f879bdaef23719006260df,what was the hymn based on,Martin_Luther_115,this rich hymn as a subject for their own work although its objective baptismal theology was displaced by more subjective hymns under the influence of late nineteenth century lutheran pietism luther wrote nun komm der heiden heiland now come savior of the gentiles based on veni redemptor gentium it became the main hymn hauptlied for advent he transformed a solus ortus cardine to christum wir sollen loben schon we should now praise christ and veni creator spiritus to komm
squad-572fadcbb2c2fd140056832b,how did trying to establish a devolved scottish assembly go in nineteen seventy nine ,Jane_Cobden_37,hundred ninety one the penalties were reduced from an original two hundred fifty pound sterling to a nominal five pound sterling cobden was urged by lansbury and others not to pay even this token but to go to prison she declined this course of action after a further parliamentary attempt to resolve the situation failed she sat out the remaining months of her term as a councillor in silence neither speaking nor voting and did not seek re election in the eighteen hundred ninety two county elections women did not receive the right to sit on county councils until nineteen hundred seven with the passage of
squad-56f86d30a6d7ea1400e17609,to promote accessibility of the works what did luther remove,Martin_Luther_105,of works will have to say faith alone justifies us and not works luther s translation used the variant of german spoken at the saxon chancellery intelligible to both northern and southern germans he intended his vigorous direct language to make the bible accessible to everyday germans for we are removing impediments and difficulties so that other people may read it without hindrance published at a time of rising demand for german language publications luther s version quickly became a popular and influential bible translation as
squad-57376df3c3c5551400e51ed7,what can keep an object from moving when it is being pushed on a surface,Winter_service_vehicle_53,and most snow sweepers cannot be used to clear snow deeper than fifteen centimetres six in a more advanced version of the snow sweeper is the jet sweeper which adds an air blower just behind the brushes in order to blow the swept snow clear of the pavement and prevent the loosened snow from settling section four point eight surface friction tester the surface friction tester is a small fifth wheel attached to a hydraulic system mounted on the rear axle of the vehicle used to measure road slipperiness the wheel
squad-56f7e9caaef2371900625c57,how did luther describe the university of erfurt,Martin_Luther_15,and eisenach in fourteen ninety eight the three schools focused on the so called trivium grammar rhetoric and logic luther later compared his education there to purgatory and hell in fifteen oh one at the age of nineteen he entered the university of erfurt minus which he later described as a beerhouse and whorehouse the schedule called for waking at four every morning for what has been described as a day of rote learning and often wearying spiritual exercises he received his
squad-57273a465951b619008f86ff,what is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_28,syria to support their economies the saudi economy and infrastructure was developed from help from abroad particularly from the united states creating strong links between the two dissimilar countries and considerable and problematic american presence in the kingdom the saudi petroleum industry under the company of aramco was built by american petroleum companies u s construction companies such as bechtel built much of the country s infrastruture trans world airlines built the saudi passenger air service the ford foundation modernized saudi government the u s army corps of engineers built the country s television and broadcast facilities and oversaw the development of its defense industry section seven nineteen hundred
squad-56f8907faef23719006261b4,what did protestant nobles form the following year after the signing of the augsburg confession,Martin_Luther_138,or abuse of the pope the diet rejected it on twenty two september and ordered the reformers to renounce heresy and submit to the control of the roman catholic church by the following april or face the imperial army that decision confirmed luther s belief that the mission had been futile it prompted the lutheran princes to form a military alliance the schmalkaldic league which luther cautiously supported on grounds of self defence in his warning to his dear german people of fifteen thirty one the augsburg confession had become the statement of faith on which lutherans were prepared to stand or fall though a
squad-56f8a4e99e9bad19000a0252,what is the use of the law by the holy spirit,Martin_Luther_142,the antinomians and his book on the councils and the church from the same year in his theses and disputations against the antinomians luther reviews and reaffirms on the one hand what has been called the second use of the law that is the law as the holy spirit s tool to work sorrow over sin in man s heart thus preparing him for christ s fulfillment of the law offered in the gospel luther states that everything that is used to work sorrow over sin is called the law even if it is christ s life christ s death for sin or god s goodness experienced in creation
squad-56f8c5909b226e1400dd0f80,from whence did luther want to expel the jews,Martin_Luther_170,three days before his death it was entirely devoted to the obdurate jews whom it was a matter of great urgency to expel from all german territory according to leon poliakov james mackinnon writes that it concluded with a fiery summons to drive the jews bag and baggage from their midst unless they desisted from their calumny and their usury and became christians luther said we want to practice christian love toward them and pray that they convert but also that they are our public enemies and if they could kill us all they would
squad-5730b5cc396df919000962d2,the umc prohibits the celebration of what type of unions,Same-sex_marriage_in_Spain_15,the projected bill announced on thirty june two thousand four by the minister of justice was studied by the general council of the judiciary although the general council admitted that the existing discrimination against homosexuals could not be condoned it was quite critical about extending marriage toward same sex couples including collateral adoption it argued that the extension was not demanded by the constitution and that ending discrimination could be achieved through other legal means such as a regulation of civil unions despite this negative report the government presented the proposed bill to congress on one october two thousand four with the exception of the people s party and members of the democratic union of catalonia
squad-56f86e91aef237190062606a,what artist provided the woodcuts for luthers bible,Martin_Luther_106,at a time of rising demand for german language publications luther s version quickly became a popular and influential bible translation as such it made a significant contribution to the evolution of the german language and literature furnished with notes and prefaces by luther and with woodcuts by lucas cranach that contained anti papal imagery it played a major role in the spread of luther s doctrine throughout germany the luther bible influenced other vernacular translations such as william tyndale s english bible fifteen twenty five forward a precursor of the king james bible
squad-5725bb34271a42140099d0c8,against what country was kennedy promising superiority over,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_52,franklin roosevelt british prime minister winston churchill and soviet leader joseph stalin were key in shaping europe s balance of power in the early postwar period however toward the end of the war the prospects of an anglo american front against the soviet union seemed slim from stalin s standpoint at the end of the war stalin assumed that the capitalist camp would resume its internal rivalry over colonies and trade giving opportunity for renewed expansion at a later date rather than pose a threat to the ussr stalin expected the united states to bow to domestic popular
squad-5727448b5951b619008f87a3,when sunday night football premiered to which network did monday night football move,American_football_88,season could be completed the most successful minor league was the american football league afl which existed from nineteen hundred sixty to nineteen hundred sixty nine the afl operated as a minor league from nineteen hundred sixty to nineteen hundred sixty four and then signed a five year us thirty six dollars million television deal with n b c and competed directly against the n f l afl teams signed n f l players to contracts and their popularity grew to challenge that of the n f l the two leagues merged in the nineteen hundred seventy season and all afl teams joined the n f l an
squad-57373f80c3c5551400e51e93,what force acted on bodies to retard their velocity,Isaac_Newton_58,action there is an equal and opposite reaction this leads to an apparent paradox exemplified by a man pulling a stone along the ground with a string the tension in the string acts equally on the man and the stone pulling the man back and the stone forward to the same degree thus no net force is experienced by the man forward slash string forward slash stone combination and it cannot move the resolution depends on considering the forces acting on each body individually the force on the stone is more than that required to overcome friction so the stone moves and if the man does not move the string becomes slack and the stone stops but when he does move maintaining
squad-57287ccb2ca10214002da3dc,what legitimate dynasty came before the yuan,Han_dynasty_148,which was abolished in sixty eight ad central government price control regulations were largely absent during the eastern han section six science technology and engineering the han dynasty was a unique period in the development of premodern chinese science and technology comparable to the level of scientific and technological growth during the song dynasty nine hundred sixty to one thousand two hundred seventy nine section six point one writing materials in
squad-5728facd4b864d1900165173,what us war has a large amount of civil disobedients,Cold_War_154,public concerns about intervening in foreign conflicts persisted from the end of the vietnam war the reagan administration emphasized the use of quick low cost counter insurgency tactics to intervene in foreign conflicts in nineteen hundred eighty three the reagan administration intervened in the multisided lebanese civil war invaded grenada bombed libya and backed the central american contras anti communist paramilitaries seeking to overthrow the soviet aligned sandinista government in nicaragua while reagan s interventions against grenada and libya were popular in the united states his backing of the contra
squad-571142b3a58dae1900cd6d5d,what percentage of electrical power in the united states is made by steam turbines,Scout_Moor_Wind_Farm_22,had been commissioned and four thousand m w h of electricity had been exported to the national grid the turbines are visible from south manchester fifteen to twenty miles twenty four to thirty two k m away and are expected to produce enough electricity to meet the needs of forty thousand average homes scout moor has the capacity to produce a total of sixty five m w compared with the ninety m w capacity of kentish flats the united kingdom s largest offshore wind farm the total cost of the scout moor project was fifty pound sterling million but peel holdings expect the turbines to be in operation for at least twenty five years since its
squad-56f88025aef237190062611e,where were luthers hymns included,Martin_Luther_109,faith prefiguring luther s one thousand five hundred twenty nine three part explanation of the apostles creed in the small catechism luther s hymn adapted and expanded from an earlier german creedal hymn gained widespread use in vernacular lutheran liturgies as early as fifteen twenty five sixteenth century lutheran hymnals also included wir glauben all among the catechetical hymns although eighteenth century hymnals tended to label the hymn as trinitarian rather than catechetical and twentieth century lutherans rarely use the hymn because of the perceived difficulty of its tune luther s
squad-56f8094aa6d7ea1400e17392,who went to wittenberg to hear luther speak,Martin_Luther_35,for the practice of the indulgence sales and to the bishop of brandenburg luther s superior it wasnt until january fifteen eighteen that friends of luther translated the ninety five theses from latin into german printed and widely copied making the controversy one of the first in history to be aided by the printing press within two weeks copies of the theses had spread throughout germany within two months throughout europe luther s writings circulated widely reaching france england and italy as early as fifteen nineteen students thronged to wittenberg
squad-57264a8cdd62a815002e808d,who is the sole governing authority capable of initiating legislative proposals,European_Economic_Community_31,onwards they applied to all three communities the council represents governments the parliament represents citizens and the commission represents the european interest essentially the council parliament or another party place a request for legislation to the commission the commission then drafts this and presents it to the council for approval and the parliament for an opinion in some cases it had a veto depending upon the legislative procedure in use the commission s duty is to ensure it is implemented by dealing with the day to day running of the union and taking others to court if they fail to comply after
squad-57114f0050c2381900b54a65,what devices have been credited as the moving force of the industrial revolution,Fossil_fuel_15,engines fossil fuel power stations and other uses prior to the latter half of the eighteenth century windmills or watermills provided the energy needed for industry such as milling flour sawing wood or pumping water and burning wood or peat provided domestic heat the wide scale use of fossil fuels coal at first and petroleum later to fire steam engines enabled the industrial revolution at the same time gas lights using natural gas or coal gas were coming into wide use the invention of the internal combustion engine
squad-5729d609af94a219006aa664,what does the substitution of equipment for labor raise for workers,Wage_reform_in_the_Soviet_Union%2c_1956%e2%80%9362_27,the reform were made up for by increases in industrial productivity for example in the r s f s r russia wages rose by seven percent between nineteen hundred fifty nine and nineteen hundred sixty two whilst productivity increased by some twenty percent the wage reform was linked to a program that reduced the length of the overall working week in the soviet union and in nineteen hundred fifty eight the working week was reduced from forty eight hours to forty one this was to apply to all soviet workers and by nineteen hundred sixty one forty million soviet workers approximately two thirds of the workforce were working a four one hour week it was planned to decrease this further to forty hours in
squad-56f80ccfaef2371900625d83,of whom to luther was justification entirely the work ,Martin_Luther_40,one and firm rock which we call the doctrine of justification he wrote is the chief article of the whole christian doctrine which comprehends the understanding of all godliness luther came to understand justification as entirely the work of god this teaching by luther was clearly expressed in his fifteen twenty five publication on the bondage of the will which was written in response to on free will by desiderius erasmus fifteen twenty four luther based his position on predestination on saint paul s epistle to the ephesians two eight one zero
squad-5729e500af94a219006aa6b5,what extinction event might have created some conditions allowing the expansion of the amazon rainforest,Dinosaur_62,the bulk of the evidence now indicates that a ten k m wide bolide hit the yucatan peninsula sixty five million years ago creating the one hundred seventy k m wide chicxulub crater and causing the extinction scientists are still disputing whether dinosaurs were in steady decline or still thriving before the meteor struck some scientists state that the meteor would have caused an unnatural winter while others claim that it would have created an unusual heat wave although the speed of extinction cannot be deduced from the fossil record alone the latest models
squad-56f84b68aef2371900625fa9,who did luther banish,Martin_Luther_66,december fifteen twenty one luther wrote a sincere admonition by martin luther to all christians to guard against insurrection and rebellion wittenberg became even more volatile after christmas when a band of visionary zealots the so called zwickau prophets arrived preaching revolutionary doctrines such as the equality of man adult baptism and christ s imminent return when the town council asked luther to return he decided it was his duty to act
squad-57274d9bf1498d1400e8f5f7,what language is used in chinese primary schools in malaysia,Hanyu_Shuiping_Kaoshi_2,and culture university under the supervision of the chinese ministry of education it is considered china s national standard test of chinese language as per h s k official materials there are three levels beginning level h s k basic elementary to intermediate level h s k elementary intermediate and advanced level h s k advanced h s k is held regularly in china and in other countries each year and h s k certificates are issued to those
squad-56f7ffadaef2371900625d61,who contends that luther did not intend to oppose the church,Martin_Luther_27,can justify man the benefits of good works could be obtained by donating money to the church on thirty one october fifteen seventeen luther wrote to his bishop albert of mainz protesting the sale of indulgences he enclosed in his letter a copy of his disputation of martin luther on the power and efficacy of indulgences which came to be known as the ninety five theses hans hillerbrand writes that luther had no intention of confronting the church but saw his disputation as a scholarly objection to church practices and the tone of the writing is accordingly searching
squad-57115ac550c2381900b54a79,what type of steam engine produces most electricity in the world today,Tank_56,types used a lot of tank engines were adapted aircraft engines as the cold war started tanks had almost all switched over to using diesel improved multi fuel versions of which are still common starting in the late nineteen hundred seventies turbine engines began to appear the weight and type of power plant influenced by its transmission and drive train largely determines how fast and mobile the tank is but the terrain effectively limits the maximum speed of all tanks through the stress it puts on the suspension and the crew section six point one multi fuel diesels all modern non turbine tanks use a diesel engine because diesel fuel is less flammable and more
squad-57268b43dd62a815002e88f3,how many sources of european union law are there,European_Economic_Community_31,onwards they applied to all three communities the council represents governments the parliament represents citizens and the commission represents the european interest essentially the council parliament or another party place a request for legislation to the commission the commission then drafts this and presents it to the council for approval and the parliament for an opinion in some cases it had a veto depending upon the legislative procedure in use the commission s duty is to ensure it is implemented by dealing with the day to day running of the union and taking others to court if they fail to comply after
squad-57275743f1498d1400e8f682,what network did abc beat out for third place in television ratings in twenty ten eleven ,American_football_25,the nfl s dominance the afl began in relative obscurity but survived for several years due to a television contract with the abc network competition for players heated up in nineteen hundred sixty five when the afl new york jets signed rookie joe namath to a then record us four hundred thirty seven thousand dollars contract a five year forty dollars million n b c television contract followed which helped to sustain the young league the bidding war for players ended in nineteen hundred sixty six when the two leagues agreed on a merger that would take full effect in nineteen hundred seventy this
squad-5730b6592461fd1900a9cfcf,by the late nineteen th century which country had the largest empire ever to exist in the world,British_Empire_68,of territory and roughly four hundred million people were added to the british empire victory over napoleon left britain without any serious international rival other than russia in central asia unchallenged at sea britain adopted the role of global policeman a state of affairs later known as the pax britannica and a foreign policy of splendid isolation alongside the formal control it exerted over its own colonies britain s dominant position in world trade
squad-56f8b4d79b226e1400dd0e79,how did der sturmer describe luthers on the jews and their lies,Martin_Luther_158,triumphantly referring to luther according to michael just about every anti jewish book printed in the third reich contained references to and quotations from luther heinrich himmler wrote admiringly of his writings and sermons on the jews in nineteen hundred forty the city of nuremberg presented a first edition of on the jews and their lies to julius streicher editor of the nazi newspaper der sturmer on his birthday in nineteen hundred thirty seven the newspaper described it as the most radically anti semitic tract ever published it was publicly exhibited in a glass case at the nuremberg rallies and
squad-56f879bdaef23719006260e1,how many hymns did luther write based on the ten commandments,Martin_Luther_89,based on personal faith and experience and a territorial church including all in a given locality if he were forced to choose he would take his stand with the masses and this was the direction in which he moved from fifteen twenty five to fifteen twenty nine he established a supervisory church body laid down a new form of worship service and wrote a clear summary of the new faith in the form of two catechisms to avoid confusing or upsetting the people luther avoided extreme change he also did not wish to replace one controlling system with another he
squad-56e1d9fee3433e14004231ce,if polynomial time can be utilized within an np complete problem what does the imply p is equal to,P_versus_NP_problem_5,time like the subset sum problem can also be solved in polynomial time if it turned out that p n p it would mean that there are problems in n p such as n p complete problems that are harder to compute than to verify they could not be solved in polynomial time but the answer could be verified in polynomial time aside from being an important problem in computational theory a proof either way would have profound implications for mathematics cryptography algorithm research artificial intelligence game theory multimedia processing and many other fields table of contents
squad-56e1dc62cd28a01900c67bca,what complexity class is characterized by a computational tasks and efficient algorithms,P_versus_NP_problem_6,cryptography algorithm research artificial intelligence game theory multimedia processing and many other fields table of contents section one context the relation between the complexity classes p and n p is studied in computational complexity theory the part of the theory of computation dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem the most common resources are time how many steps it takes to solve a problem and space how much memory it takes to solve a problem in such analysis
squad-56f80fdfaef2371900625d96,after archbishop albrecht reviewed the theses where did he send them,Martin_Luther_45,and magdeburg did not reply to luther s letter containing the ninety five theses he had the theses checked for heresy and in december fifteen seventeen forwarded them to rome he
squad-56f7c8aba6d7ea1400e1727a,since he didnt believe that salvation was acquired through good deeds how was it achieved,Martin_Luther_39,in new ways he became convinced that the church was corrupt in its ways and had lost sight of what he saw as several of the central truths of christianity the most important for luther was the doctrine of justification minus god s act of declaring a sinner righteous minus by faith alone through god s grace he began to teach that salvation or redemption is a gift of god s grace attainable only through faith in jesus as the messiah this one and firm rock which we call the doctrine of justification he wrote is the chief article of the whole christian doctrine which comprehends the understanding of
squad-572824f13acd2414000df592,what is the scale used to measure the strength of hurricanes called,2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season_5,of these seven strengthened into major hurricanes a record tying five became category four hurricanes and a record four reached category five strength the highest categorization for hurricanes on the saffir simpson hurricane scale among these category five storms were hurricanes katrina and wilma the former the costliest and the latter the most intense atlantic hurricane on record table of contents section one
squad-56e1ded7cd28a01900c67bd4,who demonstrated that p np implies problems not present in p or np complete,P_versus_NP_problem_20,problems in n p not known to be in p or n p complete it was shown by ladner that if p n p then there exist problems in n p that are neither in p nor n p complete such problems are called n p intermediate problems the graph isomorphism problem the discrete logarithm problem and the integer factorization problem are examples of problems believed to be n p intermediate they are some of the very few n p problems not known to be in p or to be n p complete the graph
squad-5726d7faf1498d1400e8ecdc,the entrepreneurs josiah wedgwood matthew boulton and eleanor coade were influenced by what manufacturing process developed during the industrial revolution,History_of_the_world_24,as well in the nineteenth century britain gained control of the indian subcontinent egypt and malaya the french took indochina while the dutch occupied indonesia the british also occupied several of the areas still populated by neolithic peoples including australia new zealand and south africa and as in the americas large numbers of british colonists began to emigrate to these areas this era also saw the industrial revolution a major transformation of the world s economies it began in britain and used new modes of production such as the factory mass production and mechanisation to produce a wide array of materials
squad-56f81393aef2371900625daa,what did luther promise to do as a concession,Martin_Luther_49,but he lacked the means in augsburg where the elector guaranteed luther s security luther slipped out of the city at night without leave from cajetan in january fifteen nineteen at altenburg in saxony the papal nuncio karl von miltitz adopted a more conciliatory approach luther made certain concessions to the saxon who was a relative of the elector and promised to remain silent if his opponents did the theologian johann maier von eck however was determined to expose luther s doctrine in a public forum in june and july fifteen nineteen he staged a
squad-56f8c5909b226e1400dd0f7f,what was the focus of luthers last sermon,Martin_Luther_166,paul rose argues that he caused a hysterical and demonizing mentality about jews to enter german thought and discourse a mentality that might otherwise have been absent since the nineteen hundred eighties lutheran church denominations have repudiated martin luther s statements against the jews and have rejected the use of them to incite hatred against lutherans section eighteen
squad-57106644b654c5140001f8e9,jean de relys illustrated french language scriptures were first published in what city,Ys_5,painting scored a success at the salon of eighteen hundred eighty four on may seven eighteen hundred eighty eight edouard lalo s opera le roi dys based on this legend premiered in paris in claude debussy s first book of preludes published nineteen hundred ten the evocative la cathedrale engloutie recalls the drowned cathedral in the city of y s with the muffled and watery sonority of its spectral bells poul anderson and his wife karen wrote a tetralogy of novels about y s in the nineteen hundred eighties table of contents section one externals links gralon dot com
squad-56e1ded7cd28a01900c67bd6,what is an example of an np intermediate problem not known to exist in p or np complete,P_versus_NP_problem_20,problems in n p not known to be in p or n p complete it was shown by ladner that if p n p then there exist problems in n p that are neither in p nor n p complete such problems are called n p intermediate problems the graph isomorphism problem the discrete logarithm problem and the integer factorization problem are examples of problems believed to be n p intermediate they are some of the very few n p problems not known to be in p or to be n p complete the graph
squad-572fbb04a23a5019007fc8f8,who sets the work agenda and allocates time in the chamber,United_States_Senate_25,other employees include the chaplain and pages section four procedure like the house of representatives the senate meets in the united states capitol in washington d c at one end of the chamber of the senate is a dais from which the presiding officer the vice president or the president pro tempore presides the lower tier of the dais is used by clerks and other officials one hundred desks are arranged in the chamber in a semicircular pattern the desks are divided by a wide central aisle by tradition democrats sit on the right of the center aisle while republicans sit on the left
squad-5705e33f52bb89140068964d,how many megaregions are there in the united states,Mourning_dove_5,section one taxonomy and distribution the mourning dove has a large range of nearly eleven million square kilometers six point eight million square miles the species is resident throughout the greater antilles most of mexico the continental united states extreme southern
squad-572657d9dd62a815002e8232,when the three types of rock are re melted what is formed,Chrysoberyl_7,or opalescence that reminds one of an eye of a cat when cut to produce a cabochon the mineral forms a light green specimen with a silky band of light extending across the surface of the stone table of contents section one occurrence chrysoberyl forms as a result of pegmatitic processes melting in the earth s crust produces relatively low density molten magma which can rise upwards towards the surface as the main magma body cools water originally present in low concentrations became more concentrated in the molten rock because it could not be incorporated into the crystallization of solid minerals the remnant magma thus becomes richer in water and also in rare elements that similarly do not fit in the crystal structures of major rock forming minerals the water extends the temperature range downwards before the magma becomes completely solid allowing concentration of rare elements to proceed so far that they produce their own distinctive minerals the resulting rock igneous in appearance but formed at a low temperature
squad-572810ec2ca10214002d9d09,who gained control of florida after the conclusion of the revolutionary war,British_Empire_47,leaving a sizeable french speaking population under british control and louisiana to spain spain ceded florida to britain along with its victory over france in india the seven years war therefore left britain as the world s most powerful maritime power section three rise of the second british empire seventeen hundred eighty three to eighteen hundred fifteen section three point one loss of the thirteen american colonies during the seventeen hundred sixties and early seventeen hundred seventies
squad-57266193dd62a815002e832a,what types of waves do seismologists use to image the interior of the earth,1755_Lisbon_earthquake_21,animals behave strangely this question anticipated studies by chinese seismologists in the nineteen hundred sixties what happened in wells and water holes the answers to these and other questions are still archived in the tower of tombo the national historical archive studying and cross referencing the priests accounts modern scientists were able to reconstruct the event from a scientific perspective without the query designed by the marquis of pombal this would have been impossible because the marquis was the first to attempt an objective scientific description of the broad causes and consequences of an earthquake he is regarded as a forerunner of modern seismological scientists the geological causes of this earthquake and the seismic
squad-572838323acd2414000df73b,what award was michelle gomez nominated for,Love_Actually_52,london film critics circle award for best british supporting actor bill nighy winner london film critics circle award for best british supporting actress emma thompson winner los angeles film critics association award for best supporting actor bill nighy winner satellite award for best supporting actor musical or comedy bill nighy and thomas sangster nominees satellite award for best supporting actress musical or comedy emma thompson nominee
squad-56f8ac579e9bad19000a02ba,what did luther get implicated in concerning philip i,Martin_Luther_147,luther became implicated in the bigamy of philip i landgrave of hesse who wanted to marry one of his wife s ladies in waiting philip solicited the approval of luther melanchthon and bucer citing as a precedent the polygamy of the patriarchs the theologians were not prepared to make a general ruling and they reluctantly advised the landgrave that if he was determined he should marry secretly and keep quiet about the matter as a result on four march fifteen forty philip married a second wife margarethe von der sale with melanchthon and bucer among the witnesses however philip was unable to
squad-572860e03acd2414000df978,what dynasty came before the yuan,Han_dynasty_148,which was abolished in sixty eight ad central government price control regulations were largely absent during the eastern han section six science technology and engineering the han dynasty was a unique period in the development of premodern chinese science and technology comparable to the level of scientific and technological growth during the song dynasty nine hundred sixty to one thousand two hundred seventy nine section six point one writing materials in
squad-5727cd7dff5b5019007d9590,how many naval bases are located in jacksonville,Washington_Army_National_Guard_1,in two brigades and various smaller units located throughout the state
squad-572f65e9b2c2fd14005680cb,what is the longest river in germany,Neuschwanstein_Castle_13,changes to make them more picturesque palace building projects similar to neuschwanstein had been undertaken earlier in several of the german states and included hohenschwangau castle lichtenstein castle hohenzollern castle and numerous buildings on the river rhine such as stolzenfels castle the inspiration for the construction of neuschwanstein came from two journeys in eighteen hundred sixty seven minus one in may
squad-56f82454a6d7ea1400e173ff,how did luther respond after being asked if the books were his,Martin_Luther_56,contents luther confirmed he was their author but requested time to think about the answer to the second question he prayed consulted friends and gave his response the next day
squad-571ccfbadd7acb1400e4c164,electrolysis of what can be used to produce oxygen and hydrogen,Planetary_habitability_44,carbon has an unparalleled ability to bond with itself and to form a massive array of intricate and varied structures making it an ideal material for the complex mechanisms that form living cells hydrogen and oxygen in the form of water compose the solvent in which biological processes take place and in which the first reactions occurred that led to life s emergence the energy contained in the powerful hydrogen bond released from the breakdown of carbohydrates is life s fuel these four elements together make up amino acids which in turn are the building blocks of
squad-5725ee6438643c19005aceb5,what planet was named for a fly by mission by an empty s ivb,NASA_12,was the last mission to fly under the apollo banner the program ended because of budget cuts in part due to the vietnam war and the desire to develop a reusable space vehicle section two point three other early missions although the vast majority of nasa s budget has been spent on human spaceflight there have been many robotic missions instigated by the space agency in nineteen hundred sixty two the mariner two mission was launched and became the first spacecraft to make a flyby of another planet minus in this case venus the ranger surveyor and lunar orbiter missions were essential to assessing lunar conditions before
squad-5706094b52bb8914006897df,southern california is most famous for tourism and what notably named district,Nick_Bakay_7,with her in west hollywood along with a dog and two cats one of whom is named salem
squad-56de4a89cffd8e1900b4b7bd,what is the norman architecture idiom,Neuschwanstein_Castle_21,reasons a project similar to neuschwanstein minus falkenstein castle minus never left the planning stages the palace can be regarded as typical for nineteenth century architecture the shapes of romanesque simple geometric figures such as cuboids and semicircular arches gothic upward pointing lines slim towers delicate embellishments
squad-5725dd1689a1e219009abfe2,who kept tabs on the accident review board that nasa created,Hubble_Space_Telescope_105,of hubble and the commissioning of a successor is of major concern to some astronomers given the great scientific and political impact of many space telescope observations on twenty nine january two thousand four sean okeefe said that that he would review his decision to cancel the final servicing mission of the hubble space telescope due to public outcry and requests from congress for nasa to look for a way to save the hubble space telescope on thirteen july two thousand four an official panel from the national academy of sciences made the recommendation that the hubble telescope be preserved despite the apparent risks their report urged nasa
squad-5726a299dd62a815002e8b9f,which entities were originally concerned with preventing violation of human rights,First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution_69,the european convention on human rights for example permits restrictions in the interests of national security territorial integrity or public safety for the prevention of disorder or crime for the protection of health or morals for the protection of the reputation or the rights of others for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary and in practice these loopholes have been interpreted quite broadly by the courts of europe the first amendment was one of the first guarantees of religious freedom neither the english bill of rights nor the french declaration of rights contains an equivalent guarantee section eight
squad-572665ff708984140094c4c4,when rock formations are found on top of a fault that have not been cut then they must be older or younger than the fault,Enceladus_55,discontinuities and the v shaped cusps along the south polar terrain margin and the relative surface age of the adjacent non south polar terrain regions the y shaped discontinuities and the north south trending tension fractures into which they lead are correlated with younger terrain with presumably thinner lithospheres the v shaped cusps are adjacent to older more heavily cratered terrains section three point four cryovolcanism following the voyager encounters
squad-56e77c6737bdd419002c401d,what is an abbreviation for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints,The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_69,of the church or the church of jesus christ as shortened references although l d s church is commonly used within the church s own publications and the church officially uses mormon as a descriptive term for itself in the name of the mormon tabernacle choir when referring to members of the church it suggests latter day saints as preferred although mormons is acceptable despite these efforts the associated press continues to recommend mormon church as a proper second reference in its style guide for journalists section five point two legal entities the church of jesus christ of latter day saints was formally incorporated in eighteen hundred fifty one that corporation however was dissolved by an act of the united states congress in eighteen hundred eighty seven because of the church s practice
squad-5705eb3375f01819005e7765,which city does the hollywood district belong to,Bar%2c_Vinnytsia_Oblast_53,century was born in the city in eighteen hundred four joseph barondess a writer a labor leader and a political figure in new york city s lower east side jewish community in the united states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was born in bar in eighteen hundred sixty seven joseph barondess organized the hebrew actors union which played an important role at broadway in new york in nineteen hundred zero and at hollywood in los angeles california at later years the hollywood was created by louis b mayer
squad-56f8c43d9b226e1400dd0f65,how many times did luther preach in halle in fifteen forty five and one thousand five hundred forty six ,Martin_Luther_36,luther s writings circulated widely reaching france england and italy as early as fifteen nineteen students thronged to wittenberg to hear luther speak he published a short commentary on galatians and his work on the psalms this early part of luther s career was one of his most creative and productive three of his best known works were published in fifteen twenty to the christian nobility of the german nation on the babylonian captivity of the church and on the freedom of a christian
squad-570d2af0fed7b91900d45c96,what city is the capital of victoria,British_Empire_59,until eighteen hundred forty the australian colonies became profitable exporters of wool and gold mainly due to gold rushes in the colony of victoria making its capital melbourne the richest city in the world and the largest city after london in the british empire during his voyage cook also visited new zealand first discovered by dutch explorer abel tasman in sixteen hundred forty two and claimed the north and south islands for the british crown in seventeen hundred sixty nine and seventeen hundred seventy respectively initially
squad-57378862c3c5551400e51f24,who figured out that his law of gravity had to be universal,Isaac_Newton_29,he used the latin word gravitas weight for the effect that would become known as gravity and defined the law of universal gravitation in the same work he presented the first analytical determination based on boyle s law of the speed of sound in air newton s postulate of an invisible force able to act over vast distances led to him being criticized for introducing occult agencies into science with the principia newton became internationally recognized he acquired a circle of admirers including the swiss born mathematician nicolas fatio de duillier with whom he formed an intense
squad-56f82989aef2371900625e6c,where did the highwaymen take luther,Martin_Luther_59,heretic it also made it a crime for anyone in germany to give luther food or shelter it permitted anyone to kill luther without legal consequence section four at wartburg castle luther s disappearance during his return trip was planned frederick iii
squad-56e1e9dfe3433e14004231fc,what is the problem attributed to defining if two finite graphs are isomorphic,P_versus_NP_problem_21,n p intermediate they are some of the very few n p problems not known to be in p or to be n p complete the graph isomorphism problem is the computational problem of determining whether two finite graphs are isomorphic an important unsolved problem in complexity theory is whether the graph isomorphism problem is in p n p complete or n p intermediate the answer is not known but it is believed that the problem is at least not n p complete if graph isomorphism is n p complete the polynomial time hierarchy collapses to its second level since it is widely believed
squad-57303048947a6a140053d254,how long as the us government been actively engaged in efforts to counter islamism,Hillary_Clinton_106,the usa patriot act in october two thousand one in two thousand five when the act was up for renewal she worked to address some of the civil liberties concerns with it before voting in favor of a compromise renewed act in march two thousand six that gained large majority support clinton strongly supported the two thousand one u s military action in afghanistan saying it was a chance to combat terrorism while improving the lives of afghan women who suffered under the taliban government clinton voted in favor of the october two thousand two iraq war resolution which
squad-56e1dc62cd28a01900c67bcc,what complexity class is commonly characterized by unknown algorithms to enhance solvability,P_versus_NP_problem_6,cryptography algorithm research artificial intelligence game theory multimedia processing and many other fields table of contents section one context the relation between the complexity classes p and n p is studied in computational complexity theory the part of the theory of computation dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem the most common resources are time how many steps it takes to solve a problem and space how much memory it takes to solve a problem in such analysis
squad-56f852fba6d7ea1400e1756d,who did martin luther marry,Martin_Luther_4,bible his hymns influenced the development of singing in churches his marriage to katharina von bora set a model for the practice of clerical marriage allowing protestant priests to marry in his later years while suffering from several illnesses and deteriorating health luther became increasingly antisemitic writing that jewish homes should be destroyed their synagogues burned money confiscated and liberty curtailed these statements have contributed to his controversial status table of contents
squad-56f87e95aef237190062610c,what is psalm sixty seven about,Martin_Luther_114,our lord reflects the structure and substance of his questions and answers concerning baptism in the small catechism luther adopted a preexisting johann walter tune associated with a hymnic setting of psalm sixty seven s prayer for grace wolf heintz s four part setting of the hymn was used to introduce the lutheran reformation in halle in fifteen forty one preachers and composers of the eighteenth century including j s bach used this rich hymn as a subject for their own work although its objective baptismal theology was displaced by more subjective hymns under the influence of
squad-572a12381d0469140077972b,what institution does robert barro hail from,Archibald_MacLeish_13,roosevelt and justice frankfurter felt that the mixture of macleish s love for literature and his abilities to organize and motivate people exemplified by his days in law school would be just what the library of congress needed macleish sought support from expected places such as the president of harvard macleish s current place of work but found none it was support from unexpected places such as m llewellyn raney of the university of chicago libraries which alleviated the ala letter writing campaign against macleish s nomination raney pointed out to the detractors that macleish was a lawyer like putnam
squad-56f8aa749b226e1400dd0da8,besides baptism what shows the future of heaven to christians,Martin_Luther_145,of the ten commandments which a christian should follow in his or her vocations on a daily basis the ten commandments and the beginnings of the renewed life of christians accorded to them by the sacrament of baptism are a present foreshadowing of the believers future angel like life in heaven in the midst of this life luther s teaching of the ten commandments therefore has clear eschatological overtones which characteristically for luther do not encourage world flight but direct the christian to service to the neighbor in the common daily vocations of this perishing world in the twentieth century there have been attempts to show that the third use of the
squad-56f855caaef2371900625ff4,what kind of marriage was this ,Martin_Luther_83,the couple was engaged with johannes bugenhagen justus jonas johannes apel philipp melanchthon and lucas cranach the elder and his wife as witnesses on the evening of the same day the couple was married by bugenhagen the ceremonial walk to the church and the wedding banquet were left out and were made up two weeks later on twenty seven june some priests and former monks had already married including andreas karlstadt and justus jonas but luther s wedding set the seal of approval on clerical marriage he had long condemned vows of celibacy on biblical grounds but his decision to marry
squad-5726965ef1498d1400e8e487,how long is one term for an elected president of the cjeu,Trafford_23,with one third elected three years out of four in the following table the populations for each ward are based on two thousand six population estimates
squad-571cb27fdd7acb1400e4c133,about what weather feature do paleoclimatologists want information ,Hong_Kong_Observatory_3,but it remains unrelocated as a result of high greenhouse gas emission the reflection of sunlight off buildings and the surfaces of roads and the reducing vegetation the location suffers from the heat island effect recorded temperatures by the observatory saw a rapid rise from nineteen hundred eighty to two thousand five as a result in two thousand two the observatory opened its resources centre providing information on weather climate oceanology meterology and other related
squad-572a13841d0469140077973c,the kuznets curve says with economic development inequality will decrease after what,Simon_Kuznets_37,in wealthier countries economic growth narrowed the difference by noting patterns of income inequality in developed and underdeveloped countries he proposed that as countries experienced economic growth the income inequality first increases and then decreases the reasoning was that in order to experience growth countries had to shift from agricultural to industrial sectors while there was little variation in the agricultural income industrialization led to large differences in income additionally as
squad-56f8a4e99e9bad19000a0254,what does refusing to preach the ten commandments not do,Martin_Luther_143,work sorrow over sin is called the law even if it is christ s life christ s death for sin or god s goodness experienced in creation simply refusing to preach the ten commandments among christians minus thereby as it were removing the three letters l a w from the church minus does not eliminate the accusing law claiming that the law minus in any form minus should not be preached to christians anymore would be tantamount to asserting that christians are no longer sinners in themselves and that the church consists only of essentially holy people on the other hand luther also points out that the ten commandments minus when considered not as god s
squad-56bf21b43aeaaa14008c9528,in twenty twelve how many stadiums were named as finalists for hosting super bowl fifty before the final stadium was chosen,American_football_27,games each bowl game would be associated with a particular conference and earning a spot in a bowl game was the reward for winning a conference this arrangement was profitable but it tended to prevent the two top ranked teams from meeting in a true national championship game as they would normally be committed to the bowl games of their respective conferences several systems have been used since nineteen hundred ninety two to determine a national champion of college football the first was the bowl coalition in place from nineteen hundred ninety two to nineteen hundred ninety four this was replaced in nineteen hundred ninety five by the bowl
squad-5706111a52bb89140068984c,what is the name of the commuter rail system,Oldham_86,loop line oldham once had six railway stations but now has four oldham werneth oldham mumps derker and hollinwood the train from manchester victoria station must climb steeply through much of its six miles nine point seven k m route from around one hundred feet thirty point five m at manchester city centre to around six hundred feet one hundred eighty two point nine m at oldham mumps it is planned to convert this heavy rail line to part of the manchester metrolink tram network oldham has had electric tramways to manchester in the past the first tram was driven from manchester into oldham in nineteen hundred zero
squad-5726d7faf1498d1400e8ecdd,a reaction against industrialiazation contributed to the development of what artistic movement in the late nineteen th century,Anne%2c_Queen_of_Great_Britain_30,of a gothic revival design further rebuilding and restoration occurred in the nineteenth
squad-570d2c20fed7b91900d45ca9,where was victoria first set to be located in australia,Green_and_golden_bell_frog_8,native to south eastern australia prior to its population decline the distribution ranged from brunswick heads in northern new south wales to east gippsland in victoria and west to bathurst tumut and the australian capital territory the current distribution now ranges from byron bay in northern new south wales to east gippsland in victoria with populations mostly occurring along the coast in new south wales it has undergone severe declines in both range and abundance since the nineteen hundred sixties however no similar declines have been reported in victoria in new south wales it has disappeared from
squad-56f867e3a6d7ea1400e175d9,besides the bondage of the will what other work did luther view as a book of his,Martin_Luther_98,the lord s prayer baptism and the lord s supper luther incorporated questions and answers in the catechism so that the basics of christian faith would not just be learned by rote the way monkeys do it but understood the catechism is one of luther s most personal works regarding the plan to collect my writings in volumes he wrote i am quite cool and not at all eager about it because roused by a saturnian hunger i would rather see them all devoured for i acknowledge none of them to be really a book of mine except perhaps the bondage of the will and the catechism
squad-5729293d3f37b319004780a1,when did kenya reach the semi finals,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_48,to hosts south africa however controversy surrounds the final with many suspecting the all blacks were poisoned one their worst world cup was their fourth place in nineteen hundred ninety nine after losing their semi final and then the third place playoff game in two thousand three the all blacks were knocked out by hosts australia in their semi final before finishing third despite only one world cup title they are the only team to have reached the semifinals in every tournament the all blacks hold several world cup records most points in one match one hundred forty five versus japan in nineteen hundred ninety five most cumulative points over all world cups one thousand three hundred eighty four
squad-56f82b25a6d7ea1400e17457,what did luther call good works that existed solely to attract gods favor,Martin_Luther_61,and polemical writings these included a renewed attack on archbishop albrecht of mainz whom he shamed into halting the sale of indulgences in his episcopates and a refutation of the argument of latomus in which he expounded the principle of justification to jacobus latomus an orthodox theologian from louvain in this work one of his most emphatic statements on faith he argued that every good work designed to attract god s favor is a sin all humans are sinners by nature he explained and god s grace which cannot be earned alone can make them just on one august
squad-56f8541da6d7ea1400e17577,when were luther and his prospective bride engaged,Martin_Luther_82,one of twelve nuns he had helped escape from the nimbschen cistercian convent in april fifteen twenty three when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels suddenly and while i was occupied with far different thoughts he wrote to wenceslaus link the lord has plunged me into marriage katherina was twenty six years old luther was forty one years old on thirteen june fifteen twenty five the couple was engaged with johannes bugenhagen justus jonas johannes apel philipp melanchthon and lucas cranach the elder and
squad-571cd703dd7acb1400e4c183,what is usual form of oxygen bound compounds,Oxygen_0,oxygen oxygen is the element with atomic number eight and represented by the symbol o it is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetallic period two element that readily forms compounds notably oxides with almost all other elements at standard temperature and pressure two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen a colorless odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium
squad-56f86d30a6d7ea1400e17605,where was the language luther used in his translations spoken,Martin_Luther_105,of works will have to say faith alone justifies us and not works luther s translation used the variant of german spoken at the saxon chancellery intelligible to both northern and southern germans he intended his vigorous direct language to make the bible accessible to everyday germans for we are removing impediments and difficulties so that other people may read it without hindrance published at a time of rising demand for german language publications luther s version quickly became a popular and influential bible translation as
squad-572909ebaf94a219006a9fc5,what kind of government does kenya have,Namibia_23,in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic whereby the president of namibia is elected to a five year term and is both the head of state and the head of government and of a multi party system executive power is exercised by the government legislative power is vested in both the government and the bicameral parliament the national assembly and the national council the judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature in two thousand eight namibia ranked sixth on the ibrahim index of african governance out of forty eight sub saharan african countries the ibrahim index is a
squad-5725c3a9ec44d21400f3d506,what is one supplementary source of european union law,European_Economic_Community_4,based on supranationalism and international law designed to help the economy of europe and prevent future war by integrating its members in the aim of creating a federal europe two further communities were proposed a european defence community edc and a european political community epc while the treaty for the latter was being drawn up by the common assembly the ecsc parliamentary chamber the edc was rejected by the french parliament president jean monnet a leading figure behind the communities resigned from the high authority in protest and began work on alternative communities based on economic integration rather than
squad-56f7eba8a6d7ea1400e172cd,what educational study did luther start to pursue and immediately drop,Martin_Luther_16,for what has been described as a day of rote learning and often wearying spiritual exercises he received his master s degree in fifteen oh five in accordance with his father s wishes luther enrolled in law school at the same university that year but dropped out almost immediately believing that law represented uncertainty luther sought assurances about life and was drawn to theology and philosophy expressing particular interest in aristotle william of ockham and gabriel biel he was deeply influenced by two
squad-5725bd4b38643c19005acc31,what month and day did kennedy message his vice president about the status of the program,Cold_War_94,vice president richard nixon to conduct the meeting in his place eisenhower s officials were not sure as to whether castro was a communist but hostile toward the cubans efforts to decrease their economic reliance on the united states in january nineteen hundred sixty one just prior to leaving office eisenhower formally severed relations with the cuban government in april nineteen hundred sixty one the administration of newly elected american president john f kennedy mounted an unsuccessful cia organized ship borne invasion of the island at playa giron and playa larga in las villas province a
squad-56f88eafaef2371900626194,what point did the theologians differ on concerning the last supper,Martin_Luther_121,in october fifteen twenty nine philip i landgrave of hesse convoked an assembly of german and swiss theologians at the marburg colloquy to establish doctrinal unity in the emerging protestant states agreement was achieved on fourteen points out of fifteen the exception being the nature of the eucharist minus the sacrament of the lord s supper an issue crucial to luther the theologians including zwingli melanchthon martin bucer and johannes oecolampadius differed on the significance of the words spoken by jesus at the last supper this is my body which is for you
squad-56f8575aaef2371900625ffd,when did luther and his wife live,Martin_Luther_85,averse to wedlock because i daily expect the death of a heretic before marrying luther had been living on the plainest food and as he admitted himself his mildewed bed was not properly made for months at a time luther and his wife moved into a former monastery the black cloister a wedding present from the new elector john the steadfast one thousand five hundred twenty five to thirty two they embarked on what appeared to have been a happy and successful marriage though money was often short between bearing six children hans june fifteen twenty six elizabeth minus ten december
squad-56f81537aef2371900625db5,what was the time limit on luthers recantation of sentences,Martin_Luther_52,warned luther with the papal bull edict exsurge domine that he risked excommunication unless he recanted forty one sentences drawn from his writings including the ninety five theses within sixty days that autumn johann eck proclaimed the bull in meissen and other towns karl von miltitz a papal nuncio attempted to broker a solution but luther who had sent the pope a copy of on the freedom of a christian in october publicly set fire to the bull and decretals at wittenberg on ten december fifteen twenty an act he defended in why the pope and his recent
squad-57282358ff5b5019007d9ddf,what is a common occurrence during summer days,Exmoor_14,sunniest the south west of england has a favoured location with respect to the azores high pressure when it extends its influence north eastwards towards the uk particularly in summer cloud often forms inland especially near hills and acts to reduce sunshine amounts the average annual sunshine is about one thousand six hundred hours rainfall tends to be associated with atlantic depressions or with convection in summer convection caused by solar surface heating sometimes forms shower clouds and a large proportion of rainfall falls from showers and thunderstorms at this time of year the average annual total rainfall is
squad-5710ed7bb654c5140001fa2c,who did the dutch fight in the dutch revolt,Culture_of_Aruba_2,very first inhabitants of the island although the spanish were in control of aruba for many years the eighty years war between spain and the netherlands soon gave the dutch the upper hand finally in sixteen hundred thirty six the spanish handed over the island to the dutch years later the english took over aruba for a brief period but it quickly returned under dutch rule in eighteen hundred sixteen and remained that way until nineteen hundred eighty five when aruba became a separate entity within the kingdom of the netherlands the people and culture of aruba has many different backgrounds one can go from the indians to the spanish and more recently the dutch yet through the years
squad-572757bef1498d1400e8f693,what was the primary race of students attending christian academies after the brown decision,Annandale_High_School_5,high schools in the country section five additional history the school was all white segregated institution when it was founded in nineteen hundred fifty four but by the late ninety s the proportion of white students was only forty four per cent and there were students from seventy three countries speaking forty three different languages for this reason it was visited in nineteen hundred ninety eight by president bill clinton s president s advisory board on race for round table discussions as of two thousand six eighty seven nationalities and forty six languages are represented in the student population a gay straight alliance
squad-56f8ac579e9bad19000a02bb,who did philip i want to marry,Martin_Luther_147,luther became implicated in the bigamy of philip i landgrave of hesse who wanted to marry one of his wife s ladies in waiting philip solicited the approval of luther melanchthon and bucer citing as a precedent the polygamy of the patriarchs the theologians were not prepared to make a general ruling and they reluctantly advised the landgrave that if he was determined he should marry secretly and keep quiet about the matter as a result on four march fifteen forty philip married a second wife margarethe von der sale with melanchthon and bucer among the witnesses however philip was unable to
squad-57283b91ff5b5019007d9fa5,what show is considered the best drama that the bbc has ever produced,Coronation_Street_62,his career on the show writing over one hundred fifty episodes between nineteen hundred sixty one and nineteen hundred sixty nine paul abbott was a story editor on the programme in the nineteen hundred eighties and began writing episodes in nineteen hundred eighty nine but left in nineteen hundred ninety three to produce cracker for which he later wrote before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as touching evil and shameless russell t davies one was briefly a storyliner on the programme in the mid one nine hundred nineties also writing the script for the direct to video special viva las vegas he too has become a noted writer of his own high profile television drama programmes including queer as folk and the two thousand five revival of doctor who
squad-5727f0b1ff5b5019007d98f5,who produced the doctor who revival series,Doctor_Who_4,a backdoor pilot in the form of a nineteen hundred ninety six television film the programme was relaunched in two thousand five produced in house by bbc wales in cardiff the first series was produced by the bbc series two and three had some development money contributed by the canadian broadcasting corporation c b c which was credited as a company producer doctor who also spawned spin offs in multiple media including the current television programmes torchwood and the sarah jane adventures the standalone k nine and a single nineteen hundred eighty one pilot episode of k nine and company the doctor has been
squad-5727f05b4b864d1900164068,what is key to getting the skills needed for high demand jobs,Westgate-on-Sea_39,nine per cent education seven per cent transport and communications five per cent public administration five per cent hotels and restaurants three per cent finance one per cent agriculture and six per cent other community social or personal services compared with national figures there was a relatively high number of workers in the construction and health and social care industries and a relatively low number in finance and real estate many residents commute to work outside the town as of the two thousand one census the town had two thousand three hundred eighty eight employed residents but only one thousand four hundred sixty four jobs
squad-5711628a2419e314009555df,how many valves did the corliss engine use,Imperial_Airlines_Flight_201%2f8_9,seventeen passengers and departed for south carolina at eight thirty p m during these flight segments as he would later testify at the cab hearing the flight engineer opened the cross feed valves between the number three and four engines since he had seen a drop in fuel pressure on the number three fuel pressure gauge after the initial takeoff from columbia during the final flight segment from baltimore to columbia the crew experienced fuel flow disruptions to both right side engines eventually leading both of them to shut down after multiple unsuccessful attempts by the crew to restore
squad-57286ab72ca10214002da31f,what alumni was also obamas campaign adviser,Barack_Obama_27,illinois senate in november two thousand four following his election to the u s senate section two point two u s senate campaign in may two thousand two obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a two thousand four u s senate race he created a campaign committee began raising funds and lined up political media consultant david axelrod by august two thousand two and formally announced his candidacy in january two thousand three obama was an early opponent of the george w bush administration s two thousand three invasion of iraq on october two two thousand two the day president bush and congress agreed on the joint resolution authorizing the iraq war obama addressed the
squad-571cd5b1dd7acb1400e4c179,what medical treatment is used to increase oxygen uptake in a patient,Oxygen_5,of oxygen include the production of steel plastics and textiles rocket propellant oxygen therapy and life support in aircraft submarines spaceflight and diving
squad-56f85e71a6d7ea1400e175c6,what did luther say the common people knew nothing about,Martin_Luther_96,the new order of worship during their visitation of electoral saxony which began in fifteen twenty seven they also assessed the standard of pastoral care and christian education in the territory merciful god what misery i have seen luther wrote the common people knowing nothing at all of christian doctrine and unfortunately many pastors are well nigh unskilled and incapable of teaching section eight point one catechisms luther devised the catechism as a method of imparting the basics of christianity to the congregations in
squad-571a49de4faf5e1900b8a94a,oxygen is released in cellular respiration by,Oxygen_2,as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by cyanobacteria algae and plants during photosynthesis and is used in cellular respiration for all complex life oxygen is toxic to anaerobic organisms which were the dominant form of early life on earth until o two began to accumulate in the atmosphere two point five billion years ago another form allotrope of oxygen ozone o three helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation with the high altitude
squad-56d6f4030d65d2140019829b,who was the quarterback for the broncos two thousand fifteen season,Saltine_cracker_challenge_3,nature and persistence of the tennessee volunteers quarterback at the time peyton manning having been bet that he could not eat six saltines manning attempted them one by one and failed trying again he stacked them on top of each other and succeeded his roommate concluded even something that was a joke he was out to prove he can do it he can eat six saltine crackers and he did he works out techniques he can do on everything before the two thousand one to two thousand two season penn state lady lions basketball coach
squad-5730c810aca1c71400fe5aa8,how many central conferences are outside of the united states,Christopher_Cox_30,section three point three focus on individual investors and seniors the particular needs of senior investors whose ranks are growing rapidly was a special cox focus in april two thousand six the sec held its first seniors summit working with aarp the financial industry regulatory authority the north american securities administrators association and several state regulators the conferences are now held annually a nationwide sweep examination conducted by the sec and authorities in seven states found that free lunch investment seminars which draw large numbers of retirees routinely involved significant fraud many were advised to put their
squad-572976791d046914007794b2,how much carbon gets wasted by using otwo instead of cotwo ,Fossil_fuel_6,billion tonnes twenty one point three gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year but it is estimated that natural processes can only absorb about half of that amount so there is a net increase of ten sixty five billion tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year one tonne of atmospheric carbon is equivalent to forty four forward slash twelve or three point seven tonnes of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide is one of the greenhouse gases that enhances radiative forcing and contributes to global warming causing the average surface temperature
squad-56f851b1a6d7ea1400e1755f,when was the battle of frankenhausen,Martin_Luther_80,the peasants outside the law of god and empire so they deserved death in body and soul if only as highwaymen and murderers lastly luther charged the rebels with blasphemy for calling themselves christian brethren and committing their sinful acts under the banner of the gospel without luther s backing for the uprising many rebels laid down their weapons others felt betrayed their defeat by the swabian league at the battle of frankenhausen on fifteen may fifteen twenty five followed by muntzer s execution brought the revolutionary stage of the reformation to a close
squad-57274f49f1498d1400e8f61f,where is samuel marsden collegiate school located,Birkdale_School_10,section five administration the current head master is paul owen who took over the role from r j court in september twenty ten after twelve years previously he was the academic deputy at wellington school in somerset the current deputy head is nicholas pietrek the previous deputy head master was alastair gloag from king s school gloucester now head at rishworth school he replaced andrew johnson who left at the end of the summer term two thousand six for the post of head master at stonyhurst college there are hundreds of staff section six sport
squad-5730208fa23a5019007fcdf0,where does hamas want to establish an islamic state,British_Empire_128,not to join the british mandate of palestine where an arab majority lived alongside a jewish minority presented the british with a similar problem to that of india the matter was complicated by large numbers of jewish refugees seeking to be admitted to palestine following the holocaust while arabs were opposed to the creation of a jewish state frustrated by the intractability of the problem attacks by jewish paramilitary organisations and the increasing cost of maintaining its military presence britain announced in nineteen hundred forty seven that it would withdraw in nineteen hundred forty eight and leave the matter to the united
squad-57376a1bc3c5551400e51ec5,what is the resultant force called when two forces act on a particle,Isaac_Newton_58,action there is an equal and opposite reaction this leads to an apparent paradox exemplified by a man pulling a stone along the ground with a string the tension in the string acts equally on the man and the stone pulling the man back and the stone forward to the same degree thus no net force is experienced by the man forward slash string forward slash stone combination and it cannot move the resolution depends on considering the forces acting on each body individually the force on the stone is more than that required to overcome friction so the stone moves and if the man does not move the string becomes slack and the stone stops but when he does move maintaining
squad-56bf48cc3aeaaa14008c95af,what color were the broncos uniforms in super bowl fifty ,Barack_Obama_108,game while wearing a white sox jacket he is also primarily a chicago bears fan in the n f l but in his childhood and adolescence was a fan of the pittsburgh steelers and recently rooted for them ahead of their victory in super bowl xliii twelve days after obama took office as president in june nineteen hundred eighty nine obama met michelle robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the chicago law firm of sidley austin assigned for three months as obama s adviser at the firm robinson joined him at group social functions but declined his initial requests
squad-571142b3a58dae1900cd6d5b,in what part of the nineteen th century were steam turbines introduced,Bicycle_9,to the eighteen hundred ninety eight invention of coaster brakes derailleur gears and hand operated cable pull brakes were also developed during these years but were only slowly adopted by casual riders by the turn of the century cycling clubs flourished on both sides of the atlantic and touring and racing were soon extremely popular bicycles and horse buggies were the two mainstays of private transportation just prior to the automobile and the grading of smooth roads in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by the wide use of these devices section two technical aspects section two point one legal
squad-56e7550700c9c71400d76fc9,which type of school has a closer teacher child relationship,Altrincham_62,there are eighteen primary schools and eight secondary schools in the altrincham area including five grammar schools the trafford district maintains a selective education system assessed by the eleven plus exam several of the secondary schools in the altrincham area have specialist status altrincham college of arts arts altrincham grammar school for boys language altrincham grammar school for girls language blessed thomas holford catholic college maths and
squad-5725bad5271a42140099d0be,who was the worlds second largest oil producer,1973_world_oil_market_chronology_12,war october seven iraq nationalizes exxon and mobil shares in basrah petroleum company representing twenty three point seven five percent equity in the company october eight opec meets with oil companies to discuss revision of nineteen hundred seventy one tehran agreement and oil prices negotiations fail october sixteen the gulf six iran iraq abu dhabi kuwait saudi arabia and qatar unilaterally
squad-56f84760aef2371900625f82,when did zwilling and karistadt become active at wittenberg,Martin_Luther_65,he was kept fully informed andreas karlstadt supported by the ex augustinian gabriel zwilling embarked on a radical programme of reform there in june fifteen twenty one exceeding anything envisaged by luther the reforms provoked disturbances including a revolt by the augustinian monks against their prior the smashing of statues and images in churches and denunciations of the magistracy after secretly visiting wittenberg in early december fifteen twenty one luther wrote a sincere admonition by martin luther to all christians to guard against insurrection and rebellion
squad-56f7c8aba6d7ea1400e1727c,whose authority did luthers theology oppose,Martin_Luther_2,by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor luther taught that salvation is not earned by good deeds but received only as a free gift of god s grace through faith in jesus christ as redeemer from sin his theology challenged the authority of the pope of the roman catholic church by teaching that the bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized christians to be a holy priesthood those who identify with luther s teachings are called lutherans his translation of the bible into the
squad-56f7eddca6d7ea1400e172d7,what did martin luther fear after a lightening bolt struck near him,Martin_Luther_19,to an event on two july fifteen oh five he was on horseback during a thunderstorm and a lightning bolt struck near him as he was returning to university after a trip home later telling his father he was terrified of death and divine judgment he cried out help saint anna i will become a monk he came to view his cry for help as a vow he could never break he left law school sold his books and entered a closed augustinian friary in erfurt on seventeen july fifteen oh five one friend blamed the decision on
squad-5726c20fdd62a815002e8fa7,how many divisions comprised genghis khans army in khwarezmia,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_85,berlin because berlin was located within the soviet occupied zone of germany the only available methods of supplying the city were three limited air corridors by february nineteen hundred forty eight because of massive post war military cuts the entire united states army had been reduced to five hundred fifty two thousand men military forces in non soviet berlin sectors totaled only eight thousand nine hundred seventy three americans seven thousand six hundred six british and six thousand one hundred french soviet military forces in the soviet sector that surrounded berlin totaled
squad-56e1aff7cd28a01900c67a6c,what is the term given to algorithms that utilize random bits,Computational_geometry_6,time is proportional to the square of the number of points a classic result in computational geometry was the formulation of an algorithm that takes o n log n randomized algorithms that take o n expected time as well as a deterministic algorithm that takes o n log log n time have also been discovered citation needed section one point one problem classes the core problems in computational geometry may be classified in different ways according to various criteria the following general classes may be distinguished section one point one point one static problems in
squad-5737898f1c45671900574497,what theory accounted for the mercury problem,Mercury_(planet)_79,the planet at many different wavelengths including infrared ultraviolet x ray and gamma ray apart from intensively studying the planet itself mission planners also hope to use the probe s proximity to the sun to test the predictions of general relativity theory with improved accuracy the mission is named after giuseppe bepi colombo the scientist who first determined the nature of mercury s spin orbit resonance and who was also involved in the planning of mariner
squad-5726b929f1498d1400e8e8e9,which country did rewe zentrale ag wish to import from,Marshall_Plan_115,of france examples of material received by the ussr were equipment from the kugel fischer ballbearing plant at schweinfurt the daimler benz underground aircraft engine plant at obrigheim the deschimag shipyards at bremen weser and the gendorf powerplant the ussr did establish comecon as a riposte to the marshall plan to deliver aid for eastern bloc countries but this was complicated by the soviet efforts to manage their own recovery from the war the members of comecon looked to the soviet union for oil
squad-56f84e63aef2371900625fc2,where did luther become angry at the widespread destruction of church property,Martin_Luther_75,muntzer in thuringia and michael gaismair in tyrol the revolts turned into war luther sympathised with some of the peasants grievances as he showed in his response to the twelve articles in may fifteen twenty five but he reminded the aggrieved to obey the temporal authorities during a tour of thuringia he became enraged at the widespread burning of convents monasteries bishops palaces and libraries in against the murderous thieving hordes of peasants written on his return to wittenberg he explained the gospel teaching on wealth condemned the violence as the devil s work
squad-56f86b44a6d7ea1400e175f5,when did martin luther publish his translation of the new testament,Martin_Luther_103,his german translation of the new testament in fifteen twenty two and he and his collaborators completed the translation of the old testament in fifteen thirty four when the whole bible was published he continued to work on refining the translation until the end of his life others had translated the bible into german but luther tailored his translation to his own doctrine when he was criticised for inserting the word alone after faith in romans three twenty eight a m he replied in part t he text itself and the meaning of saint paul urgently require and
squad-5728231fff5b5019007d9dd7,how many days was the one thousand nine hundred ninety six film shown ahead of the bbc showing,Coronation_Street_52,prerecorded fifteen minutes later when the programme went fully networked on march three nineteen hundred sixty one broadcast days changed to monday and wednesday the last regular epiosde to be shown live aired on february three nineteen hundred sixty one from episode one until november nineteen nineteen hundred sixty nine the programme was broadcast in black and white broadcast switched to colour from twenty four november nineteen hundred sixty nine but in october nineteen hundred seventy a technician s strike at a film developing company affected the entire itv network and virtually all the programming on itv had to return to using black and white including coronation street
squad-56f8bbb09e9bad19000a03de,who aide the reich in germany in antisemitism,Martin_Luther_157,his generation and he acquired the status of a prophet within germany according to the prevailing view among historians his anti jewish rhetoric contributed significantly to the development of antisemitism in germany and in the nineteen hundred thirties and nineteen hundred forties provided an ideal underpinning for the national socialists attacks on jews reinhold lewin writes that whoever wrote against the jews for whatever reason believed he had the right to justify himself by triumphantly referring to luther according to michael just about every anti jewish book printed in the third reich contained references to
squad-572838323acd2414000df737,when did doctor who win an award for best drama series,Doctor_Who_3,professionals many of whom grew up watching the series it has received recognition from critics and the public as one of the finest british television programmes including the bafta award for best drama series in two thousand six and five consecutive wins at the national television awards since two thousand five in the drama category the programme originally ran from nineteen hundred sixty three to nineteen hundred eighty nine after an unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production with a backdoor pilot in the form of a nineteen hundred ninety six television film the programme was relaunched in two thousand five produced in house by bbc
squad-5737a9afc3c5551400e51f64,what is the law of thermodynamics associated with closed system heat exchange,Paradox_35,loschmidt s paradox why is there an inevitable increase in entropy when the laws of physics are invariant under time reversal the time reversal symmetry of physical laws appears to allow the second law of thermodynamics to be broken mpemba paradox hot water can under certain conditions freeze faster than cold water even though it must pass the lower temperature on the way to freezing olbers paradox why is the night sky black if there is an infinity of stars
squad-56e77b8c00c9c71400d77196,which denomination has more of an individualistic streak,Canadians_36,being christians of this number catholics make up the largest group accounting for thirty eight point seven percent of the population the largest protestant denomination is the united church of canada accounting for six point one per cent of canadians followed by anglicans five per cent and baptists one nine per cent about twenty three nine per cent of canadians declare no religious affiliation including agnostics atheists humanists and other groups the remaining are affiliated with non christian religions the largest of which is islam three point two per cent followed by hinduism one five per cent sikhism one four per cent
squad-5730d523aca1c71400fe5b04,who gives leadership preaches the word and conducts marriages among other duties,Catholic_Church_72,see clerical marriage but after becoming a roman catholic priest a man may not marry see clerical celibacy unless he is formally laicised all clergy whether deacons priests or bishops may preach teach baptise witness marriages and conduct funeral liturgies only bishops and priests can administer the sacraments of the eucharist reconciliation penance and anointing of the sick only bishops can administer the sacrament of holy orders which ordains someone
squad-572689385951b619008f761c,how many grade one listed railway stations are in the uk,Indian_Railways_10,railway systems including thirty two lines owned by the former indian princely states were amalgamated as a single unit which was christened as the indian railways the existing rail networks were abandoned in favour of zones in nineteen hundred fifty one and a total of six zones came into being in nineteen hundred fifty two as the economy of india improved almost all railway production units were indigenised by nineteen hundred eighty five steam locomotives were phased out in favour of diesel and electric locomotives the entire railway reservation system was streamlined with computerisation in nineteen hundred ninety five section two
squad-56f8507fa6d7ea1400e1754c,what were the protesters doing with christs counsel,Martin_Luther_78,luther justified his opposition to the rebels on three grounds first in choosing violence over lawful submission to the secular government they were ignoring christ s counsel to render unto caesar the things that are caesar s saint paul had written in his epistle to the romans thirteen one seven that all authorities
squad-5706155352bb891400689895,at which level of education is this sport becoming more popular,American_football_83,iii are determined through ncaa sanctioned playoff systems while the division i f b s champion is largely determined by various polls and ranking systems see related article the latest effort being the bowl championship series b c s division i f b s will switch to a four team playoff system in two thousand fourteen high school football is the most popular sport in the united states played by boys over one point one million boys participated in the sport from two thousand seven to two thousand eight according to a survey by the national federation of state high
squad-56f8575aaef2371900625fff,how many children did luther and his wife have,Martin_Luther_85,averse to wedlock because i daily expect the death of a heretic before marrying luther had been living on the plainest food and as he admitted himself his mildewed bed was not properly made for months at a time luther and his wife moved into a former monastery the black cloister a wedding present from the new elector john the steadfast one thousand five hundred twenty five to thirty two they embarked on what appeared to have been a happy and successful marriage though money was often short between bearing six children hans june fifteen twenty six elizabeth minus ten december
squad-5711658e50c2381900b54ad6,people of what nationality invented the steam turbine,Submarine_89,there were other power sources attempted oil fired steam turbines powered the british k class submarines built during the first world war and in following years but these were not very successful this was selected to give them the necessary surface speed to keep up with the british battle fleet steam power was resurrected in the nineteen hundred fifties with the advent of the nuclear powered steam turbine driving a generator which is now used in all large submarines by removing the requirement for atmospheric oxygen these submarines can stay submerged indefinitely so long as food supplies remain air is recycled and water distilled from the ocean these vessels nevertheless always have
squad-57060a1175f01819005e78d4,which type of livestock was the argricultural region known for,Second_Malaysia_Plan_34,and rear livestock the veterinary department going as far as to distribute cattle fertilisers seedlings insecticides and herbicides were subsidised double cropping of rice was encouraged so farmers could harvest twice in one year and effectively double their output the farmers organization authority was established in nineteen hundred seventy three with the goal of coordinating agricultural cooperatives farmers associations and government agricultural agencies
squad-5726975c708984140094cb21,which court argued that the treaty of rome did not prevent energy nationalism,European_Economic_Community_42,with the council over the adoption of legislation the right to approve or reject the appointment of the commission president and the commission as a whole and the right to approve or reject international agreements entered into by the community section four point five court the court of justice of the european communities was the highest court of on matters of community law and was composed of one judge per state with a president elected from among them its role was to ensure that community law was applied in the same way across all states and to settle legal disputes between institutions
squad-5725c01389a1e219009abdd7,how many launch pads were originally planned,Canada_51,canada s disaster assistance response team dart has participated in three major relief efforts in the past two years the two hundred member team has been deployed in relief operations after the december two thousand four tsunami in south asia hurricane katrina in september two thousand five and the kashmir earthquake in october two thousand five in february two thousand seven canada italy britain norway and russia announced their funding commitments to launch a one dollar five cents billion project to help develop vaccines they said could save millions of lives in poor nations and called on
squad-5725ca35271a42140099d1c3,how many men would the lm take to the lunar surface and return to the csm,Orion_(spacecraft)_63,is debating two possible paths whether to first return to the moon or explore an asteroid towed to lunar orbit prior to launching a manned mission to mars regardless of which of the following alternatives is selected the ultimate goal of human exploration is to chart a path for human expansion into the solar system section seven point one return to the moon these are the primary reasons for returning to the moon on the international front there appears to be continued enthusiasm for a mission to the moon the moon could become a training ground and test bed to prepare for more complex missions ultimately manned
squad-57285213ff5b5019007da180,how many academic majors does the university grant in total,University_of_Bras%c3%adlia_3,students each semester the university of brasilia accepts nearly two thousand incoming students for its sixty one undergraduate programs on the graduate level the university offers forty nine master s degrees and twenty seven doctoral programs section two academics it has twenty two institutes fifty departments sixteen scientific technological cultural artistic and general service centers student and staff residences a university hospital a sports center a seismological observatory several physical experiment facilities including plasma liquid crystals complex fluids and optical spectroscopy
squad-5725de30ec44d21400f3d6ee,what type of materials inside the cabin were removed to help prevent more fire hazards in the future,Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire_45,in a national effort to change doors at public buildings so that they opened outward and manditory panic bar latches on all doors in schools triangle shirtwaist factory fire a nineteen hundred eleven factory fire which resulted in extensive changes to safety and workers compensation laws cocoanut grove fire a nineteen hundred forty one fire resulting in bans on flammable decorations and new safety standards for fire doors our lady of the angels school fire a nineteen hundred fifty eight fire resulting in worldwide fire safety improvments in many builidngs particularly schools beverly hills supper club
squad-571ce7f25efbb31900334e3f,what geologic feature is composed of oxygen oxides,Oxygen_1,odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium and the most abundant element by mass in the earth s crust oxygen constitutes eighty eight point eight per cent of the mass of water and twenty point nine per cent of the volume of air all major classes of structural molecules in living organisms such as proteins carbohydrates and fats contain oxygen as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by
squad-56f80fdfaef2371900625d95,to whom did luther send a letter containing his ninety five theses,Martin_Luther_34,according to the customs of university of wittenberg as part of a scientific discussion the presentation of the theses was done in a modest and respectful way preventing to mock or insult anybody citation needed he makes no mention of nailing the theses to a door nor does any other source report this in actuality luther presented a hand written copy accompanied with honorable comments to the archbishop albrecht of mainz and magdeburg responsible for the practice of the indulgence sales and to the bishop of brandenburg luther s superior it wasnt until january
squad-572680ac708984140094c841,in which year did the museum started charging free admission fees,Sheffield_23,creating much needed jobs but speeding the decline of the city centre attempts to regenerate the city were kick started when the city hosted the nineteen hundred ninety one world student games which saw the construction of new sporting facilities such as the sheffield arena don valley stadium and the ponds forge complex the city is now changing rapidly as new projects aim to regenerate run down parts of the city one such project the heart of the city project has seen a number of public works in the city centre the peace gardens were renovated in nineteen hundred ninety eight the millennium galleries opened in april two thousand one the winter gardens were opened on twenty two
squad-572fbb04a23a5019007fc8f9,how many seats must a political party have to be represented on the parliamentary bureau,Birchington-on-Sea_51,thirty two point two per cent of the vote liberal democrats fourteen point four per cent and united kingdom independence party three point nine per cent birchington on sea is in the thanet local government district the village s electoral wards of birchington north and birchington south have five of the fifty six seats on the thanet district council as of the two thousand seven local elections all five of those seats were held by the conservative party the village has its own civil parish the lowest unit of local government birchington parish council has ten members and deals with issues specifically affecting birchington section
squad-57265200708984140094c237,which country was thinking about going to war to forcibly take middle eastern oil fields,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_29,government the u s army corps of engineers built the country s television and broadcast facilities and oversaw the development of its defense industry section seven nineteen hundred seventies the saudi kuwaiti neutral zone was administratively partitioned in nineteen hundred seventy one with each state continuing to share the petroleum resources of the former zone equally during the nineteen hundred seventy three arab israeli war saudi arabia participated in the arab oil boycott of the united states and netherlands a member of the organization of petroleum exporting countries opec saudi arabia had joined other member countries in moderate oil price increases beginning in nineteen hundred
squad-570d2417fed7b91900d45c3d,what kind of economy does victoria have,Economy_of_Ontario_0,economy of ontario the economy of ontario is rich and diversified ontario is the largest economy in canada its g d p being nearly twice that of neighbouring quebec the second largest economy the ontarian economy is highly influenced and run by the service sector though manufacturing also plays an important role ontario is the most populous province of canada with a population of about thirteen million permanent residents it is canada s leading
squad-5729fc3d1d046914007796a0,the immune system also produces what molecules in order to allow for tumor destruction by the complement system,DNA_repair_18,recombination with sequences other than the sister chromatid the enzymatic machinery used for nhej is also utilized in b cells to rejoin breaks created by the rag proteins during v d j recombination in the generation of antibodies in the immune system see also carcinogenesis section three dna repair in disease and aging section three point one poor dna repair induces pathology as cells get older the amount of dna damage accumulates overtaking the rate of repair and resulting in a reduction of protein synthesis as proteins in the cell are used for numerous vital functions the cell becomes slowly impaired and eventually dies when
squad-56f8a2969e9bad19000a022f,what book did luther write in response to agricola and the antinomians,Martin_Luther_141,in wittenberg these theses asserted that the law is no longer to be taught to christians but belonged only to city hall luther responded to these theses with six series of theses against agricola and the antinomians four of which became the basis for disputations between one thousand five hundred thirty eight and fifteen forty he also responded to these assertions in other writings such as his fifteen thirty nine open letter to c guttel against the antinomians and his book on the councils and the church from the same year in his theses and disputations against the antinomians
squad-56f87e95aef237190062610e,where was the baptismal hymn used to introduce the reformation,Martin_Luther_114,our lord reflects the structure and substance of his questions and answers concerning baptism in the small catechism luther adopted a preexisting johann walter tune associated with a hymnic setting of psalm sixty seven s prayer for grace wolf heintz s four part setting of the hymn was used to introduce the lutheran reformation in halle in fifteen forty one preachers and composers of the eighteenth century including j s bach used this rich hymn as a subject for their own work although its objective baptismal theology was displaced by more subjective hymns under the influence of
squad-57283d173acd2414000df790,where did water to the east of the amazon drainage basin flow towards,Tropical_Depression_Ten_(2005)_2,coast of africa and entered the atlantic ocean tracking towards the west the depression began to exhibit signs of convective organization on august eleven the system continued to develop and it is estimated that tropical depression ten formed at twelve hundred utc on august thirteen at the time it was located about one thousand six hundred miles two thousand six hundred k m east of barbados upon its designation the depression consisted of a large area of thunderstorm activity with curved banding features and expanding outflow however the environmental conditions were predicted to quickly become unfavorable the
squad-56e11afbcd28a01900c675c9,down to how many laws did tesla believe the fundamental laws could be reduced,Three_Laws_of_Robotics_10,decalogue which includes the satirical lines thou shalt not kill but needst not strive forward slash officiously to keep alive details of this period can be found in chapters twenty one through twenty six of in memory yet green although asimov pins the laws creation on one date their appearance in his literature happened over a period he wrote two robot stories with no explicit mention of the laws robbie and reason he assumed however that robots would have certain inherent safeguards liar his third robot story makes the first
squad-56f8a6969e9bad19000a025f,what should a christian follow in his life,Martin_Luther_143,work sorrow over sin is called the law even if it is christ s life christ s death for sin or god s goodness experienced in creation simply refusing to preach the ten commandments among christians minus thereby as it were removing the three letters l a w from the church minus does not eliminate the accusing law claiming that the law minus in any form minus should not be preached to christians anymore would be tantamount to asserting that christians are no longer sinners in themselves and that the church consists only of essentially holy people on the other hand luther also points out that the ten commandments minus when considered not as god s
squad-5725d662ec44d21400f3d687,how many large public parks does fresno have,Shaw_and_Crompton_85,playing fields public houses in the centre of the town include the blue bell duke of york coach and horses and pineapple there are many outlying public houses including the kings arms at the big lamp royal oak at cowlishaw and the park inn at buckstones road crompton library is a purpose built library housing over thirty six thousand items including books c d s and d v d s that can be borrowed by anyone who lives in the oldham borough it has communal internet facilities the library was built in the early nineteen hundred nineties after the original nineteen hundred seven building which exists now as apartments on beal lane became too small there are three main public parks in shaw and
squad-56becb823aeaaa14008c948c,how many first downs did denver have,American_football_29,section three teams and positions a football game is played between two teams of eleven players each playing with more on the field is punishable by a penalty teams may substitute any number of their players between downs this platoon system replaced the original system which featured limited substitution rules and has resulted in teams utilizing specialized offensive defensive and special teams
squad-570610b275f01819005e792c,what ranking in terms of busiest airports from international passenger volume is the los angeles international airport,Pierre_Trudeau_104,manitoba is also named in his honour the montreal pierre elliott trudeau international airport yul in montreal quebec was named in his honour effective january one two thousand four in two thousand four viewers of the c b c series the greatest canadian voted trudeau the third greatest canadian the government of british columbia named a peak in the cariboo mountains mount pierre elliott trudeau on june ten two thousand six the peak is located in the premier range which has many peaks named for british columbian premiers and canadian prime
squad-5725bbec271a42140099d0d5,what is one of the supplementary sources of european union law,European_Economic_Community_4,based on supranationalism and international law designed to help the economy of europe and prevent future war by integrating its members in the aim of creating a federal europe two further communities were proposed a european defence community edc and a european political community epc while the treaty for the latter was being drawn up by the common assembly the ecsc parliamentary chamber the edc was rejected by the french parliament president jean monnet a leading figure behind the communities resigned from the high authority in protest and began work on alternative communities based on economic integration rather than
squad-56f80fdfaef2371900625d97,what did albrecht need the indulgences to pay for,Martin_Luther_46,to luther s letter containing the ninety five theses he had the theses checked for heresy and in december fifteen seventeen forwarded them to rome he needed the revenue from the indulgences to pay off a papal dispensation for his tenure of more than one bishopric as luther later noted the pope had a finger in the pie as well because one half was to go to the building of saint peter s church in rome pope leo x was used to reformers and heretics and he responded slowly with great care as is proper over the next three years he deployed a series of
squad-5705eb3375f01819005e7766,which company owns abc,Jim_Henson_49,son brian and daughter lisa are currently the company chairs and company ceos of the company his daughter cheryl is the president of the foundation steve whitmire a veteran member of the muppet puppeteering crew has assumed the roles of kermit the frog and ernie the most famous characters formerly played by jim henson on february seventeen two thousand four it was announced that the muppets excluding the sesame street characters which are separately owned by sesame workshop and the bear in the big blue house properties had been sold by henson s heirs to the walt disney company
squad-56f84760aef2371900625f81,who supported andreas karistadt in reform at wittenberg,Martin_Luther_65,he was kept fully informed andreas karlstadt supported by the ex augustinian gabriel zwilling embarked on a radical programme of reform there in june fifteen twenty one exceeding anything envisaged by luther the reforms provoked disturbances including a revolt by the augustinian monks against their prior the smashing of statues and images in churches and denunciations of the magistracy after secretly visiting wittenberg in early december fifteen twenty one luther wrote a sincere admonition by martin luther to all christians to guard against insurrection and rebellion
squad-5729f60caf94a219006aa6f1,what is lower in countries with more inequality for the top twenty one industrialized countries,Economy_of_Africa_3,of foreign trade investment per capita income and other economic growth measures poverty has had widespread effects including low life expectancy violence and instability which in turn have perpetuated the continent s growth problems over the decades there have been many unsuccessful attempts to improve the economies of individual african countries however recent data suggest some parts of the continent
squad-56d9895ddc89441400fdb50e,the name of the nfl championship game is,American_football_26,the bidding war for players ended in nineteen hundred sixty six when the two leagues agreed on a merger that would take full effect in nineteen hundred seventy this agreement provided for a common draft that would take place each year and it instituted an annual championship game to be played between the champions of each league that game began play in nineteen hundred sixty six and came to be known as the super bowl college football maintained a tradition of postseason bowl games each bowl game would be associated with a particular conference and earning a spot in a bowl game was the reward for winning a conference
squad-570d32e4fed7b91900d45d04,what church runs some private schools in victoria,Peterborough_60,peterborough has also been appointed assistant bishop in the diocese of ely with pastoral care for these parishes delegated to him by the bishop of ely the city falls wholly within the roman catholic diocese of east anglia which has its seat at the cathedral church of saint john the baptist norwich section six culture section six point one education peterborough has one independent boarding school peterborough high school formerly westwood house the school caters for girls up to eighteen and boys up to eleven peterborough s state schools are currently undergoing
squad-56f82454a6d7ea1400e173fd,after asking if the books were his what else did eck ask luther,Martin_Luther_55,twenty eight january to twenty five may fifteen twenty one with emperor charles v presiding prince frederick iii elector of saxony obtained a safe conduct for luther to and from the meeting johann eck speaking on behalf of the empire as assistant of the archbishop of trier presented luther with copies of his writings laid out on a table and asked him if the books were his and whether he stood by their contents luther confirmed he was their author but requested time to think about the answer to the second question he prayed consulted
squad-572944e03f37b319004781e2,when was the ipcc third assessment report published,Christopher_Cox_13,elected leadership position behind the speaker the majority leader the majority whip and the chair of the house republican conference he was chairman of the house committee on homeland security and also chairman of the select committee on u s national security that produced the cox report an indictment of chinese espionage and of security failures at several u s national laboratories when congress established the bipartisan study group on enhancing multilateral export controls through federal legislation in nineteen hundred ninety nine cox was tapped as company chairman the group published a unanimous report in two thousand one recommending wholesale modernization of u s export controls
squad-56f7cb10a6d7ea1400e17285,what did luthers translation of the bible promote in the german language,Martin_Luther_3,to be a holy priesthood those who identify with luther s teachings are called lutherans his translation of the bible into the language of the people instead of latin made it more accessible causing a tremendous impact on the church and on german culture it fostered the development of a standard version of the german language added several principles to the art of translation and influenced the translation into english of the king james bible his hymns influenced the development of singing in churches his marriage to katharina von bora set a model for the
squad-57287f6a3acd2414000dfa53,what dynasty shared artistic inspiration with the yuan,Han_dynasty_148,which was abolished in sixty eight ad central government price control regulations were largely absent during the eastern han section six science technology and engineering the han dynasty was a unique period in the development of premodern chinese science and technology comparable to the level of scientific and technological growth during the song dynasty nine hundred sixty to one thousand two hundred seventy nine section six point one writing materials in
squad-57274d9bf1498d1400e8f5f8,what language is used in chinese secondary schools in malaysia,Second_Malaysia_Plan_46,taken during its tenure in nineteen hundred seventy malay the national language became the major medium of instruction from primary to tertiary level replacing english british standardised examinations were replaced with local ones and new malay language textbooks were introduced by the end of the plan most formerly english based schools had converted the first four years of instruction entirely to the new malay medium curriculum in nineteen hundred seventy three the curriculum development centre
squad-5725e95f89a1e219009ac086,what apollo mission was first cancelled due to not being needed to build the skylab in space as it was pre built on the ground,NASA_11,follow on projects to construct a space station establish a lunar base and launch a human mission to mars by nineteen hundred ninety were proposed but with the end to procurement of saturn and apollo hardware there was no capability to support these the near disaster of apollo thirteen where an oxygen explosion nearly doomed all three astronauts helped to recapture attention and concern but although missions up to apollo twenty were planned apollo seventeen was the last mission to fly under the apollo banner the program ended because of budget cuts in part due to the vietnam war and the desire to develop a
squad-572811434b864d190016438c,since two thousand five what is the gender of doctor whos primary traveling companion,Roy_Orbison_18,background vocals with some on guitar were bruce springsteen tom waits elvis costello jackson browne j d souther steven soles with k d lang jennifer warnes and bonnie raitt singing the female background vocals shortly after this critically acclaimed performance whilst working with jeff lynne on tracks for a new album orbison joined bob dylan george harrison jeff lynne and tom petty to form the traveling wilburys achieving substantial commercial and critical success subsequently a new solo album was recorded titled mystery girl it was produced by orbison and mike campbell of the heartbreakers jeff lynne and one track by u two s bono who
squad-571a4d1a4faf5e1900b8a959,what was the occupation of joseph priestley,William_II_of_England_18,henry viii s actions centuries later and as such should not be seen as a defect of william ii s reign in particular of course contemporary churchmen were themselves not above engaging in such politics it is reported that when archbishop lanfranc suggested to william i that he imprison the rebellious bishop odo of bayeux he exclaimed what he is a clergyman lanfranc retorted that you will not seize the bishop of bayeux but confine the earl of kent odo was both bishop of bayeux and earl of kent
squad-56f82b25a6d7ea1400e1745b,what does luther write that this life doesnt have,Martin_Luther_62,sin all humans are sinners by nature he explained and god s grace which cannot be earned alone can make them just on one august fifteen twenty one luther wrote to melanchthon on the same theme be a sinner and let your sins be strong but let your trust in christ be stronger and rejoice in christ who is the victor over sin death and the world we will commit sins while we are here for this life is not a place where justice resides in the summer of fifteen twenty one luther widened his target from individual pieties like indulgences and pilgrimages to doctrines
squad-571cd11add7acb1400e4c171,what type of exercise does research show receives a boost in performance from oxygen,Seawater_15,than previously suspected so that a litre of seawater may hold more than twenty zero species doctor mitchell sogin from the marine biological laboratory feels that the number of different kinds of bacteria in the oceans could eclipse five to ten million bacteria are found at all depths in the water column as well as in the sediments some being aerobic others anaerobic most are free swimming but some exist as symbionts within other organisms minus examples of these being bioluminescent bacteria cyanobacteria played an important role in the evolution of ocean processes enabling the development of stromatolites and oxygen
squad-571155ae2419e31400955595,what is william rankines nationality,Justin_Trudeau_5,november thirteen nineteen hundred ninety eight were the third and fourth he is predominately of scottish and french canadian descent trudeau s grandfathers were businessman charles emile trudeau and scottish born james sinclair who served as minister of fisheries in the cabinet of prime minister louis saint laurent some of his maternal grandmother s ancestors were colonists in singapore indonesia and malaysia including scotsman william farquhar a noted colonial leader of singapore farquhar s first wife trudeau s fifth great grandmother antoinette nonio clement was the daughter of a french father and an ethnic malaccan mother
squad-56d9cd9adc89441400fdb850,how many teams has manning won the super bowl with,College_football_13,one division i a football is the only ncaa sport which doesnt decide its champion with a playoff in the past the unofficial national champion was determined by various polls such as the associated press poll c n n forward slash usa today coaches poll and the united press international poll this system was problematic as two polls often named different champions since nineteen hundred ninety eight the national championship has been determined by the bowl championship series this formula incorporating numerous computer rankings and human polls is used to determine the top two teams in the country the two teams compete for the championship in one of the four b c s
squad-571cc5c45efbb31900334dde,when did otwo begin to acculturate in the atmosphere,Oxygen_2,as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by cyanobacteria algae and plants during photosynthesis and is used in cellular respiration for all complex life oxygen is toxic to anaerobic organisms which were the dominant form of early life on earth until o two began to accumulate in the atmosphere two point five billion years ago another form allotrope of oxygen ozone o three helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation with the high altitude
squad-56f7c651aef2371900625bf8,what did the church claim could be avoided with money,Martin_Luther_1,the protestant reformation he strongly disputed the claim that freedom from god s punishment of sin could be purchased with money he confronted indulgence salesman johann tetzel with his ninety five theses in one thousand five hundred seventeen his refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of pope leo x in fifteen twenty and the holy roman emperor charles v at the diet of worms in fifteen twenty one resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor luther taught that salvation is not earned by good deeds but received only
squad-5726f0865951b619008f82e6,what network approached walt disney about producing color broadcasts of his anthology series,Star_Trek_12,the show developed a cult following and rumors of reviving the franchise began the first new star trek was star trek the animated series the series was produced by filmation in association with paramount television and ran for two seasons from nineteen hundred seventy three to nineteen hundred seventy four on n b c airing a total of twenty two half hour episodes the popularity of the syndicated star trek led paramount pictures and roddenberry to begin developing a new star trek phase ii series in may nineteen hundred seventy five work on the series came to an end when the proposed paramount television service
squad-5729e2316aef0514001550c4,what kind of forest is the amazon rainforest,Jaguar_47,tropical subtropical and dry deciduous forests including historically oak forests in the united states the jaguar is strongly associated with water and it often prefers to live by rivers swamps and in dense rainforest with thick cover for stalking prey jaguars have been found at elevations as high as three thousand eight hundred m but they typically avoid mountain forest and are not found in the high plateau of central mexico or in the andes section four point two ecological role the adult jaguar is an
squad-571ce9bddd7acb1400e4c1a0,what will concentrated oxygen greatly speed up,Oxygen_4,he published his findings first the name oxygen was coined in seventeen hundred seventy seven by antoine lavoisier whose experiments with oxygen helped to discredit the then popular phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion oxygen is produced industrially by fractional distillation of liquefied air use of zeolites to remove carbon dioxide and nitrogen from air electrolysis of water and other means uses of oxygen include the production of steel plastics and textiles rocket propellant oxygen therapy and life support in aircraft submarines
squad-57267b755951b619008f7433,what company owns the american broadcasting company,Jim_Henson_49,son brian and daughter lisa are currently the company chairs and company ceos of the company his daughter cheryl is the president of the foundation steve whitmire a veteran member of the muppet puppeteering crew has assumed the roles of kermit the frog and ernie the most famous characters formerly played by jim henson on february seventeen two thousand four it was announced that the muppets excluding the sesame street characters which are separately owned by sesame workshop and the bear in the big blue house properties had been sold by henson s heirs to the walt disney company
squad-56f80143aef2371900625d69,how did tetzel state that the soul could leave purgatory,Martin_Luther_29,the money of poor believers rather than with his own money luther objected to a saying attributed to johann tetzel that as soon as the coin in the coffer rings the soul from purgatory also attested as into heaven springs he insisted that since forgiveness was god s alone to grant those who claimed that indulgences absolved buyers from all punishments and granted them salvation were in error christians he said must not slacken in following christ on account of such false assurances however this oft quoted saying of tetzel was by no
squad-56f82b25a6d7ea1400e1745a,what did luther expound to be greater than sin,Martin_Luther_62,sin all humans are sinners by nature he explained and god s grace which cannot be earned alone can make them just on one august fifteen twenty one luther wrote to melanchthon on the same theme be a sinner and let your sins be strong but let your trust in christ be stronger and rejoice in christ who is the victor over sin death and the world we will commit sins while we are here for this life is not a place where justice resides in the summer of fifteen twenty one luther widened his target from individual pieties like indulgences and pilgrimages to doctrines
squad-56f80ccfaef2371900625d87,by what did luther believe the just person lives,Martin_Luther_41,by desiderius erasmus fifteen twenty four luther based his position on predestination on saint paul s epistle to the ephesians two eight one zero against the teaching of his day that the righteous acts of believers are performed in cooperation with god luther wrote that christians receive such righteousness entirely from outside themselves that righteousness not only comes from christ but actually is the righteousness of christ imputed to christians rather than infused into them through faith that is why faith alone makes someone just and fulfills the law he wrote faith is that which
squad-572685d1f1498d1400e8e2a1,what position did mark woods take on at the new american broadcasting company,Barack_Obama_21,economic development where he was an associate for three years from nineteen hundred ninety three to nineteen hundred ninety six then of counsel from nineteen hundred ninety six to two thousand four with his law license becoming inactive in two thousand two from nineteen hundred ninety four to two thousand two obama served on the boards of directors of the woods fund of chicago which in nineteen hundred eighty five had been the first foundation to fund the developing communities project and of the joyce foundation he served on the board of directors of the chicago annenberg challenge from nineteen hundred ninety five to two thousand two as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from
squad-572fca7eb2c2fd1400568474,who gave her royal assent to the scotland act of one thousand nine hundred ninety eight ,British_Empire_9,sovereignty after independence many former british colonies joined the commonwealth of nations a free association of independent states sixteen commonwealth nations share their head of state queen elizabeth ii as commonwealth realms table of contents section one origins one thousand four hundred ninety seven to one thousand five hundred eighty three the foundations of the british empire were laid when england and scotland were separate kingdoms in one thousand four hundred ninety six king henry vii of england following
squad-56f8989f9e9bad19000a01a9,what kind of war did luther support against the turks even if he did not oppose a religious war,Martin_Luther_132,the biblical apocalypse that would destroy the antichrist whom luther believed to be the papacy and the roman church he consistently rejected the idea of a holy war as though our people were an army of christians against the turks who were enemies of christ this is absolutely contrary to christ s doctrine and name on the other hand in keeping with his doctrine of the two kingdoms luther did support non religious war against the turks in fifteen twenty six he argued in whether soldiers can be in a state of grace that national defence is reason for a just war by fifteen twenty nine in on
squad-5727ffb5ff5b5019007d9a8c,what image has become linked to doctor who,Doctor_Who_0,doctor who doctor who is a british science fiction television programme produced by the bbc the programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious and eccentric time lord known as the doctor who travels through time and space in his time machine the tardis an acronym for time and relative dimension s in space which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue nineteen hundred fifties british police box with his companions he explores time and space faces a variety of foes and
squad-573749741c4567190057445d,what concept explains why objects continue in constant motion,Isaac_Newton_54,and self interest to economic systems and the sociologists criticised the current social order for trying to fit history into natural models of progress monboddo and samuel clarke resisted elements of newton s work but eventually rationalised it to conform with their strong religious views of nature section five newton s laws of motion the famous three laws of motion newton s first law also known as the law of inertia states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and that an object in uniform motion tends to stay in uniform motion
squad-573166ede6313a140071cef3,what is the largest city in poland,Chicago_35,ethnically polish population outside of polish capital of warsaw making it one of the most important polonia centers it is also considered to be the second largest serbian city in the world after belgrade which has a population of two million there are one million sixty one thousand nine hundred twenty eight households of which twenty eight point nine per cent have children under the age of eighteen living with them thirty five point one per cent are married couples living together eighteen point nine per cent have a female householder with no husband present and forty point four per cent are non families of all households thirty two point six per cent are made up
squad-57292449af94a219006aa0df,what religion is the western region mostly,Brownhills_34,per cent other western european countries zero point one six per cent eastern europe zero point two one per cent africa zero point two five per cent far east zero point four four per cent south asia zero point zero four per cent middle east zero point one seven per cent north america and zero point zero three per cent oceania religion was recorded as seventy nine point five six per cent christian zero point five six per cent muslim zero point two three per cent hindu zero point zero nine per cent buddhist zero point zero six per cent jewish and zero point three four per cent sikh
squad-57282358ff5b5019007d9de1,what is jacksonvilles hottest month on average,Montreal_22,government spends more than fifty dollars million on snow removal frequent thunderstorms make summer the wettest season statistically but it is also the sunniest the coldest month is january with a daily average of ten four c thirteen f due to wind chill the perceived temperature can be much lower than the actual temperature and wind chill temperatures are often included in weather forecasts the warmest month is july with a daily average of twenty nine c seventy f the lowest temperature ever recorded is thirty seven eight c thirty six f in january of nineteen hundred fifty seven and the highest temperature ever was thirty seven six c one hundred f in august of nineteen hundred
squad-56de179dcffd8e1900b4b5db,what country did the normans invade in eleven sixty nine ,British_Empire_15,in establishing overseas colonies it had been engaged during the sixteenth century in the settlement of ireland with protestants from england and scotland drawing on precedents dating back to the norman invasion of ireland in eleven sixty nine several people who helped establish the plantations of ireland also played a part in the early colonisation of north america particularly a group known as the west country men section two first british empire
squad-57377ec7c3c5551400e51f08,what diagrams are used to simplify particle interactions on a fundamental level,Zero-point_energy_8,of e equals hbar omega over two from every point in space resulting in a technically infinite zero point energy the zero point energy is again the expectation value of the hamiltonian here however the phrase vacuum expectation value is more commonly used and the energy is called the vacuum energy in quantum perturbation theory it is sometimes said that the contribution of one loop and multi loop feynman diagrams to elementary particle propagators are the contribution of vacuum fluctuations or the zero point energy to the particle masses section three experimental evidence the simplest experimental evidence for the existence of
squad-571a484210f8ca1400304fbd,the atomic number of the periodic table for oxygen,Oxygen_0,oxygen oxygen is the element with atomic number eight and represented by the symbol o it is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetallic period two element that readily forms compounds notably oxides with almost all other elements at standard temperature and pressure two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen a colorless odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium
squad-571cdcb85efbb31900334e0d,in what group of compounds is oxygen a necessary part,Zinc_29,one of the simplest examples of an organic compound of zinc is the acetate z n o two cch three two organozinc compounds are those that contain zinc carbon covalent bonds diethylzinc c two h five two zn is a reagent in synthetic chemistry it was first reported in eighteen hundred forty eight from the reaction of zinc and ethyl iodide and was the first compound known to contain a metal carbon sigma bond decamethyldizincocene contains a strong zinc zinc
squad-56f81393aef2371900625da9,when did papal nuncio karl von miltitz get luther to make concessions ,Martin_Luther_49,but he lacked the means in augsburg where the elector guaranteed luther s security luther slipped out of the city at night without leave from cajetan in january fifteen nineteen at altenburg in saxony the papal nuncio karl von miltitz adopted a more conciliatory approach luther made certain concessions to the saxon who was a relative of the elector and promised to remain silent if his opponents did the theologian johann maier von eck however was determined to expose luther s doctrine in a public forum in june and july fifteen nineteen he staged a
squad-572a096e6aef0514001551e5,what is the main defense mechanism of bacteria known as,DNA_44,for instance the ecorv enzyme shown to the left recognizes the six base sequence five minus gat atc three and makes a cut at the vertical line in nature these enzymes protect bacteria against phage infection by digesting the phage dna when it enters the bacterial cell acting as part of the restriction modification system in technology these sequence specific nucleases are used in molecular cloning and dna fingerprinting enzymes called dna ligases can rejoin cut or broken dna strands using the energy from either adenosine triphosphate or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide ligases are particularly important in lagging strand dna
squad-56d70ccc0d65d2140019831d,what jersey did the broncos wear for super bowl fifty ,Barack_Obama_108,game while wearing a white sox jacket he is also primarily a chicago bears fan in the n f l but in his childhood and adolescence was a fan of the pittsburgh steelers and recently rooted for them ahead of their victory in super bowl xliii twelve days after obama took office as president in june nineteen hundred eighty nine obama met michelle robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the chicago law firm of sidley austin assigned for three months as obama s adviser at the firm robinson joined him at group social functions but declined his initial requests
squad-5730a0778ab72b1400f9c60d,europe first colonized the americas then asia but what continent was third,British_Empire_14,own empire by this time spain had become the dominant power in the americas and was exploring the pacific portugal had established trading posts and forts from the coasts of africa and brazil to china and france had begun to settle the saint lawrence river later to become new france section one point one plantations of ireland although england trailed behind other european powers in establishing overseas colonies it had been engaged during the sixteenth century in the settlement
squad-56f8094aa6d7ea1400e17394,when were some of luthers best known works published,Martin_Luther_36,luther s writings circulated widely reaching france england and italy as early as fifteen nineteen students thronged to wittenberg to hear luther speak he published a short commentary on galatians and his work on the psalms this early part of luther s career was one of his most creative and productive three of his best known works were published in fifteen twenty to the christian nobility of the german nation on the babylonian captivity of the church and on the freedom of a christian
squad-56f80604a6d7ea1400e17388,what story of little truth is a pillar of history,Martin_Luther_30,christians he said must not slacken in following christ on account of such false assurances however this oft quoted saying of tetzel was by no means representative of the official catholic teaching on indulgences but rather more a reflection of his capacity to exaggerate yet if tetzel overstated the matter in regard to indulgences for the dead his teaching on indulgences for the living was pure according to scholars walter kramer gotz trenkler gerhard ritter and gerhard prause the story of the posting on the door even though it has settled as one of the pillars of history
squad-56f7f15aa6d7ea1400e172eb,when was martin luther ordained as a priest,Martin_Luther_23,more work to distract him from excessive introspection and ordered him to pursue an academic career in fifteen oh seven he was ordained to the priesthood and in fifteen oh eight began teaching theology at the university of wittenberg he received a bachelor s degree in biblical studies on nine march fifteen oh eight and another bachelor s degree in the sentences by peter lombard in fifteen oh nine on nineteen october fifteen twelve he was awarded his doctor of theology and on twenty one october fifteen twelve was received into the senate of the theological faculty of the
squad-57283c464b864d19001647cc,how many students does the university of chicago have enlisted,Peterborough_63,education peterborough regional college attracts over fifteen thousand students each year from the uk and abroad and is currently ranked in the top five per cent of colleges in the uk the city is currently without its own university since loughborough university closed its peterborough campus in two thousand three in two thousand six however peterborough regional college was in talks with anglia ruskin university to develop a new university campus for the city the college and the university have now officially completed the legal contracts for the creation of a new joint venture company the formation marks the culmination of legal negotiations and securing of funds
squad-5726581fdd62a815002e823b,which countrys cars became more highly sought after as they were more fuel efficient,Boshin_War_63,chsh and satsuma were fully modernized with armstrong guns minie rifles and one gatling gun the shogunate forces had been slightly lagging in term of equipment although a core elite force had been recently trained by the french military mission to japan eighteen hundred sixty seven to eighteen hundred sixty eight the shogun also relied on troops supplied by allied domains which were not necessarily as advanced in terms of military equipment and methods composing an army that had both modern and outdated elements section eight point one individual guns numerous types of more or less modern smoothbore guns and rifles were imported from
squad-570d4030fed7b91900d45da3,what kind of rail system is metro trains melbourne,Indian_Railways_4,a rail system in india two new railway companies were created and the east india company was asked to assist them interest from investors in the uk led to the rapid creation of a rail system over the next few years the first train in india became operational on eighteen hundred five one one two two two and was used for the hauling of construction material in roorkee a year and a half later on eighteen hundred five three zero four one six the first passenger train service was inaugurated between bori bunder bombay and thana covering a distance of thirty four k m twenty one miles it
squad-5728223cff5b5019007d9dc4,what type of climate does jacksonville have,Ivy%2c_Virginia_3,by eighteen hundred fifty nine the name had changed to ivy depot probably after ivy creek the village s name was shortened to ivy in the nineteen hundred fifties section two climate climate is characterized by relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation throughout the year the koppen climate classification subtype for this climate is cfa humid subtropical climate section three notable people meriwether lewis is a notable native of
squad-56f7c651aef2371900625bf6,when did martin luther die,Martin_Luther_0,martin luther martin luther ten november fourteen eighty three minus eighteen february fifteen forty six was a german priest and professor of theology who initiated the protestant reformation he strongly disputed the claim that freedom from god s punishment of sin could be purchased with money he confronted
squad-57267de1f1498d1400e8e196,how many screens does the empire muliplex cinema have,Star_Wars%3a_Episode_I_%e2%80%93_The_Phantom_Menace_26,fans began waiting outside cinema theaters as early as a month in advance of ticket sales more theater lines appeared when it was announced that the film cinemas were not allowed to sell tickets in advance until two weeks into the release this was done out of fear that family theater goers would either be unable to receive tickets or would be forced to pay higher prices tickets were instead to be sold on a traditional first come first serve basis however after meetings with the national association of theatre owners lucasfilm agreed to allow advance ticket sales on may twelve nineteen hundred ninety nine provided that there be a one two ticket limit per
squad-56f8ae099e9bad19000a02ed,what did luthers area and tradition believe jews to be guilty of,Martin_Luther_150,luther wrote about the jews throughout his career though only a few of his works dealt with them directly luther rarely encountered jews during his life but his attitudes reflected a theological and cultural tradition which saw jews as a rejected people guilty of the murder of christ and he lived within a local community that had expelled jews some ninety years earlier he considered the jews blasphemers and liars because they rejected the divinity of jesus whereas christians believed jesus was the messiah at
squad-56f851b1a6d7ea1400e17561,what protection caused luthers reformation to flourish,Martin_Luther_81,of frankenhausen on fifteen may fifteen twenty five followed by muntzer s execution brought the revolutionary stage of the reformation to a close thereafter radicalism found a refuge in the anabaptist movement and other sects while luther s reformation flourished under the wing of the secular powers section seven marriage martin luther married katharina von bora one of twelve nuns he had helped escape from the nimbschen cistercian convent in april fifteen twenty three when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in
squad-572fac17947a6a140053cb58,the scottish parliament may legislate as it pleases as long as the powers arent already reserved by where,George_V_68,in status in no way subordinate one to another in nineteen hundred thirty one the statute of westminster formalised george s position as the symbol of the free association of the members of the british commonwealth of nations the statute established that any alteration in the law touching the succession to the throne or the royal style and titles would require the assent of the parliaments of the dominions as well as parliament at westminster which could not legislate for the dominions except by consent in
squad-57274ca8dd62a815002e9aa8,in private schools what language are classes taught in,Namibia_34,the younger generation the most widely understood language is english both afrikaans and english are used primarily as a second language reserved for public sphere communication but small first language groups exist throughout the country while the official language is english most of the white population speaks either german or afrikaans even today ninety years after the end of the german colonial era the german language plays a leading role as a commercial language afrikaans is spoken by sixty per cent of the white community german is spoken by thirty two per cent english is spoken by seven per cent and portuguese by one per cent portuguese is spoken by blacks and
squad-572683f95951b619008f7527,in china this person inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by silt deposition what was his name,Shen_Kuo_4,hundred one to aid his work in astronomy shen kuo made improved designs of the armillary sphere gnomon sighting tube and invented a new type of inflow clepsydra clock shen kuo devised a geological theory of land formation or geomorphology based upon findings of inland marine fossils knowledge of soil erosion and the deposition of silt he also advocated a theory for gradual climate change after observing ancient petrified bamboos that were preserved underground in a dry northern habitat that did not support their
squad-572a06af3f37b3190047866a,what pathway that plays a role in immune response to viruses is present in all eukaryotes,Introduction_to_viruses_59,is the presence of so called resistance r genes each r gene confers resistance to a particular virus by triggering localised areas of cell death around the infected cell which can often be seen with the unaided eye as large spots this stops the infection from spreading rna interference is also an effective defence in plants when they are infected plants often produce natural disinfectants which kill viruses such as salicylic acid nitric oxide and reactive oxygen molecules
squad-56e1a564cd28a01900c67a4c,assuming that t represents a polynomial in tn what is the term given to the corresponding algorithm,P_versus_NP_problem_65,outputs yes or no if there is an algorithm say a turing machine or a computer program with unbounded memory that can produce the correct answer for any input string of length n in at most c n k steps where k and c are constants independent of the input string then we say that the problem can be solved in polynomial time and we place it in the class p formally p is defined as the set of all languages that can be decided by a deterministic polynomial time turing machine that is where
squad-57281f203acd2414000df4f9,which doctor was the current doctor during the fifty th anniversary special,Doctor_Who_6,one another they are all meant to be aspects of the same character the doctor is currently portrayed by matt smith who took up the role after david tennant s final appearance in an episode broadcast on one january twenty ten a fifth series of the relaunched programme began on three april twenty ten in which the eleventh doctor is accompanied by amy pond portrayed by karen gillan later in the season the doctor gained a second companion in rory williams portrayed by arthur darvill table of contents section one history
squad-56f8b2499b226e1400dd0e3f,when did riots cause the expulsion of jews from several german states,Martin_Luther_156,the jews was doomed to perdition josel asked the city of strasbourg to forbid the sale of luther s anti jewish works they refused initially but relented when a lutheran pastor in hochfelden used a sermon to urge his parishioners to murder jews luther s influence persisted after his death throughout the one thousand five hundred eighties riots led to the expulsion of jews from several german lutheran states luther was the most widely read author of his generation and he acquired the status of a prophet within germany according to the prevailing view among historians his anti jewish rhetoric contributed
squad-57097051ed30961900e84133,what was the name of bskybs digital service launched under,Cyw_4,off the screen the end of break bumper is the direct reverse with the word rebuilding itself back onto the screen section two the future in a press release s four c announced that the plan would be eventually for c y w to launch as a standalone channel seperate from s four c whose airspace it currently shares on sky digital this is likely to occur after the switchover to d v b and d t t occurs in the uk in around twenty ten it is also intended that eventually the c y w service will extend to include the programmes in the planed plant service aimed at older children it is
squad-56bec7353aeaaa14008c940e,what nationality is the band coldplay,Oasis_(band)_0,oasis band template infobox musical artist two oasis are a rock band originally formed in manchester england the band is led by principal songwriter and lead guitarist noel gallagher and his younger brother lead vocalist forward slash songwriter liam gallagher who are the only remaining original band members it should be noted that on certain tracks noel handles lead vocals musically and lyrically they cite bands such as the british invasion bands like the beatles slade t rex
squad-57296f85af94a219006aa404,what shape are pyrenoids,Enceladus_28,fifty one fifty k m rhea one thousand five hundred thirty k m iapetus one thousand four hundred forty k m dione one thousand one hundred twenty k m and tethys one thousand fifty k m it is also one of the smallest of saturn s spherical satellites since all smaller satellites except mimas three hundred ninety k m have an irregular shape enceladus has a shape of a oblate spheroid its dimensions calculated from pictures taken by cassini s iss instrument are of five hundred thirteen a five hundred three b four hundred ninety seven c k m with a
squad-57273abef1498d1400e8f4dc,which major network was the most watched for the two thousand one season,American_football_24,the new york giants that is still referred to as the greatest game ever played the game a twenty three to seventeen overtime victory by the colts was seen by millions of television viewers and had a major impact on the popularity of the sport this helped football to become the most popular sport in the united states by the mid one nine hundred sixties a rival the american football league afl arose in nineteen hundred sixty and challenged the nfl s dominance the afl began in relative obscurity but survived for several years due to a television contract with the abc network
squad-572847ff3acd2414000df86c,how many pages was the kalven report statement,X_Article_18,the world the clifford elsey report took those facts and interpreted how they affected the world and what the us should do about it the x article took the information presented in the two prior reports and constructed a road map for the cold war the article proved to be the public face of american foreign policy in the cold war minus even though kennan himself has noted that he felt that he was misunderstood minus in the statement that the united states policy toward the soviet union must be that of a long term patient but firm and vigilant containment of
squad-57308cf88ab72b1400f9c577,according to ellen churchill semple what type of climate was necessary for humans to become fully human,History_of_the_world_1,tools became far more refined and complex at some point humans had begun using fire for heat and for cooking humans also developed language sometime during the paleolithic as well as a conceptual repertoire that included systematic burial of the dead and adornment of the living during this period all humans lived as hunter gatherers who were generally nomadic modern humans spread rapidly over the globe from africa and the frost free zones of europe and asia the rapid expansion of humankind to north america and oceania took place at the climax of the ice age when temperate regions of today were
squad-571c9074dd7acb1400e4c104,what light radiation does ozone absorb,Oxygen_3,form allotrope of oxygen ozone o three helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation with the high altitude ozone layer but is a pollutant near the surface where it is a by product of smog oxygen was independently discovered by joseph priestley in wiltshire in seventeen hundred seventy four and carl wilhelm scheele in uppsala a year earlier but priestley is usually given priority because he published his findings first the name oxygen was coined in seventeen hundred seventy seven by antoine lavoisier whose experiments with
squad-5729fb003f37b31900478628,as a person gets older what does the skin produce less of,Daylight_saving_time_32,without d s t can instead use the first days of spring and autumn as reminders section two point four health d s t has mixed effects on health in societies with fixed work schedules it provides more afternoon sunlight for outdoor exercise it alters sunlight exposure whether this is beneficial depends on one s location and daily schedule as sunlight triggers vitamin d synthesis in the skin but overexposure can lead to skin cancer sunlight strongly influences seasonal affective disorder d s t may help in depression by causing
squad-57113be3a58dae1900cd6d2c,what was the steam engine an important component of,Fossil_fuel_15,engines fossil fuel power stations and other uses prior to the latter half of the eighteenth century windmills or watermills provided the energy needed for industry such as milling flour sawing wood or pumping water and burning wood or peat provided domestic heat the wide scale use of fossil fuels coal at first and petroleum later to fire steam engines enabled the industrial revolution at the same time gas lights using natural gas or coal gas were coming into wide use the invention of the internal combustion engine
squad-56d6fea90d65d214001982b2,how many interceptions did aqib talib have for the regular season,Michael_Jordan_5,accolades and accomplishments include five m v p awards ten all nba first team designations nine all defensive first team honors fourteen nba all star game appearances three all star game m v p awards ten scoring titles three steals titles six nba finals m v p awards and the nineteen hundred eighty eight nba defensive player of the year award he holds the nba records for highest career regular season scoring average thirty point one two points per game and highest career playoff scoring average
squad-57269424dd62a815002e8a1e,which entity is the secondary legislative body,Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom_4,administration and justice later different bodies assuming distinct functions evolved from the court the courts of law took over the business of dispensing justice while parliament became the supreme legislature of the kingdom nevertheless the council retained the power to hear legal disputes either in the first instance or on appeal furthermore laws made by the sovereign on the advice of the council rather than on the advice of parliament were accepted as valid powerful sovereigns often used the body to circumvent the courts and parliament for example a committee of the council which later became the court of the
squad-56e1b8f3e3433e14004230e8,what is one common example of a critical complexity measure,P_versus_NP_problem_6,cryptography algorithm research artificial intelligence game theory multimedia processing and many other fields table of contents section one context the relation between the complexity classes p and n p is studied in computational complexity theory the part of the theory of computation dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem the most common resources are time how many steps it takes to solve a problem and space how much memory it takes to solve a problem in such analysis
squad-56f87760aef23719006260ce,what did luther use the hymn to encourage colleagues to do,Martin_Luther_112,from depths of woe i cry to you in one thousand five hundred twenty three as a hymnic version of psalm one hundred thirty and sent it as a sample to encourage evangelical colleagues to write psalm hymns for use in german worship in fifteen twenty four luther developed his original four stanza psalm paraphrase into a five stanza reformation hymn that developed the theme of grace alone more fully because it expressed essential reformation doctrine this expanded version of aus tiefer not was designated as a regular component of several regional lutheran liturgies and was widely used at funerals including
squad-5726e834dd62a815002e94a7,from which country did the rococo augustus rex bureau cabinet come from,Star_Wars%3a_Episode_II_%e2%80%93_Attack_of_the_Clones_48,be scary and really young section six historical and cultural allusions observers believe that palpatine s rise to power is very similar to that of adolf hitler in nazi germany as chancellor of germany the latter was granted emergency powers as was chancellor palpatine comparisons have been made to octavian minus who became augustus the first emperor of rome minus and to napoleon bonaparte who rose to power in france from seventeen hundred ninety six to seventeen hundred ninety nine octavian was responsible for the deaths of several hundred political opponents well before he was
squad-56f88690a6d7ea1400e17723,where did luther say that the soul doesnt sleep but rather has visions,Martin_Luther_128,this was also the view of lessing seventeen hundred fifty five in his analysis of late lutheran orthodoxy to these passages luther s commentary on genesis contains a passage which concludes the soul does not sleep anima non sic dormit but wakes sed vigilat and experiences visions francis blackburne in seventeen hundred sixty five argued that john jortin misread this and other passages from luther while gottfried fritschel pointed out in eighteen hundred sixty seven that it actually refers to the
squad-57268ff9f1498d1400e8e3e7,how many major bus stations are in the city of newcastle,Finchley_Central_tube_station_5,today and as one of the two remaining original stations on the edgware highgate and london railway along with mill hill east it is one of the oldest parts of the underground system predating the first tunnelled section of the northern line the city and south london railway by more than twenty years section two gallery looking south from platform two platforms platforms station road entrance section three local information the station has two entrances the main one leading directly to the ticket hall is from an access road on the north side of the tracks which for many years lacked a name but on thirteen november
squad-572ff932a23a5019007fcbd6,what do supporters of islamism believe their views reflect,Jesus_139,states that jesus is a stumbling block who makes the majority of the world to err and serve a god other than the lord section five point three islamic views in islam jesus isa is considered to be a messenger of god allah and the messiah al masih who was sent to guide the children of israel bani israil with a new scripture the gospel injil muslims regard the gospels of the new testament as inauthentic and believe that jesus original message was lost and that muhammad came later to restore it belief in jesus and all other
squad-5733cf61d058e614000b62eb,how many people were in french north american colonies,Canadians_9,the colony of newfoundland in the wake of the seventeen hundred seventy five invasion of canada by the newly formed continental army during the american revolutionary war approximately sixty thousand united empire loyalist fled to british north america a large portion of whom migrated to new brunswick after the war of eighteen hundred twelve british including british army regulars scottish and irish immigration was encouraged throughout rupert s land upper canada and lower canada between eighteen hundred fifteen and eighteen hundred fifty some eight hundred thousand immigrants came to the colonies of british north america mainly from the british isles as part
squad-56f8ce779b226e1400dd103d,when is luther commemorated in the lutheran calendar of saints ,Martin_Luther_177,honoured on eighteen february with a commemoration in the lutheran calendar of saints and a feast day in the episcopal united states calendar of saints in the church of england s calendar of saints he is commemorated on
squad-56e7560937bdd419002c3e8f,what country is this teaching subject discussing,Baby_Gender_Mentor_37,the united states though the test has been purchased by customers in canada and in scotland sheila mclean professor of medical ethics at glasgow university is critical of the kits she said this firm could be making claims they cannot substantiate luring people into thinking they have information on which they can act for some mums and dads that might only go as far as painting the nursery pink but others may terminate a pregnancy because they believe they are not getting what they want that s enough of an ethical minefield but what if they were to abort a child they did want section four point two alleged
squad-56e74af500c9c71400d76f68,who would generally teach from a work like the quran torah or bible,Martin_Luther_99,i would rather see them all devoured for i acknowledge none of them to be really a book of mine except perhaps the bondage of the will and the catechism the small catechism has earned a reputation as a model of clear religious teaching it remains in use today along with luther s hymns and his translation of the bible luther s small catechism proved especially effective in helping parents teach their children likewise the larger catechism was effective for pastors using the german vernacular they expressed the apostles creed in simpler more personal trinitarian language he
squad-56f8575aaef2371900625ffe,what was the black cloister,Martin_Luther_85,averse to wedlock because i daily expect the death of a heretic before marrying luther had been living on the plainest food and as he admitted himself his mildewed bed was not properly made for months at a time luther and his wife moved into a former monastery the black cloister a wedding present from the new elector john the steadfast one thousand five hundred twenty five to thirty two they embarked on what appeared to have been a happy and successful marriage though money was often short between bearing six children hans june fifteen twenty six elizabeth minus ten december
squad-56f8ae099e9bad19000a02ee,what did jews refuse to accept that caused luther to call them blasphemers and liars,Martin_Luther_150,luther wrote about the jews throughout his career though only a few of his works dealt with them directly luther rarely encountered jews during his life but his attitudes reflected a theological and cultural tradition which saw jews as a rejected people guilty of the murder of christ and he lived within a local community that had expelled jews some ninety years earlier he considered the jews blasphemers and liars because they rejected the divinity of jesus whereas christians believed jesus was the messiah at
squad-5729727baf94a219006aa439,besides the analytic property of numbers what other property of numbers does number theory focus on,Parity_of_zero_17,for even numbers from another perspective taking the rules obeyed by positive even numbers and requiring that they continue to hold for integers forces the usual definition and the evenness of zero section two mathematical contexts countless results in number theory invoke the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and the algebraic properties of even numbers so the above choices have far reaching consequences for example the fact that positive numbers have unique factorizations means that one can determine whether a number has an even or odd number of distinct prime factors since one is
squad-56e17a7ccd28a01900c679a2,in computational complexity theory what is the term given to describe the baseline abstract question needing to be solved,P_versus_NP_problem_7,are time how many steps it takes to solve a problem and space how much memory it takes to solve a problem in such analysis a model of the computer for which time must be analyzed is required typically such models assume that the computer is deterministic given the computer s present state and any inputs there is only one possible action that the computer might take and sequential it performs actions one after the other in this theory the class p consists of all those decision problems defined below that can be solved on a deterministic sequential machine in an
squad-56f811bdaef2371900625d9f,which pope sought to undermine luthers theories,Martin_Luther_1,the protestant reformation he strongly disputed the claim that freedom from god s punishment of sin could be purchased with money he confronted indulgence salesman johann tetzel with his ninety five theses in one thousand five hundred seventeen his refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of pope leo x in fifteen twenty and the holy roman emperor charles v at the diet of worms in fifteen twenty one resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor luther taught that salvation is not earned by good deeds but received only
squad-57264a74708984140094c18f,did the plague spread in scandinavia or germany first,Hamlet_29,section three sources hamlet like legends are so widely found for example in italy spain scandinavia byzantium
squad-5728f6446aef0514001548e4,what type of immune systems are found in all plants and animals,Introduction_to_viruses_53,section six point three host resistance section six point three point one innate immunity of animals animals including humans have many natural defences against viruses some are non specific and protect against many viruses regardless of the type this innate immunity is not improved by repeated exposure to viruses and does not retain a
squad-570607f575f01819005e78b4,what is the largest city in all of california,Chicago_0,chicago template chicagoinfobox two chicago illinois minus officially the city of chicago and colloquially known as chicago the second city and the windy city minus is the third largest city of the united states after new york city and los angeles and is the largest inland city of the nation according to the two thousand census it has a population of two million eight hundred ninety six thousand sixteen people classified as a world class city it
squad-572fbea404bcaa1900d76c5f,what can the non elected members from the scottish government not do,United_States_House_of_Representatives_47,open for three hours from three a m to six zero a m the two thousand five vote on cafta was open for one hour from eleven p m to twelve zero a m an october two thousand five vote on facilitating refinery construction was kept open for forty minutes the presiding officer may vote like any other member if a vote is tied the presiding officer does not have a casting vote unless he has not yet cast his vote instead motions are decided in the negative when ties arise section five committees the house uses committees as well as their subcommittees for a variety of purposes including the review of bills and the oversight of the executive branch the appointment of committee members is formally made by the whole house but the choice of members is
squad-56d601e41c85041400946ed0,which newton turnover resulted in seven points for denver,College_football_20,is decided by a one five minute sudden death quarter two point conversions are attempted from the three yard line the n f l uses the two yard line the defensive team can score on a missed conversion attempt if the defense returns a blocked kick fumble or interception into the opposition end zone it receives two points officially scored as a safety in the n f l a conversion attempt automatically ends once the defensive team gains possession of the football for a more general discussion of football rules see the rules of american football
squad-572956c86aef051400154d1b,what nationality was konstantin mereschkowski,Introduction_to_viruses_8,a filter known today as the chamberland filter or chamberland pasteur filter that has pores smaller than bacteria thus he could pass a solution containing bacteria through the filter and completely remove them from the solution in the early eighteen hundred nineties the russian biologist dimitri ivanovski used this filter to study what became known as the tobacco mosaic virus his experiments showed that extracts from the crushed leaves of infected tobacco plants remain infectious after filtration at the
squad-56f827caa6d7ea1400e1743b,who presented the edict of worms declaring luther to be an outlaw,Martin_Luther_2,by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor luther taught that salvation is not earned by good deeds but received only as a free gift of god s grace through faith in jesus christ as redeemer from sin his theology challenged the authority of the pope of the roman catholic church by teaching that the bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized christians to be a holy priesthood those who identify with luther s teachings are called lutherans his translation of the bible into the
squad-56f855caaef2371900625ff5,why did luther condemn vows of celibacy,Martin_Luther_84,but luther s wedding set the seal of approval on clerical marriage he had long condemned vows of celibacy on biblical grounds but his decision to marry surprised many not least melanchthon who called it reckless luther had written to george spalatin on thirty november fifteen twenty four i shall never take a wife as i feel at present not that i am insensible to my flesh or sex for i am neither wood nor stone but my mind is averse to wedlock because i daily expect the death of a heretic before marrying luther had been living on the plainest food and as he admitted
squad-56f84e63aef2371900625fc1,who did luther remind the peasants to obey,Martin_Luther_75,muntzer in thuringia and michael gaismair in tyrol the revolts turned into war luther sympathised with some of the peasants grievances as he showed in his response to the twelve articles in may fifteen twenty five but he reminded the aggrieved to obey the temporal authorities during a tour of thuringia he became enraged at the widespread burning of convents monasteries bishops palaces and libraries in against the murderous thieving hordes of peasants written on his return to wittenberg he explained the gospel teaching on wealth condemned the violence as the devil s work
squad-56e75e4500c9c71400d7702c,what country has higher scores on standardized tests than the us,Insider_trading_58,at least in principle larry harris claims that differences in the effectiveness with which countries restrict insider trading help to explain the differences in executive compensation among those countries the u s for example has much higher ceo salaries than do japan or germany where insider trading is less effectively restrained section seven by nation section seven point one norway in two thousand nine a journalist in nettavisen thomas gulbrandsen was sentenced to four months in prison for insider trading the longest prison sentence in a norwegian trial where the main charge was insider trading was for eight years where two of the years are suspended when
squad-570603c475f01819005e7882,southern california had a population of twenty two six hundred eighty ten according to the census from which year,Lewisville%2c_Texas_49,as of the twenty ten united states census the city had a total population of ninety five thousand two hundred ninety including thirty seven thousand four hundred ninety six households and twenty three thousand four hundred seventeen families the racial makeup of the city was sixty five point three per cent white eleven point two per cent african american zero point seven per cent native american seven point eight per cent asian eleven point three per cent from other races and three point two
squad-5725cc2038643c19005acd1b,what helped support the command module with a propulsion engine and propellants,Orion_(spacecraft)_27,the mpcv s crew module is larger than apollo s and can support more crew members for short or long duration spaceflight missions the service module fuels and propels the spacecraft as well as storing oxygen and water for astronauts the service module s structure is also being designed to provide locations to mount scientific experiments and cargo section three point one crew module the orion c m will hold four crew members compared to a maximum of three in the smaller apollo c m or seven in the larger space shuttle despite its conceptual resemblance to the nineteen hundred
squad-56f88690a6d7ea1400e17727,what did fritschel say the mans sleep was disturbed by,Martin_Luther_129,from luther while gottfried fritschel pointed out in eighteen hundred sixty seven that it actually refers to the soul of a man in this life homo enim in hac vita tired from his daily labour defatigus diurno labore who at night enters his bedchamber sub noctem intrat in cubiculum suum and whose sleep is interrupted by dreams henry eyster jacobs english translation from eighteen hundred ninety eight reads
squad-56e777e500c9c71400d77177,what language is used to educate in wales,Welsh_language_41,most notably the university of wales bangor under the national curriculum school children in wales must study welsh up to the age of sixteen according to the welsh language board two over a quarter of children in wales attend schools which teach predominantly through the medium of welsh the remainder study welsh as a second language in english medium schools specialist teachers of welsh called athrawon bro support the teaching of welsh in the national curriculum
squad-571144d1a58dae1900cd6d70,along with nuclear geothermal and internal combustion engine waste heat what sort of energy might supply the heat for a steam engine,Fossil_fuel_4,amounting to an eighty six point four per cent share for fossil fuels in primary energy consumption in the world non fossil sources in two thousand six included hydroelectric six point three per cent nuclear eight point five per cent and geothermal solar tide wind wood waste amounting nine percent world energy consumption was growing about two point three per cent per year fossil fuels are non renewable resources because they take millions of years to form and reserves are being depleted much
squad-572757bef1498d1400e8f694,school desegregation in the united states led to an increased number of students of what ethnicity in public schools,Minneapolis_8,hubert h humphrey helped the city establish fair employment practices and a human relations council that interceded on behalf of minorities by nineteen hundred forty six minneapolis contended with white supremacy participated in desegregation and the african american civil rights movement and in nineteen hundred sixty eight was the birthplace of the american indian movement during the nineteen hundred fifties and nineteen hundred sixties as part of urban renewal the city razed about two hundred buildings across twenty five city blocks roughly forty per cent of downtown destroying the gateway district and many buildings with notable architecture including the metropolitan building
squad-56e1c7e2cd28a01900c67b75,what is responsible for constraining p according to the time hierarchy theorem,P_versus_NP_problem_17,problems that operate not on normal input but on a computational description of the input are known to be exptime complete because it can be shown that p exptime these problems are outside p and so require more than polynomial time in fact by the time hierarchy theorem they cannot be solved in significantly less than exponential time examples include finding a perfect strategy for chess on an n n board and some other board games the problem of deciding the truth of a statement in presburger arithmetic requires even more time fischer
squad-56e1c7e2cd28a01900c67b76,within what variable is l constrained according to the space hierarchy theorem,P_versus_NP_problem_58,the languages in the polynomial hierarchy ph correspond to all of second order logic thus the question is p a proper subset of n p can be reformulated as is existential second order logic able to describe languages of finite linearly ordered structures with nontrivial signature that first order logic with least fixed point cannot the word existential can even be dropped from the previous characterization since p equals n p if and only if p equals ph as the former would establish that n p equals company n p which in turn implies that n p equals ph pspace
squad-56f88690a6d7ea1400e17724,who stated that john jortin misunderstood luther,Martin_Luther_128,this was also the view of lessing seventeen hundred fifty five in his analysis of late lutheran orthodoxy to these passages luther s commentary on genesis contains a passage which concludes the soul does not sleep anima non sic dormit but wakes sed vigilat and experiences visions francis blackburne in seventeen hundred sixty five argued that john jortin misread this and other passages from luther while gottfried fritschel pointed out in eighteen hundred sixty seven that it actually refers to the
squad-56f802c6a6d7ea1400e17377,who did martin luther say was the lone granter of forgiveness,Martin_Luther_17,expressing particular interest in aristotle william of ockham and gabriel biel he was deeply influenced by two tutors bartholomaeus arnoldi von usingen and jodocus trutfetter who taught him to be suspicious of even the greatest thinkers and to test everything himself by experience philosophy proved to be unsatisfying offering assurance about the use of reason but none about loving god which to luther was more important reason could not lead men to god he felt and he thereafter developed a love hate relationship with
squad-56e1aba0e3433e1400423094,what is the term for a mathematical model that theoretically represents a general computing machine,P_versus_NP_problem_66,turing machine that is where and a deterministic polynomial time turing machine is a deterministic turing machine m that satisfies the following two conditions m
squad-56f82b25a6d7ea1400e17459,when did luther write to melanchhon about gods grace,Martin_Luther_62,sin all humans are sinners by nature he explained and god s grace which cannot be earned alone can make them just on one august fifteen twenty one luther wrote to melanchthon on the same theme be a sinner and let your sins be strong but let your trust in christ be stronger and rejoice in christ who is the victor over sin death and the world we will commit sins while we are here for this life is not a place where justice resides in the summer of fifteen twenty one luther widened his target from individual pieties like indulgences and pilgrimages to doctrines
squad-57109275b654c5140001f9a0,what was the name of frances primary colony in the new world,British_Empire_46,hundred sixty three involving france britain and the other major european powers the signing of the treaty of paris seventeen hundred sixty three had important consequences for the future of the british empire in north america france s future as a colonial power there was effectively ended with the recognition of british claims to rupert s land and the ceding of new france to britain leaving a sizeable french speaking population under british control and louisiana to spain spain ceded florida
squad-571c97e2dd7acb1400e4c11e,where does oxygen rank by mass in the planets biosphere,Oxygen_1,odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium and the most abundant element by mass in the earth s crust oxygen constitutes eighty eight point eight per cent of the mass of water and twenty point nine per cent of the volume of air all major classes of structural molecules in living organisms such as proteins carbohydrates and fats contain oxygen as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by
squad-56f85bb8aef2371900626012,who was the new elector of saxony,Martin_Luther_90,to avoid confusing or upsetting the people luther avoided extreme change he also did not wish to replace one controlling system with another he concentrated on the church in the electorate of saxony acting only as an adviser to churches in new territories many of which followed his saxon model he worked closely with the new elector john the steadfast to whom he turned for secular leadership and funds on behalf of a church largely shorn of its assets and income after the break with rome for luther s biographer martin brecht this partnership was the beginning of a questionable and
squad-572fc5a1947a6a140053cc8b,who normally instructs members how to vote,United_States_Senate_39,hundred seventy four but came into use in the early nineteen hundred eighties section five committees the senate uses committees as well as their subcommittees for a variety of purposes including the review of bills and the oversight of the executive branch the appointment of committee members is formally made by the whole senate but the choice of members is actually made by the political parties generally each party honors the preferences of individual senators giving priority on the basis of seniority each party is allocated seats on committees in proportion to its overall strength most committee work is performed by sixteen standing committees each of which has jurisdiction over a specific field such as finance or foreign relations each standing committee may consider amend and report bills that fall under its
squad-56e19724cd28a01900c679fa,is the output of a functional problem typically characterized by a simple or complex answer,Functional_programming_14,of computer programs brought awareness of the power of functional programming to the wider programming languages community in the nineteen hundred eighties per martin lof developed intuitionistic type theory also called constructive type theory which associated functional programs with constructive proofs of arbitrarily complex mathematical propositions expressed as dependent types this led to powerful new approaches to interactive theorem proving and has influenced the development of many subsequent functional programming languages the haskell language began with a consensus in nineteen hundred eighty seven
squad-56f7eddca6d7ea1400e172da,on what did luthers friend blame his sadness and entrance into the cloister,Martin_Luther_20,and entered a closed augustinian friary in erfurt on seventeen july fifteen oh five one friend blamed the decision on luther s sadness over the deaths of two friends luther himself seemed saddened by the move those who attended a farewell supper walked him to the door of the black cloister this day you see me and then not ever again he said his father was furious over what he saw as a waste of luther s education
squad-56d704430d65d214001982e0,who is the oldest quarterback to play in a super bowl,Saltine_cracker_challenge_3,nature and persistence of the tennessee volunteers quarterback at the time peyton manning having been bet that he could not eat six saltines manning attempted them one by one and failed trying again he stacked them on top of each other and succeeded his roommate concluded even something that was a joke he was out to prove he can do it he can eat six saltine crackers and he did he works out techniques he can do on everything before the two thousand one to two thousand two season penn state lady lions basketball coach
squad-57286010ff5b5019007da1cb,what was the name of the first self sustained man made nuclear reaction,Louis_Slotin_11,while working together the two men also used carbon one one to demonstrate that animal cells had the capacity to use carbon dioxide for carbohydrate synthesis through carbon fixation slotin may have been present at the start up of enrico fermi s chicago pile one the first nuclear reactor on december two nineteen hundred forty two however the accounts of the event do not agree on this point during this time slotin also contributed to a number of papers in the field of radiobiology his expertise on the subject garnered the attention of the united states government and as a result he was invited to join the manhattan
squad-570d28bdb3d812140066d4a4,what party is strongest in melbournes affluent areas,Pierre_Trudeau_22,economic policy advisor he wrote in his memoirs that he found this period very useful later on when he entered politics and that senior civil servant norman robertson tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to stay on his socialist values and his close ties with company operative commonwealth federation c c f intellectuals including frank scott disambiguation needed eugene forsey michael kelway oliver and charles taylor led to his support and membership in that federal social democratic party throughout the nineteen hundred fifties despite these connections when trudeau entered federal politics in the nineteen hundred sixties he decided to join the liberal party
squad-56f7fde8a6d7ea1400e1736b,what is the catholic doctrine of fides caritate formata,Martin_Luther_26,johann tetzel a dominican friar and papal commissioner for indulgences was sent to germany by the roman catholic church to sell indulgences to raise money to rebuild saint peter s basilica in rome roman catholic theology stated that faith alone whether fiduciary or dogmatic cannot justify man and that only such faith as is active in charity and good works fides caritate formata can justify man the benefits of good works could be obtained by donating money to the church on thirty one october fifteen seventeen
squad-56f87e95aef237190062610a,what does luthers hymn christ unser herr zum jordan kam concern,Martin_Luther_113,of aus tiefer not was designated as a regular component of several regional lutheran liturgies and was widely used at funerals including luther s own along with erhart hegenwalt s hymnic version of psalm fifty one luther s expanded hymn was also adopted for use with the fifth part of luther s catechism concerning confession luther s fifteen forty hymn christ unser herr zum jordan kam to jordan came the christ our lord reflects the structure and substance of his questions and answers concerning baptism in the small catechism luther adopted a preexisting
squad-56f86d30a6d7ea1400e17606,which germans could understand the language luther used,Martin_Luther_105,of works will have to say faith alone justifies us and not works luther s translation used the variant of german spoken at the saxon chancellery intelligible to both northern and southern germans he intended his vigorous direct language to make the bible accessible to everyday germans for we are removing impediments and difficulties so that other people may read it without hindrance published at a time of rising demand for german language publications luther s version quickly became a popular and influential bible translation as
squad-57332e48d058e614000b5762,what army was pushing deep into polish territory to pursue the germans in nineteen forty four ,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_38,and villages were leveled and thirty thousand one hundred soviet factories were destroyed in order to prevent a similar assault in the future stalin was determined to use the red army to gain control of poland to dominate the balkans and to destroy utterly germany s capacity to engage in another war the problem was that stalin s strategy risked confrontation with the equally powerful united states who viewed stalin s actions as a flagrant violation of the yalta agreement at the end of the war in europe in may nineteen hundred forty five the soviets insisted on occupying the danish island of
squad-56f8c43d9b226e1400dd0f63,how did luthers writings sound as he became less healthy,Martin_Luther_169,drum in december fifteen forty four he began to feel the effects of angina his poor physical health made him short tempered and even harsher in his writings and comments his wife katharina was overheard saying dear husband you are too rude and he responded they are teaching me to be rude his last sermon was delivered at eisleben his place of birth on fifteen february fifteen forty six three days before his death it was entirely devoted to the obdurate jews whom it was a matter of great urgency to expel from
squad-572805363acd2414000df26d,who has released official reconstructions of doctor who episodes,The_Quatermass_Experiment_18,two thousand five bbc worldwide released a boxed set of all their existing quatermass material on d v d containing digitally restored versions of the two existing episodes of the quatermass experiment as well as the two subsequent bbc serials and various extra material this includes p d f files of photocopies of the original scripts for episodes three through six however they range in quality from illegible to in an extreme case in episode six unreadable section six two thousand five remake on saturday two april two thousand five the bbc s digital channel bbc four broadcast a live remake of the
squad-572fe41e04bcaa1900d76e4f,the rhine forms the border between austria and what other country,Iron_Curtain_38,which retained its full independence the majority of european states to the east of the iron curtain developed their own international economic and military alliances such as comecon and the warsaw pact section three point three point two west of the iron curtain to the west of the iron curtain the countries of western europe northern europe and southern europe along with austria west germany liechtenstein and switzerland operated market economies with the exception of a period of fascism in spain until the nineteen hundred seventies and portugal
squad-57269120708984140094ca5a,what does the local council hope will help cut down traffic congestion in newcastle,Trafford_84,trafford cycle forum was established to promote cycling in trafford the group actively campaigns to raise money for cycling in the borough section ten see also trafford council election two thousand seven trafford local elections
squad-56f8541da6d7ea1400e1757a,when was the wedding banquet celebrated,Martin_Luther_83,the couple was engaged with johannes bugenhagen justus jonas johannes apel philipp melanchthon and lucas cranach the elder and his wife as witnesses on the evening of the same day the couple was married by bugenhagen the ceremonial walk to the church and the wedding banquet were left out and were made up two weeks later on twenty seven june some priests and former monks had already married including andreas karlstadt and justus jonas but luther s wedding set the seal of approval on clerical marriage he had long condemned vows of celibacy on biblical grounds but his decision to marry
squad-5726710b708984140094c61d,where is the victoria and albert museum located,Dinosaur_70,had been found so far iguanodon megalosaurus and hylaeosaurus had a number of features in common so decided to present them as a distinct taxonomic group with the backing of prince albert of saxe coburg gotha husband of queen victoria owen established the natural history museum in south kensington london to display the national collection of dinosaur fossils and other biological and geological exhibits in eighteen hundred fifty eight the first known american dinosaur was discovered in marl pits of the small town of haddonfield new jersey although fossils had been found before their
squad-57306797396df919000960f1,which is more costly formal or informal imperialism,Alzheimer%27s_disease_80,costs such as lost productivity of both patient and caregiver numbers vary between studies but dementia costs worldwide have been calculated around one hundred sixty dollars billion while costs of alzheimer in the united states may be one hundred dollars billion each year the greatest origin of costs for society is the long term care by health care professionals and particularly institutionalisation which corresponds to two forward slash three of the total costs for society the cost of living at home is also very high specially when informal costs for the family such as caregiving time and caregiver s lost earnings are taken into account
squad-57269e8a5951b619008f77f5,what do we call the empire that genghis khan founded,History_of_the_world_17,empire fell under the domination of various germanic tribes in the fifth century and these polities gradually developed into a number of warring catholic states the remaining part of the roman empire in the eastern mediterranean was henceforth known as the byzantine empire centuries later a large part of western europe became the holy roman empire comprising a number of states in what is now germany and italy in china dynasties would similarly rise and fall the most remarkable if short lived of these was the mongol empire which seized almost all of eurasia s landmass missing only western europe and japan islam which began in arabia
squad-5726a00cf1498d1400e8e550,which entity developed the principles of european union law,European_Economic_Community_43,its role was to ensure that community law was applied in the same way across all states and to settle legal disputes between institutions or states it became a powerful institution as community law overrides national law section four point six auditors the fifth institution is the european court of auditors which despite its name had no judicial powers like the court of justice instead it ensured that taxpayer funds from the community budget have been correctly spent the court provided an audit report for each financial year
squad-5725e547ec44d21400f3d721,how many more landing sites for the apollo missions did nasa have planned,Virgin_Galactic_17,a fleet of two white knight two motherships and five or more spaceshiptwo tourist suborbital spacecraft v m s eve v m s spirit of steve fossett v s s enterprise v s s voyager not yet named not yet named not yet named section six base test launches are planned to take place from the mojave spaceport where scaled composites is constructing the
squad-5730aef38ab72b1400f9c684,what was the name of the first german settlement,British_Empire_98,nineteen hundred seven respectively section five point one first world war britain s fears of war with germany were realised in nineteen hundred fourteen with the outbreak of the first world war britain quickly invaded and occupied most of germany s overseas colonies in africa in the pacific australia and new zealand occupied german new guinea and samoa respectively plans for a post war division of the ottoman empire which had joined the war on germany s side were secretly drawn up by britain and france under the nineteen hundred sixteen sykes picot agreement this
squad-5730bf03069b5314008322ed,the umc supports research on what cells retrieved from umbilical cords,DNA_repair_36,work by overwhelming the capacity of the cell to repair dna damage and resulting in cell death cells that are most rapidly dividing such as cancer cells are preferentially affected the side effect is that other non cancerous but similarly rapidly dividing cells such as stem cells in the bone marrow are also affected modern cancer treatments attempt to localize the dna damage to cells and tissues only associated with cancer section five point two gene therapy for therapeutic uses of dna repair the challenge is to discover which particular dna repair enzymes exhibit the most precise specificity for damaged sites so its overexpression will lead to enhanced dna repair function once the appropriate repair factors have been identified the next
squad-56bec0353aeaaa14008c934d,who is the trophy given to the super bowl champion named for,American_football_81,league in the world with an average attendance of almost seventy thousand persons during the twenty eleven n f l season the n f l championship game the super bowl is among the biggest events in club sports worldwide it is played between the champions of the national football conference n f c and the american football conference afc and its winner is awarded the vince lombardi trophy collegiate football ranks third in overall popularity in the united states behind baseball and pro football the ncaa the largest collegiate organization is divided into three
squad-5711651050c2381900b54ace,what is another name for a coal supply bin,Manchester_Bolton_&_Bury_Canal_34,the collieries being so close to industry along the canal s length the boats used to transport coal were short and narrow and each contained a row of boxes used for carrying coal each box had a base of two halves hinged and held closed with chains these boxes would be lifted out of the boats positioned by crane over a bunker or cart and emptied by releasing the chains on the base this design helped keep the canal competitive as it increased the speed with which loading and unloading of the boats could be performed the canal would often freeze in winter so an icebreaker was used to ensure the canal remained
squad-56de3dbacffd8e1900b4b6d2,what country was under the control of norman barons,William_II_of_England_3,he was a wise ruler and victorious general barlow finds that his chivalrous virtues and achievements were all too obvious he had maintained good order and satisfactory justice in england and restored good peace to normandy he had extended anglo norman rule in wales brought scotland firmly under his lordship recovered maine and kept up the pressure on the vexin table of contents section one early years william s exact date of birth is unknown but it was some time between the years ten fifty six and ten sixty he was
squad-57270817708984140094d8ca,the theatre collection starts from the time of which famous elizabethan playwright,William_Shakespeare_0,william shakespeare william shakespeare baptised twenty six april fifteen sixty four minus twenty three april sixteen hundred sixteen a was an english poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer in the english language and the world s pre eminent dramatist he is often called england s national poet and the bard of avon or simply the bard his surviving works consist of thirty eight plays b one hundred fifty four sonnets two long narrative poems
squad-57300ec0947a6a140053d004,who deployed its army into afghanistan in nineteen seventy nine ,Cold_War_143,communist governments besides continuing carters policy of supporting the islamic opponents of the soviet union and the soviet backed pdpa government in afghanistan the cia also sought to weaken the soviet union itself by promoting political islam in the majority muslim central asian soviet union additionally the cia encouraged anti communist pakistan s inter services intelligence isi agency to train muslims from around the world to participate in the jihad against the soviet union section seven point three polish solidarity movement and martial law pope john paul ii provided a
squad-56f84760aef2371900625f85,who asked luther to return to the city,Martin_Luther_66,december fifteen twenty one luther wrote a sincere admonition by martin luther to all christians to guard against insurrection and rebellion wittenberg became even more volatile after christmas when a band of visionary zealots the so called zwickau prophets arrived preaching revolutionary doctrines such as the equality of man adult baptism and christ s imminent return when the town council asked luther to return he decided it was his duty to act
squad-5725e36f89a1e219009ac038,from what project did the apollo eleven crew consist entirely of,NASA_8,on may twenty five nineteen hundred sixty one that the united states should commit itself to landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth by nineteen hundred seventy thus apollo became a program to land men on the moon the gemini program was started shortly thereafter to provide an interim spacecraft to prove techniques needed for the now much more complicated apollo missions after eight years of preliminary missions including nasa s first loss of astronauts with the apollo one launch pad fire the apollo program achieved its goals with apollo eleven which landed neil armstrong and buzz
squad-56d71bd80d65d2140019835e,when is the games media day usually held,Peterborough_10,in eleven eighty nine and later held on the second tuesday and wednesday in july and the brigge fair granted in fourteen thirty nine and later held on the first tuesday wednesday and thursday in october were purchased by the corporation from the ecclesiastical commissioners in eighteen hundred seventy six the bridge fair as it is now known granted to the abbey by king henry vi survives prayers for the opening of the fair were once said at the morning service in the cathedral followed by a civic proclamation and a sausage lunch at the town hall which still takes place the mayor traditionally leads a procession from the town hall to the fair where the proclamation is read
squad-56f8b9839e9bad19000a03bf,how do some scholars view the nazi use of luthers work,Martin_Luther_162,of germany in elections of nineteen hundred twenty eight to november nineteen hundred thirty two at the heart of scholars debate about luther s influence is whether it is anachronistic to view his work as a precursor of the racial antisemitism of the national socialists some scholars see luther s influence as limited and the nazis use of his work as opportunistic biographer martin brecht points out that there is a world of difference between his belief in salvation and a racial ideology nevertheless his misguided agitation had the evil result that luther fatefully became one of the church fathers of anti semitism and thus provided
squad-572ffa79a23a5019007fcbeb,what period did plates reverse directions to compress the tethys floor,Jurassic_9,lias dogger and malm in europe the corresponding terms for the rocks are lower middle and upper jurassic the separation of the term jurassic into three sections goes back to leopold von buch seventeen hundred seventy four eighteen hundred fifty three the faunal stages from youngest to oldest are section two paleogeography and tectonics during the early jurassic period the supercontinent pangaea broke up into the northern supercontinent laurasia and the southern supercontinent gondwana the gulf of mexico opened in the new rift between north america and what is now mexico s yucatan peninsula
squad-572a1a5c6aef051400155287,what was ban ki moon the secretary general of,Richard_Branson_62,general ban ki moon presented branson with the united nations correspondents association citizen of the world award for his support for environmental and humanitarian causes on twenty four january twenty eleven branson was awarded the german media prize organised by media control charts previously handed to former u s president bill clinton and the dalai lama on fourteen november twenty eleven branson was awarded the ista prize by the international space transport association in the hague for his pioneering achievements in the development of suborbital transport systems with virgin galactic on february eleven twenty twelve branson was honoured with the national academy interview with piers
squad-56f84760aef2371900625f84,what group was responsible for causing more violence in wittenberg,Martin_Luther_66,december fifteen twenty one luther wrote a sincere admonition by martin luther to all christians to guard against insurrection and rebellion wittenberg became even more volatile after christmas when a band of visionary zealots the so called zwickau prophets arrived preaching revolutionary doctrines such as the equality of man adult baptism and christ s imminent return when the town council asked luther to return he decided it was his duty to act
squad-57377c98c3c5551400e51efb,what is the intrisic angular variable called when particles act upon one another,Helium_39,although the nuclear particles are subject to a different nuclear binding potential so that all these fermions fully occupy ones orbitals in pairs none of them possessing orbital angular momentum and each cancelling the other s intrinsic spin this arrangement is energetically extremely stable for all these particles and this stability accounts for many crucial facts regarding helium in nature for example the stability and low energy of the electron cloud state in
squad-56f82989aef2371900625e6f,how did luther persuade archbishop albrecht to stop the sale of indulgences,Martin_Luther_61,and polemical writings these included a renewed attack on archbishop albrecht of mainz whom he shamed into halting the sale of indulgences in his episcopates and a refutation of the argument of latomus in which he expounded the principle of justification to jacobus latomus an orthodox theologian from louvain in this work one of his most emphatic statements on faith he argued that every good work designed to attract god s favor is a sin all humans are sinners by nature he explained and god s grace which cannot be earned alone can make them just on one august
squad-56f8ca289b226e1400dd1007,what was later discovered written by luther,Martin_Luther_175,he was buried in the castle church in wittenberg beneath the pulpit the funeral was held by his friends johannes bugenhagen and philipp melanchthon a year later troops of luther s adversary charles v holy roman emperor entered the town but were ordered by charles not to disturb the grave a piece of paper was later found on which luther had written his last statement the statement was in latin apart from we are beggars which was in german
squad-5728d4c03acd2414000dffa3,what civil rights movement in the us was known for its disobedience,Rosa_Parks_0,rosa parks rosa lee louise mccauley parks february four nineteen hundred one three october twenty four two thousand five was an african american civil rights activist and seamstress whom the united states congress dubbed the mother of the modern day civil rights movement parks is famous for her refusal in nineteen hundred fifty five to obey a bus driver s demand that she give up her bus seat to a white passenger her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience
squad-56f82454a6d7ea1400e173fe,when did luther give his response to eck,Martin_Luther_56,contents luther confirmed he was their author but requested time to think about the answer to the second question he prayed consulted friends and gave his response the next day
squad-570d29c2b3d812140066d4bf,what is victorias largest non christian religion,Swastika_18,which is considered the parent religion of buddhism and jainism both dating from about the sixth century b c and the swastika symbol transferred as well buddhism in particular enjoyed great success spreading eastward and taking hold in southeast asia china korea and japan by the end of the first millenium the use of the swastika by the indigenous bon faith of tibet as well as syncretic religions such as cao dai of vietnam
squad-57274971708984140094dbbb,along with the anglican church and uniting church what religious denomination operates private schools in australia,Montreat%2c_North_Carolina_13,college founded in nineteen hundred sixteen and christ community church formerly montreat presbyterian church
squad-5725cb33271a42140099d1db,jellyfish ans sea anemones belong to what phylum,Ediacaran_biota_40,he described the vendobionta as quilted cnidarians lacking stinging cells this absence precludes the current cnidarian method of feeding so seilacher suggested that the organisms may have survived by symbiosis with photosynthetic or chemoautotrophic organisms gregory retallack s hypothesis that ediacaran organisms were lichens has failed to gain widespread acceptance he argues that the fossils are not as squashed as jellyfish fossilised in similar situations and their relief is closer to petrified wood he points out the chitinous walls of lichen colonies would provide a similar resistance to compaction and claims the large size of the organisms sometimes over a metre across far larger than any of the preserved burrows minus also hints against a classification with the animals
squad-56f8c2ee9b226e1400dd0f45,how was luthers health for the years of one thousand five hundred thirty one to one thousand five hundred forty six ,Martin_Luther_167,eighteen final years and death luther had been suffering from ill health for years including meniere s disease vertigo fainting tinnitus and a cataract in one eye from fifteen thirty one to fifteen forty six his health deteriorated further the years of struggle with rome the antagonisms with and
squad-56f84d33aef2371900625fb4,what did the peasants believe luther would do for them,Martin_Luther_74,on a smaller scale since the fifteenth century luther s pamphlets against the church and the hierarchy often worded with liberal phraseology now led many peasants to believe he would support an attack on the upper classes in general revolts broke out in franconia swabia and thuringia in fifteen twenty four even drawing support from disaffected nobles many of whom were in debt gaining momentum under the leadership of radicals such as muntzer in thuringia and michael gaismair in tyrol the revolts turned into war luther sympathised with some of the peasants grievances
squad-5729f4e46aef051400155156,what career does joseph stiglitz have,Joseph_Stiglitz_0,joseph stiglitz joseph eugene stiglitz formemrs fba born february nine nineteen hundred forty three is an american economist and a professor at columbia university he is a recipient of the nobel memorial prize in economic sciences two thousand one and the john bates clark medal nineteen hundred seventy nine he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the world bank and is a former member and chairman of the us president s council of economic advisers he is known for his critical view of the management of globalization laissez faire economists whom he calls free market fundamentalists and some
squad-572680ac708984140094c83f,which monarchs was the victoria and albert museum named after,George_V_0,george v george v george frederick ernest albert three june eighteen hundred sixty five minus twenty january nineteen hundred thirty six was king of the united kingdom and the british dominions and emperor of india from six may nineteen hundred ten until his death in nineteen hundred thirty six george was a grandson of queen victoria and prince albert and
squad-572686fc708984140094c8e8,do adults or juveniles secretions luminesce brighter,Arctic_tern_13,near the wingtip being translucent the tail is white and the underparts pale grey both sexes are similar in appearance the winter plumage is similar but the crown is whiter and the bills are darker juveniles differ from adults in their black bill and legs scaly appearing wings and mantle with dark feather tips dark carpal wing bar and short tail streamers during their first summer juveniles also have a whiter forecrown the species has a variety of calls the two most common being the alarm call made when possible predators such as humans or other mammals
squad-572824f13acd2414000df591,what was the name of the storm that hit jacksonville in may of two thousand twelve ,2006_Atlantic_hurricane_season_45,tropical storm alberto made landfall in florida with winds of fifty mph eighty k m forward slash h the storm moved inland and produced six to seven inches one hundred fifty to one hundred seventy five m m of rain in the area of landfall and in north carolina a total of three indirect deaths resulted from the storm tropical storm beryl made landfall on nantucket causing little or no damage it generated high waves along the east coast of the united states with one nine foot six m seas
squad-572756265951b619008f886d,up to what age do students in the united kingdom attend preparatory schools,Birkdale_School_0,birkdale school birkdale school is a christian private secondary school for boys in the city of sheffield south yorkshire in england and is a member of the headmasters and headmistresses conference since nineteen hundred ninety five girls have been admitted to the sixth form table of contents section one history birkdale was founded in nineteen hundred four by the maurice asterley as a preparatory school for boys between the ages of four and thirteen to provide a christian education and takes its name from its first home birkdale
squad-5726eb8bf1498d1400e8efe6,name a common autoimmune disease,Icos_30,ic one four an antibody blocking cd one four designed to treat sepsis ic seven four seven and ic seven seven six two lfa one antagonists designed to treat psoriasis resiniferatoxin r t x a naturally occurring capsaicin analog designed to treat interstitial cystitis ic four eight five a pde four inhibitor designed to treat emphysema chronic bronchitis chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and rheumatoid arthritis ic eight three a
squad-5725d01989a1e219009abf28,who had worked on the saturn series even before the apollo program began officially,Saturn_65,saturn appeared at its brightest due to a favorable orientation of its rings relative to the earth section ten in culture in astrology saturn saturn symbol dot s v g is the ruling planet of capricorn and traditionally aquarius saturnalia is an ancient roman festival that was held in honor of the god saturn saturn the bringer of old age is a movement in gustav holst s the planets operation saturn was a red army operation on the eastern front of world war ii that led to battles in the northern caucasus and donets basin regions of the soviet union from december nineteen hundred forty two to february nineteen hundred forty three the saturn family of rockets were developed by a team of mostly german rocket scientists led by wernher von braun to launch heavy payloads to earth orbit and beyond originally proposed as a military
squad-56f84485aef2371900625f73,what did luther call the mass instead of sacrifice,Martin_Luther_42,infused into them through faith that is why faith alone makes someone just and fulfills the law he wrote faith is that which brings the holy spirit through the merits of christ faith for luther was a gift from god the experience of being justified by faith was as though i had been born again his entry into paradise no less was a discovery about the righteousness of god a discovery that the just person of whom the bible speaks as in romans one seventeen a m lives by faith he explained his concept of
squad-56de3ebc4396321400ee26e6,when did the siege of antioch take place,Siege_of_Antioch_0,siege of antioch template crusadesportal the siege of antioch took place during the first crusade in ten ninety seven and ten ninety eight the first siege by the crusaders against the muslim city lasted from october twenty one ten ninety seven to june two ten ninety eight the second siege against the crusaders who had occupied it lasted from june seven to june
squad-5728667eff5b5019007da1fe,how many vice presidents are on the student board,Ima_Hogg_40,its educational and philanthropic focus providing mental health care to the poor and the aged the foundation continues to award five five thousand dollars annual scholarships to individuals pursuing a master s degree in social work in nineteen hundred forty three hogg decided to run for a seat on the houston school board so that the board would include two female members hogg won with four thousand three hundred fifty votes more than one thousand ahead of the runner up during her term she worked to remove gender and race as criteria for determining pay she championed a visiting teacher program for children with emotional problems and began art education programs in the schools for black students hogg
squad-57268a8fdd62a815002e88d0,what type of tunnels are constructed through newcastles city center,East_Finchley_tube_station_4,be able to run south from east finchley via two routes one route would have run over the existing tracks to lner s highgate station above ground and now derelict and onwards via crouch end to finsbury park this route was never completed the other route ran through newly constructed tunnels running into a new deep level highgate station built under the lner one and onwards to archway camden town and central london this is the route south of east finchley as it now exists the platforms comprise two parallel islands with tracks on both sides the inner pair of
squad-5729727baf94a219006aa43a,what is the application of prime numbers used in information technology which utilizes the fact that factoring very large prime numbers is very challenging,Java_(software_platform)_70,java lacks native unsigned integer types unsigned data are often generated from programs written in c and the lack of these types prevents direct data interchange between c and java unsigned large numbers are also used in many numeric processing fields including cryptography which can make java less convenient to use for these tasks although it is possible to partially circumvent this problem with conversion code and using larger data types it makes using java cumbersome for handling the unsigned data while a three two bit signed integer may be used to hold a
squad-57268d1b708984140094c9cd,what major newcastle road stretches from edinburgh to london,Peterborough_44,peterborough junction seventeen continuing north a further three hundred thirty five miles five hundred thirty nine k m to central edinburgh ermine street used to pass through durobrivae the slight remains of which can be seen to the east alongside the a one at peterborough in eighteen hundred ninety nine the british electric traction company sought permission for a tramway joining the northern suburbs with the city centre the system which operated under the name peterborough electric traction company opened in nineteen hundred three and was abandoned in favour of motor buses in nineteen hundred thirty when the company was merged into the eastern counties omnibus company today bus services in the city
squad-57309a6c2461fd1900a9ceff,what caused the separation of the methodists in the american colonies,Canadians_38,including a number of jesuits dedicated to converting aboriginals an effort that eventually proved successful the first large protestant communities were formed in the maritimes after the british conquest of new france followed by american protestant settlers displaced by the american revolution the late nineteenth century saw the beginning of a substantive shift in canadian immigration patterns large numbers of irish and southern europeans immigrants were creating new roman catholic communities in english canada the settlement of the west brought significant eastern orthodox immigrants from eastern europe and mormon and pentecostal immigrants from the united states
squad-56e0b9d57aa994140058e6c2,what other inventor did he work with,Abbot_Augustus_Low_2,nineteen hundred nine for a waste paper receptacle that is believed to have been the first paper shredder it received the u s patent number nine hundred twenty nine thousand nine hundred sixty on august thirty one nineteen hundred nine but was never manufactured when low died the only inventor with more patents registered than him was thomas edison low s property around lows lake also known as the bog river flow included a narrow gauge railroad a blacksmith shop an energy generating plant a stable an engine house storehouses maple sugaring buildings employee housing and boathouses low developed the
squad-5726eb785951b619008f8277,which other ancient organism formed basic immune mechanisms,Introduction_to_viruses_6,from plasmids pieces of dna that can move between cells while others may have evolved from bacteria viral infections often cause disease in humans and animals however they are usually eliminated by the immune system conferring lifetime immunity to the host for that virus antibiotics have no effect on viruses but antiviral drugs have been developed to treat life threatening infections vaccines that produce lifelong immunity can prevent some viral infections
squad-571c3c47dd7acb1400e4c09c,what element is found in most organic organisms,Oxygen_1,odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium and the most abundant element by mass in the earth s crust oxygen constitutes eighty eight point eight per cent of the mass of water and twenty point nine per cent of the volume of air all major classes of structural molecules in living organisms such as proteins carbohydrates and fats contain oxygen as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by
squad-56f827caa6d7ea1400e1743d,what could anyone do to martin luther without legal consequence,Martin_Luther_58,inserted before may god help me only in later versions of the speech and not recorded in witness accounts of the proceedings over the next five days private conferences were held to determine luther s fate the emperor presented the final draft of the diet of worms on twenty five may fifteen twenty one declaring luther an outlaw banning his literature and requiring his arrest we want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic it also made it a crime for anyone in germany to give luther food or shelter it permitted anyone to kill
squad-5725b56589a1e219009abd22,who did the us collaborate with on an earth orbit mission in nineteen seventy five ,NASA_13,of another planet minus in this case venus the ranger surveyor and lunar orbiter missions were essential to assessing lunar conditions before attempting apollo landings with humans on board later the two viking probes landed on the surface of mars and sent color images back to earth but perhaps more impressive were the pioneer and particularly voyager missions that visited jupiter saturn uranus and neptune and sent back science and color images from all having lost the space race the soviet union had along with the usa changed its approach on july seventeen
squad-57274e6a5951b619008f87f4,on december twenty two nd two thousand nine abc reached an agreement with apple to make abc shows available on what service,Podcast_34,exposure to itunes huge number of downloaders threatened to make great demands on their bandwidth and related expenses possible solutions were proposed including the addition of a content delivery system such as liberated syndication podcast servers akamai a peer to peer solution bittorrent or use of free hosting services such as those offered by ourmedia blipmedia and the internet archive as of september two thousand five a number of services began featuring video based podcasting including apple via its itunes music store and loomia known by some as a vodcast the services handle both audio and video feeds as well as public broadcasting made possible by participatory
squad-56f8c8469e9bad19000a04c7,after the negotiations were done what did luther experience,Martin_Luther_172,own control the controversy that ensued involved all four mansfeld counts albrecht philip john george and gerhard luther journeyed to mansfeld twice in late fifteen forty five to participate in the negotiations for a settlement and a third visit was needed in early fifteen forty six for their completion the negotiations were successfully concluded on seventeen february fifteen forty six after eight pm he experienced chest pains when he went to his bed he prayed into your hand i commit my spirit you have redeemed me o lord
squad-57268f2c708984140094ca28,the success of the britain can make it exhibition led to the planning of what exhibition in nineteen fifty one ,Baden-Powell_House_8,section two modern architecture the house was designed by the architect ralph tubbs in nineteen hundred fifty six whose works included the dome of discovery the highlight of the nineteen hundred fifty one festival of britain tubbs floor plans and a model of his design were displayed during a fundraising campaign and exhibition on nineteen hundred five seven zero two two one in the egyptian hall of the mansion house the six storied baden powell house is designed in the modern
squad-56f8507fa6d7ea1400e1754b,how many ways did luther justify his opposition to revolt,Martin_Luther_170,three days before his death it was entirely devoted to the obdurate jews whom it was a matter of great urgency to expel from all german territory according to leon poliakov james mackinnon writes that it concluded with a fiery summons to drive the jews bag and baggage from their midst unless they desisted from their calumny and their usury and became christians luther said we want to practice christian love toward them and pray that they convert but also that they are our public enemies and if they could kill us all they would
squad-57268f05dd62a815002e8994,vendobionta lived during which period,Ediacaran_biota_0,ediacaran biota the ediacara pronounced forward slash idiakr forward slash deprecated template formerly vendian biota are ancient life forms of the ediacaran period which represent the earliest known complex multicellular organisms they appeared soon after the earth thawed from the cryogenian period s extensive glaciers and largely disappeared soon before the rapid appearance of biodiversity known as the cambrian explosion which saw the first appearance in the fossil record of the basic
squad-57338160d058e614000b5bfc,what does the city council divide itself into,Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom_0,privy council of the united kingdom her majesty s most honourable privy council is a body of advisors to the british sovereign the council was formerly a powerful institution but is now largely ceremonial most of its power is held by one of its committees the
squad-56f86b44a6d7ea1400e175f8,what word was luther criticized for adding in romansthree twenty eight ,Martin_Luther_103,his german translation of the new testament in fifteen twenty two and he and his collaborators completed the translation of the old testament in fifteen thirty four when the whole bible was published he continued to work on refining the translation until the end of his life others had translated the bible into german but luther tailored his translation to his own doctrine when he was criticised for inserting the word alone after faith in romans three twenty eight a m he replied in part t he text itself and the meaning of saint paul urgently require and
squad-57264cac708984140094c1b5,why was old oil withdrawn from the market,1973_world_oil_market_chronology_0,nineteen hundred seventy three world oil market chronology january eleven u s phase iii price controls begin allows for voluntary instead of mandatory price control on all u s prices this does not prevent a sharp rise in
squad-56e120a1e3433e1400422c3b,to what century did the idea of ether belong,Caesar_cipher_8,it is unknown how effective the caesar cipher was at the time but it is likely to have been reasonably secure not least because few of caesar s enemies would have been literate let alone able to consider cryptanalysis assuming that an attacker could read the message there is no record at that time of any techniques for the solution of simple substitution ciphers the earliest surviving records date to the ninth century ad in the arab world with the discovery of frequency analysis in the nineteenth century the personal advertisements section in newspapers would sometimes be used to exchange messages encrypted using simple
squad-5726c3b3708984140094d0d2,what did the shah do when faced with defeat by genghis khans forces,Fourth_Crusade_30,iii s army of about eight thousand five hundred men faced the crusader s seven divisions about three thousand five hundred men but his courage failed and the byzantine army returned to the city without a fight the retreat and the effects of the fire greatly damaged morale causing the citizens of constantinople to turn against alexios iii who then fled the destructive fire left twenty thousand people homeless prince alexios was elevated to the throne as alexius iv along with his blind father isaac
squad-571c3a685efbb31900334db3,of what group in the periodic table is oxygen a member,Oxygen_0,oxygen oxygen is the element with atomic number eight and represented by the symbol o it is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetallic period two element that readily forms compounds notably oxides with almost all other elements at standard temperature and pressure two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen a colorless odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium
squad-572fd264b2c2fd14005684aa,why is the final bill passed to the monarch,Parliament_Acts_1911_and_1949_12,originated in and had been approved by the commons and imposed a maximum legislative delay of one month for money bills those dealing with taxation and two years for other types of bill the speaker was given the power to certify which bills are classified as money bills if a money bill is not passed by the lords without amendment within one month after it is received the bill can be presented for royal assent without being passed by the lords for other public bills the nineteen hundred eleven act originally provided that a rejected bill would become law without the lords consent if it were passed by the commons in three successive sessions provided that two years elapsed between second reading of the bill and its final passing in the commons the nineteen hundred eleven act still allowed the lords
squad-5727f05b4b864d1900164069,what do people with lower income have less access to,Disability_rights_movement_1,is the installation of elevators transit lifts wheelchair ramps and curb cuts allowing people in wheelchairs and with other mobility impairments to use public sidewalks and public transit more easily and more safely these improvements have also been appreciated by parents pushing strollers or carts bicycle users and travelers with rolling luggage access to education and employment have also been a major focus of this movement adaptive technologies enabling people to work jobs they could not have previously help create access to jobs and economic independence
squad-573010fab2c2fd14005687db,who masterminded many terror attacks,American_Airlines_Flight_11_34,flight simulator a folding knife and pepper spray in a recording a few months later in afghanistan al qaeda s leader osama bin laden took responsibility for the attack the attack on the world trade center exceeded even bin laden s expectations he had expected only the floors above the plane strikes to collapse the flight recorders for flight eleven and flight one hundred seventy five were never found after the attacks the flight number for flights on the same route with the same takeoff time was changed to american airlines flight twenty five these flights now use a boeing seven hundred thirty seven instead of a boeing seven hundred sixty seven an
squad-56f8599aa6d7ea1400e175b0,what did luther form in fifteen twenty five to one thousand five hundred twenty nine ,Martin_Luther_89,based on personal faith and experience and a territorial church including all in a given locality if he were forced to choose he would take his stand with the masses and this was the direction in which he moved from fifteen twenty five to fifteen twenty nine he established a supervisory church body laid down a new form of worship service and wrote a clear summary of the new faith in the form of two catechisms to avoid confusing or upsetting the people luther avoided extreme change he also did not wish to replace one controlling system with another he
squad-56f88eafaef2371900626196,what did luther call the consecrated bread and wine,Martin_Luther_122,oecolampadius differed on the significance of the words spoken by jesus at the last supper this is my body which is for you and this cup is the new covenant in my blood one corinthians eleven twenty three a m two six luther insisted on the real presence of the body and blood of christ in the consecrated bread and wine which he called the sacramental union while his opponents believed god to be only spiritually or symbolically present zwingli for example denied jesus s ability to be in more than one place at a time but luther stressed his ubiquity
squad-56f84a60aef2371900625f9f,at what point in luthers sermons did schurf write to the elector,Martin_Luther_70,change the effect of luther s intervention was immediate after the sixth sermon the wittenberg jurist jerome schurf wrote to the elector oh what joy has doctor martin s return spread among us his words through divine mercy
squad-571ce7f25efbb31900334e40,what part of the earth is composed of mostly of silicates of iron and magnesium,Helium_73,by the beta decay of tritium rocks from the earth s crust have isotope ratios varying by as much as a factor of ten and these ratios can be used to investigate the origin of rocks and the composition of the earth s mantle he three is much more abundant in stars as a product of nuclear fusion thus in the interstellar medium the proportion of he three to he four is around one hundred times higher than on earth extraplanetary material such as lunar and asteroid regolith have
squad-571cac5d5efbb31900334dd0,what celestial object eluded efforts to measure oxygen,Transit_of_Venus_29,section three point four two thousand four and twenty twelve a number of scientific organizations headed by the european southern observatory eso organized a network of amateur astronomers and students to measure earth s distance from the sun during the transit the participants observations allowed a calculation of the astronomical unit au of one hundred forty nine six hundred eight seven hundred eight k m eleven eight hundred thirty five k m which had only a zero point zero zero seven per cent difference to the accepted value there was a good deal of interest in the two thousand four transit as scientists attempted to measure the pattern
squad-572658daf1498d1400e8dcaf,how many types of movements do euplokamis tentilla have,Consonant_6,mechanism is how the air moves through the vocal tract during articulation most languages have exclusively pulmonic egressive consonants but ejectives clicks and implosives use different mechanisms the length is how long the articulation of a consonant takes this feature is not distinctive in english but various languages such as italian japanese and finnish have two length levels short consonants and geminates estonian and some sami languages have three length levels short geminate and over long the articulatory force is how much muscular energy is involved this is disputed all
squad-56bebde53aeaaa14008c9336,on what day does the super bowl media day traditionally take place,Peterborough_10,in eleven eighty nine and later held on the second tuesday and wednesday in july and the brigge fair granted in fourteen thirty nine and later held on the first tuesday wednesday and thursday in october were purchased by the corporation from the ecclesiastical commissioners in eighteen hundred seventy six the bridge fair as it is now known granted to the abbey by king henry vi survives prayers for the opening of the fair were once said at the morning service in the cathedral followed by a civic proclamation and a sausage lunch at the town hall which still takes place the mayor traditionally leads a procession from the town hall to the fair where the proclamation is read
squad-5706143575f01819005e7950,the los angeles rams are an example of what kind of sports team,College_football_10,n f l franchises there are universities that also rank in the upper financial echelons of the college football however some of the most successful college teams in those states do not reside in the same city as an n f l team in college football players subject themselves to injury and must sign releases acknowledging the fact that their career could be ended within a matter of seconds student athletes should not depend entirely on their athletic ability for their career being a college student there are many different responsibilities that a student must uphold besides supporting their families the ncaa does not condone students financially supporting their family the ncaa encourages students to learn to be financially independent
squad-5733da01d058e614000b63fa,what areas did french recruit natives from,Canada_11,between the grand banks and tadoussac for over a century french explorer samuel de champlain arrived in sixteen hundred three and established the first permanent european settlements at port royal in sixteen hundred five and quebec city in sixteen hundred eight these would become respectively the capitals of acadia and canada among french colonists of new france canadiens extensively settled the saint lawrence river valley acadians settled the present day maritimes while french fur traders and catholic missionaries explored the great lakes hudson bay and the mississippi watershed to
squad-57280757ff5b5019007d9b42,what term is used to explain a change in the appearance of doctor who,Doctor_Who_5,jane adventures the standalone k nine and a single nineteen hundred eighty one pilot episode of k nine and company the doctor has been principally played by eleven actors the transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the show as regeneration whereby the character of the doctor takes on a new body and to some extent new personality although each portrayal is different and on occasion the various incarnations have even encountered one another they are all meant to be aspects of the same character the doctor is currently portrayed by matt smith who took up the role after david tennant s
squad-572679c35951b619008f73db,the population of newcastle was one hundred eighty nine eight hundred sixty three according to what years census,Peterborough_34,average and any other economy in the region in january two thousand seven peterborough was named as the leading city in driving forward the uk s business growth with an impressive three point seven eight per cent increase between april and september two thousand six section three point two employment according to the two thousand one census the workplace population of ninety thousand six hundred fifty six is divided into sixty thousand one hundred eighteen people who live in peterborough and thirty thousand three hundred fifty eight people who commute in a further thirteen thousand one hundred sixty one residents commute out of the city to work
squad-57268da7f1498d1400e8e39f,how many species were found in the burgess shale,Fauna_of_Australia_18,they vary in size from the little pygmy possum weighing just seven g to the cat sized common ringtail and brushtail possums the sugar and squirrel gliders are common species of gliding possum found in the eucalyptus forests of eastern australia while the feathertail glider is the smallest glider species the gliding possums have membranes called patagiums that extend from the fifth finger of their forelimb back to the first toe of their hind foot these membranes when outstretched allow them to glide between trees the macropodiformes are divided into three families that are found in all australian environments
squad-56bebad93aeaaa14008c92fc,what color pants did the broncos wear in super bowl fifty ,Barack_Obama_108,game while wearing a white sox jacket he is also primarily a chicago bears fan in the n f l but in his childhood and adolescence was a fan of the pittsburgh steelers and recently rooted for them ahead of their victory in super bowl xliii twelve days after obama took office as president in june nineteen hundred eighty nine obama met michelle robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the chicago law firm of sidley austin assigned for three months as obama s adviser at the firm robinson joined him at group social functions but declined his initial requests
squad-56de179dcffd8e1900b4b5dc,what culture did the normans combine with in ireland,Catholic_Church_98,benedict of nursia c four hundred eighty five four three the founder of western monasticism exerted an enormous influence on european culture through the appropriation of the monastic spiritual heritage of the early church and with the spread of the benedictine tradition through the preservation and transmission of ancient culture during this period monastic ireland became a centre of learning and early irish missionaries such as saint columbanus and saint columba spread christianity and
squad-56e1ba41cd28a01900c67ae1,when extensive time is required to sort integers this represents what case complexity,P_versus_NP_problem_28,of such algorithms can be surprisingly low a famous example is the simplex algorithm in linear programming which works surprisingly well in practice despite having exponential worst case time complexity it runs on par with the best known polynomial time algorithms second there are types of computations which do not conform to the turing machine model on which p and n p are defined such as quantum computation and randomized algorithms
squad-571cb010dd7acb1400e4c12a,in what process is singlet oxygen usually formed,Oxygen_2,as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by cyanobacteria algae and plants during photosynthesis and is used in cellular respiration for all complex life oxygen is toxic to anaerobic organisms which were the dominant form of early life on earth until o two began to accumulate in the atmosphere two point five billion years ago another form allotrope of oxygen ozone o three helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation with the high altitude
squad-56f80ad1a6d7ea1400e1739f,what is the central article of the christian doctrine,Martin_Luther_39,in new ways he became convinced that the church was corrupt in its ways and had lost sight of what he saw as several of the central truths of christianity the most important for luther was the doctrine of justification minus god s act of declaring a sinner righteous minus by faith alone through god s grace he began to teach that salvation or redemption is a gift of god s grace attainable only through faith in jesus as the messiah this one and firm rock which we call the doctrine of justification he wrote is the chief article of the whole christian doctrine which comprehends the understanding of
squad-56de16ca4396321400ee25c6,who killed harold ii,William_II_of_England_0,william ii of england william ii old norman williame ii c ten fifty six minus two august eleven hundred the third son of william i of england was king of england from one thousand eighty seven until eleven hundred with powers over normandy and influence in scotland he was less successful in extending control into wales william is commonly known as william rufus or william the red perhaps because of his red faced appearance he was a figure of complex temperament capable of both bellicosity
squad-56f86966aef2371900626057,where does luther place salvation,Martin_Luther_101,the trinity not as a doctrine to be learned but as persons to be known the father creates the son redeems and the spirit sanctifies a divine unity with separate personalities salvation originates with the father and draws the believer to the father luther s treatment of the apostles creed must be understood in the context of the decalogue the ten commandments and the lord s prayer which are also part of the lutheran catechical teaching section
squad-5705e63175f01819005e7722,which city is the most populous in california,Chicago_0,chicago template chicagoinfobox two chicago illinois minus officially the city of chicago and colloquially known as chicago the second city and the windy city minus is the third largest city of the united states after new york city and los angeles and is the largest inland city of the nation according to the two thousand census it has a population of two million eight hundred ninety six thousand sixteen people classified as a world class city it
squad-56f84a60aef2371900625fa0,what did schurfs letter say luthers return caused,Martin_Luther_70,change the effect of luther s intervention was immediate after the sixth sermon the wittenberg jurist jerome schurf wrote to the elector oh what joy has doctor martin s return spread among us his words through divine mercy
squad-572f5703a23a5019007fc573,near chur which direction does the rhine turn,Exmoor_11,of special scientific interest another tributary the river haddeo flows from the wimbleball lake the other rivers arising on exmoor flow north to the bristol channel these include the river heddon which runs along the western edges of exmoor reaching the north devon coast at heddon s mouth and the east and west lyn which meet at lynmouth hoar oak water is a moorland tributary of the east lyn river the confluence being at watersmeet the river horner which is also known as horner water rises near luccombe and flows into porlock bay near hurlestone point section two
squad-572fb42904bcaa1900d76c17,what type of ballot is used to elect the presiding officer and deputies of the parliament,Hockey_Hall_of_Fame_25,jan ake edvinsson mike emrick michael farber emile francis dick irvin jr lanny mcdonald yvon pedneault pat quinn serge savard harry sinden peter stastny and bill torrey each committee member is allowed to nominate one person in each category per year nominations must be submitted to the chairman of the board of directors by april fifteen of the nomination year the committee then meets in june to vote by secret ballot on each nominee candidates must receive the support of seventy five per cent of the members of the committee present or a minimum of ten votes in
squad-5725b56589a1e219009abd23,what space station supported three manned missions in nineteen seventy three one thousand nine hundred seventy four ,NASA_14,from all having lost the space race the soviet union had along with the usa changed its approach on july seventeen nineteen hundred seventy five an apollo craft finding a new use after the cancellation of apollo eighteen was docked to the soviet soyuz nineteen spacecraft although the cold war would last many more years this was a critical point in nasa s history and much of the international company operation in space exploration that exists today has its genesis here america s first space station skylab occupied nasa from the end of apollo until the late nineteen hundred seventies section two point four
squad-5726800add62a815002e8752,what company has been hosted at the theatre royal for over twenty five years,Hamlet_5,during shakespeare s lifetime the play was one of his most popular works and it still ranks high among his most performed topping for example what eventually became the royal shakespeare company s list since eighteen hundred seventy nine it has inspired writers from goethe and dickens to joyce and murdoch and has been described as the world s most filmed story after cinderella the title role was almost certainly created for richard burbage the leading tragedian of shakespeare s time in the four hundred years since it has been performed by highly acclaimed actors and actresses from each successive
squad-5728de0e2ca10214002da9dc,what type of climate does kenya have,Hong_Kong_Observatory_7,see also hong kong time climate of hong kong tropical cyclone warning signals section four external link hong kong observatory website
squad-56f87760aef23719006260cc,when did luther write the hymn from depths of woe i cry to you,Martin_Luther_112,from depths of woe i cry to you in one thousand five hundred twenty three as a hymnic version of psalm one hundred thirty and sent it as a sample to encourage evangelical colleagues to write psalm hymns for use in german worship in fifteen twenty four luther developed his original four stanza psalm paraphrase into a five stanza reformation hymn that developed the theme of grace alone more fully because it expressed essential reformation doctrine this expanded version of aus tiefer not was designated as a regular component of several regional lutheran liturgies and was widely used at funerals including
squad-56e7586d37bdd419002c3eb6,what us entity said that corporal punishment was constitutional,First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution_54,v rogers four hundred fifty seven u s two hundred ninety one nineteen hundred eighty two found that whatever powers the constitution has granted our government involuntary mind control is not one of them this finding was not of precedential value and the supreme court ruling was essentially inconclusive section five freedom of the press freedom of the press like freedom of speech is subject to restrictions on bases such as defamation law restrictions
squad-5728303e4b864d19001646ac,dimensions in time featured what prominent soap opera,Coronation_Street_32,married sally seddon in nineteen hundred eighty six and bet lynch married alec gilroy in nineteen hundred eighty seven with nineteen hundred eighty eight seeing the marriages of ivy tilsley and don brennan and derek wilton and mavis riley the arrival of channel four and its edgy new serial brookside in nineteen hundred eighty two was one of the biggest changes for coronation street as well as the bbc s new primetime soap opera eastenders in nineteen hundred eighty five while ratings for coronation street remained consistent throughout the decade eastenders regularly obtained higher viewing figures with primetime competition corrie was again seen as being old fashioned with the introduction of the normal clayton family in nineteen hundred eighty five
squad-57265bdfdd62a815002e829f,how many passengers can the ford fiesta accommodate,Rosa_Parks_21,four black people give up their seats in the middle section so that the white passengers could sit years later in recalling the events of the day parks said when that white driver stepped back toward us when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats i felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night by parks account blake said yall better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats three three of them complied parks said the driver wanted us to stand up the four of us we didnt move at the beginning but he says let me have these seats and the other
squad-56e190bce3433e1400422fc9,what are the two simple word responses to a decision problem,P_versus_NP_problem_14,m guaranteed to halt in polynomial time does there exist a polynomial size input that m will accept it is in n p because given an input it is simple to check whether m accepts the input by simulating m it is n p complete because the verifier for any particular instance of a problem in n p can be encoded as a polynomial time machine m that takes the solution to be verified as input then the question of whether the instance is a yes or no instance is determined by whether a valid input exists the first natural problem proven to be n p complete was the boolean
squad-56d98b33dc89441400fdb53c,how many times did the broncos cause turnovers in the game,American_football_58,than their defined length due to play stoppages minus the average n f l game lasts slightly over three hours time in a football game is measured by the game clock an operator is responsible for starting stopping and operating the game clock based on the direction of the appropriate official a separate clock the play clock is used to determine if a delay of game infraction has been committed if the play clock expires before the ball has been snapped or free kicked a delay of game foul is called on the offense the play clock is set to forty seconds in professional and college
squad-5725c2a038643c19005acc6c,from what military branch did mueller recruit managers from,Austin%e2%80%93Bergstrom_International_Airport_3,in nineteen hundred forty two the city of austin purchased land and donated the land to the united states government for a military installation with the stipulation that the city would get the land back when the government no longer needed it this land became bergstrom air force base in the nineteen hundred fifties developers began building residential areas beneath the flight paths of mueller and in parallel the number of arrivals and departures at the airport increased dramatically because of the growth of the city citizens began to complain about the noise also at seven thousand two hundred sixty nine feet the runway at mueller was too short to handle new planes such as the seven hundred forty seven
squad-57265360dd62a815002e819a,which country is the most dependent on arab oil,Cold_War_103,in which the world was no longer divided into two clearly opposed blocs from the beginning of the post war period western europe and japan rapidly recovered from the destruction of world war ii and sustained strong economic growth through the nineteen hundred fifties and nineteen hundred sixties with per capita g d p s approaching those of the united states while eastern bloc economies stagnated as a result of the nineteen hundred seventy three oil crisis combined with the growing influence of third world alignments such as the organization of petroleum exporting countries opec and the non aligned movement less powerful
squad-5705e99452bb891400689689,what country are all the counties in,Canada_0,canada template edit first section canada template ipaeng is a country occupying most of northern north america extending from the atlantic ocean in the east to the pacific ocean in the west and northward into the arctic ocean it is the world s second largest country by total area and shares land borders with the united states to the south and northwest the lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples beginning in the late fifteenth century british and french expeditions explored and later settled the atlantic coast
squad-572906e23f37b31900477f91,what did kenya name itself on december twelve one thousand nine hundred sixty four ,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_39,that he is a natural born citizen of the united states legal papers submitted describe the document as an unauthenticated color photocopy of certified copy of registration of birth the document was almost immediately revealed to be a forgery it purports to have been issued by the republic of kenya when in fact such a state did not yet exist at the time of obama s birth as indicated on the document kenya was a british colony until nineteen hundred sixty three subsequently evidence was unearthed that the alleged kenyan birth certificate was a modified version of a nineteen hundred fifty nine
squad-5730c52fb54a4f140068cc47,many liturgies are derived from what book,Rosary_80,the use of the roman catholic rosary is also fairly common among anglicans of anglo catholic churchmanship many anglo catholic prayer books and manuals of devotion contain the roman catholic rosary along with other marian devotions the public services of the anglican churches as contained in the book of common prayer do not directly invoke the blessed virgin or any other saint in prayer and the thirty nine articles of religion reject the practice of praying to saints but many anglo catholics feel free to do so in their private devotions anglicans who pray
squad-572fc043a23a5019007fc960,who decides who gets to address the members of parliament to share their thoughts on issues of faith,United_States_Senate_30,to recognize the first senator who rises to speak thus the presiding officer has little control over the course of debate customarily the majority leader and minority leader are accorded priority during debates even if another senator rises first all speeches must be addressed to the presiding officer using the words mister president or madam president only the presiding officer may be directly addressed in speeches other members must be referred to in the third person in most cases senators do not refer to each other by name but by state using forms such as the senior senator from virginia or the junior senator from california there are very few
squad-56d9a637dc89441400fdb698,what was the color of the jerseys in super bowl xxxii when elway was quarterback,Barack_Obama_108,game while wearing a white sox jacket he is also primarily a chicago bears fan in the n f l but in his childhood and adolescence was a fan of the pittsburgh steelers and recently rooted for them ahead of their victory in super bowl xliii twelve days after obama took office as president in june nineteen hundred eighty nine obama met michelle robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the chicago law firm of sidley austin assigned for three months as obama s adviser at the firm robinson joined him at group social functions but declined his initial requests
squad-5733d5704776f4190066130f,where were french north americans settled,Canada_11,between the grand banks and tadoussac for over a century french explorer samuel de champlain arrived in sixteen hundred three and established the first permanent european settlements at port royal in sixteen hundred five and quebec city in sixteen hundred eight these would become respectively the capitals of acadia and canada among french colonists of new france canadiens extensively settled the saint lawrence river valley acadians settled the present day maritimes while french fur traders and catholic missionaries explored the great lakes hudson bay and the mississippi watershed to
squad-56f8b4d79b226e1400dd0e77,what later actions by the nazis could be traced back to luthers rhetoric,Martin_Luther_162,of germany in elections of nineteen hundred twenty eight to november nineteen hundred thirty two at the heart of scholars debate about luther s influence is whether it is anachronistic to view his work as a precursor of the racial antisemitism of the national socialists some scholars see luther s influence as limited and the nazis use of his work as opportunistic biographer martin brecht points out that there is a world of difference between his belief in salvation and a racial ideology nevertheless his misguided agitation had the evil result that luther fatefully became one of the church fathers of anti semitism and thus provided
squad-56e77da237bdd419002c403b,what is the name of a teacher in tibetan buddhism,Uma_Thurman_5,children and the dalai lama would sometimes visit their home due to her father frequently teaching at different universities her family often relocated when she was a child she grew up mostly in amherst massachusetts and woodstock new york thurman is described as having been an awkward and introverted young girl who was frequently teased as a child for her large frame unique angular bone structure unusual name sometimes using the name uma karen instead of her birth name of uma karuna and size eleven feet thurman s famously large feet would later be lovingly filmed by quentin tarantino in the films he would make with her to general public amusement when she was ten years old a friend s mother suggested she receive a nose job something that bothered her for years it
squad-572996c73f37b319004784b3,what is one type of public key cryptography algorithm,P_versus_NP_problem_23,vertices the integer factorization problem is the computational problem of determining the prime factorization of a given integer phrased as a decision problem it is the problem of deciding whether the input has a factor less than k no efficient integer factorization algorithm is known and this fact forms the basis of several modern cryptographic systems such as the rsa algorithm the integer factorization problem is in n p and in company n p and even in up and company up if the problem is n p complete the polynomial time
squad-5710eb6fb654c5140001fa19,which spanish officer established the settlement at st augustine,Indigenous_people_of_the_Everglades_region_21,of the muskogean word kalo meaning black or powerful much of what is known about the calusa was provided by hernando de escalante fontaneda fontaneda was a one three year old boy who was the only survivor of a shipwreck off the coast of florida in fifteen forty five for seventeen years he lived with the calusa until explorer pedro menendez de aviles found him in fifteen sixty six menendez took fontaneda to spain where he wrote about his experiences menendez approached the calusa with the intention of establishing relations with them to ease the settlement of the future spanish
squad-57273d8bf1498d1400e8f501,large public works dams bridges highways waterwastewater and utility distribution are under what construction sector,I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge_10,m above the water level construction on the bridge began in nineteen hundred sixty four and the structure was completed in nineteen hundred sixty seven during an era of large scale projects related to building the twin cities freeway system when the bridge fell it was still the most recent river crossing built on a new site in minneapolis after the building boom ebbed during the nineteen hundred seventies infrastructure management shifted toward
squad-57309564069b5314008321a8,what grew on a global scale as a result of imperialism,Marshall_Plan_6,surpassed pre war levels for all marshall plan recipients output in nineteen hundred fifty one was at least thirty five per cent higher than in nineteen hundred thirty eight over the next two decades western europe enjoyed unprecedented growth and prosperity but economists are not sure what proportion was due directly to the erp what proportion indirectly and how much would have happened without it the marshall plan was one of the first elements of european integration as it erased trade barriers and set up institutions to coordinate the economy on a continental level that is it
squad-5737534ec3c5551400e51eac,what law staes that forces are interactions between bodies,Three_Laws_of_Robotics_33,in his dream the first two laws are absent and the third law reads a robot must protect its own existence asimov took varying positions on whether the laws were optional although in his first writings they were simply carefully engineered safeguards in later stories asimov stated that they were an inalienable part of the mathematical foundation underlying the positronic brain without the basic theory of the three laws the fictional scientists of asimov s universe would be unable to design a workable brain unit this is historically consistent the occasions where
squad-56e1b355e3433e14004230b3,what is the most critical resource in the analysis of computational problems associated with non deterministic turing machines,P_versus_NP_problem_6,cryptography algorithm research artificial intelligence game theory multimedia processing and many other fields table of contents section one context the relation between the complexity classes p and n p is studied in computational complexity theory the part of the theory of computation dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem the most common resources are time how many steps it takes to solve a problem and space how much memory it takes to solve a problem in such analysis
squad-56f84d33aef2371900625fb5,who did the peasants think luther would support an attack on,Martin_Luther_74,on a smaller scale since the fifteenth century luther s pamphlets against the church and the hierarchy often worded with liberal phraseology now led many peasants to believe he would support an attack on the upper classes in general revolts broke out in franconia swabia and thuringia in fifteen twenty four even drawing support from disaffected nobles many of whom were in debt gaining momentum under the leadership of radicals such as muntzer in thuringia and michael gaismair in tyrol the revolts turned into war luther sympathised with some of the peasants grievances
squad-5725d403ec44d21400f3d65d,how many stages did the saturn v end up having,Saturn_43,section seven history and exploration there are three main phases of observation and exploration of saturn the first era was ancient observations such as with the naked eye before the invention of the modern telescopes starting in the sixteen hundred zeros progressively more advanced telescopic observations from earth have been made the other type is visitation by spacecraft either by orbiting or flyby in the twenty first century observations continue from the
squad-57283c464b864d19001647cb,how many academic research divisions does the university of chicago have,Montreal_50,colloquial use in english there are many streets whose french names incorporate an english specific such as chemin queen mary rue university avenue mcgill college there are also a few cases where two names are official such as chemin du bord du lac forward slash chemin lakeshore section nine education montreal has one of the highest per capita populations of post secondary students of any large city in north america due to its four urban universities mcgill university universite de montreal including the ecole polytechnique de montreal and the ecole des hautes etudes commerciales de montreal concordia university and
squad-5727780a5951b619008f8aa1,who hosted the bandstand show debuted on abc in nineteen fifty seven ,Pink_Floyd_27,drove barrett to the appointment barrett refused to come out of the car a stay in formentera with sam hutt a doctor well established in the underground music scene led to no visible improvement the band followed a few concert dates in europe during september with their first tour of the us in october as the us tour went on barrett s condition grew steadily worse during appearances on the dick clark and pat boone shows in november barrett confounded his hosts by not responding to questions and staring off into space he refused to move his lips when it came time to mime see emily play on boone s show after
squad-572a0ecb1d04691400779718,what does increasing inequality harm,Simon_Kuznets_37,in wealthier countries economic growth narrowed the difference by noting patterns of income inequality in developed and underdeveloped countries he proposed that as countries experienced economic growth the income inequality first increases and then decreases the reasoning was that in order to experience growth countries had to shift from agricultural to industrial sectors while there was little variation in the agricultural income industrialization led to large differences in income additionally as
squad-57274f07708984140094dbee,in what year did lost first debut,Nick_Drake_63,death drake gained his first chart placing when two singles magic and river man released to coincide with the compilation album made to love magic made the u k charts also in two thousand four bbc radio two broadcast the radio documentary lost boy in search of nick drake narrated by brad pitt section five musical and lyrical style drake was obsessive about practising his guitar technique and would often stay up through the night experimenting
squad-572fd47fa23a5019007fca59,who makes formal appointment or dismissal decisions,Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom_21,in theory the sovereign may also say declined but in practice this has not happened since the reign of queen anne only a few privy counsellors attend such meetings and only when invited to do so at the government s request full meetings of the privy council are only held when the reigning sovereign announces his or her own marriage or when the monarch dies in the latter case the privy council together with the lords spiritual lords temporal the lord mayor of london the aldermen of the city of london and representatives of commonwealth nations makes a proclamation declaring the accession of the new sovereign that special meeting of the privy council held to proclaim
squad-57277bfc708984140094dedd,how many abc affiliates does the e w scripps company own,The_Economist_29,writers can deliver that their political opinions are irrelevant image captions are almost always humorous the letters section usually concludes with an odd or light hearted letter one notable example simply asked what is the idiot s corner and how can i get published there section five business circulation for the newspaper audited by audit bureau of circulations abc was one million thirty eight thousand five hundred fifty two for the first half of two thousand five fifteen sales inside north america were fifty one per cent of the total with sales in the uk making up fifteen per cent of the total and continental europe twenty per cent the
squad-571142b3a58dae1900cd6d5e,most power of what sort is generated by steam turbines today,Caesium_53,and has been regarded as the most accurate realization of a unit that mankind has yet achieved caesium clocks are also used in networks that oversee the timing of cell phone transmissions and the information flow on the internet section four point three electric power and electronics caesium vapor thermionic generators are low power devices that convert heat energy to electrical energy in the two electrode vacuum tube converter it neutralizes the space charge that builds up near the cathode and in doing so it enhances the current flow caesium is also important for its photoemissive properties by which in which light
squad-57274e145951b619008f87ea,in nepalese private schools what is the primary language of instruction,French_language_in_Laos_9,and elders however the english language has continued to threaten the french language in laos as it is seen as the language of international commerce and some schools have also made english a mandatory subject laos is also a member of la francophonie section two characteristics the french spoken in laos is based on standard parisian french but has some minor differences in vocabulary as in other french dialects of asia mixtures of lao are sometimes added into french giving it
squad-571ce7f25efbb31900334e41,what part of the earths geological structure is larger than the crust,Mercury_(planet)_11,estimate that mercury s core occupies about forty two per cent of its volume for earth this proportion is seventeen per cent recent research strongly suggests mercury has a molten core surrounding the core is a six hundred k m mantle it is generally thought that early in mercury s history a giant impact with a body several hundred kilometers across stripped the planet of much of its original mantle material resulting in the relatively thin mantle compared to the sizable core alternative theories are discussed below mercury s crust is thought to be one hundred to two hundred k m thick one distinctive feature of mercury s surface are numerous narrow ridges some extending over several hundred kilometers it is
squad-56f87392aef237190062609c,what earlier hymn was luthers adapted from,Martin_Luther_109,faith prefiguring luther s one thousand five hundred twenty nine three part explanation of the apostles creed in the small catechism luther s hymn adapted and expanded from an earlier german creedal hymn gained widespread use in vernacular lutheran liturgies as early as fifteen twenty five sixteenth century lutheran hymnals also included wir glauben all among the catechetical hymns although eighteenth century hymnals tended to label the hymn as trinitarian rather than catechetical and twentieth century lutherans rarely use the hymn because of the perceived difficulty of its tune luther s
squad-56f80143aef2371900625d6a,who objected to tetzels collections of money to free souls from purgatory,Martin_Luther_29,the money of poor believers rather than with his own money luther objected to a saying attributed to johann tetzel that as soon as the coin in the coffer rings the soul from purgatory also attested as into heaven springs he insisted that since forgiveness was god s alone to grant those who claimed that indulgences absolved buyers from all punishments and granted them salvation were in error christians he said must not slacken in following christ on account of such false assurances however this oft quoted saying of tetzel was by no
nq--5760656949201525019,how many episodes in one st season of the crown,SpongeBob_SquarePants_41,and viewer chosen top ten episodes and
nq-8095609166102020574,third president of the united states of america,United_States_House_of_Representatives_61,receives a majority of votes in the electoral college the twelfth amendment requires the house to choose from the three candidates with the highest numbers of electoral votes the constitution provides that the votes shall be taken by states the representation from each state having one vote electoral college deadlocks are very rare in the history of the united states the house has only had to break a deadlock twice in eighteen hundred zero it elected thomas jefferson over aaron burr in eighteen hundred twenty four it elected john q adams over andrew jackson and william h crawford the power to elect the vice president in the case of an electoral college deadlock belongs to the senate
nq-8742123457799229380,most assists in an nba all star game,Yao_Ming_28,and was watched by over two hundred million people in china alone making it one of the most watched nba games in history in the two thousand eight nba all star game yao was once again voted to start at center for the western conference before the all star weekend the rockets had won eight straight games and after the break they took their win streak to twelve games on february twenty six two thousand eight however it was reported that yao would miss the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his left foot he missed the two thousand eight nba playoffs but he did not miss the two thousand eight summer olympics at beijing china in august after yao s injury the rockets stretched their winning streak to twenty two
nq-595996307760943345,what was the city of beijing previously known as,Peking_opera_4,in recent years beijing opera has attempted numerous reforms in response to sagging audience numbers these reforms which include improving performance quality adapting new performance elements and performing new and original plays have met with mixed success some western works have been adopted as new plays but a lack of funding and an adverse political climate have left beijing opera s fate uncertain as the form enters the twenty first century table of contents section one etymology beijing opera or peking opera is the english term for the art form the oxford english dictionary s earliest record
nq-2549898383395112074,what type of economic system was utilized in the soviet union,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_57,the postwar capitalist slump predicted by stalin was averted by domestic government management combined with the u s success in promoting international trade and monetary relations section six point three conflicting visions of postwar reconstruction there were fundamental contrasts between the visions of the united states and the soviet union between the ideals of capitalism and communism those contrasts had been simplified and refined in national ideologies to represent two ways of life each vindicated in nineteen hundred forty five by previous disasters conflicting models of autarky versus exports of
nq--4622532030074150432,what is the title of the person who runs the house of representatives,United_States_Senate_22,of votes the senate s presiding officer controls debates by calling on members to speak the rules of the senate however compel him to recognize the first senator who rises the presiding officer may rule on any point of order a senator s objection that a rule has been breached but the decision is subject to appeal to the whole house thus the powers of the presiding officer of the senate are far less extensive than those of the speaker of the house each party elects a senator to serve as floor leader a position which entails acting as the party s chief spokesperson the senate majority leader is furthermore responsible for controlling the agenda of the
nq-8367814284059198764,who came out first batman or spider man,Transhumanism_12,new york city began to identify people who adopt technologies lifestyles and world views transitional to posthumanity as transhuman short for transitory human in nineteen hundred seventy two robert ettinger contributed to the conceptualization of transhumanity in his book man into superman f m two zero three zero published the upwingers manifesto in nineteen hundred seventy three to stimulate transhumanly conscious activism the first self described transhumanists met formally in the early nineteen hundred eighties at the university of california los angeles which became the main center of transhumanist thought here
nq--8747637469328088527,who is next in line to inherit the british throne,Edward_VII_81,franklin square hobart and outside the royal botanic gardens sydney before his accession to the throne edward was the longest serving heir apparent in british history until surpassed by his great great grandson charles prince of wales on twenty two april twenty eleven as the title prince of wales is not exactly coincident with the position of heir apparent he remains the longest serving holder of that title at fifty nine years forty five days charles has held the title for fifty seven years three hundred days as king
nq--120593119776464649,who won the world cup in cricket two thousand seventeen ,Kargil_War_62,impact of the war in the sporting arena was also visible during the india pakistan clash in the nineteen hundred ninety nine cricket world cup which coincided with the kargil timeline the game witnessed heightened passions and was one of the most viewed matches in the tournament section nine notes section ten references the cause and consequences of the nineteen hundred ninety nine
nq-4750785936593695900,when did the movie peter pan come out,RMS_Titanic_74,history it also won eleven academy awards out of fourteen nominations tying with ben hur nineteen hundred fifty nine and the lord of the rings the return of the king two thousand three for the most awards won the story was also made into a broadway musical titanic written by peter stone with music by maury yeston titanic ran from nineteen hundred ninety eight to two thousand the nineteen hundred sixty broadway musical the unsinkable molly brown tells survivor margaret brown s life story which included the events onboard the titanic the musical was written by richard morris with music by meredith willson a film version starring debbie reynolds was released in nineteen hundred sixty four
nq--8458006812258546025,who has the most gold medals in the winter olympics of all time,Olympic_flame_25,an archer who competed in the paralympic games nineteen hundred ninety four winter olympics crown prince haakon of norway both his father and grandfather took part in the olympics nineteen hundred ninety six summer olympics muhammad ali the boxer who then still under the name cassius clay won olympic gold in nineteen hundred sixty nineteen hundred ninety eight winter olympics midori ito figure skater winner of olympic silver in nineteen hundred ninety two two thousand summer olympics cathy freeman a track and field athlete she won the gold medal in the four hundred m at these olympics
nq-4576972330640834514,who did us fight in world war one ,British_Empire_117,hundred thirty nine included the crown colonies and india but did not automatically commit the dominions australia canada new zealand newfoundland and south africa all soon declared war on germany but the irish free state chose to remain legally neutral throughout the war after the german occupation of france in nineteen hundred forty britain and the empire stood alone against germany until the entry of the soviet union to the war in nineteen hundred forty one british prime minister winston churchill successfully lobbied president franklin d roosevelt for military aid from the united
nq--5571042125220386789,where does sex and the city take place,Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea_1,london the united states has collapsed into the equivalent of a bankrupt third world country the reason being that the u s used up all of its oil reserves minus including the strategic petroleum reserve minus and became unable to buy more oil britain has held onto its oil and as a result that country is more or less normal i e civilized jonah has to negotiate with a taxicab driver to take him and his girlfriend kate one of the stewardesses into a secured apartment that a friend of his allows him to use when he s in new york rather than even think of attempting to walk through new york city the city has essentially descended into the status of a bombed out london or berlin during world war ii
nq--8062812506672279762,what nba team did derrick rose play for,Michael_Jordan_13,rebounds per game r p g he was selected by consensus to the ncaa all american first team in both his sophomore nineteen hundred eighty three and junior nineteen hundred eighty four seasons after winning the naismith and the wooden college player of the year awards in nineteen hundred eighty four jordan left north carolina one year before his scheduled graduation to enter the nineteen hundred eighty four nba draft the chicago bulls selected jordan with the third overall pick after hakeem olajuwon houston rockets and sam bowie portland trail blazers jordan returned to north carolina to complete his degree in nineteen hundred eighty six section two
nq--9039792036843684255,what territory is spain and the united kingdom in a dispute over,British_Empire_41,in seventeen hundred one england portugal and the netherlands sided with the holy roman empire against spain and france in the war of the spanish succession which lasted until seventeen hundred fourteen at the concluding treaty of utrecht philip renounced his and his descendants right to the french throne and spain lost its empire in europe the british empire was territorially enlarged from france britain gained newfoundland and acadia and from spain gibraltar and minorca gibraltar became a critical
nq--1105882236356165332,sri lanka belongs to which part of asia,Execution_by_elephant_14,section three point two south asia section three point two point one sri lanka elephants were widely used across the indian subcontinent and south east asia
nq--2389852983880139802,when did the last state became a state,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_23,birth certificate fukino explained that the department was prohibited by state law from releasing it to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record she stated no state official including gov linda lingle has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the state of hawaii according to the website tvnewser cnn s researchers stated in two thousand nine that the original birth certificate no longer existed as hawaii discarded all paper birth records in two thousand one and the certification of live birth
nq-431889782405612665,how many episodes is ash vs evil dead season three ,SpongeBob_SquarePants_40,and viewer chosen top ten episodes
nq-5824943379198725973,who has the most seventy point games in nba history,Michael_Jordan_17,well upon his return against a nineteen hundred eighty five to eighty six boston celtics team that is often considered one of the greatest in nba history jordan set the still unbroken record for points in a playoff game with sixty three in game two the celtics however managed to sweep the series jordan had recovered completely by the nineteen hundred eighty six to eighty seven season and had one of the most prolific scoring seasons in nba history he became the only player other than wilt chamberlain to score three thousand points in a season averaging a league high thirty seven point one points on forty eight point two per cent shooting in
nq-3790834797035922554,who breaks a tie in the us senate,United_States_Senate_19,the president pro tempore committee chairmen and some other officials are generally from the majority party they have counterparts for instance the ranking members of committees in the minority party the constitution provides that the vice president of the united states serves as the president of the senate and holds a vote which can only be cast to break a tie by convention the vice president presides over very few senate debates attending only on important ceremonial occasions such as the swearing in of new senators or at times when his vote may be needed to break a tie the constitution also authorizes the senate to elect a president pro tempore latin for
nq-7804119988370766628,who came up with the theory of relativity,Big_Bang_14,originally suggested by friedmann but advocated by albert einstein and richard tolman and fritz zwicky s tired light hypothesis after world war ii two distinct possibilities emerged one was fred hoyle s steady state model whereby new matter would be created as the universe seemed to expand in this model the universe is roughly the same at any point in time the other was lemaitre s big bang theory advocated and developed by george gamow who introduced big bang nucleosynthesis b b n and whose associates ralph alpher and robert herman
nq--4362393628580767173,who is the first president to be impeached,United_States_House_of_Representatives_60,of representatives has impeached sixteen officials of whom seven were convicted another resigned before the senate could complete the trial only two presidents of the united states have ever been impeached andrew johnson in eighteen hundred sixty eight and bill clinton in nineteen hundred ninety nine both trials ended in acquittal in johnson s case the senate fell one vote short of the two thirds majority required for conviction under the twelfth amendment the house has the power to elect the president if no presidential candidate receives a majority of votes in the electoral college the twelfth amendment requires the house to choose from the three candidates with the highest
nq-312616814646574456,what are the monomer building blocks of dna and rna,DNA_2,in chromosomes chromatin proteins such as histones compact and organize dna as well as helping control its interactions with other proteins in the nucleus dna is a long polymer of simple units called nucleotides which are held together by a backbone made of sugars and phosphate groups this backbone carries four types of molecules called bases and it is the sequence of these four bases that encodes information the major function of dna is to encode the sequence of amino acid residues in proteins using the genetic code to read the genetic code cells make a copy of a stretch of dna in the nucleic acid rna these rna copies can then be used to direct protein synthesis but they can also be used directly as parts of ribosomes
nq-2215804087347955132,is the united states a country or nation,Canada_3,and multicultural country with both english and french as official languages at the federal level technologically advanced and industrialized canada maintains a diversified economy that is heavily reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade particularly with the united states with which canada has had a long and complex relationship table of contents section one
nq-2672721743911117185,who developed a set of postulates to prove that specific microorganisms cause disease,Pathogenic_bacteria_4,and leprosy table of contents section one history koch s postulates proposed by robert koch in eighteen hundred ninety are criteria designed to establish a causal relationship between a causative microbe and a disease section two diseases each pathogenic species has a characteristic spectrum of interactions with its human hosts section two point one conditionally pathogenic some organisms such as staphylococcus or streptococcus can cause skin infections pneumonia meningitis and
nq-3912284475003722742,who does the voice of little chef in ratatouille,List_of_accolades_received_by_Ratatouille_3,awards including original score achievement in sound editing achievement in sound mixing original screenplay and animated feature film which it lost to atonement the bourne ultimatum and juno respectively winning the latter one ratatouille was nominated for thirteen annie awards twice for the best animated effects where it lost to surf s up and three times in the best voice acting in an animated feature production for janeane garofalo ian holm and patton oswalt where ian holm won the nomination it won the best
nq-4186485631454362041,when was the last time the los angeles lakers won a championship,Sigi_Schmid_40,concacaf champions league but failed to get past the group stage the twenty ten us open cup campaign culminated in schmid winning his third championship with a two to one victory over the crew at seattle s qwest field no m l s team had previously won back to back open cups the sounders rebounded in the second half of the regular season with a one zero two three record to qualify for the playoffs the team faced bruce arena s galaxy in the two legged quarter final both
nq--7855437198803764135,what is the main mineral in lithium batteries,Caesium_40,imp gal twelve thousand u s gal of mineral water had to be evaporated to yield two hundred forty kilograms five hundred thirty l b of concentrated salt solution the alkaline earth metals were precipitated either as sulfates or oxalates leaving the alkali metal in the solution after conversion to the nitrates and extraction with ethanol a sodium free mixture was obtained from this mixture the lithium was precipitated by ammonium carbonate potassium rubidium and caesium form insoluble salts with chloroplatinic acid but these salts show a slight difference in solubility in hot water
nq--5341729935918652247,who does the democratic republic of congo trade with,Economy_of_Africa_2,despotism have also contributed to africa s poor economy the biggest contrast in terms of development has been between africa and the economy of asia the african economic outlook report specifically mentions that africa s trade with china has multiplied by ten since two thousand one reaching over usd one hundred billion in two thousand eight the economies of china and india have grown rapidly while latin america has also experienced moderate growth lifting millions above subsistence living by contrast much of africa has stagnated and even regressed in terms of foreign trade investment per capita income and other economic growth measures poverty has had widespread effects including low life
nq--5218891314401070056,where did the indian myna bird come from,Bank_myna_1,bank myna acridotheres ginginianus is a myna or starling occurring in south asia it ranges from sind pakistan to bangladesh it is similar in colouration and shares its range with the common myna but is slightly smaller
nq--8650104853556692961,what is the name of manchester united stadium,Stretford_75,stretford has been the home of manchester united football club since nineteen hundred ten when the club moved to its present old trafford ground the western end of which is still unofficially called the stretford end old trafford
nq--3320993703958028468,what color pages in the emergency response guidebook erg list compounds by name,Winter_service_vehicle_17,service vehicles use the blue flashing lights associated with emergency service vehicles rather than the amber or orange used elsewhere many agencies also paint their vehicles in high contrast orange or yellow to allow the vehicles to been seen more clearly in whiteout conditions section three operation winter service vehicles are operated by both government agencies and by private subcontractors public works in areas which regularly receive snowfall usually maintain a fleet of their own vehicles or
nq-7817340376558760325,who voiced simba in the lion king two ,Scar_(The_Lion_King)_64,a film that features the voices of several well known a list actors namely irons as scar matthew broderick as simba james earl jones as mufasa and whoopi goldberg as shenzi the lion king has since gone on to be acclaimed as one of the most impressive arrays of voice talents ever utilized in an animated film critics have repeatedly singled out irons performance praising it extensively cindy white of ign called irons performance deliciously smarmy while
nq-6905429788146618812,who played hyde in league of extraordinary gentlemen,The_Quatermass_Experiment_20,and the production was the bbc s first live drama broadcast for over twenty years apart from a two thousand three production of richard ii which was televised theatre as opposed to a made for television drama actor jason flemyng played quatermass with mark gatiss as paterson andrew tiernan as carroon and david tennant as briscoe the broadcast suffered only a few errors with some fluffed lines several on minus and off camera stumbles background sounds occasionally obscuring the dialogue and at the programme s end a cameraman and sound man in shot on two occasions near the middle of the broadcast a large on screen graphic advising viewers that a major news story the death of pope john paul ii was
nq-5560309333336506479,who is often associated with printing the first book using moveable type in germany,Project_Gutenberg_5,could be considered to be of great value this particular computer was one of the fifteen nodes on the computer network that would become the internet hart believed that computers would one day be accessible to the general public and decided to make works of literature available in electronic form for free he used a copy of the united states declaration of independence in his backpack and this became the first project gutenberg e text he named the project after johannes gutenberg the fifteenth century german printer who propelled the movable type printing press revolution by
nq-3844547203530823529,who won the most stanley cups in history,Montreal_42,leading up to the race molson indy festivities begin three days prior to the race and are held in the latin quarter around saint denis street on thirteen july nineteen hundred eighty two montreal hosted the first baseball all star game outside the united states current professional franchises montreal canadiens est nineteen hundred nine national hockey league awarded stanley cup twenty four times last professional franchises montreal
nq-2202689210581594515,who wrote most of the declaration of independance,John_Locke_16,has argued that locke launched liberalism by tempering hobbesian absolutism and clearly separating the realms of church and state he had a strong influence on voltaire who called him le sage locke his arguments concerning liberty and the social contract later influenced the written works of alexander hamilton james madison thomas jefferson and other founding fathers of the united states in fact one passage from the second treatise is reproduced verbatim in the declaration of independence the reference to a long train of abuses such was locke s influence that thomas jefferson wrote
nq--2277606626509127506,what was the name of atom bomb dropped by usa on hiroshima,Nuclear_weapon_1,disabling an entire city in the history of warfare nuclear weapons have been used on two occasions both during the closing days of world war ii the first event occurred on the morning of six august nineteen hundred forty five when the united states dropped a uranium gun type device code named little boy on the japanese city of hiroshima the second event occurred three days later when a plutonium implosion type device code named fat man was dropped on the city of nagasaki the use of the weapons which resulted in the immediate deaths of at least one hundred twenty thousand individuals mostly civilians and about twice that number over time was and remains controversial critics charged that
nq-3725000672240774747,where did the allies go after north africa,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_79,armed forces were strengthened accompanied by an anti communist swing occurred on the political front americans with british encouragement attempted to dismantle elas eam socialist structures in the countryside western allies conducted meetings in italy in march nineteen hundred forty five with german representatives to forestall a takeover by italian communist resistance forces in northern italy and to hinder the potential there for post war influence of the civilian communist party the affair caused a major rift between stalin and churchill and in a letter to roosevelt on three april stalin complained that the
nq--8290462455785623591,who wrote the book the origin of species,Evolution_55,or condemned any claims that life is the result of an evolutionary process as did nearly all scientists however as geological evidence began to accumulate throughout the world it was realized by pragmatic scientists that the stories of the creation in the judeo christian bible could not be reconciled with reality by any stretch of the imagination certain religious geologists like dean william buckland in england edward hitchcock in america and hugh miller in scotland continued to explain the evidence in terms of a universal deluge but when charles darwin published the origin of species in eighteen hundred fifty nine the
nq-3193298129786826018,the most stable mineral at the earths surface,Chrysoberyl_10,alteration it can be weathered out of rocks and deposited in river sands and gravels in alluvial deposits with other gem minerals such as diamond corundum topaz spinel garnet and tourmaline when found in such placers it will have rounded edges instead of sharp wedge shape forms much of the chrysoberyl mined in brazil and sri lanka is recovered from placers as the host rocks have been intensely weathered and eroded if the pegmatite fluid is rich in beryllium crystals of beryl or chrysoberyl could form beryl has a high ratio of beryllium to aluminium while the opposite is true for chrysoberyl both are stable with the common mineral quartz for alexandrite to form some chromium would also have had to be present
nq-6009524706907434549,when was the last time the seattle seahawks won the superbowl,Sigi_Schmid_46,record to make the playoffs where they advanced past real salt lake to reach the conference championship series against the galaxy the team played defensive and suffered a three to zero blowout in the first leg they won on the return leg but lost on aggregate the sounders began the twenty thirteen regular season without a win until their sixth match after advancing through the early stages of the two thousand twelve to thirteen concacaf champions league the year prior seattle lost in the semifinals to santos laguna the team was knocked out of the twenty thirteen open cup in their first match against the lower
nq-7059301291526954298,who was the ruler of england in sixteen sixteen ,Peterborough_80,beneath its paving katherine of aragon and mary queen of scots the remains of queen mary were later removed to westminster abbey by her son james i when he became king of england the general layout of peterborough is attributed to martin de vecti who as abbot from eleven thirty three to eleven fifty five rebuilt the settlement on dry limestone to the west of the monastery rather than the often flooded marshlands to the east abbot martin was responsible for laying out the market place and the wharf beside the river peterborough s magnificent seventeenth century guildhall built shortly after the restoration of king charles ii is supported by columns to
nq--4282172075713153249,where does the journey start in the canterbury tales,1910_London_to_Manchester_air_race_10,in the united states of america and in douai where in july nineteen hundred nine he set new records for altitude and flight duration section one point one grahame white s first attempt grahame white was the first to attempt the journey he planned to take off at five am on twenty three april nineteen hundred ten near the plumes hotel in the london suburb of park royal a crowd of journalists and interested spectators had assembled there from about four am with more arriving by car until about two hundred to three hundred were present the times described the sky as clear and starlit and the weather as very cold as there was a slight
nq-203990708221890305,who proposed evolution in eighteen fifty nine as the basis of biological development,Evolution_44,and nineteen hundred eighties however that a significant number of universities had departments that specifically included the term evolutionary biology in their titles section three history of evolutionary thought the idea of biological evolution has existed since ancient times but the modern theory wasnt established until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with scientists such as jean baptiste lamarck and charles darwin while transmutation of species was accepted by a sizeable number of scientists before eighteen hundred fifty nine it was the publication of charles
nq-1469385897647131068,where was the two thousand fifteen rugby union world cup held,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_6,monro discovered the sport while completing his studies at christ s college finchley england the first game in new zealand took place in may eighteen hundred seventy in nelson between the nelson club and nelson college the first union canterbury was formed in eighteen hundred seventy nine in eighteen hundred eighty two new zealand s first internationals were played when the southern rugby union later the new south wales rugby union toured the country the tourists played auckland provincial clubs twice wellington twice and once each against canterbury otago and west coast north island winning four games and losing three two years later the first new zealand team to go
nq-2566134310827847072,when did radio shack change to the source,Podcast_42,on talk broadcasts even when identical programs are streamed the broadcasters apparently believe companies that license the music will challenge its use in easily downloaded mp three files while streaming is closer to a broadcasting model for example when popular u s conservative commentator rush limbaugh began offering podcasts early in two thousand five his employer premiere radio networks tightened its editing of intro and bumper music which it previously had allowed on other mp three files one effect was to render some of premiere broadcaster glenn beck s podcasts difficult to follow he would appear to stop mid sentence and restart in a different thought because of cuts required to remove
nq-8174037572148648768,what network is showing the monday night football game,Nick_Bakay_1,as a writer and the cartoon series sabrina the animated series and as the voice of norbert on angry beavers bakay is also an avid sport writer and commentator he writes a weekly column for n f l dot com called nick bakay s manly house of football as well as occasional columns for espn dot com and espn the magazine he appears on sportscenter on espn wednesday and thursday mornings during n f l season and has frequently done segments on n f l total access on n f l network bakay also has guest hosted many
nq-5990411897293934,who was the declaration of independence written for,John_Quincy_Adams_4,the site from which adams witnessed the battle of bunker hill at age seven adams first learned of the declaration of independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the second continental congress in philadelphia much of adams youth was spent accompanying his father overseas john adams served as an american envoy to france from seventeen hundred seventy eight until seventeen hundred seventy nine and to the netherlands from seventeen hundred eighty until seventeen hundred eighty two and the younger adams accompanied his father on these journeys adams acquired an education at institutions such as leiden university for nearly three years at the age of fourteen he accompanied francis dana as a secretary on a mission to
nq--4036503601399675973,when did michael jordan return to the nba,Michael_Jordan_67,in a playoff appearance for the wizards and jordan was often unsatisfied with the play of those around him at several points he openly criticized his teammates to the media citing their lack of focus and intensity notably that of the number one draft pick in the two thousand one nba draft kwame brown with the recognition that two thousand two to three would be jordan s final season tributes were paid to him throughout the nba in his final game at his old home court the united center in chicago jordan received a four minute standing ovation the miami heat retired the number twenty three jersey on april eleven
nq--5024563730045121055,when does the boy in the striped pajamas take place,Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea_2,than even think of attempting to walk through new york city the city has essentially descended into the status of a bombed out london or berlin during world war ii saigon after south vietnam fell or current day beirut as warring gangs fight for turf in a city without energy or fuel at the apartment jonah cooks dinner for himself and kate with food he brought with him all the way from london which is ridiculously normal in comparison to this place of horror two men pretending to be police attempt to break in to steal food and as one of them is about to kill the security guard and maintenance man who was called when they arrived and killed the other fake police officer before he could kill jonah
nq--337261340919997771,where do peaches come from in the us,The_Livestock_Conservancy_38,from california in nineteen hundred ninety one the albc added genetic material from the san clemente to their genetic database later transferred to the national animal germplasm program as of june twenty ten the albc was working on the rescue of a group of feral spanish goats from an island in south carolina there are less than two thousand five hundred members of the breed in the united states and the island group is one of only two bloodlines known to exist in the southeastern us albc members first made trips to the island to document and photograph the herd of around thirty goats then undertook
nq--5892817736532940525,who has won the most college football national champions,College_football_3,the basis of the modern form of soccer the game between rutgers university and princeton university took place on november six eighteen hundred sixty nine at college field now the site of the college avenue gymnasium new brunswick new jersey rutgers won by a score of six runs to four other colleges followed suit and minus for a short time minus soccer became the dominant code of football at u s colleges the american experience with rugby style games began in eighteen hundred seventy four at a meeting in cambridge massachusetts between harvard university and montreal quebec s mcgill university the mcgill team played a
nq--7812477442387862913,who appoints the members of the board of governors of the federal reserve,United_States_Senate_49,if there are differences they may be resolved by a conference committee which includes members of both bodies section seven checks and balances the constitution provides that the president can make certain appointments only with the advice and consent of the senate officials whose appointments require the senate s approval include members of the cabinet heads of federal executive agencies ambassadors justices of the supreme court and other federal judges however congress may pass legislation to authorize the appointment of less important officials without the senate s consent typically a nominee is first subject to a
nq--7816789034233739974,what are the band members names of the rolling stones,(I_Can%27t_Get_No)_Satisfaction_0,i cant get no satisfaction i cant get no satisfaction is a song written by mick jagger and keith richards for their band the rolling stones the song was first released as a single in the united states in may nineteen hundred sixty five but was also featured on the american version of their album out of our heads released in july of the same year it was a smash hit giving them their first number one in the united states the british version of out of our heads did not feature i cant get no satisfaction as the song was released a single there in the august of that year it was
nq-5195577413672736740,where can you find dna in the body,DNA_1,genetic information are called genes but other dna sequences have structural purposes or are involved in regulating the expression of genetic information in eukaryotes such as animals and plants dna is stored inside the cell nucleus while in prokaryotes such as bacteria the dna is in the cell s cytoplasm unlike enzymes dna does not act directly on other molecules rather various enzymes act on dna and copy its information into either more dna in dna replication or transcribe and translate it into protein in chromosomes chromatin proteins such as histones compact and organize dna as well as helping control its interactions with other proteins in the nucleus dna
nq--9169976182548289414,who is recognized as the founder of islam,The_Twelve_Imams_3,concept that god would not leave humanity without access to divine guidance according to twelvers there is always an imam of the age who is the divinely appointed authority on all matters of faith and law in the muslim community ali was the first imam of this line and in the twelvers view the rightful successor to the prophet of islam followed by male descendants of muhammad through his daughter fatimah zahra each imam was the son of the previous imam with the exception of husayn ibn ali who was the brother of hasan ibn ali the twelfth and final imam is muhammad al mahdi who is believed by the twelvers to be currently alive and hidden till he returns to bring justice to the
nq-6598465593542733817,which is the largest great lake in north america,Andrew_Carnegie_24,carnegie had purchased at low cost the most valuable of the iron ore fields around lake superior the same year carnegie became a figure of controversy following his tour of the uk he wrote about his experiences in a book entitled an american four in hand in britain although still actively involved in running his many businesses carnegie had become a regular contributor to numerous magazines most notably the nineteenth century under the editorship of james knowles and the influential north american review led by editor lloyd bryce in eighteen hundred eighty six carnegie wrote his most radical
nq-4245798066923223457,who has the most all star mvp awards,Michael_Jordan_64,sixty games the fewest he had played in a regular season since playing seventeen games after returning from his first retirement during the nineteen hundred ninety four to ninety five season playing in his fourteenth and final nba all star game in two thousand three jordan passed kareem abdul jabbar as the all time leading scorer in all star game history a record since broken by kobe bryant that year jordan was the only washington player to play in all eighty two games starting in sixty seven of them he averaged twenty point zero points six point one rebounds three point eight assists and
nq--8432751606955067146,rain sleet or snow that contains a high concentration of acids is called,Fossil_fuel_34,and nitric acids which fall to earth as acid rain impacting both natural areas and the built environment monuments and sculptures made from marble and limestone are particularly vulnerable as the acids dissolve calcium carbonate fossil fuels also contain radioactive materials mainly uranium and thorium which are released into the atmosphere in two thousand about twelve thousand tonnes of thorium and five thousand tonnes of uranium were released worldwide from burning coal it is estimated that during nineteen hundred
nq--6365055359322877916,who were the members of the traveling wilburys group,Roy_Orbison_18,background vocals with some on guitar were bruce springsteen tom waits elvis costello jackson browne j d souther steven soles with k d lang jennifer warnes and bonnie raitt singing the female background vocals shortly after this critically acclaimed performance whilst working with jeff lynne on tracks for a new album orbison joined bob dylan george harrison jeff lynne and tom petty to form the traveling wilburys achieving substantial commercial and critical success subsequently a new solo album was recorded titled mystery girl it was produced by orbison and mike campbell of the heartbreakers jeff lynne and one track by u two s bono who
nq-6125736193771176822,who is the leading african producer of wool,Shoe_polish_19,share worldwide one today it is manufactured in australia canada france india pakistan south africa spain the united kingdom and the united states other leading brands include shinola lincoln shoe polish meltonian and cherry blossom two kiwi was aquired by the american company sara lee following its purchase of reckitt and colman in nineteen hundred ninety one and knomark in nineteen hundred eighty seven one the federal trade commission ruled that sara lee had to divest its ownership of these companies in nineteen hundred ninety four to prevent it from becoming a monopoly
nq-6645756083765359472,what is the name given to the common currency to the european union,500_euro_note_5,cash section one point one before the introduction the euro was founded at the date of one january nineteen hundred ninety nine after which it began being the currency of over three hundred million europeans for the first three years of its existence it was a currency which was used only in accounting euro banknotes and coins were introduced on one january two thousand two and on that day it replaced the former cash of the eurozone twelve as it was then national currencies like the irish pound and the austrian schilling section one point two after the introduction the changeover period during which the former currencies notes and coins were exchanged for those of the euro lasted about two months until twenty eight february two thousand two the official
nq--6426837123523105683,what are the five boroughs of new york city,Kilometre_11,manhattan new york city central park in new york city is eight hundred forty nine metres wide it extends roughly east and west from fifth avenue to eighth avenue also known as central park west the distance between eighth avenue and madison avenue one block east of fifth avenue is one thousand eleven metres
nq--2835721088579212901,what is the three rd largest state in usa,Canada_59,the contiguous united states to the south and with the us state of alaska to the northwest stretching from the atlantic ocean in the east to the pacific ocean in the west to the north lies the arctic ocean by total area including its waters canada is the second largest country in the world after russia and largest on the continent by land area it ranks fourth after russia china and the united states since nineteen hundred twenty five canada has claimed the portion of the arctic between sixty w and one hundred forty one w
nq--7047954345271309528,prior to one thousand nine hundred forty eight north and south vietnam were a part of,French_language_in_Laos_6,decline was slower and occurred later than in vietnam and cambodia in laos as the monarchy of laos had close political relations with france at the eve of the vietnam war the secret war was beginning in laos as political factions between communist pathet lao and the government occurred pathet lao held areas used lao as their sole language and following the end of the vietnam war french began its sharp decline in laos additionally many elite and french educated lao immigrated to
nq-1035072243758390653,who won the battle of britain in wwtwo ,British_Empire_63,were therefore ones in which britain invested large amounts of capital and resources to win french ports were blockaded by the royal navy which won a decisive victory over a franco spanish fleet at trafalgar in eighteen hundred five overseas colonies were attacked and occupied including those of the netherlands which was annexed by napoleon in eighteen hundred ten france was finally defeated by a coalition of european armies in eighteen hundred fifteen britain was again the beneficiary of peace treaties
nq-7551559420168669884,do you cut cards to the left or right,Free_will_59,hemisphere of the brain right handed people would normally choose to move their right
nq--3738762685792121994,which film won the oscar for best animated feature in twenty seven ,List_of_accolades_received_by_Ratatouille_3,awards including original score achievement in sound editing achievement in sound mixing original screenplay and animated feature film which it lost to atonement the bourne ultimatum and juno respectively winning the latter one ratatouille was nominated for thirteen annie awards twice for the best animated effects where it lost to surf s up and three times in the best voice acting in an animated feature production for janeane garofalo ian holm and patton oswalt where ian holm won the nomination it won the best
nq--2525700398664435471,who started the state of the union address,United_States_Congress_45,union address a speech in which he or she assesses the situation of the country and outlines his or her legislative proposals for the congressional session the speech is modeled on the speech from the throne given by the british monarch and is mandated by the constitution of the united states thomas jefferson discontinued the original practice of delivering the speech in person before both houses of congress deeming it too monarchical instead jefferson and his successors sent a written message to congress each year in nineteen hundred thirteen president woodrow wilson reestablished the practice
nq-8816667823188176068,what states do not allow daylight savings time,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_150,tom morrissey morrissey later insisted that he is not a birther but stated that in his opinion what he has seen from the president produced as a birth certificate does not convince him that it is a real document arizona governor jan brewer did not agree with the electors who expressed support for the conspiracy theories section ten white house responses a common claim among those arguing that president obama was not born in hawaii is that all doubt would be settled if obama released his long form birth certificate however commentators noted that
nq-7768961778329601486,hart of dixie season four how many episodes,SpongeBob_SquarePants_41,and viewer chosen top ten episodes and
nq-4829683075369336935,last team to win fa cup outside top flight,Gilberto_Silva_2,matches in august of two thousand two he joined arsenal for four pound sterling five pence million with whom he has won the two thousand four fa premier league and two fa cup trophies in his first four seasons with the club he played one hundred sixty one games and scored twelve goals on nineteen august two thousand six he scored arsenal s first ever competitive goal at the newly built emirates stadium he was made vice captain of arsenal in
nq-7383354502292277568,when was the last time oklahoma won a national championship in football,Dennis_Anderson_7,the inaugural monster jam world finals freestyle championship in two thousand and scored a popular racing championship win at the two thousand four world finals anderson currently drives grave digger twenty the truck which is somewhat similar to grave digger nineteen debuted in minneapolis in december two thousand five in grave digger twenty he scored yet another racing championship at the two thousand six world finals section two injuries anderson has had several notable injuries over his career in late nineteen hundred ninety one he broke his kneecap when he hit a wall at the rosemont horizon in chicago il forcing him to sit out the nineteen hundred ninety two winter season he recovered and beat jack willman jr in taurus at carter finley stadium
nq-618673237462258667,the world famous corn belt is in which country,American_football_94,runs tournaments such as the ifaf world championship which is held every four years since nineteen hundred ninety nine the ifaf women s world championship the ifaf u one nine world championship and the flag football world championship the ifaf also organizes the annual international bowl game at the international level canada mexico and japan are considered to be second tier while austria germany and france would rank among a third tier all of these countries rank far below the united states which is dominant at the international level
nq--6024214514106149305,what is the system of government in japan,Canada_33,in integrating the two economies canadian nationalists continued to worry about their cultural autonomy as american television shows movies and corporations became omnipresent however canadians take special pride in their system of universal health care and their commitment to multiculturalism section three government and politics canada is a constitutional monarchy with elizabeth ii queen of canada as head of state the canadian monarch also serves as head of
nq--5644676080991349842,who developed the first printing press in fourteen thirty s,Project_Gutenberg_5,could be considered to be of great value this particular computer was one of the fifteen nodes on the computer network that would become the internet hart believed that computers would one day be accessible to the general public and decided to make works of literature available in electronic form for free he used a copy of the united states declaration of independence in his backpack and this became the first project gutenberg e text he named the project after johannes gutenberg the fifteenth century german printer who propelled the movable type printing press revolution by
nq-6910954144840084023,which country has the most coastline in the world,Canada_61,eight hundred seventeen kilometres four hundred fifty nautical miles from the north pole canada has the longest coastline in the world two hundred forty three thousand kilometres the population density template pop density km two to s q mi is among the lowest in the world the most densely populated part of the country is the quebec city windsor corridor along the great lakes and saint lawrence river in the southeast to the north of this region is the broad canadian shield an area of rock scoured clean by the last ice age thinly
nq--2389754682537282284,who was defeated in the french and indian war,British_Empire_45,in the following decades the company gradually increased the size of the territories under its control either ruling directly or via local rulers under the threat of force from the british indian army the vast majority of which was composed of indian sepoys the british and french struggles in india became but one theatre of the global seven years war seventeen hundred fifty six to seventeen hundred sixty three involving france britain and the other major european powers the signing of the treaty of
nq--4034246013770107217,what was the code name of the us program to develop an atomic bomb,Louis_Slotin_12,the field of radiobiology his expertise on the subject garnered the attention of the united states government and as a result he was invited to join the manhattan project the united states effort to develop a nuclear bomb slotin worked on the production of plutonium under future nobel laureate eugene wigner at the university and later at the oak ridge national laboratory in oak ridge tennessee he moved to the los alamos national laboratory in new mexico in december nineteen hundred forty four to work in the bomb physics
nq--2382302837416986186,who are the artists in the traveling wilburys,Roy_Orbison_18,background vocals with some on guitar were bruce springsteen tom waits elvis costello jackson browne j d souther steven soles with k d lang jennifer warnes and bonnie raitt singing the female background vocals shortly after this critically acclaimed performance whilst working with jeff lynne on tracks for a new album orbison joined bob dylan george harrison jeff lynne and tom petty to form the traveling wilburys achieving substantial commercial and critical success subsequently a new solo album was recorded titled mystery girl it was produced by orbison and mike campbell of the heartbreakers jeff lynne and one track by u two s bono who
nq--4073927395432951958,is coca cola a public or private company,Service-oriented_architecture_33,public brokers are available through the internet while private brokers are only accessible to a limited audience for example users of a company intranet furthermore the amount of the offered information has to be decided some brokers specialize in many listings others offer high levels of trust in the listed services some cover a broad landscape of services and others focus within an industry some brokers catalog other brokers depending on the business model brokers can attempt to maximize look up requests number of listings or accuracy of the listings
nq--8464536395541330825,which layer of the meninges is connected to the brain,Subarachnoid_hemorrhage_0,subarachnoid hemorrhage subarachnoid hemorrhage sah pronounced forward slash sbraknd hm rd forward slash deprecated template or subarachnoid haemorrhage in british english is bleeding into the subarachnoid space the area between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater surrounding the brain this may occur spontaneously usually from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm or may result from head injury symptoms include an intense headache with a rapid onset thunderclap headache vomiting and an altered level of consciousness the diagnosis is
nq-575501437401429947,how many episodes in season two of fargo,SpongeBob_SquarePants_41,and viewer chosen top ten episodes and
nq--8631190913794477985,who scored the most points in a single game in the nba,Michael_Jordan_18,other than wilt chamberlain to score three thousand points in a season averaging a league high thirty seven point one points on forty eight point two per cent shooting in addition jordan demonstrated his defensive prowess as he became the first player in nba history to record two hundred steals and one hundred blocks in a season despite jordan s success magic johnson won the league s most valuable player award the bulls reached forty wins and advanced to the playoffs for the third consecutive year however they were again swept by the celtics section two point one mid career pistons
triviaqa-qw_11386,what is the opposite side from starboard on a ship,RMS_Titanic_18,lee spotted a large iceberg directly ahead of the ship fleet sounded the ship s bell three times and telephoned the bridge exclaiming iceberg right ahead first officer murdoch ordered an abrupt turn to port left and full speed astern which stopped and then reversed the ship s engines a collision turned out to be inevitable and the iceberg brushed the ship s starboard right side buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline creating a total of six leaks in the first five watertight compartments murdoch then ordered the ship hard aport which swung titanic s stern away from the iceberg the watertight doors were shut as water started filling the five compartments one more than titanic could stay afloat with the weight of five
triviaqa-sfq_17886,the most southerly part of mainland australia is in which state,Australian_green_tree_frog_6,white s tree frog is native to northern and eastern regions of australia and to southern new guinea distribution is limited mostly to areas with a warm wet tropical climate eastern australia although cool in winter also hosts the species it is found in the southern australian state of victoria but the frog cannot survive southern victoria s cold winters and is therefore restricted to the north in new guinea white s tree frog is restricted to the drier southern region its range spans from irian jaya to port moresby and is most abundant on daru island there have been isolated records in northern
triviaqa-qz_6898,in which new york borough would you find hells kitchen,George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River_4,under conditions made more difficult by the uncertain thickness of the ice on the river they defeated british reinforcements under lord cornwallis on january two seventeen hundred seventy seven and defeated his rear guard at princeton before retreating to winter quarters in morristown new jersey table of contents section one background while seventeen hundred seventy six had begun well for the american cause with the evacuation of british troops from boston in march the defense of new york city had gone quite poorly british general william howe had landed troops on long island in august and had pushed george washington s continental army completely out of new york by mid november when he captured the remaining troops on manhattan
triviaqa-odql_12483,interflug used the an two and an two aircraft manufactured by which company,Howard_Hughes_30,the hercules is no longer the longest or heaviest aircraft ever built however as both of those titles are currently held by the antonov an two two five the hercules was originally contracted by the u s government for use during world war ii to transport troops and equipment across the atlantic as an alternative to sea going troop transport ships that were vulnerable to german u boats however the aircraft was not completed until after the end of world war ii the hercules flew only once for one mile one six k m and seventy feet above the water with hughes at the controls on november two nineteen hundred
triviaqa-qz_385,what is the most populated city in america,Chicago_0,chicago template chicagoinfobox two chicago illinois minus officially the city of chicago and colloquially known as chicago the second city and the windy city minus is the third largest city of the united states after new york city and los angeles and is the largest inland city of the nation according to the two thousand census it has a population of two million eight hundred ninety six thousand sixteen people classified as a world class city it
triviaqa-sfq_12415,what is the most common gas in the earths atmosphere,Titan_(moon)_3,large stable bodies of surface liquid known to exist anywhere other than earth the surface is geologically young although mountains and several possible cryovolcanoes have been discovered it is smooth and few impact craters have been discovered the atmosphere of titan is largely composed of nitrogen and its climate includes methane and ethane clouds the climate including wind and rain creates surface features that are similar to those on earth such as sand dunes and shorelines and like earth is
triviaqa-wh_2835,alternatively known as austrpphlebia costalis what type of insect is a southern giant darner,Insect_4,adults develop through a series of nymphal stages the higher level relationship of the hexapoda is unclear fossilized insects of enormous size have been found from the paleozoic era including giant dragonflies with wingspans of fifty five to seventy c m twenty two to twenty eight in the most diverse insect groups appear to have coevolved with flowering plants insects typically move
triviaqa-odql_14539,the largest region in new zealand is canterbury which city is the seat of government,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_90,formerly called lancaster park christchurch waikato stadium hamilton and carisbrook dunedin prior to the construction of westpac stadium in nineteen hundred ninety nine wellington s test venue was athletic park athletic park was the venue for the first all blacks test match in new zealand against great britain in nineteen hundred four the first home test match played outside the main centres of auckland christchurch dunedin or wellington was in nineteen hundred ninety six at mclean park in napier the nineteen hundred eighty seven rugby world cup final was played at eden
triviaqa-qg_315,which eighteen th century polymath invented the lightning rod the flexible urinary catheter and coined the phrase time is money,Chess_83,students and merchants chess entered into the popular culture of middle ages an example is the two hundred ninth song of carmina burana from the thirteenth century which starts with the names of chess pieces roch pedites regina section five point two modern during the age of enlightenment chess was viewed as a means of self improvement benjamin franklin in his article the morals of chess seventeen hundred
triviaqa-sfq_20945,the first session of the united nations general assembly was convened in january one thousand nine hundred forty six in which city,George_VI_52,king invited churchill to appear with him on the balcony to public acclaim in january nineteen hundred forty six george addressed the united nations at their first assembly which was held in london and reaffirmed our faith in the equal rights of men and women and of nations great and small section seven empire to commonwealth george vi s reign saw the acceleration of the dissolution of the british empire the statute of westminster nineteen hundred thirty one had already acknowledged the evolution of the dominions into separate
triviaqa-wh_4343,which superhero film produced by marvel studios and written and directed by joss whedon was the highest grossing film world wide in twenty twelve ,Uma_Thurman_22,next year brought the avengers another major financial and critical flop c n n described thurman as so distanced you feel like you re watching her through the wrong end of a telescope she received razzie award nominations for both films she closed out nineteen hundred ninety eight with the powerful tale les miserables a film version of victor hugo s classic novel of the same name directed by bille august in which she played the role of fantine section two point four hiatus nineteen hundred ninety eight minus two thousand two after the birth of her first child in nineteen hundred ninety eight she took a hiatus from major roles to concentrate on motherhood
triviaqa-sfq_21214,which us state is nicknamed the beaver state,Archimedes_76,nineteen hundred seventy three greece nineteen hundred eighty three italy nineteen hundred eighty three nicaragua nineteen hundred seventy one san marino nineteen hundred eighty two and spain nineteen hundred sixty three the exclamation of eureka attributed to archimedes is the state motto of california in this instance the word refers to the discovery of gold near sutter s mill in eighteen hundred forty eight which sparked the california gold rush a movement for civic engagement targeting universal access to health care in the us state of oregon has been named the archimedes movement headed by
triviaqa-qw_6267,the phrase up and under is associated with which sport,American_football_10,an eighteen hundred seventy five harvard yale game played under rugby style rules was observed by two impressed princeton athletes these players introduced the sport to princeton a feat the professional football researchers association compared to selling refrigerators to eskimos princeton harvard yale and columbia then agreed to intercollegiate play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system these schools formed the intercollegiate football association although yale did not join until eighteen hundred seventy nine yale player
triviaqa-qb_8785,who did germany defeat to win the one thousand nine hundred ninety fifa world cup,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_24,park auckland new zealand conceded only fifty two points and scored forty three tries in six games en route to the title having swept aside the challenges of italy fiji argentina scotland wales and france by the nineteen hundred ninety one world cup the all blacks were an ageing side company coached by alex wyllie and john hart they struggled during pool matches against the united states and italy but won their quarter final against canada they were then knocked out by eventual winners australia sixteen to six in their semi final at lansdowne road in the wake of the tournament there were many retirements including coach wyllie who had enjoyed an eighty six per cent win rate
triviaqa-sfq_7405,which passenger liner was torpedoed and sunk on seven th may one thousand nine hundred fifteen ,RMS_Titanic_69,were lost also similar to titanic was hans hedtoft in january nineteen hundred fifty nine hans hedtoft a danish liner sailing from greenland struck an iceberg and sank hans hedtoft was also on its maiden voyage and was boasted to be unsinkable because of its strong design historians have noted that two thirds of the passengers and crew were lost on titanic the ratio has been repeated with the sinking of r m s lusitania and the sinking of the r m s leinster thirteen both were sunk by german u boats in world war one section eight popular culture the sinking of titanic has been the basis for many novels describing
triviaqa-sfq_21953,with its capital at jaipur what is the largest state of india by area,Indian_Railways_6,retaining operational control the route mileage of this network was about fourteen thousand five hundred k m nine thousand miles by eighteen hundred eighty mostly radiating inward from the three major port cities of bombay madras and calcutta by eighteen hundred ninety five india had started building its own locomotives and in eighteen hundred ninety six sent engineers and locomotives to help build the uganda railway soon various independent kingdoms built their own rail systems and the network spread to the regions that became the modern day states of assam rajasthan and andhra pradesh a railway board was constituted in nineteen hundred one
triviaqa-bb_8792,herman van rompuy became first permanent president of what,European_Economic_Community_16,systems which remain varied to this day during the tenure of president jenkins in june nineteen hundred seventy nine the elections were held in all the then members see european parliament election nineteen hundred seventy nine the new parliament galvanised by direct election and new powers started working full time and became more active than the previous assemblies shortly after its election parliament became the first community institution to propose that the community adopt the flag of europe the european council agreed to this and adopted the symbols of europe as those of the community in nineteen hundred eighty four the european council or european summit had developed since the
triviaqa-sfq_18304,cambridge favourite is a variety of which fruit,Da_Lat_3,vietnamese hoa bt t confectionary industry also offer a wide range of mt a kind of fruit preserves made from strawberry mulberry sweet potato
triviaqa-qb_8177,which us president was born lesley lynch king jr,Ronald_Reagan_181,two years eight months and twenty three days longer than john adams whose record he surpassed he is now the second longest lived president just forty five days fewer than gerald ford he was the first united states president to die in the twenty first century and his was the first state funeral in the united states since that of president lyndon b johnson in nineteen hundred seventy three his burial site is inscribed with the words he delivered at the opening of the ronald reagan presidential library i know in my heart that man is good
triviaqa-bb_1220,the quran or quran kuran koran coran or al quran literally the recitation is the religious text of which religion,Jesus_140,as inauthentic and believe that jesus original message was lost and that muhammad came later to restore it belief in jesus and all other messengers of god is a requirement for being a muslim the quran mentions jesus by name twenty five times more often than muhammad and emphasizes that jesus was a mortal human who like all other prophets had been divinely chosen to spread god s message islam considers jesus to be neither the incarnation nor the son of god islamic texts emphasize a strict notion of
triviaqa-qw_3353,which sport was developed in eighteen ninety five when the rugby union refused to allow professionalism,Oldham_93,league division two renamed in nineteen hundred ninety seven to oldham roughyeds oldham rugby league club have received several club honours during its history winning the rugby league championship four times and rugby league challenge cup three times they played at watersheddings for years before joining oldham athletic at boundary park oldham has league cricket teams with a number of semi professional league clubs including oldham c c and werneth c c in the central lancashire league section nine education almost every part
triviaqa-qb_7419,a quadruped is an animal with how many feet,Fauna_of_Australia_20,nests and carry plant material with their tails the macropodiae include kangaroos wallabies and associated species size varies widely within this family most macropods move in a bipedal energy efficient hopping motion they have powerfully muscled tails and large hind legs with long narrow hind feet the hind feet have a distinctive arrangement of four toes while the short front legs have five separate digits the musky rat kangaroo is the smallest macropod and the only species that is not bipedal while the male red kangaroo is the largest reaching a height of about two m and weighing
triviaqa-sfq_6954,in the bible where was jesus betrayed by judas and subsequently arrested,Saint_Peter_27,while peter was still warming himself at the fire and gives as the occasion of the third denial a claim by someone to have seen him in the garden of gethsemane when jesus was arrested in the gospel of luke jesus prediction of peter s denial is coupled with a prediction that all the apostles you plural would be sifted like wheat but that it would be peter s task you singular when he had turned again to strengthen his brethren in a reminiscent scene in john s epilogue peter affirms three times that he loves jesus section two point three
triviaqa-qb_2019,obey your thirst is the advertising slogan for which soft drink,Saltine_cracker_challenge_13,the space of one hour and refrain from vomiting the main barrier for the milk challenge is stomach capacity milk is also more difficult than water because fat and protein inhibit release into the small intestine a similar stomach capacity challenge is the banana sprite challenge in which the person must eat two bananas and drink two large bottles of the soft drink sprite the salt and ice challenge is a dangerous youtube phenomenon wherein participants pour salt on their bodies
triviaqa-odql_8942,what name is given to the practice of arranging voting districts to favour one candidate or party above another,United_States_House_of_Representatives_20,is unconstitutional and districts must be approximately equal in population see wesberry v sanders the voting rights act prohibits states from gerrymandering districts to reduce racial minorities voting power using gerrymandering for political gain is not prohibited even when political gerrymandering incidentally involves the creation of racially concentrated districts due to gerrymandering fewer than ten per cent of all house seats are seriously contested in each election cycle the fact that over ninety per cent of house members are nearly guaranteed reelection every two years due to lack of electoral competition has been criticized because it can be seen as against one of the main principles of democracy fair competition the legal gerrymandering of the house combined with
triviaqa-qw_7343,whose armies were defeated at the battle of waterloo in eighteen fifteen ,British_Empire_62,section three point three war with napoleonic france britain was challenged again by france under napoleon in a struggle that unlike previous wars represented a contest of ideologies between the two nations it was not only britain s position on the world stage that was threatened napoleon threatened to invade britain itself just as his armies had overrun many countries of continental europe the napoleonic wars were therefore ones in which britain invested large amounts of capital and resources to win french ports were blockaded by the royal navy which
triviaqa-tb_1931,the bitter nineteen th century rivalry between paleontologists edward drinker cope and othniel charles marsh during their search for dinosaur fossils is usually described with what two words,Dinosaur_72,discovery as most scientists had thought that dinosaurs walked on four feet like lizards foulke s discoveries sparked a dinosaur mania in the united states which was exemplified by the fierce rivalry of edward drinker cope and othniel charles marsh who each competed to outdo the other in finding new dinosaurs in what came to be known as the bone wars the feud was probably started when marsh criticized cope for putting the bones of a elastomosaurus on back to front this started the jealousy and madness of a fight which ensued for the next thirty years only ending in
triviaqa-qb_558,the koppen system is a classification system for what,Lewisville%2c_Texas_22,the city is located on the barnett shale a geological formation containing a large amount of natural shale gas section two point one climate and weather lewisville s climate is classified as humid subtropical its koppen climate classification is cfa meaning that it has a temperate climate does not have a dry season and has a hot summer according to the united states department of agriculture lewisville is located in a hardiness zone of eight a the city is not frequently affected by extreme weather but in nineteen hundred sixty one hurricane carla brought eighty six miles
triviaqa-qb_7372,in the standard game of monopoly you go to jail if you throw how many consecutive sets of doubles on the dice,Rock-paper-scissors_17,winning more throws out of three wins typically nine three throw sets are played to determine a match winner should players tie the set is considered drawn and the match would continue the three throw sets can also be called runs this variant called p r p s or professional r p s can offer more strategic ideas for both players since the player winning the first throw of their three throw set can gain significant advantage over the opponent for that set when a player leads after the first throw
triviaqa-sfq_20920,the andaman sea is part of which ocean,Trincomalee_2,referred to as gokanna or gokarna it has been a sea port that has played a major role in maritime and international trading history of sri lanka the bay of trincomalee s harbour is renowned for its large size and security unlike every other in the indian sea it is accessible to all types of craft in all weathers the beaches are used for surfing scuba diving fishing and whale watching the city also has the largest dutch fort in sri lanka it is home to major sri lankan naval
triviaqa-qb_5231,fiji day is celebrated in fiji during which month of the year,Martin_Luther_178,and a feast day in the episcopal united states calendar of saints in the church of england s calendar of saints he is commemorated on thirty one october section nineteen works and editions exegetica opera latina minus latin exegetical works
triviaqa-qg_527,vancouver is not the first canadian city to host the winter olympics what city holds that honor when they hosted the one thousand nine hundred eighty eight games,Canada_93,ottawa calgary and edmonton minus have franchises in the national hockey league n h l and there are more canadian players in the league than from all other countries combined after hockey other popular spectator sports include curling and football the latter is played professionally in the canadian football league c f l golf baseball skiing soccer volleyball and basketball are widely played at youth and amateur levels but professional leagues and franchises are not as widespread canada has hosted several high profile international sporting
triviaqa-qz_4005,general charles de gaulle was french president one thousand nine hundred fifty nine to one thousand nine hundred sixty nine who succeeded him,European_Economic_Community_12,common european home section one point three enlargement and elections the nineteen hundred sixties saw the first attempts at enlargement on three may nineteen hundred sixty denmark ireland norway and the united kingdom applied to join the three communities however president charles de gaulle saw british membership as a trojan horse for us influence and vetoed membership and the applications of all four countries were suspended the four countries resubmitted their applications on eleven may nineteen hundred sixty seven and with georges pompidou succeeding charles de gaulle as french president in nineteen hundred sixty nine the veto
triviaqa-qw_4244,what name is given to a positive whole number that can only be divided by one or itself,Parity_of_zero_13,and significant mathematicians such as goldbach lambert legendre cayley and kronecker wrote that one was prime the modern definition of prime number is positive integer with exactly two factors so one is not prime this definition can be rationalized by observing that it more naturally suits mathematical theorems that concern the primes for example the fundamental theorem of arithmetic is easier to state when one is not considered prime it would be possible to similarly redefine the term even in a way that no longer includes zero
triviaqa-sfq_13291,from which shakespeare play does the phrase the green eyed monster originate,Scar_(The_Lion_King)_11,claudius is mostly a second rate schemer consumed by anxiety and guilt scar very much delight s in his monstrosity both characters are motivated by jealousy meanwhile the week observed that although both characters ultimately die claudius is killed by protagonist hamlet while scar dies at the hand of his former hyena minions and not simba himself additionally the character shares similarities with iago from shakespeare s play othello both
triviaqa-jp_3055,what country dominated the east indies spice trade in the seventeen th and eighteen th centuries,British_Empire_37,left it with a stronger position in asia hostilities ceased after the glorious revolution of sixteen hundred eighty eight when the dutch william of orange ascended the english throne bringing peace between the netherlands and england a deal between the two nations left the spice trade of the east indies archipelago to the netherlands and the textiles industry of india to england but textiles soon overtook spices in terms of profitability and by seventeen hundred twenty in terms of sales the british company had overtaken the dutch
triviaqa-qw_9742,what is the term for the attribution of human characteristics to non human creatures and beings phenomena material states and objects or abstract concepts for example animals plants and forces of nature such as winds the rain or the sun,Thought_4,to believe especially with less than full confidence i think that it will rain but i am not sure at other times it denotes the degree of attentiveness i did it without thinking many other mental activities many of which may shade into each other can be covered by the word such as evaluating imagining planning and remembering in common usage thought is often attributed to animals machines other non human objects and phenomena the exact meaning of such usage varies as well in the case of non human objects and phenomena such usage represents anthropomorphism as regards animals how to what extent different
triviaqa-odql_11292,in the one thousand nine hundred fifty s who succeeded winston churchill as british prime minister,British_Empire_134,troops would withdraw from the suez canal zone and that sudan would be granted self determination by nineteen hundred fifty five with independence to follow sudan was granted independence on one january nineteen hundred fifty six in july nineteen hundred fifty six nasser unilaterally nationalised the suez canal the response of anthony eden who had succeeded churchill as prime minister was to collude with france to engineer an israeli attack on egypt that would give britain and france an excuse to intervene militarily and retake the canal eden
triviaqa-odql_10432,if an animal that is active at night is described as nocturnal then what name is given to an animal active during the day,Bobcat_20,before sunset until about midnight and then again from before dawn until three hours after sunrise each night it will move from two to seven miles three to eleven k m along its habitual route this behavior may vary seasonally as bobcats become more diurnal during fall and winter this is a response to the activity of their prey which are more active during the day in colder months section three point one social structure and home range bobcat activities are
triviaqa-odql_13997,the black berets are an elite paramilitary force from which country,Submarine_26,i and are being converted to carry tomahawk guided missiles instead for russia see list of nato reporting names for ballistic missile submarines the british royal navy possess a single class of four ballistic missile submarines what r n call bombers for their function the vanguard class the royal navy s previous ballistic missile submarine class was the resolution class which also consisted of four boats the resolutions named after battleships to convey the fact they were the new capital ships were decommissioned upon vanguard s entering service in the nineteen hundred nineties france operates a force de frappe including a nuclear ballistic submarine fleet
triviaqa-sfq_25944,in which body of water are the mascarene islands,British_Empire_155,the south sandwich islands are claimed by argentina and the british indian ocean territory is claimed by mauritius and seychelles the british antarctic territory is subject to overlapping claims by argentina and chile while many countries do not recognise any territorial claims in antarctica most former british colonies and protectorates are members of commonwealth of nations a non political voluntary association of equal members sixteen members of the commonwealth including the uk continue to share their head of state as commonwealth realms
triviaqa-sfq_20405,which group recorded the ninety s albums nevermind and in utero,The_Smashing_Pumpkins_13,corgan remarked we ve graduated now from being called the next jane s addiction to the next nirvana now we re the next pearl jam the group nevertheless contributed the song drown to the platinum selling soundtrack of the nineteen hundred ninety two movie singles a film set in the seattle grunge music scene corgan said that in the wake of nirvana s landmark nineteen hundred ninety one album nevermind we felt a great pressure that if we didnt come up with a record that was huge we were done it was that simple in our minds we felt like our lives depended on it corgan s depression deepened to the point where he contemplated
triviaqa-bb_6043,what old english coin took its name from being a quarter of a penny,Wife_selling_(English_custom)_24,each for her two children in a sale of eighteen hundred sixty five equivalent to about twelve thousand nine hundred pound sterling as of twenty sixteen to a low of a glass of ale or even free the lowest amount of money exchanged was three farthings three quarters of one penny but the usual price seems to have been between twos six d and five shillings according to authors wade mansell and belinda meteyard money seems usually to have been a secondary consideration the more important factor was that the sale was seen by many as legally binding despite it having no basis in law some of the new
triviaqa-qb_10037,the uk television drama series boys from the black stuff was set in which city,Murder_of_James_Bulger_21,areas of the uk the liverpool echo newspaper described the city at the time of the murder as a wounded city the region s economy was on its knees and unemployment was soaring a two thousand one ofsted report on liverpool s schools said that the city of liverpool has the highest degree of deprivation in the country following the murder the boys mothers susan venables and ann thompson were repeatedly attacked in the street and vilified in the press thompson s father had abandoned his wife and children five years previously one week before the family home was burned down in a fire ann thompson was a heavy drinker who
triviaqa-sfq_14649,the sea between australia and new zealand is named after an explorer of what nationality,British_Empire_59,until eighteen hundred forty the australian colonies became profitable exporters of wool and gold mainly due to gold rushes in the colony of victoria making its capital melbourne the richest city in the world and the largest city after london in the british empire during his voyage cook also visited new zealand first discovered by dutch explorer abel tasman in sixteen hundred forty two and claimed the north and south islands for the british crown in seventeen hundred sixty nine and seventeen hundred seventy respectively initially
triviaqa-wh_3204,the book the red badge of courage was set during which war,James_Brogan_(Medal_of_Honor)_0,james brogan medal of honor edward james brogan eighteen hundred thirty four minus october thirty nineteen hundred eight was a united states army soldier who served in the american indian wars he received the medal of honor for his service brogan was born in county donegal ireland and later moved to summit hill pennsylvania he joined the army in january eighteen hundred sixty four and served with the twenty first pennsylvania cavalry during the american civil war by the time of his medal of honor action he was serving
triviaqa-odql_1646,who is the united nations and arab league envoy to syria,Nobel_Prize_35,is typically awarded to recognise a cumulative lifetime body of work rather than a single achievement the peace prize can also be awarded for a lifetime body of work for example two thousand eight laureate martti ahtisaari was awarded for his work to resolve international conflicts however they can also be awarded for specific recent events for instance kofi annan was awarded the two thousand one peace prize just four years after becoming the secretary general of the united nations similarly yasser arafat yitzhak rabin and shimon peres received
triviaqa-qf_944,in which sport would you see someone slam dunking the ball,American_football_100,united states and rural areas while college football is most popular in the southern united states and among people with graduate and post graduate degrees football is also the most played sport by high school and college athletes in the united states in a twenty twelve study the ncaa estimated there were around one point one million high school football players and nearly seventy thousand college football players in the united states in comparison the second most played sport basketball had around one million participants in high school and thirty four thousand in college the super bowl
triviaqa-bb_2014,alan greenspan is a former chairman of what organization,Marshall_Plan_128,seen in the rest of continental europe former u s chairman of the federal reserve bank alan greenspan gives most credit to ludwig erhard for europe s economic recovery greenspan writes in his memoir the age of turbulence that erhard s economic policies were the most important aspect of postwar western europe recovery far outweighing the contributions of the marshall plan he states that it was erhard s reductions in economic regulations that permitted germany s miraculous recovery and that these policies also
triviaqa-dpql_263,which orbison number was used in the david lynch cult classic of one thousand nine hundred eighty six blue velvet,Roy_Orbison_11,with m g m records and starred in m g m studios western musical motion picture the fastest guitar alive in which he would perform several songs from an album of the same name roy orbison wrote and recorded numerous songs specifically for motion pictures and many of his hit songs became part of motion picture soundtracks the most famous of which is the blockbuster film pretty woman named for his song the music was integral to the movie that brought fame to actress julia roberts as well his hit song in dreams was used extensively in the david lynch film blue velvet lynch also featured a spanish version of crying in his film mulholland drive section one point one other
triviaqa-bb_7993,which team was the first to score a golden goal in the soccer world cup finals,Gilberto_Silva_28,national football team for the two thousand six fifa world cup gilberto was substituted on in two games and started twice due to another injury to emerson brazil were beaten one to zero by france in the quarter final following brazil s world cup disappointment midfielder juninho called for the older members of the brazil squad including gilberto to retire from international football on the back of gilberto s childhood idol dunga being appointed brazil coach gilberto did not take juninho s advice and has continued his international career following the departure of defender sol campbell and retirement of striker dennis bergkamp in
triviaqa-qw_6353,the initial parts of which london building were built as a fortress by the normans had additions to become a palace and then was used primarily as a prison,William_the_Conqueror_120,as part of his efforts to secure england william ordered many castles keeps and mottes built minus among them the central keep of the tower of london the white tower these fortifications allowed normans to retreat into safety when threatened with rebellion and allowed garrisons to be protected while they occupied the countryside the early castles were simple earth and timber constructions later replaced with stone structures at first most of the newly settled normans kept household knights and did not settle their retainers with fiefs of their own but gradually these household knights came to
triviaqa-sfq_25907,the storyline of which one thousand nine hundred ninety four disney animated film is based on the shakespearean tragedy hamlet,Scar_(The_Lion_King)_10,film to have been inspired by shakespeare s work the lion king remains the studio s most prominent example due to close parallels between its characters and hamlet while both stories revolve around main characters who struggle to come to terms with the reality that they must confront their treacherous uncles and avenge their fathers deaths scar is based on king claudius the antagonist of hamlet according to slate while claudius is mostly a second rate schemer consumed by anxiety and guilt scar very much delight s in
triviaqa-qb_5824,how many us presidents have been impeached,United_States_Senate_55,a two thirds majority of the senators present a convicted official is automatically removed from office in addition the senate may stipulate that the defendant be banned from holding office in the future no further punishment is permitted during the impeachment proceedings however the party may face criminal penalties in a normal court of law in the history of the united states the house of representatives has impeached sixteen officials of whom seven were convicted one resigned before the senate could complete the trial only two presidents of the united states have ever been impeached andrew johnson in eighteen hundred sixty eight and bill clinton in nineteen hundred ninety nine both trials ended in acquittal in johnson s case the
triviaqa-qb_280,peter osullevan was a bbc commentator for which sport,Announcer_1,the script when one is required sometimes announcers also interview guests and moderate panels or discussions some provide commentary for the audience during sporting events parades and other events the term also applies to public address announcers usually at sporting venues such announcers will give the spectators information about a player score such as a goal or touchdown infraction or the results of the event these announcers may be specialized according to sport for instance an horse race announcer provides a rapid fire second by second account of the race as well as introducing the entries before the race while a baseball announcer may
triviaqa-dpql_2734,what russian word means restructuring particularly in an economic context,Cold_War_159,led to the conclusion that deeper structural changes were necessary and in june nineteen hundred eighty seven gorbachev announced an agenda of economic reform called perestroika or restructuring perestroika relaxed the production quota system allowed private ownership of businesses and paved the way for foreign investment these measures were intended to redirect the country s resources from costly cold war military commitments to more productive areas in the civilian sector despite initial skepticism in the west the new soviet leader proved to be committed to reversing the soviet union s deteriorating
triviaqa-odql_189,which leader of a british coalition government became the first earl of dwfor,George_Lansbury_58,lansbury blamed the coming conflict on capitalism the workers of all countries have no quarrel they are exploited in times of peace and sent out to be massacred in times of war lansbury s position was at odds with that of most of the labour movement which allied itself with the wartime coalition governments of asquith and from nineteen hundred sixteen lloyd george in the prevailing jingoistic mood numerous readers looked to the herald reduced by wartime economies to a weekly format to present a
triviaqa-sfq_14187,the whitworth art gallery is in which english city,Trafford_15,west held by the conservative party and the only one in greater manchester stretford and urmston is represented by beverley hughes m p labour wythenshawe and sale east which also covers parts of the city of manchester is represented by paul goggins m p labour trafford is part of the north west england constituency in the european parliament north west england elects nine meps as at two thousand eight made up of four conservatives three from the labour party one liberal democrat and one member of the united kingdom independence party section three point two council in nineteen hundred
triviaqa-dpql_1651,which italian city is known as the pizza capital of the world,Futurist_meals_7,or vinegar the italian public was not won over by marinetti s manifesto regarding cuisine immediately following its publication the italian press broke into uproar doctors were measured in their response agreeing that habitual consumption of pasta was fattening and recommending a varied diet but the duke of bovino mayor of naples was firmer in his views the angels in paradise he told a reporter eat nothing but vermicelli al pomodoro fine spaghetti with tomato sauce marinetti
triviaqa-sfq_10687,on average a big mac contains one hundred seventy eight of what ingredient,Longest_word_in_English_16,in t v and film advertising in nineteen hundred seventy five the seven one letter but several word advertising jingle twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun read two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun was first used in a mcdonald s restaurant advertisement to describe the big mac sandwich section three constructions the english language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes this is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction this process can create arbitrarily long
triviaqa-bb_4887,the works of which dramatic writer feature at least sixty four bird species including all seven british crows,Tawny_owl_42,owls from their traditional nesting sites in buildings section five in culture the tawny owl like its relatives has often been seen as an omen of bad luck and william shakespeare used it as such in julius caesar act one scene three and yesterday the bird of night did sit forward slash even at noon day upon the market place forward slash hooting and shrieking even john ruskin is quoted as saying
triviaqa-sfq_1674,which pacific nation consists of over eight hundred islands and islets the largest being viti levu,British_Empire_146,hundred sixty six britain s last colony on the american mainland british honduras became a self governing colony in nineteen hundred sixty four and was renamed belize in nineteen hundred seventy three achieving full independence in nineteen hundred eighty one a dispute with guatemala over claims to belize was left unresolved british territories in the pacific acquired independence in the nineteen hundred seventies beginning with fiji in nineteen hundred seventy and ending with vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty vanuatu s independence was delayed due to political conflict between english and french speaking
triviaqa-qw_9494,damascus is the capital of which country,First_Crusade_9,in the sultanate of rum in anatolia malik shah was succeeded by kilij arslan i and in syria by his brother tutush i who died in ten ninety five tutush s sons radwan and duqaq inherited aleppo and damascus respectively further dividing syria amongst emirs antagonistic towards each other as well as towards kerbogha the atabeg of mosul these states were on the whole more concerned with consolidating their own territories and gaining control of their neighbours than with cooperating against the crusaders elsewhere in nominal seljuk
triviaqa-sfq_25263,sardinian cettis and dartford are among varieties of which bird,Elfin_woods_warbler_0,elfin woods warbler the elfin woods warbler dendroica angelae or reinita de bosque enano spanish name is a bird endemic to the caribbean island of puerto rico where it is a local and uncommon species
triviaqa-sfq_6104,who is the composer of the larlesienne suite,Bart_the_Genius_18,in the episode sending the program a letter and vitti an autographed copy of her book the conductor of the opera the family attends is named boris csupowski a reference to animator gabor csupo the opera attended by the family is carmen by french composer georges bizet the song that bart mocks is a famous aria called the toreador song section four reception and legacy in a nineteen hundred ninety one interview jon vitti described bart the genius
triviaqa-sfq_13336,who became secretary general of the soviet communist party in nineteen eighty five ,Cold_War_158,final years nineteen hundred eighty five to ninety one section eight point one gorbachev reforms by the time the comparatively youthful mikhail gorbachev became general secretary in nineteen hundred eighty five the soviet economy was stagnant and faced a sharp fall in foreign currency earnings as a result of the downward slide in oil prices in the nineteen hundred eighties these issues prompted gorbachev to investigate measures to revive the ailing state an ineffectual start led to the conclusion that deeper structural changes were necessary and in june nineteen hundred eighty seven gorbachev announced an agenda of economic reform
triviaqa-bb_4368,aside from english what is the official language of india,Esperanto_125,general both the grammar and the international vocabulary are difficult for many asians among others and give an unfair advantage to speakers of european languages one attempt to address this issue is lojban which draws from the six most populous languages arabic mandarin chinese english hindi russian and spanish and whose grammar is designed for computer parsing the vocabulary diacritic letters and grammar are too dissimilar from the major western european languages citation needed and therefore esperanto is not as easy as it could be for speakers of
triviaqa-dpql_5545,dreams from my father a story of race and heritance is about which politician,Barack_Obama_12,he described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage reflecting later on his years in honolulu obama wrote the opportunity that hawaii offered to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect became an integral part of my world view and a basis for the values that i hold most dear obama has also written and talked about using alcohol marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to push questions of who i was out of my mind at the two thousand eight civil forum on the presidency obama identified his high school drug use as a great moral failure
triviaqa-qw_12623,which monastic order founded in five hundred twenty nine ad was based at a monastery at monte cassino italy until it was sacked in five hundred eighty when the monks fled to rome and then spread throughout europe,Bar%2c_Vinnytsia_Oblast_32,the former saint pokrovsky monastery which is now known as the benedictine sisters missioners monastery in the beginning the first monastery was founded by knight vereshagin in the woods near semenivky not so far away from bar ukraine then the monastery was built using the stone in bar ukraine in fifteen fifty one it was re built in seventeen hundred one to seventeen hundred eighty one the history of old monastery has the three periods one the orthodox period two the catholic period three the basilian period during the newest historical period cyril podolsky initiated the foundation of the
triviaqa-wh_3323,which shakespeare play features the line the plays the thing wherein ill catch the conscience of the king ,Hamlet_66,hamlet also contains a favourite shakespearean device a play within the play a literary device or conceit in which one story is told during the action of another story section six point three language compared with language in a modern newspaper magazine or popular novel shakespeare s language can strike contemporary readers as complex elaborate and at times difficult to understand remarkably it still works well enough in the theatre audiences at the reconstruction of shakespeare s globe in london many of whom have never been to the theatre
triviaqa-bb_1848,what technical term refers to the minimum number of voting members shareholders directors etc required at a meeting to be able to make valid decisions and therefore for the meeting to proceed,United_States_House_of_Representatives_39,any member may block a unanimous consent agreement but in practice objections are rare the presiding officer enforces the rules of the house and may warn members who deviate from them the presiding officer uses a gavel to maintain order the box in which legislation is placed to be considered by the house is called the hopper the constitution provides that a majority of the house constitutes a quorum to do business under the rules and customs of the house a quorum is always assumed to be present unless a quorum call explicitly demonstrates otherwise any member may make a point of order that a quorum is not present
triviaqa-qw_10240,which western country was the first to extend the right to vote in national elections to women,Eastern_Bloc_103,party of germany sed was rejected in favor of the social democratic party which had gained two and a half times more votes than the sed the united states britain france canada australia new zealand and several other countries began a massive berlin airlift supplying west berlin with food and other supplies the soviets mounted a public relations campaign against the western policy change and communists attempted to disrupt the elections of nineteen hundred forty eight preceding large losses therein while
triviaqa-jp_1805,what name is given to the supercontinent thought to exist three hundred million years ago,Climate_change_7,plate tectonics may have triggered the large scale storage of carbon and increased glaciation geologic evidence points to a megamonsoonal circulation pattern during the time of the supercontinent pangaea and climate modeling suggests that the existence of the supercontinent was conducive to the establishment of monsoons more locally topography can influence climate the existence of mountains as a product of plate tectonics through mountain building can cause orographic precipitation humidity generally decreases and diurnal temperature swings generally increase with increasing elevation
triviaqa-qb_3614,tewkesbury mustard is mentioned in which shakespeare play,William_Shakespeare_31,sequence of great comedies after the lyrical richard ii written almost entirely in verse shakespeare introduced prose comedy into the histories of the late one thousand five hundred nineties henry iv parts i and two and henry v his characters become more complex and tender as he switches deftly between comic and serious scenes prose and poetry and achieves the narrative variety of his mature work this period begins and ends with two tragedies romeo and juliet the famous romantic tragedy of sexually charged adolescence love and death and julius caesar based on sir thomas
triviaqa-odql_9016,still on pigs which country rears forty percent of the worlds total of around seven hundred sixty four million pigs,The_Livestock_Conservancy_40,pigs in the course of its breed surveys and monitoring the albc has found significant changes in the populations of several swine breeds the berkshire breed has increased significantly in number partially due to international demand for its meat while other breeds have shown significant decreases most likely due to increasing consolidation of the pork industry to large producers who use only a few specialized pork strains breeds such as the chester white and poland china have seen population numbers reduced by over twenty five percent between nineteen hundred ninety eight and two thousand three while the hampshire and yorkshire breeds have decreased by
triviaqa-tc_2145,what was the name of michael jacksons second wife,Katherine_Jackson_6,at every court hearing and is said to be one of the few relatives that michael kept in contact with katherine splits her time between las vegas and her hayvenhurst home in encino on june twenty nine two thousand nine katherine was granted temporary guardianship of michael s three children following his death four days earlier court documents indicated that she was also seeking control over the three children s interests in their late father s estate although debbie rowe the biological mother of the two eldest children and michael s second wife hadnt seen or interacted with the children for years as of july four
triviaqa-odql_534,edward elgar was appointed master of the kings musick to which monarch,George_VI_28,of canada in nineteen hundred three one a proposal that king george v rejected on the advice of the secretary of state for dominion affairs j h thomas section four reluctant king king george v had severe reservations about prince edward saying i pray god that my eldest son will never marry and that nothing will come between bertie and lilibet and the throne on twenty january nineteen hundred thirty six george v died and edward ascended the throne as edward viii in the vigil of the princes
triviaqa-sfq_6376,the last words of which german philosopher and author were in translation more light,Theory_of_Colours_19,darkness and light for goethe light is the simplest most undivided most homogenous being that we know confronting it is the darkness letter to jacobi unlike his contemporaries goethe didnt see darkness as an absence of light but rather as polar to and interacting with light
triviaqa-qb_76,buenos aires is the capital of which south american country,2012_Buenos_Aires_rail_disaster_0,twenty twelve buenos aires rail disaster on twenty two february twenty twelve a train crashed at once station spanish estacion once de setiembre september eleven station informally estacion once ipa onse in the balvanera barrio of buenos aires argentina there were about one thousand passengers on board the crowded eight carriage train which hit the buffers
triviaqa-bt_3007,who wrote the epic one thousand eight hundred sixty nine novel war and peace,Alfred_Nobel_32,the suppression or reduction of standing armies or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses the formulation for the literary prize being given for a work in an ideal direction i idealisk riktning in swedish is cryptic and has caused much confusion for many years the swedish academy interpreted ideal as idealistic idealistisk and used it as a reason not to give the prize to important but less romantic authors such as henrik ibsen and leo tolstoy this
triviaqa-bb_1549,which canal is known as the highway to india,British_Empire_85,eighty one to nineteen hundred two and the orange free state eighteen hundred fifty four to nineteen hundred two in nineteen hundred two britain occupied both republics concluding a treaty with the two boer republics following the second boer war eighteen hundred ninety nine to nineteen hundred two in eighteen hundred sixty nine the suez canal opened under napoleon iii linking the mediterranean with the indian ocean initially the canal was opposed by the british but once opened its strategic value was quickly recognised and became the jugular vein of the empire in eighteen hundred seventy five the conservative government of benjamin
triviaqa-sfq_20362,in which dickens novel does lawyer mr jaggers appear,Hamlet_101,later dickens s great expectations contains many hamlet like plot elements it is driven by revenge motivated actions contains ghost like characters abel magwich and miss havisham and focuses on the hero s guilt academic alexander welsh notes that great expectations is an autobiographical novel and anticipates psychoanalytic readings of hamlet itself about the same time george eliot s the mill on the floss was published introducing maggie tulliver who is explicitly compared with hamlet
triviaqa-qw_4963,the names for the satellites of which planet are chosen from characters from the works of william shakespeare and alexander pope,Oberon_(moon)_5,characters created by william shakespeare or alexander pope the name oberon was derived from oberon the king of the fairies in a midsummer night s dream the names of all four satellites of uranus then known were suggested by herschel s son john in eighteen hundred fifty two at the request of william lassell who had discovered the other two moons ariel and umbriel the year before the adjectival form of the name is oberonian pronounced forward slash bronin forward slash deprecated template oberon was initially referred to as the second satellite of uranus and in eighteen hundred forty eight was given the designation uranus ii by william lassell although he sometimes used william herschel s numbering where
triviaqa-qg_720,what sport is known as the sport of kings,Women%27s_squash_in_Australia_1,hockey horse racing squash table tennis and shooting during the nineteen hundred fifties australian women competed in squash at the empire games one player who had success at these games was heather mckay some of the best known australian squash players include heather blundell mckay during blundell mckay s squash career she only lost twice she won the british amateur title seven times starting in nineteen hundred sixty two and she won the australian championship eight times starting in nineteen hundred sixty in nineteen hundred sixty there was a mass demonstration of the sport at a school in roseville new south wales where female students learned a number of skills including the forehand drive in
triviaqa-sfq_1264,who became president of the usa following the assassination of william mckinley in nineteen one ,College_football_6,college football increased in popularity through the remainder of the nineteenth century it also became increasingly violent president theodore roosevelt threatened in nineteen hundred six to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games the response to this was the formation of what became the national collegiate athletic association which set rules governing the sport one of the resulting rule changes was the introduction of the forward pass another was the banning of mass momentum plays many of which like the infamous flying wedge were sometimes literally deadly prior to the founding of the national football league and for a few decades thereafter college football was the predominant venue of american football
triviaqa-qz_1915,during margaret thatchers years as prime minister there were three chancellors of the exchequer geoffrey howe and nigel lawson were two but who was the other one,Elizabeth_II_66,and after thatcher s replacement as prime minister by john major the queen gave two honours in her personal gift to thatcher appointment to the order of merit and the order of the garter former canadian prime minister brian mulroney said elizabeth was a behind the scenes force in ending apartheid in south africa in nineteen hundred eighty seven in canada elizabeth publicly pronounced her support for that country s politically divisive meech lake accord prompting criticism from opponents of the constitutional amendments including pierre trudeau the
triviaqa-qw_605,the sandinista national liberation front ruled from one thousand nine hundred seventy nine to one thousand nine hundred ninety initially as part of a junta of national reconstruction in which country,Cold_War_155,sandinista government in nicaragua while reagan s interventions against grenada and libya were popular in the united states his backing of the contra rebels was mired in controversy meanwhile the soviets incurred high costs for their own foreign interventions although brezhnev was convinced in nineteen hundred seventy nine that the soviet war in afghanistan would be brief muslim guerrillas aided by the us and other countries waged a fierce resistance against the invasion the kremlin sent nearly one hundred thousand troops to support its puppet regime in afghanistan leading many outside observers to
triviaqa-qb_7476,which country invaded the falkland islands in april one thousand nine hundred eighty two ,British_Empire_148,of rhodesia as zimbabwe the new hebrides as vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty and belize in nineteen hundred eighty one meant that aside from a scattering of islands and outposts and the acquisition in nineteen hundred fifty five of an uninhabited rock in the atlantic ocean rockall the process of decolonisation that had begun after the second world war was largely complete in nineteen hundred eighty two britain s resolve in defending its remaining overseas territories was tested when argentina invaded the falkland islands acting on a long standing claim that
triviaqa-sfq_22936,the fictional arkham asylum featured in which seventy s tv series,There%27s_No_Disgrace_Like_Home_13,where the family goes to burns s manor holds two cultural references the manor resembles charles foster kane s castle in citizen kane directed by orson welles from nineteen hundred forty one the family refer to it as stately burns manor a reference to the batman t v series in addition to that there is a reference to freaks the tod browning cult horror film about sideshow freaks in the repetition of the line one of us the family shocking scene is reminiscent of the nineteen hundred seventy one film a clockwork orange
triviaqa-sfq_8308,who was the republican presidential nominee in the two thousand eight american election,Ronald_Reagan_195,voters the so called reagan democrats were a result of his presidency after leaving office reagan became an iconic influence within the republican party his policies and beliefs have been frequently invoked by republican presidential candidates since nineteen hundred eighty nine the two thousand eight republican presidential candidates were no exception for they aimed to liken themselves to him during the primary debates even imitating his campaign strategies republican nominee john mccain frequently stated that he came to
triviaqa-odql_11893,who was the head of the german ministry of public enlightenment and propaganda from one thousand nine hundred thirty three to one thousand nine hundred forty five ,Iron_Curtain_14,nineteen hundred forty three article in signal a nazi illustrated propaganda periodical published in many languages was titled behind the iron curtain it discussed the iron curtain that more than ever before separates the world from the soviet union the german minister of propaganda joseph goebbels wrote in his weekly newspaper das reich of a soviet formed iron curtain that would arise because of agreements made by stalin roosevelt and winston churchill at the yalta conference an
triviaqa-qw_2632,madeleine allbright was appointed by bill clinton as the usas first woman to hold what position,Hillary_Clinton_142,on january twenty one two thousand nine clinton was confirmed in the full senate by a vote of ninety four to two clinton took the oath of office of secretary of state and resigned from the senate that same day she became the first former first lady to serve in the united states cabinet section seven point two tenure clinton spent her initial days as secretary of state telephoning dozens of world leaders and indicating that u s foreign policy would change direction we have a lot of damage to repair she advocated an
triviaqa-odql_7825,the name of which musical instrument comes from the german for bells and play,Rush_(band)_79,and nineteen hundred seventies such as ginger baker carmine appice and john bonham incorporation of unusual instruments for rock drummers of the time such as cowbells glockenspiel and tubular bells along with several standard kit elements helped create a highly varied setup continually modified to this day peart s drumkit offers an enormous array of percussion instruments for sonic diversity for two decades peart honed his technique each new rush album introduced an expanded percussive vocabulary in the nineteen hundred nineties he reinvented his style with the help of drum coach freddie gruber section
triviaqa-sfq_12060,name the private gardens adjoining windsor castle which housed the royal mausoleum the burial place of queen victoria and prince albert,Queen_Victoria_98,in her left hand concealed from the view of the family by a carefully positioned bunch of flowers items of jewellery placed on victoria included the wedding ring of john brown s mother given to her by brown in eighteen hundred eighty three her funeral was held on saturday two february in saint george s chapel windsor castle and after two days of lying in state she was interred beside prince albert in frogmore mausoleum at windsor great park as she was laid to rest at the mausoleum it began to snow with a reign of sixty three years seven months and
triviaqa-odql_11795,caroline of brunswick was the queen of which british king,Princess_Elizabeth_of_Clarence_2,to the throne following the death of elizabeth s cousin h r h princess charlotte in eighteen hundred seventeen and their grandfather george iii in eighteen hundred twenty since the duke s two elder brothers king george iv and the duke of york were both without legitimate children and the king was estranged from his wife and the duke of york unmarried it seemed likely that princess elizabeth would succeed as queen in years to come her mother the duchess of clarence had several difficult pregnancies and elizabeth s elder sister princess charlotte of clarence died on the day of her birth making it unlikely for the duke and duchess to produce any
triviaqa-qb_1752,giovedi is the italian word for which day of the week,Saint_Peter_108,when he says upon this rock whereas grammatically if he had been referring to peter he would allegedly have used the masculine this gender distinction argument is also held by some protestants section four point three point one feast days in the orthodox daily office every thursday throughout the year is dedicated to the holy apostles including saint peter there are also two feast days in the year which are dedicated to him june twenty nine feast of saints peter and paul this is a major feast day and is preceded by a period of lenten fasting known as the apostles fast
triviaqa-bb_2127,what country connected the ironically named bushehr plant the first nuclear power station in the middle east to its national grid in sep two thousand eleven ,Barack_Obama_81,strike on iran by saying we have said directly to the israelis that it is important to try and resolve this in an international setting in a way that does not create major conflict in the middle east on september twenty four two thousand nine obama became the first sitting u s president to preside over a meeting of the united nations security council in march twenty ten obama took a public stance against plans by the government of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to continue building jewish housing projects in predominantly arab neighborhoods of east jerusalem during the same month an agreement
triviaqa-sfq_16863,which april fools joke did richard dimbleby report on in nineteen fifty seven ,Spaghetti-tree_hoax_1,of the spaghetti weevil the report was given additional gravitas by the voiceover by respected broadcaster richard dimbleby pasta was not an everyday food in nineteen hundred fifties britain and was known mainly from tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce an audience of approximately eight million watched the programme and hundreds phoned in to ask more about spaghetti cultivation and wanting to grow their own spaghetti trees the bbc reportedly told them to place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best table of contents section one see also list of species in folklore and mythology
triviaqa-bt_4210,who were the first league cup winners,Aston_Villa_F.C%2e_5,won its first fa cup in eighteen hundred eighty seven with captain archie hunter becoming one of the game s first household names aston villa were one of the dozen teams that competed in the inaugural football league in eighteen hundred eighty eight with one of the club s directors william mcgregor being the league s founder aston villa emerged as the most successful english club of the victorian era with numerous league titles and fa cup wins in eighteen hundred ninety seven the year villa won the double they moved into their present home the aston lower grounds the name of villa park came about through fan usage and no official declaration was made that listed the name as villa park aston villa won their sixth fa cup in nineteen hundred twenty soon after though
triviaqa-qw_817,by what name is siddhartha gautama better known,Swastika_48,of many buddhist scriptures the swastikas in either orientation appear on the chest of some statues of gautama buddha and is often incised on the soles of the feet of the buddha in statuary because of the association with the right facing swastika with nazism buddhist swastikas after the mid twentieth century are almost universally left facing this form of the swastika is
triviaqa-sfq_13490,who is the vice president of theusa,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_121,of these situations is mike castle then representative for delaware who ran in two thousand ten for senate seat vacated by vice president joe biden at a town hall meeting castle was confronted by constituents who jeered him for insisting that obama is a citizen of the united states mike castle one of the leading republican moderates in the house was later defeated by tea party backed christine odonnell in republican primary who herself later lost the general election to democratic nominee chris coons section seven commentary and criticism
triviaqa-qw_7873,the limpopo river separates zimbabwe and botswana from what country,Namibia_19,one of nature s most spectacular features the etosha pan for most of the year it is a dry saline wasteland but during the wet season it forms a shallow lake covering more than six thousand square kilometres the area is ecologically important and vital to the huge numbers of birds and animals from the surrounding savannah that gather in the region as summer drought forces them to the scattered waterholes that ring the pan section two point five kalahari desert the kalahari desert is perhaps namibia s best known geographical feature shared with south africa and botswana it has a variety of localized environments ranging from
triviaqa-sfq_3721,which european capital city is located forty miles east of vienna,Ko%c5%a1ice_23,lies at an altitude of two hundred six metres six hundred seventy six f t above sea level and covers an area of two hundred forty two seventy seven square kilometres ninety three point seven s q mi it is located in eastern slovakia about twenty kilometres twelve mi from the hungarian eighty kilometres fifty mi from the ukrainian and ninety kilometres fifty six mi from the polish borders it is about four hundred kilometres two hundred forty nine mi east of slovakia s capital bratislava and a chain of villages connects it to preov about thirty six kilometres twenty two mi to the north koice is situated on the hornad river in the koice basin at the easternmost reaches of the slovak ore mountains more precisely its subdivisions
triviaqa-odql_5063,in greek myth who was the beautiful youth beloved of aphrodite who died of a hunting wound inflicted by a wild boar,Greek_mythology_125,of the civilizations of asia minor and the near east adonis seems to be the greek counterpart minus more clearly in cult than in myth minus of a near eastern dying god cybele is rooted in anatolian culture while much of aphrodite s iconography springs from semitic goddesses there are also possible parallels between the earliest divine generations chaos and its children and tiamat in the enuma elish according to meyer reinhold near eastern theogonic concepts involving divine succession through violence and generational conflicts for power found their
triviaqa-qw_5326,what international organisation was created in nineteen fifty eight to bring about economic integration between european nations,European_Economic_Community_2,under the nineteen hundred sixty five merger treaty treaty of brussels the eec was subsumed into the european union upon its creation in nineteen hundred ninety three by the maastricht treaty formally renamed as the european community to reflect the wider base of policy covered by the treaty it constituted the first of the eu s three pillars until its abolition in two thousand nine by the treaty of lisbon which merged the eu s former pillars and provided that the eu would replace and succeed the european community this article deals with the independent international organisation which existed prior to nineteen
triviaqa-qb_3365,the medical condition aphakia affects which part of the body,Subarachnoid_hemorrhage_5,and loss of the pupillary light reflex may reflect brain herniation as a result of rising intracranial pressure pressure inside the skull intraocular hemorrhage bleeding into the eyeball may occur in response to the raised pressure subhyaloid hemorrhage bleeding under the hyaloid membrane which envelops the vitreous body of the eye and vitreous hemorrhage may be visible on fundoscopy this is known as terson syndrome occurring in three to thirteen per cent of cases and is more common in more severe sah oculomotor nerve abnormalities affected eye looking
triviaqa-qw_3591,the babylonians invented the clepsydra what was it,Shen_Kuo_4,hundred one to aid his work in astronomy shen kuo made improved designs of the armillary sphere gnomon sighting tube and invented a new type of inflow clepsydra clock shen kuo devised a geological theory of land formation or geomorphology based upon findings of inland marine fossils knowledge of soil erosion and the deposition of silt he also advocated a theory for gradual climate change after observing ancient petrified bamboos that were preserved underground in a dry northern habitat that did not support their
triviaqa-qb_6853,mossel bay is a harbour town which lies on the coast of which african country,British_Empire_140,east of suez which included the ones in the middle east and primarily from malaysia and singapore the british withdrew from aden in nineteen hundred sixty seven bahrain in nineteen hundred seventy one and maldives in nineteen hundred seventy six section six point three wind of change macmillan gave a speech in cape town south africa in february nineteen hundred sixty where he spoke of the wind of change blowing through this continent macmillan wished to avoid the same kind of colonial war that france was fighting in algeria and under his premiership
triviaqa-qb_4264,what is the official language of barbados,Namibia_33,official languages when namibia became independent of south africa the new namibian government wanted to avoid accusations of preferential treatment for either the afrikaans minus or the german speaking groups therefore english became the sole official language of namibia afrikaans german and oshiwambo became recognised regional languages half of all namibians speak oshiwambo as their first language whereas the most widely understood language is afrikaans among the younger generation the most widely understood language is english both afrikaans and english are used primarily as a second language reserved for public sphere communication
triviaqa-qw_14663,in central and south america it is possible to find several rivers named colorado in costa rica brazil bolivia chile and argentina where is the source of the colorado river in argentina,Cougar_1,extending from yukon in canada to the southern andes of south america an adaptable generalist species the cougar is found in every major american habitat type it is the second heaviest cat in the american continents after the jaguar and the fourth heaviest in the world along with the leopard after the tiger lion and jaguar although it is most closely related to smaller felines a capable stalk and ambush predator the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey primary food
triviaqa-odql_14621,which comic strip is the most famous creation of scott adams,Dilbert_principle_0,dilbert principle the dilbert principle refers to a nineteen hundred nineties satirical theory stating that companies should promote their worst employees to managerial positions so as to prevent them from directly affecting the consumer s experience the term was coined by scott adams an mba graduate from berkeley and creator of the dilbert comic strip adams explained the principle in a nineteen hundred ninety six wall street journal article adams expanded his study of the dilbert principle in a satirical nineteen hundred ninety six book of the same name which is required or recommended reading at some management and business programs one two three four five the book has sold more than a million copies and was on the new york times
triviaqa-sfq_18424,which american state with the capital salem is nicknamed the beaver state,Archimedes_76,nineteen hundred seventy three greece nineteen hundred eighty three italy nineteen hundred eighty three nicaragua nineteen hundred seventy one san marino nineteen hundred eighty two and spain nineteen hundred sixty three the exclamation of eureka attributed to archimedes is the state motto of california in this instance the word refers to the discovery of gold near sutter s mill in eighteen hundred forty eight which sparked the california gold rush a movement for civic engagement targeting universal access to health care in the us state of oregon has been named the archimedes movement headed by
triviaqa-sfq_18477,which poet was married to ted hughes until her death in nineteen sixty three ,Zelda_Fitzgerald_82,and hughes literary camps minus a reference to the heated controversy about the relationship of husband wife poets ted hughes and sylvia plath zelda s art work also has been reappraised as interesting in its own right after spending much of the nineteen hundred fifties and sixties in family attics zelda s mother even had much of the art burned because she disliked it scholars began to examine the art exhibitions of her work have toured the united states and europe a review of the exhibition by curator everl adair noted the influence of vincent van gogh and georgia okeeffe on her
triviaqa-qg_2166,phobos and deimos are the only two moons of what planet,Space_elevator_38,than one on earth mars surface gravity is thirty eight per cent of earth s while it rotates around its axis in about the same time as earth because of this martian areostationary orbit is much closer to the surface and hence the elevator would be much shorter exotic materials might not be required to construct such an elevator however building a martian elevator would be a unique challenge because the martian moon phobos is in a low orbit and intersects the equator regularly twice every orbital period of eleven h six min a collision between the elevator and the twenty two two k m diameter moon would have to be avoided through
triviaqa-qw_10429,which river flows through cologne,Neuschwanstein_Castle_13,changes to make them more picturesque palace building projects similar to neuschwanstein had been undertaken earlier in several of the german states and included hohenschwangau castle lichtenstein castle hohenzollern castle and numerous buildings on the river rhine such as stolzenfels castle the inspiration for the construction of neuschwanstein came from two journeys in eighteen hundred sixty seven minus one in may
triviaqa-jp_2305,what pope resigned in twenty thirteen ,2012_Buenos_Aires_rail_disaster_12,of the families and those injured pope benedict xvi sent his condolences
triviaqa-qb_1569,boll weevil cause damage to which crop,William_Wright_Heard_12,hundred two heard achieved the formation of the state prison system which eliminated private contracted prisons he was also instrumental in forming the state department of pest control thus trying to control the hated boll weevil which plagued the cotton plants serving in public office most of his early life heard became a banker in new orleans after his single term as governor he died in new orleans and is interred there at metairie cemetery section three lineage william wright heard like a gubernatorial successor ruffin pleasant was born in the near the rural community of shiloh in union parish north of ruston he was the son of stephen southard heard and mary
triviaqa-tb_1360,which country is currently ruled by the chakri dynasty that has been in power since one thousand seven hundred eighty two ,Transport_in_Laos_9,state railway of thailand network across the thai lao friendship bridge to thanaleng railway station a new passenger and freight terminal in dongphosy village twenty k m east of vientiane test trains began running on july four two thousand eight and princess maha chakri sirindhorn of thailand formally inaugurated the line on march five two thousand nine as of november twenty ten lao officials plan to convert the station into a
triviaqa-qw_13959,the malagasy people form the main ethnic group of which country,Meerkat_Manor_27,formatted programmes orangutan island which focuses on a group of orphaned orangutans at the nyaru menteng orangutan rescue and rehabilitation center and lemur street which looks at the lives of two rival gangs of ring tailed lemurs in madagascar some fans have criticized the show for its non interference policy with regard to the meerkats asking why the film crew and researchers do not give anti venom to snake bitten meerkats or euthanize those dying and suffering us executive producer mick kaczorowski pointed out that meerkat manor was a show about the real lives and deaths of the meerkats
triviaqa-tb_903,which organization claims to have the worlds largest collection of public records unpublished opinions forms legal news and business information,Investigative_journalism_1,journalists as part of an investigation journalists make use of surveillance techniques analysis of documents investigation of technical issues including scrutiny of equipment and its performance research into social and legal issues studying sources archives phone records address books tax records and license records talking to neighbors or other parties using subscription research sources such as lexisnexis anonymous sources for example whistleblowers going undercover investigations at times can take on the appearance of conspiracy theories for example gary webb s nineteen hundred ninety six san jose mercury
triviaqa-sfq_9549,which uk international airport has the code pik,Ryanair_30,from aldergrove in northern ireland but ryanair does not operate there the last low cost airline to compete directly with ryanair on the uk forward slash ireland routes was go fly minus which had to pull out due to mounting losses section seven services main article ryanair destinations ryanair currently serves about two hundred routes between one hundred four airports in eighteen european countries its main hub is london stansted airport ryanair has other bases throughout europe at brussels barcelona girona dublin dub frankfurt am main h h n london luton airport liverpool milan b g y prestwick pik rome cia shannon international airport and stockholm skavsta airport most smaller airports
triviaqa-wh_2660,in which month is the gaelic festival of beltane traditionally celebrated,Durian_23,and indonesia follow both producing about two hundred sixty five thousand tonnes two hundred sixty one thousand long tons two hundred ninety two thousand short tons each malaysia exported thirty five thousand tonnes thirty four thousand long tons thirty nine thousand short tons in nineteen hundred ninety nine chantaburi in thailand each year holds the world durian festival in early may this single province is responsible for half of the durian production of thailand in the philippines the centre of durian production is the davao region the kadayawan festival is an annual celebration featuring the durian in
triviaqa-dpql_6224,in which country is the ski resort of lecht,Eurasian_beaver_0,eurasian beaver the european beaver castor fiber is an endangered aquatic mammal which was hunted almost to extinction in europe both for fur and for castoreum a secretion of its scent gland believed to have medicinal properties however this beaver is now being re introduced throughout europe several thousand live on the elbe the rhone the danube and in parts of scandinavia they have been reintroduced in bavaria and the netherlands and are tending to spread to new locations the beaver became extinct in britain in the sixteenth century but there is now a project which is reintroducing the species to the country six european beavers will be released into a lakeside area in gloucestershire and allowed to roam wild there are also plans to bring the beaver to scotland
triviaqa-odql_5979,which company manufactures the playstation video games console,Folding%40home_119,ps three client was developed in a collaborative effort between sony and the pande lab and was first released as a standalone client on march twenty three two thousand seven its release made folding at home the first distributed computing project to use ps three s on september eighteen of the following year the ps three client became a channel of life with playstation on its launch in terms of the types of calculations it can perform at the time of its introduction the client took the
triviaqa-qg_4160,in order to secure the help of the wizard whose broom must dorothy steal in the wizard of oz,The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz_9,but to bring her dorothy and the cowardly lion alive the winged monkeys cant attack dorothy anyway due to the witch of the north s kiss so they succeed in their mission the final one the wicked witch can command due to the cap s enchantment dorothy is forced to work as a maid to the wicked witch while the lion is pressed into service to pull her chariot but the lion refuses to do so because dorothy sneaks him food every night dorothy is also left unharmed because she wears the silver shoes
triviaqa-jp_2481,what city is called the big easy,Tommy_Wiseau_1,and has gained cult film status wiseau also made the documentary homeless in america and is working on a sitcom the neighbors table of contents section one personal life little has been confirmed about wiseau s early life and most of what is known has been learned through interviews with the director entertainment weekly has called him famously mysterious despite his vaguely eastern european accent wiseau claims to have grown up in new orleans and lived in france a long time ago he moved back and forth between the united states and europe throughout his life
triviaqa-qb_3940,the official birthday of british monarch queen elizabeth ii falls during which month in the uk,Queen_Victoria_0,queen victoria victoria alexandrina victoria twenty four may eighteen hundred nineteen minus twenty two january nineteen hundred one was the monarch of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland from twenty june eighteen hundred thirty seven until her death from one may eighteen hundred seventy six she used the additional title of empress of india victoria was the daughter of prince edward duke of kent and strathearn the fourth son of
triviaqa-qw_10823,how did us president william mckinley die in nineteen one ,Harvey_Milk_121,rather than a beginning he had died and with him a great deal of the castro s optimism idealism and ambition seemed to die as well the castro could find no one to take his place in its affections and possibly wanted no one on the twentieth anniversary of milk s death historian john demilio said the legacy that i think he would want to be remembered for is the imperative to live one s life at all times with integrity for a political career so short cleve jones attributes more to his assassination than his life his murder and the response to it made permanent and unquestionable the full
triviaqa-tc_2116,throughout the eighty s and ninety s phil collins recorded on which record label,Phil_Collins_3,that he became the group s lead singer as the decade closed genesis first international hit follow you follow me demonstrated a drastic change from the band s early years his concurrent solo career heavily influenced by his personal life brought both him and genesis commercial success according to atlantic records collins total worldwide sales as a solo artist as of two thousand two were over one hundred million collins has known to be modest about his career as a vocalist describing himself as a drummer who sings a bit table of contents section one
triviaqa-jp_2502,what type of bird is often depicted with an olive branch in its beak,Mourning_dove_28,of any north american bird with a preference for corn millet safflower and sunflower seeds mourning doves do not dig or scratch for seeds instead eating what is readily visible they will sometimes perch on plants and eat from there mourning doves show a preference for the seeds of certain species of plant over others foods taken in preference to others include pine nuts sweetgum seeds and the seeds of pokeberry amaranth canary grass corn sesame and wheat when their favorite foods are
triviaqa-qw_9722,what was the name of the alliance of trading cities and their guilds each with their own law system and with armies for mututal aid that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of northern europe from the baltic to the north sea and inland from the thirteen th to seventeen th centuries,Tallinn_7,in the beginning of the thirteenth century when christianity was forcibly imposed on the local population danish rule of tallinn and northern estonia started in twelve nineteen in twelve eighty five the city became the northernmost member of the hanseatic league minus a mercantile and military alliance of german dominated cities in northern europe the danes sold tallinn along with their other land possessions in northern estonia to the teutonic order in thirteen forty five medieval tallinn enjoyed a strategic position at the crossroads of trade between western and northern europe and russia the city with a population of eight thousand was very well fortified with city walls and sixty six defence towers
triviaqa-bb_8948,annually in july or august the obon or bon buddhist festival to honour the dead is held in which country,Constitution_Day_0,constitution day constitution day is a holiday to honour the constitution of a country constitution day is often celebrated on the anniversary of the signing promulgation or adoption of the constitution or in some cases to commemorate the change to constitutional monarchy mexico february five nineteen hundred seventeen see nineteen hundred seventeen constitution of mexico poland may three seventeen hundred ninety one see polish constitution of may three seventeen hundred ninety one japan may three nineteen hundred forty seven see constitution of japan federated states of micronesia may ten nineteen hundred seventy nine norway
triviaqa-jp_16,what waltz by johann strauss ii was named after a european river,Civilization_II_28,century classical era such as the blue danube waltz while others have a tribal tropical sound to them the music can be played back through any cd rom drive over two hundred m b of space on the civilization ii cd is taken up by the music two hundred eighty m b is occupied by the videos many of them are historical footages whereas the actual program data takes up less than thirty m b the five different releases of civilization ii have added and subtracted tracks from the mix with fantastic worlds containing the largest number of tracks of all releases whenever a player builds a wonder of the world a
triviaqa-tc_954,on what date in nineteen sixty nine did neil armstrong first set foot on the moon,NASA_9,of astronauts with the apollo one launch pad fire the apollo program achieved its goals with apollo eleven which landed neil armstrong and buzz aldrin on the moon s surface on july twenty nineteen hundred sixty nine and returned them to earth safely on july twenty four armstrong s first words upon stepping out of the eagle lander captured the momentousness of the occasion that s one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind twelve men would set foot on the moon by the end of the apollo program in december nineteen hundred seventy two nasa had won the moon race and in some senses this
triviaqa-sfq_23493,josiah bartlet was a central character in which us tv drama series,The_West_Wing_0,the west wing the west wing is an american television serial drama created by aaron sorkin that was originally broadcast from nineteen hundred ninety nine to two thousand six it was produced forward slash written by sorkin for the first four seasons and also produced by thomas schlamme after season four it was produced by john wells the series is set in the west wing of the white house the location of the oval office and offices of presidential senior staff during the fictional democratic administration of josiah bartlet played by martin sheen
triviaqa-tb_1398,after a short war with norway during the napoleonic wars of one thousand eight hundred fourteen what country remained uninvolved in any conflict ever since and is now the oldest neutral country in the world,Nobel_Prize_21,and gerhard domagk from accepting their prizes each man was later able to receive the diploma and medal even though sweden was officially neutral during the second world war the prizes were awarded irregularly in nineteen hundred thirty nine the peace prize was not awarded no prize was awarded in any category from nineteen hundred forty to forty two due to the occupation of norway by germany in the subsequent year all prizes were awarded except those for literature and peace during the occupation of norway three members of the norwegian nobel committee fled into exile
triviaqa-jp_184,what general landed at inchon,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_35,flagship of vice admiral a d struble commander seventh fleet after screening the aircraft carrier valley forge along the east coast of korea she conducted bombardment missions from twelve to twenty six october in the chonjin and tanchon areas and at wonsan where she again screened carriers eastward of wonsan on fifteen september nineteen hundred fifty general of the army douglas macarthur launched his famous amphibious invasion of korea during the battle of inchon this broke north korean supply lines resulting in a north korean retreat to the north with u n forces in hot pursuit up till now the u n forces had only engaged
triviaqa-odql_14848,on which italian track was the formula one san marino grand prix held,1994_San_Marino_Grand_Prix_21,grand prix the gpda which was originally founded in nineteen hundred sixty one had previously disbanded in nineteen hundred eighty two the primary purpose of it reforming was to allow drivers to discuss safety issues with a view to improve standards following the incidents at imola the front two grid slots at the monaco grand prix that year which were painted with brazilian and austrian flags were left clear in memory of the two drivers who had lost their lives additionally a moment of silence was observed before the race senna was given a state funeral in sao paulo brazil on may five nineteen hundred ninety four approximately
triviaqa-qw_73,mount fujiyama is on which japanese island,Boshin_War_39,after a protracted month long battle aizu finally admitted defeat on november six section five hokkaid campaign section five point one creation of the ezo republic following defeat on honsh enomoto takeaki fled to hokkaid with the remnants of the navy and his handful of french advisers together they organized a government with the objective of establishing an independent island nation dedicated to the development of hokkaid they formally established the republic of ezo on the american model on december twenty five citation needed japan s only republic ever and
triviaqa-bb_8736,yukio hatoyama was sworn in as the sixtieth prime minister of which country,Boshin_War_50,government in the opinion of european powers after two or three years of imprisonment most of them were called to serve the new government and several pursued brilliant careers enomoto takeaki for instance would later serve as an envoy to russia and china and as the education minister the imperial side did not pursue its objective to expel foreign interests from japan but instead shifted to a more progressive policy aiming at the continued modernization of the country and the renegotiation of unequal treaties with foreign powers later under the rich country strong army fukoku kyhei motto the
triviaqa-qg_3211,tomorrow marks the one hundred nine th anniversary of which great american taking the reins of the presidency following the death of william mckinley,United_States_Congress_32,less powerful than congress during the late nineteenth century president grover cleveland aggressively attempted to restore the executive branch s power vetoing over four hundred bills during his first term the twentieth and twenty first centuries have seen the rise of the power of the presidency under theodore roosevelt nineteen hundred one to nine franklin d roosevelt nineteen hundred thirty three to forty five
triviaqa-qb_4397,in april one thousand nine hundred sixty three lester bowles pearson became prime minister of which country,Canada_30,under successive liberal governments of lester b pearson and pierre trudeau a new canadian identity emerged canada adopted its current maple leaf flag in nineteen hundred sixty five in response to a more assertive french speaking quebec the federal government became officially bilingual with the official languages act of nineteen hundred sixty nine non discriminatory immigration acts were introduced in nineteen hundred sixty seven and nineteen hundred seventy six and official multiculturalism in nineteen hundred seventy one waves of non european immigration had changed the face of the country
triviaqa-bb_618,what animals does a mahout work with,Execution_by_elephant_2,centuries table of contents section one cultural aspects the use of elephants as executioners was inextricably bound up with the use of the animals as symbols of royal power the intelligence domestication and
triviaqa-qf_317,in which country will you find the carisbrook rugby stadium,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_91,hundred ninety six at mclean park in napier the nineteen hundred eighty seven rugby world cup final was played at eden park eden park and jade stadium are being upgraded in preparation for the twenty eleven rugby world cup in two thousand six the new zealand government proposed the construction of a waterfront national stadium in auckland as an alternative to eden park s upgrade this proposal was rejected by the auckland regional council the nzru no longer considers carisbrook as a suitable test venue a covered sports stadium has been proposed as a replacement section eight see also
triviaqa-odql_5016,what name is given to a substance that accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected,Raney_nickel_2,nickel by mass corresponding to about two atoms of nickel for every atom of aluminium the aluminium which remains helps to preserve the pore structure of the overall catalyst since raney is a registered trademark of w r grace and company only those products by its grace davison division are properly called raney nickel alternatively the more generic terms skeletal catalyst or sponge metal catalyst may be used to refer to catalysts that have physical and chemical properties similar to those of raney nickel table of contents section one preparation section one point one alloy preparation alloys are prepared
triviaqa-dpql_1839,just north of bolton on which english motorway will you find rivington services,M62_motorway_36,the section of the motorway into manchester motorists must turn off to stay on the route into yorkshire in greater manchester the motorway shares seven junctions twelve to eighteen with the m six zero motorway junction thirteen which is signposted for swinton is situated only half a mile from junction twelve leaving exiting motorists the hazard of crossing the still merging m six two traffic after this there is worsley braided interchange which in addition to serving junctions fourteen and fifteen also serves junctions one to three of the m six one motorway which terminates to preston near junction
triviaqa-odql_12226,whom we invite to see us crowned at scone is a line from which shakespeare play,William_Shakespeare_35,him in king lear the old king commits the tragic error of giving up his powers triggering scenes which lead to the murder of his daughter and the torture and blinding of the duke of gloucester according to the critic frank kermode the play offers neither its good characters nor its audience any relief from its cruelty in macbeth the shortest and most compressed of shakespeare s tragedies uncontrollable ambition incites macbeth and his wife lady macbeth to murder the rightful king and usurp the throne until their own guilt destroys them in turn in this play shakespeare adds a supernatural element to the tragic structure his last major
triviaqa-tc_2496,who was king of france at the time of the french revolution,Mary_Wollstonecraft_15,she pursued these ideas more indirectly in a vindication of the rights of woman seventeen hundred ninety two her most famous and influential work section three france and gilbert imlay wollstonecraft left for paris in december of seventeen hundred ninety two and arrived about a month before louis xvi was guillotined the country was in turmoil she sought out other english visitors such as helen maria williams and joined the circle of expatriates then in the city having just written a vindication of the rights of woman wollstonecraft was determined to put her ideas to the test and in the stimulating intellectual atmosphere of the french revolution she attempted her
triviaqa-jp_3059,who betrayed jesus for thirty pieces of silver,Jesus_74,and the woes of the pharisees in which jesus criticizes them and calls them hypocritical judas iscariot one of the twelve apostles approaches the jewish elders and strikes a bargain with them in which he undertakes to betray jesus and hand him over to them for a reward of thirty silver coins section three point eight point two last supper the last supper is the final meal that jesus shares with his twelve apostles in jerusalem before his crucifixion the last
triviaqa-qw_4637,what is the name of the principle that if two explanations account equally well for a particular phenomenon the one to be chosen is the one with the fewer assumptions,Cladistics_10,dataset and it might cause erroneous results in practice neutral features like exact ultrastructure a term for extremely fine structure microscopic or molecular composition of cellular structure may be used to provide evidence for real relationships even when the appearance of organisms makes it otherwise difficult when equivalent possibilities turn up one is usually chosen based on the principle of parsimony the most compact arrangement is likely the best a variation of occam s razor another approach particularly useful in molecular evolution is maximum likelihood which selects the optimal cladogram that has the highest likelihood based on a specific probability model of changes
triviaqa-qz_5674,who was the third president of the usa following on from george washington and john adams was also famed for his numerous inventions,United_States_House_of_Representatives_61,receives a majority of votes in the electoral college the twelfth amendment requires the house to choose from the three candidates with the highest numbers of electoral votes the constitution provides that the votes shall be taken by states the representation from each state having one vote electoral college deadlocks are very rare in the history of the united states the house has only had to break a deadlock twice in eighteen hundred zero it elected thomas jefferson over aaron burr in eighteen hundred twenty four it elected john q adams over andrew jackson and william h crawford the power to elect the vice president in the case of an electoral college deadlock belongs to the senate
triviaqa-odql_4564,in edwin landseers painting dignity and impudence what kind of creatures are depicted,Museum_of_Bad_Art_20,or sculpture for the collection ideally should result in a compelling image or as honorary curator ollie hallowell stated the art must have an oh my god quality an important criterion for inclusion is that a painting or sculpture must not be boring michael frank says they are not interested in commercial works like dogs playing poker we collect things made in earnest where people attempted to make art and something went wrong either in the execution or in the original premise montserrat college of art used moba s exhibition
triviaqa-sfq_2754,what was the original use of the building which now houses the tate modern art gallery in london,Love_Actually_35,most of the movie was filmed on location in london at sites including trafalgar square the central court of somerset house in the strand grosvenor chapel on south audley street near hyde park saint paul s clapham on rectory grove clapham in the london borough of lambeth the millennium bridge selfridges department store on oxford street lambeth bridge the tate modern in the former bankside power station canary wharf marble arch the saint lukes mews off all saint s road in notting hill chelsea bridge the oxo tower london city hall poplar road in herne hill in the london borough of lambeth elliott school in pullman gardens
triviaqa-qg_3768,from the latin for argentum which element with an atomic number of forty seven uses the symbol ag,Silver_16,four hundred eighteen years ag one one zero m t two hundred forty nine seventy nine days and ag one zero seven m t eight eight days isotopes of silver range in atomic weight from ninety three nine hundred forty three u ag nine four to one hundred twenty three nine hundred twenty nine u ag one two four the primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope ag one zero seven is electron capture and the primary mode after is beta decay the primary decay products before ag one zero seven are palladium element forty six isotopes and the primary products after are cadmium element forty eight isotopes the palladium isotope p d one zero seven decays by beta emission to ag one zero seven with a half life of six five million years iron meteorites are the only objects with a high enough
triviaqa-sfq_19275,what colour is the gemstone citrine,Green_and_golden_bell_frog_14,a creamy white or pale yellow stripe bordered above with gold and below with black extends from behind the eye across the tympanum to the groin this stripe rises to form a dorso lateral fold towards the groin another stripe of the same colour begins below the eye and continues to the shoulder the abdomen is cream or white and has a coarsely granular texture the legs are green bronze or a combination of both and the inside thigh and groin are blue green males develop a yellowish colouration to the vocal sac on the throat when mature the pupil is restricted to a horizontal slit
triviaqa-sfq_21374,in which european city did the peace palace open in nineteen thirteen ,Andrew_Carnegie_48,church organs he built and owned carnegie hall in new york city he founded the carnegie hero fund for the united states and canada in nineteen hundred four a few years later also established in the united kingdom switzerland norway sweden france italy the netherlands belgium denmark and germany for the recognition of deeds of heroism carnegie contributed one million five hundred thousand dollars in nineteen hundred three for the erection of the peace palace at the hague and he donated one hundred fifty thousand dollars for a pan american palace in washington as a home for the international bureau of american republics
triviaqa-qw_10123,which country declared a state of emergency on eight november two thousand five as a result of prolonged rioting allegedly provoked by the death of two teenagers,Cyclone_Elita_21,of france united states germany and japan sent a total of two hundred eighty seven thousand dollars two thousand four usd in assistance the government of france sent a plane with food medicine and other equipment to the affected areas the government of germany sent aid to be used for foods and medicines on february twenty seven the government of japan sent aid to the country including tents generators and plastic sheets officials distributed emergency relief items to the affected areas including rice sugar soap candles matches and water purification tablets in morondava in toliara province
triviaqa-qw_9422,who wrote the poem daffodils,Tawny_owl_43,of night did sit forward slash even at noon day upon the market place forward slash hooting and shrieking even john ruskin is quoted as saying whatever wise people may say of them i at least have found the owl s cry always prophetic of mischief to me wordsworth described the technique for calling an owl in his poem about a boy
triviaqa-bb_6993,a warm sunny period in autumn fall in the northern hemisphere is called an,Montreal_23,is thirty seven eight c thirty six f in january of nineteen hundred fifty seven and the highest temperature ever was thirty seven six c one hundred f in august of nineteen hundred seventy five moderate to high humidity is common in the summer in spring and autumn temperatures and precipitation amounts average between fifty five to ninety four m m two point five to four inches a month some snow in spring and autumn is normal similarly early heat waves as well as indian summer are a regular feature of the climate one despite its widely varying climate the montreal region supports a diverse array of plants and wildlife the maple is one of the most common trees and the sugar maple in particular is an enduring symbol of montreal and quebec thanks to
triviaqa-qf_3653,which british entrepreneur failed to win his bid to run the national lottery,Richard_Branson_51,africa to provide coaching and mentoring to students are auctioned to attendees in two thousand nine jason luckhurst and boyd kershaw of practicus martin ainscough of the ainscough group and matthew riley of daisy communications helped raise one hundred fifty thousand pound sterling through the auction in september two thousand seven richard branson chaired the jury of the first picnic green challenge a five hundred thousand euro award for best new green initiative set up by the dutch postcode loterij postcode lottery and the picnic network of creative professionals the first green challenge was won by qurrent with the qbox branson was the first celebrity guest for the popular charity fund raisers reserve dinners raising over seventy five thousand dollars in one evening towards his virgin unite charity in march two thousand eight richard branson hosted
triviaqa-qg_4261,born in scranton pa on nov twenty one thousand nine hundred forty two current vice president joe biden spent thirty six years as a senator from which state,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_120,opinion surveys section republicans sometimes found themselves caught in a dilemma between losing support or damaging their credibility they had to walk the fine line of humoring conspiracy minded supporters without explicitly questioning obama s legitimacy other republicans including former minnesota governor tim pawlenty and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum however have plainly rejected these claims an example of these situations is mike castle then representative for delaware who ran in two thousand ten for senate seat vacated by vice president joe biden at
triviaqa-qb_8723,which rugby union team position wears shirt number fifteen ,Andrew_Watson_(footballer%2c_born_1856)_2,nineteen where his love of football blossomed he played in the full back position on either the right or the left flank after first playing for maxwell in eighteen hundred seventy six he signed for local side parkgrove where he was additionally their match secretary making him the first black administrator in football on fourteen april eighteen hundred eighty he was selected to represent glasgow against sheffield glasgow won one to zero at bramall lane after marrying in glasgow he soon signed for queen s park f c minus then britain s biggest football team minus and later became their secretary he led the team to
triviaqa-bb_2256,what is the christian service or ceremony named from greek meaning grateful commemorating the last supper,Eucharistic_theology_85,some protestant groups regard the eucharist also called the lord s supper or the lord s table as a symbolic meal a memorial of the last supper and the passion in which nothing miraculous occurs this view is known as the zwinglian view after huldrych zwingli a church leader in zurich switzerland during the reformation it is commonly associated with the united church of christ baptists the disciples of christ and the mennonites as with the reformed view elements left over from the service may be discarded without any formal ceremony or if feasible may be
triviaqa-qw_6802,the rings of which planet were first detected in nineteen eighty but only identified in nineteen eighty nine by the voyager two spacecraft ,Titan_(moon)_79,did not possess any instruments that could penetrate titan s haze an unforeseen factor many years later intensive digital processing of images taken through voyager one s orange filter did reveal hints of the light and dark features now known as xanadu and shangri la but by then they had already been observed in the infrared by the hubble space telescope voyager two took only a cursory look at titan the voyager two team had the option of steering the spacecraft to take a detailed look at titan or to use another trajectory which would allow it to visit uranus and neptune given the lack of surface features seen by voyager one the
triviaqa-tb_1150,luzon visayas and mindanao form the three major island groups of which country,Mount_Pinatubo_0,mount pinatubo template mtnbox start template mtnbox coor d m template mtnbox volcano template mtnbox finish mount pinatubo is an active volcano located on the island of luzon in the philippines at the intersection of the borders of the provinces of zambales bataan and pampanga before nineteen hundred ninety one the mountain was inconspicuous and heavily eroded it was covered in dense forest which supported a population of several thousand indigenous people the aeta who had fled to the mountains from the
triviaqa-sfq_7368,which british prime ministers death is commemorated on nineteen th april primrose day,Westminster_Abbey_14,commemorated william shakespeare buried stratford upon avon sir winston churchill buried bladon oxfordshire benjamin disraeli first earl of beaconsfield buried hughenden manor buckinghamshire adam lindsay gordon buried australia ten two zero century christian martyrs from across the world are depicted in statues above the great west door unveiled in nineteen hundred ninety eight these are from left to right maximilian kolbe manche masemola janani luwum elizabeth of russia martin luther king jr
triviaqa-jp_2945,besides ireland what country is geographically closest to the united kingdom,British_Empire_14,own empire by this time spain had become the dominant power in the americas and was exploring the pacific portugal had established trading posts and forts from the coasts of africa and brazil to china and france had begun to settle the saint lawrence river later to become new france section one point one plantations of ireland although england trailed behind other european powers in establishing overseas colonies it had been engaged during the sixteenth century in the settlement
triviaqa-tc_2556,in which battle did harold ii the last saxon king lose his life,William_the_Conqueror_67,section five point four battle of hastings after defeating harald hardrada and tostig harold left much of his army in the north including morcar and edwin and marched the rest south to deal with the threatened norman invasion he probably learned of william s landing while he was travelling south harold stopped in london and was there for about a week before marching to hastings so it is likely that he spent about a week on his march south averaging about twenty seven miles forty three kilometres per day for the distance of approximately two hundred
triviaqa-dpql_2572,real love in nineteen ninety six was whose last top ten hit in the uk,Roy_Orbison_10,to manage their first tour but his own schedule forced him to turn down what was to become an astounding success even as the british invasion swept america in nineteen hundred sixty four orbison s single oh pretty woman broke the beatles stranglehold on the top ten soaring to no one on the billboard charts the smash hit record sold more copies in its first ten days of release than any four five rpm up to that time and would go on to sell more than seven million copies in nineteen hundred sixty six orbison signed a contract with m g m records and starred in m g m studios western musical motion picture the fastest guitar alive in which he would perform several songs from an album of the same name
triviaqa-sfq_3917,which greek god gave cassandra the give of prophecy,Greek_mythology_50,of the god sometimes thought to be already ancient during the classical epoch of greece most gods were associated with specific aspects of life for example aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty ares was the god of war hades the god of the dead and athena the goddess of wisdom and courage some deities such as apollo and dionysus revealed complex personalities and mixtures of functions
triviaqa-jp_3645,what de facto independent country does china claim ownership of,British_Empire_152,lease in eighteen hundred ninety eight due to expire in nineteen hundred ninety seven thatcher seeing parallels with the falkland islands initially wished to hold hong kong and proposed british administration with chinese sovereignty though this was rejected by china a deal was reached in nineteen hundred eight four under the terms of the sino british joint declaration hong kong would become a special administrative region of the people s republic of china maintaining its way of life for at least fifty years the handover ceremony in nineteen hundred ninety seven marked for many including charles prince of wales who was in attendance the end of empire
triviaqa-wh_162,what was the surname of the french explorer who discovered the area where montreal is now situated on this day in nineteen fifty three ,Montreal_3,sainte helene and ile notre dame the city is spread over an area of four hundred eighty two point eight four km two one hundred eighty six point four three square miles table of contents section one history main article history of montreal the area known today as montreal had been inhabited by the algonquin huron and iroquois for thousands of years before the arrival of the first europeans the first european to reach the area was jacques cartier in fifteen thirty five he reached the area after speaking to a iroquois chief in present day quebec city who told him of a shiny stone upstream from his village cartier listened to him and believed he was describing gold which lead him to the village of hochelaga on the island of montreal the local iroquois took him to the top of mont royal and cartier planted the first of the mountaintop s famous
triviaqa-bb_7278,eric cartman is a character in which cartoon series,Xenu_59,tom cruise depicted xenu as a vaguely humanoid alien with tentacles for arms in a sequence that had the words this is what scientologists actually believe superimposed on screen the episode became the subject of controversy when scientologist isaac hayes the voice of the character chef in south park quit the show in march two thousand six just prior to the episode s first scheduled re screening citing south park s inappropriate ridicule of religion hayes statement did not mention the episode in particular but expressed his view that the show s habit of parodying religion was
triviaqa-sfq_4327,in the bible which of jesus disciples tried to walk on water,Saint_Peter_15,andrew and an unnamed disciple who heard john the baptist announce jesus as the lamb of god and then followed jesus andrew then went and fetched his brother simon saying we have found the messiah and then brought simon to jesus three of the four canonical gospels matthew mark and john minus recount the story of jesus walking on water matthew additionally describes peter walking on water for a moment but beginning to sink when his faith wavered matt two twenty eight p m three one at the beginning of the last supper jesus washed his disciples feet
triviaqa-sfq_26204,alan minter was world boxing champion at which weight,Jean-Claude_Bouttier_0,jean claude bouttier jean claude bouttier born thirteen october nineteen hundred forty four is a french actor and former professional boxer during his boxing career which spanned from nineteen hundred sixty five to nineteen hundred seventy four he won sixty four out of seventy two bouts forty three of them by knockout in june nineteen hundred seventy one he won the european boxing union ebu middleweight title and in nineteen hundred seventy two and nineteen hundred seventy three unsuccessfully contested the w b c and wba titles against carlos monzon he lost the ebu title
triviaqa-odql_11838,which village in sweden has four chemical elements named after it,Yttrium_1,occurring isotope in seventeen hundred eighty seven carl axel arrhenius found a new mineral near ytterby in sweden and named it ytterbite after the village johan gadolin discovered yttrium s oxide in arrhenius sample in seventeen hundred eighty nine and anders gustaf ekeberg named the new oxide yttria elemental yttrium was first isolated in eighteen hundred twenty eight by friedrich wohler the most important use of yttrium is in making phosphors such as the red ones used in television
triviaqa-qf_3671,when was basketball invented seventeen th eighteen th or nineteen th century,College_football_6,college football increased in popularity through the remainder of the nineteenth century it also became increasingly violent president theodore roosevelt threatened in nineteen hundred six to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games the response to this was the formation of what became the national collegiate athletic association which set rules governing the sport one of the resulting rule changes was the introduction of the forward pass another was the banning of mass momentum plays many of which like the infamous flying wedge were sometimes literally deadly prior to the founding of the national football league and for a few decades thereafter college football was the predominant venue of american football
triviaqa-sfq_13352,dont be evil is the motto of which intemet company,Facebook_24,gmail s first engineer paul buchheit who coined at google the phrase dont be evil section three website users can choose fan pages according to their interests to connect and interact with other strangers users can set their profiles on private so as to prevent acquaintances from contacting them users can also set their profiles on public this allows close friends to send messages and add the user as a friend it lets users update their personal profiles to notify their close friends about themselves they can also join
triviaqa-odql_11091,the livadia palace near which crimean city was the site of a one thousand nine hundred forty five peace conference,Cold_War_23,churchill traveled to moscow and agreed to divide the balkans into respective spheres of influence and at yalta roosevelt signed a separate deal with stalin in regard of asia and refused to support churchill on the issues of poland and the reparations further allied negotiations concerning the post war balance took place at the yalta conference in february nineteen hundred forty five albeit this conference also failed to reach a firm consensus on the framework for a post war settlement in europe in april nineteen hundred forty five both churchill and new united states president harry s truman opposed among
triviaqa-qg_261,the first ten amendments to the us constitution are collectively know as what,First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution_0,first amendment to the united states constitution template usbillofrights the first amendment to the united states constitution is a part of the united states bill of rights textually it prohibits the u s congress from infringing on six rights it forbids federal laws that respect an establishment of religion the establishment clause prohibit free exercise of
triviaqa-sfq_11182,which woman was the singer with big brother and the holding company,Mantra-Rock_Dance_1,to address a wider public and as a promotional and fundraising effort for their first center on the west coast of the united states the mantra rock dance featured such leading rock groups of the time as grateful dead and big brother and the holding company with janis joplin as well as the then relatively unknown moby grape who all agreed to appear with prabhupada and to perform for free donating the proceeds to the local hare krishna temple participation of such countercultural leaders as poet allen ginsberg who led the singing of the hare krishna mantra onstage along with prabhupada and lsd promoters timothy leary
triviaqa-odql_12266,who became prime minister of canada in november last year,Justin_Trudeau_0,justin trudeau justin pierre james trudeau p c m p born december twenty five nineteen hundred seventy one is a canadian politician who is the twenty third and current prime minister of canada as well as the leader of the liberal party the second youngest canadian prime minister after joe clark he is also as the eldest son of former prime minister pierre trudeau the first child of a previous prime minister to hold the post trudeau was born in ottawa and attended college jean de brebeuf he earned a ba in english literature from mcgill university in nineteen hundred ninety four and a bed from the university of british columbia in nineteen hundred ninety eight he gained a high public profile in october two thousand when he delivered a
triviaqa-odql_11163,in which german city is the newspaper suddeutsche zeitung published,Munich_129,headquarters of many foreign companies such as mcdonald s and microsoft munich has significance as a financial centre second only to frankfurt being home of hypovereinsbank and the bayerische landesbank it outranks frankfurt though as home of insurance companies such as allianz and munich re citation needed munich is the largest publishing city in europe and home to suddeutsche zeitung one of germany s largest daily newspapers the city is also the
triviaqa-sfq_3396,which english monarch was the son of edward the black prince,William_the_Conqueror_43,in the duchy section four english and continental concerns in ten fifty one the childless king edward of england appears to have chosen william as his successor to the english throne william was the grandson of edward s maternal uncle richard ii duke of normandy the anglo saxon chronicle in the d version states that william visited england in the later part of ten fifty one perhaps to secure confirmation of the succession or perhaps william was attempting to secure aid for his troubles
triviaqa-bb_5330,the erythraean sea lying between africa and asia is more commonly called the what sea,Seawater_5,section one point one salinity although the vast majority of seawater has a salinity of between three point one per cent and three point eight per cent seawater is not uniformly saline throughout the world where mixing occurs with fresh water runoff from river mouths or near melting glaciers seawater can be substantially less saline the most saline open sea is the red sea where high rates of evaporation low precipitation and river inflow and confined circulation result in unusually salty water the salinity in isolated bodies of water for example the dead sea can be considerably greater still the
triviaqa-jp_2665,what harvard researcher was well known for experimenting with lsd,Mantra-Rock_Dance_1,to address a wider public and as a promotional and fundraising effort for their first center on the west coast of the united states the mantra rock dance featured such leading rock groups of the time as grateful dead and big brother and the holding company with janis joplin as well as the then relatively unknown moby grape who all agreed to appear with prabhupada and to perform for free donating the proceeds to the local hare krishna temple participation of such countercultural leaders as poet allen ginsberg who led the singing of the hare krishna mantra onstage along with prabhupada and lsd promoters timothy leary
triviaqa-qw_1763,which river begins in the rocky mountains in south west colorado crosses new mexico and forms the border between mexico and the usa before reaching the gulf of mexico,Interstate_35_1,has such divisions in two stretches both through twin cities the highway splits into interstate three five e dallas and saint paul and interstate three five w fort worth and minneapolis interstate thirty five does not directly connect to either international border i thirty five s southern terminus is a traffic signal in laredo texas just short of the united states mexico border travelers going south can take one of two toll bridges across the rio grande and the mexican border straight ahead into juarez lincoln international bridge or via interstate thirty five business through downtown laredo into gateway to the americas international bridge to the north i three five terminates in duluth minnesota with connections to canada from the interstate s
triviaqa-qw_2883,who divorced her husband in nineteen seventy eight after sixteen years of marriage accusing him of years of severe spousal abuse and rampant drug addiction in her autobiography i tina which was later adapted for the film whats love got to do with it and left semi retirement in twenty eight to embark on her tina fifty th anniversary tour,U2_91,orange only one track was ever released on the b side to the fly single that same year mullen company wrote and produced a song for the irish international soccer team in italia ninety called put em under pressure which topped the irish charts together with the edge bono wrote the song goldeneye for the nineteen hundred ninety five james bond film goldeneye which was performed by tina turner clayton and mullen reworked the title track of the movie mission impossible in nineteen hundred ninety six bono loaned his voice to joy on mick jagger s two thousand one album goddess in the doorway bono also
triviaqa-sfq_16838,which disastrous amphibious landing in nineteen forty two used british troops canadian troops and us rangers,Canada_26,by tommy douglas in the nineteen hundred forties and nineteen hundred fifties canada declared war on germany independently during world war ii under liberal prime minister william lyon mackenzie king three days after britain the first canadian army units arrived in britain in december nineteen hundred thirty nine canadian troops played important roles in the battle of the atlantic the failed nineteen hundred forty two dieppe raid in france the allied invasion of italy and the battle of the scheldt during the liberation of the netherlands in nineteen hundred forty four the canadian economy boomed as industry manufactured military
triviaqa-qg_2013,what do you practice in a dojo,Star_Wars%3a_Episode_I_%e2%80%93_The_Phantom_Menace_52,allusions like previous star wars films the phantom menace makes several references to both historical events and films that george lucas viewed in his youth the star wars movies typically mix several selected concepts from different mythologies and religions together although jedi knights practice zen and martial arts they are also inspired by samurai warriors the name qui gon paraphrases the term qigong which refers to a chinese discipline involving meditation and martial arts the words qi and chi are different romanizations of the same chinese term referring to the energy thought to flow
triviaqa-dpql_5620,in which city was the wheelchair bound robert ironside chief of detectives,Harvey_Milk_104,hundred seventy nine several police cruisers filled with officers wearing riot gear arrived at the elephant walk bar on castro street harvey milk s protege cleve jones and a reporter for the san francisco chronicle warren hinckle watched as officers stormed into the bar and began to beat patrons at random after a one five minute melee they left the bar and struck out at people walking along the street the chief of police finally ordered the officers out of the neighborhood by morning sixty one police officers and one hundred rioters and gay residents of the castro had been hospitalized over a million dollars of damage had been done to city hall police cruisers and the elephant walk bar after the verdict the district
triviaqa-jp_412,which part of the body can suffer from cirrhosis,Hepatitis_C_0,hepatitis c hepatitis c is an infectious disease affecting primarily the liver caused by the hepatitis c virus h c v the infection is often asymptomatic but chronic infection can lead to scarring of the liver and ultimately to cirrhosis which is generally apparent after many years in some cases those with cirrhosis will go on to develop liver failure liver cancer or life threatening esophageal and gastric varices h c v is
triviaqa-qw_7976,admiral sir john jellicoe commanded the british fleet at the battle of jutland the largest naval battle of world war i against a fleet from which country,Battle_of_the_Somme_77,some historians who starting with the somme britain began to gain influence in the coalition in recognition of the growing threat she posed on thirty one january nineteen hundred seventeen germany adopted the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in an attempt to starve the island nation of supplies other historians would argue britain s growing influence in the war had nothing to do with the battle and everything to do with her great financial and industrial strength which inevitably increased in importance in a stalemate war at the start of nineteen hundred sixteen the british army had been a largely inexperienced but well trained mass of volunteers the somme was the first real
triviaqa-odql_4333,what is the name of the hybrid dog or designer breed which is a cross of a labrador and a poodle,Guide_dog_5,boxers are also used but as they have a long adolescence they are less common another popular breed is a golden retriever forward slash labrador cross because both breeds which are in fact closely related are known for their intelligence responsiveness to obedience and early maturation there is also a recent trend of breeding a labrador with a poodle to create a new hypoallergenic breed called a labradoodle that is more suitable for those who suffer allergies less common breeds also trained as guide dogs include collies vizslas and dobermanns
triviaqa-odql_11757,also the director of insomnia and the dark knight who directed the two thousand ten sci fi film inception,Howard_Hughes_87,jim carrey starring and with christopher nolan directing and re writing a script originated by david koepp and brian de palma when the aviator began production the idea was scrapped and nolan went on to direct batman begins the aviator two thousand four directed by martin scorsese and starring leonardo dicaprio as hughes nominated for eleven academy awards and winning five the acclaimed film focuses primarily on hughes achievements in aviation and in the movies and on the increasing handicaps imposed on him by his obsessive compulsive behavior and ends shortly after the successful flight of the hercules in nineteen hundred forty seven the hoax
triviaqa-odql_13139,what is a vent in the earths crust that spouts a fountain of boiling water called,Climate_change_17,volcanism is a process of conveying material from the crust and mantle of the earth to its surface volcanic eruptions geysers and hot springs are examples of volcanic processes which release gases and forward slash or particulates into the atmosphere eruptions large enough to affect climate occur on average several times per century and cause cooling by partially blocking the transmission of solar radiation to the earth s surface for a period of a few years the eruption of mount pinatubo in nineteen hundred ninety one the second largest terrestrial eruption of the twentieth century after the nineteen hundred
triviaqa-sfq_21744,the opera gloriana is by which english composer,Henry_Purcell_22,is among the baroque composers who has had a direct influence on modern rock and roll according to pete townshend of the who purcell was among his influences particularly evident in the opening bars of the who s pinball wizard the title song from the sound track of the film a clockwork orange is from purcell s music for the funeral of queen mary purcell also had a strong influence on the composers of the english musical renaissance of the early twentieth century most notably benjamin britten who created and performed a realisation of dido and aeneas and whose young person s guide to the orchestra is based on a theme from purcell s abdelazar
triviaqa-bt_2065,in which street did the great fire of london originate,Monument_to_the_Great_Fire_of_London_2,fish street the first church to be burnt down by the great fire the monument comprises a fluted doric column built of portland stone topped with a gilded urn of fire and was designed by christopher wren and robert hooke its height marks its distance from the site in pudding lane of the shop of thomas farynor the king s baker where the great fire began the top of the monument is reached by a narrow winding staircase of three hundred eleven steps a cage was added in the mid nineteenth century at the top of the monument to prevent people jumping off after six people had committed
triviaqa-sfq_5173,on which island was the famous photograph taken showing us marines raising the us flag over mt suribachi in february one thousand nine hundred forty five ,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_5,nineteen hundred forty five there she was temporary headquarters ship for vice admiral marc a mitscher the battleship put to sea twenty seven january to serve in the screen of the lexington carrier task group of mitscher s t f fifty eight and on sixteen february her aircraft carriers launched the first air strikes against japan since the famed doolittle raid which had been launched from carrier hornet in april nineteen hundred forty two missouri then steamed with the carriers to iwo jima where her main guns provided direct and continuous support to the invasion landings begun nineteen february after t f fifty eight returned to ulithi
triviaqa-qg_2743,by tradition what country leads the procession of nations in the olympics,Olympic_flame_2,traditionally the olympic torch is lit by the sun on mount olympus and the torch carrier brings the flame on foot to the site of the olympic games the olympic torch is nowadays ignited several months before the opening celebration of the olympic games at the site of the ancient olympics in olympia greece eleven priestesses played by actresses light the fire by placing a torch in a concave parabolic mirror which concentrates rays from the sun the torch is then transported to the host city of the upcoming olympics by means of a torch relay though traditionally the fire is carried on foot other means of
triviaqa-qw_7952,who was the first us president to succeed to the presidency upon the assassination of his predecessor and the first us president to be impeached,United_States_Senate_56,before the senate could complete the trial only two presidents of the united states have ever been impeached andrew johnson in eighteen hundred sixty eight and bill clinton in nineteen hundred ninety nine both trials ended in acquittal in johnson s case the senate fell one vote short of the two thirds majority required for conviction under the twelfth amendment the senate has the power to elect the vice president if no vice presidential candidate receives a majority of votes in the electoral college the twelfth amendment requires the senate to choose from the two candidates with the highest numbers of electoral votes electoral college deadlocks are very rare in the history of the united states the senate has only had to break a deadlock once in eighteen hundred thirty seven when it elected richard mentor johnson the
triviaqa-qg_548,according to samuel beckett who are vladimir and estragon waiting for,Troye_Sivan_7,kodi smit mcphee was already cast for this role he was unable to be a part of the film due to his other film the road in two thousand eight sivan was cast in a west australian short film betrand the terrible in july two thousand nine he auditioned successfully for the lead role in spud a film adaptation of the two thousand five novel by south african author john van de ruit filming took place in south africa from early march to mid april twenty ten sivan appeared in the west australian season of samuel beckett s absurdist play waiting for godot which
triviaqa-qg_986,tuesday marks the birthday of lat night tv host david letterman what broadcast channel hosts his show,Nick_Bakay_3,in living color and appeared as stu dunfy the host of the fictional game show the dirty dozens he worked at comedy central writing and appearing on numerous shows beginning in two thousand bakay worked as a producer on the c b s hit comedy the king of queens where he also wrote and acted in several episodes in two thousand six bakay created wrote and voiced a cartoon for comedy central called the adventures of baxter and mcguire which was recently nominated for an emmy in the best broadband comedy category currently he serves as a producer and does voice over work for the fox comedy
triviaqa-qb_3876,who is universally accepted to be the first roman emperor,Saint_Peter_4,nero augustus caesar it is traditionally held that he was crucified upside down at his own request since he saw himself unworthy to be crucified in the same way as jesus christ catholic tradition holds that saint peter s site of crucifixion is located in the clementine chapel while his mortal bones and remains are contained in the underground confessio of saint peter s basilica where pope paul vi announced the excavated discovery of a first century roman cemetery in nineteen hundred sixty eight every
triviaqa-sfq_11783,in which pastimegame would you use the forsyth edwards notation or the gbr code,Chess_22,and positions are recorded using a special notation most often algebraic chess notation abbreviated or short algebraic notation generally records moves in the format abbreviation of the piece moved file where it moved minus rank where it moved for example qg five means queen moves to the g file and fifth rank that is to the square g five if there are two pieces of the same type that can move to the same square one more letter or number is added to indicate the file or rank from which the piece moved e g ngf three means knight from the g file moves to the square
triviaqa-sfq_9464,who succeeded brian epstein as manager of the beatles,(I_Can%27t_Get_No)_Satisfaction_9,and in august nineteen hundred sixty five decca records released i cant get no satisfaction featuring the spider and the fly on the b side the song peaked at number one for two weeks between september eleven and september twenty five before being toppled by the walker brothers make it easy on yourself the song s publishing rights oddly enough do not belong to any members of the rolling stones due to a contract they had with lawyer allen klein who was later brought to court by paul mccartney for interfering with the business affairs of the stone s contemporaries the beatles signed in order to avoid exorbitant taxes in britain the stones signed over the rights to every song
triviaqa-sfq_12070,which island off cape cod was once the site of the worlds biggest whaling port,Hurricane_Dog_(1950)_15,high tides and rough surf along the east coast of the united states with coastal flooding reported along some beaches in rhode island the hurricane capsized or damaged several boats along the coastline including two large vessels in nantucket in marblehead massachusetts the surf grounded at least fifteen vessels from the harbor onto a coastal causeway near cape cod damage to fishermen s assets totaled one hundred fifty thousand dollars nineteen hundred fifty usd one dollar thirty four cents million two thousand nine usd tides along nantucket were reported at the highest levels since the nineteen hundred forty four
triviaqa-qb_3849,stanislaw august poniatowski was the last king of which european country,Bona_Sforza_30,was a queen of hungary wife of john zapolya sigismund ii augustus one august fifteen twenty minus seven july fifteen seventy two was a king of poland and grand duke of lithuania sophia thirteen july fifteen twenty two minus twenty eight may fifteen seventy five was a duchess of brunswick luneburg wife of henry v duke of brunswick luneburg
triviaqa-sfq_25435,dr paul gachet was the subject of two famous paintings by which artist,Zelda_Fitzgerald_83,the united states and europe a review of the exhibition by curator everl adair noted the influence of vincent van gogh and georgia okeeffe on her paintings and concluded that her surviving corpus of art represents the work of a talented visionary woman who rose above tremendous odds to create a fascinating body of work one that inspires us to celebrate the life that might have been section three notes
triviaqa-jp_4006,who wrote directed and starred in citizen kane,There%27s_No_Disgrace_Like_Home_13,where the family goes to burns s manor holds two cultural references the manor resembles charles foster kane s castle in citizen kane directed by orson welles from nineteen hundred forty one the family refer to it as stately burns manor a reference to the batman t v series in addition to that there is a reference to freaks the tod browning cult horror film about sideshow freaks in the repetition of the line one of us the family shocking scene is reminiscent of the nineteen hundred seventy one film a clockwork orange
triviaqa-bb_4263,staphylococcus and streptococcus are types of,Pathogenic_bacteria_10,bacteria or bacteriostatic if they just prevent bacterial growth there are many types of antibiotics and each class inhibits a process that is different in the pathogen from that found in the host for example the antibiotics chloramphenicol and tetracyclin inhibit the bacterial ribosome but not the structurally different eukaryotic ribosome and so exhibit selective toxicity antibiotics are used both in treating human disease and in intensive farming to
triviaqa-qb_7781,in our solar system the sun is composed of mostly which gas,Saturn_13,by friction as they fall down through the lighter hydrogen section two atmosphere the outer atmosphere of saturn consists of about ninety six point three per cent molecular hydrogen and three point two five per cent helium trace amounts of ammonia acetylene ethane phosphine and methane have also been detected the upper clouds on saturn are composed of ammonia crystals while the lower level clouds appear to be composed of either ammonium hydrosulfide nh four sh or water the atmosphere of saturn is significantly deficient in helium relative to the abundance of the elements in the sun the quantity of elements heavier than helium are not known precisely but the proportions are assumed to match the primordial abundances from the formation of the solar system
triviaqa-sfq_5791,which ex prime minister died at his home in hawarden in eighteen ninety eight ,Edward_VII_26,she was pro german and in the same year annoyed her again by making a special effort to meet giuseppe garibaldi liberal prime minister william ewart gladstone sent him papers secretly in eighteen hundred seventy republican sentiment in britain was given a boost when the french emperor napoleon iii was defeated in the franco prussian war and the french third republic was declared however in the winter of eighteen hundred seventy one a brush with death led to an improvement in both edward s popularity with the public and his relationship with his mother while staying at londesborough lodge
triviaqa-qw_11526,where is the australian parliament based,Robert_Garran_1,of the government of australia and the first solicitor general of australia garran spent thirty one years as permanent head of the attorney general s department providing advice to ten different prime ministers from barton to lyons he played a significant behind the scenes role in the australian federation movement as adviser to edmund barton and chair of the drafting committee at the eighteen hundred ninety seven to eighteen hundred ninety eight constitutional convention in addition to his professional work garran was also an important figure in the development of the city of canberra during its early years he
triviaqa-dpql_2873,conventionally treated as comprising a single order which order of mammals lay eggs,Short-beaked_echidna_1,is covered in fur and spines and has a distinctive snout and a specialized tongue which it uses to catch its prey at a great speed like the other extant monotremes the short beaked echidna lays eggs the monotremes are the only group of mammals to do so the species is found throughout australia where it is the most widespread native mammal and in coastal and highland regions of southwestern new guinea where it is known as the mungwe in the daribi and chimbu languages it is not threatened with extinction but human activities such as hunting habitat destruction and the introduction of foreign predatory species and parasites have
triviaqa-sfq_13317,goodge street tube station is on which london underground line,Oval_tube_station_0,oval tube station oval tube station in kennington is a station on the northern line of the london underground between stockwell and kennington stations it is in travelcard zone two it is named after the famous kennington oval for which it serves journeys from national rail stations to oval and kennington via waterloo are priced as if these destinations were in travelcard zone one the add on amounts are called substandard fares by n r the station is located at the junction of kennington park road heading north east camberwell new road south east clapham road south west and harleyford street north west and is about five hundred
triviaqa-bb_5126,a chemical reaction accelerated by adding a separate recyclable substance is,Raney_nickel_5,as zinc or chromium may be added this is done to enhance catalytic activity and as such this third metal is called a promoter note that the addition of a promoter changes the alloy and its resulting phase diagram to that of a ternary alloy leading to different quenching and leaching properties during activation section one point two activation the porous structure of the catalyst arises from the selective removal of aluminium from alloy particles using aqueous sodium hydroxide the simplified leaching reaction is given by the following chemical equation
triviaqa-bb_2952,which politician in his previous work set a world record in florence in nineteen eighty one which endured for sixteen years,Sheffield_41,the city also boasts the sheffield eagles rugby league sheffield tigers rugby union sheffield sharks basketball sheffield steelers ice hockey and sheffield tigers speedway teams sheffield is home to two thousand four world superbike champion james toseland and of climber joe simpson former athlete and world record holder sebastian coe grew up in the city and began his career as a member of the hallamshire harriers many of sheffield s extensive sporting facilities were built for the world student games which the city hosted in nineteen hundred ninety one they include the don valley international athletics stadium which is the largest athletics stadium in
triviaqa-qg_3379,on sept twenty three one thousand eight hundred forty six three astronomers urbain le verrier john couch adams and johann galle co discovered which one of the current planets,Asteroid_belt_15,this first period of discovery to a close and only in eighteen hundred forty five did astronomers detect another object five astraea shortly thereafter new objects were found at an accelerating rate and counting them among the planets became increasingly cumbersome eventually they were dropped from the planet list as first suggested by alexander von humboldt in the early eighteen hundred fifties and william herschel s choice of nomenclature asteroids gradually came into common use the discovery of neptune in eighteen hundred forty six led to the discrediting of the titius bode law in the eyes of scientists as its orbit was nowhere
triviaqa-qb_5502,in greek mythology who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race,Greek_mythology_55,the second type tales of punishment involves the appropriation or invention of some important cultural artifact as when prometheus steals fire from the gods when tantalus steals nectar and ambrosia from zeus table and gives it to his own subjects revealing to them the secrets of the gods when prometheus or lycaon invents sacrifice when demeter teaches agriculture and the mysteries to triptolemus or when marsyas invents the aulos and enters into a musical contest with apollo ian morris considers prometheus adventures as a place between the
triviaqa-bb_6744,what regal name is capital of seychelles and british columbia canada and is an australian state,Queen_Victoria_109,spontaneously because victoria s father was over fifty at the time of her conception and haemophilia arises more frequently in the children of older fathers spontaneous mutations account for about thirty per cent of cases around the world places and memorials are dedicated to her especially in the commonwealth nations places named after her include the capital of the seychelles africa s largest lake victoria falls the capitals of british columbia victoria and saskatchewan regina and two australian states victoria and queensland the victoria
triviaqa-dpql_3962,by what name was the african state of namibia previously known,Namibia_1,war of independence its capital and largest city is windhoek german windhuk namibia is a member state of the united nations un the southern african development community sadc the african union au the commonwealth of nations and many other international organisations it has been given many names the land of contrasts the land god made in anger the ageless land for many years it was known only as south west africa but it adopted the name namibia after the namib desert it is the second most sparsely populated country in the world after mongolia the dry lands of namibia were inhabited since early times by bushmen
triviaqa-qb_853,umberto ll was the last king of which european country,Vittorio_Emanuele%2c_Prince_of_Naples_6,in the italian constitution that barred the male descendants of the house of savoy from setting foot in the italian republic was abolished permitting victor emmanuel to re enter the country after november ten on his first trip home in over half a century he and the princess of naples paid a courtesy call on pope john paul ii at the vatican on may twenty one two thousand four following a dinner held by king juan carlos i of spain on the eve of the wedding of his son felipe prince of asturias victor emmanuel punched his cousin and arch rival amadeo the duke of aosta
triviaqa-bb_1194,in november one thousand nine hundred thirty five which british prime minister returned to office after a general election,George_Lansbury_74,in may nineteen hundred twenty three the conservative prime minister andrew bonar law resigned for health reasons in december his successor stanley baldwin called another election in which the
triviaqa-qf_3128,who played peter pan in spielbergs hook,Scar_(The_Lion_King)_65,have repeatedly singled out irons performance praising it extensively cindy white of ign called irons performance deliciously smarmy while andy patrizio of ign wrote that irons voices scar in perfect shakespearean villain mode rolling stone s peter travers hailed irons for deliver ing a triumphantly witty vocal performance that ranks with robin williams in aladdin peter stack of the san francisco chronicle commended disney for nail ing the voice talents specifically irons the philadelphia daily news bill wedo described irons voice as silken
triviaqa-sfq_13585,which former cabinet minister was debarred from parliament because of irregularities in his two thousand ten election campaign for his oldham east and saddleworth constituency,Shaw_and_Crompton_36,role section two point two parliamentary representation shaw and crompton forms part of the parliamentary constituency of oldham east and saddleworth and is represented in the house of commons by phil woolas a member of the labour party from eighteen hundred thirty two until nineteen hundred fifty the town lay within the parliamentary constituency of oldham which was represented in the house of commons by winston churchill between nineteen hundred zero and nineteen hundred six churchill once stayed at crompton hall and letters written by him describe how peaceful and
triviaqa-odql_13425,in which us state is denali national park,Hillary_Clinton_22,seven minutes she was featured in an article published in life magazine due to the response to a part of her speech that criticized senator edward brooke who had spoken before her at the commencement she also appeared on irv kupcinet s nationally syndicated television talk show as well as in illinois and new england newspapers that summer she worked her way across alaska washing dishes in mount mckinley national park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in valdez which fired her and shut down overnight when she
triviaqa-odql_5527,what type of animal according to its alternative name is the thylacine now thought to be extinct,Fauna_of_Australia_13,minus order dasyuromorphia minus are represented by two surviving families the dasyuridae with fifty one members and the myrmecobiidae with the numbat as its sole surviving member the tasmanian tiger was the largest dasyuromorphia and the last living specimen of the family thylacinidae however the last known specimen died in captivity in nineteen hundred thirty six the world s largest surviving carnivorous marsupial is the tasmanian devil it is the size of a small dog and can hunt although it is mainly a scavenger it became extinct on the mainland some six hundred years ago and is now found only in tasmania
triviaqa-qb_6941,a pressure hull is part of which type of vessel,Submarine_60,zero and the imperial japanese navy purchased five similar designs in nineteen hundred four commissionned in june nineteen hundred zero the french steam and electric submarine narval introduced the classic twin hull design with an inner hull inside an outer hull france was undoubtedly the first navy to have an effective submarine force conway marine steam steel and shellfire these two hundred tons ships had a range of over one hundred miles on the surface and over ten miles underwater the french submarine aigette in nineteen hundred four further improved the concept by using a diesel rather than a gasoline engine for surface power large quantities of these
triviaqa-qw_1265,who was the author of around the world in eighty days and twenty leagues under the sea,Submarine_53,the french writer jules verne published the science fiction classic twenty thousand leagues under the sea which concerns the adventures of a maverick inventor in nautilus a submarine more advanced than any that existed at that time the fictional story inspired inventors to build more advanced submarines in eighteen hundred seventy nine a manchester curate the reverend george garrett built the steam powered resurgam at birkenhead garrett intended to demonstrate the one two m long vehicle to the british navy at portsmouth but had mechanical problems and while under tow the submarine was swamped and sank off north wales the first submarine built in series however was
triviaqa-qb_6233,what was the first name of the mother of us president barack obama,Barack_Obama_7,laden table of contents section one early life and career obama was born on august four nineteen hundred sixty one at kapiolani maternity and gynecological hospital now kapiolani medical center for women and children in honolulu hawaii and is the first president to have been born in hawaii his mother stanley ann dunham was born in wichita kansas and was of mostly english ancestry along with scottish irish german and swiss his father barack obama sr was a luo from nyangoma kogelo nyanza province kenya
triviaqa-sfq_739,aesculus hippocastanum is the latin name for which tree,Durian_46,during the early stages of its taxonomical study there was some confusion between durian and the soursop annona muricata for both of these species had thorny green fruit it is also interesting to note the malay name for the soursop is durian belanda meaning dutch durian in the eighteenth century johann anton weinmann considered the durian to belong to castaneae as its fruit was similar to the horse chestnut d zibethinus was introduced into
triviaqa-qw_10354,since one thousand nine hundred fifty one what is the maximum number of full consecutive terms to be filled by one us president,Ronald_Reagan_162,was dedicated and opened to the public at the dedication ceremonies five presidents were in attendance as well as six first ladies marking the first time five presidents were gathered in the same location reagan continued publicly to speak in favor of a line item veto the brady bill a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget and the repeal of the twenty second amendment which prohibits anyone from serving more than two terms as president in nineteen hundred ninety two reagan established the ronald reagan freedom award with the newly formed ronald reagan presidential
triviaqa-bt_3707,of which country was cleopatra the queen,Elizabeth_II_43,of the european union in november nineteen hundred fifty six britain and france invaded egypt in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to capture the suez canal lord mountbatten claimed the queen was opposed to the invasion though eden denied it eden resigned two months later the absence of a formal mechanism within the conservative party for choosing a leader meant that following eden s resignation it fell to the queen to decide whom to commission to form a government eden recommended that she consult lord salisbury the lord president of the council lord salisbury and lord kilmuir
triviaqa-dpql_2756,the greek goddess aphrodite loved which beautiful youth the son of myrrha,Greek_mythology_125,of the civilizations of asia minor and the near east adonis seems to be the greek counterpart minus more clearly in cult than in myth minus of a near eastern dying god cybele is rooted in anatolian culture while much of aphrodite s iconography springs from semitic goddesses there are also possible parallels between the earliest divine generations chaos and its children and tiamat in the enuma elish according to meyer reinhold near eastern theogonic concepts involving divine succession through violence and generational conflicts for power found their
triviaqa-sfq_13804,sheikh hamad bin isa al khalifa is the reigning monarch of what country,Sophie%2c_Countess_of_Wessex_20,her husband returned to the uk from a trip to afghanistan she was given one set by bahrain s king and a second set by the country s prime minister sheikh khalifa ibn salman al khalifa her husband the earl received a pen and a watch as well as a silk rug from the crown prince of bahrain prince salman bin hamad al khalifa who also gave the countess a silver and pearl cup the value of the jewellery has not been estimated and its precise contents were not disclosed critics said the countess should sell the gems and give the proceeds to political
triviaqa-qw_11524,if a chess player completes a move known as en passant what pieces are involved,Chess_12,file provided both squares are unoccupied or it may move to a square occupied by an opponent s piece which is diagonally in front of it on an adjacent file capturing that piece the pawn has two special moves the en passant capture and pawn promotion pawns can optionally move two squares forward instead of one on their first move only they capture diagonally black x s they cannot capture with their normal move black circles pawns are also involved in the special move called en passant section one point three castling once in every game each king is allowed to make a special move known as castling castling consists of moving the king two squares along the first rank toward a rook which is on the player s first rank and then placing the rook on the last square the king has just crossed castling is permissible only
triviaqa-sfq_21874,what name is given to a word or phrase in a computer document that can be clicked on in order to move to a related document,Markup_language_13,virtue of descriptive markup is considered to be its flexibility if the fragments of text are labeled as to what they are as opposed to how they should be displayed software may be written to process these fragments in useful ways not anticipated by the designers of the languages for example html s hyperlinks originally designed for activation by a human following a link are also widely used by web search engines both in discovering new material to index and in estimating the popularity of web resources descriptive markup also facilitates the simpler task of reformatting a document as needed because the
triviaqa-bb_92,fide federation internationale des echecs is the world federation of which activity,Chess_92,competitive play section seven point one organization of competitions contemporary chess is an organized sport with structured international and national leagues tournaments and congresses chess s international governing body is fide federation internationale des echecs most countries have a national chess organization as well such as the us chess federation and english chess federation which in turn is a member of fide fide is a member of the international olympic committee but the game of chess has never been part of the olympic games chess does have its own olympiad held every two years as a team event the current world chess champion is viswanathan anand of india
triviaqa-bb_7609,what is the name of the assembly of cardinals for the election of a pope,Catholic_Church_16,holy see the position of cardinal is a rank of honour bestowed by popes on certain ecclesiastics such as leaders within the roman curia bishops serving in major cities and distinguished theologians for advice and assistance in governing the pope may turn to the college of cardinals following the death or resignation of a pope members of the college of cardinals who are under age eighty meet in the sistine chapel in rome to elect a successor although this election known as a papal conclave can
triviaqa-wh_3330,jupiter saturn and uranus are three of the so called gas giants in our solar system what is the fourth,Saturn_2,after jupiter saturn along with jupiter uranus and neptune is classified as a gas giant together these four planets are sometimes referred to as the jovian meaning jupiter like planets saturn is named after the roman god saturn equated to the greek kronos the titan father of zeus the babylonian ninurta and to the hindu shani saturn s symbol represents the god s sickle unicode the planet saturn is composed of hydrogen with small proportions of helium and trace elements the interior consists of a small core of rock and ice surrounded by a thick layer of metallic hydrogen and a gaseous outer layer the outer atmosphere is generally bland in appearance although long lived features can appear wind speeds on saturn can reach one thousand eight hundred k m forward slash h significantly faster than those on jupiter saturn has a planetary
triviaqa-jp_4376,what slippery synthetic substance was ronald reagan compared to because no scandals stuck to him,Ronald_Reagan_202,but i communicated great things his age and soft spoken speech gave him a warm grandfatherly image reagan also earned the nickname the teflon president in that public perceptions of him were not tarnished by the controversies that arose during his administration according to congresswoman patricia schroeder who coined the phrase and reporter howard kurtz the epithet referred to reagan s ability to do almost anything wrong and not get blamed for it public reaction to reagan was always mixed the oldest president
triviaqa-bb_8494,hepatic relates to which organ of the human body,Zinc_93,zinc is in the brain muscle bones kidney and liver with the highest concentrations in the prostate and parts of the eye semen is particularly rich in zinc which is a key factor in prostate gland function and reproductive organ growth in humans zinc plays ubiquitous biological roles it interacts with a wide range of organic ligands and has roles in the metabolism of rna and dna signal transduction and gene expression it also regulates apoptosis a two thousand six study estimated that about
triviaqa-tc_1944,aung san suu kyi is a controversial leader in which country,Hillary_Clinton_157,protections of gays abroad the same period saw her overcome internal administration opposition with a direct appeal to obama and stage the first visit to burma by a u s secretary of state since nineteen hundred fifty five as she met with burmese leaders as well as opposition leader aung san suu kyi and sought to support the twenty eleven burmese democratic reforms during the syrian civil war clinton and the obama administration initially sought to persuade syrian president bashir al assad to engage popular
triviaqa-tb_957,the hypothetical jireek line divides what region of the world now a byword for fragmentation into latin influenced and greek influenced regions,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_25,and entered phaleron bay piraeus greece the following day for an overwhelming welcome by greek government officials and citizens she had arrived in a year when there were ominous russian overtures and activities in the entire balkan area greece had become the scene of a communist inspired civil war as russia sought every possible extension of soviet influence throughout the mediterranean region demands were made that turkey grant the soviets a base of seapower in the dodecanese islands and joint control of the turkish straits leading from the black sea into the mediterranean the voyage of missouri to the eastern mediterranean comforted
triviaqa-bt_1047,which was the second british motorway,M62_motorway_17,twenty six m long cantilevers and scammonden bridge often called the longest single span non suspension bridge in britain which carries a b road one hundred twenty feet thirty seven m above the motorway the mile long section between pole moor and outlane suffered fewer problems with the summer weather being satisfactory concurrently a section of the motorway was being built between gildersome and lofthouse resulting in the demolition of a significant proportion of the village of tingley to build the eponymous interchange section one point two point five between the m one and a one two
triviaqa-odql_2368,verdigris is a green deposit that develops on which metallic element when exposed to air or seawater,Silver_2,in place of copper for electrical purposes pure silver also has the highest thermal conductivity whitest color the highest optical reflectivity although it is a poor reflector of ultraviolet and the lowest contact resistance of any metal silver halides are photosensitive and are remarkable for the effect of light upon them this metal is stable in pure air and water but does tarnish when it is exposed to ozone hydrogen sulfide or air with sulfur in it the most common oxidation state of silver is plus one a few plus two compounds are known as well section two applications the principal
triviaqa-sfq_2521,in which african country is mount kilimanjaro,Zanzibar_women%27s_national_football_team_5,or other caf sanctioned events aziza mwadini and sabai yusuf are two zanzibar based players who have participated in a tanzanian national team training camp as of twenty eleven mohammed remained the team s head coach zanzibar football association founded in nineteen hundred twenty six is recognised by the council for east and central africa football associations but not by fifa despite repeated attempts for such recognition the federation is an member of the confederation of african football and the national team is limited in their ability to compete in sanctioned events by these organisations zanzibar were meant to play in the
triviaqa-qw_14972,what colour cat is a russian blue,Northern_pintail_10,grey feathers with black central stripes are draped across the back from the shoulder area the vent area is yellow contrasting with the black underside of the tail which has the central feathers elongated to as much as ten centimetres four in the bill is bluish and the legs are blue grey the adult female is mainly scalloped and mottled in light brown with a more uniformly grey brown head and its pointed tail is shorter than the male s it is still easily identified by its shape long
triviaqa-qw_8487,what separates wales from devon england,Exmoor_11,of special scientific interest another tributary the river haddeo flows from the wimbleball lake the other rivers arising on exmoor flow north to the bristol channel these include the river heddon which runs along the western edges of exmoor reaching the north devon coast at heddon s mouth and the east and west lyn which meet at lynmouth hoar oak water is a moorland tributary of the east lyn river the confluence being at watersmeet the river horner which is also known as horner water rises near luccombe and flows into porlock bay near hurlestone point section two
triviaqa-sfq_5366,at the london olympics two thousand twelve which events will take place at lords,Olympic_flame_25,an archer who competed in the paralympic games nineteen hundred ninety four winter olympics crown prince haakon of norway both his father and grandfather took part in the olympics nineteen hundred ninety six summer olympics muhammad ali the boxer who then still under the name cassius clay won olympic gold in nineteen hundred sixty nineteen hundred ninety eight winter olympics midori ito figure skater winner of olympic silver in nineteen hundred ninety two two thousand summer olympics cathy freeman a track and field athlete she won the gold medal in the four hundred m at these olympics
triviaqa-odql_3569,what was the name of the american president played by martin sheen in the tv series the west wing,The_West_Wing_1,of the oval office and offices of presidential senior staff during the fictional democratic administration of josiah bartlet played by martin sheen the west wing was produced by warner bros television it first aired on n b c in nineteen hundred ninety nine and has been broadcast by many networks in dozens of other countries the series ended its seven year run on may fourteen two thousand six the show received positive reviews from critics political science professors and former white house staffers in total the west wing won two golden globe awards
triviaqa-qw_6075,which river runs through the cities of basel strasbourg karlsruhe mainz koblenz bonn cologne dsseldorf arnhem utrecht and rotterdam,Neuschwanstein_Castle_13,changes to make them more picturesque palace building projects similar to neuschwanstein had been undertaken earlier in several of the german states and included hohenschwangau castle lichtenstein castle hohenzollern castle and numerous buildings on the river rhine such as stolzenfels castle the inspiration for the construction of neuschwanstein came from two journeys in eighteen hundred sixty seven minus one in may
triviaqa-qw_157,lead poisoning caused by increased levels of the metal lead in the blood that may cause irreversible neurological damage renal disease and reproductive toxicity is not also known in medical circles as,Death_erection_2,of urine of mucus or of the prostatic fluid is a frequent occurrence present in one case in three other causes of death may also result in these effects including fatal gunshot wounds to the brain major blood vessels or violent death by poisoning and forensically a postmortem priapism is an indicator that death was likely swift and violent section two cultural references samuel beckett s waiting for godot includes a passage in act i
triviaqa-qz_5039,who was the sixteen th president of the usaassasinated in eighteen sixty five ,Black_Seminoles_22,by eighteen hundred thirty eight u s general thomas sydney jesup succeeded in separating the interests of the black and seminole warriors by offering security and promises of freedom to the blacks his act was the only emancipation of rebellious african americans prior to the emancipation of the southern slaves by president abraham lincoln in eighteen hundred sixty three
triviaqa-sfq_19014,who composed the war requiem,Henry_Purcell_22,is among the baroque composers who has had a direct influence on modern rock and roll according to pete townshend of the who purcell was among his influences particularly evident in the opening bars of the who s pinball wizard the title song from the sound track of the film a clockwork orange is from purcell s music for the funeral of queen mary purcell also had a strong influence on the composers of the english musical renaissance of the early twentieth century most notably benjamin britten who created and performed a realisation of dido and aeneas and whose young person s guide to the orchestra is based on a theme from purcell s abdelazar
triviaqa-wh_817,who is the greek god of war,Greek_mythology_50,of the god sometimes thought to be already ancient during the classical epoch of greece most gods were associated with specific aspects of life for example aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty ares was the god of war hades the god of the dead and athena the goddess of wisdom and courage some deities such as apollo and dionysus revealed complex personalities and mixtures of functions
triviaqa-qw_3959,rapidly boiling a liquid to make it thicker and more concentrated is called what,Yttrium_51,reduce collateral nerve and tissue damage whilst the erbium doped ones are starting to be used in cosmetic skin resurfacing section four point five superconductors yttrium was used in the yttrium barium copper oxide yba two cu three o seven aka ybco or one two three superconductor developed at the university of alabama and the university of houston in nineteen hundred eighty seven this superconductor operated at ninety three k notable because this is above liquid nitrogen s boiling point
triviaqa-sfq_4394,in nineteen sixty five which american pop group whose original members include the legendary david crosby had a noone hit with the bob dylan song mr tambourine man,Bob_Dylan_20,many of his most famous early songs first reached the public through more immediately palatable versions by other performers such as joan baez who became dylan s advocate as well as his lover baez was influential in bringing dylan to national and international prominence by recording several of his early songs and inviting him onstage during her own concerts others who recorded and had hits with dylan s songs in the early and mid one nine hundred sixties included the b y r d s sonny and cher the hollies peter paul and mary manfred mann and the turtles most attempted to impart a pop feel and rhythm to the songs while dylan and baez performed them mostly as sparse folk pieces the cover versions became so ubiquitous that c b s started to promote him with the tag nobody
triviaqa-sfq_17918,according to the old testament of the bible who was the brother of moses,The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_30,aaronic priesthood and the melchizedek priesthood the aaronic priesthood also called the levitical priesthood is considered to be a lesser priesthood tracing its roots to aaron the brother of moses through john the baptist joseph smith jr and oliver cowdery said that they received this priesthood on may fifteen eighteen hundred twenty nine when they were ordained by john the baptist in eighteen hundred thirty five smith and cowdery clarified that this authority was the aaronic or levitical priesthood the melchizedek priesthood or the holy priesthood after the order of the son of god is recognized as a higher order of priesthood or the high priesthood and traces its roots to melchizedek who was such a great high priest
triviaqa-wh_1355,in which sea are the cayman islands,Monkey_Island_(series)_5,until the announcement of tales of monkey island by telltale games in early two thousand nine much of the music of the games is composed by michael land the score largely consists of dub minus and reggae inspired music the series also tends to break the fourth wall as several of the characters acknowledge that they are in a video game section one point one setting each of the games takes place on fictional islands in the caribbean the time period in which they take place is around the golden age of piracy sometime during the eighteenth century the islands teem
triviaqa-sfq_2505,in which city is the majority of shakespeares romeo and juliet set,William_Shakespeare_54,in titus andronicus in the view of some critics often hold up the action for example and the verse in two gentlemen of verona has been described as stilted soon however shakespeare began to adapt the traditional styles to his own purposes the opening soliloquy of richard iii has its roots in the self declaration of vice in medieval drama at the same time richard s vivid self awareness looks forward to the soliloquies of shakespeare s mature plays no single play marks a change from the traditional to the freer style shakespeare combined the two throughout his career with romeo and juliet perhaps the best example of the mixing of the
triviaqa-wh_1982,on this day november six th one thousand nine hundred twenty four who was elected as british prime minister,George_Lansbury_74,in may nineteen hundred twenty three the conservative prime minister andrew bonar law resigned for health reasons in december his successor stanley baldwin called another election in which the
triviaqa-jp_1149,what bird organ contains stones for grinding up food,Dinosaur_53,tucked under their arms twenty one this would allow the head to be kept warm as is shown by modern birds gizzard another piece of evidence that birds and dinosaurs are closely connected is that both birds and dinosaurs have used gizzard stones the stones are swallowed by the animal to aid digestion and break down hard fibres and food once it enters the stomach when found in association with fossils they are called gastroliths paleontologists use the stones found in the dinosaur s stomach to determine migration routes for example the stone could have been swallowed at a certain point before being carried to another
triviaqa-odql_7145,prince charles has three other christian names one is philip name either of the others,George_VI_9,impatience to see the new one born on such a sad day but rather more dear to me especially as he will be called by that dear name which is a byword for all that is great and good consequently he was baptised albert frederick arthur george at saint mary magdalene s church near sandringham three months later a as a great grandson of queen victoria he was known formally as his highness prince albert of york from birth within the family he was known informally as bertie
triviaqa-sfq_7589,what was the name of the older brother of henry eight th,Cleveland_Street_scandal_9,who had consequently escaped to his brother s house in gravesend section two notable clients on the way to the police station newlove named lord arthur somerset and henry fitzroy earl of euston both of whom were dukes sons as well as an army colonel by the name of jervois as visitors to cleveland street somerset was the head of the prince of wales s stables although somerset was interviewed by police no immediate action was taken against him and the authorities were slow to act on the allegations of somerset s involvement a watch was placed
triviaqa-sfq_2718,what electrical property the reciprocal of resistivity has the si units siemens per metre,Heike_Kamerlingh_Onnes_7,large at absolute zero others including kamerlingh onnes felt that a conductor s electrical resistance would steadily decrease and drop to nil augustus matthiessen pointed out when the temperature decreases the metal conductivity usually improves or in other words the electrical resistivity usually decreases with a decrease of temperature on eight april nineteen hundred eleven kamerlingh onnes found that at four point two k the resistance in a solid mercury wire immersed in liquid helium suddenly vanished he immediately realized the significance of the discovery
triviaqa-qz_2908,what public school did the duke of edinburgh and prince charles attend,Prince_Harry_7,like his father and brother harry was educated at independent schools he started at jane mynors nursery school and the pre preparatory wetherby school both in london following this he attended ludgrove school and after passing the entrance exams was admitted to eton college where he studied geography art history and art at a level the decision to place harry at eton went against the windsor family tradition of sending children to gordonstoun harry s grandfather father two uncles and two cousins all attended it did make harry follow in the
triviaqa-sfq_23388,which country is bordered by cambodia and laos to the west and china to the north,Transport_in_Laos_11,the laotian ministry of transportation entered into discussion with vietnam to discuss the possibility of opening a new railway line from thakhek in laos through the m gi pass to tan p railway station in vietnam s qung binh province on the north south railway the proposed line would continue to the coast at vung ang a port in ha tnh province which would provide landlocked laos with access to the south china sea according to plans established by asean the
triviaqa-qw_1367,in the nursery rhyme who put in his thumb and pulled out a plum,Jack_Sheppard_5,was notorious for the presence of highwaymen and for being a tremendously economically depressed area and so it is clear that his family was impoverished he was baptised on five march the day after he was born at saint dunstan s stepney suggesting a fear of infant mortality by his parents perhaps because the newborn was weak or sickly his parents named him after an older brother john who had died before his birth in life he was better known as jack or even gentleman jack or jack the lad he
triviaqa-qb_4528,in which country was the two thousand six fifa world cup held,Chris_Moyles_18,zero in the two thousand eight league one play off final during the two thousand six fifa world cup in germany chris organised a parody of england world cup songs to ridicule the number of songs there were out at the time listener favourite jose minus the special one a parody of rose by the feeling was written on team manager jose mourinho s departure from chelsea and was banned after chelsea f c complained to the bbc although subsequently played repeatedly on his show and on radio five live he made a parody of we have got to zero baby a take on enrique
triviaqa-bt_2674,who is universally accepted to be the first roman emperor twenty seven bc,Saint_Peter_4,nero augustus caesar it is traditionally held that he was crucified upside down at his own request since he saw himself unworthy to be crucified in the same way as jesus christ catholic tradition holds that saint peter s site of crucifixion is located in the clementine chapel while his mortal bones and remains are contained in the underground confessio of saint peter s basilica where pope paul vi announced the excavated discovery of a first century roman cemetery in nineteen hundred sixty eight every
triviaqa-dpql_5704,to which greek goddess was the parthenon on the acropolis in athens dedicated,Greek_mythology_50,of the god sometimes thought to be already ancient during the classical epoch of greece most gods were associated with specific aspects of life for example aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty ares was the god of war hades the god of the dead and athena the goddess of wisdom and courage some deities such as apollo and dionysus revealed complex personalities and mixtures of functions
triviaqa-qb_5582,what was the name of the first wife of former british prime minister margaret thatchers husband denis,Ronald_Reagan_192,cold war role he was a man who was instrumental in bringing about the end of the cold war and deemed him a great president gorbachev does not acknowledge a win or loss in the war but rather a peaceful end he said he was not intimidated by reagan s harsh rhetoric margaret thatcher former prime minister of the united kingdom said of reagan he warned that the soviet union had an insatiable drive for military power but he also sensed it was being eaten away by systemic failures impossible to
triviaqa-qw_6622,what is the only country in the southern hemisphere to have won a gold medal in the winter olympics,Adrian_Lowe_0,adrian lowe adrian lowe is a paralympic athletics competitor from australia he won a pair of gold medal at the nineteen hundred eighty eight seoul games in the men s four x one zero zero m relay a two a four seven event and the men s four x four zero zero m relay a two a four seven event he won a trio of silver medals in the men s one hundred m a four a nine event the men s two hundred m a four a nine event and the men s
triviaqa-odql_2412,in which us city did the two thousand four remake of the film alfie take place,Fritz_the_Cat_(film)_1,the film was the first animated feature film to receive an x rating in the united states it focuses on fritz voiced by skip hinnant an anthropomorphic feline in the mid one nine hundred sixties who seduces many female animals in new york city while staying one step ahead of the law the film is a satire focusing on american college life of the era race relations the free love movement and left and right wing politics fritz the cat was the first independent animated film to gross more than one hundred dollars million at the box office fritz the cat had a troubled production history
triviaqa-qw_8371,in germany what is an autobahn,Munich_145,the trade fair transport logistic is held every two years at the neue messe munchen messe munchen international section twelve point four individual transportation munich is an integral part of the motorway network of southern germany motorways from stuttgart w nuremberg frankfurt and berlin n deggendorf and passau e salzburg and innsbruck se garmisch partenkirchen s and lindau s w terminate at munich allowing direct access to the different parts of germany
triviaqa-odql_257,which collection of poems did william blake publish in seventeen ninety four as a sequel to his earlier collection songs of innocence,Song_of_Innocence_1,hundred sixty eight by capitol records axelrod sought to capitalize on the experimental climate of popular music at the time and composed the album as a suite like tone poem based on songs of innocence a seventeen hundred eighty nine illustrated collection of poems by william blake it was recorded at capitol studios in los angeles with an orchestra and studio musicians including keyboardist and conductor don randi guitarist al casey bassist carol kaye and drummer earl palmer song of innocence is an instrumental jazz fusion album that incorporates elements of classical rock funk pop and theatre music it is arranged for bass drums and string instruments and is
triviaqa-sfq_19073,julia gillard became the first female prime minister of which country,Robert_Garran_13,involved with the work of edmund barton who would later be the first prime minister of australia but at the time was the de facto leader of the federation movement in new south wales as sir henry parkes declined into poor health garran along with others such as atlee hunt worked essentially as secretaries to barton s federation campaign drafting correspondence and planning meetings at one late night meeting planning a speech barton was to give in the sydney suburb of ashfield barton coined the phrase for the first time
triviaqa-sfq_22208,former tennis player vijay armitrage apears in which james bond film,RAF_Northolt_4,eastward on the busy adjacent a four zero western avenue the aircraft was carrying an actress needing to reach the nearby pinewood studios in buckinghamshire presumably because of its proximity to pinewood the airfield has been used to represent several more exotic locations in feature films such as in the pre title sequence of the james bond film octopussy in which it represented a cuban style airfield media attention was also high when a seriously ill villain ronald biggs was flown here and arrested and when the body of diana princess of wales was flown here from villacoublay airfield in paris france after her death in that city raf
triviaqa-wh_4018,which major computer language shares its name with an indonesian island,Java_(software_platform)_4,available under the gnu general public license g p l table of contents section one platform an edition of the java platform is the name for a bundle of related programs from sun that allow for developing and running programs written in the java programming language the platform is not specific to any one processor or operating system
triviaqa-qw_16469,one of the oldest known board games involves a grid of thirty squares and sets of pawns figured in a one thousand nine hundred ninety nine video game and is called what,Backgammon_1,share common traits backgammon is a member of the tables family one of the oldest classes of board games in the world although luck plays an important role there is a large scope for strategy with each roll of the dice a player must choose from numerous options for moving his pieces and anticipate possible counter moves by the opponent players may raise the stakes during the game there is an established repertory of common tactics and occurrences like chess backgammon has been studied with great interest by computer scientists owing to this research backgammon software has been developed capable of beating world class human players table of contents section one history the ancient egyptian game senet resembled backgammon with moves controlled by the roll of dice however the royal game of ur played
triviaqa-qf_1650,in nineteen sixty seven who was the first dj on radio one ,Chris_Moyles_11,figure is now over eleven million on twelve may two thousand eight the chris moyles breakfast show won its second sony radio gold award for best breakfast show at this time he was given another half hour on his show going from seven am minus one zero am to six three zero am minus one zero am in april two thousand nine moyles agreed to a one year extension to his contract taking him to july twenty ten on seven september two thousand nine moyles became radio one s longest serving breakfast presenter breaking the record previously set by tony blackburn section two
triviaqa-odql_13058,what was the name of the us space shuttle that exploded on take off in nineteen eighty six killing all seven crew members,Ronald_Reagan_127,now strongly urged to cancel the visit the president responded that it would be wrong to back down on a promise he had made to chancellor kohl he ultimately attended the ceremony where two military generals laid a wreath the disintegration of the space shuttle challenger on january twenty eight nineteen hundred eighty six proved a pivotal moment in reagan s presidency all seven astronauts aboard were killed on the night of the disaster reagan delivered a speech written by peggy noonan in which he said
triviaqa-qb_3510,who was the only british prime minister to hold office during the reign of king edward viii,George_VI_2,he married lady elizabeth bowes lyon in nineteen hundred twenty three and they had two daughters elizabeth and margaret george s elder brother ascended the throne as edward viii upon the death of their father in nineteen hundred thirty six however later that year edward revealed his desire to marry the divorced american socialite wallis simpson british prime minister stanley baldwin advised edward that for political and religious reasons he could not marry a divorced woman and remain king edward abdicated in order to marry and george
triviaqa-sfq_12963,which european countrys flag is a blue cross on a white background,Swastika_70,the blue swastika was the good luck symbol used by the swedish count erich von rosen who donated the first plane to the finnish white army during the civil war in finland it has no connection to the nazi use of the swastika it also still appears in many finnish medals and decorations in a visually understated manner the swedish company asea now a part of
triviaqa-odql_4044,which singer actress played evita in the one thousand nine hundred ninety six film of that name,Julie_Brown_8,brown was given her own sketch comedy show on fox called the edge but unfortunately its quirky humor didnt have a mass appeal and it was soon cancelled although two regulars she cast jennifer aniston and wayne knight went on to greater success in other television comedies that same year she released the showtime television movie medusa dare to be truthful a scathing satire of celebrity madonna and her documentary film truth or dare it was hailed by critics as a comedic triumph julie followed its success with another satire film attack of the five ft two women which lampooned tonya harding and
triviaqa-qw_1812,what is too much money chasing too few goods,Gold_standard_33,later expressed in the bretton woods agreement section three point seven post war international gold standard nineteen hundred forty six to nineteen hundred seventy one section four theory the theory of the gold standard rests on the idea that inflation is caused by an increase in the supply of money an idea advocated by david hume and that uncertainty over the future purchasing power of currency depresses business confidence and leads to reduced trade and capital investment section four point
triviaqa-sfq_22467,in which decade was the english league cup first contested,American_football_24,the new york giants that is still referred to as the greatest game ever played the game a twenty three to seventeen overtime victory by the colts was seen by millions of television viewers and had a major impact on the popularity of the sport this helped football to become the most popular sport in the united states by the mid one nine hundred sixties a rival the american football league afl arose in nineteen hundred sixty and challenged the nfl s dominance the afl began in relative obscurity but survived for several years due to a television contract with the abc network
triviaqa-odql_2473,in a shakespeare play lancelot gobbo is whose servant,William_Shakespeare_30,of his greatest comedies a midsummer night s dream is a witty mixture of romance fairy magic and comic low life scenes shakespeare s next comedy the equally romantic the merchant of venice contains a portrayal of the vengeful jewish moneylender shylock which reflected elizabethan views but may appear racist to modern audiences the wit and wordplay of much ado about nothing the charming rural setting of as you like it and the lively merrymaking of twelfth night complete shakespeare s sequence of great comedies after the lyrical richard ii written almost entirely in verse shakespeare introduced prose comedy into the histories
triviaqa-qw_11270,in june two thousand ten eight highly endangered monkeys four cottontop tamarins and four pygmy marmosets were stolen from the symbio wildlife park in which country,Fauna_of_Australia_15,these rare blind earless carnivores spend most of their time underground little is known about them the marsupial omnivores include the bandicoots and bilbies order peramelemorphia there are seven species in australia most of which are endangered these small creatures share several characteristic physical features a plump arch backed body with a long delicately tapering snout large upright ears long thin legs and a thin tail the evolutionary origin of this group is unclear but they share characteristics from both carnivorous and herbivorous marsupials the
triviaqa-tc_2031,which european town gave its name to a treaty which symbolizes closer economic links between european countries,European_Economic_Community_19,began the longest application process for any country with the prospect of further enlargement and a desire to increase areas of company operation the single european act was signed by the foreign ministers on the seventeen and twenty eight february nineteen hundred eighty six in luxembourg and the hague respectively in a single document it dealt with reform of institutions extension of powers foreign policy cooperation and the single market it came into force on one july nineteen hundred eighty seven the act was followed by work on what would be the maastricht treaty which was agreed on ten december nineteen hundred ninety one
triviaqa-dpql_1280,in the year one thousand eight hundred who was king of great britain and king of ireland,Hereditary_peer_43,nonetheless the house of commons rejected the bill two hundred sixty nine to one hundred seventy seven george iii was especially profuse with the creation of titles mainly due to the desire of some of his prime ministers to obtain a majority in the house of lords during his twelve years in power lord north had about thirty new peerages created during william pitt the younger s seventeen year tenure over one hundred and forty new peerages had been awarded in eighteen hundred one parliament did impose a restriction on the creation of peerages but only in the peerage of ireland under the eighteen hundred one act of union
triviaqa-odql_4439,what was the first name of queen victoria,Queen_Victoria_22,i was awoke at six oclock by mamma who told me the archbishop of canterbury and lord conyngham were here and wished to see me i got out of bed and went into my sitting room only in my dressing gown and alone and saw them lord conyngham then acquainted me that my poor uncle the king was no more and had expired at twelve minutes past two this morning and consequently that i am queen official documents prepared on the first day of her reign described her as alexandrina victoria but the first name was withdrawn at her own wish and not used again
triviaqa-sfq_20110,who was the mother of queen mary one st of england,Peterborough_79,front was originally founded as a monastery in ad six hundred fifty five and re built in its present form between eleven eighteen and twelve thirty eight it has been the seat of the bishop of peterborough since the diocese was created in fifteen forty one peterborough cathedral is known for its imposing early english gothic west front which with its three enormous arches is without architectural precedent and with no direct successor the cathedral has the distinction of having had two queens buried beneath its paving katherine of aragon and mary queen of scots the remains of queen mary were later removed to westminster abbey by her son james i when he became king of
triviaqa-tc_1735,how many of his forty five races did mike hawthorn a former formula one motor racing world champion win,1994_San_Marino_Grand_Prix_17,and four laps later berger retired from the race with handling problems larini briefly took the lead as schumacher pitted but the order was restored when larini took his own pit stop ten laps from the finish the rear right wheel came loose from michele alboreto s minardi as it left the pit lane leaving two ferrari and two lotus mechanics needing hospital treatment michael schumacher won the race ahead of nicola larini and mika hakkinen giving him a maximum thirty points after three rounds of the nineteen hundred ninety four formula one season it was the only podium finish of larini s career and the first of just two occasions when he obtained world championship points at the podium
triviaqa-wh_1787,what was the name of the jester in shakespeares as you like it,William_Shakespeare_42,the ghosts fall on their knees the actors in shakespeare s company included the famous richard burbage william kempe henry condell and john heminges burbage played the leading role in the first performances of many of shakespeare s plays including richard iii hamlet othello and king lear the popular comic actor will kempe played the servant peter in romeo and juliet and dogberry in much ado about nothing among other characters he was replaced around the turn of the sixteenth century by robert armin who played roles such as touchstone in as you like it and the fool in king lear in sixteen hundred thirteen sir henry
triviaqa-qb_7625,the two thousand two film we were soldiers is set in which war,Shoe_polish_13,many using fictional figures and historical characters shoe polish was to be found just about everywhere allied troops ventured american war correspondent walter graeber wrote for time magazine from the tobruk trenches in nineteen hundred forty two that old tins of british made kiwi polish lay side by side with empty bottles of chianti eleven a story indicative of the rise in global significance of shoe polish is told by jean gertrude williams a new zealander who lived in japan during the allied occupation straight after world war ii american soldiers were then finding the dullness of their boots
triviaqa-odql_512,what colour is the square which contains a white star on the flag of chile,Eureka_Rebellion_20,to openly resist the authorities and burn the hated licences a confrontation appeared unavoidable most notably the eureka flag a blue flag designed by a canadian miner captain henry ross and bearing nothing but the southern cross was flown for the first recorded time as a gesture of defiance it deliberately excluded the british union flag which appears on the official flag of australia the original eureka flag is now housed at the ballarat fine art gallery at the meeting on bakery hill miners swore an oath of allegiance
triviaqa-qb_7845,in politics and economics what wednesday refers to sixteen th september one thousand nine hundred ninety two when the british government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the european rate mechanism after they were unable to keep it above its agreed lower limit,Black_5,connotations to color metaphors for race a black day in these cultures would refer to a sad or tragic day the romans already marked fasti days with white stones and nefasti days with black e g the black september in jordan refers to a month in which thousands were killed black monday stock crash of october nineteen nineteen hundred eighty seven black tuesday is the day of the stock market crash in nineteen hundred twenty nine which is the start of the great depression black wednesday caused britain to pull out of the erm black
triviaqa-odql_1628,which are the only two colours to appear on the flags of ukraine and palau,S%c3%a1pmi_5,hundred seventy six fjellner described the sami as sons and daughters of the sun the flag s circle represents the sun red and the moon blue the flag has the sami colours red green yellow and blue pantone colour formula is red four eight five c green three five six c yellow one one six c and blue two eight six c section three area the area covered by lapland lies mostly north of the arctic circle the western portion is an area of fiords deep valleys glaciers and mountains the highest point being mount kebnekaise
triviaqa-jp_1299,what type of rock is formed from lava,Chrysoberyl_7,or opalescence that reminds one of an eye of a cat when cut to produce a cabochon the mineral forms a light green specimen with a silky band of light extending across the surface of the stone table of contents section one occurrence chrysoberyl forms as a result of pegmatitic processes melting in the earth s crust produces relatively low density molten magma which can rise upwards towards the surface as the main magma body cools water originally present in low concentrations became more concentrated in the molten rock because it could not be incorporated into the crystallization of solid minerals the remnant magma thus becomes richer in water and also in rare elements that similarly do not fit in the crystal structures of major rock forming minerals the water extends the temperature range downwards before the magma becomes completely solid allowing concentration of rare elements to proceed so far that they produce their own distinctive minerals the resulting rock igneous in appearance but formed at a low temperature
triviaqa-odql_1462,the atwo connects london to which other town or city,Sheerness_38,rail company the line connects sheerness with the town of sittingbourne six miles ten k m south on the mainland of kent sittingbourne is on the chatham main line which connects london with ramsgate and dover in east kent train journeys from sheerness on sea to london victoria take one hour forty five minutes the arriva transport company operates bus routes reaching most of the island as well as sittingbourne maidstone and chatham the a two four nine road terminates at sheerness running from maidstone via sittingbourne the road crosses the m two motorway near sittingbourne and the m two zero motorway near maidstone no passenger ferry
triviaqa-qw_540,what latin phrase means unaccompanied when applied to music,Choir_3,accompaniment singing without accompaniment is typically called a cappella singing although this usage is discouraged by the choral journal the publication of american choral directors association one when singing with instrumental accompaniment the accompanying instruments can consist of practically any instruments one several or a full orchestra for rehearsals a piano accompaniment is often used even if a different instrumentation is planned for performance or for a cappella music choirs can be categorized by
triviaqa-sfq_1529,on a computer keyboard you need to press shift and which number to produce the sign,Caesar_cipher_2,table of contents section one example the transformation can be represented by aligning two alphabets the cipher alphabet is the plain alphabet rotated left or right by some number of positions for instance here is a caesar cipher using a right rotation of three places the shift parameter here three is used as the key to encipher a message simply look up each letter of the message in the
triviaqa-qw_2399,the peaceful overthrow of the government in czechoslovakia in nineteen eighty nine was known as what,Eastern_Bloc_168,which had allowed travel to the west abolished provisions guaranteeing the ruling communist party its leading role president gustav husak appointed the first largely non communist government in czechoslovakia since nineteen hundred forty eight and resigned in what was called the velvet revolution romania had not had any de stalinization following growing public protests president nicolae ceauescu ordered a mass rally in his support outside communist party headquarters in bucharest but mass protests against ceauescu
triviaqa-bt_3512,what is the name of the wooden panelled lining applied to a room,Neuschwanstein_Castle_85,subsequent house chapel are the only rooms of the palace that remain in neo gothic style the king s bedroom is dominated by a huge bed adorned with carvings fourteen carvers worked more than four years on the bed canopy with its numerous pinnacles and on the oaken panelings it was in this room that
triviaqa-sfq_4770,who wrote much of king george vs first christmas broadcast made in nineteen thirty two ,George_V_58,hard to bear but people have been so kind and sympathetic and this has helped us much in may nineteen hundred twenty two the king toured belgium and northern france visiting the first world war cemeteries and memorials being constructed by the imperial war graves commission the event was described in a poem the king s pilgrimage by rudyard kipling the tour and one short visit to italy in nineteen hundred twenty three were the only times george agreed to leave the united kingdom on official business after the end of the war section five point three
triviaqa-bb_3474,aleph beth gimel daleth are a b c d in which language,Braille_26,which do not use the latin alphabet the blocks are generally assigned to the new alphabet according to how it is transliterated into the latin alphabet and the alphabetic order of the national script and therefore the natural order of latin braille is disregarded such is the case with russian greek hebrew arabic and chinese in greek for example gamma is written as latin g despite the fact that it has the alphabetic position of c hebrew beth the second letter of the alphabet and cognate with the latin letter b is
triviaqa-dpql_4814,which is the most southerly of the canadian provinces,Canada_63,in eastern canada the saint lawrence river widens into the gulf of saint lawrence the world s largest estuary which contains the island of newfoundland south of the gulf the canadian maritimes protrude eastward along the appalachian mountain range from northern new england and the gaspe peninsula of quebec new brunswick and nova scotia are divided by the bay of fundy which experiences the world s largest tidal variations ontario and hudson bay dominate central canada
triviaqa-qw_14324,what part of the body produces insulin,Menatetrenone_1,mk four is one of the nine forms of vitamin k two mk four is produced via conversion of vitamin k one in the body in the testes pancreas and arterial walls while major questions still surround the biochemical pathway for the transformation of vitamin k one to mk four studies demonstrate the conversion is not dependent on gut bacteria occurring in germ free rats and in
triviaqa-qw_11243,which country shares a five hundred thirty km border with saudi arabia on the west south and southeast a four hundred fifty km border with oman on the southeast and northeast and a smaller border with qatar in the northwest,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_30,a member of the organization of petroleum exporting countries opec saudi arabia had joined other member countries in moderate oil price increases beginning in nineteen hundred seventy one after the nineteen hundred seventy three war the price of oil rose substantially dramatically increasing saudi arabia s wealth and political influence the location and status of saudi arabia s boundary with the united arab emirates is not final a de facto boundary reflects a nineteen hundred seventy four agreement in nineteen hundred seventy five king faisal was assassinated by a nephew who was executed after an extensive investigation concluded that he acted alone faisal was succeeded by his half brother
triviaqa-wh_68,what is the equivalent royal navy rank to an air marshall in the raf,Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff_4,d j s who is a lieutenant general or navy vice admiral table of contents section one role and responsibilities after the nineteen hundred eighty six reorganization of the military undertaken by the goldwater nichols act the joint chiefs of staff does not have operational command of u s military forces responsibility for conducting military operations goes from the president to the secretary of defense directly to the commanders of the unified combatant commands and thus bypasses the joint chiefs of staff completely today their primary responsibility is to ensure the personnel readiness policy planning and training of their respective military services for the
triviaqa-qf_861,who was the star of the one thousand nine hundred forty satirical film the great dictator,Esperanto_92,charlie chaplin film the great dictator nineteen hundred forty showed jewish ghetto shop signs in esperanto to create the atmosphere of some foreign east european country without referencing any particular east european language road to singapore also nineteen hundred forty has a song in esperanto two full length feature films have been produced with dialogue entirely in esperanto angoroj in nineteen hundred sixty four and incubus a nineteen hundred sixty five b movie horror
triviaqa-qb_5157,who created the star wars series of films,Star_Wars%3a_Episode_II_%e2%80%93_Attack_of_the_Clones_3,two four frame system and the first star wars film to be internationally out grossed in the year of its original release spider man the lord of the rings the two towers and harry potter and the chamber of secrets had higher receipts table of contents section one production template spoiler the star wars saga was written by george lucas in the early nineteen hundred seventies as one large outline for six films in nineteen hundred ninety nine and two thousand lucas transformed his original treatment for episode ii into a screenplay with jonathan hales as company writer the film s subtitle was met with a negative response when it was first revealed
triviaqa-jp_845,what synthetic fiber is used in most bulletproof vests,Space_elevator_10,of sixty five to one hundred twenty gpa can be produced in bulk at a reasonable price by comparison most steel has a tensile strength of under one gpa and the strongest steels no more than five gpa but steel is heavy the much lighter material kevlar has a tensile strength of two point six four point one gpa while quartz fiber can reach upwards of twenty gpa the tensile strength of diamond filaments would theoretically be minimally higher carbon nanotubes appear to have a theoretical tensile strength and density that is well above the
triviaqa-qz_2873,which cartoon character lives in a pineapple under the sea,SpongeBob_SquarePants_4,make it the longest running show episode wise in nickelodeon s history surpassing rugrats table of contents section one characters spongebob squarepants is an extremely energetic and optimistic sea sponge although his appearance more closely resembles a kitchen sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea with his pet snail gary who meows like a cat although gary only speaks in a few episodes the characters have shown an ability to understand him living two houses down from spongebob is his best friend patrick star a dim witted yet friendly pink starfish who lives under a rock living between the two is squidward
triviaqa-odql_14979,a duodecennial event occurs every how many years,Sri_Mariamman_Temple%2c_Singapore_4,outside section three today once every twelve years in keeping with hindu tradition the temple is reconsecrated the unique annual fire walking ceremony is held about a week before deepavali the festival
triviaqa-sfq_4762,which writer is considered to have been the first to use the term cold war in articles in nineteen forty five and one thousand nine hundred forty six ,Cold_War_8,featuring themes of espionage and the threat of nuclear warfare table of contents section one origins of the term at the end of world war ii english author and journalist george orwell used cold war as a general term in his essay you and the atomic bomb published october nineteen nineteen hundred forty five in the british newspaper tribune contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear warfare orwell wrote in
triviaqa-qb_565,in humans a hemispherectomy is the removal of half of the what,Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth_13,if ninety per cent of the brain were inactive autopsy of adult brains would reveal large scale degeneration another evolutionary argument is that given the historical risk of death in childbirth associated with the large brain size and therefore skull size of humans there would be a strong selection pressure against such a large brain size if only ten per cent was actually in use in the october twenty seven twenty ten episode of mythbusters the hosts used magnetoencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brain of someone attempting a complicated mental task finding that well over
triviaqa-qw_186,what game created in nineteen four by a quaker elizabeth lizzie phillips when revised by charles darrow and others became one of the worlds most played commercial board games,SpongeBob_SquarePants_81,edition monopoly board game life and operation board
triviaqa-qz_1800,which act has had more christmas number one singles than any other,Roy_Orbison_10,to manage their first tour but his own schedule forced him to turn down what was to become an astounding success even as the british invasion swept america in nineteen hundred sixty four orbison s single oh pretty woman broke the beatles stranglehold on the top ten soaring to no one on the billboard charts the smash hit record sold more copies in its first ten days of release than any four five rpm up to that time and would go on to sell more than seven million copies in nineteen hundred sixty six orbison signed a contract with m g m records and starred in m g m studios western musical motion picture the fastest guitar alive in which he would perform several songs from an album of the same name
triviaqa-sfq_24379,the city of brest in modern day belarus was once known as brest litovsk site of the one thousand nine hundred eighteen treaty between soviet russia and the central powers for what present day country did the word litovsk refer,Klaip%c4%97da_Revolt_1,region memel territory memelland the region located north of the neman river was detached from the east prussia of the german empire by the treaty of versailles and became a mandate of the league of nations it was placed under provisional french administration until a more permanent solution could be worked out lithuania wanted to unite with the region part of lithuania minor due to its large lithuanian speaking minority of prussian lithuanians and major port of klaipda memel the only viable access to the baltic sea for lithuania as the conference of ambassadors favored leaving the region as a free city similar to the free city of danzig the lithuanians organized and staged the revolt presented as an uprising of the local population
triviaqa-wh_1412,which british king married mary of teck,George_V_0,george v george v george frederick ernest albert three june eighteen hundred sixty five minus twenty january nineteen hundred thirty six was king of the united kingdom and the british dominions and emperor of india from six may nineteen hundred ten until his death in nineteen hundred thirty six george was a grandson of queen victoria and prince albert and
triviaqa-qw_2806,who was president of france for over ten years from one thousand nine hundred fifty eight ,European_Economic_Community_13,their applications on eleven may nineteen hundred sixty seven and with georges pompidou succeeding charles de gaulle as french president in nineteen hundred sixty nine the veto was lifted negotiations began in nineteen hundred seventy under the pro european government of edward heath who had to deal with disagreements relating to the common agricultural policy and the uk s relationship with the commonwealth of nations nevertheless two years later the accession treaties were signed and all but norway acceded to the community norway rejected membership in a referendum from one january nineteen hundred seventy three eec membership was a controversial issue in the
triviaqa-qg_2585,august two one thousand nine hundred ninety saw iraq invading what country sparking a series of events that culminated in the one st gulf war,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_34,of the iran iraq war and aided iraq s war strained economy king fahd played a major part in bringing about the august nineteen hundred eighty eight cease fire between iraq and iran and in organizing and strengthening the gulf cooperation council g c c a group of six persian gulf states dedicated to fostering regional economic cooperation and peaceful development section nine nineteen hundred nineties in august nineteen hundred ninety saddam hussein s forces invaded kuwait iraqi troops began massing on the border of kuwait and some feared that they were about to invade saudi arabia king fahd allowed american and coalition soldiers to be
triviaqa-qw_13276,which us president was behind the indian removal act of one thousand eight hundred thirty which paved the way for the reluctant and often forcible emigration of tens of thousands of american indians to the west,John_Quincy_Adams_21,americans settlers on the frontier who were constantly seeking to move westward cried for a more expansionist policy when the federal government tried to assert authority on behalf of the cherokees the governor of georgia took up arms it was a sign of nullification that foreshadowed the secession of the southern states during the civil war adams defended his domestic agenda as continuing monroe s policies in contrast andrew jackson and martin van buren instigated the policy of indian removal to the west i e trail of tears citation needed section five point two foreign policies
triviaqa-bb_6707,which country occupying forty seven percent of south america has states including amazonas sao paulo bahia and para,Jaguar_40,from mexico through central america and into south america including much of amazonian brazil the countries included in this range are argentina belize bolivia brazil colombia costa rica particularly on the osa peninsula ecuador french guiana guatemala guyana honduras mexico nicaragua panama paraguay peru suriname united states and venezuela the jaguar is now extinct in el
triviaqa-bb_5220,what geographical feature means almost island,Trincomalee_1,is a port city on the east coast of sri lanka about one hundred ten miles northeast of kandy the city is built on a peninsula which divides the inner and outer harbours it is one of the main centers of tamil speaking culture on the island historically referred to as gokanna or gokarna it has been a sea port that has played a major role in maritime and
triviaqa-jp_3803,what is pariss largest airport,Munich_132,international airport iata muc icao eddm is the second largest airport in germany and seventh largest in europe after london heathrow paris charle de gaulle frankfurt amsterdam madrid and istanbul ataturk it is used by about thirty four million passengers a year and lies some thirty k m nineteen mi north east of the city centre it replaced the smaller munich riem airport in nineteen hundred ninety two the airport can be reached by suburban train lines s eight
triviaqa-qb_4801,in which european city was the one thousand nine hundred sixty eight eurovision song contest held,Jim_Henson_44,earlier two separate memorial services were held for henson one in new york city at the cathedral of saint john the divine and one in london england at saint paul s cathedral as per henson s wishes no one in attendance wore black and a dixieland jazz band finished the service by performing when the saints go marching in harry belafonte sang turn the world around a song he had debuted on the muppet show as each member of the audience waved with a puppeteer s rod an individual brightly colored foam butterfly later in what was one of the most touching moments of the
triviaqa-qb_870,fidel castro former president of cuba ordered which board game to be destroyed when he took power,SpongeBob_SquarePants_81,edition monopoly board game life and operation board
triviaqa-bb_1870,the inca people lived in which continent before conquest by the spanish,Culture_of_Aruba_1,people on the island in fact painted petrographs left behind on walls and the ceilings of caves to escavated ancient artifacts of the arawaks have been found in aruba precisely for this information many do in fact believe that the caiquetios people s of the arawak tribe that migrated north from the orinoco basin in south america were the very first inhabitants of the island although the spanish were in control of aruba for many years the eighty years war between spain and the netherlands soon gave the dutch the upper hand finally in sixteen hundred thirty six the spanish handed over the island to the dutch
triviaqa-odql_5141,which is britains oldest cathedral,Anne%2c_Queen_of_Great_Britain_43,crowned in the abbey the archbishop of canterbury is the traditional cleric in the coronation ceremony saint edward s chair the throne on which british sovereigns are seated at the moment of coronation is housed within the abbey section three burials and memorials henry iii rebuilt the abbey in honour of the royal
triviaqa-qg_808,what is the lowest level of the earths atmosphere,Comet_Shoemaker%e2%80%93Levy_9_35,its striking colour no spots of the size and darkness of those caused by the sl nine impacts have ever been recorded before spectroscopic observers found that ammonia and carbon sulfide persisted in the atmosphere for at least fourteen months after the collisions with a considerable amount of ammonia being present in the stratosphere as opposed to its normal location in the troposphere counterintuitively the atmospheric temperature dropped to normal levels much more quickly at the larger impact sites than at the smaller sites at the larger impact sites temperatures were elevated over a region
triviaqa-bb_9374,fremantle prison which was closed in nineteen ninety one and is now a heritage site is in which country,Fauna_of_Australia_71,cites agreement and prohibits the export of endangered species protected areas have been created in every state and territory to protect and preserve the country s unique ecosystems these protected areas include national parks and other reserves as well as sixty four wetlands registered under the ramsar convention and sixteen world heritage sites as of two thousand two ten point eight per cent seven hundred seventy four six hundred nineteen fifty one kmsquare of the total land area of australia is within protected areas
triviaqa-qb_1901,amarelo is portuguese for which colour,Green_and_golden_bell_frog_14,a creamy white or pale yellow stripe bordered above with gold and below with black extends from behind the eye across the tympanum to the groin this stripe rises to form a dorso lateral fold towards the groin another stripe of the same colour begins below the eye and continues to the shoulder the abdomen is cream or white and has a coarsely granular texture the legs are green bronze or a combination of both and the inside thigh and groin are blue green males develop a yellowish colouration to the vocal sac on the throat when mature the pupil is restricted to a horizontal slit
triviaqa-qg_3948,what is the name of the train station that services amtrak and sound transits sounder commuter train for the city of seattle,Sound_Transit_11,tacoma and seattle and two between everett and seattle sound transit will eventually run up to eighteen daily round trips from tacoma and four from everett to seattle once all trackwork is completed by b n s f railway they also plan on extending service to south tacoma and lakewood by twenty ten current and soon to open stations are everett station edmonds station mukilteo station king street station downtown seattle tukwila station kent station auburn station sumner station
triviaqa-dpql_560,which cartoon title character has a friend called captain haddock,The_Adventures_of_Tintin_1,the hero of the series is a young reporter and traveller named tintin aided by his faithful dog snowy captain haddock and a variety of colourful supporting characters the comic book series has long been admired for its clean yet expressive drawings executed in herge s signature ligne claire style their engaging plots and the painstaking research done while creating the later stories they straddle a variety of genres swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy mysteries political thrillers and science fiction all the titles in the tintin series include plenty of slapstick humour offset in later albums by dashes of sophisticated satire and
triviaqa-qw_257,in which country did juan domingo peron seize power in nineteen forty three become president and resign in nineteen fifty five ,British_Empire_138,as suez syndrome from which britain did not recover until the successful recapture of the falkland islands from argentina in nineteen hundred eighty two while the suez crisis caused british power in the middle east to weaken it did not collapse britain again deployed its armed forces to the region intervening in oman nineteen hundred fifty seven jordan nineteen hundred fifty eight and kuwait nineteen hundred sixty one though on these occasions with american approval as the new prime minister harold macmillan s foreign policy was to remain firmly aligned with the united
triviaqa-tb_1104,what is the only language that is historically african in origin among the six official working languages of the african union,Masala_chai_0,masala chai chai hindi cay or masala chai is a term for spiced tea from india chai pronounced forward slash t forward slash is actually a generic word for tea in many south asian countries and also in swahili an eastern african language where it was brought by indian merchants the chinese character for tea is pronounced in mandarin chinese as cha and is the source of words for tea in many eastern languages hence chai in central south and southwest asian languages as well as in eastern and central europe and north and east africa in the united states
triviaqa-jp_4099,the song sunday bloody sunday was about a massacre on which island,U2_75,on achtung baby zooropa and pop the two thousands had u two returning to a stripped down sound with a more traditional rhythm and less obvious use of synthesisers and effects citation needed section two point two lyrics and themes social and political commentary often embellished with christian and spiritual imagery are a major aspect of u two s lyrical content songs such as sunday bloody sunday silver and gold and mothers of the disappeared were motivated by current events of the time the former was written about the troubles in northern ireland
triviaqa-sfq_12324,who discovered the planet uranus,Asteroid_belt_9,in his anleitung zur kenntniss des gestirnten himmels english instruction for the knowledge of the starry heavens but did not credit titius until later editions it became known as bode s law when william herschel discovered uranus in seventeen hundred eighty one the planet s orbit matched the law almost perfectly leading astronomers to conclude that there had to be a planet between the orbits of mars and jupiter in eighteen hundred zero the astronomer baron franz xaver von zach recruited twenty four of his fellows into a club the vereinigte astronomische gesellschaft united astronomical society which he informally dubbed the
triviaqa-qw_1298,the navy from which country destroyed the russian fleet at port arthur after a number of attacks in nineteen four and one thousand nine hundred five ,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_15,her fleet again struck kyushu eight june then hit hard in a coordinated air surface bombardment before retiring towards leyte she arrived san pedro leyte thirteen june nineteen hundred forty five after almost three months of continuous operations in support of the okinawa campaign here she prepared to lead the third fleet in strikes at the heart of japan from within its home waters the mighty fleet set a northerly course eight july to approach the japanese mainland raids took tokyo by surprise ten july followed by more devastation at the juncture of honshu and hokkaido thirteen and fourteen july
triviaqa-bb_7221,where was the first british grand prix motor race held,Royal_Automobile_Club_5,rac was responsible for organising the first british grand prix motor race at brooklands surrey in nineteen hundred twenty six and also runs its sister organisation the msa formerly rac msa in nineteen hundred seventy eight during a re organisation the associate section was established as a separate company rac motoring services limited which was owned by the organisation in nineteen hundred ninety one the rac foundation was split off as the research arm of rac motoring services when rac
triviaqa-tc_1535,the naismith award is presented in which sport,Michael_Jordan_113,and set many records during his career the following are some of his achievements naismith memorial basketball hall of fame class of two thousand nine two olympic gold medals minus nineteen hundred eighty four nineteen hundred ninety two six nba champion six nba finals m v p five nba m v p ten nba scoring titles three steals leader three minutes leader fourteen nba all star selections three nba all star game m v p
triviaqa-qw_12905,where are st peters basilica and the sistine chapel,Pope_Anacletus_3,seventy seven to eighty eight according to tradition pope anacletus divided rome into twenty five parishes one of the few surviving records concerning his papacy mentions him as having ordained an uncertain number of priests section three burial he died and was buried next to his predecessor saint linus in saint peter s basilica in what is now vatican city his name as cletus is included in the roman canon of the mass section four veneration the tridentine calendar reserved
triviaqa-qz_6389,in vladimir nabokovs book lolita what is lolitas real name,Three_Laws_of_Robotics_35,it to be impossible doctor gerrigel uses the term asenion to describe robots programmed with the three laws the robots in asimov s stories being asenion robots are incapable of knowingly violating the three laws but in principle a robot in science fiction or in the real world could be non asenion asenion is a misspelling of the name asimov which was made by an editor of the magazine planet stories asimov used this obscure variation to insert himself into the caves of steel in much the same way that vladimir nabokov appeared in lolita
triviaqa-qw_12093,where is the european court of human rights,European_Economic_Community_45,the european community pillar covered the following areas section six see also brussels and the european union delors commission european commission european customs information portal ecip european institutions in strasbourg history of the european communities nineteen hundred fifty eight to nineteen hundred seventy two
triviaqa-bt_145,which musical instrument was jelly roll morton associated with,Elderly_Instruments_16,sitars musical saws and african thumb pianos some of the rarer instruments are purchased as collectibles for example elderly is an exclusive retailer of lunchbox a leles ukuleles made from various tin lunch box designs the journal bluegrass unlimited has noted elderly instruments for carrying elite brands of instruments such as paul duff mandolins huss and dalton acoustic guitars stelling banjos and nash electric guitars elderly was once one of only two american retailers for apitius mandolins now only
triviaqa-sfq_21194,batavia is the former name of which asian capital city,Durian_73,adrian pang likewise the oddly shaped esplanade building in singapore is often called the durian by locals and the big durian is the nickname of jakarta indonesia one of the names thailand contributed to the list of storm names for western north pacific tropical cyclones was durian which was retired after the second storm of this name in two thousand six being a fruit much loved by a variety of wild beasts the durian sometimes signifies the long forgotten
triviaqa-qg_848,star trek tos was cancelled in nineteen sixty nine after how many years on the air,Star_Trek_0,star trek star trek is an american science fiction entertainment series the original star trek was an american television series created by gene roddenberry which debuted in nineteen hundred sixty six and ran for three seasons following the interstellar adventures of captain james t kirk and the crew of the federation starship enterprise these adventures were continued in an animated
triviaqa-jp_1576,what buddhist monastery in china is famous for martial arts,Hong_Kong_action_cinema_19,brothers in nineteen hundred seventy five with the spiritual boxer a progenitor of the kung fu comedy in subsequent titles like executioners from shaolin nineteen hundred seventy seven the thirty sixth chamber of shaolin nineteen hundred seventy eight and legendary weapons of china nineteen hundred eighty two lau emphasized the traditions and philosophy of the martial arts and strove to give onscreen fighting greater authenticity and ever greater speed and intricacy the kung fu boom was partly fueled by enormous international popularity and not just in east asia in the
triviaqa-bb_8750,what us corporation sold hummer to the chinese in twenty nine ,Howard_Hughes_80,nineteen hundred seventy eight as a forgery the court declared that hughes had died intestate hughes us two dollars five billion estate was eventually split in nineteen hundred eighty three among twenty two cousins including william lummis who serves as a trustee of the howard hughes medical institute dummar was largely discounted by the public as a phony and an opportunist jonathan demme s film melvin and howard starring jason robards and paul le mat was based on dummar s tale the u s supreme court ruled that hughes aircraft was owned by the howard hughes medical institute who sold it to general motors in nineteen hundred eighty five for us five dollars two billion suits
triviaqa-sfq_23424,which greek mythological creature has the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle,Trafford_31,coat of arms the coat of arms of trafford depicts a griffin on a shield flanked by two unicorns the line bisecting the shield horizontally symbolises the river mersey running through trafford from east to west and the canals in the borough the griffin is split into two parts the lower part minus the white legs of a lion on a red background minus represent the parts of trafford previously controlled by the de massey family and the upper part minus the red body and head of an eagle on a white background minus
triviaqa-odql_12694,what is the capital city of colombia,Omayra_S%c3%a1nchez_9,the colombian congress criticism of scientific and civil defense agencies for scaremongering and that the government and army were preoccupied with the guerrilla campaign in bogota the national capital which was then at its height colombia s worst natural disaster the armero tragedy as it came to be known was the twentieth century s second deadliest volcanic disaster surpassed only by the nineteen hundred two eruption of mount pelee and the fourth deadliest eruption recorded since one thousand five hundred ad its lahars were the deadliest in volcanic history
triviaqa-sfq_22341,what is the surname of the tv sibling characters chris meg and stewie and pet brian,Tom_Bosley_4,a toy maker named ben ami on the series finale of the christian video series k one zero c kids ten commandments bosley shared a heartfelt story about his experience with the holocaust in the documentary film paper clips other films include the triangle factory fire scandal section two pop culture in the simpsons episode two f one two homie the clown lisa indicates that homer once attempted to pass himself off as tom bosley in the family guy episode road to europe brian and stewie griffin find themselves on a train in switzerland stewie remarks that he sees tom bosley brian
triviaqa-dpql_6083,by what name was pioneering architect charles douard jeanneret gris better known,Baden-Powell_House_9,nineteen hundred five seven zero two two one in the egyptian hall of the mansion house the six storied baden powell house is designed in the modern architectural style as pioneered by the swiss architect le corbusier from the late nineteen hundred twenties onwards and predominating in the nineteen hundred fifties at baden powell house tubbs made the first floor overhang the ground floor a le corbusier architectural design choice to free the building from the ground such as seen in his pavillon suisse at the cite internationale universitaire in paris additionally le corbusier s sainte
triviaqa-qf_1366,can you name the singer of the title track in one thousand nine hundred ninety five goldeneye,U2_91,orange only one track was ever released on the b side to the fly single that same year mullen company wrote and produced a song for the irish international soccer team in italia ninety called put em under pressure which topped the irish charts together with the edge bono wrote the song goldeneye for the nineteen hundred ninety five james bond film goldeneye which was performed by tina turner clayton and mullen reworked the title track of the movie mission impossible in nineteen hundred ninety six bono loaned his voice to joy on mick jagger s two thousand one album goddess in the doorway bono also
triviaqa-jp_4098,what techno group was formed in dsseldorf in nineteen seventy ,Cyberpunk_37,and video games see the discussion of rez below of course while written works may not come with associated soundtracks as frequently as movies do allusions to musical works are used for the same effect for example the graphic novel kling klang klatch nineteen hundred ninety two a dark fantasy about a world of living toys features a hard bitten teddy bear detective with a sugar habit and a predilection for jazz cyberpunk music also describes the works associated with the fashion trend which emerged from the s f developments the detroit techno group cybotron which arose in the early nineteen hundred eighties drew influences both from european synthesizer pioneers kraftwerk and from toffler s future shock
triviaqa-qg_435,founded in nineteen in what sport is the davis cup played for,Women%27s_tennis_in_the_United_States_0,women s tennis in the united states tennis has been played in the united states for a long time there are several important and famous female players from the country table of contents section one history by eighteen hundred eighty eight american women tennis players were agitating for their own championship competition uslta claimed that they lacked the authority to organise such a competition in nineteen hundred twenty three the wightman cup was created as a national women s tennis competition between the united states and great britain the trophy for the event was paid for by hazel wightman an american tennis champion the location of the cup was
triviaqa-bt_1861,who led the quest for the golden fleece,Greek_mythology_70,argonauts the only surviving hellenistic epic the argonautica of apollonius of rhodes epic poet scholar and director of the library of alexandria tells the myth of the voyage of jason and the argonauts to retrieve the golden fleece from the mythical land of colchis in the argonautica jason is impelled on his quest by king pelias who receives a prophecy that a man with one sandal would be his nemesis jason loses a sandal in a river arrives at the court of pelias and the epic is set in motion nearly every member of the next generation of heroes as well as
triviaqa-odql_12623,in which u s state is arches national park located just outside the city of moab,Interstate_15_in_Arizona_13,rock road was completed in nineteen hundred sixty five construction through the gorge was slower and much more difficult and that segment would not fully open until december fourteen nineteen hundred seventy three to help expedite the construction of the segment through the gorge the state of utah forwarded a portion of their federal highway funds to arizona the highway is of little importance to the transportation needs of arizona since it does not link any arizona communities but it does serve as a vital link between the state capital of utah in salt lake city and las
triviaqa-sfq_971,which us comic superhero has the real name steve rogers,Transhumanism_56,and diaspora nineteen hundred ninety seven the bohr maker nineteen hundred ninety five by linda nagata oryx and crake two thousand three by margaret atwood the elementary particles eng trans two thousand one and the possibility of an island eng trans two thousand six by michel houellebecq and glasshouse two thousand five by charles stross many of these works are considered part of the cyberpunk genre or its postcyberpunk offshoot fictional transhumanist scenarios have also become popular in other media during the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries such treatments are found in comic books captain america nineteen hundred forty one him nineteen hundred sixty seven
triviaqa-qz_5459,by what name did samuel langhorne clemens publish his novels under,Eureka_Rebellion_45,and disappeared from sight the writer samuel clemens better known as mark twain visited the victorian goldfields in eighteen hundred ninety five following his visit he said of the eureka stockade
triviaqa-qb_8823,in nineteen ninety six dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in which european country,Eurasian_beaver_0,eurasian beaver the european beaver castor fiber is an endangered aquatic mammal which was hunted almost to extinction in europe both for fur and for castoreum a secretion of its scent gland believed to have medicinal properties however this beaver is now being re introduced throughout europe several thousand live on the elbe the rhone the danube and in parts of scandinavia they have been reintroduced in bavaria and the netherlands and are tending to spread to new locations the beaver became extinct in britain in the sixteenth century but there is now a project which is reintroducing the species to the country six european beavers will be released into a lakeside area in gloucestershire and allowed to roam wild there are also plans to bring the beaver to scotland
triviaqa-dpql_5368,which gland controls the release of hormones,Subarachnoid_hemorrhage_52,depression posttraumatic stress disorder and cognitive impairment are common forty six per cent of people who have suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage have cognitive impairment that affects their quality of life over sixty per cent report frequent headaches aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage may lead to damage of the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland two areas of the brain that play a central role in hormonal regulation and production more than a quarter of people with a previous sah may develop hypopituitarism deficiencies in one or more of the hypothalamic pituitary hormones such as growth hormone prolactin or
triviaqa-qb_3620,the archibald fountain is in which australian city,Robert_Garran_5,as a member of the new south wales legislative council the family lived in phillip street in central sydney garran s mother had a deep distrust well justified in those days of milkman s milk and so she kept a cow in the backyard which would walk on its own to the domain each day to graze and return twice a day to be milked the garrans later lived in the suburb of darlinghurst just to the east of the centre city garran attended sydney grammar school from the age of ten
triviaqa-qw_12099,of those currently independent which country was the first to give and not subsequently revoke full voting rights country wide to women,Elizabeth_II_1,accession on six february nineteen hundred fifty two elizabeth became head of the commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent commonwealth countries the united kingdom canada australia new zealand south africa pakistan and ceylon her coronation the following year was the first to be televised from nineteen hundred fifty six to nineteen hundred ninety two the number of her realms varied as territories gained independence and some realms became republics today in addition to the first four of the aforementioned countries elizabeth is
triviaqa-odql_11681,in the original television series of star trek not the pilot edition who played the part of scottie,Star_Trek_26,hundred sixty nine star trek also known as tos or the original series debuted in the united states on n b c on september eight nineteen hundred sixty six the show tells the tale of the crew of the starship enterprise and its five year mission to boldly go where no man has gone before the original nineteen hundred sixty six to sixty nine television series featured william shatner as captain james t kirk leonard nimoy as spock deforest kelley as doctor leonard bones mccoy james doohan as montgomery scotty scott nichelle nichols as uhura george takei as hikaru sulu and walter koenig as pavel
triviaqa-sfq_24375,blackcap whitethroat and chiffchaff belong to what family of bird,Common_chiffchaff_7,wood and plain leaf warblers the chiffchaff has three still commonly accepted subspecies together with some from the iberian peninsula the canary islands and the caucasus which are now more often treated as full species section one point one subspecies p c collybita the nominate form breeds in europe east to poland and bulgaria and is described below it mainly winters in the south of its breeding range around the mediterranean and in north africa it has been expanding its range northwards into
triviaqa-jp_791,what age came after the bronze age,Greek_mythology_32,makes use of a scheme of four ages of man or races golden silver bronze and iron these races or ages are separate creations of the gods the golden age belonging to the reign of cronus the subsequent races the creation of zeus hesiod intercalates the age or race of heroes just after the bronze age the final age was the iron age during which the poet himself lived the poet regards it as the worst the presence of evil was explained by pandora s myth in metamorphoses ovid follows hesiod s concept of the four ages
triviaqa-qb_1850,who wrote the one thousand nine hundred thirty s novel tender is the night,Zelda_Fitzgerald_1,sayre is pronounced to rhyme with fair in montgomery alabama was an american novelist and the wife of writer f scott fitzgerald she was an icon of the nineteen hundred twenties dubbed by her husband the first american flapper after the success of his first novel this side of paradise nineteen hundred twenty the fitzgeralds became celebrities the newspapers of new york saw them as embodiments of the jazz age and the roaring twenties young seemingly wealthy beautiful and energetic even as a child her audacious behavior was the subject of montgomery gossip shortly after finishing high
triviaqa-sfq_6576,what type of fruit is a blenheim orange,Isaac_Newton_65,are claimed to be the apple tree which newton describes the king s school grantham claims that the tree was purchased by the school uprooted and transported to the headmaster s garden some years later the staff of the now national trust owned woolsthorpe manor dispute this and claim that a tree present in their gardens is the one described by newton a descendant of the original tree can be seen growing outside the main gate of trinity college cambridge below the room newton lived in when he studied there the national fruit collection at brogdale can supply grafts from their tree ref nineteen hundred forty eight to seven hundred twenty nine which appears identical to flower of kent a coarse fleshed cooking variety section seven
triviaqa-sfq_21133,which is the only us state divided into parishes,United_States_House_of_Representatives_24,represenatives are held in every even numbered year on the first tuesday after the first monday in november see election day united states generally the republican and democratic parties choose their candidates for each district in primary elections which are typically held several months before rules for independent and third party candidates seeking a spot on the november ballot vary from state to state for the general election almost all states use the first past the post system under which the candidate with a plurality of votes not necessarily an absolute majority wins the sole exception is louisiana which uses runoff voting seats vacated
triviaqa-wh_2442,which group had a number one hit in twenty nine with i gotta feeling,Kid_Cudi_7,on march sixteen two thousand nine kid cudi performed on mtvu s spring break special and the next day he performed three songs on nbc s last call with carson daly he has also appeared as a musical guest on the late show with david letterman and jimmy kimmel live kid cudi also made a cameo appearance next to solange in the video for the song t o n y in february two thousand nine and later in the black eyed peas video for i gotta feeling with david guetta he has also been on two magazine covers complex august forward slash september two thousand nine and urb august two thousand nine bape awarded cudi his own
triviaqa-sfq_707,the two thousand ten winter olympics will be held where,Canada_94,but professional leagues and franchises are not as widespread canada has hosted several high profile international sporting events including the nineteen hundred seventy six summer olympics the nineteen hundred eighty eight winter olympics and the two thousand seven fifa u two zero world cup canada will be the host country for the twenty ten winter olympics in vancouver and whistler british columbia section eleven language
triviaqa-odql_13299,in nineteen forty one iran was invaded by britain and which other country,British_Empire_78,dynasty this rivalry in eurasia came to be known as the great game as far as britain was concerned defeats inflicted by russia on persia and turkey demonstrated its imperial ambitions and capabilities and stoked fears in britain of an overland invasion of india in eighteen hundred thirty nine britain moved to pre empt this by invading afghanistan but the first anglo afghan war was a disaster for britain when russia invaded the turkish balkans in eighteen hundred fifty three fears of russian dominance in the mediterranean
triviaqa-bb_9363,how many triangles are on a backgammon board,Backgammon_4,tabula meaning table or board was a game mentioned in an epigram of byzantine emperor zeno ad four hundred seventy six to four hundred eighty one it was similar to modern backgammon in that the object of the game was to be the first to bear off all of one s checkers players threw three dice and moved their checkers in opposing directions on a board of twenty four points in the eleventh century shahnameh the persian poet ferdowsi credits burzoe with the invention of the tables game nard in the sixth century he describes an encounter between burzoe and a raja visiting from india the raja introduces the game of chess and burzoe demonstrates nard played with dice made from ivory and teak the jeux de tables predecessors of modern backgammon first
triviaqa-qw_14468,to prove his theories of the diaspora of south american peoples who sailed in a balsa raft called kon tiki across the pacific ocean in nineteen forty seven ,Seawater_32,some people claim that up to two cups a day mixed with fresh water in a two three ratio produces no ill effect the french physician alain bombard survived an ocean crossing in a small zodiak rubber boat using mainly raw fish meat which contains about forty percent water like most living tissues as well as small amounts of seawater and other provisions harvested from the ocean his findings were challenged but an alternative explanation was not given in kon tiki thor heyerdahl reported drinking seawater mixed with fresh in a forty forward slash sixty per cent ratio a few years later another adventurer named william willis claimed to have
triviaqa-sfq_11672,which is the smallest of the great lakes in area,Titan_(moon)_51,on the scale of satellite wide oceans similar to water on earth the cassini mission confirmed the former hypothesis although not immediately when the probe arrived in the saturnian system in two thousand four it was hoped that hydrocarbon lakes or oceans might be detectable by reflected sunlight from the surface of any liquid bodies but no specular reflections were initially observed at titan s south pole an enigmatic dark feature named ontario lacus was identified and later confirmed to be a lake a possible shoreline was also identified at the pole via radar imagery following a flyby on july twenty two
triviaqa-sfq_16858,in which country was the inventor of the machine gun hiram maxim born,Alfred_Nobel_7,to the united states for four years to study chemistry collaborating for a short period under inventor john ericsson who designed the american civil war ironclad uss monitor nobel filed his first patent an english patent for a gas meter in eighteen hundred fifty seven while his first swedish patent which he received in eighteen hundred sixty three was on ways to prepare gunpowder the family factory produced armaments for the crimean war eighteen hundred fifty three to eighteen hundred fifty six but had
triviaqa-sfq_20499,the afifty seven road runs from liverpool to which english town or city,Anfield_7,on one september eighteen hundred ninety two against rotherham town liverpool won seven to one liverpool s first football league match at anfield was played on nine september eighteen hundred ninety three against lincoln city liverpool won four to zero in front of five thousand spectators a new stand capable of holding three thousand spectators was constructed in eighteen hundred ninety five on the site of the present main stand designed by architect archibald leitch the stand had a distinctive red and white gable and was similar to the main stand at newcastle united s ground saint james park
triviaqa-qw_12307,ornette coleman louis armstrong and charles mingus are associated with what style of music,Bud_Shank_2,he worked with charlie barnet before moving on to kenton and the west coast jazz scene he also had a strong interest in what might now be termed world music playing bossa nova in the early nineteen hundred fifties years before it became a craze and in nineteen hundred sixty two fusing jazz with indian traditions in collaboration with indian composer and sitar player ravi shankar in the first decades of his career shank played the flute as a second instrument but during the nineteen hundred eighties dropped it and became purely an alto saxophonist in two thousand five he formed the bud shank big band in los
triviaqa-qw_13399,what would be most useful in playing a game of backgammon,Backgammon_5,introduces the game of chess and burzoe demonstrates nard played with dice made from ivory and teak the jeux de tables predecessors of modern backgammon first appeared in france during the eleventh century and became a favorite pastime of gamblers in twelve fifty four louis ix issued a decree prohibiting his court officials and subjects from playing tables games were played in germany in the twelfth century and had reached iceland by the thirteenth century the alfonso x manuscript libro de los juegos completed in twelve eighty three describes rules for a number of dice and tables games in addition to its extensive discussion of chess by the
triviaqa-bb_5035,zebu cattle are famously distinguished by,Humpback_whale_3,whales can easily be identified by their stocky bodies with obvious humps and black upper parts the head and lower jaw are covered with knobs called tubercles which are actually hair follicles and are characteristic of the species the tail flukes which are lifted high in the dive sequence have wavy rear edges the long black and white tail fin which can be up to a third of body length and pectoral fins have unique patterns which enable individual whales to be recognised in a similar way to the bill markings on bewick s swans
triviaqa-odql_15054,who composed the christmas oratorio and the coffee cantata,Martin_Luther_117,christ became the main hymn for christmas he wrote for pentecost nun bitten wir den heiligen geist and for easter christ ist erstanden christ is risen based on victimae paschali laudes luther s hymns inspired composers to write music johann sebastian bach included several verses as chorales in his cantatas and based chorale cantatas entirely on them namely christ lag in todes banden b w v four as early as possibly seventeen hundred seven in his second annual cycle seventeen hundred
triviaqa-qw_1606,which of queen elizabeths children is the lowest in succession to that is furthest away from the throne,Elizabeth_II_4,she married prince philip of greece and denmark with whom she has four children charles anne andrew and edward elizabeth s many historic visits and meetings include a state visit to the republic of ireland the first state visit of an irish president to britain and reciprocal visits to and from the pope she has seen major constitutional changes such as devolution in the united kingdom and canadian patriation and has also reigned through various wars and conflicts involving many of her realms times of personal
triviaqa-sfq_20451,which order of insects includes the true flies mosquitoes gnats and midges,Fauna_of_Australia_54,the lepidoptera with twenty thousand eight hundred sixteen species including butterflies and moths and twelve thousand seven hundred eighty one species of hymenoptera including the ants bees and wasps order diptera which includes the flies and mosquitoes comprises seven thousand seven hundred eighty six species order hemiptera including bugs aphids and hoppers comprises five thousand six hundred fifty species and there are two thousand eight hundred twenty seven species of order orthoptera including grasshoppers crickets and katydids introduced species that pose a significant threat to native species include the european
triviaqa-bb_7602,american jazz musician art tatum excelled on which instrument,Christopher_O%27Riley_0,christopher oriley christopher oriley is an american classical pianist and public radio show host who is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative pop artists oriley was born in chicago illinois and grew up in evanston illinois beginning with a background in jazz oriley switched to classical piano and studied at the new england conservatory of music he has received awards at the leeds van cliburn busoni and montreal competitions as well as an avery fisher career grant oriley has made many recordings of classical music his debut album a collection of the works of ferruccio busoni including the seldom performed fantasia contrappuntistica was released in nineteen hundred eighty three he has since released several recordings including works of maurice ravel sergei rachmaninoff jean philippe rameau john adams igor stravinsky and alexander scriabin as
triviaqa-qw_12650,thomas lanier williams iii american playwright became better known under what name,Zelda_Fitzgerald_70,a finalist for the pulitzer prize and the national book award and figured for weeks on the new york times best seller list the book recast zelda as an artist in her own right whose talents were belittled by a controlling husband thus zelda became an icon of the feminist movement in the nineteen hundred seventies a woman whose unappreciated potential had been suppressed by patriarchal society when tennessee williams dramatized their lives in nineteen hundred eighty s clothes for a summer hotel he drew heavily on milford s account a caricature of scott and zelda emerged as epitomizing the
triviaqa-qb_4948,which british band released their debut album definitely maybe in nineteen ninety four ,Oasis_(band)_1,original band members it should be noted that on certain tracks noel handles lead vocals musically and lyrically they cite bands such as the british invasion bands like the beatles slade t rex and the kinks amongst their extensive influences thanks to the success of their critically acclaimed debut album definitely maybe and its nineteen million selling follow up what s the story morning glory coupled with a supposed rivalry with contemporary band blur oasis became one of the most successful and prominent british bands of the mid nineties and one of the leaders of the britpop movement the gallagher brothers featured regularly in tabloid newspaper stories and cultivated a
triviaqa-qb_7076,which religion uses a domed structure called a stupa as a shrine,Trincomalee_5,tirukonamalai lit lord of the sacred hill it is a hill situated in the end of a natural land formation that resembles an arc the ancient texts as well as an inscription unearthed by archeologists call it gokarna in sanskrit the vayu purana refers to a siva temple on trikuta hill on the eastern coast of lanka in the third century the mahavamsa documents that the king mahasena destroyed a deva temple and built a buddhist shrine in its stead to expiate for an
triviaqa-jp_3704,what is australias largest island,Fauna_of_Australia_64,branchiopoda maxillopoda which includes the barnacles copepods and fish lice and the ostracoda notable species include the tasmanian giant crab the second largest crab species in the world found in deep water and weighing up to thirteen k g and the australian spiny lobsters such as the western rock lobster which are distinct from other lobster species as they do not have claws section seven human impact and conservation for at least forty thousand years australia s fauna played an integral role
triviaqa-qw_11460,what kind of ship was the japanese hsh commissioned on twenty seven december one thousand nine hundred twenty two the first purpose designed ship of its kind to be commissioned anywhere in the world,Submarine_63,and a distinct bow section four point seven interwar developments various new submarine designs were developed during the interwar years among the most notorious ones were submarine aircraft carriers equipped with waterproof hangar and steam catapult and which could launch and recover one or more small seaplanes the submarine and her plane could then act as a reconnaissance unit ahead of the fleet an essential role at a time when radar still did not exist the first example was the british h m s m two followed by the french surcouf and numerous aircraft carrying submarines in the imperial japanese navy the nineteen hundred twenty nine surcouf was also designed as an underwater cruiser intended to seek and
triviaqa-sfq_5456,which shakespeare play begins now is the winter of our discontent,William_Shakespeare_27,the first recorded works of shakespeare are richard iii and the three parts of henry vi written in the early one thousand five hundred nineties during a vogue for historical drama shakespeare s plays are difficult to date however and studies of the texts suggest that titus andronicus the comedy of errors the taming of the shrew and two gentlemen of verona may also belong to shakespeare s earliest period his first histories which draw heavily on the fifteen eighty seven edition of raphael holinshed s chronicles of england scotland and ireland dramatise the destructive results of weak or corrupt rule and have been interpreted as a
triviaqa-qg_2428,what is the lowest level of the atmosphere which lies below the stratosphere called,Comet_Shoemaker%e2%80%93Levy_9_35,its striking colour no spots of the size and darkness of those caused by the sl nine impacts have ever been recorded before spectroscopic observers found that ammonia and carbon sulfide persisted in the atmosphere for at least fourteen months after the collisions with a considerable amount of ammonia being present in the stratosphere as opposed to its normal location in the troposphere counterintuitively the atmospheric temperature dropped to normal levels much more quickly at the larger impact sites than at the smaller sites at the larger impact sites temperatures were elevated over a region
triviaqa-qw_10365,what is the name of the test cricket venue in manchester england,Stretford_76,club since nineteen hundred ten when the club moved to its present old trafford ground the western end of which is still unofficially called the stretford end old trafford was originally the home of manchester cricket club but became the home of lancashire county cricket club in eighteen hundred sixty four upon that club s formation the ground is on talbot road stretford where it has been since eighteen hundred fifty six similar to its counterpart one end of the old trafford cricket ground is called the stretford end it has been a test venue since eighteen hundred eighty four and has hosted three world cup semi finals after the two thousand five ashes test when more than twenty thousand fans had to be turned away the
triviaqa-wh_373,which is the most northerly of the islands of japan its capital sapporo has hosted the winter olympics,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_15,her fleet again struck kyushu eight june then hit hard in a coordinated air surface bombardment before retiring towards leyte she arrived san pedro leyte thirteen june nineteen hundred forty five after almost three months of continuous operations in support of the okinawa campaign here she prepared to lead the third fleet in strikes at the heart of japan from within its home waters the mighty fleet set a northerly course eight july to approach the japanese mainland raids took tokyo by surprise ten july followed by more devastation at the juncture of honshu and hokkaido thirteen and fourteen july
triviaqa-qw_12893,the mekong river rises in the tibetan plateau and runs through or between six countries china burma thailand cambodia vietnam and which other,Transport_in_Laos_23,to be completed by december twenty twelve linking kunming to bokeo laos and chiang rai it will reduce the travel time to five hours this is a cooperation between thailand china and laos section four water transport about four thousand five hundred eighty seven k m of navigable water routes exist in laos primarily the mekong and its tributaries there is an additional two thousand eight hundred ninety seven k m which is sectionally navigable by craft drawing less
triviaqa-jp_2203,what is the american name for the board game known in england as draughts,Backgammon_21,elements to the game variants commonly alter the starting position restrict certain moves or assign special value to certain dice rolls a common variant is to only allow a maximum of five checkers on any point this variation is not part of the official rules but has proved popular with casual players in some regions the popular gnu backgammon software has an option for this which is described as the egyptian rule however the origin of that name might be due to a humorous invention acey deucey is a variant of backgammon in which players start with no checkers
triviaqa-sfq_9644,haematite is an ore of which metal,Zinc_7,the metal have a dull finish it is somewhat less dense than iron and has a hexagonal crystal structure the metal is hard and brittle at most temperatures but becomes malleable between one hundred and one hundred fifty c above two hundred ten c the metal becomes brittle again and can be pulverized by beating zinc is a fair conductor of electricity for a metal zinc has relatively low melting four hundred nineteen point five c seven hundred eighty seven point one f and boiling points nine hundred seven c
triviaqa-jp_132,what chinese tile game was popular in the us,Outline_of_chess_72,or games involving an artistic layout such as mahjong solitaire or some video games board game game in which counters or championship eighteen hundred
triviaqa-sfq_3130,in which city were the olympic games held in which torvill dean won the gold medal dancing to bolero,Sarajevo_34,of local culture music and dance the sarajevo school of pop rock developed in the city between nineteen hundred sixty one and nineteen hundred ninety one this type of music began with bands like indexi bijelo dugme and singer forward slash song writer kemal monteno it continued into the nineteen hundred eighties with bands such as plavi orkestar zabranjeno puenje and crvena jabuka ending with the war in nineteen hundred ninety two section nine sports sarajevo was the location of the nineteen hundred eighty four winter olympics yugoslavia won one medal a silver in men s giant slalom awarded to slovene jure franko many of the olympic facilities survived the war including
triviaqa-bt_2823,what colour is the wax covering gouda cheese,Cheese_27,made from traditional cheese and emulsifiers often with the addition of milk more salt preservatives and food coloring it is inexpensive consistent and melts smoothly this is the most consumed category of cheese in the united states the most familiar processed cheese may be pre sliced mild yellow american cheese or velveeta many other varieties exist including easy cheese a kraft foods brand sold in a spray can section four health and nutrition in general cheese supplies a great deal of calcium protein and phosphorus a thirty gram one ounce serving of cheddar cheese contains about seven grams of protein and two hundred milligrams of calcium
triviaqa-bb_3823,which country since the late one thousand nine hundred s has governedoverseen the increasing independence of the new caledonia archipelago east of australia,British_Empire_147,in nineteen hundred seventy and ending with vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty vanuatu s independence was delayed due to political conflict between english and french speaking communities as the islands had been jointly administered as a condominium with france fiji tuvalu the solomon islands and papua new guinea chose to become commonwealth realms section six point four end of empire the independence of rhodesia as zimbabwe the new hebrides as vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty and belize in nineteen hundred eighty one
triviaqa-sfq_20180,what colour is the heraldic colour gules,Order_of_the_Bath_22,and clergymen do not use the accolade of knighthood knights and dames grand cross use the post nominal g c b knights commanders use k c b dames commanders use d c b companions use c b knights and dames grand cross are also entitled to receive heraldic supporters they may furthermore enircle their arms with a depiction of the circlet a red circle bearing the motto and the collar the former is shown either outside or on top of the latter knights and dames commanders and companions may display the
triviaqa-sfq_9178,what name is given to the unofficial accolade awarded to the fastest passenger ship to cross the atlantic in the westbound direction,Richard_Branson_31,continued to fly section three world record attempts richard branson made several world record breaking attempts after nineteen hundred eighty five when in the spirit of the blue riband he attempted the fastest atlantic ocean crossing his first attempt in the virgin atlantic challenger led to the boat capsizing in british waters and a rescue by raf helicopter which received wide media coverage some newspapers called for branson to reimburse the government for the rescue cost in nineteen hundred eighty six in his virgin atlantic challenger ii with sailing expert daniel mccarthy he beat the record by two hours a year later his hot
triviaqa-dpql_5884,in nineteen ninety eight at the age of seventy seven who became the oldest person to fly in space,NASA_5,program initiated in nineteen hundred fifty eight started nasa down the path of human space exploration with missions designed to discover simply if man could survive in space on may five nineteen hundred sixty one astronaut alan b shepard jr became the first american in space when he piloted freedom seven on a one five minute suborbital flight john glenn became the first american to orbit the earth on february twenty nineteen hundred sixty two during the five hour flight of friendship seven once mercury proved that human spaceflight was possible project gemini was launched to conduct experiments
triviaqa-sfq_261,which cunard liner launched in nineteen three rescued seven hundred five survivors of the titanic disaster in nineteen twelve ,RMS_Titanic_23,of first and second class women and children survived the sinking more third class women and children were lost than saved wireless operators jack phillips and harold bride were busy sending out distress signals several ships responded including mount temple frankfurt and titanic s sister ship olympic but none were close enough to make it in time the closest ship to respond was cunard line s r m s carpathia and at fifty eight miles ninety three k m away it would arrive in about four hours still
triviaqa-qb_9945,who was elected us president in november two thousand twelve ,Barack_Obama_100,his presidency with a sixty eight percent approval rating before gradually declining for the rest of the year and eventually bottoming out at forty one percent in august twenty ten a trend similar to ronald reagan s and bill clinton s first years in office he experienced a small poll bounce shortly after the death of osama bin laden which lasted until around june twenty eleven when his approval numbers dropped back to where they were prior to the operation polls show strong support for obama in other countries and before being elected president he has met with prominent foreign figures including then british prime minister tony blair italy s democratic party leader and then mayor of rome walter veltroni and french president nicolas sarkozy in a february two thousand nine poll conducted by harris interactive for france twenty four and the international herald tribune obama was rated as the most respected world leader as well as the most powerful in
triviaqa-sfq_19282,blue gum and ironbark are species of which genus of australian tree,Fauna_of_Australia_16,the evolutionary origin of this group is unclear but they share characteristics from both carnivorous and herbivorous marsupials the marsupial herbivores are classified in the order diprotodontia and further into the suborders vombatiformes phalangeriformes and macropodiformes the vombatiformes include the koala and the three species of wombat one of australia s best known marsupials the koala is an arboreal tree dwelling species that feeds on the leaves of some one hundred twenty species of eucalyptus wombats on the other hand live on the ground and feed on grasses sedges
triviaqa-sfq_24346,in which city did dylan thomas die,Bob_Dylan_12,record deal dylan dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year in january nineteen hundred sixty one he moved to new york city hoping to perform there and visit his musical idol woody guthrie who was seriously ill with huntington s disease in greystone park psychiatric hospital guthrie had been a revelation to dylan and was the biggest influence on his early performances dylan would later say of guthrie s work you could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live as well as visiting guthrie in the hospital dylan befriended guthrie s acolyte ramblin jack elliott much of guthrie s repertoire was actually channeled through elliott and dylan paid tribute to elliott in chronicles two thousand four from february nineteen hundred sixty one dylan played at various clubs around greenwich village in september he eventually gained public recognition when robert
triviaqa-sfq_17893,the most northerly part of mainland australia is in which state,Fauna_of_Australia_43,are endemic however due to the relative scarcity of freshwater waterways australia has only one hundred seventy species of freshwater fish two families of freshwater fish have ancient origins the arowana or bony tongues and the queensland lungfish the queensland lungfish is the most primitive of the lungfish having evolved before australia separated from gondwana one of the smallest freshwater fish peculiar to the south west of western australia is the salamanderfish which can survive desiccation in the dry season by burrowing into mud other families with a potentially gondwanan origin
triviaqa-odql_14992,which is the largest city in pakistan,Kargil_War_38,of the gulf war one of the reasons for india s increased coverage was the proliferation of numerous privately owned channels vis a vis the pakistani electronic media scenario which was still at a nascent stage yet another was the relatively greater transparency in the indian media in fact at a seminar in karachi pakistani journalists agreed that while the indian government had taken the press and the people into confidence this was missing on the pakistan side the indian government also ran advertisements in foreign publications like the times and washington post detailing pakistan s role in supporting extremists in kashmir in an attempt to garner political support for its cause during the combat the print media
triviaqa-qb_4796,bearoff nullo play and quadrant are all terms used in which board game,Backgammon_38,months of training without them these programs play no better than a human novice for the bearoff phase backgammon software usually relies on a database containing precomputed equities for all possible bearoff positions section five point two internet play backgammon software has been developed not only to play and analyze games but also to facilitate play between humans over the internet dice rolls are provided by random or pseudorandom number generators real time online play began with the first internet backgammon server in nineteen hundred ninety two it is the longest running non commercial backgammon server and retains an international community of backgammon players yahoo games offers a java based online backgammon room and m s n games offers a game based on activex online gambling
triviaqa-qz_881,how many scottish football league teams names end in united,Anfield_28,of the three european cups paisley won during his tenure the crest of his birthplace in hetton le hole and the crest of liverpool f c the shankly gates in tribute of bill shankly paisley s predecessor between nineteen hundred fifty nine and nineteen hundred seventy four are at the anfield road end their design includes a scottish flag a scottish thistle the liverpool badge and the words you ll never walk alone section three future plans to replace anfield were originally initiated by liverpool in may two thousand two the proposed capacity was
triviaqa-qz_1354,who is the vice president for george w bush,Fuck_33,i thought was best for the country did i expect howard dean to go off to the left and say i m against everything sure did i expect george bush to fuck it up as badly as he did i dont think anybody did three in june two thousand four us vice president dick cheney told senator patrick leahy to either fuck off or go fuck yourself during an exchange on the floor of the senate four in february two thousand six new south wales premier morris iemma while awaiting the start of a coag media conference in canberra was
triviaqa-qg_2077,of what modern country is sarajevo the captial of,Sarajevo_2,attention several times throughout its history in nineteen hundred fourteen it was the site of the assassination that sparked world war i while seventy years later it became the host city of the nineteen hundred eighty four winter olympics more recently sarajevo underwent the longest siege in modern military history during the bosnian war today the city is recovering and adjusting to a post war reality as a major center of culture and economic development in bosnia and herzegovina table of contents section one geography and climate sarajevo is located close to the center of the triangular bosnia and herzegovina in southeastern europe it consists of four municipalities
triviaqa-bb_6852,spiro agnew was us vice president to which president,Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_26,before committee hearings had begun citing concerns about senate requests during her confirmation process for access to internal executive branch documents resulting from her position as white house counsel in nineteen hundred eighty seven president ronald reagan withdrew the nomination of douglas h ginsburg because of allegations of marijuana use until nineteen hundred eighty one the approval process of justices was frequently quick from the truman through nixon administrations justices were typically approved within one month from the reagan administration through the current administration of george w bush however the process took much longer some speculate this is because
triviaqa-qw_6822,formula one driver ayrton senna died while leading the one san marino grand prix at which motor racing circuit,1994_San_Marino_Grand_Prix_0,nineteen hundred ninety four san marino grand prix template f one race report infobox the nineteen hundred ninety four san marino grand prix was a formula one motor race held on may one nineteen hundred ninety four at the autodromo enzo e dino ferrari in imola italy it was the third race of the nineteen hundred ninety four formula one season and the first race of the season to be held in europe the race weekend was marred by the deaths of austrian roland ratzenberger and
triviaqa-jp_3591,in what country would you find coptic christians,Siege_of_Antioch_21,section three point four fatimid embassy in april a fatimid embassy from egypt arrived at the crusader camp hoping to establish a peace with the christians who were after all the enemy of their own
triviaqa-sfq_23946,with which sport were the players peter nicol and jahangir khan associated,Women%27s_squash_in_Australia_2,in nineteen hundred sixty there was a mass demonstration of the sport at a school in roseville new south wales where female students learned a number of skills including the forehand drive in nineteen hundred sixty eight australia had thirty total professional squash players amongst both genders only two of these players were female yvonne barlow and a melbourne based player in nineteen hundred sixty eight australia was one of the most important squash playing countries there were a large number of players of both genders and a large number of courts in sydney there were eighty five squash buildings each building had an average of five courts table of contents section one see also netball in australia women s
triviaqa-dpql_2973,ted nevin who died in nineteen ninety two was a leading authority in what sphere,Nobel_Prize_31,been one laureate william vickrey who in nineteen hundred ninety six died after the prize in economics was announced but before it could be presented on three october twenty eleven the laureates for the nobel prize in physiology or medicine were announced however the committee was not aware that one of the laureates ralph m steinman had died three days earlier the committee was debating about steinman s prize since the rule is that the prize is not awarded posthumously the committee later decided that as the decision to award steinman the prize was
triviaqa-odql_1925,which is the lowest rank of the peerage,Hereditary_peer_2,as evidenced by the case of life peers table of contents section one ranks and titles the various ranks of the peerage are in descending order of rank duke marquess earl viscount and baron the feminine equivalents are duchess marchioness countess viscountess and baroness respectively in scotland however baron is a feudal rank and not one of the peerage the scottish equivalent to the english barony is the lordship of parliament the male holder thereof being known as a lord of parliament the house of lords lists the prince of wales as a
triviaqa-qb_5615,in cricket which nation won the two thousand nine ashes series,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_32,keeping england try less despite the winning start to henry s tenure the tri nations was a mixed success with two wins and two losses the competition was the closest ever bonus points decided the outcome and the all blacks finished last the two thousand four season finished on a high however with the all blacks winning in europe including a record forty five to six victory over france in two thousand five the all blacks whitewashed the touring british and irish lions three to zero in the test series won the tri nations and achieved a second grand slam over the home nations they went on to sweep the major international rugby board year end awards in which the all blacks were named
triviaqa-sfq_21678,the united nations organisation unhrc looks at what specific issue,Disability_15,by the social environment hence the management of the problem requires social action and thus it is the collective responsibility of society at large to make the environmental modifications necessary for the full participation of people with disabilities in all areas of social life the issue is both cultural and ideological requiring individual community and large scale social change viewed from this perspective equal access for people with impairment forward slash disability is a human rights issue of major concern section three point three the market model the market model of
triviaqa-qw_13369,what country after having governed it for one hundred fifty five years transferred its sovereignty of hong kong to china in nineteen ninety seven ,British_Empire_154,the remainder are self governing to varying degrees and are reliant on the uk for foreign relations and defence the british government has stated its willingness to assist any overseas territory that wishes to proceed to independence where that is an option british sovereignty of several of the overseas territories is disputed by their geographical neighbours gibraltar is claimed by spain the falkland islands and south georgia and the south sandwich islands are claimed by argentina and the british indian ocean territory is claimed by mauritius and seychelles the
triviaqa-qw_181,in which country did queen isabella secure the throne when her opponents carlists were defeated in eighteen sixty eight following a civil war between those who wanted a king and those who wanted a queen,Battle_of_Aljubarrota_20,names of the kings are used because in english they both translate as john i which is confusing at this time fourteenth century castile did not belong to spain that country appeared only in the end of the fifteenth century with the marriage of isabella of castile and ferdinand of aragon the rulers together of present day aragon catalonia valencia and the balearic islands the catholic monarchs
triviaqa-jp_2243,which record label recorded the supremes and the jackson five ,Katherine_Jackson_2,the mid to late nineteen hundred sixty s katherine served a role as the group s designer she often made suits for her five eldest sons to wear during their lengthy rides to predominantly black venues and theaters where they mostly performed after the jackson five signed with motown records in nineteen hundred sixty eight katherine s role was more limited throughout the jackson five s rise to fame and later the solo careers of michael and janet she was often described as a devoted mother and wife to her family in nineteen hundred eighty four she joined her husband in helping to create their sons victory tour in nineteen hundred eighty five essence magazine
triviaqa-sfq_21826,what name is given to belief in more than one god,God_19,belief in a god or gods i e monotheism or polytheism citation needed deism holds that god is wholly transcendent god exists but does not intervene in the world beyond what was necessary to create it in this view god is not anthropomorphic and does not literally answer prayers or cause miracles to occur common in deism is a belief that god has no interest in humanity and may not even be aware of humanity pandeism and panendeism respectively combine deism with the pantheistic or panentheistic beliefs discussed below section six history of monotheism the concept
triviaqa-bb_7705,what is the name of the first digital library founded by michael hart in nineteen seventy one ,Project_Gutenberg_3,section one history project gutenberg was started by michael hart in nineteen hundred seventy one hart a student at the university of illinois obtained access to a xerox sigma v mainframe computer in the university s materials research lab through friendly
triviaqa-sfq_20367,wicket keeper matt prior currently part of the england team plays for which county,Herne_Bay%2c_Kent_58,competes nationally in beach and boat fishing competitions herne bay hockey club greenhill gymnastics club herne bay cricket club and herne bay youth football club are located at herne bay high school a specialist sports college the hockey club runs a ladies team and five men s team the highest of which plays in the kent sussex regional first xi league herne bay cricket club runs two junior teams a men s sunday team and two men s saturday teams the saturday teams play in the kent cricket feeder league east herne bay youth football club has twenty two teams and over three hundred twenty players aged six to eighteen
triviaqa-bb_7194,the cult tv series lost which began in twenty four features oceanic flight what,Greatest_Hits_(Lost)_1,in the united states and on c t v in canada greatest hits was viewed by twelve million americans and was well received by critics lost s editors received a golden reel award nomination the episode takes place on december twenty two two thousand four ninety two days after the crash of oceanic airlines flight eight hundred fifteen a group of survivors prepare for an upcoming raid on their camp by the others while the rest prepare to contact a nearby freighter charlie pace played by dominic monaghan recounts the five greatest moments of his life which are depicted in flashbacks as he prepares to fulfill desmond hume s henry ian
triviaqa-qw_2169,which series ended on uk television in nineteen eighty nine after a twenty six year run and returned in twenty five ,Coronation_Street_62,his career on the show writing over one hundred fifty episodes between nineteen hundred sixty one and nineteen hundred sixty nine paul abbott was a story editor on the programme in the nineteen hundred eighties and began writing episodes in nineteen hundred eighty nine but left in nineteen hundred ninety three to produce cracker for which he later wrote before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as touching evil and shameless russell t davies one was briefly a storyliner on the programme in the mid one nine hundred nineties also writing the script for the direct to video special viva las vegas he too has become a noted writer of his own high profile television drama programmes including queer as folk and the two thousand five revival of doctor who
triviaqa-qw_8517,the island of tasmania is governed by which country,Tasmanian_devil_0,tasmanian devil the tasmanian devil sarcophilus harrisii also referred to simply as the devil is a carnivorous marsupial now found only in the australian island state of tasmania the tasmanian devil is the only extant member of the genus sarcophilus the size of a small dog but stocky and muscular the tasmanian devil is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world it
triviaqa-qw_10171,what is the nickname of the australian national rugby union team,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_0,new zealand national rugby union team the all blacks are new zealand s national rugby union team rugby union is new zealand s national sport with the all blacks a formidable power in international rugby achieving a winning record against all nations the all blacks compete annually with the australian rugby team the wallabies and the south african rugby team the springboks in the tri nations series in which they also contest the bledisloe cup with australia the all blacks have been tri nations champions seven
triviaqa-bb_3143,the immortal game between a frenchman and a german in eighteen fifty one at simpsons in londons strand was contested in what discipline,Chess_61,shallow sparkling games like anderssen s immortal game and evergreen game or morphy s opera game were regarded as the highest possible summit of the chess art deeper insight into the nature of chess came with two younger players american paul morphy an extraordinary chess prodigy won against all important competitors except howard staunton who refused to play including anderssen during his short chess career between eighteen hundred fifty seven and eighteen hundred sixty three morphy s success stemmed from a combination of brilliant attacks and sound strategy he intuitively knew how to prepare attacks
triviaqa-qz_1952,fruit cricket and horseshoe are varieties of what type of animal,Durian_12,durian flowers are large and feathery with copious nectar and give off a heavy sour and buttery odour these features are typical of flowers pollinated by certain species of bats that eat nectar and pollen according to research conducted in malaysia in the nineteen hundred seventies durians were pollinated almost exclusively by cave fruit bats eonycteris spelaea however a nineteen hundred ninety six study indicated two species d grandiflorus and d oblongus were pollinated by spiderhunters nectariniidae and another species d kutejensis
triviaqa-jp_3232,in what event did bruce jenner win a gold medal at the one thousand nine hundred seventy six olympics,Olympic_flame_23,winter olympics sandra dubravi a figure skater who participated in the nineteen hundred eighty and nineteen hundred eighty four olympics nineteen hundred eighty four summer olympics rafer johnson winner of the decathlon at the nineteen hundred sixty olympics nineteen hundred eighty eight winter olympics robyn perry a one two year old schoolgirl and figure skater nineteen hundred eighty eight summer olympics sohn kee chung marathon gold medalist in nineteen hundred thirty six carried the torch into the stadium and the relay was continued by chung sun man kim won tak and sohn mi chung three young track and field athletes
triviaqa-odql_2056,which art gallery is in trafalgar square,Hilda_Rix_Nicholas_47,artist it did not take long in november she was amongst the members of the club whose works were displayed at the athaeneum hall where a critic described her as the dominating personality of the show at the same time in melbourne s guild hall she held a large exhibition of her european and north african paintings sketches and drawings with over a hundred works on display several were sold including in picardy purchased by the national gallery of victoria noting the artist s success in paris and london the reviewer for the argus
triviaqa-qf_2472,in which irish city is the abbey theatre,Palladian_architecture_30,who also designed the palladian rotunda hospital in dublin and florence court county fermanagh irish palladian country houses often have robust rococo plasterwork frequently executed by the lafranchini brothers an irish speciality which is far more flamboyant than the interiors of their contemporaries in england so much of dublin was built in the eighteenth century that it set a georgian stamp on the city to the disgust of irish nationalists until recently dublin was one of the few cities where fine late eighteenth century housing could be seen in ruinous condition elsewhere in ireland after nineteen hundred twenty two the
triviaqa-odql_12482,luzon and mindanao are the two largest islands in which country,Mount_Pinatubo_0,mount pinatubo template mtnbox start template mtnbox coor d m template mtnbox volcano template mtnbox finish mount pinatubo is an active volcano located on the island of luzon in the philippines at the intersection of the borders of the provinces of zambales bataan and pampanga before nineteen hundred ninety one the mountain was inconspicuous and heavily eroded it was covered in dense forest which supported a population of several thousand indigenous people the aeta who had fled to the mountains from the
triviaqa-qf_2073,pearmain is a variety of what,Isaac_Newton_65,are claimed to be the apple tree which newton describes the king s school grantham claims that the tree was purchased by the school uprooted and transported to the headmaster s garden some years later the staff of the now national trust owned woolsthorpe manor dispute this and claim that a tree present in their gardens is the one described by newton a descendant of the original tree can be seen growing outside the main gate of trinity college cambridge below the room newton lived in when he studied there the national fruit collection at brogdale can supply grafts from their tree ref nineteen hundred forty eight to seven hundred twenty nine which appears identical to flower of kent a coarse fleshed cooking variety section seven
triviaqa-tc_2265,who did dr crippen murder,Ruthin_10,built at a cost of twelve thousand pound sterling on one april eighteen hundred seventy eight the ruthin county gaol became h m prison ruthin covering the counties of denbighshire flintshire and meirionethshire as far as is known only one person was ever executed in the prison william hughes of denbigh aged forty two who was hanged on seventeen february nineteen hundred three for the murder of his wife his plea of insanity having failed another colourful prison personality was john jones known as coch bach y bala minus the little redhead from bala who was a kleptomaniac and poacher who had spent more than half his sixty years in all the prisons of north wales and many in england he twice escaped from ruthin gaol
triviaqa-jp_1630,who defeated boris spassky in a one thousand nine hundred seventy two chess showdown,Chess_72,armenian tigran petrosian a genius of defense and a strong positional player held the title for two cycles nineteen hundred sixty three to nineteen hundred sixty nine his successor boris spassky from russia champion nineteen hundred sixty nine to nineteen hundred seventy two was able to win in both positional and sharp tactical style the next championship the so called match of the century saw the first non soviet challenger since world war ii american bobby fischer who defeated his candidates opponents by unheard of margins and clearly won the world championship match in nineteen hundred seventy five however fischer refused to defend his
triviaqa-qw_15528,which novelist born in bombay in eighteen sixty five was awarded the nobel prize for literature in nineteen seven ,Imagism_7,in nineteen hundred seven the nobel prize for literature was awarded to rudyard kipling the origins of imagism are to be found in two poems autumn and a city sunset by t e hulme these were published in january nineteen hundred nine by the poets club in london in a booklet called for christmas mdccccviii hulme was a student of mathematics and philosophy he had been involved in the setting up of the club in nineteen hundred eight and was its first secretary around the end of nineteen hundred eight he presented his paper a lecture on modern poetry at one of the club s meetings writing in a r orage s magazine the new
triviaqa-sfq_15313,which archbishop of canterbury led the prayers for diana princess of wales at her one thousand nine hundred ninety seven funeral service,Elizabeth_II_73,viewpoint and the queen herself had high approval ratings criticism was focused on the institution of monarchy itself and the queen s wider family rather than the queen s own behaviour and actions in consultation with her husband prime minister major archbishop of canterbury george carey and her private secretary robert fellowes she wrote to charles and diana at the end of december nineteen hundred ninety five saying that a divorce was desirable a year after the divorce which took place in nineteen hundred ninety six diana was killed in a car crash in paris on thirty one august nineteen hundred ninety seven the queen was on holiday with her son and grandchildren at balmoral diana s two sons wanted
triviaqa-dpql_381,in the computer world what company is nicknamed big blue,Jim_Henson_49,son brian and daughter lisa are currently the company chairs and company ceos of the company his daughter cheryl is the president of the foundation steve whitmire a veteran member of the muppet puppeteering crew has assumed the roles of kermit the frog and ernie the most famous characters formerly played by jim henson on february seventeen two thousand four it was announced that the muppets excluding the sesame street characters which are separately owned by sesame workshop and the bear in the big blue house properties had been sold by henson s heirs to the walt disney company
triviaqa-sfq_15376,in which us state is harvard university,College_football_4,began in eighteen hundred seventy four at a meeting in cambridge massachusetts between harvard university and montreal quebec s mcgill university the mcgill team played a rugby style game while harvard was isolated from other u s colleges by the fact that it played under rules which allowed greater handling of the ball than soccer the teams agreed to play under compromise rules the harvard students took to the rugby rules and adopted them as their own walter camp known as the father of american football is credited with changing the game from a variation of rugby into a unique sport camp is responsible for pioneering the play from scrimmage earlier games featured a rugby scrum most of the modern elements of
triviaqa-odql_9880,in greek mythology which virgin goddess of the hearth home and cooking gave up her seat as one of the twelve olympians to tend to the sacred flame on mount olympus for dionysus,Greek_mythology_51,the goddess of wisdom and courage some deities such as apollo and dionysus revealed complex personalities and mixtures of functions while others such as hestia literally hearth and helios literally sun were little more than personifications the most impressive temples tended to be dedicated to a limited number of gods who were the focus of large pan hellenic cults it was however common for individual regions and villages to devote their own cults to minor gods many cities also honored the more well known gods with unusual local rites and
triviaqa-qw_12786,the sinai peninsula is part of which country,Edward_VII_17,once widowed queen victoria effectively withdrew from public life shortly after prince albert s death she arranged for edward to embark on an extensive tour of the middle east visiting egypt jerusalem damascus beirut and constantinople in part political the british government wanted edward to secure the friendship of egypt s ruler said pasha to prevent french control of the suez canal if the ottoman empire collapsed it was the first royal tour on which an official photographer francis bedford was in attendance as soon as edward returned to britain
triviaqa-qw_2152,which greek dramatist who lived from four hundred eighty five to four hundred six bc wrote medea orestes and iphigenia in tauris,Greek_mythology_13,and the four ages the poet gives advice on the best way to succeed in a dangerous world rendered yet more dangerous by its gods lyrical poets sometimes take their subjects from myth but the treatment becomes gradually less narrative and more allusive greek lyric poets including pindar bacchylides simonides and bucolic poets such as theocritus and bion provide individual mythological incidents additionally myth was central to classical athenian drama the tragic playwrights aeschylus sophocles and euripides
triviaqa-qw_14053,what is an alternative name for whit sunday the time when according to christian tradition the holy spirit descended on the apostles,Catholic_Church_91,the new testament records jesus activities and teaching his appointment of the twelve apostles and his instructions to them to continue his work the catholic church teaches that the coming of the holy spirit upon the apostles in an event known as pentecost signalled the beginning of the public ministry of the catholic church catholic doctrine teaches that the contemporary catholic church is the continuation of this early christian community it interprets the confession of peter found in the gospel of matthew as christ s
triviaqa-jp_3011,what was the language of the roman empire,Fourth_Crusade_62,appeared in both french and greek and later italian and aragonese versions impressive remains of crusader castles and gothic churches can still be seen in greece nevertheless the latin empire always rested on shaky foundations the city was re captured by the nicaean greeks under michael viii palaeologus in one thousand two hundred sixty one and commerce with venice was re established in an ironic series of events during the middle of the fifteenth century the latin church roman catholic church tried to organize a new
triviaqa-sfq_8671,according to greek myth who built the labyrinth on crete for king minos,Greek_mythology_19,provide important details of myth some of it sourced from lost greek works these preservers of myth include hesychius lexicon the suda and the treatises of john tzetzes and eustathius the christian moralizing view of greek myth is encapsulated in the saying forward slash en panti muthi kai to daidalou musos in every myth there is also the defilement of daidalos on which subject the encyclopedic sudas reported of the role of daedalus in satisfying the unnatural lust of pasiphae for the bull of poseidon since the origin and blame for these evils were attributed to daidalos and he was loathed for them he
triviaqa-qb_1456,in greek mythology amphitrite queen of the sea was the wife of which god,Greek_mythology_19,provide important details of myth some of it sourced from lost greek works these preservers of myth include hesychius lexicon the suda and the treatises of john tzetzes and eustathius the christian moralizing view of greek myth is encapsulated in the saying forward slash en panti muthi kai to daidalou musos in every myth there is also the defilement of daidalos on which subject the encyclopedic sudas reported of the role of daedalus in satisfying the unnatural lust of pasiphae for the bull of poseidon since the origin and blame for these evils were attributed to daidalos and he was loathed for them he
triviaqa-qw_7115,in which decade was barack obama born,Barack_Obama_97,section five cultural and political image obama s family history upbringing and ivy league education differ markedly from those of african american politicians who launched their careers in the nineteen hundred sixties through participation in the civil rights movement obama is also not a descendant of american slaves expressing puzzlement over questions about whether he is black enough obama told an august two thousand seven meeting of the national association of black journalists that we re still locked in this notion that if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong obama acknowledged his youthful
triviaqa-qw_12068,which soviet leader was awarded the nobel peace prize in nineteen ninety ,Ronald_Reagan_189,hard line rhetoric against the soviet union and communism as well as summits with general secretary gorbachev played a significant part in ending the war he was notable amongst post world war ii presidents as being convinced that the soviet union could be defeated rather than simply negotiated with a conviction that was vindicated by gennadi gerasimov the foreign ministry spokesman under gorbachev who said that star wars was very successful blackmail the soviet economy couldnt endure such competition reagan s strong rhetoric toward the
triviaqa-qw_5276,yabba dabba doo was a catch phrase in which cartoon series,Dinosaur_81,for cartoons the flintstones showcased a stone age family living with dinosaurs while comic strips such as calvin and hobbes and the far side feature dinosaur oriented strips frequently probably the most unusual portrayal is the comics title dinosaurs for hire which featured a trio of gun totin trigger happy dinos noted for who s extinct teeshirts and a love of kojak due to their consumer appeal many computer and console games have featured dinosaurs as characters crash bandicoot warped ape escape the turok series and
triviaqa-qz_438,from which country do french fries originate france belgium or switzerland,Kandersteg_International_Scout_Centre_23,six see also brownsea island off poole united kingdom gilwell park in london united kingdom our chalet in nearby adelboden switzerland
triviaqa-qg_338,twenty eight th january one thousand nine hundred fifty eight saw the patenting of moderately famous toy made possible by a unique stud and tube coupling system,Lego_6,potential in lego bricks to become a system for creative play but the bricks still had some problems from a technical standpoint their locking ability was limited and they were not very versatile it wasnt until nineteen hundred fifty eight that the modern day brick design was developed and it took another five years to find exactly the right material for it over the years many more lego sets series and pieces were created with many innovative improvements and additions culminating in the colourful versatile building toys that we know today section two the lego trademark the lego group s name has become so synonymous with its flagship toy that many
triviaqa-bb_8345,according to legend who killed the lion represented by the constellation leo,Scar_(The_Lion_King)_83,nineteen hundred ninety six in favor of working on hercules from hercules nineteen hundred ninety seven along with mickey mouse in the animated short runaway brain nineteen hundred ninety five comparing scar to other villains that he has played irons said that he measures very highly having charm machiavellian qualities and being iconic in some of the things he says section four criticism and controversy scar became the first disney villain to successfully explicitly kill someone like disney s bambi before it the lion king minus dubbed the studio s darkest film at the time of its release minus
triviaqa-bt_85,which city is the headquarters of the mormon church,Salt_Lake_Tabernacle_0,salt lake tabernacle the salt lake tabernacle also known as the mormon tabernacle is located in temple square in salt lake city utah along with the salt lake assembly hall and salt lake temple table of contents section one history the taberacle was built to house meetings for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints l d s or mormon church and was the location of the semi annual l d s general conference for one hundred thirty two years however because of the growth in the number of conference attendees the l d s general conference was moved to the new and larger l d s conference center in
triviaqa-jp_1902,what us state holds the first presidential primary,Bill_Clinton_32,in the new hampshire primary but after trailing badly in the polls and coming within single digits of winning the media viewed it as a victory news outlets labeled him the comeback kid for earning a firm second place finish winning the big prizes of florida and texas and many of the southern primaries on super tuesday gave clinton a sizable delegate lead however former california governor jerry brown was scoring victories and clinton had yet to win a significant contest outside his native south with no major southern state remaining clinton targeted new york which had many delegates he scored a resounding
triviaqa-qb_92,what is the capital of indonesia,Durian_73,adrian pang likewise the oddly shaped esplanade building in singapore is often called the durian by locals and the big durian is the nickname of jakarta indonesia one of the names thailand contributed to the list of storm names for western north pacific tropical cyclones was durian which was retired after the second storm of this name in two thousand six being a fruit much loved by a variety of wild beasts the durian sometimes signifies the long forgotten
triviaqa-qb_241,keflavik is the main international airport of which country,Brei%c3%b0dalsv%c3%adk_Airport_0,breidalsvik airport breidalsvik airport iata b x v icao bibv is an airport serving breidalsvik iceland table of contents section one see also transport in iceland
triviaqa-sfq_2330,who in november two thousand five became the first ever female chancellor of germany,Cleavage_(breasts)_14,her merely an object for his sexual gratification are your senses so gross as to look on these breasts minus the respectable treasures of nature the united states in two separate incidents in two thousand seven southwest airlines crews asked travelers to modify their clothing to wear sweaters or to leave a plane because they did not consider the amount of cleavage displayed to be acceptable german chancellor angela merkel created controversy when she wore an extremely low cut dress to the opening of the oslo opera on april twelve two thousand eight
triviaqa-qb_403,apart from english what is the official language of canada,Canada_95,language canada s two official languages are english and french official bilingualism in canada is law defined in the canadian charter of rights and freedoms the official languages act and official language regulations it is applied by the commissioner of official languages english and french have equal status in federal courts parliament and in all federal institutions the public has the
triviaqa-sfq_13780,the uks longest national trail what path stretches six hundred thirty miles between minehead and poole harbour,Exmoor_8,with its huge waterfalls and caves the cliffs provide one of the longest and most isolated seacliff traverses in the uk the south west coast path at six hundred thirty miles one thousand fourteen k m the longest national trail in england and wales starts at minehead and runs along all of exmoor s coast there are small harbours at lynmouth porlock weir and combe martin once important for coastal trade their primary use now is for pleasure sailing and fishing section one point two rivers the high ground forms the catchment area for numerous rivers and
triviaqa-sfq_13333,denmark has a single land border with which country,Iron_Curtain_54,in german minus between east and west germany the inner german border was marked in rural areas by double fences made of steel mesh expanded metal with sharp edges while near urban areas a high concrete barrier similar to the berlin wall was built the barrier was always a short distance inside east german territory to avoid any intrusion into western territory the actual borderline was marked by posts and signs and was overlooked by numerous watchtowers set behind the barrier the strip of land on the
triviaqa-sfq_24967,what was created by the lateran treaty of one thousand nine hundred twenty nine ,Catholic_Church_110,been seized by the armies of king victor emmanuel ii of italy eighteen hundred sixty one to eighteen hundred seventy eight rome itself was seized in eighteen hundred seventy and the pope became the prisoner in the vatican in nineteen hundred twenty nine the lateran treaties created the vatican city as a sovereign and independent nation in return for the vatican relinquishing its claim to the former territories of the papal states italy also paid the vatican
triviaqa-odql_2895,the vuvuzela is traditionally made from the horn of which antelope,Wood_Badge_28,the kudu horn is another wood badge symbol baden powell first encountered the kudu horn at the battle of shangani where he discovered how the matabele warriors used it to quickly spread a signal of alarm he used the horn at the first scout encampment at brownsea island in nineteen hundred seven it is used from the early wood badge courses to signal the beginning of the course or an activity and to inspire scouters to always do better the grass fields at the back of the white house at gilwell park are known as the training ground and the orchard and are where wood badge training was held from the early years onward a large oak
triviaqa-bb_2636,what canadian city was named by explorer jacques cartier meaning originally royal mount,Montreal_3,sainte helene and ile notre dame the city is spread over an area of four hundred eighty two point eight four km two one hundred eighty six point four three square miles table of contents section one history main article history of montreal the area known today as montreal had been inhabited by the algonquin huron and iroquois for thousands of years before the arrival of the first europeans the first european to reach the area was jacques cartier in fifteen thirty five he reached the area after speaking to a iroquois chief in present day quebec city who told him of a shiny stone upstream from his village cartier listened to him and believed he was describing gold which lead him to the village of hochelaga on the island of montreal the local iroquois took him to the top of mont royal and cartier planted the first of the mountaintop s famous
triviaqa-sfq_2681,the crimea forms part of which country,Bar%2c_Vinnytsia_Oblast_4,constantly ravaged by turks and poles in turn between sixteen hundred eighty six and sixteen hundred ninety nine on february twenty nine seventeen hundred sixty eight the bar confederation was started in the fortress after the second partition of poland the town fell under russian empire rule and was part of podolia governorate after nineteen hundred twenty two the town of bar was part of the ukrainian soviet socialist republic since nineteen hundred ninety one following the fall of the soviet union it has been part of independent ukraine the town of bar was comprehensively described in the m s c thesis by mikhail
triviaqa-qb_7441,a skink is what type of reptile,Rock-paper-scissors_45,evolutionary strategy biologist barry sinervo from the university of california santa cruz has discovered a rock paper scissors evolutionary strategy in the mating behaviour of the side blotched lizard species uta stansburiana males have either orange blue or yellow throats and each type follows a fixed hereditable mating strategy orange throated males are strongest and do not form strong pair bonds instead they fight orange throated males for their females yellow throated males however
triviaqa-dpql_4610,what is the appropriate name of the craft which crashed into mercury in april,Mercury_(planet)_76,of the planet s interior structure section seven point three point three bepicolombo the european space agency is planning a joint mission with japan called bepicolombo which will orbit mercury with two probes one to map the planet and the other to study its magnetosphere an original plan to include a lander has been shelved a russian soyuz rocket will launch the bus carrying the two probes in twenty thirteen from esa s guiana space center to take advantage of its equatorial location as with messenger the bepicolombo
triviaqa-tb_1365,the battle of kadesh in twelve seventy four bc that took place between the forces of the egyptian empire under ramesses ii and the hittite empire is best known for the use of what type of vehicles,Chess_50,section four history section four point one predecessors chess is commonly believed to have originated in northwest india during the gupta empire where its early form in the sixth century was known as caturaga sanskrit four divisions of the military minus infantry cavalry elephants and chariotry represented by the pieces that would evolve into the modern pawn knight bishop and rook respectively the earliest evidence of chess is found in the neighboring sassanid persia around six hundred where the game came to be known under the name chatrang chatrang is evoked inside three epic romances
triviaqa-qb_361,golfer ernie els was born in which country,Troye_Sivan_2,one point one personal life sivan was born in johannesburg south africa he moved to australia when
triviaqa-qb_254,which king of england sold dunkirk to louis xiv of france,British_Empire_40,its main rival on the imperial stage the death of charles ii of spain in seventeen hundred zero and his bequeathal of spain and its colonial empire to philippe of anjou a grandson of the king of france raised the prospect of the unification of france spain and their respective colonies an unacceptable state of affairs for england and the other powers of europe in seventeen hundred one england portugal and the netherlands sided with the holy roman empire against spain and france in
triviaqa-qw_16576,who was chief justice of the usa from one thousand nine hundred sixty nine to one thousand nine hundred eighty six the longest serving of any other appointed in the twenty th century who delivered controversial decisions on abortion capital punishment religious establishment and school desegregation,Ronald_Reagan_157,he underwent a third skin cancer operation on his nose section eight point four judiciary during his nineteen hundred eighty campaign reagan pledged that if given the opportunity he would appoint the first female supreme court justice that opportunity came in his first year in office when he nominated sandra day oconnor to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of justice potter stewart in his second term reagan elevated william rehnquist to succeed warren burger as chief justice and named antonin scalia to fill the vacant
triviaqa-qg_1261,without this man born on may twelve th one thousand nine hundred thirty seven we would never know seven words you can never say on television who are we referring to,Fuck_(film)_16,to public perception of the word fuck came from class clown by comedian george carlin which included his monologue seven words you can never say on television the director explained in an interview that he was fascinated with the word fuck because of its different uses he originally proposed the idea of a film about the word in jest later realizing that the topic could fuel a documentary the observer quoted him as saying that he was entertained by the word fuck and intrigued with the idea of examining how the word had been incorporated into popular culture he wanted to analyze why some people were offended by its use and others enjoyed it
triviaqa-odql_6772,how many players are there in a curling team,Hockey_Hall_of_Fame_26,each nominee candidates must receive the support of seventy five per cent of the members of the committee present or a minimum of ten votes in any given year a maximum of four players two builders and one referee or linesman are inducted as members player and on ice officials must have been retired for a minimum of three years to be eligible for nomination builders may be active or inactive the waiting period was waived for ten players deemed exceptionally notable most recently wayne gretzky who was inducted in nineteen hundred ninety nine
triviaqa-wh_847,caroline of brunswick was the queen consort of which british king,Princess_Elizabeth_of_Clarence_2,to the throne following the death of elizabeth s cousin h r h princess charlotte in eighteen hundred seventeen and their grandfather george iii in eighteen hundred twenty since the duke s two elder brothers king george iv and the duke of york were both without legitimate children and the king was estranged from his wife and the duke of york unmarried it seemed likely that princess elizabeth would succeed as queen in years to come her mother the duchess of clarence had several difficult pregnancies and elizabeth s elder sister princess charlotte of clarence died on the day of her birth making it unlikely for the duke and duchess to produce any
triviaqa-tc_847,what was the paramount film company originally called,1937_Fox_vault_fire_7,in the united states a series of fires occurred at industry facilities the lubin manufacturing company s vault in philadelphia exploded on thirteen june nineteen hundred fourteen followed on nine december by a fire that destroyed thomas edison s laboratory complex in west orange new jersey the new york studio of the famous players film company burned in september nineteen hundred fifteen in july nineteen hundred twenty the shipping facility of its corporate successor famous players lasky was destroyed by a fire in kansas city
triviaqa-qb_2397,what type of animal is baloo in the novel the jungle book by rudyard kipling,Phil_Collins_42,proved more successful than the movie collins s future acting work was considerably smaller than buster with only a starring role in nineteen hundred ninety three s frauds he had cameo appearances in steven speilberg s hook nineteen hundred ninety one and and the band played on nineteen hundred ninety three he also supplied voices to two animated features balto nineteen hundred ninety five and the jungle book two two thousand three a long discussed but never completed pet project was a movie titled the three bears originally meant to star him alongside danny devito and bob hoskins he
triviaqa-sfq_1759,sir william herschel discovered which planet calling it georges star in honour of king george the third,Rhea_(moon)_2,the fifth major moon going outward from the planet cassini named the four moons he discovered tethys dione rhea and iapetus sidera lodoicea the stars of louis to honor king louis xiv astronomers fell into the habit of referring to them and titan as saturn i through saturn v once mimas and enceladus were discovered in seventeen hundred eighty nine the numbering scheme was extended to saturn vii the names of all seven satellites of saturn then known come from john herschel son of william herschel discoverer of the planet uranus and two other
triviaqa-qf_1492,during which battle did davey crockett lose his life,Davy_Crockett_0,davy crockett david crockett david de crocketagne august seventeen seventeen hundred eighty six minus march six eighteen hundred thirty six was an american folk hero usually referred to as davy crockett he represented tennessee in the u s congress went to texas and died at the alamo table of contents section one early life crockett was born in greene county tennessee descendant from
triviaqa-dpql_2419,which sought after item was situated in the kingdom of colchis,Greek_mythology_70,argonauts the only surviving hellenistic epic the argonautica of apollonius of rhodes epic poet scholar and director of the library of alexandria tells the myth of the voyage of jason and the argonauts to retrieve the golden fleece from the mythical land of colchis in the argonautica jason is impelled on his quest by king pelias who receives a prophecy that a man with one sandal would be his nemesis jason loses a sandal in a river arrives at the court of pelias and the epic is set in motion nearly every member of the next generation of heroes as well as
triviaqa-qb_7062,labour day is celebrated in france during which month of the year,Mary_Wollstonecraft_17,in a vindication of the rights of woman imlay awakened her passions and her interest in sex wollstonecraft soon became pregnant and on fourteen may seventeen hundred ninety four she gave birth to her first child fanny naming her after perhaps her closest friend despite all of the upheavels surrounding her wollstonecraft never ceased writing while in france she gathered information for her version of a history of the early revolution and wrote avidly at le havre in december of seventeen hundred ninety four an historical and moral view of the french revolution was published in london as the political situation worsened england declared war on france placing all english citizens in france in considerable
triviaqa-jp_3341,in what mountain range would you find the homeland of the sherpa people,Common_chiffchaff_18,western relative and had a harsher call it might have been a distinct species but it became extinct in nineteen hundred eighty six at latest probably much earlier the reasons for its extinction are unclear but it appears always to have been scarce and localised occurring only in the haria valley of lanzarote p sindianus the mountain chiffchaff is found in the caucasus p s lorenzii and himalayas p s sindianus and is an altitudinal migrant moving to lower levels in winter the nominate
triviaqa-bt_2785,in music an axe is a slang term for which instrument,Elderly_Instruments_0,elderly instruments elderly instruments is a musical instrument retailer in lansing michigan with a national reputation as a seller repair shop and locus for folk music it specializes in fretted instruments including acoustic and electric guitars bass
triviaqa-qg_3477,lasting from one thousand two hundred ninety nine to one thousand nine hundred twenty two the ottoman empire roughly corresponds to what modern day country,European_Economic_Community_18,see below section one point four towards maastricht greece applied to join the community on twelve june nineteen hundred seventy five following the restoration of democracy and joined on one january nineteen hundred eighty one following on from greece and after their own democratic restoration spain and portugal applied to the communities in nineteen hundred seventy seven and joined together on one january nineteen hundred eighty six in nineteen hundred eighty seven turkey formally applied to join the community and began the longest application process for any country with the prospect of further enlargement and a desire to increase areas of company operation the single
triviaqa-tc_731,richard daley was mayor of which city for twenty one years,Chicago_27,the council takes official action through the passage of ordinances and resolutions section three point one politics the modern era of politics is still in many ways dominated by machine politics a style honed and perfected by richard j daley after his election in nineteen hundred fifty five further evidence of this is the fact that his son richard m daley is the current mayor another point of interest is the party leanings of the city for much of the last century chicago has been considered one of the largest democratic strongholds in the united states for
triviaqa-sfq_11914,in which english county is stonehenge,Peterloo_Massacre_5,by two members of parliament m p s voting was restricted to the adult male owners of freehold land valued at forty shillings or more minus the equivalent of about eighty pound sterling as of two thousand eight minus and votes could only be cast at the county town of lancaster by a public spoken declaration at the hustings constituency boundaries were out of date and the so called rotten boroughs had a hugely disproportionate influence on the membership of the parliament of the united kingdom compared to the size of their populations old sarum in wiltshire with one voter elected two m p s as did dunwich in suffolk which by the early
triviaqa-jp_2057,david stern was the commissioner of what organization,Michael_Jordan_111,an academic study found that jordan s first nba comeback resulted in an increase in the market capitalization of his client firms of more than one dollar billion most of jordan s endorsement deals including the first deal with nike were engineered by his agent david falk jordan has said of falk that he s the best at what he does and that marketing wise he s great he s the one who came up with the concept of air jordan in june twenty ten jordan was ranked by forbes magazine as the twentieth most powerful celebrity in the world
triviaqa-sfq_24244,who was known as the great one in north american ice hockey,Hockey_Hall_of_Fame_17,features displays that include memorabilia from the rosters of nine teams considered to be dynasties because they dominated the n h l for several years at a time this area also has a replica of the montreal canadiens dressing room as it existed at the old montreal forum the panasonic hometown hockey section is dedicated to grass roots hockey in north america it includes exhibits about various leagues and sections on women s and disabled hockey leagues special exhibits in the past included an exhibit in two thousand showcasing gretzky memorabilia
triviaqa-bt_2125,in which american state is yale university,Milgram_experiment_22,of milgram s other experiments used only men obedience did not differ significantly though they indicated experiencing higher levels of stress in one version experiment ten milgram rented a modest office in bridgeport connecticut purporting to be run by a commercial entity called research associates of bridgeport with no apparent connection to yale in order to eliminate the prestige of the university as a possible factor influencing participants behavior the results of this experiment did not significantly differ from those conducted at the yale campus milgram also combined the power of authority with that of conformity in
triviaqa-dpql_2238,in which of shakespeares plays does the fool feste appear,William_Shakespeare_30,of his greatest comedies a midsummer night s dream is a witty mixture of romance fairy magic and comic low life scenes shakespeare s next comedy the equally romantic the merchant of venice contains a portrayal of the vengeful jewish moneylender shylock which reflected elizabethan views but may appear racist to modern audiences the wit and wordplay of much ado about nothing the charming rural setting of as you like it and the lively merrymaking of twelfth night complete shakespeare s sequence of great comedies after the lyrical richard ii written almost entirely in verse shakespeare introduced prose comedy into the histories
triviaqa-dpql_4735,in which country is the mekong delta,Transport_in_Laos_7,railway crossed over the islands of don det and don khon enabling vessels freight and passengers to travel along the mekong river the railway was abandoned and fell into disrepair although some of the infrastructure is still in place in the late nineteen hundred twenties work began on the thakhek minus tan ap railway that would have run between thakhek khammouane province and tan p railway station qung binh province vietnam through the m gi
triviaqa-dpql_4722,on which instrument would a paradiddle be played,The_Smashing_Pumpkins_10,debut album gish with producer butch vig at his smart studios in madison wisconsin for twenty thousand dollars in order to gain the consistency he desired corgan often played all instruments save drums which created tension in the band the music fused heavy metal guitars psychedelia and dream pop garnering them comparisons to jane s addiction gish became a minor success with the single rhinoceros receiving some airplay on modern rock radio after releasing the lull ep in october nineteen hundred ninety one on caroline records the band formally signed with virgin records which was affiliated with
triviaqa-sfq_22389,which public holiday is celebrated on the first monday in september in the usa,1900_Galveston_hurricane_9,the year was going well for galveston the texas heroes monument was dedicated on april twenty one the anniversary of the battle of san jacinto cotton season opened on september one and galveston had become the largest cotton port in the country labor day came on september three with a parade of dockworkers and cotton stuffers on september four the galveston office of the us weather bureau began receiving warnings from the bureau s central office in washington d c that a tropical storm had moved northward over cuba the weather bureau forecasters had no way of knowing where the storm was or where it was going
triviaqa-qf_1723,who elects a new pope,Catholic_Church_16,holy see the position of cardinal is a rank of honour bestowed by popes on certain ecclesiastics such as leaders within the roman curia bishops serving in major cities and distinguished theologians for advice and assistance in governing the pope may turn to the college of cardinals following the death or resignation of a pope members of the college of cardinals who are under age eighty meet in the sistine chapel in rome to elect a successor although this election known as a papal conclave can
triviaqa-qf_2621,how often does a hebdomadal council meet,The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_52,as wards and smaller two through two hundred people congregations known as branches these neighborhood congregations meet in meetinghouses also referred to as chapels or stake centers on property most often owned by the church in some geographic areas rental property may be used as a meetinghouse although the building may sometimes be referred to as a chapel the room used as a chapel for religious services is actually only one component of the standard meetinghouse all persons regardless of their beliefs or their standing in or out of the church are allowed to attend the sacrament similar to communion the lord s supper or the eucharist in other churches is offered weekly to the members of the church except on mondays
triviaqa-qw_5569,the treaty of fontainebleau signed on eleven april one thousand eight hundred fourteen by representatives of france austria hungary bohemia russia and prussia had a marked effect on the personal life of whom,British_Empire_55,and the united states escalated again during the napoleonic wars as britain tried to cut off american trade with france and boarded american ships to impress into the royal navy men of british birth the u s declared war the war of eighteen hundred twelve and invaded canadian territory but the pre war boundaries were reaffirmed by the eighteen hundred fourteen treaty of ghent ensuring canada s future would be separate from that of the united states section three point two exploration of the pacific since seventeen hundred eighteen
triviaqa-bb_8909,the centigrade temperature scale is also known commonly by what name,Minneapolis_12,in northeast minneapolis is corroborated by google earth as the highest ground minneapolis has a continental climate typical of the upper midwestern united states winters can be cold and dry while summer is comfortably warm although at times it can be hot and humid on the koppen climate classification minneapolis falls in the warm summer humid continental climate zone dfa the city experiences a full range of precipitation and related weather events including snow sleet ice rain thunderstorms tornadoes and fog the warmest temperature ever recorded in minneapolis was one hundred eight f forty two point two c in july nineteen hundred thirty six and the coldest temperature ever recorded was
triviaqa-bb_1263,from which country did french horns originate,Metal_umlaut_13,the vowel the french equivalent moteur is genuinely pronounced that way for the crue according to vince neil in the band s behind the music edition the inspiration came from a lowenbrau bottle at one motley crue performance in germany the entire audience started chanting mertley crew e a pronunciation often used in hungary as well queensryche went further by putting the umlaut over the y in their name the symbol y is used in dutch handwriting to display the letter ij instead
triviaqa-qb_3674,the zugsptize is the highest mountain in which european country,Munich_8,and the seat of numerous corporations and insurance companies it is a top ranked destination for migration and expatriate location despite being the municipality with the highest density of population four thousand five hundred inh per kmsquare in germany munich achieved fourth place in the frequently quoted mercer livability rankings in two thousand eleven and twenty twelve for economic and social innovation the city was ranked fifteenth
triviaqa-qw_777,what is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world and the second longest running medical drama in the world behind americas general hospital,Scott_Mills_8,to his radio show the musical is available for viewing on the bbc radio one website section four television work in addition to his radio work he has also appeared on various television shows playing both as a character and as himself his main acting role was as reporter paul lang in the bbc medical drama casualty appearing in episodes in both two thousand six and two thousand seven he also had a cameo in the bbc scotland soap opera river city after praising the show highly on his radio show he has appeared as a contestant or guest on programmes including mastermind supermarket sweep children in need
triviaqa-wh_4372,who was manager of sheffield wednesday when they won the league cup in nineteen ninety one beating manchester united in the final,Sheffield_Wednesday_F.C%2e_13,the top flight under the management of ron atkinson and their league cup victory over manchester united to win their first major trophy for over fifty years the nineteen hundred ninety two to ninety three season established sheffield wednesday as a top club as they visited wembley four times during the season minus a league cup final and an fa cup semi final final and replay in the fa cup semi finals they recorded a historic win over the city rivals sheffield united two to one however wednesday failed to win any silverware losing to arsenal in both league and fa cup finals the latter after andy linighan s late extra time winner in the replay to give arsenal the victory wednesday s fortunes
triviaqa-odql_8345,who coached new zealand when they won the two thousand eleven rugby union world cup,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_31,canada and tonga before winning one of the most competitive matches of the tournament against wales they defeated south africa a team they had never beaten at the world cup twenty nine to nine but lost again to australia twenty two to ten in the semi final in sydney afterwards mitchell was fired by the nzru and replaced by graham henry henry s tenure began with a double victory over reigning world champions england in two thousand four the two games had an aggregate score of seventy two to fifteen with the all blacks keeping england try less despite the winning start to henry s tenure the tri nations was a mixed success with two wins and two losses the competition was the
triviaqa-sfq_17923,what is the surname of the us astronaut after whom the thunderbirds character john tracy is named,Orion_(spacecraft)_40,abort system in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or during ascent a launch escape system called the launch abort system las will separate the crew module from the launch vehicle using a solid rocket powered launch abort motor am which is more powerful than the atlas one zero nine d booster that launched astronaut john glenn into orbit in nineteen hundred sixty two there are two other propulsion systems in the las stack the attitude control motor acm and the jettison motor j m on ten july two thousand seven orbital
triviaqa-qf_1696,tanganyika and zanzibar merged in nineteen sixty four to become which east african republic,Zanzibar_women%27s_national_football_team_5,or other caf sanctioned events aziza mwadini and sabai yusuf are two zanzibar based players who have participated in a tanzanian national team training camp as of twenty eleven mohammed remained the team s head coach zanzibar football association founded in nineteen hundred twenty six is recognised by the council for east and central africa football associations but not by fifa despite repeated attempts for such recognition the federation is an member of the confederation of african football and the national team is limited in their ability to compete in sanctioned events by these organisations zanzibar were meant to play in the
triviaqa-odql_11421,what was the currency of the netherlands from the seventeen th century until two thousand two ,Gold_standard_24,monetary union denmark norway and sweden at two thousand four hundred eighty krone to one k g gold eighteen hundred seventy five netherlands at one guilder to zero point six zero four eight g gold eighteen hundred seventy six france internally eighteen hundred seventy six spain at thirty one pesetas to nine g gold eighteen hundred seventy eight finland at thirty one marks to nine g gold eighteen hundred seventy nine austria see austrian florin and
triviaqa-dpql_5779,which language gave english the word honcho as in head honcho,Mammary_intercourse_4,titfuck or titty fuck in the united states as well as tit wank or french fuck in the united kingdom the japanese sex industry uses the term paizuri from oppai a slang word for breast table of contents section one see
triviaqa-jp_3277,what is the lead in modern pencils made from,Timpani_34,birch persimmon or maple or bamboo but may also be made from aluminum or graphite the head of the stick can be constructed
triviaqa-qb_4695,in november one thousand nine hundred seventy five juan carlos was declared king of which european country,Same-sex_marriage_in_Spain_22,was denied the opportunity to address parliament after zapatero s appearance and accused zapatero of dividing spanish society when the media asked king juan carlos if he would endorse the bill that was being debated in the cortes generales he answered that he was the king of spain not of belgium minus a reference to king baudouin i of belgium who refused to sign the belgian law legalizing
triviaqa-odql_3929,which modern day motor car company made the world war ii japanese aircraft the zero,Howard_Hughes_21,mph five hundred eighteen k m forward slash h the h one racer featured a number of design innovations it had retractable landing gear as boeing monomail had five years before and all rivets and joints set flush into the body of the aircraft to reduce drag the h one racer is thought to have influenced the design of a number of world war ii fighters such as the mitsubishi zero the focke wulf f w one hundred ninety and the f eight f bearcat although that has never been reliably confirmed the h one racer was donated to the smithsonian in nineteen hundred seventy five and is on display at the national air and space museum on july ten
triviaqa-odql_8649,paul mccartney and heather mills became parents together michael howard became leader of the conservative party and saddam hussein was captured which year,Murder_of_James_Bulger_2,two boys should serve a minimum of ten years behind bars which would have made them eligible for release in two thousand three but the popular press and certain sections of the public felt that the sentence was too lenient and the editors of the sun newspaper handed a petition bearing three hundred thousand signatures to home secretary michael howard in a bid to increase the time spent by both boys in custody in nineteen hundred ninety five the two boys minimum period to be served was increased to fifteen years a ruling which meant they would not be considered for release until two thousand eight by which time they would both be twenty six years old in
triviaqa-sfq_18289,which shakespeare play is set in the forest of arden,William_Shakespeare_43,turn of the sixteenth century by robert armin who played roles such as touchstone in as you like it and the fool in king lear in sixteen hundred thirteen sir henry wotton recorded that henry viii was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and ceremony on twenty nine june however a cannon set fire to the thatch of the globe and burned the theatre to the ground an event which pinpoints the date of a shakespeare play with rare precision section two point two textual sources in sixteen hundred twenty three john heminges and henry condell two of shakespeare s friends from the king s men published the first
triviaqa-tc_2622,in which parliament has the uk eighty seven seats for members who are elected for a five year term,European_Economic_Community_29,has a right to one european commissioner each although in the european commission they are not supposed to represent their national interest but that of the community prior to two thousand four the larger members france germany italy and the united kingdom have had two commissioners in the european parliament members are allocated a set number seats related to their population however these since nineteen hundred seventy nine have been directly elected and they sit according to political allegiance not national origin most other institutions including the european court of justice have some form of national division of its members
triviaqa-sfq_8650,when alexander the great had an empire to which asian country did it stretch,British_Empire_78,dynasty this rivalry in eurasia came to be known as the great game as far as britain was concerned defeats inflicted by russia on persia and turkey demonstrated its imperial ambitions and capabilities and stoked fears in britain of an overland invasion of india in eighteen hundred thirty nine britain moved to pre empt this by invading afghanistan but the first anglo afghan war was a disaster for britain when russia invaded the turkish balkans in eighteen hundred fifty three fears of russian dominance in the mediterranean
triviaqa-bb_5544,proposed in seventeen seventy six e pluribus unum one from many is on the national seal and banknotes of which nation,The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy_31,the book are taken from unpublished letters to playboy magazine where the authors were working as associate editors while they wrote the novels among the oddest the suggestion that adam weishaupt founder of the bavarian illuminati killed george washington and took on his identity as president of the united states is often noted in illuminati conspiracy discussion proponents of this theory point to washington s portrait on the united states one dollar bill which they suggest closely resembles the face of weishaupt section three point two fnord one of the most well known concepts in the book is the fnord a word coined by the writers of principia discordia
triviaqa-sfq_6752,which us president was nicknamed the gipper,Ronald_Reagan_201,this poll of u k specialists in u s history and politics placed reagan as the eighth greatest u s president reagan s ability to connect with the american people earned him the laudatory moniker the great communicator of it reagan said i won the nickname the great communicator but i never thought it was my style that made a difference it was the content i wasnt a great communicator but i communicated great things his age and soft spoken speech gave him a warm grandfatherly image reagan
triviaqa-sfq_22132,which us naval shipyard shares its name with an english county,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_40,naval shipyard eighteen october for an overhaul which lasted until thirty january nineteen hundred fifty two following winter and spring training out of guantanamo bay missouri visited new york then set course from norfolk nine june for another midshipman cruise she returned to norfolk four august and entered norfolk naval shipyard to prepare for a second tour in the korean combat zone missouri stood out of hampton roads on eleven september nineteen hundred fifty two and arrived yokosuka seventeen october she broke the flag of vice admiral joseph j clark commander of the seventh fleet on nineteen october her
triviaqa-qf_2048,mary arden had a famous son who was he,William_Shakespeare_6,section one life section one point one early life william shakespeare was the son of john shakespeare a successful glover and alderman originally from snitterfield and mary arden the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer he was born in stratford upon avon and baptised on twenty six april fifteen sixty four his unknown birthday is traditionally observed on twenty three april saint george s day this date which can be traced back to an eighteenth century scholar s mistake has
triviaqa-qf_984,which english writer died on the same day as spanish writer miguel de cervantes in sixteen sixteen ,William_Shakespeare_22,shakespeare died on twenty three april sixteen hundred sixteen and was survived by his wife and two daughters susanna had married a physician john hall in sixteen hundred seven and judith had married thomas quiney a vintner two months before shakespeare s death in his will shakespeare left the bulk of his large estate to his elder daughter susanna the terms instructed that she pass it down intact to the first son of her body the quineys had three children all of whom died without marrying the halls had one child elizabeth who married twice but died without children in sixteen hundred seventy ending shakespeare s direct line shakespeare s
triviaqa-qw_6538,where was the first competition named the fifa club world cup held in twenty six ,Gilberto_Silva_10,a selecao by luiz felipe scolari for the two thousand two world cup qualification games he made his international debut against chile on october seven coming on as a substitute on november seven he made his debut in the starting line up of the national team against bolivia his international career continued to flourish in early two thousand two he scored twice against bolivia and once against iceland in two thousand two he was a surprise inclusion in the brazil squad for the two thousand two fifa world cup in south korea and japan he was expected to play a bit part in the tournament however
triviaqa-bb_2899,what alternatively called milk acid is produced in the human body in power exercises,Cheese_2,are eaten both on their own and cooked into various dishes most cheeses melt when cooked for a few cheeses the milk is curdled by adding acids such as vinegar or lemon juice most cheeses however are acidified to a lesser degree by bacteria which turn milk sugars into lactic acid followed by the addition of rennet to complete the curdling rennet is an enzyme traditionally obtained from the stomach lining of young cattle but now also laboratory produced substitute vegetable rennets have been extracted from various species of the cynara thistle family the word cheese is derived through middle english chese and old english cese or cse from the latin caseus table of contents section one history cheese is an ancient food whose origins may predate recorded
triviaqa-sfq_18703,in which london building do you find the jerusalem chamber,Henry_Purcell_19,to the organ in westminster abbey his epitaph reads here lyes henry purcell esq who left this life and is gone to that blessed place where only his harmony can be exceeded a purcell club was founded in london in eighteen hundred thirty six for promoting the performance of his music but was dissolved in eighteen hundred sixty three in eighteen hundred seventy six a purcell society was founded which published new
triviaqa-dpql_5268,which planet did gustav holst describe as the winged messenger,Mercury_(planet)_72,on august three two thousand four from the cape canaveral air force station aboard a boeing delta two rocket the messenger spacecraft will make several close approaches to planets to place it onto the correct trajectory to reach an orbit around mercury it made a fly by of the earth in august two thousand five and of venus in october two thousand six and june two thousand seven the first fly by of mercury occurred on january fourteen two thousand eight two more fly b y s of mercury are scheduled in october
triviaqa-bb_1464,what colourcolor is mr bump in hargreaves mr men series of childrens cartoon books,Theory_of_Colours_27,blue red green and vice versa thus all intermediate gradations reciprocally evoke each other the simpler colour demanding the compound and vice versa goethe theory of colours section two newton and goethe due to their different approaches to a common subject many misunderstandings have arisen between newton s mathematical understanding of optics and goethe s experiential approach because newton understands white light to be composed of individual colours and goethe sees colour arising from the interaction of light and dark they
triviaqa-odql_13002,against which state did athens fight the peloponnesian wars,Greek_mythology_67,hero of one dorian phyle became the son of heracles and one of the heracleidae or heraclids the numerous descendants of heracles especially the descendants of hyllus minus other heracleidae included macaria lamos manto bianor tlepolemus and telephus these heraclids conquered the peloponnesian kingdoms of mycenae sparta and argos claiming according to legend a right to rule them through their ancestor their rise to dominance is frequently called the dorian invasion the lydian and later the macedonian kings
triviaqa-sfq_1224,who was poet laureate from one thousand eight hundred fifty to one thousand eight hundred ninety two ,Imagism_5,era of the eighteen hundred nineties such as alfred austin stephen phillips and william watson had been working very much in the shadow of tennyson producing weak imitations of the poetry of the victorian era they continued to work in this vein into the early years of the twentieth century as the new century opened austin was still the serving british poet laureate a post which he held up to nineteen hundred thirteen in the century s first decade poetry still had a large audience volumes of verse published in that time included thomas hardy s the dynasts christina rossetti s posthumous poetical works ernest
triviaqa-qf_1634,who played their final live gig at candlestick park san francisco in nineteen sixty six ,Oasis_(band)_22,made the wrong decision gallagher curtly replied i think you have too good luck signing on one in february nineteen hundred ninety six oasis became only the third band after the beatles and the jam to perform two songs on the same edition of british music television programme top of the pops miming to dont look back in anger and their cover of slade s cum on feel the noize on april twenty seven and twenty eight the group played their first headline outdoor concerts a taste of things to come at maine road football ground manchester the then home of their beloved manchester city highlights
triviaqa-qb_9527,who was the first person to bear the title of holy roman emperor,George_V_59,twenty three were the only times george agreed to leave the united kingdom on official business after the end of the war section five point three later life before the first world war most of europe was ruled by monarchs related to george but during and after the war the monarchies of austria germany greece and spain like russia fell to revolution and war in march nineteen hundred nineteen lieutenant colonel edward lisle strutt was dispatched on the personal authority of the king to escort the former emperor charles i of austria and his
triviaqa-sfq_23767,which bird was the emblem of prussia,George_V_104,order of the red eagle prussia order of the white falcon saxe weimar badge of the order of the redeemer second type greece king christian ix jubilee medal denmark king christian ix and queen louise of denmark golden wedding commemorative medal denmark cross of liberty estonia first class seventeen june nineteen hundred twenty five grand cross of the order of the colonial empire portugal nineteen february nineteen hundred thirty four section seven point three point one honorary foreign military appointments one february nineteen hundred one a la suite of the german navy twenty six january nineteen hundred two colonel in chief of the rhenish cuirassier regiment count gesler no eight kingdom of prussia section seven point four honorary degrees and offices eight june eighteen hundred ninety three royal fellow of the royal society installed six
triviaqa-jp_1808,sinhala is the official language of which country,Trincomalee_18,great cities of the ancient kings were now lost and disappeared into the jungle and were not rediscovered until the nineteenth century native power was henceforth centred on a kaleidoscopically shifting collection of kingdoms in south and central sri lanka the north in the meanwhile eventually evolved into the jaffna kingdom which was subjected colonial rule by the portuguese in sixteen hundred nineteen magha s geopolitical impact is reflected in the changing language of the culavamsa as well the traditional divisions of sri lanka into rajarata
triviaqa-sfq_8735,which is the only country outside africa where lions can be found in the wild,Bidet_8,particularly in japan india and south korea almost all houses in the arab world including lebanon syria jordan kuwait saudi arabia qatar and united arab emirates are equipped with bidets although france is the country where the word bidet originated not every house is equipped with one especially the smaller or cheaper flats as well as recent constructions also almost all the houses in argentina paraguay and uruguay are equipped with bidets although they do
triviaqa-qw_8739,according to greek legend which sorceress helped jason to find the golden fleece and became his wife,Greek_mythology_14,additionally myth was central to classical athenian drama the tragic playwrights aeschylus sophocles and euripides took their plots from the age of heroes and the trojan war many of the great tragic stories e g agamemnon and his children oedipus jason medea etcetera took on their classic form in these tragic plays for his part the comic playwright aristophanes used myths as in the birds or the frogs historians herodotus and diodorus siculus and geographers pausanias and strabo who traveled
triviaqa-odql_671,director james cameron collected the oscar for best director in nineteen ninety eight for which film,RMS_Titanic_73,twelve atlantic nineteen hundred twenty nine titanic nineteen hundred forty three titanic nineteen hundred fifty three a night to remember nineteen hundred fifty eight s o s titanic t v movie nineteen hundred seventy nine raise the titanic nineteen hundred eighty titanic t v mini series nineteen hundred ninety six titanic nineteen hundred ninety seven the most widely viewed is the nineteen hundred ninety seven film titanic directed by james cameron and starring leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet it became the highest grossing film in history it also won eleven academy awards out of fourteen nominations tying with ben hur nineteen hundred fifty nine and the
triviaqa-qw_4687,on fifteen february one thousand nine hundred ninety the united kingdom restored diplomatic relations after eight years with which country,British_Empire_137,demonstrating that henceforth it could no longer act without at least the acquiescence if not the full support of the united states the events at suez wounded british national pride leading one m p to describe it as britain s waterloo and another to suggest that the country had become an american satellite margaret thatcher later described the mindset she believed had befallen the british political establishment as suez syndrome from which britain did not recover until the successful recapture of the falkland islands from argentina in
triviaqa-qz_374,the invention of what in eighteen sixty seven made alfred nobel famous,Alfred_Nobel_0,alfred nobel alfred bernhard nobel forward slash nobl forward slash swedish alfrd nbl about this sound listen help info twenty one october eighteen hundred thirty three minus ten december eighteen hundred ninety six was a swedish chemist engineer innovator and armaments manufacturer he was the inventor of dynamite nobel also owned bofors which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments nobel held three hundred fifty five different patents dynamite being the most famous after reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms
triviaqa-odql_12235,in which us state was singer bruno mars born,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_71,the cullman times an alabama newspaper reported that at a town hall meeting there u s senator from alabama richard shelby was asked if there was any truth to the rumors that obama was not a natural born citizen according to the times report shelby said well his father was kenyan and they said he was born in hawaii but i havent seen any birth certificate you have to be born in america to be president a shelby spokesperson denied the story but the newspaper stood by it section five point one point two roy blunt on
triviaqa-odql_704,what name is given to the lowest commissioned officer in a cavalry regiment such as prince harry,Prince_Harry_50,continues to use wales as his surname for military purposes and is known as captain harry wales in such contexts if his father succeeds to the throne harry s style will become his royal highness the prince henry traditionally sons of the reigning monarch and of the prince of wales receive a dukedom immediately prior to marriage the most recent being prince william who became duke of cambridge section six point one point one military ranks united kingdom thirteen april two thousand six minus thirteen april two thousand eight cornet second lieutenant the blues and royals united kingdom
triviaqa-bb_7364,who won the two thousand seven nobel peace prize for his environmental work including the controversial film an inconvenient truth,An_Inconvenient_Truth_0,an inconvenient truth an inconvenient truth is a documentary film about climate change especially global warming directed by davis guggenheim and starring former united states vice president al gore the documentary is based largely on a multimedia presentation that gore developed over many years as part of an educational campaign on global warming an inconvenient truth is also the title of a companion book
triviaqa-qg_1049,founded in seventeen seventy five george washington was the commander in chief of what army,George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River_0,george washington s crossing of the delaware river washington s crossing of the delaware river which occurred on december twenty five seventeen hundred seventy six during the american revolutionary war was the first move in a surprise attack organized by george washington against the hessian forces in trenton new jersey planned in partial secrecy washington led a column of continental army troops across the icy delaware river in a logistically challenging and dangerous operation other planned crossings in support of the operation were either called off or ineffective but this did not prevent washington from
triviaqa-qw_4635,with which sport is o j simpson associated,American_football_104,through pain and sacrificing for the better of the team are promoted in professional football culture in canada the game has a significant following minus according to a twenty thirteen poll twenty one per cent of respondents said they followed the n f l very closely or fairly closely making it the third most followed league behind the national hockey league n h l and canadian football league c f l american football also has a long history in mexico which was introduced to the sport in eighteen hundred ninety six american football was
triviaqa-odql_6714,which group topped the uk charts for one week in nineteen ninety seven with dyou know what i mean,Oasis_(band)_25,who followed on another flight it received massive media attention and the group promptly issued a statement assuring fans that oasis were not splitting up the next month they met at abbey road to begin recording their third album oasis spent the end of nineteen hundred ninety six and the first quarter of nineteen hundred ninety seven recording their third album be here now was released in august nineteen hundred ninety seven the band choosing to launch it on a thursday rather than the traditional monday preceded by the uk hashtag one single dyou know what i mean the album was perhaps their most anticipated effort and as such became the subject of considerable
triviaqa-sfq_22941,the laburnum tree has what colour flowers,Australian_ringneck_6,two description the subspecies of the australian ringneck differ considerably in coloration it is a medium size species of around thirty three c m long the basic colour is green and all four subspecies have the characteristic yellow ring around the hindneck wings and tail are a mixture of green and blue the b z zonarius and b z semitorquatus subspecies have a dull black head back rump and wings are brilliant green throat and breast bluish green the different between these two subspecies is that b z zonarius has a yellow abdomen while b z semitorquatus has a green abdomen the latter has also a prominent
triviaqa-bb_6256,name the last us president to meet the leader of cuba before barack obama did in twenty fifteen ,Cold_War_93,the july twenty six movement seized power in january nineteen hundred fifty nine toppling president fulgencio batista whose unpopular regime had been denied arms by the eisenhower administration diplomatic relations between cuba and the united states continued for some time after batista s fall but president eisenhower deliberately left the capital to avoid meeting cuba s young revolutionary leader fidel castro during the latter s trip to washington in april leaving vice president richard nixon to conduct the meeting in his place eisenhower s officials were not sure as to whether castro was a communist but
triviaqa-bb_8778,what strife torn countrys football association was suspended by fifa due to interference by its government,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_41,arabia became the focus of worldwide attention once again as it was questioned whether the government was indeed cracking down on radicals the saudi government pledged their support to the war on terror and vowed to try to eliminate militant elements however in may two thousand three an insurgency in saudi arabia began believed to be conducted by al qaeda affiliates this consisted mainly of attacks on foreigners in an attempt to expel them from the country and hurt the saudi government while the number of attacks dropped significantly in two thousand five they exposed the vulnerability of the country concern was also voiced over the large number of saudis fighting american soldiers in iraq following the two thousand three
triviaqa-wh_3456,what was the name of the african american civil rights activist dubbed the first lady of civil rights who on december one st one refused to obey bus driver james blakes order that she gave up her seat in the coloured section of the bus to a white passenger because the white section was full,Rosa_Parks_1,day civil rights movement parks is famous for her refusal in nineteen hundred fifty five to obey a bus driver s demand that she give up her bus seat to a white passenger her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience ignited the montgomery bus boycott one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history and launched martin luther king jr one of the organizers of the boycott to the forefront of the civil rights movement her role in american history earned her an iconic status in american culture and her actions have left an enduring legacy for worldwide civil rights movements table of contents section one early years rosa parks was born rosa
triviaqa-qb_9264,the kingdom of bahrain lies in which body of water,The_Economist_35,magazine which often appears on newsstands with missing pages some issues such as one covering king fahd s death in two thousand five were banned from the kingdom robert mugabe s government in zimbabwe went further and imprisoned the economist s correspondent there charging him with violating an infamous statute against publishing untruth although he was later acquitted only to receive a deportation order in june fifteen two thousand six iran banned the sale of the economist due to a map incorrectly labling the persian gulf as the gulf sixteen iran s action can be put into context within the
triviaqa-odql_2965,the estonian arvo part wrote a cantus to mourn which english composer who died in nineteen seventy six ,Henry_Purcell_22,is among the baroque composers who has had a direct influence on modern rock and roll according to pete townshend of the who purcell was among his influences particularly evident in the opening bars of the who s pinball wizard the title song from the sound track of the film a clockwork orange is from purcell s music for the funeral of queen mary purcell also had a strong influence on the composers of the english musical renaissance of the early twentieth century most notably benjamin britten who created and performed a realisation of dido and aeneas and whose young person s guide to the orchestra is based on a theme from purcell s abdelazar
triviaqa-sfq_7537,who during a radio microphone test in nineteen eighty four said i just signed legislation which outlaws russia forever the bombing begins in five minutes,Ronald_Reagan_206,the following joke as a way to test the microphone my fellow americans i m pleased to tell you today that i ve signed legislation that will outlaw russia forever we begin bombing in five minutes former aide david gergen commented it was that humor that i think endeared people to reagan section eleven point four honors reagan received a number of awards in his pre minus and post presidential years following his election as president reagan received a lifetime gold membership in the screen actors guild was inducted into the national speakers association speaker hall
triviaqa-jp_1022,who did claus von stauffenberg plot to kill,Felix_von_Luckner_27,in nineteen hundred thirty seven and nineteen hundred thirty eight he and his wife undertook a round the world voyage in his yacht seeteufel being welcomed in new zealand and australia though some viewed him as an apologist for the nazi regime during the second world war hitler tried to use him for propaganda purposes though as a mason he was not in one of the nazi s favoured groups of people von luckner refused to renounce his membership of the masons or the various honorary citizenships granted in the us and consequently he suffered by having his bank account frozen in nineteen hundred forty three he saved the life of a jewish woman rose janson whom he provided with a passport he found on a
triviaqa-qz_186,what is the most popular natural attraction in alaska,Hillary_Clinton_22,seven minutes she was featured in an article published in life magazine due to the response to a part of her speech that criticized senator edward brooke who had spoken before her at the commencement she also appeared on irv kupcinet s nationally syndicated television talk show as well as in illinois and new england newspapers that summer she worked her way across alaska washing dishes in mount mckinley national park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in valdez which fired her and shut down overnight when she
triviaqa-sfq_13345,what was the name of the russian space station launched in nineteen eighty six ,Chris_Hadfield_2,center for twenty five shuttle missions chris was the voice of mission control the chief capcom for nasa for his first shuttle mission s t s seven four in nineteen hundred ninety five chris was mission specialist hashtag one on the atlantis operating the canadarm for nasa s second space shuttle mission to rendezvous with the russian space station mir on his next mission s t s one zero zero as mission specialist on the endeavour in two thousand one chris spent fourteen hours fifty four minutes outside the craft on two spacewalks including the first by a canadian on this mission the crew used the canadarm two robotic arm to support assembly of the new international space station
triviaqa-qw_10423,what colour is lapis lazuli,S%c3%a1pmi_5,hundred seventy six fjellner described the sami as sons and daughters of the sun the flag s circle represents the sun red and the moon blue the flag has the sami colours red green yellow and blue pantone colour formula is red four eight five c green three five six c yellow one one six c and blue two eight six c section three area the area covered by lapland lies mostly north of the arctic circle the western portion is an area of fiords deep valleys glaciers and mountains the highest point being mount kebnekaise
triviaqa-odql_4621,the name of which month is used for a letter in the phonetic alphabet,Toilets_in_Japan_18,november ten because in japan the numbers eleven forward slash ten for the month and the day can be read as ii to ire which also means good toilet section three types of toilets section three point one squat toilet the traditional japanese style washiki toilet is a squat toilet also known as the asian toilet as squat toilets of somewhat similar design are common all over asia a squat toilet differs from a western toilet in both construction and method of
triviaqa-sfq_14431,which british island was known to the romans as mona,Longest_word_in_English_29,which is a hill in new zealand the name is in the mori language in canada the longest place name is dysart dudley harcourt guilford harburn bruton havelock eyre and clyde a township in ontario at sixty eight letters the five eight character name llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the famous name of a town on anglesey an island of wales this place s name is actually fifty one letters long as certain character groups in welsh are considered as one letter for instance l l ng and
triviaqa-qz_5075,which famous resident resides at highgrove house,Ruthin_7,as a country house and is now a luxury hotel the ruthin castle hotel to distinguish it from the less expensive but still architecturally interesting castle hotel on saint peter s square from eighteen hundred twenty six until nineteen hundred twenty one the castle was the home of the cornwallis west family members of victorian and edwardian high society minus the prince of wales being a guest as was the actress missus patrick campbell george cornwallis west became the stepfather of sir winston churchill despite being only seventeen days older than him the antics at the castle no doubt causing some degree of scandal to the townsfolk at the time the first house of correction or bridewell was built at the bottom of c l w y d street next to
triviaqa-qg_737,two hundred nine year ago today was the founding of the united states military academy at what new york location,Chesty_Puller_2,one early life through world war i puller whose nickname was inspired by his barrel chest was born in west point virginia he was a distant relative of u s army general george s patton he resigned from the virginia military institute after his freshman year to enlist as a private in the marine corps in august nineteen hundred eighteen serial number
triviaqa-odql_5884,which stretch of waterway separates madagascar from the african mainland,Cyclone_Elita_1,times the fifth named storm of the two thousand three to four south west indian ocean cyclone season elita developed in the mozambique channel on january twenty four two thousand four it strengthened to become a tropical cyclone before striking northwestern madagascar on january twenty eight elita weakened to tropical depression status while crossing the island and after exiting into the southwest indian ocean it turned to the west and moved ashore in eastern madagascar on january thirty one after once again crossing the island the cyclone reached the mozambique channel and
triviaqa-qg_169,the capital of north carolina was named for what famed seventeen th century english explorer and lover of tobacco,Oriel_College%2c_Oxford_67,associated with the college many notable and famous people have passed through oriel s gates from statesmen to cricketers to industrialists their most famous undergraduate is the sixteenth century explorer sir walter raleigh the college has produced many churchmen bishops cardinals governors and two nobel prize recipients alexander todd chemistry and james meade economics the professorial fellowships the college holds are the regius professor of modern history held by robert evans and formerly by sir john elliott and thomas arnold the oriel professor of the
triviaqa-odql_9564,the flag of the isle of man is a triskelion on what colour background,Flag_of_Canada_28,whose shield was used on the red ensign on a red flag
triviaqa-sfq_2318,what is the title of the last harry potter novel published in twenty seven ,Harry_Potter_(film_series)_2,instalment in the series harry potter and the deathly hallows is split into two feature length parts part one was released in november twenty ten while part two is currently in post production and is set to be released in july twenty eleven table of contents section one origins late in nineteen hundred ninety seven film producer david heyman s london offices received a copy of the first book in what would become rowling s series of seven harry potter novels the book harry potter and
triviaqa-qb_3045,which country has the internet domain de,Munich_132,international airport iata muc icao eddm is the second largest airport in germany and seventh largest in europe after london heathrow paris charle de gaulle frankfurt amsterdam madrid and istanbul ataturk it is used by about thirty four million passengers a year and lies some thirty k m nineteen mi north east of the city centre it replaced the smaller munich riem airport in nineteen hundred ninety two the airport can be reached by suburban train lines s eight
triviaqa-sfq_4264,in the context of uk government for what does the c stand in the acronym cobra,Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom_9,of the monarchy the protector s council was abolished charles ii restored the royal privy council but he like previous stuart monarchs chose to rely on a small committee of advisors under george i who did not speak english even more power passed to the body thus the privy council as a whole ceased to be a body of important confidential advisors to the sovereign the role passed to a committee of the privy council now known as the cabinet section two composition the sovereign may appoint all privy counsellors but in practice does so on the advice of the government there is no limit to the numbers sworn in as members
triviaqa-sfq_16908,on which island is president ulysses sgrant burled,George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River_5,island in august and had pushed george washington s continental army completely out of new york by mid november when he captured the remaining troops on manhattan howe then sent troops under the command of charles cornwallis across the hudson river into new jersey and chased washington across new jersey washington s army was shrinking due to expiring enlistments and desertions and suffered from poor morale due to the defeats in the new york area most of washington s army crossed the delaware river into pennsylvania north of trenton new jersey and destroyed or moved to the western shore all boats
triviaqa-jp_1347,what drinking vessel supposedly confers eternal life on those who drink from it,Immortality_6,among such people gunpowder was said to have been invented by chinese alchemists in pursuit of immortality the depiction in literature of gilgamesh was one such as this and an entire cycle or cycles of arthurian legend exist in the british isles including the knights of the round table going in search for the holy grail supposedly the chalice from which jesus and his disciples drank from at the last supper in more recent times people have had their dead bodies frozen and kept at low temperatures in the hopes that advances in medical science forward slash technology will allow them to be unfrozen cured and restored to health at some
triviaqa-odql_309,the musical sunday in the park with george was inspired by a painting by which artist,Museum_of_Bad_Art_37,to the style of georges seurat one critic speculates that the pointillistic style in george may have been acquired from watching too much t v author amy levin sees the work as a spoof of a sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte more commonly known as sunday in the park with george the subject of this painting has been tentatively identified by the annals of improbable research the creators of the ig nobel award as john ashcroft former attorney general of the united states a visitor was so moved by george that he felt compelled to express his
triviaqa-qw_14371,the king of what country became icelands ruler by treaty in twelve sixty two ,William_the_Conqueror_56,was not entirely secure however as there were other claimants perhaps including his exiled brother tostig king harald hardrada of norway also had a claim to the throne as the uncle and heir of king magnus i who had made a pact with harthacnut in about ten forty that if either magnus or harthacnut died without heirs the other would succeed the last claimant was william of normandy against whose anticipated invasion king harold godwinson made most of his preparations harold s brother tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of england
triviaqa-jp_67,what writer was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to hard labor,Cleveland_Street_scandal_3,perceptions of him since the scandal fuelled the attitude that male homosexuality was an aristocratic vice that corrupted lower class youths a few years later such perceptions were still prevalent when the marquess of queensberry accused oscar wilde of being an active homosexual wilde sued queensberry for libel but his case collapsed he was arrested found guilty of indecency and condemned to two years hard labour table of contents
triviaqa-dpql_5190,what was the first name of the poet mr pope one thousand six hundred eighty eight one thousand seven hundred forty four ,Isaac_Newton_68,seventeen hundred twenty eight an historical account of two notable corruptions of scripture seventeen hundred fifty four observations on daniel and the apocalypse of saint john seventeen hundred thirty three section eight fame french mathematician joseph louis lagrange often said that newton was the greatest genius who ever lived and once added that he was also the most fortunate for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish english poet alexander pope was moved by newton s accomplishments to write the famous epitaph
triviaqa-sfq_19224,which monarch granted a royal charter to the british east india company,British_Empire_16,men section two first british empire one thousand five hundred eighty three to seventeen hundred eighty three in one thousand five hundred seventy eight elizabeth i granted a patent to humphrey gilbert for discovery and overseas exploration that year gilbert sailed for the west indies with the intention of engaging in piracy and establishing a colony in north america but the expedition was aborted before it had crossed the atlantic in fifteen eighty three he embarked on a second attempt
triviaqa-qg_636,what gas is necessary for plants to perform photosynthesis,Zinc_97,and carboxypeptidase which are vital to the processes of carbon dioxide company two regulation and digestion of proteins respectively in vertebrate blood carbonic anhydrase converts company two into bicarbonate and the same enzyme transforms the bicarbonate back into company two for exhalation through the lungs without this enzyme this conversion would occur about one million times slower at the normal blood ph of seven or would require a ph of ten or more the non related carbonic anhydrase is required in plants for leaf
triviaqa-qz_2176,which planet has moons named after shakespearean characters,Oberon_(moon)_4,on january eleven seventeen hundred eighty seven on the same day he discovered uranus s largest moon titania he later reported the discoveries of four more satellites although they were subsequently revealed as spurious for nearly fifty years following their discovery titania and oberon would not be observed by any instrument other than william herschel s although the moon can be seen from earth with a present day high end amateur telescope all of the moons of uranus are named after characters created by william shakespeare or alexander pope the name oberon was derived from oberon the king of the fairies in a midsummer night s dream the names of
triviaqa-qf_3075,at which film festival could you be awarded the palm dor,An_Inconvenient_Truth_21,film opened in new york city and los angeles on wednesday may twenty four two thousand six on memorial day weekend it grossed an average of ninety one thousand four hundred forty seven dollars per theater the highest of any movie that weekend and a record for a documentary though it was only playing on four screens at the time nineteen at the two thousand six sundance film festival the movie received a three time standing ovation it was also screened at the cannes film festival and was the opening night film at the twenty seventh durban international film festival on june fourteen two thousand six an
triviaqa-wh_1652,which modern day country was known until one thousand nine hundred eighty one as british honduras,British_Empire_146,hundred sixty six britain s last colony on the american mainland british honduras became a self governing colony in nineteen hundred sixty four and was renamed belize in nineteen hundred seventy three achieving full independence in nineteen hundred eighty one a dispute with guatemala over claims to belize was left unresolved british territories in the pacific acquired independence in the nineteen hundred seventies beginning with fiji in nineteen hundred seventy and ending with vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty vanuatu s independence was delayed due to political conflict between english and french speaking
triviaqa-dpql_6276,sanskrit is an ancient language of which modern day country,Language_2,and syntaxes and moves into higher modes of language analysis the study of language began in north india with pini the ancient grammarian approximately fifth century bce who formulated three thousand nine hundred fifty nine rules of sanskrit morphology known as the adhyy pini s grammar of sanskrit is highly systematized and technical inherent in its analytic approach are the concepts of the phoneme the morpheme and the root only recognized by western linguists some two millennia later in the middle east the persian linguist sibawayh made a detailed and professional description of
triviaqa-sfq_12419,britains first jet fighter the meteor was made by which company,1910_London_to_Manchester_air_race_34,to manchester this time as a passenger on board a gloster meteor t seven the two seater training variant of the first british jet fighter after travelling at four hundred mph six hundred forty four k m forward slash h the six seven year old frenchman said cetait magnifique it was all i ever dreamed of in aviation no propellers no vibration the daily mail entertained him at the royal aero club in london where he was accompanied by his former rival claude grahame white
triviaqa-qb_4125,what type of creature is a bananaquit,Elfin_woods_warbler_18,described gleaning is described as a hunting maneuver made by a standing or moving bird sally hover is a hunting maneuver made by a bird in flight probing is a maneuver in which the bird by digging with its beak forages the substrate looking for food in a manner similar to chickens gleaning especially off leaves is the maneuver used with more frequency by the elfin woods warbler while probing is the least used the elfin woods warbler s song and call are difficult to hear the species has a subtle voice and its call and song resemble those of the bananaquit
triviaqa-odql_4393,the second act set in the land of sweets of which ballet by tchaikovsky includes the dance of the reed flutes,Lemmings_(video_game)_42,most of the level themes are arrangements of classical and traditional i e public domain tunes to avoid copyright problems songs in the game included in the hall of the mountain king from peer g y n t by edvard grieg the galop from orpheus in the underworld the music often used for the can can rondo alla turca from mozart s piano sonata no eleven dance of the reed flutes from tchaikovsky s nutcracker suite dance of the little swans from tchaikovsky s swan lake twang a song that uses melodies
triviaqa-qw_7381,which canadian born eilleen regina edwards made the album come on over the best selling album of all time by a female musician and the best selling album in the history of country music,Avril_Lavigne_7,ontario when lavigne was five years old in nineteen hundred ninety eight lavigne won a competition to sing with fellow canadian singer shania twain on her first major concert tour she appeared alongside twain at her concert in ottawa appearing on stage to sing what made you say that she was discovered by her first professional manager cliff fabri while singing country covers at a chapters bookstore in kingston ontario during a performance with the lennox community theatre lavigne was spotted by local folk singer steve medd he invited her to contribute vocals on his song
triviaqa-bb_3413,in twenty twelve what nation is the worlds second largest economy the largest exporter and second largest importer,Yttrium_35,lree ore contains two per cent or three per cent of yttrium the largest deposits were found in india and brazil in the early nineteenth century making these two countries the largest producers of yttrium in the first half of that century xenotime a ree phosphate is the main hree ore containing up to sixty per cent of yttrium as yttrium phosphate ypo four the largest mine for this mineral is the bayan obo deposit in china making china the largest exporter for hree since the closure
triviaqa-sfq_1110,which english clergymanchemist discovered oxygen,Oxygen_3,form allotrope of oxygen ozone o three helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation with the high altitude ozone layer but is a pollutant near the surface where it is a by product of smog oxygen was independently discovered by joseph priestley in wiltshire in seventeen hundred seventy four and carl wilhelm scheele in uppsala a year earlier but priestley is usually given priority because he published his findings first the name oxygen was coined in seventeen hundred seventy seven by antoine lavoisier whose experiments with
triviaqa-qw_4077,what sport is the concern of the pga,Tee_7,one history the development of the tee was the last major change to the rules of golf before this golf balls were teed up on little heaps of sand that were provided in boxes this explains the historical name tee boxes for what is today known as teeing ground the earliest golf tees rested flat on the ground and had a raised portion to prop up the ball the first patent for this kind of tee is dated eighteen hundred eighty nine and was issued to scotsmen william
triviaqa-bb_8079,which chemical element has the atomic number six,Helium_44,to form any lithium beryllium or boron helium four nuclear binding is stronger than in any of these elements see nucleogenesis and binding energy and thus no energetic drive was available once helium had been formed to make elements three four and five it was barely energetically favorable for helium to fuse into the next element with a lower energy per nucleon carbon however due to lack of intermediate elements this
triviaqa-sfq_11415,two thousand twelve is the chinese year of which creature,Tabaluga_0,tabaluga screenshot of tabaluga taken from an episode aired via cartoon network the little green dragon tabaluga is a puppet character who lives in greenland he is around one hundred years old and every year for a dragon is seven hundred for a human he is the creation of a german rock musician peter maffay children s song writer rolf zuckowski and the author gregor rottschalk the artist helme heine gave tabaluga his appearance the
triviaqa-qf_1988,k is the chemical symbol for what,Caesium_68,of caesium to potassium exposure to large amounts of caesium compounds can cause hyperirritability and spasms but as such amounts would not ordinarily be encountered in natural sources caesium is not a major chemical environmental pollutant the median lethal dose ld five zero value for caesium chloride in mice is two three g per kilogram which is comparable to the ld five zero values of potassium chloride and sodium chloride caesium metal is one of the most reactive elements and is highly explosive when it comes in contact with water the hydrogen gas produced by the reaction is heated by the thermal
triviaqa-qf_158,who was the british prime minister in nineteen fifty three ,George_VI_48,replaced neville chamberlain as prime minister though personally george would have preferred to appoint lord halifax after the king s initial dismay over churchill s appointment of lord beaverbrook to the cabinet he and churchill developed the closest personal relationship in modern british history between a monarch and a prime minister every tuesday for four and a half years from september nineteen hundred forty the two men met privately for lunch to discuss the war in secret and with frankness throughout the war the king and queen provided morale boosting
triviaqa-qw_16501,under which british monarch was warren hastings appointed first governor of the presidency of fort william bengal and the head of the supreme council of bengal effectively the first governor general of india,Queen_Victoria_90,the radical m p henry labouchere to the cabinet so gladstone agreed not to appoint him in eighteen hundred ninety four gladstone retired and without consulting the outgoing prime minister victoria appointed lord rosebery as prime minister his government was weak and the following year lord salisbury replaced him salisbury remained prime minister for the remainder of victoria s reign section eight point two diamond jubilee on twenty three september eighteen hundred ninety six victoria surpassed her grandfather george iii as the longest reigning monarch in english scottish
triviaqa-qb_9081,harold holt became prime minister of which country in january one thousand nine hundred sixty six ,Elizabeth_II_53,were not the largest party but could stay in office if they formed a coalition with the liberals heath only resigned when discussions on forming a coalition foundered after which the queen asked the leader of the opposition labour s harold wilson to form a government a year later at the height of the nineteen hundred seventy five australian constitutional crisis australian prime minister gough whitlam was dismissed from his post by governor general sir john kerr after the opposition controlled senate rejected whitlam s budget proposals as whitlam had a majority in the house of representatives
triviaqa-qb_8228,in greek mythology how many heads does cerberus the dog who guards the entrance to hades usually have,Greek_mythology_105,cicero asserts that no one not even old women and boys is so foolish as to believe in the terrors of hades or the existence of scyllas centaurs or other composite creatures but on the other hand the orator elsewhere complains of the superstitious and credulous character of the people de natura deorum is the most comprehensive summary of cicero s line of thought section three point
triviaqa-qb_4353,what is the lead in pencils made from,Timpani_34,birch persimmon or maple or bamboo but may also be made from aluminum or graphite the head of the stick can be constructed
triviaqa-bb_196,a sequence of numbers beginning one in which each number is the sum of the previous two numbers is named after what italian mathematician who devised the system,Functional_programming_51,that defines the entire fibonacci sequence then selects an element from the sequence see also recursion this example relies on haskell s lazy evaluation to create an infinite list of which only as much as needed the first ten elements in this case will actually be computed that computation happens when the runtime system carries out the action described by main section four use in industry functional programming has long been popular in academia but with few industrial applications page eleven however recently several prominent
triviaqa-qb_3535,all matter in the universe was said to be created by the bigwhat nearly fourteen billion years ago,Big_Bang_54,all the electrons had recombined at the epoch of last scattering three hundred seventy nine thousand years after the big bang these photons make up the c m b that is observed today and the observed pattern of fluctuations in the c m b is a direct picture of the universe at this early epoch the energy of photons was subsequently redshifted by the expansion of the universe which preserved the blackbody spectrum but caused its temperature to fall meaning that the photons now fall into the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum the radiation is thought to be observable at every point in the universe and
triviaqa-qg_2126,the term gustatory refers to which of the five senses,Schizophrenia_8,negative schizophrenia is often described in terms of positive and negative or deficit symptoms positive symptoms are those that most individuals do not normally experience but are present in people with schizophrenia they can include delusions disordered thoughts and speech and tactile auditory visual olfactory and gustatory hallucinations typically regarded as manifestations of psychosis hallucinations are also typically related to the content of the delusional theme positive symptoms generally respond well to medication negative
triviaqa-qw_16746,in which country is the la quebrada cliff and the acapulco bay at its foot,2012_phenomenon_30,tortuguero monument six and la corona hieroglyphic stairway twelve section two point one tortuguero the tortuguero site which lies in southernmost tabasco mexico dates from the seventh century ad and consists of a series of inscriptions mostly in honor of the contemporary ruler bahlam ajaw one inscription known as tortuguero monument six is the only inscription known to refer to b ak tun thirteen it has been partially defaced sven gronemeyer and barbara macleod have given
triviaqa-bb_7757,the nasa spacecraft messenger reached what planet destination in twenty eight ,Mercury_(planet)_72,on august three two thousand four from the cape canaveral air force station aboard a boeing delta two rocket the messenger spacecraft will make several close approaches to planets to place it onto the correct trajectory to reach an orbit around mercury it made a fly by of the earth in august two thousand five and of venus in october two thousand six and june two thousand seven the first fly by of mercury occurred on january fourteen two thousand eight two more fly b y s of mercury are scheduled in october
triviaqa-qw_12817,what is the last grand slam tennis tournament played in a calendar year,Anfield_38,venue for many other events during the mid twenties anfield was the finishing line for the city marathon liverpool held an annual race which started from saint george s plateau in the city centre and finished with a lap of anfield boxing matches were regularly held at anfield during the inter war years including a number of british boxing championships on twelve june nineteen hundred thirty four nel tarleton beat freddie miller for the world featherweight title professional tennis was played at anfield on boards on the pitch us open champion bill tilden and wimbledon
triviaqa-odql_13282,what is the capital and largest city of the islamic republic of mauritania,Nouakchott-Nord_Region_0,nouakchott nord region nouakchott nord arabic is a region in mauritania it comprises the three northwestern departments of mauritania s capital city nouakchott dar naim teyarett and toujouonine its capital is at dar naim and nouakchott international airport is located
triviaqa-sfq_24850,according to the bible who was the high priest of judea at the time of christs arrest and execution,Jesus_84,differ on the details of the trials in matthew twenty six fifty seven mark two fifty three p m and luke ten fifty four p m jesus is taken to the house of the high priest caiaphas where he is mocked and beaten that night early the next morning the chief priests and scribes lead jesus away into their council john six twelve p m one four states that jesus is first taken to annas the father in law of caiaphas and then to the high priest during the trials jesus speaks very little
triviaqa-sfq_9980,which country scored the first goal in the two thousand ten world cup tournament,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_48,to hosts south africa however controversy surrounds the final with many suspecting the all blacks were poisoned one their worst world cup was their fourth place in nineteen hundred ninety nine after losing their semi final and then the third place playoff game in two thousand three the all blacks were knocked out by hosts australia in their semi final before finishing third despite only one world cup title they are the only team to have reached the semifinals in every tournament the all blacks hold several world cup records most points in one match one hundred forty five versus japan in nineteen hundred ninety five most cumulative points over all world cups one thousand three hundred eighty four
triviaqa-wh_4092,whats the name of the intelligent talking horses in swifts gullivers travels,Sex_and_sexuality_in_speculative_fiction_16,in the moon s soil in other proto s f works sex itself of any type was equated with base desires or beastliness as in gulliver s travels seventeen hundred twenty six which contrasts the animalistic and overtly sexual yahoos with the reserved and intelligent houyhnhnms early works that showed sexually open characters to be morally impure include the first lesbian
triviaqa-jp_2115,what country has slums known as favelas,University_of_Bras%c3%adlia_7,distance education is another expanding activity in unb being managed by the center for open continuous and long distance education cead and the school of education the united nations educational social and cultural organization unesco sponsors the long distance education chair at unb section three ranking the university of brasilia has been consistently ranked as one of the top five public universities in brazil by guia do estudante student guide an annual publication of editora abril it currently ranks at hashtag three in the list of the best universities in the country several of its graduate programs have been graded six
triviaqa-odql_1255,in which london square will you find the roosevelt memorial,Ronald_Reagan_218,death both major american political parties agreed to erect a statue of reagan in the place of that of thomas starr king the day before president obama signed the ronald reagan centennial commission act into law establishing a commission to plan activities to mark the upcoming centenary of reagan s birth independence day twenty eleven saw the unveiling of another statue to reagan this time in the british capital of london outside the american embassy grosvenor square the unveiling was supposed to be attended
triviaqa-bb_9101,what was the terrorist group responsible for the one thousand nine hundred seventy two munich olympic massacre of israeli athletes,Munich_30,summer olympics during which israeli athletes were assassinated by palestinian fedayeen in the munich massacre when gunmen from the palestinian black september group took hostage members of the israeli olympic team most munich residents enjoy a high quality of life mercer h r consulting consistently rates the city among the top ten cities with the highest quality of life worldwide minus a twenty eleven
triviaqa-bb_5241,which historically contested region did russia annexe from ukraine in february two thousand fourteen ,British_Empire_79,war was a disaster for britain when russia invaded the turkish balkans in eighteen hundred fifty three fears of russian dominance in the mediterranean and middle east led britain and france to invade the crimean peninsula in order to destroy russian naval capabilities the ensuing crimean war eighteen hundred fifty four to fifty six which involved new techniques of modern warfare and was the only global war fought between britain and another imperial power during the pax britannica was a resounding defeat for russia the situation remained
triviaqa-qg_2719,the gravesite of what american writer buried in baltimore is mysteriously visited every january nineteen th to receive a toast of cognac and three roses,Edgar_Allan_Poe_61,as the tradition has been carried on for more than fifty years it is likely that the poe toaster is actually several individuals however the tribute is always the same every january nineteen in the early hours of the morning the man makes a toast of cognac to poe s original grave marker and leaves three roses members of the edgar allan poe society in baltimore have helped in protecting this tradition for decades on august fifteen two thousand seven sam porpora a former historian at the westminster church in baltimore where poe is buried claimed that he had started the tradition in the nineteen hundred sixties the claim that the tradition began in nineteen hundred forty nine he said
triviaqa-qb_6309,michaelmas day is celebrated on the twenty nine th of which month,Pope_Linus_12,or anullinus a letter on the martyrdom of peter and paul was once attributed to him but in fact dates to the sixth century the feast day of pope linus is twenty three september section three references section four further reading louise ropes loomis the book of popes liber pontificalis merchantville n j evolution publishing isbn one eight eight nine seven five eight eight six eight
triviaqa-qz_2430,in greek mythology who was the twin of polydeuces,Polydeuces_(moon)_3,also varies by about seven thousand six hundred sixty k m with respect to dione s the name polydeuces was approved by the iau working group on planetary system nomenclature on january twenty one two thousand five in greek mythology polydeuces is another name for pollux twin brother of castor son of zeus and leda
triviaqa-qw_11746,in the northern hemisphere what season begins in one calendar year and ends in the next,Night_3,and after an equinox the ratio of night to day changes more rapidly in locations near the poles than in locations between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn in the northern hemisphere denmark has shorter nights in june than india has in the southern hemisphere antarctica has longer nights in june than chile has the northern and southern hemispheres of the world experience the same patterns of night length at the same latitudes but the cycles are six months apart so that one hemisphere experiences long nights winter while the other is experiencing short nights summer near the two poles extreme variations in daylight hours result in a continuous day for a portion of the summer followed by continuous
triviaqa-qg_1015,what moderately famous ship left southampton england before stopping at cherbourg france and queenstown ireland before stopping floating,RMS_Titanic_12,four feet to titanic before a tugboat towed the new york away the near accident delayed the departure for one hour after crossing the english channel titanic stopped at cherbourg france to disembark and board additional passengers and stopped again the next day at queenstown known today as cobh ireland before continuing towards new york with two thousand two hundred twenty three people aboard four titanic had three class sections segregating the passengers third class also known as steerage comprising small cabins on the lower decks was occupied mostly by immigrants hoping for a better life in america second class cabins and common rooms located towards the stern were equal to first class accommodations on other ships many second class passengers were originally booked first class on other ships but because of the coal strike transferred to titanic
triviaqa-qg_1462,what is the deepest male singing voice,Choir_4,performance or for a cappella music choirs can be categorized by voicing mixed choirs perhaps the most common type usually consisting of soprano alto tenor and bass voices often abbreviated as satb other typical divisions include ssaattbb where each voice is divided into two parts and satbsatb where the choir is divided into two semi independent four part choirs male choirs with the same satb voicing as mixed choirs but with boys singing the upper part often called treble or boy soprano and men singing
triviaqa-bb_9124,the collegiate church of st peter in london is more popularly known by what name,Anne%2c_Queen_of_Great_Britain_2,anne queen of great britain the collegiate church of saint peter westminster westminster abbey a mainly gothic church on the scale of a cathedral is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for english monarchs it is located in westminster london just to the west of westminster palace table of contents the collegiate church of saint peter
triviaqa-qg_3798,the last of the three age system what age followed the bronze age,Greek_mythology_32,makes use of a scheme of four ages of man or races golden silver bronze and iron these races or ages are separate creations of the gods the golden age belonging to the reign of cronus the subsequent races the creation of zeus hesiod intercalates the age or race of heroes just after the bronze age the final age was the iron age during which the poet himself lived the poet regards it as the worst the presence of evil was explained by pandora s myth in metamorphoses ovid follows hesiod s concept of the four ages
triviaqa-sfq_23288,in which canadian province or state is cape race,Canada_27,and the battle of the scheldt during the liberation of the netherlands in nineteen hundred forty four the canadian economy boomed as industry manufactured military materiel for canada britain china and the soviet union despite another conscription crisis in quebec canada finished the war with one of the largest armed forces in the world in nineteen hundred forty nine newfoundland joined confederation as canada s tenth province post war prosperity and economic expansion ignited a baby boom and attracted immigration from war ravaged european countries quebec
triviaqa-bb_1010,name the surrey uk town which attempted to rebrand itself with the suffix on thames due to reference by comedian sasha baron cohens wannabe gangster character,Ali_G_7,in his home town of staines he is now the main character of hbo s da ali g show which also features two other characters borat sagdiyev a foreign correspondent from kazakhstan and bruno a fashion reporter for austria s fictional gay t v ali g was recently featured in a series of ads for the five to six nba season in which he uses his brand of off kilter reporting to interview various nba stars the spots were directed by spike lee
triviaqa-qw_1933,what remake of a british science fiction serial broadcast by bbc television in the summer of one thousand nine hundred fifty three was staged live by bbc four in twenty five with actors jason flemyng mark gatiss andrew tiernan indira varma david tennant and adrian bower,The_Quatermass_Experiment_2,bbc staff television drama writer nigel kneale who had previously been an actor and an award winning prose fiction writer before joining the staff of the bbc he was interested in the idea of science going bad and it was this interest in science and scientific concepts that led him to write the quatermass experiment the serial was an expensive one head of television drama michael barry had to commit the majority of his original script budget for the year to the material kneale famously claimed to have picked his leading character s unusual sounding name at random from a london telephone directory the serial
triviaqa-bb_4678,which letter appears in various alphabets in the traditional wikipedia globe logo,Braille_10,a sequence of characters using the top four dots of the braille cell represents letters a through j dot three is added to each of the a through j symbols to give letters k through t both of the bottom dots dots three and six are added to the symbols for a through e to give letters u v x y and z the letter w is an exception to the pattern because french did not make use of the letter w at the time louis braille devised his alphabet and thus he had no need to encode the letter w
triviaqa-wh_2290,which is the largest city in scandinavia by population,Nobel_Prize_41,changed once his attention had been drawn to the publicity value of the prizes for sweden section three point one nobel banquet after the award ceremony in sweden a banquet is held in the blue hall at the stockholm city hall which is attended by the swedish royal family and around one thousand three hundred guests the nobel peace prize banquet is held in norway at the oslo grand hotel after the award ceremony apart from the laureate guests include the president of the storting the prime minister and since two thousand six the king and
triviaqa-bt_3522,in alphabetical order which english county comes last,Peterloo_Massacre_5,by two members of parliament m p s voting was restricted to the adult male owners of freehold land valued at forty shillings or more minus the equivalent of about eighty pound sterling as of two thousand eight minus and votes could only be cast at the county town of lancaster by a public spoken declaration at the hustings constituency boundaries were out of date and the so called rotten boroughs had a hugely disproportionate influence on the membership of the parliament of the united kingdom compared to the size of their populations old sarum in wiltshire with one voter elected two m p s as did dunwich in suffolk which by the early
triviaqa-bb_7860,which river forms the eastern section of the border between england and scotland,William_the_Conqueror_111,of scots raided south of the river tweed devastating the land between the river tees and the tweed in a raid that lasted almost a month the lack of norman response appears to have caused the northumbrians to grow restive and in the spring of ten eighty they rebelled against the rule of walcher the bishop of durham and earl of northumbria the bishop was killed on fourteen may ten eighty and william dispatched his half brother odo to deal with the rebellion william departed normandy in july ten eighty and in the autumn william s son robert was sent on a
triviaqa-qb_9010,which was the first country outside the uk to screen the television series doctor who,The_Mighty_Boosh_1,series one has aired on bbc america swedish channel z t v danish channel dr two portuguese channel rtp two and new zealand music channel c four the stage show has no strict setting but the radio series and first television series are based around a zoo called bob fossil s funworld and later the zooniverse though the episodes would invariably begin and end in the zoo the main characters would tend to leave the zoo for more bizarre realms such as the arctic tundra and limbo the second series had an even looser setting based in a flat in dalston the third series is set in a shop in shoreditch owned by naboo the nabootique who is played by noel fielding s brother michael it was recently revealed in nme magazine that
triviaqa-qb_7085,the us team miami heat play which sport,Michael_Jordan_73,only player to start all eight games in the olympics playing limited minutes due to the frequent blowouts jordan averaged fourteen point nine p p g finishing second on the team in scoring jordan patrick ewing and fellow dream team member chris mullin are the only american men s basketball players to win olympic gold as amateurs and professionals section four post retirement after his third retirement jordan assumed that he would be able to return to his front office position of director of basketball operations with the wizards however his previous tenure in the wizards front office had produced the
triviaqa-sfq_6124,in which country has the pro democracy leader aung san suu kyi been kept under house arrest for the last six years,Hillary_Clinton_157,protections of gays abroad the same period saw her overcome internal administration opposition with a direct appeal to obama and stage the first visit to burma by a u s secretary of state since nineteen hundred fifty five as she met with burmese leaders as well as opposition leader aung san suu kyi and sought to support the twenty eleven burmese democratic reforms during the syrian civil war clinton and the obama administration initially sought to persuade syrian president bashir al assad to engage popular
triviaqa-sfq_19559,what was the christian name of the wife of composer robert schumann,Eric_Hope_1,baltic descent he was a pupil at warwick school nineteen hundred thirty one to thirty four he studied piano playing in london under kathleen arnold herself a pupil of clara schumann s most distinguished student fanny davies he worked with leading figures of his day including the conductor sir henry wood and the composer arthur bliss he made his london debut at the bbc promenade concerts and could be heard
triviaqa-jp_3304,what is the common name of the clavicle,Dinosaur_48,analysis strengthens the case for the link particularly for a branch of theropods called maniraptors skeletal similarities include the neck pubis wrists semi lunate carpal arm and pectoral girdle shoulder blade clavicle and breast bone reproduction biology a discovery in a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton provided more evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved from a common ancestor and for the first time allowed paleontologists to sex a dinosaur when laying eggs female birds have a special type of bone called a medullary bone that
triviaqa-odql_4072,in internet chat room language what does brb mean,Lolcat_9,we forward slash i verb them forward slash it another follows the rough format of activity you re doing it right forward slash wrong another is activity b r b be right back there are several well known lolcat images and single word captions that have spawned many variations and imitations like ceiling cat i can has cheezburger monorail cat i made you a cookie forward slash but i eated it hover cat oh hai i upgraded your ram want do not want fail nom nom nom
triviaqa-jp_1192,what is the biggest italian automaker,Barack_Obama_57,loans for general motors and chrysler to continue operations while reorganizing over the following months the white house set terms for both firms bankruptcies including the sale of chrysler to italian automaker fiat and a reorganization of g m giving the u s government a temporary sixty percent equity stake in the company with the canadian government shouldering a twelve percent stake in june two thousand nine dissatisfied with the pace of economic stimulus obama called on his cabinet to accelerate the investment he signed into law the car allowance rebate system known colloquially as cash for clunkers
triviaqa-sfq_1664,who played the part of hilda ogden for many years in the tv series coronation st,Coronation_Street_11,of stan and hilda ogden portrayed as the commonest family on the street with hilda jean alexander becoming one of the most famous british soap characters of all time in a nineteen hundred eighty two poll hilda was voted the fourth most recognizable woman in britain after the queen mother queen elizabeth ii and diana princess of wales hilda s most famous attributes were her pinny hair curlers and the muriel in her living room with three flying duck ornaments hilda ogden s final episode on december twenty five nineteen hundred eighty seven remains the highest rated episode of coronation street ever with nearly twenty seven million viewers
triviaqa-qg_2643,what became the last city on earth to experience the horror of a nuclear bomb when the b twenty nine bockscar devastated what japanese city on august nine nine ,Nuclear_weapon_23,military utility section five history the first nuclear weapons were created by the united states with assistance from the united kingdom during world war ii as part of the top secret manhattan project while the first weapons were developed primarily out of fear that nazi germany would first develop them they were eventually used against the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki in august nineteen hundred forty five the soviet union developed and tested their first nuclear weapon in nineteen hundred forty nine based partially on information obtained from soviet espionage in the united states both the usa and ussr would go on to develop weapons powered by nuclear fusion hydrogen
triviaqa-wh_756,which geological perioed falls between the triassic and the cretaceous periods,Dinosaur_33,diversified rapidly after the triassic and quickly expanded until they filled most of the vacant ecological niches some of the earliest dinosaurs were the eoraptor and the primative lagosuchus a slightly later dinosaur but still in the early triassic period was the tiny saltopus barely larger than a human hand during the reign of the dinosaurs which encompassed the ensuing jurassic and cretaceous periods nearly every known terrestrial animal larger than one m in length was a dinosaur the cretaceous tertiary extinction event which occured sixty five mya at
triviaqa-sfq_24980,name the capital city of the canadian province of british columbia,Canada_21,the british north america act brought about confederation creating one dominion under the name of canada on july one eighteen hundred sixty seven with four provinces ontario quebec nova scotia and new brunswick canada assumed control of rupert s land and the north western territory to form the northwest territories where metis grievances ignited the red river rebellion and the creation of the province of manitoba in july eighteen hundred seventy british columbia and vancouver island which had united in eighteen hundred sixty six and the colony of prince edward island joined
triviaqa-tc_665,how was the european recovery program in the one thousand nine hundred forty s more commonly known,Marshall_Plan_0,marshall plan the marshall plan officially the european recovery program erp was the american program to aid europe where the united states gave monetary support to help rebuild european economies after the end of world war ii in order to prevent the spread of soviet communism the plan was in
triviaqa-qz_5598,mel gibson one thousand nine hundred ninety and kenneth branagh one thousand nine hundred ninety six have both played which character in movies,Hamlet_142,in nineteen hundred seven nineteen hundred eight nineteen hundred ten nineteen hundred thirteen nineteen hundred seventeen and nineteen hundred twenty in the nineteen hundred twenty version asta nielsen played hamlet as a woman who spends her life disguised as a man laurence olivier s nineteen hundred forty eight moody black and white hamlet won best picture and best actor oscars and is still as of twenty eleven the only shakespeare film to have done so his interpretation stressed the oedipal overtones of the play and cast two eight year old eileen herlie as hamlet s mother opposite himself at forty one as hamlet shakespeare experts sir john
triviaqa-sfq_18196,which musical instrument is associated with alison balsam,Dizzy_Gillespie_3,both by the example of his playing and as a mentor to younger musicians he also used a trumpet whose bell was bent at a forty five degree angle rather than a traditional straight trumpet this was originally the result of accidental damage but the constriction caused by the bending altered the tone of the instrument and gillespie liked the effect table of contents section one biography section one point one early life and career john birks dizzy gillespie was the youngest of
triviaqa-sfq_7325,what was the sequel to tom browns schooldays,Oriel_College%2c_Oxford_75,of the college in tom brown at oxford by thomas hughes oriel s win in the eighteen hundred forty two head of the river race with oriel bumping trinity was re written as tom s college saint ambrose taking first place and oriel in second place
triviaqa-qb_6068,limburger cheese is made from the milk of which animal,Cheese_0,cheese cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of cows goats sheep water buffalo or other mammals the milk is curdled using some combination of rennet or rennet substitutes and acidification bacteria acidify the milk and play a role in defining the texture and flavor of most cheeses some cheeses also feature molds either on the outer rind or throughout there are hundreds of types of cheese produced all over the world different styles and flavors of cheese are the result of using different species of bacteria and molds
triviaqa-qb_9796,the one thousand nine hundred ninety five autobiography dreams from my father is by which us politician,Barack_Obama_12,he described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage reflecting later on his years in honolulu obama wrote the opportunity that hawaii offered to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect became an integral part of my world view and a basis for the values that i hold most dear obama has also written and talked about using alcohol marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to push questions of who i was out of my mind at the two thousand eight civil forum on the presidency obama identified his high school drug use as a great moral failure
triviaqa-bb_7977,what trophy is played for at the us superbowl,American_football_81,league in the world with an average attendance of almost seventy thousand persons during the twenty eleven n f l season the n f l championship game the super bowl is among the biggest events in club sports worldwide it is played between the champions of the national football conference n f c and the american football conference afc and its winner is awarded the vince lombardi trophy collegiate football ranks third in overall popularity in the united states behind baseball and pro football the ncaa the largest collegiate organization is divided into three
triviaqa-bb_5659,which nation boasts the worlds longest running tv sports show hockey night first aired one thousand nine hundred fifty two ,Hockey_Hall_of_Fame_34,is one of the few modern day inductees to never play in the n h l the hall of fame has also been criticised for overlooking female hockey players wha players and over representing the original six era from nineteen hundred forty two to nineteen hundred sixty seven one of the most discussed potential nominees is paul henderson who scored the winning goal in the final moments of the deciding eighth game of the nineteen hundred seventy two summit series between canada and the soviet union this is one of the best known moments in hockey and canadian sports history while there is little question of
triviaqa-sfq_20420,in which us state is green bay,Aztalan_State_Park_23,archeological and historical societies petitioned the federal government for funds to reconstruct the stockade without success in nineteen hundred forty one the newly founded lake mills aztalan historical society began an energetic campaign to preserve the stockade area in nineteen hundred forty five the wisconsin state assembly passed a bill directing the state planning board to study the possibility of establishing a state park at aztalan in nineteen hundred forty seven the wisconsin state legislature passed a resolution requesting the state conservation commission to purchase aztalan one hundred twenty acres
triviaqa-sfq_22055,whose last opera was falstaff,William_Shakespeare_64,quoted shakespeare drawing twenty five of his titles from shakespeare s works the american novelist herman melville s soliloquies owe much to shakespeare his captain ahab in moby dick is a classic tragic hero inspired by king lear scholars have identified twenty thousand pieces of music linked to shakespeare s works these include two operas by giuseppe verdi otello and falstaff whose critical standing compares with that of the source plays shakespeare has also inspired many painters including the romantics and the pre raphaelites the swiss romantic artist henry fuseli a friend of william blake even translated
triviaqa-sfq_17486,who wrote confessions of an english opium eater,Altrincham_53,attraction by local traders in the nineteen hundred nineties however the buttermarket area was also a site of religious importance since prospective brides and grooms are thought to have declared their intentions here in eighteen hundred fourteen thomas de quincey described the old market place in his confessions of an english opium eater while travelling from manchester to chester fruits and flowers were scattered about in profusion even the stalls of the butchers from their brilliant cleanliness appeared attractive and bonny young women of altrincham were all tripping about in caps and aprons coquettishly disposed section six point two cultural events and venues altrincham has two
triviaqa-sfq_26,which was the last european capital city to be liberated from the germans in wwii,Ko%c5%a1ice_20,later the german occupation of hungary led to the deportation of koice s entire jewish population of twelve thousand and an additional two thousand from surrounding areas via cattle cars to the concentration camps for their eventual murder the town was captured by soviets in january nineteen hundred forty five and for a short time it became a temporary capital city of the restored czechoslovak republic until the soviet red army reached prague among other acts the koice government programme was declared on five april nineteen hundred forty five after the communist party seized power in czechoslovakia in february nineteen hundred forty eight the
triviaqa-sfq_10716,which of the united states of america is known as the old colony state,John_Quincy_Adams_31,in eighteen hundred thirty four he unsuccessfully ran as the anti masonic candidate for governor of massachusetts losing to john davis adams then continued his legal career in eighteen hundred forty one he had the case of a lifetime representing the defendants in united states v the amistad africans in the supreme court of the united states he successfully argued that the africans who had seized control of a spanish ship on which they were being transported illegally as slaves should not be extradited or deported to cuba still under spanish control but should be considered free under
triviaqa-bt_2787,which american state has the most airports,Interstate_35_5,one texas interstate thirty five northbound begins at an intersection controlled by a stoplight with business spur i three five in laredo texas just north of the rio grande through webb la salle and frio counties it has a mostly north northeastern course turning more northeast around moore it then cuts across the corners of medina and atascosa counties before entering bexar county and san antonio interstate thirty five is named the pan am expressway in san antonio there it has brief concurrencies with both interstate ten and interstate four hundred ten and serves as the northern terminus of interstate thirty seven i three five heads northward out of the city towards the state capital austin in austin
triviaqa-qw_3390,what is the capital of the province of manitoba canada,Louis_Slotin_4,slotin was the first of three children born to israel and sonia slotin yiddish speaking refugees who had fled the pogroms of russia to winnipeg manitoba he grew up in the north end neighborhood of winnipeg an area with a large concentration of eastern european immigrants from his early days at machray elementary school through his teenage years at saint john s technical high school slotin was academically exceptional his younger brother sam later remarked that his brother had an extreme intensity that enabled him to study long hours at the age of sixteen slotin entered the university of
triviaqa-tb_1129,the flag of which country prominently features the eagle of saladin holding a scroll bearing the name of the country in arabic,First_Crusade_57,of malik shah i in ten ninety two the political instability and the division of great seljuk that had pressed the byzantine call for aid to the pope meant that it had prevented a coherent defense against the aggressive and expansionist latin states cooperation between them remained difficult for many decades but from egypt to syria to baghdad there were calls for the expulsion of the crusaders culminating in the in the recapture of jerusalem under saladin later in the century when the ayyubids had united the surrounding areas section three point two the pilgrims although it is called the first crusade no one saw himself as a crusader
triviaqa-jp_3234,what is the only country to share a land border with denmark,Edward_VII_19,and his wife established marlborough house as their london residence and sandringham house in norfolk as their country retreat they entertained on a lavish scale their marriage met with disapproval in certain circles because most of queen victoria s relations were german and denmark was at loggerheads with germany over the territories of schleswig and holstein when alexandra s father inherited the throne of denmark in november eighteen hundred sixty three the german confederation took the opportunity to invade and annex schleswig holstein queen victoria was of two minds whether it was a suitable
triviaqa-odql_15030,according to the bible who helped christ with the cross,Jesus_92,to calvary carrying his cross the route traditionally thought to have been taken is known as the via dolorosa the three synoptic gospels indicate that simon of cyrene assists him having been compelled by the romans to do so in luke eleven twenty seven p m two eight jesus tells the women in the multitude of people following him not to weep for him but for themselves and their children at calvary jesus is offered a concoction usually offered as a
triviaqa-qb_4358,what is the system of raised dots called which blind people use to read with their fingers,Braille_23,the current series of canadian banknotes have raised dots on the banknotes that indicate the denomination and can be easily identified by visually impaired people this tactile feature does not use standard braille but instead a system developed in consultation with blind and visually impaired canadians after research indicated that not all potential users read braille though braille is thought to be the main way blind people read and write in britain for example out of the reported two million visually impaired population it is estimated that only around
triviaqa-qf_478,who wrote produced and directed epic film avatar,RMS_Titanic_73,twelve atlantic nineteen hundred twenty nine titanic nineteen hundred forty three titanic nineteen hundred fifty three a night to remember nineteen hundred fifty eight s o s titanic t v movie nineteen hundred seventy nine raise the titanic nineteen hundred eighty titanic t v mini series nineteen hundred ninety six titanic nineteen hundred ninety seven the most widely viewed is the nineteen hundred ninety seven film titanic directed by james cameron and starring leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet it became the highest grossing film in history it also won eleven academy awards out of fourteen nominations tying with ben hur nineteen hundred fifty nine and the
triviaqa-qz_298,on the london underground which is the only line to connect at some point with every other line on the system,Docklands_Light_Railway_42,two thousand six a proposal to extend the d l r to charing cross station running from either the bank or tower gateway d l r branches was revealed the idea originating from a d l r horizon study is in very early stages at the moment but would involve extending the line from in bored tunnels under central london to the charing cross jubilee line platforms which would be brought back to public use these platforms are on a spur that branches off the current jubilee line and are not used by passenger trains while not confirmed it is probable that the scheme would also use the existing overrun tunnels between the charing
triviaqa-sfq_12272,which british prime minister wrote two novels coningsby and sybil in the one thousand eight hundred forty s,Queen_Victoria_77,war and the second anglo afghan war if we are to maintain our position as a first rate power she wrote we must be prepared for attacks and wars somewhere or other continually victoria saw the expansion of the british empire as civilising and benign protecting native peoples from more aggressive powers or cruel rulers it is not in our custom to annexe countries she said unless we are obliged and forced to do so to victoria s dismay disraeli lost the eighteen hundred eighty general
triviaqa-qb_1179,who was the first poet to be buried at poets corner in londons westminster abbey,Westminster_Abbey_9,subsequently most kings and queens of england were buried here although henry viii and charles i are buried at saint george s chapel windsor castle as are all monarchs and royals since george ii aristocrats were buried in side chapels and monks and people associated with the abbey were buried in the cloisters and other areas one of these was geoffrey chaucer who was buried here as he had apartments in the abbey as he was employed as master of the kings works other poets were buried around chaucer in what became known as poets corner abbey musicians such as henry purcell were also buried in their place of work subsequently it became an honour to be buried or memorialised
triviaqa-tb_1061,mohenjo daro and harappa in present day pakistan were the most important city settlements of a bronze age civilization that is named after what major geographic feature,History_of_the_world_6,three thousand b c and harappa in the indus valley two thousand five hundred b c there is evidence of elaborate cities with high levels of social and economic complexity however these civilisations were so different from one another that they must almost certainly have been independent in origin at this time developments such as writing currency and extensive trade were introduced the second millennium b c saw the emergence of complex state societies in crete mainland greece and central turkey in china proto urban societies may have developed by two thousand five hundred b c but the first
triviaqa-sfq_9819,in eighteen forty two what was ceded to britain by the treaty of nanking,British_Empire_151,with the chinese government on the future of britain s last major and most populous overseas territory hong kong under the terms of the eighteen hundred forty two treaty of nanking hong kong island itself had been ceded to britain in perpetuity but the vast majority of the colony was constituted by the new territories which had been acquired under a nine nine year lease in eighteen hundred ninety eight due to expire in nineteen hundred ninety seven thatcher seeing parallels with the falkland islands initially wished to hold hong kong and proposed british administration with chinese
triviaqa-qb_218,the marquesas islands lie in which ocean,The_Coral_Island_0,the coral island the coral island a tale of the pacific ocean eighteen
triviaqa-qb_9589,the uk television series blackadder goes forth is set during which war,Justin_Trudeau_21,suspending his program to seek public office in two thousand seven trudeau starred in the two part c b c miniseries the great war which gave an account of canada s participation in the first world war he portrayed talbot mercer papineau who was killed on october thirty nineteen hundred seventeen during the battle of passchendaele trudeau is one of several children of former prime ministers who have become canadian media personalities the others are ben mulroney son of brian mulroney catherine clark daughter of joe clark and trudeau s younger brother alexandre
triviaqa-sfq_10334,in which thomas hardy novel does michael henchard appear,Wife_selling_(English_custom)_48,of the peace the husband claimed that he had been forced into marriage by the parish authorities and had never since lived with her and that she had lived in open adultery with the man bradley by whom she had been purchased he was imprisoned for having deserted his wife the return of a wife after eighteen years results in michael henchard s downfall in thomas hardy s novel mayor of casterbridge a bad tempered impulsive and cruel husband feeling burdened by his wife henchard sells her to a stranger for five guineas he becomes a successful businessman and rises to the position of mayor but the return of his wife many years later prompts his fall back
triviaqa-odql_982,who was prime minister of china from one thousand nine hundred forty nine to one thousand nine hundred seventy six ,Cold_War_126,their peak in nineteen hundred sixty nine and united states president richard nixon decided to use the conflict to shift the balance of power towards the west in the cold war the chinese had sought improved relations with the americans in order to gain advantage over the soviets as well in february nineteen hundred seventy two nixon announced a stunning rapprochement with mao s china by traveling to beijing and meeting with mao zedong and zhou enlai at this time the ussr achieved rough nuclear parity with the united states meanwhile the vietnam war both weakened america s influence in the third
triviaqa-qw_3850,where was the final of the one thousand nine hundred ninety nine rugby world cup held,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_31,canada and tonga before winning one of the most competitive matches of the tournament against wales they defeated south africa a team they had never beaten at the world cup twenty nine to nine but lost again to australia twenty two to ten in the semi final in sydney afterwards mitchell was fired by the nzru and replaced by graham henry henry s tenure began with a double victory over reigning world champions england in two thousand four the two games had an aggregate score of seventy two to fifteen with the all blacks keeping england try less despite the winning start to henry s tenure the tri nations was a mixed success with two wins and two losses the competition was the
triviaqa-jp_1807,on what island would you find the city of palermo,Asteroid_belt_11,the society assigned to each astronomer a fifteen region of the zodiac to search for the missing planet only a few months later a non member of the celestial police confirmed their expectations on january one eighteen hundred one giuseppe piazzi chair of astronomy at the university of palermo sicily found a tiny moving object in an orbit with exactly the radius predicted by the titius bode law he dubbed it ceres after the roman goddess of the harvest and patron of sicily piazzi initially believed it a comet but its lack of a coma suggested it was a planet fifteen months later
triviaqa-sfq_25528,who is the lexicographer adjudicator and longest serving member of the on screen team on countdown,Countdown_(game_show)_10,the lexicographer is aided in finding these words by the show s producers currently michael wylie and damian eadie many lexicographers have appeared over the years but since her debut in nineteen hundred ninety two susie dent has become synonymous with the role and has now made over a thousand appearances the celebrity guest sometimes known as the dictionary dweller also contributes words and provides a short interlude at the end of the first section of the show dwellers have included jo brand martin jarvis and geoffrey durham providing poems anecdotes puzzles and magic tricks section one point three character countdown quickly established cult status within british television
triviaqa-odql_2050,sir oliver martext is avicar in which of shakespeares comedies,William_Shakespeare_43,turn of the sixteenth century by robert armin who played roles such as touchstone in as you like it and the fool in king lear in sixteen hundred thirteen sir henry wotton recorded that henry viii was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and ceremony on twenty nine june however a cannon set fire to the thatch of the globe and burned the theatre to the ground an event which pinpoints the date of a shakespeare play with rare precision section two point two textual sources in sixteen hundred twenty three john heminges and henry condell two of shakespeare s friends from the king s men published the first
triviaqa-dpql_1185,whose head was stuck on the roof of parliament after his body had been exhumed,Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom_7,contributing to further deterioration of the power of the council but ultimately of the crown after the english civil war charles i was executed and the monarchy and house of lords abolished the remaining house of parliament the house of commons instituted a council of state to execute laws and to direct administrative policy the forty one members of the council were elected by the commons the body was headed by oliver cromwell the de facto military dictator of the nation in sixteen hundred fifty three however cromwell became lord protector and the council was reduced to between thirteen and twenty one members all
triviaqa-odql_11582,which south american country adopted the us dollar as its official unit of currency in twenty ,Black_vulture_34,in the united states birds in florida begin breeding as early as january for example while those in ohio generally do not start before march in south america argentinian and chilean birds begin egg laying as early as september while those further north on the continent typically wait until october some in south america breed even later than that american black vultures in trinidad typically do not start until november for example and those in ecuador may wait until february pairs are formed following a courtship ritual which is performed on the ground several males circle a
triviaqa-qf_2276,who was the first emperor of rome,Star_Wars%3a_Episode_II_%e2%80%93_Attack_of_the_Clones_48,be scary and really young section six historical and cultural allusions observers believe that palpatine s rise to power is very similar to that of adolf hitler in nazi germany as chancellor of germany the latter was granted emergency powers as was chancellor palpatine comparisons have been made to octavian minus who became augustus the first emperor of rome minus and to napoleon bonaparte who rose to power in france from seventeen hundred ninety six to seventeen hundred ninety nine octavian was responsible for the deaths of several hundred political opponents well before he was
triviaqa-qw_574,on six february one thousand eight hundred forty what document was signed by captain william hobson on behalf of queen victoria and a number of maori chiefs as the basis for new zealand to become part of the british empire,British_Empire_61,announced plans to buy large tracts of land and establish colonies in new zealand on six february eighteen hundred forty captain william hobson and around forty maori chiefs signed the treaty of waitangi this treaty is considered by many to be new zealand s founding document but differing interpretations of the maori and english versions of the text have meant that it continues to be a source of dispute section three point three war with napoleonic france britain was challenged again by france under napoleon in a struggle that
triviaqa-qw_3004,colin meads nicknamed pinetree a former rugby union footballer who played fifty five test matches for his national team from one thousand nine hundred fifty seven until one thousand nine hundred seventy one and was named his countrys player of the century represented which country,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_70,for all black test points clarke famously scored six penalties in one match minus a record at the time minus to give the all blacks an eighteen to seventeen victory over the british isles sir wilson whineray played thirty two tests captaining the all blacks in thirty of them he played prop and also number eight between nineteen hundred fifty seven and nineteen hundred sixty five the all blacks lost only four of their thirty tests with whineray as captain in colin meads new zealand rugby museum profile he is described as new zealand s equivalent of australia s sir donald bradman or the united states of america s babe ruth meads nicknamed pinetree played one hundred thirty three games for the all blacks including fifty five tests in nineteen hundred ninety nine the new zealand rugby monthly magazine named meads the new zealand player of the century
triviaqa-bb_2778,what is the main metallic element in the core of the moon,Mercury_(planet)_10,g forward slash cmcube versus earth s four point four g forward slash cmcube mercury s density can be used to infer details of its inner structure while the earth s high density results appreciably from gravitational compression particularly at the core mercury is much smaller and its inner regions are not nearly as strongly compressed therefore for it to have such a high density its core must be large and rich in iron geologists estimate that mercury s core occupies about forty two per cent of its volume for earth this proportion is seventeen per cent recent
triviaqa-jp_2608,what was the name of peter paul and marys magic dragon,Puff%2c_the_Magic_Dragon_0,puff the magic dragon puff the magic dragon is a song written and popularized by peter paul and mary in the nineteen hundred sixties the song is so well known that it has entered american and british pop culture the lyrics for puff were based on a nineteen hundred fifty nine poem by leonard lipton a nineteen year old cornell student lipton was inspired by an ogden nash poem titled custard the dragon about a realio trulio
triviaqa-bt_1955,what colour on the london underground map is the district line,Sheffield_77,the trans pennine trail a national cycle network route running from southport in the north west to hornsea in the east riding and has a developing strategic cycle network within the city the peak district national park an area of outstanding natural beauty popular with both on minus and off road cyclists is so close to sheffield that part of the park lies within the city boundary and there are green routes into the park almost from the city centre section eight see also largest european metropolitan areas sheffield city centre listed buildings in sheffield
triviaqa-jp_1715,what stone was used to decipher ancient egyptian hieroglyphics,Rosetta_Project_4,to create an unprecedented platform for comparative linguistic research and education to develop and widely distribute a functional linguistic tool that might help with the recovery of lost or compromised languages in unknown futures to offer an aesthetic object that suggests the immense diversity of human languages as well as the very real threats to the continued survival of this diversity the one thousand language corpus expands on the parallel text structure of the original rosetta stone through archiving ten descriptive components for each of the one thousand selected languages the goal is an open source linux of linguistics minus an effort of collaborative online scholarship drawing on the expertise and
triviaqa-qw_7468,in the one thousand nine hundred thirty s who was the first to win all four tennis grand slam titles,Anfield_39,title professional tennis was played at anfield on boards on the pitch us open champion bill tilden and wimbledon champion fred perry entertained the crowds in an exhibition match in nineteen hundred fifty eight an exhibition basketball match featuring the harlem globetrotters was held at the ground the nineteen hundred ninety one world club challenge rugby league match between the penrith panthers winners of the australian n s w r l premiership and the wigan warriors winners of the european super league was held at the ground in front of twenty thousand one hundred fifty two people in
triviaqa-qw_6433,the island called marthas vineyard off the south of cape cod in new england is in which state of the usa,Edward_Low_9,playing games of chance with the footmen of the nearby house of commons one of his older brothers was hanged at tyburn he left england and travelled alone to the new world around seventeen hundred ten he spent three to four years in various locations before settling in boston massachusetts on august twelve seventeen hundred fourteen he married eliza marble at the first church of boston they had a son who
triviaqa-dpql_4305,which internet site was founded by jimmy wales in twenty one ,Richard_Branson_52,fund raisers reserve dinners raising over seventy five thousand dollars in one evening towards his virgin unite charity in march two thousand eight richard branson hosted an environmental gathering at his private island necker island in the caribbean with several prominent entrepreneurs celebrities and world leaders they discussed global warming related problems facing the world hoping that this meeting will be a precursor to many more future discussions regarding similar problems former british prime minister tony blair wikipedia company founder jimmy wales and larry page of google were in attendance
triviaqa-jp_783,what island chain includes the islands of fuerteventura lanzarote and la palma,2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season_68,years some areas of cuba also suffered heavy damage from hurricanes rita and wilma unusual impacts were felt in europe and nearby islands from four storms hurricane maria intensified and affected northern europe as a vicious extratropical storm while hurricane vince maintained tropical characteristics onto the iberian peninsula as a weak tropical depression tropical storm delta struck the canary islands just after becoming extratropical causing extensive damages before reaching morocco as a
triviaqa-qb_4849,the nictitating membrane is found on which part of animals body,Insect_1,a calque of greek entomon cut into sections are a class within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton a three part body head thorax and abdomen three pairs of jointed legs compound eyes and two antennae they are among the most diverse group of animals on the planet and include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms the number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million and potentially represent
triviaqa-jp_3898,what pakistani river valley was home to one of the worlds most advanced civilizations in twenty bc,History_of_the_world_6,three thousand b c and harappa in the indus valley two thousand five hundred b c there is evidence of elaborate cities with high levels of social and economic complexity however these civilisations were so different from one another that they must almost certainly have been independent in origin at this time developments such as writing currency and extensive trade were introduced the second millennium b c saw the emergence of complex state societies in crete mainland greece and central turkey in china proto urban societies may have developed by two thousand five hundred b c but the first
triviaqa-sfq_10664,what is the result of raising any number to the power of zero,Parity_of_zero_10,one again zero is even because the empty set can be divided into two groups of zero items each numbers can also be visualized as points on a number line when even and odd numbers are distinguished from each other their pattern becomes obvious especially if negative numbers are included the even and odd numbers alternate starting at any even number counting up or down by twos reaches the other even numbers and there is no reason to skip over zero with the introduction of multiplication parity can be approached in a more formal way using arithmetic expressions every integer is either of the form two plus
triviaqa-odql_13130,the childhood disease rickets is caused by a lack of which vitamin,Daylight_saving_time_32,without d s t can instead use the first days of spring and autumn as reminders section two point four health d s t has mixed effects on health in societies with fixed work schedules it provides more afternoon sunlight for outdoor exercise it alters sunlight exposure whether this is beneficial depends on one s location and daily schedule as sunlight triggers vitamin d synthesis in the skin but overexposure can lead to skin cancer sunlight strongly influences seasonal affective disorder d s t may help in depression by causing
triviaqa-sfq_22946,canal tv is based in which country,Bidet_8,particularly in japan india and south korea almost all houses in the arab world including lebanon syria jordan kuwait saudi arabia qatar and united arab emirates are equipped with bidets although france is the country where the word bidet originated not every house is equipped with one especially the smaller or cheaper flats as well as recent constructions also almost all the houses in argentina paraguay and uruguay are equipped with bidets although they do
triviaqa-qw_11658,in eighteen fifty eight rowland macy established a new store named r h macy company where it stayed on the same site for nearly forty years in which city,Elderly_Instruments_21,michigan living magazine noted elderly s liberal policy regarding the handling of instruments something werbin attributes to his difficulty shopping for martin guitars in new york city in the nineteen hundred sixties the magazine also notes that customers are encouraged to pick up and play any instrument an unusual policy for a high end instrument retailer impromptu jam sessions are frequent in the store as customers try out guitars
triviaqa-bt_1029,kim campbell was the first woman prime minister of which country,Elizabeth_II_46,the queen again came under criticism for appointing the prime minister on the advice of a small number of ministers or a single minister in nineteen hundred sixty five the conservatives adopted a formal mechanism for electing a leader thus relieving her of involvement in nineteen hundred fifty seven she made a state visit to the united states where she addressed the united nations general assembly on behalf of the commonwealth on the same tour she opened the twenty third canadian parliament becoming the first monarch of canada to open a parliamentary session two years later solely in her
triviaqa-jp_1642,what does someone need to wear if they are myopic,Glasses_45,with the beatles to his murder in nineteen hundred eighty the rock band weezer is known for some of the members wearing thick rimmed glasses in popular culture glasses were all the disguise superman and wonder woman needed to hide in plain view as alter egos clark kent and diana prince respectively an example of halo effect is seen in the stereotype that those who wear glasses are intelligent or especially in teen culture even geeks and nerds some people who find that wearing glasses may look nerdy turn to contact lenses or laser eye
triviaqa-qf_2261,earth belongs to which galaxy,Planetary_habitability_62,that particular areas of galaxies galactic habitable zones are better suited to life than others the solar system in which we live in the orion spur on the milky way galaxy s edge is considered to be in a life favorable spot template m n well away from the galactic center it avoids various dangers it is not in a globular cluster it is not near an active gamma ray source it is not near the black hole which is believed to lie at the middle of the galaxy the circular orbit of the sun around the galactic centre keeps out of the way of the galaxy s dangerous spiral arms
triviaqa-sfq_2885,where is the venue for the next winter olympics in twenty ten ,Canada_94,but professional leagues and franchises are not as widespread canada has hosted several high profile international sporting events including the nineteen hundred seventy six summer olympics the nineteen hundred eighty eight winter olympics and the two thousand seven fifa u two zero world cup canada will be the host country for the twenty ten winter olympics in vancouver and whistler british columbia section eleven language
triviaqa-qz_2845,ecuador has a border with peru and which other country,Jaguar_58,belize colombia french guiana honduras nicaragua panama paraguay suriname the united states where it is listed as endangered under the endangered species act uruguay and venezuela hunting of jaguars is restricted to problem animals in brazil costa rica guatemala mexico and peru while trophy hunting is still permitted in bolivia the species has no legal protection in ecuador or guyana current conservation efforts often focus on educating ranch owners and promoting ecotourism the jaguar is generally defined as an umbrella species a species whose home range and habitat requirements are sufficiently broad that if protected numerous other species of smaller range will also be protected umbrella species serve as mobile links at the landscape scale in the jaguar s
triviaqa-dpql_1655,in a one thousand seven hundred sixty three swap what expanse of land did britain gain from spain in exchange for havana,British_Empire_46,hundred sixty three involving france britain and the other major european powers the signing of the treaty of paris seventeen hundred sixty three had important consequences for the future of the british empire in north america france s future as a colonial power there was effectively ended with the recognition of british claims to rupert s land and the ceding of new france to britain leaving a sizeable french speaking population under british control and louisiana to spain spain ceded florida
triviaqa-bb_1964,what is the common term for the practice of freezing a human body in hope of a cure being developed enabling thawing and revival,Immortality_16,future revival by storing them at cryogenic temperatures where metabolism and decay are almost completely stopped ideally this would allow clinically dead people to be brought back in the future after cures to the patients diseases have been discovered and aging is reversible modern cryonics procedures use a process called vitrification which creates a glass like state rather than freezing as the body is brought to low temperatures this process reduces the risk of ice crystals damaging the brain structure many people who wish to become physically immortal think of
triviaqa-qw_8188,the misses world for both one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand represented which country,Chess_3,in eighteen hundred eighty six the current world champion is viswanathan anand from india in addition to the world championship there are the women s world championship the junior world championship the world senior championship the correspondence chess world championship the world computer chess championship and blitz and rapid world championships the chess olympiad is a popular competition among teams from different nations online chess has opened amateur and professional competition to a wide and varied group of players chess is a recognized sport of the international olympic committee and international chess competition is
triviaqa-qw_4481,in which country is the port of incheon,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_53,hundred eighty nine was a hectic year in the life of the missouri the early months found the ship in the long beach naval shipyard for routine maintenance independence day weekend brought its share of fireworks a few months later the battleship departed for pacific exercise pacex eighty nine where the missouri and her sister ship the new jersey performed a simultaneous gunfire demonstration for the aircraft carriers enterprise and nimitz the highlight of pacex was a port visit in pusan republic of korea in nineteen hundred ninety missouri again took part in the rimpac exercise with ships from australia canada japan and korea in addition to united states navy ships section one point five gulf war nineteen hundred ninety to nineteen hundred ninety one on two august nineteen hundred
triviaqa-qb_622,which british politician became member of parliament for epping in october one thousand nine hundred twenty four ,Oldham_37,and michael meacher respectively created as a parliamentary borough in eighteen hundred thirty two oldham s first parliamentary representatives were the radicals william cobbett and john fielden winston churchill began his political career in oldham although unsuccessful at his first attempt in eighteen hundred ninety nine churchill was elected as the member of parliament for the oldham parliamentary borough constituency in the nineteen hundred zero general election he held the constituency for the conservative party until the nineteen hundred six general election when he won the election for manchester north west as a liberal m p after he became the prime minister of the united kingdom in nineteen hundred forty
triviaqa-jp_4151,what city do the white stripes and kid rock come from,Chicago_45,the birthplace of the house style of music whose history is related to the development and fostering of the techno electronic style of music in nearby detroit the rock band chicago was named after the city although its original name was the chicago transit authority the band s name was shortened to chicago after the cta threatened to sue them for unauthorized use of the original chicago also has its own symphony orchestra which rivals that of new york as the nation s best section four point five cuisine in the field of popular cuisine chicago has many signature dishes chicago style pizza is world renowned and synonymous with deep dish although different restaurants have
triviaqa-odql_9057,who was the king of troy during the famous siege,Greek_mythology_82,the wooden image of pallas athena the palladium finally with athena s help they built the trojan horse despite the warnings of priam s daughter cassandra the trojans were persuaded by sinon a greek who feigned desertion to take the horse inside the walls of troy as an offering to athena the priest laocoon who tried to have the horse destroyed was killed by sea serpents at night the greek fleet returned and the greeks from the horse opened the gates of troy in the total sack that followed priam and his remaining sons were slaughtered the trojan women passed into slavery in various
triviaqa-odql_7371,sara jane moore was responsible for an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate which american president,Harvey_Milk_43,by request of the mayor gain made it clear that gay police officers would be welcomed in the department this became national news police under gain expressed their hatred of him and of the mayor for betraying them section three point three outing sipple milk s role as a representative of san francisco s gay community expanded during this period on september twenty two nineteen hundred seventy five president gerald ford was visiting san francisco walking from his hotel to his car in the crowd sara jane moore raised a gun to shoot him an ex marine who had been walking by grabbed her arm as the gun discharged toward the pavement the bystander was oliver bill
triviaqa-qw_8139,in nineteen seventy three the paris peace accords were held in an attempt to end which war,Cold_War_87,at the nineteen hundred fifty four battle of in bien ph the french accepted a negotiated abandonment of their colonial stake in vietnam peace accords signed in geneva left vietnam divided between a pro soviet administration in north vietnam and a pro western administration in south vietnam at the seventeenth parallel north between nineteen hundred fifty four and nineteen hundred sixty one eisenhower s united states sent economic aid and military advisers to strengthen south vietnam s pro western regime against communist efforts to destabilize it many emerging nations of asia africa and latin america rejected the pressure to choose
triviaqa-qw_9736,what name is given to two distinct diseases one of which is a condition due to deficiency of secretion of the pancreas the other associated with diseases of the pituatary gland,Zinc_108,the best absorbed of the four dietary supplement types available section seven point four deficiency zinc deficiency is usually due to insufficient dietary intake but can be associated with malabsorption acrodermatitis enteropathica chronic liver disease chronic renal disease sickle cell disease diabetes malignancy and other chronic illnesses symptoms of mild zinc deficiency are diverse clinical outcomes include depressed growth diarrhea impotence and delayed sexual maturation
triviaqa-jp_2105,what will a pescetarian eat that a vegetarian will not,Undercover_Cops_5,hands players can never use enemy weapons but the stages contain objects that can be picked up and used instead such as burning oil drums steel girders long concrete columns that shatter on impact boxes of hand grenades and fish the characters eat mice frogs birds and snails to restore their health many people in japanese society eat these for their nutritional value section one point one playable characters claude known in japan as zan takahara a scruffy japanese former karate master
triviaqa-sfq_3300,which of dickens novels contains the characters mr pecksniff and mrs gamp,Pedr_James_0,pedr james pedr james is a british television director his career in the industry began in the nineteen hundred seventies and in the nineteen hundred eighties he worked on highly rated series such as the channel four soap opera brookside in the nineteen hundred nineties he moved into directing more prestigious drama serials such as the nineteen hundred ninety four bbc adaptation of the charles dickens novel martin chuzzlewit he was also one of the directors of the bbc s award winning drama serial our friends in the north in nineteen hundred ninety six subsequently he left directing to become the head of drama at bbc wales a position he filled from nineteen hundred ninety seven to
triviaqa-qg_3894,although only one of four days that had a huge impact on the word october twenty nine one twenty nine became the face of the catastrophe and is commonly known by what name,Black_5,connotations to color metaphors for race a black day in these cultures would refer to a sad or tragic day the romans already marked fasti days with white stones and nefasti days with black e g the black september in jordan refers to a month in which thousands were killed black monday stock crash of october nineteen nineteen hundred eighty seven black tuesday is the day of the stock market crash in nineteen hundred twenty nine which is the start of the great depression black wednesday caused britain to pull out of the erm black
triviaqa-sfq_14787,in which district of east london did jack the ripper operate,Jack_the_Ripper_0,jack the ripper jack the ripper is the best known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the whitechapel district of london in eighteen hundred eighty eight the name originated in a letter written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media the letter is widely believed to have been a hoax and may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the story
triviaqa-jp_2411,what us state borders four great lakes,M-185_(Michigan_highway)_3,elsewhere m one eight five passes by several key sites within mackinac island state park including fort mackinac arch rock british landing and devil s kitchen lake shore road carries the highway next to the lake huron shoreline running between the water s edge and woodlands outside of the downtown area according to the michigan department of transportation mdot m one eight five is the only state highway in the nation where motor vehicles are banned traffic on it is by foot on horse by
triviaqa-dpql_1061,which of the king george vis brothers died in nineteen forty two ,George_VI_47,dangers and deprivations as the rest of the country they were subject to rationing restrictions and u s first lady eleanor roosevelt remarked on the rationed food served and the limited bathwater that was permitted during a stay at the unheated and boarded up palace in august nineteen hundred forty two the king s brother prince george duke of kent was killed on active service in nineteen hundred forty winston churchill replaced neville chamberlain as prime minister though personally george would have preferred to appoint lord halifax after the king s initial
triviaqa-sfq_20933,which element atomic number twenty derives its name from the latin word for lime,Longest_word_in_English_22,was invalidated by the international code of zoological nomenclature aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic at fifty two letters describing the spa waters at bath england is attributed to doctor edward strother sixteen hundred seventy five to seventeen hundred thirty seven the word is composed of the following elements aequeo equal latin aequo salino containing salt latin salinus calcalino calcium latin calx ceraceo
triviaqa-odql_8011,in south africa who replaced nelson mandela as president of south africa in nineteen ninety nine ,Race_Against_Time%3a_Searching_for_Hope_in_AIDS-Ravaged_Africa_24,in the case of governments and donating profits in the case of businesses several reviewers noted that the book could be used as an effective tool to educate about the hiv forward slash aids crisis and the plight of the people of sub saharan africa an article in the new york times in october two thousand five reported on the book s criticism of south africa government singling out president thabo mbeki and health minister manto tshabalala msimang lewis claimed that the south african programs were half hearted and confusing a spokesperson for the health ministry characterized lewis as a biased and uninformed judge of south africa s
triviaqa-sfq_18907,what is the french name for the english channel,1910_London_to_Manchester_air_race_6,to stimulate the industry s growth in nineteen hundred eight they offered one thousand pound sterling for the first flight across the english channel won on twenty five july nineteen hundred nine by the french aviator louis bleriot and one thousand pound sterling for the first circular one mile flight made by a british aviator in a british aeroplane won on thirty october nineteen hundred nine by the english aviator john moore brabazon in nineteen hundred ten two men accepted the newspaper s nineteen hundred six challenge an englishman claude grahame white and a frenchman louis paulhan claude grahame white was
triviaqa-qw_3341,what is the main attraction at taronga park sydney,Green_and_golden_bell_frog_29,a captive breeding program was set up by the herpetofauna staff at taronga zoo in sydney sponsored by the asx frog focus the purpose of the program was to help preserve declining populations of green and golden bell frogs in the sydney region it involved the captive breeding of wild frogs and releasing large numbers of tadpoles back into the wild habitat restoration and post release monitoring the program was intially titled frog focus botany as botany was the orginal focus site thousands of tadpoles were released into a site in sir joseph banks reserve and post release monitoring was done by the local community it
triviaqa-qw_14447,in which star wars episode does anakin skywalker transform into the black suited darth vader,Star_Wars%3a_Episode_I_%e2%80%93_The_Phantom_Menace_61,nomination section nine novelization template spoiler a novelization of the film was written by terry brooks brooks met with lucas before writing the book and received his approval and guidance including information about impending developments in star wars episode ii attack of the clones and star wars episode iii revenge of the sith this is evident in the passage on tusken raiders which foreshadows the death of anakin s mother in attack of the clones and in the events leading up to anakin s fight with the rodian child greedo these events indicate that anakin s anger derives from his anguish at padme s impending departure foreshadowing the plot of revenge of the sith
triviaqa-qb_3822,in eighteen eighty three which indonesian volcano erupted and was believed to be the largest single explosion in recorded human history,Mount_Pinatubo_45,oxidised in the atmosphere to produce a haze of sulfuric acid droplets which gradually spread throughout the stratosphere over the year following the eruption the injection of aerosols into the stratosphere is thought to have been the largest since the eruption of krakatoa in eighteen hundred eighty three with a total mass of so two of about seventeen million tons being injected the largest volume ever recorded by modern instruments see chart and figure this very large stratospheric injection resulted in a reduction in the normal amount of sunlight reaching the earth s surface by up to five per cent see figure this led to a decrease
triviaqa-jp_3580,what island is shared by haiti and the dominican republic,2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season_67,the island of hispaniola escaped the worst storms however at least eighty nine people were killed in haiti from the effects of hurricanes dennis and wilma and tropical storm alpha cuba was struck by hurricane dennis at peak strength causing one dollar four cents billion in damages it was the worst hurricane to hit cuba in over forty years some areas of cuba also suffered heavy damage from hurricanes rita and wilma unusual impacts were felt
triviaqa-sfq_12907,what is the maximum number of raised dots in a cell in braille,Braille_6,to increase reading speed see grade two braille section one point one the braille cell braille generally consists of cells of six raised dots arranged in a grid of two dots horizontally by three dots vertically the dots are conventionally numbered one two and three from the top of the leftward column and four five and six from the top of the rightward column the presence or absence of dots gives the coding for the symbol dot height is approximately zero point zero two inches zero point five m m
triviaqa-qw_93,what word best describes a triangle where all sides are equal,Vowel_14,this feature is described as a feature of the vowel quality not of the prosody japanese finnish hungarian arabic and latin have a two way contrast between short and long vowels estonian and wichita have a three way contrast among short half long and long vowels long vowels are written in the ipa with a triangular colon which has two equilateral triangles pointing at each other in place of dots e g i the ipa symbol for half long vowels is the triangular colon without the lower triangle e g i estonian word jaaaar edge of the ice has a quadruple length vowel
triviaqa-jp_2463,what is brazils most widely spoken language,Jaguar_5,ranchers and farmers in south america although reduced its range remains large given its historical distribution the jaguar has featured prominently in the mythology of numerous indigenous american cultures including that of the maya and aztec table of contents section one etymology the word jaguar is pronounced forward slash dawr forward slash deprecated template template ipalink en or especially in british english template ipalink en it comes to english from one of the tupi guarani languages presumably the amazonian trade language tupinamba via portuguese jaguar the tupian word yaguara beast sometimes translated as dog is used for any
triviaqa-qb_5524,which is the largest state in the us,Canada_59,the contiguous united states to the south and with the us state of alaska to the northwest stretching from the atlantic ocean in the east to the pacific ocean in the west to the north lies the arctic ocean by total area including its waters canada is the second largest country in the world after russia and largest on the continent by land area it ranks fourth after russia china and the united states since nineteen hundred twenty five canada has claimed the portion of the arctic between sixty w and one hundred forty one w
triviaqa-dpql_4010,what is the more correct term for the sport of archery,Alice_Ingley_1,handed beyond archery she has played netball karate swimming gymnastics tennis athletics and soccer ingley attended lake ginninderra college and edith cowan university where she is working on a bachelor of arts section two archery ingley first started in archery when she was twelve years old her brothers and fathers were involved in the sport at the time when she was fifteen she earned a scholarship at the australian institute of sport where she was based for two and a half years she competes in club competitions for the yokine archery club she trains there with her younger brother callum ingley she is coached by simon fairweather who has been her coach since two thousand nine two thousand seven australian
triviaqa-bb_1323,an alkali turns red litmus paper what colourcolor,Theory_of_Colours_16,section one point three experiments with turbid media goethe s studies of colour began with subjective experiments which examined the effects of turbid media on the perception of light and dark he observed that lights seen through a turbid medium would appear yellowish and darkness seen through a turbid medium that had been lightened would appear blue
triviaqa-qb_6660,the cup or bowl jesus was said to have used at the last supper is known as the holy what,Immortality_6,among such people gunpowder was said to have been invented by chinese alchemists in pursuit of immortality the depiction in literature of gilgamesh was one such as this and an entire cycle or cycles of arthurian legend exist in the british isles including the knights of the round table going in search for the holy grail supposedly the chalice from which jesus and his disciples drank from at the last supper in more recent times people have had their dead bodies frozen and kept at low temperatures in the hopes that advances in medical science forward slash technology will allow them to be unfrozen cured and restored to health at some
triviaqa-bb_2015,an economic recession that repeats soon prior to recovery is called a double what recession dip blip trouble bubble or whammy,Siesta_9,sleep thus in many people there is a dip when the drive for sleep has been building for hours and the drive for wakefulness has not yet started this is again quoting czeisler a great time for a nap the drive for wakefulness intensifies through the evening making it difficult to get to sleep two to three hours before one s usual bedtime when the wake maintenance zone ends in some individuals postprandial dip a brief drop in blood glucose
triviaqa-bb_1341,which country suspended its annual antarctic whale hunt in february two thousand eleven after activists from a us based environmental group chased the mother ship,Fin_whale_2,and crustaceans including mysids and krill like all other large whales the fin whale was heavily hunted during the twentieth century and is an endangered species the international whaling commission iwc has issued a moratorium on commercial hunting of this whale although iceland and japan have announced intentions to resume hunting the latter country stating it will kill a quota of fifty whales for the two thousand eight season collisions with ships and noise from human activity are also significant threats to the recovery of the species table of contents section one taxonomy the fin whale has long been known to taxonomists
triviaqa-wh_2256,in which european country is the hq of the food company nestle,Logitech_2,brand name logicool since a company named logitec that focuses on computer peripheral devices already existed in that country since nineteen hundred eighty two its parent company has used the logitec brand name since nineteen hundred seventy four in the uk they trade under logi u k limited because of another company called logitech based on the outskirts of glasgow scotland it manufactures precision cutting lapping and polishing equipment for the materials processing industry though logitech s registered office is located in apples switzerland it has offices in fremont california as well as throughout europe asia and the americas logitech s
triviaqa-qb_9675,king robert baratheon and queen cersei lannister are characters in which us television fantasy drama series,Maisie_Williams_5,since twenty eleven williams has played arya stark a tomboyish young girl from a noble family in the hbo fantasy t v series game of thrones it was her first role she received acclaim for her performance williams continued to garner praise in the show s second season and hbo submitted her for consideration as outstanding supporting actress at the twenty twelve primetime emmy awards she won the twenty twelve portal award for best supporting actress minus television
triviaqa-wh_3819,which country was the birthplace of henry vone hundred eleven s first wife catherine of aragon,Peterborough_114,the two communities organise projects and activities around a range of issues and develop an understanding of historical cultural lifestyle similarities and differences peterborough is twinned with the following towns spain alcala de henares spain queen katherine s birthplace since nineteen hundred eighty six france bourges france since nineteen hundred fifty seven italy forli italy since nineteen hundred eighty one germany viersen germany since nineteen hundred eighty two ukraine vinnytsya
triviaqa-bt_2064,where was the titanic heading for on her maiden voyage,RMS_Titanic_11,its compartments flooded eleven of fourteen possible combinations of three compartments flooding or the first forward slash last four compartments flooded any more and the ship would sink section two maiden voyage the ship began its maiden voyage from southampton england bound for new york city new york on wednesday april ten nineteen hundred twelve with captain edward j smith in command as the titanic left its berth it passed many immobilised ships which were laid up due to a coal strike the powerful suction created by the ship s propellers caused the liner new york which was docked nearby alongside the oceanic the large number of immobilised ships in southampton at the time and the absence of sufficient space to accommodate them meant that many had been berthed two to a dock to break away from its moorings and was drawn dangerously close about four feet to titanic before a tugboat towed the new york away the near accident delayed the departure for one hour after crossing the english channel
triviaqa-bb_5613,what swahili word became the south african humanist philosophy popularised by desmond tutu in sas post apartheid truth and reconciliation commission and adopted widely elsewhere,Ubuntu_(philosophy)_4,pronounced forward slash ubuntu forward slash oo boon too is a sub saharan african ethic or ideology focusing on people s allegiances and relations with each other the word has its origin in the bantu languages of southern africa ubuntu is seen as a traditional
triviaqa-qw_516,what is the next in the series carboniferous permian triassic jurassic,Jurassic_1,period and system that extends from about two hundred one three zero point six ma million years ago to one hundred forty five four ma that is from the end of the triassic to the beginning of the cretaceous the jurassic constitutes the middle period of the mesozoic era also known as the age of reptiles the start of the period is marked by the major triassic jurassic extinction event however the end of the jurassic period did not
triviaqa-jp_1655,what movie starred michael jordan,Michael_Jordan_7,jordan is also noted for his product endorsements he fueled the success of nike s air jordan sneakers which were introduced in nineteen hundred eighty five and remain popular today jordan also starred in the nineteen hundred ninety six feature film space jam as himself he is the majority owner and head of basketball operations for the nba s charlotte bobcats having won a bidding war to buy controlling interest in the team from founding owner robert l johnson table of contents section one
triviaqa-sfq_15185,what name is given to the maxim employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence,Dilbert_principle_2,there are two types of companies those that recognize that they are just like dilbert and those that are also like dilbert but dont know it yet the dilbert principle is a variation of the peter principle the peter principle addresses the practice of hierarchical organizations such as companies and corporations that use promotions as a way to reward employees that excel at their current position it goes on to state that due to this practice a competent employee will eventually be promoted to and remain at a position
triviaqa-bb_1666,us merchant and statesman john hancock is remembered for his large and stylish signature on which document,Signature_3,signatory can make a mark often an x but occasionally a personalized symbol so long as the document is countersigned by a literate witness there are many other terms which are synonymous with signature one is john hancock named after the first of the signers of the united states declaration of independence the signature of a famous person is sometimes known as an autograph and is then typically written on its own or with a brief note to the recipient rather than providing authentication for a document the autograph is given as a souvenir which acknowledges the recipient s access to the autographer section one point one
triviaqa-qw_2688,in which country was the first twenty four hour race for motor cars held on a closed course in nineteen seven ,1910_London_to_Manchester_air_race_3,was made aware of paulhan s departure and immediately set off in pursuit the next morning after making an unprecedented night time take off he almost caught up with paulhan but his aeroplane was overweight and he was forced to concede defeat paulhan reached manchester early on twenty eight april winning the challenge both aviators celebrated his victory during a special luncheon held at the savoy hotel in london the event marked the first long distance aeroplane race in england the first take off of a heavier than air machine at night and the first powered flight into manchester from outside the city paulhan repeated the
triviaqa-odql_14659,there are three independent emirates in the world united arab emirates and qatar are two which is the third,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_37,of kuwait acting as a rallying point and personal spokesman for the coalition king fahd helped bring together his nation s g c c allies western allies and arab allies as well as non aligned nations from africa and the emerging democracies of eastern europe he used his influence as custodian of the two holy mosques to persuade other arab and islamic nations to join the coalition during the persian gulf war iraq fired scud missiles into saudi arabia and even penetrated its northern border these attacks were repelled and iraqi forces were expelled from kuwait american forces as well as some multinational contingents continued to occupy bases in the kingdom however american or foreign forces no longer occupy bases in the kingdom king fahd suffered a stroke in november nineteen hundred ninety five the foreign
triviaqa-odql_7440,in greek mythology heracles twelfth labour final was to capture which creature,Greek_mythology_22,though the names of gods and heroes have been doubtfully revealed geometric designs on pottery of the eighth century b c depict scenes from the trojan cycle as well as the adventures of heracles these visual representations of myths are important for two reasons for one many greek myths are attested on vases earlier than in literary sources of the twelve labors of heracles for example only the cerberus adventure occurs for the first time in a literary text in addition visual sources sometimes represent myths or mythical scenes that are not
triviaqa-bb_1558,what is the name for mammals born incompletely developed and carried and suckled in a pouch on the mothers belly,Fauna_of_Australia_11,section two point one monotremes and marsupials monotremes are mammals with a unique method of reproduction they lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young two of the five known living species of monotreme occur in australia the platypus and the short beaked echidna the platypus minus a venomous egg laying duck billed amphibious mammal minus is one of the strangest creatures in the animal kingdom when a platypus pelt was first presented by joseph banks to english naturalists in the late seventeen hundred zeros they were convinced it must be a cleverly created hoax another strange monotreme is the short beaked echidna covered in hairy
triviaqa-sfq_10001,which month of the year came second in the roman calendar,Pope_Anacletus_6,grade it is celebrated is transferred to twenty six april under its right name saint cletus use of this calendar which is included in the nineteen hundred sixty two edition of the roman missal continues to be authorized under the conditions indicated in the motu proprio summorum pontificum but the feast has been removed from the general roman calendar since nineteen hundred sixty nine although the day of his death is unknown saint cletus continues to be listed in the roman martyrology among the saints of twenty six
triviaqa-tc_2257,in what month was the attack on pearl harbor,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_28,territories that the two countries had previously divided stalin switched his cooperation from hitler to churchill britain and the soviets signed a formal alliance but the u s did not join until after the attack on pearl harbor on december seven nineteen hundred forty one immediately there was disagreement between britain s ally poland and the soviet union the british and poles strongly suspected that when stalin was cooperating with hitler he ordered the execution of about twenty two thousand polish officer pows at what was later to become known as the katyn massacre still the soviets and the western allies were forced to
triviaqa-jp_927,the mossad is the intelligence agency of what country,Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea_4,them along to london rather than have them continue to stay in the hellhole of new york they are aided by a military man at the airport who is grateful for a favor jonah did for him earlier the book then shows the desperation and fear of the world as global politics change with the u s essentially out of the picture the use by israel of a nuclear weapon upon an arab country in retailation for its poisoning of israel s water supply triggers a worldwide nuclear holocaust while the plane is en route to london unable to go on to europe due to the fallout from the bombs that have just fallen it also is unable to go back to the united states as new york city has also been nuked the crew desperately attempt to find a place to
triviaqa-dpql_604,in which sport might you see the suicide squad,American_football_104,through pain and sacrificing for the better of the team are promoted in professional football culture in canada the game has a significant following minus according to a twenty thirteen poll twenty one per cent of respondents said they followed the n f l very closely or fairly closely making it the third most followed league behind the national hockey league n h l and canadian football league c f l american football also has a long history in mexico which was introduced to the sport in eighteen hundred ninety six american football was
triviaqa-dpql_1544,what is the name for the playing area in american football,American_football_14,or tackles to advance the ball five yards failure to do so would forfeit control of the ball to the other team this change made american football a separate sport from rugby and the resulting five yard lines added to the field made it resemble a gridiron in appearance other major rules changes included a reduction of the field size to one hundred ten yards yards long by fifty three point three three yards wide and the adoption of a scoring system that awarded four points for a touchdown two for a safety and a goal following a
triviaqa-qb_7717,the aviva sports stadium is in which european country,Ryanair_30,from aldergrove in northern ireland but ryanair does not operate there the last low cost airline to compete directly with ryanair on the uk forward slash ireland routes was go fly minus which had to pull out due to mounting losses section seven services main article ryanair destinations ryanair currently serves about two hundred routes between one hundred four airports in eighteen european countries its main hub is london stansted airport ryanair has other bases throughout europe at brussels barcelona girona dublin dub frankfurt am main h h n london luton airport liverpool milan b g y prestwick pik rome cia shannon international airport and stockholm skavsta airport most smaller airports
triviaqa-bb_8625,divya narenda and the winklevoss twins founders of the connectu and harvardconnection websites agreed to a financial settlement from which big internet corporation,Facebook_77,and ignorant section five litigation section five point one connectu in two thousand four connectu a company founded by classmates of zuckerberg filed a lawsuit against facebook claiming that zuckerberg had broken an oral contract for them to build the facebook site copied their idea and used source code that belonged to them the parties reached a confidential settlement agreement in february
triviaqa-odql_14523,milwaukee is the largest city in which american state,Aztalan_State_Park_0,aztalan state park aztalan state park is a wisconsin state park located just south of the town of aztalan wisconsin at latitude n forty three four and longitude w eighty eight fifty two and established in nineteen hundred fifty two it was also designated a national historic landmark in nineteen hundred sixty four and added to the national register of historic places in nineteen hundred sixty six the park covers one hundred seventy two acres
triviaqa-sfq_23992,which vitamin is also known as niacin or nicotinic acid,Alzheimer%27s_disease_44,olive oil fish and red wine may all individually or together reduce the risk and course of alzheimer s disease different vitamins such as b one two b three c or folic acid have appeared to be related to a reduced risk of ad but other studies indicate that they do not have any significant effect on the onset or course of the disease and may have important secondary effects curcumin in curry has shown some effectiveness in preventing brain damage in mouse models although cardiovascular risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia hypertension diabetes and smoking are associated
triviaqa-qz_1128,in which country was marie curie born poland austria or switzerland,Bona_Sforza_30,was a queen of hungary wife of john zapolya sigismund ii augustus one august fifteen twenty minus seven july fifteen seventy two was a king of poland and grand duke of lithuania sophia thirteen july fifteen twenty two minus twenty eight may fifteen seventy five was a duchess of brunswick luneburg wife of henry v duke of brunswick luneburg
triviaqa-odql_522,how was bbc radio seven rebranded in april two thousand eleven ,BBC_Radio_4_1,is gwyneth williams and the station is part of bbc radio and the bbc audio and music department the station is broadcast from the bbc s headquarters at broadcasting house london bbc radio four is the second most popular domestic radio station in the uk and is broadcast throughout the united kingdom on f m l w and dab and can be received in the north of france and northern europe as well in addition the station is also available through freeview sky virgin media and on the internet radio four s sister station bbc radio four extra formerly known as bbc seven complements the main channel
triviaqa-bt_2875,in which english county is there a town called shitlingthorpe,Wife_selling_(English_custom)_34,in the victorian era numbered in the tens of thousands section two point three distribution and symbolism wife selling appears to have been widespread throughout england but relatively rare in neighbouring wales where only a few cases were reported and in scotland where only one has been discovered the english county with the highest number of cases between seventeen hundred sixty and eighteen hundred eighty was yorkshire with forty four considerably more than the nineteen reported for middlesex and london during the same period despite the french caricature of milord john bull booted and spurred in london s smithfield market
triviaqa-qw_9112,tanzania was renamed in nineteen sixty four what was it previously called,Zanzibar_women%27s_national_football_team_2,table of contents section one team founded in nineteen hundred eighty eight by nassra juma mohammed of tanzania the women fighters was zanzibar s first women s football team and the team was created at a time when there were very few women s national teams in existence prior to nineteen hundred eighty eight women had played informally or on men s only teams several of these players as well as those from other sports including badminton made up the inaugural team the team soon played a game against the touring swedish women s club side tyreso f f in zanzibar s largest football stadium losing the game zero to fifteen at the time the team was created there
triviaqa-wh_3,jazz musician jelly roll morton is associated with which instrument,Bob_Dylan_8,his youth listening to the radio first to blues and country stations broadcasting from shreveport louisiana and later to early rock and roll he formed several bands in high school the shadow blasters was short lived but his next the golden chords lasted longer and played covers of popular songs their performance of danny and the juniors rock and roll is here to stay at their high school talent show was so loud that the principal cut the microphone off in his nineteen hundred fifty nine school yearbook robert zimmerman listed as his ambition to join little richard the same year using the name elston gunn he performed two dates with bobby vee playing piano and providing handclaps
triviaqa-qb_7766,troilus and who is the title of a play by william shakespeare,William_Shakespeare_33,each other shakespeare s so called tragic period lasted from about sixteen hundred zero to sixteen hundred eight though he also wrote the so called problem plays measure for measure troilus and cressida and all s well that ends well during this time and had written tragedies before many critics believe that shakespeare s greatest tragedies represent the peak of his art the hero of the first hamlet has probably been more discussed than any other shakespearean character especially for his famous soliloquy to be or not to be that is the question unlike the introverted hamlet whose fatal flaw is hesitation the heroes of the tragedies that
triviaqa-qz_1112,from which animal does haggis come,Pink_Floyd_59,us section two point six animals in nineteen hundred seventy five pink floyd bought a three storey group of church halls at thirty five britannia row in islington and began converting the building into a recording studio and storage space in nineteen hundred seventy six they recorded their tenth album animals in their newly finished two four track studio the concept of animals originated with waters loosely based on george orwell s political fable animal farm the album s lyrics described different classes of society as dogs pigs and sheep
triviaqa-sfq_2763,which one hundred thirty seven mile canal joins london and birmingham,Peterborough_43,agency navigation starts at the junction with the northampton arm of the grand union canal and extends for ninety one miles one hundred forty seven k m ending at bevis hall just upstream of wisbech the tidal limit used to be woodston wharf until the dog in a doublet lock was built five miles eight k m downstream in nineteen hundred thirty seven the a one forward slash a one m broadly follows the path of the historic great north road from saint paul s cathedral at the heart of london through peterborough junction seventeen continuing north a further three hundred thirty five miles five hundred thirty nine k m to central edinburgh ermine street
triviaqa-odql_1190,the kalahari desert lies chiefly in which country,Namibia_27,disputes namibia is involved in several minor international disputes including small residual disputes with botswana along the caprivi strip including the situngu marshlands and specifically kasikili or sedudu island citation needed a dormant dispute over where the boundaries of botswana namibia zambia and zimbabwe converge citation needed disputes over angolan rebels and refugees residing in namibia citation needed section four population section four point one demographics namibia has the second lowest population density of any sovereign country after mongolia the majority
triviaqa-qg_1325,in which city would you find the international court of justice otherwise known as the world court,First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution_65,states v cruikshank eighteen hundred seventy six there the supreme court held that citizens may assemble for the purpose of petitioning congress for a redress of grievances essentially it was held that the right to assemble was secondary while the right to petition was primary later cases however have expanded the meaning of the right to assembly hague v cio nineteen hundred thirty nine for instance refers to the right to assemble for the communication of views on national questions and for disseminating
triviaqa-qw_14649,in australia what is known as a laughing jackass,Fauna_of_Australia_29,history include the flightless ratites the emu and southern cassowary megapodes the malleefowl and australian brush turkey and a huge group of endemic parrots order psittaciformes australian parrots comprise a sixth of the world s parrots including many cockatoos and galahs the kookaburra is the largest species of the kingfisher family known for its call which sounds uncannily like loud echoing human laughter the passerines of australia also known as songbirds or perching birds include wrens robins the magpie group thornbills pardalotes the huge
triviaqa-wh_984,the human brain is made up of between ten billion and ten billion nerve cells known as what,Thought_11,to contract in exactly the correct manner these comprise some of the puzzles that have confronted epistemologists and philosophers of mind from at least the time of rene descartes section three biology a neuron also known as a neurone or nerve cell is an excitable cell in the nervous system that processes and transmits information by electrochemical signalling neurons are the core components of the brain the vertebrate spinal cord
triviaqa-bb_1793,french for an additive and a venezuelan liberator of ecuador bolivia and peru from spain what was the currency of ecuador before adopting the us dollar in the early two thousand s,Copa_Libertadores_3,jose de sucre bernardo ohiggins and jose gervasio artigas it is one of the most prestigious club trophies in the sport along with uefa champions league table of contents section one qualifying in the beginning only the national champions of the major south american federations namely argentina bolivia
triviaqa-bt_2609,what is the opposite of a spring tide,Enceladus_47,the expanded surface coverage provided by cassini has allowed for the identification of additional regions of smooth plains particularly on enceladus s leading hemisphere the side of enceladus that faces the direction of motion as the moon orbits saturn rather than being covered in low relief ridges this region is covered in numerous criss crossing sets of troughs and ridges similar to the deformation seen in the south polar region this area is on the opposite side of the satellite from sarandib and diyar planitiae suggesting that the placement of these regions is influenced by saturn s tides on
triviaqa-jp_1922,what river flows parallel to the euphrates,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_3,settlement of the arabian peninsula the earliest known events in arabian history are migrations from the peninsula into neighbouring areas about thirty five hundred b c semitic speaking peoples of arabian origin migrated into the valley of the tigris and euphrates rivers in mesopotamia and became the assyro babylonians see babylonia and assyria citation needed some archeologists argue that another group of semites left arabia about two thousand five hundred b c and settled along the levant mixing in with the local populations there some of these migrants became the amorites and canaanites of later times citation needed some archeologists argue that the
triviaqa-qb_482,in which part of the human body is the limbic system,Zinc_94,dna signal transduction and gene expression it also regulates apoptosis a two thousand six study estimated that about ten per cent of human proteins twenty eight hundred potentially bind zinc in addition to hundreds which transport and traffic zinc a similar in silico study in the plant arabidopsis thaliana found two thousand three hundred sixty seven zinc related proteins in the brain zinc is stored in specific synaptic vesicles by glutamatergic neurons and can modulate brain excitability it
triviaqa-bb_981,which countrys coalition government led by jan peter balkenende collapsed in twenty ten when disagreeing about extending military action in afghanistan,Marshall_Plan_131,and beatrice weder summing up economic literature on foreign aid and corruption find that aid is primarily used wastefully and self servingly by government officials and ends up increasing governmental corruption this policy of promoting corrupt government is then attributed back to the initial impetus of the marshall plan noam chomsky wrote that the amount of american dollars given to france and the netherlands equaled the funds these countries used to finance their military actions against their colonial subjects in east asia in french
triviaqa-bb_1768,what is the common name of the cooking ingredient from the hard fat of kidneys and loins of oxen famously sold under the atora brand,Lard_25,hogs or the acorn fed pigs raised for jamon iberico therefore produce a somewhat different kind of lard compared to pigs raised in north american farms that are fed corn section six similar fats cooking fat obtained from cattle or sheep is known as suet or tallow the fat of chickens ducks or geese has no special english name except in jewish cuisine where it is known as schmaltz bacon grease is sometimes also used in a culinary capacity section seven see also lardy cake an english bread with heavy lard content
triviaqa-dpql_2291,which acid has the alternative name spirits of salt,Hydrochloric_acid_4,and nitric acid contributed to the effort of alchemists tried to find the philosopher s stone in the middle ages hydrochloric acid was known to european alchemists as spirit of salt or acidum salis gaseous h c l was called marine acid air the old pre systematic name muriatic acid has the same origin muriatic means pertaining to brine or salt and this name is still sometimes used notable production was recorded by basilius valentinus the alchemist abbott of the augustinians abbey in erfurt germany in the fifteenth century in the
triviaqa-bb_5443,what is the short metonymic name of the chief usher of the lord chamberlains department of the uk house of lords,Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom_30,custom however was abolished in nineteen hundred ninety eight privy counsellors are allowed to sit on the steps to the sovereign s throne in the house of lords chamber during debates they share this privilege with hereditary lords who were members of the house of lords before the reform of nineteen hundred ninety nine diocesan bishops of the church of england retired bishops who formerly sat in the house of lords the dean of westminster peers of ireland the eldest child of members of the house of lords the clerk of the crown in chancery and the gentleman usher of the black rod each privy counsellor has the individual right of personal access to the sovereign peers also enjoy the
triviaqa-qb_6644,giallo is italian for which colour,Green_and_golden_bell_frog_14,a creamy white or pale yellow stripe bordered above with gold and below with black extends from behind the eye across the tympanum to the groin this stripe rises to form a dorso lateral fold towards the groin another stripe of the same colour begins below the eye and continues to the shoulder the abdomen is cream or white and has a coarsely granular texture the legs are green bronze or a combination of both and the inside thigh and groin are blue green males develop a yellowish colouration to the vocal sac on the throat when mature the pupil is restricted to a horizontal slit
triviaqa-odql_10031,what was the first name of mr ferrari the founder of the car manufacturing company,1994_San_Marino_Grand_Prix_23,ten years later i went to his funeral because everyone went to senna s i thought it was important that somebody went to his italian prosecutors brought legal proceedings against six people in connection with senna s death they were frank williams patrick head and adrian newey of williams fedrico bendinelli representing the owners of the autodromo enzo e dino ferrari giorgio poggi as the circuit director and roland bruynserarde who was race director and sanctioned the circuit the trial verdict was given on december sixteen nineteen hundred ninety seven clearing all six defendants of manslaughter charges
triviaqa-jp_2596,who famously had children with both julius caesar and mark antony,William_Shakespeare_36,the throne until their own guilt destroys them in turn in this play shakespeare adds a supernatural element to the tragic structure his last major tragedies antony and cleopatra and coriolanus contain some of shakespeare s finest poetry and were considered his most successful tragedies by the poet and critic t s eliot in his final period shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays cymbeline the winter s tale and the tempest as well as the collaboration pericles prince of tyre less bleak than the tragedies these four plays are graver in tone than the comedies of the
triviaqa-qw_12556,who was the only prime minister of great britain born outside the british isles,George_Lansbury_74,in may nineteen hundred twenty three the conservative prime minister andrew bonar law resigned for health reasons in december his successor stanley baldwin called another election in which the
triviaqa-sfq_3015,harvard university is situated in which american state,John_Quincy_Adams_6,languages he entered harvard college and graduated in seventeen hundred eighty eight adams house at harvard college is named in honor of adams and his father he apprenticed as a lawyer with theophilus parsons in newburyport massachusetts from seventeen hundred eighty seven to seventeen hundred eighty nine he was admitted to the bar in seventeen hundred ninety one and began practicing law in boston section two early political career george washington appointed adams minister to the netherlands in seventeen hundred ninety four and to portugal in seventeen hundred ninety six when the elder adams became president he appointed his son in seventeen hundred ninety seven as minister to prussia at washington s urging
triviaqa-bb_89,name bps catastrophic gulf of mexico oil rig lost off the us louisiana coast,Deepwater_Horizon_1,f t ten thousand six hundred eighty three m and measured depth of thirty five thousand fifty five f t ten thousand six hundred eighty five m in the tiber oil field at keathley canyon block one hundred two approximately two hundred fifty miles four hundred k m southeast of houston in four thousand one hundred thirty two feet one thousand two hundred fifty nine m of water on twenty april twenty ten while drilling at the macondo prospect an explosion on the rig caused by a blowout killed eleven crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from forty miles sixty four k m away the resulting fire could not be extinguished and on twenty two april twenty ten deepwater horizon sank leaving the well gushing at the seabed and causing the largest offshore oil spill in u s history table of contents section one design deepwater horizon was a fifth generation r b s eight d design i e model type deepwater dynamically positioned column stabilized semi submersible mobile offshore drilling unit designed to drill subsea wells for
triviaqa-jp_2002,what was the first spacecraft to orbit the earth,Laika_6,sophisticated satellite was already under construction but it would not be ready until december this satellite would later become sputnik three to meet the november deadline a new craft would have to be built khrushchev specifically wanted his engineers to deliver a space spectacular a mission that would repeat the triumph of sputnik i stunning the world with soviet prowess the planners settled on an orbital flight with a dog soviet rocket engineers had long intended a canine orbit before attempting human spaceflight since nineteen hundred fifty one they had lofted twelve dogs into sub orbital space on ballistic flights working
triviaqa-sfq_3446,hamid karzai became the first elected president of which country in twenty four ,Ronald_Reagan_179,a state funeral was conducted in the washington national cathedral and presided over by president george w bush eulogies were given by former british prime minister margaret thatcher former canadian prime minister brian mulroney and both presidents bush also in attendance were mikhail gorbachev and many world leaders including british prime minister tony blair german chancellor gerhard schroder italian prime minister silvio berlusconi and interim presidents hamid karzai of afghanistan and ghazi al yawer of iraq after
triviaqa-qw_7263,the grand old party or gop is the name for which political party in the usa,United_States_House_of_Representatives_14,committee chairmen and allowing party leaders to nominate committee chairs these actions were taken to undermine the seniority system and to reduce the ability of a small number of senior members to obstruct legislation they did not favor there was also a shift from the nineteen hundred seventies to greater control of the legislative program by the majority party in particular the power of party leaders especially the speaker grew considerably the republicans swept back into power only in nineteen hundred ninety five under the leadership of speaker newt gingrich see republican revolution gingrich attempted to pass a major legislative program the contract with america on which the house republicans had been elected
triviaqa-jp_4426,what city has a neighborhood called little havana,Indigenous_people_of_the_Everglades_region_35,on the miami river or little river a large shell mound on the little river marks where a village once stood though little remains of the tequesta society a site of archeological importance called the miami circle was discovered in nineteen hundred ninety eight in downtown miami that may be the remains of a tequesta structure its significance has yet to be determined though archeologists and anthropologists continue to study it the spanish however wrote of the tequesta that they were greatly feared by sailors who suspected them of torturing and killing survivors of shipwrecks spanish priests wrote that the tequesta
triviaqa-qg_1594,name the one thousand nine hundred seventy nine movie ranked one hundred sixty eight th on imdbs list of the top two hundred fifty films based on imdbs plot summary brian is born on the original christmas in the stable next door he spends his life being mistaken for a messiah,Not_the_Nine_O%27Clock_News_14,footage of applauding government ministers railing against non white immigration he remarks that they cant help it if they re from india adding and i like curry but now that we ve got the recipe is there any reason for them to stay the general synod s life of christ a parody of the controversy surrounding the film monty python s life of brian constable savage a barbed attack on alleged police treatment of ethnic minorities rowan atkinson as a vicar trying to express his support for homosexuals within the church not very convincingly and with great embarrassment gerald the intelligent gorilla gerald
triviaqa-qb_6125,david lloyd george was british prime minister during the reign of which monarch,George_V_0,george v george v george frederick ernest albert three june eighteen hundred sixty five minus twenty january nineteen hundred thirty six was king of the united kingdom and the british dominions and emperor of india from six may nineteen hundred ten until his death in nineteen hundred thirty six george was a grandson of queen victoria and prince albert and
triviaqa-sfq_6125,to which family of birds does the linnet belong,American_goldfinch_0,american goldfinch the american goldfinch carduelis tristis also known as the eastern goldfinch and wild canary is a north american bird in the finch family it is migratory ranging from southern canada to north carolina during the breeding season and from just south of the
triviaqa-odql_13281,who was the landlady of the rovers return when coronation street was first broadcast in nineteen sixty ,Coronation_Street_9,characters these three women remained with the show for twenty years or more and became archetypes of british soap opera often being emulated by other serials with ena caretaker of the glad tidings mission hall as the street s busybody battleaxe and self proclaimed moral voice elsie as the tart with a heart who was constantly hurt by men in the search of true love and annie walker landlady of the rovers return inn who had delusions of grandeur and saw herself to be better than other residents of coronation street of the original cast only one character remains today ken barlow william roache barlow entered the storyline as a young radical
triviaqa-bt_4324,what is the state capital of alabama,Rosa_Parks_3,maternal grandparents mother and younger brother sylvester and began her lifelong membership in the african methodist episcopal church her mother leona homeschooled rosa until she was eleven when she enrolled in the industrial school for girls in montgomery where her aunt lived taking academic and some vocational courses she then went on to a laboratory school set up by the alabama state teachers college for negroes for secondary education now known as alabama state university but was forced to drop out to care for her grandmother and later her mother after she grew ill under jim crow laws it was quite easy to separate
triviaqa-sfq_15421,haiti and the dominican republic share which island,2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season_67,the island of hispaniola escaped the worst storms however at least eighty nine people were killed in haiti from the effects of hurricanes dennis and wilma and tropical storm alpha cuba was struck by hurricane dennis at peak strength causing one dollar four cents billion in damages it was the worst hurricane to hit cuba in over forty years some areas of cuba also suffered heavy damage from hurricanes rita and wilma unusual impacts were felt
triviaqa-sfq_9239,in which country is the deccan plateau,Indian_Railways_25,seven thousand f t the highest station in this route is ghum the nilgiri mountain railway in the nilgiri hills in southern india is also classified as a world heritage site by unesco three it is also the only cog railway in india the chatrapati shivaji terminus formerly victoria terminus railway station in mumbai is another world heritage site operated by indian railways the palace on wheels is a specially designed train lugged by a steam engine for promoting tourism in rajasthan the maharashtra government did try and introduce the deccan odyssey along the konkan route but it did not enjoy the same
triviaqa-jp_640,leonidas was the king of what city state,300_(film)_5,messengers arrive at the gates of sparta demanding its submission to king xerxes offended by their threats and behavior king leonidas and his guards kick the messengers into a pit leonidas visits the ephors proposing a strategy to repel the numerically superior persians by using the terrain of thermopylae the hot gates his plan involves funneling the persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea the ephors consult the oracle who decrees that sparta must not go to war as leonidas departs a messenger from xerxes appears rewarding the ephors for their covert support
triviaqa-sfq_15262,according to l frank baums the wonderful wizard of oz the road to the city of emeralds is paved with what,The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz_4,to greet dorothy and gives her the silver shoes the wicked witch of the east had been wearing when she was killed her death is explained in the tin woodman of oz as due to her being old and dried up before oz became a fairyland in order to return to kansas the good witch of the north recommends let dorothy go to the city of emeralds and ask the wizard of oz to help her the good witch of the north also kisses dorothy on the forehead stating that no one will harm a person who has been kissed by her on her way down the yellow brick road dorothy meets some remarkable
triviaqa-tc_2973,what is the second most common gas in the atmosphere,Oxygen_1,odorless tasteless diatomic gas with the formula o two oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen and helium and the most abundant element by mass in the earth s crust oxygen constitutes eighty eight point eight per cent of the mass of water and twenty point nine per cent of the volume of air all major classes of structural molecules in living organisms such as proteins carbohydrates and fats contain oxygen as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells teeth and bone oxygen in the form of o two is produced from water by
triviaqa-qz_2601,the pub with the longest name in the uk has how many letters in it fifty five seventy five or ninety five ,Vowel_33,fifty five different vowels section seven
triviaqa-wh_1305,symphony number one hundred four by joseph haydn and symphony number two by ralph vaughan williams are both named after which european capital city,Eric_Hope_2,arthur bliss he made his london debut at the bbc promenade concerts and could be heard regularly with the london philharmonic london symphony and halle orchestras under the batons of conductors such as malcolm sargent adrian boult and john pritchard during the second world war eric hope was a conscientious objector he became renowned as a specialist in the works of bach liszt and debussy although he struggled with
triviaqa-qb_4699,in sixteen ten who became the first person to observe saturns rings through a telescope,Mercury_(planet)_54,sky and hermes when visible in the evening however greek astronomers came to understand that the two names referred to the same body with pythagoras being the first greek to propose the idea section seven point two ground based telescopic research the first telescopic observations of mercury were made by galileo in the early seventeenth century although he observed phases when he looked at venus his telescope was not powerful enough to see the phases of mercury in sixteen hundred thirty one
triviaqa-qw_9163,which member of the british royal family was born on eight eight eight eight ,Princess_Beatrice_of_the_United_Kingdom_0,princess beatrice of the united kingdom the princess beatrice beatrice mary victoria feodore later princess henry of battenberg fourteen april eighteen hundred fifty seven minus twenty six october nineteen hundred forty four was a member of the british royal family she was the fifth daughter and youngest child of queen victoria and prince albert of saxe coburg and gotha the current king of spain juan carlos is her great grandson beatrice s childhood coincided with victoria s grief following the death of her husband prince
triviaqa-qb_7576,which nato member country has the smallest population,Chess_100,there are thirteen sixty three active grandmasters and thirty one fifty three international masters in the world top three countries with the largest numbers of grandmasters are russia ukraine and germany with two hundred eight seventy eight and seventy six the country with most grandmasters per capita is iceland with eleven g m s and thirteen ims among the population of three hundred ten thousand international titles are awarded to composers and solvers of chess problems and to correspondence chess players by the international correspondence chess federation national chess organizations may also award titles
triviaqa-qw_15815,where did the space probe new horizons launched by nasa in twenty six aim to investigate,NASA_32,pioneer eleven minus jupiter and saturn mariner ten minus venus and mercury voyager one minus jupiter and saturn voyager two minus jupiter saturn uranus and neptune new horizons planned for two thousand six jupiter pluto and kuiper belt asteroidal forward slash cometary missions near shoemaker deep space one stardust deep impact dawn planned for two thousand six proposed or canceled planetary asteroid missions jimo cancelled craf cancelled netlanders cancelled titan explorer proposed neptune
triviaqa-sfq_13530,esztergom was once the capital of which country,Ko%c5%a1ice_11,aeneas de caprara got it back on twenty five october sixteen hundred eighty five the fortress was demolished by seventeen hundred thirteen in the seventeenth century it was the de facto capital of upper hungary in one thousand five hundred sixty three to sixteen hundred eighty six as the seat of the captaincy of upper hungary and in one thousand five hundred sixty seven to eighteen hundred forty eight as the seat of the chamber of szepes county spi zips which was a subsidiary of the supreme financial agency in vienna responsible for upper hungary the city was residence of eger s bishop from one thousand five hundred ninety six to
triviaqa-odql_2653,how many books are there in the new testament of the bible,Catholic_Church_45,catholic and apostolic church based on the promises of christ in the gospels the church believes that it is continually guided by the holy spirit which reveals god s truth through sacred scripture sacred tradition and the magisterium and so protected infallibly from falling into doctrinal error sacred scripture consists of the seventy three book catholic bible this is made up of the forty six books found in the ancient greek version of the old testament known as the septuagint and the twenty seven new testament writings
triviaqa-sfq_20140,at the two thousand fourteen winter olympic games elise christie of great britain was disqualified from all three of her events in which sport,Olympic_flame_19,long distance runner clarke would later win an olympic bronze medal in nineteen hundred sixty four hans wikne later participated in the nineteen hundred sixty four olympics nineteen hundred sixty winter olympics ken henry olympic champion in five hundred m speed skating at the nineteen hundred fifty two games nineteen hundred sixty summer olympics giancarlo peris track athlete of greek descent nineteen hundred sixty four winter olympics joseph rieder a former alpine skier who had taken part in the nineteen hundred fifty six olympics nineteen hundred sixty four summer olympics yoshinori
triviaqa-qb_8267,united nations day is celebrated during which month of the year,Martin_Luther_178,and a feast day in the episcopal united states calendar of saints in the church of england s calendar of saints he is commemorated on thirty one october section nineteen works and editions exegetica opera latina minus latin exegetical works
triviaqa-jp_1890,in legend what city was founded by romulus and remus,Pope_Linus_10,nero and domitian there is no mention of any persecution of the roman church and irenaeus one c iii iv three from among the early roman bishops designates only telesphorus as a glorious martyr the roman martyrology does not list linus as a martyr the entry about him is as follows at rome commemoration of saint linus pope who according to irenaeus was the person to whom the blessed apostles entrusted the episcopal care of the church founded in the city and whom blessed paul the apostle mentions as associated with him a tomb found in saint peter s
triviaqa-qg_1999,cursed to sail around the cape of good hope which ghost ship is the theme of an one thousand eight hundred forty one opera by richard wagner,George_V_9,local artist tattoo a blue and red dragon on his arm and was received in an audience by the emperor meiji george and his brother presented empress haruko with two wallabies from australia dalton wrote an account of their journey entitled the cruise of h m s bacchante between melbourne and sydney dalton recorded a sighting of the flying dutchman a mythical ghost ship when they returned to britain queen victoria complained that her grandsons could not speak french or german and so they spent six months in lausanne
triviaqa-qw_7352,which river is most sacred to the hindu religion,Bank_myna_6,orissa i e twenty one north the bank myna is absent from the drier regions in rajasthan it has a patchy distribution but is most common in major river valleys mostly resident the bank myna shows regular seasonal local movements in some areas individual stragglers have been documented from as far as kandahar afghanistan and chennai india the record from chennai may have been an escaped cage bird section two local names the local names for the mynah are ganga myna
triviaqa-tc_2564,who proclaimed the peoples republic of china in nineteen forty nine ,Cold_War_58,of nato in may nineteen hundred fifty three beria by then in a government post had made an unsuccessful proposal to allow the reunification of a neutral germany to prevent west germany s incorporation into nato section four point six chinese civil war and seato in nineteen hundred forty nine mao zedong s people s liberation army defeated chiang kai shek s united states backed kuomintang k m t nationalist government in china and the soviet union promptly created an alliance with the newly formed people s republic of china chiang and his k m t government retreated to the island
triviaqa-odql_13077,the order of the elephant is the highest order of which country,George_V_102,one colonel in chief of the royal marine forces twenty nine november nineteen hundred one honorary colonel of the fourth county of london yeomanry regiment king s colonials twenty one december nineteen hundred one colonel in chief of the royal welsh fusiliers section seven point three foreign honours knight of the order of the elephant denmark eleven october eighteen hundred eighty five badge of the order of the dannebrog denmark knight of the order of the seraphim sweden fourteen june nineteen hundred five knight of the order of the golden fleece spain order of saint hubert bavaria knight of the order of the most holy annunciation italy house order of hohenzollern prussia order of the wendish crown mecklenburg order of osmanieh ottoman empire order of saint andrew russian empire knight of the order of the black eagle prussia
triviaqa-sfq_9942,hawley harvey were the first names of which criminal,Cleveland_Street_scandal_34,prince albert victor had been involved in a male brothel scene and that a solicitor had to commit perjury to clear him the solicitor was struck off the rolls for his offence but was thereafter reinstated in fact none of the lawyers involved in the case were convicted of perjury or struck off at the time indeed most had very distinguished careers however arthur newton was struck off for twelve months for professional misconduct in nineteen hundred ten after falsifying letters from another of his clients the notorious murderer harvey crippen in nineteen hundred thirteen he was struck off indefinitely and sentenced to three years imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretences
triviaqa-wh_3785,which state did frontiersman davy crockett represent in the us house of represenatives,Davy_Crockett_0,davy crockett david crockett david de crocketagne august seventeen seventeen hundred eighty six minus march six eighteen hundred thirty six was an american folk hero usually referred to as davy crockett he represented tennessee in the u s congress went to texas and died at the alamo table of contents section one early life crockett was born in greene county tennessee descendant from
triviaqa-sfq_1137,there are two forms of classical japanese theatre noh is mostly spoken but what name is given to the singing and dancing form,Hamlet_122,kawakami s nineteen hundred three shimpa new school theatre adaptation shoyo tsubouchi translated hamlet and produced a performance in nineteen hundred eleven that blended shingeki new drama and kabuki styles this hybrid genre reached its peak in fukuda tsuneari s nineteen hundred fifty five hamlet in nineteen hundred ninety eight yukio ninagawa produced an acclaimed version of hamlet in the style of n theatre which he took to london constantin stanislavski and edward gordon craig two of the twentieth century s most
triviaqa-qb_6635,the english towns of abingdon wallingford and marlow lie on which river,Birchington-on-Sea_42,which are surrounded by chalk cliffs and cliff stacks the thanet coast project runs trips out of the bay in july and august to observe the wildlife of the thames estuary including seals velvet swimming crabs and the migrant turnstone to the south of the village is quex house a two hundred year old manor house situated in two hundred fifty acres one point zero km two of parkland and gardens several rooms decorated with oriental and english period furniture are open to visitors and guided tours are provided the powell cotton museum houses three galleries of stuffed animal displays depicting more than five hundred
triviaqa-qw_1719,calvados apple brandy is traditionally produced in which country,Cheese_11,cheese in europe diversified further with various locales developing their own distinctive cheesemaking traditions and products france and italy are the nations with the most diversity in locally made cheeses minus today with approximately four hundred each a french proverb holds there is a different french cheese for every day of the year and charles de gaulle once asked how can you govern a country in which there are two hundred forty six kinds of cheese still the advancement of the cheese art in europe was slow during the centuries after rome s fall many of the cheeses we know best today were first recorded in the late middle ages or after cheeses like cheddar around fifteen hundred ce parmesan in fifteen ninety seven gouda in sixteen hundred ninety seven
triviaqa-bt_3162,which british submarine sank the general belgrano in the falklands war,Submarine_83,states lost two nuclear submarines during this time uss thresher and scorpion the thresher was lost due to equipment casualty although the exact nature of the loss of the scorpion is not known one possible explanation is an equipment failure the united kingdom employed nuclear powered submarines against argentina in nineteen hundred eighty two during the two nations dispute over the falkland islands the sinking of the antiquated cruiser ara general belgrano by h m s conqueror was the first sinking by a nuclear powered submarine in wartime section four point ten major submarine incidents since two thousand main article major submarine incidents since two thousand
triviaqa-bb_3006,a period of northern hemisphere climatic extremes occurring between one thousand three hundred fifty and one thousand eight hundred fifty is loosely referred to as the little what,Climate_change_26,archaeological evidence oral history and historical documents can offer insights into past changes in the climate climate change effects have been linked to the collapse of various civilisations section two point two glaciers glaciers are considered among the most sensitive indicators of climate change advancing when climate cools for example during the period known as the little ice age and retreating when climate warms glaciers grow and shrink both contributing to natural variability and amplifying externally forced changes a world glacier inventory has been
triviaqa-dpql_3324,in which winter olympics city did torville and dean win gold in nineteen eighty four ,Sarajevo_34,of local culture music and dance the sarajevo school of pop rock developed in the city between nineteen hundred sixty one and nineteen hundred ninety one this type of music began with bands like indexi bijelo dugme and singer forward slash song writer kemal monteno it continued into the nineteen hundred eighties with bands such as plavi orkestar zabranjeno puenje and crvena jabuka ending with the war in nineteen hundred ninety two section nine sports sarajevo was the location of the nineteen hundred eighty four winter olympics yugoslavia won one medal a silver in men s giant slalom awarded to slovene jure franko many of the olympic facilities survived the war including
triviaqa-qg_4089,what was the forty two nd state to join the union on nov eleven one thousand eight hundred eighty nine ,Rock_Springs_massacre_7,and washington territory the u s minister to china george seward had asserted similar numbers in scribner s magazine five years earlier the first jobs chinese laborers took in wyoming were on the railroad working for the union pacific company up as maintenance of the way workers chinese workers soon became an asset to union pacific and were found along up lines and in up coal mines from laramie to evanston most chinese workers in wyoming ended up working in sweetwater county but a large number settled in carbon
triviaqa-odql_7960,the long distance train the canadian travels between toronto and which other city,Canadians_11,individuals landing in toronto in eighteen hundred forty seven and eighteen hundred forty eight beginning in late eighteen hundred fifties the immigration of chinese into the colony of vancouver island and colony of british columbia peaked with the onset of the fraser canyon gold rush the chinese immigration act of eighteen hundred eighty five eventually placed a head tax on all chinese immigrants in hopes of discouraging chinese immigration after completion of the canadian pacific railway the population of canada has consistently risen doubling approximately every forty years since the establishment of the canadian confederation in eighteen hundred
triviaqa-odql_9557,in the nineteenth century benjamin west thomas lawrence and john millais were president of which institution,Peterborough_91,physician actor and author sir john hill credited with seventy six separate works in the dictionary of national biography the most valuable of which dealing with botany is also said to have been born in peterborough musicians include sir thomas armstrong organist conductor and former principal of the royal academy of music andy bell lead singer of the electronic pop duo erasure barrie forgie leader of the bbc big band don lusher obe trombonist and former professor of the royal college of music and the royal marines school of music paul nicholas actor and singer keith palmer better known as maxim reality mc with
triviaqa-dpql_2396,what was placed in earths orbit by discovery in nineteen ninety ,Hubble_Space_Telescope_0,hubble space telescope the hubble space telescope h s t is a telescope in orbit around the earth its position outside the earth s atmosphere allows it to take sharp optical images of very faint objects and since its launch in nineteen hundred ninety it has become one of the most important telescopes in the history of astronomy it has been responsible for many ground breaking observations and has helped astronomers achieve a better understanding
triviaqa-odql_12145,which chilean socialist leader was deposed and killed by general pinochet during a us backed coup in nineteen seventy three ,Cold_War_115,in chile the socialist party candidate salvador allende won the presidential election of nineteen hundred seventy becoming the first democratically elected marxist to become president of a country in the americas general augusto pinochet carried out a violent coup against the government on september eleven nineteen hundred seventy three and quickly consolidated all political power as a military dictator actions that were welcomed by the us allende s reforms of the economy were rolled back and leftist opponents were killed or detained in internment camps under the direccion de inteligencia nacional dina
triviaqa-qw_8897,who was the last anglo saxon king of england,Prince_Edward%2c_Earl_of_Wessex_25,royal history the kingdom of wessex having played the leading role in the unification of anglo saxon england the last person to hold the earldom was harold godwinson prior to his accession to the english throne in ten sixty six for seventeen to twenty three may twenty fourteen only edward became entitled to be called albeit academically his grace the lord high commissioner to the general assembly of the church of scotland as edward s nineteen hundred ninety nine marriage approached experts suggested the former
triviaqa-bb_5340,whats the food head cheese alternatively called which separately refers to a mans physical strength,Cheese_50,employed in a sense that means molded or formed head cheese uses the word in this sense in modern english slang something cheesy is kitsch cheap inauthentic or of poor quality one can also be cheesed off minus unhappy or annoyed such negative connotations might derive from a ripe cheese s sometimes unpleasant odor almost certainly the odor explains the use of cutting the cheese as a euphemism for flatulence and the term cheesy feet to mean feet which smell a more upbeat slang use is seen in the big cheese an expression referring to the most important person in a group the big shot or head honcho this use of the word
triviaqa-tc_3120,who was the first man to walk on the moon,NASA_9,of astronauts with the apollo one launch pad fire the apollo program achieved its goals with apollo eleven which landed neil armstrong and buzz aldrin on the moon s surface on july twenty nineteen hundred sixty nine and returned them to earth safely on july twenty four armstrong s first words upon stepping out of the eagle lander captured the momentousness of the occasion that s one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind twelve men would set foot on the moon by the end of the apollo program in december nineteen hundred seventy two nasa had won the moon race and in some senses this
triviaqa-sfq_19992,a dish cooked a la lyonnaise would be garnished or prepared with which ingredient,Lard_22,topped with onions served with salt and paprika and eaten as a side dish with beer all of these are commonly translated on menus as lard sandwiches perhaps due to the lack of familiarity of most contemporary english native speakers with dripping attempts to use hungarian zsir or polish smalec in british recipes calling for lard will soon reveal the difference between the wet rendered lard and dripping in taiwan hong kong as well as many parts of mainland china lard was often consumed mixed into cooked rice along with soy sauce to make lard rice or this is less commonly served in modern times due
triviaqa-bt_3768,which is the only sign of the zodiac to start and finish with the same letter,2012_phenomenon_77,some people have interpreted the galactic alignment apocalyptically claiming that when it occurs it will somehow create a combined gravitational effect between the sun and the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy known as sagittarius a thus creating havoc on earth apart from the fact noted above that the galactic alignment already happened in nineteen hundred ninety eight the sun s apparent path through the zodiac as seen from earth does not take it near the true galactic center but rather several degrees above it even if this were not the case sagittarius a
triviaqa-sfq_20666,robert gordon menzies was which countrys longest serving prime minister,Robert_Garran_13,involved with the work of edmund barton who would later be the first prime minister of australia but at the time was the de facto leader of the federation movement in new south wales as sir henry parkes declined into poor health garran along with others such as atlee hunt worked essentially as secretaries to barton s federation campaign drafting correspondence and planning meetings at one late night meeting planning a speech barton was to give in the sydney suburb of ashfield barton coined the phrase for the first time
triviaqa-odql_7466,in which town in greater manchester is the tv series set,Scout_Moor_Wind_Farm_1,m w h per annum enough to serve the average needs of forty thousand homes the site occupies one thousand three hundred forty seven acres five hundred forty five ha of open moorland between edenfield rawtenstall and rochdale and is split between the metropolitan borough of rochdale in northern greater manchester and the borough of rossendale in south eastern lancashire the turbines are visible from as far away as south manchester fifteen to twenty miles twenty four to thirty two k m away a protest group formed to resist the proposed construction and attracted support from botanist
triviaqa-qz_4175,in risk what colour is europe,S%c3%a1pmi_5,hundred seventy six fjellner described the sami as sons and daughters of the sun the flag s circle represents the sun red and the moon blue the flag has the sami colours red green yellow and blue pantone colour formula is red four eight five c green three five six c yellow one one six c and blue two eight six c section three area the area covered by lapland lies mostly north of the arctic circle the western portion is an area of fiords deep valleys glaciers and mountains the highest point being mount kebnekaise
triviaqa-qb_9682,the discovery of what in australia in february one thousand eight hundred fifty one is traditionally attributed to edward hammond hargraves,Eureka_Rebellion_16,of the eureka hotel and on the broader issues of abolition of the licence universal suffrage and democratic representation of the gold fields and disbanding of the gold commission commissioner rede s response to these disputes was perhaps an ill judged one but stemmed from his military background and has been attributed by many historians most notably manning clark to his belief in his right to exert authority over the rabble rather than hear the grievances rede increased the police presence in the gold fields and summoned reinforcements from melbourne on monday november twenty seven eighteen hundred fifty four
triviaqa-qw_7447,a one thousand nine hundred ninety three film starring tom hanks was sleepless in where,The_Smashing_Pumpkins_13,corgan remarked we ve graduated now from being called the next jane s addiction to the next nirvana now we re the next pearl jam the group nevertheless contributed the song drown to the platinum selling soundtrack of the nineteen hundred ninety two movie singles a film set in the seattle grunge music scene corgan said that in the wake of nirvana s landmark nineteen hundred ninety one album nevermind we felt a great pressure that if we didnt come up with a record that was huge we were done it was that simple in our minds we felt like our lives depended on it corgan s depression deepened to the point where he contemplated
triviaqa-qz_4056,what is the name of the enzyme usually added to milk to coagulate it to make curds and whey,Cheese_2,are eaten both on their own and cooked into various dishes most cheeses melt when cooked for a few cheeses the milk is curdled by adding acids such as vinegar or lemon juice most cheeses however are acidified to a lesser degree by bacteria which turn milk sugars into lactic acid followed by the addition of rennet to complete the curdling rennet is an enzyme traditionally obtained from the stomach lining of young cattle but now also laboratory produced substitute vegetable rennets have been extracted from various species of the cynara thistle family the word cheese is derived through middle english chese and old english cese or cse from the latin caseus table of contents section one history cheese is an ancient food whose origins may predate recorded
triviaqa-sfq_2723,which shipyard built the titanic,RMS_Titanic_3,and jean louis michel have made titanic persistently famous in the years since table of contents section one construction the titanic was a white star line ocean liner built at the harland and wolff shipyard in belfast ireland and was designed to compete with rival company cunard line s lusitania and mauretania titanic along with its olympic class sisters olympic and the soon to be built britannic originally named gigantic three were intended to be the largest most luxurious ships ever to operate titanic was designed by harland and wolff chairman lord pirrie head of harland and wolff s design department thomas andrews and general manager alexander carlisle with the plans regularly sent to white star line s managing director j bruce ismay for suggestions and approval construction
triviaqa-qb_6105,in the game of golf an albatross is how many strokes under par for a given hole,Howard_Hughes_8,laboratory in his will that he signed in nineteen hundred twenty five at age nineteen because howard sr s will had not been updated since allene s death hughes inherited seventy five per cent of the family fortune on his nineteenth birthday hughes was declared an emancipated minor enabling him to take full control of his legacy hughes was an outstanding and enthusiastic golfer from a young age often scoring near par figures and held a handicap of three during his twenties he played frequently with top players including gene sarazen hughes rarely played competitively and gradually gave up his interest in the sport hughes dropped out of rice university shortly after his father s death on
triviaqa-jp_1439,what country has the largest amount of rainforest,Cougar_8,tail and a paintbrush dipped in dark paint has some currency citation needed the cougar holds the guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names presumably due to its wide distribution across north and south america it has over forty names in english alone cougar is borrowed from the portuguese cucuarana via french the term was originally derived from the tupi language a current form in brazil is sucuarana puma comes via spanish from the quechua language section two taxonomy and evolution the cougar is the largest
triviaqa-sfq_646,what was the first name of the dutch explorer tasman after whom tasmania is named,British_Empire_59,until eighteen hundred forty the australian colonies became profitable exporters of wool and gold mainly due to gold rushes in the colony of victoria making its capital melbourne the richest city in the world and the largest city after london in the british empire during his voyage cook also visited new zealand first discovered by dutch explorer abel tasman in sixteen hundred forty two and claimed the north and south islands for the british crown in seventeen hundred sixty nine and seventeen hundred seventy respectively initially
triviaqa-bb_8979,what poem contains the words water water everywhere nor any drop to drink ,Seawater_31,and were unable to capture enough rainwater for drinking this frustration was described famously by a line from samuel taylor coleridge s the rime of the ancient mariner although humans cannot survive on seawater some people claim that up to two cups a day mixed with fresh water in a two three ratio produces no ill effect the french physician alain bombard survived an
triviaqa-sfq_3563,the cesarewitch horse race is run at newmarket during which month of the year,Oktoberfest_8,kept that name ever since although the locals have since abbreviated the name simply to the wiesn horse races in the presence of the royal family marked the close of the event that was celebrated as a festival for the whole of bavaria the decision to repeat the horse races in the subsequent year gave rise to the tradition of the oktoberfest the festival was eventually prolonged and moved ahead to september to allow for better weather conditions today the last day of the festival is the first sunday in october in two thousand six the oktoberfest extended
triviaqa-odql_4058,which shakespeare play centres around a novice nun called isabella whosebrother is to be executed unless she succumbs to the attentions of angelo,William_Shakespeare_33,each other shakespeare s so called tragic period lasted from about sixteen hundred zero to sixteen hundred eight though he also wrote the so called problem plays measure for measure troilus and cressida and all s well that ends well during this time and had written tragedies before many critics believe that shakespeare s greatest tragedies represent the peak of his art the hero of the first hamlet has probably been more discussed than any other shakespearean character especially for his famous soliloquy to be or not to be that is the question unlike the introverted hamlet whose fatal flaw is hesitation the heroes of the tragedies that
triviaqa-bt_2036,which cup competition was founded by charles william alcock in the eighteen seventies,Andrew_Watson_(footballer%2c_born_1856)_4,watson s last cap came on scottish soil against england on eleven march eighteen hundred eighty two this was a five minus one victory again to scotland in eighteen hundred eighty two he was the first black player to play in the english cup when he turned out for swifts in eighteen hundred eighty four he was the first foreign player to be invited to join the most exclusive of football teams a team that allowed only fifty members of high elite to join the corinthians during his time there this included an eight minus one victory against blackburn rovers who were at that time the english cup holders citation needed the colour of his skin was of no significance to his peers and there is no historical record of racism on the part of the
triviaqa-odql_9116,between one thousand nine hundred fifty six and one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the american athlete al oerter won four consecutive olympic gold medals in which filed event,Rene_Ahrens_1,bronze medal at the nineteen hundred eighty eight seoul games in the men s discus six event he also competed at the nineteen hundred eighty summer paralympics
triviaqa-bb_8498,what name for a temple derives from the ancient greek meaning to all gods,Greek_mythology_43,the sun helios traversed the heavens as a charioteer and sailed around the earth in a golden bowl at night sun earth heaven rivers and winds could be addressed in prayers and called to witness oaths natural fissures were popularly regarded as entrances to the subterranean house of hades home of the dead section two point one point two greek gods according to classical era mythology after the overthrow of the titans the new pantheon
triviaqa-bb_801,the state of oaxaca hit by a devastating mudslide in october two thousand ten is in which country,2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season_31,jose forced twenty five thousand people to evacuate their homes in veracruz and killed six people in the state of oaxaca two more were reported missing in all damage in mexico amounted to forty five dollars million two thousand five usd hurricane katrina formed in mid august over the bahamas it became a tropical storm on august twenty four and reached hurricane intensity before making landfall in south florida as a minimal hurricane a few hours later the storm entered the
triviaqa-bb_2552,how many cross stars feature in the subaru automotive badge logo,Order_of_Canada_16,badge belonging to the sovereign consists of a jewelled one eight carat gold crown of rubies emeralds and sapphires from which is suspended a white enamelled hexagonal snowflake design with six equal leaves and diamonds between each at the centre is a disc bearing a maple leaf in pave laid rubies on a white enamel background surrounded at its edge by a red enamel ring annulus bearing the motto of the order the chancellor wears the badge of a companion and is upon installation as governor general granted a livery collar for wear at order of canada investiture ceremonies the badges for inductees are of a similar
triviaqa-qg_965,now a part of carnival corporation what shipping company commissioned and sailed the rms titanic,RMS_Titanic_3,and jean louis michel have made titanic persistently famous in the years since table of contents section one construction the titanic was a white star line ocean liner built at the harland and wolff shipyard in belfast ireland and was designed to compete with rival company cunard line s lusitania and mauretania titanic along with its olympic class sisters olympic and the soon to be built britannic originally named gigantic three were intended to be the largest most luxurious ships ever to operate titanic was designed by harland and wolff chairman lord pirrie head of harland and wolff s design department thomas andrews and general manager alexander carlisle with the plans regularly sent to white star line s managing director j bruce ismay for suggestions and approval construction
triviaqa-sfq_15794,what is canadas most populous province,Economy_of_Ontario_1,an important role ontario is the most populous province of canada with a population of about thirteen million permanent residents it is canada s leading manufacturing province accounting for fifty two per cent of the national manufacturing shipments in two thousand four inflation is slowly reducing in ontario it was two point two per cent in two thousand five and is forecast to be two point one per cent in two thousand six and one point eight per cent in two thousand seven ontario has an unemployment rate of about eight point five per cent slightly higher than the employment rate of canada as a whole ontario s main exports are motor vehicles parts and accessories
triviaqa-wh_1908,which french artist along with picasso was a founder of cubism he designed sets for diaghilev ballets and was awarded the legion dhonneur among his works are the woman musician and the candlestick,Nat_Tate%3a_An_American_Artist_1928%e2%80%931960_4,friendships with both picasso and braque about a week later a man named david lister wrote to the independent of london and claimed that some of the biggest names in the art world have been the victims of a literary hoax and the story was picked up by other newspapers including the new york times in reality it appears that few were fooled and most of the big names in the arts world including artists collectors art historian art dealers new york based writers like paul auster and editors of literary journals quickly realized that nat tate was a complete fake
triviaqa-bb_7193,what is the common word for the monosaccharide substance found in certain fruit flower nectar and honey with the chemical formula csix htwelve osix ,Hydrochloric_acid_29,applications such as leather processing household cleaning and building construction in addition a way of stimulating oil production is by injecting hydrochloric acid into the rock formation of an oil well dissolving a portion of the rock and creating a large pore structure oil well acidizing is a common process in the north sea oil production industry many chemical reactions involving hydrochloric acid are applied in the production of food food ingredients and food additives typical products include aspartame fructose citric acid lysine hydrolyzed protein and gelatin food
triviaqa-qw_10445,what is the name of eleven roman emperors the first of which transferred the capital to byzantium in three hundred thirty ad and the last of which died when it was captured by the turks in fourteen fifty three ,Catholic_Church_95,of the empire the resulting persecutions were a defining feature of christian self understanding until christianity was legalised in the fourth century in three hundred thirteen the struggles of the early church were lessened by the legalisation of christianity by the emperor constantine i in three hundred eighty christianity became the state church of the roman empire by decree of the emperor in the edict of thessalonica which would persist until the
triviaqa-tc_1516,in baseball where do the orioles come from,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_66,is an unwise political and leadership decision that is enabling the birther controversy in december twenty ten baltimore orioles baseball player luke scott asserted in a yahoo interview that obama was not born here and that his birth certificate was never released the huffington post reported that in april twenty eleven during his stage show charlie sheen said for starters i was fucking born here how about that and i got proof nothing photoshopped about my birth certificate the
triviaqa-sfq_8988,which italian city is the setting of shakespeares romeo and juliet,William_Shakespeare_29,been found though it is related to a separate play of the same name and may have derived from a folk story like two gentlemen of verona in which two friends appear to approve of rape the shrew s story of the taming of a woman s independent spirit by a man sometimes troubles modern critics and directors shakespeare s early classical and italianate comedies containing tight double plots and precise comic sequences give way in the mid one thousand five hundred nineties to the romantic atmosphere of his greatest comedies a midsummer night s dream is a witty mixture of romance fairy magic and comic low life scenes shakespeare s next comedy
triviaqa-odql_12839,which political philosopher wrote the theory of moral sentiments and an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations,Isaac_Newton_53,of nature and natural law to every physical and social field of the day in this respect the lessons of history and the social structures built upon it could be discarded it was newton s conception of the universe based upon natural and rationally understandable laws that became the seed for enlightenment ideology locke and voltaire applied concepts of natural law to political systems advocating intrinsic rights the physiocrats and adam smith applied natural conceptions of psychology and self interest to economic systems and the sociologists criticised the current social order for trying to fit history into natural models of progress monboddo
triviaqa-bb_3870,what belgian city boasts the famous urinating boy fountain called manneken pis,The_Adventures_of_Tintin_3,addressed to brussels there are other more subtle hints in some of the other books such as recognisable locations car numberplates etcetera however after red rackham s treasure tintin moves into marlinspike hall whose geographical location is debatable table of contents section one characters section one point one tintin tintin is a young belgian reporter as well as an accomplished fighter and pilot who becomes involved in dangerous cases in which he takes heroic action to save the day almost every adventure features tintin hard at work at his investigative reporting but he is rarely seen
triviaqa-odql_8256,in which year was the boxing day tsunami in the indian ocean,Trincomalee_41,vidyalayam trincomalee saint francis xavier school section eight two thousand four tsunami in the aftermath of the two thousand four asian tsunami trincomalee was a focal point for relief efforts on the eastern coast of sri lanka section nine maps detailed map of trincomalee adobe reader required to view the map section ten see also place names in sri lanka h m s trincomalee a british sailing frigate built in india
triviaqa-dpql_4669,which english king was the first to establish a regular navy,Oriel_College%2c_Oxford_1,royal foundation in oxford a title formerly claimed by university college whose claim of being founded by king alfred is no longer promoted in recognition of this royal connection the college has also been known as king s college and king s hall the original medieval foundation set up by adam de brome under the patronage of edward ii was called the house or hall of the blessed mary at oxford the first design allowed for a provost and ten fellows called scholars and the college remained a small body of graduate fellows until the sixteenth century when it started to admit undergraduates during the english
triviaqa-wh_2109,the name of which chemical element of the periodic table ends with the letters kel,Zinc_90,palladium a key step in the catalytic cycle is a transmetalation in which a zinc halide exchanges its organic substituent for another halogen with the palladium nickel metal center the fukuyama coupling is another coupling reaction but this one with a thioester as reactant forming a ketone organozinc compounds usually contain zinc in plus two oxidation state but compound in plus one state are also known such as decamethyldizincocene section seven biological role zinc is an essential trace element necessary for
triviaqa-bb_7608,which student of socrates and teacher of aristole wrote republic,Greek_mythology_93,writers who show off in the mythical style as for those who do proceed by proving their assertions we must cross examine them nevertheless even plato did not manage to wean himself and his society from the influence of myth his own characterization for socrates is based on the traditional homeric and tragic patterns
triviaqa-tc_3155,which force is nothing more than the bending of space and time,Space_elevator_2,the tether taut vehicles can then climb the tether and escape the planet s gravity without the use of rockets such a structure could eventually permit delivery of great quantities of cargo and people to orbit and at costs only a fraction of those associated with current means table of contents section one non tether space elevator concepts at this time orbital tethers are the only space elevator concept that is the subject of active research and commercial interest in space however there are two related concepts worth mentioning a space fountain and a very tall compressive structure i e a structure that stands on its own a
triviaqa-qz_608,which asian country was once called siam,French_language_in_Laos_2,in present day luang prabang the actual catalysts for the establishment of colonial protectorate over lao cultural regions were french fears of economic and political competition from britain by the eighteen hundred nineties border disputes with siam and france led to the franco siamese war and the borders of laos and siam were established in favor of france and laos became a french protectorate unlike in vietnam the french did not pursue to fully exert their influence in laos and it was not until the nineteen hundred zeros that
triviaqa-bb_6117,what nation is home to the zanu pf poltical body,British_Empire_142,rhodesia were all granted independence by nineteen hundred sixty eight british withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of africa was not a peaceful process kenyan independence was preceded by the eight year mau mau uprising in rhodesia the nineteen hundred sixty five unilateral declaration of independence by the white minority resulted in a civil war that lasted until the lancaster house agreement of nineteen hundred seventy nine which set the terms for recognised independence in nineteen hundred eighty as the new nation of zimbabwe in the mediterranean a guerrilla
triviaqa-qw_1914,what is the ocean current that flows from florida to europe,An_Inconvenient_Truth_6,by approximately twenty feet six m flooding coastal areas and producing one hundred million refugees meltwater from greenland because of its lower salinity could halt the gulf stream current and quickly trigger dramatic local cooling in northern europe in an effort to explain the global warming phenomenon the film examines annual temperature and co two levels for the past six hundred thousand years in antarctic ice core samples an analogy to hurricane katrina is used for those familiar with the three zero f t
triviaqa-bt_2598,discovery gillyflower and rome beauty are types of which fruit,Isaac_Newton_65,are claimed to be the apple tree which newton describes the king s school grantham claims that the tree was purchased by the school uprooted and transported to the headmaster s garden some years later the staff of the now national trust owned woolsthorpe manor dispute this and claim that a tree present in their gardens is the one described by newton a descendant of the original tree can be seen growing outside the main gate of trinity college cambridge below the room newton lived in when he studied there the national fruit collection at brogdale can supply grafts from their tree ref nineteen hundred forty eight to seven hundred twenty nine which appears identical to flower of kent a coarse fleshed cooking variety section seven
triviaqa-qz_5554,in which is shakespeares plays are the title characters last words the rest is silence,Hamlet_71,him as my cousin hamlet and my son hamlet says as an aside a little more than kin and less than kind an aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience by convention the audience realises that the character s speech is unheard by the other characters on stage it may be addressed to the audience expressly in character or out or represent an unspoken thought an unusual rhetorical device hendiadys appears in several places in the play examples are found in ophelia s speech at the end of the nunnery
triviaqa-sfq_19464,which wagner opera tells the story of the eponymous swan knight and features the bridal chorus,Neuschwanstein_Castle_42,the grotto 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
triviaqa-qw_3796,the webb ellis cup is presented to the winners of the world cup in what sport,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_1,in the tri nations series in which they also contest the bledisloe cup with australia the all blacks have been tri nations champions seven times in the tournament s eleven year history and twice completed a grand slam in nineteen hundred seventy eight and in two thousand five and currently hold the bledisloe cup they are the top ranked team in the world and the two thousand six international rugby board irb team of the year twelve former all blacks have been inducted into the international rugby hall of fame the team first competed internationally in eighteen hundred ninety three against new south wales and played their first test match in
triviaqa-qg_1526,what element is often called quicksilver,Silver_9,for thousands of years for ornaments and utensils for trade and as the basis for many monetary systems its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold in ancient egypt and medieval europe it was often more valuable than gold associated with the moon as well as with the sea and various lunar goddesses the metal was referred to by alchemists by the name luna one of the alchemical symbols for silver is a crescent moon with the open part on the left see picture right the metal mercury was thought of as a kind of silver though the two elements are chemically unrelated its latin and english names hydrargyrum watery silver and quicksilver respectively
triviaqa-bb_6297,according to two thousand fifteen survey what fruit was most popular among usa children,Isaac_Newton_65,are claimed to be the apple tree which newton describes the king s school grantham claims that the tree was purchased by the school uprooted and transported to the headmaster s garden some years later the staff of the now national trust owned woolsthorpe manor dispute this and claim that a tree present in their gardens is the one described by newton a descendant of the original tree can be seen growing outside the main gate of trinity college cambridge below the room newton lived in when he studied there the national fruit collection at brogdale can supply grafts from their tree ref nineteen hundred forty eight to seven hundred twenty nine which appears identical to flower of kent a coarse fleshed cooking variety section seven
triviaqa-qb_9094,in nineteen sixty eight the troubles began in which european country between elements of the nationalist community and the unionist community,Oldham_31,in the united kingdom for fifteen years prior briefly eclipsing the sectarian violence in northern ireland in the media at least twenty people were injured in the riots including fifteen police officers and thirty seven people were arrested similar riots took place in other towns in northern england over the following days and weeks the two thousand one riots prompted governmental and independent inquiries which collectively agreed on community relations improvements and considerable regeneration schemes for the town section two governance section two point one civic history lying within the historic county
triviaqa-dpql_4590,plato and xenophon were both pupils of which greek philosopher,Greek_mythology_93,writers who show off in the mythical style as for those who do proceed by proving their assertions we must cross examine them nevertheless even plato did not manage to wean himself and his society from the influence of myth his own characterization for socrates is based on the traditional homeric and tragic patterns
triviaqa-qw_661,the reign of terror was a period in the revolution of which country,Mary_Wollstonecraft_15,she pursued these ideas more indirectly in a vindication of the rights of woman seventeen hundred ninety two her most famous and influential work section three france and gilbert imlay wollstonecraft left for paris in december of seventeen hundred ninety two and arrived about a month before louis xvi was guillotined the country was in turmoil she sought out other english visitors such as helen maria williams and joined the circle of expatriates then in the city having just written a vindication of the rights of woman wollstonecraft was determined to put her ideas to the test and in the stimulating intellectual atmosphere of the french revolution she attempted her
triviaqa-dpql_3341,in which county would you find chesil beach,Weymouth%2c_Dorset_51,section seven see also chesil beach english channel king george iii georgian era jurassic coast list of dorset beaches seaside resort uk coastline watersports weymouth and portland national sailing academy weymouth beach weymouth f c weymouth marina wyke regis
triviaqa-qg_348,what canadian province lies between british columbia and saskatchewan,Canada_53,provinces and territories canada is a federation composed of ten provinces and three territories in turn these may be grouped into regions western canada consists of british columbia and the three prairie provinces alberta saskatchewan and manitoba central canada consists of quebec and ontario atlantic canada consists of the three maritime
triviaqa-odql_1280,which fashion designer wrote the book men without ties,Ali_G_3,memorable interview was with a fashion designer he suggested that the wonderbra should be banned as it misleads men into thinking that a woman s breasts are larger than they are he retold a story of having been disappointed when a girl he had pulled proved to have been wearing a wonderbra he also asked his interviewee if he was pleased gianni versace was killed because it meant less competition and he suggested that he d heard a rumour that calvin klein did it this was a clear satire on the feuding which followed the deaths of the rappers tupac shakur and the notorious b i g other examples of his style of interviewing include
triviaqa-bb_6046,what is the traditionalmodern language of iran and old persia named from the latter,Sogdian_language_2,the economic and political importance of the language guaranteed its survival in the first few centuries after the conquest of sogdiana by the muslims in the early eighth century ce the fact that the earliest texts of modern persian have been written in the territory of sogdiana under the patronage of samanid kings means that many sogdian words have entered modern persian as well only a dialect of sogdian called yaghnobi language has survived into the twenty first century and is spoken by the mountain dwellers of the yaghnob valley evidence of early sogdian script has been found in sogdiana this early script was taken from the aramaic script and was almost solely
wq-dev_202,what is the currency used in italy,500_euro_note_0,five hundred euro note the five hundred euro note five hundred euro is the highest value euro banknote and has been used since the introduction of the euro in its cash form in two thousand two it is one of the highest value banknotes in the world worth around
wq-dev_672,what form of government does north korea have,Nuclear_weapon_3,people s republic of china india and pakistan these countries are the declared nuclear powers with russia inheriting the weapons of the soviet union after its collapse various other countries may hold nuclear weapons but they have never publicly admitted possession or their claims to possession have not been verified for example israel has modern airbourne delivery systems and appears to have an extensive nuclear program see israel and weapons of mass destruction north korea has recently stated that it has nuclear capabilities although it has now stated that it will abandon all of its nuclear weapons programs ukraine may possess an obsolete
wq-dev_1342,what kind of language does france speak,French_language_in_Laos_0,french language in laos french is spoken by a significant minority in laos laos is the second largest francophone nation in asia the others being vietnam and cambodia french is used as a diplomatic and commercial language and is also studied by over a third of students in laos table of contents section one history
wq-dev_1427,who was the secretary of state when andrew jackson was president,John_Quincy_Adams_19,more during his presidency adams and clay set up a new party the national republican party but it never took root in the states in the elections of eighteen hundred twenty seven adams and his supporters lost control of congress new york senator martin van buren a future president and follower of jackson became one of the leaders of the senate much of adams political difficulties were due to his refusal on principle to replace members of his administration who supported jackson on the grounds that no one should be removed from office except for incompetence for example his postmaster general
wq-dev_270,what kind of monarchy does japan have,Canada_34,canada is a constitutional monarchy with elizabeth ii queen of canada as head of state the canadian monarch also serves as head of state of fifteen other commonwealth countries putting canada in a personal union relationship with those other states the country is a parliamentary democracy with a federal system of parliamentary government and strong democratic traditions canada s constitution consists of written text and unwritten traditions and conventions the constitution act eighteen hundred sixty seven formerly the british north america act established governance based on
wq-dev_383,what language do chinese people write in,Han_dynasty_149,section six point one writing materials in the first millennium b c typical ancient chinese writing materials were bronzewares animal bones and bamboo slips or wooden boards by the beginning of the han dynasty the chief writing materials were clay tablets silk cloth and rolled scrolls made from bamboo strips sewn together with hempen string these were passed through drilled holes and secured with clay stamps
wq-dev_1886,what inventions were made by ben franklin,Glasses_14,lens in the treatment of myopia nearsightedness however it was not until sixteen hundred four that johannes kepler published in his treatise on optics and astronomy the first correct explanation as to why convex and concave lenses could correct presbyopia and myopia section one point three later developments the american scientist benjamin franklin who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia invented bifocals in seventeen hundred eighty four to avoid having to regularly switch between two pairs of glasses
wq-dev_1778,what county is san francisco,Harvey_Milk_62,in november nineteen hundred seventy six voters in san francisco had decided to reorganize supervisor elections to choose supervisors from neighborhoods instead of voting for them in city wide ballots harvey milk quickly qualified as the leading candidate in district five surrounding castro street section four point two last campaign anita bryant s vitriol and the multiple challenges to gay rights ordinances across the united states fueled gay politics in san francisco seventeen candidates from the castro district entered the next race for supervisor more than half of them were gay the new york times ran an expose on the veritable invasion of gay people into san
wq-dev_645,what type of art did leonardo da vinci make,Museum_of_Bad_Art_58,science researchers tested the consistency of responses between people asked to make gut judgments versus those who gave conscious well reasoned responses regarding the quality of various pieces of art the researchers showed respondents images from moba and new york s museum of modern art moma and asked them to rate each painting on a scale with two ends representing very attractive and very unattractive the study found that those who reasoned in conscious thought were neither more accurate nor as consistent in their ratings
wq-dev_1065,who does darth vaders voice,Scar_(The_Lion_King)_64,a film that features the voices of several well known a list actors namely irons as scar matthew broderick as simba james earl jones as mufasa and whoopi goldberg as shenzi the lion king has since gone on to be acclaimed as one of the most impressive arrays of voice talents ever utilized in an animated film critics have repeatedly singled out irons performance praising it extensively cindy white of ign called irons performance deliciously smarmy while
wq-dev_1099,what country does david luiz play for,Gilberto_Silva_30,draw with aston villa the first half of the season turned out to be his most illustrious in front of goal from august to december gilberto scored eight goals for arsenal and garnered praise for his performances as stand in captain while thierry henry was injured gilberto has indicated that after his current contract finishes at arsenal he may return to brazil to play club football he has also stated i would like to live in a small farm and ride a horse and have all of my family next to me section two style of play gilberto is often called the invisible wall or volante in
wq-dev_1563,what are all the countries in north africa,British_Empire_89,hundred eighty five to withdraw from sudan a joint force of british and egyptian troops defeated the mahdist army in eighteen hundred ninety six and rebuffed a french attempted invasion at fashoda in eighteen hundred ninety eight sudan was nominally made an anglo egyptian condominium but a british colony in reality british gains in southern and east africa prompted cecil rhodes pioneer of british expansion in africa to urge a cape to cairo railway linking the strategically important suez canal to the mineral rich south during the eighteen hundred eighties and eighteen hundred nineties
wq-dev_1160,who is the mother of prince michael jackson,Katherine_Jackson_0,katherine jackson katherine jackson born may four nineteen hundred thirty is the mother of the jacksons musical family table of contents section one childhood born kattie b screws in barbour county alabama she was the daughter of martha mattie upshaw and prince albert screws katherine s father later changed his surname to scruse and her name was changed to katherine esther scruse when she was four katherine contracted polio as a child but
wq-dev_1621,what political party is jerry brown,Martha_Layne_Collins_21,of human resources collins had the support of many leaders in the democratic party but just before the primary governor brown endorsed stumbo charging that both sloane and collins would use their gubernatorial appointment power to dispense party patronage although this was a common practice at the time brown notably and vocally shunned it during his term with two hundred twenty three thousand six hundred ninety two votes collins edged out sloane two hundred nineteen thousand one hundred sixty votes and stumbo one hundred ninety nine thousand seven hundred ninety five votes to secure the nomination sloane
wq-dev_108,what was the book written by charles darwin,Evolution_56,continued to explain the evidence in terms of a universal deluge but when charles darwin published the origin of species in eighteen hundred fifty nine the weight of scientific opinion swung irreversibly in favor of the pragmatists this early debate about the literal validity of the bible was not conducted behind closed doors and it unsettled educated opinion in both continents eventually it instigated a counter reformation that took the form of a religious revival in both continents in eighteen hundred fifty seven to eighteen hundred sixty literal or authoritative interpretation of scripture holds that a supreme
wq-dev_284,where did the latin language originate from,Esperanto_23,morphologically intensively agglutinative and to a certain degree isolating in character the phonology grammar vocabulary and semantics are based on the western indo european languages the phonemic inventory is essentially slavic as is much of the semantics while the vocabulary derives primarily from the romance languages with a lesser contribution from the germanic languages pragmatics and other aspects of the language not specified by zamenhof s
wq-dev_218,in which continent is germany,Marshall_Plan_25,policy amongst other things stating hoover further noted that the whole economy of europe is interlinked with german economy through the exchange of raw materials and manufactured goods the productivity of europe cannot be restored without the restoration of germany as a contributor to that productivity
wq-dev_650,what political party does julia gillard belong to,Waterfall_Gully%2c_South_Australia_35,and economically liberal suburb many of its residents being high income earners have benefited from the coalition government s economic policies the residents are primarily of british descent and show higher than average religious devotion this fits in well with the demographic of a stereotypical liberal party voter however progressive parties such as the australian labor party and australian democrats also poll well in the area waterfall gully is part of the state electoral district of bragg which has been held since two thousand two by liberal m p vickie chapman in
wq-dev_1637,what are the catholic holy days,Esperanto_115,editions of the londona biblio section five point nine point five christianity christian esperanto organizations include two that were formed early in the history of esperanto nineteen hundred ten minus the international union of catholic esperantists two roman catholic popes john paul ii and benedict xvi have regularly used esperanto in their multilingual urbi et orbi blessings at easter and christmas each year since easter nineteen hundred ninety four citation needed nineteen hundred eleven minus the international christian esperantists league
wq-dev_1343,what degree did martin luther king earn,Cory_Booker_6,booker went on to stanford university receiving a bachelor of arts in political science in nineteen hundred ninety one and a master of arts in sociology the following year while at stanford he played varsity football and also made the all pacific ten academic team and was elected senior class president in addition booker ran the bridge peer counseling center a student run crisis hotline and organized help from stanford students for youth in east palo alto california after stanford booker was awarded a rhodes scholarship to study at the university of oxford where he earned an honors degree
wq-dev_1638,what language is most commonly spoken in belgium,French_language_in_Laos_0,french language in laos french is spoken by a significant minority in laos laos is the second largest francophone nation in asia the others being vietnam and cambodia french is used as a diplomatic and commercial language and is also studied by over a third of students in laos table of contents section one history
wq-dev_730,what record label is kelly clarkson signed with,Slim_Whitman_2,the variety rhythm boys whitman s first big break came when agent colonel tom parker heard him singing on the radio and offered to represent him signed with rca records he was billed as the cowboy singer slim whitman and released his first four five rpm single in nineteen hundred forty eight he toured and sang at a variety of venues including on the popular radio show the louisiana hayride nevertheless he was not able to make a living from music and had to keep a part time job that changed in the early nineteen hundred fifties after he recorded a version of the bob nolan hit love
wq-dev_464,what is the political structure of china,Disneyland_with_the_Death_Penalty_7,mornings only to discover that the city state s physical past has almost entirely vanished he gives an overview of the history of singapore from the founding of modern singapore by sir stamford raffles in eighteen hundred nineteen to the japanese occupation and the establishment of the republic in nineteen hundred sixty five he concludes that modern singapore effectively a single party state and capitalist technocracy is a product first and foremost of the vision of three decade prime minister lee kuan yew as an aside he quotes a headline from the south china morning post detailing the trial of a cadre of economists a government official and a
wq-dev_200,where was the vietnam war location,China%e2%80%93Laos_relations_1,of thailand or vietnam in the central and southern regions however vietnam s invasion of cambodia in december nineteen hundred seventy eight to unseat the khmer rouge regime provoked china into a limited invasion of vietnam approximately nineteen kilometers deep to teach vietnam a lesson laos was caught in a dangerous bind not wanting to further provoke china but not able to oppose its special partner vietnam the laotian leadership survived the dilemma by making slightly delayed
wq-dev_423,whens the last time the steelers won the superbowl,Barack_Obama_108,game while wearing a white sox jacket he is also primarily a chicago bears fan in the n f l but in his childhood and adolescence was a fan of the pittsburgh steelers and recently rooted for them ahead of their victory in super bowl xliii twelve days after obama took office as president in june nineteen hundred eighty nine obama met michelle robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the chicago law firm of sidley austin assigned for three months as obama s adviser at the firm robinson joined him at group social functions but declined his initial requests
wq-dev_445,what country was slovakia,Eastern_Bloc_160,forces on the night of twenty to twenty one august nineteen hundred sixty eight eastern bloc armies from five warsaw pact countries minus the soviet union poland east germany hungary and bulgaria minus invaded czechoslovakia the invasion comported with the brezhnev doctrine a policy of compelling eastern bloc states to subordinate national interests to those of the bloc as a whole and the exercise of a soviet right to intervene if an eastern bloc country appeared to shift towards capitalism the invasion was
wq-dev_13,who was vice president after kennedy died,Ralph_Yarborough_12,the democratic primary and cruised on to victory in the general election against republican roy whittenburg as a senator yarborough got congress to pass and john f kennedy to sign a bill making padre island a national seashore ralph yarborough rode in the dallas texas motorcade where john f kennedy was assassinated in nineteen hundred sixty three yarborough was in the same convertible as vice president lyndon b johnson ladybird johnson and secret service agent rufus youngblood only two cars away from the presidential limousine in nineteen hundred sixty four yarborough again won the primary without a runoff and went on to general election victory
wq-dev_400,what was the capital city of the east roman empire,Fourth_Crusade_1,city of constantinople capital of the eastern roman empire byzantine empire this is seen as one of the final acts in the great schism between the eastern orthodox church and roman catholic church the crusaders established the latin empire one thousand two hundred four to one thousand two hundred sixty one and other latin states in the byzantine lands they conquered table of contents section one background
wq-dev_713,what county is st louis park in,Minneapolis_0,minneapolis minneapolis template proneng is the largest city in the u s state of minnesota and is the county seat of hennepin county the city lies on both banks of the mississippi river just north of the river s confluence with the minnesota river and adjoins saint paul the state s capital known as the twin cities these two cities form the core of minneapolis street paul the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in the united states with about three two million residents the u s census bureau estimated the city s population at three hundred sixty nine thousand fifty one people in two thousand six
wq-dev_1097,where did michelle obama graduated from,Barack_Obama_1,african american to hold the office obama previously served as a united states senator from illinois from january two thousand five until he resigned following his victory in the two thousand eight presidential election born in honolulu hawaii obama is a graduate of columbia university and harvard law school where he was the president of the harvard law review he was a community organizer in chicago before earning his law degree he worked as a civil rights attorney in chicago and taught constitutional law at the university of chicago law school from nineteen hundred ninety two to two thousand four he served
wq-dev_720,where is the empire of ghana,British_Empire_30,was inaugurated receiving from king charles a monopoly of the trade to supply slaves to the british colonies of the caribbean from the outset slavery was the basis of the british empire in the west indies until the abolition of the slave trade in eighteen hundred seven britain was responsible for the transportation of three point five million african slaves to the americas a third of all slaves transported across the atlantic to facilitate this trade forts were established on the coast of west africa such as james island accra and bunce island in the british
wq-dev_1956,which country in europe has the largest land area,Oil_shale_16,more than world s proven conventional oil reserves estimated to be one point three one seven trillion barrels two hundred nine four one hundred nine m three as of one january two thousand seven the largest deposits in the world are found in the united states in the green river basin which covers portions of colorado utah and wyoming about seventy per cent of this resource is located on federally owned or managed land deposits in the united states constitute sixty two per cent of world resources together the united states russia and brazil account for eighty six per cent of the world s resources in terms of shale oil content these figures are considered tentative as several deposits have not yet been explored or analyzed
wq-dev_833,what is the main language used in china,Hanyu_Shuiping_Kaoshi_2,and culture university under the supervision of the chinese ministry of education it is considered china s national standard test of chinese language as per h s k official materials there are three levels beginning level h s k basic elementary to intermediate level h s k elementary intermediate and advanced level h s k advanced h s k is held regularly in china and in other countries each year and h s k certificates are issued to those
wq-dev_527,what country borders slovakia,Ko%c5%a1ice_0,koice koice about this sound slovak pronunciation help info k hungarian kassa german kaschau also known by other alternative names is a city in eastern slovakia it is situated on the hornad river at the eastern reaches of the slovak ore mountains near the borders with hungary with a population of nearly two hundred thirty five thousand koice is the second largest city in slovakia after bratislava being the economic and cultural centre of eastern slovakia koice is the seat of the koice region and koice self governing region the slovak constitutional court three universities various dioceses and other institutions the city has a well preserved historical
wq-dev_722,what is the name of the book hitler wrote in jail,Esperanto_16,pronounced in nazi germany imperial japan and the soviet union under joseph stalin in germany there was additional motivation to persecute esperanto because zamenhof was jewish in his work mein kampf hitler mentioned esperanto as an example of a language that would be used by an international jewish conspiracy once they achieved world domination esperantists were killed during the holocaust with zamenhof s family in particular singled out for murder in the early years of the
wq-dev_559,what instrument did robin gibb play,VJing_7,liquid light shows the color organ is a mechanism to make colors correspond to sound through mechanical and electromechanic means bainbridge bishop who contributed to the development of the color organ was dominated with the idea of painting music in a book from eighteen hundred ninety three that documents his work bishop states i procured an organ and experimented by building an attachment to the keys which would play with different colored lights to correspond with the music of the instrument between nineteen hundred nineteen and nineteen hundred twenty seven mary hallock greenewalt a piano soloist
wq-dev_61,what are the religions practiced in indonesia,Canadians_37,affiliated with non christian religions the largest of which is islam three point two per cent followed by hinduism one five per cent sikhism one four per cent buddhism one one per cent and judaism one per cent before the arrival of european colonists and explorers first nations followed a wide array of mostly animistic religions during the colonial period the french settled along the shores of the saint lawrence river specifically latin rite roman catholics including a number of jesuits dedicated to converting aboriginals an effort that eventually proved successful the first large protestant communities
wq-dev_1653,what boarding school did mark zuckerberg go to,Facebook_1,city workplace school and region the website s name stems from the colloquial name of a book given to incoming students at zuckerberg s high school alma mater phillips exeter academy the book shows the faces and names of the school s students and faculty mark zuckerberg founded facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates dustin moskovitz and chris hughes while he was a student at harvard university website membership was initially limited to harvard students but was expanded to other
wq-dev_605,what degrees did obama get in college,Barack_Obama_14,indonesia to visit his mother and sister maya and visited the families of college friends in pakistan and india for three weeks later in nineteen hundred eighty one he transferred to columbia university in new york city where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and graduated with a bachelor of arts in nineteen hundred eighty three he worked for a year at the business international corporation then at the new york public interest research group section one point one chicago community organizer and harvard law school two years after graduating obama was hired in chicago as director of the developing communities project d c p a
wq-dev_211,what countries are near italy,Cheese_10,from sheep s milk and some cheeses produced nearby were stated to weigh as much as a thousand pounds each goats milk cheese was a recent taste in rome improved over the medicinal taste of gaul s similar cheeses by smoking of cheeses from overseas pliny preferred those of bithynia in asia minor section one point three post classical europe rome spread a uniform set of cheesemaking techniques throughout much of europe and introduced cheesemaking to areas without a previous history of it as rome declined and long distance trade collapsed cheese in europe diversified further with various locales developing their own distinctive cheesemaking traditions and products france and italy are the nations with the most diversity in locally made
wq-dev_714,what is the political system of south africa,British_Empire_157,and is spoken by about one and a half billion as a first second or foreign language the spread of english from the latter half of the twentieth century has been helped in part by the cultural influence of the united states itself originally formed from british colonies except in africa where nearly all the former colonies have adopted the presidential system the english parliamentary system has served as the template for the governments for many former colonies and english common law for legal systems the british judicial committee of the privy council still serves as the
wq-dev_1604,what countries speak english natively,Kilometre_15,the only two developed countries which continue to use miles on road signs section four point one united kingdom in the united kingdom road signs show distances in miles and location marker posts that are used for reference purposes
wq-dev_162,what countries does greece share borders with,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_25,and entered phaleron bay piraeus greece the following day for an overwhelming welcome by greek government officials and citizens she had arrived in a year when there were ominous russian overtures and activities in the entire balkan area greece had become the scene of a communist inspired civil war as russia sought every possible extension of soviet influence throughout the mediterranean region demands were made that turkey grant the soviets a base of seapower in the dodecanese islands and joint control of the turkish straits leading from the black sea into the mediterranean the voyage of missouri to the eastern mediterranean comforted
wq-dev_1519,what continent is cayman islands located,Mourning_dove_12,dove eastern z m carolinensis linnaeus seventeen hundred sixty six clarion island z m clarionensis c h townsend eighteen hundred ninety west indian z m macroura linnaeus seventeen hundred fifty eight western z m marginella woodhouse eighteen hundred fifty two panama z m turturilla wetmore nineteen hundred fifty six mourning dove perched on a tree limb the ranges of most of the subspecies overlap a little with three in the united states or canada the west indian subspecies is found throughout the greater antilles it has recently invaded the florida keys the eastern subspecies is found mainly in eastern north america as well as bermuda and the bahamas the western subspecies is found in western north america and parts of mexico most canadian birds are also of the western subspecies the panamanian subspecies is located in
wq-dev_948,what are the supreme court cases,Mootness_9,time that it takes for the justice system to address their situation the most frequently cited example is the nineteen hundred seventy three united states supreme court case of roe v wade four hundred ten u s one hundred thirteen nineteen hundred seventy three which challenged a texas law forbidding abortion in most circumstances the state argued that the case was moot because plaintiff roe was no longer pregnant by the time the case was heard as justice blackmun wrote in the majority opinion
wq-dev_888,what five countries border switzerland,Iron_Curtain_2,as the leading country physically the iron curtain took the form of border defenses between the countries of europe in the middle of the continent the most notable border was marked by the berlin wall and its checkpoint charlie which served as a symbol of the curtain as a whole the events that demolished the iron curtain started in discontent in poland and continued in hungary german democratic republic east germany bulgaria czechoslovakia and romania romania was the only country in europe to violently overthrow its communist regime table of
wq-dev_1432,what places are in the west midlands,Brownhills_50,specific development opportunities within the vicinity of the high street have been identified with particular focus on land on silver street adjacent to the canal section six transport brownhills is served by the a five and lies close to a junction of the m six toll motorway national express west midlands bus services connect the town with walsall and central connect services link to aldridge and birmingham the nearest national express coach stops are in walsall bloxwich and cannock the birmingham canal navigations wyrley and
wq-dev_375,what was the first book charles dickens wrote,Jack_Sheppard_29,which was originally published in bentley s miscellany from january eighteen hundred thirty nine with illustrations by george cruikshank overlapping with the final episodes of charles dickens oliver twist an archetypal newgate novel it generally remains close to the facts of sheppard s life but portrays him as a swashbuckling hero like hogarth s prints the novel pairs the descent of the idle apprentice into crime with the rise of a typical melodramatic character thames darrell a foundling of aristocratic birth who defeats his evil uncle to recover his fortune
wq-dev_1469,where was the assyrian homeland,British_Empire_113,the nineteen hundred thirties britain judged the support of the arab population in the middle east as more important than the establishment of a jewish homeland and shifted to a pro arab stance limiting jewish immigration and in turn triggering a jewish insurgency the ability of the dominions to set their own foreign policy independent of britain was recognised at the nineteen hundred twenty three imperial conference britain s request for military assistance from the dominions at the outbreak of the chanak crisis the previous year had been turned down by canada and south africa and canada had
wq-dev_1733,who or what influenced frank lloyd wright,Charles_Ives_8,juxtaposes various disparate elements it appears to be driven by a narrative that we are never made fully aware of and it is tremendously mysterious he later made an orchestral version that would become one of his most popular works pieces such as the unanswered question were almost certainly influenced by the new england transcendentalist writers ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreau these were important influences to ives as he acknowledged in his piano sonata no two concord mass eighteen hundred forty to sixty nineteen hundred nine to fifteen which he described as an impression of the spirit of transcendentalism
wq-dev_1159,what countries does canada have trade agreements with,Canadians_32,less deferential to british authority with the gradual loosening of political ties to the united kingdom and the modernization of canadian immigration policies twentieth century immigrants with african caribbean and asian nationalities have added to the canadian identity and its culture the multiple origins immigration pattern continues today with the arrival of large numbers of immigrants from non british or non french backgrounds multiculturalism in canada was adopted as the official policy of the government during the premiership of pierre elliot trudeau in the nineteen hundred seventies and nineteen hundred eighties the canadian government has often been described as the
wq-dev_254,what countries in the world speak chinese,Bicycle_43,greatly changed their methods of production now almost none of them produce their own frames many newer or smaller companies only design and market their products the actual production is done by asian companies for example some sixty percent of the world s bicycles are now being made in china despite this shift in production as nations such as china and india become more wealthy their own use of bicycles has declined due to the increasing affordability of cars and motorcycles one of the major reasons for the proliferation of chinese made bicycles in foreign markets is the lower cost of labour in china section three
wq-dev_493,what type of government does australia have,Robert_Garran_24,hundred one the annotated constitution commonly referred to simply as quick and garran soon became the standard work on the constitution and is still regarded as one of the most important works on the subject section three public service on the day that federation was completed and australia created one january nineteen hundred one garran was made a commander of the order of saint michael and saint george c m g and was appointed secretary and permanent head of the attorney general s department by the first attorney general of australia
wq-dev_853,where do most illegal immigrants in the us come from,Interstate_15_in_Arizona_4,approximately twenty three thousand vehicles per day the highway is also a part of the canamex corridor a trade corridor in north america linking edmonton in canada and mexico city the highway enters the state in mohave county northeast of mesquite and las vegas nevada paralleling the old us ninety one heading northeast on an alignment north of the river the first interchange is exit eight at littlefield where old us ninety one turns north to avoid the gorge i one five crosses
wq-dev_1912,what did joan crawford died of,Dizzy_Gillespie_21,arts he died of pancreatic cancer in nineteen hundred ninety three aged seventy five and was buried in the flushing cemetery queens new york mike longo delivered a eulogy at his funeral he was also with gillespie on the night he died at the time of his death dizzy was survived by his widow lorraine willis gillespie a daughter jazz singer jeanie bryson and a grandson radji birks bryson barrett gillespie had two funerals one was a baha i funeral at his request at
wq-dev_845,who are the virginia senators two thousand thirteen ,Stephens_City%2c_Virginia_55,members stephens city is represented by clifford l clay athey republican in the virginia house of delegates eighteenth district jill holtzman vogel republican represents the town in the virginia senate s twenty seventh district the town is represented by frank r wolf republican in the u s house of representatives from virginia s tenth district jim webb democrat and mark warner democrat represent the town in the united states senate section seven education frederick county public schools operate the public schools that
wq-dev_276,where was mission san rafael located,Ronald_Reagan_23,active duty for the first time on april eighteen nineteen hundred forty two due to his nearsightedness he was classified for limited service only which excluded him from serving overseas his first assignment was at the san francisco port of embarkation at fort mason california as a liaison officer of the port and transportation office upon the approval of the army air force aaf he applied for a transfer from the cavalry to the aaf on may fifteen nineteen hundred forty two and was assigned to aaf public relations and
wq-dev_1030,what are italians classified as,Vaughan_6,the italians jews and eastern europeans to name but a few section two law forward slash government vaughan s mayor since two thousand two is michael di biase he became involved in the city s political sphere when elected local councillor in nineteen hundred eighty five in the two thousand three municipal election di biase won his first official term since the passing of mayor lorna jackson following the elections vaughan faced fairly heavy media scrutiny which revealed some questions in the leadership of di biase as mayor since then however
wq-dev_1841,what does ss stand for in hitlers army,Swastika_93,e g the twenty an upright black swastika outlined by thin white and black lines on a white disc e g hitler s personal flag in which a gold wreath encircles the swastika the schutzstaffel and the reichsdienstflagge in which a black circle encircles the swastika small gold silver black or white forty five swastikas often lying on or being held by an eagle on many badges and flags twenty one a swastika with curved outer arms forming a broken circle
wq-dev_1753,what countries does tomtom western europe include,Iron_Curtain_39,market economies with the exception of a period of fascism in spain until the nineteen hundred seventies and portugal until nineteen hundred seventy four and military dictatorship in greece nineteen hundred sixty seven to nineteen hundred seventy four democratic governments ruled these countries most of the states of europe to the west of the iron curtain with the exception of neutral switzerland liechtenstein austria sweden finland malta and ireland allied themselves with the united states and canada within nato economically the european community
wq-dev_1083,where president obama was born,Barack_Obama_7,laden table of contents section one early life and career obama was born on august four nineteen hundred sixty one at kapiolani maternity and gynecological hospital now kapiolani medical center for women and children in honolulu hawaii and is the first president to have been born in hawaii his mother stanley ann dunham was born in wichita kansas and was of mostly english ancestry along with scottish irish german and swiss his father barack obama sr was a luo from nyangoma kogelo nyanza province kenya
wq-dev_1392,what the language spoken in indonesia,Culture_of_Aruba_4,nowadays the nearly eighty eight thousand inhabitants of aruba reflect it s greatly changing history through local foods architecture celebrations and languages one can immediately see the different influences the past settlers had on the island yet the dutch up to this day continue to be the most influential people on aruban society since the dutch language is the offical tongue of the aruban people and it continues to have close ties to the netherlands
wq-dev_732,what kind of equipment did isaac newton use,Isaac_Newton_22,he was able to produce a superior instrument to the refracting telescope due primarily to the wider diameter of the mirror in sixteen hundred seventy one the royal society asked for a demonstration of his reflecting telescope their interest encouraged him to publish his notes on colour which he later expanded into his opticks when robert hooke criticized some of newton s ideas newton was so offended that he withdrew from public debate the two men remained enemies until hooke s death newton argued that light is composed of particles or corpuscles which were refracted by accelerating toward the denser medium but he had to
wq-dev_712,what countries have territories in oceania,British_Empire_146,hundred sixty six britain s last colony on the american mainland british honduras became a self governing colony in nineteen hundred sixty four and was renamed belize in nineteen hundred seventy three achieving full independence in nineteen hundred eighty one a dispute with guatemala over claims to belize was left unresolved british territories in the pacific acquired independence in the nineteen hundred seventies beginning with fiji in nineteen hundred seventy and ending with vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty vanuatu s independence was delayed due to political conflict between english and french speaking
wq-dev_892,what did miles davis died of,Cory_Booker_59,in twenty thirteen because i want to challenge people on their homophobia i love seeing on twitter when someone says i m gay and i say so what does it matter if i am so be it i hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that i m straight on october ten twenty thirteen booker s father cary died after suffering a stroke in las vegas nevada from nineteen hundred ninety eight to two thousand six booker lived in brick towers a troubled housing complex in newark s central ward in
wq-dev_1723,where is english spoken in the world map,Welsh_language_0,welsh language welsh cymraeg or y gymraeg not to be confused with welsh english the english language as spoken in wales is a member of the brythonic branch of celtic spoken natively in the western part of britain known as wales cymru and in the chubut valley a welsh immigrant colony in the patagonia region of argentina there are also speakers of welsh throughout the world most notably in england the united states and australia table of contents section one status the two thousand one census gives a figure of twenty point five per cent of the population of wales as welsh speakers up from eighteen point five per cent in nineteen hundred ninety one
wq-dev_1984,who were jesus siblings,Jesus_6,joseph s son luke four twenty two a m and jesus son of joseph from nazareth john one forty five a m however in mark six three rather than being called the son of joseph he is referred to as the son of mary and brother of james and joses and judas and simon the name jesus as found in several modern languages is derived from the latin iesus a transliteration of the greek
wq-dev_1384,what is the predominant religion in israel,God_33,sense and are worth attention citation needed section eight distribution of belief in god as of two thousand approximately fifty three per cent of the world s population identifies with one of the three abrahamic religions thirty three per cent christian twenty per cent islam less than one per cent judaism six per cent with buddhism thirteen per cent with hinduism six per cent with traditional chinese religion seven per cent with various other religions and less than fifteen per cent as non religious most of these religious beliefs involve a god or gods section nine references section ten
wq-dev_1686,who is the governor of arizona two thousand nine ,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_92,arizona state officials including governor jan brewer and secretary of state ken bennett have also dismissed arpaio s objections and accepted the validity of obama s birth certificate alex pareene a staff writer for salon wrote regarding a may twenty twelve trip to hawaii by arpaio s people that i think we have long since passed the point at which i d find this story believable in a fictional setting section five point one point thirteen mike coffman on may twelve twenty twelve mike coffman a congressman running for re election in the sixth congressional
wq-dev_751,who owns google two thousand twelve ,Folding%40home_79,achieves strong scaling across its user base and gains a linear speedup for every additional processor this network allows folding at home to do work that was previously computationally impractical in march two thousand two google company founder sergey brin launched google compute as an add on for the google toolbar although limited in functionality and scope it increased participation in folding at home from ten thousand up to about thirty thousand active cpus the program ended in
wq-dev_1736,where is holy roman empire located,History_of_the_world_16,the han empire fell into civil war in two hundred twenty whilst its roman counterpart became increasingly decentralised and divided around the same time section five age of kingdoms throughout the temperate zones of eurasia and north africa large empires continued to rise and fall the breakup of the roman empire around the fifth century ad coincided with the spread of christianity westward from the middle east the western part of the roman empire fell under the domination of various germanic tribes in the fifth century and these polities gradually developed into a number of warring catholic states the remaining
wq-dev_710,what style of art did henri matisse do,Museum_of_Bad_Art_36,english of the boston globe who assures the work is one hundred percent guaranteed to make you burst out laughing scott wilson offered george as an example of a technically well executed piece of art using a subject not usually seen rendered in paint many admirers of the first work donated to moba are hypnotized by the image of a portly man wearing y front underwear while sitting on a chamber pot in pointillist impressionism similar to the style of georges seurat one critic speculates that the pointillistic style in george may have been acquired from watching too much t v
wq-dev_525,who are the senators of virginia two thousand thirteen ,Stephens_City%2c_Virginia_55,members stephens city is represented by clifford l clay athey republican in the virginia house of delegates eighteenth district jill holtzman vogel republican represents the town in the virginia senate s twenty seventh district the town is represented by frank r wolf republican in the u s house of representatives from virginia s tenth district jim webb democrat and mark warner democrat represent the town in the united states senate section seven education frederick county public schools operate the public schools that
wq-dev_1391,who is the leader of libya two thousand eleven ,YouTube_39,draw mohammed day pakistan again blocked access to youtube citing growing sacrilegious content on january twenty four twenty ten libya blocked access to youtube after it featured videos of demonstrations in the libyan city of benghazi by families of detainees who were killed in abu salim prison in nineteen hundred ninety six and videos of family members of libyan leader muammar al gaddafi at parties the blocking was criticized by human rights watch some schools have blocked access to youtube citing the inability to determine what sort of video material might be accessed by students youtube was awarded
wq-dev_1151,where did charles darwin and his wife live,Evolution_55,or condemned any claims that life is the result of an evolutionary process as did nearly all scientists however as geological evidence began to accumulate throughout the world it was realized by pragmatic scientists that the stories of the creation in the judeo christian bible could not be reconciled with reality by any stretch of the imagination certain religious geologists like dean william buckland in england edward hitchcock in america and hugh miller in scotland continued to explain the evidence in terms of a universal deluge but when charles darwin published the origin of species in eighteen hundred fifty nine the
wq-dev_827,what country does justin bieber come from,Ford_Nation_11,thing from an audience perspective the network has ever done topping a twenty twelve charity boxing match between liberal m p justin trudeau and conservative senator patrick brazeau rob ford s celebrity status has according to doug ford caught the eye of several reality television producers in both canada and the united states councillor ford stated that the brothers passed on those offers but have taken an interest in suggestions by videographers for an online program that would retain the ford nation title
wq-dev_1137,where is the illinois river on a map,Chicago_16,of the chicago river s flow with the construction of the chicago sanitary and ship canal section two geography chicago is located in northeastern illinois at the southwestern tip of lake michigan when the city we know today was initially founded in the eighteen hundred thirties the land was swampy and most of the early building began around the mouth of the chicago river according to the u s census bureau chicago has a total area of six hundred six point one
wq-dev_1009,where did george herbert walker bush go to college,George_H._W._Bush_9,positions including president of the senior class secretary of the student council president of the community fund raising group a member of the editorial board of the school newspaper and captain of both the varsity baseball and soccer teams section one point one world war ii following the attack on pearl harbor in december nineteen hundred forty one bush decided to join the us navy so after graduating from phillips academy earlier in nineteen hundred forty two he became a naval aviator at the age of eighteen after completing the one zero month course he was commissioned as an ensign
wq-dev_1061,where does greek language come from,Esperanto_23,morphologically intensively agglutinative and to a certain degree isolating in character the phonology grammar vocabulary and semantics are based on the western indo european languages the phonemic inventory is essentially slavic as is much of the semantics while the vocabulary derives primarily from the romance languages with a lesser contribution from the germanic languages pragmatics and other aspects of the language not specified by zamenhof s
wq-dev_1932,who made the laws in canada,Canada_41,while the green party of canada and other smaller parties do not have current representation in parliament the list of historical parties with elected representation is substantial section four law canada s judiciary plays an important role in interpreting laws and has the power to strike down laws that violate the constitution the supreme court of canada is the highest court and final arbiter and is led by the right honourable madam chief justice beverley
wq-dev_1968,what was the cause of death for laci peterson,Harvey_Milk_119,partly because he was killed at the zenith of his popularity historian neil miller writes no contemporary american gay leader has yet to achieve in life the stature milk found in death his legacy has become ambiguous randy shilts concludes his biography writing that milk s success murder and the inevitable injustice of white s verdict
wq-dev_65,who was the first dictator of the soviet union,Cold_War_30,s s r the eastern european territories liberated from the nazis and occupied by the soviet armed forces were added to the eastern bloc by converting them into satellite states such as east germany the people s republic of poland the people s republic of bulgaria the people s republic of hungary the czechoslovak socialist republic the people s republic of romania and the people s republic of albania the soviet style regimes that arose in the bloc not only reproduced soviet command economies but also adopted the brutal methods employed by joseph stalin and soviet secret police to suppress real and potential opposition in
wq-dev_771,who is the newly elected governor of california,Ronald_Reagan_61,he would pursue in his later political career as president by campaigning on a platform of sending the welfare bums back to work he spoke out against the idea of the welfare state he also strongly advocated the republican ideal of less government regulation of the economy including that of undue federal taxation reagan did not seek re election to a third term as governor in nineteen hundred seventy four and was succeeded by democratic california secretary of state jerry brown on january six nineteen hundred seventy five section six nineteen hundred
wq-dev_282,which countries share a border with russia,Iron_Curtain_66,bamboo curtain the border between north korea and south korea is very comparable to the former inner german border particularly in its degree of militarisation but it has never conventionally been considered part of any iron curtain section three point five point one helmstedt marienborn crossing grensovergang helmstedt marienborn paspoortcontrole personenautos four j p g grensovergang helmstedt marienborn paspoortcontrole vrachtautos j p g grensovergang helmstedt marienborn lichtmast commandotoren brug j p g grensovergang helmstedt marienborn lichtmast two j p g section four fall of the iron curtain following a period of economic and political stagnation the soviet union decreased intervention in eastern bloc politics mikhail gorbachev decreased adherence to the brezhnev doctrine which held that if socialism were threatened in any state then other socialist governments
wq-dev_916,what is the language of russia s spoken,S%c3%a1pmi_3,and finnmarkku in sami both derived from finnmork which in turn was derived from the name traditionally used in latin minus fenni however since the thirteenth century laponia has replaced fenni the choice of words for the people and language is becoming a matter of political correctness but provinces and counties still carry the old lapp names the russian language uses only the laplandia form section two flag the sami flag was inaugurated during the sami conference in are sweden on august fifteen nineteen hundred eighty six it was the
wq-dev_1669,where is auburn university located,Rosa_Parks_3,maternal grandparents mother and younger brother sylvester and began her lifelong membership in the african methodist episcopal church her mother leona homeschooled rosa until she was eleven when she enrolled in the industrial school for girls in montgomery where her aunt lived taking academic and some vocational courses she then went on to a laboratory school set up by the alabama state teachers college for negroes for secondary education now known as alabama state university but was forced to drop out to care for her grandmother and later her mother after she grew ill under jim crow laws it was quite easy to separate
wq-dev_1210,what is the name of the national anthem of canada two words ,Flag_of_Canada_27,the national anthem o canada followed by the royal anthem god save the queen maurice bourget speaker of the senate said the flag is the symbol of the nation s unity for it beyond any doubt represents all the citizens of canada without distinction of race language belief or opinion for the nation s centennial celebrations in nineteen hundred sixty seven the canadian government used the canadian coat of arms whose shield was used on the red ensign on a red flag
wq-dev_1279,what guitar does corey taylor play,Michelle_Branch_15,in the episode tabula rasa of buffy the vampire slayer as a guest singer in centenniel charmed of the show charmed she also appeared as a guest singer for piper s club p three she also made appearances on one tree hill with friend jessica harp as the wreckers section five quotes if i wanna be alone or if i m having a bad day i pick up my guitar music is my
wq-dev_9,who was richard nixon married to,Justin_Trudeau_8,u s first lady pat nixon had come to see him in his nursery to deliver a gift a stuffed toy snoopy his parents separated on may twenty seven nineteen hundred seventy seven when trudeau was five years old with his father having primary custody there had been repeated rumours of a reconciliation in the public for many years afterwards but his mother s attorney michael levine filed in toronto to the supreme court of ontario for a no fault divorce on november sixteen nineteen hundred eighty three and finalized on april two nineteen hundred eighty four with his father publicly announcing his intention to retire as prime
wq-dev_659,what form of government is the uk,Canada_33,in integrating the two economies canadian nationalists continued to worry about their cultural autonomy as american television shows movies and corporations became omnipresent however canadians take special pride in their system of universal health care and their commitment to multiculturalism section three government and politics canada is a constitutional monarchy with elizabeth ii queen of canada as head of state the canadian monarch also serves as head of
wq-dev_92,what made the soviet union fall,Cold_War_170,union but according to russia s leaders its purpose was to allow a civilized divorce between the soviet republics and is comparable to a loose confederation the ussr was declared officially dissolved on december twenty five nineteen hundred ninety one section nine aftermath following the cold war russia cut military spending dramatically creating a wrenching adjustment as the military industrial sector had previously employed one of every five soviet adults meaning its dismantling left millions throughout the former soviet union unemployed after russia embarked on capitalist economic reforms in the
wq-dev_1117,where do they speak german,Sigi_Schmid_6,germany on march twenty nineteen hundred fifty three at the age of four he moved with his family to the united states and took up residence in torrance california in nineteen hundred sixty two schmid s father fritz a prisoner of war during world war ii worked at pabst brewing his mother doris ran a los angeles based german deli where schmid worked on weekends schmid s family spoke german at home making him feel german despite spending so much of his life in america he began school in the united states with little understanding of english and a stuttering speech
wq-dev_212,which states does the colorado river run through,Interstate_15_in_Arizona_11,splitting at littlefield one went north towards central utah and the other went northeast through the virgin river gorge straddling the state line to the four corners area when the arrowhead trail was marked in the nineteen hundred twenties and u s route ninety one in nineteen hundred twenty six automobile travelers between nevada and utah followed the northerly routing turning east in utah to reach saint george when the interstates were planned federal authorities decided to save twelve miles nineteen k m over us ninety one and pass through the virgin river gorge to take advantage of its scenery and lower grades for trucks
wq-dev_57,what was john quincy adams famous for,John_Quincy_Adams_1,parties adams was the son of the second president john adams and his wife abigail adams the name quincy having come from abigail s maternal grandfather colonel john quincy after whom quincy massachusetts is also named he was a diplomat involved in many international negotiations and helped formulate the monroe doctrine as secretary of state as president he proposed a program of modernization and educational advancement but was stymied by congress adams lost his eighteen hundred twenty eight bid for re election to andrew jackson adams was elected a u s representative from massachusetts after leaving
wq-dev_1504,where was barack hussein obama sr born,Barack_Obama_7,laden table of contents section one early life and career obama was born on august four nineteen hundred sixty one at kapiolani maternity and gynecological hospital now kapiolani medical center for women and children in honolulu hawaii and is the first president to have been born in hawaii his mother stanley ann dunham was born in wichita kansas and was of mostly english ancestry along with scottish irish german and swiss his father barack obama sr was a luo from nyangoma kogelo nyanza province kenya
wq-dev_27,who did france surrender to in wwtwo ,British_Empire_117,hundred thirty nine included the crown colonies and india but did not automatically commit the dominions australia canada new zealand newfoundland and south africa all soon declared war on germany but the irish free state chose to remain legally neutral throughout the war after the german occupation of france in nineteen hundred forty britain and the empire stood alone against germany until the entry of the soviet union to the war in nineteen hundred forty one british prime minister winston churchill successfully lobbied president franklin d roosevelt for military aid from the united
wq-dev_1447,who plays anakin skywalker in star wars one ,Star_Wars%3a_Episode_I_%e2%80%93_The_Phantom_Menace_47,the boy be trained as a jedi despite the protests of the council ewan mcgregor as obi wan kenobi qui gon s young jedi apprentice he holds qui gon in high regard but questions his motives at times natalie portman as queen amidala the young queen of naboo amidala hopes to protect her planet from a blockade brought on by the trade federation jake lloyd as anakin skywalker a nine year old slave boy from tatooine he is discovered to have a higher midi cholorian count than any jedi and is therefore exceptionally gifted in the force ian mcdiarmid as senator palpatine the senator of naboo who
wq-dev_389,what type of music did claude debussy play,Cyberpunk_36,rather overlapping categories first it may denote the varied range of musical works which cyberpunk films use as soundtrack material these works occur in genres from classical music and jazz used in blade runner and elsewhere to evoke a film noir ambiance to noize and electronica typically films draw upon electronica electronic body music industrial noise futurepop alternative rock goth rock and intelligent dance music to create the proper feel the same principles apply to computer and video games see the discussion of rez below of course while written works may not come with associated soundtracks as frequently as movies do allusions to musical works are used for the same effect for
wq-dev_1304,what was hitler the leader of,Esperanto_16,pronounced in nazi germany imperial japan and the soviet union under joseph stalin in germany there was additional motivation to persecute esperanto because zamenhof was jewish in his work mein kampf hitler mentioned esperanto as an example of a language that would be used by an international jewish conspiracy once they achieved world domination esperantists were killed during the holocaust with zamenhof s family in particular singled out for murder in the early years of the
wq-dev_1590,what are the most popular religions in israel,God_33,sense and are worth attention citation needed section eight distribution of belief in god as of two thousand approximately fifty three per cent of the world s population identifies with one of the three abrahamic religions thirty three per cent christian twenty per cent islam less than one per cent judaism six per cent with buddhism thirteen per cent with hinduism six per cent with traditional chinese religion seven per cent with various other religions and less than fifteen per cent as non religious most of these religious beliefs involve a god or gods section nine references section ten
wq-dev_1562,what countries constitute the eu,European_Economic_Community_12,common european home section one point three enlargement and elections the nineteen hundred sixties saw the first attempts at enlargement on three may nineteen hundred sixty denmark ireland norway and the united kingdom applied to join the three communities however president charles de gaulle saw british membership as a trojan horse for us influence and vetoed membership and the applications of all four countries were suspended the four countries resubmitted their applications on eleven may nineteen hundred sixty seven and with georges pompidou succeeding charles de gaulle as french president in nineteen hundred sixty nine the veto
wq-dev_1235,what was sir isaac newtons inventions,Isaac_Newton_21,or transmitted it stayed the same colour thus he observed that colour is the result of objects interacting with already coloured light rather than objects generating the colour themselves this is known as newton s theory of colour from this work he concluded that any refracting telescope would suffer from the dispersion of light into colours and invented a reflecting telescope today known as a newtonian telescope to bypass that problem by grinding his own mirrors using newton s rings to judge the quality of the optics for his telescopes he was able to produce a superior instrument to the refracting telescope due primarily to the wider diameter of the mirror in sixteen hundred seventy one the royal
wq-dev_91,what is the name of the san francisco newspaper,Harvey_Milk_90,in california to be flown at half staff and called milk a hard working and dedicated supervisor a leader of san francisco s gay community who kept his promise to represent all his constituents president jimmy carter expressed his shock at both murders and sent his condolences speaker of the california assembly leo mccarthy called it an insane tragedy a city in agony topped the headlines in the san francisco examiner the day after the murders inside the paper stories of the assassinations under the headline black monday were printed back to back with updates of bodies being shipped home from guyana an editorial describing a city with more sadness and despair
wq-dev_244,which dawkins book to read first,Prisoner%27s_dilemma_44,to achieve cooperative strategies in multi agent frameworks especially in the presence of noise in fact long before this new rules tournament was played richard dawkins in his book the selfish gene pointed out the possibility of such strategies winning if multiple entries were allowed but remarked that most probably axelrod would not have allowed them if they had been submitted it also relies on circumventing rules about the prisoner s dilemma in that there is no communication allowed between the two players when the southampton programs
wq-dev_1353,what are the four nations of the united kingdom,New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team_32,keeping england try less despite the winning start to henry s tenure the tri nations was a mixed success with two wins and two losses the competition was the closest ever bonus points decided the outcome and the all blacks finished last the two thousand four season finished on a high however with the all blacks winning in europe including a record forty five to six victory over france in two thousand five the all blacks whitewashed the touring british and irish lions three to zero in the test series won the tri nations and achieved a second grand slam over the home nations they went on to sweep the major international rugby board year end awards in which the all blacks were named
wq-dev_342,what countries have english as their official language,Canadians_44,using an aboriginal language on a daily basis english and french are recognized by the constitution of canada as official languages thus all federal government laws are enacted in both english and french with government services available in both languages two of canada s territories give official status to indigenous languages in nunavut inuktitut and inuinnaqtun are official languages alongside the national languages of english and french and inuktitut is a common vehicular language in territorial government in the northwest territories the
wq-dev_424,where does archbishop desmond tutu live,Richard_Branson_47,global conflicts on eighteen july two thousand seven in johannesburg south africa nelson mandela announced the formation of a new group the elders in a speech he delivered on the occasion of his eighty ninth birthday the founding members of this group are desmond tutu graca machel kofi annan ela bhatt gro harlem brundtland jimmy carter li zhaoxing mary robinson and muhammad yunus the elders is independently funded by a group of founders including branson and gabriel desmond tutu serves as the chair of the elders who will use their collective skills to catalyse peaceful resolutions to long standing conflicts articulate new approaches to global issues that are causing or may cause immense human suffering and share wisdom by helping to connect voices all over the world they will work together over the next several months
wq-dev_1884,what degrees did barack obama get,Barack_Obama_14,indonesia to visit his mother and sister maya and visited the families of college friends in pakistan and india for three weeks later in nineteen hundred eighty one he transferred to columbia university in new york city where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and graduated with a bachelor of arts in nineteen hundred eighty three he worked for a year at the business international corporation then at the new york public interest research group section one point one chicago community organizer and harvard law school two years after graduating obama was hired in chicago as director of the developing communities project d c p a
wq-dev_1518,what countries are involved in the nafta,Cold_War_53,and radio free europe britain france the united states canada and eight other western european countries signed the north atlantic treaty of april nineteen hundred forty nine establishing the north atlantic treaty organization nato that august the first soviet atomic device was detonated in semipalatinsk kazakh s s r following soviet refusals to participate in a german rebuilding effort set forth by western european countries in nineteen hundred forty eight the us britain and france spearheaded the establishment of west germany from the three western zones of occupation in april nineteen hundred
wq-dev_207,where is harvard university,College_football_4,began in eighteen hundred seventy four at a meeting in cambridge massachusetts between harvard university and montreal quebec s mcgill university the mcgill team played a rugby style game while harvard was isolated from other u s colleges by the fact that it played under rules which allowed greater handling of the ball than soccer the teams agreed to play under compromise rules the harvard students took to the rugby rules and adopted them as their own walter camp known as the father of american football is credited with changing the game from a variation of rugby into a unique sport camp is responsible for pioneering the play from scrimmage earlier games featured a rugby scrum most of the modern elements of
wq-dev_1110,where was john jay born,Ray_Kurzweil_3,section one point one early life ray kurzweil grew up in the new york city borough of queens he was born to secular jewish parents who had escaped austria just before the onset of world war ii and he was exposed via unitarian universalism to a diversity of religious faiths during his upbringing his father was a musician and composer and his mother was a visual artist his uncle an engineer at bell labs taught young ray the basics of computer science in
wq-dev_241,who plays the voice of brian on family guy,American_Airlines_Flight_11_7,in all ninety two people on board were killed including david angell the creator and executive producer of the television sitcom frasier his wife lynn angell and actress berry berenson family guy creator seth macfarlane had been scheduled to be on the flight but arrived at the airport late section one point one boarding mohamed atta the ringleader of the attacks and a fellow hijacker abdulaziz al omari arrived at portland international jetport at five forty one a m eastern daylight time on september eleven two thousand one they boarded colgan air flight fifty nine thirty which was scheduled to depart at
wq-dev_621,what countries have german as the official language,Esperanto_15,have been held in different countries every year except during the two world wars since the second world war they have been attended by an average of over two thousand and up to six thousand people section one point one relation to twentieth century totalitarianism as a potential vehicle for international understanding esperanto attracted the suspicion of many totalitarian states the situation was especially pronounced in nazi germany imperial japan and the soviet union under joseph stalin in germany there
wq-dev_1155,what are the seven nations of central america,Jaguar_40,from mexico through central america and into south america including much of amazonian brazil the countries included in this range are argentina belize bolivia brazil colombia costa rica particularly on the osa peninsula ecuador french guiana guatemala guyana honduras mexico nicaragua panama paraguay peru suriname united states and venezuela the jaguar is now extinct in el
wq-dev_370,what language do people speak in the netherlands,Culture_of_Aruba_4,nowadays the nearly eighty eight thousand inhabitants of aruba reflect it s greatly changing history through local foods architecture celebrations and languages one can immediately see the different influences the past settlers had on the island yet the dutch up to this day continue to be the most influential people on aruban society since the dutch language is the offical tongue of the aruban people and it continues to have close ties to the netherlands
wq-dev_2025,which ocean does the zambezi river flow into,British_Empire_85,eighty one to nineteen hundred two and the orange free state eighteen hundred fifty four to nineteen hundred two in nineteen hundred two britain occupied both republics concluding a treaty with the two boer republics following the second boer war eighteen hundred ninety nine to nineteen hundred two in eighteen hundred sixty nine the suez canal opened under napoleon iii linking the mediterranean with the indian ocean initially the canal was opposed by the british but once opened its strategic value was quickly recognised and became the jugular vein of the empire in eighteen hundred seventy five the conservative government of benjamin
wq-dev_664,what was firefox programmed in,JavaScript_78,for the gnome three desktop environment on twenty thirteen gnome developer experience hackfest it was decided to push javascript as the default gnome programming language the mozilla platform which underlies firefox thunderbird and some other web browsers within javascript access to a debugger becomes invaluable when developing large non trivial programs because there can be implementation differences between the various browsers particularly within the
wq-dev_1207,what percent of people are overweight in the uk,American_football_108,sport is played in european countries such switzerland which has american football clubs in every major city and germany where the sport has around forty five thousand registered amateur players the sport had a degree of popularity in the united kingdom in the nineteen hundred eighties minus in nineteen hundred eighty six the super bowl was watched by over four million people or about one out of every fourteen britons however the sport s popularity faded over the nineteen hundred nineties according to bbc america there is a social stigma surrounding american football in the uk with many brits feeling the
wq-dev_1862,what was the japanese war called,Nuclear_weapon_1,disabling an entire city in the history of warfare nuclear weapons have been used on two occasions both during the closing days of world war ii the first event occurred on the morning of six august nineteen hundred forty five when the united states dropped a uranium gun type device code named little boy on the japanese city of hiroshima the second event occurred three days later when a plutonium implosion type device code named fat man was dropped on the city of nagasaki the use of the weapons which resulted in the immediate deaths of at least one hundred twenty thousand individuals mostly civilians and about twice that number over time was and remains controversial critics charged that
wq-dev_1216,what country was stalin in charge of,Cold_War_14,capitalist encirclement and he viewed diplomacy as a weapon to keep soviet enemies divided beginning with the establishment of the soviet comintern which called for revolutionary upheavals abroad subsequent leader joseph stalin who viewed the soviet union as a socialist island stated that the soviet union must see that the present capitalist encirclement is replaced by a socialist encirclement as early as nineteen hundred twenty five stalin stated that he viewed international politics as a bipolar world in which the soviet union would attract countries gravitating to socialism and capitalist countries would
wq-dev_1289,what type of music did mozart composed,Charles_Ives_4,and as with hector berlioz ives had a fascination with outdoor music and with instrumentation his attempts to fuse these two musical pillars and his devotion to beethoven would set the direction for his musical life ives published a large collection of his songs many of which had piano parts which echoed modern movements begun in europe including bitonality and pantonality he was himself an accomplished pianist capable of improvising in a variety of styles including those which were then quite new he composed two string quartets and a other works of chamber music though he is now best
wq-dev_1091,what type of religions are in the united states,God_4,the capitalized form god was first used in ulfilas gothic translation of the new testament to represent the greek theos in the english language the capitalization continues to represent a distinction between monotheistic god and gods in polytheism in spite of significant differences between religions such as christianity islam hinduism the bahai faith and judaism the term god remains an english translation common to all the name may signify any related or similar monotheistic deities such as the early monotheism of akhenaten and zoroastrianism section two
wq-dev_93,what continent does armenia belong to,Azerbaijan_0,azerbaijan azerbaijan template ipaeng uk forward slash zban forward slash us azerbaijani azrbaycan officially the republic of azerbaijan azerbaijani azrbaycan respublikas is the largest and most populous country in the south caucasus region of eurasia located at the crossroads of eastern europe and western asia it is bounded by the caspian sea to the east russia to the north georgia to the west and northwest armenia to the southwest and iran to the south the azerbaijani exclave of nakhchivan is bordered by armenia to the north and east iran to the south and turkey to the west and southwest
wq-dev_314,what kind of government is sweden,Canada_33,in integrating the two economies canadian nationalists continued to worry about their cultural autonomy as american television shows movies and corporations became omnipresent however canadians take special pride in their system of universal health care and their commitment to multiculturalism section three government and politics canada is a constitutional monarchy with elizabeth ii queen of canada as head of state the canadian monarch also serves as head of
wq-dev_469,what currency is used in panama,Gold_standard_45,the currency he proposed was called the islamic gold dinar and it was defined as four point two five grams of twenty four carat one hundred per cent gold mahathir mohamad promoted the concept on the basis of its economic merits as a stable unit of account and also as a political symbol to create greater unity between islamic nations the purported purpose of this move would be to reduce dependence on the united states dollar as a reserve currency and to establish a non debt backed currency in accord with islamic law against the charging of interest one however to date mahathir s proposed
wq-dev_1746,where is burundi country,Burundi_women%27s_national_football_team_0,burundi women s national football team the burundi women s national football team has not competed in a single fifa recognised match while the senior a team is inactive in fifa recognised events an under two zero team exists that has played in several matches further development of football in the country faces several challenges that are africa country specific issues include a women s programme that was only created in two thousand and only four hundred fifty five registered players by two thousand six table of contents
wq-dev_1769,where is the city wales,Prince_Harry_1,september nineteen hundred eighty four known as captain harry wales in his military role is the younger son of charles prince of wales and diana princess of wales his paternal grandparents are queen elizabeth ii and prince philip duke of edinburgh his stepmother is camilla duchess of cornwall he stands fourth in line to succeed his grandmother as monarch of the commonwealth realms preceded by his father elder brother prince william duke of cambridge and nephew prince george of cambridge after an education at schools in the united kingdom and spending parts of his
wq-dev_1245,what countries are in the euro dollar,European_Economic_Community_27,than the twelve years planned however france faced some setbacks due to their war with algeria section three members the six states that founded the eec and the other two communities were known as the inner six the outer seven were those countries who formed the european free trade association the six were france west germany italy and the three benelux countries belgium the netherlands and luxembourg the first enlargement was in nineteen hundred seventy three with the accession of denmark ireland and the united kingdom greece spain and portugal joined in the nineteen hundred eighties following the
wq-dev_1102,where is victoria british columbia,Flag_of_Canada_30,of the nation s membership in the commonwealth the royal union flag remains an official canadian flag and is flown on certain occasions regulations require federal installations to fly the union flag beside the maple leaf when physically possible using a second flagpole on the following days commonwealth day the second monday in march victoria day which is also the sovereign s official birthday in canada and the anniversary of the statute of westminster december eleven the union flag can also be flown at the national war memorial or at other locations during ceremonies that honour canadian
wq-dev_1072,who is the current governor of arizona two thousand ten ,Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories_92,arizona state officials including governor jan brewer and secretary of state ken bennett have also dismissed arpaio s objections and accepted the validity of obama s birth certificate alex pareene a staff writer for salon wrote regarding a may twenty twelve trip to hawaii by arpaio s people that i think we have long since passed the point at which i d find this story believable in a fictional setting section five point one point thirteen mike coffman on may twelve twenty twelve mike coffman a congressman running for re election in the sixth congressional
wq-dev_1492,what did isaac newton explain,Isaac_Newton_24,newton s understanding of light in his hypothesis of light of sixteen hundred seventy five newton posited the existence of the ether to transmit forces between particles the contact with the theosophist henry more revived his interest in alchemy he replaced the ether with occult forces based on hermetic ideas of attraction and repulsion between particles john maynard keynes who acquired many of newton s writings on alchemy stated that newton was not the first of the age of reason he was the last of the magicians newton s interest in alchemy cannot be isolated from his contributions to
wq-dev_79,what country did buddha come from,Mantra-Rock_Dance_4,tide of counterculture fascinated with india and open to new forms of consciousness expanding spirituality after establishing his first american temple in new york city at twenty six second avenue prabhupada requested his early followers mukunda das and his wife janaki dasi to open a similar iskcon center on the west coast of the united states en route to india upon their arrival in oregon mukunda and janaki met their friends from college years who would later come to be known as shyamasundar das gurudasa malati dasi and yamuna dasi teaming up with them mukunda managed to rent a storefront in the san francisco haight ashbury neighborhood which at that
wq-dev_1524,who invented islamic religion,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_4,the levant mixing in with the local populations there some of these migrants became the amorites and canaanites of later times citation needed some archeologists argue that the migration instead came from the northern levant section two islamic conquest the religion of islam began with muhammad began preaching at mecca before migrating to medina from where he united the tribes of arabia into a singular arab muslim religious polity with muhammad s death in six hundred thirty two disagreement broke out over who would succeed him as leader of
wq-dev_1887,what is the name of the currency used in switzerland,Gold_standard_47,gold in preparation for the economic and monetary union the swiss franc left a full gold convertible backing however gold reserves are held in significant quantity by many nations as a means of defending their currency and hedging against the u s dollar which forms the bulk of liquid currency reserves weakness in the u s dollar tends to be offset by strengthening of gold prices gold remains a principal financial asset of almost all central banks alongside foreign currencies and government bonds it is also held by central banks as a way of hedging against loans to their own governments as an
wq-dev_1731,what is president nixons first name,Justin_Trudeau_7,marked his first public appearance on april fourteen nineteen hundred seventy two trudeau s father and mother hosted a gala at the national arts centre where visiting u s president richard m nixon said i d like to toast the future prime minister of canada to justin pierre trudeau to which pierre elliott trudeau responded that should his son ever assume the role he hoped he would have the grace and skill of the president earlier that same day u s first lady pat nixon had come to see him in his nursery to deliver a gift a stuffed toy snoopy his parents separated on
wq-dev_1283,which countries in africa were slaves taken from,British_Empire_103,britain gained control of palestine transjordan iraq parts of cameroon and togo and tanganyika the dominions themselves also acquired mandates of their own the union of south africa gained south west africa modern day namibia australia gained german new guinea and new zealand western samoa nauru was made a combined mandate of britain and the two pacific dominions section five point two inter war period and irish war of independence the changing world order that the war had brought about in particular the growth of
wq-dev_18,what things did martin luther king do,Rosa_Parks_1,day civil rights movement parks is famous for her refusal in nineteen hundred fifty five to obey a bus driver s demand that she give up her bus seat to a white passenger her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience ignited the montgomery bus boycott one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history and launched martin luther king jr one of the organizers of the boycott to the forefront of the civil rights movement her role in american history earned her an iconic status in american culture and her actions have left an enduring legacy for worldwide civil rights movements table of contents section one early years rosa parks was born rosa
wq-dev_1297,what continent does canada belong to,Canada_0,canada template edit first section canada template ipaeng is a country occupying most of northern north america extending from the atlantic ocean in the east to the pacific ocean in the west and northward into the arctic ocean it is the world s second largest country by total area and shares land borders with the united states to the south and northwest the lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples beginning in the late fifteenth century british and french expeditions explored and later settled the atlantic coast
wq-dev_111,where is the carpathian mountain range located,Ko%c5%a1ice_23,lies at an altitude of two hundred six metres six hundred seventy six f t above sea level and covers an area of two hundred forty two seventy seven square kilometres ninety three point seven s q mi it is located in eastern slovakia about twenty kilometres twelve mi from the hungarian eighty kilometres fifty mi from the ukrainian and ninety kilometres fifty six mi from the polish borders it is about four hundred kilometres two hundred forty nine mi east of slovakia s capital bratislava and a chain of villages connects it to preov about thirty six kilometres twenty two mi to the north koice is situated on the hornad river in the koice basin at the easternmost reaches of the slovak ore mountains more precisely its subdivisions
wq-dev_1665,where is the latin language from,Esperanto_23,morphologically intensively agglutinative and to a certain degree isolating in character the phonology grammar vocabulary and semantics are based on the western indo european languages the phonemic inventory is essentially slavic as is much of the semantics while the vocabulary derives primarily from the romance languages with a lesser contribution from the germanic languages pragmatics and other aspects of the language not specified by zamenhof s
wq-dev_2022,where is dwayne johnson ethnicity,Barack_Obama_1,african american to hold the office obama previously served as a united states senator from illinois from january two thousand five until he resigned following his victory in the two thousand eight presidential election born in honolulu hawaii obama is a graduate of columbia university and harvard law school where he was the president of the harvard law review he was a community organizer in chicago before earning his law degree he worked as a civil rights attorney in chicago and taught constitutional law at the university of chicago law school from nineteen hundred ninety two to two thousand four he served
wq-dev_1445,what tv series did mark harmon star in,Julia_Stiles_3,photographs of herself in costume to the company and asking that she be kept in mind for juvenile roles section two career section two point one television career stiles began her acting career in television roles after two appearances as the computer punk erica on the p b s series ghostwriter in nineteen hundred ninety three and nineteen hundred ninety four she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama chicago hope she has been seen in two made for t v movies in before women had wings nineteen hundred ninety seven on c b s she played opposite ellen
wq-dev_1310,who won the league cup in twenty two ,Anfield_28,of the three european cups paisley won during his tenure the crest of his birthplace in hetton le hole and the crest of liverpool f c the shankly gates in tribute of bill shankly paisley s predecessor between nineteen hundred fifty nine and nineteen hundred seventy four are at the anfield road end their design includes a scottish flag a scottish thistle the liverpool badge and the words you ll never walk alone section three future plans to replace anfield were originally initiated by liverpool in may two thousand two the proposed capacity was
wq-dev_1508,when did bill clinton go to college,Bill_Clinton_13,i have a dream speech which impressed him enough that he later memorized it section two college and law school years with the aid of scholarships clinton attended the edmund a walsh school of foreign service at georgetown university in washington d c receiving a bachelor of science in foreign service b s degree in nineteen hundred sixty eight he spent the summer of nineteen hundred sixty seven the summer before his senior year interning for arkansas senator j william fulbright while in college he became a brother of alpha phi omega and was elected to phi beta kappa clinton was also a member of the order of demolay
wq-dev_255,where obama went to school,Barack_Obama_1,african american to hold the office obama previously served as a united states senator from illinois from january two thousand five until he resigned following his victory in the two thousand eight presidential election born in honolulu hawaii obama is a graduate of columbia university and harvard law school where he was the president of the harvard law review he was a community organizer in chicago before earning his law degree he worked as a civil rights attorney in chicago and taught constitutional law at the university of chicago law school from nineteen hundred ninety two to two thousand four he served
wq-dev_1698,where do burmese cats originate from,Cougar_9,taxonomy and evolution the cougar is the largest of the small cats it is placed in the subfamily felinae although its bulk characteristics are similar to those of the big cats in the subfamily pantherinae the family felidae is believed to have originated in asia approximately eleven million years ago taxonomic research on felids remains partial and much of what is known about their evolutionary history is based on mitochondrial dna analysis as cats are poorly represented in the fossil record and there are significant confidence intervals
wq-dev_1898,what voices does seth macfarlane play on family guy,Tom_Bosley_4,a toy maker named ben ami on the series finale of the christian video series k one zero c kids ten commandments bosley shared a heartfelt story about his experience with the holocaust in the documentary film paper clips other films include the triangle factory fire scandal section two pop culture in the simpsons episode two f one two homie the clown lisa indicates that homer once attempted to pass himself off as tom bosley in the family guy episode road to europe brian and stewie griffin find themselves on a train in switzerland stewie remarks that he sees tom bosley brian
wq-dev_1165,what country did hitler invaded to start wwtwo ,Iron_Curtain_27,union sent germany vital oil rubber manganese and other materials in exchange for german weapons manufacturing machinery and technology nazi soviet trade ended in june nineteen hundred forty one when germany broke the pact and invaded the soviet union in operation barbarossa in the course of world war ii stalin determined citation needed to acquire a buffer area against germany with pro soviet states on its border in an eastern bloc stalin s aims led to strained relations at the yalta conference
wq-dev_105,what language do people from thailand speak,French_language_in_Laos_4,of pakse the french language peaked between the nineteen hundred tens and world war ii and spread throughout the nation but like vietnam was not widely spoken in most rural areas french eventually became the language of government officials and the elite when japan invaded laos in world war ii french remained in the educational system unlike in vietnam where vietnamese became the sole language of education but the lao language was briefly used in the government french returned as the sole
wq-dev_1376,what province is montreal canada located,Montreal_21,a vice chairman the members are all elected municipal officers with the exception of a representative of the government of quebec on the public security committee see also parliamentary representation in montreal two thousand four section three climate thanks to competing climactic influences the climate in montreal varies greatly both by season and from day to day and is considered a character of the city by montrealers precipitation is abundant with an average snowfall of two point four metres per year in the winter and regular rainfall throughout the year each year the city government spends more than fifty dollars million on snow removal frequent thunderstorms make summer the wettest season statistically but it is also the sunniest the coldest
wq-dev_1947,what currency do they use in switzerland,Gold_standard_47,gold in preparation for the economic and monetary union the swiss franc left a full gold convertible backing however gold reserves are held in significant quantity by many nations as a means of defending their currency and hedging against the u s dollar which forms the bulk of liquid currency reserves weakness in the u s dollar tends to be offset by strengthening of gold prices gold remains a principal financial asset of almost all central banks alongside foreign currencies and government bonds it is also held by central banks as a way of hedging against loans to their own governments as an
wq-dev_660,what college football team did john elway play for,Cory_Booker_5,has stated that he was raised in a religious household and that he and his family attended a small african methodist episcopal church in new jersey one of booker s maternal great grandfathers was caucasian and booker also has other european and native american ancestry booker graduated from northern valley regional high school at old tappan and was named to the nineteen hundred eighty six usa today all usa high school football team booker went on to stanford university receiving a bachelor of arts in political science in nineteen hundred ninety one and a master of arts in sociology the following year
wq-dev_1942,who was in the israeli palestinian conflict,Barack_Obama_88,twenty ten after mcchrystal s staff criticized white house personnel in a magazine article section four point three point three israel during the initial years of the obama administration the u s increased military cooperation with israel including a record number of u s troops participating in military exercises in the country increased military aid and the re establishment of the u s israeli joint political military group and the defense policy advisory group it was reported high ranking defense officials from both countries had been making an unusual number of trips between the two countries including ehud barak
wq-dev_1008,where is walton indiana,1968_Illinois_earthquake_17,isolated reports were received from boston mobile alabama pensacola florida southern ontario arkansas minnesota tennessee georgia kansas ohio mississippi kentucky north carolina south carolina missouri west virginia alabama nebraska iowa oklahoma south dakota pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin presumably because of shaking the worst affected areas were in the general area of evansville indiana
wq-dev_1502,what city and state is yale located in,Milgram_experiment_22,of milgram s other experiments used only men obedience did not differ significantly though they indicated experiencing higher levels of stress in one version experiment ten milgram rented a modest office in bridgeport connecticut purporting to be run by a commercial entity called research associates of bridgeport with no apparent connection to yale in order to eliminate the prestige of the university as a possible factor influencing participants behavior the results of this experiment did not significantly differ from those conducted at the yale campus milgram also combined the power of authority with that of conformity in
wq-dev_1980,where is staten island ferry,Nat_Tate%3a_An_American_Artist_1928%e2%80%931960_14,jumping off the staten island ferry section four later appearances william boyd included nat tate as a minor character in his novel any human heart and in its t v adaptation in twenty eleven a painting by nat tate entitled bridge no one hundred fourteen was auctioned at sotheby s in london the winning bid for the painting which was actually by william boyd was seven thousand two hundred fifty pound sterling well above the expected price with the purchaser later revealed to be english television personality anthony mcpartlin the money was
wq-dev_1954,what language do ukrainian people speak,Ko%c5%a1ice_27,the linguistic makeup of the town s population underwent historical changes that alternated between a growth of the ratio of those who claimed hungarian and those who claimed slovak as their language with a population of twenty eight thousand eight hundred eighty four in eighteen hundred ninety one just under a half forty nine point nine per cent of the inhabitants of koice declared the then official hungarian language as their main means of communication thirty three six per cent slovak and thirteen point five per cent german seventy two point two per cent were roman catholics eleven point four per cent jews seven point three per cent lutherans six point seven per cent greek
wq-dev_576,what are the seven countries that are part of central america,Cougar_52,is the florida panther which is critically endangered there have also been sightings up in central maine in a village called elliotsville south of the rio grande the international union for the conservation of nature and natural resources iucn lists the cat in every central and south american country except costa rica and panama while specific state and provincial statistics are often available in north america much less is known about the cat in its southern range the cougar s
wq-dev_570,what is william taft famous for,Bill_Clinton_0,bill clinton william jefferson bill clinton born william jefferson blythe iii august nineteen nineteen hundred forty six is an american politician who served as the forty second president of the united states from nineteen hundred ninety three to two thousand one inaugurated at age forty six he was the third youngest
wq-dev_1274,who won the governor election in texas,Aggie_Bonfire_47,reports around the world within hours fifty satellite trucks were broadcasting from the texas a and m campus at noon students held an impromptu prayer service in the center of campus at rudder fountain an official memorial service was held less than seventeen hours after the collapse over sixteen thousand mourners including texas lieutenant governor rick perry packed reed arena to pay tribute to those who died and those who had spent all day trying to rescue the injured at the end of the service as a and m university president ray bowen presented roses to the families of the
wq-dev_169,what are the three official languages of belgium,Braille_4,braille can be seen as the world s first binary encoding scheme for representing the characters of a writing system the system as originally invented by braille consists of two parts a character encoding for mapping characters of the french language to tuples of six bits or dots a way of representing six bit characters as raised dots in a braille cell today different braille codes or code pages are used to map character sets of different languages to the six bit cells different braille codes are also used for different uses like mathematics and
wq-dev_1035,what was f scott fitzgerald,Zelda_Fitzgerald_1,sayre is pronounced to rhyme with fair in montgomery alabama was an american novelist and the wife of writer f scott fitzgerald she was an icon of the nineteen hundred twenties dubbed by her husband the first american flapper after the success of his first novel this side of paradise nineteen hundred twenty the fitzgeralds became celebrities the newspapers of new york saw them as embodiments of the jazz age and the roaring twenties young seemingly wealthy beautiful and energetic even as a child her audacious behavior was the subject of montgomery gossip shortly after finishing high
wq-dev_471,what countries do the united nations help,Cold_War_62,to joseph stalin s surprise the un security council backed the defense of south korea though the soviets were then boycotting meetings in protest that taiwan and not communist china held a permanent seat on the council a un force of personnel from south korea the united states the united kingdom turkey canada australia france south africa the philippines the netherlands belgium new zealand and other countries joined to stop the invasion among other effects the korean war galvanised nato to develop a military structure public opinion in countries involved such as great
wq-dev_596,where did kansas city royals come from,Interstate_35_10,county and kansas city kansas section one point four missouri in missouri i three five interstate thirty five i three five is an interstate highway that stretches from laredo texas in the i three five enters missouri two miles three k m southwest of kansas city s central business district as a six lane highway after merging with southwest trafficway and broadway it becomes eight lanes and continues north to downtown kansas city where it serves as the west and north legs of the downtown freeway loop along the north edge of the loop i three five joins with i seven zero immediately west of broadway and carries six lanes of traffic with a speed limit of forty five mph seventy two k m forward slash h
wq-dev_2008,which countries speak arabic language,Eastern_Bloc_172,used to refer to a loose alliance of eastern and central european countries other countries that were not soviet socialist republics not soviet satellite states or not in europe were sometimes referred to as being in the eastern bloc soviet bloc or communist bloc including the democratic republic of afghanistan nineteen hundred seventy eight to nineteen hundred ninety two the united arab republic a concatenation of syria and egypt nineteen hundred fifty eight to nineteen hundred seventy one the republic of iraq nineteen hundred sixty eight to nineteen hundred
wq-dev_1372,what did john hancock do for the american revolution,Signature_3,signatory can make a mark often an x but occasionally a personalized symbol so long as the document is countersigned by a literate witness there are many other terms which are synonymous with signature one is john hancock named after the first of the signers of the united states declaration of independence the signature of a famous person is sometimes known as an autograph and is then typically written on its own or with a brief note to the recipient rather than providing authentication for a document the autograph is given as a souvenir which acknowledges the recipient s access to the autographer section one point one
wq-dev_285,when does the mayan calendar end exactly,2012_phenomenon_64,already occurred in nineteen hundred ninety eight and so asserts that rather than twenty twelve the galactic alignment instead focuses on a multi year period centred on nineteen hundred ninety eight there is no clear evidence that the classic maya were aware of precession some maya scholars such as barbara macleod michael grofe eva hunt gordon brotherston and anthony aveni have suggested that some mayan holy dates were timed to precessional cycles but scholarly opinion on the subject remains divided there is also little evidence archaeological or historical that the maya placed any
wq-dev_386,how deep is lake merritt oakland,SS_Ohioan_(1914)_23,which included explosives and oil two heavy duty electric pumps were lowered to the ship via the breeches buoy and plans were drawn up for connecting them to the san francisco municipal electric system in order to pump out the ship the crowds of onlookers continued to watch as salvage efforts progressed a seven five year old woman from oakland fell down the embankment while watching the action on thirteen october the mayor of san francisco angelo j rossi rode the breeches buoy to the ship and toured it for forty five minutes on nineteen october on twenty two october the los angeles
wq-dev_775,what to do this weekend in manchester with kids,Trafford_62,tourist attractions in trafford include old trafford football ground and old trafford cricket ground chill factore is an indoor ski slope in trafford park greater manchester it features the uk s longest and widest real snow indoor slope one hundred metres one hundred ten yd wide and one hundred eighty metres two hundred yd long dunham massey hall and park is an eighteenth century hall with a two five zero acre one km two deer park both now owned by the national trust and previously owned by the earls of stamford the hall is early georgian in style the hall and grounds are open to the public
wq-dev_1282,under what political system does the united states government operate,British_Empire_157,and is spoken by about one and a half billion as a first second or foreign language the spread of english from the latter half of the twentieth century has been helped in part by the cultural influence of the united states itself originally formed from british colonies except in africa where nearly all the former colonies have adopted the presidential system the english parliamentary system has served as the template for the governments for many former colonies and english common law for legal systems the british judicial committee of the privy council still serves as the
wq-dev_1658,where do they speak turkish,YouTube_32,not have local channel versions plans for youtube to create a local version in turkey have run into problems since the turkish authorities asked youtube to set up an office in turkey which would be subject to turkish law youtube says that it has no intention of doing this and that its videos are not subject to turkish law turkish authorities have expressed concerns that youtube has been used to post videos insulting to mustafa kemal ataturk and some material offensive to muslims in march two thousand nine a dispute between youtube and the british royalty collection agency p r s for music led to premium music videos
wq-dev_1257,where is denmark south carolina,Wife_selling_(English_custom)_40,each one claiming her as his wife but so it was that one of them had actually disposed of his right in her to the other for fifteen shillings the purchaser had apparently refused to pay in full and had attempted to return his wife he was given the outstanding sum by two generous bystanders and paid the husband who promptly gave the woman a modest salute wishing her well and his brother sterling much joy of his bargain an account in seventeen hundred eighty one of a william collings of south carolina records that he sold his wife for two dollars and half a dozen bowls of grogg section three changing attitudes towards
wq-dev_1462,who is running for vice president with barack obama two thousand twelve ,Barack_Obama_40,democratic party presidential primaries the field narrowed to a duel between obama and senator hillary rodham clinton after early contests with the race remaining close throughout the primary process but with obama gaining a steady lead in pledged delegates due to better long range planning superior fundraising dominant organizing in caucus states and better exploitation of delegate allocation rules on june seven two thousand eight clinton ended her campaign and endorsed obama on august twenty three obama announced his selection of delaware senator joe biden as his vice presidential running mate biden was selected from a field speculated to include former indiana governor and senator evan bayh and virginia governor tim kaine at the democratic national convention in denver colorado hillary
wq-dev_40,who was the leader of soviet union during wwii,Eastern_Bloc_12,the karelo finnish soviet socialist republic citation needed from nineteen hundred forty three to nineteen hundred forty five several conferences regarding post war europe occurred that in part addressed the potential soviet annexation and control of countries in central europe british prime minister winston churchill s soviet policy regarding central europe differed vastly from that of american president franklin d roosevelt with the former believing soviet leader joseph stalin to be a devil minus like tyrant leading a vile system when warned of potential domination by a
wq-dev_823,what does bolivia border,Jaguar_40,from mexico through central america and into south america including much of amazonian brazil the countries included in this range are argentina belize bolivia brazil colombia costa rica particularly on the osa peninsula ecuador french guiana guatemala guyana honduras mexico nicaragua panama paraguay peru suriname united states and venezuela the jaguar is now extinct in el
wq-dev_831,what type of religion does argentina have,Montreal_27,speak both french and english while thirty seven per cent speak only french and seven per cent speak only english while the official language of montreal is french services are also commonly offered in english in downtown and tourist areas as well as in areas designated as bilingual boroughs the city has well established irish italian jewish greek arab asian hispanic haitian and portuguese communities along with smaller communities of people from almost every nation in the world the irish have been settling in montreal and the province of quebec for centuries as they saw it as a more inviting place than many other parts of the british empire the irish and french shared a common religion roman catholicism this made
wq-dev_1567,what cancer did patrick swayze,Gaucher%27s_disease_15,mutations are at an increased risk of parkinson s disease a study of one thousand five hundred twenty five gaucher patients in the united states suggested that while cancer risk is not elevated particular malignancies non hodgkin lymphoma melanoma and pancreatic cancer occurred at a two to three times higher rate section five classification and genetics the three types of gaucher s disease are inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion both parents must be carriers in order for a
wq-dev_180,where the missouri river ends,Rice%2c_Minnesota_2,fields the mississippi river is located west of rice and little rock lake is located east u s highway ten serves as a main route in the community section two history originally an ojibway territory sand prairie saw its first settlers of european origin in the autumn of eighteen hundred forty four under a mandate of the united states government and after the ojibway ceded their land in the treaty of eighteen hundred thirty seven the territory of minnesota was established in eighteen hundred forty nine
wq-dev_860,what countries were part of the spanish empire,British_Empire_147,in nineteen hundred seventy and ending with vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty vanuatu s independence was delayed due to political conflict between english and french speaking communities as the islands had been jointly administered as a condominium with france fiji tuvalu the solomon islands and papua new guinea chose to become commonwealth realms section six point four end of empire the independence of rhodesia as zimbabwe the new hebrides as vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty and belize in nineteen hundred eighty one
wq-dev_1184,what are the colonies of great britain,Canadians_9,the colony of newfoundland in the wake of the seventeen hundred seventy five invasion of canada by the newly formed continental army during the american revolutionary war approximately sixty thousand united empire loyalist fled to british north america a large portion of whom migrated to new brunswick after the war of eighteen hundred twelve british including british army regulars scottish and irish immigration was encouraged throughout rupert s land upper canada and lower canada between eighteen hundred fifteen and eighteen hundred fifty some eight hundred thousand immigrants came to the colonies of british north america mainly from the british isles as part
wq-dev_83,which countries speak german officially,Esperanto_15,have been held in different countries every year except during the two world wars since the second world war they have been attended by an average of over two thousand and up to six thousand people section one point one relation to twentieth century totalitarianism as a potential vehicle for international understanding esperanto attracted the suspicion of many totalitarian states the situation was especially pronounced in nazi germany imperial japan and the soviet union under joseph stalin in germany there
wq-dev_343,what international organizations is china part of,Gold_standard_50,reserve gold bug international monetary fund silver standard world bank bank for international settlements
wq-dev_777,where is the main headquarters of google,YouTube_5,investment by sequoia capital between november two thousand five and april two thousand six youtube s early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and japanese restaurant in san mateo california the domain name w w w dot youtube dot com was activated on february fourteen two thousand five and the website was developed over the subsequent months the first youtube video was entitled me at the zoo and shows founder karim at the san diego zoo the video was uploaded on april twenty three two thousand five and can still be
wq-dev_1336,what is utahs state capitol,Interstate_15_in_Arizona_13,rock road was completed in nineteen hundred sixty five construction through the gorge was slower and much more difficult and that segment would not fully open until december fourteen nineteen hundred seventy three to help expedite the construction of the segment through the gorge the state of utah forwarded a portion of their federal highway funds to arizona the highway is of little importance to the transportation needs of arizona since it does not link any arizona communities but it does serve as a vital link between the state capital of utah in salt lake city and las
wq-dev_1927,what city did marco polo came from,Fourth_Crusade_7,nine thousand squires and twenty thousand foot soldiers the majority of the crusading army that set out from venice in october twelve oh two originated from areas within france it included men from blois champagne amiens saint pol the ile de france and burgundy several other regions of europe sent substantial contingents as well such as flanders and montferrat other notable groups came from the holy roman empire including the men under bishop martin of pairis and bishop conrad of
wq-dev_1692,where do italy people live,Vittorio_Emanuele%2c_Prince_of_Naples_1,he is known to italian monarchists as vittorio emanuele iv he was born in naples to umberto ii the last king of italy and princess marie jose of belgium after an one one year engagement victor emmanuel then a banker and helicopter salesman married swiss biscuit heiress marina doria born geneva february twelve nineteen hundred thirty five in teheran on october seven nineteen hundred seventy one a gold medal winning trick ski champion doria a daughter of rene ricolfi doria and iris benvenuti had also been
wq-dev_767,who are chinas neighbors,China%e2%80%93Laos_relations_4,normalized in nineteen hundred eighty nine trade expanded from the local sale of consumer goods to the granting of eleven investment licenses in nineteen hundred nine one including an automotive assembly plant following the establishment of the laotian chinese joint border committee in nineteen hundred ninety one meetings held during nineteen hundred ninety two resulted in an agreement delineating their common border china s commercial investments and trade with laos expanded quietly but not dramatically in nineteen hundred ninety three and nineteen hundred
wq-dev_699,what is the capital of australia victoria state,British_Empire_59,until eighteen hundred forty the australian colonies became profitable exporters of wool and gold mainly due to gold rushes in the colony of victoria making its capital melbourne the richest city in the world and the largest city after london in the british empire during his voyage cook also visited new zealand first discovered by dutch explorer abel tasman in sixteen hundred forty two and claimed the north and south islands for the british crown in seventeen hundred sixty nine and seventeen hundred seventy respectively initially
wq-dev_1971,what movies gerard butler has been in,300_(film)_43,have been particularly critical such as film critic robby eksiel saying that moviegoers would be dazzled by the digital action but irritated by the pompous interpretations and one dimensional characters section six point three awards and nominations at the m t v movie awards two thousand seven three hundred was nominated for best movie best performance for gerard butler best breakthrough performance for lena headey best villain for rodrigo santoro and best fight for leonidas battling the uber immortal it eventually won the award for best fight
wq-dev_828,what is the head judge of the supreme court called,Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_0,supreme court of the united states the supreme court of the united states sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym scotus is the highest judicial body in the united states and leads the federal judiciary it consists of the chief justice of the united states and eight associate justices who are nominated by the
wq-dev_899,where is olympic national park wa,Washington_Army_National_Guard_0,washington army national guard the washington army national guard is a component of the united states army and the washington national guard based in washington the history of the washington army national guard dates back to eighteen hundred fifty four with formation of the washington territorial militia the command is headquartered at camp murray in pierce county it consists of six thousand two hundred soldiers in two brigades and various smaller units located throughout the state
wq-dev_116,which country was justin bieber born in,Avril_Lavigne_6,lavigne was born in belleville ontario canada the daughter of judith rosanne judy nee loshaw and jean claude lavigne her father who is of french canadian descent named her avril after the french word for the month of april she has an older brother matthew and a younger sister michelle a daughter of a working class family lavigne at the age of two began singing church songs along with her mother the family moved to napanee ontario when lavigne was five years old in nineteen hundred ninety eight lavigne won a competition to sing with fellow canadian singer shania twain on
wq-dev_1819,what religion does canada follow,Montreal_27,speak both french and english while thirty seven per cent speak only french and seven per cent speak only english while the official language of montreal is french services are also commonly offered in english in downtown and tourist areas as well as in areas designated as bilingual boroughs the city has well established irish italian jewish greek arab asian hispanic haitian and portuguese communities along with smaller communities of people from almost every nation in the world the irish have been settling in montreal and the province of quebec for centuries as they saw it as a more inviting place than many other parts of the british empire the irish and french shared a common religion roman catholicism this made
wq-dev_8,what else did ben franklin invent,Glasses_14,lens in the treatment of myopia nearsightedness however it was not until sixteen hundred four that johannes kepler published in his treatise on optics and astronomy the first correct explanation as to why convex and concave lenses could correct presbyopia and myopia section one point three later developments the american scientist benjamin franklin who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia invented bifocals in seventeen hundred eighty four to avoid having to regularly switch between two pairs of glasses
wq-dev_35,what county is frederick md in,Creagerstown%2c_Maryland_0,creagerstown maryland creagerstown is an unincorporated community in frederick county maryland united states it is playfully known by its residents as four miles from everywhere because of its situation at four miles six point four k m from thurmont woodsboro rocky ridge and lewistown the town consists of about forty buildings including three churches and a small school building a number of the buildings in the town can be
wq-dev_1542,what school does james franco go to,Archibald_MacLeish_5,had served as president of rockford college he grew up on an estate bordering lake michigan he attended the hotchkiss school from nineteen hundred seven to nineteen hundred eleven before entering yale university where he majored in english was elected to phi beta kappa and was selected for the skull and bones society he then enrolled in harvard law school where he served as an editor of the harvard law review in nineteen hundred sixteen he married ada hitchcock his studies were interrupted by world war i in which he served first as an ambulance driver and later as a captain of artillery he
wq-dev_221,who does jeremy lin play for,Yao_Ming_1,eighty is a retired chinese professional basketball player who last played for the houston rockets of the national basketball association nba as of the two thousand ten to eleven nba season he was the tallest player in the nba at two two m seven f t six in yao who was born in shanghai started playing for the shanghai sharks as a teenager and played on their senior team for five years in the chinese
wq-dev_442,what industry does walmart operate in,Sheffield_30,other areas of employment include call centres the city council universities and hospitals sheffield currently produces more steel per year than at any other time in its history however the industry is now less noticeable as it has become highly automated and employs far fewer staff than in the past sheffield is also a major retail centre although it compares unfavourably with other major cities it is home to many high street and department stores as well as designer boutiques the main city centre shopping areas are on the moor precinct fargate orchard square and the devonshire quarter department stores in sheffield city centre
wq-dev_460,where is the chernobyl nuclear power plant,Caesium_22,neutron poison and transmutes frequently to stable one three six xe before it can decay to one three five cs because of its beta decay to one three seven mba one three seven cs is a strong emitter of gamma radiation its half life makes it the principal long lived fission product along with nine zero sr both are responsible for radioactivity of spent nuclear fuel after several years of cooling up to several hundred years after use for example one three seven cs together with nine zero sr currently generate the largest source of radioactivity generated in the area around the chernobyl disaster it is not feasible
wq-dev_95,what was the title of the book charles darwin wrote,Evolution_56,continued to explain the evidence in terms of a universal deluge but when charles darwin published the origin of species in eighteen hundred fifty nine the weight of scientific opinion swung irreversibly in favor of the pragmatists this early debate about the literal validity of the bible was not conducted behind closed doors and it unsettled educated opinion in both continents eventually it instigated a counter reformation that took the form of a religious revival in both continents in eighteen hundred fifty seven to eighteen hundred sixty literal or authoritative interpretation of scripture holds that a supreme
wq-dev_103,what basketball teams has shaq played for,Michael_Jordan_68,in chicago jordan received a four minute standing ovation the miami heat retired the number twenty three jersey on april eleven two thousand three even though jordan had never played for the team at the two thousand three all star game jordan was offered a starting spot from tracy mcgrady and allen iverson but refused both in the end he accepted the spot of vince carter who decided to give it up under great public pressure jordan s final nba game was on april sixteen two thousand three in philadelphia after scoring only thirteen points in the game jordan
wq-dev_516,what is the government system of malaysia,British_Empire_131,as it was called began in nineteen hundred forty eight and lasted until nineteen hundred sixty but by nineteen hundred fifty seven britain felt confident enough to grant independence to the federation of malaya within the commonwealth in nineteen hundred sixty three the eleven states of the federation together with singapore sarawak and north borneo joined to form malaysia but in nineteen hundred sixty five chinese majority singapore was expelled from the union following tensions between the malay and chinese populations brunei which had been a british protectorate since eighteen hundred eighty eight declined to join the union and
wq-dev_834,where did the battle of waterloo occur,Peterloo_Massacre_61,the name of the meeting place saint peter s field with the battle of waterloo fought four years earlier the poet percy bysshe shelley was living in italy at the time and did not hear of the massacre until five september he immediately wrote a poem entitled the masque of anarchy subtitled written on the occasion of the massacre at manchester and sent it for publication in the radical periodical the examiner however due to restrictions on the radical press the poem was not published until eighteen hundred thirty two many commemorative items such as plates jugs handkerchiefs and medals were produced all with the iconic image of
wq-dev_1545,who is jake gyllenhaal married to,Jake_Gyllenhaal_24,he is the godfather of matilda rose ledger born october twenty eight two thousand five the daughter of heath ledger and michelle williams both of whom company starred with him in brokeback mountain section two point two relationships gyllenhaal dated rilo kiley singer jenny lewis in two thousand one but his most notable relationship has been with actress kirsten dunst the couple met through gyllenhaal s sister began dating in september two thousand two and were reported to have officially broken up in july two thousand four however the relationship remained off and on until december two thousand five internationally viewed as a sex symbol
wq-dev_360,where did emperor hirohito live,Han_dynasty_54,the han empire received gifts from the parthian empire from a king in modern burma from a ruler in japan and initiated an unsuccessful mission to daqin rome in ad ninety seven with gan ying as emissary a roman embassy of emperor marcus aurelius r one hundred sixty one to one hundred eighty ad is recorded in the hou hanshu to have reached the court of emperor huan of han r ad one hundred forty six to one hundred sixty eight in ad one hundred sixty six yet rafe de crespigny asserts that
wq-dev_1434,who is in the american league in baseball,Moe_Berg_35,the senators won the pennant but lost to the giants in world series cliff bolton the senators starting catcher in nineteen hundred thirty three demanded more money in nineteen hundred thirty four when the senators refused to pay him more he sat out and berg got the starting job on april twenty two nineteen hundred thirty four berg made an error his first fielding mistake since nineteen hundred thirty two minus an american league record of one hundred seventeen consecutive errorless games on july twenty five the senators gave berg his unconditional release he soon returned to the big leagues however after cleveland indians catcher glenn
wq-dev_164,what did stephen hawking become famous for,Viktor_Bunyakovsky_24,there is a street named after viktor yakovlevich bunyakovsky in bar ukraine viktor o ledenyov a famous physicist and an econophysicist was born in a private house on the bunyakovsky street in bar ukraine in nineteen hundred seventy one
wq-dev_1622,what ocean is around hawaii,The_Coral_Island_0,the coral island the coral island a tale of the pacific ocean eighteen
wq-dev_1966,what book did charles darwin wrote in eighteen fifty nine ,Evolution_56,continued to explain the evidence in terms of a universal deluge but when charles darwin published the origin of species in eighteen hundred fifty nine the weight of scientific opinion swung irreversibly in favor of the pragmatists this early debate about the literal validity of the bible was not conducted behind closed doors and it unsettled educated opinion in both continents eventually it instigated a counter reformation that took the form of a religious revival in both continents in eighteen hundred fifty seven to eighteen hundred sixty literal or authoritative interpretation of scripture holds that a supreme
wq-dev_795,what is the dominant religion in the us,Canadians_35,culture with christianity on decline having once been central and integral to canadian culture and daily life commentators have suggested that canada has come to enter a post christian period in a secular state with irreligion in canada on the rise the practice of religion is now generally considered a private matter throughout society and within the state the two thousand eleven canadian census reported that sixty seven point three per cent of canadians identify as being christians of this number catholics make up the largest group accounting for thirty eight point seven percent of the population the largest protestant denomination
wq-dev_798,what states share a border with tennessee,Stephens_City%2c_Virginia_58,historic u s route eleven traverses stephens city proper while interstate eighty one serves as the eastern border of the town stephens city serves as the western terminus of state route two hundred seventy seven which begins at u s route eleven and ends only four point seven two miles seven point six zero k m away in double tollgate clarke county virginia at u s routes three hundred forty and five hundred twenty two plans are in place to move state route two hundred seventy seven to near the family drive in theatre zero point five zero miles zero point eight zero k m south of its current western terminus with us
wq-dev_467,who played obi wan in episode two ,Star_Wars%3a_Episode_II_%e2%80%93_Attack_of_the_Clones_41,also received seven nominations from the golden raspberry awards for worst picture worst supporting actor worst director worst screenplay worst screen couple and worst remake or sequel it took home two awards for screenplay george lucas and supporting actor hayden christensen section five cast ewan mcgregor as obi wan kenobi obi wan is a jedi knight and mentor to his padawan learner anakin skywalker natalie portman as senator padme amidala padme has recently been elected senator of naboo after serving two terms as
trec-1858,tell me where the dupont company is located,Lewisville%2c_Texas_53,economy by black enterprise in two thousand because of the city s proximity to dallas and fort worth a number of food distribution companies have branches in lewisville including sysco and meadowbrook meat company m b m in two thousand fleming companies one of the united states largest food distribution companies relocated to lewisville but in two thousand three the company filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy after the u s securities and exchange commission announced that the company had been hiding massive losses section ten notes section eleven references section twelve further reading
trec-lfb000023,what is python,IBM_WebSphere_MQ_12,biersma available from cpan python programming language interface pymqi originally developed by les smithson available from pypi windows powershell section four features websphere m q provides assured one time delivery of messages across a wide variety of platforms the product emphasizes reliability and robustness of message traffic and ensures that a message should never be lost if m q is appropriately configured it needs to be remembered that a message in
trec-1358,in which state would you find the catskill mountains,New_York_State_Route_174_0,new york state route one hundred seventy four new york state route one hundred seventy four also known as n y one hundred seventy four is a state highway in the county of
trec-1307,what does nasa stand for,NASA_0,nasa the national aeronautics and space administration nasa which was established in nineteen hundred fifty eight is the agency responsible for the public space program of the united states of america it is also responsible for long term civilian and military
trec-278,what was the death toll at the eruption of mount pinatubo,Mount_Pinatubo_28,substantially over the next five days reaching a maximum diameter of about two hundred m and a height of forty m a small explosion at three forty one a m on june twelve marked the beginning of a new more violent phase of the eruption a few hours later large explosions lasting about half an hour generated an eruption column which quickly reached heights of over nineteen k m and which generated pyroclastic flows extending up to four k m from the summit in some river valleys fourteen hours later a fifteen minute eruption hurled ash to heights of twenty four km
trec-1930,what band was jerry garcia with,Mantra-Rock_Dance_7,manager of grateful dead shyamasundar met with grateful dead and big brother and the holding company with janis joplin minus some of the most prominent rock groups of the time minus and secured their consent to perform at the concert for charity malati dasi happened to hear a then relatively unknown moby grape group rehearsing and convinced the other team members to invite the band to play at the concert as well another leading countercultural figure the beatnik poet allen ginsberg was a supporter of prabhupada having met the swami
trec-2242,what chemical is in chocolate that helps with depression,Major_depressive_disorder_33,depression there may be a link between depression and neurogenesis of the hippocampus a center for both mood and memory loss of hippocampal neurons is found in some depressed individuals and correlates with impaired memory and dysthymic mood drugs may increase serotonin levels in the brain stimulating neurogenesis and thus increasing the total mass of the hippocampus this increase may help to restore mood and memory similar relationships have been observed between depression and an area of the anterior cingulate cortex implicated in the modulation of emotional
trec-1493,when was davy crockett born,Davy_Crockett_0,davy crockett david crockett david de crocketagne august seventeen seventeen hundred eighty six minus march six eighteen hundred thirty six was an american folk hero usually referred to as davy crockett he represented tennessee in the u s congress went to texas and died at the alamo table of contents section one early life crockett was born in greene county tennessee descendant from
trec-1941,what membrane controls the amount of light entering the eye,Green_and_golden_bell_frog_15,are blue green males develop a yellowish colouration to the vocal sac on the throat when mature the pupil is restricted to a horizontal slit and the iris is golden brown with a black streak that runs from the corners of the pupil to the horizontal limits of the eye the tympanum is distinct and ovular in shape the green and golden bell frog has enlarged toe discs to aid in climbing the fingers are free from webbing and the toes are almost completely webbed as this species is often found in water when in breeding condition males develop nuptial pads on their thumbs which are used to grip females during mating
trec-1287,what is the worlds population,Indian_Railways_1,world transporting just under five billion passengers and almost three hundred fifty million tonnes of freight annually ir is the world s largest commercial or utility employer with more than one point six million employees one the railways traverse through the length and width of the country the routes cover a total length of sixty three thousand nine hundred forty k m thirty nine thousand two hundred thirty miles as of two thousand five ir owns a total of two hundred sixteen thousand seven hundred seventeen wagons thirty nine thousand nine hundred thirty six coaches and seven thousand three hundred thirty nine locomotives and runs a total of
trec-1395,who was tom cruise married to last,Trapped_in_the_Closet_(South_Park)_35,repeat of the episode as evidence of bad blood between cruise and viacom which also owns paramount pictures the distributor of mi iii cnn s the situation room with wolf blitzer also cited industry sources who believed the episode was pulled because the network and tom cruise s current movie studio are both owned by the same corporation the new york post noted that cruise had a history of playing hardball alleging that he had been responsible for having a sex scene featuring his then fiancee katie holmes removed from the
trec-1771,when was d day,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_30,britain to invade northern france but that country was in no position to carry out such a request stalin had asked the western allies to open a second front since the early months of the war which finally occurred on d day june six nineteen hundred forty four in early nineteen hundred forty four mi six re established section ix its prewar anti soviet section and philby took a position there he was able to alert the n k v d about all british intelligence on the soviets including what the american oss had shared with the british about the soviets the soviets believed at the
trec-2,what was the monetary value of the nobel peace prize in nineteen eighty nine ,Nobel_Prize_2,of eight hundred seventy individuals eight hundred twenty one men and forty nine women and twenty three organizations the prize ceremonies take place annually in stockholm sweden except for the peace prize which is held in oslo norway and each recipient or laureate receives a gold medal a diploma and a sum of money that has been decided by the nobel foundation as of twenty twelve each prize was worth sek eight million or about us one dollar two million zero euro ninety three cents million or zero pound sterling six pence million the nobel prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award
trec-1551,what does dna stand for,DNA_0,dna deoxyribonucleic acid dna is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for the development and function of living organisms all living things contain dna genomes a possible exception are a group of viruses that have rna genomes but these are not normally considered as living organisms the main role of dna in the cell is the long term storage of information it is often compared to a blueprint since it contains the instructions to construct other components of the cell such as proteins and rna molecules the dna segments that carry genetic information are called genes but other dna sequences have structural purposes or are involved in regulating the expression of genetic information in eukaryotes such as
trec-1580,what name is given to the science of map making,Han_dynasty_185,section six point seven cartography ships and vehicles evidence found in chinese literature and archaeological evidence show that cartography existed in china before the han some of the earliest han maps discovered were ink penned silk maps found amongst the mawangdui silk texts in a second century b c tomb the general ma yuan created the world s first known raised relief map from rice in the first century ad citation needed this date could be revised if the tomb of qin shi huang is excavated and the account in the records of the grand historian concerning a model map of the empire is proven to be true citation needed although the use of the graduated scale and grid reference for maps was not thoroughly described until the published work of pei xiu two hundred twenty four to two hundred seventy one ad there is evidence that in the
trec-10061,how many generations are in gospel of matthews version of the genealogy of jesus,Jesus_12,four b c and luke one five mentions that herod was on the throne shortly before the birth of jesus although this gospel also associates the birth with the census of quirinius which took place ten years later luke three twenty three a m states that jesus was about thirty years old at the start of his ministry which according to acts ten thirty seven a m three eight was preceded by john s ministry itself recorded in luke three one two to have begun in the
trec-10026,what is the name of the computer which beat kasparov at chess in nineteen ninety seven ,Chess_5,success to the point where home computers can play chess at a very high level in the past two decades computer analysis has contributed significantly to chess theory as understood by human players particularly in the endgame the computer program deep blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning world chess champion when it defeated garry kasparov in nineteen hundred ninety seven table of contents section one rules the official rules of chess are maintained by the world chess federation along with information on official chess tournaments the rules are described in the fide handbook laws of chess
trec-1094,what is the name of the satellite that the soviet union sent into space in nineteen fifty seven ,NASA_2,two history section two point one space race following the soviet space program s launch of the world s first man made satellite sputnik one on october four nineteen hundred fifty seven the attention of the united states turned toward its own fledgling space efforts the u s congress alarmed by the perceived threat to american security and technological leadership urged immediate and swift action president dwight d eisenhower and his advisers counseled more deliberate measures several months of debate produced agreement that a new federal
trec-10088,what number is considered unlucky in japanese culture,Toilets_in_Japan_62,including toilet paper a toilet brush a sink etcetera however there are some japan specific accessories that are rarely found outside of japan section four point one the sound princess many japanese women are embarrassed at the thought that someone else can hear them while they are doing their business on the toilet a condition known as paruresis to cover the sound of bodily functions many women flushed
trec-1845,what province is calgary located in,Canada_79,notably the greater golden horseshoe which is the region around toronto montreal and ottawa the b c lower mainland consisting of the region surrounding vancouver and the calgary edmonton corridor in alberta according to the two thousand one census it has thirty four ethnic groups with at least one hundred thousand members each with eighty three per cent of the total population claiming they are white the largest ethnic group is english twenty point two per cent followed by french
trec-lfb000031,who wrote frankenstein,Mary_Wollstonecraft_2,after two unsuccessful affairs with henry fuseli and gilbert imlay wollstonecraft married the philosopher william godwin one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement she was also the mother of mary shelley the author of frankenstein wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty eight due to complications from childbirth leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts today wollstonecraft is considered a foundational thinker in feminist philosophy her early advocacy of women s equality and her attacks on conventional femininity and the degradation of women presaged the later emergence of the feminist movement feminist scholars and activists have cited both her philosophical
trec-10018,what is the color of blood,Subarachnoid_hemorrhage_11,whom c t was found normal lumbar puncture is therefore regarded as mandatory in people with suspected sah if imaging is negative at least three tubes of c s f are collected if an elevated number of red blood cells is present equally in all bottles this indicates a subarachnoid hemorrhage if the number of cells decreases per bottle it is more likely that it is due to damage to a small blood vessel during the procedure known as a traumatic tap the c s f sample is also examined for xanthochromia the yellow appearance of centrifugated fluid more sensitive is spectrophotometry measuring the absorption of particular wavelengths
trec-841,what time of year is air travel the heaviest,Exmoor_14,sunniest the south west of england has a favoured location with respect to the azores high pressure when it extends its influence north eastwards towards the uk particularly in summer cloud often forms inland especially near hills and acts to reduce sunshine amounts the average annual sunshine is about one thousand six hundred hours rainfall tends to be associated with atlantic depressions or with convection in summer convection caused by solar surface heating sometimes forms shower clouds and a large proportion of rainfall falls from showers and thunderstorms at this time of year the average annual total rainfall is
trec-10030,what language is spoken in latin america,Cougar_8,tail and a paintbrush dipped in dark paint has some currency citation needed the cougar holds the guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names presumably due to its wide distribution across north and south america it has over forty names in english alone cougar is borrowed from the portuguese cucuarana via french the term was originally derived from the tupi language a current form in brazil is sucuarana puma comes via spanish from the quechua language section two taxonomy and evolution the cougar is the largest
trec-lfb000047,who was the first man in space,Titanium_11,to make medical equipment and in pipe forward slash tank lining in food processing its inertness and ability to be attractively colored makes it a popular metal for use in body piercing titanium has the unusual ability to osseointegrate enabling use in dental implants titanium has occasionally been used in construction the one five zero foot forty five m memorial to yuri gagarin the first man to travel in space in moscow is made of titanium for the metal s attractive color and association with rocketry the guggenheim museum bilbao and the cerritos library were the first buildings respectively in europe and north america to be sheathed in titanium panels
trec-10027,what is the name of the longest running soap opera tv series,Coronation_Street_0,coronation street coronation street is britain s longest running television soap opera which was first broadcast on friday december nine nineteen hundred sixty in the granada region of itv the programme is consistently the highest rated programme on british television the show was created by tony warren and is produced by granada television now branded itv productions holder of the itv franchise for the north west of england and was initially shown only in that area between december
trec-10008,what color is the computer which beat kasparov at chess in nineteen ninety seven ,Chess_5,success to the point where home computers can play chess at a very high level in the past two decades computer analysis has contributed significantly to chess theory as understood by human players particularly in the endgame the computer program deep blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning world chess champion when it defeated garry kasparov in nineteen hundred ninety seven table of contents section one rules the official rules of chess are maintained by the world chess federation along with information on official chess tournaments the rules are described in the fide handbook laws of chess
trec-2061,what court case overturned plessy v furgeson,Rosa_Parks_43,ten and eleven of chapter six of the code of the city of montgomery nineteen hundred fifty two deny and deprive plaintiffs and other negro citizens similarly situated of the equal protection of the laws and due process of law secured by the fourteenth amendment browder v gayle nineteen hundred fifty six the court essentially decided that the precedent of brown v board of education nineteen hundred fifty four could be applied to browder v gayle on november thirteen nineteen hundred fifty six the united states supreme court outlawed racial segregation on buses deeming it unconstitutional the
trec-1281,who lived in the neuschwanstein castle,Neuschwanstein_Castle_117,neuschwanstein is a global symbol of the era of romanticism the palace served as a model for the sleeping beauty castle of disneyland and became a location for films such as helmut kautner s ludwig ii nineteen hundred fifty five luchino visconti s ludwig nineteen hundred seventy two and chitty
trec-2305,when is mexicos independence day,Ram%c3%b3n_Emeterio_Betances_0,ramon emeterio betances ramon emeterio betances y alacan april eight eighteen hundred twenty seven minus september sixteen eighteen hundred ninety eight was a puerto rican nationalist he was the primary instigator of the grito de lares revolution and as such is considered to be the father of the puerto rican independence movement since the grito galvanized a burgeoning
trec-1712,who invented the fishing reel,Han_dynasty_153,the han era chinese used bronze and iron to make a range of weapons culinary tools carpenters tools and domestic wares a significant product of these improved iron smelting techniques was the manufacture of new agricultural tools the three legged iron seed drill invented by the second century b c enabled farmers to carefully plant crops in rows instead of casting seeds out by hand the heavy
trec-10039,where was declaration of independence signed,John_Quincy_Adams_4,the site from which adams witnessed the battle of bunker hill at age seven adams first learned of the declaration of independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the second continental congress in philadelphia much of adams youth was spent accompanying his father overseas john adams served as an american envoy to france from seventeen hundred seventy eight until seventeen hundred seventy nine and to the netherlands from seventeen hundred eighty until seventeen hundred eighty two and the younger adams accompanied his father on these journeys adams acquired an education at institutions such as leiden university for nearly three years at the age of fourteen he accompanied francis dana as a secretary on a mission to
trec-2021,what is the worlds largest coral reef,Fauna_of_Australia_59,from the genus austrothelphusa these crabs live burrowed into the banks of waterways and can plug their burrows surviving through several years of drought the extremely primitive freshwater mountain shrimp found only in tasmania are a unique group resembling species found in the fossil record from two hundred mya a huge variety of marine invertebrates are found in australian waters with the great barrier reef an important source of this diversity families include the porifera or sea sponges the cnidaria includes the jellyfish corals and sea anemones comb jellies the echinodermata
trec-1798,on what continent is egypt located,History_of_the_world_4,nile in egypt and the indus valley some peoples such as aborigines of australia and the bushmen of southern africa did not use agriculture until relatively modern times recent findings of considerable quantities of grains in the ohalo ii paleolithic site in modern israel seem to suggest that cereals had been intentionally sown without the agriculture associated additional caretaking activities like fertilization land clearance etcetera since twenty one thousand b c pnas one hundred one p nine five five one nine five five five agriculture led to several major changes it allowed far larger population densities it also created and allowed
trec-316,name a tiger that is extinct,Fauna_of_Australia_13,minus order dasyuromorphia minus are represented by two surviving families the dasyuridae with fifty one members and the myrmecobiidae with the numbat as its sole surviving member the tasmanian tiger was the largest dasyuromorphia and the last living specimen of the family thylacinidae however the last known specimen died in captivity in nineteen hundred thirty six the world s largest surviving carnivorous marsupial is the tasmanian devil it is the size of a small dog and can hunt although it is mainly a scavenger it became extinct on the mainland some six hundred years ago and is now found only in tasmania
trec-2273,which religion has the largest number of followers worldwide,God_33,sense and are worth attention citation needed section eight distribution of belief in god as of two thousand approximately fifty three per cent of the world s population identifies with one of the three abrahamic religions thirty three per cent christian twenty per cent islam less than one per cent judaism six per cent with buddhism thirteen per cent with hinduism six per cent with traditional chinese religion seven per cent with various other religions and less than fifteen per cent as non religious most of these religious beliefs involve a god or gods section nine references section ten
trec-191,where was harry truman born,USS_Missouri_(BB-63)_28,truman boarded two september to celebrate the signing of the rio treaty which broadened the monroe doctrine by stipulating that an attack on one of the signatory american states would be considered an attack on all the truman family boarded missouri seven september nineteen hundred forty seven to return to the united states and debarked at norfolk nineteen september her overhaul in new york which lasted from twenty three september to ten march nineteen hundred four eight was followed by refresher training at guantanamo bay the summer of nineteen hundred forty eight was devoted to midshipman and reserve training cruises the battleship departed norfolk
trec-1805,who was elected president of south africa in nineteen ninety four ,Richard_Branson_47,global conflicts on eighteen july two thousand seven in johannesburg south africa nelson mandela announced the formation of a new group the elders in a speech he delivered on the occasion of his eighty ninth birthday the founding members of this group are desmond tutu graca machel kofi annan ela bhatt gro harlem brundtland jimmy carter li zhaoxing mary robinson and muhammad yunus the elders is independently funded by a group of founders including branson and gabriel desmond tutu serves as the chair of the elders who will use their collective skills to catalyse peaceful resolutions to long standing conflicts articulate new approaches to global issues that are causing or may cause immense human suffering and share wisdom by helping to connect voices all over the world they will work together over the next several months
trec-257,what do penguins eat,Antarctic_krill_27,currently there is little knowledge of the precise migration patterns since individual krill cannot yet be tagged to track their movements section five point one position in the antarctic ecosystem the antarctic krill is the keystone species of the antarctica ecosystem and provides an important food source for whales seals leopard seals fur seals crabeater seals squid icefish penguins albatrosses and many other species of birds crabeater seals have even developed special teeth
trec-1687,what president declared mothers day,George_Lansbury_60,president woodrow wilson in his peace note of january nineteen hundred seventeen the paper also gave sympathetic coverage to conscientious objectors and to irish and indian nationalists lansbury used the pages of the daily herald to welcome the february nineteen hundred seventeen revolution in russia as a new star of hope arisen over europe at an albert hall rally on eighteen march nineteen hundred eighteen he hailed the spirit and enthusiasm of this
trec-lfb000028,what is linux,Dennis_Ritchie_3,of the unix operating system alongside ken thompson ritchie has earned an important position in the history of the computer industry c is still widely used today in application and operating system development and its influence can be seen in many more recent programming languages such as c plus plus c hashtag objective c java and javascript in the operating system world unix is also quite influential there are many dialects of it available on the market today such as aix solaris mac os x b s d and similar systems like minix as well as the popular linux operating system indeed even microsoft whose windows operating systems
trec-10077,what is the moon of jupiter,Planetary_habitability_34,between mars and earth venus exceptional circumstances do offer exceptional cases jupiter s moon io smaller than the terrestrial planets is volcanically dynamic because of the gravitational stresses induced by its orbit neighbouring europa may have a liquid ocean underneath a frozen shell due also to energy created in its orbiting a gas giant saturn s titan meanwhile has an outside chance of harbouring life as it has retained a thick atmosphere and bio chemical reactions are possible in liquid ammonia on its surface these satellites are exceptions
trec-10089,when did the biggest underground terror attack happen,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_41,arabia became the focus of worldwide attention once again as it was questioned whether the government was indeed cracking down on radicals the saudi government pledged their support to the war on terror and vowed to try to eliminate militant elements however in may two thousand three an insurgency in saudi arabia began believed to be conducted by al qaeda affiliates this consisted mainly of attacks on foreigners in an attempt to expel them from the country and hurt the saudi government while the number of attacks dropped significantly in two thousand five they exposed the vulnerability of the country concern was also voiced over the large number of saudis fighting american soldiers in iraq following the two thousand three
trec-858,rider college is located in what city,Hunter_College_High_School_21,hunter college high school hunter college high school colloquially known as hunter or h c h s is a new york city
trec-86,who won two gold medals in skiing in the olympic games in calgary,Sarajevo_35,olympics yugoslavia won one medal a silver in men s giant slalom awarded to slovene jure franko many of the olympic facilities survived the war including olympic hall zetra and asim ferhatovi stadion after company hosting the southeast europe friendship games sarajevo was awarded the two thousand nine special olympic winter games but cancelled these plans football soccer is popular in sarajevo the city hosts f k sarajevo and f k eljezniar which both compete in european and international cups and tournaments as well as f k olimpik another popular sport is basketball the basketball club k k
trec-564,where is the thomas edison museum,1937_Fox_vault_fire_7,in the united states a series of fires occurred at industry facilities the lubin manufacturing company s vault in philadelphia exploded on thirteen june nineteen hundred fourteen followed on nine december by a fire that destroyed thomas edison s laboratory complex in west orange new jersey the new york studio of the famous players film company burned in september nineteen hundred fifteen in july nineteen hundred twenty the shipping facility of its corporate successor famous players lasky was destroyed by a fire in kansas city
trec-210,how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod,Laika_6,sophisticated satellite was already under construction but it would not be ready until december this satellite would later become sputnik three to meet the november deadline a new craft would have to be built khrushchev specifically wanted his engineers to deliver a space spectacular a mission that would repeat the triumph of sputnik i stunning the world with soviet prowess the planners settled on an orbital flight with a dog soviet rocket engineers had long intended a canine orbit before attempting human spaceflight since nineteen hundred fifty one they had lofted twelve dogs into sub orbital space on ballistic flights working
trec-504,who is the founder of the wal mart stores,Hillary_Clinton_54,and lafarge nineteen hundred ninety to nineteen hundred ninety two t c b y and wal mart were arkansas based companies that were also clients of rose law clinton was the first female member on wal mart s board added following pressure on chairman sam walton to name a woman to the board once there she pushed successfully for wal mart to adopt more environmentally friendly practices was largely unsuccessful in a campaign for more women to be added to the company s management and was silent about the company s
trec-1671,where is big ben,BBC_Radio_4_3,or the chimes of big ben table of contents section one outline radio four is the second most popular british domestic radio station by total hours after radio two minus and the most popular in london and the south of england citation needed the station recorded its highest ever audience of eleven million listeners in may twenty eleven and was named uk radio station of the year at the two thousand three two thousand four and two thousand eight sony radio academy awards costing seventy one pound sterling four pence million two thousand five forward slash six it is the bbc s most expensive national radio network and is considered by many to be the
trec-8,what is the name of the rare neurological disease with symptoms such as involuntary movements tics swearing and incoherent vocalizations grunts shouts etc,Free_will_63,utterances called tics despite the fact that they would prefer not to do so when it is socially inappropriate tics are described as semi voluntary or unvoluntary because they are not strictly involuntary they may be experienced as a voluntary response to an unwanted premonitory urge tics are experienced as irresistible and must eventually be expressed people with tourette syndrome are sometimes able to suppress their tics to some extent for limited periods but doing so often results in an explosion of tics afterward the control which can be exerted from seconds to hours at a time may merely postpone and exacerbate the ultimate expression of the tic in alien hand syndrome the afflicted individual s limb will produce meaningful behaviours without the intention of the subject the clinical definition requires feeling that one limb is foreign or has a will of its own together with observable involuntary motor activity emphasis in original this syndrome is
trec-lfb000008,who is the first president of usa,United_States_Congress_25,to admit new states to the union article four other powers have been granted or confirmed by constitutional amendments congress has the power to break deadlocks in the electoral college if no presidential candidate achieves an electoral majority the house may elect the president from the three candidates with the highest numbers of electoral votes similarly if no vice presidential candidate achieves an electoral majority the senate may elect the vice president from the two candidates with the highest numbers of electoral votes several of the members of the constitutional convention expected that while george washington would be overwhelmingly elected as first president under the constitution selection by the house would be the normal method after him the necessary and proper clause of the constitution permits congress to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
trec-1243,what is acid rain,Mount_Pinatubo_2,of the climactic eruption led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the surrounding areas saving many lives but the surrounding areas were severely damaged by pyroclastic flows ash deposits and later lahars caused by rainwater remobilising earlier volcanic deposits thousands of houses were destroyed the effects of the eruption were felt worldwide it injected large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere more than any eruption since that of krakatoa in eighteen hundred eighty three the aerosols formed a global layer of sulfuric acid haze over the following months
trec-2312,how many republics made up the soviet union,Iron_Curtain_37,republic of bulgaria the people s republic of poland the people s republic of hungary the czechoslovak socialist republic the people s republic of romania the people s republic of albania which re aligned itself in the nineteen hundred sixties away from the soviet union and towards the people s republic of china soviet installed governments ruled the eastern bloc countries with the exception of the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia which retained its full independence the majority of european states to the east of the iron curtain developed their own
trec-866,what is the english translation for the word caliente,Siesta_1,is a short nap taken in the early afternoon often after the midday meal such a period of sleep is a common tradition in some countries particularly those where the weather is warm since the siesta is the traditional daytime sleep of spain and through spanish influence of many hispanic american countries and in the philippines the word siesta has been taken from spanish from the latin hora sexta the sixth hour counting from dawn therefore noon hence
trec-2192,how did malcolm x die,Harvey_Milk_120,has become ambiguous randy shilts concludes his biography writing that milk s success murder and the inevitable injustice of white s verdict represented the experience of all gays milk s life was a metaphor for the homosexual experience in america according to frances fitzgerald milk s legend has been unable to be sustained as no one appeared able to take his place in the years after his death the castro saw him as a martyr but understood his martyrdom as an end rather than a beginning he had died and with him a great deal of the castro s optimism idealism and ambition seemed to die as well the castro could find no one to take his
trec-1074,what body of water are the canary islands in,British_Empire_148,of rhodesia as zimbabwe the new hebrides as vanuatu in nineteen hundred eighty and belize in nineteen hundred eighty one meant that aside from a scattering of islands and outposts and the acquisition in nineteen hundred fifty five of an uninhabited rock in the atlantic ocean rockall the process of decolonisation that had begun after the second world war was largely complete in nineteen hundred eighty two britain s resolve in defending its remaining overseas territories was tested when argentina invaded the falkland islands acting on a long standing claim that
trec-10068,in which country was osama bin laden killed,Barack_Obama_94,of osama bin laden in a large compound in abbottabad pakistan a suburban area thirty five miles from islamabad cia head leon panetta reported this intelligence to president obama in march twenty eleven meeting with his national security advisers over the course of the next six weeks obama rejected a plan to bomb the compound and authorized a surgical raid to be conducted by united states navy seals the operation took place on may one twenty eleven resulting in the death of bin laden and the seizure of papers and computer drives and disks from the compound bin laden s body was identified through dna testing and buried at sea several hours later within minutes of the president s announcement from washington d c late in the evening on may one there were spontaneous celebrations around the country as
trec-2381,what is horatios relationship to hamlet,William_Shakespeare_65,many painters including the romantics and the pre raphaelites the swiss romantic artist henry fuseli a friend of william blake even translated macbeth into german the psychoanalyst sigmund freud drew on shakespearean psychology in particular that of hamlet for his theories of human nature in shakespeare s day english grammar and spelling were less standardised than they are now and his use of language helped shape modern english samuel johnson quoted him more often than any other author in his a dictionary of the english language the first serious work of its type expressions such as with bated breath
trec-10004,how many colors do you need to color a planar graph,Blue_Bridge_(Saint_Petersburg)_2,today most of the blue bridge serves as a parking lot the bridge s name dates from a nineteenth century tradition of color coding the bridges crossing the moika river like other colored bridges the blue bridge got its name from the colour of its sides facing the river today only four colored bridges survive the other ones being the red brige the green bridge and the yellow bridge respectively three of them kept their original names since yellow bridge has been renamed to pevchesky bridge
trec-10006,how old did jesus die,Jesus_19,calendar the most widely accepted dates derived from this method are april seven thirty ad and april three thirty three ad both julian section three life and teachings in the new testament the four canonical gospels matthew mark luke and john are the main sources for the biography of jesus but other parts of the new testament such as the pauline epistles which were probably written decades before the gospels also include references to key episodes in his life
trec-2040,what are baby frogs called,Green_and_golden_bell_frog_24,the fin has a yellow tinge and is considerably arched the musculature is moderate and tapers to a fine point as does the fin the body wall is translucent yellow with darker areas over the abdomen just before its limbs form the tadpole begins to develop the greenish colouration of the adults metamorphs resemble the adults and average about two six c m one in in length section six conservation status the numbers of green and golden bell frogs are estimated to have declined by over thirty per cent in the past ten years it is
trec-400,what is the name of the jewish alphabet,Vowel_23,the semantic significance of vowels varies widely depending on the language in some languages particularly semitic languages vowels mostly serve to denote inflections this is similar to english man vs men in fact the alphabets used to write the semitic languages such as the hebrew alphabet and the arabic alphabet do not ordinarily mark all the vowels these alphabets are called abjads although it is possible to construct simple english sentences that can be understood without written vowels c n y r d ths extended passages of english lacking written vowels are difficult if not impossible to completely understand consider
trec-1666,what is the name of the us military base in cuba,Iron_Curtain_4,an analogue of the iron curtain the bamboo curtain surrounded the people s republic of china as the standoff between the west and the countries of the iron and bamboo curtains eased with the end of the cold war the term fell out of any but historical usage the short distance between russia and the u s state of alaska in the bering sea became known as the ice curtain during the cold war a field of cacti surrounding the u s naval station at guantanamo bay planted by cuba was occasionally termed the cactus curtain section two pre cold war
trec-99,what is the term for the sum of all genetic material in a given organism,DNA_34,dna arranged into forty six chromosomes the genetic information in a genome is held within genes a gene is a unit of heredity and is a region of dna that influences a particular characteristic in an organism genes contain an open reading frame that can be transcribed as well as regulatory sequences such as promoters and enhancers which control the expression of the open reading frame in many species only a small fraction of the total sequence of the genome encodes protein for example only about one point five per cent of the human genome consists of protein coding exons with over fifty per cent of human dna consisting of non coding repetitive sequences the reasons for the presence of so much non coding dna
trec-486,how many states have a lemon law for new automobiles,Godwin%27s_law_10,and is therefore permitted section four other laws and corollaries various addenda to godwin s law have been proposed by internet users though the original
trec-2175,what country did iraq invade in nineteen ninety ,History_of_Saudi_Arabia_34,of the iran iraq war and aided iraq s war strained economy king fahd played a major part in bringing about the august nineteen hundred eighty eight cease fire between iraq and iran and in organizing and strengthening the gulf cooperation council g c c a group of six persian gulf states dedicated to fostering regional economic cooperation and peaceful development section nine nineteen hundred nineties in august nineteen hundred ninety saddam hussein s forces invaded kuwait iraqi troops began massing on the border of kuwait and some feared that they were about to invade saudi arabia king fahd allowed american and coalition soldiers to be
trec-1514,what is canadas most populous city,Canada_78,an increase of five point four per cent since two thousand one population growth is from immigration and to a lesser extent natural growth about three quarters of canada s population lives within one hundred fifty kilometres ninety mi of the us border a similar proportion live in urban areas concentrated in the quebec city windsor corridor notably the greater golden horseshoe which is the region around toronto montreal and ottawa the b c lower mainland consisting of the region
trec-2310,how many american deaths were there in the korean war,Origins_of_the_Cold_War_37,to understand security in terms of space this reasoning was conditioned by russia s historical experiences given the frequency with which the country had been invaded over the last one hundred fifty years the second world war experience was particularly dramatic for the russians the soviet union suffered unprecedented devastation as a result of the nazi onslaught and over twenty million soviet citizens died during the war tens of thousands of soviet cities towns and villages were leveled and thirty thousand one hundred soviet factories were destroyed in order to prevent a similar assault in the future stalin
trec-1507,what is the national anthem in england,Flag_of_Canada_27,the national anthem o canada followed by the royal anthem god save the queen maurice bourget speaker of the senate said the flag is the symbol of the nation s unity for it beyond any doubt represents all the citizens of canada without distinction of race language belief or opinion for the nation s centennial celebrations in nineteen hundred sixty seven the canadian government used the canadian coat of arms whose shield was used on the red ensign on a red flag
trec-371,a corgi is a kind of what,Elizabeth_II_90,she is the patron of over six hundred organisations and charities her main leisure interests include equestrianism and dogs especially her pembroke welsh corgis her lifelong love of corgis began in nineteen hundred thirty three with dookie the first corgi owned by her family scenes of a relaxed informal home life have occasionally been witnessed she and her family from time to time prepare a meal together and do the washing up afterwards in the nineteen hundred fifties as a young woman at the start of her reign elizabeth was depicted as a
trec-10060,how many countries are in european union,Esperanto_85,the european esperanto union eropa esperanto unio regroups the national esperanto associations of the eu member states and holds congresses every two years the most recent was in maribor slovenia in july august two thousand seven it attracted two hundred fifty six delegates from twenty eight countries including two members of the european parliament mis magorzata handzlik of poland and mis ljudmila novak of slovenia
trec-1465,what company makes bentley cars,Formula_One%3a_Built_to_Win_4,player enters a user name the player has to start out driving a mini cooper without an international racing license from there the player must earn the rankings needed to get better performing vehicles and automobile parts these cars consist of the vector w two the ferrari f four zero and finally a formula one race car most of the game is driven with these vehicles drivers must also be prepared to negotiate their way through civilian traffic which all resemble the nineteen hundred ninety volkswagen beetles that were also used for civilian vehicles in the video games
trec-1110,what is sodium chloride,Seawater_27,counterproductive more water must be excreted to eliminate the salt via urine than the amount of water from the seawater itself the renal system actively regulates sodium chloride in the blood within a very narrow range around nine g forward slash l zero point nine per cent by weight in most open waters concentrations vary somewhat around typical values of about three five per cent far higher than the body can tolerate and most beyond what the kidney can process a point frequently overlooked in claims that the kidney can excrete nacl in baltic concentrations two per cent is that the gut cannot absorb water at such concentrations so that there is
trec-1668,what is the oldest national park in the us,M-185_(Michigan_highway)_8,on harsens island no part of m one eight five has been listed on the national highway system a network of roadways important to the country s economy defense and mobility over a half million people travel along the trunkline in a year mackinac island has been a tourist destination since the late nineteenth century the island was the country s second national park after yellowstone until the land was given to michigan in eighteen hundred ninety five to become its first state park m one eight five has been recognized in the press for its unique role as the only state highway
trec-1961,what position did satchel paige play in professional baseball,Bob_Ferguson_(infielder)_4,at first among the explanations for this it is claimed that due to his personality players did not want to emulate him managers however recognized the practice s importance soon after and began to play their players according to the opposing pitcher that day known today as platooning and the advantages that switch hitting posed would later become accepted strategic baseball philosophy and many players began to experiment with the idea section two national association in eighteen hundred seventy one ferguson took over the mutual team as the player manager in thirty three games
trec-380,what language is mostly spoken in brazil,Jaguar_5,ranchers and farmers in south america although reduced its range remains large given its historical distribution the jaguar has featured prominently in the mythology of numerous indigenous american cultures including that of the maya and aztec table of contents section one etymology the word jaguar is pronounced forward slash dawr forward slash deprecated template template ipalink en or especially in british english template ipalink en it comes to english from one of the tupi guarani languages presumably the amazonian trade language tupinamba via portuguese jaguar the tupian word yaguara beast sometimes translated as dog is used for any
trec-1248,what is quicksilver,Silver_9,for thousands of years for ornaments and utensils for trade and as the basis for many monetary systems its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold in ancient egypt and medieval europe it was often more valuable than gold associated with the moon as well as with the sea and various lunar goddesses the metal was referred to by alchemists by the name luna one of the alchemical symbols for silver is a crescent moon with the open part on the left see picture right the metal mercury was thought of as a kind of silver though the two elements are chemically unrelated its latin and english names hydrargyrum watery silver and quicksilver respectively
trec-lfb000035,who is clark kent,Glasses_45,with the beatles to his murder in nineteen hundred eighty the rock band weezer is known for some of the members wearing thick rimmed glasses in popular culture glasses were all the disguise superman and wonder woman needed to hide in plain view as alter egos clark kent and diana prince respectively an example of halo effect is seen in the stereotype that those who wear glasses are intelligent or especially in teen culture even geeks and nerds some people who find that wearing glasses may look nerdy turn to contact lenses or laser eye
trec-169,whom did the chicago bulls beat in the one thousand nine hundred ninety three championship,Michael_Jordan_32,and five point five apg campaign jordan s streak of consecutive m v p seasons ended as he lost the award to his friend charles barkley coincidentally jordan and the bulls met barkley and his phoenix suns in the nineteen hundred ninety three nba finals the bulls captured their third consecutive nba championship on a game winning shot by john paxson and a last second block by horace grant but jordan was once again chicago s catalyst he averaged a finals record forty one point zero p p g during the six game series and became the first player in nba history to win
trec-10084,what is the national anthem of usa,Puff%2c_the_Magic_Dragon_2,of childhood believed by many people to refer to smoking marijuana it became a hippie anthem the authors of the song have repeatedly denied any intentional drug reference on stage they have often asserted their innocence by comparing it to other songs like the star spangled banner that could be construed as a drug song if the listeners had a mind to make it that way beginning in nineteen hundred seventy eight a short series of three zero minute animated television specials
trec-117,what two researchers discovered the double helix structure of dna in nineteen fifty three ,Bioinformatics_70,knowledge concurrently each problem is checked automatically allowing for the project to also be used for automated homework testing in existing classes rosalind is a joint project between the university of california at san diego and saint petersburg academic university along with the russian academy of sciences the project s name commemorates rosalind franklin whose x ray crystallography with raymond gosling facilitated the discovery of the dna double helix by james d watson and francis crick it was recognized by homolog dot us as the
trec-2139,what gas is seventy eight percent of the earths atmosphere,Helium_18,an oil drilling operation in nineteen hundred three in dexter kansas produced a gas geyser that would not burn kansas state geologist erasmus haworth collected samples of the escaping gas and took them back to the university of kansas at lawrence where with the help of chemists hamilton cady and david mcfarland he discovered that the gas consisted of by volume seventy two per cent nitrogen fifteen per cent methane a combustible percentage only with sufficient oxygen one per cent hydrogen and twelve per cent an unidentifiable gas
trec-1066,when is the summer solstice,Siesta_5,with their friends and family table of contents section one protection from the sun a siesta takes place when the sun is at its highest point this is when the sun s ultraviolet radiation is at its peak at midday prolonged exposure to ultraviolet radiation may result in sunburn especially if one has fair skin recurring overexposure to ultraviolet radiation can cause some forms of skin cancer the sun s infrared radiation causes high air temperatures from the midday onwards the highest
trec-1332,what does the abbreviation sos mean,RMS_Titanic_44,the internationally recognised morse code distress signal sos was used the sos signal was first proposed at the international conference on wireless communication at sea in berlin in nineteen hundred six it was ratified by the international community in nineteen hundred eight and had been in widespread use since then the sos signal was however rarely used by british wireless operators who preferred the older c q d code first wireless operator jack phillips began transmitting c q d until second wireless operator harold bride suggested half jokingly send sos it s the new call and this may be your last chance to send
trec-464,where are the headquarters of eli lilly,Icos_11,and lilly icos have filed many lawsuits against each other in various countries over cialis and viagra pfizer was given a broad patent on pde five inhibitors in britain in nineteen hundred ninety three lilly icos filed a complaint in a london court in september nineteen hundred ninety nine and the patent was overturned in november two thousand on the grounds that pfizer s patent was based on information already in the public domain when the patent was issued in the united states pfizer filed suit against lilly icos soon after receiving a broad us patent for pde five inhibitors in october two thousand two the united states patent and trademark office ordered a
trec-1827,where was the battle of alamo fought,Davy_Crockett_6,each man was promised about four thousand six hundred five acres nineteen kmsquare of land as payment on six february eighteen hundred thirty six crockett and about a dozen remaining men rode into san antonio de bexar section three texas revolution he took part in the battle of the alamo february twenty three minus march six eighteen hundred thirty six and was assigned to defend the south palisade in front of the chapel the texas forces of
trec-163,what state does charles robb represent,Stephens_City%2c_Virginia_54,june twenty nine twenty ten when joseph grayson was officially named to fill shull s seat as of twenty ten the town is served by police chief charles bockey and fire chief greg locke both of whom are on the town s public safety committee the town is served by five other committees the administrative committee the personnel committee the water and sewer committee the public works committee and the finance committee the members of those five committees are composed of town council members stephens city is represented by clifford l clay athey republican in the virginia house of delegates eighteenth district
trec-lfb000042,which disease is a result of abnormal cell division,Evolution_23,to the genetic material usually dna or rna of a cell and can be caused by copying errors in the genetic material during cell division and by exposure to radiation chemicals or viruses or can occur deliberately under cellular control during processes such as meiosis or hypermutation in multicellular organisms mutations can be subdivided into germline mutations which can be passed on to progeny and somatic mutations which when accidental often lead to the malfunction or death of a cell and can cause cancer mutations introduce new
trec-1544,what is the most populated country in the world,Esperanto_70,section five community section five point one geography and demography esperanto is by far the most widely spoken constructed language in the world speakers are most numerous in europe and east asia especially in urban areas esperanto is particularly prevalent in the northern and eastern countries of europe in china korea japan and iran within asia in brazil argentina and mexico in the americas
trec-930,where is the orinoco river,Omayra_S%c3%a1nchez_24,to warning signs prior to the volcano s eruption the nevado del ruiz volcano is still active according to the volcano watch center in colombia melting only ten percent of the ice would produce mudflows with a volume of up to two hundred million cubic meters seven six one hundred nine cu f t similar to the mudflow that destroyed armero in nineteen hundred eighty five such lahars can travel up to one hundred kilometers sixty two mi along river valleys in a matter of few hours estimates show that up to five hundred thousand people living in the combeima chinchina coello toche
trec-2087,what canadian city has the largest population,Canada_79,notably the greater golden horseshoe which is the region around toronto montreal and ottawa the b c lower mainland consisting of the region surrounding vancouver and the calgary edmonton corridor in alberta according to the two thousand one census it has thirty four ethnic groups with at least one hundred thousand members each with eighty three per cent of the total population claiming they are white the largest ethnic group is english twenty point two per cent followed by french
trec-1986,what city is ole mississippi university in,Oriel_College%2c_Oxford_0,oriel college oxford oriel college located in oriel square oxford is the fifth oldest of the constituent colleges of the university of oxford in the united kingdom oriel has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in oxford a title formerly claimed by university college whose claim of being founded by king alfred is no longer promoted in recognition of this royal connection the
trec-1685,what is the most populous city in the united states,Chicago_0,chicago template chicagoinfobox two chicago illinois minus officially the city of chicago and colloquially known as chicago the second city and the windy city minus is the third largest city of the united states after new york city and los angeles and is the largest inland city of the nation according to the two thousand census it has a population of two million eight hundred ninety six thousand sixteen people classified as a world class city it
trec-1851,which country colonized hong kong,British_Empire_151,with the chinese government on the future of britain s last major and most populous overseas territory hong kong under the terms of the eighteen hundred forty two treaty of nanking hong kong island itself had been ceded to britain in perpetuity but the vast majority of the colony was constituted by the new territories which had been acquired under a nine nine year lease in eighteen hundred ninety eight due to expire in nineteen hundred ninety seven thatcher seeing parallels with the falkland islands initially wished to hold hong kong and proposed british administration with chinese