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Who played the title role in the TV sitcom Ugly Betty? | an audience. The backlash from its fans prompted ABC to move the show to Wednesdays at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central starting January 6, 2010, where it was thought to better complement its Wednesday hits "Modern Family" and "Cougar Town." Despite this, on January 27, 2010, ABC announced it was cancelling the series ... | Betty"
- Betty Smith, a character in the TV series "Littlest Pet Shop"
- Betty Spencer, the wife of Frank Spencer in the British sitcom "Some Mothers do 'ave 'em"
- Betty Suarez, the title character and heroine of the TV series "Ugly Betty"
- Betty Williams ("Coronation Street"), in the British soap opera "Coronation S... | 31,000 | triviaqa-train |
Which of the nine counties of Ulster has the shortest name? | million inhabitants, making it the second-largest city on the island of Ireland and the 10th largest urban area in the UK.
Six of Ulster's nine counties, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, including the former parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry, form Northern Ireland which remained... | .
This term is disliked by some nationalists because the whole of the Province of Ulster consists of nine counties – three of which, County Monaghan, County Cavan and County Donegal, are in the Republic of Ireland. Unionists have argued that because Ulster's size has changed much over the centuries, "Ulster" can be app... | 31,001 | triviaqa-train |
In which American state was Edward Snowden working as a contractor to the National Security Agency when he decided to leak secrets? | and Asia.
NSA had facilities at Friendship Annex (FANX) in Linthicum, Maryland, which is a 20 to 25-minute drive from Fort Meade; the Aerospace Data Facility at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora outside Denver, Colorado; NSA Texas in the Texas Cryptology Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas; NSA Georg... | Timeline of global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
This timeline of global surveillance disclosures from 2013 to the present day is a chronological list of the global surveillance disclosures that began in 2013. The disclosures have been largely instigated by revelations from the former American National Securi... | 31,002 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the youngest of the Mitford sisters who died in 2014 aged 94? | Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist and socialite. She was the youngest and last surviving of th... | Square, London, who died at her son's house, Weston Lodge, Hampstead, on 25 December 1886, aged 92, and was buried at Hampstead cemetery on 29 December. The marriage was not happy. Their only child, Robert Henry Mitford, was born on 24 July 1815, and married at Wellow, Somerset, on 12 August 1847, Anne, youngest daught... | 31,003 | triviaqa-train |
Who has presented Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2 since 2010? | Tony Blackburn, Ken Bruce, Jeremy Vine, Mark Radcliffe, Jo Whiley, Paul Gambaccini, Gary Davies, Johnnie Walker and Bob Harris.
As well as having most listeners nationally, it ranks first in many regions above local radio stations. BBC Radio 2 played to 27% of the available audience in 2006.
In February 2007, Radio 2 r... | Mark Goodier
Mark Goodier (born 9 June 1961) is a British radio disc jockey who appeared on BBC Radio 1 between 1987 and 2002. He had two spells presenting the station's Top 40 singles chart, from 1990 to 1992 and from 1995 until 2002, and also temporarily presented the "Breakfast Show" during 1993. He has also present... | 31,004 | triviaqa-train |
Who did Tim Farron beat for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats this year? | confirmed his bid for the Liberal Democrat leadership on BBC Radio 4. On 16 July he won the leadership election with 56.5% of the vote, ahead of Norman Lamb who achieved 43.5%. Farron's first speech at the Liberal Democrat September 2015 Conference in Bournemouth was praised in the press.
At the 2017 General Election, ... | a blessing".
Öpik supported Jenny Randerson in the 2008 contest for leadership of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. Randerson lost to Kirsty Williams. Öpik supported Tim Farron in the 2015 Liberal Democrat leadership election, who eventually won with a margin of 13%.
Parliamentary and party career Expenses row and criticism... | 31,005 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the famous RAF Bomber Command representative who observed the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki? | the "kokutai" (Imperial institution and national polity), assumption by the Imperial Headquarters of responsibility for disarmament and demobilization, no occupation of the Japanese Home Islands, Korea or Formosa, and delegation of the punishment of war criminals to the Japanese government.
At Potsdam, Truman agreed to... | that the publisher did not give him the opportunity to read and edit the manuscript, he publicly disowned the novel and would not have anything to do with it.
His works of non-fiction include "We Dropped the A-Bomb" (1946), a book he wrote in collaboration with Abe Spitzer, a radioman who was on the bomber The Great Ar... | 31,006 | triviaqa-train |
Actress Talia Shire is the sister of which film director and producer? | Shire was born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York, the only daughter of Italia (née Pennino; 1912–2004) and arranger/composer Carmine Coppola (1910–1991). Her parents were both of Italian descent. Talia is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and academic August Coppola, the aunt of actor ... | , British statistician
- Talia Shire, American actress ("Rocky")
- Strobe Talbott, American journalist
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
- April 26
- Jennie Stoller, British actress (d. 2018)
- Richard S. Fuld Jr., American banker
- April 28 – Larissa Grunig, American public relations theorist, feminist
- Apri... | 31,007 | triviaqa-train |
Known as the Valley Isle, which is die second largest of the Hawaiian islands? | the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight main islands are—in order from northwest to southeast: Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lānai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii. The last is the largest island in the group; it is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago... | Kauai
Kauai, Americanized as Kauai ( , ), is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km), it is the fourth-largest of these islands and the 21st largest island in the United States. Known also as the "Garden Isle", Kauai lies 105 miles (169 km) across the Kauai ... | 31,008 | triviaqa-train |
The gifted female artist Marietta Robusti was the daughter of which painter? | Marietta Robusti
Marietta Robusti (1560? – 1590) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. She was the daughter of Tintoretto and is sometimes referred to as "Tintoretta".
Biography.
The only known primary source for details of Marietta Robusti's life is Carlo Ridolfi's "Life of Tintoretto", first published in ... | Italian painter specializing in quadratura (born 1525)
- Miguel Barroso, Spanish painter (born 1538)
- Wouter Crabeth I, Dutch glass painter (born 1510)
- Bernaert de Rijckere, Flemish painter (born 1535)
- Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter (born 1526)
- Girolamo Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born 1506)
- Domenico... | 31,009 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini? | 21: Un poco più vivo
- Variation 22: Marziale. Un poco più vivo (Alla breve)
- Variation 23: L'istesso tempo
- Variation 24: A tempo un poco meno mosso (A minor → A major)
Although Rachmaninoff's work is performed in one stretch without breaks, it can be divided into three sections, as shown above. These correspond to ... | 8. "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6" composed by Franz Liszt and performed by Gregory Brown (7:12)
9. "Variations on a Theme of Paganini" composed by Witold Lutoslawski and performed by Deondra and Desirae Brown(5:06)
10. "Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2; I. Danza del Viejo Boyero (Dance of the Old C)" composed by Alberto Ginastera ... | 31,010 | triviaqa-train |
Which member of the grouse family is colloquially known as the snow chicken in the USA? | and is a protected species nationwide.
Etymology.
The ptarmigan's genus name, "Lagopus", is derived from Ancient Greek "lagos" (λαγώς "lagṓs"), meaning "hare", + "pous" (πούς "poús"), "foot", in reference to the bird's feathered legs.
The species name, "muta", comes from New Latin and means "mute", referring to the sim... | lexicographer Noah Webster (1806), and the explorers often used it in that sense. "Gallinaceous" then referred to "domestic fowls, or the gallinae"; the family Galliformes (Latin "gallus", cock, and "forma", shape) now includes pheasants, grouse, turkeys, quail, and all domestic chickens.
Sage Grouse are also collectiv... | 31,011 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the novel Cold Comfort Farm? | Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
Plot summary.
Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds ... | Bishop of Bloemfontein who served as Dean of Salisbury Cathedral. On 1 April 1933 the couple were married at St Matthew's, Bayswater. Later that year she learned that "Cold Comfort Farm" had been awarded the "Prix Étranger", the foreign novel category of the prestigious French literary prize, the "Prix Femina". It had ... | 31,012 | triviaqa-train |
In which children’s television programme did Professor Yaffle appear? | Bagpuss
Bagpuss is a British children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of 13 episodes was first broadcast from 12 February 1974 to 7 May 1974. The title character was "a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams". Although only 13... | Kids' WB Australia
Kids’ WB is an Australian children’s television programme currently hosted by Lauren Phillips and Andy Sunderland, which premiered on Nine Network on 16 September 2006. It is based on the US television block of the same name with the addition of hosted content, which was absent in its American counte... | 31,013 | triviaqa-train |
Martello Towers, the line of defensive fortifications in south-east England were based on similar designs found on which Mediterranean island? | , Crete, Euboea, Rhodes, Lesbos, Chios, Kefalonia, Corfu, Limnos, Samos, Naxos and Andros in the Eastern Mediterranean; Sicily, Cres, Krk, Brač, Hvar, Pag, Korčula and Malta in the central Mediterranean; Sardinia, Corsica, and the Balearic Islands: Ibiza, Majorca, and Menorca in the Western Mediterranean.
The typical M... | Great Britain and Ireland, from 1801 to 1922, spanning the time during which most Martello towers were erected (the initial scheme started under the previous entities of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland). Consequently, the Martello towers of Great Britain and Ireland can be considered to have been pa... | 31,014 | triviaqa-train |
Who was monarch when the Act of Union was passed? | between England and Scotland. The Parliament of England retaliated with the Alien Act 1705, threatening to devastate the Scottish economy by restricting trade. The Scottish and English parliaments negotiated the Acts of Union 1707, under which England and Scotland were united into a single Kingdom of Great Britain, wit... | that Mary died and her heir was male and under 18, or an unmarried female under 15.
By the Act of Settlement 1701, Parliament passed the line of succession to Electress Sophia of Hanover; this decision was confirmed and extended to all of Great Britain by the Acts of Union 1707. With the doctrine of Parliamentary supre... | 31,015 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the current presenter of Desert Island Discs on Radio 4? | Plowright. She was replaced by Kirsty Young, who interviewed illustrator Quentin Blake for her first show, broadcast on 1 October 2006. On 30 August 2018, it was announced that Young was going on sick leave due to complications of fibromyalgia, and that 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne would temporarily take over. In J... | his final Saturday afternoon show for BBC Radio 2, having hosted the programme for twelve years.
- 28–30 January – Absolute Radio 90s is temporarily renamed Absolute Radio Frank to celebrate the 60th birthday of its presenter Frank Skinner.
- 29 January – Former England captain David Beckham is the castaway on the 75th... | 31,016 | triviaqa-train |
The Victoria Falls stand on which river? | , "Rainbow Falls" (the highest) and the "Eastern Cataract".
The Zambezi river, upstream from the falls, experiences a rainy season from late November to early April, and a dry season the rest of the year. The river's annual flood season is February to May with a peak in April, The spray from the falls typically rises t... | to its north-west. A number of colonial buildings were erected which still stand. Although the capital was moved to Lusaka in 1935 to be closer to the economic heartland of the Copperbelt, industries based on timber, hides, tobacco, cotton (including textiles) and other agricultural products grew. A hydroelectric plant... | 31,017 | triviaqa-train |
Which European geographical feature was known to the Romans as Mons Calpe? | Rock of Gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar, also known as the Rock, is a monolithic limestone promontory located in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, near the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It is high. Most of the Rock's upper area is covered by a nature reserve, which is home to around 30... | in Greek, which is a neuter plural. Latin mons, however, is a masculine, hence Sudeti. The Latin version, and the modern geographical identification, is likely to be a scholastic innovation, as it is not attested in classical Latin literature. The meaning of the name is not known. In one hypothetical derivation, it mea... | 31,018 | triviaqa-train |
England Rugby Union player Steffon Armitage, who was European Player of the year in 2014, plays for which French club? | Armitage would go on to win two further England caps in the 2010 Six Nations, coming off the bench in England's wins over Wales and Italy.
In May 2011, Armitage was granted an early release from his contract with London Irish to allow him to join French club RC Toulon. In his first season in France, Armitage scored 7 t... | Steffon Armitage
Steffon Armitage (born 20 September 1985) is an English professional rugby union player who currently plays for French Top 14 club Pau.
Career.
Born in San Fernando, Trinidad in 1985, Armitage grew up in the south of France, where he and his brothers played for Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing.... | 31,019 | triviaqa-train |
Who played PCI Stella Gibson in the BBC 2 series The Fall? | Stella Gibson
Detective Superintendent (DSU) Stella Gibson is the main character in the British (BBC Two)-Irish (RTÉ One) crime drama television series "The Fall", which is filmed and set in Northern Ireland. She is portrayed by Gillian Anderson.
Character overview.
Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson is an English ... | Clark of TV series "Between the Lines"
- Superintendent Teresa Colvin from the FOX TV series "The Chicago Code" (2011)
- D/Supt Martin Schenk and D/Supt Rose Teller from the BBC's "Luther"
- Richard Jury, a member of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. He appears in several Martha Grimes n... | 31,020 | triviaqa-train |
Which English cathedral was the world's tallest building between 1311 and 1549? | Lincoln Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. Like ... | 2007–2019) (CBS)
- "Samantha Who?" (2007–2009) (ABC)
- "The Starter Wife" ("The Starter Wife", 2007; "The Starter Wife" 2008–2009) (USA Network)
- "Cashmere Mafia" (2008) (ABC)
- "The Ex List" (2008) (CBS)
- "Lipstick Jungle" (2008–2009) (NBC)
- "Lost in Austen" (2008) (ITV)
- "Prince + | 31,021 | triviaqa-train |
Who portrayed the eponymous painter in the 2014 film Mr Turner? | Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner is a 2014 biographical drama film based on the last 25 years of the life of painter J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Written and directed by Mike Leigh, the film stars Timothy Spall in the title role, with Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey, Lesley Manville, and Martin Savage. It premiered i... | is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 21 September 1987 by E. Bowell at Lowell Observatory Flagstaff, Arizona, and named for her.
Somerville crater is a small lunar crater in the eastern part of the Moon. It lies to the east of the prominent crater Langrenus. It is one of a handful of lunar craters named after a woman.... | 31,022 | triviaqa-train |
Which French artist (1748-1825) painted The Death of Marat? | The Death of Marat
The Death of Marat ( or "Marat Assassiné") is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is one of the most famous images of the French Revolution. David was the leading French painter, as well as a Montagnard and a member of the revolutiona... | ), several people
- John Simpson (Presbyterian) (1740–1808), of South Carolina, in the American Revolutionary War
- John Simpson (Unitarian) (1746–1812), of Bath, English Unitarian minister and religious writer
- John Simpson (soldier) (1748–1825), American Revolutionary War soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill
- John ... | 31,023 | triviaqa-train |
In which country was Che Guevara executed in 1967? | a seminal manual on guerrilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir about his youthful continental motorcycle journey. His experiences and studying of Marxism–Leninism led him to posit that the Third World's underdevelopment and dependence was an intrinsic result of imperialism, neocolonialism and monopoly capitali... | A US government contingency plan to support the military coup that overthrew the Brazilian constitutional president João Goulart, if the coup had faced armed resistance
- "The track down operation" (1967) — that capture and executed Che Guevara
- "Condor" (1970s) — — A campaign run by then South American Military Dicta... | 31,024 | triviaqa-train |
In the NATO phonetic alphabet which professional sport is mentioned? | critical combinations of letters and numbers are most likely to be pronounced and understood by those who exchange voice messages by radio or telephone, regardless of language differences or the quality of the communication channel.
The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the E... | (CH-16) VHF/FM
- 2182 kHz MF/HF
The DSC frequencies mentioned above are monitored by Cyprus Coast Station (Cyprus Radio)
- 518 kHz NAVTEX
Note that: JRCC uses the NATO phonetic alphabet for communicating characters in English and the standard Greek phonetic alphabet () for communicating characters in Greek.
See also.
-... | 31,025 | triviaqa-train |
Which Cole Porter musical of 1934 includes the songs You're the Top and I Get a Kick Out of You? | You're the Top
"You're the Top" is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical "Anything Goes". It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other. The best-selling version was Paul Whiteman's Victor single, which made the top five.
It was the most popular song from "Anything Goes" at the start with hun... | "Hello" (The Beloved)
- "High Tech Redneck" (George Jones)
- "Hot Topic" (Le Tigre)
- "How About You?" (Burton Lane/Ralph Freed)
I.
- "I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven" (Tex Ritter)
- "I Can't Get Started (With You)" (Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke)
- "I Get a Kick Out of You" by Cole Porter, first sung in the 1934 musica... | 31,026 | triviaqa-train |
Future British Chancellor of the Exchequer Francis Dashwood founded which club in the 18th century? | Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer
Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer, PC, FRS (December 1708 – 11 December 1781) was an English rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
Dashwood was born in Great Marlborough Street, Lo... | much drinking, wenching and banqueting.
Sir Francis Dashwood's clubs Decline of Dashwood's Club.
The downfall of Dashwood's Club was more drawn-out and complicated. In 1762, the Earl of Bute appointed Dashwood his Chancellor of the Exchequer, despite Dashwood being widely held to be incapable of understanding "a bar bi... | 31,027 | triviaqa-train |
In the periodic table which element has the symbol Zr? | Zirconium
Zirconium is a chemical element with the symbol Zr and atomic number 40. The name "zirconium" is taken from the name of the mineral zircon (the word is related to Persian "zargun" (zircon;"zar-gun", "gold-like" or "as gold")), the most important source of zirconium. It is a lustrous, grey-white, strong transi... | Unbinilium
Unbinilium, also known as eka-radium or simply element 120, is the hypothetical chemical element in the periodic table with symbol Ubn and atomic number 120. "Unbinilium" and "Ubn" are the temporary systematic IUPAC name and symbol, until a permanent name is decided upon. In the periodic table of the element... | 31,028 | triviaqa-train |
The home of The Royal Concertgebouw is in which city? | Concertgebouw
The Royal Concertgebouw (, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building".
Because of its highly regarded acoustics, the Concertgebouw is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, along with places such as Boston'... | conducted in all (currently 28) EU Member States, and many are now notable conductors, soloists, teachers, and instrumentalists working with major orchestras in the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The EUYO... | 31,029 | triviaqa-train |
Hail to thee, Blythe Spirit is the first line of which poem of 1820? | revivals in the 1970s and 1980s and was revived again in London in 2004, 2011 and 2014. It returned to Broadway in February 2009.
Background.
The title of the play is taken from Shelley's poem "To a Skylark", ("Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert"). For some time before 1941 Coward had been thinking of ... | of the lark that Shelley heard."
The 1941 comic play "Blithe Spirit" by Noël Coward takes its title from the opening line: "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert".
In 1894, music by British composer Arthur Goring Thomas was set to verses from the work in the composition "The Swan and the Skylark: Cantata"... | 31,030 | triviaqa-train |
Which name is shared by the composer of the opera Norma and a cocktail? | the Seraglio"), and "The Magic Flute" ("Die Zauberflöte"), landmarks in the German tradition.
The first third of the 19th century saw the high point of the bel canto style, with Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini all creating works that are still performed. It also saw the advent of Grand Opera t... | shared the name with the Peabody Institute's organization, but in the same year changed to the "Conservatory of Music". The Academy's conductor, Adam Itzel, Jr. was a very popular composer, known for the national hit light opera "The Tar and the Tartar".
History Early 20th century.
There were a number of mostly informa... | 31,031 | triviaqa-train |
Which English city was known to the Romans as Luguvalium? | from Arles; and places Secunda in the north with its capital at Eboracum (York). Valentia is placed variously in northern Wales around Deva (Chester); beside Hadrian's Wall around Luguvalium (Carlisle); and between the walls along Dere Street.
History 4th century.
Constantius Chlorus returned in 306, despite his poor h... | in Roma Victor at commercial launch, such as the Roman town of Luguvalium.
In the final state of the game, the Romans began life as a slave in the ancient regional town of Corstopitum over which modern Corbridge lies. Barbarians began in the village of Erring, directly north of Corstopitum.
Gameplay.
Gameplay Playable ... | 31,032 | triviaqa-train |
In 2014, Sam Burgess left South Sydney Rugby League Club to join which English Premiership Rugby Union Club? | older brother Luke plays for the Salford Red Devils. The Rabbitohs won the 2014 NRL Premiership, the club's first in 43 years, and Burgess was named winner of the Clive Churchill Medal for man of the match in the Grand Final.
In late 2014, Burgess switched codes to play rugby union for Bath. He was called up to the Eng... | Tom Burgess (rugby league)
Thomas Burgess (born 21 April 1992) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL. Burgess is an England national and World All Stars representative. Burgess played in the Rabbitohs 2014 NRL Premiership winning team alongside his t... | 31,033 | triviaqa-train |
Which Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador was a tireless social reformer who spoke out against corruption and repression and was assassinated n 1980 while saying mass? | has determined that San Salvador has one of the best road systems in Latin America. San Salvador's metropolitan road system handles approximately 400,000 vehicles per day.
The main highway passing through San Salvador is the CA-1 (Pan-American highway), which at one point becomes Bulevar Arturo Castellanos. The RN-21 (... | fourth Archbishop of San Salvador and spoke out against the poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture caused by the U.S.-backed El Salvadoran government. He was assassinated on 24 March 1980. Other victims included six Jesuit priests of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), their cook, and her daughter we... | 31,034 | triviaqa-train |
What was the tallest building in London from 1710 until 1960? | of tall structures in London began with the completion of the White Tower, a part of the Tower of London, in 1098. The first structure to surpass a height of was the Old St Paul's Cathedral. Completed in 1310, it stood at a height of . St Paul's was the world's tallest structure until 1311, when its height was surpasse... | Wren's City churches, has dominated the skyline for over 300 years. At high, it was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1967. The dome is among the highest in the world. St Paul's is the second-largest church building in area in the United Kingdom after Liverpool Cathedral.
Services held at St Paul's have inclu... | 31,035 | triviaqa-train |
Who portrayed Alan Turing in the 2015 film The Imitation Game? | The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the biography "" by Andrew Hodges. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as British cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for the British government durin... | is Hilton's theorem (1955) on the homotopy groups of a join of spheres.
Death.
Peter Hilton died in Binghamton, New York, United States, at age 87.
In popular culture.
Hilton is portrayed by actor Matthew Beard in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game", which tells the tale of Alan Turing and the cracking of Nazi Germany's... | 31,036 | triviaqa-train |
Which artist born in what is now Belgium (c. 1380-1441) painted the Ghent Altarpiece? | Ghent Altarpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece (or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, ) is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun c. the mid-1420s and completed before 1432, and is attributed to the Early Netherlandish painters and brothers Hubert and Jan v... | Timeline of Ghent
The following is a of the history of the municipality of Ghent, Belgium.
Prior to 19th century.
- 1336 - Tapestry-weavers' guild established.
- 1380
- Belfry of Ghent built.
- Public clock installed (approximate date).
- 1432 - Artist Van Eyck paints altarpiece for St. John's Church.
- 1448 - "De Font... | 31,037 | triviaqa-train |
In the NATO phonetic alphabet which month is mentioned? | critical combinations of letters and numbers are most likely to be pronounced and understood by those who exchange voice messages by radio or telephone, regardless of language differences or the quality of the communication channel.
The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the E... | (CH-16) VHF/FM
- 2182 kHz MF/HF
The DSC frequencies mentioned above are monitored by Cyprus Coast Station (Cyprus Radio)
- 518 kHz NAVTEX
Note that: JRCC uses the NATO phonetic alphabet for communicating characters in English and the standard Greek phonetic alphabet () for communicating characters in Greek.
See also.
-... | 31,038 | triviaqa-train |
Which UNESCO World Heritage Site, built mainly by Abraham Derby is found in Shropshire? | Culture, Media and Sport. The charity National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty holds a contrasting role. 17 of the 25 United Kingdom UNESCO World Heritage Sites fall within England. Some of the best-known of these are: Hadrian's Wall, Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites, Tower of London, Ju... | Saflieni phase
The Saflieni phase is one of the eleven phases of Maltese prehistory, the fourth of five in the middle or Temple period. It is named for the Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum, an underground temple complex now recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which was built mainly in this period.
The Saflieni phase, f... | 31,039 | triviaqa-train |
Which football team plays its home games at Ewood Park? | Ewood Park
Ewood Park is a football stadium in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is the home of Blackburn Rovers Football Club — one of the founder members of the Football League and Premier League. Rovers have played there since they moved from Leamington Road in the summer of 1890. The stadium opened in ... | .
The Southern Lady Jaguars soccer team competes in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Jaguar Park.
Sports sponsored Softball.
The Southern Lady Jaguars softball team competes in the Southwestern Athletic Con... | 31,040 | triviaqa-train |
Which Irving Berlin musical of 1946 includes the songs Anything You Can Do and I Got Sun in the Morning? | Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
"Anything You Can Do" is a song composed by Irving Berlin for the 1946 Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun". The song is a duet, with one male singer and one female singer attempting to outdo each other in increasingly complex tasks.
In the musical, the song sets the scene for the... | 're the top! You're a Berlin ballad."
Irving Berlin would likewise often write songs in the genre, notable examples include "My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl" from "Face the Music" (1932), a list song that starts of with a sequence of similes, "Outside of That I Love You" from "Louisiana Purchase", and "Anything You Can Do... | 31,041 | triviaqa-train |
In the periodic table, which element has the symbol Rn? | Radon
Radon is a chemical element with the symbol Rn and atomic number 86. It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas. It occurs naturally in minute quantities as an intermediate step in the normal radioactive decay chains through which thorium and uranium slowly decay into lead and various other sho... | Unbinilium
Unbinilium, also known as eka-radium or simply element 120, is the hypothetical chemical element in the periodic table with symbol Ubn and atomic number 120. "Unbinilium" and "Ubn" are the temporary systematic IUPAC name and symbol, until a permanent name is decided upon. In the periodic table of the element... | 31,042 | triviaqa-train |
The home of The Simon Bolivar Orchestra is in which city? | and worked in Santo Domingo (the present-day Dominican Republic) from 1559 to 1560 and where his son Simón de Bolívar y Castro was born. When the governor was reassigned to Venezuela by the Spanish Crown in 1569, Simón de Bolívar went with him. As an early settler in Spain's Venezuela Province, he became prominent in t... | documentary "Dudamel, El Sonido de los Niños" directed by the Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo.
In 2013 Dudamel conducted the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra during the funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Dudamel continues to retain his position with the Simón Bolívar National Youth Orchestra.
In April 201... | 31,043 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the only current Major League baseball team based in Canada? | played around North America. The first officially recorded baseball game on this continent was played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada on June 4, 1838. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright, a member of New York City's Knickerbocker Club, led the codification of the so-called Knickerbocker Rules. While there are reports that the... | Edmonton Prospects
The Edmonton Prospects are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They play in the Western Major Baseball League. The team was founded in 2005 as the Edmonton Big River Prospects but moved to the Edmonton suburb of St. Albert after only one year of use of Telus Field wi... | 31,044 | triviaqa-train |
The first Consulate of the United States in the world opened in Liverpool in which year (allow 5 either way)? | (Santurce), Carolina, Canóvanas, Loíza, and Luquillo. Some became slave owners themselves.
Despite these paths to freedom, from 1790 onwards, the number of slaves more than doubled in Puerto Rico as a result of the dramatic expansion of the sugar industry in the island.
On March 22, 1873, slavery was legally abolished ... | . Nevertheless, the decline in prosperity of Mawlamyine began when the supply of marketable timber from Salween Valley started to decrease in the 1890s.
When it came to the relationship with the outside world, Germany, Siam, Persia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden opened and maintained consulate offices in Mawlamyine led by... | 31,045 | triviaqa-train |
The Glazer family, who own Manchester United also own which NFL American Football team? | Malcolm Glazer
Malcolm Irving Glazer (August 15, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American businessman and sports team owner. He was the president and chief executive officer of First Allied Corporation, a holding company for his varied business interests, and owned both Manchester United of the Premier League and the Tampa... | United of Manchester, and the "Love United Hate Glazer" movement, and subsequently the Red Knights who attempted to buy the Glazers out the club. Two years later, Liverpool went through its own controversial takeover when Chairman David Moores sold the club to American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks. Disagree... | 31,046 | triviaqa-train |
Hubert Humphrey served as Vice-President to which US President? | , five presidents have served two full terms: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Both Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush sought a second term but were defeated. Richard Nixon was elected to a second term, but resigned before completing it. Lyndon B. Johnson, having held... | of the United States
- Wendell Ford – U.S. Senator, Governor of Kentucky, also served as US Jaycees President
- Bill Gates – Chairman of Microsoft
- Al Gore – Vice President of the United States
- Mike Gravel - U.S. Senator from Alaska, conducted national Jaycee tour advocating tax reform and free enterprise in 1958
- ... | 31,047 | triviaqa-train |
Which chemical element, the first of the halogens, has the atomic number 9? | Tennessine only has 2 known radioisotopes, tennessine-293 and tennessine-294.
Production.
Approximately six million metric tons of the fluorine mineral fluorite are produced each year. Four hundred-thousand metric tons of hydrofluoric acid are made each year. Fluorine gas is made from hydrofluoric acid produced as a by... | example, group 17 elements are the halogens; and group 18 are the noble gases. Also displayed are four simple rectangular areas or blocks associated with the filling of different atomic orbitals.
The organization of the periodic table can be used to derive relationships between the various element properties, and also ... | 31,048 | triviaqa-train |
In which Marx Brothers film does much of the action centre on the theft of a painting, during a party given in honour of Groucho's character, the explorer Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding? | Captain Spaulding
Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding is a fictional character in the Broadway musical "Animal Crackers" and the film of the same name. He was originally played by actor Groucho Marx, one of the Marx Brothers, in both productions. Despite his middle name being Edgar, he is known as Jeffrey T. Spaulding; his fi... | host renowned explorer Captain Geoffrey (or Jeffrey) T. Spaulding as the guest of honor, recently returned from Africa. Also, as a special treat for the guests and Capt. Spaulding, revered art collector Roscoe W. Chandler will unveil his recently acquired painting, "After The Hunt" by a famous fictional artist named Be... | 31,049 | triviaqa-train |
Katanga is a province in which African country? | Katanga Province
Katanga was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko when Congo was known as Zaïre), its official name was... | On 11 July 1960, Moïse Tshombe, the leader of CONAKAT, declared the Congo's southern province of Katanga independent as the State of Katanga, with Élisabethville as its capital and himself as President. The mineral-rich Katanga region had traditionally shared closer economic ties with the Copperbelt of neighbouring Nor... | 31,050 | triviaqa-train |
William Cavendish-Bentinck served twice as Prime Minister, briefly in 1783 and from 1807 to 1809: by what title is he better known? | any British prime minister.
Portland was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield. He held a title of every degree of British nobility: Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Baron. He is also a great-great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth II through her maternal grandmother.
Biography.
Biography Early... | . Scholars such as Professor Birks and Professor Burrows argue that in many cases the inclusion of the label "legal" or "equitable" before a substantive rule is often unnecessary. Many English universities, such as Oxford and Cambridge, continue to teach Equity as a standalone subject. Leading practitioner texts includ... | 31,051 | triviaqa-train |
"By what name is the bird which countrymen call the ""water ouzel and which has the Latin name cinclus cinclus, generally known?" | Dipper
Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
Taxonomy.
The genus "Cinclus" was introduced by the German naturalist Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen in 1797 with the w... | Gracilornis
Gracilornis is an extinct genus of early bird from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian stage). It is a cathayornithid enantiornithine which lived in what is now western Liaoning Province, China. It is known from a nearly complete skull and postcranial skeleton, which was found from the Jiufotang Formation, in Chao... | 31,052 | triviaqa-train |
Which organisation (perhaps surprisingly to some) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012? | .
The awards given to Mikhail Gorbachev, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, Lê Đức Thọ, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, the IPCC, Liu Xiaobo, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, and the European Union have all been the subject of controversy.
The awards given to Lê Đức Thọ and Henry Kiss... | deployment of landmines, and persuaded Princess Diana to give her active support to the campaign in 1997.
The organisation won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, and McGrath presented the acceptance speech on behalf of the ICBL in Oslo.
McGrath organised programmes responding to natural emergencies, such as the 2004 tsuna... | 31,053 | triviaqa-train |
Which chemical element has the atomic number 5? | nutrient and boron compounds such as borax and boric acid are used as fertilizers in agriculture, although it's only required in small amounts, with excess being toxic. Boron compounds play a strengthening role in the cell walls of all plants. There is no consensus on whether boron is an essential nutrient for mammals,... | a bar of gold can be continually divided until one has a single atom of gold, but further division of that atom of gold yields only subatomic particles (electrons, quarks, etc.) which are no longer the chemical element gold. Just as water alone is not flesh, electrons alone are not gold. Although suggestive, the parall... | 31,054 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the super villain in the James Bond book and film Moonraker? | Moonraker (film)
Moonraker is a 1979 British spy film, the eleventh in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne... | "Bond, James Bond. Junior."
Like many animated series, it regularly surpasses the Bond movies in terms of fantastical gadgets, while the violence of the adult Bond series is nowhere in evidence. The show was fully sanctioned by (and produced in association with) Danjaq and United Artists, who held the rights to the Jam... | 31,055 | triviaqa-train |
"Which British Prime Minister said ""in the case of war, it's not who is right but who is left""?" | if the latter were attacked, an alliance that brought his country into war when Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939. Chamberlain resigned the premiership on 10 May 1940 as the Allies were being forced to retreat from Norway, as he believed that a government supported by all parties was essential, and th... | 's. But it is a weakness."
Anthony Hartley of "The Spectator" was archly dismissive of the play's denouement, in which Terriford concedes to the British Government the right to use the burning glass for war in event of uttermost need – "Why not [to] the Russians?... [Terriford] presupposes that he knows who is bad and ... | 31,056 | triviaqa-train |
In a series of films based on the books by Donald Hamilton, who played the character Matt Helm? | in film and television.
In 1965, Columbia Pictures acquired the film rights to eight Matt Helm novels. A five-film parody or spoof spy movie series was planned and four were made, debuting with "The Silencers" (from Hamilton's novels "The Silencers" and "Death of a Citizen", adapted by acclaimed "A Streetcar Named Desi... | Matt Helm
Matt Helm is a fictional character created by author Donald Hamilton. He is a U.S. government counter-agent—a man whose primary job is to kill or nullify enemy agents—not a spy or secret agent in the ordinary sense of the term as used in spy thrillers.
The character and the series.
Published between 1960 and ... | 31,057 | triviaqa-train |
Who, along with Rachel Riley and Susie Dent, will host the 2012 series of Countdown? | Countdown (game show)
Countdown is a British television show involving word and number tasks. It is broadcast on Channel 4 and is currently presented by Nick Hewer, assisted by Rachel Riley, with regular lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and 80 series have been broadcast sin... | chunks. It was abbreviated, for example the letters were chosen all in one go as "x vowels and y consonants".
- "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" has comedian Jimmy Carr as host and Jon Richardson and Sean Lock as permanent contestants. Susie Dent and Rachel Riley fill their normal roles. It uses similar rules to the s... | 31,058 | triviaqa-train |
Squaw Valley, the venue for the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, is in which US state? | In 2013, there were a total of 7,383 legislators in the 50 state legislative bodies. They earned from $0 annually (New Mexico) to $90,526 (California). There were various per diem and mileage compensation.
Governments Constitutions Judicial.
States can also organize their judicial systems differently from the federal j... | the 1960 Olympic Winter Games, Olympic Valley played host to the 1969 FIS World Cup alpine skiing races. It also hosted the US Alpine Championships in the years 2002, 2013 and 2014 and the US Freestyle Championships in 2009. The area also hosts non-skiing sporting events, including the Western States Endurance Run, whi... | 31,059 | triviaqa-train |
Nadgett, Elijah Pogram and Tom Pinch appear in which Dickens novel? | about him.
At this time Tom Pinch sees his employer's true character, goes to London to seek new employment, and rescues his sister Ruth from mistreatment by the family that employs her as a governess. Pinch quickly receives an ideal job from a mysterious employer with the help of an equally mysterious Mr Fips.
Young M... | disgruntled student falling out with Pecksniff. After Tom Pinch's flight to London John serves as a mentor and companion to both Tom and his sister. He falls in love with and eventually marries Ruth Pinch.
Mr Nadgett is a soft-spoken, mysterious individual who is Tom Pinch's landlord and serves as Montague's private in... | 31,060 | triviaqa-train |
In the early 1970s, Lynne Paul and Eve Graham were the lead singers in which group? | Eve Graham
Eve Graham (born Evelyn May Beatson; 19 April 1943) is a Scottish singer who found fame in the early 1970s with the pop group, The New Seekers.
Biography.
Graham began her career during the 1960s as a band singer with the Cyclones in Scotland and later with the Cyril Stapleton Band, based in London England. ... | .
Up to now, the group's biggest success had been as a five-piece harmony, but it was around this time that they began to favour lead singers for their songs with title credits given to Marty Kristian for "Come Softly to Me" and Eve Graham for "Nevertheless", but it was in late 1973 that this formula found its biggest ... | 31,061 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek mythology, who is the twin sister of Helenus? | Helenus
In Greek mythology, Helenus (; , "Helenos", ) was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, and the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra. He was also called Scamandrios. According to legend, Cassandra, having been given the power of prophecy by Apollo, taught it to her brother. Like Cassandra, he was ... | Helenus (disambiguation)
Helenus, Elenus, or Helenos (Ἕλενος) is a Greek name carried by various people:
- Helenus in Greek mythology, a Trojan soldier and prophet mentioned in the Iliad
- Helenus of Alexandria (painter), an ancient Greek painter
- Helenus of Alexandria (Cilicia), a bishop of Alexandria Scabiosa in Cil... | 31,062 | triviaqa-train |
Which group had a 1981 hit with 'Tainted Love'? | Tainted Love
"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964.
It attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by English synth-pop duo Soft Cell in 1981 and has since been covered by numerous groups and artists. B... | the title song, which was a hit in England.
"City of Spades" was adapted by Biyi Bandele as a radio play, directed by Toby Swift, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 April 2001.
"City of Spades" is the title of a song released by iampsyencefiction, an Oslo-based psychedelic folk group.
MacInnes occurs as a character in "Tai... | 31,063 | triviaqa-train |
In a TV advert, Mr T (from the programme 'The A-Team') takes a tank on to a football pitch to promote which brand? | United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand during 2007, advertising the chocolate bar Snickers with the slogan "Get Some Nuts!" One of these commercials, featuring Mr. T crashing through a wall on the back of a technical vehicle before firing Snickers bars at a speed walker wearing tight-fitting yellow shorts, ... | launched a campaign to provide a sports pavilion for its football team which plays in the Wensleydale Creamery League. After years of events and fundraising, the effort was still far short of its goal when the Mars confectionery company donated money to the final £125,000 needed to construct the pavilion. The building ... | 31,064 | triviaqa-train |
Who became the third wife of Paul McCartney in October 2011? | out concerts at the new Yankee Stadium. A "New York Times" review of the first concert reported that McCartney was "not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon concerts." McCartney was commissioned by the New York City Ballet, and in September 2011, he released his first score for dance, a collaboratio... | avail. In October 2008 an array of Milligan's personal effects was sold at auction by his third wife, Shelagh, who was moving into a smaller home. These included his vast legacy of books and memorabilia, and a grand piano salvaged from a demolition and apparently played every morning by Paul McCartney, a neighbour in R... | 31,065 | triviaqa-train |
In which Disney film do the fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather appear? | Flora, Fauna and Merryweather
Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather are the protagonists of Walt Disney's 1959 film "Sleeping Beauty". They are characterized as Princess Aurora's fairy godmothers, who appear at baby Aurora's christening to present their gifts to her, as well as her guardians and/or parents. The three were voi... | directing animators over the three good fairies: Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. Walt Disney urged for the fairies to be more homogeneous, which Thomas and Johnston objected to, with Thomas stating they "thought 'that's not going to be any fun'. So we started figuring the other way and worked on how we could develop the... | 31,066 | triviaqa-train |
Francesca Simon writes which series of books for young readers? | Francesca Simon
Francesca Isabella Simon (born February 23, 1955) is an American author who resides in London. She is most famous for writing the "Horrid Henry" series of children's books.
She is the daughter of screenwriter, director and playwright Mayo Simon.
Biography.
Simon was born in St Louis, Missouri, U.S. she ... | 28 2012; illustrated by Sarah Watts)
- "The Year of Shadows" (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Aug 27 2013; illustrated by Karl Kwasny)
- "Some Kind of Happiness" (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, May 17 2016)
- "Foxheart" (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Oct 4 2016; illustrated by Jaime Zol... | 31,067 | triviaqa-train |
Which car company produce a model called the 'Kangoo'? | . Citroen did the same in France, coming to cars in 1919; between them and other cheap cars in reply such as Renault's 10CV and Peugeot's 5CV, they produced 550,000 cars in 1925, and Mors, Hurtu, and others could not compete. Germany's first mass-manufactured car, the Opel 4PS "Laubfrosch" (Tree Frog), came off the lin... | Automobilwerk Eisenach
The Automobilwerk Eisenach (AWE) was an automobile manufacturer in Eisenach, Germany.
History.
History Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach.
Heinrich Ehrhardt founded the Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach (FFE) in Eisenach on 3 December 1896 as a stock company. Initially he produced bicycles and guns, but after two yea... | 31,068 | triviaqa-train |
Give either of the forenames of the artist LS Lowry. | L. S. Lowry
Laurence Stephen Lowry (; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist. Many of his drawings and paintings depict Pendlebury, Lancashire, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years, and also Salford and its surrounding areas.
Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial d... | the song ""The Night Will Always Win"" was used for the introduction for the video game "".
Reception.
Critics praised the album highly as it scored a rating of 82 on Metacritic, which indicates "universal acclaim." According to "The Daily Telegraph"s Helen Brown, Guy Garvey, very much in the vein of artist LS Lowry, "... | 31,069 | triviaqa-train |
Which team won the first Heineken Cup in 1996? | 2019 final. Leinster Rugby and Toulouse have both won the competition a record four times.
History.
History Heineken Cup.
History Heineken Cup 1995–1999.
The Heineken Cup was launched in the summer of 1995 on the initiative of the then Five Nations Committee to provide a new level of professional cross border competiti... | 1996–97 Heineken Cup
The 1996–97 Heineken Cup was the second edition of the Heineken Cup, an international competition for the top European rugby union clubs. Competing teams from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales and, for the first time, England and Scotland, were divided into four pools of five, with each team playing th... | 31,070 | triviaqa-train |
"Who in athletics was known as the ""Flying Housewife?" | Fanny Blankers-Koen
Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen (26 April 1918 – 25 January 2004) was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning her the nickname "the flying housewife", and was the m... | 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, also known as the IV Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, was an international indoor athletics event took place in Tehran, Iran, between 24 and 26 February. This was the second edition to be hosted in the country as the first cha... | 31,071 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the music for the 2002 film The Hours? | sufferer whose relentless anger is directly traceable to Mom's long-ago desertion of him. Somehow, despite the complexity of the film's structure, this all seems too simple-minded. Or should we perhaps say agenda driven? This ultimately proves insufficient to lend meaning to their lives or profundity to a grim and unin... | Open All Hours", and worked on the Dennis Potter serial "The Singing Detective" (1986), which included arranging and performing its accordion-based main theme. The Max Harris Group provided the music for the fourth series of "Round the Horne" (1968), and he wrote the theme tune in klezmer style for Radio 4's "The Attra... | 31,072 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the music for the 1993 film The Piano? | The Piano (soundtrack)
The Piano is the original soundtrack, on the Virgin Records label, of the 1993 Academy Award-winning film "The Piano". The original score was composed by Michael Nyman and is his twentieth album release. Despite being called a "soundtrack", this is a partial score re-recording, as Nyman himself a... | , who died in 1993 due to Crohn's disease. The documentary comes to a climax when it is discovered that Richard has also developed Crohn's.
Music.
Marc Shaiman provides a musical interlude with his performance of a song titled "Yes" which he wrote for his agent, Richard Kraft. The song pokes fun at Richard's inability ... | 31,073 | triviaqa-train |
Which year was National Service abolished in the UK? | Conscription in the United Kingdom
Conscription in the United Kingdom has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, the second from 1939 to 1960, with the last conscripted soldiers leaving the service in 1963. Known as Military Service from 1916 to 1920, the system of conscription from 1... | Enfield Primary Care NHS Trust
Enfield Primary Care NHS Trust was an English National Health Service Primary Care Trust (PCT) responsible for health care in Enfield, in North London which was abolished in April 2013.
It was co-terminous with Enfield Borough, having, like other London PCTs escaped reorganisation in the ... | 31,074 | triviaqa-train |
Which British Prime Minister's wife was a published poet? | . Until 2017, the last minority government was led by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for eight months after the February 1974 general election produced a hung parliament. In the October 1974 general election, the Labour Party gained 18 seats, giving Wilson a majority of three.
A hung parliament may also lead to th... | War I
- Herbert Asquith (poet) (1881–1947), the Prime Minister's second son, a poet
- Arthur Asquith (1883–1939), the Prime Minister's third son, brigadier-general
- Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960), the poet's wife, an author
- Violet Bonham Carter (1887–1969), elder daughter of H.H. Asquith by his first wife, politician a... | 31,075 | triviaqa-train |
Which politician faked his own death in Florida in 1974? | John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse (28 July 192514 April 1988) was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician and junior minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974.
More than twenty years after his death, it was publicly revealed that... | Raymond Grady Stansel
Raymond Grady Stansel Jr. was an American drug smuggler who faked his death in 1974 and lived in Australia for more than forty years.
Stansel was arrested in Florida in 1974 with 12-tons of marijuana. On the first day of his trial, his lawyer told the judge he had drowned in a diving accident in N... | 31,076 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did Elvis Presley get married? | four albums compiling old material during this period, most successfully "Elvis' Golden Records" (1958), which hit number three on the LP chart.
Life and career 1960–1967: Focus on films.
Life and career 1960–1967: Focus on films "Elvis Is Back".
Presley returned to the United States on March 2, 1960, and was honorably... | of the cotton crop. The Black court held the Jubilees, the white court a carnival, which survives to this day as the Memphis Carnival.
WDIA-AM.
A history teacher in the Memphis City schools for 42 years, Williams married and had two children while working as a teacher, disc jockey and impresario. He had a revue at the ... | 31,077 | triviaqa-train |
In which hospital was the first heart and lung transplant performed by Sir Magdi Yacoub? | he became a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital in 1973. From 1986 to 2006, he held the position of British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.
As a visiting professor to the University of Nigeria, Nsukk... | Magdi Yacoub
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub ( ; born 16 November 1935) is a Coptic Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon. He is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London.
He was involved in the restart of British heart transplantation in 1980 (there had been a moratorium following the series of three per... | 31,078 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the Chilean mine in Copiapo, Chile, where 33 miners were trapped in 2010? | successful rescue of 33 trapped miners in 2010. On 5 August 2010 the access tunnel collapsed at the San José copper and gold mine in the Atacama Desert near Copiapó in northern Chile, trapping 33 men below ground. A rescue effort organized by the Chilean government located the miners 17 days later. All 33 men were brou... | , 27 August 2010
- Rescue Timeline (Plans with Animations), CBS News, 4.5 minutes, 15 October 2010
- Elation As Trapped Chile Miners Found Alive, Sky News, 1 minute, 23 August 2010
The page cannot be found. The page may have been removed, had its name changed, or is just temporarily unavailable.* First of 33 Chilean Mi... | 31,079 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first host of the TV show Pets Win Prizes? | Pets Win Prizes
Pets Win Prizes was a game show, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and shown on Saturday nights on BBC 1 in the United Kingdom from 16 July 1994 to 3 August 1996. It was originally hosted by Danny Baker, but Dale Winton became the host at the start of the second series.
Format.
In the fir... | the show at the end of the first series, following a dispute with the BBC. He was replaced by Dale Winton, who had recently become a popular television personality through hosting the game show "Supermarket Sweep".
Reception.
The first series of "Pets Win Prizes" proved popular with audiences, even if it was heavily cr... | 31,080 | triviaqa-train |
Which vegetable has the Latin name brassica oleracea gemmifera? | Brassica oleracea
Brassica oleracea is a plant species that includes many common foods as cultivars, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, savoy, kohlrabi, and gai lan.
In its uncultivated form, it is called "wild cabbage,” and is native to coastal southern and western Europe... | Gai lan
Gai lan or kai-lan ("Brassica oleracea" var. "alboglabra") is the Cantonese name and jie lan is the Mandarin name for a vegetable that is also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale. It is a leaf vegetable with thick, flat, glossy blue-green leaves with thick stems, and flower heads similar to but much small... | 31,081 | triviaqa-train |
Where is Charles Darwin buried? | Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey
Honouring individuals with burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition.
History.
Henry III rebuilt Westminster Abbey in honour of the Royal Saint Edward the Confessor whose relics were placed in a shrine in the sanctuary and now lie in a burial vault beneat... | transported specimens. This issue is closely related to whether conditions around the burial sites were anoxic or had a moderate supply of oxygen. Anoxic conditions are generally thought the most favourable for fossilization, but imply that the animals could not have lived where they were buried.
In the 1970s and early... | 31,082 | triviaqa-train |
Where were the Bee Gees twins Maurice and Robin Gibb born? | form and perform again. Robin died in May 2012, aged 62, after a prolonged struggle with cancer and other health problems, leaving Barry as the only surviving member of the group.
History.
History 1955–1966: Music origins, Bee Gees formation and popularity in Australia.
Born in the Isle of Man during the 1940s, the bro... | died when the twins were five weeks old. The loss of his twin is said to have profoundly affected his writing.
- Dolla, American rapper, his twin sibling died during birth.
- Robin Gibb, British singer, Bee Gees member and fraternal twin brother of Maurice Gibb, who died in January 2003. Robin died in May 2012.
- Tom G... | 31,083 | triviaqa-train |
In which sea is the Great Barrier Reef? | Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately . The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space... | Impacts of ocean acidification on the Great Barrier Reef
Ocean acidification threatens the Great Barrier Reef by reducing the viability and strength of coral reefs. The Great Barrier Reef, considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world and a biodiversity hotspot, is located in Australia. Similar to other cora... | 31,084 | triviaqa-train |
In which ocean is the Gulf Stream? | ships sailing from the Caribbean to Spain. A summary of Ponce de León's voyage log, on April 22, 1513, noted, "A current such that, although they had great wind, they could not proceed forward, but backward and it seems that they were proceeding well; at the end it was known that the current was more powerful than the ... | Warm core ring
A warm core ring is a type of mesoscale eddy which breaks off from an ocean current, e.g. the Gulf Stream or the Kuroshio Current. The ring is an independent circulatory system of warm water which can persist for several months. The rest of this article will use the Gulf Stream by way of an example but t... | 31,085 | triviaqa-train |
Which fictional girls' school did Ronald Searle create? | Ronald Searle
Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series.
Biography.
Searle was born in Cambridge, E... | Fotherington-Tomas
Basil Fotherington-Tomas is a classic fictional character in a series of books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle starring the archetypal English prep school boy of the 1950s, Nigel Molesworth, who is the supposed author.
Nigel is a schoolboy at St Custard's, a fictional (and terrible) prep school... | 31,086 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of The Vicar of Dibley? | "A Very Dibley Christmas" screening between 25 December 2004 and 1 January 2005, and the two-part finale, "A Wholly Holy Happy Ending", which was broadcast during Christmas 2006 and New Year 2007.
The final 2006-2007 episode, in which Geraldine marries, was publicised as the "last-ever" episode, although there have be... | used by many white North Americans to exclude and mock the facial appearance of Chinese migrants.
After several campaigns by the Scottish Executive, more people in Scotland now acknowledge that this name is indirectly racist. However, the Broadcasting Standards Commission held in 2002, after a complaint about the BBC O... | 31,087 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the heroine in Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy? | . Larsson explained that one of his main recurring characters in the "Millennium" series, Lisbeth Salander, is actually fashioned on a grown-up Pippi Longstocking as he chose to sketch her. There are additional connections to Lindgren's literary work in the Larsson novels; for example, the other main character, Mikael ... | Millennium (miniseries)
Millennium is a Swedish six-part television miniseries based on the 2009 film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's series of the same name. The miniseries was produced by Yellow Bird in cooperation with several production companies, including SVT, Nordisk Film, Film i Väst and ZDF Enterprises, and was... | 31,088 | triviaqa-train |
What do the cities of Turku in Finland and Tallinn in Estonia have in common in 2011? | capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland was moved to Helsinki (1812), Turku continued to be the most populous city in Finland until the end of the 1840s, and it remains a regional capital and an important business and cultural center.
Because of its long history, it has been the site of many important events, and has ext... | and 12 companies. Past winners of the award have included Kofi Annan, Al Gore, and Michael Biddle.
International relations Twin towns and sister cities.
Gothenburg is twinned with:
- Oslo, Norway
- Aarhus, Denmark, 1946
- Chicago, United States
- Turku, Finland, 1946
- Shanghai, China
- Tallinn, Estonia
- St. Petersbur... | 31,089 | triviaqa-train |
What was the first full-length animated film? | By 1940, numerous anime artists' organizations had risen, including the Shin Mangaha Shudan and Shin Nippon Mangaka. The first feature-length animated film was "Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors" directed by Seo in 1944 with sponsorship by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The success of The Walt Disney Company's 1937 feature f... | named Mustafa. The time period is from 1927 to 1934. It shows what happened when Nursi decided to teach religion.
Production.
Motion capturing was used to animate the film. The actors' movements were digitized by having a device connected to the actors' bodies while moving. A group of people that was part of Samanyolu ... | 31,090 | triviaqa-train |
How many points are scored when you kick a goal in Gaelic football? | Episkyros") or "φαινίνδα" ("phaininda"), which is mentioned by a Greek playwright, Antiphanes (388–311 BC) and later referred to by the Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215 AD). These games appear to have resembled rugby football. The Roman politician Cicero (106–42 BC) describes the case of a man wh... | goal, the scoring team must kick the ball off to the other team.
A safety is scored when the ball carrier is tackled in their own end zone. Safeties are worth two points, which are awarded to the defense. In addition, the team that conceded the safety must kick the ball to the scoring team via a free kick.
Rules Field ... | 31,091 | triviaqa-train |
Which castle guards the main route through Purbeck Hills? | this band ends, at Durlston Head, the clay and chalk behind has been eroded, creating Poole Bay and the Solent. The ridge of steeply dipping chalk that forms the Purbeck Hills continues further east on the Isle of Wight.
The height of the chalk ridge and proximity to Poole Harbour and the south coast have made the hil... | service through the tunnel from 1873 until 1892, after which passengers journeyed instead via the new Castle Shannon Incline, while coal trains continued to use the old route through the tunnel. From 1909 the main passenger service became Pittsburgh Railways streetcars running from the Transit Tunnel into the Castle Sh... | 31,092 | triviaqa-train |
The Pyg and the Miners' tracks and the Watkin Path are routes up which mountain? | here anticlockwise, starting with the path leading from Llanberis. In winter conditions, all these routes become significantly more dangerous and the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team state that "additional skills, equipment and knowledge are required". Many inexperienced walkers have been killed over the years attempting... | 1993 the heartland of the forest has been accorded the special status of Forest Park. Promotion as an attraction has been an integral part of this designation.
The forest is very accessible by wide tracks, old miners' paths, and long-established forest walks, a number of which follow waymarked routes. This popularity h... | 31,093 | triviaqa-train |
How are Bob Ferris and Terry Collier known collectively? | Bob Ferris (Likely Lads)
Robert Andrew Scarborough Ferris is a fictional character in British sitcoms "The Likely Lads", "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" and "The Likely Lads" film played by Bingley-born actor Rodney Bewes. He is single in "The Likely Lads", marries Thelma Chambers in "Whatever Happened to the L... | in, only for Terry to discover his door wasn't locked, and suggest that Bob should be more careful.
Cast.
- Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris
- James Bolam as Terry Collier
- Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Ferris
- Mary Tamm as Christina
- Sheila Fearn as Audrey Collier
- Zena Walker as Laura
- Anulka Dziubinska as Dawn
- Alun Arms... | 31,094 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote The Iceman Cometh, and disowned his daughter for marrying Charlie Chaplin? | The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939. First published in 1946, the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947.
Characters.
- Harry H... | married, as Hearst's wife refused to give him a divorce. At one point, he reportedly came close to marrying Davies, but decided his wife's settlement demands were too high. Hearst was extremely jealous and possessive of her, even though he was married throughout their relationship. Lita Grey, the second wife of Charlie... | 31,095 | triviaqa-train |
Which protein is a major component of hair, skin, nails and tooth enamel? | the "dermis", which serves as a location for the appendages of skin;
Structure in humans and other mammals Epidermis.
The epidermis is composed of the outermost layers of the skin. It forms a protective barrier over the body's surface, responsible for keeping water in the body and preventing pathogens from entering, an... | Surface ectoderm
The surface ectoderm (or external ectoderm) forms the following structures:
- Skin (only epidermis; dermis is derived from mesoderm) (along with glands, hair, and nails)
- Epithelium of the mouth and nasal cavity and glands of the mouth and nasal cavity
- Tooth enamel (as a side note, dentin and dental... | 31,096 | triviaqa-train |
What type of creature is the Australian currawong? | is unknown but suggests differentiation in feeding technique.
Distribution and habitat.
Currawongs are protected in NSW under the "National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974".
Behaviour.
Currawongs are dominant birds that can drive off other species, especially when settling around an area used or inhabited by people. They h... | white-winged chough has similar plumage but has red eyes and is found mainly on the ground. Australian crow and raven species have white eyes and lack the white rump, and the similar-sized Australian magpie has red eyes and prominent black and white plumage. The larger grey currawong is readily distinguished by its lig... | 31,097 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of a novel by A J Cronin, a ballet by Kenneth Macmillan and has the Latin name cercis canadensis? | Dreams" (1991), inspired by Chekhov's "Three Sisters". Mukhamedov was the brutish male leading character in MacMillan's last ballet, "The Judas Tree" (1992).
MacMillan died from a heart attack backstage at the Royal Opera House during a performance of "Mayerling". Jeremy Isaacs, the general director of the Royal Opera ... | L'histoire de Manon
L'histoire de Manon, generally referred to as "Manon", is a ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to music by Jules Massenet and based on the 1731 novel "Manon Lescaut" by Abbé Prévost. The ballet was first performed by The Royal Ballet in London in 1974 with Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell... | 31,098 | triviaqa-train |
Running for 46 miles, which line of the London Underground has the longest track? | station) and Stockwell, under the roads to avoid the need for agreement with owners of property on the surface. This opened in 1890 with electric locomotives that hauled carriages with small opaque windows, nicknamed "padded cells". The Waterloo and City Railway opened in 1898, followed by the Central London Railway in... | -Platz. It was closed in 1970 for incorporation into an extension of line 7, which opened a few years later.
The Berlin subway network has around 146.2 kilometers of track and 173 underground stations. On the longest route with 32 kilometers runs the line U7. It is the longest rail track in Germany running completely ... | 31,099 | triviaqa-train |
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