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Who wrote the novel 'High Fidelity'? | High Fidelity (film)
High Fidelity is a 2000 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears. It stars John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, and Lisa Bonet. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the name... | the "Toronto Globe and Mail", and "The New York Times".
Lees wrote nearly one hundred liner notes for artists as diverse as Stan Getz, John Coltrane, George Barnes (musician), and Quincy Jones. His first novel "And Sleep Until Noon" was published in 1967. The second, "Song Lake Summer," was published in 2008.
Lees won ... | 33,000 | triviaqa-train |
The airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed on May 6th of which year? | until it was destroyed by fire 14 months later on May 6, 1937 while attempting to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey, at the end of the first North American transatlantic journey of its second season of service with the loss of 36 lives. This was the last of the great airship disaste... | 2012, investigated both the static spark theory and St. Elmo's Fire, as well as sabotage by bomb. The team, led by British aeronautical engineer Jem Stansfield and American airship historian Dan Grossman, concluded that the ignition took place above the hydrogen vent just forward of where Mark Heald saw St. Elmo's Fire... | 33,001 | triviaqa-train |
Which US singer has had albums called 'Daydream', 'Butterfly', 'Rainbow' and 'Glitter'? | Glitter (film)
Glitter is a 2001 American romantic musical drama film starring Mariah Carey, Deborah Ann Gitano, and rapper Da Brat, written by Kate Lanier, and directed by Vondie Curtis Hall. Set in 1982, Carey plays Billie Frank, an aspiring singer who, along with her friends Louise (Da Brat) and Roxanne (Tia Texada)... | Daydream" (1995)
- "Butterfly" (1997)
- "Rainbow" (1999)
- "Glitter" (2001)
- "Charmbracelet" (2002)
- "The Emancipation of Mimi" (2005)
- "E=MC²" (2008)
- "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" (2009)
- "Merry Christmas II You" (2010)
- "Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse" (2014)
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In which town has the statue 'Verity' by Damien Hirst been installed? | it at a Sotheby's auction, earning over £11 million. Some of the work had been adapted, e.g. by signing it prior to the auction.
Hirst is a co-owner of the seafood restaurant, 11 The Quay, in the English seaside town of Ilfracombe. In 2016, Damien Hirst designed the interiors of his new restaurant Pharmacy 2 at the New... | , The Quay" within which there are many Damien Hirst works, including "butterflies", "pharmacy", small statues and wallpaper designs. In October 2012 Damien Hirst loaned the statue, Verity, to the District Council, it is a controversial piece but stands guiding mariners into the safety of the harbour. The town is home ... | 33,003 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the poetry collection 'The Whitsun Weddings'? | The Whitsun Weddings (poem)
"The Whitsun Weddings" is one of the best known poems by British poet Philip Larkin. It was written and rewritten and finally published in the 1964 collection of poems, also called The Whitsun Weddings. It is one of three poems that Larkin wrote about train journeys.
The poem comprises eight... | to Grantham which inspires his poem "The Whitsun Weddings". His collection "The Less Deceived" is published in November (dated October).
- The Group, a British poetry movement, starts meeting in London with gatherings taking place once a week, on Friday evenings, at first at Philip Hobsbaum's flat and later at the hous... | 33,004 | triviaqa-train |
Adelaide, South Australia lies on which river? | Sellicks Beach in the south.
Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city centre and chose its location... | Birkenhead, South Australia
Birkenhead is a north-western suburb of Adelaide 14 km from the CBD, on the Lefevre Peninsula, in the state of South Australia, Australia, and lies within the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is adjacent to Peterhead, Exeter and Glanville. It is bounded to the south by the Gawler Reach of t... | 33,005 | triviaqa-train |
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks appears in the Guinness Book of Records as England's oldest pub, in which town or city is it? | Ye Olde Fighting Cocks
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is a public house in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. It is one of several pubs that lay claim to being the oldest in England. The building is described by Historic England as being of sixteenth-century appearance, but as the earliest date for which it can be proved to ha... | Tessa, during which the 1800-year-old hypocaust and its covering mosaic floor were discovered. The Hypocaust Mosaic is on view to the public and currently protected from the elements by a purpose-built building in the park. On the outskirts of the park is Verulamium Museum, which contains hundreds of archaeological obj... | 33,006 | triviaqa-train |
Who won an Oscar for her role as 'Mammy' in 'Gone With The Wind'? | it received ten Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary) from thirteen nominations, including wins for Best Picture, Best Director (Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay (posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard), Best Actress (Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, becoming the first African American t... | , McDaniel won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first black American to win an Oscar. She was the first black American to have been nominated. "I loved Mammy," McDaniel said when speaking to the white press about the character. "I think I understood her because my own grandmother worked on a plan... | 33,007 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote 'The Empire of The Sun'? | featuring a new exclusive Empire song, "On Our Way Home", starring the Ukrainian actress and model Alina Kovalenko.
Name.
Although the name of the project has been attributed to the 1984 novel of the same name by J. G. Ballard, Littlemore denied this and offers an explanation, saying, "the name comes more from the idea... | ; and Arnold Sagalyn, who signed on as assistant publisher. Stern and Fritchey were alumni of the New Orleans Item, Fritchey's next career stop after Cleveland. Fritchey had been the editor in New Orleans, Stern a reporter and editorial writer.
Others backers of the Sun included Gilbert Hahn, a Republican who was heir ... | 33,008 | triviaqa-train |
From which musical does the song 'If My Friends Could See Me Now' come? | If My Friends Could See Me Now
"If My Friends Could See Me Now", with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, is a song from the 1966 Broadway musical "Sweet Charity". In the musical the character of Charity, played in the original New York cast by Gwen Verdon, reflects on her marvellous luck as she spends ti... | Runaway Love (Linda Clifford song)
"Runaway Love" is a 1978 disco single by performed by Linda Clifford. The single was from Clifford's album, "If My Friends Could See Me Now", and along with the tracks "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and "Gypsy Lady" reached number one on the US dance chart for five weeks. The single... | 33,009 | triviaqa-train |
Which runner, who died in 2011, broke the world marathon record by 2 minutes at her first attempt, she won the New York marathon nine times and London twice? | five boroughs. With the support of Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, the men convinced Mayor Beame and, eventually, race director Fred Lebow. The race was a huge success, and what was intended as a one-time celebration, became the annual course.
Dick Traum became the first person to complete a marathon with a p... | Priscilla Welch
Priscilla June Welch (born 22 November 1944) is a British retired marathon runner. She twice broke the British record for the marathon, with 2:28:54 when finishing sixth at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and 2:26:51 when finishing second at the 1987 London Marathon. The latter time stood as the W40 World... | 33,010 | triviaqa-train |
Sephardic Jews were exiled from which country (Sepharad is the Hebrew name for that country)? | Lydian name is "Sfard" or "Sward".
Since the period of 2nd century Ancient Rome, Spanish Jews gave the name "Sepharad" to the Iberian peninsula. The descendants of Iberian Jews refer to themselves as Sephardi Jews (Hebrew, plural: "Sepharadim") and identify Spain as "Sepharad" in modern Hebrew.
Version comparisons.
- O... | spoken by the Sephardic Bnei Anusim of Iberia and Ibero-America, including some recent returnees to Judaism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In this latter case, these varieties have incorporated loanwords from the indigenous languages of the Americas introduced following the Spanish conquest.
Etymology.
The ... | 33,011 | triviaqa-train |
Wyatt's rebellion was raised to oppose a proposed marriage involving which monarch? | Wyatt's rebellion
Wyatt's Rebellion was a popular uprising in England in 1554, named after Thomas Wyatt, one of its leaders. The rebellion arose out of concern over Queen Mary I's determination to marry Philip of Spain, which was an unpopular policy with the English. Queen Mary's overthrow was implied in the rebellion,... | Petre was one of the councillors deputed to question Princess Elizabeth in the Tower on Wyatt's rebellion (during which Petre raised a small force for the Queen). He also helped to negotiate Mary's marriage.
The move was a wise one for a man so heavily weighted with Church property, and his adroitness quickly enabled h... | 33,012 | triviaqa-train |
Who resigned from the post of Home Secretary in 1972 because of his involvement with the architect John Poulson? | John Poulson
John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson (14 April 1910 – 31 January 1993) was a British architect and businessman who caused a major political scandal when his use of bribery was disclosed in 1972. The highest-ranking figure to be forced out was Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling. Poulson served a prison... | were causing considerable disquiet and speculation in the press. In 1966, he had obtained a directorship in the company of John Poulson, an architect Maudling helped obtain lucrative contracts. Poulson routinely did business through bribery and in 1972 was made bankrupt. The bankruptcy hearings disclosed his bribe paym... | 33,013 | triviaqa-train |
What was the alias used by Salman Rushdie during his period in hiding after his 1989 fatwa? It is also the title of his latest book. | from the "fatwa" and was suicidal, but Rushdie dismissed the book as a "bunch of lies" and took legal action against Evans, his co-author and their publisher. On 26 August 2008, Rushdie received an apology at the High Court in London from all three parties. A memoir of his years of hiding, "Joseph Anton", was released ... | founded a movement ("Tehrik Khatm-e-Nabuat") to have the Pakistan state declare the Zikris as non-Muslims, like the Ahmadis.
History After 1950 Salman Rushdie.
The case of Salman Rushdie provides an example of "takfir" that featured prominently in Western media. Rushdie went into hiding after Ayatollah Khomeini issued ... | 33,014 | triviaqa-train |
Minnesota borders which of the Great Lakes? | great depths, and distant horizons) the five Great Lakes have also long been referred to as "inland seas". Lake Superior is the second-largest lake in the world by area, and the largest freshwater lake by area. Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one country.
The Great Lakes began to form at the e... | no territory within the Great Lakes watershed, is included in this region:
Two states that border on the Great Lakes, New York and Pennsylvania are part of the Mid-Atlantic region. The remaining U.S. state that borders on the Great Lakes, Minnesota, is in the Midwest region. All of Canada, including Ontario, forms a si... | 33,015 | triviaqa-train |
Who created the detective 'Jack Frost'? | Jack Frost (detective)
Detective Inspector William Edward "Jack" Frost, GC QPM, is a fictional detective created by R. D. Wingfield—characterised as sloppy, untidy, hopeless with paperwork—but unmatched at solving mysteries. The character has appeared in two radio plays, ten published novels, and a TV series spanning 4... | A Touch of Cloth
A Touch of Cloth is a British television comedy police procedural series created and written by Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier. It is a parody of British detective and crime dramas, and stars John Hannah as title character Jack Cloth, a police detective with personal problems, and Suranne Jones as An... | 33,016 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name given to the part of Australia's Highway 1 which runs from Port Augusta, South Australia to Darwin? It is named after the first European to cross Australia from south to north. | Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin ( ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia, situated on the Timor Sea. It is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, with a population of 148,564. It is the smallest, wettest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the... | Port Wakefield Road
Port Wakefield Road is an important Australian highway. It connects Adelaide, the South Australian capital, to the Yorke Peninsula, Port Augusta, northern and western South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It is designated National Highway A1 and a part of the National Highwa... | 33,017 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first man to drive a car at over 200mph; he set his final land speed record in Golden Arrow in 1929. He died on Lake Windermere in 1930 in an attempt to break the water speed record? | quickly and has now separated from the Northern section of the club (based at Derwent water) and has taken the name Windermere Rowing Club. The club is small in comparison to the more established clubs in the country but is continually growing with the number of both members and boats constantly increasing.
Boating Spe... | Henry Segrave
Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave (22 September 1896 – 13 June 1930) was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the first person to travel at over in a land vehicle. He die... | 33,018 | triviaqa-train |
What kind of arcade machine might have flippers, bumpers and stand-up targets and be stopped by a 'tilt'? | promises to produce new machines, and in October 2010 transferred its Williams Electronics Games licenses as well as its pinball spare parts manufacturing and distribution business to Planetary Pinball Supply Inc, a California distributor of pinball replacement parts.
In 2006, Illinois pinball company PinBall Manufactu... | flippers, adjust the power of the slingshot and jet bumpers, the number of points for each target, balls per game, and alter or disable the tilt warnings. The game does not have the soundtrack of the original game and the dot-matrix animations are replaced with 3D renderings.
Hardcore Gaming 101 concludes about this ve... | 33,019 | triviaqa-train |
Which UK singer has had albums 'Spirit', 'Echo' and 'Glassheart' | reappeared at number 17 (nearly eight years after its original appearance on the charts).
The first number-one hit never released physically was "Run" by Leona Lewis, the 11th song in total to reach number one on downloads alone. Unlike the previous 10, it did not receive a physical release in subsequent weeks (althoug... | to debut at number one. Its first week sales represent a stark decline from "Spirit" (2007), which opened with 375,000 copies and the 161,000 copies that "Echo" (2009) sold in its first week On the UK Download Chart, "Glassheart" fared better, debuting at number two, having beaten "Babel", but losing out to Bugg's debu... | 33,020 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the Lagoon that lies between Chesil Beach and the mainland? | 800 yards, and some remains of this structure can still be seen today. The Royal Navy operated a minesweeping trials range off West Bexington for many years following World War II. It was abandoned in the mid-1980s. The cables came ashore under the beach at the West Bexington car park, and today the range control build... | Aitoliko was located with relation to the ancient towns of Pleuron and Oiniadai. The name of the town in the middle of the lagoon dates back to ancient times.
The old part of the town lies on an island between two lagoons; the Aitoliko Lagoon, which extends up to Stamna, lies to the north, and the Missolonghi Lagoon, w... | 33,021 | triviaqa-train |
At the end of October 2012, New York and the east coast of America were battered by which hurricane? | billion (2012 USD), Hurricane Sandy is the fourth most destructive tropical cyclone in U.S history. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest natural disaster in the United States, killing an estimated 6,000 to 12,000 people in Galveston, Texas. Hurricane Mitch caused more than 10,000 fatalities in Central Ameri... | 1896 East Coast hurricane
The 1896 East Coast hurricane was a slow-moving tropical cyclone that battered the East Coast of the United States from Florida to New England in mid-October 1896. The fifth tropical cyclone of the 1896 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed on October 7 in the southern Gulf of Mexico, and cause... | 33,022 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the 'Warsaw Concerto'? | Warsaw Concerto
The Warsaw Concerto is a short work for piano and orchestra by Richard Addinsell, written for the 1941 British film "Dangerous Moonlight", which is about the Polish struggle against the 1939 invasion by Nazi Germany. In performance it normally lasts just under ten minutes. The concerto is an example of ... | composed London Fantasia as a sequel to the Warsaw Concerto in 1944. The work had gained success during that time and appeared in both Piano-Orchestra and Piano solo version with the word description 'A musical picture of The Battle of Britain'.
- Spike Milligan repeatedly refers to the piece in his autobiography "" (1... | 33,023 | triviaqa-train |
Name the only boxer to have held world titles in eight different weight divisions? | George Foreman, Rocky Marciano, Julio César Chávez, Roberto Duran, Danny García, Wilfredo Gómez, Sonny Liston, John L. Sullivan, Max Baer, Prince Naseem Hamed, Ray Mancini, David Tua, Arturo Gatti, Micky Ward, Brandon Ríos, Ruslan Provodnikov, Michael Katsidis, James Kirkland, Marcos Maidana, Jake LaMotta, Manny Pacqui... | Ricky Burns
Ricky Burns (born 13 April 1983) is a British professional boxer from Coatbridge, Scotland. He is one of only three British boxers to have won world titles in three weight divisions and the first from Scotland, having held the WBO super-featherweight title from 2010 to 2011; the WBO lightweight title from 2... | 33,024 | triviaqa-train |
Who created the Yorkshire detectives 'Dalziel and Pascoe'? | Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series)
Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the novels of the same name, written by Reginald Hill. The series was first broadcast on 16 March 1996, with Warren Clarke being cast as Dalziel (pronounced "dee-ell") and Colin Buchanan being cast as Pascoe. The seri... | English. After National Service (1955–57) and reading English at St Catherine's College (1957–60), he worked as a teacher for many years, becoming a senior lecturer at Doncaster College of Education. In 1980 he retired from salaried work to devote himself full-time to writing.
Hill is best known for his more than 20 no... | 33,025 | triviaqa-train |
Who was known as 'The Million Dollar Mermaid'? | Million Dollar Mermaid
Million Dollar Mermaid (also known as The One Piece Bathing Suit in the UK) is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer biographical musical film of the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. from a screenplay by Everett Freeman. ... | as "Million Dollar Mermaid" and "Jupiter's Darling", contained elaborately staged synchronized swimming scenes, with considerable risk to Williams. She broke her neck filming a 115 ft dive off a tower during a climactic musical number for the film "Million Dollar Mermaid" and was in a body cast for seven months. She su... | 33,026 | triviaqa-train |
The car company Auto Union was formed in 1932 by the amalgamation of four manufacturers, by what name is it now known? | Father – "audiatur et altera pars"... wouldn't it be a good idea to call it "audi" instead of "horch"?" "Horch!" in German means "Hark!" or "hear", which is "Audi" in the singular imperative form of "audire" – "to listen" – in Latin. The idea was enthusiastically accepted by everyone attending the meeting. On 25 April ... | DKW F2
The DKW F2 was a small car produced at the company’s Zwickau plant by DKW (part of the Auto Union) between 1932 and 1935. Launched at the Berlin Motor Show in April 1932, it shared its 584cc engine and front wheel drive configuration with its predecessor, but came with a longer wheelbase and a larger body.
Know... | 33,027 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the play 'Private Lives'? | success and added, "I wish that Noel Coward would find time to write a short play for the gramophone, for neither of these extracts has enough completeness to bear indefinite repetition."
Literary analysis.
"Private Lives" has been the subject of literary analysis under a range of literary theories. Coward expressed a ... | the intimate comedies "Private Lives" (1930), in which Coward starred alongside Gertrude Lawrence, and "Design for Living" (1932). Coward said that after "Private Lives", he felt that the public enjoyed seeing him and Lawrence together on stage, and so he wrote the play cycle "Tonight at 8.30" as "acting, singing, and ... | 33,028 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of Hilary Mantel's book that won her a second Man Booker Prize? | Hilary Mantel
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, ( ; née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction.
She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel "Wolf Hall", a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in th... | in the United States in April 2015.
Awards and honours.
- 2012 Man Booker Prize, winner
- 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards "UK Author of the Year"
- 2012 Costa Book Awards (Novel), winner
- 2012 Costa Book Awards (Book of the Year), winner
- 2012 Salon What To Read Awards
- 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fi... | 33,029 | triviaqa-train |
Which astronomer coined the term 'Big Bang'? | Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. He also held controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term coined by him on BBC radio, and his promotion of pansp... | classified project—a new magnetic-influence torpedo exploder. This was badly needed since the Mark 14 torpedo, which had a poorly tested exploder that had its magnetic component turned off by order of the Chief of Naval Operations in late 1943, was badly in need of replacement (V.S. Alpher, The Submarine Review, Octobe... | 33,030 | triviaqa-train |
Which composer wrote a 'German Requiem'? | Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Jo... | op. 49). Afterwards, he devoted himself to working on choral pieces. Thus originated the Requiem in B minor (op. 50) and the Christmas Oratorio on Old-German poems (op. 53), possibly his most significant compositions. Wetz also wrote monographs about models Anton Bruckner (1922) and Franz Liszt (1925) as well as Ludwig... | 33,031 | triviaqa-train |
Three generations of which family have won Oscars? | nominated the most often, all 92 being for Film Scoring, Arrangement, or Original Song.
The Coppolas have the most nominated (9) and winning (7) members.
The Hustons were the first three generation family of winners. The others are the Coppolas and, technically, the Farrow/Previn/Allens.
There are only two instances of... | entry for the Oscars under the Best Foreign Language Film category. Huang won several Best Actor trophies for his performance in the film.
In 2017, Huang starred in the historical wuxia drama "Nirvana in Fire 2". The series was critically acclaimed for its storyline and performance, including Huang who won positive rev... | 33,032 | triviaqa-train |
In which constituency was Chris Huhne elected as MP in 2005? | form a government.
Electoral performance and standing in the polls Parliamentary by-elections (2010 onwards).
Since the 2010 general election, Clegg's Liberal Democrats have contested 13 by-elections in Great Britain (as of 2 March 2013). The party scored their first by-election win of Clegg's leadership at Eastleigh i... | Dundee West was formerly a safe seat for Labour. Its voters have traditionally been more loyal to the Labour Party than the neighbouring Dundee East constituency; which has elected only one Labour MP since the 1950s. Labour's majority was reduced in 2005 by the SNP candidate Joe Fitzpatrick despite changes to the bound... | 33,033 | triviaqa-train |
Which chemical element is named after an asteroid, now also classified as a dwarf planet? | ' symbol but with a break in the circle. It has a variant , reversed under the influence of the initial letter 'C' of 'Ceres'. These were later replaced with the generic asteroid symbol of a numbered disk, .
Cerium, a rare-earth element discovered in 1803, was named after Ceres. In the same year another element was als... | , a news update at Space.com spoke of "Pallas, the largest asteroid, and Ceres, the dwarf planet formerly classified as an asteroid", whereas an IAU question-and-answer posting states, "Ceres is (or now we can say it was) the largest asteroid", though it then speaks of "other asteroids" crossing Ceres' path and otherwi... | 33,034 | triviaqa-train |
Who is credited with inventing the bifocal lens? | Bifocals
Bifocals are eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers. Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia who also require a correction for myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism.
History.
Benjamin Franklin is generally credited with the invention of bifocals. Historians have produced some evidence t... | distance clearly, while the distance can be clearly viewed over the top of half-eye readers.
Lens types Bifocal.
A bifocal is a lens with two sections, separated by a line (see image to the right). Generally, the upper part of the lens is used for distance vision, while the lower segment is used for near vision. The ar... | 33,035 | triviaqa-train |
Where in North Carolina did the Wright Brothers first flight take place? | Wright Flyer
The Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer" I or 1903 "Flyer) was the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft. It was designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hills, about south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Today... | , as head of the Church of God of Prophecy, returned to the area to memorialize the place where he said God had revealed to him the true church in 1903—he having realized that in the same year he had founded the Church in the extreme southwestern county of North Carolina, the Wright Brothers had made their first succes... | 33,036 | triviaqa-train |
St Aidan's, John Snow and Ustinov are colleges at which University? | Colleges of Durham University
The Colleges of Durham University are residential colleges which are the primary source of accommodation and support services for undergraduates and postgraduates at Durham University, as well as providing bursaries and scholarships to students. They also provide funding and/or accommodati... | to college as indicated in the list below, but there is no particular significance to the variation. The heads of the maintained colleges are also part-time members of an academic department.
- Principal: Collingwood College, John Snow College, Josephine Butler College, St Aidan's College, St Chad's College, St Cuthber... | 33,037 | triviaqa-train |
'Lungs' is the 2009 debut album by which indie rock band? | , Mark Saunders (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Tom Monger (harp). In the past, Welch has praised her band for understanding her creative process, claiming, "I've worked with most of them for a long time and they know my style, know the way I write, they know what I want."
In 2007, Welch recorded with a band named... | In China, clouds are symbols of luck and happiness. Overlapping clouds are thought to imply eternal happiness and clouds of different colors are said to indicate "multiplied blessings".
See also.
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) (in the US)
- Bioprecipitation
- Cloud albedo
- Cloud Appreciation Society
- Cloud... | 33,038 | triviaqa-train |
Which American author, born in Des Moines, Iowa, was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011? | Bill Bryson
William McGuire Bryson (; born 8 December 1951) is an American-British author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the United States between 1995 and 2003, and ho... | Charles E. Silberman
Charles Eliot Silberman (January 31, 1925 – February 5, 2011) was an American journalist and author.
Silberman was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After war service in the Pacific, he gained a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University in 1946 and also undertook graduate studies at Columbia. Subsequently... | 33,039 | triviaqa-train |
Which US novelist wrote 'Big Sur'? | Big Sur (novel)
Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac. It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The novel departs from Kerouac's ... | help support Johnson's show at the Jockey Club del Perú, and in select stores in the US. The EP contains a live track of "My Mind Is for Sale", "I Wrote Mr. Tambourine Man", "Sunsets for Somebody Else", "Mudfootball", and "You Can't Control It". Johnson announced that his next single from the album would be "Big Sur" w... | 33,040 | triviaqa-train |
Which Argentinean motor-racing driver was World Champion a record five times during the 1950's? | Farina in his Alfa Romeo in , narrowly defeating his Argentine teammate Juan Manuel Fangio. However, Fangio won the title in , , , , and (His record of five World Championship titles stood for 45 years until German driver Michael Schumacher took his sixth title in 2003), his streak interrupted (after an injury) by two-... | Artis Rasmanis
Artis Rasmanis (born 1971) is a retired Latvian sidecarcross passenger and five times World Champion.
Rasmanis was part of the most successful partnership in sidecarcross world championship history, winning five titles with his driver Kristers Serģis. He retired from international sidecar competition aft... | 33,041 | triviaqa-train |
Of which state of the USA is Dover the capital? | Dover, Delaware
Dover () is the capital and second-largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is also the county seat of Kent County, and the principal city of the Dover, DE Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD Combined St... | volunteer fire department which has served the city since 1882 and operates two stations in Dover. Station 1 is the department's headquarters and houses Engines 4, 6, and 7; Ladder 2; Rescue 1; Brush 9; and Marine 1. The Dover Fire Department Museum is also located at the headquarters. Station 2 houses Engines 2 and 3;... | 33,042 | triviaqa-train |
Which Jewish religious movement was founded by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov? | Baal Shem Tov
Israel ben Eliezer (born circa 1698, died 21 May 1760), known as the Baal Shem Tov (, ) or as the BeShT, was a Jewish mystical rabbi from Poland, who is regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism. "Besht" is the acronym for Baal Shem Tov, which means "Master of the Good Name" or "one with a good reputatio... | Shem Tov"", Faber, 1982
External links.
- The Baal Shem Tov Foundation
- Brief biography
- Tzava’at Harivash — The Testament of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov translated to English
- Baal Shem Tov minisite on chabad.org
- Map of the Baal Shem Tov and his disciple’s travels from Routledge Publishing
- Thirty Six Aphorisms o... | 33,043 | triviaqa-train |
"Which avant-garde US composer wrote the piece 4'33""?" | Harry Partch, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Richard Strauss (in his earliest work), Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse, and Iannis Xenakis. Although most avant-garde composers have been men, this is not exclusively the case. Women avant-gardists include Pauline Oliveros, Diamanda Galás, Meredith Monk, and Laurie Anderso... | Christian McLeer
Christian McLeer, an American composer is a graduate of the Juilliard Conservatory Pre-College, and Manhattan School of Music. At the age of fourteen he received his first major commission for the American Cancer Society for which he wrote and performed "Hope" in concert. Since then, he has composed a ... | 33,044 | triviaqa-train |
Which king of England married Isabella of France? | Dynastically, all English monarchs after 1066 ultimately claim descent from the Normans; the distinction of the Plantagenets is merely conventional, beginning with Henry II (reigned 1154–1189) as from that time, the Angevin kings became "more English in nature"; the houses of Lancaster and York are both Plantagenet cad... | Isabella of Valois
Isabella of France (9 November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was Queen consort of England as the second spouse of King Richard II. Her parents were King Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. She married the king at the age of six and was widowed three years later. She later married Charles, Duke o... | 33,045 | triviaqa-train |
Of which Caribbean country is Castries the capital? | Castries is the birthplace of Arthur Lewis, winner of the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, as well as of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature.
History.
In 1650, the fort "aupres du Petit Cul-de-Sac et de la riviere du Carénage" was founded by a group of 40 Frenchmen led by de Rousselan, w... | Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS; French: "Organisation des États de la Caraïbe orientale", OECO) is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good gove... | 33,046 | triviaqa-train |
What was Capability Brown's first name? | Capability Brown
Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th-century artists to be accorded his due" and "England's greatest gardener".
He d... | name and shame religious schools which discriminate based on sexual orientation on their web site. Although sometimes failing to block Green legislation, Hood has provided opposition rigor necessary to challenge status quo, including public consultation. The Greens however, sometimes work cooperatively with Family Firs... | 33,047 | triviaqa-train |
How is milk sugar otherwise known? | , to form micelles with trapped calcium phosphate nanoclusters.
Some sources indicate that the trapped calcium phosphate is in the form of Ca9(PO4)6;
whereas, others say it is similar to the structure of the mineral brushite CaHPO4 -2H2O.
Physical and chemical properties Sugars and carbohydrates.
Milk contains several ... | Shauna Garr
Shauna Garr is an American producer and entertainment executive in Hollywood. She is best known for producing the film franchise "How High" and "How High 2" with Universal Pictures.
Biography.
Garr was born in Los Angeles. She is best known for producing the film franchise "How High" and "How High 2" with U... | 33,048 | triviaqa-train |
Which incompetent police force featured in the silent film comedies produced by Mack Sennett? | Keystone Cops
The Keystone Cops (often spelled "Keystone Kops") were fictional, humorously incompetent policemen, featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.
History.
The idea for the Keystone Cops came from Hank Mann, who also played police c... | Keystone Hotel (film)
Keystone Hotel (1935) is a two-reel comedy short subject, directed by Ralph Staub and released by the Vitaphone Corporation through Warner Bros. Pictures. Inspired by the silent comedies produced by Mack Sennett, the film reunites many of Sennett's former stars.
Plot.
The story follows the cross-e... | 33,049 | triviaqa-train |
According to Greek legend, who was the father of Telemachus? | or "Olytteus" (). Probably from an early source from Magna Graecia dates the form "Oulixēs" (), while a later grammarian has "Oulixeus" (). In Latin the figure was known as ' or (considered less correct) '. Some have supposed that "there may originally have been two separate figures, one called something like Odysseus,... | of Triphylia.
- Clytius, each of the three namesakes among the suitors of Penelope: one from Dulichium, another from Same, and the third from Zacynthus.
- Clytius, an attendant of Telemachus in Homer's "Odyssey", the father of Telemachus' friend Peiraeus. Dolops, a Greek warrior killed by Hector in the "Iliad", could a... | 33,050 | triviaqa-train |
Which Swiss resort is famous for its Cresta Run? | was enforced until December 2018, dates from the late 1920s and was instituted because of injuries to female racers and the belief, although never proven, that excessive sledding caused breast cancer. It took official effect in 1929, though women had been banned from competitive events several years earlier. In late 20... | both resorts.
The official language of Arosa is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
The resort is known throughout Switzerland for its famous ice hockey team, the EHC Arosa which used to be one of the most successful teams in t... | 33,051 | triviaqa-train |
Which British novelist wrote 'Brideshead Revisited'? | Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, including his friendship with the Flytes, a family ... | Paradise Postponed
Paradise Postponed (1986) is a British 11-episode TV serial based on a novel by writer John Mortimer. He had adapted "Brideshead Revisited" as a television series and wrote "Rumpole of the Bailey." The series covered a span of 30 years of postwar British history, set in a small village.
Plot.
The ser... | 33,052 | triviaqa-train |
What is the largest lake in the British Isles? | separate continental landmass. The topography of the islands is modest in scale by global standards. Ben Nevis rises to an elevation of only , and Lough Neagh, which is notably larger than other lakes in the island group, covers . The climate is temperate marine, with mild winters and warm summers. The North Atlantic d... | codes for the various classifications of mountains and hills in the British Isles, which many of the above peaks also fall into:
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See also.
- Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
- List of hill passes of the Lake District
- "The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"
- List of Birketts in the Lak... | 33,053 | triviaqa-train |
Which British scientist discovered benzene? | , or benzene. Michael Faraday first isolated and identified benzene in 1825 from the oily residue derived from the production of illuminating gas, giving it the name "bicarburet of hydrogen". In 1833, Eilhard Mitscherlich produced it by distilling benzoic acid (from gum benzoin) and lime. He gave the compound the name ... | dreams Descartes' new science.
Descartes claimed that the dreams that he had on November 10, 1619, revealed to him the basis of a new philosophy, the scientific method.
Notable dreams Benzene.
The scientist Friedrich August Kekulé discovered the seemingly impossible chemical structure of benzene (CH) when he had a drea... | 33,054 | triviaqa-train |
Which British novelist wrote 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'? | The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.
The novel is set during the Reign of Terror following the start ... | The Scarlet Pimpernel?"" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."
Publications Sequels.
Orczy wrote ... | 33,055 | triviaqa-train |
Which Armenian composer wrote the ballets Gayaneh and Spartacus? | Spartacus (ballet)
Spartacus () is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War, although the ballet's storyline takes considerable liberties with the historical record. Khachaturian composed Spa... | to prominence during this era, including one of Khrushchev's friends, Mikoyan, who was the older brother of the designer and co-founder of the Soviet MiG fighter jet company, Artem Mikoyan. Other famed Soviet Armenians included composer Aram Khachaturyan, who wrote the ballets "Spartacus" and "Gayane" that featured the... | 33,056 | triviaqa-train |
Of which country is the Glomma the longest river? | Glomma
The Glomma, or Glåma, is Norway's longest and most voluminous river. With a total length of , it has a drainage basin that covers fully 13% of Norway's surface area, all in the southern part of the country.
Geography.
At its fullest length, the river runs from the lake Aursund near Røros in Trøndelag and runs in... | also decided to cross Glomma at Haugsfoss, discarding a military preference of a more southerly crossing of the river.
Construction began on 20 January 1908 and was led by J. T. Mæhre. There were similar good building conditions, allowing for rapid construction. The line's only tunnel was built, as were six bridges. Th... | 33,057 | triviaqa-train |
The characters Dame Caruthers and Jack Point appear in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera? | universe of "Judge Dredd", "simping" is slang for dressing like a fool or simpleton. It is also a play on The Singing Detective. The name 'Jack Point' itself comes from the character of the same name from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "The Yeomen of the Guard", who is a wandering jester.
Fictional character biography.... | a new comic opera composed expressly for this theatre by Mr. Arthur Sullivan, in which Madame Dolaro and Nelly Bromley will appear." Reginald Allen and other writers took this as an advertisement for "Trial by Jury". However, as George McElroy noted, the advertisement does not mention a librettist, a peculiar omission ... | 33,058 | triviaqa-train |
In 2013 the drinks brands Lucozade and Ribena were bought by which Japanese company? | Lucozade
Lucozade is a soft drink manufactured by the Japanese company Suntory and marketed as a range of sports and energy drinks. Created as "Glucozade" in the UK in 1927 by a Newcastle pharmacist, William Walker Hunter (trading as W. Owen & Son), it was acquired by the British pharmaceutical company Beecham's in 193... | by the Australian Consumers' Association for "Choice" magazine in January 2007 reported that blackcurrant juice (from concentrate) only constituted 5% of the Ribena Fruit Drink product.
By 2013, the brand had annual worldwide sales of about £500 million, and was considered to be similar to other soft drinks. and GSK pu... | 33,059 | triviaqa-train |
Who, in 2013, became King of Belgium on the abdication of his father King Albert II? | ), with whom he had three children. Albert's elder son, Philippe, is the current King of the Belgians.
On 3 July 2013, King Albert II attended a midday session of the Belgian cabinet. He then announced that, on 21 July, Belgian National Day, he would abdicate the throne for health reasons. He was succeeded by his son P... | 21 July 2013 – present: "His Majesty" King Albert II of Belgium
After his abdication on 21 July 2013 it was decided that he would be styled as "His Majesty" King Albert II, the same form of address granted to his father, Leopold III, after his abdication.
Titles, styles, honours and arms Honours.
Titles, styles, honour... | 33,060 | triviaqa-train |
Who, in 2013, became King of the Netherlands on the abdication of his mother Queen Beatrix? | characterised by an effort to achieve broad consensus on important issues, within both the political community and society as a whole. In 2017, "The Economist" ranked the Netherlands as the 11th most democratic country in the world.
The monarch is the head of state, at present King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. ... | Beatrix of the Netherlands
Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, ; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch Royal House who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication on 30 April 2013.
Beatrix is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biester... | 33,061 | triviaqa-train |
Which company bought Cadbury's in 2012? | Cadbury
Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company wholly owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010. It is the second largest confectionery brand in the world after Mars. Cadbury is internationally headquartered in Uxbridge, west London,... | stepped down from Hillsdown Holdings, selling 50% of his shares and became a non executive director. In April 1989 he sold all of his shares.
In 1986, it bought various food businesses from Beechams and in 1990 it acquired Premier Brands, the MBO led by Paul Judge of Cadbury Schweppes' Foods and Other Products division... | 33,062 | triviaqa-train |
The characters Mad Margaret and Robin Oakapple appear in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera? | Ruddigore
Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, originally called Ruddygore, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan. It was first performed by the D'Oyly Carte Op... | still manages to give the gist even of the latter." Lytton was knighted in 1930, the only person to receive the accolade for achievements as a Gilbert and Sullivan performer.
In 1931, Lytton was injured in a car accident in which D'Oyly Carte principal contralto Bertha Lewis was killed; Lytton was the driver. Martyn Gr... | 33,063 | triviaqa-train |
Who painted 'The Adoration of the Magi' and 'The Last Supper'? | major theme is the farewell of Jesus to his disciples, in which Judas Iscariot is no longer present, having left the supper. The depictions here are generally melancholy, as Jesus prepares his disciples for his departure. There are also other, less frequently depicted scenes, such as the washing of the feet of the disc... | " (1614–1618) in the Palazzo Pitti and in the Cloister of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata; a "Madonna and child with St Francis" altarpiece for the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence; and an "Adoration of the Magi" (1607) for the Church of Sant'Andrea in Montevarchi. He painted a "Crucifixion" (1613) n... | 33,064 | triviaqa-train |
Who, between 1032 and 1048, became the only man to become Pope more than once and also the only one to sell the papacy? (name only required) | Pope
The pope ( from "pappas", "father"), also known as the supreme pontiff (from Latin "pontifex maximus" "greatest priest"), is the bishop of Rome and "ex officio" leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. Since 1929, the pope has also been head of state of Vatican City, a city-state enclaved within Rome, Italy. The c... | History of the papacy (1048–1257)
The history of the papacy from 1048 to 1257 was marked by conflict between popes and the Holy Roman Emperor, most prominently the Investiture Controversy, a dispute over who— pope or emperor— could appoint bishops within the Empire. Henry IV's Walk to Canossa in 1077 to meet Pope Grego... | 33,065 | triviaqa-train |
How many carbon atoms make up a benzene molecule? | Aromatic hydrocarbon
An aromatic hydrocarbon or arene (or sometimes aryl hydrocarbon) is a hydrocarbon with sigma bonds and delocalized pi electrons between carbon atoms forming a circle. In contrast, aliphatic hydrocarbons lack this delocalization. The term "aromatic" was assigned before the physical mechanism determi... | spoke of the creation of the theory. He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail (this is a common symbol in many ancient cultures known as the Ouroboros or Endless knot). This vision, he said, came to him after years of study... | 33,066 | triviaqa-train |
How many hydrogen atoms make up a methane molecule? | Atom
An atom is the smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter that has the properties of a chemical element. Every solid, liquid, gas, and plasma is composed of neutral or ionized atoms. Atoms are extremely small; typical sizes are around 100 picometers (, a ten-millionth of a millimeter, or 1/254,000,000 of an inch... | occurs as an intermediate species in chemical reactions.
The methanium ion is named after methane (), by analogy with the derivation of ammonium ion () from ammonia ().
Structure.
Methanium can be visualised as a carbenium ion with a molecule of hydrogen interacting with the empty orbital in a 3-center-2-electron bond.... | 33,067 | triviaqa-train |
The last Pope prior to Benedict 16th to resign did so in 1415, what was his name? (name only required) | .
History Nicaea to East-West Schism (325–1054) Middle Ages.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the pope served as a source of authority and continuity. Pope Gregory I ("c" 540–604) administered the church with strict reform. From an ancient senatorial family, Gregory worked with the stern judgement and discip... | Cossa, who had succeeded Philarghi as the Pisan papal contender in 1410 and had assumed the name John XXIII, both agreed to resign. Benedict, on the other hand, refused to stand down.
Finally, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg organised a European summit in Perpignan, to convince Benedict to resign his office ... | 33,068 | triviaqa-train |
Which singer released the album 'Closer to the Truth' in 2013, twelve years after her previous album 'Living Proof? | Closer to the Truth
Closer to the Truth is the twenty-fifth studio album by American singer and actress Cher. It was released on September 20, 2013 by Warner Bros. Records. Opting to re-establish her music career, she began planning the project in 2011, shortly after her appearance in the movie "Burlesque" and the conc... | lead single of her twenty-fifth studio album "Closer to the Truth" which is released three months later.
- 25 — Stone Gossard released his first solo album in twelve years, "Moonlander"
Notable events July.
- 4 – Jay Z released his first solo studio album in four years, "Magna Carta Holy Grail", which sold over 550,000... | 33,069 | triviaqa-train |
Which country re-united in 1990? | by the then existing provision of article 23 of the West German Basic Law.
In the wake of that resolution of accession, the "German reunification treaty", commonly known in German as "" (Unification Treaty) or "" (Reunification Treaty), that had been negotiated between the two German states since 2 July 1990, was signe... | Asia and Africa for the first time, losing a friendly 2–0 to Mexico at home.
History Reunification of the North and South.
History Reunification of the North and South 1990s.
In the 1990, the North and South of Yemen re-united which prompted what is now the national team of Yemen to be merged from North Yemen. Their fi... | 33,070 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the novel 'The White Queen', on which the BBC TV series is based? | The White Queen (novel)
The White Queen is a 2009 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, the first of her series "The Cousins' War". It tells the story of Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of King Edward IV of England. The 2013 BBC One television series "The White Queen" is a 10-part adaptation of Gregory's novels "The... | Survivors (2008 TV series)
Survivors is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, the series is not a remake of the 1970s BBC te... | 33,071 | triviaqa-train |
Who released an album in 2013 called simply 'New'? | in the US. Instead of touring, Daltrey, Townshend and Moon did a series of promotional television interviews, and Entwistle worked on the soundtrack for "The Kids Are Alright".
On 6 September, Moon attended a party held by Paul McCartney to celebrate Buddy Holly's birthday. Returning to his flat, Moon took 32 tablets o... | .
Burdon, at 71, recorded an E.P. with Cincinnati garage band the Greenhornes called, simply, "Eric Burdon & the Greenhornes". The album was recorded at an all-analogue recording studio, and released on 23 November 2012 as part of Record Store Day's "Black Friday."
In 2013, Eric Burdon came out with a new album called,... | 33,072 | triviaqa-train |
Who became Prime Minister of Australia in September 2013? | Tony Abbott
Anthony John Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is an Australian politician who served as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 2009 to 2015. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2009 to 2013. Abbott served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warringah fro... | in as a Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister on 18 September 2013, with particular responsibility for the government's deregulation agenda. On 23 December 2014, Frydenberg was sworn in as Assistant Treasurer in a ministerial reshuffle and replaced Arthur Sinodinos, who resigned due to delays in an ICAC inquiry... | 33,073 | triviaqa-train |
Portia Simpson-Miller was sworn in as Prime Minister of which country in January 2012? | Portia Simpson-Miller
Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, (born 12 December 1945), is a Jamaican politician. She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2005 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. She was the leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and the Leader of the Oppo... | 21. On January 5, 2012, Portia Simpson-Miller was sworn in as Prime Minister for the second time in her political career. On the following day, she assigned 20 cabinet ministers to various ministries, and eight state ministers.
Political positions.
The party is a member of the Socialist International.
List of party pre... | 33,074 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the boat that included Ben Ainslie in its crew that came from 8-1 down to win the America's Cup 9-8? | races, with the Golden Gate Yacht Club staging an improbable come-from-behind victory, winning eight straight races to defend the cup and beat New Zealand 9–8.
Oracle Team USA was defending the America's Cup 26 May – 27 June 2017 on behalf of the Golden Gate Yacht Club in Bermuda where racing took place on the Great So... | changes for the America's Cup to the boat specifications that meant the team had no chance of winning.
In January 2012, Ben Ainslie announced the foundation of a new team to complete in the 2017 America's Cup, called Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR).
Team Origin Events is still involved in running the America's Cup World Ser... | 33,075 | triviaqa-train |
Which Greek hero was husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laertes and Anticlea? | or "Olytteus" (). Probably from an early source from Magna Graecia dates the form "Oulixēs" (), while a later grammarian has "Oulixeus" (). In Latin the figure was known as ' or (considered less correct) '. Some have supposed that "there may originally have been two separate figures, one called something like Odysseus,... | .
Cast.
- Silvana Mangano as Circe/Penelope
- Kirk Douglas as Ulysses
- Anthony Quinn as Antinous
- Rossana Podestà as Nausicaa
- Jacques Dumesnil as Alcinous
- Daniel Ivernel as Eurylochus, 2nd in command on Ulysses' ship
- Sylvie as Eurycleia, Lady-in-waiting of Penelope
- Franco Interlenghi as Telemachus
- Elena Zar... | 33,076 | triviaqa-train |
Which US state was the title of a no. 1 hit for the Bee Gees in 1967? | No. 1 single "Massachusetts" (a No. 11 US hit) and the No. 7 UK single "World." The sound of the album "Horizontal" had a more "rock" sound than their previous release, although ballads like "And the Sun Will Shine" and "Really and Sincerely" were also prominent. The "Horizontal" album reached No. 12 in the US and No. ... | and the Top 30 in the US, where it was certified Gold.
A year later, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers recorded the Bee Gees-penned track "Islands in the Stream", which became a US No. 1 hit and entered the Top 10 in the UK. Rogers' 1983 album, "Eyes That See in the Dark", was written entirely by the Bee Gees and co-produc... | 33,077 | triviaqa-train |
Which US state was the title of a no. 1 hit for Pussycat in 1976? | America, New France, New Spain including Spanish Florida, and Russian America) became institutionalized as the borders of U.S. states. In the West, relatively arbitrary straight lines following latitude and longitude often prevail, due to the sparseness of settlement west of the Mississippi River.
Once established, mos... | album "The Lady Killer" on the song "Love Gun". The following year, she was featured on LMFAO's international hit "Party Rock Anthem", which sold over 5,000,000 digital downloads in the United States and reached No. 1 in the United States for six weeks, becoming Bennett's first number one single on the US "Billboard" H... | 33,078 | triviaqa-train |
Which Greek hero was the son of the nymph Thetis, and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons? | in the war which also led to the birth of their child Achilles.
As goddess.
Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece. The pre-modern etymology of h... | dies in exile; in another, he is reunited with Thetis and made immortal.
In antiquity, according to a fragment of Callimachus' lost "Aitia", there was a tomb of Peleus in Ikos (modern Alonissos), an island of the northern Sporades; there Peleus was venerated as "king of the Myrmidons" and the "return of the hero" was c... | 33,079 | triviaqa-train |
Which year saw the opening of the Thames flood barrier, the launch of the Hubble telescope and Indira Ghandi's assassination? | mirror's final shape would be correct and to specification when finally deployed. Mirror polishing continued until May 1981. NASA reports at the time questioned Perkin-Elmer's managerial structure, and the polishing began to slip behind schedule and over budget. To save money, NASA halted work on the back-up mirror and... | International Designator
The International Designator, also known as COSPAR designation, and in the United States as NSSDC ID, is an international naming convention for satellites. It consists of the launch year, a three-digit incrementing launch number of that year and up to a three-letter code representing the sequen... | 33,080 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1914 battle was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force, delaying the German advance? | November 1914. By the end of 1914—after the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, the Aisne and Ypres—the old Regular Army had been wiped out, although it managed to help stop the German advance. An alternative endpoint of the BEF was 26 December 1914, when it was divided into the First and Second Armies (a Third, Fourth and Fif... | troops, such as Whyteshaete becoming "White Sheet" and Ploegsteert becoming "Plug Street".
Ypres was one of the sites that hosted an unofficial Christmas Truce in 1914 between German and British soldiers.
During World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) would fight the Germans in a delaying action at the ... | 33,081 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the Greenpeace ship involved in protests at the Gazprom oilrig in the Pechora Sea in September 2013? | there are no safety plans in place to prevent oil spills.
In August 2012, Greenpeace had staged protests against the Prirazlomnaya oil platform, the world's first off-shore Arctic drill site. On 18 September 2013, the Greenpeace vessel "MV Arctic Sunrise" staged a protest and attempted to board Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya ... | in September, 2013, Greenpeace staged a confrontation with the Russian Coast Guard in which Greenpeace activists approached and attempted to scale a Gasprom drilling platform
References.
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Salve Dahle (2004) "Benthic fauna in the Pechora Sea". In: Oslo Database. Norwegian Polar Institute; Pola... | 33,082 | triviaqa-train |
Who invented the pneumatic tyre in 1887? | into production. The first practical pneumatic tire was made in 1888 on May Street, Belfast, by Scots-born John Boyd Dunlop, owner of one of Ireland's most prosperous veterinary practices. It was an effort to prevent the headaches of his 10-year-old son Johnnie, while riding his tricycle on rough pavements. His doctor,... | Winchester Special
Winchester Special is an album by vibraphonist Lem Winchester with saxophonist Benny Golson recorded in 1959 and released on the New Jazz label.
Reception.
Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "The music falls between bop and hard bop with consistently swinging solos that are generally fairly inventive. ... | 33,083 | triviaqa-train |
Who invented the disc brake in 1902? | rotating shaft.
Design.
Development of disc-type brakes began in England in the 1890s. In 1902, the Lanchester Motor Company designed brakes that looked and operated in a similar way to a modern disc-brake system even though the disc was thin and a cable activated the brake pad. Other designs were not practical or wide... | Brake lining
Brake linings are the consumable surfaces in brake systems, such as drum brakes and disc brakes used in transport vehicles.
History.
Brake linings were invented by Bertha Benz (the wife of Karl Benz who invented the first patented automobile) during her historic first long-distance car trip in the world in... | 33,084 | triviaqa-train |
At which venue did Civil Service FC lose an amateur league match 2-1 to Polytechnic FC early in the 2013-14 season? | to a ground near Chiswick railway station in 1906.
v Civil Service FC at Buckingham Palace on 7 October 2013.
The Civil Service, along with the Football Association, celebrated their 150th anniversary. As a result, HRH Prince William invited Civil Service to play a Glemnet Southern Amateur Football League Senior Divisi... | On 31 October 2013, Foschini signed for I-League club Salgaocar F.C..
He made his debut for Salgaocar in the I-League on 22 November 2013 against Pune F.C. at the Duler Stadium in which he played the whole match as Salgaocar drew the match 1–1. On 18 December 2014, he scored against Mumbai F.C. in the Group Stage of th... | 33,085 | triviaqa-train |
Which year saw the televising of Parliament for the first time, the Romanian civil war resulting in the deaths of the Ceaucescus and the opening of the Berlin Wall? | Romanian Revolution
The Romanian Revolution () was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries. The Romanian Revolution started in the city of Timișoara and soon spread throughout the country, ultimately culminating in the show... | On May 26, 1945, it was the site of the first concert of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. On June 6, 1951 it saw the opening ceremony of the first Berlin International Film Festival
- The "Fichtenberg" hill, highest point in Steglitz, 68 m (223 ft).
- The Grundschule am Insulaner is an elementary a... | 33,086 | triviaqa-train |
David McCallum played the character Illya Kuryakin in which TV series? | Yale Udoff, a Batman fan in his childhood, contacted ABC executives Harve Bennett and Edgar J. Scherick, who were already considering developing a television series based on a comic-strip action hero, to suggest a prime-time "Batman" series in the hip and fun style of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." When negotiations between... | II for an eleven, chose the wrong badge number for Solo.) It was originally intended that Solo would be the primary focus of the series, however the unexpected popularity of the Russian agent, Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum, saw McCallum elevated to co-star status. Most of the episodes devote equal screen tim... | 33,087 | triviaqa-train |
Name the author of the Jack Ryan series of books who died in 2013? | Jack Ryan (film series)
The "Jack Ryan" film series is an American series of thriller films, based on the fictional character of Jack Ryan, who originally appeared in a series of books by Tom Clancy. In the series of five films, four actors have portrayed Ryan.
Despite inconsistency with its lead actors and crew member... | Lee Mortimer
Lee Mortimer (1904–1963) was an American newspaper columnist, radio commentator, crime lecturer, night club show producer, and author. He was born Mortimer Lieberman in Chicago, but was best known by the pen name he adopted as a young newspaper editor. With Jack Lait, he co-authored a popular series of boo... | 33,088 | triviaqa-train |
Which British coin was first introduced on 9th June 1982? | . The symbol "p" was adopted to distinguish the new pennies from the old, which used the symbol "d" (from the Latin "denarius," a coin used in the Roman Empire).
Currently circulating coinage UK decimal coinage history Post 1982.
In the years since decimalisation, a number of changes have been made to the coinage. The ... | 500 yen coin
The is the largest coin denomination of the Japanese yen. The 500 yen coin was first minted in 1982, with the current design being introduced in 2000. The coin ultimately replaced the 500 yen paper note.
History.
The 500 yen coin was first minted in 1982 to replace the 500 yen note, which continued to be u... | 33,089 | triviaqa-train |
Which music is traditionally played as the final encore at the New Year's Day concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra? | the audience. The final encore is Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March, during which the audience claps along under the conductor's direction. In this last piece, the tradition also calls for the conductor to start the orchestra as soon he steps onto the stage, before reaching the podium. The complete duration of the even... | Vienna New Year's Concert
The Vienna New Year's Concert () is an annual concert of classical music performed by the Vienna Philharmonic on the morning of New Year's Day in Vienna, Austria. The concert occurs at the Musikverein at 11:15. The orchestra performs the same concert programme on 30 December, 31 December, and ... | 33,090 | triviaqa-train |
Which author, whose books included 'A Song of Stone', 'Espedair Street' and 'Whit', died in 2013? | A Song of Stone
A Song of Stone is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1997.
Plot introduction.
A novel about an aristocrat's experience of civil war.
Plot summary.
Abel and Morgan, an aristocratic couple, live in a small castle in an indeterminate place and time of civil war. They decide to abandon the... | .
In November 2013, it was published in its first graphic novel starring Pitheco, "Piteco - Ingá", produced by comic artist Shiko; the title refers to the inscriptions of the Ingá Stone, located in Paraíba. The author, Shiko. is originally from Paraíba.
Other medias.
In 1965, Pitheco had a picture book released by pub... | 33,091 | triviaqa-train |
David McCallum played the character Dr Daniel Westin in which TV series? | ) opposite Joanna Lumley. In 1975 he played the title character in a short-lived U.S. version of "The Invisible Man".
McCallum appeared on stage in Australia in "Run for Your Wife" (1987–88), and the production toured the country. Other members of the cast were Jack Smethurst, Eric Sykes and Katy Manning.
McCallum play... | , but the regular series that followed was lighter. Doctor Daniel Westin (David McCallum) renders himself invisible in his lab, while working for the sinister KLAE corporation.
- "Gemini Man", a 1976 TV series using a "DNA stabilizer" to allow Agent Sam Casey brief periods of invisibility.
- "The Invisible Woman", a 19... | 33,092 | triviaqa-train |
What is the surname of the three brothers selected in the England Rugby League squad for the 2013 World Cup? | International Origin game, England thrashed their opponents by 20 points. At the end of the year, the 2013 World Cup was held in England and Wales. England, who were now known as the 'Wall of White', featured a new record of three brothers in their squad: Sam and twins George and Tom Burgess. England played their first... | 's XIII.
In October 2013, Mexico was selected in the Papua New Guinean squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, this time in England. Mexico was noted for his hard and aggressive style of play in his three games during this World Cup, but made no contribution to the scoring in any of the games.
External links.
- Shef... | 33,093 | triviaqa-train |
Who assassinated Mahatma Ghandi on 306 January 1948? | November 1949.
Preparations.
In early September 1947, Gandhi had moved to Delhi to help stem the violent rioting there and in the neighboring province of East Punjab. The rioting had come in the wake of the partition of the British Indian empire, which had accompanied the creation of the new independent dominions of In... | Two Gophers from Texas
Two Gophers from Texas is a 1948 "Merrie Melodies" cartoon directed by Arthur Davis. It released on January 17, 1948, 13 days before Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated.
Title.
The title is a pun on "Two Guys from Texas", a comedy released earlier that year from Warner Brothers, althou... | 33,094 | triviaqa-train |
Which organisation won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize? | 2013 Nobel Peace Prize
The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, for their "extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons". The award citation indicated the organization was awarded the prize, because they “have defined the use of chemical weapons as taboo under ... | became more widely known, the movement changed its name to "Community of Peace People," or simply "Peace People".
Although McKeown became known as a thoughtful and calm presence in the leadership of the organisation, his criticisms of the reluctance of church authorities to speak out on sectarian issues did cause tensi... | 33,095 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote The Sharpe Series of novels? | Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell, (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has written historical novels primarily on English history in five series, and one series of cont... | Jon Sharpe
Jon Sharpe was the original author of The Trailsman series of Western novels, published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA). The century series, which has run since the early 1980s, was created by author Jon Messmann, who wrote most of the first 200 books in the series under the Jon Sh... | 33,096 | triviaqa-train |
Which prototype drink recipe was formulated at Pemberton's Eagle Drug and Chemical House? | company gave in to protests and returned to the old formula under the name Coca-Cola Classic, on July 10, 1985.
History 21st century.
On July 5, 2005, it was revealed that Coca-Cola would resume operations in Iraq for the first time since the Arab League boycotted the company in 1968.
In April 2007, in Canada, the name... | .
Confederate Colonel John Pemberton, who was wounded in the American Civil War and became addicted to morphine, began a quest to find a substitute for the problematic drug. In 1885 at Pemberton's Eagle Drug and Chemical House, a drugstore in Columbus, Georgia, he registered Pemberton's French Wine Coca nerve tonic. Pe... | 33,097 | triviaqa-train |
Which car model had the same name as a ship used by pirates or privateers? | continue their accustomed way of life by preying on less well-protected peoples. Algiers subsequently renewed its slave-raiding, though on a smaller scale. Measures to be taken against the city's government were discussed at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818. In 1820 another British fleet under Admiral Sir Harry ... | Buccan
Buccan or Boucan is the native South American and Caribbean name for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or smoked over a fire. Spaniards called the same process "barbacoa", later "barbecue".
The term "buccaneer" for pirates or privateers, is said to be derived from buccan. In the Caribbe... | 33,098 | triviaqa-train |
In which country are the headquarters of Amazon.com? | Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc. (), is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Google, Apple, and Facebook.
Amazon is know... | 2004) and 1918 Eighth Avenue (2009). In 2012, Amazon.com announced their intention to relocate their South Lake Union headquarters to a complex of high-rises in Denny Triangle; the first towers, the Doppler and Day 1, opened in 2016, and at least three more towers are in development. The Denny Triangle also hosts the r... | 33,099 | triviaqa-train |
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