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"Which English poet (1608-1674) wrote the opening line: ""When I consider how my light was spent""?" | in more than one manner.
Shakespeare also popularized the English sonnet, which made significant changes to Petrarch's model. A collection of 154 sonnets by Shakespeare, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality, were first published in a 1609 quarto.
John Milton (1608–74) is consider... | , Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Early twentieth-century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote mostly Petrarchan sonnets.
"On His Blindness" by Milton, gives a sense of the Petrarchan rhyme scheme:
poem style="margin-left: 2em"
When I consider how my light is spent (A)
To ser... | 33,600 | triviaqa-train |
Lod airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) serves which Asian city? | Ben Gurion Airport
Ben Gurion Airport () , commonly known by its Hebrew acronym as "Natbag" (), is the main international airport of Israel and the busiest airport in the country, located on the northern outskirts of the city of Lod, which is about northwest of Jerusalem and to the southeast of Tel Aviv. Named in 1973 ... | Qalqilya and Jenin by roads which are now blocked by the Israeli West Bank barrier. From 2000 until 2011, Israel maintained checkpoints such as Huwwara checkpoint which effectively cut off the city, severely curtailing social and economic travel. From January 2002, buses, taxis, trucks and private citizens required a p... | 33,601 | triviaqa-train |
Name the Greek goddess of peace. | Eirene (goddess)
Eirene (; , "Eirēnē", , "Peace"), more commonly known in English as Peace, was one of the Horae, the personification of peace. She was depicted in art as a beautiful young woman carrying a cornucopia, sceptre, and a torch or rhyton. She is said sometimes to be the daughter of Zeus and Themis and siste... | Arina
Arina is a feminine given name.
Origins.
As a Slavic name, Арина, it is a variant of Irina, meaning "peace".
It is also a Japanese name and a Kurdish name, meaning "flower plain".
In history Arina is Greek in origin and is said to mean ‘Peace’.
In Greek mythology it was the name of the Greek goddess of peace.
P... | 33,602 | triviaqa-train |
Narita international airport serves which city? | increase of population without expansion of area are limited to those listed in List of former towns or villages gained city status alone in Japan.
City status Classifications for large cities.
The Cabinet of Japan can designate cities of at least 200,000 inhabitants to have the status of core city, or designated city.... | city. Iwatsuki is famous for manufacturing of "hinamatsuri" dolls and ornate "kabuto" (samurai helmets).
Transportation.
Representative station is Urawa Station. Saitama is a regional transportation hub for both passengers and freight train lines. Ōmiya Station, part of the Shinkansen high-speed train network, serves a... | 33,603 | triviaqa-train |
Jazz fusion musician Pat Metheny plays which instrument? | " (2010), show the influence of American minimalist composer Steve Reich and use similar rhythmic figures structured around pulse. Metheny recorded Reich's composition "Electric Counterpoint" on Reich's album "Different Trains" (Nonesuch, 1987).
Guitars.
Guitars Pikasso.
Metheny plays a custom-made 42-string Pikasso I ... | that pays less than being a jazz musician".
He continues to perform, primarily in Kansas and Missouri, and with a particular emphasis on the electronic valve instrument (EVI), a trumpet synthesizer that he has featured in his recordings and which was given to him by his brother Pat as a present.
In 2007, Mike and Pat s... | 33,604 | triviaqa-train |
Philippa of Hainault was the wife of which English king? | Philippa of Hainault
Philippa of Hainault (Middle French: "Philippe de Hainaut"; 24 June c.1310/15 – 15 August 1369) was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward III. Edward promised in 1326 to marry her within the following two years. She was married to Edward, first by proxy, when Edward dispatched the Bishop of C... | apart from the manors of Muchedeswell and Tickhill which belonged to Henry de Ferrers.
However, in 1154 the estate was confiscated by King Henry II who rebuilt Peveril Castle in 1176. In 1189 Richard I gave the honour of the Peak to John the Count of Mortain. Later Edward II bestowed it briefly to his favourite Piers d... | 33,605 | triviaqa-train |
Central America's Panama seceded from which country in 1903? | geografía", he states that the crew found indigenous people who called themselves the "Veneciuela." Thus, the name "Venezuela" may have evolved from the native word.
Previously, the official name was "Estado de Venezuela" (1830–1856), "República de Venezuela" (1856–1864), "Estados Unidos de Venezuela" (1864–1953), and ... | years, and because of the war they were destroyed, restored and then demolished, repeatedly over many seasons.
However, Antioquia, given its isolation from the rest of the country, was relatively peaceful during this period of war. And as a result, this area rebounded more quickly than the rest of the country after the... | 33,606 | triviaqa-train |
Ringing Roger and Grindslow Knoll are features in which English National Park? | Grindslow Knoll
Grindslow Knoll is a hill in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England. It is joined to Kinder Scout by a high col though from most angles appears as an independent peak. It is the high point at the western side of Grindsbrook Clough.
Views.
Although the high mass of K... | is the start of a very popular walk taking in Jacob's Ladder, Edale Cross, the Woolpacks and either Grindsbrook Clough or Grindslow Knoll.
References.
- Listing at Go4awalk.com | 33,607 | triviaqa-train |
What is the family name of the Dukes of Bedford? | Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford
Andrew Ian Henry Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford (born 30 March 1962) is a British nobleman and peer. He is the son of Henry Robin Ian Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, and his wife, Henrietta Tiarks.
Biography.
Bedford was educated at Hall School, Hampstead and Heatherdown School, near ... | was formerly East Street, in relation to the nearby New North Street
- Doughty Mews and Doughty Street – after the Doughty family, local landowners in the 18th century
- Dukes Road – after the dukes of Bedford, local landowners
- Dyott Street – after either Simon Dyott, local resident in the 17th century or Jane Dyott,... | 33,608 | triviaqa-train |
"Give the name of the character played by Oscar winning actor Edmund Gwenn in the 1947 film ""Miracle on 34th Street""." | .
Davies also penned a short novelization of the tale, which was published by Harcourt Brace simultaneously with the film's release.
Plot.
Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) is indignant to find that the man (Percy Helton) assigned to play Santa in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is intoxicated. When he complains to... | Miracle on 34th Street (disambiguation)
Miracle on 34th Street is a popular 1947 film with Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn.
Miracle on 34th Street may also refer to:
- "Miracle on 34th Street" (novella) by Valentine Davies, published in conjunction with the release of the 1947 film
- The Miracle on 34th Street ("The 20th... | 33,609 | triviaqa-train |
What is the family name of the Earl of Harewood? | George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, (7 February 1923 – 11 July 2011), styled The Hon. George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, was a British music director and author. He served as director of the Royal Opera House (1951–53; 1969–... | Harewood, British Columbia
Harewood is the name of a lake and a plain of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located in Nanaimo, on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Its geographical coordinates are The name has been in use since at least 1913, when Harewood referred to a small mining village in the area... | 33,610 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did Mozart die? | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard... | roles at the premiere of Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" the following year. For the April 3 performance only, the program was augmented; this was the adult Mozart's first public appearance in Vienna. A symphony by Mozart was played, which Deutsch conjectures was No. 34. He also improvised at the piano. Mozart... | 33,611 | triviaqa-train |
In which English city is Paragon Station? | Hull Paragon Interchange
Hull Paragon Interchange is an integrated rail, bus and coach station in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England. The G.T. Andrews-designed station was originally named "Paragon Station", and together with the adjoining Station Hotel, it opened in 1847 as the new Hull terminus for the gr... | City of Heroes
City of Heroes (CoH) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game which was developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSOFT. The game was launched in North America on April 28, 2004, and in Europe by NCsoft Europe on February 4, 2005, with English, German and French servers. In the game, play... | 33,612 | triviaqa-train |
Who preceded Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister? | -Irish Treaty and Britain's Middle East policy. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK econom... | Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British Conservative Party statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreem... | 33,613 | triviaqa-train |
Ludlow, Shropshire lies on the bend of which river? | in Ludlow, at The Angel on Broad Street, but this closed in 2017. Other local papers include the Teme Valley Times, founded in 2006.
Culture Media Radio stations.
Sunshine Radio, once a pirate radio station, is now a legitimate commercial broadcaster in the south Shropshire and north Herefordshire/Worcestershire area o... | .
The River Rea runs to the east of the town, whilst through the town itself is the Pudding Brook, which flows from west to east before meeting the Rea. The land gradually rises from 110 metres above sea level near to the river, to 150 metres in the west of the town. The Clee Hills, the highest hills in Shropshire, are... | 33,614 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did Beethoven die? | Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (; ; baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music, he remains one of the most recognized and influential musicians of this period, and is considered to be... | was to be performed again in 1822 for the new theatre in Vienna. However, Carl Meisl, the commissioner of the Royal Imperial Navy, changed the texts of numbers 1, 6, 7, and 8 of Beethoven's work. Beethoven was not pleased with the revision, and felt that the new text did not fit the music. Meisl also introduced a secti... | 33,615 | triviaqa-train |
What is the most northerly county of the Irish Republic? | rises in [[County Cavan]] in the north west and flows to [[Limerick]] city in the mid west.
The island consists of varied [[geologic province|geological provinces]]. In the west, around County Galway and [[County Donegal]], is a medium to high grade metamorphic and igneous complex of [[Caledonides|Caledonide]] affinity... | Irish Sea thus far appears to have escaped political connotations, even though territorial control of the waters of the Irish Sea is divided between both the Republic of Ireland and the UK, and also includes a British Crown dependency, the Isle of Man—as yet there appears to be no controversy with the term’s usage to m... | 33,616 | triviaqa-train |
Thorpe Station is in which English city? | Under the Stuarts, Continental artists were influential especially the Flemish, examples from the period include Anthony van Dyck, Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller and William Dobson. The 18th century was a time of significance with the founding of the Royal Academy, a classicism based on the High Renaissance prevailed, wit... | Waltham on the Wolds
Waltham on the Wolds is an English village located in the civil parish of Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold, in the Melton borough of Leicestershire, England. It lies about north-east of Melton Mowbray and south-west of Grantham on the A607 road. The population of the civil parish was 967 in 2... | 33,617 | triviaqa-train |
Name the year: Chernenko dies; the Achille Lauro is hi-jacked; a Japanese Air Lines 747 crashes killing 520 people. | 1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events.
Events January.
- January 1
- The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
- Greenland is withdrawn from the European Economic Community.
- First UK cellular mobile phone network launched by Vodafone.
- January 7
- Cellnet... | 99.00 through September 30.
- August 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 flying from Haneda Airport to Osaka, suffers a bulkhead explosion 12 minutes into its flight that was the result of improper repairs from a tailstrike accident seven years earlier. The resulting decompression blows off the vertical stabil... | 33,618 | triviaqa-train |
Which Yorkshire crime writer created the character Chief Inspector Banks? | Inspector Alan Banks
Detective Superintendent Alan Banks (b. 1951) is the fictional protagonist in a series of crime novels by Peter Robinson. From 2010 to 2016 several of the novels were adapted for television, and other original stories were produced, under the series title "DCI Banks" with Stephen Tompkinson in the ... | completing his first degree at the University of Leeds.
Robinson lives in the Beaches area of Toronto with his wife, Sheila Halladay, and he occasionally teaches crime writing at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. He has taught at a number of Toronto colleges and served as Writer-in-Residence at ... | 33,619 | triviaqa-train |
The artists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, and Patrick Heron are primarily associated with which English seaside resort? | At school, Heron met his future wife Delia, daughter of Celia and Richard Reiss, a director of the company which founded Welwyn Garden City.
Registered as a conscientious objector in World War II, Heron worked as an agricultural labourer in Cambridgeshire before he was signed off for ill health. He returned to Cornwall... | the influence of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth but by 1956 the "Middle Generation" of Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Bryan Wynter and Terry Frost were becoming well established in Britain and were soon to be known in New York City. He accepted Peter Lanyon’s suggestion to join the Newlyn Society of Artists and had h... | 33,620 | triviaqa-train |
Astana is the capital city of which former Soviet republic? | . Nur-Sultan annually hosts the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Cup ice hockey tournament.
The Astana Pro Team, founded in 2007, participates in the UCI World Tour. The team is one of the most successful cycling teams of recent years, winning several grand tours. The BC Astana of the VTB United League and the... | Astana
- Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus, immediately subject to the Holy See, established in 1991 for two predominantly Orthodox former Soviet Republics: Georgia (the cathedral is in its capital Tbilisi) and Armenia
- Apostolic Administration of Estonia, one of the Baltic Countries; immediately subject to Rom... | 33,621 | triviaqa-train |
"The American TV series 'The Wire"" is set in which city?" | of the show for its poor ratings. The "Baltimore City Paper" was so concerned that the show might be cancelled that it published a list of ten reasons to keep it on the air, including strong characterization, Omar Little, and an unabashedly honest representation of real world problems. It also worried that the loss of ... | American programmes such as "[[The Sopranos]]", "[[Friends]]" and "[[The Wire]]".
On 1 October 2013, a limited edition 10-disc DVD boxset of "Downton Abbey" was released, which included Series 1–3 in an inner slipcase, labelled as a '9-disc set', as well as a bonus disc featuring the exclusive TV documentary, 'Secrets ... | 33,622 | triviaqa-train |
Which German city was the target of the first 1000 bomber raid in 1942? | effective strategic bombing was pioneered by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in 1914. The mission was to attack the Zeppelin production lines and their sheds at Cologne and Düsseldorf. Led by Charles Rumney Samson the force of four aircraft inflicted minor damage on the sheds. The raid was repeated a month later wit... | 11 February 1942. The February raid was 'the heaviest directed against a German target since January 10, when a heavy weight of bombs was dropped on Wilhelmshaven'.
RAF Bomber Command returned to the city in May. A mixture of aircraft; Stirling, Lancaster, Halifax, Manchester, Wellington and Hampden bombers, were sent ... | 33,623 | triviaqa-train |
Hlobane and Isandhlwana were battles in which 19th century conflict? | sides.
Aftermath.
Aftermath Analysis.
The Battle of Hlobane was a Zulu victory; the Border Horse unit, trapped and unable to retreat to Kambula was annihilated and the battalions of Zulu warriors helping the British had decamped. Wood was confident that the Zulu impi would now attack the defensive works at Kambula as h... | , Hlobane and the smaller Intombi action. Their stealthy approach march, camouflage and noise discipline at Isandhlwana, while not perfect, put them within excellent striking distance of their opponents, where they were able to exploit weaknesses in the camp layout. At Hlobane they caught a British column on the move r... | 33,624 | triviaqa-train |
Which American baseball team was formed in 1962 to replace the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants? | all be inducted.
Media, radio and television.
As of 2010, the Giants' flagship radio station is WFAN, with games simulcast on WFAN-FM as of November 2012. Beginning in 2012, the Giants became WFAN's top priority during the entire football season; prior to that, games that conflicted with late season New York Mets baseb... | Walter O'Malley
Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn t... | 33,625 | triviaqa-train |
"Which Scottish author wrote ""A Good Man in Africa"", ""The New Confessions"", and his most recent novel ""Ordinary Thunderstorms""?" | William Boyd (writer)
William Boyd (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
Biography.
Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters. His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a t... | To Every Man a Penny
To Every Man a Penny is a 1949 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. Two major characters in the novel, Gaston and Bessier, like the author himself, had legs amputated due to wounds suffered in World War I.
Plot summary.
The story of a young French priest, Gaston, who goes off to World War I. In... | 33,626 | triviaqa-train |
Which former American baseball player currently holds the records for both most home runs in a season, and most career home runs? | entities. While their identities were maintained for scheduling purposes (and the designated hitter distinction), the regulations and other functions—such as player discipline and umpire supervision—they had administered separately were consolidated under the rubric of MLB.
In 2001, Barry Bonds established the current ... | , with ten, including best single-season batting average, most career hits, and most career triples. He is followed by Edgar Martínez, who holds nine records, including best career on-base percentage and the single-season walk record.
Two Mariners players currently hold Major League Baseball records. Ichiro holds the r... | 33,627 | triviaqa-train |
In contract rubber bridge, how many points are awarded for successfully making a non-vulnerable contract of four Spades? | (30) are scored above the line.
Deal 2: West bids and makes 4. This scores 120 contract points below the line; since there are no overtricks, no points are scored above the line. The accumulation of 100 or more points below the line constitutes the end of the first game and is signified by the drawing of a horizontal l... | is awarded 20 points per odd trick for a contract in clubs or diamonds, and 30 points per odd trick for a contract in hearts or spades. For a contract in notrump, the declaring side is awarded 40 points for the first odd trick and 30 points for the remaining odd tricks. Contract points are doubled or quadrupled if the ... | 33,628 | triviaqa-train |
How many checkers (pieces) does each player start with in a game of backgammon? | Backgammon
Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games. Its history can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to archeological discoveries in Mesopotamia. It is a two player game where each player has fifteen pieces ("checkers") which move between twenty-four triangles ("points") according to the roll of two dice. Th... | oldest classes of board games.
Backgammon involves a combination of strategy and luck (from rolling dice). While the dice may determine the outcome of a single game, the better player will accumulate the better record over series of many games, somewhat like poker. With each roll of the dice, players must choose from n... | 33,629 | triviaqa-train |
Where was the specific location of the nuclear accident in the USA in 1979? | Three Mile Island accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commer... | in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, United States in 1979. It was the most significant accident in the history of the USA commercial nuclear power generating industry, resulting in the release of approximately 2.5 million curies of radioactive noble gases, and approximately 15 curies of iodine-131. Cleanup... | 33,630 | triviaqa-train |
The American Bill Viola is associated with which art form? | at Sony Corporation's Atsugi Laboratories.
In 1983, he became an instructor in Advanced Video at the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California. He represented the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale in 1995 for which he produced a series of works called "Buried Secrets", including one of his best ... | Bill Pierce (saxophonist)
Bill Pierce (also Billy Pierce) (born September 25, 1948 in Hampton, Virginia) is an American jazz saxophonist.
He played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the early 1980s and in Tony Williams's quintet in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. He also has released numerous CDs for which he is... | 33,631 | triviaqa-train |
"What is the 10th letter in the Greek alphabet and is equivalent to the English letter ""K""?" | the way Roman numerals are used in English. The three extra symbols are today written as , and respectively. To mark a letter as a numeral sign, a small stroke called "keraia" is added to the right of it.
Other uses Use by student fraternities and sororities.
In North America, many college fraternities and sororities a... | D
D (named "dee" ) is the fourth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
History.
The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are many different Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek and Latin, the let... | 33,632 | triviaqa-train |
What name was given to the followers of John Wycliffe? | , additional updated versions being done by Wycliffe's assistant John Purvey and others in 1388 and 1395.
Wycliffe's followers, known as Lollards, followed his lead in advocating predestination, iconoclasm, and the notion of caesaropapism, while attacking the veneration of saints, the sacraments, requiem masses, transu... | Chapel, a name that evolved into that of Alexian Brothers, their modern name.
History Germany.
The Brothers rapidly spread throughout Germany, Brabant, Flanders, and other countries. They were also styled in Middle Dutch "lollebroeders" "mumbling brothers", or ""Lollhorden"", from Old , meaning "to sing softly," from t... | 33,633 | triviaqa-train |
"Who played Jean Harlow in the 1965 film ""Harlow""?" | Carol Lynley. The second was released in June 1965 by Paramount Pictures and stars Carroll Baker. Both were poorly received, and did not perform well at the box office.
In 1978, Lindsay Bloom portrayed her in "".
In August 1993, Sharon Stone hosted a documentary about Harlow titled "Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell", which... | Harlow (Magna film)
Harlow is a fictionalized drama based on the life of film star Jean Harlow, released in 1965, with Carol Lynley in the title role. It was released shortly before Paramount Pictures' film on the same subject. This was Ginger Rogers' last film appearance. The film was directed by Alex Segal.
Plot.
Not... | 33,634 | triviaqa-train |
"Who painted ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"" circa 1665?" | Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a Pearl Earring () is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title towards the end of the 20th century after the large pearl earring worn by the girl portrayed there. The work... | including the "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and the Washington "". Frans Hals also painted a number of tronies, which are now among his best-known works, including the two tronies known as "Malle Babbe" and the "Gypsy Girl" (see gallery).
Adriaen Brouwer was one of the most successful practitioners of the genre as he had... | 33,635 | triviaqa-train |
"Who directed the 1980 film ""Ordinary People""?" | Ordinary People
Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford. The film stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton.
The story concerns the disintegration of an upper-middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the acci... | "The Elephant Man" (1980), "Ordinary People" (1980), and "Raging Bull" (1980). In 1983, Blatty wrote "Legion", a sequel to "The Exorcist" which later became the basis of the film "The Exorcist III". At first he was unable to set up the production because he wanted to direct the film. Blatty's agent, Steve Jaffe, helped... | 33,636 | triviaqa-train |
Which writer had a cat called Hodge? | Hodge (cat)
Hodge (fl. c.1769) was one of Samuel Johnson's cats, immortalised in a characteristically whimsical passage in James Boswell's "Life of Johnson".
Although there is little known about Hodge, such as his life, his death, or any other information, what is known is Johnson's fondness for his cat, which separate... | Behrman, and Thomas Wolfe as well as numerous critics, directors, and designers.)
Biography Writing career.
Barry's life as a writer started at the age of nine when he had a story called "Tab the Cat" published by a Rochester newspaper. Four precocious years later, he wrote a three-act drama called "No Thoroughfare", w... | 33,637 | triviaqa-train |
"Near which city did Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" take place?" | rises and vanishing into the woods.'"
In the first production of Emma Rice as the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe (2016), she has carried the play to Indies, with Indian characters, probably a reference to Gervinus. Changing the characters from Athenians to "Hoxton Hipsters" and creating an all-male love trian... | Willis decided that he was a man who did not like himself very much, but was doing the best he could in a bad situation. In the original script, "Die Hard" took place over three days, but McTiernan was inspired to have it take place over a single night by Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
The corporate headqua... | 33,638 | triviaqa-train |
"What is the meaning of the Latin phrase ""Agnus Dei""?" | Lamb of God
Lamb of God (, "Amnos tou Theou"; ) is a title for Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John. It appears at , where John the Baptist sees Jesus and exclaims, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."
Christian doctrine holds that divine Jesus chose to suffer crucifixion at Calvary as a si... | Q.E.D.
Q.E.D. or QED (sometimes italicized) is an initialism of the Latin phrase "", literally meaning "what was to be shown". Traditionally, the abbreviation is placed at the end of a mathematical proof or philosophical argument to indicate that the proof or argument is complete, therefore used with the meaning "thus ... | 33,639 | triviaqa-train |
Verulamium is the Roman name for which English city? | Verulamium
Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain. It was sited in the southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, Great Britain. A large portion of the Roman city remains unexcavated, being now park and agricultural land, though much has been built upon. The ancient Watling Street passed through the ci... | abbey was constructed from the remains of the Roman city, with Roman brick and stone visible. The modern city takes its name from Alban, either a citizen of "Verulamium" or a Roman soldier, who was condemned to death in the 3rd century for sheltering Amphibalus, a Christian. Alban was converted by him to Christianity, ... | 33,640 | triviaqa-train |
In Greek mythology who was the wife of Odysseus? | Odysseus
Odysseus (; , " Ὀdysseús" ), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (, ; ), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the "Odyssey". Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's "Iliad" and other works in that same epic cycle.
Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope and fathe... | Eurycleia of Ithaca
In Greek mythology, Eurycleia (Ancient Greek: Εὐρύκλεια "Eurýkleia"), or Euryclea (; also known as Antiphata (Ἀντιφάτη "Antipháte") in other traditions), is the daughter of Ops and granddaughter of Peisenor, as well as the wet-nurse of Odysseus.
Mythology.
As a girl, Eurycleia was bought by Laertes... | 33,641 | triviaqa-train |
Which American invented the Polaroid camera in 1947? | Polaroid Corporation
Polaroid is an American company that is a brand licensor and marketer of its portfolio of consumer electronics to companies that distribute consumer electronics and eyewear. It is best known for its Polaroid instant film and cameras. In 2017, its parent company was acquired by Polish investor Oskar... | 16 years.
- 1947 – Presidential Succession Act
- 1947 – Taft Hartley Act
- 1947 – U.F.O. crash at Roswell, New Mexico
- 1947 – National Security Act of 1947
- 1947 – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- 1947 – The Marshall Plan
- 1947 – Polaroid camera invented
- 1947 – Truman Doctrine establishes "the policy of th... | 33,642 | triviaqa-train |
What is the SI unit of pressure? | pressure in closed conditions conforms with the principles of fluid dynamics.
The concepts of fluid pressure are predominantly attributed to the discoveries of Blaise Pascal and Daniel Bernoulli. Bernoulli's equation can be used in almost any situation to determine the pressure at any point in a fluid. The equation mak... | ). Using the names kilogram, gram, kilogram-force, or gram-force (or their symbols) as a unit of force is prohibited in SI; the unit of force in SI is the newton (N).
Static and dynamic pressure.
Static pressure is uniform in all directions, so pressure measurements are independent of direction in an immovable (static)... | 33,643 | triviaqa-train |
How many players are there in a tug of war team? | . One turn batting for each team constitutes an inning. A game is usually composed of nine innings, and the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins. If scores are tied at the end of nine innings, extra innings are usually played. Baseball has no game clock, although most games end in the ninth ... | to the next meeting. There are many different types of corporate entertainment.
Types of corporate entertainment events Corporate team building.
Corporate entertainment can also include a day of team building activities. These activities include traditional camp activities like tug of war, scavenger hunts, and relay ra... | 33,644 | triviaqa-train |
In the Bible who was the father of Joseph and Benjamin? | stewardship of his prophecies, and a unique heritage in the things of God, calling Israel "my son" because he delivered the descendants of Jacob out of slavery in Egypt according to his covenants and oaths to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In the Hebrew Bible, in Isaiah 63:16 (JP) it reads: "For You are our f... | her father disapproves of him. The Steeds' younger son, Nathan, believes Joseph's story. He meets Lydia while he is trying to contact his brother. Benjamin ends his employment of the Smith boys, as he believes that his association with them is detrimental to his family's reputation.
Joshua and his friends learn that Jo... | 33,645 | triviaqa-train |
Which American state is nicknamed the Treasure state? | Montana
Montana () is a state in the Northwestern United States. Montana has several nicknames, although none are official, including "Big Sky Country" and "The Treasure State", and slogans that include "Land of the Shining Mountains" and more recently "The Last Best Place".
Montana is the 4th largest in area, the 8th ... | Magic City Classic
The Magic City Classic is an annual American football "classic" which features Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University, the two largest historically black universities in the state. It is played at Legion Field in Birmingham (nicknamed the "Magic City"). The classic has become the highest... | 33,646 | triviaqa-train |
In which constellation is the star Regulus? | Biblical scholar E. W. Bullinger interpreted some of the creatures mentioned in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation as the middle signs of the four quarters of the Zodiac, with the Lion as Leo, the Bull as Taurus, the Man representing Aquarius and the Eagle standing in for Scorpio. The biblical Book of Job also makes r... | and Hollywater School, a Special Education establishment. Bordon is also home to the Future Skills Centre, a £3.8 million construction training centre which is part of the Basingstoke College of Technology group.
History.
The town has been an army base with a defunct railway station. Bordon camp was first laid out in ... | 33,647 | triviaqa-train |
"Which actress caused a sensation by appearing naked in the 1933 film ""Ecstasy""?" | Ecstasy (film)
Ecstasy (, , ) is a 1933 Czech-Austrian erotic romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz.
Written by František Horký, Gustav Machatý, Jacques A. Koerpel, and Robert Horký, the film is about a young woman who marries a weal... | ", directed by Aldo Vergano.
In "The Jester's Supper" (1942) an adaptation of a Sem Benelli's work, directed by Alessandro Blasetti) Calamai caused a sensation by appearing in a very brief topless scene. The scene is commonly credited with being the first time that an actress had appeared topless in an Italian sound fi... | 33,648 | triviaqa-train |
"Which disease of the central nervous system is named after the Englishman who wrote ""An Essay on the Shaking Palsy"" in 1817?" | -onset PD. The average life expectancy following diagnosis is between 7 and 15 years. The disease is named after the English doctor James Parkinson, who published the first detailed description in "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy", in 1817. Public awareness campaigns include World Parkinson's Day (on the birthday of Jame... | 2 October 1817. He is buried with his parents and wife, Katherine Inglis (d.1803) in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. The grave lies west of the church and north of the Adam mausoleum.
Publications.
In 1771, he wrote a paper on the effect of drugs on the nervous system. He published two controversial 'observat... | 33,649 | triviaqa-train |
Who was Poet Laureate for the longest period (42 years 1850-1892)? | Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambr... | Warp's" hero is called Phil Masters named after the blind poet Philip Bourke Marston who lived from 1850 to 1887. The play traces the hero’s many previous lives over a period of thousands of years. "The Warp" appears in the Guinness Book of Records as being the longest play ever performed. Lasting 22 hours when perform... | 33,650 | triviaqa-train |
Which king was ousted by Colonel Gadaffi? | a poor Bedouin family, Gaddafi became an Arab nationalist while at school in Sabha, later enrolling in the Royal Military Academy, Benghazi. Within the military, he founded a revolutionary group which deposed the Western-backed Senussi monarchy of Idris in a 1969 coup. Having taken power, Gaddafi converted Libya into a... | Bigley's release from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, King Abdullah of Jordan, and Colonel Gadaffi of Libya, who made public statements. A third video was released on 29 September, showing Bigley chained inside a small chicken-wire cage, wearing an orange boiler suit apparently intended to be reminiscent of those wor... | 33,651 | triviaqa-train |
Which river flows through Maidstone? | River Medway
The River Medway is a river in South East England. It rises in the High Weald, Sussex and flows through Tonbridge, Maidstone and the Medway conurbation in Kent, before emptying into the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, a total distance of . About of the river lies in Sussex, with the remainder being in Kent.... | Platt, Kent
Platt, or St. Mary's Platt is a village in the local government district of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The village contains a church which was built in 1843 and which stands on a hill overlooking the village centre. The architects were Whichcord and Walker of Maidstone.
The hamlet of Crouch (pr... | 33,652 | triviaqa-train |
Which river flows through Shrewsbury? | River Severn
The River Severn () is the longest river in Great Britain at a length of , and the second longest in the British Isles after the River Shannon in Ireland. It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon, close to the Ceredigion/Powys border near Llanidloes, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales. It then flows thr... | Cold River (Vermont)
The Cold River is a tributary of Otter Creek in Rutland County, Vermont, in the United States.
The Cold River rises northeast of North Shrewsbury in the Coolidge Range, part of the Green Mountains. It flows southwest through North Shrewsbury, then turns northwest to the town line with Clarendon, wh... | 33,653 | triviaqa-train |
Who created the character Paddington Bear? | Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature. He first appeared on 13 October 1958 in the children's book "A Bear Called Paddington" and has been featured in more than twenty books written by British author Michael Bond and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum and other artists. The friendl... | R. John Wright produced several editions of Paddington Bear under license with the Copyrights Group
2002, R. John Wright produced the Clifford Berryman Bear under license with Linda Mullins to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Teddy Bear.
2004-2008, RJW was licensed with the Copyrights Group to produce Ragg... | 33,654 | triviaqa-train |
In 2009 who was elected speaker of the House of Commons? | 2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election
The 2009 election of the Speaker of the House of Commons occurred on 22 June 2009 following the resignation of Michael Martin as Speaker during the parliamentary expenses scandal. Martin was the first Speaker since Sir John Trevor in 1695 to be forced out of office.... | was therefore held, but the motion was approved by 370 votes to 8. Martin was thus elected Speaker.
See also.
- 2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election
- 1992 Speaker of the British House of Commons election
- 1971 Speaker of the British House of Commons election
- 1951 Speaker of the British House of Com... | 33,655 | triviaqa-train |
Sturnus Vulgaris is the scientific name for which common bird? | ), a brood parasite, uses the common starling as a host. Starlings are more commonly the culprits rather than victims of nest eviction however, especially towards other starlings and woodpeckers. Nests can be raided by mammals capable of climbing to them, such as stoats ("Mustela erminea"), raccoons ("Procyon lotor") a... | Girolamo Codebò
Girolamo Codebò (died 1661) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1661)
and Bishop of Montalto delle Marche (1645–1661).
Biography.
On 6 Feb 1645, Girolamo Codebò was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Montalto delle Marche.
On 26 Mar 1645, he was c... | 33,656 | triviaqa-train |
Who played Hawkeye Pierce in the film version of MASH? | Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. Although the Korean War is the film's storyline setting, the subtext is about the Vietnam War, that was tak... | M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, owned by The Walt Disney Company via 20th Century Fox and based on the semi-autobiographic fiction of Richard Hooker.
The franchise depicts a group of fictional characters who... | 33,657 | triviaqa-train |
In which city were the first operas performed? | a very finely-developed forehead, a hooked nose & projecting chin."
Biography In exile: Venice and Paris (1858–1862).
Wagner's uneasy affair with Mathilde collapsed in 1858, when Minna intercepted a letter to Mathilde from him. After the resulting confrontation with Minna, Wagner left Zürich alone, bound for Venice, wh... | Maeve Ingoldsby
Maeve Ingoldsby (born 1947) is a former writer of the Raidió Teilifís Éireann radio show "Only Slaggin'" and former writer on RTÉ soap operas Glenroe and Fair City. She is a well-known playwright and satirist. She has also written numerous children's plays including "Earwigs", which was awarded "Best Yo... | 33,658 | triviaqa-train |
In which French city is William the Conqueror buried? | the Danes. In 1086 William ordered the compilation of the "Domesday Book", a survey listing all the landholdings in England along with their pre-Conquest and current holders. William died in September 1087 while leading a campaign in northern France, and was buried in Caen. His reign in England was marked by the constr... | continued for five days, during which Edward attempted and failed to capture the castle, and paid homage at the grave of his ancestor William the Conqueror, who was buried in the town. Among the captives were several senior French noblemen who were held prisoner for several years before being ransomed by their English ... | 33,659 | triviaqa-train |
In the human body what is produced by the lachrymal glands? | the secreted fluid may enter on the surface of the eye. Tears secreted collect in the fornix conjunctiva of the upper lid, and pass over the eye surface to the lacrimal puncta, small holes found at the inner corner of the eyelids. These pass the tears through the lacrimal canaliculi on to the lacrimal sac, in turn to t... | Androsterone is found in the human axilla and skin as well as in the urine. It may also be secreted by human sebaceous glands. It is described as having a musky odor similar to that of androstenol. Androsterone has been found to affect human behavior when smelled.
Biochemistry.
Biochemistry Biosynthesis.
Androsterone ... | 33,660 | triviaqa-train |
How many days are there in the religious period of Lent? | into the desert for 40 days; this is known as one's Lenten sacrifice. Many Christians also add a Lenten spiritual discipline, such as reading a daily devotional or praying through a Lenten calendar, to draw themselves near to God. The Stations of the Cross, a devotional commemoration of Christ's carrying the Cross and ... | the strictest fasting rules.
On weekdays of the first week of Great Lent, fasting is particularly severe, and many observe it by abstaining from all food for some period of time. According to strict observance, on the first five days (Monday through Friday) there are only two meals eaten, one on Wednesday and the other... | 33,661 | triviaqa-train |
Born in 1585, who was known as the red eminence? | Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu (, ; ), was a French clergyman and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607 and was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catho... | Ambrose Barlow
Ambrose Edward Barlow, O.S.B., (1585 – 10 September 1641) was an English Benedictine monk who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. He is one of a group of saints canonized by Pope Paul VI who became known as the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Early life and education.
Ambrose was born at ... | 33,662 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the Spanish adventurer who conquered Peru in the 16th century? | Hernán Cortés, who, leading a relatively small Spanish force but with local translators and the crucial support of thousands of native allies, achieved the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the campaigns of 1519–1521. This territory later became the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present day Mexico. Of equal importanc... | Diego Fernández
Diego Fernández () was a Spanish adventurer and historian of the 16th century.
Biography.
Born at Palencia, he was educated for the church, but about 1545 he embarked for Peru, where he served in the royal army under Alonzo de Alvarado. Andres Hurtado de Mendoza, marquess of Cañete, who became viceroy o... | 33,663 | triviaqa-train |
What is Europe's oldest parliament dating from 930 AD? | Althing
The Alþingi ("parliament" (Icelandic) and anglicised as or ) is the national parliament of Iceland. It is the oldest surviving parliament in the world, a claim shared by Tynwald. The Althing was founded in 930 at ("thing fields" or "assembly fields"), situated approximately east of what later became the country... | , clergy and representatives of cities, and subsequently faced demands for compensatory spending and greater external control and oversight of royal expenditures. Alfonso's convening of the Cortes is considered by many historians, including Australia's John Keane, to be instrumental to the formation of democratic parli... | 33,664 | triviaqa-train |
Which saint set up a community on the island of Iona? | important monastery (see Iona Abbey) during the Early Middle Ages. According to tradition the monastery was founded in 563 by the monk Columba, also known as Colm Cille, who had been exiled from his native Ireland as a result of his involvement in the Battle of Cul Dreimhne. Columba and twelve companions went into exil... | the founder of Tír Conaill). Moncreiffe speculated that the Mackinnons were also of this kindred, and noted their Coat of Arms bore the hand of the saint holding the Cross. Several "Mackinnons" were Benedictine Abbots of Iona, who were leaders of the Benedictine monastic community on the island of Iona. Finghuine MacFh... | 33,665 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the first Plantagenet monarch of England? | of arms, which usually showed other kingdoms held or claimed by them or their successors, although without representation of Ireland for quite some time. "Dieu et mon droit" has generally been used as the motto of English monarchs since being adopted by Edward III, but it was first used as a battle cry by Richard I in ... | at the Château d'Angoulême, in Angoulême, then part of the Duchy of Aquitaine. His name, Edward of Angoulême, is a territorial designation referring to his birthplace; this was a common naming practice in 14th-century England. Through his father, Edward, the Black Prince, he was a member of the House of Plantagenet and... | 33,666 | triviaqa-train |
Which English King immediately preceded the Tudors and was effectively the last Plantagenet monarch? | III. Joy Ibsen died in 2008. Her son Michael Ibsen gave a mouth-swab sample to the research team on 24 August 2012. His mitochondrial DNA passed down the direct maternal line was compared to samples from the human remains found at the excavation site and used to identify King Richard.
On 4 February 2013, the University... | in the female line.) The Tudors succeeded the House of Plantagenet as rulers of the Kingdom of England, and were succeeded by the House of Stuart. The first Tudor monarch, Henry VII of England, descended through his mother from a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster. The Tudor family rose to power... | 33,667 | triviaqa-train |
In which country does the Zambezi river empty into the Indian ocean? | rivers—the Nile, the Senegal, the Congo, now the Zambezi, too—were all sourced from the same great internal lake. The Portuguese were also told that the Mozambican Espirito Santo "river" (actually an estuary formed by the Umbeluzi, Matola and Tembe rivers) was sourced from a lake (hence its outlet became known as Delag... | . The only major river that flows out of Lake Victoria is the River Nile which flows north to the Mediterranean Sea. The Victoria Falls are on the Zambezi River which begins in Zambia and runs south and east to empty in the Indian Ocean.
b. Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake it is also the largest tropical lake and... | 33,668 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is the confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile? | the merger with the Blue Nile. These higher stretches being named the "Victoria Nile" (via Lake Kyoga to Lake Albert), the "Albert Nile" (to the South Sudan border) and then the "Mountain Nile" or "Bahr-al-Jabal" (down to Lake No). "White Nile" may sometimes include the headwaters of Lake Victoria, the most remote of w... | White Nile
The White Nile ( "") is a river in Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile; the other is the Blue Nile. The name comes from colouring due to clay carried in the water.
In the strict meaning, "White Nile" refers to the river formed at Lake No, at the confluence of the Bahr al Jabal and Bahr el Gha... | 33,669 | triviaqa-train |
In which decade did Edvard Munch paint The Scream? | continued to employ a variety of brushstroke techniques and color palettes throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, as he struggled to define his style. His idiom continued to veer between naturalistic, as seen in "Portrait of Hans Jæger", and impressionistic, as in "Rue Lafayette". His "Inger On the Beach" (1889), which ... | fewer than 2,000 human deaths has been identified.
In popular culture.
- The explosion has been theorized to be a source of inspiration for Edvard Munch's The Scream. The reddish sky in the background is the artist's memory of the effects of the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, which deeply tinted sunset skies ... | 33,670 | triviaqa-train |
Name the only novel by Emily Bronte? | Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Bra... | on major Victorian novelists in Britain, such as Emily Bronte, Mrs Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, as well as John Cowper Powys in the 20th-century. Margaret Drabble in "A Writer's Britain" suggests that Thomas Hardy "is perhaps the greatest writer of rural life and landscape" in English.
Human conceptions and... | 33,671 | triviaqa-train |
What is NH3 the chemical formula for? | hydrogen, where it can be used to power hydrogen fuel cells or directly within high-temperature fuel cells. The conversion of ammonia to hydrogen via the sodium-amide process, either for combustion or as fuel for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell, is possible. Conversion to hydrogen would allow the storage of hydrog... | emissions other than nitrogen and water vapour. The combustion chemical formula is 4 NH3 + 3 O2 → 2 N2 + 6 H2O, 75% water is the result.
Single fuel source Biofuels.
Single fuel source Biofuels Bioalcohol and ethanol.
The first commercial vehicle that used ethanol as a fuel was the Ford Model T, produced from 1908 thro... | 33,672 | triviaqa-train |
Give another name for Kaolin. | , Germany, India, Australia, South Korea, the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, Spain, South Africa, and the United States.
Mantles of kaolinitic saprolite are common in Western and Northern Europe. The ages of these mantles are Mesozoic to Early Cenozoic.
Kaolinite clay occurs in abundance in soils that ... | are sometimes called "common names" or (obsolete) "general names". A name can be given to a person, place, or thing; for example, parents can give their child a name or a scientist can give an element a name.
Caution must be exercised when translating, for there are ways that one language may prefer one type of name ov... | 33,673 | triviaqa-train |
In which year was the dwarf planet Pluto discovered? | Pluto
Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered and is the largest known plutoid (or "ice dwarf").
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was originally considered to be the ninth... | Eris, a dwarf planet in the scattered disc which is 27% more massive than Pluto, was discovered. This led the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term "planet" formally in 2006, during their 26th General Assembly. That definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a dwarf planet.
Pluto is the larges... | 33,674 | triviaqa-train |
At which university was Samuel Beckett from 1923 to 1927? | Ransom Center, Washington University, the University of Reading, Trinity College, Dublin, and Houghton Library. Given the scattered nature of these collections, an effort has been made to create a digital repository through the University of Antwerp.
Honours and awards.
- Croix de guerre (France)
- Médaille de la Résis... | Ann Beckett
Ann Beckett (5 February 1927 - 2002) was an Irish pioneer of occupational therapy, a sister of John Beckett (an Irish musician, composer and conductor) and Peter Beckett (a pioneering figure in Irish psychiatry). She was a cousin of the famous writer and playwright Samuel Beckett.
Early life.
Ann and her tw... | 33,675 | triviaqa-train |
Who plays Wycliffe on television? | played by Jack Shepherd, assisted by DI Doug Kersey (Jimmy Yuill) and DI Lucy Lane (Helen Masters).
Each episode deals with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the to... | resided in Swansea.
Acting.
Griffin appeared in many plays, television programmes and films both in Wales and throughout the United Kingdom. On television, she acted in the cult comedy "Satellite City", "Wycliffe", "Life Force", "Holby City", "Doctor Who", "Gavin & Stacey", "Coronation Street", and "Getting On". Griffi... | 33,676 | triviaqa-train |
Whose 1941 7th Symphony was called 'Leningrad'? | Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Artur Kapp, Rudolf Tobias and Dmitri Shostakovich, who taught at the conservatory during the 1960s, bringing it additional fame. The renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov also taught at the conservatory from 1871 to 1905. Among his students were Igor Stravinsky, Alexander Glaz... | city, calling it the "Leningrad Symphony". He wrote the symphony while based in the city during the siege of Leningrad. It was premiered in Samara in March 1942; a few months later, it received its first performance in the besieged Leningrad at the Bolshoy Philharmonic Hall under the baton of conductor Karl Eliasberg. ... | 33,677 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first king of the House of Lancaster? | issue in 1425. Their father Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March had been named heir presumptive of Richard II before Henry IV's accession; although it had been passed over at the time, Anne's son Richard also inherited this claim to the throne.
Richard of Conisburgh was executed following his involvement in the Southampt... | Constable Nuno Álvares Pereira, became immortal idols.
King John I had a first illegitimate son, Afonso, and a daughter Beatrice; after marrying Philippa of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's daughter, and establishing the House of Aviz, they had a first boy (died of young age), a girl Isabella (who became a famous duchess of ... | 33,678 | triviaqa-train |
Catherine Hogarth was the wife of which famous author? | Catherine Dickens
Catherine Thomson "Kate" Dickens (née Hogarth; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the mother of his ten children.
Early life.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1815, Catherine moved to England with her family in 1824.
She was the eldest daughter of 10 ch... | is sold to a Southern owner, he leaves Octavian with a means to escape. He makes a book of torture instruments which is discovered by Sharpe and subsequently destroyed.
- Mr. Sharpe: The man funds the Novanglian College of Lucidity when Lord Cheldthorpe refuses to continue his support. He strives to prove that Africans... | 33,679 | triviaqa-train |
In which sport are penalties awarded to the opposing team for clipping, holding and hooking? | Hooking (ice hockey)
Hooking is a penalty in ice hockey. The National Hockey League defines it in Rule 55 as "the act of using the stick in a manner that enables a player or goalkeeper to restrain an opponent."
Hooking in the rules.
The NHL covers hooking in Rule 55, which defines it as "the act of using the stick in a... | is allowed, and fighting has a zero-tolerance policy. Penalties are of the following classes:
- Minor penalties, such as boarding, charging, cross checking, elbowing, holding, illegal substitution, hooking, high-sticking, tripping, body contact, slashing, unsportsmanlike conduct and interference. The offending player m... | 33,680 | triviaqa-train |
What is the narne of the late playwright husband of the actress Maureen Lipman? | After her husband died in May 2004 she completed his autobiography "By Jack Rosenthal", and played herself in her daughter's four-part adaptation of the book, "Jack Rosenthal's Last Act" on BBC Radio Four in July 2006. She has created several volumes of autobiography from her "Good Housekeeping" columns and recently pu... | , the Michael Gross Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham; Maureen Lipman, the actress; Ronald Harwood, the Oscar-winning screenwriter; and the actress Tracy-Ann Oberman.
Playwright Israel Horovitz, who wrote a play in response to Churchill entitled "What Strong Fences Make", argued that while it ... | 33,681 | triviaqa-train |
Which driver won the first Grand Prix Formula One World Motor championship in 1950? | List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions
The Formula One World Drivers' Championship (WDC) is awarded by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to the most successful Formula One racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on individual Grand Prix results.
The Drivers' Champ... | 1950 French Grand Prix
The 1950 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 2 July 1950 at Reims-Gueux. It was race 6 of 7 in the 1950 World Championship of Drivers. The 64-lap race was won by Alfa Romeo driver Juan Manuel Fangio after he started from pole position. His teammate Luigi Fagioli finished second... | 33,682 | triviaqa-train |
Which racing driver won the Formula One Championship in 1981, 1983 and 1987? | , which expired on the last day of 2007.
On the track, the McLaren and Williams teams dominated the 1980s and 1990s, with Brabham also being competitive during the early part of the 1980s, winning two Drivers' Championships with Nelson Piquet. Powered by Porsche, Honda, and Mercedes-Benz, McLaren won sixteen championsh... | David Hunt (racing driver)
David Hunt (20 May 1960 – 11 October 2015) was an English racing driver and younger brother of 1976 Formula One world champion James Hunt.
Hunt started racing at 15 and moved up to Formula Ford in 1981. He competed in the British Formula Three Championship for five seasons from 1983 to 1987 a... | 33,683 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first woman to run for US Vice President in 1984? | . As a result, vice presidents were often excluded from the policy-making process of the new administration. Many times their relationships with the president and his staff were aloof, non-existent, or even adversarial.
The ultimate goal of vice presidential candidate selection is to help and not hurt the party's chanc... | she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35, but election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant issue. The presidential inauguration was in March 1873, and Woodhull's 35th birthday was sixth months later in September. In 1884, Belva Lockwood followed with a run for ... | 33,684 | triviaqa-train |
Who was Indira Gandhi's father? | Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first p... | former Union Law Minister in the Morarji Desai government. Bhushan, who briefly attended IIT Madras and Princeton University has a degree in law from Allahabad University. While still a student, Bhushan wrote "The Case that Shook India", a book on the case that set aside Indira Gandhi's election in 1974.
Legal activism... | 33,685 | triviaqa-train |
What is the popular name of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23? | Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the "Waldstein", Op. 53 and "Les Adieux", Op. 81a); it was composed durin... | Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor ""Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata", is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi.
The piece is one of Beethoven's most p... | 33,686 | triviaqa-train |
In which year was the Battle of Edgehill, the first battle of the English Civil War? | English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") principally over the manner of England's governance. The first (1642–1646) and second (1648–1649) wars pitted the supporters of King Charles ... | In 1641 he returned home and became Lieutenant-Colonel in a Scottish regiment. At the end of the same year he was involved in the plot known as the "Incident". At the outbreak of the English Civil War, Hurry joined the army of the Earl of Essex, and gave distinguished service at the Battle of Edgehill and Battle of Bre... | 33,687 | triviaqa-train |
Which vegetable has the Latin name solanum tuberosum? | , is featured in the hearty "locro de papas", a thick soup of potato, squash, and cheese.
Uses Europe.
In the UK, potatoes form part of the traditional staple, fish and chips. Roast potatoes are commonly served as part of a Sunday roast dinner and mashed potatoes form a major component of several other traditional dish... | , this creature was a horrific looking monster which has a number of names all referenced by the "Weapon Brown" Linus, including Agro Un Rama (a spoof of "Anung Un Rama", the real name of Hellboy), Pepon Grandismo ("Biggest Squash"), and Omega Vegetablus ("Final Vegetable"; the names are bastardized Latin). It is depic... | 33,688 | triviaqa-train |
Stewart Island is the third largest island of which Commonwealth country? | wind rather than birds, are not found on Stewart Island.
Noeline Baker purchased land near Halfmoon Bay in the early 1930s, and with a checklist by botanist Leonard Cockayne populated it with all the local indigenous plants. She gifted the land and her house to the government in 1940, and today Moturau Moana is New Zea... | Military exercises of the Republic of Cyprus
Cyprus is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean. A former British colony, it gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1960 and became a Commonwealth republic in 1961. The Republic of Cyprus is a developed country and has been a member of the European Union sinc... | 33,689 | triviaqa-train |
Which building complex in Liverpool was designed by Jesse Hartley in 1846? | his fireproof design and he designed the Albert Dock to these specifications.
Hartley’s improvements over earlier dock and warehouse design included the use of locks to keep the water at a constant level, so that loading and unloading of ships’ cargoes was not reliant on the tide and the enclosure of the dock with high... | Victoria Tower, Liverpool
Victoria Tower is a Grade II listed Gothic Revival clock tower located alongside Salisbury Dock in Liverpool, England. Positioned among the two river entrance gates to the Salisbury Dock itself, the tower acted as an aid to ships by providing both an accurate time and also warning of impending... | 33,690 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the opera 'Emilia di Liverpool' in 1824? | Emilia di Liverpool
Emilia di Liverpool ("Emilia of Liverpool"; also given as "L'eremitaggio di Liverpool") is a "dramma semiserio", ("half-serious") dramatic opera, in two acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti. Giuseppe Checcherini wrote the Italian libretto after the anonymous libretto for Vittorio Trento's "Emilia di... | 1823), Claudio di Liverpool in "Emilia di Liverpool" (1824), Iwano in "Otto mesi in due ore" (1827), and Max in "Betly" (1836). In 1825 he sang in the first performance of Saverio Mercadante's "Il signore del villaggio", a revised version of his 1824 opera "Il podestà di Burgos". In 1824 he sang in the premiere of his ... | 33,691 | triviaqa-train |
What is the state capital of Alaska? | Geography.
Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States and has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska is the only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; about of British Columbia (Canada) separat... | the term state-owned enterprise is murky. All three words in the term are challenged and subject to interpretation. First, it is debatable what the term "state" implies (e.g., it is unclear whether municipally owned corporations and enterprises held by regional public bodies are considered state-owned). Next, it is con... | 33,692 | triviaqa-train |
Which son of Sweyn Forkbeard became King of England in 1016? | Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England (Anglo-Norman and ) was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 927, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
On 12 July 927, the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were united by Æt... | Rural Development () between 2010 and 2014.
This page is a list of Ministers of Agriculture of Hungary.
Ministers of Agriculture, Industry and Trade (1848–1889).
Ministers of Agriculture, Industry and Trade (1848–1889) Hungarian Kingdom (1848–1849).
Parties
Ministers of Agriculture, Industry and Trade (1848–1889) Hunga... | 33,693 | triviaqa-train |
Which aircraft company manufactured the Spitfire? | Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. Many variants of the Spitfire were built, using several wing configurations, and it was produced in greater numbers than any other Britis... | learnt to fly in Cambridge University Air Squadron, qualifying as a pilot in 1928.
Design engineer.
Design engineer Esso.
He first worked for Esso.
Design engineer Spitfire undercarriage.
He designed Spitfire undercarriage legs when working for Maclaren Undercarriage Company Ltd, and while living in West Drayton, Middl... | 33,694 | triviaqa-train |
Who designed the crypt and original design of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in 1933? | the 1980s.
History Lutyens' design.
Following the purchase of the former Brownlow Hill workhouse site in 1930, Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944) was commissioned to provide a design which would be an appropriate response to the Giles Gilbert Scott-designed Neo-gothic Anglican cathedral then being built further along Hope S... | in the lantern was replaced by stainless steel, and the slate paving of the platform was replaced with concrete flags.
Cathedral crypt.
The crypt under Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral is the only part that was built according to Lutyens' design before construction stopped due to World War II; in 1962 Frederick Gibberd... | 33,695 | triviaqa-train |
Which pop group was co-founded by Syd Barrett in 1965/66? | , Barrett was inspired to write "Bob Dylan Blues". Barrett, now thinking about his future, decided to apply for Camberwell College of Arts in London. Barrett enrolled in the college in the summer of 1964 to study painting.
Life and career Pink Floyd years (1965–1968).
Starting in 1964, the band that would become Pink F... | badminton matches which were held in the building. A temporary wooden bridge across Wheeler Street was even constructed in the 1950s to join it to the neighbouring Guildhall for balls and other events.
In 1965, the venue ceased being used for trading after the Cattle Market site was opened as an alternative. In the 197... | 33,696 | triviaqa-train |
Whose first novel 'The Hunt for Red October' was published in 1984? | The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October is the debut novel by Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984 by the Naval Institute Press. It depicts Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius as he seemingly goes rogue with his country's cutting-edge ballistic missile submarine "Red October", and marks the first ... | , the novel was a big hit in the White House.
"The Hunt for Red October" was also popular among the military. On a 1985 visit to the , Clancy discovered 26 copies of the novel among the crew. "The Washington Post", in its original review, praised the novel as "the most satisfactory novel of a sea chase since C.S. Fores... | 33,697 | triviaqa-train |
At which resort did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in a major conference in February 1945? | and Crimea, various ethnic groups living in the region—the Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingushi, Karachai, Balkars, and Crimean Tatars—were accused of having collaborated with the Germans. Using the idea of collective responsibility as a basis, Stalin's government abolished their autonomous republics and between late 1943 and 19... | launching a fierce attack that included "kamikaze" suicide attacks by Japanese aircraft. Japanese forces on Okinawa held out until June 1945; U.S. forces suffered over 60,000 casualties during the operation.
Post-war planning.
In late 1943, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to meet to discuss strategy and post-wa... | 33,698 | triviaqa-train |
What is the oldest structure within the Tower of London, built by William the Conqueror in 1086? | Tower of London
The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of Lond... | church and tower remain Grade II listed and occasional services and events are held within.
History.
In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, ... | 33,699 | triviaqa-train |
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