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Four US states border Lake Michigan - Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and which other? | counterpart; the two are technically a single lake.
Lake Michigan is shared, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Ports along its shores include Chicago; Milwaukee; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Gary, Indiana; and Muskegon, Michigan. The word "Michigan" originally referred to the... | and snags. Unlike other American woodpeckers, it enjoys sitting in the open as opposed to sitting in heavy tree cover. It ranges mostly in the western to central United States, but can winter as far south as the US border with Mexico and summer as far north as Canada. It has been seen in four Midwestern states: Michiga... | 35,700 | triviaqa-train |
"Whose written works include ""Strange Interlude"" and ""Mourning Becomes Electra?" | Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill began work on it as early as 1923 and developed its scenario in 1925; he wrote the play between May 1926 and the summer of 1927, and completed its text for publication in January 1928, during the fina... | Drama. His first major hit was "The Emperor Jones", which ran on Broadway in 1920 and obliquely commented on the U.S. occupation of Haiti that was a topic of debate in that year's presidential election. His best-known plays include "Anna Christie" (Pulitzer Prize 1922), "Desire Under the Elms" (1924), "Strange Interlud... | 35,701 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the only vitamin that the human body can synthesize? | acid), vitamin B (pyridoxine), vitamin B (biotin), vitamin B (folic acid or folate), vitamin B (cobalamins), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamin D (calciferols), vitamin E (tocopherols and tocotrienols), and vitamin K (quinones).
Vitamins have diverse biochemical functions. Vitamin A acts as a regulator of cell and tiss... | and in the Iowa study, at this time were estimated (by labeled vitamin C dilution) to have a body pool of less than 300 mg, with daily turnover of only 2.5 mg/day.
Evolution.
The vast majority of animals and plants are able to synthesize vitamin C, through a sequence of enzyme-driven steps, which convert monosaccharide... | 35,702 | triviaqa-train |
In which year did Richard Nixon resign as US President? | Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until 1974. The only president to resign the office, he had previously served as the 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and prior to ... | made the mistake of choosing Joseph McCarthy as his running mate instead of Richard Nixon. However, Stevenson proved to be an extremely unpopular president, leading to his impeachment and subsequent resignation in August 1958. Stevenson was succeeded by John Kennedy, his untested 41-year-old vice-president who becomes ... | 35,703 | triviaqa-train |
"Who had a number 1 hit in 1980 with ""What's. Another Year""?" | What's Another Year
"What's Another Year" was Johnny Logan's first Eurovision Song Contest winner, achieving success in the 1980 edition of the Contest. This was Ireland's second Contest victory. Composed by Shay Healy, the song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in May.
The song is often misinter... | of the same name went to No. 1 on the country charts. The song would become an even bigger hit for Cristy Lane in 1980 going to number No. 1 on the country charts. Sellars had another Top 40 country hit in early 1975 with her cover version of Sammi Smith's "He's Everywhere" and released two more albums that year with "... | 35,704 | triviaqa-train |
What two-word French term is given to the last competitor during each stage of the Tour de France? | intermediate sprints classification with its red jersey was abolished in 1989, but the intermediate sprints have remained, offering points for the points classification and, until 2007, time bonuses for the general classification.
From 1968 there was a combination classification, scored on a points system based on stan... | Continental teams given wildcard invitations, all of which were French-based. The presentation of the teams took place at the harbour of Porto-Vecchio on the island of Corsica on 27 June, two days before the opening stage held in the town. Each team arrived by boat to the stage, before being introduced to the crowd.
Ea... | 35,705 | triviaqa-train |
"Who wrote the cult books called ""Chariots of the Gods"" and ""Return to the Stars""?" | Chariots of the Gods?
Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past (; in English, "Memories of the Future: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past") is a book written in 1968 by Erich von Däniken and translated from the original German by Michael Heron. It involves the hypothesis that the technologies and religions of m... | the German Writers Association and the International PEN Club. He was awarded with an honorary doctorate by the La Universidad Boliviana. He received the Huesped Illustre award from the cities of Ica and Nazca in Peru. In Brazil, he received the Lourenco Filho award in Gold and Platinum. In 2004, he was awarded the Exp... | 35,706 | triviaqa-train |
In what decade did cupro-nickel replace silver in British coins? | -nickel one-anna coin was introduced. In 1918–1919 cupro-nickel two-, four- and eight-annas were introduced, although the four- and eight-annas coins were only issued until 1921 and did not replace their silver equivalents. In 1918, the Bombay mint also struck gold sovereigns and 15-rupee coins identical in size to the... | coins from this period to ever depict Queen Elizabeth II. Coins with the portrait of King George VI continued to be issued despite his death. In 1957, cupro-nickel 1 rupee coins and .925 silver 5 rupee coins commemorating 2500 years of Buddhism were issued.
In 1963, a new coinage was introduced which omitted the Briti... | 35,707 | triviaqa-train |
What is the internet code for Austria? | Habsburg Monarchy
The Habsburg Monarchy (), also Austrian Monarchy or Danube Monarchy, is an unofficial umbrella term among historians for the kingdoms and countries in personal union with the Habsburg Archduchy of Austria between 1526 and 1804, when it was succeeded by the Austrian Empire. The Monarchy was a composite... | politics. He was elected to Clare County Council as a Fianna Fáil member in 1974 and was re-elected in 1979. During his second term on the council he acted as vice-chairman.
Honours.
Honours Player.
- Clarecatsle
- Clare Senior Hurling Championship (3): 1943, 1945, 1949
- Clare
- National Hurling League (1): 1945-46 (c... | 35,708 | triviaqa-train |
In the Bible, Peter was the brother of which other apostle? | 9:5 has also been taken to imply that he was married.
In the Synoptic Gospels, Peter (then Simon) was a fisherman along with his brother, Andrew, and the sons of Zebedee, James and John. The Gospel of John also depicts Peter fishing, even after the resurrection of Jesus, in the story of the Catch of 153 fish. In Matthe... | Chief Apostle and its claim for supremacy. The ministry of a Chief Apostle cannot be proved by the Bible as well as no other church leader can derive his absolute power from the special position of Peter among the disciples.
The new apostolic Chief Apostle Niehaus was led more and more by emotions, dreams and visions a... | 35,709 | triviaqa-train |
What was the city of Harare called when Zimbabwe was called Rhodesia? | Zimbabwe.
Rhodesia's largest cities were its capital, Salisbury, and Bulawayo. The white population, which grew to nearly 300,000, dominated the country's politics and economy, though they never made up more than 8% of the total population. Rhodesia developed an economy largely dependent on agriculture, manufacturing, ... | , held in Riviera Maya, Mexico in 2011.
History.
The Bank of Zambia has origins in the 1938 formation of the Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, which was based in Harare, in present-day Zimbabwe. The Board's jurisdiction included Northern Rhodesia, now called Zambia and Nyasaland, known as Malawi today.
In 1954 the Sout... | 35,710 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of Catherine Tate's famous schoolgirl character? | .
Tate was approached at a post-show party at the Edinburgh Festival by then-BBC controller of comedy Geoffrey Perkins, who encouraged Tate to develop her character ideas, especially to push the boundaries with her teenage character Lauren Cooper. Undertaking Perkins' advice, after a live show Tate found the audience w... | Craig McQuinn from "The Faster Times" argued that the producers of "The Office" seemed to be using her only because British people are ridiculous and are completely different to Americans. Dan Forcella from TV Fanatics, on the other hand, praised Catherine Tate's acting and her character, writing, "Tate's first appeara... | 35,711 | triviaqa-train |
Who has won 7 of the last 10 all Ireland senior hurling championships? | MacCarthy Cup. The All-Ireland Championship has always been played on a straight knockout basis whereby once a team loses they are eliminated from the championship. The qualification procedures for the championship have changed several times throughout its history. Currently, qualification is limited to teams competing... | and five points in the last five minutes. They defeated Limerick by 3–16 to 2–13.
The Vocational Schools team has made it to 12 All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship finals but have never won one.
Hurling Honours.
- All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships: 4
- 1981, 1985, 1994, 1998
- All-Ireland Under-21 Hurlin... | 35,712 | triviaqa-train |
The Sutherland Falls, the fifth highest waterfalls in the world are in which country? | Sutherland Falls
Sutherland Falls is a waterfall near Milford Sound in New Zealand's South Island. At 580 metres (1,904 feet) the falls were long believed to be the tallest waterfall in New Zealand. However, Browne Falls cascades 843 metres (2,766 feet) down a mountainside in Doubtful Sound, leading some to view that a... | Ramnefjellsfossen
Ramnefjellsfossen (also known as: Utigardsfossen or Utigordsfossen) is unofficially listed as the third-highest waterfall in the world in several publications. On the other hand, The World Waterfall Database, a waterfall enthusiast website, which includes all minor and seasonal waterfalls in the count... | 35,713 | triviaqa-train |
Which architect designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851? | prestigious place. Technology and moving machinery were popular, especially working exhibits." She also notes that visitors "could watch the entire process of cotton production from spinning to finished cloth. Scientific instruments were found in class X, and included electric telegraphs, microscopes, air pumps and bar... | James B. Cook
James B. Cook was an English-trained architect who worked in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1800s.
He was born in England and educated at King's College and Putney College. He served as a supervising architect on the construction of the Crystal Palace for London's Great Exhibition of 1851. He immigrated to the... | 35,714 | triviaqa-train |
Whose gang were the victims of the St Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929? | second-hand version of his confession. The newspaper declared that the crime had been "solved", despite being stonewalled by J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau, who did not want any part of the massacre case. Garbled versions of Bolton's story went out in the national media. Bolton, it was reported, claimed that the murder... | Bowles. All the defendants were acquitted of all charges.
Involvement in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Bernstein, a chief supplier of Canadian whiskey to Chicago Outfit leader Al Capone, is also suspected to have been involved in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Bernstein supposedly set up North Side Gang leader G... | 35,715 | triviaqa-train |
Who came fifth in the 2012 Olympic medal table behind USA, China. GB and Russia? | of the Han Chinese. The Han expanded the empire's territory considerably, with military campaigns reaching Central Asia, Mongolia, South Korea, and Yunnan, and the recovery of Guangdong and northern Vietnam from Nanyue. Han involvement in Central Asia and Sogdia helped establish the land route of the Silk Road, replaci... | the bronze medal behind team champion China and runner-up Russia by contributing scores to four apparatuses: pommel horse (14.133), rings (14.200), parallel bars (14.500) and high bar (14.400). Uchimura also qualified for the individual event final on the horizontal bar, winning the silver medal with a score of 14.800 ... | 35,716 | triviaqa-train |
Who first translated the New Testament into English in 1526? | saw the rise of Protestantism and an explosion of translations of the New (and Old) Testament into the vernacular. Notable are those of Martin Luther (1522), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1523), the Froschau Bible (1525–1529, revised in 1574), William Tyndale (1526, revised in 1534, 1535 and 1536), the Brest Bible (1563),... | .
The New Testament was first translated into Hebrew by Elias Hutter in his Polyglott edition of the New Testament in twelve languages: Greek, Syriac, Hebrew, Latin, German, Bohemian, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Danish and Polish, at Nuremberg, in 1599, 1600, in two volumes.
Some individual books were translated... | 35,717 | triviaqa-train |
What do we call the ancient Chinese board game known as weiqi in China? it is usually played on a board of 19 x 19 squares with black and white stones? | capturing races, or "semeai". In a capturing race, the group with more liberties (and/or better "shape") will ultimately be able to capture the opponent's stones. Capturing races and the elements of life or death are the primary challenges of Go.
A player may pass on determining that the game offers no further opportun... | .
The lone genus, "Dasycerus" Brongniart 1800, has four species in North America, and they are also found in the Palearctic and Oriental regions.
Further reading.
- Herman, L.H. 2001: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. I. Introduction, history, biographical ske... | 35,718 | triviaqa-train |
"What does the Latin phrase ""cogito ergo sum"" mean?" | sum" the ""ego sum cogitans"" (I am a thinking being) as the thinking substance with his ontological interpretation. It can also be considered that "Cogito ergo sum" is needed before any living being can go further in life".
Predecessors.
Although the idea expressed in "cogito, ergo sum" is widely attributed to Descart... | " (1908) uses the phrase as a practice sentence for signaling.
The first message sent on the Moscow–Washington hotline on August 30, 1963, was the test phrase "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890". Later, during testing, the Russian translators sent a message asking their American counterpart... | 35,719 | triviaqa-train |
Who was King of Denmark during world war two? A regnal number is not needed. | the same monarch, the monarch often retains the same number as he has already had in the older realm. King Christian X of Denmark thus became King Christian X of Iceland when Iceland became an independent kingdom in personal union with Denmark in 1918. The same is true for Commonwealth realms, where the monarch retains... | the latter supported militarily by Valdemar II of Denmark.
Guttorm's reign ended abruptly when the child king suddenly became ill and died. Rumours among the Birkebeiner held that Guttorm's illness and death had been caused by Haakon the Crazy's future wife Christina Nilsdatter, a claim considered dubious by modern his... | 35,720 | triviaqa-train |
"Name the book written in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln that according to its authors in a court case inspired Dan Brown to write ""The Da Vinci Code""?" | Michael Baigent
Michael Baigent (born Michael Barry Meehan, 27 February 1948 – 17 June 2013) was an author and speculative theorist who co-wrote a number of books that question mainstream perceptions of history and the life of Jesus. He is best known as co-writer of the book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail".
Biography.
Baigent... | High Court judge Sir Peter Smith rejected the copyright-infringement claim by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, and Random House won the court case. However, in the published extracts of his judgement the judge criticised the non-appearance of Blythe Brown and the vagueness of Dan Brown's evidence, saying, "He has pre... | 35,721 | triviaqa-train |
What is the English name for what the Welsh call Llyn Tegid? | Bala Lake
Llyn Tegid (, ), also known in English as Bala Lake (), is a lake in Gwynedd, Wales. The name Tegid may be related to Welsh "teg", meaning "fair". It was the largest natural body of water in Wales before its level was raised by Thomas Telford to help support the flow of the Ellesmere Canal. It is long by wide... | asked about a nondescript broken part he has removed from a car, and replies "Well I don't know the English word, but in Welsh we call it a "be'chi'ngalw."" In Welsh, "be'chi'ngalw" is a placeholder name, like "whatchamacallit" or "thingamajig" in English. and literally means "what [do] you call" and is a contracted fo... | 35,722 | triviaqa-train |
What is the internet code for Spain? | Persepolis Fortification Archive, are the property of Iran. A part of this impressive library archive is now kept in Iran and a great proportion of it is with the hand of Chicago Oriental Institute as a long term loan for the purpose of studying, analysing and translating.
Some scholars during the early Islamic period ... | cross-town street in New York City
- 34th Street (New York City Subway), multiple New York City subway stations
In other fields.
34 is also:
- The traffic code of Istanbul, Turkey
- "#34", a song by the Dave Matthews Band
- The number of the French department Hérault
- +34 is the code for international direct-dial phon... | 35,723 | triviaqa-train |
"Which us writer wrote ""On The Road"" in 1958?" | as early as 1948, based on experiences during his first long road trip in 1947. However, he remained dissatisfied with the novel. Inspired by a 10000-word rambling letter from his friend Neal Cassady, Kerouac in 1950 outlined the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and decided to tell the story of his years on the road w... | writer and star, Robert Mitchum. The Robert Mitchum version of the song did not appear in the 1958 movie "Thunder Road", but was released by Capitol Records.
He co-wrote "The House of Blue Lights" in 1946 with Freddie Slack, a song which was recorded originally by Freddie Slack with Ella Mae Morse on vocals, by The And... | 35,724 | triviaqa-train |
In the Bible, who was the wife of Abraham? | God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land originally given to Canaan but which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. Various candidates are put forward who might inherit the land after Abraham; and, while promises are made to Ishmael about founding a great nation, Isaac, Abraham's son by ... | Hence it receives its name twice, first after Abraham's dealings with Abimelech (), and again from Isaac who closes his own covenant with Abimelech of Gerar and whose servants also dig a well there (). The place is thus connected to two of the three Wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis.
According to the Hebrew... | 35,725 | triviaqa-train |
Kampuchea is a former name of which country? | 's 2015 Rule of Law Index ranked Cambodia 76 out of 102 countries, similar to other countries in the region.
Name.
The "Kingdom of Cambodia" is the official English name of the country. The English "Cambodia" is an anglicisation of the French "Cambodge", which in turn is the French transliteration of the Khmer "kampuci... | List of former Royal Air Force stations
This list of former RAF stations is a list of all stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force.
The stations are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. Stations initially to... | 35,726 | triviaqa-train |
"In what year did Enoch Powell make his famous ""rivers of blood"" speech?" | Rivers of Blood speech
The 'Rivers of Blood' speech was made by British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell on 20 April 1968, to a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His speech strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom and the ... | Studies" 48#3 (2009): 717–735.
External links.
- Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech, "The Daily Telegraph", 6 November 2007 – Full text of the speech
- Document – The Woman Who Never Was? BBC Radio 4, 22 January 2007
- Fiona Barton Widow in Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech really did exist Mail Online, 2 Febr... | 35,727 | triviaqa-train |
Who has competed in 7 of the last 10 all Ireland senior Gaelic football championship finals? | later there were accounts of games played between County sides (Prior, 1997).
By the early 19th century, various football games, referred to collectively as "caid", were popular in Kerry, especially the Dingle Peninsula. Father W. Ferris described two forms of "caid": the "field game" in which the object was to put the... | September 2018.
History.
Redmonds GAA have been in the Senior Hurling Championship Finals 10 times from their first finals appearance in 1892 to their last finals appearance in 1927. In the early years of the Gaelic Athletic Association clubs represented their county in the All-Ireland championships. Therefore, Redmon... | 35,728 | triviaqa-train |
Exegesis is the study and analysis of what? | Exegesis
Exegesis (; from the Greek from , "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text. Traditionally the term was used primarily for work with the Bible; however, in modern usage "biblical exegesis" is used for greater specificity to distinguish it from any other... | . Over time, Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā was just known as the Mīmāṃsā school, and the Uttara-Mīmāṃsā as the Vedanta school.
Mīmāṃsā scholars are referred to as "Mīmāṃsāka"s.
Darśana (philosophy) – central concerns.
Mīmānsā is one of the six classical Hindu "darśanas". It is among the earliest schools of Hindu philosophies. It has a... | 35,729 | triviaqa-train |
In which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical does the character Nellie Forbush appear? | extraordinary collection of some of musical theatre's best loved and most enduring classics, including "Carousel" (1945), "South Pacific" (1949), "The King and I" (1951) and "The Sound of Music" (1959). Some of these musicals treat more serious subject matter than most earlier shows: the villain in "Oklahoma!" is a sus... | , detailed novels centering on different places would dominate the bestseller lists.
Music and recordings.
Music and recordings Musical treatment.
The role of Nellie Forbush was the first time with Hammerstein that Rodgers made the leading female role a belter, rather than a lyric soprano like Laurey in "Oklahoma!" and... | 35,730 | triviaqa-train |
Which was the last club to lose in consecutive FA Cup Finals doing so in 1998 and 1999? | game, the last time a non-league side defeated a Level 1 club was in 1989 when Sutton United claimed a 2–1 victory at home over Coventry City, who had won the FA Cup less than two years prior.
In the 1971–72 FA Cup, a non-league side achieved a Level 1 giant killing that was voted "best FA Cup tie ever" in a 2007 poll ... | Managerial career Oldham and Bury.
Following his successful period as manager of Plymouth, Warnock rounded out the 1990s with two relegations, first at Oldham Athletic in the 1996-97 season, and then in 1998-99 at Bury.
Managerial career Sheffield United.
Warnock was appointed as manager of his boyhood club Sheffield U... | 35,731 | triviaqa-train |
Eleanor of Castile was the mother of which English monarch? | the death of many rebels, but not before the king had agreed to summon a parliament in 1265.
The next monarch, Edward Longshanks, was far more successful in maintaining royal power and responsible for the conquest of Wales. He attempted to establish English domination of Scotland. However, gains in Scotland were revers... | .
Other books, however, mention this coffin as being that of another Berengaria (1228–1288) and/or other dates, her niece, daughter of her brother King Ferdinand III of Castile, sister of King Alfonso X of Castile. But this niece, Infanta Berengaria was a nun at the Monastery of las Huelgas, Burgos, of Royal patronage,... | 35,732 | triviaqa-train |
Which African county has its capital in Lusaka? | North Road and Great East Road, it was chosen to replace Livingstone as the capital of the British colony of Northern Rhodesia.
After the federation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia in 1953, it was a centre of the independence movement amongst some of the educated elite that led to the creation of the Republic of Zamb... | now known as the Copperbelt.
- 1935 -
- Capital transferred to Lusaka.
- Strike of African mineworkers in the Copperbelt.
- 1938-64 - Anglo American Corporation (AAC) and the South African Rhodesian Selection Trust (RST), controlled copper industry.
- 1940 - African Mineworkers strike again.
- 1942 - Federation of Welf... | 35,733 | triviaqa-train |
Curly McLain is a character in which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical? | Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to the duo of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the ... | Some Enchanted Evening
"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific". It is "the single biggest popular hit to come out of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show." It is a three-verse solo for the leading male character, Emile, in which he describes seeing a stranger, k... | 35,734 | triviaqa-train |
Which record by Connie Francis kept Cliff Richard from the No.1 spot with his first hit 'Move It' in 1958? | that morning with the Shepherd Sisters in mind. Sedaka protested that Francis would be insulted, but Greenfield said that since she hated all the other songs they had performed, they had nothing to lose. Sedaka then played "Stupid Cupid." When he finished, Francis announced that he had just played her new hit song. It ... | Move It
"Move It" is a song written by Ian Samwell and recorded by Cliff Richard and the Drifters (the UK band that would later become "The Shadows"). Originally intended as the B-side to "Schoolboy Crush", it was released as Richard's debut single on 29 August 1958 and became his first hit record, reaching no.2 on the... | 35,735 | triviaqa-train |
Who founded the 'Ballet Russes' in 1909? | creation of the five major positions of the feet. By 1681, the first "ballerinas" took the stage following years of training at the Académie.
Ballet started to decline in France after 1830, but it continued to develop in Denmark, Italy, and Russia. The arrival in Europe of the Ballets Russes led by Sergei Diaghilev on ... | the Bolshoi company are two world-renowned Russian ballet companies that tour the world.
- Mariinsky Ballet (formerly Kirov ballet)
- Bolshoi Ballet
Other Russian ballet companies include:
- Ballets Russes, founded in 1909
- Moscow State Academy of Choreography, commonly known as The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, founded in ... | 35,736 | triviaqa-train |
The film Schindler's List was based on whose Booker Prize winning novel of 1982? | from 1985 to 1989.
Keneally was a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he taught the graduate fiction workshop for one quarter in 1985. From 1991 to 1995, he was a visiting professor in the writing program at UCI.
In 2006, Peter Pierce, Professor of Australian Literature, James Cook Un... | "Schindler's List"), the first novel by an Australian to win the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film "Schindler's List". He had already been shortlisted for the Booker three times prior to that: 1972 for "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith", 1975 for "Gossip from the Forest", and 1979 for "Confederates".
Many of his ... | 35,737 | triviaqa-train |
Which river flows through the city of Derby? | River Derwent, Derbyshire
The Derwent is a river in Derbyshire, England. It is long and is a tributary of the River Trent, which it joins south of Derby. Throughout its course, the river mostly flows through the Peak District and its foothills.
Much of the river's route, with the exception of the city of Derby, is rura... | .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and 0.083% is water.
The Canisteo River flows through the town past the communities of Cameron Mills, Derby Switch, and Rathbone. County Road 119 follows the course of the river.
Demographics.
As of the census of 2000... | 35,738 | triviaqa-train |
Which novel by Iris Murdoch won the 1978 Booker Prize? | The Bell" (1958), "A Severed Head" (1961), "The Red and the Green" (1965), "The Nice and the Good" (1968), "The Black Prince" (1973), "Henry and Cato" (1976), "The Sea, the Sea" (1978, Booker Prize), "The Philosopher's Pupil" (1983), "The Good Apprentice" (1985), "The Book and the Brotherhood" (1987), | Insects" (1992), was turned into the successful film also called "Angels & Insects" (1995), nominated for an Academy Award. Her novel "The Children's Book" was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
She has written critical studies of Dame Iris Murdoch, who was a friend, ... | 35,739 | triviaqa-train |
Which river flows through the town of 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... | 35,740 | triviaqa-train |
Which US president had the shortest term of office, only 31 days? | meeting, and Harrison asked him to read aloud a handwritten note which said simply "William Henry Harrison, President of the United States". He then announced: "William Henry Harrison, President of the United States, tells you, gentlemen, that, by God, John Chambers shall be governor of Iowa!"
Harrison's only official ... | office with 10 years, 5 months, and 17 days, but having only spent 2 years, 1 month, and 11 days as the elected President of Colombia before his death. The longest serving elected president was Álvaro Uribe Vélez with 8 years between 2002 and 2010 having been re-elected for a second term in 2006. Ramón González Valenci... | 35,741 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the music for the opera The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)? | La gazza ladra
La gazza ladra (, The Thieving Magpie) is a "melodramma" or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on "La pie voleuse" by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.
The composer Gioachino Rossini wrote quickly, and "La gazza ladra" was ... | in Miarka's possession, though she claims to have found them. After the Romani depart, the police start looking for them. Tintin also investigates Igor Wagner, whose behaviour he finds suspicious, but finds out that the musician is simply sneaking out to indulge in a horse-gambling habit.
Castafiore leaves for Milan to... | 35,742 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the part of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister? | Humphrey Appleby
Sir Humphrey Appleby, GCB, KBE, MVO, MA (Oxon), is a fictional character from the British television series "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister". He was played originally by Sir Nigel Hawthorne, both on stage and in a television adaptation of the stage show by Henry Goodman in a new series of "Yes, ... | Jobs for the Boys
"Jobs for the Boys" is the seventh episode of the BBC comedy series "Yes Minister" and was first broadcast 7 April 1980. In this episode, the final "Yes Minister" is uttered by Sir Humphrey Appleby. This is the last episode to feature Jim Hacker's political advisor, Frank Weisel, played by Neil Fitzwi... | 35,743 | triviaqa-train |
Who has scored the most test centuries (41) for Australia? | Shane Warne, Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Steve Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, Michael Hussey and Ricky Ponting. Following the 2006/07 Ashes series which Australia won 5 nil, Australia slipped in the rankings after the retirements of key players. In the 2013/14 Ashes series, Australia again defeated England 5 nil and climbed... | ). Ponting's first Test century was achieved against England at Headingley in 1997, when he scored 127. His highest innings is 257, scored against India in late-2003 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Ponting, among 41 centuries, has scored 6 double centuries, while his Test centuries have been made at 21 cricket grounds... | 35,744 | triviaqa-train |
Which machine was invented by Hiram Moore in 1834? | Combine harvester
The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining three separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, and winnowing—into a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine a... | .
Lyon was also a major financial backer of Hiram Moore, an inventor and a founder of the village of Climax, Michigan. Moore reportedly invented a working farm machine in the 1830s and 1840s that "combined" the functions of a threshing machine and a reaper, decades before combines were commonly available. Moore's desig... | 35,745 | triviaqa-train |
Who has scored the most runs in an innings (380) in tests for Australia? | Shane Warne, Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Steve Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, Michael Hussey and Ricky Ponting. Following the 2006/07 Ashes series which Australia won 5 nil, Australia slipped in the rankings after the retirements of key players. In the 2013/14 Ashes series, Australia again defeated England 5 nil and climbed... | , the other batsmen set a world record for the most first-class runs scored in one day's play, adding 721 on the opening day. Harvey returned for the innings victory against Oxford University, but scored only 23 as Australia amassed 431 in their only opportunity at the batting crease.
The next match was against the Mar... | 35,746 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the music for the opera Idomeneo? | was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Christoph Willibald Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s. The most renowned figure of late 18th-century opera is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially ... | at the Tanglewood Music Center. In 1946 she made her opera debut as one of the nieces in the United States premiere of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes" at the Tanglewood Music Festival; a production which was conducted by Leonard Bernstein. She went on to perform with Goldovsky's New England Opera Theater in 1947-1948... | 35,747 | triviaqa-train |
In which South American country is Mount Chimborazo the highest mountain? | Chimborazo
Chimborazo () is a currently inactive stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Andes. Its last known eruption is believed to have occurred around 550 A.D.
With a peak elevation of , Chimborazo is the highest mountain in Ecuador. Chimborazo is not the highest mountain by elevation above sea lev... | List of names on Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya () is the second highest mountain in Africa and the highest mountain in Kenya, after which the country is named. It lies just south of the equator and currently has eleven small glaciers. Various expeditions reached it in the following years. It was first climbed in 1899 by Half... | 35,748 | triviaqa-train |
Who created the fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh, played on TV by Roy Marsden? | actually get out and triumph against enormous odds. I identified with that character the most."
Marsden's portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in Anglia TV's P.D. James series spanned fifteen years. The series began as adaptations played out in serials of five or six one-hour episodes each, which were, unusually for the time, r... | Roy Marsden
Roy Marsden (born Roy Anthony Mould; 25 June 1941) is an English actor, who is probably best known for his portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations of P. D. James's detective novels.
Education.
Marsden attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and spent four terms there. H... | 35,749 | triviaqa-train |
Which cabinet minister is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green? | Chingford and Woodford Green (UK Parliament constituency)
Chingford and Woodford Green is a Conservative held constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 creation by Iain Duncan Smith of the Conservative Party.
Boundaries.
The London Borough of Waltham Forest w... | of 24 council seats that make up Chingford and Woodford Green the Conservatives hold 18 and Labour hold 5.
The boundaries of Chingford and Woodford Green take in a large slice of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The constituency includes Chingford in the north bordering Enfield down through Highams Park and Hatch ... | 35,750 | triviaqa-train |
By what name is the tree Fagus sylvatica more commonly known? | . One of the most beautiful European beech forests called Sonian Forest ("Forêt de Soignes/Zoniënwoud") is found in the southeast of Brussels, Belgium. Beech is a dominant tree species in France and constitutes about 10% of French forests. The largest virgin forests made of beech trees are Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh () in Ukr... | Nyssa sylvatica
Nyssa sylvatica, commonly known as Tupelo, Black gum, sour gum, is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to eastern North America from the coastal Northeast USA and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern Texas, as well as Mexico.
Names.
"Nyssa sylvatica"'s genus name "(Nyssa)" refers to a ... | 35,751 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the highest mountain in Germany? | . In the Alps a summit is classed as independent, according to the UIAA definition, if it has a prominence of 30 metres or more. In order for a peak to qualify as an independent mountain, however, it must have a prominence of at least 300 metres. Based on this definition only the main summits of entire mountain massifs... | a rectangle, which is a quadrilateral, which is a plane figure, which is a…
- A square is a rhombus, which is a quadrilateral, which is a plane figure, which is a…
- A square is a quadrilateral, which is a plane figure, which is a…
- A square is a plane figure, which is a…
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The non-genus portion of the ... | 35,752 | triviaqa-train |
Which jazz trumpeter and bandleader had the forenames John Birks? | for melodic development, rhythmic language, and harmonic substitution, during informal, late-night jam sessions hosted in small clubs and apartments. Key figures in this development were largely based in New York and included pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, drummers Max Roach and Kenny Clarke, saxophonist Char... | public service
- Duke Ellington, composer
- John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer
- Joseph Brodsky, poet
- Memorial Service for Eleanor Roosevelt, activist, diplomat, U.S. First Lady
See also.
- List of the Episcopal cathedrals of the United Stat... | 35,753 | triviaqa-train |
Which Welshman defeated Chris Eubank to win the WBO Super Middleweight World Title in 1997? | , five years prior to the WBO.
In the lighter weight divisions, however, long-reigning champions during the 1990s such as Chris Eubank, Dariusz Michalczewski, Johnny Tapia, and Naseem Hamed gave the WBO title increasingly more prestige. The WBO was also made popular by boxers such as Marco Antonio Barrera, Oscar De La ... | -middleweight champion.
Collins defeated the previously unbeaten long-reigning champion Chris Eubank in Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland in March 1995 to win the WBO super-middleweight title. Collins had enlisted the help of a guru, and they led the press to believe that Collins would be hypnotised for the fight. True ... | 35,754 | triviaqa-train |
Which record by Culture Club was the best-selling UK single of 1983? | million records worldwide, including over 6 million BPI certified records sold in the UK and over 7 million RIAA certified records sold in the US. Their hits include "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time (Clock of the Heart)", "Church of the Poison Mind", "Karma Chameleon", "Victims", "It's a Miracle", "The War Song",... | popular Club 18-30 scheme.
The song was released in July 1983 and peaked at #4 in the UK, going on to become the 39th best selling single of 1983. It was the fourth and final single to be taken from the album "Fantastic". Wham! then achieved four UK #1 singles before splitting at their height in 1986.
The song is also ... | 35,755 | triviaqa-train |
Prior to Barack Obama in 2009 who was the last US president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? | President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
In contemporary times, the presiden... | 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people". The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama's promotion of nuclear nonprolife... | 35,756 | triviaqa-train |
Which artist painted A Wheatfield With Cypresses in 1889? | Wheat Field with Cypresses
A Wheatfield with Cypresses is any of three similar 1889 oil paintings by Vincent van Gogh, as part of his wheat field series. All were exhibited at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental asylum at Saint-Rémy near Arles, France, where Van Gogh was voluntarily a patient from May 1889 to May 1890. Th... | clinic and its garden became the main subjects of his paintings. He made several studies of the hospital's interiors, such as "Vestibule of the Asylum" and "Saint-Rémy (September 1889)". Some of his works from this time are characterised by swirls, such as "The Starry Night". He was allowed short supervised walks, duri... | 35,757 | triviaqa-train |
The duck-billed platypus is endemic to which country? | sewn together.
The unique features of the platypus make it an important subject in the study of evolutionary biology, and a recognisable and iconic symbol of Australia. It has appeared as a mascot at national events and features on the reverse of the Australian twenty-cent coin, and the platypus is the animal emblem of... | supposed to be the actual Jesus. "Damien" is also the first episode to feature South Park's bar, which is simply called "Bar".
Prior to the broadcast, Parker and Stone said "Damien" would be the first episode in which Kenny would not be killed; ultimately, however, Kenny was shot by Jimbo at the end of the pay-per-view... | 35,758 | triviaqa-train |
The Road Not Taken was written by which American poet? | 1871–1900), Robert Frost (1874–1963) and Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Frost, in particular, is a commanding figure, who aligned strict poetic meter, particularly blank verse and terser lyrical forms, with a "vurry Amur'k'n" (as Pound put it) idiom. He successfully revitalized a rural tradition with many English anteceden... | That Road Not Taken
"That Road Not Taken" is a song recorded by American country music artist Joe Diffie. It was released in August 1995 as the fifth and final single from his 1994 album "Third Rock from the Sun". The song reached #40 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by Debora... | 35,759 | triviaqa-train |
What is the capital of the Middle Eastern emirate, Qatar? | a main television network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. Al Jazeera initially launched in 1996 as an Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel of the same name, but has since expanded into a global network of several speciality TV channels known collectively as the Al Jazeera Media Network.
It has been report... | Catholic Church in Qatar
The Catholic Church in Qatar is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
History.
There are 200,000 Catholics in Qatar, most of whom are expatriate workers from the Philippines, Lebanon, India, South America and the United Kingdom. Qatar forms ... | 35,760 | triviaqa-train |
A monument begun in 1948, in the Black Hills of South Dakota , when finished, will be of which American Indian Lakota chief? | ), the Crazy Horse Memorial, and the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, the world's largest mammoth research facility.
Attractions in the Northern Hills include Spearfish Canyon, historic Deadwood, and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held each August. The first Rally was held on August 14, 1938 and the 75th Rally in 2015 saw m... | reports of the Upper Platte Indian Agency and accounts by Lakota eyewitnesses. Chief Blue Horse, Chief Big Mouth and other Wágluȟe acted as intermediaries throughout Red Cloud's War.
Red Cloud's War Treaty of Ft. Laramie 1868.
Blue Horse and Red Cloud were signatories to the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868. The treaty w... | 35,761 | triviaqa-train |
The film 'Infamous' is about which author? | Infamous (film)
Infamous is a 2006 American drama film based on George Plimpton's 1997 book, "Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career". It covers the period from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, during which Truman Capote researched and wrote his ... | the Blue Eyed Six moniker for his Sherlock Holmes short story, "The Red-Headed League" The story alludes to the matter through the criminals' use of a made-up millionaire from Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
- The story of the Blue Eyed Six is recounted in a stage play, which plays locally in Pennsylvania, and in a documentary ... | 35,762 | triviaqa-train |
What is the second brightest star in the constellation Orion? | Orion (constellation)
Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world. It is one of the most conspicuous and recognizable constellations in the night sky. It was named after Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology. Its brightest stars are the supergiants: blue-white Rigel... | Beta Eridani
Beta Eridani (β Eridani, abbreviated Beta Eri, β Eri), formally named Cursa , is the second-brightest star in the constellation of Eridanus, located in the northeast end of this constellation near the shared border with Orion. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is 2.796, so it can be viewed with th... | 35,763 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the Muse of love poetry? | even then there was some variation in both their names and their attributes: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (flutes and lyric poetry), Thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Terpsichore (dance), Erato (love poetry), Polyhymnia (sacred poetry), and Urania (astronomy).
According to Pau... | Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution" by Tristan Taormino, Karen Green, and Ann Magnuson
- "Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry" by Gary Mex Glazner
- "We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics." edited by Laura Hinton and Cyn... | 35,764 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of William Wordsworth's sister, who was also a poet and pianist? | , before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.
Early life.
The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Wordsworth ... | Park by Anthony Keck in about 1780.
Ledbury was home to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who spent her childhood at Hope End. It is also the birthplace of poet laureate John Masefield, after whom the local secondary school is named. William Wordsworth's 1835 sonnet "St. Catherine of Ledbury", concerning a local anchor... | 35,765 | triviaqa-train |
Which actor, famous for his portrayal of gangsters, was born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Romania in 1893? | Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; ; December 12, 1893January 26, 1973) was a Romanian American actor of stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age. He appeared in 40 Broadway plays and more than 100 films during a 50-year career and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangste... | Emmanuel Orenday
Emmanuel Orenday (born 19 May 1984) is a Mexican actor. Born in Aguascalientes, Mexico. He is most recognised for his portrayal of Paulino Prieto, the co-lead character on the Televisa telenovela "Sin tu mirada". His first major role was in the Telemundo series "El Señor de los Cielos". | 35,766 | triviaqa-train |
Which American football team are known as the Vikings? | challenged the NFL's dominance. The AFL began in relative obscurity but eventually thrived, with an initial television contract with the ABC network. The AFL's existence forced the conservative NFL to expand to Dallas and Minnesota in an attempt to destroy the new league. Meanwhile, the AFL introduced many new features... | to the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League, Cleveland Fusion of the Women's Football Alliance and Cleveland SC of the National Premier Soccer League.
Collegiately, NCAA Division I Cleveland State Vikings have 16 varsity sports, nationally known for their Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team. NCAA... | 35,767 | triviaqa-train |
Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of which American mountain range? | Mount Mitchell
Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland eastern North America. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina; in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians, about northeast of Asheville. It is protected by Mount Mitchell State... | Mount Jefferson, stratovolcano
- Mount Mazama
- Mount McLoughlin, stratovolcano
- Mount Mitchell
- Mount Tabor (Oregon), an extinct volcanic cinder cone
- Mount Thielsen
- Mount Washington, shield volcano
- Newberry Volcano, shield volcano
- Pine Mountaim
- Pueblo Mountain, highest in the Pueblo Mountains
- Rogers Peak... | 35,768 | triviaqa-train |
Which film of 1958 starred Ingrid Bergman as missionary Gladys Aylward? | Gladys Aylward
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book "The Small Woman", by Alan Burgess, published in 1957, and made into the film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness", starring Ingrid Bergman, in 1958. The film ... | Ingrid Bergman portrays British missionary to China Gladys Aylward who is assigned as a foreigner the task by a local Mandarin to unbind the feet of young women, an unpopular order that the civil government had failed to fulfill. Later, the children are able to escape troops by walking miles to safety.
- Ruthanne Lum M... | 35,769 | triviaqa-train |
Who succeeded John Quincy Adams as president of the USA in 1829? | number of votes in 1828 election was triple the number of votes in the 1824 election. This increase in votes was due not only to the recent wave of democratization, but also because of increased interest in elections and the growing ability of the parties to mobilize voters.
Later congressional career (1830–1848).
Late... | , 1817 when he was succeeded by Thomas Scott Williams.
In 1829, Tallmadge was among a group of Federalists who defended the honor of the late Connecticut Senator Uriah Tracy against accusations by John Quincy Adams and William Plumer that Tracy was a leader of a conspiracy in 1804 to separate the New England states in... | 35,770 | triviaqa-train |
Which stretch of water separates Tasmania from mainland Australia? | generally the windiest time of the year with afternoon sea breezes starting to take effect on the coast.
Geography Soils.
Despite the presence of some Quaternary glaciation, Tasmania's soils are not more fertile than those of mainland Australia, largely because most are severely leached and the areas with driest climat... | Little Christmas Island
Little Christmas Island is a small, flat, granite island, with an area of about 2 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Schouten Island Group, lying close to the eastern coast of Tasmania near the Freycinet Peninsula. It is close to the Tasmanian mainland and, at low tide, is separat... | 35,771 | triviaqa-train |
What nationality is Liverpool FC footballer Sami Hyypia? | Sami Hyypiä
Sami Tuomas Hyypiä (; born 7 October 1973) is a Finnish football manager and former defender.
Hyypiä began his playing career with Ykkönen side Kumu and soon moved to Veikkausliiga outfit MyPa. He spent four years at the club, helping them win the Finnish Cup in 1992 and 1995. He moved to Willem II in 1995 ... | for Football League Championship CEO of the Year at the same event at Chelsea FC's Stamford Bridge stadium in London.
Oscar Garcia resigned for personal reasons at the end of the 2013/14 season and working closely with Tony Bloom, Brighton's dynamic young chairman, Barber started another hunt for a manager to lead Brig... | 35,772 | triviaqa-train |
Who was Hitler's minister of propaganda? | the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula.
Early Nazi Party (1919–33).
Hitler put these ideas into practice with the reestablishment of the "Völkischer Beobachter", a daily newspa... | proclaimed it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations. Disseminating news from foreign broadcasts could result in the death penalty. Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and later Minister for Armaments and War Production, later said the regime "made the complete use of all technical means for domination of its own cou... | 35,773 | triviaqa-train |
What was the Christian name of Judge Jeffreys (1645-1689)? | George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, PC (15 May 1645 – 18 April 1689), also known as "the Hanging Judge", was a Welsh judge. He became notable during the reign of King James II, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor (and serving as Lord High Steward in certain instances). ... | Pea Festival on the Sunday.
Hawkstone Park is nearby.
Notable people.
- Wem was the fiefdom of Judge Jeffreys (1645–1689), known as the "hanging judge" for his willingness to impose capital punishment on supporters of the Duke of Monmouth. His seat was Lowe Hall at The Lowe, Wem. In 1683 he was made Baron Jeffreys of W... | 35,774 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the Christmas Oratorio in 1734? | Christmas Oratorio
The Christmas Oratorio (), , is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 and incorporates music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a no... | diesel exhaust particles, silica, nanotubes, 15‐deoxy‐Δ12,14 prostaglandin J2, nitro-oleic acid, hydrogen peroxide, and succinylacetone.
Roles in physiology.
Heme oxygenase expression is induced by oxidative stress, and in animal models increasing this expression seems to be protective. Carbon monoxide released from he... | 35,775 | triviaqa-train |
Which dramatist and poet was murdered by Ingram Frazer in Deptford in 1593? | his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.
Though Deptford began as two small communities, one at the ford, and the other a fishing village on the Thames, Deptford's history and population has been main... | the crowd looks up and recognises her beloved; at the same time Jonson and Nashe see him.
Marlovian theory Context.
Zeigler was writing before Leslie Hotson discovered the records of the inquest into the death of Marlowe, identifying his killer as Ingram Frizer. The name "Francis Frazer" derives from a document in the ... | 35,776 | triviaqa-train |
In what year did the Aberfan disaster take place? | Aberfan disaster
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip at around 9:15 am on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil and overlaid a natural spring. A period of heavy rain led to a build-up of water within t... | to the disaster.
In May 1997 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh planted a tree at the Aberfan Memorial Garden. In October 2016, the fiftieth anniversary of the disaster, memorial events took place at the garden and at the cemetery; the Prince of Wales represented the Queen, and government ministers were present to pay... | 35,777 | triviaqa-train |
Which US female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'Shrimp Boats' and 'You Belong To Me'? | Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer bef... | and Amy Weston became a session singer, performing with a trio, "Daddy's Money", and singing in commercials.
In the 1950s, Stafford had a string of popular hits with Frankie Laine, six of which charted. Their duet of the Hank Williams song "Hey Good Lookin'" made the top ten in 1951. She had her best-known hits"Jambala... | 35,778 | triviaqa-train |
Which UK female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'How much is that doggie in the window' and 'Jimmy Unknown'? | in January 1953 by Mercury Records as catalog numbers 70070 (78 rpm) and 70070X45 (45 rpm) under the title "The Doggie in the Window", with the flip side being "My Jealous Eyes". It reached No. 1 on both the "Billboard" and "Cash Box" charts in 1953, and sold over two million copies.
Mercury, however, had poor distribu... | acclaim to leave the band and pursue a solo recording career.
Roza's "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?", a cover version of Patti Page's original produced by Dick Rowe, was the peak of her career. Further covers of "Hey There" and "Jimmy Unknown" gave her small hits in the mid-1950s. Roza disliked her chart-top... | 35,779 | triviaqa-train |
In what year did The Great Train Robbery take place? | Great Train Robbery (1963)
The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963, at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
After tampering with the lineside sign... | Leland, to participate in an armored car robbery to take place during a four-hour stopover in Chicago during the trio's train trip from Los Angeles to New York. Mapes' worried wife Jeanne joins him on the train, concerned about his not having had a job in more than a year.
Tucker and his henchman Sidney (Glass) fly ah... | 35,780 | triviaqa-train |
What was Elvis Presley's first No. 1 record in the UK? | Up", and "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear". Already an international star, he was attracting fans even where his music was not officially released. Under the headline "Presley Records a Craze in Soviet", "The New York Times" reported that pressings of his music on discarded X-ray plates were commanding high prices in Lenin... | reached No. 1 on the UK charts. With this, Westlife broke an unexpected record of the most consecutive number-one singles in the UK, having their first seven consecutive singles debut at the top by a debuting act and group, and by an act, a group, a male group, a pop act and a pop group in UK and became the fastest num... | 35,781 | triviaqa-train |
Which famous Hollywood actor was born Roy Harold Scherer in Illinois in 1925? | Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. He was viewed as a prominent "heartthrob" of the Hollywood Golden Age, and he achieved stardom with roles in films such as "Magnifi... | Tyler MacDuff
Tyler Glenn Duff Jr. (September 12, 1925 – December 23, 2007), was an American actor, primarily on television westerns and dramas who was cast as Billy the Kid in "The Boy from Oklahoma" (1954).
Biography.
A native of Hollywood, California, MacDuff was the son of Tyler Duff, Sr. (1890–1967), originally fr... | 35,782 | triviaqa-train |
Which American football team are known as the Steelers? | against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. This is the first recorded instance of a player being paid to participate in a game of American football, although many athletic clubs in the 1880s offered indirect benefits, such as helping players attain employment, giving out trophies or watches that players could pawn for money... | between the two cities are connected via the Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpike. The Steelers lead the series 75–58–1 as of the end of the 2018 season, including a 2–0 playoff record against Cleveland. The Steelers have dominated the series in recent years, posting a 34–6–1 record against the Browns since their 1999 return... | 35,783 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1972 film starred Diana Ross as Billie Holiday? | years. In 1961 she was voted to the Down Beat Hall Of Fame and soon after Columbia reissued nearly a hundred of her early records. In 1972 Diana Ross' portrayal of Holiday in "Lady Sings The Blues" was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe. Holiday would go on to be nominated for 23 posthumous Grammy awards.
Bi... | GABRQ
Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit theta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the "GABRQ" gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a subunit of the GABAA receptor.
The θ subunit has highest sequence similarity with the β1 subunit. This subunit coassembles with:
- α2, β1, and γ1
- α3 and β1
- α3, β1, ... | 35,784 | triviaqa-train |
Name the writer of The History Boys, winner of the 2006 Tony award for best play? | Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University, where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboratio... | Frances de la Tour
Frances de la Tour, also Frances J. de Lautour, (born 30 July 1944) is an English actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom "Rising Damp" from 1974 until 1978. She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.
She performed as Mrs. Lintott in the play "The ... | 35,785 | triviaqa-train |
Which stretch of water separates the North and South islands in New Zealand? | first Parliament met in 1854. In 1856 the colony effectively became self-governing, gaining responsibility over all domestic matters other than native policy. (Control over native policy was granted in the mid-1860s.) Following concerns that the South Island might form a separate colony, premier Alfred Domett moved a r... | Rangitoto Channel
The Rangitoto Channel is one of several passes between the islands of the inner Hauraki Gulf, close to the mouth of the Waitematā Harbour to the east of Auckland in New Zealand. The channel is an important stretch of water as it is the only deep water approach to Auckland Port for large ships such as ... | 35,786 | triviaqa-train |
Who succeeded Andrew Johnson as US President in 1869? | President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
In contemporary times, the presiden... | (the first election after adopting the new state constitution). The "Petersburg Index" grouped Carr with carpetbaggers, notwithstanding his nearly two decades of residence in the county, perhaps in part because he succeeded George W. Bolling (1806-1875), of the long locally prominent Bolling family, who had received a ... | 35,787 | triviaqa-train |
'It's Oh So Quiet' and Venus as a Boy' were hit singles for which female artist? | 1949 by Ginette Garcin and the Jacques Hélian Orchestra.
The song was covered by Icelandic musician Björk in 1995. It was released as the third single from her second album "Post" and remains her biggest hit, reaching number 4 in the UK and spending 15 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. Fuelled by the Spike Jonze-directed ... | The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits
The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits is a greatest hits album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M. issued in February 1980 which contained all their biggest hits up until that point, including non-album singles "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" and "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday",... | 35,788 | triviaqa-train |
In Roman mythology who was the wife of Jupiter? | , Juno and Minerva later became central to official religion, replacing the Archaic Triad — an unusual example within Indo-European religion of a supreme triad formed of two female deities and only one male. The cult of Diana became established on the Aventine Hill, but the most famous Roman manifestation of this godde... | Neptune (mythology)
Neptune ( ) was the god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion. He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. In the Greek-influenced tradition, Neptune was the brother of Jupiter and Pluto; the brothers presided over the realms of Heaven, the earthly world, and the Underworld. Salacia was h... | 35,789 | triviaqa-train |
Who composed the Hungarian Dances in 1869? | Hungarian Dances (Brahms)
The Hungarian Dances () (Hungarian: Magyar táncok) by Johannes Brahms (WoO 1), are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1869.
They vary from about a minute to five minutes in length. They are among Brahms's most popular works and were the most profitabl... | (Liszt). He was President of the British Liszt Society for many years, until his death. In 1975 he invited the Argentinian young pianist Enrique A. Danowicz, in order to take his musical education under his personal care at the Menuhin School of Music in London,U.K., where Kentner was director at the time.
Kodaly compo... | 35,790 | triviaqa-train |
What was the Christian name of Lord Byron? | Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the historical leading figures of the Romantic movement of his era. He is regarde... | -Poujeaux, and the remainder being passed to the Castaing family. Further divisions in the 1860s resulted in what would become Chasse-Spleen, and the châteaux Maucaillou and Poujeaux.
One account explaining the estate's name comes from a visit by Lord Byron in 1821, when he became so enthralled by the vines that he sai... | 35,791 | triviaqa-train |
What name was given to the type of art particularly associated with Jackson Pollock? | by researchers at Harvard University showed the presence in one painting of a synthetic pigment that was not patented until the 1980s, and materials in two others that were not available in Pollock's lifetime.
In 2007, a traveling museum exhibition of the paintings was mounted and was accompanied by a comprehensive boo... | .
Gutai's first American appearance at the Martha Jackson Gallery in 1958 faced many accusations from critics exclaiming that the art was imitating Jackson Pollock. However, Gutai art did not copy from Pollock but rather took what inspiration it needed to be able to address the issue of freedom after the world war in J... | 35,792 | triviaqa-train |
From whom did Henry Cooper first win the British heavyweight title in 1959? | : lost to Anatoly Perov (Soviet Union) by decision, 1-2.
Henry was at one time the British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight champion. His early title challenges were unsuccessful, losing to Joe Bygraves for the Commonwealth belt (KO 9), Ingemar Johansson for the European belt (KO 5), and Joe Erskine (PTS 15) for ... | Henry Cooper
Sir Henry Cooper (3 May 19341 May 2011) was a British heavyweight boxer. Cooper held the British, Commonwealth, and European heavyweight titles several times throughout his career, and unsuccessfully challenged Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight championship in 1966.
Following his retirement from the s... | 35,793 | triviaqa-train |
Which former US world heavyweight champion knocked out Henry Cooper in four rounds in 1966? | 15-round decision in January 1959. The winner of the fight was pencilled in to fight for Floyd Patterson's heavyweight title, but Cooper turned down the chance; London fought instead and was knocked out by Patterson in May 1959. Cooper continued to defend his British and Commonwealth belts against all comers, including... | until Thomas gave up after eight rounds. The following month, Bowe knocked out Bert Cooper in two rounds, which added to his reputation and high ranking.
In March 1991, Bowe knocked out 1984 Olympic Super Heavyweight Gold medalist Tyrell Biggs. In Bowe's next fight, ex-champion Tony Tubbs appeared to outbox and outsmar... | 35,794 | triviaqa-train |
Which US oceanographer led the teams which discovered the wrecks of the Titanic in 1985 and the Bismarck in 1989? | it was not until 1 September 1985 that a Franco-American expedition led by Robert Ballard succeeded.
The team discovered that "Titanic" had in fact split apart, probably near or at the surface, before sinking to the seabed. The separated bow and stern sections lie about a third of a mile (0.6 km) apart in Titanic Canyo... | Marine archaeology Other wrecks "Bismarck".
Ballard undertook an even more daunting task when he and his team searched off the coast of France for the German Battleship "Bismarck" in 1989, using an ocean-crawling robot. The 15,000 foot deep water in which it sank is 4,000 feet deeper than that where the "Titanic" sank.... | 35,795 | triviaqa-train |
Which football team play their home games at the Don Valley Stadium? | Don Valley Stadium
The Don Valley Stadium was a sports stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The venue, which was completed in September 1990, hosted the 1991 World Student Games. It was designed by Sheffield City Council's Design & Building Services and named after the nearby River Don.
The stadium and facil... | Sheffield Giants
The Sheffield Giants are a British American football team based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. They play in the BAFA Premier Division North. They were formed in 2008 as the Sheffield Predators but rebranded to the Giants in 2016 in a nod to the Steel City Giants who folded in the 1980s.... | 35,796 | triviaqa-train |
Which British comedian was born in Hall Green, Birmingham in 1924 and died in Sydney in 1968? | Tony Hancock
Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.
High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series "Hancock's Half Hour", first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong profession... | H. Silverman (1924–2004), American medical researcher
- Peter Silverman (born 1931), Canadian journalist
- Sarah Silverman (born 1970), American comedian and actress
- Steven Silverman (born 1954), American politician
- Susan Silverman, American-Israeli Reform rabbi
- Syd Silverman (1932–2017), American owner and publi... | 35,797 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog to whom she famously addressed a poem? | arts. She received comfort from a spaniel named Flush, a gift from Mary Mitford. (Virginia Woolf later fictionalised the life of the dog, making him the protagonist of her 1933 novel "").
Between 1841 and 1844 Barrett Browning was prolific in poetry, translation and prose. The poem "The Cry of the Children", published ... | Captain Horatio Hornblower is depicted, when urgently needing sailors to make up his crew, as stopping a ship of the British East India Company and impressing a large part of its sailors – the sailors being very reluctant, since conditions in the Royal navy ships were far worse than in those of the civilian Company.
Po... | 35,798 | triviaqa-train |
Name the year. Churchill makes his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton Missouri, Henry Fonda stars as Wyatt Earp in 'My Darling Clementine', and murderer Neville Heath is hanged at Pentonville Prison. | city and Westminster College are perhaps best known as the venue where British statesman Winston Churchill introduced the phrase "Iron Curtain" in a 1946 speech.
History.
The first settlement in the county was 1808 at Cote Sans Dessein along the Missouri River. Early leaders considered the territory between Wainwright ... | up to Butch Cassidy's gang and calls in Wyatt Earp.
- "Alias Jesse James" (1959) – Bob Hope stars and Hugh O'Brian briefly appears as Wyatt Earp.
- "Warlock" (1959) with Henry Fonda, who had played Earp by name in "My Darling Clementine"; he plays a fictionalized version named Clay Blaisdell in this film.
- "The Secret... | 35,799 | triviaqa-train |
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