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The Kadjar and Twizy models of cars are produced by which company? | Renault Twizy
The Renault Twizy is a two-seat electric car designed and marketed by Renault and manufactured in Valladolid, Spain. Legally classified in Europe as a heavy quadricycle (light quadricycle for the lower-powered Urban 45 model), the Twizy has a maximum range of .
The Twizy debuted as a concept car at the 20... | chocolate company, scaled down from 1:87 scale to fit inside Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs. Most of these vehicles, though nicely done like the VW bug convertible and the NSU Ro80, were made in Hong Kong. Some were apparently original models, not copies of previously existing Wiking cars.
Today old Wiking models are o... | 40,400 | triviaqa-train |
Baltimore is the largest city of which US state? | county came in 1659, among the now 23 counties of the State of Maryland. This assumes that a certain amount of organization and appointments in the middle 17th Century had already occurred. Previously, (old) Baltimore County was known more as a geographical entity than a political one, with its territorial limits inclu... | East of the Beltway, MD 372 intersects Maiden Choice Lane, where the highway reduces to a two-lane undivided highway, and Beechfield Avenue before entering the city of Baltimore. The state highway runs alongside Loudon Park National Cemetery as a four-lane undivided street before meeting its eastern terminus at US 1, w... | 40,401 | triviaqa-train |
Which British general commanded the forces who defeated the French at Quebec in 1759 led by The Marquis de Montcalm? | Death.
While riding back towards the city, General Montcalm was hit in the back by musket shot. Assisted by three soldiers, he regained the city where he was taken before a surgeon, who announced Montcalm would not live through the night. During the afternoon, the general drew on his last reserves of strength and signe... | -in-command of an expedition to capture the Fortress of Louisbourg. Following the success of the Siege of Louisbourg he was made commander of a force which sailed up the Saint Lawrence River to capture Quebec City. After a long siege Wolfe defeated a French force under the Marquis de Montcalm, allowing British forces t... | 40,402 | triviaqa-train |
"Which northern Irish singer-songwriters only UK top 20 hit was a duet with Cliff Richard, entitled ""Whenever God Shines His Light""?" | and albums from the late 1970s into the early 1980s, followed by another strong run in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a strong fan base had been reestablished and Richard remained one of the best-known music artists in the country. Over the decade of the 1980s he recorded with Olivia Newton-John, Elton John, Stevie Wo... | album charts. The title song, "Irish Heartbeat", was originally recorded on his 1983 album "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart".
The 1989 album, "Avalon Sunset", which featured the hit duet with Cliff Richard "Whenever God Shines His Light" and the ballad "Have I Told You Lately" (on which "earthly love transmutes into t... | 40,403 | triviaqa-train |
From which club did FC Barcelona sign Neymar in 2013? | to 74, surpassing Real Madrid's total amount of official trophies. The Super Cup victory also saw Guardiola win his 12th trophy out of a possible 15 in his three years at the helm of the club, becoming the all-time record holder of most titles won as a coach at Barcelona.
In December, Barcelona won the Club World Cup f... | success was due to a large extent to their formidable forward trio composed of Lionel Messi, Neymar and summer signing Luis Suárez, who scored an unprecedented total of 122 goals in all competitions to become the trio with most goals in Spanish football history.
Season overview.
Season overview May.
At the end of the 2... | 40,404 | triviaqa-train |
Which battle of 23 June, 1757, was a major victory for the British East India Company's troops over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies? | Battle of Plassey
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757, under the leadership of Robert Clive. The battle consolidated the Company's presence in Bengal, which later expanded to cover much of India over the next hundr... | .
Colonial Bengal Austrian settlement (1700s).
The Ostend Company of the Austrian Empire operated a settlement in Bankipur, Bengal during the 18th century.
Colonial Bengal British East India Company (1757–1858).
When the East India Company began strengthening the defences at Fort William (Calcutta), the Nawab, Siraj Ud... | 40,405 | triviaqa-train |
"The adjective ""vulpine"", appertains to which animal?" | Fox
Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. Foxes have a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or "brush").
Twelve species belong to the monophyletic "true foxes" group of genus "Vulpes". Approx... | seen in the archaic English name for the animal, "musquash". Because of the association with the "musky" odor, which the muskrat uses to mark its territory, and its flattened tail, the name became altered to musk-beaver; later it became "muskrat" due to its resemblance to rats.
Similarly, its specific name "zibethicus"... | 40,406 | triviaqa-train |
"Who directed Robert De Niro in the film ""Taxi Driver""?" | interviews.
When asked why he would not play Jesus Christ in Martin Scorsese's 1988 film "The Last Temptation of Christ", he explained on at least two different occasions:
In addition, De Niro has played a number of Catholic characters in his movies, including a Catholic penitent in the 1986 film "The Mission".
De Niro... | compares the mind-set and actions of Breivik to examples from popular culture, in particular the thoughts and actions of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) in the 1976 film "Taxi Driver", wherein he first analyses in his own mind the problems of his environment (New York streets controlled by pimps and drug dealers) but th... | 40,407 | triviaqa-train |
Who was president of Malawi from 1966 to 1994? | Hastings Banda
Hastings Kamuzu Banda (15 February 1898 – 25 November 1997) was the prime minister and later president of Malawi from 1964 to 1994 (for the first year of his rule as it achieved independence in 1964, Malawi was the British protectorate of Nyasaland). In 1966, the country became a republic and he became p... | country's 1966, 1994 and 1995 constitutions, the President is executive head of state. The first President was elected by the National Assembly, but later presidents were elected in direct popular elections for a five-year term. In the event of a vacancy, the Vice-President becomes President.
See also.
- List of coloni... | 40,408 | triviaqa-train |
"Who wrote the 1968 novel ""A Kestrel for a Knave""?" | A Kestrel for a Knave
A Kestrel for a Knave is a novel by English author Barry Hines, published in 1968. It is set in a mining area (only ever referred to as "the City") and tells of Billy Casper, a young working class boy troubled at home and at school, who only finds solace when he finds and trains a kestrel whom he ... | Cathy Come Home", read the manuscript to the unpublished novel and purchased the rights for their new production company Kestrel Films in July 1967.
"A Kestrel for a Knave" was published in 1968. It tells the story of Billy Casper, a troubled and neglected schoolboy living in a mining village who finds comfort in tendi... | 40,409 | triviaqa-train |
In Greco-Roman mythology, who is the Muse of Tragic 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... | Battus of Malta
In Greco-Roman mythology, Battus () was a semi-legendary king of Malta who offered sanctuary to Anna Perenna, the sister of Dido, the Carthaginian founder in Virgil's Aeneid. Battus features briefly in Ovid's Fasti as the protector of Anna Perenna.
Appearance in Ovid's "Fasti".
After Dido's tragic death... | 40,410 | triviaqa-train |
In which organ of the body can the Islets of Langerhans be found? | Pancreatic islets
The pancreatic islets or islets of Langerhans are the regions of the pancreas that contain its endocrine (hormone-producing) cells, discovered in 1869 by German pathological anatomist Paul Langerhans. The pancreatic islets constitute 1 to 2% of the pancreas volume and receive 10–15% of its blood flow.... | for transplanting a number of cells including islets of Langerhans for diabetes treatment, parathyroid cells and adrenal cortex cells.
Clinical relevance Encapsulated cells Encapsulated hepatocytes.
Shortage of organ donors make artificial cells key players in alternative therapies for liver failure. The use of artific... | 40,411 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1978 film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson was an African - American adaptation of a 1939 film starring Judy Garland? | a number-one hit. She also starred in two other feature films, "Mahogany" (1975) and "The Wiz" (1978), later acting in the television films "Out of Darkness" (1994), for which she also was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and "Double Platinum" (1999).
Ross was named the "Female Entertainer of the Century" by "Billbo... | A Star Is Born (1954 film)
A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film written by Moss Hart, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and directed by George Cukor. Hart's screenplay is an adaptation of the original 1937 film, which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell... | 40,412 | triviaqa-train |
Chablis is a white wine from which wine growing region of France? | of the Premier Crus are on southeast facing slopes.
Appellation and classification Chablis Grand Crus.
There are seven officially delineated Grand Cru "climats", covering an area of , all located on one southwest facing hill overlooking the town of Chablis at elevations between . One vineyard there, La Moutonne, betwe... | it is known for its "sweet blandness". It is referred to as a "three-way grape" because it is used as table grape, to make raisins, and to make wine. In the United States it is the base for wine generically called "chablis". This wine is named for the Chablis region of France, but it is not a true Chablis wine. In the ... | 40,413 | triviaqa-train |
Who deposed King Idris in a coup in Libya in 1969? | History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi became the "de facto" leader of Libya on 1 September 1969 after leading a group of young Libyan military officers against King Idris I in a bloodless coup d'état. After the king had fled the country, the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) headed by Gaddafi ... | of Libia" or "Libya".
Libyan Arab Republic.
In 1969 King Idris I was deposed in a military coup and stamps including the word "Kingdom" were altered in a variety of ways to delete that word. Stamps were first issued marked L.A.R. then LAR and from the 1970s began to be inscribed "Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiri... | 40,414 | triviaqa-train |
"In the novel of the same name, the car ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", was built and driven by whom?" | it runs in from 1907 until its final race in 1909, when the car crashes and catches fire, ending its racing career. The car eventually ends up in an old garage in rural England, where two children, Jeremy and Jemima Potts, have grown fond of it. However, a man in the junkyard intends to buy the car from the garage owne... | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (disambiguation)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film starring Dick Van Dyke.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment.
- "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang", the original 1964 novel by Ian Fleming
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (car), the vintage ra... | 40,415 | triviaqa-train |
The foremost of the Nine Muses, according to Hesiod, who was the muse of epic 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... | would help inspire people to do their best.
Functions In literature.
Ancient authors and their imitators invoke Muses when writing poetry, hymns or epic history. The invocation occurs near the beginning of their work. It asks for help or inspiration from the Muses, or simply invites the Muse to sing directly through th... | 40,416 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the main river flowing through the Portuguese capital of Lisbon? | Odysseus on his journey home from Troy. Although modern archaeological excavations show a Phoenician presence at this location since 1200BC, neither of these folk etymologies has any historical credibility.
Lisbon's name origin may, in fact, have been derived from Proto-Celtic or Celtic "Olisippo", "Lissoppo", or a sim... | Maipo River
The Maipo River is the main river flowing through the Santiago Metropolitan Region and the Valparaiso Region of Chile. It is located just south of the capital of Santiago. The Mapocho River, which flows through central Santiago, is one of its tributaries. Its headwaters are on the west slope of Maipo volcan... | 40,417 | triviaqa-train |
Brouilly, Morgon, Fleurie and Julienas are among the better classifications of wine from which popular wine-growing area of France? | cooking, whereas olive oil is more commonly used in the South. Moreover, each region of France has iconic traditional specialities: Cassoulet in the Southwest, Choucroute in Alsace, Quiche in the Lorraine region, Beef bourguignon in the Bourgogne, provençal Tapenade, etc. France's most renowned products are wines, incl... | bubbles became more popular, doctors throughout France and Europe commented on the health benefits of the sparkling bubbles which were said to cure malaria. As more Champenois winemakers embarked on this new and completely different wine style, the rivalry with Burgundy mellowed and eventually waned.
Classifications an... | 40,418 | triviaqa-train |
"Who wrote the operetta, ""The Merry Widow"", first performed in 1905?" | national composer of Austria. The Theater an der Wien never failed to draw huge crowds when his stage works were first performed. After many of the numbers the audience would call noisily for encores.
Franz von Suppé, a contemporary of Strauss, closely modeled his operettas after Offenbach. The Viennese tradition was c... | 1943.
History Merry widow.
A corselet was released by Warner's in 1952, named after "The Merry Widow", a 1905 operetta which has been adapted several times into feature-length films. "Merry widow" remains a common generic term for a corsetry type garment in the United States, or a "basque" in the UK. It is usually stra... | 40,419 | triviaqa-train |
"In ""The Prisoner of Azkaban"" who was Harry Potter's godfather?" | of Ron and Ginny's father, to be the culprit who slipped the book into Ginny's belongings.
The third novel, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", follows Harry in his third year of magical education. It is the only book in the series which does not feature Lord Voldemort in any form. Instead, Harry must deal with... | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on J. K. Rowling's 1999 novel of the same name. The film, which is the third instalment in the "Harry Potter" film series, was ... | 40,420 | triviaqa-train |
In 2001 Martin Creed notoriously won the Turner Prize, for an installation consisting of an empty room, with what happening every five seconds? | on and off" consisting of an empty room whose lighting periodically came on and went off. Artist Jacqueline Crofton threw eggs at the walls of the room containing Creed's work as a protest. At the prize ceremony, Madonna gave him the prize and said, "At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would a... | Morse code, but it was not until later than he learned that Ferris and Turner were responsible for this unique method of communication.
Fortunately, an assistant in the telephone exchange, Charlie Walters, was alert as to what was happening, and switched on the ringer circuit on a phone that connected directly with the... | 40,421 | triviaqa-train |
In which constellation is Arcturus, the fifth brightest star in the night sky, located? | called Arctophylax "bear guardian" by the Greeks, and his mother into Ursa Major (Greek: Arctos "the bear"). The account is given in Hyginus's "Astronomy".
Aratus in his "Phaenomena" said that the star Arcturus lay below the belt of Arctophylax, although according to Ptolemy in the "Almagest" it lay between his thighs.... | Vega
Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This star is relatively close at only 25 light-years from the Sun, and, together with Arcturus and Sirius, one of the most luminous stars in ... | 40,422 | triviaqa-train |
"Who played Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 film ""My Fair Lady""?" | London.
The film stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins, with Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper and Wilfrid Hyde-White in supporting roles. A critical and commercial success, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. In 1998, the American Film I... | My Fair Lady (film)
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical drama film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza D... | 40,423 | triviaqa-train |
Since 1843, in which town of southern England has Arkell's brewery been located? | Arkell's Brewery
Arkell's Brewery was established in Swindon, England by John Arkell in 1843, and has been owned by members of the Arkell family since its establishment. It is Swindon's oldest company, built initially on the massive expansion of Swindon in the Victorian era with the arrival of the railways and the deci... | - "Mustang Black"
- "Hoperation IPA"
- "1843 Craft Lager"
Most recently, Arkell's Kingsdown ale was named champion beer at the 2016 Taste of the West Product Awards. It's Craft 1843 Lager won SIBA's BeerX celebration of British Beer Gold Award 'Champion' Beer 2014 & SIBA Pale and Golden Lagers Gold Award South Region 2... | 40,424 | triviaqa-train |
"Who is the author of the books ""Foucault's Pendulum"" and ""The Island of the Day Before""?" | Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum (original title: "Il pendolo di Foucault" ) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988, and an English translation by William Weaver appeared a year later.
"Foucault's Pendulum" is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefi... | Il nome della rosa" (1980; English translation: "The Name of the Rose", 1983)
- "Il pendolo di Foucault" (1988; English translation: "Foucault's Pendulum", 1989)
- "L'isola del giorno prima" (1994; English translation: "The Island of the Day Before", 1995)
- "Baudolino" (2000; English translation: "Baudolino", 2001)
- ... | 40,425 | triviaqa-train |
On which river do Basle, Strasbourg and Cologne stand? | Basel
Basel (; also Basle ; German pronunciation: ; ; ) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants.
Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and German... | the Maximilian Railway together with the Ludwigshafen–Strasbourg railway were in competition with the Baden railways for long-distance traffic. The long-haul trains on the Maximilian Railway worked the Amsterdam – Cologne – Bingerbrück – Rockenhausen – Neustadt – Wissembourg – Strasbourg – Basle route. Once the First W... | 40,426 | triviaqa-train |
In which city is Kingsford Smith airport? | when conditions require. Runway 16R/34L is presently the longest operational runway in Australia, with a paved length of and between the zebra thresholds.
History Modern history.
By the 1960s, the need for a new international terminal had become apparent, and work commenced in late 1966. Much of the new terminal was de... | International Terminal at Brisbane Airport. Kingsford Smith sold the plane to the Australian Government in 1935 for £3000 so it could be put on permanent display for the public. The plane was carefully stored for many years before the current memorial was built.
Kingsford Smith Drive in Brisbane passes through the subu... | 40,427 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1952 musical about the introduction of talkies, has a title song which was once parodied by Morecambe and Wise? | as the man demonstrating the technology of talking pictures.
- Tommy Farrell as Sid Philips, the director of the movie who feature the song "Beautiful Girl".
Gwen Verdon She provided the Tap sounds of Gene Kelly’s “Dancing In the Rain” sequence. She said this was done while tapping in water. She announced this when int... | the 1921 Broadway musical "Bombo," where it was performed by Al Jolson. It became a well-known Jolson standard: the first of his several recordings of the song was on Columbia Records in October 1921. It has also been recorded by many other artists.
Spike Jones and Doodles Weaver produced a parody that began with the l... | 40,428 | triviaqa-train |
"Which of Hector Berlioz's operas is based on ""Much Ado About Nothing”?" | Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz (, ; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as the "Symphonie fantastique" and "Harold in Italy", choral pieces including the Requiem and "L'Enfance du Christ", his three operas "Benvenuto Cellini", "Les Troyens" and... | . He designed costumes for the 20th Century Fox film "That Lady" (1955, starring Olivia de Havilland and Paul Scofield) and the short ballet film "Spanish Fiesta" (1942).
He was invited to London by John Gielgud to design the sets and costumes for Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing", in 1949. He also designed the se... | 40,429 | triviaqa-train |
"The winner of the Nobel prize for Literature in 1932, who wrote ""Forsyte Saga""?" | The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize–winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large commercial upper-middle-class English famil... | of "The Forsyte Saga" and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in a house on Kingston Hill which was later named after him. Today, it houses an elderly care centre.
- William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, spent extended periods as a house-guest of friends in ... | 40,430 | triviaqa-train |
According to the Holy Bible, in order to marry which woman did King David send her husband, Uriah the Hittite, to meet his death in battle? | Uriah the Hittite
Uriah the Hittite ( – "ʾŪriyyāh haḥittī") was a soldier in King David’s army mentioned in the biblical Second Book of Samuel. He was the husband of Bathsheba and was sent to the front lines of battle by order of King David. Uriah's wife had become pregnant by King David in Uriah's absence. Although th... | (2018)
- EPs
- "White Wizzard" (2008)
- "High Speed GTO" (2009)
- Singles
- "Over the Top" (2010)
- "Shooting Star" (2010)
- "Marathon of Dreams" (2014)
- "Break Out" (2016)
External links.
- White Wizzard at the Encyclopaedia Metallum | 40,431 | triviaqa-train |
"The ""Sons of the Desert"" is the international appreciation society of which cinematic duo?" | The Sons of the Desert
The Sons of the Desert is an international fraternal organization devoted to the lives and films of comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The group takes its name from a fictional lodge that Laurel and Hardy belonged to in the 1933 movie "Sons of the Desert".
In 1964, three years after the book... | move to color by 12 years.
Episode #323 (August 12, 1956), in conjunction with the 1956 Democratic Party Convention, was a special Chicago episode broadcast from the studios of CBS owned-and-operated WBBM-TV (630 N. McClurg Ct., Chicago, IL).
Episode #397 (January 12, 1958) was a special Hollywood episode broadcast fro... | 40,432 | triviaqa-train |
How many cards are used in the card game Bezique? | the most famous proponent of the game was Winston Churchill, an avid player and early expert of Six-Pack, or "Chinese" Bezique. There is some evidence that the English writers Wilkie Collins and Christina Rossetti were also enthusiasts. However, since the late nineteenth century the game has declined in popularity.
Ove... | Persian Patience
Persian Patience (or simply Persian) is a patience card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. The unusual feature of this game is the fact that the two decks are decks used in Piquet and Bezique, i.e. those that have the Deuces (twos), Treys (Threes), Fours, Fives, and Sixes removed.
Th... | 40,433 | triviaqa-train |
King Khalid international airport serves which capital city? | King Khalid International Airport
King Khalid International Airport ( "", ) is located north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, designed by the architectural firm HOK, and Arabian Bechtel Company Limited served as the construction manager on behalf of the Saudi government.
This airport consists of five passenger terminals (only ... | - Faisalabad, Pakistan
- King Faisal Medical City, Abha 2.4 Billion Saudi Riyal Project (Under Construction)
Khalid of Saudi Arabia.
Reign: 25 March 1975 – 13 June 1982
- King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital
- King Khaled Military City Airport
- King Khalid Air Base
- King Khalid Foundation
- King Khalid International A... | 40,434 | triviaqa-train |
Prince Orlofsky, the maid Rosalinde, Dr Falke and the jailer Frosch, are all characters in which operetta, first performed in 1874? | " version, which is how audiences today are mostly presented with the genre: in an opera house with opera singers, rather than in a private theatre with courtesans in the lead roles.
Operetta in German.
Operetta in German Austria–Hungary.
The most significant composer of operetta in the German language was the Austrian... | - Erich Arnold as Gabriel von Eisenstein
- Jarmila Ksírová as Rosalinde von Eisenstein
- Sonja Schöner as Adele
- Herbert Kiper as Dr. Falke
- Gerd Frickhöffer as Prinz Orlofsky
- Rolf Weih as Alfred
- Hans Wocke as Gefängnisdirektor Frank
- Joseph Egger as Gefängniswärter Frosch
- Elvira Sternbeck as Ida
- Hans Klerin... | 40,435 | triviaqa-train |
"Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film ""The Man with the Golden Gun""?" | popular film weapons, which surveyed approximately 2,000 film fans.
On 10 October 2008, it was discovered that one of the golden guns used in the film, which is estimated to be worth around £80,000, was missing (suspected stolen) from Elstree Props, a company based at Hertfordshire studios.
Production Music.
The theme ... | is a spoof of the golden gun used in the James Bond novel "The Man with the Golden Gun". Unlike the one from the James Bond series, this is a gold-plated Thompson/Center Contender with extremely powerful expanding bullets of piercing or explosive force.
Music.
The song Stephen Chow sang while playing the piano is 李香蘭 b... | 40,436 | triviaqa-train |
By what one-word name is the painter, born around 1260 in Siena with the surname di Buoninsegna, usually known? | subterranean baptistry are Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Jacopo della Quercia and others. The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo contains Duccio's famous "Maestà" (1308–11) and various other works by Sienese masters. More Sienese paintings are to be found in the Pinacoteca, e.g. 13th-century works by Dietisalvi di Speme.
The Pi... | comics artist
- Graziano Pellè (born 1985), Italian football (soccer) striker
- Graziano Rossi (born 1954), Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
- Graziano Salvietti (born 1956), Italian former professional racing cyclist
- Graziano Santucci, O.S.A. (died 1517), Italian Roman Catholic bishop of Alatri
Given ... | 40,437 | triviaqa-train |
"Who played King Henry the Eighth opposite Paul Scofield's ""Sir Thomas More"" in the 1966 film, ""A Man for all Seasons""?" | or balanced" to reflect the different experience of places like Hong Kong.
Film and TV movies.
The play was adapted for Australian television in 1964.
Film and TV movies 1966 film.
Paul Scofield, who played the leading role in the West End and Broadway stage premieres, played More again in the first of two film version... | , Scofield is best known for his Academy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award- winning performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons". Scofield had originally played the same part on stage in the West End and in a Tony Award-winning performance on Broadway. Scofield is also one of the few actors to a... | 40,438 | triviaqa-train |
The American state of Georgia is known by what official nickname? | Ear. In 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a crown colony, with a governor appointed by the king.
The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the America... | List of Ohio state symbols
Ohio, which is also known by its nickname, The Buckeye State, has many official symbols. What follows is a comprehensive list of state symbols of Ohio, each of which is accompanied by a brief description and corresponding facts. The majority of these items are officially recognized by state l... | 40,439 | triviaqa-train |
"Who wrote the book on which Tchaikovsky based his opera, ""Eugene Onegin""?" | Eugene Onegin (opera)
Eugene Onegin (, "Yevgény Onégin", ), Op. 24, is an opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto, organised by the composer himself, very closely follows certain passages in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse, retaining much of his poetry. Tchai... | ." Glazunov later sent Tchaikovsky a copy of his "Poème lyrique" for orchestra, about which Tchaikovsky had written enthusiastically to Balakirev, and had recommended for publication to his publisher P. Jurgenson.
According to critic Vladimir Stasov, Glazunov and Tchaikovsky first met in October 1884 at a gathering hos... | 40,440 | triviaqa-train |
Despite its name how many bytes are actually in a kilobyte? | Kilobyte
The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix "kilo" as 1000 (10); per this definition, one kilobyte is 1000 bytes. The internationally recommended unit symbol for the kilobyte is kB.
In some areas of information technology, par... | and mega.
Many dictionaries have noted the practice of using traditional prefixes to indicate binary multiples.
Oxford online dictionary defines, for example, megabyte as: "Computing: a unit of information equal to one million or (strictly) bytes."
The units Kbyte, Mbyte, and Gbyte are found in the trade press and in I... | 40,441 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the 1902 poem Sea Fever? | John Masefield
John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels "The Midnight Folk" and "The Box of Delights", and the poems "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever".
B... | in Wolverhampton.
By the time he was 24, Masefield's poems were being published in periodicals and his first collected works, "Salt-Water Ballads" (1902) was published, the poem "Sea-Fever" appearing in this book. Masefield then wrote the novels, "Captain Margaret" (1908) and "Multitude and Solitude" (1909). In 1911, a... | 40,442 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first Chancellor of the re-united Germany in 1990? | "Western Group of Forces") was completed on 31 August 1994, and the event was marked by a military ceremony in the Treptow Park in Berlin, with the presence of Russian President Yeltsin and German Chancellor Kohl. Although the bulk of the British, American, and French Forces had left Germany even before the departure o... | the "Ostpolitik", put forward by Chancellor Brandt and supported by his ruling Social Democratic Party of Germany. In the aftermath of the 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, the Oder-Neisse line was reaffirmed without any reservation with the German-Polish Border Treaty, signed on 14 November ... | 40,443 | triviaqa-train |
In which UK town or City is the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts? | Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (also known simply as Baltic, stylised as BALTIC) is a centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the River Tyne alongside the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It hosts a frequently changing programme of... | Bevan Jones (Endor/Red Arrow) and Nicky Bentham (Moon).
Gharavi is Sundance-nominated director. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, received a UK Arts Council Decibel Spotlight Award and served as a diversity champion for a variety of organisations (UK Refugee Council, Arts Council North-East,... | 40,444 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the character played by Jodie Foster in the 1991 film “Silence of the Lambs”? | The Silence of the Lambs (film)
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme from a screenplay written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name. The film stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, and Anthony Heald. I... | Lambs" and its 1999 sequel "Hannibal", both by Thomas Harris; played by Jodie Foster in the 1991 film "The Silence of the Lambs", and by Julianne Moore in the 2001 sequel "Hannibal".
- Serena Stevens is a New York City detective played by Saffron Burrows on the USA series "" 2010–present.
- Roberta Steel is a detective... | 40,445 | triviaqa-train |
Which premiership Football team have the nickname “The Cherries”? | 2017–18 season show a large disparity in capacity. For example, Wembley Stadium, the temporary home of Tottenham Hotspur, has a capacity of 90,000 while Dean Court, the home of Bournemouth, has a capacity of 11,360. The combined total capacity of the Premier League in the 2017–18 season is 806,033 with an average capac... | professional player Baven Penton.
Around about this time, the club obtained their nickname "The Cherries," with two foremost tales on how the club gained the nickname. First, because of the cherry-red striped shirts that the team played in and, perhaps less plausible, because Dean Court was built adjacent to the Cooper... | 40,446 | triviaqa-train |
In which City is the Musical “The Flower Drum Song” set ? | did not do well and sought a new hit to revive their fortunes. Lee's novel focuses on a father, Wang Chi-yang, a wealthy refugee from China, who clings to traditional values in San Francisco's Chinatown. Rodgers and Hammerstein shifted the focus of the musical to his son, Wang Ta, who is torn between his Chinese roots ... | ".
The club thrived during World War II, and throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1957 author C. Y. Yee wrote a best-selling novel, "Flower Drum Song", set at the Forbidden City. Rodgers and Hammerstein created a popular musical from the book in 1958, which has had several revivals, the most recent by David Henry Hwang i... | 40,447 | triviaqa-train |
Which composer’s music is featured in the 1979 Woody Allen “Manhattan”? | 2.35:1 widescreen. The film features music composed by George Gershwin, including "Rhapsody in Blue", which inspired the idea behind the film. Allen described the film as a combination of his previous two films, "Annie Hall" and "Interiors".
The film was met with widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for two Ac... | governor escorts some children into a tent, saying, "This was once called Gramercy Park, boys. Now it's the only tree sanctuary in New York."
- 1979: In the film "The Warriors", one of the fictional gangs featured is the Gramercy Riffs, the biggest gang in New York.
- 1993: The exterior of the park can be seen in the W... | 40,448 | triviaqa-train |
Of which Canadian Province is Winnipeg the capital city? | in 2013, ending the year at a rate of 5.8 percent. As of 2010, median household income in the city was $72,050.
, approximately 416,700 people are employed in Winnipeg and the surrounding area. Some of Winnipeg's largest employers are government and government-funded institutions, including the Province of Manitoba, th... | Congress ordered that two companies of riflemen be raised in Maryland.
- Virginia Line: 2 regiments and 2 separate companies. The Continental Congress ordered that two companies of riflemen be raised in Virginia. On November 4, 1775 the Congress adopted the 1st and 2nd Virginia Regiments. These were existing formations... | 40,449 | triviaqa-train |
"What sonnet of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, a tribute to a long-running bulletin from BBC, starts as ""Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea""?" | ; Stena Line also operates between Britain and Ireland.
"Irish Sea" is also the name of one of the BBC's Shipping Forecast areas defined by the coordinates:
Transport for Wales Rail, Iarnród Éireann, Irish Ferries, Stena Line, Northern Ireland Railways, Stena Line and Abellio ScotRail promote SailRail with through rail... | The Haw Lantern
The Haw Lantern (1987) is a collection of poems written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Several of the poems—including the sonnet cycle "Clearances"—explore themes of mortality and loss inspired by the death of his mother, Margaret Kathleen Heaney (th... | 40,450 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the castle in Mervyn Peake's series of fantasy novels that has now come to mean any sprawling complex? | Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the "Gormenghast" books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death... | a mocking pageant or parade with grotesque caricatures of the inhabitants of the castle in order to humiliate him and unhinge his mind.
Reception.
The first book, "Titus Groan", was published in 1946 to ecstatic reviews and the series has continued to grow in its critical reputation since Peake's death. Contemporary re... | 40,451 | triviaqa-train |
Which writer wrote the introduction for Robert Frank's influential photography book The Americans (1958) that contained images from Frank's travels across the US? | Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party and showed him the photographs from his travels. Kerouac immediately told Frank "Sure I can write something about these pictures," and he contributed the introduction to the U.S. edition of "The Americans".
Style.
Frank found a tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth ... | "is recognised as one of the signal works of contemporary photography". Randy Kennedy wrote in "The New York Times" that it "became a watershed in the history of art photography"; and "Source" in 2016 named it the second greatest photobook of all time (second only to Robert Frank's "The Americans").
Between 1973 and 19... | 40,452 | triviaqa-train |
What 1904 story by M. R. James in which the protagonist finds an antique artifact with undesirable consequences gets its ominously inviting title from a 1793 Robert Burns poem/song? | stories are set in Suffolk, including "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" (Felixstowe), "A Warning to the Curious" (Aldeburgh), "Rats" and "A Vignette" (Great Livermere).
In September 1873 he arrived as a boarder at Temple Grove School, one of the leading boys' preparatory schools of the day. From September 1... | Parcel of Rogues
The phrase Parcel of Rogues is taken from the Robert Burns poem "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation". It may specifically refer to:
- Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation, the folk song based on the Burns poem. The melody of this song is originally found in James Hogg's book "Jacobite Reliques"
- Parce... | 40,453 | triviaqa-train |
A controversial 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein whose premise is that genes and environment are predictors of intelligence is titled after what statistical function? | The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better... | UCD Choral Scholars Board of Management.
Selected publications.
- "The Design of a Real-Time Operating System for a Minicomputer, Part 1", W F C Purser and D M Jennings, "Software Practice and Experience", Vol 5 No. 2 (1975), pp. 147–167.
- "Computer Networking for Scientists", Dennis M. Jennings, Lawrence H. Landweber... | 40,454 | triviaqa-train |
What is the better known nickname of Greg Heffley whose hilarious memoirs are now a hit book franchise? | Greg Heffley
Gregory "Greg" Heffley is a fictional character and the protagonist of the realistic fiction novel series "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" created by American cartoonist Jeff Kinney. He serves as the antihero and unreliable narrator of the series.
Personality.
Greg Heffley is mischievous, lazy, paranoid, arrogant, a... | Silverstone. In the online version of the first book, Susan was known as Ann Heffley.
Manny Heffley.
Manny Heffley is Greg and Rodrick's younger brother, and the youngest of the Heffley family. He is a spoiled kindergartener who is constantly doted on by his mother being that he is in early childhood. He makes a great ... | 40,455 | triviaqa-train |
London to Suez = a; Suez to Bombay = b; Bombay to Calcutta = c; Calcutta to Hong Kong = d; Hong Kong to Yokohoma = e; Yokohama to San Francisco = f; San Francisco to New York City = g; New York to London = h. In terms of 19th century adventure time, a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h = ? | Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days () is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,221,600 in 2018) set b... | London by train for Dover, where one crosses to Calais, and on to Paris. From there, it is a train journey to Brindisi, and the Suez Canal, all within a week. Having rounded the Arabian peninsula, one would arrive in Bombay on day 20 and then a three-day railway journey to Calcutta. Hong Kong is reached on day 33, Yoko... | 40,456 | triviaqa-train |
The global think tank that attracted considerable attention with its 1972 publication of The Limits of Growth is called 'The Club of' what European city? | Club of Rome
Founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy, the Club of Rome consists of current and former heads of state, UN bureaucrats, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe. It stimulated considerable public attention... | , while the RAF would lose up to 1,000 members and the Royal Navy up to 300. The job losses would account for some of the cuts announced under the defence review – intended to help plug the £38 billion hole in the defence budget. Hammond said the Government had "no choice but to reduce the size of the armed forces – wh... | 40,457 | triviaqa-train |
What 1899 poem of Rudyard Kipling whose racist title alludes to Western aspirations to dominate the developing world was written after the American colonization of the Philippines? | 1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the U... | of Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If"...". Direct evidence that the poem "If—" was written about Jameson is available also in Rudyard Kipling's autobiography in which Kipling writes that "If—" was "drawn from Jameson's character."
In 1895, Jameson led about 500 of his countrymen in what became known as the Jameson Raid again... | 40,458 | triviaqa-train |
The 5th Wave cartoons by Rich Tennant are interspersed throughout the books of what reference series? | The 5th Wave (comic strip)
The 5th Wave is a weekly gag cartoon by Rich Tennant, published on Sundays. Started in 1981, the comic usually deals with computers and technology. Tennant's cartoons regularly appear in the "For Dummies" book series, and have appeared in "PC Magazine" and "Computerworld", a magazine for whic... | The 5th Wave
The 5th Wave may refer to:
- "The 5th Wave" (novel), a 2013 young adult science fiction novel by Rick Yancey
- "The 5th Wave" (comic strip), a weekly gag cartoon by Rich Tennant that started in 1981
The Fifth Wave may refer to:
- Fifth-wave feminism – Concept of future feminism | 40,459 | triviaqa-train |
The French commune of Illiers adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage to which author whose vivid recreation of the town (through recollection) opens his vast magnum opus? | Illiers-Combray
Illiers-Combray is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north central France.
Literature.
"Combray" was the writer Marcel Proust's name for the village of Illiers (near the Cathedral town of Chartres), vividly depicted by him in the opening chapters of his vast semi-autobiographical novel "In Sea... | Canton of Illiers-Combray
The canton of Illiers-Combray is an administrative division of the Eure-et-Loir department, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Illiers-Combray.
It consists of the following communes:
1. Bailleau-le... | 40,460 | triviaqa-train |
"Fill in the missing word in this famous quote of Jorge Luis Borges that is very appropriate coming from a writer! ""I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of ___.""" | in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind by the age of 55. ... | father "tried to become a writer and failed in the attempt", despite the 1921 opus "El caudillo". Jorge Luis Borges wrote, "as most of my people had been soldiers and I knew I would never be, I felt ashamed, quite early, to be a bookish kind of person and not a man of action."
Jorge Luis Borges was taught at home until... | 40,461 | triviaqa-train |
No sleuthing allowed. What struggling doctor wrote The Narrative of John Smith that was published in 2011 about 130 years after it was first written? | , character frames, and themes of "The Narrative of John Smith" in many of his other works, such as "The Stark Munro Letters", "Through the Magic Door", "A Study in Scarlet", and "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
In 2004, the then untitled manuscript of Arthur Conan Doyle's rewritten unpublished first novel was purchase... | Alexander Bell. Among his notable writings was a debate with John Hughes, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, who was known as a racist and anti-abolitionist.
In 1840, Smith wrote the first case report by a black doctor, which his associate John Watson read at a meeting of the New York Medical and Surgical Socie... | 40,462 | triviaqa-train |
What concocted 1903 text that asserts a Jewish plan to take over the world is sometimes cited as Hitler's justification for the Holocaust? | 1933–1945", Nora Levin states that "Hitler used the Protocols as a manual in his war to exterminate the Jews":
Hitler endorsed the "Protocols" in his speeches from August 1921 on, and it was studied in German classrooms after the Nazis came to power. "Distillations of the text appeared in German classrooms, indoctrinat... | Kampf" is 694 pages long, Dawidowicz's critics contend, she makes too much of one sentence. Daniel Goldhagen went further, suggesting that popular opinion in Germany was already sympathetic to a policy of Jewish extermination before the Nazi party came to power. He asserts in his book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" th... | 40,463 | triviaqa-train |
Which 17th century literary classic ends with the title character stipulating in his will that his niece will be disinherited if she marries anyone who reads about chivalry? | delusions of grandeur.
"La Mancha" is a region of Spain, but "mancha" (Spanish word) means spot, mark, stain. Translators such as John Ormsby have declared La Mancha to be one of the most desertlike, unremarkable regions of Spain, the least romantic and fanciful place that one would imagine as the home of a courageous ... | trip to London. Vrinda marries Rajbeer, who does not know about this plan. Yug finds out what happened and does not know what to do.
On the first night of marriage, Vrinda tells Rajbeer everything about her and Yug's love and their family's betrayal. She tells him that she thought she was marrying Yug and she cannot li... | 40,464 | triviaqa-train |
What term that is a mechanism for the disappearance of inconvenient documents comes from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which it is a slot into which officials deposit records to be destroyed? | The memory hole is referenced while O'Brien tortures Smith; O'Brien produces evidence of a coverup by the Party, exciting Smith that such documentation exists. However, O'Brien then destroys the evidence in the memory hole and denies not only the existence of the evidence but also any memory of his actions. Smith reali... | Undenk
Undenk is an underground street art group based in Germany and Australia, operating worldwide. Due to its conspirative nature, an exact number of members remains unknown.
The origin of the group's name comes from the German translation of the Newspeak term "crimethink", which was used in George Orwell's novel, "... | 40,465 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the 1942 short story Runaround that lists three laws one of which is stated below? 'A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm' | study, was coined by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov created the ""Three Laws of Robotics"" which are a recurring theme in his books. These have since been used by many others to define laws used in fiction. (The three laws are pure fiction, and no technology yet created has the ability to understand or... | to humans, and arrived at his Three Laws of Robotics: a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; a robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; and a robot must protect its own existence as long as such ... | 40,466 | triviaqa-train |
Michel de Montaigne of France is best known for popularizing what kind of writing as a literary genre? | Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne (; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellec... | which "A l'hurouso memorio d'Henric le Gran", or "To the happy memory of Henry the Great", written in honour of King Henry IV of France, sonnets, quatrains and others (carnivalesque prose, drinking songs, Christmas carols etc.) He also wrote carnivals.
Emulating a school of local poetry close to the Baroque æsthetics o... | 40,467 | triviaqa-train |
Similar to John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, which influential 1930s book by Edgar Snow is an account of the Communist Party of China? | Edgar Snow
Edgar Parks Snow (17 July 1905 – 15 February 1972) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution. He was the first western journalist to give a full account of the history of the Chinese Communist Party following the Long March, and he ... | Union so British Communists expected him to be friendly. In 1963, the British Communist Party, which held the copyright to "Ten Days that Shook the World" in the United Kingdom, offered Taylor the opportunity to write the introduction to a new edition. The introduction Taylor wrote was fairly sympathetic towards the Bo... | 40,468 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1853 narrative poem of Matthew Arnold set in the orient tells the story of two feuding warrior-generals who, unknown to both, happen to be father and son? | Poems: A New Edition", a selection from the two earlier volumes famously excluding "Empedocles on Etna", but adding new poems, "Sohrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gipsy". In 1854, "Poems: Second Series" appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem, "Balder Dead".
Arnold was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxfor... | Balder Dead
Balder Dead is a narrative poem with powerful tragic themes, first published in 1855 by Matthew Arnold. This poem draws upon Norse mythology: retelling the story of the murder of Odin's son, Balder, as brought about by the wicked machinations of Loki, blood brother to Odin.
Synopsis.
The evil Loki was quick... | 40,469 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs is based on the premise of three wishes coming true but with an enormous price for interfering with fate? | W. W. Jacobs
William Wymark Jacobs (1863–1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. During his career he was best known for his farcical comedies involving dockside and rural Essex characters. He occasionally wrote horror stories, however, and today is most famous for "The Monkey's Paw" (1902).
Early life... | Footsteps in the Fog
Footsteps in the Fog is a 1955 British Technicolor film noir crime film starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons, with a screenplay co-written by Lenore Coffee and Dorothy Davenport, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film is based on the short story "The Interruption" by W. W. Jacobs.
It was... | 40,470 | triviaqa-train |
William Golding's Lord of the Flies was written as a response to which 1857 adventure novel by R. M. Ballantyne because Golding disagreed with the views that the book held? | began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.
"The Young Fur-Traders" (1856), "The Coral Island" (1857), "The World of Ice" (1859), "Ungava: a Tale of Eskimo Land" (1857), "The Dog Crusoe" (1860), "The Lighthouse" (1865), "Fighting the Whales" (1866), "Deep Down" (1868... | Lord of the Flies (1963 film)
Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British drama film, based on William Golding's novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where the behaviour of the majority degenerates into savagery. It was written and directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen. The ... | 40,471 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1844 novel of William Makepeace Thackeray, later adapted into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the life of an Anglo-Irish fortune-hunter called Andrew Robinson Stoney? | The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in "Fraser's Magazine" in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Angl... | "Billboard" (United States)
Singles - "Billboard" (United States)
In 2009, the album was preserved into the National Recording Registry because the album was "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or informs or reflects life in the United States." The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums... | 40,472 | triviaqa-train |
The English novelist Sax Rohmer is best known for creating which prototypical ethnic villain who is now associated with a distinctive mustache? | issued the first Fu Manchu novel, "The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu", serialised from October 1912 to June 1913. It was an immediate success, with its fast-paced story of Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie facing the worldwide conspiracy of the "Yellow Peril". The Fu Manchu stories, together with his more conventional dete... | event-driven parsing model for XML
People.
- Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) was the inventor of the saxophone and other music instruments.
- Oett M. Mallard (1915–1986), also known as Sax Mallard, Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader
- Lincoln Thompson (1949–1999), Jamaican reggae singer, musician and songwriter also... | 40,473 | triviaqa-train |
'The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.' This unforgettable opening line is from which author's A Bend in the River and lent itself to the title of that authors authorized biography The World Is What It Is by Patrick French? | The World Is What It Is
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is the opening sentence from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River".
... | break into infantry who are formed into squares and who defend themselves with coolness and daring, so it is true that once the ranks have been penetrated, then resistance is useless and nothing remains for the cavalry to do but to slaughter at almost no risk to themselves. This what happened, in vain our poor fellows ... | 40,474 | triviaqa-train |
The most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death in 1985, whose best known works are the Our Ancestors trilogy and the Cosmicomics collection of short stories? | Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics () is a collection of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories were originally published between 1964 and 1965 in the Italian periodicals "Il Caffè" and "Il Giorno". Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a false... | Alexander Shpatov
Alexander Shpatov () (born in 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer. He graduated from the American College of Sofia and the Sofia University Law School. His works have been translated into German and English.
Books.
Short story collections:
- "Footnotes" (2005), edited by Deyan ... | 40,475 | triviaqa-train |
What classic short story by the French writer Guy de Maupassant concerns an invisible malevolent spirit that aims to take control over the narrator? | his famous short stories, "The Necklace", was imitated with a twist by both Maugham ("Mr Know-All", "A String of Beads") and Henry James ("Paste").
Taking his cue from Balzac, Maupassant wrote comfortably in both the high-Realist and fantastic modes; stories and novels such as "L'Héritage" and "Bel-Ami" aim to recreate... | Suicides (short story)
"Suicides" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant. It was originally published on 29 August 1880 in the French newspaper "Le Gaulois". On 17 April 1883, it was published in "Gil Blas" under the pseudonym Maufrigneuse, and by other three periodicals, before being republished in the sh... | 40,476 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1961 non-fiction book by US journalist John Howard Griffin describes his six-week experience travelling on buses through racially segregated states while passing as a black man? | Like Me" (1961). This was later adapted as a 1964 film of the same name. A 50th anniversary edition of the book was published in 2011 by Wings Press.
Early life.
Griffin was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas, to John Walter Griffin and Lena May Young. His mother was a classical pianist, and Griffin acquired his love of mus... | John Howard Griffin
John Howard Griffin (June 16, 1920 – September 9, 1980) was an American journalist and author from Texas who wrote about racial equality. He is best known for his project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South of 1959 to see life and segregation from the other side of ... | 40,477 | triviaqa-train |
The title of which classic set in Africa is taken from a line in Yeats' poem The Second Coming and precedes the words 'the centre cannot hold'? | , motion pictures, television and music. Examples of works whose titles draw from "The Second Coming" include: Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958), Joan Didion's essay collection "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1968), Robert B. Parker's novel "The Widening Gyre" (1983), the 1996 non-fiction book "Slouching ... | The Centre Cannot Hold
The Centre Cannot Hold may refer to:
- "the centre cannot hold", a phrase from the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
- "The Centre Cannot Hold" (album), a 2017 album by Ben Frost
- "", a novel by Harry Turtledove
- "The Centre Cannot Hold", an EP by Digitonal
- "The Center Cannot H... | 40,478 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1899 book by Thorstein Veblen that originated the phrase 'conspicuous consumption' is considered one of the first detailed critiques of consumerism? | compassion, the deliberate use of charitable donations of money in order to enhance the social prestige of the donor, with a display of superior socio-economic status.
History and evolution.
The economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) introduced the term "conspicuous consumption" in 1899 in his book "The... | that the ever-expanding consumption of products is advantageous to the economy, and they contrast consumerism with the modern term "anti-consumerism" in opposition to the practice of over-consumption.
Ideological foundations.
Among the people whose ideas formed the basis of what became the consumer movement are the fol... | 40,479 | triviaqa-train |
The 'Younger Memnon' statue of Ramesses II in the British Museum is thought to have inspired which famous poem of P. B. Shelley? | Ramesses II
Ramesses II (variously also spelt Rameses or Ramses ( "Ra is the one who bore him" ); – July or August 1213; reigned 1279–1213), also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of th... | Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. Shelley began writing his poem in 1817, soon after the announcement of the British Museum's acquisition of a large fragment of a statue of Ramesses II from the thirteenth century BC, leading some scholars to believe that Shelley was inspired by this. The 7.25-ton fragment of the statue's h... | 40,480 | triviaqa-train |
Which Norwegian fairy tale is about three goats who want to cross a bridge under which lurks a fearsome troll? | Three Billy Goats Gruff
"Three Billy Goats Gruff" () is a Norwegian fairy tale. The fairy tale was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their "Norske Folkeeventyr", first published between 1841 and 1844. It has an "eat-me-when-I'm-fatter" plot (Aarne-Thompson type 122E). The first version of the sto... | " in 1859. The heroes of the tale are three male goats who need to outsmart a ravenous troll in order to cross the bridge to their feeding ground.
Plot.
The story introduces three male goats, sometimes identified as a youngster, father and grandfather, but more often described as brothers. In other adaptations, there i... | 40,481 | triviaqa-train |
What 1908 satirical work by the Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France describes a fictitious island of great auks that exists on the northern coast of Europe? | Publishers, New York, 1904).
In his novel "Ulysses", James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep. He associates the great auk with the mythical roc as a method of formally returning the main character to a sleepy land of fantasy and memory.
"Penguin Island", a 1908 French satir... | home to the major French publishing houses and literary journals, and of France's most important writers. Marcel Proust was living at 102 Boulevard Haussmann, editing his most important work, "In Search of Lost Time", which he had begun in 1909 but was not finished by the time of his death in 1922. It was finally publi... | 40,482 | triviaqa-train |
In the US and Canada, what appropriately titled book of Dr. Seuss is a popular gift for students graduating from high school and college? | was "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", which was published the year before his death and became a popular gift for graduating students.
Adaptations.
For most of his career, Geisel was reluctant to have his characters marketed in contexts outside of his own books. However, he did permit the creation of several animated cartoo... | Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! is a children's book credited to Dr. Seuss "with some help from Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith". The book is based on verses and sketches created by Seuss before his death in 1991, and was expanded to book length and completed by writer Prelutsky and illustrator ... | 40,483 | triviaqa-train |
In 2004, the government of Equatorial Guinea accused which popular English author of being one of the financiers of a failed 2004 coup d'état attempt against it? | . He goes abroad to write the first draft, working in blocks of two hours at a time, then writes anything up to 17 drafts in total. Since 2010, Archer has written the first draft of each new book at his luxury villa in Majorca, called "Writer's Block".
In 2011, Archer published the first of seven books in "The Clifton ... | 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt
The 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt, also known as the Wonga coup, failed to replace President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo with exiled opposition politician Severo Moto. Mercenaries organised by mainly British financiers were arrested in Zimbabwe on 7 March 2004 b... | 40,484 | triviaqa-train |
Because A. A. Milne was critical towards him for pandering to Germans during WWII, which English author created a ridiculous character named Timothy Bobbin to parody some of Milne's poetry? | Granta", a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine "Punch", where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. Considered a talented cricket fielder, Milne ... | Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin is a character created by A. A. Milne. He appears in Milne's popular books of poetry and Winnie-the-Pooh stories and is based on Christopher Robin Milne, the author's son. The character has subsequently appeared in Disney cartoons.
In the books.
Christopher Robin appears in Milne's p... | 40,485 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1944 work of Friedrich Hayek is among the most influential expositions of classical liberalism and is stated as the single book that significantly shaped the political ideologies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan? | regulate the standards of service in many industries, such as airlines and broadcasting as well as financing a wide range of programs. In addition, the government regulates the flow of capital and uses financial tools such as the interest rate to control factors such as inflation and unemployment.
Role of government Re... | . Writers such as Milton Friedman and Samuel Brittan, who were influenced by Friedrich Hayek, advocated a reversal of social liberalism. Their policies which are often called neoliberalism had a significant influence on Western politics, most notably on the governments of United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher... | 40,486 | triviaqa-train |
When he was killed in a car crash in 1960, which existentialist became the shortest-lived of any literature Nobel laurate till date? | scholars argue that the term should be used only to refer to the cultural movement in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other scholars extend the term to Kierkegaard, and yet others extend it as far back as So... | writing editorials against the use of torture in "Combat" newspaper. The FLN considered him a fool, and some "Pieds-Noirs" considered him a traitor. Nevertheless, in his speech when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, Camus said that when faced with a radical choice he would eventually support his community. Th... | 40,487 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1975 book by the Australian philosopher Peter Singer is considered to be the founding philosophical statement of the animal rights movement? | Animal Liberation (book)
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. Singer himself rejected the use of the theoretical framework... | impediments to abortion."
Legal and philosophical positions Animal rights.
Posner rejects the concept of animal rights. He recognizes the philosophical force of arguments for animal rights, but maintains that human intuition about the paramount value of human life makes it impossible to accommodate an ethic of animal r... | 40,488 | triviaqa-train |
The Other Side of Me is the autobiography of which popular American author and creator of the TV series I Dream of Jeannie? | the first things Jeannie does, in a subsequent episode, is break up Tony's engagement to his commanding general's daughter, Melissa, who, along with that particular general, is never seen or mentioned again. This event reflects producer Sidney Sheldon's decision that the engagement depicted in the pilot episode would n... | I Dream of Jeannie (disambiguation)
I Dream of Jeannie is an American TV series about a genie.
I Dream of Jeannie may also refer to:
- "I Dream of Genie", a March 1963 episode of "The Twilight Zone"
- "I Dream of Jeannie", season 13 episode 16 of "Dallas"
- "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair", a 1940 America... | 40,489 | triviaqa-train |
If Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day details the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and The Last Battle tells about the Battle of Berlin, which of his books tells the story of Operation Market Garden in WWII? | Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: "The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day" (1959), "The Last Battle" (1966), and "A Bridge Too Far" (1974).
Early life.
Ryan was born ... | to write down his World War II notes for "The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day", which tells the story of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, published three years later in 1959. It was an instant success, and Ryan helped in the writing of the screenplay for the 1962 film of the same name. Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author US... | 40,490 | triviaqa-train |
The American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux's book Sir Vidia's Shadow provides a caustic portrait of which other famous author? | is noted for his rich descriptions of people and places, laced with a heavy streak of irony, or even misanthropy. Nonfiction by Theroux includes "Sir Vidia's Shadow", an account of his personal and professional friendship with Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul, which ended abruptly after 30 years.
Personal life.
His 2017 se... | in David Attenborough's travel book "Journeys to the Past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of Australia", Penguin Books, 1983. .
- A chapter named "The oddest island in Vanuatu" in Paul Theroux's book "The Happy Isles Of Oceania" pages 267–277 describes Theroux's visit to a John Frum villa... | 40,491 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1961 book by Frantz Fanon was described by Time magazine as 'this is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the windows of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto or the Mein Kampf of the anticolonial revolution ...'? | 's contributions to the history of ideas are manifold. He is influential not only because of the originality of his thought but also because of the astuteness of his criticisms. He developed a profound social existential analysis of antiblack racism, which led him to identify conditions of skewed rationality and reason... | Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf (, "My Struggle" or "My Fight") is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of "Mein Kampf" was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in... | 40,492 | triviaqa-train |
What genre of literature is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto? | of Gothic fiction. It blends elements of realist fiction with the supernatural and fantastical, establishing many of the plot devices and character-types that would become typical of the Gothic novel: secret passages, clanging trapdoors, pictures beginning to move, and doors closing by themselves. The poet Thomas Gray ... | parent, sinister priest, courageous victor, and the helpless heroine, along with supernatural figures such as demons, vampires, ghosts, and monsters. Often, the plot focused on characters ill-fated, internally conflicted, and innocently victimized by harassing malicious figures. In addition to the dismal plot focuses, ... | 40,493 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre? | Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, (; born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979), was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she was mainly resident in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel "Wide Sarg... | Jane Eyre (1973 miniseries)
Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. This 1973 four-hour literary version was a BBC television drama serial. It was directed by Joan Craft and starred Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston.
Plot.
In this version of Charlotte ... | 40,494 | triviaqa-train |
What is observed annually on June 16 in Dublin to celebrate the life of James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses? | to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend, where Nora masturbated him. This event was commemorated by providing the date for the action of "Ulysses" (as "Bloomsday").
Joyce remained in Dublin for some time longer, drinking heavily. After one of his drinking binges, he got into a fight over a misunderstanding with a man in St St... | his reading of the novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce, William Carlos Williams wrote an 85-line poem entitled "Paterson"; this poem subsequently won the Dial Award. His intent in this poem was to do for Paterson, New Jersey what Joyce had done for Dublin, Ireland, in "Ulysses". Williams wrote, "All that I am doing (dated) ... | 40,495 | triviaqa-train |
Which influential 19th century work on military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz is prescribed at various military academies to this day? | Carl von Clausewitz
Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz (; 1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (meaning, in modern terms, psychological) and political aspects of war. His most notable work, "Vom Kriege" ("On War"), was unfinished at his d... | 's larger policies. In this respect, Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz was an important influence on his work. Another major influence was John Knox Laughton, arguably the first naval historian, and of whom Corbett has been described as his 'protégé'. Corbett differed from Mahan, however, in placing less em... | 40,496 | triviaqa-train |
Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India spoke with Khrushchev and was partly instrumental in preventing the expulsion of which writer from the Soviet Union after that person won the Nobel Prize for Literature? | rigid bureaucrats, was allowed to be published in 1956, though Khrushchev called the novel "false at its base". In 1958, however, Khrushchev ordered a fierce attack on Boris Pasternak after his novel "Doctor Zhivago" was published abroad (he was denied permission to publish it in the Soviet Union). "Pravda" described t... | merchants. Russia was used as a transit trade between Western Europe and India.
Soviet Union and India.
A cordial relationship with India that began in the 1950s represented the most successful of the Soviet attempts to foster closer relations with Third World countries. The relationship began with a visit by Indian Pr... | 40,497 | triviaqa-train |
If Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin, his novel Cakes and Ale contains characterizations of which English author who never lived in Wessex? | of Paul Gauguin; and "Cakes and Ale" contains what were taken as thinly veiled and unflattering characterisations of the authors Thomas Hardy (who had died two years previously) and Hugh Walpole. Maugham himself denied any intention of doing this in a long letter to Walpole: "I certainly never intended Alroy Kear to be... | a review of Maugham's novel "Of Human Bondage" in which the novel's protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as "so busy yearning for the moon that he never saw the sixpence at his feet." According to a 1956 letter from Maugham, "If you look on the ground in search of a sixpence, you don't look up, and so miss the moon.... | 40,498 | triviaqa-train |
Which well-known short story about time travel by Ray Bradbury is a fictional exploration of the 'butterfly effect' of Chaos theory? | his] sci-fi career... On the world of science fiction and fantasy and imagination he is immortal". Writer Neil Gaiman felt that "the landscape of the world we live in would have been diminished if we had not had him in our world". Author Stephen King released a statement on his website saying, "Ray Bradbury wrote three... | . However, Bradbury's concept of how the death of a butterfly in the past could have drastic changes in the future is a representation of the butterfly effect, and used as an example of how to consider chaos theory and the physics of time travel.
Further reading.
- Paradowski, Robert J. "Ray Bradbury." Critical Survey ... | 40,499 | triviaqa-train |
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