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What was the name of the Scottish mathematician who invented Logarithms? | In addition, Napier recognized the potential of the recent developments in mathematics, particularly those of prosthaphaeresis, decimal fractions, and symbolic index arithmetic, to tackle the issue of reducing computation. He appreciated that, for the most part, practitioners who had laborious computations generally di... | John Pollard (mathematician)
John M. Pollard (born 1941) is a British mathematician who has invented algorithms for the factorization of large numbers and for the calculation of discrete logarithms.
His factorization algorithms include the rho, "p" − 1, and the first version of the special number field sieve, which has... | 50,800 | triviaqa-train |
Which fashion designer opened a shop called 'Bazaar' on King's Road in London in 1957? | King's Road
King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the King's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London. It is associated with 1960s style and with fashion ... | Hung On You
Hung On You was a London fashion boutique, run by the designer Michael Rainey, particularly known for flowery shirts and kipper ties in bold colours. Rainey's customers included the Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Kinks and the actor Terence Stamp.
The shop opened at 22 Cale Street, London, with a mural by... | 50,801 | triviaqa-train |
Bryan Adams' massive hit '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' was written for the soundtrack of which film? | song is performed in the key of D major.
Music videos.
The official music video for the song was directed by Julien Temple. A video was also commissioned for a live version of the song, directed by Andy Morahan. It shows Adams and his band performing the song in a wooded forest with a silk mill in the background, and A... | Can't Stop This Thing We Started
"Can't Stop This Thing We Started" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams. The song was written by Adams and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and was the second single from Adams' 1991 album "Waking Up the Neighbours", a successor of the massive hit single "(Everything I Do) I... | 50,802 | triviaqa-train |
Which of the Japanese islands has the highest population? | improved water source is universal in Japan. 97% of the population receives piped water supply from public utilities and 3% receive water from their own wells or unregulated small systems, mainly in rural areas.
Demographics.
Demographics Population.
Japan is the second most populous island country with a population of... | Iwo Jima
, known in English as Iwo Jima (, ), is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands and lies south of the Bonin Islands. Together with other islands, they form the Ogasawara Archipelago. The highest point of Iwo Jima is Mount Suribachi at high.
Although south of the metropolis of Tokyo on the mainland, this island of ... | 50,803 | triviaqa-train |
In 1919, the Curzon Line was proposed as a boundary between the Soviet Union and which country? | deep into Polish territory, the Red Army invaded eastern Poland, stating as justification the "need to protect Ukrainians and Belarusians" there, after the "cessation of existence" of the Polish state. As a result, the Belarusian and Ukrainian Soviet republics' western borders were moved westward, and the new Soviet we... | for a Curzon Line Polish-Soviet border anyway.
In June 1944, Mikołajczyk officially traveled to the United States, where President Roosevelt suggested that he visits the Soviet Union to conduct political discussions. Roosevelt also asked Stalin to invite the Polish prime minister for talks on a resumption of bilateral ... | 50,804 | triviaqa-train |
First performed in 1896, which was the last opera written by Gilbert & Sullivan? | two of his most profitable artists, and within two weeks had succeeded. Two more operas resulted: "Utopia, Limited" (1893) and "The Grand Duke" (1896). Gilbert also offered a third libretto to Sullivan ("His Excellency", 1894), but Gilbert's insistence on casting Nancy McIntosh, his protegée from "Utopia", led to Sulli... | Ruddigore
Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, originally called Ruddygore, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan. It was first performed by the D'Oyly Carte Op... | 50,805 | triviaqa-train |
In the human body, what is the more common name for the 'Zygomatic Bone'? | Zygomatic bone
In the human skull, the zygomatic bone (cheekbone or malar bone) is a paired irregular bone which articulates with the maxilla, the temporal bone, the sphenoid bone and the frontal bone. It is situated at the upper and lateral part of the face and forms the prominence of the cheek, part of the lateral wa... | all to "Use common sense; know your body and listen to what it needs! Take care of yourself and your modifications." This can include seeing a doctor at the first sign of infection or for help removing sutures.
Health risks.
Subdermal implants, being similar to plastic surgery, have more risks than other kinds of body ... | 50,806 | triviaqa-train |
Which rap star and record producer discovered and signed 'Eminem' in 1998? | -based rapper Royce da 5'9"; the two are collectively known as Bad Meets Evil.
After his debut album "Infinite" (1996) and the extended play "Slim Shady EP" (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with "The Slim Shady LP", which earned him hi... | List of awards and nominations received by Eminem
This is a comprehensive list of awards received by Eminem, an American rapper, record producer, and actor. He began his career in 1996 with Web Entertainment and has been one of the most popular rap acts in the world since the late-1990s.
Eminem quickly gained popularit... | 50,807 | triviaqa-train |
Which of Shakespeare's plays was based loosely on the life of Cunobelinus, a pre-Roman king of England? | in common between the figure of Cymbeline and the historical Cunobelinus. The king, under the influence of his wicked second wife, forbids his daughter Imogen to marry Posthumus Leonatus, a low-born but worthy man, preferring that she marry his boorish stepson Cloten, leading to mistaken identity, jealousy caused by fa... | 1483 are narrated by Richard's cousin, Harry, Duke of Buckingham.
- In "Requiem of the Rose King", a manga series begun in 2013 by Aya Kanno loosely based on Shakespeare's plays, Richard is portrayed as being intersex instead of hunchbacked.
- Jason Charles's "The Claws of Time" (2017) is a historical fantasy novel whi... | 50,808 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the title character in the American t.v. series 'Columbo'? | . For the sake of clarity, all episodes in this article are arranged as they appear in the UK release.
Series overview.
Episodes.
Episodes Pilot episodes.
Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of "The Chevy Mystery Show", a TV anthology serie... | Mrs. Columbo
Mrs. Columbo, later known as Kate Columbo, followed by Kate the Detective and then ultimately Kate Loves a Mystery is an American crime drama television series initially based on the wife of Lieutenant Columbo, the title character from the television series "Columbo". It was created and produced by Richard... | 50,809 | triviaqa-train |
From which country did the USA purchase the Philippines in 1898? | lands of the Western Hemisphere "America" in honor of the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci (). The first documentary evidence of the phrase "United States of America" is from a letter dated January 2, 1776, written by Stephen Moylan, Esq., to George Washington's aide-de-camp and Muster-Master General ... | citizenship since the previous year. Also by 1924, all Asian immigrants (except people from the Philippines, which had been annexed by the United States in 1898) were utterly excluded by law, denied citizenship and naturalization, and prevented from owning land. In many Western states, Asian immigrants were even preven... | 50,810 | triviaqa-train |
Which Venetian artist painted 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Assumption of the Virgin'? | mythological subjects were frequently depicted in art. The "Metamorphoses" was the greatest source of these narratives, such that the term "Ovidian" in this context is synonymous for mythological, in spite of some frequently represented myths not being found in the work. Many of the stories from the "Metamorphoses" hav... | " (c. 1599)
- "Venus and Adonis" (c. 1595)
- "Venus with a Satyr and Cupids" (c. 1588)
- "The Virgin Appears to the Saints Luke and Catherine" (1592)
- Frescoes (1597–1605) in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome
- "Assumption of the Virgin Mary" (1600–1601)
- "Lamentation of Christ" (1606)
- "Sleeping Venus" (c. 1603)
- "The Fli... | 50,811 | triviaqa-train |
Deriving ultimately from the Geek for 'knowledge, or study, of custom', what name is given to the study of animal behaviour? | some other disciplines such as neuroanatomy, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Ethologists typically show interest in a behavioural process rather than in a particular animal group, and often study one type of behaviour, such as aggression, in a number of unrelated species.
Ethology is a rapidly growing field. Since t... | Candace (given name)
Candace is a female given name from the Bible, ultimately deriving from the term "kandake", a title for a queen or queen mother in the ancient African Kingdom of Kush; also meaning pure and innocent. In the United States, it was a popular name during the late 1970s, throughout the 1980s, and into t... | 50,812 | triviaqa-train |
Which High King of Ireland conquered Munster, Leinster and Connacht in 976 AD? | Thomond, north of the River Shannon to Munster. Their leaders were the ancestors of the O'Brien dynasty and spawned Brian Boru, perhaps the most noted High King of Ireland, and several of whose descendants were also High Kings.
By 1118, Munster had fractured into the Kingdom of Thomond under the O'Briens, the Kingdom o... | is not a name of Hiberno-Norman descent.
History and origins.
Giolla Phádraig (means "the devotee of Patrick"). Gilla Patráic mac Donnchada was a tenth century king of Ossory, a kingdom in between Munster and Leinster in Ireland. According to William Carrigan, this kingdom was founded by Aengus Osrithe who flourished s... | 50,813 | triviaqa-train |
Which country started the Second Balkan War in 1913 by invading Greece and Serbia? | goal to liberate Serbia after centuries of Turkish rule.
At first, the principality included only the territory of the former Pashaluk of Belgrade, but in 1831–1833 it expanded to the east, south, and west. In 1867 the Ottoman army left the Principality, securing its "de facto" independence. Serbia expanded further to ... | Djinnworks
Djinnworks, founded in 2009 and located in Austria, develops and distributes software solutions and games for mobile devices, specialised on the iPhone and Apple Inc App Store. Djinnworks games have been downloaded more than 100 million times and produced many games ranking constantly in the top 100 paid wor... | 50,814 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the actor and singer who voiced the character 'Chef' in the animated series 'South Park' from 1997 to 2006? | Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, and producer. Hayes was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a session musician and record producer, teaming with ... | Butt-Head' TV show.
Soon after, Hayes joined the founding cast of Comedy Central's animated TV series, "South Park." Hayes provided the voice for the character of "Chef", the amorous elementary-school lunchroom cook, from the show's debut on August 13, 1997 (one week shy of his 55th birthday), through the end of its ni... | 50,815 | triviaqa-train |
In which American state is the Newport Country Club that hosted Golf's first US Open in 1895? | Newport Country Club
Newport Country Club, is a historic private golf club in the northeastern United States, located in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded in 1893, it hosted both the first U.S. Amateur Championship and the first U.S. Open in 1895.
History.
Theodore Havemeyer, a wealthy sportsman whose family owned the Ame... | clubs: St. Andrew's Golf Club in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton on Long Island, New York; The Country Club in Brookline, MA; and the Chicago Golf Club. These clubs agreed to form the Amateur Golf Association, the forerunner of the United States Golf Association (USGA).
In October 1895... | 50,816 | triviaqa-train |
On which river do the cities of Dresden and Hamburg stand? | Hamburg
Hamburg (; ; officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg; ; Low German/Low Saxon: "Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg") is the second-largest city in Germany with a population of over 1.8 million, after the capital Berlin.
One of Germany's 16 federal states, it is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north an... | April.
In his postwar memoirs Harris wrote, "In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method", which augmented his wartime views expressed in an internal secret memo to the Air Ministry after the Dresden raid in February 1945: "I ... assume that the view under consideration is someth... | 50,817 | triviaqa-train |
In which country does the Amazon River rise? | The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately . The portion of the river's drainage basin in Brazil alone is larger than any other river's basin. The Amazon enters Brazil with only one-fifth of the flow it finally discharges into the Atlantic Ocean, yet already has a greater... | between the Amazon and the Orinoco basins, the so-called Casiquiare canal. The Casiquiare is a river distributary of the upper Orinoco, which flows southward into the Rio Negro, which in turn flows into the Amazon. The Casiquiare is the largest river on earth that links two major river systems, a so-called bifurcation.... | 50,818 | triviaqa-train |
Which Welsh pirate, born in 1635, was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica in 1675? | Henry Morgan
Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: "Harri Morgan", 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he raided settlements and shipping on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as he did so. With the prize money from the rai... | men.
The ship, which was only below the water's surface, was found in 2004 by a team of researchers. They were accompanied by a team from the Welsh television channel S4C, which has made a documentary of the discovery. If there is still spoil located on board, is not yet known.
In 1675-1676 he again narrowly survived a... | 50,819 | triviaqa-train |
Which song was a hit for 'The Red Hot Chili Peppers' in 1992 and 'All Saints' in 1998? | The ballad "Under the Bridge" was released as a second single, and went on to reach No. 2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, the highest the band has reached on that chart as of 2016, and became one of the band's most recognizable songs. Other singles such as "Breaking the Girl" and "Suck My Kiss" also charted well.
The... | a guest appearance. They did not tour due to Avery's exhaustion after Jane's Addiction.
Professional career 1993–1998.
Navarro joined Red Hot Chili Peppers in September 1993. His first large-scale performance with the band was at "Woodstock '94". The only album on which Navarro played with Red Hot Chili Peppers, "One H... | 50,820 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the Japanese Prime Minister from 1941-1944 who was later executed for war crimes? | distracted when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor. Keenan explained the definition of a war of aggression and the criminality of the attack on Pearl Harbor:
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, was fully aware that if Japan lost the war, he would be tried as a war criminal for that attack... | Un); and Lieutenant General Hong Sa-ik, who was executed for war crimes committed while commanding the prison camps in the southern Philippines in 1944–1945.
Other Japanese Army officers of South Korean origin moved onto successful careers in the post-occupation period. Examples include Park Chung-hee, who became presi... | 50,821 | triviaqa-train |
Which scientist, known as the 'Father of Nuclear Physics' pioneered the orbital theory of the atom and named Alpha, Beta and Gamma Rays? | Thomson a year later was an indication that the atom had internal structure. At the beginning of the 20th century the accepted model of the atom was J. J. Thomson's "plum pudding" model in which the atom was a positively charged ball with smaller negatively charged electrons embedded inside it.
In the years that follow... | , which they named alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. Experiments by Otto Hahn in 1911 and by James Chadwick in 1914 discovered that the beta decay spectrum was continuous rather than discrete. That is, electrons were ejected from the atom with a continuous range of energies, rather than the discrete amounts of energy t... | 50,822 | triviaqa-train |
Which of Verdi's operas tells the story of the hunchbacked jester to the 'Duke of Mantua'? | in the rear rooms; page boys come and go. The festivities are at their height. Music is heard from offstage. The Duke and Borsa enter from a door in the back."
At a ball in his palace, the Duke sings of a life of pleasure with as many women as possible, and mentions that he particularly enjoys cuckolding his courtiers:... | Herbert's "Naughty Marietta" opposite Emma Trentini in the title role at the New York Theater. A success, he stayed with the show for most of 1911 when in toured the United States. He continued to perform in operas as well in 1911-1912 at Hammerstein's London Opera House, portraying Alfredo in Verdi's "La Traviata", Ar... | 50,823 | triviaqa-train |
With which Basketball team did Michael Jordan win six NBA titles? | Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, is an American former professional basketball player and the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six NBA championships with the Chica... | however, win a total of six NBA assist titles during his career. For his career, Robertson shot a high .485 field goal average and led the league in free-throw percentage twice—in the 1963–64 and 1967–68 seasons.
Robertson is recognized by the NBA as the first legitimate "big guard", paving the way for other oversized ... | 50,824 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the 'Peterloo Massacre' and the 'Cato Street Conspiracy'? | in 1810.
His parliamentary attendance also suffered from his reaction when his father angrily opposed his projected marriage with Lady Louisa Hervey, daughter of the Earl of Bristol. After Pitt and the King had intervened on his behalf, the wedding finally took place at Wimbledon on 25 March 1795. In May 1796, when his... | Goderich (1827–1828), and Duke of Wellington (1828–1830). This decade was largely peaceful for Britain, with some foreign intervention. The British supported the Portuguese liberals in the Liberal Wars, and supported Greek rebels in the war for independence. During this time, London became the largest city of the world... | 50,825 | triviaqa-train |
In 1958, which German politician became the first President of the European Commission? | the European Commission by the European Parliament on 16 July. Junker will continue to lead the Commission until the newly elected president takes office on November 1, 2019.
History.
History Establishment.
The present Commission was established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957; it also replaced the High Authority and the... | Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (; née Albrecht, born 8 October 1958) is a German politician and the President-elect of the European Commission. She served in the federal government of Germany from 2005 to 2019 as the longest-serving member of Angela Merkel's cabinet. She is a member of the centre-rig... | 50,826 | triviaqa-train |
Which town in Denmark is home to the Lego Group and the original 'Legoland' theme park? | by slightly reducing taxes on high mileage vehicles. However, this has had little effect, and in 2008 Denmark experienced an increase in the import of fuel inefficient old cars, as the cost for older cars—including taxes—keeps them within the budget of many Danes.
, the average car age is 9.2 years.
With Norway and Swe... | Legoland California
Legoland California is a theme park, miniature park, and aquarium located in Carlsbad, California, based on the Lego toy brand. Opening on March 20, 1999, it was the third Legoland park to open, and the first outside Europe. The park is currently owned by Merlin Entertainments, which took a controll... | 50,827 | triviaqa-train |
What name was given to the republican political activists who supported the Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the US Presidential election of 1884 because they rejected the financial corruption associated with the Republican candidate James Blaine? | nominated. Logan was named vice presidential nominee on the first ballot, and the Republicans had their ticket.
1884 presidential election Campaign against Cleveland.
The Democrats held their convention in Chicago the following month and nominated Governor Grover Cleveland of New York. Cleveland's time on the national ... | Grover Cleveland 1884 presidential campaign
The 1884 election was the first Presidential campaign in which Grover Cleveland participated and the first of two nonconsecutive terms that he won. This election pitted Grover Cleveland against James G. Blaine and the campaign for this election centered on corruption, civil s... | 50,828 | triviaqa-train |
Which town is the administrative centre of the Scottish county of Midlothian? | Lothian, Berwickshire and Roxburghshire to the east. Traditional industries included mining, agriculture and fishing – although the modern council area is now landlocked.
Under local government reforms in 1975, Midlothian became a district council within the Lothian region and in 1996 the current unitary council area ... | East Lothian
East Lothian (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was also known as Haddingtonshire.
East Lothian lies south of the Firth of Forth in the eastern central Lowlands of Scotland, east of the City of Edinburgh (historically wit... | 50,829 | triviaqa-train |
The Hudson Strait separates mainland Canada from which island? | Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait links the Atlantic Ocean and Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada. This strait lies between Baffin Island and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in Newfoundland and Labrador and Resolution Island off Baffin Island. The strait is about 750 km long with an average width ... | Naujaat
Naujaat ( "literally" "seagulls' nesting place"), known until 2 July 2015 as Repulse Bay, is an Inuit hamlet located on the shores of Hudson Bay, in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Location and wildlife.
Naujaat is at the north end of Roes Welcome Sound which separates Southampton Island from the mainla... | 50,830 | triviaqa-train |
The tune to Germany's national anthem derives from which composer's String Quartet in C major, composed in 1797? | world, is unknown and disputed.
Very few countries have a national anthem written by a world-renowned composer. Exceptions include Germany, whose anthem "Das Lied der Deutschen" uses a melody written by Joseph Haydn, and Austria, whose national anthem "Land der Berge, Land am Strome" is sometimes credited to Wolfgang A... | String Quintet (Schubert)
Franz Schubert's final chamber work, the String Quintet in C major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163) is sometimes called the "Cello Quintet" because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets. It was comp... | 50,831 | triviaqa-train |
Which Moroccan athlete was the first person to run the 5000m in under 13 minutes? | tournament on the scheduled dates because of fears over the ebola outbreak on the continent. Morocco made five attempts to host the FIFA World Cup but lost five times to United States, France, Germany, South Africa and Canada/Mexico/United States.
At the 1984 Olympic Games, two Moroccans won gold medals in track and fi... | 19 August 2010, at a Diamond League meeting in Zürich, Farah ran 5000 m in 12:57.94, breaking David Moorcroft's long-standing British record and becoming the first ever British athlete to run under 13 minutes.
In December 2010, Farah was named track-and-field athlete of the year by the British Olympic Association. He c... | 50,832 | triviaqa-train |
In which Italian city was George Eliot's novel 'Romola' set? | .
The standard Italian language has a poetic and literary origin in the writings of Tuscan writers of the 12th century, and, even though the grammar and core lexicon are basically unchanged from those used in Florence in the 13th century, the modern standard of the language was largely shaped by relatively recent event... | 's own religious struggle. In "Romola", the title character has a non-religious and scholarly, yet insular, upbringing. She is gradually exposed to the wider religious world, which impacts her life at fortuitous moments. Yet continued immersion in religious life highlights its incompatibility with her own virtues, and ... | 50,833 | triviaqa-train |
Which body of water separates Borneo from the Malay Peninsula? | accretion of microcontinental fragments, ophiolite terranes and island arc crust onto a Paleozoic continental core. At the beginning of the Cenozoic Borneo formed a promontory of Sundaland which partly separated from Asian mainland by the proto-South China Sea. The oceanic part of the proto-South China Sea was subducte... | naped trogons are confined to the Sundaic regions lowlands, also known as Sundaland, with a distribution size of 989,000 km². The Sundaic lowlands is a biogeographical region of South-eastern Asia which encompasses the Sunda shelf, Malay Peninsula of the Asian mainland, and the large islands of Borneo, Java and Sumatra... | 50,834 | triviaqa-train |
The 1951 movie 'Follow The Sun', that starred Glenn Ford in the leading role, was a biographical film of the life of which American Golf legend? | Follow the Sun (film)
Follow the Sun is a 1951 biographical film of the life of golf legend Ben Hogan. It stars Glenn Ford as Hogan and Anne Baxter as his wife. Many golfers and sports figures of the day appear in the movie.
Plot summary.
In Fort Worth, Texas, Ben Hogan (Glenn Ford) works as a golf caddy to help suppor... | contract with a small role in "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (1954), flirting with Elizabeth Taylor.
He appeared in "Interrupted Melody", a biographical movie about opera singer Marjorie Lawrence's recovery from polio, in which he was billed third under Glenn Ford and Eleanor Parker as Lawrence's brother Cyril. That same ... | 50,835 | triviaqa-train |
Which British engineer designed the Forth Bridge and the original Aswan Dam? | Forth Bridge
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, west of Edinburgh City Centre. It is considered as a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in 2016), and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by the English eng... | Assiut Barrage
The Assiut Barrage is a dam on the Nile River in the city of Assiut in Upper Egypt (250 miles to the south of Cairo). It was completed in 1903.
Background.
It was designed by the famous British engineer Sir William Willcocks who also concurrently designed and built the Aswan Low Dam, the first Nile reser... | 50,836 | triviaqa-train |
The name of which popular Italian dish is derived from the Latin for 'cooking pot'? | " prepared in the "Campanian manner", a bean dish from the Marca di Trevisio, a "torta", "compositum londardicum" which are similar to dishes prepared today. Two other books from the 14th century include recipes for Roman "pastello", Lasagna pie, and call for the use of salt from Sardinia or Chioggia.
In the 15th centu... | than those prepared with water. It may be served either as an appetizer or as a main dish. Despite the name by which in Italy it is often referred to as a kind of gnocchi, it is technically not.
Etymology.
The name "crescentina" is derived from the Italian verb , which means "to grow", referring to it puffing up during... | 50,837 | triviaqa-train |
On which Greek island was the novel 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' set? | of Cephallonia. Iannis lives with his daughter Pelagia; Pelagia's mother died of tuberculosis. Pelagia, now a young woman, is headstrong and intelligent, and has learned about medicine by observing her father.
Pelagia meets a young fisherman named Mandras, and they rapidly become engaged. Meanwhile, war has been declar... | to "American Psycho", but he declined out of loyalty to Harron's vision of Bateman. He believed that it could not be properly expressed by any other director. In 2000, he played a wealthy murderer in John Singleton's "Shaft". Bale's first role after "American Psycho" was in the John Madden adaptation of the best-sellin... | 50,838 | triviaqa-train |
In which modern day country is Yalta, the site of the famous meeting during World War II? | On 22 June 1941, Germany, supported by Italy and Romania, invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, with Germany accusing the Soviets of plotting against them. They were joined shortly by Finland and Hungary. The primary targets of this surprise offensive were the Baltic region, Moscow and Ukraine, with the ult... | and a Jewish soldier. Afterwards, in purple, as is custom for the day, he celebrated Mass and preached a homily at the cemetery. Following the visit there, he moved on to the site of the Ardeatine massacre, named for the forested area in which it took place.
See also.
- List of cemeteries in Italy
- List of national ce... | 50,839 | triviaqa-train |
The Holy Roman Empress Matilda was the daughter of which English king? | Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 110210 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a child when she married the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry ... | en route from Normandy to England, putting the future of Henry's dynasty and his position in doubt.
By 1123 Louis was involved with a coalition of Norman and French seigneurs opposed to Henry. The plan was to drive the English King from Normandy and replace him with William Clito. Henry, however, easily defeated this c... | 50,840 | triviaqa-train |
Which tree usually provides the wood used to make Highland Games cabers? | Caber toss
The caber toss is a traditional Scottish athletic event in which competitors toss a large tapered pole called a "caber" (/ˈkeɪbə/). It is normally practised at the Scottish Highland Games. In Scotland the caber is usually made from a Larch tree and is typically tall and weighs . The term "caber" derives from... | used, along with hides, pottery, and other artifacts. Some archaeologists are presently trying to determine the exact origins, dates, and locations of their use. Many scrolls were hidden away in caves and man-made pits.
Construct.
The bark of the paper birch tree provides an excellent writing material. Usually, a stylu... | 50,841 | triviaqa-train |
In the fashion label DKNY, for what does either the ‘D’ or the ‘K’ stand? | of the fashion house's offering.
DKNY and other divisions.
Inspired by her daughter Gaby, Donna Karan founded DKNY in 1989 as a younger, more affordable diffusion line to run alongside her existing Donna Karan New York label. Many labels and brands have branched off of the original DKNY brand/label including DKNY Jeans... | Creative director is the highest creative position in a fashion house. The creative director does not design clothes, but instead formulates and impresses upon the designers an overarching concept or concepts for a certain collection and the label as a whole.
A fashion creative director's main role is to establish wha... | 50,842 | triviaqa-train |
Which company produced the first mail order catalogue? | were also established throughout the country, with the first opening in Oakville in 1916.
History In North America Sears.
Richard Warren Sears started a business selling watches through mail order catalogs in Redwood Falls, Minnesota in 1888. By 1894, the Sears catalog had grown to 322 pages, featuring sewing machines,... | company.
History.
History Early catalogues.
In 1498, the publisher Aldus Manutius of Venice printed a catalogue of the books he was printing.
In 1667, the English gardener William Lucas published a seed catalogue, which he mailed to his customers to inform them of his prices. Catalogues spread to colonial America, wher... | 50,843 | triviaqa-train |
"Name the Oscar winning actor who is the voice of King Louie in the 2016 version of the ""Jungle Book""?" | considered Louis Armstrong for the role, but to avoid the likely controversy that would result from casting a black person to voice an ape, they instead chose Prima, a white singer. Christopher Walken voiced King Louie in the 2016 live-action/CGI "The Jungle Book" film.
Conception and creation.
Although the Disney adap... | 1958; his wife's name was Marina.
In 1968 Havenstein played the voice of King Louie in the dubbed German version of the Walt Disney film "The Jungle Book". He dubbed all the spoken and sung parts. Other voices he dubbed included those of Michel Galabru ("Le Gendarme de St. Tropez"), Gene Wilder ("Frankenstein Junior", ... | 50,844 | triviaqa-train |
J.K Rowling used the pen name Newt Scamander for which book published in 2001? | the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema at the 2011 British Academy Film Awards in honour of the "Harry Potter" film franchise.
In September 2013, Warner Bros. announced an "expanded creative partnership" with Rowling, based on a planned series of films about her character Newt Scamander... | -publishing to graduate students at the University of North Carolina. The book was published in March 2001, without approval from Rowling, and has since received positive reviews from critics. An updated version of "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter" was published in 2004 by Berkley Books.
Content.
"The Magical Worlds... | 50,845 | triviaqa-train |
Who is Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force? | that the Commissioner has to be British. This changed with an amendment to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 whereby a person who is or has been "a police officer in an approved overseas police force, of at least the approved rank" could be appointed, in addition to "a constable in any part of the Un... | the force.
RTP organization Immigration Bureau.
Immigration Bureau is responsible for issuing travel visas and managing immigration to Thailand. Plans to separate from the Royal Thai Police to become an independent authority.
RTP organization Metropolitan Police Bureau.
Responsible for providing all law enforcement ser... | 50,846 | triviaqa-train |
Which Public School was founded by John Lyon in 1572? | Harrow School
Harrow School is an independent boarding school for boys in Harrow, London, England. The School was founded in 1572 by John Lyon under a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I, and is one of the original seven public schools that were regulated by the Public Schools Act 1868. Harrow charges up to £12,850 per term, ... | , Bishop of Bath and Wells, who begins its reconstruction.
- 1533 – Rebuilding of Abbey substantially completed by this date.
- 1539 – January: Dissolution of the Monasteries: Abbey surrendered.
- 1552
- King Edward's School founded as a grammar school.
- Approximate date: First market house built.
- 1572
- The roofles... | 50,847 | triviaqa-train |
Which horse won the 2016 Grand National? | 2016 Grand National
The 2016 Grand National (officially known as the 2016 Crabbie's Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 169th annual running of the Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England. The showpiece steeplechase took place on 9 April 2016, the final day of a three-day mee... | 2019 Grand National
The 2019 Grand National (officially known as the Randox Health 2019 Grand National) was the 172nd annual running of the Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England. The showpiece steeplechase is the pinnacle of a three-day festival which began on 4 April, followed by Ladi... | 50,848 | triviaqa-train |
Name the year: Rosa Parks takes a seat at the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Hugh Gaitskell becomes leader of the Labour Party and Albert Einstein dies? | -American veterans were among those who became active in pushing to regain their civil rights in the South: to be allowed to vote and participate in politics, to freely use public places, to end segregation. According to the historian David Beito of the University of Alabama, African Americans in Montgomery "nurtured t... | after witnessing Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama passenger bus, the Thirteenth Doctor takes the TARDIS to the asteroid belt, and shows the asteroid to her companions, revealing to them its name.
External links.
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Discovery Cir... | 50,849 | triviaqa-train |
Antares is the brightest star in which constellation? | Biblical scholar E. W. Bullinger interpreted some of the creatures mentioned in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation as the middle signs of the four quarters of the Zodiac, with the Lion as Leo, the Bull as Taurus, the Man representing Aquarius and the Eagle standing in for Scorpio. The biblical Book of Job also makes r... | ) summer solstice is the brightest star in the constellation Leo.
- Antares (Alpha Scorpii) autumnal equinox is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius.
- Fomalhaut (Alpha Piscis) winter solstice is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
To medieval astrologers, Aldebaran was one of fifteen ... | 50,850 | triviaqa-train |
Francis Galton pioneered which aid to crime detection? | used Galton's composite imagery was "The Jewish Type, and Galton's Composite Photographs," "Photographic News", 29, (24 April 1885): 268–269.
Galton hoped his technique would aid medical diagnosis, and even criminology through the identification of typical criminal faces. However, his technique did not prove useful and... | On Broad Street, after which deaths from cholera plummeted afterwards. English nurse Florence Nightingale pioneered analysis of large amounts of statistical data, using graphs and tables, regarding the condition of thousands of patients in the Crimean War to evaluate the efficacy of hospital services. Her methods prove... | 50,851 | triviaqa-train |
"The ""Adventure Galley"" was the name of which legendary pirate's ship?" | time, no powerful navies plied the Indian Ocean, leaving both local shipping and the various East India companies' vessels vulnerable to attack. This set the stage for the famous pirates, Thomas Tew, Henry Every, Robert Culliford and (although his guilt remains controversial) William Kidd.
Between 1713 and 1714, a succ... | land-bound thieves and swindlers "who don't know one end of a galley from another" but nevertheless get unwillingly sidetracked into joining and then leading a pirate crew
- Helen Tavrel – female pirate in Robert E. Howard's 1928 story "The Isle of Pirate's Doom" (,
- "Three Sheets" Neate - Legendary pirate of The Sea... | 50,852 | triviaqa-train |
What name is given to the Fourth (4th) movement in Beethoven's / Ninth (9th) Symphony? | theme, concluding with "Alle Menschen" before the soloists sing for one last time the song of joy at a slower tempo. The chorus repeats parts of "Seid umschlungen, Millionen!", then quietly sings, "Tochter aus Elysium", and finally, "Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Götterfunken!".
Reception.
Music critics almost universa... | -Portrait in a Convex Mirror". itself named for the painting of the same name. Each movement is named with a line from the poem, and the title is the final line. Violin, viola, cello, and bass soloists are featured in front of the orchestra and quotations are used from Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 81a (Les Adieux) in... | 50,853 | triviaqa-train |
Which islands lie off the Northwest coast of Anglesey? | made for the plant, and in January 2019 Hitachi announced it was putting development work on hold, which meant the plant's future was put in serious doubt.
Anglesey also has three wind farms on land, and more than twenty offshore wind turbines near the north coast. There are plans for the world's first Tidal Flow turbi... | Wales is located on the western side of central southern Great Britain. To the north and west is the Irish Sea, and to the south is the Bristol Channel. The English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire lie to the east. Much of the border with England roughly follows the line of the ancien... | 50,854 | triviaqa-train |
"Which Motor cycle company made ""The Manx"" and ""Commando"" models?" | the first major mass-production firms were set up. In 1898, Triumph Motorcycles in England began producing motorbikes, and by 1903 it was producing over 500 bikes. Other British firms were Royal Enfield, Norton and Birmingham Small Arms Company who began motorbike production in 1899, 1902 and 1910, respectively. Indian... | Triumph Super 7, which sold in large numbers until 1934.
Triumph Cycle Company Triumph Motor Company.
In 1930 the company's name was changed to Triumph Motor Company. Holbrook realized he could not compete with the larger car companies for the mass market, so he decided to produce expensive cars, and introduced the mod... | 50,855 | triviaqa-train |
In the 2005 remake of King Kong, who played the writer Jack Driscoll? | Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll (credited as John Driscoll in the 1933 film) is a fictional character in the "King Kong" franchise. In the original 1933 film he was the first mate of the ship named the "Venture", while in its 2005 remake he was a playwright (the less faithful 1976 remake had an analogous character named Ja... | subsequent post dubbing. He played Noah Percy, a mentally disabled young man, in the film "The Village", by M. Night Shyamalan, shell-shocked war veteran Jack Starks in "The Jacket", writer Jack Driscoll in the 2005 "King Kong" remake, and father-to-be Peter Whitman in "The Darjeeling Limited" by Wes Anderson. "King Ko... | 50,856 | triviaqa-train |
Graham Hick played cricket for England and which other country? | Graeme Hick
Graeme Ashley Hick (born 23 May 1966) is a former English cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He was born in Rhodesia, and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe. He played English county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domesti... | 2007 Beach Cricket Tri-Nations series
The 2007 XXXX Gold Beach Cricket Tri-Nations series was the first instalment of the competition, and was contested between Australia, England and the West Indies with the eventual winner being England.
Team list.
- Australia: Allan Border (captain), Jeff Thomson, Kim Hughes, Dean J... | 50,857 | triviaqa-train |
In World War Two, operation Husky was the codename for the invasion of which country? | the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) and attacks by German land forces from southwestern Bulgaria. These attacks were followed by German thrusts from Romania, Hungary and the Ostmark. Italian forces were limited to air and artillery attacks until 11 April, when the Italian army attacked towards Ljubljana (in modern-day Slo... | the following year a railway link was constructed.
History of Syracuse Modern history.
Heavy destruction was caused during World War II by both the Allied and German bombings in 1943. "Operation Husky", the codename for the Allied invasion of Sicily, was launched on the night between 9–10 July 1943 with British forces ... | 50,858 | triviaqa-train |
You’re Driving Me Crazy by the Temperance Seven was, in May 1961, the first Number One single for which record producer? | album "Bitches Brew", the producer cut and edited sections together from extensive improvisation sessions.
Producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realize in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio. Other e... | My Baby Back Home", a hit for Johnnie Ray in 1952, "You're Driving Me Crazy", a number 1 for The Temperance Seven in 1961 and "Tears", which topped the charts for Ken Dodd in 1965. From 1932 to 1938, they appeared in a series of short films for Pathé News, singing songs in newsreels seen by cinema audiences. During Wor... | 50,859 | triviaqa-train |
Which BBC TV comedy is set in Sparkhill, Birmingham, described as ‘the capital of British Pakistan’? | Heath, Aston, Ward End, Lozells, Nechells, Alum Rock and Washwood Heath. Wealthy middle-class Pakistanis tend to live in Hall Green and Yardley.
The majority of "Brummie" Pakistanis can trace their roots to Azad Kashmir, with large minorities from Punjab and more recently, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The BBC sitcom "Citizen Kh... | based on a British Pakistani family in Sparkhill, Birmingham, dubbed the "capital of British Pakistan." The soap opera "EastEnders" also features many British Pakistani characters. Pakistani Lollywood films have been screened in British cinemas. Indian Bollywood films are also shown in British cinemas and are popular w... | 50,860 | triviaqa-train |
Which driver won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, the youngest ever winner of a Grand Prix? | driver and reigning GP2 Series champion Stoffel Vandoorne made his Formula One début, replacing Alonso. Alonso returned to his seat for the Chinese Grand Prix two weeks later. Daniil Kvyat and Max Verstappen traded places ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix, with Verstappen promoted to Red Bull Racing and Kvyat returning t... | for Daniil Kvyat. He won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix in his debut race for Red Bull Racing at the age of 18, becoming the youngest-ever winner of a Grand Prix and the first racing under the Dutch flag. He is the son of former Formula One driver Jos Verstappen.
Family and personal life.
Max Emilian Verstappen was born o... | 50,861 | triviaqa-train |
Career of Evil is the third novel by Robert Galbraith to feature which detective? | J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling ( "rolling"; born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for writing the "Harry Potter" fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the ... | because of ongoing litigation, and other financial problems, Müller's group decided to sell their communal land in Pennsylvania in 1833. Some community members stayed, while others followed Müller and his family down the Ohio River on a flatboat. Soon they started again at Grand Ecore, twelve miles north of Natchitoche... | 50,862 | triviaqa-train |
HMY Victoria and Albert, the third of that name, served four sovereigns between 1901 and 1939. For what word does the Y stand? | millionaires and Royalty around Europe.
She was lengthened in 1853. She was 200 feet and emerged at 260 x 33 x 22 feet, displacement 1,382 tons, with new engines of .
She made twenty voyages. She was renamed Osborne, after the launch of on 16 January 1855.
Her Majesty's Yacht Osborne continued in service, conveying th... | been promoted to Captain in 1844 was given command of HMS "Carysfort" in 1845. He went on to command HMS "Cumberland" and then HMS "Pembroke" in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War. He also commanded HMS "Victory", HMS "Hero" and then HMY "Victoria and Albert".
Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1863, Seymour served as a Th... | 50,863 | triviaqa-train |
Which SI base unit is defined as ‘the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1 ⁄ 299792458 of a second’? | Metre
The metre (Commonwealth spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit "mètre", from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m. The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in... | Lom-et-Djerem
Lom-et-Djerem is a department of East Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 26,345 km² and as of 2001 had a total population of 228,691.The capital of the department lies at Bertoua.
Subdivisions.
The department is divided administratively into 8 communes and in turn into villages.
Subdiv... | 50,864 | triviaqa-train |
On which Pacific island did Captain James Cook see the Transit of Venus in 1769? | pay.
The expedition sailed aboard , departing England on 26 August 1768. Cook and his crew rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific, arriving at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit were made. However, the result of the observations was not as conclusive or accurate as... | First voyage of James Cook
The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS "Endeavour", from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 tra... | 50,865 | triviaqa-train |
The state of Qatar has a land border with only one other country. Which one? | of Khafji in which Qatari tanks rolled through the streets of the town and provided fire support for Saudi Arabian National Guard units that were engaging Iraqi Army troops. Qatar allowed coalition troops from Canada to use the country as an airbase to launch aircraft on CAP duty and also permitted air forces from the ... | List of countries that border only one other country
This is a list of countries that have a land border with only one other country. Some on this list have a maritime border with additional countries: for example Denmark "borders" by sea Sweden, Norway and Canada (between Greenland and Baffin Island); while, in additi... | 50,866 | triviaqa-train |
Which insects are threatened by colony collapse disorder? | rate of loss. However, according to Syngenta and the F.A.O., the total number of beehives worldwide continues to grow. An insecticide produced by Syngenta was banned by the European Commission in 2013 for use in crops pollinated by bees. Syngenta together with Bayer is challenging this ban in court.
Genetic and physio-... | . General biology courses in college give less attention to insects, and the number of biologists specialising in entomology is decreasing as specialties such as genetics expand. In addition, studies investigating the decline tend to be done by collecting insects and killing them in traps, which poses an ethical proble... | 50,867 | triviaqa-train |
Who succeeded Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council in 2014? | support in the European Council.
On 19 November 2009, the European Council agreed that its first president under the Lisbon Treaty would be Herman Van Rompuy (European People's Party). Van Rompuy took office when the Lisbon Treaty came into force on 1 December 2009 with a term stretching until 31 May 2012. His term was... | Herman Van Rompuy
Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy (, ; born 31 October 1947) is a Belgian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and then as the first permanent President of the European Council from 2009 to 2014.
A politician from Belgium's Christian Democratic and Flemish party, Van Ro... | 50,868 | triviaqa-train |
The 1066 Country Walk and Normans Bay are in which traditional county? | Normans Bay
Normans Bay is a coastal hamlet in the Pevensey Levels area of East Sussex, England. Contrary to popular belief it does not take its name from the Norman conquest of England of 1066, and the area occupied by Normans Bay was under water at the time. The forces of William the Conqueror are believed to have la... | care of the state, and are now managed by the Cadw Welsh heritage agency. The sites are linked by a modern footpath known as the Three Castles Walk.
History.
History 11th-12th centuries.
The fortifications that came to make up the lordship of the "Three Castles" were built in the wake of the Norman invasion of England ... | 50,869 | triviaqa-train |
Whose name is missing from the second line of the first verse of the Gospel of Matthew in the Authorized Version of the Bible – ‘Abraham begat _____; and ______ begat Jacob’? | 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 ... | Their name liveth for evermore
"Their name liveth for evermore" is a phrase from the King James Version of the Bible, forming the second half of a line in Ecclesiasticus, chapter 44, verse 14, widely inscribed on war memorials since the First World War.
In full, verse 14 reads ""Their bodies are buried in peace; but th... | 50,870 | triviaqa-train |
Moon River and Days of Wine and Roses won Grammy Awards as Record of the Year in the early 1960s for which composer? | Days of Wine and Roses (song)
"Days of Wine and Roses" is a popular song, from the 1962 movie of the same name.
The music was written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. They received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for their work. In 2004 it finished at #39 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of ... | Mancini (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) shared the awards for Best Music (Song) for "Moon River" from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in 1961 and "Days of Wine and Roses" from "Days of Wine and Roses" in 1962
- Alan Menken (music) won twice consecutively for Best Music (Original Song) for "Beauty and the Beast" from "Beaut... | 50,871 | triviaqa-train |
Who had the best selling single in the UK in 1999 with ...Baby One More Time? | ...Baby One More Time (song)
"...Baby One More Time" is the debut single by American singer Britney Spears from her debut studio album of the same title (1999). It was written by Max Martin and produced by Martin and Rami. After recording and sending a demo tape with an unused song from Toni Braxton, Spears signed a mu... | rejected by girl group TLC. Spears later claimed that she felt excited when she heard it and knew it was going to be a hit record. Her debut album was completed in June 1998, and the song was released as "...Baby One More Time" as Spears' debut single in October. The single became a global success, reaching number one ... | 50,872 | triviaqa-train |
Which painter killed a young man in a brawl in Rome in 1606? | heavily under his influence were called the "Caravaggisti" or "Caravagesques", as well as tenebrists or "tenebrosi" ("shadowists").
Caravaggio trained as a painter in Milan before moving in his twenties to Rome. He developed a considerable name as an artist, and as a violent, touchy and provocative man. A brawl led to ... | three years previously, recounts that "after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him." In 1606 he killed a young man... | 50,873 | triviaqa-train |
Who was Chief Minister to Louis XIII from 1624 until his death in 1642? | favourites led the young king to take power in 1617 by exiling his mother and executing her followers, including Concino Concini, the most influential Italian at the French court.
Louis XIII, taciturn and suspicious, relied heavily on his chief ministers, first Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes and then Cardinal Richelie... | Cardinal Mazarin
Cardinal Jules Mazarin (, , , ; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino () or Mazarini, was an Italian cardinal, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 until his death in 1661. In 1654 he acquired the title... | 50,874 | triviaqa-train |
In Yorkshire, what are the Huddersfield Narrow and the Huddersfield Broad? | de Lacy family until 1322, at which it reverted to royal ownership. In 1599, William Ramsden bought the manor, and the Ramsden family continued to own the manor, which came to be known as the 'Ramsden Estate', until 1920. During their ownership they supported the development of the town. Sir John Ramsden, 3rd Baronet b... | players will be invited based off their 2016 Capcom Pro Tour results and the other sixteen will receive invites from Capcom. This stage will be the preliminaries. Players will be separated into four groups of eight. The top six players from each group will advance to the regular season. All matches will be best of thre... | 50,875 | triviaqa-train |
Which post was held by Lord Denning from 1962 to 1982 and Lord Donaldson from 1982 to 1992? | John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington
John Francis Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, PC (6 October 1920 – 31 August 2005) was a senior British judge who served as Master of the Rolls for ten years, from 1982-92. He is best known in some circles for his role as presiding judge in the infamous Guildford Fou... | written arguments unattractive, they did like the idea of pre-reading: that the court should read the pleadings of counsel, the case being appealed and the judgment from the lower court before delivering its judgment. But the idea was quietly scrapped, despite a successful tryout in the Court of Appeal. The court over ... | 50,876 | triviaqa-train |
Who had the best-selling single in the UK in 1994 with Love Is All Around? | , "Without You" did not top the US "Billboard" Hot 100.
In late May, Wet Wet Wet reached number 1 with "Love Is All Around", from the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral". It would remain at number 1 for fifteen weeks, the second longest consecutive run at No. 1 ever in the UK Singles Chart, and become the biggest sellin... | Hand off the UK number 1. It was also No.1 in Ireland, No.3 in Australia and No.2 in Canada. It reached No.4 in the Netherlands and No.16 in Germany. "Glad All Over" was the No.2 selling single of 1964 in the UK (behind "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles), and also had sufficient UK sales in November and December 1963 ... | 50,877 | triviaqa-train |
The Battlefield Line Railway that runs between Shackerstone and Shenton in Leicestershire is named after which battle? | Battlefield Line Railway
The Battlefield Line Railway is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, England. It runs from Shackerstone (Grid ref ) to Shenton (), via Market Bosworth, a total of . Shenton is near Bosworth Field, (the location of the final battle of the Wars of the Roses immortalised in Shakespeare's "Richard... | Shenton railway station
Shenton railway station is located about 0.5 miles from the village of Shenton, Leicestershire, England.
It is the current southern terminus of the Battlefield Line Railway, which runs to here from Shackerstone. The station is located at the foot of Ambion Hill and is actually the reconstructed ... | 50,878 | triviaqa-train |
Whose name is missing from the first line of the Book of Proverbs in the Authorized Version of the Bible – ‘The proverbs of ________ the son of David, the King of Israel’? | 's son, King Solomon, the ten northern tribes of the Kingdom of Israel rejected the Davidic line, refusing to accept Solomon's son, Rehoboam, and instead chose as king Jeroboam and formed the northern Kingdom of Israel. This kingdom was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 8th century BCE which exiled much of th... | offering"; while in the King James Version (1611) it is also generally translated "offering" but also sometimes "oblation" and four times "heave offering".
The word is used in various contexts throughout the Hebrew Bible, including one use in Proverbs denoting haughtiness or graft (Proverbs 29:4). In most contexts it r... | 50,879 | triviaqa-train |
Roberta Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year in consecutive years. Which group were the second, for Beautiful Day in 2001 and Walk On in 2002? | Roberta Flack was the first artist to win Record of the Year in two consecutive years for the years 1973 ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") and 1974 ("Killing Me Softly with His Song"). This happened again when the group U2 won for the years 2001 ("Beautiful Day") and 2002 ("Walk On"), the only occurrence of an ar... | You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway. Flack is the only solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year on two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won at the 1973 Grammys as did "Killing Me Softly with His Song" at the 1974 Grammys. Roberta Flack agreed to practice and train E... | 50,880 | triviaqa-train |
In what year was the Royal Yacht Britannia launched – one year either way? | . Now retired from royal service, "Britannia" is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is a popular visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.
Construction.
HMY "Britannia" was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire. She was launched... | Irvine launched "The Robert Irvine Show", a daytime talk show which aired weekdays on The CW between September 12, 2016 and May 25, 2018.
Early life and education.
Irvine was born in England and raised in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He began his cooking career upon enlisting in the UK's Royal Navy at the age of fifteen.... | 50,881 | triviaqa-train |
Which botanist, who was President of the Royal Society for 41 years, accompanied Cook on his 1768-1771 voyage? | as the political party did in British politics under George III, falling apart in the 1780s.
In 1780, the society moved again, this time to Somerset House. The property was offered to the society by His Majesty's Government and, as soon as Sir Joseph Banks became president in November 1778, he began planning the move. ... | for the post.
Voyage of the Endeavour and the Transit of Venus.
Green joined Cook's first voyage of circumnavigation in 1768, accompanied by a servant. Green was one of two official astronomers appointed by the Royal Society to observe the transit; the other was Cook himself, who was a capable observer in his own right... | 50,882 | triviaqa-train |
In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, what was the occupation of George Banks, Mary’s employer? | George Banks (disambiguation)
George Banks (born 1942) is an American spree killer.
George Banks may also refer to:
Persons.
- George Linnaeus Banks (1821–1881), British author
- George Banks (baseball) (1938–1985), American baseball player in the 1960s
- George Banks (basketball) (born 1972), American professional bas... | Mary Poppins (musical)
Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (the Sherman Brothers) and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and a script by Julian Fellowes. The musical is based on the similarly titled "Mary Poppins" children's books by P... | 50,883 | triviaqa-train |
The last two editors of which reference book, known as the ‘Bible of Cricket’ have been Lawrence Booth and Scyld Berry? | Lawrence Booth (cricket writer)
Lawrence Booth (born 2 April 1975) is an author and a cricket writer for the "Daily Mail", cricket correspondent of the "Mail on Sunday", and editor of "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" - the youngest for 72 years when he was appointed in 2011. He has previously written for "The Guardian", "... | , is likely to have been placed under the rule of the leading Mercian monastery of Medeshamstede, now known as Peterborough.
A significant, and possibly unique, feature of this ancient parish church are the two Royal hatchments of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. These were later restored and can be viewed in the ch... | 50,884 | triviaqa-train |
In which 1935 novel does a 14 year old girl ride The Piebald to victory in The Grand National? | National Velvet
National Velvet is a novel by Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), first published in 1935.
Plot summary.
"National Velvet" is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who trains and rides her horse, named The Piebald, to victory in the Grand National steeplechase.
The novel focuses on the ability of or... | .
- On 14 June 2011, a ride train stopped abruptly, causing minor injuries to its occupants. One person was reported to be hospitalised with whiplash injury.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach Grand National.
- In 2004, due to an electrical fault, the entire ride station (Along with parts of the adjacent Alice ride) was complete... | 50,885 | triviaqa-train |
The word buccal refers to which part of the body? | Cheek
The cheeks () constitute the area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear. "Buccal" means relating to the cheek. In humans, the region is innervated by the buccal nerve. The area between the inside of the cheek and the teeth and gums is called the vestibule or buccal pouch or buc... | morphology of all species of "Pseudaxine", with a triangular body and an anterior extremity constricted at the level of buccal suckers in some species. The body comprises an anterior part which contains most organs and a posterior part called the haptor. The haptor is oblique and unilateral, and bears numerous clamps a... | 50,886 | triviaqa-train |
Which element with atomic number 7 forms about 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere? | Nitrogen
Nitrogen is the chemical element with the symbol N and atomic number 7. It was first discovered and isolated by Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford in 1772. Although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Henry Cavendish had independently done so at about the same time, Rutherford is generally accorded the credit because h... | while the calculated diffusion limited rate is about formula_62H atoms cm s, which are in reasonable agreement. On Titan, hydrogen escape was measured by the "Cassini" spacecraft to be formula_63 H atoms cm s, and the calculated diffusion-limited rate is formula_64H atoms cm s.
Applications to Earth's Ancient Atmospher... | 50,887 | triviaqa-train |
Later in 1961 George Martin produced “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back”. Which comedian and actor was the singer on the record? | Montmorency'. In 1954 he appeared with Bob Monkhouse in the film, "Fast and Loose".
He appeared in the television shows "Laughter in Store" (1957), "Drake's Progress" (1957–58), "Charlie Drake In…" (1958 to 1960) and "The Charlie Drake Show" (1960 to 1961), being remembered for his opening catchphrase "Hello, my darlin... | you boomerang to come back/well, first you've got to throw it!"" He does, and proceeds to bring down an aeroplane, which crashes with a loud boom. "Oh, my Gawd," the lad says in horror, "I've hit The Flying Doctor!" The lad and the witch doctor argue over payment ("you still owe me fourteen chickens!") as the record fa... | 50,888 | triviaqa-train |
Which US President was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University? | often respect the long-standing tradition of senatorial courtesy. Presidents may also grant pardons and reprieves. Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon a month after taking office. Presidents often grant pardons shortly before leaving office, like when Bill Clinton pardoned Patty Hearst on his last day in office; this is... | Elliot Gerson
Elliot Gerson (born 1952) is the American Secretary to the Rhodes Trust, responsible for the Rhodes Scholarships in the United States, and executive vice president of the Aspen Institute.
Gerson was an undergraduate at Harvard University, a Rhodes Scholar who studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, a law stu... | 50,889 | triviaqa-train |
The lines on the Lisbon Metro are identified by colours. What colour is Linha Amarela? | network spanned the geographical limits of the city: first, in March, with the expansion of the Yellow Line from Campo Grande to Odivelas (which included five new stations); then, in May, the Blue Line was extended from Pontinha to Amadora Este.
On December 19, 2007, after 11 years of construction, the extension was op... | Linha de Cintura
(*) Routes without passenger service.
Linha de Cintura, originally called Linha de Circumvalação de Lisboa, is a railway line in Lisbon, Portugal. The half circle route was opened in 1888 and connects all radial lines with stations in Lisbon: Cascais, Sul, Sintra/Oeste, and Norte. There are two railway... | 50,890 | triviaqa-train |
Eight year old Bailey Matthews who has cerebral palsy won an award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2015 ‘for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity’ named after which late female Sports presenter? | BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given "for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity", and the winner is selected b... | completed the 100 metres in sub 17 seconds
Adenegan is also the only athlete to have defeated Hannah Cockroft in aT34 Women’s wheelchair race. (Once in 2015 aged 14yrs and twice in 2018 aged 17 yrs old).
She won the 2018 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award.
Early years.
Adenegan was born in 2000 in Coventry,... | 50,891 | triviaqa-train |
The TV comedy of the late 1970s and early 1980s Citizen Smith was set in which district of London? | Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.
It starred Robert Lindsay as "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist "urban guerrilla" in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. Wolfie is a reference to the Irish revolutio... | The Big Gig
The Big Gig was a popular Australian television sketch comedy music/variety series based on the British TV series "Saturday Live". It was produced and broadcast on ABC TV in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was produced and directed by Ted Robinson, who started his career as the director of the second ser... | 50,892 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the man-eating monster defeated by Beowulf? | the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and later becomes king of the Geats. Afte... | cage, it succeeds in taking the ring off of her finger. Xena locks the cage using a lock with two ravens crafted into it and leaves confident that the monster will never get out.
In the present, while Xena and are eating at a tavern, a man from the Norselands named Beowulf shows Xena a broken lock, with the depiction o... | 50,893 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the god of mischief and destruction in Norse myth? | Frey, whose weather and farming associations bring peace and pleasure to humanity; the goddess Iðunn, who keeps apples that grant eternal youthfulness; the mysterious god Heimdall, who is born of nine mothers, can hear grass grow, has gold teeth, and possesses a resounding horn; the jötunn Loki, who brings tragedy to t... | the Wemale people of Seram Island, Indonesia, tells of a miraculously-conceived girl named Hainuwele, whose murdered corpse sprouts into the people's staple food crops. The Chinese myth of Pangu, the Indian Vedic myth of Purusha, and the Norse myth of Ymir all tell of a cosmic giant who is killed to create the world.
V... | 50,894 | triviaqa-train |
Which Canadian city was called Bytown until 1854? | Bytown
Bytown is the former name of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital city. It was founded on September 26, 1826, incorporated as a town on January 1, 1850, and superseded by the incorporation of the City of Ottawa on January 1, 1855. The founding was marked by a sod turning, and a letter from Governor General Dalhousi... | Leamy Lake
- 1853 – Bytown boasts of having 60 stores, 3 banks, 3 insurance offices, 3 newspapers, 1 telegraph office and 7 schools.
- 1853 – J. B. Turgeon became the first French-Canadian mayor of Bytown.
- 1853 – Mechanics' Institute and Athenreum, a literary institute, was organized
- 1854 – Bytown is linked by rail... | 50,895 | triviaqa-train |
In the Hindu religion Mohini, Krishna and Rama are all incarnations of which god? | (IAST: Kṛṣṇacaritas).
Life and Legends Birth.
In "Krishna Charitas", Krishna is born to Devaki and her husband, King Vasudeva of the Yadava clan in Nathdwara. When Mother Earth was burdened by henious activities of Kamsa and other demon Kings she went to Lord Brahma in form of cow who along with other gods took her to ... | the major religion and most of the temples in Tirupati are of Dravidian architecture.
Culture.
Culture Festivals.
The city celebrates all major Hindu festivals which includes Sankranti, Ugadi, Krishna Janmashtami, Maha Shivaratri, Ganesh Chaturthi, Deepavali, Rama Navami, Kartik Poornima etc. Srivari Brahmotsavam is a ... | 50,896 | triviaqa-train |
Fray Bentos is a seaport and capital of the Río Negro Department of which country of South America? | all but one subindexes, including gender, age, income, formality and labor participation.
Demographics Health.
see Health in Uruguay
Demographics Religion.
Uruguay has no official religion; church and state are officially separated, and religious freedom is guaranteed. A 2008 survey by the INE of Uruguay showed Catholi... | , toured with Cab Calloway, and starred in the film "Stormy Weather". Throughout her dancing career and after, she worked as a barmaid.
Fay Ray (September 11, 1919 – September 14, 2013) was born in Louisiana and wanted to be a dancer from a young age. At age 12, she jumped on a freight train dressed as a boy and left h... | 50,897 | triviaqa-train |
Edith Cavell, who was executed in 1915 by German firing squad after aiding the escape of allied prisoners from Belgium, was a member of which profession? | , her nursing profession, and her apparently heroic approach to death. Her execution was represented as an act of German barbarism and moral depravity.
News reports shortly following Cavell's execution were found to be only true in part. Even the "American Journal of Nursing" repeated the fictional account of Cavell's ... | 7, 2002 C.E. – "ongoing" Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
- March 18, 2006 C.E. Action
- January 5, 2007 C.E. – January 12, 2,007 C.E. Battle of Ras Kamboni
- June 3, 2007 C.E. Action
- May 31, 2007 C.E. – June 3, 2007 C.E. Battle of Bargal
- March 3, 2008 C.E. Dobley airstrike
- May 1, 2008 C.E. Dhusamareb ... | 50,898 | triviaqa-train |
"""Appassionata"" is a name given to Piano Concerto number 23 by which composer?" | grand". This was achieved by about 1777. They quickly gained a reputation for the splendour and powerful tone of their instruments, with Broadwood constructing pianos that were progressively larger, louder, and more robustly constructed. They sent pianos to both Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, and were the first... | major (1804–1805)
- Op. 57: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor ("Appassionata") (1805–1806)
- Op. 58: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (1805–1806)
- Op. 59: Three String Quartets ("Rasumovsky") (1806)
- No. 1: String Quartet No. 7 in F major
- No. 2: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor
- No. 3: String Quartet No. 9 in | 50,899 | triviaqa-train |
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