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The Dickin Medal that bears the words 'For Gallantry' and 'We Also Serve' was instituted in 1943 by Maria Dickin to honour the work of whom/what in war? | Maria Dickin
Maria Elisabeth Dickin CBE (nickname, Mia; 22 September 1870 – 1 March 1951) was a social reformer and an animal welfare pioneer who founded the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in 1917. Born in 1870 in London, she was the oldest of eight children; her parents were William George Dickin, a Wesle... | White Vision
White Vision, also known by her service number SURP.41.L.3089, was a female Second World War homing pigeon who served with the National Pigeon Service and was posted to No. 190 Squadron RAF. She was awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry in 1943 for delivering a message from a flying boat forced to ditch o... | 52,500 | triviaqa-train |
"Named for the fictional town in the radio series A Prairie Home Companion, what is the Lake Wobegon effect? (Hint: According to Garrison Keillor, the presenter of the show, here ""all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average"")" | " has been used to describe a real and pervasive human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others. To support the view that people in general need to believe that they are above average (the Lake Wobegon effect) one author points out that in a survey of high school students, only... | ." But it is also the home of the Mist County Fair, old-fashioned show yards with flowers "like Las Vegas showgirls", sweet corn, a magnificent grain elevator, and the pleasant lake itself.
The Lake Wobegon effect.
The Lake Wobegon effect, a natural human tendency to overestimate one's capabilities, was named by David ... | 52,501 | triviaqa-train |
What is the correct term for the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest? | Gleaning
Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. It is a practice described in the Hebrew Bible that became a legally enforced entitlement of the poor in a number of Christian kingd... | the predominant staple on Savu, though most farmers try to plant several different fields to increase their chances of at least one successful harvest. Cotton is the main crop on Rai Jua, where the standard of living is below that of Savu. It is used to make traditional textiles. Corn is planted in late November, Decem... | 52,502 | triviaqa-train |
If you were at the home of Joseph Barbara in Apalachin, New York on November 14, 1957, I'd be very wary of you. Who met there? | 1786, but the community was not founded until 1836.
On November 14, 1957, the heads of the American Mafia held the Apalachin Meeting at the home of Joseph Barbara, a conference of mobsters who had gathered to iron out various issues in the underworld. The gathering was quickly broken up when a curious New York State Tr... | Vincent Gigante slightly wounded Costello. Shaken by the assassination attempt, Costello soon retired, leaving Genovese as boss. On October 25, 1957, Albert Anastasia was assassinated in a hotel barbershop; Carlo Gambino became the new family boss.
In 1957, Genovese called a national mob meeting to legitimize his contr... | 52,503 | triviaqa-train |
Located at 1651-1653 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., what is the official state guest house for the President of the United States? | military camp in Frederick County, Maryland, is the president's country residence. A place of solitude and tranquility, the site has been used extensively to host foreign dignitaries since the 1940s.
Blair House, located next to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House Complex and Lafayette Park, ser... | White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. The term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president and... | 52,504 | triviaqa-train |
The Bodleian Library, one of the oldest libraries in Europe, is the main research library of which seminal institution? | Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 12 million items, it is the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library. Under the "Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003" it is one of six legal deposit ... | Girls Hostel ad Staff Quarters. It has a lush green Play ground which is maintained by Union Sporting Club.This campus also Shared by Biju Pattnaik Film & TV Institute of Orissa BPFTIO a premier TV & Film Institute in Eastern India.
Library.
The Institution Library is one of the oldest libraries in the State and is hav... | 52,505 | triviaqa-train |
What is the famous four-letter phrase uttered by Ronald Reagan in his speech in June, 1987 at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin? | , and the Iran–Contra affair. In June 1987, four years after he publicly described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire", Reagan challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!", during a speech at the Brandenburg Gate. He transitioned Cold War policy from détente to rollback by escalating... | , Kornblum negotiated a settlement which was ultimately confirmed by Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003. The new embassy opened on July 4, 2008.
Kornblum's more than forty years of active presence in Europe have made him one of the most experienced and effective American practitioners on Europe and Atlantic relati... | 52,506 | triviaqa-train |
What political movement in first century Judaism that sought to incite people against the Roman Empire has now come to mean fanatical support for a cause? | and then inspired the locals to a fanatical position that led to the Temple's destruction. They succeeded in taking over Jerusalem, and held it until 70, when the son of Roman Emperor Vespasian, Titus, retook the city and destroyed Herod's Temple during the destruction of Jerusalem.
In the Talmud.
In the Talmud, the Ze... | the "four sects" of Judaism during his time, was a political movement in first century Judaism which sought to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the holy land by force of arms, most notably during the Great Jewish Revolt (66-70 CE).
Kanaim of the 18th century.
Rabb... | 52,507 | triviaqa-train |
If the Chinese are associated with the Long March in the 20th century, who are associated with the Great Trek in Africa in the 19th century? | Great Trek
The Great Trek (; ) was an eastward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape’s British colonial administration. The Great Trek resulted from the culmination of tensions b... | values. The Igbo people today are known as the ethnic group that has adopted Christianity the most in all of Africa.
The Igbo people were unaffected by the Islamic jihad waged in Nigeria in the 19th century, but a small minority converted to Islam in the 20th century.
Culture Religion and rites of passage Native reli... | 52,508 | triviaqa-train |
In 1973, Libya went to war with which country to claim control of the Aouzou strip which was claimed to be rich with uranium deposits? | Libya
Libya (; ; ), officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. The sovereign state is made of t... | receive the Aouzou strip, which was to be added to Libya. France's other motivations in concluding this agreement with Italy were to settle the status of the Italian Tunisian community in its protectorate of the country, to remove irredentist Italian claims to Nice, and to prevent Italy from growing closer to Nazi Germ... | 52,509 | triviaqa-train |
When he fell in the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, who became the last English king to die in battle? | Battle of Bosworth Field
The Battle of Bosworth Field (or Battle of Bosworth) was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York that extended across England in the latter half of the 15th century. Fought on 22 August 1485, the battle was won by the Lancastr... | Moreover, the family of Edward IV, and the Edwardian loyalists, were naturally opposed to him, essentially dividing his Yorkist power base. A coup attempt failed in late 1483, but in 1485 Richard met Henry Tudor at the battle of Bosworth Field. During the battle, some of Richard's important supporters switched sides or... | 52,510 | triviaqa-train |
What were the military units made up of volunteers from different countries who traveled to defend the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) called? | territory in order to consolidate Franco's future regime.
Although both sides received foreign military aid, the help that Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany (as part of German involvement in the Spanish Civil War), and neighbouring Portugal gave the rebels was much greater and more effective than the assistance that the Repu... | many communist leaders into the Popular Front government in the Second Spanish Republic, but in a matter of months a right-wing military coup initiated the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. This conflict soon took on the characteristics of a proxy war involving the Soviet Union and left wing volunteers from different cou... | 52,511 | triviaqa-train |
The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase what island from Spain? | of revolutions and declared independence, leading to the Spanish American wars of independence that ended Spanish control over its mainland colonies in the Americas. King Ferdinand VII's attempt to re-assert control proved futile as he faced opposition not only in the colonies but also in Spain and army revolts followe... | flying foxes as this is where they form relationships and learn how to survive. Flying fruit foxes are nocturnal, feeding during the night. At dawn, the bats either return to their permanent camp of they find another camp to rest and socialize with other bats for a day. To drink water, these bats quickly fly by their w... | 52,512 | triviaqa-train |
Sengbe Pieh (1813–ca.1879), later known as Joseph Cinqué was a West African man and the most prominent defendant in which 1841 case in American history named for a ship? | Joseph Cinqué
Joseph Cinqué (c. 1814 – c. 1879), also known as Sengbe Pieh, and sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave ship, "La Amistad". After the ship was taken into custody by the United States Revenue Cutter Se... | "Tecora", bound for Cuba to be sold as slaves. Upon their secret arrival in Cuba, the captives were transferred to 'La Amistad'. On July 2, 1839, a revolt was led by Sengbe Pieh (also known as Joseph Cinqué) in which the captives overran the ship, threatening death, and ordered the surviving crew to chart a course back... | 52,513 | triviaqa-train |
What groups of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy get their name from the Italian for 'charcoal burners'? | Carbonari
The Carbonari (Italian for "charcoal makers") was an informal network of secret revolutionary societies active in Italy from about 1800 to 1831. The Italian Carbonari may have further influenced other revolutionary groups in France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Brazil and Uruguay. Although their ... | Allonsanfàn
Allonsanfàn (1974) is an Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani with the score written by Ennio Morricone.
Overview.
The film is set in early 19th-century Italy and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Fulvio Imbriani, an Italian middle-aged aristocrat-turned-revolutionary, losing his commitment... | 52,514 | triviaqa-train |
What 1943 WWII battle between Germany and the Soviet Union remains to this day the largest series of armored clashes ever? | .
History World War II Turning point and collapse.
Losses continued to mount after Stalingrad, leading to a sharp reduction in the popularity of the Nazi Party and deteriorating morale. Soviet forces continued to push westward after the failed German offensive at the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943. By the end of... | Allied airborne landings begin in the Netherlands and Germany.
- September 18 – WWII:
- torpedoes ; 5,620 drown.
- After German forces declare the evacuation of Estonia the day before, the Estonian national government briefly resumes control of Tallinn before the Soviet advance.
- September 19 – WWII:
- An armistice be... | 52,515 | triviaqa-train |
During World War I, which Belgian city that was the centre of intense battles was nicknamed 'wipers'? | 231. This article became known as the War Guilt clause as the majority of Germans felt humiliated and resentful. Overall the Germans felt they had been unjustly dealt with by what they called the "diktat of Versailles". German historian Hagen Schulze said the Treaty placed Germany "under legal sanctions, deprived of mi... | .
Kortrijk was heavily bombed in the summer of 1917, but was liberated by the British Army the following year. During World War II the city was an important railway hub for the German army, and for this reason was the target of several allied air-strikes. On 21 July 1944 (the Belgian National Day) around 300 Avro Lanca... | 52,516 | triviaqa-train |
What term refers to the stage of the journey that saw the forcible passage of Africans to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade? | Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The vast majority... | La Raza
The Spanish expression ( english translation the people\the community") refers to the Hispanophone populations (primarily though not always exclusively in the Western Hemisphere), considered as an ethnic or racial unit historically deriving from the Spanish Empire, and the process of racial miscegenation of the... | 52,517 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the fictional woman who is depicted as the national emblem of the French Republic? | Marianne
Marianne () has been the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of liberty and reason, and a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.
Marianne is displayed in many places in France and holds a place of honour in town halls and law courts. She is depicted i... | The Gallic rooster, colloquially named "Chantecler", had been a national emblem ever since, especially during the Third Republic. The rooster was featured on the reverse of French 20-franc gold pieces from 1899 to 1914. After World War I it was depicted on countless war memorials.
Today, it is often used as a national ... | 52,518 | triviaqa-train |
As numerous countries gained their independence in that year, which year in the second half of the 20th century is known as the 'Year of Africa'? | Year of Africa
Origin.
O. H. Morris of the British Ministry of Colonies predicted in early January that "1960 will be a year of Africa". The phrase "year of Africa" was also used by Ralph Bunche on 16 February 1960. Bunche anticipated that many states would achieve independence in that year due to the "well nigh explos... | of a Kurdish family to life imprisonment for the honor killing of 16-year old Naile Erdas, who got pregnant after she was raped.
Kurdish women in Syria.
Kurdish women in Syria Background and history.
While Syria has developed some fairly secular features during independence in the second half of the 20th century, perso... | 52,519 | triviaqa-train |
Because foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution, what was created by Louis Philippe, the King of France in 1831? | power by other means. His half-brother Morny and a few close advisors began to quietly organize a coup d'état. They brought Major General Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud, a former captain from the French Foreign Legion and a commander of French forces in Algeria, and other officers from the French army in North Africa, t... | .
During the July Revolution of 1830 in France, revolutionaries forced the king to abdicate and created the July Monarchy with encouragement from the new French king, Louis-Philippe. Louis-Philippe had promised revolutionaries such as Ciro Menotti that he would intervene if Austria tried to interfere in Italy with troo... | 52,520 | triviaqa-train |
Mimar Sinan (1489-1588) is considered the greatest architect of the classical period and was responsible for the Suleiman mosque in Istanbul and many other magnificent constructions. Which political entity benefited from his genius? | of supplies within the Ottoman Empire. He was also responsible for the design and construction of public works, such as roads, waterworks and bridges. Through the years he transformed his office into that of Architect of the Empire, an elaborate government department, with greater powers than his supervising minister. ... | outer courtyards. The inner courtyard and the mosque were inseparable. The master architect of the classical period, Mimar Sinan, was born in 1489/1490 in Kayseri and died in Istanbul in the year 1588. Sinan started a new era in world architecture, creating 334 buildings in various cities. Mimar Sinan's first important... | 52,521 | triviaqa-train |
If you have to associate one person with the 'Kuomintang Party' between 1929 and 1948, who would it be? | by Chiang Kai-shek, and the Communist Party of China, led by Mao Zedong. Throughout the months of 1949, a series of Chinese Communist offensives led to the capture of its capital Nanjing on 23 April and the subsequent defeat of the Nationalist army on the mainland, and the Communists founded the People's Republic of Ch... | party first united under the Marquess of Rockingham, and so long supported by Fox, and not as one upon which I suppose you to be personally solicitous". Fitzwilliam replied two days later that the decision was not a Cabinet but an individual one and that Rockingham's memory might have been honoured if the marquessate w... | 52,522 | triviaqa-train |
Ephialtes of Trachis was the traitor who showed the Persian forces a trail around the allied Greek position at the pass of Thermopylae, which helped them win the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. He was portrayed as a severely deformed man in which blood-soaked 2007 movie? | .
In the 1962 film "The 300 Spartans", Ephialtes was portrayed by Kieron Moore and is depicted as a loner who worked on a goat farm near Thermopylae. He betrays the Spartans to the Persians out of greed for riches, and, it is implied, unrequited love for a Spartan girl named Ellas.
Frank Miller's 1998 comic book minise... | Ephialtes of Trachis
Ephialtes (; , "Ephialtēs"; although Herodotus spelled it as , "Epialtes") was the son of Eurydemus () of Malis. He betrayed his homeland, in hope of receiving some kind of reward from the Persians, by showing the Persian forces a path around the allied Greek position at the pass of Thermopylae, wh... | 52,523 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the notorious biological research unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and WWII? | outlook on the war exist. For example, the Japanese government has been accused of historical revisionism by allowing the approval of a few school textbooks omitting or glossing over Japan's militant past, although the most recent controversial book, the "New History Textbook" was used by only 0.039% of junior high sch... | 731, a biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, undertook lethal human experimentation during the period that comprised both the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Second World War (1937–1945). In Mindanao, Moro Muslim prisoners of war were subjected to various forms o... | 52,524 | triviaqa-train |
On 31 October 1984, the English actor Peter Ustinov was waiting to interview which Asian leader when that person was assassinated? | second place to his work on behalf of UNICEF, for which he was a Goodwill Ambassador and fundraiser. In this role, he visited some of the neediest children and made use of his ability to make people laugh, including many of the world's most disadvantaged children. "Sir Peter could make anyone laugh", UNICEF Executive D... | as Operation Blue Star.
On 31 October 1984, two of Gandhi's bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, shot her with their service weapons in the garden of the prime minister's residence in response to her authorisation of Operation Blue Star. Gandhi was due to be interviewed by British actor Peter Ustinov, who was fil... | 52,525 | triviaqa-train |
Waitangi Day held each year on February 6 is the national day of New Zealand as a treaty instrumental in the country's history was signed at that place in 1840. The name 'Waitangi' means 'weeping waters' in which language? | During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while i... | Waitangi Day
Waitangi Day is the national day of New Zealand, and commemorates the signing, on 6 February 1840, of the Treaty of Waitangi. Ceremonies take place at Waitangi, Northland to commemorate the signing of the treaty, which is regarded as New Zealand's founding document. The day is observed annually and is desi... | 52,526 | triviaqa-train |
Kåre Kristiansen, a member of the Nobel Committee resigned in 1994 in protest at the awarding of the Peace Prize to which person, calling the awardee a terrorist? | .
The awards given to Mikhail Gorbachev, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, Lê Đức Thọ, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, the IPCC, Liu Xiaobo, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, and the European Union have all been the subject of controversy.
The awards given to Lê Đức Thọ and Henry Kiss... | the National Book Trust of India. He has been a Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, which through the Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize annually, as well as a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. He is a Bernard Schwartz awardee. He was formerly a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the Extern... | 52,527 | triviaqa-train |
Who was executed by hanging at Ramla prison in 1962 and remains the only person to have been executed by an Israeli civilian court? | keeps the execution rate secret, and hundreds may be carried out every year. In 2007, Amnesty International stated that 900 people were at "imminent risk" of execution in Iraq.
Notable practices across the globe Israel.
Although Israel has provisions in its criminal law to use the death penalty for extraordinary crimes... | Charles A. Kelly
Charles A. Kelly (died September 6, 1962) was the last person executed by Iowa. In 1965, Iowa abolished its death penalty and no one has been executed by the state since then.
Kelly and Charles Brown were together convicted by a jury of the murder of a man in Walnut, Iowa. The court sentenced them both... | 52,528 | triviaqa-train |
What two countries fought the six-day 'Football War' or the '100-hours War' in 1969? | Football War
The Football War (; colloquial: Soccer War or the 100 Hours War) was a brief war fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. Existing tensions between the two countries coincided with rioting during a 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifier. The war began on 14 July 1969, when the Salvadoran military launched a... | II on the side of the United Kingdom and opted for Pakistan as an aftermath of the partition of British India in 1947. He gained nationwide famed and public notability when he commanded and led Pakistan Air Force in the second war with India in 1965 as well as noted for his aerial skills when he participated on Six-Day... | 52,529 | triviaqa-train |
What sporty term popularized by Rudyard Kipling in Kim was used to describe the rivalry between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in their quest for supremacy in Central Asia in the 19th century? | famines during its period of rule. Later, under direct British rule, commissions were set up after each famine to investigate the causes and implement new policies, which took until the early 1900s to have an effect.
Britain's imperial century (1815–1914) Rivalry with Russia.
During the 19th century, Britain and the Ru... | , the Caribbean and India, following Spanish and Portuguese successes during the Age of Discovery, in rivalry with Britain for supremacy. A series of wars with Britain during the 18th and early 19th centuries which France lost ended its colonial ambitions on these continents, and with it is what some historians term th... | 52,530 | triviaqa-train |
Literally called 'The Righteous and Harmonious Society Movement', what is the more popular western name for the Chinese rebellion took place from 1899 to 1901 against foreign influence during the final years of the Manchu rule? | popular accounts.
Other recent Western works refer to the "Boxer Movement", "Boxer War" or Yihetuan Movement, while Chinese studies use 义和团运动 (Yihetuan yundong), that is, "Yihetuan Movement." In his discussion of the general and legal implications of the terminology involved, the German scholar Thoralf Klein notes that... | Fernando – service implemented in December 2008
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- SeaBus
- Venice
- Gondola
- Vaporetto
- Victoria, British Columbia
- Victoria Harbour
- Walt... | 52,531 | triviaqa-train |
What generic term for all African American soldiers was originally applied to the members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment by the native Apache Indians? | 10th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
The 10th Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army. Formed as a segregated African-American unit, the 10th Cavalry was one of the original "Buffalo Soldier" regiments in the post–Civil War Regular Army. It served in combat during the Indian Wars in the western United Sta... | 1865. The primary intent of the fort was to protect settlers and travelers in the Mesilla Valley from attacks by desperados and Mescalero Apache Indians. Built near the banks of the Rio Grande, the adobe fort housed units of the California Volunteer Cavalry, U.S. Army Infantry and Cavalry.
The first troops to occupy th... | 52,532 | triviaqa-train |
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson. Historian Plutarch remarked that the goddess was preoccupied with the birth of whom that occurred on the same day to save her temple? | surprisingly modern in their social relations: they allowed strangers to integrate and education was valued. In later times, Pliny the Elder mentioned having seen at Ephesus a representation of the goddess Diana by Timarata, the daughter of a painter.
In 356 BC the temple of Artemis was burnt down, according to legend,... | others. It was built of stone (unavailable locally) in imitation of a Babylonian temple, six stories tall, and entirely gilded.
Second Temple of Artemis.
Dinocrates was involved in reconstructing the Temple of Artemis—one of the "seven wonders of the world"—which had been destroyed by Herostratus in an act of arson on ... | 52,533 | triviaqa-train |
What 1990s theory proposed by the political scientist Samuel Huntington contends that cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world? | transition. Huntington won the 1992 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for this book.
Notable arguments "The Clash of Civilizations".
During 1993, Huntington provoked great debate among international relations theorists with the interrogatively titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", an influential, oft-cited arti... | Huntington proposes that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world.
Influence and understanding.
Michelle LeBaron describes different cultures as "underground rivers that run through our lives and relationships, giving us messages that shape our percept... | 52,534 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the Polish trade union founded in September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard that was originally led by Lech Wałęsa? | History of Solidarity
The history of Solidarity (, pronounced ), a Polish non-governmental trade union, began on August 14, 1980, at the Lenin Shipyards (now Gdańsk Shipyards) at its founding by Lech Wałęsa and others. In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country. Solidarity ... | a communist regime and created in September 1980 at the Vladimir Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa, in the time when the communist Poland was strongly divided between its supporters and opponents, and when there was not a place for the 'middle option' between the yes and the no for the anti-c... | 52,535 | triviaqa-train |
In 1954, which country suggested that it should join NATO to preserve peace in Europe but this proposal was rejected as the other countries felt that it would weaken the alliance? | have committed to reach or maintain defense spending of at least 2% of GDP by 2024.
History.
On 4 March 1947 the Treaty of Dunkirk was signed by France and the United Kingdom as a "Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Assistance" in the event of a possible attack by Germany or the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II... | aid of Latvia and other East European countries should Moscow threaten them at some point in the future. She stated: "Kosovo is not a member of the NATO alliance and yet the alliance was able to take action when it felt that, according to the principles on which it is founded, action and intervention was necessary. I w... | 52,536 | triviaqa-train |
What was the famous one-word reply of General McAuliffe of the US to a German demand for surrender during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII? | Anthony McAuliffe
General Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe (July 2, 1898 – August 11, 1975) was a senior United States Army officer who earned fame as the acting commander of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
After the battle, McAuliffe ... | , and the project was budgeted at $2 million. Wellman put the cast through some military training with Robert Taylor, a former navy officer dropping out for not feeling the role was right for him. He was replaced by Van Johnson.
Robert Pirosh had based the script on his own experiences during the Battle of the Bulge, a... | 52,537 | triviaqa-train |
In 1948, which Latin American country became the first in the world to constitutionally abolish its army? | Costa Rica
Costa Rica (; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (), is a sovereign state in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a p... | and the Pan American Health Organization declared and certified Colombia free of the measles while becoming the first Latin American country to abolish the infection within its borders.
Cases reported in the first three months of 2019 were 300% higher than in the first three months of 2018, with outbreaks in every regi... | 52,538 | triviaqa-train |
"Whose last words before he drank poison reportedly were ""Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it.""?" | Crito of Alopece
Crito of Alopece ( or ; , "gen" Κρίτωνος, "Kríton Alōpekēthen"; c. 469 – 4th century BC) was an ancient Athenian agriculturist depicted in the Socratic literature of Plato and Xenophon, where he appears as a faithful and lifelong companion of the philosopher Socrates. Although the later tradition of a... | died from hemlock poisoning, as recounted by Plato, were "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?", signifying that death was a cure for the illness of life.
The Greeks believed that even lions were afraid of roosters. Several of Aesop's Fables reference this belief.
In the New Testament, J... | 52,539 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the village on the border between North and South Korea where the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War was signed? | did not start again until 25 October 1951. The U.S. would not allow further discussion to take place in Kaesŏng. Panmunjom, a nearby village in Kyŏnggi Province, close to both North and South Korea, was chosen as the new location for deliberations. This was conditional on responsibility for protection of the village be... | Japanese occupation from 1910 to 1945, the city was known by the Japanese pronunciation of its name, "Kaijō". Between 1945 and 1950, Kaesong was part of South Korea and under its control. The 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement left the city under North Korean control. It is the only city to have changed hands from South t... | 52,540 | triviaqa-train |
What South African island was used as a gaol for political prisoners while the country was under the policy of apartheid? | from the maximum security Robben Island to the lower security Pollsmoor Prison just outside Cape Town; where prison life was more comfortable for him. The government allowed Mandela more visitors, including visits and interviews by foreigners, to let the world know that he was being treated well.
Black homelands were d... | and Jeffrey Benzien, officers of the South African Police under Apartheid, that they used waterboarding, referred to as "tubing", or the "wet bag technique" on political prisoners as part of a wide range of torture methods to extract information. Specifically, a cloth bag was wet and placed over victim's heads, to be r... | 52,541 | triviaqa-train |
What burning-liquid weapon was used by the Byzantine Greeks to great effect as it could continue burning even on water? | was finally repulsed through the use of Greek fire, and a thirty-years' truce was signed between the Empire and the Umayyad Caliphate. However, the Anatolian raids continued unabated, and accelerated the demise of classical urban culture, with the inhabitants of many cities either refortifying much smaller areas within... | and provides a great technique for measuring aerosol pollution. Ground-based lidar have shown agreement with CALIOP in measuring isolated aerosol layers above the Seoul metropolitan area.
CALIPSO has also been used in conjunction with the MODIS data to determine how aerosols within the planetary boundary layer might al... | 52,542 | triviaqa-train |
What two countries formed in 1993 as a result of what is known as the 'Velvet Divorce'? | Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia (, ), which took effect on 1 January 1993, was an event that saw the self-determined split of the federal state of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. These entities had arisen before as the "Czech Socialist Re... | fall of Communism with the Bratislava candle demonstration in 1988, and the city became one of the foremost centres of the anti-Communist Velvet Revolution in 1989.
In 1993, the city became the capital of the newly formed Slovak Republic following the Velvet Divorce.
Geography.
Bratislava is situated in southwestern Sl... | 52,543 | triviaqa-train |
The Battle of Austerlitz, one of Napoleon's greatest victories is also known by what name that references Emperor Francis and the Russian Czar along with Napoleon himself? | Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805/11 Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. In what is widely regarded as the greatest victory achieved by Napoleon, the "Grande Armée" of France def... | Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet's 37,000 defended the Spanish border. Napoleon's step-son Eugène de Beauharnais with 50,000 troops defended the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy against the Austrian Empire. There were numerous French garrisons in Belgium, the Netherlands and eastern France, while 15,000 soldiers were isolated i... | 52,544 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the popular author who served as Chancellor of Moratuwa University in Sri Lanka from 1979 to 2002? | disparities in access to quality education, lack of an effective linkage between secondary and tertiary education remain major challenges for the education sector. A number of private, degree awarding institutions have emerged in recent times to fill in these gaps, yet the participation at tertiary level education rema... | Chandratne Patuwathavithane
Chandratne Patuwathavithane (died September 14, 1989) is a Sri Lankan born academic who served as the vice chancellor of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka during 1980–1983 and 1988–1889 until he was assassinated in his office during 1987–89 insurgency in Sri Lanka.
Education.
He was a produc... | 52,545 | triviaqa-train |
According to a 1864 adventure novel, Saknussemm's Corridor in an extinct volcano in Iceland is the place to start if you seek to go where? | Tudors", is also Icelandic. Briem starred in the 2008 film "Journey to the Center of the Earth", which shot scenes in Iceland. The 2002 James Bond movie "Die Another Day" is set for a large-part in Iceland. Christopher Nolan's 2014 film, "Interstellar" was also filmed in Iceland for some of its scenes, as was Ridley Sc... | volcano and putting forward various scientific theories as to why the journey is impossible, but Professor Lidenbrock repeatedly keeps himself blinded against Axel's point of view. After a rapid journey via Kiel and Copenhagen, they arrive in Reykjavík, where the two procure the services of Hans Bjelke (a Danish-speaki... | 52,546 | triviaqa-train |
"Algernon Blackwood's 1907 story, called by H. P. Lovecraft as the ""finest supernatural tale in English literature"" is titled after what type of trees? (hint: cricket)" | but wholly out of the habit of using them." Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of Lord Dunsany, with their pantheon of mighty gods existing in dreamlike outer realms, moved his writing in a new direction, resulting in a series of imitative fantasies in a "Dreamlands" setting.
Lovecraft also cited Algernon Blackwood a... | Ithaqua
Ithaqua (the "Wind-Walker" or the "Wendigo") is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The titular creature debuted in August Derleth's short story "Ithaqua", which was based on Algernon Blackwood's tale "The Wendigo". It controls snow, ice and cold, and can walk through the sky as easi... | 52,547 | triviaqa-train |
In which Somerset Maugham's short-story does missionary Alfred Davidson try to reform a prostitute but ultimately succumbs to her charm? | weariness struck a chord with readers during the Second World War. It was adapted into a major motion picture, released in 1946, starring Tyrone Power as Larry Darrell, with Herbert Marshall as W. Somerset Maugham. Another film adaptation was issued in 1984, starring Bill Murray.
Among his short stories, some of the mo... | Tyler
- Heinie Conklin as Jury Member (uncredited)
- Robert Homans as Policeman (uncredited)
- Larry Steers as Courtroom Attendant (uncredited)
Production.
Production Screenplay.
Producer Walter Wanger first planned to make W. Somerset Maugham's novel "Christmas Holiday" into a film in 1939, but the Hays Office rejecte... | 52,548 | triviaqa-train |
The name of what literary swashbuckler is the answer to the final question in the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire? | call Salim, because it is the only phone number that Jamal knows. Latika answers and tells Jamal that she is safe, although she does not know the answer to the question. Relieved, Jamal arbitrarily picks the first answer, Aramis. He is correct and wins the grand prize. Javed hears Latika on the show and realizes that S... | - Sammy Abraham - 5 million Naira (Year 2013)
- Olalowo Olatokun - 5 million Naira (Year 2014)
Final question right.
On September 11, 2009, a contestant called Aroma Ufodike became the first person to win the ₦10 million, and currently, he is the only one who won the top prize of this game show. One of the questions re... | 52,549 | triviaqa-train |
Which prolific author created a men-only dining group called The Black Widowers for a series of mystery stories? | Black Widowers
The Black Widowers is a fictional men-only dining club created by Isaac Asimov for a series of sixty-six mystery stories that he started writing in 1971. Most of the stories were first published in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine", though a few first appeared in "Fantasy & Science Fiction", "Isaac Asimo... | mysteries such as his Wendell Urth stories, but soon moved on to writing "pure" mysteries. He published two full-length mystery novels, and wrote 66 stories about the Black Widowers, a group of men who met monthly for dinner, conversation, and a puzzle. He got the idea for the Widowers from his own association in a sta... | 52,550 | triviaqa-train |
A 1978 contemplative travel book of Peter Matthiessen concerned him tracking what elusive creature of the Himalayas? | Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA officer. A co-founder of the literary magazine "The Paris Review", he was the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction. He was also a prom... | At Play in the Fields of the Lord (novel)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. A film adapted from the book was released in 1991. A 2009 audiobook version was read by actor Anthony Heald.
"In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clas... | 52,551 | triviaqa-train |
A 1986 book on the pivotal role of six Cold War diplomats including Dean Acheson and George Kennan had what title evoking a certain Biblical trio? | George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States.... | U.S. policy, Kennan began to criticize the foreign policies that he had seemingly helped begin. Subsequently, prior to the end of 1948, Kennan became confident that positive dialogue could commence with the Soviet government. His proposals were discounted by the Truman administration and Kennan's influence was marginal... | 52,552 | triviaqa-train |
Just as Edward Bulwer-Lytton is associated with bombastic writing, what is the similarly famous poem of William McGonagall? | William McGonagall
William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was an Irish-born Scottish weaver, poet and actor. He won notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work.
He wrote about 200 poems, including "The Tay Bridge Disaster" and "T... | (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1992.)
See also.
- List of Northern Irish writers
- Robert Coates
- "The Eye of Argon"
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- William McGonagall
- James McIntyre
- Julia A. Moore
- "List of the Lost"
- "My Immortal"
External links.
- The Rocks of Regard—A brief guide to the life of Amanda McKittrick Ro... | 52,553 | triviaqa-train |
In Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta the anarchist wears a mask of which real-life person? | history version of the United Kingdom in the 1990s, preceded by a nuclear war in the 1980s that devastated most of the rest of the world. The White supremacist, neo-fascist, outwardly Christofascistic, and homophobic fictional "Norsefire" political party has exterminated its opponents in concentration camps, and now ru... | Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Watchmen
External links.
- "V for Vendetta" official site at DC Comics
- "V for Vendetta": Comic vs. Film at IGN
- An Annotation of Literary, Historic and Artistic References in Alan Moore's Graphic Novel, "V For Vendetta" by Madelyn Boudreaux
- "V for Vendetta – The Ultimate Collection Website" ... | 52,554 | triviaqa-train |
The award winning 2005 children's book And Tango Makes Three has been subject to much controversy as it was seen to be highlighting what behavior in the animal kingdom? | and ethnicities" in an elementary school curriculum, for students who have parents of the same gender would be effective. One of the age-appropriate books recommended for preschoolers was, indeed, "And Tango Makes Three".
Response Book Challenges.
Some parents have objected to their kids reading this book because it c... | penguins in New York that showed similar behavior. It was brought back into the spotlight by the release of the film "March of the Penguins" in 2005, as American conservatives and Christian fundamentalists pushed that the film demonstrated Christian values, so American liberals pushed back by highlighting Roy and Silo'... | 52,555 | triviaqa-train |
"Whose interview in Life magazine is said to have led to an upsurge in the sales of James Bond books? After a private screening of Dr. No, he also reportedly said ""I wish I had had James Bond on my staff.""" | to try to create a new form.
History 1960s and the end of an era.
In the 1960s, the magazine was filled with color photos of movie stars, President John F. Kennedy and his family, the war in Vietnam, and the Apollo program. Typical of the magazine's editorial focus was a long 1964 feature on actress Elizabeth Taylor an... | James Bond in the 2006 film "Casino Royale".
He played Mark Antony in the HBO/BBC original television series, "Rome". At the time there were rumours that at least one nude body in the show had been digitally enhanced. When his Wikipedia entry, which at that time referred to the rumours, was brought up in an interview w... | 52,556 | triviaqa-train |
Polydactyl cats (born with more than the usual number of toes) are associated with which writer who was known for his love for them? | as an aid in controlling shipboard rodents. Some sailors thought they bring good luck at sea. The rarity of polydactyl cats in Europe may be because they were hunted and killed due to superstitions about witchcraft.
Genetic work studying the DNA basis of the condition indicates that many different mutations in the same... | Polydactyl cat
A polydactyl cat is a cat with a congenital physical anomaly called polydactyly (or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly), which causes the cat to be born with more than the usual number of toes on one or more of its paws. Cats with this genetically inherited trait are most commonly found along the ... | 52,557 | triviaqa-train |
“From the Halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country’s battles” promises which branch of the US military? | Marines' Hymn
The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala. It is the oldest official song in the United States Armed Forces. The "Marines' Hymn" is typically sung at the position of attention as a gesture of respect. Ho... | poem
From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.
Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought ... | 52,558 | triviaqa-train |
What serial killer, who buried the remains of 26 of his victims in his Chicago crawl space, was known as the "Killer Clown"? | kind and unlikely to hurt anyone. Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are examples of organized serial killers. In general, the IQs of organized serial killers tend to be near normal range, with a mean of 94.7. Organized nonsocial offenders tend to be on the higher end of the average, with a mean IQ of 99.2.
Disorganized ser... | buried". He renewed the investigation, recruiting Stephen Nawrocki, a noted forensic anthropologist at the University of Indianapolis, to examine the remains and help develop descriptions of the victims. Nawrocki also gained the assistance of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, whose experts drew po... | 52,559 | triviaqa-train |
In the Peanuts comic strip, which of Snoopy's brothers wears a fedora and lives in the California desert? | he was known as "Charles" to Eudora, "big brother" to his sister Sally Brown, "that round-headed kid" to Snoopy, and "Brownie Charles" to Peggy Jean after misspeaking his name out of nervousness).
Several additional family members of the characters were also introduced: Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally, who became ... | Snoopy's Senior World Hockey Tournament
Snoopy's Senior World Hockey Tournament (commonly known as the "Snoopy Tournament") is a major amateur senior ice hockey tournament held every summer at Redwood Empire Ice Arena in Santa Rosa, California. Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip "Peanuts" and owner of the ar... | 52,560 | triviaqa-train |
On August 12, 1908, the first of over 15 million of what landmark automobile rolled off the assembly line? | benefits of the assembly line including:
- Workers do no heavy lifting.
- No stooping or bending over.
- No special training required.
- There are jobs that almost anyone can do.
- Provided employment to immigrants.
The gains in productivity allowed Ford to increase worker pay from $1.50 per day to $5.00 per day once e... | Berlin, excellent access existed to the water transport network. On 2 October 1930 Henry Ford, then age 67, together with Adenauer, age 55, laid the foundation stone for the Cologne Ford Plant: construction, which cost 12 Million Marks, progressed rapidly. The assembly operation in Berlin came to an end on 15 April 193... | 52,561 | triviaqa-train |
Known as the Golden State, what was the 31st state to join the Union on Sept. 9, 1850? | California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents across a total area of about , California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's ... | an agitation known as " Mysore Chalo". There appears to be an obfuscation of facts among the agitating public that Mysore Maharaja on the advice of the Dewan and his secretary Sir T. Thamboo Chetty was refusing to join the Indian Union. The truth of the matter was India was not a Union then. India had just become an In... | 52,562 | triviaqa-train |
What is the DVD region code for the US? | (RPC) system. However, "region-free" DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be "region-free", allowing playback of all discs.
DVDs may use one code, multiple codes (multi-region), every or no code (region free).
Region codes and countries.
Any c... | and evaluation – try before paying for what may be bad value
- Unavailability – no legitimate sellers providing the product in the language or country of the end-user: not yet launched there, already withdrawn from sales, never to be sold there, geographical restrictions on online distribution and international shippin... | 52,563 | triviaqa-train |
Which of the seven is the smallest (in area) continent? | Continent
A continent is one of several very large landmasses. As of 2015 this type of landmass is known to exist only on Earth. Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents. Ordered from largest in area to smallest, they are: Asia, Africa, ... | Age of Discovery European expansion.
Although Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area, it has a very long coastline, and has arguably been influenced more by its "maritime history" than any other continent. Europe is uniquely situated between several navigable seas and intersected by navigable ... | 52,564 | triviaqa-train |
August 11, 1988 is generally accepted as the creation date of what terrorist organization, whose name translates as "the base"? | after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declared that they had restored the Caliphate, an audio statement was released by the then-spokesman of the group Abu Muhammad al-Adnani claiming that "the legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organizations, becomes null by the expansion of the Caliphate's authori... | planned. This tool will enable to search the image data base for related photographs of individuals or terrorist attacks by using keywords (individual’s name, group / organization name, or the part of the name, specific terrorist incident, date, etc).
Regarding the practical aspects of the database, the TOCSearch data ... | 52,565 | triviaqa-train |
What revolutionary war hero, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, lends his name to a furniture company? | Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S. state of Vermont, and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revoluti... | the vote a response to Allen’s mistakes during the spring campaign on Lake Champlain? Did Allen’s unconventional Deist religious beliefs play a role? Did the delegates see Warner as a steadier and less impetuous leader?
The new regiment, unofficially called the Green Mountain Boys, was known in most returns and reports... | 52,566 | triviaqa-train |
Which US government department oversees the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as Food Stamps? | , which is usually available online. There is more information about various state applications processes, including locations of SNAP offices in various state, displayed on an interactive Outreach Map found on the FNS website. Individuals who believe they may be eligible for P.O.SNAP benefits may use the Food and Nutr... | Poverty law
Poverty law is the body of laws in which concerns the rights of low-income individuals and families to access government benefits. In the United States, these government benefits are provided by the federal government as well as by state governments. Federal government benefits include Medicaid; cash public... | 52,567 | triviaqa-train |
Who’s resignation speech included the lines “Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, “whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because... | Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until 1974. The only president to resign the office, he had previously served as the 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and prior to ... | , and in his resignation address to the nation on August 8, 1974:
Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, 'whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, [...]President John F. Kennedy quoted the speech D... | 52,568 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the fault line that runs for about 800 miles in California? | the largest being the San Andreas Fault. About 37,000 earthquakes are recorded each year, but most are too small to be felt.
Geography Climate.
Although most of the state has a Mediterranean climate, due to the state's large size the climate ranges from polar to subtropical. The cool California Current offshore often c... | the River Severn where it flows passed Cressage about 4.94 miles away.
Church Stretton Fault Line runs just to the North of the hamlet, which has led to several different rock types sprawling over Shropshire. Church Preen lies on the edge of Marine Silurian, which is from the Silurian period around 409-439 million year... | 52,569 | triviaqa-train |
What can be a rock band, a card game, and an organ? | rock from 1965. The psychedelic lifestyle, which revolved around hallucinogenic drugs, had already developed in San Francisco and particularly prominent products of the scene were the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's lead guitarist, Jimi Hendrix did
extended distorted, feedback-filled... | a great sense of meditative, brooding, elemental rock. Gala Mill is an excellent calling card for what may be Oz's best band."
A mixed review came from Ali Maloney of "The Skinny", who suggested that the album was cashing in on the then recent success of "The Proposition" through its sound and lyrics, sarcastically des... | 52,570 | triviaqa-train |
The B-29 Bockscar dropped the second atomic bomb on what Japanese city on August 9, 1945? | Fat Man
"Fat Man" was the codename for the nuclear bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third nuclear explosion in history. It wa... | George and the Moray coastline across the Moray Firth. It has one of the finest beaches on the Moray Firth Coast Line. At the southern end of the beach is Chanonry Point, reputed to be the best location on the United Kingdom mainland from which to see dolphins.
The village is linked to Inverness by broadly hourly bus ... | 52,571 | triviaqa-train |
August 12, 1925 saw the birth of twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who together compiled was famous set of books, originally conceived to help settle a bar bet? | Ross McWhirter
Alan Ross McWhirter (12 August 1925 – 27 November 1975) was, with his twin brother, Norris, the co-founder in 1955 of "Guinness Book of Records" (known since 2000 as Guinness World Records) and a contributor to TV programme "Record Breakers". He was murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)... | This brings back memories, enabling Milada to see clearly who she really is. Elsbeth explains to her that this is the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and that her Vater is the head of the camp.
The Nazis are losing on all fronts and Berlin is encircled by Russian troops. Vater decides to go into hiding and takes Peter ... | 52,572 | triviaqa-train |
August 8, 1908 saw which Wright brother, the one who didn't get to pilot the flyer the previous December at Kitty Hawk, make his first public flight in Le Mans, France? | Wright brothers
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871– January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867– May 30, 1912), were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, he... | attempt but the machine's failure to fly ended his government(aka U.S. Army) funded attempts at building a successful full sized man-carrying flying machine.
- December 17 - The Wright Brothers make four flights in their Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina following years of research and development. Orville Wright tak... | 52,573 | triviaqa-train |
August 14, 2000 saw the introduction of what kids animated character, known for a monkey named Boots, a fox named Swiper, and her frequent use of Spanish? | Dora the Explorer
Dora the Explorer is an American educational animated TV series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner. "Dora the Explorer" became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. The show aire... | as a fertility clown.
On April 4, 2013, Mirman provided the voice for Cecil Tunt, multi-millionaire brother of Cheryl/Carol Tunt on FX's "Archer".
On March 13, 2016, Mirman appeared on "Last Week Tonight" as a hacker.
Mirman currently voices the character Gene Belcher on the Fox animated series "Bob's Burgers".
Mirman ... | 52,574 | triviaqa-train |
What famed nurse, dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp", revolutionized nursing from the lessons she learned tending wounded soldiers during the Crimean War? | which the military used modern technologies such as explosive naval shells, railways, and telegraphs. The war was one of the first to be documented extensively in written reports and photographs. As the legend of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" demonstrates, the war quickly became an iconic symbol of logistical, medi... | Solano, Diana, and Anne Marie Rafferty. "Can lessons be learned from history? The origins of the British imperial nurse labour market: A discussion paper." "International journal of nursing studies" 44.6 (2007): 1055-1063.
- Summers, A. "Pride and Prejudice: Ladies and Nurses in the Crimean War", "History Workshop" (19... | 52,575 | triviaqa-train |
November 11, 1889 saw the great state of Washington formed from what territory? | Washington (state)
Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named for George Washington, the first U.S. president, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by Britain in 1846 in accordance with the ... | state. The creation of Idaho Territory in 1863 established the final eastern border. A Washington State constitution was drafted and ratified in 1878, but it was never officially adopted. Although never approved by Congress, the 1878 constitution is an important historical document which shows the political thinking of... | 52,576 | triviaqa-train |
Paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia is the fear of what? | Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which happens at least once every year but can occur up to three times in the same year,for example in 2015, the 13th fell on a Friday in February, ... | many interesting performances, such as "Love in the age of fear" directed by Antonio Riberio. Oris is showing consistent maturity and growth as an actor who is constantly searching for ways to broaden and define new horizons.
Filmography.
! Year || Movie || Role ||Notes
Golden Globe and NAACP nominated best Film
AMAA n... | 52,577 | triviaqa-train |
How many musicians make up a nonet? | the piano, and adding their individual voices to the chamber music conversation.
Mozart introduced the newly invented clarinet into the chamber music arsenal, with the Kegelstatt Trio for viola, clarinet and piano, K. 498, and the Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet, K. 581. He also tried other innovative ensembles... | " and "Why Do I Love You". There was a further short residency the following year at the Clique Club, these three sets making up the nonet's only live appearances. Arranger and Capitol Records talent scout Pete Rugolo heard the nonet at the Royal Roost and offered them a chance to make a record.
Recording.
The nonet re... | 52,578 | triviaqa-train |
On August 9, 1944, The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring what iconic character for the first time? | Management)
The Forest Service also manages Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, Pennsylvania, the home and estate of its first Chief, Gifford Pinchot.
Activities Fighting fires.
In August 1944, to reduce the number of forest fires, the Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council began distributing fir... | authorized by the Forest Service (this date is considered the character's birthday), and the first poster was delivered on October 10 by artist Albert Staehle. In the first poster, overseen by the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign (CFFP), Smokey was depicted wearing jeans and a campaign hat, pouring a bucket ... | 52,579 | triviaqa-train |
August 9th marks the anniversary of the resignation of Richard M. Nixon as US President. In what year did it happen? | Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until 1974. The only president to resign the office, he had previously served as the 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and prior to ... | the main character, Inigo, as the actor who played him (George Woodbridge) had died. The show is renamed "Pipkins".
- August 8 – US President Richard Nixon announces pending resignation (effective August 9) live on television.
- September 10 – The controversial TV movie "Born Innocent", starring Linda Blair, airs on NB... | 52,580 | triviaqa-train |
August 12, 1925 saw the birth of twins Ross and Norris McWhirter, who created what book, which people will go to extreme lengths to get into? | Norris McWhirter
Norris Dewar McWhirter (12 August 192519 April 2004) was a British writer, political activist, co-founder of The Freedom Association, and a television presenter. He and his twin brother Ross were known internationally for the founding of "Guinness World Records" (as The Guinness Book of Records) which ... | Europe's fastest game bird. Beaver knew that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland and abroad, but there was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records. He realised then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful.
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Sharing a name with the first successful model designed by Robert Fulton in 1800, what was the name of the submarine captained by Prince Armitage Ranjit Dakkar, or Captain Nemo, in Jules Verne's books 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island? | that appears deserted. Aronnax finds a large viewport and witnesses an underwater funeral.
Ned, Aronnax, and Conseil attempt to leave in their lifeboat, but the submarine crew stops the castaways. The captain introduces himself as Nemo, master of the "Nautilus". He returns Ned and Conseil to the deck while offering Aro... | Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo (; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's novels, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) and "The Mysterious Island" (1874), and makes a cameo appearance in Verne's play ... | 52,582 | triviaqa-train |
What legendary porn star was arrest, tried and acquitted as an accomplice in the so-called Wonderland Murders, immortalized in the 2003 Val Kilmer vehicle Wonderland? | Launius' wife, Susan Launius, survived the attack, allegedly masterminded by the organized crime figure and nightclub owner Eddie Nash. Nash, his henchman Gregory Diles, and porn star John Holmes were at various times arrested, tried, and acquitted for their involvement in the murders. LAPD detectives are on record say... | of the Wonderland Gang, so-called because they were based at 8763 Wonderland Avenue, died in the Wonderland murders (also known as the "Four on the Floor murders" or the "Laurel Canyon murders"). "Salon" reports: "The massacre took place just down the street from what was then the home of Jerry Brown, who was Californi... | 52,583 | triviaqa-train |
Who's missing: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop | 1972. One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap. I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew." This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography and in many articles.
After reuniting with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured... | and final Timex sponsored outing for the 1959–60 television season.
The special also featured Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Nancy Sinatra, who later starred with Elvis in his 1968 film "Speedway".
Elvis performed "Stuck on You" and "Fame and Fortune", the A and B sides of his first post-army RCA Vic... | 52,584 | triviaqa-train |
Which now defunct company operated the luxury liner Titanic? | suffered an accidental fire off the coast of Newfoundland and sank with the loss of all but 89 of the 542 passengers.
In the British market, Cunard Line and White Star Line "(the latter after being bought by Thomas Ismay in 1868)", competed strongly against each other in the late 1860s. The struggle was symbolised by t... | 's primary luxury ocean liner terminal from 1910 until 1935, when the growing size of ships made the complex inadequate. The RMS "Titanic" was headed to Pier 60 at the piers and the RMS "Carpathia" brought survivors to Pier 54 in the complex. The northern piers are now part of an entertainment and sports complex operat... | 52,585 | triviaqa-train |
Named for the developer of the steel plow, what Moline, Il. company is the world's largest producer of agricultural machinery in the world? | in construction and urban planning led to a shift in urban growth strategies in Moline. The first buildings were equipped with heat in September 1897, and electricity first arrived in Moline in 1881 when John Deere & Co. installed sixteen electric streetlights on the roadway outside its factories. Work on an electric s... | Minneapolis-Moline
Minneapolis-Moline was a large tractor and machinery producer based in Hopkins, Minnesota. It was the product of a merger between three companies in 1929: Minneapolis Steel & Machinery (MSM) (Twin City tractors), Minneapolis Threshing Machine (MTM), and Moline Plow. It had manufacturing facilities on... | 52,586 | triviaqa-train |
How many days in a fortnight? | Fortnight
A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (2 weeks). The word derives from the , meaning "".
Some wages and salaries are paid on a fortnightly basis; however, in North America it is far more common to use the term "biweekly". Neither of these terms should be confused with "semimonthly", which divides a y... | cross supposedly carved on Walton's chest mentioned in some later accounts.
Initial investigation Alfred Potter's account of events.
On 17 February, Potter was interviewed for a second time, on this occasion by Detective Sergeant Webb. Potter stated that Walton had usually worked about four days each week, but never in... | 52,587 | triviaqa-train |
Hiroshima was the first city to feel the effects of an atomic bomb. What Japanese city was next to be visited on Aug 9, 1945? | atom bomb attacks on Japan was deliberately withheld from the Japanese public by US military censors during the Allied occupation—even as they sought to teach the natives the virtues of a free press. Casualty statistics were suppressed. Film shot by Japanese cameramen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings was co... | the atomic bombs).
On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb to be used in combat was dropped by a B-29 Superfortress bomber, the "Enola Gay", over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing 70,000 people, including 20,000 Japanese combatants and 20,000 Korean slave laborers. The thirteen-hour mission to Hiroshima under th... | 52,588 | triviaqa-train |
August 16, 1977 saw the passing of what singing legend, found on the floor of his bathroom? | , country, blues, and gospel. He won three competitive Grammys, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame.
Life and career.
Life and career 1935–1953: Early years.
Life and career 1935–1953: Early years Childhood in Tupelo.
Elvis Presley was born o... | erotic terminology. As he hesitates to enter the bathroom, another guest in the hotel Mr. Mullins, is getting impatient. As Rev. Milligan does not want to lose his bathing time he passes the hornet into the bathroom. After bathing he again hesitates when passing the hornet. As he hears Mr. Mullins come to the bathroom ... | 52,589 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the seismic fault line that runs for about 800 miles in California? | the largest being the San Andreas Fault. About 37,000 earthquakes are recorded each year, but most are too small to be felt.
Geography Climate.
Although most of the state has a Mediterranean climate, due to the state's large size the climate ranges from polar to subtropical. The cool California Current offshore often c... | and the southern part of the Bighorn Mountains. The southern Bighorns have a fault named "Big Trails Fault" and there is some seismic activity in the area. The place name "Nowood" is a local word that describes the Nowood Valley, Wyoming Highway 434 (the Nowood Road), and the Nowood River.
History.
Bates Battlefield (1... | 52,590 | triviaqa-train |
What airline, the world’s largest, uses Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport as its’ US hub? | . By the mid-1920s, the Postal Service had developed its own air mail network, based on a transcontinental backbone between New York City and San Francisco. To supplement this service, they offered twelve contracts for spur routes to independent bidders. Some of the carriers that won these routes would, through time an... | airline hub at Hartsfield-Jackson, and it has helped make it the world's busiest airport, in terms of both passenger traffic and aircraft operations. Partly due to the airport, Atlanta has been also a hub for diplomatic missions; , the city contains 26 consulates general, the seventh-highest concentration of diplomatic... | 52,591 | triviaqa-train |
Suzette Charles of New Jersey became Miss America 1984 because of the resignation of the actual winner. Whom did she replace? | Suzette Charles
Suzette Charles (born Suzette DeGaetano, March 2, 1963) is an American singer, entertainer, and actress. She was Miss New Jersey in 1983, and served as Miss America 1984 for seven weeks after Vanessa Williams was forced to resign from the position that July.
Early life.
Charles was born and raised in Ma... | , Williams resigned as Miss America in July 1984 (under pressure from the Miss America Organization), and was replaced by first runner-up Miss New Jersey Suzette Charles. Thirty-two years later, Miss America CEO Sam Haskell offered her a public apology (during the Miss America 2016 pageant) for the events of 1984.
Will... | 52,592 | triviaqa-train |
What was the pseudonym of the Far Eastern despot Saloth Sar? | the Soviet state included human experimentation, the use of psychiatry as a political weapon and the denial of freedoms of religion, assembly, speech and association.
Pol Pot became dictator of Cambodia in 1975. In all, an estimated 1.7 million people (out of a population of 7 million) died due to the policies of his f... | far as craft skills are concerned, the sculptor Matutinović had mastered them all, but for him personally what was particularly important was the vital strength of the work.
Some of his most famous portraits were done in the period 1957–1970 (‘Portrait of Veljko Despot’; ‘Portrait of boy Perica’; ‘Portrait of Ljerka C... | 52,593 | triviaqa-train |
May 10, 1869 Promontory Summit, Utah, saw the driving of what historic object, still celebrated on the back of the Utah state quarter? | E. H. Miller Jr. Secty. S. S. Montague. Chief Engr."
- "May God continue the unity of our Country, as this Railroad unites the two great Oceans of the world. Presented by David Hewes San Francisco."
A second golden spike, exactly like the one from the ceremony (except for the date), was cast at the same time, and proba... | shows on the obverse an early model steam locomotive (the "Ajax") on Austria's first railway line, the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn. The "Ajax" can still be seen today in the Technisches Museum Wien.
As part of the 50 State Quarters program, the quarter representing the US state of Utah depicts the ceremony where the two... | 52,594 | triviaqa-train |
Colonel Tom Parker, the Colonel being an honorary title only, made his mark managing what entertainer? | , country, blues, and gospel. He won three competitive Grammys, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame.
Life and career.
Life and career 1935–1953: Early years.
Life and career 1935–1953: Early years Childhood in Tupelo.
Elvis Presley was born o... | out and Parker had full control over the rock singer's career. Forty years after leaving Parker, Snow stated, "I have worked with several managers over the years and have had respect for them all except one. Tom Parker [Snow refused to recognize the honorary title "Colonel"] was the most egotistical, obnoxious human be... | 52,595 | triviaqa-train |
August 15th, 1969 saw the opening of 3 day music festival on Max Yasgurs farm that became known as Woodstock. In what state did the festival take place? | -tech experts".
Michael Lang told a reporter that he also had "definite plans" for a 50th anniversary concert that would "hopefully encourage people to get involved with our lives on the planet" with a goal of re-capturing the "history and essence of what Woodstock was".
On January 9, 2019, Lang announced that the offi... | Snake River drainage from U.S. government stocking operations in 1890, they were never officially introduced into the Yellowstone River drainage and their presence there is probably the result of accidental or illegal introductions. By 2000, the cutthroat trout population had declined to less than 10 percent of its ear... | 52,596 | triviaqa-train |
For a point each, name the vaudeville and movie stars known as the Marx brothers | the greatest and most influential comedians of the 20th century. The brothers were included in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema, the only performers to be inducted collectively.
The group is almost universally known today by their stage names: Chico, Harpo, G... | was a magician. His sister, Minnie, married Sam "Frenchie" Marx; their sons would become known as the Marx Brothers.
After making a name for himself in vaudeville, Shean teamed up with Edward Gallagher to create the act Gallagher and Shean in the 1920s. While the act was successful, the men apparently did not like each... | 52,597 | triviaqa-train |
On August 10, 1821, this state, known as the Show Me State, was admitted to the Union as #24? | Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the Union. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City. The state is the 21st-most extensive in area. Missouri is bordered... | becomes the 3rd President of the United States on March 4, 1801
- First Barbary War, 1801–1805
- The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio is admitted to the Union as the State of Ohio (the 17th state) on March 1, 1803
- The United States takes possession of the Louisiana Purchase, December 20, 1803
- Spanish creates t... | 52,598 | triviaqa-train |
In 1876, Brigadier General Henry Martyn Robert, he of San Juan Island fortifications during the Pig War fame, published what classic tome, still published today? | Henry Martyn Robert
Henry Martyn Robert (May 2, 1837 – May 11, 1923) was an American soldier, engineer, and author. In 1876, Robert published the first edition of his manual of parliamentary procedure, "Robert's Rules of Order", which remains today the most common parliamentary authority in the United States.
Life and ... | father, Reverend Joseph Thomas Robert, later became the first president of Morehouse College where there is a dormitory on the campus named after him. Robert was nominated to West Point from Ohio, and graduated fourth in his class in 1857. He became a military engineer.
Under command of Silas Casey during the Pig War h... | 52,599 | triviaqa-train |
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