Context: Nicklas Bendtner | " a goal in a 3–1 win at Newcastle United, a header from a long free-kick. On 5 May 2009, the 21-year-old Bendtner was seen leaving a nightclub hours after Arsenal's 3–1 home defeat by rival side Manchester United in the Champions League semi-final, pictured with his belt undone and jeans pulled down. He later said: ""I may be young, but my actions were a poor error of judgment and something I deeply regret."" Bendtner was a second-half substitute for Arsenal, who lost 4–1 on aggregate to defending champions United. Bendtner made amends with a goal, albeit a consolation, in a 4–1 defeat to London rival club Chelsea."

Prompt: What was Manchester United footballer Patrice Evans quoted as saying after Manchester United beat Arsenal in the Champions League in May 2009?

Answer: It was 11 men against 11 babies?


Context: Orienteering World Cup |  The Orienteering World Cup is a series of orienteering competitions organized annually by the International Orienteering Federation. Two unofficial cups were organized in 1983 and 1984. The first official World Cup was held in 1986, and then every second year up to 2004. From 2004 the World Cup has been held annually.

Prompt: The official World Cup for which sport, held every second year from 1986 to 2004 and annually thereafter, is hosted by a number of countries from Canada, USA, UK, multiple European countries, to Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland?

Answer: Orienteer


Context: Earth's circumference |  ground; it is then possible to calculate the angle of the Sun's rays, which he claims to be about 7°, or 1/50th the circumference of a circle. Taking the Earth as spherical, the Earth's circumference would be fifty times the distance between Alexandria and Syene, that is 250,000 stadia. Since 1 Egyptian stadion is equal to about 157.7 metres, the result is roughly 39,425 km, which is 1.5% less than the real circumference, 40,008 km. Eratosthenes' method was actually more complicated, as stated by the same Cleomedes, whose purpose was to present a simplified version of the one described in Eratosthenes' book. The method was based on several surveying

Prompt: What is the circumference of a circle whose radius is 7 inches?

Answer: forty-four  distance


Context: St. Augustine, Florida | " St. Augustine (San Agustín) is a city in the Southeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously-inhabited European-established settlement in what is now the contiguous United States. St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida's first governor. He named the settlement ""San Agustín"", as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine. The city served as the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years. It was designated as the "

Prompt: Saint Augustine, the oldest city in the USA, is in which state?

Answer: Floreda


Context: 1996 Summer Olympics | " At the closing ceremony, IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch said in his closing speech, ""Well done, Atlanta"" and simply called the Games ""most exceptional."" This broke precedent for Samaranch, who had traditionally labeled each Games ""the best Olympics ever"" at each closing ceremony, a practice he resumed at the subsequent Games in Sydney in 2000. A report prepared after the Games by European Olympic officials was critical of Atlanta's performance in several key areas, including the level of crowding in the Olympic Village, the quality of available food, the accessibility and convenience of transportation, and the Games' general atmosphere of commercialism. IOC vice-president Dick Pound responded to criticism of the commercialization of these Games, stating that they still adhered to a historic policy barring the "

Prompt: "What was unusual about the speech by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch at the closing ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games, when he said ""Well done Atlanta"" and called the games ""most exceptional""?"

Answer: "He had previously always said that each had been ""The best Olympics ever"""


Context: Terence Rattigan |  Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954), among many others. A troubled homosexual who saw himself as an outsider, Rattigan wrote a number of plays which centred on issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships, or a world of repression and reticence.

Prompt: "Which 20th century English playwright wrote ""The Winslow Boy"" and ""Separate Tables""?"

Answer: Terence Ratigan


Context: 22 (Lily Allen song) | " The music video was shot in east London on 1 June 2009 and was directed by Jake Scott. The Daily Mirror reported that Allen was wearing a chocolate coloured dress, sporting her new short hairstyle and performing with twenty trained dancers. During filming, a source stated that, ""Lily is in fantastic shape and was keen to show off her curves. As with most of her videos, there are quite a few surprises in store. Lily was keen to try different things and is never afraid to poke fun at herself"". The video begins with Allen walking into a women's bathroom of a nightclub and joins other women in putting on make-up. While she sings the first verse, she stands out from the rest of the women, by seeming confused and having sloppy hair. As the refrain begins, she puts lipstick on and stares into the mirror, where her former, "

Prompt: What 2009 hit record by Lily Allen concerns her boyfriend's performance in the bedroom?

Answer: Not Fair


Context: Pete Wentz | " the support site Halfofus.com.  In 2006, Wentz started dating singer Ashlee Simpson. In April 2008, Simpson and Wentz confirmed their engagement, and were married on May 17, 2008, at Simpson's parents' residence in Encino, Los Angeles, with her father officiating the ceremony. Two weeks later, she confirmed her pregnancy. Her surname changed from Simpson to Wentz and she was briefly known professionally as Ashlee Simpson-Wentz. Simpson gave birth to their son on November 20, 2008. On February 8, 2011, Simpson filed for divorce, citing ""irreconcilable differences"". She asked for joint custody and primary physical custody of their son with visitation for Wentz, along with spousal support. However, a later report said "

Prompt: What is the name of the son of Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, who was born in November 2008?

Answer: Bronx Mowgli


Context: Cary Grant |  nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the latter two. Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men from the 1930s until the mid-1960s. Grant was born in Horfield, Bristol, England. He became attracted to theater at a young age when he visited the Bristol Hippodrome. At the age of 16, he went as a stage performer with the Pender Troupe for a tour of

Prompt: British-born American film actor Archibald Alec Leach was better known by which stage name?

Answer: Archibald alec leach


Context: Mononymous person |  to Hellwig) as their surname. Chyna did likewise when the now-WWE attempted to restrict her use of the name in pornographic titles; reports conflict as to whether she changed it back to her birth name, Joan Laurer, before she died. Some have selected their mononym themselves, when they have been able to do so, because of its distinctiveness. Others have come to be known by a mononym that has been applied to them by some segment of the public. Oprah Winfrey, famed American talk show host, is usually referred to by only her first name, Oprah. The public has referred to President George W. Bush

Prompt: "What is the last name of ""Oprah""?"

Answer: Winfrey


Context: Peabody (dance) |  Soon after the introduction of the foxtrot in 1914, two variations developed: a slow version done at about forty measures per minute and a fast version done at more than fifty measures per minute. In England, the fast foxtrot was called the quickstep; in America it was called the Peabody, named after a New York policeman, Lieutenant William Frank Peabody (1873-1939). He was a portly, but good-natured, bachelor who, despite his considerable weight, was light on his feet and who loved to dance. A popular member of New York ragtime dancing circles, he especially enjoyed dancing the fast foxtrot, which was gaining popularity in 1915. Because of his huge girth, however, Officer Peabody was unable to hold his

Prompt: The foxtrot, a dance introduced to Great Britain around 1914, originated in which country?

Answer: The United States of America


Context: Salvador Brau |  In 1898, Puerto Rico became a colonial possession of the United States after the Spanish–American War in accordance with the Treaty of Paris. Brau continued to be politically active and in 1903 was named Official Historian of Puerto Rico by the American-appointed governor William Henry Hunt. He held this position until his death on November 5, 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was interred in Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan.

Prompt: How did Puerto Rico become a US possession?

Answer: It was ceded by Spain in 1898 after the Spanish-American War


Context: Motocross |  years before manufacturers incorporated it in the majority of production street bikes. The period after World War II was dominated by BSA, which had become the largest motorcycle company in the world. BSA riders dominated international competitions throughout the 1940s. In 1952 the FIM, motorcycling's international governing body, set up an individual European Championship using a 500 cc engine displacement formula. In 1957 it was upgraded to World Championship status. In 1962 a 250 cc world championship was established. In the smaller 250 cc category companies with two-stroke motorcycles came into their own. Companies such as Husqvarna from Sweden, CZ from

Prompt: In 1962, a 250cc World Championship for which sport was created, attracting machines built by Husqvarna, Bultaco, CZ and Greeves?

Answer: Motocross racing


Context: Mohammedan |   Mohammedan (also spelled Muhammadan, Mahommedan, Mahomedan or Mahometan) is a term for a follower of Muhammad, the Islamic prophet. It is used as both a noun and an adjective, meaning belonging or relating to, either Muhammad or the religion, doctrines, institutions and practices that he established. The word was formerly common in usage, but the terms Muslim and Islamic are more common today. Though sometimes used stylistically by some Muslims, a vast majority consider the term a misnomer.

Prompt: What is an orthodox Mahommedan sect whose name derives from a body of traditional teaching which has equal authority with the Koran?

Answer: Sunni Arabs


Context: Paris |  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has had its headquarters in Paris since November 1958. Paris is also the home of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Paris hosts the headquarters of the European Space Agency, the International Energy Agency, European Securities and Markets Authority and,, the European Banking Authority.

Prompt: Which organisation, which has its Headquarters in Paris, was established on 16 November 1945?

Answer: Unesko


Context: Domestic rabbit |  Myxomatosis is a virulent threat to all rabbits but not to humans. The intentional introduction of myxomatosis in rabbit-ravaged Australia killed an estimated 500 million feral rabbits between 1950 and 1952. The Australian government will not allow veterinarians to purchase and use the myxomatosis vaccine that would protect domestic rabbits, for fear that this immunity would be spread into the wild via escaped livestock and pets. This potential consequence is also one motivation for the pet-rabbit ban in Queensland. In Australia, rabbits caged outdoors in areas with high numbers of mosquitoes are vulnerable to myxomatosis. In Europe, fleas are the carriers of myxomatosis. In some countries, annual vaccinations against myxomatosis are available.

Prompt: Which virus spread by fleas was deliberately introduced into Australia to control rabbits in 1951?

Answer: Mixemetosis


Context: Chainsaw |   Two-stroke chainsaws require about 2–5% of oil in the fuel to lubricate the engine, while the motor in electrical chain-saws is normally lubricated for life. Most modern gasoline-operated saws today require a fuel mix of 2% (1:50). Gasoline that contains ethanol can result in problems for the equipment because ethanol dissolves plastic, rubber, and other material. This leads to problems, especially on older equipment. A workaround for this problem is to run fresh fuel only and run the saw dry at the end of the work. Separate chain oil or bar oil is used for the lubrication of the bar and chain on all types of chainsaws. The chain oil is

Prompt: A 2 stroke engine, used in such devices as chainsaws, is fuelled by a mixture of petrol and what other liquid?

Answer: Oily


Context: Anti-communism |  1953. The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Soviet backed, Marxist–Leninist government. It is seen as one of the most important of the Revolutions of 1989. On 17 November 1989, riot police suppressed a peaceful student demonstration in Prague. That event sparked a series of popular demonstrations from 19 November to late December. By 20 November, the number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague had swollen from 200,000 the previous day to an estimated half-million. A two-hour general strike, involving all citizens of Czechoslovakia, was held on 27 November. In June 1990, Czechoslovakia held its first democratic elections since 1946.

Prompt: The peaceful overthrow of the government in Czechoslovakia in 1989 was known as what?

Answer: Nežná revolúcia


Context: Ocean liner |  first to have a tonnage that exceeded 45,000. , completed in 1935, had a tonnage of 79,280. In 1940, raised the record of size to a tonnage of 83,673. She was the largest passenger ship ever constructed until 1997. In 2003, became the largest, at 149,215 GT. In the early 1840s, the average speed of liners was less than 10 knots (a crossing of the Atlantic thus took about 12 days or more). In the 1870s, the average speed of liners increased to around 15 knots the duration of a transatlantic crossing shortened to around 7 days, owing to the technological progress made in the propulsion of ships: the rudimentary steam boilers gave rise to more elaborate machineries and the paddlewheel gradually disappeared, replaced first

Prompt: At the time of her construction in 2003, what was the longest, widest, tallest, largest passenger ship ever built?

Answer: Mary II


Context: Anti-personnel weapon |  parties. Further, the Hague treaties of 1899 and 1907 – which superseded the St. Petersburg Declaration, and were signed by a far wider circle of nations – do permit the use of such ammunition for auto-cannons and heavy machine guns. Machine guns firing .50 cal/12.7mm ammunition are heavy machine guns. At best, the ICRC's position can be applied to only a small group of nations that were parties to the St. Petersburg Declaration; at worst, the ICRC's position is made moot by more than 100 years of subsequent international treaties. The official stance of the Norwegian Government is that the 12.7 mm MP

Prompt: Which international treaties of 1899 and 1907 cover the use of weapons in war?

Answer: Hague conventions


Context: Philip Glenister |  role as DCI Gene Hunt in Life on Mars (2006–07), co-starring with John Simm as Sam Tyler, and its sequel Ashes to Ashes (2008–10), with Keeley Hawes as Alex Drake. Glenister also worked with Simm on State of Play and Clocking Off and the 2008 crime film Tuesday. Upon announcement of the film, Glenister joked that he and Simm were contractually obliged to work with each other once a year. Glenister starred as demon hunter Rupert Galvin in the 2009 ITV drama Demons. He used an American accent for the role, which received some criticism from reviewers. After the series was cancelled, he said he had problems with the

Prompt: Which British TV series starring John Simm as DCI Sam Tyler and Philip Glenister as DCI Gene Hunt was remade in the USA starring Jason O'Mara and Harvey Keitel?

Answer: Life on Mars (planet)


Context: Thomas Powell (1641–1722) |   Founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans, who together later came to be known as the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony (in Massachusetts) was founded in 1620 by those who sailed aboard the Mayflower. The colony was one of the earliest successful colonies to be founded by the English in North America, and the first sizeable permanent English settlement in what is now the New England region. Soon other colonies were established in New England. A Puritan minister named John Davenport led his flock from exile in the Netherlands back to England and finally to America in the spring of 1637. The group arrived in Boston on the ship Hector on June

Prompt: What is the generally accepted name for the Puritans who became the earliest settlers in the Plymouth colony in America, in 1620?

Answer: Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)


Context: Jupiter mass |  Jupiter's mass is 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined—this is so massive that its barycenter with the Sun lies beyond the Sun's surface at 1.068 solar radii from the Sun's center. Because the mass of Jupiter is so large compared to the other objects in the solar system, the effects of its gravity must be included when calculating satellite trajectories and the precise orbits of other bodies in the solar system, including Earth's moon and even Pluto. Theoretical models indicate that if Jupiter had much more mass than it does at present, its atmosphere would collapse, and the planet would

Prompt: Which planet weighs more than all the other planets of our solar system combined?

Answer: Physical characteristics of Jupiter


Context: Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics |  Four figure skating events were contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, but they were held in October 1908, six months after most of the other Olympic events at the 1908 Games. The figure skating competition took place at the Prince's Skating Club, in the district of Knightsbridge. It was the first time that a winter sport had ever been included in the Olympic Games, sixteen years before the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix. The number of competitors was very low, with two events having only three entrants, guaranteeing a medal for participation.

Prompt: Which winter sport was contested as an Olympic sport only once, at the 1908 Summer Olympics?

Answer: Special figures figure skating


Context: Swallows and Amazons series | infobox name: Swallows and Amazons ; image: Swallows and Amazons 03.png ; image_caption: Detail from Missee Lee cover ; author: Arthur Ransome ; books: Swallows and Amazons (1930) ;  ; Swallowdale (1931) ;  ; Peter Duck (1932) ;  ; Winter Holiday (1933) ;  ; Coot Club (1934) ;  ; Pigeon Post (1936) ;  ; We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1937) ;  ; Secret Water (1939) ;  ; The Big Six (1940) ;  ; Missee Lee (1941) ;  ; The Picts and the Martyrs (1943) ;  ; Great Northern? (1947) ;  ; Coots in the North (1988) ; illustrator: Steven Spurrier Clifford Webb ; country: United Kingdom ; language: English ; genre: Children's literature, Adventure fiction ; publisher: Jonathan Cape ; pub_date: 1930–1988 ; media_type: Print (hardcover and paperback) ; number_of_books: 12

Prompt: "Which 19th century English writer wrote ""Swallows and Amazons"", ""Peter Duck"" and ""Secret Water""?"

Answer: Arthur Michell Ransome


Context: Reflective surfaces (climate engineering) | Solar reflectance, also known as albedo, is the ability to reflect sunlight. It is expressed either as a decimal fraction or a percentage. A value of 0 indicates that the surface absorbs all solar radiation, and a value of 1 (or 100%) represents total reflectivity. ; Thermal emittance is the ability to emit absorbed heat. It is also expressed either as a decimal fraction between 0 and 1, or a percentage. When the sunlight strikes a dark rooftop, about 15% of it gets reflected back into the sky but most of its energy is absorbed into the roof system in the form of heat. Cool roofs reflect significantly more sunlight and absorb less heat than traditional dark-colored roofs. There are two properties that are used to measure the effects of cool roofs:

Prompt: What is the astronomical term for the measure of the reflective ability of a heavenly body?

Answer: Simple albedo


Context: Old Sparky | " The Texas electric chair to which the name ""Old Sparky"" is applied was in use from 1924 to 1964. During that time, it saw the deaths of 361 prisoners sentenced to die by judicial electrocution. It was built by incarcerated craftsmen in 1924. Following its decommissioning, it was originally relegated to a prison dump before being rescued. Today, it is on public display as part of a replica death chamber at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas, along with tubing and straps used in Texas's first execution by lethal injection. In 1971, the Greater Dallas Crime Commission, a business organization, circulated a petition to recommission Texas's ""Old Sparky"". The petition received 10,620 endorsements."

Prompt: "In Texas, what is known as ""Ole Sparky""?"

Answer: Electric chair


Context: Galt & Bro. | " The 19th President of the United States, President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife First Lady Lucy Hayes were presented with a Galt silver set on the occasion of their wedding anniversary on the 30th of December, 1877. The wood box was covered with leather with the gold script lettering on top: ""The President and Mrs. Hayes December 30, 1852-1877"". The front edge featured Galt's hallmark. The case holds twelve sterling silver spoons, with each spoon designed differently."

Prompt: What is the symbol for a 30th wedding anniversary?

Answer: Pearl farm


Context: Pat Henry (comedian) |  Patrick Henry Scarnato (August 28, 1924 – February 18, 1982), was a Brooklyn-born American comedian who was known for opening for Frank Sinatra for more than two decades. He first appeared with Sinatra in 1958, and appeared with him in the 1968 films The Detective and Lady in Cement. He also made more than one appearance on such popular television shows as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Dean Martin Show and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, Hollywood Squares, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The David Frost Show, and The Hollywood Palace. He was found dead in his Caesar's Palace hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 18, 1982. His cause of death was a heart attack.

Prompt: "Which American comedian who died on 4 May 2009 became famous as an inept magician on Dean Martin's TV show in the 1960s and appeared in ""Cannonball Run"", ""Blazing Saddles"" and ""The Muppet Movie"" ?"

Answer: Dom DeLuise


Context: Jacques E. Brandenberger |  Jacques Edwin Brandenberger (19 October 1872 – 13 July 1954) was a Swiss chemist and textile engineer who in 1908 invented cellophane. He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1937. Brandenberger was born in Zurich in 1872. He graduated from the University of Bern in 1895. In 1908 Brandenberger invented cellophane. Made from wood cellulose, cellophane was intended as a coating to make cloth more resistant to staining. After several years of further research and refinements, he began production of cellophane in 1920 marketing it for industrial purposes. He sold the US rights to DuPont in 1923.

Prompt: J. E. Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist and textile engineer, discovered the process to make what?

Answer: Cellophane paper


Context: Andrew Lloyd Webber | Imogen Lloyd Webber (born 31 March 1977) ; Nicholas Lloyd Webber (born 2 July 1979) Alastair Adam Lloyd Webber (born 3 May 1992) ; William Richard Lloyd Webber (born 24 August 1993) ; Isabella Aurora Lloyd Webber (born 30 April 1996). Lloyd Webber has been married three times. He married first Sarah Hugill on 24 July 1971 and they divorced on 14 November 1983. Together they had two children, a daughter and a son: He then married singer Sarah Brightman on 22 March 1984 in Hampshire. He cast Brightman in the lead role in his musical The Phantom of the Opera, among other notable roles. They divorced on 3 January 1990. Thirdly, he married Madeleine Gurdon in Westminster on 9 February 1991. They have three children, two sons and

Prompt: Who married Sarah Hugill in 1972, had two children, divorced in 1983, married Sarah Brightman in 1984, divorced in 1990, married Madeleine Gurdon in 1991, and had three children?

Answer: Andrew Lloyd Weber


Context: Monday, Monday | " ""Monday, Monday"" is a 1966 song written by John Phillips and recorded by the Mamas & the Papas, using background instruments played by members of the Wrecking Crew for their 1966 album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears. It was the group's only #1 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and the first time in history, a song by a mixed gender group reached the top of the charts. Phillips said that he wrote the song quickly, in about 20 minutes. The song includes a pregnant pause before the coda, which modulates up a semitone. On March 2, 1967, the Mamas & the Papas won a Grammy Award for this song, in the category Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The song was performed at the Monterey Pop Festival (California) in 1967. The performance was filmed for the movie of the festival, but not included in the final print. The song appears on the soundtrack of Michael Apted's film Stardust."

Prompt: According to The Mamas and the Papas, which day cannot be trusted?

Answer: Lunedi


Context: Leibniz's notation | " The Newton–Leibniz approach to infinitesimal calculus was introduced in the 17th century. While Newton worked with fluxions and fluents, Leibniz based his approach on generalizations of sums and differences. Leibniz was the first to use the character. He based the character on the Latin word summa (""sum""), which he wrote with the elongated s commonly used in Germany at the time. Viewing differences as the inverse operation of summation, he used the symbol d, the first letter of the Latin differentia, to indicate this inverse operation. Leibniz was fastidious about notation; spending years experimenting, adjusting, rejecting and corresponding with other mathematicians about them. Notations "

Prompt: "Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer provided the basis for the calculus of Newton and Leibniz by applying infinitesimal calculus to ""the tangent line problem""?"

Answer: René Decartes


Context: Josiah Willard Gibbs | " liquids"" he acknowledged the great influence of Gibbs's work on that subject. Max Planck received the 1918 Nobel Prize for his work on quantum mechanics, particularly his 1900 paper on Planck's law for quantized black-body radiation. That work was based largely on the thermodynamics of Kirchhoff, Boltzmann, and Gibbs. Planck declared that Gibbs's name ""not only in America but in the whole world will ever be reckoned among the most renowned theoretical physicists of all times.""  The first half of the 20th century saw the publication of two influential textbooks that soon came to be regarded as founding documents of chemical thermodynamics, both "

Prompt: Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 for his Law of Radiation and is the originator of Quantum Theory?

Answer: Planck


Context: Strelasund |  The Strelasund or Strela Sound is a sound or lagoon of the Baltic Sea which separates Rügen from the German mainland. It is crossed by a road and rail bridge called the Rügendamm in Stralsund. It runs northwest to southeast from a small shallow bay just north of Stralsund called the Kubitzer Bodden through to another such bay, the Greifswalder Bodden in the southeast. The sound is nowhere much more than 3 km wide, reaching its greatest width towards its southeast end. It is roughly 25 km long. The only island of any size in the Strelasund is Dänholm just off Stralsund, which carries part of the Rügendamm across the sound. On the Rügen side, the shore is in many places steep, although this is punctuated by lower shorelines with reed beds in some places. On the mainland side, however, the shores are overridingly flat. The Strelasund has been the site of two battles. The first in 1362 and the second in 1369 both pitted Danish king Valdemar IV against the Hanseatic fleet. Differences between the two parties were settled by the Treaty of Stralsund in 1370.

Prompt: Where is the strait of Strelasund?

Answer: Mare Suevicum


Context: Ryder Cup |  The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. The competition is contested every two years with the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe. The Ryder Cup is named after the English businessman Samuel Ryder who donated the trophy. The event is jointly administered by the PGA of America and Ryder Cup Europe, the latter a joint venture of the PGA European Tour (60%), the PGA of Great Britain and Ireland (20%), and the PGAs of Europe (20%). Originally contested between Great Britain and the United States, the first official Ryder Cup took place in the United States in 1927 at Worcester Country Club in Worcester, Massachusetts. The home team won the

Prompt: What is the name of the golf trophy for competition between teams of professional golfers from Europe and the USA that was first contested between Great Britain and the USA in 1927?

Answer: Ryder Cup Matches


Context: Madeleine Albright |  Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 64th United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. She was the first female secretary of state in U.S. history. Albright emigrated with her family to the United States in 1948 from Czechoslovakia. Her father, diplomat Josef Korbel, settled the family in Denver, Colorado, and she became a U.S. citizen in 1957. Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975, writing her thesis on the Prague Spring. She worked as an aide to Senator Edmund Muskie before taking a position under Zbigniew Brzezinski on the National Security Council. She served in that position until 1981, when President Jimmy Carter left office. After leaving

Prompt: Madeleine Allbright was appointed by Bill Clinton as the USA's first woman to hold what position?

Answer: Secretary of State


Context: Men's major golf championships | "The Masters Tournament (sometimes referred to as the U.S. Masters), the season's first major championship, is the only major that is played at the same course every year (Augusta National Golf Club), being the invitational tournament of that club. The Masters invites the smallest field of the majors, generally under 100 players (although, like all the majors, it now ensures entry for all golfers among the world's top 50 before the event), and is the only one of the four majors that does not use ""alternates"" to replace qualified players who do not enter the event (usually due to injury). Former champions "

Prompt: The U.S. Masters, one of the four major championships in professional golf, is the only major championship that is played at the same course each year. Where has it been played since its inception in 1934?

Answer: Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia


Context: The Flintstones | " hair holding up her ponytail and a light green and black colored shirt with turquoise and black diaper. She (much like her family) does not wear shoes or pants. ; Dino (pronounced ""dee-no"") – The Flintstones' pet dinosaur, acts like a dog. A running gag in the series involves Fred coming home from work and Dino getting excited and knocking him down and licking his face repeatedly. ; Baby Puss – The Flintstones' pet saber-toothed cat is rarely seen in the actual series, but is always seen throwing Fred out of the house during the end credits, causing Fred to pound repeatedly on the front door and yell ""Wilma!"", waking the whole neighborhood in the process. "

Prompt: What was the name of the Flintstones' pet?

Answer: Dino


Context: The arts | " Drawing is a means of making an image, using any of a wide variety of tools and techniques. It generally involves making marks on a surface by applying pressure from a tool, or moving a tool across a surface. Common tools are graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax colour pencils, crayons, charcoals, pastels, and markers. Digital tools which can simulate the effects of these are also used. The main techniques used in drawing are line drawing, hatching, crosshatching, random hatching, scribbling, stippling, and blending. An artist who excels in drawing is referred to as a drafter, draftswoman, or draughtsman. Drawing can be used to create art used in cultural industries such as illustrations, comics and animation. Comics are often called the ""ninth art"" (le neuvième art) in Francophone scholarship, adding to the traditional ""Seven Arts""."

Prompt: In art, what is the term used for the process of producing an effect by means of dots or small marks with brush or pencil?

Answer: Stipple


Context: Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres | " In the final race A, with one lap remaining and currently in second place, Apolo Ohno of the United States attempted to make a pass on the leader Kim Dong-Sung of South Korea, who then drifted to the inside and as a result, Ohno raised his arms to imply he was blocked. Kim finished first ahead of Ohno, but the referee James Hewish disqualified Kim for what appeared to be impeding, awarding the gold medal to Ohno. Fourth-place finisher of the race, Fabio Carta of Italy, showed his disagreement with the disqualification decision saying it was ""absurd that the Korean was disqualified"". China's Li Jiajun, who moved from bronze to silver, remained neutral saying: ""I respect the "

Prompt: Why was Korean short-track speedskater Kim Dong-Sung disqualified from the men's 1500 metre final at the 2000 Olympics?

Answer: Cross-tracking


Context: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936 film) |  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1936 British drama horror film produced and directed by George King, and written by Frederick Hayward, H.F. Maltby, and George Dibdin-Pitt. The film features actor Tod Slaughter in one of his most famous roles as the barber Sweeney Todd.

Prompt: Sweeney Todd was the demon barber of what street?

Answer: Fleet


Context: Circuit des Ardennes (motor racing) |  The Circuit des Ardennes was an auto race held annually at the Circuit de Bastogne, Bastogne, from 1902 to 1907. It was the first major race to run on a closed course instead of from one city to another. The name was later used for a rally, part of the Dutch as well as the Belgian national rally championships. The first race, held in 1902, was organised by Baron Pierre de Crawhez, and was run over 6 laps of the circuit, with cars divided into three classes which ran simultaneously. The Heavy car class was won by Charles Jarrott in one of several Panhard 70s entered in the race, with victory in the Light car going to Louis Rigolly in a Gobron-Brillié, and in the Voiturette class to Jean-Marie Corre in a Corre. After the success in 1902, the race was run again in

Prompt: In which country was the first 24 hour race for motor cars held on a closed course, in 1907?

Answer: Englnad


Context: 2009 in China | June 2 – As a part of the General Motors bankruptcy crisis, GM Motors announces the sale of the Hummer brand of off-road vehicles to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd., a machinery company in western China, in which the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2009. ; June 5 – Australian mining company Rio Tinto breaks a deal for Chinese state-owned Chinalco to purchase a larger stake the company, with support by rival Australian mining company BHP Billiton. Rio Tinto is expected to pay a US$195 million breaking fee according to the contract signed earlier by the two parties. Rio Tinto controls large Iron ore reserves in Australia. Since early 2008, Chinalco holds 9% of ownership of Rio Tinto.

Prompt: In June 2009, General Motors announced that it would sell which of its brands to Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, based in China?

Answer: Hummer


Context: Sean Combs | " reporters ""I'm as pro-worker as they get"". On February 14, 2004, Kernaghan announced that improvements had been implemented at the factory, including adding air conditioning and water purification systems, firing the most abusive supervisors, and allowing the formation of a labor union. In late 2006, the department store Macy's removed Sean John jackets from their shelves when they discovered that the clothing was made using raccoon dog fur. Combs had not known the jackets were made with dog fur, but as soon as he was alerted, he had production stopped. In November 2008, Combs added a men's perfume called ""I Am King"" to the Sean John brand. The fragrance, dedicated to Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, and Martin Luther King Jr., featured model Bar Refaeli in its advertisements. In early 2016, Sean John introduced the brand's GIRLS collection."

Prompt: "Who developed the men's scent ""I Am King"", which was first marketed in February 2009?"

Answer: Sean Comb


Context: Todmorden |  Harold Shipman, the General Practitioner who is believed to have killed over 200 patients in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, claimed at least one of his victims while working as a doctor at the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre between March 1974 and September 1975. His first known victim, 70-year-old Eva Lyons, lived at Keswick Close in the town. Shipman had initially been charged with 15 murders committed around Hyde, Greater Manchester, between 1995 and 1998 when he went on trial in late 1999, but Lyons was only identified as a victim of Shipman when the inquiry into his crimes was completed in July 2002 by Dame Janet Smith. Shipman was found guilty on 31 January 2000 and hanged himself at HM Wakefield Prison on 13 January 2004.

Prompt: Which English general medical practitioner is known to have killed at least 218 of his patients, and was caught when he became unexpectedly a beneficiary in the will of Kathleen Grundy?

Answer: Doctor shipman


Context: Bagel |  A bagel (בײגל ; bajgiel; also historically spelled beigel) is a bread product originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. It is traditionally shaped by hand into the form of a ring from yeasted wheat dough, roughly hand-sized, that is first boiled for a short time in water and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior. Bagels are often topped with seeds baked on the outer crust, with the traditional ones being poppy and sesame seeds. Some may have salt sprinkled on their surface, and there are different dough types, such as whole-grain and rye. The earliest known mention of a boiled-then-baked ring-shaped bread can be found in a 13th-century Arabic cookbook, where they are referred to as ka'ak. Today,

Prompt: A bagel is a type of what?

Answer: Somun


Context: 1958 in France | President: Rene Coty ; President of the Council of Ministers: ; until 14 May: Félix Gaillard ; 14 May-1 June: Pierre Pflimlin ; starting 1 June: Charles de Gaulle

Prompt: Who was President of France for over 10 years from 1958?

Answer: Charles de Galle


Context: History of ballooning |  November 1975 Pilot Terry McCormack and passenger Tony Hayes were killed near Wagga Wagga, NSW as the balloon The New Endeavour was struck by a whirlwind, causing the envelope to collapse. On 13 August 1989, two hot air balloons collided near Alice Springs, Northern Territory in Australia. One balloon crashed to the ground, killing 13 people. On 12 September 1995, three gas balloons participating in the Gordon Bennett Cup entered Belarusian air space. Despite the fact that competition organizers had informed the Belarusian Government about the race in May and that flight plans had been filed, a Mil Mi-24B attack helicopter of the Belarusian Air Force shot down one balloon, killing two American citizens, Alan Fraenckel and John Stuart-Jervis. Another

Prompt: On 12 September 1995, the Belarusian air force shot down a gas balloon, killing two Americans, during a race for which trophy?

Answer: Gordon Bennett Trophy


Context: Rebab |  rounded body, the front of which is covered in a membrane such as parchment or sheepskin and has a long neck attached. There is a long thin neck with a pegbox at the end and there are one, two or three strings. There is no fingerboard. The instrument is held upright, either resting on the lap or on the floor. The bow is usually more curved than that of the violin. The rebab, though valued for its voice-like tone, has a very limited range (a little over an octave), and was gradually replaced throughout much of the Arab world by the violin and kemenche. The Iraqi version of the instrument (jawza or joza) has four strings.

Prompt: What instrument has a long neck and a round body of parchment stretched over a metal frame?

Answer: Open back banjo


Context: South Africa national cricket team | " The South Africa national cricket team, also known as the Proteas, represents South Africa in men's international cricket and is administered by Cricket South Africa. South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. Its nickname derives from South Africa's national flower, Protea cynaroides, commonly known as the ""King Protea"". South Africa entered first-class and international cricket at the same time when they hosted an England cricket team in the 1888–89 season. At first, the team was no match for Australia or England but, having gained experience and expertise, they were able to field a competitive team by the first decade of the 20th century. The team regularly played against Australia, England and New Zealand through to the 1960s, by which time there was considerable opposition to the country's apartheid policy. The ICC "

Prompt: The Proteas are a national cricket team representing which country?

Answer: South africa


Context: Keep On Loving You (song) | " In 1981, the music video of the song was the 17th played on the first day of broadcast of MTV, on August 1. It was framed by a scene of Kevin Cronin talking about his relationship troubles with a female psychiatrist and contained a shot where a woman picked up a telephone connected to Gary Richrath's guitar, referencing the live version of ""157 Riverside Avenue."""

Prompt: What was the first song played on MTV on 1 August 1981?

Answer: """Video Killed The Radio Star"" by the Buggles"


Context: Elijah | "  At Jewish circumcision ceremonies, a chair is set aside for the use of the prophet Elijah. Elijah is said to be a witness at all circumcisions when the sign of the covenant is placed upon the body of the child. This custom stems from the incident at Mount Horeb: Elijah had arrived at Mount Horeb after the demonstration of God's presence and power on Mount Carmel. God asks Elijah to explain his arrival, and Elijah replies: ""I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away"". According to Rabbinic tradition, Elijah's words were patently untrue, and since Elijah accused Israel of failing to uphold the covenant, God would require Elijah to be present at every covenant of circumcision."

Prompt: According to Jewish tradition, whose chair is set ready at each passover meal in case he reappears to herald the coming of the Messiah?

Answer: אֱלִיָּהוּ


Context: New York (state) |   Of New York State's total area, 13.6% consists of water. Much of New York's boundaries are in water, as is true for New York City: four of its five boroughs are situated on three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island; Staten Island; and Long Island, which contains Brooklyn and Queens at its western end. The state's borders include a water boundary in (clockwise from the west) two Great Lakes (Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, which are connected by the Niagara River); the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada, with New York and Ontario sharing the Thousand Islands archipelago within the Saint

Prompt: Staten Island, New York, is at the mouth of which river?

Answer: Hudson (disambiguation)


Context: Mrs. Lovett |  In every version of the story in which she appears, Mrs. Lovett is the business partner and accomplice of barber/serial killer Sweeney Todd; in some versions, she is also his lover. She makes and sells meat pies made from Todd's victims. While in most versions of the Sweeney Todd story Mrs. Lovett's past history is not stated, usually she is depicted as a childless widow, although in some depictions (but very rarely) Mr. Albert Lovett is shown. In Christopher Bond's 1973 play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical adaptation, before she goes into business with Todd she is living in poverty

Prompt: Mrs Lovett made meat pies from material supplied by whom?

Answer: Sweeny tod


Context: Biathlon |  government to promote civilian marksmanship in support of national defense. In Norwegian, the biathlon is called skiskyting (literally ski shooting). In Norway there are still separate contests in skifeltskyting, a cross-country race at 12 km with large-caliber rifle shooting at various targets with unknown range. Called military patrol, the combination of skiing and shooting was contested at the Winter Olympic Games in 1924, and then demonstrated in 1928, 1936, and 1948, during which time Norway and Finland were strong competitors. In 1948, the sport was reorganized under the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon and became re-accepted as in Olympic sport

Prompt: "What winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting was called ""military patrol"" when it was contested at the Olympic Winter Games in 1924, and demonstrated in 1928, 1936, and 1948?"

Answer: Biathlete


Context: The X-Files (film) |  The X-Files has spawned one sequel, a 2008 film entitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe released six years after the series ended. The film grossed $68 million and received a lower approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes than the first film. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Chris Carter announced that if I Want to Believe proved successful, he would propose that a third film go back to the television series' mythology and focus on the alien invasion foretold within the series, due to occur in December 2012. No third film appeared; instead, the TV series was revived in 2016.

Prompt: "The X-Files spawned two theatrical movies, ""The X-Files"" and ""I Want To Believe"", and which spin-off TV series?"

Answer: Lone gunmen trio


Context: Jan-Michael Vincent |  Vincent married Bonnie Portman in 1968, and they had a daughter, Amber Springbird Vincent, in 1972. The couple's divorce was finalized on January 2, 1977. Vincent remarried in 1986. His second wife, Joanne Robinson, left him and entered a restraining order against him in 1998, alleging that he had abused her during their marriage. He battled alcoholism and intravenous drug use for much of his life. In 1977, 1978, and 1979 he was arrested for possession of cocaine, and in 1984 and 1985 he was arrested after two bar brawls. He was charged with felony assault in 1986, but was acquitted after his attorney argued that the woman tripped and fell on a telephone cord in his home. Vincent then was arrested for drunk driving but avoided jail by

Prompt: "Who divorced her husband in 1978 after sixteen years of marriage, accusing him of years of severe spousal abuse and rampant drug addiction in her autobiography ""I, Tina"" (which was later adapted for the film ""What's Love Got to Do with It""), and left semi-retirement in 2008 to embark on her ""Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour""?"

Answer: Anna Bullock


Context: 1953 in science | 20 November – Authorities at the Natural History Museum in London announce that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) is a hoax.

Prompt: In 1953, what was announced about the discovery in 1911 to 1915 of the bones of Piltdown Man, who was believed to represent the oldest human race in Europe?

Answer: It was exposed as an elaborate hoax


Context: Order (distinction) |  In 1802 Napoleon created the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour), which could be awarded to any person, regardless of status, for bravery in combat or for 20 years of distinguished service. While still retaining many trappings of an order of chivalry, it was the first modern national order of merit and is still France's highest award today. The French Legion of Honour served as the model for numerous modern orders of merit in the Western world, such as the Order of Leopold in Belgium (1832) and the Order of the British Empire in the United Kingdom (1917). Curiously, orders of merit based on the French Legion of Honour typically retain five classes in accordance with

Prompt: What is the honour system founded by Napoleon in 1802 that has five classes including Grand Cross and Officer?

Answer: Legion of Honor


Context: History of painting |  In the first two decades of the 20th century and after Cubism, several other important movements emerged; futurism (Balla), abstract art (Kandinsky), Der Blaue Reiter), Bauhaus, (Kandinsky) and (Klee), Orphism, (Robert Delaunay and František Kupka), Synchromism (Morgan Russell), De Stijl (Mondrian), Suprematism (Malevich), Constructivism (Tatlin), Dadaism (Duchamp, Picabia, Arp) and Surrealism (De Chirico, André Breton, Miró, Magritte, Dalí, Ernst). Modern painting influenced all the visual arts, from Modernist architecture and design, to avant-garde film, theatre and modern dance and became an experimental laboratory for the expression of visual experience, from photography and concrete poetry to advertising art and fashion. Van Gogh's painting exerted great influence

Prompt: The works of artists De Chirico, Andr Breton, Mir, Magritte, Dal and Ernst are examples of what art movement?

Answer: Surrealist writing


Context: History of the United States | " 1945. Bloodied at Okinawa, the U.S. prepared to invade Japan's home islands when B-29s dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, compelling Japan to surrender and ending World War II. The U.S. occupied Japan (and part of Germany), and restructured Japan along American lines. During the war, Roosevelt coined the term ""Four Powers"" to refer four major Allies of World War II, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China, which later became the foundation of the United Nations Security Council. Though the nation lost more than 400,000 military personnel and civilians, the "

Prompt: During World War II, Japan occupied which part of the USA?

Answer: Aluetion Islands


Context: Triodia scariosa |  Triodia scariosa, commonly known as porcupine grass, is a species of grass native to arid southern Australia.

Prompt: Porcupine grass is also known as what?

Answer: Maiden grass


Context: Colin Meads |  Sir Colin Earl Meads (3 June 1936 – 20 August 2017) was a New Zealand rugby union player. He played 55 test matches (133 games), most frequently in the lock forward position, for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks, from 1957 until 1971. Meads is widely considered one of the greatest players in history. Nicknamed 'Pinetree' due to his physical presence, he was anicon within New Zealand rugby, and was named the country's Player of the Century at the NZRFU Awards in 1999.

Prompt: Colin Meads, nicknamed 'Pinetree', a former rugby union footballer who played 55 test matches for his national team from 1957 until 1971 and was named his country's Player of the Century, represented which country?

Answer: N Z


Context: Siderophore | " Pathogenic bacteria and fungi have developed the means of survival in animal tissue. They may invade the gastro-intestinal tract (Escherichia, Shigella and Salmonella), the lung (Pseudomonas, Bordatella, Streptococcus and Corynebacterium), skin (Staphylococcus) or the urinary tract (Escherichia and Pseudomonas). Such bacteria may colonise wounds (Vibrio and Staphylococcus) and be responsible for septicaemia (Yersinia and Bacillus). Some bacteria survive for long periods of time in intracellular organelles, for instance Mycobacterium. (see table). Because of this continual risk of bacterial and fungal invasion, animals have developed a number of lines of defence based on immunological strategies, the complement system, the production of iron–siderophore binding proteins and the general ""withdrawal"" of iron. There are two major types of "

Prompt: What is the name for the infection of living tissues such as skin, lung or bowel by bacteria?

Answer: Gonococcal septicaemia affecting skin


Context: William C. Coup | " William Cameron Coup (August 4, 1836 – March 4, 1895) was a Wisconsin businessman who partnered with P. T. Barnum and Dan Castello in 1870 to form the ""P. T. Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus"". Previously Barnum had a museum at a fixed location in New York City and the traveling circus allowed him to bring his curiosities to more paying customers. Coup's innovations were the circus train to transport the materials from town to town. He also came up with the concept of adding a second ring in 1872 and a third ring to the circus in 1881 to allow more people to view the events."

Prompt: "Who was the American who, in 1871, collected animals and freaks for a travelling circus, menagerie and museum, which by 1872 was billing itself as ""The Greatest Show on Earth""?"

Answer: Phineas Barnum


Context: List of attacks on Jewish institutions in the United States |  1999 – Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting by a white supremacist ; 2000 – White supremacist Richard Baumhammers shoots out windows at Congregation Beth El, Pittsburgh, and Congregation Ahavath Achim in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. ; 2000 – Arson attack on Temple Beth El in Syracuse, New York. Hate crime by perpetrator who claimed Palestinian descent. ; 2000 – Firebombing of Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale, New York by group of Palestinian-American men. ; 2002 – 2002 white supremacist terror plot ; 2002 – 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting – attack on El Al, the airline of Israel. ; 2002 – Another attack on Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon

Prompt: What is the name for attacks on Jewish communities, especially those instigated by the authorities?

Answer: Pogroms


Context: House arrest | Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of her country's pro-democracy movement, was punished with house arrest for most of the period from July 1989 to November 2010. After being released from her initial confinement after six years in 1995, she was convicted again and imprisoned in 2000. Two years later, she was again released. She was convicted and jailed for the third time under house arrest for her criticism of the government following the infamous Depayin Massacre in 2003. After her 14th year of prison, she was released to her dilapidated home in

Prompt: Suu Kyi, who was sentenced to home detention for six years in 2003, is the Leader of the Opposition in which country?

Answer: Economic sanctions against Myanmar


Context: Wallonia |  With traffic of over 20 million tonnes and 26 kilometres of quays, the autonomous port of Liège (PAL) is the third largest inland port in Europe. It carries out the management of 31 ports along the Meuse and the Albert Canal. It is accessible to sea and river transporters weighing up to 2,500 tonnes, and to push two-barge convoys (4,500 tonnes, soon to be raised to 9,000 tonnes). Even if Wallonia does not have direct access to the sea, it is very well connected to the major ports thanks to an extensive network of navigable waterways that pervades Belgium, and it has effective river connections to Antwerp, Rotterdam and Dunkirk. On the west side of Wallonia, in Hainaut Province, the Strépy-Thieu boat lift, permits river traffic of up to the new 1350-tonne standard to pass between the waterways of the Meuse and Scheldt rivers. Completed in 2002 at an estimated cost of €160 million (then 6.4 billion Belgian francs) the lift has increased river traffic from 256 kT in 2001 to 2,295 kT in 2006.

Prompt: What is the third largest port of Belgium, accessed by a canal 200 metres (660 feet) wide and 32 kilometres (20 miles) long, which ends near the Dutch port of Terneuzen?

Answer: UN/LOCODE:BEGNE


Context: Checkpoint Charlie | " Checkpoint Charlie (or ""Checkpoint C"") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies. East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop emigration and defection westward through the Border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. On June 26, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited Checkpoint Charlie and looked from a platform onto the Berlin Wall and into East Berlin. After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin."

Prompt: "The border crossing known as ""Checkpoint Charlie"" was between which two places?"

Answer: East and West Berlin


Context: Iron(III) oxide |  Several hydrates of Iron(III) oxide exists. When alkali is added to solutions of soluble Fe(III) salts, a red-brown gelatinous precipitate forms. This is not Fe(OH)3, but Fe2O3·H2O (also written as Fe(O)OH). Several forms of the hydrated oxide of Fe(III) exist as well. The red lepidocrocite γ-Fe(O)OH, occurs on the outside of rusticles, and the orange goethite, which occurs internally in rusticles. When Fe2O3·H2O is heated, it loses its water of hydration. Further heating at 1670 K converts Fe2O3 to black Fe3O4 (FeIIFeIII2O4), which is known as the mineral magnetite. Fe(O)OH is soluble in acids, giving [Fe(H2O)6](3+). In concentrated aqueous alkali, Fe2O3 gives [Fe(OH)6]3−.

Prompt: What is the term for the reddish-brown hydrated oxide formed on iron?

Answer: Rusted


Context: Ellis Island | " Ellis Island was also used by the military for almost 80 years. By the mid-1790s, as a result of the United States' increased military tensions with Britain and France, a U.S. congressional committee drew a map of possible locations for the First System of fortifications to protect major American urban centers such as New York Harbor. A small part of Ellis Island from “the soil from high to low waters mark around Ellis’s Island"" was owned by the city. On April 21, 1794, the city deeded that land to the state for public defense purposes. The following year, the state allotted $100,000 for fortifications on Bedloe's, Ellis, and Governors Islands, as "

Prompt: What is Bedloes Island in the USA used for?

Answer: Liberty, Statue of


Context: Jeff Ament |  Jeffrey Allen Ament (born March 10, 1963) is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as the bassist of the American rock band Pearl Jam, which he co-founded alongside Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder. Prior to his work with Pearl Jam, Ament was part of the 1980s Seattle-based grunge rock bands Green River and Mother Love Bone. He is known particularly for playing with the fretless bass, upright bass, and twelve-string bass guitars. Ament is also a member of the bands Temple of the Dog, Three Fish, RNDM, and Tres Mts. In 2008, Ament released his first solo album, Tone. His second solo release, While My Heart Beats, followed in 2012, and his third in 2018: Heaven/Hell. Ament was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pearl Jam on April 7, 2017. He was also recognized as one of the top hard rock/metal bassists of all time by Loudwire in 2016, being placed at #52 on the list.

Prompt: As what are Jeff Ement, Matt Cameron, Mike McCready and Eddie Vedder collectively known?

Answer: America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band


Context: Holy See–Israel relations |  Without doubt, though, the positive highlight of Ratzinger's Papacy was the May 2009 visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority – although this trip had at first been put in doubt because of persistent political fighting in Gaza. In November 2008, the first operative steps were set in motion in order to implement Pope Benedict's long-standing desire to visit Israel and the Holy Land. By securing official invitations from all the heads of state in question (i.e. the King of Jordan, the President of Israel and the President of the PA), however, the Holy See gave the visit

Prompt: During his visit in May 2009, the Pope was urged to complain about the state of what landmark between Israel and Jordan?

Answer: Nahr Al-Urdun


Context: List of Spook's characters |  Is a female water spirit that predicts and warn of death. They are mostly invisible, and the only thing one can hear are their wailing cry, which is repeated 3 times per night - on the 3. day it's said that someone in a house close by, are going to die. It happens that if they are seen washing a burial shroud and if there is blood on it, the upcoming death is going to be violent. The banshee witches can be confused by the Celtic witches, who're known to copy this act to bring death to their victim instead of foreseeing it.

Prompt: What spirit, in Ireland and Scotland, makes noises near a house when someone is about to die?

Answer: Bean sidhe


Context: Barbary pirates |   The Barbary pirates, or Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Salé, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers. Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing merchant ships, they engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal,

Prompt: What was the name given to Barbary pirates who raided ships in the Mediterranean and the south European coast from bases on the north coast of Africa?

Answer: Corsairs


Context: Oort constants |   As mentioned in an intermediate step in the derivation above: This value of Ω corresponds to a period of 226 million years for the sun's present neighborhood to go around the Milky Way. However, the time it takes for the sun to go around the Milky Way (a galactic year) may be longer because (in a simple model) it is circulating around a point further from the centre of the galaxy where Ω is smaller (see Sun). The values in km s−1 kpc−1 can be converted into milliarcseconds per year by dividing by 4.740. This gives the following values for the average proper motion of stars in our neighborhood at different galactic longitudes, after correction for the effect due to the sun's velocity with respect to the local standard of rest: The motion of the sun towards the solar apex in Hercules adds

Prompt: What is the name for the 225 million years that it takes the sun to go around the galaxy?

Answer: Cosmic year (disambiguation)


Context: Rounders |  The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called base-ball. In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and also the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond. The following year, the book was published in Boston, Massachusetts. The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland in 1884. The game is still regulated in Ireland by the GAA, through the GAA Rounders National Council (Comhairle Cluiche Corr na hÉireann). In Great Britain it is regulated by Rounders England, which was formed in 1943. While the two associations are distinct, they share similar elements of game play

Prompt: "Which game has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in ""A Little Pretty Pocketbook"" where it is called Baseball?"

Answer: Irish rounders


Context: Metabolism |   Photosynthesis is the synthesis of carbohydrates from sunlight and carbon dioxide (CO2). In plants, cyanobacteria and algae, oxygenic photosynthesis splits water, with oxygen produced as a waste product. This process uses the ATP and NADPH produced by the photosynthetic reaction centres, as described above, to convert CO2 into glycerate 3-phosphate, which can then be converted into glucose. This carbon-fixation reaction is carried out by the enzyme RuBisCO as part of the Calvin – Benson cycle. Three types of photosynthesis occur in plants, C3 carbon fixation, C4 carbon fixation and CAM photosynthesis. These differ by the route that carbon dioxide takes to the Calvin cycle, with C3 plants fixing CO2 directly, while C4 and CAM photosynthesis incorporate the CO2 into other compounds first, as adaptations to deal with intense sunlight and dry conditions. In photosynthetic prokaryotes the mechanisms of carbon fixation are more diverse. Here, carbon dioxide can be fixed by the Calvin – Benson cycle, a reversed citric acid cycle, or the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA. Prokaryotic chemoautotrophs also fix CO2 through the Calvin–Benson cycle, but use energy from inorganic compounds to drive the reaction.

Prompt: What product of photosynthesis, a carbohydrate occurring in the cells of plants, can be changed into glucose or dextrine?

Answer: Starch granules


Context: Fair Lawn, New Jersey |  Fair Lawn has one of the original organized street hockey/DekHockey programs in the state. The Fair Lawn Flyers competed in the first national street hockey championships in 1976 in Leominster, Massachusetts. Fair Lawn Lanes includes 32 bowling lanes, an arcade, and a lounge.

Prompt: The first US National Champions of which sport were Team Roslindale when the first sanctioned Official Nationals were played in Leominster Ma in 1974?

Answer: Ground hockey


Context: Leo the Lion (MGM) | " Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures, featured in the studio's production logo, which was created by the Paramount Studios art director Lionel S. Reiss. Since 1917, and through the time the studio was formed by the merger of Samuel Goldwyn's studio with Marcus Loew's Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer's company in 1924, there have been eleven different lions used for the MGM logo. Although MGM has referred to all of the lions used in their trademark as ""Leo the Lion"", only the current lion, in use since 1957 (a total of years), was actually named ""Leo""."

Prompt: "When Metro Pictures took over two other companies to form MGM, MGM adopted the former Goldwyn mascot ""Leo the Lion"" and what Goldwyn corporate motto?"

Answer: Art for art's sake


Context: Brabham |  Brabham is the common name for Motor Racing Developments Ltd., a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by Australian driver Jack Brabham and British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four Drivers' and two Constructors' World Championships in its 30-year Formula One history. Jack Brabham's 1966 FIA Drivers' Championship remains the only such achievement using a car bearing the driver's own name. In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open-wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams; by 1970 it had built more than 500 cars. During this period, teams using Brabham cars won championships in Formula Two

Prompt: In 1960, who co-founded Motor Racing Developments Ltd., a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team with designer Ron Tauranac?

Answer: Jack Brabham


Context: Eclipse |   An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. This alignment of three celestial objects is known as a syzygy. Apart from syzygy, the term eclipse is also used when a spacecraft reaches a position where it can observe two celestial bodies so aligned. An eclipse is the result of either an occultation (completely hidden) or a transit (partially hidden). The term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also refer to such events beyond the

Prompt: What is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another?

Answer: Solar and Lunar Eclipses


Context: Miami Beach, Florida |  Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from the mainland city of Miami. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 mi2 of Miami Beach, along with Downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida. Miami Beach's population is 82,890 according to the 2020 census. Miami Beach is the 26th largest city in Florida based on official 2019 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century.

Prompt: Miami Beach in Florida borders which ocean?

Answer: Sea of Atlas


Context: Emergency bleeding control |  Another method of achieving constriction of the supplying artery is a tourniquet - a band tied tightly around a limb to restrict blood flow. Tourniquets are routinely used to bring veins to the surface for cannulation, though their use in emergency medicine is more limited. Tourniquet use is restricted in most countries to professionals such as physicians and paramedics, as this is often considered beyond the reach of first aid and those acting in good faith as a good samaritan. A key exception is the military, where many armies carry a tourniquet as part of their personal first aid kit. Improvised tourniquets, in addition to creating potential problems for the ongoing medical management of the patient, usually fail to achieve force enough to adequately compress the arteries of the limb. As a result, they not only fail to stop arterial bleeding, but may actually increase bleeding by impairing venous bloodflow.

Prompt: What is the name given to something used to compress an artery to control bleeding?

Answer: Tourniquint


Context: Beach volleyball |  to the two Olympic golds he won as part of the USA men's indoor team, In the 1980s, the sport gained popularity on the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1986, the first international beach volleyball exhibition was held in Rio de Janeiro with 5,000 spectators. In 1987, the first international FIVB-sanctioned tournament was played on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, with a prize purse of US$22,000. It was won by Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos. In 1989, the first FIVB-sanctioned international circuit, called the World Series, was organized with men's tournaments in Brazil, Italy and

Prompt: In 1987, the Fdracion International del Volleyball arranged the first World Beach Volleyball Championships, which was played where?

Answer: São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro


Context: Torres Strait |   The Torres Strait, also known as Zenadh Kes, is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea. It is 151 km wide at its narrowest extent. To the south is Cape York Peninsula, the northernmost extremity of the Australian mainland. To the north is the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It is named after the Spanish navigator Luís Vaz de Torres, who sailed through the strait in 1606.

Prompt: What is the name of the strait between New Guinea and the Australian mainland?

Answer: Strait of Torres


Context: Orion (constellation) |  regions still extant in the surrounding nebula. M78 (NGC 2068) is a nebula in Orion. With an overall magnitude of 8.0, it is significantly dimmer than the Great Orion Nebula that lies to its south; however, it is at approximately the same distance, at 1600 light-years from Earth. It can easily be mistaken for a comet in the eyepiece of a telescope. M78 is associated with the variable star V351 Orionis, whose magnitude changes are visible in very short periods of time. Another fairly bright nebula in Orion is NGC 1999, also close to the Great Orion Nebula. It has an integrated magnitude of 10.5 and is 1500 light-years from Earth. The variable star V380 Orionis is embedded in NGC 1999. Another famous nebula is IC 434,

Prompt: What is the name of the dark nebula in the constellation Orion that is approximately 1500 light years from Earth?

Answer: Horsehead


Context: 1958 in sports | June 29 – US swimmer Nancy Ramey sets the first official world record in the women's 200m butterfly at a meet in Los Angeles, clocking 2:40.5. ; September 13 – Tineke Lagerberg from the Netherlands takes over the world record in the women's 200m butterfly during a meet in Naarden, the Netherlands – 2:38.9.

Prompt: On 1 June 1958, who became the oldest person to break a world record in a standard Olympic athletic event?

Answer: Dana Ztopkov


Context: Cinque Ports in Ireland | " In 1462, a charter granted to the Irish borough of Youghal in County Cork made it ""one of the Petylymmes [i.e. petty limbs] of the Cinque Ports in Ireland"" with all associated liberties and franchises. William Gordon Perrin assumed in 1922 that this referred to the English Cinque Ports, because in 1462 the Lordship of Ireland was subordinate to the Kingdom of England. On the other hand, George Bernard O'Connor stated in 1906 that the Queen's Cinque Ports of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth I were the important seaports on the east coast of Ireland. The medieval seal of the corporation of Youghal displayed a single-masted ship (cog), reflecting its importance as a port; while Helen Elrington suggests the seal specifically alludes to the town's Cinque-Port connection, Samuel Hayman dates the seal to Thomas de Clare in the 1270s."

Prompt: Where were the Cinque Ports?

Answer: On the coasts of Kent and Sussex, England


Context: Sodium perchlorate |  Sodium perchlorate is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula NaClO4. It is a white crystalline, hygroscopic solid that is highly soluble in water and in alcohol. It is usually encountered as the monohydrate. The compound is noteworthy as the most water-soluble of the common perchlorate salts. Sodium perchlorate and other perchlorates has been found on the planet Mars, first detected by the NASA probe Phoenix in 2009. This was later confirmed by spectral analysis by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015 of what is thought to be brine seeps which may be the first evidence of flowing liquid water containing hydrated salts on Mars.

Prompt: What is the more common name for the white crystalline salt called hydrated sodium pyroborate?

Answer: Na2b4o7


Context: Hair of the dog | " too much is called 迎え酒 (mukae-zake), which roughly translates as ""counter drinking"". In Korea, alcohol (typically soju) drunk in the morning to relieve hangovers is called ""haejangsul"", which literally translates as ""a drink of wine (on) the morning after."" In China, alcohol drunk to relieve hangover is called ""回魂酒"", which literally translates to ""the drink that brings back your soul"". In Puerto Rico, drinking alcohol as a remedy for a hangover is called ""matar al ratón"", or ""to kill the mouse"". In Cape Afrikaans, drinking alcohol to cure a hangover (babbelas) is called ""kopskiet"", or ""shot to the head""."

Prompt: What name is given to an alcoholic drink that is taken in an effort to cure a hangover?

Answer: Hair off the dogs back


Context: Bruno Gerussi |  Gerussi received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Role in 1990 for the final season of The Beachcombers. He won the Geminis' Earle Grey Award posthumously for lifetime achievement in 1996. His children Rico and Tina accepted it on his behalf.

Prompt: Who won the Oscar for Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role for 1990?

Answer: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune


Context: Henry Blagrove |  HMS Royal Oak was sunk late on the night of 13 October 1939 after the entered Scapa Flow by bypassing its blockship defences. Initially Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien, the commander of U-47, had been disappointed to find that the Royal Naval anchorage was largely empty; this was the result of a recent order from Admiral Charles Forbes to clear Scapa Flow in case of air attack. However Royal Oak was retained because she carried a large battery of anti-aircraft guns. On sighting the battleship, Prien began his first attack run at 00:58hrs by firing three torpedoes. Only one caused a glancing

Prompt: What British ship was sunk by Gunther Prien, captain of submarine U47, on the night of 13 and 14 October 1939?

Answer: Royal Oak


Context: Taronga Zoo |  A critical review in 1967 led to a new emphasis on scientific conservation, education and preservation. New exhibits were built starting with the Platypus and Nocturnal houses, waterfowl ponds and walkthrough Rainforest Aviary. A Veterinary Quarantine Centre was built as was an Education Centre (funded by the Department of Education). Previous attractions such as elephant rides, miniature trains, monkey circus and merry-go-round gave way to educational facilities such as Friendship Farm and Seal Theatre. In the mid-1980s, a gondola lift was installed that allows visitors to view the zoo and Sydney Harbour. It runs from the bottom of the park close to the ferry wharf, and transports passengers to the top end of the zoo.

Prompt: What is the main attraction at Taronga Park, Sydney?

Answer: Zoo museum


Context: Frog (horse anatomy) |   The frog is a part of a horse hoof, located on the underside, which should touch the ground if the horse is standing on soft footing. The frog is triangular in shape, and extends midway from the heels toward the toe, covering around 25% of the bottom of the hoof.

Prompt: What is the triangular part of a horse's hoof?

Answer: Frog spawn


Context: Ken Dennis | " Kenneth Edward Dennis (May 13, 1937 – April 7, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American track and field athlete. As a Masters sprinter he held the world record in the 100 metres in several age groups. Standing 5'3"" the short Dennis was known for his soft-spoken nature, his greetings of ""Hey man"" or ""Go man"" and his blazing fast starts. Dennis first began sprinting at Fremont High School in Los Angeles where he opened eyes with a 9.5 100-yard dash before transferring to Centennial High School in Compton. At Centennial, he was joined by Charles Dumas, who had transferred from Jefferson High School. "

Prompt: With what sport is Dennis Compton associated?

Answer: Cricket games


Context: Croquet | " Croquet (croquet; (UK) or  (US)) is a sport  that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops (often called ""wickets"" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. Its international governing body is the World Croquet Federation."

Prompt: In croquet, what is used to hit the ball?

Answer: Ice mallet


Context: Amateur sports |  Rugby has provided one of the most visible and lasting examples of the tension between amateurism and professionalism during the development of nationally organised sports in Britain in the late-19th century. The split in rugby in 1895 between what became rugby league and rugby union arose as a direct result of a dispute over the pretence of a strict enforcement of its amateur status - clubs in Leeds and Bradford were fined after compensating players for missing work, whilst at the same time the Rugby Football Union (RFU) was allowing other players to be paid. Rugby football, despite its origins in the privileged English public schools, was a popular game throughout England by around 1880,

Prompt: Which sport was developed in 1895 when the Rugby Union refused to allow professionalism?

Answer: Greco-Roman Rugby


Context: David's Tomb | " The cenotaph is located in a corner of a room situated on the ground floor remains of the former Hagia Zion church, an ancient Christian house of worship; the upper floor of the same building has traditionally been viewed by Christians as the ""Cenacle"" or ""Upper Room"", the site of the Last Supper. The actual site of David's burial is unknown, though the Hebrew Bible states that David was buried in the City of David area in Jerusalem. In the 4th century CE, he and his father Jesse were believed to be buried in Bethlehem. The idea that David was entombed on what was later called Mt Zion dates to the 9th century CE. Zion, the place conquered by David according to the Books of Samuel, was wrongly ascribed by medieval pilgrims to this site, and from them on David was presumed to be buried there."

Prompt: What is entombed in a cenotaph?

Answer: Sod alll


Context: Manitoba |  Confederation, when the Parliament of Canada passed the Manitoba Act on July 15, 1870. Manitoba's capital and largest city is Winnipeg, the seventh most populous municipality in Canada. Winnipeg is the seat of government, home to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the Provincial Court. Four of the province's five universities, all four of its professional sports teams, and most of its cultural activities (including Festival du Voyageur and Folklorama) are located in Winnipeg. The city has train and bus stations and an international airport; a Canadian Forces base, CFB Winnipeg, operates from the airport and is the regional headquarters of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

Prompt: What is the capital of the province of Manitoba, Canada?

Answer: The peg


Context: William Shockley |  Shockley was one of the first recruits to Bell Labs by Mervin Kelly, who became director of research at the company in 1936 and focused on hiring solid-state physicists. Executives at Bell Labs had theorized that semiconductors may offer solid-state alternatives to the vacuum tubes used throughout Bell's nationwide telephone system. Shockley conceived a number of designs based on copper-oxide semiconductor materials, and with Walter Brattain unsuccessfully attempted to create a prototype in 1939. When World War II broke out, Shockley prior research was interrupted and he became involved in radar research in Manhattan (New York City). In May 1942, he took leave from Bell Labs to become a research director at Columbia University's Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Group. This involved devising

Prompt: What was developed at the Bell Telephone Company under the direction of Dr William Shockley?

Answer: Collector (electronics)


Context: Rob & Fab |  Rob & Fab was a short-lived dance-pop music duo formed and fronted by Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan in 1990, following their departure from the commercially successful but ill-fated group Milli Vanilli.

Prompt: Rob Pilatis and Fab Morvan were collectively known as what?

Answer: Rob and Fab


Context: The Daily Courant | " The Daily Courant, initially published on 11 March 1702, was the first British daily newspaper. It was produced by Elizabeth Mallet at her premises next to the King's Arms tavern at Fleet Bridge in London. The newspaper consisted of a single page, with advertisements on the reverse side. Mallet advertised that she intended to publish only foreign news and would not add any comments of her own, supposing her readers to have ""sense enough to make reflections for themselves"". After only forty days Mallet sold The Daily Courant to Samuel Buckley, who moved it to premises in the area of Little Britain in London, at ""the sign of the Dolphin"". Buckley later became the publisher of The Spectator. The Daily Courant lasted until 1735, when it was merged with the Daily Gazetteer."

Prompt: "What was special about ""The Daily Courant"" that appeared in the early 18th century?"

Answer: First daily newspaper


Context: Lake Como | " Lake Como (Lago di Como, ; Lagh de Còmm , Cómm or Cùmm ), also known as Lario (after the Larius Lacus), is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of 146 km2, making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore. At over 400 m deep, it is the fifth deepest lake in Europe, and the deepest outside Norway; the bottom of the lake is more than 200 m below sea level. Lake Como has been a popular retreat for aristocrats and wealthy people since Roman times, and a very popular tourist attraction with many artistic and cultural gems. It has many villas and palaces such as Villa Olmo, Villa Serbelloni, and Villa Carlotta. Many famous people have had and have homes on the shores of Lake Como. One of its particularities is its characteristic ""Y"" shape, which forms the so-called ""Larian Triangle"", with the little town of Canzo as its capital. In 2014, The Huffington Post called it the most beautiful lake in the world for its microclimate and environment with prestigious villas and villages."

Prompt: In which country is Lake Como?

Answer: Environment of Italy


Context: Gordon Ramsay | " Ramsay's first documented role in television was in two fly-on-the-kitchen-wall documentaries: Boiling Point (1999) and Beyond Boiling Point (2000), but he had appeared previously as a judge on a MasterChef-like series for young catering students in 1997, with his then restaurant partner. Ramsay appeared on series three of Faking It in 2001, helping the prospective chef, a burger flipper named Ed Devlin, learn the trade. This episode won the 2001 BAFTA for ""Best Factual TV Moment."" In 2004, Ramsay appeared in two British television series. Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares aired on Channel 4, and saw the chef troubleshooting failing restaurants over "

Prompt: Gordon Ramsay's first foray in TV was in which 1998 fly-on-the-kitchen-wall documentary?

Answer: Boiling Point


Context: History of England |  English from gaining control of France. The French forces regained control of French territory. In 1437, Henry VI came of age and began to actively rule as king. To forge peace, he married French noblewoman Margaret of Anjou in 1445, as provided in the Treaty of Tours. Hostilities with France resumed in 1449. When England lost the Hundred Years' War in August 1453, Henry fell into mental breakdown until Christmas 1454. Henry could not control the feuding nobles, and a series of civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses began, lasting from 1455 to 1485. Although the fighting was very sporadic and small, there was a general breakdown in the power of the Crown. The

Prompt: Which conflict began in England in 1455 after King Henry VI, following a troubled reign, had a long period of mental withdrawal?

Answer: War of the roses


Context: Philip Ford (film director) | infobox name: Philip Ford ; image: Phil Ford.jpg ; caption: Photo by Melbourne Spurr ; birth_date: October 16, 1900 ; birth_name: Philip John Feeney ; birth_place: Portland, Maine, U.S. ; death_date: January 12, 1976 ; death_place: Los Angeles, California, U.S. ; occupation: Film director Actor ; yearsactive: 1916–1964 ; relatives: Francis Ford (father) John Ford (uncle)

Prompt: What is the surname of the film director whose first names are Francis Ford?

Answer: Coppola (disambiguation)


Context: List of people from Veneto |  Nazi concentration camp survivor. ; Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Robusti; 1518 – 31 May 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of Italian Renaissance. ; Titian or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576) was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. ; GianMario Tondato Da Ruos: professionally acclaimed administratore delegato Autogrill SpA, a Benetton family holding. ; Totila (early 6th century AD, Treviso – 552 Taginae) was king of the Ostrogoths, military genius, killed by forces of Justinian at Battle of Taginae ; Tyrannius Rufinus (c.340/5 Concordia Sagittaria –

Prompt: "Which 16th century Venetian, born Jacopo Robusti, studied under Titian and painted ""St George and the Dragon"", ""Belshazzar's Feast"", ""The Last Supper"" and ""Paradise""?"

Answer: Tintoretto, Il


Context: Cyclades | "  The Cyclades includes about 220 islands, the major ones being Amorgos, Anafi, Andros, Antiparos, Delos, Ios, Kea, Kimolos, Kythnos, Milos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Folegandros, Serifos, Sifnos, Sikinos, Syros, Tinos, and Thira or Santoríni. There are also many minor islands including Donousa, Eschati, Gyaros, Irakleia, Koufonisia, Makronisos, Rineia, and Schoinousa. The name ""Cyclades"" refers to the islands forming a circle (""circular islands"") around the sacred island of Delos. Most of the smaller islands are uninhabited. Ermoupoli on Syros is the chief town and administrative center of the former prefecture. The islands are peaks of a submerged mountainous terrain, with the exception of two volcanic islands, Milos and Santorini. The climate is generally dry and mild, but with the exception of Naxos the soil is not very fertile; agricultural produce includes wine, fruit, wheat, olive oil, and tobacco. Lower temperatures are registered in higher elevations and these areas do not usually see wintry weather. The Cyclades are bounded to the south by the Sea of Crete."

Prompt: Which group of around 200 Greek islands in the Aegean Sea includes Andros, Naxos, Paros and Milos?

Answer: Cyclades Prefecture


Context: The Communist Manifesto |  In late February 1848, the Manifesto was anonymously published by the Workers' Educational Association (Kommunistischer Arbeiterbildungsverein) at Bishopsgate in the City of London. Written in German, the 23-page pamphlet was titled Manifest der kommunistischen Partei and had a dark-green cover. It was reprinted three times and serialised in the Deutsche Londoner Zeitung, a newspaper for German émigrés. On 4 March, one day after the serialisation in the Zeitung began, Marx was expelled by Belgian police. Two weeks later, around 20 March, a thousand copies of the Manifesto reached Paris, and from there to Germany in early April. In April–May the text was corrected for printing and punctuation mistakes; Marx and Engels would use this

Prompt: "Which German social economist of Jewish descent, expelled from Germany and France, co-wrote in London ""The Communist Manifesto"" and ""Das Kapital""?"

Answer: Karl Marx


Context: Civil code |  The first civil code promulgated in Canada was that of New Brunswick of 1804, inspired by the 1800 project of the French civil code, known as the Projet de l'an VIII (project of the 8th year); nevertheless, in 1808 a Digeste de la loi civile was sanctioned. In the United States, codification appears to be widespread at a first glance, but U.S. legal codes are actually collections of common law rules and a variety of ad hoc statutes; that is, they do not aspire to complete logical coherence. For example, the California Civil Code largely codifies common law doctrine and is very different in

Prompt: What was the original official name of the first code of French civil law?

Answer: Code Napolon


Context: Second French Empire |  The Second French Empire (Second Empire; officially the French Empire, Empire français), was the 18-year Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 4 September 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France. Historians in the 1930s and 1940s often disparaged the Second Empire as a precursor of fascism. That interpretation is no longer promulgated, and by the late 20th century they were celebrating it as leading example of a modernising regime. Historians have generally given the Empire negative evaluations on its foreign policy, and somewhat more positive evaluations of domestic policies, especially after Napoleon III liberalised his rule after 1858. He promoted French business and

Prompt: What is the name for the period of French history from 2 December 1852 (when Napoleon III became Emperor) to 4 September 1870 (when the Third Republic was set up after the Battle of Sedan)?

Answer: Sécond Empire


Context: Kill Bill: Volume 1 |  Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who swears revenge on a team of assassins (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they try to kill her and her unborn child. Her journey takes her to Tokyo, where she battles the yakuza. Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as a homage to grindhouse cinema, including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation, and spaghetti Westerns. It features an anime sequence by Production I.G. It is the first of two Kill Bill films made in a single production; they were planned as a single release, but the film, with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. Volume 2 was released the following year. Volume 1 grossed over $180 million on a $30 million budget.

Prompt: "Which pair of films starred Uma Thurman as ""the bride"", Daryl Hannah as her arch-nemesis and Lucy Liu as ""Cottonmouth""?"

Answer: Kill Bill: Volume 3


Context: Worcester, England |  Worcester is a cathedral city and the ceremonial county town of Worcestershire, England, 30 mi south-west of Birmingham, 101 mi north-west of London, 27 mi north of Gloucester and 23 mi north-east of Hereford. The estimated population in 2019 was 102,791. The River Severn flanks the western side of the city centre. It is overlooked by Worcester Cathedral. The Battle of Worcester in 1651 was the final one in the English Civil War, where Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated King Charles II's Royalists. Worcester is the home of Royal Worcester Porcelain, composer Edward Elgar, Lea & Perrins, makers of traditional Worcestershire sauce, the University of Worcester, and Berrow's Worcester Journal, claimed as the world's oldest newspaper.

Prompt: The English cities of Gloucester and Worcester are on which river?

Answer: Seven Boar


Context: History of timekeeping devices |  The oldest description of a clepsydra, or water clock, is from the tomb inscription of an early 18th Dynasty (c. 1500 BC) Egyptian court official named Amenemhet, who is identified as its inventor. It is assumed that the object described on the inscription is a bowl with markings to indicate the time. The oldest surviving water clock was found in the tomb of pharaoh Amenhotep III (c. undefined 1417–1379 BC). There are no recognised examples in existence of outflowing water clocks from ancient Mesopotamia of outflowing water clocks, but written references have survived. The introduction of the water clock to China, perhaps from Mesopotamia, occurred as far back as the 2nd millennium BC, during the Shang Dynasty,

Prompt: The Babylonians invented the clepsydra. What was it?

Answer: Water-clock


Context: Midlands Grand National | }  The Midlands Grand National is a Listed National Hunt race in Great Britain. It is a handicap steeplechase and is run at Uttoxeter Racecourse in March, over a distance of about 4 miles and 2 furlongs (4 miles, 2 furlongs and 8 yards, or 7488 yd). During the race there are 24 fences to be jumped.

Prompt: Where, since 1839, is the Grand National Steeplechase run over 4 1/2 miles in England in March?

Answer: Aintree railway stations


Context: Dado (architecture) | " The name was first used in English as an architectural term for the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice. As with many other architectural terms, the word is Italian in origin. The dado in a pedestal is roughly cubical in shape, and the word in Italian means ""dice"" or ""cube"" (ultimately Latin datum, meaning ""something given"", hence also a die for casting lots). By extension, the dado becomes the lower part of a wall when the pedestal is treated as being continuous along the wall, with the cornice becoming the dado rail."

Prompt: In classical architecture, what is the plain-faced portion, usually rectangular, of a pedestal between the base and the cornice?

Answer: Dado


Context: Sou'wester |   A Sou'wester is a traditional form of collapsible oilskin rain hat that is longer in the back than the front to protect the neck fully. A gutter front brim is sometimes featured.

Prompt: "What type of clothing is a ""sou-wester""?"

Answer: Titfer


Context: Scopes Trial |  The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10th to July 21st 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but the verdict

Prompt: "What was the ""Scopes Monkey Trial"" about?"

Answer: Teaching the theory of evolution in schools