Context: Opus Dei | "Since 2003, Opus Dei has received world attention as a result of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on the novel. In The Da Vinci Code, Opus Dei is portrayed as a Catholic organization that is led into a sinister international conspiracy. In general, The Da Vinci Code has been sharply criticized for its numerous factual inaccuracies, by a wide array of scholars and historians. According to the Anglican Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright, the novel is a ""great thriller"" but ""lousy history"". For example, Silas, a major villain in The Da Vinci Code is a monk who is a member of Opus Dei—but in reality there are no monks in Opus Dei. The Da "

Prompt: Which organization of the Catholic church whose name is Latin for 'Work of God' received world attention with the publication of The Da Vinci Code in which it is portrayed as participating in a sinister international conspiracy?

Answer: The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei


Context: Alaskan king crab fishing |  Deadliest Catch is a reality series aired by the Discovery Channel beginning in 2005. The show highlights interpersonal relationships and the dangers of king crab fishing: freezing temperatures, turbulent seas, the pots that must be dragged up can weigh well over a ton when full, and since the season is short – both because of regulations and the weather – fishermen often spend days at a time in very rough seas working long hours with little sleep.

Prompt: What are fished by the crews in the freezing waters of Alaska as shown in Discovery Channel's hit series Deadliest Catch?

Answer: Alaskan king crab and Opilio crab


Context: Médecins Sans Frontières |   Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced ), sometimes rendered in English as Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin best known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases. In 2019, the group was active in 70 countries with over 35,000 personnel mostly local doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, logistical experts, water and sanitation engineers and administrators. Private donors provide about 90% of the organisation's funding, while corporate donations provide the rest, giving MSF an annual budget of approximately US$1.63 billion. Médecins Sans Frontières was founded in 1971, in the aftermath

Prompt: The organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) was created in 1971 as an aftermath of what humanitarian crisis in Africa?

Answer: Nigerian-Biafran civil war


Context: Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin |  Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (7 December 1805 – 13 June 1871) was a French watchmaker, magician and illusionist, widely recognized as the father of the modern style of conjuring. He transformed magic from a pastime for the lower classes, seen at fairs, to an entertainment for the wealthy, which he offered in a theatre opened in Paris, a legacy preserved by the tradition of modern magicians to perform in tails.

Prompt: The Frenchman Jean Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) is credited with formalizing what form of entertainment?

Answer: Magikal


Context: Narco-state |  institutions through force, bribe or blackmail. This situation can arise in different forms. For instance, Colombia, where drug lord Pablo Escobar ran the Medellín Cartel (named after his birthplace) during most of the 1970s and 1980s, producing and trafficking cocaine to the United States of America. Escobar managed to take over control of most of the police forces in Medellín and surrounding areas due to bribery and coercion, allowing him to expand his drug trafficking business. Nowadays scholars argue that the term “narco-state” is oversimplified because of the underlying networks running the drug trafficking organisations. For example, the Guadalajara cartel in Mexico, led by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, who managed to combine several small

Prompt: The infamous drug cartel run by Pablo Escobar through the 1970s and 1980s takes its name from which Columbian city?

Answer: Medillan


Context: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |  The world's largest, most complete compilation of materials relating to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Established in 1984, the archives contains thousands of copies of government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act public disclosure process as well as manuscripts, photographs, audiotape interviews, video tapes, news clippings and research notes compiled by journalists and other private citizens who have investigated discrepancies in the case.

Prompt: Which organization claims to have the world's largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information?

Answer: Matthew Bender


Context: Quintero (cigar) |  Quintero is a brand of premium cigars, owned by British conglomerate Imperial Brands. The brand is produced in Cuba by Habanos S.A., the local state-owned tobacco company, which also owns the brands Cohiba, Montecristo, and Romeo y Julieta.

Prompt: What are Cohíba, Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, Partagás, Romeo y Julieta and Quintero?

Answer: Parejo


Context: Tanjung Piai | " Tanjung Piai is a cape in Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia. It is the southernmost point of Peninsular Malaysia and thus the most southern point of mainland Eurasia. The skyline of Singapore is visible across the Johor Strait from the point. It features seafood restaurants, perched on wooden jetties that are surrounded by a rugged and rarefied coastline of unspoiled mangrove forests. 0.33 nautical miles south of the point, at the edge of the dries, is a 15-metre light tower which flashes once every 3 seconds and houses a radar transponder beacon which transmits the Morse letter ""M"". Tanjung Piai coastal mangrove is an "

Prompt: If you are standing at Tanjung Piai, the southernmost point of mainland Asia, you can see the skyline of what country across a strait?

Answer: Singapore City (disambiguation)


Context: Trobriand Islands | "The Trobriand Islands were featured in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in the episode ""Treasure of the Peacock's Eye"" when Indy and his friend Remy were marooned there and met Bronisław Malinowski. ; The Trobriand Islands were mentioned in an episode of Married... With Children when Bud Bundy was studying them for an anthropology final. ; The Trobriand Islands were featured in an episode of Worlds Apart on National Geographic Channel ; The Trobriand Islands, and the system of sexual mores unique to its inhabitants, are mentioned in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley as the basis for the sexual morality that exists in the book's dystopian society. "

Prompt: In an episode of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, when Indy is marooned on the Trobriand Islands, which person whose work on the islands popularized a field of social science does he meet?

Answer: The anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski


Context: Konovalyuk Commission |  On August 7, 2008, a war broke out between Georgia on one side and its secessionist territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, supported by Russia, on another. Shortly after, Russia accused Ukraine of illegally supplying the Georgian Army with weapons and claimed that the Ukrainian mercenaries participated in the conflict on the Georgian side. Ukraine denies illegal export of its weapons and involvement of its nationals in the conflict. A commission was thus created in the Ukrainian parliament to investigate the Russian claims.

Prompt: Perhaps foreshadowing recent events in Ukraine, over what region of the Southern Caucasus did Russia and Georgia go to war in 2008?

Answer: Tskhinvali region


Context: Jireček Line |  The Jireček Line is a conceptual boundary through the ancient Balkans that divides the influence of the Latin (in the north) and Greek (in the south) languages in the Roman Empire from antiquity until the 4th century. A possible rough outline of it goes from near the city of Laç in modern Albania to Serdica (now Sofia, in Bulgaria) and then follows the Balkan Mountains to Odessus (Varna) on the Black Sea, or continuing along the coastline northwards to the Danube Delta.

Prompt: The hypothetical Jireček Line divides what region of the world, now a byword for fragmentation, into Latin influenced and Greek influenced regions?

Answer: Balkins


Context: The Simpsons | " have generated controversy. The Simpsons visit Australia in ""Bart vs. Australia"" (season six, 1995) and Brazil in ""Blame It on Lisa"" (season 13, 2002) and both episodes generated controversy and negative reaction in the visited countries. In the latter case, Rio de Janeiro's tourist board—which claimed that the city was portrayed as having rampant street crime, kidnappings, slums, and monkey and rat infestations—went so far as to threaten Fox with legal action. Groening was a fierce and vocal critic of the episode ""A Star Is Burns"" (season six, 1995) which featured a crossover with The Critic. He felt that it was just "

Prompt: After an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart is eaten by a boa aired in 2002, which city's tourism department threatened to sue Fox for defamation? (hint: the city was the center of world's attention in 2014 and will be in 2016 as well)

Answer: Rio (film)


Context: Hinduism by country |  Demographic estimates of Hindu populations by country have been published by the Pew Research Center in 2012, as well as US State Department's ''International Religious Freedom Report 2006. By total number, India has the most Hindus. As a percentage, Nepal has the largest percentage of Hindus in the world followed by India and Mauritius. The Hindu population around the world as of 2020 is about 1.2 billion (making it the world's third-largest religion after Christianity and Islam), of which nearly around 1.1 billion Hindus live in India (making it the nation with the highest concentration of Hindus), as 94% of the world's Hindus live in this country. As per a statistical study, there are an estimated 100 million Hindus who live outside of India. In 2010, only two countries in the world had a majority of its population as Hindus – Nepal and India. On Maritius, 48.14 percent of the population were Hindu, according to the 2015 census. Bangladesh, Fiji, Bhutan, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Sri Lanka have very large and influential Hindu minorities.

Prompt: What country has the greatest proportion of Hindus in its population with 80.6% (hint: not India)?

Answer: Nepol


Context: Kanun (Albania) |  The Kanun of Lek Dukagjini was named after Lekë Dukagjini, a medieval prince who ruled in northern Albania and codified the customary laws of the highlands. The code was written down only in the 19th century by Shtjefën Gjeçovi and partially published in the Hylli i Drites periodical in 1913. The full version appeared only in 1933 after Gjeçovi's death in 1926. Although the laws are attributed to Lekë Dukagjini, the laws evolved over time as a way to bring order to these lands. The Kanun is divided into 12 sections, and Gjeçovi's version has 1,262 articles regulating all aspects of the mountainous life: economic organisation of the household, hospitality, brotherhood, clan, boundaries, work, marriage, land, and so on. The Besa (personal

Prompt: A set of traditional laws called Kanun influence life in what mountainous European country?

Answer: Republic of Albania


Context: List of country subdivisions named after people | Presidente Hayes – President Rutherford B. Hayes of the United States

Prompt: After USA, what is the largest country in the world named after a person?

Answer: Saudia Arabia


Context: Pan-American Highway | "  The Pan-American Highway ((Auto)route panaméricaine/transaméricaine; Rodovia/Auto-estrada Pan-americana; Autopista/Carretera/Ruta Panamericana) is a network of roads stretching across the Americas and measuring about 30,000 km in total length. Except for a rainforest break of approximately 106 km across the border between southeast Panama and northwest Colombia, called the Darién Gap, the roads link almost all of the Pacific coastal countries of the Americas in a connected highway system. According to Guinness World Records, the Pan-American Highway is the world's longest ""motorable road"". However, because of the Darién Gap, it is only possible to cross by land between South America and Central America—the last town in Colombia to the first outpost in Panama—by a difficult hike of at least four days through a very dangerous "

Prompt: The Darién Gap which may preempt many motoring adventures is a break in what road network?

Answer: Convention on the Pan-American Highway


Context: Tajikistan |  Tajikistan is landlocked, and is the smallest nation in Central Asia by area. It lies mostly between latitudes 36° and 41° N, and longitudes 67° and 75° E. It is covered by mountains of the Pamir range, and most of the country is over 3000 m above sea level. The only major areas of lower land are in the north (part of the Fergana Valley), and in the southern Kofarnihon and Vakhsh river valleys, which form the Amu Darya. Dushanbe is located on the southern slopes above the Kofarnihon valley. The Amu Darya and Panj rivers mark the border with Afghanistan, and the glaciers in Tajikistan's mountains are the major source of runoff for the Aral Sea. There are over 900 rivers in Tajikistan longer than 10 kilometres.

Prompt: What is the world's smallest land-locked country?

Answer: Geology of the Vatican City


Context: Taxonomic rank | "Table notes ; In order to keep the table compact and avoid disputed technicalities, some common and uncommon intermediate ranks are omitted. For example, the mammals of Europe, Africa, and upper North America are in class Mammalia, legion Cladotheria, sublegion Zatheria, infralegion Tribosphenida, subclass Theria, clade Eutheria, clade Placentalia – but only Mammalia and Theria are in the table. Legitimate arguments might arise if the commonly used clades Eutheria and Placentalia were both included, over which is the rank ""infraclass"" and what the other's rank should be, or whether the two names are synonyms. ; The ranks of higher taxa, especially intermediate ranks, are prone to revision as new information about relationships is discovered. For example, the flowering plants "

Prompt: The order of what you see below might be disputed but there is no ambiguity about the answer. What comes next? Iberia, Scandinavia, Labrador, Alaska, Southern India, ___

Answer: Arabia (largest peninsulas of the world)


Context: Flag of Qatar |  be designed. According to the Qatari government, the British proposed that the flag be white and red, but Qatar rejected the red colouring and continued using a mixture of purple and red instead. According to letters from the British political agent in the Persian gulf to British India, the white cloth was purchased in Bahrain and was originally dyed red locally. The locally purchased dye was of poor quality that faded rapidly, causing the flag to take a chocolate colour. Due to the country's subtropical desert climate, the flag's colours were prone to being tinted darker by the sun, which resulted in the eventual adoption of a maroon colouring in 1949. The white portion of the flag symbolizes the peace procured from signing anti-piracy treaties with the British.

Prompt: An urban legend about the similarity in the flags of Bahrain and what other country says that the red color of Bahrain weathered in the sun into the maroon of the other?

Answer: Qtaar


Context: Here be dragons | "  ""Here be dragons"" (hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist."

Prompt: What 3-word phrase used to denote unexplored territories derives from the medieval practice of putting sea serpents in uncharted areas of maps?

Answer: Here be dragons


Context: Westminster Abbey |   Since the coronation in 1066 of William the Conqueror, every English and British monarch (except Edward V and Edward VIII, who were never crowned) has been crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1216, Henry III could not be crowned in London when he came to the throne, because the French prince Louis had taken control of the city, and so the king was crowned in the Church of St. Peter in Gloucester (which is now Gloucester Cathedral). This coronation was deemed by Pope Honorius III to be improper, and a further coronation was held in Westminster Abbey on 17 May 1220. King Edward's Chair (or St Edward's

Prompt: If Westminster Abbey is to British monarchs and Reims is to French monarchs, which city is to the kings of Germany?

Answer: Aachen (the place of coronation)


Context: Mohenjo-daro |  Mohenjo-daro was built in the 26th century BCE. It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which developed around 3,000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture. At its height, the Indus Civilization spanned much of what is now Pakistan and North India, extending westwards to the Iranian border, south to Gujarat in India and northwards to an outpost in Bactria, with major urban centers at Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Lothal, Kalibangan, Dholavira and Rakhigarhi. Mohenjo-daro was the most advanced city of its time, with remarkably sophisticated civil engineering and urban planning. When the Indus civilization went into sudden decline around 1900 BCE, Mohenjo-daro was abandoned.

Prompt: Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in present-day Pakistan were the most important city settlements of a Bronze Age civilization that is named after what major geographic feature?

Answer: Lion River


Context: Staten Island Ferry | " ran from a pier at the Tompkinsville end of the highway to Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan. The New York and Staten Island Steam Ferry Company, or ""People's Ferry"", was operated by George Law and ran from Stapleton, Staten Island, to Liberty Street, Manhattan. The third ferry was the Richmond Turnpike Ferry, also the ""Staten Island Ferry""; it originated at Vanderbilt's Landing at Clifton, Staten Island, and terminated in Manhattan. All of these companies merged in 1853, after Vanderbilt, who was focused on business ventures elsewhere, convinced Law and Tompkins to buy out his ferry company for $600,000. Vanderbilt remained a dominant figure in "

Prompt: If the Staten Island Ferry is to New York, the Star Ferry that was originally called the Kowloon Ferry Company is to what city?

Answer: Kong Hong


Context: Guyana |  highest mountains are Mount Ayanganna (2042 m), Monte Caburaí (1465 m) and Mount Roraima (2772 m – the highest mountain in Guyana) on the Brazil-Guyana-Venezuela tripoint border, part of the Pakaraima range. Mount Roraima and Guyana's table-top mountains (tepuis) are said to have been the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel The Lost World. There are also many volcanic escarpments and waterfalls, including Kaieteur Falls which is believed to be the largest single-drop waterfall in the world by volume. North of the Rupununi River lies the Rupununi savannah, south of which lie the Kanuku Mountains. The four longest rivers are the Essequibo at 1010 km long, the Courentyne River

Prompt: What are the table-top mountains found in the Guiana Highlands of South America (especially Venezuela) that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and also appear prominently in the landscapes of the Pixar hit Up?

Answer: Tepui


Context: Sapporo |  Sapporo (札幌市) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo, and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It is the capital city of Hokkaido Prefecture and Ishikari Subprefecture. Sapporo lies in the southwest of Hokkaido, within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, which is a tributary stream of the Ishikari. It is considered the cultural, economic, and political center of Hokkaido. As with most of Hokkaido, the Sapporo area was settled by the indigenous Ainu people, beginning over 15,000 years ago. Starting in the late 19th century, Sapporo saw increasing settlement by Yamato migrants. Sapporo hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics ever held in Asia,

Prompt: Which Japanese island that has its capital at Sapporo is the traditional home of the Ainu people?

Answer: Hokkaidou prefecture


Context: Religion in Asia |  Only six countries are predominantly Christian: Asian Russia which predominantly adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church; Cyprus, which is predominantly Orthodox; the Philippines, which is the third-largest Roman Catholic nation in the world; Timor Leste, which is the most overwhelming Christian (99.6%) and Roman Catholic nation in Asia (97.6%); Armenia, which was the first state to adopt a Christian denomination as its state religion; and Georgia (88.1). Christianity also accounts for 29.2% of South Korea's population (54.5% of its religious population) and is now the predominant religion in South Korea, Christianity is also a large minority religion in Lebanon accounting for 40% of its population. Christianity is also a large minority religion in Kazakhstan (26%), Singapore (18.3%), and

Prompt: What are the only two predominantly Roman Catholic countries in Asia?

Answer: The Philippines and East Timor


Context: Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links |  The Bridge of the Horns is a proposed construction project to build a bridge between the coasts of Djibouti and Yemen across the Bab-el-Mandeb, the strait between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. There are no ferry services on this route as of 2018.

Prompt: The Bridge of the Horns is a proposed construction project to build a bridge across the Bab-el-Mandeb, the strait between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. What two countries will it connect?

Answer: Djibouti and Yemen


Context: African Union | " The official languages of the African Union are Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and ""any other African language"". The primary working languages of the African Union are English and French. To a lesser extent Portuguese and Arabic are used. The Constitutive Act, for example, is written in English, French and Arabic, while the protocol amending the Constitutive Act is written in English, French and Portuguese. As of 2020, the AU website is available in its entirety in English, partially in French and minimally in Arabic. Portuguese and Swahili versions were added as ""coming soon"" (em breve) in April 2019. According to the Constitutive Act of the African Union, A "

Prompt: What is the only language that is historically African in origin among the six official working languages of the African Union?

Answer: Swahili


Context: Triskelion |   A triskelion or triskeles is an ancient motif consisting of a triple spiral exhibiting  rotational symmetry. The spiral design can be based on interlocking Archimedean spirals, or represent three bent human legs. The triple spiral is found in artefacts of the European Neolithic and Bronze Age with continuation into the Iron Age especially in the context of the La Tène culture and related Celtic traditions. The actual triskeles symbol of three human legs is found especially in Greek antiquity, beginning in archaic pottery, and continued in coinage of the classical period. In the Hellenistic period, the symbol becomes associated with the island of Sicily, appearing on coins minted under Dionysius I of Syracuse beginning in c. 382 BC. The same symbol later appears in

Prompt: A 'triskelion', a symbol consisting of three bent human legs is featured on the flag of which British crown dependency?

Answer: Man Island


Context: Limbang |  Limbang is a border town and the capital of Limbang District in the Limbang Division of northern Sarawak, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. It is located on the banks of the Limbang River (Sungai Limbang in Malay), between the two halves of Brunei.

Prompt: Which country is separated into two parts by the town of Limbang of Malaysia?

Answer: Abode of Peace


Context: Coat of arms of Egypt | " The Eagle of Saladin holds a scroll on which the name of the state appears in Arabic script, Gumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah (""Arab Republic of Egypt""). The eagle carries on its breast a shield with the flag's colors — but with a vertical instead of a horizontal configuration. When appearing on the national flag, the eagle is rendered entirely in gold and white. During the union with Syria in the United Arab Republic (1958–1961), and in the ten years afterwards when Egypt retained the union's official name, the two green stars of the union's flag appeared in the white band of the eagle's shield. Between 1972–1984 the eagle was replaced by the golden Hawk of Quraish, as part of the symbolism of the Federation of Arab Republics."

Prompt: The flag of which country prominently features 'The Eagle of Saladin' holding a scroll bearing the name of the country in Arabic?

Answer: EGY


Context: Island groups of the Philippines |   The Philippines is divided into three island groups of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Luzon and Mindanao are both named after the largest island in their respective groups, while the Visayas (also referred to as the Visayan Islands) is an archipelago.

Prompt: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao form the three major island groups of which country?

Answer: Islas Filipinas


Context: Mosquito Coast |  The Mosquito Coast, also known as the Miskitu Coast, Mosquito Shore and the Miskitu Kingdom, historically included the kingdom's fluctuating area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras. It formed part of the Western Caribbean Zone. It was named after the local Miskitu Nation and was long dominated by British interests. The Mosquito Coast was militarily incorporated into Nicaragua in November 1894; however, in 1960, the northern part was granted to Honduras by the International Court of Justice. The Mosquito Coast was generally defined as the domain of the Mosquito or Miskitu Kingdom and expanded or contracted with that domain. During the 19th century, the question of the kingdom's borders was a serious issue of international diplomacy between Britain, the United States, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Conflicting claims regarding both the kingdom's extent and arguable nonexistence were pursued in diplomatic exchanges. The British and Miskitu definition applied to the whole eastern seaboard of Nicaragua and even to La Mosquitia in Honduras: i.e., the coast region as far west as the Río Negro or Tinto.

Prompt: The Caribbean Mosquito Coast historically consisted of an area along the Atlantic coast of which two present-day countries?

Answer: Honduras and Nicaragua


Context: Time zone |  as originally conceived. Several countries and subdivisions use half-hour or quarter-hour deviations from standard time. Some countries, such as China and India, use a single time zone even though the extent of their territory far exceeds the ideal 15° of longitude for one hour; other countries, such as Spain and Argentina, use standard hour-based offsets, but not necessarily those that would be determined by their geographical location. The consequences, in some areas, can affect the lives of local citizens, and in extreme cases contribute to larger political issues, such as in the western reaches of China. In Russia, which has 11 time zones, two time zones were removed in 2010 and reinstated in 2014.

Prompt: What is the largest country with a single time zone?

Answer: Chinese People's Republic


Context: Luxor | " Luxor (الأقصر l-aqṣur,, Upper Egyptian pronunciation: ; Sahidic Pape, ) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. The population of Luxor is 422,407 (2021), with an area of approximately 417 km2. It is among the oldest inhabited cities in the world. The modern city includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Waset, also known as Nut and to the Greeks as Thebes or Diospolis. Luxor has frequently been characterized as the ""world's greatest open-air museum"", as the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor stand within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the River Nile, lie the monuments, temples and tombs of the west bank Necropolis, which includes the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. Thousands of tourists from all around the world arrive annually to visit these monuments, contributing greatly to the economy of the modern city."

Prompt: Which city in Egypt has been characterised as the 'world's greatest open air museum' and contains the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak as well as monuments that include the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens?

Answer: Al-Uqsur


Context: Minoan civilization | " The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from c. 3500 BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000 BC, and then declining from c. 1450 BC until it ended around 1100 BC, during the early Greek Dark Ages. It represents the first advanced civilization in Europe, leaving behind a number of massive building complexes, sophisticated art, and writing systems. Its economy benefited from a network of trade around much of the Mediterranean. The civilization was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans. The name ""Minoan"" "

Prompt: Which island in the Mediterranean was the center of the Minoan civilization (ca. 2600-1400 BCE), the oldest civilization in Europe?

Answer: Krete


Context: George Lowe (mountaineer) | " and Ang Nyima descended to the South Col. The following day, 29 May, Hillary and Tenzing successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest. During their descent to the South Col, the two men were met by Lowe. It was then that Hillary delivered his immortal summary of their achievement: ""Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."" Lowe also directed a documentary film during the expedition, entitled The Conquest of Everest that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.  In 1954 he again joined Hillary, on an unsuccessful New Zealand expedition to Makalu. However, during this trip Lowe met Vivian Fuchs, who invited him to become a New Zealand representative on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition which, between 1955 and 1958, not only traversed "

Prompt: "On his return from a famous trip on May 28, 1953, which explorer said to his friend George Lowe ""Well George, we finally knocked the bastard off.""?"

Answer: Edmund Hillary, on returning from Everest's summit


Context: Watergate scandal | " Chinese then-Premier Zhou Enlai said in October 1973 that the scandal did not affect the relations between China and the United States. According to Thai then–Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj of Thailand in July 1975, Chairman Mao Zedong called the Watergate scandal ""the result of 'too much freedom of political expression in the U.S. Mao called it ""an indication of American isolationism, which he saw as 'disastrous' for Europe"". He further said, ""Do Americans really want to go isolationist? ... In the two world wars, the Americans came [in] very late, but all the same, they did come in. They haven't been isolationist in practice."""

Prompt: In an oft-repeated but untrue story, in a 1971 conversation with Nixon, Zhou Enlai reportedly said that the effects of what historic event were too early to judge?

Answer: French Revolution of 1789


Context: Gemonian stairs |  During Republican times, the Tarpeian Rock, a steep cliff at the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, was used for similar purposes. Murderers and traitors, if convicted by the quaestores parricidii, were flung from the cliff to their deaths. Infants who suffered from significant mental or physical disabilities sometimes suffered the same fate, as they were thought to have been cursed by the gods.

Prompt: In the days of Ancient Rome, the Tarpeian rock and the Gemonian stairs have what particular commonality?

Answer: Site of executions where people were thrown/flung.


Context: Ferdinand Marcos |  were interred inside a refrigerated crypt in Ilocos Norte, where his son, Ferdinand Jr., and eldest daughter, Imee, have since become the local governor and congressional representative, respectively. A large bust of Ferdinand Marcos (inspired by Mount Rushmore) was commissioned by the tourism minister, Jose Aspiras, and carved into a hillside in Benguet. It was subsequently destroyed; suspects included left-wing activists, members of a local tribe who had been displaced by construction of the monument, and looters hunting for the legendary Yamashita treasure. On November 18, 2016, the remains of Marcos were buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani despite opposition from various groups. The burial came

Prompt: Which world leader who had his heyday in the early 1980s had his bust carved on a hillside in his country's Benguet province and which was subsequently destroyed in the 2000s?

Answer: Ferdinand Marcos of The Philippines


Context: No. 617 Squadron RAF | " Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, as the towers on the dam walls were similar to those to be found on some of the target dams in Germany. The squadron's badge, approved by King George VI, depicts the bursting of a dam in commemoration of Chastise. The squadron's chosen motto was ""Après moi le déluge"" (""After me, the flood""), a humorous double entendre on a famous saying of Madame de Pompadour to King Louis XV, made on the loss at the Battle of Rossbach by the French. The original commander of No. 617 Squadron, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in the raid. "

Prompt: "The No. 617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force which operated with the motto ""After me, the flood"" is known for its attacks on what type of installations during WWII?"

Answer: Dam break


Context: The Black Jacobins | " The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is a 1938 book by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, a history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804. He went to Paris to research this work, where he met Haitian military historian Alfred Auguste Nemours. James's text places the revolution in the context of the French Revolution, and focuses on the leadership of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who was born a slave but rose to prominence espousing the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty and equality. These ideals, which many French revolutionaries did not maintain consistently with regard to the black humanity of their colonial possessions, were embraced, according to James, with a greater purity by the persecuted blacks of Haiti; such ideals ""meant far more to them than to any "

Prompt: The 1938 work The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James is an account of what upheaval that took place between 1791 and 1804?

Answer: Haïtian Revolution


Context: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre |  along with Adam Heyer, the gang's bookkeeper and business manager, Albert Weinshank, who managed several cleaning and dyeing operations for Moran, and gang enforcers Frank Gusenberg and Peter Gusenberg. Two collaborators were also shot: Reinhardt H. Schwimmer, a former optician turned gambler and gang associate, and John May, an occasional mechanic for the Moran gang. Chicago police officers arrived at the scene to find that victim Frank Gusenberg was still alive. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors stabilized him for a short time and police tried to question him. He had sustained 14 bullet wounds; the police asked him who did it, and he replied,

Prompt: A notable event in the annals of crime was the murder of Peter Gusenberg, Frank Gusenberg, Albert Weinshanker, Adam Heyer, John May, Reinhardt Schwimmer, and James Clark in Chicago on what date in 1929?

Answer: February 14 (Saint Valentine's Day Massacre)


Context: Mount Vernon |  a gateway to the American Whiskey Trail. In 2019, Mount Vernon began an annual whiskey festival. As of 2020, the estate had received more than 85 million visitors. In addition to the mansion, visitors can see original and reconstructed outbuildings and barns (including slaves' quarters), an operational blacksmith shop, and the Pioneer Farm. Each year on Christmas Day, Aladdin the Christmas Camel recreates Washington's 1787 hiring of a camel for 18 shillings to entertain his guests with an example of the animal that brought the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem to visit the newborn Jesus. Mount Vernon remains a privately owned property. The non-profit

Prompt: Every year on Christmas, Aladdin the Christmas Camel recreates a particular person's 1787 hiring of a camel to entertain his guests at what historic New World site?

Answer: Mount Vernon (George Washington)


Context: August 1963 | In a meeting with U.S. President Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told Kennedy that all Soviet combat troops had been removed from Cuba. In actuality, one brigade of Soviet troops had remained after the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, at the request of Fidel Castro.  The existence of the brigade would not be discovered by U.S. intelligence until 1979. ; Born: Cristina Favre-Moretti and Isabella Crettenand-Moretti, twin sisters Swiss ski mountaineers who both won gold medals in the 2004 World Championships

Prompt: During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, whose secret meeting with the Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin on Oct 27 at the Justice Department in Washington DC was key in resolving the stand-off?

Answer: Robert Kennedy, who was the US Attorney General at that time


Context: 19th century |  The Taiping Rebellion was the bloodiest conflict of the 19th century, leading to the deaths of around 20-30 million people. Its leader, Hong Xiuquan, declared himself the younger brother of Jesus Christ and developed a new Chinese religion known as the God Worshipping Society. After proclaiming the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in 1851, the Taiping army conquered a large part of China, capturing Nanjing in 1853. In 1864, after the death of Hong Xiuquan, Qing forces recaptured Nanjing and ended the rebellion.

Prompt: Hong Xiuquan was the pivotal figure of what 19th century upheaval in China which ultimately claimed about 20 million lives?

Answer: Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864)


Context: Crispin and Crispinian | " The Battle of Agincourt was fought on Saint Crispin's feastday. Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day Speech (sometimes called the ""Band Of Brothers"" Speech) from his play Henry V has immortalized it. Also, for the Midsummer's Day Festival in the third act of Die Meistersinger, Wagner has the shoemakers' guild enter singing a song of praise to St. Crispin. A 16th century legend links them to the town of Faversham. A plaque at Faversham commemorates their association with the town. They are also celebrated in the name of the old pub ""Crispin and Crispianus"" at Strood."

Prompt: What battle of the Middle Ages fought on Saint Crispin's Day has been immortalized by a speech that references the day in a Shakespearean history play?

Answer: Battle of Agincourt (1415)


Context: DEFCON |  The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces. The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and unified and specified combatant commands. It prescribes five graduated levels of readiness (or states of alert) for the U.S. military. It increases in severity from DEFCON 5 (least severe) to DEFCON 1 (most severe) to match varying military situations, with DEFCON 1 signalling the outbreak of nuclear warfare. DEFCONs are a subsystem of a series of Alert Conditions, or LERTCONs, which also include Emergency Conditions (EMERGCONs).

Prompt: DEFCON is an alert system used by the US Armed Forces and has levels from 5 to 1, with Level 1 indicating that war is imminent. When did the highest ever confirmed DEFCON of Level 2 manifest?

Answer: During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962


Context: Samuel Shute |  When the War of the Spanish Succession ended in 1713, its North American theater (where it was known as Queen Anne's War) came to an uneasy end. The Treaty of Utrecht that ended the war did not acknowledge any Native American claims, and contained ambiguous language concerning the French cession of Acadia. The contested areas of northern New England included present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and eastern Maine. Joseph Dudley had in 1713 negotiated an end to hostilities with the tribes in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, but the written form of the Treaty of Portsmouth differed in content from the orally negotiated agreements, and its terms were being

Prompt: Which 18th century struggle that ended with the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 was known in America as Queen Anne's War?

Answer: War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)


Context: Chakri dynasty |  The Chakri dynasty (ราชวงศ์จักรี,, , ) is the current reigning dynasty of the Kingdom of Thailand, the head of the house is the king, who is head of state. The family has ruled Thailand since the founding of the Rattanakosin Era and the city of Bangkok in 1782; following the end of Taksin Thonburi's reign, when the capital of Siam shifted to Bangkok. The royal house was founded by Rama I, an Ayutthaya military leader of Sino-Mon descent. Prior to his accession to the throne, Rama I held for years the title Chakri, the civil chancellor. In founding the dynasty, the

Prompt: Which country is currently ruled by the Chakri dynasty that has been in power since 1782?

Answer: Muang Thai


Context: Battle of Kadesh |  The Battle of Kadesh or Battle of Qadesh took place between the forces of the New Kingdom of Egypt under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh on the Orontes River, just upstream of Lake Homs near the modern Lebanon–Syria border. The battle is generally dated to 1274 BC from the Egyptian chronology, and is the earliest pitched battle in recorded history for which details of tactics and formations are known. It is believed to have been the largest chariot battle ever fought, involving between 5,000 and 6,000 chariots in total. As a result of discovery of multiple Kadesh inscriptions and the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty, it is the best documented battle in all of ancient history.

Prompt: The Battle of Kadesh in 1274 BC that took place between the forces of the Egyptian Empire under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire is best known for the use of what type of vehicles?

Answer: Chariot warfare


Context: Pylos |  and adopted; subsequently a fleet of 27 warships of the allied navies of United Kingdom, France and Russia was sent to exert diplomatic pressure against Constantinople. It included twelve British ships (for 456 guns), seven French ships (352 guns) and eight Russian ships (490 guns), for a total firepower of nearly 1,300 guns. The Battle of Navarino (20 October 1827) resulted in the total destruction of the combined Ottoman–Egyptian fleet (around 60 warships destroyed). An obelisk-shaped memorial dedicated to the victory of the Allied fleets and their three admirals, the British Edward Codrington, the French Henri de Rigny and the Russian Lodewijk van Heiden was later erected on the central square of Pylos. The monument was the work of the sculptor Thomas Thomopoulos (1873–1937) and its unveiling took place in 1930, although it was completed in 1933.

Prompt: The 1827 Battle of Navarino in which the Ottoman/Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian navy is notable for being the last battle to be fought with sailing ships. It is a conflict in the war of independence of which country?

Answer: Yunanistan


Context: History of Denmark |   The long decades of peace came to an abrupt end during the Napoleonic Wars. Britain felt threatened by the Armed Neutrality Treaty of 1794, which originally involved Denmark and Sweden, and later Prussia and Russia. The British fleet attacked Copenhagen in 1801, destroying much of Denmark's navy. Denmark nonetheless managed to remain largely uninvolved in the Napoleonic Wars until 1807. The British fleet bombarded Copenhagen again that year, causing considerable destruction to the city. They then captured the entire Danish fleet so that it could not be used by France to invade Britain (as the French had lost their own fleet at Trafalgar in 1805), leading to the Gunboat War (1807–1814). The confiscation of the Danish navy was widely criticised in Britain.

Prompt: After a short war with Norway during the Napoleonic wars of 1814, what country remained uninvolved in any conflict ever since and is now the oldest neutral country in the world?

Answer: Swedish sin


Context: Battle of Asculum |  Cassius Dio wrote that during the winter of 280/279 BC both sides prepared for the next battle. In the spring of 279 BC, Pyrrhus invaded Apulia. Many places were captured or capitulated. The Romans came upon him near Asculum and encamped opposite him. In Plutarch's account, after resting his army, Pyrrhus marched to Asculum to confront the Romans. According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Pyrrhus had 70,000 infantry, of whom 16,000 were Greeks. The Romans had more than 70,000 infantry, of whom about 20,000 were Romans (four legions which at the time had 4,000 men), the rest being troops from allies. The Romans had about 8,000 cavalry and Pyrrhus had slightly more, plus nineteen elephants. The

Prompt: The Battle of Asculum took place in 279 BC between the Romans and the Greeks in which the Romans lost 6,000 men, while the Greeks lost 3,500, including many of their officers. Who commanded the 'victorious' Greeks?

Answer: Pirro of Epirus


Context: Battle of the Plains of Abraham |  The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec (Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, Première bataille de Québec), was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War to describe the North American theatre). The battle, which began on 13 September 1759, was fought on a plateau by the British Army and Royal Navy against the French Army, just outside the walls of Quebec City on land that was originally owned by a farmer named Abraham Martin, hence the name of the battle. The battle involved fewer than 10,000 troops in total, but proved to be a

Prompt: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War fought between the English and the French, is the only major confrontation ever to have taken place in what country?

Answer: Canada


Context: Toledo, Spain |  Toledo has been a traditional sword-making, steel-working centre since about 500 BC, and came to the attention of Rome when used by Hannibal in the Punic Wars. Soon, it became a standard source of weaponry for Roman legions. Toledo steel was famed for its very high quality alloy, whereas Damascene steel, a competitor from the Middle Ages on, was also famed for a specific metal-working technique. Today there is a significant trade, and many shops offer all kinds of swords to their customers, whether historical or modern films swords, as well as medieval armors and from other times, which are also exported to other countries.

Prompt: Which city of central Spain was renowned throughout the Middle Ages as an important center for the production of swords and other bladed instruments?

Answer: Toledo City


Context: Handover of Hong Kong |  The Hong Kong handover, domestically known as the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, was the formal passing of authority over the territory of the then colony of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony. Hong Kong was reestablished as a special administrative region of China, and partially continues to maintain its economic and governing systems distinct from those of mainland China. With the passing of the 2020 Hong Kong national security law, the mainland Chinese government has begun to

Prompt: The 1997 transfer of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China is well-known. But in 1999, which country similarly relinquished its claim on Macau also handing it over to China?

Answer: Portogało


Context: Decolonisation of Africa | " On 6 March 1957, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) became the second sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence from European colonisation. Starting with the 1945 Pan-African Congress, the Gold Coast's (modern-day Ghana's) independence leader Kwame Nkrumah made his focus clear. In the conference's declaration, he wrote, ""we believe in the rights of all peoples to govern themselves. We affirm the right of all colonial peoples to control their own destiny. All colonies must be free from foreign imperialist control, whether political or economic."" In 1949, the conflict ramped up when British troops opened fire on Ghanaian protesters. Riots broke out across the territory and while Nkrumah and other leaders ended up in prison, the "

Prompt: When it was liberated from the UK in 1957, which country became the first sub-Saharan nation to gain independence?

Answer: Ghana


Context: Bill of attainder |  Previously secret British War Cabinet papers released on 1 January 2006 have shown that, as early as December 1942, the War Cabinet had discussed their policy for the punishment of the leading Axis officials if captured. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had then advocated a policy of summary execution with the use of an act of attainder to circumvent legal obstacles. He was dissuaded by Richard Law, a junior minister at the Foreign Office, who pointed out that the United States and the Soviet Union still favoured trials.

Prompt: Shocking! As per the Minutes of the British War Cabinet released in 2006, what did Winston Churchill propose that be done to Hitler if he were caught?

Answer: Death by electrocution


Context: Maus | " to Auschwitz, where they are separated until after the war. Art asks after Anja's diaries, which Vladek tells him were her account of her Holocaust experiences and the only record of what happened to her after her separation from Vladek at Auschwitz and which Vladek says she had wanted Art to read. Vladek comes to admit that he burned them after she killed herself. Art is enraged and calls Vladek a ""murderer"". The story jumps to 1986, after the first six chapters of Maus have appeared in a collected edition. Art is overcome with the unexpected attention the book receives and finds "

Prompt: "What 1991 book that ends with Vladek reuniting with Anja after a long separation contains in its epigraph Hitler's quotation ""The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.""?"

Answer: Maus by Art Spiegelman


Context: School story |  Trease, starting with No Boats on Bannermere, involved two male and two female pupils of day schools in the Lake District, and a widowed mother. Trease was inspired to set the series in a day school following a letter from a young reader complaining that, despite being the setting for many school stories, boarding schools were in fact no more exciting environments than day schools. This is something remarked upon by the narrator. The Harry Potter series of novels has in some respects revived the genre, despite having a strong leaning towards fantasy conventions. Elements of the school story prominent in Harry Potter including the action being described almost exclusively from the point of view of pupils.

Prompt: The main elements of what beloved series came from the author's boarding school experience of lining up in two perfectly straight lines to go anywhere and from his meeting someone who had their appendix removed?

Answer: Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans


Context: Lapine language | " Lapine is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 novel Watership Down, where it is spoken by rabbit characters. The language was again used in Adams' 1996 sequel, Tales from Watership Down, and has appeared in both the film and television adaptations. The fragments of language presented by Adams consist of a few dozen distinct words, and are chiefly used for the naming of rabbits, their mythological characters, and objects in their world. The name ""Lapine"" comes from the French word for rabbit, lapin, and can also be used to describe rabbit society."

Prompt: Lapine, which is derived from the French word for rabbit, is the language spoken by the characters of what 1972 novel?

Answer: Watership Down by Richard Adams


Context: Mark Twain | " earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures but invested in ventures that lost most of it—such as the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but in time overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He eventually paid all his creditors in full, even though his bankruptcy relieved him of having to do so. Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would ""go out with it"" as well; he died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth."

Prompt: The 19th century invention Paige Compositor sought to replace the typewriter but ended up becoming a failure. Which American author lost nearly all his fortune for its development?

Answer: Mark Twain


Context: Mediology | " interest in networked cultures and new media"". Physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont have criticized Debray's work for using Gödel's theorem as a metaphor without understanding its basic ideas, in their book Fashionable Nonsense. Debray engaged in dialogue with Bricmont in a 2003 book titled ""À l'ombre des lumières : Débat entre un philosophe et un scientifique"", which so far has not been translated into English. Despite such criticisms, the six-volume New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (2004) wrote of Debray that ""His achievement is to have synthesized these earlier arguments into a practice with a powerful political project ahead of it."" (Vol.4, page 1394)."

Prompt: In an interview to The Paris Review, which author talking about his acclaimed 1989 book said that he used the role of an English butler as a metaphor for emotional frostiness and reserve?

Answer: Kazuo Ishiguro (about The Remains of the Day)


Context: The Poseidon Adventure (novel) |  The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the S.S. Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90 ft wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks.

Prompt: What is the name of the vessel in Paul Gallico's 1969 adventure novel that has been adapted as a film four times?

Answer: Earth Shaker


Context: Portfolio (publisher) |  Portfolio is a division of Penguin Group (USA) and Penguin Random House founded in 2001 by Adrian Zackheim as a business book imprint dedicated to technology, economics, entrepreneurship, biography, and investigative journalism. Some of Portfolio’s bestsellers include Start with Why by Simon Sinek, #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday, Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal, This Is Marketing by Seth Godin, The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll, Brotopia by Emily Chang, and The Four by Scott Galloway. Penguin launched Portfolio UK in 2010.

Prompt: The division of Penguin that deals with science fiction and fantasy books started in 2002 with what fantastical avian name? (hint: Stravinsky)

Answer: The Fire Bird


Context: American History X-cellent | " The Mr. Burns plot is based on Stephen King's novel The Green Mile, with the inmate being based on the character John Coffey. The episode also parodies elements from The Shawshank Redemption, by the same author, including the prison and the warden. Another reference to Shawshank Redemption is that the felon tears a Rita Hayworth poster off the wall, uncovering a cross. The title is based on the film American History X. The picture in Mr. Burns' office is based on Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya. Burns' induction to the prison is accompanied by ""Prison Bound Blues"" performed by John Lee Hooker."

Prompt: In The Shawshank Redemption when the inmates are organizing books for their library, when told that this classic French novel is about prison break, Morgan Freeman suggests it be filed under education. What novel?

Answer: The Count of Monte Christo


Context: Swallows and Amazons series | " The series begins with Swallows and Amazons, published in 1930. The Walker children from London, staying at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates. They clash on an island in the lake, make friends, and have a series of adventures that weave tales of pirates and exploration into everyday life in rural England. In subsequent adventures, the children change roles and become explorers or miners. Winter Holiday (1933) has them meet Dick and Dorothea Callum (""the "

Prompt: In a children's classic by Arthur Ransome published in 1930, what are the names of the ships sailed by the Walker children and the Blackett children?

Answer: Swallow and Amazon


Context: Edward Gibbon |  Edward Gibbon (8 May 1737  – 16 January 1794) was an English historian, writer, and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.

Prompt: What is the subject of the best-known works of writers Theodor Mommsen and Edward Gibbon?

Answer: Medieval Rome


Context: O. Henry | " The O. Henry Award is a prestigious annual prize named after Porter and given to outstanding short stories. A film was made in 1952 featuring five stories, called O. Henry's Full House. The episode garnering the most critical acclaim was ""The Cop and the Anthem"" starring Charles Laughton and Marilyn Monroe. The other stories are ""The Clarion Call"" starring Richard Widmark, ""The Last Leaf"", ""The Ransom of Red Chief"" (starring Fred Allen and Oscar Levant), and ""The Gift of the Magi"". The 1986 Indian anthology television series Katha Sagar adapted several of Henry's short stories as episodes including ""The Last Leaf"". An opera in one long act, The Furnished Room, with music by Daniel Steven Crafts and libretto by Richard Kuss, "

Prompt: Great short-stories like The Gift of the Magi, The Ransom of Red Chief, and The Cop and the Anthem are from what collection of O. Henry that was a reaction to a statement that only four hundred people mattered in New York?

Answer: The Four Million


Context: Tikki Tikki Tembo |  Tikki Tikki Tembo is a 1968 picture book written by Arlene Mosel and illustrated by Blair Lent. The book tells the story of a Chinese boy with a long name who falls into a well. It is a sort of origin myth about why Chinese names are so short today.

Prompt: The 1968 children's story Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel is a humorous take on the perils of what?

Answer: Long names


Context: Jim Corbett |  States, the first edition of the American Book-of-the-Month Club being 250,000 copies. It was later translated into 27 languages. Corbett's fourth book, Jungle Lore, is considered his autobiography. The Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, India was renamed in his honour in 1957. He had played a key role in establishing this protected area in the 1930s. In 1968, one of the five remaining subspecies of tigers was named after him: Panthera tigris corbetti, the Indochinese tiger, also called Corbett's tiger. In 1994 and 2002, the long-neglected graves of Corbett and his sister (both in Kenya) were repaired and restored by Jerry A. Jaleel, founder and director of the Jim Corbett Foundation.

Prompt: Jim Corbett in whose honor India's first national park was renamed in 1957 is famous for doing what?

Answer: Hunting man-eating animals, mostly big cats


Context: A Spectre Is Haunting Europe |  A Spectre Is Haunting Europe was formed in 2002, during the height of Vancouver's post-punk revival, and was initially billed as Decora. The band's activity was intermittent for the first two years. The name refers to the first sentence of The Communist Manifesto (1848). It was not until 2004 that the band found a niche with its brand of politicized post-punk and subsequently changed its name to A Spectre Is Haunting Europe. Their first album, Astonishing Tales of the Sea, was released that year. Through a succession of different drummers, the band stretched this material in a few different directions at once, culminating in a caustic 2004 appearance at the Drop Dead Festival in New York City. In early 2006, Phil Western joined the group as drummer. With their 2006 album, Flames, the band broadened its appeal to include a more general indie rock audience. Its recordings have been reviewed in music media. In 2008, the band released its third album, Embers, as a creative commons free digital release.

Prompt: Not many have heard the Canadian deathrock band 'A Spectre Is Haunting Europe' but the publication from whose first line the band took its name has definitely been heard. What influential 1848 work?

Answer: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels


Context: Palinurus | "  In Book 3, which tells of the Trojans' wanderings after The Fall of Troy, he is singled out as an experienced navigator. In Book 5, when the Trojans have left Carthage, he advises Aeneas to forestall sailing to Italy and to wait out a terrible storm on Sicily, where they hold the funeral games honoring Aeneas's father, Anchises. After they leave Sicily for Italy, Palinurus, at the helm of Aeneas's ship and leading the fleet, is singled out by Virgil in second person when it becomes clear that he is the one whom the gods will sacrifice to guarantee safe passage to Italy for the Trojans: unum pro multis dabitur caput, ""one single life shall be offered to save many."" Drugged by the god of sleep, he falls overboard; Aeneas takes over the helm and, "

Prompt: After the fall of Troy, Aeneas wanders around various places including hell and reaches Italy. Hence whoever wrote about his adventures must be familiar with the realms of hell. What question about companionship in a 14th century classic can be explained thus?

Answer: Why did Dante choose Virgil as a guide in The Divine Comedy?


Context: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |  According to Edward Abbey, the book is a fictionalized autobiography of a 17-day journey that Pirsig made on a motorcycle from Minnesota to Northern California along with his son Chris. The story of this journey is recounted in a first-person narrative, although the author is not identified. Father and son are also accompanied, for the first nine days of the trip, by close friends John and Sylvia Sutherland, with whom they part ways in Montana. The trip is punctuated by numerous philosophical discussions, referred to as Chautauquas by the author, on topics including epistemology, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of science. Many of these discussions

Prompt: What most-rejected 1974 bestseller describes the 17-day journey of the author (who calls himself Phaedrus) and his son Chris from Minnesota to California?

Answer: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig


Context: The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo | Quasimodo: The title character of the series. ; Esmeralda: A young gypsy dancer. ; François: Esmeralda's brother and fellow gypsy. ; Djali: Esmeralda's pet goat. ; Frollo: The main villain of the series, and Quasimodo's former master. A magician in his own right, he plotted to kill King Louis XI of France. ; Azarof: Frollo's dog. ; Dennis: Alchemist friend of Quasimodo. ; King Louis XI: The ruler of France. ; Angelica: Esmeralda and François's adopted grandmother. ; Kasimir

Prompt: A trick-performing goat named Djali is the pet of the gypsy girl who is one of the main characters in what 19th century classic?

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo


Context: Madame Bovary |  Léon Dupuis is a clerk who introduces Emma to poetry and who falls in love with her. He leaves Yonville when he despairs of Emma reciprocating his feelings, but the two reconnect after Emma's affair with Rodolphe Boulanger collapses. They begin an affair, which is Emma's second. Monsieur Lheureux is a manipulative and sly merchant who continually convinces people in Yonville to buy goods on credit and borrow money from him. Having led many small businesspeople into financial ruin to support his business ambitions, Lheureux lends money to Charles and plays Emma masterfully, leading the Bovarys so far into debt as to cause their financial ruin and Emma's suicide. Monsieur Homais is the town pharmacist. He is vehemently

Prompt: Which doomed lady of the literature of realism is married to Charles and has affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis?

Answer: Emma Bovary from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert


Context: Siddhartha (novel) | " Hindu males (student (brahmacharin), householder (grihastha) and recluse/renunciate (vanaprastha)) as well as the Buddha's four noble truths (Part One) and eight-fold path (Part Two) which form twelve chapters, the number in the novel. Ralph Freedman mentions how Hesse commented in a letter ""[my] Siddhartha does not, in the end, learn true wisdom from any teacher, but from a river that roars in a funny way and from a kindly old fool who always smiles and is secretly a saint."" In a lecture about Siddhartha, Hesse claimed ""Buddha's way to salvation has often been criticized and doubted, because it is thought to be wholly grounded in cognition. True, but it's not just intellectual cognition, not just learning and knowing, "

Prompt: What 20th century German novel that traces the spiritual journey of a protagonist contains twelve chapters relating to the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path of a belief system?

Answer: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse


Context: Lord Ruthven (vampire) | " Lord Ruthven appeared as the title character in the 1819 short story ""The Vampyre"". This had been written in 1816 by Dr. John William Polidori, the traveling doctor of Lord Byron. It was published in the April 1, 1819 edition of The New Monthly Magazine. The publishers falsely attributed the authorship to Byron. Both Byron and Polidori disputed this attribution. In the following issue, dated May 1, 1819, Polidori wrote a letter to the editor explaining ""that though the is certainly Lord Byron's, its development is mine."" In the story, Aubrey, meets the mysterious Lord Ruthven at a social event when he comes to London. After briefly getting to "

Prompt: Lord Ruthven is the title character of what 1819 story/novella that created a genre whose legacy continues through the books of Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer?

Answer: The Vampyre by John William Polidori


Context: Mangani | " Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes. In the invented language, Mangani (meaning ""great-ape"") is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied (with modifications) to humans. The Mangani are represented as the apes who foster and raise Tarzan."

Prompt: A fictional species of great apes called 'Mangani' are responsible for raising which popular character?

Answer: Lord Greystoke


Context: Jean Bastien-Thiry |  Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry (19 October 1927 – 11 March 1963) was a French Air Force lieutenant-colonel and military air-weaponry engineer. He was the creator of the Nord SS.10/SS.11 missiles. He attempted to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle on 22 August 1962, following de Gaulle's decision to accept Algerian independence. The attack made international headlines. Bastien-Thiry was the last person to be executed by firing squad in France. Though the assassination attempt almost claimed de Gaulle's life, the President and his entire entourage escaped injury. The event is depicted in Frederick Forsyth's novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and also in the film adaptation of the same name (1973), in which actor Jean Sorel plays Bastien-Thiry.

Prompt: Jean Bastien-Thiry's assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle in 1962 is the main inspiration behind what 1971 all-time great thriller?

Answer: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth


Context: John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness | " In 2008 John Hutton's first book was published, a non-fiction book with the title Kitchener's Men – The King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915–18. In it, Hutton gives a ""graphic insight into the daily routine and grim reality of warfare on the Western Front for men who were mostly recruited from the Furness area of the North-West. This was followed in 2010 by 'August 1914, Surrender at St. Quentin'. He has also co-authored the book 'How to be a minister – a 21st-century guide' with Sir Leigh Lewis. It was published in September 2014."

Prompt: "What book published in 1922 has the following introduction? ""Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey."""

Answer: "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence (""Lawrence of Arabia"")"


Context: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger | " The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained in print ever since, with the subtitle RESUMPTION. The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing his adversary, ""the man in black,"" for many years. The novel fuses Western fiction with fantasy, science fiction, and horror, following Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers, who travels with him part of the way."

Prompt: Roland Deschain is the protagonist of what series of seven fantasy books that were written between 1970 and 2004?

Answer: The Dark Tower series by Stephen King


Context: Flash Gordon | " King Features sold the Flash Gordon strip to newspapers across the world, and by the late 1930s, the strip was published in 130 newspapers, translated into eight foreign languages, and was read by 50 million people. In the 1930s and 1940s, several newspapers in Britain carried Flash Gordon, including the Scottish Sunday Mail. In France, his adventures were published in the magazine Robinson, under the name ""Guy l'Éclair"". Dale Arden was named Camille in the French translation. In Australia, the character and strip were retitled Speed Gordon to avoid a negative connotation of the word ""Flash"". (At the time, the predominant meaning of ""flashy"" was ""showy"", connoting dishonesty.) However, events in the 1930s affected the strip's distribution. Newspapers in Nazi Germany were forbidden to carry the Flash Gordon strip, while in Fascist Italy it "

Prompt: The first name of which science fiction hero created by Alex Raymond was retitled as 'Speed' in Australia to avoid a negative connotation of the word by which we know him better?

Answer: Speed Gordon


Context: Curious George | " Curious George is the main character of a series of popular children's books and TV series of the same name, written by Margret and H. A. Rey. George (who is referred to as a monkey in the books) was brought from his home in Africa by ""The Man with The Yellow Hat.” They are best friends and they live together in ""the city"" and ""the country"". When the first story, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys, was published in France in 1939, George was named Sirocco. In the United Kingdom, George was originally called ""Zozo"" in 1941, apparently to avoid using the name of the then King George VI for an ape. Books featuring the adventures of Curious George have been translated from the original French into many other languages in addition to English. The books have been adapted into several television series and films."

Prompt: What protagonist of a series of popular children's books by H. A. Rey and Margret Rey was called 'Zozo' in 1941 to avoid using the name of the King of England for a monkey?

Answer: Curious George (the king was George VI)


Context: Russian soul | " The concept of a Russian soul arose in the 1840s chiefly as a literary phenomenon. Writer Nikolai Gogol and literary critic Vissarion Belinskii jointly coined the term upon the publication of Gogol's masterpiece Dead Souls in 1842. At the time landowners often referred to their serfs as ""souls"" for accounting purposes, and the novel's title refers to the protagonist's scheme of purchasing claims to deceased serfs. Apart from this literal meaning, however, Gogol also intended the title as an observation of landowners' loss of soul in exploiting serfs. Belinskii, a notedly radical critic, took Gogol's intentions a few steps farther and inferred from the novel a new recognition of a national soul, "

Prompt: The title of which classic 19th century Russian novel comes from the plot where deceased serfs are counted for accounting purposes?

Answer: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol


Context: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. | " The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving. It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820. The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker: ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" and ""Rip Van Winkle"". It also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career. The Sketch Book, along with James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, was among first widely read works of American literature in Britain and Europe. It also helped advance the reputation of American writers with an international audience."

Prompt: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. commonly referred to as The Sketch Book is a collection of essays and short stories published in 1819 and 1820. It is best known for containing what two magical American short stories?

Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving


Context: King Solomon's Mines | " oasis shown halfway across on the map. Reaching a mountain range called Suliman Berg, they climb a peak (one of ""Sheba's Breasts"") and enter a cave where they find the frozen corpse of José Silvestre (also spelt Silvestra), the 16th-century Portuguese explorer who drew the map in his own blood. That night, a second servant dies from the cold, so they leave his body next to Silvestra's, to ""give him a companion"". They cross the mountains into a raised valley, lush and green, known as Kukuanaland. The inhabitants have a well-organised army and society and speak an ancient dialect of IsiZulu. "

Prompt: In adventure literature, what lie in an unexplored region of Africa beyond a mountain range called Sheba's breasts and a lush green valley called Kukuanaland?

Answer: Mines of King Solomon


Context: Folklore of the United States | " through literature and film. ""Rip Van Winkle"" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. Inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England. It was published in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, ""When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."""

Prompt: Washington Irving's classic story Rip Van Winkle is set in which geographic region of New York state?

Answer: Catskill Mountains, New York


Context: Lasse Hallström | " Lars Sven ""Lasse"" Hallström (born 2 June 1946) is a Swedish film director. He first became known for directing almost all the music videos by the pop group ABBA, and subsequently became a feature film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) (1985) and later for The Cider House Rules (1999). His other celebrated directorial works include What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Chocolat (2000)."

Prompt: Swedish director Lasse Hallström who directed Chocolat and My Life as a Dog is also known for his contribution in the world of music to whom/what?

Answer: ABBA (he directed almost all of ABBA's promotional films)


Context: Henri Cazalis |  Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) is based on this poem written by Henri Cazalis. Zig, zig, zig, Death in cadence, Striking with his heel a tomb, Death at midnight plays a dance-tune, Zig, zig, zig, on his violin. The winter wind blows and the night is dark; Moans are heard in the linden-trees. Through the gloom, white skeletons pass, Running and leaping in their shrouds. Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking. The bones of the dancers are heard to crack- But hist! of a sudden they quit the round, They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.

Prompt: "What popular 1870s music composition is based on a poem of Henri Cazalis that starts with ""Zig, zig, zig, Death in cadence,...""?"

Answer: Danse macabre by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns


Context: Stones Fan Museum |  bands have been constructed. In the course of time, several tribute bands played here, as well as the 'unofficial Stone' Blondie Chaplin, and Chris Jagger, the younger brother of band member Mick Jagger. Within a year after the opening, the urinals, designed by the female Dutch artist Meike van Schijndel, where subject to controversy when feminists judged them to be sexist. The urinals have the shape of red lips and are inspired by the logo of The Rolling Stones. Back in 1971, the logo was inspired by the mouth of Mick Jagger. In this design, the tongue is left out, which gives a mere womanly look.

Prompt: In a move that pissed off some people, what objects were shaped like the lips of the Rolling Stones logo at a museum dedicated to them in Germany?

Answer: Urinals!


Context: Nokia tune |   The Nokia tune (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902. It has been the icon of Finnish corporation Nokia since the 1990s, becoming the first identifiable musical ringtone on a mobile phone.

Prompt: "The 1902 guitar composition ""Gran Vals"" by the Spanish composer Francisco Tárrega would have remained obscure but for corporate executive Anssi Vanjoki selecting it for something in 1993. How do millions of people recognize it now?"

Answer: Nokia Tune


Context: Montreux Casino | " On December 4, 1971, Montreux Casino burned down during a concert by The Mothers of Invention after a fan had set the venue on fire with a flare gun. A recording of the outbreak and fire announcement can be found on a Frank Zappa Bootleg album titled Swiss Cheese/Fire! The song ""Smoke on the Water"" by English rock group Deep Purple, who had planned to record Machine Head at the venue and whom the fire forced to seek an alternate recording location, is about the incident: We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline / To make records with a mobile - We didn't have much time / Frank Zappa & the Mothers were at the best place around "

Prompt: In December 1971, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention were playing in a concert when the casino venue they were in caught fire due to an over-zealous member of the audience firing a a flare gun into the rattan covered ceiling. This is the true origin story of what rock classic?

Answer: """Smoke on the Water"" by Deep Purple"


Context: Where no man has gone before | " The phrase was first introduced into Star Trek by Samuel Peeples, who is attributed with suggesting it be used as an episode name. The episode became ""Where No Man Has Gone Before"", the second pilot of Star Trek. The phrase itself was subsequently worked into the show's opening narration, which was written after the episode. Indeed, the introductory sequence was devised in August 1966, after several episodes had been filmed, and shortly before the series was due to debut. It is the result of the combined input of several people, including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and producers John D. F. Black and Bob Justman. "

Prompt: After a premiere in 1952, the creator of a certain work said the following words. Name him. They missed the point. There's no such thing as ... What they thought was ..., because they didn't know how to listen, was full of accidental ... You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first ... During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting ... as they talked or walked out.

Answer: "John Cage after the premiere of 4'33"""


Context: Culture of Brooklyn |  Lace. Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta, a 1977 movie which defined the Disco era in the United States, was set in Bay Ridge, an Italian neighborhood in southern Brooklyn. Working class Jewish communities were depicted in films like 1977's Annie Hall and 1986's Brighton Beach Memoirs. In the late 1980s, African-American communities in Brooklyn achieved a new cultural prominence with the films of Spike Lee, whose She's Gotta Have It and Do The Right Thing were shot in Brooklyn neighborhoods. Other films in this vein include Straight Out of Brooklyn and Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.. The nostalgic 2005 film

Prompt: Which 1977 musical was inspired by a magazine article about Bay Ridge kids of Brooklyn whose working class lives were said to be so empty that they lived just to dance on the weekend?

Answer: Saturday Night Fever


Context: Chopsticks (waltz) | " ""Chopsticks"" (original name ""The Celebrated Chop Waltz"") is a simple, widely known waltz for the piano. Written in 1877, it is the only published piece by the British composer Euphemia Allen (under the pseudonym Arthur de Lulli). Allen—whose brother, Mozart, was a music publisher—was sixteen when she composed the piece, with arrangements for solo and duet. The title ""Chop Waltz"" comes from Allen's specification that the melody be played in two-part harmony with both hands held in a vertical orientation, little fingers down and palms facing each other, striking the keys with a chopping motion. The similar ""The Coteletten Polka"" also was first heard in 1877, with the piano collection Paraphrases elaborating on the theme by 1879. ""Chopsticks"" continues to be popular in various forms of media."

Prompt: The title of what well-known piano waltz comes from the composer's specification that it must be played with both hands held sideways, little fingers down, striking the keys with a particular type motion?

Answer: Waribashi


Context: Ecclesiastes 3 | "Vier ernste Gesänge, a cycle of four songs for bass and piano by Johannes Brahms written in 1896; the first part is taken from. ; The first phrase of verse 11 becomes an inspiration for the popular hymn ""In His Time, in His Time"" (song and lyrics by Diane Ball in 1978). ; ""Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)"", a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s, which the Byrds scored a 1965 hit with. The lyrics, except for the title which is repeated throughout the song and the final two lines, are adapted word-for-word from the English King James Version of . The song became an international hit in late 1965 when it was covered by the American folk rock band The Byrds. In the U.S., the song holds distinction as the #1 hit with the oldest lyrics, and also with the oldest lyric writer, King Solomon of Israel. "

Prompt: The lyrics of which song first put to music by Pete Seeger in 1959 and later made famous by The Byrds were taken almost entirely from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible?

Answer: Turn Turn Turn


Context: Altamont Free Concert | " The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in northern California (Livermore). Approximately 300,000 attended the concert,  and some anticipated that it would be a ""Woodstock West"". The Woodstock festival was held in Bethel, New York, in mid-August, fewer than four months earlier. The event is remembered for considerable violence, including the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter and three accidental deaths: two caused by a hit-and-run car accident, and one by LSD-induced drowning in an irrigation canal. Scores were injured, numerous cars were stolen and then abandoned, and there was extensive property damage. The concert featured (in order of appearance): Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers "

Prompt: Which rock concert held on December 6, 1969 was speculated to be a 'Woodstock West' but became infamous after it was marred by considerable violence?

Answer: Altamont Festival


Context: Coronation anthem |  A coronation anthem is a piece of choral music written to accompany the coronation of a monarch. Many composers have written coronation anthems. However, the best known were composed by George Frideric Handel for the coronation of the British monarch. Handel's four coronation anthems use text from the King James Bible and were originally commissioned for the coronation of George II of Great Britain in 1727, but have become standard for later coronations. They are Zadok the Priest, Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened, The King Shall Rejoice, and My Heart Is Inditing. Each was originally a separate work but they were later published together.

Prompt: What is the name of the coronation anthem composed by Handel using texts from the King James Bible that has been sung at every British coronation service since 1727?

Answer: Zadok The Priest


Context: George Harrison | " Before the Beatles' break-up, Harrison had already recorded and released two solo albums: Wonderwall Music and Electronic Sound, both of which contain mainly instrumental compositions. Wonderwall Music, a soundtrack to the 1968 film Wonderwall, blends Indian and Western instrumentation, while Electronic Sound is an experimental album that prominently features a Moog synthesizer. Released in November 1968, Wonderwall Music was the first solo album by a Beatle and the first LP released by Apple Records. Indian musicians Aashish Khan and Shivkumar Sharma performed on the album, which contains the experimental sound collage ""Dream Scene"", recorded several months before Lennon's ""Revolution 9"". In December 1969, Harrison participated in a brief tour of Europe with the American group Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. During the tour that included Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, drummer Jim Gordon and band leaders Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Harrison began to play slide guitar, and also began to write ""My Sweet Lord"", which became his first single as a solo artist."

Prompt: Which 1968 album released by George Harrison is notable for being the first official solo album by one of The Beatles?

Answer: Wonderwall Music


Context: Like a Prayer (album) | " music video for ""Like a Prayer"" led to significant religious controversy, using Catholic iconography such as stigmata and burning crosses. It also demonstrates a dream about making love to a saint, leading the Vatican to condemn the video and causing Pepsi to cancel Madonna's sponsorship contract. The video for ""Express Yourself"" was the most expensive video at the time of its release. Like a Prayer preceded Madonna's ground-breaking Blond Ambition World Tour, which she used to promote it. At the end of the 1980s, following the release of the album, Madonna was named artist of the decade by several publications."

Prompt: Which 1989 music video of Madonna attracted criticism for showing images like her making love to Saint Martin de Porres, use of Catholic iconography including a scene where she develops stigmata as well as cross burning?

Answer: Like a Prayer


Context: Cat Stevens | " music and lyrics, like ""Peace Train"" and ""On The Road To Find Out"", it clearly shows my yearning for direction and the spiritual path I was travelling."" Stevens formally converted to the Muslim faith on 23 December 1977, taking the name Yusuf Islam in 1978. Yusuf is the Arabic rendition of the name Joseph; he stated that he ""always loved the name Joseph"" and was particularly drawn to the story of Joseph in the Qur'an. Although he discontinued his pop career, he was persuaded to perform one last time before what became his twenty-five-year musical hiatus. Appearing with his hair freshly shorn and an "

Prompt: What is the better known name of the English singer Yusuf Islam who converted to Islam in 1977 at the height of his fame?

Answer: Cat stevens


Context: Hello, I Love You | " ""Hello, I Love You"" is a song recorded by American rock band the Doors for their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun. Elektra Records released it as a single that same year, which topped the charts in the U.S. and Canada. Although the Doors are credited as the songwriters, songs by other artists have been identified as likely sources. Apart from the single's success, a portion of the band's fans consider the tune does not represent the Doors sound, due to its commercial nature and shallow lyrics, while it has also been the subject of plagiarism controversy."

Prompt: "'The Doors' generated a controversy with the single ""Hello, I Love You"" in 1968 when the press pointed out it's resemblance to the 1965 hit ""All Day and All of the Night"" of which band?"

Answer: The Kinks


Context: The Who |  and led to their first major US appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival. The group, especially Moon, were not fond of the hippie movement, and thought their violent stage act would stand in sharp contrast to the peaceful atmosphere of the festival. Hendrix was also on the bill, and was also going to smash his guitar on stage. Townshend verbally abused Hendrix and accused him of stealing his act, and the pair argued about who should go on stage first, with the Who winning the argument. The Who brought hired equipment to the festival; Hendrix shipped over his regular touring

Prompt: Jimi Hendrix presented the broken parts of the guitar that he destroyed on-stage at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival to whom? Not sure if the recipient named it Moon Unit.

Answer: Frank zappa


Context: 1840s | 1843 – Ada Lovelace translates and expands Menabrea's notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine, including an algorithm for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers, regarded as the world's first computer program.

Prompt: A pioneering method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers in the 1840s has what significance for the digital age?

Answer: The method, created by Ada Lovelace for Babbage's Analytical Engine, is widely credited as the world's first computer program.


Context: Tidal heating of Io |  Tidal heating of Io (also known as tidal working) occurs through the tidal friction processes between Jupiter and its moon. Orbital and rotational energy are dissipated as heat in the crust of the moon. Io has a similar mass and size as the Moon, but Io is the most geologically active body in the Solar System. This is caused by the heating mechanism of Io. The major heating source of Earth and its moon is radioactive heating, but the heating source on Io is tidal heating. As Jupiter is very massive, the side of Io nearest to Jupiter has a slightly larger gravitational pull than the opposite side. This difference in gravitational forces cause distortion of Io’s shape. Differently from the Earth’s only moon,

Prompt: What short-named body can be called the most geologically active place of the Solar System as the tidal forces of its mother planet cause its solid surface to bulge up by as much as 100 meters?

Answer: Io (Jupiter)


Context: Wardenclyffe Tower |  Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla on Long Island in 1901–1902, located in the village of Shoreham, New York. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to ships at sea based on his theories of using the Earth to conduct the signals. His decision to scale up the facility and implement his ideas of wireless power transmission to better compete with Guglielmo Marconi's radio-based telegraph system was met with refusal to fund the changes by the project's primary backer, financier J. P. Morgan. Additional investment could not be found, and the project was abandoned in 1906, never to become operational. In an attempt to

Prompt: Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York was designed by which genius who intended to showcase it for demonstrations of wireless power transmission?

Answer: Nichola Tesla


Context: Sartorius muscle |  The sartorius muscle is the longest muscle in the human body. It is a long, thin, superficial muscle that runs down the length of the thigh in the anterior compartment.

Prompt: The longest muscle in the human body which runs down the back portion of the thigh possibly gets its name from which professional's sitting style or how measurements are taken by him?

Answer: Tailor (sartorius muscle)


Context: More Hall Annex |  The More Hall Annex, formerly the Nuclear Reactor Building, was a building on the campus of the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, Washington, United States, that once housed a functional nuclear research reactor. It was inaugurated in 1961 and shut down in 1988, operating at a peak of 100 kilowatts thermal (kWt), and was officially decommissioned in 2007. The reactor was housed in a reinforced concrete building designed in the Brutalist architectural style by UW faculty members. They designed the reactor room with large windows that allowed observation from the outside, in an attempt to demonstrate the safety of nuclear energy. The Nuclear Reactor Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, after a campaign led by an architecture student in response to the proposed demolition of the building. A later demolition plan prompted a lawsuit from preservation groups, which ended with a court ruling exempting the building from the city's landmarks-preservation ordinance. While this decision was eventually overturned, the university demolished the building in July 2016 and replaced it with a new computer science building that opened in February 2019.

Prompt: A steel sphere filled with sodium housed at the University of Maryland seeks to register the flipping of what physical property that is of enormous significance to mariners, among others?

Answer: Geomagnetic


Context: St Thomas's Abbey, Brno |   St Thomas's Abbey (or the Königskloster) is an Augustinian church located in Brno in the Czech Republic. The geneticist and Abbot Gregor Mendel was its most famous religious leader to date, who between 1856 and 1863 conducted his experiments on pea plants in the monastery garden. His experiments brought forth two generalizations which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. The Abbey is unique amongst modern Augustinian foundations because it is not called a priory, and indeed it has an abbot (Prälat - prelate) whereas all other existing Augustinian friaries are led by a prior.

Prompt: St Thomas's Abbey, Brno in the Czech Republic was the scene of whose path-breaking work from 1856 to 1863?

Answer: Mendel, Mendelism


Context: James Parkinson | " Parkinson was the first person to systematically describe six individuals with symptoms of the disease that bears his name. In An Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817), he reported on three of his own patients and three persons whom he saw in the street. He referred to the disease that would later bear his name as paralysis agitans, or shaking palsy. He distinguished between resting tremors and the tremors with motion. Jean-Martin Charcot coined the term ""Parkinson's disease"" some 60 years later. Parkinson erroneously suggested that the tremors in these patients were due to lesions in the cervical spinal cord."

Prompt: What is the last name name of the doctor who first described a certain disease in An Essay on the Shaking Palsy written in 1817?

Answer: Dr. (James) Parkinson


Context: Hubble sequence |  The Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for galaxies invented by Edwin Hubble in 1926. It is often colloquially known as the Hubble tuning fork diagram because the shape in which it is traditionally represented resembles a tuning fork.  Hubble's scheme divided regular galaxies into three broad classes – ellipticals, lenticulars and spirals – based on their visual appearance (originally on photographic plates). A fourth class contains galaxies with an irregular appearance. The Hubble sequence is the most commonly used system for classifying galaxies, both in professional astronomical research and in amateur astronomy. In June 2019, citizen scientists through Galaxy Zoo argued that the usual Hubble classification, particularly concerning spiral galaxies, may not be supported by evidence. Consequently, the scheme may thus need to be updated.

Prompt: The Hubble sequence that classifies galaxies is also known for being drawn in what shape?

Answer: Tuning-fork