Context: German cruiser Prinz Eugen |  the defenses of Norway. Hitler insisted they would make the voyage via the English Channel, despite Raeder's protests that it was too risky. Vice Admiral Otto Ciliax was given command of the operation. In early February, minesweepers swept a route through the Channel, though the British failed to detect the activity. At 23:00 on 11 February, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen left Brest. They entered the Channel an hour later; the three ships sped at 27 kn, hugging the French coast along the voyage. By 06:30, they had passed Cherbourg, at which point they were joined by a flotilla of torpedo boats. The torpedo boats were

Prompt: The 'Scharnhorst' and the 'Prinz Eugen' defied the Royal Navy to sail the length of the English Channel when escaping from Breste in 1942. Which other German battlecruiser was involved in the escape?

Answer: Gneisenau (disambiguation)


Context: Son et lumière (show) | "  Son et lumière ( (French, lit. ""sound and light"")), or a sound and light show, is a form of nighttime entertainment that is usually presented in an outdoor venue of historic significance. Special lighting effects are projected onto the façade of a building or ruin and synchronized with recorded or live narration and music to dramatize the history of the place. The invention of the concept is credited to Paul Robert-Houdin, who was the curator of the Château de Chambord in France, which hosted the world's first son et lumière in 1952. Another was established in the early 1960s at the site of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. This nighttime medium naturally lends itself to ecclesiastical buildings, stately homes and ruins, and has rapidly become very popular "

Prompt: "What is the literal meaning of the French expression ""Son et Lumiere""?"

Answer: """SOUND AND LIGHT"""


Context: Bubbles (painting) |  Bubbles, originally titled A Child's World, is an 1886 painting by Sir John Everett Millais that became famous when it was used over many generations in advertisements for Pears soap. During Millais's lifetime it led to widespread debate about the relationship between art and advertising.

Prompt: The painting by Millais entitled 'Bubbles' was used for many years in an advertisement for which product?

Answer: Pears' Soap


Context: Throw Momma from the Train | " Throw Momma from the Train is a 1987 American black comedy film directed by and starring Danny DeVito, also starring Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey, with Rob Reiner, Branford Marsalis, Kim Greist and Kate Mulgrew appearing in supporting roles. The title comes from Patti Page's 1956 hit song, ""Mama from the Train (A Kiss, A Kiss)"". The film was inspired by the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train, which is also seen in the film. The film received mixed reviews, but was a commercial success. Anne Ramsey was singled out for praise for her portrayal of the overbearing Mrs. Lift; she won a Saturn Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress."

Prompt: Which 1987 black comedy starred Danny de Vito and Billy Crystal with an appearance by Oprah Winfrey as 'herself'?

Answer: Throw Momma from the Train


Context: Sub rosa | " Sub rosa (New Latin for ""under the rose"") denotes secrecy or confidentiality. The rose has an ancient history as a symbol of secrecy."

Prompt: "Which Latin phrase, that translates literally as ""under the rose"", means 'secretly' or 'in confidence'?"

Answer: SUB ROSA


Context: 537 | Battle of Camlann: King Arthur fights his last battle against the forces of his rebellious son (or nephew) Mordred, and is mortally wounded (according to the 10th-century Annales Cambriae).

Prompt: Which was the final battle of King Arthur, at which he was mortally wounded?

Answer: Camlan


Context: 1976 in heavy metal music | "Guitarist ""Fast"" Eddie Clarke joins Motörhead and Larry Wallis leaves after a month. ; Deep Purple's guitarist Tommy Bolin dies from an overdose on December 4 during the Private Eyes tour, just after his last show on stage. "

Prompt: Tommy Bolin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1976, was the lead guitarist with which group?

Answer: Deep purple


Context: Samovar | " A samovar (самовар,, literally ""self-brewer"") is a metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water. Although originating in Russia, the samovar is well known outside of Russia and has spread through Russian culture to Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the Middle East, Azerbaijan and is also known in some parts of Central Europe. Since the heated water is typically used to make tea, many samovars have a ring-shaped attachment (конфорка, konforka) around the chimney to hold and heat a teapot filled with tea concentrate. Though traditionally heated with coal or kindling, many newer samovars use electricity to heat water in a manner similar to an electric water boiler. Antique samovars are often prized for their beautiful workmanship."

Prompt: Used when making tea, and deriving from the Russian for 'self brewer', what name is given to the heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in Russia, Iran and Turkey?

Answer: Zavarka


Context: Long Island |  is Long Island Sound, across which lie Westchester County, New York and the state of Connecticut. Across the Block Island Sound to the northeast is the state of Rhode Island. Block Island—which is part of Rhode Island—and numerous smaller islands extend further into the Atlantic. To the extreme southwest, Long Island is separated from Staten Island and the state of New Jersey by Upper New York Bay, the Narrows, and Lower New York Bay. Both the longest and the largest island in the contiguous United States, Long Island extends 118 mi eastward from New York Harbor to Montauk Point, with

Prompt: Long Island Sound separates Long Island from which American state?

Answer: Economy of Connecticut


Context: Sandra Bullock |  comedies Miss Congeniality (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002), The Proposal (2009), The Heat (2013), and Ocean's 8 (2018), the drama Crash (2004), and the thrillers Premonition (2007) and Bird Box (2018). For her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy in the biographical drama The Blind Side (2009), Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for the same award for playing an astronaut stranded in space in the science fiction thriller Gravity (2013), which ranks as her highest-grossing live-action film to date. Outside of the film industry, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she has starred, including Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) and All About Steve (2009). She served as an executive producer on the ABC sitcom George Lopez (2002–2007), on which she made numerous appearances.

Prompt: Sandra Bullock won this year's 'Oscar' for Best Actress for her role as 'Leigh Anne Tuohy', in which film?

Answer: Blind Side (film)


Context: The West Wing |  The series developed following the success of 1995 theatrical film The American President, for which Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, and in which Martin Sheen played the White House Chief of Staff. Unused plot elements from the film and a suggestion from Akiva Goldsman inspired Sorkin to create The West Wing. According to the DVD commentary, Sorkin intended to center the show on Sam Seaborn and the other senior staff with the President in an unseen or a secondary role. However, Bartlet's screen time gradually increased, and his role expanded as the series progressed. Positive critical and public reaction to Sheen's performance raised his character's

Prompt: What was the name of the American President played by Martin Sheen in the TV series 'The West Wing'?

Answer: Jed bartlet


Context: Capital districts and territories |  Taipei, the capital of the Republic of China (colloquially known as Taiwan), is a special municipality.

Prompt: What is the capital of Taiwan?

Answer: Tâi-pak


Context: Gambas con gabardina |  Gambas con gabardina (shrimp in a trenchcoat) is a popular Spanish tapa that started to gain prominence in the 1950s, when it was included in the Manual de Cocina, a cookbook published by the Sección Femenina and given to all Spanish housewives after they completed their Social Service, the female equivalent to conscription during the Francoist dictatorship. It consists of shrimp coated in a flour, egg, beer and cornstarch batter (known in French as à l'Orly) and then deep fried in olive oil. The tails are left during cooking as the shrimp is eaten by hand. The batter may have a yellow tint due to the use of saffron. The name of the dish comes from the way the batter covers the shrimp, as it does so in the fashion of a trenchcoat. A variant popular in Murcia is known as caballitos (seahorses), as the peeled shrimp takes the shape of this fish through the use of a toothpick which is then used to eat the snack.

Prompt: If you order 'Gambas' in a Spanish restaurant what will you get?

Answer: Prawn versus shrimp


Context: London Eye | " 1 August 2014 the logo was reverted to the previous ""The Merlin Entertainments London Eye"" version, with the name becoming simply ""The London Eye"". Coca-Cola began to sponsor the London Eye from January 2015. On the day the sponsorship was announced the London Eye was lit in red. In February 2020, lastminute.com replaced Coca-Cola as the sponsor. Grammy Award-winning singer Meghan Trainor performed at the launch party on a boat on the Thames overlooking the London Eye. In March 2020, the wheel was illuminated blue every Thursday at 8pm in support of the National Health Service as part of the ‘Clap for our Carers’ campaign created during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Prompt: Which company first sponsored the big wheel called 'The London Eye'?

Answer: Ba.com


Context: Walden (name) |  Robert Cassotto) (1936–1973), American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor ; Walden Erickson (1902–1968), American professional football player ; Walden Martin (1891–1966), American Olympic road racing cyclist ; Walden O'Dell, American financial executive ; Walden Alexis Vargas (b. 1984), Colombian football player Walden Belfiore, fictional character from the HBO series The Sopranos, played by Frank John Hughes ; Walden Schmidt, fictional character in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, portrayed by Ashton Kutcher ; Walden, character on the kids' TV series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Walden is a surname and a given name. People with the surname include:  People with the given name include: Fictional characters include:

Prompt: Robert Walden Cassotto achieved fame under what name?

Answer: Bobby Darrin


Context: Volkswagen Sharan | "  The Sharan was the Volkswagen-badged product from a joint venture between Volkswagen and Ford Motor Company to produce vehicles in the increasingly important MPV market, which was filled at the time by Renault's Espace and Chrysler's Voyager. The resulting Volkswagen Sharan concept (and Ford Galaxy) was shown at the 1994 Paris Auto Show, and production started in May 1995. The name Sharan was said to be derived from the Persian word 'Shahran' meaning ""Carrier of Kings"". However, according to Volkswagen, it is a made-up word, like 'Touran'. In the United Kingdom, the name was often mocked for sounding similar to a popular Essex girl's name ""Sharon"". Development began in top-secret in 1987, known only to the highest "

Prompt: Which motor manufacturer produces the 'Sharan' model?

Answer: Folksvagon


Context: Glossary of craps terms | A roll of 5, also called five fever Simply known as odds, is the odds which can be taken or laid behind the Pass/Come or Don't Pass/Don't Come. These are paid at true odds. A player who bets at or near table minimum, normally for extended periods of time. fever five: free odds: flea:

Prompt: What word is used in betting slang for odds of five to one (5/1)?

Answer: 'HAND'


Context: Loch Ness | " second-largest Scottish loch by surface area after Loch Lomond at 56 km2, but due to its great depth it is the largest by volume in the British Isles. Its deepest point is 230 m, making it the second deepest loch in Scotland after Loch Morar. It contains more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined, and is the largest body of water in the Great Glen, which runs from Inverness in the north to Fort William in the south. Its surface is 52 ft above sea level. It contains a single, artificial island named Cherry Island (Eilean Muireach) at the southwestern end. There are nine villages around the loch, as well as Urquhart Castle; the village of Drumnadrochit contains a ""Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition""."

Prompt: With a surface area of 56km2, which Scottish loch is, in terms of surface area, the second largest inland body of water in Great Britain?

Answer: Lochness


Context: Donald Neilson | " Donald Neilson (born Donald Nappey; 1 August 1936 – 18 December 2011), alias the ""Black Panther"", was a British armed robber, kidnapper and multiple murderer. He murdered three men during robberies of sub-post offices between 1971 and 1974, and murdered kidnap victim Lesley Whittle, an heiress from Highley, Shropshire, in January 1975. He was apprehended later that year, and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1976, remaining in prison until his death in 2011."

Prompt: Donald Neilson was a notorious figure in the 1970's, but how was he better known?

Answer: Reports of black cougars in the United States


Context: Binturong |  Binturongs are common in zoos, and captive individuals represent a source of genetic diversity essential for long-term conservation. Their geographic origin is either usually unknown, or they are offspring of several generations of captive-bred animals.

Prompt: What type of animal is a 'Binturong'?

Answer: MONGOOSE (largest of the Mongoose family)


Context: 2020 in West Africa | Chief of state: President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (since August 1, 2019) ; Head of government ; Prime Minister Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya (August 5, 2019 to August 6, 2020) ; Mohamed Ould Bilal (since August 6, 2020) 🇲🇷 The Islamic Republic of Mauritania gained independence from France in 1960. The capital is Nouakchott.

Prompt: Nouakchott is the capital of which Islamic African republic?

Answer: Domain of Moor


Context: Carlos the Jackal |  Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal (Carlos el Chacal), is a Venezuelan convicted of terrorist crimes, and currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of an informant for the French government and two French counterintelligence agents. While in prison he was further convicted of attacks in France that killed 11 and injured 150 people and sentenced to an additional life term in 2011, and then to a third life term in 2017. A committed Marxist–Leninist, Ramírez Sánchez was one of the most notorious political terrorists of his era,  protected and supported by the Stasi and the KGB.

Prompt: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was a notorious figure in the 1970's. How was he better known?

Answer: Carlos the jackal


Context: Operation Musketeer (1956) |  Operation Musketeer (Opération Mousquetaire) was the Anglo-French plan for the invasion of the Suez canal zone to capture the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis in 1956. The operation had initially been given the codename Operation Hamilcar, but this name was quickly dropped when it was found that the British were painting an air recognition letter H on their vehicles, while the French, who spelled Hamilcar differently, were painting an A. Musketeer was chosen as a replacement because it started with M in both languages. Israel, which invaded the Sinai peninsula, had the additional objectives of opening the Straits of Tiran and halting fedayeen incursions into Israel. The Anglo-French military operation was originally planned for early September, but the necessity of coordination with Israel delayed it until early November. However, on 10 September British and French politicians and Chiefs of the General Staff agreed to adopt General Charles Keightley's alterations to the military plans with the intention of reducing Egyptian civilian casualties. The new plan, renamed Musketeer Revise, provided the basis of the actual Suez operation.

Prompt: What was the objective in 1956 of what the government called 'Operation Musketeer'?

Answer: (The retaking of the) SUEZ CANAL


Context: Exercise physiology | Dorando Pietri in the 1908 Summer Olympic men's marathon ran the wrong way and collapsed several times. ; Jim Peters in the marathon of the 1954 Commonwealth Games staggered and collapsed several times, and though he had a five-kilometre (three-mile) lead, failed to finish. Though it was formerly believed that this was due to severe dehydration, more recent research suggests it was the combined effects upon the brain of hyperthermia, hypertonic hypernatraemia associated with dehydration, and possibly hypoglycaemia. ; Gabriela Andersen-Schiess in the woman's marathon at the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics in the race's final 400 meters, stopping occasionally and shown signs of heat exhaustion. Though she fell across the finish line, she was released from medical care only two hours later. After intense prolonged exercise, there can be a collapse in body homeostasis. Some famous examples include:

Prompt: Who memorably failed to win the Marathon in the 1954 Commonwealth Games?

Answer: Jim Peters


Context: Ancient Carthage |  city-state located in present day Lebanon. In the seventh century BC, following Phoenicia's conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Carthage became independent, gradually expanding its economic and political hegemony across the western Mediterranean. By 300 BC, through its vast patchwork of colonies, vassals, and satellite states, Carthage controlled the largest territory in the region, including the coast of northwest Africa, southern Iberia (Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar) and the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, and the Balearic archipelago. Among the ancient world's largest and richest cities, Carthage's strategic location provided access to abundant fertile land and major maritime trade routes. Its extensive

Prompt: In which modern day country was the ancient city of Carthage situated?

Answer: ISO 3166-1:TN


Context: Cirrus uncinus cloud | " Cirrus uncinus is a type of cirrus cloud. The name cirrus uncinus is derived from Latin, meaning ""curly hooks"". Also known as mares' tails, these clouds are generally sparse in the sky and very thin. The clouds occur at high altitudes, at a temperature of about -50 to -40 C. They are generally seen when a warm or occluded front is approaching. They are very high in the troposphere and generally mean that precipitation, usually rain, is approaching."

Prompt: What is the meteorological name of the clouds commonly known as 'Mares Tails'?

Answer: Cirrus (building)


Context: Gerry Byrne (footballer, born 1938) |  The 1965–66 campaign was another triumphant one for Byrne and the Reds as he was an ever-present in Liverpool's second title win in three years. Byrne, along with winger Ian Callaghan and Hunt, were rewarded for their superb club form by being selected in Alf Ramsey's England squad for the 1966 World Cup finals to be held on home soil. In the 1966 World Cup final only the 11 players on the pitch at the end of the 4–2 win over West Germany received medals. Following a Football Association led campaign to persuade FIFA to award medals to all the winners' squad members, Byrne was

Prompt: Three Liverpool players were in the 1966 England World Cup winning squad. Roger Hunt and Ian Callaghan were two – who was the third?

Answer: Gerry Byrne


Context: The Grand Duke |   The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel, is the final Savoy Opera written by librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, their fourteenth and last opera together. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 March 1896, and ran for 123 performances. Despite a successful opening night, the production had a relatively short run and was the partnership's only financial failure, and the two men never worked together again. In recent decades, the opera has been revived professionally, first in the US and then in the UK. In The Grand Duke, Gilbert and Sullivan come full circle, back to the theme

Prompt: Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta has the subtitle "The Statutory Duel"?

Answer: The Grand Duke


Context: Hägar the Horrible |  Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the strip with artwork by Gary Hallgren. , Hägar is distributed to 1,900 newspapers in 56 countries and translated into 12 languages. The strip is a caricature commenting on modern-day life in the United States through a loose interpretation of Viking Age Scandinavian life.

Prompt: Who created the cartoon character Hagar the Horrible?

Answer: Dik Browne


Context: Victoria Cleland |  notes available at all times. She was also responsible for measures to prevent forgery and the controversial matter of the design of new notes. In 2013, Cleland received, on behalf of the Bank of England, a petition organised by Caroline Criado Perez to keep a woman on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes. To date, other than the portrait of H.M. The Queen on the obverse of all Bank of England notes, Jane Austen on the reverse of the current polymer £10 note is the third historical woman depicted on a Bank of England note. The previous two historical women were Elizabeth Fry on the last paper £5 note from 2002 until May 2017 and Florence Nightingale on the £10 from 1975 until 1994. As Chief

Prompt: Who appears on the reverse of the current Bank of England £10 note?

Answer: Charles R. Darwin


Context: Antoniotto Usodimare | " J. Codine, ""Review of Major's Life of Pince Henry"", 1873, Bulletin de la Société de géographie, p. 397-425. (p.412) ; Diffie, Bailey W., and George D. Winius (1977) Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415-1580. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press ; Major, R.H. (1868) The Life of Prince Henry, surnamed the Navigator. London: Asher & Co. 1868 ed. ; Russell, Peter E. (2000) Prince Henry 'the Navigator': a life. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ; M. Walckenaer (1810) ""Correspondence de MM.Walckenaer et Graberg, sure les manuscrits d'Usodimare, conservés a Genes"", 1810, Annales des voyages de la géographie et de l'histoire, Volume 8,p.190 "

Prompt: Give any year in the life of the Portuguese prince known as Henry the Navigator.

Answer: 1394-1460


Context: Ordovices |  In 1879 the pioneering English geologist Charles Lapworth named the Ordovician geological period after the Ordovices because the rocks he was studying were found in the tribe's former territories in North Wales.

Prompt: Which geological period is named after an ancient tribe which once inhabited South Wales?

Answer: Silurian period


Context: The Wooden Prince |  The Wooden Prince has never achieved the fame of Bartók's other ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin (1926) but it was enough of a success at its premiere to prompt the Opera House to stage Bartók's opera, Bluebeard's Castle (unperformed since 1911) in the following year. Like Bluebeard, The Wooden Prince uses a huge orchestra (it even includes saxophones), though the critic Paul Griffiths believes it sounds like an earlier work in style (Griffiths p. 71). The music shows the influence of Debussy and Richard Strauss, as well as Wagner (the introduction echoes the prelude of Das Rheingold). Bartók used a scenario by the poet Béla Balázs, which had appeared in the influential literary journal Nyugat in 1912.

Prompt: How is the prince described in the title of the 1911 ballet music composed by Bela Bartok?

Answer: Diffuse-porous wood


Context: 1984 in the United Kingdom | 2 August – A Surrey business man wins a case in the European Court of Human Rights over illegal phone tapping by the police. ; 11 August – Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd, controversially granted British citizenship earlier in the year, collides with Mary Decker in the 3000 meters final at the Olympics, neither finishing as medallists. ; 24 August – Vauxhall unveils the Mk2 Astra, which will go on sale in October.

Prompt: In which race did Zola Budd and Mary Decker famously collide at the 1984 Olympics?

Answer: 3000 metres


Context: Marmaduke |  Marmaduke is a newspaper comic strip revolving around the Winslow family and their Great Dane, Marmaduke, drawn by Brad Anderson from June 1954 to 2015.

Prompt: What breed of dog is Marmaduke in the newspaper cartoon strip of that name?

Answer: Great daine


Context: Janet Jackson |  Janet Damita Jo Jackson was born on May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana, the youngest of ten children, to Katherine Esther (née Scruse) and Joseph Walter Jackson. The Jacksons were lower-middle class and devout Jehovah's Witnesses, although Janet would later refrain from organized religion. At a young age, her brothers began performing as the Jackson 5 in the Chicago-Gary area. In March 1969, the group signed a record deal with Motown, and soon had their first number-one hit. The family then moved to the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. Jackson had initially desired to become a horse racing jockey or entertainment lawyer, with plans to support herself through acting.

Prompt: Michael Jackson was one of ten children. Who is the youngest, born in 1966?

Answer: Joint Academic Network


Context: Humber Bridge |  Before the bridge, commuters crossed the Humber on the Humber Ferry from Corporation Pier at Hull and New Holland Pier at New Holland, Lincolnshire or by road via the M62 (from 1976), M18 (from 1979) and M180 motorways, crossing the River Ouse near Goole (connected to the Humber). Until the mid-1970s, the route south was via the single-carriageway A63 and the A614 (via grid-locked Thorne where it met the busy A18 and crossed the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at a swing bridge bottleneck and on through Finningley and Bawtry, meeting the east–west A631). The journey was along straight single-carriageway roads across foggy moors interrupted by bottlenecks for most of the journey to Blyth, Nottinghamshire, where it met the A1, and the accident rate was high. Debates in Parliament were held on the low standard of the route across the

Prompt: Which A road crosses the Humber Bridge?

Answer: A15


Context: Currency of Spanish America |  This article provides an outline of the currency of Spanish America (las Indias, the Indies) from Spanish colonization in the 15th century until Spanish American independencies in the 19th. This great realm was divided into the Viceroyalty of New Spain (capital: Mexico City), which came to include all Spanish territory north of Panama, the West Indies, Venezuela, and the Philippines, and the Viceroyalty of Peru (capital: Lima), which included Panama and all Spanish territory in South America except Venezuela. The monetary system of Spanish America, originally identical to that of Spain, soon diverged and took on a distinctive character of its own, which it passed on to the independent nations that followed after.

Prompt: Which Central American country has a currency named in honour of a fifteenth to sixteenth century Spaniard?

Answer: PANAMA (the BALBOA)


Context: Arms and the Man | " Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano (""Of arms and the man I sing""). The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny. Arms and the Man was one of Shaw's first commercial successes. He was called onto stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic applause. Amidst the cheers, one audience member booed. Shaw replied, in characteristic fashion, ""My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?"" Arms and the Man is a humorous play that shows the futility of war and deals comedically with the hypocrisies of human nature."

Prompt: The title of the play Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw comes from the opening words of the Aeneid by which Roman poet?

Answer: Virgil in his Basket


Context: List of operas by composer |  Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884): The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta), The Brandenburgers in Bohemia (Braniboři v Čechách), Dalibor, The Devil's Wall (Čertova stěna), The Kiss (Hubička), Libuše, The Secret (Tajemství), The Two Widows (Dvě vdovy), Viola ; Dmitri Smirnov (1948– ): Tiriel, Thel ; John Christopher Smith (1712–1795): The Fairies, The Tempest ; Julia Smith (1911–1989): Cynthia Parker ; Martin Smolka (1959– ): Nagano, Das schlaue Gretchen ; Ethel Smyth (1858–1944): The Boatswain's Mate, Der Wald, The Wreckers ; Ragnar Søderlind (1945– ): Olav Tryggvason ; Mikhail Sokolovsky (1756–1795): The Miller-Wizard, Cheat and Matchmaker ; Juan María Solare (1966– ): Veinticinco de agosto, 1983 ; Temistocle Solera

Prompt: Which composer of the opera The Bartered Bride died on this date in 1884?

Answer: BEDŘICH SMETANA


Context: The Pantiles |    The Pantiles is a Georgian colonnade in the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Formerly known as The Walks and the (Royal) Parade, it leads from the well that gave the town its name. The area was created following the discovery of a chalybeate spring in the early 17th century and is now a popular tourist attraction. The Pantiles today includes a variety of specialist shops, art galleries, cafés, restaurants and bars as well as a Farmers market held outside every other Saturday. Throughout the summer jazz bands play outside on the bandstand attracting hundreds of people.

Prompt: In which English town is the Georgian colonnade called the Pantiles?

Answer: Royal Tonbridge Wells


Context: Katy Perry | " Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. She sang in church during her childhood before pursuing a career in gospel music as a teenager. Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album, Katy Hudson, under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful. After Red Hill ceased operations, she moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music, adopting the stage name ""Katy Perry"" from her mother's maiden name. Perry subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke, and Max Martin on two albums that were later shelved, with much of the material being reworked onto One of the Boys. Prior to "

Prompt: What is the stage name of American singer/songwriter Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson?

Answer: Katheryn Perry


Context: 2006–07 Accrington Stanley F.C. season |  Stanley scored 70 league goals during which they were involved in a relegation battle for most of the season, but a run of 5 wins in their last 9 games allowed them to secure safety in 20th place, their highlight of the season being a 5–0 thumping of then-promotion-favourites Wrexham. More success came in the cups. In Stanley's first ever game in the Football League Cup, third-tier Nottingham Forest were beaten 1–0. This set an away tie to Premier League team Watford, who needed a penalty shootout to eliminate the Lancashire club. The club also performed well in the Football League trophy, reaching the area quarter-finals before being eliminated by Doncaster Rovers.

Prompt: Accrington Stanley's biggest league win was 8-0 in 1934 when they beat which club from the Wirral who were members of the Football League from 1923 until 1951?

Answer: NEW BRIGHTON


Context: Kawaguchiko Motor Museum / Fighter Museum |  Nobuo Harada and his team made a number of trips to former Pacific battlefields and recovered a number of wrecks of Japanese aircraft from World War II. Subsequently, they restored three complete Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters, and the skeleton of another. One of the complete aircraft is now displayed in the lobby of the Yūshūkan museum adjoining Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Harada and his team also recovered the damaged rear fuselage of a Mitsubishi G4M Betty bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. The forward fuselage was later built by them from scratch. The museum subsequently restored a Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa/Oscar fighter. of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service

Prompt: Which modern day motor car company made the World War II Japanese aircraft, the 'Zero'?

Answer: Mitsubishi Electric Corp.


Context: List of England Test cricket records |  The corresponding record for taking ten wickets in a match is held by Sydney Barnes, who achieved this feat 7 times. He also holds the international record for the most wickets taken in a Test series, having removed members of the opposing side no less than 49 times during the England tour of South Africa in 1913–14. Alan Knott is England's most successful wicket-keeper, having a hand in 269 dismissals. England claims two age records, James Southerton as the oldest player to make his Test debut at 49 and Wilfred Rhodes aged 52 as the oldest cricketer to ever play in a Test match.

Prompt: Which cricketer holds the record of taking the most wickets in Test Matches for England?

Answer: IAN BOTHAM


Context: Chinook wind |   In the North American western interior, winds that are generally called föhn winds by meteorologists and climatologists are called 'Chinooks'. Regardless of the name, föhns can occur on the leeward side of any nearby mountain range. The föhns called 'Chinook winds' are seen throughout most of inland western North America, particularly the Rocky Mountain region. Montana especially has a significant amount of föhn winds throughout much of the state during the winter months, but particularly coming off the Rocky Mountain Front in the northern and west-central areas of the state. On rare occasions, Chinook winds generated on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains have reached as far east as Wisconsin.

Prompt: What is the name of the warm dry wind that blows on the est side of the Rocky Mountains in North America, usually in winter and spring?

Answer: Chinook (disambiguation)


Context: Around the World in 80 Days (1988 film) |  The young French Passepartout arrives in London in 1872 to become Mr. Phileas Fogg's valet on the very same day his master makes a bet that changes both of their lives. Mr. Fogg assures the members at his club that it is now possible to travel the world in 80 days or less; they disagree and so he challenges himself to set off and prove them wrong. He bets a total of £200,000 that he will sail away, tour the world, and return to that very spot in eighty days or less. After accepting his wager, the club members bid him farewell and wish him luck on his long voyage

Prompt: In which gentlemen's club did Phineas Fogg make the bet that he could travel around the world in eighty days?

Answer: Reform Club


Context: Nicole Kidman | " In 2001, Kidman played the cabaret actress and courtesan Satine in Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge!, opposite Ewan McGregor. Her performance and her singing received positive reviews; Paul Clinton of CNN.com called it her best work since To Die For, and wrote ""[she] is smoldering and stunning as Satine. She moves with total confidence throughout the film [...] Kidman seems to specialize in 'ice queen' characters, but with Satine, she allows herself to thaw, just a bit."" Subsequently, Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, among several other awards and nominations, including her first "

Prompt: What is the name of the character played by Nicole Kidman in the film 'Moulin Rouge'?

Answer: Satine


Context: Financial Times Person of the Year |  George Shultz (Secretary of State of the US (1982–1989)) ; 1981: Francois Mitterrand (French President (1981–1995)) ; 1980: Lech Wałęsa (Leader of the Polish Solidarity movement) ; 1978: Deng Xiaoping (Senior Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China) ; 1977: Anwar Sadat (President of Egypt (1970–1981)) ; 1976: Jimmy Carter (39th President of the US (1977–1981)) ; 1975: Helmut Schmidt (German Chancellor (1974–1982)) ; 1974: Harold Wilson (Prime Minister of the UK (1964–1970 and 1974–1976)) ; 1973: King Faisal (King of Saudi Arabia) ; 1972: Henry Kissinger (Secretary of State of the US (1973–1977)) ; 1970: Jean Rey (Second President of the European Commission) Past recipients:

Prompt: Who was US Secretary of State from 1977 - 80?

Answer: CYRUS VANCE


Context: List of EastEnders characters (1996) | " John Yorke in 2000, Jim was paired romantically with pensioner Dot Cotton, played by June Brown; a slow courtship is featured, with Dot often shown to be outraged by Jim's advances, resulting in numerous rejections. Dot finally succumbs and accepts his marriage proposal in an episode that first aired in November 2001; the scenes were filmed inside one of the carriages of the London Eye on the South Bank of the River Thames. Their wedding first aired on 14 February 2002, Valentine's Day. The Guardian critic, Nancy Banks-Smith, described the wedding as ""uniquely uneventful [...] For Dot and Jim 'In sickness and health... till death do us part' seemed to carry more resonance than for most."""

Prompt: Who did 'Eastenders' character 'Dot Cotton' marry in 2001?

Answer: 'JIM BRANNING'


Context: Butyric acid |  Triglycerides of butyric acid compose 3–4% of butter. When butter goes rancid, butyric acid is liberated from the glyceride by hydrolysis. It is one of the fatty acid subgroup called short-chain fatty acids. Butyric acid is a typical carboxylic acid that reacts with bases and affects many metals. It is found in animal fat and plant oils, bovine milk, breast milk, butter, parmesan cheese, body odor, vomit, and as a product of anaerobic fermentation (including in the colon). It has a taste somewhat like butter and an unpleasant odor. Mammals with good scent detection abilities, such as dogs, can detect it at 10 parts per billion, whereas humans can detect it only in concentrations above 10 parts per million. In food manufacturing, it is used as a flavoring agent. In humans, butyric acid is one of two primary endogenous agonists of human hydroxycarboxylic acid receptor 2 (HCA2), a Gi/o-coupled G protein-coupled receptor. Butyric acid is present as its octyl ester in parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) and in the seed of the ginkgo tree.

Prompt: To which foodstuff does the adjective 'Butyric' apply?

Answer: Butter


Context: It Doesn't Matter Anymore | " ""It Doesn't Matter Anymore"" is a pop ballad written by Paul Anka and recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958. The song reached number 13 as a posthumous hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1959, shortly after Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The single was a two-sided hit, backed with ""Raining in My Heart"". ""It Doesn't Matter Anymore"" was Holly's last US Top 20 hit and featured the orchestral backing of Dick Jacobs. It was also successful in the United Kingdom, where it became the country's first posthumous number 1 hit. The song was recorded in mid-October 1958 in New York City. Paul Anka wrote it specifically for Holly. He donated his royalties from the song to Holly's wife. He said: ""'It Doesn't Matter Anymore' has a tragic irony about it now, but at least it will help look after Buddy Holly's family. I'm giving my composer's royalty to his widow - it's the least I can do."" The song has been covered many times, most commercially successful by New Zealand-born singer songwriter, Mark Williams, who had a number-one hit with it in 1977."

Prompt: Who wrote the Buddy Holly hit 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore'?

Answer: بول مصطفى عبدي أنكا


Context: Guy Fawkes |  In October 1591 Fawkes sold the estate in Clifton in York that he had inherited from his father. He travelled to the continent to fight in the Eighty Years War for Catholic Spain against the new Dutch Republic and, from 1595 until the Peace of Vervins in 1598, France. Although England was not by then engaged in land operations against Spain, the two countries were still at war, and the Spanish Armada of 1588 was only five years in the past. He joined Sir William Stanley, an English Catholic and veteran commander in his mid-forties who had raised an army in Ireland to fight in Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands. Stanley had been held in high regard by Elizabeth I, but following his surrender of Deventer to the Spanish in 1587 he, and most of

Prompt: In which country's army did Guy Fawkes enlist in 1593?

Answer: Islands of Spain


Context: Evita (soundtrack) | " In 1996, Madonna starred in the film Evita, playing the role of Eva Perón, the Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina. For a long time, Madonna had desired to play Eva and even wrote a letter to director Alan Parker, explaining how she would be perfect for the part. Madonna had already enlisted the help of composers Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, who had originally created the musical Evita. Rice believed that the singer would suit in the title role since she could ""act beautifully through music"". However Lloyd Webber was still wary about Madonna's singing, so after securing the role, she underwent vocal training with coach Joan Lader. Since Evita required the actors to "

Prompt: Which singer-actress played 'Evita' in the 1996 film of that name?

Answer: Madonnas


Context: History of the FA Cup |  The inaugural FA Cup tournament kicked off in November 1871. Four first-round matches were the first FA Cup games ever played – on 11 November 1871. The first Cup goal was scored by Clapham Rovers player Jarvis Kenrick in a 3–0 win over Upton Park (Kenrick scoring twice in the process). The following year, on 16 March 1872, Wanderers became the first winners of the FA Cup, beating Royal Engineers 1–0 at The Oval. Fifteen clubs had entered, only twelve actually played, and there were thirteen games in total. The winning goal was scored by Morton Peto Betts, who played under the pseudonym of 'A.H. Chequer'.

Prompt: Who were the first ever winners of the FA Cup, in 1872?

Answer: The Wanderer


Context: Chief Wiggum | " Chief Clarence ""Clancy"" Wiggum is a fictional character from the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. He is the chief of police in the show's setting of Springfield, and is the father of Ralph Wiggum and the husband of Sarah Wiggum. The character's comedic value relies heavily on his immense incompetence and irresponsibility as a police officer, as well as his laziness and gluttony. Chief Wiggum's more responsible subordinate officers Eddie and Lou play the straight men to his shenanigans."

Prompt: What is the name of the Police Chief in 'The Simpsons'?

Answer: CHIEF Clancy WIGGUM


Context: List of Shakespearean characters (A–K) | For Iachimo see Jachimo. ; Iago is the villain (and the main character, measured by the number of lines spoken) of Othello. ; Alexander Iden (hist) kills Jack Cade in Henry VI, Part 2. ; Imogen is the daughter of the king in Cymbeline. Her husband, Posthumus, wrongly believes she has been unfaithful and orders her killed. ; Iras is an attendant on Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra. She dies following a kiss from Cleopatra. ; Iris (myth) is depicted by a masquer in The Tempest. ; Isabella (sometimes addressed as Isabel) is the virtuous central female character in Measure for Measure: a novice nun who pleads to Angelo for the life of her brother Claudio. ; For Isidore's Servant, see servant.

Prompt: Which Shakespeare play centres around a novice nun called 'Isabella' whosebrother is to be executed unless she succumbs to the attentions of 'Angelo'?

Answer: Keepdown


Context: Cavall | " Cavall (Middle cauall RBH & WBR; modernized: Cafall; ; Cabal, var. Caball ( ms.K )) was King Arthur's dog, used in the hunt for the great boar, Twrch Trwyth (Troynt, Troit). Cavall was Arthur's ""favourite dog"", and during a stag hunt, he was customarily the last dog to be let loose to chase after the game (Gereint Son of Erbin)."

Prompt: Which fictional/historical character owned a dog called 'Cabal' (or Cavall)?

Answer: KING ARTHUR


Context: Data center bridging |  Data center bridging (DCB) is a set of enhancements to the Ethernet local area network communication protocol for use in data center environments, in particular for use with clustering and storage area networks.

Prompt: In internet chat room language, what does 'BRB' mean?

Answer: Lmbo


Context: House of Lancaster |  The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. The first house was created when King Henry III of England created the Earldom of Lancaster—from which the house was named—for his second son Edmund Crouchback in 1267. Edmund had already been created Earl of Leicester in 1265 and was granted the lands and privileges of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, after de Montfort's death and attainder at the end of the Second Barons' War. When Edmund's son Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, inherited his father-in-law's estates and title of Earl of Lincoln he became at a stroke the most powerful nobleman in England, with lands throughout the kingdom

Prompt: Name the first monarch of the House of Lancaster?

Answer: King Henry IV


Context: The Black Dwarf (novel) |  The Black Dwarf appeared as the first volume of Tales of My Landlord, published by Blackwood's in Edinburgh on 2 December 1816 and by John Murray in London three days later. As with all the Waverley novels before 1827 publication was anonymous. The title-page indicated that the Tales were 'collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham', reinforcing the sense of a new venture moving on from the first three novels with 'the Author of Waverley' and his publishers, Archibald Constable in Edinburgh and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in London. The print run was 2000, and the price £1 8s (£1.40). Two further editions with minor changes followed in the next two months. There is no clear evidence for authorial involvement in this,

Prompt: "The following is the first line from which book?""1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord""."

Answer: Wutherin heights


Context: Links (golf) | "  A links is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland. The word ""links"" comes via the Scots language from the Old English word hlinc: ""rising ground, ridge"" and refers to an area of coastal sand dunes and sometimes to open parkland; it is cognate with lynchet. ""Links"" can be treated as singular even though it has an ""s"" at the end and occurs in place names that precede the development of golf, for example Lundin Links in Fife. It also retains this more general meaning in standard Scottish English. Links land is typically characterised by dunes, an undulating surface, and a sandy soil unsuitable for arable farming but which readily supports various indigenous browntop bent and red fescue grasses. Together, the soil and grasses result in the firm turf associated with links courses and the 'running' game. The hard surface typical of the links-style course allows balls to ""run"" out much farther than on softer turf course after a fairway landing. Often players will land the ball well before the green and allow it to run up onto the green rather than landing it on the green in the more targeted-landing style used on softer surfaces."

Prompt: What word connects bermuda with a Scottish Racecourse?

Answer: Hamilton (disambiguation)


Context: Mont-Saint-Jean, Belgium | " Mont-Saint-Jean is on the reverse slope of the escarpment where the Battle of Waterloo was fought, and is the name Napoleon Bonaparte gave to the battle (la bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean). At the time of the battle there was a farm called Mont-Saint-Jean Farm, on the Charleroi–Brussels road about halfway between the edge of the escarpment and the village. Aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, from 18 June 1815 onwards, for days and weeks. Like many, if not all houses all the way to Brussels who could be used for such purpose, Mont-Saint-Jean Farm served as field hospital. The situation is best rendered by this eloquent albeit sober passage by an eyewitness, Sgt-Maj. Cotton : ""The field of battle, after the victory, presented a frightful and most distressing spectacle. (...) Solicitude for "

Prompt: Napoleon called this the 'Battle of Mont Saint Jean', by what name do we know it?

Answer: Waterloo


Context: Jesus in comparative mythology | "  Another comparable story from Greek mythology describes the conception of the hero Perseus. According to the myth, Zeus came to Perseus's mother Danaë in the form of a shower of gold and impregnated her. Although no surviving Greek text ever describes this as a ""virgin birth"", the early Christian apologist Justin Martyr has his Jewish speaker Trypho refer to it as such in his Dialogue with Trypho. Scholars have also compared the story of the virgin birth to the complex narratives revolving around the birth of Dionysus. In most versions of the conception of Dionysus, Zeus was said to have come to the mortal woman Semele disguised as a mortal and "

Prompt: In Greek mythology, who was the mother of Perseus visited by Zeus disguised as a shower of gold?

Answer: Danaë


Context: 1993 in the United Kingdom | "July – The public sector trade union UNISON is formed by merger of the National and Local Government Officers Association (NALGO), the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE). ; 16 July – MI5 publishes a booklet, The Security Service, revealing publicly for the first time its activities, operations and duties, as well as the identity and photographs of Stella Rimington as Director General. ; 22 July – Government almost defeated by ""Maastricht Rebels"", however a vote of no confidence does not succeed. ; 29 July – Conservative Party loses the Christchurch by-election to the Liberal Democrats – a seat they have held since 1910. New MP Diana Maddock gains more than 60% of the vote – twice as many as the Conservative candidate Robert Hayward. This sees the Conservative parliamentary majority fall to 17 seats. "

Prompt: The trade union Unison was formed by a merger of NALGO, NUPE and which other union?

Answer: Confederation Of Health Service Employees


Context: Joseph James DeAngelo |  really bugged me was writing sentances, those awful sentance that my teacher made ... me write, hours and hours Id sit and write 50-100-150 sentance day and night I write those dreadful Paragraphs which embarrased me and more inportant it made me ashamed of myself which in turn, deep down in side made me realize that writing sentance wasn't fair it wasn't fair to make me suffer like that, it just wasn't fair to make me sit and wright until my bones aked, until my hand felt every horrid pain it ever had and as I wrote, I got mader and mader until I cried, I cried because I was ashamed I

Prompt: "Which writer in a famous book wrote, ""Work fascinates me, I can sit and look at for hours""?"

Answer: Jerome Klapka Jerome


Context: Liberal government, 1859–1866 |  After the fall of the second of Lord Derby's short-lived attempts at governments in 1859, the Viscount Palmerston returned to power, this time in alliance with his former rival the Earl Russell, in what is regarded as the first Liberal government. Palmerston remained as Prime Minister until his death in 1865, when Russell succeeded him. However, disunity within the party caused the fall of the government in the following year, and Lord Derby formed another Conservative ministry.

Prompt: Who was the Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1855 to 1858?

Answer: Palmerston


Context: Bullfighter | " A bullfighter (or matador) is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. Torero or toureiro, both from Latin taurarius, are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter and describe all the performers in the activity of bullfighting as practised in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, France, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and other countries influenced by Portuguese and Spanish culture. The main performer and leader of the entourage in a bullfight, and who finally kills the bull, is addressed as maestro (master), or with the formal title matador de toros (killer of bulls). The other bullfighters in the entourage are called subalternos and their suits are embroidered in silver as opposed to the matador's gold. They include the picadores, rejoneadores, and banderilleros. Present since the sport's earliest history, the number of women in bullfighting has steadily increased since the late-19 century, both on foot and on horseback. Usually, toreros start fighting younger bulls (novillos or, more informally in some Latin American countries, vaquillas), and are called novilleros. Fighting of mature bulls commences only after a special match, called ""the Alternative"". At this same bullfight, the novillero (junior bullfighter) is presented to the crowd as a matador de toros."

Prompt: What is the Spanish word for a 'Bullfight'?

Answer: CORRIDA


Context: 2010 Sundance Film Festival |  Best Picture, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, John Hawkes as Best Supporting Actor, and Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Kids Are All Right, which screened in the Premieres category, was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Annette Bening for Best Actress, Mark Ruffalo for Best Supporting Actor, and Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg for Best Original Screenplay. Blue Valentine, which screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, was nominated for 1 Oscar: Michelle Williams for Best Actress. Animal Kingdom, which won the World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic, was nominated for 1 Oscar: Jacki Weaver for Best Supporting Actress. Exit Through the Gift

Prompt: Which film won the 2010 'Oscar' for Best Picture?

Answer: Hurt Locker


Context: Arlington County, Virginia |  after many years in the lower courts, the matter of the ownership of Arlington National Cemetery was brought before the United States Supreme Court. The Court decided that the property rightfully belonged to the Lee family. The United States Congress then appropriated the sum of $150,000 for the purchase of the property from the Lee family. Veterans from all the nation's wars are buried in the cemetery, from the American Revolution through the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-Civil War dead were re-interred after 1900. The Tomb of the Unknowns, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, stands atop a hill overlooking Washington, DC.

Prompt: Whose state in Virginia was requisitioned to build Arlington Cemetery?

Answer: Anne Hill Carter


Context: Mitsubishi Sigma | "  Mitsubishi Sigma is a model name that was used by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Mitsubishi Motors between 1976 and 1996. Mitsubishi has utilized the ""Sigma"" name on several different vehicles based on Mitsubishi Galant and Mitsubishi Diamante sold in various markets during this time."

Prompt: Which car manufacturer produces the 'Sigma' model?

Answer: Renault Trafic Passenger


Context: Corporal |  Historically, the German army rank of Unteroffizier was the traditional German equivalent to the British Army corporal rank, and this grade has existed as a military rank since at least the 18th century. The German ranks of Stabsgefreiter and Oberstabsgefreiter are sometimes considered to be equivalent to a corporal rank in the US and other armies. The deputy to an Unteroffizier usually held the rank of Obergefreiter or Gefreiter (but others in the gruppe—squad/section—could as well) and as such is comparable to a British Army or Royal Marine lance corporal. Gefreiter and Obergefreiter ranks are based on experience and not on positions. The additional German rank of Obergefreiter was historically considered a senior lance corporal otherwise second corporal in the foot artillery which replaced the bombardier rank. In modern-day Bundeswehr usage, the German rank of Unteroffizier is classified as OR-5 within the combined NATO-standard rank scale and is considered to be more a US sergeant rank than that of a corporal, with Oberstabsgefreiter and Stabsgefreiter now considered the equivalent ranks to the corporal (OR-4). The British Army does not use OR 5 and considers sergeants to be OR-6.

Prompt: What is the equivalent rank in the British Army of the German rank Oberst?

Answer: The Colonel (disambiguation)


Context: Royal British Legion | " The British Legion was founded in 1921 as a voice for the ex-service community as a bringing together of four organisations: the Comrades of the Great War, the National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers and the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers, and incorporated the fundraising department of the Officers' Association. Field Marshal The 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928), British commander at the Battle of the Somme and Passchendaele, was one of the founders of the Legion. Lord Haig served as the president of the British Legion until his death. According to Mark Garnett and Richard Weight, it was established and run by Britain's upper class, but gained a broad membership. They argue: ""It "

Prompt: In which year was the Royal British Legion founded?

Answer: 1921


Context: House of Angostura | " the bark of the angostura tree (Angostura trifoliata). Angostura bitters are a key ingredient in many cocktails, for example in pink gin and the Manhattan. Angostura brand bitters do not contain any angostura bark. There are several other companies that make bitters containing this bark, notably Fee Brothers and Riemerschmid. The word ""Angostura"" (lit. ""Narrows"") is the founding name of Ciudad Bolívar along the narrows of Venezuela's Orinoco River where Dr. Siegert was based. It was an important trading town with river access to the sea. In December 2016, questions arose regarding the integrity of Angostura rum, with CEO Robert Wong sent on administrative leave for two months. Reports say Angostura breached EU rules of origin laws by purchasing bulk rum and repackaging it, without making any substantial changes."

Prompt: What fundamental ingredient of many cocktails is produced from the bark of the Cusparia tree?

Answer: Angostura Bitters


Context: Scott & Bailey |  Scott & Bailey is a British police procedural series that debuted on ITV on 29 May 2011 and concluded on 27 April 2016. The series stars Suranne Jones, Lesley Sharp, Amelia Bullmore, Nicholas Gleaves, Danny Miller and Pippa Haywood. The show, mainly written by Sally Wainwright, revolves around the personal and professional lives of Detectives Janet Scott (played by Sharp) and Rachel Bailey (played by Jones). Both characters are members of the Syndicate Nine Major Incident Team (MIT) of the fictional Manchester Metropolitan Police. Despite continued good reception and strong viewership, it was decided to end the series after an abbreviated fifth series in 2016 for creative reasons. In March 2018, Canadian TV remade the series as The Detail but the show was cancelled after one season.

Prompt: Name either of the stars of the I.T.V. detective drama series 'Scott and Bailey'?

Answer: LESLEY SHARP or SURANNE JONES


Context: Labradoodle | " Because the (generic) Labradoodle is a cross between two dog breeds and not a breed itself, puppies in the early hybrid generations do not have consistently predictable characteristics. The first crossing of a poodle with a Labrador does result in variations in terms of appearance, size, coat and temperament. So while most Labradoodles share some common traits, their appearance and behavioral characteristics can be widely variable. Labradoodles' hair can be anywhere from wiry to soft, and may be straight, wavy, or curly. Some Labradoodles do shed, although the coat usually sheds less and has less ""dog odor"" than that of a Labrador retriever. Regular haircuts, bathing and brushing are necessary to maintaining a healthy coat. Labradoodles often display an affinity for water and strong swimming ability from their parent breeds. Like most Labrador retrievers and poodles, Labradoodles are generally friendly, energetic, and good with families and children. Their parent breeds are both among the world's most intelligent dog breeds, in which the poodle is believed to be among the smartest (second, after the border collie)."

Prompt: What is the name of the hybrid dog, or designer breed, which is a cross of a Labrador and a Poodle?

Answer: Laberdoodle


Context: Nanosecond |  A nanosecond (ns) is an SI unit of time equal to one billionth of a second, that is, 1⁄1 000 000 000 of a second, or 10−9 seconds. The term combines the prefix nano- with the basic unit for one-sixtieth of a minute. A nanosecond is equal to 1000 picoseconds or 1⁄1000 microsecond. Time units ranging between 10−8 and 10−7 seconds are typically expressed as tens or hundreds of nanoseconds. Time units of this granularity are commonly found in telecommunications, pulsed lasers, and related aspects of electronics.

Prompt: A nanosecond uses the prefix 'nano', which is 10 raised to what negative power?

Answer: NINE (9)


Context: 1987 in literature | Booker Prize: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger ; Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Susan Price, The Ghost Drum ; Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes ; Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden ; James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: George Mackay Brown, The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories ; James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Ruth Dudley Edwards, Victor Gollancz: A Biography ; Whitbread Best Book Award: Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock ; Sunday Express Book of the Year: Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood

Prompt: Which word completes the title of the 1987 Booker Prize winner 'Moon ..........'?

Answer: Tiger (company)


Context: Legal year | Michaelmas term - from October to December ; Hilary term - from January to April ; Easter term - from April to May ; Trinity term - from June to July. In England, the year is divided into four terms:  Between terms, the courts are in vacation, and no trials or appeals are heard in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. The legal terms apply to the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court only, and so have no application to the Crown Court, County Court, or magistrates' courts. The longest vacation period is between July and October. The dates of the terms are determined in law by a practice direction in the Civil Procedure Rules. The Hilary term was formerly from the 11th to the 31st of January, during which superior courts of England were open. The

Prompt: The legal year is divided into four terms. Which term runs from January to April?

Answer: Hilary (disambiguation)


Context: Flutter-tonguing |  One of the earliest uses of flutter-tonguing was by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his ballet The Nutcracker. In the opening of the final act, Tchaikovsky makes the flutes flutter-tongue to depict the cascading river of rose-oil seen as Clara and the Nutcracker are welcomed to the kingdom of Confiturembourg: he named the effect frullato, as did the flautist who first introduced him to the technique, Alexander Khimichenko. The effect has since been called for in many classical compositions, where it is most often used on flutes, recorders, bassoons, trumpets, and trombones, but can be used on other brass and woodwind instruments

Prompt: The second act, set in the Land of Sweets, of which ballet by Tchaikovsky includes the Dance of the Reed Flutes?

Answer: Candy Cane (ballet)


Context: Nauru |  Nauru ( or  ; Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru (Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, 300 km to the east. It further lies northwest of Tuvalu, 1300 km northeast of Solomon Islands, east-northeast of Papua New Guinea, southeast of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the Marshall Islands. With only a 21 km2 area, Nauru is the third-smallest country in the world behind Vatican City and Monaco, making it the smallest republic as well as the smallest island nation. Its population of about 10,000 is the world's second-smallest (not including colonies or overseas territories), after

Prompt: Which country, formerly known as Pleasant Island, is the smallest island country in the world?

Answer: List of islands of Nauru


Context: The Cuckoo's Calling |  The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the first novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was followed by The Silkworm in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018 and Troubled Blood in 2020.

Prompt: The novels The Cuckoo's Calling and the soon to be published The Silkworm are written by a well-known author using which pseudonym?

Answer: ROBERT GALBRAITH (really J K ROWLING)


Context: Rev. (TV series) | " The Reverend Adam Smallbone is an Anglican priest who has moved from a small rural parish to the ""socially disunited"" St Saviour in the Marshes in Hackney, East London. Unwilling to turn anyone away from his pastoral care, he is faced with a series of moral challenges as he balances the needs of genuine believers, people on the streets, and drug addicts, as well as the demands of social climbers using the church to get their children into the best schools. Adam has a difficult job as a modern city vicar. His wife Alex, who has her own career as a solicitor to worry about, supports him through his life as a priest, while not being engaged with his work. He is also supported by lay reader Nigel, who believes he should be running the church. In supervision is Archdeacon Robert, who puts pressure on Adam to increase the congregation and church income. Parishioners include Colin, a heavy drinking, unemployable lost soul who is Adam's most devoted parishioner; Adoha, known for her romantic intentions towards the clergy; and Mick, who is homeless and appears on Adam's doorstep in different situations asking for money."

Prompt: Which BBC2 comedy is set around the church of St Saviours in the Marshes in Hackney?

Answer: R E V


Context: Dagome iudex | " The Dagome iudex survives in the form of a summary, completed c. 1080. It was found in a register compiled by a curial cardinal during the papacy of Gregory VII. Most historians believe that the word ""Dagome"" is a melding of two names: the Christian ""Dago,"" for ""Dagobert"" (Mieszko's hypothetical baptismal name), and the Slavic ""Me,"" for ""Mieszko."" The Latin word ""iudex"" (""judge"") could refer to ""prince."" Another interpretation is that ""Dagome iudex"" is a corruption of ""Ego Mesco dux"" (""I, Prince Mieszko""). In the Vatican copy, the e of Dagome might have an s adscriptum (similar to cedilla), although the Vatican copyist read iudex literally, relating it to Sardinia and its four ""judges"". Place names are misspelled by the writer who made the summary. He was apparently unaware that the document "

Prompt: Which word completes Interatrial _______ and Interventricular ________ which are the walls of tissue separating the chambers on the left and right of the heart?

Answer: Septum (anatomy)


Context: Green Howards |  The Green Howards Regimental Museum is located in the old Trinity Church in the centre of the market place in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Prompt: In which North Yorkshire town is the Green Howards Museum?

Answer: RICHMOND


Context: Queen Victoria | " at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, and consequently that I am Queen."" Official documents prepared on the first day of her reign described her as Alexandrina Victoria, but the first name was withdrawn at her own wish and not used again. Since 1714, Britain had shared a monarch with Hanover in Germany, but under Salic law, women were excluded from the Hanoverian succession. While Victoria inherited the British throne, her father's unpopular younger brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, became King of Hanover. He was Victoria's heir presumptive until she had a child. At the time of Victoria's accession, the government was "

Prompt: What was the first name of Queen Victoria?

Answer: Alexandrina (disambiguation)


Context: List of Steptoe and Son characters | " Harold Albert Kitchener Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett) was born in 1925 (Corbett's birth date) in the 1960s series, or around 1930 in the 1970s series. In the episode ""Loathe Story"" he says he was aged 10 just before the outbreak of the Second World War, which would indicate a birth year in 1928 or 1929, and in the episode ""A Star is Born"" he claims to be the same age as Sean Connery, (born 25 August 1930). Harold was educated at Scrubs Lane Elementary School, and it was revealed in ""The Bird"" that his father withdrew him from school when he was just 12 years old. He too is obstinate, though prone to moments of enthusiasm about an idea. Harold unlike Albert, has aspirations. He wants to move up in the world — most of all to escape from the family home and his stifling relationship with his father. "

Prompt: What is the surname of the father and son TV comedy characters with the first names Albert Edward Ladysmith and Harold Albert Kitchener?

Answer: STEPTOE


Context: Tripiṭaka | "  Tripiṭaka or Tipiṭaka, meaning ""Triple Basket"", is the traditional term for ancient collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures. The Pāli Canon maintained by the Theravāda tradition in Southeast Asia, the Chinese Buddhist Canon maintained by the East Asian Buddhist tradition, and the Tibetan Buddhist Canon maintained by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition are some of the most important Tripiṭaka in contemporary Buddhist world. Tripiṭaka has become a term used for many schools' collections, although their general divisions do not match a strict division into three piṭakas."

Prompt: The Tripitaka is a collection of whose religious teachings?

Answer: Siddhattha Gotama


Context: Salem High School (Ohio) | "Alan Freed - disc jockey who coined ""rock and roll"" ; Rich Karlis - NFL kicker ; Kirk Lowdermilk - NFL offensive lineman ; Jerry Meals - Major League Baseball umpire ; Chip Mosher - newspaper columnist, high school ""Educator of Distinction,"" poet ; Tim Schuller (1949–2012) music critic ; Lou Slaby - NFL linebacker ; Lloyd Yoder - College Football Hall of Fame inductee "

Prompt: Who coined the term Rock and Roll?

Answer: Alan Freed and payola


Context: San-X |  - Chihuahua dogs. ; Chocopa - The panda child, Chocopa, loves chocolate. Every day, she only ate chocolate. One day, she became brown and turned into a bear. ; Chou-Fleur - Chou-Fleur is 'cauliflower' in French. A charming female pink fluffy bunny who looks like a cauliflower. ; Corocoro Coronya - A cat who loves coronet bread. ; Dakkusukun - Two miniature dachshunds carry guitars on their backs and can't survive without them. ; Dande no Kimochi - A lion who shows his mood through his dandelion-coloured mane. ; Dapan - A strong team formed for the World Cup. ; Ecoala - Carefree koala. ;

Prompt: Which vegetable do the French call Chou-Fleur?

Answer: Purple cauliflower


Context: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | " ""Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"" is a song written in 1943  by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. In 2007, ASCAP ranked it the third most performed Christmas song during the preceding five years that had been written by ASCAP members. In 2004 it finished at No. 76 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs rankings of the top tunes in American cinema."

Prompt: In which musical would you hear the song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?

Answer: Meet Me In St Louis


Context: Franciscans |  The Third Order of Saint Francis comprises people who desired to grow in holiness in their daily lives without entering monastic life. After founding the Friars Minor and seeing a need, Francis created the Secular Franciscan Order, also known as Brothers and Sisters of Penance. During his lifetime, many married men and women and even clergy and hermits were drawn to the vision of life offered by Francis, but due to their life commitments they were not able to enter the Friars Minor or the Poor Clares. For this reason, he founded a way of life to which married men and women, as well as the single and the secular clergy, could belong and live according to the Gospel. According to the traditions of the Order, the original Rule was given by St. Francis in 1221 to a married couple, Luchesius Modestini and his wife, Buonadonna, who wished to follow him but did not feel called to separate as a married couple.

Prompt: To which order of monks does or did Pope Francis belong?

Answer: Society of Jesuits


Context: List of fictional United States presidencies of historical figures (K–L) | In the parallel universe featured in the film Quest for Love, John F. Kennedy likewise served as the US President but he was never assassinated. In 1971, he was elected Secretary-General of the League of Nations, which still existed as World War II never happened in that universe. ; In the 1980 novel Timescape by Gregory Benford, the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 was averted by a high school student who interrupted Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository, attacking the shooter and sending the would-be fatal third shot awry. Although seriously injured, Kennedy survived. This interference

Prompt: Name the year: John F Kennedy was elected president; U-2 spy plane was shot down and Hollywood actor Clark Gable died?

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and sixty


Context: Frottage (art) |  In frottage, the artist places a piece of paper over an uneven surface, then marks the paper with a drawing tool (such as a pastel or pencil), thus creating a rubbing. The drawing can be left as it is or used as the basis for further refinement. While superficially similar to brass rubbing and other forms of rubbing intended to reproduce an existing subject, and in fact sometimes being used as an alternative term for it, frottage implies using this rubbing technique to create an original image. It was developed by surrealist artist Max Ernst in 1925. Ernst was inspired by an ancient wooden floor where the grain of the planks had been accentuated by many years of scrubbing. The patterns of the graining suggested strange images to him. He captured these by laying sheets of paper on the floor and then rubbing over them with a soft pencil.

Prompt: What term is used for paper placed on an uneven surface and rubbed by crayon or pencil?

Answer: Frottage (disambiguation)


Context: Front Deutscher Äpfel | " The Front Deutscher Äpfel (short F.D.Ä.; German for Front of German Apples), also called Apfelfront (Apple Front) is a satirical organisation, founded in Leipzig in 2004. It satirizes right extremist parties, especially the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD). In the style of former and existing right extremist organisational structures it is subdivided into numerous sub-groups like the youth organisation Nationales Frischobst Deutschland (NFD; National Fresh Fruit of Germany), the women's organisation Bund weicher Birnen (B.W.B.; League of Soft Pears, compare League of German Girls; Birne, pear, is a German colloquial term for head, ""eine weiche Birne haben"" (""to have a soft pear""), is synonymous to ""being very stupid"") and many further local Gaue."

Prompt: Which fruit do the Germans call Apfelsine?

Answer: Orange (album)


Context: Radix malorum est cupiditas | " this lesson was illustrated. However, because of the Pardoner's dubious character, the Latin saying has ironic connotations. The Modern English word cupidity is described by OED as etymologically cognate with Latin cupidus, eagerly desirous. There can be no ambiguity nor misunderstanding of the force of the word as used by Catullus: The OED definition of cupidity is ""Ardent desire, inordinate longing or lust; covetousness"", placing the weight firmly on the lecherous side of the reference of this word, which came into English from Latin, and perhaps through French. That its biblical reference is to the desire of filthy lucre seems established, but to the Latin-literate medieval people, the other cultural reference, to the desires of the flesh, would have suggested an alternative meaning."

Prompt: What does the word Cupidity mean?

Answer: Greed avarice


Context: Bloody Friday (1972) |  Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles. At least twenty bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, most within a half hour period. Most of them were car bombs and most targeted infrastructure, especially the transport network. Nine people were killed: five civilians, two British soldiers, a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) reservist, and an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, while 130 were injured. The IRA said it sent telephoned warnings at least thirty minutes before each explosion and said that the security forces wilfully ignored some of the warnings for its own ends. The security forces said that was not the case and said they were overstretched by the sheer number of bombs and bomb warnings, some of which were hoaxes. The

Prompt: What name was given to the day of serious conflict in Londonderry on January 30th 1972?

Answer: Blut Sonntag


Context: Talus bone |  The talus (Latin for ankle or ankle bone ), talus bone, astragalus, or ankle bone is one of the group of foot bones known as the tarsus. The tarsus forms the lower part of the ankle joint. It transmits the entire weight of the body from the lower legs to the foot. The talus has joints with the two bones of the lower leg, the tibia and thinner fibula. These leg bones have two prominences (the lateral and medial malleoli) that articulate with the talus. At the foot end, within the tarsus, the talus articulates with the calcaneus (heel bone) below, and with the curved navicular bone in front; together, these foot articulations form the ball-and-socket-shaped talocalcaneonavicular joint. The talus is the second largest of the tarsal bones; it is also one of the bones in the human body with the highest percentage of its surface area covered by articular cartilage. It is also unusual in that it has a retrograde blood supply, i.e. arterial blood enters the bone at the distal end. In humans, no muscles attach to the talus, unlike most bones, and its position therefore depends on the position of the neighbouring bones.

Prompt: In the human body, what is the common name for the 'Talus bone'?

Answer: Ancle


Context: That's Life (1998 TV series) |  Mike is head of the meat department at the supermarket. He has been married to Patty for ten years, and the two live in their own duplex in Queens. Patty's sister Catherine and her son Kieran move into the apartment above Mike and Patty. Lisa is Patty's college-aged sister, and Mitch is Mike's best friend.

Prompt: Which film finds Mike Myers deeply suspicious about his newly-married wife's skills with a meat cleaver?

Answer: Harriet Michaels


Context: Please Sir! | " Please Sir! is a London Weekend Television situation comedy for ITV, created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featuring actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Penny Spencer, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies. The series ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972. The theme tune ""School's Out"" was by Sam Fonteyn. The title derives from the then-standard request phrase used in Britain when they wish to interrupt the teacher with a question."

Prompt: What was the name of the school that formed the setting for the TV comedy series, 'Please Sir'?

Answer: 'FENN STREET SECONDARY MODERN'


Context: Bloodhound |  Grafton was the Bloodhound in Landseer's famous painting Dignity and Impudence. Both dogs in the picture belonged to Jacob Bell. Mr. T. A. Jennings' Ch Druid, known as 'Old Druid' was the first Bloodhound champion. Born in 1857, he was later bought by Emperor Napoleon III for his son, Prince Eugene Louis Jean Joseph, and taken to France. Photographs of him, of another famous hound, Cowen's Druid, and a bitch named Countess, appear in a rare book from 1865 in the British Library, and may be the oldest photographs of Bloodhounds to have survived. A Bloodhound named Nick Carter is frequently cited as the archetype of the trailing Bloodhound and the

Prompt: In Edwin Landseer's painting, 'Dignity and Impudence', what kind of creatures are depicted?

Answer: DOG


Context: Graphology |   Graphology is the analysis of handwriting with attempt to determine someone's personality traits. No scientific evidence exists to support graphology, and it is generally considered a pseudoscience  or scientifically questionable practice. However, it remains in widespread use in France and has historically been considered legitimate for use in some court cases. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to forensic document examination, due to the fact that aspects of the latter dealing with the examination of handwritten documents are occasionally referred to as graphanalysis. Schlicht, an academic historian, states that while graphology failed to become a scientific discipline, many

Prompt: What is analysed by, and of special interest to, a 'Graphologist'?

Answer: HAND-WRITING


Context: United States intervention in Chile | " In the Chilean coup of 1973, Augusto Pinochet rose to power, overthrowing the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. A subsequent September 2000 report from the CIA, using declassified documents related to the military coup, found that the CIA ""probably appeared to condone"" the 1973 coup, but that there was ""no evidence"" that the US actually participated in it. This view has been challenged by some authors, who have stated that the covert support of the United States was crucial to the preparation for the coup, the coup itself, and the consolidation of the regime afterward. It seemed to the CIA that, even if this coup did not "

Prompt: An American aided coup in Chile in 1973, deposed which President?

Answer: Allende Gossens


Context: Nebuchadnezzar II | " Nebuchadnezzar II (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning ""Nabu, watch over my heir""; Biblical Hebrew:  Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar) also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC. Historically known as Nebuchadnezzar the Great, he is typically regarded as the empire's greatest king. Nebuchadnezzar remains famous for his military campaigns in the Levant, for his construction projects in his capital, Babylon, and for the important part he played in Jewish history. Ruling for 43 years, Nebuchadnezzar was the longest-reigning king of the Chaldean dynasty. "

Prompt: Nebuchadnezzar was the ruler of which ancient kingdom (606-562 BC)?

Answer: Babylon (city)


Context: Half-month | days 1 to 15 ; day 16 until the end of the month. The half-month is a calendar subdivision used in astronomy. Each calendar month is separated into two parts: Newly identified small Solar System bodies, such as comets and asteroids, are given systematic designations that contain the half-month encoded as a letter of the English alphabet. For example, an object discovered in the second half of January would be identified with the letter B; if found in the first half of February, the letter would be C. The letter I is not used, to prevent confusion with the number 1. Instead, the letters proceed directly from H (April 16–30) to J (May 1–15). The letter appears in the provisional designation, then when the object is confirmed the letter is incorporated into the comet designation (for comets) or minor planet designation (for asteroids and other minor planets).

Prompt: The name of which month is used for a letter in the phonetic alphabet?

Answer: The month of November


Context: A Beautiful Mind (book) |  The book inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly as John Nash and his wife Alicia Nash respectively. It won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for 2001 at the 74th Academy Awards.

Prompt: Which director won the 'Oscar' for best Director for the picture 'A Beautiful Mind' in 2001?

Answer: Ron Howard (American director)


Context: Charles Rennie Mackintosh | "  Mackintosh, his future wife Margaret MacDonald, her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair met at evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art (see above). They became known as a collaborative group, ""The Four"", or ""The Glasgow Four"", and were prominent members of the ""Glasgow School"" movement. The group exhibited in Glasgow, London and Vienna, and these exhibitions helped establish Mackintosh's reputation. The so-called ""Glasgow"" style was exhibited in Europe and influenced the Viennese Art Nouveau movement known as Sezessionstil (in English, the Vienna Secession) around 1900. Mackintosh also worked in interior design, furniture, textiles and metalwork. Much of this work combines Mackintosh's own designs with those of his wife, whose flowing, floral style complemented his more formal, rectilinear work. Blackie commissioned him in the 1920s to work on bindings for their publications. One of these works was an abstract design that was intended for a new uniform of G. A. Henty's novels. It was instead used for Yarns on the Beach by Henty, and for a series entitled The Boys and Girls Bookshelf, c. 1926. Both Newbolt and Floyer speculate that Mackintosh may have designed the cover for another series by Blackie."

Prompt: Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a leading exponent of which art movement around the 1900's?

Answer: Art-Nouveau


Context: Shandon, Edinburgh |   The Caledonian Brewery, the only survivor of Edinburgh's old breweries, founded in 1869, lies on Slateford Road to the north of the area.

Prompt: In which town or city would you find the 'Caledonian Brewery'?

Answer: Dun Eideann


Context: Moon River | " ""Moon River"" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The song has been covered by many other artists. It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1962 (and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony that year). He sang the first eight bars of the song at the beginning of each episode of his eponymous television show and named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri, after it; his autobiography is called ""Moon River"" and Me. Williams' version was never released as a single, but it charted as an LP track that he recorded "

Prompt: Who wrote the music for the song, 'Moon River'?

Answer: Henry Mancini


Context: List of American films of 1950 |   A list of American films released in 1950. Fred Astaire hosted the 23rd Academy Awards ceremony on March 29, 1951, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Twentieth Century-Fox's All About Eve. The other four nominated pictures were Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines and Sunset Boulevard. All About Eve was nominated for 14 Oscars, beating the previous record of Gone with the Wind (13). Newcomer Judy Holliday won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of showgirl mistress Billie Dawn in the film version of the play Born Yesterday, a role which she had originated on Broadway. Other Best Actress nominees for that

Prompt: Who won the 'Oscar' for Best Actress in the 1950's film'Born Yesterday'?

Answer: Judith Tuvim


Context: Demographics of Africa |  also be found in Egypt and Sudan. In the Horn of Africa, Afro-Asiatic-speaking groups predominate. Ethiopian and Eritrean groups like the Amhara and Tigrayans (collectively known as Habesha) speak languages from the Semitic branch of Afro-Asiatic language family, while the Oromo and Somali speak languages from the Cushitic branch of Afro-Asiatic. In southern Ethiopia and Eritrea, Nilotic peoples related to those in South Sudan are also found, while Bantu and Khoisan ethnic minorities inhabit parts of southern Somalia near the Kenyan border. Prior to the decolonization movements of the post-World War II era, Europeans were represented in every part of Africa.

Prompt: In which present day African nation are the Amhara and Oromo peoples to be found?

Answer: Ethiopean


Context: Drop the Dead Donkey | " the ongoing battle between the staff of GlobeLink, led by editor George Dent, as they try to maintain the company as a serious news organisation, and Sir Roysten's right-hand man Gus Hedges, trying to make the show more sensationalist and suppress stories that might harm Sir Roysten's business empire. One of the original working titles was Dead Belgians Don't Count. Dead Kuwaitis Don't Count was also considered for a short time but was ultimately replaced by Drop the Dead Donkey: ""Finally, the title ‘Drop the Dead Donkey’ has been the subject of many column inches. Various journalists have with great authority explained its provenance as a well-known industry expression. The truth, sadly, is that the writers made it up. It's just something stupid that they imagined might be shouted out in the tense few minutes before a news broadcast."""

Prompt: The working title of which sit-com, set in the 'Globelink News' office, was 'Dead Belgians Don't Count'?

Answer: DTDD


Context: Robert Stroud | " Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the ""Birdman of Alcatraz"", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States. During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, he reared and sold birds and became a respected ornithologist. From 1942 to 1959, he was incarcerated at Alcatraz, where regulations did not allow him to keep birds. Stroud was never released from the federal prison system; he was imprisoned from 1909 to his death in 1963. Born in Seattle, Washington, Stroud ran away from his abusive father at the age of 13. By the time he "

Prompt: By what nickname was the American prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud better known?

Answer: 'THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ'


Context: Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are | " ""Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are"" is a song composed and written by Jim Steinman, and recorded by Meat Loaf. The song was released in 1994 as the third single from the album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and it reached number 38 on US's Billboard Hot 100, and number 26 in the UK Top 40. With its chart success, this song became the hit with the longest un-bracketed title. The title is derived from the safety warning on car side mirrors in the US, ""Objects in mirror are closer than they appear"". Parts of the melody were adapted from Steinman's earlier tune ""Surf's Up"", which appears on Steinman's solo album Bad for Good. Steinman later reused the melody, with new lyrics by Michael Kunze, for ""Die Unstillbare Gier"", a song in the Tanz der Vampire productions, and for ""Confession of a Vampire"" in the ill-fated US version (Dance of the Vampires)."

Prompt: Released in 1994, 'Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are' is the hit single with the longest un-bracketed title in UK chart history. Who sang it?

Answer: Smoked meatloaf


Context: If (Bread song) |  Telly Savalas recorded a mostly-spoken interpretation which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in March 1975, and has the shortest title of any song to reach No. 1 in the UK. This version also charted at No. 12 on the US Billboard Easy Listening chart in late 1974. A parody take on Savalas' rendition, by voice over artists Chris Sanford and Bill Mitchell performing as Yin and Yan, reached No. 25 in the UK.

Prompt: The song with theshortest title to have reached number one in the UK charts was released by Telly Savalas in 1975. What was it called?

Answer: I.F.


Context: Gabriel Spenser |  Gabriel Spenser, also spelt Spencer, (c. 1578 – 22 September 1598) was an Elizabethan actor. He is best known for episodes of violence culminating in his death in a duel at the hands of the playwright Ben Jonson.

Prompt: Which English poet and dramatist was jailed for murder of the actor Gabriel Spencer after a duel in 1598?

Answer: Benjamin Jonson


Context: Personality and image of Elizabeth II |  Elizabeth has attended many cultural events as part of her public role. She has given an annual Christmas message to the Commonwealth every year, apart from 1969, since she became Queen. The Queen's first such message was aired on Christmas Day 1957. In 2001, the Royal Christmas Message was webcast on the royal website for the first time and, in 2006, it was made available as a podcast. Her first appearance on live television was for an address to Canadians on 13 October 1957, Thanksgiving Day in Canada that year. The Queen read her speech at Rideau Hall and it was aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The Queen has never done

Prompt: Which was the first year that the Queen's Christmas speech was televised?

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-seven


Context: Occultation |  For the Shia Islamic belief, see the Occultation. For the social phenomenon, see social occultation. An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer. The term is often used in astronomy, but can also refer to any situation in which an object in the foreground blocks from view (occults) an object in the background. In this general sense, occultation applies to the visual scene observed from low-flying aircraft (or computer-generated imagery) when foreground objects obscure distant objects dynamically, as the scene changes over time. If the closer body does not entirely conceal the farther one, the event is called a transit. Both transit and occultation may be referred to generally as occlusion; and if a shadow is cast onto the observer, it is called an eclipse.

Prompt: In astronomy, what does 'Occultation' mean?

Answer: WHEN ONE (CELESTIAL) BODY IS OBSCURED BY ANOTHER


Context: Olympic Games |  than any other nation. The other nations hosting multiple Winter Games are France with three, while Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Japan, Canada and Italy have hosted twice. Among host cities, Lake Placid, Innsbruck and St. Moritz have played host to the Winter Olympic Games more than once, each holding that honour twice. The most recent Winter Games were held in Pyeongchang in 2018, South Korea's first Winter Olympics and second Olympics overall (after the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul). Beijing is due to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will make it the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games.

Prompt: Which is the only non-European country to have hosted the Winter Olympics only once?

Answer: CANADA (1988)


Context: Comedo | " A comedo is a clogged hair follicle (pore) in the skin. Keratin (skin debris) combines with oil to block the follicle. A comedo can be open (blackhead) or closed by skin (whitehead) and occur with or without acne. The word ""comedo"" comes from the Latin comedere, meaning ""to eat up"", and was historically used to describe parasitic worms; in modern medical terminology, it is used to suggest the worm-like appearance of the expressed material. The chronic inflammatory condition that usually includes both comedones, inflamed papules, and pustules (pimples), is called acne. Infection causes inflammation and the development of pus. Whether a skin condition classifies as acne depends on the number of comedones and infection. Comedones should not be confused with sebaceous filaments. Comedo-type ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is not related to the skin conditions discussed here. DCIS is a noninvasive form of breast cancer, but comedo-type DCIS may be more aggressive, so may be more likely to become invasive."

Prompt: A 'Comedo' is the medical name for what?

Answer: Comedone


Context: Watling Street |  It is assumed that the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales used the southeastern stretch of Watling Street when journeying from Southwark to Canterbury.

Prompt: In Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', precisely what were the pilgrims on their way to visit?

Answer: THE TOMB OF THOMAS BECKET


Context: Elke | Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder, 1945), English singer ; Elkie Chong (born Chong Ting-yan, 1998), Hong Kong singer

Prompt: Which singer's real name is Elaine Bookbinder?

Answer: ELKIE BROOKS


Context: Mary GrandPré |  In addition to the Harry Potter series, she has illustrated picture books including Pockets, The Noisy Paint Box, Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat, Vegetables Go to Bed, The Thread of Life, Swing Around the Sun, The Sea Chest, and Sweep Dreams. She also illustrated Plum, and Henry and Pawl and the Round Yellow Ball, which was co-written by her husband, Tom Casmer.

Prompt: Which series of books are illustrated by Mary Grand Pre?

Answer: Harry Potter (franchise)


Context: Pope John Paul II | " [sic] me .... [deliberately mispronouncing the word 'correct']"" Wojtyła became the 264th pope according to the chronological list of popes, the first non-Italian in 455 years. At only 58 years of age, he was the youngest pope since Pope Pius IX in 1846, who was 54. Like his predecessor, John Paul II dispensed with the traditional papal coronation and instead received ecclesiastical investiture with a simplified papal inauguration on 22 October 1978. During his inauguration, when the cardinals were to kneel before him to take their vows and kiss his ring, he stood up as the Polish prelate, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński knelt down, stopped him from kissing the ring, and simply embraced him."

Prompt: Who was the youngest ever Pope?

Answer: 150th pope