Context: Victorious Youth |  see it as a portrait; from the X-radiographs it has been concluded that the head was cast separately. With this technique the artist is able to focus on the head as an individual project to the full composition of the lithe body. The athlete's eyes were once inlaid, probably with bone, and his nipples are in contrasting copper. When examining the Bronze one must ask questions to understand its subject matter further, the wreath gives clues but what about the statue’s build, this individual is a slender young man with a confident gaze. However, nothing about him refers to strength; his body is not particularly muscular or powerful in his stance.

Prompt: What's the food 'head cheese' alternatively called, which separately refers to a man's physical strength?

Answer: Souses


Context: Signet Jewelers | " The group was founded in 1949 and grew organically before expanding rapidly through a series of acquisitions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was formerly known as the Ratner Group. Gerald Ratner, a previous CEO who built the company from 130 stores to 2500, made possibly the most famous gaffe in twentieth-century British business when he explained to a major business conference that the reason why one of his products was so cheap was that it was ""total crap"". He then went on to unfavourably compare some of the company's earrings with a 99p prawn sandwich. His remarks were gleefully reported by the media. The company lost over 500 million pounds off its share price and consumers subsequently avoided the Ratner "

Prompt: Name the UK businessman who ruined his eponymous empire overnight by calling one of his products 'total crap'?

Answer: Doing a Ratner


Context: Minister (Christianity) | " Chaplain as in English or almoner (preferred in many other languages) or their equivalents refer to a minister who has another type of pastoral ""target group"" than a territorial parish congregation (or in addition to one), such as a military units, schools and hospitals. The Spanish word Padre (""father"") is often informally used to address military chaplains, also in English and Portuguese (Brazil)."

Prompt: What Latin-languages term informally refers to a chaplain in the armed services?

Answer: Padre (disambiguation)


Context: Winter Moods |  Winter Moods was formed in mid-eighties. Two young boys, including bassist Joseph Rizzo were in a band in search for a vocalist. They took on a friend still in his teens, Ivan Grech. They preferred music over everything else in life. They met frequently in a garage in Senglea on cold grey days to put together their own original songs. Thus the mood, thus the name of the band – Winter Moods. The early years were all about playing in front of a crowd. The local music scene was ripe with activity. Bands came and went, some making more noise than others.

Prompt: What 'seasonal-mood' name was given to the western social phenomenon of mid-1967, sparked by the vast gathering of young people in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco?

Answer: Summer of love


Context: Swan song |  The swan song (ancient Greek: κύκνειον ᾆσμα; Latin: carmen cygni) is a metaphorical phrase for a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement. The phrase refers to an ancient belief that swans sing a beautiful song just before their death since they have been silent (or alternatively not so musical) for most of their lifetime. The belief, whose basis has been long debated, had become proverbial in ancient Greece by the 3rd century BC and was reiterated many times in later Western poetry and art. Swans learn a variety of sounds throughout their life time. Their sounds are more distinguishing during courting rituals and not correlated with death.

Prompt: Which creature is mythically said to sing before it dies, hence an expression for a grand final performance before retirement?

Answer: Cob (bird)


Context: Guitar chord | "Open tunings each allow a chord to be played by strumming the strings when ""open"", or while fretting no strings. Open tunings are common in blues and folk music, and they are used in the playing of slide guitar. ; Drop tunings are common in hard rock and heavy metal music. In drop-D tuning, the standard tuning's E-string is tuned down to a D note. With drop-D tuning, the bottom three strings are tuned to a root–fifth–octave (D–A–D) tuning, which simplifies the playing of power chords. ; Regular tunings allow chord note-forms to be shifted all around the fretboard, on all six strings (unlike standard or other non-regular tunings). Knowing a few note-patterns—for example of the C major, C minor, and C7 chords—enables a guitarist to play all such chords. ""Learn a handful of chord forms in a regular tuning, and you'll know hundreds of chords!""  There are many alternate tunings. These change the way chords are played, making some chords easier to play and others harder."

Prompt: Strumming the open strings of a standard-tuned guitar produces the chord?

Answer: Eminor7th(add11)


Context: Jumper (dress) |  A jumper or jumper dress (in American English), pinafore dress or informally pinafore or pinny (British English) is a sleeveless, collarless dress intended to be worn over a blouse, shirt, T-shirt or sweater. Hemlines can be of different lengths and the type of collar and whether or not there is pleating are also variables in the design. In British English, the term jumper describes what is called a sweater in American English. Also, in more formal British usage, a distinction is made between a pinafore dress and a pinafore. The latter, though a related garment, has an open back and is worn as an apron. In American English, pinafore always refers to an apron. A sundress, like a jumper, is sleeveless and collarless; however, such articles are not worn over a blouse or sweater, and are of distinctly different cuts and fashions. The apron dress may be viewed as a special case of the jumper. If the design of the dress is directly inspired by an apron (having a bib in front and ties in the back, for example), the garment is typically described as an apron dress.

Prompt: Known as a 'jumper dress' in US-English what garment is named originally from its being attached to the front of a dress?

Answer: Pinnies


Context: Five Eyes | " The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence. The origins of the FVEY can be traced to informal secret meetings during World War II between British and American code-breakers, which started before the U.S. formally entered the war, followed by the Allies' 1941 Atlantic Charter that established their vision of the post-war world. Canadian academic Srdjan Vucetic argues the alliance emerged from Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech in 1946, which warned of open conflict with the Soviet bloc unless the English-speaking democracies learned to cooperate:""Neither the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organisation will be gained without what "

Prompt: Originating in the 2nd World War aftermath, name the five member nations of the enduring and powerful 'Five Eyes' ('FVEY') intelligence alliance?

Answer: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA


Context: Encore (software) |  Encore was originally created for the Apple Macintosh by Don Williams for the US company Passport Designs Inc. of Half Moon Bay, CA., and first released in 1984. Lyrrus Inc., d.b.a. GVOX purchased the intellectual property of Passport in 1998 and Encore 5 was released 10 years after Encore 4. Encore is notable for being one of the first scorewriter programs to enable items in the musical score to be added and edited using the mouse . Encore 5 included wizards to create scores for numerous types of ensembles from scratch, MusicXML support (although in now obsolete 1.3 version), use of VST, and J.S. Bach complete works for keyboard in Encore format. On August 1 of 2013, Passport Music Software LLC, acquired the rights of Encore, Music Time Deluxe and MasterTracks Pro.

Prompt: Name the popular music identification app founded in 1999 whose paid-for version is sub-titled Encore?

Answer: Shazam (disambiguation)


Context: Diabetes insipidus | " The word ""diabetes"" ( or ) comes from Latin diabētēs, which in turn comes from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabētēs) which literally means ""a passer through; a siphon"". Ancient Greek physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia (fl. in the first century CE) used that word, with the intended meaning ""excessive discharge of urine"", as the name for the disease. Ultimately, the word comes from Greek διαβαίνειν (diabainein), meaning ""to pass through"", which is composed of δια- (dia-), meaning ""through"" and βαίνειν (bainein), meaning ""to go"". The word ""diabetes"" is first recorded in English, in the form ""diabete"", in a medical text written around 1425. ""Insipidus"" comes from Latin language insipidus (tasteless), from Latin: in- ""not"" + sapidus ""tasty"" from sapere ""have a taste"" — the full meaning is ""lacking flavor or zest; not tasty"". Application of this name to DI arose from the fact that diabetes insipidus does not cause glycosuria (excretion of glucose into the urine)."

Prompt: What metabolic disorder takes its name from Greek 'siphon', referring to excessive urine production?

Answer: Diabetese


Context: Gentleman Usher | The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, established c.1361 as an officer of the Order of the Garter, who also serves as secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain and Doorkeeper of the House of Lords and (since 1971) Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Lords. During the Tudor period, he was usually one of the senior members of the Royal Household, such as the Groom of the Stool; from the Restoration until 1765, Black Rod was the senior of the existing Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter, after which a new Daily Waiter was appointed to succeed the previous Black Rod. The present

Prompt: What is the short metonymic name of the chief usher of the Lord Chamberlain's department of the UK House of Lords?

Answer: Gentleman Usher of Black Rod


Context: India–Pakistan border |  The India–Pakistan Border, known locally as the International Border (IB), is an international border running between Pakistan and India. The border runs from the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian-administered Kashmir from Pakistani-administered Kashmir in the north, to Sir Creek in Rann of Kutch between the Indian state of Gujarat and the Sindh province of Pakistan in the south. Drafted and created based upon the Radcliffe line in 1947, the border, which divides Pakistan and India from each other, traverses a variety of terrains ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts. Since the independence of India and Pakistan (see British India), the border has been a site of numerous conflicts and wars between each country, and is one of the most contested borders in the world. The border's total length is  2065 mi, according to the figures given by the PBS; it is also one of the most dangerous borders in the world, based on an article written in the Foreign Policy in 2011. It can be seen from space at night due to the 150,000 flood lights installed by India on about 50,000 poles.

Prompt: Pakistan shares India's (What?) border ?

Answer: Nw


Context: Women's Institute |  The WI movement began at Stoney Creek, Ontario in Canada in 1897 when Adelaide Hoodless addressed a meeting for the wives of members of the Farmers' Institute. WIs quickly spread throughout Ontario and Canada, with 130 branches launched by 1905 in Ontario alone, and the groups flourish in their home province today. As of 2013, the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario (FWIO) had more than 300 branches with more than 4,500 members. Madge Watt, a founder member of the first WI in British Columbia, organised the first WI meeting in Great Britain, which took place on 16 September 1915 at Llanfairpwll on

Prompt: The UK Women's Institutes (WI) organization was founded in 1915 in?

Answer: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch


Context: Daniel Elmer Salmon |  Daniel Elmer Salmon (July 23, 1850 – August 30, 1914) was an American veterinarian. He earned the first D.V.M. degree awarded in the United States, and spent his career studying animal diseases for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The bacterial genus Salmonella, which was discovered by an assistant, was named in his honor.

Prompt: US veterinary pathologist Daniel Salmon (1850-1914) oversaw the discovery of what, named eponymously?

Answer: Soul manela


Context: Beam (nautical) | For a standard 27 ft yacht: the cube root of 27 is 3, 3 squared is 9 plus 1 = 10. The beam of many 27 ft monohulls is 10 ft. ; For a Volvo Open 70 yacht: 70.5 to the power of 2/3 = 17 plus 1 = 18. The beam is often around 18 ft. ; For a 741 ft long ship: the cube root is 9, and 9 squared is 81, plus 1. The beam will usually be around 82 ft, e.g. Seawaymax. The beam of many monohull vessels can be calculated using the following formula: Where LOA is Length OverAll and all lengths are in feet. Some examples: As catamarans have more than one hull, there is a different beam calculation for this kind of vessel.

Prompt: What's the cube root of 27,000?

Answer: 30


Context: History of cannabis |  AIDS patients who reported relief from the effects of chemotherapy and wasting syndrome. In 1996, California became the first U.S. state to legalize medical cannabis in defiance of federal law. In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a system regulating the medical use of cannabis. In 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs, maintaining the prohibition on production and sale, but changing personal possession and use from a criminal offense to an administrative one. Subsequently, a number of European and Latin American countries decriminalized cannabis, such as Belgium (2003), Chile (2005), Brazil (2006), and the Czech Republic (2010). In Uruguay, President Jose Mujica signed legislation to legalize recreational cannabis in December 2013, making Uruguay the first country in the modern era

Prompt: Which country in 2001 became the first to decriminalize recreational drug use?

Answer: Portogało


Context: National library |   The principle of legal deposit applies in some countries. In the United Kingdom, the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 restates the Copyright Act 1911, that one copy of every book published there must be sent to the national library (the British Library); five other libraries (the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, the Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Trinity College Library, Dublin, and the National Library of Wales) are entitled to request a free copy within one year of publication. The international nature of the book publishing industry ensures that all significant English language publications from elsewhere in the world are also included. In

Prompt: A 'Copyright Library' or 'National Library' is typically (US, Can., UK, Australia and much of Europe) enabled by long-standing statute to have a free?

Answer: Copy of every book published in its country


Context: Noble gas | " become the periodic table. Ramsay continued his search for these gases using the method of fractional distillation to separate liquid air into several components. In 1898, he discovered the elements krypton, neon, and xenon, and named them after the Greek words κρυπτός (kryptós, ""hidden""), νέος (néos, ""new""), and ξένος (ksénos, ""stranger""), respectively. Radon was first identified in 1898 by Friedrich Ernst Dorn, and was named radium emanation, but was not considered a noble gas until 1904 when its characteristics were found to be similar to those of other noble gases. Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, "

Prompt: What 'rare' noble gas element used in lighting was discovered in 1898 and named after Greek 'new'?

Answer: Element 10


Context: Solomon R. Guggenheim |  Solomon Robert Guggenheim (February 2, 1861 – November 3, 1949) was an American businessman and art collector. He is best known for establishing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Guggenheim was born into a wealthy mining family, and he founded the Yukon Gold Company in Alaska, among other business interests. He began collecting art in the 1890s, and he retired from his business after World War I to pursue art collecting. He eventually focused on modern art under the guidance of artist Baroness Hilla von Rebay, creating an important collection by the 1930s and opened his first museum in 1939.

Prompt: American businessman and philanthropist Solomon Guggenheim (1861-1949) established a famous eponymous international network of?

Answer: History of museums


Context: Enclave and exclave | "The Republic of San Marino, enclaved within Italy ; Vatican City, enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy ; The Kingdom of Lesotho, enclaved within South Africa  Three nations qualify as completely surrounded by another country's land and/or internal waters: The Republic of Artsakh, a disputed territory not recognised by any UN member states, controls part of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is an enclave within Azerbaijan. Historically, four Bantustans (or ""Black homelands"") of South Africa were granted nominal independence, unrecognized internationally, by the Apartheid government from 1976 until their reabsorption in 1994. Others remained under government rule from 1948 to 1994. Being heavily partitioned, various parts of these Bantustans were true enclaves. The United States' constitutional principle of tribal sovereignty treats federally-recognized Indian reservations as quasi-independent enclaves."

Prompt: An enclave nation is (What?) by another nation?

Answer: ( surrounded):


Context: Organ trade |  Iran is the only nation that allows organs to be bought and sold for money. Due to lack of infrastructure to maintain an efficient organ transplant system in the early 1980s, Iran legalized living non-related donation (LNRD) of kidneys in 1988. The Charity Association for the Support of Kidney Patients (CASKP) and the Charity Foundation for Special Diseases (CFSD) control the trade of organs, with the support of the government. These nonprofit organizations match donors to recipients, setting up tests to ensure compatibility. Donors receive tax credit compensation from the government, free health care insurance, and often direct payment from the recipient with the average donor being

Prompt: (At early 2000s) the only nation in the world with effectively no shortage of donated human organs, due to a free market in their trade is?

Answer: Irān


Context: E pluribus unum | "  E pluribus unum – Latin for ""Out of many, one"" (also translated as ""One out of many"" or ""One from many"" ) – is a traditional motto of the United States, appearing on the Great Seal along with Annuit cœptis (Latin for ""he approves the undertaking [lit. 'things undertaken']"") and Novus ordo seclorum (Latin for ""New order of the ages""); its inclusion on the seal was approved by an Act of Congress in 1782. While its status as national motto was for many years unofficial, E pluribus unum was still considered the de facto motto of the United States from its early history. Eventually, the United States Congress passed an act (H. J. Resolution 396), adopting ""In God We Trust"" as the official motto in 1956. The thirteen letters of E PLURIBUS UNUM makes its use symbolic of the thirteen original states like the thirteen stripes on the US flag."

Prompt: Proposed in 1776, 'E pluribus unum' ('One from many'), is on the national seal and banknotes of which nation?

Answer: The United States of America


Context: German orthography |  For technical terms, the foreign spelling is often retained such as ph or y  in the word Physik (physics) of Greek origin. For some common affixes however, like -graphie or Photo-, it is allowed to use -grafie or Foto- instead. Both Photographie and Fotografie are correct, but the mixed variants Fotographie or Photografie are not. For other foreign words, both the foreign spelling and a revised German spelling are correct such as  / Delfin or  / Portmonee, though in the latter case the revised one does not usually occur. For some words for which the Germanized form was common even before the reform of 1996, the foreign version is no longer allowed. A notable example is the word Foto,

Prompt: What occasionally Anglicised German word instructs that something is not permitted?

Answer: List of German expressions in English


Context: Sparta | " The earliest attested term referring to Lacedaemon is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀨𐀐𐀅𐀖𐀛𐀍, ra-ke-da-mi-ni-jo, ""Lakedaimonian"", written in Linear B syllabic script, the equivalent of the later Greek Λακεδαιμόνιος, Lakedaimonios (Latin: Lacedaemonius).  The ancient Greeks used one of three words to refer to the Spartan city-state and its location. First, ""Sparta"" refers primarily to the main cluster of settlements in the valley of the Eurotas River. The second word, ""Lacedaemon"" (Λακεδαίμων), was often used as an adjective and is the name referenced in the works of Homer and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides. The third term, ""Laconice"" (Λακωνική), referred to the immediate area around the town of Sparta, the plateau "

Prompt: The Greek city Lacedaemon, (hence 'laconic' = minimal yet efficient language), also produced a word for frugality, from its more common name of what?

Answer: Lacedaemon


Context: Oscar Santillan |  which mixes Soviet sci-fi and Andean cosmology; 'A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History' (a series started in 2018); 'Spacecraft' (2018); 'How Rivers Think' (2019); and, 'Chewing Gum Codex' (2020). A work of Santillán, 'The Intruder' (2015), stirred a heated controversy in England as the artist claimed to have shrunk the country by one inch after (allegedly) taking away the top inch from its highest mountain. In early 2021 Santillán was announced as one of the five artists commissioned by the Holt/Smithson Foundation to create a new project for an island acquired by Robert Smithson in 1972. The other four artists are Tacita Dean, Renée Green, Sky Hopinka, and Joan Jonas.

Prompt: In 2015 artist Oscar Santillan controversially removed and exhibited the top inch of?

Answer: Little Narrowcove


Context: Frank Sinatra | " investigated by the FBI for his alleged relationship with the Mafia. While Sinatra never learned how to read music, he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his dress sense and performing presence, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname ""Ol' Blue Eyes"". He led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He later married Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually "

Prompt: 'Ol' Blue Eyes' is the nickname of?

Answer: Sinatra (film)


Context: Landlocked developing countries | Africa (16 countries) 🇧🇼 Botswana ; 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso ; 🇧🇮 Burundi ; 🇨🇫 Central African Republic ; 🇹🇩 Chad ; Eswatini ; 🇪🇹 Ethiopia ; 🇱🇸 Lesotho ; 🇲🇼 Malawi ; 🇲🇱 Mali ; 🇳🇪 Niger ; 🇷🇼 Rwanda ; 🇸🇸 South Sudan ; 🇺🇬 Uganda ; 🇿🇲 Zambia ; 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe Asia (12 countries) 🇦🇫 Afghanistan ; 🇦🇲 Armenia ; 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan ; 🇧🇹 Bhutan ; 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan ; 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan ; Laos ; 🇲🇳 Mongolia ; 🇳🇵 Nepal ; 🇹🇯 Tajikistan ; 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan ; 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan Europe (2 countries) 🇲🇩 Moldova ; North Macedonia South America (2 countries) 🇧🇴 Bolivia ; 🇵🇾 Paraguay

Prompt: Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Chad, Niger, Mali and Ethiopia are the largest nations in the world without a?

Answer: List of coastal topics


Context: Minyan |  In Judaism, a minyan (מניין \ מִנְיָן minyán, lit. (noun) count, number; pl. minyaním ) is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations. In more traditional streams of Judaism, only males 13 and older may constitute a minyan; in more liberal (non-Orthodox) streams women are also counted. The most common activity requiring a minyan is public prayer. Accordingly, the term minyan in contemporary Judaism has taken on the secondary meaning of referring to a prayer service.

Prompt: Minyan is a quorum of ten adult males required for public worship in?

Answer: Moshe La Khaim Eche Laerry La Jewess


Context: Ubuntu philosophy | " the Africanisation (transition to majority rule) process of these countries during the 1980s and 1990s. New research has begun to question the exclusive ""humanism"" framing, and thus to suggest that ubuntu can have a ""militaristic"" angle - an ubuntu for warriors. Since the transition to democracy in South Africa with the Nelson Mandela presidency in 1994, the term has become more widely known outside of Southern Africa, notably popularised to English-language readers through the ubuntu theology of Desmond Tutu. Tutu was the chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the TRC."

Prompt: What Swahili word became the South African humanist philosophy popularised by Desmond Tutu in SA's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and adopted widely elsewhere?

Answer: Unbutu


Context: Diners Club International |  Diners Club International (DCI), founded as Diners Club, is a charge card company owned by Discover Financial Services. Formed in 1950 by Frank X. McNamara, Ralph Schneider, Matty Simmons, and Alfred S. Bloomingdale, it was the first independent payment card company in the world, and it established the concept of a self-sufficient company producing credit cards for travel and entertainment. Diners Club International and its franchises serve individuals from around the world with operations in 59 countries.

Prompt: The first independent credit payment card, inspired in 1949 by a particular service, was called '(What?) Club International'?

Answer: Dinor


Context: History of the Jews in Austria |  famous writers, film and theatre directors (for example Max Reinhardt, Fritz Lang, Richard Oswald, Fred Zinnemann and Otto Preminger) actors (i.e. Peter Lorre, Paul Muni) and producers (i.e. Jacob Fleck, Oscar Pilzer, Arnold Pressburger), architects and set designers (i.e. Artur Berger, Harry Horner, Oskar Strnad, Ernst Deutsch-Dryden), comedians (Kabarett artists, for example: Heinrich Eisenbach, Fritz Grünbaum, Karl Farkas, Georg Kreisler, Hermann Leopoldi, Armin Berg), musicians and composers (i.e. Fritz Kreisler, Hans J. Salter, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner) were Jewish Austrians. In 1933, many Austrian Jews, who had worked and lived in Germany for years, returned to Austria, including many who fled Nazi

Prompt: Sergio Leone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang and Fred Zinnemann are famous 20thC?

Answer: Film directing


Context: Far from the Madding Crowd |  Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is set in Thomas Hardy's Wessex in rural southwest England, as had been his earlier Under the Greenwood Tree. It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It describes the life and relationships of Bathsheba Everdene with her lonely neighbour William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy. On publication, critical notices were plentiful and mostly positive. Hardy revised the text extensively for the 1895 edition and made further changes for the 1901 edition. The novel has an enduring legacy. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read, while in 2007, it was ranked 10th on The Guardians list of greatest love stories of all time. The novel has also been dramatised several times, notably in the Oscar-nominated 1967 film directed by John Schlesinger.

Prompt: Thomas Hardy's famous novel is 'Far from the Madding (What?)'?

Answer: Croud


Context: John Lewis Partnership | " due course Edward would succeed Miller as chairman. In the event, Miller was succeeded by Peter Lewis, the son of Oswald Lewis. In 1953 JLP sold several small stores but acquired two large ones: Heelas in Reading and Bainbridge in Newcastle upon Tyne. The rebuilt store on Oxford Street was reopened in 1960, and the sculpture Winged Figure by Barbara Hepworth was added in 1963. The principle and slogan ""never knowingly undersold"" adopted in 1925, is still honoured and has been widely copied. The principle has been refined, most notably to exclude retailers who trade only online. The pledge has recently been revised to include extended insurance and delivery charges when comparing prices. John Lewis monitors local competitors, and reduces the shelf-edge price if it is being 'undersold'."

Prompt: Which famous employee-owned UK retailer's slogan is 'Never Knowingly Undersold'?

Answer: John Lewis


Context: Grimsby |  London and other Thames-side towns. In 1857 there were 22 vessels in Grimsby. Six years later there were 112. The first two legitimate steam trawlers built in Britain were based in Grimsby. By 1900, a tenth of the fish consumed in the United Kingdom was landed there, although there were also many smaller coastal fishing ports and villages involved. The demand for fish in Grimsby meant that at its peak in the 1950s it claimed to be the largest fishing port in the world. The population grew from 75,000 in 1901 to 92,000 by 1931. The Great Depression and restructured fishing caused a sharp decline in employment. Thereafter the population was fairly stable for the rest of the 20th century.

Prompt: At 1900 the largest fishing port in the world was?

Answer: Grimsby


Context: Sackbut |  The first reference to a slide instrument was probably trompette des ménestrels, first found in Burgundy in the 1420s and later in other regions of Europe. The name distinguished the instrument from the trompettes de guerre (war trumpets), which were of fixed length.  The next word to appear in the 15th century that implied a slide was the sackbutt group of words. There are two theories for the sources: it is either derived from the Middle French sacquer (to pull) and bouter (to push) or from the Spanish sacar (to draw or pull) and bucha (a tube or pipe). The term survives in numerous English spelling variations including sacbutt, sackbutte, sagbut, shagbolt, sacabushe, shakbusse and shakbusshe. Closely related to sackbutt was the name used in France: sacqueboute and in Spain, where it was sacabuche. These terms

Prompt: What instrument was originally called the trompette-saicueboute?

Answer: Harmonic glissando


Context: 1931 in sports | Montreal Canadiens defeats Chicago Black Hawks by 3 games to 2 Gold Medal – Canada ; Silver Medal – United States ; Bronze Medal – Austria Hockey Night in Canada, now the oldest sports-related television program still on air, debuts as a radio program known as the General Motors Hockey Broadcast. The TV series begins in 1952. Stanley Cup Ice Hockey World Championships Other events

Prompt: Which nation boasts the world's longest running TV sports show, Hockey Night, first aired 1952?

Answer: Canada


Context: Portmanteau | "Brexit is referred to as Breatimeacht (from Breatain, ""Britain"", and imeacht, ""leave"") or Sasamach (from Sasana, ""England"", and amach, ""out"") ; The resignation of Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Frances Fitzgerald was referred to as Slánaiste (from slán, ""goodbye"" and Tánaiste) ; Naíonra, an Irish-language preschool (from naíonán, ""infants"", and gasra, ""band"") ; The Irish translation of A Game of Thrones refers to Winterfell castle as Gheimhsceirde (from gheimhridh, ""winter"", and sceird, ""exposed to winds"") ; Jailtacht (from English jail and Gaeltacht, ""Irish-speaking region""): the community of Irish-speaking republican prisoners. A few portmanteaus are in use in modern Irish, for example:"

Prompt: To what does the portmanteau word Grexit refer?

Answer: Greece Exit


Context: International Bank Account Number |   The International Bank Account Number (IBAN) is an internationally agreed system of identifying bank accounts across national borders to facilitate the communication and processing of cross border transactions with a reduced risk of transcription errors. An IBAN uniquely identifies the account of a customer at a financial institution. It was originally adopted by the European Committee for Banking Standards (ECBS) and later as an international standard under ISO 13616:1997. The current standard is ISO 13616:2020, which indicates SWIFT as the formal registrar. Initially developed to facilitate payments within the European Union, it has been implemented by most European countries and numerous countries in other parts of the world, mainly in the Middle East and the Caribbean. As of May 2020, 77 countries were using the IBAN numbering system. The IBAN consists of up to 34 alphanumeric characters comprising a country code; two check digits; and a number that includes the domestic bank account number, branch identifier, and potential routing information. The check digits enable a check of the bank account number to confirm its integrity before submitting a transaction.

Prompt: The international network for banking communications is known by its acronym?

Answer: SWIFTNet


Context: Thomas McKeown (physician) |  The publication of The Modern Rise of Population (1976) provoked instant disagreement by demographers, but also yielded much acclaim from health critics. In the 1970s, an era wherein all aspects of social, economic and cultural establishment were challenged, McKeown found a receptive audience with other health critics such as Ivan Illich. By some researchers, including the economist and Nobel prize winner Angus Deaton, McKeown is considered as the founder of social medicine. McKeown's work continued to attract criticism for decades after his death in 1988. Sometimes his conclusions were criticised in mild terms: ‘His great virtue was to ask the right questions.

Prompt: In the 1970s British practitioner John McTimoney founded his eponymous type of (What?) treatment?

Answer: Upper Cervical


Context: Aberdeen |  Aberdeen (Aiberdeen ; Obar Dheathain ; Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland. It is the third most populous city in Scotland, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City ) and the United Kingdom's 39th most populous built-up area, with an official 2018 population estimate of for the city of Aberdeen and  for the local council area. During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, which may sparkle like silver because of its high mica content. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in 1969, Aberdeen has been known as the offshore oil capital of Europe. The area around Aberdeen has been settled for at least 8,000 years, when prehistoric villages lay around the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don. The city has a long, sandy coastline and a marine climate, the latter resulting in chilly

Prompt: Aberdeen in Scotland is known as the (Which rock?) City?

Answer: Granites


Context: Michelin Man | "  Bibendum, commonly referred to in English as the Michelin Man or Michelin Tyre Man, is the official mascot of the Michelin tyre company. A humanoid figure consisting of stacked white tyres, it was introduced at the Lyon Exhibition of 1894 where the Michelin brothers had a stand. He is one of the world's oldest trademarks still in active use. The slogan Nunc est bibendum (""Now is the time to drink"") is taken from Horace's Odes (book I, ode xxxvii, line 1). He is also referred to as Bib or Bibelobis. Michelin dominated the French tyre industry for decades, and remains a leading international tyre manufacturer. Its famous guidebooks are widely used by travellers. Bibendum was depicted visually as a lord of industry, a master of all he surveyed, and a patriotic exponent of the French spirit. In the 1920s, Bibendum urged Frenchmen to adopt America's superior factory system, but to patriotically excel those factories' ""inferior"" products. As automobiles became available to the middle classes, the company's advertising followed suit, and its restaurant and hotel guides expanded to a broader range of price categories."

Prompt: Introduced in 1894 and one of the world's oldest trademarks, Bibendum is better known as what?

Answer: Bibendum


Context: Forex scandal |  totaling more than $5.7 billion. Four of the banks, including Barclays, Citigroup, JP Morgan, and Royal Bank of Scotland pleaded guilty to manipulation of the foreign markets; while the others had already been fined in settlements from the November 2014 investigation, Barclays had not been involved and was fined $2.4 billion. UBS also pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud and agreed to a $203 million fine. A sixth bank, Bank of America, while not found guilty, agreed to a fine of $204 million for unsafe practices in foreign markets. On 18 November 2015 Barclays was fined an additional $150m for automated electronic foreign exchange misconduct.

Prompt: JP Morgan, Barclays, RBS, Citigroup, Bank of America, and UBS were fined $6bn in 2015 for rigging what market?

Answer: Foreign exchanges


Context: Noel Edmonds |  a viewer of Deal or No Deal. Edmonds was the first TV personality to receive an award from the AAG and was also the first recipient from the UK in 2015. Deal or No Deal ran for over 10 years and almost 3,000 shows were recorded. In the summer of 2016 by mutual agreement Edmonds and Channel 4 agreed to end the show. In celebration of one of UK TV's longest and most popular gameshow runs, the final shows were recorded on location. Games were filmed on a Boeing 737, the Flying Scotsman, atop the Blackpool Tower and down a cave in Somerset. Fittingly the final show filmed in Glasgow produced the 8th and last winner of the top prize of 250,000.

Prompt: Which famous TV personality ended a 33 year run of 6,082 shows in 2015?

Answer: Stupid Human Tricks


Context: Glossary of French expressions in English | "habitué: one who regularly frequents a place. ; haute couture: lit. ""high sewing"": Paris-based custom-fitted clothing; trend-setting fashion ; haute école: lit. ""high school"": advanced components of Classical dressage (horseback riding); when capitalized (Haute Ecole), refers to France's most prestigious higher education institutions (e.g., Polytechnique, ENA, Les Mines) ; hauteur: lit. ""height"": arrogance. ; haut monde: lit. the ""high world"": fashionable society. ; Honi soit qui mal y pense: ""Shamed be he who thinks ill of it""; or sometimes translated as ""Evil be to him who evil thinks""; the motto of the English Order of the Garter (modern French writes honni instead of Old French honi and would phrase ""qui en "

Prompt: What French word prefixes couture, cuisine and ecole meaning high quality or advanced?

Answer: Haute


Context: Brenizer Method |  image produced by this method sometimes referred to as Bokeh Panorama (or the portmanteau Bokehrama) in reference to the deliberate blurring style of bokeh photography. The process requires taking multiple shots of a scene in a manner that allows for later image stitching using a fast lens, generally of a focal length of 50 mm or longer. It is also beneficial to use manual focus, manual white balance and manual shutter and aperture controls to maintain a uniform exposure across the entire set of images. This method is of interest because: It is generally used for portrait photography (especially wedding photography) and, increasingly, automobile photography.

Prompt: A 'brelfie' photo is a portmanteau of self and what activity?

Answer: Nipple suckling


Context: Game theory | "Based on the 1998 book by Sylvia Nasar, the life story of game theorist and mathematician John Nash was turned into the 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe as Nash. ; The 1959 military science fiction novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein mentioned ""games theory"" and ""theory of games"". In the 1997 film of the same name, the character Carl Jenkins referred to his military intelligence assignment as being assigned to ""games and theory"". ; The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove satirizes game theoretic ideas about deterrence theory. For example, nuclear deterrence depends on the threat to retaliate catastrophically if a nuclear "

Prompt: Name the pioneering Game Theory US mathematician featured in the film A Beautiful Mind?

Answer: John Nash (disambiguation)


Context: Samson |  entire army of Philistines using only the jawbone of a donkey. However, if Samson's long hair were cut, then his Nazirite vow would be violated and he would lose his strength. Samson is betrayed by his lover Delilah, who, sent by the Philistines officials to entice him, orders a servant to cut his hair while he is sleeping and turns him over to his Philistine enemies, who gouge out his eyes and force him to grind grain in a mill at Gaza. While there, his hair begins to grow again. When the Philistines take Samson into their temple of Dagon, Samson asks to rest against one of the support pillars.

Prompt: In the bible who betrayed Samson to the Philistines by revealing that his strength was due to his long hair?

Answer: Dlila


Context: Poena | " In Greek mythology, Poena or Poine is the spirit of punishment and the attendant of punishment to Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution. Her Roman equivalent may have been Ultio. The Latin word poena, ""pain, punishment, penalty"", gave rise to English words such as ""subpoena"" and ""pain"". The original word is the Ancient Greek poinḗ (ποινή), also meaning penalty. Poena was also treated as a host of spirits called poenai that were similar in nature to the Erinyes."

Prompt: Referring to the cause of a person's downfall, who is the Greek goddess of punishment?

Answer: Arch nemesis


Context: Trespass | " Trespass to chattels typically applies to tangible property and allows the owner of such property to seek relief when a third party intentionally interferes or intermeddles in the owner's possession of his personal property. ""Interference"" is often interpreted as the ""taking"" or ""destroying"" of goods, but can be as minor as ""touching"" or ""moving"" them in the right circumstances. In Kirk v Gregory, the defendant moved jewelry from one room to another, where it was stolen. The deceased owner's executor successfully sued her for trespass to chattel. Furthermore, personal property, as traditionally construed, includes living objects, except where property interests are restricted by law. Thus animals are personal property, but organs are not."

Prompt: The old legal term chattels refers to a person's entire tangible possessions except?

Answer: Freehold land


Context: This Is Spinal Tap | " Harry Shearer, who played Derek Smalls, went on to become one of the main voice artists on The Simpsons, providing voices for Principal Skinner, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders and many others. The members of Spinal Tap reprised their roles in ""The Otto Show"", first playing on a concert attended by Bart and Milhouse which escalates into a riot after the band's early exit, then having their tour bus run off the road by Otto in the school bus. The Internet Movie Database normally only allows users to rate films up to ten stars, but specifically for Spinal Tap, the site allows users to rate the film eleven stars, referencing the ""Up to eleven"" scene. On IGN, This Is Spinal Tap was the only DVD—and seemingly the "

Prompt: Which multi-talented actor played Mr Burns and Derek Smalls?

Answer: Harry Shearer


Context: Square root of 2 | " In 1786, German physics professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg found that any sheet of paper whose long edge is √2 times longer than its short edge could be folded in half and aligned with its shorter side to produce a sheet with exactly the same proportions as the original. This ratio of lengths of the longer over the shorter side guarantees that cutting a sheet in half along a line results in the smaller sheets having the same (approximate) ratio as the original sheet. When Germany standardised paper sizes at the beginning of the 20th century, they used Lichtenberg's ratio to create the ""A"" series of paper sizes. Today, the (approximate) aspect ratio of paper sizes under ISO 216 (A4, A0, etc.) is 1: √2 . Proof: Let."

Prompt: If a square sheet of paper is folded diagonally in half, the resulting two sharp corners are each how many degrees?

Answer: 45


Context: Clock face | "A short, thick ""hour"" hand; ; A long, thinner ""minute"" hand; ; On some models, a very thin ""second"" or ""sweep"" hand The second, or sweep, hand moves relatively quickly, taking a full minute (sixty seconds) to make a complete rotation from 12 to 12. For every rotation of the second hand, the minute hand will move from one minute mark to the next. ; The minute hand rotates more slowly around the dial. It takes one hour (sixty minutes) to make a complete rotation from 12 to 12. For every rotation of the minute hand, the hour hand will move from one hour mark to the next. ; The hour hand moves slowest of all, taking twelve hours (half a day) to make a complete "

Prompt: How many times does the second-hand of an clockwork clock 'tick' (move) while the hour-hand completes one full rotation?

Answer: 43200


Context: Nuremberg International Toy Fair |   The Nuremberg International Toy Fair (German: Spielwarenmesse), held annually since 1949, is the largest international trade fair for toys and games. Only trade visitors associated with the toy business, journalists and invited guests are admitted. Each year during the course of the event which is held for six days, about 2,800 exhibitors from about 60 countries present their products. In 2017, 73,000 trade visitors and purchasers from 123 countries came for the fair. The fair is organized by Spielwarenmesse eG, a marketing and trade fair service provider, based in Nuremberg, Germany.

Prompt: Since the mid 1900s the world's biggest trade fair for toys and games is hosted annual in?

Answer: Nurnburg


Context: Big Chief Restaurant |  The opening of U.S. Route 66 made it possible for motorists to travel from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, on one highway. As people began exploring the United States on the newly created thoroughfare, restaurants and overnight accommodations sprang up along the way. The lodgings were alternately known as tourist courts, tourist camps, tourist cabins, and motels.

Prompt: What famous road began in Chicago, Illinois, ending at Santa Monica, California?

Answer: Route 66 (public transport)


Context: Amal Clooney |  Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; أمل علم الدين; born 3 February 1978) is a British-Lebanese barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in international law and human rights. Her clients include: Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa; the former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed; Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in his fight against extradition; the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko; Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy; and Nobel Prize laureate Nadia Murad. She is the co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice with her husband, George Clooney.

Prompt: Amal Clooney is an internationally renowned?

Answer: Human rights law


Context: Splanchnocranium |  The splanchnocranium (or visceral skeleton) is the portion of the cranium that is derived from pharyngeal arches. Splanchno indicates to the gut because the face forms around the mouth, which is an end of the gut. The splanchnocranium consists of cartilage and endochondral bone. In mammals, the splanchnocranium comprises the three ear ossicles (i.e., incus, malleus, and stapes), as well as the alisphenoid, the styloid process, the hyoid apparatus, and the thyroid cartilage. In other tetrapods, such as amphibians and reptiles, homologous bones to those of mammals, such as the quadrate, articular, columella, and entoglossus are part of the splanchnocranium.

Prompt: The splanchnocranium refers to the bones of which defining part of the human body?

Answer: Human Face


Context: Afterlife | " They have to release the things and beings on which or whom they still hang from the life before. It is recommended to choose a family where the parents trust in the Dharma and to reincarnate with the will to care for the welfare of all beings. ""Life is cosmic energy of the universe and after death it merges in universe again and as the time comes to find the suitable place for the entity died in the life condition it gets born. There are 10 life states of any life: Hell, hunger, anger, animality, rapture, humanity, learning, realization, bodhisatva and buddhahood. The life dies in which life condition it reborn in the same life condition."""

Prompt: Which religion has ten states of the mind including Neutrality, Rapture, Realization and Bodhisattva?

Answer: Búdachas


Context: Clearasil |  Clearasil is an American brand of skin care and acne medication, whose products contain chiefly benzoyl peroxide, sulfur and resorcinol, triclosan, or salicylic acid as active ingredients. Clearasil has a wide range of products both for rapid and sometimes slow acne treatment and for everyday prevention. The products are marketed to customers worldwide.

Prompt: Dermalogica, Olay, Clearasil, and Nutrogena are brands of?

Answer: Make-Up


Context: Thai baht |  The baht (บาท, ; sign: ฿; code: THB) is the official currency of Thailand. It is divided into 100 satang (สตางค์, ). The issuance of currency is the responsibility of the Bank of Thailand. According to Bloomberg, the Thai baht was the world's best performing currency in 2018. The SWIFT, as of January 2019, ranked the Thai baht as the 10th most frequently used world payment currency.

Prompt: Thailand's currency, the 10th most used globally (at 2015) is the?

Answer: บาท


Context: Fictional city |  the fabled city. That same year, Philipp von Hutten led an exploring party from Coro on the coast of Venezuela. Despite having been disproven by Alexander von Humboldt during his Latin-America expedition (1799–1804). There are some people who still believe El Dorado is yet to be found. Other fictional cities appear as settings or subjects in literature, movies and video games. Most superhero and secret agent comics and some thrillers use fictional cities as backdrops, although most of these cities exist only for a single story, episode or an issue of a comic book. There are notable exceptions, such as Metropolis and Smallville in Superman, Gotham City in Batman, Stephen King's Castle Rock and Emerald City which appears throughout Frank L. Baum's Oz Books and appears in several film adaptations and animated films.

Prompt: The fictitious South American city/country El Dorado was abundant with?

Answer: Gold compound


Context: Daguerreotype | " Daguerreotype ( daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. ""Daguerreotype"" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839, the daguerreotype was almost completely superseded by 1860 with new, less expensive processes, such as ambrotype, that yield more readily viewable images. There was a revival of daguerreotype in the late 20th century by a small number of photographers interested in making artistic use of early photographic processes.  To make the image, a daguerreotypist polished a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish; treated it with fumes that made its surface light sensitive; exposed it "

Prompt: Dageurreotype/dageurrotype is a mid-1800s form of?

Answer: Photographs


Context: Royal corgis |  Royal corgis were the Pembroke Welsh Corgi dogs owned by Elizabeth II and her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Fond of corgis since she was a small child, Elizabeth II has owned more than 30 corgis since she became Queen of the Commonwealth realms in 1952. Elizabeth II owned at least one Corgi at any given time between the years 1933-2018. In 2007, Elizabeth II had five corgis: Monty, Emma, Linnet, Willow, and Holly; five cocker spaniels: Bisto, Oxo, Flash, Spick, and Span; and four dorgis (dachshund-corgi crossbreeds): Cider, Berry, Vulcan, and Candy. Monty, Willow, and Holly appeared in the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony when, in a sketch, Daniel Craig (in character as James Bond) arrived at Buckingham Palace to escort the Queen to the event. Monty had previously belonged to the Queen Mother, and died in September 2012. It

Prompt: What dog breed has Queen Elizabeth II traditionally had as pets?

Answer: Corgi


Context: Spanish grammar | " red. ; In Spanish, adjectives agree with what they refer to in terms of both number (singular/plural) and gender (masculine/feminine). For example, taza (cup) is feminine, so ""the red cup"" is la taza roj a , but vaso (glass) is masculine, so ""the red glass"" is el vaso roj o . ; In Spanish, it is perfectly normal to let an adjective stand in for a noun or pronoun—with (where people are involved) no implication of condescension or rudeness. For example, los altos means ""the tall ones"" or ""the tall men"". El grande means ""the big one"" or ""the big man"". Spanish generally uses adjectives in a similar way to English and most other Indo-European languages. However, there are three key differences between English and Spanish adjectives. "

Prompt: What's the Anglicized-Spanish plural noun referring to a particular male facial hair style?

Answer: Mustachios


Context: Poplin |  to selvedge. Poplin is now made with wool, cotton, silk, rayon, polyester or a mixture of these. Since it has a plain under/over weave, the fabric displays a plain woven surface with no ribbing if the weft and warp threads are of the same material and size. Shirts made from this material are easy to iron and do not wrinkle easily. Poplins are used for dress purposes, and for rich upholstery work which are formed by using coarse filling yarns in a plain/hard weave. The term poplin originates from papelino, a fabric made at Avignon, France, in the 15th century, named for

Prompt: Poplin is a type of 18th-century-originating?

Answer: Manufacture of cotton


Context: Plural form of words ending in -us |  In English, the plural form of words ending in -us, especially those derived from Latin, often replaces -us with -i. There are many exceptions, some because the word does not derive from Latin, and others due to custom (e.g., campus, plural campuses). Conversely, some non-Latin words ending in -us and Latin words that did not have their Latin plurals with -i form their English plurals with -i. Some words' plurals end in -i even though they are not Latin, or that is not the Latin plural, e.g., octopi is sometimes used as a plural for octopus (the standard English plural is octopuses). Prescriptivists consider these forms incorrect, but descriptivists may simply describe them as a natural evolution of language. Some English words of Latin origin do not commonly take the Latin plural, but rather the regular English plurals in -(e)s: campus, bonus, and anus; while others regularly use the Latin forms: radius (radii) and alumnus (alumni). Still others may use either: corpus (corpora or corpuses), formula (formulae in technical contexts, formulas otherwise), index (indices mostly in technical contexts, indexes otherwise).

Prompt: Traditional Latin pluralization of Latin-originating words ending in 'us' is to replace the 'us' with?

Answer: %22I Love. . .%22 series


Context: Colonel Tom Parker |  Colonel Thomas Andrew Parker (born Andreas Cornelis (Dries) van Kuijk; June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997) was a Dutch-born musical entrepreneur who was the manager of Elvis Presley. Parker had emigrated illegally to the United States at the age of 20. He resided in the country without legal status for the rest of his life and never left the country's borders. He changed his name and claimed to have been born in the United States, and his Dutch birthplace and immigrant status were not revealed for many years. A carnival worker by background, Parker moved into music promotion in 1938, working with

Prompt: Tom Parker, who famously managed Elvis Presley, was known by the title of, and as 'the..'?

Answer: Colonel (Australia)


Context: Reptile | " of Nature. In the 18th century, the reptiles were, from the outset of classification, grouped with the amphibians. Linnaeus, working from species-poor Sweden, where the common adder and grass snake are often found hunting in water, included all reptiles and amphibians in class ""III – Amphibia"" in his Systema Naturæ. The terms reptile and amphibian were largely interchangeable, reptile (from Latin repere, 'to creep') being preferred by the French. Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti was the first to formally use the term Reptilia for an expanded selection of reptiles and amphibians basically similar to that of Linnaeus. Today, the two groups are still commonly treated under the single heading "

Prompt: What old Latin word for reptile is very recognisably the scientific sub-order classification for modern snakes?

Answer: Snkae


Context: Kotwal |  Kotwals  also spelled as Cotwal, was a title used in medieval India for the leader of a Kot or fort. Kotwals often controlled the fort of a major town or an area of smaller towns on behalf of another ruler. It was similar in function to a British India Zaildar From Mughal times the title was given to the local ruler of a large town and the surrounding area. However, the title is also used for leaders in small villages as well. Kotwal has also been translated as Chief police officer. The post of Kotwal was known since ancient times as Kota pala who was the chief of Police.

Prompt: The Hindi/Sanskrit 'kotwal' refers to what profession in India?

Answer: Police agent


Context: Sandals Resorts |  its Montego Bay Resort in Jamaica. In March 2009, Stewart launched The Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International. In August 2009, Adam Stewart was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the family-owned ATL Group comprising the Jamaica Observer and a chain of appliance outlets. Sandals Corporate University (SCU) - a regional adult education program for the 10,000 employees of Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts - was launched in March 2012. Through partnerships with internationally recognized universities, professional organizations, and local education institutions, SCU provides courses on skills such as customer service, leadership, the art of selling, and professional communications. In 2021, the resort company celebrated its 40th Anniversary since the opening of its first resort Sandals Montego Bay, in Montego Bay Jamaica

Prompt: The Sandals corporation headquartered in Montego Bay is famous in the industry of?

Answer: Holiday resorts


Context: High availability | " Percentages of a particular order of magnitude are sometimes referred to by the number of nines or ""class of nines"" in the digits. For example, electricity that is delivered without interruptions (blackouts, brownouts or surges) 99.999% of the time would have 5 nines reliability, or class five. In particular, the term is used in connection with mainframes or enterprise computing, often as part of a service-level agreement. Similarly, percentages ending in a 5 have conventional names, traditionally the number of nines, then ""five"", so 99.95% is ""three nines five"", abbreviated 3N5. This is casually referred to as ""three and a half nines"", "

Prompt: Five ninths of three fifths is a?

Answer: Third (music) (disambiguation)


Context: Designation of workers by collar color | " Collar color is a set of terms denoting groups of working individuals based on the colors of their collars worn at work. These can commonly reflect one's occupation within a broad class, or sometimes gender; at least in the late 20th and 21st century, these are generally metaphorical and not a description of typical present apparel. For the two terms of longest use, white-collar workers are named for the white-collared shirts that were fashionable among office workers in the early and mid-20th century. Blue-collar workers are referred to as such because in the early 20th century, they usually wore sturdy, inexpensive clothing that did not show dirt easily, such as blue denim or cambric shirts. Various other ""collar"" descriptions exist as well, although none have received the kind of broad use in American English as the traditional white-collar/blue-collar distinction."

Prompt: What clothing-part metaphorically classifies workers/jobs according to white or blue?

Answer: Collar (disambiguation)


Context: Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu | " Lord Montagu gained an interest in motoring from his father – who had commissioned the original ""Spirit of Ecstasy"" mascot for his Rolls-Royce – and with his family collection of historic cars this led him to open the National Motor Museum in the grounds of his stately home, Beaulieu Palace House, Beaulieu, Hampshire, in 1952. From 1956 to 1961 he held the influential Beaulieu Jazz Festival in the grounds of Palace House; this was a leading contribution to the development of festival culture in Britain, as it attracted thousands of young people who, from 1958 on, would camp out and listen and dance to live music. The 1960 festival saw an altercation between modern and trad jazz fans, in a very minor riot that became known as the "

Prompt: The Beaulieu Estate in Hampshire UK became in 1952 a famous museum for vintage?

Answer: Motor cars


Context: Russian martial arts | " Russian fist fighting (Russian - Кулачный бой Kulachniy boy ""fist fighting, pugilism) is the traditional bare-knuckle boxing of Russia. The earliest accounts concerning the sport date to the 13th century."

Prompt: The traditional sport of 'pugilism' is nowadays called?

Answer: Prize fight


Context: 9000 (number) | 9800 – member of a Ruth-Aaron pair (first definition) with 9801 ; 9801 = 992, the largest 4 digit perfect square, centered octagonal number, square pentagonal number, member of a Ruth-Aaron pair (first definition) with 9800 ; 9833 – super-prime ; 9839 – safe prime ; 9850 – decagonal number ; 9855 – magic constant of n × n normal magic square and n-Queens Problem for n = 27. ; 9857 – Proth prime ; 9859 – super-prime ; 9870 – triangular number ; 9871 – balanced prime ; 9880 – tetrahedral number ; 9887 – safe prime

Prompt: What whole two-digit number is the square root of 9801?

Answer: 99


Context: Mensch | " In Yiddish, mentsh roughly means ""a good person"". The word has migrated as a loanword into American English, where a ""mensch"" is a particularly good person, similar to a ""stand-up guy"", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague. Mentshlekhkeyt (מענטשלעכקייט; Menschlichkeit) refers to the properties which make a person a ""mensch"". During the Age of Enlightenment, in Germany the term Humanität, in the philosophical sense of ""compassion"", was used in Humanism to describe what characterizes a ""better human being"". The concept goes back to Cicero's humanitas, which was literally translated as Menschlichkeit in German, from which the Yiddish word mentsh derives. The word ""Mensch"" and the underlying concept have had an impact on popular culture. For example, the ""Mensch on a Bench"" is a Hanukkah-themed book and doll set. A life-size version of the doll has been adopted by Team Israel at the World Baseball Classic as their mascot. According to pitcher Gabe Cramer, ""The Mensch is a great way to have fun in the dugout while reminding us of why we're here and who we're representing."""

Prompt: The Yiddish word/concept 'mensch', anciently derived via German from Roman philosopher Cicero's work Humanitas on human civilisation, refers to a person of great?

Answer: Integrety


Context: Personal transporter | " Until February 2016, legal status of Segway was controversial and unclear. At least since the autumn of 2010, the Ministry of Transport enforced the interpretation that a rider on the Segway is considered as a pedestrian (with possible reference to the legal definition of a pedestrian which mentions ""persons on skis, rollerskates or other similar sport equipment"" and with an uttered rationale that the device is quite ineligible to fulfil requirements for vehicles). The central Prague district Praha 1 and the city of Prague, supported by some of transport experts including academician Petr Moos, strongly opposed this interpretation. The ministry was "

Prompt: In 2015 Prague in the Czech Republic sought to reclassify what 'pedestrian' transport method due to proliferation and safety concerns?

Answer: Segway scooter


Context: The Flintstones |  Barney Rubble, and his family, Betty Rubble, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and their pet, Hoppy. Producers, Barbera and Hanna, gained inspiration for the show's concept and music from popular cartoons of that time, including The Bugs Bunny Show and Tom and Jerry. The continuing popularity of The Flintstones rests heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting. The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time (after The Simpsons).

Prompt: Bedrock is the home city of which eponymous 1960s cartoon show/family, the most successful adult TV franchise for three decades prior to The Simpsons?

Answer: The Flinstones


Context: Exact division |  each of the pieces. For example, consider a cake which is half chocolate and half vanilla. Alice values only the chocolate and George values only the vanilla. The cake is divided into three pieces: one piece contains 20% of the chocolate and 20% of the vanilla, the second contains 50% of the chocolate and 50% of the vanilla, and the third contains the rest of the cake. This is an exact division (with k=3 and n=2), as both Alice and George value the three pieces as 20%, 50% and 30% respectively. Several common variants and special cases are known by different terms: When both n and k are finite, Consensus divisions always exist. However, they cannot be found by discrete protocols (with a finite number of queries). In some cases, exact divisions can be found by moving-knife protocols. Near-exact divisions can be found by discrete protocols.

Prompt: What is a third divided by a half?

Answer: Two-thirds


Context: An Optimist's Tour of the Future |  As of November 2015, there were nine translated editions available: Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Korean and Polish.

Prompt: Feugo, Yangin, Brand, and Pozar are Spanish, Turkish, Dutch and Polish for?

Answer: Open flame


Context: Lauri Peters | " Peters created the role of Liesl Von Trapp in the original 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Musical, which she shared with her sibling castmates. She was married to actor Jon Voight (1962–67), whom she met when he joined the cast as Nazi messenger boy Rolfe, with whom Liesl shares a song (""Sixteen Going on Seventeen"") and an attraction. She can be heard on the show's cast album, which has sold more than three million copies in the US. In Britain, she is probably best known as Cliff Richard's romantic lead in the 1963 film Summer Holiday. On film, she also acted alongside Fabian, James Stewart, and Sidney Poitier. She appeared as Moll in "

Prompt: Film musical interpretations of Romeo and Juliet and the memoir of Baroness von Trapp shared what lead character name?

Answer: María


Context: Farthing (British coin) |  The British farthing (1⁄4d) coin, from Old English fēorðing, from fēorða, a fourth, was a unit of currency of one quarter of a penny, equivalent to 1⁄960 of a pound sterling, or 1⁄48 of a shilling. It was minted in copper and later in bronze, and replaced the earlier English farthings. The coin was in use during the reigns of eleven monarchs: George I, George II, George III, George IV, William IV, Victoria, Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI and Elizabeth II, and in Britain and Northern Ireland ceased to be legal tender on 1 January 1961. However, in the Falkland Islands, the Falkland Islands Dependencies, and the British Antarctic Territory, the farthing

Prompt: What old English coin took its name from being a quarter of a penny?

Answer: Farthing (coin)


Context: Persians |  The Persian language belongs to the western group of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Modern Persian is classified as a continuation of Middle Persian, the official religious and literary language of the Sasanian Empire, itself a continuation of Old Persian, which was used by the time of the Achaemenid Empire. Old Persian is one of the oldest Indo-European languages attested in original text. Samples of Old Persian have been discovered in present-day Iran, Armenia, Egypt, Iraq, Romania (Gherla), and Turkey. The oldest attested text written in Old Persian is from the Behistun Inscription, a multilingual inscription from the time of Achaemenid ruler Darius the Great carved on a cliff in western Iran.

Prompt: What is the traditional/modern language of Iran and old Persia, named from the latter?

Answer: Modern Persian language


Context: Subscript and superscript | " stand for the velocities of a rocket and an observer. Commonly, variables with a zero in the subscript are referred to as the variable name followed by ""nought"" (e.g. v0 would be read, ""v-nought""). Subscripts are often used to refer to members of a mathematical sequence or set or elements of a vector. For example, in the sequence O = (45, −2, 800), O3 refers to the third member of sequence O, which is 800. Also in mathematics and computing, a subscript can be used to represent the radix, or base, of a written number, especially where multiple bases are used alongside each other. For example, comparing values in hexadecimal, denary, and octal one might write Chex = 12dec = 14oct. Subscripted numbers dropped below the baseline are also used for the denominators of stacked fractions, like this: 67⁄68 ."

Prompt: What is O3 (O followed by the number 3, usually shown in sub-script)?

Answer: Ozone generator


Context: List of world records in athletics |  test but are later found to have been using banned substances have their performances invalidated. ; In running events up to 200 m in distance and in horizontal jump events, wind assistance is permitted only up to 2.0 m/s. In decathlon or heptathlon, average wind assistance of less than 2.0 m/s is required across all applicable disciplines; and maximum of 4.0 m/s in any one event. As an exception, according to rule 36.2, specific event organizers may choose to ignores wind velocity readings exclusively for their specific event records (e.g. a performance in a 100 m race at a meeting with a wind reading of +2.4 m/s may be considered that specific meeting record, but will not be considered

Prompt: What wind speed limit applies for setting athletics sprinting and jumping records?

Answer: Two metres per second


Context: Rainband |   Rainbands in advance of warm occluded fronts and warm fronts are associated with weak upward motion, and tend to be wide and stratiform in nature. In an atmosphere with rich low level moisture and vertical wind shear, narrow, convective rainbands known as squall lines form generally in the cyclone's warm sector, ahead of strong cold fronts associated with extratropical cyclones. Wider rain bands can occur behind cold fronts, which tend to have more stratiform, and less convective, precipitation. Within the cold sector north to northwest of a cyclone center, in colder cyclones, small scale, or mesoscale, bands of heavy snow can occur within a cyclone's comma head precipitation pattern with a width of 20 mi to 50 mi. These bands in the comma head are associated with areas of frontogensis, or zones of strengthening temperature contrast. Southwest of extratropical cyclones, curved flow bringing cold air across the relatively warm Great Lakes can lead to narrow lake-effect snow bands which bring significant localized snowfall.

Prompt: What are the narrow bands of strong winds called which move around the world between about six and twelve miles high?

Answer: Polar night jet


Context: 40 (number) | "The atomic number of zirconium. ; Negative forty is the unique temperature at which the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales correspond; that is, −40 °F = −40 °C. It is referred to as either ""minus forty"" or ""forty below"". "

Prompt: What is minus 40 degrees Farenheit expressed as degrees Centigrade?

Answer: minus 40, the same


Context: Bromley-by-Bow tube station |  In the BBC soap opera EastEnders, the fictional Walford East Underground station takes the place of Bromley-by-Bow.

Prompt: The fictional station in BBC's flagship Eastenders soap serial is?

Answer: Walford East tube station


Context: Profit extraction mechanism |  In mechanism design and auction theory, a profit extraction mechanism (also called profit extractor or revenue extractor) is a truthful mechanism whose goal is to win a pre-specified amount of profit, if it is possible.

Prompt: In business theory which one of these is not normally a 'profit lever'?

Answer: Time and date


Context: Macbeth, King of Scotland | " Macbeth (Medieval Gaelic: Mac Bethad mac Findlaích; Modern MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh; English: Macbeth son of Findlay, nicknamed Rí Deircc, ""the Red King""; c. 1005 – 15 August 1057) was King of Scots from 1040 until his death. He ruled over the Kingdom of Alba. Little is known about Macbeth's early life, although he was the son of Findláech of Moray and may have been a grandson of Malcolm II. He became Mormaer of Moray – a semi-autonomous province – in 1032, and was probably responsible for the death of the previous mormaer, Gille Coemgáin. He subsequently married Gille Coemgáin's widow, Gruoch, but they had no children together. In 1040, Duncan I launched an attack into Moray and was killed in action by Macbeth's troops. Macbeth succeeded him as King of Alba, apparently "

Prompt: What dramatically fictionalised king actually ruled the Scots 1040-57?

Answer: Macbeth/Act V Scene v


Context: ZANU–PF Building |  The ZANU–PF Building is a 15-story high-rise building in Harare, Zimbabwe. Located in the nation's capital, it is the headquarters of ZANU–PF, the ruling party of Zimbabwe. The top floors of the building hold the offices of the ZANU–PF Politburo, lower floors hold other party offices, and the first floor is home to the ZANU Archives, which holds many records from the Rhodesian Bush War. The building hosts annual meetings of the Politburo, party Central Committee, and other party organizations.

Prompt: What nation is home to the Zanu-PF poltical body?

Answer: Zimbobwe


Context: Broadacre | oilseeds - canola, sunflowers ; winter and summer cereals - wheat, barley, oats, triticale, sorghum, maize, millets ; pulses - lupins, chickpeas, faba beans, field peas, mung beans, soybeans, lentils ; sugar cane ; rice Broadacre in Australia is land suitable for farms practicing large-scale crop operations. The key crop segments in this category are as follows:  Within Australia today, these crops are farmed across more than 200000 km2. Broadacre is defined also as land parcels greater than 4000 m2 and certain land-use criteria for all government land designated for release and future urban zoned land.

Prompt: Technically lugumes/beans, cereals and nuts are defined as what category of foodstuff?

Answer: Edible seed


Context: Lizzie Magie |  Magie first made her game, known as The Landlord's Game, popular among friends while living in Brentwood, Maryland. In 1903, Magie applied to the US Patent Office for a patent on her board game. She was granted U.S. Patent 748,626 on January 5, 1904. The Landlord's Game was designed to demonstrate the economic ill effects of land monopolism and the use of land value tax as a remedy for it. Originally, the goal of the game was to simply obtain wealth. In the following patents, the game developed to eventually have two different settings: one being the monopolist set up (known as Monopoly) where the goal was to own industries, create monopolies, and win by

Prompt: Activist/writer Elizabeth Magie conceived and patented what popular game concept in 1903 as a demonstration of the evils of corporate greed?

Answer: List of possible monopolies


Context: Shukri | " Shukri (شكري) (Şükrü), alternatively Shoukri, Shoukry, Shokri, Choukri, Choucri, Chokri etc., is an Arabic name for males/females meaning ""thankful"". It is the masculine active participle of the Arabic verb, شَكَرَ, meaning ""to be thankful"". The feminine form of the name is Shukriya or Shukria (شكريّة), or Şükriye in Turkish. It can be used as either a given name or surname. A similar Arabic name is Shakir (Feminine form: Shakira)."

Prompt: Shukrān (Arabic), Hvala (Croation), Efharistó (Greek), Dhanyavād (Hindi), and Spasibo! (Russian) all mean what?

Answer: Thank You (disambiguation)


Context: United Arab Emirates |  The United Arab Emirates (UAE; الإمارات العربية المتحدة al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah) or the Emirates (الإمارات al-ʾImārāt), is a country in Western Asia located at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Oman and Saudi Arabia, and has maritime borders in the Persian Gulf with Qatar and Iran. The UAE is an elective monarchy formed from a federation of seven emirates, consisting of Abu Dhabi (where the federal capital, Abu Dhabi, is located), Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain. Each emirate is governed by a Sheikh and, together, they form the Federal Supreme Council; one of them serves as President of the United Arab Emirates.

Prompt: Which one of the seven member territories is also capital of UAE (United Arab Emirates)?

Answer: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates


Context: Tile |  which is, in turn, from the Latin word tegula, meaning a roof tile composed of fired clay. Tiles are often used to form wall and floor coverings, and can range from simple square tiles to complex or mosaics. Tiles are most often made of ceramic, typically glazed for internal uses and unglazed for roofing, but other materials are also commonly used, such as glass, cork, concrete and other composite materials, and stone. Tiling stone is typically marble, onyx, granite or slate. Thinner tiles can be used on walls than on floors, which require more durable surfaces that will resist impacts.

Prompt: From Latin meaning 'earth', and Italian equating to a patio, what is the architectural flooring/wall composite of marble/granite/similar chips and binder?

Answer: Terrazzo floor


Context: Heaven in Christianity | " and fight defiantly against God. The only known son of perdition is Cain, but it is generally acknowledged that there are probably more scattered through the ages. The view of heaven according to the Latter Day Saint movement is based on section 76 of the Doctrine and Covenants as well as 1 Corinthians 15 in the King James Version of the Bible. The afterlife is divided first into two levels until the Last Judgment; afterwards it is divided into four levels, the upper three of which are referred to as ""degrees of glory"" that, for illustrative purposes, are compared to the brightness of heavenly bodies: the sun, moon, and stars. Before the "

Prompt: Where certain religions divide the notion of heaven into parts there are generally?

Answer: Seven


Context: Rome |   The city of Rome contains numerous famous bridges which cross the Tiber. The only bridge to remain unaltered until today from the classical age is Ponte dei Quattro Capi, which connects the Isola Tiberina with the left bank. The other surviving – albeit modified – ancient Roman bridges crossing the Tiber are Ponte Cestio, Ponte Sant'Angelo and Ponte Milvio. Considering Ponte Nomentano, also built during ancient Rome, which crosses the Aniene, currently there are five ancient Roman bridges still remaining in the city. Other noteworthy bridges are Ponte Sisto, the first bridge built in the Renaissance above Roman foundations; Ponte Rotto, actually the only remaining arch of the ancient Pons Aemilius, collapsed during the flood of 1598 and demolished at the end of the 19th century; and Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II, a modern bridge connecting Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Borgo. Most of the city's public bridges were built in Classical or Renaissance style, but also in Baroque, Neoclassical and Modern styles. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the finest ancient bridge remaining in Rome is the Ponte Sant'Angelo, which was completed in 135 AD, and was decorated with ten statues of the angels, designed by Bernini in 1688.

Prompt: What famous ancient city is on the river Tiber?

Answer: Capital city of italy


Context: Italy |  Seneca's Phaedra was based on that of Euripides, and many of the comedies of Plautus were direct translations of works by Menander.  During the 16th century and on into the 18th century, Commedia dell'arte was a form of improvisational theatre, and it is still performed today. Travelling troupes of players would set up an outdoor stage and provide amusement in the form of juggling, acrobatics and, more typically, humorous plays based on a repertoire of established characters with a rough storyline, called canovaccio. Plays did not originate from written drama but from scenarios called lazzi, which were loose frameworks that provided the situations, complications, and outcome of the action, around

Prompt: Which one of these did not originate in 16th century Italian 'Commedia dell'arte' travelling theatre?

Answer: Edward ScissorHands


Context: Han Chinese |  The Han Chinese, or the Han people , is an East Asian ethnic group and nation native to Greater China. Historically, they were native to the Yellow River Basin region of modern China. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 18% of the global population and consisting of various subgroups speaking distinctive varieties of the Chinese language. The estimated 1.4 billion Han Chinese people, worldwide, are primarily concentrated in the People's Republic of China (Mainland China), where they make up about 92% of the total population. In the Republic of China (Taiwan), they make up about 97% of the population. People of Han Chinese descent also make up around 75% of the total population of

Prompt: The Han ethnic people constitute c.90% of mainland?

Answer: Chinese People's Republic


Context: Cyanide |  The cyanide anion reacts with transition metals to form M-CN bondss. This reaction is the basis of cyanide's toxicity. The high affinities of metals for this anion can be attributed to its negative charge, compactness, and ability to engage in π-bonding. Among the most important cyanide coordination compounds are the potassium ferrocyanide and the pigment Prussian blue, which are both essentially nontoxic due to the tight binding of the cyanides to a central iron atom. Prussian blue was first accidentally made around 1706, by heating substances containing iron and carbon and nitrogen, and other cyanides made subsequently (and named after it). Among its many uses, Prussian blue gives the blue color to blueprints, bluing, and cyanotypes.

Prompt: What often poisonous compound, CN, found in fruit seeds and stones, named from Greek for dark blue, comprises Carbon and Nitrogen?

Answer: CN-


Context: Gin |  known as jenever or genever, evolved from malt wine spirits, and is a distinctly different drink from later styles of gin. Schiedam, a city in the province of South Holland, is famous for its jenever-producing history. The same for Hasselt in the Belgian province of Limburg. The oude (old) style of jenever remained very popular throughout the 19th century, where it was referred to as Holland or Geneva gin in popular, American, pre-Prohibition bartender guides. The 18th century gave rise to a style of gin referred to as Old Tom gin, which is a softer, sweeter style of gin, often containing sugar. Old Tom gin faded in popularity by the early 20th century.

Prompt: Genever is the old word for what alcoholic drink?

Answer: Mothers ruin


Context: Ekati Diamond Mine |  Between 1998 and 2009, the mine has produced 40 million carats (8000 kg) of diamonds out of six open pits. As the high grade ore close to surface was depleted, development was completed to access the ore utilizing underground methods. Currently, there is one underground operation (Koala) with open-cut mining occurring in Fox Pit. The mine's current annual production is estimated to be approximately 7.5 million carats (1500 kg) of diamonds. Ekati supplies rough diamonds to the global market through its sorting and selling operations in Canada, Belgium, and India.

Prompt: Annual global production (early 2000s) of rough diamonds is about?

Answer: 26 tonnes/metric tons


Context: Jagoff | " On December 8, 2015, Mayor John Fetterman of Braddock, Pennsylvania, declared Donald Trump a jagoff in a press release after Trump called for a ban of all Muslims travelling to the United States. On July 30, 2016, Pittsburgh native Mark Cuban, a technology entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, referred to Trump as a ""jagoff"" during a speech in Pittsburgh, adding ""Is there any bigger jagoff in the world than Donald Trump?"" Cuban later endorsed Hillary Clinton for president of the United States."

Prompt: Which controversial mogul/celebrity/politician demanded a ban on all Muslims entering the USA in 2015?

Answer: Donald J. Trump Sr.


Context: Helen (unit) | " The classic reference to Helen's beauty is Marlowe's lines from the 1592 play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, ""Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"" In the tradition of humorous pseudounits, then, 1 millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship. According to The Rebel Angels, a 1981 novel by Robertson Davies, this system was invented by Cambridge mathematician W.A.H. Rushton. In his 1992 collection of jokes and limericks, Isaac Asimov claimed to have invented the term in the 1940s as a graduate student. In a 1958 letter to the New Scientist, R.C. Winton proposes the millihelen as the amount of beauty required to launch one ship. In response, P. Lockwood noted that the unit had been independently proposed by Edgar J. Westbury and extended by the pair to negative values, where −1 millihelen was the amount of ugliness required to sink a battleship. Frank Muir or Denis Norden quoted it on the BBC Home Service/Radio Four quiz panel game 'My Word!', broadcast between 1956 and 1988."

Prompt: English playwright Chrisopher Marlowe coined the phrase 'The face that launched a thousand ships' in his tragedy Doctor Faustus when referring to which mythical Greek figure?

Answer: Helena Troy


Context: January 1928 | U.S. President Calvin Coolidge paid a visit to Cuba for the Pan American Conference, and was welcomed in Havana. His visit marked the last of a U.S. President to Cuba for 88 years, until the arrival of Barack Obama in 2016. ; Born: Joanne Linville, American actress, in Bakersfield, California (d. 2021)

Prompt: Name the last US president to meet the leader of Cuba before Barack Obama did in 2015?

Answer: Eisenhower Dwight


Context: 2017 Japanese general election |  The House of Representatives has a fixed term of four years. Under the postwar constitution drafted in 1947, the interpretation of Article 7 states that the cabinet may instruct the Emperor to dissolve the House of Representatives before the end of term at will. Elections must be held within 40 days after dissolution. In June 2015, the Public Office Election Law was amended to lower the voting age from 20 to 18 years of age. As of June 2015, the largest opposition party Democratic Party of Japan was reportedly preparing a roster of up to 250 candidates so as to be prepared in

Prompt: In 2015 Japan lowered its voting age from what to what?

Answer: 20 to 18


Context: True to the Game (film) |  It was reported that a film adaptation of Teri Woods' novel True to the Game would go ahead in December 2015. Columbus Short was reported to have signed on for the lead role on September 17, 2015. The rest of the main cast was announced on October 13, 2015, including Vivica A. Fox, Nelsan Ellis, Andra Fuller. Principal photography began for the film in October 2015 in Los Angeles, California and finished in April 2016.

Prompt: Christian is the lead character in the film 2015 adaptation of what extraordinarily successful book?

Answer: Fifty shades of Grey


Context: Dick Boer |  Boer joined Ahold in 1998, rising to CEO on 1 March 2011, succeeding John Rishton. On 24 June 2015, when Ahold and Delhaize announced that they were to combine their businesses as Ahold Delhaize, it was stated that Boer would become CEO of the merged company, with Frans Muller, CEO of Delhaize to become deputy CEO and chief integration officer. In July 2018, Boer retired and was succeeded by his deputy, Frans Muller.

Prompt: Matthais Muller was made chief of which troubled car company in 2015?

Answer: Folksvagon


Context: MyMusic.com.ng |  Facebook announced the launch of a new post format called Music Stories on 5 November 2015. This was done to promote better music sharing and discovery on the platform. Initially it was limited to specific streaming platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify. On 17 March 2016, MyMusic.com.ng was added as the first African partner to Facebook Music Stories. The partnership allows Africans and the global community share African music from MyMusic's library. Essentially, users will be able to play 30-second previews of songs shared directly on Facebook.

Prompt: Facebook's new music sharing/streaming feature launched in 2015 was called 'Music... ?

Answer: Story


Context: Banana industry |  In 2012 the volume of global gross banana exports reached a record high of 16.5 e6MT, 1.1 million tonnes (or 7.3 percent) above 2011 level. Bananas are the most popular fruit in the United States, with more consumed annually than apples and oranges combined. In spite of the multitude of banana species across the world, even only taking into account the cultivated ones, industrial production is dominated by the Cavendish banana.

Prompt: According to 2015 survey what fruit was most popular among USA children?

Answer: Apple Blossom


Context: Adele |  they most associated with UK culture, which included William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth II, David Beckham, J. K. Rowling, The Beatles, Charlie Chaplin and Elton John. Released in 2015, Adele's third album, 25, became the year's best-selling album and broke first week sales records in a number of markets, including the UK and the US. 25 was her second album to be certified diamond in the US and earned her five Grammy Awards, including her second Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards, including her second Brit Award for British Album. Adele became the only artist in history to,

Prompt: Name Adele's record-breaking 2015 album?

Answer: 25


Context: Quebec French | "clavardage, meaning ""chat"", a contraction of clavier (keyboard) and bavardage (chat). Verb: clavarder ; courriel, meaning ""e-mail"", a contraction of courrier électronique (electronic mail) ; pourriel, meaning ""spam e-mail"", is a contraction of poubelle (garbage) and courriel (email), whose popularity may also be influenced by the word pourri (rotten). ; baladodiffusion (may be abbreviated to balado), meaning ""podcasting"", a contraction of baladeur (walkman) and radiodiffusion. Some recent Quebec French lexical innovations have spread, at least partially, to other varieties of French:"

Prompt: 'Egoportrait' (a Quebecois word) was added to the 2015 French dictionary, meaning what more popular new English word?

Answer: Selfies


Context: Esther Lungu |  Edgar Lungu became a junior minister in 2011, Minister of Home affairs on 9 July 2012 and Defence minister on 24 December 2013 from the United Party for National Development. Lungu was adopted as the candidate for the Patriotic Front during the January 2015 presidential by-election, following Sata's death. He narrowly defeated the opposition candidate and was sworn-in as the President of Zambia on 25 January 2015 and his wife Esther became the First Lady of Zambia. Being the First Lady, Esther was part of many state visits along with the President. During 2015, she attended a series of meeting in the United States of America and she was invited by the George W. Bush Institute to participate in first lady conference and discuss topics of women's empowerment, health and technology. She was invited by the health minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and by Princess Latifa Bint Abulazis Al Saud to discuss support for women and child welfare programmes in Zambia. As a part of her continual humanitarian work, she launched Esther Lungu Foundation in December 2015.

Prompt: In 2015 Edgar Lungu became prime minister of?

Answer: Zamibia


Context: 2010s in health and society |  couples to marry. In 2015, Ireland became the first nation to legalize same-sex marriage via referendum. In 2017, Leo Varadkar became Ireland's first openly gay Taoiseach, joining the ranks of other nation's first openly gay and lesbian heads of state in the 2010s. In May 2019, Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. Botswana decriminalized homosexuality in June 2019 while Ecuador legalized same-sex marriage that same month. Transgender issues asserted themselves as a mainstream LGBT topic in the 2010s, particularly in the West. In the United States, organizations such as the Girl Scouts and the Episcopal Church announced acceptance of transgender people in the early half of the 2010s. In April 2015, former olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner came out as a transgender woman,

Prompt: What country in May 2015 became the first to legalize gay marriage by national referendum?

Answer: Irlanda


Context: Frank Sinatra Enterprises | " To commemorate the Sinatra centenary on December 12, 2015, the Sinatra family alongside Frank Sinatra Enterprises planned a series of events throughout the year entitled ""Sinatra 100"". This included an exhibition running from March to September at the Lincoln Center called ""Sinatra: An American Icon"", alongside The Grammy Museum. After September 4, a national tour began. An exhibition of previously unseen photographs of Sinatra, called ""The Sinatra Experience"" was held at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City during March."

Prompt: Frank Sinatra would have celebrated which birthday in 2015?

Answer: 100


Context: 1994 in rail transport | May 6 - The Channel Tunnel linking England and France officially opens. ; May 26 - LGV Interconnexion Est opens in Paris suburbs.

Prompt: What year did the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France open?

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-four


Context: Finding Dory |  The Legend of Tarzan in second place) in its fourth weekend, it nevertheless passed The Lion King to become the highest-grossing Disney animated film of all time in the same weekend, surpassing the latter which held the record for 15 non-consecutive years. In just 30 days, it overtook Shrek 2 ($441.2 million) to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, breaking the latter's record of 12 years. Four days later, on July 20, it became the first-ever animated film in cinematic history to cross the $450 million mark. As with its predecessor Finding Nemo, the studio expanded the theater count for the film during Labor Day Weekend from 345 to 2,075.

Prompt: The highest grossing hand-drawn animated film in history is?

Answer: Simba and Nala's new-born cub


Context: José Salvador Alvarenga |  After 11 days in a hospital, Alvarenga was deemed healthy enough to return to El Salvador. However, he was diagnosed with anemia, had trouble sleeping and developed a fear of water. In 2015, he gave a series of interviews about his ordeal to the journalist Jonathan Franklin, who published his story as the book 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea. Shortly after the release of Alvarenga's book, the family of Ezequiel Córdoba sued Alvarenga for $1,000,000, accusing him of cannibalizing their relative in order to survive, despite their pact that Córdoba would not be eaten after death. Alvarenga's lawyer has denied this accusation.

Prompt: Mexican Salvador Alvarenga, the 438-day longest-surviving castaway ever, was sued in 2015 for?

Answer: Eating his shipmate


Context: Tealight |   A tealight (also tea-light, tea light, tea candle, or informally tea lite, t-lite or t-candle) is a candle in a thin metal or plastic cup so that the candle can liquefy completely while lit. They are typically small, circular, usually wider than their height, and inexpensive. Tealights derive their name from their use in teapot warmers, but are also used as food warmers in general, e.g. fondue. Tealights are a popular choice for accent lighting and for heating scented oil. A benefit that they have over taper candles is that they do not drip. Tealights may be set afloat on water for decorative effect. Because of their small size and low level of light, multiple tealights are often burned simultaneously. Longer-burning tealights may be called nightlights. They are also lit for religious purposes.

Prompt: A tealight (small cheap candle in a disposable cup which liquifies when burning) are so called because they were originally?

Answer: Tea-pot warmers


Context: Champagne |   Champagne is mostly fermented in two sizes of bottles, standard bottles (750 millilitres) and magnums (1.5 litres). In general, magnums are thought to be higher quality, as there is less oxygen in the bottle, and the volume-to-surface area ratio favours the creation of appropriately sized bubbles. However, there is no hard evidence for this view. Other bottle sizes, mostly named for Biblical figures, are generally filled with Champagne that has been fermented in standard bottles or magnums. Gosset still bottles its Grande Réserve in jeroboam from the beginning of its second fermentation. Sizes larger than Jeroboam (3 L) are rare. Primat bottles (27 L)—and,, Melchizedek bottles (30 L)—are exclusively offered

Prompt: Roughly how many bubbles are in a standard bottle of champagne?

Answer: fifty million