Context: Bruce Highway |  The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast on its way to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is part of the Australian National Highway and also part of Highway 1, the longest highway route in Australia. Its length is approximately 1679 km; it is entirely sealed with bitumen. The highway is named after a popular former Queensland and federal politician, Harry Bruce. Bruce was the state Minister for Works in the mid-1930s when the highway was named after him. The highway once passed through Brisbane, but was truncated at

Prompt: In which country could you drive along the 1700 kilometre Bruce Highway?

Answer: Australia (Commonwealth realm)


Context: Benny Hill | " a 1970s tour, ""he's so funny!"". In 1987, Genesis filmed a video for their song ""Anything She Does"", featuring Hill as his character Fred Scuttle, an incompetent security guard who lets a ridiculous number of fans backstage at a Genesis concert. In a June 2011 interview with The Observer, the rapper Snoop Dogg declared himself to be a fan of Hill. In the Omnibus episode Benny Hill – Clown Imperial filmed shortly before his death, celebrities such as Burt Reynolds, Michael Caine, John Mortimer, Mickey Rooney and Walter Cronkite, among others, expressed their appreciation of and admiration for Hill and his humour — and in Reynolds' case, the appreciation "

Prompt: Which comedian had an alter ego called Fred Scuttle?

Answer: Benny Hill


Context: Brushstrokes | " As with many comics-based works, the connection to the source is evident in Brushstrokes. This work depicts a cropped derivation of the source image. In Brushstrokes, as in its source, a hand holds a house painter's paintbrush in the lower left hand corner of the image, while in the upper right a few strokes of paint as well as spatterings of paint are presented. Lichtenstein selected this source because he ""...liked the summary rendering of the hand holding the brush and the way in which the cartoonist indicated paint"". The three strokes in the upper right are the dominant imagery, while the partial view of the hand in the lower left limited by the edges of the canvas shows paint dripping from the brush. This is an example of Lichtenstein humorously presenting a subject that might be crowded out in a newspaper via a parody that relies on the difference between art and the rest of the world."

Prompt: What does an artist hold against his/her work to support and steady the brush hand?

Answer: MAHLSTICK/MAULSTICK


Context: Twelve Years a Slave | Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984), a PBS television film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Avery Brooks. ; 12 Years a Slave (2013), a feature film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Prompt: Who directed the 2013 film 'Twelve Years a Slave'?

Answer: Solar Productions


Context: Gay village |  Liverpool is home to the largest LGBT population in the UK, with an estimated 94,000 LGBT folk living in the city, equivalent to the LGBT population of San Francisco. Liverpool is also the first and only British city to officially recognise its gay quarter Stanley Street Quarter, installing street signs bearing the rainbow-coloured Pride flag to identify it in 2011 on Stanley Street, Cumberland Street, Temple Lane, Eberle Street and Temple Street. Liverpool Pride was established in 2010 and draws tens of thousands each year. The city's annual Homotopia festival is run by the only lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer combined arts organisation in northern England. Liverpool was also the scene of many significant moments in the history of the gay rights movement (see LGBT culture in Liverpool).

Prompt: In which Welsh village is there only one gay, apparently?!

Answer: LLANDEWI BREFFI


Context: The Singing Detective | " The Singing Detective is a BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon and directed by Jon Amiel. The six episodes were ""Skin"", ""Heat"", ""Lovely Days"", ""Clues"", ""Pitter Patter"" and ""Who Done It"". The serial was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1986 on Sunday nights from 16 November to 21 December with later PBS and cable television showings in the United States. It won a Peabody Award in 1989. It ranks 20th on the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, as voted by industry professionals in 2000. It was included in the 1992 Dennis Potter retrospective at the Museum of Television & Radio and became a permanent addition to the museum's collections in New York and Los Angeles. There was co-production funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released on DVD in the US on 15 April 2003 and in the UK on 8 March 2004."

Prompt: Who wrote the BBC tv serial drama 'The Singing Detective' (1986)?

Answer: Dennis C. G. Potter


Context: 1922 in poetry |  April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. — Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Prompt: According to T.S. Eliot, which "is the cruellest month"?

Answer: APRIL


Context: Antirrhinum |  Antirrhinum is a genus of plants commonly known as dragon flowers or snapdragons because of the flowers' fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. They are native to rocky areas of Europe, the United States, Canada, and North Africa. It is widely used as an ornamental plant in borders and as a cut flower.

Prompt: What is another name for the flower known as the snapdragon?

Answer: Snap dragons


Context: Welsh Labour |  Keir Hardie, the first leader of the Independent Labour Party, was elected as member for Merthyr Tydfil in 1900. When the National Union of Mineworkers affiliated to the party in 1908, their four sponsored Welsh MPs became Labour MPs. Over the next few years there was a steady rise in the number of Labour councillors and MPs in Wales, and in 1922 Labour won half the Welsh parliamentary seats – setting the scene for its hegemony in Welsh politics over subsequent decades. Efforts were made as early as 1911 to establish a Welsh version of the Independent Labour Party. Not until May 1947, with the merger of the South

Prompt: In what decade did Keir Hardie become the first Labour MP?

Answer: Eighteen-nineties


Context: List of tallest structures by country | El-Mahalla El-Kubra TV Mast, 323 m ; Suez Canal overhead line crossing, 221 m ; Cairo Tower, 187 m ; Great Pyramid of Giza, built c. 2570 BC, tallest structure until c. 1300, originally 146.5 m, currently 138.75 m ; Red Pyramid of Sneferu, built c. 2600 BC, world's tallest structure until 2570 BC, 105 m

Prompt: From around 2566 B.C. to 1311 A.D. what was the world's tallest building?

Answer: Great Pyramid of Gizeh


Context: Dorset Cereals |  Dorset Cereals is a British manufacturer of breakfast cereals, based at Poundbury in Dorset, England. It was founded in 1989 by Terry Crabb and manufactures muesli, porridge, and granola. Its products are exported to more than 70 countries.

Prompt: What is Britain's bestselling breakfast cereal?

Answer: Weetaflakes


Context: Timeline of golf history (1945–1999) | " 72 in the first playoff. The U.S. Women's Open is instituted. Patty Berg is the first winner. 1947 Mildred ""Babe"" Zaharias becomes the first American to win the British Ladies Amateur, at Gullane. Golf is televised for the first time, in a local St. Louis telecast of the U.S. Open. Lew Worsham wins a playoff for the U.S. Open against Sam Snead. The playoff ends in controversy as Worsham asks officials to measure which ball is closest to the hole, just as Snead is about to putt. The measure proves Snead is to putt first, but he misses, and Worsham holes his putt for victory. Amateur Frank Stranahan finishes runner-up at both the U.S. "

Prompt: Who was the first British winner of the US Women's Open?

Answer: Laura Davis


Context: Morris Cowley |  Morris Cowley was a name given to various cars produced by Morris from 1915 to 1958.

Prompt: What nickname was given to the Morris Cowley due to its appearance?

Answer: Bullnose


Context: Grandpa's Great Escape |  Grandpa's Great Escape is a children's book written by David Walliams and illustrated by Tony Ross. It was released by HarperCollins on 24 September 2015. The story follows a boy called Jack trying to rescue his confused Grandpa from a retirement home, Twilight Towers run by an evil matron, Miss Swine. The book was adapted for BBC One, with the script written by Walliams and Kevin Cecil. It starred Tom Courtenay as Grandpa. Its British television premiere was on New Year's Day 2018.

Prompt: The bestselling children's book "Grandpa's great escape" is by which writer?

Answer: David Walliams


Context: Stilwell Museum | " During World War II General Joseph Stilwell, known to his men as ""Vinegar Joe"", was the Allied Chief of Staff in the China Theater of Operations. He arrived in Chongqing on March 4, 1942. Stilwell was in charge of the United States' Lend-Lease policy with Chinese forces and had an acrimonious relationship with Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek, who he derisively called ""Peanut."" His low regard for Chiang, and positive words towards the Communist forces, contributed to his high standing in the People's Republic of China."

Prompt: Which World war 2 American general was nicknamed "Vinegar Joe"?

Answer: Stilwell


Context: Chad |  Chad (تشاد Tšād, ; Tchad, ), officially known as the Republic of Chad (جمهورية تْشَاد Jumhūriyyat Tšād; République du Tchad), is a landlocked country at the crossroads of north-central Africa. Chad is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the south-west, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. It has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city N'Djamena. Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile

Prompt: N'Djamena is the capital city of which landlocked country in central Africa?

Answer: تشاد


Context: Nottingham | " Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team, and hosts an array of winter sporting events including the UK Speed Skating Championships. The plaza at the front of the ice centre is named ""Bolero Square"" after Torvill and Dean's gold medal-winning performance. Other sporting events in the city include the annual Nottingham Trophy tennis tournament (staged at the Nottingham Tennis Centre), the ""Robin Hood"" Marathon, the Milk Race, the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride, and the Outlaw Triathlon. Nottingham has two roller derby leagues: Nottingham Roller Derby (consisting of two teams, the Nottingham Roller Girls and the Super Smash Brollers); and the Nottingham Hellfire Harlots. In October 2015, Nottingham was named as the official Home of Sport by VisitEngland, for its sporting contributions and in recognition of its development of football, cricket, ice hockey, boxing, tennis, athletics, gymnastics, and water sports."

Prompt: In October 2015, which city was named by VisitEngland as the 'Home of English Sport'?

Answer: County Borough of Nottingham


Context: External iliac artery | " The external iliac artery provides the main blood supply to the legs. It passes down along the brim of the pelvis and gives off two large branches - the ""inferior epigastric artery"" and a ""deep circumflex artery."" These vessels supply blood to the muscles and skin in the lower abdominal wall. The external iliac artery passes beneath the inguinal ligament in the lower part of the abdomen and becomes the femoral artery."

Prompt: Which artery is the main source of blood for the leg?

Answer: Femoral Arteries


Context: The Fair Maid of Perth |  The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day) is an 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Inspired by the strange, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400.

Prompt: The Fair Maid of Perth is a novel by which author?

Answer: Sir Walter Scotts's


Context: Socrates |   Socrates did not document his teachings. All we know of him comes from the accounts of others: mainly the philosopher Plato and the historian Xenophon, who were both his pupils; the Athenian comic dramatist Aristophanes (Socrates's contemporary); and Plato's pupil Aristotle, who was born after Socrates's death. The often contradictory stories from these ancient accounts only serve to complicate scholars' ability to reconstruct Socrates's true thoughts reliably, a predicament known as the Socratic problem. The works of Plato, Xenophon, and other authors who use the character of Socrates as an investigative tool, are written in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and his interlocutors and provide the main source of information on Socrates's life and thought. Socratic dialogues (logos sokratikos) was a term coined by Aristotle to describe this newly formed literary genre. While the exact dates of their composition are unknown, some were probably written after Socrates's death. As Aristotle first noted, the extent to which the dialogues portray Socrates authentically is a matter of some debate.

Prompt: Plato and Xenophon were both pupils of which Greek philosopher?

Answer: Suqrat


Context: Shirley (name) | Anne Shirley, the title character in Anne of Green Gables, a 1908 novel by Lucy Maude Montgomery, as well as numerous adaptations ; Shirley Blythe, Anne's son, in Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside, the sequels to Anne of Green Gables, all by Lucy Maude Montgomery, as well as adaptations ; Miss Shirley Brahms, a fictional character in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? ; Shirley Carter, a fictional character in the British soap opera EastEnders ; Shirley the Loon, in Tiny Toon Adventures ; Shirley Fenette, a character in the anime Code Geass ; Shirley, a.k.a. Charlotte E. Yeager, a character from the mixed-media franchise Strike Witches

Prompt: What is the surname of the title character of Anne of Green Gables?

Answer: Shirley


Context: Degree symbol | " many works with professional typesetting, including scientific works published by the University of Chicago Press or Oxford University Press, the degree symbol is printed with no spaces between the number, the symbol, and the Latin letters ""C"" or ""F"" representing Celsius or Fahrenheit, respectively, e.g. .  This is also the practice of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Both ASTM International and NIST, the official US entities related to the standardization of the use of units, require a space between the numerical value and the unit designator, except when the degree "

Prompt: In stamp collecting, what do the initials F D C represent?

Answer: First-day cover


Context: Lander (spacecraft) |  The NASA MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) mission to Mercury launched on 3 August 2004 and entered orbit around the planet on 18 March 2011. Following a mapping mission, MESSENGER was directed to impact Mercury's surface on 30 April 2015. The spacecraft's impact with Mercury occurred near 3:26pm EDT on 30 April 2015, leaving a crater estimated to be 16m in diameter.

Prompt: What is the appropriate name of the craft which crashed into Mercury in April?

Answer: The Messenger (album)


Context: Premolar |  The premolars, also called premolar teeth, or bicuspids, are transitional teeth located between the canine and molar teeth. In humans, there are two premolars per quadrant in the permanent set of teeth, making eight premolars total in the mouth. They have at least two cusps. Premolars can be considered transitional teeth during chewing, or mastication. They have properties of both the canines, that lie anterior and molars that lie posterior, and so food can be transferred from the canines to the premolars and finally to the molars for grinding, instead of directly from the canines to the molars.

Prompt: Referring to an aspect of its shape, what is the alternative name for a premolar tooth?

Answer: Maxillary bicuspid


Context: 2015 Tbilisi flood |  A significant flood occurred in the Vere River valley in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, on the night of 13 to 14 June 2015. It resulted in at least 20 human deaths and struck the Tbilisi Zoo, leaving half of its animal inhabitants either dead or on the loose.

Prompt: In June 2015, after severe flooding, which capital city saw a mass escape of zoo animals?

Answer: Asia/Tbilisi


Context: The Gunfighter | " Another version of the story appeared in 1957 in the series The 20th Century Fox Hour entitled ""The End of a Gun"", with Richard Conte in the role of Jimmy Ringo. Bob Dylan referenced scenes from The Gunfighter in his song ""Brownsville Girl"", co-written by playwright Sam Shepard. It appears on Dylan's 1986 release Knocked Out Loaded. Peck paid tribute to Dylan's words when Dylan received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997."

Prompt: Which early Bob Dylan album and its title song reference a Texan gunfighter?

Answer: John Wesley Harding (disambiguation)


Context: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | " From 1976 to 1979, David Bowie recorded what became known as the ""Berlin Trilogy"", which consisted of Low, ""Heroes"" (both 1977) and Lodger (1979). Made in collaboration with musician Brian Eno and producer Tony Visconti, the trilogy was highly influential. Low was seen as a precursor to post-rock and post-punk, influencing artists such as Joy Division and the Human League, while Lodgers use of world music is credited for inspiring artists such as Talking Heads and Paul Simon. Though considered significant in artistic terms, the trilogy had proven less successful commercially. Lodgers commercial performance was hindered by artists who were influenced by the earlier Berlin releases, such as Gary Numan. Numan, a huge fan of Bowie's, was antagonised by Bowie's fanbase as a mere copycat. Bowie himself criticised Numan, which led to a long-running feud between the two artists. According to biographer David Buckley, Numan's fame indirectly led to Bowie taking a more commercial direction for his next record."

Prompt: Whose 1977-79 albums, Low, "Heroes" and Lodger, are known as his Berlin Trilogy?

Answer: Hermione Farthingale


Context: Lewis Hamilton |  Hamilton was born on 7 January 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. His father, Anthony Hamilton, is black and is of Grenadian descent, while his mother, Carmen Larbalestier, is White British, and from Birmingham, making him mixed-race; Hamilton has identified as black. Hamilton's parents separated when he was two, after which he lived with his mother and older half-sisters, Samantha and Nicola, until he was twelve. Hamilton then lived with his father, stepmother Linda, and his half-brother Nicolas, who is also a professional racing driver. Hamilton was raised a Catholic. Hamilton's father bought him a radio-controlled car when he was five. Hamilton finished second in the national BRCA championship the following year against adult competition. Being the only

Prompt: What is the forename of Lewis Hamilton's father, a prominent member of his entourage?

Answer: Anthony


Context: Australian Agricultural Company Mine Manager's House |  The outside lavatory, which will originally have been served by an on-site cesspit and then by the Hamilton municipal pan system, is relocated to its present position for compulsory connection to the Newcastle district sewerage system.

Prompt: What is Australian slang for an outside lavatory?

Answer: Dunny


Context: April 1910 | In the Australian federal election, the Australian Labour Party, led by Andrew Fisher, took over control of the Senate and the House of Representatives from Prime Minister Alfred Deakin's Commonwealth Liberal Party. Fisher took office as the fifth Prime Minister of Australia on April 29. ; Governor Malcolm R. Patterson of Tennessee pardoned Duncan Brown Cooper, after Cooper's conviction for the murder of former U.S. Senator Edward Ward Carmack had been affirmed on appeal.

Prompt: Who became Australia's fifth prime minister in five years last month?

Answer: Malcolm B. Turnbull


Context: Flag | The flag of Denmark, the Dannebrog, is attested in 1478, and is the oldest national flag still in use. It inspired the cross design of the other Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and regional Scandinavian flags for the Faroe Islands, Åland, Scania and Bornholm, as well as flags for the non-Scandinavian Shetland and Orkney. ; The flag of the Netherlands is the oldest tricolour. Its three colours of red, white and blue go back to Charlemagne's time, the 9th century. The coastal region of what today is the Netherlands was then known for its cloth in these colours. Maps from the

Prompt: Which European country has the world's oldest national flag?

Answer: Eastern Denmark


Context: Northern England |  predominately in Cumbria until around the 12th century. Parts of the north and east of England were subject to Danish control (the Danelaw) during the Viking era, but the northern part of the old Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria remained under Anglo-Saxon control. Under the Vikings, monasteries were largely wiped out, and the discovery of grave goods in Northern churchyards suggests that Norse funeral rites replaced Christian ones for a time. Viking control of certain areas, particularly around Yorkshire, is recalled in the etymology of many place names: the thorpe in town names such as Cleethorpes and Scunthorpe, the kirk in Kirklees and Ormskirk and the by of Whitby and Grimsby all have Norse roots.

Prompt: What name was given to areas of England under Viking control?

Answer: Viking Britain


Context: Tudor navy |  English Channel, and blockaded Brest. Henry was the first king to organize the navy as a permanent force, with a permanent administrative and logistical structure, funded by tax revenue and supervised by the new Navy Board. His personal attention was concentrated on land, where he founded the royal dockyards, planted trees for shipbuilding, enacted laws for inland navigation, guarded the coastline with fortifications, set up a school for navigation and designated the roles of officers and sailors. He closely supervised the construction of all his warships and their guns, knowing their designs, speed, tonnage, armaments and battle tactics. He encouraged his naval architects, who perfected the Italian technique of

Prompt: Which English king was the first to establish a regular navy?

Answer: Ælfrǣd the Great


Context: Quito | " Quito (Kitu; formally San Francisco de Quito) is the capital of Ecuador, the closest capital city to the equator, and at an elevation of 9350 ft above sea level, the second-highest official capital city in the world. It is located in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains. In 2008, the city was designated as the headquarters of the Union of South American Nations. The historic center of Quito is one of the largest, least-altered, and best-preserved in the Americas. Quito and Kraków, Poland, were the first World Cultural Heritage Sites declared by UNESCO, in 1978. The central square of Quito is located about 25 km south of the equator; the city itself extends to within about 1 km of zero latitude. A monument and museum marking the general location of the equator is known locally as la mitad del mundo (the middle of the world) to avoid confusion since the word Ecuador is Spanish for ""equator""."

Prompt: Which South American capital is the nearest to the equator?

Answer: Quito, Ecuador


Context: List of breakfast cereal advertising characters | Crispy ; Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble ; The Honeycomb Kid ; Hunger ; Linus the Lionhearted ; Loveable Truly ; Sugar Bear

Prompt: Which children's character's first words upon waking are 'What's for breakfast'?

Answer: Winnie-the-pooh


Context: The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | " The theme tune to The Man with the Golden Gun, released in 1974, was performed by Scottish singer Lulu and composed by John Barry. Tony Bramwell, who worked for Harry Saltzman's music publishing company Hilary Music, wanted Elton John or Cat Stevens to sing the title song. However, by this time the producers were taking turns producing the films; Albert Broccoli—whose turn it was to produce—rejected Bramwell's suggestions. The lyrics to the Lulu song were written by Don Black and have been described variously as ""ludicrous"", ""inane"" and ""one long stream of smut"", because of their sexual innuendo. Bramwell subsequently dismissed the Barry-Lulu tune as ""mundane"". Alice Cooper wrote a song titled ""Man with the Golden Gun"" to be used by the producers of "

Prompt: Who performed the theme song to The Man With The Golden Gun?

Answer: Lulu (film)


Context: Tintern Abbey | " William Wordsworth’s different reflections followed a tour on foot that he made along the river in 1798, although he does not actually mention the ruins in his ""Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey"". Instead, he recalls an earlier visit five years before and comments on the beneficial internalisation of that memory. Later Robert Bloomfield made his own tour of the area with friends, recording the experience in a journal and in his long poem, ""The Banks of the Wye"" (1811). However, since the timetable of the boat-trip downstream was constrained by the necessity of the tide, the Abbey was "

Prompt: Tintern Abbey, made famous by Wordsworth's poetry, stands on which river?

Answer: Wye


Context: Jane Fonda | " was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, during which she gained the nickname ""Hanoi Jane"". During this time, she was effectively blacklisted in Hollywood. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women, and describes herself as a feminist and environmental activist. In 2005, along with Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, she co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda serves on the board of the organization."

Prompt: What nickname did the American media give to Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War?

Answer: Jane Fonda


Context: Cultural impact of the Beatles |  allowed to leave a party in Sussex before Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones were arrested on drugs charges. As a result of McCartney's LSD admission, however, the British authorities' indulgence of the band started to wane significantly. According to Harris, the turning point was Magical Mystery Tour, which was broadcast on Boxing Day 1967 and earned the group their first scathing reviews. In October 1968, Lennon and Ono were arrested on charges of cannabis possession; Lennon maintained he had been warned of the raid and that the drugs were planted by the arresting officers from the London Drug Squad. The same senior officer, Norman Pilcher, arrested Harrison and Boyd for possession

Prompt: Which Beatles offering was first shown on British TV on Boxing Day 1967?

Answer: Magical mystery tour


Context: Claude Littner |  He came to wider UK public recognition through his direct and confrontational style of job interviewing on The Apprentice. He is the only interviewer to have appeared in this role in every series of the programme. On 27 April 2015, it was announced that Littner had replaced Nick Hewer as Alan Sugar's aide on the show. He started when the 2015 series began on 14 October 2015, and he continues to interview the candidates. He will take a hiatus from the programme for its sixteenth series due to injuries sustained from a cycling accident, with series one winner Tim Campbell taking over.

Prompt: Claude Littner is the new face in the latest series of which programme?

Answer: The Apprentice (disambiguation)


Context: 2005 English cricket season |  eight-wicket win over Essex which also secured their return to Division One after only one season on the lowest rung of the Championship ladder. National League losses for Worcestershire Royals and Hampshire Hawks then left four teams on 22 points in the bottom of Division One – three of them would have to go down. Nottinghamshire and Kent then faced off for the match that would decide the County Championship title, with Kent trailing by 19.5 points before the match at Trent Bridge. Kent failed to chase 420 in five hours, and Nottinghamshire recorded a 214-run win to take the Championship title.

Prompt: Who finished bottom of County Cricket's Division One this year?

Answer: Worcestershire county


Context: Green Card (film) |  Brontë Parrish (Andie MacDowell), a horticulturalist and an environmentalist, enters into a Green Card marriage with Georges Fauré (Depardieu), an undocumented immigrant from France, so he may stay in the United States. In turn, Brontë uses her fake marriage credentials to rent the apartment of her dreams. After moving in, to explain her spouse's absence, she tells the doorman and neighbors he is conducting musical research in Africa. Contacted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for an interview to determine if her marriage is legitimate, Brontë tracks down Georges, who is working as a waiter. Although the two have little time to get their facts straight, the agents who question them

Prompt: In which film does Andie MacDowell try to fiddle a US stay for Gerard Depardieu?

Answer: Green card (disambiguation)


Context: Drum rudiment | " A paradiddle consists of two single strokes followed by a double stroke, i.e., RLRR or LRLL. When multiple paradiddles are played in succession, the first note always alternates between right and left. Therefore, a single paradiddle is often used to switch the ""lead hand"" in drumming music."

Prompt: On which instrument would a 'paradiddle' be played?

Answer: Kit drumming


Context: Soto (food) |   The meats that are most commonly used are chicken and beef, but there are also variations with offal, mutton, and water buffalo meat. Pork is seldom used in traditional Indonesian soto, however in Hindu majority Bali, soto babi (pork soto) can be found. The soup is usually accompanied by rice or compressed rice cakes (lontong, ketupat or burasa). Offal is considered as a delicacy: the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe), and the intestines are all eaten. Other ingredients of soto include soun alternatively spelled as sohun or bihun (rice vermicelli), mung bean sprouts and scallion. Common soto spices include shallots, garlic, turmeric, galangal, ginger, coriander, salt, candlenut, and pepper. The colour, thickness and consistency of soto soup could vary

Prompt: Which kind of food can be either 'blanket' or 'honeycomb'?

Answer: Cow stomachs


Context: Mekong Delta | " The Mekong Delta (Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, literally Nine Dragon river delta or simply Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, ""Mekong river delta""), also known as the Western Region (Miền Tây) or South-western region (Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries. The Mekong delta region encompasses a large portion of southwestern Vietnam of over 40500 km2. The size of the area covered by water depends on the season. Its wet coastal geography, makes it an important source of agriculture and aquaculture for the country. The delta has been occupied as early as "

Prompt: In which country is the Mekong Delta?

Answer: Độc lập - tự do - hạnh phúc


Context: The Judgement of Paris (Rubens) |  Painted in 1638 or 1639, this version is now in the Prado and was completed shortly before his death while he was ill with gout. It was commissioned by Philip IV of Spain's brother Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria and on Ferdinand's death moved to the Spanish royal collection. In 1788 Charles III of Spain decided it was immodest and ordered it to be burned, but he died before that order could be carried out.

Prompt: Who painted The Judgement of Paris, In around 1636?

Answer: Pieter Pauwel Rubens


Context: List of nicknames of presidents of the United States | 41, Papa Bush, Bush 41, Bush Senior, Senior, and similar names that were used after his son George Walker Bush became the 43rd president, to differentiate between the two ; Poppy, a nickname used from childhood on Full name: George Herbert Walker Bush

Prompt: George W Bush was given which diminutive herbaceous nickname?

Answer: Bushes


Context: Ross the Boss |  Ross Friedman (born January 3, 1954), also known as Ross the Boss, is a guitarist, known as a founding member of both the punk band the Dictators, and the heavy metal band Manowar.

Prompt: Which rock star is known as 'The Boss'?

Answer: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band


Context: Stilwell Museum | " During World War II General Joseph Stilwell, known to his men as ""Vinegar Joe"", was the Allied Chief of Staff in the China Theater of Operations. He arrived in Chongqing on March 4, 1942. Stilwell was in charge of the United States' Lend-Lease policy with Chinese forces and had an acrimonious relationship with Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek, who he derisively called ""Peanut."" His low regard for Chiang, and positive words towards the Communist forces, contributed to his high standing in the People's Republic of China."

Prompt: Which World War 2 American general was known as 'Vinegar Joe'?

Answer: Stilwell


Context: History of Queen of the South F.C. | "Dumfries F.C. ; 5th Kings Own Scottish Borderers ; (Car manufacturer works side) Arrol-Johnston Dumfries got its nickname Queen of the South from David Dunbar, a local poet, who in 1857 stood for Parliament in the General Election. In one of his addresses, he called Dumfries ""Queen of the South"" and this became synonymous with the town. Early in 1919, a handful of Dumfries football enthusiasts met in their homes to discuss not only the restoration of competitive football fixtures locally (following the end of the First World War) but also the formation, through amalgamation, of a local football club to compete at more than a local level. A public meeting was "

Prompt: The nickname for Dumfries became the name of which Scottish football club?

Answer: The Doonhamers


Context: Telegraph & Argus |  The Telegraph & Argus is the daily newspaper for Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Now printed in Middlesbrough, Teesside, (and no longer on its own presses in Bradford), it is published six times each week, from Monday to Saturday inclusive. The newspaper has offices in Drake Street, Bradford, from where its journalists work. Locally, the paper is known as the T&A. It also breaks news 24/7 on its website.

Prompt: Bradford and Brighton both have a newspaper called what?

Answer: Argos (Greek mythology)


Context: Coelacanthopsis |  discovered in 1938 by Marjorie Courtenay Latimer, the curator of a small museum in the port town of East London, as she was visiting a fisherman who would let her search through his boat's catch for interesting specimens. Ironically, Marjorie was only visiting the sea captain to wish him a happy Christmas when she first spotted the Coelacanth's oddly shaped, blue-gray fin protruding from beneath a mountain of fish. Marjorie brought back the specimen to the museum where she compared it against images of known species, and ultimately realized what she had was no ordinary fish. After sending a rough drawing of the fish to

Prompt: Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered which rare fish in 1938?

Answer: Xelacanth


Context: Lee Johnson (footballer) |  On 5 December 2020, Johnson was appointed the new head coach of Sunderland following the departure of Phil Parkinson. He signed a two and a half year deal with the club. Despite only being announced that morning, his first game in charge was later that afternoon, with his new side losing 1–0 at home to Wigan Athletic. On 14 March 2021, Sunderland won the 2021 EFL Trophy Final, beating Tranmere Rovers 1–0 courtesy of a goal from Lynden Gooch.

Prompt: Who became head coach of Sunderland in March 2015?

Answer: Advocaat, Dick


Context: HM Prison Manchester |  Between 1 April and 25 April 1990, 147 staff and 47 prisoners were injured in a series of riots by prison inmates. There was one fatality among the prisoners, and one prison officer died from heart failure. Much of the old prison was damaged or destroyed in the rioting. Several inmates were charged with various offences, and Paul Taylor and Alan Lord faced a five-month trial as ringleaders. The riots resulted in the Woolf Inquiry, and the prison was rebuilt and renamed Her Majesty's Prison, Manchester. Repair and modernisation cost more than £80 million after the riot, and rebuilding was completed in 1994.

Prompt: What was Her Majesty's Prison Manchester called until 1990?

Answer: HM Prison Manchester


Context: List of regions of Canada |  ; The Prairies, including the grasslands and the Palliser's Triangle that links the main agricultural regions of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba ; Cypress Hills that links the hilly areas of southern Alberta with their counterparts in southern Saskatchewan ; Canadian Shield, a vast region centred around Hudson Bay that includes parts of every province except British Columbia and the Maritimes, and parts of every territory except Yukon ; Northern Arctic Shield, includes the Boothia and Melville Peninsulas of Nunavut and the northwestern tip of Quebec. ; Southern Arctic Shield, parts of the Canadian Shield separated by Hudson Bay and located mostly in Nunavut and the most northerly region of

Prompt: Which is the most southerly of the Canadian provinces?

Answer: Ontario (canada)


Context: The Dam Busters March |  The Dam Busters March is the theme to the 1955 British war film The Dam Busters. The musical composition, by Eric Coates, has achieved the distinction of becoming synonymous with both the film and the real Operation Chastise. The Dam Busters March remains a very popular accompaniment to flypasts in the UK.

Prompt: In which decade did Coates compose 'The Dam Busters March'?

Answer: The Fifties


Context: IBM railway station |  IBM railway station (formerly known as IBM Halt) is a currently disused railway station on the Inverclyde Line, 25+1⁄2 mi west of. Clinging to the south slope of Spango Valley on the Glasgow-Wemyss Bay line, IBM Halt was opened on 9 May 1978 by British Rail to serve what was at that time a thriving IBM computer manufacturing plant, employing over 4,000 people. Originally, the stop was unadvertised and only peak-time services stopped there, but subsequently, despite the decline in the fortunes and working population of the plant, the station was publicly advertised, and all but one service stopped there. At

Prompt: IBM Halt is one of nine railway stations in which Clydeside town?

Answer: Greenock, Renfrewshire


Context: 2017–18 East Midlands Counties Football League | infobox competition: East Midlands Counties Football League ; season: 2017–18 ; winners: Dunkirk ; promoted: Dunkirk ; relegated: Radcliffe Olympic ; league topscorer: Tyrell Shannon-Lewis (Clifton All Whites) 39 goals ; biggest home win: (22 August 2017) ; biggest away win: (1 May 2018) ; highest scoring: (21 October 2017)  ; (1 May 2018) ; matches: 420 ; total goals: 1639 ; longest wins: 9 matches ; Dunkirk ; longest unbeaten: 14 matches ; Dunkirk ; longest losses: 11 matches ; Radcliffe Olympic ; Borrowash Victoria ; highest attendance: 342 ;  ; (21 April 2018) ; lowest attendance: 10 ;  ; (28 October 2017)  ; (14 April 2018) ; (Played at Clifton)  ; (1 May 2018) ; average attendance: 51 ; prevseason: 2016–17 ; nextseason: 2018–19

Prompt: Which East Midlands club holds the Football League record for most games played?

Answer: Nots County


Context: Schleswig-Holstein |  the Danish royal family, the House of Augustenborg, was more controversial. The separation of the two duchies was challenged by the Augustenborg heir, who claimed, as in 1848, to be rightful heir of both Schleswig and Holstein. The promulgation of a common constitution for Denmark and Schleswig in November 1863 prompted Otto von Bismarck to intervene and Prussia and Austria declared war on Denmark. This was the Second War of Schleswig, which ended in Danish defeat. British attempts to mediate in the London Conference of 1864 failed, and Denmark lost Schleswig (Northern and Southern Schleswig), Holstein, and Lauenburg to Prussia and Austria.

Prompt: Which northern Duchies were questionable until the 1860s?

Answer: Lütt-Witt Moor


Context: Indian Love Call | " ""Indian Love Call"" (first published as ""The Call"") is a popular song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Originally written for Mary Ellis, the song achieved continued popularity under other artists and has been called Friml's best-remembered work. The play takes place within the Canadian Rocky Mountains and features the sonorous tune in the overture and in Act One while the love interests call to each other per a supposed Aboriginal Canadian legend about how men would call down into the valley to the girls they wished to marry. In most (or all) versions of Rose-Marie, including the best-known movie version, the tune is reprised several times throughout the narrative."

Prompt: 'Indian Love Call' is a song from which 1924 operetta?

Answer: Rose-Marie


Context: Pithivier |  A pithivier (pithiviers, ) is a round, enclosed pie usually made by baking two disks of puff pastry, with a filling stuffed in between. It has the appearance of a hump and is traditionally decorated with spiral lines drawn from the top outwards with the point of a knife, and scalloping on the edge. It is named after the French town of Pithiviers, where the dish is commonly assumed to originate. A small mound of filling is positioned at the centre of the underneath layer of pastry, rather than spread on it, so as to prevent it from leaking during baking. The pie is traditionally finished with a distinct shine to the top of the crust, by brushing on an egg wash beforehand, or by caramelising a dusting of confectioner's sugar at the end of baking, or both. Made for Epiphany, it is similar to the galette des rois. The filling of the pithivier is often a sweet frangipane (optionally combined with fruit such as cherry or plum), but savoury pies with vegetable, meat or cheese filling can also be called pithivier.

Prompt: What kind of dish is the French 'pithivier'?

Answer: A Pie


Context: Northwest Passage |  such strait existed there. He later explored the Arctic and Hudson Bay. In 1611, while in James Bay, Hudson's crew mutinied. They set Hudson and his teenage son John, along with seven sick, infirm, or loyal crewmen, adrift in a small open boat. He was never seen again. A mission was sent out in 1612, again in Discovery, commanded by Sir Thomas Button to find Henry Hudson and continue through the Northwest Passage. After failing to find Hudson, and exploring the west coast of Hudson Bay, Button returned home due to illness in the crew. In 1614, William Gibbons attempted to find the Passage, but was turned

Prompt: Which explorer was cast adrift by his crew in 1611 and never seen again?

Answer: Sir Henry Hudson


Context: Period 6 element |  diamagnetic of all metals, and only mercury has a lower thermal conductivity. Bismuth has classically been considered to be the heaviest naturally occurring stable element, in terms of atomic mass. Recently, however, it has been found to be very slightly radioactive: its only primordial isotope bismuth-209 decays via alpha decay into thallium-205 with a half-life of more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe. Bismuth compounds (accounting for about half the production of bismuth) are used in cosmetics, pigments, and a few pharmaceuticals. Bismuth has unusually low toxicity for a heavy metal. As the toxicity of lead has become more apparent in recent years, alloy uses for bismuth metal (presently about a third of bismuth production), as a replacement for lead, have become an increasing part of bismuth's commercial importance.

Prompt: Which is heaviest of all naturally-occurring elements?

Answer: 234U


Context: Luzon |  Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. It is ranked 15th largest in the world by land area. Located in the northern portion of the archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as well as Quezon City, the country's most populous city. With a population of 53 million, it contains 52.5% of the country's total population and is the fourth most populous island in the world. Luzon may also refer to one of the three primary island groups in the country. As such, it includes the Luzon mainland, the Batanes and Babuyan groups of islands to the north, Polillo Islands to the east, and the outlying islands of Catanduanes, Marinduque and Mindoro, among others, to the south. The islands of Masbate, Palawan and Romblon are also included, although these three are sometimes grouped with the Visayas.

Prompt: Luzon is an island of which country?

Answer: Islas Filipinas


Context: Green in Islam |  Green was used as the color of the banners of the historical Fatimid Caliphate. The Fatimid banner was in use until 1171, and thus during the first century of the crusades, and by this way has taken influence on Christian heraldry, where the tincture vert was very rarely if ever used for the field (background) until the end of the Middle Ages (indeed the term sinople used to signify a reddish color until the 14th century, and only after c. 1400 did it change its meaning to refer to green as a heraldic tincture). Today, green is also used in several national flags as a symbol of Islam. These include: Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Comoros, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia. and Sri Lanka. Some Arab countries also use pan-Arab colors which feature green

Prompt: What is the heraldic name for the colour green?

Answer: Green (heraldry)


Context: Lloret de Mar |  Lloret de Mar is a Mediterranean coastal town in Catalonia, Spain. It is 40 km south of Girona and 75 km northeast of Barcelona. With a population of 39,364 in 2009, it is the second largest town in the Selva comarca of Catalonia. Lloret de Mar attracts summer visitors on package tours. Its main beach (length: 1,630 m; width: 45 m; small, gravel-like stones) is one of the most popular Costa Brava beaches, and is consistently awarded the Blue Flag for cleanliness.

Prompt: Lloret de Mar lies on which Spanish costa?

Answer: Costa Brava


Context: Elysium | " stream of Okeanos. In the time of the Greek poet Hesiod, Elysium would also be known as the ""Fortunate Isles"", or the ""Isles (or Islands) of the Blessed"", located in the western ocean at the end of the earth. The Isles of the Blessed would be reduced to a single island by the Theban poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging in athletic and musical pastimes. The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author: Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there. ""The Isle of the Blessed"" is also featured in the 2nd-century comedic novel A True Story by Lucian of Samosata."

Prompt: What used to be known as the Blessed or Fortunate Isles?

Answer: The Canary islands


Context: Bernard Cornwell |  Cornwell's first series of historical novels features the adventures of Richard Sharpe, an English soldier during the Napoleonic Wars, in particular the Peninsular Wars once Arthur Wellesley was sent to lead the campaign against Napoleon's forces on the Iberian Peninsula. The first 11 books of the Sharpe series began with Sharpe's Rifles and ended with Sharpe's Waterloo, published in the US as Waterloo. These detail Sharpe's adventures in various Peninsular War campaigns over the course of seven years. Subsequently, Cornwell wrote Sharpe's Tiger, Sharpe's Triumph, Sharpe's Fortress, Sharpe's Trafalgar, and Sharpe's Prey, depicting Sharpe's earlier adventures under Wellington's command in India, including his hard-won promotion to the officer corps, his return to Britain, and his arrival in the 95th Rifles; he also wrote the sequel Sharpe's Devil, set six years after the end of the wars. Sharpe's Battle takes place during the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro.

Prompt: In the books by Bernard Cornwell what is the first name of Sharpe?

Answer: Richard or Dick


Context: Post Captain (novel) | " a dozen volumes always near at hand. Their names are Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, and their creator is a 77-year-old novelist named Patrick O'Brian, whose 14 books about them have been continuously in print in England since the first, ""Master and Commander,"" was published in 1970. O'Brian's British fans include T. J. Binyon, Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt, Timothy Mo and the late Mary Renault, but, until recently, this splendid saga of two serving officers in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars was unavailable in this country, apart from the first few installments which went immediately out of print. Last year, however, W. W. Norton decided to reissue the series in its entirety, and so far nine of the 14 have appeared here, including the most recent chapter, The Nutmeg of Consolation."

Prompt: In the books by Patrick O'Brien what was the nickname of Captain Aubrey?

Answer: Lucky (2012 film)


Context: Anilocra capensis | " The members of the family Cymothoidae are commonly referred to as ""fish lice"" (although this term is also used for the family Argulidae, which are also crustaceans but not closely related). Like all Cymothoidae, A. capensis is an ectoparasite that attaches to a larger host and feeds off its body fluids. The species parasitizes fish, preferentially the hottentot Pachymetopon blochii, a mid-sized sea bream common in shallow-water kelp beds on the southern African coast. The isopod attaches itself to the fish's head above and behind the eye, rasps a hole into the skin, and consumes blood and other body juices. It was found that the size of A. capensis individuals and the hottentot it parasitizes were positively correlated, indicating that both host and parasite grow together. Both length and weight of parasitized fish were found to be slightly below those of unaffected fish, which suggests that host condition suffers to some extent from the presence of the isopod."

Prompt: Which member of the earwig family is also known as a fishmoth?

Answer: Silver fishes


Context: The Good Life (1975 TV series) |  Mrs Weaver buys the house next door to Tom & Barbara in series 2, much to the relief of Margot, who approves of Mrs Weaver's conservative values as opposed to the two students boarding with the Goods who had initially threatened to purchase the house. Initially, the Goods and Mrs Weaver have an embarrassing introduction to each other, but when Mrs Weaver is impressed by the pottery skills of Tom, they become friendly. Mrs Weaver's enthusiasm for Tom's pottery encourages him to take up making ceramics, but he baulks at the idea of doing it professionally. Mrs. Weaver is not seen in series 3 and by series 4, it is revealed she has moved away, leaving the house empty, but with a full tank of oil. The Goods contact her and (off screen) she agrees to them taking the oil, but they discover the leaking tank has destroyed the Good's garden.

Prompt: What was Margot's surname in "The Good Life" TV series?

Answer: Leadbetter


Context: Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant | " Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant, known popularly as Jack Dempsey's, was a restaurant located in the Brill Building on Broadway between 49th and 50th streets in Manhattan, New York. Owned by world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, it was considered by many to be an American institution. The restaurant originally opened for business as Jack Dempsey's Restaurant on Eighth Avenue and 50th Street, directly across from the third Madison Square Garden, in 1935. Most nights would find Dempsey's famous proprietor on hand to greet guests, sign autographs, pose for pictures, and hold court with people from all walks of life. It was next door to Jack J. Amiel's Turf Restaurant on Times Square. Amiel became famous as the owner of the ""underdog"" horse Count Turf who "

Prompt: What was the name of the Hollywood restaurant opened by Jack Dempsey?

Answer: The Brown Derby


Context: String (structure) | " Macramé or macrame is a form of textile-making using knotting rather than weaving or knitting. Its primary knots are the square knot (a variant of the reef knot) and forms of ""hitching"": full hitch and double half hitches. It was long crafted by sailors, especially in elaborate or ornamental knotting forms, to decorate anything from knife handles to bottles to parts of ships."

Prompt: Which craft involves using knots and hitches to make textiles?

Answer: Macrame


Context: Hancock's Half Hour |  interest for Hancock's character, in essentially 'straight' roles. ; In the fourth and fifth series Hattie Jacques provided comedy in the female role as the harridan Griselda Pugh, who was Hancock's secretary and Sid's occasional girlfriend. By this time, Hancock's difficulties with women had become part of the characterisation.  Among the well-known actors who appeared in the series were Hugh Lloyd, Patricia Hayes, Dick Emery, Warren Mitchell, John Le Mesurier and Richard Wattis. Also appearing were Pat Coombs, Rolf Harris, Burt Kwouk, credited as 'Burd Kwouk', and Anne Reid. Episodes of the radio series were included in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.

Prompt: Who played Miss Pugh on the Hancock radio show?

Answer: Hattie jakes


Context: Conakry |  Conakry (N’ko: ߞߐߣߊߞߙߌ߫, Fula: Konaakiri 𞤑𞤮𞤲𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤭𞤪𞤭) is the capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973. The current population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at two million, accounting for one-sixth of the entire population of the country.

Prompt: Conakry is the capital of which African country?

Answer: Republic of Guinea


Context: 2017 in Canada | September 9 – Pierre Pilote, ice hockey player ; September 12 – Allan MacEachen, politician and first Deputy Prime Minister of Canada ; September 14 – Arnold Chan, lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament ; September 30 – Monty Hall, game show host, producer and philanthropist

Prompt: Who as of September 30th is Canadian prime Minister?

Answer: Steven Harper


Context: Dick Turpin |  Richard Turpin ( bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief and killer. He is also known for a fictional 200 mi overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death. Turpin's involvement

Prompt: What trade did both Dick Turpin and Butch Cassidy follow?

Answer: Butchers


Context: Rib cage |  The terms true ribs and false ribs describe rib pairs that are directly or indirectly attached to the sternum. The first seven rib pairs known as the fixed or vertebrosternal ribs are the true ribs (costae verae) as they connect directly to the sternum; the next five pairs (eighth to twelfth) are the false ribs (costae spuriae). The false ribs include both vertebrochondral ribs and vertebral ribs. There are three pairs of vertebrochondral ribs (eighth to tenth) that connect indirectly to the sternum via the costal cartilages of the ribs above them. Their elasticity allows rib cage movement for respiratory activity. The phrase floating rib or vertebral rib (costae fluctuantes) refers to the two lowermost, the eleventh and twelfth rib pairs; so-called because they are attached only to the vertebrae–and not to the sternum or cartilage of the sternum. These ribs are relatively small and delicate, and include a cartilaginous tip. The spaces between the ribs are known as intercostal spaces; they contain the intercostal muscles, and neurovascular bundles containing nerves, arteries, and veins.

Prompt: In humans ribs are divided into three types. True, False and which other?

Answer: Floating (song)


Context: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | " This is the second Basil Rathbone ""Sherlock Holmes"" film in which Moriarty dies. He is thrown to his death from the top of the Tower of London by Holmes in 1939's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. During the course of the adventure, Holmes adopts the disguises of an elderly German bookseller (taken from the Arthur Conan Doyle story The Adventure of the Empty House), the lascar sailor Ram Singh, and the Swiss scientist Professor Hoffner. His disguise as the bookseller was parodied in the film The Pink Panther. This film marks the first appearance of Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrade - the Scotland Yard detective who, with Watson, provides much of the comic relief in six of the films of the series. Though the film is credited as an adaptation of ""The Dancing Men"", there is little resemblance between the two other than the code. It is implied that the events of ""The Dancing Men"" are canon with the events of the film, as Watson is reminded of ""a case [they] had some years ago"". Lionel Atwill appeared previously in the film The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) as Dr Mortimer."

Prompt: In the Sherlock Holmes stories who was Moriarty's second in command?

Answer: Colonel Moran


Context: Everybody Wants to Rule the World | " shipping forecast is deliberately calm and relaxed. Recorded at the Wool Hall for the B-side of 'Everybody' in a calm and relaxed way."" ""Pharaohs"" shipping forecast read by Brian Perkins: ""There are warnings of gales in Viking, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Fisher, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth, Finisterre, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Shannon, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faroes and Southeast Iceland.The general synopsis at one eight double-O: low just north of Viking, nine double-seven, moving steadily east-northeast.Low 300 miles south of Iceland. Atlantic low forming, moving steadily northeast.A ridge of high pressure has swayed between North and South Utsire. The area forecast for the next twenty-four hours. Viking, Forties, Cromarty, Forth."""

Prompt: Which is the most southerly of the Shipping Forecast areas?

Answer: Trafalgar (disambiguation)


Context: Seasons in the Sun | " ""Seasons in the Sun"" is an English-language adaptation of the 1961 song ""Le Moribond"" by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel with lyrics rewritten in 1963 by American singer-poet Rod McKuen, portraying a dying man's farewell to his loved ones. It became a worldwide hit in 1974 for Canadian singer Terry Jacks and became a Christmas number one in the UK in 1999 for Westlife."

Prompt: Which song was a UK number one for Terry Jacks in 1974 and for Westlife in 1999?

Answer: Seasons in the Sun


Context: A1 road (Great Britain) |  The A1 is the longest numbered road in the UK, at 410 mi. It connects London, the capital of England, with Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It passes through or near North London, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Baldock, Letchworth Garden City, Biggleswade, St Neots, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Stamford, Grantham, Newark-on-Trent, Retford, Doncaster, York, Pontefract, Wetherby, Ripon, Darlington, Durham, Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Morpeth, Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed. It was designated by the Ministry of Transport in 1921, and for much of its route it followed various branches of the historic Great North Road, the main deviation being between Boroughbridge and Darlington. The course of the A1 has changed where towns or villages have been bypassed, and where new alignments have taken a slightly different route. Several sections of the route have been upgraded to motorway standard and designated A1(M). Between the M25 (near London) and the A696 (near Newcastle upon Tyne) the road has been designated as part of the unsigned Euroroute E15 from Inverness to Algeciras.

Prompt: The A1 is the longest A-road in the UK. What is the longest A-road entirely in England?

Answer: A.38


Context: Blackheart (plant disease) |  The most common cause of blossom-end rot and/or blackheart is exposure to a prolonged hot, or drought period. These plant pathologies may also be caused by an extremely low calcium mineral content in the soil. Plant fruit that is afflicted by either blossom-end rot or blackheart should be picked and discarded, leaving the healthy fruit on the plant. While the condition is not contagious and it will not spread from fruit to fruit, removing affected fruit will enable the plant to concentrate strength towards the healthier parts of the plant. Additional water should be added to a plant suffering from the effects of a hot, dry spell. If low calcium in the soil is the cause, this can be treated with calcium-rich fertilizers, such as gypsum, limestone, or ground eggshells.

Prompt: The disease blossom end rot is most frequently found in which greenhouse crop?

Answer: Tomato


Context: Nice Work | " Nice Work is a 1988 novel by British author David Lodge. It is the final volume of Lodge's ""Campus Trilogy"", after Changing Places (1975) and Small World: An Academic Romance (1984). Nice Work won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1988 and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The larger socioeconomic background to the novel was the economic policies and educational budget reductions during the term of Margaret Thatcher. Part of the direct inspiration for the novel derived from Lodge's own real-life experiences of shadowing a friend who supervised an engineering firm."

Prompt: Who wrote the Campus Trilogy of novels: Changing Places, Small World, and Nice Work?

Answer: David Lodge


Context: Book of Leviticus |  The Book of Leviticus is the third book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses;  scholars generally agree that it developed over a long period of time, reaching its present form during the Persian Period between 538–332 BC. Most of its chapters (1–7, 11–27) consist of Yahweh's speeches to Moses, which Yahweh commands Moses to repeat to the Israelites. This takes place within the story of the Israelites' Exodus after they escaped Egypt and reached Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:1). The Book of Exodus narrates how Moses led the Israelites in building the Tabernacle (Exodus 35–40) with God's instructions (Exodus 25–31). In Leviticus, God tells the Israelites and their priests, the Levites, how to make offerings in the Tabernacle and how to

Prompt: According to several early Old Testament books, who led the Israelites after the death of Moses?

Answer: Joshua of ephraim


Context: Moscot |  giant eyes and glasses. (Because of this, some journalists have speculated that the shop, which sat close to the Williamsburg bridge, was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s inspiration for the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg billboard in The Great Gatsby, which the novelist was writing during the same years.) Hyman and Leba had six children. In 1925, at 15 years old, Hyman’s youngest son, Solomon, nicknamed “Sol,” took over the business, and in 1935, moved the shop to its location at 118 Orchard Street, where it would be located for nearly eight decades. The bright yellow sign with giant, black-rimmed glasses that adorned its storefront became synonymous with the brand, the neighborhood, and downtown New York, and while most of New York's historical businesses fell during the Great Depression, the Moscots

Prompt: The eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg are a dominant symbol in which 1925 novel and later films?

Answer: George Wilson (Gatsby)


Context: Yiddish words used in English | "hegdesch (Yid. העגדעש): pigpen, often used to describe a mess (as in ""your room is a hegdesch"") ; hock (Yid. האַק): Bother, pester (as in the character Major Hochstetter from Hogan's Heroes; a hockstetter being someone who constantly bothers you); a contraction of the idiom Hakn a tshaynik (literally ""to knock a teakettle""; Yiddish: האַקן אַ טשײַניק), from the old time pre-whistle teakettles whose tops clank against the rim as the pressure pushed them up and down. Often partially translated in informal speech, as in, ""Don't hock my tshaynik about it!"" (""Don't pester me about it!"") ; hocker (Yid. האַקר): botherer, pesterer (see above) ; heymish (Yid. היימיש; also haimish): home-like, friendly, folksy (German heimisch) "

Prompt: What six-letter word, taken from Yiddish, means 'to grumble, complain', especially when done to excess?

Answer: Kvetch (disambiguation)


Context: Shirley Henderson |  Shirley Henderson (born 24 November 1965) is a Scottish actress. Her film roles include Gail in Trainspotting (1996), Jude in the three Bridget Jones films (2001), and Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Her other films include Topsy-Turvy (1999), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Frozen (2005), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), and the Netflix film Okja (2017). Henderson starred opposite Robert Carlyle in the BBC series Hamish Macbeth (1995–97), and played Frances Drummond in the BBC drama Happy Valley (2016). She was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for the Channel 4 miniseries Southcliffe (2013), for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 2017 film Never Steady, Never Still, and won the 2018 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Elizabeth in the original production of Girl from the North Country.

Prompt: What part does Shirley Henderson play in the Harry Potter films?

Answer: Harry Potter's future


Context: 8 bore |  When the Dutch established the Dutch Cape Colony in the 17th century, they soon discovered their muskets were hopelessly inadequate against local game. Within a century the most popular Boer firearm was a flintlock smoothbore musket of about 8 bore with a 5–6 foot long barrel. Early British settlers of the Cape Colony in the 18th century also found specialist firearms were required for the local game. European gunmakers responded with various long arms from the enormous (although seldom produced) 2 bore down. By the 19th century, the giant 4 bore had been established as the standard elephant gun amongst

Prompt: What 17th- and 18th-century weapon was a short flintlock gun with a large bore?

Answer: Blunderbuss pistol


Context: 2015 in art | "February - Paul Gauguin's painting When Will You Marry? sells for $300m (£197m), reportedly to Qatar Museums, the highest known price ever paid for any work of art ; April - The accused rapist in the Emma Sulkowicz case which inspired the art piece ""Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)"" files suit in United States Federal Court in Manhattan against Columbia University, its art department chairman Jon Kessler, and the University president Lee C. Bollinger, saying through his attorneys, that he is the victim of gender discrimination and a ""witch hunt"". ; April 2 - Sir Peter Blake's temporary artwork Everybody Razzle Dazzle, Mersey Ferry MV Snowdrop painted in a variation of dazzle camouflage, "

Prompt: 'When Will You Marry?' became the world's most expensive work of art when it was sold

Answer: Paul GAUGUIN


Context: Sultan Ahmed Mosque | " Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii), also known as the Blue Mosque, is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A functioning mosque, it also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls, and at night the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes. It sits next to the Hagia Sophia, the principal mosque of Istanbul until the Blue Mosque's construction and another popular tourist site. The Blue Mosque was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1985 under the name of ""Historic Areas of Istanbul""."

Prompt: Also known as the Blue Mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is in which city?

Answer: Stambulu


Context: 2015 Davis Cup |  Belgium and Great Britain won through to the final by winning semi-final ties against Argentina and Australia respectively. This meant that Belgium would participate in their first Davis Cup final since 1904 (a 5–0 defeat against Great Britain), and Great Britain in their first since 1978. It also marked a remarkable recovery in fortunes for Great Britain, who had been in danger of relegation to the lowest division of the Davis Cup in 2010. Belgium were drawn as the home team under the rotation policy used by the organizers. They chose to play the tie on a clay surface in the Flanders Expo, an indoor

Prompt: By what score did GB beat Belgium to win the Davis Cup in November 2015?

Answer: 3-1


Context: Hole | " the Albert Hall."" The reference to 4,000 holes was written by John Lennon, and inspired by a Far & Near news brief from the same 17 January edition of the Daily Mail, which had also provided inspiration for previous verses of the song. Under the headline ""The holes in our roads"", the brief stated: ""There are 4,000 holes in the road in Blackburn, Lancashire, or one twenty-sixth of a hole per person, according to a council survey. If Blackburn is typical, there are two million holes in Britain's roads and 300,000 in London"". Holes have also been described as ontological parasites because "

Prompt: According to the Beatles, in which English town were there "four thousand holes"?

Answer: Blackburn


Context: With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun | Inu-kun (犬くん) ; Neko-sama (猫さま) ; Hidekichi Matsumoto (松本ひで吉) Hidekichi Matsumoto (松本ひで吉) Hidekichi Matsumoto (松本ひで吉)

Prompt: In 'Cats', who is the "Brummel of cats" who is "putting on weight every day"?

Answer: Bustopher Jones


Context: Lennie Gwyther |  Lennie Gwyther was born in Leongatha, on 18 April 1922 to parents Captain Leo Tennyson Gwyther and Clara Amelia Gwyther (née Simon). On his second birthday, Lennie's grandfather gave him a chestnut pony named Ginger Mick who shared his birthday. Ginger Mick was named after Lenny's father's favourite character from C.J Dennis' book The Moods of Ginger Mick. When Lennie was nine, his father broke his leg while working on the farm. While his father was in hospital, Lennie took over the responsibilities on the farm. Offered a reward for this work, Lennie asked to attend the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. That was largely because of his interest with the engineering and construction of the bridge. His mother, Clara (Clare) Gwyther, was unsure of this arrangement but, due to the fulfilment of his duties, communication with those in Sydney, and the map Lennie and Captain Leo Tennyson Gwyther created, she allowed Lennie to go.

Prompt: What J was the ginger cat given to him for his 88th birthday (and thus outlived him)?

Answer: Jock (disambiguation)


Context: Paris Baguette | " In 1988, Paris Croissant launched Paris Baguette, a popular bakery café franchise brand in South Korea. As of 2018, the chain had over 3,316 retail stores in South Korea and 57 stores in the United States. Paris Baguette also launched almost 185 retail stores in China, Vietnam, Singapore and France. A 2017 newspaper article described the franchise as ""South Korea's leading bakery franchise""."

Prompt: Which supermarket chain started selling straight croissants in its stores in February?

Answer: Tesco direct


Context: Monopoly (game) |  layout) did not include pewter tokens but instead had generic wooden pawns identical to those that Sorry! had. Many of the early tokens were created by companies such as Dowst Miniature Toy Company, which made metal charms and tokens designed to be used on charm bracelets. The battleship and cannon were also used briefly in the Parker Brothers war game Conflict (released in 1940), but after the game failed on the market, the premade pieces were recycled for Monopoly usage. By 1943, there were ten tokens which included the Battleship, Boot, Cannon, Horse and rider, Iron, Racecar, Scottie Dog, Thimble, Top hat, and Wheelbarrow. These tokens remained the same until the

Prompt: What breed of dog is the 'Monopoly' playing piece, or token?

Answer: Scottie dog


Context: Alexander Pope | " Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, he is the second-most quoted author in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having entered common parlance (e.g. ""damning with faint praise"" or ""to err is human; to forgive, divine"")."

Prompt: What was the first name of the poet Mr. Pope, 1688-1744?

Answer: Alexandar


Context: Eggheads (TV series) | " for which she answered every question in the final round correctly). She has now retired from Eggheads, with her last appearance being in May 2014. She was replaced in the team by returning Egghead CJ de Mooi. ; Dave Rainford (2012–2018) appeared on Remote Control in 1991 and won £250,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in 2005. He was a previous contestant on Are You An Egghead where he was a semi-finalist in the first series in 2008, losing to eventual winner Barry Simmons, and a quarter-finalist in the second series in 2009, losing to David Edwards. He replaced CJ de Mooi. He earned himself the nickname ""Tremendous Knowledge Dave"". On 7 March 2020, it was reported that Rainford had died, after illness had prevented him appearing on the show since 2018. "

Prompt: Who retired from the 'Eggheads' team in May 2014?

Answer: DAPHNE Fowler


Context: Cultural depictions of turtles | " will not let go.  Taylor explains, ""In Kentucky where I grew up, people used to say if a snapping turtle gets hold of you it won't let go till it thunders."" ; In the books by Terry Pratchett, the Discworld is carried on the backs of four elephants, who in turn rest on the back of the gigantic world turtle Great A'Tuin. In the Discworld novel Small Gods, the Great God Om manifests as a tortoise. ; Anishinaabe writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 2011 book Dancing on Our Turtle's Back references the Anishinaabe creation story of the world being built upon the shell of a giant turtle, exploring resurgence for Indigenous cultures oppressed by colonization. ; In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses the tortoise as an emblem of the resolve and persistence of the ""Okies"" that travel west across the US for a better life. "

Prompt: In a famous and popular series of books, what rests on the back of four giant elephants?

Answer: Great Atuin (Discworld)


Context: The Prodigal Daughter |  The Prodigal Daughter is a novel by Jeffrey Archer, published in 1982. It is the story of Florentyna Rosnovski, the daughter of Abel Rosnovski of Archer's Kane and Abel. The novel, one of Archer's best sellers, portrays Florentyna's life from early childhood to her final ascension to the position of President of United States. In this way, President Kane becomes the first female U.S. president. The character of Florentyna Kane also appears in Shall We Tell the President? by Archer. This book initially featured President Ted Kennedy, but following the success of Kane and Abel and The Prodigal Daughter, the character was changed to President Kane in later editions.

Prompt: Who wrote the 1982 novel, 'The Prodigal Daughter'?

Answer: JEFFREY ARCHER


Context: Great Orme |  The Great Orme (Y Gogarth) is a limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, north-west of the town of Llandudno. Referred to as Cyngreawdr Fynydd by the 12th-century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr, its English name derives from the Old Norse word for sea serpent. The Little Orme, a smaller but very similar limestone headland, is on the eastern side of Llandudno Bay.

Prompt: The prominent headland known as the Great Orme is close to which Welsh town?

Answer: Queen of the Welsh Resorts


Context: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter |  On August 4, 2011 (sol ), NASA announced that MRO had detected what appeared to be flowing salty water on the surface or subsurface of Mars. On September 28, 2015, this finding was confirmed at a special NASA news conference.

Prompt: On September 28th, NASA announced that what had been detected on Mars?

Answer: Flowing WATER


Context: Andrew Lloyd Webber | " Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in Kensington, London, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993), a violinist and pianist. His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a world-renowned solo cellist. Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age: a suite of six pieces at the age of nine. He also put on ""productions"" with Julian and his Aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at Viola's suggestion). His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. His father enrolled him as a part-time student at the Eric Gilder School of Music in the spring of 1963. At this time he was working on a Genghis Khan musical called Westonia!, and he had also set music to Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music and pursue his interest in musical theatre."

Prompt: What is the first name of the renowned cellist who is Andrew Lloyd Webber's brother?

Answer: Julian


Context: Spice Girls | " The Spice Girls are a British girl group formed in 1994. The group comprises Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B (""Scary Spice""), Melanie Chisholm, or Melanie C (""Sporty Spice""), Emma Bunton (""Baby Spice""), Geri Halliwell (""Ginger Spice"") and Victoria Beckham (""Posh Spice""). With their ""girl power"" mantra, the Spice Girls redefined the girl group concept by targeting a young female fanbase. They led the teen pop resurgence of the 1990s, were major parts of the Cool Britannia and Second British Invasion movements, and became pop culture icons of the decade. The Spice Girls formed through auditions held by managers Bob "

Prompt: At the time the Spice Girls became famous, what was Scary Spice's surname?

Answer: Orangeish blacks


Context: Emotion classification |  ; Oime ; Overwhelmed, feeling ; P ; Panic ; Paranoia ; Perversity ; Peur des espaces ; Philoprogenitiveness ; Pique, a fit of ; Pity ; Postal, going ; Pride ; Pronoia ; R ; Rage ; Regret ; Relief ; Reluctance ; Remorse ; Reproachfulness ; Resentment ; Ringxiety ; Rivalry ; Road rage ; Ruinenlust ; S ; Sadness ; Satisfaction ; Saudade ; Schadenfreude ; Self-pity ; Shame ; Shock ; Smugness ; Song ; Surprise ; Suspicion ; T ; Technostress ; Terror ; Torschlusspanik ; Toska ; Triumph ; V ; Vengefulness ; Vergüenza ajena ; Viraha ; Vulnerability ; W ; Wanderlust ; Warm glow ; Wonder ; Worry ; Z ; Żal Tiffany Watt Smith listed 154 different worldwide emotions and feelings.

Prompt: What sort of noun are words such as 'sadness', 'humour', and 'triumph'?

Answer: Abstract form


Context: Ben Travers |  Ben Travers (12 November 1886 – 18 December 1980) was an English writer. His output includes more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, and 3 volumes of memoirs. He is best remembered for his long-running series of farces first staged in the 1920s and 1930s at the Aldwych Theatre. Many of these were made into films and later television productions. After working for some years in his family's wholesale grocery business, which he detested, Travers was given a job by the publisher John Lane in 1911. After service as a pilot in the First World War, he began to write novels and plays. He turned his 1921 novel, The Dippers, into a play that was first produced in the West End in 1922. His

Prompt: P.L. Travers wrote which series of books that were turned into a famous film?

Answer: Mrs. George Banks


Context: John Gibson (Nottingham cricketer) |  John Gibson (dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1837 to 1842. He played for Nottingham Cricket Club (aka Nottinghamshire) and made four known appearances in first-class matches. He represented the North in the North v. South series.

Prompt: What name links an American singer and a Nottinghamshire and England cricketer?

Answer: Taylor, James


Context: Moray Golf Club |  an outspoken anti-war Labour MP. MacDonald was a keen golfer and his sons also played at the club, but in August 1915 a group of members submitted a motion to remove his name from the roll of members on the grounds that the club's character was damaged. The council of the club refused to take any action, with MacDonald himself objecting that they were not elected to take political judgments. However, a year later, a new motion was submitted by some 30 members who had not signed the previous motion; they asserted that the failure to take action had caused

Prompt: What name links a Labour MP and a professional golfer?

Answer: Tommy Watson


Context: Maine |  Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, bordered by New Hampshire to the west; the Gulf of Maine to the southeast; and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively. Maine is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural of the 50 U.S. states. It is also the northeasternmost among the contiguous United States, the northernmost state east of the Great Lakes, the only state whose name consists of a single syllable, and the only state to border only one other US

Prompt: Which US state consist of a single syllable?

Answer: Religion in Maine


Context: List of food pastes | AussieMite ; Cenovis ; Guinness Yeast Extract ; Marmite ; Marmite (New Zealand) ; Oxo ; Promite ; Vegemite ; Vitam-R Yeast extracts, usually as byproduct from brewing beer, are made into food pastes, usually dark-brown in color.

Prompt: What dark brown food paste is the Australian version of Marmite in this country?

Answer: New Vegemite


Context: The Planets | " he is known to have owned a copy of the score. Holst described The Planets as ""a series of mood pictures"", acting as ""foils to one another"", with ""very little contrast in any one of them"". Short writes that some of the characteristics the composer attributed to the planets may have been suggested by Alan Leo's booklet What is a Horoscope?, which he was reading at the time. Holst took the title of two movements – ""Mercury, the Winged Messenger"" and ""Neptune, the Mystic"" – from Leo's books. But although astrology was Holst's starting point, he arranged the planets to suit his own plan: In an "

Prompt: Which planet did Gustav Holst describe as the 'Winged Messenger'?

Answer: Mercury


Context: Lush (company) | " In 1995, Constantine and Weir opened a cosmetics shop on High Street in Poole, creating cosmetics from freshly purchased fruits and vegetables. The company's name was chosen after a customer competition in the store's newsletter. Lush opened two new stores in Covent Garden and Kings Road, London. Lush expanded into other countries, first with stores in Croatia and then Australia in 1997, Brazil in 1999 and Dublin, Ireland, in 2000. ""B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful"" was an experimental brand launched in 2003 by Lush. The first B Never store opened in 2003 and was located on Carnaby Street in London, before Lush expanded to opening 205 stores overseas. B Never closed its stores in 2009."

Prompt: Which ethical cosmetics company opened its first store in Poole, Dorset in 1994?

Answer: Lush (disambiguation)


Context: Nordkinnhalvøya |  The highest point on Nordkinnhalvøya is Storvarden (486 m) in the Sandfjellet massif. The northernmost point on the peninsula is the Kinnarodden cliff, which is also the northernmost point of mainland Norway and Europe. The peninsula is connected to the mainland by the 500 m wide Hopseidet isthmus. The peninsula is situated between the Tanafjorden to the east and the Laksefjorden to the west. They both empty into the Barents Sea.

Prompt: What is connected to the European mainland by a sand Isthmus called the North Front?

Answer: Gibraltar/History


Context: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | " Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 to Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) and Anna Maria, née Pertl (1720–1778), at Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg. Salzburg was the capital of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, an ecclesiastic principality in the Holy Roman Empire (today in Austria). He was the youngest of seven children, five of whom died in infancy. His elder sister was Maria Anna Mozart (1751–1829), nicknamed ""Nannerl"". Mozart was baptised the day after his birth, at St. Rupert's Cathedral in Salzburg. The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form, as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. He generally called himself ""Wolfgang Amadè Mozart"" as an adult, but his name had many "

Prompt: In which city was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in 1756?

Answer: Iuvavum


Context: Outline of applied science |  or in tanks, ponds or raceways which are filled with seawater. ; Agriculture – science of farming ; Cuniculture – also known as rabbit farming, is the breeding and raising domestic rabbits, usually for their meat or fur. ; Fungiculture – process of producing food, medicine, and other products by the cultivation of mushrooms and other fungi. ; Heliciculture – also called snail farming, is the process of farming or raising land snails specifically for human consumption, and more recently, to obtain snail slime for cosmetics use. ; Olericulture – science of vegetable growing, dealing with the culture of non-woody (herbaceous) plants for

Prompt: Heliculture is the farming of what for food?

Answer: Snale


Context: The Philosophers' Football Match |  Inspired by the famous Monty Python sketch, and with the full backing of the surviving Pythons, a tribute/replay of The Philosophers' Football Match was held in North London, at Wingate & Finchley's Harry Abrahams Stadium, Finchley on 9 May 2010. This tongue-in-cheek re-staging—on a real London pitch—of the original sketch, was the idea of The Philosophy Shop, a specialist provider of education and training for primary school children. The group works to enable Philosophy graduates at University level to conduct practical philosophy sessions for children aged 5 to 11 as part of a drive to boost their reasoning skills from their first days in the school environment. Philosophers A. C. Grayling and former England Manager Graham Taylor had been appointed as managers for the event, and players included comedians Mark Steel, Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, and Ariane Sherine, as well as philosophers Julian Baggini, Nigel Warburton, Simon Glendinning, Stephen Law, Angie Hobbs, and Mark Vernon, plus other academics from universities nationwide. Match supporters included sociologist and BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed presenter Laurie Taylor, the BBC's John Humphrys, and educationalist and author Anthony Seldon.

Prompt: Which type of chaps contested a football match in a famous Monty Python sketch?

Answer: Philosophers


Context: Cabbage |  Cabbage (Brassica oleracea or B. oleracea var. capitata, var. tuba, var. sabauda or var. acephala) is a member of the genus Brassica and the mustard family, Brassicaceae. Several other cruciferous vegetables (sometimes known as cole crops ) are cultivars of B. oleracea, including broccoli, collard greens, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi and sprouting broccoli. All of these developed from the wild cabbage B. oleracea var. oleracea, also called colewort or field cabbage. This original species evolved over thousands of years into those seen today, as selection resulted in cultivars having different characteristics, such as large heads for cabbage, large leaves for kale and thick stems with flower buds for broccoli. The varietal epithet

Prompt: Calabrese is a variety of which vegetable of the cabbage family?

Answer: Brocolli


Context: William Bigod |  William Bigod (died 25 November 1120), the heir to the Norfolk earldom, drowned in the disaster of the White Ship as she set sail from Normandy in 1120. The ship also carried the son of the King of England Henry I, William Adelin, who also died. The succession of Henry I to the throne of England was secured not only by the mysterious death of his brother King William II Rufus but by the defeat of his eldest brother Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. The death of Henry's heir to the throne set in motion a succession crisis that lasted many

Prompt: Which king's beloved son William was drowned in the tragedy of the White Ship?

Answer: Enrique I


Context: Endocrine gland |  The endocrine glands belong to the body's control system. The hormones which they produce help to regulate the functions of cells and tissues throughout the body. Endocrine organs are activated to release their hormones by humoral, neural, or hormonal stimuli. Negative feedback is important in regulating hormone levels in the blood. The nervous system, acting through hypothalamic controls, can in certain cases override or modulate hormonal effects.

Prompt: Which gland controls the release of hormones?

Answer: Pituitary glands


Context: Fighting knife | " regiments of the Indian Army serving the British Empire favored the Kukri, a broad-bladed, curved general-purpose cutting tool and weapon with Indian origins. In other countries the machete or Filipino Bolo were often used as fighting knives by indigenous military or paramilitary forces. Colonial powers that encountered these general-purpose weapons used as fighting knives during a military campaign occasionally adopted them in turn for use by their own military forces, as exemplified by the U.S. Army's Model 1910/17 ""Bolo"" brush-clearing knife, which would be later pressed into service as a fighting knife in both World Wars. In World War I, military use of the fighting knife saw the introduction of the ""trench knife"", a fighting knife designed "

Prompt: Who would carry a knife called a kukri?

Answer: Gurkha or Nepalese


Context: British rock music |  of the Beatles in Britain from 1962, a number of Liverpool performers were able to follow them into the charts, including Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Searchers, and Cilla Black. Among the most successful beat acts from Birmingham were The Spencer Davis Group and The Moody Blues; The Animals came from Newcastle, and Them, featuring Van Morrison, from Belfast. From London, the term Tottenham Sound was largely based around The Dave Clark Five, but other London bands that benefited from the beat boom of this era included the Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Yardbirds. The first non-Liverpool, non-Brian Epstein-managed band

Prompt: Which was the first Liverpool group to top the UK chart?

Answer: Gerry & The Pacemakers


Context: Th-fronting | " Estuary English"". In popular music, the singer Joe Brown's 1960s backing band was christened The Bruvvers (that is, ""the brothers"" with th-fronting). The 1960 musical Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be was stated to be a Cockney Comedy. Rock musician Keith Richards is commonly referred to as “Keef”. Up until the late 20th century th-fronting was common in speakers of Australian English from North Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. This may stem from the relatively high number of London cockneys who settled there during the Queensland gold rushes of the 19th century. The practice is gradually dying out as the influx of interstate and international immigrants increases."

Prompt: Which early sixties singer was backed by The Bruvvers?

Answer: Joe Brown (disambiguation)


Context: Wiener schnitzel |   A popular variation is made with pork instead of veal, because pork is cheaper than veal (usually about half the price). To avoid confusion, Austrian law requires that Wiener Schnitzel be made of veal. A schnitzel made of pork can be called Wiener Schnitzel vom Schwein ('Wiener schnitzel from pork') or Schnitzel Wiener Art ('Viennese style schnitzel'). Similar dishes to Wiener schnitzel include Surschnitzel (from cured meat), and breaded turkey or chicken steaks. Similarly prepared dishes include cotoletta alla milanese, schnitzel cordon bleu filled with ham and cheese and Pariser Schnitzel. The American chicken-fried steak is often said to be closely related to Wiener schnitzel, the result of the adaptation of the recipe by German or Austrian immigrants to the Texas Hill Country to locally available ingredients. Tonkatsu is a similar, fried pork cutlet from

Prompt: If you were making a wiener schnitzel what meat would you buy?

Answer: Ground veal


Context: NEET | "  NEET, an acronym for ""Not in Education, Employment, or Training"", refers to a person who is unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training. The classification originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s, and its use has spread, in varying degrees, to other countries and regions, including Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Canada, and the United States. The NEET category includes the unemployed (individuals without a job and seeking one), as well as individuals outside the labour force (without a job and not seeking one). It is usually age-bounded to exclude people in old-age retirement. In the United Kingdom, the classification comprises people aged between 16 and 24 (some 16 and 17 year-olds are still of compulsory school age); the subgroup of NEETs aged "

Prompt: If a young person is described as a NEET what does this mean?

Answer: Not in Education Employment


Context: Queequeg | " Queequeg is a character in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. The son of a South Sea chieftain who left home to explore the world, Queequeg is the first principal character encountered by the narrator, Ishmael. The quick friendship and relationship of equality between the tattooed cannibal and the white sailor show Melville's basic theme of shipboard democracy as well as his fondness for Polynesians (see Typee, Omoo and Mardi). Once aboard the whaling ship Pequod, Queequeg becomes the harpooner for the mate Starbuck. Near the end of the novel, he ""casts the runes"", which say he will die. He therefore builds "

Prompt: In which classic novel does the character Queequeg appear?

Answer: Fedallah


Context: Williams pear |  The Williams' bon chrétien pear, commonly called the Williams pear, or the Bartlett pear in the United States and Canada, is the most commonly grown variety of pear in most countries outside Asia. It is a cultivar (cultivated variety) of the species Pyrus communis, commonly known as the European Pear. The fruit has a bell shape, considered the traditional pear shape in the west, and its green skin turns yellow upon later ripening, although red-skinned derivative varieties exist. It is considered a summer pear, not as tolerant of cold as some varieties. It is often eaten raw, but holds its shape well when baked, and is a common choice for canned or other processed pear uses.

Prompt: Merton Pride and Williams are varieties of which fruit?

Answer: Pear (fruit)


Context: Hong Kong Phooey | " Hong Kong Phooey is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast on ABC. The original episodes aired from September 7 to December 21, 1974, and then in repeats until 1976. The show was brought back in reruns in 1978 and 1981, and was included in the USA channel's cartoon express throughout the '80s. The main character, Hong Kong Phooey, is the clownishly clumsy secret identity of Penrod ""Penry"" Pooch, working at a police station as a ""mild-mannered"" janitor under the glare of Sergeant Flint, nicknamed ""Sarge"". Penry disguises himself as Hong Kong Phooey by jumping into a filing cabinet – in so doing he always gets stuck, and "

Prompt: What is the secret identity of Penrod 'Penry' Pooch?

Answer: Hong Kong Phooie


Context: Are You an Egghead? |  Match One: Gary Grant v. Julia Hobbs: Julia, who has set questions on quiz shows, such as Going for Gold seemed to be breezing through to the last 16 against Gary Grant, a finalist on The Weakest Link and a future Mastermind series champion, taking 4 Eggheads into the final round, but after Chris let her down on the final multiple choice question, Gary won in sudden death. Match Two: Pam Thomas v. Chris Young: Pam, winner of the first series of A Question of Genius took on Chris, whose exploits included being involved in a University Challenge team with the highest winning

Prompt: Who was the question master in the original series of TV's Going For Gold?

Answer: Henry Kelly


Context: 2015 in the United Kingdom |  the same course on the same day as the men's race (which Oxford also win). ; Tennis player Andy Murray marries his fiancée Kim Sears at a ceremony in his home town of Dunblane. ; 16 April – the Crown Prosecution Service issues a statement indicating that Labour peer Greville Janner will not face prosecution over allegations of child sexual abuse owing to his poor health. ; 21 April – following a six-week trial, Justin Robertson is jailed for life with a minimum tariff of thirty-two years for the September 2014 contract killing of Pennie Davis at the behest of her stepson. Benjamin Carr, who paid Robertson £1,500 to

Prompt: In April, which sportsman married his childhood sweetheart Kim Sears?

Answer: Andy Murray (tennis player)