Context: Antonio Vivaldi |   Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (, ;   ; 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, impresario, and Roman Catholic priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, Vivaldi is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers. His influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers and was paramount in the development of Johann Sebastian Bach's instrumental music and the French concerto (Michel Corrette, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Louis-Nicholas Clérambault). Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the Four Seasons. Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the Ospedale

Prompt: Give a year in the life of Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.

Answer: 1678 - 1741


Context: 1600 in India | East India Company granted Royal Charter by Elizabeth I of England (ran until disestablishment in 1874)

Prompt: Which monarch granted a royal charter to the British East India Company?

Answer: The Gloriana


Context: Thomas Chippendale |   Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) was a cabinet-maker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs in a trade catalogue titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, upon which success he became renowned. The designs are regarded as representing the current British fashion for furniture of that period and are now reproduced globally. He was buried 16 November 1779, according to the records of St Martin-in-the-Fields, in the cemetery since built upon by the National Gallery. Chippendale furniture is much valued; a padouk cabinet that was offered for auction during 2008 sold for £2,729,250.

Prompt: Give a year in the life of English furniture designer Thomas Chippendale.

Answer: 1718 - 1779


Context: The Body Shop |  The Body Shop International Limited, trading as The Body Shop, is a British cosmetics, skin care and perfume company. Founded in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick, the company currently has a range of 1,000 products sold in about 3,000 stores, divided between those owned by the company and franchised outlets in more than 65 countries. Originally trading from Brighton, the company is now based in London Bridge and Littlehampton, West Sussex, and is owned by Brazilian cosmetics company Natura as a subsidiary of the Natura & Co group. The company had been owned by the French cosmetics company L'Oréal between 2006 and 2017. In June 2017, L'Oréal agreed to sell the company to Natura for £880 million. The deal was approved in September 2017.

Prompt: Who founded the Body Shop, in the UK, in 1976?

Answer: Dame Anita Lucia Roddick


Context: Brazilian Armed Forces |  South America is a relatively peaceful continent in which wars are a rare event; as a result, Brazil hasn't had its territory invaded since year 1865 during the Paraguayan War. Additionally, Brazil has no contested territorial disputes with any of its neighbours and neither does it have rivalries, like Chile and Bolivia have with each other. However, Brazil is the only country besides China and Russia that has land borders with 10 or more nations. Moreover, Brazil has 16,880 km of land borders and 7367 km of coastline to be patrolled and defended. Overall, the Armed Forces have to defend 8.5 million km2 (around 3.2 million sq. mi.) of land and patrol 4.4 million km2 (around 1.7 million sq. mi.) of territorial waters – or Blue Amazon, as the Brazilian Navy calls them. To achieve this mission, significant manpower and funding is required.

Prompt: Name either of the South American countries that have no land border with Brazil?

Answer: Chile, Ecuador


Context: Legio X Equestris | " Legio X Equestris ( Tenth Legion ""Mounted""), a Roman legion, was levied by Julius Caesar in 61 BC when he was the Governor of Hispania Ulterior. The Tenth was the first legion levied personally by Caesar and was consistently his most trusted. The name Equestris was applied after Caesar mounted legionaries from the Tenth on horses as a ruse in a parley with the German King Ariovistus in 58 BC because he did not trust his Gallic cavalry auxiliaries from the Aedui tribe. Legio X was famous in its day and throughout history, because of its portrayal in Caesar's Commentaries and the prominent role the Tenth played in his Gallic campaigns. Its soldiers were discharged in 45 BC. Its remnants were reconstituted, fought for Mark Antony and Octavian, disbanded, and later merged into X Gemina."

Prompt: Which unit of the Roman army was one tenth of a legion?

Answer: Cohort


Context: Citrine (colour) | " Citrine is a colour, the most common reference for which is certain coloured varieties of quartz which are a medium deep shade of golden yellow. Citrine has been summarized at various times as yellow, greenish-yellow, brownish yellow or orange. The original reference point for the citrine colour was the citron fruit. The first recorded use of citrine as a colour in English was in 1386. It was borrowed from a medieval Latin and classical Latin word with the same meaning. In late medieval and early modern English the citrine colour-name was applied in a wider variety of contexts than it is today and could be ""reddish or brownish yellow; or orange; or amber (distinguished from yellow)"". In today's English citrine as a colour is mostly confined to the contexts of (1) gemstones, including quartz, and (2) some animal and plant names. E.g., the citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola), an Asian bird species with golden-yellow plumage, or the citrine warbler, citrine canary-flycatcher, citrine forktail, etc."

Prompt: What colour is the gemstone citrine?

Answer: Yellowest


Context: The Music Lovers |  The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on Beloved Friend, a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which include Elgar (1962), Delius: Song of Summer (1968), Mahler (1974) and Lisztomania (1975), made from an often idiosyncratic standpoint.

Prompt: The film 'The Music Lovers' was about which composer?

Answer: Tsjajkovskij


Context: Eucalyptus leucoxylon |  Eucalyptus leucoxylon, commonly known as yellow gum, blue gum or white ironbark, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It has smooth yellowish bark with some rough bark near the base, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three and cylindrical, barrel-shaped or shortened spherical fruit. A widely cultivated species, it has white, red or pink flowers.

Prompt: Blue Gum and Ironbark are species of which genus of Australian tree?

Answer: Eucalyptus


Context: Glossary of ballet |  The standard, basic placements of feet on the floor. Modern-day classical ballet employs five positions, known as the first position, second position, third position, fourth position, and fifth position.

Prompt: How many basic positions are there in classical ballet?

Answer: five


Context: Human uses of reptiles |  the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. In Neo-Paganism and Wicca, the snake is seen as a symbol of wisdom and knowledge. A legend tells that Saint Patrick banished snakes from Ireland; there are no extant native snakes there. The legend of Saint George and the Dragon, which has pre-Christian origins, tells that the saint, often depicted on horseback and armed with a lance, killed a dragon. More recently, the urban legend of New York sewer alligators holds that pet reptiles, released when they grew too large for their owners' comfort, thrived and grew to monstrous size beneath the city's streets.

Prompt: Snakes are the symbol of which saint?

Answer: Naomh Padraig


Context: 2010 Belgian Grand Prix |   The 2010 Belgian Grand Prix was the 13th of the 19 events in the 2010 Formula One World Championship, and the 55th World Championship edition of the race. It was held at the 19-turn 7.004 km Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, near Spa, Ardennes, on 29 August. Formula One tyre supplier Bridgestone brought the soft and medium dry compounds and the intermediate and full wet-weather tyres to the race. After the 2009 event, the tarmac run-off area at Les Combes chicane was expanded with three bumps (similar to those on the chicanes at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, the Circuit de Catalunya and the Valencia Street Circuit) added to stop drivers

Prompt: Which Formula One racetrack is in the Ardennes?

Answer: Cosmetic treatment


Context: Meniscus (liquid) |  Menisci are a manifestation of capillary action, by which either surface adhesion pulls a liquid up to form a concave meniscus, or internal cohesion pulls the liquid down to form a convex meniscus. This phenomenon is important in transpirational pull in plants. When a tube of a narrow bore, often called a capillary tube, is dipped into a liquid and the liquid wets the tube (with zero contact angle), the liquid surface inside the tube forms a concave meniscus, which is a virtually spherical surface having the same radius, r, as the inside of the tube. The tube experiences a downward force of magnitude 2πrσ, where σ is the surface tension of the liquid.

Prompt: What name is given to the curve seen at the surface of a liquid, particularly in a narrow tube?

Answer: Meniscal


Context: Hansel and Gretel (1983 TV special) |  pile of small stones near the house and drop them so they may find their way home, knowing their stepmother's plot. The children manage to find their way back home that same evening using the stones Hansel had dropped. While their father is in town selling his toys the next morning, the children's stepmother, unhappy with their return, decides to take the children on another walk in the woods. Before leaving the house, she gives the children a toy duck, telling them it is one of their father's toys. The children, not trusting their stepmother, once again leave a trail

Prompt: In a children's story, who followed little white stones and so reached their home?

Answer: Hansel und Gretel


Context: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury |  The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus, London, erected in 1893, was designed to commemorate his philanthropic works. The fountain is crowned by Alfred Gilbert's aluminium statue of Anteros as a nude, butterfly-winged archer. This is officially titled The Angel of Christian Charity, but has become popularly if mistakenly known as Eros. It appears on the masthead of the Evening Standard.

Prompt: The 'Angel of Christian Charity' in London is more commonly known by what name?

Answer: Illuminated advertisements of Picadilly Circus


Context: Okapi |  The okapi (Okapia johnstoni), also known as the forest giraffe, Congolese giraffe, or zebra giraffe, is an artiodactyl mammal that is endemic to the northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo in central Africa. Although the okapi has striped markings reminiscent of zebras, it is most closely related to the giraffe. The okapi and the giraffe are the only living members of the family Giraffidae. The okapi stands about 1.5 m tall at the shoulder and has a typical body length around 2.5 m. Its weight ranges from 200 to 350 kg. It has a long neck, and large, flexible ears. Its coat is a chocolate to

Prompt: To which family of animals does the okapi belong?

Answer: Giraffes mating


Context: Madame Du Barry (1934 film) | " Louis XV, the pleasure-loving King of France in the mid-eighteenth century, is nearing 60, and, his wife and his important and beloved former mistress Madame de Pompadour both being gone, he yearns for a new woman companion who would treat him as a man rather than as a favour-dispensing king. He fails to find such a woman at the Deer Park, a ""school"" for ladies in waiting— and would-be royal mistresses— set up in memory of Madame de Pompadour. However, one of his courtiers, the Duc de Richelieu, knows (as a lover or customer, it is strongly suggested) a young woman of the people, Jeanne du Barry, who is an exuberant, free-spirited soul with no agenda except "

Prompt: With which French King were Mme de Pompadour and Mme Du Barry associated?

Answer: Louis XV the Beloved


Context: Castle River (Marlborough) |  The Castle River is a river in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand. Rising just north of Shingle Peak, the river flows east then south until it meets the Awatere River.

Prompt: On which river does Marlborough stand?

Answer: Kennet Valley


Context: Clio |   In Greek mythology, Clio (traditionally, but now more frequently ; Κλειώ), also spelled Kleio, is the muse of history, or in a few mythological accounts, the muse of lyre playing.

Prompt: Who was the lyre-playing muse of tragedy in Greek mythology?

Answer: Melpomène


Context: Banknotes of the pound sterling |  on every sterling banknote and coin. In July 2013 it was announced that the Series F £10 note design would bear a portrait of 19th century author Jane Austen. In 2015, the Bank announced that they were accepting suggestions from the public for a figure from the visual arts to appear on the £20 note to replace Adam Smith, with the new note to be introduced in 2020. In April 2016, it was announced that J. M. W. Turner had been selected to appear on the new £20 note. In September 2013 the Bank of England opened a period of public consultation about the introduction

Prompt: Whose portrait is to appear on the new £10 note due to be issued in 2017?

Answer: Jane Austen


Context: Waterline | TF – tropical fresh water ; F – fresh water ; T – tropical seawater ; S – summer temperate seawater ; W – winter temperate seawater ; WNA – winter North Atlantic The summer load line is the primary load line and it is from this mark that all other marks are derived. The position of the summer load line is calculated from the load line rules and depends on many factors such as length of ship, type of ship, type and number of superstructures, amount of sheer, and bow height. The horizontal line through the circle of the Plimsoll mark is at the same level as the summer load line. ; The winter load line is

Prompt: Where on a ship would the letters 'WNA' and 'TF' appear?

Answer: Plimsoll (or Load ) Line


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

Prompt: Under what pseudonym did JK Rowling publish the book 'The Cuckoo's Calling'?

Answer: Robert Galbraith (disambiguation)


Context: Sermon on the Mount | " those who act like God(...)"", Is up for debate, as the indicated source's claim is ambiguous at best. Though some of the commentaries written on this event, notably by Eckhart Tolle, and others, indicate that the ultimate humility and itiatiatory act is to act like God in order receive God's ultimate grace, this particular source should be replaced with one that merits this claim] The teachings of the sermon are often referred to as the Ethics of the Kingdom: they place a high level of emphasis on ""purity of the heart"" and embody the basic standard of Christian righteousness."

Prompt: In the Sermon on the Mount, who would see God?

Answer: Hearts of Nineteen


Context: Tenderness (novel) |  Tenderness is a 1997 novel written by Robert Cormier. It is the basis for John Polson's 2009 film, Tenderness.

Prompt: Which controversial novel was originally to have been called 'Tenderness'?

Answer: Wragby Hall


Context: Ascot Racecourse |  keen interest in racing. The jockeys riding the Queen's horses can be identified by her racing colours: purple body with gold braid, scarlet sleeves, and a black velvet cap with gold fringe. The Queen has not missed the annual Royal Meeting since her Coronation in 1953, and traditionally presents The Gold Cup and The Diamond Jubilee Stakes each year. In 2013, The Queen's filly, Estimate, triumphed in Ascot's showpiece race, The Gold Cup – the first time that The Gold Cup has been won by a reigning monarch. In 2004, Ascot Racecourse was closed for a £220 million redevelopment, the single biggest

Prompt: Which of the Queen's horses won the 2013 Ascot Gold Cup?

Answer: Estimated


Context: Chronological summary of the 2012 Summer Olympics |  Britain's Nicola Adams won the first ever women's Olympic boxing gold medal, defeating Ren Cancan of China 16–7 in the final of the flyweight division. Bronze medals went to Mary Kom of India and the United States' Marlen Esparza. ; Katie Taylor of Ireland defeated Russia's Sofya Ochigava 16–8 to win the gold medal in the women's lightweight. ; Seventeen-year-old American Claressa Shields won gold in the women's middleweight, defeating Russia's Nadezda Torlopova by a score of 19–12 in the final. Germany's Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela won the men's C-2 1000 metres ahead of defending Olympic champions Andrei and

Prompt: Who won the first ever boxing gold for women? She shares her surname with two US Presidents.

Answer: Nicola Adams


Context: Classical Athens |  Persian Wars). In 490 the Athenians, led by Miltiades, prevented the first invasion of the Persians, guided by king Darius I, at the Battle of Marathon. In 480 the Persians returned under a new ruler, Xerxes I. The Hellenic League led by the Spartan King Leonidas led 7,000 men to hold the narrow passageway of Thermopylae against the 100,000–250,000 army of Xerxes, during which Leonidas and 300 other Spartan elites were killed. Simultaneously the Athenians led an indecisive naval battle off Artemisium. However, that delaying action was not enough to discourage the Persian advance, which soon marched through Boeotia, setting up Thebes as their base of

Prompt: In 480 BC, Leonidas led his 300 Spartans against the Persian army, led by Xerxes, in which land battle?

Answer: Thermopalee


Context: Lohengrin | " accusation of killing her younger brother Gottfried (who turns out to be alive and returns at the end of the opera). According to Wagner, the Grail imbues the Knight of the Swan with mystical powers that can only be maintained if their nature is kept secret; hence the danger of Elsa's question. The most famous piece from Lohengrin is the ""Bridal Chorus"" (""Here Comes the Bride""), still played at many Western weddings. Wagner's Lohengrin was parodied in Victor Herbert's 1906 burlesque The Magic Knight, and was reworked into Salvatore Sciarrino's 1982 opera Lohengrin, which reduces the narrative to a manic hallucination."

Prompt: Which Wagner opera tells the story of the eponymous swan knight and features The Bridal Chorus?

Answer: Loherangrin


Context: London, 1802 | " ""London, 1802"" is a poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In the poem Wordsworth castigates the English people as stagnant and selfish, and eulogises seventeenth-century poet John Milton. Composed in 1802, ""London, 1802"" was published for the first time in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)."

Prompt: Which edifice in London was immortalised in poetry by Wordsworth in 1802 and in a painting by Canaletto in 1746?

Answer: Westminster bridge


Context: Landlocked country |   A landlocked country is a country that does not have territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie on endorheic basins. There are currently 44 landlocked countries and four partially recognized landlocked states. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country. In 1990, there were only 30 landlocked countries in the world. The breakup of Yugoslavia, the dissolutions of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, and the independence referendums of Eritrea and South Sudan have created 15 new landlocked countries and four partially recognized landlocked states while the former landlocked country of Czechoslovakia ceased to exist on 1 January 1993. Generally, being landlocked creates some political and economic handicaps that having access to international waters would avoid. For this reason, nations large and small throughout history have sought to gain access

Prompt: Which former Soviet republic is the largest land-locked county in the world?

Answer: Name of Kazakhstan


Context: Ariel (moon) |  Discovered on 24 October 1851 by William Lassell, it is named for a sky spirit in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Both Ariel and the slightly larger Uranian satellite Umbriel were discovered by William Lassell on 24 October 1851. Although William Herschel, who discovered Uranus's two largest moons Titania and Oberon in 1787, claimed to have observed four additional moons, this was never confirmed and those four objects are now thought to be spurious. All of Uranus's moons are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. The names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by John Herschel in 1852 at the request of Lassell. Ariel is named after the leading sylph in The Rape of the Lock. It is also the name of the spirit who serves Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The moon is also designated Uranus I.

Prompt: Which planet, which has moons named after characters from Shakespeare and Pope, was discovered by Herschel in 1781?

Answer: Magnetosphere of Uranus


Context: 1954 | " Socialist and Liberal Party, subsequently form a rare ""purple"" government, with Achille Van Acker as Prime Minister. ; April 12 – Bill Haley & His Comets record ""Rock Around the Clock"" in their first session for American Decca in New York City; it is released on May 20 as a B-side, but only in 1955 becomes a #1 hit, helping to initiate the rock and roll craze. ; April 14 ; Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet in protest over his party's failure to oppose the rearmament of West Germany. ; A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled. ; April 16 – Vice President Richard Nixon announces "

Prompt: Who had a hit in 1955 with Rock Around the Clock?

Answer: Bill Haley's Comets


Context: List of English words of Italian origin | " Kaffa region of Ethiopia, a home of the plant) ; Espresso (from espresso, ""expressed"") ; Fava ; Frascati ; Fusilli (Italian: fusillo, pl. fusilli; a derivative form of the word fuso, meaning ""spindle"") ; Gelatine (from Italian gelatina through French) ; Gnocchi (Italian: gnocco, pl. gnocchi) ; Gorgonzola after the village near Milan ; Granita ; Grappa ; Gusto ; Lasagne (Italian: lasagna, pl. lasagne) ; Latte (or ""Caffè latte"") (Italian: caffellatte or caffè e latte, ""coffee and milk"") ; Latte macchiato (Italian latte macchiato, ""stained milk"") ; Macaroni (Italian maccherone, pl. maccheroni) ; Macchiato (or Caffè macchiato) From macchiato, ""stained"". Espresso coffee with a small dash "

Prompt: Which Italian pasta's name means little spindles in English?

Answer: Fusili


Context: List of people from Texas |  1963), actress, singer ; Ann Miller (1923–2004), actress, dancer ; Austin Miller (born 1976), actor, dancer, singer ; Billy Miller (born 1979), actor, The Young and the Restless, All My Children ; Carl Miller (1893–1979), actor ; Logan Miller (born 1992), actor, musician ; McKaley Miller (born 1996), actress, Hart of Dixie, Partners ; Valarie Rae Miller (born 1974), actress ; Don Mischer (born 1940), television producer, director ; Elizabeth Mitchell (born 1970), actress, Lost, V, ER ; Tom Mix (1880–1940), silent film actor ; Roger Mobley (born 1949), child actor, Christian pastor ; DeQuina Moore (born 1986), actress ;

Prompt: Which singer and actress who lived from 1963 - 2012, shares her surname with major city in Texas?

Answer: Death of Whitney Houston


Context: 2013 Women's County Championship |  The 2013 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 17th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from April to September and saw 33 county teams and teams representing Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Netherlands compete in a series of divisions. Sussex Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division, beating Yorkshire in the division final. The Championship was Sussex's sixth title.

Prompt: Which county won the 2013 Cricket County Championship?

Answer: Durham (disambiguation)


Context: Dell PowerConnect |  PowerConnect 3424, 3424P, 3448, and 3448P were fully managed 10/100 switches with gigabit uplinks. All have four Gigabit ports, two copper and two SFP modular, all of which may be used at once. The 3424 and 3424P have 24 10/100 ports, the 3448 and 3448P have 48. The 3424P and 3448P provide power over Ethernet on all 10/100 ports (PowerConnect 3448P requires EPS-470 for full 15.4W on all ports simultaneously). The switches are stackable using the copper Gigabit ports. They were discontinued.

Prompt: If 10 to the power 9 is a gigabyte, what is 10 to the power 12?

Answer: Tbytes


Context: History of aviation | On 4 June, the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated their unmanned hot air balloon at Annonay, France. ; On 27 August, Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers (Les Freres Robert) launched the world's first unmanned hydrogen-filled balloon, from the Champ de Mars, Paris. ; On 19 October, the Montgolfiers launched the first manned flight, a tethered balloon with humans on board, at the Folie Titon in Paris. The aviators were the scientist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, the manufacture manager Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, and Giroud de Villette. ; On 21 November, the Montgolfiers launched the first free flight with human passengers. King Louis XVI had originally decreed that condemned criminals would be the first pilots, but Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, along with the Marquis François d'Arlandes, successfully

Prompt: In which decade did the Montgolfier Brothers launch the first successful manned ascent in a hot air balloon?

Answer: 1780-1789


Context: Power of 10 | billionth = 10−[(2 + 1) × 3] = 10−9 ; quintillionth = 10−[(5 + 1) × 3] = 10−18 The sequence of powers of ten can also be extended to negative powers. Similar to the positive powers, the negative power of 10 related to a short scale name can be determined based on its Latin name-prefix using the following formula: 10−[(prefix-number + 1) × 3] Examples:

Prompt: If the unit of measurement 10 to the power minus 12 is a picometre, what is 10 to the power minus 9?

Answer: Nanometre


Context: Schumann (surname) | Clara Schumann (née Wieck, 1819–1896), German pianist and composer; wife of Robert Schumann ; Coco Schumann (1924–2018), German jazz musician ; Elisabeth Schumann (1888–1952), German opera soprano ; Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861–1936), opera singer ; Georg Schumann (composer) (1866–1952), German composer and director ; John Schumann (born 1953), Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist, formerly in Redgum ; Melissa Schuman (born 1984), American singer and actress ; Peter Schumann (born 1934), theater director ; Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer ; Tom Schuman (born 1958), American jazz musician ; Walter Schumann (1913–1958), American soundtrack composer ; William Schuman (1910–1992), American composer

Prompt: What was the Christian name of the wife of composer Robert Schumann?

Answer: RedCLARA


Context: List of minor Old Testament figures, A–K |  Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, was the father of Eliphelet, one of King David's Warriors (2 Samuel 23:34).

Prompt: Who in the Old Testament is the father of King David?

Answer: Jesse (given name)


Context: Hominization | " This term is used to describe the tendency to attribute human characteristics to entities that are other than human. Example; ""My dog's separation anxiety"", etc."

Prompt: For which human physical reaction is horripilation the correct medical term?

Answer: Chill bump


Context: 2018 Kentucky Derby |  The 2018 Kentucky Derby (officially, the 2018 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve ) was the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby, and took place on Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Louisville, Kentucky. The field was open to 20 horses, with a purse of US$2 million. The Derby is held annually in Louisville on the first Saturday in May, at the end of the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. It is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1+1/4 mi, and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875. The race was broadcast by NBC, with coverage by NBCSN of undercard races beginning at 12:30pm EDT and main network coverage of pre-race activities starting at 2:30pm EDT. Post time was 6:52pm EDT. The race was won by Justify, who was the post-time favorite, in a time of 2:04.20 over a sloppy track. It is the first time since 1882 that the race was won by a horse that did not race at the age of two.

Prompt: What is the name of the racecourse in Louisville where the Kentucky Derby is run?

Answer: Churchill Downs Racetrack


Context: Gingerbread (charity) |  Gingerbread is the leading national charity working with single parent families. The National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, founded in 1918, changed its name to the National Council for One Parent Families in the early 1970s and in 2007 merged with Gingerbread, a self-help organisation founded in 1970. After briefly being known as One Parent Families|Gingerbread, it relaunched as Gingerbread in January 2009. The charity provides expert advice and practical support to single parents through a variety of support services. In addition, the charity works to improve the livelihood of single parents through advocacy and policy work, particularly relating to the charity's core areas of employment and skills, families and relationships, living standards and poverty, and welfare. J. K. Rowling, formerly a single parent, is the charity’s President.

Prompt: What is the name of the charity for single parents founded in the 1970s which currently has J K Rowling as its President?

Answer: Gingerbreads


Context: Jack Reacher (book series) |  Jack Reacher is a fictional protagonist of a series of novels, novellas and short stories by British author Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child. A former major in the United States Army Military Police Corps, Reacher roams the United States taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations. The Reacher novels are written either in the first-person or third-person. The schedule for the Reacher series is one-per-year, except for 2010 when two were published. Most of the novels are set in the United States, in locales ranging from major metropolitan areas like New York City and Los Angeles to small towns in the Midwestern United States and the Southern United States. To date, Reacher's travels outside the United States have taken him to rural England (The Hard Way, Maybe They Have a Tradition), London (Personal), Hamburg (Night School) and Paris (The Enemy, Personal).

Prompt: What is the pen name of Jim Grant, the British author who writes stories about the former U.S. Military Police Major, Jack Reacher?

Answer: Lee Child.


Context: Flag of Finland | " ""slave's flag"" (orjalippu), and most Finns refused to fly it. Instead, a triangular pennant without this modification was flown, thereby circumventing the decree concerning flags. Shortly after Finland gained independence in 1917, a competition was held for the design of the Finnish flag. Several different designs were submitted. Regarding the colours, the entries fell mainly into two categories – one using the red and yellow from the Finnish coat of arms, and the other using the present blue and white colours. One entry had the Dannebrog cross design, but with a yellow cross on a red background. Another entry had diagonal blue and white stripes, but it was "

Prompt: What colour is the cross on the Finnish flag?

Answer: Blue


Context: Elyes Gabel | " Gabel starred as an eccentric computing genius Walter O'Brien on the American drama series Scorpion by Nick Santora on CBS, based on the real life of Walter O'Brien. According to the show creator Nick Santora, ""Gabel was able to play the difficulty of expressing emotion while being emotional” for the character of Walter O'Brien, who had difficulty processing and expressing emotions. The series debuted on 22 September 2014 and became the highest rated and highest streamed drama for CBS. The series was cancelled after 4 seasons, 93 episodes despite having higher ratings than other cancellations with the last airing on 16 April 2018. Gabel starred in all 93 episodes of the series and was termed as one of the ""11 Breakout Stars of the Fall TV Season 2014"" by The Wrap and TVLine. In the same year, he made an appearance "

Prompt: "Which American TV character said ""I am not capable of that emotion''?"

Answer: Mr Spock


Context: Charles Edward Stuart | " aided him, and none of them betrayed him for the £30,000 reward. Charles was assisted by supporters such as pilot Donald Macleod of Galtrigill, Captain Con O'Neill who took him to Benbecula, and Flora MacDonald who helped him escape to the Isle of Skye by taking him in a boat disguised as her maid ""Betty Burke"". He ultimately evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L'Heureux, arriving in France in September. The Prince's Cairn marks the traditional spot on the shores of Loch nan Uamh in Lochaber from which he made his final departure from Scotland. With the Jacobite cause "

Prompt: Who evaded capture disguised as Betty Burke?

Answer: Betty Burke


Context: Bloody Mary (cocktail) | " common additions to the juice base are salt or celery salt (either mixed in or as a salted rim), cracked pepper, hot sauce (such as Tabasco), citrus juices (especially lemon or lime), Worcestershire sauce, celery seed, horseradish, clam juice or olive brine, brown sugar or molasses, or bitters. Some or all of these ingredients can come pre-mixed with the tomato juice as a single ""Bloody Mary mix"" to which the vodka is added, or the drink may be hand-constructed by the bartender from raw ingredients according to the patron's preference. A common garnish is a celery stalk when served in a tall glass; other common garnishes include olives, cheese cubes, a dill pickle spear, lemon wedges, dried sausage, bacon, and shrimp (as the taste of the drink is often reminiscent "

Prompt: What spirit is added to tomato juice to make a Bloody Maria?

Answer: Tequila Manhattan


Context: General store |  Many British television and radio series, especially soap operas, feature corner shops or village shops as cornerstones for community gatherings and happenings. Prominent examples are the village shop in Ambridge, the fictional village in the BBC Radio 4 series, The Archers, (1950–present). Or the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street (1960–present) featuring a corner shop; it was owned previously by Alf Roberts the grocer, and after his death in the late-1990s was bought by Dev Alahan, reflecting this common change in British culture to Asian shopkeepers. The dying days and changing culture of the traditional British grocer were explored to great effect in the BBC TV comedy series Open All Hours (1976–1985), set in the real suburb of Balby in Doncaster; the shop front used

Prompt: Which British TV character set up a chain of shops called Grot?

Answer: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (2009)


Context: Cultural depictions of ravens | "  The raven (Hebrew: ; Koine Greek: κόραξ) is the first species of bird to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, and ravens are mentioned on numerous occasions thereafter. In the Book of Genesis, Noah releases a raven from the ark after the great flood to test whether the waters have receded (Gen. 8:6-7). According to the Law of Moses, ravens are forbidden for food (Leviticus 11:15; Deuteronomy 14:14), a fact that may have colored the perception of ravens in later sources. In the Book of Judges, one of the Kings of the Midianites defeated by Gideon is called ""Orev"", which means ""Raven"". "

Prompt: In the Bible, which bird was the first to leave the Ark?

Answer: Corbies


Context: The National Lottery Draws |  The National Lottery draws were originally filmed at BBC Television Centre in London. From 2006 to 2013, it was filmed at Arqiva Chalfont Grove studios in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire in a set known as Lottery HQ. From January 2013, it has been filmed from Pinewood Studios. The EuroMillions draw takes place in a dedicated studio in Paris, France. The draw is occasionally shown at other locations for special events such as The National Lottery Awards ceremony.

Prompt: Where does the draw for the Euromillions lottery prize usually take place?

Answer: Paříž


Context: Kidnapped (novel) | David Balfour is 17 and his parents have died. He seeks his inheritance from his father’s brother. The last name of this character is taken from the maiden name of the author’s mother. ; Ebenezer Balfour is his uncle, living in the entailed estate. ; Alexnder Balfour, father of David and older brother of Ebenezer. ; Alan Breck Stewart is his companion, and is a character drawn from life. ; Colin Roy Campbell, also known as the Red Fox. He meets David at Appin on his walk across Scotland, just before a sniper shoots him dead. The Appin murder mentioned in the story was a historical event followed by a controversial trial.  The character James Stewart was real, and the man hanged for killing Colin Roy Campbell, though James was not the killer. Cluny MacPherson and Rob Roy MacGregor and his son, Robìn Òig or Young Rob, mentioned or met along the way, were real people.

Prompt: David Balfour and Alan Breck are characters in books by which author?

Answer: Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson


Context: Steam spring |  George Stephenson's first locomotive was the Blücher of 1814. This was a four-wheeled locomotive with the wheels coupled by spur gears. It suffered from poor traction on the relatively new technology of edge rails with flanged wheels, put down to the problem of maintaining a good contact with them. It was the first of a batch of early Stephenson locomotives known as the 'Killingworth Colliery locomotives'. Stephenson's next design was a development of this, still with four wheels, but now using a chain drive to couple them together. This was his first locomotive to use steam springs.

Prompt: What was the name of George Stephenson's first railway locomotive, built in 1814?

Answer: Blucher


Context: Tony Hawks | Round Ireland with a Fridge: His first book was an account of his attempt to hitchhike around Ireland with a fridge to win a bar bet. It sold over 800,000 copies. ; Playing the Moldovans at Tennis: His second book, also the result of a drunken bet (with the comedian Arthur Smith), this time involved an attempt to beat each member of the Moldova national football team in a game of tennis, based on the theory that people good at one sport are not necessarily good at others. ; One Hit Wonderland: His third book describes his attempt, over 10 years after his first, to write a second hit song. This culminates in him performing on Albanian television with Norman Wisdom and Tim Rice. ; A Piano in the Pyrenees: The Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French

Prompt: Complete the title of the debut novel by Tony Hawks 'Round Ireland with a .'

Answer: The Fridge


Context: Forest Whitaker |  and Black Panther as Zuri. For his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the British historical drama film The Last King of Scotland (2006), Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Whitaker made his directorial debut with the television film Strapped (1993), and directed the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Hope Floats (1998), and First Daughter (2004). Apart from his film career, Whitaker is also known for his humanitarian work and activism. In 2011, he was inducted as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, was later promoted to Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, and serves as the CEO of Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI), a non-profit outreach program.

Prompt: Forest Whitaker won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in which 2006 film?

Answer: Last King Of Scotland


Context: 2013 America's Cup |  The challenger was determined in the 2013 Louis Vuitton Cup challenger selection series. Emirates Team New Zealand won the Louis Vuitton Cup and therefore the right to challenge Oracle Team USA in the America's Cup.

Prompt: Which cup did Emirates Team New Zealand win this summer which allowed them to challenge Oracle Team USA for the America's Cup?

Answer: LOUIS VUTITON CUP


Context: 1919 in women's history |  I and renamed the peace organization founded in 1915 as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. ; 15 May 1919: Isle of Jersey, (Channel Islands) — Single women over age 20 were given the right to vote in local elections. ; 16 May 1919: Crown Colony of Jamaica, British West Indies — Women of twenty-five years or more, who earned £50 or more per year, or paid taxes of £2 annually became eligible to vote. ; 20 May 1919: France — The Chamber of Deputies passed a bill to grant equal suffrage to women with 377 deputies in favor and 97 against. The measure did not pass the Senate, delaying women's voting rights until 1944. ; 24 May 1919: Sweden — Women were granted the right to vote.

Prompt: In1918 women over what age were given the right to vote?

Answer: 30


Context: Virginia in the American Civil War |  The first and last significant battles of the war were held in Virginia, the first being the First Battle of Bull Run and the last being the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse. From May 1861 to April 1865, Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy. The White House of the Confederacy, located a few blocks north of the State Capital, was home to the family of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Prompt: What was the capital of the Confederacy in the American Civil War?

Answer: RICHMOND


Context: Calcium | " because of the much greater lattice energy afforded by the more highly charged Ca2+ cation compared to the hypothetical Ca+ cation. Calcium, strontium, barium, and radium are always considered to be alkaline earth metals; the lighter beryllium and magnesium, also in group 2 of the periodic table, are often included as well. Nevertheless, beryllium and magnesium differ significantly from the other members of the group in their physical and chemical behaviour: they behave more like aluminium and zinc respectively and have some of the weaker metallic character of the post-transition metals, which is why the traditional definition of the term ""alkaline earth metal"" excludes them. This classification is mostly obsolete in English-language sources, but is still used in other countries such as Japan. As a result, comparisons with strontium and barium are more germane to calcium chemistry than comparisons with magnesium."

Prompt: In the periodic table of elements which metal comes after beryllium and magnesium in the alkaline earth metals (valency 2)?

Answer: Calcium supplements


Context: Year of the Four Emperors |  by Otho, legate of Lusitania. Soon after, the legate of a legion in Africa, Clodius Macer, also rebelled against Nero. Vindex was defeated by the Rhine legions, but they also rebelled against Nero. Finally, on 9 June AD 68, Nero committed suicide after having been declared a public enemy by the Senate, which made Galba the new emperor. However, Galba was unable to establish his authority over the Empire, as several of his supporters were disappointed by his lack of gratitude. He especially adopted Piso Licinianus as heir (Galba was childless and old), instead of Otho as widely assumed. Angered by this

Prompt: Which Roman Emperor committed suicide in 68 AD after being declared an enemy of the state by the senate?

Answer: Nero (album)


Context: Tom Hulce | " film version of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, losing to his co-star, F. Murray Abraham. In his acceptance speech, Abraham paid tribute to his co-star, saying, ""There's only one thing missing for me tonight, and that is to have Tom Hulce standing by my side."" In 1989, he received his second Best Actor Golden Globe Award nomination for a critically acclaimed performance as an intellectually-challenged garbage-collector in the 1988 movie Dominick and Eugene. He played supporting roles in Parenthood (1989), Fearless (1993) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). In 1988, he played the title part in the British–Dutch movie "

Prompt: Which play by Sir Peter Shaffer was made into a film with Tom Hulce in the title role?

Answer: AMADEUS


Context: Northern lapwing |   The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tew-it, green plover, or (in Britain and Ireland) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily. It is common through temperate Eurosiberia. It is highly migratory over most of its extensive range, wintering further south as far as North Africa, northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of China. It migrates mainly by day, often in large flocks. Lowland breeders in westernmost areas of Europe are resident. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America, especially after storms, as in the Canadian sightings after storms in December 1927 and in January 1966. It is a wader that breeds on cultivated land and other short vegetation habitats. 3–4 eggs are laid in a ground scrape. The nest and young are defended noisily and aggressively against all intruders, up to and including horses and cattle. In winter, it forms huge flocks on open land, particularly arable land and mud-flats

Prompt: Green plover and peewit are alternative names for which British bird?

Answer: Lapwing


Context: Blankety Blank | " constant jibing of the consolation prize (""Never mind love, you might have lost, but you'll never be short of something to prop your door open with now...""), the chequebook and pen are now worth a great deal, as they were never commercially available and only a limited number were made. A Blankety Blank chequebook, minus the pen, was one of the items uncovered by Andy in Mackenzie Crook's BBC comedy Detectorists. By the time of the 1990s revival, the IBA prize limits had been lifted, and the star prize was generally a holiday. On the 2021 series, the prizes consist of £500, £750, and prize worth over £750."

Prompt: In which TV 'quiz' show was the consolation prize a chequebook and pen?

Answer: Blankety Blank (home game)


Context: 3-2-1 |  at all for their charity, much to their embarrassment. The following years, members of the public were featured as the contestants as with the regular show, but in 1981, John Inman and Barbara Windsor were the winners and they too won the dustbin; but on this occasion, the prizes were all revealed to be 'junk' and the dustbin was in fact the star prize. Inman & Windsor were in on the set up and deliberately contrived to win the dustbin. However the 1983 Christmas edition featured children as contestants. The DJ Janice Long appeared as a contestant on the very first episode with her then husband, Trevor, in July 1978

Prompt: In which TV 'quiz' show was the consolation prize a dustbin?

Answer: 3-2-1


Context: Disaronno | "In 1525, a Saronno church commissioned artist Bernardino Luini, one of Leonardo da Vinci's pupils, to paint its sanctuary with frescoes. As the church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Luini needed to depict the Madonna, but was in need of a model. He found his inspiration in a young widowed innkeeper. As a gift for him, the woman steeped apricot kernels in brandy, producing the first amaretto liqueur. Disaronno Originale (28% abv) is a type of amaretto—an amber-colored liqueur with a characteristic almond taste, although it does not actually contain almonds. It is produced in Saronno, in the Lombardy region, and is sold worldwide. According to the company, the liqueur is an infusion of apricot kernel oil with ""absolute alcohol, "

Prompt: Disaronno is an 'amaretto' liqueur with a characteristic bitter-almond taste, however it doesn't contain any nuts at all; from the kernel of which fruit does the flavour come?

Answer: Khubani


Context: Four-bar linkage |  for a planar quadrilateral linkage.  The configuration of a quadrilateral linkage may be classified into three types: convex, concave, and crossing. In the convex and concave cases no two links cross over each other. In the crossing linkage two links cross over each other. In the convex case all four internal angles are less than 180 degrees, and in the concave configuration one internal angle is greater than 180 degrees. There exists a simple geometrical relationship between the lengths of the two diagonals of the quadrilateral. For convex and crossing linkages, the length of one diagonal increases if and only if the other decreases. On the other hand, for nonconvex non-crossing linkages, the opposite is the case; one diagonal increases if and only if the other also increases.

Prompt: The internal angles of a quadrilateral add up to how many degrees?

Answer: three hundred and sixty


Context: Whitlow | " A whitlow or felon is an infection of the tip of the finger. Herpetic whitlow and melanotic whitlow (subungual melanoma) are subtypes that are not synonymous with the term felon. A felon is an ""extremely painful abscess on the palmar aspect of the fingertip"". Whitlow usually refers to herpetic whitlow, though it can also refer to melanotic whitlow (subungual melanoma), which somewhat resembles acral lentiginous melanoma. The terms whitlow and felon are also sometimes misapplied to paronychia, which is an infection of the tissue at the side or base of the nail. Felon presents with a throbbing pain, clinically."

Prompt: What name is given to a painful infection of the tip of a finger?

Answer: Felon (skin)


Context: Patricia Cornwell | " Cornwell has been involved in a continuing, self-financed search for evidence to support her theory that painter Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper. She wrote Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed, which was published in 2002 to much controversy, especially within the British art world and among Ripperologists. Cornwell denied being obsessed with Jack the Ripper in full-page ads in two British newspapers and has said the case was ""far from closed"". In 2001, Cornwell was criticized for allegedly destroying one of Sickert's paintings in pursuit of the Ripper's identity. She believed the well-known painter to be responsible for the string of murders and had purchased over thirty of his paintings and argued that they closely resembled the Ripper crime scenes. Cornwell also claimed a breakthrough: a letter written by someone purporting to be the killer, had the same watermark as some of Sickert's writing paper. Ripper experts noted, however, that there were hundreds of letters from different authors falsely claiming to be the killer, and the watermark in question was on a brand of stationery that was widely available."

Prompt: Novelist Patricia Cornwell has accused the painter Walter Sickert of being which notorious criminal?

Answer: Jack the ripper


Context: List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) |  ; Lázaro Cárdenas, President (1934–1940) ; Manuel Ávila Camacho, President (1940–1946) ; Miguel Alemán Valdés, President (1946–1952) United States (complete list) – ; William McKinley, President (1897–1901) ; Theodore Roosevelt, President (1901–1909) ; William Howard Taft, President (1909–1913) ; Woodrow Wilson, President (1913–1921) ; Warren G. Harding, President (1921–1923) ; Calvin Coolidge, President (1923–1929) ; Herbert Hoover, President (1929–1933) ; Franklin D. Roosevelt, President (1933–1945) ; Harry S. Truman, President (1945–1953) Cherokee Nation (complete list) – ; Thomas Buffington, Principal Chief (1899–1903) ; William Charles Rogers, Principal Chief (1903–1905, 1906–1907) ; Frank J. Boudinot, Principal Chief (1905–1906) Canada    Mexico  United States

Prompt: Who was US President at the start of the twentieth century?

Answer: McKinley Administration


Context: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Stravinsky) | " The Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments was written by Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1923–24. This work was revised in 1950. It was composed four years after the Symphonies of Wind Instruments, which he wrote upon his arrival in Paris after his stay in Switzerland. These two compositions are from Stravinsky's neoclassical period, and represent a departure from the composer's previous Russian style, in which he produced works such as The Rite of Spring. This concerto numbers among many works for piano written about the same time to be played by the composer himself. This is also true of Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1929), his Sonata of 1924 and his Serenade in A (1925). He kept the performance rights to himself for a number of years, wanting the engagements for playing this work for himself, as well as urgently desiring to keep ""incompetent or Romantic hands"" from ""interpreting"" the piece before undiscriminating audiences."

Prompt: Which composer did Igor Stravinsky accuse of writing the same concerto 500 times?

Answer: Vivaldi


Context: Steve Prescott |  in 2007, and went on to organise a series of money-raising initiatives. He raised almost half a million pounds for charity through the foundation, and was awarded an MBE in 2009 for his efforts. After a long battle with the disease, he died aged 39. In October 2013 a small group of people started a campaign to get the highest honour in British Rugby League the Man of Steel Award to be renamed after Steve. On 5 March 2014 the RFL announced that the Man of Steel award will be renamed after Steve and is now known as the Steve Prescott Man of Steel Award.

Prompt: Which St Helens born ex Rugby League player died recently after a seven year battle with cancer during which he raised thousands of pounds for charity?

Answer: Stephen Prescott


Context: Mountain |  Heights of mountains are typically measured above sea level. Using this metric, Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, at 8848 m. There are at least 100 mountains with heights of over 7200 m above sea level, all of which are located in central and southern Asia. The highest mountains above sea level are generally not the highest above the surrounding terrain. There is no precise definition of surrounding base, but Denali, Mount Kilimanjaro and Nanga Parbat are possible candidates for the tallest mountain on land by this measure. The bases of mountain islands are below sea level, and given this consideration Mauna Kea (4207 m above sea level) is the world's tallest mountain and volcano, rising about 10203 m from the Pacific Ocean floor. The highest mountains are not generally the most voluminous. Mauna Loa (4169 m)

Prompt: What is the highest mountain in the world not in a mountain range?

Answer: Mawensi


Context: Lyonnaise cuisine | " dish of pan-fried tripe), macaroni gratin, and choucroute au champagne (an adaptation of choucroute garnie, ""sauerkraut cooked and served with meat,"" usually ""pork, sausages and often potatoes"" made with Champagne instead of Riesling ), for which she was awarded a Michelin star. Known as a woman who was quick to share her opinions (often quite loudly), Mère Léa would go to the Saint Antoine market each morning pushing a large cart with a sign that read ""Attention! Faible femme, forte en gueule"" (En: Beware! Weak woman, strong voice). Still others include Mère Pompom, Mère Charles, La Grande Marcelle, Mère Jean, La Mélie, Mère Carron, Madame Andrée and Tante Paulette."

Prompt: "A dish cooked ""a la Lyonnaise"" would be garnished or prepared with which ingredient?"

Answer: Onion skins


Context: Jaws (James Bond) |  Jaws is a fictional character in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), played in both films by Richard Kiel. Jaws is one of the most popular James Bond henchmen and a recurring character in the James Bond video games. He is a highly skilled killer relying on his brute strength and steel teeth to quickly dispatch his victims.

Prompt: Which villain, played by Richard Kiel, appeared in two James Bond movies, 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker'?

Answer: Jaws (software)


Context: Oyster Feast | " The oyster fishery is officially ""opened"" on the first Friday of September each year. The Mayor of Colchester, the Town Clerk, and the Town Sergeant take passage on an oyster dredger out into the Pyefleet Channel of the Colne estuary off Mersea Island, in full civic regalia. A flotilla of small boats carrying invited guests follows the Mayor out into the channel. Oaths are sworn, pledging devotion to the monarch. The Mayor dredges and consumes the first oyster of the season. The Mayor and guests then proceed to an oyster lunch which celebrates the opening of the fishery."

Prompt: Which town on the River Colne holds an annual Oyster Festival?

Answer: Camaloden


Context: List of minor Old Testament figures, A–K |  Elnaam, according to 1 Chronicles 11:46, was the father of Jeribai and Joshaviah, two of David's Mighty Warriors.

Prompt: In the Old Testament of the Bible who was the father of David?

Answer: Jesse (given name)


Context: Amnesty International | " Amnesty International was founded in London in July 1961 by English barrister Peter Benenson. Benenson was influenced by his friend Louis Blom-Cooper, who led a political prisoners’ campaign. According to Benenson's own account, he was travelling on the London Underground on 19 November 1960 when he read that two Portuguese students from Coimbra had been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in Portugal for allegedly ""having drunk a toast to liberty"". Researchers have never traced the alleged newspaper article in question. In 1960, Portugal was ruled by the Estado Novo government of António de Oliveira Salazar. The government was authoritarian in nature "

Prompt: Which organisation was founded by the lawyer Peter Benenson in London in 1961?

Answer: Protect the Human


Context: Ynys Feurig |  Ynys Feurig (also spelt Ynys Feirig) is the name for a set of three small inter-connected low-lying inshore tidal rocky islets (3.1 ha in extent), lying off from the west coast of Anglesey, North Wales, just north of the village of Rhosneigr and south of RAF Valley airfield. They are also known by the English name Starvation Island. The islets are accessible from the mainland at mid-to low tide. The clipper Norman Court ran aground nearby, in Cymyran Bay.

Prompt: Which island known as Ynys Gybi in Welsh, lies just off the west coast of Anglesey?

Answer: Holy Island (disambiguation)


Context: British princess | " Alexandra and Adelaide; and, currently, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and Anne, Princess Royal. Victoria is the name of twenty-five princesses, nineteen of whom are named for Queen Victoria – among these being her four daughters (including ""Vicky"", Princess Royal); her granddaughter, The Princess Victoria; Mary, Princess Royal; and, currently, Princess Eugenie. Among those not named for the queen are her mother, Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Queen Mary. Others include Charlotte; Alexandra (and Alexandrina); Augusta; Elizabeth; Caroline; Sophie (and Sophia); Matilda (or Maud); Alice; Frederica; Helena; Beatrice; Olga; Feodora; Alberta; and Adelaide. Of the above named princesses, there are a great number of shared names:   "

Prompt: Anne and Elizabeth are two of the Princess Royal's names, give either of the other two.

Answer: Alice or Louise


Context: Volkswagen Eos |  The Volkswagen Eos is a sport compact cabriolet coupé produced by the German automaker Volkswagen from 2006 to 2015. Assembled at AutoEuropa in Portugal, it was a convertible only compact coupé introduced as the successor of the Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet. It was Volkswagen's first production coupé since the Volkswagen Corrado, which ended production in July 1995. The name Eos was derived from Eos, the Greek goddess of the dawn. The Eos ended production in May 2015. However, a limited number of base trim models were sold as models of 2016 in the United States.

Prompt: Which car company produces a model called Eos?

Answer: Folksvagon


Context: Mary de Bohun |  Mary de Bohun (c. 1369/70 – 4 June 1394) was the first wife of King Henry IV of England and the mother of King Henry V. Mary was never queen, as she died before her husband came to the throne.

Prompt: Who was the mother of Queen Mary 1st of England?

Answer: Catherine of Aragon in Popular Culture


Context: Elise Christie |  At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Christie entered the 500m, 1000m and 1500m events with high hopes of winning a medal. She reached the A final of the 500m, but was disqualified when she collided with Italian skater Arianna Fontana, finishing eighth after being ranked below the B finalists. She was also harassed on Twitter by South Koreans who accused her of causing Park Seung-Hi to crash. This led to calls from the BOA to improve the policing of comments made on athletes' Twitter and Facebook accounts and for Christie to close her Twitter account. She competed in the 1500m event two days later, where she was disqualified in the heats for not crossing the finishing line, reportedly only 1 cm off the permitted leeway. Christie qualified for the 1000m quarter-finals by comfortably winning her heat, and she won her quarter-final race; but she was then disqualified for the third time, in the semi-final, after colliding with China's Jianrou Li on the final turn of the race.

Prompt: At the 2014 Winter Olympic games Elise Christie of Great Britain was disqualified from all three of her events, in which sport?

Answer: Speedskating


Context: Helen Fielding |  1996 to good reviews but modest sales. The paperback, published in 1997, went straight to the top of the best-seller chart, stayed there for over six months and went on to become a worldwide best-seller. Fielding continued her columns in The Independent, and then The Daily Telegraph until 1997, publishing a second Bridget novel  The Edge of Reason in November 1999. The film of Bridget Jones's Diary was released in 2001 and its sequel in 2004. Fielding contributed the further adventures of Bridget Jones for The Independent from 2005. Fielding announced in November 2012 that she was now writing a third instalment in the Bridget Jones series. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2013.

Prompt: The books 'The Edge of Reason' and 'Mad About The Boy' are sequels to which novel?

Answer: The Diary of Bridget Jones


Context: Tripoli protests and clashes (February 2011) |  On 17 February 2011, it was reported that supporters of the Libyan opposition had taken to the streets and Green Square during the Day of Revolt. On 20 February, it was claimed that snipers fired on crowds to control Green Square, as protesters started fires at police stations and the General People's Congress building. Reportedly, the state television building was also set on fire on 21 February. On the morning of 21 February, activists claimed that protesters surrounded Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziza compound and were trying to storm it, but were forced back by heavy gunfire that killed up to 80

Prompt: In which city is Green Square, the scene of protests in 2011?

Answer: The Mermaid of the Mediterranean


Context: Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |  3 January 1970. However a group of railway enthusiasts formed the Severn Valley Railway as a heritage railway in 1967 and in 1970 steam operated trains resumed running. At the present day the line operates between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth. The Kingswinford to Oxley line was closed north of Pensnett on 27 February 1965, and throughout in 1990. The Old Hill to Dudley line closed to passenger services after 13 June 1964. The section of the railway between Stourbridge and Dudley was later absorbed into the South Staffordshire Line, which continued to Walsall after forking off eastwards from Dudley. Passenger services had all been withdrawn by 1965, but goods trains continued

Prompt: Which private railway line runs between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth?

Answer: Severn Valley


Context: Tincture (heraldry) | " Five colours have been recognized since the earliest days of heraldry. These are: gules, or red; sable, or black; azure, or blue; vert, or green; and purpure, or purple. Gules (Fr. gueules, Ger. Rot) is of uncertain derivation; outside of the heraldic context, the modern French word refers to the mouth of an animal. Sable (Ger. Schwarz) is named for a type of marten, known for its dark, luxuriant fur. Azure (Fr. azur or bleu, Ger. Blau) comes through the Arabic lāzaward, from the Persian lāžavard both referring to the blue mineral lapis lazuli, used to produce blue pigments. Vert (Fr. vert or sinople, Ger. Grün) is from Latin viridis, ""green"". The alternative name in French, sinople, is derived from the ancient city of Sinope in Asia Minor, which was famous for its pigments. Purpure (Fr. purpure or pourpre, Ger. Purpur) is from Latin purpura, in turn from Greek porphyra, the dye known as Tyrian purple. This expensive dye, known from antiquity, produced a much redder purple than the modern heraldic colour; and in fact earlier depictions of purpure are far redder than recent ones. As a heraldic colour, purpure may have originated as a variation of gules."

Prompt: What colour is the heraldic colour gules?

Answer: Red (comics)


Context: Jersey Boys (film) |  Jersey Boys is a 2014 American musical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, based on the 2005 Tony Award-winning jukebox musical of the same name. The film tells the story of the musical group The Four Seasons. Original band members Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio (who also composed the film's music) serve as executive producers. Jersey Boys was released in the United States on June 20, 2014. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the musical numbers but criticized the narrative and runtime, and grossed $67 million worldwide.

Prompt: Who directed the 2014 film 'Jersey Boys'?

Answer: Crint Eastwood


Context: Kenny Everett |  Maurice James Christopher Cole (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995), better known as Kenny Everett, was an English comedian, radio disc jockey and television presenter. After spells on pirate radio and Radio Luxembourg in the mid-1960s, he was one of the first DJs to join BBC radio's newly-created BBC Radio 1 in 1967. It was here he developed his trademark voices and surreal characters which he later adapted for television. Everett was dismissed from the BBC in 1970 after making remarks about a government minister's wife. He joined commercial radio when it became licensed in the UK, and joined Capital Radio. Starting in the late 1970s, he transitioned to television where he made numerous comedy series on ITV and BBC, often appearing with Cleo Rocos, whose glamorous and curvaceous figure was often used to comic effect. Rocos would

Prompt: Maurice Cole was better known as which comedian?

Answer: Kenny Everett


Context: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |  St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province, Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. It is the oldest city in Canada. The city spans 446.04 km2 and is the easternmost city in North America (excluding Greenland). Its name has been attributed to the belief that John Cabot sailed into the harbour on the Nativity of John the Baptist in 1497. Another possibility is that it is named after a Basque fishing town with the same name. Existing on maps as early as 1519, it is one of the oldest cities in North America. It was officially incorporated as

Prompt: St John's is the capital of which Canadian Province?

Answer: Newfoundland and labrador


Context: Luciana Berger |  but on 10 August 2016 failed to be selected. She was the only woman campaigning to be a Labour candidate for the newly created metro mayor position. Soon after her election victory in 2010, Berger was elected to the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and the Finance and Services Committee, but left the roles when she was appointed a junior shadow minister in October of that year. Returning to the backbenches in 2016, she served on the House of Commons' Health Committee, later the Health and Social Care Committee, from October 2016 to May 2017 and from September 2017 to November 2019.

Prompt: Who was the only female candidate in the 2010 Labour leadership contest?

Answer: Diane Julie Abbott


Context: Succession to the British throne |  In 1485, Henry Tudor, a female-line descendant of a legitimated branch of the royal house of Lancaster, the House of Beaufort, assumed the English crown as Henry VII, after defeating Richard III, who was killed at the battle of Bosworth when leading a charge against Henry's standard. Richard was the last king of the House of York, and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. Henry declared himself king retroactively from 21 August 1485, the day before his victory over Richard at Bosworth Field, and caused Richard's Titulus Regius to be repealed and expunged from the Rolls of Parliament. After Henry's coronation in London in October that year, his

Prompt: Who was Britain's last reigning Tudor Monarch?

Answer: The Gloriana


Context: Manzanares (river) |  The river was canalised where it passes through the built-up areas of the city. In the 21st century the river was restored to provide biodiversity and facilities for Madrid residents. The Manzanares skims past the westernmost part of the city and further downstream serves as a dividing line between the old centre of the city and the Carabanchel and Usera neighbourhoods to the southwest. It is along this stretch that it passes next to Atlético Madrid's former football ground, the Vicente Calderón. The river leaves the city at its southernmost tip.

Prompt: What is the name of the river that runs through Madrid?

Answer: Manzanares (disambiguation)


Context: List of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky | " This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). During his life, Kandinsky was associated with the art movements of Der Blaue Reiter, Expressionism and Abstract painting. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. After settling in Munich in 1896, Kandinsky formed Der Blaue Reiter with Paul Klee and Franz Marc among others. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, though left after the Russian Revolution as ""his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society"". He returned to Germany and taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art."

Prompt: Give a year in the life of abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky.

Answer: 1866-1944


Context: Tianchang |  Tianchang is a sub-prefecture-level city in the east of Anhui province, and is the closest city in the province to the mouth of the Yangtze River. It is bordered by the Jiangsu county-level divisions of Luhe District (Nanjing) to the southwest, Yizheng City to the southeast, Gaoyou City to the east, Jinhu County to the northeast, and Xuyi County to the northwest, as well as Anhui's Lai'an County to the west.

Prompt: Which major city is situated at the mouth of the Yangtze River in China?

Answer: Economy of Shanghai


Context: Micky Dolenz |  George Michael Dolenz Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, TV producer and businessman. He is best known as the vocalist and drummer for the 1960s pop-rock band the Monkees (1966–1968) and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968). Since the death of Michael Nesmith in 2021, Dolenz is the last living member of the band.

Prompt: Who was the original drummer/singer with the Monkees pop group?

Answer: Micky Dolenz


Context: Beaufort scale | " 10 metres above the sea surface and B is Beaufort scale number. For example, B = 9.5 is related to 24.5 m/s which is equal to the lower limit of ""10 Beaufort"". Using this formula the highest winds in hurricanes would be 23 in the scale. F1 tornadoes on the Fujita scale and T2 TORRO scale also begin roughly at the end of level 12 of the Beaufort scale, but are independent scales – although the TORRO scale wind values are based on the 3/2 power law relating wind velocity to Beaufort force. Wave heights in the scale are for conditions in the open ocean, not along the shore."

Prompt: According to the World Meteorological Organisation and the UK Met Office, what is the highest number on the Beaufort scale, representing hurricane force?

Answer: twelve


Context: Pep Guardiola |  honour. The same year, he was also named the FIFA World Coach of the Year. He ended his four-year Barcelona stint in 2012 with 14 honours, a club record. After a sabbatical period, Bayern Munich announced Guardiola would join the club as manager in 2013. Guardiola won the Bundesliga every season he was there, as well as two domestic doubles. He left the Bavarians for Manchester City in 2016, and guided them to a Premier League title in his second campaign in charge, breaking numerous domestic records as the team became the first to attain 100 league points. He won a second consecutive Premier League and EFL Cup the following season, as well as the FA Cup, becoming the first manager to win the domestic treble in English men's football.

Prompt: After he left Barcelona, football manager Pep Guardiola went on to manage which European club in 2013?

Answer: FC Bayern München


Context: Lying in state |  at each corner with heads bowed and weapons inverted; their backs are turned towards the coffin. On two occasions, the guard has been mounted by four male members of the Royal Family. At the lying in state of King George V in 1936, the guard was mounted by his four sons King Edward VIII, the Duke of York (George VI), the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent. For Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's lying-in-state in 2002, the guard was mounted by her four grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex, and Viscount Linley. The first British monarch to lie-in-state at Westminster Hall was King Edward VII in 1910, apparently inspired by William Gladstone who had lain-in-state in the hall in 1898.

Prompt: Who was the first member of the British royal family to lie in state at Westminster Hall?

Answer: Eduard VII


Context: Gingerbread (charity) |  In 2018, the charity turned 100 years old (tracing its history back to The National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child). As part of the centenary, the charity released a report looking at single parent families in the UK today. The report found that while great progress has been made for single parents (with employment rates at a record high), there are still many challenges to overcome as a third of children with working single parents live in poverty in the UK. The charity describes its vision as ‘a society in which single parent families are valued and treated equally and fairly.’

Prompt: What is the principal charity for single parent families in the UK?

Answer: Gingerbreads


Context: 1973 oil crisis | " The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), was founded by five oil producing countries at a Baghdad conference on September 14, 1960. The five founding members of OPEC were Venezuela, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait. OPEC was organized after the oil companies slashed the posted price of oil, but the posted price of oil remained consistently higher than the market price of oil between 1961 and 1972. In 1963, the Seven Sisters controlled 86% of the oil produced by OPEC countries, but by 1970 the rise of ""independent oil companies"" had decreased their share to 77%. The entry of three new oil producers—Algeria, Libya and Nigeria—meant that by 1970, 81 oil companies were doing business in the Middle East. In the early 1960s Libya, Indonesia and Qatar joined OPEC. OPEC "

Prompt: In what year did the five founding members of OPEC hold their first meeting?

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and sixty


Context: Cinderella |  opera (La Cenerentola). Cinderella mistakes Dandini for the Prince and the Prince for Dandini. Her father, Baron Hardup, is under the thumb of his two stepdaughters, the Ugly sisters, and has a servant, Cinderella's friend Buttons. (Throughout the pantomime, the Baron is continually harassed by the Broker's Men (often named after current politicians) for outstanding rent. The Fairy Godmother must magically create a coach (from a pumpkin), footmen (from mice), a coach driver (from a frog), and a beautiful dress (from rags) for Cinderella to go to the ball. However, she must return by midnight, as it is then that the spell ceases.

Prompt: In pantomime, who is Cinderella's father?

Answer: Baron Hard-Up


Context: List of Dickensian characters | "Jaggers, Mr is the secretive lawyer who mediates between Pip and his mysterious benefactor in Great Expectations. He is responsible for Abel Magwitch's wife Molly's acquittal of murder charges and oversees the placement of their daughter Estella in Satis House under Miss Havisham's care, unbeknownst to Abel. ""He was a burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly large head and a correspondingly large hand...He was prematurely bald at the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling.His eyes were set deep in his head and were disagreeably sharp and suspicious..."" ; Janet Betsy Trotwood's maid. "

Prompt: In which Dickens' novel does lawyer Mr Jaggers appear?

Answer: Herbert Pocket


Context: Wyoming | " beets, wheat, and wool. It was the first state to allow women the right to vote and become politicians, as well as the first state to elect a female governor. Due to this part of its history, its main nickname is ""The Equality State"" and its official state motto is ""Equal Rights"". It has been a politically conservative state since the 1950s, with the Republican presidential nominee carrying the state in every election since 1968. A notable exception is Teton County, which has achieved notability for being Wyoming's most Democratic county and the only county in the state to be won by a Democrat in every election since 2004."

Prompt: Which American state has been nicknamed the Equality State because in 1869 it granted voting rights to women as well as men?

Answer: State of Wyoming


Context: Matt Prior |  Matthew James Prior (born 26 February 1982) is a South African-born English former cricketer, who played for England in Test cricket and for Sussex County Cricket Club in domestic cricket. He was a wicket-keeper and his aggressive right-handed batting enabled him to open the innings in ODI matches, even when he made very limited appearance in shorter forms of the game. With an international Test debut score of 126, Prior became the first English wicket-keeper to hit a century in his debut match in early 2007. His glovework, however, was criticised. Despite a successful tour of Sri Lanka with the bat, Prior's keeping was less successful, and he was dropped from the team for the 2008 tour of New Zealand. He returned for the 2008 series against South Africa, and was retained into 2009, where he became the second-fastest England keeper to

Prompt: Wicket-keeper Matt Prior, currently part of the England team plays for which county?

Answer: Sussex County Council


Context: State funerals in the United Kingdom |  notice). The first monarch to lie in state there was Edward VII in 1910, and the first consort Queen Mary (1953). Monarchs in the 19th century all lay in state in Windsor Castle. In the 18th century Kensington Palace was often used; in the 17th century, Mary II lay in state in the Banqueting House, Whitehall. Beforehand, the body will often have lain in a private room or chapel elsewhere (e.g. at the place of death) for private viewing. Both George V and George VI died at Sandringham and their bodies lay in the church there for a time, watched over by estate workers and gamekeepers; whereas the body of Edward VII lay in the throne room in Buckingham Palace.

Prompt: Who was the first commoner to have a state funeral in Britain?

Answer: Admiral Lord Nelson


Context: Carl Linnaeus | " Carl Linnaeus ( 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the ""father of modern taxonomy"". Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus (after 1761 Carolus a Linné). Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also "

Prompt: What nationality was the botanist Carolus Linnaeus?

Answer: Swedish


Context: Michael Winner |  Robert Michael Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English filmmaker, writer, and media personality. He is known for directing numerous action, thriller, and black comedy films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collaborations with actors Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson. Winner's best-known works include Death Wish (1974) and its first two sequels, the World War II comedy Hannibal Brooks (1969), the hitman thriller The Mechanic (1972), the supernatural horror film The Sentinel (1977), the neo-noir The Big Sleep (1978), the satirical comedy Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), and the Revisionist Westerns Lawman (1971) and Chato's Land (1972). Winner was also known as a media personality in the United Kingdom, appearing regularly on television talk programmes and publishing a restaurant review column for The Sunday Times. He was also a founder of the Police Memorial Trust.

Prompt: Michael Winner was famous as the director of which series of films?

Answer: Death Wish (disambiguation)


Context: Hope Street, Liverpool |  Hope Street in Liverpool, England, stretches from the city's Roman Catholic cathedral, past the Anglican cathedral to Upper Parliament Street and it is the local high street of the Canning Georgian Quarter. It contains various restaurants, hotels and bars and is one of Liverpool's official 'Great Streets' and was also awarded 'The Great Street Award' in the 2012 Urbanism Awards, judging it to be the best street in the country. The road runs parallel to Rodney Street. Together with Gambier Terrace and Rodney Street it forms the Rodney Street conservation area. The years immediately after the Millennium saw the public realm of Hope Street enhanced and the Hope Street area has sometimes been referred to as the Hope Street Quarter. The street is named after William Hope, a merchant whose house stood on the site now occupied by the Philharmonic Hall. Hope Street was voted as the best street in the UK and Ireland by The Academy of Urbanism, who awarded it The Great Street 2013.

Prompt: Which Liverpool street was named as 'The Great Street 2013' in the National Urbanism Awards?

Answer: Hope St


Context: 1705 in science | April 16 – Isaac Newton is knighted by Anne, Queen of Great Britain.

Prompt: In 1705, who was the first scientist to be knighted?

Answer: Isaac Newton


Context: Mr and Mrs (TV series) | infobox name: Mr and Mrs ; alt_name: The All-New Mr. and Mrs. Show (1995–96) ; creator: Roy Ward Dickson ; presenter: Phillip Schofield Fern Britton Alan Taylor Derek Batey Norman Vaughan Nino Firetto Julian Clary ; starring: Katrina Buchanan (1995–96) Stacey Young (1999) ; country: United Kingdom ; language: English ; num_series: 2 (UK Living version) 1 (Carlton version) ; num_episodes: 52 (UK Living version) 6 (Carlton version) ; runtime: 30 minutes (inc. adverts) ; company: HTV (1972–1976) Border (1972–1988) HTV West for UK Living (1995–96) Action Time in association with Carlton (1999) ; distributor: ITV Studios ; channel: TWW (1965–1967) ITV (1967–1988, 1999) UK Living (1995–96) ; picture_format: 4:3 ; first_aired: February 23, 1965 ; last_aired: July 2, 1999 ; related: All Star Mr & Mrs The Newlywed Game Tattletales

Prompt: Which TV presenter, who died in February 2013, was for over 20 years the host of 'Mr & Mrs'?

Answer: Derek Batey


Context: In Utero |  In Utero is the third and final studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 13, 1993, by DGC Records. Nirvana intended to depart from the more polished sound of their previous album, Nevermind (1991), with a greater range of sounds and moods. To capture a more abrasive and natural sound, they hired engineer Steve Albini to record In Utero over two weeks in February 1993 at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. The lyrics and album packaging incorporated medical imagery that conveyed frontman Kurt Cobain's outlook on his publicized personal life and Nirvana's newfound fame. Soon after recording

Prompt: Which group recorded the 90s albums 'Nevermind' and 'In Utero'?

Answer: Nirvana (Philosophical concept)


Context: Green Bay, Wisconsin | " Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as ""the bay of Green Bay""), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is 581 ft above sea level and 112 mi north of Milwaukee. As of the 2020 Census, Green Bay had a population of 107,395, making it the third-largest in the state of Wisconsin, after Milwaukee and Madison, and the third-largest city on Lake Michigan, after Chicago and Milwaukee. Green Bay is the principal city of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers Brown, Kewaunee, and Oconto counties. Green Bay is well-known for being home of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League."

Prompt: In which US state is Green Bay?

Answer: Badger State


Context: Ivone Dias Lourenço | " On 19 December 1960, Amnesty International founder Peter Benenson was reading a copy of The Times of London on his way to work, when he saw an article reporting on the sentencing of Lourenço and Verdial. This inspired him to write and get published an opinion piece in The Observer, known as the ""forgotten prisoners"", on 28 May 1961, the date Amnesty International celebrates as its founding date. Benenson went on to launch the Appeal for Amnesty 1961, which lead to the creation of Amnesty International in September 1962."

Prompt: Which charity was founded in London in 1961 following the publication of the article 'The Forgotten Prisoners' in 'The Observer'?

Answer: Protect the Human


Context: Geography of the Philippines |  The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands with a total land area of 300000 km2. It is the world's 5th largest island country. The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about 105000 km2. The next largest island is Mindanao at about 95000 km2. The archipelago is around 800 km from the Asian mainland and is located between Taiwan and Borneo. The Philippine archipelago is divided into three Island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. The Luzon islands include Luzon itself, Palawan, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, Romblon, Catanduanes, Batanes, and Polillo. The Visayas is the group of islands in the central Philippines, the largest of which are: Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Siquijor, Biliran, and Guimaras. The Mindanao islands include Mindanao itself, Dinagat, Siargao, Camiguin, Samal, plus the Sulu Archipelago, composed primarily of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.

Prompt: The Philippines has 7,107 islands, which other Asian country is an archipelago of 17,504 islands?

Answer: Unitary state of republic of indonesia


Context: Fleming's left-hand rule for motors |   Fleming's left-hand rule for electric motors is one of a pair of visual mnemonics, the other being Fleming's right-hand rule (for generators). They were originated by John Ambrose Fleming, in the late 19th century, as a simple way of working out the direction of motion in an electric motor, or the direction of electric current in an electric generator. When current flows through a conducting wire, and an external magnetic field is applied across that flow, the conducting wire experiences a force perpendicular both to that field and to the direction of the current flow (i.e they are mutually perpendicular). A left hand can be held, as shown in the illustration, so as to represent three mutually orthogonal axes on the thumb, fore finger and middle finger. Each finger is then assigned to a quantity (mechanical force, magnetic field and electric current). The right and left hand are used for generators and motors respectively.

Prompt: Who was the electrical engineer whose right and left hand rules are used to demonstrate the relative directions of field, current and force in electrical motors and generators?

Answer: Fleming, Sir John Ambrose


Context: List of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps episodes |  This is a list of episodes of the British television sitcom, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, a BBC series written by Susan Nickson that ran for 9 series from February 2001 to May 2011. It is set in Runcorn, Cheshire and is about the lives and relationships of five twentysomethings.

Prompt: In which town is the 'TV sitcom 'Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps' set?

Answer: Runcorn, England


Context: Fly |   Flies are often abundant and are found in almost all terrestrial habitats in the world apart from Antarctica. They include many familiar insects such as house flies, blow flies, mosquitoes, gnats, black flies, midges and fruit flies. More than 150,000 have been formally described and the actual species diversity is much greater, with the flies from many parts of the world yet to be studied intensively. The suborder Nematocera include generally small, slender insects with long antennae such as mosquitoes, gnats, midges and crane-flies, while the Brachycera includes broader, more robust flies with short antennae. Many nematoceran larvae are aquatic. There are estimated to be a total of about 19,000 species of Diptera in Europe, 22,000 in the Nearctic region, 20,000 in the

Prompt: Which order of insects includes the true flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges?

Answer: Fly


Context: 1977 Wimbledon Championships | It was Wade's first and only Wimbledon title, third and final Grand Slam title overall. Wade remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon. 🇬🇧 Virginia Wade defeated Betty Stöve, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1

Prompt: Prior to Viginia Wade in 1977 who was the last British player to win a tennis Grand Slam title?

Answer: Sue Barker


Context: List of operas by composer |  Salome, Die schweigsame Frau ; Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971): The Flood, Histoire du soldat (Istoria Soldata), Mavra, The Nightingale (Solovei), Oedipus rex, Perséphone, The Rake's Progress, Renard (Bayka pro Lisu, Petukha, Kota da Barana) ; Heinrich Strecker (1893–1981): Ännchen von Tharau ; Eugen Suchoň (1908–1993): Krútňava, Svätopluk ; Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900): With W. S. Gilbert: The Gondoliers, The Grand Duke, H.M.S. Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, Princess Ida, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer, Thespis, Trial by Jury, Utopia, Limited, The Yeomen of the Guard; With others: The Beauty Stone, The Chieftain, The Contrabandista, Cox and Box, The Emerald Isle (with Edward German), Haddon Hall,

Prompt: Who wrote the operas Oedipus Rex and The Rake's Progress?

Answer: Strawinski


Context: Harold Mahony |  the Wimbledon title in 1897 but this time he was beaten in the Challenge Round in three straight sets by Reginald Doherty. He was the last Scottish-born player to win a grand slam until Andy Murray won the US Open in 2012 and win Wimbledon until Murray won it in 2013. He was recognised as the third and last Irishman to win the Wimbledon singles. He won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships, played at the Queen's Club in London, in 1893 and successfully defended his title the following year. In 1895 Mahony forfeited the defence of his title due to illness. In 1898 he won the singles titles at the prestigious

Prompt: Prior to Andy Murray who was the last British player to contest a tennis Grand Slam singles final?

Answer: Greg Rusedski


Context: Ephebiphobia | " The word ephebiphobia is formed from the Greek ἔφηβος éphēbos, meaning ""youth"" or ""adolescent"" and φόβος phóbos, meaning ""fear"" or ""phobia"". The coinage of this term is attributed to a 1994 article by Kirk Astroth published in Phi Delta Kappan. Today, common usage occurs internationally by sociologists, government agencies, and youth advocacy organizations that define ephebiphobia as an abnormal or irrational and persistent fear or loathing of teenagers or adolescence."

Prompt: Astrophobia is the fear of what?

Answer: Forked lightning


Context: Neil Mullarkey |  Mullarkey hosted Missed Demeanours for BBC Radio 4, was a regular performer on Bits from Last Week's Radio, co-wrote and starred in FAB TV and has appeared on Just a Minute, The News Quiz, Quote...Unquote, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Loose Ends, In Touch and 'The Unbelievable Truth'. He wrote and presented the documentary Ten Years of the Comedy Store Players.

Prompt: Who hosts Radio 4's quiz I'm Sony I Haven't a Clue?

Answer: Dee, Jack


Context: A565 road |  The A565 is a road in England that is around 27.5 miles long and runs from Liverpool in Merseyside to Tarleton in Lancashire. It is a primary route linking the town of Southport to Liverpool and to Preston (latterly via the connecting A59), having been designated a trunk road as part of the Trunk Roads Act 1946.

Prompt: The A57 road runs from Liverpool to which English town or city?

Answer: Lincoln (Amtrak station)


Context: Elbe |  the last structural road link crossing the river before the North Sea. At the bay Mühlenberger Loch in Hamburg at kilometre 634, the Northern Elbe and the Southern Elbe (here now the cut-off meander Old Southern Elbe) used to reunite, which is why the bay is seen as the starting point of the Lower Elbe (Niederelbe). Leaving the city-state the Lower Elbe then passes between Holstein and the Elbe-Weser Triangle with Stade until it flows into the North Sea at Cuxhaven. Near its mouth it passes the entrance to the Kiel Canal at Brunsbüttel before it debouches into the North Sea.

Prompt: Which river flows into the North Sea at Hamburg?

Answer: Elbe


Context: Handgun |   The matchlock appeared in Europe in the mid-15th century. The matchlock was the first mechanism invented to facilitate the firing of a hand-held firearm. The classic European matchlock gun held a burning slow match in a clamp at the end of a small curved lever known as the serpentine. Upon the pulling of a lever (or in later models a trigger) protruding from the bottom of the gun and connected to the serpentine, the clamp dropped down, lowering the smoldering match into the flash pan and igniting the priming powder. The flash from the primer traveled through the touch hole igniting the main charge of propellant in the gun barrel. On release of the lever or trigger, the spring-loaded serpentine would move in reverse to clear the pan. For obvious safety reasons the match would be removed before reloading of the gun. Both ends of the match were usually kept alight in case one end should be accidentally extinguished.

Prompt: In medieval England what kind of weapon was a serpentine?

Answer: Small cannon


Context: Major (United Kingdom) |  Major (Maj) is a military rank which is used by both the British Army and Royal Marines. The rank is superior to captain and subordinate to lieutenant colonel. The insignia for a major is a crown. The equivalent rank in the Royal Navy is lieutenant commander, and squadron leader in the Royal Air Force.

Prompt: What is the equivalent Royal Navy rank to the Army's Major?

Answer: Rear Admiral Upper Half


Context: Jackie Evancho discography | " § On January 20, 2017, Evancho released Together We Stand, a disc containing three songs: ""The Star-Spangled Banner"", ""America the Beautiful"" and ""God Bless America"". The songs charted at No. 2, 4 and 5, respectively, on Billboard's Classical Digital Song sales chart."

Prompt: 'We Will Stand Together' is a song to music from which classical work?

Answer: נִמְרֹד


Context: Fraxinus excelsior 'Hessei' |  Fraxinus excelsior 'Hessei', also known as one-leaved ash or simple-leaved ash, is a cultivar of the Fraxinus excelsior species native to Europe and Western Asia. It is known for being vigorous, seedless, and pest resistant. It is widely cultivated as a shade tree, having lustrous, dark-green foliage.

Prompt: How is the tree Fraxinus excelsior more commonly known?

Answer: Common Ash


Context: Habitat (retailer) |  Habitat is the main homewares and furnishings brand within the Sainsbury's group. It is part of the Sainsbury's Argos business which runs general merchandise and clothing operations including Habitat, Argos, Sainsbury's Home products and Tu clothing. As a result of being part of this wider group, customers can also purchase a wide range of Habitat products from Argos stores or online. Larger Sainsbury's supermarkets also have Habitat homewares available among their normal Sainsbury's Home stock. In November 2020 Sainsbury's announced that it wanted to have 80% of homewares and furniture sold within the Sainsbury's group under the Habitat brand by the end of 2021. On 27 May 2021, Sainsbury's confirmed that, as part of its integration of Habitat into its sister chain Argos, the trade, assets and liabilities of Habitat Retail Limited had been transferred to Argos Limited on 5 February 2021. This means that Habitat is now a trading name of Argos and not a company in its own right.

Prompt: Tu is the clothing brand of supermarket chain?

Answer: Sainsburys.com


Context: London mayoral elections |  The incumbent Labour mayor, Ken Livingstone was defeated by Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, who became London's second mayor.

Prompt: Who was the conservative candidate beaten by Ken Livingstone in the first two elections for Mayor of London?

Answer: Steve Norris