Context: History of paleontology in the United States | " end of the 18th century possible dinosaur fossils had already been found. By the beginning of the 19th, their fossil footprints definitely had. Later in the century as more dinosaur fossils were uncovered eminent paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh were embroiled in a bitter rivalry to collect the most fossils and name the most new prehistoric species. Early in the 20th century major finds continued, like the Ice Age mammals of the La Brea Tar Pits, the Oligocene bonebeds of South Dakota, and the Triassic bonebeds of New Mexico. Mid-to-late twentieth century discoveries in the United States triggered the Dinosaur Renaissance as the discovery of the bird-like Deinonychus overturned misguided notions of dinosaurs as plodding lizard-like animals, cemented their sophisticated physiology and relationship with birds. Other notable finds include Maiasaura, which provided early evidence for parental care in dinosaurs and ""Seismosaurus"" the largest known dinosaur."

Prompt: The bitter 19th century rivalry between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh during their search for dinosaur fossils is usually described with what 2-words?

Answer: Bone Wars


Context: Descriptive research | " descriptive science is not necessarily low-tech science, and high tech is not necessarily better. [...] Finally, a theory is only as good as what it explains and the evidence (i.e., descriptions) that supports it."" A negative attitude by scientists toward descriptive science is not limited to biological disciplines: Lord Rutherford's notorious quote, ""All science is either physics or stamp collecting,"" displays a clear negative attitude about descriptive science, and it is known that he was dismissive of astronomy, which at the beginning of the 20th century was still gathering largely descriptive data about stars, nebulae, and galaxies, and was only beginning to develop a satisfactory integration of these observations within the framework of physical law, a cornerstone of the philosophy of physics."

Prompt: Scientist Ernest Rutherford once said all science is just what subject while comparing the rest to stamp collection?

Answer: Physicalizes


Context: Benjamin Rush | "Turkish opium for nervousness ; emetics to induce vomiting ; medicinal wine ; fifty dozen of Dr. Rush's Bilious Pills, laxatives containing more than 50% mercury, which have since colloquially been referred to as ""thunderclappers."" Their meat-rich diet and lack of clean water during the expedition gave the men cause to use them frequently. Although their efficacy is questionable, their high mercury content provided an excellent tracer by which archaeologists have been able to track the corps' actual route to the Pacific. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to prepare for the Lewis and Clark Expedition under the tutelage of Rush, who taught Lewis about frontier illnesses and the performance of bloodletting. Rush provided the corps with a medical kit that included:"

Prompt: Dr. Benjamin Rush gave what expeditionary group mercury laced laxatives which proved to be excellent tracers by which archaeologists have now been able to track their actual route?

Answer: Lewis and clark


Context: John Stevens Henslow | " the Galápagos Islands Darwin noted ""I certainly recognize S America in Ornithology, would a botanist?"", and went on to collect plant specimens carefully labelled by island and date. He also labelled the mockingbirds he caught, and initially thought these were varieties but while arranging these bird specimens on the last lap of the voyage he began wondering if they could be species, a possibility which would ""undermine the stability of Species"". Henslow's teaching continued to influence Darwin's work on evolution. Besides Darwin, other famous students of Henslow included Miles Joseph Berkeley, Cardale Babington, Leonard Jenyns, Richard Thomas Lowe and William Hallowes Miller."

Prompt: Can you connect Darwin and his research on Galapagos Islands to the book To Kill a Mockingbird?

Answer: Fringillidae


Context: Miller–Urey experiment |   The Miller–Urey experiment (or Miller experiment) was a chemical experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time (1952) to be present on the early Earth and tested the chemical origin of life under those conditions. The experiment at the time supported Alexander Oparin's and J. B. S. Haldane's hypothesis that putative conditions on the primitive Earth favored chemical reactions that synthesized more complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic precursors. Considered to be the classic experiment investigating abiogenesis, it was performed in 1952 by Stanley Miller, supervised by Harold Urey at the University of Chicago, and published the following year. After Miller's death in 2007, scientists examining sealed vials preserved from the original experiments were able to show that there were actually well over 20 different amino acids produced in Miller's original experiments. That is considerably more than what Miller originally reported, and more than the 20 that naturally occur in the genetic code. More recent evidence suggests that Earth's original atmosphere might have had a composition different from the gas used in the Miller experiment, but prebiotic experiments continue to produce racemic mixtures of simple-to-complex compounds—such as cyanide—under varying conditions.

Prompt: The Miller-Urey experiment conducted in 1953 that simulated the conditions of the early days of Earth aimed to investigate what?

Answer: Chemical origins of life


Context: Mitochondrial Eve | " In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (also mt-Eve, mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans. In other words, she is defined as the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman. In terms of mitochondrial haplogroups, the mt-MRCA is situated at the divergence of macro-haplogroup L into L0 and L1–6. As of 2013, estimates on the age of this split ranged at around 155,000 years ago, consistent with a date later than the speciation of Homo sapiens but earlier than the recent out-of-Africa dispersal. The male analog to the ""Mitochondrial Eve"" is the ""Y-chromosomal Adam"" (or Y-MRCA), the individual from whom all living humans are patrilineally descended. As the identity of both matrilineal and patrilineal MRCAs is "

Prompt: In genetics, who is the woman who lived approximately 190,000-200,000 years ago and who was the most recent woman from whom all living humans today descend?

Answer: Eve (genetics)


Context: DNA transposon |  Barbara McClintock first discovered and described DNA transposons in Zea mays, during the 1940s; this is an achievement that would earn her the Nobel Prize in 1983. She described the Ac/Ds system where the Ac unit (activator) was autonomous but the Ds genomic unit required the presence of the activator in order to move. This TE is one of the most visually obvious as it was able to cause the maize to change color from yellow to brown/spotted on individual kernels.

Prompt: What is the more common name for 'transposons' discovered by Barbara McClintock who investigated the reason for uneven splattering of color in corn kernels?

Answer: Tn sequence


Context: Anthropocene Working Group | " Prior to the establishment of the Anthropocene Working Group in 2009, no research program dedicated to the formalization of the Anthropocene in the geologic time scale existed. The idea of naming the current epoch 'Anthropocene' rather than using its formal time unit, the Holocene, became popular after Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer published in May 2000 an article on the IGBP Global Change Newsletter called ""The 'Anthropocene'."" Later in 2002, Crutzen published a commentary on Nature titled ""Geology of Mankind"" where he further stressed the idea ""to assign the term ‘Anthropocene’ to the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocene,"" with starting date "

Prompt: What term was popularized by Nobel Prize-winning Paul Crutzen to replace 'Holocene' epoch on the Geological Time Scale as he felt that the influence of humans on Earth is significant?

Answer: Human World


Context: Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) |  approval over concerns about fallout from its propulsion. The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is generally acknowledged to have ended the project. However, from Project Longshot to Project Daedalus, Mini-Mag Orion, and other proposals which reach engineering analysis at the level of considering thermal power dissipation, the principle of external nuclear pulse propulsion to maximize survivable power has remained common among serious concepts for interstellar flight without external power beaming and for very high-performance interplanetary flight. Such later proposals have tended to modify the basic principle by envisioning equipment driving detonation of much smaller fission or fusion pellets, in contrast to Project Orion's larger nuclear pulse units (full nuclear bombs) based on less speculative technology.

Prompt: Project Orion, Project Daedalus, Medusa, and Project Longshot all have in common what transportation principle based on an idea of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam?

Answer: Spacecraft propulsion using nuclear explosions (nuclear pulse propulsion)


Context: Bedford Level experiment |   The Bedford Level experiment is a series of observations carried out along a 6 mi length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, to measure the curvature of the Earth. Samuel Birley Rowbotham, who conducted the first observations starting in 1838, claimed that he had proven the Earth to be flat. However, in 1870, after adjusting Rowbotham's method to avoid the effects of atmospheric refraction, Alfred Russel Wallace found a curvature consistent with a spherical Earth.

Prompt: The Bedford Level experiments conducted in 19th century England along a canal that ran in an uninterrupted straight line were carried out to determine what?

Answer: Earth's shape


Context: Randomness | " This argument is, ""In a random selection of numbers, since all numbers eventually appear, those that have not come up yet are 'due', and thus more likely to come up soon."" This logic is only correct if applied to a system where numbers that come up are removed from the system, such as when playing cards are drawn and not returned to the deck. In this case, once a jack is removed from the deck, the next draw is less likely to be a jack and more likely to be some other card. However, if the jack is returned to the deck, and the deck is thoroughly reshuffled, a jack is as likely to be drawn as any other card. The same applies in any other process where objects are selected independently, and none are removed after each event, such as the roll of a die, a coin toss, or most lottery number selection schemes. Truly random processes such as these do not have memory, which makes it impossible for past outcomes to affect future outcomes. In fact, there is no finite number of trials that can guarantee a success."

Prompt: If numbers 1, 16, 17 and 32 are being removed, what is the most likely procedure being performed? (hint: Unlikely to turn one into a half-wit!)

Answer: Extraction of wisdom teeth


Context: Millennium Prize Problems | " In dimension 2, a sphere is characterized by the fact that it is the only closed and simply-connected surface. The Poincaré conjecture states that this is also true in dimension 3. It is central to the more general problem of classifying all 3-manifolds. The precise formulation of the conjecture states: ""Every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere."" A proof of this conjecture was given by Grigori Perelman in 2003. Perelman's solution was based on Richard Hamilton's theory of Ricci flow. However, this solution included major original advancements by Perelman and made use of results on spaces of metrics due to "

Prompt: Every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere. Stated above is what mathematical problem named for a Frenchman that defied experts for a century before it was solved by Grigori Perelman in 2006?

Answer: The Poincaré Conjecture


Context: Fauna of India |  The exploitation of land and forest resources by humans along with hunting and trapping for food and sport has led to the extinction of many species in India in recent times. Probably the first species to vanish during the time of the Indus Valley civilisation was the species of wild cattle, Bos primegenius nomadicus or the wild zebu, which vanished from its range in the Indus valley and western India, possibly due to inter-breeding with domestic cattle and resultant fragmentation of wild populations due to loss of habitat. Notable mammals which became or are presumed extinct within the country itself include the Indian / Asiatic cheetah, Javan rhinoceros and Sumatran rhinoceros. While some of these large mammal species are confirmed extinct, there have been many smaller animal and plant species whose status is harder to determine.

Prompt: Think a big animal and fill in the two missing blanks. ___, ___, Indian, Javan, Sumatran

Answer: White and black (species of rhinoceros)


Context: Futanari |  Futanari (ふたなり) is the Japanese word for hermaphroditism, which is also used in a broader sense for androgyny. Beyond Japan, the term has come to be used to describe a commonly pornographic genre of eroge, manga, and anime which includes characters that show primary sexual characteristics from both females and males. In today's language it refers almost exclusively to characters who have an overall feminine body, but have both female and male primary genitalia (although testicles are not always present). The term is also often abbreviated as futa(s), which is also used as a generalized term for the works themselves.

Prompt: What is the more common term for the affliction called epistaxis the occurrence of which suggests sexual arousal in Japanese manga and anime?

Answer: Nosebleeding


Context: Eel life history | " In 1777, the Italian Carlo Mondini located an eel's ovaries and demonstrated that eels are a kind of fish. In 1876, as a young student in Austria, Sigmund Freud dissected hundreds of eels in search of the male sex organs. He had to concede failure in his first major published research paper, and turned to other issues in frustration. Larval eels — transparent, leaflike two-inch (five-cm) creatures of the open ocean — were not generally recognized as such until 1893; instead, they were thought to be a separate species, Leptocephalus brevirostris (from the Greek leptocephalus meaning ""thin- or flat-head""). In 1886, however, the French zoologist Yves Delage discovered the truth when he kept leptocephali alive in a laboratory tank in Roscoff until they matured into eels, and in 1896 Italian zoologist Giovanni Battista Grassi confirmed the finding when he observed the transformation of a Leptocephalus into a round glass eel in the Mediterranean Sea. (He also observed that salt water was necessary to support the maturation process.) Although the connection between larval eels and adult eels is now well understood, the name leptocephalus is still used for larval eel."

Prompt: In 1876, a young Austrian student dissected hundreds of eels in search for the male sex organs. Conceding failure, he turned to other issues in frustration. Who?

Answer: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)


Context: Beetle |  Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 to 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris,

Prompt: What is the more common name for the order Coleoptera which contains more species than any other order in the animal kingdom?

Answer: Black-Beetle


Context: Carl Friedrich Gauss |  There are several stories of his early genius. According to one, his gifts became very apparent at the age of three when he corrected, mentally and without fault in his calculations, an error his father had made on paper while calculating finances. Another story has it that in primary school after the young Gauss misbehaved, his teacher, J.G. Büttner, gave him a task: add a list of integers in arithmetic progression; as the story is most often told, these were the numbers from 1 to 100. The young Gauss reputedly produced the correct answer within seconds, to the astonishment of his teacher and his assistant Martin Bartels. Gauss's presumed method was to realize that pairwise addition of terms from

Prompt: In primary school, after he had misbehaved, his teacher asked him to add all the numbers from 1 to 100. He answered in a few seconds after realizing that the pairwise addition of terms from opposite ends of the list yielded identical intermediate sums: 1 + 100 = 101, 2 + 99 = 101, 3 + 98 = 101, and so on, for a total sum of 50 × 101 = 5050. About which German genius, regarded as the greatest mathematician since antiquity is this possibly apocryphal story often told?

Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)


Context: CAPTCHA | " A CAPTCHA (, a contrived acronym for ""Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"") is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2003 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford. The most common type of CAPTCHA (displayed as Version 1.0) was first invented in 1997 by two groups working in parallel. This form of CAPTCHA requires someone to correctly evaluate and enter a sequence of letters or numbers perceptible in a distorted image displayed on their screen. Because the test is administered by a computer, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is administered by a human, a CAPTCHA is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test. This user identification procedure has received many criticisms, especially from people with disabilities, but also from other people who feel that their everyday work is slowed down by distorted words that are difficult to read. It takes the average person approximately 10 seconds to solve a typical CAPTCHA."

Prompt: A 'Captcha' test that usually requires a user to identify and type letters/digits from a distorted image is an attempt to ensure that a response is not generated by a computer. It is also described as a reverse what test?

Answer: Reverse Turing test


Context: History of geography | " was first and last a synthesizing science and as such, if Goetzmann is to be believed, 'it became the key scientific activity of the age'."" Humboldt met the geographer George Forster at the University of Göttingen, whose geographical description and scientific writing influenced Humboldt. His Geognosia including the geography of rocks, animals, and plants is ""an important model for modern geography"". As the Prussian Ministry of Mines, Humboldt founded the Free Royal Mining School at Steben for miners, later regarded the prototype of such institutes. German Naturphilosophie, especially the work of Goethe and Herder, stimulated Humboldt's idea and research of a universal "

Prompt: Which Prussian naturalist who influenced Darwin and whose work established the field of bio-geography also has an ocean current that flows from Chile to Peru named for him?

Answer: Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)


Context: Rouging |  Rouging is a form of corrosion found in stainless steel. It can be due to iron contamination of the stainless steel surface due to welding of non-stainless steel for support columns, or other temporary means, which when welded off leaves a low chromium area. There are three classes of rouging: Class I, Class II, and Class III. Class I - stainless steel surface and the Cr/Fe ratio of the metal surface beneath such deposits usually remain unaltered. Class II - Iron particles originating in-situ on unpassivated or improperly passivated stainless steel surfaces. By their formation the Cr/Fe ratio of the metal surface is altered. Class III - Iron oxide (or scale) which forms on surfaces in high temperature steam systems. The Cr/Fe ratio of the protective film is usually altered.

Prompt: In metallurgy, the term 'rouging' refers to a form of corrosion found on what substance that you do not readily associate with corrosion?

Answer: Duplex Stainless Steel


Context: Apgar score |  The Apgar score is a quick way for doctors to evaluate the health of all newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth and in response to resuscitation. It was originally developed in 1952 by an anesthesiologist at Columbia University, Dr. Virginia Apgar, as way to address the need for a standardized way to evaluate infants shortly after birth. Today, the categories developed by Dr. Apgar used to assess the health of a newborn remain largely the same as in 1952, though the way they are implemented and used has evolved over the years. The score is determined through the evaluation of the newborn in five criteria: activity (tone), pulse, grimace, appearance, and respiration. For each criterion, newborns can receive a score from 0 to 2. The list of criteria is a backronym of Dr. Apgar's surname.

Prompt: The Apgar score was devised in 1952 by anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar as a simple and repeatable method to assess what?

Answer: Health of a newborn child


Context: Sex |  Most aquatic animals such as fish and corals mate using external fertilization, where the eggs and sperm are released into, and combine within, the surrounding water. However, some species like crustaceans use internal fertilization. In seahorses, females use their ovipositors to deliver eggs into the males’ underside for fertilization and gestation. Pipefish and seahorses are the only species that entail male pregnancy.

Prompt: What two sea-dwelling creatures are notable for being the only species in which males become 'pregnant'?

Answer: Seahorses and pipefishes


Context: Red imported fire ant |  elicited a necrophoric response. The process behind this behaviour in imported red fire ants was confirmed by Blum (1970): unsaturated fats, such as oleic acid, elicit corpse-removal behaviour. Workers also show differentiated responses towards dead workers and pupae. Dead workers are usually taken away from the nest, whereas the pupae may take a day for a necrophoric response to occur. Pupae infected by Metarhizium anisopliae are usually discarded by workers at a higher rate; 47.5% of unaffected corpses are discarded within a day, but for affected corpses this figure is 73.8%. Red imported fire ants have negative impacts on seed germination. The extent of the damage, however, depends on how long seeds are vulnerable for (dry and germinating) and by

Prompt: Which acid that makes up 55-80% of olive oil is also emitted by decaying bee corpses thus triggering the instincts of living bees to remove dead bees from their hives?

Answer: Oleoyl


Context: Sense of balance |  The sense of balance or equilibrioception is the perception of balance and spatial orientation. It helps prevent humans and nonhuman animals from falling over when standing or moving. Equilibrioception is the result of a number of sensory systems working together; the eyes (visual system), the inner ears (vestibular system), and the body's sense of where it is in space (proprioception) ideally need to be intact. The vestibular system, the region of the inner ear where three semicircular canals converge, works with the visual system to keep objects in focus when the head is moving. This is called the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR). The balance system works with the visual and skeletal systems (the muscles and joints and their sensors) to maintain orientation or balance. Visual signals sent to the brain about the body's position in relation to its surroundings are processed by the brain and compared to information from the vestibular and skeletal systems.

Prompt: Steady now, the physiological sense called 'equilibrioception' allows humans and animals to do what?

Answer: Walk or stand without falling


Context: Hall–Héroult process |  Aluminium is the most abundant metallic element in the Earth's crust, but it is rarely found in its elemental state. It occurs in many minerals, but its primary commercial source is bauxite, a mixture of hydrated aluminium oxides and compounds of other elements such as iron. Prior to the Hall–Héroult process, elemental aluminium was made by heating ore along with elemental sodium or potassium in a vacuum. The method was complicated and consumed materials that were in themselves expensive at that time. This meant that the cost to produce the small amount of aluminium made in the early 19th century was very high, higher than for gold or platinum. Bars of aluminium were exhibited alongside the French crown jewels at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, and Emperor Napoleon III of France was said to have reserved his few sets of aluminium dinner plates and eating utensils for his most honored guests. Production costs using older methods did come down, but when aluminium was selected as the material for the cap/lightning rod to sit atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., it was still more expensive than silver.

Prompt: Though it is the most abundant metallic element in Earth's crust, which element is very rare in its free form and once prompted Napoleon III, Emperor of France to give a banquet where the most honoured guests were given utensils made of it while the 'lesser' guests had to make do with gold!

Answer: Aluminum granules


Context: André the Giant |  recounted by Cary Elwes in his book about the making of The Princess Bride has Roussimoff falling on top of somebody while drunk, after which the NYPD sent an undercover officer to follow Roussimoff around whenever he went out drinking in their city to make sure he did not fall on anyone again. Another story also says prior to his famous WrestleMania III match, Roussimoff drank 14 bottles of wine. An urban legend exists surrounding Roussimoff's 1987 surgery in which his size made it impossible for the anesthesiologist to estimate a dosage via standard methods; consequently, his alcohol tolerance was used as a guideline instead. In 1989, Roussimoff was arrested and charged with assault after he

Prompt: A story goes that when this colorful sports figure had to undergo a surgery, his prowess at consuming alcohol was used as a guideline by the anesthesiologist as his physical attribute made all standard references moot. Who?

Answer: André The Giant


Context: Amateur sports | " Disc League (AUDL) and Major League Ultimate (MLU). The game of guts was invented by the Healy Brothers in the 1950s and developed at the International Frisbee Tournament (IFT) in Marquette, Michigan. The game of ultimate, the most widely played disc game, began in the late 1960s with Joel Silver and Jared Kass. In the 1970s it developed as an organized sport with the creation of the Ultimate Players Association with Dan Roddick, Tom Kennedy and Irv Kalb. Double disc court was invented and introduced in the early 1970s by Jim Palmeri. In 1974, freestyle competition was created and introduced by Ken Westerfield and Discrafts Jim Kenner. In 1976, the game of disc golf was standardized with targets called ""pole holes"" invented and developed by Wham-O's Ed Headrick."

Prompt: "Jared Kass, one of the inventors of a recreational sport described it as follows. Fill in the missing word which is also the name of the sport. ""I just remember one time running for a pass and leaping up in the air and just feeling the Frisbee making it into my hand and feeling the perfect synchrony and the joy of the moment, and as I landed I said to myself, 'This is the ... game. This is the ... game.'"""

Answer: Ultimate Frisbee


Context: Jack Brickhouse |  John Beasley Brickhouse (January 24, 1916 – August 6, 1998) was an American sportscaster. Known primarily for his play-by-play coverage of Chicago Cubs games on WGN-TV from 1948 to 1981, he received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983. In 1985, Brickhouse was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame along with the Voice of the Yankees Mel Allen and Red Sox Voice Curt Gowdy. Brickhouse served as the organization's Secretary/Treasurer and was a member of its board of directors. Brickhouse also called Chicago White Sox games prior to that team leaving WGN in 1968. He covered national events from time to time, including three World Series

Prompt: "Sportscaster Jack Brickhouse who once said ""Any team can have a bad century"" provided play-by-play coverage of what American major league team's games from 1948 to 1981?"

Answer: Chicaco Cubs


Context: Pizza-La |  On August 24, 2013, images in which two part-time employees of Pizza-La's Higashiyamato branch in Tokyo posed inside its sink and refrigerator were released onto the Internet. On the same day they were found to have gone viral on Twitter and several bulletin boards. The following day a public apology was made by the company, and the Higashiyamato branch was temporarily closed while disposal of preserved foods and disinfection of the sink and refrigerator began. As of August 30 the two employees were fired. The company that acted as a franchisee of the Higashiyamato branch had lost consumer trust due to the incident and suspended business in October 2015. On July 27, 2016, the company began bankruptcy proceedings with the Tokyo District Court. It was also found that said employees had released images of themselves squatting on display shelves and inside refrigeration cabinets at the Seiyu supermarket in Ōme, Tokyo a day before the incident, on August 23.

Prompt: "Addressing which in-the-news person did a pizza chain in India tweet on June 24, 2014 ""..., if you ever feel like biting into a tastier Italian, try our famous Calabrese pizza""?"

Answer: The Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez


Context: Texas hold 'em starting hands | " In poker communities, it is common for hole cards to be given nicknames. While most combinations have a nickname, stronger handed nicknames are generally more recognized, the most notable probably being the ""Big Slick"" - Ace and King of the same suit, although an Ace-King of any suit combination is less occasionally referred to as an Anna Kournikova, derived from the initials AK and because it ""looks really good but rarely wins."" Hands can be named according to their shapes (e.g., paired aces look like ""rockets"", paired jacks look like ""fish hooks""); a historic event (e.g., A's and 8's - dead man's hand, representing the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was fatally shot in the back by Jack McCall in 1876); many other reasons like animal names, alliteration and rhyming are also used in nicknames."

Prompt: "The name of what tennis star was used by a commentator for the the hole cards Ace–King (unsuited) of Texas Hold 'em as they meet the criteria of ""looks great but never wins""?"

Answer: Ánna Sergéyevna Kúrnikova


Context: Olympic sports |  Summer Olympic sports are divided into categories based on popularity, gauged by: television viewers (40%), internet popularity (20%), public surveys (15%), ticket requests (10%), press coverage (10%), and number of national federations (5%). The category determines the share the sport's International Federation receives of Olympic revenue. The current categories, as of 2013, are as follows, with the pre-2013 categorizations also being available. Category A represents the most popular sports; category E lists either the sports that are the least popular or that are new to the Olympics (golf and rugby).

Prompt: Summer Olympic sports are divided into categories based on popularity and the potential in generating revenue. As of 2014, only 3 sports are in Category A. They are athletics, aquatics, and what else?

Answer: Freestyle gymnastics


Context: Loyalty marketing |  The first baseball cards were trade cards featuring the Brooklyn Atlantics produced in 1868 by Peck and Snyder, a sporting goods company that manufactured baseball equipment. In 1869, Peck and Snyder trade cards featured the first professional team, the Red Stockings. Most of the baseball cards around the beginning of the 20th century came in candy and tobacco products produced by such companies as Breisch-Williams confectionery company of Oxford, Pennsylvania, American Caramel Company, the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, and Cabañas, a Cuban cigar manufacturer. In fact it is a baseball set, known as the T-106 tobacco card set, distributed by the American Tobacco Company in 1909 that is considered by collectors to be the most popular set of cigarette cards. In 1933, Goudey Gum Company of Boston issued baseball cards with players biographies on the backs and was the first to put baseball cards in bubble gum. Bowman Gum of Philadelphia issued its first baseball cards in 1948 and became the biggest issuer of baseball cards from 1948 to 1952.

Prompt: The Peck and Snyder are sometimes considered the first of what sporting collectibles?

Answer: Baseball card


Context: Los Angeles Dodgers |  New York baseball fans were stunned and heartbroken by the move. Given that the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have been bitter rivals in economic, cultural, and political arenas for over a century and a half, the new venue in California became fertile ground for its transplantation. Each team's ability to endure for over a century while moving across an entire continent, as well as the rivalry's leap from a cross-city to a cross-state engagement, have led to the rivalry being considered one of the greatest in American sports history. Unlike many other historic baseball match-ups in which

Prompt: What American city has suffered two (separate) outcomes of what are now called 'The Move' and 'The Decision' in sports lore?

Answer: The Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World


Context: The Show (SDSU student section) | "Aztecs Bombaye – Stemming from the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, Ali was greeted with chants of ""Ali bombaye! Ali bombaye!"" which means ""Ali kill him!"" or ""Ali defeat him!"" It was during the 2005 SDSU-BYU football game that ""Aztecs Bombaye (pronounced Boom-Bye-Yay)"" began. An African exchange student started shouting ""Aztecs bombaye!"" to pump up the SDSU players. Every time the student started the chant, something good happened for the Aztecs. The Show would later adopt it for basketball games. Not to use up all of its luck, The Show would only use the chant in dire situations, when the team needed a stop. ; ""Tarzan Boy"" by "

Prompt: "The chant ""Boom I ay!"" meaning ""kill him"" was famously used to egg which sportsman in 1974?"

Answer: Muhammad Ali (during the Rumble in the Jungle fight)


Context: Ski flying |  The ultimate aim is to land on, or ideally surpass, a line marked across the hill called the K-point, critical point, or calculation line. In order to attain the most points from the style judges, athletes strive for a Telemark landing: instead of landing with simply both feet together (a two-footed landing), one foot is planted clearly in front of the other (without sliding the skis), the other knee bent, both feet held no more than four ski widths' apart, and the body held stable with a straight back and arms outstretched. This pose must be maintained until the outrun – a line at the very end of the hill, where the slope has fully flattened out – is reached. The exact placement of landing is measured between the athlete's front and back

Prompt: Just like par in golf, what is the term given to the line in skiing where most skiers aim to land?

Answer: K-line (disambiguation)


Context: Corner kick | " Two popular strategies used for defending corners are called man marking and zonal marking. Man marking involves each defensive player at a corner given an attacking player to defend, with his or her objective being to stop the attacking player from heading the ball. The other tactic, zonal marking, involves allocating each player to an area of the box to defend (his or her ""zone""). The objective for players in zonal marking is to get to the ball first if it enters their zone and head it away from danger before an attacking player can reach it."

Prompt: What tactic of sports commonly seen in American major leagues seeks to emphasize players defending areas of field as opposed to particular player(s)?

Answer: 3-2 zone


Context: Pope Francis | " Bergoglio was elected pope on 13 March 2013, the second day of the 2013 papal conclave, taking the papal name Francis. Francis was elected on the fifth ballot of the conclave. The Habemus papam announcement was delivered by the cardinal protodeacon, Jean-Louis Tauran. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn later said that Bergoglio was elected following two supernatural signs, one in the conclave and hence confidential, and a Latin-American couple of friends of Schönborn who whispered Bergoglio's name in Schönborn's ear; Schönborn commented ""if these people say Bergoglio, that's an indication of the Holy Spirit"". Instead of accepting his cardinals' congratulations while seated on the papal throne, Francis received them standing, reportedly an immediate sign of a changing approach to formalities at the Vatican. During his first appearance as pontiff on the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica, he wore a white cassock, not the red, "

Prompt: "Commenting on the election of the new pope Francis I in March 2013, which sportsperson said it was the ""hand of God"" that brought the papacy to his country?"

Answer: Soccer superstar Diego Maradona of Argentina


Context: Bowling form | " category. A well-known variant of ""tweening"" is the power stroker. Power stroking is often very similar to cranking and bowlers can often fit in either category, therefore bowlers that use one of these two styles are often simply known as power players. A fourth style, known as helicopter, spinning, or UFO, is a style that is used to great effect in Asia. Finally, many modern bowlers have changed to a one- or two-handed no-thumb delivery. Most of the various forms use different wrist and hand positions and rely on different timings and body positions to accommodate the differences in each style of release."

Prompt: The Dude would know that stroking and cranking are the two main types of delivery in what sport?

Answer: Bowling pathway


Context: America (yacht) | " America was a 19th-century racing yacht and first winner of the America's Cup international sailing trophy. On August 22, 1851, America won the Royal Yacht Squadron's 53 mi regatta around the Isle of Wight by 18 minutes. The Squadron's ""One Hundred Sovereign Cup"" or ""£100 Cup"", sometimes mistakenly known in America as the ""One Hundred Guinea Cup,"" was later renamed after the original winning yacht."

Prompt: What is the name of the yacht that won the Royal Yacht Squadron's regatta around the Isle of Wight in 1851 and lent its name to a famous sports prize?

Answer: The United States of America


Context: Par (score) |  Condor is an unofficial name for a hole score of four strokes fewer than par (four under par, −4). A condor is also known as a double albatross, or a triple eagle. This is the lowest individual hole score ever made, relative to par. A condor would be a hole-in-one on a par-five (typically by cutting over a dogleg corner), a two on a par-six, or a three on a par-seven (which is not known to have been achieved). Par-sixes are exceptionally rare, as are par-sevens. As of January 2021, a condor had been recorded only five times on a par-5, once reportedly on a straight drive (a record 517 yd, aided by the thin air at high altitude in Denver). Another was reportedly achieved with a 3-iron club (in 1995 on a horseshoe-shaped par-5 hole). In December 2020, a condor on a par-6 was recorded on the 18th hole at Lake Chabot Golf Course in Oakland, California. A condor has never been achieved during a professional tournament.

Prompt: In golf, a six under par score has never been, and is unlikely to ever be recorded, as it requires a hole in one on a par-seven hole. What is the 'mythical' term for such a hypothetical performance? (hint: think about the names of under par scores)

Answer: Phœnix


Context: Stimpmeter |  The Stimpmeter is a device used to measure the speed of a golf course putting green by applying a known velocity to a golf ball and measuring the distance traveled in feet.

Prompt: The 'Stimpmeter', a device that applies a known force to a ball and then measures the distance it travels is used in what sport?

Answer: In golf, to measure the speed of a putting green


Context: Secretariat (horse) |  Secretariat was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1974, the year following his Triple Crown victory. In 1994, Sports Illustrated ranked Secretariat #17 in their list of the 40 greatest sports figures of the past 40 years. In 1999, ESPN listed him 35th of the 100 greatest North American athletes of the 20th century, the highest of three non-humans on the list (the other two were also racehorses: Man o' War at 84th and Citation at 97th). Secretariat ranked second behind Man o' War in The Blood-Horse's List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century. He was also ranked second behind Man o' War by both a six-member

Prompt: What is the highest ranked non-human on ESPN's 1999 list of 'Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century'?

Answer: Secretariat, who in 1973 became the first Triple Crown champion in twenty-five years


Context: Shahar Pe'er | " In February 2009, Pe'er (ranked No. 45 in the world at the time) was prevented from playing at the Dubai Tennis Championships by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which denied her a visa. The UAE did not have diplomatic relations with Israel at that time. A number of players, among them Venus Williams, condemned the visa rejection. The 2008 winner of the men's singles, Andy Roddick, withdrew from the tournament and chose not to defend his title (with prize money of over $2 million) to protest the UAE's refusal to grant Pe'er a visa. ""I really didn't agree with what went on over there"", Roddick said. In protest, the Tennis Channel decided not to televise the "

Prompt: In 2009, the tennis player Shahar Peer was prevented from playing at the Dubai Tennis Championships after she was denied a visa mainly for her nationality. Which country was she representing?

Answer: İsrail


Context: Kubb | "  Kubb (pronounced in Swedish or  in Gutnish) is a lawn game where the objective is to knock over wooden blocks (kubbar) by throwing wooden batons (kastpinnar) at them. Kubb can be described as a combination of bowling and horseshoes. Play takes place on a small rectangular playing field, known as a ""pitch"". ""Kubbs"" are placed at both ends of the pitch, and the ""king"", a larger wooden block, is placed in the middle of the pitch. Some rules vary from country to country and from region to region, but the ultimate objective of the game is to knock over the ""kubbs"" on the opposing side of the pitch, and then to knock over the ""king"", before the opponent does. Games can last from five minutes to well over an hour. The game can be played on a variety of surfaces such as grass, sand, concrete, snow, or even ice. The alleged Viking origin of the game has led some players and kubb fans to nickname the game ""Viking chess"", though that distinction more aptly describes hnefatafl."

Prompt: What game whose objective is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing wooden sticks at them is like a combination of bowling, horseshoes and chess and enjoys popularity in Sweden?

Answer: Kubb


Context: Formula One drivers from Germany | " Michael Schumacher has often been listed as one of the greatest drivers in the history of Formula One and the ""most dominant driver in the history of the sport"". He is statistically the best driver, holding many records including the most world championships, most fastest laps, most points, and formerly held the record for most pole positions and most wins (both surpassed by Lewis Hamilton). He won an unprecedented seven world championship titles, firstly in 1994 and then his second in 1995. Those titles came while Schumacher was a driver for Benetton but in 1996 he left to join Ferrari, a team who were, at "

Prompt: Statistically the greatest driver of Formula One, Michael Schumacher won his seven championships with which two companies?

Answer: Benetton and Ferrari


Context: Sekitori |   The item of memorabilia most often associated with sumo wrestling is tegata (literally hand shape). Only sekitori are allowed to make them for fans. They could be equated to the sumo version of an autograph. Tegata consist of a print of a wrestler's hand using black or red ink accompanied by his ring name written in calligraphic style by the wrestler himself. Original tegata are given out to fans and members of one's supporter club. Printed copies of tegata can also be bought inexpensively.

Prompt: In Japanese sporting world, one of the more unusual memorabilia that can be purchased is the 'tegata.' This is the sumo version of what?

Answer: Beatles autographs


Context: 2000 Summer Olympics |  Rulon Gardner, never an NCAA champion or a world medalist, beat Alexander Karelin of Russia to win gold in the super heavyweight class, Greco-Roman wrestling. Karelin had won gold in Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta. Before this fight, he had never lost in international competition, had been unbeaten in all competitions in 13 years, and had not surrendered a point in a decade.

Prompt: Nicknamed the Russian Dan Gable, he went undefeated in international competition from 1987 to 2000 until upset by the American wrestler Rulon Gardner. He won gold medals at the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Olympic Games and went the last six years of his unbeaten streak without giving up a point. Who is he?

Answer: Alexander Karelin, the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time


Context: Mahjong | " In Chinese, the game was originally called 麻雀 —meaning sparrow—which is still used in some languages in southern China. It is said that the clacking of tiles during shuffling resembles the chattering of sparrows. It has also been suggested that the name came from an evolution of an earlier card game called Madiao from which mahjong tiles were adapted. Most Mandarin-speaking Chinese now call the game 麻將 (májiàng). Its name is similar in other languages, except in Thai, where it is called (phai nok krachok), a calque meaning ""sparrow cards."""

Prompt: "Which Chinese games' name literally means in English ""little sparrow""?"


Context: Dominoes |  with a pool. The first scoring game to be recorded was Fives, All Fives or Cribbage Dominoes which appeared in 1863 and borrowed the features of scoring for combinations as well as the cribbage board from the card game of Cribbage. In 1864, The American Hoyle describes three new variants: Muggins, simply Fives with the addition of another Cribbage feature, the 'muggins rule'; Bergen and Rounce; alongside the Block Game and Draw Game. All are still played today alongside games that have sprung up in the last 60 years such as Five Up, Mexican Train and Chicken Foot, the last two taking advantage of the larger domino sets available.

Prompt: Blind Hughie, Sebastapol, All Fives and Block are all forms of which popular game?

Answer: Billy Ward and His Dominoes


Context: Tamana Airport |  Tamana Airport is the airport serving Tamana, Kiribati. The airport is served by Air Kiribati from Tabiteuea North, which is connected directly with the international airport at South Tarawa, but lands at Tamana too on its way from Arorae back to Tabiteuea North.

Prompt: Which Asian city's international airport is built at the mouth of the Tama-gawa?

Answer: 東京都


Context: Slivovitz |   Slivovitz, slivovitza, slivovitsa, sliboviță, šljivovica, śliwowica, Schlivowitz, slivovice, slivovica or slivovka is a fruit spirit (or fruit brandy) made from damson plums, often referred to as plum spirit (or plum brandy). Slivovitz is produced in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, both commercially and privately. Primary producers include Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. In the Balkans, slivovitz is considered a kind of rakia. In Central Europe it is considered a kind of pálinka (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine—pálenka, or Greece, Romania and Italy-pălincă), and similar to Romanian țuică, corresponding to the distilled spirits category.

Prompt: From which fruit is Slivovitz made?

Answer: Prunus subg. Prunus


Context: Brian Glover | " Brian Glover (2 April 1934 – 24 July 1997) was an English actor and writer. He worked as a teacher and professional wrestler before commencing an acting career which included films, many roles on British television and work on the stage. His film appearances include Kes (1969), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Alien 3 (1992). Described by The New York Times as a ""robust character actor"" who played ""gruff but likable roles"", he had a ""string of roles playing tough guys and criminals"". He once said, ""You play to your strengths in this game, and my strength is as a bald-headed, rough-looking Yorkshireman"". Glover was also known as the voice of the Tetley tea commercials. The Independent described him upon his death as ""one of Britain's best-loved actors""."

Prompt: "Deceased wrestler 'Leon Aras' was the voice of the ""Tetley Tea Folk"", by what more familiar name was he known?"

Answer: Brian Glover


Context: English claims to the French throne | Edward III, King of England (reigned, second term 1369 – 21 June 1377). ; Richard II, King of England (reigned 21 June 1377 – 29 September 1399). ; Henry IV, King of England (reigned 30 September 1399 – 20 March 1413). ; Henry V, King of England (reigned 20 March 1413 – 21 May 1420).

Prompt: Who was on the English throne 1377 - 99?

Answer: Richard ii


Context: Meuse | Belgium: ; Hasselt (Belgium) – Maastricht (Netherlands) (currently being put back online) ; Netherlands: ; Weert - Roermond ; Blerick – Venlo ; Cuijk – Mook-Molenhoek ; Ravenstein – Wijchen ; 's-Hertogenbosch – Zaltbommel  The Meuse rises in Pouilly-en-Bassigny, commune of Le Châtelet-sur-Meuse on the Langres plateau in France from where it flows northwards past Sedan (the head of navigation) and Charleville-Mézières into Belgium. At Namur it is joined by the Sambre. Beyond Namur the Meuse winds eastwards, skirting the Ardennes, and passes Liège before turning north. The river then forms part of the Belgian-Dutch border, except that at Maastricht the border lies further to the west. In the Netherlands it continues northwards through Venlo closely along the

Prompt: Which 590 mile long river rises on France's 'Langres Plateau', enters Belgium at Givet, then flows across that country to Holland and thence to the North Sea?

Answer: Meuse, France


Context: This Is My Song (1967 song) | " ""This is My Song"" was intended for the film A Countess from Hong Kong, which Charlie Chaplin wrote and directed. Chaplin saw his film as a throwback to the shipboard romances that were popular in the 1930s, and wrote ""This Is My Song"" with the intent of evoking that era. To reinforce the evocation, Chaplin was determined to have Al Jolson sing the song—so determined that he only accepted the information that Jolson had died on 23 October 1950 when shown a photograph of Jolson's tombstone. Ultimately, the song would be featured in the film only as an instrumental. After being disillusioned with regard to Jolson, Chaplin considered having ""This Is My Song"" recorded by Petula Clark, "

Prompt: From which film, for which Chaplin film wrote the music, did Petula Clark have a Number One with 'This Is My Song'?

Answer: A Countess from Hong Kong


Context: Super Bowl XVI |  Super Bowl XVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Cincinnati Bengals to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1981 season. The 49ers defeated the Bengals by the score of 26–21 to win their first Super Bowl. The game was played on January 24, 1982, at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It marked the first time that a Super Bowl was held in a cold-weather city. The domed stadium saved the crowd at the game from the cold and

Prompt: Which team won the first 'Super Bowl'?

Answer: Green Bay Packers


Context: Standard Vanguard |  A basic model, the Standard Ensign, with 1670 cc engine, was announced in October 1957 restyled by Michelotti. The Ensign shared its body with the Vanguard Series III, but had a cheapened specification in various respects, including a mesh front grille and a simplified instrument panel and dashboard. Despite the generally lower specification, the Ensign was the first Vanguard-based car to have a four-speed gearbox. The gear lever was moved from the column to the floor, and overdrive was optional. Many were bought for company fleets and for the armed forces. Production ceased in 1961 with 18,852 examples having been produced. Production included 901 Mk II versions, produced only in 1961. An Ensign De

Prompt: Which car manufacturer made models called 'Ensign' and 'Vanguard'?

Answer: The Standard


Context: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | " In December 1756, Pitt, who now sat for Okehampton, became Secretary of State for the Southern Department, and Leader of the House of Commons under the premiership of the Duke of Devonshire. Upon entering this coalition, Pitt said to Devonshire: ""My Lord, I am sure I can save this country, and no one else can"". He had made it a condition of his joining any administration that Newcastle should be excluded from it, which proved fatal to the lengthened existence of his government. With the king unfriendly, and Newcastle, whose influence was still dominant in the Commons, estranged, it was impossible to carry on a government by the "

Prompt: Which leader of a British coalition Government became the first Earl of Dwfor?

Answer: David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor


Context: 1974 Ballon d'Or |  The 1974 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to the Dutch striker Johan Cruyff on 31 December 1974. There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Cruyff became the first footballer to earn the award three times, following up from his wins in 1971 and 1973. French playmaker Michel Platini and Dutch compatriot Marco van Basten also won the Ballon d'Or three times after him.

Prompt: Who was European Footballer of the Year for 1973 and 1974?

Answer: Hendrik Johannes Cruijff


Context: Quine–Putnam indispensability argument | " In his 1973 paper ""Mathematical Truth"", Paul Benacerraf presented a dilemma for the philosophy of mathematics. According to Benacerraf, mathematical sentences seem to imply the existence of mathematical objects such as numbers, but if such objects were to exist, then they would be unknowable to us. That mathematical sentences seem to imply the existence of mathematical objects is supported by appeal to the idea that mathematics should not have its own special semantics. If the sentence ""Mars is a planet"" implies the existence of Mars and ascribes to it the property of being a planet, then it seems that ""2 is a prime number"" must imply the existence of the number 2 and ascribe to it the property of being prime. On the other hand, such mathematical objects would be "

Prompt: The existance of which planet was mathematically

Answer: NEPTUNE


Context: 1994–95 Manchester United F.C. season |  Michael Hughes. Brian McClair did equalise in the 52nd minute, and as the game wore on United fought against the clock to score a winner, but West Ham remained resilient and after two late blunders by Andy Cole, the game ended 1–1 and United lost the title, which went to Blackburn in spite of their 2–1 defeat at Liverpool. The FA Cup final on 20 May 1995 saw United beaten 1–0 by Everton at Wembley, with Paul Rideout scoring the only goal of the game, to leave them without a major trophy for the first time in six years.

Prompt: Who scored the only goal when Everton defeated Manchester United in the 1995 FA Cup Final?

Answer: PAUL RIDEOUT


Context: The Wrestler (2008 film) |  The Wrestler is a 2008 American sports psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Robert Siegel. The film stars Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. Production began in January 2008 and Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired rights to distribute the film in the U.S.; it received a limited release on December 17, 2008, and was released nationwide on January 23, 2009. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on April 21, 2009, in the United States. It was released in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2009. Rourke plays an aging professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame, continues to wrestle in an attempt to cling to the success

Prompt: Who played the title role in the 2008 film 'The Wrestler'?

Answer: Mickey Rourke


Context: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) |  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life. The film also stars Taraji P. Henson, Mahershala Ali, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, and Tilda Swinton. Producer Ray Stark bought the film rights to do the short story in the mid-1980s with Universal Pictures backing the film, but struggled to get the project off the ground until he sold the rights to producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in the 1990s. Although it was moved to Paramount Pictures in the 1990s, the film did not enter

Prompt: Who played the title role in the 2008 film 'The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button'?

Answer: Bradley Pitt


Context: Baryon | " In particle physics, a baryon is a type of composite subatomic particle which contains an odd number of valence quarks (at least 3). Baryons belong to the hadron family of particles; hadrons are composed of quarks. Baryons are also classified as fermions because they have half-integer spin. The name ""baryon"", introduced by Abraham Pais, comes from the Greek word for ""heavy"" (βαρύς, barýs), because, at the time of their naming, most known elementary particles had lower masses than the baryons. Each baryon has a corresponding antiparticle (antibaryon) where their corresponding antiquarks replace quarks. For example, a proton is made of two up quarks and one down quark; and its corresponding antiparticle, the antiproton, is made of two up antiquarks and one down antiquark. Because they are composed of quarks, baryons participate in "

Prompt: Protons and Neutrons are both examples of which class of sub-atomic particle that takes its name from the Greek for 'heavy'?

Answer: Baryonic matter


Context: South German gulden |  borders, and chose to decimalise. One Mark, (written as 1ℳ ), was subdivided into one-hundred Pfennig (written as 100₰ ), with the mark having an exchange equal to 35 kreuzer, or 7⁄12 gulden, as the South German Gulden began to be withdrawn over the next three years. From 1 January 1876 the Gulden and the Kreuzer, along with all other forms of currency which existed previously in what was now the German Empire, were abolished. (The decimal Goldmark became the only legal tender, until 4 August 1914 when the link between the Mark and gold was abandoned with the outbreak of World War I, and replaced by the Papiermark).

Prompt: Prior to the introduction of the Euro, which coin was equal to one-hundredth of a German Mark?


Context: The Little Vagabond | "  The Little Vagabond is a 1794 poem by William Blake in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. His collection, Songs of Innocence, was originally published alone, in 1789. The scholar Robert Gleckner says that the poem is a form of transformation of the boy in the poem ""The School Boy"", from Songs of Innocence."

Prompt: Which collection of poems did William Blake publish in 1794 as a sequel to his earlier collection 'Songs Of Innocence'?

Answer: Songs of Innocence


Context: James Hargreaves |  James Hargreaves (c. undefined 1720 – 22 April 1778) was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England. He was one of three men responsible for the mechanisation of spinning: Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764; Richard Arkwright patented the water frame in 1769; and Samuel Crompton combined the two, creating the spinning mule in 1779.

Prompt: Which English weaver and carpenter invented the 'Spinning Jenny' in 1764?

Answer: JAMES HARGREAVES


Context: Star Trek: The Animated Series | """The Cage"", in which Number One took command after the abduction of Captain Christopher Pike, and ; ""Turnabout Intruder"", in which Dr. Janice Lester took over the body of Captain Kirk and assumed command. In the original Star Trek series, the main character was given the name James T. Kirk. It was not until the animated series that writer David Gerrold expanded on the ""T"", establishing Kirk's middle name as Tiberius. By coincidence, on Gene Roddenberry's first series The Lieutenant, the principal character was William Tiberius Rice. According to Gerrold, he had been influenced by I, Claudius, and had approached Roddenberry with his choice of middle name, who agreed; Gerrold did not learn about the earlier use of the name until "

Prompt: For what did the 'T' stand in the name of 'Captain James T. Kirk' in 'Star Trek'?

Answer: Tiberius Caesar


Context: Bloody Sunday (1905) |  Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday is the name given to the events of Saturday, 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Bloody Sunday caused grave consequences for the Tsarist autocracy governing Imperial Russia: the events in St. Petersburg provoked public outrage and a series of massive strikes that spread quickly to the industrial centres of the Russian Empire. The massacre on Bloody Sunday is considered to be the start of the active phase of the Revolution of 1905. In addition to beginning the 1905 Revolution, historians such as Lionel Kochan in his book Russia in Revolution 1890–1918 view the events of Bloody Sunday to be one of the key events which led to the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Prompt: What two word name is given to an 1887 demonstration in London against Irish repression, a 1905 massacre in St. Petersburg, and a 1972 shooting of civilians in Londonderry?

Answer: Blut Sonntag


Context: Sunday in the Park with George |  Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984. The musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for design (and a nomination for Best Musical), numerous Drama Desk Awards, the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Musical and the 2007 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production. It has enjoyed several major revivals, including the 2005–06 UK production first presented at the Menier Chocolate Factory, its subsequent 2008 Broadway transfer, and a 2017 Broadway revival.

Prompt: The musical 'Sunday In The Park With George' was inspired by a painting by which artist?

Answer: Georges Pierre Seurat


Context: Province of Pisa |  Pisa Province extends from the alluvial plain of the Arno River, in western Tuscany, to the Ligurian Sea and has the shape of a gun upside down. It is bordered to the north by the Province of Lucca, to the east by the Metropolitan City of Florence and Province of Siena, to the south by Province of Grosseto, and to the west by the Province of Livorno and the Ligurian Sea. The province contains 39 comuni (municipalities). The most populous cities in the province as of 2013 are Pisa (86,494), Cascina (44,040), San Giuliano Terme (31,039), Pontedera (28,793), San Miniato (27,580), Ponsacco (15,503). The northern area is mountainous, containing the Apennine mountain range of Mount Pisano, adjacent to the extreme offshoot of the Apuan Alps, that separates the province of Pisa from Lucca. The highest point of Monte Pisano range

Prompt: Livorno, Pisa and Siena are three of the largest cities in which Italian region?

Answer: Toscana


Context: 2010 in the European Union | 1 January ; Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the fourth time from Sweden. It is the first country to hold the presidency under the Lisbon Treaty and the new ‘trio presidency system’ that sees Spain work with the next two countries to hold the office, Belgium and Hungary. ; The Ruhr area (Germany), Pécs (Hungary) and Istanbul (Turkey) share the title of European Capital of Culture for 2010. ; 11–19 January – European Parliament committees conduct a series of hearings with the 26 nominees for the next College of European Commissioners. ; 20 January – Mr Nikiforos Diamandouros is elected as European Ombudsman for a second time. ; 26 January – The amount offered by the EU to relief and rehabilitation efforts in Haiti rises to €400 million, after the country was hit by an earthquake reaching 7.0 on the Richter scale.

Prompt: Which country took over the Presidency of the European Union from Sweden on 1st. January 2010?

Answer: Islands of Spain


Context: Chagos Marine Protected Area |  The Chagos Marine Protected Area, located in the central Indian Ocean in the British Indian Ocean Territory of the United Kingdom, is one of the world's largest marine protected areas, and one of the largest protected areas of any type (land or sea) on Earth. It was established by the British government on 1 April 2010 as a massive, contiguous, no-take marine reserve, it encompasses 640,000 km2 of ocean waters, including roughly 70 small islands and seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago. The establishment of the protected area was immediately controversial, as the largest island in the area, Diego Garcia, was forcibly depopulated to make way for a

Prompt: Which coral atoll, the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago, was forcibly depopulated in 1971 to make way for a joint UK/USA military base?

Answer: Deigo garcia


Context: Electroshock weapon | " In 1935 Ciril Diaz of Cuba designed an electroshock glove. Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the TASER in 1969. By 1974, he had completed the device, which he named after his childhood hero Tom Swift (""Thomas A. Swift's electric rifle""). The TASER Public Defender used gunpowder as its propellant, which led the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to classify it as a firearm in 1976. Cover's patent was adapted by Nova Technologies in 1983 for the Nova XR-5000, their first non-projectile hand-held style stun gun. The XR-5000 design was widely copied as the source for the compact handheld stun gun used today."

Prompt: Which (supposedly) non-lethal weapon was named by the inventor after his childhood hero 'Tom Swift'?

Answer: TASER (Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle)


Context: October 1966 | British spy George Blake escaped from the maximum security Wormwood Scrubs prison, where he was in the fifth year of a 42-year prison sentence for espionage.  Blake, who had been the British vice-consul to South Korea when the North Koreans invaded in 1950, had been a prisoner in the Communist nation until 1953, and became an adherent of Communism during his incarceration, and a spy for the Soviet Union after he resumed service to the British government.  Blake would successfully flee to Moscow. ; The Philippines inter-island steamer MV Pioneer Leyte collided with an American freighter ship, the Golden State, and sank off Manila with the loss of 44 lives.

Prompt: Which spy was sentenced to 42 years in prison in 1961, but escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966?

Answer: GEORGE BLAKE


Context: July 1938 | Helen Wills Moody defeated fellow American Helen Hull Jacobs in the Ladies' Singles final for her eighth and last Wimbledon title. ; Died: John James Burnet, 81, Scottish architect

Prompt: Who was the last non-American (non-Williams) to win the Ladies \singles at Wimbledon?

Answer: Amélie Mauresmo


Context: Mark Elder |  Elder was born in Hexham, Northumberland, the son of a dentist. He played the bassoon when in primary school, and at Bryanston School, Dorset, where he was one of the foremost musicians (bassoon and keyboards) of his generation. He attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge as a choral scholar, where he studied music. He later became a protégé of Sir Edward Downes and gained experience conducting Verdi operas (as well as Prokofiev's War and Peace and Wagner's Meistersinger) in Australia, at the Sydney Opera House. Elder and his wife Mandy have a daughter, Katie.

Prompt: Born in Hexham in 1947, what is the profession of Mark Elder?

Answer: Music conductor


Context: Professor Calculus | " Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, meaning ""Professor Tryphon Sunflower"") is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is Tintin's friend, an absent-minded professor and half-deaf physicist, who invents many sophisticated devices used in the series, such as a one-person shark-shaped submarine, the Moon rocket, and an ultrasound weapon. Calculus's deafness is a frequent source of humour, as he repeats back what he thinks he has heard, usually in the most unlikely words possible. He does not admit to being near-deaf and insists he is only a little hard of hearing in one ear. Calculus first appeared in Red Rackham's Treasure (more specifically in the newspaper prepublication of 4–5 March 1943 ), and was the result of Hergé's long quest to find the archetypal mad scientist or absent-minded professor. Although Hergé had included characters with similar traits in earlier stories, Calculus developed into a much more complex figure as the series progressed."

Prompt: 'Professor Cuthbert Calculus' is an associate of which character?

Answer: Tin-tin


Context: Croatia proper |  capital of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, is the largest city and most important economic centre in Croatia proper. Croatia proper comprises several smaller regions of its own: Lika, Gorski Kotar, Međimurje, the Croatian Littoral, Podravina, Posavina, Kordun, Banovina, Prigorje, Turopolje, Moslavina, and Žumberak. The region covers 28337 km2 of land and has a population of 2,418,214. Croatia proper straddles the boundary between the Dinaric Alps and the Pannonian Basin. The boundary of these two geomorphological units runs from Žumberak to Banovina, along the Sava River. The Dinaric Alps area is typified by karst topography, while the Pannonian Basin exhibits plains, especially in the river valleys—along the Sava, Drava, and Kupa—interspersed with hills and mountains developed as horst and graben structures. Lika

Prompt: What is the capital city of Croatia?

Answer: Sagelebu


Context: The Real Inspector Hound | " which the brainy British writer is known"". The Guadalajara Reporter staff wrote, ""A classic of the English comic tradition, this play weaves together parody, pastiche and punning to create a wonderfully entertaining and ingenious one-act comedy."" Zoe Paskett of Evening Standard listed it as one of Stoppard's five finest works (the others being Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, The Real Thing, and Arcadia). Conversely, Jan Herman stated in a 1991 review for Los Angeles Times that The Real Inspector Hound ""is little more than a mannered cuckoo clock of a comedy"". Deriding the script as ""overdone"", Herman argued, ""What humor [Stoppard's allusions] still have "

Prompt: Who wrote the plays 'The Real Inspector Hound' and 'Arcadia'?

Answer: Tom Straussler


Context: 2012 in Europe |  cabinet's austerity measures, the Fifth austerity package which was being debated in Parliament. Following these street demonstrations, 45 buildings were set ablaze, 25 protesters and 40 officers were injured. ; February 17: Christian Wulff resigned as President of Germany, facing the prospect of prosecution for allegations of corruption relating to his prior service as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. ; February 19 ; Iran suspends oil exports to United Kingdom and France following sanctions put in place by the EU and the United States in January. ; A series of explosions take place in a nightclub in Sighetu Marmaţiei (Romania). Following the deflagration, a citizen was killed and other 20 people were injured. ; February 21: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, €130-billion Greek bailout.

Prompt: Who resigned as President of Germany in February?

Answer: Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff


Context: Life peer |  Creations may be made for individuals on retirement from important public offices, such as Prime Minister, Speaker of the House of Commons or Archbishop of Canterbury or York. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who had renounced his hereditary title of the 14th Earl of Home on becoming Prime Minister, was the first former occupant of the office to receive a life barony. Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher all took life peerages following their retirement from the House of Commons. Edward Heath and John Major chose not to become peers. Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May have yet to receive a peerage. Harold Macmillan declined a peerage on leaving office, but

Prompt: Which Prime Minister created the first Life Peerages?

Answer: Harold Macmillan, Earl of Stockton


Context: Carl Lindström Company | " broke out. Okeh in the U.S. survived the war intact because its president, Otto Heinemann, was an American citizen. During the war, the Transoceanic Trading Company was set up in the Netherlands to look after its overseas assets. Lindström returned to the UK in 1923 with the establishment of a British Parlophone branch. Parlophone's ""₤"" trademark is not the lira sign but a stylised blackletter ""L"" for Lindström. Among Parlophone's later claims to fame; it was the label for UK releases by The Beatles and Peter Sellers. The introduction of electrical recording with microphones and mixing consoles put Lindström at a disadvantage and they sold the company in 1926 "

Prompt: Which company with a trademark (£, a German 'L') similar to a £ sign released the first nine 'Beatles' albums?

Answer: Parlophone


Context: The Blue Boy |  One of Gainsborough's best known works, The Blue Boy was long thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall (1752–1805), the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, because of his early ownership of the painting. This identification has never been proven and as Susan Sloman argued in 2013, the likely sitter is Gainsborough's nephew, Gainsborough Dupont (1754-1797). It is a historical costume study as well as a portrait; the youth appears in clothing from the 17th century as the artist's homage to Anthony van Dyck and is very similar to Van Dyck's portraits of young boys, especially his double portrait

Prompt: Which painting by Thomas Gainsborough is thought to be of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant?

Answer: Blues boy


Context: Rubeus Hagrid |  Fluffy is a giant three-headed dog provided by Hagrid to guard the trapdoor leading to the underground chamber where the Philosopher's Stone was hidden until the end of Philosopher's Stone. The only known way to get past Fluffy is to lull him to sleep by playing music. Fluffy is based on Cerberus, the three-headed dog from Greek mythology that guards the gates to the underworld. As with Fluffy, Cerberus was lulled to sleep with music by Orpheus. In Philosopher’s Stone, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville accidentally run into Fluffy whilst hiding from Peeves, who was attempting to give them away to caretaker Argus Filch, who was searching for them.

Prompt: In 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' what is the name of the three-headed dog provided by 'Hagrid' to guard the trapdoor leading to the chamber where the stone was kept?

Answer: 'FLUFFY'


Context: The Muse (film) |  The Muse is a 1999 comedy film starring Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell and Jeff Bridges. It is the sixth film to be directed by Brooks, from a screenplay co-written with Monica Johnson. Stone portrays the titular muse who is tasked with reviving the career of a once-celebrated Hollywood screenwriter, played by Brooks. The film also features numerous cameos from well-known filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and James Cameron. The film received mixed reviews and did not meet with large box office success, grossing only about $11 million domestically. Sharon Stone earned a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.

Prompt: Who was the Muse of Comedy?

Answer: Thalia (album)


Context: History of Manchester United F.C. (1986–2013) |  Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United from Aberdeen on 6 November 1986, the same day that previous manager Ron Atkinson was dismissed, and immediately set about rebuilding the club's youth system. In Ferguson's first game in charge, the team lost 2–0 to Oxford United; his first victory came on 22 November 1986, a 1–0 defeat of Queens Park Rangers at Old Trafford. Over the next few weeks, results continued to improve, and on Boxing Day 1986, the team beat Liverpool 1–0 at Anfield – the club's only away league win of the season, and the only home defeat of the season

Prompt: When Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United on November 6th 1986, who was manager of Liverpool?

Answer: Kenneth Mathieson %22Kenny%22 Dalglish MBE


Context: Australosphenida |  The Australosphenida are a clade of mammals, containing monotremes and their extinct relatives. Today, there are only five surviving species of monotreme which live in Australia and New Guinea. Fossils of australosphenidans have been found from the Jurassic of Madagascar and Argentina, as well as the Cretaceous of Australia. The surviving species consist of the platypus and four species of echidna. Contrary to other known crown mammals, they retained postdentary bones as shown by the presence of a postdentary trough. The extant members (monotremes) developed the mammalian middle ear independently.

Prompt: The Platypus together with the four species of which mammal are the only surviving 'Monotremes'?

Answer: ECHIDNA (accept Spiny Anteater)


Context: Manchester Central railway station |  Manchester Central railway station is a former railway station in Manchester city centre, England. One of Manchester's main railway terminals between 1880 and 1969, it has been converted into an exhibition and conference centre, originally known as G-MEX, but now named Manchester Central. The structure is a Grade II* listed building. On 27 March 2020, the UK government announced that the building would be converted into an emergency hospital, intended to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and with 1,000 beds.

Prompt: How is the former G-Mex Centre in Manchester now known?

Answer: MANCHESTER CENTRAL


Context: Cell Mates (play) | " In 1995, Stephen Fry famously walked out of the play near the start of its West End run, after his performance received a bad review in the Financial Times. It was reported at the time that he suffered an attack of stage fright, but he has since disclosed that it was bipolar disorder. Fry walked out of the production for good, leaving only an apology, and provoking its early closure. Simon Gray described Fry's action as ""cowardly"", and in a statement to the press said: ""It is disgraceful that so much media attention has been devoted to this squalid little story . . . I confess my own failure as a director was to have "

Prompt: In 1995 who famously walked out of the play 'Cellmates' after three days of its London run?

Answer: STEPHEN FRY


Context: Flag of Chile |  The flag of Chile consists of two equal-height horizontal bands of white and red, with a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center. It was adopted on 18 October 1817. The Chilean flag is also known in Spanish as La Estrella Solitaria (The Lone Star). It has a 3:2 ratio between length and width, it is divided horizontally into two bands of equal height (the lower being red). The upper area is divided once: into a square (blue), with a single centered white star; and into a rectangle (white), whose

Prompt: What colour is the square (which contains a white star) on the flag of Chile?

Answer: BLUE


Context: Nizhny Novgorod |   There were no permanent bridges over the Volga or Oka before the October Revolution in 1917. Temporary bridges were built during the trade fair. The first bridge over the Volga was started by the Moscow–Kazan Railway Company in 1914, but only finished in the Soviet Era when the railway to Kotelnich was opened for service in 1927. The Marxist activist and Tsarist dissident Maxim Gorky was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1868 as Alexey Maximovich Peshkov. In his novels he described the dismal life of the city proletariat. When he returned to the Soviet Union in 1932 on the invitation of Joseph Stalin, the city was renamed Gorky. The city bore Gorky's name until 1990.

Prompt: The city of Nizhny Novgorod was, from 1932 to 1990, named for which writer who was born there?

Answer: Gorky


Context: 1966 FIFA World Cup Final |  England, managed by Alf Ramsey and captained by Bobby Moore, won the toss and elected to kick off. After 12 minutes, Sigfried Held sent a cross into the English penalty area which Ray Wilson misheaded to Helmut Haller, who got his shot on target. Jack Charlton and goalkeeper Gordon Banks failed to deal with the shot which went in, making it 1–0 to West Germany. In the 18th minute, Wolfgang Overath conceded a free kick, which Moore took immediately, floating a cross into the West German area, where Geoff Hurst rose unchallenged; his downward glancing header went into the net and levelled the scores at 1-1. The teams were level at half-time, and after 77 minutes England won a corner. Alan Ball delivered the ball to Geoff Hurst whose deflected shot from the edge of the area found Martin Peters. He produced the

Prompt: What was the half-time score in the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final?

Answer: 1-1


Context: 2010 in British radio | 2 March – BBC Director General Mark Thompson confirms plans to close BBC 6 Music and the BBC Asian Network as part of a cost-cutting drive. The proposals will also see BBC Radio 7 rebranded as BBC Radio 4 Extra and cutbacks to the BBC website. ; 10 March – The Official Chart Update is launched to give a midweek insight into the Official Singles Chart is shaping up. and is broadcast as a 30 minute mid-afternoon programme on Wednesdays. ; 11 March – BBC Radio 2 confirms plans to overhaul its schedule from April. This will include moving two of its

Prompt: How was BBC Radio 7 rebranded in April 2011?

Answer: BBC Radio Four Extra


Context: Vehicle registration plates of the Republic of Ireland |  County Tipperary. This is because the county was, until 2014, divided into North (TN) and South (TS). The city codes are a single letter, the initial letter of its English-language name. Most county codes use the first and last letters of the county's name. For example, Sligo is SO. The exceptions to this are: The codes are similar to the ISO 3166-2 codes for Irish counties. An exception is that the ISO code for Cork is IE-CO, since IE-C is used for the province of Connacht, and the ISO code for Tipperary is IE-TA (from the Irish name Tiobraid Árann).

Prompt: Two counties in the Irish province of Munster begin with the letter C. One is Cork. Name the other.

Answer: CLARE


Context: The Road Back |  The Road Back (Der Weg zurück) is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, commonly regarded as a sequel to his 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front. It was first serialized in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung between December 1930 and January 1931, and published in book form in April 1931. Although the book follows different characters from those in All Quiet on the Western Front, it can be assumed that they were in the same company, as the characters recall other characters from the earlier novel. Tjaden is the only member of the 2nd Company to feature prominently in both books. Set a few weeks after the end of All Quiet on the Western Front, the novel details the experience of young men in Germany who have returned from the trenches of World War I and are trying to integrate back into civilian life. Its most salient feature is the main characters' pessimism about contemporary society which, they feel, is morally bankrupt because it has allegedly caused the war and apparently does not wish to reform itself. The book was banned during Nazi rule.

Prompt: 'The Road Back' is the sequel to which novel by Erich Maria Remarque published in 1929?

Answer: All quiet


Context: 1924 in British music | "13 May – Edward Elgar is appointed Master of the King's Musick in succession to Sir Walter Parratt. ; date unknown ; Richard Runciman Terry resigns as organist of Westminster Cathedral because of criticism of his choice of music, ""erratic behaviour"" and ""neglect of duty"". ; The London Labour Choral Union is launched by Rutland Boughton. "

Prompt: Edward Elgar was appointed Master of the King's Musick to which monarch?

Answer: George V of Great Britain and Ireland


Context: List of MPs elected in the 1970 United Kingdom general election | " Labour ; Wolverhampton South West ; Enoch Powell ; Conservative ; Wood Green ; Joyce Butler ; Labour ; Woolwich East ; Christopher Mayhew ; Labour ; Woolwich West ; William Hamling ; Labour ; Worcester ; Peter Walker ; Conservative ; Worcestershire South ; Sir Gerald Nabarro ; Conservative ; Workington ; Fred Peart ; Labour ; Worthing ; Terence Higgins ; Conservative ; Wrexham ; Tom Ellis ; Labour ; Wycombe ; John Hall ; Conservative ; colspan=""3"" | Cranley Onslow ; Conservative ; Wokingham ; William van Straubenzee ; Conservative ; Wolverhampton North East ; Renee Short ; Labour ; Wolverhampton South "

Prompt: Name any of the three longest serving Labour MPs – all elected in 1970.

Answer: GERALD KAUFMAN, MICHAEL MEACHER or DENNIS SKINNER


Context: List of family relations in rugby league | Ben Lowe (born 1985), South Sydney Rabbitohs; brother of Jaiman ; Jaiman Lowe (born 1983), N Queensland Cowboys, South Sydney Rabbitohs & Melbourne Storm; brother of Ben

Prompt: What is the family name of the four Englishmen who play Rugby League for the South Sydney Rabbitohs?

Answer: BURGESS Note: Sam Burgess will leave the Rabbitohs at the end of 2014 to play Rugby Union for Bath


Context: Kiel–Lübeck railway |  The Kiel–Lübeck railway is a non-electrified, mostly single-track railway line in eastern Schleswig-Holstein in north Germany. It links Kiel and Lübeck, the only two large cities (with more than 100,000 inhabitants) in the state. Passenger services on the 81-kilometre route are currently (2010) operated by DB Regio.

Prompt: Kiel and Lübeck are cities in which German state?

Answer: Lütt-Witt Moor


Context: 1984 Summer Olympics |  The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, mainly in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games, the first being in 1932. California was the home state of the incumbent U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who officially opened the Games. These were the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch. The 1984 Games were boycotted by a total of fourteen Eastern Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union and East

Prompt: In which city were the 1984 Summer Olympics held?

Answer: City of Los Angeles, California


Context: Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems |  Both the imperial and US fluid gallon are divided into 4 quarts, 8 pints or 32 gills. However, whereas the US gill is divided into 4 US fluid ounces, the imperial gill is divided into 5 imperial fluid ounces. So whilst the imperial gallon, quart, pint and gill are about 20% larger than their US fluid measure counterparts, the fluid ounce is about 4% smaller. Note that one avoirdupois ounce of water has an approximate volume of one imperial fluid ounce at 62 °F (16.67 °C). This convenient fluid-ounce-to-avoirdupois-ounce relation does not exist in the US system. One noticeable comparison between the imperial system and the

Prompt: In imperial measure, how many gills are there in a gallon?

Answer: 32


Context: Louis van Gaal |  his long ball tactics after the Hammers conceded a late equaliser to United. Van Gaal responded to the criticism with statistics which seem to show that West Ham have played more long balls than his side. His tactics were defended by fellow managers Arsène Wenger and Garry Monk. United's form improved as the season progressed. A run of seven consecutive Premier League wins was part of a ten-match unbeaten run that started with a 1–0 home win over Crystal Palace on 8 November 2014 and was ended by Southampton, who won 1–0 at Old Trafford on 11 January 2015.

Prompt: Which premiership manager upset Louis Van Gaal in February 2015, when he described his team as long ball united?

Answer: Sam Allardyce


Context: United States twenty-dollar bill | " at the Western Currency Facility are printed in January late during production of Series 1990. ; September 24, 1998: The Series 1996 $20 note was completely redesigned for the first time since 1929 to further deter counterfeiting; the picture of the White House was changed from the south side to the north side view. A larger, off-center portrait of Jackson was used on the front, and several anti-counterfeiting features were added, including color-shifting ink, microprinting, and a watermark. The plastic strip now reads ""USA 20"" and glows green under a black light. The bills were first printed in June 1998. ; October 9, 2003: The current series of "

Prompt: Whose picture is on the US 20 dollar note?

Answer: Seventh President of the United States


Context: National Action (UK) | " National Action activists were arrested in dawn raids on suspicion of conspiring to cause criminal damage to Berger's office; they were all bailed. No further action was taken against them. National Action's campaign against Berger was supported by the US-based neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, which offered advice on how to set up untraceable Twitter accounts in order to send abuse. In March 2015, National Action organised a ""White Man March"" on the Quayside in Newcastle upon Tyne during which police arrested nine people; those attending included North East representatives of the British National Party (BNP) and neo-Nazis from Eastern "

Prompt: What is the name of the German anti-Islamisation group that organised a march in Newcastle last month (March 2015)?

Answer: Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West


Context: November 1947 | Princess Elizabeth married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio to 200 million people around the world. ; Bob Elliott of the Boston Braves was named the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player for the National League. ; Born: Nurlan Balgimbayev, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, in Guryev, Kazakh SSR; Joe Walsh, musician and producer (Eagles), in Wichita, Kansas ; Died: Georg Kolbe, 70, German sculptor

Prompt: Name the year: American gangster AI Capone dies, Princess Elizabeth marries and India gains its independence?

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and forty-seven


Context: Champagne |  the House Drappier. (The same names are used for bottles containing regular wine and port; however, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, and Methuselah refer to different bottle volumes.) Unique sizes have been made for specific markets, special occasions and people. The most notable example is perhaps the 20 fluid oz. / 56.8 cl (imperial pint) bottle made between 1874 and 1973 for the English market by Pol Roger, often associated with Sir Winston Churchill. In 2009, a bottle of 1825 Perrier-Jouët Champagne was opened at a ceremony attended by 12 of the world's top wine tasters. This bottle was officially recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest bottle of Champagne in

Prompt: How many champagne bottles are there in a Methuselah?

Answer: 8


Context: Maurice Debate | " Prime Minister David Lloyd George and those close to him had long grown exasperated by the unreliable statistics produced by the Army about both British and German strength. Cabinet Secretary Maurice Hankey had written in his diary (20 December 1917) ""The War office figures and statements are utterly unreliable, and their facts are twisted to support their arguments. If they want men they make out that they can hardly hold the line … If they want to do an offensive they make out that the enemy is exhausted and demoralised, and that they have lots of men"". General Sir William Robertson was removed as Chief of the Imperial "

Prompt: "Which Prime Minister said ""the War Office kept three sets of figures, one to mislead the public, one to mislead the Cabinet and one to mislead itself""?"

Answer: Herbert Asquith (disambiguation)


Context: Venice of the North |  The following is an incomplete list of settlements nicknamed Venice of the North. The term Venice of the North refers to various cities in Northern Europe that contain canals, comparing them to Venice, Italy, which is renowned for its canals (see Grand Canal). Some of these nicknames (e.g. in the case of Amsterdam) date back centuries, while others like Birmingham are very recently given and invented by the cities' own.

Prompt: "Which European city in the ""low countries"" has been dubbed ""The Venice Of The North""?"

Answer: Brugges


Context: Maria Fitzherbert |  its historic context; of the ten illegitimate children of Dorothea Jordan, Anglo-Irish actress and mistress of 20 years to the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, care for the five boys was initially assumed by their father and his households, and custody and care for the girls given to Jordan. Notably, any such historical claim of descent is accompanied by controversy, and many of the preceding have been challenged. Given the death of Princess Charlotte without surviving children, should the Ord link be substantiated, the line descended through them would join a large number of claimed surviving descendants of King George IV.

Prompt: Which 19th century king sired ten illegitimate children, by the Irish comedienne, Dorothea Jordan?

Answer: William IV (disambiguation)


Context: James Cameron filmography |  the Academy Award for Best Picture with the other producers. It had a total of 14 Oscar nominations (tying the record set by the 1950 drama All About Eve) and won 11 (tying the record set by the 1959 epic historical drama Ben-Hur). Cameron also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and shared the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama with the other producers. He followed this by directing, and producing two underwater documentaries: Ghosts of the Abyss (2003), and Aliens of the Deep (2005). He returned to directing features in 2009 with the 3D science fiction film Avatar. It grossed

Prompt: "Director James Cameron, collected the 'Oscar' for ""Best Director"" in 1998, for which film?"

Answer: S.S. Titanic


Context: Esqueixada | " Esqueixada  is a traditional Catalan dish, a salad of shredded salt cod, tomatoes, onions, olive oil and vinegar, salt, and sometimes a garnish of olives or hard-boiled eggs. Specific recipes vary, with some including ingredients such as eggplant and bell peppers. Esqueixada is particularly popular in warm weather and is sometimes considered a summertime dish. It is often served as a tapas dish. Esqueixada is sometimes described as the ""Catalan ceviche"" because it is made with raw fish (although the cod is salt-cured and dried) in a marinade. The name of the dish comes from the Catalan verb esqueixar, to tear or shred. The salt cod in the dish is always shredded with the fingers, never sliced or chopped, to achieve the correct texture."

Prompt: 'Cape Cod Salad' is an exotic summer dish centred

Answer: LOBSTER