Context: Pickaninny | " up a young black girl after she bumps into him and says, ""You little pickaninny, you're gonna kill yourself flying like that."" ; 1987 – In the film Burglar, Ray Kirschman (played by G. W. Bailey) confronts ex-con Bernice Rhodenbarr (Whoopi Goldberg) in her bookstore by saying ""now listen here, pickaninny!"" ; 1995 – ""Pickaninny"" was used in the Mario Van Peebles film Panther in a denigrating fashion by Oakland police officer characters to describe an African American child who was killed in a car accident. ; 2000 – In Spike Lee's film Bamboozled, the representation of African-Americans in popular media is examined and pickaninny representations figure prominently in the film. "

Prompt: Name the 1994 movie and character/actor that features the quote "Nobody's gonna hurt anybody. We're gonna be like three little Fonzies here. And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda what's Fonzie like? "

Answer: Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction


Context: Elaine Benes |  Elaine Marie Benes is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Seinfeld, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Elaine's best friend is her ex-boyfriend Jerry Seinfeld, and she is also good friends with George Costanza and Cosmo Kramer. Louis-Dreyfus received critical acclaim for her performance as Elaine, winning an Emmy, a Golden Globe and five SAG Awards. She reprised the role during season 41 of Saturday Night Live in 2016.

Prompt: Who's missing: George Costanza, Elaine Bennes, Cosmo Kramer

Answer: Jerry Seinfield


Context: Ben & Jerry's | " Rights Campaign (a nonprofit advocacy group for LGBT rights). Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield appeared on The Colbert Report on March 5, 2007, to promote their new ice cream flavor, ""Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream"", and Cohen's progressive advocacy group TrueMajority. The company renamed a flavor, ""Yes Pecan!"", in reference to Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. They decided in January 2009 to donate all proceeds made on the sale of that flavor to the Common Cause Education Fund. On March 2, 2011, Cohen and Greenfield appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and unveiled their new flavor "

Prompt: What ice cream company produces flavors such as Everything But The.., Neapolitan Dynamite, and Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream?

Answer: Free Cone Day


Context: August 1912 | "In Chicago, the Progressive Party, nicknamed the ""Bull Moose"" Party to rival the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey, called itself to order as its founding convention opened at noon. ; Born: Abbé Pierre, French clergy, founder of Emmaus, recipient of the Legion of Honour, in Lyon (d. 2007) "

Prompt: August 6, 1912 saw formation of The Bull Moose Party, with what total bad assed at the lead?

Answer: T Ros


Context: Slim jim (lock pick) |  A slim jim (more technically known as a lockout tool) is a thin strip of metal (usually spring steel) roughly 60 cm long and about 2 – wide originally marketed under that name by HPC Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of specialty locksmithing tools. Slim jims are used to unlock automobile doors without use of a key or lock pick. It acts directly on the levers and interconnecting rods that operate the door, completely avoiding the complexity of dealing with the lock mechanism itself. The hooked end of the tool is slipped between a car's window and the rubber seal, catching the rods that connect to the lock mechanism. With careful manipulation, the door can be opened. Unskilled use of the tool will often detach the lock rods, leaving the lock

Prompt: A "slim jim" is a type of pick used to open what type of lock without a key?

Answer: Vehicle Door


Context: Nagasaki |  these few bombs was relatively small, it created considerable concern in Nagasaki and a number of people, principally school children, were evacuated to rural areas for safety, thus reducing the population in the city at the time of the atomic attack. On the day of the nuclear strike (August 9, 1945) the population in Nagasaki was estimated to be 263,000, which consisted of 240,000 Japanese residents, 10,000 Korean residents, 2,500 conscripted Korean workers, 9,000 Japanese soldiers, 600 conscripted Chinese workers, and 400 Allied POWs. That day, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar, commanded by Major Charles Sweeney, departed from Tinian's North

Prompt: What became the last city on earth to experience the horror of a nuclear bomb when the B-29 Bockscar devastated what Japanese city on August 9, 1945?

Answer: Nagasaki-shi


Context: Manchu people |  Most Jurchens raised pigs and stock animals and were farmers. In 1206, the Mongols, vassals to the Jurchens, rose in Mongolia. Their leader, Genghis Khan, led Mongol troops against the Jurchens, who were finally defeated by Ögedei Khan in 1234. The Jurchen Jin emperor Wanyan Yongji's daughter, Jurchen Princess Qiguo was married to Mongol leader Genghis Khan in exchange for relieving the Mongol siege upon Zhongdu (Beijing) in the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty. Under the Mongols' control, the Jurchens were divided into two groups and treated differently: the ones who were born and raised in North China and

Prompt: Genghis Khan led what group of people?

Answer: People of Mongolia


Context: Alex Haley |  Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X. He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as Queen: The Story of an American Family. It was adapted as a miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen, broadcast in 1993.

Prompt: Author Alex Haley, born on Aug 11, 1921, wrote what epic story of his family origins, later to be made a rather popular mini-series?

Answer: Roots (book)


Context: Roberto Cofresí in popular culture | " Outside his reputation as a pirate, Cofresí has also been directly linked to the creation of what later became the official beverage of Puerto Rico, the piña colada. According to this account, when the crew's morale was low, he would mix them a beverage that contained coconut, pineapple and white rum. This connection has been commercially exploited by different elements of the alcohol industry. In 2014, California-based The Bruery introduced a piña colada variant of the traditional American sour ale and named it ""El Pirata Cofresí"" after this legend. During the 20th century, a rum brand adopted his patronymic as its namesake. Ron Kofresí was distributed in "

Prompt: The official beverage of Puerto Rico since 1978, what drink consists of rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice?

Answer: Piña Colada


Context: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | " by Colonel Saito while addressing the British prisoners of war for the first time. The line also appears in the 1962 novel Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac in reference to the author being interrupted by some rowdy teens while he tries to write down a recent dream. In Tom Sharpe's 1974 novel Porterhouse Blue, the proverb is used by Mrs. Biggs in a lightly didactic capacity. In Disney's 1979 film '' The Black Hole, Lieutenant Charles Pizer says: ""You know what they say, Vincent, all work and no play..."" The Robot V.I.N.CENT immediately answers: ""All sunshine makes a desert, so the Arabs say."" In the 1980 film The Shining, the line was typed repeatedly on paper by Jack Torrance who was played by Jack Nicholson. The same sheets were also seen briefly in the last act of Doctor Sleep, the 2019 sequel to The Shining."

Prompt: Complete the proverb: All work and no play...?

Answer: Makes Jack a dull boy


Context: Catherine O'Leary | "In the 1938 film, The Mad Miss Manton, assistant Jim tells newspaper editor Peter Ames (Henry Fonda) ""That editorial really started something!"" Ames replies with ""So did Mrs. O'Leary's cow!"" ; The Terrytoons animated short Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (1938) depicts the cow being brought to the witness stand in court to explain her actions. ; Character actress Alice Brady won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mrs. O'Leary in the film In Old Chicago (1938), in which she is portrayed as a heroic figure. The film dramatizes a variant of the traditional story: She is helping her cow to suckle a new calf, but accidentally leaves the lantern behind when she departs in a hurry after being told that one of her sons has been injured in a fight. ; Quentin Tarantino's debut film Reservoir Dogs (1992). "

Prompt: Mrs. O'Leary's cow is credited with starting what?

Answer: The great Chicago fire


Context: Ben Bernanke | " chairman on January 28, 2010, after being renominated by President Barack Obama, who later referred to him as ""the epitome of calm."" His second term ended January 31, 2014, when he was succeeded by Janet Yellen on February 3, 2014. Bernanke wrote about his time as chairman of the Federal Reserve in his 2015 book, The Courage to Act, in which he revealed that the world's economy came close to collapse in 2007 and 2008. Bernanke asserts that it was only the novel efforts of the Fed (cooperating with other agencies and agencies of foreign governments) that prevented an economic catastrophe greater than the Great Depression."

Prompt: The current Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, Ben Bernanke, took over for what adherent to Objectivism, the second longest tenured in that position?

Answer: Alan Greespan


Context: David Berkowitz |  David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco, June 1, 1953), also known as the Son of Sam and .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer who pleaded guilty to eight shootings that began in New York City on July 29, 1976. Berkowitz grew up in New York City and served in the United States Army. Using a .44 Special caliber Bulldog revolver, he killed six people and wounded seven others by July 1977. The killing spree terrorized New Yorkers and gained worldwide notoriety. Berkowitz eluded the biggest police manhunt in the history of New York City while leaving letters that mocked the police and promised further crimes, which were highly publicized by the press. Berkowitz was arrested on August 10,

Prompt: What serial killer, arrested on Aug 10, 1977, dubbed himself the "Son of Sam"?

Answer: David berkowitz (serial killer)


Context: Museum of Pop Culture |  The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame was founded in 1996 by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF) at the University of Kansas (KU). The chairmen were Keith Stokes (1996–2001) and Robin Wayne Bailey (2002–2004). Only writers and editors were eligible for recognition and four were inducted annually, two deceased and two living. Each class of four was announced at Kansas City's annual science fiction convention, ConQuesT, and inducted at the Campbell Conference hosted by CSSF. The Hall of Fame stopped inducting fantasy writers after 2004, when

Prompt: What local rich boy is responsible for founding the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of fame?

Answer: Paul Gardner Allen


Context: Kenny McCormick |  Kenneth “Kenny” McCormick is one of the four main characters in the adult animated television series South Park along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman. His often muffled and incomprehensible speech – the result of his parka hood covering his mouth – is provided by co-creator Matt Stone. He debuted on television when South Park first aired on August 13, 1997, after having first appeared in The Spirit of Christmas shorts created by Stone and long-time collaborator Trey Parker in 1992 (Jesus vs. Frosty) and 1995 (Jesus vs. Santa). Kenny is a third, later fourth-grade student who commonly has extraordinary experiences not typical of conventional small-town life in his hometown of South Park, Colorado, where he lives with his poverty-stricken family. Kenny is animated by computer to look as he did in the show's original method of cutout animation.

Prompt: What is Kenny's last name on the animated TV series South Park?

Answer: McCormack (disambiguation)


Context: Mark David Chapman | " Chapman first became eligible for parole in 2000 after serving twenty years in prison. Under New York state law, he is required to have a parole hearing every two years from that year beyond. Since that time, a three-member board has denied Chapman parole eleven times. Before Chapman's first parole hearing, Yoko Ono sent a letter to the board requesting that Chapman should stay behind bars for the remainder of his life. In addition, New York State Senator Michael Nozzolio, chairman of the Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee, wrote to Parole Board Chairman Brion Travis saying: ""It is the responsibility of the New York State Parole Board to ensure that public safety is protected from the release of dangerous criminals like Chapman."""

Prompt: Mark David Chapman was scheduled to appear before the New York State parole board next week for his 6th attempt at getting out of prison for the 1980 murder of whom?

Answer: John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE


Context: Craig Kilborn | " In 1996, Kilborn became host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. During his three-year tenure, The Daily Show was named ""Best Late Night Comedy"" by TV Guide. Kilborn was also nominated for a CableACE Award for Outstanding Entertainment Host. Some recurring features Kilborn created at The Daily Show included: ""5 Questions"", ""Moment for Us"", ""Dance, Dance, Dance"", and ""Your Moment of Zen"" (later hosts would continue to use the latter feature). In a 1997 interview with Esquire, Kilborn made jokes regarding Daily Show head writer Lizz Winstead, saying, ""To be honest, Lizz does find me very attractive. If I wanted her to bl-- me, she would."" Kilborn apologized publicly and pointed out that the remarks were ""said in jest"", but he was suspended for "

Prompt: In addition to hosting the Academy Awards, what stand up comic took over for Craig Kilborn behind the desk of The Daily Show?

Answer: Stew beef


Context: Geography of Germany |  uplands of central Germany and the low-lying lands of northern Germany (lowest point: Neuendorf-Sachsenbande at 3.54 m below sea level), traversed by some of Europe's major rivers such as the Rhine, Danube and Elbe. Germany has the second-most borders of any European country, after Russia. It shares borders with eleven countries: Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Switzerland (its only non-EU neighbor) and Austria in the south, France in the southwest and Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the west. Germany also shares a maritime border with Sweden in the north and the United Kingdom in the northwest.

Prompt: For a point each, name the 9 countries surrounding Germany.

Answer: Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands


Context: William Randolph Hearst |  The film Citizen Kane (released on May 1, 1941) is loosely based on Hearst's life. Welles and his collaborator, screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, created Kane as a composite character, among them Harold Fowler McCormick, Samuel Insull and Howard Hughes. Hearst, enraged at the idea of Citizen Kane being a thinly disguised and very unflattering portrait of him, used his massive influence and resources to prevent the film from being released—all without even having seen it. Welles and the studio RKO Pictures resisted the pressure but Hearst and his Hollywood friends ultimately succeeded in pressuring theater chains to limit showings of Citizen Kane, resulting

Prompt: August 14, 1951 saw the death of the man on whom the movie Citizen Kane was based. Who was it?

Answer: William R. Hearst


Context: Poe Toaster |  Poe Toaster is the media sobriquet used to refer to an unidentified person (or probably more than one person in succession) who, for over seven decades, paid an annual tribute to American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the cenotaph marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday. The shadowy figure, dressed in black with a wide-brimmed hat and white scarf, would pour himself a glass of cognac and raise a toast to Poe's memory, then vanish into the night, leaving three roses in a distinctive arrangement and the unfinished bottle of cognac. Onlookers gathered annually in hopes of glimpsing the elusive Toaster, who did not seek publicity

Prompt: The gravesite of what American writer, buried in Baltimore, is mysteriously visited every January 19th, to receive a toast of cognac and 3 roses?

Answer: Edgar alen poe


Context: Arlington National Cemetery | " The first soldier to be buried in Arlington was Private William Henry Christman of Pennsylvania on May 13, 1864. There are 396 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Five state funerals have been held at Arlington: those of Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, his two brothers, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward ""Ted"" Kennedy, as well as General of the Armies John J. Pershing. Whether or not they were wartime service members, U.S. presidents are eligible to be buried at Arlington, since they oversaw the armed forces as commanders-in-chief. Among the most frequently visited sites in the cemetery is the grave of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, who is buried "

Prompt: Although all are eligible, only two US Presidents are buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Name them, for a point each.

Answer: John F Kennedy and William Howard Taft


Context: The Nashville Network |  The Nashville Network, usually referred to as TNN, was an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming included music videos, taped concerts, movies, game shows, syndicated programs, and numerous talk shows. On September 25, 2000, after an attempt to attract younger viewers failed, TNN's country music format was changed and the network was renamed The National Network, eventually becoming Spike TV in 2003 and Paramount Network in 2018. In 2012, the network was revived as a digital broadcast television network on November 1, 2012. However, this lasted only 11 months, and the channel changed its name to Heartland on October 9, 2013. Several sports genre console computer games were released with TNN license.

Prompt: It began life as The Nashville Network, but changed its name to what in 2003 following a lawsuit raised by an asshat director over the new name?

Answer: The New TNN


Context: Ford Model T |  Although automobiles had been produced from the 1880s, until the Model T was introduced in 1908, they were mostly scarce, expensive, and often unreliable. Positioned as reliable, easily maintained, mass-market transportation, the Model T was a great success. In a matter of days after the release, 15,000 orders had been placed. The first production Model T was built on August 12, 1908 and left the factory on September 27, 1908, at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan. On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15 millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan. Henry Ford conceived a series of cars between the founding of the company in 1903 and the introduction of the Model T. Ford named his first car the

Prompt: On today's date in 1908, the first of over 15 million of what automobile was first produced?

Answer: Model-T


Context: 1984 Winter Olympics national flag bearers | " During the Parade of Nations section of the 1984 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, athletes from the participating countries marched into the arena. Each delegation was led by a flag bearer and a sign with the name of the country on it. The Parade of Nations was organized in Serbo-Croatian, the official language in Yugoslavia. As tradition dictates, Greece led the parade and Yugoslavia was the last to march to the stadium as the host nation. Two nations were unable to march with their respective national flags, namely British Virgin Islands and Chinese Taipei. While Chinese Taipei was unable to use their flag and the name ""Republic of China"" due to participation of People's Republic of China, British Virgin Islands team was forced to use a replacement flag. The replacement flag is a white-colored cloth with the words “B. Djevičanska Ostrva” in blue color and the Olympic Rings on it. The organizers were unable to create the flag and created the replacement flag for the opening ceremony."

Prompt: By tradition, what country leads the procession of nations in the Olympics?

Answer: Yunanistan


Context: Julia Child's kitchen |  Julia Child's kitchen is a historic artifact on display on the ground floor of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center, located in Washington, D.C., on the National Mall. The kitchen is not a replica, but is the actual kitchen used by noted 20th-century cookbook author and cooking show host Julia Child, appearing as the backdrop to several of her television shows.

Prompt: The actual kitchen used by what iconic TV chef is now on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History?

Answer: Julia's Breakfasts, Lunches & Suppers


Context: Woodstock | " Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to simply as Woodstock, was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 mi southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as ""an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music"" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite sporadic rain. The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the counterculture generation. The event's significance was reinforced by a 1970 documentary film, an accompanying soundtrack album, and a song written by Joni Mitchell that became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort. Music events bearing the Woodstock name were planned for anniversaries, which included the tenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth, thirtieth, fortieth, and fiftieth. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed it as number 19 of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. In 2017, the festival site became listed on the National Register of Historic Places."

Prompt: Held at Max Yasgurs 600 acre dairy farm, what event, which opened on Aug 15, 1969, was billed as An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music?

Answer: Woodstock Music and Art Fair


Context: Pike Place Market |  Pike Place Market is a public market in Seattle, Washington, United States. It opened on August 17, 1907, and is one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States. Overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront on Puget Sound, it serves as a place of business for many small farmers, craftspeople and merchants. It is named for its central street, Pike Place, which runs northwest from Pike Street to Virginia Street on the western edge of Downtown Seattle. Pike Place Market is Seattle's most popular tourist destination and the 33rd most visited tourist attraction in the world, with more than 10 million annual visitors. The Market is built on the edge of a steep hill and consists of several lower levels located below the main level. Each features a variety

Prompt: August 17, 1908 saw the opening of what public farmers market, the longest continually running public farmers market in the US?

Answer: Sanitary Market


Context: 1981 Midas |  This minor planet was named after the figure from Greek mythology, Midas, the King of Phrygia, who turned whatever he touched to gold. He received this ability as an award, but soon realized that this gift was a curse when his daughter turned into a statue after he had touched her. Relieved of his power by bathing in the river Pactolus, other accounts also tell his death caused by starvation. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 (M.P.C. 4237).

Prompt: According to Greek legend, King Midas was "blessed" by the god Bacchus with the gift that all he touched would turn to what?

Answer: Gold compound


Context: Purple Rain (song) | " ""Purple Rain"" is a song by American musician Prince and his backing band the Revolution. It is the title track from the 1984 album of the same name, which in turn is the soundtrack album for the 1984 film of the same name starring Prince, and was released as the third single from the album. The song is a power ballad that combines rock, R&B, gospel, and orchestral music. ""Purple Rain"" reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for two weeks, being kept off the top spot by ""Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"" by Wham! It reached No. 1 in Belgium and the Netherlands. It is certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association "

Prompt: What type of rain did Prince sing about in 1984?

Answer: Purple Rain


Context: Wright brothers |  Wilbur and Orville Wright were two of seven children born to Milton Wright (1828–1917), of English and Dutch ancestry, and Susan Catherine Koerner (1831–1889), of German and Swiss ancestry. Milton Wright's mother, Catherine Reeder, was descended from the progenitor of the Vanderbilt family and the Huguenot Gano family of New Rochelle, New York. Wilbur was born near Millville, Indiana, in 1867; Orville in Dayton, Ohio, in 1871. The brothers never married. The other Wright siblings were Reuchlin (1861–1920), Lorin (1862–1939), Katharine (1874–1929), and twins Otis and Ida (born 1870, died in infancy). The direct paternal ancestry goes back to a Samuel Wright (b. 1606

Prompt: August 19, 1871 saw the birth of Orville Wright. Was he the older? Or younger brother?

Answer: Younger. Wilbur born April 16, 1867


Context: 1953–54 in Belgian football |  Belgium finished first of Group 2 in the 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification with 7 points, ahead of Sweden (3 points) and Finland (2 points). They thus qualified for the final tournament in Switzerland as one of the 11 European countries. The final tournament consisted of a first round with 4 groups of 4 teams. Belgium was drawn in Group 4. In each group, the 2 seeded teams would play one game against each unseeded team. In case both teams are level after 90 minutes, extra time would be played. In Group 4, England and Italy were the 2 seeded teams and Switzerland and Belgium were unseeded. Belgium and Switzerland thus played 2 games, against England and Italy. Belgium drawn against England after extra time (4-4) and lost to Italy, while Switzerland lost to England (2-0) and beat Italy (2-1). A play-off game

Prompt: For a point each, name the 4 countries surrounding Belgium.

Answer: France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands


Context: Davy Crockett | " David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet ""King of the Wild Frontier"". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution. Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. He was made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County, Tennessee and was elected to the Tennessee state legislature in 1821. In 1827, he was elected to the U.S. Congress where he vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, especially the Indian Removal Act. "

Prompt: Portrayed by Fess Parker on TV, what frontier legend, born on August 17, 1786, represented the state of Tennessee as a representative for 6 years, and lost his life at the Alamo?

Answer: Davey crocket


Context: Dilbert |  Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989. It is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office with engineer Dilbert as the title character. It has spawned dozens of books, an animated television series, a video game, and hundreds of themed merchandise items. Dilbert Future and The Joy of Work are among the most read books in the series. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award and the Newspaper Comic Strip Award for his work. Dilbert appears online and as of 2013 was published daily in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries and 25 languages.

Prompt: A former software engineer, who created the comic strip character Dilbert?

Answer: Scott Raymond Adams


Context: Discretion | " ""Discretion is the better part of valor"" is an idiom which is generally understood to mean the avoidance of problems or unnecessary risks by thinking carefully and exercising caution before taking action. The phrase is also found in Act V, Scene IV of the Shakespearean play Henry IV, Part 1, spoken by Falstaff to Prince Hal when the latter has mistaken the former for dead. Falstaff, who had been playing dead on the battlefield to avoid being killed, tells Hal, ""The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."""

Prompt: According to the proverb, what is the better part of valor?

Answer: Discretion


Context: High Explosive Research |  October 1952. Britain thereby became the third country to test nuclear weapons, after the United States and the Soviet Union. The project concluded with the delivery of the first of its Blue Danube atomic bombs to Bomber Command in November 1953, but British hopes of a renewed nuclear Special Relationship with the United States were frustrated. The technology had been superseded by the American development of the hydrogen bomb, which was first tested in November 1952, only one month after Operation Hurricane. Britain went on to develop its own hydrogen bombs, which it first tested in 1957. A year later, the United States and Britain resumed nuclear weapons cooperation.

Prompt: After the United States and the Soviet Union, what country became the third in the world to test an atom bomb (in 1952)?

Answer: Great–Britain


Context: Lacrosse stick | " A wood lacrosse stick is usually crafted from hickory trees. The lacrosse stick is given its shape through steam bending. Holes are drilled in the top portion of the head and the sidewall (i.e., the side of the stick head), permitting weaving of string, which is then hardened by dipping them in resin. Leather ""runners"" are strung from the top of the ""head"" to the ""throat"" of the stick. Then nylon string is woven in to create the pocket. The wooden lacrosse stick dates back to the creation of the sport and is still made by craftsmen around the world. Though modern "

Prompt: Consisting of a stick with a woven pocket at the top, the stick used to play the sport of Lacrosse is called what?

Answer: A crosse or Lacrosse stick


Context: President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site | " The President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site is located in Hope, Arkansas. Built in 1917 by Dr. H. S. Garrett, in this house the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, spent the first four years of his life, having been born on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. The house was owned by Clinton's maternal grandparents, Edith Grisham and James Eldridge Cassidy, and they cared for him when his mother, Virginia, was away working as an anesthetist in New Orleans. On May 19, 1994, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places (as ""Bill Clinton Birthplace""). Tours were offered by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation. In accordance with the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (§7002), the Secretary of the Interior accepted the property on December 14, 2010, establishing it as a national historic site and a unit of the National Park System. This change in status was originally proposed by Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Bill Clinton and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar formally dedicated the site on April 16, 2011."

Prompt: Which US president, who had a birthday on August 19, was born in Hope, Arkansas?

Answer: US President Bill Clinton


Context: Ad honorem | " Ad honorem is a Latin phrase that literally can be translated as ""to the honor"". When used today, it generally means ""for the honor of""; that is, not seeking any material reward. It is commonly used in universities for certain unpaid teaching positions. When the phrase is used to mean professional work done voluntarily and without payment, it can be used interchangeably with pro bono (""for the public good""). It is also used as an alternative to honoris causa when awarding honorary degrees."

Prompt: What Latin phrase, which translates as for the public good, is taken to mean professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment?

Answer: Free legal assistance


Context: Titanium |  Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Its atomic weight is 47.867 measured in daltons. It is a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength, resistant to corrosion in sea water, aqua regia, and chlorine. Titanium was discovered in Cornwall, Great Britain, by William Gregor in 1791 and was named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth after the Titans of Greek mythology. The element occurs within a number of mineral deposits, principally rutile and ilmenite, which are widely distributed in the Earth's crust and lithosphere; it is found in almost all living things, as well as bodies

Prompt: With an atomic weight of 22, what element, named for members of Greek mythology, uses the symbol Ti?

Answer: Titanium ore


Context: August 1963 | "At the 1963 ""March on Washington"" (officially, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom), Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 people. ; The ""Career Girls Murders"" were committed as Janice Wylie, a 21-year-old researcher for Newsweek magazine, and her roommate, 22-year-old schoolteacher Emily Hoffert, were stabbed to death in their luxury apartment on New York's Upper East Side. An innocent man would be convicted of the murders and was imprisoned until the discovery of the actual killer, Richard Robles. ; John Lyng became Prime Minister of Norway, forming the first government in 28 years not to be led by the Norwegian Labour Party. Lyng's government would last for only one month. ; Two U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers collided over the Atlantic Ocean and crashed. "

Prompt: On August 28, 1963, who stood on the steps of Lincoln Memorial and famously stated "I have a dream"?

Answer: The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior


Context: Opioid epidemic in the United States | " Methadone has been used for opioid dependence since 1964, and is the most-studied of the pharmacological treatment options. It is a synthetic long-acting opioid, so it can replace multiple heroin uses by being taken once daily. It works by binding to the opioid receptors in the brain and spinal cord, activating them, reducing withdrawal symptoms and cravings while suppressing the ""high"" that other opioids can elicit. The decrease in withdrawal symptoms and cravings allow the user to slowly taper off the drug in a controlled manner, decreasing the likelihood of relapse. It is not accessible to all addicts. It is a regulated substance, and requires that each dose be picked up from a methadone clinic daily. This can be inconvenient as some patients are unable to travel to a clinic, or wish to avoid the stigma associated with drug addiction."

Prompt: What synthetic opioid is used to help treat heroin addiction?

Answer: Dolohepton


Context: Military history of Somalia |  The Eritrean War of Independence (1 September 1961 – 24 May 1991) was a conflict fought between the Ethiopian government and Eritrean separatists, both before and during the Ethiopian Civil War. The war started when Eritrea's autonomy within Ethiopia, where troops were already stationed, was unilaterally revoked. Eritrea had become part of Ethiopia after World War II, when both territories were liberated from Italian occupation. Ethiopia claimed that Eritrea was part of Ethiopia, especially wanting to maintain access to the Red Sea. The Military of Somalia supplied the Eritreans with military hardware and provided training. The EPLF leaders and members were given Somali passports to travel the world in search of education and jobs to finance the movement, and to increase political support for their liberation struggle from other countries. Following the Marxist–Leninist coup in Ethiopia in 1974 which toppled its ancient monarchy, the Ethiopians enjoyed Soviet Union support until the end of the 1980s, when glasnost and perestroika started to impact Moscow's foreign policies, resulting in a withdrawal of help. The war went on for 30 years until 1991 when the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), having defeated the Ethiopian forces in Eritrea, took control of the country.

Prompt: Starting 30 years of conflict, the Eritrean War of Independence broke out on Sept 1, 1961, as Eritrean separatists fought for independence from what country?

Answer: Ethiopean


Context: Aquaman |  on beings who live in the sea, Aquaman has at times demonstrated the ability to affect any being that lives upon the sea (e.g., sea eagles), or even any being evolved from marine life (e.g., humans and some aliens). Per the 2011 DC continuity reboot, The New 52, Aquaman's telepathy has been greatly downplayed: acknowledging that most marine life does not possess enough intelligence to carry a meaningful telepathic communication, Aquaman is now stated to simply add compulsions and needs in the mindset of aquatic life, compelling them to do his bidding by a subtle altering of their cerebellum. It is later revealed during DC Rebirth/Drowned

Prompt: Which superhero lives beneath the sea and can command all of the marine life via telepathic abilities?

Answer: Aqua-Man


Context: Mary Jo Kopechne | " Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18 or 19, 1969) was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the ""Boiler Room Girls"". In 1969, she died in a car accident on Chappaquiddick Island, while being driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy."

Prompt: Mary Jo Kopechne died on July 19, 1969, following an accident in a car driven by whom?

Answer: Edward M Kennedy


Context: Human zoo | " The man was named Jeoly, falsely branded as ""Prince Giolo"" to attract more audience, and was exhibited for three months straight until he died of smallpox in London. One of the first modern public human exhibitions was P.T. Barnum's exhibition of Joice Heth on February 25, 1835 and, subsequently, the Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker. These exhibitions were common in freak shows. Another famous example was that of Saartjie Baartman of the Namaqua, often referred to as the Hottentot Venus, who was displayed in London and France until her death in 1815. During the 1850s, Maximo and Bartola, two microcephalic children from El Salvador, were exhibited in the US and Europe under the names Aztec Children and Aztec Lilliputians. However, human zoos would become common only in the 1870s in the midst of the New Imperialism period."

Prompt: Chang and Eng Bunker, who toured for many years with P.T. Barnum, were the most famous example of what medical oddity that affects between 1 in 50,000 and 1 in 200,000 multiple births?

Answer: Siames (Cojoined) twins


Context: Per capita | " Per capita is a Latin phrase literally meaning ""by heads"" or ""for each head"", and idiomatically used to mean ""per person"". The term is used in a wide variety of social sciences and statistical research contexts, including government statistics, economic indicators, and built environment studies. It is commonly used in the field of statistics in place of saying ""per person"" (although per caput is the Latin for ""per head"" ). It is also used in wills to indicate that each of the named beneficiaries should receive, by devise or bequest, equal shares of the estate. This is in contrast to a per stirpes division, in which each branch (Latin stirps, plural stirpes) of the inheriting family inherits an equal share of the estate. This is often used with the ‘2-0 rule’, a statistical principle that determines which group is larger per capita. Under the 2-0 rule, a group is the largest per capita if it has both the biggest total size and size of the group of the objects in question, therefore resulting in a 2-0 score."

Prompt: What Latin phrase, which translates as "by heads", is taken to mean "for each person"?

Answer: Per-person


Context: I Can't Drive 55 | " ""I Can't Drive 55"" is the lead single and first track from Sammy Hagar's eighth studio album VOA in 1984. Perpetuated by a very successful music video, it became a concert staple that continued throughout Hagar's tours as a member of Van Halen. The song is a reference to the since-repealed National Maximum Speed Law that set speed limits at 55 mph in the United States. It is the 100th song on VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs."

Prompt: According to Sammy Haggar, what can't he drive?

Answer: 55


Context: United States declaration of war upon Mexico |  On May 13, 1846 the United States Congress passed An Act providing for the Prosecution of the existing War between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, thereby declaring war against Mexico. The declaration resulted in the Mexican–American War (1846–48). The act laid out regulations for the size and organization of the militia to participate in the war, how they were to be recruited, and the amount of money appropriated for the war—10 million dollars. The act was amended on June 18, 1846 to clarify and expand the organizational structure provided for by the original law.

Prompt: On what country did the U.S. declare war on May 11, 1846?

Answer: Mexican Republic


Context: Lou Gehrig | " broken by Alex Rodriguez) and most consecutive games played (2,130), a record that stood for 56 years and was long considered unbreakable until surpassed by Cal Ripken Jr., in 1995. Gehrig's consecutive game streak ended on May 2, 1939, when he voluntarily took himself out of the lineup, stunning both players and fans, after his performance on the field became hampered by an undiagnosed ailment subsequently confirmed to be amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neuromuscular illness; it is now commonly referred to in North America as ""Lou Gehrig's disease"". The disease forced him to retire at age 36, and claimed his "

Prompt: Who broke Lou Gehrig's record by playing in his 2131st consecutive professional baseball game on September 6, 1995?

Answer: Calvin Ripken, Jr.


Context: Jake and the Never Land Pirates | " pirate captain and Peter Pan's nemesis. Hook is commander of the galleon ""The Jolly Roger"". Legendary for his cruelty to his enemies as well as his own men, Captain Hook has trouble holding onto a permanent crew. In fact, at the moment, he only has three crew members, the rest of his crew was never seen or appeared in the show. He also likes to keep a collection of different things; such as seashells. His biggest fear is encountering Tick Tock, who is the same crocodile that ate Captain Hook's hand when Peter Pan sliced it off. ; Mr. Smee : Mr. Smee is Captain Hook's first mate. He is also an expert on Never "

Prompt: What noted fictional pirate, who sailed aboard the Jolly Roger, had an unreasonable fear of crocodiles and had a first mate named Smee?

Answer: Captain Hook (Disney)


Context: Idi Amin |  Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; c. 1925 – 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 and de facto military dictator. He is considered one of the most brutal despots in world history. Idi Amin was born in Koboko to a Kakwa father and Lugbara mother. In 1946, he joined the King's African Rifles (KAR) of the British Colonial Army as a cook. He rose to the rank of lieutenant, taking part in British actions against Somali rebels in the Shifta War and then the Mau Mau rebels

Prompt: Major asshat Idi Amin Dada was the president of what African nation from 1971 to 1979?

Answer: Ugandese


Context: Catalina Parra |  the Chilean government through her newspaper clipping showing General Augusto Pinochet and Hugo Banzer of Bolivia hugging. This work addresses the possibility of strong relationships between and or within countries. The current event at the time (shown by the newspaper clipping) was the arrest of General Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, for a request issued by the government of Spain for the murder of Spanish citizens during his dictatorship. His role in the Caravan of Death was also prominent, as the event occurred while he was ruling. So although it does have deeper meaning, it also displays the fact that she was rebelling against his ideas and beliefs through the desecration

Prompt: General Augusto Pinochet was the former dictator of which South American country?

Answer: ISO 3166-1:CL


Context: Buck passing | "  ""The buck stops here"" is a phrase that was popularized by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who kept a sign with that phrase on his desk in the Oval Office. The phrase refers to the notion that the President has to make the decisions and accept the ultimate responsibility for those decisions. Truman received the sign as a gift from a prison warden who was also an avid poker player. It is also the motto of the U.S. Naval Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75). President Jimmy Carter arranged to borrow the sign from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Footage from Carter's ""Address to the Nation on Energy"" shows the sign on the desk during "

Prompt: US President Harry S. Truman famously had a sign on his desk saying the what stops here?

Answer: Buckey Lasek


Context: Zener cards |  is observed that believers in psi-phenomena are more likely to report positive outcomes to experiments. ; 3) The psi-missing effect: card Invoked when results deviate in a statistically significant way in the direction not predicted. ; 4) The decline effect: The regression toward the mean over time is taken as a property of psi rather than a statistical eventuality.  The results of many tests using Zener cards fit with a typical normal distribution. Probability predicts these test results for a test of 25 questions with five possible answers if chance is operating:  Rather than applying Ockham's razor and accepting the null hypothesis for non-results, parapsychology has invented many post-hoc constructions to explain away failure, for example:

Prompt: What controversial phenomenon is measured by Zener cards?

Answer: E.S.P. (album)


Context: Transport in Samoa |  Christian Church of Samoa for an accident-free changeover and Samoa's Red Cross carried out a blood donation campaign in case of a surge of accidents. The change came into force following a radio announcement at 5.50 local time (16:50 UTC) which halted traffic and an announcement at 6.00 (15:00 UTC) for traffic to switch from the right to the left side of the road. Samoa thus became the first territory in over thirty years to change which side of the road is driven on, the previous most recent to change having been Okinawa (1978), South Yemen (1977), Ghana (1974) and Nigeria (1972).

Prompt: On Monday, Samoa became the first nation in nearly 40 years to switch sides of the road. On what side do they now drive?

Answer: Left (disambiguation)


Context: Panthera hybrid |  smaller than either parent, because male tigers and lionesses have a growth inhibitor. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tigons were more common than ligers. A liliger is the offspring of a lion and a ligress. The first known liliger is a cub named Kiara. Rudrani, a tigoness from the Alipore Zoo, mated with Debabrata, a male (reportedly) Asiatic lion (but which was later genetically established as a hybrid of the African and Asiatic subspecies of the lion), and gave birth to three litigons. Only one litigon cub, named Cubanacan, survived. A tiliger is an offspring of a male tiger and a ligress. A titigon is an offspring of a male tiger and a tigoness.

Prompt: What is the offspring of a male lion and a tigress called?

Answer: Ligers


Context: Audio system measurements |  (i.e., intensity) of signal content across the specified frequency range. The frequency range often specified for audio components is between 20 Hz to 20 kHz, which broadly reflects the human hearing range (the highest audible frequency for most people is less than 20 kHz, with 16 kHz being more typical ). Components with 'flat' frequency responses are often described as being linear. Most audio components are designed to be linear across their entire operating range. Well-designed solid-state amplifiers and CD players may have a frequency response that varies by only 0.2 dB between 20 Hz to 20 kHz. Loudspeakers tend

Prompt: What speaker component is used to produce the highest audio frequencies, usually between 2,000HZ and 20,000HZ?

Answer: Piezo tweeter


Context: Winnebago Industries | " Winnebago Industries, Inc. is an American manufacturer of motorhomes, a type of recreational vehicle (RV), in the United States. In 2018, the company expanded into motorboat manufacturing with the acquisition of Chris-Craft Corporation. Winnebago has also manufactured light-to-medium utility vehicles as well as other products. The company is named after Winnebago County, where it used to be headquartered. The county is named after the Native American tribe who have historically lived in the area. During the 1970s and 1980s, Winnebago Industries depended on Native American history and traditions in naming their products, for example ""Chieftain"" and ""Brave."" They also used Native American iconography and patterns in their designs and period advertisements."

Prompt: What famous motorhome brand took its' name from a Midwestern Native American tribe?

Answer: Winnebago


Context: General Foods |  Roots of General Foods can be traced to the Post Cereal Company, founded by C. W. Post in 1895 in Battle Creek, Michigan. Post was a patient at the Battle Creek Sanitarium (run by John Harvey Kellogg, brother of Kellogg Company founder Will Keith Kellogg), and was inspired by the diet there to start his food company (and become a rival to the Kellogg brothers, who sold their own breakfast cereals). Post invested $78 in his initial equipment and supplies and set up manufacturing in a barn on what was known as the 'Old Beardsley Farm'. His first product was

Prompt: What cereal company, founded in 1906, has its headquarters in Battle Creek, MI?

Answer: Bigg Mixx


Context: Scotch bonnet (sea snail) | " The Scotch bonnet (Semicassis granulata) is a medium-sized to large species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Cassinae, the helmet shells and bonnet shells. The common name ""Scotch bonnet"" alludes to the general outline and color pattern of the shell, which vaguely resemble a tam o' shanter, a traditional Scottish bonnet or cap. The shell is egg-shaped and fairly large, 2 to 4 in in maximum dimension, with a regular pattern of yellow, orange or brown squarish spots. The surface sculpture of the shell is highly variable: the surface can be smooth and polished, have grooves, be granulated, or even be nodulose on the shoulder of the whorls. This species lives intertidally and subtidally on sandy substrates, and is found primarily in the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic Ocean, from North Carolina to Uruguay. It is the most common species "

Prompt: What is a "Scotch Bonnet"?

Answer: Chili Pepper


Context: Official Languages Act (Canada) | " The Official Languages Act (Loi sur les langues officielles; colloquially the Act) is a Canadian law that came into force on September 9, 1969, which gives French and English equal status in the government of Canada. This makes them ""official"" languages, having preferred status in law over all other languages. Although the Official Languages Act is not the only piece of federal language law, it is the legislative keystone of Canada's official bilingualism. It was substantially amended in 1988. Both languages are equal in Canada's government and in all the services it controls, such as the courts."

Prompt: September 9, 1969 saw what made an official language of Canada?

Answer: Français


Context: Moody, Standard and Poor |  Moody, Standard and Poor is the second album by the New York City-based rock band Obits, released March 29, 2011 through Sub Pop.

Prompt: A. M. Best, Moodys, and Standard & Poors are all examples of what?

Answer: Rating agency


Context: Nuclear safety in the United States |  The SL-1, or Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, was a United States Army experimental nuclear power reactor which underwent a steam explosion and meltdown on January 3, 1961, killing its three operators. The direct cause was the improper withdrawal of the central control rod, responsible for absorbing neutrons in the reactor core. The event is the only known fatal reactor accident in the United States. The accident released about 80 Ci of iodine-131, which was not considered significant due to its location in a remote desert of Idaho. About 1100 Ci of fission products were released into the atmosphere.

Prompt: What was the location of the worst nuclear disaster in the United States, when a partial core meltdown of reactor #2 resulted in the release of significant quantities of radioactive gas in 1979?

Answer: 3 mile island


Context: Armoured fighting vehicle | " In 1903, H. G. Wells published the short story ""The Land Ironclads,"" positing indomitable war machines that would bring a new age of land warfare, the way steam-powered ironclad warships had ended the age of sail. Wells' literary vision was realized in 1916, when, amidst the pyrrhic standstill of the Great War, the British Landships Committee, deployed revolutionary armoured vehicles to break the stalemate. The tank was envisioned as an armoured machine that could cross ground under fire from machine guns and reply with its own mounted machine guns and cannons. These first British heavy tanks of World War I moved on caterpillar tracks that had substantially lower ground pressure than wheeled vehicles, enabling them to pass the muddy, pocked terrain and slit trenches of the Battle of the Somme."

Prompt: First proposed by H.G. Wells in a 1903 story, what military staple saw its first action during the Battle of the Somme, September 1916?

Answer: NRODT


Context: International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies |  effective air quality management. The first observance of the International Day was held on 7 September 2020, with events held around the world. However, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of the commemorative events were held virtually. The lead coordinating partners of the International Day were the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC), with additional funding from the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany (BMU). In some of the commemorations, the World Health Organization partnered with the NGO BreatheLife to coordinate some activities for the day.

Prompt: Next Sunday, Sept 19, is International what day?

Answer: Talk like a pirate day


Context: Harry Anderson | " Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018) was an American actor, comedian and magician. He is best known for his lead role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984–1992 television series Night Court. He later starred in the sitcom Dave's World from 1993 to 1997. In addition to eight appearances on Saturday Night Live between 1981 and 1985, Anderson had a recurring guest role as con man Harry ""The Hat"" Gittes on Cheers. He toured extensively as a magician, and did several magic/comedy shows for broadcast, including Harry Anderson's Sideshow (1987). He played Richie Tozier in the 1990 miniseries It, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name."

Prompt: What magician-turned-actor portrayed a recurring role as a trickster on a few episodes of TV's Cheers before landing a job as a judge?

Answer: Harry Anderson


Context: Branson, Missouri | " have three different shows a day performing in different time slots. In 1991, local producer and entertainer Bob Nichols opened the first morning show and the following year, Buck Trent became the first nationally known star to star in a morning show. The increasing number of theaters and other attractions opening in Branson drew the attention of 60 Minutes, which aired an episode about Branson on December 8, 1991, and called it the ""live music capital of the entire universe"". Andy Williams built his theater in Branson, opening on May 1, 1992, calling it the Moon River Theatre. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Theatre opened in 1994, starring Glen "

Prompt: What Missouri town calls itself the "Live Music Show Capital of the World"?

Answer: Branson (disambiguation)


Context: United Parcel Service | " The brown color that UPS uses on its vehicles and uniforms is called Pullman brown. Company founder James E. Casey originally wanted company vehicles to use a yellow paint scheme, but one of his partners, Charlie Soderstrom, stated that a yellow vehicle would be hard to keep clean and that Pullman railroad cars were brown for just that reason. During the 2000s, the company used the familiarity of its color scheme in an advertising slogan: ""What can Brown do for you?"""

Prompt: What can brown do for you? is the current advertising slogan for what company?

Answer: U P S


Context: KC and the Sunshine Band | " KC and the Sunshine Band is an American disco and funk band which was founded in 1973 in Hialeah, Florida. Their best-known songs include the hits ""That's the Way (I Like It)"", ""(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty"", ""I'm Your Boogie Man"", ""Keep It Comin' Love"", ""Get Down Tonight"", ""Boogie Shoes"", ""Please Don't Go"" and ""Give It Up"". The band took its name from lead vocalist Harry Wayne Casey's last name ('KC') and the 'Sunshine Band' from KC's home state of Florida, the Sunshine State. The group has had six top 10 singles, five number one singles and a number two single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart."

Prompt: The Sunshine Band, named after their home state of Florida, sang alongside whom?

Answer: KC - Harry Wayne Casey


Context: January 1902 | "The birthday of William McKinley, the late U.S. President, was observed across the United States for the first time since his assassination in September. For several decades, McKinley's birthday, though not a holiday, would be observed as ""Carnation Day"" because the 25th U.S. President had traditionally worn a red carnation in the lapel. Although the tradition would fade after McKinley's 100th birthday in 1943, the event was informally observed as late as 2017. "

Prompt: Tomorrow marks the 109th anniversary of which great American taking the reins of the presidency following the death of William McKinley?

Answer: T Ros


Context: Mendy Rudolph | " In 1976, Rudolph was featured in a Miller Brewing Company television advertisement along with then-Celtics head coach Tom Heinsohn to promote Miller Lite's ""Tastes Great, Less Filling"" advertising campaign. Rudolph and Heinsohn debated whether Miller Lite was less filling or tastes great in a bar room scene. After Heinsohn refused to agree that Lite was, first and foremost, less filling, Rudolph threw his thumb in the air and screamed, ""You're out of the bar."" This advertisement popularized Miller's campaign slogan and the campaign was named eighth best of the 20th century by Advertising Age in 1999."

Prompt: What product is advertised with the slogan "Great taste, less filling"?

Answer: Miller Lite Beer


Context: United States Armed Forces |  1 August 1907 and was part of the Army Air Forces before becoming an independent service as per the National Security Act of 1947. The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps was formerly considered to be a branch of the United States Armed Forces from 29 July 1945 until its status as such was revoked on 3 July 1952. The United States Space Force was established as an independent service on 20 December 2019. It is the sixth branch of the U.S. military and the first new branch since the establishment of the independent U.S. Air Force in 1947. It traces its origin to the formation of the Air Force Space Command, which was formed 1 September 1982 and was a major command of the United States Air Force.

Prompt: On Sept 18, 1947, which branch of the US Military became an independent branch, following 40 years under the leadership of the Army?

Answer: United States Air Force (USAF)


Context: Hearing |  The middle ear consists of a small air-filled chamber that is located medial to the eardrum. Within this chamber are the three smallest bones in the body, known collectively as the ossicles which include the malleus, incus, and stapes (also known as the hammer, anvil, and stirrup, respectively). They aid in the transmission of the vibrations from the eardrum into the inner ear, the cochlea. The purpose of the middle ear ossicles is to overcome the impedance mismatch between air waves and cochlear waves, by providing impedance matching. Also located in the middle ear are the stapedius muscle and tensor tympani muscle, which protect the hearing mechanism through a stiffening reflex. The stapes transmits sound waves to the inner ear through the oval window, a flexible membrane separating the air-filled middle ear from the fluid-filled inner ear. The round window, another flexible membrane, allows for the smooth displacement of the inner ear fluid caused by the entering sound waves.

Prompt: Where is the human body do you find the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?

Answer: The ear


Context: List of Greek mythological figures |  ; Arges (Ἄργης) ; Brontes (Βρόντης) ; Steropes (Στερόπης) ; Cyclopes (Homeric), a tribe of one-eyed, man-eating giants who herded flocks of sheep on the island of Sicily ; Polyphemus (Πολύφημος), a Cyclops who briefly captured Odysseus and his men, only to be overcome and blinded by the hero ; The Gegenees (Γηγενέες), a tribe of six-armed giants fought by the Argonauts on Bear Mountain in Mysia ; Geryon (Γηρυων), a three-bodied giant who dwelt on the sunset isle at the ends of the earth. He was slain by Heracles when the hero arrived to fetch the giant's cattle as one of his twelve labours. ; The Hekatoncheires (Ἑκατόγχειρες), or Centimanes (Latin), the Hundred-Handed Ones, giant gods of violent storms and hurricanes. Three sons of Uranus

Prompt: What name is given to the race of one-eyed giants of Greek mythology?

Answer: Steropes


Context: Kentucky Oaks |  The first running of the Kentucky Oaks was on May 19, 1875, when Churchill Downs was known as the Louisville Jockey Club. The race was founded by Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. along with the Kentucky Derby, the Clark Handicap, and the Falls City Handicap. The Oaks and the Derby are the oldest continuously contested sporting events in American history. The Kentucky Oaks was modeled after the British Epsom Oaks, which has been run annually at Epsom Downs, Epsom, in Surrey since 1779. In the first race, the horse Vinaigrette won the then 1+1/2 mi mile race in a time of 2:39 3⁄4, winning a purse of $1,175. Since that

Prompt: First held on May 17, 1875, what is the oldest, continuously held major sporting event in the United States?

Answer: The Kentucky Derby


Context: Pete von Reichbauer | " In addition to his service as an elected official, von Reichbauer played a key role in keeping the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle. In late 1995, then-Seahawks owner Ken Behring told von Reichbauer privately that he wanted to sell the team and asked von Reichbauer to gauge interest in potential buyers. But publicly, Behring insisted he would not sell the team and began the process of moving the team to Los Angeles. By early 1996, von Reichbauer had identified Microsoft co-founder and Seattle-area resident Paul Allen as a potential buyer of the team. Von Reichbauer met with Allen's inner circle and convinced Allen that Behring was sincere about selling the team. As Allen became more serious about purchasing the team, he never negotiated directly with Behring; instead, von Reichbauer acted as an intermediary between Behring and Allen. Allen eventually agreed to purchase the team, contingent upon approval of a new stadium. For his efforts, the Seattle Times called him ""one of the heroes in this fight,"" while former King County Executive Ron Sims has said that von Reichbauer ""did a fantastic job keeping the Seahawks in Seattle. I don't believe it would've happened without his intervention."""

Prompt: Prior to selling the team to current owner Paul Allen, which California real estate developer pissed off most of the Northwest when he tried to move the team to Anaheim?

Answer: Ken Behring


Context: Better red than dead | " ""Better red than dead"" and ""better dead than red"" were dueling Cold War slogans which first gained currency in the United States during the late 1950s, amid debates about anti-communism and nuclear disarmament (red being the emblematic color of communism). The first phrase, ""better red than dead"", is often credited to British philosopher Bertrand Russell, but in his 1961 Has Man a Future? he attributes it to ""West German friends of peace"". In any event, Russell agreed with the sentiment, having written in 1958 that if ""no alternatives remain except Communist domination or extinction of the human race, the former alternative is the lesser of two evils"", and the slogan was adopted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which he helped "

Prompt: According to the cold war era slogan, you're better what, than red?

Answer: Devitalized


Context: André-Marie Ampère | " André-Marie Ampère (, ; ; 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as ""electrodynamics"". He is also the inventor of numerous applications, such as the solenoid (a term coined by him) and the electrical telegraph. As an autodidact, Ampère was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and professor at the École polytechnique and the Collège de France. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. His name is also one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower."

Prompt: What noted English chemist and physicist, born on Sept 22, 1791, is responsible for the electromagnet and has the SI unit of capacitance named for him?

Answer: Michael Faraday


Context: Spider-Man (1981 TV series) |  The series featured Peter Parker having to balance his alter ego crimefighting with his responsibilities as a university student, a part-time photographer for the Daily Bugle and caring for his elderly Aunt May Parker.

Prompt: Eventually a newspaper photographer for the Daily Bugle, what is the alter ego of Spiderman?

Answer: Wall Crawler


Context: Ronald Reagan |   On July 7, 1981, Reagan announced that he planned to nominate Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, replacing the retiring Justice Potter Stewart. He had pledged during his 1980 presidential campaign that he would appoint the first woman to the Court. On September 21, O'Connor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 99–0.

Prompt: Sep 21, 1981 saw the confirmation of which associate justice, the first female Supreme Court justice?

Answer: Sandra Day O'Conner


Context: Anwar al-Awlaki | " In 2010, after Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, cartoonist Molly Norris at Seattle Weekly had to stop publishing, and at the suggestion of the FBI changed her name, moved, and went into hiding due to a fatwā issued by al-Awlaki calling for her death. In the June 2010 issue of Inspire, an English-language al-Qaeda magazine, al-Awlaki cursed her and eight others for ""blasphemous caricatures"" of Muhammad. ""The medicine prescribed by the Messenger of Allah is the execution of those involved"", he wrote. Daniel Pipes observed in an article entitled ""Dueling Fatwas"", ""Awlaki stands at an unprecedented crossroads of death declarations, with his targeting Norris even as the U.S. government targets him."""

Prompt: What Seattle Weekly cartoonist was forced to go into hiding last week after major asshat imam Anwar al-Awlaki issued a fatwa suggesting she be killed for her "Everybody Draw Muhammed Day"?

Answer: Draw Muhammad Day


Context: Double Trouble (band) |  This article describes the band Double Trouble across its various incarnations. For further information on its most successful period, see Stevie Ray Vaughan § Double Trouble and following sections. Double Trouble is an American blues rock band from Austin, Texas which served as the backing band for guitarist/singer Stevie Ray Vaughan. The group was active throughout the 1980s and contributed to reviving the blues, inspiring many later blues and rock musicians. Formed in Austin, Texas in 1978, the group went through several early line-up changes before settling on a power trio consisting of Vaughan, Chris Layton (drums), Tommy Shannon (bass). They became a four-piece by 1985 after adding Reese Wynans (keyboards). While

Prompt: What is the name of the backing band for noted bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan?

Answer: Double Trouble (disambiguation)


Context: List of refugees | Michael Balint - British citizen, Jewish-Hungarian psychoanalyst, best known as a proponent of Object relations theory. Fled persecution by Nazis for the UK in 1939. ; Sigmund Freud - Jewish-Austrian neurologist, best known as the founder of psychoanalysis. Fled persecution by the Nazis in Austria in June 1938, took refuge in the UK. ; Anna Freud - daughter of Sigmund, also a psychoanalyst. Fled persecution by the Nazis in Austria in June 1938, took refuge in the UK. ; Ernest Gellner - British citizen, Czech-Jewish philosopher and social anthropologist. Came to England in 1939 after the German occupation of Prague. ;

Prompt: September 23, 1939 saw the death of what famed neurologist, best known for founding the field of psychoanalysis?

Answer: Zigi Frojd


Context: 1840s | April – Eta Carinae is temporarily the second-brightest star in the night sky. ; September 23, 1846 – Discovery of Neptune: The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest as predicted by the British astronomer John Couch Adams and the French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier. ; September 16, 1848 – William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon.

Prompt: On Sept 23, 1846 three astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams, and Johann Galle co-discovered which one of the current planets?

Answer: 8th planet


Context: List of valkyrie names | " In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja ""chooser of the slain"") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin. There, when the einherjar are not preparing for the events of Ragnarök, the valkyries bear them mead. Valkyries also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals, where they are sometimes described as the daughters "

Prompt: In Norse mythology, what group of female figures decides who lives and dies during battle, and then transports half of the dead to Valhalla?

Answer: Valkyre


Context: 1947 in literature | " scientists. ; June 25 – Most of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is first published as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 (""The Annex: Diary Notes from 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944"") in Amsterdam, two years after its writer's death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. ; July ; Jack Kerouac begins the journey he will later chronicle in his book On the Road. ; Pramoedya Ananta Toer begins two years' imprisonment by the Dutch authorities in Jakarta for supporting the Indonesian National Revolution. While in prison he begins his first major novel, Perburuan (The Fugitive, 1950). ; August 24 – "

Prompt: The journal of which Amsterdam schoolgirl was first published in 1947 under the title The Diary of a Young Girl?

Answer: Betrayal of anne frank


Context: American History X |  American History X is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Tony Kaye and written by David McKenna. The film stars Edward Norton and Edward Furlong as two brothers from Los Angeles who are involved in the white power skinhead and neo-Nazi movements. The older brother (Norton) serves three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, and is rehabilitated during this time, and then tries to prevent his brother (Furlong) from being indoctrinated further. The supporting cast includes Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliott Gould, Avery Brooks, Ethan Suplee and Beverly D'Angelo. McKenna wrote the script based on his own childhood and experiences of growing up in San Diego. He then sold the script to New Line Cinema, which was impressed by the writing. American History X was Kaye's first directorial role in a feature film. Budgeted at

Prompt: Name the 1998 movie from the IMDB plot summary: "A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did."

Answer: Danny Vinyard


Context: Troy |  Troy (Greek: Τροία) or Ilium (Greek: Ίλιον) was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in present-day Turkey, 30 km south-west of Çanakkale. It is known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War. In Ancient Greek literature, Troy is portrayed as a powerful kingdom of the Heroic Age, a mythic era when monsters roamed the earth and gods interacted directly with humans. The city was said to have ruled the Troad until the Trojan War led to its complete destruction at the hands of the Greeks. The story of its destruction was one of the cornerstones of Greek mythology and literature, featuring prominently in the Iliad and the Odyssey,

Prompt: The ancient city of Troy is located in what modern country?

Answer: Turkey


Context: Lightsaber |  universe, the lightsaber is the signature weapon of the light side-wielding Jedi Order and the dark side-wielding Sith Order and the Knights of Ren (named after another term for lightsaber), but can also be wielded by non-Force-sensitive characters as an ordinary weapon or tool. The Jedi use different colored lightsabers (predominantly blue, green, and yellow), while the Sith wield exclusively red-bladed sabers to distinguish themselves from the Jedi. The color of a lightsaber's blade is given by its power source, the kyber crystal, but can also be influenced by the wielder's emotions and thoughts. A lightsaber's hilt is built by its wielder and

Prompt: What can be a medieval weapon, a spice, or a Jedi knight (or a pepper spray)

Answer: MACE


Context: John Lloyd Wright |  John Lloyd Wright (December 12, 1892 – December 20, 1972) was an American architect and toy inventor. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Wright was the second-oldest son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. John Lloyd Wright became estranged from his father in 1909 and subsequently left his home to join his brother on the West Coast. After unsuccessfully working a series of jobs, he decided to take up the profession of his father in 1912. Shortly afterward, he was able to reconnect with his father, who took John under his wing. Differences in opinion regarding the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo caused the pair to again become disunited. John Lloyd Wright took a break from architecture after this falling-out and focused on designing toys. The most successful of these inventions was Lincoln Logs in 1916, which would later be one of the original inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame. In 1923, Wright moved to Long Beach, Indiana and designed several buildings. His style was characterized by the Prairie School of architecture with International Style influences. After marrying a third time in 1946, Wright left Indiana for Del Mar, California, where he spent the rest of his life designing houses.

Prompt: John Lloyd Wright, son of famed architect Frank, invented what children's toy?

Answer: Lincoln log


Context: Red hair | " loves all kids. Even ginger ones"" after customers complained the card was offensive. In October 2010, Harriet Harman, the former Equality Minister in the British government under Labour, faced accusations of prejudice after she described the red-haired Treasury secretary Danny Alexander as a ""ginger rodent"". Alexander responded to the insult by stating that he was ""proud to be ginger"". Harman was subsequently forced to apologise for the comment, after facing criticism for prejudice against a minority group. In September 2011, Cryos International, one of the world's largest sperm banks, announced that it would no longer accept donations from red-haired men due to low demand from women seeking artificial insemination."

Prompt: Cryos, the worlds largest sperm bank, recently announced that they will no longer accept donations from guys with what physical characteristic?

Answer: Redhead (disambiguation)


Context: Huey Lewis |  Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs. The band is known for their third, and best-selling, album Sports, and their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Lewis previously played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979.

Prompt: Who sang behind Huey Lewis?

Answer: Current Events


Context: Assassination of John F. Kennedy | "  The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963, by President Johnson to investigate the assassination. Its 888-page final report was presented to Johnson on September 24, 1964, and made public three days later. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing Kennedy and wounding Connally, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald. The commission's findings have proven controversial and been variously criticized and supported by later studies. The commission took its unofficial name, ""The Warren Commission"", from its chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren. According to published transcripts of Johnson's presidential phone conversations, some major officials were opposed to forming such a commission, and several "

Prompt: Named for its chairman, The Warren Commission published its final report on Sept 27, 1965. What event was it seated to investigate?

Answer: Shooting of John F. Kennedy


Context: Outline of the Ottoman Empire |   The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman Empire was a Muslim empire that lasted from c. 1299 to 1922. It was also known by its European contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey after the principal ethnic group. At its zenith from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries it controlled Southeast Europe, Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Prompt: Lasting from 1299 to 1922, the Ottoman empire roughly corresponds to what modern day country?

Answer: Turkey


Context: Space tourism | " At the end of the 1990s, MirCorp, a private venture that was by then in charge of the space station, began seeking potential space tourists to visit Mir in order to offset some of its maintenance costs. Dennis Tito, an American businessman and former JPL scientist, became their first candidate. When the decision was made to de-orbit Mir, Tito managed to switch his trip to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft through a deal between MirCorp and US-based Space Adventures, Ltd. Dennis Tito visited the ISS for seven days in April–May 2001, becoming the world's first ""fee-paying"" space tourist. Tito paid a reported $20 million for his trip. Tito was followed in April 2002 by South African Mark Shuttleworth (Soyuz TM-34). The third was Gregory Olsen in "

Prompt: In 2001, Dennis Tito paid a reported $20 million to be the first tourist to go where?

Answer: Space


Context: Ray Kroc |  Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman. He purchased the fast food company McDonald's in 1961 and served as its CEO from 1967 to 1973. Kroc is credited with the global expansion of McDonald's, turning it into the most successful fast food corporation in the world. Due to the company's growth under Kroc, he has also been referred to as the founder of the McDonald's Corporation. After retiring from McDonald's, he owned the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1974 until his death in 1984.

Prompt: Oct 5, 1902 saw the birth of Ray Kroc, who started which ubiquitous food source, the most successful fast food operation in the world?

Answer: Mackey D's


Context: La Higuera |  On October 8, 1967, the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was captured by the CIA-assisted Bolivian Army in the nearby ravine Quebrada del Churo, ending his campaign to create a continental revolution in South America. Che Guevara was held in the schoolhouse, where he was killed the next day. The body was then brought to Vallegrande, where it was placed on display and afterwards secretly buried under an airstrip.

Prompt: In what South American country was unrepentant asshat Che Guevara and his band of merry men captured and ultimately executed?

Answer: Bolivia, Plurinational State of


Context: Brass | "  Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve varying mechanical, electrical, and chemical properties. It is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure. Brass is similar to bronze, another alloy containing copper that uses tin instead of zinc. Both bronze and brass also may include small proportions of a range of other elements including arsenic, lead, phosphorus, aluminum, manganese, and silicon. Historically, the distinction between the two alloys has been less consistent and clear, and modern practice in museums and archaeology increasingly avoids both terms for historical objects in favor of the more general ""copper alloy"". Brass has long been a popular material for decoration due to its bright, gold-like appearance; being used for drawer pulls and doorknobs. It has also been widely used to make utensils "

Prompt: Brass is an alloy of what 2 metals?

Answer: Copper and Zinc


Context: Sculpture of the United States |  There are at least three major mountain sculptures in the United States. These are Mount Rushmore, Stone Mountain, and Crazy Horse Memorial. Gutzon Borglum, an accomplished sculptor with such pieces as Seated Lincoln and a variety of other public monuments, oversaw the sculpture of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills in South Dakota. The monument was finished after his death by his son Lincoln Borglum. Gutzon Borglum also was responsible for starting the Stone Mountain project in Georgia but had a falling-out with its overseers. The monument was then taken up by Augustus Lukeman, who died during its carving in 1935. The memorial was finished by Walker Hancock and was considered complete in 1972. The Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota depicts the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse riding a horse and pointing into the distance. It was begun in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and continued after his death by his wife, Ruth Ziolkowski, who took over the helm of the project, and several of their children. The face was dedicated in 1998.

Prompt: Prior to carving Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum started work on what Georgia monument, the largest bas relief structure in the world, featuring 3 Civil War leaders, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson?

Answer: Stone Mountain Park


Context: Vladimir Putin |  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is serving as the current president of Russia. He has been serving in this position since 2012, and he previously held this office from 1999 until 2008. He was also the prime minister from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. Putin is the second-longest serving European president in modern history. Putin was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and studied law at Leningrad State University, graduating in 1975. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint

Prompt: October 7, 1952 saw the birth of what former president, and current prime minister, of Russia?

Answer: Vlad Vladimirovich Putin


Context: Geography of Georgia (country) | Northernmost point: (de jure): Abkhazia ; Northernmost point (de facto): Mestia Municipality, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti ; Southernmost point: Dedoplistsqaro Municipality, Kakheti ; Westernmost point (de jure): Abkhazia ; Westernmost point (de facto): Adjara ; Easternmost point: Dedoplistsqaro Municipality, Kakheti (border with Azerbaijan)

Prompt: For a point each, name the 4 countries surrounding Georgia

Answer: Russia, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbijan


Context: Dallas Love Field |  Southwest Airlines—arguing that the CAB had no jurisdiction over purely intrastate flights—received an air operator's certificate from the State of Texas to operate from any airport in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, and began quick, no-frills flights between Love Field, Houston, and San Antonio. Southwest had not signed the 1968 regional airport agreement, and the airline's founders felt that Dallas residents would find the long drive to DFW Airport inconvenient and contrary to the notion of a quick trip. The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth and the Dallas–Fort Worth Regional Airport Board sued, arguing that the 1968 agreement gave them the authority to force Southwest to fly from DFW; however, the

Prompt: What successful, no-frills airline is headquartered at Love Field in Dallas, and is one of the few that doesn't charge a baggage handling fee?

Answer: RedBellyRadio


Context: Scottish Americans | " Uncle Sam is the national personification of the United States, and sometimes more specifically of the American government, with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812. The American icon Uncle Sam, who is known for embodying the American spirit, was based on a businessman from Troy, New York, Samuel Wilson, whose parents sailed to America from Greenock, Scotland, has been officially recognized as the original Uncle Sam. He provided the army with beef and pork in barrels during the War of 1812. The barrels were prominently labeled ""U.S."" for the United States, but it was jokingly said that the letters stood for ""Uncle Sam."" Soon, Uncle Sam was used as shorthand for the federal government."

Prompt: By congressional resolution, Sam Wilson, of Troy, New York, a meat supplier for the Army during the War of 1812,is recognized as the progenitor of what famous American symbol?

Answer: I Want YOU for the U.S. Army


Context: Big Mac | " A 1974 advertising campaign featured a list of the ingredients in a Big Mac: ""Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – on a sesame seed bun."" In 2008 McDonald's Malaysia revived the phrase. The revival includes the original prize of a free Big Mac if the customer is able to recite the phrase in under four seconds. It was released in May, along with the promotional Mega Mac, which has four beef patties instead of two."

Prompt: Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun describes what?

Answer: Big Mac Sauce


Context: USS Cole bombing |  The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by the terrorist group al Qaeda against USS Cole (DDG-67), a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while she was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor. Seventeen U.S. Navy sailors were killed and thirty-seven injured in the deadliest attack against a United States naval vessel since the USS Stark incident in 1987. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack against the United States. A U.S. judge has held Sudan liable for the attack, while another has released over $13 million in Sudanese frozen assets to the relatives of those killed. The United States Navy has reconsidered its rules of engagement in response to this attack. On 30 October 2020, Sudan and the United States signed a bilateral claims agreement to compensate families of the sailors who died in the bombing. The agreement entered into force in February 2021.

Prompt: In what middle east harbor was the destroyer USS Cole attacked by suicide bombers in 2000, resulting in 56 casualties?

Answer: Adem, YM


Context: Super Friends (1973 TV series) |  Each episode would begin with the heroes responding to an emergency detected by the massive TroubAlert computer that was situated within the Hall of Justice which served as the headquarters of the team. Colonel Wilcox, a U.S. Army official, was a recurring character who would work as a government liaison to the Super Friends during emergencies. As such conflicts are often ultimately resolved with the antagonists persuaded to adapt more reasonable methods to achieve their aims with the assistance of the heroes. Natural disasters triggered by human (or alien) activity were often shown, and environmental themes featured strongly in the program.

Prompt: Featuring the Trouble Alert, at what Metropolis location did the Super Friends congregate in the 1970s animated show The Super Friends?

Answer: Hall of Justice


Context: A cappella | " In the Byzantine Rite of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches, the music performed in the liturgies is exclusively sung without instrumental accompaniment. Bishop Kallistos Ware says, ""The service is sung, even though there may be no choir... In the Orthodox Church today, as in the early Church, singing is unaccompanied and instrumental music is not found."" This a cappella behavior arises from strict interpretation of Psalms 150, which states, ''Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. In keeping with this philosophy, early Russian musika which started appearing in the late 17th century, in what was known as khorovïye kontsertï (choral concertos) made a cappella adaptations of Venetian-styled pieces, such as the treatise, Grammatika musikiyskaya'' (1675), by Nikolai Diletsky. Divine Liturgies and Western Rite masses composed by famous composers such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and Mykola Leontovych are fine examples of this."

Prompt: What kind of singing, from the Italian for Manner of the Church, features singers without any musical accompaniment?

Answer: Acappella


Context: Microwave |   Radar is a radiolocation technique in which a beam of radio waves emitted by a transmitter bounces off an object and returns to a receiver, allowing the location, range, speed, and other characteristics of the object to be determined. The short wavelength of microwaves causes large reflections from objects the size of motor vehicles, ships and aircraft. Also, at these wavelengths, the high gain antennas such as parabolic antennas which are required to produce the narrow beamwidths needed to accurately locate objects are conveniently small, allowing them to be rapidly turned to scan for objects. Therefore, microwave frequencies are the main frequencies used in radar. Microwave radar is widely used for applications such as air traffic control, weather forecasting, navigation of ships, and speed limit enforcement. Long-distance radars use the lower microwave frequencies since at the upper end of the band atmospheric absorption limits the range, but millimeter waves are used for short-range radar such as collision avoidance systems.

Prompt: What device uses radio waves bounced off of objects to identify their range, altitude, direction, and speed?

Answer: Radio detection and ranging


Context: McLean, Virginia |   The headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency is located in the Langley area of McLean, and the headquarters of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is also located in McLean. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is also located down the street from the CIA headquarters.

Prompt: In what Virginia town is the Central Intelligence Agency located?

Answer: Langley


Context: Pinta (ship) |  La Pinta (Spanish for The Painted One, The Look, or The Spotted One) was the fastest of the three Spanish ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first transatlantic voyage in 1492. The New World was first sighted by Rodrigo de Triana aboard La Pinta on 12 October 1492. The owner of La Pinta was Cristóbal Quintero. The Quintero brothers were ship owners from Palos. The owner of the ship allowed Martín Alonso Pinzón to take over the ship so he could keep an eye on the ship. La Pinta was a caravel-type vessel. By tradition Spanish ships were named after saints and usually given nicknames. Thus, La Pinta, like La Niña, was not the ship's actual name; La Niña's actual name was the Santa Clara. The Santa María s original nickname was La Gallega. The actual original name of La Pinta is unknown. The origin of the ship is disputed but is believed to have been built in Spain in the year 1441. She was later rebuilt for use by Christopher Columbus.

Prompt: What were the names of the ships Christopher Columbus sailed on his maiden voyage to the New World?

Answer: Santa Clara (Nina), Pinta, Santa Maria


Context: Constitution of the United States |  multiple occasions since 1789. However, for nearly 20% of U.S. history, there has been no vice president in office who can assume the presidency. The Twenty-seventh Amendment (1992) prevents members of Congress from granting themselves pay raises during the current session. Rather, any raises that are adopted must take effect during the next session of Congress. Its proponents believed that Federal legislators would be more likely to be cautious about increasing congressional pay if they have no personal stake in the vote. Article One, section 6, Clause 1 has been affected by this amendment, which remained pending for over two centuries as it contained no time limit for ratification.

Prompt: Waiting over 200 years to finally be ratified, the 27th amendment to the US constitution states that congressional pay raises cannot take effect until what?

Answer: The next term of Representatives has begun


Context: Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing Company |  led the industry in the use of network television advertising in the early 1950s, with the Peter Paul Pixies singing that Mounds and Almond Joys were “Indescribably Delicious”, a slogan coined for a contest in 1955 by Leon Weiss of Gary, Indiana, who won $10. The company went on to become the first candy manufacturer to use full-color TV commercials. In 1972, the company introduced a candy bar named for what it did not include rather than what it did, the 15-cent (Peanut Butter with) No Jelly bar, also called the Sidekick bar. In 1977, they changed the name to the 20-cent Peanut

Prompt: Introduced in the US in 1967, what candy advertises itself with the slogan "It's a juicy contradiction"?

Answer: Starbust


Context: Hotpants | " Hotpants can also be part of a uniform worn by cheerleaders (as made popular by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders) and performers, or required wear in certain service industries (such as the Hooters restaurant chain). Southwest Airlines became notorious for the hotpants uniform they supplied for their stewardesses (nicknamed ""Love Birds"") in 1971, as featured in an ad campaign with the slogan ""Someone Else Up There Who Loves You."" The tangerine-coloured uniforms (designed by Juanice Gunn Muse, the wife of M. Lamar Muse, the Southwest Airlines president) were worn by girls who were chosen for their good looks and friendliness. Lamar Muse boasted that having beautiful attendants in hotpants ensured that male passengers would fight to "

Prompt: Popular for their chicken wings and the skimpy attire of their wait staff, what food chain operated a now-defunct airline from 2003 until 2006?

Answer: Hooter's


Context: Drury Lane | " of the house itself, which had been progressively demolished, were finally cleared in 1809. By this time, Drury Lane had become one of the worst slums in London, dominated by prostitution and gin palaces. The area was eventually cleared to make way for the developments of Kingsway and Aldwych. The Muffin Man resided on Drury Lane, according to the famous nursery rhyme. The term ""Drury Lane"" is often used to refer to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which has in different incarnations been located in the street since the 17th century, even though today the main entrance is on Catherine Street. Also in Drury Lane is the Gillian Lynne Theatre. 173 Drury Lane was the location of the first J Sainsbury store. The store was opened in 1869 and the company is now one of the UK's largest retailers."

Prompt: According to the nursery rhyme, who lives on Drury Lane?

Answer: Muffin Man


Prompt: Name the ingredients that make up that classic American favorite, the Big Mac

Answer: Big Mac Sauce


Context: Silver | " Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European h₂erǵ: ""shiny"" or ""white"") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form (""native silver""), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite. Most silver is produced as a byproduct of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining. Silver has long been valued as a precious metal. Silver metal is used in many bullion coins, sometimes alongside gold: while it is more abundant than gold, it is much less abundant as a native "

Prompt: From the Latin for argentum, which element, with an atomic number of 47, uses the symbol Ag?

Answer: ATC code D08AL30