Context: House of Grey | " Lady Jane Grey (c. 1537-1554) ""the Nine Days' Queen"" was the daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Queen of England and Ireland. Lady Jane was the great-granddaughter of King Henry VII through his daughter Mary Tudor, Queen of France. Due to this and her avowed Protestantism, King Edward VI nominated Lady Jane as his successor to the Crown. She thus became de facto Queen of England and Ireland on 10 July 1553, serving until her deposition by Roman Catholic rivals on 19 July 1553."

Prompt: Lady Jane Grey was the great grand-daughter of which English king?

Answer: Solomon of England


Context: Mary Surratt |  Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt (1820 or May 1823 – July 7, 1865) was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., in 1865 who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged and became the first woman executed by the US federal government. She maintained her innocence until her death, and the case against her was and is controversial. Surratt was the mother of John Surratt, who was later tried, but due to statute of limitations, was not convicted. Born in Maryland in the 1820s, Surratt converted to Catholicism at a young age and remained a practicing Catholic for the rest of her life. She wed John Harrison Surratt in 1840

Prompt: Mary Surratt was executed having been found guilty of the conspiracy to assassinate who?

Answer: Abaraham lincoln


Context: Highgrove House |  Highgrove House is in Doughton, near Tetbury in the county of Gloucestershire in South West England. Gatcombe Park, the country residence of the Prince of Wales's sister, Anne, Princess Royal, is six miles away, between the villages of Minchinhampton and Avening. In addition, the Prince of Wales's cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, bought nearby Nether Lypiatt Manor shortly after the duchy purchased Highgrove, although he sold it in 2006. As the country residence of the heir to the throne, Highgrove House is well protected by security. The house is one of several designated sites proscribed under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 that are protected by law from criminal trespass, a high stone wall surrounds the estate, and in 1983 the duchy and the chief constable of Gloucestershire supported the moving, for security reasons, of two public footpaths that ran close to the house. Several people have been arrested near Highgrove since the Prince of Wales's occupation, including two French journalists and a photographer from The Sun. A 1.5 nautical mile aerial exclusion zone for civilian aircraft and microlights was imposed over Highgrove in 1991.

Prompt: In which county is Highgrove House the residence of the Prince of Wales?

Answer: Gloucestershire, England


Context: Wales | " was known of him after 1413. Henry Tudor (born in Wales in 1457) seized the throne of England from Richard III in 1485, uniting England and Wales under one royal house. The last remnants of Celtic-tradition Welsh law were abolished and replaced by English law by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 during the reign of Henry VII's son, Henry VIII. In the legal jurisdiction of England and Wales, Wales became unified with the kingdom of England; the ""Principality of Wales"" began to refer to the whole country, though it remained a ""principality"" only in a ceremonial sense. The Marcher Lordships were abolished, and Wales began electing members of the Westminster parliament."

Prompt: Which king, born in 1457, was the last king of England to be born in Wales?

Answer: Hendrik VII


Context: Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds |  Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds is a book by Australian palaeontologist John A. Long and Peter Schouten connecting feathered dinosaurs with the origin of birds. It was published in 2008 by CSIRO Press (Melbourne) and Oxford University Press. From the ISBN numbers, they appear to be separate printings. There is a previous, different, book with the same title. It is by Thom and Laurie Holmes, and published by Enslow in 2002, ISBN: 0-7660-1454-1.

Prompt: Who wrote the novel The Thom Birds?

Answer: Colleen McCollough


Context: Ferrybridge |  Geologically, Ferrybridge and Knottingley are located on rich soil, over a bed of Magnesian Limestone. The area is close to junctions of the M62 and A1(M) motorways; as well as junctions on the rail network, including northward to York, south to Pontefract (and Rotherham), west to both Wakefield and Leeds, east to Goole and south-east to the East Coast Main Line; the River Aire meets the Aire and Calder navigation close to the east of the town. The area is famous for the Ferrybridge power stations and the M62 services which offers a Burger King, an M&S Simply Food, a Cotton Traders, a WH Smiths, a Greggs, and a Travelodge. Ferrybridge Power Station to the north dominates the skyline around the village.

Prompt: Ferrybridge Services are located on which UK motorway?

Answer: M62


Context: Life of Pi | " Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor ""Pi"" Patel, an Indian Tamil boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger which raises questions about the nature of reality and how it is perceived and told. The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. It was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. "

Prompt: Who wrote the novel The Life of Pi?

Answer: Yenn Martel


Context: The Flying Pickets | " The Flying Pickets are a British a cappella vocal group who had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of Yazoo's track ""Only You""."

Prompt: Which group had a UK No.1 hit in 1983 with a cover version of Yazoo's Only You?

Answer: Red Stripe (Flying Pickets)


Context: Leporidae | " Leporidae is the family of rabbits and hares, containing over 60 species of extant mammals in all. The Latin word Leporidae means ""those that resemble lepus"" (hare). Together with the pikas, the Leporidae constitute the mammalian order Lagomorpha. Leporidae differ from pikas in that they have short, furry tails and elongated ears and hind legs. The common name ""rabbit"" usually applies to all genera in the family except Lepus, while members of Lepus (almost half the species) usually are called hares. Like most common names however, the distinction does not match current taxonomy completely; jackrabbits are members of Lepus, and members of the genera Pronolagus and Caprolagus sometimes are called hares. Various countries across all continents except Antarctica, Zealandia and Australia have indigenous species of Leporidae. Furthermore, rabbits, most significantly the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, also have been introduced to most of Oceania and to many other islands, where they pose serious ecological and commercial threats."

Prompt: The adjective leporine relates to which animal?

Answer: Leveret


Context: List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II | Airspeed Horsa (RAF, Army Air Corps) ; General Aircraft Hamilcar (RAF, Army Air Corps) ; General Aircraft Hotspur (RAF, Army Air Corps) training glider ; Slingsby Hengist (RAF) ; Waco Hadrian (RAF, Army Air Corps)

Prompt: In World War II, what were Horsas and Hamilcars?

Answer: Glider (disambiguation)


Context: 10 Things I Hate About You |  10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th-century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. In the story, new student Cameron (Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with Bianca (Oleynik) and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick (Ledger) to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Kat (Stiles). The film is titled after a

Prompt: The 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles is a modern version of which Shakespeare play?

Answer: Hortensio


Context: Richard III of England |   After his death in battle in 1485, Richard III's body was buried in Greyfriars Church in Leicester. Following the discoveries of Richard's remains in 2012, it was decided that they should be reburied at Leicester Cathedral, despite feelings in some quarters that he should have been reburied in York Minster. His remains were carried in procession to the cathedral on 22 March 2015, and reburied on 26 March 2015 at a religious re-burial service at which both Tim Stevens, the Bishop of Leicester, and Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated. The British royal family was represented by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Countess

Prompt: Which King of England is buried in Gloucester Cathedral?

Answer: Edward II, King of the English


Context: Casa Rosada | " The Casa Rosada is the office of the President of Argentina. The palatial mansion is known officially as Casa de Gobierno (""House of Government"" or ""Government House""). Normally, the President lives at the Quinta de Olivos, the official residence of the President of Argentina, which is located in Olivos, Greater Buenos Aires. The characteristic color of the Casa Rosada is baby pink, and is considered one of the most emblematic buildings in Buenos Aires. The building also houses a museum, which contains objects relating to former presidents of Argentina. It has been declared a National Historic Monument of Argentina."

Prompt: The office of the President of which South American country is La Casa Rosada (The Pink House)?

Answer: Arxintina


Context: QI | " only regular panellist. Root commissioned a pilot and a further 16 episodes after that, although budget limitations reduced the first series to 12 episodes. In October 2015, it was announced that Fry would be stepping down as host after Series M and would be replaced by Sandi Toksvig. Fry described his position on QI as ""one of the best jobs on television"", but that ""it was time to move on"". According to Alan Davies, Fry quit because the BBC cut the budget, so that three shows had to be recorded on the same day. ""For budget reasons, they ended up making "

Prompt: Who has been announced as the next presenter of QI?

Answer: SANDI TOKSVIG


Context: Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx |  Lady Wilson died on 6 June 2018 of a stroke, at St Thomas' Hospital in London (aged 102), having outlived her husband by 23 years. The longest-lived spouse of a British prime minister, she was the first to live beyond the age of 100 years. A private service followed by cremation took place on mainland Britain, and her ashes were buried with her husband at Old Town Churchyard in St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.

Prompt: What is the surname of Mary, still alive aged 99, the longest lived Prime Minister's spouse?

Answer: A.N. Wilson


Context: Hamlet on screen |  film based on Tom Stoppard’s stage play. ; Tom Stoppard director ; Gary Oldman as Rozencrantz (or Guildenstern) ; Tim Roth as Guildenstern (or Rozencrantz) ; Richard Dreyfuss as the Player King ; Renaissance Man (USA, 1994) is the story of an unemployed advertising executive teaching Hamlet to a group of underachieving trainee soldiers. ; Penny Marshall director ; Danny DeVito as Bill ; The Lion King (USA, 1994) Disney’s animated adaptation of the Hamlet story. ; Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff directors ; Matthew Broderick as the voice of Simba (the Hamlet character) ; James Earl Jones as the voice of Mufasa (the Old Hamlet character) ;

Prompt: The storyline of which 1994 Disney animated film is based on the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet?

Answer: THE LION KING


Context: History of the periodic table |  In 1913, amateur Dutch physicist Antonius van den Broek was the first to propose that the atomic number (nuclear charge) determined the placement of elements in the periodic table. He correctly determined the atomic number of all elements up to atomic number 50 (tin), though he made several errors with heavier elements. However, Van den Broek did not have any method to experimentally verify the atomic numbers of elements; thus, they were still believed to be a consequence of atomic weight, which remained in use in ordering elements. Moseley was determined to test Van den Broek's hypothesis. After a year of investigation of the Fraunhofer lines of various elements, he found

Prompt: With atomic number 50 which element in the periodic table has the shortest name?

Answer: TINs


Context: Robin Ellis |  Anthony Robin Ellis (born 8 January 1942) is a British actor best known for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in 29 episodes of the BBC classic series Poldark, adapted from a series of books by the British author Winston Graham. He also appeared in Fawlty Towers, Cluedo, The Good Soldier (an adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel), Elizabeth R (playing Essex), The Moonstone, Bel Ami, Sense and Sensibility (which also featured Clive Francis), The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, She Loves Me (in which he sings) and Blue Remembered Hills (written by Dennis Potter). In 2015–17 and 2019 he appeared in Poldark as Reverend Halse.

Prompt: Which actor played the part of Ross Poldark in the BBC's mid 1970's television series?

Answer: Robin Ellis


Context: Mascarene Islands |  The Mascarene Islands (, Mascareignes) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Their name derives from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, who first visited them in April 1512. The islands share a common geologic origin in the volcanism of the Réunion hotspot beneath the Mascarene Plateau and form a distinct ecoregion with a unique flora and fauna.

Prompt: In which body of water are the Mascarene Islands?

Answer: India Ocean


Context: Frenchman's Creek (novel) |  Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II, it tells the story of a love affair between an impulsive English lady, Dona, Lady St. Columb, and a French pirate, Jean-Benoit Aubéry.

Prompt: Daphne Du Maurier's 1941 novel Frenchman's Creek is set during the reign of which English Monarch?

Answer: CHARLES 2nd


Context: David Bowie discography |  released his final album, Blackstar on 8 January 2016, his 69th birthday and two days before his death on 10 January. The album debuted at number one in the UK and became Bowie's first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 in the US and went gold. In 2012, Bowie was ranked ninth best selling singles artist in United Kingdom with 10.6 million singles sold. As of January 2016, Bowie has sold 12.09 million singles in Britain. In a period of 24 months since his death 5 million records were sold in UK, 3.1 million singles and 2 million albums.

Prompt: What was the name of David Bowie's final album released two days before his death?

Answer: BLACKSTAR


Context: Shirley Temple |  United States Ambassador to Ghana (December 6, 1974 – July 13, 1976) by President Gerald R. Ford. She was appointed first female Chief of Protocol of the United States (July 1, 1976 – January 21, 1977), and in charge of arrangements for President Jimmy Carter's inauguration and inaugural ball. She served as the United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (August 23, 1989 – July 12, 1992), having been appointed by President George H. W. Bush, and was the first and only woman in this job. Temple bore witness to two crucial moments in the history of Czechoslovakia's fight against communism. She was in Prague in August 1968, as

Prompt: Shirley Temple served as US Ambassador to which African country from 1974 – 1976?

Answer: Ghana


Context: National Golf Links of America | "The 2nd hole, named ""Sahara"", is a par four modeled after the 3rd hole at Royal St. George. ; The 3rd hole, named ""Alps"", is a par four that requires a blind approach shot to the green, similar to the 17th hole at Prestwick. ; The 4th hole, named ""Redan"", is a par three that copied the 15th hole at North Berwick, the site of the original Redan hole. ; The 7th hole, named ""St. Andrews"", is a par five that was designed based on the 17th hole (Road Hole) at St. Andrews. ; The 8th hole, named ""Bottle"", is a par four that resembles the 12th hole at Sunningdale Golf Club. ; The 13th hole, named ""Eden"", is a par three that replicates the 11th hole at St. Andrews. National Golf Links of America is laid out over 250 acre. "

Prompt: "The last 3 holes of which golf course are named ""Redbud"", ""Nandina"" and ""Hotly""?"

Answer: Augusta


Context: List of renamed places in Namibia |  Since 1990, there have been a small number of places in Namibia which have been renamed, mainly for political, cultural, or linguistic reasons. Some names have been changed to remove colonial or apartheid references, often reverting to their original native language names. Other names (such as street names in Windhoek) have been renamed after foreign leaders or famous Namibians. Overall, Namibia has had fewer renamed places than neighbouring South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Prompt: What was the name of the country prior to being renamed as Namibia?

Answer: Southwest Africa


Context: Gulf of Carpentaria |  The Gulf of Carpentaria (-14°N, 139°W) is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the eastern Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea). The northern boundary is generally defined as a line from Slade Point, Queensland (the northwestern corner of Cape York Peninsula) in the northeast, to Cape Arnhem on the Gove Peninsula, Northern Territory (the easternmost point of Arnhem Land) in the west. At its mouth, the Gulf is 590 km wide, and further south, 675 km. The north-south length exceeds 700 km.

Prompt: The Gulf of Carpentaria is an inlet on the north coast of which country?

Answer: Australia (Commonwealth realm)


Context: Bill Bergson | " The character Mikael Blomkvist in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy is dubbed ""Kalle Blomkvist"" by the press to mock him in his investigative reporting. Lisbeth Salander's name appears to be taken from Eva-Lotta Lisander, and is modeled in most other respect on Lindgren's other famous character, Pippi Longstocking. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, three of Lindgren's books are mentioned: The Children of Noisy Village, Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue (although in the book the translation was Kalle Blomkvist and Rasmus from the original Kalle Blomkvist och Rasmus), and Pippi Longstocking. The relation between Astrid Lindgren and, at least, the first part of the Trilogy, can be taken farther when the fact that, in it, a cat is named 'Tjorven', is considered. The name comes from the Swedish television series Vi på Saltkråkan based on a script by Astrid Lindgren and not originally a book. Apart from this, the TV show dates from the early sixties, around the time when, in Stieg Larsson's novel, one of the crucial events which shapes the story takes place."

Prompt: "Who wrote the trilogy of books ""The Millennium Trilogy"" featuring the character Lisbeth Salander?"

Answer: Stieg Larsen


Context: Wild Atlantic Way | County Donegal ; County Donegal to County Mayo ; County Mayo to County Clare ; County Clare to County Kerry ; County Kerry to County Cork  The Wild Atlantic Way (Slí an Atlantaigh Fhiáin) is a tourism trail on the west coast, and on parts of the north and south coasts, of Ireland. The 2,500 km (1,553 mile) driving route passes through nine counties and three provinces, stretching from County Donegal's Inishowen Peninsula in Ulster to Kinsale, County Cork, in Munster, on the Celtic Sea coast. The route is broken down into five sections: Along the route there are 157 discovery points, 1,000 attractions and more than 2,500 activities. The route was officially launched in 2014 by Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring, T.D.

Prompt: What is the name of the 2500km long tourism trail on the west coast of Ireland?

Answer: Wild Atlantic Way


Context: Iain Duncan Smith's tenure as Work and Pensions Secretary |  Iain Duncan Smith served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2010 to 2016. A member and previous leader of the Conservative Party, Duncan Smith was appointed to the cabinet by Prime Minister David Cameron following the 2010 general election and the formation of the coalition government between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. He was reappointed after the Conservatives won a majority in the 2015 general election but resigned in March 2016 in opposition to disability benefit cuts. Under Duncan Smith, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rolled out Universal Credit and a new Work Programme, as well as implemented a real terms cut in benefits and increased the number of benefit eligibility tests being carried out. During his time as Work and Pensions Secretary, the DWP was criticised for rises in food poverty and people being forced to use foodbanks and he himself was criticised for breaking the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

Prompt: Who has been Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since May 2010?

Answer: Ian Duncan Smith


Context: Chichester Psalms |  Chichester Psalms is an extended choral composition in three movements by Leonard Bernstein for boy treble or countertenor, choir and orchestra. The text was arranged by the composer from the Book of Psalms in the original Hebrew. Part 1 uses Psalms 100 and 108, Part 2 uses 2 and 23, and Part 3 uses 131 and 133. Bernstein scored the work for a reduced orchestra, but also made a version for an even smaller ensemble of organ, one harp, and percussion. The work premiered at the Philharmonic Hall in New York City on 15 July 1965, conducted by the composer. That was followed by a performance at Chichester Cathedral as part of the festival, for which it was commissioned, on 31 July that year, conducted by John Birch.

Prompt: Who composed the 1965 choral work Chichester Psalms?

Answer: Ballets by Leonard Bernstein


Context: House of Loredan |  On March 29, 1516, by decree of Doge Leonardo Loredan, the Venetian Senate declared that if the Jews wanted to continue living in Venice, they had to stay on a small island surrounded by canals in the northern part of the city. By this decision, the first Jewish ghetto in the world was created in the Cannaregio district of Venice, thus starting centuries of segregation which would spread across Europe, and the Venetian word ghèto soon became a popular term to describe isolated urban communities of ethnic minorities. Scholars believe that the Loredan government which had established the Ghetto did so because they believed that the Jews could not be integrated with the city's mainly Roman Catholic

Prompt: In which European city was the world's first ghetto?

Answer: Sestiere (Venice)


Context: 2020 Summer Olympics |  The 2020 Summer Olympics (2020年夏季オリンピック), officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad (第三十二回オリンピック競技大会) and branded as Tokyo 2020 (東京2020), was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 7 September 2013. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the event was postponed to 2021 in March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the first such instance in the history of the Olympic Games (previous

Prompt: In which city will the 2020 Summer Olympics be held?

Answer: 東京都


Context: Pomegranate | "  The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pōmum ""apple"" and grānātum ""seeded"". Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as ""apple of Grenada""—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons. This is a folk etymology, confusing the Latin granatus with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from Arabic. Garnet derives from Old French grenat by metathesis, from Medieval Latin granatum as used in a different meaning ""of a dark red color"". This derivation may have originated from pomum granatum, describing the color of pomegranate pulp, or from granum, referring to ""red dye, cochineal"". The French term for pomegranate, grenade, has given its name to the military grenade."

Prompt: Granadilla is an alternative name for which fruit? NB it is not the pomegranate!

Answer: Maracuya


Context: Goodbye, Mr. Chips |  The novella tells the story of a beloved school teacher, Mr Chipping, and his long tenure at Brookfield School, a fictional minor British boys' public boarding school located in the fictional village of Brookfield in the Fenlands. Mr Chips, as the boys call him, is conventional in his beliefs and exercises firm discipline in the classroom. His views broaden, and his pedagogical manner loosens after he marries Katherine, a young woman whom he meets on holiday in the Lake District. Katherine charms the Brookfield teachers and headmaster and quickly wins the favour of Brookfield's pupils. Their marriage is brief. She dies in childbirth and he never remarries or has another romantic interest. One of the themes of

Prompt: In a 1934 novella which title character taught at Brookfield School?

Answer: Goodbye, Mr. Chips


Context: Chris Grayling | " he was made Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, a post he held until January 2009 when he became Shadow Home Secretary. Grayling became known as a national politician through his ""attack dog"" pressure on leading Labour politicians. He was heavily involved in the questioning of David Blunkett, the then Work and Pensions Secretary, over his business affairs which led to Blunkett's resignation in 2005. Grayling also challenged Tony Blair and his wife Cherie over the money they made from lectures while Blair was Prime Minister. He also challenged minister Stephen Byers over his handling of the Railtrack collapse."

Prompt: Which Government post is held by Chris Grayling?

Answer: Leader of the House of Commons


Context: X&Y |  X&Y is the third studio album by the British rock band Coldplay. It was released on 6 June 2005 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom, and a day later by Capitol Records in the United States. The album was produced by Coldplay and producer Danton Supple. It is noted for its troubled and urgent development, with producer Ken Nelson having originally been tasked with producing much of the album; however, many songs written during his sessions were discarded owing to the band's dissatisfaction with them. The album's cover art is a combination of colours and blocks, which is a representation of the

Prompt: Which group released their third studio album X+Y in 2005?

Answer: Coldpaly


Context: Avocado |  The avocado (Persea americana), a tree likely originating from south-central Mexico, is classified as a member of the flowering plant family Lauraceae. The fruit of the plant, also called an avocado (or avocado pear or alligator pear), is botanically a large berry containing a single large seed. Avocado trees are partially self-pollinating, and are often propagated through grafting to maintain predictable fruit quality and quantity. Avocados are cultivated in tropical and Mediterranean climates of many countries, with Mexico as the leading producer of avocados in 2019, supplying 32% of the world total. The fruit of domestic varieties has a buttery flesh when ripe. Depending on the variety, avocados have green, brown, purplish, or black skin when ripe, and may be pear-shaped, egg-shaped, or spherical. Commercially, the fruits are picked while immature, and ripened after harvesting.

Prompt: Which fruit is also known as the alligator pear?

Answer: Avocado pear


Context: Table tennis |  Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, the rules are generally as follows: players must allow a ball played toward them to bounce once on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side at least once. A point is scored when a player fails to return

Prompt: Which sport had previously been known as Whiff Whaff and Gossima?

Answer: Ping-pang Ch'iu


Context: 1968 United States presidential election |  The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, Alabama Governor George Wallace. Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson had been the early front-runner for the Democratic Party's nomination, but he withdrew from the race after only narrowly winning the New Hampshire primary. Eugene McCarthy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Humphrey emerged as the three major candidates in the Democratic primaries, until Kennedy was assassinated. Humphrey won the nomination, sparking numerous anti-war protests.

Prompt: Which Democrat candidate did Richard Nixon defeat in the 1968 Presidential Election?

Answer: Herbert Humphrey


Context: 2014 in Wales | 27 December – The Welsh Grand National at Chepstow Racecourse is won by Emperor's Choice, trained by Venetia Williams and ridden by Aidan Coleman.

Prompt: On which racecourse is the Welsh Grand National run each December?

Answer: Chepstowe


Context: Jefferson Starship |  lead vocalist, Rachel Rose, was phased in to replace the departing Cathy Richardson; sharing the stage with one-time Jefferson Starship vocalist Darby Gould until Richardson announced her return to the band in March 2016. The band has featured guest musicians such as Balin, Gould, Gorman, Jeff Pevar, Tony Morley, Richard Newman, and former Jefferson Starship bassist and keyboardist Pete Sears. Paul Kantner died from multiple organ failure and septic shock at the age of 74 on January 28, 2016. Signe Toly Anderson, a member of both the initial Jefferson Airplane lineup and the revived Jefferson Starship in the 1990s, also died on January 28, 2016 at age 74.

Prompt: Who was the main female singer with the groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship?

Answer: Grace Slick


Context: Alan Minter |  Because Minter was the 1971 Amateur Boxing Association of England Middleweight Champion, he was selected to box for UK in the Olympics 1972. He won a bronze medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in the light-middleweight classification, losing in the semifinal to Dieter Kottysch of West Germany by a 3-2 marginal decision which was hotly disputed. Kottysch went on to win the gold medal.

Prompt: Alan Minter was World boxing champion at which weight?

Answer: Middle-weight


Context: List of fictional regiments of the British Army | " NAAFI, 3rd Regular Army Deserters, Zsa Zsa Gabor's 3rd Regular Husbands, 4th Dynasties, 4th Mudguards, Roper's Light Horse, 3rd Filthmuck Fusiliers, 3rd Bombay Irish, and 56th Heavy Underwater Artillery. Spike Milligan served in the 56th Heavy Regiment, RA. ; Various regiments with which Major Bloodnok (played by Peter Sellers of The Goon Show) claimed to have served, or which were otherwise mentioned in the Goon Show. ; 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment (""The Devils in Skirts"") ; A Highland Regiment portrayed in the 1968 film Carry On up the Khyber ; 4th Musketeers ; From the 1967 comedy film ""How I Won "

Prompt: Which 1968 film featured the 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment of soldiers?

Answer: 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment


Context: Davros |  Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was created by screenwriter Terry Nation, originally for the 1975 serial Genesis of the Daleks. Davros is a major enemy of the series' protagonist, the Doctor, and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks. Davros is a genius who has mastered many areas of science, but also a megalomaniac who believes that through his creations he can become the supreme being and ruler of the Universe. The character has been compared to the infamous dictator Adolf Hitler several times, including by the actor Terry Molloy, while Julian Bleach defined him as a cross between Hitler and the renowned scientist Stephen Hawking. Davros is from the planet Skaro, whose people, the Kaleds, were engaged in a bitter thousand-year war of attrition with their enemies, the Thals. He is horribly

Prompt: In the TV series Doctor Who, who was the creator of the Daleks and arch enemy of the Doctor?

Answer: Davros


Context: Petropedetes palmipes |  Adult males measure 40 - 58 mm and adult females 38 - 55 mm in snout–urostyle length. The body is robust. The snout is relatively more pointed than in other Petropedetes. The tympanum is very small and indistinct whereas the supratympanic fold is distinct. The fingers are slender and have typically T-shaped tips. The fingers have no webbing whereas the toes are fully webbed. The dorsum is uniformly dark green and black with some tiny pale spots. Adults can be glossy black and difficult to see among wet stones. The upper hinds limbs have faint crossbars. The throat is whitish or dark marbled. The tadpoles are flat-bodied with large eyes and a long, pointed tail. They are grey, turning darker with age, but translucent ventrally. The largest tadpoles are 35 mm in total length.

Prompt: What is the distinguishing feature of an animal described as 'palmiped'?

Answer: Totipalmation


Context: Gatling gun | " The Gatling gun was first used in warfare during the American Civil War. Twelve of the guns were purchased personally by Union commanders and used in the trenches during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864—April 1865). Eight other Gatling guns were fitted on gunboats. The gun was not accepted by the American Army until 1866 when a sales representative of the manufacturing company demonstrated it in combat. On July 17, 1863, Gatling guns were purportedly used to overawe New York anti-draft rioters. Two were brought by a Pennsylvania National Guard unit from Philadelphia to use against strikers in Pittsburgh. Gatling guns were famously not used at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as ""Custer's Last Stand"", when Gen. George Armstrong Custer chose not to bring Gatling Guns with his main force. "

Prompt: In which war was the Gatling gun first used?

Answer: AmericanCivil War


Context: 1938 FA Cup Final | " When we were preparing for Wembley, Tommy Smith, who was the Preston captain in 1938, came to the training ground at Melwood and showed the ball to his namesake, Tommy Smith, the Liverpool captain in 1971."" This was the first FA Cup final to be broadcast on television. It was a repeat of the 1922 FA Cup Final. This time the scores were reversed but once again a penalty was needed to separate the two sides. Three of the players who participated in the final (Andy Beattie & Bill Shankly of Preston and Eddie Boot of Huddersfield) would all manage Huddersfield within 20 years of this final. The last surviving member of the winning team was Bobby Beattie, who died in September 2002 at the age of 86."

Prompt: To within a year either side, in which year was the complete English FA Cup Final first shown live on television?

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-eight


Context: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Monet, Paris) |  Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (English: Luncheon on the Grass) is an 1865–1866 oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet, produced in response to the 1863 work of the same title by Édouard Manet. It remained unfinished, but two large fragments are now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, whilst a smaller 1866–1867 version is now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Monet included the artist Gustave Courbet in the painting.

Prompt: Who painted 'Le dejeuner sur I'herbe' in 1863?

Answer: Eduard Manet


Context: Old Master | Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768), famous for vedutas of Venice ; Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691–1765) ; Francesco Zuccarelli (Italian, 1702–1789), known for Arcadian landscapes ; Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793), view painter of Venice School ; Giambattista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778) ; Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1720–1780), Canaletto's nephew depicting Warsaw

Prompt: Canaletto is famous for his landscapes of Venice and which other city?

Answer: London (UK)


Context: Oktoberfest | " Kronprinz Ludwig (1786–1868), later King Ludwig I (reign: 1825–1848), married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on 12 October 1810. The citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the royal event. The fields were named Theresienwiese (""Theresa's Meadow"") in honour of the Crown Princess, and have kept that name ever since, although the locals have abbreviated the name simply to Wiesn. Horse races, in the tradition of the 15th-century Scharlachrennen (Scarlet Race at Karlstor), were held on 18 October to honor the newlyweds. It is widely believed that Andreas Michael Dall'Armi, a Major in the National Guard, proposed the idea. "

Prompt: The 1810 betrothal of Princess Theresa to Crown Prince Ludwig not only resulted in the meadow where the event took place to be named Theresienwiese but also started what?

Answer: Oktoberfest


Context: Foot binding |  that Consort Pan ever bound her feet. The general view is that the practice is likely to have originated in the time of the 10th-century Emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang, just before the Song dynasty. Li Yu created a 6 ft golden lotus decorated with precious stones and pearls, and asked his concubine, Yao Niang (窅娘), to bind her feet in white silk into the shape of the crescent moon and perform a dance on the points of her feet on the lotus. Yao Niang's dance was said to be so graceful that others sought to imitate her. The binding of feet was then replicated by other upper-class women, and the

Prompt: What distinctive Chinese practice (no longer in vogue) seemingly has its origins in a Sung dynasty prince asking his concubine to perform a toe dance after undergoing this procedure?

Answer: Feet-binding


Context: Carnaval de Vejigantes | Wednesday: King Momo Entrance Parade Thursday: Carnival's Vejigantes Dance Friday: Crowning of the Carnival Adult and Child Queens Saturday: Grand Parade Sunday: Burial of the Sardine The Carnaval usually starts on a Wednesday and the events are typically as follows.

Prompt: The crowning of King Momo is an event that kicks off what festivities?

Answer: Carnivals, particularly in Latin America


Context: Carhenge |   Carhenge is a replica of England's Stonehenge located near the city of Alliance, Nebraska, in the High Plains region of the United States. Instead of being built with large standing stones, as is the case with the original Stonehenge, Carhenge is formed from vintage American automobiles, all covered with gray spray paint. Built by Jim Reinders, it was dedicated at the June 1987 summer solstice. In 2006, a visitor center was constructed to serve the site.

Prompt: A tourist attraction near Alliance, Nebraska created by Jim Reinders using vintage cars is styled after what monument?

Answer: Giant's Dance


Context: Naadam | " Naadam (Наадам, classical Mongolian: Naɣadum,, literally ""games"") is a traditional festival in Mongolia. The festival is also locally termed ""eriin gurvan naadam"" (эрийн гурван наадам), ""the three games of men"". The games are Mongolian wrestling, horse racing, and archery, and are held throughout the country during midsummer. Women have started participating in the archery and girls in the horse-racing games, but not in Mongolian wrestling. In 2010, Naadam was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO."

Prompt: The festival of Naadam that features wrestling, archery and horse-racing is an annual event of what land-locked country?

Answer: Mongolia Proper


Context: Fairytale Forest | " Hansel and Gretel was designed by Anton Pieck and presented to the public on June 20, 1955. The scene consists of the witch's house with candy on the walls, pancakes as roofing tiles and a cake on top; and in the garden, a fountain of red lemonade. Gretel sits by the cage in which Hansel is held in the garden. The witch's face can be seen through a little window in the front door. In the late seventies, the wood figures were replaced by moving animatronics. An interactive element was added by Peter Reijnders: when one moves the front gate, a crow on the roof caws, smoke comes out of the chimney, a black cat with yellow eyes comes out of a hole in the wall and the witch (voiced by Peter Reijnder's daughter) says ""Knibbel, knabbel, knuisje, wie knabbelt aan mijn huisje?"" (Dutch translation of ""Nibble, nibble, mousekin, who's nibbling at my housekin?""). In 2016, the animatronics of Hansel and Gretel were replaced by more realistic versions of them."

Prompt: What aspect of the folktale Hansel and Gretel has been adapted in user-interface design to help users navigate among various screens?

Answer: Breaded


Context: Ailuromancy | " Ailuromancy or aeluromancy (from Greek αἴλουρος aílouros meaning ""cat""), also known as felidomancy, is a form of theriomancy. It is divination using cats' movements or jumps to predict future events, especially the weather. One of the most common methods of ailuromancy utilizes the movements and behaviours of a cat to predict upcoming weather patterns. For example, if the cat turns its tail to a fire or any substituting heat source, it foretells a possible change in weather, particularly the coming of heavy rain or hard frost. Another example is if a cat curls up with its forehead touching the ground, it indicates that storms will happen in the near future."

Prompt: Catoptromancy is the term for predicting the future using what object? Who's the fairest of them all!

Answer: Handmirror


Context: Greek underworld | " Cerberus (Kerberos), or the ""Hell-Hound"", is Hades' massive multi-headed (usually three-headed) dog with some descriptions stating that it also has a snake-headed tail and snake heads on its back and as its mane. Born from Echidna and Typhon, Cerberus guards the gate that serves as the entrance of the underworld. Cerberus' duty is to prevent dead people from leaving the underworld. Heracles once borrowed Cerberus as the final part of the Labours of Heracles. Orpheus once soothed it to sleep with his music. According to the Suda, the ancient Greeks placed a honeycake (μελιτοῦττα) with the dead in order (for the dead) to give it to Cerberus."

Prompt: If Cerberus is to the Greek Underworld, the dog Garmr is to what location?

Answer: Hel (Norse myth)


Context: Oil paint |  The paint tube was invented in 1841 by portrait painter John Goffe Rand, superseding pig bladders and glass syringes as the primary tool of paint transport. Artists, or their assistants, previously ground each pigment by hand, carefully mixing the binding oil in the proper proportions. Paints could now be produced in bulk and sold in tin tubes with a cap. The cap could be screwed back on and the paints preserved for future use, providing flexibility and efficiency to painting outdoors. The manufactured paints had a balanced consistency that the artist could thin with oil, turpentine, or other mediums. Paint in tubes also changed the way some artists approached painting. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir said, “Without tubes of paint, there would have been no impressionism.” For the impressionists, tubed paints offered an easily accessible variety of colors for their plein air palettes, motivating them to make spontaneous color choices.

Prompt: What 1841 invention of the art world that replaced the usage of pig bladders was called by Renoir as indispensable for Impressionism?

Answer: Paint tube


Context: Gucci Mane | " On March 22, 2013, the Atlanta Police Department issued a warrant for the arrest of Davis after he allegedly attacked a fan who was trying to take a photo with him. A soldier, ""James,"" claimed that Gucci Mane hit him with a bottle in the head while he was talking to a security guard about getting a photo with the rapper. He was treated at Grady Memorial Hospital and received 10 stitches. Four days later, a second man going by the initials T.J. claimed Gucci Mane punched him in the face when T. J. tried to shake his hand after a concert performance at Club Onyx in Philadelphia. In the early morning of March 27, "

Prompt: In March 2013, rapper Gucci Mane was arrested for attacking a man in a bar and a tabloid headlined the news as 'Rapper Mistook Man for a Ship.' What object did Mane use for his assault?

Answer: Champagne bottle!


Context: Solomon | " A magic ring called the ""Seal of Solomon"" was supposedly given to Solomon and gave him power over demons or Jinn. The magical symbol said to have been on the Seal of Solomon which made it efficacious is often considered to be the Star of David though this emblem (also known as the Shield of David) is known to have been associated with Judaism only as recently as the 11th century CE while the five pointed star (pentagram) can be found on jars and other artifacts from Jerusalem dating back to at least the 2nd and 4th centuries BCE and is more likely to have been the emblem found on the ring purportedly used by King Solomon to control the Jinn or demons. Asmodeus, king of demons, was one day, according to the "

Prompt: In legend, the Seal of Solomon possessed by King Solomon gave him the power to command demons and to do what else?

Answer: Talk to animals


Context: Cyclopes |  A possible origin for one-eyed Cyclopes was advanced by the palaeontologist Othenio Abel in 1914. Abel proposed that fossil skulls of Pleistocene dwarf elephants, commonly found in coastal caves of Italy and Greece, may have given rise to the Polyphemus story. Abel suggested that the large, central nasal cavity (for the trunk) in the skull might have been interpreted as a large single eye-socket. Cyclopia, a rare birth defect, can result in foetuses which have a single eye located in the middle of the forehead. But though the possibility has been raised of a link between this deformity and the myth of the one-eyed Cyclopes, in the case of humans with a single eye in the middle, the nose remains above it, rather than below, as in ancient Greek depictions. As noted above, Walter Burkert sees the possibility of the Hesiodic Cyclopes having ancient smith guilds as their basis.

Prompt: In 1914 a paleontologist suggested that what legend might have originated from Greeks interpreting the nasal cavity in the skull of prehistoric dwarf elephants as a large single eye-socket?

Answer: Steropes


Context: Robert J. Lang |  He has worked with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where a team is developing a powerful space telescope, with a 100 m (328 ft) lens in the form of a thin membrane. Lang was engaged by the team to develop a way to fit the tremendous lens, known as the Eyeglass, into a small rocket in such a way that the lens can be unfolded in space and will not suffer from any permanent marks or creases. Lang is the author or co-author of eight books and many articles on origami. Lang also designed the Google Doodle for Akira Yoshizawa's 101st birthday, which was used by Google on March 14, 2012.

Prompt: Akira Yoshizawa, to whom Google paid a tribute with a doodle of folded letters on March 14, 2012 is said to have elevated what craft into an art form?

Answer: Oragami


Context: Void (law) | " In law, void means of no legal effect. An action, document, or transaction which is void is of no legal effect whatsoever: an absolute nullity—the law treats it as if it had never existed or happened. The term void ab initio, which means ""to be treated as invalid from the outset,"" comes from adding the Latin phrase ab initio (from the beginning) as a qualifier. For example, in many jurisdictions where a person signs a contract under duress, that contract is treated as being void ab initio. The frequent combination ""null and void"" is a legal doublet. The term is frequently used in contradistinction to the term ""voidable"" and ""unenforceable""."

Prompt: What legal term, whose etymology comes from how editors traditionally indicated corrections to a written copy, means that a portion of contract is void but the other part is enforceable?

Answer: Blue pencil doctrine


Context: Full moon | "  The ""harvest moon"" and the ""hunter's moon"" are traditional names for the full moons in late summer and in the autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, usually in September and October, respectively. It is celebrated by festivities such as the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, which is on par the Chinese New Year in importance. The ""harvest moon"" (also known as the ""barley moon"" or ""full corn moon"") is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (22 or 23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks before or after that date. The ""hunter's moon"" is the full moon following it. The names are recorded from the early 18th century. The Oxford English Dictionary entry for ""harvest moon"" cites a 1706 reference, and for "

Prompt: What name given to an autumn full moon in the northern hemisphere alludes to the brightness of the night sky that aids the shooting of migrating birds?

Answer: Full Moon


Context: Order of La Pléiade | 1) Grand Cross (Grand-croix) ; 2) Grand Officer (Grand Officier) ; 3) Commander (Commandeur) ; 4) Officer (Officier) ; 5) Knight (Chevalier) There are five classes (in descending order of precedence):

Prompt: What decorative order is divided into the five following degrees? 1. Chevalier (Knight) 2. Officier (Officer) 3. Commandeur (Commander) 4. Grand Officier (Grand Officer) 5. Grand'Croix (Grand Cross)

Answer: Legion of Honor (the highest decoration in France)


Context: Seppuku | " The word jigai (自害) means ""suicide"" in Japanese. The usual modern word for suicide is jisatsu (自殺). Related words include jiketsu (自決), jijin (自尽) and jijin (自刃). In some popular western texts, such as martial arts magazines, the term is associated with suicide of samurai wives. The term was introduced into English by Lafcadio Hearn in his Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, an understanding which has since been translated into Japanese and Hearn seen through Japanese eyes. Joshua S. Mostow notes that Hearn misunderstood the term jigai to be the female equivalent of seppuku. Mostow's context is analysis of Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly and the original Cio-Cio San story by John Luther Long. Though both Long's story and Puccini's opera predate Hearn's use of the term jigai, the term has been used in relation to western Japonisme, which is the influence of Japanese culture on the western arts."

Prompt: What is the Japanese practice of 'jigai' that is the female equivalent of a more gory procedure prescribed for males?

Answer: Traditional method of ritual suicide


Context: Nepotism | " The term comes from Italian word nepotismo, which is based on Latin root nepos meaning nephew. Since the Middle Ages and until the late 17th century, some Catholic popes and bishops – who had taken vows of chastity and, therefore, usually had no legitimate offspring of their own – gave their nephews such positions of preference as were often accorded by fathers to sons. Several popes elevated nephews and other relatives to the cardinalate. Often, such appointments were a means of continuing a papal ""dynasty"". For instance, Pope Callixtus III, head of the Borgia family, made two of his nephews cardinals; one of them, "

Prompt: The medieval practice of appointing a cardinal who was a nephew of a pope gives us which English word that means bestowing favors to relatives/friends?

Answer: Nepotistical


Context: Hanumasagara |  The place has earned historical importance due to the presence of Venkateshwara Temple (Abhinava Tirupathi) at the hill top. It is believed that the god himself came here to please his devotee 'Sri Venkappayya Desai' based in a nearby village Yelabunchi. The Desai used to visit Tirupati annually and due to old age he could not visit Tirupati. Impressed by his devotion, Lord Venkatesh blessed in Desai's dream and promised to leave his footprint on the hanamasagar hill top. Similarly Lord Venkatesh came in Desai's dream again showing him the location of the idol which was being used as a washing stone in the Kushtagi

Prompt: The temple of the Hindu god Lord Venkateshwara in Tirupathi, India holds what distinction? You won't miss the crowds.

Answer: It is the second most visited religious center in the world, following the Vatican.


Context: Deerstalker |  A deerstalker is a type of cap that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking. Because of the cap's popular association with Sherlock Holmes, it has become stereotypical headgear for a detective, especially in comical drawings or cartoons along with farcical plays and films.

Prompt: Typically worn in rural areas while hunting, what type of hat became a stereotypical head wear of a detective because of its association with Sherlock Holmes?

Answer: Deer-stalkers


Context: Column | " A Caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means ""maidens of Karyai"", an ancient town of Peloponnese."

Prompt: What is the name given to a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar?

Answer: Caryatid(e)


Context: Skunk Works | " Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, beginning with the P-38 Lightning in 1939 and the P-80 Shooting Star in 1943. Skunk Works engineers subsequently developed the U-2, SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk, F-22 Raptor, and F-35 Lightning II, the latter being used in the air forces of several countries. The Skunk Works name was taken from the moonshine factory in the comic strip Li'l Abner. The designation ""skunk works"" or ""skunkworks"" is widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, with the task of working on advanced or secret projects."

Prompt: What generic name for any project for radical innovation was first used at Lockheed Martin and can be traced to the comic strip Li'l Abner in which it is the job that no one wants?

Answer: Skunkworks project


Context: Rochdale Principles |   The Rochdale Principles are a set of ideals for the operation of cooperatives. They were first set out in 1844 by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England and have formed the basis for the principles on which co-operatives around the world continue to operate. The implications of the Rochdale Principles are a focus of study in co-operative economics. The original Rochdale Principles were officially adopted by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) in 1937 as the Rochdale Principles of Co-operation. Updated versions of the principles were adopted by the ICA in 1966 as the Co-operative Principles and in 1995 as part of the Statement on the Co-operative Identity.

Prompt: What type of 'helpful' businesses operate on the basis of the Rochdale Principles that were formulated in 1844?

Answer: Co-operative enterprises


Context: Linoleum |  Walton was unhappy with Michael Nairn & Co's use of the name Linoleum and brought a lawsuit against them for trademark infringement. However, the term had not been trademarked, and he lost the suit, the court opining that even if the name had been registered as a trademark, it was by now so widely used that it had become generic, only 14 years after its invention. It is considered to be the first product name to become a generic term.

Prompt: What product invented by Frederick Walton in 1864 became so widely used and 'stepped on' that the name became generic just 14 years after its invention?

Answer: Lynolium


Context: Creative Circle |  Established in 1989 as 'The Big One', and known from 1996 to 2011 as 'the Platinum Award', the currently named Gold of Golds is given to the single best advertising creative idea of the year (the only exception being 2008, when it was felt advertising agency Fallon deserved the award, having produced both the Cadbury Gorilla commercial and the Skoda Fabia Cake commercial in the same year ).

Prompt: Named for a Greek muse and currently given by the Nielsen Company, what are the awards given to reward creative excellence in advertising and design?

Answer: CLIO Award


Context: Progressive Era | " stomach,"" as readers demanded and got the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. The journalists who specialized in exposing waste, corruption, and scandal operated at the state and local level, like Ray Stannard Baker, George Creel, and Brand Whitlock. Others such as Lincoln Steffens exposed political corruption in many large cities; Ida Tarbell is famed for her criticisms of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. In 1906, David Graham Phillips unleashed a blistering indictment of corruption in the U.S. Senate. Roosevelt gave these journalists their nickname when he complained they were not being helpful by raking up all the muck."

Prompt: The American journalist Ida Tarbell is known for her expose of the corrupt practices of which giant company? John D. Rockefeller probably hated her!

Answer: Bp-II


Context: Life After Beth |  Life After Beth is a 2014 American zombie comedy film written and directed by Jeff Baena. The film stars Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser, Matthew Gray Gubler, and John C. Reilly. The film premiered in competition at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2014, and was given a limited release on August 15, 2014. This was Garry Marshall's final film appearance.

Prompt: In the 2014 zombie comedy Life After Beth, a character takes offense when asked about zombies just because she is from what country?

Answer: Haitian Ancestry


Context: Ken Burns effect | " Burns has credited documentary filmmaker Jerome Liebling for teaching him how still photographs could be incorporated into documentary films. He has also cited the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary City of Gold, co-directed by Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, as a prior example of the technique. Winner of the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, City of Gold used animation camera techniques to slowly pan and zoom across archival still pictures of Canada's Klondike Gold Rush. America's television audience had seen extensive use of the technique in NBC's ""Meet Mr. Lincoln,"" first telecast 11 February 1959. This one-hour Abraham Lincoln documentary used period photographs, illustrations, artwork, "

Prompt: The camera technique of panning and zooming on still photographs often seen in documentaries has come to be known as the effect of what filmmaker?

Answer: Kenneth Lauren Burns


Context: 3 Türken und ein Baby |  3 Türken und ein Baby or 3 Türken & ein Baby (3 Turks and a baby) is a 2015 German comedy film, written and directed by Sinan Akkuş. Starring the German rapper Eko Fresh and the actors Kida Khodr Ramadan and Kostja Ullmann, the film tells the story of the three Yildiz brothers Celal, Sami and Mesut, who live under one roof and lead a chaotic bachelor life. That changes suddenly, when a little baby comes into their lives that they have to take care of. In 2015 3 Türken und ein Baby was nominated for the Civis Media Prize for Integration.

Prompt: What classic of world cinema tells the story of the Ekdahl family while focusing on two siblings?

Answer: Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander


Context: The Day the Clown Cried | " According to Richard Brody of The New Yorker, the film's grim portrayal of the holocaust ""was, at the very least, unusual and original"". In the 2016 documentary The Last Laugh, which explored the limits of humor regarding the Holocaust, comedian David Cross reflected Lewis was ""too ahead of his time. If he had waited 25 years, then he'd be bounding over those seats grabbing his Oscar"". Similarly Amy Wallace in GQ Magazine wrote: ""He was mercilessly criticized for attempting to mix comedy with the ultimate tragedy. However, in 1999, when Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful won three Oscars for a similar story line, many noted that Lewis had tried it first."" After Lewis' death in "

Prompt: Which Best Picture Oscar winning movie did Spielberg nearly walk out on saying that holocaust and humor do not mix?

Answer: Life Is Beautiful (1997)


Context: Dollars Trilogy | " The three films are consistently listed among the best rated Western films in history. Although not Leone's intention, the three films came to be considered a trilogy following the exploits of the same so-called ""Man with No Name"" (portrayed by Clint Eastwood, wearing the same clothes and acting with the same mannerisms). The ""Man with No Name"" concept was invented by the American distributor United Artists, looking for a strong angle to sell the films as a trilogy. Eastwood's character does indeed have a name (albeit a nickname) and a different one in each film: ""Joe"", ""Manco"" and ""Blondie"", respectively."

Prompt: Who is the movie character whose best known name contradicts that he is addressed as Joe, Manco, and Blondie in an action trilogy?

Answer: Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood)


Context: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | " Jhabvala died in her home in New York City on 3 April 2013 at the age of 85. James Ivory reported that her death was caused by complications from a pulmonary disorder. Reacting to her death, Merchant Ivory Productions noted that Jhabvala had ""been a beloved member of the Merchant Ivory family since 1960, comprising one-third of our indomitable trifecta that included director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant"" and that her death was ""a significant loss to the global film community""."

Prompt: "Commenting on the death of screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala in April 2013, which film company issued the statement ""The passing of our two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter is a significant loss to the global film community.""?"

Answer: Merchant Ivory Productions


Context: Churuli |  The movie begins with a prologue story of a priest (Thirumeni) who goes to a forest to capture an entity (Perumadan) that misleads people when they get lost. To capture it, he searches everywhere until he comes across a beautiful and mysterious forest. But all the animals, trees and plants wink at the monk (Thirumeni) as if they know him. In his travels, he comes across a ball, which is an anteater (Eenampechi). He puts it in his basket and carries it on his head to give to his children to play. After walking for a while, the anteater speaks, and the amused monk listens to it. After

Prompt: "Solve and come up with a movie. Zebra, laughing/spotted, 'person of the forest' (Malay), ""Eye of the ___"" (Survivor) (or) Buddhist, cook, mother, protagonist"

Answer: The Life of Pi


Context: Lousy Little Sixpence |  Lousy Little Sixpence is a 1983 Australian documentary film about Australian history that details the early years of the Stolen Generations and the struggle of Aboriginal Australians against the Aboriginal Protection Board in the 1930s. The film's title references the amount of pocket money that Aboriginal children were to be paid for their forced labour, although few ever received it.

Prompt: The documentary Lousy Little Sixpence (1983) and the feature-film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) focus on 'Stolen Generations' in which country?

Answer: Australia (Commonwealth realm)


Context: Themes in Avatar | " reviews saw Avatar as ""the bubbling up of our military subconscious ... the wish to be free of all the paperwork and risk aversion of the modern Army—much more fun to fly, unarmored, on a winged beast."" A critic writing in Le Monde opined that, contrary to the perceived pacifism of Avatar, the film justifies war in the response to attack by the film's positive characters, particularly the American protagonist who encourages the Na'vi to ""follow him into battle. ... Every war, even those that seem the most insane [are justified as being] for the 'right reasons'."" Ann Marlowe of Forbes saw the film as both pro- and anti-military, ""a metaphor for the networked military""."

Prompt: """At night they fly, you better run, these winged things are not much fun."" ""In the jungle you must wait, until the dice read five or eight."" ""A tiny bite can make you itch, make you sneeze, make you twitch."" ""This will not be an easy mission, monkeys slow the expedition."" Clues from what 1995 movie game?"

Answer: Jumangi


Context: Metropolis (1927 film) | " Metropolis features a range of elaborate special effects and set designs, ranging from a huge gothic cathedral to a futuristic cityscape. In an interview, Fritz Lang reported that ""the film was born from my first sight of the skyscrapers in New York in October 1924"". He had visited New York City for the first time and remarked ""I looked into the streets—the glaring lights and the tall buildings—and there I conceived Metropolis,"" although in actuality Lang and Harbou had been at work on the idea for over a year. Describing his first impressions of the city, Lang said that ""the buildings seemed to be a vertical sail, scintillating and very light, a luxurious backdrop, suspended in "

Prompt: What 1920s silent film classic was conceived when its German director gazed upon the skyscrapers of New York from a ship?

Answer: Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang


Context: Match cut |   Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey contains a famous example of a match cut. After an ape discovers the use of bones as a tool and a weapon, he throws one triumphantly into the air. As the bone spins in the air, there is a match cut to a much more advanced tool: an orbiting satellite. The match cut helps draw a connection between the two objects as exemplars of primitive and advanced tools respectively, and serves as a neat summary of humanity's technological advancement up to that point. The satellite is unidentified in the film, but the novel

Prompt: In Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, in a famous scene shift intended to show progress, a bone thrown in the air becomes what object?

Answer: Orbital satellite


Context: Sarong | " The American public is most familiar with the sarong for the dozens of films set in the South Seas, most of them romantic dramas made in the 1930s and 1940s. Dorothy Lamour is by far the actress most linked with the garment, which was designed by Edith Head. Lamour starred in multiple films of this genre, starting with The Hurricane in 1937. In fact, Lamour was nicknamed ""The Sarong Girl"" by the press and even wore a sarong on occasion in more traditional films. Among the other actresses to don the sarong for film roles are Maria Montez, Gilda Gray, Myrna Loy, Gene Tierney, Frances Farmer and Movita. Male "

Prompt: A 2002 article titled What's Sarong with this Picture? in an online film journal profiled which yesteryear actress?

Answer: The Sarong Girl


Context: Bill Gold |  William Gold (January 3, 1921 – May 20, 2018) was an American graphic designer best known for thousands of film poster designs. His first film poster was for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and his final work was for J. Edgar (2011). During his 70-year career he worked with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including Laurence Olivier, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan, Ridley Scott, and many more. Among his most famous film posters are those for Casablanca, The Exorcist and The Sting.

Prompt: Bill Gold whose most noted creations are for films as varied as Casablanca, A Clockwork Orange, Mystic River and The Sting is renowned for what type of work?

Answer: Poster designs


Context: Space Odyssey | "HAL 9000 is a sentient computer (or artificial intelligence) that becomes the primary antagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL is also in the sequel novels and the film sequel 2010. In both films he is voiced by actor Douglas Rain. ; Dr. David ""Dave"" Bowman serves as the protagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The character later appears in the sequel story released first as a book, 2010: Odyssey Two, and then as a movie, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, albeit as a non-corporeal entity, and also returns in two more books by Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey. In the forewords to both 2010 and "

Prompt: Which movie villain who 'resides' on Discovery One was voiced by Douglas Rain? I wouldn't skip this question if I were you, Dave!

Answer: HAL 9000, the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey


Context: Heart of Darkness | " Willard, a US Army Captain assigned to ""terminate the command"" of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando. A film documenting the production, titled Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, showed some of the difficulties which director Coppola faced making the film, which resembled some of the novella's themes. On 13 March 1993, TNT aired a new version of the story, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Tim Roth as Marlow and John Malkovich as Kurtz. James Gray's 2019 science fiction film Ad Astra is loosely inspired by the events of the novel. It features Brad Pitt as an astronaut travelling to "

Prompt: The documentary about the making of which 1970s groundbreaking film was titled Hearts of Darkness alluding not just to the novel that inspired it but also to it's chaotic production?

Answer: Charlie don't surf!


Context: Dodecanese campaign |  The Dodecanese campaign of World War II was an attempt by Allied forces to capture the Italian Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea following the Armistice with Italy in September 1943, and use them as bases against the German-controlled Balkans. Operating without air cover, the Allied effort was a costly failure, the whole of the Dodecanese falling to the Germans within two months. The Dodecanese campaign, lasting from 8 September to 22 November 1943, resulted in one of the last major German victories in the war.

Prompt: The Dodecanese Campaign of WWII that was an attempt by the Allied forces to capture islands in the Aegean Sea was the inspiration for which acclaimed 1961 commando film?

Answer: Guns of Navarone


Context: AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains |  AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The presentation program was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special.

Prompt: In the list of the 100 Greatest Movie Heroes and Villains chosen by the American Film Institute in 2003, can you name either of the two films that had both the hero and the villain make it to the top 10?

Answer: It's a Wonderful Life (or) The Silence of the Lambs


Context: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning | " The Hurt Locker, an Academy Award-winning film, opens with a quotation from the book: ""The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug."" The full quote is found on page 3: ""The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years."" Hedges criticized the film in the ""Hollywood and The War Machine"" episode of the Al Jazeera English series Empire."

Prompt: What 2009 hit that rewarded a woman director opens with the quotation 'The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug'?

Answer: Hurt Locker


Context: The Cat That Hated People |  The Cat That Hated People is a 1948 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. The cat's voice was supplied by Patrick McGeehan in the style of Jimmy Durante; incidental music was directed by Scott Bradley. The film borrows elements from the Warner Bros.-produced Looney Tunes cartoons Porky in Wackyland and Tin Pan Alley Cats, both directed by Bob Clampett.

Prompt: "In a 2007 interview, which actor 'animatedly' bemoaned ""I hate that cat! Ever since I did that cat, I disappear. It's all about the cat. It stole everything from me.""?"

Answer: Antonio banderas


Context: Mammy Two Shoes | " Mammy Two Shoes is a fictional character in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons. She is a heavy-set middle-aged African American woman who takes care of the house in which Tom and Jerry reside. Whether she is a housemaid or the owner of the house is never made clear. She would scold and attack Tom whenever she believed he was misbehaving; Jerry would sometimes be the cause of Tom's getting in trouble. As a partially-seen character, her head was rarely seen, except in a few cartoons including Part Time Pal (1947), A Mouse in the House (1947), Mouse Cleaning (1948), and Saturday Evening Puss (1950). Mammy appeared in 19 cartoons, from Puss Gets the Boot (1940) to Push-Button Kitty (1952). Mammy's appearances have often been edited out, dubbed, or re-animated in later television showings, since her character is an archetype now usually considered racist. Her creation points to the ubiquity of the ""mammy"" stereotype in American popular culture, and the character was removed from the series after 1953 due to protests from the NAACP."

Prompt: Mammy Two Shoes, a recurring character in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons was inspired by which African-American actress and singer?

Answer: Hatty MacDaniel


Context: Hannibal (2001 film) | " Ridley Scott's request. ; Filming would last for seven weeks in Richmond, Virginia for the shootout in a crowded fish market (shot at Richmond Farmer's Market) early in the film. Julianne Moore underwent Federal Bureau of Investigation training at the Bureau's headquarters before filming. ; A barn in Orange, Virginia, situated on the estate of President James Madison, was used to house 15 ""performing hogs"". The 15 Russian boars used in the shoot were from a selection of around 6,000 that the animal wranglers observed. ; Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, the biggest privately owned estate in the U.S., was chosen to signify the huge personal wealth of Mason Verger. "

Prompt: Which largest privately-owned home in the United States was prominently featured in the 2001 movie Hannibal among others?

Answer: Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina


Context: Stanley Kubrick |  Barry Lyndon (1975) is an adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a picaresque novel about the adventures of an 18th-century Irish rogue and social climber. John Calley of Warner Bros. agreed in 1972 to invest $2.5 million into the film, on condition that Kubrick approach major Hollywood stars, to ensure success. Like previous films, Kubrick and his art department conducted an enormous amount of research on the 18th century. Extensive photographs were taken of locations and artwork in particular, and paintings were meticulously replicated from works of the great masters of the period in the film. The

Prompt: What period film of Stanley Kubrick that recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer is loosely based on a novel of William Makepeace Thackeray?

Answer: Barry Lyndon (film)


Context: Kiksuya |  episode was proper, so they brought in Larry Pouier, an expert in the Lakota people, and Cordelia White Elk, a fluent speaker of Lakota. Daniel TwoFeathers, who plays a Ghost Nation Warrior, is a Sundancer, part Lakota and speaks fluent Lakota. Daniel also provided the Lakota translation, typed it phonetically, and provided the on-set dialog coaching for the actors, to ensure the precision of the dialogue. Akecheta's makeup took about two and a half hours each day, with frequent touch-ups of the facial paint. Ghost Nation hair styling was done by Bruce Samia. Filming of parts of the episode was done in Utah.

Prompt: In which award winning 1990 movie is much of the dialog in the Lakota language?

Answer: Dances With the Wolves


Context: Bangers and mash | " Although it is sometimes stated that the term ""bangers"" has its origins in World War II, the term was actually in use at least as far back as 1919. The term ""bangers"" is attributed (in common usage in the UK) to the fact that sausages made during World War I, when there were meat shortages, were made with such a high water content that they were liable to pop under high heat when cooked."

Prompt: Which working-class dish gets its name from the fact that sausages containing excess water explode when cooked in high-heat?

Answer: Bangers and mash


Context: Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers | " Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers is a 1980 documentary film about garlic directed by Les Blank. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the United States’ National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The Academy Film Archive preserved Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers in 1999. It was filmed at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, as well as in other locations in Northern California. Its official premiere was at the 1980 Berlin Film Festival. The director recommends that, when the film is shown, a toaster oven containing several heads of garlic be turned on in the rear of the theater, unbeknownst to the audience, with the intended result that approximately halfway through the showing the entire theater will be filled with the smell of garlic. In Blank's 1982 film Burden of Dreams, a documentary chronicling the filming of Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog and other crew members can be seen wearing ""Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers"" T-shirts."

Prompt: What food staple is the focus of a 1980 documentary ___ Is as Good as Ten Mothers that was filmed primarily in Gilroy, California?

Answer: Garlic scape


Context: Happy Meal | " for families with kids. Bernstein reasoned that if kids could get a packaged meal all their own instead of just picking at their parent's food, everybody would be happier. He had often noticed his young son at the breakfast table poring over the various items on cereal boxes and thought, ""Why not do that for McDonald's? The package is the key!"" He then called in his creative team and had them mock up some paperboard boxes fashioned to resemble lunch pails with the McDonald's Golden Arches for handles. They called in nationally known children's illustrators and offered them the blank slate of filling the box's "

Prompt: What concept of the restaurant industry was created when Bob Bernstein reasoned that if kids could get their own packaged meal instead of sharing their parent's food, everybody would be pleased?

Answer: McDonald's Happy Meal


Context: Super Bowl Sunday |  Large amounts of food and alcohol are consumed on Super Sunday. The event is the second-largest food consumption event in the United States, behind only Thanksgiving dinner, and some police departments have noticed a dramatic increase in drunk driving on Super Sunday. Super Sunday food is usually served buffet style, rather than as a sit-down meal. Foods traditionally eaten on Super Sunday include buffalo wings, chili, baby back ribs, dipping sauces, pizza, and potato chips. Many pizza delivery businesses see their order numbers double as roughly 60 percent of the take out ordered on Super Sunday is pizza. Roughly 28 e6lb of chips, 1.25 billion chicken wings, and 8 e6lb of guacamole are consumed during Super Sunday.

Prompt: What is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day?

Answer: Superbowl Sunday


Context: Red-eye gravy | " Red-eye gravy is a thin sauce often seen in the cuisine of the Southern United States and associated with the country ham of that region. Other names for this sauce include poor man's gravy, bird-eye gravy, bottom sop, cedar gravy, and red ham gravy. The gravy is made from the drippings of pan-fried country ham mixed with black coffee. Red-eye gravy is often served over ham, grits or biscuits. A common practice is to dip the inner sides of a split biscuit into the gravy in order to add flavor and keep the biscuit from being too dry when a piece of country ham is added between the two halves, sometimes called the Southern ""ham "

Prompt: Which sauce made from ham drippings and coffee and seen in the cuisine of the Southern United States gets its name from its appearance like that of a certain body organ?

Answer: Redeye gravy


Context: Pre-Columbian cuisine |  Various crops found in the New World are of monumental importance in today's society, especially maize. Its value exceeds the monetary gain that the conquistadores had due to silver and gold, and is the most important world grain. Its production worldwide is over 800 million tons, and is the primary ingredient in animal feed, human food, artificial sweeteners, and even gasoline. For example, maize is still the basis of much of Mexican cuisine. Countless other New World crops were spread among other countries thanks to Christopher Columbus. The peanut became widely used in Africa. Capsicum peppers are a significant part of Asian cuisine. Tomatoes are essential to Italian cuisine and are very common worldwide. The potato is among the most important vegetables. Fruits including pineapple, papaya, and strawberry were widely spread to other countries as well. Industrial crops, especially cotton, rubber, quinine, and tobacco, have become widely grown for non-food purposes. Cotton is common in clothing, rubber has many industrial uses, quinine contributed to the destruction of malaria, and tobacco contributed to many negative health effects.

Prompt: Which crop that was of great nutritional importance in pre-Columbian Andean civilizations, and which has now entered the mainstream world market, was called as the 'mother of all grains' by the Incas?

Answer: Kinua


Context: SS President Coolidge |  Dollar Lines ordered both ships on 26 October 1929. The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia built the two ships, completing President Hoover in 1930. The keel for President Coolidge was laid 22 April 1930 and the ship was delivered 1 October 1931. They were the largest merchant ships built in the United States up to that time. Each ship had turbo-electric transmission, with a pair of steam turbo generators generating current that powered propulsion motors on the propeller shafts. Westinghouse built the turbo generators and propulsion motors for President Coolidge but General Electric built the turbo generators and propulsion motors for President Hoover. In the President Coolidge twelve Babcock & Wilcox superheater type water tube boilers provided steam for main and auxiliary power. Main power was generated by two Westinghouse 10,200 kilowatt turbine generator sets that normally each drove two 400 volt Westinghouse

Prompt: What is particularly common to the ships SS Yongala, SS Thistlegorm, USAT Liberty, and President Coolidge?

Answer: Wrecks are famous diving sites


Context: Pygmy peoples |  Various theories have been proposed to explain the short stature of pygmies. Some studies suggest that it could be related to adaptation to low ultraviolet light levels in rainforests. This might mean that relatively little vitamin D can be made in human skin, thereby limiting calcium uptake from the diet for bone growth and maintenance, and leading to the evolution of the small skeletal size. Other explanations include lack of food in the rainforest environment, low calcium levels in the soil, the need to move through dense jungle, adaptation to heat and humidity, and as an association with rapid reproductive maturation under conditions of early mortality. (See also .) Other evidence points towards unusually low levels of expression of the genes encoding the growth hormone receptor and growth hormone compared to the related tribal groups, associated with low serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 and short stature.

Prompt: The key attribute of what distinctive ethnic group has one possible explanation as the low ultraviolet light levels in rainforests hindering the production of vitamin D and limiting calcium uptake for bone growth?

Answer: Pygmies (short height)


Context: Prasar Bharati | " the ""operational autonomy"" that the public broadcaster had been seeking for years. In August 2017, then Tripura CM Manik Sarkar alleged that Doordarshan and All India Radio had refused to broadcast his Independence Day speech unless he reworked it. In September 2017, following instructions from the ministry of information and broadcasting, Doordarshan had put on hold prime time slots auctioned to Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms and Saaibaba Telefilms. Fake offer/appointment letters for jobs at Prasar Bharati’s DD Kisan channel were given by scamsters on fake letter heads of DD Kisan. In September 2017, following a complaint of alleged abuse of dominance with regard to "

Prompt: In September 2014, a news anchor in India's public service broadcaster was disciplined after reading which visiting dignitary's name as President Eleven?

Answer: Chinese President Xi Jinping's!


Context: Didier Delsalle |  Didier Delsalle (born May 6, 1957, in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a fighter pilot and helicopter test pilot. On May 14, 2005, he became the first (and only) person to land a helicopter, the Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel, on the 8848 m summit of Mount Everest.

Prompt: "Didier Delsalle who wrote the following words confirming his May 14, 2005 achievement became the first person to land a helicopter where? ""No, nobody went out of the helicopter as I was alone and quite busy to stabilize the helicopter on this windy ...! The terrain characteristics prevent any full landing on the ... as you can see on the videos and only a hover landing..."""

Answer: Summit of Mount Everest


Context: FBI Laboratory |  From September 1934 to September 1975, the Lab was located on the 6th floor and the attic of the Justice Department Building in Washington, D.C. Public tours of the lab work area were available until the FBI moved across the street to the newly constructed J. Edgar Hoover Building in 1974. Tours of the J. Edgar Hoover Building were available, but the tour route shifted away from the lab work space, thus sealing the lab from public view. The Lab expanded to such an extent that the Forensic Science Research and Training Center (FSRTC) was established at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Methods at the FSRTC have helped establish standardized forensic practices for law enforcement agencies. The FBI Lab has been in Quantico since the relocation from Washington since April 2003.

Prompt: In 2014, CNN reported that FBI and other law enforcement agencies send their trainees to what Washington, D.C. museum so they can see for themselves how not protecting civil liberties can lead to bigger horrors?

Answer: Holocaust Museum


Context: The Falling Man | " The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The man in the image was trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower and either fell searching for safety or jumped to escape the fire and smoke. The photograph was taken at exactly 9:41:15 a.m. on the day of the attacks. The photograph was widely criticized after publication in international media on September 12, 2001, with readers labeling the image as ""disturbing, cold-blooded, ghoulish, and sadistic"". Since its inception, the photo has gained acclamation for being a ""touching work of art"" and a ""masterpiece in photojournalism""."

Prompt: "The photograph The Falling Man by Richard Drew that was called ""the most powerful image of despair at the beginning of ..."" (a particular century) was taken on what day?"

Answer: 9/11/2001


Context: Grandmother Fish | " Wilson, editor-in-chief of Evolution: This View of Life. ; “When my 5 year old daughter asked, “Who was the first person, and how was he or she borned?” I struggled to explain. Then I got Grandmother Fish, read it to her, and she loved it. This book fills a great need for parents, and answers a question many kids wonder about.” Jonathan Haidt, New York University, author of The Righteous Mind. ; Christian Today reported that the book is receiving criticism for supposedly providing misleading information to delicate minds on where humans came from."" ; Dr. Georgia Purdom from Answers in Genesis said ""While it is sad to see evolutionary resources like this book for children, it is very encouraging to see the many children’s resources.. help us teach our kids that the truth about our origins can only be found in the truth of God’s Word."" "

Prompt: What modern narrative got its lease of life when editor Lee Salem heard his 8-yr son say it was like Doonesbury for kids when he was about to reject it for being too-literate/too-adult?

Answer: Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson


Context: Nestlé Bear Brand |  On its introduction in 1906, the Bear Brand logo depicted a bear bottle-feeding a baby bear. The bottle was removed on its logo in 1967. In 1976, the launch of the Bear Brand Powdered Milk included the bear with a cub and the wordmark. In 1992, the bears refreshed with a cartoony look, and in 1996, the shield appeared one its logo, but in 2002 the shape was changed with the current shield logo form. In 2004, the logo in most of the countries of Southeast Asia, used the circle logo variant. In 2013, the Bear Brand logo wordmark typeface was changed from Franklin Gothic to Arial for the shield logo. While in their circle logo, since 2016 (for Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar), uses Helvetica typeface.

Prompt: In 1988, to reflect the modern family, what change was made to Nestlé's famous birds logo that showed a mother and three fledglings?

Answer: The number of fledglings was reduced from three to two.


Context: Robbie Williams | " It has been claimed that Williams has sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date. His records sales stands at over 77 million worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. Williams was entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when, after he announced his World Tour for 2006, 1.6 million tickets were sold in one day. Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian wrote Williams is ""a perfect meeting of ego, self-deprecation and hits"", adding ""there really is nobody else, in pop music anyway, who combines monumental hamminess and bone-deep vulnerability quite so effectively."" He has received a record eighteen Brit Awards—Best "

Prompt: What the Dickens! Which entertainer who has so far sold a magical 40 million tickets holds the record of grossing more than any other solo entertainer in history with over $3 billion?

Answer: David Copperfield, the illusionist


Context: Boustrophedon | " Boustrophedon is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with reversed letters. This is in contrast to lines always beginning on the same side, usually the left, as in modern European languages. The term comes from, boustrophēdón, a composite of βοῦς, bous, ""ox""; στροφή, strophē, ""turn""; and the adverbial suffix -δόν, ""like, in the manner of"" – that is, ""like the ox turns [while plowing]"". It is mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions. It was a common way of writing in stone in ancient Greece, becoming less and less popular throughout the Hellenistic period. Many ancient scripts, such as Etruscan, Safaitic, and Sabaean, were frequently or typically written boustrophedon."

Prompt: Boustrophedon is a style of bi-directional text where every other line of writing is reversed. It literally means the turning of an ox in Greek referring to what activity?

Answer: Plowing of a field


Context: Mossad |  Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security). Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection, covert operations, and counter-terrorism. Its director answers directly and only to the Prime Minister. Its annual budget is estimated to be around 10 billion shekels (US$2.73 billion) and it is estimated that it employs around 7,000 people directly, making it the one of the world's largest espionage agencies. Unlike other security bodies (such as the Israeli Army or the Israel Security Agency), its purpose, objectives, roles, missions, powers or budget have not been defined in any law.

Prompt: If Aman handles military intelligence and Shin Bet handles internal security, which agency is responsible for the overseas intelligence work of its country?

Answer: Mosaad


Context: Bran Castle |   Bran Castle (Castelul Bran; Schloss Bran; Törcsvári kastély) is a castle in Bran, 25 km southwest of Brașov. It is a national monument and landmark in Transylvania. The fortress is on the Transylvanian side of the historical border with Wallachia, on road DN73. Commonly known outside Transylvania as Dracula's Castle, it is often referred to as the home of the title character in Bram Stoker's Dracula. There is no evidence that Stoker knew anything about this castle, which has only tangential associations with Vlad the Impaler, voivode of Wallachia, the putative inspiration for Dracula. Stoker's description of Dracula's crumbling fictional castle also bears no resemblance to Bran Castle. The castle is now a museum dedicated to displaying art and furniture collected by Queen Marie. Tourists can see the interior on their own or by a guided tour. At the bottom of the hill is a small open-air museum exhibiting traditional Romanian peasant structures (cottages, barns, water-driven machinery, etc.) from the Bran region.

Prompt: Bran Castle that is located on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia in Romania is marketed as the home of which sinister figure?

Answer: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)


Context: Filibuster (military) |   A filibuster (from the Spanish filibustero), also known as a freebooter, is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foster or support a political revolution or secession. The term is usually applied to United States citizens who incited insurrections across Latin America, particularly in the mid-19th century, usually with the goal of establishing an American-loyal regime that could later be annexed into the United States. Successful examples of filibustering include the Texas Revolution and the Bear Flag Revolt in California, while failed examples include the Filibuster War in Nicaragua, the All of Mexico Movement, or the Ostend Manifesto and Lopez Expedition in Cuba. Filibusters are irregular soldiers who normally act without official authority from their own government, and are generally motivated by financial gain, political ideology, or the thrill of adventure. Unlike mercenaries, filibusters work for themselves, whilst a mercenary leader operates on behalf of others. The freewheeling actions of the filibusters of the 1850s led to the name being applied figuratively to the political act of filibustering in the United States Congress.

Prompt: Used to describe US citizens who attempted to foment insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th century, what is the term for someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country to support a revolution?

Answer: Filibusting


Context: 1311 | Bolingbroke Castle passes to the House of Lancaster. ; Lincoln Cathedral in England is completed; with the spire reaching around 525 feet (160 m), it becomes the world's tallest structure (surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza, which held the record for almost 4,000 years), a record it holds until the spire is blown down in 1549.

Prompt: Before being surpassed in 1311 AD by the Lincoln Cathedral in England, what construction with its 481 feet held the title for the tallest man-made structure for hundreds of years?

Answer: Great Pyramid of Giza built around 2500 BC


Context: Castel Gandolfo |  Castel Gandolfo (,, ; Castrum Gandulphi), colloquially just Castello in the Castelli Romani dialects, is a town located 25 km southeast of Rome in the Lazio region of Italy. Occupying a height on the Alban Hills overlooking Lake Albano, Castel Gandolfo has a population of approximately 8,900 residents and is considered one of Italy's most scenic towns. Within the town's boundaries lies the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo which served as a summer residence and vacation retreat for the pope, the leader of the Catholic Church. Although the palace is located within the borders of Castel Gandolfo, it has extraterritorial status as one of the properties of the Holy See and is not

Prompt: Whose summer residence is at Lake Gandalfo, a small town south-east of Rome?

Answer: List of Vatican monarchs


Context: Bank robbery | " In 1973, four hostages were taken during the Norrmalmstorg robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. After their release, the hostages defended their captors and refused to testify against them. This led to an academic interest in a phenomenon soon after referred to as Stockholm syndrome, wherein hostages, during captivity, paradoxically form a sympathetic bond with their captors as a survival strategy. Stockholm syndrome is a ""contested illness"" due to doubt about the legitimacy of the condition."

Prompt: In the Norrmalmstorg bank robbery in 1973, employees were held hostage for a few days and became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. In which city did this incident take place?

Answer: Stockholm, Sweden