Context: The Solent |   The Solent is a strait between the Isle of Wight and Great Britain. It is about 20 mi long and varies in width between 2+1/2 and 5 mi, although the Hurst Spit which projects 1+1/2 mi into the Solent narrows the sea crossing between Hurst Castle and Colwell Bay to just over 1 mi. The Solent is a major shipping lane for passenger, freight and military vessels. It is an important recreational area for water sports, particularly yachting, hosting the Cowes Week sailing event annually. It is sheltered by the Isle of Wight and has a complex tidal pattern, which has benefited Southampton's success as a port, providing a

Prompt: "In the United Kingdom, what is ""The Solent""?"

Answer: The Strait


Context: The Secret Policeman's Other Ball | Rowan Atkinson, Jeff Beck, Alan Bennett, John Bird, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jasper Carrott, Graham Chapman, Eric Clapton, John Cleese, Phil Collins, Billy Connolly, Donovan, John Fortune, Bob Geldof, Barry Humphries, Neil Innes, Chris Langham, Griff Rhys Jones, Alexei Sayle, Pamela Stephenson, Sting, Pete Townshend, John Wells and Victoria Wood. The performers in the stage production were:

Prompt: "Billy Connolly, Robert de Niro, Mia Farrow, Sting, Colin Firth, Pete Townshend, Robert Redford and Damien Hirst were among those who signed an open letter in ""The Times"" to try to achieve what?"

Answer: The release of an Iranian woman sentenced to death for adultery


Context: F-Stop Music |  F-Stop Music is a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. Singer-songwriter and Tampa native, Matt Hires, was the first artist to sign with F-Stop. Soon after, Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights joined F-Stop, bringing their soul-infused rock to the label.

Prompt: "What profession requires the artist to know about ""F stops""?"

Answer: Pet photography


Context: Million Dollar Quartet |  The stage musical Million Dollar Quartet, with a book by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott, dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet session. It premiered at Florida's Seaside Music Theatre and was then staged at Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington (a Seattle suburb) in 2007, breaking box office records. The musical opened for a limited run at Chicago's Goodman Theatre on September 27, 2008. Mutrux co-directed the Chicago production with Eric D. Schaeffer, of Virginia's Signature Theatre. The show transferred to Chicago's Apollo Theater where it opened on October 31, 2008. The Broadway production opened at the Nederlander Theatre on April 11, 2010. The Broadway production closed on June 12, 2011 after 489 performances and 34 previews, and then re-opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages. Million Dollar Quartet then opened in the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre on February 28, 2011, with previews from February 8. The Broadway play was nominated for three Tony Awards in 2010: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical for Escott and Mutrux, and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Levi Kreis. Kreis won, marking the show's sole Tony win.

Prompt: """Million Dollar Quartet"" is a stage musical by Floyd Mutrux & Colin Escott that opened on Broadway on 11 April 2010. Who are ""the quartet""?"

Answer: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash,  Jerry Lee Lewis &  Carl Perkins


Context: They Can't Take That Away from Me | " married couple with marital issues. The song, in the context of Shall We Dance, notes some of the things that Peter (Astaire) will miss about Linda (Rogers). The lyrics include ""the way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea"", and ""the way you hold your knife, the way we danced till three"". Each verse is followed by the line ""no, no, they can't take that away from me"". The basic meaning of the song is that even if the lovers part, though physically separated the nostalgic memories cannot be forced from them. Thus, it is a song of mixed joy and sadness. The verse references "

Prompt: "In which song does the singer sing about ""the way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea"", and ""the way you hold your knife, the way we danced till three""?"

Answer: They cant take that away from me


Context: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (British game show) | Judith Keppel, a former garden designer. On 20 November 2000, she became the first contestant to win the top prize. Following her success, Keppel later went on to become part of a team of quiz experts for the BBC game show Eggheads. ; David Edwards, a former physics teacher of Cheadle High School and Denstone College in Staffordshire. On 21 April 2001, he became the second contestant to win the top prize. Following his success in 2008 and 2009, Edwards went on to compete in both series of Are You an Egghead?, but failed to win either series. ; Robert Brydges, an Oxford-educated banker from Holland Park, London. On 29 September 2001, he became the third person to win the show's top prize. ; Pat Gibson, a multiple world-champion Irish quiz player. On 24 April 2004, he became the

Prompt: Judith Keppel was the first winner of the top prize on which UK programme?

Answer: Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?


Context: Tennis |  A pro set is first to 8 (or 10) games by a margin of two games, instead of first to 6 games. A 12-point tiebreak is usually played when the score is 8–8 (or 10–10). These are often played with no-ad scoring. Match tiebreak ; This is sometimes played instead of a third set. A match tiebreak (also called super tiebreak) is played like a regular tiebreak, but the winner must win ten points instead of seven. Match tiebreaks are used in the Hopman Cup, Grand Slams (excluding Wimbledon) and the Olympic Games for mixed doubles; on the ATP (since 2006), WTA

Prompt: What is the minimum number of points needed to win a tiebreak in tennis, such as in the Hopman Cup for mixed doubles, on the ATP and WTA tours for doubles and sometmes in USTA league play?

Answer: 10


Context: Mildred J. Hill | " While teaching at the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School, the Hill sisters wrote the song ""Good Morning to All""; Mildred wrote the melody, and Patty the lyrics. The song was first published in 1893 in Song Stories for the Kindergarten as a greeting song for teachers to sing to their students. Song Stories for the Kindergarten had over 20 editions, and the words were translated into French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Swedish. ""Happy Birthday to You"" first appeared in print in 1912 using the melody of ""Good Morning to All"" with different lyrics. Its popularity continued to grow through the 1930s, with no author identified for the new lyrics, nor credit given for the melody from ""Good Morning to You"". Based on 1935 copyright registrations by the Summy Company, and a series of court cases (which all settled out of court), the sisters became known as the authors of ""Happy Birthday to You"". In September 2015, a federal judge declared that ""Happy Birthday to You"" is in the public domain."

Prompt: "The song ""Good Morning To All"", composed by Pattie and Mildred Hill in 1893, is now sung as what?"

Answer: Good Morning Dear Teacher


Context: Pied Piper of Hamelin | " The Hameln Museum writes: ""In the mid 14th Century, a monk from Minden, Heinrich von Herford, puts together a collection of holy legends called the “Catena Aurea”.  It speaks of a “miracle” that took place in 1284 in Hameln.  A youth appeared and played on a strange silver flute.  Every child that heard the flute, followed the stranger.  They left Hameln by the Eastern gate and disappeared at Kalvarien Hill.  This is the oldest known account of this occurance. Around this time a verse of rhyme is found in “zu Hameln im Kloster”.  It tells about the children’s disappearance.  It is written in red ink on the title page of a missal.  It bewails “the 130 beloved Hamelner children” who were “eaten alive by Calvaria”.  The original verses are probably the oldest written source of this legend.  It has been missing for hundreds of years.""However, different versions of transcriptions of handwritten copies still exist. One was published by Heinrich Meibom in 1688. Another was included by Johann Daniel Gottlieb Herr under the title Passionale Sanctorum in Collectanea zur Geschichte der Stadt Hameln. His manuscript is dated 1761. There are some Latin verses which had a prose version underneath:"

Prompt: When are the events surrounding the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin supposed to have taken place?

Answer: Thirteenth century


Context: Paris Peace Accords |  The Paris Peace Accords, (Hiệp định Paris về Việt Nam) officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam (Hiệp định về chấm dứt chiến tranh, lập lại hòa bình ở Việt Nam), was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. The treaty included the governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the United States, as well as the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG) that represented South Vietnamese communists. US ground forces up to that point had been sidelined with deteriorating morale and gradually withdrawn to coastal regions, not taking part in offensive operations or much direct combat for the preceding two-year period. The

Prompt: In 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were held in an attempt to end which war?

Answer: Độc lập - tự do - hạnh phúc


Context: Coffee bean |   Brazil produces about 45% of the world's total coffee exports, with most grown in Brazil. The United States imports more coffee than any other nation. As of 2015, Americans consumed approximately 400 million cups of coffee per day, making the United States the leading consumer of coffee in the world. Coffee plants grow within a defined area between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, termed the bean belt or coffee belt.

Prompt: What Brazilian city exports more coffee than any other port in the world?

Answer: Santos


Context: Mining accident |  The most notable mining accident in New Zealand is the 1896 Brunner Mine disaster, which killed all 65 miners inside. On 19 November 2010, there were four explosions over nine days at Pike River mine; 29 miners were killed and two escaped with minor injuries. On 19 January 1967, there was an explosion in the Strongman Mine, near Greymouth, on the West Coast. 19 people were killed.

Prompt: In which country were 29 miners killed after 2 explosions in the Pike River Mine in November 2010, making it the most-deadly mining disaster there in 96 years?

Answer: N Z


Context: Miss Universe 2000 |  to Miss Universe 2000, but her victory at the Miss Europe 1999 contest in Lebanon made her unable to compete at Miss Universe. The winner of Miss Russia 1999, Anna Kruglova, also was ineligible for Miss Universe due to her being underage at the time. Then, the organizers of the Miss Russia contest decided to pick Miss Russia 1999 – first runner-up, Svetlana Goreva for Miss Universe 2000. ; 🇻🇪 – Initially chose Martina Thorogood to represent their country at both Miss Universe and Miss World 1999. Miss Universe officials objected to this as Thorogood placed first runner-up at Miss

Prompt: The Misses World for both 1999 and 2000 represented which country?

Answer: ഭാരത മഹാരാജ്യം


Context: Patrick O'Collun | " which led him to ask Fr. Holt whether the assassination was morally justified; according to his account Holt told him that it was a meritorious act, and gave him absolution for the sin of murder. This claim may well be true: Holt  sincerely believed that Elizabeth deserved to die,  as  did ""Captain Jacques"", who is known to have said that ""no action could be more glorious"" (although Jacques himself  had once worked as a spy for Elizabeth). Other would-be assassins, like Edmund York, said that Holt had  given them absolution  for the same act. Holt's plotting attracted so much notoriety that he was eventually ordered by his superiors  to show more discretion, though they did not   suggest that he should cease his activities."

Prompt: "In 2006 English politician George Galloway was widely quoted as saying that it would be ""morally justified if someone chose to assassinate "" whom?"

Answer: Rt Hon Anthony Blair MP


Context: Entropy of mixing | " In contrast to the established customary usage, ""mixing"" might be conducted reversibly at constant volume for each of two fixed masses of gases of equal volume, being mixed by gradually merging their initially separate volumes by use of two ideal semipermeable membranes, each permeable only to one of the respective gases, so that the respective volumes available to each gas remain constant during the merge. Either one of the common temperature or the common pressure is chosen to be independently controlled by the experimenter, the other being allowed to vary so as to maintain constant volume for each mass of gas. In this kind of ""mixing"", the final common volume is equal to each of the respective separate initial volumes, and each gas finally occupies the same volume as it did initially. This constant volume kind of ""mixing"", in the special case of perfect gases, is referred to in what is sometimes called Gibbs' theorem. It states that the entropy of such ""mixing"" of perfect gases is zero."

Prompt: What name is given to describes the phenomenon of the gradual mixing of two different substances which are in contact?

Answer: Diffusion


Context: John Banner | " to the Allies' advantage for their continuing espionage work. His main goal is to avoid any trouble with his superiors, which often leads him to ignore the clandestine activities of the prisoners. (On those occasions, he often used his catchphrase ""I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!"" As the series went on, this became simply ""I know nothing. Nothing""!). The genesis of the line could be from Banner’s appearance on the TV crime drama The Untouchables, in the episode ""The Takeover"" (1961), when confronted by a gangster, he nervously responds with his future classic line. Another signature phrase used was ""Jolly joker!"", when one of the POWs would "

Prompt: "What TV character used the catchphrase ""I know nothing""?"

Answer: Sergeant Shulz


Context: All-Pro | " end, center, punter, place kicker, and kick returner, while two players are selected at running back, wide receiver, offensive tackle, offensive guard, outside linebacker, inside/middle linebacker, defensive end, defensive tackle, cornerback, and safety. In 2016, for the first time, the AP picked specific positions on the offensive line, a ""flex"" player on offense, and a fifth defensive back. In 2020, the “flex” position was discontinued and replaced with a 3rd wide receiver slot. The AP claims that the selection panel is a national one, but some NFL media markets such as Detroit, a city that has had an NFL team since 1934, do not have a vote."

Prompt: Center, Offensive guard, Offensive tackle, Tight end, Wide receiver, Fullback, Running back, Quarterback, Defensive end, Defensive tackle, Nose guard, Linebacker, Cornerback, Safety, Nickelback and Dimeback are positions in which sport?

Answer: U.s. football


Context: Flo Rida | " Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 16, 1979), better known by his stage name Flo Rida, is an American rapper from Carol City, Florida. His 2007 breakout single ""Low"" was number one for 10 weeks in the United States and broke the record for digital download sales at the time of its release. Flo Rida's debut studio album, 2008's Mail on Sunday, reached number four in the US. The album was succeeded by R.O.O.T.S., the next year. His subsequent albums, 2010's Only One Flo (Part 1) and 2012's Wild Ones, also charted on the US Billboard 200 chart. Flo Rida has sold over 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists. His catalog includes the international hit singles ""Right Round"", ""Club Can't Handle Me"", ""Good Feeling"", ""Wild Ones"", ""Whistle"", ""I Cry"", ""G.D.F.R."" and ""My House"". Не represented San Marino, together with Senhit, at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam with the song ""Adrenalina"". They scored 50 points, finishing 22nd overall in the final."

Prompt: American rapper Tramar Dillard is better known by what stage name?

Answer: Rear View (song)


Context: Alan Bates |  Bates played the lead in his second feature, Whistle Down the Wind (1961), directed by Bryan Forbes. He followed it with the lead in A Kind of Loving (1962), directed by John Schlesinger. Both films were very popular establishing Bates as a film star. Film critics cited the 1963 film noir, The Running Man, as being one of Alan Bates' finest performances. The film starred Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick and Bates in the supporting role of Stephen Maddox, an insurance company investigator who encounters Harvey and Remick in Spain after Harvey successfully faked his death in an aeroplane crash to cash in on a life insurance policy, leaving wife

Prompt: Alan Bates played an escaped convict who was mistaken for the son of God in which 1961 film?

Answer: Whistle down the Wind


Context: Welcome Stranger |   The Welcome Stranger is the biggest alluvial gold nugget found, which had a calculated refined weight of 3123 ozt. It measured 61 by and was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, about 14.6 kilometres (9 miles) north-west of Dunolly.

Prompt: What was the name given to the largest alluvial gold nugget discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869?

Answer: Richard Oates


Context: Manuae (Cook Islands) | " ariki from Atiu. Cook initially named Manuae ""Sandwich Island"", but changed it to ""Hervey Island"" in honor of Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, then a Lord of the Admiralty. This name was later corrupted to Hervey's Island, or Hervey's Isle, and later applied to the entire southern group, as the Hervey Islands. In July 1823 the island was visited by John Williams of the London Missionary Society, who found it inhabited by sixty people. The island was depopulated shortly afterwards, and by 1852 was home to a single family. In 1888 it was declared to be a British protectorate. In "

Prompt: "What is the current name of the islands originally called the ""Sandwich Islands""?"

Answer: Haiwii


Context: Kwasi Kyei Darwkah |  He was arrested on 27 December 2014 following a report accusing him of raping a 19-year-old woman in the bathroom of the African Regent Hotel in Accra, Ghana. He was formally charged with rape. On 12 January 2015, the 19-year-old alleged victim expressed her disinterest in pursuing the case. Darwkah was freed and the rape charge against him was dropped on 22 April 2015 after the Attorney General entered a nolle prosequi for the case.

Prompt: Isaac Kwame Amuah, who in December 2010 turned himself in to South African police to face extradition charges in relation to accusations of rape from 1993 while he was a lecturer in the US, has what connection to Nelson Mandela?

Answer: Son In Law


Context: Three's a Crowd (1932 film) | " open: ""All for one and one for all,"" cry Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, raising their rapiers as they segue into their own scatting-routine. Cut to Robinson, Friday, Napoleon, and Omar Khayyam, who stand amongst the books bobbing about happily to the tune. There is a universal burst of applause as the musketeers conclude their number: Henry VIII, surrounded (presumably) by some of his wives, shouts ""Whoopee!"" Nearby, Marc Antony crawls out of Antony and Cleopatra, shouting, as if in Julius Caesar, ""Friends, Romans, countrymen...lend your ears to that dear old maestro!"" The camera pans to a portly Emperor Nero, who stands before a book containing an image of the Great Fire of Rome and "

Prompt: What was the catch-cry of the Three Musketeers?

Answer: Tous pour un, un pour tous


Context: Czech Republic | " the Habsburgs in 1618 marked the start of the Thirty Years' War. In 1620, the rebellion in Bohemia was crushed at the Battle of White Mountain and the ties between Bohemia and the Habsburgs' hereditary lands in Austria were strengthened. The leaders of the Bohemian Revolt were executed in 1621. The nobility and the middle class Protestants had to either convert to Catholicism or leave the country. In the ""Dark Age"" of 1620 to the late 18th century, the population of the Czech lands declined by a third through the expulsion of Czech Protestants as well as due to the war, disease and famine. The Habsburgs prohibited all Christian confessions other than Catholicism. The flowering of Baroque culture shows "

Prompt: What began when Bohemia revolted against the Habsburgs in 1618?

Answer: Bohemian Period


Context: Ray Allen |  12, 2006, Allen became the 97th player in NBA history to score 15,000 points. On April 7, 2006, Allen moved into second place on the NBA's list of all-time 3-point field goals made, trailing only Reggie Miller. On April 19, 2006, Allen broke Dennis Scott's ten-year-old NBA record for 3-point field goals made in a season in a game against the Denver Nuggets. The record was broken by Stephen Curry. On January 12, 2007, Allen scored a career-high 54 points against the Utah Jazz in a 122–114 overtime win, the second most in Sonics history. Shortly after, he had ankle surgery on both ankles and missed the remainder of the 2006–07 season.

Prompt: In 2006, who became the second basketball player to score over 80 points in an NBA game?

Answer: Kobe (C) Bryant


Context: Cuban Missile Crisis | " In May 1962, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was persuaded by the idea of countering the US's growing lead in developing and deploying strategic missiles by placing Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, despite the misgivings of the Soviet Ambassador in Havana, Alexandr Ivanovich Alexeyev, who argued that Castro would not accept the deployment of the missiles. Khrushchev faced a strategic situation in which the US was perceived to have a ""splendid first strike"" capability that put the Soviet Union at a huge disadvantage. In 1962, the Soviets had only 20 ICBMs capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the US from inside the Soviet Union. The poor accuracy and "

Prompt: During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, what did Kennedy threaten if Khrushchev did not agree to remove missiles from the Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile site under construction in Cuba?

Answer: "A ""naval quarantine"", when the US Navy would inspect all ships arriving in Cuba"


Context: World Book Day |  that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, as well as that of the birth or death of several other prominent authors. (In a historical coincidence, Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same date — 23 April 1616 — but not on the same day, as at the time, Spain used the Gregorian calendar and England used the Julian calendar; Shakespeare actually died 10 days after Cervantes died, on 3 May of the Gregorian calendar.)

Prompt: Whose birth and death are commemorated on the same day?

Answer: Shakspeare


Context: Rowing (sport) |  and Livery Companies or wealthy owners of riverside houses. The oldest surviving such race, Doggett's Coat and Badge was first contested in 1715 and is still held annually from London Bridge to Chelsea. During the 19th century these races were to become numerous and popular, attracting large crowds. Prize matches amongst professionals similarly became popular on other rivers throughout Great Britain in the 19th century, notably on the Tyne. In America, the earliest known race dates back to 1756 in New York, when a pettiauger defeated a Cape Cod whaleboat in a race. Amateur competition in England began towards the end of the 18th century. Documentary evidence from this period

Prompt: "What sport has been contested annually in Britain since 1715 in the race called ""Doggett's Coat and Badge""?"

Answer: Oarswoman


Context: Air cycle machine | " Air cycle machines were first developed in the 19th century for providing chilling on ships. The technique is a reverse Brayton cycle (the thermodynamic cycle of a gas turbine engine) and is also known as a Bell Coleman cycle or ""Air-Standard Refrigeration Cycle""."

Prompt: In the late 1800s, the steam powered Bell-Coleman machine was fitted to ships to provide what?

Answer: Refrigerate


Context: Canadian Cat Association |  • Colourpoint Shorthair • Cornish Rex • Cymric • Devon Rex • Don Skoy (Experimental) • Egyptian Mau • Exotic (Shorthair and Longhair) • Foldex (Shorthair and Longhair, Straight and Fold) • Foreign Burmese • Havana Brown • Himalayan (including Non-Pointed Himalayan) • Japanese Bobtail (Longhair and Shorthair) • Khaomanee • Korat • Kurillian Bobtail (Longhair and Shorthair) • Lykoi • Maine Coon (excluding polydactyls) • Manx • Norwegian Forest Cat • Ocicat • Oriental (Longhair and Shorthair) • Persian • Peterbald • Pixiebob (Longhair and Shorthair) • Ragamuffin • Ragdoll • Russian Blue • Savannah • Scottish Fold (Longhair and Shorthair) • Scottish Straight (Longhair and Shorthair) • Selkirk Rex (Longhair and Shorthair) • Siamese • Siberian (including Pointed) • Singapura • Sokoke (Experimental) • Somali (including Shorthair Somali) • Sphynx • Tonkinese • Turkish Angora • York Chocolate

Prompt: Maine Coon, Munchkin, Oriental Shorthair, Persian, Ragamuffin, Russian Blue, Siamese, Siberian, Snowshoe, Sphynx, Tonkinese and Manx are all breeds of what?

Answer: Housecat


Context: Autobahn |   The Autobahn (German plural Autobahnen) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is Bundesautobahn (abbreviated BAB), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word Bundesautobahn is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. German Autobahnen are widely known for having no federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles. However, limits are posted (and enforced) in areas that are urbanised, substandard, accident-prone, or under construction. On speed-unrestricted stretches, an advisory speed limit (Richtgeschwindigkeit) of 130 km/h applies. While driving faster is not illegal as such in the absence of a speed limit, it can cause an increased

Prompt: In Germany, what is an autobahn?

Answer: Elevated freeway


Context: Appaloosa (film) |  Appaloosa is a 2008 American Western film based on the 2005 novel Appaloosa by crime writer Robert B. Parker. Directed by Ed Harris and co-written by Harris and Robert Knott, Appaloosa stars Harris alongside Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. The film premiered at 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in selected cities on September 19, 2008, then expanded into wide-release on October 3, 2008.

Prompt: Which 2008 Western film starred Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen as lawmen, Jeremy Irons as a rancher and Renee Zellweger as a piano-playing widow?

Answer: Palouse horses


Context: Muslin |  Muslin is a cotton fabric of plain weave. It is made in a wide range of weights from delicate sheers to coarse sheeting. It gets its name from the city of Mosul, in Iraq, where it was first manufactured. In the 17th and 18th centuries Dacca in Bengal was regarded as producing the finest muslins. Early muslin was handwoven of uncommonly delicate handspun yarn. It was imported from Bengal into Europe for much of the 17th and early 18th-centuries.

Prompt: What are muslin and chenille?

Answer: Textile


Context: Garrick Club |  The Garrick Club was founded at a meeting in the Committee Room at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Wednesday 17 August 1831. Present were James Winston (a former strolling player, manager and important theatre antiquarian), Samuel James Arnold (a playwright and theatre manager), Samuel Beazley (an architect and playwright), General Sir Andrew Barnard (an army officer and hero of the Napoleonic Wars), and Francis Mills (a timber merchant and railway speculator). It was decided to write down a number of names in order to invite them to be original members of the Garrick Club. The avowed purpose of the club

Prompt: "What organisation was founded in 1831 by James Winston, Samuel James Arnold, Samuel Beazley, Sir Andrew Francis Barnard, and Francis Mills to ""tend to the regeneration of the Drama""?"

Answer: The Garrick


Context: 1995 US Open – Women's Singles |  Steffi Graf defeated Monica Seles in the final, 7-6(8–6), 0–6, 6–3 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1995 US Open. With the win, Graf equaled Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova's Open Era record of 18 major singles titles. Graf remains the only player (male or female) to win each major at least four times. It was the first time Graf and Seles met in a US Open final. It was also the first major appearance for Seles since her 1993 stabbing. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was the defending champion, but she lost in the fourth round to Mary Joe Fernández.

Prompt: In 1995, Steffi Graf became the only tennis player to have won each of the four grand slam events how many times?

Answer: four


Context: Omar Sharif |  to the modern-day VuGraph) that displayed bidding and cardplay on television monitors. Players included Benito Garozzo, (considered by many as the greatest bridge player of all time) plus his Italian compatriots Pietro Forquet and Giorgio Belladonna and Frenchman Claude Delmouly. In 1970, Sharif and the circus went to London's famous Piccadilly Hotel for an 80-rubber match against British experts Jeremy Flint and Jonathan Cansino. The stakes were £1 per point, huge stakes even by today's standards. The event was to present bridge as a rich, exciting spectacle and to break through into television to bring the game within the reach of millions. The Circus ultimately won the match by 5,470 points, but Sharif still incurred a net

Prompt: Actor Omar Sharif is one of the world's leading players of which game?

Answer: Bridges


Context: Jeaniene Frost |  She has the circulatory and respiratory systems of a human, but her DNA has the same genetic structure—the same strain of mutation—as that of a vampire's. Personality Traits: Cat's favorite drink is a gin and tonic. She likes the night best and sometimes wanders until dawn. She describes herself as friendless and weird, but she's just withdrawn and uncomfortable around people because of her secrets—and because she's afraid of getting hurt again after what Danny did to her. She gets her hatred of vampires from her mother, and she often feels empty and guilt-ridden as she goes through life atoning for her bloodline. Bones, a vampire made

Prompt: What is the favourite drink of a vampire?

Answer: Oxygen capacity


Context: Prince Bernadotte |  King Charles XIV John of Sweden (also King Charles III John of Norway), who had been born in France as Jean Bernadotte, was made ruler of the Principality of Pontecorvo by Napoleon I in 1806 and was as such styled Prince Bernadotte, this before he was elected as Crown Prince of Sweden in 1810. Some Swedish experts have asserted that all of his male heirs have had the right to use that title, since the Swedish government never made all of the payments promised to Charles John to get him to give up his position in the Principality of Pontecorvo.

Prompt: Which Frenchman, who never learned to speak Swedish, became King Charles XIV John of Sweden and Norway?

Answer: King Charles XIV


Context: Terrazzo | " Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of chips of marble, quartz, granite, glass, or other suitable material, poured with a cementitious binder (for chemical binding), polymeric (for physical binding), or a combination of both. Metal strips often divide sections, or changes in color or material in a pattern. Additional chips may be sprinkled atop the mix before it sets. After it is cured it is ground and polished smooth or otherwise finished to produce a uniformly textured surface. ""Terrazzo"" is also often used to describe any pattern similar to the original terrazzo floors."

Prompt: What word's original meaning was to do with the provison of granite chips onto the ground and then made into a hard and smooth surface using a roller?

Answer: Macadamised


Context: Minaret |   Minaret ( goldaste, minarə, minare, from منارة manarah or المنارة menara) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques. Minarets serve multiple purposes. While they provide a visual focal point, they are generally used for the Muslim call to prayer (adhan), though they may also exist as standalone non-religious structures, especially in the Indian subcontinent. The basic form of a minaret includes a base, shaft, a cap and head. They are generally a tall spire with a conical or onion-shaped crown.

Prompt: What type of building is likely to have a minaret?

Answer: Mosqu


Context: James–Younger Gang | " newspaper accounts, so they were likely active in gang activities up to 1875.  On December 7, 1869, Frank and Jesse James are believed to have robbed the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri. Jesse is suspected of having shot down the cashier, John W. Sheets, in the mistaken belief that he was Samuel P. Cox, the Union militia officer who had ambushed and killed ""Bloody Bill"" Anderson during the Civil War. The James brothers were unknown up to this point; this may have been their first robbery. Their names were later added to previous robberies as an afterthought."

Prompt: In which year was the first robbery for which it is known that Jesse James was responsible, of the Davies's County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri, during which Jesse shot and killed the cashier, Captain John Sheets?

Answer: 1869


Context: Nude Sitting on a Divan |  Nude Sitting on a Divan (The Beautiful Roman Woman) is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani depicting a partially draped woman seated with crossed legs against a warm red background. The work was one of a series of nudes painted by Modigliani in 1917 that created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year. On November 2, 2010, the painting sold at a New York auction for $68.9 million, a record price for an artwork by Modigliani. The several dozen nudes Modigliani painted between 1916 and 1919 constitute many of his best-known works. Simultaneously abstracted and erotically detailed, they exhibit a formal grace referencing nude figures of the

Prompt: "On 2 November 2010, the oil painting ""Nude Sitting on a Divan"" sold for $68.9 million, a record for an artwork by which artist?"

Answer: Amedeo Clemente Modigliani


Context: Land Rush of 1889 |  The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory, which had earlier been assigned to the Creek and Seminole peoples. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the present-day US state of Oklahoma. The land run started at high noon on April 22, 1889. An estimated 50,000 people were lined up at the start, seeking to gain a piece of the available 2000000 acre. The Unassigned Lands were considered some of the best unoccupied public land in the United States. The Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 was passed and signed into law with an amendment by Representative William McKendree Springer (R-IL) that authorized President Benjamin Harrison to open the two million acres (8,100 km2) for settlement. President Abraham Lincoln had earlier signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which allowed settlers to claim lots of up to 160 acre, provided that they lived on the land and improved it.

Prompt: "A ""land run"" into which current state of the USA began at noon on 22 April 1889, when an estimated 50,000 people lined up to race to claim 160 acre (0.65 km2) pieces of the available 2 million acres (8,000 km)?"

Answer: Okla.


Context: Four Minute Men |  On April 2, 1917, the US Congress declared war on Germany. President Wilson was determined to rouse the public. Wilson established the first modern propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information (CPI), headed by George Creel. Creel set out to systematically reach every person in the United States multiple times with patriotic information about how the individual could contribute to the war effort. It also worked with the post office to censor seditious counter-propaganda. Creel set up divisions in his new agency to produce and distribute innumerable copies of pamphlets, newspaper releases, magazine advertisements, films, school campaigns, and the speeches of the Four Minute Men. CPI created colorful posters that appeared in every store window, catching the attention of the passersby for

Prompt: "Which country set up the ""Committee on Public Information"" from April 1917 to June 1919 to run a propaganda campaign using newsprint, posters, radio, telegraph, cable and movies to broadcast its message, including fabrications (e.g. images of enemy soldiers killing babies and hoisting them on bayonets), and told citizens to seek out spies, which led to the creation of ""patriotic organizations,"" which spied, tapped telephones, and opened mail in an effort to ferret out ""spies and traitors"" (i.e. anyone who called for peace, questioned the war's progress, or criticized government policies)?"

Answer: The United States of America


Context: Russian traditions and superstitions |  Russian ruble. ; A purse (or any other money holder) as a gift requires a little money inside. Given empty it is said to cause bad financial luck. ; A funeral procession brings good luck. But one should never cross its path or it is bad luck. ; A woman with empty water buckets coming towards you is considered a bad omen. ; A group of two or more people should not walk on different sides of a tree. They should all keep to one side or the other. ; Bread should only be cut with a knife, not with your hands. Otherwise, it is

Prompt: What should you cross for good luck?

Answer: Finger (disambiguation)


Context: England cricket team |  the team suffered from a spate of serious injuries to key players such as Vaughan, Giles, Andrew Flintoff and Simon Jones. As a result, the team underwent an enforced period of transition. A 2–0 defeat in Pakistan was followed by two drawn away series with India and Sri Lanka. In the home Test series victory against Pakistan in July and August 2006, several promising new players emerged. Most notable were the left-arm orthodox spin bowler Monty Panesar, the first Sikh to play Test cricket for England, and left-handed opening batsman Alastair Cook. The 2006–07 Ashes series was keenly anticipated and was expected to provide a level of competition comparable to the 2005

Prompt: In 2006 Monty Panesar became the first person of what religion to play test cricket for England?

Answer: Sikhni


Context: Race of Champions | " The Race of Champions (ROC) is an international motorsport event held at the end/start of each year, featuring some of the world's best racing and rally drivers. It is the only competition in the world where stars from Formula One, World Rally Championship, IndyCar, NASCAR, sportscars and touring cars compete against each other, going head-to-head in identical cars. The race was first organised in 1988 by former rally driver Michèle Mouton and Fredrik Johnsson, IMP (International Media Productions) President. Originally the event was a competition between the world's best rally drivers, but has since expanded to include top competitors from most of the world's premier motorsport disciplines, including motorcycle racing. The top individual overall in The Race Of Champions is given the title ""Champion of Champions"", and receives the "

Prompt: What international event held at the end of each year, featuring some of the world's best racing and rally drivers, was first co-organised in 1988 by former rally driver Michle Mouton?

Answer: ROC Nations Cup 2006


Context: Platonic solid |  The tetrahedron, cube, and octahedron all occur naturally in crystal structures. These by no means exhaust the numbers of possible forms of crystals. However, neither the regular icosahedron nor the regular dodecahedron are amongst them. One of the forms, called the pyritohedron (named for the group of minerals of which it is typical) has twelve pentagonal faces, arranged in the same pattern as the faces of the regular dodecahedron. The faces of the pyritohedron are, however, not regular, so the pyritohedron is also not regular. Allotropes of boron and many boron compounds, such as boron carbide, include discrete B12 icosahedra within their crystal structures.

Prompt: What are the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron known as?

Answer: Pythagorean solids


Context: Bristol Channel |   The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren, ) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England. It extends from the lower estuary of the River Severn (Afon Hafren) to the North Atlantic Ocean. It takes its name from the English city of Bristol, and is over 30 miles (50 km) wide at its western limit. Long stretches of both sides of the coastline are designated as Heritage Coast. These include Exmoor, Bideford Bay, the Hartland Point peninsula, Lundy Island, Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Carmarthenshire, South Pembrokeshire and Caldey Island. Until Tudor times the Bristol Channel was known as the Severn Sea, and it is still known as this in both Môr Hafren and Mor Havren.

Prompt: What separates Wales from Devon, England?

Answer: Welsh Channel


Context: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron |  Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is an arcade-style flight action game co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts. The first of three games in the Rogue Squadron series, it was published by LucasArts and Nintendo and released for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo 64 in December 1998. The game's story was influenced by the Star Wars: X-wing Rogue Squadron comics and is set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, taking place primarily between events in the films Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. The player controls Luke Skywalker, commander of the elite X-wing pilots known as Rogue Squadron. As the game progresses, Skywalker and Rogue Squadron fight the Galactic Empire in 16 missions across various planets. Gameplay is presented from the third-person perspective and game objectives are divided into four categories: search

Prompt: "The computer game ""Star Wars: Rogue Squadron"", released in December 1998, in which the player controls Luke Skywalker as commander of an elite group of X-wing pilots, is set mainly between which two ""Star Wars"" films?"

Answer: """Episode IV: A New Hope"" & ""Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back"""


Context: John Lighton Synge |  Synge made outstanding contributions to different fields of work including classical mechanics, general mechanics and geometrical optics, gas dynamics, hydrodynamics, elasticity, electrical networks, mathematical methods, differential geometry, and Einstein's theory of relativity. He studied an extensive range of mathematical physics problems, but his best known work revolved around using geometrical methods in general relativity. He was one of the first physicists to seriously study the interior of a black hole, and his early work was cited by both Kruskal and Szekeres in their independent discoveries of the true (so-called maximal) structure of the Schwarzschild black hole. Synge's later derivation of the Szekeres-Kruskal metric solution, which

Prompt: Benot B. Mandelbrot worked on a wide range of mathematical problems, including mathematical physics and quantitative finance, but is best known as the father of what?

Answer: Fractal Trees


Context: Parliament of Tasmania |  The island of Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania) was claimed and subsequently settled by the United Kingdom in 1803. Initially, it was administered by the Governor of New South Wales, as part of that British Colony of New South Wales. In 1825, Van Diemen's Land became a separate British colony, administered separately from New South Wales, with a Legislative Council of six men appointed to advise the Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land who had sole governance of the colony. The Council initially held meetings in a room adjacent to the old Government House that was located near to the present site of Franklin Square, but by 1841 they relocated meetings to the 'Long Room' (now the Members' Lounge) in the Customs

Prompt: The island of Tasmania is governed by which country?

Answer: Australia (Commonwealth realm)


Context: Battle of Bad Axe |  Illinois. Finding no allies, he attempted to return across the Mississippi to present-day Iowa, but the undisciplined Illinois Militia's actions led to Black Hawk's surprising victory at the Battle of Stillman's Run. A number of other engagements followed, and the militia of Michigan Territory and the state of Illinois were mobilized to hunt down Black Hawk's band. The conflict became known as the Black Hawk War. The period between the Battle of Stillman's Run in May and the raid at Sinsinawa Mound in late June was filled with war-related activity. A series of attacks at Buffalo Grove, the Plum River settlement, Fort Blue Mounds, and the

Prompt: The Black Hawk War was for possession of lands east of the Mississippi. In which modern day state was the first confrontation, at Stillman's Run, on 14 May 1832, which resulted in a victory for Chief Black Hawk's Sauk and Fox warriors over the local militiamen commanded by Major Isaiah Stillman?

Answer: Transportation in Illinois


Context: La gazza ladra |  10 March 1821. A French-language opera-comique using the original title of the French source material (La pie voleuse) in a version translated by Castil-Blaze was premiered in Lille, France, on 15th October 1822. The French-language version's first performance in the United States was at the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, on 30 December 1824. In 1941, Riccardo Zandonai composed a version of The Thieving Magpie for a revival of the opera in Pesaro. In 1979, Alberto Zedda edited Rossini's original composition of the opera for publication by the Fondazione Rossini. In 2013, the Bronx Opera of New York City performed an English-language version of La gazza ladra.

Prompt: "How is the title of Rossini's opera ""La Gazza Ladra"" usually translated into English?"

Answer: The theivish magpie


Context: Horatius Cocles |  Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the early Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium. By defending the narrow end of the bridge, he and his companions were able to hold off the attacking army long enough to allow other Romans to destroy the bridge behind him, blocking the Etruscans' advance and saving the city.

Prompt: Horatio was a legendary Roman hero who defended a bridge against which army?

Answer: Etruscan (disambiguation)


Context: Zenyatta |  a filly/mare with her 13th Grade I win. It was also her ninth consecutive Grade I victory (then a world record, since tied by Frankel, then broken by Winx). In addition, she broke the all-time North American female earnings record (formerly held by Ouija Board). On November 6, Zenyatta attempted to become the first North American horse to retire undefeated with 20 wins and the second horse to repeat in the Breeders' Cup Classic after Tiznow. She faced one of the strongest fields in the history of the race, including Blame (Stephen Foster Handicap and Whitney Handicap); Lookin at Lucky (Preakness

Prompt: In 2010, what North American horse broke the All-time North American female earnings record with over $6 million, broke two world records for Grade/Group I (for consecutive victories and the All-time North American record number of victories by a filly/mare), and tied the All-time North American record for the number of consecutive victories without defeat?

Answer: Zenyatta


Context: Calgary Stampede | " The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival held every July in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The ten-day event, which bills itself as ""The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth"", attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of the world's largest rodeos, a parade, midway, stage shows, concerts, agricultural competitions, chuckwagon racing, and First Nations exhibitions. In 2008, the Calgary Stampede was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. The event's roots are traced to 1886 when the Calgary and District Agricultural Society held its first fair. In 1912, American promoter Guy Weadick organized his first rodeo and festival, known as the Stampede. He returned to Calgary in 1919 to organize the Victory Stampede in honour of soldiers returning from World War I. Weadick's festival became an annual event in 1923 when it merged with the Calgary Industrial Exhibition to create the Calgary Exhibition "

Prompt: Which event held in Alberta, Canada, which bills itself as The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth, is a large festival, exhibition, and rodeo held for 10 days every summer in July, attracts more than 1.2 million visitors?

Answer: Calgary stampede


Context: Sagrada Família |  The Basílica de la Sagrada Família (Catalan: ; Basílica de la Sagrada Familia; 'Basilica of the Holy Family'), also known as the Sagrada Família, is a large unfinished minor basilica in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), his work on the building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica. On 19 March 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família began under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned, Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with

Prompt: The Sagrada Famlia in Barcelona, which began construction in 1882, was consecrated and declared a basilica by the Pope in what year?

Answer: two thousand and ten


Context: Slender Man | " many accounts of which grant them an uncanny appearance with an unnatural walk and ""oriental"" features; and The Question, a DC Comics superhero with a blank face, whose secret identity is ""Victor Sage"", a name similar to Knudsen's alias ""Victor Surge"". In her book, Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology, Professor Shira Chess of the University of Georgia connected the Slender Man to ancient folklore about fairies. Like fairies, the Slender Man is otherworldly, with motives that are often difficult to grasp; like fairies, his appearance is vague and often shifts to reflect what the viewer wants or fears to see, and, like fairies, the Slender Man calls the woods and wild places his home and kidnaps children."

Prompt: What name is given to the unnatural fear of men?

Answer: Androphobia


Context: Cimarron County, Oklahoma | Baca County, Colorado (north/Mountain Time border) ; Morton County, Kansas (northeast) ; Texas County (east) ; Dallam County, Texas (south) ; Sherman County, Texas (southeast) ; Union County, New Mexico (west/Mountain Time border) Cimarron County is the only county in the United States that borders four states: Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas. As a result, Cimarron County is the only county in the United States to border at least five counties from five different states (one from each of the four aforementioned states, plus one in Oklahoma and a second county in Texas). A location 300 yards east of US 287-385 and 1.75 mi south of the Cimarron River is the only place in the US less than 27 mi from five different states: 26.99 mi from Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas and 7 mi from Colorado.

Prompt: What is the only county in the USA to border 5 counties from 5 different states : Baca County, Colorado; Morton County, Kansas; Texas County, Oklahoma; Dallam County, Texas; Union County, New Mexico ?

Answer: Cimarron County


Context: Bradt Travel Guides | Africa (overland) ; Angola ; Botswana ; Burkina Faso ; Cameroon ; Cape Verde ; Congo ; Equatorial Guinea ; Eritrea ; Ethiopia ; Gabon ; The Gambia ; Ghana ; Ivory Coast ; Kenya ; Madagascar ; Malawi ; Mauritius (incl. Rodrigues and Réunion) ; Mozambique ; Namibia ; Nigeria ; Rwanda ; São Tomé and Príncipe ; Senegal ; Seychelles ; Sierra Leone ; Somaliland ; South Africa ; South Sudan ; Sudan ; Swaziland ; Tanzania (and Northern) and Zanzibar ; Uganda ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe ; Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha

Prompt: What is the next in the series: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Gambia, Botswana, Lesotho, Mauritius

Answer: Kingdom of Swaziland


Context: Reading Rowing Club |  Reading Rowing Club is a rowing club, on the River Thames in England, on the Berkshire bank at Reading close to the town centre just above Caversham Bridge, the westerly bridge in the town on the reach above Caversham Lock. The club was founded in 1867 at Reading where there had been an interest in rowing for several years. After its foundation the club revived the Reading Amateur Regatta and has been the driving force behind it ever since. The club was particularly successful at Henley Royal Regatta in the 1930s.

Prompt: What amateur rowing club based at Henley on Thames, England, was founded in 1818?

Answer: The Leander Club


Context: Buzkashi | 1) There are two teams with 12 participants each. ; 2) Only 4 players a team are allowed to play on the field at any given time. ; 3) Teams are allowed to substitute players or their horses. ; 4) The game is played on a field 200 meters long and 70 meters wide. ; 5) Two kazans – big goals with a 4.4 meters in diameter and 1.2 meters high are placed on opposite sides of a field. ; 6) The total duration of three periods is 60 minutes. ; 7) There is a 10 minute break between each period. ; 8) A goal is scored each time a ulak (goat carcass) is placed in an opponent's kazan. ; 9) A kokboru is brought to centre of the field after scoring a goal.  Rules of kokboru have undergone several changes throughout history. Modernized rules of kokboru are: It is also prohibited to ride towards the spectators and/or receive spectators' assistance or to start a kokboru game without giving an oath to play justly.

Prompt: Which game has 5 players per team (who are not allowed to wear shoes), who play for 36 minutes in three 12 minute periods on a stretch of sand that is 35-37m (38.2-40.4 yds) long and 26-28m (28.4-30.6 yards) wide?

Answer: Beach Football


Context: Moses | " Underground Railroad conductor and American Civil War veteran Harriet Tubman was nicknamed ""Moses"" due to her various missions in freeing and ferrying escaped enslaved persons to freedom in the free states of the United States. Historian Gladys L. Knight describes how leaders who emerged during and after the period in which slavery in the United States was legal often personified the Moses symbol. ""The symbol of Moses was empowering in that it served to amplify a need for freedom."" Therefore, when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 after the passage of the amendment to the Constitution outlawing slavery, Black Americans said they had lost ""their "

Prompt: "Who was known as the ""Moses of her people"" for leading escaped slaves to freedom during the US Civil War?"

Answer: Hariet tubman


Context: Christopher Columbus |  Though Christopher Columbus came to be considered the European discoverer of America in Western popular culture, his historical legacy is more nuanced. The Norse had colonized North America around 500 years before Columbus, with some degree of contact with Europe being maintained until about 1410. The 1960s discovery at L'Anse aux Meadows put Columbus's role in Western popular culture into question, as it partially corroborates accounts within the Icelandic sagas of Erik the Red's colonization of Greenland and his son Leif Erikson's exploration of Vinland around the turn of the 11th century.

Prompt: Which Europeans have been proved to have reached North America before Christopher Columbus?

Answer: VIKING


Context: Touchstone (As You Like It) |  Touchstone is a fictional character in Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

Prompt: "What kind of character is ""Touchstone"", who appears in Shakespeare's ""As You Like It""?"

Answer: Clownish


Context: Inverurie |  Inverurie (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Uraidh or Inbhir Uaraidh, 'mouth of the River Ury') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and Don, about 16 mi north-west of Aberdeen.

Prompt: What Scottish city is at the confluence of the rivers Dee and Don?

Answer: Aberdeen City


Context: Ivan Galamian |  in Westport, New York. The school has remained operational and has trained thousands of world-class musicians. Galamian taught concurrently at Curtis, Juilliard, and Meadowmount schools. He did not retire and maintained an active full-time work schedule. He died at the age of 78 in 1981 in New York City. His wife subsequently took on an active role in managing the Meadowmount School. Galamian's most notable teaching assistants — later distinguished teachers in their own right — were Margaret Pardee, Dorothy DeLay, Sally Thomas, Pauline Scott, Robert Lipsett, Lewis Kaplan, David Cerone, and Elaine Richey. Galamian held honorary degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin College, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He was an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Prompt: Ivan Galamian has had world-wide influence as a teacher of what?

Answer: Violinist (disambiguation)


Context: Iolcus | "  According to ancient Greek mythology, Aeson was the rightful king of Iolcus, but his half-brother Pelias usurped the throne. It was Pelias who sent Aeson's son Jason and his Argonauts to look for the Golden Fleece. The ship Argo set sail from Iolcus with a crew of fifty demigods and princes under Jason's leadership. Their mission was to reach Colchis in Aea at the eastern seaboard of the Black Sea and reclaim and bring back the Golden Fleece. Along with the Golden Fleece, Jason brought a wife, the sorceress Medea—king Aeetes' daughter, granddaughter of the Sun, niece of Circe, princess of Aea, and later queen of Iolcus, Corinth and Aea, and also murderer of her brother Absyrtus, and her two sons from Jason. She is a tragic figure whose trials and tribulations were artfully dramatized in the much-staged play by Euripides, Medea. Iolcus is mentioned by Homer, in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, and later in the Odyssey; he gives it the epithets of ἐϋκτιμένη (""well built"") and εὐρύχορος (""with broad places"", ""spacious""). The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus says the city was founded by Cretheus, and to have been colonised by Minyans from Orchomenos."

Prompt: According to Greek legend, which sorceress helped Jason to find the golden fleece and became his wife?

Answer: Medea (Seneca)


Context: Nevada Test Site | Operation Ranger — 1951 ; Operation Buster–Jangle — 1951 ; Operation Tumbler–Snapper — 1952 ; Operation Upshot–Knothole — 1953 ; Operation Teapot — 1955 ; Project 56 — 1955 ; Operation Plumbbob — 1957 ; Project 57, Project 58/58A — 1957–1958 ; Operation Hardtack II — 1958 ; Operation Nougat — 1961–1962 ; Operation Plowshare — 1961–1973 (sporadic, at least one test a year) ; Operation Sunbeam (aka Dominic II) — 1962 ; Operation Dominic — 1962–1963 ; Operation Storax — 1963 ; Operation Niblick — 1963–1964 ; Operation Whetstone — 1964–1965 ; Operation Flintlock — 1965–1966 ; Operation Latchkey — 1966–1967 ; Operation Crosstie — 1967–1968 ; Operation Bowline — 1968–1969 ;

Prompt: What were Operation Ranger, Operation Buster-Jangle, Operation Tumbler-Snapper, Operation Upshot-Knothole and Operation Teapot?

Answer: Nuclear test series carried out in the USA


Context: St Trinian's School |   St Trinian's is a British gag cartoon comic strip series, created and drawn by Ronald Searle from 1946 until 1952. The cartoons all centre on a boarding school for girls, where the teachers are sadists and the girls are juvenile delinquents. The series was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films.

Prompt: Who created St Trinians, a fictional girls' boarding school, the subject of 8 books and 7 films between 1954 and 2009?

Answer: Searle, Ronald William Fordham


Context: George Bernard Shaw | " Throughout his lifetime Shaw professed many beliefs, often contradictory. This inconsistency was partly an intentional provocation—the Spanish scholar-statesman Salvador de Madariaga describes Shaw as ""a pole of negative electricity set in a people of positive electricity"". In one area at least Shaw was constant: in his lifelong refusal to follow normal English forms of spelling and punctuation. He favoured archaic spellings such as ""shew"" for ""show""; he dropped the ""u"" in words like ""honour"" and ""favour""; and wherever possible he rejected the apostrophe in contractions such as ""won't"" or ""that's"". In his will, Shaw ordered that, after some specified legacies, his remaining assets "

Prompt: "George Bernard Shaw described dancing as ""a vertical expression of ... "" what?"

Answer: A horizontal desire


Context: Curling |  Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite rocks, also called stones, across the ice curling sheet toward the house, a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones. A game usually consists of eight or

Prompt: "In what sport are the ""stones"" aimed at the ""house""?"

Answer: Curling sheet


Context: Heidi Klum | " In 1997, Klum married stylist Ric Pipino. The couple divorced in 2002. In March 2003, Klum began a relationship with Flavio Briatore, the Italian managing director of Renault’s Formula One team. In December she announced her pregnancy. Soon after, the two split and Klum began dating the musician Seal. Klum gave birth to daughter Leni in May 2004 in New York City. Seal was present for Leni's birth, and according to Klum, Briatore is not involved in Leni's life; she has stated emphatically that ""Seal is Leni's father."" Klum and Seal got engaged in December 2004 on a glacier in Whistler, British Columbia and married on 10 May 2005 on a beach in Mexico. They have three "

Prompt: Who married Heidi Klum in May 2005?

Answer: Seal (disambiguation)


Context: Participatory surveillance | " Doxing is a form of cyberbullying, using the Internet to post private information about an individual or organization as a means of attack against the entity. Common information that can be leaked can be anything from a past discretion, home address, or even social security number of the victim. This information could be freely available on the internet for the attacker to access and publicize. This differentiates it from other types of information leaks, since the information is simply being brought to the forefront of the public's viewing. In other words, the public information being leaked could be found freely by other parties even if it was not exposed in a more public light. The term ""doxing"" comes from the origins of document, first used in 2001 with the infamous hacker collective called Anonymous. With today's current laws, most legislation pertaining to cyber threats and "

Prompt: What word is used to describe someone within an organisation who leaks information?

Answer: The Mole


Context: Ninette de Valois | " Dame Ninette de Valois (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the leading ballet companies in the world. She also established the Royal Ballet School and the touring company which became the Birmingham Royal Ballet. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of ballet and as the ""godmother"" of English and Irish ballet."

Prompt: Ninette de Valois was involved professionally in what activity?

Answer: Ballet


Context: Maxwell Montes |  Maxwell Montes is a mountain massif on the planet Venus, of which a peak (Skadi Mons) is the highest point on the planet's surface.

Prompt: The mountain massif called Maxwell Montes contains the highest point on the surface of which planet?

Answer: Sol 2


Context: Glossary of association football terms | Near post/Back post: notional concept, referring to the position of a goalkeeper in relation to the posts. When an attacker scores a goal by placing the ball between the goalkeeper and the post to which they are closest, the goalkeeper is said to have been beaten at the near post. ; Neutral ground or neutral venue: venue for a match that belongs to neither team. ; Normal time: the first 90 minutes of a match. ; Not interfering with play: see passive offside. ; Nutmeg: when a player intentionally plays the ball between an opponent's legs, runs past the opponent, and collects their own pass.

Prompt: What is the term used when one team is beaten throroughly by another?

Answer: White-washed


Context: Continent | " By convention, continents ""are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water"". In modern schemes with five or more recognised continents, at least one pair of continents is joined by land in some way. The criterion ""large"" leads to arbitrary classification: Greenland, with a surface area of 2166086 sqkm, is only considered the world's largest island, while Australia, at 7617930 sqkm, is deemed the smallest continent. Earth's major landmasses all have coasts on a single, continuous World Ocean, which is divided into a number of principal oceanic components by the continents and various geographic criteria."

Prompt: Which of the continents is the smallest in area?

Answer: Australia (Commonwealth realm)


Context: Medieval Latin | " himself"" or ""Jesus clothed himself in the robe"" would use the middle voice. Because Latin had no middle voice, Medieval Latin expresses such sentences by putting the verb in the passive voice form, but the conceptual meaning is active (similar to Latin deponent verbs). For example, the Medieval Latin translation of Genesis states literally, ""the Spirit of God was moved over the waters"" (""spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas"", Genesis 1:2), but it is just expressing a Greek middle-voice verb: ""God moved [himself] over the waters"". ; Overlapping with orthography differences (see below), certain diphthongs were sometimes shortened: ""oe"" to "

Prompt: "What Latin phrase means means to speak under one's breath, literally ""under voice""?"

Answer: Sotto Voce


Context: Solar eclipse |  When the shrinking visible part of the photosphere becomes very small, Baily's beads will occur. These are caused by the sunlight still being able to reach the Earth through lunar valleys. Totality then begins with the diamond ring effect, the last bright flash of sunlight. It is safe to observe the total phase of a solar eclipse directly only when the Sun's photosphere is completely covered by the Moon, and not before or after totality. During this period, the Sun is too dim to be seen through filters. The Sun's faint corona will be visible, and the chromosphere, solar prominences, and possibly even a solar flare may be seen. At the end of totality, the same effects will occur in reverse order, and on the opposite side of the Moon.

Prompt: What natural effect is only visible during a total eclipse of the sun?

Answer: Bailey's Beads


Context: Stirling Moss | " Moss raced from 1948 to 1962, winning 212 of the 529 races he entered, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix. He competed in as many as 62 races in a single year and drove 84 different makes of car over the course of his racing career. He preferred to race British cars, stating, ""Better to lose honourably in a British car than win in a foreign one"". At Vanwall, he was instrumental in breaking the German/Italian stranglehold on F1 racing (as was Jack Brabham at Cooper). He remained the English driver with the most Formula One victories until 1991 when Nigel Mansell overtook him after competing in more races."

Prompt: Stirling who was a British racing driver, who raced from 1948 to 1962 and won 212 of the 529 races he entered, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix?

Answer: Muscopsida


Context: 2010 Nobel Peace Prize | " had been received from 46 countries, including the previously non-committal India, while China and 19 others—Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunisia, Venezuela and Vietnam—declined invitations to the award ceremony ""for various reasons"". On the eve of the award ceremony, China continued the rhetoric against the Nobel Committee and the West. A spokesman said: ""We hope that those countries who have received invitations can tell right from wrong and uphold justice. It's not an issue of human rights. It's an issue of interfering in other countries' internal affairs""; the Nobel committee continued to "

Prompt: The Nobel Peace Prize winner for 2010 lives in which country?

Answer: Chinese People's Republic


Context: A Chorus Line |  A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante. Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer, as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers. Following several workshops and an Off-Broadway production, A Chorus Line opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway July 25, 1975, directed by Michael Bennett and co-choreographed by Bennett and

Prompt: "Who wrote the music for the musical ""A Chorus Line""?"

Answer: Marvin Frederick Hamlisch


Context: Public art in Milton Keynes | " The Milton Keynes Development Corporation had an ambitious public art programme and over 50 works were commissioned, mostly still extant. This programme also had two strands: a populist one which involved the local community in the works, the most famous of which is Liz Leyh's Concrete Cows, a group of concrete Friesian cows which have become the unofficial logo of the town. There is also a tradition of abstract geometrical art hanging in the Midsummer Arcade of the Shopping Building, Central Milton Keynes. One such piece is Lilliane Lijn's ""Circle of Light"", though its mechanism has not worked for many years. In Netherfield Park, Peter Codling's 2003 ""Alphabet Artworks"" are based on the 26 letters of the English (Latin) alphabet."

Prompt: Which English town is known for its collection of concrete cows?

Answer: Milton keynes


Context: James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan |  Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, (16 October 1797 – 28 March 1868), styled as Lord Cardigan, was an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. He led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. Throughout his life in politics and his long military career he characterised the arrogant and extravagant aristocrat of the period. His progression through the Army was marked by many episodes of extraordinary incompetence, but also by generosity to the men under his command and genuine bravery. As a member of the landed aristocracy he had actively and steadfastly opposed any political reform in Britain, but in the last year of his life he relented and came to acknowledge that such reform would bring benefit to all classes of society.

Prompt: Lieutenant General James Thomas Brudenell, who commanded the Light Brigade of the British Army during the Crimean War, was the 7th Earl of what?

Answer: Cardigan


Context: International border states of the United States |  Thirteen states lie on the U.S.–Canada border. The U.S. states of Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin do not share a direct geographic border with Canada. They do, however, possess customs facilities due to their place along the Great Lakes, which leads to the Canadian border. (All three states connect Lake Michigan, while Wisconsin also connects to Lake Superior).

Prompt: How many US states border Lake Superior?

Answer: 3


Context: The Last English King | " The Last English King (1997) is a historical novel by English writer Julian Rathbone. The novel covers the time of the Battle of Hastings. It revolves around Walt Edwinson, a housecarl of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The story starts with Walt returning to his home at Iwerne in Dorset four years after the Battle of Hastings. He had fled England after the defeat of the Anglo-Saxons and had spent the time travelling across Europe and Asia Minor. The story of his journey from Constantinople via Nicomedia and Nicaea to Side is then recounted in parallel with his recollections of the time before the battle, such as his accompanying Harold to William of Normandy's attack on Dinan.  At the end of the novel the death of Harold is described. Rathbone has him buried in a shroud made from a banner depicting the ""Fighting Man of Cerne""."

Prompt: Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England?

Answer: Harold II


Context: 2004 | December 8 – Pantera/Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell is murdered on stage, at the Alrosa Villa, in Columbus, Ohio. ; December 14 – The world's tallest bridge, the Millau Viaduct over the Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is officially opened. ; December 21 – Iraqi insurgents attack a U.S. military base in the city of Mosul, killing 22 people. ; December 26 – The 9.1–9.3 Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, killing over 200,000 people. ; December 27 – Astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich measure the strongest burst from a magnetar. At 21:30:26 UT Earth is hit by a huge wave front of gamma and X-rays. It is the strongest flux of high-energetic gamma radiation measured so far. ; December 30 – A fire in the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194. ; December 31 – Taipei 101, at the time the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 ft, officially opens.

Prompt: Where was the world's tallest road bridge opened in December 2004?

Answer: La Republique francaise


Context: William Bowie (engineer) |  Two undersea features, the Bowie Seamount and the Bowie Canyon, are named after William Bowie. The William Bowie Medal, the highest honor of the American Geophysical Union, is named in his honor. The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey coastal survey ship USC&GS Bowie (CSS 27), in commission from 1946 to 1967, was named for him.

Prompt: What was named after American frontiersman James Bowie?

Answer: Ansall


Context: National Football League controversies | " In 2006, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was involved in a dog fighting ring, and over seventy dogs, with most of them being pit bull terriers, with some said to be showing signs of injuries, were seized, along with physical evidence during several searches of Vick's 15 acre property by local, state and federal authorities. During the investigation, Vick was revealed to be working with four others (Tony Taylor, Purnell Anthony Peace, Quanis Lavell Philips, and Oscar Allen). Eventually, they were convicted for ""Conspiracy in interstate commerce/aid of unlawful animal cruelty venture"". On September 13, Vick tested positive for marijuana, and "

Prompt: What team does controversial quarterback Michael Vick play for in the National Football League in the USA?

Answer: Philly Eagles


Context: Wooden Heart | " Presley's publishing company. Bobby Vinton recorded his version in 1975 with those lines translated into Polish. The Elvis Presley version featured two parts in German, the first one is the first four lines of ""Muss i' denn zum Städtele hinaus"", whereas the second part appears towards the end and is based on a translation of the English version (therefore not appearing in the original German folk lyrics). This part being Sei mir gut, sei mir gut, sei mir wie du wirklich sollst, wie du wirklich sollst... (""Be good to me, be good to me, be to me how you really should, how you really should..."")."

Prompt: Elvis Presley sang a few lines in German on which US hit song?

Answer: Wooden Heart


Context: Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men) |  Charles Francis Harper is a fictional character and one of the two main protagonists in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men during the first eight seasons of the series. Played by actor Charlie Sheen, the character has garnered him four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series. Although the character was written off after the end of the eighth season, the character was reprised for one episode of the ninth season by Kathy Bates, which resulted in her winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series and in the series

Prompt: "Charlie Sheen starred as which character in the TV series ""Two and a Half Men""?"

Answer: Charlie


Context: British literature |  along with the novels and poems of Lewis Carroll, is regarded as a precursor of surrealism. In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularise the form. Writers of comic verse included the dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), who is best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado.

Prompt: "Who published ""A Book of Nonsense"" (a volume of limericks that went through three editions) in 1846, ""The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple"" in 1865, and ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" in 1867?"

Answer: Edward Lear


Context: Expedition 12 |  While wake-up music is a tradition aboard space shuttle missions, the ISS crew generally use an alarm clock to wake up. Expedition 12 astronauts received a special treat on 3 November 2005 when Paul McCartney performed Good Day Sunshine and English Tea in a first ever concert linkup from the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California on his US tour. The event was broadcast live on NASA TV.

Prompt: Who performed in the first concert link into space, which was sent from Anaheim California to the space shuttle Discovery in 2005?

Answer: Gladys Jenkins


Context: Aintree Racecourse |  in recent years. It is regarded as the most difficult of all courses to complete successfully, with the fences including renowned obstacles such the Chair, Foinavon, Valentine's, Canal Turn and Becher's Brook. All fences bar the water jump are covered with spruce, unlike at any other course in British National Hunt racing. Four other races take place over the National fences. These are the Topham Trophy Chase (reverting to its original name in 2002 after being known as the John Hughes Trophy Chase since 1989) and the Fox Hunters' Chase at the Grand National meeting, and the Grand Sefton Handicap Chase and Becher Chase in the December meeting. The fences

Prompt: The Fan, Westhead, Becher's Brook, Foinavon's, Canal Turn, Valentine's Brook, the Booth, the Anchor Bridge and the Chair are features of a venue for what sport?

Answer: Scratch sheet


Context: Progressive tax |  The first modern income tax was introduced in Britain by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in his budget of December 1798, to pay for weapons and equipment for the French Revolutionary War. Pitt's new graduated (progressive) income tax began at a levy of 2 old pence in the pound (1/120) on incomes over £60 and increased up to a maximum of 2 shillings (10%) on incomes of over £200. Pitt hoped that the new income tax would raise £10 million, but actual receipts for 1799 totalled just over £6 million. Pitt's progressive income tax was levied from 1799 to 1802, when it was abolished by Henry Addington during the Peace of Amiens. Addington had taken over as prime minister in 1801, after Pitt's resignation

Prompt: What innovation was introduced to Britain by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1798?

Answer: Income tax


Context: Ana Cumpănaș |  Ana Cumpănaș or Anna Sage, nicknamed Woman in Red (1889 – April 25, 1947), was a Romanian prostitute and brothel owner in the American cities of Chicago and Gary, Indiana. She is best known for assisting the Federal Bureau of Investigation in tracking down gangster John Dillinger.

Prompt: What nickname was given to Ana Cumpna, also known as Anna Sage, who betrayed John Dillinger to the police when he attended the Biograph Theater in Chicago?

Answer: The Lady in Red


Context: Slang terms for money | " General money slang Generally slang terms for money are following: ""b′abki"" — from Czech small anvil for making coins — ""b′abka"", pl. ""b′abki"" ""babl′o"" — slang from ""b′abki"" ""lav′ae"" — used since 1990s, comes from gypsy word ""lavae"" means silver. Russian writer Victor Pelevin gives an alternative witty consumeristic meaning to this word. In his book ""Generation P"" he interprets ""lav′ae"" as a spelled out abbreviation ""LV"" which stands for liberal values. ""kap′u:sta"" — means cabbage ""derevy′anniy"" — a general name for a rouble, a substantive adj. ""wooden"". Means that rouble is cheap as it is made of wood. Expressions ""strich bablo"" — verb ""strich"" means ""to "

Prompt: What is the word for a small amount of money?

Answer: Pittance


Context: So Solid Crew | A.M. SNiPER ; AC Burrell ; Akira ; Asher D ; Carl Morgan ; Dan Da Man ; DJ Mex ; DJ PDS ; DJ Swiss ; Face ; Frost ; G-Man ; JD ; Kaish ; Kowdeen ; Lisa Maffia ; MC Harvey ; MC Mac ; Megaman ; Money ; Mr. Shabz ; Oxide & Neutrino ; PDs ; Radical ; Romeo ; Skat D ; Stampede ; Statix ; Squami ; Synth ; Thug Angel ; Tiger S ; Timeless ; The Twins ; Trigga ; TW7 There was also a sub-group of So Solid called So Solid Kids, which contained members Samantha, Skip, Frost, and Thrust. Skip and Frost hosted a 'So Solid Kids' show on Delight FM.

Prompt: MC Romeo, Dan Da Man, Mr Akira and Mr C were members of which group?

Answer: So Solid Crew.


Context: Bridal Chorus | " The ""Bridal Chorus"" (""Treulich geführt"") from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto, is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world. In English-speaking countries, it is generally known as ""Here Comes the Bride"" or ""Wedding March"", but ""wedding march"" refers to any piece in march tempo accompanying the entrance or exit of the bride, notably Felix Mendelssohn's ""Wedding March"". Wagner’s piece was made popular when it was used as the processional at the wedding of Victoria the Princess Royal to Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858. The chorus is sung in Lohengrin by the women of the wedding party after the ceremony, as they accompany the heroine Elsa to her bridal chamber."

Prompt: "Who wrote the piece of music recognised in much of the Western world as ""The Wedding March"" (or as ""Here Comes The Bride"")?"

Answer: Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy


Context: History of Tanzania |  air from England via Nairobi and 40 Commando came ashore from the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark. Several months were spent with Commandos touring the country disarming military outposts. When the successful operation ended, the Royal Marines left to be replaced by Canadian troops. On 26 April 1964, Tanganyika united with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The country was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania on 29 October of that year. The name Tanzania is a blend of Tanganyika and Zanzibar and previously had no significance. Under the terms of this union, the Zanzibar Government retains considerable local autonomy.

Prompt: Tanzania was renamed in 1964. What was it previously called?

Answer: Tanzanian


Context: Stereophonics | " Their fifth studio album, Language. Sex. Violence. Other? was released in March 2005. It marked their first recording with new drummer Javier Weyler. The band achieved their first number one hit in the UK singles charts with the album's first single, ""Dakota"". The second single from the album was ""Superman"". However, that song did not repeat the success of ""Dakota"", peaking at number thirteen. After ""Superman"" came ""Devil"", featuring a controversial video and reaching number eleven in the charts. The album was nominated for a Pop Factory award at the end of the year, losing out to Feeder's Pushing the Senses. On 2 July 2005, the "

Prompt: What was the UK #1 single released by the band Stereophonics in 2005?

Answer: Dakota


Context: Hermann Greiner |  (USAAF) bombers during daylight hours and 47 Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft at night. Only 23 other night fighter pilots—all German World War II serviceman—surpassed Greiner's total which was achieved in three years and six months of operations. Following the conclusion of the War, Greiner and close friend Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer were arrested illegally crossing the German-Swiss border attempting an escape to Argentina. Both Greiner and Schnaufer were detained in an Allied prisoner of war camp and released in 1947. Greiner went on to study law and returned to service in the German Air Force in 1957, retiring with the rank of Oberstleutnant in 1972.

Prompt: Who was the legless World War II fighter pilot who was detained in German prisoner of war camps for 4 years?

Answer: Group Captain Douglas R S Bader, CBE, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar


Context: Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines | " Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (or simply Dastardly and Muttley in the UK and Ireland) is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and a spin-off from Wacky Races. The show was originally broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969, to January 3, 1970, on CBS. The show focuses on the efforts of Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick Muttley to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries secret messages (hence the name of the show's theme song ""Stop the Pigeon""). The title is a reference to the film and song Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. The original working title of the show was "

Prompt: "In the TV series ""Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines"", what is the name of Dastardly's squadron?"

Answer: Aasvogel


Context: MUD | " Colossal Cave Adventure, created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, was the first widely used adventure game. The game was significantly expanded in 1976 by Don Woods. Also called Adventure, it contained many D&D features and references, including a computer controlled dungeon master. Numerous dungeon crawlers were created on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois and other American universities that used PLATO, beginning in 1975. Among them were ""pedit5"", ""oubliette"", ""moria"", ""avatar"", ""krozair"", ""dungeon"", ""dnd"", ""crypt"", and ""drygulch"". By 1978–79, these games were heavily in use on various PLATO systems, and exhibited a marked increase in sophistication in terms of 3D graphics, storytelling, user involvement, team play, and depth of objects and monsters in the dungeons. Inspired by Adventure, a group of students at MIT in the summer "

Prompt: Which game that contained many D&D; features and references, including a computer controlled dungeon master, created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, the first widely used adventure game, was significantly expanded in 1976 by Don Woods, that inspired a group of students at MIT to write a game called Zork in the summer of 1977 for the PDP-10 minicomputer which became quite popular on the ARPANET?

Answer: Adventurers


Context: Michael Caine |   Caine has been nominated for an Oscar six times, winning his first Academy Award for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters, and his second in 1999 for The Cider House Rules, in both cases as a supporting actor. His performance in Educating Rita in 1983 earned him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Jack Nicholson); Laurence Olivier was also nominated for an acting Academy Award in five decades, beginning in 1939 and

Prompt: For which two films has Michael Caine won Oscars?

Answer: """The Cider House Rules"" & ""Hannah and Her Sisters"""


Context: List of British monarchy records | Henry VII, who was born on 28 January 1457, following the death of his father Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond on 1 or 3 November 1456, between 87 or 89 days previously. ; William III, who was born on 14 November 1650, following the death of his father William II, Prince of Orange on 6 November 1650, 8 days previously. Two British monarchs were posthumously born sons (of fathers who had died before their births):  James IV of Scotland, who died at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, left a posthumous son, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross, who was born on 30 April 1514, 7 months later.

Prompt: Which member of the British royal family was born on 8/8/88?

Answer: Princess beatrice of york


Context: Bairn | " Bairn is a Northern English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. It originated in Old English as ""bearn"", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. The word was included in the English Dialect Dictionary with variant spellings barn, bayn, bayne that reflect varying pronunciations. Compare with the Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish word for child ""barn"" or the West-Frisian ""bern"". Also the Latvian ""bērns"". Cain bairns are children seized by witches and warlocks as tribute for the devil."

Prompt: "In Scotland and northern England, what is a ""bairn""?"

Answer: Little kids


Context: American alligator |  Fish and other aquatic prey taken in the water or at the water's edge form the major part of American alligator's diet and may be eaten at any time of the day or night. Adult American alligators also spend considerable time hunting on land, up to 170 ft (50 m) from water, ambushing terrestrial animals on trailsides and road shoulders. Usually, terrestrial hunting occurs on nights with warm temperatures. When hunting terrestrial prey, American alligators may also ambush them from the edge of the water by grabbing them and pulling the prey into the water, the preferred method of predation of larger crocodiles. Additionally, American alligators have recently been filmed and documented killing and eating sharks and rays; four incidents documented indicated that bonnetheads, lemon sharks, Atlantic stingrays, and nurse sharks are components of the animal's diet. Sharks are also known to prey on American alligators, in turn, indicating that encounters between the two predators are common.

Prompt: Which American carnivorous mammal feeds by night, habitually dipping its prey into water before eating?

Answer: Social behavior of raccoons


Context: Sarah Waters | " Waters's second book, Affinity, was published a year after her first, in 1999. The novel, also set in the Victorian era, centres on the world of Victorian Spiritualism. While finishing her debut novel, Waters had been working on an academic paper on spiritualism. She combined her interests in spiritualism, prisons, and the Victorian era in Affinity, which tells the story of the relationship between an upper-middle-class woman and an imprisoned spiritualist. The novel is less light-hearted than the ones that preceded and followed it. Waters found it less enjoyable to write. ""It was a very gloomy world to have to go into every day"", she said. Affinity won the Stonewall Book Award and Somerset Maugham Award. Andrew Davies wrote a screenplay adapting Affinity and the resulting feature film premiered 19 June 2008 at the opening night of Frameline the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival at the Castro Theater."

Prompt: What 2008 film is an adaptation by Andrew Davies of a book by Sarah Waters, that is set in a Victorian-era women's prison?

Answer: Affinal


Context: Number One Observatory Circle | " Number One Observatory Circle is the official residence of the vice president of the United States. Located on the northeast grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., the house was built in 1893 for the observatory superintendent. The chief of naval operations (CNO) liked the house so much that in 1923 he took over the house for himself. It remained the residence of the CNO until 1974, when Congress authorized its transformation to an official residence for the vice president, though a temporary one. It is still the ""official temporary residence of the vice president of the United States"" by law. The 1974 congressional authorization covered the cost of refurbishment and furnishing the house. Although Number One Observatory Circle was made available to "

Prompt: What is the official residence of the Vice President of the USA?

Answer: Number One Observatory Circle


Context: History of massively multiplayer online games |  barricades and fortifications, as well as thousands of unique player abilities and skills which formed the basis of Avalon's meritocratic PVP system based on skill-worth as opposed to the traditional level-based progression system favoured by many other games of this genre. Avalon's mission statement was to be the first fully developed roleplaying world - a life within a life using real-world systems to fully immerse players into the lives of the characters they created. Many MUDs are still active and a number of influential MMORPG designers, such as Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, Matt Firor, Mark Jacobs, Brian Green, and J. Todd Coleman, began as and/or players. The history of MMORPGs grows directly out of the history of MUDs.

Prompt: Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, Mark Jacobs, Brian Green and J. Todd Coleman are influential in MMORPG design. What is MMORPG?

Answer: Massively Multi Player On-line Roleplaying Game


Context: Ledger | " The term ledger stems from the English dialect forms liggen or leggen, meaning ""to lie or lay"" (Dutch: liggen or leggen, German: liegen or legen); in sense it is adapted from the Dutch substantive legger, properly ""a book laying or remaining regularly in one place"". Originally, a ledger was a large volume of scripture or service book kept in one place in church and openly accessible. According to Charles Wriothesley's Chronicle (1538), ""The curates should provide a booke of the bible in Englishe, of the largest volume, to be a ledger in the same church for the parishioners to read on."" In application of this original meaning the commercial usage of the term is for the ""principal book of account"" in a business house."

Prompt: What is traditionally written in a ledger?

Answer: Account


Context: Cricket field |  Most of the action takes place in the centre of this ground, on a rectangular clay strip usually with short grass called the pitch. The pitch measures 22 yd long. At each end of the pitch three upright wooden stakes, called the stumps, are hammered into the ground. Two wooden crosspieces, known as the bails, sit in grooves atop the stumps, linking each to its neighbour. Each set of three stumps and two bails is collectively known as a wicket. One end of the pitch is designated the batting end where the batsman stands and the other is designated the bowling end where the bowler runs in to bowl. The area of the field on the side of the line joining the wickets where the batsman holds his bat (the right-hand side for a right-handed batsman, the left for a left-hander) is known as the off side, the other as the leg side or on side. Lines drawn or painted on the pitch are known as creases. Creases are used to adjudicate the dismissals of batsmen, by indicating where the batsmen's grounds are, and to determine whether a delivery is fair.

Prompt: What is the name for the pieces of wood that sit on top of cricket wickets?

Answer: Posting bail


Context: Chen Chu |   Chen was criticized for having a nap in her residence while many parts of Kaohsiung were flooded during Typhoon Fanapi on 19 September 2010. Chen tearfully apologized, saying she felt guilty for taking a rest. Stressing that she returned her residence to change her wet clothes, Chen indicated she was also keeping a close eye on the rainstorm. Critics called for her immediate resignation and compared Chen's behaviour to then-Premier Liu Chao-shiuan's haircut and then-Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan Hsieh Hsiang-chuan's attendance at a Father's Day dinner during Typhoon Morakot in August 2009. Chen and the Kaohsiung City Government were sued by Lin Chi-mei, a fellow party member and local official from Benhe Village, in the aftermath of the flooding. She alleged the local government did not maintain properly the flood control facilities.

Prompt: "In September 2010, why did Chen Xiaomei of the city of Xian announce that she was suing a cinema and film distributors of Chinese box office hit ""Aftershock""?"

Answer: Wasting her time