Context: Lost history | The ancient city Troy (found by Schliemann, though this has been disputed) (found in the 1870s; lost 12th century BC–14th century BC) ; The Greek place of worship Olympia (found by German archaeologists in 1875) ; The Lost Legions Of Varus (Battle of the Teutoburg Forest) (last seen 15 AD, found 1987) ; Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Oplontis all buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. (Lost 79 AD, rediscovered in 1748) ; The Nuestra Señora de Atocha Spanish treasure ship (lost 1622, found 1985) ; The RMS Titanic (lost 1912, found 1985)

Prompt: The remains of which ancient city were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s?

Answer: Trojan people


Context: Winson Green | " Winson Green is a loosely defined inner-city area in the west of the city of Birmingham, England. It is part of the ward of Soho. It is the location of HM Prison Birmingham (known locally as Winson Green Prison or ""the Green"") and of City Hospital (formerly Dudley Road Hospital) as well as of the former All Saints' Hospital. The area has a very multi-racial population, with large Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities. There is a nearby large Tesco supermarket and attached Victorian library, Spring Hill Library."

Prompt: In which English city would you find Winson Green Prison?

Answer: County Borough of Birmingham


Context: Yazoo (band) |  Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America) were an English synth-pop duo from Basildon, Essex, consisting of former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards) and Alison Moyet (vocals). The duo formed in late 1981 after Clarke responded to an advertisement Moyet placed in a British music magazine, although the pair had known each other since their schooldays. Over the next 18 months the duo released two albums, Upstairs at Eric's and You and Me Both, which received critical acclaim for their production, particularly the blending of Clarke's synthesizer melodies with Moyet's blues- and soul-influenced vocals. Yazoo enjoyed worldwide success, particularly in their home country, where three of their four singles reached the top three of the UK Singles Chart and both their albums made the top

Prompt: Name the singer who, along with Vince Clarke, made up the pop group Yazoo?

Answer: Alf Moyet


Context: History of the FA Cup |  In 1985, Kevin Moran of Manchester United became the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup Final, he had fouled Peter Reid with a sliding tackle which missed the ball. United went on to win the match 1–0, after extra time. Since then, only five other players have been sent off in the FA Cup Final: José Antonio Reyes for Arsenal in 2005, Pablo Zabaleta for Manchester City in 2013, Chris Smalling of Manchester United in 2016, Victor Moses in 2017 and Mateo Kovačić in 2020, both of Chelsea. Of these, only Moran received a straight red and Zabaleta, Moses and Kovačić ended up being on the losing side.

Prompt: Manchester United's Kevin Moran was the first player to he sent off in an FA Cup final, which Arsenal player was the second?

Answer: Jose Antonio Reyes


Context: Charing Cross |  Charing Cross is a junction and its focal marker in London, England, where six routes meet. Clockwise from north these are the east side of Trafalgar Square leading to St Martin's Place and then Charing Cross Road; the Strand leading to the City; Northumberland Avenue leading to the Thames Embankment; Whitehall leading to Parliament Square; The Mall leading to Admiralty Arch and Buckingham Palace; and two short roads leading to Pall Mall. It also commonly refers to the Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross at Charing Cross station. A bronze equestrian statue of Charles I on a high plinth stands since 1675 roughly where a medieval monument stood for 353 years until destroyed – 28 years before – by Cromwell and

Prompt: Apart from London, in which other British city is there a Charing Cross?

Answer: The West End of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom


Context: Nigel Farage |  Nigel Paul Farage (born 3 April 1964) is a British broadcaster and former politician who was Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Brexit Party from 2019 to 2021. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's exit from the EU in 2020. He was the host of The Nigel Farage Show, a radio phone-in on the Global-owned talk radio station LBC, from 2017 to 2020. Farage is currently the Honorary President of Reform UK and a presenter on GB News. Known as a

Prompt: Nigel Farage is the leader of which political party?

Answer: U.k.i.p.


Context: Thus Spoke Zarathustra | " Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra, is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche between 1883 and 1885. The protagonist is nominally the historical Zarathustra, but, besides a handful of sentences, Nietzsche is not particularly concerned with any resemblance. Much of the book purports to be what Zarathustra said, and it repeats the refrain, ""Thus spoke Zarathustra"". The style of Zarathustra has facilitated variegated and often incompatible ideas about what Zarathustra says. Zarathustra's ""[e]xplanations and claims are almost always analogical and figurative"". Though there is no consensus with what Zarathustra means when he speaks, there is some consensus with "

Prompt: Which philosopher wrote 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' between 1883 and 1885?

Answer: Nietzshe


Context: Mary, Mother of Jesus (film) |  Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 American made-for-television biblical drama film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.

Prompt: Who in the Bible is the mother of Mary, the mother of Jesus?

Answer: Anne


Context: Fifty pence (British coin) |  In addition to the standard designs there have been several variant reverse designs used on the 50p coin to commemorate important events. These are summarised in the table below. There are also 29 different variants not listed here which were minted in 2011 in celebration of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The following coins were produced by the Royal Mint as commemorative releases only, without being released into circulation:

Prompt: In 2009, a special design was used on the reverse of the 50p coin to commemorate the 250th anniversary of which establishment?

Answer: Kew Botanic Gardens


Context: Operation Barbarossa | " Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa), also known as the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis allies, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation was named after Frederick Barbarossa (""red beard""), a 12th-century Holy Roman emperor and German king. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans. The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered people as slave labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well "

Prompt: What was the codename for the German invasion of Russia in 1941?

Answer: Barbarossa (disambiguation)


Context: L'Arlésienne (Bizet) |  L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2, also written for full orchestra, was arranged and published in 1879, four years after Bizet's death, by Ernest Guiraud, using Bizet's original themes (although not all of them were from the L'Arlésienne incidental music). The second suite is generally credited to Bizet since he wrote the themes and the basic orchestration.

Prompt: "Who is the composer of ""The L'Arlesienne Suite""?"

Answer: BIZET


Context: History of Northumberland |  When Saint Aidan came at the request of Oswald to preach to the Northumbrians he chose the island of Lindisfarne as the site of his church and monastery, and made it the head of the diocese which he founded in 635. For some years the see continued in peace, numbering among its bishops Saint Cuthbert, but in 793 Vikings landed on the island and burnt the settlement, killing many of the monks. The survivors, however, rebuilt the church and continued to live there until 883, when, through fear of a second invasion of the Danes, they fled inland, taking with them the body of Cuthbert

Prompt: On which island in the North Sea did both St Aidan and St Cuthbert live?

Answer: Lindisfarne


Context: Hippopotamus | " The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), also called the hippo, common hippopotamus or river hippopotamus, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal and ungulate native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis). The name comes from the ancient Greek for ""river horse"" (ἱπποπόταμος). After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal and is the heaviest extant artiodactyl (in the traditional, non-cladistic sense of the term, excluding cetaceans). Despite their physical resemblance to pigs and other terrestrial even-toed ungulates, the closest living relatives of the Hippopotamidae are cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises, etc.), from which they diverged about 55 million years ago. Hippos are recognisable by their barrel-shaped torsos, wide-opening mouths revealing large canine tusks, nearly hairless bodies, columnar "

Prompt: Which mammal is also known as a river horse?

Answer: The Hippopotamus


Context: Caloris Planitia | " Caloris Planitia is a plain within a large impact basin on Mercury, informally named Caloris, about 1,550 km in diameter. It is one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System. ""Calor"" is Latin for ""heat"" and the basin is so-named because the Sun is almost directly overhead every second time Mercury passes perihelion. The crater, discovered in 1974, is surrounded by the Caloris Montes, a ring of mountains approximately 2 km tall."

Prompt: The Caloris Basin is the largest crater on which planet?

Answer: MERCURY


Context: House arrest | Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of her country's pro-democracy movement, was punished with house arrest for most of the period from July 1989 to November 2010. After being released from her initial confinement after six years in 1995, she was convicted again and imprisoned in 2000. Two years later, she was again released. She was convicted and jailed for the third time under house arrest for her criticism of the government following the infamous Depayin Massacre in 2003. After her 14th year of prison, she was released to her dilapidated home in

Prompt: In which country has the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi been kept under house arrest for the last 6 years?

Answer: Economic sanctions against Myanmar


Context: Common linnet |   The common linnet (Linaria cannabina) is a small passerine bird of the finch family, Fringillidae. It derives its common name and the scientific name, Linaria, from its fondness for hemp seeds and flax seeds—flax being the English name of the plant from which linen is made.

Prompt: To which family of birds does the linnet belong?

Answer: Fringillidae


Context: Portsmouth |  was born in the city. Francis Austen, brother of Jane Austen, briefly lived in the area after graduating from Portsmouth Naval Academy. Contemporary literary figures include social critic, journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, who was born in Portsmouth. Nevil Shute moved to the city in 1934 when he relocated his aircraft company, and his former home is in Southsea. Fantasy author Neil Gaiman grew up in Purbrook and Southsea. Industrial Revolution engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth. His father, Marc Isambard Brunel, worked for the Royal Navy and developed the world's first production line to mass-produce pulley blocks for ship rigging. James Callaghan, British prime minister from 1976 to 1979, was

Prompt: Which 20th century British Prime Minister was born in Portsmouth?

Answer: James Callaghan (1912-2005)


Context: With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock | " complain, it's nice to have a nibble at it now and again""; ""In my pocket it got stuck I could tell / 'Cos when I pulled it out I pulled my shirt off as well""; and ""In the ballroom I went dancing each night / No wonder every girl that danced with me, stuck to me tight."" The producer of one of Formby's live television programmes received a letter from a BBC manager in 1946 that stated ""We have no record that 'With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock' is banned. We do however know, and so does Formby, that certain lines in the lyric must not be broadcast"". The song is included on many later compilations of Formby's recordings."

Prompt: When George Formby sang the lines: 'It may be sticky, but I never complain, I like to have a nibble at it now and again', to what was he ostensibly referring?

Answer: (My Little Stick of) Blackpool Rock


Context: Decimal Day |  Under the new system, the pound was retained, but was divided into 100 new pence, denoted by the symbol p. New coinage was issued alongside the old coins. The 5p and 10p coins were introduced in April 1968 and were the same size, composition and value as the shilling and two shilling coins in circulation with them. In October 1969, the 50p coin was introduced, with the 10s note withdrawn on 20 November 1970. This reduced the number of new coins required to be introduced on Decimal Day, meaning that the British public would already be familiar with three of the six new coins. Small

Prompt: In which year was the 50p coin introduced into circulation in Britain?

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-nine


Context: Alex (comic strip) | "  Alex is a British cartoon strip by Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor. It first appeared in the short-lived London Daily News in 1987. It moved to The Independent later that year and then to The Daily Telegraph in 1992. A translated version was published in the German newspaper Financial Times Deutschland. It was also published translated into Dutch for some years in the main financial newspaper of the Netherlands, ""Het Financieele Dagblad"" (FD), around the turn of the century. The strip with its storylines-with-a-twist proved so popular that, in the course of its transfer to the Telegraph, it was preceded by a nationwide billboard campaign. The strip occurs in 'real-time', i.e. time passes and characters age and develop as in real life. Alex and Penny married in the strip's early days and had a son called Christopher, who grew up, went to school, had work experience and has now started college. Alex and Penny themselves are now middle-aged."

Prompt: In which daily newspaper does the business cartoon 'Alex' appear?

Answer: Telegraph station


Context: Manhattan |  Manhattan Island is loosely divided into Downtown (Lower Manhattan), Midtown (Midtown Manhattan), and Uptown (Upper Manhattan), with Fifth Avenue dividing Manhattan lengthwise into its East Side and West Side. Manhattan Island is bounded by the Hudson River to the west and the East River to the east. To the north, the Harlem River divides Manhattan Island from the Bronx and the mainland United States. Early in the 19th century, landfill was used to expand Lower Manhattan from the natural Hudson shoreline at Greenwich Street to West Street. When building the World Trade Center in 1968, 1.2 million cubic yards (917,000 m3) of material was excavated from the site. Rather than dumping the spoil at sea or in landfills, the fill material was used to expand the Manhattan shoreline across West Street, creating Battery Park City. The result was a 700-foot (210-m) extension into the river, running six blocks or 1484 ft, covering 92 acre, providing a 1.2 mi riverfront esplanade and over 30 acre of parks; Hudson River Park was subsequently opened in stages beginning in 1998. Little Island opened on the Hudson River in May 2021, connected to the western termini of 13th and 14th Streets by footbridges.

Prompt: Manhattan Island is bounded by three rivers, the Hudson, the East and which other?

Answer: List of crossings of the Harlem River


Context: The Soldier (poem) | " ""The Soldier"" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth in a series of poems entitled 1914. It was published in 1915 in the book 1914 and Other Poems. It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem ""Dulce et Decorum est"". The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge."

Prompt: What is the first line of the poem 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke?

Answer: If I should die, think only this of me


Context: Battle of Corunna |  The Battle of Corunna (or A Coruña, La Corunna, La Coruña or La Corogne), in Spain known as Battle of Elviña, took place on 16 January 1809, when a French corps under Marshal of the Empire Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a British army under Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore. The battle took place amidst the Peninsular War, which was a part of the wider Napoleonic Wars. It was a result of a French campaign, led by Napoleon, which had defeated the Spanish armies and caused the British army to withdraw to the coast following an unsuccessful attempt by Moore to attack Soult's corps and

Prompt: The Battle of Corunna (1809) took place in which war?

Answer: French Intervention in Portugal


Context: Chief Scout (The Scout Association) |  The Scout Association's Chief Scout is the head of its youth programmes. The role is now merely a nominal and titular ceremonial figurehead. The association's present Chief Scout is the British adventurer and TV presenter Bear Grylls.

Prompt: Which TV personality is the current Chief Scout?

Answer: Edward michael grylls


Context: Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk | Lady Jane Grey (c. undefined 1536 – 12 February 1554) married Lord Guildford Dudley. ; Lady Katherine Grey (25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568) - married Henry Herbert, Lord Herbert and later Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford. ; Lady Mary Grey (c. undefined 1545 – 20 April 1578) - married Thomas Keyes. Frances Brandon was born on 16 July 1517 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and spent her childhood in the care of her mother. Although her father, the Duke of Suffolk, had obtained a declaration of nullity regarding his earlier marriage to Margaret Neville (the widow of John Mortimer) on the ground of consanguinity, in 1528 he secured a bull from Pope Clement VII assuring the legitimacy of his marriage with Mary Tudor, and therefore the legitimacy of his daughter Frances. Frances was close to her aunt Catherine of Aragon, first wife of her uncle King Henry VIII,

Prompt: Who was the husband of Lady Jane Grey?

Answer: Guilford Dudley


Context: Sydenham's chorea | " It is named after British physician Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689). The alternate eponym, ""Saint Vitus Dance"", is in reference to Saint Vitus, a Christian saint who was persecuted by Roman emperors and died as a martyr in AD 303. Saint Vitus is considered to be the patron saint of dancers, with the eponym given as homage to the manic dancing that historically took place in front of his statue during the feast of Saint Vitus in Germanic and Latvian cultures."

Prompt: Who is the patron saint of dancers?

Answer: St Vitus


Context: Stan Tracey |  The Second World War meant that Tracey had a disrupted formal education, and he became a professional musician at the age of sixteen as a member of an ENSA touring group playing the accordion, his first instrument. He joined Ralph Reader's Gang Shows at the age of nineteen, while in the RAF and formed a brief acquaintance with the comedian Tony Hancock. Later, in the early 1950s, he worked in groups on the transatlantic liners Queen Mary and Caronia and toured the UK in 1951 with Cab Calloway. By the mid-1950s, he had also taken up the vibraphone, but later ceased playing it. At this time he worked widely with leading British modernists, including drummer Tony Crombie, clarinettist Vic Ash, the saxophonist-arranger Kenny Graham and trumpeter Dizzy Reece.

Prompt: With which instrument do you associate British jazz musician Stan Tracey?

Answer: Pianos


Context: John F. Kennedy International Airport |  Terminal 4, developed by LCOR, Inc., is managed by JFK International Air Terminal (IAT) LLC, a subsidiary of the Schiphol Group and was the first in the United States to be managed by a foreign airport operator. Terminal 4 currently contains 38 gates in two concourses and functions as the hub for Delta at JFK. Concourse A (A2–A7) serves primarily Asian and some European airlines, while Concourse B primarily serves both domestic & international flights of Delta Air Lines and its Skyteam partners. Airlines servicing Terminal 4 include SkyTeam carriers Aeromexico, Air Europa, China Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Kenya Airways, KLM, and XiamenAir; Star Alliance carriers Air India, Avianca, Copa Airlines, EgyptAir, Singapore Airlines,

Prompt: John F Kennedy Airport serves which Latin American seat of government?

Answer: American Cooperative School La Paz


Context: Stirling | " Stirling (Stirlin; Sruighlea ) is a city in central Scotland, 26 mi northeast of Glasgow and 37 mi north-west of Edinburgh. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its merchants and tradesmen, the Old Bridge and the port. Located on the River Forth, Stirling is the administrative centre for the Stirling council area, and is traditionally the county town of Stirlingshire. Proverbially it is the strategically important ""Gateway to the Highlands"". It has been said that ""Stirling, like a huge brooch clasps Highlands and Lowlands together"". Similarly ""he who holds Stirling, holds Scotland"" is often quoted. Stirling's key position as the lowest bridging point of the River Forth before it broadens towards the Firth of Forth made it a "

Prompt: On which river does the Scottish city of Stirling lie?

Answer: Forth (disambiguation)


Context: Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Botticelli, Milan) |  Sandro Botticelli was a second generation renaissance painter born Allesandro di Mariano Filipepi in 1445. His nickname was Botticelli meaning little barrel. The renaissance began in fourteenth century Italy. Dramatic changes in art, architecture, and sculpture took place during this time. Botticelli has been noted as one of the most powerful painters of the lyrical current. In his later works, Botticelli developed a more personal style, particularly in his religious themed art. He is believed to have been influenced by Girolamo Savonarola. His range of work included religious pieces, mythical themes, portraits, alter pieces and Madonna (art). Additional famous works by Botticelli include Birth of Venus (Botticelli), Primavera (painting) and The Mystical Nativity.

Prompt: "Which artist's name means in translation ""Little Barrel""?"

Answer: Alessandro Filipepi


Context: July 1976 | "Nadia Comăneci of Romania became the first gymnast in history to receive a perfect score (10.00) in Olympic history, after being judged perfect in her performance on the uneven parallel bars as part of the compulsory gymnastics exercises event, and went on to win the first of six gold medals. The opinion of the judges was protested by the Soviet gymnastics team, without success.  Comaneci had been judged perfect in lower-level competitions prior to appearing in Montreal; a press report noted at the time that her mark was ""the first in modern Olympic history but Nadia's 17th.""  According to another observer, a perfect score had been given by one of "

Prompt: In 1976 who was the first gymnast to score a perfect ten in Olympic competition?

Answer: Nadia Elena Comăneci


Context: Thumbelina |  A woman yearning for a child asks a witch for advice, and is presented with a barley which she is told to go home and plant (in the first English translation of 1847 by Mary Howitt, the tale opens with a beggar woman giving a peasant's wife a barleycorn in exchange for food). After the barleycorn is planted and sprouts, a tiny girl named Thumbelina (Tommelise) emerges from its flower. One night, Thumbelina, asleep in her walnut-shell cradle, is carried off by a toad who wants her as a bride for her son. With the help of friendly fish and a butterfly, Thumbelina escapes the toad and her son, and drifts on a lily pad

Prompt: In the Hans Christian Andersen story, who slept in a walnut shell for a cradle?

Answer: Palculienka


Context: Blue |  important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the eighth century Chinese artists used cobalt blue to colour fine blue and white porcelain. In the Middle Ages, European artists used it in the windows of cathedrals. Europeans wore clothing coloured with the vegetable dye woad until it was replaced by the finer indigo from America. In the 19th century, synthetic blue dyes and pigments gradually replaced organic dyes and mineral pigments. Dark blue became a common colour for military uniforms and later, in the

Prompt: The stone Lapis Lazuli is used to make which shade of blue pigment for artists?

Answer: Ultramarine violet


Context: Mapping of Venus |  =The densely lineated plains unit (pdl) is defined by the dense and parallel lineaments packed on the unit. They make up a small area on Venus's global surface of around 7.2 x 108 km2. The lineament is the pattern of deformation, which make it a typical structural–material unit. There is evidence showing the embayment of tessera by pdl's material in some tessera margins. Thus, it is possible that this unit is younger than the tessera unit. In SAR images, it also shows a high backscatter imagery, but lighter than that of tessera.

Prompt: "Where would you find ""The Line of Mars"" and ""The Girdle of Venus""?"

Answer: ON THE PALM


Context: Doctor Who (season 6) | Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor ; Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon ; Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot  Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury make their final appearances as the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot respectively. Troughton and his fellow actors collectively decided that the workload of Doctor Who was exhausting them, and that they would soon depart from the show. From Season 7 onwards the show would never have such a high number of episodes again. The three actors remained with the show until the conclusion of the final season six serial The War Games.

Prompt: Which actor played the second Dr Who?

Answer: Patrick Troughton


Context: Martha Jones | " Martha Jones is a fictional character played by Freema Agyeman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. She is a companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, after Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and before Donna Noble (Catherine Tate). According to the character's creator and executive producer Russell T Davies in his non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, the character was developed from the beginning with the intention of appearing for a whole of the 2007 series, and to later make guest appearances in subsequent series and crossover appearances in the show's two spin-offs; Martha subsequently made guest appearances in Torchwood series two and in Doctor Who series four in 2008 and special episode ""The End of Time"" in 2010. Martha was also intended to make guest appearances in "

Prompt: Who played the part of companion Martha Jones in the 2007 series of Dr Who?

Answer: Frema Agyeman


Context: Opel Meriva |  The Opel Meriva is a mini MPV manufactured and marketed by the German automaker Opel on its Corsa platform, from May 2003 until June 2017 across two generations. In the United Kingdom, it was marketed as the Vauxhall Meriva, while in Latin America, the first generation model was marketed as the Chevrolet Meriva.

Prompt: Which car company produces the Meriva model?

Answer: Renault Trafic Passenger


Context: South Hampstead High School | """Mehr Licht"" – More Light (German)—the reputed last words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "

Prompt: "The last words of which German philosopher and author were (in translation) ""More Light!""?"

Answer: גתה


Context: Meal | " A packed lunch (also called pack lunch, sack lunch or bag lunch in North America, or packed lunch in the United Kingdom, as well as the regional variations: bagging in Lancashire, Merseyside and Yorkshire, ) is a lunch prepared at home and carried to be eaten somewhere else, such as school, a workplace, or at an outing. The food is usually wrapped in plastic, aluminum foil, or paper and can be carried (""packed"") in a lunch box, paper bag (a ""sack""), or plastic bag. While packed lunches are usually taken from home by the people who are going to eat them, in Mumbai, India, tiffin boxes are most often picked up from the home and brought to workplaces later in the day by so-called dabbawallas. It is also possible to buy packed lunches from stores in several countries. Lunch boxes made out of metal, plastic or vinyl are now popular with today's youth. Lunch boxes provide a way to take heavier lunches in a sturdier box or bag. It is also environmentally friendly."

Prompt: In the North East a workman's packed lunch is his 'bait', what is it in Yorkshire?

Answer: His 'Snap'


Context: Artemis |      Various conflicting accounts are given in Classical Greek mythology regarding the birth of Artemis and Apollo, her twin brother. However, in terms of parentage, all accounts agree that she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and that she was the twin sister of Apollo. In some sources, she is born at the same time as Apollo, in others, earlier or later. According to Callimachus, Hera, angry with her husband Zeus for impregnating Leto, forbade her from giving birth on either terra firma (the mainland) or on an island, but the island of Delos disobeyed and allowed Leto to give birth there. According to the Homeric Hymn to Artemis, however, the island where she and her twin were born was Ortygia.

Prompt: In Greek mythology, what was the name of Apollo's twin sister?

Answer: Agrotora


Context: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | " Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered ""the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century"". It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales. The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions. Ben-Hur remained at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur is considered one of the greatest films ever made and was seen by tens of millions, going on to win a record 11 Academy Awards in 1960, after which the book's sales "

Prompt: 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ', the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace, is about a young aristocratic Jew. What is his first name?

Answer: Ioudas


Context: Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom | " In August 1962, an attempt was made to create a national scheme to alleviate the problem of registrations running out. This used the scheme introduced in 1932, of a three-letter combination followed by a sequence number from 1 to 999, but also added a letter suffix, which initially changed on 1 January each year. An ""A"" suffix was thus used for 1963, ""B"" for 1964, etc. Middlesex was the first authority to adopt this scheme when it issued  in February 1963. Most other areas followed suit during 1964, but some chose to stick to their own schemes up until 1 January 1965, when the letter suffix was made compulsory. As well as yielding many more available numbers, it was a handy way for vehicle buyers to know the age of the "

Prompt: When suffix letters were first used on British car registration plates the letter was used for a calendar year, later, to suit the car industry, the letter changed on August 1 each year, which letter was consequently used for only seven months?


Context: Cambridge |  Within the city there are several notable museums, some run by the University of Cambridge Museums consortium and others independent of it. The Fitzwilliam Museum is the city's largest, and is the lead museum of the University of Cambridge Museums. Founded in 1816 from the bequeathment and collections of Richard, Viscount FitzWilliam, the museum was originally located in the building of the Perse Grammar School in Free School Lane. After a brief housing in the University of Cambridge library, it moved to its current, purpose-built building on Trumpington Street in 1848. The museum has five departments: Antiquities; Applied Arts; Coins and Medals; Manuscripts and Printed Books; and Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Other

Prompt: The Fitzwilliam Museum is in which British town or city?

Answer: Cambridge, United Kingdom


Context: Moons of Uranus |   Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 27 known moons, most of which are named after characters that appear in, or are mentioned in, the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus's moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and nine irregular moons. The inner and major moons all have prograde orbits, while orbits of the irregulars are mostly retrograde. The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with Uranus's rings. The five major moons are ellipsoidal, indicating that they reached hydrostatic equilibrium at some point in their past (and may still be in equilibrium), and four of them show signs of internally driven processes such as canyon formation and volcanism on their surfaces. The largest of these five, Titania, is

Prompt: Name one of the main moons of the planet Uranus.

Answer: Miranda; Arlel; Umbriel; Titania or Oberon


Context: Renault Kangoo |  The Renault Kangoo and the Renault Kangoo Express are a range of multi purpose vehicles manufactured and marketed by Renault across two generations since 1997 in commercial as well as passenger variants. , the electric variant, the Renault Kangoo Z.E., is Europe's top selling all-electric light commercial vehicle, with global sales of 48,821 units since its inception in 2011. The Kangoo is manufactured at the MCA plant in Maubeuge, France and Casablanca, Morocco. The version for the ASEAN markets was assembled by the Malaysian Tan Chong Euro Cars in its Segambut plant. The first generation model was also marketed as a rebadged variant by Nissan in Europe as the Nissan Kubistar until the end of 2009, when it was replaced by the Nissan NV200. In September 2012, Mercedes-Benz began marketing a rebadged variant of the second generation Kangoo as the Mercedes-Benz Citan.

Prompt: Who makes or made the model of vehicle the Kangoo?

Answer: Renault S.A.


Context: Charles Lindbergh | "  Lindbergh spent his last years on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where he died of lymphoma on August 26, 1974, at age 72. He was buried on the grounds of the Palapala Ho'omau Church in Kipahulu, Maui. His epitaph, on a simple stone following the words ""Charles A. Lindbergh Born Michigan 1902 Died Maui 1974"", quotes : ""... If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ... C.A.L."""

Prompt: Charles Lindbergh died in 1974. Where was he buried?

Answer: Haiwii


Context: Fauna of Scotland |  Scotland's seas host almost half of the European Union's breeding seabirds including about half of the world's northern gannets and a third of the world's Manx shearwaters. Four seabird species have more than 95% of their combined British and Irish population in Scotland, while a further fourteen species have more than half of their breeding population in Scottish colonies. St Kilda, which is a World Heritage Site, is a seabird haven of great significance. It has 60,000 northern gannets, amounting to 24% of the world population, 49,000 breeding pairs of Leach's storm petrel, up to 90% of the European population, 136,000 pairs of puffin

Prompt: Three-quarters of the world's breeding population of one seabird are concentrated around the British Isles - which species?

Answer: (North Atlantic) Gannet


Context: The Moonstone |  as opposed to Poe's short story form. These include:  Franklin Blake, the gifted amateur, is an early example of the gentleman detective. The highly competent Sergeant Cuff, the policeman called in from Scotland Yard (whom Collins based on the real-life Inspector Jonathan Whicher who solved the murder committed by Constance Kent), is not a member of the gentry and is unable to break Rachel Verinder's reticence about what Cuff knows is an inside job. The Moonstone has also been described as perhaps the earliest police procedural, due to the portrayal of Cuff. The social difference between Collins's two detectives is shown by their relationships with the Verinder family: Sergeant Cuff befriends Gabriel Betteredge, Lady Verinder's steward

Prompt: Which author created the fictional character Sergeant Cuff?

Answer: Collins, Wilkie


Context: BBC Charter | " The BBC Charter is a royal charter setting out the arrangements for the governance of the British Broadcasting Corporation. An accompanying agreement recognises its editorial independence and sets out its public obligations in detail. The initial BBC Charter established the BBC on 1 January 1927 as a replacement for the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. which had provided the broadcasting service until that point. As the royal charter created an entirely new body, separate arrangements were made to transfer the assets of the British Broadcasting Company were transferred to the new British Broadcasting Corporation via the Postmaster General. It was felt that establishing a body under a royal charter to replace the private company would allow the creation of a body that acted ""as "

Prompt: Which British institution was set up by Royal Charter in 1927?

Answer: Auntie Beeb


Context: Cognac | infobox name: Cognac ; image: Cognac glass - tulip shaped.JPG]] ; type: Brandy ; abv: 40% ; origin: France ; region: Nouvelle-Aquitaine ; flavour: Varies, though typically with characteristics combining nuts, fruit, caramel, honey, vanilla or other spices ; variants: VS, VSOP, XO ; related: Armagnac, Vinjak ; website: cognac.fr/en

Prompt: Which sub-region of Aquitaine in SW France gives its name to a type of brandy?

Answer: Armagnac (disambiguation)


Context: Blenheim Orange |   Blenheim Orange (Kempster's Pippin) is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England in about 1740. It has been described as a cooking apple. A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Kempster's Pippin, which began to be catalogued in about 1818. It received the Banksian Silver Medal in 1820 and thereafter spread through England to Europe and America. This apple has a greenish-yellow to orange skin streaked with red. It has a distinctive nutty flavour and is excellent for cooking. Blenheim Orange does not hold its shape, rather, it produces a fine puree as it cooks. Sugar 12%, acid 11g/litre, vitamin C 12mg/100g. Typical of triploid apple varieties, Blenheim Orange is a very vigorous tree, and on standard rootstock can grow in excess of 30 feet tall. It is slow to come into production, but will then produce heavily. Fruit needs to be thinned heavily to control its biennial habit.

Prompt: What type of fruit is a Blenheim Orange?

Answer: Apple Blossom


Context: Dunvegan Castle |  Dunvegan Castle is located 1 mi to the north of Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. It is the seat of the MacLeod of MacLeod, chief of the Clan MacLeod. Probably a fortified site from the earliest times, the castle was first built in the 13th century and developed piecemeal over the centuries. In the 19th century the whole castle was remodelled in a mock-medieval style. The castle is built on an elevated rock overlooking an inlet on the eastern shore of Loch Dunvegan, a sea loch.

Prompt: Where in Scotland is Dunvegan Castle?

Answer: Isle of Skye


Context: Sussex |  the Fyssen Foundation. In the early 20th century, Sussex was at the centre of one of what has been described as 'British archaeology's greatest hoax'. Bone fragments said to have been collected in 1912 were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human, referred to as Piltdown Man. In 1953 the bone fragments were exposed as a forgery, consisting of the lower jawbone of an orangutan deliberately combined with the skull of a fully developed modern human. From 1967 to 1979, Sussex was home to the Isaac Newton Telescope at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Herstmonceux Castle.

Prompt: In which decade was Piltdown man allegedly discovered in Sussex?

Answer: 1910s


Context: California condor |  The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reintroduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (including the Grand Canyon area and Zion National Park), the coastal mountains of central and southern California, and northern Baja California in Mexico. Although four other fossil members are known, it is the only surviving member of the genus Gymnogyps. The species is listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as Critically Endangered. The plumage is black with patches of white on the

Prompt: Which large American bird (Gymnogyps) has been reintroduced to the wild after breeding in captivity in 1991?

Answer: (California) Condor


Context: Papua New Guinean kina |  The kina (ISO 4217 currency code: PGK, the currency symbol: K) is the currency of Papua New Guinea. It is divided into 100 toea. The name kina is derived from Kuanua language of the Tolai region, referring to a callable pearl shell used widely for trading in both the Coastal and Highlands areas of the country.

Prompt: The Kina is the monetary unit of which Oceania country?

Answer: ISO 3166-1:PG


Context: Manicaland Province |  The province is bordered by Mashonaland East Province to the north, Midlands Province to the west, Masvingo Province to the south and southwest, and the Republic of Mozambique to the east. The provincial capital, Mutare (pop:184,205), lies approximately 265 km, by road, southeast of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe and the largest city in that country. The Eastern Highlands run along the eastern edge of Manicaland. The highlands are made up of several mountain ranges and include Mount Nyangani, Zimbabwe's highest peak. Manicaland has a tropical forest climate. The northern part of Manicaland is drained northwards by tributaries of the Zambezi River, including the Gairezi and the Nyangombe. The central and southern portions of the province are drained southwards by the Save River and its tributaries, including the Odzi River. Some areas along the province's eastern edge, including Honde Valley, Burma Valley, and eastern Chimanimani and Chipinge districts, drain eastwards into the Pungwe and Buzi rivers.

Prompt: Which country has provinces including Masvingo, Midlands and Manicaland?

Answer: Zimbobwe


Context: Politics of Jamaica |  Jamaica is divided in 14 parishes: Clarendon, Hanover, Kingston, Manchester, Portland, Saint Andrew, Saint Ann, Saint Catherine, Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Mary, Saint Thomas, Trelawny, Westmoreland.

Prompt: Which country has parishes including Westmoreland, St Andrew and Manchester?

Answer: Jamica


Context: Extreme points of the Americas | Aconcagua, Mendoza Province, Argentina -32.65333°N, -70.01111°W — highest summit of the Americas, the Western Hemisphere, and the Southern Hemisphere at 6961 m. ; Ojos del Salado, Chile and Argentina -27.10961°N, -68.54225°W — highest volcano summit on Earth and second highest summit of the Americas, the Western Hemisphere, and the Southern Hemisphere at 6893 m. ; Denali (Mount McKinley), Alaska, United States 63.06944°N, -151.00722°W — highest summit of North America at 6190.5 m. ; Volcán Tajumulco, San Marcos, Guatemala 15.04361°N, -91.90333°W — highest summit of Central America at 4220 m. ; Gunnbjørn Fjeld, Sermersooq, Island of Greenland, Greenland 68.91944°N, -29.89861°W — highest island summit of the Americas and the Western Hemisphere and highest summit of the entire Arctic at 3694 m. ; Pico Duarte, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola 19.02306°N, -70.99806°W — highest summit of the Caribbean at 3175 m.

Prompt: Which mountain peak is the highest point in the Western Hemisphere?

Answer: Highest mountain in South America


Context: The Sutherland Brothers | " The Sutherland Brothers (Gavin and Iain Sutherland) were a Scottish folk and soft rock duo. From 1973 to 1978, they performed with rock band Quiver, and recorded and toured as Sutherland Brothers & Quiver. Under this combined moniker, the group recorded several albums and had a significant international hit single with the song ""Arms of Mary"" in 1976. In North America, they are primarily known for their 1973 single ""(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway"". Iain died of an illness on 25 November 2019, aged 71."

Prompt: Complete the title of this 1970's group 'Sutherland Brothers and .'

Answer: QUIVER


Context: List of paintings by Edvard Munch |  right after the Germans had occupied Norway. Munch died on 23 January 1944, and all of the paintings he left are now in the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. The Munch Museum is the most important collection of works of any medium by Edvard Munch. Other major collections include the National Gallery in Oslo, which holds the famous 1893 tempera and crayon on cardboard version of The Scream amongst other major paintings. This list is based upon Gerd Woll's catalogue raisonné from 2008, the numbers and English titles on each painting in this list are identical with the numbers and English titles that are given there.

Prompt: Which is the most famous painting by Edvard Munch?

Answer: Scream (disambiguation)


Context: Bill Maynard |  he returned to Yorkshire Television as lovable rogue Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in Heartbeat, a new ITV drama series set in the 1960s. It was a major success, consistently drawing over 10 million viewers. Maynard published a new book, Stand Up...And Be Counted, in 1997 with Breedon Books. He remained with Heartbeat until December 2000, when he was forced to retire from the programme following a series of strokes. Despite this, he returned to acting in 2002 to reprise his character in spin off series The Royal until 2003. Maynard made a comeback to radio in March of that year on BBC Radio Leicester. His programme

Prompt: Who played Claude Greengrass in 'Heartbeat'?

Answer: Walter Frederick George Williams


Context: Spanish Armada |  The word armada is from the armada, which is cognate with English army. Originally from the armāta, the past participle of armāre, used in Romance languages as a noun for armed force, army, navy, fleet. Armada Española is still the Spanish term for the modern Spanish Navy.

Prompt: Which single word connects 'The Spanish Armada, and the TV series 'The Worker'?

Answer: The Drake (disambiguation)


Context: 1990 in music | " controversy over its sexually explicit content. ; November 21 – The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger finally marries longtime girlfriend Jerry Hall in a traditional Hindu ceremony on the island of Bali, although the wedding's legality is questionable. ; November 27 – Amid growing public skepticism towards the artistic integrity of dance-pop duo Milli Vanilli as well as creative differences with frontmen Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, music producer Frank Farian admits that Morvan and Pilatus had been lip-synching all of their songs, including hits such as ""Girl You Know It's True."" In actuality, the tracks were composed and recorded by an ensemble of much older artists. Milli Vanilli's Grammy award for Best New Artist is voided in the ensuing fallout; accounts "

Prompt: On which far eastern island did Mick Jagger marry Jerry Hall?

Answer: Bala'i


Context: Beauty and the Beast |  the heroine is called Basia and has a stepmother and two stepsisters. In a Czech variant, the heroine's mother plucks the flower and makes the deal with the Beast, who is a basilisk, who the heroine later will behead to break the spell. In a Moravian version, the youngest daughter asks for three white roses, and the Beast is a dog; In another Moravian version, the heroine asks for a single red rose and the Beast is a bear. The Beast is also a bear in a Slovakian variant titled The Three Roses (Trojruža), collected by Pavol Dobšinský, in which

Prompt: What is the name of the heroine in the story of 'Beauty and the Beast'?

Answer: Belle (song)


Context: Series B Banknotes |  The one pound note has a portrait of Medb, the legendary Queen of Connacht in Irish mythology. Also a pre-Christian geometric design based on those found on bone slips is used in on the note, the background is an excerpt from the Táin. The reverse is a decorated excerpt from Lebor na hUidre, the oldest surviving Irish manuscript. The one pound note was removed from circulation from June 1990 as it was replaced by the Irish pound coin, this note was the final one pound note to be circulated and it was the first note of Series B to be removed from circulation.

Prompt: Whose portrait (apart from the Queen) appeared on the now defunct one pound note?

Answer: Sir isaac newton


Context: David Bowie: Sound and Vision (documentary) |  Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the early 1960s by David Wolper. Each episode depicts the life of a notable person with narration, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock footage. The show originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, on CBS in 1979, on A&E from 1987. In 2002 the series made an episode on Bowie, who had just completed his album Heathen, and was preparing for its release. While Bowie did not take part in the documentary in any way, he endorsed the programme, and his wife Iman and many of his friends and collaborators were filmed being interviewed. Narration was provided

Prompt: What was advertised on TV by David Bowie's wife Iman?

Answer: TIA MARIA


Context: Brontornis |  Brontornis had an estimated height of 2.8 m and its body mass is estimated between 350 and 400 kg, making it the heaviest terror bird but slightly behind Kelenken in height and skull length. It may have been about 1.75 m tall at the back. These measures would make Brontornis the fifth-heaviest bird found thus far, after Vorombe titan, Dromornis stirtoni, Aepyornis maximus, and Pachystruthio dmanisensis. A comparison of the tarsometatarsi of two B. burmeisteri specimens, FM-P13259 and MLP-91 (lectotype), both coming from the same geographical region and geological formation, shows them as not to present any anatomical differences, apart from size, where in the first is around one third smaller than the second. The idea is that they are examples of intraspecific variation, possibly sexual dimorphism. There is the possibility that they represent two species.

Prompt: Which bird, in relation to its size, has the thickest skull?

Answer: Wood pecker


Context: I Will Survive | " ""I Will Survive"" is a song by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978 as the second single from her sixth album, Love Tracks (1978). It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. A top-selling song, it is a popular disco anthem, as well as being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song's lyrics describe the narrator's discovery of personal strength following an initially devastating breakup. It received heavy airplay in 1979, reaching spending three non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as topping the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Chart. The song is also frequently recalled as a symbol of female empowerment. In 2016, the Library of Congress deemed Gaynor's original recording to be ""culturally, historically, or artistically significant"" and selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry."

Prompt: Whose hit 'I Will Survive' became an anthem for Women's' Lib?

Answer: I Will Survive (album)


Context: List of Melody Maker number-one singles of the 1980s | " Ants, The Police, Shakin' Stevens, David Bowie, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Phil Collins. Significantly, Tears for Fears' song ""Everybody Wants to Rule the World"" spent four weeks at the top of the Melody Maker chart (and three weeks on the NME chart) although it never topped the Gallup chart. Additionally, as well as making number one on the Melody Maker and NME charts and not the official chart, a-ha's ""Take On Me"" and Ultravox's ""Vienna"" were also in the top five best-selling singles of their year. Thirty-two acts achieved a number-one single on the Melody Maker chart (more than NME) but never had an official number-one single although two of these had songs they had written reach number one when performed by another artist."

Prompt: Which group had a hit in the 1980s with 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World'?

Answer: Tears 4 Fears


Context: Oh! What a Lovely War | " 'Oh! What a Lovely War' is a 1969 British comedy musical war film directed by Richard Attenborough (in his directorial debut), with an ensemble cast, including Maggie Smith, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Paul Shelley, Malcolm McFee, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Nanette Newman, Edward Fox, Susannah York, John Clements, Phyllis Calvert and Maurice Roëves. The film is based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War!, originated by Charles Chilton as the radio play The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop in 1963. The title is derived from the music hall song ""Oh! It's a Lovely War"", which is one of the major numbers in the film."

Prompt: Which 1969 film, based on a stage musical, marked the directorial debut of Richard Attenborough?

Answer: OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR


Context: Mason Hale |  Hale also wrote or co-authored books that helped to introduce lichens to the general public and keep scientists abreast of current theory. These books contained keys to genera and species such as How to know the Lichens and Lichens of California. An important symposia on current topics was The Lichens. Introductory texts to lichen study include Biology of Lichens. Hale and Culberson also compiled the first checklist to North American lichens and lichenicolous fungi in 1956. Lastly, Hale and his son printed the newsletters for the International Association for Lichenology on old printing presses and made the typesetting by hand.

Prompt: Which famous writer of children's books also made serious natural history studies of fungi and lichens?

Answer: Beatrix Potter bibliography


Context: List of nicknames of presidents of the United States | "Dutch, shortly after his birth, his father said he looked like a ""fat little Dutchman""; reinforced when he wore a Dutch boy haircut (see pageboy) as a youngster ; The Great Communicator for his ability to communicate ; The Gipper, after his role as George ""The Gipper"" Gipp in the film Knute Rockne, All American. Gipp exhorted his teammates to ""Win one for the Gipper"". ; The Teflon President, coined by Rep. Patricia Schroeder because nothing negative ""stuck to"" him (like a Teflon skillet); he remained blame-free in the eyes of the American people Full name: Ronald Wilson Reagan"

Prompt: "Which US President was nicknamed ""the Gipper""?"

Answer: President Regan


Context: The Hustler (film) | " The Hustler is a 1961 American CinemaScope drama film directed by Robert Rossen from Walter Tevis's 1959 novel of the same name, adapted for the screen by Rossen and Sidney Carroll. It tells the story of small-time pool hustler ""Fast Eddie"" Felson and his desire to break into the ""major league"" of professional hustling and high-stakes wagering that follows it. He throws his raw talent and ambition up against the best player in the country, seeking to best the legendary pool player ""Minnesota Fats"". The film was shot on location in New York City and stars Paul Newman as Eddie; Jackie Gleason as "

Prompt: "In the film of the same name, what was the name of ""The Hustler""?"

Answer: """Fast Eddie"" Felson"


Context: William Hague | " Hague took a ride on a log flume wearing a baseball cap emblazoned 'HAGUE'; Cecil Parkinson described the exercise as ""juvenile"". Hague steered the Conservatives to a successful result at the European parliamentary elections in June 1999, where the Conservatives gained 36 MEPs ahead of Labour's 29. Hague considered his opposition to the single European currency (the Euro) to be later vindicated by Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown's adoption and subsequent approval of the policy. Hague's authority was challenged by the appointment of Michael Portillo as Shadow Chancellor in 2000. Portillo had been widely tipped to be the next Conservative Party Leader before dramatically losing his seat at the 1997 general election; he was elected as MP for Kensington and Chelsea "

Prompt: "In 1999, whom did William Hague describe as ""a candidate of probity and integrity""?"

Answer: Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare


Context: Andrés Manuel del Río |  1789. In Freiberg he got to know Baron Alexander von Humboldt. Del Río went on to study at the Austrian Imperial-Royal Mining Academy at Schemnitz, Hungary, with Anton von Rupprecht, as well as in England. Del Rio returned to Paris in 1791 where he was a colleague (asociado) of Antoine Lavoisier, who is considered the founder of modern chemistry, and Abbé René Just Haüy, who is considered the founder of crystallography. As a result of the French Revolution, a warrant for Lavoisier's arrest was issued on 4 November 1793. Lavoisier was executed on the guillotine on 8 May 1794. After Lavoisier's arrest, Del Río escaped to England.

Prompt: Which famous chemist was executed in the French Revolution?

Answer: Lavoisierian


Context: Elvis Presley |  Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Vernon Elvis (April 10, 1916 – June 26, 1979) and Gladys Love (née Smith; April 25, 1912 – August 14, 1958) Presley in a two-room shotgun house that his father built for the occasion. Elvis's identical twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, was delivered 35 minutes before him, stillborn. Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God church, where he found his initial musical inspiration. Presley's father, Vernon, was of German, Scottish and English origins. Presley’s mother, Gladys, was

Prompt: What was the name of Elvis Presley's twin brother?

Answer: Jesse (given name)


Context: John Flamsteed |  John Flamsteed FRS (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3,000-star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, and a star atlas called Atlas Coelestis, both published posthumously. He also made the first recorded observations of Uranus, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a star, and he laid the foundation stone for the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Prompt: Who was the first Astronomer Royal?

Answer: Flamsteed


Context: Three Sisters (play) |   Three Sisters (Три сeстры́) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The play is sometimes included on the short list of Chekhov's outstanding plays, along with The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya.

Prompt: Who wrote the play The Three Sisters?

Answer: Anton Chekhov


Context: Echinacea | " Echinacea is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family. It has ten species, which are commonly called coneflowers. They are found only in eastern and central North America, where they grow in moist to dry prairies and open wooded areas. They have large, showy heads of composite flowers, blooming in summer. The generic name is derived from the Greek word ἐχῖνος (ekhinos), meaning ""sea urchin"", due to the spiny central disk. These flowering plants and their parts have different uses. Some species are cultivated in gardens for their showy flowers. Two of the species, E. tennesseensis and E. laevigata, are listed in the United States as endangered species. Echinacea purpurea is used in traditional medicine. Although commonly sold as a dietary supplement, there is insufficient scientific evidence that Echinacea products are effective or safe for improving health or treating any disease."

Prompt: What is the common name for the garden flower echinacea?

Answer: Purple Coneflower


Context: Katia and Marielle Labèque |  The Labèque sisters, Katia (born 11 March 1950) and Marielle (born 6 March 1952), are an internationally known French piano duo.

Prompt: Give the surname of the classical music piano soloist sisters, Katia and Marielle?

Answer: Katia and Marielle Labèque


Context: Hypericum forrestii |  Hypericum forrestii is a species of flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae native to China and Myanmar. It is known as Forrest's tutsan and Forrest's St. John's wort. It was named in honour of the Scottish botanist George Forrest (1873-1932), who was the first westerner to discover it. The species has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Prompt: By what name is the garden flowering plant hypericum commonly known?

Answer: ATCvet code QN06AX25


Context: Horn of Africa |  Ababa, which ranges from 2200 to 2600 m, maximum temperature is 26 C and minimum 4 C. The weather is usually sunny and dry, but the short (belg) rains occur from February to April and the big (meher) rains from mid-June to mid-September. The Danakil Desert stretches across 100,000 km2 of arid terrain in northeast Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, and northwestern Djibouti. The area is known for its volcanoes and extreme heat, with daily temperatures over 45 °C and often surpassing 50 °C. It has a number of lakes formed by lava flows that dammed up several valleys. Among are Lake Asale (116 m below

Prompt: In which African country is the Danikil Desert?

Answer: Ethiopean


Context: Ted Kennedy |  Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the prominent political Kennedy family, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died. He is [[List of members of the United States Congress by longevity of service#Senate time|ranked fifth in United States history for length of continuous service as a senator]]. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney general and

Prompt: What was the middle name of Senator Edward M Kennedy, who died in August 2009?

Answer: Moore Theater Building


Context: Ascanio |  Ascanio was composed by Saint-Saëns during 1887–1888. Saint-Saëns chose the subject of the historical figure of Benvenuto Cellini largely due to his friendship with Meurice who, in addition to writing the play about Cellini, also helped Dumas write the 1843 novel. The subject also appealed to Saint-Saëns' long-term desire to base his operas in French history. The opera's libretto largely follows Meurice's play, although it does not include a scene where Cellini runs out of metal while casting a statue. The only notable departure from the play is the third act which is set at a fête at Fontainebleau. The music for this

Prompt: "Which composer, born in Grenoble in 1803 wrote ""Benvenuto Cellini"", the first of his three operas?"

Answer: Berlioz


Context: Li Qinyao |  Li Chun (born January 11, 1988), known professionally as Li Qinyao, is a Chinese actress and former singer. From 2007 to 2010, she was a member of the Japanese girl group Morning Musume under the stage name Jun Jun (ジュンジュン). As an actress, Li has appeared in television and film projects including Moon Embracing the Stars and Eastern Battlefield.

Prompt: Which actress and singer is known as Li Lo?

Answer: Lindsay Lohen


Context: Vincent D'Onofrio | " Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his supporting and leading roles in both film and television. He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. His roles include Private Leonard ""Gomer Pyle"" Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket (1987), Edgar the Bug in Men in Black (1997) and Men in Black: The Series (1997–2001), Carl Stargher in The Cell (2000), New York City Police Detective Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–11), Victor ""Vic"" Hoskins in Jurassic World (2015), and as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) streaming television series Daredevil (2015–18) and Hawkeye (2021)."

Prompt: Which well known 1987 film, featured a character named Private Pyle, played by Vincent D'Onofrio?

Answer: Cpl Eight-Ball


Context: Church treasure | Salzburg Cathedral Museum ; Imperial Treasury in der Hofburg Palace, Vienna ; Cathedral museum in the cathedral church of St. Stephen of Vienna, also called St. Stephen's Cathedral. Treasury of St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague Most cathedrals have treasuries, though these generally lack the medieval metalwork of continental treasuries, which did not survive the Reformation. The exceptions to this include: ; Canterbury Cathedral ; Lincoln Cathedral ; Durham Cathedral Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris ; Cathedral-Basilica of Saint-Denis ; Cathedral of Reims, in Palace of Tau Aachen Cathedral Treasure ; Diocesan Museum, Bamberg, formerly the cathedral treasure of Bamberg Cathedral ; Treasure of Brunswick Cathedral, very much later called the Welf Treasure, since 1928

Prompt: In which European capital city are the Hofburg Imperial Palace and St Stephen's Cathedral to be found?

Answer: Capital of Austria


Context: Frank Scaturro |  Civil War general and 18th U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885 and was interred in New York City's Riverside Park. Grant's Tomb is the largest mausoleum in the Western Hemisphere and was once among the nation's most widely visited tourist attractions. By the 1990s, however, the site had fallen into a severe state of disrepair. The tomb was scarred by graffiti. The roof leaked, the granite was cracked, and the area was used by the homeless as a latrine and drug haven. Scaturro regarded the desecration of Grant's Tomb as a national disgrace. The tomb was administered by the National Park Service, part of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Scaturro volunteered with

Prompt: The body of which US President, who died in 1885, lies in Riverside Park in Manhattan, in the largest mausoleum in North America?

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant/Second Inaugural Address


Context: River Esk, North Yorkshire | " The River Esk is a river in North Yorkshire, England that empties into the North Sea at Whitby after a course of around 28 mi through the valley of Eskdale, named after the river itself. The river's name is derived from the Brythonic word ""isca"" meaning ""water"". The Esk is the only major river in Yorkshire that flows directly into the North Sea; all other watercourses defined as being major rivers by the Environment Agency, either flow to the North Sea via the River Tees or the Humber Estuary."

Prompt: Which river enters the North Sea at Whitby in North Yorkshire?

Answer: Esk River


Context: Brooklyn |  Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in New York State, as well as the second-most densely populated county in the United States (after New York County). It is also New York City's most populous borough, with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. If each borough were ranked as a city, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous in the U.S., after Los Angeles and Chicago. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it shares a land border with the borough of Queens, on the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn has several bridge and

Prompt: In which part of New York city is Brooklyn situated?

Answer: 2014 Long Island floods


Context: 100,000 | 909,091 – unique prime in base 10 ; 923,521 – 314 ; 925,765 – Markov number ; 925,993 – Keith number ; 950,976 – harmonic divisor number ; 967,680 – highly totient number ; 998,991 – highest triangular number with 6 digits and the 1,413th triangular number ; 999,983 – largest 6-digit prime number ; 999,999 – repdigit. Rational numbers with denominators 7 and 13 have 6-digit repetends when expressed in decimal form, because 999999 is divisible by 7 and by 13.

Prompt: Which is the highest prime number less than 100?

Answer: ninety-seven


Context: Mike Culverhouse |  Mike Culverhouse was Chief Constable of the Isle of Man Constabulary from 1999 until his retirement on 31 December 2007. He took over as Chief Constable following the retirement of Robin Oake QPM and was the first ever Chief Constable of the Isle of Man to be appointed who did not previously hold ACPO (i.e. Assistant, Deputy or full Chief Constable) rank, previously being a Chief Superintendent in the Merseyside Police.

Prompt: "Who was appointed Chief Constable of Merseyside in 2004, and left the post in 2009, after being made an ""Inspector of Constabulary"" by the Queen?"

Answer: Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe


Context: Mr. Men | " The first six Mr. Men books were published in the United Kingdom on 10 August 1971. Mr. Tickle was the first Mr. Men character created by Hargreaves, inspired by his son, Adam, who had asked him what a tickle looked like. Hargreaves responded with a round, orange figure with long, bendy arms. The account of the first book's creation is currently being disputed. According to John Malam, who wrote Roger Hargreaves' entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the inspiration for his initial creations came while doodling at work. Malam told Amelia Tait of the New Statesman in 2021 of the anecdote about his son's query: ""It became too good to dispute and no doubt "

Prompt: Which was the first of the Mr. Men characters to be created by cartoonist Roger Hargreaves?

Answer: Mr. Messy


Context: Good Friday |   According to the accounts in the Gospels, the royal soldiers, guided by Jesus' disciple Judas Iscariot, arrested Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Judas received money (30 pieces of silver) for betraying Jesus and told the guards that whomever he kisses is the one they are to arrest. Following his arrest, Jesus was taken to the house of Annas, the father-in-law of the high priest, Caiaphas. There he was interrogated with little result and sent bound to Caiaphas the high priest where the Sanhedrin had assembled. Conflicting testimony against Jesus was brought forth by many witnesses, to which Jesus answered nothing. Finally the high priest adjured Jesus to respond

Prompt: In the Bible, where was Jesus betrayed by Judas, and subsequently arrested?

Answer: Gethsemane


Context: News on Sunday | " The advertisement campaign for the paper was carried out by BBH (Bartle, Bogle & Hegarty), who came up with the slogan ""No tits but a lot of balls"", in an attempt to distance the paper from those with images of topless women, and emphasise an overt political agenda not usually associated with tabloids. The slogan offended the feminists working on the paper and was subsequently dropped, though an element of the idea survived for the TV advert. The slogan used was ""The paper that bites back"". The newspaper's attitude to news values, and the inexperience of its staff, was illustrated on the front page of its first edition on 26 April. The lead story was about a boy in Brazil who had to sell one of his kidneys to pay for medical care. Although most agreed that this was a worthwhile issue, the story was considered inappropriate as "

Prompt: "What was advertised on TV as, ""A newspaper, not a snooze paper""?"

Answer: THE MAIL ON SUNDAY


Context: 2008 in Wales | Jonathan Pryce appears in Leatherheads. ; Michael Sheen plays David Frost in Frost/Nixon ; Catherine Zeta-Jones stars in Death Defying Acts ; Freebird is filmed and set in Wales. ; Flick, starring Faye Dunaway, is filmed in Wales.

Prompt: "Which Welsh actor portrays David Frost in the 2008 film, ""Frost/Nixon""?"

Answer: Michael sheene


Context: Unseen character | "Dad's Army: Mrs Elizabeth Mainwaring, the wife of Captain Mainwaring, is never seen with the exception of the episode A Soldier's Farewell when her great weight in the bunk above Captain Mainwaring's causes her mattress to sag into camera shot. She appears in the 2016 movie. ; Minder: Arthur Daley's wife, referred to only as ""'Er Indoors"", is never seen or heard, but often quoted. ; Hi-de-Hi: Joe Maplin. Tyrannical, greedy and philandering owner of the six Maplins holiday camps. It was intended that he would be played by Bob Monkhouse, but he was unavailable for filming. Joe Maplin communicated with the entertainments staff through sarcastic, hectoring, semi-literate letters which Jeffrey Fairbrother would have to read to the "

Prompt: "In the TV series, ""Dad's Army"", what was the name of Captain Mainwaring's wife?"

Answer: Elizabet


Context: Annie Leibovitz |  Anna-Lou Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer best known for her engaging portraits, particularly of celebrities, which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. Leibovitz's Polaroid photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken five hours before Lennon's murder, is considered one of Rolling Stone magazine's most famous cover photographs. The Library of Congress declared her a Living Legend, and she is the first woman to have a feature exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery.

Prompt: In which field of the arts has American born Annie Leibovitz achieved fame?

Answer: Pet photography


Context: Richard I of England |  Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was the third of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and seemed unlikely to become king, but all his brothers except the youngest, John, predeceased their father. Richard is known as Richard Cœur de Lion (Norman French: Le quor de lion) or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior.

Prompt: Give a year in the reign of King Richard I of England (The Lionheart)?

Answer: 1189-99


Context: Pelléas et Mélisande (Sibelius) | "The opening movement of the suite for orchestra is called ""At the Castle Gate"". The strings introduce an atmospheric, brief theme, which is then restated with help from the woodwind. This introduction is closed by austere chords. This section is familiar to British television viewers as the theme of the world's longest-running TV programme (1957–present), the BBC's The Sky at Night, first presented by Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) and presently by Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock. ; Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen.pdf The character Mélisande is introduced with characteristically strong material presented by a cor anglais solo. This is succeeded by a brief intermezzo, ""At the Seashore,"" which Sibelius regarded as dispensable in concert performances. ; Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen.pdf Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen.pdf The strings present the dense sonorities of the melodic "

Prompt: "Which long running TV series is introduced by a piece of music entitled, ""At the Castle Gates""?"

Answer: THE SKY AT NIGHT


Context: History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982) |  Mikhail Gorbachev took office in 1985. Nikita Khrushchev was ousted as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) (as well as Chairman of the Council of Ministers) on 14 October 1964, due to his failed reforms and disregard for Party and Government institutions. Brezhnev replaced Khrushchev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin replaced him as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Anastas Mikoyan, and later Nikolai Podgorny, became Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Together with Andrei Kirilenko as organizational secretary, and Mikhail Suslov as Chief Ideologue, they made up a reinvigorated

Prompt: Who succeeded Nikita Kruschev as leader of the Soviet Union in1964?

Answer: Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin


Context: Younger Than Springtime | " ""Younger Than Springtime"" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It has been widely recorded as a jazz standard. The song is performed in the first act by Lieutenant Cable when he makes love to his adored Liat, to whom he was only recently introduced by her mother Bloody Mary. The song shows that love just happens and does not follow the rules of racial separation prevalent in the United States at that time. In the original Broadway show, the song was performed by William Tabbert while in the 1958 film, it was sung by John Kerr miming to a vocal by Bill Lee."

Prompt: From which musical does the song 'Younger than Springtime' come?

Answer: The South Pacific


Context: Brigham, Cumbria |  hamlet of Broughton Cross, 1 km west of the main village. The village gave its name to HMS Brigham, a Ham class minesweeper. The ship's bell from this vessel is now in St Bridget's Church of England primary school in the village. Until a more modern fire alarm system was installed, this bell was rung as the fire alarm for the school. The family of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian are buried in the graveyard at St. Bridget's. Fletcher himself, born 1764 and raised in the township of Eaglesfield within Brigham parish (at that time), and christened at St. Bridget's, is thought to be buried on Pitcairn Island, though some have claimed that he returned secretly to England.

Prompt: Fletcher Christian, the Bounty mutineer and the poet William Wordsworth were both born in which Cumbrian town?

Answer: Cockermouth


Context: Hampton Court Palace |  Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 12 mi south west and upstream of central London on the River Thames. Building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chief minister of King Henry VIII. In 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the cardinal gave the palace to the king to check his disgrace. The palace went on to become one of Henry's most favoured residences; soon after acquiring the property, he arranged for it to be enlarged so that it might more easily accommodate his sizeable retinue of courtiers. Along with St James' Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many the king

Prompt: Which palace, built by Cardinal Wolsey, was home to Henry 8th and is supposedly haunted by two of his wives?

Answer: Hampton Court Palace Maze


Context: List of Livingston F.C. seasons |  This is a list of seasons played by Livingston F.C. in Scottish and European football. The club was first formed in Edinburgh as Ferranti Thistle in the 1940s, becoming Meadowbank Thistle and joining the Scottish Football League in 1974. The club relocated to Livingston in 1995, changing their name again and taking up residence in a new stadium in the West Lothian town.

Prompt: The Scottish football club Ferranti Thistle joined the Scottish Football League in 1974 as Meadowbank Thistle; in 1995 they relocated and changed their name to what?

Answer: Livingston (disambiguation)


Context: Assam silk |  to four trees (Vakula, Likucha, Vata and Naga-vriksa) which the silkworms feed on. Out of these, Vakula and Naga-vriksa belong to the genus Ericales and Magnolia which the Muga silkworm Antheraea assamensis is known to feed on; while Likucha (Artocarpus lakucha) and Vata belong to the genus Moraceae(Mulberry) which the Pat Silkworm feeds on. This is further confirmed from the 9th century thesaurus Amara-kosha which mentions that the worms of the fibre Patrorna (a form of white silk), fed on the leaves of Vata, Lakucha, etc. The Arthashastra also states that the fibre was spun while the threads were wet,

Prompt: Silkworms feed on the leaves of which tree?

Answer: Mulberry tea


Context: Greyfriars Bobby |  Greyfriars Bobby (4 May 1855 – 14 January 1872) was a Skye Terrier who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh for spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner until he died on 14 January 1872. The story continues to be well known in Scotland, through several books and films. A prominent commemorative statue and nearby graves are a tourist attraction.

Prompt: What was the name of the Edinburgh dog that watched over his owner's grave for 14 years?

Answer: Greyfriars Bobby


Context: American Chinese cuisine | "Beijing beef—in China, this dish uses gai lan (Chinese broccoli) rather than American broccoli. ; Cashew chicken—stir-fried tender chicken pieces with cashews. ; Chow mein—literally means ""stir-fried noodles"". Chow mein consists of fried crispy noodles with bits of meat and vegetables. It can come with chicken, pork, shrimp or beef. ; Egg foo young—a Chinese-style omelet with vegetables and meat, usually served with a brown gravy. While some restaurants in North America deep fry the omelet, versions found in Asia are more likely to fry in the wok. ; Egg roll—while spring rolls have a thin, light beige crispy skin that flakes apart, and is filled with mushrooms, bamboo, and "

Prompt: The name of which Chinese dish translates as 'bits and pieces'?

Answer: Tjap tjoy


Context: List of Futurama characters | " Bender Bending Rodríguez (designated in-universe as Bending Unit 22, unit number 1,729, serial number 2716057 ) is a humanoid industrial robot who rounds out the main trio of characters. He fulfills a comic, antihero-type role in Futurama and is described by fellow character Leela as an ""alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler"". Fry meets Bender at a suicide booth (which he mistakes for a telephone booth) after exploring the city following his escape from the cryogenics facility he was frozen at. After Fry gives Bender a reason to keep living, the two are caught by Leela, who joins them in going to Planet Express. Bender fulfills a variety of odd jobs at the company, including the head chef, and is also Fry's best friend and roommate. He is voiced by John DiMaggio."

Prompt: What is the name of the drunken robot in the TV series Futurama?

Answer: Bender (disambiguation)


Context: Gunther von Hagens | " dissection was performed in full. The autopsy was shown in November 2002 on the UK's Channel 4 television channel; it resulted in over 130 complaints, an OFCOM record, but the Independent Television Commission ruled that the programme had not been sensationalist and had not broken broadcasting rules. In 2003 TV Production Company Mentorn proposed a documentary called Futurehuman in which von Hagens would perform a series of modifications on a corpse to demonstrate ""improvements"" to human anatomy. The controversy was sparked when the company, with von Hagens, appealed publicly for a terminally ill person to donate his body for the project. The documentary was cancelled after the body donor pulled out. In February 2004, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung confirmed earlier reports by the "

Prompt: Dr Gunther Van Hagens caused controversy on TV by performing which medical procedure live?

Answer: AN AUTOPSY


Context: Major Barbara | " Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, offending Major Barbara, who does not want to be connected to his ""tainted"" wealth. However, the father argues that poverty is a worse problem than munitions, and claims "

Prompt: In GB Shaw's Major Barbara in which army was Barbara a major?

Answer: Sally-ann


Context: Deckers Outdoor Corporation | " rams head logo with the words ""Original UGG Boot UGG Australia. He later acquired the Australian mark from Steadman. In 1995, he sold his interest to Deckers Outdoor Corporation. In 1996, Deckers registered a trademark for ""UGG"" in the US. In 1999, Deckers began asserting its new trademark and sent cease and desist letters to Australian manufacturers but did not press the issue beyond that. In 2005, the validity of the UGG trademark was challenged in Federal Court in California; the court ruled for Deckers, stating that consumers in the United States consider Ugg to be a brand name. In his final order, the judge hearing the case stated that, although the defendants had provided anecdotal evidence of the "

Prompt: Which foreign car manufacture has a rams head on its badge?

Answer: Dodge


Context: Leeds |  Leeds is located 169 mi north-northwest of London, on the valley of the River Aire in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city centre lies in a narrow section of the Aire Valley at about 206 ft above sea level; while the district ranges from 1115 ft in the far west on the slopes of Ilkley Moor to about 33 ft where the rivers Aire and Wharfe cross the eastern boundary. There are also significant variations in elevation within the city itself. For example, land rises to 198 m in Cookridge, just 6 mi from the city centre. The centre of Leeds is part of a continuously built-up area extending to Pudsey,

Prompt: The city of Leeds stands on which river?

Answer: Autoimmune regulator


Context: Sun bear |  The sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) is a species in the family Ursidae occurring in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. It is the smallest bear, standing nearly 70 cm at the shoulder and weighing 25 - 65 kg. It is stockily built, with large paws, strongly curved claws, small rounded ears and a short snout. The fur is generally jet-black, but can vary from grey to red. Sun bears get their name from the characteristic orange to cream coloured chest patch. Its unique morphology—inward-turned front feet, flattened chest, powerful forelimbs with large claws—suggests adaptations for climbing. The most arboreal (tree-living) of all bears, the sun bear is an excellent climber and

Prompt: From which continent does the world's smallest bear the Sun Bear originate?

Answer: South-Eastern Asia


Context: Trevor Baylis | " Trevor Graham Baylis (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor best known for the wind-up radio. The radio, instead of relying on batteries or external electrical source, is powered by the user winding a crank. This stores energy in a spring which then drives an electrical generator. Baylis invented it in response to the need to communicate information about AIDS to the ""people of Africa"". He ran a company in his name dedicated to helping inventors to develop and protect their ideas and to find a route to market."

Prompt: Who invented the wind-up radio?

Answer: Trevor Bayliss


Context: Sternum | " The sternum or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the central part of the chest. It connects to the ribs via cartilage and forms the front of the rib cage, thus helping to protect the heart, lungs, and major blood vessels from injury. Shaped roughly like a necktie, it is one of the largest and longest flat bones of the body. Its three regions are the manubrium, the body, and the xiphoid process. The word ""sternum"" originates from the Ancient Greek στέρνον (stérnon), meaning ""chest""."

Prompt: What is the medical name for the breastbone?

Answer: STERNUM


Context: His Dark Materials |  His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll.

Prompt: Who wrote the book His Dark Materials?

Answer: PHILIP PULLMAN


Context: Coronation of George IV | " The music used in the coronation service seems to have been influenced by George's wishes; some of it was changed by the king when he attended the final rehearsal only three days before the event. By tradition, the monarch's entry into the abbey is greeted by the anthem I was glad; however, this was deferred until the king had reached the quire and was sung to a new setting by Thomas Attwood. Instead, at the initial entry of the king, the Hallelujah Chorus from the oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel was sung. At that point, the King's Scholars of Westminster School shouted the traditional acclamation, ""Vivat Georgius Rex!"". This was followed by music from another "

Prompt: "In 1743, which English monarch began the tradition, of the audience rising to its feet, for Handel's ""Hallelujah Chorus""?"

Answer: GEORGE II


Context: Morrinsville College | Jacinda Ardern, 40th and current Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017–present) ; David Mitchell, was a New Zealand Architect whose practice was based in Auckland. He was awarded the gold medal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) in 2005.

Prompt: Who is currently the Prime Minister of New Zealand?

Answer: John Key


Context: Brian Deane | " 17 years - and comfortably qualify for a place in the new FA Premier League. Deane scored the first goal in the FA Premier League for Sheffield United against Manchester United after 5 minutes on 15 August 1992. In the same game he scored a second after 50 minutes from the penalty spot as Sheffield United went on to win 2–1. Deane went on to say of the goal, ""I found out I had scored the first goal at half-time but it didn't really feel like a big thing at the time."" On 16 January 1993, Deane scored a hat-trick against Ipswich Town in a 3–0 league victory, making "

Prompt: When Brian Deane scored the first ever goal in the Premier League in 1992, against Man Utd., for which club was he playing?

Answer: Piggy Blunts


Context: Holding Back the Years | " ""Holding Back the Years"" is the seventh track on Simply Red's debut studio album Picture Book (1985). It remains their most successful single, having reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart. It is one of two Simply Red songs (the other being their cover of ""If You Don't Know Me by Now"") to reach number one in the US. It also reached number four on the Adult Contemporary chart. ""Holding Back the Years"" had initially been released in the UK the year before, reaching number 51. The song was nominated in the category of Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 29th Annual Grammy Awards."

Prompt: """Holding Back the Years"", was a US No 1 hit record for which British pop group?"

Answer: Simply Red


Context: Birdsong (novel) |  Birdsong is a 1993 war novel and family saga by the English author Sebastian Faulks. It is Faulks's fourth novel. The plot follows two main characters living at different times: the first is Stephen Wraysford, a British soldier on the front line in Amiens during the First World War, and the second is his granddaughter, Elizabeth Benson, whose 1970s plotline follows her attempts to recover an understanding of Stephen's experience of the war. Faulks developed the novel to bring more public awareness to the experience of war remembered by WWI veterans. Most critics found this effort successful, commenting on how the novel, like many other WWI novels, thematically focuses on how the experience of trauma shapes individual psyches. Similarly, because of the parallel narratives WWI and 1970s Britain, the novel explores

Prompt: "The novel, ""Birdsong"", by Sebastian Faulks, is mainly set during which war?"

Answer: WORLD WAR I


Context: Jacqui Oatley |  moving back to London to work as a sports reporter for BBC London 94.9. She joined BBC Radio 5 Live in 2003 and became the first woman to commentate on a football match on British network radio in 2005, covering the England women's internationals at the 2005 UEFA Women's Championship. Her subsequent interview with UEFA President Lennart Johansson became an international news story due to his controversial comments on women's football. Oatley became the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day, with her debut broadcast on 21 April 2007 for the Premier League match between Fulham F.C.

Prompt: "In 2007, who became the first female to deliver football commentary on BBC's ""Match of the Day""?"

Answer: JACQUI OATLEY


Context: A Whiter Shade of Pale | " ""A Whiter Shade of Pale"" is a song by the English rock band Procol Harum that was issued as their debut record on 12 May 1967. The single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June and stayed there for six weeks. Without much promotion, it reached number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100. One of the anthems of the 1967 Summer of Love, it is one of the most commercially successful singles in history, having sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. In the years since, ""A Whiter Shade of Pale"" has become an enduring classic, with more than 1000 known cover versions by other artists. With its Bach-derived instrumental melody, soulful vocals, and unusual "

Prompt: """A Whiter Shade of Pale"" was the 1967 debut single for which successful British band?"

Answer: Procol harum


Context: English cricket team in New Zealand in 1932–33 | " Douglas Jardine's England national cricket team toured New Zealand in March 1933 as an afterword to their ""bodyline"" tour of Australia. England and New Zealand played a two-match Test series. New Zealand were captained by Curly Page. Both Tests were drawn. The second Test of the series, at Auckland, was the 200th Test match to be played by England."

Prompt: "Give either year of the England cricket team's ""Bodyline"" tour of Australia."

Answer: 1932 or 1933


Context: The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree |  The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree is a children's science fiction book series by Louis Slobodkin, and also the name of the first book in the series. The books were published by Macmillan. The series involves a Boy Scout named Eddie who meets an alien in his apple orchard who comes from the planet Martinea. The series humorously depicts their friendship as Eddie tries to explain the strange things that humans do and why.

Prompt: In which classic book does a boy hide in a ship's barrel of apples?

Answer: Treasure Island (novel)


Context: Václav Havel |  Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs. His educational opportunities having been limited by his bourgeois background, when freedoms were limited by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Havel first rose to prominence as a playwright. In works such as The Garden Party and The Memorandum, Havel

Prompt: Which playwright and poet became President of his country in 1989?

Answer: Hollar, Václav


Context: Silver Lady (song) | " ""Silver Lady"" is a popular single by David Soul. Written by Tony Macaulay and Geoff Stephens and produced by Macaulay, ""Silver Lady"" was the second and final number one hit in the UK Singles Chart for David Soul, spending three weeks at the top in October 1977. It had spent five weeks in the top ten before eventually toppling Elvis Presley. The single also spent four weeks at number one in Ireland, and peaked at number five in Australia, but fared less well in his homeland peaking at #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number #23 on the Easy Listening chart. It can be found on his second album Playing To An "

Prompt: "Who had a UK No. 1 hit in 1977 with ""Silver Lady""?"

Answer: Payne & Redemption


Context: Martin Heinrich Klaproth | " element the name zirconium based on its Persian name ""zargun"", gold-colored. Klaproth characterised uranium and zirconium as distinct elements, though he did not obtain any of them in the pure metallic state. Klaproth independently discovered cerium (1803), a rare earth element, around the same time as Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Wilhelm Hisinger, in the winter of 1803. William Gregor of Cornwall was the first to identify the element titanium in 1791, correctly concluding that he had found a new element in the ore ilmenite from the Menachan valley. He proposed the name ""menachanite"", but his discovery attracted little attention. Klaproth verified the presence of an oxide of an unknown element in the ore rutile from "

Prompt: Which element takes its name from the Persian for 'gold coloured'?

Answer: Zirconium salts


Context: Mae West | " into the appearance of an extraordinarily large brassiere. ; West has been the subject of songs, including the title song of Cole Porter's Broadway musical Anything Goes and in ""You're the Top"". ; Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí painted works entitled ""Face of Mae West which may be Used as an Apartment"", and the Mae West Lips Sofa, which was also by Salvador Dalí and completed in 1938 for Edward James. ; When approached for permission to allow her likeness on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, West initially refused, asking ""What would I be doing in a Lonely "

Prompt: Who, in 1936, painted a portrait of Mae West in which her face is also a furnished room?

Answer: Salvador Felipe Jacinto DalA