Context: David Lean |  commander who is determined to build the best possible bridge for his Japanese captors in Burma. After extensive location work in the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, and elsewhere, Lean's Lawrence of Arabia was released in 1962. This was the first project of Lean's with a screenplay by playwright Robert Bolt, rewriting an original script by Michael Wilson (one of the two blacklisted writers of Bridge on the River Kwai). It recounts the life of T. E. Lawrence, the British officer who is depicted in the film as uniting the squabbling Bedouin peoples of the Arab peninsula to fight in World War I and then push

Prompt: In which decade was the David Lean film 'Lawrence Of Arabia' released?

Answer: Sixties Revolution


Context: Assassination of James A. Garfield |  James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, 79 days later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Garfield's assassin was Charles J. Guiteau, whose motive was revenge against Garfield for an imagined political debt, and getting Chester A. Arthur elevated to president. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting.

Prompt: When US President James Garfield was shot in Washington DC in July 1881, what was he doing?

Answer: WAITING FOR A TRAIN


Context: Private Eye | " financial scandals and unethical business practices and personalities have been exposed there. Some contributors to Private Eye are media figures or specialists in their field who write anonymously, often under humorous pseudonyms, such as ""Dr B Ching"" who writes the ""Signal Failures"" column about the railways, in reference to the Beeching cuts. Stories sometimes originate from writers for more mainstream publications who cannot get their stories published by their main employers. Private Eye has traditionally lagged behind other magazines in adopting new typesetting and printing technologies. At the start it was laid out with scissors and paste and typed on three IBM Electric typewriters – italics, pica "

Prompt: 'Signal Failures' written by Dr. B. Ching is the title of a column that has appeared in which magazine?

Answer: The Private Eye


Context: My Favorite Martian | " The series was also remade as a feature film in 1999 starring Christopher Lloyd as the Martian and Jeff Daniels as Tim. This film was released and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Ray Walston was featured in the film (both Bill Bixby and Pamela Britton had since died; the former in 1993 and the latter in 1974) and played another Martian who had been trapped on Earth since the time of the first series and wore a similar space suit from the series; his cover was now that of a Government investigator of unidentified flying objects. However, the premise was changed: Martians such as Lloyd's Uncle Martin are now non-humanoids with four arms, four legs, and three eyes who use a gumball (which they call ""nerplex"") to assume human form. The ""nerplex"" comes in a selection that will turn the person ingesting it into assorted life forms, including Martian, Venusian and one to ""never use"" (Venox 7)."

Prompt: Which US TV series of the 1960's starring Ray Walston as 'Uncle Martin' and Bill Bixby, was remade in 1999 as a film starring Christopher Lloyd and Jeff Daniels?

Answer: Tim O'Hara


Context: Faliraki |  Faliraki (Φαληράκι) is the primary seaside resort village on the Greek island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese. It is situated on Faliraki Bay, on the northeastern coast, about 14 km south of the town of Rhodes and 10 km southeast of the airport. It is part of the municipal unit Kallithea.

Prompt: On which island is the holiday resort of Faliraki?

Answer: RHODES


Context: Felix Francis | " mother's passing, Felix took over her work. Felix and his father often worked together on plot and character details at Dick’s home in the Cayman Islands. This partnership allowed Dick to draw upon Felix’s knowledge and experience as a physics teacher in Twice Shy and his past as an international marksman in Shattered (2000) and Under Orders (2006). With the publication of Dead Heat in 2007, Felix took on a more significant role in writing. Silks (2008) was the second novel in this father-and-son collaboration, and Even Money (2009) was the third. Crossfire (2010) was the novel Dick and Felix were working on when Dick died in February 2010. Felix's first novel written without his father was Gamble, published in September 2011, begins the ""Dick Francis novel"" franchise."

Prompt: The novels 'Dead Heat', 'Silks' and 'Even Money' were written by Dick Francis and his younger son. What is his son's first name?

Answer: FELIX


Context: Papua (province) |  Papua, formerly Irian Jaya, is the largest and easternmost province of Indonesia, comprising most of Western New Guinea. The province is located on the island of New Guinea. It is bordered by the state of Papua New Guinea to the east, the province of West Papua to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the north, and the Arafura Sea to the south. The province also shares maritime boundaries with Palau to the north. The province is divided into twenty-eight regencies and one city. Its capital and largest city is Jayapura. The province has a large potential in natural resources, such as gold, nickel, petroleum, etc. Puncak Jaya is the province's highest

Prompt: Papua is a province of which country?

Answer: Unitary state of republic of indonesia


Context: Paul McGann |  Paul John McGann (born 14 November 1959) is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and I (1987), which was a critical success and developed a cult following. McGann later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television film. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the series Hornblower.

Prompt: Which character was played by Paul McGann in the 1986 TV drama 'The Monocled Mutineer'?

Answer: Francis Percy TOPLIS


Context: James Bond | " The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, and Anthony Horowitz. The latest novel is Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz, published in May 2018. Additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny. The character—also known by the code number 007 (pronounced ""double-O-seven"")—has "

Prompt: Kingsley Amis, John Gardner and Raymond Benson have written novels about which character, after the death of the original author?

Answer: James Bond formula


Context: Wilhelm Ostwald |  Through his research on chemical reaction rates and velocities and his studies of acids and bases, Ostwald found that the concentration of acid or the concentration of base in a solution of certain chemical reactants can have a strong influence of the rate of chemical processes. He realized that this is manifestation of the concept of chemical catalysis first articulated by Berzelius. Ostwald articulated the idea that a catalyst is a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without being a part of either the reactants or the products. Ostwald's advances in the understanding of chemical catalysis were widely applicable in biological processes such as enzymatic catalysis and also in many industrial processes. A catalyst is used in the nitric acid process that Ostwald invented.

Prompt: What name is given to a substance that accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected?

Answer: Catalytes


Context: Cinnamon |  In 2017, four countries accounted for 99% of the world total: Indonesia, China, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Global production has multiplied more than ten-fold since 1970. The largest change by country was for Vietnam, which went from being a minor producer in 1970 to third largest in 2017.

Prompt: Nine tenths of the world's Cinnamon is produced on which island nation? It is the only island to which the plant is native?

Answer: Sri Lanka government


Context: British Linen Bank |  Robert Louis Stevenson's classic historical adventure novel, Kidnapped (1886), ends at 2 PM on 25 August 1751, outside the British Linen Company in Edinburgh, Scotland, where its protagonist, David Balfour, plans to manage his inherited income. This is precisely where the book's sequel, Catriona (1893), begins.

Prompt: Who is the protagonist and narrator of Robert Louis Stevenson's novels 'Kidnapped' and 'Catriona'?

Answer: David Balfour


Context: Carry On Cabby |  First screened to the trade (cinema distributors) on 22 August 1963, the film went on general release across the UK later the same year on 7 November.

Prompt: Released in 1962, which was the first of the 'Carry On ....' films to be released in colour?

Answer: 'CARRY ON CRUISING'


Context: Adonis |  Then, one day while Adonis was out hunting, he was wounded by a wild boar, and bled to death in Aphrodite's arms. In different versions of the story, the boar was either sent by Ares, who was jealous that Aphrodite was spending so much time with Adonis, by Artemis, who wanted revenge against Aphrodite for having killed her devoted follower Hippolytus, or by Apollo, to punish Aphrodite for blinding his son Erymanthus. The story also provides an etiology for Aphrodite's associations with certain flowers. Reportedly, as she mourned Adonis's death, she caused anemones to grow wherever his blood fell, and declared a festival on the anniversary of his death.

Prompt: In Greek myth, who was the beautiful youth beloved of Aphrodite, who died of a hunting wound inflicted by a wild boar?

Answer: ESO 3.6 m telescope


Context: 1887 in Germany | The Petri dish is created by German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri. ; Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic waves in radio, an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light. ; Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invents the contact lens, made of a type of brown glass. ; Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt is founded. ; Friedrich Loeffler creates Löffler's serum, a coagulated blood serum used for the detection of the bacteria.

Prompt: What were invented by Adolf Fick in 1887 and, while being to all intents and purposes invisible, are used worldwide by an estimated 125 million people?

Answer: Colored contact lenses


Context: Peter Bennett (music promoter) | " end of a long career slump, Bennett helped push the single ""Suspicious Minds"" to number one – Presley's first in seven years. Bennett was a backstage guest at Presley's opening night comeback to the concert stage at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in July 1969. In 1970 singer and television personality Perry Como recorded ""It's Impossible"", a ballad he believed could break through the rock and soul wave that had kept him at the bottom for over a decade. Phone calls and a few back favors owed to Bennett helped give Como his first top 10 hit since 1958 with the "

Prompt: Name the singer or group whose record in November 1969 kept "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley off the number one spot in the UK charts.

Answer: Rolf Harris (Two Little Boys)


Context: Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair |  In October 1985, a group of Palestinian terrorists of the PLO embark on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in Alexandria with the purpose of reaching Haifa and perform a suicide mission against Israel. However, when they're found out during the trip, they decide to hijack the ship and take all passengers hostage. Among them are Mr. Leon Klinghoffer (Burt Lancaster), a disabled Jewish-American and his wife Marilyn Klinghoffer, who is hiding from her husband the fact she has skin cancer. Also taken hostage is Antonio, a ship staff member who bonds with Leon after looking after him at the

Prompt: What was the name of the cruise ship hijacked by the PLO in 1985?

Answer: Achille Lauro


Context: Zombie comedy |  Zombie (1998). A popular modern zombie comedy is Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004), a self-dubbed romantic zombie comedy, or RomZomCom, with many in-jokes and references to George A. Romero's earlier Dead films, especially Dawn of the Dead. Other popular zombie comedies include Gregg Bishop's Dance of the Dead (2008) and the 2009 film Zombieland. Andrew Currie's Fido, Matthew Leutwyler's Dead & Breakfast, and Peter Jackson's Braindead are also examples of zombie comedies. Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II, although a more direct horror film, contains some lighthearted and dark comedy elements, and its sequel, Army of Darkness, is even more comedic. The Evil Dead series does not, however, feature any traditional-style zombies.

Prompt: Which 2004 film was released with the advertising tagline "A romantic comedy – with zombies!"?

Answer: Rom-zom-com


Context: Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England |  Dating from 1158 to the early 16th century, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford was always a small cathedral and was made smaller by the destruction of much of the nave in the 16th century. The stone spire, from 1230, is one of the oldest in England and contributes to Oxford’s tradition as “the city of dreaming spires”. Its most unusual feature is the late-15th-century pendant vault over the Norman chancel.

Prompt: Which is Britain's oldest cathedral?

Answer: Caunterbury


Context: Growltiger's Last Stand | " Growltiger is a fictional character appearing in both T. S. Elliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats which is based on Eliot's book. He is described as a ""bravo cat who lived upon a barge"", one who scoured the Thames from Gravesend to Oxford, terrorizing the inhabitants along the river, including ""cottagers"", canaries, geese, hens, ""pampered Pekinese"", and the ""bristly Bandicoot that lurks on foreign ships"". Growltiger is usually envisioned as a pirate, although he is never explicitly described as such. He has lost one eye, and one of his ears is ""somewhat missing"" after an incident involving a Siamese cat. ""Growltiger's Last Stand"" describes how he meets his fate when he least expects it. Besides the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical setting in Cats the English composer Humphrey Searle composed a musical setting of ""Growltiger's Last Stand"" as the second of his Two Practical Cats for speaker, flute, cello and guitar. "

Prompt: In Old Possums book of practical cats what is the name of the cat who is the terror of the Thames?

Answer: Growltiger's Last Stand


Context: Hyacinthoides non-scripta | " Hyacinthoides non-scripta was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum, as a species in the genus Hyacinthus. The specific epithet non-scriptus means ""unlettered"" or ""unmarked"" and was intended to distinguish this plant from the classical hyacinth of Greek mythology. This mythical flower, which was almost certainly not the modern hyacinth, sprang up from the blood of the dying prince Hyacinthus. His lover, the god Apollo, shed tears that marked the new flower's petals with the letters ""AIAI"" (""alas"") as a sign of his grief. In 1803, Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link transferred the species to the genus Scilla, and in 1849 Christian August Friedrich Garcke transferred it to the genus Endymion (now a synonym of Hyacinthoides); it is still widely known as ""Scilla non-scripta"" or ""Endymion non-scriptus"". In 1934, Pierre Chouard transferred the "

Prompt: Which flower has the Latin name Hyacinthoides non scripta?

Answer: Bluebelle


Context: Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom | " The neutron was discovered by James Chadwick at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in February 1932, and in April 1932, his Cavendish colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split lithium atoms with accelerated protons. In December 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann at Hahn's laboratory in Berlin-Dahlem bombarded uranium with slow neutrons, and discovered that barium had been produced. Hahn wrote to his colleague Lise Meitner, who, with her nephew Otto Frisch, determined that the uranium nucleus had been split, a conclusion they published in Nature in 1939. By analogy with the division of biological cells, they named the process ""fission"". The "

Prompt: In 1932 which British physicist discovered the part of the nucleus of an atom which was later called the neutron?

Answer: (James) CHADWICK


Context: List of Lords Commissioners of the Treasury | May 1979 ; Margaret Thatcher (First Lord) ; Sir Geoffrey Howe (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ; Carol Mather ; Peter Morrison ; Lord James Douglas-Hamilton ; John MacGregor ; David Waddington ; January 1981 ; Margaret Thatcher (First Lord) ; Sir Geoffrey Howe (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ; Carol Mather ; Lord James Douglas-Hamilton ; The Hon. Robert Boscawen ; John Wakeham ; John Cope ; September 1981 ; Margaret Thatcher (First Lord) ; Sir Geoffrey Howe (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ; Robert Boscawen ; John Cope ; Anthony Newton ; Peter Brooke ; John Gummer ; March 1982 ; Margaret Thatcher (First Lord) ; Sir Geoffrey

Prompt: Who was Margaret Thatcher's first Chancellor of the Exchequer?

Answer: Lord Howe of Aberavon


Context: James Rodríguez |  home crowd, ending his first World Cup campaign with six goals and two assists in five matches. On 11 July, he was named on the 10-man shortlist for FIFA's Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player. He then won the Golden Boot as the tournament's top goalscorer despite being eliminated in the quarter finals. Due to his performances, he was named in the World Cup All Star XI and was also listed in the Cup's star XI by Castrol's index rating system in FIFA's website. Argentina legend Diego Maradona argued that James, rather than Lionel Messi, should have won the tournament's Golden Ball award.

Prompt: What nationality is James Rodriguez who won the Golden Boot Award at the 2014 FIFA World Cup Finals in July having scored six goals?

Answer: República de Colombia


Context: M11 motorway |  The M11 is a 55 mi motorway that runs north from the North Circular Road (A406) in South Woodford to the A14, northwest of Cambridge, England. Originally proposed as early as 1915, various plans were considered throughout the 1960s, with final construction being undertaken between 1975 and 1980. The motorway was opened in stages, with the first stage between junctions 7 and 8 opening in June 1975, and the completed motorway becoming fully operational in February 1980. Running from Woodford to Girton, the motorway provides direct access to Harlow, Cambridge and since 2002, greatly improved access to London Stansted Airport.

Prompt: Which motorway runs from Cambridge to London?

Answer: M11


Context: List of U.S. presidential campaign slogans | """For People, for a Change"" – 1992 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Bill Clinton ; ""It's Time to Change America"" – a theme of the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton ; ""Putting People First"" – 1992 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Bill Clinton ; ""It's the economy, stupid"" – originally intended for an internal audience, it became the de facto slogan for the Bill Clinton campaign ; ""Stand by the President"" – George H. W. Bush ; ""A Proud Tradition"" – George H. W. Bush ; ""Don't Change the Team in the Middle of the Stream"" – George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle ; ""America First"" – Pat Buchanan ; ""Down with King George"" – Pat Buchanan, in reference to Bush ; ""Send Bush a Message"" – Pat Buchanan ; ""Conservative of the Heart"" – Pat Buchanan ; ""A Voice for the Voiceless"" – Pat Buchanan ; ""Ross for Boss"" – Ross Perot ; ""I'm Ross, and you're the Boss!"" – Ross Perot ; ""Leadership for a Change"" – Ross Perot "

Prompt: "Which American President used the slogan: ""It's the economy, stupid"" for his presidential campaign?"

Answer: US President Bill Clinton


Context: Mae West | " documentary Mae West: Dirty Blonde, West aborted Deiro's child on the advice of her mother, the procedure nearly killing her and leaving her infertile. The younger Deiro said that his father was devastated when he learned about the abortion and ended the relationship. West later said, ""Marriage is a great institution. I'm not ready for an institution."" In 1916, when she was a vaudeville actress, West had a relationship with James Timony (1884–1954), an attorney nine years her senior. Timony was also her manager. By the time that she was an established movie actress in the mid-1930s, they were no longer a couple. West and Timony remained extremely "

Prompt: "Which film actress once claimed that ""Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm too young to be in an institution""?"

Answer: Mae West


Context: The Creatures of Prometheus |  The Creatures of Prometheus (Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus), Op. 43, is a ballet composed in 1801 by Ludwig van Beethoven following the libretto of Salvatore Viganò. The ballet premiered on 28 March 1801 at the Burgtheater in Vienna and was given 28 performances. It was premiered in New York at the Park Theatre on 14 June 1808 being one of the first full length works by Beethoven to be performed in the United States. It is the only full length ballet by Beethoven.

Prompt: Which great composer's only ballets were, 'The Creatures Of Prometheus' and 'Ritterballet'?

Answer: Ludwig van Baytoven


Context: Shepherd Neame Brewery |  ales such as Spitfire, which carries the Royal Warrant, its diverse portfolio includes Five Grain Lager, Bear Island East Coast Pale Ale and Bear Island Triple Hopped Lager, and the Whitstable Bay Collection. In March 2019, Shepherd Neame launched Cask Club, introducing a new cask ale each month, celebrating modern styles and flavours, with international collaborations. It also brews international lagers under licence including Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and is the sole UK distributor for premium Thai lager Singha. It is also the sole distributor for Angry Orchard Crisp Apple cider, and collaborates with Somerset’s oldest family cider maker Sheppy’s to produce Orchard View Apple Cider.

Prompt: Which English brewer produces 'Spitfire' Kentish ale?

Answer: Master Brew


Context: Che gelida manina | " ""Che gelida manina"" (""What a frozen little hand"") is a tenor aria from the first act of Giacomo Puccini's opera, La bohème. The aria is sung by Rodolfo to Mimì when they first meet. In the aria he tells her of his life as a poet, and ends by asking her to tell him more about her life. It is one of the most recorded arias by tenors."

Prompt: Which Puccini opera begins with 'Rodolfo' finishing writing an article while his friends go drinking?

Answer: Schaunard


Context: MIT Computation Center | " After the successful launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957, the race was on to calculate and predict where the first man-made satellites would appear in the sky. Fred Lawrence Whipple, then director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge Massachusetts, had gathered amateur astronomers to track artificial satellites in an organization called Operation Moonwatch. The aim was to get the position of the satellite in order to obtain its orbital elements. The first ""satisfactory orbit"" calculated by the IBM 704 as official tracker for the SAO occurred at 7AM on October 11, 1957."

Prompt: From where on 4th October 1957 was the first man- made satellite launched into space?

Answer: BAIKONUR KOSMODROME, KAZIKSTAN


Context: 71st United States Congress | March 4, 1929: Herbert C. Hoover became President of the United States ; October 24, 1929 – October 29, 1929: Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (3 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government). ; October 25, 1929: Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.

Prompt: Who was the President of the USA at the time of the 1929 Stock Market 'Crash'?

Answer: Presidency of Herbert Hoover


Context: Steven Spielberg's unrealized projects |  Around 1980, during the filming of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg contacted Gary David Goldberg to make a semiautobiographical musical film entitled Reel to Reel. The film's plot would have been surrounding a filmmaker named Stuart Moss, and his direction of a musical remake of Invaders From Mars. The film was officially announced in production in 1983, but Spielberg finally abandoned the project and chose to direct Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. According to the Los Angeles Times, the film was to have been directed by Michael Cimino and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Prompt: Although Steven Spielberg Directed 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark', he did not have the final cut. Who did?

Answer: GEORGE LUCAS (Executive Producer)


Context: Taoiseach | " The Taoiseach is the prime minister and head of government of Ireland. The office is appointed by the president of Ireland upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, Ireland's national legislature) and must retain the support of a majority in the Dáil to remain in office. The Irish word taoiseach means ""chief"" or ""leader"", and was adopted in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland as the title of the ""head of the Government or Prime Minister"". It is the official title of the head of government in both English and Irish, and is not used for the prime ministers of other countries, who are instead referred to in Irish by the generic term príomh-aire. The longer Irish form, an Taoiseach, is sometimes used in English instead of ""the Taoiseach"". The current Taoiseach is Micheál Martin TD, leader of Fianna Fáil, who took office on 27 June 2020 following a coalition agreement between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and the Green Party."

Prompt: Often used as the official name of the Irish Prime Minister, which Gaelic word translates as chief?

Answer: TAOISEACH (pron. tea-sha)


Context: Angevin kings of England | " The term ""Angevin Empire"" was coined in 1887 by Kate Norgate. As far as it is known, there was no contemporary name for this assemblage of territories, which were referred to—if at all—by clumsy circumlocutions such as our kingdom and everything subject to our rule whatever it may be or the whole of the kingdom which had belonged to his father. Whereas the Angevin part of this term has proved uncontentious, the empire portion has proved controversial. In 1986, a convention of historical specialists concluded that there had been no Angevin state and no empire but the term espace Plantagenet was acceptable."

Prompt: By what more familiar name do we know the 'Angevin Dynasty' of English kings?

Answer: House of Plantagenet


Context: Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon |  On April 22, 1994, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died after suffering a stroke four days earlier, at the age of 81, which causes to brain damage and cerebral edema. His state funeral followed five days later at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in his hometown of Yorba Linda, California. He was the first former president to die in 21 years since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973, while Nixon was President. Nixon suffered a cerebrovascular accident on April 18, 1994, at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, and was taken to New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center. After an initial favorable prognosis, Nixon slipped into a deep coma and died four days later. His

Prompt: Which former American President, who was born on 9th January 1913, died on the 28th April 1994 after suffering a stroke?

Answer: I'm not a crook


Context: Kerry Packer |  Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. The Packer family company owned a controlling interest in both the Nine television network and leading Australian publishing company Australian Consolidated Press, which were later merged to form Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL). Outside Australia, Packer was best known for founding World Series Cricket. At the time of his death, Packer was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia. In 2004, Business Review Weekly magazine estimated Packer's net worth at A$6.5 billion.

Prompt: What was Kerry Packer's media company called?

Answer: CONSOLIDATED PRESS


Context: Armageddon (1998 film) | Bruce Willis as Harry S. Stamper ; Billy Bob Thornton as Dan Truman ; Ben Affleck as A.J. Frost ; Liv Tyler as Grace Stamper ; Will Patton as Chick ; Steve Buscemi as Rockhound ; William Fichtner as Colonel Willie Sharp ; Owen Wilson as Oscar ; Michael Clarke Duncan as Bear ; Peter Stormare as Lev Andropov ; Ken Hudson Campbell as Max ; Jessica Steen as Co-Pilot Jennifer Watts ; Keith David as General Kimsey ; Chris Ellis as Flight Director Clark ; Jason Isaacs as Ronald Quincy ; Grayson McCouch as Gruber ; Clark Brolly as Noonan ; Marshall Teague as Colonel Davis ; Anthony Guidera as Co-Pilot Tucker ; Greg Collins as Halsey ; John Mahon as Karl ; Grace Zabriskie as Dottie ; Eddie Griffin as Bike Messenger ; Jim Ishida as Client #3 ; Stanley Anderson as The President ; Narration by Charlton Heston

Prompt: In which film did Bruce Willis play the character 'Harry Stamper'?

Answer: Amargeddon


Context: Alex Ferguson |  league championships, four Scottish Cups and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1983. He briefly managed Scotland following the death of Jock Stein, taking the team to the 1986 World Cup. Ferguson was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986. During his 26 years with Manchester United he won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, and two UEFA Champions League titles. He was knighted in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours list for his services to the game. Ferguson is the longest-serving manager of Manchester United, having overtaken Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010. He retired from management at the end of the 2012–13 season, having won the Premier League in his final season.

Prompt: Who was Manchester United manager immediately prior to Alex Ferguson?

Answer: Ronglish


Context: Raindrop cake |  The dish is made from mineral water and agar; thus, it has virtually no calories. The water from the original dish was obtained from Mount Kaikoma of the Southern Japanese Alps, and it has been described as having a mildly sweet taste. The agar is a vegetarian/vegan alternative to gelatin that is made from seaweed. After being heated, it is molded and cooled. A molasses-like syrup, called kuromitsu, and soybean flour, called kinako, are used as toppings. The dish appears like a transparent raindrop, although it has also been compared to breast implants and jellyfish. The largely tasteless dessert melts when it enters the mouth and must be eaten immediately, or it will melt and begin to evaporate after twenty minutes. The dessert is also sold in kits to be made at home. It has been showcased by mainstream American media on The Today Show, BuzzFeed and ABC News.

Prompt: 'Agar Agar' is a vegetarian alternative to what?

Answer: Jeletin


Context: Zampa |  Zampa, ou La fiancée de marbre (Zampa, or the Marble Bride) is an opéra comique in three acts by French composer Ferdinand Hérold, with a libretto by Mélesville. The overture to the opera is one of Hérold's most famous works and is a staple of orchestral repertoire.

Prompt: Who composed 'Zampa, ou la Fiancee de Marbre'. Set in Sicily and based on an old legend of amarble Bride?

Answer: Herold (disambiguation)


Context: Neil Kinnock |  1992 general election, despite the party being ahead of John Major’s Conservative government in most opinion polls, which had predicted either a narrow Labour victory or a hung parliament. Shortly afterwards, he resigned as Leader of the Labour Party, being succeeded in the ensuing leadership election by John Smith. He left the House of Commons in 1995 to become a European Commissioner. He went on to become the Vice-President of the European Commission under Romano Prodi from 1999–2004, before being elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Kinnock in 2005. Until the summer of 2009, he was also Chairman of the British Council and President of Cardiff University.

Prompt: Who preceded Neil Kinnock as leader of the British Labour Party?

Answer: Michael Mackintosh Foot


Context: Animantarx |  Animantarx (meaning 'living citadel') is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America. Like other nodosaurs, it would have been a slow-moving quadrupedal herbivore covered in heavy armor scutes, but without a tail club. The skull measures approximately 25 cm (10 inches) in length, suggesting the animal as a whole was no more than 3 meters (10 feet) long.

Prompt: Which burowing animal livesin a 'Citadel'?

Answer: The Mole


Context: Paddy Hopkirk |  won the RAC Golden 50, a historical anniversary race celebrating the 50th RAC Rally, with co-driver Brian Culcheth in the Mini Cooper with which Timo Mäkinen had won the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally. In 1990, he won the Pirelli Classic Marathon with co-driver Alec Poole. In 1994, he entered the Monte Carlo Rally again, driving a current Mini Cooper, very similar to the original car, but now produced by Rover Group, whose 1275cc engine was tuned to deliver 104 bhp and with a registration number almost identical to the victorious 1964 Mini (L33 EJB): thirty years after his famous win, Hopkirk and his co-pilot Ron Crellin finished the race in 60th place against much more modern and powerful machines. In 2010, he was among the first four inductees into the Rally Hall of Fame, along with Mäkinen, Rauno Aaltonen and Erik Carlsson.

Prompt: Which British car did Paddy Hopkirk drive to win the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally?

Answer: MINI COOPER (be specific)


Context: Car coat | " his first in 1972, acquired from a furrier he met at a party in Chelsea, and subsequently had them made on Savile Row. It had become such a shorthand description for British football pundits by the late 1990s that a Times feature about the warm-up for the 1998 World Cup began with the description: ""Paul Sexton, our man in the sheepskin car coat, on the tournament for the World Cup"". The character of James Bond, as portrayed by actor Timothy Dalton, wore a black leather car coat made by Kenzō Takada in key scenes of 1987's The Living Daylights movie, the 15th film of the popular British motion picture franchise."

Prompt: Which character created by Dodie Smith always wore a black and white fur coat and drove a black and white car?

Answer: Cruella DeVil


Context: Nkrumah government |    Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and first President of Ghana. Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first government under colonial rule started from 21 March 1952 until independence. His first independent government took office on 6 March 1957. From 1 July 1960, Ghana became a republic and Nkrumah became the first president of Ghana. In February 1966 his government was overthrown by the National Liberation Council military coup.

Prompt: Who became the first President of newly independent Ghanain 1957?

Answer: Kwame nkrumah


Context: Lyceum (Classical) |  The Lyceum had been used for philosophical debate long before Aristotle. Philosophers such as Prodicus of Ceos, Protagoras, and numerous rhapsodes had spoken there. The most famous philosophers to teach there were Isocrates, Plato (of The Academy), and the best-known Athenian teacher, Socrates. In addition to military training and educational pursuits, the Lyceum also housed Athenian Assembly meetings before the Pnyx became the official meeting place in the 5th century BCE. Cult practices of various groups were also held at the Lyceum. The Lyceum was named for the Greek god Apollo Lyceus. Initially a sanctuary made for worshiping Lyceus, it later became a public exercise area, with a gymnasium being constructed later on.

Prompt: Which Greek philosopher taught at the Lyceum?

Answer: ARISTOTLE


Context: Jeff Rawle |  Rawle landed his first major role in 1973 as Billy in the TV version of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's Billy Liar. In 1979 he appeared with Ian McKellen and Tom Bell in Bent at the Criterion Theatre, London. In 1984 he appeared in the Doctor Who story Frontios as the character Plantaganet. He appeared in Faith in the Future on ITV from 1995 to 1998. In 2004, Rawle began appearing in the ITV series Doc Martin as Roger Fenn. The actor went on to make a guest appearance in the fourth episode of the fourth series of New Tricks as lawyer Jonathan Blunt.

Prompt: Which character created by Keith Waterhouse was played on film by Tom Courtneyand on TV by Jeff Rawle?

Answer: 'BILLY LIAR'


Context: Leeds Arts Club |  it met from 1908 to 1923, opposite the University of Leeds. The plaque was unveiled on 15 May 2012, by Ingrid Roscoe, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, and a speech was made by Tom Steele, author of Alfred Orage and The Leeds Arts Club. The plaque had been suggested by Ben Read, art historian and son of Herbert Read. The inscription is: THE LEEDS ART CLUB A highly influential forum for the avant-garde in politics, philosophy, art and literature met here from 1908. Ground-breaking exhibitions included the 1913 Post-Impressionist show and Cubist and Futurist Art in 1914. Famous speakers included G.B. Shaw and W.B. Yeats. 1903-1923

Prompt: In March 2000 a plaque was unveiled at Southport College of Art.It commemorated the contribution of three former students who collaborated in the founding of a comic in the town 50 years earlier. Which comic?

Answer: EAGLE


Context: Ernest Evans (cricketer) |  Ernest Evans (21 August 1861 – 4 November 1948) was an English cricketer who played for Somerset. He was born and died in Clifton, Bristol. Evans made one first-class appearance for Somerset, during the 1891 season, against Gloucestershire. In the single innings in which he batted, he was bowled by Frederick Roberts for a duck. Evans' brother, David played for Gloucestershire and Somerset.

Prompt: Which pop star had the real name of Ernest Evans?

Answer: Chubby Checker


Context: Sinéad Cusack |  Cusack married British actor Jeremy Irons in 1978, and they have two sons, Samuel James (b. 1978), and Maximilian Paul (b. 1985). Prior to marrying Irons, Cusack gave birth to a son in 1967 and placed the boy for adoption. In 2007, a journalist for the Irish Sunday Independent, Daniel McConnell, revealed that Cusack was the mother of left-wing general election candidate and now member of Irish parliament Richard Boyd Barrett. The two have since been reunited. Cusack campaigned for Boyd Barrett when he stood unsuccessfully in Ireland's 2007 general election as the People Before Profit Alliance's candidate for Dún Laoghaire constituency. She also joined him in the count centre as he awaited the outcome of the 2011 general election, at which he was elected to Dáil Éireann. In

Prompt: Actress Sinead Cusack is married to which 'Oscar' winning actor?

Answer: Irons, Jeremy


Context: The Death of Nelson (Maclise painting) |  The Death of Nelson is a wall painting in the Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise. A finished study for it, in the form of a painting, is in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Merseyside.

Prompt: The painting 'Faithful Unto Death' can be found in Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery. Who painted it?

Answer: Sir Edward Poynter, 1st Baronet


Context: William Hyde Wollaston |  William Hyde Wollaston (6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingots.

Prompt: Which English chemist discovered the most elements?

Answer: Davy (surname)


Context: List of literary accounts of the Pied Piper | "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poem (1803): Goethe's poem based on the story was later set to music by Hugo Wolf. ; Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, ""The Children of Hamelin"", in German Legends (1816): a version drawing from eleven sources. In this account by the Brothers Grimm, two children were left behind as one was blind and the other lame, so neither could follow the others. The rest became the founders of Siebenbürgen (Transylvania). ; Prosper Mérimée, in the first chapter of his historic novel Chronique du règne de Charles IX (1829) : a character narrates the legend. ; Robert Browning, ""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"" (1842): Using the Verstegan/Wanley version of the tale and adopting the 1376 date, Browning's verse retelling is notable for its humor, wordplay, and jingling rhymes. ; Andrew Lang used the title ""the Ratcatcher"" for his version in The Red Fairy Book (1890). ; Joseph Jacobs compiled a number sources for inclusion in More English Fairy Tales (1894), using the title ""The Pied Piper of Franchville"". "

Prompt: Who in 1845, wrote the poem 'The Pied Piper of Hamlin'?

Answer: ROBERTBROWNING


Context: No One's Gonna Change Our World | " No One's Gonna Change Our World is a charity album released in the UK on 12 December 1969 for the benefit of the World Wildlife Fund. The compilation, assembled by comedian Spike Milligan, includes two tracks from Milligan and one from his Goon Show castmate Harry Secombe, and features liner notes by Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. It is widely known by fans of the Beatles as the first release of the song ""Across the Universe""; its title is adapted from one of the song's lyrics; ""Nothing's gonna change my world"". It was also the first release of the Hollies song ""Wings"", one of the last songs they recorded with Graham Nash in early 1968. The album was released on Regal Starline as catalogue number SRS 5013."

Prompt: "From which Beatles song do the following lyrics come, ""Nothing's going to change my world""?"

Answer: Across The Universe


Context: Ken Platt | " as daft as a brush' and introductions to gags with, 'If you can laugh at this, you can plait sawdust', and, 'If you can laugh at this, you can knit fog'. He was a guest comedian on numerous radio variety shows and later topped the bill in pantomimes and summer seasons throughout Great Britain. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he was a regular guest star on television programmes such as Big Night Out, Spot the Tune and The Liver Birds. He evoked considerable nostalgia by a memorable appearance on BBC's The Good Old Days using much of his material from his days on ""steam radio"". A stroke in 1990 affected his speech and forced his retirement. Brian Robinson, his partner and (by then, former) manager, survived him."

Prompt: "Which radio comedian's catchphrase was ""daft as a brush""?"

Answer: KEN PLATT


Context: Bifröst | " In Norse mythology, Bifröst or Bilröst is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. The bridge is attested as Bilröst in the Poetic Edda; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as Bifröst in the Prose Edda; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds. Both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda alternately refer to the bridge as Ásbrú (Old Norse ""Æsir's bridge""). According to the Prose Edda, the bridge ends in heaven at Himinbjörg, the residence of the god Heimdallr, who guards it from the jötnar. The bridge's destruction during Ragnarök by the forces of Muspell is foretold. Scholars have proposed that the bridge may have originally represented the Milky Way and have noted parallels between the bridge and another bridge in Norse mythology, Gjallarbrú."

Prompt: What was 'Bifrost', the bridge that led to 'Asgard' in Scandinavian mythology?

Answer: Colors of rainbow


Context: Betelguese, a Trip Through Hell | "  Betelguese is one of a number of historical variant spellings of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation of Orion. By his own admission, De Esque chose to place hell on this star, over placing hell on Earth, the Moon or the Sun because it was ""a celestial pariah, an outcast, the largest of all known comets or outlawed suns in the universe."" The latter three were rejected by De Esque: the Sun because it was uninhabitable for animal or vegetable life, and the Moon because it was once part of the Earth. De Esque also describes Betelguese on p. 77 with: And Betelguese, an evil lair With infernal, warring legions, Careens as stars shed tears of woe. In full, the poem is rife with descriptions of the terrifying aspects of hell, "

Prompt: In which constellation is the star 'Betelguese'?

Answer: Orion (music)


Context: Phosphorus | " Phosphorus is a chemical element with the symbol P and atomic number 15. Elemental phosphorus exists in two major forms, white phosphorus and red phosphorus, but because it is highly reactive, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Earth. It has a concentration in the Earth's crust of about one gram per kilogram (compare copper at about 0.06 grams). In minerals, phosphorus generally occurs as phosphate. Elemental phosphorus was first isolated as white phosphorus in 1669. White phosphorus emits a faint glow when exposed to oxygen – hence the name, taken from Greek mythology, Φωσφόρος meaning ""light-bearer"" (Latin Lucifer), "

Prompt: Which element, atomic number 15, has the symbol 'P'?

Answer: Phospho


Context: Scania AB |  On 7 August 1999, Volvo announced it had agreed to acquire a majority share in Scania. Volvo was to buy the 49.3% stake in Scania that was owned by Investor AB, Scania's then main shareholder. The acquisition, for US$7.5 billion (60.7 billion SEK), would have created the world's second-largest manufacturer of heavy trucks, behind DaimlerChrysler. The cash for the deal was to come from the sale of Volvo's car division to Ford Motor Company in January 1999. The merger failed, after the European Union disapproved, announcing one company would have almost 100% market share in the Nordic markets.

Prompt: Which motor company owns the truck maker, Scania?

Answer: SAAB


Context: North America |  from this point. The Caribbean islands, or West Indies, are considered part of North America. The continental coastline is long and irregular. The Gulf of Mexico is the largest body of water indenting the continent, followed by Hudson Bay. Others include the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Gulf of California. Before the Central American isthmus formed, the region had been underwater. The islands of the West Indies delineate a submerged former land bridge, which had connected North and South America via what are now Florida and Venezuela. There are numerous islands off the continent's coasts; principally, the Arctic Archipelago, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, the Aleutian Islands (some

Prompt: Which is the largest island off the west coast of North America?

Answer: CIVI-TV


Context: White buffalo | A white silhouette of a bison is featured in the flag of the state of Wyoming. The bison is the state mammal; it is branded with the Great Seal of Wyoming. White represents purity, uprightness and one of the colors of the United States flag. ; The U.S. National Park Service's Arrowhead Emblem, commonly worn as a patch on an employee's uniform, incorporates a white buffalo. ; A charging white buffalo over crossed swords is used as the logo for the NHL team, the Buffalo Sabres. A white buffalo head was used from 1996 to 2006. ; American hard rock musician Ted Nugent has

Prompt: Which animal appears on the flag of the US state of Wyoming?

Answer: BUFFALO (or Bison)


Context: De-extinction |  The thylacine was native to the Australian mainland, Tasmania and New Guinea. It is believed to have become extinct in the 20th century. The thylacine had become extremely rare or extinct on the Australian mainland before British settlement of the continent. The last known thylacine, named Benjamin, died at the Hobart Zoo, on September 7, 1936. He is believed to have died as the result of neglect—locked out of his sheltered sleeping quarters, he was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night. Official protection of the species by the Tasmanian government was introduced on July 10, 1936, roughly 59 days before the last known specimen died in captivity. In

Prompt: What type of animal, according to its alternative name, is the Thylacine now thought to be extinct?

Answer: Marsupial Wolf


Context: Balearic Islands |  formed the fourth district, under the government of a praefectus pro legato. An inscription of the time of Nero mentions the PRAEF. PRAE LEGATO INSULAR. BALIARUM. (Orelli, No. 732, who, with Muratori, reads pro for prae.) They were afterwards made a separate province, called Hispania Balearica, probably in the division of the empire under Constantine. The two largest islands (the Balearic Islands, in their historical sense) had numerous excellent harbours, though rocky at their mouth, and requiring care in entering them (Strabo, Eustath.; Port Mahon is one of the finest harbours in the world). Both were extremely fertile in all produce, except wine and olive oil.

Prompt: Which is the fourth largest of the Balearic Islands?

Answer: Formentera


Context: Living Doll (song) | " ""Living Doll"" is a song written by Lionel Bart made popular by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (then still 'the Drifters') in 1959. It was the top selling single in the UK in 1959. It has topped the UK charts twice: in its original version in 1959 (their first number 1 single) and a new version recorded in 1986 in aid of Comic Relief. It is one of the few songs released by an English singer to chart on the American Billboard charts before the British Invasion occurred."

Prompt: Who wrote the Cliff Richard number one hit 'Living Doll'?

Answer: Lionel Begleiter


Context: Innoko River |  The Innoko River ((Deg Xinag: Yooniq) is a 500 mi tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows north from its origin south of Cloudy Mountain in the Kuskokwim Mountains and then southwest to meet the larger river across from Holy Cross. Most of its upper portion flows through the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. The entire river is within the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area. Innoko is a Deg Hit’an name for the river. The Russian colonial administrators also called the river Shiltonotno, Legon or Tlegon, Chagelyuk or Shageluk and Ittege at various times in the 19th century.

Prompt: In which US state is the Innoko River?

Answer: Forty-ninth State


Context: Morecambe and Wise | " ""I'm playing all the right notes—but not necessarily in the right order."" Previn demonstrates how the piece should be played but Eric, after a moment's reflection, delivers a verdict of ""Rubbish!"" and he and Ernie walk off in disgust. Previn starts playing Eric's version and the duo rush back, declare that Previn has finally ""got it"" and start dancing ecstatically. The sketch's impact can be assessed by the fact that twenty-five years later, London taxi drivers were still addressing André Previn as ""Mr. Preview"". One of the famous Morecambe and Wise routines was their 1976 Christmas Show parody of the "

Prompt: "In the famous Morecambe and Wise sketch featuring Andre Previn, what piece was being played with ""all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order""?"

Answer: Grieg piano concerto


Context: John O'Neill (musician) | " provided backing vocals on the recording of ""I Am The Walrus"" by the Beatles in 1967, which required them to do ""all sorts of swoops and phonetic noises"" according to Paul McCartney: the score George Martin prepared for them included the chanting of phrases like ""ho ho ho, he he he, ha ha ha"", ""oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper"" and ""everybody's got one"". They also sang on the Beatles' ""Good Night"", as well as on their last album, Let It Be, at the behest of Phil Spector. Sammes also provided the distinctive basso backing vocals on Olivia Newton-John's early country "

Prompt: "Give the title of the singer/group who recorded the 1967 song containing the following lyrics, ""He's got people who've been working for fifty years; no one asks for more money 'cause nobody dares""?"

Answer: CAT STEVENS (song: 'Matthew & Son')


Context: GasHole | " that they got 150 mpg in a 1947 Studebaker. On May 1, 1977, The El Paso Times ran a front page article with the headline ""200 Miles on 2 Gallons of Gas"". Tom Ogle, the subject of the article, was found in the desert, dead from a drug overdose, and his car disappeared. The movie does not make any effort to ascertain the veracity of the water-injected engine or other facts. After Hurricane Katrina, the energy committees in both the Senate and the House hold hearings about the sudden rise in gasoline prices, the first time that they have gone over "

Prompt: "What film contains the following dialogue? ""It's 200 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sunglasses""."

Answer: Blues bros


Context: The Ashes | " MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders. Jardine's comment was: ""I've not travelled 6,000 miles to make friends. I'm here to win the Ashes"". Some of the Australians wanted to use Bodyline in retaliation, but Woodfull flatly refused. He famously told England manager Pelham Warner, ""There are two teams out there. One is playing cricket; the other is making no attempt to do so"" after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him."

Prompt: "Who famously said after the 'Dunblane Massacre', ""If a cricketer for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats""?"

Answer: Duke of Ed


Context: Robert Stroud | " Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the ""Birdman of Alcatraz"", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States. During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, he reared and sold birds and became a respected ornithologist. From 1942 to 1959, he was incarcerated at Alcatraz, where regulations did not allow him to keep birds. Stroud was never released from the federal prison system; he was imprisoned from 1909 to his death in 1963. Born in Seattle, Washington, Stroud ran away from his abusive father at the age of 13. By the time he "

Prompt: What was the name of the 'Birdman of Alcatraz'?

Answer: Birdman of Alcatrez


Context: Barbizon |  The Barbizon school of painters is named after the village; Théodore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet, leaders of the school, made their homes and died in the village. Leon Trotsky also lived here for a short time. <Gallery> File:Jean-François Millet - The Sheepfold, Moonlight - Walters 3730.jpg|The Sheepfold, Moonlight by Jean-François Millet. The Walters Art Museum. File:Jean-François Millet - The Potato Harvest - Walters 37115.jpg|The Potato Harvest by Jean-François Millet. The Walters Art Museum.

Prompt: The painters Theodore Rousseau and Jean-Francois Millet were prominent members of which 19th century French school of landscape painters, named after the town in Fontainbleu Forest where the artists gathered?

Answer: Barbizon movement


Context: Tinie Tempah | " Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu (born 7 November 1988), better known by his stage name Tinie , is a British rapper and television presenter. He has been signed to Parlophone Records since 2009, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group. He created his own entertainment company Disturbing London in 2006, along with his cousin Dumi Oburota. After releasing a number of mixtapes, he released his debut album, Disc-Overy, in October 2010. Preceded by two British number-one singles, ""Pass Out"" and ""Written in the Stars"", the album charted at number one and was certified Platinum the next year. In February 2011, he won two Brit Awards for Best British Breakthrough Act and Best British Single. In November 2013, he released his second album, entitled Demonstration. Preceded by top ten singles ""Trampoline"" and ""Children of the Sun"", the album charted at number three and was certified gold by the BPI the next year. In June 2015, he released ""Not Letting Go"", the first single from his third album Youth. This gave Tinie his sixth UK number one, surpassing Dizzee Rascal as the most by any UK rap artist."

Prompt: His debut album 'Disc-Overy' was released in 2010. By what stage-name id Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu better known?

Answer: Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu Jr.


Context: The Fighter |  The Fighter is a 2010 American biographical sports drama film directed by David O. Russell, and starring Mark Wahlberg (who also produced), Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Melissa Leo. The film centers on the lives of professional boxer Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and his older half-brother Dicky Eklund (Bale). Adams plays Micky's girlfriend Charlene Fleming, and Leo portrays Micky and Dicky's mother, Alice Eklund-Ward. The film was inspired by the 1995 documentary that features the Eklund-Ward family, titled High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell. The film was released in select North American theaters on December 17, 2010, and in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2011. The Fighter grossed $129 million worldwide and received largely positive reviews, with critics praising the performances of Wahlberg, Adams, Bale, and Leo, with many comments about the former's weight, accent, and mannerisms. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning the awards for Best Supporting Actor (Bale) and Best Supporting Actress (Leo). It was the first film to win both awards since Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986.

Prompt: Which 2010 biographical film, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, centred on the life of professional boxer 'Micky Ward' and his older half-brother 'Dicky Eklund'?

Answer: The Fighter (2010 film)


Context: King Arthur (2004 film) |  In the film, Arthur's father is a Roman general from the Imperial Roman army and his mother is a Celtic woman. In the historical notes of the legend, Arthur's father is Uther Pendragon, a famous Romano-British commander and one of Britain's earlier kings, and his mother is Igraine, a beautiful young woman who was once the wife of Gorlois, the Duke of Cornwall and one of Uther's loyal subjects. Arthur's knights are described differently in the film and the legend. In the film, Lancelot, Tristan, Bors and the other Knights of the Round Table are Sarmatian knights fighting for the glory of the Roman Empire. In historical notes, the Knights of the Round Table are Britons, knights of Romano-Celtic Britain fighting for the freedom of Britain against the Saxons. A round table is briefly present in the movie, where Arthur's knights regularly meet in equality, and which flummoxes the bishop Germanus when he cannot find a place at the table to distinguish his stature.

Prompt: According to legend, who was the father of King Arthur?

Answer: Üther


Context: Peter Griffin |  to Lois Griffin and is the father of Meg, Chris, and Stewie. He also has a dog named Brian, with whom he is best friends. He has worked at a toy factory and at Quahog's Brewery. Peter's voice was inspired by the security guards that MacFarlane heard at his school. His appearance was a redesign of the protagonist Larry from MacFarlane's previous animated short films The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve. He has appeared in several pieces of Family Guy merchandise, including toys, T-shirts, and video games, and he has made crossover appearances in other shows, including The Simpsons, Drawn Together, American Dad!, and Family Guys spin-off series The Cleveland Show.

Prompt: The father of three 'Peter Griffin' is the title character of which American animated TV series?

Answer: Stewie Live


Context: List of people from Bradford |  bomb and Frank Whittle's jet engine. ; Melissa Steel (born 1993), singer. ; Norman Stevens, RA – (1937–1988) artist born in Bradford, he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1983 and then a Royal Academician in 1987. ; The Rev. Joseph Strauss, MA, PhD – (1845–1922) was born in Germany, but lived in Bradford where he became the first Rabbi at the Bradford Reform Synagogue in 1873. He was appointed lecturer in Hebrew and Oriental languages at the Airedale Independent College, Bradford in 1876. ; Mollie Sugden – (1922–2009) comedy actress, best known for playing Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?. Born in Keighley.

Prompt: Which artist, a member of the Order of Merit, was born in Bradford in July 1937?

Answer: Hockney


Context: John "Hannibal" Smith | " Colonel John ""Hannibal"" Smith is a fictional character and one of the four protagonists of the 1980s action-adventure television series The A-Team, played by George Peppard. The producers originally had James Coburn in mind to play the part of Hannibal, but it eventually went to Peppard. The character—which was based loosely on former United States Army Special Forces officer Bo Gritz —appeared on The A-Team from its beginning in 1983 until its end in 1987. The character was played by Liam Neeson in the 2010 film adaptation. His often spoken line ""I love it when a plan comes together"" was included in TV Land's ""The 100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catch Phrases"" in 2006."

Prompt: Who plays 'Hannibal Smith' in the 2010 film 'The A- Team'?

Answer: LIAM NEESON


Context: Lolita | "The Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco published a short parody of Nabokov's novel called ""Granita"" in 1959. It presents the story of Umberto Umberto (Umberto being both the author's first name and the Italian form of ""Humbert"") and his illicit obsession with the elderly ""Granita."" ; Jean Kerr wrote a short piece in 1959 called ""Can This Romance Be Saved: Lolita and Humbert Consult a Marriage Counselor."" It appears as a chapter in her second book, ""The Snake Has All the Lines."" This is a parody in which Lolita and Humbert's story is told in the style of the Ladies' Home Journal column ""Can This Marriage Be Saved?"" Lolita voices her rather mundane complaints in a definite voice "

Prompt: Which novel features the scholar 'Humbert Humbert'?

Answer: The Hunted Enchanters


Context: List of awards and nominations received by One Direction |  One Direction are an English-Irish boy band consisting of members Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. In addition, Zayn Malik was a member until his departure from the band, announced on 25 March 2015. One Direction have released five albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014), and Made in the A.M. (2015). The band has won numerous awards, among them six Billboard Music Awards, seven Brit Awards, seven American Music Awards and 28 Teen Choice Awards.

Prompt: Which boy band consists of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Stiles and Louis Tomlinson?

Answer: List of One Direction concert tours


Context: Marina Lewycka |  Lewycka's debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay literary festival, the 2005/6 Waverton Good Read Award, and the 2005 Saga Award for Wit; it was long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The novel has been translated into 35 languages. Her second novel Two Caravans was published in hardback in March 2007 by Fig Tree (an imprint of Penguin Books) for the United Kingdom market, and was short-listed for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing. In the United States and Canada it is published under the title Strawberry Fields. Lewycka's third novel, We Are All Made of Glue, was released in July 2009, and her fourth novel, Various Pets Alive and Dead,

Prompt: Which word completes the title of a Marina Lewycka book: 'A Short History Of ....', in Ukrainian?

Answer: Agricultural tractor


Context: Holy Grail |   The authors of the Vulgate Cycle used the Grail as a symbol of divine grace; the virgin Galahad, illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine, the world's greatest knight and the Grail Bearer at the castle of Corbenic, is destined to achieve the Grail, his spiritual purity making him a greater warrior than even his illustrious father. The Queste del Saint Graal (The Quest of The Holy Grail) tells also of the adventures of various Knights of the Round Table in their eponymous quest. Some of them, including Percival and Bors the Younger, eventually join Galahad as his companions near the successful end of the Grail Quest and are witnesses of his ascension to Heaven. Galahad and the interpretation of the Grail involving him were picked up in the 15th century by Thomas Malory in Le Morte d'Arthur and remain popular today. While it is not explicit that the Holy Grail is never to be seen again on Earth, it is stated by Malory that there has since then been no knight capable of obtaining it.

Prompt: Name either of Sir Galahad's companions on his quest to find the holy grail.

Answer: Sir Percival or Sir Bors


Context: RAF other ranks |  equivalent to Sergeant Major 1st Class. On 28 November 1918, the new rank of Chief Master Clerk was made equivalent to the rank of Sergeant Major 1st Class, and the old rank of Master Clerk was made equivalent to the rank of Sergeant Major 2nd Class. The original RAF ranks are vertically listed by seniority; the Technical ranks had precedence over the Administrative ranks, which in turn had precedence over the Service ranks. This was meant to keep non-technical NCOs from interfering with the efforts of technical and administrative NCOs. This was abolished in January 1919 and a streamlined single-column rank system was devised.

Prompt: Which rank of the RAF is equivalent to Major in the British Army?

Answer: Squadron leader/page history


Context: Hydes Brewery | Hydes Original Bitter ; Jekyll's Gold Premium Bitter ; Hydes Mild ; XXXX Strong ale ; 1863 Light Mild ; Old Indie Dark Mild ; Hydes Black (keg Dark Mild)

Prompt: Which northern brewery makes Jeckyll's bitter?

Answer: Hydes Brewery


Context: Peter Schmeichel | " 10 goalkeepers of the 20th century, and is argued by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in Premier League history alongside Petr Čech. In 2001, Schmeichel won a public poll held by Reuters, in which the majority of the 200,000 participants voted him as the best goalkeeper ever, ahead of Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks. In 2003, Schmeichel was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact on the English game. In March 2004, he was named as one of the ""125 greatest living footballers"", at the FIFA 100 celebrations. His son, Kasper, is also a professional goalkeeper, currently playing for Premier League side Leicester City and the Danish national team."

Prompt: Peter Schmeiche's son is currently the regular goalkeeper at which English football league team?

Answer: Leicester Fosse FC


Context: Punch and Judy | Punch and Judy: A Short History with the Original Dialogue by John Payne Collier, illustrated by George Cruikshank (1929, 2006) Dover Books ; Mr. Punch by Philip John Stead (1950) Evans Brothers Ltd. ; The Art of the Puppet by Bil Baird (1965) Ridge Press/MacMillan ; Punch & Judy: A Play for Puppets by Ed Emberley (1965) Little, Brown ; Punch and Judy: Its Origin and Evolution by Michael Byrom (1972, 1988) DaSilva Puppet Books ; Punch and Judy: Inside the Booth. Geoff Felix, 2016.

Prompt: Codlin and Short are Punch and Judy men in which novel by Charles Dickens?

Answer: Quilp


Context: Hip roof |   A mansard roof is a variation on a hip roof, with two different roof angles, the lower one much steeper than the upper.

Prompt: Which type of roof is pitched at two different angles, the lower part being steeper than the upper?

Answer: Mansard Roof


Context: Carry On Up the Khyber | " Carry On Up the Khyber is a 1968 British comedy film, the 16th in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992). It stars Carry On regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw and Peter Butterworth. It is the second of two Carry On film appearances by Wanda Ventham; and Roy Castle makes his only Carry On appearance, in the romantic male lead part usually played by Jim Dale. Angela Douglas makes her fourth and final appearance in the series. Terry Scott returned to the series after his minor role in the first film of the series, Carry On Sergeant a decade earlier. The film is, in part, a spoof of Kiplingesque movies and television series about life in the British Raj, both contemporary and from earlier, Hollywood, periods. The title is a play on words in the risqué Carry On tradition, with ""Khyber"" (short for ""Khyber Pass"") being rhyming slang for ""arse""."

Prompt: What was Roy Castle's only Carry On film?

Answer: 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment


Context: Peter Parker (Insomniac Games character) |  conflict with various supervillains. He is employed as a research lab assistant under his friend and mentor Dr. Otto Octavius, but still struggles to balance his superhero alter-ego and personal life. He is aided in his fight by intrepid Daily Bugle reporter Mary Jane Watson, his former high school classmate and ex-girlfriend, and NYPD Captain Yuri Watanabe. In his civilian life, Parker is supported by his Aunt May. Spider-Man's adventure brings him into contact with other characters, including an Afro-Puerto-Rican-American teenager: Miles Morales and his parents, NYPD Officer Jefferson Davis and Rio Morales, Oscorp CEO and New York mayor Norman Osborn and Silver Sablinova, leader of the private military company Sable International.

Prompt: Which 'superhero's' alter ego is 'Peter Parker'?

Answer: Wall Crawler


Context: Period 5 element |  Palladium is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pd and an atomic number of 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas. Palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium form a group of elements referred to as the platinum group metals (PGMs). These have similar chemical properties, but palladium has the lowest melting point and is the least dense of them. The unique properties of palladium and other platinum group metals account for their widespread use. A quarter of all goods manufactured today either contain PGMs or have a significant part in their manufacturing process played by PGMs. Over half of the supply of palladium and its congener platinum goes into catalytic

Prompt: Pd is the chemical symbol for which element?

Answer: The Palladium


Context: Circuit (computer science) |  In theoretical computer science, a circuit is a model of computation in which input values proceed through a sequence of gates, each of which computes a function. Circuits of this kind provide a generalization of Boolean circuits and a mathematical model for digital logic circuits. Circuits are defined by the gates they contain and the values the gates can produce. For example, the values in a Boolean circuit are boolean values, and the circuit includes conjunction, disjunction, and negation gates. The values in an integer circuit are sets of integers and the gates compute set union, set intersection, and set complement, as well as the arithmetic operations addition and multiplication.

Prompt: In computing, 'NOT', 'AND', and 'OR' are examples of what type of circuits?

Answer: GATES (Logic)


Context: Indian Ocean |  coast of Africa, the Mozambique Channel separates Madagascar from mainland Africa, while the Sea of Zanj is located north of Madagascar. On the northern coast of the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden is connected to the Red Sea by the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb. In the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Tadjoura is located in Djibouti and the Guardafui Channel separates Socotra island from the Horn of Africa. The northern end of the Red Sea terminates in the Gulf of Aqaba and Gulf of Suez. The Indian Ocean is artificially connected to the Mediterranean Sea without ship lock through the Suez Canal, which is accessible via the Red Sea. The Arabian Sea is connected to the Persian Gulf by the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz. In the

Prompt: Which stretch of waterway separates Madagascar from the African mainland?

Answer: Mozambique Channel


Context: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | infobox name: Jomo Kenyatta ; International Airport ; nativename: Uwanja wa Kimataifa wa Jomo Kenyatta ; image: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).jpg ; image-width: 250 ; iata: NBO ; icao: HKJK ; wmo: 63740 ; type: Joint (Civil and Military) ; operator: Kenya Airports Authority ; city-served: Nairobi Metropolitan Region ; location: Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya ; hub: * Kenya Airways ; * Jambojet ; * Fly540 ; * African Express Airways ; elevation-f: 5,330 ; elevation-m: 1,624 ; coordinates: -1.31861°N, 36.92583°W ; website: kaa.go.ke ; pushpin_map: Kenya ; pushpin_label: NBO ; pushpin_map_caption: Location within Kenya ; metric-elev: y ; metric-rwy: y ; r1-number: 06/24 ; r1-length-f: 13,507 ; r1-length-m: 4,200 ; r1-surface: Asphalt ; stat-year: 2020 ; stat1-header: Passengers ; stat1-data: 984,769 ; stat2-header: Aircraft Movements ; stat2-data: 2,000 ; stat3-header: Economic Impact ; stat3-data: 0.01% of GDP ($781 Million / KES 1.8 Billion) ; footnotes: Latitude and longitude provided by Kenya Airports Authority

Prompt: 'Jomo Kenyatta Airport' serves which African city?

Answer: Nairobi Province, Kenya


Context: List of songs composed by Jerome Kern | """Never Gonna Dance"" (1936) - lyrics by Dorothy Fields - from the 1936 film Swing Time ; ""The Night Was Made for Love"" - lyrics by Otto Harbach - from the 1931 Broadway musical The Cat and the Fiddle ; ""Nobody Else But Me"" (1946) - lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II - from the 1946 revival of the musical Show Boat "

Prompt: Who composed the musical shows 'Swingtime' and 'Showboat'?

Answer: JEROME KERN


Context: Contour line |  An isohyet or isohyetal line (from or huetos, meaning 'rain') is a line joining points of equal rainfall on a map in a given period. A map with isohyets is called an isohyetal map. An isohume is a line of constant relative humidity, while an isodrosotherm (from or drosos, meaning 'dew', and θέρμη or therme, meaning 'heat') is a line of equal or constant dew point. An isoneph is a line indicating equal cloud cover. An isochalaz is a line of constant frequency of hail storms, and an isobront is a line drawn through geographical points at which a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously. Snow cover is frequently shown as a contour-line map.

Prompt: What name is given to a line on a map joining places of equal rainfall?

Answer: Isopleths


Context: Palace of Valsain |   The Royal Palace of Valsain (Palacio Real de Valsain) is a former Spanish royal residence, which is now in ruins. It is located in Valsain in the Province of Segovia, in the Castile and León Autonomous region of central Spain. It is approximately 14 km from Segovia, and 75 km north of Madrid. The Trastamara kings of Castile already had a hunting lodge in Valsain. But the royal palace itself was built between 1552 and 1556 for King Philip II by the architect Gaspar de Vega after the king returned from a trip to France, England, and the Netherlands. The architecture of the palace was heavily influenced by Netherlandish/ Flemish architecture, such as Binche Palace, features of which were until then unknown in Spain: steeply pitched slate roofs, slated spires, dormer windows. These became characteristics of the Habsburg architecture

Prompt: Name the palace and monastery , situated some 25 miles north of Madrid, founded by King Phillip II of Spain?

Answer: The Escorial


Context: Carol Ann Duffy | " Duffy said of becoming poet laureate: ""There's no requirement. I do get asked to do things and so far I've been happy to do them."" She also spoke about being appointed to the role by Queen Elizabeth II, saying: ""She's lovely! I met her before I became poet laureate but when I was appointed I had an 'audience' with her which meant we were alone, at the palace, for the first time. We chatted about poetry. Her mother was friends with Ted Hughes whose poetry I admire a lot. We spoke about his influence on me."" Duffy stood down as laureate in May 2019."

Prompt: Who was the Poet Laureate at the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?

Answer: John Masefield


Context: Herman Munster |  Herman Munster is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom The Munsters, originally played by Fred Gwynne. The patriarch of the Munster household, Herman is an entity much like Frankenstein's monster, comparable to Lurch on the show's competitor, The Addams Family.

Prompt: Who played the part of 'herman' in the 1960's TV series 'The Munsters'?

Answer: Fred Gwynne


Context: Crossbill |  The crossbill is a genus, Loxia, of birds in the finch family (Fringillidae), with six species. These birds are characterised by the mandibles with crossed tips, which gives the group its English name. Adult males tend to be red or orange in colour, and females green or yellow, but there is much variation. Crossbills are specialist feeders on conifer cones, and the unusual bill shape is an adaptation which enables them to extract seeds from cones. These birds are typically found in higher northern hemisphere latitudes, where their food sources grow. They erupt out of the breeding range when the cone crop fails. Crossbills breed very early in the year, often in winter months, to take advantage of maximum cone supplies.

Prompt: The Crossbill belongs to which bird family?

Answer: Fringillidae


Context: Kublai Khan | " ""The words of this boy Kublai are full of wisdom, heed them well – heed them all of you."" The elderly Khagan (Mongol emperor) Genghis Khan would die three years after this event in 1227, when Kublai was 12. Kublai's father Tolui would serve as regent for two years until Genghis' successor, Kublai's third uncle Ogedei, was enthroned as Khagan in 1229. After the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty, in 1236, Ogedei gave Hebei (attached with 80,000 households) to the family of Tolui, who died in 1232. Kublai received an estate of his own, which included 10,000 households. Because he was "

Prompt: Give one year in the life of Genghis Khan?

Answer: 1162 - 1227


Context: Appeal to the stone |  Ad nauseam is Latin and is associated with repeating something to a sickening or excessive degree. This fallacy can be used in arguments to by asserting an opinion on a subject matter to an excessive degree. In an appeal to the stone, with a lack of evidence to support a rejection of a claim, it can likely lead to an ad nauseum argument. If an argument with an appeal to the stone cannot be resolved, it will likely lead to both parties arguing until they are bored of the discussion and cannot come to a satisfactory conclusion.

Prompt: Which Latin phrase means 'to excess, to a sickening degree'?

Answer: Ad nauseum


Context: Rachel (given name) |  Duncan, in the TV show Orphan Black ; Rachel Finer, in the Netflix series  Grand Army ; Rachel Gardner, in the Angels of Death video game ; Rachel Gatina, in the TV show One Tree Hill ; Rachel Gibson, in Season 5 of Alias ; Rachel Green, in the TV series Friends ; Rachel Greene, a character in the TV series ER, daughter of Mark Greene ; Rachel Kinski, a character in the Australian TV show Neighbours ; Rachel Lynde, a supporting character in Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables ; Rachel Mason, Headmistress of Waterloo Road in the BBC drama Waterloo Road ; Rachel Menken, Don Draper's client's daughter and a love interest in Mad

Prompt: In the TV series 'Friends', what is 'rachel's' surname?

Answer: Green (crater)


Context: The Apprentice (franchise) |  the show's success, and produced their own version of Dragon's Den as a result, in the hope of also attracting Irish viewers. The Irish Apprentice ended on December 8, 2008, with Brenda Shanahan winning in the end, after collecting the most money for her charity, and winning 10 out of 11 tasks in the series. Brenda will now start working for Bill, as his apprentice. The success of the first series has led to a second series being produced, which aired on TV3 in 2009. The winner of the 2009 series was Steve Rayner. He won the show, despite admitting on the show that he is a recovering alcoholic and gambler.

Prompt: What was the name of the winner of the 2009 series of 'The Apprentice'?

Answer: YASMINA SIADATAN (accept either name)


Context: Noah | " After the flood, the Bible says that Noah became a farmer and he planted a vineyard. He drank wine made from this vineyard, and got drunk; and lay ""uncovered"" within his tent. Noah's son Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his brothers, which led to Ham's son Canaan being cursed by Noah. As early as the Classical era, commentators on Genesis 9:20–21 have excused Noah's excessive drinking because he was considered to be the first wine drinker; the first person to discover the effects of wine. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, and a Church Father, wrote in the 4th century that Noah's behavior is "

Prompt: Who in the Bible, became the first drunken man after planting a vineyard?

Answer: Noah (album)


Context: Israel (name) | " Israel is a biblical given name. According to the Book of Genesis, the patriarch Jacob was given the name Israel after he wrestled with the angel ( and 35:10). The given name is already attested in Eblaite (𒅖𒊏𒅋, išrail) and Ugaritic (𐎊𐎌𐎗𐎛𐎍, yšrʾil). Commentators differ on the original literal interpretation. The text of Genesis etymologizes the name with the root śarah ""to rule, contend, have power, prevail over"": (KJV: ""a prince hast thou power with God""), but modern suggestions read the el as the subject, for a translation of ""El/God rules/judges/struggles"", ""El fights/struggles"". The name appears on the Merneptah Stele as 𓇌𓊃𓏤𓏤𓂋𓇋𓄿𓂋𓏤 (ysrỉꜣr), referring to a foreign group of people. In Jewish and Christian texts from the Greco-Egyptian area during Second Temple Judaism and beyond the name was understood to mean ""a man seeing God"" from the ʾyš (man) rʾh (to see) ʾel (God). Jacob's descendants came to be known as the Israelites, eventually forming the tribes of Israel and ultimately the kingdom of Israel, whence came the name of modern-day State of Israel."

Prompt: According to the Bible, who was renamed Israel because he wrestled with God?

Answer: Yaʿaqov


Context: PlayStation |  PlayStation (プレイステーション) is a video game brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines. The brand is produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment, a division of Sony; the first PlayStation console was released in Japan in December 1994, and worldwide the following year. The original console in the series was the first console of any type to ship over 100 million units, doing so in under a decade. Its successor, the PlayStation 2, was released in 2000. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling home console to date,

Prompt: Which company manufactures the Playstation video games console?

Answer: Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo


Context: Huginn and Muninn | " that two ravens named Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin's shoulders. The ravens tell Odin everything they see and hear. Odin sends Huginn and Muninn out at dawn, and the birds fly all over the world before returning at dinner-time. As a result, Odin is kept informed of many events. High adds that it is from this association that Odin is referred to as ""raven-god"". The above-mentioned stanza from Grímnismál is then quoted. In the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál (chapter 60), Huginn and Muninn appear in a list of poetic names for ravens. In the same chapter, excerpts from a work by the skald Einarr Skúlason "

Prompt: In Norse mythology, what kind of creatures were 'Hugin' and 'Munin' who sat on Odin's shoulder?

Answer: Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices


Context: Stane Street (Chichester) |  Stane Street is the modern name of the 91 km Roman road in southern England that linked Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester). The exact date of construction is uncertain; however, on the basis of archaeological artefacts discovered along the route, it was in use by 70 AD and may have been built in the first decade of the Roman occupation of Britain (as early as 43–53 AD). Stane Street shows clearly the engineering principles that the Romans used when building roads. A straight-line alignment from London Bridge to Chichester would have required steep crossings of the North Downs, Greensand Ridge and South Downs. The road was therefore designed to exploit a natural gap in the North Downs cut by the River Mole and to pass to the east of the high ground of

Prompt: 'Stane Street' was a Roman road that linked London to which city?

Answer: Chichester Festivities


Context: Democritus | " events proved to be true,"" which may refer to his knowledge of natural phenomena. According to Diodorus Siculus, Democritus died at the age of 90, which would put his death around 370 BC, but other writers have him living to 104, or even 109. Popularly known as the Laughing Philosopher (for laughing at human follies), the terms Abderitan laughter, which means scoffing, incessant laughter, and Abderite, which means a scoffer, are derived from Democritus. To his fellow citizens he was also known as ""The Mocker"". Hence the reference in Horace's Epistles, ""Si foret in terris, rideret Democritus"" (""If he were on earth, Democritus would laugh [at the vanity of human ambitions and amusements]"" ). He is an Atomists."

Prompt: Which Greek philosopher is popularly known as 'The Laughing Philosopher' because of his scoffing nature?

Answer: Laughing Philosopher


Context: List of UK top-ten singles in 1994 | " Wet Wet Wet had the biggest-selling single of 1994 with ""Love Is All Around"", which spent twenty weeks in the top ten (including fifteen weeks at number-one), sold over 1.783 million copies and was certified 2x platinum by the BPI. ""Saturday Night"" by Whigfield came in second place. East 17's ""Stay Another Day"", ""Baby Come Back"" from Pato Banton featuring Ali and Robin Campbell and ""I Swear"" by All-4-One made up the top five. Singles by Mariah Carey, Bon Jovi, Let Loose, D:Ream and Doop were also in the top ten best-selling singles of the year. ""Love is All Around"" (3) ranked in the top 10 best-selling singles of the decade. It also stands as the tenth biggest-selling single of all time in the UK."

Prompt: Which hit for 'Wet Wet Wet' was the biggest-selling single in Britain in 1994?

Answer: Love Is All Around (Wet Wet Wet song)


Context: Cumberland |  The boundaries formed in the 12th century were not changed substantially over the county's existence. There are four English historic counties and two Scottish counties that it borders: Northumberland and County Durham to the east; Westmorland to the south, the Furness part of Lancashire to the southwest; Dumfriesshire to the north and Roxburghshire to the northeast. To the west the county is bounded by the Solway Firth and the Irish Sea. The northern boundary was formed by the Solway Estuary and the border with Scotland running east to Scotch Knowe at Kershope Burn. The boundary runs south from Scotch Knowe along the Cheviot Hills, then followed a tributary of the River Irthing and crossed Denton Fell to the River Tees. From Tees Head the boundary crosses the Pennines to descend Crowdundale Beck, from where it followed the rivers Eden and Eamont to the centre of Ullswater. The line follows Glencoin Beck to the top of Helvellyn ridge at Wrynose Pass and along the River Duddon (near Millom) to the sea. The highest point of the county is Scafell Pike, at 3,208 ft, the highest mountain in England. Carlisle is the county town.

Prompt: Which county shares borders with Northumberland, County Durham, North Yorkshire and Lancashire?

Answer: CUMBRIA


Context: Madame Butterfly (short story) | " rushes home. She bids farewell to Suzuki and the baby and shuts herself in her room to commit suicide with her father's sword. After the first thrust of the sword, she hesitates. Although she is bleeding the wound is not fatal. As she raises the sword again, Suzuki silently enters the room with the baby and pinches him to make him cry. Cho-Cho-San lets the sword drop to the floor. As the baby crawls onto Cho-Cho-San's lap, Suzuki dresses her wound. The story ends with the words: ""When Mrs. Pinkerton called next day at the little house on Higashi Hill it was quite empty."""

Prompt: Which of Puccini's operatic characters commits suicide with her father's sword?

Answer: Madam Butterfly


Context: Jacob's Ladder |   Jacob's Ladder (סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב Sūllām Ya‘aqōv) is a ladder leading to heaven that was featured in a dream the biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28). The significance of the dream has been debated, but most interpretations agree that it identified Jacob with the obligations and inheritance of the people chosen by God, as understood in Abrahamic religions.

Prompt: In the Book of Genesis, who dreamt of a ladder reaching from Earth to the Heavens?

Answer: Yaʿaqov


Context: Tomáš Berdych |  Czechs reached the finals before being defeated by Serbia. At the 2012 French Open, he was the seventh seed. He defeated Dudi Sela in the first round and Michaël Llodra in the second round, both in straight sets. In the third round, Berdych was pushed to five sets in a four-hour marathon against 31st seed Kevin Anderson, before he eventually prevailed, 6–4, 3–6, 6–7, 6–4, 6–4. Berdych lost to Juan Martín del Potro in the fourth round, 6–7, 6–1, 3–6, 5–7. Berdych endured a tough spell in the summer, losing in the first round at both Wimbledon and the 2012 Summer Olympics. He made the final

Prompt: Which Czech tennis player knocked out Andy Murray in the fourth round of the Men's Singles at the French Open?

Answer: Tomáš Krupa


Context: Jack Reacher (book series) |  Jack Reacher is a fictional protagonist of a series of novels, novellas and short stories by British author Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child. A former major in the United States Army Military Police Corps, Reacher roams the United States taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations. The Reacher novels are written either in the first-person or third-person. The schedule for the Reacher series is one-per-year, except for 2010 when two were published. Most of the novels are set in the United States, in locales ranging from major metropolitan areas like New York City and Los Angeles to small towns in the Midwestern United States and the Southern United States. To date, Reacher's travels outside the United States have taken him to rural England (The Hard Way, Maybe They Have a Tradition), London (Personal), Hamburg (Night School) and Paris (The Enemy, Personal).

Prompt: Whose novels feature former US Army policeman 'Jack Reacher'?

Answer: LEE CHILD (accept his real name JIM GRANT)


Context: Giacomo Puccini |  Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished at the composer's death in November 1924, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches. The libretto for Turandot was based on a play of the same name by Carlo Gozzi. The music of the opera is heavily inflected with pentatonic motifs, intended to produce an Asiatic flavor to the music. Turandot contains a number of memorable stand-alone arias, among them Nessun dorma.

Prompt: Franco Alfano completed which Puccini opera after the composers death in 1924?

Answer: Turnadot


Context: Codex Basilensis A. N. IV. 2 |  The codex contains the entire New Testament (except of Book of Revelation) in the following order: the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the General and Pauline epistles (Hebrews is the last book in Paul). The text is written in one column per page, 38 lines per page, on 297 parchment leaves. It was originally accompanied by miniatures, which were stolen before 1860–1862 (except one before the Gospel of John, which remains). The dimensions of the text are. It was written on parchment continuously and without separation in elegant minuscule, furnished with breathings (spiritus asper and spiritus lenis) and accents, in

Prompt: Alphabetically which is the last book of the Old Testament?

Answer: Z'fanyah


Context: Elizabeth George |  Her first published novel was A Great Deliverance (1988). It introduces Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, in private life the Earl of Asherton, privately educated (Eton College and Oxford University); his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grammar school educated and from a working-class background —both from Scotland Yard; Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend and later wife; and Lynley's former school friend, the forensic scientist Simon St. James and his wife, Deborah.

Prompt: 'A Great Deliverance' is the first of many novels by Elizabeth George featuring which aristocratic detective?

Answer: 'INSPECTOR THOMAS LINLEY'


Context: Scholars Academy | " Revived in the 2012-2013 school year, the Scholars Academy Interact Club is a sub-organization of Rotary International at the high school level focusing on community service locally and abroad. The club's motto is ""Service Above Self."" Students are invited to participate in events like the Myrtle Beach Marathon, Relay for Life, and school-wide recycling initiatives to better the world around them."

Prompt: The main motto of which organisation is: 'Service Above Self'?

Answer: Rotarians


Context: Eccleston, St Helens |  Richard Seddon (1845–1906), 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand, was born in Eccleston and attended the local grammar school.

Prompt: The longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand was born in Eccleston, St. Helens in 1845. Who was he?

Answer: Richard John Seddon


Context: Antonia Fraser |  Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser ( Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.

Prompt: Which author of biographies and detective fiction, widow of a Nobel Literature Laureate, became a Dame earlier this year?

Answer: Antonia Fraser


Context: Honda Fireblade | CBR900RR, 1992–1995 ; CBR919RR, 1996–1999 ; CBR929RR, 2000–2001 ; CBR954RR, 2002–2003 ; CBR1000RR, 2004–2019 ; CBR1000RR-R, 2020–present The Honda Fireblade is a family of sport motorcycles manufactured by Honda since 1992. The first model was designed by Tadao Baba.

Prompt: Which company produces the 'Fireblade' motorcycle?

Answer: Honda Technologies


Context: Belize District |  Belize District is a district of the nation of Belize. Its capital is Belize City.

Prompt: What is the capital of Belize called?

Answer: Capital of Belize


Context: Paphiopedilum micranthum |  Paphiopedilum micranthum, described in 1951, is commonly known as the silver slipper orchid or hard-leaved pocket orchid. It blooms during late winter to early summer with one flower per inflorescence. As opposed to its close sibling ''Paph. malipoense, the flowers of Paph. micranthum'' have no fragrance.

Prompt: What type of plant is a 'Silver Slipper'?

Answer: Azalea species


Context: Boris Goldovsky | " for sopranos who ""often receive very little instruction when staging arias at small companies"" entitled ""Bringing Soprano Arias to Life."" His most popular book, My Road to Opera, is an anecdote-filled autobiography. In the late 1970s, he began again to teach at the Curtis Institute, from where he retired in 1985. He left an extensive of Mozart memorabilia to the Curtis Institute upon his death. He has been credited in several recordings, including a Boston Symphony Orchestra recording of Wagner's ""Lohengrin"", conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. Famous associates include Mario Lanza, Leonard Bernstein and Mary Beth Peil. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, aged 92, in 2001."

Prompt: 'Arias And Raspberries' is the title of the autobiography of which entertainer who died in April 2001?

Answer: Sir Harry Secombe


Context: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a 1967 play by the English playwright Peter Nichols, first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, before transferring to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End.

Prompt: Who wrote the play, 'A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg'?

Answer: Nichols, Peter Richard


Context: Acts 6 |  Acts 6 is the sixth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the ordination of the first seven deacons and the work of one of them, Stephen. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.

Prompt: Which is the sixth book of the New Testament, following Acts?

Answer: Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans


Context: Odds | " The language of odds, such as the use of phrases like ""ten to one"" for intuitively estimated risks, is found in the sixteenth century, well before the development of probability theory. Shakespeare wrote: ""Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas That if we wrought out life 'twas ten to one"" - William Shakespeare The sixteenth-century polymath Cardano demonstrated the efficacy of defining odds as the ratio of favourable to unfavourable outcomes. Implied by this definition is the fact that the probability of an event is given by the ratio of favourable outcomes to the total number of possible outcomes."

Prompt: What word is used in betting slang for odds of 10/1 (ten to one)?

Answer: 'COCKLE'