Context: Carpet cleaning |  Vacuum washing employs a washhead that sprays water without detergent and immediately removes it by suction, creating a swirl of water. This ensures high cleaning performance, extracting the dirt from the carpet to a depth of half an inch. By immediately reabsorbing the wash water, the drying time is greatly shortened. This method is suitable for intermediate and basic cleaning. Because it does not require cleaning products, it leaves no detergent residue. Vacuum washing has long been in use in Europe, mostly in larger train and bus companies, schools, and historic preservation. The system works on all surfaces which are water resistant (carpet, upholstered furniture, wooden floors, stone, plastics). A great advantage is that this system works without brushes or pads so there is no abrasion on the pile.

Prompt: What according to the commercial cleaned a big, big carpet for less than half a crown

Answer: One Thousand and One


Context: Donald Gets Drafted | " Donald Gets Drafted is a 1942 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon has Donald Duck being drafted into the U. S. Army during World War II and follows his introduction to military life. The film was directed by Jack King and introduced the song ""The Army's Not the Army Anymore"" by Carl Barks and Leigh Harline. The voice cast includes Clarence Nash as Donald, John McLeish as an officer, and Billy Bletcher as Pete who is Donald's drill sergeant. Donald Gets Drafted was the first of a six-part series, within the larger Donald Duck series, which shared a continuity of Donald serving in the army during World War II. The cartoon also revealed for the first time Donald's middle name – Fauntleroy – seen on his ""Order to Report for Induction"" form from the film's title screen."

Prompt: What is Donald Duck's middle name

Answer: Fauntleroy


Context: Watercress |  Watercress or yellowcress (Nasturtium officinale) is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. Watercress is a rapidly growing, perennial plant native to Europe and Asia. It is one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. Watercress and many of its relatives, such as garden cress, mustard, radish, and wasabi, are noteworthy for their piquant flavors. The hollow stems of watercress float in water. The leaf structure is pinnately compound. Small, white, and green flowers are produced in clusters and are frequently visited by insects, especially hoverflies, such as Eristalis flies.

Prompt: What is the oldest vegetable known to man

Answer: Pisum sativum


Context: Half a Crown (novel) | " Half a Crown is a science fiction novel written by Jo Walton published by Tor Books. It was first published on September 30, 2008. The first ""Small Change"" novel, Farthing, was released in August 2006. The second novel in the trilogy, Ha'penny, was released in October 2007."

Prompt: How many farthings were there in half a crown

Answer: 120


Context: Lovely Rita | " ""Lovely Rita"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It is about a female traffic warden and the narrator's affection for her."

Prompt: What was the occupation of Lovely Rita according to the song by the Beatles

Answer: Traffic wardens


Context: Zoom (Fat Larry's Band song) | " ""Zoom"" is a song by American band Fat Larry's Band released as the fourth single from their fifth studio album, Breakin' Out (1982). The song was a commercial hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. It also reached #10 on the Australian music charts, entering the chart on 13 December 1982 and spending 24 weeks on the chart. It was released in Australia on the Virgin label (Virgin VS-546). It remains one of the group's best-known songs, despite being received poorly in their native US, peaking at #89."

Prompt: Who had a number 2 in 1982 with Zoom

Answer: Fat Larry's Band


Context: Alan Lake | " Alan Lake was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 24 November 1940. He studied acting at RADA, and began to work in television roles in 1964. He is best known as the third husband of the actress Diana Dors, whom he met on the set of the 1968 television series The Inquisitors. He was initially not keen on Dors; his reaction on finding that he would be working with her was, ""Oh no, not Madame Tits and Lips!"", but within days, they had fallen in love and were married on 23 November 1968. Their stormy marriage produced a son, Jason David (1969 - "

Prompt: Who did Alan Lake marry in 1968

Answer: Diana doors


Context: Michael Corleone |  Michael Corleone is a fictional character and the protagonist of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather. In the three Godfather films, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Michael was portrayed by Al Pacino, for which he was twice-nominated for Academy Awards. Michael is the youngest son of Vito Corleone, a Sicilian immigrant who builds a Mafia empire. Upon his father's death, Michael succeeds him as the don of the Corleone crime family. In June 2003, Michael Corleone was recognized as the 11th most iconic villain in film history by the American Film Institute, although some critics consider him to be a tragic hero. Michael Corleone was also selected as the 11th greatest movie character by Empire.

Prompt: Which actor played Michael Corleone in the Godfather series of films

Answer: Al pacino


Context: Doctor of Business Administration |  The Doctor of Business Administration (commonly abbreviated as D.B.A., BAD, DrBA, or Dr.B.A.) is a professional doctorate awarded on the basis of advanced study, examinations, project work and research in business administration. The D.B.A. is a terminal degree in business administration. Although, some universities also combine the business administration field with technology-related disciplines. Along with the Ph.D. or D.Phil., it represents the highest academic qualification in business administration, and is typically required to gain employment as a full-time, tenure-track university professor or postdoctoral researcher in the field. As with other earned doctorates, individuals with the degree are awarded the academic title doctor, which is often represented via the

Prompt: Which profession are members of the B.D.A.

Answer: Dentists


Context: Fred Flintstone | " Jefferson from The Jeffersons (played by Sherman Hemsley), Mel Sharples from Alice (played by Vic Tayback) and Frank DeFazio from Laverne & Shirley (played by Phil Foster). Fred's interests include bowling, playing pool, golf, poker and lounging around the house. Fred has won championships with his bowling skills; in one episode, he goes so far as to take ballet lessons in order to improve his game. The nickname of ""Twinkletoes"" stuck with him when Fred attended a local university and became eligible to play on their football team, and it became his call sign. Fred is also an excellent golfer. Fred is a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos Lodge "

Prompt: What is Fred Flintstone's favourite sport

Answer: Ten-Pin bowling


Context: Jim McDonald (Coronation Street) |  physiotherapist, and throws her out. Jim and Liz soon agree to a divorce, and Liz leaves Coronation Street with Michael to start a new life in Milton Keynes. Steve is badly beaten by gangster Jez Quigley (Lee Boardman). Jim gets revenge by viciously beating Jez and leaving him unconscious in his flat. Jez later regains consciousness in hospital but collapses and dies from a ruptured Spleen after trying to suffocate Steve with a pillow while they are both in hospital. Jim gives himself up to the police and is remanded in prison to await trial. He remarries Liz and is later sentenced to eight years imprisonment for manslaughter.

Prompt: Who was the gangster that Liz Macdonald fell for in Coronation Street

Answer: Frazer Henderson


Context: Curse of Scotland |  The Curse of Scotland is a nickname used for the nine of diamonds playing card. The expression has been used at least since the early 18th century, and many putative explanations have been given for the origin of this nickname for the card.

Prompt: Which playing card is called the curse of Scotland

Answer: Nine of Diamonds


Context: Family of Imran Khan | " On 16 May 1995, Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, in a traditional Pakistani wedding ceremony in Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they were married again in a civil ceremony at the Richmond registry office in England, followed by a reception at the Goldsmiths' house in Surrey which was attended by London's elite. The wedding was named by the media as ""The wedding of the century"". Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith is the eldest child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and Billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith, who was one of richest men in UK. Goldsmith enrolled at the University of Bristol in 1993 and studied English, but dropped out when she was married in 1995. She "

Prompt: Which millionaire's daughter married Imran Khan in 1995

Answer: James Goldsmith


Context: Robert Kenneth Wilson |  While on a shooting and fishing trip to the north of Scotland in 1934 with a friend, Maurice Chambers, Wilson took photographic plates to Ogston's chemists shop in Inverness to be developed and printed. Two of the prints purported to show the Loch Ness Monster and one was sold to the Daily Mail for £100. This was published in the Daily Mail on 21 April 1934 and became known as 'the surgeon's photograph'. Wilson did not publicise his involvement and tried to exclude his name from the inevitable publicity, yet was fined by the British Medical Association for allowing his name to be associated with the photograph in what was regarded as a breach of professional ethics. The photograph became the most famous on the subject and was subjected to scientific scrutiny over the ensuing

Prompt: What is the subject of the Surgeon's Photograph of 1934

Answer: Nessy the Dragon


Context: Everest Home Improvement | " Everest's slogan ""Fit the best. Everest,"" written by advertising executive Rod Allen, was made memorable by the company's first television advert in the 1980s. Filmed in 'Britain's highest pub' the Tan Hill Inn in Tan Hill, North Yorkshire, it attempted to showcase the draught-proofing of Everest double glazing by having television personality Ted Moult dropping a feather on one side of the pubs double-glazed windows, while a gale raged outside. A new version of the advert featuring Craig Doyle, was produced in 2008. It created some controversy after local planning officials recognized that Everest had not properly authorized the improvement work done to the filming location, as is required for commercial premises."

Prompt: Which double glazing firm used a feather in their advertising commercials

Answer: Mt. Everest expedition


Context: Katie Green | " Green was first given an opportunity to model when a Surrey, England photographer arranged a test-shoot for her at a photographic studio in West Sussex. She subsequently modelled for a group of photographers on a regular basis to gain experience. She was then introduced to a top London photographer for whom she began to regularly model. Green was a shop assistant in West Sussex earning minimum wage in summer 2008 and considering applying to join the police force when she saw a magazine advertisement for a model to represent Wonderbra. She thought she did not have a chance but attended an open casting in London in July 2008 and had a few quick pictures taken in her underwear. She applied for FHM's ""High Street "

Prompt: Who was the model who first caused a storm modelling the Wonderbra

Answer: Eva Herzegova


Context: Free (band) | " 1990 for garnering 1,000,000 plus radio plays in the US by late 1989. In 2000 an award was given to Paul Rodgers by the British Music Industry when ""All Right Now"" passed 2,000,000 radio plays in the UK. In July 1970 the band, despite their name, were the only advertised band to decline to perform for free for the ailing Phun City festival - according to promoter Mick Farren they ""heard the deal and fucked off without even getting out of the car."" Highway was their fourth studio album, recorded extremely quickly in September 1970. Highway performed poorly in the charts, reaching No. 41 in the UK and No. 190 in the US."

Prompt: What type of product was advertised by Free's recording of All Right Now

Answer: Chewing gums


Context: John Galliano |  John Charles Galliano (born 28 November 1960) is a British-Gibraltarian fashion designer who was the head designer of French fashion companies Givenchy (July 1995 to October 1996), Christian Dior (October 1996 to March 2011), and his own label John Galliano (1988 to 2011). At present, Galliano is the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela. Galliano has been named British Designer of the Year four times. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fifth most influential person in British culture.

Prompt: Which fashion designer became head of Christian Dior in 1996

Answer: John Galliano


Context: The Dam Busters (film) |  The Dambusters received a Royal world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on 16 May 1955, the twelfth anniversary of the raid. Princess Margaret attended along with Eve Gibson, Guy Gibson's widow and his father. Richard Todd, Barnes Wallis and the surviving members of 617 Squadron who had taken part in the mission were all guests of honour. The premiere helped to raise money and awareness for various RAF charities. The film was not shown on British television until 30 May 1971.

Prompt: In which year was the Dambuster's raid

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and forty-three


Context: Anita Roddick |  Anita Roddick opened the first British Body Shop in 1976, with the goal of earning an income for herself and her two daughters while her husband was away in South America. She wanted to provide quality skincare products in refillable containers and sample sizes, all marketed with truth rather than hype. She opened her second shop six months later. On her husband's return, he joined the business. By 1991, the Body Shop had 700 branches, and Roddick was awarded the 1991 World Vision Award for Development Initiative. In 1996 she told Third Way: The original Body Shop was a series of brilliant accidents. It had a great smell,

Prompt: Where did Anita Roddick open her first Body Shop

Answer: Brighthelmstone


Context: Fishkeeping | "  Freshwater fishkeeping is by far the most popular branch of the hobby, with even small pet stores often selling a variety of freshwater fish, such as goldfish, guppies, and angelfish. While most freshwater aquaria are community tanks containing a variety of compatible species, single-species breeding aquaria are also popular. Livebearing fish such as mollies and guppies are among those most easily raised in captivity, but aquarists also regularly breed many types of cichlid, catfish, characins, cyprinids, and killifish. Many fishkeepers create freshwater aquascapes where the focus is on aquatic plants as well as fish. These aquaria include ""Dutch Aquaria"" that mass contrasting stem plants, named for European aquarists who first designed them. In recent years, one of the most active advocates of the heavily planted aquarium was the Japanese aquarist Takashi Amano. Garden ponds are in some ways similar to freshwater aquaria, but are usually much larger and exposed to ambient weather. In the tropics, tropical fish can be kept in garden ponds. In the temperate zone, species such as goldfish, koi, and orfe work better."

Prompt: What is the most popular hobby

Answer: Philatelics


Context: The Man Who | " 1999, and the album also placed on the year-end lists of publications such as Melody Maker, Mojo, NME and Q. The Man Who won the award for Best Album at the 2000 Brit Awards, with Travis being named Best British Group. At the Ivor Novello Awards, Travis frontman Fran Healy won the awards for Best Songwriter(s) and Best Contemporary Song for ""Why Does It Always Rain on Me?"". The Man Who received a belated American release in early 2000, and the same year Travis undertook an extensive 237-gig world tour, including headlining the 2000 Glastonbury, T in the Park and V Festivals, and a US tour leg with Oasis."

Prompt: Who won best British group and best British album at the 2000 Brit Awards

Answer: Travis


Context: Heraldry |  Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branch of heraldry, concerns the design and transmission of the heraldic achievement. The achievement, or armorial bearings usually includes a coat of arms on a shield, helmet and crest, together with any accompanying devices, such as supporters, badges, heraldic banners and mottoes. Although the use of various devices to signify individuals and groups goes back to antiquity, both the form and use of such devices varied widely, as the concept of regular, hereditary designs, constituting the distinguishing feature of heraldry, did not develop until the High Middle

Prompt: What is the study of armorial bearings called

Answer: Heraldry


Context: Extreme points of Wales |  The largest natural lake in Wales is Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake). Llangorse Lake is second largest. This is a table of the longest rivers in Wales. Rivers only partly in Wales are included in this table in italics.

Prompt: What is the largest natural lake in Wales

Answer: Lake Bala


Context: Bob Marley (comedian) |  On Thursday, September 23, 2010, at 11:02 pm EDT, Marley entered the Guinness Book of World Records with the longest continuous stand-up routine, beating the record held by Lindsay Webb from Australia. He completed 40 hours of comedy, the first 17 hours and 14 minutes without any repetition of material. Marley's record was broken by David Scott on April 30, 2013, with a time of 40 hours and 8 minutes.

Prompt: Which comedian entered the Guinness Book of Records for telling jokes non stop for three hours and six minutes

Answer: Ken dodd


Context: Laurence Olivier |  Olivier was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1947 Birthday Honours for services to the stage and to films. A life peerage followed in the 1970 Birthday Honours for services to the theatre; he was subsequently created Baron Olivier, of Brighton in the County of Sussex. Olivier was later appointed to the Order of Merit in 1981. He also received honours from foreign governments. In 1949 he was made Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog by the Danish king Frederick IX; the French appointed him Officier, Legion of Honour, in 1953; the Italian government created him Grande Ufficiale, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, in 1953; and in 1971 he was granted the Order of Yugoslav Flag with Golden Wreath.

Prompt: When Laurence Olivier became Baron Olivier where was he the Baron of

Answer: Brighthelmstone


Context: Ruth Handler |  Ruth Marianna Handler (née Mosko; November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American businesswoman and inventor. She served as the president of the toy manufacturer Mattel Inc. In 1959, she invented the Barbie doll, which sold over a billion toys worldwide. She was the founder and president of the world's largest toy company, which at its peak had 18,000 employees and annual sales of over $300 million. In 1974, the Handlers were forced to resign from Mattel, and in 1978 Ruth Handler was convicted of false reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Prompt: Who was the inventor of the Barbie Doll

Answer: Ruth Handler


Context: Mumblety-peg | " Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoor game played using pocketknives. The term ""mumblety-peg"" came from the practice of putting a peg of about 2 or 3 inches into the ground. The loser of the game had to take it out with his teeth. Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer, Detective recounts ""mumbletypeg"" as one of boys' favorite outdoor games."

Prompt: "Which outdoor game is won by ""pegging out"

Answer: Croquet mallet


Context: Royal Border Bridge |  The Royal Border Bridge spans the River Tweed between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1850, when it was opened by Queen Victoria. The engineer who designed it was Robert Stephenson (son of railway pioneer George Stephenson). It was built for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway and is still in regular use today, as part of the East Coast Main Line. Despite its name, the bridge does not in fact span the border between England and Scotland, which is approximately three miles further north. The bridge is 659 m long and constructed in stone except for brick soffits to the arches. It has 28 arches, each spanning 60 ft. The railway is carried 37 m above the river level. During 1989, it was electrified as a part of the wider East Coast Main Line electrification scheme. Between 1993 and 1996, the structure underwent significant repair work for the first time in a Railtrack-led project, which was partially funded by English Heritage.

Prompt: The Royal Border Bridge crosses which river

Answer: Tweed


Context: Mr. Magoo | " Mr. Magoo (known by his full name: J. Quincy Magoo) is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his extreme near-sightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. However, through uncanny streaks of luck, the situation always seems to work itself out for him, leaving him no worse than before. Bystanders consequently tend to think that he is a lunatic, rather than just being near-sighted. In later cartoons, he is also an actor, and generally a competent one, except for his visual impairment. Magoo episodes were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (the Oscar) three times, and received the award twice, for When Magoo Flew (1954) and Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956). In 2002, TV Guide ranked Mr. Magoo number 29 on its ""50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time"" list."

Prompt: What is cartoon character Mr. Magoo's first name

Answer: Quincy (disambiguation)


Context: Swagger stick |  A swagger stick is a short stick or riding crop usually carried by a uniformed person as a symbol of authority. A swagger stick is shorter than a staff or cane, and is usually made from rattan. Its use derives from the vine staff carried by Roman centurions as an emblem of office.

Prompt: What is the name given to a short handled riding stick

Answer: Quirt


Context: Arsacid dynasty of Iberia |  The Arsacid dynasty or Arshakiani (არშაკიანი), a branch of the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia, ruled the ancient Kingdom of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) from c. 189 until 284 AD. The Arsacid dynasty of Iberia was succeeded by the Chosroid dynasty.

Prompt: The Arsacid Dynasty ruled which country from 250 B.C. until 224 A.D.

Answer: Irān


Context: Snowville, Virginia |  Bowie knives were made in Snowville for the Confederate Army and delivered to Christiansburg where they were shipped out. Joe Craft operated a barrel factory which produced whiskey barrels and flour containers, as well as wooden washtubs. There are records of eggs being brought from the surrounding countryside to Snowville, where they were sold for merchandise, then packed into barrels with wood shavings and sawdust, and finally sent to large cities. In another building, bird feathers and down feathers were made into pillows and feather beds. Moonshining and the illicit distilling of liquor has occurred in Snowville since its earliest beginnings. Two known stills were in operation near Snowville

Prompt: In which town or city were most of the Bowie knives made

Answer: County Borough of Sheffield


Context: Arthur Lowe |  Lowe appeared twice as a guest performer on The Morecambe and Wise Show (1971 and 1977), alongside Richard Briers in a series of Ben Travers farces for the BBC, as the pompous Dr Maxwell in the ITV comedy Doctor at Large (1971) and as Redvers Bodkin, a snooty, old-fashioned butler, in the short-lived sitcom The Last of the Baskets (1971–72). Between 1971 and 1973 Lowe joined Dad's Army colleague Ian Lavender, on the BBC radio comedy Parsley Sidings and he played Mr Micawber in a BBC television serial of David Copperfield (1974). He employed a multitude of voices on the BBC animated television series Mr. Men (1974),

Prompt: What was the last series that Arthur Lowe appeared in

Answer: AJ Wentworth, BA


Context: Lumberjack World Championship |  In competition, opponents step onto a floating log, cuff it to start the roll, spin it rapidly in the water with their feet, stop or snub it suddenly by digging into the log with special caulked birling shoes and a reverse motion to maneuver their adversaries off balance and into the water, a feat called 'wetting'. Dislodging an opponent constitutes a fall. The cardinal rule of logrolling is 'never take your eyes off your opponent's feet'. The referee starts each match. Competing birlers step off a dock onto a floating log, grasping pike poles held by attendants for balance. As they push off from the dock, the referee instructs the birlers to steady the log. When he is certain both birlers have equal control, he says, 'Throw your poles'. The match is on and continues to a fall or to expiration of the time limit set for each log. When the time limit is reached, the same match continues onto the next smaller log. In the semi-finals and the finals, the contest is decided by the best three out of five falls. Men start on 15 in logs.

Prompt: What is the name of the sport in which your opponent tries to knock you off a floating spinning log

Answer: Birling


Context: Catherine Zeta-Jones |  went on to find greater success as a regular in the British television series The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993). Dismayed at being typecast as the token pretty girl in British films, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles. She established herself in Hollywood with roles that highlighted her sex appeal, such as in the action film The Mask of Zorro (1998) and the heist film Entrapment (1999). Zeta-Jones received critical acclaim for her performances as a vengeful pregnant woman in Traffic (2000) and a murderous singer in the musical Chicago (2002), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. She starred in high-profile films for much of the decade, including the black comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003), the heist film Ocean's Twelve (2004), the

Prompt: What was the name of Catherine Zeta Jones character in The Darling Buds of May

Answer: Mariette (disambiguation)


Context: Proclamation of accession of Elizabeth II |  Elizabeth II was proclaimed queen throughout the Commonwealth after her father, King George VI, died in the early hours of 6 February 1952, while Elizabeth was in Kenya. Proclamations were made in different Commonwealth realms on 6, 7, 8, and 11 February (depending on geographic location and time zone). The line of succession was identical in all the Commonwealth realms, but the royal title as proclaimed was not the same in all of them.

Prompt: In which country was Queen Elizabeth 11 when she heard of her father's death

Answer: Kenyan


Context: Aloysius (teddy bear) | " Aloysius is Lord Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945. Aloysius is with Sebastian as he gets a ""haircut"" the first time the novel's protagonist, Charles Ryder, sees Sebastian at Oxford University. Later in the novel, Sebastian wonders whether he should take Aloysius to Venice with him: ""I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits"" – Chapter 3. Sebastian describes his time spent at Brideshead with Charles in Chapter 4: ""If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe, and Aloysius in a good temper..."". The model for Aloysius was Archibald Ormsby-Gore, the beloved teddy bear of John Betjeman, Waugh's friend at Oxford. The bear is likely named after the Catholic saint Aloysius Gonzaga. Aloysius, and in particular his representation in the 1981 television adaptation of the novel, is credited with having triggered the late-20th century teddy bear renaissance. He was depicted by a teddy bear named Delicatessen, owned by the actor Peter Bull."

Prompt: What was the name of Sebastian's teddy bear in Brideshead Revisited

Answer: Aloysius (disambiguation)


Context: Wellington Monument, London |  height, including the sculpture, base and the mound on which it stands, is 36 ft. The monument's colossal 18 ft high statue is by the sculptor Richard Westmacott, produced from melted-down captured enemy cannon. Based on the poses of the Borghese Gladiator and more particularly the Quirinal Horse Tamers, it shows the Greek mythological hero as a muscular, nude young man, raising his shield with his left hand and his short sword in his right hand, with his armour standing by his right thigh and his cloak draped over his left shoulder. The monument was funded by donations from British women totalling £10,000. On being transported to its final site, the entrance gates into Hyde Park were too low for

Prompt: Who is the subject of London's first nude statue which stands in Hyde Park

Answer: Αχιλλέας


Context: Terminalia canescens | " The leaves, bark and stems of this plant are used in Australian native tea known as ""Jilungin tea"". This tea is promoted as aiding relaxation and sleep. The tea is said to have a mild, earthy flavour and aroma, similar to green tea or grass. This tea is used by the Indigenous Nyul Nyul people of the Kimberley in Western Australia to promote deep sleep, and as a digestive tonic to provide energy during the day. A 2017 report by the Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food, showed antioxidant levels similar to or exceeding those of green tea in a sample of Terminalia canescens prepared as Jilungun Tea."

Prompt: Which of the herbal teas is supposed to aid relaxation and sleep

Answer: Camomile Tea


Context: Brook Street, London |   Brook Street is an axial street in the exclusive central London district of Mayfair. Most of it is leasehold, paying ground rent to and seeking lease renewals from the reversioner, that since before 1800, has been the Grosvenor Estate. Named after the Tyburn that it crossed, it was developed in the first half of the 18th century and runs from Hanover Square to Grosvenor Square. The western continuation (to Park Lane) is called Upper Brook Street; its west end faces Brook Street Gate of Hyde Park. Both sections consisted of neo-classical terraced houses, mostly built to individual designs. Some of them were very ornate, finely stuccoed and tall-ceilinged, designed by

Prompt: What is the most exclusive hotel in Brook Street London

Answer: Claridges Hotel


Context: Karma Chameleon | " ""Karma Chameleon"" is a song by English band Culture Club, featured on the group's 1983 album Colour by Numbers. The single was released in the United Kingdom in September 1983 and became the second Culture Club single to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart, after ""Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"". The record stayed at number one for six weeks and became the UK's biggest-selling single of the year 1983, selling 955,000 copies (according to Official Charts Company sales data confirmed in March 2021 for the Channel 5 show Britain's Favourite 80s Songs). To date, it is the 38th-biggest-selling single of all time in the UK, selling over 1.52 million copies. It also spent three weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984, becoming the group's biggest hit and only US number-one single among their many top-10 hits. The single sold over 5 million copies globally. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's ninth favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV."

Prompt: Who had a No 1 in the 80's with Karma Chameleon

Answer: Culture Club


Context: Inspector Clouseau |  A Shot in the Dark (1964) was based upon a stage play that originally did not include the Clouseau character. In this film, Sellers began to develop the exaggerated French accent that later became a hallmark of the character. The film also introduces two of the series regular characters: his superior, Commissioner Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), who is driven mad by Clouseau's blundering of the investigation; and his long-suffering Chinese manservant, Cato (Burt Kwouk), who is expected to improve Clouseau's martial arts skills by attacking him at random. Sellers stepped away from playing the character following this movie, but returned in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and its sequels.

Prompt: What is the name of Inspector Clousseau's manservant

Answer: CATO (disambiguation)


Context: Laura Knight |  Dame Laura Knight, ( Johnson), (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists. In 1929 she was created a Dame, and in 1936 became the second woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy. Her large retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1965 was the first for a woman. Knight was known for painting amidst the world of the theatre and ballet in London, and for being a war artist during the Second World War. She was also greatly interested in, and inspired by, marginalised communities and individuals, including Gypsies and circus performers.

Prompt: What type of scenes was Dame Laura Knight noted for painting

Answer: Circus ring


Context: Game On (British TV series) | " Game On is a British sitcom which ran for three series on BBC2 from 27 February 1995 to 6 February 1998. The central characters are three childhood friends from Herne Bay in Kent; laddish agoraphobe Matthew Malone (Ben Chaplin in the first series and Neil Stuke in the second and third), man-eater Amanda ""Mandy"" Wilkins (Samantha Janus) and wimpish Martin Henson (Matthew Cottle). In their twenties, the trio move into and share a flat in Battersea, south-west London, which Matthew bought with his inheritance, and the series follows their lives as flatmates. Created and written by Andrew Davies and Bernadette Davis, and produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC, Game On was aimed at twenty-somethings, the same age group as the principal cast of the show."

Prompt: Martin, Mandy and Mathew were flatmates in which comedy series

Answer: Game On


Context: 2000 FA Charity Shield | " was a good run-out and as long as we're right for then, we will be very happy. That's what it's all geared to."" Ferguson argued that Riley had created the incident that saw Keane sent off for his tackle on Poyet: ""The referee waited too long to act. There were a lot of players going in hard right throughout the game. You have to be fair to both camps and we were just waiting to see how long he (Riley) was going to leave it. It is a showpiece occasion but if someone commits a yellow card offence, the appropriate action should be taken."" Hasselbaink apologised to Keane "

Prompt: In the year 2000 Charity Shield match which player was sent off

Answer: Roy Keane


Context: 1999 in Denmark | 10 January – Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration wins the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th New York Film Critics Circle Awards. ; 24 January – The Celebration is nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Golden Globe Awards but the award goes to the Brazilian Central Station. ; 21 February – Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's Mifune's Last Song wins the Jury Grand Prix at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. ; 21 March – Anders Thomas Jensen's short comedy film Election Night wins an Oscar for Best Short Subject at the 71st Academy Awards.

Prompt: Which film won the Golden Globe for best film in 1999

Answer: Victoria de Lesseps


Context: Basic Rail Transportation Infrastructure Index |  The Basic Rail Transportation Infrastructure Index (BRTI Index) is a synthetic measure combining rail transportation metrics (existence of modern rail networks and average speed of main inter-urban itineraries) and cost efficiency observations, used as an indicator a country’s relative development in modern land transportation. The index was first developed by World Pensions Council (WPC) financial economists within a cross-country comparative framework that included ten key jurisdictions: the UK, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Turkey, the US, and Brazil. The relative advancement of a nation’s (rail) transportation infrastructure can also be measured using a more refined model called (Modified) Rail Transportation Infrastructure Index: ‘(M) RTI’ or simply ‘RTI’, whereby cost-efficiency is given more weight (x2) than average speed (x1), thus allowing for more robust cross-country comparisons

Prompt: Which country's car international index mark is BR

Answer: Brazil


Context: Skirt |   A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards. At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of fabric (such as pareos). However, most skirts are fitted to the body at the waist or hips and fuller below, with the fullness introduced by means of darts, gores, pleats, or panels. Modern skirts are usually made of light to mid-weight fabrics, such as denim, jersey, worsted, or poplin. Skirts of thin or clingy fabrics are often worn with slips to make the material of the skirt drape better and for modesty. In modern times, skirts are typically worn by women. Some exceptions include the izaar, worn

Prompt: I n dressmaking what are featherweight, skirt weight and open ended

Answer: Zips


Context: Topiary | " The clipping and shaping of shrubs and trees in China and Japan have been practised with equal rigor, but for different reasons. The goal is to achieve an artful expression of the ""natural"" form of venerably aged pines, given character by the forces of wind and weather. Their most concentrated expressions are in the related arts of Chinese penjing and Japanese bonsai. Japanese cloud-pruning is closest to the European art: the cloud-like forms of clipped growth are designed to be best appreciated after a fall of snow. Japanese Zen gardens (karesansui, dry rock gardens) make extensive use of Karikomi (a topiary technique of clipping shrubs and trees into large curved shapes or sculptures) and Hako-zukuri (shrubs clipped into boxes and straight lines). "

Prompt: What is the art of clipping bushes into shapes known as

Answer: Topiarius


Context: Ali (film) |  The film begins with Cassius Clay Jr. before his championship debut against then-heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Clay taunts Liston, then dominates the early rounds of the match. Halfway through, he complains of a burning feeling in his eyes (implying that Liston has tried to cheat) and says he is unable to continue. However, his trainer/manager Angelo Dundee gets him to keep fighting. Once Clay is able to see again, he dominates the fight and Liston quits before round seven, making Clay the second-youngest heavyweight champion at the time after Floyd Patterson. Clay spends time with Malcolm X and is invited to the home of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, where he is given the name Muhammad Ali. His father, Cassius Clay Sr., disapproves. Ali marries Sonji Roi, an ex-Playboy Bunny,

Prompt: Who was Cassius Clay's manager

Answer: Dun Deagh


Context: The Sea-Wolf | " The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey Van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild. Ambrose Bierce wrote, ""The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime... The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful."""

Prompt: Who wrote The Sea Wolf

Answer: London (UK)


Context: Little Women |  Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, Alcott wrote the book over several months at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters,  it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers eager for more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, though the name originated with the publisher and not Alcott). It also met with success. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a

Prompt: What is the surname of the family in the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott


Context: Lust for Life (1956 film) |  Lust for Life is a 1956 American biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel of the same title by Irving Stone which was adapted for the screen by Norman Corwin. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, James Donald as his brother Theo, with Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, and Anthony Quinn. Douglas won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his performance, while Quinn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Prompt: Who played the role of painter Vincent Van Gogh in the film Lust For Life

Answer: Douglas (disambiguation)


Context: Liam Devlin | infobox name: Liam Devlin ; first: The Eagle Has Landed ; creator: Jack Higgins ; portrayer: Donald Sutherland Keith Carradine ; gender: Male ; occupation: Spy Assassin ; nationality: Irish

Prompt: Which Canadian born actor played an Irishman in The Eagle Has Landed

Answer: Sutherland (district)


Context: Wampum |  Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. Before European contact, strings of wampum were used for storytelling, ceremonial gifts, and recording important treaties and historical events, such as the Two Row Wampum Treaty and Hiawatha belts. Wampum was also used by the northeastern Indigenous tribes as a means of exchange, strung together in lengths for convenience. The first Colonists understood it as a currency and adopted it as such in trading with them. Eventually, the Colonists applied their technologies to more efficiently produce wampum, which caused inflation and ultimately its obsolescence as currency.

Prompt: Indians used wampum for money, what was wampum

Answer: Beads or shells


Context: Dalton Gang | " The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 1890–1892. It was also known as The Dalton Brothers because four of its members were brothers. The gang specialized in bank and train robberies. During an attempted double bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, two of the brothers and two other gang members were killed; Emmett survived and was captured, tried, and convicted. He was paroled after serving 14 years in prison. Bob, Gratton ""Grat"", and Emmett had first worked as lawmen for the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then for the Osage Nation. They started stealing "

Prompt: Which American gang of outlaws from the old west had the christian names Robert, Grattan and Emett

Answer: Dalton gang


Context: King's Lynn |  King's Lynn is the northernmost settlement on the River Great Ouse, lying 97 mi north of London and 44 mi west of Norwich. The town lies about 5 mi south of the Wash, a fourfold estuary subject to dangerous tides and shifting sandbanks, on the north-west margin of East Anglia. King's Lynn has an area of 11 sqmi. The Great Ouse at Lynn is about 200 m wide and the outfall for much of the Fens' drainage system. The much smaller Gaywood River also flows through the town, joining the Great Ouse at the southern end of South Quay close to the town centre. A small part of the town, known as West Lynn, is on the west bank, and linked to the town centre by one of the oldest ferries in the country. Other districts of King's Lynn include the town centre, North Lynn, South Lynn, and Gaywood.

Prompt: On which river is Kings Lynn

Answer: The Great Ouse


Context: The Rifleman |  Chuck Connors briefly played the same character again in 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, which featured a number of 1950s and 1960s television Western series leads reprising their roles in quick cameo appearances (Gene Barry as Bat Masterson, Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp, Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, David Carradine as Kung Fu's Caine).

Prompt: What was the name of the character played by Chuck Connors in The Rifleman

Answer: Lucas McCain


Context: Women in the Bible | " Jezebel is described in the Book of Kings (1 Kings 16:31) as a queen who was the daughter of Ithobaal I of Sidon and the wife of Ahab, King of Israel. According to the Books of Kings, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and fabricated evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put to death. For these transgressions against the God and people of Israel, Jezebel met a gruesome death—thrown out of a window by members of her own court retinue, and the flesh of her corpse eaten by stray dogs. In the biblical story, Jezebel became associated with false prophets. In some interpretations, her dressing in finery and putting on makeup led to the association of the use of cosmetics with ""painted women"" or prostitutes."

Prompt: What was the fate of Jezebel in the Bible

Answer: She was eaten by dogs


Context: Leslie Grantham | " while enabling Grantham to remain on EastEnders only until the previous autumn. Den had become involved with a criminal organisation called ""The Firm"" over the summer of 1988, and his only option was to flee The Square. After a spell on remand in custody and a dramatic escape from the police and from members of The Firm who ambushed him on his way to court, viewers watched a mysterious gunman shoot at Den with a gun hidden in a bunch of daffodils, before hearing a splash. A shot depicting Den's death was cut from the final scene, in the hope that Grantham might one day be persuaded to return to the role. The following year, a body believed to be Den's was found in the canal."

Prompt: What kind of flowers was the gunman holding when he shot Dirty Den in Eastenders

Answer: Daphodyl


Context: Don McLean | " Donald McLean (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1971 hit song ""American Pie"", an 8-and-a-half-minute folk rock ""cultural touchstone"" about the loss of innocence of the early rock and roll generation. His other hit singles include ""Vincent"", ""Dreidel"", a rendition of Roy Orbison's ""Crying"", a rendition of the Skyliners' ""Since I Don't Have You"", and ""Wonderful Baby"". McLean's composition ""And I Love You So"" has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, Glen Campbell, and others, and in 2000, Madonna had a hit with a rendition of ""American Pie"". In 2004, McLean was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In January 2018, BMI certified that ""American Pie"" and ""Vincent"" had reached five million and three million airplays respectively."

Prompt: Who was Don McLean singing about in Vincent

Answer: Vincent Willem Van Gogh


Context: Étude Op. 10, No. 3 (Chopin) | " gradation of the most tender nuances in piano"". The final A section is a quite literal though shortened restatement of the first one. At the end of the étude the fair copy autograph contains the directive attacca il presto con fuoco which means that Chopin foresaw the joint performance of both this étude and the following one. This étude's similarity to a nocturne is frequently noted. Leichtentritt calls the étude a ""nocturne like piece of intimate and rich cantabile melodics [gesangreicher, inniger Melodik], relieved in its middle section by a highly effective sound-unfolding [Klangentfaltung] of a novel and peculiarly original character [Gepräge]"". German pianist and composer Theodor Kullak (1818–1882) called the study a ""lovely poetic tone-piece""."

Prompt: What does the musical term con fuoco mean

Answer: With fire


Context: Timeline of golf history (1851–1945) |  National Golf Club, designed by Alister MacKenzie with advice from Bobby Jones, opens for play. Craig Wood hits a 430-yard (393 m) drive at the Old Course's fifth hole in the British Open; this is still the longest drive in a major championship. Wood loses a playoff for the championship to Denny Shute. Gene Sarazen finishes third, and later in the year wins the PGA Championship. Hershey Chocolate Company, in sponsoring the Hershey Open, becomes the first corporate title sponsor of a professional tournament. The Golf Club Managers' Association is formed in the UK (originally called the Association of Golf

Prompt: In 1968 what became the longest course used for the British Open golf championship

Answer: Royal Burgh of Carnoustie


Context: Eccles cake | " The Eccles cake is named after the English town of Eccles, which is in the historic county of Lancashire and in the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester. Eccles cakes are a Lancashire food tradition, with similar cakes being found in other parts of the County of Lancashire and are traditionally eaten with Lancashire cheese. It is not known who invented the recipe, but James Birch is credited with being the first person to sell Eccles cakes commercially; he sold the cakes from his shop, at the corner of Vicarage Road and St Mary's Road, now Church Street, in the town centre, in 1793. John Ayto states that Elizabeth Raffald was possibly the person who invented the Eccles Cake. Eccles cakes do not have Protected Geographical Status, so may be manufactured anywhere and still labelled as ""Eccles"" cakes."

Prompt: In which county did Eccles cakes originate

Answer: Lancastershire


Context: Passage to Marseille |  Passage to Marseille reunited much of the cast of Casablanca (1942), also directed by Curtiz, including Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Helmut Dantine. Other actors connected to both productions included Michèle Morgan, who had been the original choice for the female lead for Casablanca; Victor Francen, Philip Dorn, Corinna Mura, and George Tobias. Although exotic locales were called for, principal photography by cinematographer James Wong Howe actually took place at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California, with additional location shooting in Victorville, California. Before Bogart began work on the film, pre-production had been underway for six months, but as a result of resisting Jack Warner's decision to cast him in Conflict (released 1945, but shot in

Prompt: Who was Humphrey Bogart's female co-star in Casablanca

Answer: Ingrid Bergmann


Context: The Sting |  Ward originally wrote Henry Gondorff as a minor character who was an overweight, past-his-prime slob, but once Paul Newman became associated with the movie, Gondorff was rewritten as a slimmer character and his part was expanded in order to maximize the second partnership of Newman and Redford. Newman had been advised to avoid doing comedies because he didn't have the light touch, but accepted the part to prove that he could handle comedy just as well as drama. Jack Nicholson was offered the lead role but turned it down. Newman signed on the film after the producers agreed to give him top billing, $500,000 and a percentage of the profits. Newman needed a hit considering his last five films that he had made prior to The Sting had been box-office disappointments.

Prompt: What was the name of the character played by Paul Newman in the film The Sting

Answer: Henry Gondorf


Context: The Deer Hunter | " that Carr's promotion of the film was influential in positioning The Deer Hunter for Oscar nominations. On the Sneak Previews special ""Oscar Preview for 1978"", Roger Ebert correctly predicted that The Deer Hunter would win for Best Picture while Gene Siskel predicted that Coming Home would win. However, Ebert incorrectly guessed that Robert De Niro would win for Best Actor for Deer Hunter and Jill Clayburgh would win for Best Actress for An Unmarried Woman while Siskel called the wins for Jon Voight as Best Actor and Jane Fonda as Best Actress, both for Coming Home. Both Ebert and Siskel called the win for Christopher Walken receiving the "

Prompt: Who won an Oscar for his part in The Deer Hunter

Answer: Popcorn Shrimp


Context: Blue Peter pets |  the Blue Peter garden. It originally stood in front of BBC Television Centre but was moved to the garden in 1984 due to redevelopment works and now stands in the current garden at MediaCityUK. It was later revealed that the original (unnamed) puppy had died of distemper a few days after her first appearance on Blue Peter, broadcast just before Christmas 1962. Instead of informing viewers, and feeling there was no need to upset children needlessly, the programme's director and producer Edward Barnes and Biddy Baxter bought a similar-looking replacement puppy, which was subsequently named Petra by the viewers.

Prompt: Who originally looked after the Blue Peter garden

Answer: Percy Thrower


Context: Inferno (Dante) | " Jason, the Greek hero who led the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece from Aeëtes, King of Colchis. He gained the help of the king's daughter, Medea, by seducing and marrying her only to later desert her for Creusa. Jason had previously seduced Hypsipyle when the Argonauts landed at Lemnos on their way to Colchis, but ""abandoned her, alone and pregnant"". ; Bolgia 2 – Flatterers: These also exploited other people, this time abusing and corrupting language to play upon others' desires and fears. They are steeped in excrement (representative of the false flatteries they told on earth) as they "

Prompt: Who led the quest for the golden fleece

Answer: Iasson


Context: Goathland |  The village was the setting of the fictional village of Aidensfield in the Heartbeat television series set in the 1960s. Many landmarks from the series are recognisable, including the shop, garage/funeral directors, the public house and the railway station. The pub is called the Goathland Hotel but in the series is The Aidensfield Arms. After interior shots were filmed in the hotel for some years, a replica of it was built in Yorkshire TV's Leeds studio.

Prompt: What is the name of the local pub in Heartbeat

Answer: The Aidensfield Arms


Context: Dunfermline Athletic F.C. |  Dunfermline Athletic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Dunfermline, Fife. Founded in 1885, the club currently play in the Scottish Championship. Dunfermline play at East End Park, are nicknamed The Pars and are currently managed by John Hughes. The Pars' most successful period was in the 1960s, when the side won the Scottish Cup twice, in 1961 and 1968 under the management of Jock Stein and George Farm respectively. The club regularly played European football in this period, reaching the semi-finals of the 1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup under Farm. The club have played at East End Park since their formation in 1885; however,

Prompt: Which Scottish League football team is nicknamed the Pars

Answer: Dunfermline AFC


Context: Georgia in the American Civil War |  In November 1864, Sherman stripped his army of non-essentials, burned the city of Atlanta, and left it to the Confederates. He began his famous Sherman's March to the Sea, living off the land then burning plantations, wrecking railroads, killing livestock, and freeing slaves. Thousands of escaped slaves followed him as he entered Savannah on December 22. After the loss of Atlanta, the governor withdrew the state's militia from the Confederate forces to harvest crops for the state and the army. The militia did not try to stop Sherman. Sherman's March was devastating to both Georgia and the Confederacy in terms of economics and psychology. Sherman himself

Prompt: Which city in Georgia was burned by General Sherman during the American Civil War

Answer: Marthasville, GA


Context: Joe Loss | " back to the Astoria Ballroom where he led a twelve piece band. In 1935, Vera Lynn appeared with the Joe Loss Orchestra in her first radio broadcast. With broadcasting, recording and annual tours in addition to the resident work the band became highly popular over the next few years. In the 1950s and early 60s, Loss was resident band leader at the Hammersmith Palais and was remembered by a trainee nurse at Hammersmith Hospital as being as kind and gentlemanly when she attended him in hospital as he was in his public persona. His band's signature tune ""In the Mood"" would often be requested three or more times a night. He was the subject of This Is "

Prompt: What was bandleader Joe Loss's signature tune

Answer: In The Mood


Context: Ford Sierra | " its lead of the market sector in Britain during 1986, and a refreshed range (with more engine options as well as the introduction of a saloon) enjoyed a surge in sales from 1987, though the MK3 Cavalier finally outsold it in 1990. Even in 1992, the Sierra was still Britain's fifth best selling car. It was nicknamed ""the salesman's spaceship"" on account of its status as a popular fleet car in Britain. In contrast to the Sierra's groundbreaking exterior design, its drivetrain was conservatively engineered, retaining rear-wheel drive and the same engines and transmissions as the Cortina/Taunus which were "

Prompt: Which car was once dubbed the Reptina because of it's popularity with sales reps

Answer: Ford Consul Cortina


Context: District line |  The District line is a London Underground line running from in the east and Edgware Road in the west to  in west London, where it splits into multiple branches. One branch runs to in south-west London and a short branch, with a limited service, only runs for one stop to. The main route continues west from Earl's Court to after which it divides again into two western branches, to Richmond and. Printed in green on the Tube map, the line serves 60 stations (more than any other Underground line ) over 64 km. It is the only Underground line to use a bridge to traverse the River Thames, crossing on both the Wimbledon and Richmond branches. The track and stations between

Prompt: What colour on the London underground map is the District Line

Answer: Greenishly


Context: Right to silence | " The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself or herself. At trial, the prosecution can neither call the defendant as a witness, nor comment on the defendant's failure to testify. Whether to testify or not is exclusively the privilege of the defendant, although defendants were originally not allowed to testify on their own behalf at all. An 1864 appropriations act allowed defendants to do so while removing race restrictions, and the 1987 Supreme Court case Rock v. Arkansas established a constitutional ""right to take the witness stand."" Outside the context of "

Prompt: Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that no one may be forced to testify against himself

Answer: The Fifth (disambiguation)


Context: Vanessa Paradis |  Vanessa Chantal Paradis (born 22 December 1972)  is a French singer, model, and actress. Paradis became a child star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single Joe le taxi. At age 18, she was unprecedently awarded France's highest honours as both a singer and an actress with the Prix Romy Schneider and the César Award for Most Promising Actress (known as the French Oscar)   for Jean-Claude Brisseau's Noce Blanche as well as the Victoires de la Musique (known as the French Grammy Awards)   for 'Best Female Singer' for her album Variations sur le même t'aime. Her most

Prompt: What nationality is singer Vanessa Paradis

Answer: Français


Context: Canals of the United Kingdom |   There are now about 4700 mi of navigable canals and rivers throughout the United Kingdom; 2,700 miles (4,345 km) of these are part of the connected system. Most of them are linked into a single English and Welsh network from Bristol to London, Liverpool to Goole and Lancaster to Ripon, and connecting the Irish Sea, the North Sea, the estuaries of the Humber, Thames, Mersey, Severn and Ribble. This network is navigable in its entirety by a narrowboat (a boat 7 ft wide) no longer than about 56 ft. There are also several through-routes not connected to the main network, notably those in Scotland,

Prompt: Which English city has the most canals

Answer: County Borough of Birmingham


Context: Hoplology |  Hoplology is a science that studies human combative behavior and performance.

Prompt: What is hopology the study of

Answer: Close range weapon


Context: Elizabeth Roper | " members of her household including the four maids of honour. Roper married Sir Robert Mansell in March 1617 with a feast at Denmark House paid for by the queen. John Chamberlain wrote Mansell had married ""his old mistress Roper, one of the Queen's ancient maids of honour"". Edward Sherburn noted that the king gave Mansell £10,000 when he married Mrs Roper. She was usually known as ""Lady Mansell"". They had no children. James Howell noted in 1621 that Mansell's marriage to Roper had made him a kinsman to Sir Henry Wotton, the English ambassador in Venice. Mansell had become involved in glass-making in 1611, and in 1618 bought out the interests of Sir Edward Zouch of Woking who was married to Roper's old colleague in the queen's household, "

Prompt: "In the military world what is meant by ""To marry Mistress Roper"""

Answer: To join the Royal Marines


Context: Orpington chicken |  The original Black Orpington was bred by William Cook in 1886 by crossing Minorcas, Langshans and Plymouth Rocks to create a new hybrid bird. Cook selected a black bird that would exhibit well by hiding the dirt and soot of London. When the breed was shown in Madison Square Gardens in 1895, its popularity soared. Cook also bred the Orpington Duck. The original colours are black, white, buff, blue and splash. Although there are many additional varieties recognised throughout the world, only the original colours are recognised by the American Standard, the Buff being the most common colour. In the beginning of the twentieth century, Herman

Prompt: What kind of bird is a Blue Orpington

Answer: Domestic cock


Context: Austin Apache |  The Austin Apache is a small family car that was produced by Leykor between November 1971 and 1978. The Apache was the last BMC ADO16 car to be produced. The Spanish manufacturer Authi also built a version of the car, called the Austin Victoria, at its Pamplona plant between 1972 and 1975.

Prompt: What was the last model of car made by Austin (To be called the Austin what)

Answer: Montego (disambiguation)


Context: W. C. Fields | " A popular bit of Fields folklore maintains that his grave marker is inscribed, ""I'd rather be in Philadelphia""—or a close variant thereof. The legend originated from a mock epitaph written by Fields for a 1925 Vanity Fair article: ""Here Lies / W. C. Fields / I Would Rather Be Living in Philadelphia"". In reality, his interment marker bears only his stage name and the years of his birth and death."

Prompt: Who is reported to have as his epitaph. On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia

Answer: W. C. Fields


Context: List of mammals of Canada |  that of the Didelphimorphia (common opossums). Studies of mammals in Canada hearken back to the 1795 northern explorations of Samuel Hearne, whose account is considered surprisingly accurate. The first seminal work on Canadian mammals, however, was John Richardson's 1829 Fauna Boreali-Americana. Joseph Burr Tyrrell was the first to attempt to produce, in 1888, a comprehensive list of Canadian mammalian species. Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles-Eusèbe Dionne's work were also important. Modern Canadian publications with interest in mammalogy include The Canadian Field-Naturalist, the Canadian Journal of Zoology and the French-language Le Naturaliste Canadien. Several species of mammal have particular symbolism. The Canadian horse and North American beaver are official symbols of Canada, and several provinces have designated native species as symbols. Conservation status - IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:

Prompt: What is the official animal of Canada

Answer: Beaverdams


Context: British Dragon Boat Racing Association |  The British Dragon Boat Racing Association (BDA) is the UK governing body for dragon boat racing as a sport and recreation, recognised by the UK Sports Council and a member of the Sport Alliance, Water Recreation Division. The BDA governs the sport through its executive committee and council. The BDA executive committee is responsible for the policy, organisation and administration of the sport, at UK level, and for the selection of British crews competing abroad. As a national governing body, the BDA is a member of both the International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF) and the European Dragon Boat Federation (EDBF). and is a Founding Member of both federations.

Prompt: Which sporting body administrates the Boat Race

Answer: The Jockey Club


Context: Charles W. Alcock |  On 20 July 1871, Alcock, in his position as FA Secretary, proposed That it is desirable that a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association, for which all clubs belonging to the Association should be invited to compete. Thus, the FA Cup – the world's first national football tournament, based on Alcock's experience of inter-house 'sudden death' competition at Harrow – was born. Fifteen teams took part in the first competition in 1872, with Alcock captaining the winning Wanderers side. It was only fitting that the final should be played at The Oval, since Alcock had become Secretary of Surrey County Cricket Club the previous month.

Prompt: Which cup competition was founded by Charles William Alcock in the eighteen seventies

Answer: The Football Association Challenge Cup


Context: Redface | "Broken Arrow (1950) - Jeff Chandler as Cochise and Debra Paget as Sonseeahray ('Morningstar'). Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels portrayed Geronimo ; Winchester '73 (1950) - Rock Hudson as ""Young Bull"" ; The Searchers (1953) - Henry Brandon as Chief Cicatriz (""Scar"") ; Apache (1954) - Burt Lancaster as the main character, Massai. (Monte Blue, who was part Cherokee and Osage portrayed Geronimo) ; Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) - The story includes several members of the Blackfoot tribe portrayed by non-Native actors. ; Sitting Bull (1954) - J. Carrol Naish in the title role and Iron Eyes Cody as Crazy Horse (also as ""technical advisor"" for the film) ; Chief Crazy Horse (1955) - Victor Mature in the title role ; The Indian Fighter (1955) - Kirk Douglas in the title role fights ""Red Cloud"" portrayed by Eduard Franz, ""Grey Wolf"" by Harry Landers and ""Crazy Bear"" by Hank Worden ; The Unforgiven (1960) - Audrey Hepburn as ""Rachel Zachary"", a native child adopted by a white family "

Prompt: Of which tribe of Red Indians was Geronimo a chief

Answer: Apache Nation


Context: Davy Crockett (nuclear device) |  nuclear rounds. Weapons assigned to infantry units were carried in M113s, those allocated to airborne units were carried on Jeeps. The M28 launcher was also equipped with a 20mm spotting rifle – a single-shot weapon that fired depleted uranium rounds using a high–low system. These rounds flew a similar trajectory to the nuclear projectiles and produced white smoke when they landed, helping determine range. The Davy Crockett was fired remotely. A mechanically-operated detonator at the end of 22 m of detonating cord led to the propellant charge. The M388 nuclear projectile was attached to a titanium piston by means of a bayonet mount. When fired, the piston was blown out of the tube by the detonating propellent. The piston

Prompt: What did Davey Crocket call his rifle

Answer: Old Betsy


Context: Olympic-class ocean liner |  Second in line of the Olympic class, Titanic was launched on 31 May 1911, and her commissioning was slightly delayed due to ongoing repairs of Olympic. The ship left the port of Southampton 10 April 1912 for her maiden voyage, narrowly avoiding a collision with, a ship moored in the port pulled by the propellers of Titanic. After a stopover at Cherbourg, France and another in Queenstown, Ireland, she sailed into the Atlantic with 2,200 passengers and crew on board, under the command of Captain Edward J. Smith headed for New York City. The crossing took place without major incident until Sunday, 14 April at 23:40. Titanic struck an iceberg at 41.76667°N,

Prompt: Where was the Titanic heading for on her maiden voyage

Answer: New Yourk State


Context: 1861 Tooley Street fire |  The 1861 Tooley Street fire, also called the Great Fire of Tooley Street, started in Cotton's Wharf on Tooley Street, London, England, on 22 June 1861. The fire lasted for two weeks, and caused £2million worth of damage. During the fire, James Braidwood, superintendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment, was killed. House of Commons reports cited multiple failures in fire prevention, and the fire led to the 1865 Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act, which established the London Fire Brigade.

Prompt: In which street did the Great Fire of London originate

Answer: Pudding Lane


Context: 1937 in Germany | 10 March — The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany. ; 6 May — Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirteen passengers, 22 crew and one member of the ground crew were killed. ; 7 May — Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces. ; 28 May - Volkswagen, state-owned carmaker, is formed to produce the new people's car. ; 8 June — Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres

Prompt: What was the name of the German airship that burst into flames at its moorings in New Jersey in 1937

Answer: LZ129


Context: Sports in Cincinnati | "Cincinnati Bengals (1937–1941), a member of the American Football League (1936). Competed in AFL II (1937), the minor AFL of 1938 (1939), and AFL III (1939-1940). ; Cincinnati Celts, played in the unofficial ""Ohio League"" and the American Professional Football Association (renamed the National Football League in 1922). ; Cincinnati Blades, team that competed in the American Football League (1938). ; Cincinnati Reds, NFL team that played in the 1933 NFL season and the first eight games of the 1934 NFL season. ; Cincinnati Rockers, team that competed in the Arena Football League from 1992–1993. ; Cincinnati Royals, NBA team 1957-1972 ; Cincinnati Stingers, World Hockey Association, 1975-1979 ; Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, American Hockey League, 1997-2005 ; Cincinnati Stingers, Central Hockey League (Minor League), 1979-1980 ; Cincinnati Kids, Major Indoor Soccer League, 1978-1979 ; Cincinnati Riverhawks, Professional Soccer, USISL PDL (1997), USL A-League, (1998–2003) ; Cincinnati Kings, USL Premier Development League ; Cincinnati Silverbacks, NPSL, 1995-1998 ; Cincinnati Suds, APSPL, USPL, 1977-1982 ; Cincinnati Rivermen, NASL, 1980 "

Prompt: What sport is played by the Cincinnati Bengals

Answer: U.s. football


Context: The Fat Controller | " Sir Topham Hatt, also known as The Fat Controller, is a fictional character in The Railway Series books written by the Reverend W. Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry. In the first two books in the series (The Three Railway Engines and Thomas the Tank Engine) he is known as The Fat Director, and as of the third book (James the Red Engine) he becomes The Fat Controller, as the railway has been nationalised. Sir Topham Hatt's full name is revealed in the foreword to the 1951 book Henry the Green Engine. The Fat Controller also appears in the television series Thomas & Friends, adapted from the books. On television, he was usually portrayed in the form of several different static figures made with either wood or lead during series one, and resin from series two onwards, but has been portrayed using CGI from the twelfth season onward. The term ""fat controller"" has since been adopted in various contexts in the English language, beyond the sphere of the original stories."

Prompt: In children's TV by what name is Sir Topham Hatt better known

Answer: Sir Topham Hatt's Car


Context: The First Cut Is the Deepest | " Stevens made a demo recording of ""The First Cut Is the Deepest"" in 1965, while hoping to become a songwriter. He wrote the song earlier to promote his songs to other artists, but did not record it as his own performance until early October 1967 with guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, and it did not appear until his second album, New Masters, was released in December 1967. He sold the song for £30 to P. P. Arnold, and it became a huge hit for her. Over decades, it also became an international hit for Keith Hampshire, Rod Stewart, and Sheryl Crow. The song has won Stevens songwriting awards, including two consecutive ASCAP songwriting awards for ""Songwriter of the Year"" in 2005 and 2006."

Prompt: Sheryl Crow has released her version of the Rod Stewart number one First Cut Is The Deepest, but who released it ten years before he did

Answer: P. P. Arnold


Context: Anosmia |  Anosmia can have a number of harmful effects. People with sudden onset anosmia may find food less appetizing, though congenital anosmics rarely complain about this, and none report a loss in weight. Loss of smell can also be dangerous because it hinders the detection of gas leaks, fire, and spoiled food. The common view of anosmia as trivial can make it more difficult for a patient to receive the same types of medical aid as someone who has lost other senses, such as hearing or sight. Many experience one sided loss of smell, often as a result of minor head trauma. This type of anosmia is normally only detected if both of the nostrils are tested separately. Using this method of testing each nostril separately will often show a reduced or even completely absent sense of smell in either one nostril or both, something which is

Prompt: What have you lost if you are suffering from anosmia

Answer: Olefactory


Context: Periodontology |  Gingivitis is a common condition that affects the gingiva or mucosal tissues that surround the teeth. The condition is a form of periodontal disease; however, it is the least devastating, in that it does not involve irreversible damage or changes to the periodontium (gingiva, periodontal ligament, cementum or alveolar bone). It is commonly detected by patients when gingival bleeding occurs spontaneously during brushing or eating. It is also characterised by generalised inflammation, swelling, and redness of the mucosal tissues. Gingivitis is typically painless and is most commonly a result of plaque biofilm accumulation, in association with reduced or poor oral hygiene. Other factors may increase a person's risk of gingivitis, including but not limited to systemic conditions such as uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and some medications. The signs and symptoms of gingivitis can be reversed through improved oral hygiene measures and increased plaque disruption. If left untreated, gingivitis has the potential to progress to periodontitis and other related diseases that are more detrimental to periodontal and general health.

Prompt: Gingivitis affects which part of the body

Answer: Gumline


Context: List of Canadian provinces and territories by area |  As a country, Canada has ten provinces and three territories. These subdivisions vary widely in both land and water area. The largest subdivision by land area is the territory of Nunavut. The largest subdivision by water area is the province of Quebec. The smallest subdivision of both land and water area is the province of Prince Edward Island. Canada is the second-largest country in the world; it has the fourth-largest dry land area, and the largest freshwater area.

Prompt: What is the smallest Canadian province

Answer: P.E.I


Context: Yale University |   Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. One of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution, the Collegiate School was renamed Yale College in 1718 to honor the school's largest private benefactor for the first century of its existence, Elihu Yale. Chartered by Connecticut Colony, the Collegiate School was established in 1701 by clergy to educate Congregational ministers before moving to New Haven in 1716.

Prompt: In which American state is Yale University

Answer: Economy of Connecticut


Context: John Boorman |  David Deutsch, he was offered the chance to direct a film aimed at repeating the success of A Hard Day's Night (directed by Richard Lester in 1964): Catch Us If You Can (1965) is about competing pop group Dave Clark Five. While not as successful commercially as Lester's film, it drew good reviews from distinguished critics such as Pauline Kael and Dilys Powell and smoothed Boorman's way into the film industry. Boorman was drawn to Hollywood for the opportunity to make larger-scale cinema and in Point Blank (1967), based on a Richard Stark novel, brought a stranger's vision to the

Prompt: Which sixties group starred in the film Catch Us If You Can

Answer: Dave Clarke Five


Context: Bronco (TV series) |  Bronco premiered in the fall of 1958 when Warner Bros. executives and actor Clint Walker clashed over Walker's contract on the series Cheyenne. Walker had walked out on his show over such stringent clauses as a requirement that he return half of all personal appearance fees to Warner Bros., and that he only record for Warner music labels. When the two sides came to an impasse, the network hired newcomer Ty Hardin to play the new character of Bronco Layne, but kept the title of Cheyenne. When Walker came back to his series, Bronco became a spin-off of Cheyenne. Bronco at first alternated with another Western series, Sugarfoot, featuring Will Hutchins. In 1960, the two began alternating with Cheyenne under the Cheyenne title. Sugarfoot was dropped in 1961, leaving only Bronco and Cheyenne to alternate. Other Warner Bros. Westerns in production around this time included Maverick with

Prompt: Who played the title role in the TV western series Bronco

Answer: Ty Hardin


Context: Shalako (film) |  Shalako is a 1968 British-German-American Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot. It was shot at Shepperton Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Herbert Smith. Location shooting took place in Almería in southern Spain, particularly in the Tabernas Desert which was frequently used in European westerns during the decade. The cast also includes Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, and Honor Blackman, Connery's co-star in Goldfinger. It is based on a 1962 novel of the same title by Louis L'Amour. It was the first in a trilogy of L'Amour adaptions from Euan Lloyd.

Prompt: What was the only western that Brigitte Bardot appeared in (it was based on a book by Louis L'Amour)

Answer: Shalako


Context: Surrey |  played in the county since before 1900 most notably as international venue Wentworth; by 2013 a 142nd co-existing Surrey golf course was in planning consultation; 141 were recorded by The Daily Telegraph newspaper. ; Rowing clubs include Molesey (with an elite development programme hosting several leading British Rowing crews), Walton, (one of the UK's top clubs in the junior category), Weybridge, Weybridge Ladies, Weybridge Mariners, Burway, Staines and Guildford whose top female quad boat won Henley Women's in 2012. ; Volleyball teams include BA, Friends Provident and Guildford International Volleyball Club (whose elite men's team has won the 1st of the 4 National Divisions), while twelve clubs in Surrey and three in south-west Greater London compete in the Surrey Volleyball League.

Prompt: In which county is Wentworth golf course

Answer: Surrey


Context: Living Toys |  This section is mainly a soli for the piccolo trumpet and percussion. The trumpet plays a carefully calculated jazz-inspired solo whilst the rest of the ensemble provide big-band interjections. The music builds and ends with a short tutti figure. The oboe has a short, sharp rising figure which pushes the music forward to the next part. 4: H.A.L.'s Death : In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the on-board computer was referred to as 'Hal'. Near the end of the film when Hal is deactivated, he is heard to be singing the song Daisy Bell. Here, Adès replays the song using the contrabassoon, double bass and other low-sounding instruments over sustained chords. The quote

Prompt: Which song did HAL the computer sing shortly before his deactivation in the film 2001

Answer: A Bicycle Built for Two. Also known as 'Daisy Daisy' or 'Daisy Bell'


Context: Pasodoble |   Pasodoble (Spanish: double step) is a fast-paced Spanish military march used by infantry troops. Its speed allowed troops to give 120 steps per minute (double the average of a regular unit, hence its name). This march gave rise to a traditional Spanish dance, a musical genre including both voice and instruments, and a genre of instrumental music often played during bullfight. Both the dance and the non martial compositions are also called pasodoble.

Prompt: Which ballroom dance is Spanish for double step

Answer: Pasodoble (dance)


Context: Plowden Report |  The Plowden Report is the unofficial name for the 1967 report of the Central Advisory Council For Education (England) into Primary education in England. The report, entitled Children and their Primary Schools, reviewed primary education in a wholesale fashion. The collation of the report took around 3 years. The Council was chaired by Bridget, Lady Plowden after whom the report is named.

Prompt: What was the Plowden Report concerned with

Answer: Children and their primary school education


Context: Bedser | Sir Alec Bedser (1918–2010), Surrey and England cricketer, twin brother of Eric ; Alec Bedser (South African cricketer) (1948–1981), South African cricketer ; Eric Bedser (1918–2006), Surrey cricketer Bedser is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Prompt: England and Surrey cricketing twins Alec and Eric had what surname

Answer: Bedser


Context: Album (Joan Jett album) |  Album is the third studio album by Joan Jett and the second to feature her backing band The Blackhearts. The album was originally released in July 1983.

Prompt: What was the name of Joan Jett's backing group

Answer: The Blackhearts


Context: Eight-ender |  Another notable eight-ender occurred on January 22, 2011 at the MCA Bonspiel, the world's largest bonspiel. In this match Leskiw stole his eight points. In curling, when the team that does not have last rock in the end scores, the points scored are termed as stolen points. In this game, Leskiw managed an eight-ender even though Hamblin had the last rock, which gave him the opportunity to score or prevent Leskiw from scoring eight. In fact, Hamblin knocked Leskiw's eighth rock into the house with his final shot, turning a seven-point end into an eight-ender.

Prompt: If you had two eight enders in one bonspiel what are you playing

Answer: Curling sheet


Context: Culture of the United Kingdom | " Founded in 1824, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is the oldest and largest animal welfare organisation in the world. The British Shorthair cat is the most popular pedigreed breed in its native country, as registered by the UK's Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF). The breed's broad cheeks and relatively calm temperament make it a frequent media star. The cat's profile reads: ""When gracelessness is observed, the British Shorthair is duly embarrassed, quickly recovering with a 'Cheshire cat smile'”. There are almost one million horses and ponies in the UK, with popular native breeds including Clydesdale horse (used as drum horses by the British Household Cavalry), Thoroughbred (used in horse racing), Cleveland Bay (pull carriages in royal processions), "

Prompt: According to the Kennel Club what is the most popular pedigree dog in Britain

Answer: Labrador boundary dispute


Context: 1963 in Iceland | 14 November – The island of Surtsey is formed following a volcanic eruption off the coast of Iceland.

Prompt: What is the name of the island formed by volcanic action off the south coast of Iceland in 1963

Answer: Surtsey


Context: Scout Spirit | " This is the oft told story of the Unknown Scout used to exemplify Scout Spirit: And so 51-year-old William D. Boyce, newspaper and magazine publisher from Chicago, Illinois, met the founder of the Boy Scout movement, the British military hero, Lieutenant-General Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, and learned about Scouting from the chief Scout himself. On February 8, 1910, Boyce and a group of leaders founded the Boy Scouts of America. From that day forth, Scouts have celebrated February 8 as the birthday of Scouting in the United States. In the British Scout Training Centre at Gilwell Park, England, Scouts from the United States erected a statue of an American Buffalo in honor of this unknown Scout. The statue is inscribed, ""To the Unknown Scout Whose Faithfulness in the Performance of the Daily Good turn Brought the Scout Movement to the United States of America."""

Prompt: What do Boy Scouts call the anniversary of their founder's birth

Answer: World Thinking Day


Context: Holy Week |  Easter Day, which immediately follows Holy Week and begins with the Easter Vigil, is the great feast day and apogee of the Christian liturgical year: on this day the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated. It is the first day of the new season of the Great Fifty Days, or Eastertide, which runs from Easter Day to Pentecost Sunday. The Resurrection of Christ on Easter Day is the main reason why Christians keep every Sunday as the primary day of religious observance.

Prompt: In the Christian calendar what is the first day of Holy Week

Answer: Flowery Sunday


Context: Hotel thief |  room. Items can also be taken while a guest is distracted, for example when checking in. One of the most prolific hotel thieves was Ernest Le Ford, who stole thousands of dollars' worth of jewels from hotels in New York City in the early part of the twentieth century, including taking $8000 worth from a room at the Manhattan Square Hotel. Another nineteenth-century hotel thief successfully stole $60,000 worth of gold dust from a San Francisco hotel. Hotel guests can be considered as hotel thieves as well. CNN reported on a survey of 1,157 four- and five-star hoteliers, which items are stolen the most by guests. An astonishing 49 hotels reported that mattresses had been stolen from their premises.

Prompt: What did Albert Parkhouse invent that is one of the most stolen items from hotels

Answer: Wire coat hanger


Context: Huevos rancheros | infobox name: Huevos rancheros ; image: Ela huevos rancheros.jpg ; image_size: 250px ; country: Mexico ; course: Breakfast ; main_ingredient: Tortillas, eggs, tomato-chili sauce, refried beans, rice, avocado or guacamole

Prompt: What is the main ingredient of the Mexican breakfast dish huervos rancheros

Answer: Egg (biology)


Context: Finally (CeCe Peniston song) | " ""Finally"" is the 1991 debut single by American singer and songwriter CeCe Peniston from her debut album, Finally (1992). It became Peniston's first (and biggest) hit song, peaking at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1992 and becoming her only US top-ten hit to date. Prior to that, the track was a major success on the US Dance charts, where it spent two weeks at number one in late 1991. In addition, a dance remix of the song peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in March 1992. The remix appeared on many dance music compilations in the early 90s."

Prompt: What was the first top ten entry for Ce Ce Peniston (1992)

Answer: We Got a Love Thang


Context: Shooting target | 1 & 2 ring: White ; 3 & 4 ring: Black ; 5 & 6 ring: Blue ; 7 & 8 ring: Red ; 9, 10 & inner 10 (X) ring: Gold FITA targets are used in archery shooting competitions within the World Archery Federation. The targets have 10 evenly spaced concentric rings, generally with score values from 1 through 10. In addition there is an inner 10 ring, sometimes called the X ring. This becomes the 10 ring at indoor compound competitions, while outdoors, it serves as a tiebreaker with the archer scoring the most X's winning. The number of hits may also be taken into account as another tiebreaker. In FITA archery, targets are coloured as follows:

Prompt: Which colour scores the most on an archery target

Answer: Gold compound


Context: Single-lens reflex camera |  Prior to the development of SLR, all cameras with viewfinders had two optical light paths: one path through the lens to the film, and another path positioned above (TLR or twin-lens reflex) or to the side (rangefinder). Because the viewfinder and the film lens cannot share the same optical path, the viewing lens is aimed to intersect with the film lens at a fixed point somewhere in front of the camera. This is not problematic for pictures taken at a middle or longer distance, but parallax causes framing errors in close-up shots. Moreover, focusing the lens of a fast reflex camera when it is

Prompt: In photography, what sort of lens enables a speedy transition from long shots to close-ups

Answer: Optical zoom


Context: Cape Hattersley-Smith |  Cape Hattersley-Smith (-71.85°N, -61.06667°W) is a cape marked by a triangular rock peak at the southeast end of Condor Peninsula, 5 nmi southwest of Cape Knowles, on the Black Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. The cape was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service on December 30, 1940. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS)–Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition party from Stonington Island in November 1947 and was rephotographed by the U.S. Navy in 1966. The cape was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1984 after the British geologist Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith. Hattersley-Smith was FIDS base leader and glaciologist at Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands, 1948–49. In the period 1951–73 he was with the Defense Research Board of Canada doing field research in the Arctic. From 1973 he was with the British Antarctic Survey, and was Secretary of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, 1975–91. Hattersley-Smith was the author of The History of Place-names in the Falkland Islands Dependencies (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Cambridge, 1980, and The History of Place-names in the British Antarctic Territory, Cambridge, 1991.

Prompt: What is a Cape Triangular

Answer: South African postage stamp


Context: Television Centre, London |   Programmes have been interrupted by protesters gaining access to Television Centre. In 1988, a group of lesbian protestors campaigning against Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 gained access to the studio of the Six O'Clock News during a live broadcast. Newsreader Sue Lawley continued with the broadcast, while co-presenter Nicholas Witchell tackled the intruders off-camera. On 20 May 2006 during the live broadcast of National Lottery: Jet Set the studio was invaded by members of the Fathers 4 Justice campaign group, causing the show to go briefly off air while the protesters were removed. This was also a problem as that night's lottery broadcast ran straight into the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. For Question Time on 22 October 2009, the BBC invited the leader

Prompt: Which newsreader famously sat on a Lesbian when the Six O Clock News studio was invaded by protestors in the 1980s

Answer: Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell


Context: Pillars of Hercules |  The Pillars of Hercules (Columnae Herculis, {{lang-grc|Ἡράκλειαι Στῆλαι|{{#invoke:Ancient Greek|translit|Ἡράκλειαι Στῆλαι}}}}, أعمدة هرقل, Columnas de Hércules) was the phrase that was applied in Antiquity to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern Pillar, Calpe Mons, is the Rock of Gibraltar. A corresponding North African peak not being predominant, the identity of the southern Pillar, Abila Mons, has been disputed throughout history, with the two most likely candidates being Monte Hacho in Ceuta and Jebel Musa in Morocco.

Prompt: In which country is the southern pillar of Hercules

Answer: ISO 3166-1:MA


Context: Lake Balaton |  Lake Balaton (, Plattensee, Lacus Pelso, Blatno jezero, Blatenské jazero, Slovene: Blatno jezero) is a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalised Sió is the only outflow. The mountainous region of the northern shore is known both for its historic character and as a major wine region, while the flat southern shore is known for its resort towns. Balatonfüred and Hévíz developed early as resorts for the wealthy, but it was not until the late 19th century when landowners, ruined by Phylloxera attacking their grape vines, began building summer homes to rent out to the burgeoning middle classes.

Prompt: In which country is Lake Bala

Answer: Welsh nation


Context: Black Monday (1987) | " In Japan, the October 1987 crash is sometimes referred to as ""Blue Tuesday"", in part because of the time zone difference, and in part because its effects after the initial crash were relatively mild. In both places, according to economist Ulrike Schaede, the initial market break was severe: the Tokyo market declined 14.9% in one day, and Japan's losses of US$421 billion ranked next to New York's $500 billion, out of a worldwide total loss of $1.7 trillion. However, systemic differences between the US and Japanese financial systems led to significantly different outcomes during and after the crash on Tuesday, October 20. In Japan the ensuing panic was no more than mild at worst. The Nikkei 225 Index returned to its pre-crash levels after only five months. Other global markets performed less well in the aftermath of the crash, with New York, London and Frankfurt all needing more "

Prompt: How was Monday October 19, 1987 known in the world of finance

Answer: List of Black Mondays


Context: River Ely |  The River Ely (Afon Elái) is in South Wales flowing generally southeast, from Tonyrefail to Cardiff. The river is about 24 mi long. The Ely's numerous sources lie in the mountains to the south of Tonypandy, near the town of Tonyrefail, rising in the eastern slopes of Mynydd Penygraig (Penygraig) and Mynydd y Gilfach (Penrhiwfer) and the western slopes of Mynydd Dinas (Williamstown), whose eastern slopes feed the Rhondda by Porth. The source of the Ogwr Fach lies just to the west. After flowing through Tonyrefail and through the grounds of the Royal Glamorgan Hospital at Ynysmaerdy, it follows the A4119 road through the valley pass formed between Mynydd Garthmaelwg (Llantrisant Forest), to the west and Llantrisant, to the east. Flowing through Talbot Green, the

Prompt: On which river is the city of Ely

Answer: The Ouse


Context: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's heptathlon |  out of medal contention. Latvia's Laura Ikauniece-Admidina was the best of the round with 55.93 m, moving into fifth before the final event. Sofía Yfantídou of Greece was the other strong performer of the event with 54.57 m, moving her out of last place. At the start of the seventh event, Thiam had a 142-point lead worth nearly ten seconds for the 800 m. In the final race, Ennis-Hill took to the front and was on for a personal best at the halfway point, trailed by Theisen-Eaton, Johnson-Thompson and Ikauniece-Admidina. The Briton finished the race in first with 2:09.07 minutes (a season's best). Latvia's Ikauniece-Admidina had a personal best to finish second, but with Theisen-Eaton, close behind, she retained her bronze medal spot. Thiam ran her fifth lifetime best

Prompt: What is the fifth event in the heptathlon

Answer: Longjumper


Context: Cape Verde–European Union relations |  there have been similar situations before. Cyprus is an island nation that, despite being geographically in Asia, has already joined both the Council of Europe and the EU. Furthermore, the Cape Verde islands are part of the same archipelago as the Canary Islands (part of Spain), Madeira Islands (part of Portugal) and Azores Islands (part of Portugal), known as Macaronesia. There is currently no political recognition by the EU of Cape Verde as a European state. However, unlike in the case of Morocco, there is no formal rejection either. Complementing Cape Verde's efforts to join the EU, the Macaronesian group of islands (the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands) are throwing their support for their regional brethren. The Atlantic group of islands are pushing for an entrance of Cape Verde into the EU under a special status.

Prompt: Cape Verde was formerly a dependency of which European country

Answer: Portogało