Context: Culture of Sydney |  January each year. The annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race begins in Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day, whilst the climax of Australia's touring car racing series is the Bathurst 1000, held at the Mount Panorama Circuit near the city of Bathurst in the Western Plains. The Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival features the richest two-year-old horse race in the world, the Golden Slipper Stakes, which is run in April every year. The Medibank International tennis tournament is held in January prior to the Australian Open. The City to Surf foot race is held every August and is one of the largest timed foot races in the world.

Prompt: Which city is the destination of the yacht race which leaves Sydney every Boxing Day?

Answer: UN/LOCODE:AUHBA


Context: Blackthorn (cocktail) | " The blackthorn is another name for Prunus spinosa, the plant whose fruit is called ""sloes."" Those sloes are infused in gin to create sloe gin, which gives the gin version of the cocktail its name. The name Blackthorn/Blackthorne was assigned to several cocktails, nearly all of which used sloe gin as its base. The ""Blackthorne Sour"" was among the earliest and most widespread. In The 20th Century Guide for Mixing Fancy Drinks by James C. Maloney (1900) included a drink with sloe gin, apricot brandy, citrus juice and pineapple syrup. Variations were abound. Joe Fitchett's 1925 recipe omits pineapple syrup. Among the first printed versions of the cocktail is in the 1906 How to Mix Drinks. It has equal parts Italian vermouth and sloe "

Prompt: What is the common name for the fruit of the blackthorn?

Answer: Prunelle de Bourgogne


Context: Centralist Republic of Mexico |  The Pastry War was a war fought between Mexico and France that ran from 1838 to 1839, over damages to French shops from the 1828 riot in the upscale Parián market in central Mexico City. The French government demanded an extortionate amount of 600,000 pesos. In early 1838 the French Minister launched an ultimatum to the Government of Mexico from Veracruz: Mexico pay the claims of French nationals or its ports would be blockaded by the French fleet. Diplomatic relations were broken off on April 16, 1838, and began a French blockade of Mexican ports of Veracruz and Tampico. France sent Charles Baudin to negotiate a diplomatic exit with Mexico. Baudin conveyed a number of requests that were rejected by

Prompt: Between 1838 and 1839, against which country did France fight the so-called Pastry War?

Answer: Mexican Republic


Context: Fo Halloo | " Fo Halloo (""Underground"") was a militant Manx nationalist group active on the Isle of Man in the 1970s. The group conducted Manx graffiti and poster campaigns, published and distributed newsletters, and was also accused of conducting a number of arson attacks against the homes of English, non-Manx residents. An implication that the Celtic League was involved in the ""Manx underground"" activities was published by The Guardian in 1976; a refutation from the League chairman was eventually published a month later after ongoing efforts by the League."

Prompt: Which Isle of Man school's famously fiendish annual quiz is published in the Guardian?

Answer: King William's College


Context: Mordant | "  A mordant or dye fixative is a substance used to set (i.e. bind) dyes on fabrics by forming a coordination complex with the dye, which then attaches to the fabric (or tissue). It may be used for dyeing fabrics or for intensifying stains in cell or tissue preparations. Although mordants are still used, especially by small batch dyers, it has been largely displaced in industry by directs. The term mordant comes from the Latin mordere, ""to bite"". In the past, it was thought that a mordant helped the dye bite onto the fiber so that it would hold fast during washing. A mordant is often a polyvalent metal ion, often chromium(III). The resulting coordination complex of dye and ion is colloidal and can be either acidic or alkaline."

Prompt: Mordant is the general term for a chemical which allows what to work properly?

Answer: DYE


Context: Egremont, Cumbria |  Egremont's Crab Fair is held on the third Saturday in September annually, and features unusual events – such as the world-famous 'gurning' and greasy pole climbing. This fair is a major local event, with the town's high street being closed to normal traffic for street dancing and a parade, while sports such as Cumberland & Westmorland Wrestling are held on ground nearby. The fair's origins go back to 1267, and it is claimed to be one of the oldest fairs in the world. The Crab Fair did not take place during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is planned to return in 2022.

Prompt: Which town's Crab Fair features a world-famous face-pulling or "gurning" contest?

Answer: Egremont


Context: Betelgeuse |  Betelgeuse is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion. It is a distinctly reddish semiregular variable star whose apparent magnitude, varying between +0.0 and +1.6, has the widest range displayed by any first-magnitude star. At near-infrared wavelengths, Betelgeuse is the brightest star in the night sky. Its Bayer designation is α Orionis, Latinised to Alpha Orionis and abbreviated Alpha Ori or α Ori. Classified as a red supergiant of spectral type M1-2, Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. If it were at the center of our Solar System, its surface would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would

Prompt: Which constellation has, uniquely, in Rigel and Betelgeuse, two of the ten brightest stars?

Answer: Orion (music)


Context: 1916 Summer Olympics |  The 1916 Summer Olympics (Olympische Sommerspiele 1916), officially known as the Games of the VI Olympiad, were scheduled to be held in Berlin, German Empire, but were eventually cancelled for the first time in its 20-year history due to the outbreak of World War I. Berlin was selected as the host city during the 14th IOC Session in Stockholm on 4 July 1912, defeating bids from Alexandria, Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest and Cleveland. After the 1916 Games were cancelled, Berlin would eventually host the 1936 Summer Olympics, twenty years later.

Prompt: Had war not intervened, which city would have hosted the 1916 Olympics?

Answer: Berlin-Zentrum


Context: Obsolete Finnish units of measurement | "askel (pace) – Roughly one meter for an adult male—a rough but convenient way to measure distances while walking. ; hehto – hectoliter, 100 liters, potatoes ; kivenheitto (Throw of a rock) – 100 kyynärä (approx 50 m). Today to describe something to be very near. ; poronkusema – (approximately 7.5 km). A Sami measurement of distance; the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to stop to urinate. Today used to describe something that is at a very obscure distance away. ; Poronkusemaa kuukaudessa – (poronkusemas per month) similar to furlongs per fortnight, about 2.9 mm/s ; tusina – 12 ; toltti – 12 (lumber) ; tiu – 20 (eggs) ; puntti – 20 (matchboxes) ; kerpo – 31 (lampreys; 30 as a bunch and one for tying) ; krossi – 144 (items) ; kiihtelys – 40 (squirrel pelts) ; riisi – 500 (paper sheets) ; tonni – 1,000 (usually refers to 1,000 kg, but can refer also anything of 1,000, especially money) ; motti – 1 m3 (firewood or waste paper), also 1 dm3 in ""motin pullo"", a 1-litre bottle, usually of alcohol "

Prompt: Which now obsolete unit originated as the distance a person could walk in an hour?

Answer: League


Context: Chester Racecourse |   Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee, is officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest racecourse still in operation. Horse racing at Chester dates back to the early sixteenth century, with 1539 cited as the year racing began. It is also thought to be the smallest racecourse of significance in England at 1 mile and 1 furlong (1.8 km) long.

Prompt: Also called The Roodee, which, officially, is Britain's oldest and shortest racecourse?

Answer: County Borough of Chester


Context: The Bridge (2011 TV series) |  The Bridge (Broen ; Bron ) is a Nordic noir crime television series created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt. A joint creative and financed production between Sweden's Sveriges Television and Denmark's Danmarks Radio, it has been shown in more than 100 countries. The first series begins with the discovery of a dead body exactly on the Denmark–Sweden border, the centre of the Øresund Bridge, which links Malmö with Copenhagen, necessitating a joint investigation. Sofia Helin, as the Swedish police detective Saga Norén, stars in all four series. In the first and second, her Danish counterpart, Martin Rohde, is played by Kim Bodnia, and in the

Prompt: "Scandicrime" drama The Bridge is mainly set in Copenhagen and in which Swedish city?

Answer: Municipality of Malmoe


Context: Cefn Blaenau |  boltonii), broad-bodied chaser (Libellula depressa), four-spotted chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata), southern hawker (Aeshna cyanea), common hawker (Aeshna juncea), black-tailed skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum), common darter (Sympetrum striolatum), and black darter (Sympetrum danae); damselflies include the large red (Pyrrhosoma nymphula), azure (Coenagrion puella), emerald (Lestes sponsa), common blue (Enallagma cyathigerum), blue-tailed (Ischnura elegans), scarce blue-tailed (Ischnura pumilio), and beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo). The area is home to a good population of mustelids, such as badger, otter, weasel, stoat, polecat, and pine marten. Brown hares are also present. The site is under private ownership and there is no public access, except with the permission of the owners.

Prompt: Which group of large insects includes hawkers and darters, named for their flying styles?

Answer: Dragonfly


Context: Collegiate church |  appropriated churches, which reverted to normal parish status. The chapel of Merton College, Oxford, however, continued to serve as a collegiate church until 1891; just as the chapel of Christ Church, Oxford doubles as the cathedral of Oxford; while the chapel of Eton College serves as the parish church of Eton to this day. The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, though never collegiate in the medieval period, maintained a choral foundation for collegiate worship after the Reformation in association with the Magnus Bequest, an arrangement that continued till 1901. Otherwise, twelve colleges survived the Reformation in England and Wales in nominal form. In some cases these were refoundations under

Prompt: Which college's chapel doubles as Oxford's cathedral?

Answer: Christ Church


Context: List of secular humanists | Thom Yorke: English musician and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Radiohead.

Prompt: Which "Thom" is Radiohead's lead singer and principal songwriter?

Answer: Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry


Context: List of people and organisations frequently parodied by Private Eye | " Edward Heath gained the nickname ""The Grocer"" from his role in negotiations over the EEC food policies during the Macmillan/Home administrations. When elected Prime Minister he was portrayed as a hopeless waffler, mostly interested in sailing his yacht Morning Cloud, and ignoring the corruption of colleagues such as Reginald Maudling. Heath's unusual status as a bachelor prime minister also gave rise to homosexual innuendo. ; The Falklands war and the high levels of unemployment in 1980s Britain were the two subjects for which Margaret Thatcher received most criticism. She was also the subject of an ironic piece where she was described as ""bewitching... sexual and political power combine to create the perfect woman."" "

Prompt: Which former British PM was christened "Grocer" by Private Eye?

Answer: Sir Edward Heath


Context: Rail transport in Spain | "Renfe Operadora is a state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains on the ""Iberian gauge"",  standard gauge and  rail networks of the Spanish nationalized infrastructure company ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias). Both were formed from the break-up of the former national carrier RENFE (Spanish: Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, ""Spanish National Railway Network"") and subsequently of FEVE (Ferrocarriles Españoles de Vía Estrecha, ""Narrow-Gauge Spanish Railways""). ; EuskoTren (Eusko Trenbideak, Spanish: Ferrocarriles Vascos, ""Basque Railways"") operates trains on part of the narrow gauge railway network in the Basque Country. ; FGC (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, ""Catalan Government Railways"") operates several unconnected lines in Catalonia. It operates 140 km of narrow gauge, 42 km of standard gauge, and 89 km of Iberian gauge routes, two "

Prompt: Which European country's national rail network is known as RENFE?

Answer: Islands of Spain


Context: Morphology (linguistics) | " in the language. In English, there are word form pairs like ox/oxen, goose/geese, and sheep/sheep, where the difference between the singular and the plural is signaled in a way that departs from the regular pattern, or is not signaled at all. Even cases regarded as regular, such as -s, are not so simple; the -s in dogs is not pronounced the same way as the -s in cats; and, in plurals such as dishes, a vowel is added before the -s. These cases, where the same distinction is effected by alternative forms of a ""word"", constitute allomorphy. Phonological rules constrain which sounds can appear next to each "

Prompt: If dogs are canine and cats feline, what adjective is used for geese?

Answer: Beta-alanyl-N(pi)-methyl-L-histidine


Context: The Darling Buds of May (TV series) | " The Larkin family lives on a farm in rural England, in the county of Kent. Sidney (""Pop"") and his common law wife Florence (""Ma"") have six children, eldest daughter Mariette, followed by their only son Montgomery, and other daughters Primrose, twins Zinnia and Petunia, and Victoria. Ma is a housewife while Pop supplements his farm income with various other not entirely legitimate enterprises. Tax collector Cedric (""Charley"") visits to audit Pop, but falls in love with Mariette and quits his job to live the rural life. As Ma and Pop raise their other children, Charley attempts to provide for his now wife Mariette. Ma and Pop soon have a seventh child, Oscar, followed around a year later by Charley "

Prompt: 'The Darling Buds of May' is set in which English county?

Answer: K249DR


Context: List of games on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue | " not usually considered a melody instrument, more usually being employed for special effects (such as the voices of the Clangers). Typically, the kazoo player can hold the tune, thus keeping the performance together, while the swanee whistle produces a deranged version, often only hitting the right note by accident. It is typical, therefore, for the swanee whistle player to take the bulk of the performance. Possibly the most extensive use of the swanee whistle was the last in the summer 2006 series, where it was used almost exclusively to perform the melody for ""Tequila"", the kazoo (played by Barry Cryer) being used to supply the ""Tequila!"""

Prompt: A swanee whistle was used to provide the voices of whom, in an animated tv series?

Answer: The Soup Dragon


Context: Victoria Coren Mitchell |  On 20 March 2012, Coren announced her engagement to actor and comedian David Mitchell. According to Mitchell, they first met at a film premiere in 2007, and had a short-lived series of dates, but only began dating properly three years later. The couple married in November 2012, in north London, and their daughter was born in May 2015.

Prompt: Victoria Coren, as she then was, married whom in November 2012?

Answer: Dave Mitchell (disambiguation)


Context: Richard Ellis (English cricketer) | infobox country: England ; fullname: Richard Gary Peter Ellis ; birth_date: December 20, 1960 ; birth_place: Paddington, London, England ; batting: Right-handed ; bowling: Right-arm off break ; family: Peter Ellis (father) ; club1: Hertfordshire ; year1: 1993–1994 ; club2: Gloucestershire ; year2: 1985 ; club3: Middlesex ; year3: 1982–1984 ; club4: Oxford University ; year4: 1981–1983 ; columns: 2 ; column1: First-class ; matches1: 40 ; runs1: 2,020 ; bat avg1: 28.85 ; top score1: 105* ; deliveries1: 516 ; wickets1: 5 ; bowl avg1: 54.20 ; fivefor1: – ; tenfor1: – ; best bowling1: 2/40 ; column2: List A ; matches2: 26 ; runs2: 310 ; bat avg2: 12.91 ; top score2: 52 ; deliveries2: 5 ; wickets2: – ; bowl avg2: – ; fivefor2: – ; tenfor2: – ; best bowling2: – ; date: 7 December ; year: 2011 ; source: http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12571.html Cricinfo

Prompt: Which England cricketer was born of Anglo-Welsh parents on Christmas Day 1984?

Answer: ALASTAIR COOK


Context: List of Futurama characters |  Leela (full name Turanga Leela) is the female lead of the series. She is a one-eyed mutant who Fry meets after waking up 1000 years in the future. Originally working as a career assignment officer for cryo-preserved people waking up in the future, Leela quits her job after meeting Fry, joining him and Bender at Planet Express where she becomes the delivery ship's captain. She is one of the few characters in the cast to routinely display competence and the ability to command, and routinely saves the rest of the cast from disaster, but suffers extreme self-doubt because she has only one eye and grew up as a bullied orphan. She first believes herself an alien but later is revealed to be the least-mutated sewer mutant in the history of 31st-century Earth. Leela is also an environmentalist. The series also follows the relationship between Fry and Leela, as they start off as friends but later develop feelings for one another. Leela is voiced by Katey Sagal.

Prompt: What is the name of the one-eyed mutant and important character in 'Futurama'?

Answer: Leela (disambiguation)


Context: Goliath |  Original story ; The Israelites and Philistines face each other; Goliath makes his challenge to single combat; ; David volunteers to fight Goliath; ; David selects five smooth stones from a creek-bed to be used in his sling; ; David defeats Goliath, the Philistines flee the battlefield. ; Additions ; David is sent by his father to bring food to his brothers, hears the challenge, and expresses his desire to accept; ; Details of the account of the battle; ; Saul asks who David is, and he is introduced to the king through Abner. The Books of Samuel, together with the books of Joshua, Judges and Kings, make up a unified

Prompt: When David killed Goliath, how many of his five stones did he use?

Answer: One (EP)


Context: Elizabeth David bibliography | " shan't – my Christmas Day eating and drinking would consist of an omelette and cold ham and a nice bottle of wine at lunchtime, and a smoked salmon sandwich with a glass of champagne on a tray in bed in the evening."" The pattern of the book follows that of earlier ones, with recipes interspersed with more discursive essays on subjects such as avocado pears, persimmons, historical menus, and Christmas hampers, and extracts from prose by writers whom David admired, including Sybille Bedford and George Eliot. The book was published by Michael Joseph. An American edition was published by David R. Godine, Boston, in 2008."

Prompt: What bird did Good Queen Bess decree should be eaten at Christmas?

Answer: GOOSE


Context: Shakespearean fool | " ; Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing ; Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors ; Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors ; Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 ; Feste in Twelfth Night – One of Shakespeare's most multi-faceted clowns, Feste is employed by Olivia, but is equally at home in Orsino's house. Feste, the ""wise fool,"" provides more than wit or entertainment, and is in fact the voice for the play's most important themes. Detached from particular loyalties, he can be trusted to speak truth not only to the other characters but also to the audience. "

Prompt: In which of Shakespeare's plays does the fool Feste appear?

Answer: Twelth Night


Context: Captain Pugwash |  Captain Pugwash's fearsome arch-enemy, captain of the Flying Dustman (a pun on the Flying Dutchman combined with a reference to the occupation of dustman). When he is not scheming to bring about Pugwash's downfall, he is a rather more competent pirate than his enemy, and always seems to have plenty of treasure. He speaks with a stereotypical West Country accent, and is easily recognisable by his eye patch and enormous black beard.

Prompt: Who was Captain Pugwash's bitter enemy?

Answer: Cut-Throat Jake


Context: History of measurement |  The Egyptian cubit, the Indus Valley units of length referred to above and the Mesopotamian cubit were used in the 3rd millennium BC and are the earliest known units used by ancient peoples to measure length. The units of length used in ancient India included the dhanus, or dhanush (bow), the krosa (cry, or cow-call) and the yojana (stage). The common cubit was the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was divided into the span of the hand or the length between the tip of little finger to the tip of the thumb (one-half cubit), the

Prompt: What is widely accepted to be the earliest known unit of length?

Answer: Royal cubit


Context: Emilia Fox |  Granada's Henry VIII (2003), BBC's Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004), the 2005 BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen (2005) and the ITV crime drama series Fallen Angel (2007). She also appeared as Morgause in the BBC's Merlin, beginning in the programme's second series. Fox also starred in Delicious (2016). She stars as Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama Silent Witness, having joined the cast in 2004 following the departure of Amanda Burton. Fox is the longest serving cast member since the departures of Tom Ward in 2012 and William Gaminara in 2013. Fox has currently played the role of Nikki for 16 years. In Britain, Fox has performed in plays with high-profile actors such as Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Jared Harris and Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes.

Prompt: Who plays Dr Nikki Alexander in the BBC's crime drama Silent Witness?

Answer: Rose Gilley


Context: 1960s in fashion | " Women's hair styles ranged from beehive hairdos in the early part of the decade to the very short styles popularized by Twiggy and Mia Farrow just five years later to a very long straight style as popularized by the hippies in the late 1960s. Between these extremes, the chin-length contour cut and the pageboy were also popular. The pillbox hat was fashionable, due almost entirely to the influence of Jacqueline Kennedy, who was a style-setter throughout the decade. Her bouffant hairstyle, described as a ""grown-up exaggeration of little girls' hair"", was created by Kenneth. During the mid and late 1960s, women's hair styles became very big and used a large quantity of hair spray, as worn in real life by Ronnie Spector and parodied in the musical Hairspray. Wigs became fashionable and were often worn to add style and height. The most important change in hairstyles at this time was that men and women wore androgynous styles that resembled each other. In the UK, it was the new fashion for mod women to cut their hair short and close to their heads. Meanwhile, hippie girls favored long, straight natural hair, kept in place with a bandana."

Prompt: What construction of nature inspired a 1960s women's hairdo?

Answer: Bee hives


Context: Brindisi (music) | " which a company is exhorted to drink, a drinking song. The word is Italian, but it derives from an old German phrase, (ich) bringe dir's – ""(I) offer it to you"", which at one time was used to introduce a toast. The transformation of that phrase into the current Italian word may have been influenced by similar-sounding name of the Italian city of Brindisi, but otherwise the city and the term are etymologically unrelated. The term brindisi is often used in opera. Typically, in an operatic brindisi, one character introduces a toast with a solo melody and the full ensemble later joins in the refrain. Some well-known operatic numbers labeled brindisi are: "

Prompt: What kind of song is a Brindisi?

Answer: Drink, Drink, Drink


Context: Star polygons in art and culture | In heraldry, a mullet is a star with straight arms and typically five points. A star with wavy rather than straight rays is called an estoile. The mullet, used as an heraldic charge, is the ensign of knightly rank, and every order of knighthood incorporates this symbol in some way. It has traditionally been used in British heraldry as a mark of cadency for the third son. ; In Christian art, St. Bruno bears a star on his breast; Saint Dominic, Saint Humbert and Saint Peter of Alcantara have a star on their head or forehead. ; The star with six (or less commonly five, sometimes seven) points is associated with law enforcement in the United States, and forms the basis of the sheriff's badge.

Prompt: What is a 'mullet' on a coat of arms?

Answer: Stellar diameter


Context: Charge (heraldry) |  resting positions. Additionally, birds are frequently described by the position of their wings. A few other attitudes warrant discussion, including those particular to fish, serpents, griffins and dragons. The principal attitude of beasts is rampant (i.e. standing on one hind leg with forepaws raised as if to climb or mount - sometimes including an erect member). Beasts also frequently appear walking, passant or, in the case of stags and the occasional unicorn, trippant, and may appear statant (standing), salient or springing (leaping), sejant (seated), couchant or lodged (lying prone with head raised), or occasionally dormant (sleeping). The principal attitude of birds, namely the eagle, is displayed (i.e. facing the viewer with the head turned toward dexter and wings raised and upturned to show

Prompt: If a creature or figure is described as 'trippant' what is it doing?

Answer: Running event


Context: Pierre |  founder of the modern Olympic Games ; Pierre Courthion (1902–1988), Swiss art critic and historian ; Pierre Curie, a French physicist and husband of Marie Curie ; Pierre Dagher, a Lebanese actor and voice actor ; Pierre Darmon (born in 1934), a French tennis player ; Pierre de Fermat, a French lawyer and mathematician ; Pierre Deladonchamps, a French actor ; Pierre Deland, a Swedish actor and director ; Pierre Pelerin de Maricourt, a French scholar ; Pierre Deligne, a Belgian mathematician ; Pierre Dolbeault, a French mathematician ; Pierre Fourier, a Catholic saint and French priest ; Pierre

Prompt: Which Frenchman was the founder of the modern games?

Answer: Pierre de Coubertin


Context: Little Plum | " Leo Baxendale created Little Plum in 1953 as a puny cartoon character in a dangerous cartoon world. It first appeared in issue 586, dated 10 October 1953. The comic strip employed a caricature of English language spoken by American Indians, notably replacing the word ""the"" with ""um"". Baxendale dreamed him up claiming he was a mixture of Hiawatha and Dennis the Menace and gave him into the editing team. Unsure of the name, Baxendale gave it in to the then Beano editor under the working title 'Booster' before the strip was officially titled 'Little Plum, Your Redskin Chum'. They consisted of Plum, a ten-year-old member of the Smellyfoot tribe and the misadventures he got up to trying to prove himself a valuable member. After Baxendale left The Beano in 1962, Robert Nixon drew a few strips before Ron Spencer took over that same year. The strip originally finished in 1986, but it continued to appear in the Beano annuals up to 1994, and reappeared for a short time in 1998 under the name 'The Legend of Little Plum', drawn by Tom Paterson."

Prompt: Who was the Beano's Redskin Chum?

Answer: Little Plum


Context: Greenwich armour | " form a suit for either mounted combat such as jousting, or combat on foot in the tournament. A garniture would typically include a full plate harness plus an extra visor specially meant for tilting; a burgonet helmet which would be worn open-faced for a parade or ceremony, or with a removable ""falling-buffe"" visor for combat; a grandguard, which would reinforce the upper portion of the torso and neck for jousting; a passguard, which would reinforce the arm; and a manifer, a large gauntlet to protect the hand. It might also include a shaffron, which would cover the head of the knight's horse, and a set of decorated saddle steels."

Prompt: What is worn around the neck in a 'gurning' contest?

Answer: Horsecollar


Context: Ercolano |  Vittorio Emanuele II inaugurated the open-air excavations of Herculaneum. In 1880 the funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius was inaugurated, and the event inspired the world-famous Neapolitan song Funiculì, Funiculà. The funicular was repeatedly wrecked by volcanic eruptions and abandoned after the eruption of 1944. Since 1904 the Circumvesuviana railway operated from Naples to Castellammare di Stabia with a station in Resina-Pugliano, close to the Basilica of Santa Maria a Pugliano and the funicular to Mount Vesuvius. In 1927 King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy inaugurated the new entrance of the archaeological site of Herculaneum on the Miglio d’Oro, and a new street was opened some years later to join

Prompt: A transport project on Mount Vesuvius inspired which operatic song?

Answer: Funicoli funicola


Context: Tincture | " for nitric acid (but ""sweet spirit of nitre"" was ethyl nitrite) ; Similarly ""spirit(s) of salt"" actually meant hydrochloric acid. The concentrated, fuming, 35% acid is still sold under this name in the UK, for use as a drain-cleaning fluid. ; ""Spirit of vinegar"" is an antiquated term for glacial acetic acid ; ""Spirit of vitriol"" is an antiquated term for sulfuric acid ; ""Spirit of wine"" or ""spirits of wine"" is an old term for alcohol (especially food grade alcohol derived from the distillation of wine) ; ""Spirit of wood"" referred to methanol, often derived from the destructive distillation of wood Some examples that were formerly common in medicine include: Examples of spirits include:"

Prompt: Which acid has the alternative name 'spirits of salt'?

Answer: Mauratic Acid


Context: Lara Lewington |  Lewington married financial journalist and broadcaster Martin Lewis in May 2009. They have one daughter born in 2012.

Prompt: The husband of Lara Lewington, In which field is Martin Lewis a TV expert?

Answer: Equipment financing


Context: Mackerel sky |  A mackerel sky is a common term for clouds made up of rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds displaying an undulating, rippling pattern similar in appearance to fish scales; this is caused by high altitude atmospheric waves. Cirrocumulus appears almost exclusively with cirrus some way ahead of a warm front and is a reliable forecaster that the weather is about to change. When these high clouds progressively invade the sky and the barometric pressure begins to fall, precipitation associated with the disturbance is likely about 6 to 12 hours away. A thickening and lowering of cirrocumulus into middle-étage altostratus or altocumulus is a good sign that the warm front or low front has moved closer and it may start raining within less than six hours. The old

Prompt: What kind of clouds produce a 'Mackeral Sky'?

Answer: Cirrocumulus cloud


Context: Gene Hackman | " Hackman appeared with Anne Archer in Narrow Margin (1990), a remake of the 1952 film The Narrow Margin. In 1992, he played the sadistic sheriff ""Little"" Bill Daggett in the Western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples. Hackman had pledged to avoid violent roles, but Eastwood convinced him to take the part, which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor. The film also won Best Picture. In 1993, he appeared in Geronimo: An American Legend as Brigadier General George Crook, and co-starred with Tom Cruise as a corrupt lawyer in The Firm, a legal thriller based on the John Grisham novel of the same name. Hackman would appear in a second film based on a John Grisham "

Prompt: Who played the sadistic sheriff in the Clint Eastwood directed film Unforgiven?

Answer: Gene hackman


Context: Pretty Baby (Tony Jackson song) | " In 2008, British soap opera EastEnders long-time character Dot Branning had the show's first monologue episode, during which she starts singing ""Pretty Baby"" and telling the tape recorder (for her sick husband, Jim Branning) about her childhood, saying the song was always sung for her as a child by her beloved uncle."

Prompt: Which EastEnders character did a full-programme monologue in 2008?

Answer: Dot Cotton/Branning


Context: Philtrum | " The philtrum (philtrum from Ancient Greek phíltron, lit. ""love charm"" ), or medial cleft, is a vertical indentation in the middle area of the upper lip, common to many mammals, extending in humans from the nasal septum to the tubercle of the upper lip. Together with a glandular rhinarium and slit-like nostrils, it is believed to constitute the primitive condition for at least therian mammals. Monotremes lack a philtrum, though this could be due to the specialised, beak-like jaws in living species."

Prompt: The Philtrum is located precisely where on the human body?

Answer: Between nose and upper lip


Context: Goddess of Yesterday |   He is a generous to a fault and does not appear to be swayed by his wife's beauty. ; Helen - The queen of Sparta, the wife of Menelaus, said to be born from Zeus when he took the form of a swan to seduce Helen's mother. She is cruel and coldhearted except when she is openly adored, thus her unhappiness when Menelaus does not appear to be in thrall of her beauty.  She falls in love with Paris, a prince of Troy, and revels in the war that will be waged for her sake.  Though she takes her infant son

Prompt: Who was the faithless wife of King Menelaus of Sparta?

Answer: Helena Troy


Context: The Wild Bunch |  In 1913 Texas, Pike Bishop, the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, dressed as soldiers, is seeking retirement after one final score: the robbery of a railroad office containing a cache of silver. The gang is ambushed by Pike's former partner, Deke Thornton, who is leading a posse of bounty hunters hired and deputized by the railroad. A bloody shootout kills more than half of the gang. Pike uses a serendipitous temperance union parade to shield their getaway, and many citizens are killed in the crossfire. Pike rides off with Dutch Engstrom, brothers Lyle and Tector Gorch, and Angel, the only survivors. They are dismayed when the loot from the robbery turns out to

Prompt: Pike Bishop led which gang of film desperados?

Answer: The Wild Bunch


Context: Shelbourne Road |  In 1904, James Joyce rented the front upstairs room of No. 60 Shelbourne Road from a family called McKernan for a short period. It was from this house that, on 16 June 1904, he set out for a rendezvous with Nora Barnacle, later to be his wife. He commemorated this date by choosing it as the day on which the action of his novel, Ulysses, takes place. The 16 June is now frequently referred to as 'Bloomsday'. Farrington, the protagonist of Joyce's short story, Counterparts, alighted from a tram at Shelbourne Road and he steered his great body along in the shadows of the wall of the barracks as he made his way home, possibly to No. 60 Shelbourne Road.

Prompt: What is the significance of 16th June 1904?

Answer: Day on which Ulysses is set


Context: Sheridan Le Fanu | "Uncle Silas (1864), a macabre mystery novel and classic of gothic horror. It is a much-extended adaptation of his earlier short story ""Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess"", with the setting changed from Ireland to England. A film version under the same name was made by Gainsborough Studios in 1947, and a remake entitled The Dark Angel, starring Peter O'Toole as the title character, was made in 1987. ; In a Glass Darkly (1872), a collection of five short stories in the horror and mystery genres, presented as the posthumous papers of the occult detective Dr Hesselius: ; ""Green Tea"", a haunting narrative of a man plagued by a demonic monkey. ; ""The Familiar"", a slightly revised version of Le Fanu's "

Prompt: Who wrote the collection of Gothic horror stories entitled In A Glass Darkly in 1872?

Answer: Joseph Lefanu


Context: Robert D. Cabana | " STS-41 Discovery launched on October 6, 1990 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on October 10, 1990. During 66 orbits of the Earth, the five-man crew successfully deployed the Ulysses spacecraft, starting the interplanetary probe on its four-year journey, via Jupiter, to investigate the polar regions of the Sun; operated the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet instrument (SSBUV) to map atmospheric ozone levels; activated a controlled ""fire in space"" experiment (the Solid Surface Combustion Experiment, or SSCE); and conducted numerous other middeck experiments involving radiation measurements, polymer membrane production, and microgravity effects on plants. STS-53 Discovery launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on December 2, 1992. The crew of five deployed the classified Department of Defense payload DOD-1 and then performed several Military-Man-in-Space and "

Prompt: What was placed in Earth's orbit by Discovery in 1990?

Answer: Hubble Space telescope


Context: Colchis | " II the King of Urartu, inscribed his victory over Qulḫa on a stele; however, the exact location of Qulḫa is disputed. Some scholars argue the name Qulḫa (Colchís) originally referred to a land to the west of Georgia. Others argue Qulḫa may have been located in the south, near modern Göle, Turkey. According to the scholar of Caucasian studies Cyril Toumanoff: ""Colchis appears as the first Caucasian State to have achieved the coalescence of the newcomer. Colchis can be justly regarded as not a proto-Georgian, but a Georgian (West Georgian) kingdom. ... It would seem natural to seek the beginnings of Georgian social "

Prompt: Which sought-after item was situated in the kingdom of Colchis?

Answer: Golden Fleece (disambiguation)


Context: Yassi Ada |  Finds from the site include 1,100 amphorae in three different styles. The first style has a well-fired texture, is reddish-brown in color, and is estimated to hold 37–40 litres. The second is similar in pattern and design to the first, but its body is more cylindrical. The third style, the smallest, is estimated to hold 13.7–14.4 litres. Its base is round, with a button in the centre. The color is orange-brown.

Prompt: Which headgear actually only holds about three litres?

Answer: 10 gallon hat


Context: Rank in Judo | " Practitioners of Judo (柔道家) are ranked according to skill and knowledge of the art. Their rank is indicated by the colour of belt that they wear. There are two broad categories of rank: those who have attained a level of competency at which they are considered worthy of a black belt (黒帯) and who hold dan (段) grades and those who are yet to attain that level and who hold kyū (級) grades. Those who hold dan grades are collectively termed Yūdansha (有段者) (literally ""person who has dan"") and those with kyū grades are Mudansha (無段者), literally ""person without dan"". This ranking system was introduced by Kanō Jigorō, the founder of judo, in 1883. However, the current system is not the original one, but based on Kanō's last system introduced between 1926-1931, with some modification shortly after Kanō's death in 1938. The first dan "

Prompt: What are the grades of proficiency in judo called?

Answer: Dansereau


Context: Siege Perilous | "  In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous (Gwarchae Peryglus, also known as The Perilous Seat, Welsh: Sedd Peryglus) is a vacant seat at the Round Table reserved by Merlin for the knight who would one day be successful in the quest for the Holy Grail. The English word ""siege"" originally meant ""seat"" or ""throne"" coming from the Old French sege (modern French siège); the modern military sense of a prolonged assault comes from the conception of an army ""sitting down"" before a fortress. In Thomas Malory's 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur, in an account taken from the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal, the newly knighted Sir Galahad takes the seat in Camelot on Whitsunday, 454 years after the death of Jesus. The Siege Perilous is so strictly reserved that it is fatal to anyone else "

Prompt: The Siege Perilous was a vacant seat at what?

Answer: List of the Knights of the Round Table


Context: July 1917 | "Dutch dancer Mata Hari appeared on trial in Paris for spying for Germany with information passed on that caused the death of 50,000 French troops, even though both French and British intelligence could produce little evidence of actual espionage. The high-profile nature of the trial suggested the Georges Clemenceau government was determined to create a public scapegoat to bolster morale following the French Army mutinies in June. ; The Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was founded as the shipbuilding arm of U.S. Steel, supplying ships to the United States Shipping Board for use in World War I. ; Born: Henri Betti, French composer and pianist, best known for his collaborations with Maurice Chevalier and hit songs ""C'est si bon"", in Nice (d. 2005); Robert Farnon, Canadian composer, recipient of the Order of Canada, known for film scores for Captain Horatio Hornblower and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, and collaborations with Lena Horne, Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughan, in Toronto (d. 2005); Leonor Orosa-Goquingco, Filipino dancer, pioneer in introducing and promoting Filipino traditional dance to the international scene, in Jolo, Sulu, Philippines (d. 2005); Simon Slåttvik, Norwegian skier, gold medalist in the 1952 Winter Olympics, in Straumsnes, Fauske, Norway (d. 2001) "

Prompt: Who was shot for spying by the French in 1917?

Answer: Margareth Geertruda Zelle


Context: Robert Hubert |   Robert Hubert (c. 1640 – 27 October 1666) was a watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.

Prompt: Robert Hubert was hanged for confessing to what?

Answer: Starting the Great Fire


Context: Depth gauge |  The Bourdon tube depth gauge consists of a curved tube made of elastic metal, known as a Bourdon tube. Water pressure on the tube may be on the inside or the outside depending on the design. When the pressure increases, the tube stretches, and when it decreases the tube recovers to the original curvature. This movement is transferred to a pointer by a system of gears or levers, and the pointer may have an auxiliary trailing pointer which is pushed along but does not automatically return with the main pointer, which can mark the maximum depth reached. Accuracy can be good. When carried by the diver, these gauges measure the pressure difference directly between the ambient water and the sealed internal air space of the gauge, and therefore can be influenced by temperature changes.

Prompt: What is measured by a Bourdon Gauge?

Answer: Manometric unit


Context: Nationality Rooms | " Carved in the architrave above the paneling are the names of famous philosophers, poets, musicians, artists, and scientists. The intarsia doors of the four corner cabinets feature tales from German folklore including Parsifal who searched for the Holy Grail, Siegfried who was the hero of the Nibelungenlied, the maiden wooed in Goethe's poem Heidenröslein, and Lorelei who was the golden-haired Rhine maiden whose song lured sailors to destruction. Painted on the escutcheon above the front blackboard are words from Friedrich Schiller's Das Ideal und das Leben, ""Stern endeavor, which no arduous task can shake, to the hidden fount of true attains."" The rear wall has a quotation from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Was wir bringen which "

Prompt: Who lured sailors on the Rhine to their deaths with her singing?

Answer: Lorelei


Context: Gertrude (Hamlet) |  In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent, since he resents her marrying her husband's brother Claudius after he murdered the king (young Hamlet's father, King Hamlet). Gertrude reveals no guilt in her marriage with Claudius after the recent murder of her husband, and Hamlet begins to show signs of jealousy towards Claudius. According to Hamlet, she scarcely mourned her husband's death before marrying Claudius. Her name may derive from Gertrude of Bavaria, who was Queen of Denmark in the late 12th century.

Prompt: In Shakespeare's play what is the name of Hamlet's mother?

Answer: Gertrude


Context: South Wales Police |  South Wales Police (Heddlu De Cymru) is one of the four territorial police forces in Wales; the largest in Wales by strength and population served, and the seventh largest in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Bridgend. The force was formed as South Wales Constabulary on 1 June 1969, by the amalgamation of the former Glamorgan Constabulary, Cardiff City Police, Swansea Borough Police and Merthyr Tydfil Borough Police. In 1974, with the reorganisation of local government, the force's area was expanded to cover the newly created counties of Mid, South and West Glamorgan. In 1996, the force adopted its current name and lost the Rhymney Valley area to Gwent Police due to further local government reorganisation. Today, the force serves the principal areas of Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea and the Vale of Glamorgan – most of the ancient county of Glamorgan.

Prompt: Where are the police called heddlu?

Answer: Welsh nation


Context: Joel Chandler Harris | " featured a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit (Brother Rabbit), who used his wits against adversity, though his efforts did not always succeed. Br'er Rabbit is a direct interpretation of Yoruba tales of Hare, though some others posit Native American influences as well. The scholar Stella Brewer Brookes asserts, ""Never has the trickster been better exemplified than in the Br'er Rabbit of Harris."" Br'er Rabbit was accompanied by friends and enemies, such as Br'er Fox, Br'er Bear, Br'er Terrapin, and Br'er Wolf. The stories represented a significant break from the fairy tales of the Western tradition: instead of a singular event in a singular "

Prompt: Who gets Brer Rabbit in a terrible tangle in the stories by Joel Chandler Harris?

Answer: The Wax Girl and Tar-Baby


Context: Conchiglie | " Conchiglie, commonly known as ""shells"" or ""seashells"", is a type of pasta. It is usually sold in the plain durum wheat variety, and also in colored varieties which use natural pigments, such as tomato extract, squid ink or spinach extract. The shell shape of the pasta allows the sauce to adhere to it. A miniature variety called conchigliette is also available."

Prompt: What shape is the pasta known as 'conchiglie'?

Answer: Sea Shells


Context: George Clooney | " In November 2021, Clooney wrote an op-ed to British tabloid The Daily Mail, petitioning them to stop publishing photos of his children, highlighting that his wife is an international lawyer who works ""confronting and putting on trial terrorist groups"" and that the tabloid was endangering their lives. In 2014, Clooney had rejected an apology from the Daily Mail for printing a false story, calling the Mail, the ""worst kind of tabloid."""

Prompt: Which American called the Daily Mail 'the worst kind of tabloid'?

Answer: Max (pig)


Context: Hajj | "  The Hajj (حَجّ Ḥajj ""pilgrimage""; sometimes also spelled Hadj, Hadji or Haj in English) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and of supporting their family during their absence from home. In Islamic terminology, Hajj is a pilgrimage made to the Kaaba, the ""House of God"", in the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, alongside Shahadah, Salat, Zakat and Sawm or fasting "

Prompt: What does the Islamic term Hadj signify?

Answer: Hajj flights


Context: Margaret Sanger Clinic |  staircase. The house was built about 1846 to a design by Edward Mesier. Margaret Sanger opened her first birth control clinic, the Clinical Research Bureau, in 1916, in a building on Amboy Street in Brooklyn that is no longer standing. It was next quartered in rented rooms on West 15th Street, and purchased this building in 1930 as its first permanent home. Sanger and her clinic were instrumental in fundamentally altering how Americans talked about sex, venereal diseases, and contraception. The clinic housed in this building had the space not just to educate women on these matters, but also to provide education to medical professionals that was not widely taught in medical schools at the time. The building is now privately owned.

Prompt: What first was opened by Margaret Sanger in Brooklyn in 1916?

Answer: Birth Control Clinic/Centre


Context: List of UK top-ten singles in 1996 | """Missing"" originally peaked outside the top ten at number 69 upon its initial release in 1994. ; ""Lifted"" originally peaked outside the top ten at number 61 upon its initial release in May 1995. ; ""Passion"" originally peaked outside the top ten at number 29 upon its initial release in 1992. ; ""Real Love"" was written by John Lennon before his death in 1980. It was recorded by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in 1995 and was the last original song by the band to chart. ; ""Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit"" was the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996. ; ""Move Move Move (The Red Tribe)"" was released "

Prompt: Real Love in 1996 was whose last top 10 hit in the UK?

Answer: Fab 4


Context: Davidic line |  According to the Tanakh, upon being chosen and becoming king, one was customarily anointed with holy oil poured on one's head. In David's case, this was done by the prophet Samuel. Initially, David was king over the Tribe of Judah only and ruled from Hebron, but after seven and a half years, the other Israelite tribes, who found themselves leaderless after the death of Ish-bosheth, chose him to be their king as well. All subsequent kings in both the ancient first united Kingdom of Israel and the later Kingdom of Judah claimed direct descent from King David to validate their claim to the throne in order to rule over the Israelite tribes. After the death of

Prompt: Which prophet secretly anointed David as King of Israel?

Answer: שְׁמוּאֵל


Context: Death to Spies: Moment of Truth | " The game's main character is Semion Strogov, who is a captain in the 4th department of the Soviet counterintelligence service called SMERSH. SMERSH is an acronym of the Russian phrase Smert' Shpionam, meaning 'Death to Spies', which was the name for a set of counterintelligence departments in the Soviet Army formed during World War II. Semion Strogov is back from his previous missions and must now participate in a series of even more complicated and exciting covert operations under the code name ""Death to Spies: Moment of Truth"". The hero possesses all the skills required to accomplish dangerous missions including getting "

Prompt: Which counter-intelligence agency had a name meaning 'death to spies' in English?

Answer: Smert' Shpionam


Context: Dubris |  Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, Kent, England. As the closest point to continental Europe and the site of the estuary of the Dour, the site chosen for Dover was ideal for a cross-channel port. The Dour is now covered over for much of its course through the town. In the Roman era, it grew into an important military, mercantile and cross-channel harbour and – with Rutupiae (Richborough Roman fort) – one of the two starting points of the road later known as Watling Street. It was fortified and garrisoned initially by the Classis Britannica, and later by troops based in a Saxon Shore Fort.

Prompt: Which English town/city did the Romans call Dubris?

Answer: Dover RFC


Context: Homelessness |   Street newspapers are newspapers or magazines sold by homeless or poor individuals and produced mainly to support these populations. Most such newspapers primarily provide coverage about homelessness and poverty-related issues and seek to strengthen social networks within homeless communities, making them a tool for allowing homeless individuals to work.

Prompt: Which magazine is produced and sold for the benefit of homeless people?

Answer: The Big Issue in The North


Context: Reconciling Ministries Network | " 100 young persons. The 2011 convocation, ""Sing A New Song,"" was held in Huron, Ohio in conjunction with the Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA). The 2013 convocation, ""Churchquake,"" was held in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The 2015 convocation, ""Gather at the River"", was held in San Antonio, Texas in cooperation with other organizations including MFSA. Speakers included Rev. Frank Schaefer, Marcia McFee, Mark A. Miller, Theon Johnson, Nikilas mawanda, Peter Storey, and Sara Thompson Tweedy. The 2018 convocation, ""A Place at the Table,"" was held in St. Louis, MO in conjunction with the Love Your Neighbor Coalition (LYNC) affiliate organizations."

Prompt: Which birds collect in a convocation?

Answer: Eagle


Context: Jinnah family | "Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) ; Jinnah is the founder of Pakistan and was the country's first Governor-General. His first marriage in 1892 was the result of his mother urging him to marry his cousin Emibai Jinnah before he left for England to pursue higher studies. However, Emibai died a few months later. His second marriage took place in 1918 to Rattanbai Petit (granddaughter of Dinshaw Maneckji Petit and Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata), a Parsi who was 24 years his junior. Rattanbai converted to Islam when she married Jinnah. In 1919, she gave birth to their only daughter, Dina Jinnah. ; m. Emibai Jinnah ; Dawn (newspaper) Fact File: ""In his youth, Mohammad Ali Jinnah was married to a distant cousin named Emibai from Paneli village in Gujarat at his mother's urging. At the time of their marriage, Jinnah was only 16 and Emibai was "

Prompt: Which country was founded by Muhammed Ali Jinnah?

Answer: Union of Pakistan


Context: 2-succinyl-6-hydroxy-2,4-cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylate synthase |  Vitamin K is a fat soluble vitamin known to aid in blood clotting. It is recommended that all newborns receive an injection of vitamin K in order to prevent excessive bleeding of the brain after birth. There are two major forms of vitamin K that occur naturally. Phylloquinone, also known as K1, is synthesized by plants and is the major form of vitamin K in the diet. Menaquinone, K2, includes a range of forms that are synthesized by bacteria in the gut. Vitamin K is synthesized from the molecule chorismate in a nine step conversion process. SHCHC synthase catalyzes the third step in the process.

Prompt: Which vitamin assists in blood clotting?

Answer: Vitamin k 2


Context: Prompt corner | A communications intercom headset, or 'cans', to talk to the rest of the technical team during a show; ; Red and green cue lights. (In some theatres a computerised cue light system is used); ; Telephones to front of house areas; ; A public address system so that the stage manager and deputy stage manager (normally the person calling the show) can make announcements, or give calls, to the foyer ('front of house'), auditorium ('house'), dressing rooms or other 'back of house' areas in the theatre; ; A silent fire alarm indicator, such as a strobe light; and, ; Controls for the safety curtain and other emergency measures. The prompt corner is usually equipped with a prompt desk to facilitate the coordination of a performance. This can vary from a small table in the wings to an elaborate installation in a dedicated booth, being equipped with all the necessary aids for the specific production and venue. The prompt desk minimally holds a carefully annotated copy of the performance script, with blocking and other stage directions and, in professional theatres:

Prompt: In the theatre and music industry, what are 'cans'?

Answer: Osteo-phone


Context: Geordie |   Geordie is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect used by its inhabitants, also known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English. There are different definitions of what constitutes a Geordie. The term is used and has been historically used to refer to the people of the North East. A Geordie can also specifically be a native of Tyneside (especially Newcastle upon Tyne) and the surrounding areas. Not everyone from the North East of England identifies as a Geordie. Geordie is a continuation and development of the language spoken by Anglo-Saxon settlers, initially employed by the ancient Brythons to fight the Pictish invaders after the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes who arrived

Prompt: What might a Geordie call a 'tab'?

Answer: Ccigarette


Context: York Castle |  York Castle is a fortified complex in the city of York, England. It consists of a sequence of castles, prisons, law courts and other buildings, which were built over the last nine centuries on the south side of the River Foss. The now-ruined keep of the medieval Norman castle is commonly referred to as Clifford's Tower. Built originally on the orders of William I to dominate the former Viking city of Jórvík, the castle suffered a tumultuous early history before developing into a major fortification with extensive water defences. After a major explosion in 1684 rendered the remaining military defences uninhabitable, York Castle continued to be used as a jail and prison until 1929. The first motte and bailey castle on the

Prompt: Clifford's Tower is all that remains of which city's castle?

Answer: Park Grove (1895)


Context: Excalibur (film) |  and his knights, so Arthur summons Excalibur's magic and defeats Lancelot but breaks Excalibur in the process. Arthur is ashamed of abusing the sword's power to serve his own vanity and throws the sword's remains into the lake. The Lady of the Lake restores Excalibur to the king, Lancelot is revived, and Arthur and his knights unify the land. Arthur creates the Round Table, builds Camelot, and marries Guinevere; Lancelot confesses that he has fallen in love with her too. Arthur's half-sister Morgana, a budding sorceress and still bitter towards Arthur, becomes apprenticed to Merlin. Lancelot stays away to avoid Guinevere. He meets Perceval, a

Prompt: Which knight is with Arthur at the end and throws Excalibur into the lake?

Answer: Sir Bedevere


Context: Crathie Kirk | " since in her own words ""Scotch bishops are mere dissenters"". Anne, Princess Royal married Timothy Laurence, then a commander in the Royal Navy, at Crathie Kirk, on 12 December 1992. The couple chose to marry in Scotland as the Church of England did not, at the time, permit remarriage after divorce. The Church of Scotland, which does not consider marriage to be a sacrament, has no objection to remarriage after divorce, depending on the circumstances which led to the end of the previous marriage. The British royal family attended the Sunday service here after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales on the morning of 31 August 1997."

Prompt: Who did Princess Anne marry in 1992?

Answer: Sir Timothy Laurence


Context: Giuseppe Farina | " Emilio Giuseppe Farina, also known as Giuseppe Antonio ""Nino"" Farina, (30 October 1906 – 30 June 1966) was an Italian racing driver and first official Formula One World Champion. He gained the title in 1950. He was the Italian Champion in 1937, 1938 and 1939."

Prompt: Nino Farina was the first world champion of what?

Answer: Formula One Championship


Context: Sacerdotalism |  Sacerdotalism (from Latin sacerdos, priest, literally one who presents sacred offerings, sacer, sacred, and dare, to give) is the belief in some Christian churches that priests are meant to be mediators between God and humankind. The understanding of this mediation has undergone development over time and especially with the advent of modern historical and biblical studies.

Prompt: The word sacerdotal means relating to what?

Answer: Priest (religion)


Context: Middle name |  In Britain, many politicians, including a few Prime Ministers, have been known primarily by their middle name, or one of their middle names. Examples include Jim Callaghan (Leonard James Callaghan), Ramsay MacDonald (James Ramsay MacDonald), Keir Hardie (James Keir Hardie), Enoch Powell (John Enoch Powell), Vince Cable (John Vincent Cable), Gordon Brown (James Gordon Brown) and the incumbent Prime Minister, Boris Johnson (Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson). In Germany, during the Nazi period, several Nazis were known by their middle names. Examples include Joseph Goebbels (Paul Joseph Goebbels), Adolf Eichmann (Otto Adolf Eichmann), Erwin Rommel (Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel), Hermann Fegelein (Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein), Magda Goebbels (Johanna Maria Magdalena Goebbels) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim Ribbentrop).

Prompt: Who has the unusual middle name of de Pfeffel?

Answer: Boris Jonson


Context: Heathrow Terminal 5 |  reached by changing trains to the Heathrow Express Shuttle service at Heathrow Central, which is also fare-free for this journey. The Piccadilly line of the London Underground provides a slower, but considerably cheaper, stopping service to central London, with a journey time of between 45 minutes and one hour depending on exact destination. Trains run every 10 minutes, and provide service to many stations en route to and within central London, with interchange available to the rest of the London Underground network. The Piccadilly line is integrated into the Transport for London fare system. Terminal 5 is also served by RailAir express buses, which link the terminal's bus station (see below) with Reading station, for rail services to the west, and Woking station, for rail services to the south.

Prompt: Which London underground line provides a regular service to all Heathrow terminals?

Answer: Piccadilly


Context: Hodge (cat) | " shooting cats."" And then in a sort of kindly reverie, he bethought himself of his own favourite cat, and said, ""But Hodge shan't be shot; no, no, Hodge shall not be shot."""" The latter anecdote is used as the epigraph to Vladimir Nabokov's acclaimed poem/novel Pale Fire. Johnson bought oysters for his cat. In modern England, oysters are an expensive food for the well-to-do, but in the 18th century oysters were plentiful around the coasts of England and so cheap that they were a staple food of the poor. Johnson refused to send Francis Barber to buy Hodge's food, fearing that it would be seen as degrading to his servant, so he would personally buy the food for Hodge. Boswell also noted how Johnson "

Prompt: Which famous Englishman had a cat called Hodge which he fed on oysters?

Answer: Dr Sam Johnson


Context: Mongolian tögrög |  The tögrög or tugrik (Mongolian Cyrillic: төгрөг, Mongolian script:, transcription: tögürig; sign: ₮; code: MNT) is the official currency of Mongolia. It was historically subdivided into 100 möngö (мөнгө). Currently, the lowest denomination in regular use is the 10-tögrög note and the highest is the 20,000-tögrög note. In Unicode, the currency sign is. In 2010, the tögrög rose 15% against the dollar, due to the growth of the mining industry in Mongolia. However, its exchange rate eroded by 24% from early 2013 to June 2014 due to falling foreign investment and mining revenue.

Prompt: Which Asian country has the Tugrik as its currency?

Answer: Mongolia Proper


Context: Noun |  Nouns have sometimes been defined in terms of the grammatical categories to which they are subject (classed by gender, inflected for case and number). Such definitions tend to be language-specific, since nouns do not have the same categories in all languages. Nouns are frequently defined, particularly in informal contexts, in terms of their semantic properties (their meanings). Nouns are described as words that refer to a person, place, thing, event, substance, quality, quantity, etc. However this type of definition has been criticized by contemporary linguists as being uninformative. There have been offered several examples of English-language nouns which do not have any

Prompt: DEFINITIONS. What nouns are being defined here?

Answer: All have an odd number of letters.


Context: Protactinium |  Protactinium (formerly protoactinium) is a chemical element with the symbol Pa and atomic number 91. It is a dense, silvery-gray actinide metal which readily reacts with oxygen, water vapor and inorganic acids. It forms various chemical compounds in which protactinium is usually present in the oxidation state +5, but it can also assume +4 and even +3 or +2 states. Concentrations of protactinium in the Earth's crust are typically a few parts per trillion, but may reach up to a few parts per million in some uraninite ore deposits. Because of its scarcity, high radioactivity and high toxicity, there are currently no uses for protactinium outside scientific research, and for this purpose, protactinium is mostly extracted from spent nuclear fuel. The element was first identified in 1913 by Kazimierz

Prompt: What is the symbol for the chemical element protactinium, atomic number 91?

Answer: (Pa.)


Context: List of English words of Russian origin | " ""apart from"" or ""separate"") (historical) Term for the domestic policy of Russian czar Ivan the Terrible. Oprichnik plural Oprichniki (Russian: опри́чник) (historical) Name given to the bodyguards of Russian ruler Ivan the Terrible who ruthlessly suppressed any opposition to his reign. Perestroika (Russian: перестро́йка) (Russian perestroika literally ""restructuring"", the term was first used in 1986) The reform of the political and economic system of the former Soviet Union, first proposed by Leonid Brezhnev at the 26th Communist Party Congress in 1979, and later actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985. Podyachy (Russian: подья́чий) (Russian from the Greek hypodiakonos, ""assistant servant"") (historical) An "

Prompt: What Russian word means 'restructuring', particularly in an economic context?

Answer: Перестройка


Context: Punch and Judy | " puppet with an extending neck (the ""Courtier""), and a monkey. A live Toby the Dog was once a regular featured novelty routine, sitting on the playboard and performing ""with"" the puppets. Punch wears a brightly coloured (traditionally red) jester's motley and sugarloaf hat with a tassel. He is a hunchback whose hooked nose almost meets his curved, jutting chin. He carries a stick (called a slapstick) as large as himself, which he freely uses upon most of the other characters in the show. Judy wears an apron, a blue dress, and a bonnet and always tries to tell Punch off when he uses the slapstick"

Prompt: What is the name of the dog in the Punch and Judy shows?

Answer: Toby


Context: Adonis |  Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite in Greek mythology. In Ovid's first-century AD telling of the myth, he was conceived after Aphrodite cursed his mother Myrrha to lust after her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus. Myrrha had sex with her father in complete darkness for nine nights, but he discovered her identity and chased her with a sword. The gods transformed her into a myrrh tree and, in the form of a tree, she gave birth to Adonis. Aphrodite found the infant and gave him to be raised by Persephone, the queen of the Underworld. Adonis grew into an astonishingly handsome young man, causing Aphrodite and Persephone to feud over him, with Zeus eventually decreeing that Adonis would spend one

Prompt: The Greek goddess Aphrodite loved which beautiful youth, the son of Myrrha?

Answer: ESO 3.6 m telescope


Context: Stephen Joseph Theatre |  The Stephen Joseph Theatre is a theatre in the round in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England that was founded by Stephen Joseph and was the first theatre in the round in Britain. In 1955, Joseph established a tiny theatre in the round on the first floor of the Public Library. The theatre flourished and in 1976 moved to a supposedly temporary home on the ground floor of the former Scarborough Boys' High School. However, a permanent home proved difficult to find and it was not until late 1988 and the closure of the local Odeon cinema by Rank Leisure that the theatre's long-standing Artistic Director, Alan Ayckbourn, found a suitable venue. Ayckbourn launched

Prompt: Which English town is home to the Stephen Joseph Theatre?

Answer: Scarborough (Disambiguation)


Context: Tony Curtis |  Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. Although his early film roles mainly took advantage of his good looks, by the latter half of the 1950s he had demonstrated range and depth in numerous dramatic and comedy roles. In his earliest parts he acted in a string of mediocre

Prompt: Under what name did Bernard Schwartz (1925 to 2010) find fame as a film star?

Answer: TONY CURTIS


Context: Dirty Dancing | " Various images and lines from the film have worked their way into popular culture. Johnny Castle's line, ""Nobody puts Baby in a corner"", has been used in song lyrics, as the title of the ""Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner"" episode of the TV series Veronica Mars, and as the title of a Fall Out Boy song. ""Nobody puts Baby in a corner"" was also quoted in Supernatural: when Dean says the line concerning his beloved Impala and his brother Sam retorts that the line is from a Swayze movie; Dean responds: ""Swayze always gets a pass"". The line was parodied in the webcomic Looking for Group where Richard, one of the primary characters, uttered a variation involving his own name, and in Family Guy, "

Prompt: 'Nobody puts Baby in a corner.' is a line from which 1987 film?

Answer: Jimmy Castle


Context: Richard Larn |  of Royal Navy divers, based on board the minesweeper HM/XSV Puttenham, to the Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall to find an historic fleet of sunken Royal Navy ships, led by HMS Association, a 90-gun Second Rate Ship of the Line lost in the 1707 disaster. In 1964 about ten NACSAC members, including Larn, arrived on Scilly – thought at that time to be only the second group of divers ever to come there. Their initial dives sparked off a long chain of navy visits that continued for four years. The annual expedition in 1966 was announced as a

Prompt: Which legendary sunken land lies off the Isles of Scilly, to the south-west of Cornwall?

Answer: Leonais


Context: River Wyre |  This article is about the River Wyre in Lancashire. There are other rivers with the same name, such as the Afon Wyre in Ceredigion. The River Wyre is a river in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, which flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood. It is approximately 28 miles (45 km) in length. The river is a County Biological Heritage Site and has a sheltered estuary which, from its northwest corner, penetrates deep into the almost square peninsula of the Fylde.

Prompt: Which river meets the sea at Fleetwood on Lancashire's Fylde coast?

Answer: Borough of Wyre


Context: Brassie |  Brassie is the old traditional name for a wood No. 2 golf club. Brassies have a loft that is higher than that of a driver, but less than a 3 wood.

Prompt: In golf what is the old-fashioned name for a No 3 wood?

Answer: Honey spoon


Context: Flag of Leicestershire | Red 485 ; White ; Black The flag combines three of the county’s symbols: the red and white dancetté background, taken from the arms of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; the Cinquefoil of the de Beaumont Earls of Leicester; and the running fox from the county’s crest, used on many of the county organisations’ emblems. It was designed by Jason Saber and adopted at the request of all seven of Leicestershire’s Members of Parliament. It was the final English county flag to be adopted, and will be first flown officially for Historic County Flag Day 2021 in Parliament Square, London. The Pantone Colours for the flag are:-

Prompt: Which county in England has a flag consisting of a white cross on a black background?

Answer: Curnow


Context: King Kong (1933 film) | Fay Wray as Ann Darrow: Canadian-born American actress Fay Wray played bit parts in Hollywood until cast as the lead in Erich von Stroheim's silent film, The Wedding March (1928). She met Kong co-directors Cooper and Schoedsack when cast as Ethne Eustace in The Four Feathers (1929). Cooper cast her as Eve Trowbridge in The Most Dangerous Game (1932). After the RKO board approved the Kong test, Cooper decided a blonde would provide contrast to the gorilla's dark pelt. Dorothy Jordan, Jean Harlow, and Ginger Rogers were considered, but the role finally went to Wray who wore a blonde wig in the film and was inspired more by Cooper's enthusiasm than the script to accept

Prompt: In 1933, which actress starred in the original 'King Kong' movie?

Answer: Vina Fay Wray


Context: Adam Liszt |  Adamus List (Liszt Ádám) (16 December 1776 – 28 August 1827) was the father of composer and pianist Franz Liszt.

Prompt: Franz Liszt ended up the father-in-law to which other very famous composer?

Answer: Wagner's


Context: Badger | " (tunnels); the Germanic term *þahsuz became taxus or taxō, -ōnis in Latin glosses, replacing mēlēs (""marten"" or ""badger""), and from these words the common Romance terms for the animal evolved (Italian tasso, French taisson—blaireau is now more common—Catalan toixó, Spanish tejón, Portuguese texugo). A male European badger is a boar, a female is a sow, and a young badger is a cub. However, in North America the young are usually called kits, while the terms male and female are generally used for adults. A collective name suggested for a group of colonial badgers is a cete, but badger colonies are more often called clans. A badger's home is called a sett."

Prompt: The collective noun for which British mammal is a 'cete'? [say "Seat"]

Answer: Badger (animal)


Context: Fu Manchu |  Dr. Fu Manchu (Chinese: 傅满洲 Fù Mǎnzhōu) is a fictional villain who was introduced in a series of novels by the English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also extensively featured in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years and he has also become an archetype of the evil criminal genius and mad scientist, while lending his name to the Fu Manchu mustache.

Prompt: What is the pen name of the author who created the character Fu Manchu?

Answer: Arthur Henry Ward


Context: Enid Blyton |  publisher, to be forwarded to van der Beek. The Noddy books became one of her most successful and best-known series, and were hugely popular in the 1950s. An extensive range of sub-series, spin-offs and strip books were produced throughout the decade, including Noddy's Library, Noddy's Garage of Books, Noddy's Castle of Books, Noddy's Toy Station of Books and Noddy's Shop of Books. In 1950 Blyton established the company Darrell Waters Ltd to manage her affairs. By the early 1950s she had reached the peak of her output, often publishing more than fifty books a year, and she remained extremely prolific throughout much of the decade. By 1955 Blyton had written

Prompt: Mrs Darrell Waters books were translated into 120 languages. What was her pen name?

Answer: The Little lose hen


Context: Jonathon Welch |  Welch is an openly gay performer, and has led both the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir and the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus. In late December 2000 Welch met his future domestic partner, Matt (an electrical engineer from Orion, Illinois), on the Pacific cruise ship Regal Princess, where Welch was on a working holiday with Tenor Australis providing on-board entertainment. As of September 2007 the pair were living in Yarraville, and had been together for six-and-a-half years.

Prompt: Which 'Regal' male singer provided the half-time entertainment for the 2007 Superbowl?

Answer: Royal prince


Context: Amsterdam (novel) |  Amsterdam is a 1998 novel by British writer Ian McEwan, for which he was awarded the 1998 Booker Prize.

Prompt: What was the name of Ian McEwan's Booker Prize winning novel of 1998?

Answer: Classis of Amsterdam


Context: Metatheria | 1) monotremes: egg laying mammals like the platypus and the echidna, ; 2) metatheria: marsupials, which includes three American orders (Didelphimorphia, Paucituberculata and Microbiotheria) and four Australasian orders (Notoryctemorphia, Dasyuromorphia, Peramelemorphia and Diprotodontia), and the ; 3) eutherians: placental mammals, consisting of four superorders divided into twenty-one orders. Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is a more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains all marsupials as well as many extinct non-marsupial relatives. There are three extant subclasses of mammals, one being metatherians: Metatherians belong to a subgroup of the northern tribosphenic mammal clade or Boreosphenida. They differ from all other mammals in certain morphologies like their dental formula, which includes about five upper and four lower incisors, a canine, three premolars, and four molars. Other characters include skeletal and anterior dentition, such as wrist and ankle apomorphies; all metatherians share derived pedal characters and calcaneal features.

Prompt: Conventionally treated as comprising a single order, which order of mammals lay eggs?

Answer: Fossil Monotremes


Context: Yellow | Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as rape or oilseed rape, is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family). ; Goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

Prompt: Oil seed rape belongs to which plant family?

Answer: Mustards


Context: Oh So Sharp |  Oh So Sharp (1982–2001) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the English Fillies' Triple Crown in 1985. In a racing career which lasted from August 1984 until September 1985 she won seven of her nine races, starting favourite on each occasion, and never at odds of more than 2/1. She was one of the leading two-year-old fillies of 1984 when she was unbeaten in three races including the Fillies' Mile. In the following year Oh So Sharp won the 1000 Guineas in record time and then took The Oaks by six lengths before being narrowly beaten in her next two starts in major weight-for-age races. She completed the Triple Crown in the St Leger Stakes, despite failing to reproduce her best form. She was retired at the end of the season and became a successful broodmare. Oh So Sharp died in 2001 at the age of nineteen.

Prompt: In 1985, which filly was the last racehorse to win a variant of the English Triple Crown?

Answer: Oh So Sharp


Context: Art Nouveau in Paris |  objects ranging from combs to belt buckles created by Paris jewelers. René Lalique, best known for glass art, was also a major figure in Paris Art Nouveau jewelry design. Like Fouquet, he combined more traditional materials, such as diamonds and emeralds, with semi-precious stones, amber, ivory, pearls, enamels, horn and other natural materials to create original and imaginative forms. He also used cabochons, which were convex, polished gemstones, rounded rather than faceted. He particularly created diadems and pendants in the form os plants, insects, and mythical figures. Louis Aucoc and his family firm, where Lalique had been an apprentice, was another important creator of Art Nouveau jewelry. Other notable jewelry creators included Lucien Gaillard, Paul Follot, and Paul and Henri Vever.

Prompt: The Art Nouveau designer Rene Lalique most famously worked in which material?

Answer: Optical glass


Context: Conchita Wurst | " Thomas Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988) is an Austrian singer and drag queen who is known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst (also known mononymously as Conchita). Neuwirth came to international attention after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 as Austria's entrant with the song ""Rise Like a Phoenix"". Born in Gmunden, Neuwirth moved to Graz to do his matura exam with a focus on fashion, before embarking on a singing career through the 2007 casting show Starmania. He subsequently became a founding member of the short-lived boy band Jetzt Anders!. In 2011, Neuwirth began appearing as Conchita—a female character noted for her beard—and came second in the Austrian pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Two years later, Conchita was selected to represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, where her performance received the most points and resulted in her winning the contest. It brought her international attention and established her as a gay icon, resulting in invitations to perform at various pride parades, the European Parliament, and the United Nations Office in Vienna."

Prompt: What is the name of the drag queen persona of Thomas Neuwirth, who won in 2014?

Answer: Queen of Austria


Context: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society | " The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the sixth studio album by the English rock group the Kinks, released in November 1968. It was the last album by the original quartet (Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife, Mick Avory ), as bassist Quaife left the group in early 1969. A collection of vignettes of English life, Village Green was assembled from songs written and recorded over the previous two years. The album failed to chart upon its initial release, and Ray Davies has called it ""the most successful ever flop."" In 2020, the album was ranked number 384 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and it was described by Uncut in 2014 as a ""brilliantly observed concept album"". In 2018, the album earned a gold disc for reaching sales of 100,000 copies. It was voted number 141 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000)."

Prompt: In 1968, which group recorded the L.P. 'The Village Green Preservation Society'?

Answer: The Kinks


Context: Rugrats (2021 TV series) | E. G. Daily as Tommy Pickles ; Nancy Cartwright as Chuckie Finster ; Kath Soucie as Phil and Lil DeVille ; Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles ; Cree Summer as Susie Carmichael

Prompt: Angelica, Chuckie and Tommy feature in which cartoon tv series?

Answer: RUGRATS


Context: Saguaro |  The saguaro is a columnar cactus that grows notable branches, usually referred to as arms. Over 50 arms may grow on one plant. Saguaros grow from 3-16 m tall, and up to 75 cm in diameter. They are slow growing, but routinely live 150 to 200 years. They are the largest cactus in the United States. The growth rate of this cactus is strongly dependent on precipitation; saguaros in drier western Arizona grow only half as fast as those in and around Tucson. Saguaros grow slowly from seed, and may be only 1/4 in tall after two years. Cuttings rarely root, and when they do, they do not go through the juvenile growth phase, which gives a different appearance. the National Register of Champion Trees listed the largest

Prompt: A giant saguaro is a type of what?

Answer: C A C T U S


Context: American Jewish cuisine |  Around 90% of American Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, whose ancestors came from Eastern or Central Europe, where many of them spoke Yiddish as their first language. The foods commonly associated with American Jewish cuisine therefore have their origins in those regions. The United States also has a sizeable population of Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors lived in Spain or Portugal, and later in other Mediterranean areas, and Mizrahi Jews, whose ancestors lived in the Middle East or North Africa. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews have their own distinct cuisines, which, like Ashkenazi cuisine, were heavily influenced by their places of origin. Although always outnumbered by their Ashkenazi counterparts, there are significant Sephardic and Mizrahi communities across America. These include the Persian Jews of Los Angeles, the Moroccan Jews of Manhattan, the Turkish Jews of Seattle, and the Syrian Jews of Brooklyn. Additionally, Mizrahi and Sephardic cuisine predominates in the modern state of Israel. Therefore, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dishes such as falafel, hummus, couscous, and shakshouka are also part of American Jewish cuisine.

Prompt: Ashkenazic and sephardic cuisines are associated with which ethnic group?

Answer: Jewish people


Context: Punter (football) |  A punter (P) in gridiron football is a special teams player who receives the snapped ball directly from the line of scrimmage and then punts (kicks) the football to the opposing team so as to limit any field position advantage. This generally happens on a fourth down in American football and a third down in Canadian football. Punters may also occasionally take part in fake punts in those same situations, when they throw or run the football instead of punting.

Prompt: In American football and other sports, who or what is a M.V.P.?

Answer: MVP


Context: Mike Nevin |  Nevin was named Daly City planning commissioner in 1979. He was elected to the Daly City Council in 1982, and chosen Mayor of Daily City in 1984 and again in 1989. From 1989 to 1992, he served on the Criminal Justice Council of San Mateo County and the Narcotics Task Force, a subcommittee of the Criminal Justice Council. From 1992, when he retired from the SFPD, until 2004 (when he was term-limited out) he served on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, advocating the medicinal use of marijuana during his tenure. Nevin was the first proposer of a plan to legalize the distribution of medical marijuana in San Mateo County through government-run

Prompt: Ted Nevin, who died in 1992, was a leading authority in what sphere?

Answer: Response probability


Context: Kia | " Kia declared bankruptcy in 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, and in 1998 reached an agreement with Hyundai Motor Company to diversify by exchanging ownership between the two companies. Hyundai Motor Company acquired 51% of the company, outbidding Ford Motor Company, which had owned an interest in Kia Motors since 1986. After subsequent divestments, Hyundai Motor Company owns about one third of Kia Motor Corporation. While Hyundai Motor Company remains Kia's largest stakeholder, Kia Motor Company also retains ownership in some 22 Hyundai Motor Company subsidiaries. Since 2005, Kia has focused on the European market and has identified design as its ""core future growth engine""—leading to the hiring of Peter Schreyer in 2006 as chief design officer and his subsequent creation of a new corporate grille known as the 'Tiger Nose'. In October 2006, Kia Motors America broke "

Prompt: Kia Motors Corporation is nearly one-third owned by which other Asian company?

Answer: 현대자동차


Context: Ferenc Puskás | " Ferenc Purczeld was born on 1 April 1927 to a German (Danube Swabian) family in Budapest and brought up in Kispest, then a suburb, today part of the city. His mother, Margit Biró (1904–1976), was a seamstress. He began his career as a junior with Kispest AC, where his father, who had previously played for the club, was a coach. He had grandchildren, who were the children of his brothers son; the two sons of his brother are Zoltán and István, Zoltán with 3 children; Ilonka, Camila and Andrés, and István with two. He changed his name to Ferenc Puskás. He initially used the pseudonym ""Miklós Kovács"" to help circumvent the minimum age rules before officially signing at the age of 12. Among his early teammates was his childhood friend and future international teammate József Bozsik. He made his first senior appearance "

Prompt: Sidney Poitier, Eartha Kitt, Val Doonican and Ferenc Puskas were all born in what year?

Answer: one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-seven


Context: Boddingtons Brewery | " 1990–1991. Lowe Howard-Spink was the advertising agency responsible for the Howerd advertisements. From July 1991 until 1999, a series of Boddingtons advertisements created by the Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) agency used ""The Cream of Manchester"" tagline. The campaign, credited with revitalising the image of Manchester, was arguably third behind Manchester United and Coronation Street in raising the city's profile. Originally a set of print advertisements, the campaign was extended to television in 1992. The television advertisements featured beautiful women with unlikely Mancunian accents and ""achieved the seemingly impossible task of making bitter glamorous"". The most famous television advertisement featured a glamorous couple on-board gondolas "

Prompt: What was promoted as "the cream of Manchester" in a series of 90s ads?

Answer: BODDINGTON'S beer


Context: Mdina |  Today, Mdina is one of Malta's major tourist attractions, hosting about 750,000 tourists a year. No cars (other than a limited number of residents, emergency vehicles, wedding cars and horses) are allowed in Mdina, partly why it has earned the nickname 'the Silent City'. The city displays an unusual mix of Norman and Baroque architecture, including several palaces, most of which serve as private homes. An extensive restoration of the city walls was undertaken between 2008 and 2016.

Prompt: Famous for its glass manufacturing, what is the real name of Malta's 'Silent City'?

Answer: Citta Notabile


Context: January 1914 | "The Alexandre La Valley, an old French crane boat, completed its transit though newly completed Panama Canal on a test run, becoming the first actual vessel to do so. The SS Ancon would be the first ship to officially transit the canal on August 15, 1914. ; Some 200 Ottoman Empire soldiers were arrested on board a steamer the port city of Avlona, Albania by the country's provisional government. The Empire had intended to land troops in the port and proclaim Gen. Ahmed Izzet Pasha ""King of Albania."" Martial law was declared in the country immediately after the arrests, leading to a "

Prompt: On August 15th 1914, the SS Ancon became the first ship to officially do what?

Answer: TRANSIT the PANAMA CANAL


Context: Liverpool F.C. | " Liverpool featured in the first edition of BBC's Match of the Day, which screened highlights of their match against Arsenal at Anfield on 22 August 1964. The first football match to be televised in colour was between Liverpool and West Ham United, broadcast live in March 1967. Liverpool fans featured in the Pink Floyd song ""Fearless"", in which they sang excerpts from ""You'll Never Walk Alone"". To mark the club's appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released the ""Anfield Rap"", a song featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad. A docudrama on the Hillsborough disaster, written by Jimmy McGovern, was screened in 1996. It featured Christopher Eccleston as Trevor Hicks, who lost "

Prompt: Liverpool played against whom in the first ever 'Match of the Day' in 1964?

Answer: Arsenal Football Club


Context: Ashington Group |  The Ashington Group was a small society of artists from Ashington, Northumberland, composed largely of mine workers. They met regularly between 1934 and 1983 to encourage their progress. Although most of the men had no formal artistic training, the Group and its work became celebrated in the British art world of the 1930s and 1940s.

Prompt: In 1934, local miners in Ashington, Northumberland, formed a group to study what?

Answer: ART (disambiguation)


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

Prompt: With what area of expertise do you associate the name of Annie Leibovitz?

Answer: Pet photography


Context: Forever in Blue Jeans | " ""Forever in Blue Jeans"" is a song by Neil Diamond which he co-wrote with his guitarist Richard Bennett. The up-tempo track was released as a single by Columbia in February 1979, having featured on Diamond's album You Don't Bring Me Flowers which was released the previous year. Diamond said about the song: ""the simple things are really the important things"". It peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #2 on the Easy Listening chart in March 1979. According to Cotton Incorporated, ""Neil Diamond might have been right when he named his 1979 #1 hit “Forever in Blue Jeans”: 81% of women are planning their next jeans purchase to be some shade of blue."" The song has been used to promote the sale of blue jeans, most notably by Will Ferrell who impersonated Diamond for The Gap. Coincidentally Diamond himself did radio adverts for H.I.S. brand jeans in the 1960s. Later in 1979, Tommy Overstreet recorded a country version of the song, on his I'll Never Let You Down album."

Prompt: What item of clothing do you associate with a 1979 hit song from Neil Diamond?

Answer: Riveted jeans


Context: Bobby Brown | " left Houston's service; Brown stated that he loved Houston's family and told Matt Lauer that he had spent ""14 beautiful years"" with Houston as his wife. He also denied rumors that he introduced Houston to drugs. Along with Clive Davis, Ray J, and others, Brown has been accused of contributing to the singer's death. In 2009, Brown had a son named Cassius with his partner of two years, manager Alicia Etheredge. Brown and Etheredge became engaged in May 2010, when Brown proposed during a performance at the Funk Fest in Jacksonville, Florida. The couple married on June 18, 2012, in Hawaii and have since added two daughters to their family."

Prompt: Who is widely credited with introducing his former wife Whitney Houston to drugs?

Answer: Bobby brown


Context: Graham Greene | The Man Within (début—1929) ; Stamboul Train (1932) (also published as Orient Express in the U.S.) ; It's a Battlefield (1934) ; England Made Me (also published as The Shipwrecked) (1935) ; A Gun for Sale (1936) ; Journey Without Maps (1936) ; Brighton Rock (1938) ; The Lawless Roads (1939) (also published as Another Mexico in the U.S.) ; The Confidential Agent (1939) ; The Power and the Glory (1940) ; The Ministry of Fear (1943) ; The Heart of the Matter (1948) ; The Third Man (1949) (novella written as a preliminary to Greene's screenplay for the film The Third

Prompt: Who wrote 'It's a Battlefield' (1934) and 'The Power and the Glory' (1940)?

Answer: Greeneland


Context: 2017 Laver Cup |  On 24 August 2016, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were the first of six players to confirm their participation for Team Europe. On 15 May 2017, more than eight months later, Milos Raonic was the first of six players to confirm his participation for Team World. By 24 August 2017, all six players from each team had been chosen: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Alexander Zverev, Marin Čilić, Dominic Thiem, and Tomáš Berdych for Team Europe, and Milos Raonic, John Isner, Jack Sock, Sam Querrey, Juan Martín del Potro, and Denis Shapovalov for Team World. Shortly afterwards Raonic withdrew and was replaced by Nick Kyrgios. Later Frances Tiafoe took the place of del Potro who had also withdrawn. Former rivals Björn Borg of Sweden (Europe) and John McEnroe of the United States (World) were serving as captains for the 2017 edition.

Prompt: Which of the six team members was born first?

Answer: John Marwood Cleese


Context: Dad's Army | "ARP Chief Warden William Hodges (Bill Pertwee), the platoon's major rival and nemesis. He calls Mainwaring ""Napoleon"". Mainwaring looks down on him as the local greengrocer and dislikes that Hodges saw active service in the Great War. As an Air Raid Precautions (ARP) warden, he is always demanding that people ""put that light out"". To the home guard he often calls ""You ruddy hooligans!"" ; The Reverend Timothy Farthing (Frank Williams), the effete, petulant vicar of St Aldhelm's Church. He reluctantly shares his church hall and office with the platoon. ; Maurice Yeatman (Edward Sinclair), the verger at St Aldhelm's Church and Scoutmaster of "

Prompt: In 'Dad's Army', what was the surname of the air-raid warden?

Answer: Hodges (disambiguation)


Context: Hamilcar Barca |  Hamilcar Barca or Barcas (, Ḥomilqart Baraq; –228BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman, leader of the Barcid family, and father of Hannibal, Hasdrubal and Mago. He was also father-in-law to Hasdrubal the Fair. Hamilcar commanded the Carthaginian land forces in Sicily from 247BC to 241BC, during the latter stages of the First Punic War. He kept his army intact and led a successful guerrilla war against the Romans in Sicily. Hamilcar retired to Carthage after the peace treaty in 241BC, following the defeat of Carthage. When the Mercenary War burst out in 239BC, Hamilcar was recalled to command and was instrumental in concluding that conflict successfully. Hamilcar commanded the Carthaginian expedition to Spain in 237BC, and for eight years expanded the territory of Carthage in Spain before dying in battle in 228 BC. He may have been responsible for creating the strategy which his son Hannibal implemented in the Second Punic War to bring the Roman Republic close to defeat.

Prompt: Hamilcar Barca was the father of which famous general?

Answer: Carthaginian general Hannibal


Context: 1550 in Scotland | 1 February – John Napier, physicist, astronomer and mathematician who discovered logarithms (died 1617)

Prompt: Which Scottish mathematician discovered logarithms?

Answer: Napier, John


Context: Vittoria, Sicily |  Vittoria is a town and comune in the province of Ragusa, Sicily, southern Italy. With its 62,748 inhabitants Vittoria is the second most populated municipality of the province of Ragusa after Ragusa.

Prompt: The town of Vittoria and the city of Ragusa can be found on which island?

Answer: Trinacrian