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Which fictional character is known as ‘The boy who never grew up’? | Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland.
Peter Pan has become a cultural icon symbolizing youthful innocence and escapism. In addition to two distinct works | Donal Graeme
Donal Graeme is a fictional character in the Childe Cycle of science fiction novels by Gordon R. Dickson.
Although he only appears as a major character in one of the novels, "Dorsai!", he is transformed into the character Hal Mayne who is important in the later parts of the series.
"The boy is odd. You never know which way he'll jump." This is how Donal is described by his teachers in the military academy on the planet known to the rest of humanity | 5,000 | triviaqa-train |
What is the highest reward bestowed by the Royal Horticultural Society? | a period of three years or more.
The RHS Campaign for School Gardening provides online inspiration, resources and advice to its members. With the help of teachers, volunteers and other school-gardening champions, they support millions of students in the UK, giving them the opportunity to grow plants, food and develop life skills.
Medals and awards.
Medals and awards People.
The society honours certain persons with the Victoria Medal of Honour who are deemed by its Council to be deserving of special recognition in the field | Olive Edmundson
Olive Mary Edmundson (née Harrisson) (1881 - 1972) was a British horticulturalist who was denied a scholarship at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden in 1898.
Her parents were Henry and Louis Ann Harrisson. Harrisson attended Swanley College of Horticulture. She was awarded the highest number of marks in the Royal Horticultural Society "Certificate in Practical Horticulture". The prize was to work in the Royal Horticultural Society garden in Chiswick, £5,000 and a scholarship. Her success was rejected by the Royal Horticultural Society, | 5,001 | triviaqa-train |
What is the official language of Zambia? | of the world have declared one or more official languages. The government of Italy officialised Italian only in 1999, and some nations (such as the United States) have never declared official languages at the national level. Other nations have declared non-indigenous official languages. "The Philippines and parts of Africa live with a peculiar cultural paradox. Although the official languages [in Africa] may be French or English, these are not the languages most widely spoken by [the country's] residents."
Worldwide, 178 | Zambia where the Bemba form the largest ethnic group. The Lamba language is closely related and some people consider it a dialect of Bemba.
History.
The Bemba people are descendants of inhabitants of the Luba kingdom, which existed in what is now the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in north-eastern Zambia.
Bemba is one of the most widely spoken languages in Zambia, spoken by many people who live in urban areas, and is one of Zambia's seven recognized regional languages. Zambia | 5,002 | triviaqa-train |
British monarchs George V, Edward VIII and George VI all reigned during which year? | 25 years.
In 1922, Egypt, which had been declared a British protectorate at the outbreak of the First World War, was granted formal independence, though it continued to be a British client state until 1954. British troops remained stationed in Egypt until the signing of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in 1936, under which it was agreed that the troops would withdraw but continue to occupy and defend the Suez Canal zone. In return, Egypt was assisted in joining the League of Nations. Iraq, a British mandate since | after a private family funeral at York Minster. A memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey, London.
Six British monarchs reigned during Princess Mary's lifetime: Victoria (her great-grandmother), Edward VII (her grandfather), George V (her father), Edward VIII and George VI (her brothers) and Elizabeth II (her niece). She is usually remembered as an uncontroversial figure of the royal family.
Titles, styles, honours and arms.
Titles, styles, honours and arms Titles | 5,003 | triviaqa-train |
Business magnate Bill gates dropped out which US university? | Institute of Technology, Waseda University, Tsinghua University, Harvard University, the Karolinska Institute, and Cambridge University. He was also made an honorary trustee of Peking University in 2007.
Gates was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005. In November 2006, he was awarded the Placard of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, together with his wife Melinda who was awarded the Insignia of the same order, both for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of | , the Mexican magnate worth £46 billion (US$74 billion) and Bill Gates, who is worth £35 billion (US$56 billion), mainly because she owns her companies outright. Using a price-to-earnings ratio of 11:1 that applied at that time to her business partner, Rio Tinto, the Australian internet business news service, SmartCompany, stated: "It is possible to see Rinehart's portfolio of coal and iron ore production spinning off annual profits approaching US$10 billion", giving her a " | 5,004 | triviaqa-train |
A tetrachordo bouzouki has how many pairs of strings? | of musical expression. Recently the three-course bouzouki has gained in popularity. The first recording with the 4-course instrument was made in 1956.
The Irish bouzouki, with four courses, a flatter back, and differently tuned from the Greek bouzouki, is a more recent development, stemming from the introduction of the Greek instrument into Irish music by Johnny Moynihan around 1965, and its subsequent adoption by Andy Irvine, Alec Finn, Dónal Lunny, and many others.
Three-course bouzouki (trichordo).
This | Tzouras
The Tzouras (), is a Greek stringed musical instrument related to the Bouzouki.
Its name comes from the Turkish Cura. It is made in six-string and eight-string varieties.
The six-string model has the same arrangement of strings tuned to the same pitches as the six-string ("trichordo") bouzouki. There are three pairs of strings, tuned to DD–AA–DD or
DD–AA–DD. The strings are made of steel.
The | 5,005 | triviaqa-train |
The State Hermitage Museum is in which Russian city? | Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum () is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine's Day. It has been open to the public since 1852.
Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, | had a garden created on the parade ground beneath her windows. This was surrounded by a high wall topped with railings. The garden was created based on a project by landscape architect Georg Kuphaldt, the director of the Riga city gardens and parks.
References.
- Hermitage Museum Website Published by the Russian state Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 23 September 2008. | 5,006 | triviaqa-train |
The Diamantina Trench lies in which ocean? | Diamantina Fracture Zone
The Diamantina Fracture Zone is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean seafloor. It has a range of ridges and trenches. It lies to the south of the mideastern Indian Ocean features of the Wharton Basin and Perth Basin, and to the south west of the Naturaliste Plateau.
Escarpment.
Being parallel to the Southeast Indian Ridge, Diamantina Fracture Zone is not a real fracture zone in the sense of plate tectonics, but rather an escarpment, separating two oceanic plateaus. In fact its extension | Jequitinhonha River
The Jequitinhonha River () flows mainly through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its source lies near Diamantina in the Espinhaço Mountains at an elevation of , after which it flows northward and then east-northeastward across the uplands. At Salto da Divisa, it is interrupted by the Cachoeira (falls) do Salto Grande, high. The river descends to the coastal plain at the city of Jequitinhonha, beyond which it is also called Rio Grande do Belmonte, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Belmonte in Bahia | 5,007 | triviaqa-train |
Colleen McLoughlin married which English footballer in 2008? | Coleen Rooney
Coleen Mary Rooney (née McLoughlin; born 3 April 1986) is an English product endorser. She is the wife of footballer Wayne Rooney.
Early life and family.
Coleen Mary McLoughlin was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, to Tony and Colette McLoughlin. Tony McLoughlin, who was a bricklayer, also ran a boxing club. The McLoughlins are of Irish descent. Coleen is the eldest of four children, followed by her brothers Joe and Anthony and her adopted sister Rosie, who suffered with Rett syndrome | Martin McLoughlin
Martin Paul McLoughlin (born c. 1980) is a former Ireland international rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. He played at club level for the Wigan Warriors, Barrow Raiders, Oldham, Batley Bulldogs, Widnes Vikings, and the Rochdale Hornets. He played as a .
Background.
McLoughlin was born in England.
International honours.
Martin McLoughlin was capped for Ireland while at Wigan Warriors, Oldham R.L.F.C., and Batley Bulldogs in 2001–2008.
External links.
- Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv | 5,008 | triviaqa-train |
In December 2006 a version of the board game ‘Operation’ was released in which the player operates on which fictional superhero? | -Man, Peter Parker. Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager who is revealed to have Inhuman lineage after her shapeshifting powers manifested, takes on the identity of Ms. Marvel in 2014 after Carol Danvers had become Captain Marvel. Her self-titled comic book series became a cultural phenomenon, with extensive media coverage by CNN, the New York Times and The Colbert Report, and embraced by anti-Islamophobia campaigners in San Francisco who plastered over anti-Muslim bus adverts with Kamala stickers. Other such successor-heroes | Marvel Heroes (board game)
Marvel Heroes is a strategy/fantasy board game for two to four players. Designed by Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, with Roberto Di Meglio, Simone Peruzzi e Salvatore Pierucci, was created by Nexus Editrice. The English version was released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2006.
Overview.
Each player chooses to play one of four 4-character Marvel Comics superhero teams. Each player also controls the archenemy of one of the opponents' team to the left of you. These 20 characters, | 5,009 | triviaqa-train |
The Piazza Navona is in which European city? | Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona () is a square in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in the 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium. The ancient Romans went there to watch the "agones" ("games"), and hence it was known as ""Circus Agonalis"" ("competition arena"). It is believed that over time the name changed to "in avone" to "navone" | but broke many of the architectural rules, creating a far richer and more elaborate style, preferring grandiosity and opulence rather than Renaissance classicism and elegance. Putti, or child cupids and chrubs, were popular in Baroque architectural design. The city is famous for its many huge and majestic Baroque squares (often adorned with obelisks), many of which were built in the 17th century. The principal squares are Piazza Navona, Piazza di Spagna, Campo de' Fiori, Piazza Venezia, Piazza Farnese and Piazza della Minerva. One of | 5,010 | triviaqa-train |
Which US President was shot by assassin Charles J Guiteau in 1881? | Charles J. Guiteau
Charles Julius Guiteau (; September 8, 1841June 30, 1882) was an American writer and lawyer who assassinated United States President James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881. Guiteau falsely believed he had played a major role in Garfield's victory, for which he should be rewarded with a consulship. He was so offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris that he decided to kill Garfield, and shot him at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. | first time in years, when news arrived that Garfield had been shot in Washington. The assassin, Charles J. Guiteau, was a deranged office-seeker who believed that Garfield's successor would appoint him to a patronage job. After lingering for several months, Garfield died, and Arthur became president. After completing a long-planned visit to Yellowstone National Park and other Western sites with his brother William, Sherman returned to a second special session of Congress in October 1881.
Garfield's assassination by an office-seeker amplified | 5,011 | triviaqa-train |
Jacob Epstein and Barbara Hepworth were famous in which branch of the arts? | of Christ in Majesty (1954–55), is suspended above the nave in Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, on a concrete arch designed by George Pace.
His larger sculptures were his most expressive and experimental, but also his most vulnerable. His depiction of Rima, one of author W. H. Hudson's most famous characters, graces a serene enclosure in Hyde Park. Even here, a visitor became so outraged as to defile it with paint. He was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International, which was | Studio, with the 'Zest' Gallery in Rickett Street, that was obliged to shut down in 2012, after 20 years by the developers of 'Lillie Square' and Earl's Court. Both glass businesses have now moved out of London.
The Art Bronze Foundry, founded by Charles Gaskin in 1922 still operates in Michael Road, off the New King's Road, a short distance from Eel Brook Common. It has produced works by Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth and Jacob Epstein among others. Its | 5,012 | triviaqa-train |
Which US psychologist and writer popularised the carchphrase ‘Turn on, tune in, drop out’? | Estate (commonly known as "Millbrook"), and the IFIF was subsequently disbanded and renamed the Castalia Foundation (after the intellectual colony in Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game). The group's journal was the "Psychedelic Review". The core group at Millbrook sought to cultivate the divinity within each person, and often participated in group LSD sessions facilitated by Leary. The Castalia Foundation hosted weekend retreats on the estate where people paid to undergo the psychedelic experience without drugs, through meditation, yoga, and group therapy | , that's a lot,' to the tune of [the well-known Pepsi 1950s singing commercial]. Then he started going, 'Tune in, turn on, and drop out.'" Though the more popular "turn on, tune in, drop out" became synonymous with Leary, his actual definition with the League for Spiritual Discovery was:
""Drop Out" – detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV.
"Turn On" – find | 5,013 | triviaqa-train |
Brothers Tom and Ben Youngs joined which English rugby union club in 2006? | Ben Youngs
Benjamin Ryder Youngs (born 5 September 1989) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Leicester Tigers and England. In 2019 he became England's most capped scrum half with 85 appearances.
Background.
Ben Youngs was born 5 September 1989 in Aylsham, England. His older brother Tom Youngs is also a rugby player, for Leicester Tigers as a hooker. His father Nick Youngs played scrum-half for both Leicester and England.
Club career.
Youngs | Ben Breeze
Ben Breeze (born 8 April 1974, Exeter) is an English born rugby union player who represented England U21, Students and 7's, Wales 7's and Wales A. As a winger, he formally played his club rugby for the Exeter Chiefs (2006-2010) having joined from the Welsh regional team Newport Gwent Dragons (2003-2006) where he made 55 appearances. Breeze previously played for Bristol (1995-1999), and Newport RFC (1999-2003).
In 25 March | 5,014 | triviaqa-train |
Known as ‘The Liberator of South America’, political leader Simon Bolivar became President of which country in 1813? | cuisine. Argentines, Chileans, Uruguayans, Brazilians, Bolivians, and Venezuelans regularly consume wine. People in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Chile, Bolivia and Brazil drink mate, an herb which is brewed. The Paraguayan version, terere, differs from other forms of mate in that it is served cold. Pisco is a liquor distilled from grapes in Peru and Chile. Peruvian cuisine mixes elements from Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, African, Arab, Andean, and Amazonic food.
Culture Plastic arts. | the Nation" of Belize.
Simon Bolivar (1783–1830) and Antonio José de Sucre (1795–1830) are considered to be the founders of Bolivia.
Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467/68–1520) commander of the first Portuguese fleet to arrive in South America. José Bonifácio de Andrada (1763–1838), known as "Patriarch of Independence", is considered the maximum leader of the Independence movement because of his intellectual mentorship and political prominence, and Pedro I of Brazil (1798–1834), son of the King João VI of Portugal, | 5,015 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the 1930 novel ‘The Maltese Falcon’? | The Maltese Falcon (novel)
The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine "Black Mask" beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatever of any character's internal thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The novel has been adapted several times for the cinema.
The main character, Sam Spade (who also appeared later in some | 's 1930 detective novel "The Maltese Falcon": "The Maltese Falcon" (1931) and "Satan Met a Lady" (1936).
Partial filmography.
- "The Maltese Falcon" (1931)
- "Play Girl" (1932)
- "The Strange Love of Molly Louvain" (1932)
- "Street of Women" (1932)
- "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932)
- "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" ( | 5,016 | triviaqa-train |
During which year did British sovereignty of Hong Kong end? | Handover of Hong Kong
The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, commonly known as the handover of Hong Kong (or simply the Handover, also the Return in mainland China and Hong Kong), occurred at midnight on 1 July 1997, when the United Kingdom ended administration for the colony of Hong Kong and passed control of the territory to China. Hong Kong became a special administrative region and continues to maintain governing and economic systems separate from those of mainland China.
This event ended 156 years of British colonial rule in | 945 km) or 12 times the size of the existing Colonial Hong Kong at the time.
History British assumption of sovereignty.
Although the Convention was signed on the 9 June 1898 and became effective on 1 July, the British did not take over the New Territories immediately. During this period, there was no Hong Kong Governor and Wilsone Black acted as administrator. James Stewart Lockhart, the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, was sent back from England to make a survey of New Territories before formal transfer. The survey | 5,017 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1968 film is partially based on the novel ‘Sentinel’ by Arthur C Clarke? | ), vigorously advocating a strong defence posture. Although the two later reconciled formally, they remained distant until Heinlein's death in 1988.
Science fiction writer "2001" series of novels.
"2001: A Space Odyssey", Clarke's most famous work, was extended well beyond the 1968 movie as the Space Odyssey series. In 1982, Clarke wrote a sequel to "2001" titled "", which was made into a film in 1984. Clarke wrote two further sequels that have not been adapted into motion pictures | Odyssey" (1968), having been highly impressed with science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's novel "Childhood's End", about a superior race of alien beings who assist mankind in eliminating their old selves. After meeting Clarke in New York City in April 1964, Kubrick made the suggestion to work on his 1948 short story "The Sentinel", about a tetrahedron which is found on the Moon which alerts aliens of mankind. That year, Clarke began writing the novel "", and the screenplay was written by | 5,018 | triviaqa-train |
What was the pen-name of British writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch? | Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 186312 May 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication "The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900" (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism. He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of "84, Charing Cross Road" and its sequel, "Q's Legacy". His "Oxford Book of | 1910–1990), British professor of chemical engineering
- Sir John Coulson (diplomat) (1909–1997), British ambassador to Sweden and secretary-general of EFTA
- John Hubert Arthur Coulson (1906–1989), English detective fiction writer under pen name John Bonnet
- Joseph Coulson (born 1957), American novelist, playwright and poet
- Josh Coulson (born 1989), English footballer
- Juanita Coulson (born 1933), American science fiction and fantasy writer
- Leslie Coulson (1889–1916), English journalist | 5,019 | triviaqa-train |
Remy, Colette Tatou and Anton Ego are all characters in which 2007 Disney film? | Ratatouille (film)
Ratatouille ( , ) is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the eighth film produced by Pixar and was co-written and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. The title refers to a French dish, ratatouille, which is served at the end of the film and is also a play on words about the species of the main character. The plot follows a rat named Remy, who dreams | of becoming a chef and tries to achieve his goal by forming an alliance with a Parisian restaurant's garbage boy.
The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt as Remy, an anthropomorphic rat who is interested in cooking; Lou Romano as Linguini, a young garbage boy who befriends Remy; Ian Holm as Skinner, the head chef of Auguste Gusteau's restaurant; Janeane Garofalo as Colette, a rôtisseur at Gusteau's restaurant; Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, a restaurant critic; Brian Dennehy as Django, Remy's father | 5,020 | triviaqa-train |
What is the ‘Fifth Pillar of Islam’? | be standard, however that does not imply that all individuals who distinguish themselves as Muslims will stick to them. Individual participation can vary depending on the individual's faith, for not every individual may pray every day, regardless of whether keep the fast or go on Hajj, and the amount they provide for charity. Shortly after when the Muslim Arabs conquered new terrains, they started raising mosques and castles and commissioning different commemorations and artifacts as articulations of their faith and culture. The religious practice of Islam, which truly signifies | Isha prayer
The Isha prayer ( "" , "night prayer") is the night-time daily prayer recited by practicing Muslims. It is the fifth of the five daily prayers– ("salat") [Islamic evening begins at maghrib]. The five daily prayers collectively are one pillar of the Five Pillars of Islam, in Sunni Islam, and one of the ten Practices of the Religion ("Furū al-Dīn") according to Shia Islam. It is a four rak'ah prayer and in | 5,021 | triviaqa-train |
How many events are in a tetrathlon? | Tetrathlon
A tetrathlon (from the numerical prefix "tetra-" meaning four) is a team competition organized by Pony Clubs for its members. It is a variant of the modern pentathlon, without fencing. Thus it comprises the four disciplines of shooting, swimming, riding and running.
Ideally, teams consist of four members from one pony club competing against several teams from rival clubs. Competitions are usually held over two days during the summer months. It is recommended that one skill and one endurance phase is completed on each | Tetrathlon format, where riding is omitted. Athletes compete in qualification groups for the right to take part in the final, which can include up to 36 athletes. Individual medals and prize money are awarded as well as team medals which are decided by adding the top three individual team members' scores together. Relay events involve two athletes competing in turn throughout the various disciplines. A mixed relay has been included since 2009 in all World Championships and World Cups, and the Youth Olympic Games mixed relay uniquely gives athletes from different countries | 5,022 | triviaqa-train |
In which country was the radio telescope situated that transmitted pictures all over the world of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969? | "a"; Peter Shann Ford, an Australian computer programmer, conducted a digital audio analysis and claims that Armstrong did say "a man", but the "a" was inaudible due to the limitations of communications technology of the time. Ford and James R. Hansen, Armstrong's authorized biographer, presented these findings to Armstrong and NASA representatives, who conducted their own analysis. Armstrong found Ford's analysis "persuasive." Linguists David Beaver and Mark Liberman wrote of their skepticism of Ford's claims on the blog Language | of Sputnik, the world’ s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957, marked the beginning of technologies that would further interconnect the world. The first live global television broadcast occurred when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in July 1969. In November 1972, pay TV caused expansion of cable when Service Electric offered Home Box Office over its cable system. By 2000, over direct broadcast satellite, a household could receive channels from all over the world. Now with the World Wide Web, smart phones, tablet devices | 5,023 | triviaqa-train |
Which Peanuts cartoon character is famous for saying ‘There is no heavier burden than a great potential’? | . Snoopy was also an early character in the strip, first appearing in the third strip, which ran on October 4. Its first Sunday strip appeared January 6, 1952, in the half-page format, which was the only complete format for the entire life of the Sunday strip. Most of the other characters that eventually became the main characters of Peanuts did not appear until later: Violet (February 1951), Schroeder (May 1951), Lucy (March 1952), Linus (September 1952), Pig | off to do an armed robbery. Later on we find out in the only flashback scene of the movie that Thelma (Geena Davis) uses exactly the same phrase when robbing a store.
- In an episode of the Cartoon Network show "Courage the Cowardly Dog", the title character (disguised as an eggplant) gives commands to the other eggplants after saying "The Great Eggplant says".
- The "Peanuts" special "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown" includes a song/dance number called " | 5,024 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the largest of the Balearic Islands? | and were formed by uplift. They are cut by a network of northwest to southeast faults.
Geography and hydrography.
The main islands of the autonomous community are Majorca ("Mallorca"), Menorca/Minorca ("Menorca"), Ibiza ("Eivissa/Ibiza"), and Formentera, all popular tourist destinations. Amongst the minor islands is Cabrera, the location of the Cabrera Archipelago Maritime-Terrestrial National Park.
The islands can be further grouped, with Majorca, Menorca, and Cabrera as | feature of the country is its vast coast, as a result of being in a Peninsula; moreover, there is the coast of the two Spanish archipelagos: the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.
To date, Spain has a total of 15 National Parks, of which 10 are on the mainland, 1 in the Balearic Islands and 4 in the Canary Islands. Spain's most visited National Park is the Teide National Park in the Canary Islands, with 3,142,148 visitors in 2007 and crowned with the third largest Volcano in | 5,025 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the mother of King James I of England? | century, historians have tended to revise James's reputation and treat him as a serious and thoughtful monarch. He was strongly committed to a peace policy, and tried to avoid involvement in religious wars, especially the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) that devastated much of Central Europe. He tried but failed to prevent the rise of hawkish elements in the English Parliament who wanted war with Spain.
Childhood.
Childhood Birth.
James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Henry | lived in great luxury.
Frederick's mother, Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, was daughter of William the Silent and sister of Maurice, Prince of Orange, who as stadtholders of Holland and other provinces were the leaders of the Dutch Republic.
His mother was Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James I of England. Thus Rupert was nephew of King Charles I of England, and first cousin of King Charles II of England, who made him Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holderness. His sister Electress Sophia was the | 5,026 | triviaqa-train |
What is the title of the fourth Harry Potter film? | Sirius becomes a hunted fugitive once again. Harry learns how to create a Patronus, which takes the form of a stag, the same as his late father's.
"Harry Potter" books "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
In the previous books, Harry is written as a child, but Rowling states that in the fourth novel, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "Harry's horizons are literally and metaphorically widening as he grows older." Harry's developing maturity becomes apparent when he | selling site Fandango, "Fifty Shades of Grey" is the fastest-selling R-rated title in the site's 15-year history, surpassing "Sex and the City 2". It also had the biggest first week of ticket sales on Fandango for a non-sequel film, surpassing 2012's "The Hunger Games". It is fourth overall on Fandango's list of top advance ticket sales behind "", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2", and "The Hunger Games". The | 5,027 | triviaqa-train |
Ambridge is the home of which BBC series? | The Archers
The Archers is a British radio soap opera on BBC Radio 4the BBC's main spoken-word channelbroadcast since 1951. It was initially billed "an everyday story of country folk" and now, "a contemporary drama in a rural setting". Having aired over 18,950 episodes, it is the world's longest-running drama.
Five pilot episodes were aired in 1950 and the first episode was broadcast nationally on 1 January 1951. A significant show in British popular culture, and with over five million listeners | Greene
- "Gift and Givers"
- "True Life Stories"
- "Mission Statement"
With Dave Holland
- "Pass It On"
- "Prism"
- "Aziza"
With Dave Lisik
- "Relativity" (SkyDeck, 2017)
With Charles Lloyd
- "Jumping the Creek" (ECM, 2004)
- "Sangam" (ECM, 2006)
- "Rabo de Nube" (ECM, 2008)
- "Mirror" ( | 5,028 | triviaqa-train |
Somen Banerjee and Paul Snider founded which male touring dance troupe in 1979? | Dorothy Stratten) and attorney Bruce Nahin.
Banerjee was later charged with having enlisted the aid of Ray Colon, in 1990 and 1991, to help carry out a plot to kill Michael Fullington, a former Chippendales dancer and choreographer, and two other ex-Chippendales dancers, who Banerjee felt were competition to the Chippendales franchise. He was also indicted for allegedly orchestrating the 1987 murder of his former choreographer/partner Nick De Noia. It was also alleged that it was his intent to also have Nahin murdered. He eventually | Raven.
Whilst studying at the University of Surrey in 2007 Róisín, with her partner Jack, founded the all-female Irish dance troupe 'Raven', and began rehearsing at Dance Attic studios in London. The troupe was founded with the aim of forefronting the female in the traditionally male dominated world of Irish show dance, and to offer professional Irish dancers performance opportunities between touring shows Raven have since performed at hundreds of celebrity events, balls and TV shows throughout the UK and Ireland, and featured on dozens of TV | 5,029 | triviaqa-train |
What colour is the name of a US Ivy league university? | Ivy League
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States. The term "Ivy League" is typically used to refer to those eight schools as a group of elite colleges beyond the sports context. The eight members are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. "Ivy League" has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. | Ivy League (disambiguation)
Ivy League is an NCAA Division I athletic conference formed from eight schools in the northeastern US and a name for the schools as a group.
Ivy League can also refer to:
- Ivy League Records, a record label
- The Ivy League (band), a 1960s British pop trio
- Ivy League (clothes), a clothing style
- Ivy League (haircut), a short style of haircut for men | 5,030 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the official country residence of the British Prime Minister? | Chequers
Chequers, or Chequers Court, is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th century manor house in origin, it is located near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. It is about 40 miles (65 km) north west of central London. Coombe Hill, once part of the estate, is located two thirds of a mile northeast. Chequers has been the country home of the Prime | Red House (Solomon Islands)
Red House, located on Vavaea Ridge in Honiara, Solomon Islands, is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands. The residence is a single story wood siding building on stilts. The name of the home is in reference to the red colour roof.
History.
The house was built in the 1950s for the then-colonial Secretary for Finance and later Chief Minister of the British Solomon Islands. It became the Prime Minister's residence in 1978. Prior to re | 5,031 | triviaqa-train |
In poetry, a quatrain is a stanza or complete poem consisting of how many lines of verse? | French poem, William Langland's "Piers Ploughman" in the 14th century, and Jean de la Fontaine's "Fables" (influenced by Aesop's) in the 17th century. Rather than being fully allegorical, however, a poem may contain symbols or allusions that deepen the meaning or effect of its words without constructing a full allegory.
Another element of poetic diction can be the use of vivid imagery for effect. The juxtaposition of unexpected or impossible images is, for example, a particularly strong element in surrealist poetry | Tercet
A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem.
Examples of tercet forms.
English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, AAA; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis.
Other types of tercet include an enclosed tercet where the lines rhyme in an ABA | 5,032 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the 1921 book ‘Scaramouche’? | Scaramouche (novel)
Scaramouche is an historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921. A romantic adventure, "Scaramouche" tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying "Scaramouche" (a roguish buffoon character in the "commedia dell'arte"). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. The | - "Scaramouche the King-Maker" (1931), Sabatini wrote this sequel after ten years.
Works Series Captain Blood.
- "Tales of the Brethren of the Main" (a series of short stories first published in "Premier Magazine" from 1920–1921)
- "Captain Blood" (also known as "Captain Blood: His Odyssey", 1922), in which the title character escapes from unjust slavery to become admiral of a fleet of pirate ships.
- "Captain Blood Returns" ( | 5,033 | triviaqa-train |
Laguna del Carbon (Coal Lagoon) is the lowest point in which South American country? | Laguna del Carbón
Laguna del Carbón (Spanish for "coal lagoon") is a salt lake in Corpen Aike Department, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. This salt lake is located from Puerto San Julián, within the "Gran Bajo de San Julián" (Great San Julián Depression), an endorheic basin situated between the San Julian Bay and the Chico River. At below sea level, Laguna del Carbón is the lowest point of Argentina and both the Western and Southern Hemispheres, and the seventh-lowest point on Earth | Laguna de Tacarigua National Park
The Laguna de Tacarigua National Park () Also Tacarigua Lagoon National Park Is a protected area with the status of a national park located east of Miranda State, in the South American country of Venezuela. It comprises a permanent coastal lagoon of 7800 ha and 1.2 m of average depth, separated from the sea by a restinga or coastal barrier of 28.8 km long and 300–1000 m wide that was formed by the action of the sea current Which runs along the coast in an East-West direction | 5,034 | triviaqa-train |
Which queen was the last British monarch to veto an Act of Parliament? | between England and Scotland. The Parliament of England retaliated with the Alien Act 1705, threatening to devastate the Scottish economy by restricting trade. The Scottish and English parliaments negotiated the Acts of Union 1707, under which England and Scotland were united into a single Kingdom of Great Britain, with succession under the rules prescribed by the Act of Settlement.
In 1714, Queen Anne was succeeded by her second cousin, and Sophia's son, George I, Elector of Hanover, who consolidated his position by defeating Jacobite rebellions in 1715 | governments across the world:
- The executive can veto legislative acts and, in turn, a supermajority of lawmakers may override the veto. The veto is generally derived from the British tradition of royal assent in which an act of parliament can only be enacted with the assent of the monarch.
- The president has a fixed term of office. Elections are held at regular times and cannot be triggered by a vote of confidence or other parliamentary procedures, although in some countries there is an exception which provides for the | 5,035 | triviaqa-train |
In the US, which state lies to the east of Arizona? | Arizona
Arizona (; ; ) is a state in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the Western and the Mountain states. It is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; its other neighboring states are Nevada and California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.
Arizona is the 48th state | of Mexican Water, Arizona; it lies between US 191 on the Utah–Arizona state line, and US 160 adjacent south. US 160 traverses east-west through the north terminus region of Chinle Valley. In the west, the route turns southwesterly and follows Laguna Creek which parallels a due-southwest trending section of Comb Ridge, of both northeast Arizona and southeast Utah.
In Utah, US 191 leaves the north terminus area of Chinle Valley (Mexican Water region), and follows the Chinle | 5,036 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the eighth planet from the sun? | where the magnetosphere begins to slow the solar wind, occurs at a distance of 34.9 times the radius of the planet. The magnetopause, where the pressure of the magnetosphere counterbalances the solar wind, lies at a distance of 23–26.5 times the radius of Neptune. The tail of the magnetosphere extends out to at least 72 times the radius of Neptune, and likely much farther.
Climate.
Neptune's weather is characterised by extremely dynamic storm systems, with winds reaching speeds of almost —nearly reaching supersonic flow. More typically | Career Collegiate.
As a multi-awarded high school volleyball player, he was recruited by Ateneo De Manila University to play for its men's varsity volleyball team. Espejo won the 2014 GUIDON-Moro Lorenzo Sportsman of The Year award.
Career Collegiate UAAP.
In the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Volleyball Championship, Espejo led Ateneo's team to win three consecutive championships in thefrom UAAP Season 77 to UAAP Season 79.
In UAAP Season 76 where Ateneo finished as runner ups, Espejo was hailed as | 5,037 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the horse ridden by jockey Frankie Dettori in the 2007 Epsom Derby? | 2007 Epsom Derby
- The distances between the horses are shown in lengths or shorter. shd = short-head; hd = head; nk = neck.br† Trainers are based in Great Britain unless indicated.
Winner's details.
Further details of the winner, Authorized:
- "Foaled:" 14 February 2004 in Ireland
- "Sire:" Montjeu; "Dam:" Funsie (Saumarez)
- "Owner:" Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar
- "Breeder:" Marengo | : 2015 Epsom Derby
- Horse: Golden Horn; Jockey: Frankie Dettori; Trainer: John Gosden
- September 12: 2015 St. Leger Stakes
- Horse: Bondi Beach; Jockey: Colm O'Donoghue; Trainer: Aidan O'Brien
- Canadian Triple Crown
- July 5: 2015 Queen's Plate
- Horse: Shaman Ghost; Jockey: Rafael Manuel Hernandez; Trainer: Brian A. Lynch
- July 29: 2015 Prince of Wales Stakes
- Horse: Breaking Lucky; Jockey: James S. McAleney; | 5,038 | triviaqa-train |
Who played the father, Col. William Ludlow, in the 1994 film ‘Legends of the Fall’? | Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American epic historical drama film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas. Based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison, the film is about three brothers and their father living in the wilderness and plains of Montana in the early 20th century and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love. The film's time frame spans from World War I through | renewed separately.
- – The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Regimental museum.
The Military Museums
Film portrayals.
- "The Devil's Brigade" (1968). Two main characters can be seen wearing the insignia of the Calgary Highlanders, Corporal Peacock and Private MacDonald (Richard Dawson).
- "Legends of the Fall" (1994). The character of Samuel Ludlow (Henry Thomas) very clearly wears the insignia of the 10th Battalion, CEF. It is presumed that Tristan Ludlow (Brad | 5,039 | triviaqa-train |
What is the Zodiac sign of someone born on 31st May? | Zodiac
The zodiac is an area of the sky that extends approximately 8° north or south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year. The paths of the Moon and visible planets are also within the belt of the zodiac.
In Western astrology, and formerly astronomy, the zodiac is divided into twelve signs, each occupying 30° of celestial longitude and roughly corresponding to the constellations Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer | and moon in Cancer, will strongly display the characteristics of that sign in their make up.
The zodiac Sun-sign astrology.
Newspapers often print astrology columns which purport to provide guidance on what might occur in a day in relation to the sign of the zodiac that included the sun when the person was born. Astrologers refer to this as the "sun sign", but it is often commonly called the "star sign". These predictions are vague or general; so much so that even practising astrologers consider them | 5,040 | triviaqa-train |
Which town in Wales has been the home of the Royal Mint since 1968? | circulated through the whole of the UK, have been based at a single site in Llantrisant since 1980. Since decimalisation, in 1971, at least one of the coins in UK circulation has depicted a Welsh design, e.g. the 1995 and 2000 one Pound coin (above). However, Wales has not been represented on any coin minted from 2008.
Transport.
The M4 motorway running from West London to South Wales links Newport, Cardiff and Swansea. The section of the motorway managed by the Welsh Government is from | (Melbourne Centenary), 1951 (Federation Jubilee) and 1954 (Royal Visit). It assisted the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra in producing one cent coins from 1966 to 1968 and two cent coins in 1966. From 1969 all coin production moved to the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra, and the building housing the coin minting equipment was demolished shortly afterwards. The remaining administrative building is now the home of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and has been leased to the private sector since 2001.
The former Royal Mint | 5,041 | triviaqa-train |
What is a female zebra called? | grasses, but may occasionally eat shrubs, herbs, twigs, leaves and bark. Their digestive systems allow them to subsist on diets of lower nutritional quality than that necessary for other herbivores.
Ecology and behavior Reproduction.
Female zebras mature earlier than the males, and a mare may have her first foal by the age of three. Males are not able to breed until the age of five or six. Mares may give birth to one foal every twelve months. She nurses the foal for up to a year. Like | parliament. The party also embraced what it called a "zebra system", whereby if a minister was a woman, the deputy minister would be a man, and vice versa. Because there were more male SWAPO MPs than female MPs, SWAPO put forward plans to expand parliament to remove the risk of male MPs losing their seats as a result of this gender policy. | 5,042 | triviaqa-train |
What is a line called that goes straight from the centre of a circle to the circumference? | the upper bound formula_425 is the circumference of a circumscribed concentric circle passing through the endpoints of the ellipse's major axis, and the lower bound formula_426 is the perimeter of an inscribed rhombus with vertices at the endpoints of the major and the minor axes.
Metric properties Curvature.
The curvature is given by formula_427
radius of curvature at point formula_29:
Radius of curvature at the two "vertices" formula_430 and the centers of curvature:
Radius of curvature at the two "co-vertices" formula_432 and the centers | versions of what came to be called hypocycloid straight-line mechanisms. The mathematician Gerolamo Cardano designed a system known as "Cardan's movement" (also known as a "Cardan gear"). Nineteenth-century engineers James White, Matthew Murray, as well as later designers, developed practical applications of the hypocycloid straight-line mechanism.
Hypotrochoid.
A property of the Tusi couple is that points on the inner circle that are not on the circumference trace ellipses. These elipses, and the straight line traced by | 5,043 | triviaqa-train |
‘Ebony and ‘what’ is the title of a 1982 hit single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder? | Up", the live version of which, recorded in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1979 by Wings, became the group's last number-one hit. By 1981, McCartney felt he had accomplished all he could creatively with Wings and decided he needed a change. The group disbanded in April 1981 after Laine quit following disagreements over royalties and salaries.
Career 1982–1990.
In 1982, McCartney collaborated with Stevie Wonder on the Martin-produced number-one hit "Ebony and Ivory", included on McCartney's "Tug | as HBWAs are
- Amazon Basin, Brazil
- Congo Basin, The Democratic Republic of Congo
- New Guinea, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
- North American Deserts, Southwest United States and Mexico
- Miombo-Mopane Woodlands and Savannas, Zambia
See also.
- Biodiversity
- Conservation biology
- Ecoregions
- Important Plant Areas
- Important Bird Area
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature
- List of types of formally designated forests
- Protected areas
- Wilderness | 5,044 | triviaqa-train |
Mount Etna is on which European island? | Etymology and folklore.
The word "Etna" is from the Greek αἴθω ("aithō"), meaning "I burn", through an iotacist pronunciation. In Classical Greek, it is called ("Aítnē"), a name given also to Catania and the city originally known as Inessa. In Latin it is called "Aetna". In Arabic, it was called ' (the Mountain of Fire).
It is also known as "Mungibeddu" in Sicilian and "Mongibello" or " | The region has a variety of geological hazards which have closely interacted with human activity and land use patterns. Among others, in the eastern Mediterranean, the Thera eruption, dated to the 17th or 16th century BC, caused a large tsunami that some experts hypothesise devastated the Minoan civilisation on the nearby island of Crete, further leading some to believe that this may have been the catastrophe that inspired the Atlantis legend. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano on the European mainland, while others as Mount Etna and Stromboli are to | 5,045 | triviaqa-train |
How many wings does a bee have? | (two articulations in the mandible), a feature associated with winged insects, suggesting that wings may already have evolved at this time. Thus, the first insects probably appeared earlier, in the Silurian period.
Four super radiations of insects have occurred: beetles (evolved about 300 million years ago), flies (evolved about 250 million years ago), and moths and wasps (evolved about 150 million years ago). These four groups account for the majority of described species. The flies and moths along with the | , the glue on the pollen packets does not set immediately, so the orchid keeps the bee trapped until the glue has set. Once the glue has set, the bee is let free and he can now dry his wings and fly off. His ordeal may have taken as long as forty-five minutes. Hopefully, the bee will go to another flower, where, if the flower is to be successful at reproducing, the bee falls once again into the bucket of the same species. This time the pollen packets | 5,046 | triviaqa-train |
The name of which city translates into English as ‘River of January’? | Rio de Janeiro () is composed of several districts, among which are São Conrado, Leblon, Ipanema, Arpoador, Copacabana, and Leme, which compose Rio's famous Atlantic beach coastline. Other districts in the South Zone are Glória, Catete, Flamengo, Botafogo, and Urca, which border Guanabara Bay, and Santa Teresa, Cosme Velho, Laranjeiras, Humaitá, Lagoa, Jardim Botânico, and Gávea. It is the wealthiest part of the city and the best known overseas; the neighborhoods of Leblon and Ipanema, | " literally translates into English as "Western Bridge", and refers to the paved (Danish, "brolagt") road leading into the city through the Western Gate. Vesterbro is the area of the bridge into the city of Copenhagen, which was a much smaller city at the time when the name was created. At that time, the city was ringed by a moat which exist today as the Tivoli lake and others.
The area is under the process of being renovated to a great extent and the renovation ended | 5,047 | triviaqa-train |
The musical ‘West Side Story’ is based on which Shakespeare play? | . The 1959–1960 Off-Broadway season included a dozen musicals and revues including "Little Mary Sunshine", "The Fantasticks" and "Ernest in Love", a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1895 hit "The Importance of Being Earnest".
"West Side Story" (1957) transported "Romeo and Juliet" to modern day New York City and converted the feuding Montague and Capulet families into opposing ethnic gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. The book was adapted by Arthur Laurents, with music by Leonard | the same title, the song makes playful allusion to other works involving young love, including the songs "Somewhere" – from "West Side Story", which is itself based on the Shakespeare play – and "My Boyfriend's Back". The song's signature guitar arpeggio is identical to the piano arpeggio that underpins the first verse of Bruce Springsteen's song "Jungleland".
The original recording of the song has been featured in several motion pictures, including "Hot Fuzz", "Empire Records", " | 5,048 | triviaqa-train |
According to the Bible, whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt as soon as she looked back at Sodom? | the Lord, Lot's wife looked back at the city, and she became a pillar of salt.
Other biblical references.
The Hebrew Bible refers to Sodom and Gomorrah. The New Testament also contains passages of parallels to the destruction and surrounding events that pertained to these cities and those who were involved. Later deuterocanonical texts attempt to glean additional insights about these cities of the Jordan Plain and their residents.
Other biblical references Hebrew Bible.
Moses referred to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in :
, and | ), restaurants, hotels, bars, pubs, amusement centres, offices (government and private), libraries, courts, post offices, markets, shopping malls, canteens, refreshment rooms, banquet halls, discothèques, coffee houses, educational institutions and parks.Smoking is allowed on roads, inside one's home or vehicle. The meaning of open space has been extended to mean such spaces which is visited by public, and includes open auditorium, stadium, bus stand.
- Advertisement of tobacco products including cigarettes is | 5,049 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of a butterfly and a punctuation mark? | Punctuation
Punctuation (formerly sometimes called pointing) is the use of spacing, conventional signs and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading of written text whether read silently or aloud. Another description is, "It is the practice action or system of inserting points or other small marks into texts in order to aid interpretation; division of text into sentences, clauses, etc., by means of such marks."
In written English, punctuation is vital to disambiguate the meaning of sentences. For example | Liangshan, Wu Yong had realised the mistake in the letter so he had already made plans for the Liangshan outlaws to go to Jiangzhou to save Song Jiang and Dai Zong. In Jiangzhou, just as Song Jiang and Dai Zong are about to be beheaded in public, the Liangshan outlaws show up, storm the execution ground and save them. Dai Zong follows the outlaws back to Liangshan and joins the outlaw band.
Campaigns and death.
During his time in Liangshan, Dai Zong serves the outlaw band well with his | 5,050 | triviaqa-train |
Terry McCann and Arthur Daley are characters in which UK television series? | Minder (TV series)
Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television and shown on ITV (originally by Thames, then Central Independent Television in 1993 and 1994 after Thames lost its franchise). The original show ran for ten series between 29 October 1979 and 10 March 1994. The series was notable for using a range of leading British actors, as well as many up-and-coming performers | Waterman as Terry McCann, George Cole as Arthur Daley, Glynn Edwards as Dave Harris
Series 2.
- First broadcast: 11 September – 18 December 1980 (ITV)
- Regular cast: Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, George Cole as Arthur Daley, Glynn Edwards as Dave Harris.
Series 3.
- Broadcast: 13 January – 7 April 1982 (ITV)
- Regular Cast: Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, George Cole as Arthur Daley, Glynn Edwards as Dave Harris
Series 4. | 5,051 | triviaqa-train |
Whose 1988 autobiography is entitled ‘Moonwalk’? | Moonwalk (dance)
The moonwalk is a dance move in which the dancer moves backwards while seemingly walking forwards. Formerly known as the "backslide", the moonwalk is a popping move. It became popular around the world following Michael Jackson's moonwalk during the performance of "Billie Jean" on "," which was broadcast on May 16, 1983. Jackson has been credited as renaming the "backslide" to the moonwalk and it became his signature move.
Technique.
An illusion is involved in creating the | , France, P.R.-ist Bob Jones and bodyguard Wayne Nagin. The city's mayor at the time, Jacques Chirac, presents Jackson with ‘La Grande Medaille de la Ville’de Paris, equivalent to the Keys to the City.
On July 22, 1988, Disney characters, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, present an elated star with a pair of specially engraved ice skates backstage before his concert in Wembley, England.
In 1988, his autobiography, "Moonwalk", makes The New York Times' publication Best Seller List | 5,052 | triviaqa-train |
How many dice are used in a standard game of ‘Craps’? | goals or opposition, which has stirred some debate on whether these should be considered "games" or "toys". (Crawford specifically mentions Will Wright's "SimCity" as an example of a toy.)
Types Video games Online games.
Online games have been part of culture from the very earliest days of networked and time-shared computers. Early commercial systems such as Plato were at least as widely famous for their games as for their strictly educational value. In 1958, "Tennis for Two" dominated Visitor's | Dice" which purports to show how the game of casino craps can be beaten through controlled dice throwing. Many blackjack experts are skeptical of Wong's craps claims, and this is a hotly disputed issue—unlike card counting in blackjack, which can be mathematically proven. Wong himself was initially skeptical of the proposition that dice can be controlled in craps.
Personal life.
The name "Stanford Wong" is a pseudonym; the author's real name is John Ferguson. His first choice for a pen name was " | 5,053 | triviaqa-train |
Which character begins play in a standard game of Cluedo? | Game Rules Choice of playing piece.
The first opportunity is in choosing the initial playing piece. Mrs. Peacock has an immediate advantage of starting one-space closer to the first room than any of the other players. Professor Plum can move to the study, and then take the secret-passage to the Kitchen, the hardest room to reach. Traditionally, Miss Scarlett had the advantage of moving first. This has been eliminated with the implementation of the high roll rule in modern versions.
Game Rules Navigating the board.
The next | However, the Intrigue cards are no longer a part of the game.
Editions Notable editions.
- "Cluedo: 50th Anniversary" (1999), also released as "Clue: 50th Anniversary", this standard edition came in a "deluxe" format with the option to play with an extra murder weapon, a bottle of poison. This edition was also issued in a miniaturised Cluedo European travel version. Drew Struzan provided artwork for the game, which was originally created for the US 1996 edition and additionally used for | 5,054 | triviaqa-train |
What is the boiling point of water in degrees Farenheit? | (32 °F) and his best estimate of the average human body temperature (96 ℉, about 2.6 ℉ less than the modern value due to a later redefinition of the scale). The scale is now usually defined by two fixed points: the temperature at which water freezes into ice is defined as 32 °F, and the boiling point of water is defined to be 212 °F, a 180 °F separation, as defined at sea level and standard atmospheric pressure. | Rømer scale
The Rømer scale (; notated as °Rø), also known as Romer or Roemer, is a temperature scale named after the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Rømer, who proposed it in 1701. It is based on the freezing point of pure water being 7.5 degrees and the boiling point of water as 60 degrees.
Degree measurements.
In this scale, the zero was initially set using freezing brine. The boiling point of water was defined as 60 degrees. Rømer then saw that the freezing point of pure | 5,055 | triviaqa-train |
How many letters of the English alphabet are used as Roman Numerals? | thousands" range of "normal" Roman numerals to 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000:
A number containing several decimal places is represented, as in the Arabic system, by writing its power-of-ten parts — thousands, hundreds, tens and units — in sequence, from left to right, in descending order of value. For example:
- 39 = 30 + 9 = + = .
- 246 = 200 + 40 + 6 = + + = .
- 789 = 700 + 80 + | Armenian numerals
The system of Armenian numerals is a historic numeral system created using the majuscules (uppercase letters) of the Armenian alphabet.
There was no notation for zero in the old system, and the numeric values for individual letters were added together. The principles behind this system are the same as for the Ancient Greek numerals and Hebrew numerals. In modern Armenia, the familiar Arabic numerals are used. Armenian numerals are used more or less like Roman numerals in modern English, e.g. Գարեգին Բ. means Garegin II and Գ. | 5,056 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote the 19th Century play ‘Hedda Gabler’? | Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler () is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen was present at the world premiere, which took place on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. It is recognized as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama. The title character, Hedda, is considered one of the great dramatic roles in theatre.
Hedda's married name is Hedda Tesman; Gabler is her maiden name. On the subject of the title, Ibsen wrote: "My intention | play in his "Hedda Gabler" (1890). Strindberg wrote: "Hedda Gabler is a bastard of Laura in "The Father" and Tekla in "Creditors"".
Characters.
- Adolph - an artist.
- Tekla - a novelist, Adolph's wife.
- Gustav - a teacher.
Plot.
This three-character play takes place in a parlor adjoined to a room in a seaside resort hotel. It begins with Adolph, an artist, sculpting a small nude female | 5,057 | triviaqa-train |
In which London road is Harrod’s department store? | . Harrods of London can be traced back to 1834, while the current store on Brompton Road on a site they acquired in 1849, was constructed between 1894 and 1905. Liberty & Co. gained popularity in thre 1870s for selling Oriental goods. Gamages was founded in London's High Holborn by Arthur Walter Gamage in 1878. In Bayswater, the draper, William Whiteley established a department store with more of a mass market appeal.
Bainbridge's (now owned by John Lewis) dates back to 1838, when Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge | He was a merchant in China for a period and in the mid 1880s worked in London for the former Hong Kong Bank chairman, Baron Adolf von André. Mendel became a partner of this business in 1886. In 1889 he was appointed a director of Trustees, Executors, and Securities Insurance Corporation (Limited), a business that made money from promoting and underwriting companies.
Harrods.
In 1889 Charles Digby Harrod sold his interests in Harrods departmental store to a company called Harrod’s Stores (Limited). The capital | 5,058 | triviaqa-train |
In 2012 the Austrian Mint brought out a 5 coin gold series to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of which artist? | Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by | - In August 2012, the Mint issued the "Making American History Coin and Currency Set" which includes a 2012 proof Silver Eagle coin (minted in San Francisco) and a Series 2009 five-dollar bill with serial numbers beginning with "150". The set celebrates the Mint's 220th anniversary and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's 150th anniversary.
- In November 2012, the Mint offered for sale the "2012 United States Mint Limited Edition Silver Proof Set" which includes a 2012 proof Silver Eagle coin ( | 5,059 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the favourite warhorse of the 1st Duke of Wellington? | In the waiting room, he met Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, already a legendary figure after his victories at the Nile and Copenhagen, who was briefly in England after months chasing the French Toulon fleet to the West Indies and back. Some 30 years later, Wellington recalled a conversation that Nelson began with him which Wellesley found "almost all on his side in a style so vain and silly as to surprise and almost disgust me". Nelson left the room to inquire who the young general was and, on his return | Wellesley, 5th Earl of Mornington. From 1868 to 1884 he was Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Family.
Wellington married Lady Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Field Marshal George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, in 1839. They had no children. The marriage was not a happy one although Lady Elizabeth was a great favourite with her father-in-law. On succeeding his illustrious father he was said to have remarked: "Imagine what it will be when the Duke of Wellington is announced, and only I | 5,060 | triviaqa-train |
Max de Winter is a fictional character in which novel by Daphne du Maurier? | Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.
Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as "moody and resonant" with overtones of the paranormal. Her bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by critics, but have since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many have been successfully adapted into films, including the novels "Rebecca", "My Cousin Rachel", and | by David O. Selznick; at the conclusion of the show he interviews Daphne du Maurier in London via shortwave radio. The novel was adapted by Howard E. Koch.
Welles and Margaret Sullavan starred as Max de Winter and the second Mrs de Winter. Other cast included Mildred Natwick (Mrs Danvers), Ray Collins (Frank Crawley), George Coulouris (Captain Searle), Frank Readick (as Ben), Alfred Shirley (Frith), Eustace Wyatt (Coroner) and Agnes Moorehead (Mrs Van Hopper). Bernard | 5,061 | triviaqa-train |
If a skateboarder is ‘goofy-footed’, which foot is closest to the front of the board? | Footedness
Footedness is the natural preference of one's left or right foot for various purposes. It is the foot equivalent of handedness. While purposes vary, such as applying the greatest force in a certain foot to complete the action of kick as opposed to stomping, footedness is most commonly associated with the preference of a particular foot in the leading position while engaging in foot- or kicking-related sports, such as association football and kickboxing.
Ball games.
In association football, the ball is predominantly struck by the | separate motions: firstly, the skateboarder performs a kickflip but stalls the rotation of the board at the halfway point; the front foot then executes an upward flick that causes the board to spin 180 degrees along the longitudinal axis.
List of flip tricks Alpha flip.
Footage of an alpha flip is provided in a YouTube tutorial by Cotton Mouth Skateboards that features a skateboarder combining a backside 180 with a 360-degree hospital flip of the board around the front foot. The tutorial states: "The front foot never leaves the board(Its easier | 5,062 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1993 film is about the affair between author C S Lewis and poet Joy Grisham? | husband after her permanent relocation to England in 1956. She died from metastatic carcinoma involving the bones in 1960.
The relationship that developed between Davidman and Lewis has been featured in a television BBC film, a stage play, and a theatrical film named "Shadowlands". Lewis published "A Grief Observed" under a pseudonym in 1961, from notebooks he kept after his wife's death revealing his immense grief and a period of questioning God. Lewis ultimately comes to a place of peace and gratitude for having received and experienced | Douglas Gresham
Douglas Howard Gresham (born November 10, 1945) is an American British stage and voice-over actor, biographer, film producer, and executive record producer. He is one of the two stepsons of C. S. Lewis.
Early life.
Gresham was born in New York City, the son of writers William Lindsay Gresham and Joy Davidman. William Gresham was the author of "Nightmare Alley", the classic of American noir literature, while Joy Davidman was best known for her book "Smoke on | 5,063 | triviaqa-train |
What were the first names of poet W H Auden? | W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues"; poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; poems on cultural and psychological themes | and 2007.
Work in Europe.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Tolentino moved to Europe when he was 24 - something he later claimed to have done on the invitation of the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti - at the advent of the Military Regime in Brazil. This European stay would last some thirty years. Amongst what he claimed to be his many important relationships in the European cultural scene was the English poet W. H. Auden - although Auden, in the 1960s,had long left England and was living in the USA | 5,064 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first British Prime Minister to serve under Queen Elizabeth II? | Lessons concentrated on history, language, literature and music. Crawford published a biography of Elizabeth and Margaret's childhood years entitled "The Little Princesses" in 1950, much to the dismay of the royal family. The book describes Elizabeth's love of horses and dogs, her orderliness, and her attitude of responsibility. Others echoed such observations: Winston Churchill described Elizabeth when she was two as "a character. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant." Her cousin Margaret Rhodes described her as " | summer of 2011, stating "I hope the official medal will serve as a mark of thanks to all those who give so much in the name of society and public service and I extend my congratulations to all the recipients."
The Governor General of Canada, David Johnston, announced on 3 February 2011 that the Queen had approved the creation of the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and he and Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled the medal's design at Rideau Hall. The first medal was struck by the Governor General | 5,065 | triviaqa-train |
In which British city is Anderston Railway Station? | Anderston railway station
Anderston railway station serves Glasgow's financial district of Anderston and, across the M8 motorway, the housing schemes of both Anderston West and the Blythswood Court estate of the Anderston Centre. It is also close to both the Hilton and Marriott hotels. It is a manned station with an island platform and most of it is underground.
History.
The station was opened on 10 August 1896 by the Glasgow Central Railway which was subsequently absorbed by the Caledonian Railway. It later became part of the London, | St Leonards railway station (Scotland)
St. Leonards railway station is a closed railway station on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. It was Edinburgh's first railway station. The railway was built in 1831 to transport coal from the mining towns south of the city; and the following year opened passenger services. St. Leonards was the terminus for the south of the city and was named after the nearby region.
Passenger services ceased in 1846, when the North British Railway opened a station at North Bridge which later developed into Waverley | 5,066 | triviaqa-train |
What is the all-seated capacity of Wembley Stadium in London? | exactly the same purposes and has a capacity of 90,000.
Two Aviva Premiership rugby union teams are based in London, Saracens and Harlequins. London Scottish, London Welsh and London Irish play in the RFU Championship club and other rugby union clubs in the city include Richmond F.C., Rosslyn Park F.C., Westcombe Park R.F.C. and Blackheath F.C.. Twickenham Stadium in south-west London hosts home matches for the England national rugby union team and has a capacity of 82,000 now that the new south stand has been completed.
While rugby | Football Club moved after 93 years at Highbury to a new stadium at Ashburton Grove in Holloway. It was informally known as Ashburton Grove until a naming rights deal with Emirates was announced, and that name is still used by some people. The stadium opened in the summer of 2006, and has an all-seated capacity of 60,355, making it the second biggest stadium in the Premiership after Old Trafford and the third biggest in London after Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium. The overall cost of the project was £390 million. | 5,067 | triviaqa-train |
Which US President is depicted on a $50 banknote? | President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
In contemporary times, the president is looked upon as one of the world's most powerful political figures as the leader of the only remaining global superpower. The role includes responsibility for the world's most expensive military, which has | 1986 series of Canadian banknotes. The myth stated that the US flag could be seen flown on the Parliament buildings depicted behind Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the $5 banknote, Sir John A. Macdonald on the $10 note and William Lyon Mackenzie King on the $50 note. This flag was in fact the Canadian Red Ensign, which was contemporaneous with the three prime ministers, but in such a small size that it could be confused with the US flag.
See also.
- British ensigns
- Canadian | 5,068 | triviaqa-train |
A tridecagon has how many sides? | Tridecagon
In geometry, a tridecagon or triskaidecagon or 13-gon is a thirteen-sided polygon.
Regular tridecagon.
A "regular tridecagon" is represented by Schläfli symbol {13}.
The measure of each internal angle of a regular tridecagon is approximately 152.308 degrees, and the area with side length "a" is given by
Construction.
As 13 is a Pierpont prime but not a Fermat prime, the regular tridecagon cannot be constructed using a compass and straightedge. However, it is constructible using | neusis, or an angle trisector.
The following is an animation from a "neusis construction" of a regular tridecagon with radius of circumcircle formula_2 according to Andrew M. Gleason, based on the angle trisection by means of the Tomahawk (light blue).
An approximate construction of a regular tridecagon using straightedge and compass is shown here.
Another possible animation of an approximate construction, also possible with using straightedge and compass.
Construction Based on the unit circle r = 1 [unit of length].
- Constructed | 5,069 | triviaqa-train |
Who had a 1963 hit with the song ‘Little Boxes’? | Little Boxes
"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962, which became a hit for her friend Pete Seeger in 1963, when he released his cover version.
The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia, and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It mocks suburban tract housing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky", and which "all look just the same." "Ticky-tacky" is a reference | (1879–1915). (The "Little Red Song Book" had been a favorite of Woody Guthrie's, who was known to carry it around.)
Seeger toured Australia in 1963. His single "Little Boxes", written by Malvina Reynolds, was number one in the nation's Top 40s. That tour sparked a folk boom throughout the country at a time when popular music tastes, post-Kennedy assassination, competed between folk, the surfing craze, and the British rock boom which gave the world the Beatles | 5,070 | triviaqa-train |
What is US businessman and politician Mitt Romney’s first name? | Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician and businessman serving as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019. He previously served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election.
Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by his parents, George and Lenore Romney, he spent two-and-a-half years in France as a Mormon missionary starting in 1966. | the way of politics that you’re going to have some good years, and you’re going to have some bad years." A Romney campaign manager praised Crossroads and other Super PACs for "leveling the playing field [between Obama and Romney] in key target states". Rove also accused the Obama campaign of "suppressing the vote" by denigrating Mitt Romney’s character, business acumen, experience.” Crossroads' performance in the 2012 elections was criticised by conservative businessman Donald Trump, and "The Huffington Post" reported | 5,071 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the northernmost Scandinavian country? | Scandinavia
Scandinavia ( ) is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties. The term "Scandinavia" in local usage covers the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The majority national languages of these three, belong to the Scandinavian dialect continuum, and are mutually intelligible North Germanic languages. In English usage, Scandinavia also sometimes refers to the Scandinavian Peninsula, or to the broader region including Finland and Iceland, which is always known locally as the Nordic countries.
While | very high temperatures and drought, and like its neighbouring Scandinavian countries, several wildfires occurred. Its northernmost municipality of Utsjoki, north of the Arctic Circle, experienced a record-breaking temperature of in July.
By country France.
The French utility company EDF made known that on the morning of 4 August 2018 it had to shut down reactor number one of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant. This was necessary because the nearby river which is used for cooling water had reached a critical temperature.
The white storks in the Alsace | 5,072 | triviaqa-train |
In the US television series ‘Spin City’, who played Randall Winston, the dim-witted Mayor of New York City? | Island Children's Museum
- Staten Island Historical Society
- Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
- Staten Island Zoo
- Wave Hill
- Wildlife Conservation Society
In popular culture.
Local tabloid newspapers often refer to the mayor as "Hizzoner", a corruption of the title His Honor.
"Spin City", a 1990s TV sitcom, starred Michael J. Fox as a deputy mayor of New York under Barry Bostwick's fictional Mayor Randall Winston.
Several mayors have appeared in television and movies | In popular culture.
New York City Hall has played a central role in several films and television series. Examples include:
- "Spin City" (1996–2002), set in City Hall, starred Michael J. Fox as a Deputy Mayor making efforts to stop the dim-witted Mayor from embarrassing himself in front of the media and voters.
- "City Hall" (1996) starred Al Pacino as an idealistic Mayor and John Cusack as his Deputy Mayor, who leads an investigation with unexpectedly far-reaching | 5,073 | triviaqa-train |
Almere, Tilburg and Breda are all cities in which European country? | Breda
Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from "brede Aa" ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa.
As a fortified city, it was of strategic military and political significance. Although a direct Fiefdom of the Holy Roman Emperor, the city obtained a municipal charter; the acquisition of Breda, through marriage, by the House | connected with cities all over the country. Major destinations include:
Amsterdam, Amersfoort, Bergen op Zoom, Breda, Dordrecht, Delft, Den Haag, Eindhoven, Gouda, Groningen, Haarlem, Hoek van Holland (Ferry to Harwich UK), Leeuwarden, Leiden, Middelburg, Roosendaal, Tilburg, Utrecht, Venlo, Vlissingen and Zwolle.
There are also international services to Antwerpen, Brussels and Paris up to 14 times a day and to Lille twice per day.
Eurostar services from London to Amsterdam Centraal also | 5,074 | triviaqa-train |
Which US adult film actor is nicknamed ‘The Hedgehog’? | the sports comedy "Tetherball: The Movie" and appeared in the western comedy "Big Money Rustlas" featuring Insane Clown Posse in 2010.
Non-pornographic appearances Television.
In 1980, Jeremy competed on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" as Ron Hyatt. Among his winnings was a trip to Mazatlán.
Jeremy appeared in the second season of "The Surreal Life", during which he developed a close friendship with Tammy Faye Bakker despite her devout Christianity and disapproval of pornography, and returned to the franchise | actor
- Buck Jones (1891–1942), American actor, stuntman and cowboy
- Buck Angel (born 1962) is an American adult film actor and producer, and a motivational speaker.
See also.
- James Buchanan (1791–1868), fifteenth President of the United States, nicknamed "Old Buck"
- Robert C. Buchanan (1811–1878), Union Army general during the American Civil War nicknamed "Old Buck"
- John Buckley (Glen Rovers hurler) (born 1958), Irish former hurler | 5,075 | triviaqa-train |
How many players are on the court in a korfball team? | Invented in 1891 by Canadian-American gym teacher James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, basketball has evolved to become one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most significant professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague and FIBA Americas League. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and Men's Olympic | elected chair. Steph Watson (née Allen) is on maternity leave so Toby Clarke (of Trojans Korfball Club) is the coach for the squad for this season, with Darryl Light and Rosie Oxenbury continuing as the development coaches. Helen Gilmore is appointed as the club coach for both the 5th team and beginners, utilising her experience with new players having set up Essex Blades (the korfball club of the University of Essex).
The club trained in Finsbury Park in the summer and found success in many outdoor tournaments including | 5,076 | triviaqa-train |
The headquarters of the International Ice Hockey Federation is in which European city? | International Ice Hockey Federation
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; ; ) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey and in-line hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 76 members. It manages international ice hockey tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking.
Although the IIHF governs international competitions, the IIHF has no authority and very little influence on hockey in North America, where the rules of modern hockey were developed and where the National Hockey League (NHL) is the most influential hockey | Hockey Federation (IIHF) was founded in 1908, with a membership that consisted of five European nations. The federation has since grown to include 76 national association members as of 2019, and now oversees international events which include ice hockey at the Olympic Games, and the Ice Hockey World Championships.
The IIHF had amassed a collection of artifacts from these events over the years, but only displayed them in temporary exhibits. In 1991, the IIHF reached an agreement with the city of Kingston, Ontario, and the International Hockey | 5,077 | triviaqa-train |
In the children’s book ‘King of the Wind’ by Marguerite henry, what is the name of the little golden Arabian stallion? | , but a wheat ear on his chest, symbolizing bad luck. The mare dies within a few days, but Sham matures into a promising racehorse. Later on, the Sultan summons six horseboys to his palace, including Agba, and charges them to accompany six horses that are to be given as gifts to the French King Louis XV. The horseboy is to remain with that horse until the horse's death, then return to Morocco.
When the racehorses arrive in France, they are frowned upon by the French, | King of the Wind
King of the Wind is a novel by Marguerite Henry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949. It was made into a film of the same name in 1990.
Plot.
The story starts in Morocco, as the fast of Ramadan is ending. Agba, a mute slave boy, tends to his favorite Arabian mare, who gives birth that night. The colt has a white spot on his hind heel, considered the emblem of swiftness and good luck | 5,078 | triviaqa-train |
‘When are you gonna come down, When are you going to land’, are the opening lyrics to which Elton John song? | quartet that was completed by Caleb Quaye and Nigel Olsson.
Career Debut album to "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (1969–1973).
On the advice of music publisher Steve Brown, John and Taupin began writing more complex songs for John to record for DJM. The first was the single "I've Been Loving You" (1968), produced by Caleb Quaye, Bluesology's former guitarist. In 1969, with Quaye, drummer Roger Pope, and bassist Tony Murray, John recorded another single, "Lady Samantha" | the song is supported with a horn arrangement by Del Newman, and features backing vocals by Carl Wilson and Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys and Toni Tennille. Also on the song are percussion accents provided by Ray Cooper and a mellotron played by Dave Hentschel.
Elton John version Lyrics and music.
In the song, Elton John sings to someone he has helped and from whom he is now experiencing rejection:
I took a chance and changed your way of life
but you misread my meaning when I met you | 5,079 | triviaqa-train |
The Imperial Crown of India was created when which British monarch visited Delhi as Emperor of India? | Commonwealth and severed all ties with the monarchy. Northern Ireland remained within the Union. In 1927, the United Kingdom changed its name to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, while the monarch's style for the next twenty years became "of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India".
History Modern status.
In the 1990s, republicanism in the United Kingdom grew, partly on account of negative publicity associated with the Royal Family | on 22 June 1911, and was celebrated by the Festival of Empire in London. In July, the King and Queen visited Ireland for five days; they received a warm welcome, with thousands of people lining the route of their procession to cheer. Later in 1911, the King and Queen travelled to India for the Delhi Durbar, where they were presented to an assembled audience of Indian dignitaries and princes as the Emperor and Empress of India on 12 December 1911. George wore the newly created Imperial Crown of India at the | 5,080 | triviaqa-train |
Which northern Spanish city is famous for the ‘Running of the Bulls’? | variation is the nightly "fire bull" where balls of flammable material are placed on the horns. Currently the bull is often replaced by a runner carrying a frame on which fireworks are placed and dodgers, usually children, run to avoid the sparks.
In 2008, Red Bull Racing driver David Coulthard and Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Sébastien Bourdais performed a version of a 'bull running' event in Pamplona, Spain, with the Formula One cars chasing 500 runners through the actual Pamplona route.
The Big Easy Rollergirls roller | ) in honor of the battle's casualties.
Ayacucho is famous for its 33 churches, which represent one for each year of Jesus' life. Ayacucho has large religious celebrations, especially during the Holy Week of Easter. These celebrations include horse races featuring Peruvian Caballos de Paso and the traditional running of the bulls, known locally as the "jalatoro" or "pascuatoro". The "jalatoro" is similar to the Spanish "encierro", except that the bulls are led by horses of the Morochucos.
History | 5,081 | triviaqa-train |
How many full terms in office did US President F D Roosevelt serve? | historic announcement, numerous academics and public figures have looked at his decision to retire after two terms, and have, according to political scientist Bruce Peabody, "argued he had established a "two-term tradition" that served as a vital check against any one person, or the presidency as a whole, accumulating too much power". Numerous amendments aimed toward changing informal precedent into constitutional law were proposed in Congress during the early to mid-19th century, but none passed. Three of the next four presidents after Jefferson—James | years. Although nothing in the original frame of government limited how many presidential terms one could serve, the nation's first president, George Washington, declined to run for a third term, suggesting that two terms of four years were enough for any president. This precedent remained an unwritten rule of the presidency until broken by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected to a third term as president 1940 and in 1944 to a fourth.
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (1967) clarifies what happens upon the death, removal, | 5,082 | triviaqa-train |
In the human body, Skeletal, Smooth and Cardiac are all types of what? | circulatory system in terms of both its structure and its most basic function, to carry a body fluid.
Composition Systems Musculoskeletal system.
The musculoskeletal system consists of the human skeleton (which includes bones, ligaments, tendons, and cartilage) and attached muscles. It gives the body basic structure and the ability for movement. In addition to their structural role, the larger bones in the body contain bone marrow, the site of production of blood cells. Also, all bones are major storage sites for calcium and phosphate. This | eclipse of the sun occurred. This supposedly scared the Chichimeca and the Spanish claimed to have seen an image of Saint James (the patron saint of Spain) riding a white horse carrying a rose-colored cross. This event caused the Chichimeca to surrender. This event is why the city is called Santiago (Saint James) de Querétaro, with James as patron saint. A stone cross imitating the one the Spanish supposedly saw was erected on the hill, which later was accompanied by a church and monastery.
Spanish dominion | 5,083 | triviaqa-train |
In which European country was industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie born in 1835? | 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848 at age 12. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in | locations for amusements, picnicking and exercise, bringing in additional revenues to the streetcar company as its electrified lines spread throughout the town replacing the earlier horse-cars and omnibuses.
- In March 1890, Scottish-born steel industrialist and future philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, (1835–1919), of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who led Carnegie Steel Company and later is the founder of U.S. Steel Corporation, (then largest business in the world), stops in Baltimore for a few days visit after attending a Pan-American Conference in Washington | 5,084 | triviaqa-train |
Which planet in our solar system lies between Earth and Mercury? | , hurricanes, tectonics, and even hydrology.
Planets are generally divided into two main types: large low-density giant planets, and smaller rocky terrestrials. There are eight planets in the Solar System. In order of increasing distance from the Sun, they are the four terrestrials, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, then the four giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Six of the planets are orbited by one or more natural satellites.
Several thousands of planets around other stars | orbiting 40 Eridani A with a minimum mass of Earth masses. The planet has an orbit of 42 days, and lies considerably interior to the habitable zone, receiving 9 times more stellar flux than Earth, which is an even greater stellar flux amount than Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, on average receives from our Sun. It is one of the closest Super-Earths known, the closest discovered to date () within a multiple star system.
See also.
- 40 Eridani in fiction | 5,085 | triviaqa-train |
The Obvodny Canal is in which European country? | Obvodny Canal
Obvodny Canal (, lit. Bypass Canal) is the longest canal in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which in the 19th century served as the southern limit of the city. It is long and flows from the Neva River near Alexander Nevsky Lavra to the Yekaterinhofka not far from the sea port. The canal was dug in 1769–80 and 1805–33. By the late 19th century, after to the Industrial Revolution, it had effectively become a sewer collecting wastewater of adjacent industrial enterprises. Eventually the canal became shallow and no | Neva, some of the most important of which are the Moika, Fontanka, Griboyedov Canal, Obvodny Canal, Karpovka and Smolenka. Due to the intricate web of canals, Saint Petersburg is often called "Venice of the North". The rivers and canals in the city centre are lined with granite embankments. The embankments and bridges are separated from rivers and canals by granite or cast iron parapets.Southern suburbs of the city feature former imperial residences, including Petergof, with majestic fountain cascades and parks, Tsarskoe Selo, with | 5,086 | triviaqa-train |
Thomas Percy, the 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, was executed during the reign of which English monarch? | 1215–1217. Scotland relinquished all claims to the region as part of the Treaty of York (1237). The Earls of Northumberland once wielded significant power in English affairs because, as powerful and militaristic Marcher Lords, they had the task of protecting England from Scottish retaliation for English invasions.
Northumberland has a history of revolt and rebellion against the government, as seen in the Rising of the North (1569–1570) against Elizabeth I of England. These revolts were usually led by the Earls of Northumberland, the Percy family. Shakespeare | Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland
"Blessed" Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG (152822 August 1572), led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason. He was later beatified by the Catholic Church.
Early life.
Percy was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percy and Eleanor, daughter of Sir Guiscard Harbottal. He was the nephew of Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, with whom Anne Boleyn had a romantic association before she became the wife | 5,087 | triviaqa-train |
Which human rights activist delivered a speech in Cleveland, Ohio in April 1964 entitled ‘The Ballot or the Bullet’? | The Ballot or the Bullet
"The Ballot or the Bullet" is the title of a public speech by human rights activist Malcolm X. In the speech, which was delivered on April 3, 1964, at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, Malcolm X advised African Americans to judiciously exercise their right to vote, but he cautioned that if the government continued to prevent African Americans from attaining full equality, it might be necessary for them to take up arms. It was ranked 7th in the top 100 American speeches of | cohesion" and allows for more analytical "flexibility restrained by a purposive focus on particular goals." These changes expanded his appeal, therefore expanding his audience, illustrating his ability to use the freedom he found after separating from the Nation of Islam to his advantage in advancing himself as a member of the Civil Rights Movement.
External links.
- The Ballot or the Bullet, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, April 3, 1964 | 5,088 | triviaqa-train |
The ‘Aeneid’, an epic poem in 12 books, is the work of which ancient Roman? | Roma, suggested that the women burn the ships out at sea to prevent their leaving. At first, the men were angry with Roma, but they soon realized that they were in the ideal place to settle. They named the settlement after the woman who torched their ships.
The Roman poet Virgil recounted this legend in his classical epic poem the "Aeneid", where the Trojan prince Aeneas is destined by the gods to found a new Troy. In the epic, the women also refuse to go back to the | in which the poet prays that his poem will be successful, cautions it not to rival the "Aeneid", and hopes that his fame will outlive him.
Ancient reception and canonicity.
The "Thebaid" was popular in Statius's lifetime and (according to the epic’s final verse), Roman schoolboys were already memorizing passages from the epic before it was finished. Statius was personally favored by Emperor Domitian, and the educational use of his poem might be seen as a consequence of official favor; however, | 5,089 | triviaqa-train |
Howard Kirk is the fictional university lecturer in which Malcolm Bradbury novel? | 1970 and launched the MA in Creative Writing course, attended by both Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. He published "Possibilities: Essays on the State of the Novel" in 1973, "The History Man" in 1975, "Who Do You Think You Are?" in 1976, "Rates of Exchange" in 1983 and "Cuts: A Very Short Novel" in 1987. He retired from academic life in 1995.
Bradbury became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 for services to literature | job as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where he was preparing his PhD thesis on the Oxford Movement. At Birmingham, Lodge met the novelist Malcolm Bradbury, who was to become his "closest writer friend"; the example of Bradbury's comic writing was, according to Lodge, a major influence on the development of this aspect of his own work. In 1963, he collaborated with Malcolm Bradbury and another student, James Duckett, in the development of a satirical revue for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, entitled " | 5,090 | triviaqa-train |
Which English club is nicknamed ‘The Cottagers’? | Craven Cottage
Craven Cottage is a football stadium located in Fulham, London. It has been the home ground of Fulham F.C. since 1896.
The ground's current capacity is 25,700, all-seated, though the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall, 8 October 1938. Located next to Bishop's Park on the banks of the River Thames, 'Craven Cottage' was originally a royal hunting lodge and has history dating back over 300 years.
As well as by Fulham, the stadium has | Club career Fulham 2006–07 season.
In December 2006, English club Fulham offered MLS $4 million for the transfer of Dempsey, then the largest amount ever offered for an MLS player, and he became another American addition to a "Cottagers"' squad which included U.S. internationals Brian McBride and Carlos Bocanegra.
On January 11, 2007, he was granted a work permit from the Home Office as Fulham announced his signing on a long-term deal. This made Dempsey the most expensive American export to the Premier League in | 5,091 | triviaqa-train |
Which British city has areas called Anfield and Toxteth? | Anfield (disambiguation)
Anfield is the home stadium of Liverpool FC.
Anfield may also refer to:
- Anfield, New Brunswick, a community in New Brunswick, Canada
- Anfield (suburb), a district of Liverpool, England, UK
- Anfield (ward), a Liverpool City Council ward in the Liverpool Walton Parliamentary constituency
- Anfield Cemetery or the City of Liverpool Cemetery
See also.
- Annfield Plain, a village in County Durham, England
- Annfield Plain F.C., | — sparked a series of riots in areas with substantial African-Caribbean populations. These riots took place in St Pauls in 1980, Brixton, Toxteth and Moss Side in 1981, St Pauls again in 1982, Notting Hill Gate in 1982, Toxteth in 1982, and Handsworth, Brixton and Tottenham in 1985.
Black British 21st century.
Racism in Britain in general, including against black people, is considered to have declined over time. Academic Robert Ford demonstrates that social distance, measured using questions from the British Social | 5,092 | triviaqa-train |
How many fluid ounces in one Imperial pint? | Pint
The pint (symbol pt, sometimes abbreviated as "p") is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems. In both of those systems it is traditionally one-eighth of a gallon. The British imperial pint is about 20% larger than the American pint because the two systems are defined differently. Almost all other countries have standardized on the metric system, so the size of what may be called a pint varies depending on local custom.
The imperial pint | volume.
- Weight is measured in ounces and pounds (avoirdupois) as in the U.S.
- Volume is measured in Imperial gallons, quarts, pints, and fluid ounces. The Imperial gallon was originally defined as of water in 1824, and refined as exactly 4.54609 litres in 1985. Older recipes may well give measurements in cups; insofar as a standard cup was used, it was usually pint [~285 mL] (or sometimes pint [~190 mL]), but if the recipe is one that has been | 5,093 | triviaqa-train |
Equus Ferus Callabus is the scientific name for which animal? | be crossed with a female donkey (jenny) to produce a hinny.
Horse-donkey hybrids are almost always sterile because horses have 64 chromosomes whereas donkeys have 62, producing offspring with 63 chromosomes. Mules are much more common than hinnies. This is believed to be caused by two factors, the first being proven in cat hybrids, that when the chromosome count of the male is the higher, fertility rates drop. The lower progesterone production of the jenny may also lead to early embryonic loss. In addition, there | United States. Today, there is a school named for him on Walnut Street in Stoughton. He died at his family's home on Pearl Street on January 9, 1911, at the age of 57.
External links.
- Edwin A. Jones and history of the Stoughton Town Seal
- E.A. Jones: Composer and Violinist
References.
Roger L. Hall, "E..A. Jones: His Life and Music," (biographical booklet), Stoughton, MA: Old Stoughton Musical Society, 1984 | 5,094 | triviaqa-train |
A sovereign is a British gold coin worth how much in sterling? | in Adelaide did not wait for London to act, but set up an assay office, striking what became known as the "Adelaide Pound". In 1853, an Order in Council approved the establishment of the Sydney Mint; the Melbourne Mint would follow in 1872, and the Perth Mint in 1899. The act which regulated currency in New South Wales came into force on 18 July 1855 and stipulated that the gold coins were to be called sovereigns and half-sovereigns. They were also to be the same weight, fineness | Medina de Pomar
Medina de Pomar is a municipality and town located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. It is situated 77 km from Bilbao, and 88 km from Burgos, the capital of the province, 8 kilometres from Villarcayo and about 20 km from Espinosa de los Monteros, which are the most important towns in the surroundings of Medina de Pomar.
Medina de Pomar is part of the Comarca of Las Merindades with its varied landscape. The rivers Nela, Trueba and Salón | 5,095 | triviaqa-train |
How many points are scored for a converted try in Rugby Union? | their "de facto" national sport include Fiji, Georgia, Madagascar, New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga.
International matches have taken place since 1871 when the first game took place between Scotland and England at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh. The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years. The Six Nations Championship in Europe and The Rugby Championship in the Southern Hemisphere are other major international competitions, held annually.
National club or provincial competitions include the Premiership in England, the Top 14 in | Laws of rugby union
The laws of Rugby Union are defined by World Rugby (originally the International Rugby Football Board, and later International Rugby Board) and dictate how the game should be played. They are enforced by a referee, generally with the help of two assistant referees.
When playing a game of Rugby Union the overall objective is to score more points than the opposition through tries and goals. A try worth five points is scored when a team grounds the ball in the opposition's in-goal. A | 5,096 | triviaqa-train |
How many bronze lions are at the base of Nelson’s Column in London? | individuals than any other city. London's universities form the largest concentration of higher education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted three modern Summer Olympic Games.
London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2016 municipal population (corresponding to Greater London) was 8,787,892, the most populous of any city in the European Union and accounting for 13.4% of the UK population. London's urban area is the second | , his bronze lions at the base of Nelson's column were hung with wreaths, and large crowds lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege pass. Landseer was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
At his death, Landseer left behind three unfinished paintings: "Finding the Otter", "Nell Gwynne", and "The Dead Buck", all on easels in his studio. It was his dying wish that his friend John Everett Millais should complete the paintings, and this he did.
Miscellaneous | 5,097 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the first person to commit murder in the Bible? | sin. In one of the "Legends of the Jews", Cain is the fruit of a union between Eve and Satan, who is also the angel Samael and the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and Eve exclaims at Cain's birth, "I have gotten a man through an angel of the Lord."
According to the "Life of Adam and Eve", Cain fetched his mother a reed ("qaneh") which is how he received his name "Qayin" (Cain). The | an offence committed or alleged to have been committed by a young person who has attained the age of fourteen years. An adult sentence can be imposed on a young person who is found guilty of an offence for which an adult can be sentenced to imprisonment for more than two years if the offence was committed after a young person is fourteen years of age.
Presumptive offence may be used under one of the following charges: first-degree or second-degree murder, attempt to commit murder, manslaughter or aggravated sexual assault | 5,098 | triviaqa-train |
Aberdeen’s Bridge of Dee has how many arches? | Bridge of Dee
The Bridge of Dee or Brig o' Dee is a road bridge over the River Dee in Aberdeen, Scotland. The term is also used for the surrounding area of the city. Dating from 1527, the bridge crosses at what was once the City of Aberdeen's southern boundary. This was the site of a battle in 1639 between the Royalists under Viscount Aboyne and the Covenanters who were led by the Marquess of Montrose and Earl Marischal. This was the only substantial action of the First Bishops' War | 15th century, records:
"Bishop Hugo built the bridge of Elvit, called the New Bridge to distinguish it from the other bridge, already built, which is called the Old Bridge."
The bridge has 10 visible arches, but there is some dispute over how many arches exist in total. The early 16th-century antiquary John Leland believed there were 14 arches, but this has never been proven. The river flows through four full arches – the remaining are dry or partly so. The early 19th- | 5,099 | triviaqa-train |
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