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Carlo Buccirosso is best known for what Italian art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino?
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Title: The Great Beauty
Passage: The Great Beauty (Italian: La grande bellezza ] ) is a 2013 Italian art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, the 2013 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (winning Grand Prix), and at the 2013 Reykjavik European Film Festival.
Title: Carlo Buccirosso
Passage: Carlo Buccirosso (1 May 1954 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian actor, film director and comedian best known for his roles in Il divo (2008), Un'estate ai Caraibi (2009) and Un ciclone in famiglia (2006-2008), The Great Beauty (2013).
Title: Youth (2015 film)
Passage: Youth is a 2015 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is the director's second English language film, and stars Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as best friends who reflect on their lives while holidaying in the Swiss Alps. It is a story of the eternal struggle between age and youth, the past and the future, life and death, commitment and betrayal. The cast also includes Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda.
Title: This Must Be the Place (film)
Passage: This Must Be the Place is a 2011 European drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello and released in the U.S. in late 2012. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. The film deals with a middle-aged wealthy rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of finding his father's tormentor, a Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the United States.
Title: The Consequences of Love
Passage: The Consequences of Love (Italian: Le conseguenze dell'amore ) is a 2004 Italian psychological thriller film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It tells the story of a lonely and secretive Italian businessman living in a Swiss hotel. The film competed at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It won five David di Donatello awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor. It was also the first film to achieve widespread critical acclaim for Sorrentino.
Title: Un'estate ai Caraibi
Passage: Un'estate ai Caraibi is a 2009 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina. It stars Gigi Proietti, Enrico Brignano, Carlo Buccirosso, Biagio Izzo, and Martina Stella.
Title: One Man Up
Passage: One Man Up (Italian: L'uomo in più ) is a 2001 Italian comedy-drama film. It entered the "Cinema del presente" section at the 58th Venice International Film Festival. It marked the directorial debut of Paolo Sorrentino, who was awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. The film also won the Ciak d'oro for the script and the Grolla d'oro to actor Toni Servillo.
Title: Il Divo (film)
Passage: Il Divo (] , "The Divine") is a 2008 Italian biographical drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is based on the figure of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. It competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, where it was awarded the Jury Prize. The film also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010.
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The Great Beauty
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Carlo Buccirosso
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The Great Beauty
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What do Lilibet Foster and Baltasar Kormákur have in common?
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Title: Lilibet Foster
Passage: Lilibet Foster is an American director, producer and writer. Her non-fiction films have won the Independent Spirit: Truer Than Fiction Award and been Nominated for Best Film of the Year by the International Documentary Association.
Title: Baltasar Kormákur
Passage: Baltasar Kormákur Samper (born 27 February 1966) is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films "101 Reykjavík", "Hafið", "A Little Trip to Heaven" (starring Julia Stiles and Forest Whitaker), a film based on the book "Mýrin" "(Jar City)" by Arnaldur Indriðason, "Contraband", "2 Guns" (starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington) and "Everest". His father is the Spanish painter Baltasar Samper and actor Baltasar Breki Samper is his son.
Title: Reykjavík-Rotterdam
Passage: Reykjavík-Rotterdam is an Icelandic film directed by Óskar Jónasson and starring Baltasar Kormákur.
Title: Everest (2015 film)
Passage: Everest is a 2015 British-American biographical adventure film directed and co-produced by Baltasar Kormákur, co-produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Tyler Thompson and Brian Oliver and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy, adapted from Beck Weathers' memoir "Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest" (2000). It stars an ensemble cast of Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal. It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, and focuses on the survival attempts of two expedition groups, one led by Rob Hall (Clarke) and the other by Scott Fischer (Gyllenhaal).
Title: White Night Wedding
Passage: White Night Wedding (Icelandic: "Brúðguminn" ) is a 2008 Icelandic film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. The bittersweet comedy, about the never-ending search for love and happiness, takes place in Flatey, Breiðafjörður, western Iceland. The film is loosely based on the play "Ivanov" by Anton Chekhov.
Title: Contraband (2012 film)
Passage: Contraband is a 2012 American crime thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna and J. K. Simmons. The film is a remake of the 2008 Icelandic film "Reykjavík-Rotterdam" which Baltasar Kormákur starred in. It was released on January 13, 2012 in the United States by Universal Pictures.
Title: The Oath (2016 film)
Passage: The Oath (Icelandic: Eiðurinn ) is a 2016 Icelandic thriller film written by, directed and starring Baltasar Kormákur. It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Title: Blueeyes Productions
Passage: Blueeyes Productions was an Icelandic film production company. The company was founded in 1999 by director Baltasar Kormákur and his wife Lilja Pálmadóttir. After producing 12 films, RVK Studios has superseded the company and movies like Everest and Fúsi were then produced by the name RVK Studios.
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director, producer
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Lilibet Foster
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Baltasar Kormákur
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What parts of life in many Italian regions is included in an investigative book by Roberto Saviano and includes organized crime in Italy?
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Title: Gomorrah (book)
Passage: Gomorra is a non-fiction investigative book by Roberto Saviano published in 2006 documenting Saviano's infiltration and investigation of various areas of business and daily life controlled or affected by the Italian criminal organization known as Camorra.
Title: Organized crime in Italy
Passage: Organized crime in Italy and its criminal organizations have been prevalent in Italy, especially Southern Italy, for centuries and have affected the social and economic life of many Italian regions since at least the 19th century.
Title: Vieni via con me
Passage: Vieni via con me "(Come away with me)" is a TV programme presented by Fabio Fazio and Roberto Saviano, broadcast by the Italian public TV channel RAI Tre. The show ran on Monday evenings, from 8 November 2010 to 29 November 2010.
Title: The Drawbridge
Passage: The Drawbridge is a quarterly newspaper started in London in 2006. It is a full-colour independent paper that has published articles by Isabel Allende, J. G. Ballard, John Berger, Terry Eagleton, Umberto Eco, John N. Gray, Eric Hobsbawm, Siri Hustvedt, Etgar Keret, Simon McBurney, Alberto Manguel, DBC Pierre, Tracy Quan, Jonathan Raban, José Saramago, Roberto Saviano, Dubravka Ugrešić, Mario Vargas Llosa, Irvine Welsh, Edmund White and Tobias Wolff alongside photography and drawings by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Brian Cronin, Paul Davis, Jeff Fisher, Paul Fryer, Paul Graham, Jaki Jo, David Moore, Martin Parr, Robert Polidori, David Shrigley, Joel Sternfeld, Emer O'Brien, and Peter Till.
Title: List of American mobsters of Irish descent
Passage: This is a list of Irish-American mobsters which includes organized crime figures of predominantly Irish-American criminal organizations or individual mobsters from the early 1900s to the present. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a mobster.
Title: Gomorrah (TV series)
Passage: Gomorrah is a 2014 Italian television crime drama series. It is based on the book "Gomorrah" by Roberto Saviano and the film "Gomorrah" directed by Matteo Garrone.
Title: Malavita
Passage: La malavita (] ; literally, "the bad life" or "evil life") is an Italian language word with multiple meanings in Italian. It is most commonly used to referred to the criminal underworld or "gangland", gang life, the world of racketeering, and organized crime in general, but especially organized crime in Italy. More specifically, "malavita" is also used to refer to a culture of crime historically found in certain regions of Southern Italy and often viewed as the result of centuries of government oppression and foreign occupation. Within this culture, mafiosi, outlaws, criminals and, historically, brigands are supported or tolerated by local communities and citizens under the code of "omertà". Within these communities, criminals or mafiosi may be glorified as folk heroes or Robin Hood-like figures.
Title: Tatanka (film)
Passage: Tatanka is a 2011 Italian drama film written, directed and starred by Giuseppe Gagliardi. It is based on the short story by Roberto Saviano "Tatanka scatenato".
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social and economic life of many Italian regions
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Gomorrah (book)
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Organized crime in Italy
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Are Sloane Stephens and Martin Damm both retired tennis players?
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Title: Martin Damm
Passage: Martin Damm (born 1 August 1972) is a former a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known as a doubles player (his highest ranking being No. 5 in the world in April 2007). His highest singles ranking was No. 42 in August 1997. Damm won a total of 40 titles in doubles, including one Grand Slam title. He reached 5 singles finals.
Title: Sloane Stephens
Passage: Sloane Stephens (born March 20, 1993) is an American tennis player. She has won five WTA singles titles, including her first major at the 2017 US Open. With the victory, she became the lowest ranked player (83rd) to ever win the women's singles title and the first American woman outside the Williams sisters to win a Slam since Jennifer Capriati in 2002.
Title: 1999 du Maurier Open – Men's Doubles
Passage: Martin Damm and Jim Grabb were the defending champions, but competed this year with different partners. Damm teamed up with Max Mirnyi and lost in second round to Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach, while Grabb teamed up with Goran Ivanišević and lost in quarterfinals also against Ferreira-Leach.
Title: 2002 CA-TennisTrophy – Doubles
Passage: Martin Damm and Radek Štěpánek were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Damm with Cyril Suk and Štěpánek with Jiří Novák.
Title: 2006 Dubai Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Passage: Martin Damm and Radek Štěpánek were the defending champions. Damm partnered with Leander Paes, losing in the semifinals. Štěpánek partnered with Tomáš Berdych, losing in the quarterfinals.
Title: 2007 Open 13 – Doubles
Passage: Martin Damm and Radek Štěpánek were the defending champions. Damm did not participate this year. Štěpánek partnered with Mahesh Bhupathi, but withdrew from the first round.
Title: 2016 Volvo Car Open – Singles
Passage: Angelique Kerber was the defending champion, but retired in the semifinals against Sloane Stephens.
Title: Madison Keys
Passage: Madison Keys (born on February 17, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. She has won three WTA Premier tournaments, and was the first American woman to debut in the top 10 since Serena Williams in 1999, seventeen years earlier. When Keys faced Sloane Stephens in the 2017 US Open final, they become the first Americans other than the Williams sisters to contest a Grand Slam final since 2005. As of September 2017, she is ranked world No. 12 in singles and the second-highest ranked American player overall behind Venus Williams.
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no
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Sloane Stephens
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Martin Damm
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Which has more species Leucothoe or Cyperus?
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Title: Cyperus
Passage: Cyperus is a large genus of about 700 species of sedges, distributed throughout all continents in both tropical and temperate regions.
Title: Leucothoe (plant)
Passage: Leucothoe is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to Asia, the Americas and Madagascar.
Title: Cyperus bipartitus
Passage: Cyperus bipartitus, commonly known as slender flatsedge, river cyperus, or the shining flatsedge, is a common species of sedge. The name "slender flatsedge" also applies to "Cyperus gracilis".
Title: Leucothoe incisa
Passage: Leucothoe incisa is an amphipod in the family Leucothoidae. It grows up to 7 mm long, and is whitish in colour, but a yellowish green along the back, with intensely red eyes. It lives at depths of up to 60 m along the Atlantic coast of Europe from the Mediterranean Sea to Scotland, and in the North Sea. It is part of group of sibling species, together with "Leucothoe lilljeborgi" and "Leucothoe occulta".
Title: Cyperus pseudothyrsiflorus
Passage: Cyperus pseudothyrsiflorus is a plant species native to Nuevo León, New Mexico and Texas, a member of "Cyperus" subgenus "Cyperus". It occurs in cultivated fields and other disturbed areas at elevations of less than 1000 m (3400 feet).
Title: Cyperus articulatus
Passage: Cyperus articulatus is an aromatic species of sedge known by the common names jointed flatsedge and priprioca. It has also been known as Guinea rush or adrue. It grows as a perennial herb. It grows in water or near it in rivers, streams, lakes, and swamps with a hyperhydrate (emergent aquatic) or possibly tenagophyte (submerged juvenile and terrestrial adult) growth pattern. It is widespread across tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, the southeastern United States, the West Indies, and Latin America. While it is closely related to highly invasive sedges such as purple nut sedge ("Cyperus rotundus"), priprioca is less prolific and competitive than its relative.
Title: Cyperus rotundus
Passage: Cyperus rotundus (coco-grass, Java grass, nut grass, purple nut sedge or purple nutsedge, red nut sedge, Khmer kravanh chruk) is a species of sedge (Cyperaceae) native to Africa, southern and central Europe (north to France and Austria), and southern Asia. The word "cyperus" derives from the Greek κύπερος , "kyperos", and "rotundus" is from Latin, meaning "round". The earliest attested form of the word "cyperus" is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀞𐀫 , "ku-pa-ro", written in <a href="Linear%20B">Linear B</a> syllabic script.
Title: Cyperus elegans
Passage: Cyperus elegans, the royal flatsedge, is a sedge species in the genus "Cyperus" from Central and South America.
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Cyperus
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Leucothoe (plant)
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Cyperus
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Which rock band, Transvision Vamp or Paramore, are from Franklin, Tennessee?
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Title: Paramore
Passage: Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band currently consists of lead vocalist Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York and drummer Zac Farro.
Title: Transvision Vamp
Passage: Transvision Vamp were a British alternative rock group. Formed in 1986 by Nick Christian Sayer and Wendy James, the band enjoyed chart success in the late 1980s with their pop/punk sound. James, the lead singer and focal-point of the group, attracted media attention with her sexually charged and rebellious image.
Title: Number One (Racine album)
Passage: Number One is the first album released by indie rock band Racine. The band was fronted by Wendy James, who was notable for previously being the lead singer of the late 80's pop/rock band Transvision Vamp.
Title: Pop Art (album)
Passage: Pop Art is the debut album from UK pop/rock band Transvision Vamp. It was released in October 1988 and featured the band's first top ten hit "I Want Your Love". The album reached #4 in the UK, and peaked at #13 in Australia, where it was the 25th highest-selling album of 1989.
Title: The Nameless One (song)
Passage: "The Nameless One" is the debut solo single from former Transvision Vamp lead singer Wendy James. It was released in the first quarter of 1993 as the lead single from James' debut solo album "Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears". Written by Elvis Costello, the song marked a more alternative direction in sound, slightly different from the pop/rock stylings of Transvision Vamp. The single met with limited success, only peaking at number thirty-four on the UK Singles Chart and spending just three weeks in the top one-hundred.
Title: Baby I Don't Care (album)
Passage: Baby I Don't Care is a budget compilation album by the British pop rock band Transvision Vamp comprising all their singles, selected album tracks and extended versions. It was released on CD in 2002 on the Spectrum Music label.
Title: Tell That Girl to Shut Up
Passage: "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" is a song written by Holly Beth Vincent and originally recorded by her band, Holly and the Italians in 1979. A cover version by UK pop/rock band Transvision Vamp was released in 1988 as the second single from their debut album "Pop Art".
Title: Kiss Their Sons
Passage: Kiss Their Sons is a compilation album by the British pop rock band Transvision Vamp comprising all their singles and selected album tracks. The title is taken from a song originally on the "Velveteen" album (also included here). It was released on CD in 1998 as both a standard version and as a limited edition double CD featuring extended versions and b-sides.
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Paramore
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Transvision Vamp
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Paramore
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The Mulgara and Tasmanian Devil were originally both native to which continent?
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Title: Tasmanian devil
Passage: The Tasmanian devil ("Sarcophilus harrisii") is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was once native to mainland Australia and now found in the wild only on the island state of Tasmania, including tiny east-coast Maria Island where there is a conservation project with disease-free animals.
Title: Mulgara
Passage: Mulgaras are the two species in the genus Dasycercus. They are marsupial carnivores, closely related to the Tasmanian devil and the quolls, that live in deserts and spinifex bush of central Australia, but are extinct in New South Wales. They are 12.5–22 cm long with a 7– to 13-cm tail. They are nocturnal, but occasionally "sunbathe" in the entrance of the burrow in which they dwell. Their kidneys are highly developed to excrete extremely concentrated urine to preserve water, as the animals rarely drink. They feed mostly on insects, but also eat lizards and young snakes. They breed from June–September and have litters of six or seven young. The pouch comprises two lateral folds of skin.
Title: Swamp antechinus
Passage: The swamp antechinus ("Antechinus minimus"), also known as the little Tasmanian marsupial mouse, is a species of shrew-like marsupial of the family Dasyuridae and as such is related to dunnarts, quolls and the Tasmanian devil.
Title: Devil May Hare
Passage: Devil May Hare is a 1954 Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" cartoon was released on June 19, 1954. This theatrical cartoon was directed by Robert McKimson and starred Mel Blanc playing the voices of Bugs Bunny, the Tasmanian Devil, and the turtle. This short is featured on the "" DVD box set, as well as the "" DVD box set. It also appeared in the "" Blu-ray box set alongside "Bedevilled Rabbit", "Ducking the Devil", "Bill of Hare", and "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare".
Title: Tasmanian Devil (disambiguation)
Passage: A Tasmanian devil is a Tasmanian marsupial.
Title: Tasmanian Devil (NHRA dragracing)
Passage: The Tasmanian Devil was the name of a drag racing car in the 1960s, named after the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character.
Title: Dasyurini
Passage: The tribe Dasyurini includes several genera of small carnivorous marsupials native to Australia: quolls, kowari, mulgara, kaluta, dibblers, neophascogales, pseudantechinuses, and the Tasmanian devil.
Title: Dasyurinae
Passage: The subfamily Dasyurinae includes several genera of small carnivorous marsupials native to Australia: quolls, kowari, mulgara, kaluta, dibblers, phascogales, pseudantechinuses, and the Tasmanian devil. The subfamily is defined largely on biochemical criteria.
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Australia
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Mulgara
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Tasmanian devil
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Were both Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Anthony Kimmins screenwriters?
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Title: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Passage: Jean-Pierre Jeunet (] ; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films "Delicatessen", "The City of Lost Children", "" and "Amélie".
Title: Anthony Kimmins
Passage: Anthony Martin Kimmins (born 10 November 1901 – 19 May 1964) was an English director, playwright, screenwriter, producer and actor.
Title: The Diplomatic Lover
Passage: The Diplomatic Lover is a 1934 British musical romance film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Harold French, Tamara Desni and Davy Burnaby.
Title: The City of Lost Children
Passage: The City of Lost Children (French: La cité des enfants perdus ) is a 1995 science fantasy drama film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, "Delicatessen" and "Amélie".
Title: His Majesty and Company
Passage: His Majesty and Company or His Majesty and Co is a 1935 British musical film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring John Garrick, Barbara Waring and Morton Selten. It was at Wembley Studios by the British subsidiary of the Fox Film Company.
Title: Amélie
Passage: Amélie (also known as Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain; ] ; English: "The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain" ) is a 2001 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany. Taking in over $33 million in a limited theatrical release, it is to date the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States, and one of the biggest international successes for a French movie.
Title: The Amorous Prawn
Passage: The Amorous Prawn or The Amorous Mr. Prawn is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker. The film was based on a farcical play by Kimmins.
Title: Once in a New Moon
Passage: Once in a New Moon is a 1935 British science fiction film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Eliot Makeham, René Ray and Morton Selten. It is a quota quickie, made at Shepperton Studios.
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yes
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Anthony Kimmins
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Which famous Marathi singer preformed at the Vasant Cineme in Pune?
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Title: Vasant Cinema, Pune
Passage: Vasant Cinema is the oldest Theater in Pune located near Shanivar-wada. The theater began in early 90's as a Marathi theatre for drama where famous artists such as Bal Gandharva and many more performed. Now Vasant Cinema plays movies of Bollywood and Marathi movies are screened.
Title: Bal Gandharva
Passage: Narayan Shripad Rajhans, better known as Bal Gandharva (26 June 1888 – 15 July 1967), was one of the greatest Marathi singers and stage actors. He was famous for his roles in female characters in Marathi plays, since women were not allowed to act on stage during his time.
Title: Carry On Maratha
Passage: Carry On Maratha is a 2015 Romance, Action Marathi language film that was directed by Sanjay Londhe. The film is going to release on 24 July 2015. This movie is directorial debut of Sanjay Londhe. It stars Gashmeer Mahajani and Kashmira Kulkarni in lead. It is also debut of Gashmeer Mahajani son of Famous Marathi actor Ravindra Mahajani.
Title: Shivaji Sawant
Passage: Shivaji Sawant (Marathi: शिवाजी सावंत ; 31 August 1940 – 18 September 2002) was a renowned novelist in Marathi. He is known as Mrityunjaykar (meaning Maker of Mrityunjay) for writing the famous Marathi novel Mrityunjay. He was the first marathi writer to be awarded with prestigious Moortidevi Award in 1994.
Title: Ravindra Sathe
Passage: Ravindra Sathe is an Indian playback singer in Marathi film industry. He was the original cast and crew member of famous Marathi theatre Ghashiram Kotwal.
Title: Bal Gandharva Ranga Mandir
Passage: Bal Gandharva Ranga Mandir is a theatre auditorium and exhibition hall located in Pune, India. The theatre was built in 1962 and is named after Marathi singer and stage actor Bal Gandharva.
Title: Abhiram Bhadkamkar
Passage: Abhiram Bhadkamkar is an Indian film actor, director and writer. He mainly worked as a writer in different films, serials and plays. Some of his famous films, as a writer, are Balgandharva, Pachadlela, Aai, Khabardar, A rainy day, Paulwaat and many more. His famous marathi plays, as a writer, are Dehbhan, Altun Paltun, Pahuna, Sukhanshi Bhadato Amhi, Ladi Najariya, Hasat Khelat, Jyacha Tyacha Prashna and many more. His plays are performed in Hindi, Kannad and Gujrathi in addition to Marathi theatre. A film directed by him is Aamhi Asu Ladke, presented and well received in many international and national film festivals. His collection of stories and novels are published by publishers/ publications of repute. His acting in films has won accolads He acted in different "Marathi" and "Hindi" films and TV serials. Abhiram has written story of upcoming Marathi comedy film "Jalsa".
Title: Rajendra Banhatti
Passage: Rajendra Banhatti (Devanagari: राजेन्द्र बनहट्टी) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He is the son of famous Marathi writer and biographer Shrinivas Narayan Banhatti. He completed his MA in English and MA in Psychology. He was the director of a publishing house in Pune. Banhatti has been awarded the Maharashtra State Literary Award four times for his books.
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Bal Gandharva
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Vasant Cinema, Pune
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Bal Gandharva
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The 18th TCA Awards were hosted by which stand-up comedian?
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Title: 18th TCA Awards
Passage: The 18th TCA Awards were presented by the Television Critics Association. Bob Newhart hosted the ceremony on July 20, 2002, at the Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, California.
Title: Bob Newhart
Passage: George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery. Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues, "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart", became a worldwide bestseller and reached number one on the "Billboard" pop album chart—it remains the 20th-best selling comedy album in history. The follow-up album, "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!" , was also a massive success, and the two albums held the "Billboard" number one and number two spots simultaneously.
Title: 29th TCA Awards
Passage: The nominees for the 29th TCA Awards were announced by the Television Critics Association on June 10, 2013. Winners were announced on August 3, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in a ceremony hosted by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
Title: 17th TCA Awards
Passage: The 17th TCA Awards were presented by the Television Critics Association. Christopher Titus hosted the ceremony on July 21, 2001 at the Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, Calif.
Title: 25th TCA Awards
Passage: The 25th TCA Awards were presented by the Television Critics Association. Chelsea Handler hosted the ceremony on August 1 at the Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, Calif.
Title: 27th TCA Awards
Passage: The 27th TCA Awards were presented by the Television Critics Association. Nick Offerman hosted the ceremony on August 6 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Title: 19th TCA Awards
Passage: The 19th TCA Awards were presented by the Television Critics Association. Wanda Sykes hosted the ceremony on July 19, 2003 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel.
Title: 24th TCA Awards
Passage: The 24th TCA Awards were presented by the Television Critics Association. The Smothers Brothers hosted the ceremony on July 19 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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George Robert Newhart
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18th TCA Awards
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Bob Newhart
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What football player left the Superliga side OB when he won Goalkeeper of the Year award in Denmark and Norway in 2010?
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Title: Anders Lindegaard
Passage: Anders Rozenkrantz Lindegaard (] ; born 13 April 1984) is a Danish footballer who plays for English club Burnley as a goalkeeper. He began his career with his hometown club, Odense Boldklub, but a lack of first-team opportunities led to a move to Norwegian club Aalesund in 2009, with whom he won the Norwegian Football Cup. After winning the Goalkeeper of the Year award in both Denmark and Norway in 2010, Lindegaard was signed by Manchester United, where he played for five years as a back-up to Edwin van der Sar and David de Gea. He moved to West Bromwich Albion in 2015, but was unable to break into the team and joined Preston North End in January 2016, initially on loan. He joined Burnley in September 2017.
Title: Sten Grytebust
Passage: Sten Michael Grytebust (born 25 October 1989) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Superliga side OB. Since Anders Lindegaard left for Manchester United, Grytebust has been the first choice goalkeeper for Aalesund. He made his debut for Norway in 2013.
Title: Nikola Šipčić
Passage: Born in Priboj, Šipčić started his career at the local club FAP. Playing as a senior, Šipčić appeared in the Drina Zone League as a bonus player until the end of 2013, when he left the club. At the beginning of 2014, Šipčić joined Serbian SuperLiga side OFK Beograd and passed the winter break off-season with the first team. After the end of 2013–14 Serbian SuperLiga season, when he overgrown youth selection, Šipčić left the club without official caps.
Title: Mikkel Desler
Passage: Mikkel Desler Puggaard (born 19 February 1995) is a Danish footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Danish Superliga side OB.
Title: Frederik Børsting
Passage: Frederik Lindbøg Børsting (born 13 February 1995) is a Danish football player who plays for Danish Superliga side AaB. He joined the club from RKG Klarup when he was a youth player.
Title: Ólafur Kristjánsson
Passage: Ólafur Helgi Kristjánsson (born 20 May 1968 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic football manager and former football player, who is the manager of Danish Superliga side Randers FC.
Title: Mathias Thrane
Passage: Mathias Thrane (born 4 September 1993) is a Danish football player who plays for Danish Superliga side OB.
Title: Stephan Andersen
Passage: Stephan Maigaard Andersen (born 26 November 1981) is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a goalkeeper for Danish Superliga side F.C. Copenhagen. He is also a full international for the Denmark national football team and was chosen to represent his country at UEFA Euro 2004, the 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012.
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Anders Lindegaard
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Sten Grytebust
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Anders Lindegaard
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Are Rich Christiano and Kay Pollak both film directors?
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Title: Kay Pollak
Passage: Kay Gunnar Leopold Pollak (born 21 May 1938) is a Swedish film director.
Title: Rich Christiano
Passage: Rich Christiano (born October 2, 1956) is an American filmmaker, who has directed, produced and written many Christian films. He owns Christiano Film Group, co-founded Five & Two Pictures and founded ChristianMovies.com in 1997. He is also the brother of Dave Christiano.
Title: Five & Two Pictures
Passage: Five & Two Pictures is an independent Christian film production company founded in 2002 by Dave Christiano and Rich Christiano. They have produced several Christian feature films; "Time Changer", "Unidentified", "Me & You, Us, Forever", "The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry" and "A Matter of Faith".
Title: Unidentified
Passage: Unidentified is a 2006 science fiction Christian film produced by Rich Christiano and Alvin Mount. It was written and directed by Rich Christiano and stars Jonathan Aube, Josh Adamson, Michael Blain-Rozgay, Jenna Bailey, Lance Zitron, and the popular Christian pop rock musician Rebecca St. James, starring in her first film. The film deals with UFOs and how they could possibly play into the end times.
Title: Second Glance (film)
Passage: Second Glance is a 1992 Christian drama film directed by Rich Christiano. It is one of the Christiano Brothers' films to be viewable on Sky Angel's "Video On Demand" service, announced in 2008. The film follows the story of a young Christian, Daniel (David A. R. White), and his great internal conflict at home and in a public high school.
Title: Dave Christiano
Passage: Dave Christiano (born October 2, 1956) is a Christian filmmaker and twin brother of Rich Christiano. He owns Dave Christiano Films and ChristianFilms.com. Several of Christiano's films have been released to theaters.
Title: The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry
Passage: The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry is a 2008 Christian film, released to theaters on September 18, 2009. It was directed by Rich Christiano, and the majority of the film was filmed in Holley, New York, beginning August 18, 2007. Its world premier was at the Merrimack Valley Christian Film Festival. Gavin MacLeod, who also starred in "The Love Boat" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" plays the lead role in the film.
Title: Börje Ahlstedt
Passage: Nils Börje Ahlstedt (born 21 February 1939) is a Swedish actor who has worked extensively with the world-famous director Ingmar Bergman in films like "Fanny and Alexander" (1982), "The Best Intentions" (1992), "Sunday's Children" (1992) and "Saraband" (2003). Ahlstedt has also worked with the directors Bo Widerberg and Kay Pollak.
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yes
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Rich Christiano
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Kay Pollak
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Ukulele Ike starred in a 1937 American drama directed by who?
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Title: Between Two Women (1937 film)
Passage: Between Two Women is a 1937 American drama film directed by George B. Seitz and written by Frederick Stephani and Marion Parsonnet. The film stars Franchot Tone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce, Leonard Penn and Cliff Edwards. The film was released on July 9, 1937, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Title: Cliff Edwards
Passage: Clifton Avon Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971) — known as "Ukulele Ike" — was an American singer, actor and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' In The Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947).
Title: White Bondage
Passage: White Bondage is a 1937 American drama film directed by Nick Grinde and written by Anthony Coldeway. The film stars Jean Muir, Gordon Oliver, Howard Phillips, Joe King, Harry Davenport and Virginia Brissac. The film was released by Warner Bros. on August 5, 1937.
Title: Once a Doctor
Passage: Once a Doctor is a 1937 American drama film directed by William Clemens and written by Robertson White and Ben Grauman Kohn. The film stars Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Gordon Oliver, Joe King, Henry Kolker and Gordon Hart. The film was released by Warner Bros. on January 23, 1937.
Title: Her Husband's Secretary
Passage: Her Husband's Secretary is a 1937 American drama film directed by Frank McDonald and written by Lillie Hayward. The film stars Jean Muir, Beverly Roberts, Warren Hull, Joseph Crehan, Clara Blandick and Addison Richards. The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 26, 1937.
Title: Criminal Lawyer
Passage: Criminal Lawyer is a 1937 American drama film directed by Christy Cabanne from a screenplay by G. V. Atwater and Thomas Lennon, based on a story by Louis Stevens. The film stars Lee Tracy, Margot Grahame and Eduardo Cianelli. RKO produced the film and premiered it on January 26, 1937 in New York City, with a national release a few days later on January 29. It was the second time Stevens' story had been used for a film, the first being 1932's State's Attorney, starring John Barrymore and Helen Twelvetrees, directed by George Archainbaud, and also produced and released by RKO.
Title: Wine, Women and Horses
Passage: Wine, Women and Horses is a 1937 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Roy Chanslor. The film stars Barton MacLane, Ann Sheridan, Dick Purcell, Peggy Bates, Walter Cassel and Lottie Williams. It is based on the 1933 novel "Dark Hazard" by W. R. Burnett. The film was released by Warner Bros. on September 11, 1937. A gambler tries to reform.
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Passage: God's Country and the Woman is a 1937 American drama film directed by William Keighley and written by Norman Reilly Raine. The film stars George Brent, Beverly Roberts, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat, Alan Hale, Sr. and Joe King. The film is based on a 1915 novel by James Oliver Curwood entitled "God's Country and the Woman" and was released by Warner Bros. on January 16, 1937.
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George B. Seitz
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Between Two Women (1937 film)
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Cliff Edwards
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What 1958 novelty song is the singer of "That's My Pa" best known for?
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Title: Sheb Wooley
Passage: Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song "The Purple People Eater." He played Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller, in the film "High Noon"; played Travis Cobb in "The Outlaw Josey Wales"; and also had a co-starring role as scout Pete Nolan in the television series "Rawhide."
Title: That's My Pa
Passage: "That's My Pa" is a 1962 single by Sheb Wooley. "That's My Pa" would be Sheb Wooley's first single to hit the country chart and was also his most successful release hitting the number one spot for one week and staying on the charts for seventeen weeks.
Title: Gayla Peevey
Passage: Gayla Rienette Peevey (born March 8, 1943) is a former singer and child star from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her family moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma, in 1948. She is best known for her recording, under her maiden name Gayla Peevey, of "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" (Columbia 4-40106, 1953). Peevey recorded the novelty song when she was 10 years old.
Title: The Bird on My Head
Passage: "The Bird on My Head" is a 1958 novelty song by Ross Bagdasarian Sr..
Title: Cartoons (band)
Passage: Cartoons, also known as Cartoons DK, were a technobilly/glam pop band from Denmark, best known for their 1998 Eurodance cover of the 1958 novelty song, "Witch Doctor" by Ross Bagdasarian, as well as for their outlandish plastic costumes and wigs used in live performances as caricatures of 1950s American rock and roll stars. Many of their hits are Europop covers of old rockabilly hits.
Title: Tex Williams
Passage: Sollie Paul "Tex" Williams (August 23, 1917October 11, 1985) was an American Western swing musician from Ramsey, Illinois. He is best known for his talking blues style; his biggest hit was the novelty song, "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)", which held the number one position on the "Billboard" charts for sixteen weeks in 1947. "Smoke" was the No. 5 song on "Billboard's" Top 100 list for 1947, and was No. 1 on the country chart that year. It can be heard during the opening credits of the 2006 movie "Thank You for Smoking".
Title: Purple People Eater (film)
Passage: Purple People Eater is a 1988 American science-fiction comedy film based on Sheb Wooley's 1958 novelty song of the same name, written and directed by Linda Shayne, and stars Neil Patrick Harris, Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, Thora Birch in her film debut, Dustin Diamond and Peggy Lipton, with Chubby Checker and Little Richard making musical guest appearances. The film was released on December 16, 1988.
Title: Allan Smethurst
Passage: Allan Francis Smethurst (19 November 1927 – 24 December 2000), aka The Singing Postman was an English folk singer and postman. He is best known for his self-penned novelty song, "Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?" , which earned him an Ivor Novello Award in 1966, and "A Miss from Diss".
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The Purple People Eater
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That's My Pa
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Sheb Wooley
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Little Miss Sunshine co-produced David T. Friendly was nominated for what Academy Award?
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Title: David T. Friendly
Passage: David T. Friendly (born May 1, 1956) is an American film producer best known for co-producing the 2006 film "Little Miss Sunshine", for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Title: Little Miss Sunshine
Passage: Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama road film and the directorial debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, and was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. Filming began on June 6, 2005 and took place over 30 days in Arizona and Southern California.
Title: Abigail Breslin
Passage: Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She appeared in her first commercial when she was three years old, and in her first film, ""Signs"" (2002), at the age of five. Her other film roles include "Raising Helen" (2004), "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, "No Reservations" (2007), "Nim's Island" (2008), "Definitely, Maybe" (2008), "My Sister's Keeper" (2009), "Zombieland" (2009), "Rango" (2011), and "" (2013). In September 2015, she began acting in the horror-comedy "Scream Queens" on Fox, in which she has her first regular role on a television series.
Title: Jo Wyatt
Passage: Joanna Louise Wyatt (born 28 September 1970 in London, England) is an English actress and voice actress known for her voice as Little Miss Helpful, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Scary and Little Miss Sunshine in "The Mr. Men Show". She also voiced Daisy Kribotnik in "Love Soup", a woman in a bar in "Extras", Natella in "Bromwell High" and a character in "Guess with Jess". Including additional voices in "Perfect Dark Zero" and "Dragon Quest VIII" as well as narrating "To Leo with Love".
Title: List of accolades received by Little Miss Sunshine
Passage: List of accolades received by Little Miss Sunshine
Title: De Dhakka
Passage: De Dhakka (Marathi: दे धक्का) is a Marathi film released in India in 2008 inspired by the Hollywood film "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006). It was remade in Kannada as "Crazy Kutumba".
Title: Tim Suhrstedt
Passage: Timothy "Tim" Suhrstedt (born August 5, 1948), A.S.C., is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on comedies "Little Miss Sunshine", "Office Space" and "The Wedding Singer".
Title: Alicyn Packard
Passage: Alicyn Diane Packard (born September 27, 1979) is an American voice actress, writer and singer nominated for a 2014 Voice Arts Award. She voices the characters Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Naughty, and Little Miss Whoops on the Cartoon Network animated series the "The Mr. Men Show". She also stars as Alma on the Sprout network show "The Extraordinary Adventures of Poppy Cat" and wrote an episode of the show's second season. She plays Toodles on "The Tom and Jerry Show", and Connor and Caitlin on "Olivia", and Jibanyan on Yo-kai Watch.
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Best Picture
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David T. Friendly
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Little Miss Sunshine
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Millie Brady had a role in the 2015 French-British crime film directed by whom?
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Title: Legend (2015 film)
Passage: Legend is a 2015 French-British crime thriller film written and directed by Brian Helgeland. It is adapted from John Pearson's book "The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins", which deals with the rise and fall of the Kray twins; the relationship that bound them together, and charts their gruesome career to their downfall and imprisonment for life in 1969.
Title: Millie Brady
Passage: Millie Brady is a British actress. She is known for her role in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". She is going to star in the TV adaptation of "The Clan of the Cave Bear". She was also noticed for her role in "Legend".
Title: Terror at Midnight
Passage: Terror at Midnight is a 1956 film noir crime film directed by Franklin Adreon and starring Scott Brady, Joan Vohs and Frank Faylen.
Title: Choice of Arms
Passage: Choice of Arms (French: Le Choix des armes) is a 1981 French crime film directed by Alain Corneau. The main roles are played by Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Although in structure a crime film, it is as much a character study of people under stress and an examination of aspects of French society.
Title: Canon City (film)
Passage: Canon City is a 1948 American film noir crime film written and directed by Crane Wilbur. The drama features Scott Brady, Jeff Corey, and Whit Bissell.
Title: One Way Street
Passage: One Way Street is a 1950 film noir crime film directed by Hugo Fregonese starring James Mason, Märta Torén and Dan Duryea. The crime film takes place mainly in Mexico.
Title: I Was a Shoplifter
Passage: I Was a Shoplifter is a 1950 film noir crime film directed by Charles Lamont starring Scott Brady and Mona Freeman.
Title: Swimming Pool (film)
Passage: Swimming Pool is a 2003 French-British erotic thriller film directed by François Ozon and starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. The plot focuses on a British crime novelist, Sarah Morton, who travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the arrival of Julie, who claims to be the publisher's daughter, induces complications and a subsequent crime.
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Brian Helgeland
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Millie Brady
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Legend (2015 film)
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In which city is the Sun Life Centre, global headquarters of Sun Life Financial?
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Title: Sun Life Financial
Passage: Sun Life Financial, Inc. is a Canada-based financial services company known primarily as a life insurance company. It is one of the largest life insurance companies in the world, and also one of the oldest with a history spanning back to 1865.
Title: Sun Life Centre
Passage: The Sun Life Centre in Toronto, Ontario was built in 1984 to house the Toronto operations of Sun Life ( now Sun Life Financial) and is now corporate headquarters for Sun Life.
Title: Isabelle Hudon
Passage: Isabelle Hudon, born in 1967, is a Canadian businesswoman. She is Executive Chair, Quebec and Senior Vice-President, Client Solutions for Sun Life Financial.
Title: Birla Sun Life Insurance Company Limited
Passage: Birla Sun Life Insurance Company Limited (BSLI) is a joint venture between the Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group, and Sun Life Financial Inc., an international financial services organisations from Canada. BSLI has a customer base of over two and half million policy holders.
Title: 2011 Sun Life Classic
Passage: The 2011 Sun Life Financial Invitational Curling Classic was held from November 17 to 21 at the Brantford Golf and Country Club and Brant Curling Club in Brantford, Ontario and the Paris Curling Club in Paris, Ontario. It was held during Week 12 of the 2011–12 World Curling Tour season. The total purse for both the men's and women's events was CAD$50,000.
Title: The Masters Grand Slam of Curling
Passage: The WFG Masters of Curling is a Grand Slam event on the men's and women's World Curling Tour. It is the first Grand Slam event on the women's and men's tour. The event is an amalgamation of the men's World Cup of Curling and the women's Sun Life Classic. There was also a men's Sun Life Classic, which has been discontinued. The Sun Life Classic was an annual WCT event (but not a Grand Slam event) held every November at the Paris Curling Club, Brant Curling Club and the Brantford Golf & Country Club in the Brantford, Ontario area. The World Cup was a Grand Slam event and was held in various locations across Canada, and was also previously known as the Masters.
Title: Colisée de Rimouski
Passage: The Colisée Financière Sun Life (in English, Sun Life Financial Coliseum) is a 4,285-seat (total capacity 5,062) multi-purpose arena in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, built in 1966. It is home to the Rimouski Océanic ice hockey team, and the arena hosted the 2009 Memorial Cup.
Title: Birla Sun Life Asset Management
Passage: Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company was established in 1994 as a joint venture between the Aditya Birla Group and the Sun Life Financial of Canada.
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Toronto
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Sun Life Centre
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Sun Life Financial
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What do Jim Grabb and Tracy Austin have in common?
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Title: Jim Grabb
Passage: Jim Grabb (born April 14, 1964) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked the World No. 1 doubles player in 1989 and in 1993. Grabb's best singles ranking was World No. 24, a ranking he achieved in February 1990.
Title: Tracy Austin
Passage: Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born December 12, 1962) is an American former World No. 1 retired professional tennis player. She won three Grand Slam titles, including the women's singles titles at the 1979 and 1981 US Opens, and the mixed doubles title at the Wimbledon Championships in 1980. Additionally, she won the WTA Tour Championships in 1980 and the year-ending Toyota Championships in 1981, both in singles. A series of injuries and a serious automobile accident cut short her career. Since 1979, she has been the youngest US Open female singles champion in history, and she is the youngest inductee of all time at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Austin won singles titles on all playing surfaces: clay (both red clay and green clay), indoor carpet, grass, and hard courts.
Title: 1989 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Passage: Kevin Curren and Jim Grabb were the defending champions but only Grabb competed that year with Patrick McEnroe.
Title: 1999 du Maurier Open – Men's Doubles
Passage: Martin Damm and Jim Grabb were the defending champions, but competed this year with different partners. Damm teamed up with Max Mirnyi and lost in second round to Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach, while Grabb teamed up with Goran Ivanišević and lost in quarterfinals also against Ferreira-Leach.
Title: 1994 Comcast U.S. Indoor – Doubles
Passage: Jim Grabb and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions, but Reneberg did not participate this year. Grabb partnered Jared Palmer, finishing runner-up.
Title: Jean-Michel Pequery
Passage: Jean-Michel Péquery (born May 30, 1978) is a retired French professional tennis player. During his career, he competed exclusively in Challengers and Futures tournaments, except for two showings (for two first-round losses) in the doubles main draw of ATP Tour-level tournaments. One of these was to remain his sole appearance at a Grand Slam and came at the 1998 French Open when he alongside Julien Boutter received a wild card to compete in the doubles tournament. They fell to Jim Grabb and David Macpherson 6–3, 7–6.
Title: 1996 Comcast U.S. Indoor – Doubles
Passage: Jim Grabb and Jonathan Stark were the defending champions but only Grabb competed that year with Richey Reneberg.
Title: 1992 Australian Indoor Championships – Doubles
Passage: Jim Grabb and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions but lost in the final 6–2, 6–3 to Patrick McEnroe and Jonathan Stark.
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professional tennis player
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Jim Grabb
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Tracy Austin
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What Dutch mixed martial artist starred in The Elimanator?
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Title: Bas Rutten
Passage: Sebastiaan "Bas" Rutten (] ; born 24 February 1965) is a Dutch former mixed martial artist, kickboxer and professional wrestler. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three-time King of Pancrase world champion, and finished his career on a 22 fight unbeaten streak (21 wins, 1 draw). FightMetric wrote this when Rutten got inducted into the UFC Hall Of Fame: "FightMetric, the official statistics provider for the UFC, ran the numbers on Rutten’s career. They back up the Dutchman’s inclusion into the UFC Hall of Fame and then some. In the 4-hours, 27-minutes and 8-seconds he spent as a pro fighter, Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself, his significant strike accuracy was 70.6%, the highest FightMetric has ever recorded, attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times." From 2007–2016, Rutten was the co-host of Inside MMA on AXS TV.
Title: The Eliminator (film)
Passage: The Eliminator is a 2004 direct-to-video action film starring UFC champion Bas Rutten. The film was directed by Ken Barbet.
Title: Joop Kasteel
Passage: Joop Kasteel, also known as 'de zwarte parel' (the black pearl, born 27 August 1964, Amersfoort) is a former Dutch mixed martial artist. Kasteel made his mixed martial arts debut on 15 June 1996. He is a veteran of the RINGS promotion and as he has fought the majority of his fights for them.
Title: Marloes Coenen
Passage: Marloes Coenen (born March 31, 1981) is a retired Dutch mixed martial artist. She has competed professionally since 2000 and is a former Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion.
Title: Chris Dolman
Passage: Christiaan "Chris" Dolman (born February 17, 1945) is a Dutch retired martial artist and professional wrestler. He won a silver medal at the European championship in judo and a gold at the world championship in Sambo, counting as the first non-Russian sambo world champion, and has over 40 national and 10 international championships. He is known for his career in Fighting Network Rings and for his role training several Dutch mixed martial artists and kickboxers, among them Bas Rutten, Alistair and Valentijn Overeem, Gilbert Yvel and Gegard Mousasi.
Title: Dave van der Veen
Passage: Dave van der Veen is a Dutch mixed martial artist. He competed in the Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight divisions. He was a Dutch Power lifting champion and Shootfighter in RINGS.
Title: Mohammed "The Hawk" Shahid
Passage: Mohammed Shahid (born July 8, 1989) is an entrepreneur and a mixed martial artist from Bahrain. He is the CEO of KHK MMA and the President of the Bahrain based mixed martial arts organisation, Brave Combat Federation owned and supported by His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa. Mohammed Shahid was the first mixed martial artist from Bahrain to compete in global MMA events. He was assigned a managerial role to develop mixed martial arts in Bahrain as the CEO of KHK MMA. Bahrain established a national team alongside bringing global talent to facilitate the growth of MMA in Bahrain.
Title: Antoni Hardonk
Passage: Antoni Barend Hardonk (born February 5, 1976) is a retired Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer who competed in K-1 and the UFC.
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Bas Rutten
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The Eliminator (film)
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Bas Rutten
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Where is the training ground for the club Arthur Crompton played for?
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Title: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Passage: Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Tottenham ( ) or Spurs, is an English football club located in Tottenham, Haringey, London, that competes in the Premier League. The club's home for the 2017–18 season will be Wembley Stadium, as their former home of White Hart Lane is being dismantled to make way for a completely new rebuilt stadium on the same site. Their newly developed training ground is in Bulls Cross on the northern borders of the London Borough of Enfield.
Title: Arthur Crompton
Passage: Arthur Crompton (9 January 1903 - 1987) was a professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Southend United, Brentford, Crystal Palace, Tranmere Rovers and Northwich Victoria.
Title: Centro Sportivo di Collecchio
Passage: The Centro Sportivo di Collecchio, or Collecchio Sports Centre in English, is Parma Calcio 1913's training ground and administrative headquarters. It is located in Collecchio, a "comune" 15 kilometres south-west of the Stadio Ennio Tardini, the club's stadium. It opened in 1996 and replaced the old training ground in the centre of Parma: Parco Ferrari, just south of the stadium and 200 metres due east of the Cittadella di Parma.
Title: Centre d'entraînement Robert Louis-Dreyfus
Passage: The Centre d'entraînement Robert Louis-Dreyfus, commonly referred to, simply, as La Commanderie, is the training ground and Academy base of French football club, Olympique de Marseille. Located in Marseille, the center was officially opened in July 1991. Called La Commanderie, the training ground was renamed in 2009 after the death of the owner of the club, Robert Louis-Dreyfus.
Title: Trafford Training Centre
Passage: Trafford Training Centre (currently known as the Aon Training Complex for sponsorship reasons and usually referred to by the synecdoche of Carrington) is the training ground and academy headquarters of English football club Manchester United F.C. It is near the village of Carrington, Greater Manchester, England, and replaced The Cliff as the club's training ground in 2000. Construction on the complex began in 1999, the main building was opened and the first team moved in in 2000, followed in 2002 by the Academy facility, home to the club's renowned youth system. In 2013, major additions were completed at the complex, including a medical centre and sports science department, bringing the total construction cost of the training complex to over £60 million.
Title: Hibernian Training Centre
Passage: Hibernian Training Centre is the training ground for Hibernian FC, in Ormiston, East Lothian. The training ground houses both the first team and the youth academy.
Title: Paiania (training ground)
Passage: The Paiania training ground is a training ground and academy base, used by the Greek football club Panathinaikos FC.
Title: Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground
Passage: The Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground is the training ground and academy base of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. It is located in the Compton area of Wolverhampton.
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Bulls Cross
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Arthur Crompton
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Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
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Which plant genus contain two to four species, Greyia or Calycanthus?
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Title: Calycanthus
Passage: Calycanthus (sweetshrub) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Calycanthaceae, endemic to North America. The genus includes two to four species depending on taxonomic interpretation; two are accepted by the "Flora of North America".
Title: Greyia
Passage: Greyia is a genus of plant in family Melianthaceae. It contains three species:
Title: Bolitoglossa
Passage: Bolitoglossa is a genus of lungless salamanders, also called mushroom-tongued salamanders tropical climbing salamanders or web-footed salamanders, in the family Plethodontidae. Their range is between northern Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, northeastern Brazil, and central Bolivia. Neotropical salamanders of the "Bolitoglossa" genus make up the largest genus in the order Caudata, consisting of approximately one-fifth of all known species of salamanders. Adult salamanders range anywhere from 45mm to 200mm in length depending on their specific species. They are notorious for their ability to project their tongue at prey items, as indicated from their name. They are also known for their webbed feet, having significantly more webbing than any other species outside their genus with the exception of the cave-dwelling Mexican bolitoglossine "Chiropterotriton magnipes". Although webbed feet are a common characteristic of these salamanders, only about half of the species in this genus contain webbed feet.
Title: Fanniomyces
Passage: Fanniomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Laboulbeniaceae. The genus contain two species.
Title: Ulocladium
Passage: Ulocladium is a genus of fungi. Species of this genus contain both plant pathogens and food spoilage agents. Other species contain enzymes that are biological control agents.
Title: Pterosporidium
Passage: Pterosporidium is a genus of fungi in the Phyllachoraceae family. The genus contain two widely distributed species that grow on mangrove leaves.
Title: Thecaphora
Passage: Thecaphora is a genus of Basidiomycote Fungus which contains several species of plant pathogens. The widespread genus contain 57 species.
Title: Palifer
Passage: Palifer is a genus of corticioid fungi in the Schizoporaceae family. Circumscribed in 1991, the widely distributed genus contain four species.
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Calycanthus
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Greyia
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Calycanthus
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Name the Russian ice dancer who currently represents Spain and is partnered with Sara Hurtado from Spain and whose former partner was Ksenia Monko?
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Title: Sara Hurtado
Passage: Sara Hurtado (born 3 November 1992) is a Spanish ice dancer who skates with Kirill Khaliavin. With former partner Adrià Díaz, she won four senior international medals. Hurtado and Diaz were the first dance team to represent Spain in ISU competition and the first to qualify for the Olympics. Hurtado is a six-time Spanish national champion, five times with Díaz and once with Khaliavin.
Title: Kirill Khaliavin
Passage: Kirill Leonidovich Khaliavin (Russian: Кирилл Леонидович Халявин ; born 21 November 1990) is a Russian ice dancer who currently represents Spain. With former partner Ksenia Monko, he is the 2011 World Junior champion, a two-time (2009–10, 2010–11) Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and the 2015 Russian national silver medalist. With current partner Sara Hurtado, he is the 2016 Spanish Champion.
Title: Sergey Mozgov
Passage: Sergey Alexandrovich Mozgov (Russian: Серге́й Александрович Мозгов ; born 10 March 1995) is a Russian ice dancer. With former partner Anna Yanovskaya, he is the 2015 World Junior champion, two-time (2013, 2014) JGP Final champion, the 2012 Youth Olympics champion, the 2014 World Junior silver medalist, and the 2015 Russian junior national champion.
Title: Marina Antipova
Passage: Marina Anatolyevna Antipova (born 29 September 1992) is a Russian ice dancer. With former partner Artem Kudashev, she is a three-time ISU Junior Grand Prix silver medalist and the 2009 Russian junior bronze medalist.
Title: Artem Kudashev
Passage: Artem Viktorovich Kudashev (born 16 June 1990) is a Russian ice dancer. With former partner Marina Antipova, he is a three-time ISU Junior Grand Prix silver medalist and the 2009 Russian junior bronze medalist. In 2011, he teamed up with Yana Verner.
Title: Kirill Minov
Passage: Kirill Andreyevich Minov (Russian: Кирилл Андреевич Минов ; born January 2, 1993) is a Russian ice dancer who currently represents South Korea with partner Rebeka Kim, he is the 2016 South Korean national champion and placed sixth at the 2014 World Junior Championships.
Title: Ksenia Monko
Passage: Ksenia Ivanovna Monko (Russian: Ксения Ивановна Монько ; born 8 February 1992) is a former competitive ice dancer for Russia. Alongside Kirill Khaliavin, she is the 2011 World Junior champion, a two-time (2009–10, 2010–11) Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and the 2015 Russian national silver medalist.
Title: Ekaterina Riazanova
Passage: Ekaterina Vladimirovna Riazanova (Russian: Екатерина Владимировна Рязанова , born 6 April 1991) is a Russian ice dancer. With former partner Ilia Tkachenko, she is the 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard silver medalist, the 2012 Skate Canada bronze medalist, and a three-time Russian national medalist.
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Kirill Khaliavin
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Sara Hurtado
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Kirill Khaliavin
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Oh My Ghostess, is a 2015 South Korean television series, stars include Park Bo-young, a South Korean actress, that is best known for her roles in the hit films "Scandal Makers", released in which year?
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Title: Park Bo-young
Passage: Park Bo-young (born February 12, 1990) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her roles in the hit films "Scandal Makers" (2008) and "A Werewolf Boy" (2012), and the television series "Oh My Ghostess" (2015) and "Strong Woman Do Bong-soon" (2017).
Title: Oh My Ghostess
Passage: Oh My Ghostess () is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Jo Jung-suk, Park Bo-young, Kim Seul-gie and Lim Ju-hwan. It aired on tvN from July 3 to August 22, 2015, on Fridays and Saturdays at 20:30 for 16 episodes.
Title: Kang Hyeong-cheol
Passage: Kang Hyeong-cheol is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His first two films "Scandal Makers" (2008) and "Sunny" (2011) have been the highest grossing Korean films of their respective years, and are both among the highest grossing Korean films of all time. Kang won Best Director at the 48th Grand Bell Awards in 2011.
Title: The Silenced
Passage: The Silenced (; lit. "Gyeongseong School: The Lost Girls") is a 2015 South Korean mystery-thriller film written and directed by Lee Hae-young, starring Park Bo-young and Uhm Ji-won.
Title: Scandal Makers
Passage: Scandal Makers (; lit. Speedy Scandal) is a 2008 South Korean film written and directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol and starring Cha Tae-hyun in the lead role. This was director Kang's first film and the highest grossing Korean film of the year. A Chinese remake was released in 2016.
Title: Kim Seul-gi
Passage: Kim Seul-Gi (born October 10, 1991) is a South Korean actress who starred in many critically acclaimed dramas including "Oh My Ghostess" (2015), "Splash Splash Love" (2015) and "The Guardians" (2017). She is also a former cast member of tvN's entertainment show "SNL Korea".
Title: Strong Woman Do Bong-soon
Passage: Strong Woman Do Bong-soon () is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Park Bo-young in the title role as a woman with superhuman strength, with Park Hyung-sik and Ji Soo. It aired every Friday and Saturday on JTBC starting from February 24, 2017 to April 15, 2017.
Title: Oh Yeon-seo
Passage: Oh Yeon-seo (born Oh Haet-nim, on June 22, 1987), is a South Korean actress and former member of South Korean girl group, LUV. She is best known for her roles in television dramas "My Husband Got a Family" (2012), "Jang Bo-ri is Here! " (2014), "Shine or Go Crazy" (2015) and "Please Come Back, Mister" (2016).
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2008
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Oh My Ghostess
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Park Bo-young
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Who has a wider scope of profession, Erle Stanley Gardner or Elizabeth Taylor?
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Title: Erle Stanley Gardner
Passage: Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author. Though best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces, as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
Title: Elizabeth Taylor
Passage: Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend.
Title: List of Perry Mason episodes
Passage: This is a list of episodes for "Perry Mason", an American legal drama series that aired on CBS television for nine seasons (September 21, 1957 – May 22, 1966). The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on novels and short stories written by Gardner, with some stories having been adapted more than once.
Title: Perry Mason (radio)
Passage: Perry Mason is a radio crime serial based on the novels of Erle Stanley Gardner. Broadcast weekdays on CBS Radio from 1943 to 1955, the series was adapted into "The Edge of Night" which ran on television for an additional 30 years.
Title: Perry Mason (TV series)
Passage: Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on stories written by Gardner.
Title: Gold Seal Novel
Passage: Gold Seal Novels are illustrated novels covering a wide range of genres published in editions of the Sunday "Philadelphia Inquirer" between 1934 and 1949. They were published as a "complete illustrated novel" as a section of the newspaper's Sunday edition. Authors include John Dickson Carr, Clyde Brion Davis, Erle Stanley Gardner, Graham Greene, Fannie Hurst, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Sinclair Lewis, Philip MacDonald, Cecile Hulse Matschat, Mary O'Hara, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Rex Stout and Eudora Welty. To date, 382 Gold Seal Novels have been cataloged by collectors.
Title: The Case of the Howling Dog
Passage: The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Alan Crosland, based on the novel of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner. The film stars Warren William and Mary Astor. This was the first in a series of four films in which William played Perry Mason.
Title: Perry Mason bibliography
Passage: The following is a list of the Perry Mason novels and short stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, published from 1933 to 1973.
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
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Erle Stanley Gardner
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Elizabeth Taylor
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What type of game is the game which Hon'inbō Genjō plays professionally?
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Title: Go (game)
Passage: Go () is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent.
Title: Hon'inbō Genjō
Passage: Honinbō Genjō (本因坊元丈, 1775–1832) was a professional Go player.
Title: Hon'inbō Shūgen
Passage: Hon'inbō Shugen (本因坊 秀元, 1854 – 5 September 1917) was a Japanese professional go player. He was twice head of the Hon'inbō house, being both the sixteenth and the twentieth head.
Title: Hon'inbō Sansa
Passage: Hon'inbō Sansa (本因坊算砂, 1559 – June 13, 1623) was the assumed name of Kanō Yosaburō (加納 與三郎), one of the strongest Japanese Go players of the Edo period (1603–1867), and founder of the house of Hon'inbō, first among the four great schools of Go in Japan. He was a Buddhist priest of the Nichiren sect, and his original dharma name was Nikkai (日海).
Title: Hon'inbō San'etsu
Passage: Hon'inbō San'etsu (本因坊算悦, 1611–1658) was a professional Go player, and second head of the Hon'inbō house.
Title: Hon'inbō Shūsai
Passage: Hon'inbō Shūsai (本因坊 秀哉 , Hon'inbō Shūsai , June 24, 1874January 18, 1940) is the professional name of Hoju Tamura, also known as Yasuhisa Tamura (田村保寿 , Tamura Yasuhisa ) , who was a Japanese professional Go player.
Title: Hon'inbō Shūetsu
Passage: Hon'inbō Shūetsu (本因坊秀悦, 1850 – 23 August 1890) was a Japanese professional Go player, and fifteenth head of the Hon'inbō house.
Title: Hon'inbō Hakugen
Passage: Hon'inbō Hakugen (本因坊伯元, 1726–1754) was a Japanese professional go player, and eighth head of the Hon'inbō house. He reached 6 "dan" level.
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abstract strategy board game
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Hon'inbō Genjō
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Go (game)
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Which genus has more species, Styrax or Myosotidium?
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Title: Styrax
Passage: Storax or snowbell is the common names of Styrax, a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America. The resin obtained from the tree is called storax or benzoin (not to be confused with the "Liquidambar" storax balsam).
Title: Myosotidium
Passage: Myosotidium is a genus of plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae. This genus is represented by the single species Myosotidium hortensia, the giant forget-me-not or Chatham Islands forget-me-not, which is endemic to the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. The biogeography is yet unresolved, but its ancestors are likely from the American continent, as "Myosotidium hortensia" was found to be sister to the South American plant genus "Selkirkia" and both genera being sister to the North American genus "Mimophytum".
Title: Pterostyrax
Passage: Pterostyrax, the epaulette tree, is a small genus of four species of deciduous large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, native to eastern Asia in China and Japan. They grow 4 - tall, with alternate, simple ovate leaves 6 - long and 4 - broad. The flowers are white, produced in dense panicles 8 - long. The fruit is an oblong dry drupe, with longitudinal ribs or narrow wings (the wings are absent in the related genus "Styrax", whence the name "Pterostyrax", "winged styrax").
Title: Styrax crotonoides
Passage: Styrax crotonoides is a species of plant in the genus "Styrax" and family Styracaceae. It is found in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
Title: Styrax litseoides
Passage: Styrax litseoides is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Styrax" and family Styracaceae. It is endemic to Vietnam.
Title: Styrax vilcabambae
Passage: Styrax vilcabambae (syn. "Pamphilia vilcabambae" D.R.Simpson) is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Styrax" and the family Styracaceae. It is endemic to Peru.
Title: Benzoin (resin)
Passage: Benzoin or benjamin is a balsamic resin obtained from the bark of several species of trees in the genus "Styrax". It is used in perfumes, some kinds of incense, as a flavoring, and medicine (see tincture of benzoin). It is distinct from the chemical compound benzoin, which is ultimately derived from benzoin resin; the resin, however, does not contain this compound.
Title: Styrax fraserensis
Passage: Styrax fraserensis is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Styrax" and family Styracaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Styrax
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Styrax
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Myosotidium
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What do Helena Suková and Pavel Složil have in common?
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Title: Pavel Složil
Passage: Pavel Složil (born 29 December 1955) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia.
Title: Helena Suková
Passage: Helena Suková (] ) (born 23 February 1965) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a four-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 10 singles titles and 69 doubles titles.
Title: 1991 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Passage: Jana Novotná and Helena Suková were the defending champions, but entered the tournament with different partners. Suková joined Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Novotná teamed up with Gigi Fernández and reached the finals, but lost to Larisa Neiland and Natasha Zvereva.
Title: 1983 Fischer-Grand Prix – Doubles
Passage: Henri Leconte and Pavel Složil were the defending champions but only Složil competed that year with Tomáš Šmíd.
Title: 1997 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Passage: Martina Hingis and Helena Suková were the defending champions, but had different outcomes. Hingis teamed up with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and lost in quarterfinals to Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf, while Suková teamed up with Larisa Neiland and lost in semifinals against the same pair.
Title: 1997 European Indoors – Doubles
Passage: Martina Hingis and Helena Suková were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Hingis with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Suková with Larisa Savchenko.
Title: 1994 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles
Passage: Martina Navratilova and Helena Suková were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Navratilova with Manon Bollegraf and Suková with Larisa Neiland.
Title: 1994 Evert Cup – Doubles
Passage: Rennae Stubbs and Helena Suková were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Stubbs with Mary Joe Fernández and Suková with Manon Bollegraf.
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professional tennis player
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Helena Suková
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Pavel Složil
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Eslanda ("Essie") Cardozo Goode Robeson was the wife of an American bass singer who become involved with what?
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Title: Eslanda Goode Robeson
Passage: Eslanda ("Essie") Cardozo Goode Robeson (December 15, 1895 – December 13, 1965) was an American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist. She was the wife and business manager of singer and actor Paul Robeson.
Title: Paul Robeson
Passage: Paul Leroy Robeson (pronounced ; April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass singer and actor who became involved with the Civil Rights Movement. At Rutgers College, he was an outstanding American football player, and then had an international career in singing, with a distinctive, powerful, deep bass voice, as well as acting in theater and movies. He became politically involved in response to the Spanish Civil War, fascism, and social injustices. His advocacy of anti-imperialism, affiliation with communism, and criticism of the United States government caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Title: William F. Hooley
Passage: William F. Hooley (16 April 1861 – 12 October 1918) was a British-born American bass singer and pioneer recording artist who was popular as a solo singer, as a monologist, and as a member of several of the most successful vocal groups of the early twentieth century, including The Haydn Quartet and The American Quartet.
Title: Ryan Allen
Passage: Ryan Allen is an American bass singer best known for his work in opera. He has performed professionally in all 50 states, appeared with numerous American opera companies, and sung as a soloist in Russia, Israel, Poland, Norway and Sweden.
Title: Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am
Passage: Paul Robeson - Speak of Me As I Am is a 1998 documentary video directed by Rachel Hermer. It is a co-production of BBC Wales/New Jersey Public Television series produced by Richard Trayler-Smith and Max Pugh, about the life of singer, actor and activist, Paul Robeson. It features rare extensive archival footage of Robeson in the former Soviet Union, including footage of Robeson at Yalta with Nikita Khrushchev and many of Robeson's homes and landmarks as they look today. There are also interviews with Robeson's two main biographers, Lloyd Brown and Martin Duberman. As of 2009, "Paul Robeson - Speak of Me As I Am" is the most extensive documentary on Paul Robeson that the BBC has ever been involved with.
Title: Nick Massi
Passage: Nicholas E. Macioci (September 19, 1927 – December 24, 2000), known as Nick Massi, was an American bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons.
Title: Richard Sterban
Passage: Richard Anthony Sterban (born April 24, 1943) is an American bass singer born in Camden, New Jersey, who joined the country and gospel quartet The Oak Ridge Boys in 1972. Prior to joining The Oak Ridge Boys, Sterban toured with J. D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, who were singing backup for Elvis Presley at that time. Sterban ultimately became best known for his "oom-pa-pa-oom-pa-pa-mow-mow" bass solo in the Oak Ridge Boys' 1981 single "Elvira" and sang lead vocals on a select few of the group's songs, including a cover of The Righteous Brothers' hit "Dream On," which itself became a hit.
Title: George Younce
Passage: George Wilson Younce (February 22, 1930 – April 11, 2005) was an American bass singer, known for performing with Southern gospel quartets, especially The Cathedrals.
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Civil Rights Movement
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Eslanda Goode Robeson
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Paul Robeson
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Which musician, Greg Kihn or Katie White, formed the Ting Tings in 2007 along with Jules De Martino?
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Title: Greg Kihn
Passage: Gregory Stanley "Greg" Kihn (born July 10, 1949) is an American rock musician, radio personality, and novelist.
Title: Katie White
Passage: Katie Rebecca White (born 18 January 1983) is a British musician and member of the pop duo the Ting Tings. After some success with a girl group punk trio TKO, which supported Steps and Atomic Kitten, her father David White brought in Jules De Martino to write songs for TKO. Katie and De Martino subsequently formed the Ting Tings in 2007.
Title: The Ting Tings
Passage: The Ting Tings are an English indie pop duo from Salford, Greater Manchester. The band consists of Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drums, bass guitar, cowbells) and Jules De Martino (drums, lead guitar, bass guitar, vocals, piano).
Title: Larry Lynch
Passage: Larry Lynch (born c.1950) was the drummer for the Greg Kihn Band. They had a #2 US hit with "Jeopardy" in 1983 and a #15 hit with "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)". After leaving the Greg Kihn band, "Larry Lynch and MOB (Members Of the Band)", gigged throughout the East San Francisco Bay area, teaming up with Robbie Dunbar, the guitarist from San Francisco's "Earthquake". Lynch's vocals and songwriting were a staple of many smaller venues such as New George's in San Rafael. MOB headlined for Radio Station KZAP's Halloween extravaganza at the Sacramento Convention Center in 1987, which drew thousands of fans and provided a brief boost for his solo effort.
Title: Hands (The Ting Tings song)
Passage: "Hands" is a song by English duo The Ting Tings. The song was written by both Katie White and Jules De Martino and mixed by label-mate Calvin Harris. The single was released to radio airplay on 18 August 2010 after premiering on the Huw Stephens show on BBC Radio 1 at 9:30 pm; a remix was also be released for free via digital download on 11 October 2010 on the band's Facebook page. The song was performed at the Wireless Festival, as part of the setlist; they were joined with dancers holding signs, saying work, which when flipped around, would say dance. The song debuted at number 29 on the UK Singles Chart. The line spoken by De Martino at the start of the song, "I don't want to go out. I want to stay in." is a reference to the same line spoken in the David Bowie song "Modern Love".
Title: The Greg Kihn Band
Passage: The Greg Kihn Band is an American band that was started by frontman Greg Kihn and bassist Steve Wright. Their most successful singles include "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" ("Billboard" Hot 100 #15) and "Jeopardy" (Billboard Hot 100 #2). The group's musical style and genres comprise rock, pop rock and power pop.
Title: Next of Kihn
Passage: Next of Kihn is a 1978 studio album by American singer-songwriter Greg Kihn. It was the third and last album to be released under the name Greg Kihn before the group changed into The Greg Kihn Band in 1979.
Title: The Ting Tings discography
Passage: The discography of The Ting Tings, an English indie pop duo, consists of three studio albums, three extended plays, ten singles and fourteen music videos. The Ting Tings were formed in 2004 in Salford, England by Jules De Martino and Katie White. The band was signed to independent record label Switchflicker Records in 2006 and released their limited-edition debut single, "Fruit Machine", the following year. Following an appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2007, The Ting Tings were signed to Columbia Records.
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Katie Rebecca White
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Greg Kihn
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Katie White
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What is the name of Herbie Hancock's band which included Eddie Henderson, an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player but who came to prominence as a pianist within the group?
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Title: Eddie Henderson (musician)
Passage: Eddie Henderson (born October 26, 1940) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of pianist Herbie Hancock's band, going on to lead his own electric/fusion groups through the decade. Henderson earned his medical degree and worked a parallel career as a psychiatrist and musician, turning back to acoustic jazz by the 1990s.
Title: Herbie Hancock
Passage: Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. Starting his career with Donald Byrd, he shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet where Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieve success among pop audiences.
Title: The Essential Herbie Hancock
Passage: The Essential Herbie Hancock is the forty-sixth album by American jazz musician and pianist Herbie Hancock. It is part of Sony BMG's "The Essential" series. Unlike the box set "The Herbie Hancock Box", this is the first 2-disc compilation of all of Hancock's music on the various recording labels that Hancock was on.
Title: The Happy Horns of Clark Terry
Passage: The Happy Horns of Clark Terry is an album by American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player Clark Terry featuring performances recorded in March 1964 for the Impulse! label. Reissued in 2012 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Impulse! Records, it resurfaced with Terry's only other record for the label as a solo leader, "It's What's Happenin'".
Title: Alan Shorter
Passage: Alan Shorter (May 29, 1932 – 1987) was a free jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, and the older brother of composer and saxophone player Wayne Shorter.
Title: Bill Mobley
Passage: Joseph William "Bill" Mobley (born April 7, 1953) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player.
Title: Dedication (Herbie Hancock album)
Passage: Dedication is the sixteenth album by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock. It was recorded solo in Japan in 1974 while Hancock was touring and first released on the Japanese CBS Sony label in September 21, 1974. Hancock performs "Maiden Voyage" and "Dolphin Dance" acoustically, while "Nobu" and "Cantaloupe Island" were performed on electric keyboards. It wasn't released in CD outside Japan until 2013, as part of the "Herbie Hancock the complete Columbia album collection 1972-1988" box set.
Title: Speak Like a Child (album)
Passage: Speak Like a Child is the sixth album by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, recorded and released by Blue Note Records in 1968. Featuring Hancock's arrangements for an unusual front line of alto flute, bass trombone and flugelhorn, the album was described by critic Nat Hentoff as an "impressive further stage in the evolution of Herbie Hancock as writer and player", characterised by a "singular quality of incisive, searching lyricism."
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Miles Davis Quintet
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Eddie Henderson (musician)
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Herbie Hancock
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Which American romantic comedy film is On the Line the soundtrack from
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Title: On the Line (2001 film)
Passage: On the Line is a 2001 American romantic comedy film starring Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Emmanuelle Chriqui. The film was directed by Eric Bross and was written by Eric Aronson and Paul Stanton, based upon their short film of the same name.
Title: On the Line (soundtrack)
Passage: On the Line is the soundtrack from the film of the same name. It was released on November 3, 2001 via Jive Records.
Title: Best Friends (1982 film)
Passage: Best Friends is a 1982 American romantic comedy film starring Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn. It is loosely based on the true story of the relationship between its writers, Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin. The film is directed by Norman Jewison and is a drama as well as a romantic comedy.
Title: Overboard (film)
Passage: Overboard is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, written by Leslie Dixon, starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, and produced by Roddy McDowall (who costars). The film's soundtrack was composed by Alan Silvestri. In 2006, it was adapted into the South Korean television series "Couple or Trouble".
Title: Date Movie
Passage: Date Movie is a 2006 American romantic comedy film directed by Aaron Seltzer. Much of the story line is based on that of the romantic comedy "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Meet the Fockers". It stars Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, Tony Cox, Jennifer Coolidge, Meera Simhan, Eddie Griffin, and Fred Willard.
Title: Ed's Next Move
Passage: Ed's Next Move is a 1996 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John C. Walsh. It stars Matt Ross and Callie Thorne. A micro-budget romantic comedy about a transplanted Midwesterner adapting to life in New York's East Village, the film appeared at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival where it received critical praise and was picked up by Orion Classics for theatrical release. The LA Times' Kenneth Turan called the movie "one of the most appealing, audience friendly films at Sundance," while Roger Ebert referred to the film as "a truth telling comedy with quiet wit and bright dialogue. " Sight & Sound called it "a perfectly formed romantic comedy."
Title: Cross-Country Romance
Passage: Cross-Country Romance is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Gene Raymond and Wendy Barrie. With the huge success of "It Happened One Night", the 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, every studio in Hollywood attempted to cash in with a similar storyline. In addition to this film, there was also "Love on the Run" (1936) from MGM, "The Bride Came C.O.D." (1941) by Warner Bros.; even Columbia Pictures, which had made "It Happened One Night", produced the musical remake "Eve Knew Her Apples" (1945).
Title: The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Passage: The Truth About Cats & Dogs is a 1996 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Janeane Garofalo, Uma Thurman, Ben Chaplin and Jamie Foxx, and written by Audrey Wells. The original music score was composed by Howard Shore. The film is a romantic comedy in the style of "Cyrano de Bergerac", where two women date the same man, resulting in large explosions in their friendship.
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On the Line
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On the Line (soundtrack)
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On the Line (2001 film)
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Yazoo County Airport, is five miles northwest of Yazoo City, a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, in which country?
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Title: Yazoo County Airport
Passage: Yazoo County Airport (FAA LID: 87I) is five miles northwest of Yazoo City in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi. It is owned by the County of Yazoo.
Title: Yazoo City, Mississippi
Passage: Yazoo City is a U.S. city in Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. It is the county seat of Yazoo County and the principal city of the Yazoo City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Jackson–Yazoo City Combined Statistical Area. According to the 2010 census, the population was 11,403.
Title: Yazoo County School District
Passage: The Yazoo County School District (YCSD) is a public school district headquartered in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi (USA), near Yazoo City.
Title: Yazoo County High School
Passage: Yazoo County High School (YCoHS) is a public high school in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi, near Yazoo City. It is a part of the Yazoo County School District.
Title: Yazoo County, Mississippi
Passage: Yazoo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,065. The county seat is Yazoo City. It is named for the Yazoo River, whose name, legend has it, comes from an Indian word meaning "River of Death." Yazoo County is included in the Jackson-Vicksburg-Brookhaven, MS Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the Mississippi Delta region. Farming and lumber are the predominant industries.
Title: Carter, Mississippi
Passage: Carter is an unincorporated community located in northern Yazoo County, Mississippi. Carter is approximately 5 mi north of Yazoo City and 9 mi south of Silver City near U.S. Route 49W.
Title: Jim Smith (defensive back)
Passage: James McCoy Smith (born November 4, 1946, Yazoo City, Mississippi) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played high school football at Kearny High School (San Diego, California), and college football at the University of Oregon. He was nicknamed "Yazoo" because he was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He was an All-American his senior year (1967), and was drafted in the first round of the 1968 NFL Draft. He was the first defensive back taken in the draft, and the twelfth player overall.
Title: Tinsley, Mississippi
Passage: Tinsley is an unincorporated community located in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. Tinsley is approximately 11 mi south of Yazoo City and 4 mi North of Oil City near U.S. Route 49.
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Alfred Kim sang in what opera that was set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni?
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Title: Turandot
Passage: Turandot ( ; ] ; ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.
Title: Alfred Kim
Passage: Alfred Kim is a Korean operatic tenor. With The Royal Opera, Kim sang the role of Calaf in Puccini's "Turandot" in 2014.
Title: La rondine
Passage: La rondine ("The Swallow") is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the Théâtre du Casino) in Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.
Title: Tu che di gel sei cinta
Passage: "Tu che di gel sei cinta " (You who are enclosed by ice) is a soprano aria from act 3, scene 1, of Puccini's 1926 opera "Turandot". The words were actually written by Puccini himself. Waiting for librettists Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni to deliver the next part of the libretto, he wrote the words, and when they read them they decided that they could not do better. It is sung by Liù under torture, prior to her suicide. Turandot is clearly taken by Liù's resolve and asks her who put so much strength in her heart. Liù answers "Princess, Love!" .
Title: Il tabarro
Passage: Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's play "La houppelande". It is the first of the trio of operas known as "Il trittico". The first performance was given on 14 December 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Title: In questa reggia
Passage: "In questa reggia" ("In this palace") is an aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. The text is based on Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play "Turandot" by Carlo
Title: Non piangere, Liù
Passage: "Non piangere, Liù" (Don't cry, Liù) is an aria sung by Calàf, the "Unknown Prince", in Act I of the Italian opera Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini. The lyrics were written by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. The scene takes place before the walls of the imperial palace. In the preceding aria ("Signore, ascolta! " - "My lord, listen!" ) , Liù begs Calàf not to risk his life by playing a deadly game to marry Princess Turandot, and Calàf responds to her gently, asking her not to cry.
Title: Renato Simoni
Passage: Renato Simoni (Verona, 5 September 1875 – Milan, 5 July 1952) was an Italian journalist, playwright, writer and theatrical critic noted for his collaboration work with Giuseppe Adami for Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot".
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Turandot
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Alfred Kim
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Turandot
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Are CSS and Sebadoh from the same country?
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Title: CSS (band)
Passage: CSS (an initialism of Cansei de Ser Sexy) is a Brazilian rock band from São Paulo. The band was labeled as part of the explosion of the new rave scene. Their songs are in both English and Portuguese. Cansei de Ser Sexy (] , ] in São Paulo) literally translates as "I got tired of being sexy".
Title: Sebadoh
Passage: Sebadoh ( ) is an American indie rock band, currently signed with Joyful Noise Recordings. Sebadoh were formed in 1988 in Northampton, Massachusetts, by Eric Gaffney and Dinosaur Jr bass player Lou Barlow. Along with such bands as Pavement and Guided by Voices, Sebadoh helped pioneer lo-fi music, a style of indie rock characterized by low-fidelity recording techniques, often on four-track machines. The band's early output, such as "The Freed Man" and "Weed Forestin'" (both released 1990), as well as "Sebadoh III" (1991), was typical of this style. After a 14-year recording hiatus, during which time members pursued other projects while occasionally touring as Sebadoh, the group returned in 2013 with the "Secret EP" and a full-length album titled "Defend Yourself", which were both self-recorded. Lead singer Lou Barlow says of the band's resurrected sound, "We kept to ourselves during the recording and didn’t have much, if any, outside intervention. That, to my mind, makes it a true Sebadoh record and aligns the style of "Defend Yourself" with our early releases."
Title: Beyond Ipanema
Passage: Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music is a 2009 documentary film about the influence of Brazilian music outside of the country, especially the USA. Produced by filmmakers Guto Barra and Béco Dranoff, it features interviews and performances by David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, M.I.A., Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Seu Jorge, Thievery Corporation, Bebel Gilberto, CSS, Creed Taylor and many others.
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no
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CSS (band)
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Sebadoh
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Lea Salonga has supplied the singing voices of two characters in a line created by what person?
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Title: Disney Princess
Passage: Disney Princess, also called the Princess Line, is a media franchise owned by The Walt Disney Company. Created by Disney Consumer Products chairman Andy Mooney in the early 2000s, the franchise features a line-up of fictional female protagonists who have appeared in various Disney franchises.
Title: Lea Salonga
Passage: Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga, (born February 22, 1971), known as Lea Salonga ( ), is a Filipina singer and actress best known for her roles in musical theatre, for supplying the singing voices of two Disney Princesses, and as a recording artist and television performer.
Title: Lea... In Love
Passage: Lea... In Love is Lea Salonga's album released in 1998. The album is a mixture of jazz, easy listening and R&B/soul ballads. It received favourable reviews for Salonga's singing and songwriting. The album produced the #1 R&B/soul hits "Even If" and "Friend of Mine". "Reachin' Out" was released as a single outside the Philippines.
Title: Small Voice
Passage: Small Voice is the debut album by Lea Salonga, recorded when she was only nine years old. Philippine critics gave the album and Salonga's performance positive reviews. The album was certified gold in the Philippines. After the success of the album, she was given her own TV variety show called "Love, Lea".
Title: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (album)
Passage: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing is a compilation album by singer and actress Lea Salonga. It was released three years after her multi-platinum selling album, "Lea Salonga". It earned mixed reviews from critics. The album was a mixture of old and new recordings. One single was released from the album, the top ten hit, "Top of the World". The album went gold after six months of release.
Title: Esang de Torres
Passage: Telesa Marie Castillejo De Torres (born February 12, 2007), known as Esang De Torres, is a Filipina child singer and stage actress best known for portraying Lea Salonga's 'MiniMe' on ABS-CBN's "It's Showtime", and joining the second season of "The Voice Kids Philippines", ultimately picking Lea Salonga as her coach.
Title: Honor to Us All
Passage: "Honor to Us All" is a song written by composer Matthew Wilder and lyricist David Zippel for Walt Disney Pictures' 36th animated feature film "Mulan" (1998). Recorded by singers Beth Fowler, Marni Nixon and Lea Salonga, the latter two of whom provide the singing voices of Grandmother Fa and Fa Mulan, respectively, the song is a character number performed by several older Chinese women and female members of Mulan's family as they prepare the main character to be evaluated by the Matchmaker.
Title: Lea Salonga (album)
Passage: Lea Salonga is the third studio album by the Filipino Broadway pop singer Lea Salonga. It was her first album to receive an international release in 1993 through Atlantic Records, making her the first Filipino singer to be signed on an international record label. The album peaked at number 25 on the "Billboard" Heatseekers Albums, making Salonga the first Filipino to break onto the American chart.
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Andy Mooney
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Lea Salonga
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Disney Princess
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Which plant genus, Rudbeckia or Securinega, is in the sunflower family?
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Title: Rudbeckia
Passage: Rudbeckia is a plant genus in the sunflower family. The species are commonly called coneflowers and black-eyed-susans; all are native to North America and many species are cultivated in gardens for their showy yellow or gold flower heads.
Title: Securinega
Passage: Securinega is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae, first described as a genus in 1789. As presently conceived, the genus is native to Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. In the past, it was considered to be much more widespread, thus explaining the long list of species formerly included.
Title: Helianthus petiolaris
Passage: Helianthus petiolaris is a North American plant species in the sunflower family, commonly known as the prairie sunflower or lesser sunflower. Naturalist and botanist Thomas Nuttall was the first to describe the prairie sunflower in 1821. The word "petiolaris" in Latin means, “having a petiole”. The originated in western United States, but has since expanded east. The prairie sunflower is considered a be a weed.
Title: Helianthus annuus
Passage: Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower, is a large annual forb of the genus "Helianthus" grown as a crop for its edible oil and edible fruits (sunflower seeds). This sunflower species is also used as bird food, as livestock forage (as a meal or a silage plant), and in some industrial applications. The plant was first domesticated in the Americas. Wild "Helianthus annuus" is a widely branched annual plant with many flower heads. The domestic sunflower, however, often possesses only a single large inflorescence (flower head) atop an unbranched stem. The name "sunflower" may derive from the flower's head's shape, which resembles the sun, or from the impression that the blooming plant appears to slowly turn its flower towards the sun as the latter moves across the sky on a daily basis.
Title: Rudbeckia californica
Passage: Rudbeckia californica is a species of flowering plant in the Sunflower or Aster Family (Asteraceae), known by the common name California coneflower.
Title: Wedelia
Passage: Wedelia is a flowering plant genus in the sunflower family. They are one of the genera commonly called "creeping-oxeyes".
Title: Scorzonera hispanica
Passage: Scorzonera hispanica, black salsify or Spanish salsify, also known as black oyster plant, serpent root, viper's herb, viper's grass or simply scorzonera, is a perennial member of the genus "Scorzonera" in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), cultivated as a root vegetable in the same way as purple salsify ("Tragopogon porrifolius"), also in the sunflower family.
Title: Rudbeckia hirta
Passage: Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed-Susan, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China. It has now been found in all 10 Canadian Provinces and all 48 of the states in the contiguous United States.
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Rudbeckia
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Rudbeckia
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Securinega
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Who was born first,Todd Woodbridge or Lucie Hradecká?
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Title: Todd Woodbridge
Passage: Todd Andrew Woodbridge, OAM (born 2 April 1971) is a retired Australian tennis player. He was born in Sydney and raised in Kogarah Bay by his parents, Kevin and Barbara. He has two older brothers, Gregory and Warren. He attended Lyneham High School, Canberra, then turned professional in 1988.
Title: Lucie Hradecká
Passage: Lucie Hradecká (] ; born 21 May 1985 in Prague) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won 19 WTA doubles titles, and two Grand Slam titles, the 2011 French Open and the 2013 US Open, partnered both times by fellow Czech Andrea Hlaváčková. The pair are also the 2012 Olympic silver medallists in doubles. She has also won a mixed doubles Grand Slam title, the 2013 French Open with František Čermák. Her biggest singles career highlight to date was defeating former world number one Ana Ivanovic in the first round of the 2015 Australian Open.
Title: 2017 Coupe Banque Nationale – Doubles
Passage: Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká were the defending champions, but decided not to compete together. Hradecká partnered with Barbora Krejčíková, but lost in the quarterfinals to Bianca Andreescu and Carson Branstine. Hlaváčková partnered with Tímea Babos and successfully defended her title, defeating Andreescu and Branstine 6–3, 6–1 in the final.
Title: 2011 Dow Corning Tennis Classic – Doubles
Passage: Laura Granville and Lucie Hradecká were the defending champions, however Granville did not participate. Lucie Hradecká partnered up with Marina Erakovic and lost in the first round to Beatrice Capra and Coco Vandeweghe
Title: 2014 US Open – Women's Doubles
Passage: Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Hlaváčková played alongside Zheng Jie, but lost in the quarterfinals to Kimiko Date-Krumm and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová. Hradecká teamed up with Michaëlla Krajicek, but lost in the third round to Zarina Diyas and Xu Yifan. <br>
Title: 2011 International Country Cuneo – Doubles
Passage: Eva Birnerová and Lucie Hradecká were the defending champions, but Hradecká chose not to participate.
Title: 2008 Banka Koper Slovenia Open – Doubles
Passage: Lucie Hradecká and Renata Voráčová were the defending champions, but Voráčová chose not to participate, and only Hradecká competed that year. Hradecká partnered up with Andreja Klepač, but they lost in the quarterfinals to Vera Dushevina and Ekaterina Makarova.
Title: 2015 J&T Banka Prague Open – Doubles
Passage: Lucie Hradecká and Michaëlla Krajicek were the defending champions, but Hradecká chose not to participate this year. Krajicek played alongside Karolína Plíšková, but lost in the quarterfinals to Belinda Bencic and Kateřina Siniaková.
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Todd Andrew Woodbridge
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Todd Woodbridge
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Lucie Hradecká
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Mon Mane Na is a Bengali romance movie that was released in 2008, and a remake of a 1995 American romantic comedy film directed by who?
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Title: Mon Mane Na (2008 film)
Passage: Mon Mane Na (Bengali: মন মানে না "") is a Bengali romance movie that was released in 2008, directed by Sujit Guha. The movie featured Dev and Koel Mallick. This movie is a remake of the 1995 American romantic comedy movie French Kiss.
Title: French Kiss (1995 film)
Passage: French Kiss is a 1995 American romantic comedy film directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. Written by Adam Brooks, the film is about a woman who flies to France to confront her straying fiancé and gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her to smuggle a stolen diamond necklace. "French Kiss" was filmed on location in Paris, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur région of southeastern France, and Cannes. The film was released in the United States on May 5, 1995, and received mixed reviews. The film went on to earn a total worldwide gross of $101,982,854.
Title: Hothat Brishti
Passage: Hothat Brishti (Bengali: হঠাৎ বৃষ্টি ; "Sudden Rain") is a Bengali romance movie released in 1998 under the direction of Basu Chatterjee. It was produced by both Bangladesh and India. The movie featured Ferdous Ahmed (Bangladesh) and Priyanka Trivedi (India). It was a huge success both in India and Bangladesh. It was a remake of the National award winning Tamil film "Kadhal Kottai", and also Hindi movie "Sirf Tum" was remade based on the same story in June 1999.
Title: Cross-Country Romance
Passage: Cross-Country Romance is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Gene Raymond and Wendy Barrie. With the huge success of "It Happened One Night", the 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, every studio in Hollywood attempted to cash in with a similar storyline. In addition to this film, there was also "Love on the Run" (1936) from MGM, "The Bride Came C.O.D." (1941) by Warner Bros.; even Columbia Pictures, which had made "It Happened One Night", produced the musical remake "Eve Knew Her Apples" (1945).
Title: Simanaheen
Passage: Simanaheen (সীমানাহীন; English: Limitless) is 2013 Bengali romance film directed by Kevin Dalvi and Ria Mahtab. The film marks the debuts of Rahsaan Noor and Ismat. Simanaheen released in theatres worldwide on Valentine's Day 2013 and in Bangladesh on 1 March 2013.
Title: Rajkumar (2008 film)
Passage: Rajkumar (Bengali: রাজ কুমার "Prince") is a Bengali romance Movie was released in 2008, directed by Swapan Saha, the movie featured Prosenjit and Anu Chowdhury.
Title: I Love You (2007 Bengali film)
Passage: I Love You is a 2007 Bengali romance and comedy film by Ravi Kinagi. This movie is a remake of the Telugu film "Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana". It was a Shree Venkatesh Films production.
Title: Tomake Chai (film)
Passage: Tomake Chai is a 2017 Indian Bengali romance film directed by Rajiv Kumar Biswas and produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films and Surinder Films. The film features Bonny Sengupta and Koushani Mukherjee in lead roles. The film released on 1st February 2017.
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Lawrence Kasdan
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Mon Mane Na (2008 film)
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French Kiss (1995 film)
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Are Trivial Pursuit and Qin both boardgames based on historical knowledge?
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Title: Qin (board game)
Passage: Qin is a 2012 board game by Reiner Knizia. It is themed after the Qin dynasty in ancient China.
Title: Trivial Pursuit
Passage: Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions.
Title: Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show)
Passage: Trivial Pursuit is an American game show that ran on The Family Channel from June 7, 1993 to September 3, 1993, with reruns continuing until July 21, 1995. Loosely based on the board game of the same name, it was hosted by Wink Martindale with Randy West announcing.
Title: Ten Crimes of Qin
Passage: Confucian historians condemned the emperor Qin Shi Huang in the Ten Crimes of Qin, a list that was compiled to highlight his tyrannical actions. The famous Han poet and statesman Jia Yi concluded his essay The Faults of Qin () with what was to become the standard Confucian judgment of the reasons for Qin's collapse. Jia Yi's essay, admired as a masterpiece of rhetoric and reasoning, was copied into two great Han histories and has had a far-reaching influence on Chinese political thought as a classic illustration of Confucian theory. He explained the ultimate weakness of Qin as a result of its ruler's ruthless pursuit of power, the precise factor which had made it so powerful; for as Confucius had taught, the strength of a government ultimately is based on the support of the people and virtuous conduct of the ruler.
Title: Trivial Pursuit (UK game show)
Passage: Trivial Pursuit is a game show loosely based on the board game of the same name. The show first aired on BBC1 from 4 September to 18 December 1990 hosted by Rory McGrath. It was revived on The Family Channel from 1993 to 1994 hosted by Tony Slattery.
Title: Trivial Pursuit (disambiguation)
Passage: Trivial Pursuit is a boardgame based on a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions.
Title: Paul Paquet
Passage: Paul Stephen Paquet (born, January 25, 1965, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a nationally syndicated trivia columnist and a trivia writer, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In December 2008, he took over the "Trivia Bits" column from Stanley Newman. It runs in 14 newspapers throughout the United States. In 2015, he started writing a trivia column for Reader's Digest. In addition, he has written for Trivial Pursuit, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, the Canadian game show Instant Cash and many others.
Title: Trivial Pursuit: America Plays
Passage: Trivial Pursuit: America Plays is an American syndicated game show loosely based on the board game of the same name. It premiered on September 22, 2008 and aired first-run episodes through May 22, 2009 (with repeats continuing until September 18). The host was Christopher Knight (the pilot was hosted by Mark L. Walberg), and the show is produced by Wheeler/Sussman Productions in association with Hasbro. The series was syndicated by Debmar-Mercury.
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yes
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Trivial Pursuit
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Qin (board game)
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Are both Asimina and Phygelius shrubs?
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Title: Phygelius
Passage: Phygelius, common names Cape fuchsia or Cape figwort, is a genus of flowering plants in the Scrophulariaceae family, native to wet slopes and banks in southern Africa. They are evergreen shrubs often treated as perennials in colder climates. They bear many pendent tubular flowers over a long period in summer, in shades of white, yellow and red. The vague similarity of the blooms to fuchsias has led to the common name Cape fuchsia, though they are not closely related.
Title: Asimina
Passage: Asimina is a genus of small trees or shrubs described as a genus in 1763.
Title: Pawpaw Festival
Passage: The Pawpaw Festival or Ohio Pawpaw Festival is an annual festival dedicated to the Pawpaw fruit ("Asimina triloba") that is indigenous to the Eastern, Southern, and Midwestern United States, and cultivated in the Athens County, Ohio, area.
Title: Asimina triloba
Passage: Asimina triloba, the papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, paw-paw, or common pawpaw, is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern United States and Canada, producing a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit. It belongs to the genus "Asimina" in the same plant family (the Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop.
Title: Asimina incana
Passage: Asimina incana is a species of pawpaw (genus "Asimina", family Annonaceae). It is a shrub that grows to a height of 1.5 m . Its leaves are 3 - long and leathery. It usually grows 1–4 flowers per node.
Title: Omphalocera munroei
Passage: Omphalocera munroei, the asimina webworm moth, is a moth of the Pyralidae family. It is found in North America, including Florida, Indiana and West Virginia.
Title: Asimina parviflora
Passage: Asimina parviflora, the smallflower pawpaw or dwarf papaw, is a shrub or small tree in the custard apple family.
Title: Leucocyanidin
Passage: Leucocyanidin is a colorless chemical compound related to leucoanthocyanidins. Leucoyanidin can be found in "Aesculus hippocastanum" (Horse chestnut), "Anacardium occidentale" (Cashew, acajou), "Arachis hypogaea" (Earth Nut), "Areca catechu" (Areca nut), "Asimina triloba" (American custardapple), "Cerasus vulgaris" (Cherry), "Cinnamomum camphora" (Camphor), "Erythroxylon coca" (coca), "Gleditsia triacanthos" (Honey locust), "Hamamelis virginiana" (American Witch Hazel), "Hippophae rhamnoides" (Hippophae berry Sanddorn), "Hordeum vulgare" (Barley), "Humulus lupulus" (bine), "Hypericum perforatum" (perikon Amber), "Laurus nobilis", "Magnolia denudata" (Hsin-I Yulan-Magnolie), "Malva silvestris" (Blue mallow), "Musa acuminata × balbisiana" (Banana), "Nelumbo nucifera" (Baladi bean), "Pinus strobus" (Eastern white pine), "Prunus serotina" ssp. serotina (black cherry), "Psidium guajava" (Common guava), "Quercus alba" (White oak), "Quercus robur" (Common oak), "Rumex hymenosepalus" (Arizona dock), "Schinus terebinthifolius" (Brazilian pepper tree), "Terminalia arjuna" (arjun), "Terminalia catappa" (Indian almond), "Theobroma cacao" (Cacao), "Drimia maritima" (Sea Squill), "Vicia faba" (bell-bean), "Vitis vinifera" (Common Grape Vine), "Zea Mays" (Corn, mais), "Ziziphus jujuba" (jujube, Chinese date).
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yes
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Asimina
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Phygelius
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Ifrah Wali was the first winner of what sport during the 2011 South Asian Winter Games?
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Title: Ifrah Wali
Passage: Ifrah Wali is a Pakistani alpine skier. She was the first winner of the Giant Slalom event at any South Asian Winter Games when she won at the inaugural games held in India.
Title: 2011 South Asian Winter Games
Passage: The 1st South Asian Winter Games were held in Dehradun and Auli, in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India in January 2011. The games were conducted by the Indian Olympic Association and the Winter Games Federation of India. A grand opening and closing ceremony took place on 10 January 2011 and 16 January 2011, in Dehradun and Auli, respectively.
Title: All-time Asian Winter Games medal table
Passage: The total medal count for all Asian Winter Games from 1986 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan to 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan is tabulated below.
Title: Vietnam at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Passage: Vietnam is scheduled to compete in the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo and Obihiro, Japan from February 19 to 26. This marks the country's official debut at the Asian Winter Games. The country is scheduled to compete in one sport (three disciplines). The team consists of six athletes (all men).
Title: Turkmenistan at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Passage: Turkmenistan is scheduled to compete in the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo and Obihiro, Japan from February 19 to 26. This will mark the country's debut at the Asian Winter Games. The country is scheduled to compete in one sport: ice hockey.
Title: 2011 Asian Winter Games medal table
Passage: The 2011 Asian Winter Games, officially known as the 7 Asian Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan, from January 30 and to February 6, 2011. A total of 991 athletes representing 26 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these games, competing in 69 events from 11 different sports and disciplines.
Title: Mir Nawaz
Passage: Mir Nawaz is a Pakistani alpine skier. His bronze medal in Giant Slalom skiing at the 2011 South Asian Winter Games, was Pakistan's first ever medal at any South Asian Winter Games.
Title: 1986 Asian Winter Games
Passage: The 1st Asian Winter Games were held from March 1 to 8, 1986 in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The Japanese Olympic Committee first suggested the idea of having a continent-wide winter version of the Asian Games in 1982. With Sapporo's expertise and infrastructure available after successfully hosting the 1972 Winter Olympics, the Olympic Council of Asia General Assembly in Seoul in 1984 decided to give Japan the privilege of hosting the first ever Asian Winter Games. Participating in a total of 35 events in seven sports were 430 athletes and officials from seven countries.
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Giant Slalom
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Ifrah Wali
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2011 South Asian Winter Games
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Where did Paul Davies Work that was established on August 16, 1960
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Title: International Academy of Astronautics
Passage: The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) is a non-governmental organisation of experts committed to expanding the frontiers of space. It was established in Stockholm (Sweden) on August 16, 1960.
Title: The Eerie Silence
Passage: The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence is a 2010 science text by Paul Davies, chair of the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics. "The Eerie Silence" explores the possibilities of intelligent extraterrestrial life, and its potential consequences.
Title: Panic Room (band)
Passage: Panic Room is a Welsh band founded by former Karnataka members Paul Davies, Jonathan Edwards, Gavin Griffiths, and Anne-Marie Helder; along with bassist Alun Vaughan, in 2006.
Title: Paul Davies (table tennis)
Passage: Paul Davies (born on 12 October 1966) is a Welsh Paralympic table tennis player. Davies, who has played table tennis competitively since 1991, was selected for the 2012 Paralympic Games, and took the bronze medal in the men's individual class 1 event.
Title: Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr
Passage: Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr is a Welsh language medium secondary school in Gowerton, Swansea, Wales, with approximately 800 pupils as of 2006. It was established in 1984. Notable past students include footballer John Hartson, soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, Michelin Star Chef Paul Davies and UFC fighter Brett Johns.
Title: Paul Davies (artist)
Passage: Paul Davies (born 1979) is an Australian Artist working in Los Angeles. Paul Davies work consists of Painting and Sculpture, created from hand-cut stencils, based in turn on the artists’ own digital photographs.
Title: Paul Davies (art historian)
Passage: Paul Davies (born October 1955) is professor of the history of art at the University of Reading. Davies is a specialist in the architecture of Italy 1350-1650, centrally-planned churches and the architectural response to miracles, architecture in Venice and the Veneto, and Italian Renaissance architectural drawings.
Title: Rodger Davies
Passage: Rodger Paul Davies (May 7, 1921 – August 19, 1974) was an American diplomat who was killed in the line of duty on August 19, 1974, in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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International Academy of Astronautics
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The Eerie Silence
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International Academy of Astronautics
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Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Richey Reneberg, have which occupation in common?
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Title: Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Passage: Pierre-Hugues Herbert (] ; born 18 March 1991) is a French professional tennis player. In doubles, he won the title at the 2015 US Open and 2016 Wimbledon as well as several Masters 1000 tournaments along with Nicolas Mahut. In singles he has reached one ATP career final (at the 2015 Winston-Salem Open), and achieved his career high singles ranking of World No. 64 on 14 August 2017.
Title: Richey Reneberg
Passage: Richey Reneberg (born October 5, 1965) is an American former professional tennis player.
Title: 1992 Australian Indoor Championships – Doubles
Passage: Jim Grabb and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions but lost in the final 6–2, 6–3 to Patrick McEnroe and Jonathan Stark.
Title: 1994 Comcast U.S. Indoor – Doubles
Passage: Jim Grabb and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions, but Reneberg did not participate this year. Grabb partnered Jared Palmer, finishing runner-up.
Title: 1994 Australian Indoor Championships – Doubles
Passage: Patrick McEnroe and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions but only Reneberg competed that year with Jim Grabb.
Title: 1990 Newsweek Champions Cup – Singles
Passage: Miloslav Mečíř was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Richey Reneberg.
Title: 1997 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon – Doubles
Passage: Jim Grabb and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions, but did not participate together this year. Grabb partnered Wayne Black, losing in the first round. Reneberg partnered Sjeng Schalken, losing in the first round.
Title: 1998 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Passage: Marc-Kevin Goellner and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions, but did not participate together this year. Goellner partnered Wayne Ferreira, losing in the quarterfinals. Reneberg partnered Jonathan Stark, losing in the semifinals.
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tennis player
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Pierre-Hugues Herbert
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Richey Reneberg
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how is Nikola Pilić and Iveta Benešová related?
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Title: Nikola Pilić
Passage: Nikola "Niki" Pilić (born 27 August 1939) is a retired Croatian professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia.
Title: Iveta Benešová
Passage: Iveta Benešová (] ) (formerly Melzer, Czech: Melzerová ; born 1 February 1983) is a Czech former professional tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of 7 and turned professional in 1998 in Prague. She has won two WTA Tour events and one Grand Slam in mixed doubles partnering with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. On 14 September 2012 she married Jürgen Melzer and adopted his family name. She announced her retirement from professional tennis via her Facebook page 13/08/2014. In 2015, she divorced Melzer and reverted to using her maiden name.
Title: 2010 BGL Luxembourg Open – Doubles
Passage: Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová were the defending champions. They reached the final, where they lost to Timea Bacsinszky and Tathiana Garbin 4–6, 4–6.
Title: 2006 Open Gaz de France – Doubles
Passage: Iveta Benešová and Květa Peschke were the defending champions but only Peschke competed that year with Émilie Loit.
Title: 2012 Apia International Sydney – Women's Doubles
Passage: Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová were the defending champions but were eliminated in the first round.
Title: 2013 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Doubles
Passage: Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová were the defending champions, but Benešová decided not to participate. <br>
Title: 2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Doubles
Passage: Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Patty Schnyder were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová.
Title: 2012 Barcelona Ladies Open – Doubles
Passage: Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová were the defending champions but Benešová decided not to participate. <br>
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tennis player
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Nikola Pilić
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Iveta Benešová
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Which movie did the american actor Dennis Hayden play in the popular 1988 action film?
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Title: Die Hard
Passage: Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It follows off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) as he takes on a group of highly organized criminals led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who perform a heist in a Los Angeles skyscraper under the guise of a terrorist attack using hostages, including McClane's wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), to keep the police at bay.
Title: Dennis Hayden (actor)
Passage: Dennis Hayden (born April 7, 1952) is an American actor, producer and writer, most famous for his role as Eddie, one of the main terrorists in the popular 1988 action film "Die Hard".
Title: Kamilla and the Thief
Passage: Kamilla and the Thief ("Kamilla og Tyven") is a Norwegian family movie from 1988 directed by Grete Salomonsen and produced by her husband Odd Hynnekleiv. The movie is an adaption from a Norwegian children's novel by Kari Vinje, and is the first feature film of renowned Norwegian actor Dennis Storhøi and also star1980s pop idol Morten Harket in a minor role. "Kamilla and the Thief" was a huge success in Norway, selling half a million tickets (in a country of about 4 million people). It was so popular that a sequel was made, Kamilla and the Thief II, which was released the year after. In 2005 both movies were digitally restored and released on DVD.
Title: Dennis Hayden (gymnast)
Passage: Dennis Hayden, twin brother of Dan Hayden, was a highly touted American gymnast of the 1980s who failed to make the Olympics.
Title: Strike Commando 2
Passage: Strike Commando 2 (a.k.a. Trappola diabolica) is a 1988 action film, starring Brent Huff, Richard Harris and Mary Stavin. It follows Bruno Mattei's (who also directed this film) "Strike Commando" (1987), where Reb Brown plays the lead character (Huff replaced him in this one).
Title: Contra Conspiracy
Passage: Contra Conspiracy (also known as Contra Control) is a 1988 action film written and directed by Thomas Dewier which is now distributed by Troma Entertainment. The film was produced by City Lights. The plot follows a Hollywood film crew shooting a movie in the Mojave Desert, only to be disrupted by a group of terrorists.
Title: Dennis Cambal
Passage: Dennis Hayden Cambal (born January 27, 1949) is a retired professional American football player for the National Football League's New York Jets. He played the running back position and appeared in eight games during the 1973 NFL season. Cambal played college football at William & Mary.
Title: Tomcat Prowl
Passage: "Tomcat Prowl", written by Doug Bennett and John Burton, is a song performed by Doug and the Slugs for the soundtrack to the 1988 action film "Iron Eagle II". It was the group's second-highest charting single in their native Canada, reaching #23 on the RPM Top 100 Singles chart. It also appears on the group's 1988 album "Tomcat Prowl" and was also released on their 1993 best-of "Slugcology 101".
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Die Hard
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Dennis Hayden (actor)
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Die Hard
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Oettinger Rockets is sponsored by the company that has been the best-selling beer since what year?
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Title: Oettinger Rockets
Passage: Oettinger Rockets is a German professional basketball team. It is originally based in Gotha, Germany but plays its home games in Erfurt. The team currently plays in the Basketball Bundesliga, the German first division. The Rockets are the first team of the BiG Gotha basketball club. The club is sponsored by Oettinger Brauerei.
Title: Oettinger Brauerei
Passage: Oettinger Brauerei is a brewery group in Germany. Oettinger has been Germany's best selling beer brand since 2004 (when it superseded Krombacher) with an annual output of 6.21 e6hL in 2011.
Title: David Hicks (basketball)
Passage: David Hicks (born August 1, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Oettinger Rockets in Germany.
Title: Andreas Obst
Passage: Andreas Obst (born July 3, 1996) is a German professional basketball player, who currently plays for the Oettinger Rockets.
Title: Johannes Richter (basketball)
Passage: Johannes Richter (born December 6, 1993) is a German professional basketball player, who currently plays for Oettinger Rockets.
Title: 2016–17 ProA
Passage: The 2016–17 ProA was the 10th season of the ProA, the second level of basketball in Germany. The champions the runners-up of the play-offs are promoted to the 2017–18 Basketball Bundesliga. The season started on September 22, 2016 and ended on May 7, 2017. Mitteldeutscher BC won the championship and promoted along with runners-up Oettinger Rockets.
Title: Nemanja Jaramaz
Passage: Nemanja Jaramaz (born July 10, 1991) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Oettinger Rockets of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). Standing at 2.01 m , he plays at the shooting guard position.
Title: Retin Obasohan
Passage: Retin Obasohan (born July 6, 1993) is a Belgian professional basketball player, who currently plays for Oettinger Rockets of the Basketball Bundesliga.
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2004
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Oettinger Rockets
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Oettinger Brauerei
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Were both Balázs Taróczy and Hans Simonsson from Sweden?
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Title: Balázs Taróczy
Passage: Balázs Taróczy (Hungarian: "Taróczy Balázs" ; born 9 May 1954) is a retired tennis player from Hungary, who won thirteen singles titles in his career. The right-hander achieved his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 12 in April 1982.
Title: Hans Simonsson
Passage: Hans Simonsson (born 1 May 1962 in Färgaryd) is a retired professional tennis player from Sweden. Primarily a doubles specialist, he won 12 ATP Tour titles in his career. He won the French Open doubles title in 1983 with his countryman Anders Järryd. He also played in the 1983 Davis Cup final for Sweden. He reached his career high doubles ranking of No. 10 in the world on 2 January 1984. Simonsson again reached the French Open doubles final in 1985, but he and Schlomo Glickstein were defeated by Mark Edmondson and Kim Warwick. The Swede finished his career prematurely at the age of 25. He's the brother of Stefan Simonsson.
Title: 1990 Belgian Indoor Championships – Doubles
Passage: Wally Masur and Tom Nijssen were the champions of the event when it last took place, in 1988. Neither of them participated in 1990. <br>Emilio Sánchez and Slobodan Živojinović won the title, defeating Goran Ivanišević and Balázs Taróczy 7–5, 6–3, in the final.
Title: 1981 Geneva Open – Doubles
Passage: Željko Franulović and Balázs Taróczy were the defending champions, but did not participate together this year. Franulović partnered José López-Maeso, losing in the quarterfinals. Taróczy partnered Heinz Günthardt, winning the title.
Title: 1989 CA-TennisTrophy – Doubles
Passage: Alex Antonitsch and Balázs Taróczy were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Jan Gunnarsson and Anders Järryd.
Title: 1986 Pilot Pen Classic – Doubles
Passage: Heinz Günthardt and Balázs Taróczy were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Title: 1978 Fischer-Grand Prix – Doubles
Passage: Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan were the defending champions but lost in the final 6–3, 6–7, 6–4 to Victor Pecci and Balázs Taróczy.
Title: Stefan Simonsson
Passage: Stefan Simonsson (born 5 January 1960, in Hyltebruk), is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing singles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 49 in 1983 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 88 in 1984. He´s the brother of Hans Simonsson. After his career, he coached two top 10 players on the ATP ranking, Magnus Gustavsson and Magnus Larsson.
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no
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Balázs Taróczy
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Hans Simonsson
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Are Dengta and Xuanwei located in the same province?
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Title: Dengta
Passage: Dengta () is a city in east-central Liaoning province in Northeast China. It is located in between Liaoyang, which oversees Dengta and lies 22 km to the southwest, and Shenyang, the provincial capital and nearly double that distance to the northeast.
Title: Xuanwei
Passage: Xuanwei (Chinese: 宣威; Pinyin: Xuānwēi) is a county-level city, under the jurisdiction of Qujing, in Yunnan Province, China.
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no
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Dengta
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Xuanwei
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Little Nellie 007 is a book by an English military historian and author, who specializes in what?
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Title: Little Nellie 007
Passage: Little Nellie 007 (ISBN ) (1991) is a book by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny about the James Bond autogyro, "Little Nellie" as featured in the film "You Only Live Twice" and her "father", Wing Commander Retd. Ken Wallis.
Title: Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
Passage: Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born 1937 in Caistor, Lincolnshire) is an English military historian and author, specialising in airfields and aircraft, as well as ghost stories and mysteries. He is also a broadcaster and games inventor.
Title: Correlli Barnett
Passage: Correlli Douglas Barnett CBE FRHistS FRSL FRSA (born 28 June 1927) is an English military historian, who has also written works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war "industrial decline".
Title: The Face of Battle
Passage: The Face of Battle is a 1976 non-fiction book on military history by the English military historian John Keegan. It deals first with the structure of historical writing about battles, the strengths and weaknesses of the "battle piece," and then with the structure of warfare in three time periods—medieval Europe, the Napoleonic Era, and World War I—by analyzing three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, all of which involved English soldiers and occurred in approximately the same geographical area.
Title: Antony Beevor
Passage: Sir Antony James Beevor, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 14 December 1946) is an English military historian. He has published several popular histories on the Second World War and the 20th century in general.
Title: Willem Jan Knoop
Passage: Willem Jan Knoop (Deventer, May 2, 1811 – The Hague, January 24, 1894) was a Dutch lieutenant-general, military historian, and politician. As a young captain of the Dutch General Staff he wrote a rebuttal of the English military historian captain William Siborne's account of the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo, published as "History of the war in France and Flanders in 1815" in 1844, in which Siborne disparaged the conduct of the Dutch army at these battles. Siborne's book had caused a furore in the Netherlands as he saw fit to insult the honor of the Dutch army, and of king William II of the Netherlands, who as Prince of Orange had commanded that army at both battles, and was revered as a national hero by the Dutch. As Siborne's book is still in use as a source for Anglophone historiography of the battles, and is still the subject of controversy, Knoop's criticisms are still relevant, and play a role in this controversy.
Title: Michael Chappell
Passage: Michael John William Chappell BEM (born 14 September 1934), better known as Mike Chappell, is an English military historian and illustrator of military books.
Title: Andrew Robertshaw
Passage: Andrew Robertshaw was born in Sheffield, England, and is an English military historian, curator, author and educator. He is best known for his television appearances, in programmes such as "Two Men in a Trench" and "Time Team". He was a military advisor on the film "War Horse".
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airfields and aircraft
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Little Nellie 007
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Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
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What was the name of the 1999 Korean romantic film starring an actress famous for her role as The Girl in the romantic comedy My Sassy Girl?
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Title: White Valentine
Passage: White Valentine () is a 1999 Korean romantic film directed by Yang Yun-ho. It stars Park Shin-yang with Jun Ji-hyun in her movie debut.
Title: Jun Ji-hyun
Passage: Jun Ji-hyun (born Wang Ji-hyun on 30 October 1981), also known as Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame for her role as The Girl in the romantic comedy "My Sassy Girl" (2001), one of the highest-grossing Korean comedies of all time. Other notable films include "Il Mare" (2000), "Windstruck" (2004), "The Thieves" (2012), "The Berlin File" (2013) and "Assassination" (2015).
Title: My Sassy Girl (2008 film)
Passage: My Sassy Girl is a 2008 American remake of the 2001 South Korean romantic-comedy "My Sassy Girl". It stars Elisha Cuthbert and Jesse Bradford and was directed by Yann Samuell. Both films are based on a true story told in a series of blog posts written by Kim Ho-sik, who later adapted them into a fictional novel. The film is set in New York City's Central Park and Upper East Side. Samuell, describes the film as "a fable about destiny, " while Bradford described it as "a romantic comedy about how they pull each other to a more healthy place by virtue of their relationship."
Title: My Sassy Girl (TV series)
Passage: My Sassy Girl (Hangul: 엽기적인 그녀 ; RR: "Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo " ) is a 2017 South Korean television drama starring Joo Won, Oh Yeon-seo, Lee Jung-shin and Kim Yoon-hye, based on the 2001 South Korean movie "My Sassy Girl" by Kwak Jae-yong, but during Joseon period. It aired on SBS from May 29 to July 18, 2017 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 22:00 (KST) time slot for 32 episodes.
Title: My New Sassy Girl
Passage: My New Sassy Girl () () is a 2016 South Korean-Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Joh Keun-shik, and starring Cha Tae-hyun and Victoria Song. This film, a sequel to "My Sassy Girl" (2001), was released in China on April 22, 2016 and released in South Korea on May 12, 2016.
Title: Ugly Aur Pagli
Passage: Ugly Aur Pagli (English: Ugly and Crazy ) is a 2008 Indian Hindi comedy film starring Ranvir Shorey and Mallika Sherawat. It is directed by Sachin Khot and produced by Pritish Nandy. The film tells the story of the strange relationship between a young Mumbai engineering student and a girl he meets on the train. "Ugly Aur Pagli" is an uncredited remake of the Korean film "My Sassy Girl" with many scenes taken directly from the original film.
Title: My Sassy Girl 2
Passage: My Sassy Girl 2 (Chinese: 我的野蛮女友2) is a 2010 Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Joe Ma and starring Lynn Hung, Leon Jay Williams, He Jiong, Abby Feng and Bosco Wong. The film is an unofficial sequel of the 2001 South Korean film "My Sassy Girl". It was released on November 5, 2010.
Title: Sano Sansar
Passage: Sano Sansar (Nepali: सानो संसार , translation: Small World) is a 2008 Nepali romantic comedy film directed by Alok Nembang. The film has a massive star cast which includes Neer Shah and newcomers Mahesh Shakya (popularly known Karma), Jiwan Luitel and Namrata Shrestha. Sano Sansar is director Alok Nembang's directorial debut and is the second Nepali HD movie made after "Kagbeni". The film is heavily influenced by the Korean movie "My Sassy Girl" and the English-language movie "You've Got Mail".
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White Valentine
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White Valentine
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Jun Ji-hyun
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Who directed The Ghost Train film, which was based on the play written by Arnold Ridley?
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Title: The Ghost Train (1931 film)
Passage: The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play "The Ghost Train" by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction was by Walter Murton.
Title: Arnold Ridley
Passage: William Arnold Ridley, OBE (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984) was an English playwright and actor, first notable as the author of the play "The Ghost Train" and later in life for portraying the elderly Private Godfrey in the British sitcom "Dad's Army" (1968–1977).
Title: De Spooktrein
Passage: It is an adaptation of the popular British play "The Ghost Train" by Arnold Ridley.
Title: Peril at End House (play)
Passage: Peril at End House is a 1940 play based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The play is by Arnold Ridley, who much later played Private Godfrey in "Dad's Army". Ridley was granted permission to adapt the book in an agreement with Christie dated 18 July 1938.
Title: Ghost Train (1927 film)
Passage: Ghost Train (German: Der Geisterzug) is a 1927 German-British comedy crime film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Guy Newall, Ilse Bois and Louis Ralph. It is an adaptation of the Arnold Ridley play "The Ghost Train". It was a co-production between Gainsborough Pictures and UFA and was shot at the latter's Staaken Studios in Berlin.
Title: The Wrecker (play)
Passage: The Wrecker is a British play, written in 1924 by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale, and filmed in 1928-29. Much later Ridley played Private Godfrey in "Dad's Army".
Title: The Ghost Train (play)
Passage: The Ghost Train is a theatre comedy suspense thriller, written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright Arnold Ridley.
Title: The Ghost Train (1941 film)
Passage: The Ghost Train is a 1941 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde based on the 1923 play of the same name written by Arnold Ridley.
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Walter Forde
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The Ghost Train (1931 film)
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Arnold Ridley
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Are both B. E. Doxat-Pratt and Lev Yilmaz known for working in the film industry?
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Title: Lev Yilmaz
Passage: Levni Yilmaz (born 1973) is a San Francisco based independent film maker, artist and publisher, best known for his “Tales of Mere Existence” animated comic series.
Title: B. E. Doxat-Pratt
Passage: Bernard Edwin Doxat-Pratt (born 1886 in London) was a British film director who worked for Anglo-Hollandia and Granger-Binger.
Title: Suhan Prasad
Passage: Suhan Prasad is a film Director and film producer in the Kannada film industry and Tulu film industry . He is well known for the films "Ondu Motteya Kathe", his directorial debut "Rang" in Tulu film industry.
Title: Bulldog Drummond (1922 film)
Passage: Bulldog Drummond (1922) was the first film adaptation of the Bulldog Drummond fictional character, starring Carlyle Blackwell Sr. and Evelyn Greeley, and directed by Oscar Apfel. The story was adapted by B. E. Doxat-Pratt and produced by Maurits Binger.
Title: Zahir Shah (actor)
Passage: Zahir Shah (1947 – 13 June 2017) was a Pakistani film actor working in Lollywood, the Punjab language film industry. He was best known for playing villainous roles in several films. He has been credited for working in over 600 films. He was introduced to film industry through the film "Yaari Dosti" by director Altaf Hussain. After the film industry collapsed, Shah experimented with theatre but not for long.
Title: Ayisha Davies
Passage: Ayisha Davies is an Australian film producer. She is most famous for producing such films as Coffin Rock (2009) and the Bloody Sweet Hit (2007). Davies has been working within the Australian film industry for eight years and is currently working for Ultra Films. In addition to working within the Australian film industry, Davies previously worked within the realm of television, as a production secretary.
Title: The Skin Game (1921 film)
Passage: The Skin Game (Dutch: "Hard tegen hard" ) is a 1921 British-Dutch silent drama film directed by B. E. Doxat-Pratt.
Title: Ali Özgentürk
Passage: Ali Özgentürk is a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born on 4 November 1947 in Adana, Turkey. After studying philosophy and sociology at Istanbul University, he became involved in theater, as an actor, director, and playwright. He founded Istanbul's first street theater troupe in 1968. He began working in the Turkish film industry in 1974 as a camera assistant, and eventually became an assistant and screenwriter for famous Turkish film directors such as Atif Yilmaz and Yilmaz Guney.
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yes
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B. E. Doxat-Pratt
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Lev Yilmaz
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What do Guided by Voices and The Subways have in common?
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Title: The Subways
Passage: The Subways are an English rock band from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Their debut album, "Young for Eternity", was released on 4 July 2005 in the UK and 14 February 2006 in the U.S. Their second album, "All or Nothing", was released on 30 June 2008 and their third album "Money and Celebrity" debuted on 19 September 2011.
Title: Guided by Voices
Passage: Guided by Voices (often abbreviated as GBV) is an American indie rock band from Dayton, Ohio. It has made frequent personnel changes but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard.
Title: Mag Earwhig!
Passage: Mag Earwhig! is a 1997 album release by indie rock band Guided by Voices. Following the dissolution of the group's "classic" lineup, band-leader Robert Pollard recruited Cleveland group Cobra Verde as his backing band, while retaining the Guided by Voices name. Most of "Mag Earwhig!" was recorded in a professional studio in Cleveland by the new lineup and marked a departure from band's trademark lo-fi sound, although additional songs were subsequently recorded in Dayton, and former members played on several tracks.
Title: Please Be Honest
Passage: Please Be Honest is the 22nd album by Dayton, Ohio rock group Guided by Voices. It was released April 22, 2016 on Guided by Voices Inc. Robert Pollard wrote all the music and played every instrument on the record.
Title: Under the Bushes Under the Stars
Passage: Under the Bushes Under the Stars is the ninth Guided by Voices album overall, and the last until 2012's Let's Go Eat the Factory to feature the "classic" lineup including Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, and Kevin Fennell in addition to leader Robert Pollard. The album is noted as Guided by Voices' first stab at professionalism, being recorded in 24 track studios rather than their customary 4 track. Sessions for the album were reportedly arduous, spread as they were across at least four studios and as many sets of producers, and many titles and configurations were vetted before a final sequence was reached.
Title: Robert Pollard
Passage: Robert Ellsworth Pollard Jr. (born October 31, 1957) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is the leader and creative force behind indie rock group Guided by Voices. In addition to his work with Guided by Voices, he continues to have a prolific solo career with 22 solo albums released so far.
Title: Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
Passage: Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft is a four-CD box set released by Guided by Voices in 2000. Named for the reputed literal suitcase in which the bandleader Robert Pollard allegedly stored his hundreds of unreleased tapes, the set is a trawl through decades worth of material from throughout (and even predating) Guided by Voices' recorded career.
Title: Universal Truths and Cycles
Passage: Universal Truths and Cycles is the thirteenth (official) album by Dayton, Ohio indie rock group Guided by Voices. After releasing their previous two albums on TVT Records, Guided by Voices returned to Matador Records.
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band
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Guided by Voices
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The Subways
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What country of origin does Andrey Smolyakov and Viy have in common?
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Title: Viy (2014 film)
Passage: Viy 3D (Russian: Вий , internationally known as Forbidden Empire, and in the UK as The Forbidden Kingdom) is a 2014 dark fantasy film produced by Russian and Ukraine Film Group and Marins Group Entertainment and loosely based on the Nikolai Gogol story "Viy". The film was released in cinemas in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan on 30 January 2014, in the United States on 22 May 2015 and in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2015.
Title: Andrey Smolyakov
Passage: Andrey Igorevich Smolyakov (Russian: Андрей Игоревич Смоляков , born 24 November 1958) is a Russian actor and director. He is known for Vysotskiy. Spasibo, chto zhivoy (2011), Stalingrad (2013 film), and Forbidden Empire.
Title: Andrey Yakunin
Passage: Andrey Yakunin (Андрей Якунин) (born 1975) is a London-based businessman, chairman of the National Alternative Investment Management Association (NAIMA) in Russia, and the co-founder of VIY Management.
Title: Andrey Golubev
Passage: Andrey Golubev (Russian: "Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Го́лубев" , born July 22, 1987) is a Kazakh professional tennis player of Russian origin. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 33, achieved in October 2010. He has participated in all Grand Slam tournaments, the first being the 2008 US Open, as well in the main draw of ATP Masters Series and ATP International Series events. He has won three Challenger tournaments and reached the final of the 2008 St Petersburg Open. He won the 2010 International German Open, an ATP World Tour 500 series event.
Title: Yair Ziv (businessman)
Passage: Yair Ziv (born 1956) is a British businessman, born in Israel, who is the co-founder with Andrey Yakunin of VIY Management.
Title: Andrey Kavun
Passage: Andrey Kavun (Russian: Андрей Олегович Кавун ) (Birth (1969--) 9, 1969 ) is a Russian film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin, notable for historical drama film .
Title: PostCSS
Passage: PostCSS is a software development tool that uses JavaScript-based plugins to automate routine CSS operations. The tool has been used to develop the code of Wikipedia, Facebook, and GitHub. PostCSS is a top-favored CSS tool among npm users. It was designed by Andrey Sitnik with the idea taking its origin in his front-end work for Evil Martians.
Title: Rules of origin
Passage: Rules of origin are used to determine the country of origin of a product for purposes of international trade. There are two common types of rules of origin depending upon application, the preferential and non-preferential rules of origin (19 CFR 102). The exact rules vary from country to country, from agreement to agreement.
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Russian
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Andrey Smolyakov
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Viy (2014 film)
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In between Gordon Gano and Johnette Napolitano who is best known as the lead vocalist/songwriter and bassist for the alternative rock group Concrete Blonde?
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Title: Gordon Gano
Passage: Gordon James Gano (born June 7, 1963) is an American musician. He is best known for being the singer, guitarist and songwriter of American alternative rock band Violent Femmes.
Title: Johnette Napolitano
Passage: Johnette Napolitano (born September 22, 1957, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) is an American singer, songwriter and bassist best known as the lead vocalist/songwriter and bassist for the alternative rock group Concrete Blonde.
Title: Livan (band)
Passage: LIVAN is a UK-based alternative rock band founded by Greek-born singer Livan that also features guitarist Will Crewdson (Rachel Stamp, Malcolm McLaren and Johnette Napolitano) and drummer Damon Wilson (Ray Davies, Joss Stone). The band has toured with artists like Aerosmith, Alice Cooper and Peter Murphy among others.
Title: Concrete Blonde y Los Illegals
Passage: An album produced as a joint effort between Johnette Napolitano and James Mankey, previously founding members of alternative rock band Concrete Blonde, and L.A. pachucho punk band Los Illegals. It contains a blend of hard rock and Latin music.
Title: Will Crewdson
Passage: Will Crewdson is a London-based guitarist/writer/producer best known for his work with the UK band Rachel Stamp, US singer Johnette Napolitano and Adam Ant.
Title: Tidal Wave of Blood
Passage: "Tidal Wave of Blood" by David J (Bauhaus, Love And Rockets) and Shok (Zeitmahl, Red Light District) is a limited release single that came out in November 2010. It was released in 7 inch format. The CD is released by Saint Rose Records and produced by Shok and David J. The cover art is a work called The Beckoning by Joseph Minton. Jill Tracy is on backing vocals for Tidal Wave and plays piano on Blood Sucker Blues. This single is the offshoot from Tres Vampires, a project David J and Shok collaborated with Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde).
Title: Louise Attaque
Passage: Louise Attaque is a French chanson/folk rock group founded in 1994. Several of the group's albums were produced by Gordon Gano, lead singer of Violent Femmes, a band whom Louise Attaque often cites as an influence and for whom their own band is named. The band is signed to the Atmosphériques record label.
Title: Concrete Blonde
Passage: Concrete Blonde were an alternative rock band based in the United States. They were active from 1982 to 1995, from 2001 to 2004, and then reunited in 2010 and split up again in 2012. They are best known for their 1990 album "Bloodletting", their top 20 single "Joey", and Johnette Napolitano's distinctive vocal style.
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Johnette Napolitano
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Gordon Gano
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Johnette Napolitano
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Which of the following is native to the Himalayas and is commonly known as the Chinese hat plant: Pistacia or Holmskioldia?
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Title: Holmskioldia
Passage: Holmskioldia is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Himalayas (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar) but widely cultivated as an ornamental and naturalized in many places (Southeast Asia, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Mexico, West Indies, Venezuela, etc.) It contains only one known species, Holmskioldia sanguinea, commonly called the Chinese hat plant, cup-and-saucer-plant or mandarin's hat.
Title: Pistacia
Passage: Pistacia is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. It contains 10 to 20 species that are native to Africa and Eurasia from the Canary Islands, all of Africa, and southern Europe, warm and semidesert areas across Asia, and North America from Mexico to warm and semidesert United States, such as Texas or California.
Title: Zegalerus
Passage: Zegalerus is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calyptraeidae, commonly known as slipper snails, cup-and-saucer shells, and Chinese hat shells.
Title: Saussurea gossypiphora
Passage: Saussurea gossypiphora commonly known as snowball plant (Hindi:कस्तूरी कमल, kastūrī kamal; Nepali:कपासे फूल, kapāsē phūl) is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is reputed to have medicinal properties according to traditional Chinese medicine. It is native to the Himalayas, and found at altitudes of 4300-5600 m.
Title: Asian conical hat
Passage: The Asian conical hat, commonly known as an Asian rice hat, coolie hat (in the UK), or farmer's hat, is a simple style of conical hat originating in East, South, and Southeast Asia, particularly Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, parts of Russian Manchuria and Vietnam.
Title: Oroxindin
Passage: Oroxindin is a flavone, a type of phenolic chemical compound. It is a wogonoside, more accurately a wogonin glucuronide isolated from "Oroxylum indicum" (Bignoniaceae), "Bacopa monnieri" (Plantaginaceae) and "Holmskioldia sanguinea" (Chinese hat plant, Verbenaceae).
Title: Calyptraea
Passage: Calyptraea, commonly known as the "Chinese hat snails" is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calyptraeidae, a family which contains the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and Chinese hat snails.
Title: Bryophyllum daigremontianum
Passage: Bryophyllum daigremontianum, commonly called devil’s backbone, mother-of-thousands, alligator plant, or Mexican hat plant is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. Like other members of its genus "Bryophyllum", it is able to propagate vegetatively from plantlets that develop on its phylloclade margins. All parts of the plant contain a very toxic steroid known as daigremontianin.
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Holmskioldia
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Pistacia
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Holmskioldia
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What popular Korean drama or K-drama, centered on the personal and professional lives of those in the broadcasting industry, offering a realistic look at Korean drama production through the work and romance of two TV directors?
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Title: The World That They Live In
Passage: The World That They Live In (; lit. "Worlds Within") is a 2008 South Korean television series starring Hyun Bin and Song Hye-kyo. It centers on the personal and professional lives of those in the broadcasting industry, offering a realistic look at Korean drama production through the work and romance of two TV directors. The series aired on KBS2 from October 27 to December 16, 2008 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:50 for 16 episodes.
Title: Korean drama
Passage: Korean drama () or K-drama refers to televised dramas () in the Korean language, made in South Korea.
Title: Logos Film
Passage: Logos Film (Hangul: 로고스 필름 ; RR: "Rogoseu Pilleum " ) is a Korean drama production company. It was established on November 29, 2000 by Lee Jang-soo.
Title: Sasaeng fan
Passage: In South Korean culture, a sasaeng or sasaeng fan (Hangul: 사생팬) is an over-obsessive fan of a Korean pop idol, or other public figure, that has engaged in stalking or other behaviour that constitutes an invasion of privacy. The term "sasaeng" comes from the Korean words "sa" (Hangul: 사 ) meaning "private" and "saeng" (Hangul: 생 ) meaning "life," in reference to the fans' intrusion into the celebrities' private lives. According to estimates given by celebrity managers to Korean media, popular Korean celebrities "have between 500 to 1,000 sasaeng fans" and are actively followed by about 100 sasaeng fans every day.
Title: Bohemian (band)
Passage: Bohemian (Korean: 보헤미안 , Japanese: ボヘミアン; stylized as BOHEMIAN), is a three-member South Korean pop/ballad group, that along with group endeavors, has recorded many soundtracks, abbreviated as OSTs, for South Korean films and Korean drama or k-drama for television in South Korea, as individual artists. The group is composed of (Korean: 박상우 ), (Korean: 김용진 ), and Yoo Kyu Sang (Korean: 유규상 ). Bohemian debuted in 2010 with members Park Sang Woo and Yoo Kyu Sang. In 2012, they were joined by Kim Yong Jin. The group is managed by HMG Entertainment, with recordings released by their distribution company, LOEN Entertainment. Through a LOEN Entertainment agreement with Viki, a video streaming site, both Kim Yong Jin and Bohemian are listed as artists, and their music videos can be viewed.
Title: Hidden Sequence
Passage: Hidden Sequence (Hangul: 히든시퀀스 ; RR: "Hideunsikkwonseu " ) is a Korean drama production company, founded by "Signal" producer Lee Jae-moon.
Title: Samhwa Networks
Passage: Samhwa Networks (Hangul: 삼화네트웍스 ; RR: "Samhwaneteuwikseu " ) is a Korean drama production company, founded in 1980 by Shin Hyun-taek.
Title: Pan Entertainment
Passage: Pan Entertainment (Hangul: 주식회사 팬 엔터테인먼트 ; RR: "Jusikhwisa Paen Enteoinmeonteu " ) is a Korean drama production company. It was established on April 3, 1998 under the name HS Media Co., Ltd.. Its main office, called "The PAN", is located in Seoul's Mapo District.
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The World That They Live In
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The World That They Live In
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Korean drama
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Are Curt Smith and Laura Stoica of the same nationality?
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Title: Laura Stoica
Passage: Adriana-Laurenția "Laura" Stoica (10 October 1967 – 9 March 2006) was a Romanian singer, composer and actress.
Title: Curt Smith
Passage: Curt Smith (born 24 June 1961) is an English musician. He is best known for forming the band Tears for Fears, along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. As a solo artist, he has released four solo albums.
Title: Suffer the Children (song)
Passage: "Suffer the Children" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written and sung by Roland Orzabal and released in November 1981, it was the band's first release, recorded in Bath, England shortly after the break-up of Orzabal and Curt Smith's previous band Graduate. The song would eventually be re-recorded for inclusion on Tears for Fears' debut LP "The Hurting" (1983).
Title: Change (Tears for Fears song)
Passage: "Change" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the band's fourth single release. It would eventually become the second hit from their debut LP "The Hurting" (1983) and second UK Top 5 chart hit, following the success of "Mad World". The song also gave Tears for Fears their first charting single in the United States when it cracked the "Billboard" Top 100 in August 1983. "Change" was also a big international success, reaching the Top 40 in numerous countries.
Title: Aeroplane (album)
Passage: Aeroplane was the third solo album released by Curt Smith, member of the British pop band Tears for Fears.
Title: Soul on Board
Passage: Soul On Board was the first solo album by Curt Smith, member of the British pop band Tears for Fears. It was released on 23 August 1993.
Title: Halfway, Pleased
Passage: Halfway, pleased is the third solo album by British pop musician Curt Smith, co-founder of Tears for Fears. It was released on May 20, 2008.
Title: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
Passage: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending is the sixth studio album by the British pop-rock band Tears for Fears, released on 14 September 2004 in the US, and 7 March 2005 in the UK and Europe. It was released some nine years after the previous Tears for Fears studio album, "Raoul and the Kings of Spain" (1995), and was the first album featuring both original bandmembers Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith together since 1989's "The Seeds of Love".
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no
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Curt Smith
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Laura Stoica
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Which American former professional boxer was interviewed on Argentine television show La Noche del 10?
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Title: La Noche del 10
Passage: La Noche del 10 was an Argentine television show hosted by football legend Diego Maradona. On 15 August 2005, Maradona made his debut as host with Pelé his main guest on opening night; the two had a friendly chat, showing no signs of past differences. In subsequent evenings, he led the ratings on all occasions but one. Most guests were drawn from the worlds of football and show business, including Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane, but also included interviews with other notable friends and personalities such as Cuban leader Fidel Castro and boxers Roberto Durán and Mike Tyson. Maradona gave each of his guests a signed Argentina jersey, which Tyson wore when he arrived in Brazil, Argentina's deadliest rivals.
Title: Mike Tyson
Passage: Michael Gerard Tyson ( ; born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after stopping Trevor Berbick in two rounds, and added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker in 1987. This made Tyson the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them.
Title: La noche del pecado
Passage: La noche del pecado ("The Night of Sin") is a 1933 Mexican film. It stars Carlos Orellana.
Title: Carlos Mastronardi
Passage: Carlos Mastronardi (1901 - June 5, 1976) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and translator. His works included "Luz de provincia", "Tierra amanecida" (1926), "Conocimiento de la noche" (1937), and "Tratado de la pena". His non-fiction "Valéry o la infinitud del método" ("Valéry, or the infinitude of method") won the Buenos Aires Municipal Prize for Literature (1955). Other important works of non-fiction included "Formas de la realidad nacional" ("Forms of the National Reality", 1961) and "Memorias de un Provinciano" ("Memoirs of a Man from the Provinces", 1967). Some of his journalism was published posthumously as "Cuadernos de vivir y pensar" ("Notebooks of Living and Thinking", 1984).
Title: Tombs of the Blind Dead
Passage: Tombs of the Blind Dead is a 1972 Spanish-Portuguese horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio. Its original Spanish title is La noche del terror ciego, which means "The Night of the Blind Terror".
Title: Saturday Night (1950 film)
Passage: Saturday Night (Spanish:La noche del sábado) is a 1950 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring María Félix, Rafael Durán and José María Seoane.
Title: Roque Gallart
Passage: Roque Josė Gallart Ortiz, (born September 21, 1979), also known as Rocky the Kid, is a Puerto Rican actor and radio and television personality. Gallart was host of a Mega-TV television show named "Descarao' Por La Noche".
Title: Leo Rey
Passage: Cecil Leonardo Leiva Reyes (Viña del Mar, November 30, 1979) also known as Leo Rey (derived from his second name and maternal surname), is a Chilean singer and former vocalist of the group La Noche.
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Mike Tyson
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La Noche del 10
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Mike Tyson
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Flowered Up were a British band of how many members, formed in Camden Town, London in the late 1980s, they were influential in the Baggy movement?
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Title: Baggy
Passage: Baggy was a British dance-oriented rock music genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Title: Flowered Up
Passage: Flowered Up were a five-man British band, formed in Camden Town, London in the late 1980s. They were influential in the Baggy movement alongside "Madchester" bands Happy Mondays and Northside and were best known for their 13-minute single "Weekender".
Title: Mornington Crescent tube station
Passage: Mornington Crescent is a London Underground station in Camden Town in north west London, named after the nearby street. The station is on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, between Euston and Camden Town . It is in Travelcard Zone 2.
Title: Chalk Farm
Passage: Chalk Farm is a small urban district of northwest London, England immediately north of Camden Town and currently split equally between the electoral wards of "Camden Town and Primrose Hill" in the south and "Haverstock" in the north.
Title: Camden Market
Passage: The Camden markets are a number of adjoining large retail markets in Camden Town near the Hampstead Road Lock of the Regent's Canal (popularly referred to as Camden Lock), often collectively named "Camden Market" or "Camden Lock". Among products sold on the stalls are crafts, clothing, bric-a-brac, and fast food. It is the fourth-most popular visitor attraction in London, attracting approximately 250,000 people each week.
Title: Camden Town Group
Passage: The Camden Town Group was a group of English Post-Impressionist artists active 1911-1913. They gathered frequently at the studio of painter Walter Sickert in the Camden Town area of London.
Title: All Saints, Camden Town
Passage: All Saints, Camden Town, is a church in the Camden Town area of London, England. It was built for the Church of England, but it is now a Greek Orthodox church known as the Greek Orthodox Church of All Saints. It is located at the junction of Camden and Pratt Streets.
Title: The World's End, Camden
Passage: The World's End is a pub and music venue at 174 Camden High Street in Camden Town, London, England, just south of Camden Town tube station with an additional branch at Finsbury Park, 23 Stroud Green Rd, London. It is a long established business, formerly known as "Mother Red Cap" or "Mother Damnable's".
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five-man
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Flowered Up
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Baggy
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Who has a wider scope of profession, Carroll Ballard or Mohsen Makhmalbaf?
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Title: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Passage: Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Persian: محسن مخملباف , "Mohsen Makhmalbaaf"; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include "Kandahar"; his latest documentary is "The Gardener" and latest feature "The President".
Title: Carroll Ballard
Passage: Carroll Ballard (born October 14, 1937) is an American film director. He has directed six feature films, including "The Black Stallion" (1979) and "Fly Away Home" (1996).
Title: Blackboards
Passage: Blackboards (Persian: تخته سیاه , "Takhté siah") is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written by Makhmalbaf with her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The dialogue is entirely in Kurdish. Makhmalbaf describes it as "something between reality and fiction. Smuggling, being homeless, and people’s efforts to survive are all part of reality... the film, as a whole, is a metaphor."
Title: Boycott (1985 film)
Passage: Boycott (Persian: Baykot ) is a 1985 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in pre-revolutionary Iran. The film tells the story of a young man named Valeh (Majid Majidi) who is sentenced to death for his communist tendencies. It is widely believed that the film is based on Makhmalbaf's own experiences. Ardalan Shoja Kaveh starred in the film.
Title: Time of Love
Passage: Time of Love (Persian: نوبت عاشقي , translit. Nobat e Asheghi) is a 1990 film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, based on a story written by Makhmalbaf himself. The film consists of three episodes, all with relatively similar plots. Although categorized as an Iranian film, "Time of Love" was mostly shot in Istanbul, Turkey and the dialogues are both in Turkish and Persian. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
Title: The Afghan Alphabet
Passage: The Afghan Alphabet (Persian: الفبای افغان , "Alefbay-e afghan") is a 2002 documentary by Mohsen Makhmalbaf showing the life of children in the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by the Taliban regime.
Title: Makhmalbaf Film House
Passage: Makhmalbaf Film House is a film production company started by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and his family in Iran. The production company, which comprises all his family members, continues to produce films from the United Kingdom. Their latest production was "The Gardener" distributed by KDK Factory.
Title: Hana Makhmalbaf
Passage: Hana Makhmalbaf (Persian: حنا مخملباف ) (born September 3, 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Marzieh Makhmalbaf.
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Carroll Ballard
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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What is the name of this American stand up comedian, actor, and television host, who starred in Quicksilver and was born in March 1953?
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Title: Quicksilver (film)
Passage: Quicksilver is a 1986 American drama film written and directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly and starring Kevin Bacon. The film, which was distributed by Columbia Pictures, also stars Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Louie Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, and Rudy Ramos.
Title: Louie Anderson
Passage: Louis Perry "Louie" Anderson (born March 24, 1953) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and television host. Anderson created the cartoon series "Life with Louie", has written three books, and was the initial host of the third revival of the game show "Family Feud", from 1999 to 2002.
Title: Dan Soder
Passage: Daniel E. Soder (born June 24, 1983) is an American stand up comedian, actor, and radio personality. He is best known for his frequent appearances on MTV2's "Guy Code", Comedy Central Radio's "The Bonfire", Robert Kelly's YKWD podcast, and the "Keith and The Girl" podcast. He also appeared in a recurring role on the Showtime drama series "Billions" (2016).
Title: Demetri Martin
Passage: Demetri Evan Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American stand up comedian, director, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist. He is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, being a contributor on "The Daily Show", and his Comedy Central show "Important Things with Demetri Martin". In stand-up, he is known for his deadpan delivery.
Title: Paul Gilmartin
Passage: Paul R. Gilmartin (born January 9, 1963) is an American stand up comedian, podcast host and television personality best known as the longtime host of TBS's "Dinner and a Movie". Since 2011, he has been the host and executive producer of the podcast "The Mental Illness Happy Hour".
Title: Victor Varnado
Passage: Victor Varnado (born May 15, 1969 in Gary, Indiana) is an American stand up comedian and actor. He is African American and albinistic. He was born legally blind due to his Albinism. He grew up in Huntsville, Alabama and later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Title: Jay Lawrence (actor)
Passage: Jay Lawrence (born Jay Storch; April 24, 1924June 18, 1987) was an American stand up comedian, TV and film actor and voice over actor, and the younger brother of
Title: Dennis Wolfberg
Passage: Dennis Wolfberg (March 29, 1946 – October 3, 1994) was an American stand up comedian and actor.
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Louie Anderson
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Quicksilver (film)
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Louie Anderson
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The Deciding Kiss is a 1918 American comedy film directed by Tod Browning, best known as the director of what film?
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Title: The Deciding Kiss
Passage: The Deciding Kiss is a 1918 American comedy film directed by Tod Browning. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it may be a lost film.
Title: Tod Browning
Passage: Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning, Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter. Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras. Best known as the director of "Dracula" (1931), the cult classic "Freaks" (1932), and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean, Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres.
Title: The Legion of Death
Passage: The Legion of Death is a 1918 American drama film directed by Tod Browning, and released by Metro Pictures Corporation.
Title: Jim Bludso
Passage: Jim Bludso is a 1917 American drama film directed by Tod Browning. It was Browning's first feature film as a director. Contemporary sources are variable on the matter of whether the direction was a joint effort between Browning and the film's star, Wilfred Lucas. In their book "Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre," David J. Skal and Elias Savada suggest that Lucas' name was added to the credit for contractual reasons, and that Browning directed "Jim Bludso" alone. As "Jim Bludso" is presumed lost, it is uncertain what the original title card might have read in terms of directorial credit. The film was produced by the Fine Arts unit within the Triangle Film Corporation, the same studio that made the popular Douglas Fairbanks comedies for Triangle, for whom Browning had previously worked as a scenarist.
Title: The Brazen Beauty
Passage: The Brazen Beauty is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Tod Browning. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film.
Title: Set Free (film)
Passage: Set Free is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Tod Browning. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film.
Title: The Eyes of Mystery
Passage: The Eyes of Mystery is a lost 1918 American silent mystery film directed by Tod Browning starring Edith Storey.
Title: Revenge (1918 film)
Passage: Revenge is a 1918 American western film directed by Tod Browning.
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"Dracula"
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The Deciding Kiss
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Tod Browning
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Who was Jutta of Saxony's father-in-law?
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Title: Eric IV of Denmark
Passage: Eric IV, also known as Eric Ploughpenny or Eric Plowpenny (Danish: "Erik Plovpenning" ), ( 1216 – 10 August 1250) was king of Denmark from 1241 until his death in 1250. He was the son of King Valdemar II by his wife, Berengaria of Portugal, and brother of King Abel and King Christopher I.
Title: Jutta of Saxony
Passage: Jutta of Saxony (c. 1223 – before 2 February 1267) was a Danish Queen consort, spouse of King Eric IV of Denmark. Jutta was the daughter of Albert I, Duke of Saxony. She married king Erik in 1239, and became junior queen consort, since her husband was junior king, even though there were no senior queen at the time. She would become senior queen in 1242.
Title: Jutta Ditfurth
Passage: Jutta Ditfurth (born "Jutta Gerta Armgard von Ditfurth", September 29, 1951 in Würzburg) is a German sociologist, writer, and radical ecologist politician. Being born into the noble house of Ditfurth, members of which had been noble ministeriales invested with hereditary administrative titles and offices in various regions of today's Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony and elsewhere in the Holy Roman Empire, a daughter of the German physician and science journalist Hoimar von Ditfurth and a sister of the historian Christian von Ditfurth, in 1978 she attempted to have her name legally changed to remove the nobiliary particle "von" and to become the plainer "Jutta Ditfurth", but was refused the change by the authorities. She is nonetheless known throughout Germany by her adopted non-noble name, which she prefers.
Title: Jutta of Denmark
Passage: Jutta of Denmark also known as "Judith" (1246-1286/95) was a daughter of Eric IV of Denmark and his wife Jutta of Saxony. She was a younger sister of Queen Sophia of Sweden, and Queen Ingeborg of Norway, as well as an older sister of Agnes. Jutta was also mistress for a brief period of time to her brother-in-law Valdemar, King of Sweden. Jutta was a member of the House of Estridsen.
Title: Agnes of Denmark
Passage: Agnes of Denmark (1249-after 1290) was the youngest daughter of Eric IV of Denmark and his wife Jutta of Saxony. She founded the Convent of St. Agneta in Roskilde, becoming Abbess there.
Title: Kunststätte Bossard
Passage: Kunststätte Bossard is an expressionist "Gesamtkunstwerk", sometimes also referred to as a visionary environment, located in the town of Jesteburg in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was created by Swiss artist (1874-1950) and his wife, Jutta Kroll-Bossard (1903-1996). It combines architecture, sculpture, painting and garden design.
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King Valdemar II
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Jutta of Saxony
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Eric IV of Denmark
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Erna Siikavirta was a member of the Finnish band formed in what year?
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Title: Lordi
Passage: Lordi (] ) are a Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band, formed in 1992 by the band's lead singer, songwriter and costume maker, Mr Lordi. In addition to their melodic metal music, Lordi are also known for wearing monster masks and using horror elements with pyrotechnics during concerts and music videos.
Title: Erna Siikavirta
Passage: Erna Inari Kaarina Siikavirta (born 8 October 1977 in Espoo) is a Finnish keyboard player. She is best known as a member of the Finnish hard rock band "Lordi", which she joined in 1997 under the stage name Enary. She left the band in 2005, at the request of the other members.
Title: Hanoi Rocks
Passage: Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band formed in 1979. They were the first Finnish band to chart in the UK and they were also popular in Japan. The band broke up in June 1985 after the drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley had died in a car accident during their first US tour in December 1984. Original vocalist Michael Monroe and guitarist Andy McCoy reunited in 2001 with a new line-up of Hanoi Rocks until 2009. Although musically closer to traditional rock n' roll and punk, Hanoi Rocks have been cited as a major influence in the glam metal genre for bands such as Guns N' Roses, Skid Row and Poison.
Title: Syven
Passage: Syven is a Finnish band from Riihimäki, formed in 2007. The band's name can be translated as "depth" from Finnish. The band released their début album "Aikaintaite" through Vendlus Records in 2011; the second album, "Corpus Christi (Syven album)", was released the following year.
Title: Roope Salminen & Koirat
Passage: Roope Salminen & Koirat is a Finnish band fronted by rapper and television personality Roope Salminen. Originally formed as a one-gig only cover band, they have since had success with original songs such as "Madafakin darra" and the parent album "Madafakin levy", both of which reached number-one on the Official Finnish Charts.
Title: Jonas W. Karlsson
Passage: Jonas W. Karlsson is a Finnish producer and songwriter. He is known from the Finnish band Elokuu, which he formed together with Finnish reggae artist Nopsajalka and rap artist Juno. The band's first single "Soutaa huopaa" was Finland's most purchased song on iTunes after its release. It was also the most listened song on Spotify for three weeks in Finland and one of the most-played songs on the radio in 2012.
Title: Tenhi
Passage: Tenhi is a Finnish band formed in 1996, playing melancholic neofolk music.
Title: Winter's Verge
Passage: Winter's Verge is a power metal band formed in Nicosia, Cyprus in 2004. Winter's Verge is one of the best-known bands from Cyprus and one of the few artists signed to an international record label. They have participated in overseas tours, most notably with Finnish band Stratovarius. Their latest album entitled "Beyond Vengeance" was released in April 2012 by Massacre Records.
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1992
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Erna Siikavirta
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Lordi
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How many studio albums does the English band White Lies have?
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Title: White Lies discography
Passage: The discography of White Lies, a London-based indie rock band, consists of four studio albums, two extended plays and twelve singles.
Title: White Lies (band)
Passage: White Lies are an English post-punk band from Ealing, London. Formerly known as Fear of Flying, the core band members are Harry McVeigh (lead vocals, guitar), Charles Cave (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Jack Lawrence-Brown (drums). The band perform live as a five-piece, when sidemen Tommy Bowen and Rob Lee join the
Title: There Goes Our Love Again
Passage: "There Goes Our Love Again" is a song by English Indie rock band White Lies from their third studio album, "Big TV". It was released on 5 August 2013 as the first official single to promote the album. The song received its first airplay on 18 June 2013, exclusively on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show, and was later made available to listen on White Lies' SoundCloud profile.
Title: Farewell to the Fairground
Passage: "Farewell to the Fairground" is a song by London-based indie rock band White Lies. It was released on 23 March 2009 by Fiction Records. It was their third single from debut album "To Lose My Life...", and fourth single overall. The band recorded a video for the track with director Andreas Nilsson, filmed in Nikel, Russia.
Title: Big TV (album)
Passage: Big TV (stylised as BIG TV) is the third studio album by the British indie rock band White Lies. It was released on 12 August 2013 by Fiction Records in the UK and Europe, and on 20 August 2013 in the US (Harvest Records) and Canada (Universal Music Canada).
Title: Ritual (White Lies album)
Passage: Ritual is the second studio album by the British Indie rock band White Lies. It was released on 17 January 2011 by Fiction Records. The album was produced by Alan Moulder and Max Dingel, at the Assault & Battery Studios in London. The art direction and design were done by Tom Hingston Studio. The album's lead single, "Bigger than Us", was released on 3 January 2011.
Title: Friends (White Lies album)
Passage: Friends is the fourth studio album by English indie rock band White Lies. It was released by BMG on 7 October 2016 on digital download, vinyl LP and CD. A special box set was also issued via the band's website and official store containing two coloured cassettes, the first containing the album and the second with four bonus tracks on side C and four demos on side D. The box set also contained a download code on a "credit card" and a cheque-book style booklet with photos, lyrics and maze games.
Title: To Lose My Life (song)
Passage: "To Lose My Life" is a single by London indie rock band White Lies. It was released on 12 January 2009, one week before the release of the band's debut album, "To Lose My Life...". "To Lose My Life" was featured in the soundtrack of the 2009 game, "DiRT 2". In May 2010, the show 90210 played this song in the end scene. The song was also featured in a promo for the hit TV series, The Vampire Diaries, as well as being featured in Episode 7 of Season 1.
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four studio albums
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White Lies discography
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White Lies (band)
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Which Hundred Acre Wood visitor is named after the author's son?
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Title: Hundred Acre Wood
Passage: The Hundred Acre Wood (also spelled as 100 Aker Wood, Hundred-Acre Wood, and 100 Acre Wood; also known as simply "The Wood"), based on the real-life "Five Hundred Acre Wood" in Ashdown Forest, is a part of the land inhabited by Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Winnie-the-Pooh series of children's stories by author A. A. Milne. The wood is visited regularly by the young boy Christopher Robin, who accompanies Pooh and company on their many adventures.
Title: Christopher Robin
Passage: Christopher Robin is a character created by A. A. Milne. He appears in Milne's popular books of poetry and Winnie-the-Pooh stories and is named after Christopher Robin Milne, the author's son. The character has subsequently appeared in Disney cartoons.
Title: Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
Passage: Return to the Hundred Acre Wood is a "Winnie-the-Pooh" novel published on 5 October 2009. Written by David Benedictus and illustrated by Mark Burgess, it was the first such book since 1928 and introduced the character Lottie the Otter.
Title: David Benedictus
Passage: David Benedictus (born 16 September 1938) is an English writer and theatre director, best known for his novels. His work includes the Winnie-the-Pooh novel "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood" (2009). It was the first such book in 81 years.
Title: Lessons from the Hundred Acre Wood
Passage: The Lessons from the Hundred Acre Wood is a Winnie the Pooh book series based on the Pooh stories by A. A. Milne, along with Disney's Pooh & Friends.
Title: Disney's Pooh & Friends
Passage: Disney's Pooh & Friends is a book series based on the Pooh stories by A. A. Milne, along with the Lessons from the Hundred Acre Wood series.
Title: Mark Burgess (children's author)
Passage: Mark Burgess (born 26 April 1957; pen name Simon Goswell for two books) is best known as an English author and illustrator of children's literature. He has illustrated books by Tony Bradman and Martin Waddell. Among his most recent assignments, he illustrated "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood", the authorized sequel of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Title: Winnie the Pooh (2011 film)
Passage: Winnie the Pooh is a 2011 American animated buddy musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 51st Disney animated feature film. Inspired by A. A. Milne's stories of the same name, the film is part of Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" franchise, the fifth theatrical "Winnie the Pooh" film released, and Walt Disney Animation Studios' second adaptation of "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories. Jim Cummings reprises his vocal roles as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, while series newcomers Travis Oates, Tom Kenny, Craig Ferguson, Bud Luckey, and Kristen Anderson-Lopez provide the voices of Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, and Kanga, respectively. In the film, the aforementioned residents of the Hundred Acre Wood embark on a quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit while Pooh deals with a hunger for honey. The film is directed by Stephen Anderson and Don Hall, adapted from Milne's books by a story team led by Burny Mattinson, produced by Peter Del Vecho, Clark Spencer, John Lasseter, and Craig Sost, and narrated by John Cleese.
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Christopher Robin
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Hundred Acre Wood
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Christopher Robin
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Which writer is Indian-born, Rohinton Mistry or Bruce Jay Friedman?
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Title: Bruce Jay Friedman
Passage: Bruce Jay Friedman is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
Title: Rohinton Mistry
Passage: Rohinton Mistry {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 July 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012.
Title: A Fine Balance
Passage: A Fine Balance is the second novel by Rohinton Mistry. Set in "an unidentified city" in India, initially in 1975 and later in 1984 during the turmoil of The Emergency. The book concerns four characters from varied backgrounds – Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji and the young student Maneck Kohlah – who come together and develop a bond.
Title: Chor Bazaar
Passage: Chor Bazaar, located near Bhendi Bazaar in South Mumbai, is one of the largest flea markets in India. The area is one of the tourist attractions of Mumbai. The word "chor" means "thief" in Marathi and Hindi. The market is thought to have originally been called "Shor Bazaar", meaning "noisy market". The current name is said to have come from a British mispronunciation. Eventually however, stolen goods started finding their way into the market, resulting in it living up to its new name. According to popular legend, if you lose anything in Mumbai you can buy it back from the "Chor Bazaar". The market has been mentioned in popular novels, including Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey, where it is described as "not a nice place".
Title: Cyrus Mistry (writer)
Passage: Cyrus Mistry was born in march 11,1956 is an Indian author and playwright. He won the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for "Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer". He is the brother of author Rohinton Mistry.
Title: Such a Long Journey (film)
Passage: Such a Long Journey is a 1998 Indo-Canadian english language film based on the novel of the same name written by Rohinton Mistry. The film is directed by Sturla Gunnarsson with a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala. The film received twelve Genie Awards nominations including the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. The film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Title: Such a Long Journey (novel)
Passage: Such a Long Journey is a 1991 novel by Rohinton Mistry. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other awards. In 2010 the book made headlines when it was withdrawn from the University of Mumbai's English syllabus after complaints from the family of the Hindu nationalist politician Bal Thackeray.
Title: Indian English literature
Passage: Indian English Literature (IEL) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. Its early history began with the works of Michael Madhusudan Dutt followed by R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao who contributed to Indian fiction in the 1930s. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora, such as V. S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kovid Gupta, Agha Shahid Ali, Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie, who are of Indian descent.
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Rohinton Mistry
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Rohinton Mistry
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Bruce Jay Friedman
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According to the 2010 United States Census, what was the population of the city from which WTKS-FM broadcasts?
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Title: WTKS-FM
Passage: WTKS-FM is a radio station serving the Orlando and Central Florida areas, airing a hybrid talk radio/alternative rock format. The station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia and licensed by the (U.S.) Federal Communications Commission to broadcast from Cocoa Beach, Florida (though the studio is located in Maitland, Florida). WTKS-FM's transmission tower is in Bithlo, Florida.
Title: Cocoa Beach, Florida
Passage: Cocoa Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida. The population was 11,231 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Title: Dallas
Passage: Dallas ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States. The city's population ranks ninth in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. The city's prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, and its position along numerous railroad lines. The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat; however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816. The United States Census Bureau's estimate for the city's population increased to 1,317,929 as of July 1, 2016.
Title: Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey
Passage: Cliffwood Beach is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Aberdeen Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 17,011. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 3,194.
Title: Blairstown (CDP), New Jersey
Passage: Blairstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Blairstown Township, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, that was created as part of the 2010 United States Census. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 515.
Title: Sewaren, New Jersey
Passage: Sewaren is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Woodbridge Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 17,011. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 2,756.
Title: Ethnic groups in Los Angeles
Passage: The 1990 United States Census and 2000 United States Census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles. Estimates for the 2010 United States Census results find Latinos to be approximately half (47-49%) of the city's population, growing from 40% in 2000 and 30-35% in 1990 census.
Title: Brainards, New Jersey
Passage: Brainards is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Harmony Township, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, that was created as part of the 2010 United States Census. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 202. It was formerly known as Martin's Creek.
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11,231
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WTKS-FM
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Cocoa Beach, Florida
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What are both Łukasz Kubot and Henri Kontinen?
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Title: Henri Kontinen
Passage: Henri Kontinen (] ; born 19 June 1990) is a Finnish tennis player.
Title: Łukasz Kubot
Passage: Łukasz Kubot (; born May 16, 1982) is a Polish professional tennis player. Kubot is a doubles specialist and won the 2014 Australian Open men's doubles title with Robert Lindstedt as well as the 2017 Wimbledon men's doubles title with Marcelo Melo. He has also had success in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 41 in April 2010 and reaching the quarterfinals of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. In 2013 he was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit by Polish President Bronisław Komorowski.
Title: 2017 Western & Southern Open – Men's Doubles
Passage: Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Dodig teamed up with Rohan Bopanna, but lost in the quarterfinals to Melo who partnered Łukasz Kubot. Kubot and Melo lost in the semifinals to Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares.
Title: 2016 Ricoh Open – Men's Doubles
Passage: Ivo Karlović and Łukasz Kubot were the defending champions, but Karlović chose not to participate this year and Kubot chose to compete in Stuttgart instead. <br>
Title: 2016 Moselle Open – Doubles
Passage: Łukasz Kubot and Édouard Roger-Vasselin were the defending champions, but Kubot chose not to participate this year. Roger-Vasselin played alongside Julien Benneteau, but lost in the first round to Marcus Daniell and Marcelo Demoliner.
Title: 2009 Fergana Challenger – Doubles
Passage: Konstantin Kravchuk and Łukasz Kubot didn't defend their 2009 title. Kubot chose to not play and Kravchuk (who partnered up with Lukáš Lacko) lost to more late champions - Pavel Chekhov and Alexey Kedryuk in the quarterfinals.
Title: 2016 Open 13 – Doubles
Passage: Marin Draganja and Henri Kontinen were the defending champions, but Kontinen chose not to participate. Draganja played alongside Julian Knowle, but lost in the quarterfinals to Teymuraz Gabashvili and Nick Kyrgios. <br>
Title: 2010 Serbia Open – Doubles
Passage: Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach were the defenders of title, but Kubot chose not to compete this year and Marach chose to play in Munich instead.
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tennis player
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Łukasz Kubot
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Henri Kontinen
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Bertrand Tavernier and Charles Giblyn, have which mutual occupations?
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Title: Bertrand Tavernier
Passage: Bertrand Tavernier (born 25 April 1941) is a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
Title: Charles Giblyn
Passage: Charles Giblyn (September 6, 1871 – March 14, 1934) was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 96 films between 1912 and 1927. He also appeared in 23 films between 1914 and 1934. He was one of the founders of the Motion Picture Directors Association. Founded Albion Productions, a film production company, in 1922. He was born in Watertown, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
Title: Beatrice (film)
Passage: Beatrice (French:La passion Béatrice, Italian:Quarto comandamento) is a 1987 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Julie Delpy and Nils Tavernier.
Title: Nils Tavernier
Passage: Nils Tavernier (born 1 September 1965) is a French actor and director. He is best known for his film appearances in "Beatrice" (1987), "Valmont" (1988), and "Revenge of the Musketeers" (1993), and for his directorial efforts "The Other Side of the Tracks" (1997), "Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet" (2001), and "Les enfants de Thiès" (2001). He is the son of film director Bertrand Tavernier.
Title: Round Midnight (film)
Passage: Round Midnight is a 1986 American-French musical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and David Rayfiel. It stars Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet and Herbie Hancock. Martin Scorsese, Philippe Noiret and Wayne Shorter appear in cameos.
Title: The Oubliette
Passage: The Oubliette is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn, featuring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, and Lon Chaney. It is part of a four-film series directed by Giblyn called the "The Adventures of François Villon". "The Oubliette" is based on a short story of the same name by George Bronson Howard published in "The Century Magazine". This film and "By the Sun's Rays" are two of Lon Chaney's earliest surviving films.
Title: Dans la Nuit (Louis Sclavis album)
Passage: Dans la Nuit is an album by French clarinetist Louis Sclavis recorded in 2000 and released on the ECM label. The album was initialised through an invitation of French director Bertrand Tavernier to Sclavis, he agreed and wrote this music to Charles Vanel’s 1929 film “Dans la nuit”.
Title: Holy Lola
Passage: Holy Lola is a 2004 French drama film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Tavernier said that the film was very, very moving, very exciting to do, and it made him fall in love with Cambodia.
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film director and actor
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Bertrand Tavernier
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Charles Giblyn
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What profession is held in common with Donald Sawyer and Roberto Gavaldón?
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Title: Roberto Gavaldón
Passage: Roberto Gavaldón (June 7, 1909 in Jiménez, Chihuahua – September 4, 1986 in Mexico City) was a Mexican film director.
Title: Donald Sawyer
Passage: Donald Sawyer is a film director, currently residing in Westfield, New Jersey. He is best known for directing the controversial 2009 documentary, 'The Eyes Have Frozen Open: The Fall of the Kroner'. The film chronicling the financial crisis in Iceland met harsh reviews at the 2010 Boulder International Film Festival. Critics have cited its depiction of certain British banks as being succubi on the economy of Iceland as "over-the-top and defamatory."
Title: Las Tres perfectas casadas
Passage: Las tres perfectas casadas ("The Three Perfect Wives") is a 1953 Mexican comedy film directed by Roberto Gavaldón, based on the eponymous play by Alejandro Casona. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Title: The Hidden One
Passage: The Hidden One (Spanish: "La Escondida" ) is a 1956 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
Title: Ariel Award for Best Director
Passage: The Ariel Award for Best Director (Spanish: Premio Ariel a la Mejor Dirección) (officially known as the Ariel Award for Best Directing) is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the Mexican film industry. In 1947, the 1st and 2nd Ariel Awards were held, with Roberto Gavaldón and Emilio "El Indio" Fernández winning for the films "La Barraca" and "Enamorada", respectively. With the exception of the years 1959 to 1971, when the Ariel Awards were suspended, the award has been given annually. Nominees and winners are determined by a committee formed every year consisting of academy members (active and honorary), previous winners and individuals with at least two Ariel nominations; the committee members submit their votes through the official AMACC website.
Title: Nana (1944 film)
Passage: Nana is a 1944 Mexican film by Celestino Gorostiza and Roberto Gavaldón. The film is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel "Nana", and is the last film of the Mexican star Lupe Vélez.
Title: En La Palma de Tu Mano
Passage: En la Palma de Tu Mano ("In the Palm of Your Hand") is a 1951 Mexican crime drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón. The film received eleven nominations and won eight Ariel Awards in 1952, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Title: The Boy and the Fog
Passage: The Boy and the Fog (Spanish: El Niño y la niebla ) is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
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film director
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Roberto Gavaldón
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Donald Sawyer
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Did both Beryl Bainbridge and John Banville win Whitbread awards?
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Title: Beryl Bainbridge
Passage: Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure". In 2008, "The Times" named Bainbridge on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Title: John Banville
Passage: William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today." He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."
Title: Laetitia Matilda Hawkins
Passage: Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (baptized 8 August 1759 – 22 November 1835) was an English novelist, associated with Twickenham. She is a character in Beryl Bainbridge's novel "According to Queeney".
Title: Injury Time (novel)
Passage: Injury Time is a novel by English author Beryl Bainbridge and first published in 1977 by Duckworth. It won the 1977 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
Title: Sweet William (novel)
Passage: Sweet William is a 1975 novel written by Beryl Bainbridge, it was made into a 1980 film of the same name (starring Jenny Agutter and Sam Waterston) for which Bainbridge wrote the screenplay.
Title: Every Man for Himself (novel)
Passage: Every Man for Himself is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge that was first published in 1996 and is about the 1912 "RMS Titanic" disaster. The novel won the 1996 Whitbread Prize, and was a nominee of the Booker Prize. It also won the 1997 .
Title: The Dressmaker (1988 film)
Passage: The Dressmaker is a 1988 British drama film directed by Jim O'Brien and starring Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw and Pete Postlethwaite. Set during the Second World War in England, the story concerns a claustrophobic relationship between two middle-aged sisters and their fragile 17-year-old niece. It is an adaptation of the novel "The Dressmaker" by Beryl Bainbridge.
Title: An Awfully Big Adventure (novel)
Passage: An Awfully Big Adventure is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge. It was short listed for the Booker Prize in 1990 and adapted as a movie in 1995. The story was inspired by Bainbridge's own experiences working at the Liverpool Playhouse in her youth.
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no
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Beryl Bainbridge
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John Banville
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Who was older when they died, Helmut Dietl or Edward Sloman?
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Title: Helmut Dietl
Passage: Helmut Dietl (22 June 1944 – 30 March 2015) was a German film director and author from Bad Wiessee.
Title: Edward Sloman
Passage: Edward Sloman (19 July 1886, London - 29 September 1972, Woodland Hills, California) was an English silent film director, actor, screenwriter and radio broadcaster. He directed over 100 films and starred in over 30 films as an actor between 1913 and 1938.
Title: His People
Passage: His People (aka; Proud Heart) is a 1925 silent film about a young, Jewish boxer growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan directed by Edward Sloman. According to film historian Lester Friedman, “Sloman’s compelling vision of the painful depths and joyous heights of immigrant life endow the film with an exuberant vitality that captivates modern filmgoers and enlightens film historians.”
Title: The Kibitzer
Passage: The Kibitzer is a 1930 American comedy film directed by Edward Sloman and written by Marion Dix, Sam Mintz, Edward G. Robinson, Viola Brothers Shore and Jo Swerling. The film stars Harry Green, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, Albert Gran, David Newell, Guy Oliver and Tenen Holtz. The film was released on January 11, 1930, by Paramount Pictures.
Title: Kir Royal – Aus dem Leben eines Klatschreporters
Passage: Kir Royal – Aus dem Leben eines Klatschreporters is a six-part television series by Helmut Dietl from the year 1986. This is a parody of the Munich newspaper "Abendzeitung", their gossip reporter and Issuer . The series about the tabloid reporter "Baby Schimmerlos" plays in the Munich "Schicki-Micki" scene of the 1980s.
Title: Sammy Drechsel
Passage: Sammy Drechsel (25 April 1925 in Berlin – 19 January 1986 in Munich), born Karl-Heinz Kamke, was a German political comedian, journalist and sports reporter. In 1956, together with Dieter Hildebrandt, he created the "Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft", one of Germany's most successful and influential sites of political cabaret, for which he was producer and director up to his death. From 1950 to his death he also worked as a sports reporter for the Bavarian "Bayrischer Rundfunk". He also became well known for his 1955 book "Elf Freunde müsst ihr sein" ("You Ought to be Eleven Friends"), which targeted an adolescent audience. (The book has also become available as an audiobook, produced by his long-time friend Hildebrandt.) One of Drechsel's last appearances was in the German TV series "Kir Royal", directed by Helmut Dietl, which was completed shortly before his death.
Title: His Woman
Passage: His Woman is a 1931 American romance drama film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert. Based on the novel "His Woman" by Dale Collins, the story is about a tough sea captain who discovers a baby aboard his freighter and hires a tramp, masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for the infant on their passage to New York.
Title: Puttin' On the Ritz (film)
Passage: Puttin' On the Ritz is a 1930 musical film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, and James Gleason. The screenplay was written by Gleason and William K. Wells based on a story by John W. Considine, Jr. It was the first of many films to feature the popular song "Puttin' On the Ritz", which was written and published by Irving Berlin in 1929.
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Edward Sloman
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Helmut Dietl
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Edward Sloman
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Are Rudbeckia and Monardella both types of plant?
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Title: Rudbeckia
Passage: Rudbeckia is a plant genus in the sunflower family. The species are commonly called coneflowers and black-eyed-susans; all are native to North America and many species are cultivated in gardens for their showy yellow or gold flower heads.
Title: Monardella
Passage: Monardella is a genus of approximately 40 species of annual and perennial plants native to western North America from British Columbia to northwestern Mexico. They are grown for their highly aromatic foliage, which in some species is used for herbal teas. The two-lipped, tubular flowers are formed in terminal clusters and are most usually red, pink, or purple.
Title: Monardella purpurea
Passage: Monardella purpurea is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names Siskiyou monardella and serpentine monardella.
Title: Monardella glauca
Passage: Monardella glauca is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name pale monardella. It is native to the western United States where it grows in many types of habitat, including in the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada.
Title: Monardella lanceolata
Passage: Monardella lanceolata is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names mustang mint and mustang monardella. It is native to the mountains of California and Baja California, where it grows in chaparral, woodland, rocky slopes, and often disturbed habitat types.
Title: Monardella hypoleuca
Passage: Monardella hypoleuca is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, known by the common names thickleaf monardella and white leaf monardella.
Title: Monardella macrantha
Passage: Monardella macrantha is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name red monardella. It is native to coastal mountain ranges of southern California and Baja California, where it grows in several habitat types, including chaparral, woodlands, and forest.
Title: Monardella exilis
Passage: Monardella exilis, with the common names Mojave monardella and desert monardella, is an annual plant in the "Monardella" genus of the mint family (Lamiaceae).
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yes
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Rudbeckia
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Monardella
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Which director was also a writer, Ralph Murphy or Hugh Schulze?
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Title: Ralph Murphy
Passage: Ralph Murphy (May 1, 1895 – February 10, 1967) was an American film director. Born in Rockville, Connecticut, Murphy was active in films from 1931 through 1962, with some work in television. From 1941–44 he was married to Gloria Dickson, whom he directed in "I Want a Divorce".
Title: Hugh Schulze
Passage: Hugh Schulze is a writer/director whose first feature film "CASS", a family drama set in Detroit, was named "Best Film" at the San Diego International Black Film Festival and received an Indie Spirit Special Recognition Award at the Boston International Film Festival] in 2013. His earlier short films, "Arc of a Bird" (2008) and "Credits" (2009) have also received more than a dozen film festival awards. His film script for "Dressing Up" received the Best Feature/Comedy Award at the International Family Film Festival in 2010.
Title: Dick Turpin's Ride
Passage: Dick Turpin's Ride is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina and Suzanne Dalbert. It follows the career of the eighteenth century highwaymen Dick Turpin. It is based on the poem "Dick Turpin's Ride" by Alfred Noyes. It is also known as The Lady and the Bandit.
Title: I Want a Divorce
Passage: I Want a Divorce is a 1940 Paramount film directed by Ralph Murphy. The screenplay was written by Frank Butler (based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns). The film starred then-married actors Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, who would later divorce in real life. Co-star Gloria Dickson and director Murphy were also later married to one another and divorced.
Title: Ralph Murphy (musician)
Passage: Ralph Murphy (born 1944) is a British-born Canadian musician, record producer, and songwriter. Murphy was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2012.
Title: Glamour Boy (film)
Passage: Glamour Boy is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Val Burton, F. Hugh Herbert and Bradford Ropes. The film stars Jackie Cooper, Susanna Foster, Walter Abel, Darryl Hickman, Ann Gillis, William Demarest and Jackie Searl. The film was released on December 5, 1941, by Paramount Pictures.
Title: Night Plane from Chungking
Passage: Night Plane from Chungking (also known as China Pass and Sky Over China) is a 1943 American war film released by Paramount Pictures, directed by Ralph Murphy, and produced by Michael Kraike and Walter MacEwen from a screenplay by Lester Cole, Earl Fenton and Theodore Reeves, adapted by Sidney Biddell from the story by Harry Hervey. The film stars Robert Preston and Ellen Drew, with Otto Kruger and Stephen Geray.
Title: Captain Pirate
Passage: Captain Pirate is a 1952 American action/adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy, starring Louis Hayward and Patricia Medina, and produced by Harry Joe Brown. The swashbuckler was based on the Rafael Sabatini novel "Captain Blood Returns". This was the final film directed by Murphy.
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Ralph Murphy
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Ralph Murphy
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Hugh Schulze
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What Art Hindle or Bille August both an actor and director?
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Title: Art Hindle
Passage: Arthur Hindle (born July 21, 1948) is a Canadian actor and director.
Title: Bille August
Passage: Bille August (born 9 November 1948) is a Danish Academy Award-winning film and television director. His 1987 film "Pelle the Conqueror" won the Palme d'Or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of only eight directors to win the Palme d'Or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1992 for "The Best Intentions", based on the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman. He was married to Swedish actress Pernilla August from 1991 to 1997. His son Anders August is a screenwriter.
Title: Into the Fire (1988 film)
Passage: Into the Fire, also known as "The Legend of Wolf Lodge", is a 1988 thriller film about a man who takes a job at a mysterious road-side lodge. The film was directed by Graeme Campbell, and stars Susan Anspach, Art Hindle, and Olivia d'Abo.
Title: Face-Off (1971 film)
Passage: Face-Off is a 1971 Canadian feature film produced by John F. Bassett starring Art Hindle, Trudy Young and John Vernon. The story line concerns a rookie Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey player and his romance with a musician. Several National Hockey League players also appeared in the film.
Title: The Gunfighters (1987 film)
Passage: The Gunfighters is a 1987 television Western film, starring Art Hindle and George Kennedy, directed by Clay Borris.
Title: The Wild Pony
Passage: The Wild Pony is a made for pay-TV movie produced in 1983 by Kevin Sullivan ("Anne of Green Gables") and Eda Lishman. Sullivan and Lishman also co-wrote the screenplay based on the book "The Year of the Black Pony" by American author Walt Morey. "The Wild Pony" has the distinction of being the first example of a Canadian film produced specifically for pay-TV. The film, directed by Kevin Sullivan and starring Canadian Actors Marilyn Lightstone, Art Hindle and Josh Byrne, was filmed in Calgary, Alberta against the backdrop of the Canadian Rockies.
Title: The Brood
Passage: The Brood is a 1979 Canadian science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art Hindle. The film follows a man uncovering an eccentric psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders committed from an offspring of mutant children that coincides with the investigation. The film's soundtrack was composed by Howard Shore, in his film score debut.
Title: Canadian Case Files
Passage: Canadian Case Files was a 2005 Canadian television series about the investigation of unsolved crimes in Canada. It was hosted by Art Hindle.
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Arthur Hindle
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Art Hindle
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Bille August
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For which constituency was the writer of Cautionary Tales for Children an MP ?
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Title: Cautionary Tales for Children
Passage: Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. The work is in the public domain in the United States.
Title: Hilaire Belloc
Passage: Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc ( ; ] ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902, while retaining his French citizenship.
Title: Big Bad Wolf
Passage: The Big Bad Wolf is a fictional wolf appearing in several cautionary tales that includes some of Aesop's Fables and "Grimms' Fairy Tales." Versions of this character have appeared in numerous works, and has become a generic archetype of a menacing predatory antagonist.
Title: Poisoned candy myths
Passage: Poisoned candy myths are urban legends about malevolent strangers hiding poisons or sharp objects such as razor blades, needles, or broken glass in candy and distributing the candy in order to harm random children, especially during Halloween trick-or-treating. These stories serve as modern cautionary tales to children and parents. These stories repeat two themes that are common in urban legends: danger to children and contamination of food.
Title: Nachtkrapp
Passage: The Nachtkrapp (German, lit. "night raven") is a South German and Austrian bugbear creature, cautionary tales about which are used to scare children into going to bed. Similar legends exist in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia.
Title: The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
Passage: The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett is the eleventh studio album by American indie pop band Eels, released in 2014 by record label E Works. The album was produced by frontman Mark Oliver Everett.
Title: Effects of tightlacing on the body
Passage: Tightlacing is the practice of wearing a corset that has been tightly laced to shape the body to a desired figure. This practice has been in effect since the early years of corsetry, often deplored by moralists and the subject of urban legends and cautionary tales in many centuries. For the same amount of time, doctors spoke against the practice, citing dramatic risks to the wearer's health. However, many claims were based on the incomplete medical knowledge of the day, as well as incorrect assumptions and beliefs about the female body.
Title: The Bright Ambassadors of Morning
Passage: "The Bright Ambassadors of Morning" is a song and single by the British new prog band Pure Reason Revolution from the mini-album "Cautionary Tales for the Brave". The title refers to lyrics from the Pink Floyd song, Echoes.
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Salford
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Cautionary Tales for Children
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Hilaire Belloc
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the Tranby Croft affair started when Sir William Gordon-Cumming was accused of cheating at a card game whose winning odds are in favour of what?
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Title: Baccarat (card game)
Passage: Baccarat ( or ; ] ) is a card game played at casinos. There are three popular variants of the game: "punto banco" (or "North American baccarat"), "baccarat chemin de fer" (or "chemmy"), and "baccarat banque" (or "à deux tableaux"). In "Punto banco" each player's moves are forced by the cards the player is dealt. In "baccarat chemin de fer" and "baccarat banque", by contrast, both players can make choices. The winning odds are in favour of the bank, with a house edge no lower than around 1 percent.
Title: Royal baccarat scandal
Passage: The royal baccarat scandal, also known as the Tranby Croft affair, was a British gambling scandal of the late 19th century involving the Prince of Wales—the future King Edward VII. The scandal started during a house party in September 1890, when Sir William Gordon-Cumming, a decorated lieutenant colonel in the Scots Guards, was accused of cheating at baccarat.
Title: Constance Gordon-Cumming
Passage: Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming (26 May 1837 – 4 September 1924) was a travel writer and painter. She was born on 26 May 1837 at Altyre, near Forres in Scotland, the 12th child of a wealthy family. Her parents were Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet, and Elizabeth Maria (Campbell) Cumming. She was the aunt of Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet. She grew up in Northumberland, and was educated at Fulham, London. She taught herself how to paint, and had help from artists visiting her home, including one of Queen Victoria's favorite painters, Sir Edwin Landseer. After spending a year in India in 1867 and writing in "In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains" (1884) she became interested in travel.
Title: Arthur Stanley Wilson
Passage: Arthur Stanley Wilson (30 July 1868 – 12 April 1938) was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was the son the Hull-based shipowner and prominent local Liberal Arthur Wilson, who was best known nationally for hosting the party at his Tranby Croft home which led to the royal baccarat scandal.
Title: Tranby Croft
Passage: Tranby Croft is a large Grade II listed Victorian country house and estate at Anlaby, near Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The house is now the co-educational, independent day school, Hull Collegiate School.
Title: Arthur Wilson (shipping magnate)
Passage: Arthur Wilson (14 December 1836 – 1909) was a prominent English ship-owner who is best known for playing host to his friend Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, at his home Tranby Croft, the scene of the royal baccarat scandal.
Title: Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming
Passage: Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming (March 15, 1820 – March 24, 1866) was a Scottish traveller and sportsman, known as the "lion hunter". He was the second son of Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet.
Title: Jack change it
Passage: Jack Change It is a simple card game popular among children. It is usually played by two to six players, although theoretically it can be played with up to ten. This game is a shedding-type card game whose purpose is to discard all of your cards before your opponents.
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the bank
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Royal baccarat scandal
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Baccarat (card game)
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Which welsh actress starred in Zelly and Me?
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Title: Zelly and Me
Passage: Zelly and Me is a 1988 American drama film written, directed and produced by Tina Rathborne. The film stars Isabella Rossellini, Glynis Johns and Alexandra Johnes, and features film-maker David Lynch in a minor role.
Title: Glynis Johns
Passage: Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a retired Welsh stage, television and film actress, dancer, pianist, and singer. Born in Pretoria, South Africa of Welsh origin, she is best known for creating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music" on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture box office smash "Mary Poppins." In both roles, she originated songs written specifically for her, including "Send in the Clowns", composed by Stephen Sondheim, and "Sister Suffragette", written by the Sherman Brothers. She was nominated for an Oscar for her work in the 1960 film "The Sundowners".
Title: Eve Myles
Passage: Eve Myles (born 26 July 1978) is a Welsh actress. She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2000. Later that year, she began portraying Ceri Lewis in the Welsh language drama series "Belonging", a role she would play until the end of the series in 2009. Myles' early UK television credits included the 2001 miniseries "Tales from Pleasure Beach", the 2003 television drama "Colditz" and, as servant girl Gwyneth, the 2005 "Doctor Who" episode "The Unquiet Dead".
Title: Jennifer Evans
Passage: Jennifer Evans is a Welsh actress, best known for landing the lead role of estranged Welsh farm girl Cat Williams in the award-winning (BIFA Raindance Award) horror/comedy feature film "Evil Aliens".
Title: Sharon Morgan
Passage: Sharon Morgan (born 29 August 1949 in Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire) is a Welsh actress of stage and screen, currently based in Cardiff. She was brought up in the village of Llandyfaelog. She is best known for her work within the Welsh film and television industries and has been the recipient of three BAFTA Cymru awards.
Title: Iona Banks
Passage: Iona Banks (20 Dec 1920; 20 May 2008) was a Welsh actress from Trelogan, Sir y Fflint. She played Mrs. Roberts in "Our Day Out" (1977), Mrs Roberts in Part 2 of Willy Russell's 1983 TV series "One Summer" and barmaid Gwladys Lake in the Welsh television soap opera "Pobol y Cwm".
Title: Leila Crerar
Passage: Leila Crerar is a Welsh actress born in Powys Mid Wales and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama attaining her bachelor's degree.
Title: Elen Rhys
Passage: Elen Rhys is a Welsh actress who has worked extensively in television in both English and Welsh language media. She is best known for playing the role of Gwen in the 2011 movie Panic Button Rhys also played the role of Sadie in the movie The Rezort. She attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
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Glynis Johns
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Zelly and Me
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Glynis Johns
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Charles Everett Lively played a role in the wars that lasted between what period?
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Title: Coal Wars
Passage: The Coal Wars, or the Coal Mine Wars, were a series of armed labor conflicts in the United States, roughly between 1890 and 1930. Although they occurred mainly in the East, particularly in Appalachia, there was a significant amount of violence in Colorado after the turn of the century.
Title: Charles Everett Lively
Passage: Charles Everett Lively (1887–1962) was a private detective affiliated with the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. He played an active role in the Coal Wars in Appalachia, and is chiefly remembered as one of the assassins of Police Chief Sid Hatfield.
Title: Charles Fish
Passage: Charles Everett Fish (May 26, 1854 – October 23, 1916) was an American educator and the sixth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Title: Jack Lively
Passage: Henry Everett "Jack" Lively (May 29, 1885 – December 5, 1967) was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, playing for the Detroit Tigers during the 1911 season. Born in Joppa, Alabama, he played in 18 games for the 1911 Tigers, compiling a record of 7–5 with 10 complete games, and a 4.59 ERA. He had a .256 batting average with two doubles, a triple, and four RBIs. Lively played his last major league game on October 6, 1911. Lively died at age 82 in 1967 at Arab (pronounced "AY-rab"), Alabama. His son, Buddy Lively played for the Cincinnati Reds in the 1940s.
Title: Everett McGill
Passage: Everett McGill (born Charles Everett McGill III, October 21, 1945) is an American actor, who first rose to prominence for his portrayal of a neanderthal in "Quest for Fire" (1981). He went on to have prominent roles in films like "Dune" (1984), "Silver Bullet" (1985), "Heartbreak Ridge" (1986), "Licence to Kill" (1989), "The People Under the Stairs" (1991) and "" (1995).
Title: Charles Dumas
Passage: Charles Everett "Charlie" Dumas (February 12, 1937 – January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft.
Title: Shannon Lively
Passage: Shannon James Lively (born May 4, 1992 in Attadale, Western Australia) is an Australian actor. His first television role was Declan in the second series of "The Sleepover Club". He graduated in the class of 2009 from Corpus Christi College, Bateman and within that time he also finished working on the Australian television series entitled "Wormwood". In 2010, Shannon Lively played Chub Pickles on the Australian miniseries; Cloudstreet, based on the popular novels by Tim Winton and aired in 2011.
Title: Chuck Traynor
Passage: Charles Everett "Chuck" Traynor (August 21, 1937 – July 22, 2002) was an American pornographer and investor in various enterprises.
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1890 and 1930
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Charles Everett Lively
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Coal Wars
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Sentinel High school and Hellgate High school are both located where?
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Title: Hellgate High School
Passage: Hellgate High School is a Missoula, Montana high school, the largest in the Missoula County Public Schools District. Hellgate has approximately 1200 students, and a faculty of approximately 100. It is an AA high school, the classification given to Montana's largest high schools. It was ranked Montana's fourth-best high school by US News, beating the district's Sentinel, which was sixth, and both Big Sky and Seeley-Swan which were unranked.
Title: Sentinel High School
Passage: Sentinel High School is located in Missoula, Montana. It is in the Missoula County Public Schools District No. 1. Sentinel has approximately 1,200 students, and a faculty of approximately 100. Sentinel was ranked 6th best high school in the state of Montana, two spots behind the district's Hellgate. Big Sky and Seeley-Swan were unranked.
Title: Vanguard-Sentinel Career and Technology Centers
Passage: The Vanguard-Sentinel Career and Technology Centers are joint vocational schools located in Fremont, Ohio and Tiffin, Ohio. Vanguard Tech Center is located in Fremont, adjacent to Fremont Ross High School, while Sentinel Career and Technology Center is located south of Tiffin.
Title: Jim Simmons (American football)
Passage: James Ellington "Jenks" Simmons (April 3, 1903 – January 16, 1977) was an American football back who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Cleveland Bulldogs and Providence Steam Roller. He played college football at Southwestern Oklahoma State University and attended Sentinel High School in Sentinel, Oklahoma.
Title: John Engen
Passage: John Engen has been mayor of Missoula, Montana, since 2006. Missoula’s 50th mayor, Engen was born in Missoula in 1964, attended Willard Elementary School, Hellgate High School and The University of Montana, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism.
Title: Eric Hays
Passage: Eric Hays is a former University of Montana basketball player who served as head basketball coach of at Hellgate High School in Missoula, Mont., for 25 years. He was a mathematics teacher there until his retirement in 2009.
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Missoula, Montana
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Sentinel High School
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Hellgate High School
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Liz Michelle de León Paz, is a Panamanian beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1990 title, and also represented Panama in which 40th Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 17, 1991 at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA?
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Title: Liz De León
Passage: Liz Michelle de León Paz born Ciudad de Panamá (Panamá), is a Panamanian beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1990 title. Also represented Panama in Miss Universe 1991, the "40th Miss Universe" pageant was held at Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Paradise, United States on May 17, 1991.
Title: Miss Universe 1991
Passage: Miss Universe 1991, the 40th Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 17, 1991 at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Lupita Jones of Mexico crowned by Mona Grudt of Norway. Seventy-three contestants competed in the 1991 Miss Universe pageant.
Title: Yamani Saied
Passage: Yamani Esther Saied Calviño (born May 12, 1978 in Ciudad de Panamá Panamá) is a Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1998. She also represented Panama in the Miss Universe 1999, the "48th Miss Universe". The pageant was held at Chaguaramas Convention Centre, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago on May 26, 1999.
Title: Reyna Royo
Passage: Reyna del Carmen Royo Rivera, born Ciudad de Panamá Panamá, is a Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1995. Also represented Panama in Miss Universe 1996, the "45th Miss Universe" pageant was held at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, in Paradise, Nevada, United States on May 17, 1996.
Title: Tanisha Drummond
Passage: Tanisha Tamara Drummond Johnson (born August 3, 1976 in Ciudad de Colón, Panamá) is a Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1997. Also represented Panama in Miss Universe 1998, the 47th Miss Universe pageant was held at Stan Sheriff Arena, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States on May 12, 1998.
Title: Gabriela Deleuze
Passage: Gabriela Deleuze Ducasa (born c. 1965) born Ciudad de Panamá (Panamá), is a Panamanian beauty pageant contestant winner of the Miss Panamá 1987 title. Also represented Panama in Miss Universe 1987, the "36th Miss Universe" pageant was held at Hall Four at World Trade Centre, Singapore on May 27, 1987. She was 28th Score in the Preliminary Swimsuit with 7.270
Title: Giselle González
Passage: Giselle Amelia González Aranda (] ; born Santiago de Veraguas, Panamá) is a Panamanian beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1992 title. Also represented Panama in Miss Universe 1993, the "42nd Miss Universe" pageant was held at Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico on May 21, 1993.
Title: Ana Orillac
Passage: Ana Cecilia "Chia" Orillac Arías, born Ciudad de Panamá (Panamá), is a Panamanian beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1991 title. Also represented Panama in Miss Universe 1992, the "41st Miss Universe" pageant was held at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand on May 8, 1992.
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Miss Universe 1991
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Liz De León
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Miss Universe 1991
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Are there more species in Dionysia or in Buxus?
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Title: Dionysia (plant)
Passage: Dionysia is a genus containing 49 species of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. They are small, cushion-forming alpines native to mountains in central Asia. They are usually evergreen perennials with felted leaves, covered with bright yellow or pink, five-petalled flowers in spring. They are often difficult to cultivate if the correct conditions are not provided.
Title: Buxus
Passage: Buxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box (majority of English-speaking countries) or boxwood (North America).
Title: Buxus macowanii
Passage: Buxus macowanii, aka Cape box, is an evergreen species of boxwood endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in two disjunct populations - in coastal forest and shady ravines from the Eastern Cape to southern Natal, and in the Waterberg of the central Transvaal. The genus "Buxus", comprising more than 100 species, is found worldwide, but is absent from Australia.
Title: Buxus microphylla
Passage: Buxus microphylla, the Japanese box or littleleaf box, is a species of "Buxus" native to Japan and Taiwan.
Title: Buxus nyasica
Passage: Buxus nyasica is a species of plant in the Buxaceae family. It is endemic to Malawi. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Title: Buxus sempervirens
Passage: Buxus sempervirens, the common box, European box, or boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Buxus", native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey. " Buxus colchica" of western Caucasus and "B. hyrcana" of northern Iran and eastern Caucasus are commonly treated as synonyms of "B. sempervirens".
Title: Cydalima perspectalis
Passage: Cydalima perspectalis or the box tree moth is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It is native to eastern Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, the Russian Far East and India). It is an introduced species in Europe, first recorded in Germany in 2006, and subsequently in Switzerland and the Netherlands in 2007, Great Britain in 2008, France and Austria in 2009, Hungary in 2011, Romania and Turkey. It is also known from Slovakia, Belgium and Croatia. During the preparation to the 2014 Olympics in 2012 it was introduced from Italy to Sochi with the planting stock of "Buxus sempervirens" and in the next year it began to defoliate "Buxus colchica" in large quantities.
Title: Buxus vahlii
Passage: Buxus vahlii, or Vahl's boxwood, is a rare species of plant in the boxwood family. It is native to Puerto Rico and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where it is known from no more than four populations total. It has probably never been very common, but its distribution has been reduced by deforestation and other human disturbance of its habitat. At the time it was listed as an endangered species of the United States in 1985, it was thought to be endemic to Puerto Rico. Reports that it existed in Jamaica have not been confirmed. A few individuals have been located in St. Croix, some of which are within Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge.
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Buxus is a genus of about 70 species
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Dionysia (plant)
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Buxus
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What team, which in German means "Österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft", was part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group D?
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Title: Austria national football team
Passage: The Austria national football team (German: "Österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft" ) is the association football team that represents the country of Austria in international competition and is controlled by the Austrian Football Association (German: Österreichischer Fußballbund).
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group D
Passage: The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group D is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consists of six teams: Wales, Austria, Serbia, Republic of Ireland, Moldova, and Georgia.
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group B
Passage: The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group B is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consists of six teams: Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Faroe Islands, Latvia, and Andorra.
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group I
Passage: The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group I is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consists of six teams: Croatia, Iceland, Ukraine, Turkey, Finland, and Kosovo.
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A
Passage: The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group A is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consists of six teams: Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, and Luxembourg.
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group F
Passage: The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group F is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consists of six teams: England, Slovakia, Scotland, Slovenia, Lithuania, and Malta.
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group G
Passage: The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group G is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consists of six teams: Spain, Italy, Albania, Israel, Macedonia, and Liechtenstein.
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C
Passage: The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group C is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consists of six teams: Germany, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Norway, Azerbaijan, and San Marino.
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The Austria national football team
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2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group D
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Austria national football team
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When was Edoardo Agnelli's mother born?
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Title: Edoardo Agnelli
Passage: Edoardo Agnelli (9 June 1954 – 15 November 2000) was the eldest child and only son of Marella Agnelli (born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto) and Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat. His body was found dead under mysterious circumstances under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin.
Title: Marella Agnelli
Passage: Marella Agnelli, born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto (born 4 May 1927) is an Italian noblewoman, art collector, socialite, style icon and widow of former Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli. She has often appeared in the fashion magazine "Vogue." She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1963.
Title: Giovanni Agnelli
Passage: The son of Edoardo Agnelli and Aniceta Frisetti, he was born in 1866 in Villar Perosa, a small town near Pinerolo, Piedmont, still the main home and burial place of the Agnelli family. His father, mayor of Villar Perosa, died at age 40, when Giovanni was just five. He studied at the Collegio San Giuseppe in Turin; then embarked on a military career until 1893 when he returned to Villar Perosa, where he followed in his father's footsteps and became mayor in 1895 which he held until his death. Agnelli heard about the invention of the (then) new horseless carriage and immediately saw an opportunity for using his engineering and entrepreneurial skills. In 1898, he met Count Emanuele Cacherano of Bricherasio, who was looking for investors for his horseless carriage project; Agnelli sensed the opportunity.
Title: Edoardo Agnelli Islamic Association
Passage: Edoardo Agnelli Islamic Association (Anjoman-e Eslami-ye shahid Edoardo Agnelli) is an Islamic association established in Iran and named after Edoardo Agnelli the Italian convert and the oldest son of Gianni Agnelli.
Title: Edoardo Agnelli (industrialist)
Passage: Edoardo Agnelli (2 January 1892 – 14 July 1935) was an Italian industrialist and principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat.
Title: Virginia Bourbon del Monte
Passage: "Donna" Virginia Bourbon del Monte (Rome, 24 May 1899 – Pisa, 30 November 1945) was the wife of Edoardo Agnelli and the mother of Gianni Agnelli.
Title: Turin-Aeritalia Airport
Passage: Turin-Aeritalia Airport (Italian: "Aeroporto di Torino-Aeritalia" , ICAO: LIMA ) also known as Edoardo Agnelli Airport, built in 1916, is the historical airport of Turin in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. It is located off Corso Marche, some 5 km from the city centre.
Title: Aniceta Frisetti
Passage: Aniceta Frisetti (Turin, 1846 – Turin, 28 October 1920) was an Italian philanthropist. She became a member of the Agnelli family as she got married with Edoardo Agnelli.
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4 May 1927
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Edoardo Agnelli
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Marella Agnelli
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Atemoztli, the sixteenth month of the Aztec calendar, is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to which pantheon god of rain?
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Title: Tlaloc
Passage: Tlaloc () was part of the pantheon of gods in Aztec religion. As supreme god of the rain, Tlaloc was also by extension a god of earthly fertility and of water. He was widely worshipped as a beneficent giver of life and sustenance, but he was also feared for his ability to send hail, thunder, and lightning, and for being the lord of the powerful element of water. Tlaloc is also associated with caves, springs, and mountains, most specifically the sacred mountain in which he was believed to reside. His animal forms include herons and water-dwelling creatures such as amphibians, snails, and possibly sea creatures, particularly shellfish. The Mexican marigold, "Tagetes lucida", known to the Aztecs as yauhtli, was another important symbol of the god, and was burned as a ritual incense in native religious ceremonies.
Title: Atemoztli
Passage: Atemoztli is the sixteenth month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to Tlaloc and Tlaloque.
Title: Huey Tecuilhuitl
Passage: Huey Tecuilhuitl also called Uey Tecuilhuitl is the name of the eighth month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to Xilonen and Cihuacoatl. It is called the Great festival of the Lords.
Title: Tepeilhuitl
Passage: Tepeilhuitl is the name of the thirteenth month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to Popocatepetl, Iztaccihuatl and Tlaloc It is called the festival or feast of the Mountains
Title: Etzalcualiztli
Passage: Etzalcualiztli is the name of the sixth month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to Tlaloc and Chalchihuitlicue.
Title: Huey Tozoztli
Passage: Huey Tozoztli also known as Huey Tocoztli is the name of the fourth month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to Tlaloc and other deities.It is called the Great or long vigil.
Title: Tecuilhuitontli
Passage: Tecuilhuitontli is the name of the Seventh month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion. The principal deity is Xochipilli and feasts are also given to Goddess Huixtocihuatl and it is known as the Small Festival of the Lords.
Title: Tlaxochimaco
Passage: Tlaxochimaco is the name of the ninth Month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion, dedicated to the Aztec God of War Huitzilopochtli. It is called the Bestowal or Birth of Flowers.
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Tlaloc
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Atemoztli
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Tlaloc
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The Tomorrow People follows a group of young people who possess what paranormal phenomenon?
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Title: The Tomorrow People (U.S. TV series)
Passage: The Tomorrow People is an American science fiction television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Phil Klemmer, and Julie Plec which aired on The CW during the 2013–14 American television season. It was a remake of the original British television series of the same name, created by Roger Price, which ran from 1973–79. The series follows a group of young people who possess psionic powers as the result of human evolution.
Title: Psionics
Passage: Psionics is the study of paranormal phenomena in relation to the application of electronics. The term comes from "psi" ('psyche') and the -"onics" from "electronics" (machine). It is closely related to the field of radionics. There is no scientific evidence yet that psionic abilities exist.
Title: St. Louis Light
Passage: The St. Louis Light, St. Louis Ghost Light, or St. Louis Ghost Train is a supposed paranormal phenomenon seen near St. Louis, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Title: Bélmez Faces
Passage: The Bélmez Faces or the Faces of Bélmez is an alleged paranormal phenomenon in a private house in Spain which started in 1971 when residents claimed images of faces appeared in the concrete floor of the house. These images have continuously formed and disappeared on the floor of the home.
Title: House of Laments
Passage: The House of Laments (Spanish: ""Casa de los lamentos"") is a historic place in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. The mansion dates to the 18th century. During the 1890s and 1900s, the Tadeo Fulgencío Mejía serial murders occurred here. He was a Mexican serial killer motivated by the delirious idea of contacting his deceased wife. Now the house functions as museum, and the local legend says several paranormal phenomenon happen in the mansion.
Title: Robert Kiviat
Passage: Robert Kiviat is a television writer and producer specializing in paranormal phenomenon. He has produced 11 specials for 20th Century Fox Television, most notably "Alien Autopsy". Robert has also often appeared as a guest expert on numerous television news shows, such as MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and on popular radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM, Art Bell, and The Jeff and Mike Show. He has been featured on "Entertainment Tonight" multiple times, "Access Hollywood", and CNN's "Show Biz Tonight".
Title: International Zetetic Challenge
Passage: The International Zetetic Challenge (from Greek ζητεῖν "zēteîn", "to search") was an attempt to prove or disprove the existence of, or demonstrate events related to, the paranormal. It ran from 1987 until 2002 and offered a €200,000 prize to "any person who could prove any paranormal phenomenon."
Title: Doppelgänger
Passage: A doppelgänger ( or ; ] , literally "double-goer") is a look-alike or double of a living person, sometimes portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon and usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck. Other traditions and stories equate a doppelgänger with an evil twin. In modern times, the term twin stranger is occasionally used.
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Psionics
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The Tomorrow People (U.S. TV series)
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Psionics
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What is the name of the urban area where the Miss Universe 2013 pageant was held?
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Title: Miss Universe 2013
Passage: Miss Universe 2013, the 62nd Miss Universe pageant, was held on 9 November 2013 at the Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsk, a suburb of Moscow, Russia. Olivia Culpo of the United States crowned her successor Gabriela Isler of Venezuela at the end of the event. 86 contestants competed for the crown.
Title: Crocus City Hall
Passage: Crocus City Hall (Russian: Крокус Сити Холл ) is a concert hall administratively located in "Krasnogorsk Urban Settlement" (near the city of Krasnogorsk) in Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast (north-west to Moscow Ring Road).
Title: Puteri Indonesia 2013
Passage: Puteri Indonesia 2012-2013, the 17th Annual Puteri Indonesia beauty pageant, was held in Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, Indonesia on February 1, 2013. Previous edition of Puteri Indonesia was held on October 2011 and the next edition was supposed to be held on 2012, but because Miss Universe 2012 was held in December 2012 the organization decided to reschedule the event to February 2013. Thirty eight contestants from all 33 provinces of Indonesia competed for the title of Puteri Indonesia, one of the most prominent beauty pageant titles in the country. Maria Selena, Puteri Indonesia 2011 from Central Java crowned her successor Whulandary Herman from West Sumatera at the end of this event. The winner is going to represent Indonesia at the Miss Universe 2013, while the runners-up will represent the nation at the Miss International 2013, Miss Supranational 2013 and Miss Grand International 2013. The event was broadcast live on Indonesian television network, Indosiar. The winner of Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo from USA, was present during the event.
Title: Kim Yu-mi (beauty pageant titleholder)
Passage: Kim Yu-mi (Hangul: 김유미, born April 26, 1990), also known as Yumi Kim, is a South Korean beauty pageant titleholder and actress who was crowned Miss Korea 2012, Miss Universe Korea 2013 and represented her country in the Miss Universe 2013 pageant. She is currently represented by Starhaus Entertainment.
Title: Berrin Keklikler
Passage: Berrin Keklikler; (born 1994) is a Turkish German beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Turkey 2013 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant.
Title: Amy Willerton
Passage: Amy Willerton (born in Bristol on 18 August 1992) is a British TV presenter, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for her work with ITV and winning the title of Miss Universe Great Britain and representing Great Britain at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant. She got her big modelling break when she was discovered by Katie Price as a teenager. She appeared on the reality TV competition series "I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here" in 2013 and finished in fifth place. In 2015, she was placed fourteenth in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women. In 2017, she placed third in Channel 4's "The Jump".
Title: Kristina Bakiu
Passage: Kristina Bakiu (born April 5, 1995) is Albanian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Albania 2013 and was to represent her country at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant and also she represented Albania at Miss World 2015 in China.
Title: Shi Lim
Passage: Shi Lim (; born 1988) is a Singaporean who won the title of Miss Singapore Universe 2013 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant. She also competed on the 5th season of Supermodel Me.
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Krasnogorsk Urban Settlement
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Miss Universe 2013
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Crocus City Hall
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Which member of India's pop band Euphoria appeared in the film "Filhaal...?"
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Title: Palash Sen
Passage: Palash Sen is an Indian singer, songwriter, musician, composer and actor best known as the founder and frontman of India's pop band Euphoria.
Title: Filhaal...
Passage: Filhaal... (English: Momentary ) is a Bollywood film released in 2002. It stars Sushmita Sen, Tabu, Sanjay Suri and Palash Sen in the lead roles. Meghna Gulzar, daughter of lyricist Gulzar and actress Raakhee, made her directorial debut with the film. The film was critically well received, especially the performance of Ms. Sen, and won Zee Cine Awards for best supporting actress.
Title: Mehfuz
Passage: Mehfuz (Hindi: महफ़ूज़ , Urdu: , translation: Secure) is the fifth album from the Indian rock band Euphoria. Two of the songs on the album have been co-written by poet and lyricist Gulzar.
Title: Gully (album)
Passage: Gully is an album by Indian band Euphoria.
Title: Best of Luck
Passage: Best of Luck is a 2010 Malayalam comedy film written and directed by M.A. Nishad. It stars Prabhu, Urvashi, Asif Ali, Kailash, Archana Kavi and Rima Kallingal, and features Mammootty in a cameo role. The soundtrack was composed by the Indian rock band Euphoria. The song "NaNa", which was usred in the trailers, was composed by A. R. Rahman for an American film, "Couples Retreat". The film was a remake of the Bollywood comedy film "". Unlike the original, the film was extremely negatively received and was a commercial failure. The movie was remade in Kannada in 2015 as "Ond Chance Kodi".
Title: ReDhoom
Passage: ReDhoom is the sixth album of the Indian rock band Euphoria and is the second remixed album in the Dhoom (the first being "Phir Dhoom" after the main Dhoom).
Title: Euphoria (Indian band)
Passage: Euphoria (Hindi: युफ़ोरिया ) is an Indian rock band from the city of Delhi, India. Euphoria was put together by Palash Sen and his friends in New Delhi in 1988. The Band is one of the pioneers of the Indian pop music wave that hit India in the mid nineties. The band released their fifth studio album 'Item' in 2011 on Universal Music India.
Title: Dhoom (Euphoria album)
Passage: Dhoom (Hindi: धूम ) is the first ever album by Indian rock band Euphoria released in 1998. They followed it up with the album "Phir Dhoom".
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Palash Sen
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Filhaal...
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Palash Sen
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About which singer is the film in which Sylvie Testud appeared in 2007 ?
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Title: Sylvie Testud
Passage: Sylvie Testud (born 17 January 1971) is a French actress, writer and film director, whose film career began in 1991. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for "Murderous Maids" (2000), the César Award for Best Actress for "Fear and Trembling" (2003) and the European Film Award for Best Actress for "Lourdes" (2009). Her other film roles include "Beyond Silence" (1996), "La Vie en Rose" (2007) and "French Women" (2014).
Title: La Vie en rose (film)
Passage: La Vie en Rose (] ; French: La Môme ) is a 2007 French biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf. The film was co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and starred Marion Cotillard as Piaf. The U.S. and U.K. title "La Vie en Rose" comes from Piaf's signature song.
Title: La France (film)
Passage: La France is a French film directed by Serge Bozon, released in 2007. It stars Sylvie Testud and Pascal Greggory. The film won the Prix Jean Vigo in 2007.
Title: Lourdes (film)
Passage: Lourdes is a 2009 film directed by Jessica Hausner. It stars Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini and Elina Löwensohn. It received the 2009 Vienna International Film Festival's Vienna Film Prize for Best Film.
Title: Final Portrait
Passage: Final Portrait is a 2017 British-American drama film written and directed by Stanley Tucci. The film stars Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub, James Faulkner and Sylvie Testud.
Title: Vengeance (2009 film)
Passage: Vengeance () is a 2009 Hong KongFrench thriller film directed by Johnnie To, and written by Wai Ka-Fai. It stars Johnny Hallyday, Anthony Wong, Lam Ka-Tung, Lam Suet, Simon Yam and Sylvie Testud. The film tells the story of Francis Costello, a French chef and former assassin whose daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren are attacked by a gang of Triads. Costello travels to Macau to embark on a quest for revenge, enlisting the aid of three hitmen. The film explores the themes of assassination, violence and the influence of Triads in modern society. Produced by Milkyway Image, the film was released by ARP Sélection in France, and Media Asia Films in Hong Kong.
Title: Fear and Trembling (film)
Passage: Fear and Trembling (original title: Stupeur et Tremblements) is a 2003 French film based on the novel of the same name by Amélie Nothomb. The film was written and directed by Alain Corneau and stars Sylvie Testud.
Title: French Women (film)
Passage: French Women (original title: Sous les jupes des filles) is a 2014 French comedy drama film and the directorial debut of Audrey Dana. The film tells the stories of eleven women in Paris and features an ensemble cast including Isabelle Adjani, Alice Belaïdi, Laetitia Casta, Audrey Dana, Julie Ferrier, Audrey Fleurot, Marina Hands, Géraldine Nakache, Vanessa Paradis, Alice Taglioni and Sylvie Testud. The French title directly translated is ""Under the Skirts of Girls"".
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Édith Piaf.
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Sylvie Testud
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La Vie en rose (film)
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Takasaki, Gunma is famous as the hometown of a doll that symbolizes what?
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Title: Takasaki, Gunma
Passage: Takasaki (高崎市 , Takasaki-shi ) is a city located in southwestern Gunma Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. As of December 2015, the city had an estimated population of 371,750 and a population density of 810 persons per km. Its total area was 459.16 sqkm . Takasaki is famous as the hometown of the Daruma doll, theoretically representing the Buddhist sage Bodhidharma and in modern practice a symbol of good luck.
Title: Daruma doll
Passage: The Daruma doll (達磨 , daruma ) , also known as a Dharma doll, is a hollow, round, Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism. These dolls, though typically red and depicting a bearded man (Dharma), vary greatly in color and design depending on region and artist. Though considered an "omocha", meaning toy, by some, Daruma has a design that is rich in symbolism and is regarded more as a talisman of good luck to the Japanese. Daruma dolls are seen as a symbol of perseverance and good luck, making them a popular gift of encouragement. The doll has also been commercialized by many Buddhist temples to use alongside the setting of goals.
Title: Takasaki University of Commerce
Passage: Takasaki University of Commerce (高崎商科大学 , Takasaki shōka daigaku ) is a private university in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan, established in 2001. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1906.
Title: Arte Takasaki
Passage: Arte Takasaki (アルテ高崎 , Arute Takasaki ) were a football (soccer) club based in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, formerly of the Japan Football League. Their team colours were black and red.
Title: Gunma 4th district
Passage: Gunma 4th district (群馬[県第]4区 , Gunma[-ken dai-]yon-ku ) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Gunma and consists of the city of Fujioka, the Southern part of Takasaki city (without the former municipalities of Gunma, Misato, Haruna and Kurabuchi) as well as Kanna town and Ueno village in Tano county. As of 2009, 292,356 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Title: Takasaki Domain
Passage: Takasaki Domain (高崎藩 , Takasaki -han ) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Kōzuke Province (modern-day Gunma Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Takasaki Castle in what is now part of the city of Takasaki, Gunma. Takasaki was ruled through most of its history by a junior branch of the Matsudaira clan.
Title: Takasaki University of Health and Welfare
Passage: Takasaki University of Health and Welfare (高崎健康福祉大学 , Takasaki kenkō fukushi daigaku ) is a private university in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan, established in 2001. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1936.
Title: Takasaki City University of Economics
Passage: Takasaki City University of Economics (高崎経済大学 , Takasaki keizai daigaku ) is a municipal university in Japan. It is located in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture.
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perseverance and good luck
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Takasaki, Gunma
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Daruma doll
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Who composed a form of song in the Carnatic music repertoire in all the '72 Melakarta Ragas?
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Title: Prashanth Iyengar
Passage: Prashanth Iyengar (born 12 January 1973) is a classical musician and veena exponent from India, in the Carnatic Music genre. He is a performer, composer and teacher. He is the first composer from Karnataka to have composed Varnams in all the '72 Melakarta Ragas. He holds the Limca national record for his marathon veena concert spanning 24 hours at Srirangapatna Temple in the year 2011.
Title: Varnam
Passage: Varṇam is a form of song in the Carnatic music repertoire consisting of short metric pieces which encapsulate the main features and requirements of a "raga". The features and rules of the raga (also known as the "sanchaaraas" of a raga) include how each note of the raga should be stressed, the scale of the raga, and so on.
Title: Poornachandrika
Passage: Poornachandrika is a raga in Carnatic music, classical music of South India. It is a "janya" raga of Shankarabharanam, 29th in the 72 Melakarta ragas.
Title: Shanmukhapriya
Passage: Shanmukhapriya is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 56th "melakarta" rāgam (parent scale) in the 72 "melakarta" rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called Chāmaram in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music. It is said to be borrowed into Hindustani music from Carnatic music.
Title: Dhenuka (raga)
Passage: Dhenuka (pronounced dhēnukā) is a rāgam (musical scale) in Carnatic music. It is the 9th Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
Title: Simhendramadhyamam
Passage: Simhendramadhyamam or Simmendramadhyamam is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 57th "melakarta" rāgam in the 72 "melakarta" rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called Sumadyuti in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music. It is said to be borrowed into Hindustani music from Carnatic music.
Title: Kosalam
Passage: Kosalam (pronounced kōsalam) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 71st "Melakarta" rāgam in the 72 "melakarta" rāgam system of Carnatic music and is the "prati madhyamam" equivalent of "Shoolini", which is the 35th "melakarta". It is called Kusumākaram in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.
Title: Melakarta
Passage: Mēḷakarta is a collection of fundamental ragas (musical scales) in Carnatic music (South Indian classical music). "Mēḷakarta" ragas are parent ragas (hence known as "janaka" ragas) from which other ragas may be generated. A "melakarta" raga is sometimes referred as "mela", "karta" or "sampurna" as well, though the latter term is inaccurate, as a "sampurna" raga need not be a "melakarta" (take the raga "Bhairavi," for example).
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Prashanth Iyengar
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Prashanth Iyengar
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Varnam
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Kelli Ali and Justin Currie, share which occupation?
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Title: Kelli Ali
Passage: Kelli Dayton, also known as Kelli Ali (a name she took to honour her father, Michael Ali) is a female vocalist most recognized for being lead singer for the trip hop group Sneaker Pimps.
Title: Justin Currie
Passage: Justin Robert Currie (born 11 December 1964) is a Scottish singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the band Del Amitri and, along with Iain Harvie, is one of only two members of the group to be present throughout its entire existence.
Title: Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Passage: "Long Hard Road Out of Hell" is a song written and performed by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released as a single from the soundtrack to the 1997 motion picture "Spawn". It also appears on the band's compilation album "", and has been used in theatrical trailers for "Bless the Child", "From Hell", and "Season of the Witch". It features backing vocals from former Sneaker Pimps vocalist Kelli Ali.
Title: Lower Reaches
Passage: Lower Reaches is the third solo album by singer/songwriter Justin Currie, best known for his involvement in the band Del Amitri.
Title: Rocking Horse (Kelli Ali album)
Passage: Rocking Horse is the third solo album from singer-songwriter Kelli Ali and was released through One Little Indian Records on 24 November 2008 in the United Kingdom.
Title: The Great War (album)
Passage: The Great War is the second solo album by singer/songwriter Justin Currie, best known for his involvement in the band Del Amitri.
Title: Del Amitri
Passage: Del Amitri is a Scottish alternative rock band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after a teenaged Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him. The band was formed with the original line-up of Currie (bass and vocals), Iain Harvie (lead guitar), Bryan Tolland (guitar) and Paul Tyagi (drums). Currie and Harvie were the only members of the band to remain present throughout its history. They were also the main songwriters of the group.
Title: What Is Love For
Passage: What is Love For is the first solo album by singer/songwriter Justin Currie, best known for his involvement in the band Del Amitri.
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singer
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Kelli Ali
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Justin Currie
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The Old Tung Chung Pier at the mouth of the Pearl River is located on the largest island in what city?
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Title: Lantau Island
Passage: Lantau Island (also Lantao Island; ) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located at the mouth of the Pearl River. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands District of Hong Kong. A small northeastern portion of the island is located in the Tsuen Wan District.
Title: Tung Chung Bay
Passage: Tung Chung Bay () is a bay in at the west of Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong, near North Lantau New Town and Hong Kong International Airport. It is also the location of Old Tung Chung Pier.
Title: Tung Chung Line
Passage: The Tung Chung Line is one of the eleven lines of the MTR system in Hong Kong, linking Tung Chung with Hong Kong Island. A part of the Tung Chung Line was built along with the Kap Shui Mun Bridge and the Tsing Ma Bridge. The line currently travels through eight stations in 27 minutes along its route. The line is indicated by the colour orange.
Title: Tung Chung
Passage: Tung Chung, meaning 'eastern stream', is an area situated on the north-western coast of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Being currently one of the latest generations of new towns, it was formerly a rural and fishing village round Tung Chung Bay, and along the delta and lower courses of Tung Chung River and Ma Wan Chung in the north-western coast of Lantau Island. The area was once an important defence stronghold against pirates and foreign military during the Ming and the Qing dynasties.
Title: Tung Chung East Station
Passage: Tung Chung East () is a proposed MTR station of Tung Chung Line at the east of Tung Chung, Lantau Island, New Territories, Hong Kong. This station will be on ground level, similar to Sunny Bay Station, so as to not affect the existing railway network.
Title: Tung Chung New Development Ferry Pier
Passage: Tung Chung New Development Ferry Pier () or Tung Chung New Ferry Pier () is a ferry pier in Tung Chung Waterfront Road (), Tung Chung, Lantau Island, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was built to replace Tung Chung Old Ferry Pier in Ma Wan Chung ().
Title: Pak Kung Au (Islands)
Passage: Pak Kung Au (伯公坳), also known as Tung Chung Gap, Tung Chung Au (東涌坳), is a mountain pass along Tung Chung Road on Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Title: Tung Chung Fort
Passage: Tung Chung Fort (; 東涌所城 during the Qing dynasty) is a fort located near Tung Chung, on Lantau Island, in Hong Kong. Close to Tung Chung Road, the fort is surrounded by the villages of Sheung Ling Pei () and Ha Ling Pei (). It has a companion Tung Chung Battery on the coast.
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Hong Kong
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Tung Chung Bay
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Lantau Island
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Are both Seth MacFarlane and Doris Wishman Americans?
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Title: Seth MacFarlane
Passage: Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, and singer, working primarily in animation and comedy, as well as live-action and other genres. MacFarlane is the creator of the TV series "Family Guy" (1999–2003, 2005–present) and "The Orville" (2017–present), and co-creator of the TV series "American Dad! " (2005–present) and "The Cleveland Show" (2009–2013). He also wrote, directed, and starred in the films "Ted" (2012), its sequel "Ted 2" (2015), and "A Million Ways to Die in the West" (2014).
Title: Doris Wishman
Passage: Doris Wishman (June 1, 1912 – August 10, 2002) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. She is credited with having directed and produced at least thirty feature films during a career spanning over four decades, most notably in the sexploitation film genre.
Title: Hideout in the Sun
Passage: Hideout in the Sun is a 1960 nudist film, produced by Doris Wishman and co-directed by Wishman and Larry "Lazarus" Wolk. It stars Greg Conrad, Dolores Carlos and Earl Bauer.
Title: Blaze Starr Goes Nudist
Passage: Blaze Starr Goes Nudist is a 1962 nudist film, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars legendary burlesque queen Blaze Starr and crooner Ralph Young (as "Russ Martine").
Title: Satan Was a Lady
Passage: Satan Was a Lady is an American 1975 hardcore pornographic film, produced and directed by Doris Wishman, and starring Bree Anthony, Tony Richards, Annie Sprinkle and Bobby Astyr.
Title: Behind the Nudist Curtain
Passage: Behind the Nudist Curtain is an American 1964 nudist film produced and directed by Doris Wishman.
Title: Each Time I Kill
Passage: Each Time I Kill is the final film that was written and directed by Doris Wishman. It was shot in 2002 shortly before Wishman's death from lymphoma, and post-production on the teen horror thriller was completed in October 2006. Tiffany Paralta stars as Ellie Saunders, a shy high school senior who finds a magical locket which will allow her to exchange one physical feature with anyone she murders.
Title: Playgirls International
Passage: Playgirls International is a 1963 American nudist film produced and directed by Doris Wishman.
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yes
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Seth MacFarlane
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Doris Wishman
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What is the population of the Island on which Kenneth F. Sutherland was born?
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Title: Kenneth F. Sutherland
Passage: Kenneth F. Sutherland (October 2, 1888 on Coney Island, Kings County, New York – November 14, 1954 in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, New York City) was an American politician from New York.
Title: Coney Island
Passage: Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The site was formerly an outer barrier island but became partially connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its western part, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, the Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north.
Title: Kenneth F. Warren
Passage: Kenneth F. Warren is an authority on politics, public administration, and administrative law within the United States. Warren is a professor of political science at Saint Louis University and the president of The Warren Poll. Warren has polled for various media, government, and political clients, including former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Title: Kenneth F. Smith
Passage: Kenneth F. Smith is a special effects artist. He works at ILM as well. He also won 2 Academy awards.
Title: Kenneth F. Harper
Passage: Kenneth F. Harper (born January 15, 1931) was an American politician in the state of Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1962 to 1968 and from 1982 to 1994, as a Republican. Harper also served as Secretary of State of Kentucky from 1971 to 1972. He is a United States Air Force veteran of the Korean War.
Title: Kenneth F. Lemont
Passage: Kenneth F. Lemont (born June 21, 1951) is an American politician from Maine. A Republican from Kittery, Maine, Lemont served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1992-2000. Unable to seek re-election in 2000 to the House due to term limits, Lemont was elected the Maine Senate over Democrat Catherine Woodard of South Berwick.
Title: Ken Arkell
Passage: Kenneth F. Arkell (born December 6, 1930) is a retired judge and former Canadian football player who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders and BC Lions. He played college football at the University of Western Ontario. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1990 to 1999.
Title: Kenneth Kister
Passage: Kenneth F. Kister (born November 3, 1935) is an academic, professor of library science and authority in the field of reference and information sources.
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60,000
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Kenneth F. Sutherland
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Coney Island
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Who directed the most movies, Hans Richter or Alain Tanner?
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Title: Hans Richter (artist)
Passage: Hans Richter (6 April 1888 – 1 February 1976) was a German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.
Title: Alain Tanner
Passage: Alain Tanner (born 6 December 1929) is a Swiss film director.
Title: Messidor (film)
Passage: Messidor is a 1979 French-Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner. It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.
Title: Charles, Dead or Alive
Passage: Charles, Dead or Alive (French: "Charles mort ou vif") is a 1970 Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner.
Title: The Salamander (1971 film)
Passage: The Salamander (French: La Salamandre ) is a 1971 Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner. The film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards but was not accepted as a nominee.
Title: Knall and Fall as Detectives
Passage: Knall and Fall as Detectives (German: Knall und Fall als Detektive) is a 1953 Austrian-West German comedy film directed by Hans Heinrich and starring Hans Richter, Rudolf Carl and Ingrid Lutz. It was made as a sequel to the 1952 film "Knall and Fall as Imposters".
Title: Fourbi
Passage: Fourbi is a 1996 French-Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
Title: Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Passage: Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (French: "Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000" ) is a 1976 Swiss film directed by Alain Tanner and written by Tanner and John Berger. The location of the shooting was Geneva.
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Alain Tanner
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Hans Richter (artist)
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Alain Tanner
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In between Alpinia and Echinops which is a genus of about 120 species?
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Title: Alpinia
Passage: Alpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is named for Prospero Alpini, a 17th-century Italian botanist who specialized in exotic plants. Species are native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, where they occur in tropical and subtropical climates. Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants. Species of the genus are known generally as shell ginger.
Title: Echinops
Passage: Echinops is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are native to Europe east to central Asia and south to the mountains of tropical Africa.
Title: Echinops bannaticus
Passage: Echinops bannaticus, known as blue globe-thistle, is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to southeastern Europe. It is an herbaceous perennial thistle, growing to 120 cm , with prickly foliage and spherical blue flower heads in summer.
Title: Polystichum
Passage: Polystichum is a genus of about 260 species of ferns with a cosmopolitan distribution. The highest diversity is in eastern Asia, with about 120 species in China alone; the region from Mexico to Brazil has nearly 100 additional species; Africa (17 species), North America (15 species), and Europe (5 species) have much lower diversity. Polystichum species are terrestrial or rock-dwelling ferns of warm-temperate and montane-tropical regions (a few species grow in alpine regions).
Title: Echinops niveus
Passage: Echinops niveus is a species in the genus "Echinops" or globe thistles. It is native to the Indian subcontinent: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal.
Title: Alpinia conchigera
Passage: Alpinia conchigera, the Lesser Alpinia, is a plant species in the genus "Alpinia.
Title: Goldenrod
Passage: Solidago, commonly called goldenrods, is a genus of about 100 to 120 species of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. Most are herbaceous perennial species found in open areas such as meadows, prairies, and savannas. They are mostly native to North America, including Mexico; a few species are native to South America and Eurasia. Some American species have also been introduced into Europe and other parts of the world.
Title: Paropsisterna
Passage: "Paropsisterna" is a genus of leaf beetles indigenous to Papua New Guinea and Australia. There are over 120 species, many with bright aposematic colours, and many feeding on "Eucalyptus" leaves. The genus as currently defined includes species formerly listed under "Chrysophtharta"
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Echinops
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Alpinia
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Echinops
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Where in the line of accession is the mother of Peter Mark Andrew Phillips currently?
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Title: Anne, Princess Royal
Passage: Anne, Princess Royal, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of her birth, she was third in the line of succession to the British throne, behind her mother – then Princess Elizabeth – and elder brother, Charles. She rose to second after her mother's accession, but is currently 12th in line.
Title: Peter Phillips
Passage: Peter Mark Andrew Phillips (born 15 November 1977) is the elder child and only son of Anne, Princess Royal, and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. He is the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. After graduating from university in 2000, he worked for Jaguar followed by WilliamsF1. In 2003, while working for WilliamsF1 in Canada, he met Autumn Kelly, whom he married in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in 2008. For many years Phillips has worked in the sports sponsorship and management fields. He is currently 13th in line of succession to the British throne.
Title: Wendy Phillips (author)
Passage: Wendy Philips is a Canadian author. She grew up in Kamloops, British Columbia, and wrote her first book at the age of 11, and completed degrees in Journalism, English, Education and a Children’s Literature degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. Her past jobs have included journalism, bookbinding and teaching English. She has lived in Lesotho, Ottawa, South Africa and Australia, but currently lives in Richmond, British Columbia with her husband, son and daughter. Phillips currently works as a teacher-librarian at MacNeill Secondary School in Richmond, BC. Phillips is also an author of young adult fiction, whose first book "Fishtailing" won the 2010 Governor General’s Award for children’s literature.
Title: Andrew Phillips (lawyer)
Passage: Andrew Phillips is a deaf lawyer, and an advocate for equal access.
Title: Steve Phillips (Political Leader)
Passage: Steve Phillips is a New York Times bestselling author, national liberal political leader, civil rights lawyer, and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Phillips is founder and chairman of PowerPac+. He is also founder of PowerPAC.org. Phillips currently splits his time between San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Title: After School Massacre
Passage: After School Massacre (originally titled Teacher's Day) is a 2014 American slasher film written and directed by Jared Masters. The film stars Nikole Howell, Lindsay Lamb, Andrew Phillips, Courtney Rood, Danika Galindo, Yasmine Soofi, and Savannah Matlow. "After School Massacre" follows the story of a high school teacher who goes on a killing spree after being fired, stalking his former female students at their slumber party.
Title: Andrew Phillips (footballer, born 1970)
Passage: Andrew Phillips (born 27 January 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Title: John Phillips (musician)
Passage: John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and promoter, most notably of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, a landmark event of the counterculture era and the Summer of Love. Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the vocal group The Mamas & the Papas.
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12th
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Peter Phillips
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Anne, Princess Royal
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