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Which founding member of the Conservative Philosophy Group was a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom (197497), and a former Cabinet minister?
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Title: Conservative Philosophy Group
Passage: The Conservative Philosophy Group (CPG) was formed in the UK in 1974 by Sir Hugh Fraser, a Conservative MP, to provide an intellectual basis for conservatism at a time when the Conservative Party had just lost two general elections and elected a new leader, Margaret Thatcher. It was founded with four board members: Fraser, Roger Scruton, John Casey, and Jonathan Aitken MP.
Title: Bossom baronets
Passage: The Bossom Baronetcy, of Maidstone in the County of Kent, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 July 1953 for the architect and Conservative Member of Parliament for Maidstone, Alfred Bossom. In 1960 he was further honoured when he was created a life peer as Baron Bossom, "of Maidstone in the County of Kent". The life peerage became extinct on his death in 1965 while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second but only surviving son, the second holder of the baronetcy. He was a former Conservative Member of Parliament for Leominster.
Title: Jonathan Aitken
Passage: Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom (197497), and a former Cabinet minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months. He is currently president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Aitken was also a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
Title: Gamini Jayawickrama Perera
Passage: Mallawa Arachchige Gamini Jayawickrama Perera, MP, is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka representing Kurunegala. He is currently the Cabinet Minister of Sustainable Development and Wildlife and Minister of Buddha Sasana . He was the former Cabinet Minister of Food Protection.He was elected as the chairman of ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)in April 2016. He was also the Chairman of United National Party (UNP) and the former Cabinet Minister for Irrigation and Water Management.
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Jonathan Aitken
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Conservative Philosophy Group
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Jonathan Aitken
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Noor Zehra plays a variation of a stringed instrument that was traditionally used to play what kind of music?
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Title: Monochord
Passage: A monochord, also known as sonometer (see below), is an ancient musical and scientific laboratory instrument, involving one (mono) string (chord). The term "monochord" is sometimes used as the class-name for any musical stringed instrument having only one string and a stick shaped body, also known as musical bows. According to the HornbostelSachs system, string bows are bar zithers (311.1) while monochords are traditionally board zithers (314). The "harmonical canon", or monochord is, at its least, "merely a string having a board under it of exactly the same length, upon which may be delineated the points at which the string must be stopped to give certain notes," allowing comparison.
Title: Vichitra veena
Passage: The vichitra veena (Sanskrit: is a plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music. It is similar to the Carnatic "gottuvadhyam" (chitra vina). It has no frets and is played with a slide.
Title: Noor Zehra
Passage: Madam Noor Zehra Kazim is a Pakistani Sagar Veena player. She is the daughter of lawyer and activist Raza Kazim who invented Sagar Veena - a stringed instrument similar to Vichitra veena and Chitra Veena. Together with her father she runs Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts, and is the only performer of Sagar Veena since its creation in 1971. With a career spanned over four decades, she has performed both domestically and internationally, achieving critical appraisal for instrument, as well as her Indian style of music being a non-Indian.
Title: Charango
Passage: The charango is a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, which probably originated in the Quechua and Aymara populations in post-Columbian times, after European stringed instruments were introduced by the Spanish during colonialization. The instrument is widespread today throughout the Andean regions of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, northern Chile and northwestern Argentina, where it is a popular musical instrument which exists in many variant forms.
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Hindustani music
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Noor Zehra
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Vichitra veena
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What is the author of the upcoming 2017 epic fantasy novel, "Oathbringer", best known for?
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Title: The Stormlight Archive
Passage: The Stormlight Archive is an ongoing epic fantasy series written by American author Brandon Sanderson. Planned as the first of ten books, "The Way of Kings" was published on August 31, 2010 by Tor Books in the United States. The second book, "Words of Radiance", was published on March 4, 2014. The third book in the series, titled "Oathbringer", is scheduled to be released on November 14, 2017.
Title: Brandon Sanderson
Passage: Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is best known for the Cosmere universe, in which all his adult fantasy books most notably the "Mistborn" series and "The Stormlight Archive", are set; and his work in finishing Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series "The Wheel of Time".
Title: Oathbringer
Passage: Oathbringer is an upcoming 2017 epic fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson and the third book in "The Stormlight Archive" series. It will be published by Tor Books and is scheduled to be released on November 14, 2017. "Oathbringer" will consist of one prologue, 122 chapters, an epilogue and 14 interludes. It is preceded by "Words of Radiance".
Title: The Deed of Paksenarrion
Passage: The Deed of Paksenarrion is an epic fantasy saga by the American author Elizabeth Moon. "The Deed of Paksenarrion" was originally published in three volumes in 1988 and 1989 and as a single trade edition of that name in 1992 by Baen. The three books included are "Sheepfarmer's Daughter", "Divided Allegiance" and "Oath of Gold". "Sheepfarmer's Daughter" was awarded the Compton Crook Award by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the author's first fantasy novel.
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the Cosmere universe
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Oathbringer
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Brandon Sanderson
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Which mine is farther west, Camlaren Mine or Lost Lemon Mine
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Title: Camlaren Mine
Passage: The Camlaren Mine was a small gold mine 80 km north-east of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada at Gordon Lake. It consists of a property totaling about 981 hectares. The two claims that make up the property were staked in 1936 by prospectors Don Cameron and the Mclaren brothers and developed with two shafts during 1937-1938. The name "Camlaren" is a portmanteau of Cameron and McLaren. Conditions attributed to World War II halted development at Camlaren in 1939.
Title: Lost Lemon Mine
Passage: The Lost Lemon Mine is a legendary lost mine said to be located in the Canadian Province of Alberta. The story has been retold in countless books with the authoritative version being "The Lost Lemon Mine" by Tom Primrose.The story first appeared in the 1946 edition of the "Alberta Folklore Quarterly" and later in magazines such as "Canada West". The Lost Lemon Mine has also been featured in television documentary series "Northern Mysteries", and worked into the plot of "The Final Sacrifice". Countless people have searched for the mine. A number of searchers have never returned.
Title: Eureka, Nunavut
Passage: Eureka is a small research base on Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is located on the north side of Slidre Fiord, which enters Eureka Sound farther west. It is the third-northernmost permanent research community in the world. The only two farther north are Alert, which is also on Ellesmere Island, and Nord, in Greenland. Eureka has the lowest average annual temperature and the lowest amount of precipitation of any weather station in Canada.
Title: Sago Mine disaster
Passage: The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, United States, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped 13 miners for nearly two days; only one survived. It was the worst mining disaster in the United States since the Jim Walter Resources Mine disaster in Alabama on September 23, 2001, and the worst disaster in West Virginia since the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster. It was exceeded four years later by the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, also a coal mine explosion in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners in April 2010.
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Camlaren Mine
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Camlaren Mine
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Lost Lemon Mine
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The West Gate Bridge and the West Gate Distributor are located in what country?
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Title: Ximen
Passage: Ximen () is a Chinese compound surname. Ximen literally means "west gate", the origination story says that there was a noble family in Zheng or Qi state live near the west gate, so the descents took Ximen (west gate) as their family name. As compound surnames being rare in China, some Ximen families changed their name to single surname Xi().
Title: West Gate Distributor
Passage: The West Gate Distributor is a proposed toll road in Melbourne, Australia, to provide access between the West Gate Freeway and the Port of Melbourne, primarily for heavy freight vehicles. The project, estimated to cost 680 million, was promised in 2013 by the then Victorian Labor Opposition to allow an estimated 5000 trucks a day to bypass the congested West Gate Bridge. The project is Labor's alternative to the Napthine government's controversial 18 billion East West Link, which it cancelled in April 2015. Labor promised to have contracts for the West Gate Distributor project signed within six months of forming government following the 2014 state election, and said the road would be completed by 2018.
Title: West Gate Bridge
Passage: The West Gate Bridge is a steel box girder cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River, just north of its mouth into Port Phillip, and is a vital link between the inner city (CBD) and Melbourne's western suburbs; with the industrial suburbs in the west and with the city of Geelong, 80 kilometres (50 mi) to the south-west. It is one of the busiest road corridors in Australia.
Title: Margaret Williamson Hospital
Passage: Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children ( 1932 1937; commonly West Gate Hospital) was a missionary hospital, and the first hospital opened in Shanghai exclusively for the care of Chinese women. It was located on Siccawei Road, outside the west gate of the Chinese city in the French settlement; for this reason, it was commonly known as the West Gate Hospital. The nonsectarian hospital was established in 1884 by the Womans Union Missionary Society.
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Australia
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West Gate Distributor
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West Gate Bridge
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Who directed the film that the original hardtail of Orange Mountain Bikes was named after?
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Title: Muddy Fox
Passage: Muddy Fox is a bicycle manufacturer from Basildon, Essex, specialising in mountain bikes and other flatbar bicycles. The company produced BMX bikes in the 1980s before the slump later on forced them to switch to mountain bike production, at which they excelled, producing such bikes as the Intereactive Ultra designed by Dave Smart. Muddy Fox dropped off the production radar in the mid-1990s. The company have been a brand of Universal Cycles since 2001 and also produces Silver Fox to sell to bigbox retailers such as Argos.
Title: Orange Mountain Bikes
Passage: Orange Mountain Bikes Limited is a bicycle manufacturer, based in Halifax, West Yorkshire in the UK. Orange produces a wide range of mountain bikes, ranging from the full-suspension downhill 224 to the steel hardtail P7. Orange's original hardtail was the Clockwork, named after the film. Orange-sponsored riders have held the downhill world cup championship in 2001 (Greg Minnaar), 2002 and 2004 (Steve Peat), as well as the women's under 21 downhill world championship (Tracey Hannah in 2006). Entry and mid-level Orange bikes are built in Taiwan, while more expensive models are handbuilt in their Halifax factory. The Patriot is one of Orange's best selling models and was the best selling performance mountain bike in Britain for several years. Orange now has dealers in 26 countries worldwide.
Title: Mountain biking
Passage: Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain. Mountain biking can generally be broken down into multiple categories: cross country, trail riding, all mountain (also referred to as "Enduro"), downhill, freeride and dirt jumping. However, the majority of mountain biking falls into the categories of Trail and Cross Country riding styles.
Title: A Clockwork Orange (film)
Passage: A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.
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Stanley Kubrick
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Orange Mountain Bikes
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A Clockwork Orange (film)
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What are both Tech Support and Daughter's Hand?
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Title: Tech Support (Beavis and Butt-Head)
Passage: "Tech Support" is the fourth episode of season 8 and 204th episode overall of the American animated television series "Beavis and Butt-Head". It aired alongside "Daughter's Hand" on November 3, 2011 on MTV.
Title: Daughter's Hand
Passage: "Daughter's Hand" is the third episode of season 8 and 203rd episode overall of the American animated television series "Beavis and Butt-Head". It aired alongside "Tech Support" on November 3, 2011 on MTV.
Title: Genius Bar
Passage: The Genius Bar is a tech support station located inside all but one of Apple's retail stores, the purpose of which is to provide concierge style support for customers of Apple products and to contribute to the devaluation of the word "genius." Ron Johnson, the former Senior Vice President for Retail, has often referred to the Genius Bar as the "heart and soul of our stores". Employees are specially trained and certified at the Genius Bar. Their role is to help customers with Apple hardware and software. All in-store repairs of Apple products are carried out by "Geniuses", formerly known as Mac Geniuses. In September 2009, the Family Room Specialists were folded into the mix to handle iPod and iPhone troubleshooting. After its release in 2010, iPad appointments also fell under the Family Room Specialists. Apple now maintains two Genius Bar queues: Mac and Mobile Device.
Title: Virtual help desk
Passage: A virtual help desk allows IT support organizations to virtually deploy IT technicians on demand to support a computer user experiencing technical issues. IT can efficiently manage and allocate global help desk resources, including most importantly its personnel, to access any computer to provide support despite the end user or IT rep location. Virtual help desks allow IT reps to virtually access end systems through support sessions where they can diagnose and fix computer issues quickly. This eliminates in-person customer service calls andor ineffective phone-only tech support sessions, making the help desk more efficient.
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episode
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Tech Support (Beavis and Butt-Head)
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Daughter's Hand
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Yashwant Sinha is an Indian administrator whose son is the Minister of State for what?
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Title: Jayant Sinha
Passage: Jayant Sinha (born 21 April 1963 in Giridih) is the Minister of State for Civil Aviation, a Member of Indian Parliament and formerly the Minister of State for Finance. He has also been an investment fund manager and management consultant.
Title: Manoj Sinha
Passage: Manoj Sinha is a minister of communication (independent charge) and minister of state for railways. He is a civil engineer. He was a student of IIT BHU He maintains a low-profile image, wears his trademark dhoti and long kurta. Sinha is a three-time BJP MP in Lok Sabha. He represents Ghazipur in the Lower House. As the junior minister for railways, Sinha handled key assignments including the task to connect several cities in eastern Uttar Pradesh. In his last meeting in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Sinha for his work and commitment as the railway minister.
Title: Indradeep Sinha
Passage: Indradeep Sinha (July 1914 9 June 2003) was a freedom fighter and veteran communist leader. He was born in Shakara village in present-day Siwan District of Bihar, India, in July 1914. He had an academic career and secured a gold medal in post-graduation in Economics from Patna University in 1938. He wrote about 25 books. He chose to serve the people by fighting for political freedom of the nation and social and economic justice to its people. With a master's degree in economics from Patna University and a gold medal, Sinha joined the Communist Party of India in 1940 and served the party as state secretary. A lecturer and journalist, Sinha was Secretary of the Bihar State Council of the Communist Party of India from 1962 to 1967 and had served as the General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha from 1973 until the late 1990s. Sinha was also editor of the "Hunkar", "Janasakti" and "New Age" weeklies. Indradeep Sinha started his legislative career with the membership of the Bihar Legislative Council, where he was a member from 1964 to 1974. He also served as the Minister of Revenues in the United Front Government of Bihar from 1967 to 1968. As Revenues Minister, he took several initiatives to ameliorate the condition of the poor and took steps for distribution of land to the landless in the State. Sinha represented the State of Bihar in the Rajya Sabha for two terms from April 1974 to April 1980 and again from July 1980 to July 1986.
Title: Yashwant Sinha
Passage: Yashwant Sinha, (retired) IAS (born 6 November 1937) is an Indian administrator, politician and a former Minister of Finance (19901991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and March 1998 July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Minister of External Affairs July 2002 May 2004). He is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. His son Jayant Sinha, a consultant and investor, won the 2014 elections for the Hazaribagh constituency and his son is currently serving as Minister of State for Railways in Narendra Modi's cabinet.
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Civil Aviation
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Yashwant Sinha
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Jayant Sinha
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Which of these publications looks at the online electronics industry; Sentimentalist Magazine or the EE Times?
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Title: Electronic News
Passage: Electronic News was a publication that covered the electronics industry, from semiconductor equipment and materials to militaryaerospace electronics to supercomputers. It was originally a weekly trade newspaper, which covered all aspects of the electronics industry, including semiconductors, computers, software, communications, space and even television electronics.
Title: Sentimentalist Magazine
Passage: Sentimentalist Magazine is an American magazine of indie rock music and culture, published quarterly.
Title: EE Times
Passage: EE Times (Electronic Engineering Times) is an online electronics industry magazine published in the United States by AspenCore Media an Arrow Electronics company. The American print edition ceased with the December 2012 issue, but the magazine continues to produce print editions in China and Taiwan.
Title: Electronics industry in Japan
Passage: The Japanese electronics industry is the largest consumer electronics industry in the world, though the share of these Japanese companies gradually declined by competition from South Korea, Taiwan and China. Japan still has a number of companies that produce television, camcorders, audio and video players, etc.
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EE Times
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Sentimentalist Magazine
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EE Times
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Which University is located in Vietnam, FPT University or University of Toronto?
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Title: University of Toronto
Passage: The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as "King's College", the first institution of higher learning in the colony of Upper Canada. Originally controlled by the Church of England, the university assumed the present name in 1850 upon becoming a secular institution. As a collegiate university, it comprises twelve colleges, which differ in character and history, each with substantial autonomy on financial and institutional affairs. It has two satellite campuses in Scarborough and Mississauga.
Title: FPT University
Passage: FPT University is a private university in Vietnam. FPT University is a member of FPT Group and has campuses in Hanoi (main), Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang.
Title: Hu University
Passage: Hu University (Vietnamese: "i hc Hu" ) is a university located in Hu, the former imperial capital of Vietnam; it is one of the important regional universities of Vietnam. In Vietnam, universities are classified into three classes: national university (Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam National University, Hanoi), regional university (Thi Nguyn University, The University of Da Nang and Hue University) and university. Hue University is top 5 Vietnamese universities and top 350 universities in Asia according QS Ranking 2016.
Title: Ho Chi Minh City Pedagogical University
Passage: Ho Chi Minh City University of Education (HCMUE, Vietnamese: Trng i hc S phm Thnh ph H Ch Minh) is a university specializing in tertiary-level training of teachers and lecturers located in District 5. The university was founded as the Saigon National Pedagogical University in 1957 and reestablished by prime ministerial decree in 1976. In 1995, the university was incorporated in Ho Chi Minh City National University, but it was split to become an autonomous university with the current name in 1999. This university is one of 14 leading universities in Vietnam and also one of the two largest pedagogical universities in Vietnam, playing a leading roles in teacher and lecturer training.
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FPT University
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FPT University
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University of Toronto
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Magnificent Bodyguards is a Hong Kong martial arts action film, released in which year, starring Jackie Chan, a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer?
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Title: Project A
Passage: Project A (; also known as Pirate Patrol and Jackie Chan's Project A) is a 1983 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film written and directed by Jackie Chan, who also starred in the film. The film co-stars Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. The film was released in Hong Kong on December 22, 1983. A sequel "Project A Part II" was released in 1987.
Title: Jackie Chan
Passage: Chan Kong-sang, SBS, MBE, PMW, ( ; born 7 April 1954), known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself. He has trained in Kung Fu and Hapkido. He has been acting since the 1960s and has appeared in over 150 films.
Title: Magnificent Bodyguards
Passage: Magnificent Bodyguards is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Lo Wei. Chan, along with Luk Chuen also worked as stunt coordinators. This film was well received in Hong Kong, but Chan himself doesn't like it. He puts it down to Lo Wei not giving him any creative freedom. This was the first film in Hong Kong to be filmed using 3-D technology, and it features music from "Star Wars".
Title: New Fist of Fury
Passage: New Fist of Fury is a 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lo Wei and starring Jackie Chan. It is the first of several films that Lo directed Chan in, and the first using Chan's stage name Sing Lung (literally meaning "becoming a dragon", by which Chan is still known today in Asia). The film gave Chan his first starring role in a widely released film (his first starring role was in the "Little Tiger of Canton" which only had a limited release in 1973). The film was a sequel to Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury", one of Lo Wei's biggest successes. "New Fist of Fury" was part of Lo's attempt to market Jackie Chan as the new Bruce Lee and did not contain any of the comedy elements that were to be Chan's career trademark later on.
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1978
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Magnificent Bodyguards
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Jackie Chan
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Which American football player who played 15 seasons for the Dallas Cowboys and retired in 1989 was a big factor in the 1983 Dallas Cowboys season?
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Title: Ed quot;Too Tallquot; Jones
Passage: Ed Lee "Too Tall" Jones (born February 23, 1951) is a retired American football player who played 15 seasons (19741978, 19801989) in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. In 1979, he briefly left football to attempt a career in professional boxing.
Title: Jerry Tubbs
Passage: Gerald J. Tubbs (January 23, 1935 June 13, 2012) was an American football linebacker who played for ten seasons in the National Football League from 1957 to 1966, mainly for the Dallas Cowboys. He was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1960 NFL Expansion Draft. After his retirement he stayed with the Cowboys as an assistant coach for 22 years. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma. In 1996, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Title: Vashone Adams
Passage: Vashone LaRay Adams (born September 12, 1973) is a retired American professional football player who played five seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys. Adams first attended Fort Hays State University and Butte Junior College before transferring to Eastern Michigan University. After college, Adams was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cleveland Browns. In his rookie season of 1995, Adams played in 8 games, started 6 of them and recorded 23 tackles. The following season, the Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Baltimore Ravens. While with the Ravens, Adams recorded the only interception of his career, returning it for 15 yards. Adams joined the New Orleans Saints for the final season of his career, playing in 5 games, earning 4 starts and recording his only forced fumble. He would later sign contracts with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1998 and Dallas Cowboys in 1999.
Title: 1983 Dallas Cowboys season
Passage: The Dallas Cowboys completed the 1983 season with a record of 12 wins and four losses, finishing second in the NFC East. The team started the season with seven straight victories, including a memorable Monday night win over the Washington Redskins in which the team erased a 20-point halftime deficit and prevailed, 3130. The Cowboys were particularly strong on offense, led by quarterback Danny White and running back Tony Dorsett. The Cowboys scored a team record 479 points and staged a few come-from-behind victories during the season. However, the defense gave up many points, despite strong play from Randy White, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, and Everson Walls. In particular, the young secondary was guilty of giving up many big plays throughout the season.
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Ed "Too Tall" Jones
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1983 Dallas Cowboys season
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Ed quot;Too Tallquot; Jones
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Which US Supreme Court case was agrued first, Betts v. Brady or City of Boerne v. Flores?
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Title: City of Boerne v. Flores
Passage: City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997) , was a US Supreme Court case concerning the scope of Congress's enforcement power under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case also had a significant impact on historic preservation.
Title: Betts v. Brady
Passage: Betts v. Brady, 316 U.S. 455 (1942), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that denied counsel to indigent defendants when prosecuted by a state. It was famously overruled by "Gideon v. Wainwright".
Title: Roberts v. City of Boston
Passage: Roberts v. Boston, 59 Mass. (5 Cush.) 198 (1850), was a court case seeking to end racial discrimination in Boston public schools. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of Boston, finding no constitutional basis for the suit. The case was later cited by the US Supreme Court in "Plessy v. Ferguson", which established the "separate but equal" standard.
Title: Rodrguez v. Popular Democratic Party
Passage: Rodrguez v. Popular Democratic Party, 457 U.S. 1 (1982) , was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States heard on appeal from the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico whether Puerto Rico may by statute vest in a political party the power to fill an interim vacancy in the Puerto Rico Legislature. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico held that such a procedure did not violate the United States Constitution, and the US Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. The case was of some interest to close followers of the Court as it featured the one and only return of former associate justice, Abe Fortas, now in private practice, at oral argument on behalf of the appellee.
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Betts v. Brady
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Betts v. Brady
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City of Boerne v. Flores
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In what year did the wife of Elias Disney die?
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Title: Disney family
Passage: This page describes the family of Elias Charles Disney (son of Kepple Disney and Mary Richardson Disney), the father of Walter Elias "Walt" Disney.
Title: Flora Call Disney
Passage: Flora Call Disney (April 22, 1868November 26, 1938) was the mother of Walt Disney and his brother Roy.
Title: Acron, Florida
Passage: Acron was a town in eastern Lake County, Florida, established during the late 19th century, near Paisley. It is best known as the town where Flora Call and Elias Disney, the parents of Walt Disney, and Roy O. Disney lived for a short time after they were married in nearby Kismet on New Year's Day, 1888. The location, probably at or near 290.1'N 8131.2'W which is just northeast of Lake Akron, is about forty miles (65 km) due north of what is now the Walt Disney World Resort. Acron is now a ghost town.
Title: Elias II, Count of Maine
Passage: Elias II (also Helias, "Hlie", "Helyes" or "lie") (died 15 January 1151) was the younger son of Fulk V of Anjou and his first wife, Eremburga, daughter of Count Elias I of Maine. There is debate as to whether he was ever count of Maine or whether he merely made a claim to it.
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1938
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Acron, Florida
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Flora Call Disney
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What is the birthplace of the star of Short Term 12?
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Title: Brie Larson
Passage: Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress, musician and director. Born in Sacramento, California, Larson was home schooled before she studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. She began her acting career in television, appearing as a regular on the 2001 sitcom "Raising Dad", for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award.
Title: Short Term 12
Passage: Short Term 12 is a 2013 American drama film written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The film is based on Cretton's short film of the same name, produced in 2009. It stars Brie Larson as Grace, the supervisor of a group home for troubled teenagers.
Title: Alterkeys
Passage: Alterkeys is an online marketplace where accommodation in Europe can be listed and booked for short term lettings. Based on the peer-to-peer property rental model, the platform allows individuals and property managers to list their unoccupied accommodation space and connect with travellers looking for short term accommodation to rent. By June 2013, over 50,000 properties across Europe were listed on the platform. The accommodation options listed on Alterkeys include apartments, castles and villas. In June 2014, the company reached 100,000 properties all around Europe.
Title: Kaitlyn Dever
Passage: Kaitlyn Dever ( ; born December 21, 1996) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Gwen Thompson in the "American Girl" film entitled "", Loretta McCready in "Justified", Eve Baxter in "Last Man Standing", and Jayden in "Short Term 12".
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Sacramento, California
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Short Term 12
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Brie Larson
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The author of the memoir Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations founded an organisation for what?
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Title: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Passage: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (] , born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, on 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar, and former Dutch politician. She received international attention as a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, actively opposing forced marriage, honor violence, child marriage and female genital mutilation. She has founded an organisation for the defense of women's rights, the AHA Foundation.
Title: Traceroute (film)
Passage: Traceroute is a 2016 AustrianAmerican documentary film directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner. The autobiographical documentary and road movie deals with the history, politics and impact of nerd culture. Grenzfurthner calls his film a "personal journey into the uncharted depths of nerd culture, a realm full of dangers, creatures and more or less precarious working conditions", an attempt to "chase the ghosts of nerddom's past, present and future." The film was co-produced by art group monochrom and Reisenbauer Film. It features music by Kasson Crooker, Hans Nieswandt, and many others.
Title: Recovery approach
Passage: Psychological recovery or recovery model or the recovery approach to mental disorder or substance dependence emphasizes and supports a person's potential for recovery. Recovery is generally seen in this approach as a personal journey rather than a set outcome, and one that may involve developing hope, a secure base and sense of self, supportive relationships, empowerment, social inclusion, coping skills, and meaning.
Title: Nomad: From Islam to America
Passage: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (first published May 18, 2010) is a memoir by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a sequel to her "New York Times" bestseller "Infidel". Released in the United States by Free Press, it deals in greater depth than the earlier book with certain aspects of the author's childhood in Somalia, Kenya and Saudi Arabia, and in particular with her family, as well as with her exile from the Netherlands and her present home with the American Enterprise Institute in the United States. The book is highly critical of Islam and the multiculturalism which the author sees as enabling its extremism, and makes the controversial case that moderate Christian churches should seek actively to convert Muslim believers. The book has been praised by Christopher Hitchens, John Lloyd, and Richard Dawkins.
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the defense of women's rights
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Nomad: From Islam to America
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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What English-American heavy metal band active from 2006 to 2010's drummer did Greg Hampton form a new project with in 2011?
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Title: War of Words (Fight album)
Passage: War of Words is the debut studio album by English-American heavy metal band Fight, released on September 14, 1993 by Epic Records. This is the first release Rob Halford recorded after his departure from Judas Priest in 1992. He brought with him drummer Scott Travis from the band and recruited three new members. The music is a mixture between the heavy metal sound created by Judas Priest and a thrashgroove sound similar to that of Pantera. Halford is also credited with playing guitar but only recorded vocals for the album.
Title: Greg Hampton
Passage: Greg Hampton is a producer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter, who has worked on such albums as Alice Cooper's "Along Came a Spider," Tommy Bolin's "Whips and Roses," and Lita Ford's "Wicked Wonderland." Hampton has also appeared as the member of several groups over the years, including Science Faxtion (with Bootsy Collins and Buckethead), the New Czars (with Adrian Belew), and Razorball (with Reeves Gabrels). In 2011, it was announced that Hampton had formed a new project, 9 Chambers, with ex-Monster Magnet guitarist Ed Mundell, Gov't Mule bassist Jorgen Carlsson, and ex-Black SabbathDioHeaven Hell drummer Vinny Appice.
Title: Heaven amp; Hell (band)
Passage: Heaven Hell were an English-American heavy metal band active from 2006 to 2010. The band was a collaboration featuring Black Sabbath founder members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler along with former Black Sabbath members Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice.
Title: Science Faxtion
Passage: Science Faxtion is an American experimental metal band that formed in California in 2007. Comprising multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Bootsy Collins, vocalist and guitarist Greg Hampton, guitarist Buckethead, drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia and DJ Tobe "Tobotius" Donohue (also known as DJ Botieus), the band has released the album "Living on Another Frequency" in October 2008.
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Heaven Hell
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Greg Hampton
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Heaven amp; Hell (band)
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Manchester Zoological Gardens competed with the zoo that opened in what year, also in Manchester?
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Title: Belle Vue Zoological Gardens
Passage: Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, England, opened in 1836. The brainchild of John Jennison, the gardens were initially intended to be an entertainment for the genteel middle classes, with formal gardens and dancing on open-air platforms during the summer, but they soon became one of the most popular attractions in Northern England. Before moving to Belle Vue, Jennison, a part-time gardener, had run a small aviary at his home, the beginnings of the zoo that over the years grew to become the third-largest in the United Kingdom.
Title: National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka
Passage: National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka (also called Colombo Zoo or Dehiwala Zoo) is a zoological garden in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, founded in 1936. Its sprawling areas are host to a variety of animals and birds. The zoo exhibits animals but also places an emphasis on animal conservation and welfare, and education.
Title: Hobart Zoo
Passage: The Hobart Zoo (also known as Beaumaris Zoo) was an old-fashioned zoological gardens located on the Queens Domain in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The Zoo site is very close to the site of the Tasmanian Governor's House, and the Botanical Gardens. Although its location is now primarily the site of a Hobart City Council depot, some remnants, and archaeological remains of the original Zoo can still be seen.
Title: Manchester Zoological Gardens
Passage: The Manchester Zoological Gardens opened in 1838, on a 15 acre site between Broom Lane and Northumberland Street in Broughton, now in Salford, England. Attractions included a Grand Menagerie, a lake, a maze, an archery ground, and a series of landscaped walks. The gardens were laid out by a company of local business men, on land rented from the Rev. John Clowes of Broughton Hall, who had become interested in botany and horticulture in later life. The gardens competed with John Jennison's Belle Vue Zoological Gardens opened three years earlier, but the venture was commercially unsuccessful and closed in 1842. Some of the animals were acquired by the Belle Vue Zoo, others went to London Zoo and to Hampton Court.
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1836
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Manchester Zoological Gardens
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Belle Vue Zoological Gardens
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Who was convicted in the FBI sting operation which ideotaped politicians accepting bribes from a fraudulent Arabian company in return for various political favors?
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Title: Richard Kelly (politician)
Passage: Richard Kelly (July 31, 1924 August 22, 2005) was an American politician from Florida. He was a Republican convicted of taking bribes in the 1980 Abscam scandal.
Title: Abscam
Passage: Abscamsometimes written ABSCAMwas a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sting operation that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The two-year investigation was directed from the FBI's office in Hauppauge, New York, and was under the supervision of Assistant Director Neil J. Welch, who headed the bureau's New York division, and Thomas P. Puccio, head of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York. The operation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property and corruption of prestigious businessmen, but was later converted to a public corruption investigation. The FBI, aided by the Justice Department and a convicted con-man, videotaped politicians accepting bribes from a fraudulent Arabian company in return for various political favors.
Title: Cockerham bribery case
Passage: The Cockerham bribery case involved the investigation and subsequent trials of United States Army contracting officers and their family members who were accused of accepting bribes in return for steering multimillion-dollar contracts to companies providing services for the US Army in Iraq and Kuwait between 2004 and 2007. The alleged ringleader of the accused officers was US Army Major John L. Cockerham, who was sentenced to 17 and 12 years in prison for accepting bribes from Army contractors. The contracts, mainly for bottled water, involved at least three US Army contracting officers, two of their family members, six companies from India, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United States, and up to 15 million in bribe money.
Title: Cunningham scandal
Passage: The Cunningham scandal is a U.S. political scandal in which defense contractors paid bribes to members of Congress and officials in the U.S. Defense Department, in return for political favors in the form of federal contracts. Most notable amongst the recipients of the bribes was California Congressman Duke Cunningham who pleaded guilty to receiving over 2.3 million in bribes. The primary defense contractors were Mitchell Wade (owner of MZM) and Brent R. Wilkes (owner of ADCS Inc.).
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Richard Kelly
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Richard Kelly (politician)
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Abscam
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Who is the American author that caused a reprint of the originally published 1987 book "Jenny and the Jaws of Life" in 2002?
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Title: Jincy Willett
Passage: Jincy Willett is an author and writing teacher currently living in San Diego, California. She has written short pieces for various anthologies and periodicals including the Winter 2006 issue of "Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" and "Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules". Her first book, a collection of short stories called "Jenny and the Jaws of Life", was initially published in 1987 to critical acclaim but smaller-than-expected sales. The public admiration of Willett's writing expressed by David Sedaris, however, had the book in reprint in 2002, garnering praise from critics and public alike.
Title: The Mammoth Book of Erotica
Passage: The Mammoth Book of Erotica (ISBN ) is an Erotic literature anthology edited by Maxim Jakubowski that was originally published in 1994, with a revised edition published in 2000. It was published by Robinson Publishing in the United Kingdom (2000 reprint by Robinson imprint of Constable Robinson), and by Carroll Graf (Avalon Publishing Group imprint) in the United States.
Title: J. Stuart Russell
Passage: James Stuart Russell M.A., D.Div., (1816 1895) was a pastor and author of "The Parousia". The book was originally published in 1878 with the title, "The Parousia: A Critical Inquiry into the New Testament Doctrine of Our Lord's Second Coming". A second edition followed in 1887. A reprint of this edition by Baker Books is available with the title, "The Parousia: The New Testament Doctrine of Our Lord's Second Coming".
Title: David Sedaris
Passage: David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, "Barrel Fever", in 1994.
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David Sedaris
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Jincy Willett
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David Sedaris
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What is Juan Garca brego's uncle's nickname?
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Title: Juan Nepomuceno Guerra
Passage: Juan Nepomuceno Guerra Crdenas (July 18, 1915 July 12, 2001) was a Mexican crime lord, bootlegger, businessman and smuggler who founded the Gulf Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. He is often considered the "godfather" of U.S-Mexico border cartels.
Title: Juan Garca brego
Passage: Juan Garca brego (born September 13, 1944) is a former Mexican drug lord who started out his criminal career under the tutelage of his uncle Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who is reported to be the former head of a criminal dynasty along the U.S.-Mexico border now called the Gulf Cartel.
Title: Juan Garca de Miranda
Passage: Juan Garca de Miranda (16771749), was a Spanish painter of the baroque period, a disciple of Juan Delgado and the uncle of Pedro Rodriguez de Miranda. He was appointed Painter to the King.
Title: Juan Garcia (guitarist)
Passage: Juan Garca ( born November 24, 1963 ) is a Cuban American heavy metal guitarist. He is perhaps best known as the guitarist for the thrash metal bands Agent Steel and Evildead and the power metalspeed metal band Abattoir. Garca is also the rhythm guitarist of Body Count.
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considered the "godfather"
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Juan Garca brego
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Juan Nepomuceno Guerra
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What municipality host the John Paul Johns House in the Seacoast Region
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Title: John Paul Jones House
Passage: The John Paul Jones House is a historic house at 43 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Now a historic house museum and a National Historic Landmark, it is most significant as the only known surviving structure in the United States associated with American Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, who was resident here in 1781-82 when it was operated as a boarding house.
Title: Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation
Passage: The Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation (COAST) is the primary provider of mass transportation for the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, as well as parts of southern Maine. COAST is a non-profit agency founded in 1981 to provide public transportation options in southeastern New Hampshire. First established solely as a private contractor to previously existing bus lines, COAST now runs its own set of public transit routes and transports almost 500,000 passengers per year.
Title: Johns House
Passage: The Johns House is a historic house in White Springs, Florida. It is located at the junction of CR 135 and Adams Memorial Drive. On July 10, 1998, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Title: Seacoast Region (New Hampshire)
Passage: The Seacoast Region is the southeast area of the U.S. state of New Hampshire that includes the eastern portion of Rockingham County and the southern portion of Strafford County. The region stretches 13 mi along the Atlantic Ocean from New Hampshire's border with Salisbury, Massachusetts to the Piscataqua River and New Hampshire's border with Kittery, Maine. The shoreline is generally very rocky and rough in nature, although a few sandy beaches have been created using jettiesgroins, particularly in the towns of Rye and Hampton. The Seacoast Region stretches as far west as Epping. Portsmouth, the largest municipality and only city in Rockingham County, serves as the cultural and commercial hub of the region. Portsmouth has numerous historical landmarks and tourist attractions including Strawberry Banke, the Moffatt-Ladd House, the John Paul Jones House, and the Portsmouth Children's Museum, which moved to Dover in 2010. The Seacoast Region was the first area of the state to be permanently settled by Europeans in the early 17th century.
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Portsmouth
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Seacoast Region (New Hampshire)
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John Paul Jones House
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What is the name of the swashbuckler character in Tei's version of The Wonderful World of Puss'n Boots?
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Title: The True History of Puss 'N Boots
Passage: The True History of Puss 'N Boots (French: "La Vritable Histoire du chat bott" ) is a 2009 French-Belgian-Swiss animated film directed by Jrme Deschamps, Pascal Herold, and Macha Makeeff. It is based on Charles Perrault's story "Puss in Boots" about a cat who talks and walks on his hind legs while wearing magical boots.
Title: The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots
Passage: The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Japanese: , Hepburn: Nagagutsu o Haita Neko , literally "Cat Who Wore Cavalier Boots") is a 1969 Japanese traditional animation action-comedy musical feature film, the 15th cinema feature produced by Tei Animation (then Tei Dga) and the second to be directed by Kimio Yabuki. The screenplay and lyrics, written by Hisashi Ine and Morihisa Yamamoto, is based on the European literary fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, expanded with elements of Alexandre Dumas-esque swashbuckling adventure and funny animal slapstick, with many other anthropomorphic animals ("kemono" in Japanese) in addition to the title character. The Tei version of the character himself is named Pero, after Perrault.
Title: Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos
Passage: Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos is a 2012 American computer-animated short comedy film, and a sequel to "Puss in Boots". It was directed by Raman Hui and features Antonio Banderas as the voice of the title character. The short was released on February 24, 2012, attached as a bonus feature to the "Puss in Boots" DVD and Blu-ray (3D) release. The short tells a story of Puss in Boots on a mission to recover a princess' stolen ruby from the notorious French thief the Whisperer. Reluctantly accompanied by three cute little kittens called the Three Diablos, Puss must tame them before they endanger the mission.
Title: Swashbuckler
Passage: A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword and chivalric ideals. The archetype also became common as a film genre.
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Pero
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The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots
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Swashbuckler
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Who had more pseudonyms, Robert Ludlum or Clement Greenberg?
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Title: Robert Ludlum bibliography
Passage: Robert Ludlum (19272001) was an American author of twenty-seven novels between 1971 and 2006, the last being issued five years after his death. Of his twenty-seven novels, two were originally published under the pseudonym of Jonathan Ryder and another under the pseudonym of Michael Shepherd. Ludlum also created the "Covert-One" series, overseeing the first three novels with Gayle Lynds and Philip Shelby before his death. Following Ludlum's death, his estate has continued to publish novels under his name with eight authors having written a combined twenty-two novels under the Ludlum brand, a trademark inscription of "Robert Ludlum's" on every book (e.g. "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion"). Since 2007, publishing rights in the United States have been held by Grand Central Publishing, taking over from St. Martin's Press who held the rights from 2000 to 2006.
Title: Helen Frankenthaler
Passage: Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 "Post-Painterly Abstraction" exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. Born in Manhattan, she was influenced by Greenberg, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock's paintings. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Title: Clement Greenberg
Passage: Clement Greenberg ( ), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh (January 16, 1909 May 7, 1994), was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century. In particular, he is best remembered for his promotion of the abstract expressionist movement and was among the first published critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock.
Title: Robert Ludlum
Passage: Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original "The Bourne Trilogy" series. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated between 290 million and 500 million. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.
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Robert Ludlum
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Robert Ludlum
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Clement Greenberg
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Jay Russell studied with a film director who was primarily working from what country?
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Title: Anand Shankar
Passage: Anand Shankar (Tamil: ) is an Indian film director and screenwriter, primarily working in Tamil cinema. Shankar started his career as an assistant director to Siddharth Anand in "Anjaana Anjaani" (2010). He also assisted producer-director AR Murugadoss in movies such as "Thuppakki" and "7aum Arivu". He successfully finished his work as debut director on "Arima Nambi" starring Vikram Prabhu and Priya Anand, a Tamil thriller film. Shankar is currently directing "Iru Mugan" starring Vikram, Nayanthara and Nithya Menen.
Title: Jay Russell
Passage: Jay Russell (born January 10, 1960 in North Little Rock, Arkansas), is an American film director, writer and producer. He graduated from Columbia University in 1984 with a MFA in screenwriting and directing, having studied with producer Michael Hausman and director Milo Forman. His debut film, "End of the Line" (1987), was a Sundance Institute project and was released by Orion Classics. He has since written projects for Imagine Entertainment and TriStar Pictures and has directed numerous documentaries for PBS, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, CBS, Fox, USA Network and NBC.
Title: Milo Forman
Passage: Jan Tom Forman (] ; born 18 February 1932), known as Milo Forman (] ), is a Czech film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor, who until 1968 lived and worked primarily in Czechoslovakia.
Title: Ravi Mariya
Passage: S Ravi Mariya, is Born (August 4 , 1979) an Indian film director, actor and writer primarily working in Tamil cinema.
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Czechoslovakia
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Jay Russell
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Milo Forman
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What was the population in the 2010 Census of a New York hamlet that is directly linked to Port Jefferson by New York State Route 347?
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Title: York Hamlet, New York
Passage: York Hamlet is a hamlet and census-designated place in Livingston County, New York, United States. Its population was 544 as of the 2010 census. New York State Route 36 passes through the community.
Title: Port Jefferson Branch
Passage: The Port Jefferson Branch is a rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The branch splits from the Main Line just east of Hicksville and runs northeast and east to Port Jefferson. Several stations on the Main Line west of Hicksville are served primarily by trains bound tofrom the Port Jefferson branch, so LIRR maps and schedules for the public include that part of the Main Line in the "Port Jefferson Branch" service.
Title: New York State Route 347
Passage: New York State Route 347 (NY 347) is an eastwest state highway located in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It connects the Northern State Parkway in Hauppauge to NY 25A in Mount Sinai. The route serves as a southern bypass of Smithtown and as a direct link between Nesconset and Port Jefferson. Along the way, NY 347 intersects NY 25 in Nesconset and Nicolls Road (County Route 97 or CR 97) in Lake Grove. The westernmost 2 mi of NY 347 is concurrent with NY 454 while the portion northeast of NY 25 parallels NY 25A, which follows a more northerly alignment through the town of Brookhaven than NY 347.
Title: Nesconset, New York
Passage: Nesconset is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Smithtown, located in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. The population was 13,387 at the 2010 census.
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13,387
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New York State Route 347
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Nesconset, New York
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What is the name of the American actress and television presenter, who played on Guiding Light and portrayed Greenlee Smythe on All My Children?
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Title: Leo du Pres and Greenlee Smythe
Passage: Leo du Pres and Greenlee Smythe du Pres are fictional characters and a supercouple from the American daytime drama "All My Children". Leo was portrayed by Josh Duhamel, and Greenlee was portrayed by Rebecca Budig. The couple is often referred to by the portmanteau "Greenleo" (for Greenlee and Leo) on Internet message boards.
Title: Greenlee Smythe
Passage: Greenlee Smythe was a fictional character from the daytime drama, "All My Children". She was originally portrayed by actress Rebecca Budig from August 11, 1999 to November 30, 2005, and was portrayed by actress Sabine Singh from April 20, 2007 to January 15, 2008. On December 14, 2007, it was announced that Budig accepted the offer to reprise the role, and would continue her portrayal of the character. Episodes with Budig began airing again January 16, 2008. The return was one of the most widely reported in the genre's history, with newspapers such as the "Associated Press" and "New York Daily News" featuring the story. Budig again departed the role on February 17, 2009, the day the character was killed off. In the June 29, 2009 issue of "ABC Soaps in Depth" magazine, head writer Charles Pratt, Jr. confirmed they had written Greenlee to remain alive, but that Budig would be making no immediate plans to return to the show. On October 8, 2009, it was confirmed that Budig would return to the show in December. Budig returned on December 23, 2009 and remained with the series until its finale on September 23, 2011.
Title: Rebecca Budig
Passage: Rebecca Jo Budig ( ; born June 26, 1973) is an American actress and television presenter, best known for both her roles as Michelle Bauer Santos on the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light" from 1995 to 1998 and as Greenlee Smythe Lavery on the ABC soap opera "All My Children" from 1999 to the 2011 network ending. Since 2015, she has portrayed the role of Hayden Barnes on "General Hospital", another ABC soap opera.
Title: Guiding Light
Passage: Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera listed in "Guinness World Records" as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, preceded by a 19-year broadcast on radio. "Guiding Light" is the longest running soap opera and the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program "Grand Ole Opry" (first broadcast in 1925), the BBC religious program "The Daily Service" (1928), the CBS religious program "Music and the Spoken Word" (1929), and the Norwegian children's radio program "Lrdagsbarnetimen" (first aired in 1924, cancelled in 2010) have been on the air longer.
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Rebecca Budig
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Greenlee Smythe
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Rebecca Budig
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Hagia Sophia and Monastery of the Transfiguration, Kinaliada, are located in which city?
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Title: Church of St. Polyeuctus
Passage: The Church of St. Polyeuctus (Greek: , "Hagios Polyeuktos") was an ancient Byzantine church in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) built by the noblewoman Anicia Juliana and dedicated to Saint Polyeuctus. Intended as an assertion of Juliana's own imperial lineage, it was a lavishly decorated building, and the largest church of the city before the construction of the Hagia Sophia. It introduced the large-scale use of Sassanid Persian decorative elements, and may have inaugurated the new architectural type of domed basilica, perfected in the later Hagia Sophia.
Title: Hagia Sophia
Passage: Hagia Sophia ( ; from the Greek: , ] , "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: "Sancta Sophia" or "Sancta Sapientia"; Turkish: "Ayasofya" ) was a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and is now a museum (Ayasofya Mzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey. The Roman Empire's first Christian Cathedral, from the date of its construction in 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was later converted into an Ottoman mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture". It remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520.
Title: Transfiguration Monastery
Passage: The Transfiguration Monastery (Bulgarian: , "Preobrazhenski manastir") or the Monastery of the Holy Transfiguration of God ( " ", "manastir "Sveto Preobrazhenie Gospodne"") is an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in the Dervent gorge of the Yantra River. It lies near the village of Samovodene, seven kilometres north of Veliko Tarnovo, in central northern Bulgaria. It is one of the five stauropegic monasteries of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
Title: Monastery of the Transfiguration, Kinaliada
Passage: The Monastery of the Transfiguration, known locally as Hristo [Christ] Monastery, is a prominent Greek Orthodox monastery that has served the Greek Orthodox community of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) since the time of the Byzantine Empire. The monastery is located on the island of Knalada, one of the Prince Islands in the Sea of Marmara. It is situated on one of the highest peaks on the island called Hristo Peak (93 meters), which is named after the Monastery. The Monastery is especially known as a destination for exiled Byzantine Emperors in the 11th century.
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Istanbul
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Hagia Sophia
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Monastery of the Transfiguration, Kinaliada
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What medival stone bridge is a short distance from the Palazzo Pitti?
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Title: George C. King Bridge
Passage: The George C. King Bridge (formerly known as the St. Patrick's Island Bridge and colloquially known as the Skipping Stone Bridge) is a pedestrian bridge that spans the Bow River just northeast of Downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The bridge connects the neighbourhoods of East Village to the south and Bridgeland to the north, with access from the bridge to St. Patrick's Island Park in the middle of the river. The bridge was built by the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) as part of the wider redevelopment of the East Village neighbourhood, in tandem with a 45 million redevelopment of St. Patrick's Island Park. Planning for the new bridge began in 2009, with construction getting underway in 2012. The bridge opened on October 20, 2014. The bridge is known locally as the Skipping Stone Bridge due to the form of the bridge, which looks like a stone skipping across the river.
Title: Palazzo Pitti
Passage: The Palazzo Pitti (] ), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present palazzo dates from 1458 and was originally the town residence of Luca Pitti, an ambitious Florentine banker.
Title: Ponte Vecchio
Passage: The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge", ] ) is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. The Ponte Vecchio's two neighbouring bridges are the Ponte Santa Trinita and the Ponte alle Grazie.
Title: Pope Street Bridge
Passage: The Pope Street Bridge is a stone bridge carrying Pope Street over the Napa River in St. Helena, California. Built by R. H. Pithie in 1894, the bridge is the oldest stone bridge in Napa County. The triple arch bridge is 175 ft long and 18 ft wide and cost 14,500 to build. The stone used to build the bridge came from a local quarry on Monticello Road near Mount George Grade. The bridge was designed for horse-drawn vehicles but has withstood automobile traffic; it also survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake without damage.
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Ponte Vecchio
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Palazzo Pitti
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Ponte Vecchio
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The bassist featured in "The World Needs a Hero" currently resides in what city?
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Title: Thirteen (Megadeth album)
Passage: Th1rt3en is the 13th studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth. It was released worldwide on November 1, 2011, by Roadrunner Records, although the album was released on October 26, 2011 for Japan. "Thirteen" is the first Megadeth studio album since "The World Needs a Hero" (2001) to feature bassist and founding member David Ellefson, who returned to the band in 2010. "Th1rt3en" debuted at number 11 on the "Billboard" 200 chart, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. The album broke into the top 20 in several other markets as well. It has sold about 120,000 copies in the United States as of December 2012. The album has received largely positive reviews from critics.
Title: David Ellefson
Passage: David Warren Ellefson (born November 12, 1964) is an American bassist and second-longest serving member of the American thrash metal band Megadeth from 1983 to 2002 and again from 2010. He has also been referred to as "Junior" to differentiate him from his bandmate Dave Mustaine, but does not go by this name professionally. Ellefson currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition to playing bass guitar in Megadeth, Ellefson also has various side projects which include Temple of Brutality, F5, and Killing Machine.
Title: Not Too Late (album)
Passage: Not Too Late is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones, released on January 30, 2007, through Blue Note Records. It was produced by Lee Alexander, the songwriter and bassist featured on Jones's previous albums, "Come Away with Me" and "Feels like Home". The album debuted at number one on the "Billboard" 200, making it Jones' third consecutive number one album.
Title: The World Needs a Hero
Passage: The World Needs a Hero is the ninth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released in May 2001 by Sanctuary Records. After the critical and commercial failure of the previous album "Risk" (1999), "The World Needs a Hero" represented a change back to a heavier musical direction. Subsequently, the album charted at number 16 on the "Billboard" 200 upon release.
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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Thirteen (Megadeth album)
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David Ellefson
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Wingaersheek Beach is located in the neighborhood of West Gloucester, a part of which Massachusetts city?
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Title: Wingaersheek Beach
Passage: Wingaersheek Beach is a 0.6 mi long beach located on the Annisquam River in West Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States.
Title: Gloucester, Massachusetts
Passage: Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Massachusetts' North Shore. The population was 28,789 at the 2010 U.S. Census. An important center of the fishing industry and a popular summer destination, Gloucester consists of an urban core on the north side of the harbor and the outlying neighborhoods of Annisquam, Bay View, Lanesville, Folly Cove, Magnolia, Riverdale, East Gloucester, and West Gloucester.
Title: Magnolia, Massachusetts
Passage: Magnolia is a small village in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It is located on the Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts town line in the southwestern part of the city. Straddling the town line between the two communities is Surf Park, a two-acre swath of land that has scenic views of Kettle Cove. Magnolia has its own library, restaurants, and shops. Another feature of Magnolia is its beach, which goes by the official name Gray Beach and is a part of Coolidge Reservation. Union Congregational Church is located in Magnolia, as is Hammond Castle. The village has its own Women's Community Club which has been in existence for over sixty years.
Title: Annisquam, Massachusetts
Passage: Annisquam is a small waterfront neighborhood in the city of Gloucester, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. It is a few miles across Cape Ann from downtown Gloucester.
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Gloucester
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Wingaersheek Beach
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Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Star Hall was a Mission Hall in opened in 1889 in Ancoats, Manchester, founded by Francis Crossley, of Crossley Engines, later of which Star Hall was a Mission Hall in opened in 1889 in Ancoats, Manchester, founded by Francis Crossley (of Crossley Engines, later which British motor vehicle manufacturer, based in Manchester, England?
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Title: Star Hall
Passage: Star Hall was a Mission Hall in opened in 1889 in Ancoats, Manchester, founded by Francis Crossley (of Crossley Engines, later Crossley Motors) to meet the spiritual needs of his factory workers. It included the Crossley Hospital, a Maternity hospital. The building was previously a dance hall. On his death in 1897, his daughter continued the mission until 1919. At this time the building and mission were handed over to the Salvation Army. Crossley had been a personal friend of William Booth, and had even been called the 'Paymaster General' of the SA. The building was demolished in 1985. Crossley Court, run by the Salvation Army Housing Association, now occupies the site.
Title: Crossley Motors
Passage: Crossley Motors was a British motor vehicle manufacturer based in Manchester, England. They produced approximately 19,000 high-quality cars from 1904 until 1938, 5,500 buses from 1926 until 1958 and 21,000 goods and military vehicles from 1914 to 1945.
Title: Diesel locomotives of Ireland
Passage: Although prototype diesel locomotives ran in Britain before World War II, the railways of both the Republic and Northern Ireland changed over much more rapidly from steam to diesel traction, in the 1950s than those in Britain, due to the island's limited coal reserves and (in the Republic) ageing steam locomotive fleet. The initial diesel locomotives for CI were built and supplied by British railway locomotive builders (Birmingham RCW with Sulzer engines and AEI Metropolitan Vickers with Crossley engines), with notably poor results from the latter. From the early 1960s, locomotives with more reliable engines from General Motors Electro-Motive Division (now the independent company, EMD), of the USA, were adopted. In the late 1960s the Crossley engines were replaced by EMD 645 units in a major programme to re-engine the fleet. Since the early 1960s all new locomotives on the two Irish rail systems have been purchased from EMD, with the exception of three from Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds, England, for NIR in 1970.
Title: Associated Commercial Vehicles
Passage: Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV) was founded on 1 October 1948 by the United Kingdom based vehicle manufacturer Associated Equipment Company upon that company's purchase of the motor manufacturers Crossley Motors Maudslay Motor Company; at which time ACV became the holding company for those concerns and the manufacturing business of the Associated Equipment Company itself that was renamed AEC Ltd.
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Crossley Motors
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Star Hall
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Crossley Motors
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Are both Mesquite and Kaempferia from the same continent?
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Title: Mesquite
Passage: Mesquite is the common name for the genus "Prosopis", containing over 40 species of small leguminous trees. They are native to the southwestern United States and Mexico (even the creeping mesquite, which is invasive in southern California).
Title: Memorial Stadium (Mesquite, Texas)
Passage: Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Mesquite, Texas. It was completed in 1976 and is located on the campus of West Mesquite High School, next to Mesquite Tower. The field is primarily used for football, and all five High Schools in Mesquite share use of the field.
Title: Mesquite Valley
Passage: Mesquite Valley is a valley in Clark County, Nevada and Inyo County and San Bernardino County, California. Mesquite is an endorheic basin with Mesquite Lake at is lowest point at an elevation of 2,536 feet 773 meters. This valley trends northwest and southeast with a head at to the southeast near State Line Pass and another head at at the southwestern end of Pahrump Valley, at an elevation of 2,808 feet 856 meters, between the Kingston Range and Black Butte to the northwest. It is bounded on the northeast by the Spring Mountains, by the Mesquite Mountains to the southwest and the Clark Mountains to the southeast.
Title: Kaempferia
Passage: Kaempferia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It is native to China, India, and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc.).
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no
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Mesquite
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Kaempferia
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What is the stage name of the lead singer of the group that recorded the album "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"?
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Title: L. Russell Brown
Passage: Lawrence "Larry" Russell Brown (born June 29, 1940), known as L. Russell Brown, is an American lyricist and composer. He is most noted for his songs, co-written with Irwin Levine, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" and "Knock Three Times"international hits for the 1970s pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn. He also co-wrote "C'mon Marianne" for The Four Seasons, and The Partridge Family 1971 song, "I Woke Up In Love This Morning". THE QUINTESSENTIAL HITMAN
Title: Tony Orlando
Passage: Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), better known as Tony Orlando, is an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn in the early 1970s.
Title: Tony Orlando and Dawn
Passage: Tony Orlando and Dawn is an American pop music group that was popular in the 1970s. Their signature hits include "Candida", "Knock Three Times", "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", and "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)".
Title: Tie A Yellow Ribbon (Dawn album)
Passage: Tie a Yellow Ribbon is the third album by American popular music group Dawn (Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitas, Telma Hopkins Joyce Vincent Wilson) released in 1973 by Bell Records. The title track reached 1 in both the US and UK charts. In terms of sales, this single was the most successful in the group's career, starting a string of seven consecutive Hot 100 appearances. Another track from this album, Youre A Lady by English singersongwriter Peter Skellern, reached 70 in the US charts. The group changed their name to "Tony Orlando and Dawn" later in 1973
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Tony Orlando
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Tie A Yellow Ribbon (Dawn album)
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Tony Orlando
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What year did a former American football nose tackle announce games on ESPN College Football Friday Primetime with Adam Amin?
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Title: Antonio Garay
Passage: Antonio Garay Jr. (born November 30, 1979) is a former American football nose tackle. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football and wrestled at Boston College. He was a Wrestling All American placing 4th at the NCAA Championships his sophomore year at Boston College.
Title: Dusty Dvoracek
Passage: Dusty Dvoracek (born March 1, 1983) is a former American football nose tackle. Drafted by the Chicago Bears of the National Football League in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft, he played college football at Oklahoma and professionally with the Bears from 2006 to 2009 and the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League in 201011.
Title: ESPN College Football Friday Primetime
Passage: ESPN College Football Friday Primetime is a live game presentation of Division 1-A college football on ESPN or sometimes ESPN2. There is no main sponsor. The game telecast airs every Friday night at 7:45pm ET during the college football regular season. In 2017, the games will be announced by Adam Amin and Dusty Dvoracek. The game is preceded by a 5-10 minute long segment of "College Football Scoreboard" with Adnan Virk, Danny Kanell and Joey Galloway. They both also present the halftime report.
Title: Doug Mikolas
Passage: Douglas Adolph Mikolas (born June 7, 1961) is a former American football nose tackle who played two seasons in the National Football League with the San Francisco 49ers and Houston Oilers. Mikolas played college football at Oregon Tech and attended Scio High School in Scio, Oregon. He was also a member of the Denver Gold of the United States Football League, Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and the New YorkNew Jersey Knights of the World League of American Football. He was a member of the San Francisco 49ers team that won Super Bowl XXIII.
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2017
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ESPN College Football Friday Primetime
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Dusty Dvoracek
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Students from which university that opened in 1885 in Ormskirk can receive training from Liverpool University Air Squadron?
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Title: Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron
Passage: Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron (NUAS, ) is a unit of the Royal Air Force which provides basic flying training, adventurous training and personal development skills to undergraduate students of the University of Durham, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumbria University, Sunderland University and Teesside University. The idea behind all University Air Squadrons is to allow potential RAF officers to experience life in service and to allow them to decide whether they are suited to it. There is no obligation to join up, unless a bursary is successfully applied for.
Title: Liverpool University Air Squadron
Passage: Liverpool University Air Squadron (LUAS, ) is a training unit of the Royal Air Force which provides basic flying training, adventurous training and personal development skills to undergraduate students of the University of Liverpool, University of Lancaster, Edge Hill University, Bangor University and Liverpool John Moores University.
Title: No. 6 Air Experience Flight RAF
Passage: No. 6 Air Experience Flight (6 AEF) is one of twelve Air Experience Flights run by the Air Cadet Organisation of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in the 1950s, along with the other AEFs, with the aim of teaching basic flying to members of the Air Training Corps, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section) and occasionally, the Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets and the Air Scouts. It has been based at RAF Benson since 1992. It is used primarily and is parented by the Oxford University Air Squadron.
Title: Edge Hill University
Passage: Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, which opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College, the first non-denominational teacher training college for women in England, before admitting its first male students in 1959. In 2005, Edge Hill was granted Taught Degree Awarding Powers by the Privy Council and became Edge Hill University on 18 May 2006.
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Edge Hill University
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Liverpool University Air Squadron
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Edge Hill University
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Is 750 7th Avenue and Trump World Tower located on the same street?
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Title: High Springs Historic District
Passage: The High Springs Historic District is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on October 31, 1991) located in High Springs, Florida. It encompasses approximately 750 acre , bounded by Northwest 14th Street, Northwest 6th Avenue, Southeast 7th Street and Southwest 5th Avenue. It contains 218 historic buildings.
Title: Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District
Passage: Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District is a historic district located in Moline, Illinois, United States. Centered on 5th Avenue, it is roughly bounded by 12th Street to 18th Street, 4th Avenue to 7th Avenue. The distinct covers 33 acres and includes 114 buildings. One hundred of the buildings contribute to the significance of the district because they retain their historic and architectural integrity and reflect the character of the historic downtown.
Title: 750 7th Avenue
Passage: 750 Seventh Avenue is a 615 ft (187m) tall Class-A office skyscraper in New York City. It was completed in 1989 in the postmodern style and has 36 floors. Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates designed the building, and it is owned by Hines, a Texas based real estate investment company. The building's continuous helix design, culminating in a chimney-like extension, was caused by the New York City Building Code, which requires setbacks. The 84 exterior column transfers exist because of the owner's requirement for a column-free space. It is tied with the New York Life Building for the 74th tallest building in New York City. It is also LEED certified.
Title: Trump World Tower
Passage: Trump World Tower is a residential skyscraper at 845 United Nations Plaza (First Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets) in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Construction began in 1999 and concluded in 2001.
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no
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750 7th Avenue
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Trump World Tower
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Brian Stepanek plays Magnifo on a Cartoon Network series that first aired in what year?
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Title: Out of Jimmy's Head
Passage: Out of Jimmy's Head (abbreviated as OOJH), is an American live-actionanimated television series. It was advertised as the first Cartoon Network series in this genre, even though "Big Bag" was what took credit, while also including some animated segments. Based on the first live-actionanimated original channel movie "Re-Animated", that was aired on December 8, 2006, it is produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Brookwell McNamara Entertainment (the latter known for shows such as "Even Stevens" and "That's So Raven"). It was created by Tim McKeon and Adam Pava, who were originally the writers for "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" and "The Life and Times of Juniper Lee", but also the creators of "Weighty Decisions" short on Cartoon Network's "Sunday Pants" anthology series.
Title: Mixels
Passage: Mixels was a 2014 comedy animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network, co-produced by The Lego Group and Cartoon Network Studios. The series first aired on February 12, 2014 with a new episode of "Teen Titans Go! ". The series revolves around the Mixels, small creatures that can mix and combine with one another in creative and unpredictable storylines. Although previous Lego series, such as "" and "Legends of Chima" use CGI animation, "Mixels" made use of Toon Boom Harmony software, which is animated at Atomic Cartoons, Inc., before later being animated traditionally at Digital eMation, Inc., Big Star Entertainment, Inc., and Saerom Animation, Inc..
Title: Storm Hawks
Passage: Storm Hawks is a Canadian animated television series created by Asaph "Ace" Fipke and was produced by Nerd Corps Entertainment in association with Cartoon Network and YTV. It premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on May 25, 2007. It began airing on YTV in Canada on September 8, 2007. It started to air on Cartoon Network in the UK on August 6, 2007. In Poland, it started to air on Cartoon Network on November 10, 2007. Internationally, it first aired on ABC1 in Australia on February 26, 2008 and on Hero in the Philippines on March 12, 2008. The show also started airing in Singapore on okto, Bulgaria, Turkey, Portugal and Romania in 2008. Disney XD began airing the series on February 28, 2011. In 2016 it returned to Canada on Family Chrgd.
Title: Brian Stepanek
Passage: Brian Patrick Stepanek (born February 6, 1971) is an American actor and voice actor. He is known for his role as Arwin Hawkhauser on the Disney Channel Original Series "The Suite Life of Zack Cody" and Brian on "Brian O'Brian". He was also a Sector Seven Agent in the 2007 Michael Bay film "Transformers", and also had a supporting role in "The Island". He is now known for playing Tom Harper on the Nickelodeon series "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky Dawn"; the voice of Lynn Loud Sr. on the Nickelodeon animated series "The Loud House"; and as the voice of Magnifo on the shortform Cartoon Network series "Mixels".
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2014
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Brian Stepanek
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Mixels
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Mike Lvy remixed tracks for artists such as a Canadian musician who has released how many albums?
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Title: Gesaffelstein
Passage: Mike Lvy, better known as Gesaffelstein (born 1985 in Lyon, France), is a French techno artist and DJ. He has worked alongside, and remixed tracks for such artists as varied as Tiga, Miss Kittin, ASAP Rocky, Lana Del Rey and Phoenix. He produced two tracks on "Yeezus", the sixth album of American rapper Kanye West, including the lead single "Black Skinhead" and "Send It Up", both tracks produced with Kanye West, Daft Punk, Brodinski and Mike Dean. Gesaffelstein released his debut album "ALEPH" on October 28, 2013 under Parlophone Records and EMI Music, which had been recorded since 2011. His remix of "Shockwave" by The Hacker is featured in the 2013 video game "Grand Theft Auto V", on the Soulwax FM radio station. In 2015 Gesaffelstein released the track Conquistador in collaboration with French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre.
Title: The Donna Summer Anthology
Passage: The Donna Summer Anthology is a double compilation album by the American singer Donna Summer, released by Polygram Records in 1993. The compilation featured the majority of Summer's best known songs right from the start of her success to the present day. Summer had originally made her name during the disco era in the 1970s and in the decade that followed had experimented with different styles. Most of the tracks on this compilation are the original album versions of the songs, which were sometimes edited down for their release as a single. Included for the first time are two remixed tracks from her then previously unreleased I'm a Rainbow album, which had been recorded in 1981 but had been shelved by her record company at the time. The album also featured the Giorgio Moroder-penned and produced song "Carry On"', marking the first time Summer and Moroder had worked together since 1981. Summer and Moroder, together with Pete Bellotte had written the vast majority of her 1970s disco hits. Four years later, "Carry On" would be remixed and become a big dance hit. It also won Summer a Grammy for Best Dance Recording, her first win since 1984 and her fifth win in total.
Title: As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
Passage: As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 is the first album to be released by Soulwax members David and Stephen Dewaele also known as 2ManyDJs. It consists of 45 remixed tracks by a series of diverse artists including Dolly Parton, Basement Jaxx and 10cc. While some of the tracks are conventional remixes, most tracks are mashup collages with the vocals of one song placed over the instrumental part of another. The sampled material was extensively cleared for commercial release; as a result, only 114 elements appear out of the 187 recordings that 2ManyDJs initially wished to use. The artwork of the album was also altered following lawsuit threats from the photographer of the original images.
Title: Tiga (musician)
Passage: Tiga James Sontag (born 1974) is a Canadian musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Tiga has released three albums entitled "Sexor", "Ciao! ", and "No Fantasy Required". "Sexor" won the 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year. Tiga released a selection of compilations in the early 2000s, featuring mixes such as "American Gigolo", "" and, "Mixed Emotions", which put him on the map as one of "the world's best mixers". His most recent compilation mix, "Tiga Non-Stop", was released in November 2012, and premiered Tiga's latest single "Plush." The mix also features tracks from artists such as Kindness, Duke Dumont and Blawan.
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three
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Gesaffelstein
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Tiga (musician)
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Fririk Karlsson is an Icelandic musician and songwriter who contributed to the soundtrack of musical with a book by Nan Knighton and music and lyrics by who?
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Title: Rudolf (musical)
Passage: Rudolf is a musical conceived for the stage by Frank Wildhorn and Steve Cuden, with a book by Jack Murphy and Phoebe Hwang, lyrics by Murphy, additional lyrics by Nan Knighton, and music by Frank Wildhorn. Arrangements by Koen Schoots and orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg. It is about Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his extramarital relationship with Baroness Mary Vetsera. Their 1889 deaths at his Mayerling hunting lodge apparently were the result of a murder-suicide pact, although historians have debated this explanation.
Title: Saturday Night Fever (musical)
Passage: Saturday Night Fever is a musical with a book by Nan Knighton (in collaboration with Arlene Phillips, Paul Nicholas, and Robert Stigwood) and music and lyrics by the Bee Gees.
Title: Fririk Karlsson
Passage: Fririk Karlsson is an Icelandic musician and songwriter. He studied classical and jazzrock guitar and had success with the group Mezzoforte in 1983 with the U.K. top 20 hit, "Garden Party". He has contributed to the soundtracks of musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar and Saturday Night Fever and to that of movies such as Evita and Hercules. His TV work includes accompanying singers Madonna, Jos Carreras and Tom Jones. Karlsson has also appeared on albums and singles from Boyzone and Cliff Richard, among others. Karlsson has moved back home to his native Iceland,after living in London,where he among other jobs worked as a session musician playing guitar in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. He has released numerous new-age and relaxation music albums known as "The Feel Good Collection". In 2014, Karlsson also played as session musician for Kate Bush's first live performances in 35 years, playing guitar for 22 dates.
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical)
Passage: The Scarlet Pimpernel is a musical with music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics and book by Nan Knighton, based on the novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy. The show is set in England and France during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the spy fiction and the superhero genres, where a hero hides under a mild-mannered alias.
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the Bee Gees
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Fririk Karlsson
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Saturday Night Fever (musical)
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In what year was the college represented by the Hampden-Sydney Tigers founded?
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Title: Willis Henry Bocock
Passage: Willis Henry Bocock (1865 1947) was a prominent administrator and professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. One of the highlights of his career was his appointment as the first Dean of the newly formed University of Georgia Graduate School in 1910. Much of the present success of graduate programs at the University of Georgia can be traced to his visionary leadership. Throughout his career, Bocock maintained a reputation for excellence in scholarship and leadership. Bocock was, as were many members of the first graduate faculty, a Virginian. He was born in 1865, the son of a prominent Presbyterian clergyman. He attended school in Lexington, Virginia and at the Kemper School (later Kemper Military School) in Boonville, Missouri. Bocock entered Hampden-Sydney College in 1881. He graduated in 1884 with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Letters. After his graduation from Hampden-Sydney he spent a year at the University of Virginia and obtained diplomas in Latin and Greek. Bocock was a recipient of the now extinct Master of Arts degree from Hampden-Sydney.
Title: HampdenSydney Tigers
Passage: The HampdenSydney Tigers are the athletic teams that represent HampdenSydney College, located in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Tigers compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference for all sports. The Tigers were one of the founding members of the ODAC in 1976. HampdenSydney sponsors 9 sporting activities for its male students.
Title: HampdenSydney College
Passage: HampdenSydney College, also known as HSC, is a liberal arts college for men located in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1775, HampdenSydney is the oldest private charter college in the Southern U.S., the 10th oldest college in the U.S., the last college founded before the American Revolution, and one of only three four-year, all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States. HampdenSydney College is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register.
Title: Tony Shaver
Passage: Tony Shaver (born January 28, 1954) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at the College of William Mary. He arrived at William Mary after a 17-year tenure as the head coach at Hampden-Sydney College.
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1775
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HampdenSydney Tigers
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HampdenSydney College
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What was the intention of the battle where Robert T. Waugh received the Medal of Honor for his actions?
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Title: Paul Ray Smith
Passage: Paul Ray Smith (September 24, 1969 April 4, 2003) was a United States Army Sergeant First Class who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Operation Iraqi Freedom. While serving with B Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, Iraq, his team was attacked by a group of Iraqi fighters and after a short firefight he was killed by Iraqi fire. For his actions during this battle he was recommended and approved for the Medal of Honor. Two years later, the medal, along with the newly approved Medal of Honor flag, were presented to his family; specifically to his eleven-year-old son David, at a White House ceremony by the President of the United States George W. Bush.
Title: Peter C. Lemon
Passage: Peter Charles Lemon (born June 5, 1950) is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest award, the Medal of Honor. He received the award for his actions on April 1, 1970, while serving in Ty Ninh Province during the Vietnam War. He dedicates the Medal of Honor to the three comrades he lost in the battle which he received the award for: Casey Waller, Nathan Mann and Brent Street. Lemon is the only Canadian-born U.S. citizen to be presented the medal for fighting in the Vietnam War. He is the eighth-youngest living Medal of Honor recipient.
Title: Robert T. Waugh
Passage: Robert T. Waugh (died May 19, 1944) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions during the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War II.
Title: Battle of Monte Cassino
Passage: The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino) was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The intention was a breakthrough to Rome.
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a breakthrough to Rome
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Robert T. Waugh
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Battle of Monte Cassino
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Leona Theron was appointed to her court position by which President of hte African National Congress?
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Title: Julius Malema
Passage: Julius Sello Malema (born 3 March 1981) is the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African political party, which he founded in July 2013. He previously served as President of the African National Congress Youth League from 2008 to 2012. Malema was a member of the ANC until his expulsion from the party in April 2012. He occupies a notably controversial position in South African public and political life, having risen to prominence with his support for African National Congress president, and later President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. He has been described by both Zuma and the Premier of Limpopo Province as the "future leader" of South Africa. Less favourable portraits paint him as a "reckless populist" with the potential to destabilise South Africa and to spark racial conflict.
Title: Siphiwe Mvuyane
Passage: Siphiwe Mvuyane was a South African police officer who died on 9 May 1993. During the period of "low intensity warfare" in South Africa which largely pitted the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Siphiwe Mvuyane was on the side of the IFP. During the period of the "low intensity warfare", the IFP was the sole ruling party of the Bantustan KwaZulu government, and worked in collaboration with the apartheid government, whereas the ANC was operating underground; as a result the IFP had an upper hand over the ANC when it came to the warfare. But post apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) became the governing party in South Africa whereas the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) became one of the opposition parties in the South African parliament, as a result the ANC gained the upper hand over the IFP in the remaining years of the warfare as the ANC was in control of the state apparatus by virtue of being the governing party. The IFP leadership denied its involvement in sanctioning and orchestrating political violence in the furtherance of its political objectives during the period of the "low intensity warfare" in South Africa.
Title: Leona Theron
Passage: Leona Valerie Theron (born 7 November 1966 in Durban) is a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and formerly of the Supreme Court of Appeal. She was first appointed to the bench in 1999, aged 33, becoming the first black woman judge on the KwaZulu-Natal High Court. She was appointed to the Constitutional Court on 1 July 2017 by President Jacob Zuma to replace recently retired Johann van der Westhuizen.
Title: Jacob Zuma
Passage: Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician. He has served as the President of South Africa since 2009. Zuma is the President of the African National Congress (ANC), the governing political party, and was Deputy President of South Africa from 1999-2005.
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Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
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Leona Theron
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Jacob Zuma
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The player who scored his first NHL goal against Glen Hanlon in 1979 was born on which day ?
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Title: Wayne Gretzky
Passage: Wayne Douglas Gretzky '1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': " ( ; born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played twenty seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players, and the league itself. He is the leading scorer in NHL history, with more goals and assists than any other player. He garnered more assists than any other player scored total points, and is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 16 professional seasons, 14 of them consecutive. At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 61 NHL records: 40 regular-season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star records. As of 2015, he still holds 60 NHL records.
Title: Joe Pavelski
Passage: Joseph James Pavelski (born July 11, 1984) is an American professional ice hockey player and captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He scored a goal in his first NHL game, making him the 11th Sharks player in the history of the team to do so. He won a silver medal as a member of the United States national men's ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He also served as captain of Team USA at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto.
Title: 197980 Vancouver Canucks season
Passage: The 197980 Vancouver Canucks season was the team's 10th in the NHL. Stan Smyl led the team in goals, assists, points, and penalty minutes, the last time one player has led his team in all four categories. On October 14, 1979, Wayne Gretzky scored his first NHL goal against Glen Hanlon.
Title: Mike Backman
Passage: Michael Charles Backman (born January 2, 1955 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a former professional ice hockey right winger. He was drafted by the World Hockey Association's Quebec Nordiques in the seventh round, one-hundredth overall, of the 1975 WHA Amateur Draft; however, he never played in that league. Despite being un-drafted in the National Hockey League, he played eighteen regular-season and ten playoff games in the NHL with the New York Rangers over three seasons. Backman first played NHL hockey with the Rangers in the 1981-82 season, playing three games. He registered two assists that first year and the following year scored his first NHL goal.
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January 26, 1961
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197980 Vancouver Canucks season
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Wayne Gretzky
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What country were Mark Linkous and Mark Wystrach singers of?
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Title: Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
Passage: Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain is the fourth and final album by Sparklehorse before Mark Linkous' death in 2010. It was released on September 25, 2006 by Astralwerks Records.
Title: Mark Linkous
Passage: Mark Linkous (September 9, 1962 March 6, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as leader of Sparklehorse. He was also known for his collaborations with such notable artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, Black Francis, Julian Casablancas, Nina Persson, David Lynch, Fennesz, Danger Mouse, and Sage Francis.
Title: All My Friends (EP)
Passage: All My Friends is an EP by House of Freaks released on CD (R2 70943) and 12" vinyl (R1 70943) in 1989 by Rhino Records. In 2004 these tracks were remastered and included on the reissue of the album Tantilla. Recording occurred at Floodzone Studios in Richmond, VA. The Album's cover is a collage of photos consisting of friends and acquaintances of band members Bryan Harvey and Johnny Hott. Included in the collage, above the EP's title is Sparklehorse founder Mark Linkous, who at times performed with House of Freaks.
Title: Mark Wystrach
Passage: Mark Wystrach (born December 17, 1979) is an American actor and country music singer.
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American singer
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Mark Linkous
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Mark Wystrach
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Which fighter plane, also flown by United States Marine Corps World War 2 fighter ace Donald N. Aldrich, held the longest production run of any piston-engine fighter in U.S. history?
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Title: Donald N. Aldrich
Passage: Donald Nathan Aldrich (24 October 1917 3 May 1947) was a United States Marine Corps Reserve captain and World War II flying ace. With 20 victories, Aldrich was the fifth-highest-scoring Marine Corps ace of the war. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force after the United States Army Air Corps refused him because he was married. Aldrich became an instructor pilot and transferred to the United States Marine Corps in late 1942. He joined VMF-215 in the Solomon Islands campaign in June 1943, flying the Vought F4U Corsair. Aldrich added to his 20 victories in three combat tours with six probables, the highest total number of probables in the Marine Corps. Postwar, Aldrich continued to serve in the Marine Corps and was killed in a 1947 plane crash.
Title: 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines
Passage: 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, abbreviated as (33), is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps, based out of Kne'ohe, Hawai'i. Known as either "Trinity" or "America's Battalion", the unit falls under the command of the 3rd Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division. The unit consists of approximately 1124 U.S. Marines and United States Navy sailors. Like most battalions of the U.S. Marine Corps, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines is made up of three rifle companies (India, Kilo, and Lima), a Headquarters and Services (HS) company, and a weapons company. The battalion was originally formed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in 1942 and saw action on both Bougainville and Guam during World War II, where it was awarded the first of its Presidential Unit Citations for "gallantry, determination, and esprit de corps in accomplishing its mission under extremely difficult and hazardous conditions"; and the first of its Navy Unit Commendations for "outstanding service". Marines in the battalion were also awarded one Medal of Honor and seven Navy Crosses during the war. Following World War II, 3rd Battalion was disbanded until 1951, when it was reformed in California. The battalion was alerted for possible deployment during the 1956 Suez War and the 1958 intervention in Lebanon. In 1965, the Marines of 3rd Battalion were deployed to the Vietnam War and participated in Operation Starlite, the first major Marine engagement of that conflict. The battalion continued to see major action through Vietnam and was rotated back to the United States in 1969. Famous alumni from its time in Vietnam include Corporal Robert Emmett O'Malley, the first Marine in Vietnam to be awarded the Medal of Honor, Oliver North, and John Ripley. Around the end of the Vietnam War, the Battalion was deactivated for a second time in 1974.
Title: Vought F4U Corsair
Passage: The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear and Brewster: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and Brewster-built aircraft F3A. From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, to final delivery in 1953 to the French, 12,571 F4U Corsairs were manufactured, in 16 separate models, in the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U.S. history (194253).
Title: Douglas SBD Dauntless
Passage: The Douglas SBD Dauntless was a World War II American naval scout plane and dive bomber that was manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 through 1944. The SBD ("Scout Bomber Douglas") was the United States Navy's main carrier-borne scout plane and dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944. The SBD was also flown by the United States Marine Corps, both from land air bases and aircraft carriers. The SBD is best remembered as the bomber that delivered the fatal blows to the Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. The type earned its nickname "Slow But Deadly" (with the SBD initials) during this period.
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Vought F4U Corsair
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Donald N. Aldrich
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Vought F4U Corsair
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Manit Noywech, is a Thai footballer, and is also known as who, of Thailand?
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Title: Worawet Chanuthai
Passage: Worawet Chanuthai (Thai: ) or formerly Nantawet Chanuthai (Thai: ) is a Thai footballer currently playing for Thai Premier League side Samut Songkhram. He won the Thailand Premier League in 2008 at Provincial Electricity Authority FC
Title: Rivaldo
Passage: Rivaldo Vtor Borba Ferreira (born 19 April 1972), known as Rivaldo (] ), is a Brazilian former professional footballer and the current president of Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube in Brazil. He played mainly as an attacking midfielder but also as a second striker. Although primarily left footed, he was capable of playing on either flank, and was on occasion deployed as a wide midfielder or as a winger.
Title: Kritsana Wongbudee
Passage: Kritsana is a Thai footballer playing for Thailand Premier League side Provincial Electricity Authority FC. He won the Thailand Premier League in 2008. Now, he is a Thai footballer currently playing for Regional League Division 2 side Buriram F.C..
Title: Manit Noywech
Passage: Manit Noywech (Thai: , born March 5, 1980) is a Thai footballer. He is a former striker of Thailand national team and scored 6 goals for the national team and he known as Rivaldo of Thailand.
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Rivaldo
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Manit Noywech
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Rivaldo
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Which historic residential neighborhood in Baltimore, MD is located adjacent to a Major League Baseball ballpark?
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Title: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Passage: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, often referred to simply as Camden Yards or Oriole Park, is a Major League Baseball (MLB) ballpark located in Baltimore, Maryland. Home to the Baltimore Orioles, it is the first of the "retro" major league ballparks constructed during the 1990s and early 2000s, and remains one of the most highly praised. It was completed in 1992 to replace Memorial Stadium.
Title: Sportsman's Park
Passage: Sportsman's Park was the name of several former Major League Baseball ballpark structures in the central United States, in St. Louis, Missouri. All but one of these were located on the same piece of land, at the northwest corner of Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street, on the north side of the city.
Title: Vinton Street Commercial Historic District
Passage: The Vinton Street Commercial Historic District is located along Vinton Street between Elm Street on the west and South 17th Street on the east in south Omaha, Nebraska. This district is located adjacent to Sheelytown, a residential neighborhood that had historically significant populations of Irish, Poles, and Eastern European immigrants. It grew along with the success of the Union Stockyards and South Omaha. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
Title: Ridgely's Delight, Baltimore
Passage: Ridgely's Delight is a historic residential neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Its borders are formed by Russell and Greene Streets to the east, West Pratt Street to the north, and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from the western to southern tips. It is adjacent to the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and MT Bank Stadium. It is situated a short walk from MARC Train and the Light Rail's Camden Station, which has made it a popular residence of Washington, D.C. and suburban Baltimore commuters. It is within a 5-minute walk of both Oriole Park at Camden Yards and MT Bank Stadium and a 10-minute walk from Baltimore's historic Inner Harbor.
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Ridgely's Delight
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Ridgely's Delight, Baltimore
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Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Anupam Kher starred in the thriller film "Lust, Caution" directed by whom?
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Title: Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
Passage: Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (translated as I Did Not Kill Gandhi) is a 2005 Indian drama film, directed by Jahnu Barua and produced by Anupam Kher. The film stars Anupam Kher and Urmila Matondkar in lead roles.
Title: Lust, Caution
Passage: Lust, Caution () is a 2007 erotic espionage thriller film directed by Ang Lee, based on the novella of the same name published in 1979 by Chinese author Eileen Chang. The story is mostly set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when it was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led by Wang Jingwei. It depicts a group of Chinese university students from the Lingnan University who plot to assassinate a high-ranking special agent and recruiter of the puppet government using an attractive young woman to lure him into a trap.
Title: Apartment (film)
Passage: Apartment is a 2010 Bollywood thriller film directed by Jag Mundhra. The film stars Tanushree Dutta, Neetu Chandra, Rohit Roy and Anupam Kher in the lead roles. The film was released on 23 April 2010, under the banner of Magna Films.
Title: Anupam Kher
Passage: Anupam Kher (born 7 March 1955) is an Indian actor who has appeared in over 500 films and many plays. Mainly working in Hindi films, he has also appeared in acclaimed international films such as the 2002 Golden Globe nominated "Bend It Like Beckham", Ang Lee's 2007 Golden Lion-winning "Lust, Caution", and David O. Russell's 2013 Oscar-winning "Silver Linings Playbook". Kher has won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role five times. For his performance in the 1988 film "Vijay" he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Ang Lee
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Anupam Kher
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Lust, Caution
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Are Jenga and Isola both board games?
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Title: Upstairs Cafs in Hong Kong
Passage: Upstairs cafs are cafs in Hong Kong that are located above street level. They became popular in the early 2000s. They are mainly located in the upstairs of old commercial and mixed residentialcommercial buildings in busy districts such as Mong Kok, Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay. They have been recognized as a specific kind of catering outlet in Hong Kong. There is a special classification of "upstairs cafs" in Hong Kongs dining guide websites such as OpenRice. Most of them have themed decorations such as pets, teddy bears, manga and classrooms. Apart from food and drinks, many upstairs cafs in Hong Kong also provide free entertainment for customers such as Jenga, card games, chess sets and board games. Customers of upstairs cafs sometimes reserve the whole outlet for parties and gatherings because the price of reservation is not as expensive as that of the restaurants at street level.
Title: Isola (board game)
Passage: Isola is a two-player abstract strategy board game. It is played on a 7x7 board which is initially filled with squares, except at the starting positions of the pieces. Both players have one piece; it is in the middle position of the row closest to hisher side of the board.
Title: List of word board games
Passage: Word board games are those games played on a board as players of the game attempt to construct words that use a scoring system. The player with the highest score wins the game. Many if not most board games are also available as software programs and online. Online word board games can be organized so that the player is playing against other people or the game can be played against an automated program acting as an artificial intelligence. Players of some word board games organize themselves into associations, clubs, and tournaments.
Title: Jenga
Passage: Jenga is a game of physical skill created by Leslie Scott, and currently marketed by Hasbro. Players take turns removing one block at a time from a tower constructed of 54 blocks. Each block removed is then placed on top of the tower, creating a progressively taller and unstable structure.
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no
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Jenga
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Isola (board game)
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Have Wilfred Lucas and Enrique Carreras both been part of the film industry?
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Title: Crazy Women (film)
Passage: Crazy Women (Spanish: "Las locas" ) is a 1977 Argentine drama film written by Jos P. Dominiani and directed by Enrique Carreras. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where Mercedes Carreras won the award for Best Actress.
Title: An Outcast Among Outcasts
Passage: An Outcast Among Outcasts is a 1912 American short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and Wilfred Lucas. It was Lucas' debut film as a director. The film starred Blanche Sweet.
Title: Wilfred Lucas
Passage: Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter.
Title: Enrique Carreras
Passage: Enrique Carreras (January 6, 1925 - 29 August 1995) was a Peruvian-born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and was one of the most prolific film directors in the history of the Cinema of Argentina.
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yes
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Wilfred Lucas
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Enrique Carreras
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Who has more scope of profession, Rudolf Schwarzkogler or Alfonso Cuarn?
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Title: Alfonso Cuarn
Passage: Alfonso Cuarn Orozco (] ; born November 28, 1961) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor best known for his dramas "A Little Princess" (1995) and
Title: Viennese Actionism
Passage: Viennese Actionism was a short and violent movement in 20th-century art. It can be regarded as part of the many independent efforts of the 1960s to develop "performance art" (Fluxus, happening, action painting, body art, etc.). Its main participants were Gnter Brus, Otto Mhl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. As "actionists", they were active between 1960 and 1971. Most have continued their artistic work independently from the early 1970s onwards.
Title: Y Tu Mam Tambin
Passage: Y Tu Mam Tambin (English: "And Your Mother Too" ) is a 2001 Mexican drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarn and co-written by Cuarn and his brother Carlos.
Title: Rudolf Schwarzkogler
Passage: Rudolf Schwarzkogler (13 November 1940, Vienna 20 June 1969, Vienna) was an Austrian performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group that included artists Gnter Brus, Otto Mhl, and Hermann Nitsch.
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Alfonso Cuarn
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Alfonso Cuarn
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Rudolf Schwarzkogler
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What historical fiction drama was did Steven Hartley perform in in 2013?
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Title: Geoffrey Bilson Award
Passage: The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987.
Title: The Borgias (2011 TV series)
Passage: The Borgias is a historical-fiction drama television series created by Neil Jordan; it debuted in 2011 and was canceled in 2013.
Title: Steven Hartley
Passage: Steven Hartley (born 12 August 1960, in Shipley) is an English actor known internationally for his television, film and theatre roles. He has appeared in over 40 principle and leading roles on television and film since 1985, including "EastEnders", "The Bill", "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles", "Rumble", "Strictly Confidential", "Badboys", "Trial Retribution", "Sharman", "Holby City", "Casualty", "Doctors", "Pie in the Sky", "The Cut", "Agatha Christie's Marple", "Merlin", "Married... with Children", "The Borgias", "Vera" alongside Brenda Blethyn, "Ripper Street", and the acclaimed BBC series "Happy Valley" and "Silent Witness" in 2015.
Title: Metahistorical romance
Passage: Metahistorical Romance is a term describing postmodern historical fiction, defined by Amy J. Elias in "Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction." Elias defines metahistorical romance as a form of historical fiction continuing the legacy of historical romance inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott but also having ties to contemporary postmodern historiography. In particular, in metahistorical romance, poststructuralist play invokes the "historical sublime" as defined in the work of Hayden White. Metahistorical romance--such as Thomas Pynchon's novel "Mason Dixon"--attempts to recuperate the sublime untouchability of the past, to reach History and know it, but paradoxically in the context of the political. As with the Kantian sublime, the postmodern historical sublime is not the grasp of the sublime object itself but a kind of ironic awareness of the inaccessibility of the sublime object. There is a yearning that resembles the yearning for mystical knowledge at the core of the search for the historical sublime, and thus the concept ties contemporary historical fiction to a literary history (that of the historical novel), a type of historiography (postmodern, post-"Annales" historiography), and a spiritual questing. Elias argues that the postmodern imagination confronts the historical sublime rather than represses it; confronts it as repetition and deferral; seeks sublime History but simultaneously has lost faith in the storytelling needed to do so; and consequently has ties to, but reverses the dominant of, the traditional Anglo-American historical novel. The term "metahistorical romance" also builds upon work by Linda Hutcheon, whose term "historiographic metafiction" described the ironic stance of contemporary historical fiction.
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The Borgias
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Steven Hartley
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The Borgias (2011 TV series)
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The "Voyager" crew recovers its shuttlecraft containing Commander Chakotay and Chief of Security Tuvok, who had been exploring a nearby dark matter nebula is a scene in which television series?
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Title: Learning Curve (Star Trek: Voyager)
Passage: "Learning Curve" is the 16th episode of "" and final episode of the . The 45 minute television show was released in May 1995 and was the last show of the first season. Some of the crew of the Maquis ship "Val Jean" which had become part of the "Voyager" crew due to the destruction of their own vessel experience problems getting along with the Federation crew. They have to get trained by Tuvok to better operate aboard their new ship. Both crews are stranded on the other side of the Galaxy from Earth, after being abducted by an extra-galactic alien that abducted and medically tortured the crews of "Voyager" and "Val Jean", killing a number of them in the process. The episode contributes to the Maquis narrative threadstory arc that cuts across three Star Trek franchise television shows including "" and "", as well as the "Star Trek: Voyager" this was a part of.
Title: Dark Matter (prose anthologies)
Passage: Dark Matter is an anthology series of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories and essays produced by people of African descent. The editor of the series is Sheree Thomas. The first book in the series, "Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora" (2000), won the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. The second book in the Dark Matter series, "Dark Matter: Reading the Bones" (2004), won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology in 2005. A forthcoming third book in the series is tentatively named "Dark Matter: Africa Rising".
Title: Chakotay
Passage: Chakotay is a fictional character who appears in each of the seven seasons of the American science fiction television series "". Portrayed by Robert Beltran, he is First Officer aboard the Starfleet starship USS "Voyager". The character was suggested at an early stage of the development of the series. He is the first Native American main character in the "Star Trek" franchise. This was a deliberate move by the producers of the series, who sought to provide an inspiration as with Uhura in "" for African Americans. To develop the character, the producers sought the assistance of Jamake Highwater. Despite first being named as a Sioux, and later a Hopi, Chakotay was given no tribal affiliation at the start of the series, something that was later resolved in the episode "".
Title: Cathexis (Star Trek: Voyager)
Passage: The "Voyager" crew recovers its shuttlecraft containing Commander Chakotay and Chief of Security Tuvok, who had been exploring a nearby dark matter nebula. Tuvok is unconscious, but Chakotay appears to be brain dead, lacking any neural activity. He is put on life support by the Doctor. The shuttlecraft shows evidence of energy weapon attacks. Captain Kathryn Janeway orders "Voyager" towards the nebula to investigate. B'Elanna Torres, a close friend of Chakotay, uses a Healing Wheel, one of Chakotay's spiritual talismans, hoping to guide Chakotay's spirit to his body.
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Star Trek
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Cathexis (Star Trek: Voyager)
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Chakotay
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Who was the animator behind the series that inspired "Powerpuff Girls Z"?
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Title: Powerpuff Girls Z
Passage: Powerpuff Girls Z (Japanese: !Z , Hepburn: Demashita! Pawapafu Gruzu Zetto , lit. They're Here! Powerpuff Girls Z) , known in some other countries as PPGZ for short, is a Japanese magical girl anime series directed by Megumu Ishiguro, based on the American animated television series "The Powerpuff Girls". The anime is co-produced by Cartoon Network Japan and Aniplex and was animated and produced by Toei Animation, featuring character design by Miho Shimogasa ("Cutie Honey Flash", "Ultra Maniac"). As production occurred in Japan, Craig McCracken, the original creator of "The Powerpuff Girls", was not directly involved with the project.
Title: List of Powerpuff Girls Z episodes
Passage: This is a list of episodes for the anime series "Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z". It ran for 52 episodes on TV Tokyo from July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007. The English adaptation of the show has begun airing in English-speaking markets but has not made it to U.S. shores. All 52 episodes have been translated into English.
Title: List of The Powerpuff Girls video games
Passage: The Powerpuff Girls video games are a series of action and platformer games based on Cartoon Network's cartoon series, "The Powerpuff Girls". They were published by BAM! Entertainment and distributed by Cartoon Network Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games include "Bad Mojo Jojo", "Paint the Townsville Green", "Battle HIM", "HIM and Seek", "Mojo Jojo A-Go-Go", and the "Powerpuff Girls Z" game "Game de Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z". Console games include "Chemical X-Traction" for the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation and "Relish Rampage" for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2. PC games include "Mojo Jojo's Clone Zone", "Gamesville", "Princess Snorebucks", "Mojo Jojo's Pet Project", and "Defenders of Townsville".
Title: The Powerpuff Girls
Passage: The Powerpuff Girls is an American superhero animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. The show centers on Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three girls with superpowers, as well as their father, the brainy scientist Professor Utonium, who all live in the city of Townsville. The girls are frequently called upon by the town's childlike and naive mayor to help fight nearby criminals using their powers.
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Craig McCracken
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Powerpuff Girls Z
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The Powerpuff Girls
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Megalyn Echikunwoke played a comic book character in what movie?
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Title: Vixen (comics)
Passage: Vixen (Mari Jiwe McCabe) is a comic book character created by Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner. She first appeared in "Action Comics" 521 (July 1981), published by DC Comics.
Title: Marley Davidson
Passage: Marley Davidson (sometimes referred to as "Marley Davidson: Bronx Exorcist") is a fictional comic book character created by writer and comic book artist Sandy Jimenez. It made its first appearance on June 15, 1995 in the self-titled independent comic book "Marley Davidson", which chronicled the exploits of a Jamaican ex-priest, operating as an exorcist and monster hunter in New York City.
Title: Comic book death
Passage: In the comic book fan community, the apparent death and subsequent return of a long-running character is often called a comic book death. While death is a serious subject, a comic book death is generally not taken seriously in the real world and is rarely permanent or meaningful other than for story or thematic purposes. Commenting on the impact and role of comic book character deaths, writer Geoff Johns said:
Title: Megalyn Echikunwoke
Passage: Megalyn Echikunwoke ( ; born May 28, 1983) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Tara Price in "", Isabelle Tyler in "The 4400" and Mari McCabeVixen in the Arrowverse.
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Arrowverse
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Megalyn Echikunwoke
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Vixen (comics)
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Named after producer Radcliffe's Blackwing Studios where the album was recorded, "Upstairs at Eric's" was preceded by two top three UK singles, including the ballad "Only You", a song written by what English musician?
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Title: Leave in Silence
Passage: "Leave in Silence" is the sixth single by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 16 August 1982. Recorded at Blackwing Studios, the single became the band's fifth UK Top 20 hit, peaking at 18. It was the first Depeche Mode single in the UK to use the "Bong" catalogue number system, which they used until "Heaven" in 2013. Three versions of the track were released on the 7" and 12" singles, while a fourth cut (running at 4:51 mins) was released on the band's 1982 album "A Broken Frame".
Title: See You (song)
Passage: "See You" is the fourth UK single by Depeche Mode recorded at Blackwing Studios, and the first Depeche Mode single written by Martin Gore. The single was released on 29 January 1982 and was later included on the band's second album "A Broken Frame". The single launched a small world tour, with extra band member Alan Wilder, although he did not contribute to the song or the album. There are three versions of "See You"the 7" single version (3:55), the album version (4:34), and an extended 12" version with a longer intro (4:50). The "Extended Version" and the "Album Version" are almost the same. The "Album Version" fades out about 20 second before the 12" remix does.
Title: Upstairs at Eric's
Passage: Upstairs at Eric's is the debut album by British synthpop duo Yazoo (known in the US and Canada as Yaz), released in the UK on Mute Records on 20 August 1982. It was produced by the band and E.C. Radcliffe, with assistance from Mute label boss Daniel Miller on some of the tracks. Named after producer Radcliffe's Blackwing Studios where the album was recorded, "Upstairs at Eric's" was preceded by two top three UK singles, the ballad "Only You" and the more uptempo "Don't Go". The singles' success helped "Upstairs at Eric's" reach number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and gain platinum certification for 300,000 copies sold in the UK.
Title: Only You (Yazoo song)
Passage: "Only You" is a song written by English musician Vince Clarke. He wrote it while with Depeche Mode, but recorded it in 1982 after forming the duo Yazoo with Alison Moyet. It was released as Yazoo's first single on 15 March 1982 in the United Kingdom. Upon its UK release, the single became an instant success, hitting number two on the UK Singles Chart. In the US, the song was released as their second single in November 1982 and charted at number sixty-seven on "Billboard" Hot 100. "Only You" also made the US Adult Contemporary chart at number thirty-eight.
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Vince Clarke
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Upstairs at Eric's
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Only You (Yazoo song)
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Who wrote the novel that is the basis of a television series that Kate Mara starred as Zoe Barnes in?
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Title: Kate Mara
Passage: Kate Rooney Mara ( ; born February 27, 1983) is an American actress. She starred in the Netflix political drama "House of Cards" as Zoe Barnes and appeared in the Fox TV series "24" as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She made her film debut in 1999 with "Random Hearts". She appeared in "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), "We Are Marshall" (2006), "Shooter" (2007), "Transsiberian" (2008), "Stone of Destiny" (2008), "The Open Road" (2009), "Transcendence" (2014), "The Martian" (2015), "Morgan" (2016), and "Megan Leavey" (2017). She also appeared in the FX horror miniseries "American Horror Story" (2011) as Hayden McClaine and the superhero film "Fantastic Four" (2015) as Susan "Sue" Storm The Invisible Woman.
Title: Adam G. Simon
Passage: Adam Gregory Simon (born March 13, 1977) is an American actor and writer. He started his professional career as an actor in theatre with roles in the early 2000s and then made his television and film debut. Simon is the writer of "Man Down", a post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Dito Montiel which stars Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, Gary Oldman, Jai Courtney and Clifton Collins, Jr..
Title: House of Cards (U.S. TV series)
Passage: House of Cards is an American political thriller web television series created by Beau Willimon. It is an adaptation of the BBC's miniseries of the same name and is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs. The thirteen-episode first season premiered on February 1, 2013, on the streaming service Netflix. Thirteen-episode seasons followed on February 14, 2014; February 27, 2015; March 4, 2016; and May 30, 2017. Willimon has stated that plans for the show's future are decided after each season.
Title: Shooter (2007 film)
Passage: Shooter is a 2007 American conspiracy action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua based on the novel "Point of Impact" by Stephen Hunter. The film follows Force Recon veteran Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), who is framed for murder by a rogue secret private military company unit. The film also stars Michael Pea, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Levon Helm, and Ned Beatty and was released in the United States on March 23, 2007.
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Michael Dobbs
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Kate Mara
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House of Cards (U.S. TV series)
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Who was the author of the book on which the 1999 television movie, starring the actress who played Natalie Hillard in "Mrs. Doubtfire", was based?
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Title: Ralph Peduto
Passage: Ralph Peduto (March 9, 1942 May 12, 2014) was an American actor, playwright, writer and director. Peduto's film roles included "Mrs. Doubtfire" in 1993, "The Rock" in 1996, and "Patch Adams" in 1998, while his television credits included guest spots in "Cheers" and "Hill Street Blues". He ultimately appeared in more than 100 film and television roles, as forty television commercials. An acting teacher as well as an actor, Peduto founded Acting On Camera, an acting school in Santa Cruz, California.
Title: Mara Wilson
Passage: Mara Elizabeth Wilson (born July 24, 1987) is an American author and former child actress. She is known for playing Natalie Hillard in "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993), Susan Walker in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994), and Matilda Wormwood in "Matilda" (1996). Since retiring from film acting, Wilson has focused on writing.
Title: Madame Doubtfire
Passage: Madame Doubtfire, known as Alias Madame Doubtfire in the United States, is a 1987 English novel, written by Anne Fine for teenage and young adult audiences. The novel centers around a family with divorced parents. In November 1993, six years after its publication, the novel was adapted into "Mrs. Doubtfire," a film starring Robin Williams and Sally Field.
Title: Balloon Farm (film)
Passage: Balloon Farm is a 1999 television movie that stars Rip Torn, Mara Wilson and Laurie Metcalf. It was produced and premiered as part of "The Wonderful World of Disney" series. It is based on the book "Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm" by Jerdine Nolen.
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Jerdine Nolen
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Balloon Farm (film)
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Mara Wilson
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Stephen Biddle has worked in groups with what general who resigned from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2012?
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Title: Stephen Biddle
Passage: Stephen D. Biddle (born January 19, 1959) is an American author, historian, policy analyst and columnist whose work concentrates on U.S. foreign policy. Currently, he is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the George Washington University. He is perhaps best known for his award-winning 2004 book "Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle", published through Princeton University Press. He also has worked in groups under Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus forming U.S. counter-insurgency policy.
Title: National Intelligence Service (Greece)
Passage: The National Intelligence Service (NIS) (Greek: , , "Ethniki Ypiresia Pliroforion", "EYP") is the national intelligence agency of Greece. Originally modeled after the United States Central Intelligence Agency, it was established in 1953 as the Central Intelligence Service (CIS), specializing in intelligence gathering, counterintelligence activities and securing sensitive state communications.
Title: David Petraeus
Passage: David Howell Petraeus '1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': " ( ; born November 7, 1952) is a retired United States Army General officer and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus served 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and
Title: Intelligence Star
Passage: The Intelligence Star is an award given by the Central Intelligence Agency to its officers for "voluntary acts of courage performed under hazardous conditions or for outstanding achievements or services rendered with distinction under conditions of grave risk". The award citation is from the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and specifically cites actions of "extraordinary heroism". It is the third-highest award given by the Central Intelligence Agency, behind the Distinguished Intelligence Cross and Distinguished Intelligence Medal, and is analogous to the Silver Star, the US military award for extraordinary heroism in combat. Only a few dozen people have received this award (most posthumously), making it one of the rarest valor awards awarded by the US government.
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David Petraeus
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Stephen Biddle
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David Petraeus
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In what city is the CBS station that features children's show Gator Tales?
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Title: Gator Tales
Passage: Gator Tales (1988-1999) was a local children's television show produced in St. Louis, Missouri by local CBS affiliate KMOV. The show aired on Saturdays and Sundays in key states throughout the Midwest from 1988 to 1999, including Missouri, Arkansas, and Illinois.
Title: Clarice Tinsley
Passage: Clarice Tinsley (born December 31, 1954) is an American broadcast journalist. In November 1978, she moved to the DallasFort Worth metroplex to anchor the ten o'clock news for KDFW-TV (the CBS station for the market at the time, now a Fox OO). In 1979 the six o'clock news was added to her duties. As of 2012, she is the longest-serving news anchor in the DallasFort Worth television market.
Title: KMOV
Passage: KMOV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 24), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Owned by the Meredith Corporation, KMOV maintains studio and office facilities located at the Gateway Tower at 1 Memorial Drive in Downtown St. Louis, near the Gateway Arch, and its transmitter is located in Lemay. On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum channels 4 (standard definition) and 704 (high definition), and on ATT U-verse channels 4 (SD) and 1004 (HD).
Title: John Domenick
Passage: John Domenick is a Democratic politician who formerly served in the Ohio House of Representatives. A weatherman with the local CBS station, WTRF for over twenty five years, Domenick opted to seek the Democratic nomination for state representative in 2002 against incumbent Eileen Krupinski. With the help of high named recognition, Domenick won the election. He would ultimately win the general election also, and was sworn into office on January 3, 2003.
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Gator Tales
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KMOV
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how is WOWW and Southaven, Mississippi connected?
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Title: Southaven High School
Passage: Southaven High School is a public secondary school located in Southaven, Mississippi.
Title: Southaven, Mississippi
Passage: Southaven is a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States. It is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, and a principal city in the Memphis metropolitan area. The 2010 census reported a population of 48,982, making Southaven the third largest city in Mississippi. Southaven is traversed from north to south by the I-55I-69 freeway. The city's name derives from the fact that Southaven is located south of Whitehaven, a neighborhood in Memphis.
Title: WOWW
Passage: WOWW is a broadcast radio station licensed to Germantown, Tennessee and serving Memphis, Tennessee. WOWW is owned and operated by Flinn Broadcasting Corporation. Studios are in Southaven, Mississippi and a transmitter tower is in Bartlett, Tennessee.
Title: Northwest Mississippi Community College
Passage: Northwest Mississippi Community College is a two-year public community college located in Senatobia, Mississippi, United States and has been in existence since 1928. As of August 2008, Northwest's enrollment exceeds 7,100 students. There are approximately 3,000 students on the Senatobia campus1,100 of which reside in the college's residence halls. Slightly over 3,000 students are enrolled at the DeSoto Center in Southaven, Mississippi, and nearly 1,200 are enrolled at the Lafayette-Yalobusha Center in Oxford, Mississippi.
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Tennessee
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WOWW
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Southaven, Mississippi
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Who was born first of Taylor Hackford and Howard Zieff?
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Title: Hearts of the West
Passage: Hearts of the West, released in Europe as Hollywood Cowboy, is a 1975 comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, and starring Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Blythe Danner, and Alan Arkin. Set in the 1930s, the story revolves around a wannabe Western writer who finds himself cast as a leading man in several B-movie westerns.
Title: The Dream Team (film)
Passage: The Dream Team is a 1989 comedy film directed by Howard Zieff and produced by Christopher W. Knight for Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures. It stars Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst as mental-hospital inpatients who are left unsupervised in New York City during a field trip gone awry. Jon Connolly and David Loucka wrote the screenplay.
Title: Howard Zieff
Passage: Howard B. Zieff (21 October 1927 22 February 2009), (pronounced Zeef ) was an American director, television commercial director, and advertising photographer.
Title: Taylor Hackford
Passage: Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1944) is an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for "Teenage Father" (1979). Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, most notably "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982) and "Ray" (2004), the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Howard B. Zieff
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Taylor Hackford
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Howard Zieff
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Illich Guardiola is an American voice actor who has worked for what entertainment, anime, and foreign licensing company known popularly for its Dragon Ball Z license?
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Title: Funimation
Passage: Funimation is an American entertainment, anime, and foreign licensing company based in Flower Mound, Texas. The studio is one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America alongside Viz Media, Sentai Filmworks and Aniplex of America. Their most popular property is Toei Animation's action-adventure series "Dragon Ball Z", which had a successful run on Cartoon Network's Toonami block from 1998 to 2003, and has been re-released on DVD and Blu-ray several times since. It was founded on May 9, 1994 by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy as FUNimation Productions, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company. Funimation was sold to Navarre Corporation on May 11, 2005 and the company was renamed FUNimation Entertainment. In April 2011, Navarre sold Funimation to a group of investors including Fukunaga for 24 million. Around the same time, the company's trademark ball, star and blue bar were dropped from its logo and the company was renamed to simply Funimation. In May 2013, Funimation consolidated its divisions under its new holding company Group 1200 Media. Funimation is a portmanteau of the English words "fun" and "animation".
Title: Dragon Ball Z
Passage: Dragon Ball Z (Japanese: ruby rbZrbrp (rprt rtrp)rpruby , Hepburn: Doragon Bru Zetto , commonly abbreviated as "DBZ") is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. "Dragon Ball Z" is the sequel to the "Dragon Ball" anime and adapts the latter 325 chapters of the original 519-chapter "Dragon Ball" manga series created by Akira Toriyama, that were published from 1988 to 1995 in "Weekly Shnen Jump". "Dragon Ball Z" first aired in Japan on Fuji TV from April 26, 1989 to January 31, 1996, before being dubbed in several territories around the world, including the United States, Australia, Europe, India, and Latin America.
Title: Dragon Ball Z: Sagas
Passage: Dragon Ball Z: Sagas is a 3D action-adventure video game developed by Avalanche Software and published by Atari, based on the anime "Dragon Ball Z". It is the first "Dragon Ball Z" console game to be developed by a non-Japanese developer, and the first "Dragon Ball Z" game to be released on a non-Japanese console, the Xbox. It also ended up being the only "Dragon Ball Z" game to be released on the Xbox, while the Japanese machines continued to get a steady stream of "Dragon Ball" related games, all of which are still made by Japanese developers. Dragon Ball Z Sagas received mixed to negative reviews and was a commercial failure.
Title: Illich Guardiola
Passage: Illich Auyapah Guardiola (born July 5, 1974) is an American actor and director who provided voice roles for Japanese anime. He has worked for ADV Films, Funimation, and Seraphim Digital, and as a stage actor and director in the Houston theatre community. Some of his major anime roles include Kanba Takakura in "Mawaru Penguindrum", Arawn in "Tears to Tiara", Nimi in "From the New World", Suguru Omi in the "Hiro no Kakera" series, and Yusuke Yoshino from the "Clannad" series.
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Funimation
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Illich Guardiola
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Funimation
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Which 2005 computer animated short film was directed by Brad Bird?
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Title: Brad Bird
Passage: Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor, known for animated and live-action films.
Title: The Master (2016 film)
Passage: The Master is a 2016 computer animated short film directed by Jon Saunders, written by Jon Saunders, Ross Evans, Carey Yost and Remington D. Donovan and produced by Ryan Halprin. The short film was released on September 23, 2016, with Warner Animation Group's "Storks". It stars Jackie Chan as Master Wu. The short follows Wu and an annoying chicken. This is the first Lego short film to be released in theaters, and is also the first theatrical short film from the "Lego Movie" franchise.
Title: Jack-Jack Attack
Passage: Jack-Jack Attack is a 2005 computer animated short film produced by Pixar based on their film "The Incredibles", and directed by Brad Bird.
Title: For the Birds (film)
Passage: For the Birds is a 2000 computer animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by Ralph Eggleston. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2001. It premiered on June 5, 2000, at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, and was shown alongside the theatrical release of the 2001 DisneyPixar feature film "Monsters, Inc."
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Jack-Jack Attack
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Jack-Jack Attack
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Brad Bird
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Who was the director of the film that had actress Ludivine Sagnier nominated for a Csar Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2003?
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Title: Ludivine Sagnier
Passage: Ludivine Sagnier is a French actress and model, who has appeared in films since 1989. She was nominated for two Csar Awards for Best Supporting Actress in "Swimming Pool" (2003) and "Un secret" (2007).
Title: Swimming Pool (film)
Passage: Swimming Pool is a 2003 French-British erotic thriller film directed by Franois 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.
Title: Love Crime
Passage: Love Crime (French: "Crime d'amour" ) is a 2010 French psychological suspense thriller starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas. It is the last film directed by Alain Corneau, and was released posthumously after the director's death from cancer.
Title: Little Lili
Passage: Little Lili (French: "La petite Lili" ) is a 2003 French film by French director Claude Miller. The film stars Ludivine Sagnier, Bernard Giraudeau, Nicole Garcia, Julie Depardieu and Jean-Pierre Marielle.
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Franois Ozon
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Ludivine Sagnier
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Swimming Pool (film)
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Are Physoplexis and Alsobia both native to North America?
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Title: Emerald ash borer
Passage: Agrilus planipennis, commonly known as the emerald ash borer, is a green buprestid or jewel beetle native to northeastern Asia that feeds on ash species. Females lay eggs in bark crevices on ash trees, and larvae feed underneath the bark of ash trees to emerge as adults in one to two years. In its native range, it is typically found at low densities and does not cause significant damage to trees native to the area. Outside its native range, it is an invasive species and is highly destructive to ash trees native to northwest Europe and North America. Prior to being found in North America, very little was known about emerald ash borer in its native range; this has resulted in much of the research on its biology being focused in North America. Local governments in North America are attempting to control it by monitoring its spread, diversifying tree species, insecticides, and biological control.
Title: Alsobia
Passage: Alsobia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Title: Asaphidion
Passage: Asaphidion is a Holarctic genus of ground beetle native to Europe, the Near East, North Africa, and North America. Though predominantly a Palaearctic genus with one adventive exotic species in North America ("A. curtum" ), there are two native North American species in the genus: "A. alaskanum" and "A. yukonense" . Both native taxa are Arctic in distribution, found mainly in tundra environments. The introduced "A. curtum" is now found in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canadian maritime provinces. These large-eyed, diurnal species are fast-running predators believed to be specialists on springtails and other tiny, soft-bodied prey.
Title: Physoplexis
Passage: Physoplexis comosa, the tufted horned rampion is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae, native to alpine Europe. It is the only species in its genus, and was formerly included in "Phyteuma".
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no
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Physoplexis
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Alsobia
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Which former NFL practice squad wide receiver starred in the 2006 comedy "The Last Supper?"
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Title: The Last Supper (2006 film)
Passage: The Last Supper is a 2006 comedy short film about the Biblical Last Supper. The film portrays the Last Supper as having occurred at a modern night club. The film was directed by Marius A. Markevicius and stars Chip Bent, Michael Bortone, Eliza Dushku, Andrew Davoli and Isaiah Mustafa.
Title: Last Supper (del Castagno)
Passage: The Last Supper (14451450) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea del Castagno, located in the refectory of the convent of Sant'Apollonia, now the "Museo di Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia", and accessed through a door on Via Ventisette Aprile at the corner with Santa Reparata, in Florence, region of Tuscany. The painting depicts Jesus and the Apostles during the Last Supper, with Judas, unlike all the other apostles, sitting separately on the near side of the table, as is common in depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art.
Title: Isaiah Mustafa
Passage: Isaiah Amir Mustafa (born February 11, 1974) is an American actor and former NFL practice squad wide receiver. Mustafa is widely known as the main character in the series of Old Spice television commercials, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like. He is also known for portraying Luke Garroway on Freeform's fantasy series "Shadowhunters".
Title: Eugene Baker
Passage: Eugene Keith Baker (born March 18, 1976) is a former American football wide receiver who was drafted from Kent State University in the 1999 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons. He spent four seasons with the Falcons on their active roster and practice squad. He also spent time on the practice squads of the Buffalo Bills and the St. Louis Rams before signing with the Carolina Panthers in 2003. He was in the New England Patriots preseason training camp last year, but was released before the regular season. Eugene was also allocated to play in NFL Europe, playing wide receiver for the Berlin Thunder.
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Isaiah Mustafa
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The Last Supper (2006 film)
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Isaiah Mustafa
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The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow, Democracy, in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a what?
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Title: Fabian Society
Passage: The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow. As one of the founding organisations of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900, and as an important influence upon the Labour Party which grew from it, the Fabian Society has had a powerful influence on British politics. Other members of the Fabian Society have included political leaders from countries formerly part of the British Empire, such as: Jawaharlal Nehru, who adopted Fabian principles as part of their own political ideologies.
Title: Ernst Wigforss
Passage: Ernst Johannes Wigforss (24 January 18812 January 1977) was a Swedish politician and linguist (dialectologist), mostly known as a prominent member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and Swedish Minister of Finance. Wigforss became one of the main theoreticians in the development of the Swedish Social Democratic movement's revision of Marxism, from a revolutionary to a reformist organization. He was inspired and stood ideologically close to the ideas of the Fabian Society and guild socialism and inspired by people like R. H. Tawney, L.T. Hobhouse and J. A. Hobson. He made contributions in his early writings about industrial democracy and workers' self-management.
Title: Socialist Alternative (Australia)
Passage: Socialist Alternative is a revolutionary socialist organisation in Australia, identifying with the Marxist tradition of "socialism from below". Formed after its founding members were expelled from the former International Socialist Organisation (ISO) in 1995, today it claims to have the largest active membership on the Australian far-left as acknowledged by some on the far-left. With branches across Australia, their membership operates within the trade union and student union movements and grass roots campaigns.
Title: Democracy
Passage: Democracy (, "dmokrata " literally "rule of the people"), in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament. Democracy is sometimes referred to as "rule of the majority". Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes.
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parliament
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Fabian Society
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Democracy
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The Canadian actress who starred in Dark Honey played what character on the Disney series "The Famous Jett Jackson"?
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Title: List of The Famous Jett Jackson episodes
Passage: The following is a list of episodes for the Disney Channel Original Series, "The Famous Jett Jackson".
Title: Dark Honeymoon
Passage: Dark Honeymoon is a 2008 thriller film, starring Lindy Booth, Nick Cornish, Tia Carrere, Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider and Eric Roberts. It was directed by David O'Malley and released direct-to-video on July 22, 2008.
Title: Lindy Booth
Passage: Lindy Booth (born April 2, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She played Riley Grant on the Disney Channel series "The Famous Jett Jackson" (and Agent Hawk in the show-within-a-show "Silverstone") and Claudia on "Relic Hunter" and A.J. Butterfield on the NBC series "The Philanthropist". She currently plays Cassandra Cillian on the TNT series "The Librarians".
Title: Jett Jackson: The Movie
Passage: Jett Jackson: The Movie is a 2001 American Disney Channel Original Movie based on the Disney Channel series "The Famous Jett Jackson". It is the first Disney Channel Original Movie to be based on a Disney Channel Original Series.
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Riley Grant
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Dark Honeymoon
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Lindy Booth
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Who was the father of the man the Norwegian Storting elected king of Norway on 4 November 1814?
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Title: Charles XIII of Sweden
Passage: Charles XIII II also Carl, Swedish: "Karl XIII" (7 October 1748 5 February 1818), was King of Sweden (as "Charles XIII") from 1809 and King of Norway (as "Charles II") from 1814 until his death. He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick II of Prussia.
Title: Riksakten
Passage: The Riksakten was the 1815 Act of Union that regulated the terms of the constitutional personal union between Sweden and Norway established in 1814. The fundamental documents of the union were only the Convention of Moss and the revised Norwegian constitution of 4 November 1814. The Norwegian constitution had been adapted to the union before it was entered into, but the Swedish one was never adjusted correspondingly. The conservative Swedish Riksdag had not allowed the Swedish constitution of 1809 to be revised. Therefore, a bilateral treaty had to be negotiated in order to clarify procedures for treating constitutional questions that had to be decided jointly by both governments.
Title: Convention of Moss
Passage: The Convention of Moss was a cease fire agreement, signed on 14 August 1814 between the Swedish King and the Norwegian government. It followed the Swedish-Norwegian War due to Norway's claim to sovereignty. It also became the "de facto" peace agreement and formed the basis for the personal union between Sweden and Norway that was established when the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) elected Charles XIII of Sweden as king of Norway on 4 November 1814. The Union lasted until Norway declared its dissolution in 1905.
Title: Frederick I of Denmark
Passage: Frederick I (7 October 1471 10 April 1533) was the King of Denmark and Norway. His name is also spelled "Friedrich" in German, "Frederik" in Danish and Norwegian and "Fredrik" in Swedish. He was the penultimate Roman Catholic monarch to reign over Denmark, when subsequent monarchs embraced Lutheranism after the Protestant Reformation. As King of Norway, Frederick is most remarkable in never having visited the country and was never being crowned King of Norway. Therefore he was styled "King of Denmark, the Vends and the Goths, elected King of Norway".
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King Adolf Frederick
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Convention of Moss
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Charles XIII of Sweden
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Which of the stars in All the Wilderness was born in 13 June 1996?
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Title: Kodi Smit-McPhee
Passage: Kodi Smit-McPhee (born 13 June 1996) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as The Boy in "The Road", Owen in "Let Me In", Norman Babcock in "ParaNorman", Alexander in "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", and Nightcrawler in the 2016 film "". He will also play Will Burrows, a lead role, in the upcoming film adaptation of the novel "Tunnels".
Title: Nicola Barr
Passage: Nicola Barr (born 13 June 1996) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's competition.
Title: All the Wilderness
Passage: All the Wilderness is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Michael Johnson. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Isabelle Fuhrman, Danny DeVito, Virginia Madsen and Evan Ross. The film was released on February 20, 2015, by Screen Media Films.
Title: William Fraine
Passage: William Fraine (born 13 June 1996) is an English cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Durham MCCU against Gloucestershire as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures.
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Kodi Smit-McPhee
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All the Wilderness
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Kodi Smit-McPhee
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A Dandy in Aspic is a 1968 Technicolor and Panavision British spy film starred Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, and who?
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Title: Tom Courtenay
Passage: Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay ( ; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films, including "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), "Billy Liar" (1963), and "Doctor Zhivago" (1965). Since the mid-1960s, he has been known primarily for his work in the theatre, although he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the film adaptation of "The Dresser" (1983), which he had performed on the West End and on Broadway. He received a knighthood in February 2001 for his service to cinema and theatre.
Title: The Dresser (1983 film)
Passage: The Dresser is a 1983 film, with a screenplay by Ronald Harwood, based on his 1980 play "The Dresser". It tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together. The film was directed by Peter Yates and produced by Yates with Ronald Harwood. Cinematography was by Kelvin Pike. It stars Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough and Edward Fox. Finney and Courtenay were both nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards for their performances, with Courtenay winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama in a tie with Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercies."
Title: Summer and Smoke (film)
Passage: Summer and Smoke is a 1961 American drama film directed by Peter Glenville based on the Tennessee Williams play of the same name. The film starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman. It was adapted by James Poe and Meade Roberts. The story follows a young reserved girl who meets a doctor who lives on the wild side. They become friends, but the beliefs they hold create difficulties for the relationship.
Title: A Dandy in Aspic
Passage: A Dandy in Aspic is a 1968 Technicolor and Panavision British spy film, directed by Anthony Mann, based on the novel of the same name by Derek Marlowe and starring Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, and Mia Farrow. It was the Mann's final film.
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Mia Farrow
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A Dandy in Aspic
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Tom Courtenay
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Are Pizza Corner and Blackjack Pizza in the same industry?
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Title: Blackjack Pizza
Passage: Blackjack Pizza is a Colorado-based pizza delivery chain founded in 1983 by a former Domino's Pizza employee, Vince Schmuhl, because Domino's Pizza was the only major pizza delivery company in the Rocky Mountain region and he thought customers would appreciate an alternative. The pizza chain is the largest in Colorado with 800 employees, some of whom work part-time. On January 1, 2013, Blackjack Pizza was acquired by Askar Brands.
Title: Pizza Corner
Passage: Pizza Corner was an international franchise of pizzeria chains that offers a wide range of pizzas, pastas and side dishes from chicken wings to salads. Pizza Corner operated as both standalone restaurants or combined with other Global Franchise Architects brands such as Coffee World or Cream Fudge. Its service formats include: large dine-in restaurants, delivery outlets, express dine-ins, and express kiosks.
Title: Pizza rolls
Passage: Pizza Rolls is a frozen food product created by food industry entrepreneur Jeno Paulucci, who specialized in frozen Chinese food, in 1951. After Jeno's sold the brand in 1985, it was acquired by Totino's, with other producers including Amy's also selling pizza rolls.
Title: WWE Slam City
Passage: WWE Slam City was an animated show produced by WWE, which aired on the WWE Network and Wednesday evenings on Nicktoons. WWE Slam City was based on the Mattel action figure series starring toyetic versions of the WWE roster circa 2013. The series, filmed in the next generation of stop-motion animation, features a new WWE animated character The Finisher, who fires all of the WWE wrestlers and sends them to Slam City to find day jobs. The wrestlers are plunged into new career challenges as they pack every street corner with work to do and scores to settle. With John Cena as an auto mechanic, Rey Mysterio as a traffic guard, Alberto Del Rio as a coffee house barista, Mark Henry as a pizza shop mascot, CM Punk as an ice-cream man, Dolph Ziggler as an industry leader, Randy Orton as a zookeeper, Kane as a chef and Sheamus as a theater usher. Daniel Bryan, The Miz, Big Show, Brock Lesnar, Santino Marella and Damien Sandow are still jobless but Santino and Sandow are the most desperate to find one. WWE Legends Stone Cold and The Rock are also featured in Slam City. The 'Stretch Move' feature of Slam City characters is highlighted in WWE Slam City.
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yes
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Pizza Corner
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Blackjack Pizza
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The March 2017 United Kingdom budget was delivered by which Conservative Party politician?
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Title: ConservativeDUP agreement
Passage: The ConservativeDUP agreement, officially the Agreement between the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party on Support for the Government in Parliament, was agreed between the Conservative Party and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) following the 2017 United Kingdom general election, which had resulted in a hung parliament. Negotiations between the two parties began on 9 June, the day after the election, and the final agreement was signed and published on 26 June 2017. The agreement, signed by the two parties' chief whips, Gavin Williamson for the Conservatives and Jeffrey Donaldson for the DUP, secures DUP confidence-and-supply support for a Conservative minority government led by Theresa May.
Title: Philip Hammond
Passage: Philip Anthony Hammond (born 4 December 1955) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Chancellor of the Exchequer since 13 July 2016 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runnymede and Weybridge since 1997.
Title: Ruth George
Passage: Ruth Stephanie Nicole George (born 27 November 1969) is an English Labour Party politician, who became the Member of Parliament (MP) for High Peak in Derbyshire at the 2017 United Kingdom general election. She defeated the incumbent Conservative MP Andrew Bingham with a swing of 7. In doing so, she became the constituency's first female MP.
Title: March 2017 United Kingdom budget
Passage: The March 2017 United Kingdom budget was delivered by Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the House of Commons on Wednesday, 8 March 2017. The last budget to be held in the spring, it was Hammond's first as Chancellor of the Exchequer since being appointed to the role in July 2016.
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Philip Anthony Hammond
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March 2017 United Kingdom budget
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Philip Hammond
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The Village Barbershop includes a barber from a city that is in what county?
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Title: Reno, Nevada
Passage: Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in Northern Nevada, approximately 22 mi from Lake Tahoe. Known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", Reno is famous for its hotels and casinos and as the birthplace of Harrah's Entertainment (now known as Caesars Entertainment Corporation). It is the county seat of Washoe County, in the northwestern part of the state. The city sits in a high desert at the foot of the Sierra Nevada and its downtown area (along with Sparks) occupies a valley informally known as the Truckee Meadows. It is named after Jesse L. Reno.
Title: The Village Barbershop
Passage: The Village Barbershop is a 2008 independent film written and directed by Chris J. Ford, starring John Ratzenberger and Shelly Cole. Ratzenberger plays Art Leroldi, a Reno barber forced to hire a new employee, Gloria MacIntyre, played by Cole, after the death of his longtime business partner. Faced with losing his shop, Gloria helps Art get his life and business back on track with her feisty, determined attitude.
Title: Bryant H. and Lucie Barber House
Passage: The Bryant H. and Lucie Barber House is a Registered Historic Place in the Ogle County, Illinois city of Polo. It is one of six overall sites and three homes in Polo listed on the Register. The other two homes listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polo are the John McGrath House and the Henry D. Barber House.
Title: Lafayette Historic District (Lafayette, Virginia)
Passage: Lafayette Historic District is a national historic district located at Lafayette, Montgomery County, Virginia. The district encompasses 19 contributing buildings in the village of Lafayette. It includes principally single family dwellings of frame construction dating from about 1830 to 1940. Notable buildings include the Pepper House (c. 1829), Lafayette Methodist Church (c. 1847), Sid Butt Barbershop and House (1940), Gardner Store, and Butt Store.
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Washoe County
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The Village Barbershop
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Reno, Nevada
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The Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter born in 1969 wrote a screenplay for which film that stars Joan Allen?
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Title: The Family (2016 TV series)
Passage: The Family is an American thriller television series. It was created by and executive produced by Jenna Bans, former ShondaLand regular writer. The series follows on the return of the mayor's young son, who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. The series stars Joan Allen as Claire Warren, the ambitious and manipulative mayor of the fictional city Red Pines, Maine, and matriarch of the Warren family, who announces her candidacy for governor when her son Adam, played by Liam James, returns after having been kidnapped 10 years prior. The series premiered on Thursday, March 3, 2016, on ABC before moving to its regular time slot on Sundays beginning March 6, 2016.
Title: Room (2015 film)
Passage: Room is a 2015 independent drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Brie Larson as a woman who has been held captive for seven years, and whose 5-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay) was born in captivity. Their escape allows the boy to experience the outside world for the first time. The film also stars Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, and William H. Macy.
Title: Vigdis Ystad
Passage: Vigdis Ystad (born 13 January 1942, Verdal) is a Norwegian literary historian. She was born in Verdal, and was married to fellow literary historian Daniel Haakonsen. Her thesis from 1974 was on the poetry of Kristofer Uppdal. She has later published several works on Henrik Ibsen. She was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1979.
Title: Emma Donoghue
Passage: Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel "Room" was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel "Hood" won the Stonewall Book Award. and "Slammerkin" (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. " Room" was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Room
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Emma Donoghue
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Room (2015 film)
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What genre is the author of the story behind "Act of War; Direct Action" associated with?
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Title: Juliet Caroline Belmas
Passage: Juliet Caroline Belmas was a Canadian anarchist activist, and the youngest of those involved in acts of eco-terrorism and militant direct action with the urban guerrilla group Direct Action (organization) whom the media dubbed the Squamish Five in the 1980s.
Title: Direct action
Passage: Direct action occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue. This can include nonviolent and less often violent activities which target persons, groups, or property deemed offensive to the direct action participants. Examples of nonviolent direct action (also known as nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, or civil resistance) can include sit-ins, strikes, workplace occupations, blockades, or hacktivism, while violent direct action may include political violence or assaults. Tactics such as sabotage and property destruction are sometimes considered violent. By contrast, electoral politics, diplomacy, negotiation, and arbitration are not usually described as direct action, as they are politically mediated. Non-violent actions are sometimes a form of civil disobedience, and may involve a degree of intentional law-breaking where persons place themselves in arrestable situations in order to make a political statement but other actions (such as strikes) may not violate criminal law.
Title: Dale Brown
Passage: Dale Brown (born November 2, 1956) is an American writer and aviator known for aviation techno-thriller novels. At least thirteen of his novels have been "New York Times" Best Sellers.
Title: Act of War: Direct Action
Passage: Act of War: Direct Action is a real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari, Inc. The game was released in March 2005 and features a detailed story written by Dale Brown, a retired captain of the US Air Force and a bestselling author. An expansion pack called "" was released on March 2006 in Europe and Australia. The original game and expansion were later released as "Act of War: Gold Edition", on 28 September 2007 in Europe. In September 2015 Eugen Systems released "Act of Aggression" which is considered a spiritual successor to "Act of War".
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aviation techno-thriller novels
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Act of War: Direct Action
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Dale Brown
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What band was formed first, Weezer or Royal Blood?
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Title: Royal Blood discography
Passage: English hard rock band Royal Blood has released two studio albums, two extended plays (EPs), eight singles and nine music videos. Formed in Brighton in January 2013, Royal Blood is a duo consisting of bassist and vocalist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher. After signing with Warner Bros. Records, the duo released their debut single "Out of the Black" in October 2013, which debuted at number 29 on the UK Rock Metal Singles Chart. In February 2014, "Little Monster" was issued as the band's second single, registering on the UK Singles Chart at number 95 and the UK Rock Metal Singles Chart at number one. Both singles were later issued alongside their B-sides on the EP "Out of the Black" in March. " Come On Over" initially featured as the B-side to "Out of the Black" was released as a single in April, reaching number 68 on the UK Singles Chart. At the same time, "Little Monster" also returned to the charts, peaking at number 74 on the UK Singles Chart.
Title: Royal Blood (band)
Passage: Royal Blood are an English rock duo formed in Brighton in 2013. The band's sound is reminiscent of and rooted in modern blues rock, hard rock, garage rock, stoner rock and psychedelic rock. Their first album "Royal Blood" was released in August 2014.
Title: Weezer
Passage: Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1992, consisting of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, guitar), Patrick Wilson (drums), Brian Bell (guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), and Scott Shriner (bass guitar, backing vocals). Weezer has sold 9.2 million albums in the US and over 17 million worldwide.
Title: Out of the Black (song)
Passage: "Out of the Black" is a song written by Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher of British rock duo Royal Blood. The song was originally recorded by the duo for release as a single, appearing on the band's debut single of the same name, released by Black Mammoth Records on 11 November 2013. The track later appeared as the opening track on the band's debut extended play "Out of the Black", and as the opening track on the band's eponymous debut studio album, "Royal Blood". The track was also part of the soundtrack to the film "Who Am I No System Is Safe", as well as the video games "Forza Horizon 2" and "EA Sports UFC". It was also used in a featurette for the Netflix series "Daredevil" at the 2015 New York Comic Con. The song was also the official theme song for the 2016 professional wrestling event "WWE Roadblock". This song has also been covered by Billie Marten.
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Weezer
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Weezer
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Royal Blood (band)
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The 2016 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Mnoa in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the team was led by which first year head coach, who replaced Norm Chow?
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Title: 2015 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
Passage: The 2015 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Mnoa in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by head coach Norm Chow, who was fired after week 10 and replaced by Chris Naeole on an interim basis. They played their home games at Aloha Stadium. They were members of the Mountain West Conference in the West Division. They finished the season 310, 08 in Mountain West play to finish in last place in the West Division.
Title: 2016 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
Passage: The 2016 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Mnoa in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by first year head coach Nick Rolovich, who replaced Norm Chow. They played their home games at Aloha Stadium. They were members of the Mountain West Conference in the West Division.
Title: 2013 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
Passage: The 2013 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Mnoa in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by second-year head coach Norm Chow and played their home games at Aloha Stadium. They were members of the Mountain West Conference in the West Division. They finished the season 111, 08 in Mountain West play to finish in last place in the West Division.
Title: Norm Chow
Passage: Norman Yew Heen "Norm" Chow (, born May 3, 1946) is an American football coach and former player. He was the previous head football coach at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa, a position he assumed in December 2011 until November 1, 2015. Chow previously held the offensive coordinator position for the Utah Utes, UCLA Bruins, the NFL's Tennessee Titans, USC Trojans, NC State Wolfpack, and BYU Cougars.
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Nick Rolovich
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2016 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
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Norm Chow
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What is the birthdate of the player that scored the game winning three pointer in Game six for the Blazers?
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Title: 201314 Houston Rockets season
Passage: The 201314 Houston Rockets season was the 47th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the 43rd based in Houston. The season is best remembered for acquiring All-Star Dwight Howard from the Los Angeles Lakers. With Howard teamed up with team captain James Harden, they gelled their first season together, being named as starters for the 2014 NBA All-Star Game. With Howard now as co-captain, the Rockets improved on last season and finished with a 5428 record, finishing 4th in the Western Conference. They met the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round, but the presences of Howard and Harden were not enough as Houston fell in six games, thanks to a Damian Lillard series-clinching three pointer in Game 6.
Title: Damian Lillard
Passage: Damian Lamonte Ollie Lillard (born July 15, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Weber State Wildcats and earned third-team All-American honors in 2012. After being selected by Portland with the sixth overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft, Lillard won the NBA Rookie of the Year by unanimous decision. He has twice been named an NBA All-Star.
Title: Brett Hull
Passage: Brett Andrew Hull (born August 9, 1964) is a Canadian-born American former National Hockey League (NHL) player and general manager, and currently an executive vice president of the St. Louis Blues. He played for the Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings and Phoenix Coyotes between 1986 and 2005. His career total of 741 goals is the fourth highest in NHL history, and he is one of five players to score 50 goals in 50 games. He was a member of two Stanley Cup winning teams - 1999 with the Dallas Stars and 2002 with the Detroit Red Wings. His championship winning goal for Dallas in overtime of game six of the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals remains the focus of debate over whether it was scored within the rules of the time. On January 27, 2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Hull was part of the second group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
Title: 201314 Portland Trail Blazers season
Passage: The 201314 Portland Trail Blazers season was the franchise's 44th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Prior to this season, the Rose Garden was renamed as the Moda Center. The season saw the Blazers improve on their mediocre 201213 output, finishing with a 54-28 record, and finishing 5th in the West. After a three-year hiatus, the Blazers returned to the playoffs, facing the Houston Rockets, in the first round, their first meeting since 2009. The Blazers breezed past the Rockets in six games, thanks to Damian Lillard's series-clinching three pointer in Game 6 at home. However, their season ended in the next round with a defeat to the eventual champion San Antonio Spurs in five games.
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July 15, 1990
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201314 Portland Trail Blazers season
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Damian Lillard
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Jane Campion and Jan de Bont, have which occupations in common?
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Title: Jan de Bont
Passage: Jan de Bont (born 22 October 1943) is a Dutch cinematographer, director and film producer. He is widely known for directing the 1994 action film "Speed" starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock and the disaster film "Twister". As a director of photography, he has shot numerous blockbusters and genre films, including "Cujo, Flesh and Blood, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October" and "Basic Instinct."
Title: Twister (1996 film)
Passage: Twister is a 1996 American disaster film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. "Twister" was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 54,688,100 tickets sold in the US.
Title: Speed 2: Cruise Control
Passage: Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 American disaster thriller film, and a sequel to "Speed" (1994). It was produced and directed by Jan de Bont, and written by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson, based on a story by De Bont and McCormick. Sandra Bullock stars in the film, reprising her role from "Speed", while Jason Patric and Willem Dafoe co-star. The film was released by 20th Century Fox on June 13, 1997.
Title: Jane Campion
Passage: Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion '1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': " (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of four women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the firstand thus far, onlyfemale filmmaker in history to receive the "Palme d'Or", which she received for directing the acclaimed film "The Piano" (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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director and film producer
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Jane Campion
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Jan de Bont
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In what year was the writer of "Life's Little Ironies" born?
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Title: Life's Little Ironies
Passage: Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, originally published in 1894, and republished with a slightly different collection of stories, for the Uniform Edition in 19278.
Title: Thomas Hardy
Passage: Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.
Title: Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore
Passage: Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore is a collection of seventeen short stories by Singapore author Catherine Lim. It was first published in 1978, in Singapore, by Heinemann under the Writing in Asia Series and earned for the writer much accolade. It is Lim's first published book of fiction. "Little Ironies" was later used as a set text for GCE 'N' Levels. It is also the first collection of short stories to be written by a single author in Singapore.
Title: Send In the Clowns
Passage: "Send in the Clowns" is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical "A Little Night Music", an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film "Smiles of a Summer Night". It is a ballad from Act Two, in which the character Desire reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, she looks back on an affair years earlier with the lawyer Fredrik. Meeting him after so long, she finds that he is now in an unconsummated marriage with a much younger woman. Desire proposes marriage to rescue him from this situation, but he declines, citing his dedication to his bride. Reacting to his rejection, Desire sings this song. The song is later reprised as a coda after Fredrik's young wife runs away with his son, and Fredrik is finally free to accept Desire's offer.
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1840
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Life's Little Ironies
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Thomas Hardy
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The painter whose work appears in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan is known as the father of what?
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Title: Piazza Cordusio
Passage: Piazza Cordusio (also informally referred to as Piazzale Cordusio) is a square in central Milan, Italy. The "piazza" takes its name from the "Cors Ducis" (Ducal court) which was found in the square during Longobard times. It is well known for its several turn-of-the-19th-century Neoclassical, eclectic and Art Nouveau buildings, banks and post offices. Even though many of these have now relocated elsewhere, it is still an important commercial square in the city and hosts the "Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali" (Palace of the Assicurazioni Generali), the "Palazzo del Credito Italiano" (Palace of the Credito Italiano) and the "Palazzo delle Poste (Palace of the Post Office), former Borsa di Milano" (former Milan Stock Exchange). Piazzale Cordusio hosts the Cordusio metro station and is the starting point of the elegant pedestrian Via Dante which leads to the imposing medieval Castello Sforzesco, or Milan Castle. Opposite to Via Dante, Cordusio borders onto Piazza Mercanti, former city centre in the Middle Ages, which leads directly to Piazza del Duomo, today's city centre.
Title: Leonardo da Vinci
Passage: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (] ; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.
Title: Sala delle Asse
Passage: The Sala delle Asse (In English: 'room of the tower' or 'room of the wooden boards'), is the location for a wall and ceiling painting in tempera on plaster, of decorated "intertwining plants with fruits and monochromes of roots and rocks", by Leonardo da Vinci, dating from about 1498 and located in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.
Title: Via Dante
Passage: Via Dante is an important and elegant pedestrian street in central Milan, Italy, connecting Piazzale Cordusio (Cordusio (Milan Metro)) and Largo Cairoli (Cairoli (Milan Metro)). It is very near to the city's Castello Sforzesco and is named after the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri. It is known for containing several theatres, shops, restaurants, cafs, palaces and bars.
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palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture
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Sala delle Asse
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Which third tallest hotel in the world has a sail shape that complements the wave-shaped Jumeirah Beach Hotel?
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Title: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Times Square
Passage: Crowne Plaza Times Square is a 795-room hotel situated in the Times Square area of New York City's midtown Manhattan, located at 1605 Broadway, between 48th and 49th Streets. West 48th Street, and West 49th Street. At 480 feet (146 meters), with 46 floors, it is the 94th tallest hotel in the world, the 29th tallest hotel in the United States, and the 15th-tallest hotel in New York City. The hotel was completed in 1989 and opened in 1990.
Title: D 94 road (United Arab Emirates)
Passage: D 94, also known as King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud Street, Jumeirah Road or Jumeirah Beach Road, and formerly Al Sufouh Road is a road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The road runs parallel to Dubai's coast along the Persian Gulf and along E 11 (Sheikh Zayed Road), connecting the sub-localities of Jumeirah (Jumeirah 1, 2 and 3). Once it enters the locality of Al Sufouh, D 94 becomes known as King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud Street. It originates near Dubai Maritime City and the Dubai Dry Docks; and terminates after Jumeirah Beach Residence by turning south and merging with the Sheikh Zayed Road.
Title: Jumeirah Beach Hotel
Passage: Jumeirah Beach Hotel is a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The hotel, which opened in 1997, is operated by the Dubai-based hotelier Jumeirah. The hotel contains 598 rooms and suites, 19 beachfront villas, and 20 restaurants and bars. This wave-shaped hotel complements the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab, which is adjacent to the Jumeirah Beach Hotel.
Title: Burj Al Arab
Passage: The Burj Al Arab (Arabic: , "Tower of the Arabs") is a luxury hotel located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the third tallest hotel in the world (although 39 of its total height is made up of non-occupiable space). Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island 280 m from Jumeirah beach and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. The shape of the structure is designed to mimic the sail of a ship. It has a helipad near the roof at a height of 210 m above ground.
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The Burj Al Arab
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Jumeirah Beach Hotel
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Burj Al Arab
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Who directed a 2016 action film that stars Susie Celek and an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship ?
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Title: Holly Holm
Passage: Holly Rene Holm-Kirkpatrick (born Holly Rene Holm; October 17, 1981) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. She is the former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion, and a former professional boxer and kickboxer. She was a multiple-time world champion in boxing, defending her titles 18 times in three weight classes, and a two-time "Ring" magazine fighter of the year (2005, 2006).
Title: Kyle Bradley
Passage: Kyle James Bradley (born August 19, 1982) is an American mixed martial artist, who currently competes in the Welterweight division. A professional mixed martial artist since 2003, Bradley is best known for his four fight stint with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He currently holds a record of 2212 (1).
Title: Michael Johnson (fighter)
Passage: Michael Julian Johnson (born June 4, 1986) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Johnson mostly competed in his regional circuit, before signing onto the Ultimate Fighting Championship to appear on "". As of July 2017, he is 9 in the official UFC lightweight rankings.
Title: Fight Valley
Passage: Fight Valley is a 2016 action film directed by Rob Hawk. It stars Susie Celek, as well as mixed martial artists Miesha Tate, Holly Holm, and Cris Cyborg.
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Rob Hawk
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Fight Valley
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Holly Holm
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Who was born earlier, Max Jacob, or Robert Harris?
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Title: Jean Hugo
Passage: Jean Hugo (19 November 1894 21 June 1984) was a painter, illustrator, theatre designer and author. He was born in Paris and died in his home at the Mas de Fourques, near Lunel, France. Brought up in a lively artistic environment, he began teaching himself drawing and painting and wrote essays and poetry from a very early age. His artistic career spans the 20th century, from his early sketches of the First World War, through the creative ferment of the Parisian interwar years, and up to his death in 1984. He was part of a number of artistic circles that included Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Pablo Picasso, Georges Auric, Erik Satie, Blaise Cendrars, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Paul Eluard, Francis Poulenc, Charles Dullin, Louis Jouvet, Colette, Marcel Proust, Jacques Maritain, Max Jacob, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Marie Bell, Louise de Vilmorin, Cecil Beaton and many others.
Title: Max Jacob
Passage: Max Jacob (] ; 12 July 1876 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.
Title: Max Jacob (puppeteer)
Passage: Max Jacob (born 10 August 1888 in Bad Ems; died 8 December 1967 in Hamburg) was a German puppeteer and the developer of the Hohnsteiner Kasper Theatre in the 1920s.
Title: Robert Harris (novelist)
Passage: Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter. Although he began his career in non-fiction, his fame rests upon his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller "Fatherland", Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His most recent works centre on contemporary history. Harris was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union and editor of the student newspaper "Varsity".
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Max Jacob
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Max Jacob
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Robert Harris (novelist)
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What name proceeds the word Prampram when describing the name of the constituency that contains Prampram, Ghana, the location of the ruins of Fort Vernon?
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Title: Fort Lancaster
Passage: Fort Lancaster, one in a series of forts erected along the western Texas frontier, is located in the Pecos River Valley, along Live Oak Creek, in Crockett County, Texas, United States. The fort was established by Captain Stephen Decatur Carpenter on August 20, 1855, to guard the military supplies, commercial shipments, and immigrants moving along the San Antonio-El Paso Road. The 82 acre site, now operated by the Texas Historical Commission as Fort Lancaster State Historic Site, contains the ruins of twenty-nine buildings that made up the fort and a visitor center with a museum about the heritage of the fort.
Title: Fort Vernon
Passage: Fort Vernon was a military structure designed to facilitate the slave trade. It was built by the Royal African Company in 1742 near Prampram, a town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It was built out of cheap materials rough stones and swish. The fort was later destroyed by Danish before 1783. Then it was rebuilt by the British in 1806, but soon started to collapse being abandoned in about 1816. It was re-occupied by the British in 1831 but was again abandoned in 1844. It subsequently became ruins.
Title: Dures Constituency
Passage: Dures (Khoekhoegowab for "Brandberg") is a constituency in the Erongo Region of Namibia. Its former name was "Brandberg constituency", after the tallest mountain in Namibia, the Brandberg. Its population is 10,184. Dures Constituency extends from the national road B2 to the Ugab River and has a radius of approximately 120 km. The largest settlement in the constituency is Uis. It also contains the settlements of Okombahe and Omatjette, as well as the smaller populated places of Omihana, Ovitua, Odama, Okamapuku, Ozondati, and Tubusis.
Title: Prampram
Passage: Prampram is a town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The town is located in the Ningo-Prampram constituency.
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Ningo-Prampram
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Fort Vernon
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Prampram
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The actress who voiced the mother in Footfalls is best known for her role in what television series?
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Title: Suzanne Shepherd
Passage: Suzanne Shepherd is an American actress and theater director. She is best known for her portrayal of Karen's overbearing mother in the film "Goodfellas", Carmela Soprano's mother Mary De Angelis in the HBO television series "The Sopranos", and the assistant school principal in "Uncle Buck". She also played the role of Mrs. Scarlini in the film 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream", and Big Ethel in "A Dirty Shame". Shepherd studied acting with Sanford Meisner, and later went on to teach Meisner's program of acting study, the first woman to do so. She was a founding member of the Compass Players in the early 1960s, along with such other actors as Alan Alda and Alan Arkin. In 2016, she played the role of Lucille Abetemarco the mother of Detective Anthony Abetemarco played by former "Sopranos" co-star Steve Schirripa in "Good Cop Bad Cop" the 2nd episode of the 7th season of the CBS police procedural drama "Blue Bloods". Her daughter is artist Kate Shepherd.
Title: Susan Fitzgerald
Passage: Susan Mary Theresa Fitzgerald (28 May 1949 9 September 2013) was an Irish actress, best known for her work in television and her work in Irish theatre. She also played the role of May in Samuel Beckett's "Footfalls" for the Gate Theatre's "Beckett on Film" project. At her death she was hailed as "one of Ireland's best known stage actresses" and "the pre-eminent stage actress of her generation and beloved of theatre audiences."
Title: Footfalls
Passage: Footfalls is a play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English, between 2 March and December 1975 and was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the Samuel Beckett Festival, on May 20, 1976 directed by Beckett himself. Billie Whitelaw, for whom the piece had been written, played May whilst Rose Hill voiced the mother.
Title: Rose Hill (actress)
Passage: Rose Lilian Hill (5 June 1914 22 December 2003) was an English actress and operatic soprano, who remains best known for her role as Madame Fanny La Fan in the British television series "'Allo 'Allo! ". She was a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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'Allo 'Allo!
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Footfalls
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Rose Hill (actress)
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Nukie is a 1987 South African film directed by Sias Odendaal, and Michael Pakleppa, the film stars include Glynis Johns, a retired Welsh stage, television and film actress, dancer, pianist, and singer, and was born in which country?
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Title: Nukie
Passage: Nukie is a 1987 South African film directed by Sias Odendaal (credited as Sias Odendal) and Michael Pakleppa. The film stars Steve Railsback, Ronald France, and Glynis Johns. The plot concerns an alien, Nukie, who crash lands on earth and seeks help from two children to reunite with his brother, Miko, who has been captured by the US government.
Title: The Halfway House
Passage: The Halfway House is a 1944 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Mervyn Johns, his daughter Glynis Johns, Tom Walls and Franoise Rosay. The film tells the story of ten people who are drawn to stay in an old inn near the Welsh countryside. The film was shot at Barlynch Abbey on the DevonSomerset border.
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: Under Milk Wood (1972 film)
Passage: Under Milk Wood is a 1972 British film directed by Andrew Sinclair and based on the 1954 radio play "Under Milk Wood" by the Welsh writer Dylan Thomas. It featured performances from many well-known actors as the residents of the fictional Welsh fishing village of Llareggub including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sin Phillips, David Jason, Glynis Johns, Victor Spinetti, Ruth Madoc, Angharad Rees, Ann Beach, Vivien Merchant and Peter O'Toole.
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South Africa
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Nukie
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Glynis Johns
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Valascia is an indoor sporting arena located in Ambr, Switzerland, it is the home arena of the HC Ambri-Piotta ice hockey team, of which professional ice hockey league in Switzerland, it is the top tier of the Swiss hockey league system?
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Title: Eisstadion am Gutenbergweg
Passage: The Eisstadion am Gutenbergweg (English: Gutenberg-road ice hockey venue ) is an indoor sporting arena located in Landshut, Germany. It is primarily used for ice hockey. The complex of buildings consists of two ice rinks, one generally used for training purposes. The second arena is the home venue of the Landshut Cannibals, a professional ice hockey team participating in Germany's 2nd Bundesliga. The major arena currently holds about 7,000 people.
Title: Valascia
Passage: Valascia is an indoor sporting arena located in Ambr, Switzerland. The capacity of the arena is 6,500 and was built in 1959. It is the home arena of the HC Ambri-Piotta ice hockey team of the National League (NL). The ends of arena are open air, making a hockey being played there partially outdoor.
Title: Tyrolean Ice Arena
Passage: Tiroler Wasserkraft Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Innsbruck, Austria. The arena has a capacity of 3,000 people and was built in 2005 for the 2005 World Ice Hockey Championships. It is currently the home arena of HC Innsbruck who play in the Austrian Hockey League.
Title: National League (ice hockey)
Passage: The National League (NL) is a professional ice hockey league in Switzerland. It is the top tier of the Swiss hockey league system and of the two-tier National League. Prior to the 201718 season, the league was officially called National League A.
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National League
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Valascia
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National League (ice hockey)
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In what city is Macquarie Media broadcasting's 3AW talkback radio station located?
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Title: 3AW
Passage: 3AW is a talkback radio station based in Melbourne. It is broadcast on 693 kHz AM. It began transmission on 22 February 1932 as Melbourne's fifth commercial radio station.
Title: Justin Smith (radio)
Passage: Justin Smith (born 16 December 1968) is an Australian journalist, radio presenter, producer, and writer. He currently works with the Fairfax Radio Network, and was the drive-time presenter on Sydney metropolitan station, 2UE. He is an experienced presenter on prime time metropolitan AM radio, firstly on Melbourne radio station 3AW as senior producerfill-in presenter on "Mornings with Neil Mitchell" was with 2UE until December 2015, and has since returned to 3AW Melbourne. His articles appear regularly in mainstream Australian newspapers including The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and on the Fairfax websites.
Title: Gary Roberts (radio broadcaster)
Passage: Gary Roberts is managing director of Perth radio station Nova 93.7 having started his radio career in the late 60's at 3AW in Melbourne. He spent nine years on air with a number of stations including 5AD (radio station) Adelaide, 2UW Sydney and 6KY Perth before moving into Programming. As a Programme Director, he programmed four stations to No 1 in their respective markets including a record run of 34 consecutive No 1 surveys with 96fm (Perth radio station), which he launched in 1980. He was General Manager of 96fm from 1984 to 1992 when he left to take over the same role at 94.5FM in Perth.
Title: Steve Price (broadcaster)
Passage: Steve Price (born 13 January 1955) is an Australian journalist and radio broadcaster. Price is currently working at Macquarie Media broadcasting on 2GB and 3AW, he was previously the program director and breakfast presenter at MTR 1377.
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Melbourne
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Steve Price (broadcaster)
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3AW
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Things Goin' On was written in 1973 by Gary Rossington and Ronnie Van Zant, an American lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of what Southern rock band?
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Title: Van Zant
Passage: Van Zant is an American musical duo composed of brothers Donnie Van Zant and Johnny Van Zant. Both are brothers of the late Ronnie Van Zant, former lead singer for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Johnny became the lead vocalist for the reunited Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987, and Donnie was also the leader and vocalist of .38 Special.
Title: Things Goin' On
Passage: Things Goin' On was written in 1973 by Ronnie Van Zant and Gary Rossington, the lead vocalist and guitarist from Lynyrd Skynyrd. It appeared on the band's first album "(pronounced 'lh-'nrd 'skin-'nrd)" and expressed concerns about social and environmental issues, with especial criticism of politicians' role in such issues. The song was distinct from other contemporary protest-songs in that it utilized the sound of Muscle Shoals, Alabama blues licks made popular by both Eric Clapton and Duane Allman's honky tonk melodies, though this was in keeping with Lynyrd Skynyrd's country-rock image.
Title: Southern by the Grace of God
Passage: Southern by the Grace of God is a live album by southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, this live concert was a tribute by Lynyrd Skynyrd to the members of the band who had died in the 1977 plane crash. The plane crash killed frontman Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines and road manager Dean Kilpatrick. This is the first album produced by the band after the '77 plane crash. The band's lineup was re-worked into a second-generation Skynyrd. The changes include: Johnny Van Zant, younger brother of Ronnie Van Zant, taking over on vocals, Ed King, who departed the band during a 1975 tour and Randall Hall, who replaced the paralyzed Allen Collins. The three (King, Hall along with founding member Gary Rossington) re-form the famous triple-lead guitar attack of the original band. New background vocalists Carol Bristow and Dale Krantz-Rossington were added to take the place of the original Honkettes.
Title: Ronnie Van Zant
Passage: Ronald Wayne Van Zant (January 15, 1948 October 20, 1977) was an American lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of two other rock vocalists: current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant, and Donnie Van Zant, the founder and vocalist of 38 Special. He was the father of singer Tammy Van Zant, and cousin of musician Jimmie Van Zant.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Things Goin' On
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Ronnie Van Zant
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In which part of Tennessee was this unrecognized and autonomous territory co-founded by Samuel Wear located?
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Title: Samuel Wear
Passage: Samuel Wear (1753Apr. 3, 1817) was an American War of Independence soldier who fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain. He was one of the founders of the "Lost State of Franklin", and a drafter of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee.
Title: Palestinian Civil Police Force
Passage: The Palestinian Civil Police Force (Arabic: , "al-Shurtah al-Madaniyah al-Filistiniyah") is the Civil Police organization tasked with traditional law enforcement duties in the autonomous territory governed by the Palestinian National Authority. The Civil Police is a part of the Palestinian Security Services.
Title: State of Franklin
Passage: The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin or the State of Frankland) was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today eastern Tennessee, United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence. It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States.
Title: Bilchar Dobani
Passage: Bilchar Dobani or Dobani Peak is a mountain located between Taisot, Haramosh and Bagrot valley, in Gilgit district of the autonomous territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, in Pakistan.
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eastern Tennessee
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Samuel Wear
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State of Franklin
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What is considered the Kingdom of Italy established from 493 to 553?
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Title: List of marquesses in Italy
Passage: Italy, as a single nation state, began only in 1861, after the Piedmont-based Kingdom of Sardinia conquered most of present-day Italy. At that point, titles were recognized to all who held them according to the law of so-called "pre-unitarian" States. Consequently, the Kingdom of Italy had several different nobility traditions, one for each pre-unitarian State and one for the unified state (that was actually the Piedmontese-Savoyard one). That is why the Italian College of Arms, called "Consulta araldica" (heraldic council), was organized in 14 "regional" commissions. Common rules concerning all titles were established only in 1926. That is why a list of Italian marquisates has to be divided into different pre-unitarian lists, plus a unified list for titles granted after 1861. The latter should be completed with titles granted by the last King of Italy, Humbert II, during his exile and after the proclamation of the republic (1946), until his death in 1983: these concessions base upon the fact that he was not defeated in war and thus remained a king, that is a "fons honorum", but this issue is controversial, titles granted by a non-reigning king not being recognized by most noble and royal families in Europe. Only the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Corpo della Nobilt Italiana recognize these titles, while the CILANE treats them as mere titles of courtesy.
Title: Kingdom of Italy
Passage: The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: "Regno d'Italia" ) was a state which existed from 1861, when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when a constitutional referendum led civil discontent to abandon the monarchy and form the Italian Republic. The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state.
Title: Ostrogothic Papacy
Passage: The Ostrogothic Papacy was a period from 493 to 537 where the papacy was strongly influenced by the Ostrogothic Kingdom, if the pope was not outright appointed by the Ostrogothic King. The selection and administration of popes during this period was strongly influenced by Theodoric the Great and his successors Athalaric and Theodahad. This period terminated with Justinian I's (re)conquest of Rome during the Gothic War (535554), inaugurating the Byzantine Papacy (537-752).
Title: Ostrogothic Kingdom
Passage: The Ostrogothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Italy (Latin: "Regnum Italiae"), was established by the Ostrogoths in Italy and neighbouring areas from 493 to 553.
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the Ostrogothic Kingdom
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Ostrogothic Papacy
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Ostrogothic Kingdom
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"Vacation" is a song recorded by American country music artist Thomas Rhett, it was released on June 13, 2016 via Valory Music Group as the fourth single from his second studio album, "Tangled Up", released on which date?
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Title: Vacation (Thomas Rhett song)
Passage: "Vacation" is a song recorded by American country music artist Thomas Rhett. It was released on June 13, 2016 via Valory Music Group as the fourth single from his second studio album, "Tangled Up". The song was written by Rhett, Thomas Allen, Harold Brown, Morris Dickerson, Sean Douglas, Gerry Goldstein, Leroy Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Osker, Andreas Schuller, Howard Scott, Joe Spargur, Ricky Reed, and John Ryan. It features a sample of War's "Low Rider", and due to this, the writers of said song are credited as co-writers.
Title: Unforgettable (Thomas Rhett song)
Passage: "Unforgettable" is a song recorded by American country music artist Thomas Rhett. It was released to country radio on July 28, 2017 via Valory Music Group as the second single from his third studio album, "Life Changes" (2017). The song was written by Rhett, Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley and Shane McAnally.
Title: Tangled Up (Thomas Rhett album)
Passage: Tangled Up is the second studio album by American country music artist Thomas Rhett. It was released on September 25, 2015 via Valory Music Group. The album's lead single "Crash and Burn", was released to radio on April 27, 2015. The album's second single, "Die a Happy Man" was released to country radio on September 28, 2015, but was available for download as a pre-order for the album on September 18, 2015.
Title: T-Shirt (Thomas Rhett song)
Passage: "T-Shirt" is a song recorded by American country music artist Thomas Rhett. It was released on February 16, 2016 via Valory Music Group as the third single from his second studio album, "Tangled Up" (2015). The song was written by Ashley Gorley, Luke Laird, and Shane McAnally.
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September 25, 2015
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Vacation (Thomas Rhett song)
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Tangled Up (Thomas Rhett album)
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Hoot N Holler is a steel family roller coaster manufactured by Zierer of Germany, the coaster is currently located at Darien Lake, a theme park resort in New York, Located in Darien, New York, in which country?
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Title: Hoot N Holler
Passage: Hoot N Holler is a steel family roller coaster manufactured by Zierer of Germany, formerly known as Ladybug from 1981 to 1988, Nessie the Dreamy Dragon from 1988 to 1997 and Brain Teaser from 1997 to 2012. The coaster is currently located at Darien Lake in New York.
Title: Superman Ride of Steel
Passage: Superman Ride of Steel is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags America amusement park near Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Ride of Steel is an identical model located at Darien Lake amusement park in Darien, New York. Both are hypercoasters reaching heights above 200 ft , and were manufactured by Intamin. The installation at Darien Lake opened to the public on May 15, 1999, and the replica at Six Flags America opened a year later on May 13, 2000. Six Flags New England's Superman the Ride roller coaster was previously known as "Superman Ride of Steel" prior to 2009, but it features a significantly different layout.
Title: Darien Lake
Passage: Darien Lake is a theme park resort in New York, Located in Darien, New York, United States. It is owned by EPR Properties and operated by Premier Parks LLC. In addition to the amusement park, it features a campground, water park, and an on-site lodging.
Title: Batman The Escape
Passage: Batman The Escape is a steel stand-up roller coaster that is in storage at Darien Lake Theme Park Resort. It was located at Six Flags Magic Mountain from 1986 until January 1989 (where it was known as Shockwave); Six Flags Great Adventure from 1990 until September 1992 (where it was known as Shockwave); and Six Flags AstroWorld from 1994 until 2005. Batman The Escape was designed by Intamin and featured one loop. This loop was followed by a diving turnaround, a midcourse brake run, and a helix through the loop before returning through a straight away back to the final brakes.
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United States
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Hoot N Holler
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Darien Lake
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Primer Impacto is presented by Flix Fernndez and another television personality who anchored Univision's FIFA World Cup coverage until what year?
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Title: Fernando Fiore
Passage: Fernando Fiore (born July 9, 1960) is an Argentine television personality known as the co-creator and original host of "Lente Loco" from 1992 to 1993, and the host of the travel show "Fuera de Serie" with Sofa Vergara. He is perhaps best known as the host of "Republica Deportiva" from its debut in 1999 until his departure in 2014. Fiore has anchored Univision's FIFA World Cup coverage from 1990 until 2014. Fiore, a two-time Emmy Award winner, is also the author of "The World Cup: The Ultimate Guide to the Greatest Sports Spectacle in the World". As of 2015, Fiore works as a Bundesliga commentator and a Germany correspondent for Fox Deportes in the United States and Puerto Rico and Fox Sports in Latin America, as well as an English-language studio host for Fox Sports's soccer coverage.
Title: Mrio Zagallo
Passage: Mrio Jorge Lobo Zagallo (] ; born 9 August 1931) is a Brazilian former football player and manager who played as a forward. He was the first footballer to win the FIFA World Cup both as a manager and as a player, 1958 FIFA World Cup and 1962 FIFA World Cup as a player, the 1970 FIFA World Cup as a manager and the 1994 FIFA World Cup as an assistant manager.
Title: Primer Impacto
Passage: Primer Impacto ("First Impact") is a Spanish-language television news program broadcast by Univision in the U.S. and in Mexico weekdays at 5pm ET. A later program at 11pm ETPT ("Primer Impacto Extra") airs on Univision affiliates without a local news department (and the national cable feed), leading into the network's 11:30pm newscast, Noticiero Univision Edicion Nocturna. The principal anchors are Michelle Galvan and Pamela Silva Conde. During the weekends the anchor is Natalia Cruz. Vernica Del Castillo also replaces anchors and have reporting duties from Mexico City. Jackie Guerrido does weather on weekdays and Paola Elorza does weather on weekends. Flix Fernndez and Fernando Fiore present the sports segment Republica Deportiva.
Title: Manuel Rosas
Passage: Manuel Rosas Snchez (April 17, 1912 in Mexico City February 20, 1989), nicknamed "Chaquetas", was a Mexican footballer who participated in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He was the first player in the history of FIFA World Cup who scored a goal from the penalty kick spot (against Argentina). With the first goal he scored during the World Cup, he became at the time the youngest player to have scored in the FIFA World Cup, a record later broken by Pel, although Rosas remains second youngest. He was also the first Mexican player to score multiple goals in world cup play (the first to score more than two goals was Luis Hernandez, 68 years later) and the first player to score a own goal in the history of FIFA World Cup (against Chile).
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2014
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Primer Impacto
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Fernando Fiore
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What term, more masculine than falsetto, refers to the optimal combination of airflow and glottal tensions that yields maximum vibration?
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Title: Saltillo (linguistics)
Passage: In Mexican linguistics, saltillo (Spanish, meaning "little skip") refers to a glottal stop consonant, ] . It was given that name by the early grammarians of Classical Nahuatl. In a number of other Nahuan languages, the sound cognate to Classical Nahuatl's glottal stop is h] , and the term "saltillo" is applied to either pronunciation. The saltillo is often spelled with an apostrophe, though it is sometimes spelled (with either pronunciation) h , or, when pronounced [h] , j . The spelling of the glottal stop with an apostrophe-like character most likely originates from transliterations of the Arabic hamza. It has also been spelled with a grave accent over the preceding vowel in some Nahuatl works, following Horacio Carochi (1645).
Title: Falsettone
Passage: Falsettone is a term used in modern Italian musicology to describe a vocal technique used by male opera singers in the past, in which the fluty sounds typical of falsetto singing are amplified by using the same singing technique used in the modal voice register. The result is a bright, powerful tone, often very high-pitched, although the sound is still different from and more feminine than what is produced by the modal voice. The term "falsettone" is also used for the mixed vocal register that can be achieved using this technique.
Title: Modal voice
Passage: Modal voice is the vocal register used most frequently in speech and singing in most languages. It is also the term used in linguistics for the most common phonation of vowels. The term "modal" refers to the resonant mode of vocal cords; that is, the optimal combination of airflow and glottal tension that yields maximum vibration.
Title: Luffing
Passage: In sailing, luffing refers to when a sailing vessel is steered far enough toward the direction of the wind ("windward"), or the sheet controlling a sail is eased so far past optimal trim, that airflow over the surfaces of the sail is disrupted and the sail begins to "flap" or "luff" (the luff of the sail is usually where this first becomes evident). This is not always done in error; for example, the sails will luff when the bow of the boat passes through the direction of the wind as the sailboat is tacked.
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Modal voice
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Falsettone
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Modal voice
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The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 black comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their first on-screen collaboration, It was produced and directed by Billy Wilder, Samuel "Billy" Wilder was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than how many decades?
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Title: Grumpy Old Men (film)
Passage: Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Ann-Margret, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Ossie Davis and Buck Henry. Directed by Donald Petrie, the screenplay was written by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the sequel, "Grumpier Old Men" (1995). The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. This was the sixth film starring both Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and their first on-screen pairing since 1981's "Buddy Buddy" and was released on December 25, 1993.
Title: The Fortune Cookie
Passage: The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 black comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their first on-screen collaboration. It was produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a script by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.
Title: Billy Wilder
Passage: Samuel "Billy" Wilder ( ; ] ; June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. With "The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Title: Walter Matthau
Passage: Walter Matthau ( ; born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 July 1, 2000) was an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple" and its sequel 30 years later, "The Odd Couple II", and his frequent collaborations with "Odd Couple" co-star Jack Lemmon, particularly in the '90s with "Grumpy Old Men" and its sequel "Grumpier Old Men". He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1966 Billy Wilder film "The Fortune Cookie." Besides the Oscar, he was the winner of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards.
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five
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The Fortune Cookie
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Billy Wilder
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