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In what year did the Britain Burma Society founded under the distinguished patronage of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Sir Hubert Rance whose formal prefix Sir was strictly governed by law and custom as an honorific address?
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Title: Britain–Burma Society
Passage: The Britain Burma Society (BBS) is a society founded in 1957 under the distinguished patronage of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Sir Hubert Rance (formerly Governor of Burma), Miss Dorothy Woodman, the Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, the Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley and others.
Title: Sir
Passage: Sir is an honorific address used in a number of situations in many anglophone cultures. The term can be used as a formal prefix, especially in the Commonwealth, for males who have been given certain honours or titles (such as knights and baronets), where usage is strictly governed by law and custom.
Title: Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Passage: Earl Mountbatten of Burma is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1947 for Rear Admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India. The letters patent creating the title specified the following special remainder:
Title: Statue of the Earl Mountbatten, London
Passage: The statue of the Earl Mountbatten is an outdoor bronze statue of Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, located on Mountbatten Green, off Horse Guards Road, Whitehall, London, England. The sculptor was Franta Belsky and the work was unveiled in 1983.
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1957
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Britain–Burma Society
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Sir
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Pete Mount was the father of the American Basketball Player who was the first high school athlete on the cover of which publication?
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Title: Rick Mount
Passage: Richard Carl Mount (born January 5, 1947) is a former American basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA). He was the first high school athlete to be featured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated".
Title: Pete Mount
Passage: Paul Winford "Pete" Mount (March 10, 1925 – February 3, 1990) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League for the Sheboygan Red Skins during the 1946–47 season and averaged 1.5 points per game. Pete was the father of American Basketball Association player Rick Mount. In his post-basketball career, he worked at the Detroit Diesel Allison Plant in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Title: Kim Mortensen
Passage: Kimberly Mortensen is the NFHS (United States High School) record holder in the 3200 meter run. Her 9:48.59, run at Cerritos College In Norwalk, California on May 24, 1996 has stood since, including surviving the four year close assault by Jordan Hasay. Her performance, in the qualifying meet for the California Interscholastic Federation State Championships capped an exceptional Senior year at Thousand Oaks High School. She was the third athlete from suburban Ventura County to be named both the Gatorade Player of the Year and the Track and Field News High School Athlete of the Year, a list that includes one time teammate Marion Jones. Earlier in that same season, Mortensen had won the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships. Following her record race, she went on to win the California State Championship race a week later in 9:52.80. Her then championship record race still is the #4 high school time ever, only superseded by Hasay and Laurynne Chetelat's exceptional battle in the 2008 version of that same meet.
Title: Michael Norman (sprinter)
Passage: Michael Norman, Jr. (born December 3, 1997) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the 100 meters, 200 meters, and 400 meters. He graduated from Vista Murrieta High School in Murrieta, California in 2016. He currently attends University of Southern California. He broke the NFHS record in the 400 meters with a time of 45.19 seconds at the 2015 CIF California State Meet held at Buchanan High School in Clovis, California on June 6, 2015. His time is the fastest 400 meters run by a U.S. high school athlete against other high school-aged athletes, along with Aldrich Bailey who also ran 45.19 seconds in Lubbock, Texas on April 28, 2012. The time, however, is not the fastest 400 meters ever run by a U.S. high school-aged athlete according to the List of United States High School National Records in Track and Field. The time of 44.69 seconds set by Darrell Robinson is the fastest. However, it was set at a non-NFHS sanctioned meet, therefore only being acknowledged as a National Record by Track & Field News. Norman's NFHS record is currently awaiting NFHS ratification. On June 30, 2015, Norman was named the Gatorade Player of the Year for his achievements in Track and Field. He is only the 2nd non-senior to win the Gatorade Player of the Year award in the 30-year history of the program and the first male sprinter to win the honors as a non-senior.
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Sports Illustrated
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Pete Mount
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Rick Mount
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What is the best known song of the artist who originally recorded the song "A Thousand Times a Day"?
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Title: A Thousand Times a Day
Passage: "A Thousand Times a Day" is a song written by Gary Burr and Gary Nicholson. It was originally recorded by American country singer George Jones on his 1993 album "High-Tech Redneck".
Title: George Jones
Passage: George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best known song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last twenty years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill C. Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved." Waylon Jennings expressed a similar opinion in his song "It's Alright": "If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones." The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname "The Possum."
Title: William Hawkins (songwriter and poet)
Passage: William Alfred Hawkins (May 20, 1940 – July 4, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, poet, musician and journalist, most notable for his contributions in the 1960s to Canadian folk rock music and to Canadian poetry. His best known song is "Gnostic Serenade", originally recorded by 3's a Crowd.
Title: Ko Eun-mi
Passage: Ko Eun-mi (born Ahn Eun-mi on July 7, 1976) is a South Korean actress. She made her entertainment debut in 1995 as a singer in the band T.Ra.V (stands for "TV+Radio+Video"), which released one album "Hey! Henter" before disbanding. Ko was then cast in the 1996 sitcom "Three Guys and Three Girls", and has been acting full-time since 2001. She is best known for her roles in the television dramas "Even So Love", "Loving You a Thousand Times" and "Dangerous Women".
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He Stopped Loving Her Today
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A Thousand Times a Day
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George Jones
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Of the film directors Kenji Mizoguchi and Andrzej Żuławski, which one often went against mainstream commercialism in his films?
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Title: Kenji Mizoguchi
Passage: Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二 , Mizoguchi Kenji , May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Title: Andrzej Żuławski
Passage: Andrzej Żuławski (] ; 22 November 1940 – 17 February 2016) was a Polish film director and writer. He was born in Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine). Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences.
Title: The Water Magician
Passage: The Water Magician (滝の白糸 , Taki no Shiraito ) is a 1933 black and white Japanese silent film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and based on a story by Kyōka Izumi. It is one of the most popular titles from the silent film work of Mizoguchi and tells a tragic love story which realistically depicts the beauty and strength of the women of the Meiji period. It is currently available with benshi accompaniment.
Title: Princess Yang Kwei-Fei
Passage: Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (楊貴妃 , "Yōkihi" , a.k.a. "The Consort Yáng Guìfēi") is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was a co-production between Daiei Film and Hong Kong's Shaw & Sons, a predecessor of Shaw Brothers Studio . It is one of Mizoguchi's two color films, the other being "Tales of the Taira Clan", made the same year.
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Andrzej Żuławski
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Kenji Mizoguchi
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Andrzej Żuławski
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What Indian politician hosted a Hindi language Indian television talk show?
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Title: Smriti Irani
Passage: Smriti Zubin Irani (born Smriti Malhotra; 23 March 1976) is an Indian politician, former model, television actress and producer. Irani is a Member of Parliament, being elected to the Rajya Sabha from the state of Gujarat. She is the current Information and Broadcasting and Textiles Minister in the Government of India.
Title: Kuch... Diiil Se
Passage: Kuch... Diiil Se is a Hindi language Indian television talk show series hosted by Smriti Irani, which premiered on SAB TV on June 23, 2003. The series is a discussion based show which primarily focuses on social issues where lawyers, cops, psychiatrists, doctors, social workers and celebrities answer viewer queries.
Title: Woh
Passage: Woh was a Hindi language Indian television horror-thriller series which aired on Zee TV in 1998. The series starred Indian film director Ashutosh Gowarikar in an important role.
Title: Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka (TV series)
Passage: Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka is a Hindi language Indian soap opera that aired on Sony TV. It was the first Hindi fiction series to reach 1000 episodes and is one of the longest television serials of Indian television. The show was originally aired in Gujarati on ETV Gujarati called as Sapna Na Vavetar.
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Smriti Malhotra
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Kuch... Diiil Se
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Smriti Irani
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Jessica, is the second single from York-based rock band Elliot Minor, the band wrote this song out of their affection for which American actress and businesswoman?
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Title: Jessica Alba
Passage: Jessica Marie Alba ( ; born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman. She has won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series "Dark Angel".
Title: Jessica (Elliot Minor song)
Passage: "Jessica" is the second single from York-based rock band Elliot Minor. It was released on August 6, 2007. The band wrote this song out of their affection for Jessica Alba. The song was originally called "Walk With Me".
Title: Elliot Minor (album)
Passage: Elliot Minor is the debut album from the English pop rock band Elliot Minor. The album was released on 14 April 2008.
Title: Electric High
Passage: "Electric High" is the second single from Elliot Minor's "Solaris" album, written by Alex Davies, produced by Jim Wirt, who also worked with Elliot Minor on their debut self-titled album, and mixed by Tom Lord-Alge. Wirt said of the song's recording: "Electric High was a natural ... everything came together immediately! We ended up using the original scratch vocal, and the original guitars, this is what makes this song stand out, nothing contrived about it." It was released on October 5, 2009, charting at #120.
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Jessica Marie Alba
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Jessica (Elliot Minor song)
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Jessica Alba
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How many people were killed by a van bomb by the man Inga Bejer Engh prosecuted in a high profile 2012 trial?
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Title: Inga Bejer Engh
Passage: Inga Bejer Engh (born 31 December 1970) is a Norwegian jurist and prosecutor. Together with prosecutor Svein Holden she was prosecuting terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik in the 2012 trial following the 2011 Norway attacks.
Title: Anders Behring Breivik
Passage: Anders Behring Breivik (] ; born 13 February 1979), known as Fjotolf Hansen from 2017, is a Norwegian far-right terrorist who committed the 2011 Norway attacks. On 22 July 2011 he killed eight people by detonating a van bomb amid Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, then shot dead 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp on the island of Utøya. In August 2012 he was convicted of mass murder, causing a fatal explosion, and terrorism.
Title: LulzSec
Passage: Lulz Security, commonly abbreviated as LulzSec, was a black hat computer hacking group that claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from Sony Pictures in 2011. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offline. Some security professionals have commented that LulzSec has drawn attention to insecure systems and the dangers of password reuse. It has gained attention due to its high profile targets and the sarcastic messages it has posted in the aftermath of its attacks. One of the founders of LulzSec was computer security specialist Hector Monsegur, who used the online moniker Sabu. He later helped law enforcement track down other members of the organization as part of a plea deal. At least four associates of LulzSec were arrested in March 2012 as part of this investigation. British authorities had previously announced the arrests of two teenagers they allege are LulzSec members T-flow and Topiary.
Title: The Troubles in Limavady
Passage: Four people were killed in violence relating to the Northern Ireland Troubles in the town of Limavady, County Londonderry. All were Protestants, and all were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA, better known as the IRA). One was a prison officer and one was a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer. The other two victims were civilians killed by a van bomb explosion outside the Limavady RUC base on 28 March 1972. They were driving past at the time of the attack.
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eight
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Inga Bejer Engh
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Anders Behring Breivik
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The Jargon Society has published books by the founder and primary theorist of what group of poets?
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Title: Louis Zukofsky
Passage: Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.
Title: The Jargon Society
Passage: The Jargon Society is an independent press founded by the American poet Jonathan Williams. Jargon has published seminal works of the American literary avant-garde, including books by Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Paul Metcalf, James Broughton, and Williams himself, as well as "sui generis" books of folk art such as "White Trash Cooking".
Title: Edward Arnold (publisher)
Passage: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd was a British publishing house with its head office in London. The firm had published books for over 100 years. It became part of the Hodder Education group in 2001. In 2012, Hodder Education sold its medical and higher education lines, including Arnold, to Taylor & Francis. Edward Arnold published books and journals for students, academics and professionals.
Title: Jonathan Williams (poet)
Passage: Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929 – March 16, 2008) was an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer. He is known as the founder of "The Jargon Society", which has published poetry, experimental fiction, photography, and folk art since 1951.
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Objectivist
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The Jargon Society
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Louis Zukofsky
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Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign, it saw Locke's "Treatises of Government", the founding of the Royal Society, the experiments and holy meditations of Robert William Boyle, was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, in which location?
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Title: Restoration literature
Passage: Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In general, the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature that includes extremes, for it encompasses both "Paradise Lost" and the Earl of Rochester's "Sodom", the high-spirited sexual comedy of "The Country Wife" and the moral wisdom of "The Pilgrim's Progress". It saw Locke's "Treatises of Government", the founding of the Royal Society, the experiments and holy meditations of Robert Boyle, the hysterical attacks on theaters from Jeremy Collier, and the pioneering of literary criticism from John Dryden and John Dennis. The period witnessed news become a commodity, the essay develop into a periodical art form, and the beginnings of textual criticism.
Title: Robert Boyle
Passage: Robert William Boyle {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, "The Sceptical Chymist" is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. He was a devout and pious Anglican and is noted for his writings in theology.
Title: University Hospital Waterford
Passage: University Hospital Waterford (formerly known as "Ardkeen Hospital", and later "Waterford Regional Hospital" abbreviated as "WRH") is a public teaching hospital located in Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive and provides acute-care hospital services, including a 24-hour emergency department, for the population of County Waterford and the South East. In 2008, the hospital served 122,837 out-patients, and 23,367 in-patients, with an average stay of 6.3 nights. In 2009, 65,160 patients presented to the emergency department, of which 17,264 were admitted. 70.7% of all admissions were made via the accident and emergency department. The hospital saw 17,978 day cases in the same year. In 2008, there were 2,598 live births. University College Cork is its primary academic partner, and it is also affiliated with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Waterford Institute of Technology.
Title: Literature of England
Passage: The literature of England is literature written in what is now England, or by English writers. It consists mainly of English literature - i.e. literature written in the English language - but there are important examples of literature from England written in other languages.
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Ireland
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Restoration literature
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Robert Boyle
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John Martin & Co. is responsible for the pageant that has been known as what since 1996?
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Title: John Martin & Co.
Passage: John Martin & Co. Ltd, colloquially known as John Martin's or simply Johnnies, was an Adelaide-based company which ran a popular chain of department stores in South Australia. It operated for more than 130 years, from 1866 until its closure in 1998. Johnnies, owned by the prominent Hayward family for the majority of its existence, became an Adelaide icon, responsible for the famous Adelaide Christmas Pageant.
Title: Adelaide Christmas Pageant
Passage: The Adelaide Christmas Pageant is a parade held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Recognised as a heritage icon, the pageant is a state institution and is sponsored by four local credit unions. Since 1996 it has been known as the Credit Union Christmas Pageant. It is the second-largest parade of its kind in the world, following only Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere and in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Title: John Martin (singer)
Passage: John Martin Lindström (born 22 August 1980) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with the Swedish House Mafia. Since 2010, he has collaborated with Tinie Tempah and released his debut single "Anywhere For You", written alongside music partner Michel Zitron. John's vocal tracks include: "Anywhere For You", "Reload", "Save The World", "Don't You Worry Child", and an in progress track, "Love Louder" with David Guetta. On 3 April 2014 Lindstron appeared on the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge covering Haim's "If I Could Change Your Mind". John Martin is now working on his debut album which was planned to be released in August 2014, however it has been delayed awaiting a new collaboration before the release.
Title: John Martin Taylor
Passage: John Martin Taylor, also known as Hoppin' John, is an American food writer and culinary historian, best known for his expertise on the cooking of the American South, and, in particular, the foods of the lowcountry, the coastal plain of South Carolina and Georgia. " The New York Times" referred to him as "the lowcountry food maven" in a 2006 travel article about Charleston’s culinary scene. He is often credited with restoring many traditional southern dishes, and he advocated the return to stone-ground, whole-grain, heirloom grits and cornmeal production. "Gourmet" magazine said of Taylor in a March 2006 article: "Artisanal food supplier and cookbook author John Martin Taylor...fueled the back-to-the-stone-ground-grits movement... Taylor's coarse grits and more finely ground cornmeal are used as polenta from Puglia to Puget Sound." "Charleston" Magazine named Taylor one of the city's Top 100 Most Influential people in its 337-year history: "Before Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking was published in 1992, Charleston cuisine was unfocused. Thanks to Taylor, we took pride in our produce, seafood, biscuits, and sweet tea. And foodies of the world agreed." In an article that originally appeared in "The Atlanta Journal", the culinary historian Karen Hess is quoted as saying, "I don't know of anyone who has done more for Southern cookery." The author of the article added, "Taylor has a Capote-esque acid wit, boyish charm and all-consuming passion for food that has won the writer a faithful following."
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Credit Union Christmas Pageant
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John Martin & Co.
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Adelaide Christmas Pageant
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Who directed Revolver, the 2005 crime thriller starring the English actor Jason Statham?
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Title: Revolver (2005 film)
Passage: Revolver is a 2005 British-French crime thriller film co-written and directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore and André Benjamin. The film centres on a revenge-seeking confidence trickster whose weapon is a universal formula that guarantees victory to its user, when applied to any game or confidence trick.
Title: Jason Statham
Passage: Jason Statham ( born 26 July 1967) is an English actor, and a former model and competitive diver.
Title: War (2007 film)
Passage: War is a 2007 American action crime thriller film directed by Philip G. Atwell in his directorial debut and also featuring fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film stars Jet Li and Jason Statham. The film was released in the United States on August 24, 2007. "War" features a collaboration between Jet Li and Jason Statham, reuniting them for the first time since 2001's "The One". Jason Statham plays an FBI agent determined to take down a mysterious assassin known as Rogue (played by Jet Li), after his partner is murdered.
Title: Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance
Passage: Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance is a 2002 documentary by independent producer Susanne Cornwall Carvin. The hour-long film, narrated by British actor Jason Statham, follows the lives of three boxers as they prepare to compete in muay thai, also known as Thai boxing. One character, Sam Sheridan, is a 27-year-old Harvard University graduate who has traveled to Thailand to learn the art of muay thai from Apidej Sit-Hirun, a retired boxing champion. The second primary character, Gong-Prai Sorjintana, is a 13-year-old boy from the town of Ayutthaya; his mother runs a boxing camp for troubled teenagers and he's fighting to raise money for university. The third character, Boon-Term Kitmuti, is a 29-year-old mother of two children who wanted to box when she was younger, before muay thai was legal for women. Now that there is an active muay thai league for women, she has decided to travel to Bangkok and learn the sport, despite the disapproval of her husband. Her husband left because he didn't like women anymore.
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Guy Ritchie
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Revolver (2005 film)
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Jason Statham
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What sport does Pieter Nys and Fortuna Sittard have in common?
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Title: Pieter Nys
Passage: Pieter Nys (born 13 July 1989 in Hasselt) is a Belgian football player who plays as a defensive midfielder for MVV Maastricht in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. He formerly played for RC Genk, Fortuna Sittard and Sparta Rotterdam.
Title: Fortuna Sittard
Passage: Fortuna Sittard is a football club in Sittard, The Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. The club was a merger of former clubs 'Fortuna 54' and 'Sittardia' who merged as the Fortuna Sittardia Combinatie on 1 July 1968.
Title: Miguel Santos (footballer)
Passage: Miguel José Oliveira Silva Santos (born 21 October 1994) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dutch club Fortuna Sittard. He spent his youth with Benfica, SC Lourel, Belenenses, and Estoril, before spending the 2015–16 season as Benfica B's first choice goalkeeper. He signed with English club Port Vale for a five-month spell in August 2016, before moving on to Eerste Divisie side Fortuna Sittard in January 2017.
Title: Sjors Paridaans
Passage: Sjors Paridaans (born 23 January 1986 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defender for Belgian side Berchem Sport. He formerly played for Fortuna Sittard, FC Eindhoven and FC Emmen.
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football
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Pieter Nys
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Fortuna Sittard
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What British comedy film starred Robin Weaver?
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Title: The Inbetweeners 2
Passage: The Inbetweeners 2 is a 2014 British comedy film and sequel to "The Inbetweeners Movie" (2011), which is based on the E4 sitcom "The Inbetweeners". It was written and directed by series creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris.
Title: Robin Weaver
Passage: Robin Weaver is an English actress well known for playing the role of recurring character Pamela Cooper in the E4 sitcom "The Inbetweeners" and its feature-length films, "The Inbetweeners Movie" and "The Inbetweeners 2". She has also appeared in several TV commercials.
Title: Killing Castro
Passage: Killing Castro is a 2006 play by British playwright Brian Stewart. The Haymarket Productions's National Tour of the play was also performed at the Festival Theatre in Malvern in June 2006, and starred Robin Hood's Michael Praed and Clive Mantle. It was described by the "Birmingham Mail" as an "acclaimed comedy" which "chronicles the more bizarre of America's attempts to kill the Cuban leader Fidel Castro - including filling his shoes with poison and inventing an exploding cigar."
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)
Passage: The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1978 British comedy film spoofing "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It starred Peter Cook as Sherlock Holmes and Dudley Moore as Dr. Watson. A number of other well-known British comedy actors appeared in the film including Terry-Thomas (in his final screen appearance), Kenneth Williams and Denholm Elliott.
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The Inbetweeners 2
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Robin Weaver
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The Inbetweeners 2
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Whitney Williams has a chair on the board of a non-profit with Ben Affleck and what other company?
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Title: Eastern Congo Initiative
Passage: The Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI) is an American nonprofit organization established by Ben Affleck and Whitney Williams in 2010 as "the first U.S. based advocacy and grant-making initiative wholly focused on working with and for the people of eastern Congo". ECI provides development grants and international advocacy for community-building initiatives in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Title: Whitney Williams
Passage: Whitney Williams is an American businesswoman and philanthropist, currently serving as Vice-Chair of the board for Eastern Congo Initiative and Founder + CEO of the Seattle-based consultancy williamsworks. She is the daughter of former Congressman Pat Williams and former Montana Senate Majority Leader Carol Williams. " The Washington Post" has referred to the Williams family as the “first family of Montana politics.” Her brother is artist Griff Williams.
Title: Matt Damon filmography
Passage: Matt Damon is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He made his screen debut at the age of 18 with a minor role in the 1988 film "Mystic Pizza". After appearing in a series of supporting parts in much of the 1990s, Francis Ford Coppola cast Damon as the lead of the 1997 legal drama "The Rainmaker". His breakthrough came later that year when he played the title role of an unrecognized genius in "Good Will Hunting", a drama which he also co-wrote with Ben Affleck. Damon and Affleck won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Damon was nominated for Best Actor. He followed it by playing the title roles of a soldier in Steven Spielberg's war drama "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) and of the criminal Tom Ripley in the thriller "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999), both of which gained critical and commercial success. Damon's profile continued to expand in the 2000s, as he took on starring roles in two lucrative film franchises. He featured as a con man in Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Trilogy" (2001–07) and played the titular spy Jason Bourne in four of the five films in the "Bourne" series (2002–16).
Title: Benny Ciaramello
Passage: Benjamin "Benny" Ciaramello"' (born April 4, 1981) is an American actor. He first appeared in the blockbuster remake of "War of the Worlds" directed by Steven Spielberg in 2005, next in the independent film "Saint Francis" alongside Dita Von Teese, and then later that same year in "The Guardian" alongside Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner. He would continue on next to star opposite Isabella Rossellini in the showtime pilot "Filthy Gorgeous" written by Ron Nyswaner the Academy Award nominated writer of the film "Philadelphia" and produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan the Academy Award-winning producing team of "Chicago". However, it wasn't until two years later that he became most known to the public for his role as Santiago Herrera, the troubled delinquent in season 2 of the Emmy Award-winning "Friday Night Lights". Shortly after, he signed a deal with ABC in which he guest starred on multiple programs for the network including his recent work as Scott Murphy in the ABC series "Secrets and Lies" opposite Juliette Lewis and Ryan Phillippe in 2015. He has recently been cast in the 1920s crime film "Live By Night" as Paulo Bartolo alongside Ben Affleck and Chris Messina. The film will be directed by Affleck, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Warner Brothers, and is set to be released in October 2017.
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williamsworks
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Eastern Congo Initiative
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Whitney Williams
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Which painter created the 'Beguiling of Merlin' and was closely associated with the later part of the Pre-Raphaelite movement?
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Title: Edward Burne-Jones
Passage: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (28 August 183317 June 1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain; his stained glass works include the windows of St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Chelsea, St Martin's Church in Brampton, Cumbria (the church designed by Philip Webb), St Michael's Church, Brighton, All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, St Edmund Hall and Christ Church, two colleges of the University of Oxford. His stained glass works also feature in St. Anne's Church, Brown Edge, Staffordshire Moorlands and St.Edward the Confessor church at Cheddleton Staffordshire.
Title: The Beguiling of Merlin
Passage: The Beguiling of Merlin is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones which was created between 1872 and 1877.
Title: John Jewell Penstone
Passage: John Jewell Penstone (1817–1902) was a portrait and genre artist who worked with paint, but is known mainly for his engravings, and has been associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The National Portrait Gallery has two of his stipple engraving, and a lithograph (printed by Nosworthy & Wells).
Title: Burne-Jones baronets
Passage: The Burne-Jones Baronetcy, of Rottingdean in the County of Sussex, and of The Grange in the Parish of Fulham in the County of London, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 May 1894 for the artist and designer Edward Burne-Jones. He was closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baronet, who was also a painter. The title became extinct on his death in 1926.
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Edward Burne-Jones
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The Beguiling of Merlin
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Edward Burne-Jones
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Nikolaas Tinbergen shared the 1973 Nobel in Medicine with the zoologist who was of what nationality?
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Title: Konrad Lorenz
Passage: Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (] ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behaviour. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
Title: Nikolaas Tinbergen
Passage: Nikolaas 'Niko' Tinbergen {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; ] ; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organisation and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behaviour.
Title: Ethology
Passage: Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviourism is a term that also describes the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually referring to measured responses to stimuli or trained behavioural responses in a laboratory context, without a particular emphasis on evolutionary adaptivity. Many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behaviour throughout history. Ethology has its scientific roots in the work of Charles Darwin and of American and German ornithologists of the late 19th and early 20th century, including Charles O. Whitman, Oskar Heinroth, and Wallace Craig. The modern discipline of ethology is generally considered to have begun during the 1930s with the work of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and by Austrian biologists Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch, joint awardees of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ethology is a combination of laboratory and field science, with a strong relation to some other disciplines such as neuroanatomy, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Ethologists are typically interested in a behavioural process rather than in a particular animal group, and often study one type of behaviour, such as aggression, in a number of unrelated animals.
Title: Karl von Frisch
Passage: Karl Ritter von Frisch, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'ForMemRS', '4': "} (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.
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Austrian
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Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Konrad Lorenz
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Oliver Boot had a role in the Moliere-based film that was first performed in what year?
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Title: Oliver Boot
Passage: Oliver Boot (born 1979) is an English actor. He trained at the RADA, and has appeared on both stage and screen. His theatre credits include "Antony and Cleopatra", "In Extremis" (in the role of Abelard), "Three Musketeers", "Hayfever", "Tartuffe", "Jamaica Inn" and an award winning world tour of "Othello" with Cheek by Jowl. He has starred as Demetrius in Shakespeare's "Midsummer's night dream" and as Ventidius in "Timon of Athens", at the Globe, in London.
Title: Tartuffe
Passage: Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite ( ; French: "Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur" , ] ), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles.
Title: Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei
Passage: The Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei is an orchestral triptych by the American composer Elliott Carter. Its three movements were composed between 1993 and 1995. The complete work was first performed on April 25, 1998 at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Oliver Knussen. The second movement "Adagio tenebroso" was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Title: Asko Concerto
Passage: The Asko Concerto is a concerto for chamber orchestra by the American composer Elliott Carter. The work was commissioned by the Dutch chamber group Asko Ensemble, for which the piece is titled. It was composed in January 2000 and was first performed in Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on April 26, 2000, by the Asko ensemble under the conductor Oliver Knussen. The piece is dedicated to Asko/Schönberg.
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1664
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Oliver Boot
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Tartuffe
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"Your Love Had Taken Me That High" is a song recorded by a singer that received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with who?
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Title: Conway Twitty
Passage: Conway Twitty (born Harold Lloyd Jenkins; September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993) was an American country music singer. He also had success in the rock and roll, rock, R&B, and pop genres. From 1971 to 1976, Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn. Although never a member of the Grand Ole Opry, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Title: Your Love Had Taken Me That High
Passage: "Your Love Had Taken Me That High" is a song written by Jack Dunham and Galen Raye, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty. It was released in November 1978 as the second single from his album, "Conway". The song peaked at No. 3 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached No. 1 on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart in Canada.
Title: Jimmy's Got a Girlfriend
Passage: "Jimmy's Got a Girlfriend" is a song recorded by Canadian country music group The Wilkinsons. It was released in January 2000 as the lead single from their album "Here and Now". The song reached number 11 on the Canadian "RPM" Country Tracks chart and number 34 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was written by Ron Harbin, Anthony L. Smith, and Lonestar lead singer Richie McDonald. It was named Single of the Year at the 2000 Canadian Country Music Association Awards and was nominated at the 2001 Grammy Awards for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
Title: Randy Houser
Passage: Shawn Randolph "Randy" Houser (born December 18, 1975) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Universal South Records in 2008, he charted the single "Anything Goes". It was a Top 20 hit on the "Billboard" country singles chart and the title track to his debut album of the same name, which also produced his first Top 5 hit, "Boots On". In 2012, he moved to Broken Bow Records imprint Stoney Creek. He reached Number One with "How Country Feels", the title track to his third album, and with "Runnin' Outta Moonlight" in 2013. The follow up singles from the same album were "Goodnight Kiss", which reached number one on the Mediabase Country Chart and number two on the Country Airplay chart, and "Like a Cowboy," which reached number 3 on the Country Airplay chart in March 2015 and received a 2015 Country Music Association Awards Song of the Year nomination.
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Loretta Lynn
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Your Love Had Taken Me That High
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Conway Twitty
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How far north from Salzburg is the Austrian village that shares a name with a controversial German Pilsner or pale lager?
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Title: Fucking Hell
Passage: Fucking Hell is a German Pilsner or pale lager with an alcohol content of 4.9%. It is named after the village of Fucking in Austria; "hell" is the German word for 'pale' and a typical description of this kind of beer. The beer's name was initially controversial. Both the local authorities in Fucking and the European Union's Trade Marks and Designs Registration Office initially objected to the name. It was eventually accepted and the lager is now sold internationally.
Title: Fucking, Austria
Passage: Fucking (] , rhymes with ""booking"") is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is 33 km north of Salzburg, 4 km east of the Inn river, which forms the German border.
Title: Pilsner
Passage: Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from Plzeň (Pilsen in Czech Republic), a city in Bohemia, then in the Austrian Empire, now in the Czech Republic, where it was first produced in 1842. The world’s first blond lager, the original Pilsner Urquell, is still produced there today.
Title: Southern Sudan Beverages Limited
Passage: Southern Sudan Beverages Limited is a brewery based in South Sudan and owned by ABInBev. The brands that are manufactured are "White Bull", Nile Special and Club Pilsner pale lager beer. The Company also produces soft drinks such as Club Cola, Club Berry, Club Lemmon,Club Pineapple, Club Orange, and Club Apple . In addition to soft dinks and beer, the Company also produces spirits such as Konyagi Gin, Vladimir Vodka, Regency Whisky and Valeur Brandy.
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33 km
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Fucking Hell
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Fucking, Austria
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The Grinch is a fictional character created by an author that died in what year?
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Title: Grinch
Passage: The Grinch is a fictional character created by Dr. Seuss. He is best known as the main character of the children's book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas! " (1957).
Title: Dr. Seuss
Passage: Theodor Seuss Geisel ( ; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss ( ). His work includes several of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
Title: Phoebe Snow (character)
Passage: Phoebe Snow was a fictional character created by Earnest Elmo Calkins to promote the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The advertising campaign was one of the first to present a fictional character based on a live model amid impressionistic techniques.
Title: Escapist (character)
Passage: The Escapist is a superhero character created by Michael Chabon in the 2000 novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". In the novel, the Escapist is a fictional character created by the comics writer protagonists. The character later featured in the metafictional work "Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist" and Brian K. Vaughan's comic "The Escapists".
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1991
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Grinch
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Dr. Seuss
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Were Nikos Koundouros and Curtis Hanson both film directors?
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Title: Curtis Hanson
Passage: Curtis Lee Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing work included the psychological thriller "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992), the neo-noir crime film "L.A. Confidential" (1997), the comedy "Wonder Boys" (2000), the hip hop drama "8 Mile" (2002), and the romantic comedy-drama "In Her Shoes" (2005).
Title: Nikos Koundouros
Passage: Nikos Koundouros (Greek: Νίκος Κούνδουρος ; 15 December 1926 – 22 February 2017) was a Greek film director.
Title: Oi paranomoi
Passage: Oi paranomoi (Greek: Οι παράνομοι ) is a 1958 Greek drama film directed by Nikos Koundouros. It was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.
Title: Bangladesh Film Directors Association
Passage: Bangladesh Film Directors Association is the pan-national trade body of film directors in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Film Directors Association’s General Secretary is Badiul Alam Khokon. Mushfiqur Rahman Gulzar is the president of Bangladesh Film Directors Association.
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yes
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Nikos Koundouros
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Curtis Hanson
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Qwirkle and Evo, are which type of entertainment?
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Title: Evo (board game)
Passage: Evo: The Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs is a German-style board game for three to five players, designed by Philippe Keyaerts and published by Eurogames. The game won the "GAMES Magazine" award for "Game of the year 2002" and was nominated for the Origins Award for "Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game 2000". The game went out of print in 2007, and a second edition was released in 2011.
Title: Qwirkle
Passage: Qwirkle is a tile-based game for 2 to 4 players, designed by Susan McKinley Ross and published by MindWare. Qwirkle shares some characteristics with the games "Rummikub" and "Scrabble". It is distributed in Canada by game and puzzle company, Outset Media. Qwirkle is considered by MindWare to be its most awarded game of all time. In 2011, Qwirkle won the Spiel des Jahres, widely considered the most prestigious award in the board and card game industry. A sequel, Qwirkle Cubes, was released by Mindware in 2009.
Title: Online social entertainment
Passage: Online social entertainment blends entertaining interactive functionality and content including live video streaming, video chat communications, multi-player gaming, music and videos streaming, with social networking service such as social graph management, forums, reviews, ratings, and geo-location options. It is the foundation for a more immersive, interactive, enriching and engaging content consumption experience through social channels. Social entertainment is distinct from social networking websites in that the former is based fundamentally on immersive engaging experiences with functionality, content and people, while the latter is based primarily on building and maintaining relationships with other users. Typically, social entertainment is defined by the individual sites dedicated to a particular type of entertainment experience incorporating basic social networking services.
Title: Album musical
Passage: An album musical is a type of recording that sounds like an original cast album but is created specifically for the recording medium and is complete entertainment product in itself, rather than just promoting or reflecting an existing or planned musical theatre production or revue. Although there has been no one term consistently used to describe this type of recording, the genre predates the use of the term "concept album" by several decades, dating back to the era of 78-rpm records with such original works as Gordon Jenkins' "Manhattan Tower" (1946, expanded in 1956) and "The Letter" (1959) starring Judy Garland, and Stan Freberg's "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Volume One: The Early Years" (1961). On most contemporary concept albums, the performers or bands sing as themselves, whereas on an album musical the performers are playing characters in a story.
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game
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Qwirkle
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Evo (board game)
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What Emmy Award winner worked on Miles from Home?
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Title: Miles from Home
Passage: Miles from Home is a 1988 film starring Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson. It is about two brothers who, after being forced off their farm in the debt stricken Midwestern United States, become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers. The movie was directed by Gary Sinise and written by Chris Gerolmo. The film uses many members of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company of which Sinise is a co-founder.
Title: Gary Sinise
Passage: Gary Alan Sinise ( ; born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, director, and musician. Among other awards, he has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been nominated for an Academy Award.
Title: Rafael Bello
Passage: Rafael Emilio Bello Castro, known professionally as Rafael Bello (pronounced Rafael "BE-YO"), is a Dominican television and radio personality based in New York City. Bello, a two-time Emmy award winner, currently serves as the Weather and Entertainment Anchor in "Al Despertar", WXTV WXTV-DT Univision 41 Nueva York' early morning newscast. Bello formerly served as the Traffic and Entertainment Anchor on WNJU Telemundo 47 in "Noticiero 47 Primera Edicion" and also hosted feature and entertainment segments including his Emmy Award winner for best entertainment segment under the name "Pa la Calle con Rafa".
Title: Serializer
Passage: serializer.net was an online artist collective that was active from 2002 to 2012. Serializer included many well-known award-winning alternative artists like Tom Hart (Xeric Award winner), Eric Millikin (Pulitzer Prize winner), Shaenon K. Garrity (Lulu Award winner), James Kochalka (Eisner Award winner), Dean Haspiel (Emmy Award winner), Howard Cruse (Prix de la critique winner), Chris Onstad (Ignatz Award winner), Nick Bertozzi (Harvey Award winner), and Jen Sorenson (Herblock Prize winner). Each artist created, and sometimes collaborated on, serialized webcomics.
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Gary Sinise
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Miles from Home
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Gary Sinise
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Who replaced the Peabody Award winner, made famous for his NPR flagship program, in 2004?
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Title: Renée Montagne
Passage: Renée Montagne (pronounced Mon-TAIN) is an American radio journalist and was the co-host (with Steve Inskeep and David Greene) of National Public Radio's weekday morning news program, "Morning Edition", from May 2004 to November 11, 2016. Montagne and Inskeep succeeded longtime host Bob Edwards, initially as interim replacements, and Greene joined the team in 2012. Montagne had served as a correspondent and occasional host since 1989. She usually broadcasts from NPR West in Culver City, California, a Los Angeles suburb.
Title: Bob Edwards
Passage: Robert Alan "Bob" Edwards (born May 16, 1947) is an American broadcast journalist, a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He gained reputation as the first host of National Public Radio's flagship program, "Morning Edition". Starting in 2004, Edwards then was the host of "The Bob Edwards Show" on Sirius XM Radio and "Bob Edwards Weekend" distributed by Public Radio International to more than 150 public radio stations. Those programs ended in September 2015.
Title: Jeffrey P. Jones
Passage: Jeffrey P. Jones is Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys and Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards. Appointed July 2013 as the 5th Director of the Peabody Awards, he is author and editor of five books including "Entertaining Politics: Satirical Television and Political Engagement" and "Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era." Under Jones' tenure, the Peabody Awards announced in the spring of 2014 a three-year deal with Pivot TV/Participant Media to air a prime-time special of the Peabody Awards Luncheon Ceremony, the first time the Peabody Awards have appeared on television in over a decade. The 73rd Peabody Award Winners were also announced live for the first time on "CBS This Morning" on April 2, 2014.
Title: Piano Jazz
Passage: Piano Jazz is a weekly one-hour radio show produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It began on June 4, 1978, and was hosted by jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918–2013) until 2011. It is the longest-running cultural program on NPR. The show generally features a single guest (though small groups and duos are also featured at times), and usually consists of about an equal mixture of discussion and playing, often duets with McPartland. Initially the guests were limited to jazz pianists, but the format was later expanded to include performers on other instruments as well as other genres (though the performances remain focused on jazz tunes). The show provides an inside look at the relationships of jazz musicians, since McPartland often had long friendships with many of her guests. "Piano Jazz" won a Peabody Award in 1983. The show is an exclusive production of South Carolina public radio on WLTR and is offered nationally by NPR.
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Renée Montagne
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Renée Montagne
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Bob Edwards
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What show is an American-Canadian drama starring Scott Lowell playing Ted Schmidt?
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Title: Queer as Folk (U.S. TV series)
Passage: Queer as Folk is an American-Canadian drama television series. The series ran between December 3, 2000 to August 7, 2005 and was produced for Showtime and Showcase by Cowlip Productions, Tony Jonas Productions, Temple Street Productions and Showtime Networks in association with Crowe Entertainment. It was developed and written by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, who were the showrunners, and also the executive producers along with Tony Jonas, former President of Warner Bros. Television.
Title: Scott Lowell
Passage: Scott Lowell (born February 22, 1965 in Denver, Colorado) is an American actor best known for his role as Ted Schmidt on the Showtime drama "Queer as Folk".
Title: Michael Caton
Passage: Michael Caton (born 21 July 1940 in Monto, Queensland) is an Australian television, film and stage actor, Comedian,and television host, best known for playing Uncle Harry in the Australian television series, "The Sullivans", playing Darryl Kerrigan from 1997's low budget hit film "The Castle" and playing Ted Taylor in the popular "Packed to the Rafters". He is married to Helen Esakoff. Caton has been inducted into the Australian Film Walk of Fame in honour of his work in Australia's cinema and television industries. His son Septimus narrates "My Kitchen Rules" and "Robot Wars".
Title: Tugboat Princess
Passage: Tugboat Princess is a 1936 American-Canadian drama film directed by David Selman and starring Walter C. Kelly, Valerie Hobson and Edith Fellows.
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Queer as Folk
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Scott Lowell
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Queer as Folk (U.S. TV series)
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"HMS "Sussex" was an 80-gun third-rate ship, of the line of the English Royal Navy, for which sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century—when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms—until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain?
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Title: HMS Sussex (1693)
Passage: HMS "Sussex" was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, lost in a severe storm on 1 March 1694 off Gibraltar. On board were possibly 10 tons of gold coins. This could now be worth more than $500 million, including the bullion and antiquity values, making it one of the most valuable wrecks ever.
Title: Kingdom of England
Passage: The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century—when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms—until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Title: HMS Stirling Castle (1679)
Passage: HMS "Stirling Castle" was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built at Deptford in 1679. She underwent a rebuild at Chatham Dockyard in 1699. She was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands off Deal on 27 November 1703.
Title: Kingdom of Scotland
Passage: The Kingdom of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: "Rìoghachd na h-Alba" ; Scots: "Kinrick o Scotland" ) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe traditionally said to have been founded in 843, which joined with the Kingdom of England to form a unified Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. It suffered many invasions by the English, but under Robert I it fought a successful war of independence and remained a distinct state in the late Middle Ages. In 1603, James VI of Scotland became King of England, joining Scotland with England in a personal union. In 1707, the two kingdoms were united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain under the terms of the Acts of Union. From the final capture of the Royal Burgh of Berwick by the Kingdom of England in 1482 (following the annexation of the Northern Isles from the Kingdom of Norway in 1472) the territory of the Kingdom of Scotland corresponded to that of modern-day Scotland, bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest.
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Kingdom of England
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HMS Sussex (1693)
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Kingdom of England
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Arthur bell as an amateur cricketer player for what league known for employing professional players.
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Title: Arthur Bell (footballer)
Passage: Arthur A. Bell (November 1882 – 22 April 1923) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He started his career with Burnley Belvedere before joining Football League side Burnley in 1902. Over the next seven years, Bell made 101 league appearances and scored 28 goals for the Lancashire club. During his career, he won three caps for the England national amateur football team. An architect by trade, Bell also played as an amateur cricketer for Burnley Cricket Club for 20 years, during which time he won five Lancashire League championships. He was selected to represent the Lancashire Second XI on three occasions.
Title: Lancashire League (cricket)
Passage: The Lancashire League is a competitive league of local cricket clubs drawn from the small to middle-sized mill towns, mainly but not exclusively, of East Lancashire. Its real importance is probably due to the history of employing professional players of international standing to play in the League.
Title: Percy Chapman
Passage: Arthur Percy Frank Chapman (3 September 1900 – 16 September 1961), usually known as Percy Chapman, was an English cricketer who captained the England cricket team between 1926 and 1931. A left-handed batsman, he played 26 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 17 of those games. Chapman was appointed captain for the final, decisive Test of the 1926 series against Australia; under his captaincy, England defeated Australia to win the Ashes for the first time since 1912. An amateur cricketer, Chapman played Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Kent. Never a reliable batsman, Chapman nevertheless had a respectable batting record. He could score runs very quickly and was popular with spectators. As a fielder, contemporaries rated him extremely highly. Although opinions were divided on his tactical ability as a captain, most critics accepted he was an inspirational leader.
Title: Henry J. Lloyd
Passage: Henry James Lloyd (2 February 1794 at Marylebone, London – 3 September 1853 at Brighton, Sussex) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1815 to 1830. Mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he made 34 known appearances in first-class matches. He played for several predominantly amateur teams including the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series.
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Lancashire League
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Arthur Bell (footballer)
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Lancashire League (cricket)
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In what year was the woman whose former chief of staff was Rachel Noerdlinger born?
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Title: Chirlane McCray
Passage: Chirlane Irene McCray (born November 29, 1954) is an American writer, editor, communications professional, and political figure. She has published poetry and worked in politics as a speechwriter. Married to current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, she is the First Lady of New York City. They have two children, Chiara and Dante. They moved from their home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, into Gracie Mansion, the traditional residence of New York City mayors.
Title: Rachel Noerdlinger
Passage: Rachel Noerdlinger (born November 14, 1970) is an American publicist. She is the former chief of staff to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray.
Title: Tom Price (ice hockey)
Passage: Thomas Edward Price (born July 12, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former ice hockey player, whose former teams include the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Cleveland Barons and the California Golden Seals.
Title: Rav Wilding
Passage: Rav Wilding (born 16 October 1977) is a British television presenter, whose former professions include security guard at Harrods, soldier, police officer and from June 2004 to December 2011 was a presenter on "Crimewatch". He has presented "Crimewatch Roadshow" since 2009.
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1954
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Rachel Noerdlinger
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Chirlane McCray
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In regards to the album that had, according to Dave Grohl, his favourite song he has ever written, when was it released?
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Title: These Days (Foo Fighters song)
Passage: "These Days" is the third single, (fourth in the UK), from the American rock band Foo Fighters' seventh studio album "Wasting Light". It was written by Dave Grohl and co-produced by Butch Vig. Dave Grohl has stated that it is his favourite song that he has ever written. On August 18, 2012, the Foo Fighters performed "These Days" at Pukkelpop, as a tribute to the people who died or were injured there a year earlier, due to a violent thunderstorm that raged over the festival grounds.
Title: Wasting Light
Passage: Wasting Light is the seventh studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was released on April 12, 2011 on RCA Records, and is the first album to feature rhythm guitarist Pat Smear since "The Colour and the Shape" (1997), making the band a five piece with the album. Wishing to capture the essence of the group's earlier work and avoid the artificiality of digital recording, frontman Dave Grohl arranged for the band to record in his garage in Encino, California using only analog equipment. The sessions were supervised by producer Butch Vig, with whom Grohl had worked on Nirvana's "Nevermind". Since the old equipment did not allow for many mistakes to be corrected in post-production, the band spent three weeks rehearsing the songs, and Vig had to relearn outdated editing techniques. The band went for a heavier and rawer sound to contrast with the musical experiments from their previous albums, and most of the lyrics were written as Grohl reflected upon his life and possible future. Guest musicians include Bob Mould, Krist Novoselic, Jessy Greene, Rami Jaffe and Fee Waybill.
Title: The Only Way Is Up
Passage: "The Only Way Is Up" is a song written by George Jackson and Johnny Henderson and originally released in 1980 as a single by soul singer Otis Clay. In 1988, it became a chart-topping single for Yazz and the Plastic Population. The song is the official theme tune for award-winning ITV2 series "The Only Way Is Essex". The song was a favourite of M People's, who would frequently play it on their live tours. The band's lead singer, Heather Small, has described it as her favourite song, and once explained that, should she ever be anywhere, this is the song that she would sing.
Title: Mantra (Dave Grohl song)
Passage: "Mantra" is a song by Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and Trent Reznor from the 2013 album "", the soundtrack to the 2013 documentary "Sound City". Grohl was joined by different artists for different tracks as Grohl's Sound City Players. For "Mantra", the final track on the album, he was joined by Homme and Reznor. Homme also appeared on two other tracks on the album, "Centipede" and "A Trick With No Sleeve".
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April 12, 2011
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These Days (Foo Fighters song)
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Wasting Light
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True Williams was the first to illustrate which title character of a Mark Twain novel?
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Title: True Williams
Passage: Truman W. "True" Williams (March 22, 1839 – November 23, 1897) was an American artist known as the most prolific illustrator to Mark Twain's books and novels. He drew all illustrations to the first edition of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and was thus the first to illustrate such characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He was also sole illustrator of Twain's "Sketches, New and Old" and primary illustrator of "Roughing It" and "The Innocents Abroad". Working with a number of publishers he also illustrated works by writers Bill Nye, George W. Peck, Joaquin Miller, and others. His style in "Tom Sawyer" influenced E. W. Kemble's work in his illustrations to "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884).
Title: Tom Sawyer
Passage: Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), "Tom Sawyer Abroad" (1894), and "Tom Sawyer, Detective" (1896).
Title: Is He Dead?
Passage: Is He Dead? is a play by Mark Twain. Written by Twain in 1898, it was first published in print in 2003, after Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin read the manuscript in the archives of the Mark Twain Papers at the University of California at Berkeley. The play was long known to scholars but never attracted much attention until Fishkin arranged to have it published in book form. She later played a primary role in getting the play produced on Broadway. Contemporary American playwright David Ives adapted the play for the modern stage before its inaugural performance in 2007. "Is He Dead?" is now published and licensed for theatrical use by Playscripts, Inc.
Title: Shohola Falls
Passage: Shohola Falls is a 2003 novel written by Michael Pearson. The novel imagines the true story of Thomas Blankenship, the young man that Mark Twain reputedly based the character of Huck Finn upon in his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In "Shohola Falls", Mark Twain is set as an important character, the fictional reality aligned to the historical one.
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Thomas "Tom" Sawyer
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True Williams
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Tom Sawyer
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KKWQ-FM is a local radio station covering which area, that is a coextensive with Angle Township?
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Title: KKWQ-FM
Passage: KKWQ-FM 92.5, is a small local radio station broadcasting from the border town of Warroad, Minnesota. It is owned and operated by Border Broadcasting, along with sister station KRWB (AM). They share studios at 113 Lake St NW, in Warroad. The transmitter site is SW of Warroad on Country Road 12. A 100,000 watt transmitter and 460 foot tower gives them a large coverage area covering NW Minnesota, including the Northwest Angle and parts of Manitoba and Ontario.
Title: Northwest Angle
Passage: The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a part of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. Except for minor surveying errors, it is the only place in the United States outside Alaska that is north of the 49th parallel, which forms the border between the U.S. and Canada from the Northwest Angle westward to the Strait of Georgia (between the state of Washington and the province of British Columbia). The land area of the Angle is separated from the rest of Minnesota by Lake of the Woods, but shares a land border with Canada. It is one of only six non-island locations in the 48 contiguous states that are practical exclaves of the U.S. It is the northernmost township in Minnesota and contains the northernmost point in the contiguous 48 states. The unincorporated community of Angle Inlet is located in the Northwest Angle.
Title: BBC Thames Valley FM
Passage: BBC Thames Valley FM was a BBC Local Radio station covering the English counties of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, broadcasting between 1996 and 2000.
Title: WLR FM
Passage: WLR FM (Waterford Local Radio), licensed since 1989 () by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, is the local radio station covering Waterford City and County. In addition to the official franchise area, the station also enjoys a considerable listenership in South County Kilkenny and East County Cork.
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The Northwest Angle
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KKWQ-FM
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Northwest Angle
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Who worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under his pen name, Audre Lorde or John le Carré?
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Title: John le Carré
Passage: David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), known by the pseudonym John le Carré ( ), is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under his pen name. His third novel, "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.
Title: Audre Lorde
Passage: Audre Lorde ( ; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. As a poet, she is best known for technical mastery and emotional expression, as well as her poems that express anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life. Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, and the exploration of black female identity. In relation to non-intersectional feminism in the United States, Lorde famously said, "Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support."
Title: Glenmore Trenear-Harvey
Passage: Glenmore Stratton Trenear-Harvey (born 29 December 1940) is a British intelligence analyst who writes, broadcasts and lectures on the subjects of security, intelligence, espionage and terrorism. He is the editor-in-chief of the "World Intelligence Review", an associate editor of "Eye Spy" intelligence magazine, and publisher of "Intelligence Digest". Trenear-Harvey is an intelligence analyst for Sky News, and also broadcasts on NBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, France 24, Russia Today, and the BBC. He hosted the weekly show "Energy World" several times, on the satellite channel Press TV. He claims to receive regular briefings from Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Security Service (MI5) and maintains contact with former (and he claims serving) intelligence officers of the American, British, and former Soviet security and intelligence services.
Title: Control (fictional character)
Passage: Control is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Control is an intelligence officer who acts as the head of "the Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a character in the novels "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "The Looking Glass War", and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", and is referred to in several others, usually by association with le Carré's recurring protagonist George Smiley, who has served as Control's right-hand man.
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David John Moore Cornwell
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Audre Lorde
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John le Carré
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When did the British/Irish digital television channel, which features Spliced, first launch?
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Title: Spliced (TV series)
Passage: Spliced is a Canadian animated television series produced by Teletoon and Nelvana. The series made its world premiere on Jetix in Latin America on April 20, 2009. The series has aired in Canada on Teletoon, in the United States on Qubo, in Australia on ABC3, in the United Kingdom on Nicktoons, in Latin America on Disney XD, and in Sweden on Nickelodeon. The series began airing in the United States on Qubo on September 19, 2009 until the network dropped it from its lineup on October 24, 2009 but returned on September 28, 2010 as part of its "Night Owl" block and was discontinued on March 31, 2012. Beginning early in 2014, YTV began airing reruns on weekdays. In 2014, the series was added onto the "Always On" digital platform of Cartoon Network in the United States. It was removed in early 2015.
Title: Nicktoons (UK and Ireland)
Passage: Nicktoons is a British/Irish digital television channel, launched on 22 July 2002. It is a cartoon based sister channel to Nickelodeon. The channel airs Nicktoons, as well as acquired programming from outside providers. Unlike the United States version, it has been ad-supported since launch.
Title: Digital television
Passage: Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals, including the sound channel, using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier television technology, analog television, in which the video and audio are carried by analog signals. It is an innovative service that represents the first significant evolution in television technology since color television in the 1950s. Digital TV can transmit multiple channels in the same bandwidth occupied by a single channel of analog television. A switchover from analog to digital broadcasting began around 2006 in some countries, and many industrial countries have now completed the changeover, while other countries are in various stages of adaptation. Different digital television broadcasting standards have been adopted in different parts of the world; below are the more widely used standards:
Title: Chesterfield transmitting station
Passage: The Chesterfield transmitting station is a television and radio transmitter which serves the town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire and surrounding areas. It transmits digital television which it is line fed from Sheffield (Crosspool) (also known as the Tapton Hill transmitting station). The Chesterfield transmitter sits on a hillside to the north of the town and transmits digital television and radio services. Before the digital switchover, it was one of the few transmitters in the UK to transmit digital television but not analogue channel, Channel 5, and a number of its digital multiplexes were transmitted on the same channels as Emley Moor so it was not uncommon for co-channel interference to be a problem; similar problems still exist with Sutton Coldfield and Waltham (see external links). These co-channel issues with Emley meant that its output was attenuated to the North.
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22 July 2002
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Spliced (TV series)
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Nicktoons (UK and Ireland)
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The Oxus cobra contains what kind of ions for their venom to be active?
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Title: Ribonuclease V1
Passage: Ribonuclease V1 (RNase V1) is a ribonuclease enzyme found in the venom of the Caspian cobra ("Naja oxiana"). It cleaves double-stranded RNA in a non-sequence-specific manner, usually requiring a substrate of at least six stacked nucleotides. Like many ribonucleases, the enzyme requires the presence of magnesium ions for activity.
Title: Caspian cobra
Passage: The Caspian cobra ("Naja oxiana"), also called the Central Asian cobra, Oxus cobra or Russian cobra, a member of the family Elapidae found in Central Asia.
Title: Philanthotoxin
Passage: Philanthotoxins are components of the venom of the Egyptian solitary wasp "Philanthus triangulum", commonly known as the European beewolf. Philanthotoxins are polyamine toxins, a group of toxins isolated from the venom of wasps and spiders which immediately but reversibly paralyze their prey. δ-philanthotoxin, also known as PhTX-433, is the most active philanthotoxin that can be refined from the venom. PhTX-433 functions by blocking excitatory neurotransmitter ion channels, including nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (NAChRs) and ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs). While the IC values of philanthotoxins varies between analogues and receptor subunit composition, the IC value of PhTX-433 at the iGluR AMPA receptor naturally expressed in locust leg muscle is 18 μm and the IC value at rat nAChRs is 1 μm.
Title: Calsequestrin
Passage: Calsequestrin is a calcium-binding protein of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The protein helps hold calcium in the cisterna of the sarcoplasmic reticulum after a muscle contraction, even though the concentration of calcium in the sarcoplasmic reticulum is much higher than in the cytosol. It also helps the sarcoplasmic reticulum store an extraordinarily high amount of calcium ions. Each molecule of calsequestrin can bind 18 to 50 Ca ions. Sequence analysis has suggested that calcium is not bound in distinct pockets via EF-hand motifs, but rather via presentation of a charged protein surface. Two forms of calsequestrin have been identified. The cardiac form Calsequestrin-2 (CASQ2) is present in cardiac and slow skeletal muscle and the fast skeletal form Calsequestrin-1(CASQ1) is found in fast skeletal muscle. The release of calsequestrin-bound calcium (through a calcium release channel) triggers muscle contraction. The active protein is not highly structured, more than 50% of it adopting a random coil conformation. When calcium binds there is a structural change whereby the alpha-helical content of the protein increases from 3 to 11%. Both forms of calsequestrin are phosphorylated by casein kinase 2, but the cardiac form is phosphorylated more rapidly and to a higher degree. Calsequestrin is also secreted in the gut where it deprives bacteria of calcium ions. .
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magnesium
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Ribonuclease V1
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Caspian cobra
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The team Kevin Goldthwaite last played for play their home games at Providence Park since what year?
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Title: Portland Timbers
Passage: The Portland Timbers are an American professional soccer club based in Portland, Oregon. The Timbers compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The Timbers play their home games at Providence Park since 2011 when the team began play as an expansion team in the league.
Title: Kevin Goldthwaite
Passage: Kevin Goldthwaite (born December 9, 1982 in Sacramento, California) is a former American soccer player who last played for Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer.
Title: 2014 Portland State Vikings football team
Passage: The 2014 Portland State Vikings football team represented Portland State University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth year head coach Nigel Burton and played their home games at Providence Park. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 3–9, 2–6 in Big Sky play to finish in a three way tie for tenth place.
Title: 2015 Portland State Vikings football team
Passage: The 2015 Portland State Vikings football team represented Portland State University during the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by head coach Bruce Barnum and played their home games at Providence Park, with one home game at Hillsboro Stadium. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 9–3, 6–2 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the second round to Northern Iowa.
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2011
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Kevin Goldthwaite
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Portland Timbers
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Are Naser Mestarihi and Justin Sane both singer-songwriters?
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Title: Justin Sane
Passage: Justin Cathal Geever, known professionally as Justin Sane, is the lead guitarist and singer/songwriter of the United States-based musical group Anti-Flag, a punk rock band formed in 1988 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for its outspoken left-wing views. He holds dual US and Irish citizenship and lives in Pittsburgh. His stage name was bestowed upon him by friends in Pittsburgh's punk scene.
Title: Naser Mestarihi
Passage: Naser Mestarihi (Arabic: ناصر شاهر صالح المستريحي; born 14 October 1987) is a Qatari born Jordanian-Pakistani singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (guitars, bass & vocals) who is based out of Doha, Qatar and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Naser is the first rock musician to ever officially release a rock album out of Qatar, the "Naser Mestarihi EP". He released his second album "1987" on 17 June 2013.
Title: Justin Bastard Sane
Passage: Justin Bastard Sane (aka Justin Sane) is an American comic book creator, film director, puppeteer and animator. His comic books are done in a silhouette style reminiscent of early film and his movies feature sex, violence and satirical comedy.
Title: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Justice
Passage: Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Justice is the first solo album by Justin Sane, lead singer of the punk rock band Anti-Flag. The album is entirely his own work, featuring his vocal and guitar work and demonstrating obvious influence from Billy Bragg's earlier recordings. The album is about, exactly as the title simply states, life, love, and justice.
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yes
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Naser Mestarihi
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Justin Sane
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Abeliophyllum and Brillantaisia, are types of what?
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Title: Brillantaisia
Passage: Brillantaisia is a genus of plant in family Acanthaceae. They are native to the African tropics and subtropics, including Madagascar. They may grow from 20 cm to 2 m in height. Their hirsute stems are square in cross-section and their heart-shaped leaves have an opposite arrangement. Their purple or white pea-like flowers produce long, cigar-shaped seed pods. They reproduce easily from seeds or vegetatively. One species, "B. lamium", is invasive in Queensland.
Title: Abeliophyllum
Passage: Abeliophyllum, also miseonnamu, Korean abeliophyllum, white forsythia, or Korean abelialeaf) is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. It consists of one species, Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai, endemic to Korea, where it is endangered in the wild, occurring at only seven sites. It is related to "Forsythia", but differs in having white, not yellow, flowers.
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plants
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Abeliophyllum
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Brillantaisia
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Which 2004 Nickelodeon show was created by Sue Rose and starred Molly Hagan?
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Title: Molly Hagan
Passage: Molly Joan Hagan (born August 3, 1961) is an American actress. She co-starred in films "Code of Silence" (1985), "Some Kind of Wonderful" (1987), "The Dentist" (1996) and "Election" (1999), and also known for her roles in television on "Herman's Head" (1991–1994) and "Unfabulous" (2004–2007).
Title: Unfabulous
Passage: Unfabulous is an American teen sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon. The series is about an "unfabulous" middle school student and teenager named Addie Singer, played by Emma Roberts. The show, which debuted in fall 2004, was one of the most-watched programs in the United States among children between the age of 10 and 16 and was created by Sue Rose, who previously created the animated series "Pepper Ann" and "Angela Anaconda". And for co-creating the character Fido Dido with Joanna Ferrone.
Title: Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Passage: Star vs. the Forces of Evil is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation. The first episode was shown on January 18, 2015, on Disney Channel as a special preview, and the series officially premiered on March 30, 2015, on Disney XD. The show was created by Daron Nefcy, who had worked on storyboards for "Wander Over Yonder" and "Robot and Monster". Nefcy became the second woman to create an animated series for Disney Television Animation (the first being Sue Rose, who created "Pepper Ann"), and the first woman to create a Disney XD series. On February 12, 2015, Disney renewed the series for a second season prior to its premiere on Disney XD. The second season premiered on July 11, 2016. On March 4, 2016, it was renewed for a third season, with a two-hour TV movie called "The Battle for Mewni", which aired on July 15, 2017. On February 28, 2017, it was officially renewed for a fourth season.
Title: Justin Case (film)
Passage: Justin Case is a 1988 television film by Blake Edwards. George Carlin stars as a private investigator named Justin Case. Justin is found dead in his office by Jennifer Spalding (Molly Hagan) who is an out of work dancer there for an interview for a secretary/receptionist position. Justin comes back as a ghost that only Jennifer can see, and convinces her to help unravel the mystery of his murder.
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Unfabulous
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Molly Hagan
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Unfabulous
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Charles Runnington was born in a country in southern what?
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Title: Charles Runnington
Passage: Charles Runnington (1751–1821), serjeant-at-law, born in Hertfordshire on 29 August 1751 (and probably son of John Runnington, mayor of Hertford in 1754), was educated under private tutors, and after some years of special pleading was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in Hilary term 1778. He was made serjeant-at-law on 27 November 1787, and held for a time the office of deputy-judge of the Marshalsea Court. On 27 May 1815 he was appointed to the chief-commissionership in insolvency, which he resigned in 1819. He died at Brighton on 18 January 1821. Runnington married twice—in 1777, Anna Maria, youngest sister of Sir Samuel Shepherd, by whom he had a son and a daughter; secondly, in 1783, Mrs. Wetherell, widow of Charles Wetherell of Jamaica. His only son, Charles Henry Runnington, died on 20 November 1810.
Title: Hertfordshire
Passage: Hertfordshire ( ; often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south. For government statistical purposes, it is placed in the East of England region.
Title: Southern University Law Center
Passage: Southern University Law Center, a campus of the Southern University System, opened for instruction in September 1947. Its concept was born out of a response of a lawsuit by an African American resident, Charles J. Hatfield, III, seeking to attend law school at a state institution. On December 16, 1946, Louisiana State Board of Education took steps to establish a Law School for blacks at Southern University to be in operation for the 1947-1948 session. The University is a member-school of Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
Title: Constitutional history of Zimbabwe
Passage: The constitutional history of Zimbabwe starts with the arrival of white people to what was dubbed Southern Rhodesia in the 1890s. The country was initially run by an administrator appointed by the British South Africa Company. The prime ministerial role was first created in October 1923, when the country achieved responsible government, with Sir Charles Coghlan as its first Premier. The third Premier, George Mitchell, renamed the post Prime Minister in 1933.
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England
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Charles Runnington
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Hertfordshire
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Chris Vance, is an English actor, and is the second actor after which English actor, and a former model and competitive diver, to play Frank Martin?
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Title: Chris Vance (actor)
Passage: Chris Vance (born 30 December 1971) is an English actor. Vance is known for his roles as Jack Gallagher in the Fox series "Mental" and James Whistler in "Prison Break". He is the second actor after Jason Statham to play Frank Martin (in TNT's "") and has guest-starred on "Burn Notice" (as Mason Gilroy) and "Dexter". He had a recurring role as the love interest of Angie Harmon's character on "Rizzoli & Isles". He also appeared as Non on the CBS show "Supergirl".
Title: Jason Statham
Passage: Jason Statham ( born 26 July 1967) is an English actor, and a former model and competitive diver.
Title: List of Transporter: The Series episodes
Passage: "" was an English language French–Canadian action television series that ran from 2012 to 2014. Based on the "Transporter" action film franchise by Luc Besson, it featured Chris Vance in the main role as Frank Martin, the Transporter. Two seasons were produced, each comprising 12 episodes.
Title: Ed Skrein
Passage: Edward George "Ed" Skrein ( ; born 29 March 1983) is an English actor and rapper. Outside his rap career, he is best known for his roles as Daario Naharis in Season 3 of "Game of Thrones", Frank Martin Jr. in "The Transporter Refueled" and Francis Freeman/Ajax in "Deadpool" (2016).
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Jason Statham
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Chris Vance (actor)
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Jason Statham
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In which school was the fictional character in "The Simpsons" which was voice by Marcia Wallace a teacher?
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Title: Marcia Wallace
Passage: Marcia Karen Wallace (November 1, 1942 – October 25, 2013) was an American actress, voice artist, comedian, and game show panelist, primarily known for her roles in television situation comedies. She is perhaps best known for her roles as receptionist Carol Kester on the 1970s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show", and as the voice of elementary school teacher Edna Krabappel on the animated series "The Simpsons", for which she won an Emmy in 1992. The role was retired after her death.
Title: Edna Krabappel
Passage: Edna Krabappel-Flanders is a fictional character from the animated television series "The Simpsons", who was voiced by Marcia Wallace until her death in 2013. She is the teacher of Bart Simpson's 4th grade class at Springfield Elementary School, and Ned Flanders's wife in later seasons.
Title: Andy Bernard
Passage: Andrew Baines Bernard (born in 1973; Walter Bernard, Jr.) is a fictional character from the U.S. comedy television series, "The Office". Andy is portrayed by Ed Helms. He has no counterpart in the original British version of the series. He is introduced as the Regional Director in Charge of Sales at the Stamford branch of paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin in the third-season premiere when Jim Halpert transfers, ultimately merging with the Scranton branch in the episode "The Merger" later in the season. He becomes Regional Manager at the Scranton branch courtesy of Robert California in the eighth-season premiere following the departure of Michael Scott and Deangelo Vickers, although temporarily is fired and replaced by Nellie Bertram before his reinstatement by new CEO David Wallace. Although throughout the ninth season, Andy's relationship with Wallace deteriorates from Andy's lack of focus and professionalism, eventually culminating in Andy's voluntary resignation, to his reinstatement as a salesman to his eventual firing again, after Andy begs David Wallace to fire him in order to pursue a singing career. This all happens over the course of one day in "Livin' the Dream".
Title: The Simpsons Movie
Passage: The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the Fox television series "The Simpsons". The film was directed by David Silverman, and stars the regular television cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden, Marcia Wallace, Maggie Roswell and Russi Taylor, along with Tom Hanks, Green Day and Albert Brooks. The film follows Homer Simpson, whose irresponsibility gets the better of him when he pollutes the lake in Springfield after the town has cleaned it up following receipt of a warning from the Environmental Protection Agency. As the townspeople exile him and eventually his family abandons him, Homer works to redeem his folly by stopping Russ Cargill, the head of the EPA, when he intends to destroy Springfield.
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Springfield Elementary School
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Marcia Wallace
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Edna Krabappel
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Kim Warwick and Matt Lucena both play what sport?
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Title: Matt Lucena
Passage: Matt Lucena (born August 4, 1969) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He won the mixed doubles title at the 1995 US Open.
Title: Kim Warwick
Passage: Kim Warwick (born 8 April 1952) is an Australian former professional male tennis player who competed on the ATP Tour from 1970–1987 reaching the final of the singles Australian Open in 1980. He defeated over 35 players ranked in the top 10 including Guillermo Vilas, Raul Ramerez, Vitas Gerulaitis, Jan Kodeš, Bob Lutz and Arthur Ashe. Warwick's career-high singles ranking was World No. 15, achieved in 1981. He won three singles titles and 26 doubles, including Australian Open 1978 (with Wojtek Fibak) and Australian Open 1980 and 1981, Roland Garros 1986 and also a runner-up in Australian Open 1985, all of them partnering fellow countryman Mark Edmondson. Partnering with Evonne Goolagong, he won the French Open 1972, defeating Françoise Dürr and Jean-Claude Barclay in the final 6–2, 6–4. Evonne and Kim were finalists in 1972 at Wimbledon against Rosie Casals and Ilie Năstase who won 6–4, 6–4.
Title: 1980 Stella Artois Championships – Singles
Passage: John McEnroe was the defending champion and won the singles title at the 1980 Queen's Club Championships tennis tournament defeating Kim Warwick in the final 6–3, 6–1.
Title: Cedar Grove Open
Passage: The Cedar Grove Open is a defunct tennis tournament that was played on the Grand Prix tennis circuit in 1974. The event was held in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Ilie Năstase won the singles title while Kim Warwick and Steve Siegel partnered to win the doubles title.
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tennis
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Kim Warwick
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Matt Lucena
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Which author is known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books: Lucy Maud Montgomery or Jan Karon?
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Title: Jan Karon
Passage: Jan Karon is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers. She is the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Mitford novels, featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest, and the fictional village of Mitford. Her most recent Mitford novel, "Come Rain or Come Shine", debuted at #1 on the "New York Times" Bestseller List. She has been designated a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy (Illinois) by Keith Ackerman, Episcopal Bishop of Quincy, and in 2015, she was awarded the Library of Virginia's Literary Lifetime Achievement Award. Her original papers-to date are archived in Special Collections at the University of Virginia's Alderman Library.
Title: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Passage: Lucy Maud Montgomery {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942) published as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with "Anne of Green Gables". The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
Title: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Passage: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story was a 2000 mini-series television film, and the third installment in a series of four films. The film was highly anticipated among fans of "Anne of Green Gables". It borrowed characters from the "Anne of Green Gables" novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It served as a sequel to two mini-series produced by CBC Television in the 1980s. It was the most controversial and heavily criticized of the three film adaptations written and produced by Kevin Sullivan.
Title: Anne of Green Gables (miniseries)
Passage: Anne of Green Gables (1972) is a made-for-television British mini-series directed by Joan Craft based upon the novel "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Jan Karon
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Which award did the star of The Nativity Story win at the 2004 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards?
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Title: The Nativity Story
Passage: The Nativity Story is a 2006 biblical drama film based on the nativity of Jesus, directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Keisha Castle-Hughes and Oscar Isaac. The film was released on December 1, 2006 after it premiered in Vatican City November 27, 2006. "The Nativity Story" was the first film to hold its world premiere in Vatican City.
Title: Keisha Castle-Hughes
Passage: Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is a New Zealand actress who rose to prominence for playing Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the film "Whale Rider". The film was nominated for many awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress (at the time the youngest person nominated in the Best Actress category) and an award at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Young Actor/Actress, which she won in 2004.
Title: Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Passage: The Critics' Choice Movie Awards (formerly known as the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award) is an awards show presented annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Written ballots are submitted during a week-long nominating period, and the resulting nominees are announced in December. The winners chosen by subsequent voting are revealed at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards ceremony in January. Additional, special awards are given out at the discretion of the BFCA Board of Directors.
Title: The Gaucho War
Passage: The Gaucho War (La guerra gaucha) is a 1942 Silver Condor award winning Argentine historical drama and epic film directed by Lucas Demare and starring Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, and Amelia Bence. The film's script, written by Homero Manzi and Ulyses Petit de Murat, is based on the novel by Leopoldo Lugones published in 1905. The film premiered in Buenos Aires on November 20, 1942 and is considered by critics of Argentine cinema to be one of the most successful films in history. It won three Silver Condor awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Lucas Demare), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ulises Petit de Murat and Homero Manzior), given by the Argentine Film Critics Association at the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards for the best films and performances of the previous year.
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Best Young Actor/Actress
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The Nativity Story
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Keisha Castle-Hughes
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La Valentina starred the actress who was the second wife of which actor?
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Title: Esperanza Baur
Passage: Esperanza Baur Díaz (born Esperanza Díaz Ceballos; c. 1924 – March 11, 1961) was a Mexican actress, and was the second wife of John Wayne.
Title: La Valentina (1938 film)
Passage: La Valentina is a Mexican musical drama film directed by Martín de Lucenay and starring Jorge Negrete and Esperanza Baur. The film was remade in 1966 as "La Valentina" starring María Félix and Eulalio González.
Title: Leg of mutton nude
Passage: Double Nude Portrait: The Artist and his Second Wife 1937 (also known as the Leg of mutton nude portrait) is an oil on canvas painting by British artist Stanley Spencer. It depicts Spencer and his soon-to-be second wife, Patricia Preece, beside a raw leg of lamb. The painting is sexually charged: Spencer's second wife was a lesbian in a long-term relationship when they married, and their marriage was never consummated. The painting is held by the Tate Gallery, which describes it as "probably now Spencer's most famous picture".
Title: Polygamy in Morocco
Passage: Polygamy in Morocco is legal, but very uncommon due to restrictions that were introduced by the government in 2004 that mandated financial qualifications a husband must meet in order to marry a second wife. In addition, a husband must have written permission from his current wife before marrying a second wife. Breaking these rules and marrying without permission from one's current wife can and has resulted in arrests.
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John Wayne
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La Valentina (1938 film)
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Esperanza Baur
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Effie Crockett is credited with creating the song that was based on what English ballad?
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Title: Rock-a-bye Baby
Passage: 'Rock-a-bye Baby' is a nursery rhyme and lullaby. The melody is a variant of the English satirical ballad Lillibullero . It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 2768.
Title: Effie Crockett
Passage: Effie Crockett (1857 - January 7, 1940), also known as Effie I. Canning, also known as Effie C. Carlton, was an American actress. She is credited with having written and composed the lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby"; by some accounts she created the song in 1872 while babysitting. Because of "Rock-a-bye Baby", she is credited in over 100 films, many made decades after her death.
Title: Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale
Passage: Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale is a traditional English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad No. 138 and as Roud Folk Song Index No. 3298.
Title: The World Turned Upside Down
Passage: "The World Turned Upside Down" is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas. Parliament believed the holiday should be a solemn occasion, and outlawed traditional English Christmas celebrations. There are several versions of the lyrics. It is sung to the tune of another ballad, ""When the king enjoys his own again"".
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Lillibullero
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Effie Crockett
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Rock-a-bye Baby
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Who was the director of the film which had "Held" on its soundtrack?
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Title: High Fidelity (film)
Passage: High Fidelity is a 2000 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears. It stars John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, and Lisa Bonet. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the name of the lead character changed.
Title: Knock Knock (album)
Passage: Knock Knock is the seventh album by Bill Callahan (also known as Smog), released in January 1999 on Drag City and by Domino in Europe. The album is the fourth and final collaboration with the producer and musician Jim O'Rourke. "Knock Knock" elaborates Callahan's sound and provides twists and edges to the folky style of its predecessor. " Held" was the first single, followed by "Cold Blooded Old Times", which later appeared on the "High Fidelity" film soundtrack, thereby attracting some attention to Callahan's work. Other soundtrack appearances include "Teenage Spaceship" in "Crazy" (2000, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid) and "Hit the Ground Running" in "Swimming" (2000, directed by Robert J. Siegel). The album was accompanied by the release of the single "Look Now", with the two Japanese bonus tracks.
Title: Orange (2010 soundtrack)
Passage: Orange is the soundtrack to the 2010 Telugu romantic film of the same name, directed by Bhaskar and starring Ram Charan, Genelia D'Souza and Shazahn Padamsee. The soundtrack album includes six tracks composed by Harris Jayaraj marking his first collaboration with Bhaskar and Ram Charan. The soundtrack album was released on October 26, 2010. The release coincided with a promotional event held at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad, India. It was released and marketed by Aditya Music. The audio of its Tamil dubbed Version "Ram Charan" was launched at 4 Frames Theater in Chennai. The album was positively received and was nominated at major award ceremonies.
Title: The Crow: Salvation (soundtrack)
Passage: The soundtrack to the third in the "Crow" film series, album is once again compiled and produced by Jeff Most. As with the soundtrack to "", "Salvation" includes an otherwise unavailable cover version by Hole: this time of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". Several other contemporary big-name artists are also included, indicating that even at this late stage in the series, The "Crow" brand name still held a certain cache within the grunge / industrial / gothic rock scene. This would not extend to the fourth film, "" however, for which no soundtrack album was ever released.
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Stephen Frears
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Knock Knock (album)
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High Fidelity (film)
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Björn Ulvaeus was a part of a Swedish pop group, formed in Stockholm in 1972, as well as co-producer on the film "Mamma Mia!" with who?
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Title: ABBA
Passage: ABBA (] ) were a Swedish pop group, formed in Stockholm in 1972 by members Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982. ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 at The Dome in Brighton, UK, giving Sweden its first triumph in the contest, and are the most successful group to have ever taken part in the competition.
Title: Björn Ulvaeus
Passage: Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (] ) (born 25 April 1945; credited as Björn Ulvæus) is a Swedish songwriter, producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972–1982), and co-composer of the musicals "Chess", "Kristina från Duvemåla", and "Mamma Mia! ". He co-produced the film "Mamma Mia!" with fellow ABBA member and close friend Benny Andersson.
Title: Mamma Mia (song)
Passage: "Mamma Mia" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with the lead vocals shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. It is the opening track on the group's third album, the self-titled "ABBA". The song's name is derived from Italian, where it is an interjection used in situations of surprise, anguish, or excitement, which corresponds to the English interjection "my" but literally means "My mommy". The interjection "my my" can be found indeed in some lines within the song.
Title: Mamma Mia! (film)
Passage: Mamma Mia! (promoted as Mamma Mia! The Movie) is a 2008 British-American-Swedish musical romantic comedy film adapted from the 1999 West End/2001 Broadway musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson. The film was directed by Phyllida Lloyd and distributed by Universal Pictures in partnership with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson's Playtone and Littlestar, and the title originates from ABBA's 1975 chart-topper "Mamma Mia". Meryl Streep heads the cast, playing the role of single mother Donna Sheridan. Pierce Brosnan (Sam Carmichael), Colin Firth (Harry Bright), and Stellan Skarsgård (Bill Anderson) play the three possible fathers to Donna's daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried). "Mamma Mia!" received mixed reviews from critics and earned $609.8 million on a $52 million budget.
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Benny Andersson
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ABBA
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Björn Ulvaeus
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An American theoretical physicist who worked in particle physics and cosmology, she was also known as the Frank B. Baird, Jr., was a former guest on a podcast that was described as "a think tank promoting science, reason, and secular values in public policy and at the grass roots"; when was that podcast started?
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Title: Lisa Randall
Passage: Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist working in particle physics and cosmology. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University. Her research includes elementary particles, fundamental forces and extra dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of extra dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. She contributed to the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.
Title: Point of Inquiry
Passage: Point of Inquiry is the radio show and flagship podcast of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), "a think tank promoting science, reason, and secular values in public policy and at the grass roots". Started in 2005, "Point of Inquiry" has consistently been ranked among the best science podcasts available in iTunes. It has been celebrated for its guests and for the quality of its interviews. Former guests include leading scientists, writers and public intellectuals such as Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Paul Krugman, Lisa Randall, Brian Greene, Oliver Sacks, Susan Jacoby, David Brin and Temple Grandin.
Title: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Passage: The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, also known as the Baker Institute, is an American think tank on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1993, it functions as a nonpartisan center for public policy research. According to the "2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report" (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), the institute is No. 18 (of 60) in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States" and No. 4 (of 45) of the "Best University Affiliated Thanks". Its Center for Energy Studies is ranked No. 2 (of 55) among the world’s energy- and resource-policy think tanks, according to the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program’s 2015 Index Report. It is named for James A. Baker, III, former United States secretary of state and secretary of the Treasury. The institute's director Edward P. Djerejian is the former United States ambassador to Israel and Syria and assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs. The institute's board of advisors include William Barnett (Chair), Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Rice University's President David Leebron.
Title: Matthew Kleban
Passage: Matthew Benjamin Kleban is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory and theoretical cosmology. He is an associate professor at New York University, a member of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, and a former member at the Institute for Advanced Study. His contributions to physics include:
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2005
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Point of Inquiry
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Lisa Randall
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What was the 2013 population of the country Fujairah College is located in?
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Title: United Arab Emirates
Passage: The United Arab Emirates ( ; UAE; Arabic: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة "Dawlat al-Imārāt al-'Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah "), sometimes simply called the Emirates (Arabic: الإمارات "al-Imārāt "), is a federal absolute monarchy in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north. In 2013, the UAE's population was 9.2 million, of which 1.4 million are Emirati citizens and 7.8 million are expatriates.
Title: Fujairah College
Passage: University Of Fujairah (UOF) is a higher education institution in the city of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Title: Dibba Al-Fujairah
Passage: Dibba Al-Fujairah (دبا الفجيرة) is a major city in the emirate of Fujairah located on the North east part of the United Arab Emirates. It is geographically part of the Dibba region. Dibba Al-Fujairah is considered to be the 2nd largest city in the emirate of Fujairah. With an area of 600 square kilometres, Dibba Al-Fujairah has a population of 30,000.
Title: Dadna
Passage: Dadna (Arabic: ضدنا) is a village in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, located 45 km north of the city centre. The area's economy has depended since ancient times on agriculture and fishing, in which much of the population works today. The village is known for its large supply of water and has been a site for many farms of the royal families across the Emirates.
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9.2 million
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Fujairah College
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United Arab Emirates
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What is the instrument played by the instrumentalist with whom Taj Mahal and N. Ravikiran made Mumtaz Mahal?
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Title: Mumtaz Mahal (album)
Passage: Mumtaz Mahal is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal, N. Ravikiran and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.
Title: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Passage: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, also known as V. M. Bhatt (born 27 July 1950), is Grammy-winning Hindustani classical music instrumentalist who plays the Mohan Veena (slide guitar).
Title: Taj Mahal replicas and derivatives
Passage: The Taj Mahal, an iconic structure in India, has inspired numerous replicas and derivatives. "The Taj", informally, is now a major tourist attraction in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, and has been regarded as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Since 1632, when Mughal emperor Shah Jahan began building the Taj to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, it has inspired many notable replicas, and major derivative structures include a 1678-started project of the emperor's grandson. Some are intended to be scale models or otherwise to be more or less faithful copies, and others are designed with mild or extreme interpretations of the Taj's architecture adapted to serve other purposes.
Title: Taj Mahal (1963 film)
Passage: Taj Mahal is a 1963 film based on the historical legend of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. As per the legend Shah Jahan created the Taj Mahal in fond remembrance and as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.
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Mohan Veena (slide guitar)
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Mumtaz Mahal (album)
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Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
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What year saw the founding of the baseball team where Hal McRae played from 1973-87?
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Title: Kansas City Royals
Passage: The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member team of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expansion franchise in 1969, and has participated in four World Series, winning in 1985 and 2015, and losing in 1980 and 2014.
Title: Hal McRae
Passage: Harold Abraham McRae ( ; born July 10, 1945) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1968, 1970–72) and Kansas City Royals (1973–87). Utilized as a designated hitter for most of his career, McRae batted and threw right-handed. He is the father of former major league outfielder Brian McRae.
Title: Bruno Thiry
Passage: He began his career as an amateur in 1981, driving a Simca, and quickly became very successful in the Belgian Rally Championship. by 1991 to 1993, he joined the GME team that contested only in some selected World Rally Championship (WRC) events and in non-WRC events. In 1992, he managed a first podium finish for him on the final running of the notorious Rallye Côte d'Ivoire and finished second in an ex-works Opel Kadett GSI. The following year saw Thiry win some WRC events in an Opel Astra in the F2 category and brought GME its first manufacturer's title of the inaugural FIA 2-Litre World Cup in 1993. 1994, the year saw Thiry join the Ford team to contest the WRC, driving a Ford Escort RS Cosworth. In these years, he managed several third places; in the RAC Rally in 1994 and in Rally San Remo and the Rally Catalunya in 1996. He finished fifth overall in the WRC standings in 1994.
Title: Bud Middaugh
Passage: Forest L. "Bud" Middaugh (born c. 1939) is a former American baseball coach. He was the head baseball coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio from 1968 to 1979 and at the University of Michigan from 1980 to 1989. He compiled a record of 359-173 at Miami, leading the Redhawks to three Mid-American Conference championships and four appearances in the NCAA playoffs. In 1980, he became the head coach at Michigan. In ten years as the head coach at Michigan, he led the Michigan Wolverines baseball team to a 465–146–1 record, seven Big Ten Conference championships and four appearances in the College World Series. He developed several Major League Baseball players at Michigan, including Barry Larkin, Chris Sabo, Hal Morris, Scott Kamieniecki, and Jim Abbott. Middaugh resigned as Michigan's baseball coach in June 1989 after it was revealed that he had given money collected by selling programs at football games to members of the Michigan baseball team. Middaugh was inducted into the Miami University Hall of Fame in 1981. Middaugh began his coaching career at Lorain Admiral King High School in Lorain, Ohio. In three years at Admiral King, Middaugh compiled a record of 52–14 and coached his team to a Cleveland district championship and a Buckeye Conference championship.
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1969
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Hal McRae
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Kansas City Royals
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What is the Soninke language meaning of the name of the democracy that is home to Kumasi Airport?
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Title: Kumasi Airport
Passage: Kumasi International Airport (IATA: KMS, ICAO: DGSI) is an international airport in Ghana serving Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region. It is the busiest airport on the Ashantiland Peninsula. Kumasi International Airport is located 6 kilometres (4 mi) from Kumasi.
Title: Ghana
Passage: Ghana ( ), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km², Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. "Ghana" means "Warrior King" in the Soninke language.
Title: Linguistics
Passage: Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. The earliest activities in the documentation and description of language have been attributed to the 4th century BCE Indian grammarian Pāṇini, who wrote a formal description of the Sanskrit language in his "Aṣṭādhyāyī ".
Title: Soninke people
Passage: The Soninke, also called Sarakole, Seraculeh, or Serahuli, are a West African ethnic group found in eastern Senegal and its capital Dakar, northwestern Mali and Foute Djalon in Guinea, and southern Mauritania. They speak the Soninke language, also called "Maraka" language, which is one of the Mande languages.
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"Warrior King"
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Kumasi Airport
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Ghana
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Shere Khan is a fictional Bengal tiger that was the main antagonist in Rudyard Kipling's book titled what?
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Title: Shere Khan
Passage: Shere Khan (Hindi: शेर खान ; Urdu: شیر خان ) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book" and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word "Shere" (or ""shir"") translates as "tiger" and "Khan" is a title of distinction, used together "to show that he is chief among tigers." Other sources indicate "Shere" may mean "tiger" or "lion" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi, and that "Khan" translates as "king", or "leader", in a number of languages influenced by the Mongols, including Pashto and Urdu. The name may have originated from the nickname of the Afghan origin King who once ruled in India, Sher Shah Suri.
Title: The Jungle Book (2016 film)
Passage: The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film, directed and co-produced by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and written by Justin Marks. Based on Rudyard Kipling's eponymous collective works and inspired by Walt Disney's 1967 animated film of the same name, "The Jungle Book" is a live-action/CGI film that tells the story of Mowgli, an orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan. The film introduces Neel Sethi as Mowgli and also features the voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Christopher Walken.
Title: White tiger
Passage: The white tiger or bleached tiger is a pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger, which is reported in the wild from time to time in the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal and Bihar in the Sunderbans region and especially in the former State of Rewa. Such a tiger has the black stripes typical of the Bengal tiger, but carries a white or near-white coat.
Title: Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)
Passage: Naulakha, also known as the Rudyard Kipling House, is a historic Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vermont, a few miles outside Brattleboro. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who had it built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896. It is in this house that Kipling wrote "Captains Courageous", "The Jungle Book", "The Day's Work", and "The Seven Seas", and did work on "Kim" and "The Just So Stories". Kipling named the house after the Naulakha Pavilion, situated inside Lahore Fort in Pakistan. The house is now owned by the Landmark Trust, and is available for rent.
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The Jungle Book
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The Jungle Book (2016 film)
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Shere Khan
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Biographic is a weekly comics feature by award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Steve McGarry, the feature is syndicated by Universal Uclick and appears in such publications as The Toronto Sun, an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, in which country?
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Title: Toronto Sun
Passage: The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and its populist conservative editorial stance.
Title: Biographic (comics)
Passage: Biographic is a weekly comics feature by award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Steve McGarry. Launched in 2005, the feature is syndicated by Universal Uclick and appears in such publications as the "New York Daily News", the "Boston Herald", the "Toronto Sun", Hong Kong's "Daily Young Post", India's "Mail Today", Tokyo's "Mainichi Weekly", the "Bangkok Post Student Weekly", and South Africa's "People Magazine".
Title: Le Journal de Montréal
Passage: Le Journal de Montréal is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest-circulating newspaper in Quebec, and the highest-circulating French-language daily newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by Quebecor Media, and is hence a sister publication of TVA flagship CFTM-DT. It is also Canada's largest tabloid newspaper. Its head office is located on 4545 Frontenac Street in Montreal.
Title: Steve McGarry
Passage: Steve McGarry is a British cartoonist whose work includes the comic strips "Badlands", "Pop Culture", "Biographic", "Trivquiz", "Kid Town" and "Mullets". His sports features are syndicated worldwide and his client list has included most major soccer magazines, including Shoot (football magazine), Match (magazine), Match of the Day, Match (magazine) and kicker Sportmagazin. As a story artist, he worked on the movies Despicable Me 2, Minions (film), The Secret Life of Pets, and on the Electronic Arts mobile game Minions Paradise.
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Canada
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Biographic (comics)
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Toronto Sun
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What other country was the queen who launched Dannebrog, also a queen for between 1918 and 1944?
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Title: HDMY Dannebrog (A540)
Passage: Her Danish Majesty's Yacht "Dannebrog" (A540) (Danish: "KDM Dannebrog" ) was launched by Queen Alexandrine at Copenhagen in 1931, and commissioned on 26 May 1932. The yacht now serves as the official and private residence for Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, the Prince Consort, and members of the Royal Family when they are on official visits overseas and on summer cruises in Danish waters. When at sea, the Royal Yacht also participates in surveillance and sea-rescue services.
Title: Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Passage: Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (24 December 1879 – 28 December 1952) was Queen of Denmark as the spouse of King Christian X. She was also Queen of Iceland from 1 December 1918 to 17 June 1944.
Title: Gwyn Avenue–Bridge Street Historic District
Passage: Gwyn Avenue–Bridge Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Elkin, Surry County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 124 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of Elkin. They were primarily built between about 1891 and 1955 and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Notable buildings include the Elkin Presbyterian Church (1937, 1944, 1950, 1955, 1961), First Baptist Church (1955, 1968), Alexander Martin Smith House (1893–1897) designed by George Franklin Barber, the Gwyn-Chatham-Gwyn House (c. 1872, 1911, 1936), Richard Gwyn Smith House (c. 1918), and Mason Lillard House (c. 1910).
Title: Sapphire Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
Passage: On 6 February 2017, the Sapphire Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, marking sixty-five years of her reign, occurred. The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch to have a sapphire jubilee. This Jubilee featured blue stamps from the Royal Mail, commemorative coins from the Royal Mint, and a reissue of an official 2014 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by David Bailey. In this official portrait the Queen wears sapphire jewellery which she received as a wedding present from her father. The Jubilee also involved a gun salute at the Tower of London, a gun salute in Green Park, gun salutes in several other places around the United Kingdom, and the ringing of the bells in Westminster Abbey. Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, congratulated Queen Elizabeth II in regard to the occasion, saying in part, "I know the nation will join with me today in celebrating and giving thanks for the lifetime of service Her Majesty the Queen has given to our country and to the Commonwealth."
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Iceland
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HDMY Dannebrog (A540)
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Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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Makers: Women Who Make America featured an interview with what talk who host, who was dubbed the "Queen of all Media"?
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Title: Oprah Winfrey
Passage: Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show", which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is North America's first multi-billionaire black person. Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
Title: Makers: Women Who Make America
Passage: Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013. "Makers" features interviews with women from all social strata, from politicians like Hillary Clinton and television stars like Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey, to flight attendants, coal miners and phone company workers.
Title: Talk Soup
Passage: Talk Soup is a television show produced for cable network E! that debuted on January 7, 1991, and aired until August 2002. "Talk Soup" aired selected clips of the previous day's daily talk shows—ranging from daytime entries like "The Jerry Springer Show" and to celebrity interview shows like "The Tonight Show"—surrounded by humorous commentary delivered by the host. Although "Talk Soup" poked fun at the talk shows, it also advertised the topics and guests of upcoming broadcasts. Despite this, several talk shows, including "The Oprah Winfrey Show", refused to allow clips of their shows to be shown on the series. During its run, "Talk Soup" was nominated for five Daytime Emmy Awards, winning once in 1995 for Outstanding Special Class Program. It remains the only E! show to ever win an Emmy. A show based on it, "The Soup", aired from 2004 to 2015.
Title: Dyllan McGee
Passage: Dyllan McGee is a documentary filmmaker and founder of McGee Media. In partnership with Peter Kunhardt, McGee produced "Gloria: In Her Own Words” (HBO), “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” (PBS), "MAKERS: Women Who Make America” and many more. McGee is the Founder and Executive Producer of AOL’s MAKERS.
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Oprah Winfrey
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Makers: Women Who Make America
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Oprah Winfrey
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What professor of mathematics authored the book Fashionable Nonsense?
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Title: Fashionable Nonsense
Passage: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (French: "Impostures Intellectuelles" ), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to "Social Text", a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published.
Title: Alan Sokal
Passage: Alan David Sokal ( ; born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He is best known to the wider public for his criticism of postmodernism, after the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University's "Social Text". He also works to counter faulty scientific reasoning, as seen with his involvement in criticising the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology.
Title: P. K. Srinivasan
Passage: P.K. Srinivasan (PKS) (November 4, 1924 – June 20, 2005) was a well known mathematics teacher in India. He taught mathematics at the Muthialpet High School in Chennai, India until his retirement. His singular dedication to education of mathematics would bring him to the United States, where he worked for a year, and then to Nigeria, where he would work for six years. He is known in India for his dedication to teaching mathematics and in creating pioneering awareness of the Indian mathematician Ramanujan. He has authored several books in English, Telugu and Tamil that introduce mathematics to children in novel and interesting ways. He was also a prominent reviewer of math books in the weekly "Book Review" column of the Indian newspaper The Hindu in Chennai.
Title: Károly Bezdek
Passage: Károly Bezdek (born May 28, 1955 in Budapest, Hungary), is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician. He is a professor as well as a Canada Research Chair of mathematics and the director of the Centre for Computational and Discrete Geometry at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada. Also he is a professor (on leave) of mathematics at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary. His main research interests are in geometry in particular, in combinatorial, computational, convex, and discrete geometry. He has authored 2 books and more than 120 research papers. He is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the e-journal Contributions to Discrete Mathematics (CDM).
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Alan Sokal
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Fashionable Nonsense
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Alan Sokal
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Mathilde Ludendorff was the wife of the German General who was victorious at which two battles?
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Title: Erich Ludendorff
Passage: Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, the victor of the Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg. From August 1916, his appointment as Quartermaster general ("Erster Generalquartiermeister") made him the leader (along with Paul von Hindenburg) of the German war efforts during World War I until his resignation in October 1918, just before the end of hostilities.
Title: Mathilde Ludendorff
Passage: Mathilde Friederike Karoline Ludendorff (born Mathilde Spiess; 4 October 1877 in Wiesbaden – 24 June 1966 in Tutzing) was a German psychiatrist. Her third husband was General Erich Ludendorff. She was a leading figure in the Völkisch movement known for her esoteric and conspiratorial ideas. Together with Ludendorff, she founded the
Title: Princess Mathilde of Saxony (b. 1936)
Passage: Princess Mathilde of Saxony, Duchess of Saxony (German: "Mathilde Maria Josepha Anna Xaveria, Prinzessin von Sachsen, Herzogin zu Sachsen" ; born 17 January 1936 in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany) is a Princess of Saxony and member of the House of Wettin by birth and a Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as consort to Prince Johannes Heinrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Mathilde is the fifth and youngest child of Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen and his wife, Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis, and a younger sister of Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, the late head of the Royal House of Saxony and senior claimant to the defunct throne of the Kingdom of Saxony.
Title: Operation Michael
Passage: Operation "Michael" was a major German military offensive during the First World War that began the Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France. Its goal was to break through the Allied (Entente) lines and advance in a north-westerly direction to seize the Channel ports, which supplied the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and to drive the BEF into the sea. Two days later General Ludendorff, the Chief of the German General Staff, changed his plan and pushed for an offensive due west, along the whole of the British front north of the River Somme. This was designed to separate the French and British Armies and crush the British forces by pushing them into the sea. The offensive ended at Villers-Bretonneux, to the east of the Allied communications centre at Amiens, where the Allies managed to halt the German advance; the German Armies had suffered many casualties and were unable to maintain supplies to the advancing troops.
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Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg
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Mathilde Ludendorff
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Erich Ludendorff
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Seimas ("Sejm", "Sojm", Belarusian: Сойм ) was an early parliament in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, The Union of Lublin created a new state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and joined the Seimas of Lithuania with Sejm of Poland into one organization, the bicameral parliament of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is officially titled what?
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Title: Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Passage: The general sejm (Polish: "sejm walny" , also translated as the full or ordinary sejm) was the bicameral parliament of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was established by the Union of Lublin in 1569 from the merger of the Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland and the Seimas of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia. It was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance in the Commonwealth (see Golden Liberty). The sejm was a powerful political institution and the king could not pass laws without the approval of that body.
Title: Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Passage: Seimas ("Sejm", "Sojm", Belarusian: Сойм ) was an early parliament in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was active from 1445 to 1569, when it was officially abolished by the Union of Lublin. The Seimas was an irregular gathering of the Lithuanian nobility, called as needed by the Grand Duke or during an interregnum by the Lithuanian Council of Lords (an early government). The meetings would usually last one or two weeks. Seimas gradually evolved from a meeting of the most powerful magnates to a full legislative institution representing all of the nobility. The Seimas was not the main political player as it was overshadowed by the Council of Lords. The Union of Lublin created a new state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and joined the Seimas of Lithuania with Sejm of Poland into one Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. However, the Seimas continued to convene under the name of Lithuanian Convocation. In total there were 40 Seimas and 37 Convocations.
Title: Grodno Sejm
Passage: Grodno Sejm (Polish: "Sejm grodzieński" ; Belarusian: Гарадзенскі сойм ; Lithuanian: "Gardino seimas" ) was the last Sejm (session of parliament) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Grodno Sejm, held in fall of 1793 in Grodno, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now Hrodna, Belarus) is infamous because its deputies, bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire, passed the act of Second Partition of Poland. The Sejm started on 17 June and ended on 23 November 1793. It ratified the division of the country in a futile attempt to prevent its subsequent complete annexation two years later in the 1795 Third Partition of Poland.
Title: Lipka Tatars
Passage: The Lipka Tatars (also known as Lithuanian Tatars, Polish Tatars, "Lipkowie", "Lipcani" or "Muślimi") are a group of Tatars who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century. The first settlers tried to preserve their shamanistic religion and sought asylum amongst the non-Christian Lithuanians. Towards the end of the 14th century, another wave of Tatars – this time, Muslims, were invited into the Grand Duchy by Vytautas the Great. These Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna and Kaunas and later spread to other parts of the Grand Duchy that later became part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. These areas comprise present-day Lithuania, Belarus and Poland. From the very beginning of their settlement in Lithuania they were known as the Lipka Tatars. While maintaining their religion, they united their fate with that of the mainly Christian Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. From the Battle of Grunwald onwards the Lipka Tatar light cavalry regiments participated in every significant military campaign of Lithuania and Poland.
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Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Lee Mi-sook (born April 2, 1960) is a South Korean actress, one of the best-known actresses of 1980s Korean cinema, Lee's most famous films from this era include which of Lee Doo-yong's, 1986 South Korean drama filmLee Mi-sook (born April 2, 1960) is a South Korean actress, one of the best-known actresses of 1980s Korean cinema, Lee's most famous films from this era include which of Lee Doo-yong's, 1986 South Korean drama film, Mulberry, based on the eponymous classic story, by who?
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Title: Mulberry (film)
Passage: Mulberry () is a 1986 South Korean drama film directed by Lee Doo-yong. Based on the eponymous classic story by Na Do-hyang, the film became known for its erotic subject matter, made possible by the government's gradual relaxation of censorship and control over the film industry during the 1980s. It was part of the wave of "Folk erotic" films that had become popular in South Korea at this time.
Title: Lee Mi-sook
Passage: Lee Mi-sook (born April 2, 1960) is a South Korean actress. One of the best-known actresses of 1980s Korean cinema, Lee's most famous films from this era include Bae Chang-ho's "Whale Hunting" and "The Winter That Year Was Warm", Lee Doo-yong's "Mulberry" and "Eunuch", and Kwak Ji-kyoon's "Wanderer in Winter". She retired from film after getting married in 1987, though she still appeared on television in dramas such as "How's Your Husband?" (1993). Then a decade later, Lee made her comeback with an award-winning leading role in E J-yong's feature debut "An Affair" (1998). She has since remained active in film and television, notably in the May–December romance "Solitude" (2002), the "Dangerous Liaisons" adaptation "Untold Scandal" (2003), the mockumentary "Actresses" (2009), and the family dramas "Smile, Mom" (2010)
Title: The Last Witness (1980 film)
Passage: The Last Witness () is a 1980 South Korean mystery film directed by Lee Doo-yong, based on the 1974 novel of the same title by Kim Seong-jong. When the film was originally released, a 40-minute portion was cut due to censorship laws of that time. A remake with the same title was released in 2001.
Title: Mulleya Mulleya
Passage: Mulleya Mulleya ( ; also known as Spinning the Tales of Cruelty Towards Women), is a 1984 South Korean film directed by Lee Doo-yong. It was chosen as Best Film at the Grand Bell Awards. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Na Do-hyang
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Lee Mi-sook
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Mulberry (film)
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Elwyn McRoy is an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball assistant coach at Coppin State University, a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland, in which country?
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Title: Coppin State University
Passage: Coppin State University is a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is part of the University System of Maryland. The University is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
Title: Elwyn McRoy
Passage: Elwyn McRoy is an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball assistant coach at Coppin State University.
Title: Mickie DeMoss
Passage: Mickie Faye DeMoss (born October 3, 1955) is an American college basketball coach and former player. She became women's basketball assistant coach at Louisiana State University on May 17, 2016. She is the former women's head coach at the University of Florida and the University of Kentucky. She is also a former assistant coach at Louisiana Tech University, University of Tennessee, University of Texas, Auburn University, Memphis State University, and the WNBA's Indiana Fever.
Title: Mitch Buonaguro
Passage: Mitch Buonaguro (born December 4, 1953) is an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball assistant coach at Fairfield University.
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United States
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Elwyn McRoy
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Coppin State University
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Who won an award first, the Brothers Quay or Alexandra Shiva?
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Title: Alexandra Shiva
Passage: Alexandra Elizabeth Shiva is an American film producer and director. "Bombay Eunuch" is her 2001 award-winning film, and in 2015 she showed "How to Dance in Ohio" at the Sundance Film Festival in the US Documentary Competition. Shiva also founded a production studio called Gidalya Pictures.
Title: Brothers Quay
Passage: Stephen and Timothy Quay ( ; born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators. They are also the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play "The Chairs".
Title: Institute Benjamenta
Passage: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, released in 1996, was the first feature-length film by the Brothers Quay, produced by Keith Griffiths and Janine Marmot. It is based on "Jakob von Gunten", a novel written by Robert Walser. It stars Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, and Gottfried John.
Title: The Sandman (2000 film)
Passage: The Sandman is a 2000 dance film made by the Brothers Quay and William Tuckett. A televised ballet, it starsTamara Rojo, Irek Mukhamedov, Zenaida Yanowsky, and Heathcote Williams. It is loosely based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Sandman".
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Brothers Quay
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Brothers Quay
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Alexandra Shiva
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Catherine Louise Sagal (born January 19, 1954) is an American actress and singer-songwriter, she's know as well for starring in the role of Cate Hennessy, on the show "8 Simple Rules", is an American sitcom, originally starring who as the father?
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Title: Katey Sagal
Passage: Catherine Louise Sagal (born January 19, 1954) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Peggy Bundy, Al's sarcastic, lazy, bon bon-eating wife, on "Married... with Children" and for her role voicing the character Leela on the animated science-fiction series "Futurama" from 1999 to 2003 and 2008 to 2013, as well as for starring on the show "8 Simple Rules" in the role of Cate Hennessy. In the latter role, she worked with John Ritter until his death, leading to Sagal's taking over as the series lead for the remainder of the show's run. Sagal has been married to "Sons of Anarchy" creator Kurt Sutter since 2004. Currently, Sagal is a series regular on CBS's Superior Donuts.
Title: 8 Simple Rules
Passage: 8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom, originally starring John Ritter and Katey Sagal as middle-class parents Paul and Cate Hennessy raising a family of three. Kaley Cuoco, Amy Davidson and Martin Spanjers co-starred as their teenage kids; Bridget, Kerry and Rory Hennessy. The series ran on ABC from September 17, 2002 to April 15, 2005. The first season focused on Paul being left in charge of the kids after Cate takes a full-time job as a nurse, with comedic emphasis on his often strict rules concerning his daughters and dating. The series' name and premise were derived from the book "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And Other Tips from a Beleaguered Father (Not That Any of Them Work)" by W. Bruce Cameron.
Title: List of 8 Simple Rules episodes
Passage: "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 17, 2002 to April 15, 2005. Loosely based on humor columnist W. Bruce Cameron's book of the same name, the show starred John Ritter during its first season. After Ritter's sudden death, Katey Sagal took over the show's starring position for the rest of the series' run. Overall, 76 episodes were made over three seasons.
Title: Nikki Danielle Moore
Passage: Nikki Danielle Moore is an American actress best known as the character "Jenna Sharpe" on the sitcom "8 Simple Rules" from 2003 to 2005.
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John Ritter
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Katey Sagal
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8 Simple Rules
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What was the nationality of Marco Garibaldi's former partner?
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Title: Priscilla Presley
Passage: Priscilla Ann Presley (née Wagner; born May 24, 1945) is an American actress and business magnate. She is the former wife of the late American singer Elvis Presley as well as co-founder and former chairwoman of Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), the company that turned Graceland into one of the top tourist attractions in the United States. In her acting career, Presley starred with Leslie Nielsen in the three successful "Naked Gun" films, and played the role of Jenna Wade on the long-running television series "Dallas".
Title: Marco Garibaldi
Passage: Marco Garibaldi is an American entrepreneur. He is also the former partner of Priscilla Presley and father of Navarone Garibaldi.
Title: Michael S. Greco
Passage: Michael Spencer Greco (born November 22, 1942, Rende, Italy) is a former President of the American Bar Association (2006–2007). He is currently a partner in the Boston office of K&L Gates, and a former partner at the now-defunct Hill and Barlow.
Title: Viale Pasubio
Passage: Viale Pasubio is an avenue in Milan, Italy. It is part of the "circonvallazione interna" ring road, a major traffic route that runs along the former Spanish walls of Milan. The street is 350 m long and connects two former city gates, namely Porta Garibaldi (now Piazza XV Aprile) and Porta Volta (now Piazzale Baiamonti). The street was formerly known as "Viale di Porta Garibaldi" (Porta Garibaldi Avenue), and was renamed after World War I in remembrance of the fightings on the Pasubio massif (Dolomites) that occurred during the war.
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American
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Marco Garibaldi
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Priscilla Presley
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A theoretical explanation of the Wien effect has been proposed by a man awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in what year?
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Title: Lars Onsager
Passage: Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.
Title: Wien effect
Passage: The Wien effect is the experimentally-observed increase in ionic mobility or conductivity of electrolytes at very high gradient of electrical potential. A theoretical explanation has been proposed by Lars Onsager.
Title: List of female Nobel laureates
Passage: The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Literature, Peace, Physiology or Medicine and Economics. All but the economics prize were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. The Nobel prize in Economics, or The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, for outstanding contributions in the field of Economics. Each prize is awarded by a separate committee; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, the Swedish Academy awards the Prize in Literature, the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a cash prize that has varied throughout the years.
Title: Leverhulme Medal (Royal Society)
Passage: The Leverhulme Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every three years "for an outstandingly significant contribution in the field of pure or applied chemistry or engineering, including chemical engineering". It was created in 1960 after a donation by the Leverhulme Trust to mark the 300-year anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Society, and is accompanied by a £2000 gift. Since its creation it has been awarded 17 times, and unlike other Royal Society medals such as the Royal Medal, it has never been awarded to a woman or to the same person multiple times. Citizens of the United Kingdom have won the medal 16 out of the 17 times; the only foreign recipient was Man Mohan Sharma, an Indian citizen who was awarded the medal in 1996 "for his work on the dynamics of multi-phase chemical reactions in industrial processes". Two of the Leverhulme Medal winners also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Archer John Porter Martin, who won the medal in 1963 for "his distinguished and fundamental discoveries in chromatography and its application" and the Nobel Prize in 1952, and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, who won the medal in 1960 for "his outstanding contributions to physical chemistry" and the Nobel Prize in 1956.
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1968
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Wien effect
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Lars Onsager
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What tribe what American Horse a part of?
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Title: John Wallace Crawford
Passage: John Wallace ("Captain Jack)" Crawford (1847–1917), known as "The Poet Scout", was an American adventurer, educator, and author. "Captain Jack" was a master storyteller about the Wild West and is known in American history as one of the most popular performers in the late nineteenth century. His daring ride of 350 miles in six days to carry dispatches to Fort Laramie for the "New York Herald", to tell the news of the great victory by Gen. George Crook against the village of Chief American Horse at the Battle of Slim Buttes during the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, made him a national celebrity.
Title: American Horse (elder)
Passage: American Horse (Oglala Lakota: "Wašíčuŋ Tȟašúŋke" in Standard Lakota Orthography) (a/k/a "American Horse the Elder") (1830–September 9, 1876) was an Oglala Lakota warrior chief renowned for Spartan courage and honor. American Horse is notable in American history as one of the principal war chiefs allied with Crazy Horse during Red Cloud's War (1866–1868) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn during the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. Chief American Horse was a son of Old Chief Smoke, an Oglala Lakota head chief and one of the last great Shirt Wearers, a highly prestigious Lakota warrior society. He was a signatory to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, along with his brothers Chief Red Cloud and Chief Blue Horse. A month or so after the Treaty, American Horse was chosen a ""Ogle Tanka Un"" (Shirt Wearer, or war leader) along with Crazy Horse, Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses and Man That Owns a Sword. On September 9, 1876, American Horse was mortally wounded in the Battle of Slim Buttes fighting to protect his family and defending against the white invasion of the "“Paha Sapa“" Black Hills.
Title: Havre de Grace (horse)
Passage: Havre de Grace (foaled on May 12, 2007, in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Racehorse who was 2011 American Horse of the Year. During her racing career, she was owned by Fox Hill Farms and trained by J. Larry Jones. Her sire is the 2005 American Horse of the Year, Saint Liam. Her dam is the mare Easter Bunnette, a daughter of Carson City. Her name derives from the city and racetrack of Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Title: American Horse
Passage: American Horse (Oglala Lakota: "Wašíčuŋ Tȟašúŋke" in Standard Lakota Orthography) (a/k/a "American Horse the Younger") (1840 – December 16, 1908) was an Oglala Lakota chief, statesman, educator and historian. American Horse is notable in American history as a U.S. Army Indian Scout and a progressive Oglala Lakota leader who promoted friendly associations with whites and education for his people. American Horse opposed Crazy Horse during the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 and the Ghost Dance Movement of 1890, and was a Lakota delegate to Washington. American Horse was one of the first Wild Westers with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and a supporter of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. “His record as a councillor of his people and his policy in the new situation that confronted them was manly and consistent and he was known for his eloquence."
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American Horse (Oglala Lakota: "Wašíčuŋ Tȟašúŋke" in Standard Lakota Orthography) (a/k/a "American Horse the Elder") (1830–September 9, 1876) was an Oglala Lakota warrior chief renowned for Spartan courage and honor.
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John Wallace Crawford
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American Horse (elder)
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Which is located in Hunan province, Huaihua or Qitaihe?
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Title: Huaihua
Passage: Huaihua () is a prefecture-level city in the south western Hunan, China. it covers 27,564 km2 and is bordered by Xiangxi to the northern west; Zhangjiajie, Changde to the north; Yiyang, Loudi and Shaoyang to the east; Guilin and Liuzhou of Guangxi to the south; Qiandongnan, Tongren of Guizhou to the southern west. It has 4,741,948 of population (2010 census), shares 7.22% of the province. According to 2010 Census, there are 2,909,574 Han Chinese, Han shares 61.4% of the population, 1,832,289 population of minorities, 38.6%; Dong, Miao, Tujia, Yao and Bai are major native minorities. Huaihua is the central region of Dong ethnic population, there lives 816,481 Dong people (2010 census), it shares 28.35 per centage of Chinese Dong ethnic group.
Title: Qitaihe
Passage: Qitaihe () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. Covering an area 6,223 km2 , it is geographically the smallest prefecture-level division of the province. Qitaihe also has the second smallest population of the cities in Heilongjiang. At the 2010 census, its total population was 920,419, while 620,935 live in the built up area made of 3 urban districts.
Title: Hunan University of Science and Technology
Passage: Hunan University of Science and Technology () is an institution of higher learning in Xiangtan, Hunan Province of the People's Republic of China. It is under the jointly jurisdiction of central government and provincial government, and is mainly administered by Hunan Province. Hunan University of Science and Technology was formed by the merger of two earlier universities.
Title: Huaihua Zhijiang Airport
Passage: Huaihua Zhijiang Airport (IATA: HJJ, ICAO: ZGCJ) is an airport serving the city of Huaihua in Hunan Province, China. It is located in Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County, 31 kilometers from the city center. The airport was built in 1942 and was the second largest military airfield in the Far East for the Allies during World War II. On 21 August 1945 Japan officially surrendered to China near the airfield. Construction to convert the airport for civilian use was started in December 2002 and the airport was reopened in September 2004.
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Huaihua
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Huaihua
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Qitaihe
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Which baseball player and manager was born in Ellisville, Mississippi, home of 4448 people?
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Title: Ellisville, Mississippi
Passage: Ellisville is a city in and the first county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,448 at the time of the 2010 census. The Jones County Courthouse is located here, as is much of the county government.
Title: Harry Craft
Passage: Harry Francis Craft (April 19, 1915 – August 3, 1995) was an American Major League Baseball player and manager. Born in Ellisville, Mississippi, he was a center fielder for the Cincinnati Reds from 1937 to 1942. Craft attended Mississippi College, threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 ft tall and weighed 185 lb . He was the first manager in Houston Major League history as skipper of the expansion Houston Colt .45s, later the Astros.
Title: Stan Cliburn
Passage: Stanley Gene Cliburn (born December 19, 1956, in Jackson, Mississippi) is a retired professional baseball player and the current manager of the New Britain Bees. He was previous the manager of the Rochester Red Wings, the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, from 2006 to 2009. Cliburn has also managed in the Arizona Fall League and at other levels in the minor leagues. He is the twin brother of former Major League pitcher Stu Cliburn, who remains a coach in the Twins' farm system. Cliburn is now in his first year as manager of the New Britain Bees of the Atlantic League, an independent baseball league.
Title: Tim Jorgensen
Passage: Timothy Scott Jorgensen (born November 30, 1972) is a former professional baseball player and high school baseball coach. As a college baseball player for the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, Jorgensen set Division III all-time records for most home runs in a single season and for most career home runs. He played professional baseball until 1999 and was later inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Harry Francis Craft
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Harry Craft
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Ellisville, Mississippi
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Xiaogan and Mingguang, are located in which country?
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Title: Mingguang
Passage: Mingguang (), formerly Jiashan County (), is a county-level city of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Chuzhou city.
Title: Xiaogan
Passage: Xiaogan () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hubei province, People's Republic of China, some 60 km northwest of the provincial capital of Wuhan. According to the 2010 census, its population totaled 4,814,542, of whom 908,266 lived in the built-up ("or metro") area of Xiaonan District.
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People's Republic of China
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Xiaogan
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Mingguang
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Which was founded first, Stellenbosch University or Wayne State University?
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Title: Stellenbosch University
Passage: Stellenbosch University (Afrikaans: "Universiteit Stellenbosch" ) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in South Africa. Stellenbosch is jointly the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa alongside the University of Cape Town which received full university status on the same day in 1918. Stellenbosch University (abbreviated as SU) designed and manufactured Africa's first microsatellite, SUNSAT, launched in 1999.
Title: Wayne State University
Passage: Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering nearly 350 programs to more than 27,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Wayne State University is Michigan's third-largest university and one of the 100 largest universities in the United States.
Title: Wayne State University College of Engineering
Passage: The Wayne State University College of Engineering is responsible for all engineering related programs at Wayne State University. With alumni of the college totaling over 25,000, it is one of the premier engineering colleges in Michigan along with being in the top 30% of the country. Founded in 1933, the College of Engineering has grown to include a variety of programs ranging from civil engineering, biomedical engineering, and many others. It is one of only 24 PACE partner labs in the country as well as being a leader in biomedical engineering. The College of Engineering is located in the Wayne State campus in Detroit. It is located in the College of Engineering building which is shared with the Danto Engineering Development Center. The current Dean of Engineering is Dr. Farshad Fotouhi.
Title: Rhodes University
Passage: Rhodes University is a public research university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is one of four universities in the province. Established in 1904, Rhodes University is the province's oldest university, and it is the fifth or sixth oldest South African university in continuous operation, being preceded by the University of the Free State (1904), University of Witwatersrand (1896), Stellenbosch University (1866) and the University of Cape Town (1829). Rhodes was founded in 1904 as Rhodes University College, named after Cecil Rhodes, through a grant from the Rhodes Trust. It became a constituent college of the University of South Africa in 1918 before becoming an independent university in 1951.
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Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering nearly 350 programs to more than 27,000 graduate and undergraduate students
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Stellenbosch University
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Wayne State University
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Are a Brandy Alexander and a Paloma both Tequila based?
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Title: Brandy Alexander
Passage: A Brandy Alexander is a brandy-based cocktail consisting of cognac, crème de cacao, and cream that became popular during the early 20th century. It is a variation of an earlier, gin-based cocktail called simply an Alexander. The cocktail is widely known for having been John Lennon's favorite drink.
Title: Paloma (cocktail)
Passage: The paloma (Spanish for "dove") is a tequila-based cocktail. This drink is most commonly prepared by mixing tequila with a grapefruit-flavored soda such as Fresca, Squirt, or Jarritos and served on the rocks with a lime wedge. This drink also has the option of adding salt to the rim of the glass.
Title: Sazerac Company
Passage: The Sazerac Company is a large privately held alcoholic beverages company with headquarters in Metairie, Louisiana (in the New Orleans metropolitan area). Its distilleries include the Barton Brands distillery (in Bardstown, Kentucky), the Buffalo Trace Distillery (in Frankfort, Kentucky), the former Glenmore Distillery (now a bottling plant in Owensboro, Kentucky), and the A. Smith Bowman Distillery (a microdistillery in Fredericksburg, Virginia). The products of the company and its subsidiaries include various types of whiskey, vodka, gin, tequila, rum, brandy, cognac, cocktails, cordials, liqueurs, "shooters", and wine.
Title: List of cocktails
Passage: A cocktail is a mixed drink typically made with a distilled beverage (such as, gin, brandy, vodka, whiskey, tequila, cachaça or rum) that is mixed with other ingredients. If beer is one of the ingredients, the drink is called a beer cocktail.
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no
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Brandy Alexander
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Paloma (cocktail)
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Who is the current head coach of the basketball team for which Michael Beasley played for one year before declaring for the NBA draft in 2008?
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Title: Michael Beasley
Passage: Michael Paul Beasley Jr. (born January 9, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Kansas State University for one year before declaring for the NBA draft in 2008. He is regarded as one of the best freshman college basketball players of the 2000s. Though ambidextrous, he shoots left-handed.
Title: Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball
Passage: The Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team represents Kansas State University in college basketball competition. The program is classified in the NCAA Division I, and is a member of the Big 12 Conference. The current head coach is Bruce Weber.
Title: Raymond Felton
Passage: Raymond Bernard Felton, Jr. (born June 26, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Felton played college basketball for the University of North Carolina under head coach Roy Williams. At North Carolina, Felton led the Tar Heels to a national championship before declaring for the NBA draft. Felton was drafted fifth overall in the 2005 NBA draft. Over his career, Felton has been a member of the Charlotte Bobcats, New York Knicks (twice), Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers, Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers. He plays the point guard position.
Title: Barry Hinson
Passage: Barry Douglas Hinson (born May 12, 1961) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball team (SIU). He was born in Marlow, Oklahoma. Before SIU he was the Director of Men's Basketball Operations at the University of Kansas, head coach of Missouri State University and head coach of Oral Roberts University. On March 28, 2012, Hinson was announced the head coach of Southern Illinois University's men's basketball team.
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Bruce Weber
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Michael Beasley
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Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball
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What is the nationality of the actor who starred as Rene Russo's husband in the 1997 movie "Buddy"?
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Title: Buddy (1997 film)
Passage: Buddy is a 1997 New Zealand/American film written and directed by Caroline Thompson and produced by Columbia Pictures with help from Jim Henson Pictures. It starred Rene Russo as Mrs. Gertrude 'Trudy' Lintz and Robbie Coltrane as her husband.
Title: Robbie Coltrane
Passage: Robbie Coltrane, OBE (born Anthony Robert McMillan; 30 March 1950) is a Scottish actor and author. He is known for his roles as Rubeus Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" films, as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond films "GoldenEye" and "The World Is Not Enough," and as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the British TV series "Cracker" during the 1990s.
Title: Lethal Weapon 3
Passage: Lethal Weapon 3 is a 1992 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and produced by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Joe Pesci, with Rene Russo and Stuart Wilson in key supporting roles. It is the third film in the "Lethal Weapon" series.
Title: Helen Beardsley
Passage: Helen Eileen Beardsley ("née" Brandmeir, formerly North, April 5, 1930 – April 26, 2000) was the mother of the famous blended family of twenty children — eight by her first marriage to Richard North, ten stepchildren from her second husband Frank Beardsley, and two that she and Frank had during their marriage. She wrote a book, "Who Gets the Drumstick?" , about her blended family's experiences. The book was the basis for two motion pictures: the 1968 "Yours, Mine and Ours", starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda; and a 2005 remake of the same film with Rene Russo and Dennis Quaid.
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Scottish
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Buddy (1997 film)
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Robbie Coltrane
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Are the bands Tool and Capital Cities both from Los Angeles, California?
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Title: Tool (band)
Passage: Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist since 1995, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour. Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries.
Title: Capital Cities (band)
Passage: Capital Cities is an American indie pop duo from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2010 by Ryan Merchant (vocals, keyboard, guitar) and Sebu Simonian (vocals, keyboard). Their debut EP was released on June 7, 2011, with lead single "Safe and Sound" which became their first top ten hit single. The band currently consists of Ryan Merchant, Sebu Simonian, Manny Quintero on bass guitar, Spencer Ludwig on trumpet, Nick Merwin on guitar and Channing Holmes on drums.
Title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)
Passage: "Safe and Sound" is a song by American indie pop duo Capital Cities, written and produced by band members Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian. The song was released as a single on January 6, 2011 and first appeared on their debut EP "Capital Cities" (2011), later serving as the lead single from their debut studio album, "In a Tidal Wave of Mystery" (2013). "Safe and Sound" became the duo's breakout hit, peaking at number eight on the United States "Billboard" Hot 100 and achieving commercial success in several other territories. Three music videos were produced for the single, with the third video, directed by Grady Hall and set in the Los Angeles Theatre, later being nominated for Best Music Video at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.
Title: Puscifer
Passage: is an American band formed in Los Angeles by Maynard James Keenan, known as the lead singer of the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle. As Keenan is the only permanent member, he considers the project to be his "creative subconscious." In light of this, Puscifer is considered a pseudonym for his solo work.
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yes
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Capital Cities (band)
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Tool (band)
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What animal subject to the Foster's rule is the smallest North American deer?
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Title: Key deer
Passage: The Key deer ("Odocoileus virginianus clavium") is an endangered deer that lives only in the Florida Keys. It is a subspecies of the white-tailed deer ("O. virginianus"). It is the smallest North American deer.
Title: Foster's rule
Passage: Foster's rule (also known as the island rule or the island effect) is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment. For example, it is known that pygmy mammoths evolved from normal mammoths on small islands. Similar evolutionary paths have been observed in elephants, hippopotamuses, boas, deer (for example Key deer) and humans.
Title: Bog turtle
Passage: The bog turtle ("Glyptemys muhlenbergii") is a critically endangered species of semiaquatic turtle endemic to the eastern United States. It was first scientifically described in 1801 after an 18th-century survey of Pennsylvania. The smallest North American turtle, its carapace measures about 10 cm long when fully grown. Although the bog turtle is similar in appearance to the painted or spotted turtles, its closest relative is actually the somewhat larger wood turtle. The bog turtle can be found from Vermont in the north, south to Georgia, and west to Ohio. Diurnal and secretive, it spends most of its time buried in mud and – during the winter months – in hibernation. The bog turtle is omnivorous, feeding mainly on small invertebrates.
Title: American mountain deer
Passage: Odocoileus lucasi, historically incorrectly confused with "Navahoceros fricki", and known as the American mountain deer, is an extinct species of North American deer.
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Key deer
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Foster's rule
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Key deer
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Who is Yulia Zagoruychenko's dance partner?
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Title: Riccardo Cocchi
Passage: Riccardo Cocchi (born December 7, 1977, Terni, Italy) is a six-time Latin Dance Champion, with his partner, Yulia Zagoruychenko. Currently, he resides in and represents the United States of America. When not busy competing, Riccardo is available for coaching.
Title: Yulia Zagoruychenko
Passage: Yulia Zagoruychenko (born September 11, 1981) is the current World Latin Dance Champion, with her partner, Riccardo Cocchi.
Title: Saturday Night Fever
Passage: Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American musical drama film directed by John Badham. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a working-class young man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Gorney as Stephanie Mangano, his dance partner and eventual confidante; and Donna Pescow as Annette, Tony's former dance partner and would-be girlfriend. While in the disco, Tony is the champion dancer. His circle of friends and weekend dancing help him to cope with the harsh realities of his life: a dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his general restlessness.
Title: Taxi dancer
Passage: A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a partner dance. Taxi dancers are hired to dance with their customers on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during early 20th-century America, male patrons would buy dance tickets for ten cents each.
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Riccardo Cocchi
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Riccardo Cocchi
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Yulia Zagoruychenko
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In which year was this international arms smuggler who was the subject of the 2014 documentary film "The Notorious Mr. Bout" born?
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Title: The Notorious Mr. Bout
Passage: The Notorious Mr. Bout is a 2014 documentary film directed by Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film focuses on the life of Viktor Bout, an international arms smuggler. It premiered on January 17, 2014 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was also screened at the 2014 True/False Film Festival.
Title: Viktor Bout
Passage: Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (Russian: Виктор Анатольевич Бут ; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian arms dealer.
Title: Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Passage: Ai Weiwei The Fake Case is a 2013 documentary film about Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, directed by Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen. The film won Best 2014 Documentary in Danish Film Critics Association's 67th Bodil Awards, played in the official selection of 2014 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Title: The Notorious Mr. Monks
Passage: The Notorious Mr. Monks is a 1958 American drama film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Vera Ralston, Don Kelly and Paul Fix.
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1967
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The Notorious Mr. Bout
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Viktor Bout
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What was the franchise, in which Anton Šťastný played 9 seasons, renamed after moving in 1995?
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Title: Quebec Nordiques
Passage: The Quebec Nordiques (French: "Nordiques de Québec" , pronounced ] in Quebec French, in Canadian English; literally translated "Quebec City Northmen" or "Northerners") were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City, Quebec. The Nordiques played in the World Hockey Association (1972–1979) and the National Hockey League (1979–95). The franchise was relocated to Denver, Colorado in May 1995 and renamed the Colorado Avalanche.
Title: Anton Šťastný
Passage: Anton Šťastný (born August 5, 1959) is a former Slovak professional ice hockey left winger who played nine seasons with the Quebec Nordiques of the National Hockey League from 1980 until 1989. He was the first player born and trained in Slovakia to be drafted by an NHL team. He is the brother of Vladimír, Bohumil, Eva, Marián, and Peter Šťastný, and the uncle of Yan Stastny and Paul Stastny (both Peter's sons), all of whom are (or have been) involved in ice hockey at a professional level. Anton's son, Thomas Šťastný, played in Switzerland, last for Martigny in 2015.
Title: David Carter (offensive lineman)
Passage: David Carter (born November 27, 1953 in Vincennes, Indiana) is a former American football offensive guard and center who played 9 seasons in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. He played college football at Western Kentucky University.
Title: Marián Šťastný
Passage: Marián Šťastný (born January 8, 1953) is a former Slovak professional ice hockey right wing who played for five seasons in the National Hockey League from 1981 through 1986 for the Quebec Nordiques and Toronto Maple Leafs. Prior to moving to the NHL Šťastný had played in Czechoslovakia for HC Slovan Bratislava with his brothers, Peter and Anton. They defected in 1980, joining the Nordiques, though Šťastný waited until 1981 to join them.
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Colorado Avalanche
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Anton Šťastný
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Quebec Nordiques
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The actor that uses the stage name "Li Ming" starred with Donnie Yen in a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by who?
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Title: Seven Swords
Passage: Seven Swords is a 2005 Hong Kong "wuxia" film produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Leon Lai, Donnie Yen, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon. The story is loosely adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel "Qijian Xia Tianshan" and is completely unrelated to the novel except for some characters' names. "Seven Swords" was used as the opening film to the 2005 Venice Film Festival and as a homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film "Seven Samurai".
Title: Leon Lai
Passage: Leon Lai-ming, BBS, MH (born 11 December 1966) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. He is one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong. He uses the stage name "Li Ming" or "Lai Ming" which literally means "dawn."
Title: Dragon (2011 film)
Passage: Dragon () is a 2011 Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts film directed by Peter Chan, and starring Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tang Wei. Yen also served as the film's action director. It premiered on 13 May 2011 at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the Midnight Screenings category. Donnie Yen and Peter Chan presided over the lighting of a billboard for "Dragon" that broke the Guinness Book of World Records for its size, 3591 square metres, previously held by a poster for a Michael Jackson album.
Title: A New Life (1991 TV series)
Passage: A New Life is a 1991 Hong Kong action crime drama television series produced by TVB and starring Margie Tsang, Savio Tsang, Donnie Yen and Kitty Lai. Originally released overseas on September 23, 1991, the series is currently rerunning on TVB's Network Vision channel starting from 16 January 2016 on weekends as a part of the special, "Our... Donnie Yen" (我們的...甄子丹), that began running on 11 January 2016.
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Tsui Hark
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Seven Swords
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Leon Lai
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Tripel was the strongest beer in their range, in 1956, served at a Trappist brewery in what country?
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Title: Westmalle Brewery
Passage: Westmalle Brewery (Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle) is a Trappist brewery in the Westmalle Abbey, Belgium. It produces three beers, designated as Trappist beer by the International Trappist Association. Westmalle Tripel is credited with being the first golden strong pale ale to use the term Tripel.
Title: Tripel
Passage: Tripel is a term used by brewers or people mainly in the Low Countries, some other European countries, and the U.S. to describe a strong pale ale, loosely in the style of "Westmalle Tripel". The origin of the term is unknown, though the main theory is that it indicates strength in some way. It was used in 1956 by the Trappist brewery, Westmalle, to rename the strongest beer in their range, though both the term Tripel and the style of beer associated with the name (strong pale ale), were in existence before 1956. The style of Westmalle's "Tripel" and the name was widely copied by the breweries of Belgium, and in 1987 another Trappist brewery, the Koningshoeven in the Netherlands, expanded their range with a beer called "La Trappe Tripel", though they also produced a stronger beer they termed "La Trappe Quadrupel". The term spread to the U.S. and other countries, and is applied by a range of secular brewers to a strong pale ale in the style of "Westmalle Tripel".
Title: Achel Brewery
Passage: Achel Brewery or Brouwerij der Sint-Benedictusabdij de Achelse Kluis is a Belgian Trappist brewery, and the smallest of the Belgian Trappist breweries. It is located in the Abbey of Saint Benedict in the Belgian municipality of Hamont-Achel. It brews five Trappist beers.
Title: Orval Brewery
Passage: Orval Brewery (French: "Brasserie d'Orval" ) is a Belgian trappist brewery located within the walls of the Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval in the Gaume region of Belgium.
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Belgium
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Tripel
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Westmalle Brewery
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What 1982 film, aired in 1983, was the seventh highest rated non-sports show and featured Kansas state highway K-10?
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Title: The Day After
Passage: The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. More than 100 million people, in nearly 39 million households, watched the program during its initial broadcast. With a 46 rating and a 62% share of the viewing audience during its initial broadcast, it was the seventh highest rated non-sports show up to that time and set a record as the highest-rated television film in history—a record it still held as recently as a 2009 report.
Title: K-10 (Kansas highway)
Passage: K-10 is a 38-mile (61 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. It was originally designated in 1929. It is mostly a controlled-access freeway, linking Lawrence to Lenexa. It provides an important toll-free alternate route to Interstate 70 (the Kansas Turnpike). Several scenes for the TV-movie "The Day After" were filmed on the highway in 1982 portraying a mass exodus evacuating the Kansas City area on I-70.
Title: WHBX
Passage: WHBX, or 96.1 Jamz, is an urban adult contemporary radio station in the Tallahassee, Florida market owned by Cumulus Licensing, LLC. According to AllAccess.com, WHBX is the highest rated station in the Tallahassee, FL market, joining sister stations Blazin 102.3 and Star 98 as the market's highest rated stations. Its studios are located in the westside of Tallahassee and its transmitter is based near Wakulla State Forest, south of the city.
Title: The Cheetah Girls 2
Passage: The Cheetah Girls 2 is the 2006 sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie, "The Cheetah Girls." Its premiere received the highest ratings of all Disney Channel Movies at its time, a total of over 8.1 million viewers, beating the premiere ratings of "High School Musical" (7.7 million), and beating previous highest rated DCOM record holder, "Cadet Kelly" (7.8 million) as well as becoming the highest rated "Cheetah Girls" movie in the trilogy. The sequel is about a talented teen quartet who take a whirlwind tour of Spain to pursue their dreams of pop superstardom. Unlike its predecessor which incorporated karaoke-like musical numbers, "The Cheetah Girls 2" turned into more of a musical. This is also the last film in the series to star Raven-Symoné. The film is currently the 7th highest-rated Disney Channel Original Movie and was the highest-rated Disney Channel Original Movie of 2006.
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The Day After
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K-10 (Kansas highway)
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The Day After
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Tressie Souders and Padmarajan, have which occupation in common?
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Title: Tressie Souders
Passage: Tressie Souders (February 7, 1897 – January 17, 1995) was the first known African American female to direct a feature film, 1922's "A Woman's Error".
Title: Padmarajan
Passage: Padmarajan (23 May 1945 – 24 January 1991) (also known as Padmarajan Pillai) was an Indian author, screenwriter, and film director who was known for his landmark works in Malayalam literature and Malayalam cinema. Padmarajan was the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam, along with Bharathan, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed.
Title: Hall (surname)
Passage: Hall is a common surname of English origin. Hall means "kind" and "forgiving". This originates from the belief that Vikings were eternally benevolent to those that worked within their halls. The name was used to indicate the main occupation of the individual, in a role such as a servant or chamberlain. Hall is the 22nd most common surname in the United Kingdom. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 26th most common surname.
Title: House in multiple occupation
Passage: Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), also known as houses of multiple occupancy, is a British English term which refers to residential properties where ‘common areas’ exist and are shared by more than one household. Common areas may be as significant as bathrooms and kitchens / kitchenettes, but may also be just stairwells or landings. HMOs may be divided up into self-contained flats, bed-sitting rooms or simple lodgings.
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film director
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Tressie Souders
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Padmarajan
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Who is an American journalist and has been Literary Editor of "The Weekly Standard,", Philip Terzian or Derek Sherinian
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Title: Philip Terzian
Passage: Philip Henry Terzian (born 1950) is an American journalist and has been Literary Editor of "The Weekly Standard," the well-known journal of politics and culture founded by William Kristol and Fred Barnes in 1995, since 2005. He is the author of "Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century" (Encounter Books 2010).
Title: Derek Sherinian
Passage: Derek Sherinian (born August 25, 1966) is an American keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kiss, Steve Vai, and Joe Bonamassa. He was also a member of Dream Theater from 1994–99, is the founder of Planet X and also one of the founding members of Black Country Communion and Sons of Apollo. He has released seven solo albums that have featured a variety of prominent guest musicians, including guitarists Slash, Yngwie Malmsteen, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Lukather, Joe Bonamassa, Billy Sheehan, Zakk Wylde and Al Di Meola.
Title: Sons of Apollo
Passage: Sons of Apollo is an American progressive metal supergroup formed in 2017 and composed of Mike Portnoy, Billy Sheehan, Derek Sherinian, Jeff Scott Soto and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal. Portnoy, Sheehan and Sherinian had already worked together at a short-lived, live instrumental project with Tony MacAlpine. Sherinian was asking Portnoy to be a drummer in a band full-time. Portnoy agreed when he had time for it.
Title: Inertia (Derek Sherinian album)
Passage: Inertia is the second studio album by keyboardist Derek Sherinian, released in 2001 through InsideOut Music. This album marks the beginning of Sherinian's longtime collaborations with drummer Simon Phillips as well as guitarists Steve Lukather and Zakk Wylde.
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Philip Henry Terzian
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Philip Terzian
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Derek Sherinian
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Who is an American musician, Peter Chelsom or Billy Bob Thornton?
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Title: Billy Bob Thornton
Passage: William Robert "Billy Bob" Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician.
Title: Peter Chelsom
Passage: Peter Chelsom (born 20 April 1956) is a British film director, writer, and actor. He has directed such films as "Hector and the Search for Happiness", "Serendipity", and "Shall We Dance? " Peter Chelsom is a member of the British Academy, the American Academy, The Directors Guild Of America, and The Writers Guild Of America.
Title: One False Move
Passage: One False Move is a 1992 American thriller film co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. The film stars Thornton alongside Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams and was directed by Carl Franklin. The low-budget production was about to be released straight to home video when it was finished, but became popular through word of mouth, convincing the distributor to give the film a theatrical release. Film critic Gene Siskel voted this film as his favorite of 1992.
Title: Jayne Mansfield's Car
Passage: Jayne Mansfield's Car is a 2012 drama film directed by Billy Bob Thornton, marking his first directing job since 2001's "Daddy and Them". Thornton also stars alongside Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson, Frances O'Connor, Ron White, and Robert Patrick. <ref name="http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/billy-bob-thornton-sets-cast-funding-for-first-directing-effort-in-decade/"> </ref> The film had its world premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. The film was released in limited release on September 13, 2013.
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"Billy Bob" Thornton
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Peter Chelsom
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Billy Bob Thornton
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Did Terence Davies and Richard Wallace have the same nationality?
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Title: Richard Wallace (director)
Passage: Richard Wallace (August 26, 1894 – November 3, 1951) was an American film director.
Title: Terence Davies
Passage: Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, novelist and actor.
Title: The Deep Blue Sea (1955 film)
Passage: The Deep Blue Sea is a 1955 British drama film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More and released by Twentieth Century Fox. The picture was based on the play of the same name by Terence Rattigan. Rattigan's play has also been filmed by Terence Davies with Rachel Weisz in the Vivien Leigh role of 'Hester' and Tom Hiddleston as 'Freddie'. The movie tells the story of a woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaving her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
Title: Riccarton, Ayrshire
Passage: Riccarton is a village and parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It lies across the River Irvine from Kilmarnock, this river forming the boundary between Riccarton and Kilmarnock parishes, and also between the historical districts of Kyle and Cunningham. The name is a corruption of 'Richard's town', traditionally said to refer to Richard Wallace, the uncle of Sir William Wallace. The parish also contains the village of Hurlford.
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no
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Terence Davies
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Richard Wallace (director)
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What year was the soundtrack to the Austrian-American comedy film, directed by Stephen Herek and starring Charlie Sheen, released?
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Title: All for Love (song)
Passage: "All for Love" is a song written by Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Michael Kamen for the soundtrack " The Three Musketeers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". It was performed by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting. The song was released as a CD single in the United States on November 16, 1993. It was a worldwide hit, reaching number one across Europe and North America.
Title: The Three Musketeers (1993 film)
Passage: The Three Musketeers is a 1993 Austrian-American action-adventure comedy film from Walt Disney Pictures, Caravan Pictures, and The Kerner Entertainment Company, directed by Stephen Herek from a screenplay by David Loughery. It stars Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry and Rebecca De Mornay.
Title: Mad Families
Passage: Mad Families is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Fred Wolf, and starring Charlie Sheen, Leah Remini and Charlotte McKinney. The film is an original production by Crackle.
Title: The Arrival (1996 film)
Passage: The Arrival is a 1996 science fiction horror film directed by David Twohy and starring Charlie Sheen, and co-starring Lindsay Crouse, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, and Richard Schiff. Sheen stars as radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky who discovers evidence of intelligent alien life and quickly gets thrown into the middle of a conspiracy that turns his life upside down.
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1993
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All for Love (song)
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The Three Musketeers (1993 film)
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The author of "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis" is a Senior Fellow at what institute?
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Title: Michael Denton
Passage: Michael John Denton (born 25 August 1943) is a British-Australian author and biochemist. He is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Denton’s most prominent book, "", inspired intelligent design proponents Phillip Johnson and Michael Behe.
Title: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Passage: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis is a 1985 book by Michael Denton arguing that the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection is a "theory in crisis". Reviews by scientists say that the book distorts and misrepresents evolutionary theory and contains numerous errors.
Title: Robert P. Murphy
Passage: Robert Patrick Murphy (born 23 May 1976) is an American economist, consultant and author. He is an economist with the Institute for Energy Research (IER) specializing in climate change and a research fellow with the Independent Institute, He was a senior fellow in business and economic studies at the Pacific Research Institute, and he is an associated scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. In addition to economic subjects, Murphy writes about, and has presented an online video class in, anarcho-capitalism on the Mises Institute website. Murphy is also noteworthy, and has been criticized by economists Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman for, repeatedly predicting that the quantitative easing practiced by the Federal Reserve in the late 2000s would create double-digit inflation—predictions that did not come to fruition. Murphy is a Christian, and has written articles expressing support for a literal interpretation of the Bible and skepticism of evolutionary theory.
Title: Elkhan Nuriyev
Passage: Elkhan Nuriyev (born May 15, 1969, Baku, Azerbaijan) is a political scientist and a scholar of Russian and post-Soviet studies, including the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Greater Middle East. He publishes widely and conducts regular briefings at the request of the international organizations and think-tanks. He is frequently called on by government agencies, media, academic circles and private-sector institutions for comment on Russian foreign policy, Caucasus, Caspian Basin, Central Asia and regional security issues in post-Soviet Eurasia. In 2014, Nuriyev was DAAD Senior Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. In 2015, he was Humboldt Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. He is a Global Energy Associate at the Brussels Energy Club. In 2017, Elkhan Nuriyev has been selected as Corridors Fellow for Dialogue and Cooperation, joining Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany.
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Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture
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Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
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Michael Denton
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What college did the Chiefs all time leading rusher attend?
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Title: 2017 Kansas City Chiefs season
Passage: The 2017 Kansas City Chiefs season is the franchise's 48th season in the National Football League, 55th as the Kansas City Chiefs, the 58th overall the fifth under head coach Andy Reid, and first under general manager Brett Veach. General manager John Dorsey was fired on June 22, 2017. On July 10, the Chiefs promoted co-director of player personnel Brett Veach to general manager. The Chiefs most notable transaction of the off-season came when they released all-time leading rusher Jamaal Charles after 9 seasons. After being released, Charles signed with the Chiefs division rival, the Denver Broncos.
Title: Jamaal Charles
Passage: Jamaal RaShaad Jones Charles (born December 27, 1986) is an American football running back for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Texas, and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
Title: Ahmad Bradshaw
Passage: Ahmad Bradshaw (born March 19, 1986) is an American football running back who is a free agent. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. He played college football at Marshall. He is a two-time Super Bowl champion, winning Super Bowls XLII and XLVI as a member of the New York Giants, defeating the New England Patriots in both Super Bowls. He was the leading rusher in each game, becoming one of eight running backs in NFL history to be the leading rusher in two Super Bowls.
Title: Joe Iacone
Passage: Joseph "Joe" Iacone (born 1940) is a former American football running back. He played college football at West Chester State University from 1960 to 1962 where he was twice named a Little All-America and All-East fullback. He was the leading rusher in NCAA Division II as a sophomore and set career and single-season Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rushing and scoring records that remained unbroken for two to three decades. He averaged 139.5 yards per game over his three years at West Chester, which ranked second all-time in NCAA Division II history at the time.
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University of Texas
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2017 Kansas City Chiefs season
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Jamaal Charles
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When was the American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia born who's song is "Sneakin'"?
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Title: Sneakin'
Passage: "Sneakin'" is a song by Canadian rapper Drake and American rapper 21 Savage. London on da Track assisted the artists in writing the song and is also the producer. "Sneakin'" was released for digital download on October 29, 2016, through Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records.
Title: 21 Savage
Passage: Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph (born October 22, 1992), better known by his stage name 21 Savage, is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. He was best known for his mixtapes, "The Slaughter Tape" and "Slaughter King" and his extended plays "Free Guwop" and "Savage Mode" with Metro Boomin before the release of his debut album, "ISSA" and its lead single, "Bank Account".
Title: Cash Out
Passage: John-Michael Hakim Gibson, (born August 15, 1990), better known by his stage name Cash Out (stylized Ca$h Out) is an American rapper originally from Columbus, Georgia, and later raised in Atlanta, Georgia. His debut album "Let's Get It", was released on August 26, 2014 and was preceded by the lead single "She Twerkin".
Title: Stat Quo
Passage: Stanley Benton (born July 24, 1978), better known as Stat Quo, is an American rapper, producer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Benton worked his way to college and attended University of Florida, where he majored in economics and international business in 2000. Benton was contemplating law school, until veteran Southern rapper Scarface encouraged him to rap professionally. In February 2003, Stat Quo released his first installment of the "Underground Atlanta Mixtapes" and caught the attention of Aftermath Entertainment associate Mel-Man. When Stat Quo was in L.A. performing at Encore, Mel-Man invited him to Record One Studios where he met Dr. Dre. That night at Record One, Stat Quo recorded the song "The Future" with Dr. Dre and released it on the second volume of his "Underground Atlanta Mixtapes". "Underground Atlanta Volume 2" made its way by a different route to Eminem and led to Stat Quo's record deal with Shady Records and Aftermath Entertainment.
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October 22, 1992
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Sneakin'
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21 Savage
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The 1950 BRDC International Trophy included what entrant from Bourne, Lincolnshire, England?
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Title: Raymond Mays
Passage: Thomas Raymond Mays CBE (1 August 1899 – 6 January 1980) was an auto racing driver and entrepreneur from Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.
Title: 1950 BRDC International Trophy
Passage: The 2nd BRDC International Trophy meeting – formally the Daily Express BRDC International Trophy – was held on 26 August 1950 at the Silverstone Circuit, England. The race was run to Formula One regulations, and was held over two heats of 15 laps each, followed by a final race of 35 laps. Italian driver Nino Farina emerged the winner, in an Alfa Romeo 158, repeating his victory from the 1950 British Grand Prix, held at the same circuit in May. He beat his Argentine team-mate Juan Manuel Fangio, and British driver Peter Whitehead in a Ferrari. Other notable entrants were the two BRM V16 cars entered for Raymond Sommer, Peter Walker, Raymond Mays and Reg Parnell. Unfortunately, their legendary lack of reliability resulted in neither car completing a lap in anger.
Title: 1949 BRDC International Trophy
Passage: The first BRDC International Trophy meeting, formally titled the Daily Express International Trophy, was held on 20 August 1949 at the Silverstone Circuit, England. It was the first race meeting to only use the former airfield's perimeter roadways, rather than the main runways. The event was held over two heats of 20 laps and one final of 30 laps of the Grand Prix circuit. The final was won by Italian Alberto Ascari, who would go on to win the World Championship of Drivers twice. In addition to the main Formula One-regulation competition, the meeting also contained events for 500 cc racing cars and production cars. The race meeting was attended by over 100,000 people, but was marred by the death of St. John Horsfall in an accident on the 13th lap of the final race.
Title: 1966 BRDC International Trophy
Passage: The 18th BRDC International Trophy was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 14 May 1966 at the Silverstone Circuit, England. The race was run over 35 laps of the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit, and was won by Australian Jack Brabham in the Brabham-Repco BT19. With no Race of Champions in 1966, the International Trophy formed the first major race of the European season, being run just a week before the start of the FIA World Championship in Monaco. The 1966 season was significant, as changes to the F1 formula had allowed an increase in engine capacity from 1.5L to 3L. This then was the first opportunity for many teams to test their new cars against top-line opposition.
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Raymond Mays
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1950 BRDC International Trophy
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Raymond Mays
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Who was born in 1976 and co-wrote the teleplay for the first episode of "Black Mirror?"
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Title: Nosedive
Passage: "Nosedive" is the first episode of the third series of British science fiction anthology series "Black Mirror". Michael Schur and Rashida Jones wrote the teleplay for the episode, based on a story by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker, while Joe Wright acted as director. Max Richter composed the soundtrack. It premiered on Netflix on 21 October 2016, together with the rest of the third series.
Title: Rashida Jones
Passage: Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American actress, producer, singer, and writer. She is widely known for playing Ann Perkins on NBC's comedy "Parks and Recreation", for which she received acclaim.
Title: Black Mirror II: Reigning Evil
Passage: Black Mirror II: Reigning Evil is a third-person point-and-click horror adventure game developed by Cranberry Production. The game is a sequel to "The Black Mirror". Black Mirror II takes place in the 1990s, twelve years after the original game. The concept for the game was created by King Art Games. It was initially released in 2010 in the UK and then released in North America in 2011, only a few months prior to its sequel, .
Title: Pilot (The Office)
Passage: "Pilot" is the first episode of the first season of the American comedy television series "The Office", and the show's first episode overall. The episode premiered in the United States on NBC on March 24, 2005. The episode's teleplay was adapted by Greg Daniels from the original script of the first episode of the British version written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. The episode was directed by Ken Kwapis.
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Rashida Jones
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Nosedive
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Rashida Jones
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If Cheung Kong Center were to host A Symphony of Lights, what aspect of the center would be necessary to do so?
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Title: A Symphony of Lights
Passage: A Symphony of Lights () is a daily light and sound show in Hong Kong. It is the world's largest permanent light and sound show according to Guinness World Records.
Title: Cheung Kong Center
Passage: Cheung Kong Center () is a skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong designed by Cesar Pelli. It is 68 storeys tall with height of 283 m and a gross floor area of 1260000 sqft . When completed in 1999, it was the third-tallest building in the city. It sits on the combined sites of the former Hong Kong Hilton, which was demolished in 1995/6, and Beaconsfield House, sold by the Government in 1996. It stands between the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building and the Bank of China Tower. As is common in Hong Kong, coloured lights on the sides of the building illuminate at night in intricate light shows.
Title: Beaconsfield House
Passage: Built in 1963, the building was home to the Information Services Department until it was demolished along with the neighbouring Hong Kong Hilton in 1995 to make way for the Cheung Kong Center.
Title: Jump shift
Passage: The jump shift or Heisman shift, was an American football shift maneuver in the backfield utilized by John Heisman. In this system, the quarterback, both halfbacks, and fullback would be in a line, as one would in an I-formation with an extra halfback at the hind end. Then the three players which were not to receive the ball from center would shift all to one side. A split second elapsed, then the ball was snapped and the wall of three blockers charged on. If needed, the center could also snap it to one of the other backs. The phalanx of blockers resembled the yet-to-be developed single wing. The Heisman shift was considered more complicated than its predecessors (say the Minnesota shift).
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coloured lights
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Cheung Kong Center
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A Symphony of Lights
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Mark Geragos was involved in the scandal that took place in what decade?
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Title: Mark Geragos
Passage: Mark John Geragos (born October 5, 1957) is an Armenian-American criminal defense lawyer. Clients that he has represented include Michael Jackson, actress Winona Ryder, politician Gary Condit, Susan McDougal, and Scott Peterson. He was also involved in the Whitewater controversy. Geragos represented suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield; Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal, two brothers injured after a tiger escaped in San Francisco Zoo; and musician Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty in the assault of his then girlfriend Rihanna. In addition, he assisted the family of David Carradine in the aftermath of his accidental auto-erotic death. He is considered a "celebrity lawyer".
Title: Whitewater controversy
Passage: The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal (or simply Whitewater), was an American political episode of the 1990s that began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
Title: United States Air Force Basic Training scandal
Passage: The United States Air Force Basic Training scandal is the military sex scandal which took place at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The scandal involved 43 female trainees allegedly victimized by their instructors during and after basic military training beginning in 2009. Seventeen male instructors were accused of offenses ranging from the solicitation of improper relationships to rape, and 35 instructors were removed from their posts pending an investigation. Nine of the accused instructors belonged to the 331st Training Squadron, and squadron commander Lt. Col. Mike Paquette was removed from command in June 2012 because of the problems in his unit. In August 2012 Col. Glenn Palmer, commander of the 737th Training Group, was also relieved from his position due to the scandal.
Title: Yomagate
Passage: The Yomagate was a political scandal that took place in Argentina in 1991, during the government of Carlos Menem. The same name combines the last name of the involved Amira Yoma, and the suffix "Gate" of habitual use in journalism after the Watergate scandal (USA., 1972–1974).
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1990s
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Mark Geragos
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Whitewater controversy
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What town does Bucklow and Trafford have in common?
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Title: Trafford
Passage: Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. With an estimated population of about 233,300 in 2015, it covers 41 sqmi and includes the towns of Altrincham, Partington, Sale, Stretford and Urmston. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 as a merger of the municipal boroughs of Altrincham, Sale, and Stretford, the urban districts of Bowdon, Hale and Urmston and part of Bucklow Rural District. All were previously in Cheshire, apart from Stretford and Urmston which were in Lancashire. The River Mersey flows through the borough, separating North Trafford from South Trafford. Historically the Mersey also acted as the boundary between the historic counties of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Title: Bucklow (ward)
Passage: Bucklow was an electoral ward of Trafford covering the town of Partington and the village of Carrington.
Title: Dunham Massey
Passage: Dunham Massey is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The parish includes the villages of Sinderland Green, Dunham Woodhouses and Dunham Town, along with Dunham Massey Park, formerly the home of the last Earl of Stamford and owned by the National Trust since 1976. Dunham Massey was historically in the county of Cheshire, but since 1974 has been part of Trafford Metropolitan Borough; the nearest town is Altrincham. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 475.
Title: Stanley Gallimore
Passage: Stanley Hugh Gallimore (14 April 1910 – September 1994) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a forward. He was born in Bucklow Hill, Cheshire and died in the Trafford district of Cheshire. He played for Witton Albion, Manchester United, Altrincham and Northwich Victoria.
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Partington
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Bucklow (ward)
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Trafford
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What club did a Swiss footballer primarily recognised as a right-back who signed for a professional football club in 2013 based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England ?
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Title: Manchester United F.C.
Passage: Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Nicknamed "the Red Devils", the club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to its current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.
Title: Saidy Janko
Passage: Saidy Janko (born 22 October 1995) is a Swiss footballer who plays for French club Saint-Étienne. Although he is primarily recognised as a right-back, he is equally capable of playing on the right wing. Born in Zürich to a Gambian father and a Swiss/Italian mother, Janko began his career with FC Zürich before signing for Manchester United in 2013. After a loan spell with Bolton Wanderers, Janko moved to Scottish club Celtic in 2015. He spent the 2016–17 season on loan to Barnsley before moving to Saint-Étienne permanently in July 2017. He has played international football for Switzerland up to under-21 level.
Title: Old Trafford
Passage: Old Trafford is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and the home of Manchester United. With a capacity of 75,643, it is the largest club football stadium in the United Kingdom, the second-largest football stadium, and the eleventh-largest in Europe. It is about 0.5 mi from Old Trafford Cricket Ground and the adjacent tram stop.
Title: Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Passage: Old Trafford, known for sponsorship reasons as Emirates Old Trafford, is a cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It opened in 1857 as the home of Manchester Cricket Club and has been the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club since 1864.
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Saint-Étienne
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Saidy Janko
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Manchester United F.C.
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Which board game was created by Reiner Knizia, Junta or Medici?
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Title: Medici (board game)
Passage: Medici is a German-style board game by Reiner Knizia. Players buy cards in an auction and match in series and in sets to end up with most points from those formations.
Title: Junta (game)
Passage: Junta is a board game designed by Vincent Tsao published, as of 1985, by West End Games. Players compete as the corrupt power elite families of a fictional parody of a stereotypical banana republic (specifically "Republica de los Bananas") trying to get as much money as possible into their Swiss bank accounts before the foreign aid money runs out. Fighting in the republic's capital during recurrent coup attempts encompasses most of the game's equipment, rules and playtime. This game-within-the-game is however actually tangential to the players' main goal.
Title: Beowulf: The Legend
Passage: Beowulf: The Legend is a 2005 designer board game by Reiner Knizia. The artwork is by John Howe. Game play uses cards and tokens. The play moves along a board, and players obtain gold and cards in order to eventually obtain victory points.
Title: Lost Cities
Passage: Lost Cities is a 60-card card game, designed in 1999 by game designer Reiner Knizia and published by several publishers. The objective of the game is to mount profitable expeditions to one or more of the five lost cities (the Himalayas, the Brazilian Rain Forest, the Desert Sands, the Ancient Volcanos and Neptune's Realm). The game was originally intended as a 2-player game, but rule variants have been contributed by fans to allow 1 or 2 further players, causing Reiner Knizia himself to later provide semi-official 4-player rules.
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Medici
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Junta (game)
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Medici (board game)
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Statistician Walter Francis Willcox received three degrees from a local college in Massachusetts. Which college?
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Title: Walter Francis Willcox
Passage: Walter Francis Willcox (March 22, 1861 – October 30, 1964) was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts, to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880, from Amherst College in 1884 with an A.B., and in 1888 received an A.M. degree from Amherst College. He received an LL.B degree (1887) and a Ph.D. (1891) from Columbia University. In 1906 he received an honorary LL.D. degree from Amherst College.
Title: Amherst College
Passage: Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. The institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after Lord Jeffery Amherst. Amherst was established as a men's college and became coeducational in 1975.
Title: The Three Degrees (album)
Passage: The Three Degrees is a 1973 studio album released by girl group The Three Degrees.
Title: Walter Faxon
Passage: Walter Faxon (February 4, 1848 – August 10, 1920) was an American ornithologist and carcinologist. He was born at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, where he grew up. He received three degrees from Harvard University. One of his greater ornithological achievements was demonstration that Brewster's warbler is a hybrid.
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Amherst College
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Walter Francis Willcox
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Amherst College
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Brisingr is the third novel in the "Inheritance Cycle", is a young adult tetralogy of high fantasy novels written by which American author?
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Title: Inheritance Cycle
Passage: The Inheritance Cycle is a young adult tetralogy of high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini. Set in the fictional world of Alagaësia ( ), the novels focus on the adventures of a teenage boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, as they struggle to overthrow the evil king Galbatorix. The series was originally intended to be a trilogy (named the "Inheritance Trilogy") until Paolini announced on October 30, 2007, while working on the third novel, that he believed the story was too complex to conclude in just three books.
Title: Brisingr
Passage: Brisingr is the third novel in the "Inheritance Cycle" by Christopher Paolini. It was released on September 20, 2008. Originally, Paolini intended to conclude the then "Inheritance Trilogy" in three books, but during writing the third book he decided that the series was too complex to conclude in one book, because the single book would be close to 1,500 pages long. A deluxe edition of "Brisingr", which includes removed scenes and previously unseen art, was released on October 13, 2009.
Title: Patricia Geary
Passage: Patricia Geary is an American author. After writing two borderline fantasy novels, "Living in Ether" (1982) and "Strange Toys" (1987), the latter of which won the Philip K. Dick Award, she found it difficult to sell her third novel as she had a reputation primarily as a fantasy author , and returned to teaching (she teaches creative writing at the University of Redlands). Her third novel, "The Other Canyon", was published in 2002 by Gorsky Press, and another, "Guru Cigarettes", in 2005.
Title: The Wheel of Time
Passage: The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels written by American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr. under his pen name of Robert Jordan. Originally planned as a six-book series, "The Wheel of Time" spanned fourteen volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and a companion book. Jordan began writing the first volume, "The Eye of the World", in 1984, and it was published in January, 1990.
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Christopher Paolini
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Brisingr
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Inheritance Cycle
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Rakekniven was climbed in 1996 by a mountaineer that holds which nationality ?
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Title: Alex Lowe
Passage: Stewart Alexander "Alex" Lowe (24 December 1958 – 5 October 1999) was an American mountaineer. He has been described as inspiring ""...a whole generation of climbers and explorers with his uncontainable enthusiasm, legendary training routines, and significant ascents of rock climbs, ice climbs, and mountains all over the world..."". He died in an avalanche in Tibet. The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation honors his legacy.
Title: Rakekniven
Passage: Rakekniven Peak is a peak, 2,365 m, at the north end of Trollslottet Mountain in the Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land. The peak was plotted from surveys and air photos by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1900–60) and named Rakekniven (the razor) after its distinctive shape. It is an almost vertical granite spur protruding from the mountains, and was climbed by Alex Lowe in 1996.
Title: Andrew Lock
Passage: Andrew James Lock OAM (born 26 December 1961) is an Australian mountaineer. He completed his personal mountaineering project to be the first Australian to climb all 14 "eight-thousanders" (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level) in October 2009. He has climbed all fourteen 8,000m peaks, with 18 personal 8,000 metre summits, having climbed several twice. Lock also has climbed to both summits of Shishapangma (most climb to the false summit and only very few have completed the 14 x 8,000m by climbing to the true summit of Shishapangma). Lock is currently an ambassador of Sir David Martin Foundation.
Title: Nazir Sabir
Passage: Nazir Sabir Urdu: نذیر صابر is a Pakistani mountaineer. He was born in Hunza. He has climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan, including the world's second highest mountain K2 in 1981, Gasherbrum II 8035m, Broad Peak 8050m in 1982, and Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak) 8068m in 1992. He became the first from Pakistan to have climbed Everest on 17 May 2000 as a team member on the Mountain Madness Everest Expedition led by Christine Boskoff from USA that also included famed Everest climber Peter Habeler of Austria and eight Canadians.
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American
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Rakekniven
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Alex Lowe
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