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What is the only London station to span the Thames, with entrances on both sides of the river? | Blackfriars station Blackfriars station Blackfriars, also known as London Blackfriars, is a 24-hour central London railway station and connected London Underground station in the City of London. It provides local Thameslink services from North to South London, and limited Southeastern commuter services to South East London and Kent. Its platforms span the River Thames, the only one in London to do so, along the length of Blackfriars Railway Bridge, a short distance downstream from Blackfriars Bridge. There are two station entrances either side of the Thames, along with a connection to the London Underground District and Circle lines. The main line station | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames London Borough of Richmond upon Thames The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames () in southwest London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames. It was created in 1965 when three smaller council areas amalgamated under the London Government Act 1963. It is governed by Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council and is divided into nineteen wards. The borough is home to the National Physical Laboratory and The National Archives. The attractions of Kew Gardens, Hampton Court Palace, Twickenham Stadium and the WWT London Wetlands Centre are within |
Which city connects the headquarters of OPEC, the burial place of Beethoven, and Rigsby's cat in Rising Damp? | Rising Damp his wife. Seedy and furtive, Rigsby has poor interpersonal skills. His professed love of Miss Jones is mostly sexual. She rejects him due to him being married, until his marriage ends and Miss Jones accepts his proposal. As he pries and spies upon his tenants, Rigsby often carries Vienna, his large, fluffy, black-and-white tomcat. Rigsby's amiable pet, and confidant, is so named because - as Rigsby tells it - when he goes to put him out on a cold dark night, if there is another set of eyes out there, then it's Good Night, Vienna. Ruth Jones (Frances de la | Rising Damp (film) Rising Damp (film) Rising Damp is a 1980 comedy film based on the British situation comedy "Rising Damp", which aired on ITV from 1974 to 1978. The television series was, in turn, adapted from Eric Chappell's stage play "The Banana Box". Chappell adapted the play to television, and wrote the screenplay for this feature film. The film's director was Joseph McGrath. Leonard Rossiter plays Rupert Rigsby, the middle-aged landlord of a decrepit townhouse. Rigsby has fallen for his only female tenant, Ruth Jones (Frances de la Tour). Ruth, however, prefers Philip, who is much younger, more attractive, and more sophisticated |
Which skier spectacularly summersaulted through 2 barriers, landing on his head, in the downhill race at the winter Olympics in Nagano. Then went on to win 2 gold medals a few days later? | Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics Alpine Skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics consisted of ten alpine skiing events. The speed events were held at Hakuba and the technical events at Shiga Kogen. There were a number of race postponements due to weather; the events began on 10 February and ended on 21 February. Nine nations won medals in alpine skiing, with Austria winning the most with eleven (3 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze). Katja Seizinger led the individual medal table, with two gold medals and a bronze, while Hermann Maier was the most successful male skier, with two | Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill not participate, and the 2010 silver and bronze medalists, Julia Mancuso and Elisabeth Görgl, finished outside the podium. It was the first time any Olympic alpine event has ended in a tie for the gold. Maze also won the first ever gold medal of Winter Olympics for Slovenia. Both Gisin and Gut won their first Olympic medals. The race was started at 11:00. Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill The Women's downhill competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, on Wednesday, 12 February. The race |
What is the significant total reached when all the numbers on a roulette wheel are added together? | Roulette triple-zero wheel, which has since spread to a few additional casinos. The sum of all the numbers on the roulette wheel (from 0 to 36) is 666, which is the "Number of the Beast". One legend says that François Blanc made a deal with the devil to obtain the secrets of roulette. Roulette players have a variety of betting options. Placing inside bets is either selecting the exact number of the pocket the ball will land in, or a small range of pockets based on their proximity on the layout. Players wishing to bet on the 'outside' will select bets | Roulette the board where players collect their winnings and make new bets. The winning chips remain on the board. In 2004, California legalized a form of roulette known as California Roulette. By law, the game must use cards and not slots on the roulette wheel to pick the winning number. The pockets of the roulette wheel are numbered from 0 to 36. In number ranges from 1 to 10 and 19 to 28, odd numbers are red and even are black. In ranges from 11 to 18 and 29 to 36, odd numbers are black and even are red. There is |
Who is the only player to have played in both a football and cricket world cup? | 1979 Cricket World Cup triggered the most devastating collapse in World Cup history, as England lost 8/11. They were eventually all out for 194 in 51 overs. Vivian Richards was declared Man of the Match. 1979 Cricket World Cup The 1979 Cricket World Cup (officially the Prudential Cup '79) was the second edition of the Cricket World Cup and was won by the West Indies, who had also won the inaugural tournament four years earlier. It was held in England from 9 to 23 June 1979. The format remained unchanged from 1975, with eight countries participating in the event. The preliminary matches were played | 2004 Indoor Cricket World Cup The Ceylon Indoor Cricket Association operated out of a single facility in Colombo, the Austasia Indoor Cricket Complex. As the only functional indoor cricket facility in Sri Lanka this venue hosted all World Cup matches. Men's Division Women's Division 2004 Indoor Cricket World Cup The 2004 Indoor Cricket World Cup was an Indoor Cricket tournament that took place in Colombo, Sri Lanka from the 10th to 16 October 2004 involving both a men's and a women's division. There were a total of 25 matches played in the men's division and 19 matches played in the women's division. In both divisions |
Which sport features the terms cow corner, a featherbed, dibbly dobbly and a sticky dog? | Cow corner (cricket) Cow corner (cricket) The location of cow corner depends on a batsman's handedness, but it is always a part of the field in the deep on the batsman's leg side, typically stretching from forward of deep midwicket to backward of long on. The diagram shows the location of cow corner for a right-handed batsman. Cow corner is named because that is where 'cow shots' are intended to go. Cow shots are wild and risky shots which were considered to be mostly played by players with little knowledge of, or ability to apply, the more difficult techniques of the game. Such | Cow Corner Cow Corner Cow Corner is the north-western end of Worbarrow Bay, a small secluded bay on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset England. Worbarrow Bay and Cow Corner are located about six kilometres south of Wareham und about 16 kilometres west of Swanage. The bay lies directly south of the ghost village of Tyneham. Access to Cow Corner is only possible on foot when the Lulworth army firing ranges are open to the public, either from Tyneham, or alternatively via the South West Coast Path. The geology of the Isle of Purbeck is very complex and |
What will be the first city to host the summer and winter Olympics, after being chosen to stage the 2022 Winter Games? | Beijing bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics Sydney. Beijing went on to successfully bid for and host the 2008 Summer Olympics. Harbin bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics but failed to become a candidate city. Vancouver was ultimately awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics. Harbin also bid to host the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics but failed to become a candidate. Innsbruck ultimately won the right to host the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics. Nanjing successfully bid to host the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. The Beijing Olympic Games Bidding Committee unveiled the gymnasium layout plan for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games on 20 February 2014: five ice events will | Stockholm bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics needing around 6 hours. Stockholm bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics Stockholm 2022 was a bid by Stockholm with Åre and the Swedish Olympic Committee for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The bid was announced at November 11, 2013. The IOC will select the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics at the 127th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 31, 2015. Stockholm previously hosted the 1912 Summer Olympics and hosted equestrian events at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. On 17 January 2014, the Moderate Party in Stockholm decided not to support the bid, and after that there |
Who was the first unseeded player to win the Men's Wimbledon Singles Title? | 1985 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles 1985 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles John McEnroe was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Kevin Curren. Curren also defeated Jimmy Connors in the semifinal and became the first player ever to defeat both Connors and McEnroe in the same Grand Slam tournament. Boris Becker defeated Curren in the final, 6–3, 6–7, 7–6, 6–4 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1985 Wimbledon Championships. Becker became the first unseeded player and the first German to win the Wimbledon singles title, as well as the youngest ever male Grand Slam singles champion at . This latter | 1996 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles 1996 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Pete Sampras was the three-time defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Richard Krajicek, in his only loss at Wimbledon between 1993 and 2000. Krajicek defeated MaliVai Washington in the final, 6–3, 6–4, 6–3 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1996 Wimbledon Championships. Krajicek had originally been unseeded, but as the 17th ranked player in the Wimbledon seedings he replaced 7th seed Thomas Muster in the draw, when Muster withdrew shortly before the start of the tournament. A number of high-seeded men were eliminated early, including 1992 champion Andre Agassi |
Who played Gary's flatmate in the first series of Men Behaving Badly? | Men Behaving Badly Men Behaving Badly Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of Gary Strang (Martin Clunes) and his flatmates Dermot Povey (Harry Enfield; series 1 only) and Tony Smart (Neil Morrissey; series 2 onwards). It was first broadcast on ITV in 1992. A total of six series were made, along with a Christmas special and a trilogy of episodes that make up the feature length "last orders". The series was filmed in and around Ealing in west London. The setting, however, is implied to be south London and many | Men Behaving Badly talk." "Men Behaving Badly" boosted the acting careers of all four of the main cast. The final episode in 1998 drew 13.9 million viewers. The show was criticized by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents for its portrayal of a "lad's culture of boozing and irresponsibility". A companion guide to the show "The A-Z of Behaving Badly" was released on 1 November 1995. It features many handy tips from Gary and Tony and was written by Simon Nye. On 27 July 2000, two audio compilations were released featuring 8 shows from series 3-4. A script book entitled The |
What is the alcoholic beverage similar to cider which is made from fermented pears? | Alcoholic drink the most common beer is chicha, made from grain or fruits. Beer is the most consumed alcoholic beverage in the world. Cider or cyder ( ) is a fermented alcoholic drink made from any fruit juice; apple juice (traditional and most common), peaches, pears ("Perry" cider) or other fruit. Cider alcohol content varies from 1.2% ABV to 8.5% or more in traditional English ciders. In some regions, cider may be called "apple wine". Mead () is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with various fruits, spices, grains, or hops. The alcoholic content of mead may range | Cider and specifically Ireland and the UK. There are two types, one being traditional alcoholic "hard cider" and the other "sweet" or "soft cider", often simply called "apple cider". Cider Cider ( ) is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples. Cider is popular in the United Kingdom, especially in the West Country, and widely available. The UK has the world's highest per capita consumption, as well as its largest cider-producing companies. Cider is also popular in many Commonwealth countries, such as India, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Aside from the UK and its former colonies, cider is |
What former monetary unit was equal to a quarter of an old penny? | Quarter farthing have a purchasing power of between 3p and 4p (£0.03 to £0.04). Quarter farthing The British quarter farthing (d) coin was a unit of currency equaling one sixteenth of a penny ( of a pound sterling). It was produced for circulation in Ceylon in various years between 1839 and 1853, with proof coins being produced in 1868. It is the smallest denomination of pound sterling coin ever minted. The coin is considered to be part of British coinage because it has no indication of what country it was minted for, being made in the same style as the contemporary half-farthing | Penny (unit) nail, the higher the cost per long hundred. The system remained in use in England into the 20th century, but is obsolete there today. The d is an abbreviation for "denarius", a Roman coin similar to a penny; this was the abbreviation for the monetary penny in the United Kingdom before decimalisation. Penny (unit) In the United States, the length of a nail is designated by its penny size, written with a number and the abbreviation d for penny; for example, "10d" for a ten-penny nail. A larger number indicates a longer nail, shown in the table below. Nails under |
What is the name of the pig in Animal Farm? | Napoleon (Animal Farm) Napoleon (Animal Farm) Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, or Ducklings' Friend is a fictional character and the main antagonist in George Orwell's "Animal Farm". He is described as "a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar" who is "not much of a talker" and has "a reputation for getting his own way". While he is at first a common farm pig, he exiles Snowball, another pig, who is his rival for power, and then takes advantage of the animals' uprising against their masters to eventually become the tyrannical "President" of Animal Farm, | Squealer (Animal Farm) wrote, "All people who are morally sound have known since about 1931 that the Russian régime stinks". Squealer, as the chief propagandist of the regime, is prominent in the story and Orwell defines the path down which small lies lead to bigger lies. Orwell regarded propaganda as a feature of all modern governments but especially prominent in totalitarian regimes, which depended on it. In "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) he described 'organised lying' as a crucial element of totalitarian states. 3. Animal Farm by George Orwell Squealer (Animal Farm) Squealer is a fictional character, a pig, in George Orwell's "Animal |
Which sports commentator wrote the autobiography Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken? | Sports commentator There are however exceptions to this — most of the United Kingdom's leading cricket and snooker commentators are former professionals in their sports, while the former Formula One racing commentator Murray Walker had no formal journalistic training and only limited racing experience of his own. In the United States, George "Pat" Summerall, a former professional kicker, spent most of his broadcasting career as a play-by-play announcer. Although the combination of a play-by-play announcer and a color commentator is standard , in the past it was much more common for a broadcast to have no analysts and just have a single | Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator) Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator) James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker. Snyder was born in Steubenville, Ohio. According to his "New York Times" obituary of April 22, 1996, Snyder's family roots were in the village of Tholopotami (Θολoποτάμι), on the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. As a teenager in Ohio, he became acquainted with bookmakers. According to his autobiography "Jimmy the Greek", Snyder bet $10,000 on the 1948 election between Thomas Dewey and Harry S. |
Who replaced Anneka Rice in the TV programme Treasure Hunt? | Anneka Rice 1988, being replaced by former tennis player Annabel Croft. Rice hosted the BBC's Children in Need appeal in 1987 and tested an early version of her next project, "Challenge Anneka". This had been devised by Rice herself and was launched in 1989 on BBC 1. It ran for a further five years. On 9 June 2006, it was announced that "Challenge Anneka" would return, but this time on ITV. The first of three specials was broadcast on Boxing Day 2006. A further episode was aired on 6 June 2007. As a result of her owning the rights to "Challenge Anneka" | Treasure Hunt (UK game show) hosted "The Treasure Hunt" on Wednesday lunchtimes as part of his weekday show. In this format, callers rang in and requested things they had been trying to get hold of, hoping that other listeners had the required items. Although otherwise unrelated to the original concept, the programme opened with the "Treasure Hunt" television series theme tune, and in August 2007, Anneka Rice recorded a voice-over lead-in for it. Treasure Hunt (UK game show) Treasure Hunt was a UK game show, based on the format of the French show "La Chasse au Trésor", created by Jacques Antoine. It appeared on Channel |
Which is England's highest mountain? | Geography of England – the lowland areas of the south, east, and midlands and the more rugged and upland areas of the north and west. East Anglia is the lowest area of England, having no high hills or mountains and hosting an area of the Fens, the lowest area of England. The highest area of England is the North West, which contains England's highest hills and mountains, including its highest – Scafell Pike. In England, a mountain is officially defined as land over 600 metres, so most fall in Northern England. Some hill and mountain chains in England are: The main English islands | Highest unclimbed mountain Highest unclimbed mountain An unclimbed mountain is a mountain peak that has yet to be climbed to the top. Determining which unclimbed peak is highest is often a matter of controversy. In some parts of the world, surveying and mapping are still unreliable, and there are no comprehensive records of the routes of explorers, mountaineers and local inhabitants. In some cases, even modern ascents by larger parties have been poorly documented and, with no universally recognized listing, the best that can be achieved in determining the world's highest unclimbed peaks is somewhat speculative. Most sources indicate that Gangkhar Puensum () |
During the 1980s, which drink was promoted with the advertising slogan, 'the totally tropical taste'? | Lilt a song bearing the lyrics "here comes the Lilt Man". In the late 1990s it was heavily promoted with advertisements featuring two Jamaican women, Blanche Williams and Hazel Palmer. They became known in the media as the "Lilt Ladies". Lilt Lilt is a brand of soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company and sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Gibraltar, and the Seychelles only. During the 1970s and 1980s, Lilt was promoted with the advertising slogan, "the totally tropical taste". Between 2008 and 2014, the Coca Cola company reduced the number of calories in the soda by 56% as part | Advertising slogan as ideas take hold with the public. Some advertising slogans retain their influence even after general use is discontinued. If an advertising slogan enters into the public vernacular, word-of-mouth communication may increase consumer awareness of the product and extend an ad campaign's lifespan. Slogans that associate emotional responses or evoke recollections of past memories increase their likelihood to be adopted by the public and shared. Additionally, by linking a slogan to a commonplace discussion topic (e.g. stress, food, traffic), consumers will recall the slogan more often and associate the corporation with their personal experiences. If a slogan is adopted by |
What creature is carved into the handle of Mary Poppins' umbrella? | Mary Poppins (character) Academy Award for Best Actress. British film magazine "Empire" included Poppins (as played by Andrews) in their 2011 list of 100 greatest movie characters. A quintessential English nanny, Mary Poppins is a slightly stern but caring woman, who uses magic and self-control to take care of the Banks children. She is usually identifiable by her sensible hat and parrot umbrella which she brings with her wherever she goes on outings. She is kind towards the children, but can be firm when needed. She is "practically perfect in every way." In the film version, she is a young woman, with an | Mary Poppins British children's literature during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. In a sequence called "", over thirty Mary Poppins' descended with umbrellas to fight and defeat the villains Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, and Lord Voldemort, who were haunting children's dreams. The silhouette of Mary Poppins with an umbrella was used on the cover of the special issue of the journal "Friction" dedicated to the 6th World Tribology Congress in Beijing. It shows the process of detachment of an adhesive contact made in the form of a flat punch in the character's shape. Mary |
There have been 12 prime ministers during the queen's reign. How many of them were Conservative? | Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom transitions between reigns, eight Prime Ministers each served under two sovereigns: George III had 14 Prime Ministers serving during his 59-year reign (reigned 1760–1820), beginning with the Duke of Newcastle. The last incumbent, Lord Liverpool, was the only one appointed by his son (the Prince Regent) during the father's final incapacity to rule. In downward numerical order, numbers of Prime Ministers in office during other reigns are: Only six Prime Ministers came to serve office under sovereigns in whose own reigns they were born. The present Prime Minister, Theresa May, is the third Prime Minister to have been born in | Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 10 February 1746 but returned to office two days later (12 February) when Lord Bath had been invited to form a ministry but failed to do so. The shortest interval where an intervening ministry had been formed was achieved by Lord Melbourne, who was out of office after being dismissed on 14 November 1834 but returned following the end of successor Sir Robert Peel's first ministry on 18 April 1835155 days (under six months) later. Of all Prime Ministers, only two have been female. Both were Conservative Party leaders. Two Prime Ministers were born in Ireland: Bonar Law was born |
What links a village in Oxfordshire, a game show that was presented by Jasper Carrott, and David Beckham? | Jasper Carrott 2004 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham featuring classic routines from his career. He returned to singing for the musical "Go Play Up Your Own End" (written by Malcolm Stent, songs by Harvey Andrews) in 2005. In 2005, he appeared in and put on the first of "Jasper Carrott's Rock With Laughter" concerts. This became a regular at the NEC in Birmingham, usually in December and sometimes alternating with his "Jasper Carrott's Christmas Crackers" events, but there have also been a few summer shows too. In summer 2007, Carrott hosted the Endemol-produced game show "Golden Balls" for ITV1. Promising | Jasper Carrott 15 September 2007 he was inducted into the Birmingham Walk of Stars at the Arts Fest 2007 celebrations. The award was presented by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. Carrott is the second inductee, following Ozzy Osbourne. Carrott was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Comedy Awards on 6 December 2008. His first appearance on television was a half-hour show for BBC Midlands on 11 August 1975 in a programme about local football called "The Golden Game". Then in 1976, "A Half Hour Mislaid with Jasper Carrott" recorded at Pebble Mill. His break came two years later when Michael |
Which sit com actor went on to play the original Phantom in the West End and Broadway? | The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role) won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. It is the longest running show in Broadway history by a wide margin, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11 February 2012, the first production ever to do so. It is the second longest-running West End musical, after "Les Misérables", and the third longest-running West End show overall, after "The Mousetrap". With total estimated worldwide gross receipts of over $5.6 billion and total Broadway gross of $845 million, "Phantom" was the most | The Phantom (play) The Phantom (play) The Phantom is a two act melodrama written by Dion Boucicault. It was originally titled "The Vampire" when it was first performed at the Princess's Theatre in London in 1852. Boucicault renamed it "The Phantom" when he went to the United States, where it opened in Philadelphia in 1856. The play tells the story of two different encounters with a mysterious phantom. The first act begins with two owners of an inn, Janet and Davy on their wedding night. There is a big storm when the landlord’s daughter Lucy Peveryl asks Davy to accompany her to the |
Which 80s pop act had their Grammy revoked for not singing the vocals on their album? | Grammy Award for Best New Artist occurred in 1990 after it was revealed winners Milli Vanilli did not contribute their own vocals on their debut album. The award was revoked, but was not handed out to another artist. Of the 54 awards presented in the category since its inception, the honor has been presented to 26 solo female artists, 18 duos or groups, and 11 solo male artists. Between 1997 and 2003, all the winners were solo female artists. Also, from 1993 to 2005, no winner was a solo male artist. In 2006, John Legend broke this trend, which started with Marc Cohn in 1992. Only | Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate. Awards in several categories are distributed annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position." The award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was first |
Where did the Ossis and the Wessis meet for the first time in 28 years, in 1989? | Berlin Wall near Potsdamer Platz where the stretch of both walls is marked, giving visitors an impression of the dimension of the barrier system. After the fall of Berlin Wall, there were initiatives that they want to preserve the death strip walkways and redevelop it into a hiking and cycling area, known as Berliner Mauerweg. It is part of the initiative by Berlin Senate since 2005. For many years after reunification, people in Germany talked about cultural differences between East and West Germans (colloquially "Ossis" and "Wessis"), sometimes described as "Mauer im Kopf" (The wall in the head). A September 2004 poll | Where Did the Feeling Go? Where Did the Feeling Go? "Where Did the Feeling Go?" is a song written by Michael Masser and Norman Saleet and first recorded by American singer Jill Michaels in 1985, and then by Russell Hitchcock (from the band Air Supply) for his eponymous debut solo album in 1988. The song found renewed interest when Selena recorded the song a year later in 1989; however, it was not released until 1997 when it was featured in the film "Selena" and its soundtrack album, following her death in 1995. The song was later included on the "20 Years of Music" version of |
Charlotte, Desiree and Rooster are varieties of which type of vegetable? | Vegetable chip chips (other than potato chips) include Calbee, Beanitos, Terra, Food Should Taste Good, JicaChips, Sensible Portions, and Uprooted, among others. As of February 2016, Kettle Foods produces the Uprooted brand of vegetable chips made from sweet potatoes, including varieties with and without the addition of beets and parsnips. The product is "lightly seasoned with oil and sea salt". Marketing of the product to consumers began circa February 2016. Vegetable chip Vegetable chips (also referred to as veggie chips) are chips or crisps that are prepared using vegetables. Vegetable chips may be fried, deep-fried, dehydrated, dried or baked. Many different root | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007) is a non-fiction book by Barbara Kingsolver detailing her family's attempt to eat only locally grown food for an entire year. The book revolves around the concept of improving the family's diet by eating only foods that her family was able to grow themselves or obtain locally (save for grains and olive oil). Kingsolver, along with her husband and daughters, start a farm in Virginia where they grow and can different varieties of tomatoes, learn about rooster husbandry, make cheese, and adjust to eating foods only when they |
What rebellious event was organised in 1773 by the Sons of Liberty as a protest against taxation without representation? | History of New England political freedoms and local democracy, which they felt was increasingly threatened by the English government. The main grievance was taxation, which colonists argued could only be imposed by their own legislatures and not by the Parliament in London. Their political cry was "no taxation without representation." A ship was planning to land tea in Boston on December 16, 1773, and Patriots associated with the Sons of Liberty raided the ship and dumped all the tea into the harbor. This Boston Tea Party outraged British officials, and the King and Parliament decided to punish Massachusetts, passing the Intolerable Acts in 1774. | No taxation without representation representation". In a show of support for the city, President Bill Clinton used the "Taxation Without Representation" plates on the presidential limousine; however, President George W. Bush had the tags replaced to those without the motto shortly after taking office. President Barack Obama announced his intention to use the plates with the motto beginning at his second inauguration. President Donald Trump continued usage of the plates with the protest motto after he was elected, though he has stated he has "no position" on the issue of granting D.C. statehood. In 2002, the Council of the District of Columbia authorized adding |
What is the spirit that is used in the cocktails Mai Tai and Daiquiri? | Mai Tai such a popular cocktail in the 1950s–60s that many restaurants, particularly tiki-themed restaurants or bars, served them. The Mai Tai was also prominently featured in the Elvis Presley film "Blue Hawaii". Today, the Mai Tai is synonymous with Tiki culture both past and present. As of 2008, Trader Vic's Restaurant chain began to open small establishments called Mai Tai Bars that primarily serve cocktails and "pupus" (appetizers). Mai Tai The Mai Tai is a cocktail based on rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice, associated with Polynesian-style settings. Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in | Mai Tai (band) saw her daughter exchanging songs with Ruth Jacott, an acknowledged contemporary of Mai Tai. 1983–1996 Mai Tai (band) Mai Tai is a Dutch group (named after the tropical cocktail Mai Tai) that was formed in 1983 by the Dutch record producers Eric van Tijn and Jochem Fluitsma with three former backing vocalists Jetty Weels, Mildred Douglas and Caroline de Windt. Their debut single, "Keep On Dancin' " (1983) was only a hit in the Dutch nightclubs. In the summer of 1984 they released a second single, "What Goes O". It became their first hit in the Dutch Top 40, peaking |
The rights to which children's book were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1929? | Great Ormond Street Hospital with water on the brain (hydrocephalus), and non-invasive (percutaneous) heart valve replacements. They did the first UK clinical trials of the rubella vaccine, and the first bone marrow transplant and gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency. It is closely associated with University College London (UCL) and in partnership with the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, which is adjacent to it, is the largest centre for research and postgraduate teaching in children's health in Europe. In 1929, J. M. Barrie donated the copyright to "Peter Pan" to the hospital. After a long campaign by Dr. Charles West, the | Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is the largest centre for child heart surgery in the UK and one of the largest centres for heart transplantation in the world. In 1962 they developed the first heart and lung bypass machine for children. With children's book author Roald Dahl, they developed an improved shunt valve for children |
Kopi Luwak, produced mainly in Indonesia, and a waste product of the civet, is the most expensive variety of what? | Kopi Luwak luwak beans to exporters whose produce ends up in Europe and Asia. Intensive farming is also criticised by traditional farmers because the civets do not select what they eat, so the cherries which are fed to them in order to flavor the coffee are of poor quality compared to those beans collected from the wild. According to an officer from the TRAFFIC conservation programme, the trade in civets to make kopi luwak may constitute a significant threat to wild civet populations. Kopi luwak is one of the most expensive coffees in the world, selling for between US$100 and $500 per | Kopi Luwak has two farms with 200 (in Davao City) and 100 (Iligan City) wild civets. But the archipelago of Indonesia where the famous "kopi luwak" was first discovered and produced is leading in supplying the world market for almost three centuries, where many small-scale civet farms are proliferating in the countryside. Several studies have examined the process in which the animal's stomach acids and enzymes digest the beans' covering and ferment the beans. Research by food scientist Massimo Marcone at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada showed that the civet's endogenous digestive secretions seep into the beans. These secretions carry |
Who had a hit song in the late 60s with Hazy Shade Of Winter? | A Hazy Shade of Winter A Hazy Shade of Winter "A Hazy Shade of Winter" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on October 22, 1966, initially as a stand-alone single, but was subsequently included on the duo's fourth studio album, "Bookends" (1968). It peaked at number 13 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. In 1987, for the "Less Than Zero" soundtrack, the Bangles recorded a cover version which peaked at number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The duo recorded "A Hazy Shade of Winter" during the sessions for "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" (1966), but the song was not included | A Hazy Shade of Winter led by Susanna Hoffs towards the end. This was a rare occurrence in the Bangles songs, as they mostly had just one member singing lead. Due to pressure from their record label, the Bangles removed the verse from the original song that contained the line "drinking my vodka and lime". According to liner notes on the Soundtrack album, Steve Bartek from the band Oingo Boingo played acoustic guitar on the track. When released as a single in November 1987, "Hazy Shade of Winter" became a huge hit, surpassing the popularity of the original version, peaking at number 2 on the |
Winterfell is the house of what family in Game of Thrones? | The Prince of Winterfell The Prince of Winterfell "The Prince of Winterfell" is the eighth episode of the second season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series "Game of Thrones". The episode is written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and directed, for the third time in this season, by Alan Taylor. It premiered on May 20, 2012. The title of the episode refers to Theon Greyjoy as ruler of Winterfell after disposing of the Stark children, although this is only said in the books and is never explicitly mentioned in the series. Tyrion Lannister and Bronn plan the defense of King's | The Prince of Winterfell score of 7.25 out of 10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Though it's mostly concerned with moving its pieces into position before the finale, 'The Prince of Winterfell' is a pleasantly subdued episode that makes the most of its character moments." The A.V. Club gave it a B+. IGN gave it a rating of 8 out of 10. This episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. The Prince of Winterfell "The Prince of Winterfell" is the eighth episode of the second season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series "Game of Thrones". The episode is written |
What cocktail's original recipe contains the spirits tequila, vodka, light rum, triple sec, and gin, and has an alcohol content of 22%? | Long Island Iced Tea Long Island Iced Tea A Long Island Iced Tea is a type of alcoholic mixed drink typically made with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple sec, gin, and a splash of cola, which gives the drink the same amber hue as its namesake. A popular version mixes equal parts vodka, gin, rum, triple sec, with parts sour mix and a splash of cola. Lastly, it is decorated with the lemon and straw, after stirring with bar spoon smoothly. Most variants use equal parts of the main liquors, but include a smaller amount of triple sec (or other orange-flavored liqueur). Close variants | Bushwacker (cocktail) topped with a grating of fresh nutmeg. However the recipe now has as many variations as there are gin joints or bartenders. The quantity of vodka or rum, which lends the drink most of its alcohol, can be varied making the drink anywhere between 40% and 75% alcohol or it can be completely left out for a low-alcohol beverage. Fruit can also be added to the cocktail as another seasonal variation to an otherwise basic drink. The Bushwacker was invented at the Ship's Store/Sapphire Pub in Sapphire Village, St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in the spring of 1975 by bartender |
What sweet was first advertised 30 years ago featuring a polar bear? | Polar bear the polar bear in advertising, while Fox's Glacier Mints have featured a polar bear named Peppy as the brand mascot since 1922. Polar bears are popular in fiction, particularly in books for children or teenagers. For example, "The Polar Bear Son" is adapted from a traditional Inuit tale. The animated television series "Noah's Island" features a polar bear named Noah as the protagonist. Polar bears feature prominently in "East" (also released as "North Child") by Edith Pattou, "The Bear" by Raymond Briggs (adapted into an animated short in 1998), and Chris d'Lacey's "The Fire Within" series. The "panserbjørne" of Philip | Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? is a children's picture book, published in 1991, written and illustrated by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle. The book is designed to help toddlers identify zoo animals and the noises they make. It features a polar bear, a lion, a hippopotamus, a flamingo, a zebra, a boa constrictor, an elephant, a leopard, a peacock, a walrus, a zoo keeper and some children. This is a companion book to "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?", published by Carle and Martin in 1967, |
Which 1983 film starring Glen Close, Jeff Goldbloom, Kevin Kline and Tom Berenger was nominated for 3 Oscars, including Best Picture? | The Big Chill (film) The Big Chill (film) The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. The plot focuses on a group of baby boomers who attended the University of Michigan, reuniting after 15 years when their friend Alex commits suicide. Kevin Costner was cast as Alex, but all scenes showing his face were cut. It was filmed in Beaufort, South Carolina. The soundtrack features soul, R&B, and pop-rock music from the 1960s and 1970s, including tracks by Creedence Clearwater | Tom Berenger 1984: Allison Moore (born 1977) and Patrick Moore (born 1979). He has three daughters by second wife Lisa Williams (to whom he was married from 1986 to 1997): Chelsea Moore (born 1986), Chloe Moore (born 1988) and Shiloh Moore (born in 1993). He has a daughter named Scout Moore (born 1998) with Patricia Alvaran, to whom he was married from 1998–2011. He married Laura Moretti in Sedona, Arizona in early September 2012. Tom Berenger Tom Berenger (born Thomas Michael Moore; May 31, 1949) is an American television and motion picture actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best |
A character in the sitcom Friends, or a provisioner of candles and soaps? | Family and Friends (Australian TV series) Family and Friends (Australian TV series) Family and Friends is a short-lived Australian television soap opera debuted on 7 February 1990. The series was intended to be the Nine Network's response to the already successful soaps on the rival channels - "Neighbours" and "E Street" on the Network Ten and "Home and Away" on the Seven Network. Set in a suburban community the series focused on two families - the Chandler and the Italian-Australian Rossi families - who were linked by a long-standing vendetta stemming from an accidental death in the 1950s. Old enmities were renewed by the Romeo-and-Juliet style | Teen sitcom Teen sitcom A teen situation comedy, or teen sitcom, is a subgenre of comedic television programs targeted towards teenagers. In general, these type of programs focus primarily on characters between 13 and 19 years of age and routinely feature characters involved in humorous situations (either realistic or fantasy in style, depending on the program's plotline), and often focus on the characters' family and social lives. The primary plot of each episode often involves the lead character(s) that the program centers on, while secondary plotlines often focus on the character(s') parents, siblings (those not among the leads, if any) or friends, |
A famous guitarist, or an young attendant upon a person of rank? | Page boy (wedding attendant) Page boy (wedding attendant) A page boy is a young male attendant at a wedding or cotillion, a social dance. This type of wedding attendant is less common than it used to be, but is still a way of including young relatives or the children of relatives and friends in a wedding. A page is often seen at British royal weddings. There may be many pages for effect at cotillions. Traditionally, page boys carry the bride's train, especially if the bride is wearing a dress with a long train. Because of the difficulty of managing the train, page boys are | Rank of a partition "rank of a partition" is sometimes used to describe a different concept: the rank of a partition λ is the largest integer "i" such that λ has at least "i" parts each of which is no smaller than "i". Equivalently, this is the length of the main diagonal in the Young diagram or Ferrers diagram for λ, or the side-length of the Durfee square of λ. The table of ranks of partitions of 5 is given below. Ranks of the partitions of the integer 5 Rank of a partition In mathematics, particularly in the fields of number theory and combinatorics, |
A TV series starring Bill Maynard in the early 80's, or the electrician in charge of a film set? | The Gaffer (TV series) The Gaffer (TV series) The Gaffer is an ITV situation comedy series of the early 1980s, that starred Bill Maynard and was written by businessman Graham White. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television Following the end of the situation comedy ("Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!"), Maynard's next character couldn't have been more different from the bumbling Selwyn Froggitt. Fred Moffatt is a survivor – just. Bearded, wearing a battered hat and a crumpled suit, his Rover P6 a rusting wreck, he runs a struggling engineering firm and is constantly trying to avoid his creditors, the tax | A Day in the Life (TV series) Gillis (better known as Girl Talk), and Misty Copeland. The series premiere episode featured Branson. Virgil Films and Entertainment released "A Day in the Life Season 1 & 2" onto DVD with all 16 episodes of both seasons on a 2-disc set on October 8, 2013. A Day in the Life (TV series) A Day in the Life is a 2011 internet television documentary web series, distributed by Hulu as its first original long-form programming venture. The first season includes six episodes starring Morgan Spurlock, whose production company, Warrior Poets, produced the show. Spurlock produced the show with his production |
The actress who played Mindy in Mork and Mindy, or an artisan builder of clay walls using straw? | Mork & Mindy Mork & Mindy Mork & Mindy is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 14, 1978 to May 27, 1982. A spin-off after a highly successful episode of "Happy Days", it starred Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate, and later his wife and the mother of his child. The character of Mork was played by a then-unknown Robin Williams, who impressed producer Garry Marshall with his quirky comedic ability as soon as they | Mork & Mindy dismay, it is a man who looks exactly like Mork, except in regular clothes, asking for directions. When production on "Mork & Mindy" began, an extra scene was filmed and added to this episode for subsequent reruns. In the scene, Mork contacts Orson and explains that he decided to let Fonzie go, and was going to travel to the year 1978 to continue his mission. In the pilot episode of "Mork & Mindy," Orson tells Mork that he is assigning him to study the planet Earth. Mork remembers that he has been to Earth before to collect a specimen (Fonzie) |
Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours, or a craftsman who produced wooden chests? | Open All Hours Open All Hours Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which premiered in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme developed from a television pilot broadcast in Ronnie Barker's comedy anthology series, "Seven of One" (1973). "Open All Hours" ranked eighth in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll. A sequel, entitled "Still Open All Hours", was created in 2013. The setting is a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a | Open All Hours in "Open All Hours". A fan created a web site to garner support for preserving it. The shop was to be auctioned in Leeds on 24 November 2008, and was expected to fetch between £120,000 and £130,000; however, all bids fell short of the reserve price. Three years earlier, a different sort of auction commemorated the programme. The BBC donated, to the British Stammering Association, two of the false moustaches worn by Ronnie Barker in the series. The BSA auctioned the moustaches at their London conference in September 2005 (shortly before Barker's death). The show's theme tune is a song |
This character lived at 11 Coronation Street, and is also the name of a leather maker? | Coronation Street place at university, and thus found his working-class background—as well as his parents, Frank and Ida (Frank Pemberton and Noel Dyson)—something of an embarrassment. The character was one of the few to have experienced life outside of Coronation Street. In some ways this predicts the growth of globalisation, and the decline of similar communities. In an episode from 1961, Barlow declares: "You can't go on just thinking about your own street these days. We're living with people on the other side of the world. There's more to worry about than Elsie Tanner and her boyfriends." Roache is the only remaining | Norris Cole (Coronation Street) also nominated for "Funniest Performance" at the 2010 "Inside Soap Awards". Norris Cole (Coronation Street) Norris Cole is a fictional character from the British soap opera "Coronation Street", played by Malcolm Hebden. He made his first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 11 March 1994. Hebden had previously played the role of Carlos, Mavis Riley's (Thelma Barlow) Spanish lover, in 1974. Norris appeared on a recurring basis, until he was written out in April 1997 by Brian Park. However two years later, the character was reintroduced on a regular basis. Derek Wilton (Peter Baldwin) is surprised when Norris Cole |
Of what is Selenology the study? | What Is This? project while the former was seen as side endeavor. What Is This released their debut EP "Squeezed" in 1984. Around this time, Hillel Slovak had become uncertain of his role in the band and decided to rejoin the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He left What Is This in 1985, and later that year the band would release its only full-length studio album "What Is This?" and its final EP "3 Out of 5 Live". After this, the band broke up. Alain Johannes later met Natasha Shneider and the duo formed Walk The Moon, whose sole studio album featured Jack Irons | What Is History? and were instead products of their own places and times, which in turn decided what "facts of the past" they determined into "facts of history". British historian Richard J. Evans said "What Is History?" caused a revolution in British historiography in the 1960s. Australian historian Keith Windschuttle, a critic of Carr, said "What Is History?" is one of the most influential books written about historiography, and that very few historians working in the English language since the 1960s had not read it. What Is History? What Is History? is a study that was written by the English historian E. H. |
Which is the oldest theatre in current use in London? | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Theatre Royal, Drury Lane The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed | Theatre Royal Haymarket Theatre Royal Haymarket The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use. Samuel Foote acquired the lease in 1747, and in 1766 he gained a royal patent to play legitimate drama (meaning spoken drama, as opposed to opera, concerts or plays with music) in the summer months. The original building was a little further north in the same street. It has been at its current location since 1821, when |
Which English Queen had 17 children and outlived all of them? | Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones in 1714 Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones in 1714 The following is the Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones as of the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, on 1 August 1714. It reflects the laws current in England and Scotland immediately before the Act of Settlement 1701, which disqualified Catholics from the throne. Queen Anne of Great Britain was the last monarch of the House of Stuart which had succeeded the House of Tudor with the death of Elizabeth I. All of Anne's children died before age 12, resulting in a | Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples would succeed him: he had four sisters, three of them outlived him, all four had married powerful rulers and all four had their own children. On 21 September 1290, Mary claimed the throne of Hungary. She was up against her two sisters, Catherine and Elisabeth, and their children, plus the children of her younger sister Anna. Mary was crowned Queen by a Papal legate in Naples (1291), but immediately transferred her rights to her eldest son, Charles Martel of Anjou. The Pope confirmed her sole rights in Hungary on 30 August 1295. However, Catherine's son, Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia, |
Which Carry-On actor starred in Bless This House? | Bless This House (UK TV series) Bless This House (UK TV series) Bless This House is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 2 February 1971 to 22 April 1976. Starring Sid James and Diana Coupland, it was created by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, but mainly written by other hands including Dave Freeman and Carla Lane. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television. In 2004, "Bless This House" was ranked by a BBC poll as the 67th Best British Sitcom. The show was produced & directed by William G. Stewart, later the host of the "15 to 1" gameshow, and had | Bless This House (film) Bless This House (film) Bless This House is a 1972 British comedy film and a spin-off from the television sitcom "Bless This House". In 1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Then the rude and arrogant Ronald Baines and his family move in next door. The film starred many of the main actors from the TV series but some were replaced; most notably Robin Stewart, who was replaced by Robin Askwith because he had already been booked for the |
Mick Robertson and Jenny Handley presented which Children's TV Programme? | Mick Robertson Mick Robertson Michael Robertson (born February 14, 1946 in Petworth, Sussex) is a former presenter of the ITV children's television magazine programme "Magpie". He attended Midhurst Grammar School and trained as a teacher before working in a London play scheme. He then worked as a researcher for Thames Television. He co-presented "Magpie" from 1972 to 1980, then went on to present an out of school activity programme called "Freetime". When "Freetime" was axed by ITV in 1985, he helped to establish The Children's Channel, where he presented a show called "Roustabout". Since the 1980s he has produced television programmes for | Wise Up (TV programme) teenage life in different countries each on the Greenwich Meridian Line. The programme led to the formation of Wised Up Productions involving Mick Robertson and Simon Morris. Morris did not contribute to "Wise Up", though he did contribute to the catalogue of programmes produced by Wised Up Productions. The programme was nominated for a BAFTA in 1996, a Children's BAFTA in 2000. As part of the 25th Anniversary of Channel 4, "Wise Up" was featured in "Radio Times." Wise Up (TV programme) Wise Up is a British factual children's television programme broadcast for nine series on Sunday mornings between 1995 |
In Sex in the City, what was Carrie's last name? | Sex and the City two feature films, "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Sex and the City 2" (2010), and a prequel television series commissioned by The CW, "The Carrie Diaries" (2013–2014). The show was based in part on writer Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name, compiled from her column at "The New York Observer". Bushnell has said in several interviews that the Carrie Bradshaw in her columns is her alter ego; when she wrote the "Sex and the City" essays, she used her own name initially, but for privacy reasons, later created the character played in the series by Sarah Jessica | Sex and the City (film) in place of a ring. They later marry alone, in a simple wedding in New York City Hall, with Carrie wearing the simple suit that she had intended to wear before being enticed away by the Vivienne Westwood dress that she had modelled in the bridal issue of Vogue. Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte turn up to surprise Carrie, having been called by Big. The film ends with the four women sipping cosmopolitans, celebrating Samantha's fiftieth birthday, with Carrie making a toast to the next fifty. At the end of "Sex and the City"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s run in February 2004, there were indications |
Who hosted Call My Bluff? | Call My Bluff Hickboo, Jargoon, Zurf, Morepork, and Jirble. "Queach", for instance, was defined as "a malicious caricature", "a cross between a quince and a peach", or "a mini-jungle of mixed vegetation". The first and second of those particular definitions are bluffs. The theme music for the show was "Ciccolino" by Norrie Paramor. "Call My Bluff" originally aired on BBC2 from 17 October 1965 to 22 December 1988. The original host was Robin Ray. Robert Morley and Frank Muir captained the teams. Morley was later succeeded by Patrick Campbell, and Arthur Marshall took over upon Campbell's death. Various celebrities also stood in as | Call My Bluff Call My Bluff Call My Bluff is a long-running British game show between two teams of three celebrity contestants. The point of the game is for the teams to take it in turn to provide three definitions of an obscure word, only one of which is correct. The other team then has to guess which is the correct definition, the other two being "bluffs". It was brought back to BBC TV by producer Richard L. Lewis. Examples of words used in "Call My Bluff", taken from a book published in connection with the show in 1972, are Queach, Strongle, Ablewhacket, |
Who starred alongside Polly James in the first series of The Liver Birds? | The Liver Birds sequence for series one also exists but in poor quality. The first series was stopped after four episodes because Polly James' hectic schedule—working every evening on "Anne of Green Gables" in the West End, then rehearsing all day for the TV show—was proving too much. By the time James was available again, Pauline Collins had moved to LWT's "Upstairs, Downstairs". The producer Sydney Lotterby remembered having worked with Nerys Hughes on "The Likely Lads" and, wrongly believing the Welsh actress was from Liverpool, asked her to read for a part in "The Liver Birds". (Neither actress really had a Liverpool | Polly James Polly James Polly James (born 1941) is an English actress with a career in theatre, film, television and radio. She was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, under the name Pauline Devaney. After graduating from RADA, James's TV career began in BBC2's "Thirty-Minute Theatre", followed by the role of a drug addict in "Z-Cars" in 1967. She played Audrey Hargreaves in "Coronation Street" in 1967. She is best known for her role as Beryl Hennessey in the first four series of the British sitcom "The Liver Birds" (1969–74), mostly alongside Nerys Hughes. She played Cicely Courtneidge in the biographical musical of the |
1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota | Donald Duck universe Grandma Duck's Farm and a statue of Cornelius Coot, though it was more of a rural town than a burgeoning metropolis. The connection to Duckburg was removed as the land was renovated in 1996 to become Mickey's Toontown Fair. However, the Cornelius Coot statue remains. Duckburg is the fictional city, located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota, that serves as the home of Donald Duck; Scrooge McDuck; Huey, Dewey, and Louie; Daisy Duck and most of their supporting cast. Duckburg was first mentioned in "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" #49 in 1944, and was created by Carl Barks. The | The Empire-Builder from Calisota The Empire-Builder from Calisota The Empire-Builder from Calisota or The Richest Duck in the World is a Scrooge McDuck comic by Don Rosa. It is the eleventh of the original 12 chapters in the series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. The story takes place from 1909 to 1930. Scrooge and his sisters go to Africa where Scrooge, for the only time in his life, acts like a scoundrel as he hires some criminals to attack a native village. In protest, his sisters return to Duckburg while Scrooge goes around the world in search of more wealth. The whole |
Apt 56B, Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Sq, London | Hercule Poirot British government, including foiling the attempted abduction of the Prime Minister. Readers were told that the British authorities had learned of Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain members of Belgium's royal family. After the war Poirot became a private detective and began undertaking civilian cases. He moved into what became both his home and work address, Flat 203 at 56B Whitehaven Mansions. Hastings first visits the flat when he returns to England in June 1935 from Argentina in "The A.B.C. Murders", Chapter 1. The TV programmes place this in Florin Court, Charterhouse Square, in the wrong part of London. According | Kepler-56b Kepler-56b Kepler-56b (KOI-1241.02) is an exoplanet located roughly 3,060 light years away. It is somewhat larger than Neptune and orbits its parent star Kepler-56 and was discovered in 2013 by the Kepler Space Telescope. Kepler-56b is about 0.1028 AU away from its host star (about one-tenth of the distance between Earth to the Sun), making it even closer to its parent star than Mercury and Venus. It takes 10.5 days for Kepler-56b to complete a full orbit around Kepler-56. Further research shows that Kepler-56b's orbit is about 45° misaligned to the host star's equator. Later radial velocity measurements have revealed |
52 Festive Road, Putney, London | Mr Benn [the film] happen, because Mr Benn's a big boy and he can live his own life. I think he's right for being developed on the big screen". Mr Benn lives in London at 52 Festive Road, which was inspired by Festing Road in Putney where David McKee used to live. McKee had the house "next door" at 54 Festing Road, where residents installed an engraved paving slab in his honour on 26 November 2009. ("I think it was because in the first book I drew myself looking out of the window, and I thought it would be quite nice to | Putney after moving from 454a Fulham Road. Sydney Schiff went to visit Gaudier there in 1914 to purchase the "Dancer", which was later presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in France in June 1915. Putney is served by mainline South Western Railway trains to London Waterloo from Putney station and by London Underground from East Putney. The far west of Putney is also served by Barnes station, a few hundred yards across the boundary in Barnes, while Putney Bridge tube station is across the river in Fulham. Services to Waterloo run every five to 10 minutes, making |
1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, USA. | 1313 Mockingbird Lane 1313 Mockingbird Lane 1313 Mockingbird Lane is an American garage rock band whose name was inspired by "The Munsters<nowiki>'</nowiki>" (television show) mansion address. The group formed in the late 1980s in Albany, New York, touring extensively, and releasing at least nine different 45 rpm records, LP records, and CD recordings. The band had a full-page narrative dedicated to them in Timothy Gassen's book "The Knights of Fuzz", about the garage rock and psychedelic music phenomenon of 1980-1995. Of thousands of bands covered in the book, Gassen listed 1313 Mockingbird Lane on his "all time Hot 100" list, which also included | 1313 Mockingbird Lane the band for a full time touring gig in The Cast of Beatlemania, which starred members of the Broadway show "Beatlemania". 1313 Mockingbird Lane would perform multiple double bills with Boston-based garage rock legends, Lyres. In early 1994, the band caught some media attention by issuing a simultaneous triple release of their new recordings. In September 1994, Brian Goodman of Rochester, New York band The Projectiles replaced drummer Dave Pollack for the final two singles, released in 1996. The band split up in 1996, playing the last show at Pauly's Hotel in their hometown of Albany. That night, Susan Yasinski |
What name was given to privateers, authorized to conduct raids on shipping of a nation at war with France, on behalf of the French crown? | French corsairs French corsairs Corsairs () were privateers, authorized to conduct raids on shipping of a nation at war with France, on behalf of the French crown. Seized vessels and cargo were sold at auction, with the corsair captain entitled to a portion of the proceeds. Although not French Navy personnel, corsairs were considered legitimate combatants in France (and allied nations), provided the commanding officer of the vessel was in possession of a valid letter of marque ( or , the latter giving "corsairs" their name), and the officers and crew conducted themselves according to contemporary admiralty law. By acting on behalf | Quasi-War response France authorized privateers to conduct attacks on American shipping, seizing numerous merchant ships, and ultimately leading the U.S. to retaliate. The war was called "quasi" because it was undeclared. It involved two years of hostilities at sea, in which both navies and privateers attacked the other's shipping in the West Indies. Many of the battles involved famous naval officers such as Stephen Decatur, Silas Talbot and William Bainbridge. The unexpected fighting ability of the newly re-established U.S. Navy, which concentrated on attacking the French West Indian trade, together with the growing weaknesses and final overthrow of the ruling French |
In 2002, who filed for divorce from his wife Lisa Marie Presley after being married for just three months? | Lisa Marie Presley an attempt to reconcile, and that she had traveled to different parts of the world in order to be with him. Presley was engaged in 2000 to rocker John Oszajca. She broke off the engagement after meeting Nicolas Cage at a party. Presley's third marriage was to Cage. They were married on August 10, 2002. Cage filed for divorce after 108 days of marriage, on November 25, 2002, and the divorce was finalized in 2004. The divorce proceeding lasted longer than the marriage. Presley married for a fourth time on January 22, 2006, to Michael Lockwood, her guitarist, music producer | Lisa Marie Presley to persuade Jackson to settle the allegations out of court and go into rehabilitation to recover. He subsequently did both. In January 1996, citing irreconcilable differences, Lisa Marie filed for divorce, according to legal papers. Michael Jackson had originally planned to file for divorce first. However, after Presley begged him not to file, Jackson caved in only to discover on the front page the next day that Presley had filed for divorce. In an October 2010 interview with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, Presley revealed that she and Jackson had spent four years on and off following their divorce together in |
What was the original name of Wembley Stadium? | Wembley Stadium (1923) it is a carriage filled with rubble). When the Stadium was rebuilt no locomotive or carriage (or stone circle…) was found, though the foundations of Watkin's tower were. Wembley Stadium (1923) The original Wembley Stadium (; formerly known as the Empire Stadium) was a football stadium in Wembley Park, London, which stood on the same site now occupied by its successor, the new Wembley Stadium. The demolition in 2003 of its famous Twin Towers upset many people worldwide. Debris from the stadium was used to make the Northala Fields in Northolt, London. Wembley hosted the FA Cup final annually, League | Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium is a football stadium in Wembley, London, England, which opened in 2007, on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 2002–2003. The stadium hosts major football matches including home matches of the England national football team, and the FA Cup Final. The stadium is also the temporary home of Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur until at least January 2019, while White Hart Lane is being demolished and their new stadium is being constructed. Wembley Stadium is owned by the governing body of English football, the Football Association (the FA), through its |
Charles-Ădouard Jeanneret-Gris was better known as who? | Pierre Jeanneret Pierre Jeanneret Pierre Jeanneret (22 March 1896 – 4 December 1967) was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his cousin, Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier), for about twenty years. Arnold Andre Pierre Jeanneret-Gris was born in Geneva. He grew up in the typical Jura landscape that influenced his early childhood and his Geneva Calvinism roots. He attended the School of Fine Arts (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Geneva). As a young student, he was a brilliant painter, artist and architect, greatly influenced by Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), his cousin and mentor for life. He was a cyclist | Le Gris Le Gris Nagohquangogh ("Le Gris"), was a chief of the Pepikokia band of the Miami tribe in the 18th century. Also known as "The Gray", he was one of three important Miami leaders during the Northwest Indian War, along with Pacanne and Little Turtle. In 1752, a smallpox epidemic hit many Miami villages. Charles le Moyne, Sieur de Longueil wrote of it to the minister of colonial affairs in France, and noted that Chief Coldfoot and his sons were dead, as was "Le Gris, Chief of the Tepicons," who was "well disposed towards the French." The "Le Gris" he wrote |
Which British aircraft manufacturer produced the Spitfire? | Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire The Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire is an Australian homebuilt aircraft produced in kit form by Supermarine Aircraft. A replica of the famous British Supermarine Spitfire World War II fighter, it was originally produced to 75% scale. Subsequent models have increased the scale of the fuselage and added a second seat. Australian pilot and aviation engineer Mike O'Sullivan had always wanted a Spitfire and built a replica for his own use in 1991. This was followed by a , Rotax-powered prototype in 1994. The next year, in 1995, he joined with business partner John McCarron to form the Supermarine | British Aircraft Swallow British Aircraft Swallow The B.A Swallow was a British light aircraft of the 1930s. It was a license-built version by the British Klemm Aeroplane Company (which later became known as the British Aircraft Manufacturing Co.) of the German Klemm L.25. A total of 135 were built. The German aircraft manufacturer Klemm developed a successful low-powered light aeroplane, the Klemm L.25, which first flew in 1927, of which over 600 were produced. Several were sold to British owners, where they proved popular, so the British dealer for the L.25, Major E.F Stephen, set up the "British Klemm Aeroplane Company" at London |
What was Marble Arch in London originally designed to be? | John Nash (architect) have great pleasure in visiting this part of my dominions". Whether this was based on just a rumour put about by people who resented Nash's success or if there is substance behind is not known. Further London commissions for Nash followed, including the remodelling of Buckingham House to create Buckingham Palace (1825–1830), and for the Royal Mews (1822–24) and Marble Arch (1828) The arch was originally designed as a triumphal arch to stand at the entrance to Buckingham Palace. It was moved when the east wing of the palace designed by Edward Blore was built, at the request of Queen | Marble Arch circle-and-stalls auditorium. It closed in 2016 and was demolished later that same year. The arch also stands close to the former site of the Tyburn gallows (sometimes called "Tyburn Tree"), a place of public execution from 1388 until 1793. Marble Arch Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace; it stood near the site of what is today the three-bayed, central projection of the palace containing the well known balcony. In 1851 on the initiative |
Winner in a poll of Classic FM's most popular piece of music in 2016, which composer also wrote A London Symphony | A London Symphony A London Symphony A London Symphony is the second symphony composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The work is sometimes referred to as the Symphony No. 2, though it was not designated as such by the composer. First performed in 1914, the four-movement symphony was lost, reconstructed and later modified by Vaughan Williams. The work is scored for: Vaughan Williams said that while the title may suggest a programmatic piece (and the work includes sounds heard in London such as the Westminster Quarters), it was intended to be heard as absolute music. In a programme note in 1920, he suggested that | Classic FM Hall of Fame Classic FM Hall of Fame The Classic FM Hall of Fame is an annual compilation of the most popular 300 classical works as polled by listeners of Classic FM through a public vote. With more than 150,000 voters, each choosing their three favourites in order of preference, Classic FM claim their Hall of Fame is the world's most comprehensive poll of classical music tastes. The chart countdown is traditionally broadcast over the Easter weekend, extended by public holidays in the UK, since the event began in 1996. The compilation is notable for featuring a wide variety of classical works. Pieces |
Who resides in Mansion House? | Mansion House, London Mansion House, London Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It is a Grade I listed building. It is used for some of the City of London's official functions, including two annual white tie dinners. At the Easter banquet, the main speaker is the Foreign Secretary, who then receives a reply from the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, i.e. the longest-serving ambassador. In early June, it is the turn of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give his "Mansion House Speech" about the state of the British economy. Mansion House was built between 1739 and | Knox Mansion Knox Mansion The Knox Mansion is a historical mansion in the city of Johnstown, Fulton County, New York. The house was built in 1889 by the gelatine magnate and businessman, Charles Knox, who owned Knox Gelatine and the Knox Gelatine Factory which also resides in Johnstown. It has 42 rooms, an elevator, a grand staircase, a solid lava ash fireplace which was an import from a castle in Italy, the castle which it is came from is unknown. It is also reported that Rose Knox had paid $200,000 for it to have it shipped brick by brick. The house was |
Canary Wharf is in what London borough? | Canary Wharf Canary Wharf Canary Wharf is a commercial estate on the Isle of Dogs in London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the main financial centres of the United Kingdom, along with the City of London, and contains many of Europe's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest in the UK, One Canada Square. Canary Wharf is and contains around of office and retail space. It comprises many open areas, including Canada Square, Cabot Square and Westferry Circus. Together with Heron Quays, West India Quay and Wood Wharf, it forms the Canary Wharf Estate. Canary Wharf is located | Canary Wharf Pier Canary Wharf Pier Canary Wharf is a London River Services pier on the River Thames in Canary Wharf, East London. It is located next to Westferry Circus. It is served by two commuter oriented services, both operated by Thames Clipper under licence from London River Services. The main commuter service from central London or Woolwich calls at Canary Wharf Pier on a regular basis. The Canary Wharf - Rotherhithe Ferry, also operated by Thames Clippers, links Canary Wharf Pier with Nelson Dock Pier at the Hilton Hotel in Rotherhithe. The service uses smaller boats than the commuter service but runs |
Which battle of 1066 is also the name of a football ground? | Battle of Stamford Bridge the village of Stamford Bridge. The first memorial is located in the village on Main Street (A116). The monument's inscription reads (in both English and Norwegian): <poem> THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE WAS FOUGHT IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD ON SEPTEMBER 25TH, 1066 </poem> The inscription on the accompanying marble tablet reads: <poem> THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE KING HAROLD OF ENGLAND DEFEATED HIS BROTHER TOSTIG AND KING 25 SEPTEMBER 1066 </poem> A second monument is located at the battlefield site at the end of Whiterose Drive. This monument consists of a memorial stone and plaque detailing the events and outcome of | 1066 The Battle for Middle Earth 1066 The Battle for Middle Earth 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth is a two-part British television documentary series. In this blend of historical drama and original source material, Channel 4 re-imagines the story of this decisive year of the Norman conquest of England, not from the saddles of kings and conquerors, but through the eyes of ordinary people caught up in its events. The documentary was narrated by actor Ian Holm. The series focuses on the Sussex village of Crowhurst, which Director Justin Hardy learned about from the "Domesday Book", England's earliest surviving public record. Located between the coast |
Statues of which political leader stand in Tavistock Square and Parliament Square? | Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament Square stand alongside a slew of white men in Parliament Square is proof of how much England itself has moved away from Winston Churchill's views on racism and imperialism." Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament Square The statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Westminster, London, is a work by the sculptor Philip Jackson. In July 2014, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, George Osborne, announced while on a visit to India that a statue of Mahatma Gandhi would be placed in Parliament Square, Westminster. He said that "I hope this new memorial will be a lasting and fitting tribute | Tavistock Square on Tavistock Square: List of eponymous roads in London Tavistock Square Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. Tavistock Square was built shortly after 1806 by the property developer James Burton and the master builder Thomas Cubitt for Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, and formed part of the Bedford Estate in London, owned by the Dukes of Bedford. The square takes its name from "Marquess of Tavistock", a courtesy title given to the eldest sons of the Dukes of Bedford. In 1920 the Tavistock Clinic was founded in the square, a pioneering |
Hans Riegel of Bonn, Germany, formed which confectionary company in 1920? | Hans Riegel Hans Riegel Johannes Peter "Hans" Riegel (10 March 1923 – 15 October 2013) was a German entrepreneur who owned and operated the confectioner Haribo since 1946. Born in Bonn, he was the oldest son of the company's founder Hans Riegel, Sr., who invented the gummy bear in 1922. The name of the company, Haribo, comes from the first two letters of his name and where he was from (HANS RIEGEL BONN). After his graduation from the Jesuit boarding school Aloisiuskolleg, he did his doctorate in 1951 at Bonn University with his thesis "The development of the world sugar industry during | University of Bonn Weierstrass, Mehmet Celal Bey, Karl Barth, Wolfgang Kaleck, Johannes Sobotta, Margaret Altmann, Hans Riegel, Samson Raphael Hirsch and Sebastian Thrun. University of Bonn The University of Bonn () is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the Rhein University on 18 October 1818 by Frederick William III, as the linear successor of the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn () which was founded in 1777. The University of Bonn offers a large number of undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of subjects and has 544 professors and 32,500 students. Its library holds more |
In the Harry Potter books, what type of mythical creature is 'Fawkes'? | Magical creatures in Harry Potter the Chamber of Secrets" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1". In the Comic Relief spoof, "Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan", he is played by Basil Brush. IGN put Dobby as their 24th top "Harry Potter" character, with his death described as "one of the most touching moments in the series." In NextMovie.com's "Harry Potter" Mega Poll, Dobby was voted the No. 1 favourite magical creature in the series. Fawkes is Albus Dumbledore's pet phoenix, a mythological bird which cyclically bursts into flame upon its death and is then reborn from the ashes. Phoenix | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets seven books had been published, Graeme Davis regarded "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" as the weakest of the series, and agreed that the plot structure is much the same as in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". He described Fawkes's appearance to arm Harry and then to heal him as a "deus ex machina": he said that the book does not explain how Fawkes knew where to find Harry; and Fawkes's timing had to be very precise, as arriving earlier would probably have prevented the battle with the basilisk, while arriving later would have been fatal to Harry |
Pierre Basile fired the crossbow that caused the death of which English king? | Pierre Basile Benoit a member of the Agricultural Council of Quebec and served as president of the Chambly Agricultural Society. In 1905, he was named Inspector of Dominion Stores for the Chambly Canal. Benoit died in Saint-Hubert at the age of 73. Pierre Basile Benoit Pierre Basile Benoit (October 8, 1837 – November 11, 1910) was a Quebec farmer and political figure. He represented Chambly in the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative member from 1867 to 1874 and from 1876 to 1886. He was born in Longueuil, Lower Canada in 1837, the son of Laurent Benoit, and educated at St. | Pierre-Basile Mignault Montreal is named in his honour. Armand Marin's biography "L’honorable Pierre-Basile Mignault" (Montréal: Fides) was published in 1946. Pierre-Basile Mignault Pierre-Basile Mignault (September 30, 1854 – October 15, 1945) was a Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Pierre-Basile Mignault and Catherine O'Callaghan, he received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from McGill University in 1878. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1878. He then proceeded to practice law in Montreal. His “Droit civil canadien” (1885–1916), a nine-volume work on Québec’s civil law, and its relation to |
Who played lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, on The White Album? | While My Guitar Gently Weeps While My Guitar Gently Weeps "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album "The Beatles" (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist. The song serves as a comment on the disharmony within the Beatles following their return from studying Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968. This lack of camaraderie was reflected in the band's initial apathy towards the composition, which Harrison countered by inviting his friend and occasional collaborator, Eric Clapton, to contribute to the recording. Clapton overdubbed | While My Guitar Gently Weeps Clapton, as a tribute to Harrison. The performance appears on the DVD release "Party at the Palace". On 29 November the same year, Clapton, backed by a large band that included McCartney, Starr, Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Marc Mann, performed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Concert for George in memory of Harrison. Author Ian Inglis writes that while Clapton was already "permanently associated" with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" due to his presence on the White Album recording and the Concert for Bangladesh and "Live in Japan" versions, his long, closing solo at the Concert for George |
What was the name of the US stadium where the Beatles played their last ever live concert? | The Beatles fans' screams. 'Live Beatles' and 'Studio Beatles' had become entirely different beasts." The band's concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on 29 August was their last commercial concert. It marked the end of a four-year period dominated by almost nonstop touring that included over 1,400 concert appearances internationally. Freed from the burden of touring, the Beatles embraced an increasingly experimental approach as they recorded "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", beginning in late November 1966. According to engineer Geoff Emerick, the album's recording took over 700 hours. He recalled the band's insistence "that everything on "Sgt. Pepper" had to be | The Beatles at Shea Stadium the footage, you can see how we reacted to the place. It was very big and very strange." In 1970, John Lennon recalled the show as a career highlight: "At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain." In 2008, Paul McCartney played the last concert at Shea Stadium with Billy Joel before the stadium was closed. The concert was documented in the film "The Last Play at Shea". The Beatles at Shea Stadium The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' 15 August 1965, concert at Shea Stadium in New York City, the highlight |
Which Album cover features 5 Beatles? | The Beatles Anthology 3" was released on 28 October 1996. The third collection featured out-takes and demos from "The Beatles" ("White Album"), "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be", as well as several songs from Harrison and McCartney which later became post-Beatle tracks. The three album covers, when laid side-by-side, become one long painted collage of various peeling posters and album covers representing the different stages of the Beatles' career. This was the work of Klaus Voormann, who also created the album cover for "Revolver" in 1966. The "Anthology" covers required Voormann to recreate elements of his cover for "Revolver" within the collage. During | The Early Beatles The Early Beatles The Early Beatles is the Beatles' sixth release on Capitol Records, and their eighth album for the American market. All of the tracks on this album had previously been issued on the early 1964 Vee-Jay release "Introducing... The Beatles". The front cover photo for this album features the same back cover photo for the British LP "Beatles for Sale". Vee-Jay had gained American distribution rights to the tracks before the group became popular in America (because Capitol, the US subsidiary of EMI which owned the Beatles' record label Parlophone, had declined to release the group's records in |
For whom did Paul McCartney write Hey Jude? | Hey Jude climaxes with one of pop's most legendary hooks." Julian Lennon discovered that "Hey Jude" had been written for him almost 20 years after McCartney composed the song. He recalled of his and McCartney's relationship: "Paul and I used to hang about quite a bit – more than Dad and I did. We had a great friendship going and there seems to be far more pictures of me and Paul playing together at that age than there are pictures of me and my dad." In 1996, Julian paid £25,000 for the recording notes to "Hey Jude" at an auction. He spent | Hey Jude a rendition of "Hey Jude" while watching cycling at the velodrome. Hey Jude "Hey Jude" is a song by English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song McCartney wrote to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce. "Hey Jude" begins with a verse-bridge structure incorporating McCartney's vocal performance and piano accompaniment; further instrumentation is added as the song progresses. After the fourth verse, the song shifts to a fade-out coda that lasts for more than four minutes. "Hey Jude" was released in August 1968 as |
What State was purchased from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars? | Parallel 54°40′ north 54°40′ through what is now the Alaska Panhandle to the 141st meridian west, then along that line north to the Arctic Ocean. The Colony of British Columbia was established on August 2, 1858. The United States purchased Alaska from the Empire of Russia for $7,200,000 in 1867. Russian America became the United States Department of Alaska on October 18, 1867. The Province of British Columbia joined the Confederation of Canada on July 21, 1871. The United States created the District of Alaska on May 17, 1884, and the Territory of Alaska on August 24, 1912. The State of Alaska was | Million Dollars to Kill Me Million Dollars to Kill Me Million Dollars to Kill Me is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band Joyce Manor, released on September 21, 2018 through Epitaph Records. The album's title stems from an interview with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, describing his dark mental state following his 2008 plane crash. The anecdote, which he notes in his memoir "Can I Say", recounts when he offered a friend a million dollars to end his suffering. "It just stuck in my head, it's just the opposite of what everyone wants — money and to not die. It's super rock 'n' |
Which Oscar nominated film of 2014 chronicles Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march? | Paul Garnes Spirit Awards' John Cassavetes Award. In 2014, Paul was executive producer of the film "Selma", a biopic directed by Ava DuVernay and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which chronicles a series of the three Selma marches led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. supporting the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "Selma" is nominated for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Original Song, and won a 2015 Golden Globe for Best Original Song. In an interview from January 2015, he stated, “It’s not about ‘reclaiming the narrative,’ necessarily, but offering a point of view about the civil rights movement | Martin Luther King III Martin Luther King III Martin Luther King III (born October 23, 1957) is an American human rights advocate and community activist. He is the oldest son and oldest living child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Martin Luther King III was born on October 23, 1957, to civil rights advocates Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. His mother had reservations about naming him after his famous father, "realizing the burdens it can create for the child," but King Jr. always wanted to name his son Martin Luther III. King's birth occurred as |
Who was the last British King to rule over the US colonies? | Petition to the King of grievances in the adopted version, which resembled those found the other two drafts. The Petition to the King reflected the Colonies' desire to maintain relations with Britain, given that certain demands were met. In particular, it showed that the Colonies viewed themselves as loyal to the British monarchy rather than to Parliament. Petition to the King The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for repeal of the Intolerable Acts. Following the end of the French and Indian War (the North American theater of the Seven | Secretary of State for the Colonies American Colonies. "Responsibility for the Colonies thereafter held by:" "Responsibility for the colonies held by: "Following the British Nationality Act 1981 the term "colony" ceased to be used; Britain's rule over Hong Kong, the last significant colony, ceased in 1997. Britain retains certain overseas territories. A few title holders were born in colonies under their portfolio and some beyond: Secretary of State for the Colonies The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies. The position was first created in 1768 to deal with |
What drink was invented by pharmacist Caleb Bradham in North Carolina in 1893, and marketed under the heading Delicious and Healthful? | Caleb Bradham Caleb Bradham Caleb Davis Bradham (May 27, 1867 – February 19, 1934) was an American pharmacist, best known as the inventor of Pepsi. Bradham was born May 27, 1867 to George Washington and Julia McCann Bradham in Chinquapin, North Carolina. Bradham was of English and Scotch-Irish descent. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Philanthropic Society, and attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Circa 1890, he dropped out of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, owing to his father's business going bankrupt. After returning to North | Caleb Bradham franchises to North Carolina bottlers. On January 4, 1901, Bradham married Charity Credle in New Bern, North Carolina. He owned the Slover-Bradham House from 1908 to 1934. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In addition to running his drug store, he served as the president of the People’s Bank of New Bern, and was a chairman of the Craven County Board of Commissioners. At one point he was even suggested as a candidate for governor of North Carolina. He also served as an officer in the naval reserve for 25 years; he was |
The Path Of The Righteous Man quote from the film Pulp Fiction comes from which Book of the Bible? | Pulp Fiction instead of guns." Certain lines were adopted popularly as catchphrases, in particular Marsellus's threat, "I'm 'a get medieval on your ass." Jules's "Ezekiel" recitation was voted the fourth greatest movie speech of all time in a 2004 poll. One of the more notable homages to Jules "Biblical" quote was one Jackson himself played a part in, near the end of 2014's "", Jackson's character Col. Nick Fury, presumed dead, visits his own gravestone, on which, below Fury's name is inscribed "The path of the righteous man ..." Ezekiel 25:17. "Pulp Fiction" now appears in several critical assessments of all-time great | Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction". No traditional film score was commissioned for "Pulp Fiction". The film contains a mix of American rock and roll, surf music, pop and soul. The soundtrack is equally untraditional, consisting of nine songs from the movie, four tracks of dialogue snippets followed by a song, and three tracks of dialogue alone. Seven songs featured in the movie were not included in the original 41-minute soundtrack. The album reached No. 21 on the "Billboard" 200, while Urge |
Which country singer's story was filmed as The Coalminers Daughter in 1980? | Coal Miner's Daughter (film) Ole Opry, Lynn announced that Zooey Deschanel was to portray her in a Broadway musical adaptation. One episode of "The Simpsons", entitled "Colonel Homer", is partly based on this film. The episode also stars Beverly D'Angelo as cocktail waitress Lurleen Lumpkin, who happens to have a beautiful country singing voice. Coal Miner's Daughter (film) Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical musical film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay written by Tom Rickman. It follows the story of country music singer Loretta Lynn, from her birth in a poor family and getting married at 15 to her rise | B.F.'s Daughter B.F.'s Daughter B.F.'s Daughter is a 1948 drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin. It is adapted from John P. Marquand's 1946 novel of the same name, about a prominent couple whose marital tensions come to a boiling point during World War II. The book was controversial for its treatment of social conflicts and adultery, but the movie is a sanitized and fairly conventional love story. The movie was released in the UK as Polly Fulton, because "B.F." is a euphemism for "bloody fool." Polly Fulton is the only daughter of rich industrialist |
What was the name of the Yorkshire pub featured in the 1981 movie An American Werewolf in London? | An American Werewolf in London re-released the film on Blu-ray as "An American Werewolf in London – Restored Edition" to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the film. An American Werewolf in London An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 British-American horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis and starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, and Griffin Dunne. The film tells the story of two American students, David and Jack, who are attacked by a werewolf while on a backpacking holiday in England. The film was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on August 21, 1981, the same year as werewolf movies | An American Werewolf in London followed by a sequel 16 years later, "An American Werewolf in Paris" (1997), which featured a completely different cast and crew, and was distributed by Disney's Hollywood Pictures. According to "Paris", David impregnated Alex during their sex scene and soon after the events of "London", Alex gave birth to Serafine, a main character in the sequel. This is directly stated in a deleted scene of "Paris" and also suggests that the werewolf who bit David was a survivor of the same society of which the antagonists are a part. A radio adaptation of the film was broadcast on BBC Radio |
How many roles did Alec Guinness play in Kind Hearts And Coronets? | Kind Hearts and Coronets Kind Hearts and Coronets Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy film. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays nine characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal" (1907) by Roy Horniman. It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death Louis decides to take revenge on the family, and to take the dukedom, by murdering the eight people ahead of him in succession to the title. | Kind Hearts and Coronets Optimum Releasing released a digitally restored version for both DVD and Blu-ray in September 2011. Kind Hearts and Coronets Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy film. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays nine characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal" (1907) by Roy Horniman. It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death Louis decides to take revenge on the family, and to take |
The Life of Brian was produced by Handmade Films. Who owned Handmade Films? | HandMade Films HandMade Films HandMade Films is a British film production and distribution company. Notable films from the studio include "Monty Python's Life of Brian", "Time Bandits" and "Withnail and I". HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle George Harrison and business partner Denis O'Brien in 1978 to finance the Monty Python film "Life of Brian". Harrison had first been introduced to O'Brien by actor Peter Sellers in 1973. Soon after, the two went into business together. When the original financiers of "Brian", EMI Films, pulled out of the project less than a week before filming was to commence, the creators had | HandMade Films had this watermark 'British Handmade Paper' ... So we said ... we'll call it Handmade Films." The first film distributed by HandMade Films was "The Long Good Friday" (1980), and the first they produced was "Time Bandits" (1981), a co-scripted project by Monty Pythons Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin. The film featured a new song by Harrison, "Dream Away", in the closing credits. "Time Bandits" became one of HandMade's most successful and acclaimed efforts; with a budget of $5 million, it earned $35 million in the US within ten weeks of its release. Harrison served as executive producer for 23 |
What character has been played by Robert Donat in 1935, Kenneth More in 1959 and Robert Powell in 1978? | Richard Hannay Robert J. Harris, purports to be the first volume of a new series called "Richard Hannay Returns' about Hannay's adventures during World War II. In "Combined Forces" (1985), a humorous novel by Jack Smithers, Hannay teams up with the similar heroes "Sapper"'s Bulldog Drummond and Dornford Yates' Jonah Mansel. Hannay has been portrayed in four film versions of "The Thirty Nine Steps" respectively, by actors Robert Donat (in the original and most famous film adaptation, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935), Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones (in a 2008 BBC production). Powell reprised the role for the ITV | Robert Donat Donat's son, John Donat, (1933–2004), was an architectural photographer, and actors Peter Donat and Richard Donat are his nephews. Robert Donat Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" (1935) and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor. In his book, "The Age of the Dream Palace, Jeffrey Richards" wrote that Donat was "The British cinema's one undisputed romantic leading man in the 1930s". "The image he projected was that of |
A novel by Irvine Welsh set in Edinburgh was made into which 1996 film? | Irvine Welsh Irvine Welsh Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His novel "Trainspotting" was made into a film of the same name. His work is characterised by a raw Scots dialect and brutal depiction of Edinburgh life. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films. Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, the port area of the Scottish capital Edinburgh. He states that he was born in 1958, though, according to the Glasgow police, his birth record is dated around 1951. When he was four, his family moved to Muirhouse, | Irvine Welsh revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a group of Munchkins on the set of "The Wizard of Oz". The production included the use of oversized sets with actors of regular stature. Cavanagh and Welsh have also collaborated on screenplays. "The Meat Trade" is based on the 19th century West Port murders. Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present-day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market. "Wedding Belles", a film made for Channel 4 that was written by |
Which 1985 romantic comedy starring Alexandra Pigg and Margi Clarke was set in Liverpool? | Alexandra Pigg Alexandra Pigg Alexandra Pigg (born 1962 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool) is a British actress who first came to prominence as Petra Taylor in the TV soap opera "Brookside". Her best-known film appearances are as Elaine in "Letter to Brezhnev" (1985), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award, and as Bridget Baines in "A Chorus of Disapproval" (1988). She also starred in the BBC film "Smart Money" (1986), "Strapless" (1989) with Bridget Fonda, "Chicago Joe and the Showgirl" (1990) with Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Lloyd, "Bullseye!" (1990) starring Michael Caine and Roger Moore, and "Immortal Beloved" (1994) with Gary | Margi Clarke Margi Clarke Margi Clarke (born 1954) is an English actress and radio presenter. Clarke was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and brought up in nearby Kirkby. Her public career began in 1978, as a presenter on the late-night entertainment magazine show, "What's On", which was just shown in the Granada region. She was known then simply as Margox. In 1983, Clarke appeared as Fran in two early episodes of the Liverpool-set Channel 4 soap opera "Brookside", credited as Margi MacGregor. Her brother Frank wrote her in, because, as she later said, she "had a gas bill which I couldn't pay". She |
Peter Howitt is probably best known for playing the part of Joey Boswell in Bread, but what film did he write the screenplay for, and direct in 1998? | Peter Howitt time at Paisley Grammar School in Paisley, Scotland in 1970. He studied at the Drama Studio London in 1976. Howitt's first notable TV role was in the 1984–85 series of Yorkshire Television's long-running programme for schools "How We Used To Live", where he starred alongside Brookside actress Sue Jenkins. However, he is much better known for playing Joey Boswell in the BBC TV series "Bread". In 1998, he wrote and directed his first film, "Sliding Doors" (1998). Since then, he has directed several films, including "Antitrust" (2001), "Johnny English" (2003), "Laws of Attraction" (2004), and "Dangerous Parking" (2008). He adapted | Graham Bickley Graham Bickley Graham John Bickley (born 18 May 1958) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the role of Joey Boswell in "Bread" from 1989 until 1991, taking over from Peter Howitt, who played him from 1986 until 1989. Bickley trained at The Liverpool Theatre School. He has performed in the West End since 1981 in productions including "They're Playing Our Song", "The Pirates of Penzance", and as principal lead in "Jukebox", "Which Witch", "Maddie", "The Pajama Game" (Best Actor nomination, Toronto), "Les Misérables", "Metropolis", "Miss Saigon", "Sunset Boulevard" (playing opposite Petula Clark), and "Ragtime" (nominated for |
Which comedian was the host of the short lived Channel 4 programme, TV Heaven Telly Hell? | Bill Bailey magician Kenny Starkiss and obsessed guitar teacher in the "Holiday" episode of Sean Lock's "Fifteen Storeys High". He later appeared with Lock again as a guest on his show "TV Heaven, Telly Hell". He has also appeared twice on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross". Bailey also hosted his own show "Comic's Choice", which aired in 2011. Bailey also presented "Wild Thing I Love You" which began on Channel 4 on 15 October 2006. The series concentrates on the protection of Britain's wild animals, and has included re-homing badgers, owls and water voles. Bailey appeared in the second series of the | Julia Bradbury TV, followed by L!VE TV, before making the transition in 1996 from cable TV to terrestrial with GMTV as its Los Angeles correspondent. Bradbury also worked as a co-host on Top Gear during the 1990s. Bradbury and co-host Arkin Salih hosted the BBC's "Are We Being Served?", which examined customer service in the UK and ran for six programmes in the summer of 2006. The show later received strong criticism from comedian Lee Mack when he named it as 'the most evil programme ever made' during his appearance on "TV Heaven, Telly Hell". From 2008 to 2011, Bradbury presented four |
The band Heaven 17 took their name from which Stanley Kubrick film? | Heaven 17 of pioneering British electro-pop group the Human League; Glenn Gregory had been their original choice when seeking a lead singer for the band but he was unavailable at the time, so they chose Philip Oakey instead. When personal and creative tensions within the group reached a breaking point in late 1980, Marsh and Ware left the band, ceding the Human League name to Oakey. Taking their new name from a fictional pop band mentioned in Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel, "A Clockwork Orange" (where The Heaven Seventeen are at number 4 in the charts with "Inside"), they became Heaven 17 and | Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music. Kubrick was raised in the Bronx, New York City, and attended William Howard Taft High School from 1941 to 1945. Although he only received average grades, Kubrick displayed a |
According to the famous line, hell hath no fury like what? | Fury (song) version of the old phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". The song was released as the third single from "3121" in the UK on May 30, 2006, and reached number sixty on the UK Singles Chart. The single's B-sides are a live version of the song, and "Te Amo Corazón", both performed at the 2006 BRIT Awards. In addition to being released as a CD single, it was also released on a 12" vinyl single as a picture disc. The CD single also had a video of the live performances. The single's cover is also reminiscent of | Hell Hath No Fury (film) she must do battle alone against Connie. Hell Hath No Fury (film) Hell Hath No Fury is a 1991 American made-for-television thriller-drama film starring Barbara Eden and Loretta Swit about a housewife who is simultaneously framed for her husband's murder and terrorized by the deranged woman who killed him. The film was directed by Thomas J. Wright and written by Beau Bensink based on the novel "Smithereens" by B.W. Battin. It originally premiered on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies" on March 4, 1991. Terri Ferguson (Eden) is a housewife married to well-known and respected businessman Stanley (Ackroyd) who also |
What was the subtitle of the 3rd film in the Hellraiser series of films? | Pinhead (Hellraiser) The Hellbound Heart, the first two Hellraiser films, and the BOOM! comic series, with The Female and Butterball making appearances in The Scarlet Gospels and Chatterer appearing in all but two of the Hellraiser sequels. In "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth" and "Hellraiser: Bloodline" Pinhead creates cenobites from his victims, giving them characteristics evocative of their past lives or professions. Later films in the series depict Pinhead accompanied by new Cenobites of unknown origin. Though he usually dominates other demons present in the films, in "Hellraiser: Bloodline", he encounters Angelique, whom he grudgingly treats as an equal: Though initially reverent | Hellraiser: Revelations Hellraiser: Revelations Hellraiser: Revelations (also known as Hellraiser IX: Revelations) is an American horror film written by Gary Tunnicliffe and directed by Víctor García. It is the ninth film in the "Hellraiser" film series. It follows the fates of two friends who discover a puzzle box that opens a gateway to a realm inhabited by sadomasochistic monsters known as the Cenobites. The film was produced in a matter of weeks, due to an obligation on Dimension Films' part to release another "Hellraiser" film or risk losing the rights to the film series. Due to the quick turnaround time and the |
What was the title of Maria McKee’s only UK number 1, due to it’s use in the film Days Of Thunder? | Maria McKee solo album "Songs From The Mardi Gras". In 1987 she appeared in the Robbie Robertson music video "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" (directed by Martin Scorsese) and contributed back-up vocals to his debut solo album, which included the song. She released her first solo, self-titled album in 1989. On the album Richard Thompson played guitar and Steve Wickham from The Waterboys played fiddle. It received critical acclaim in Europe, prompting McKee to move to Ireland. Her song "Show Me Heaven", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film "Days of Thunder", was a number one single in the UK for | Martinsyde S.1 Bruno Loerzer, who was based in the area), ribbed afterwards, when no wreckage was found. ('The Friendless Sky' - A McKee) Martinsyde S.1 The Martin-Handasyde Scout 1 was a British biplane aircraft of the early part of the First World War built by Martin-Handasyde Limited. It was a single-seat biplane with a Gnome engine in tractor configuration. Sixty of the S.1 were built and these were used for about 6 months on the Western Front by the Royal Flying Corps before it was relegated to training. Although initially intended for use in Home Defence operating from the UK, it was |
What was the catchphrase of the Hanna-Barbera character Snagglepuss? | Snagglepuss number of different ways: Snagglepuss's pink color, lisping voice and theatrical manner of speaking have been interpreted as the character being gay. This is explored in "", a 2018 comic miniseries from DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera. Written by Mark Russell, Snagglepuss is portrayed as a gay playwright in the style of Tennessee Williams, living as a closeted gay man while being targeted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950s America. Snagglepuss Snagglepuss is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character created in 1959, a pink anthropomorphic cougar sporting an upturned collar, shirt cuffs, and a string tie who has a great | The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera Television Distribution. When it first aired, "The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera" could be seen on all independent stations owned by Taft, the parent company of Hanna-Barbera Productions and Worldvision Enterprises at the time. The series had a superstar lineup of both old and new Hanna-Barbera characters throughout its run. The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera is an animated syndicated programming block produced by Hanna-Barbera that ran on a weekly schedule and was performed in live action. The program ran from 1985 to 1994. The block made its world television premiere on Sunday, September the 15th of |
Ron Perlman plays which comic book superhero in 2 films of the Noughties? | Ron Perlman a requested handshake with Harvey Weinstein at a charity event. Ron Perlman Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor and voice actor. He played the role of Vincent on the television series "Beauty and the Beast" (1987–1990), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, the comic book character Hellboy in both "Hellboy" (2004) and its sequel "" (2008), and Clay Morrow on the television series "Sons of Anarchy" (2008–2013). Perlman is known as a collaborator of "Hellboy" director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films "Cronos" (1993), "Blade II" (2002), and "Pacific Rim" | Comic Book: The Movie Comic Book: The Movie Comic Book: The Movie is a 2004 direct-to-DVD mockumentary starring and directed by Mark Hamill. The story revolves around comic book fan Don Swan and his battle against a fictional film studio which is about to announce a film based on his favorite superhero, Commander Courage. Cameo appearances in the movie include Kevin Smith (filmmaker and comic book writer), Hugh Hefner (originator of "Playboy"), Stan Lee of Marvel Comics, Lloyd Kaufman (filmmaker and president of Troma Films), actor Bruce Campbell (star of the "Evil Dead" franchise), Peter David (comic book writer), Paul Dini (comic book and |
Brother Bones' whistled version of which song is the Harlem Globetrotter's signature? | Harlem Globetrotters Harlem Globetrotters The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, and comedy in their style of play. Over the years they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 123 countries and territories. The team's signature song is Brother Bones' whistled version of "Sweet Georgia Brown". Their mascot is an anthropomorphized globe named Globie. The team plays over 450 live events worldwide each year. The team is currently owned by Herschend Family Entertainment. The executive offices for the team are located in suburban Atlanta. The Globetrotters originated on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, in the | Harlem Globetrotter (horse) Harlem Globetrotter (horse) Harlem Globetrotter (1980-2012) was an American Saddlebred stallion who won nine World Championships and also became a successful sire. Harlem Globetrotter was a black stallion foaled April 28, 1980. He was sired by New Yorker and out of Putting On Airs. As a two-year old in 1981, he was purchased by Joan Hamilton and her father Paul. Although Harlem Globetrotter was originally intended to be a breeding horse, the Hamiltons put him in training with Larry Hodge, who made a successful show horse out of him, eventually winning nine World Championships in the five-gaited division. Harlem Globetrotter |
Which Dan Brown novel is the first to feature Robert Langdon? | Robert Langdon Robert Langdon Professor Robert Langdon is a fictional character created by author Dan Brown for his "Robert Langdon" book series: "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), "The Lost Symbol" (2009), "Inferno" (2013) and "Origin" (2017). He is a Harvard University professor of history of art and "symbology" (a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of semiotics). Tom Hanks portrays Langdon in the "Robert Langdon" film series, starting with the 2006 film adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code", reprising the role in the 2009 film adaptation | Robert Langdon (book series) Robert Langdon (book series) The "Robert Langdon" book series is named after Robert Langdon, the protagonist of the novels by American author Dan Brown. Langdon is portrayed as a Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology, a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of semiotics. Brown's novels that feature the lead character also include historical themes and Christianity as motifs, and as a result have generated controversy. Brown states on his website that his books are not anti-Christian, and that he is on a "constant spiritual journey" |
In which US state is the Ivy League Brown University? | Brown University in popular culture Brown University in popular culture Brown University, founded in 1764, is a private, Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island. Widely known for its prestige and for its Open Curriculum, Brown is consistently referenced in popular culture. Josiah Carberry – Professor of Psychoceramics (the study of cracked pots), who was created as a joke in 1929 and who has become a tradition at Brown. On every Friday the 13th, cracked pots are left around the Brown campus for students to deposit their pocket change. The money goes to support the Brown University library. Traditionally, Brown alums everywhere send their pocket | Ivy League Stanford University and Northwestern University. Besides selectivity, these Ivy Plus colleges are thought to share similar values around academic and professional excellence, intellectual curiosity, leadership and civil engagement." Ivy League The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States. The term "Ivy League" is typically used to refer to those eight schools as a group of elite colleges beyond the sports context. The eight members are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. "Ivy League" has |
Who actress played Sister Sarah Brown in the1955 musical film Guys and Dolls? | Guys and Dolls (film) Guys and Dolls (film) Guys and Dolls is a 1955 American musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, which, in turn, was loosely based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon. Dances were choreographed by Michael Kidd, | Guys and Dolls Been In Love Before", "More I Cannot Wish You", and "Marry the Man Today". 20th Century Fox acquired the film rights to the musical in early 2013, and plan to cast Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a remake of "Guys and Dolls". The following table shows the principal casts of the major productions of "Guys and Dolls": There are numerous recordings of the show's score on compact disc. The most notable include: Guys and Dolls Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based |
Vatsyayana completed which erotic piece of work in 400 AD? | Georges Pichard publication of "Marie-Gabrielle de Saint-Eutrope" in 1977, the explicit nature of Pichard's work led to a ban from bookshops and kiosks. Less scrutinized for its erotic emphasis are the collaborations Pichard did with science-fiction author Jean-Pierre Andrevon, "La Reserve" and "Édouard" from 1974 and "Ceux–là" from 1977, published in "Charlie Mensuel". Toward the end of his life, Pichard adapted classic erotic stories such as "Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan" by Guillaume Apollinaire, "The Kama-Sutra" by Vatsyayana, "Trois filles de leur mère" by Pierre Louÿs, "La Religieuse" by Denis Diderot and "Germinal" by Émile Zola. Georges Pichard Georges Pichard (17 | Completed staff work Southwest Pacific Areas during World War 2. Completed staff work Completed staff work is a principle of management which states that subordinates are responsible for submitting written recommendations to superiors in such a manner that the superior need do nothing further in the process than review the submitted document and indicate approval or disapproval. In Completed Staff Work, the subordinate is responsible for identifying the problem or issue requiring decision by some higher authority. In written form such as a memorandum, the subordinate documents the research done, the facts gathered, and analysis made of alternative courses of action. The memo |
What is the name of Inspector Gadget’s dog in the children’s tv cartoon series ‘Inspector Gadget’? | Inspector Gadget Broderick counterpart. This film uses the same character designs as the concurrent "Gadget & The Gadgetinis" TV series, which debuted on the French channel M6 and the UK's Channel 5 in the fall of 2002. Maurice LaMarche reprised the role of Gadget in this film and Jaleel White voiced Gadgetmobile. In Germany, the film aired on Cartoon Network. 2005's "Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever" was the first "Inspector Gadget" animated production to be completely rendered using 3D computer animation. It returned Gadget to his familiar trenchcoat from the original series. Brain is also back in his old role, while Penny | Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series) The series can also be found on Netflix and airs on Universal Kids in USA. Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series) Inspector Gadget is a comic science-fiction animated series that revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, dim-witted detective named Inspector Gadget–a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget's nemesis is Dr. Claw, the leader of an evil organization known as "M.A.D." The series launched the "Inspector Gadget" franchise. This is the first syndicated cartoon show from DIC Entertainment (then called DiC Audiovisuel), as well as the first from the company to be created specifically for North |
In the human body, the hallux is more commonly known by what name? | Hallux rigidus who returned to basketball after surgery. This condition, which occurs in adolescents and adults, can be associated with previous trauma. The true cause is not known. Most commonly, hallux rigidus is thought to be caused by wear and tear of the first metatarsophalangeal joint. In 1988, Hattrup and Johnson described the following radiographic classification system: Early treatment for mild cases of hallux rigidus may include prescription foot orthotics, shoe modifications (to take the pressure off the toe and/or facilitate walking), specialized footwear ('rocker-sole' shoes), medications (anti-inflammatory drugs) or injection therapy (corticosteroids to reduce inflammation and pain). Physical therapy programs may | History of beliefs about the human body much on discourse about bodies, rather than on material bodies themselves. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's 1965 "Rabelais and His World", they promoted a more materially orientated direction in the history of the body. The Ebers Papyrus is an Egyptian medical text and is the oldest known record of the human body, dating back to 3000 BC. The Ebers Papyrus describes the body by physical examination and what can be felt. Clinical investigations such as the Pulse, percussion of the body, the recognition of diseased or disordered states. “If thou examinst a swelling of the covering of his belly’s horns above |
‘Air & Style’ and ‘X-Trail Jam’ are events in which sport? | Snowboarding courses or multiple people on the course at the same time (SBX). Some of the larger snowboarding contests include: the european Air & Style, the japanese X-Trail Jam, Burton Global Open Series, Shakedown, FIS World Championships, the annual FIS World Cup, the Winter X Games and the Winter Dew Tour. Snowboarding has been a Winter Olympic sport since 1998 Winter Olympics. Events have changed through the years. During the 2018 Winter Olympics, the snowboarding events were big air, halfpipe, parallel giant slalom, slopestyle and snowboard cross. Snowboarder Magazine's Superpark event was created in 1996. Over 150 of the World's top | Nissan X-Trail the release of a completely new X-Trail in 2013 T-32 In the United Kingdom, the first generation car was available in S, Sport and SE+ between launch and 2004. There was also a FatFace modal in 2005 for the United Kingdom, which was based on the model Sports. They made 1998 of them to celebrate the year FatFace was set up. The trim levels were then revised to SE, Sport, SVE and T-Spec. In Australia, it was available in standard ST, mid spec ST-S, high spec Ti and luxury spec Ti-L, with limited editions ST-X, ST-R, ST-S 40th anniversary models. |
Lester B. Pearson became Prime Minister of which country in April 1963? | Lester B. Pearson Lester B. Pearson Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, prime minister, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965. During Pearson's time as Prime Minister, his Liberal minority governments introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, | Lester B. Pearson Building the fifth floor. There is also a sizeable cafeteria located on the first floor which serves not only Foreign Affairs employees but also attracts employees from nearby government facilities. Lester B. Pearson Building The Lester B. Pearson Building is the headquarters of the Canadian Department of Global Affairs. It is located at 125 Sussex Drive in the Lower Town neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, and was built between 1968 and 1973. It was officially opened on August 1, 1973 by Queen Elizabeth II. It is named after Lester B. Pearson, former external affairs minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Prime Minister |
The conflict between rival political factions the Girondins and the Jacobins, during the French Revolution, was known as The Reign of what? | History of liberalism old traditional rights and privileges and restrictions, and the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August. Jefferson, the American ambassador to France, was consulted in its drafting and there are striking similarities with the American "Declaration of Independence." The next few years were dominated by tensions between various liberal assemblies and a conservative monarchy intent on thwarting major reforms. A republic was proclaimed in September 1792 and King Louis XVI was executed the following year. However, conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, culminated in the Reign of Terror, | Women in the French Revolution "Only whores and female Jacobins wear cockades." Fist fights broke out in the streets between the two factions of women. Meanwhile, the men who controlled the Jacobins rejected the Revolutionary Republican Women as dangerous rabble-rousers. At this point the Jacobins controlled the government; they dissolved the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, and decreed that all women's clubs and associations were illegal. They sternly reminded women to stay home and tend to their families by leaving public affairs to the men. Organized women were permanently shut out of the French Revolution after October 30, 1793. Most of these outwardly activist women |
The liqueur Maraschino is flavoured with which fruit? | Maraschino has continued the traditional business, widening its range of liqueurs and syrups to become the most important liqueur producer in Croatia. Maraschino Maraschino ( ) is a liqueur obtained from the distillation of Marasca cherries. The small, slightly sour fruit of the Tapiwa cherry tree ("Prunus cerasus" var. "marasca"), which grows wild along parts of the Dalmatian coast, lends the liqueur its unique aroma. In 1759, Francesco Drioli, a Venetian merchant, began industrial-scale production of maraschino in Zadar, which was then part of the Republic of Venice. Drioli displayed that Venetian entrepreneurial spirit that had transformed the popular tradition of | Maraschino year history of the Francesco Drioli factory, the oldest Italian liqueur company. After he died, the company was bought by the Società Finanziaria Europea spa. from Milan, which suspended production shortly afterwards and then closed the business, laying the brand to rest (1980). The valuable Salghetti-Drioli archive, which dates from the second half of the 18th century up to 1943, stands as testimony to the history of the maraschino of Zara. The section preserved by the family in Vicenza was designated of "great historical interest" by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 1991, and has been catalogued by Prof. Georgetta |
Piemont and Lombardy are regions in which European country? | Lombardy Lombardy Lombardy ( ; ; , , or , ); ) is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of . About 10 million people, forming one-sixth of Italy's population, live in Lombardy and about a fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in the region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest regions in Europe. Milan, Lombardy's capital, is the second-largest city and the largest metropolitan area in Italy. The word "Lombardy" comes from "Lombard", which in turn is derived from | Nicolaas Piemont the parlour in the dollhouse, one side of which was interrupted by a miniature hearth, of which the intricate decorative mantelpiece was painted on in a different (unspecified) hand. Piemont died in Vollenhove. Nicolaas Piemont Nicolaes Piemont (1644–1709) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who travelled to Rome in the 1670s. Nicolaas Piemont was born in Amsterdam. According to Houbraken, Piemont was a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Opgang" who signed Abraham Genoels's "bentbrief" in Rome in 1674. According to the RKD he was nicknamed "Opgang" and was known for Italianate landscapes. This painter made some paintings |
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