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Snail racing
Form of humorous entertainment
Snail racing is a form of humorous entertainment that involves the racing of two or more air-breathing land snails. Usually the common garden snail species "Cornu aspersum" is used. This species is native to Europe, but has been accidentally introduced to many countries all over the world. There are numerous snail racing events that take place in different places around the world, though the majority take place in the United Kingdom. Snail races usually take place on a circular track with the snails starting in the middle and racing to the perimeter. The track usually takes the form of a damp cloth atop a table. The radius is traditionally set at 13 or 14 inches. Racing numbers are painted on the shells or small stickers or tags are placed on them to distinguish each competitor. Competitions. &lt;templatestyles src="Rquote/styles.css"/&gt;{ class="rquote pullquote floatright" role="presentation" style="display:table; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; float:right; margin:0.5em 0.75em; width:33%; "
The annual "World Snail Racing Championships" started in Congham, Norfolk in the 1960s after founder Tom Elwes witnessed a snail racing event in France. The 1995 race saw the setting of the benchmark time of two minutes by a snail named Archie. The 2007 event had to be cancelled when the course was waterlogged by a prolonged period of heavy rain, only days after the death of Elwes.

Question: In the 1960s Tom Elwes instituted which championship in Congham in Norfolk, England?
Answer: World Snail Racing Championship
Tumuk Humak Mountains
Mountain range in South America
The Tumuk Humak Mountains (, , ) are a mountain range in South America, stretching about east–west in the border area between Brazil in the south and Suriname and French Guiana in the north. In the language of the Apalam and Wayana peoples, "Tumucumaque" means "the mountain rock symbolizing the struggle between the shaman and the spirits". The range is very remote and almost inaccessible. Both the Maroni and Oyapock rivers originate in the Tumuk Humak Mountains. The Maroni () forms the entire (disputed) border between Suriname and French Guiana, and the Oyapock () most of the border between French Guiana and Brazil. The Tumuk Humak Mountains are part of the Tumucumaque Uplands of the Guiana Shield. They are geographically important because they form the divide between the biogeographical system of the Amazon Basin and that of the Atlantic coastal area of the Guianas. The Tumuk Humak plateau is covered primarily with lowland and plateau forests. Brazil's Tumucumaque Mountains National Park is named after the Tumuk Humak Mountains and covers that country's section of the mountain range, in the states of Pará and Amapá. Created in 2002, it is Brazil's largest national park and the world's largest protected tropical forest. The highest point in the state of Amapá is located there, reaching 701 meters (2,300 ft).

Question: The Tumuc-Humac Mountains are between Brazil and where else?
Answer: Suriname and French Guiana
Great Wall of China
By the nineteenth century, "the Great Wall of China" had become standard in English and French, although other European languages such as German continue to refer to it as "the Chinese wall". History. Early walls. The Chinese were already familiar with the techniques of wall-building by the time of the Spring and Autumn period between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. During this time and the subsequent Warring States period, the states of Qin, Wei, Zhao, Qi, Han, Yan, and Zhongshan all constructed extensive fortifications to defend their own borders. Built to withstand the attack of small arms such as swords and spears, these walls were made mostly of stone or by stamping earth and gravel between board frames. King Zheng of Qin conquered the last of his opponents and unified China as the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty ("Qin Shi Huang") in 221 BC. Intending to impose centralized rule and prevent the resurgence of feudal lords, he ordered the destruction of the sections of the walls that divided his empire among the former states. To position the empire against the Xiongnu people from the north, however, he ordered the building of new walls to connect the remaining fortifications along the empire's northern frontier. "Build and move on" was a central guiding principle in constructing the wall, implying that the Chinese were not erecting a permanently fixed border. Transporting the large quantity of materials required for construction was difficult, so builders always tried to use local resources. Stones from the mountains were used over mountain ranges, while rammed earth was used for construction in the plains.

Question: The early Great Wall of China built in the tears following 221 BCE, new or by reinforcing existing remains of walls, by the Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was intended to protect the newly unified empire against whom?
Answer: The Xiongnu people from the north
Diving bell
In saturation diving the bell is merely the ride to and from the job, and the chamber system is the living quarters. If the dive is relatively short (a bounce dive), decompression can be done in the bell in exactly the same way it would be done in the chamber. A third type is the rescue bell, used for the rescue of personnel from sunk submarines which have maintained structural integrity. These bells may operate at atmospheric internal pressure and must withstand the ambient water pressure. History. The diving bell is one of the earliest types of equipment for underwater work and exploration. Its use was first described by Aristotle in the 4th century BC: "they enable the divers to respire equally well by letting down a cauldron, for this does not fill with water, but retains the air, for it is forced straight down into the water." Recurring legends about Alexander the Great (including some versions of the "Alexander Romance") tell he explored the sea in some closed vessel, lowered from his ships. Their origin is hard to determine, but some of the earliest dated works are from the early Middle Ages. In 1535, Guglielmo de Lorena created and tested his own diving bell to explore a sunken vessel in a lake near Rome. De Lorena's diving bell only had space for enough oxygen for a few minutes however, the air in his diving bell was reported to last for one to two hours with the limiting factor being a diver's ability to withstand cold and fatigue, not lack of oxygen.

Question: Prolonged deep-sea diving was first made possible in Europe by the invention of a diving bell in what century?
Answer: sixteen, 16th, 16
Blue ringtail
Species of damselfly
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The blue ringtail (Austrolestes annulosus) is an Australian damselfly. It is found on most of the continent. Taxonomy. The blue ringtail was first described by Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1862. Description. The abdomen is 3 cm long. It can easily be confused with "Coenagrion lyelli" or "Caliagrion billinghursti", but can be differentiated through dorsal patterns. They are a thin, medium-sized damselfly with varying coloration, which depends on maturity and temperature. However most are a striking blue with minimal black markings. Females are slightly more robust than males, and have a black and white/pale blue coloration. Distribution and habitat. It is widely distributed in most of Australia, except for the northern and north-eastern parts. It is active through September to April in still water bodies such as riverine pools, lakes and ponds, including temporary pools. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: A Blue Ringtail is a type of what?
Answer: Zygopteran, Damselfly, Damsel fly, Zygoptera, Damselflies
Udo Gurgel
German engineer
Udo Gurgel (born 1938 in Schwerin, Germany) is a German engineer and designer of luge, bobsled and skeleton tracks. Life. Gurgel studied structural engineering at the School of Civil Engineering in Cottbus until 1963 and then at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He then worked as an engineer on the team commissioned with the planning of a track for Oberhof, Germany in 1966: the Oberhof bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track. Since then, he has designed and constructed bobsleigh and toboggan runs. In 1968, the Scientific and Technical Centre for sports facilities (STC sports facilities) in Leipzig, commissioned the first bobsleigh and luge track to be built in East Germany, following the first permanent track in West Germany: the Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track. Since Gurgel and his colleagues had no insight into the detailed planning of the Königssee track - i.e. because the countries were rivals because of the cold war - many technical solutions had to be rethought. Thus they developed the use of no wood for shuttering the curve geometry, the STC and the contractor Ulrich Müther together made a concrete formwork free injection method, which is still used in railway construction. In addition, use was made for the first time of calculations by a mainframe computer. The luge track in Oberhof was the first fully computer calculated path in the world.

Question: Which sport is track designer Udo Gurgel most associated with?
Answer: Bobsleigh run, Bobbsledding, Bobsled run, 4-man bobsleigh, Brakewoman (bobsleigh), Bobsleigh, Bob sled, Bobsledders, Bobteam, Bobsledder, Brakeman (bobsleigh), Bobsledding, Bobsled, Bobsleighing, Bobsleigh(sport), Bob sleigh, 2-Person Bobsled, Two-man bob
Barbara Hepworth
English artist and sculptor (1903–1975)
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Hepworth studied at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in the 1920s. She married the sculptor John Skeaping in 1925. In 1931 she fell in love with the painter Ben Nicholson, and in 1933 divorced Skeaping. At this time she was part of a circle of modern artists centred on Hampstead, London, and was one of the founders of the art movement Unit One. At the beginning of the Second World War Hepworth and Nicholson moved to St Ives, Cornwall, where she would remain for the rest of her life. Best known as a sculptor, Hepworth also produced drawings – including a series of sketches of operating rooms following the hospitalisation of her daughter in 1944 – and lithographs. She died in a fire at her studio in 1975. Biography. Early life. Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth. Her father was a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 advanced to the role of county surveyor.

Question: Dame Barbara Hepworth is known mainly for her work in sculpture but later in her career was known for work in what other medium?
Answer: Litography, Lithographer, Microlithography, Lithographic, Stone writing, Pattern transfer, Lithographies, Lithographic printing, Lithographed, Lithographs, Lithographic presses, Lithograph, Lithographist, Litho, Lithography, Serilith
Camel Cup
Annual camel racing festival held in Australia
The Camel Cup is an annual camel racing festival held in Australia. The race usually occurs at Blatherskite Park in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. The event is organised by the Apex Club of Central Australia. History. The first such event was held in 1970 in the dry bed of the Todd River between two Lions Club members, in an ephemeral river in the southern Northern Territory. It soon became a part of the Alice Springs Centenary Year Celebrations. The Alice Springs Lions Club recognised the event's popularity and started an annual celebration in Traeger Park. Due to security reasons, it was soon moved to Arunga Park Speedway in Stuart, N.T. It was 1979 when the race was transferred to a track specially built for camel racing at Blatherskite Park. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: The Camel Cup, first held in 1970 in the dry bed of a river, is held where?
Answer: Mparntwe, Alice Springs, NT, Alice Springs, N.T., Alice Springs, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Alice Springs, Australia, Desert Park
Aqua (band)
Danish eurodance group
Aqua is a Danish Europop band, best known for their 1997 single "Barbie Girl". The group formed in 1995 in Copenhagen and achieved international success around the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The band released three albums: "Aquarium" in 1997, "Aquarius" in 2000 and "Megalomania" in 2011. The group sold an estimated 33 million albums and singles, making them the most profitable Danish band ever. The group managed to top the UK Singles Chart with three of their singles. The group also caused controversy with the double entendres in their "Barbie Girl" single, with Mattel filing a lawsuit against the group. The lawsuit was finally dismissed by a judge in 2002, who ruled "The parties are advised to chill". The band's members are vocalists René Dif and Lene Nystrøm, keyboardist Søren Rasted, and guitarist Claus Norreen. During their split, Nystrøm, Dif and Rasted all achieved solo chart success, while Norreen remixed other artists' material. At a press event on October 26, 2007, the group announced a reunion tour, as well as the release of a compilation album featuring new material. Their third album, "Megalomania", was released on 3 October 2011. Career. 1989–1995: Formation. Aqua "set out to do something unique in pop music" in 1989.

Question: The band Aqua, well-known for their chart-topping single "Barbie Girl", released three albums - Aquarium in 1997, Aquarius in 2000 and which other?
Answer: Paranoid megalomaniac, Megalomaniacs, Megalomaniac paranoia, Meglomaniac, Megalomanic, Megalomaniacal, Megalomania, Megalomaniac
Don Juan Pond
Shallow salt lake in Antarctica
Don Juan Pond is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the western end of Wright Valley (South Fork), Victoria Land, Antarctica, west from Lake Vanda. It is wedged between the Asgard Range to the south and the Dais Range to the north. On the west end is a small tributary and a rock glacier. With a salinity level of 33.8%, Don Juan Pond is the saltiest of the Antarctic lakes. This salinity causes significant freezing-point depression, allowing the pond to remain liquid even at temperatures as low as . Don Juan Pond was discovered in 1961. It was named for two helicopter pilots, Lt. Don Roe and Lt. John Hickey, who piloted the helicopter involved with the first field party investigating the pond. Salinity. Don Juan Pond is a shallow, flat-bottom, hyper-saline pond. It has the second-highest total dissolved solids on record, 1.3 times greater salinity than the Dead Sea. Salinity varies over time from 200 to 474 g/L, dominated by calcium chloride. It is the only Antarctic hypersaline lake that almost never freezes. It has been described as a groundwater discharge zone. The area around Don Juan Pond is covered with sodium chloride and calcium chloride salts that have precipitated as the water evaporated. The area and volume of Don Juan Pond vary over time. According to the United States Geological Survey topographical map published in 1977, the area was approximately . However, in recent years the pond has shrunk considerably.

Question: Considered by many to be the saltiest lake in the world, Don Juan Pond is found where?
Answer: Victoria Land, Antarctica
Organization of American States
The pursuit of regional solidarity and cooperation again came to the forefront in 1889–1890, at the First International Conference of American States. Gathered together in Washington, D.C., 18 nations resolved to found the International Union of American Republics, served by a permanent secretariat called the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (renamed the International Commercial Bureau at the Second International Conference in 1901–1902). These two bodies, in existence as of 14 April 1890, represent the point of inception to which the OAS and its General Secretariat trace their origins. 20th century. At the fourth International Conference of American States (Buenos Aires, 1910), the name of the organization was changed to the Union of American Republics and the Bureau became the Pan American Union. The Pan American Union Building was constructed in 1910, on Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. In the mid-1930s, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt organized an inter-American conference in Buenos Aires. One of the items at the conference was a "League of Nations of the Americas", an idea proposed by Colombia, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. At the subsequent Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, 21 nations pledged to remain neutral in the event of a conflict between any two members. The experience of World War II convinced hemispheric governments that unilateral action could not ensure the territorial integrity of the American nations in the event of external aggression.

Question: An organisation formed in 1890 to promote cooperation across the countries of Latin America and the U.S was established under what name?
Answer: International Union of American Republics
Shawm
Double-reed woodwind instrument
The shawm () is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissance periods, after which it was gradually eclipsed by the oboe family of descendant instruments in classical music. It is likely to have come to Western Europe from the Eastern Mediterranean around the time of the Crusades. Double-reed instruments similar to the shawm were long present in Southern Europe and the East, for instance the ancient Greek, and later Byzantine aulos, the closely related sorna and zurna, and the Armenian duduk. The body of the shawm is usually turned from a single piece of wood, and terminates in a flared bell somewhat like that of a trumpet. Beginning in the 16th century, shawms were made in several sizes, from sopranino to great bass, and four- and five-part music could be played by a consort consisting entirely of shawms. All later shawms (excepting the smallest) have at least one key allowing a downward extension of the compass; the keywork is typically covered by a perforated wooden cover called the "fontanelle". The bassoon-like double reed, made from the same "arundo donax" cane used for oboes and bassoons, is inserted directly into a socket at the top of the instrument, or in the larger types, on the end of a metal tube called the bocal.

Question: The mediaeval wind instrument called a shawm typically had a cover over its keys called what?
Answer: Fonticulus, Fontanel, Soft spot, Fonticuli cranii, Fontanell, Fontanelle, Depressed fontanelle, Fontanelles, Soft spots, Fonticuli, Fontanels
Ricky Nelson
In 1958, Nelson released his first #1 single, "Poor Little Fool", and in 1959 received a Golden Globe nomination for "Most Promising Male Newcomer" after starring in "Rio Bravo". A few films followed, and when the television series was cancelled in 1966, Nelson made occasional appearances as a guest star on various television programs. In his twenties, he moved away from the pop music of his youth and began to perform in a country rock style. After recording several albums with mostly session musicians, most of which flopped, he formed the Stone Canyon Band in 1969 and experienced a career resurgence, buoyed by the live album "In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969" and had a surprise hit with 1972's "Garden Party", which peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100. His comeback was short-lived, however, as his record label was bought out and folded, and his followup albums were not well promoted by his new label. He continued to perform live and take small television roles through the 1970s, though his label dropped him by the end of the decade. He released two more albums, with unimpressive results, before his death in a plane crash on New Year's Eve, 1985. Nelson was married once, to Sharon Kristin Harmon, from 1963 until their divorce in 1982. They had four children: actress Tracy Nelson, twin sons and musicians Gunnar and Matthew, and actor Sam. Early life. Nelson was born on May 8, 1940, in Teaneck, New Jersey. He was the second son of entertainment couple Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.

Question: Who were the parents of Ricky Nelson?
Answer: The Adventures of the Nelson Family, Adventures of Nelson Family, The adventures of ozzie and harriet, Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Ozzie and Harriet, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Adventures of Nelson Family, Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet, The Adventures of Ozzie Harriet, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett, Adventures of the Nelson Family, Ozzie & Harriet, Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Pietro Metastasio
Italian poet and librettist (1698–1782)
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of "opera seria" libretti. Early life. Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi, a native of Assisi, had taken service in the Corsican regiment of the papal forces. Felice married a Bolognese woman, Francesca Galasti, and became a grocer in the "Via dei Cappellari". The couple had two sons and two daughters; Pietro was the younger son. Pietro, while still a child, is said to have attracted crowds by reciting impromptu verses on a given subject. On one such occasion in 1709, two men of distinction stopped to listen: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, famous for legal and literary erudition as well as his directorship of the Arcadian Academy, and Lorenzini, a critic of some note. Gravina was attracted by the boy's poetic talent and personal charm, and made Pietro his "protégé"; in the course of a few weeks he adopted him. Felice Trapassi was glad to give his son the chance of a good education and introduction into society. Gravina hellenized the boy's name Trapassi into Metastasio, and intended his adopted son to be a jurist like himself. He therefore made the boy learn Latin and law.

Question: Which Italian poet and librettist was known under the name of Metastasio?
Answer: Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi
Djibouti
Country in the Horn of Africa
Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country has an area of . In antiquity, the territory, together with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland, was part of the Land of Punt. Nearby Zeila, now in Somaliland, was the seat of the medieval Adal and Ifat Sultanates. In the late 19th century, the colony of French Somaliland was established after the ruling Dir Somali sultans signed treaties with the French, and its railroad to Dire Dawa (and later Addis Ababa) allowed it to quickly supersede Zeila as the port for southern Ethiopia and the Ogaden. It was renamed the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas in 1967. A decade later, the Djiboutian people voted for independence. This officially marked the establishment of the "Republic of Djibouti", named after its capital city. The new state joined the United Nations in its first year. In the early 1990s, tensions over government representation led to armed conflict, which ended in a power-sharing agreement in 2000 between the ruling party and the opposition. Djibouti is a multi-ethnic nation with a population of over 920,000 (the smallest in mainland Africa). French and Arabic are its two official languages, Afar and Somali are national languages.

Question: Where does the Republic of Djibouti have a coastline or coastlines?
Answer: The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden