QUESTION: Trivia question: What was 'the devil's porridge', manufactured near Dumfries,, in a factory the site of which extended for more than 20 miles?
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ANS: cordite

Mei Li:
"Which Shakespeare tragedy opens with a Prologue beginning: ""Two households, both alike in dignity. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene""?"?
Shuai Zheng:
romeo juliet

Input question: "The podcast which grew out of ""This American Life"", and first aired in 2014, is called...?"

Output answer: serial

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"What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague (""wandering sickness"") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states?"
answer: things to come

question: What is the answer: Who captained the England cricket team to victory in the 2009 Ashes series?
answer: andrew strauss

question: What is the answer: With which 17th century plot was Francis Tresham associated?
answer:
gunpowder plot