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King's Own Royal Border Regiment
The King's Own Royal Border Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1959 until 2006, and was part of the King's Division. It was formed at Barnard Castle on 1 October 1959 through the amalgamation of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) and the Border Regiment. The only official abbreviation of the name was King's Own Border ["sic"] . (Unofficially, the acronyms KOB, KORB and KORBR were also used.)
East Lancashire Regiment
The East Lancashire Regiment was, from 1881 to 1958, a line infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot and 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot with the militia and rifle volunteer units of eastern Lancashire. In 1958 the regiment was amalgamated with the South Lancashire Regiment to form the Lancashire Regiment which was, in 1970, merged with the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) to form the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. In 2006, the Queen's Lancashire was further amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester) to form the present Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border).

Question: When did British Army infantry regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot and 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot with the militia and rifle volunteer units of eastern Lancashire merge with infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1959 until 2006, and was part of the King's Division?
Answer: 2006
Southampton
Local train services operate in the city and are operated by South Western Railway, with stations at Swaythling, St Denys, Millbrook, Redbridge, Bitterne, Sholing and Woolston. Plans were announced by Hampshire County Council in July 2009 for the introduction of tram-train running from Hythe (on what is now a freight-only line to Fawley) via Totton to Southampton Central Station and on to Fareham via St. Denys, and Swanwick. The proposal follows a failed plan to bring light rail to the Portsmouth and Gosport areas in 2005.

Question: In what year did a proposal to expand light rail service to Portsmouth and Gosport fail?
Answer: 2005
Kimati Dinizulu
"Nana" Kimati Dinizulu (27 September 1956 New York City – 7 July 2013) was an American virtuoso percussionist, widely acclaimed for his artistry with African percussion (including apentemma, apente, sankofa, kyene, djembe, and caxixi) in jazz, folk, classical, popular, ballet, and musical theater. He did studio recordings and performed live with artists that included Toni Morrison, Alvin Ailey, Donald McKayle, Gregory Hines, Sonny Rollins, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte, Wynton Marsalis, Jackie McLean, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Winter, Lonnie Liston Smith, Steve Turre, Danilo Perez, Stefon Harris, Clifton Anderson, and Vanessa Rubin.
Toni Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye", was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed "Song of Solomon" (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for "Beloved" (1987); she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Toni Morrison
Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. In 1955, she earned a master's in American Literature from Cornell University. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. In the late 1960s, she became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City. In the 1970s and 1980s, she developed her own reputation as an author, and her perhaps most celebrated work, "Beloved", was made into a 1998 film.

Question: "Nana" Kimati Dinzulu performed live with which professor emerita at Princeton University?
Answer: Toni Morrison
K2 (building)
K2 is a residential tower block in Leeds, UK. The building is situated in the city centre, on Albion Street and Great George Street, opposite St John's Centre. The lower two floors contain commercial premises, including a Jongleurs Comedy Club, Bar Risa (a bar with a capacity of 1500) and formerly a Hard Rock Cafe. The building is the joint 9th tallest building in Leeds. The building has 20 stories and is 242 ft tall. The commercial parts of the building are known as 'The Cube'. Ventura Outsourcing have 35000 sqft of office space in the upper floors of 'The Cube'.
Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe Inc. is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2007, Hard Rock Cafe International (USA), Inc. was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida and was headquartered in Orlando, Florida, until April 2018, when the corporate offices were relocated to Davie, Florida. As of July 2018, Hard Rock International has venues in 74 countries, including 185 cafes, 25 hotels, and 12 casinos.

Question: The K2 building contains what commercial premises on its bottom two floors, a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton?
Answer: Hard Rock Cafe
The Map and the Territory
The Map and the Territory ( , ] ) is a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq. The narrative revolves around a successful artist, and involves a fictional murder of Houellebecq. It was published on 4 September 2010 by Flammarion and received the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious French literary prize, in 2010. The title is a reference to the map–territory relation.
The Map and the Territory
"The Map and the Territory" is Michel Houellebecq's fifth novel. It was published five years after his prior novel, "The Possibility of an Island". "The Map and the Territory" was among the most eagerly awaited and discussed novels of the 2010 literary season in France. The first printing was for copies, as announced by the publisher. An English translation by Gavin Bowd was published in January 2012.
Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation ( ) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which the author seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.

Question: From what 1981 philosophical treatise did Houellebecq get the name of The Map and the Territory?
Answer: Simulacra and Simulation
Gerald McRaney
Gerald Lee McRaney (born August 19, 1947) is an American television and movie actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows "Simon & Simon", "Major Dad", "Promised Land" and "House of Cards". He was a series regular in the first season of "Jericho" and the final season of "Deadwood". He appeared in a recurring role as main antagonist Mason Wood in season eight of "Castle". Recently, he played Barlow Connally in the A&E series "Longmire" and has a recurring role in the NBC series "This Is Us" as Dr. Nathan Katowski, a role which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
Someone She Knows
Someone She Knows is a 1994 NBC television film directed by Eric Laneuville and starring Markie Post, Gerald McRaney, Jeffrey Nordling and Spencer Garrett as main characters. It was filmed in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California.

Question: What star of Someone She Knows also played a character named Mason Wood?
Answer: Gerald McRaney
Ottoman Empire
In 1539, a 60,000-strong Ottoman army besieged the Spanish garrison of Castelnuovo on the Adriatic coast; the successful siege cost the Ottomans 8,000 casualties, but Venice agreed to terms in 1540, surrendering most of its empire in the Aegean and the Morea. France and the Ottoman Empire, united by mutual opposition to Habsburg rule, became strong allies. The French conquests of Nice (1543) and Corsica (1553) occurred as a joint venture between the forces of the French king Francis I and Suleiman, and were commanded by the Ottoman admirals Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Turgut Reis. A month before the siege of Nice, France supported the Ottomans with an artillery unit during the 1543 Ottoman conquest of Esztergom in northern Hungary. After further advances by the Turks, the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand officially recognized Ottoman ascendancy in Hungary in 1547. Suleiman I died of natural causes in his tent during the Siege of Szigetvár in 1566.

Question: The conquest of Nice was an effort by Suleiman and what French king?
Answer: Francis I
Dominican Order
Dominic's education at Palencia gave him the knowledge he needed to overcome the Manicheans. With charity, the other concept that most defines the work and spirituality of the order, study became the method most used by the Dominicans in working to defend the Church against the perils that hounded it, and also of enlarging its authority over larger areas of the known world. In Dominic's thinking, it was impossible for men to preach what they did not or could not understand. When the brethren left Prouille, then, to begin their apostolic work, Dominic sent Matthew of Paris to establish a school near the University of Paris. This was the first of many Dominican schools established by the brethren, some near large universities throughout Europe. The women of the order also established schools for the children of the local gentry.

Question: What helps define the work of the Dominican Order?
Answer: charity
Lamont Johnson
Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. (September 30, 1922 – October 24, 2010) was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.
Elia Suleiman
Elia Suleiman ( , ] ; born July 28, 1960) is a Palestinian film director and actor of Rûm Greek Orthodox origin. He is best known for the 2002 film "Divine Intervention" ( ), a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Elia Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between "burlesque and sobriety". He is married to Lebanese singer and actress Yasmine Hamdan.

Question: Are Elia Suleiman and Lamont Johnson both American film directors?
Answer: no
Identity (social science)
These different explorations of 'identity' demonstrate how difficult a concept it is to pin down. Since identity is a virtual thing, it is impossible to define it empirically. Discussions of identity use the term with different meanings, from fundamental and abiding sameness, to fluidity, contingency, negotiated and so on. Brubaker and Cooper note a tendency in many scholars to confuse identity as a category of practice and as a category of analysis . Indeed, many scholars demonstrate a tendency to follow their own preconceptions of identity, following more or less the frameworks listed above, rather than taking into account the mechanisms by which the concept is crystallised as reality. In this environment, some analysts, such as Brubaker and Cooper, have suggested doing away with the concept completely . Others, by contrast, have sought to introduce alternative concepts in an attempt to capture the dynamic and fluid qualities of human social self-expression. Hall (1992, 1996), for example, suggests treating identity as a process, to take into account the reality of diverse and ever-changing social experience. Some scholars have introduced the idea of identification, whereby identity is perceived as made up of different components that are 'identified' and interpreted by individuals. The construction of an individual sense of self is achieved by personal choices regarding who and what to associate with. Such approaches are liberating in their recognition of the role of the individual in social interaction and the construction of identity.

Question: Many scholars confuse identity as a category of practice and what other category?
Answer: category of analysis
Roger Avary
Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on "Pulp Fiction", for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. Avary directed "Killing Zoe", "The Rules of Attraction", "Lucky Day", and wrote the screenplays for "Silent Hill" and "Beowulf".
Roger Avary
Avary was born to an affluent Californian family. His father was a geologist and mining engineer, and as a result the family moved frequently, living in places such as Oracle, Arizona and South America. His mother was a German-born physical therapist.
Zack Snyder
Zachary Edward Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He made his feature film debut in 2004 with a remake of the 1978 horror film "Dawn of the Dead". Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including "300" (2006) and "Watchmen" (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, "Man of Steel" (2013) and its follow-ups, "" (2016) and "Justice League" (2017). He also served as co-screenwriter for "300", "Sucker Punch" (2011), and "" (2014), an executive producer for "Suicide Squad" (2016) and "Aquaman" (2018), and as co-writer of the story for "Wonder Woman" (2017) and "Justice League" (2017) and producer of Wonder Woman 1984. A director's cut of "Justice League", commonly referred to as the "Snyder Cut" will be released in 2021.

Question: Are Roger Avary and Zack Snyder both film producers?
Answer: yes
Avis Europe
Avis Europe plc is a United Kingdom-based company which holds the licence to operate the two main vehicle rental brands of Avis Budget Group (Avis Rent a Car System and Budget Rent a Car) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as Asia in the case of Avis. In 2011 it was acquired by Avis Budget Group.
Budget Rent a Car
Budget Rent a Car System, Inc. is an American car rental company that was founded in 1958 in Los Angeles, California by Morris Mirkin. Budget's operations are headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Question: What is a United Kingdom-based company which holds the licence to operate the two main vehicle rental brands of Avis Budget Group one being an American car rental company that was founded in 1958 in Los Angeles, California by Morris Mirkin ?
Answer: Avis Europe
David Mamet
David Alan Mamet ( ; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway 1970s plays: "The Duck Variations," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," and "American Buffalo." His plays "Race" and "The Penitent", respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.
The Water Engine (film)
The Water Engine is a 1992 American made-for-television drama film directed by Steven Schachter and starring Joe Mantegna, John Mahoney, and William H. Macy. It is based on David Mamet's play of the same name.

Question: The Water Engine was inspired by a play of an artist born in what year?
Answer: 1947
Mali
In the late 14th century, the Songhai gradually gained independence from the Mali Empire and expanded, ultimately subsuming the entire eastern portion of the Mali Empire. The Songhai Empire's eventual collapse was largely the result of a Moroccan invasion in 1591, under the command of Judar Pasha. The fall of the Songhai Empire marked the end of the region's role as a trading crossroads. Following the establishment of sea routes by the European powers, the trans-Saharan trade routes lost significance.

Question: What major impact did the falling of the Songhai Empire have?
Answer: Saharan trade routes lost significance.
Avicenna
Following al-Farabi's lead, Avicenna initiated a full-fledged inquiry into the question of being, in which he distinguished between essence ("Mahiat") and existence ("Wujud"). He argued that the fact of existence cannot be inferred from or accounted for by the essence of existing things, and that form and matter by themselves cannot interact and originate the movement of the universe or the progressive actualization of existing things. Existence must, therefore, be due to an agent-cause that necessitates, imparts, gives, or adds existence to an essence. To do so, the cause must be an existing thing and coexist with its effect.

Question: Mahiat is Arabic for what?
Answer: essence
Gerald R. Molen
Gerald Robert "Jerry" Molen (born January 6, 1935) is an American film producer. He has worked closely with Steven Spielberg, having produced five of his films, and won an Academy Award for co-producing "Schindler's List". Molen is now semi-retired and spends his time alternating between Montana and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jurassic Park (film)
Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen. It is the first installment in the "Jurassic Park" franchise, and is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton and a screenplay written by Crichton and David Koepp. The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America's Pacific Coast near Costa Rica. There, wealthy businessman John Hammond and a team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of de-extinct dinosaurs. When industrial sabotage leads to a catastrophic shutdown of the park's power facilities and security precautions, a small group of visitors and Hammond's grandchildren struggle to survive and escape the perilous island.

Question: Which Jurassic Park producer also won an Academy Award for co-producing Schindler's List?
Answer: Gerald R. Molen
Macintosh
The Macintosh project began in 1979 when Jef Raskin, an Apple employee, envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer. He wanted to name the computer after his favorite type of apple, the McIntosh, but the spelling was changed to "Macintosh" for legal reasons as the original was the same spelling as that used by McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., the audio equipment manufacturer. Steve Jobs requested that McIntosh Laboratory give Apple a release for the newly spelled name, thus allowing Apple to use it. The request was denied, forcing Apple to eventually buy the rights to use this name. A 1984 "Byte Magazine" article suggested Apple changed the spelling only after "early users" misspelled "McIntosh". However, Jef Raskin had adopted the "Macintosh" spelling by 1981, when the Macintosh computer was still a single prototype machine in the lab.

Question: What did Jef Raskin envision for a computer to be for an average consumer?
Answer: easy-to-use, low-cost
Stone Sour
Stone Sour is an American rock band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1992. The band performed for five years before disbanding in 1997. They reunited in 2000 and since 2015, the group has consisted of Corey Taylor (lead vocals, guitar), Josh Rand (guitar), Christian Martucci (guitar), Johny Chow (bass) and Roy Mayorga (drums). Longtime members Joel Ekman (drums, percussion) and Shawn Economaki (bass guitar) left the band in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Former lead guitarist Jim Root left in 2014.
Stone Sour
To date, Stone Sour has released six studio albums "Stone Sour" (2002); "Come What(ever) May" (2006); "Audio Secrecy" (2010); "House of Gold & Bones – Part 1" (2012); "House of Gold & Bones – Part 2" (2013) and "Hydrograd" (2017). They also released a digital live album, "Live in Moscow", in 2007. Their album, "Hydrograd" was released in June 2017 and is their first album to feature guitarist Christian Martucci and bassist Johny Chow.
Armor for Sleep
Armor for Sleep was an American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001. They disbanded in 2009. Their final lineup consisted of lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Ben Jorgensen, lead guitarist PJ DeCicco, bassist Anthony DiIonno and drummer Nash Breen.

Question: Were both Armor for Sleep and Stone Sour formed in New Jersey?
Answer: no
Montevideo
s of 2010 , the city of Montevideo has been divided into 8 political municipalities ("Municipios"), referred to with the letters from A to G, including CH, each presided over by a mayor elected by the citizens registered in the constituency. This division, according to the Municipality of Montevideo, "aims to advance political and administrative decentralization in the department of Montevideo, with the aim of deepening the democratic participation of citizens in governance." The head of each "Municipio" is called an "alcalde" or (if female) "alcaldesa".

Question: Who elects the mayor of the political municipalities? 
Answer: the citizens registered in the constituency
Aspirated consonant
Voiceless consonants are produced with the vocal folds open (spread) and not vibrating, and voiced consonants are produced when the vocal folds are fractionally closed and vibrating (modal voice). Voiceless aspiration occurs when the vocal folds remain open after a consonant is released. An easy way to measure this is by noting the consonant's voice onset time, as the voicing of a following vowel cannot begin until the vocal folds close.

Question: What is it called when a person's vocal cords stay open after a consonant?
Answer: Voiceless aspiration
Central African Republic
In 1920 French Equatorial Africa was established and Ubangi-Shari was administered from Brazzaville. During the 1920s and 1930s the French introduced a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation, a network of roads was built, attempts were made to combat sleeping sickness, and Protestant missions were established to spread Christianity. New forms of forced labor were also introduced and a large number of Ubangians were sent to work on the Congo-Ocean Railway. Through the period of construction until 1934 there was a continual heavy cost in human lives, with total deaths among all workers along the railway estimated in excess of 17,000 of the construction workers, from a combination of both industrial accidents and diseases including malaria. In 1928, a major insurrection, the Kongo-Wara rebellion or 'war of the hoe handle', broke out in Western Ubangi-Shari and continued for several years. The extent of this insurrection, which was perhaps the largest anti-colonial rebellion in Africa during the interwar years, was carefully hidden from the French public because it provided evidence of strong opposition to French colonial rule and forced labor.

Question: What plant was mandated to be grown by the French?
Answer: cotton
Cork (city)
Cork ( ; , ] , from "corcach", meaning "marsh") is the second largest city in Ireland, located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Following an extension to the city's boundary in 2019, its population is c. 210,000.
Cork (city)
The city centre is an island positioned between two channels of the River Lee which meet downstream at the eastern end of the city centre, where the quays and docks along the river lead outwards towards Lough Mahon and Cork Harbour, one of the largest natural harbours in the world.
Cotter family
The Norse-Gaelic Cotter family (Irish Mac Coitir or Mac Oitir) of Ireland, was associated with County Cork and ancient Cork city. The family was also associated with the Isle of Man and the Hebrides.

Question: The Cotter family was associated with a city in which province in Ireland?
Answer: Munster
Izu Ojukwu
Izu Ojukwu is a Nigerian film director. In 2007 he won "Best Director" for "Sitanda" at the 3rd Africa Movie Academy Awards, which received nine nominations and won five awards at the event, including "Best Picture" and "Best Nigerian Film".
Tommy Wiseau
Thomas P. Wiseau ( or ) is a European-American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for writing, producing, directing, and starring in the 2003 film "The Room", which has been described by many critics as one of the worst films ever made and has gained cult status. He also co-directed the 2004 documentary "Homeless in America" and created the 2015 sitcom "The Neighbors".

Question: Which film director, Izu Ojukwu or Tommy Wiseau,  is also a Polish-American actor?
Answer: Tommy Wiseau
Beyoncé
According to Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, Beyoncé uses different fashion styles to work with her music while performing. Her mother co-wrote a book, published in 2002, titled "Destiny's Style" an account of how fashion affected the trio's success. The "B'Day Anthology Video Album" showed many instances of fashion-oriented footage, depicting classic to contemporary wardrobe styles. In 2007, Beyoncé was featured on the cover of the "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue", becoming the second African American woman after Tyra Banks, and "People" magazine recognized Beyoncé as the best-dressed celebrity.

Question: Which parent of Beyonce's help co-write a book?
Answer: Her mother
Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours is a motor racing circuit located in central France, near the towns of Magny-Cours and Nevers, some 250 km (160 miles) from Paris and 240 km (150 miles) from Lyon.
2000 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup
The 2000 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season was the tenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began with non-championship round at Mugello Circuit on 16 April and finished at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 10 December, after ten races. Cram Competition driver Felipe Massa claimed the championship title, taking three victories at Monza, Valencia and Magny-Cours. Charles Zwolsman, Jr. finished as runner-up, losing 16 points to Massa. J.D. Motorsport's Matteo Grassotto won race at Circuit Park Zandvoort. His teammate Richard Antinucci took the first place in the next race at Spa. Other wins were scored by Markus Winkelhock, Kimi Räikkönen and Jörg Hardt.

Question: During the 2000 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup, which racing circuit was Felipe Massa victorious in and is located near the towns of Magny-Cours and Nevers in France.
Answer: Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
Just in Time (song)
"Just in Time" is a popular song with the melody written by Jule Styne and the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It was introduced by Judy Holliday and Sydney Chaplin in the musical "Bells Are Ringing" in 1956.Judy Holliday and Dean Martin sang the song in the 1960 film of "Bells Are Ringing". Martin then recorded it for his 1960 album, "This Time I'm Swingin'!".
Bells Are Ringing (musical)
Bells Are Ringing is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service, and the characters that she meets there. The main character was based on Mary Printz, who worked for Green's answering service. Three of the show's tunes, "Long Before I Knew You," "Just in Time," and "The Party's Over", became popular standards.

Question: The song "Just in Time" was introduced in a musical whose main character is based on what woman?
Answer: Mary Printz
Andy Samberg
David A. J. "Andy" Samberg (born August 18, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" (2005–2012), where he and his fellow group members have been credited with popularizing the "SNL" Digital Shorts.
Jorma Taccone
Jorma Christopher Taccone ( ; born March 19, 1977) is an American comedian, director, actor, and writer. He is one-third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island, with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. In 2010 he co-wrote and directed the "SNL" spinoff film "MacGruber", which was his directorial debut. He directed his second feature alongside Schaffer, the musical comedy "", which he also co-wrote and co-starred in with Schaffer and Samberg.
Jorma Taccone
Taccone was born in Berkeley, California, the son of Sue Ellen and Tony Taccone, the artistic director of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. His father is of half Italian and half Puerto Rican descent while his mother is of Finnish, Dutch and German ancestry. He attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and graduated with a BA in Theater in 2000. His brother, Asa Taccone, is a member of the band Electric Guest.

Question: Who is the American actor, filmmaker, musician, and comedian that was in The Lonely Island sketch comedy troupe with fellow American actor, comedian, director, producer Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, their childhood friend?
Answer: Andy Samberg
Political corruption
In the 1990s, initiatives were taken at an international level (in particular by the European Community, the Council of Europe, the OECD) to put a ban on corruption: in 1996, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, for instance, adopted a comprehensive Programme of Action against Corruption and, subsequently, issued a series of anti-corruption standard-setting instruments:

Question: Who started the Programme of Action?
Answer: Ministers of the Council of Europe
Kanye West
Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West was first known as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, producing singles for several mainstream artists. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, West released his debut album "The College Dropout" in 2004 to critical and commercial success, and founded the record label GOOD Music. He experimented with a variety of musical genres on subsequent acclaimed studio albums, including "Late Registration" (2005), "Graduation" (2007), and "808s & Heartbreak" (2008). Drawing inspiration from maximalism and minimalism, respectively, West's fifth album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" (2010) and sixth album "Yeezus" (2013) were also critical successes. He went on to release "The Life of Pablo" (2016), "Ye" (2018), and "Jesus Is King" (2019). West's discography also includes the full-length collaborations "Watch the Throne" (2011) and "Kids See Ghosts" (2018) with Jay-Z and Kid Cudi, respectively.

Question: How many total CDs has Kanye West released in his career so far?
Answer: 7
Beyoncé
When Beyoncé was eight, she and childhood friend Kelly Rowland met LaTavia Roberson while at an audition for an all-girl entertainment group. They were placed into a group called Girl's Tyme with three other girls, and rapped and danced on the talent show circuit in Houston. After seeing the group, R&B producer Arne Frager brought them to his Northern California studio and placed them in "Star Search", the largest talent show on national TV at the time. Girl's Tyme failed to win, and Beyoncé later said the song they performed was not good. In 1995 Beyoncé's father resigned from his job to manage the group. The move reduced Beyoncé's family's income by half, and her parents were forced to move into separated apartments. Mathew cut the original line-up to four and the group continued performing as an opening act for other established R&B girl groups. The girls auditioned before record labels and were finally signed to Elektra Records, moving to Atlanta Records briefly to work on their first recording, only to be cut by the company. This put further strain on the family, and Beyoncé's parents separated. On October 5, 1995, Dwayne Wiggins's Grass Roots Entertainment signed the group. In 1996, the girls began recording their debut album under an agreement with Sony Music, the Knowles family reunited, and shortly after, the group got a contract with Columbia Records.

Question: In what year did Beyonce's father quit his job to manage her group?
Answer: 1995
Middle Ages
The clergy was divided into two types: the secular clergy, who lived out in the world, and the regular clergy, who lived isolated under a religious rule and usually consisted of monks. Throughout the period monks remained a very small proportion of the population, usually less than one percent. Most of the regular clergy were drawn from the nobility, the same social class that served as the recruiting ground for the upper levels of the secular clergy. The local parish priests were often drawn from the peasant class. Townsmen were in a somewhat unusual position, as they did not fit into the traditional three-fold division of society into nobles, clergy, and peasants. During the 12th and 13th centuries, the ranks of the townsmen expanded greatly as existing towns grew and new population centres were founded. But throughout the Middle Ages the population of the towns probably never exceeded 10 percent of the total population.

Question: From what class were many parish priests?
Answer: the peasant class
Dialect
During the "Risorgimento", Italian still existed mainly as a literary language, and only 2.5% of Italy's population could speak Italian. Proponents of Italian nationalism, like the Lombard Alessandro Manzoni, stressed the importance of establishing a uniform national language in order to better create an Italian national identity. With the unification of Italy in the 1860s, Italian became the official national language of the new Italian state, while the other ones came to be institutionally regarded as "dialects" subordinate to Italian, and negatively associated with a lack of education.

Question: What percentage of Italians spoke standard Italian when Italy was first unified?
Answer: 2.5%
Bombay Stock Exchange
The BSE, formerly known as the Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. ( ), is an Indian stock exchange located at Dalal Street, Mumbai.
Speciality Restaurants Limited
Speciality Restaurants Limited is an Indian restaurant company that owns multiple chains of fine and casual dining restaurants in India, Bangladesh and Tanzania. Speciality Restaurants Limited also owns and operates confectionery stores. The company has its registered office in Kolkata and head office in Mumbai with presence in twenty-five cities across three countries. Speciality Restaurants Limited is listed on BSE and NSE stock exchanges of India.

Question: Which city sports locations for both the Specialty Restaurants Limited restaurant company and the Bombay Stock Exchange? 
Answer: Mumbai
Architecture
Vernacular architecture became increasingly ornamental. Housebuilders could use current architectural design in their work by combining features found in pattern books and architectural journals.

Question: What kind of books did housebuilders use?
Answer: pattern books and architectural journals
The Four Lovers
The Four Lovers was a band formed in 1956 that was the result of vocalist Frankie Valli joining The Variatones (Tommy DeVito, lead guitar; James Gregorio Valeo, then Henry Majewski, rhythm guitar; Frank Cattone, accordion; and Billy Thompson, drums) in 1954. The Four Lovers' achieved minor success before a name change to The Four Seasons in 1960. During those five years, group members also included Nicolas DeVito (vocals, electric bass), Hugh Garrity (vocals, guitar), Charles Calello (bass), Nick Massi (bass, vocals), Bob Gaudio (keyboards, vocals), and Philip Mongiovi (drums)
Nick Massi
Nicholas E. Macioci (September 19, 1927 – December 24, 2000), known as Nick Massi, was an American bass singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons.

Question: What year was the bass, vocals member of Four Lovers born? 
Answer: 2000
Philadelphia
Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape (Delaware) Indians in the village of Shackamaxon. The Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians, and their historical territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, exacerbated by losses from intertribal conflicts. Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape. Surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States' independence pushed them further west. In the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma and surrounding territory) under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape reside in Oklahoma, with some communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario (Canada), and in their traditional homelands.

Question: Where did the Lenape go after being pushed out of the Philidelphia area?
Answer: upper Ohio River basin
Sodom (band)
Sodom is a German thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1981. They have gone through many line-up changes, leaving bassist/vocalist Tom Angelripper as the only constant member. The band is currently composed of Angelripper, guitarists Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik and Yorck Segatz, and drummer Toni Merkel. Along with Kreator, Destruction and Tankard, Sodom has been referred to as one of the "Big Four" of Teutonic thrash metal. While three of those bands (except Tankard) created a sound that would influence death metal and black metal, Sodom's early music style would greatly influence many late 1980s and early 1990s black metal bands more than others.
Epitome of Torture
Epitome of Torture is the fourteenth album by the German thrash metal band Sodom. The album debuted on the Billboard Heatseakers Chart at 25, their highest Billboard Debut ever.

Question: Who is the only constant member of the band behind "Epitome of Turture"?
Answer: Tom Angelripper
Beyoncé
In January 2013, Destiny's Child released "Love Songs", a compilation album of the romance-themed songs from their previous albums and a newly recorded track, "Nuclear". Beyoncé performed the American national anthem singing along with a pre-recorded track at President Obama's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. The following month, Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, held at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The performance stands as the second most tweeted about moment in history at 268,000 tweets per minute. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, Beyoncé won for Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Love on Top". Her feature-length documentary film, "Life Is But a Dream", first aired on HBO on February 16, 2013. The film was co-directed by Beyoncé herself.

Question: What was the new track for Love Songs?
Answer: Nuclear
Kuytun
Kuytun or Kuitun () is a county-level city with about 285,000 residents (2000 census) in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. Kuitun is located between Wusu and Shihezi on the railway from Ürümqi to Kazakhstan, close to a desert.
Conghua District
Conghua District, alternately romanized as Tsungfa, is one of 11 urban districts and the northernmost district of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China. Conghua connects the Pearl River Delta with the mountainous area of northern Guangdong. Within China, it is known for its hot springs and lychees. It covers an area of 1974.15 km2 , with a population of 543.377 in 2006. Its GDP was RMB10.369 billion (US$2,360 per person).

Question: Which of these is in Guangzhou, Conghua District or Kuytun?
Answer: Conghua District
Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff)
Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor ( ), Op. 3, No. 2, is one of the composer's most famous compositions. Part of a set of five piano pieces entitled "Morceaux de fantaisie," it is a 62-bar prelude in ternary (ABA) form. It is also known as "The Bells of Moscow" since the introduction seems to reproduce the Kremlin's most solemn carillon chimes.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff ( ; Russian: , , ] ; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 28 March 1943 ) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the late Romantic period. The influence of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and other Russian composers is seen in his early works, later giving way to a personal style notable for song-like melodicism, expressiveness and rich orchestral colors. 
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at the age of four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892, having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. In the course of the next sixteen years, Rachmaninoff conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre, relocated to Dresden, Germany, and toured the United States for the first time. Rachmaninoff often featured the piano in his compositions, and he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument through his own skills as a pianist.

Question: Prelude in C-sharp minor was composed by a man born in what year?
Answer: 1873
Asphalt
The first use of bitumen in the New World was by indigenous peoples. On the west coast, as early as the 13th century, the Tongva, Luiseño and Chumash peoples collected the naturally occurring bitumen that seeped to the surface above underlying petroleum deposits. All three groups used the substance as an adhesive. It is found on many different artifacts of tools and ceremonial items. For example, it was used on rattles to adhere gourds or turtle shells to rattle handles. It was also used in decorations. Small round shell beads were often set in asphaltum to provide decorations. It was used as a sealant on baskets to make them watertight for carrying water, possibly poisoning those who drank the water. Asphalt was used also to seal the planks on ocean-going canoes.

Question: On what type of boat was asphalt used to seal planks?
Answer: canoes
Graham Kinniburgh
Graham Allen Kinniburgh (20 October 1942 – 13 December 2003) was an Australian organised crime figure from Kew, a suburb of Melbourne. He became a victim of the Melbourne gangland killings, which were dramatised in the drama series "Underbelly".
Melbourne gangland killings
The Melbourne gangland killings were the murders of 36 criminal underworld figures in Melbourne between January 1998 and August 2010. The murders were in a series of retributive killings involving various underworld groups. The deaths caused a sustained power vacuum within Melbourne's criminal community, as various factions fought for control and influence. Many of the murders remain unsolved, although detectives from the Purana Taskforce believe that Carl Williams was responsible for at least 10 of them. The period culminated in the arrest of Williams, who pleaded guilty on 28 February 2007 to three of the murders.

Question: Who was arrested for the activities of the Australian crime community who was responsible for the murder of Graham Kinniburgh?
Answer: Carl Williams
John Kerry
In the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, John Kerry defeated several Democratic rivals, including Sen. John Edwards (D-North Carolina), former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and retired Army General Wesley Clark. His victory in the Iowa caucuses is widely believed to be the tipping point where Kerry revived his sagging campaign in New Hampshire and the February 3, 2004, primary states like Arizona, South Carolina and New Mexico. Kerry then went on to win landslide victories in Nevada and Wisconsin. Kerry thus won the Democratic nomination to run for President of the United States against incumbent George W. Bush. On July 6, 2004, he announced his selection of John Edwards as his running mate. Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, who was Kerry's 2004 campaign adviser, wrote an article in "Time" magazine claiming that after the election, Kerry had said that he wished he had never picked Edwards, and that the two have since stopped speaking to each other. In a subsequent appearance on ABC's "This Week", Kerry refused to respond to Shrum's allegation, calling it a "ridiculous waste of time."

Question: When did Kerry choose John Edwards to be his VP?
Answer: July 6, 2004
Age of Enlightenment
The debating societies discussed an extremely wide range of topics. Before the Enlightenment, most intellectual debates revolved around "confessional" – that is, Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) or Anglican issues and the main aim of these debates was to establish which bloc of faith ought to have the "monopoly of truth and a God-given title to authority". After this date, everything thus previously rooted in tradition was questioned and often replaced by new concepts in the light of philosophical reason. After the second half of the 17th century and during the 18th century, a "general process of rationalization and secularization set in" and confessional disputes were reduced to a secondary status in favor of the "escalating contest between faith and incredulity".

Question: During what time period did a "general process of rationalization and secularization set in"?
Answer: second half of the 17th century and during the 18th century
PlayStation 3
The standard PlayStation 3 version of the XrossMediaBar (pronounced Cross Media Bar, or abbreviated XMB) includes nine categories of options. These are: "Users", "Settings", "Photo", "Music", "Video", "TV/Video Services", "Game", "Network", "PlayStation Network" and "Friends" (similar to the PlayStation Portable media bar). The"TV/Video Services" category is for services like Netflix and/or if PlayTV or torne is installed; the first category in this section is "My Channels", which lets users download various streaming services, including Sony's own streaming services Crackle and PlayStation Vue. By default, the "What's New" section of "PlayStation Network" is displayed when the system starts up. PS3 includes the ability to store various master and secondary user profiles, manage and explore photos with or without a musical slide show, play music and copy audio CD tracks to an attached data storage device, play movies and video files from the hard disk drive, an optical disc (Blu-ray Disc or DVD-Video) or an optional USB mass storage or Flash card, compatibility for a USB keyboard and mouse and a web browser supporting compatible-file download function. Additionally, UPnP media will appear in the respective audio/video/photo categories if a compatible media server or DLNA server is detected on the local network. The Friends menu allows mail with emoticon and attached picture features and video chat which requires an optional PlayStation Eye or EyeToy webcam. The Network menu allows online shopping through the PlayStation Store and connectivity to PlayStation Portable via Remote Play.

Question: One of Sony's streaming services is the PlayStation Vue; what's the other one called?
Answer: Crackle
Quran
Esoteric or Sufi interpretation attempts to unveil the inner meanings of the Quran. Sufism moves beyond the apparent ("zahir") point of the verses and instead relates Quranic verses to the inner or esoteric ("batin") and metaphysical dimensions of consciousness and existence. According to Sands, esoteric interpretations are more suggestive than declarative, they are allusions ("isharat") rather than explanations ("tafsir"). They indicate possibilities as much as they demonstrate the insights of each writer.

Question: What is another term for Sufi Quranic interpretation?
Answer: Esoteric
A United Kingdom
A United Kingdom is a 2016 British biographical romantic drama film directed by Amma Asante and written by Guy Hibbert, based on the true-life romance between Seretse Khama, heir to the throne of Bechuanaland (later Botswana, of which he was President), and his wife Ruth Williams Khama. David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike portray Seretse and Ruth, respectively.
Laura Carmichael
Laura Elizabeth Carmichael (born 16 July 1986) is an English film and television actress, most widely known for her performance as Lady Edith Crawley in the ITV (UK) and PBS (US) television period drama series" Downton Abbey". Her other work includes television series "Marcella" (2016), and the feature film "A United Kingdom" (2016).

Question: Who directed the 2016 feature film that Laura Carmichael was in?
Answer: Amma Asante