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Question: Larsson–Noak Historic District is northeast of the town in what Maine county?

The Larsson–Noak Historic District encompasses a collection of buildings constructed by Swedish immigrants to northern Maine between about 1888 and 1830.  Notable among these is the c. 1888 Larsson-Ostlund House, which is the only known two-story log house built using Swedish construction techniques in the state.  Across the street is the c. 1900 Noak Blacksmith Shop, a virtually unaltered building housing original equipment.  The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.  The district is focused on a cluster of four buildings on Station Road, northeast of the center of New Sweden, Maine. <SEP> The Washington Downtown Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Washington, Iowa, United States.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.  At the time of its nomination it contained 122 resources, which included 83 contributing buildings, two contributing objects, one contributing site, 34 non-contributing buildings, one non-contributing structure, and one non-contributing object.  The historic district is located in the original town plat, and covers the city's central business district.  Washington was platted in 1839 as the county seat for Washington County.  Central Park, the town square, is the earliest contributing resource having been platted with the original town.  It is the contributing site and contains the two contributing objects: the 1931 Civil War monument and the 1939 fountain.  The Washington County Courthouse was located here from 1845 to 1869, when it was relocated to its present location a block away.  It is one of the contributing buildings.  The oldest extant buildings date to the 1850s. <SEP> New Sweden is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.  The population was 602 at the 2010 census. <SEP> The Grant Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Grant, Iowa, United States.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.  At the time of its nomination it contained 17 resources, which included 15 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and one non-contributing building.  The historic district covers the town's central business district.  Grant is a small town located in northeast Montgomery County in the southwest quadrant of the state.  It was plated in 1858, and it was known as Milford until the early 20th century even though its post office was Grant.  While not on a railroad, the town was still able to maintain a viable commercial district.
Question: What continent are both Colombia and the Emberá at?

 Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru.  It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.  It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. Colombia ( or ; ] ), officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish:    ), is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.  The territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples, with as most advanced the Muisca, Quimbaya and the Tairona. <SEP> Northern Emberá, also known as West Embera and Cholo, is the largest Embera language.  It is spoken largely in Colombia, but is also the principal language of the Darien Gap in Panama. The Emberá language is divided into two branches: Northern and Southern.  Two prominent Northern groups are Emberá Darien and Katio.  The Katio language is spoken by 10,000 - 20,000 people, who's literacy rate is at 1%.  The Darien Emberá language is spoken by 9,000-10,000 people. <SEP>  In the Emberá language, the word "ẽberá" can be used to mean person, man, or indigenous person, depending on the context in which it is used.  There are approximately 33,000 people living in Panama and 50,000 in Colombia who identify as Emberá. The Emberá    , also known in the historical literature as the "Chocó" or "Katío" Indians are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. <SEP> Baudó Emberá also known as Baudó is an Embera language of Colombia.  It is partially intelligible with both Northern Embera and Eperara, and it is not clear which branch of Embera it belongs to.
Question: Briga Heelan had a role on the romantic comedy web series created by whom?

Ground Floor was an American comedy series created by Bill Lawrence and Greg Malins, that aired from November 14, 2013, through February 10, 2015, on TBS.  The series stars Skylar Astin, Briga Heelan, Rory Scovel and John C. McGinley, and followed Brody, a successful banker who falls for Jenny, an intelligent maintenance supervisor, who works in the same building. <SEP>  Netflix originally ordered two seasons of the show.  The first 10-episode season was made available on February 19, 2016, and a 12-episode second season premiered on March 10, 2017.  Netflix renewed the series for a third season one month prior to the second-season premiere. Love is an American romantic comedy web television series created by Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, and Paul Rust, and starring Gillian Jacobs, Rust, and Claudia O'Doherty. <SEP> Briga Heelan (pronunciation ) is an American actress and comedian.  She is known for her work on the sitcoms "Cougar Town", "Ground Floor", "Undateable", "Love", and most recently, "Great News". <SEP> Sex Ed the Series is an American comedy web series created and written by Ernie Vecchione and produced and directed by Tamela D'Amico.  It was originally conceived as a television pilot in 2009 and was later made into a five-part web series on the official Sex Ed website.
Question: Do Robert Plant and Brandon Flowers have the same nationality ?

Robert Anthony Plant, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. <SEP> No Quarter is a live album by Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin.  It was released by Atlantic Records on 14 October 1994.  The long-awaited reunion between Jimmy Page and Robert Plant occurred on a 90-minute "UnLedded" MTV project, recorded in Morocco, Wales, and London.  It was not a reunion of Led Zeppelin, however, as former bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones was not present.  In fact, Jones was not even told about the reunion by his former bandmates.  He later commented that he was unhappy about Plant and Page naming the album after "No Quarter", a Led Zeppelin song which was largely his work. <SEP>  He is best known as the lead singer, keyboardist and occasional bass guitarist of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers, with whom he has recorded five studio albums. Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. <SEP> Band of Joy (sometimes known as Robert Plant and the Band of Joy) are a rock band from England.  Various line-ups of the group performed from 1965 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1983.  Robert Plant revived the band's name in 2010 for a concert tour of North America and Europe.
Question: Krystkongres is usually held by members of the students who live near what body of water?

Derhamia hoffmannorum is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Guyana, where it is found in the Mazaruni River.  It is the only species in its genus.  It is found in fresh water at pelagic depths in a tropical climate.  The average length of an unsexed male is about 6.1 cm (2.4 in).  It has an elongated body with large eyes.  It is a timid species compared to other similar species such as the various pencilfish.  They live near the surface of water and are known to hide whenever possible, usually under floating objects.  This species only eats what can be found at the surface, as well.  "D. hoffmannorum" will not seek food that sinks to the bottom. <SEP> Frisia (West Frisian: "Fryslân" ; Dutch: "Friesland" ) is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands, including modern Friesland, and smaller parts of northern Germany.  Frisia is the traditional homeland of the Frisians, a Germanic people that speaks Frisian languages, which together with English and Scots form the Anglo-Frisian language group. <SEP> The Krystkongres (Christmas-congress) is the annually held congress for members of the Frisian student societies in the Netherlands. <SEP> The Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (SMO) is a mathematics competition organised by the Singapore Mathematical Society.  It comprises three sections, Junior, Senior and Open, each of which is open to all pre-university students studying in Singapore who meet the age requirements for the particular section.  The competition is held annually, and the first round of each section is usually held in late May or early June.  The second round is usually held in late June or early July.
Question: Which is one of the oldest bridges in the United States located in the Fulton Ferry district in Brooklyn?

 Started in 1869 and completed fourteen (14) years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River.  It has a main span of 1595.5 ft and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges in the United States.  It was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" and formally so named by the city government in 1915.  Since opening, it has become an icon of New York City and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972. <SEP> Fulton Ferry is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.  The neighborhood is named for Fulton Ferry, a prominent ferry line crossing the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, and is also the name of the ferry slip on the Brooklyn side.  The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2.  The Fulton Ferry District is a national historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.  It consists of 15 contributing buildings built between 1830 and 1895.  The district is bisected overhead by the Brooklyn Bridge.  They are an assortment of commercial and commercial / residential brick buildings ranging from two to four stories in height, with one eight story building.  That building is the Eagle Warehouse, a Romanesque Revival style building built by "The Brooklyn Eagle" in 1893.  Today the area holds many popular attractions such as Pier One of Brooklyn Bridge Park and Grimaldi's Pizzeria.  Bargemusic, a concert venue, is moored there today; the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory sits on the pier.  Manhattan ferry service returned in 2006 at the next pier to the north. <SEP> Fulton Ferry District is a national historic district in Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, New York, New York.  It consists of 15 contributing buildings built between 1830 and 1895.  They are an assortment of commercial and commercial / residential brick buildings ranging from two to four stories in height, with one eight story building.  That building is the Eagle Warehouse, a Romanesque Revival style building built by "The Brooklyn Eagle" in 1893.  The district is bisected overhead by the Brooklyn Bridge and was the site of the terminus of the Fulton Ferry.  Today the area holds many popular attractions such as Pier one of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Grimaldi's Pizzeria. <SEP> Chund Bridge (locally known as Chund Pull) (Urdu: چنڈ پل‎ ) is a bridge over the Chenab river.  It is one of the oldest bridges in Pakistan.  It is located near Chund Bharwana, Jhang District.  Bridge has 750 meters length.  Its name is after the nearest town "Chund Bharwana".  It is 14 km from Jhang.
Question: Who was born first Karel Reisz or Ralph Nelson ?

Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor.  He was best known for directing the Oscar winning films "Lilies of the Field" (1963), "Father Goose" (1964), and "Charly" (1968). <SEP> Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s.  The term referred to an absence of propagandised intent or deliberate box office appeal.  Co-founded by Lindsay Anderson, though he later disdained the 'movement' tag, with Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti.  The movement began with a programme of three short films at the National Film Theatre, London, on 5 February 1956.  The programme was such a success that five more programmes appeared under the Free Cinema banner before the founders decided to end the series.  The last event was held in March 1959.  Three of the screenings consisted of work from overseas film makers. <SEP> Momma Don't Allow is a short British documentary film about a north London jazz club made in 1955.  It was co-directed by Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson and filmed by Walter Lassally.  It was produced by the British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund.  It was first shown as part of the first Free cinema programme at the National Film Theatre in February 1956. <SEP> Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a British filmmaker who was active in post–World War II Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s.
Question: When was the band known for "Kiss and Make Up" formed?

"Let's Kiss and Make Up" is a song by The Field Mice from their 1989 album "Snowball".  It is better known in the form of Saint Etienne's cover version of 1990, which retitled it "Kiss and Make Up" and was released as a single. <SEP> Gartnerlosjen is a Norwegian rock n' roll band known for their peculiar lyrics.  Among the more prominent members of the band are vocalist Kristopher Schau, guitarist and vocalist Lars Lønning, and bassist and vocalist Egil Hegerberg (aka "Bare Egil", meaning "Only Egil").  The band was formed in Oslo in 1987, and has been mostly inactive since 1996. <SEP> Black Flag is an American hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California by Greg Ginn, the band's guitarist, primary songwriter, and sole constant member.  During Black Flag's ten-year existence, the band went through sixteen distinct lineups involving seventeen different musicians.  Aside from Ginn, the longest-lasting members were singer Henry Rollins (5 years), bassist Chuck Dukowski (4½ years), and drummer Roberto "Robo" Valverde (3 years).  The 1983–1985 lineup of Ginn, Rollins, bassist Kira Roessler, and drummer Bill Stevenson recording four albums and three EPs together in a sixteen-month period.  After breaking up in 1986 and briefly reuniting in 2003, Black Flag announced another reunion in January 2013.  Two versions of Black Flag are currently touring; the Ginn-fronted band known as "Black Flag", and one featuring founding vocalist Keith Morris known simply as "Flag". <SEP>  The band consists of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. Saint Etienne are an English band from London, formed in 1990.  They became associated with the UK's indie dance scene in the 1990s, beginning with the release of their debut album "Foxbase Alpha" in 1991.  Their work has been described as uniting 1990s club culture with 1960s pop and other disparate influences.
Question: Tooheys Extra Dry and Hahn Brewery were accquired by which company in 2009

 It produces beers and ciders under the "Tooheys" and "Hahn Brewery" trademarks, and is part of the Lion beverages group which was acquired by the Japanese Kirin Company in 2009. Tooheys is a brewery in the suburb of Lidcombe, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. <SEP> Masonia (The name meaning 'Builders of music'), is a five-piece rock band hailing from Sydney, Australia.  Also known as the band Blind Verdict.  Their debut single reached #41 on the ARIA singles chart, reaching #26 in NSW.  The lead singer of the band, Altiyan Childs, auditioned for the first Australian season of The X Factor in 2010 and has since made it through to the finals and won.  The keyboard player / backing vocalist Daniel Rivers has since moved on to producing Soul/R&B/Hip-Hop music under the name 'Dans Pies'.  The bass player / backing vocalist Moe Bloomfield is currently playing in The Deer Republic who recently won the 2009 Tooheys Extra Dry UncharTED competition. <SEP> Tooheys Extra Dry, commonly referred to as a TED (Tooheys Extra Dry), is a dry style lager brewed by Lion in the Tooheys Brewery at Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia.  Lion has been owned by Japanese conglomerate Kirin Holdings Company Limited since 2009. <SEP> Irréversible is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name, as well as a solo album by Thomas Bangalter.  The album was produced by Bangalter, who is best known for being one-half of the French house duo Daft Punk.  The tracks "Outrun" and "Extra Dry" were featured on the "Midnight Club II" soundtrack.  North American pressings of the soundtrack omit the Mahler, Daho and Beethoven selections.  "Outrun" and "Ventura" were previously released on Bangalter's "Trax on da Rocks" EP while "Extra Dry" had appeared in "Trax on da Rocks Vol.  2".
Question: Zurich, Montana is located along the highway running along the mainline of what railway?

 Specifically, the term most commonly refers to northern Montana, but can also mean the entire region between Spokane, Washington and Minnesota, or even the entire Seattle to Minneapolis route of the BNSF railway. The Hi-Line is a geographical term referring to the portion of the northern United States south of the Canada–United States border along which runs the main line of the BNSF Railway (originally the mainline of the Great Northern Railway) and U.S. Highway 2. <SEP> Zurich is an unincorporated community in Blaine County, Montana, United States, located at .  Located along the Hi-Line between Harlem and Chinook, it has a post office with the ZIP code of 59547. <SEP> State Trunk Highway 312 (often called Highway 312, STH 312 or WIS 312) is a 7.9 mi long Wisconsin state highway running along the north side of Eau Claire, from the Town of Union in the west to the Town of Seymour in the east.  The entire length of Highway 312 is an expressway with a few grade crossings. <SEP> Lønavatnet is a lake in the municipality of Voss in Hordaland county, Norway.  The 2.91 km2 lake lies along the river Strandaelvi which runs from Vinje south to Vossevangen.  The lake lies about 4 km north of the village of Vossevangen, with the European route E16 highway running along the western shore.
Question: Where did the winners of the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials go on to represent Canada?

 This will be the seventh time that curling is on the Olympic program.  In each of the men's and women's competitions, ten nations will compete.  For the first time mixed doubles curling will be contested, after being added to the Olympic program in 2015. The curling competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held at the Gangneung Curling Centre. <SEP> The 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials were held from December 1 to 8 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  The event is also known and advertised as the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings.  The winners of the men's and women's events were chosen to represent Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. <SEP> The 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials will be held from December 2 to 10 at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.  The event is also known and advertised as the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings.  The winners of the men's and women's events were chosen to represent Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics. <SEP> The Capital One Canada Cup of Curling is a major men's and women's curling championship in Canada.  It is organized by the Canadian Curling Association and is one of its major events on its "Season of Champions".  The event is sometimes used as a qualifier for the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials and the Continental Cup.
Question: The Munro Ambulance Corps was started in August 1914 by Hector Munro, who was one of the directors of the Medico-Psychological Clinic in London, some of its noteworthy members were which popular British writer, who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry, and used the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair?

 Some of its noteworthy members were British writer May Sinclair, British heiress Lady Dorothie Feilding, and nurses Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm. The Munro Ambulance Corps was started in August 1914 by Hector Munro, who was one of the directors of the Medico-Psychological Clinic in London.  The mission of the Corps was to move wounded troops from the battlefield to hospitals in Flanders during World War I. <SEP> James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays.  His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in "The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy". <SEP>  She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry.  May Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence "Pilgrimage" (1915–67), in "The Egoist", April 1918. <SEP> Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator.  A member of two important literary societies, the "Tunnel über der Spree" in Berlin and "Die Krokodile" in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas.  The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories."  Wirsen, one of the Nobel judges, said that "Germany has not had a greater literary genius since Goethe."  Heyse is the fifth oldest laureate in literature, after Doris Lessing, Theodor Mommsen, Alice Munro and Jaroslav Seifert.
Question: Rick Stone was a character created by which creator of Static Shock?

The 2015 Newcastle Knights season was the 28th in the club's history.  Coached by Rick Stone, interim coached by Danny Buderus after Stone's contract was terminated, and captained by Kurt Gidley, they competed in the NRL's 2015 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season in 16th place (out of 16). <SEP> Rick Stone is a professional rugby league football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League.  He has coached the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League and the Fiji national team. <SEP> Richard "Rick" Stone is a Fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics and a supporting character of Static/Virgil Hawkins.  After the closing of Milestone Comics, Rick became part of DC's mainstream universe of characters.  On the "Static Shock" series from the DCAU he gained more popularity when he was reinvented as "Richie Foley" (voiced by Jason Marsden) and later became Static's superhero partner Gear.  Created by writers Dwayne McDuffie and Robert L. Washington III, and artist John Paul Leon, Rick first appeared in "Static" #1 (June 1993), one of the titles published by Milestone Comics, an imprint of DC Comics. <SEP> Dwayne Glenn McDuffie (February 20, 1962February 21, 2011) was an American writer of comic books and television, known for creating the animated television series "Static Shock", writing and producing the animated series "Justice League Unlimited" and "Ben 10", and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone Media.
Question: Pécs Brewery or Brewery of Pécs, is of the four big breweries in Hungary and the biggest in the Southern Transdanubia located in Pécs, the capital of Baranya County in southwestern Hungary, Beer in Hungary has been brewed for well over which number of years?

Southern Transdanubia (Hungarian: "Dél-Dunántúl" ) is a statistical (NUTS 2) region of Hungary.  It is part of the Transdanubia (NUTS 1) region.  Southern Transdanubia includes the counties of Somogy, Tolna, and Baranya.  Its capital is the city of Pécs. <SEP>  Beer has been made there for around a thousand years and the country has a significant history of commercial beer production. Beer in Hungary has been brewed for well over a thousand years, but in the modern age, most beer is mass-produced. <SEP> Pécs Brewery or Brewery of Pécs (Hungarian: Pécsi Sörfőzde ) is of the four big breweries in Hungary and the biggest in the Southern Transdanubia located in Pécs, the capital of Baranya County in southwestern Hungary. <SEP> Lake Pécs (Hungarian: Pécsi-tó) is a lake in Hungary.  The lake is located north of the village of Orfű, in Baranya county; surrounding villages are Mecsekrákos and Tekeres.  It is within the Mecsek mountain range, which separates the lake from the city of Pécs to the south.  There are 4 lakes (Pécs, Orfű, Herman Ottó, Kovácsszénája) at Orfű next to each other.
Question: Are Eugenia Maniokova and Jared Palmer both professional tennis players?

Eugenia Aleksandrovna Maniokova (Russian: Евгения Александровна Манюкова ; born 17 May 1968) is a retired professional tennis player from the Russian Federation.  She is a former World No. 18 in doubles. <SEP> Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere and Leila Meskhi were the defending champions.  Maleeva-Fragniere retired from tennis earlier that year, but only Meskhi competed that year with Eugenia Maniokova. <SEP> Jared Eiseley Palmer (born July 2, 1971) is a professional tennis player who won 28 professional doubles titles and one singles title in his career on the ATP Tour.  He also won four double titles on the challenger's circuit (two in 1992 and two in 1993).  Palmer turned professional in 1991 after winning the 1991 NCAA Division 1 singles title as a sophomore playing for Stanford University. <SEP> Jared Donaldson (born October 9, 1996) is an American professional tennis player from Glocester, Rhode Island.  Jared is a "Next Generation" star on the ATP World Tour of Tennis as he is among a handful of top under-21-years-of-age professional tennis players in the world.  He has won an ATP Challenger title in each of singles and doubles.
Question: Mick Bates is a footballer for a team formed in what year?

Mick Bates (born 19 September 1947) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League for Leeds United, Walsall, Bradford City and Doncaster Rovers.  He is best known for playing for Leeds during the . <SEP> Leeds United Football Club is a professional association football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.  The club was formed in 1919 following the disbanding of Leeds City F.C. by the Football League and took over their Elland Road stadium.  They play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. <SEP> Duncan Edwards (1 October 1936 – 21 February 1958) was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and the England national team.  He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, and one of eight players who died as a result of the Munich air disaster. <SEP> Mick Bates (born 26 June 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Question: During what date range was the Cannes Film Festival held when the French drama film "Mercenary" won the Europa Cinemas Label Award?

 Australian director George Miller was the President of the Jury for the main competition. The 69th Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 May 2016.  French actor Laurent Lafitte was the host for the opening and closing ceremonies.  On 15 March it was announced that Japanese director Naomi Kawase would serve as the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury president.  American director Woody Allen's film "Café Society" opened the festival. <SEP> The Cannes Festival ( ; French: Festival de Cannes ), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival ("Festival international du film ") and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.  Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. <SEP> A Ciambra is a 2017 Italian drama film directed by Jonas Carpignano.  It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.  At Cannes in won the Europa Cinemas Label Award.  It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. <SEP> Mercenary (French: Mercenaire ) is a 2016 French drama film directed by Sacha Wolff.  It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award.  A young man from the French oversea collectivity of Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific plays rugby in France.
Question: Which cocktail contains gin, London Fog or Fizzy apple cocktail?

 Typically, the drink is stirred and a slice of lemon can be added for aesthetic appeal. The Fizzy Apple Cocktail, is a cocktail containing apple vodka, lemonade and apple juice. <SEP> Pea soup, or a pea souper, also known as a black fog, killer fog or smog is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish, or blackish fog caused by air pollution that contains soot particulates and the poisonous gas sulphur dioxide.  This very thick smog occurs in cities and is derived from the smoke given off by the burning of soft coal for home heating and in industrial processes.  Smog of this intensity is often lethal to vulnerable people such as the elderly, the very young and those with respiratory problems.  The result of these phenomena was commonly known as a London particular or London fog, which then, in a reversal of the idiom, became the name for a thick pea and ham soup. <SEP> A London Fog is a drink made in a cocktail glass with 1+3/4 USoz of gin and 1/2 USoz of Pernod on frappé style crushed ice. <SEP> The Bramble is a cocktail created by Dick Bradsell in 1980s London, England.  Best described as a spring cocktail, the Bramble brings together dry gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup, crème de mûre, and crushed ice.  Bradsell also suggests finishing off the cocktail with some fresh red fruits (such as blackberries, cranberries) and a slice of lemon.  It closely resembles the popular Gin Fix.
Question: What U.S. county has an unincorporated community called Huntsville?

Huntsville is an unincorporated community in Reno County, Kansas, in the United States. <SEP>  As of the 2010 census, the population was 64,511.  The largest city and county seat is Hutchinson. Reno County (standard abbreviation: RN) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. <SEP> Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, often called St. Mary's, is an unincorporated community in Sugar Creek Township in northwestern Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.  The community is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area.  A large portion of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods along U.S. Route 150 is taken up by the grounds of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, which contain the motherhouse of the Sisters of Providence as well as Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.  Although Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 47876.  It had a population of 797 at the 2010 census. <SEP> Huntsville is an unincorporated community in Columbia County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Question: what does Vinci and Senet have in common?

The da capo aria (] ) is a musical form for arias that was prevalent in the Baroque era.  It is sung by a soloist with the accompaniment of instruments, often a small orchestra.  The da capo aria is very common in the musical genres of opera and oratorio.  According to Randel, a number of Baroque composers (he lists Hasse, Handel, Porpora, Leo, and Vinci) composed more than a thousand da capo arias during their careers. <SEP> PLOTEUS is an acronym of Portal on Learning Opportunities Throughout European Space, meant to connote "πλωτηρ" (ploter) which means "navigator" in ancient Greek.  It is a European Union web portal, coordinated by the European's Commission Directorate-General for education and culture, that aims to help citizens find out about education and training opportunities, throughout the countries belonging to the European Union, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and Turkey, though the latter did not participate in PLOTEUS at its launch, as it was not a member of the Leonardo da Vinci programme yet.  According to France 5, the portal offers an "easy access" to an "excellent source of information" from primary school to postgraduate education.  PLOTEUS has been prioritised as a "project of common interest" by the European Commission (Commission Decision of 23 December 2002, article 8.2. c).  The European Parliament and the European Council have confirmed in 2006 their "support for transnational web-based services such as PLOTEUS".  The portal is run by the Euroguidance network, financed by the Leonardo da Vinci programme, and is interconnected with EURES, the European Commission's portal on job mobility information.  Both PLOTEUS and EURES are considered as examples of "pan-European services".  After the launch of PLOTEUS and EURES in 2003, the Bologna process drive to favour student mobility in Europe wa further expressed in 2004 by the launch of the Europass program, which is accessible from the EURES portal, as well as PLOTEUS. <SEP>  It resembles a diceless variant of "Risk" with variable special abilities and an original decline mechanic, and is also similar in some ways to "History of the World".  The game's name, pronounced "Vinchi", means "to be conquered" in Latin.  In 2009, the game's mechanics were re-implemented with several changes and a fantasy-oriented theme as "Small World", also credited to Keyaerts, and published by Days of Wonder. Vinci is a board game designed by Philippe Keyaerts. <SEP>  The oldest hieroglyph resembling a senet game dates to around 3100 BC. Senet (or Senat) is a board game from ancient Egypt.  The full name of the game in Egyptian is thought to have been "zn.t n.t ḥˁb", meaning the "game of passing".
Question: Which protagonist in the documentary film "The Promise" was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder?

The barbecue murders, also known as the BBQ murders, refers to a 1975 double murder in Marin County, California.  Business consultant James "Jim" Olive and his wife Naomi were murdered in their home by their 16-year-old adopted daughter Marlene Olive and her 20-year-old boyfriend Charles "Chuck" Riley, who then attempted to dispose of the bodies by burning them in a barbecue pit at a nearby campground.  Riley was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and received a sentence of death, which was later changed to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.  Marlene Olive, tried as a juvenile, received a sentence of three to six years in a California Youth Authority juvenile facility, from which she was released at age 21 having served a little over four years. <SEP> The Promise (original title: "Das Versprechen") is a German documentary film directed by Marcus Vetter with Karin Steinberger.  The film tells the crime story of the double murder of Derek and Nancy Haysom on 30 March 1985 in Lynchburg, Virginia.  The film focuses on the two main protagonists Jens Söring, son of a German diplomat, and Elizabeth Haysom, the daughter of the murdered couple.  Both were sentenced to life in prison.  The film makes use of extensive original footage from press archives, as the two court cases were the first lawsuits to be broadcast nationwide on American television.  In the film, these recordings from 1985 to 1990 are combined with scenes shot during the making of the film, including interviews with Jens Söring, witnesses, the investigators involved in the case, lawyers, prosecutors and journalists.  In addition, extensive materials such as original crime scene photos and evidence, court transcripts, newspaper archives, love letters and diaries of the two main protagonists were evaluated in the film. <SEP> On May 1, 2014, two officers of the Alaska State Troopers were killed in Tanana after responding to a report of a resident brandishing a gun in an altercation over the private sale of a $150 couch.  The Fairbanks-based troopers, Sgt. Patrick Johnson and Trooper Gabriel Rich, had been featured in the National Geographic Channel program "Alaska State Troopers".  19-year-old Tanana resident Nathanial Lee Kangas was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and a single count of third-degree assault. <SEP>  Söring denies having committed the crime and has written a number of books about prison life and religion. Jens Söring (born August 1, 1966 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a German citizen who in 1990 was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in Virginia, United States.
Question: In what year was the woman who wrote Fever/Dream born?

Se Llama Cristina is a one-act play by Latino playwright Octavio Solis.  A man and woman wake up locked in an apartment with nothing but a crib with a fried chicken leg in it.  They have no idea who they are, why they're there, and what their relationship to each other is.  They must piece together their past histories to find their identities and construct a future.  This poetic play takes you through time and space and feels like a claustrophobic fever dream about the anxieties of parenthood.  The play uses elements of magic realism. <SEP> Sheila Callaghan (born 1973) is a playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT (Regional Alternative Theatre) movement of the 1990s.  She has been profiled by "American Theater Magazine", "The Brooklyn Rail", "Theatermania", and "The Village Voice".  Her work has been published in "American Theatre" magazine. <SEP> Emily Coleman (1899–1974) was an American born writer, and a lifelong compulsive diary keeper.  She also wrote a single novel, "The Shutter of Snow" (1930), published under the name Emily Holmes Coleman.  This novel, about a woman who spends time in a mental hospital after the birth of her baby, was based on Coleman's own experience of spending time in an insane asylum after contracting puerperal fever and suffering a nervous breakdown. <SEP>  It is a reinvention of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's play "Life is a Dream". Fever/Dream is a play by Sheila Callaghan which premiered in 2009 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC.
Question: Are Edith Hamilton and Katherine Anne Porter both American?

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is a short story written by the American writer Katherine Anne Porter.  It was published in 1930 as part of Porter’s short story collection, "Flowering Judas, and Other Stories". <SEP>  Her 1962 novel "Ship of Fools" was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim.  She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.  In 1990, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 2905 was placed in Brown County, Texas, to honor the life and career of Porter. <SEP> Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally-known author who was the most renowned classicist of her era.  A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich.  Hamilton began her career as an educator and head of the Bryn Mawr School, a private college preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, Maryland; however, Hamilton is best known for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. <SEP> The Old Order: Stories of the South is a collection of short stories and novels by Pulitzer Prize winning American author Katherine Anne Porter.  It draws stories from The Leaning Tower and Flowering Judas.  It also contains Porter's short novel Old Mortality.  All nine short stories and the novel take place in the American south during the late 1800s and early 1900s (Porter 1955).  The collection of stories are based largely on Porter's experience of growing up in the American south at that time.  The collection, in addition to being excellent specimens of writing, offers a social critique of southern society of the time and its negative effects.  These negative effects include slavery as a destructive influence on the African American race and general racial inequality, social norms hampering the discussion of "unpleasant" topics like death or sex, and the vast inequality of gender roles.
Question: Who was the DJ of the compilation album partially produced by an English cricketer born in Christchurch, New Zealand?

 Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Ben moved to northern England at the age of 12, where he learnt the game and began playing club cricket for local teams. Benjamin Andrew "Ben" Stokes (born 4 June 1991) is an English international cricketer who is the current vice captain of the English Test team.  He is an all-rounder who bowls right-arm fast-medium pace and bats left-handed. <SEP> Jean Betts is a London born New Zealand playwright , actor and director.  She emigrated with her parents, both founders of Unity Theatre, London, to Christchurch, New Zealand.  She obtained a degree at University of Canterbury in English Literature and New Zealand and Pacific History.  and graduated from the New Zealand Drama School (now Toi Whakaari) in 1970, the inaugural year when its founder, Nola Millar, was principal.  During her time as actor and director at Gateway, BATS, Downstage and Circa Theatres, she became a foundation member of Playmarket (New Zealand, 1975), Circa Theatre (Wellington, 1976) and Taki Rua/The Depot Theatre (Wellington, 1983).  In 1979 Jean worked at ESTA (English Speaking Theatre Amsterdam) as actor/director, and was a founding member of the expatriate (New Zealand) group 'The Heartache and Sorrow Company' (directing) which presented work in Amsterdam, Germany, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival, where the group received a 'Fringe First' and a Scotsman's Award.  In 1993 she co-founded the Women's Professional Playwrights Association (WOPPA) which premiered her play "Ophelia Thinks Harder", and established The Women's Play Press with Lorae Parry, Cathy Downes, Viv Plumb and Fiona Samuel.  ("Ophelia Thinks Harder" has subsequently been translated in German and Italian and produced over 160 times.)  In 2005 she set up a small NZ play publishing project, The Play Press (www.playpress.co.nz).  She has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize twice; and in 2015 received the Playmarket Award of $20,000 for her contribution to New Zealand Theatre. <SEP> ¡Hello Friends!  (subtitled "Jack Dangers plays with the records of Tino Corp.") is a compilation album DJ'ed by Jack Dangers including music produced by himself and Ben Stokes. <SEP> The Odeon Theatre in Christchurch was the oldest masonry theatre in New Zealand, and one of only three remaining purpose-built 19th-century theatres in the country.  The building has had different names over the years, and was put to many different uses.  It was damaged beyond repair in the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake and partially demolished in September 2012.  The theatre was recognised as a Category I heritage building by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, with registration number 3140.  One of its most notable aspects was its use as a public meeting venue of Kate Sheppard during her women's suffrage campaign.
Question: What is a city that is set aside from the territory of any county or counties with exceptions , including a city built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois ?

There are 67 counties in the state of Florida.  It became a territory of the U.S. in 1821 with two counties complementing the provincial divisions retained as a Spanish territory: Escambia to the west and St. Johns to the east, divided by the Suwannee River.  All of the other counties were apportioned from these two original counties.  Florida became the 27th U.S. state in 1845, and its last county was created in 1925 with the formation of Gilchrist County from a segment of Alachua County.  Florida's counties are subdivisions of the state government.  In 1968, counties gained the power to develop their own charters. All but two of Florida's county seats are incorporated municipalities.  The exceptions are Crawfordville, county seat of rural Wakulla County, and East Naples, located outside Naples city limits in Collier County. <SEP> Prairie Island Indian Community (Dakota: "Tinta Winta") is a Mdewakanton Sioux Indian reservation in Goodhue County, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River.  Most of the reservation now lies within the city of Red Wing, which developed after this land was set aside. <SEP>  Of the 41 independent U.S. cities, 38 are in Virginia, whose state constitution makes them a special case. In the United States, an independent city is a city that is not in the territory of any county or counties with exceptions noted below.  The three independent cities outside Virginia are Baltimore, Maryland; St. Louis, Missouri; and Carson City, Nevada.  The U.S. Census Bureau uses counties as its base unit for presentation of statistical information, and treats independent cities as county equivalents for those purposes.  Baltimore, Maryland is the most populous independent city in the United States. <SEP> St. Louis ( ) is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois.  The city had an estimated 2016 population of 311,404, and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St. Louis area (home to 2,916,447 people), making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th-largest in the United States.  Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area.