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Who created the animation showcase that Fanboy and Chum Chum was broadcast on? | Fanboy & Chum Chum Fanboy & Chum Chum is an American 3D CGI animated television series created by Eric Robles for Nickelodeon. It is based on "Fanboy", an animated short created by Robles for Nicktoons and Frederator Studios, which was broadcast August 14, 2009 to July 12, 2014 on "Random! Cartoons". The series was first broadcast October 12, 2009 on Nickelodeon as a preview, then officially premiered November 6, 2009 after "SpongeBob's Truth or Square". | Augenblick Studios Augenblick Studios is an independent animation studio founded in 1999 by Aaron Augenblick, and located in Brooklyn, New York City. The company has created a wide array of animated shorts for television, film, and the Internet. Their clients include Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Adult Swim, the TED conference, PBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon. The studio is responsible for much of the animated content on MTV2's "Wonder Showzen". |
According to Annet Artani, Britney Spears' song "Everytime" was written in response to which Justin Timberlake song about a brokenhearted man who moves on from his cheating girlfriend? | Everytime "Everytime" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears, taken from her fourth studio album, "In the Zone" (2003). It was released on May 10, 2004 by Jive Records as the third single from the album. After her relationship with American singer Justin Timberlake ended in 2002, she made friends with her backing vocalist Annet Artani. They started writing songs together at Spears's house in Los Angeles, and then traveled to Lombardy, Italy, where "Everytime" was written. Spears composed the music and she developed the lyrics with Artani. According to Artani, the song was written as a response to Timberlake's 2002 song "Cry Me a River". Spears has neither confirmed nor denied these allegations. | Unsent "Unsent" is a song by Alanis Morissette on her 1998 album, "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie". It was released as the album's third single on March 18, 1999. It was one of the few "Junkie" tracks on which she played her harmonica. Morissette directed the music video for the song. |
Which person did Michael Nicolella work with who received nominations for seven Tony Awards? | Michael Nicolella Michael Nicolella (born December 31, 1963 in Providence, RI) is an American classical guitarist and composer. Described as an iconoclast, he is known for his versatile, adventurous and eclectic approach to repertoire, including the incorporation of electric guitar into his concert programs and recordings. Nicolella's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present. His most recent recording is his own arrangement of the complete cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach; while his past four recordings focused on contemporary music, including his own compositions, alongside those of Toru Takemitsu, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze and Steve Reich. He has championed music by such emerging composers as Laurence Crane and Jacob ter Veldhuis and has premiered many works written for him by other composers, including: Joshua Kohl, (of the Degenerate Art Ensemble), David Mesler, Christopher DeLaurenti and John Fitz Rogers, who in 2001 wrote the forty-five-minute piece "Transit" for Nicolella, scored for electric guitar and computer generated sound. His own compositions include works for solo guitar, chamber music with guitar, a classical guitar concerto ("Guitar Concerto"), and an electric guitar concerto ("Ten Years Passed"). His most recent major composition for soprano, guitar (electric and classical) and orchestra, "The Flame of the Blue Star of Twilight", was premiered by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and soprano Alexandra Picard in April 2012. He has performed and collaborated with a wide range of groups and artists including: violinist Gil Shaham, rock singer Jon Anderson, best known for his work as lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes, broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Seattle Guitar Trio, jazz singer Johnaye Kendrick, classical music comedians Igudesman and Joo and is a frequent guest with the Seattle Symphony. Nicolella is a graduate of Yale University, Berklee College of Music and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He is currently based in Seattle, where he serves on the music faculty of Cornish College of the Arts. He is married to the painter Ann Gale. | Lynn Ahrens Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical "Ragtime". Together with Flaherty, they have written many musicals, including "Lucky Stiff", "Once on This Island", "My Favorite Year", "Ragtime", "Seussical", "A Man of No Importance", "Dessa Rose", "The Glorious Ones", and most recently seen on Broadway, "Rocky the Musical". |
Which of these American musicians is now a Swiss citizen, John Reis or Tina Turner? | John Reis John Reis (born 1969) and also known by the pseudonyms Speedo, Slasher, and The Swami is an American musician, singer, guitarist, record label owner, and disc jockey. He is best known as the singer and guitarist for the rock band Rocket from the Crypt, which he formed and fronted (as Speedo) for the entirety of its career from 1990 to 2005. Prior to this he was the guitarist in the post-hardcore band Pitchfork, and also played in Drive Like Jehu during the early 1990s. In 1999 he formed the Hot Snakes, and in 2000 also formed the Sultans, in which (as Slasher) he sang and originally played bass before switching to rhythm guitar. He played in both these bands until their breakups in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He also released a solo recording under the name Back Off Cupids, which was recorded in 1994 but not released until 1999. Over the years he has performed in many other musical acts including Conservative Itch, Stacatto Reads, Custom Floor, and Beehive & the Barracudas. He is the owner of Swami Records, a label he founded in 1999 (he uses the title The Swami in this capacity). He frequently works with bands in a studio capacity and releases albums by many southern California groups through his label. He also hosts the "Swami Sound System" program (previously on San Diego radio station 94.9 (KBZT), and now available on Slacker Radio). Reis remains an influential figure in the San Diego underground music community and is currently performing with a new band named The Night Marchers. | John Tesh John Frank Tesh (born July 9, 1952) is an American pianist and composer of pop music, as well as a radio host and television presenter. His ten-year-old "Intelligence for Your Life" radio show airs on nearly 300 stations, and is syndicated by Teshmedia in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. In addition, since 2014, he has hosted "Intelligence for Your Life TV" with his wife Connie Sellecca. The syndicated TV program airs on 174 stations that cover 93% of the potential U.S. television audience. |
Which movie came first Miracle of the White Stallions or Bedknobs and Broomsticks? | Miracle of the White Stallions Miracle of the White Stallions is a 1963 film released by Walt Disney starring Robert Taylor (playing Alois Podhajsky), Lilli Palmer, and Eddie Albert. It is the story of the evacuation of the Lipizzaner horses from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna during World War II. | White Lightning (1953 film) White Lightning is a 1953 film directed by Edward Bernds, starring Stanley Clements, Barbara Bestar and Steve Brodie. The film also features a young Lee Van Cleef in an early role. |
What do Pan Anzi and Charles Jarrott have in common? | Pan Anzi Pan Anzi (born 1977 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese film director. | Anup Rai Raja Anup Rai was a Bargujar Rajput nobleman in seventeenth century India, and a courtier of the Mughal emperor, Jahangir. He was also known as "Singh Dalan" ("lion crusher") for intercepting a lion that was on verge of attacking the emperor during a royal hunt. |
Which American guitarist was a graduate of a public high school in Latham, Albany County, New York, United States? | Mike Campese Mike Campese (born April 2, in Albany, New York) is an American guitarist and composer best known for being a member of the multi-platinum group Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Campese was picked over several guitarists in 2004 during the band's fourth CD, "The Lost Christmas Eve", and received a gold record for his work. In 2008 Mike released his own rock Christmas CD, "The Meaning of Christmas", which was well received. Campese is an honors graduate from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California and is a graduate of Shaker High School. | Phil Keaggy Philip Tyler "Phil" Keaggy (born March 23, 1951) is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets. He is a seven-time recipient of the GMA Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year, and was twice nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. He has frequently been listed as one of the world's top-three "finger-style", as well as "finger-picking", guitarists by "Guitar Player Magazine" readers' polls. |
Are Edward Laemmle and Pedro Costa bkth film directors? | Edward Laemmle Edward Laemmle (October 25, 1887 – April 2, 1937) was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 62 films between 1920 and 1935. | Club Sandwich (film) Club Sandwich is a 2013 Mexican comedy film written and directed by Fernando Eimbcke. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It won the Golden Shell at the 2013 San Sebastián film festival. |
What is the real name of the creator of The World Elite | The World Elite The World Elite was a villainous professional wrestling alliance in the American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The group consisted of multicultural wrestlers, representing various countries around the world. Created by Canadian wrestler Eric Young, the group had a mainly anti-American stance. | Feargus Urquhart Feargus Urquhart (born April 19, 1970) is an American video game designer and CEO of Obsidian Entertainment. |
What is the formal name of the nation of Hawai which Peter Cushman Jones was a businessman and politician in | Peter Cushman Jones Peter Cushman Jones (October 12, 1837 – April 23, 1922) was a businessman and politician during the Kingdom of Hawaii, Provisional Government of Hawaii, Republic of Hawaii and Territory of Hawaii. | Kailua, Hawaii County, Hawaii Kailua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaiʻ i County, Hawaii, United States, in the North Kona District of the Island of Hawaiʻ i. The population was 11,975 at the 2010 census, up from 9,870 at the 2000 census. It is the center of commerce and of the tourist industry on West Hawaiʻ i. Its post office is designated Kailua-Kona to differentiate it from Kailua located on the windward side of Oʻ ahu island, and it is sometimes referred to as Kona in everyday speech. The city is served by Kona International Airport, located just to the north in the adjacent Kalaoa CDP. Kailua-Kona was the closest major settlement to the epicenter of the 2006 Kiholo Bay earthquake. |
Which collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov was illustrated by an American conceptual designer and illustrator who won an Academy Award for the film "Cocoon?" | Robot Dreams Robot Dreams (1986) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie. The title story is about Susan Calvin's discovery of a robot with rather disturbing dreams. It was written specifically for this volume and inspired by the McQuarrie cover illustration. All of the other stories had previously appeared in various other Asimov collections. Four of the stories are robot stories, while five are Multivac stories. | Terryl Whitlatch Terryl Anne Whitlatch (born 1960 in Oakland, California) is an American scientific and academically trained illustrator, known for her creature designs for Lucasfilm and her illustrations in the book "The Katurran Odyssey" among others. |
Which American composer of short, light concert pieces and supported by John Williams wrote Blue Tango? | Blue Tango "Blue Tango" is an instrumental composition by Leroy Anderson, written in 1951 and published in 1952. It was later turned into a popular song with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. Numerous artists have since covered "Blue Tango". | Henry F. Williams Henry F. Williams (August 13, 1813 – c. 1903) was a musician and composer in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th century. He was one of two black musicians to play in the orchestra at the 1872 National Peace Jubilee. His arrangements received widespread popularity. Later in his life he was primarily a music teacher. Williams has been called the second best known black composer of his time after Frank Johnson, with whom he worked. |
Leonora Mary Grosvenor's father was the richest man in Britain in what decade? | Leonora Anson, Countess of Lichfield Leonora, Countess of Lichfield, LVO (born 1 February 1949) was born as Leonora Mary Grosvenor, a daughter of the 5th Duke of Westminster. | Simon Robertson Sir Simon Manwaring Robertson (born 4 March 1941), is a British banker and businessman. |
Tara Seibel (born February 4, 1973) is an American cartoonist, graphic designer and illustrator from Cleveland, her work has been published in which magazine created in 1994 by a group of artists and collectors including Robert Williams, Fausto Vitello, C.R. Stecyk III (a.k.a. Craig Stecyk), Greg Escalante, and Eric Swenson to both help define and celebrate urban alternative and underground contemporary art? | Tara Seibel Tara Seibel (born February 4, 1973) is an American cartoonist, graphic designer and illustrator from Cleveland. Her work has been published in "Chicago Newcity, Funny Times, The Austin Chronicle, Cleveland Scene, Heeb Magazine, SMITH Magazine, Mineshaft Magazine, Juxtapoz, Jewish Review of Books, Cleveland Free Times, USA Today, US Catholic, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times" and "The Paris Review". | Françoise Mouly Françoise Mouly (] ; born 1955) is a Paris-born New York-based designer, editor, and publisher. She is best known as co-founder, co-editor, and publisher of the comics and graphics magazine "Raw" (1980–1991), as the publisher of Raw Books and Toon Books, and since 1993 as the art editor of "The New Yorker". Mouly is married to cartoonist Art Spiegelman, and is the mother of writer Nadja Spiegelman. |
What animated short film animated by Pierre Perifel that was a semi-sequel to Kung Fu Panda and won an Annie Award in 2009? | Pierre Perifel Pierre Perifel is a French animator, best known for his character work at DreamWorks Animation and for his award-winning student film "Le Building". He joined DreamWorks in 2008, after working on 2D animated films in France. The following year, Perifel won an Annie Award for the short film "Secrets of the Furious Five". He received subsequent nominations for "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "Rise of the Guardians". | Christopher Panzner Christopher Panzner (born 1959) is an American artist/writer/producer living and working in France. He has worked for a number of pioneers in the television and film industry, notably as Technical Director for the inventor of interactive television shopping, the Home Shopping Network and as Operations Director, France, for the inventor of the colorization process for black-and-white films, Color Systems Technology. He has developed animation software (Pixibox), designed theme channels (Canal +) and was Managing Director of the Luxembourg-based studio, Luxanima, which shared an International Emmy in 1994 for French CGI series Insektors. He went on to set up an animation/FX studio (motion capture/motion control), Image Effects, where he supervised the creation of 2D animated series "The Tidings" for Entertainment Rights before creating his own studio in the east of France the following year, Talkie Walkie, specializing in pre-production (design, storyboard and layout) and computer production (ink-and-paint/compositing) and whose clients included a Who’s Who of international television animation producers such as SIP, RTV Family Entertainment, Alphanim and Cinar (now called Cookie Jar.) He joined Paris-based production company TEVA in 2001 and was instrumental in the financing and/or the making of five animated features there in 2002–2004: double-Oscar nominated The Triplets of Belleville, Venice Film Festival selection "The Dog, the General and the Birds", "Jester Till", "Blackmor’s Treasure" (Associate Producer) and "Charlie and Mimmo" (Co-Producer). In 2002, TEVA and Mistral Films won the grand prize at IMAGINA for an experimental short film, "The Tale of the Floating World" directed by Alain Escalle, beating such prestigious competition as "Shrek", "Amélie" and "The Lord of the Rings", and was entirely responsible for the fabrication of Storimages’ Pulcinella-winning and International Emmy-nominated special, "Harold Peeble", based on the book by famous French illustrator Sempé. In 2006, "The Triplets of Belleville", "The Dog, the General and the Pigeons" and "Blackmor’s Treasure" were part of an eight-film retrospective of contemporary French animation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "Grand Illusions: The Best of Recent French Animation." |
What was the first military aviation unit to use an unpowered precision guided munition in a war that involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries? | Kampfgeschwader 100 "Kampfgeschwader" 100 (KG 100) was a Luftwaffe medium and heavy bomber wing of World War II, and the first military aviation unit to use an unpowered precision-guided munition in combat to sink a warship on 9 September 1943 with the destruction of the , in the first successful use of the Fritz X armor-piercing, gravity PGM ordnance. | Airpower Airpower or air power comprises the application of military strategy and strategic theory to the realm of aerial warfare. Airpower began with the advent of powered flight early in the 20th century. Airpower represents a "complex operating environment that has been subjected to considerable debate". British doctrine defines airpower as "the ability to project power from the air and space to influence the behaviour of people or the course of events." |
The Northumbrian Dialect was spoken in a kingdom whose name reflects what approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory? | Northumbrian dialect Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of the sub-categories of Old English devised and employed by modern scholars. | Dumfries Dumfries ( ; possibly from Scottish Gaelic: "Dùn Phris" ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed "Queen of the South". People from Dumfries are known colloquially as "Doonhamers". |
Michael Carrington is an American comic writer and voice actor best known for his work on which animated series, he did voicework, most notably as Sideshow Raheem (Krusty's militant black sideshow partner in the 1970s) in "I Love Lisa", the fifteenth episode of the series fourth season? | Michael Carrington (voice actor) Michael Carrington is an American comic writer and voice actor best known for his work on the animated series "The Simpsons". He co-wrote the episode "Homer's Triple Bypass" with Gary Apple and has provided occasional voicework, most notably as Sideshow Raheem (Krusty's militant black sideshow partner in the 1970s) in "I Love Lisa", the black comedian who does the joke about black drivers versus white drivers in "Homer and Apu", the drill sergeant in "Simpson Tide," and a sportscaster in "Million Dollar Abie". | The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" is the final episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series "Futurama". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on August 10, 2003. The episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Bret Haaland, and it guest stars Dan Castellaneta, who reprises his role as the Robot Devil. Keeler was nominated for an Emmy Award for this episode, while the song "I Want My Hands Back" was nominated for an Annie Award. |
The fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii guitar tuning, is traditional of where? | Le Igi Le Igi is a style of Slack Key guitar tuning traditional in Samoa. | Chinlili The Chinlili, also known as the Chinlilo, is a chordophone from Ayacucho, Peru. It is a variant of the Charango tuned to a lower tone. The frets are laid out diatonically, and it has 6 courses of 8 metal strings much like a dulcimer. The doubled courses on the instrument are tuned to an octave. The traditional tuning, known as the "temple tuning" of the courses is E - B - G - D - B - G. The Chinlili was prevalent in Chimaycha songs which portrayed scenes about courtship, love or poverty using metaphors from nature.Historically, the performers were herders who would meet while herding and compose music together. Current indigenous music in cities focuses on social problems and partying. The music is still a forum for people to connect through common issues, but those issues have changed. |
What was the name of the dog who appeared in the children's book written by First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton while Bill Clinton was President of the United States | Dear Socks, Dear Buddy Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets is a 1998 children's book written by First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton. It concerns the two pets that lived in the White House during the Clinton administration, Socks the cat and Buddy the dog. | Interrupting Chicken "Interrupting Chicken’s" plot has a repetitive nature, with a humorous story line and a good underlying message. The story begins with little red chicken’s bedtime. Little red chicken’s calm, patient father is referred to as “Papa.” Papa is getting little red chicken settled for bed. Little red chicken eagerly suggests reading a bedtime story. Papa often refers to how little red chicken regularly interrupts bedtime stories before they are finished. Papa informs little red chicken that she should not interrupt the story like past experiences, little red chicken promises to “be good tonight”(4). "Interrupting chicken" includes other classic children’s books such as: "Hansel and Gretel"," Little Red Riding Hood" and "Chicken Little". Papa begins by kindly reading "Hansel and Gretel" to little red chicken. Before reaching the end of the story little red chicken interrupts the story! The images show little red chicken in the story of "Hansel and Gretel" and she is yelling, “don’t go in she’s a witch!” which results to a sudden end to the story(18). Little Red chicken appears to be absolutely delighted with her decision to step in and save the day while her father was not so impressed. Papa addresses little red chicken's behavior and she promises not to engage in such activity for the next story. Papa begins by reading "Little Red Riding Hood". Before Papa could get through the story little Red chicken jumps in once again and informs Little Red Riding Hood that she is not to talk to strangers. Papa begins to become tired and informs little red chicken that she should not be interrupting because the purpose of bedtime stories is to make her sleepy. Little red chicken defends herself by saying “he was a mean old wolf.”(18). Little red chicken convinces Papa to read another story, this time, "Chicken Little". Little red chicken once again jumps into to solve the problem. Papa is becoming exhausted and little red chicken is upset because there are no more stories to read. Little red chicken believes she cannot go to bed without a story. Papa suggests that little red chicken tell him a story. Little red chicken loves the idea and climbs into bed, yawning and tired. Little red chicken then writes a story about reading stories for bedtime until she realizes papa has fallen asleep! The story ends with little red chicken saying “good night, Papa” and the last picture shows both of them cuddled up happily in bed(40). |
When was the actress who starred in the Broadway Rose production of "Bye Bye Birdie" born? | Broadway Rose Theatre Company In 1991, seven years after meeting in a summer stock production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania, Dan Murphy and Sharon Maroney (married), along with fellow performer Matthew Ryan (a native of Tigard, OR) and his partner Joseph Morkys, decided to move from New York City to start a summer stock theatre in Tigard. The team pooled their savings of $21,000 and in November 1991, Broadway Rose Theatre Company was incorporated as a 501(c)(3). In the summer of 1992, the first season of Broadway Rose Theatre Company was performed at the Deb Fennell Auditorium at Tigard High School. The company produced five mainstage shows and a children's show in eight weeks, with an average audience of 32 people per performance. The company lost $8,700 in its first season, but the following year the fledgling company received a $3,000 grant from the Metropolitan Arts Commission (a forerunner of the Regional Arts & Culture Council), to help bring the organization out of debt. In 1993, the company produced "Oklahoma!" with no funds—putting the entire payroll on Dan's personal credit card. The situation resolved itself as audiences picked up. In 1994, the company received a $4,000 grant from the Metropolitan Arts Commission. Audiences averaged 132 people per performance that year—a 313 percent increase from 1992. In 1995, The Collins Foundation provided the company a $5,000 grant, allowing Sharon Maroney to become the company's first paid employee. Platt Electric Supply became Broadway Rose's first title sponsor in 1996, providing a new level of stable funding (they would stay on as a title sponsor through 2012 when Harvey Platt sold the company). In 1997, co-founders Matthew Ryan and Joe Morkys left Broadway Rose and returned to New York. That year Broadway Rose held its first drama camp for young performers aged 8–11. Also in 1997, Shoshana Bean, who would later become famous for portraying Elphaba on Broadway in the musical "Wicked""," starred in the Broadway Rose production of "Bye Bye Birdie." The company's offices moved from Dan and Sharon's home to a Platt Electric Supply branch office in 1999. Later that year, the Sherwood Arts Council contracted Broadway Rose to produce "Broadway Goes Hollywood", a fundraiser for SAC held at the historic Robin Hood Theater in Sherwood, OR. Broadway Rose's annual budget rose to around $175,000 with ticket sales accounting for just under half of the total, and Dan's general manager position officially became funded, making him an employee rather than a volunteer. | Dorothy Green (actress) Dorothy Green (born Dorothy Jeanette Hufford; January 12, 1920 — May 8, 2008) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Her career spanned more than four decades, with her work principally being in supporting roles on many popular television series from the early 1950s into the 1980s. |
When was The Pink Panther co star Roger Rees inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame? | The Pink Panther (2006 film) The Pink Panther is a 2006 American comedy film and a reboot of "The Pink Panther" franchise, marking the tenth installment in the series. In this film, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is assigned to solve the murder of a famous football coach and the theft of the famous Pink Panther diamond. The film stars Steve Martin as Clouseau and also co-stars Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Roger Rees, Kristin Chenoweth and Beyoncé. | Tonya Pinkins Tonya Pinkins (born May 30, 1962) is an American television, film and theater actress and author known for her portrayal of Livia Frye on the soap opera "All My Children" and for her roles on Broadway. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, and has won the Obie, 2 Lortel Awards, the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, AUDLECO, Garland, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent and NAACP Theater Awards. She has been nominated for the Olivier, Helen Hayes, Noel, Joseph Jefferson, NAACP Image, Soap Opera Digest and Ovation awards. She won the Tony for "Jelly's Last Jam". |
What did Philip Bertie's father style from 1642 to 1666 | Philip Bertie Philip Bertie (c.1665 – 15 April 1728) was an English courtier and politician, the third son of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey. | Dorcas Martin Dorcas Martin (1537–1599) née Eccleston, Ecclestone or Eglestone was an English bookseller and translator. She married the goldsmith Richard Martin, later Lord Mayor of London, sometime before 1562, and they had five sons and one daughter. In 1573 she was the licensed bookseller for Thomas Cartwright's "A replye to An answere made of M. doctor Whitgifte", a response to John Whitgift's denunciation of Presbyterianism. She translated a catechism for the use of mother and child that was included in Thomas Bentley's "The Monument of Matrones" (published in 1582), the first published anthology of English women's writing. Dorcas and her husband were active in radical religious causes including the Admonition Controversy, part of an effort to encourage the queen to further reform Protestantism in England. Her epitaph reads, "Here lyeth Interred the body of Dame DORCAS Martin The late Wife of S Richard Martin, Knight twise Lord Mayor of the Cittie of London The Davghter of Iohn Ecclestone of ye Covntie of Lancastar gent who had Issve by the said S Rich Martin V sones, & one davght: and deceased Ovt of this mortall life ye first day of Septemb : 1599." |
Bedroom at Arles is a painting based on which Van Gogh series of three works? | Bedroom at Arles Bedroom at Arles is a 1992 oil and Magna on canvas painting by Roy Lichtenstein based on the "Bedroom in Arles" series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. It is the only quotation of another painting that Lichtenstein did of an interior. It is located on the Fitzhugh Farm in Maryland in the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection. | Farmhouse in Provence Farmhouse in Provence also known as Entrance Gate to a Farm with Haystacks was made in 1888 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles in Provence at the height of his career. Partially due to having been inspired by painter Adolphe Monticelli, Van Gogh sought the Provence region of France to further expand his painting skill and experience. Van Gogh used several pairs of complementary colors in the "Farmhouse in Provence", the color contrast bringing an intensity to his work. The painting is owned by the National Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C.. |
Who magazine is based in Milan, Italy Donna Moderna or Parents? | Parents (magazine) Parents, published by Meredith Corporation, is an American mass circulation monthly magazine that features scientific information on child development geared to help parents in raising their children. | Mama (magazine) Mama is a monthly women's magazine published in Stockholm, Sweden. Its readers are mostly mothers. |
Who produced the 2003 animated film which Thomson Andrews played for | Thomson Andrews Thomson Andrews (born 25 September 1987 in Mumbai, India) is a singer, songwriter, performer, recording artist, actor and one of the newer contemporary Indian playback singers. He has been certified by Trinity College of Music, London as a Performing Vocalist and has trained briefly in Hindustani classical singing from Pandit Krishna Bhat. Apart from live performances, he also sings on and arranges voicings for film playback songs & background scores. Thomson has sung film songs and ad jingles in several Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu, Marathi, Bengali and has several International ad jingles to his credit for products in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, West Indies and more. He also sings in foreign languages like Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and more. He is known for his associations with music projects such as MTV Coke Studio (India) Season 2, MTV Unplugged (India) Seasons 1 and 2 and his recent indie debut R&B single People Ain't Things from his upcoming R&B album being produced by Candy D'souza, mixed by Chester Misquitta and mastered by Grammy Award winning mastering engineer Reuben Cohen from Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood. He is one of the few Indian indie artists whose music has been featured on national television networks like MTV Indies, VH1 India and 9XO and on the radio station Radio One (India). Thomson lends his voice for Walt Disney's animated film "Hindi Dubbs" and has sung for Disney's cartoon series "The Jungle Book 2", "Winnie The Pooh", "Cars", "Little Mermaid" and more. He is also known as a fashionably trendsetting musician for his quirky style, funky hair-do's and glasses. Thomson performed for "Vogue India"' s Women Empowerment initiative "#VogueEmpower" last year 2014. Besides his solo accolades, projects, Motown, R&B, funk music "tribute concerts" and collaborations, he is part of a popular Indian A cappella ensemble called Raaga Trippin' with whom he creates unique renditions of cover songs as well as originals and does live shows with. | The Legend of the Sky Kingdom The Legend of the Sky Kingdom is a 2003 animated feature film by Sunrise Productions. Produced in Zimbabwe, the film was the first full length animated feature film to come out of Africa. It was based on a children's book of the same name by Phil Cunningham, who was also the film's producer. It premiered at the Durban International Film Festival in October 2003. |
Van Gogh is a 1991 French film written and directed by Maurice Pialat, the film follows the last 67 days of Van Gogh's life and explores his relationships with his brother Theo, and his physician, most famous as the subject of which of Van Gogh's paintings, it's one of the most revered paintings by the Dutch artist, it depicts which person, who took care of Van Gogh during the final months of his life? | Van Gogh (1991 film) Van Gogh is a 1991 French film written and directed by Maurice Pialat. It stars Jacques Dutronc in the role of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, a role for which he won the 1992 César Award for Best Actor. Set in 1890, the film follows the last 67 days of Van Gogh's life and explores his relationships with his brother Theo, his physician Paul Gachet (most famous as the subject of Van Gogh's painting "Portrait of Dr. Gachet"), and the women in his life, including Gachet's daughter, Marguerite. | Constant Permeke Constant Permeke (] ; 31 July 1886 – 4 January 1952) was a Belgian painter and sculptor who is considered the leading figure of Flemish expressionism. |
What kind of award was the author of Actors Anonymous and star in 127 Hours nominated for? | Actors Anonymous Actors Anonymous is a novel by American author and Academy Award nominated actor James Franco. Published in 2013 by Little A/New Harvest, the novel is a series of connected short stories about actors in Los Angeles. The chapters follow the 12 Steps and the 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. | Amy Madigan Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress, producer, and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1985 film "Twice in a Lifetime". Her other film credits include "Love Child" (1982), "Places in the Heart" (1984), "Field of Dreams" (1989), "Uncle Buck" (1989), "The Dark Half" (1993), "Pollock" (2000), and "Gone Baby Gone" (2007). Madigan won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Sarah Weddington in the 1989 television film "Roe vs. Wade". |
Who has the highest number of skill in film production in Edgar G. Ulmer or Emile Ardolino: | Edgar G. Ulmer Edgar Georg Ulmer () (September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was a Jewish-Moravian, Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions. His stylish and eccentric works came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics over the years following his retirement. Ulmer's most cherished productions are the bizarre Universal Horror film "The Black Cat" (1934) and the seminal film noir "Detour" (1945). Most of his other films remain rather obscure. | Luciano Emmer Luciano Emmer (19 January 1918 – 16 September 2009) was an Italian film director. He was born in Milan. He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for "". He has directed more documentaries than fiction pictures, most notably "Domenica d'agosto" and the romance-comedy-drama "Three Girls from Rome". |
What is the name of this Irish film and television actor from the film "A Hard Day's Night", who also acted in "Never Say Die"? | Never Say Die (1970 TV series) Never Say Die is a British television series, which aired in 1970. Cast included Reginald Marsh, Patrick Newell, Noel Purcell, Teddy Green, Larry Noble, Wilfrid Brambell, Ken Parry, Mary Healey and Hugh Walters. It was a comedy produced by Yorkshire Television. Of the six episodes produced, 2 are missing from the archives. | Ronnie Drew Joseph Ronald "Ronnie" Drew (Irish": Ránall Ó Draoi" ] ) (16 September 1934 – 16 August 2008) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who achieved international fame during a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners. |
When was the governor who appointed Lana Gordon first elected governor? | Lana Gordon (Kansas politician) Lana Gordon (born August 20, 1950) is an American politician who has served as the Kansas Secretary of Labor under the administration of Governor Sam Brownback since 2012. A member of the Republican Party, Gordon served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 52nd district from 2001 to 2012. | Brad Avakian Bradley Paul "Brad" Avakian (Armenian: Բրատ Ավագյան born February 4, 1961) is the Commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries. He was appointed by Governor Ted Kulongoski on April 8, 2008 and subsequently elected statewide on November 4, 2008. He was re-elected in 2012 and 2014. While the Commissioner of Labor and Industries has been a nonpartisan position since 1995, Avakian is known to be a Democrat; he served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly as a member of that party, and ran in a Democratic primary election for the United States House of Representatives. |
where did the modernist movement, which Bernard Lorjou was its franch painter originated | Bernard Lorjou Bernard Lorjou (September 9, 1908 – January 26, 1986) was a French painter of Expressionism and a founding member of the anti-abstract art Group "L'homme Témoin". | Dada Dada ( ) or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with the radical left. |
Who, Peter Duffell or Graham Cantwell, is an Irish film and television director, best known for directing the feature film "Anton"? | Peter Duffell Peter Duffell (born 1937) is a British film and television director and screenwriter, born in Canterbury, England. | Ranald Graham Ranald Ian Mackenzie Graham (3 January 1941 – 29 August 2010) was a Scottish writer, director and producer, best known for his writing work on the British television series "The Sweeney", "The Professionals" and "Dempsey and Makepeace". |
During what years were the group of paintings which included "Almond Blossom" painted by Vincent van Gogh and made to celebrate the key player in the growth of his fame? | Almond Blossoms Almond Blossoms is from a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees. The works reflect the influence of Impressionism, Divisionism, and Japanese woodcuts. "Almond Blossom" was made to celebrate the birth of his nephew and namesake, son of his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo. | Les XX Les XX was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur Octave Maus. For ten years ""Les Vingt"" (] ), as they called themselves, held an annual exhibition of their art; each year twenty international artists were also invited to participate in the exhibition. Artists invited over the years included Camille Pissarro (1887, 1889, 1891), Claude Monet (1886, 1889), Georges Seurat (1887, 1889, 1891, 1892), Paul Gauguin (1889, 1891), Paul Cézanne (1890), and Vincent van Gogh (1890, 1891). |
Don Hertzfeldt created a touring festival of animated short films with which friend, who was the creator of the television series "Beavis and Butt-Head"? | The Animation Show The Animation Show is a touring festival of animated short films that was first held in fall 2003. It was created by award-winning animators Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt. | Christopher Panzner Christopher Panzner (born 1959) is an American artist/writer/producer living and working in France. He has worked for a number of pioneers in the television and film industry, notably as Technical Director for the inventor of interactive television shopping, the Home Shopping Network and as Operations Director, France, for the inventor of the colorization process for black-and-white films, Color Systems Technology. He has developed animation software (Pixibox), designed theme channels (Canal +) and was Managing Director of the Luxembourg-based studio, Luxanima, which shared an International Emmy in 1994 for French CGI series Insektors. He went on to set up an animation/FX studio (motion capture/motion control), Image Effects, where he supervised the creation of 2D animated series "The Tidings" for Entertainment Rights before creating his own studio in the east of France the following year, Talkie Walkie, specializing in pre-production (design, storyboard and layout) and computer production (ink-and-paint/compositing) and whose clients included a Who’s Who of international television animation producers such as SIP, RTV Family Entertainment, Alphanim and Cinar (now called Cookie Jar.) He joined Paris-based production company TEVA in 2001 and was instrumental in the financing and/or the making of five animated features there in 2002–2004: double-Oscar nominated The Triplets of Belleville, Venice Film Festival selection "The Dog, the General and the Birds", "Jester Till", "Blackmor’s Treasure" (Associate Producer) and "Charlie and Mimmo" (Co-Producer). In 2002, TEVA and Mistral Films won the grand prize at IMAGINA for an experimental short film, "The Tale of the Floating World" directed by Alain Escalle, beating such prestigious competition as "Shrek", "Amélie" and "The Lord of the Rings", and was entirely responsible for the fabrication of Storimages’ Pulcinella-winning and International Emmy-nominated special, "Harold Peeble", based on the book by famous French illustrator Sempé. In 2006, "The Triplets of Belleville", "The Dog, the General and the Pigeons" and "Blackmor’s Treasure" were part of an eight-film retrospective of contemporary French animation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "Grand Illusions: The Best of Recent French Animation." |
Which French term coined in 1968 by Jacques Pictet could the controversial Midtown Walmart be referred to as? | Midtown Walmart Midtown Walmart is a controversial proposal by Walmart to build a 203000 sqft supercenter location on a 4.6 acre site in the planned sub-district of Midtown in the city of Miami, Florida, USA. The initial proposal did not meet local regulations and was rejected in February 2013, but was redesigned by Gensler and approved by the city commission in August 2013. It has faced public and political opposition from area residents, business owners, and community activists even as it has been adapted to meet strict zoning regulations that resulted in the design differing greatly from the typical layout, such as utilizing second story roof parking versus a surface lot and street liner retail instead of a blank wall perimeter. The original 2012 plan included 10500 sqft of retail and about 550 parking spaces on two levels above the 184000 sqft store. This more urban footprint is similar to what Walmart did to build a location in Santurce, (downtown) San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as "Plaza 18", as well as Washington, D.C. where the city's first Walmart is a true mixed-use development, with third party retail as well as 300 apartments above the store. Purchased in January 2014 for US$8.2 million, the currently vacant site sits at the southern tip of Midtown between North Miami Avenue and Midtown Boulevard from Northeast 29th and 31st Streets, between the burgeoning neighborhoods of Wynwood and Edgewater. It would be the first traditional Walmart location within the actual City of Miami limits, although there are several locations just outside city limits in Doral, Hialeah, Gladeview, North Miami Beach, and Westchester, as well as a "Neighborhood Market" in the western fringes of the city. In January 2016, Fort Lauderdale opened its first Walmart. After more than a year of litigation, Walmart won a court battle in August 2015. Specifically the litigation targeted the proposed zoning variance for two extra loading berths and traffic congestion caused by the development. Ridership at the Northside Metrorail station increased significantly after the adjacent Gladeview location opened. Other criticism is due to the fabric of the neighborhood amid an urban revival that included small, locally owned businesses and warehouse renovation versus new construction. However, the Midtown development already contains a Target and a Ross. | Toulouse 1 University Capitole Toulouse 1 University Capitole ("Université Toulouse 1 Capitole", also called UT1) is a French university established in 1968. It is located in the heart of the city of Toulouse, in southwestern France. |
Let There Be Love is Joni James debut album, recorded in which year, "I Need You Now," which was to have followed the hit "My Love, My Love" but was canceled when Eddie Fisher came out with a version recorded several weeks after Joni's? | Let There Be Love (1953 Joni James album) Let There Be Love is Joni James debut album, recorded in 1953 and released by MGM Records at the end of the year. It was released in a four-disc 10-inch 78-rpm record box, in both a two-disc 7-inch 45-rpm extended-play foldout album and a four-disc 45-rpm regular-play box and on a 10-inch 33⅓-rpm album. The serial number, 222, coincidentally included James's lucky number, "22," which appeared in many of her record serial numbers all over the world. The album is the first to present its songs as a book in music, opening with "Let There Be Love" and closing with "I'll Be Seeing You", with the songs telling a story start to finish. The memorable cover was done at M-G-M Pictures Studios in Culver City by artist Russ Gale. From the album a single of "Let There Be Love" and "You're Nearer" was shipped to radio stations. Then, by public demand, a single of "You're My Everything" and "You're Nearer" was released. This album offered Joni's second recording of "Let There Be Love," which had been released in an earlier version in 1952 as her first single on Sharp Records in Chicago, then going to M-G-M Records for further distribution. Both recordings were arranged and conducted by Lew Douglas. "Let There Be Love" went to the top of the album charts and was the sixth-best-selling album of 1953. In 1956 the album was reissued as a 12-inch L.P. and in three single EPs; there was no EP set including the entire album. For this release, four Joni James singles were added, but one of them had never been released. That was "I Need You Now," which was to have followed the hit "My Love, My Love" but was canceled when Eddie Fisher came out with a version recorded several weeks after Joni's. M-G-M had expected Joni's original version to go straight to #1. For the new album the first four songs and second four songs were switched to get "You're My Everything" in the outside groove of the L.P. to facilitate disc jockey play. So, for 50 years, the story the album tells has been garbled. In 1961 the album got new cover art, a new serial number (E3931), and an electronically simulated stereo release. Released again on compact disk with yet more bonus tracks, the album is in its fifth decade as a best seller. Joni James hopes for yet another release which will restore the original song order. Significantly, for her last M-G-M album, "Bossa Nova Style", Joni included new recordings of several songs from "Let There Be Love", including a new single of "You're Nearer." That album was arranged by Lew Douglas's protégé Chuck Sagle. This information comes from Wayne Brasler, longtime President of the Joni James International Fan Club and the writer of the album notes for all Joni James' CD releases. | Jon McLaughlin Jonathan McLaughlin (born September 27, 1982) is an American pop rock singer-songwriter, producer and pianist from Anderson, Indiana. His debut album "Indiana" was released on May 1, 2007, preceded by his first EP "Industry", also known as "Jon McL", in February 2007. His most successful song is the 2008 single "Beating My Heart", from his second album "OK Now". |
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day (or "Draw Mohammed Day") was a 2010 event in support of artists threatened with violence for drawing representations of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, it stemmed from a protest against censorship of the American television show "South Park" which specific episode, in response to death threats that had been made against some of those responsible for two segments broadcast, in which episode, a superhero-like group of religious figures team up to save South Park from the celebrities and their monster Mecha-Streisand, while Eric Cartman learns the true identity of his father? | Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Everybody Draw Mohammed Day (or "Draw Mohammed Day") was a 2010 event in support of artists threatened with violence for drawing representations of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It stemmed from a protest against censorship of the American television show "South Park" episode "201", led by the show's distributor Comedy Central, in response to death threats that had been made against some of those responsible for two segments broadcast in April 2010. A drawing representing Mohammed was posted on the Internet on April 20, 2010 with a message suggesting that "everybody" create a drawing depicting Mohammad on May 20 in support of free speech. | Davey and Goliath Davey and Goliath is an American clay-animated children's television series, whose central characters were created by Art Clokey, Ruth Clokey, and Dick Sutcliffe, and which was produced first by the United Lutheran Church in America and later by the Lutheran Church in America. The show was aimed at a youth audience, and generally dealt with issues such as respect for authority, sharing and prejudice. Eventually these themes included serious issues such as racism, death, religious intolerance and vandalism. Each 15-minute episode features the adventures of Davey Hansen and his "talking" dog Goliath (although only Davey and the viewer can hear him speak) as they learn the love of God through everyday occurrences. Many of the episodes also feature Davey's parents John and Elaine, his sister Sally, as well as Davey's friends: Jimmy, Teddy, and Nathaniel in earlier episodes, Jonathan, Jimmy, Nicky, and Cisco in later ones. |
What do Reptiles and Chic have in common? | Reptiles (magazine) Based in Irvine, California, "Reptiles" magazine is a North American magazine dedicated to the reptile and amphibian pet hobby, specializing in the keeping and breeding of these animals. | Clevosaurus Clevosaurus (CLEE-vo-SORE-us) (Gloucester lizard) is an extinct genus of sphenodontian reptile from the Triassic and the Jurassic periods of Nova Scotia, Great Britain, ("C. bairdi") and Yunnan ("C. mcgilli"). "Clevosaurus" was extremely similar to the modern tuatara in almost every way; the two genera differ in only certain features of the teeth and skull anatomies, as well as size. "Clevosaurus" was smaller than the modern tuatara. "Clevosaurus" possibly ate plants as well as insects, as suggested by the form of the teeth. Fossils of "Clevosaurus", as well as other sphenodontians, early mammals and dinosaurs have been found in ancient cave systems of Great Britain. "Clevosaurus" is now believed to have had Pangaean distribution. |
What is the name of the the entertainment complex in the Kenyan capital that had an incident that resulted in the suspension of a Deputy Chief justice? | Baraza-Kerubo Village Market Incident The Baraza-Kerubo Village Market Incident refers to an incident between the then Kenyan Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Makokha Baraza and Rebecca Kerubo who worked as a guard at the Village Market shopping mall in Nairobi. The incident led to the suspension and subsequent resignation of the Deputy Chief justice after less than one year in office. | Nairobi Dam The Nairobi Dam is an embankment dam on the Nairobi River in Nairobi, Kenya. |
which North Germanic tribe did Horik I reigned as sole King of | Horik I Horik I (died 854) reigned as sole King of the Danes from 827 to his violent death in 854. His reign was marked by Danish raids on the Franco-German empire of Louis the Pious, son and successor of Charlemagne. | Chlothar II Chlothar II (or "Chlotar", "Clothar", "Clotaire", "Chlotochar", or "Hlothar"; 584–629), called the Great or the Young, was King of Neustria and King of the Franks, and the son of Chilperic I and his third wife, Fredegund. He started his reign as an infant under the regency of his mother, who was in an uneasy alliance with Clothar's uncle Guntram, King of Burgundy (d. 592). Clothar assumed full power over Neustria upon her death in 597; though rich this was one of the smallest portions of Francia. He continued his mother's feud with Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia with equal viciousness and bloodshed, finally achieving her execution in an especially brutal manner in 613, after winning the battle that enabled Chlothar to unite Francia under his rule. Like his father, he built up his territories by moving in after the deaths of other kings. |
What American composer who won the National Medal of Arts in 2007, also taught American composer Gregg Wager? | Gregg Wager Gregg Wager (born September 16, 1958 in Adrian, Michigan) is an American composer, pianist, and music critic. He studied composition at the University of Southern California and the California Institute of the Arts. His teachers included Morton Subotnick and Morten Lauridsen. His piano teachers included Yuriy Oliynyk, Doris Stevenson, and Chester Swiatkowski. In 1996, he earned a Ph.D. in musicology at the Free University Berlin. | Bert Rodriguez Bert Rodriguez (born 1975 in Miami, Florida) is an American visual artist and composer based in Los Angeles, California. He is most notable for his performance art but also works with a wide range of other media and genres including, installation, photography, sculpture, film, video and sound. Rodriguez uses various methods to translate his ideas which explore the relationship existing between art and audience. A winner of a Frieze Foundation Commission, his work has been displayed in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, in Berlin at Sassa Trülzsch and in Naples at Annarumma 404, among others. Rodriguez has a BFA in Painting from New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida, and also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. |
What did the area which History of Leeds was anciently a forested area of the Celtic kingdom of later became | History of Leeds Loidis, from which Leeds derives its name, was anciently a forested area of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet. The settlement certainly existed at the time of the Norman conquest of England and in 1086 was a thriving manor under the overlordship of Ilbert de Lacy. It gained its first charter from Maurice de Gant in 1207 yet grew but slowly throughout the medieval and Tudor periods. The town had become part of the Duchy of Lancaster and reverted to the crown in the medieval period, so was a Royalist stronghold at the start of the English Civil War. | Music of Northumbria Here Northumbria is taken to mean Northumberland, the northernmost county of England, and County Durham. This area, together with Tweeddale, was the ancient British tribal kingdom of Bernicia (Bryneich) and is notable for the stable ancestry of its present indigenous population, which has been identified by DNA analysis to be an offshoot of the group Scotland, Cumbria and the North of Ireland, but not so closely related to the other peoples of the UK. The area was the core of the outstanding artistic culture that developed during the Northumbrian Golden Age of the 7th and 8th centuries; it would be unwise to suggest that the area did not have a flourishing musical culture at that time, or that it was not of similar sophistication - Bede makes reference to the playing of the harp. The traditional music of this area may be a tangible legacy of the Bernicians - given that little is known of the antiquity of Northumbrian music; though traditional Northumbrian instruments would have had their limitations. However, much surviving early modern Northumbrian music is similar in form to the music of the Scottish Lowlands, so Northumberland's position on the cultural frontier between England and Scotland has played a significant role. The modern era has seen Northumbrian traditional music artificially pigeon holed into national divisions, into which Northumbrian music simply will not fit. Likewise, the crude assumption that the font of all music of substance was in the west and north of the British isles has undermined considered appreciation of the local repertoire.The region possesses a distinctive style of folk music with a strong and continuing tradition. The region is particularly noted for its tradition of border ballads, the Northumbrian smallpipe (a form of bagpipe unique to north-east England) and also a strong fiddle tradition in the region that was already well established in the 1690s. Northumbrian music is characterised by considerable influence from other regions (and vice versa), particularly southern Scotland and other parts of the north of England. Irish tunes are also much played in the region, as they are elsewhere. There has been a continuous tradition of traditional and distinctive Northumbrian styles since the 18th century – there have also been 'revivals' in the late nineteenth century and again in the mid-twentieth. More recently, Northumbrian folk music, and particularly the use of the Northumbrian pipes, has become one of the liveliest and most widely known forms of folk music in Britain. |
The Hume Weir is near a camp used during what war? | Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre The Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre was a camp set up for receiving and training migrants to Australia during the post World War II immigration boom. The camp was set on 130 ha near the small town of Bonegilla in north east Victoria, between the Hume Dam and the city of Wodonga. The site was a former World War II Australian Army base, and is adjacent to the current Latchford Barracks. The camp opened in 1947 and operated until 1971, over which period it received over 300,000 migrants. It is estimated that over 1.5 million Australians are descended from migrants who spent time at Bonegilla. | Cannington Camp Cannington Camp is a Bronze Age and Iron Age hill fort near Cannington, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. |
Are Howard Zieff and Peter Jackson both directors? | Howard Zieff Howard B. Zieff (21 October 1927 – 22 February 2009), (pronounced Zeef ) was an American director, television commercial director, and advertising photographer. | Peter Butt Peter Butt (born 1954) is an Australian, film producer, director, writer. He produces investigative documentaries for television about 20th century global and Australian history. Most of his films have been in conjunction with Film Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and SBS. |
Proud To Commit Commercial Suicide is a live album by industrial metal band Nailbomb and captures the band's only live appearance at the 1995 Dynamo Open Air Festival, the album cover is a picture of the aftermath of which infamous remote settlement established by the Peoples Temple, an American socialist organization under the leadership of Jim Jones, in northwestern Guyana? | Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide Proud To Commit Commercial Suicide is a live album by industrial metal band Nailbomb and captures the band's only live appearance at the 1995 Dynamo Open Air Festival. The album cover is a picture of the aftermath of the infamous Jonestown suicides. The album's title is in reference to the fact that the band promised that they would only ever release one album. | R.A.M.B.O. R.A.M.B.O. (often referred to simply as Rambo) were an American punk rock band based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band identified with the straight edge, anarchist, vegan, crust punk, cyclist and thrashcore movements. Known for hectic live performances, the band toured extensively in the United States, Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia, including several sections of the latter continent previously unvisited by touring Western rock bands. |
Which band, The Commuters or Malfunkshun, is often recognized as one of the "Founding Fathers of the grunge scene" | The Commuters The Commuters are an American alternative rock band from Manhattan, New York. The group was formed in 2010 by singer, songwriter and musician Zeeshan Zaidi. The band released their first full length album "Rescue" on April 17, 2012 on the Communal Records label. | Grimms GRIMMS was an English pop rock, comedy and poetry group, originally formed as a merger of The Scaffold, the Bonzo Dog Band, and the Liverpool Scene for two concerts in 1971 at the suggestion of John Gorman. |
Peter "Finn" Wittrock, Jr. made his film debut in a Disney Channel Original Movie that drew how many viewers for its premiere? | Finn Wittrock Peter "Finn" Wittrock, Jr. (born October 28, 1984) is an American actor and screenwriter. He began his career in guest roles on several television shows. He made his film debut in 2004, in "Halloweentown High" before returning to films in the 2010 film "Twelve". After studying theater at The Juilliard School, he was a regular in the soap opera, "All My Children," from 2009 to 2011, while performing in several theatrical productions. In 2011, he performed in playwright Tony Kushner's Off-Broadway play "The Illusion" and made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Happy Loman in the revival of Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman", directed by Mike Nichols. | Britain Simons Britain Simons is an American actor known for his appearance on Disney's "" and the Lifetime original film "Online Abduction" (aka "Cyber Case") distributed by MarVista Entertainment. He began doing commercials in 2014 with his first appearance in a spot for Pappa Rollo's Pizza produced by Time Warner Cable while still attending university. He has continued his professional career in Hollywood, CA by starring in independent films such as "Surgey", television appearances on Disney Channel, Lifetime Television and Investigation Discovery, and commercials for Honda and Walmart. Simons made a transition from regional theater to film in 2014. Simons earned his a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies from Baylor University (2014) as a Daniels Fund Scholar. In the spring of 2013, he studied with the National Theater Institute (NTI) at the The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. He also appeared in the music video "90s by Nature" by Showtek with over 4.5 million views and the music video for Calum Scott's hit single "Dancing on My Own" with over 41 million views! |
Both Tar Creek made in 2009 and The Story of Stuff a short animation about the lifecycle of material goods are what category of film? | Tar Creek (film) Tar Creek is a 2009 feature-length environmental documentary about the Tar Creek Superfund Site, which at one time was considered the worst environmental disaster in the United States. It was directed Matt Myers, who also wrote the film's script and served as its narrator. | Sticky Fingers (2009 film) Sticky Fingers (French: "Les Doigts croches" ) is a 2009 Canadian film written and directed by Ken Scott. |
What show with music by Alan Menken and the role of Morris Delancey was made by Disney? | Mike Faist Michael "Mike" Faist (born January 5, 1992) is an American actor best known for originating the role of Connor Murphy in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen, a performance for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Faist also originated the role of Morris Delancey in Disney's Newsies. | Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is an American computer-animated interactive children's television series which aired from May 5, 2006, to November 6, 2016. The series, Disney Television Animation's first computer animated series, is aimed at preschoolers. Bobs Gannaway, the Disney veteran who created it, is also responsible for other preschool shows, such as "Jake and the Never Land Pirates" and for DisneyToon Studios films including "Secret of the Wings," "The Pirate Fairy", and "". The final episode aired on November 6, 2016. |
What type of human communication does Papeeha and Hindi have in common? | Papeeha Papeeha (Hindi: पपीहा ; English: A Cuckoo ) is a 1993 Hindi film depicting a genteel love story involving a young anthropologist and a forest officer in the backdrop of a theme of tribals out to save a forestland. Directed by Sai Paranjpye, the film stars Milind Gunaji, Winnie Paranjpe and Raghubir Yadav in the lead roles. | Hindi-Urdu vocabulary Hindustani vocabulary, also known as Hindi-Urdu vocabulary, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit, which it gained through Prakrit. As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. However, in formal speech, Hindi tends to draw on Sanskrit, while Urdu turns to Persian and sometimes Arabic. This difference lies in the history of Hindustani, in which the Khariboli dialect started to gain more Persian words in urban areas (such as Lucknow and Hyderabad), under the Delhi Sultanate; this dialect came to be termed Urdu. The original Hindi dialects continued to develop alongside Urdu and according to Professor Afroz Taj, "the distinction between Hindi and Urdu was chiefly a question of style. A poet could draw upon Urdu's lexical richness to create an aura of elegant sophistication, or could use the simple rustic vocabulary of dialect Hindi to evoke the folk life of the village. Somewhere in the middle lay the day to day language spoken by the great majority of people. This day to day language was often referred to by the all-encompassing term "Hindustani"." In Colonial India, Hindi-Urdu acquired vocabulary introduced by Christian missionaries from the Germanic and Romanic languages, e.g. "pādrī" (Devanagari: पादरी, Nastaleeq: پادری) from "padre", meaning pastor. When describing the state of Hindi-Urdu under the British Raj, Professor Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa stated that "Truly speaking, Hindi and Urdu, spoken by a great majority of people in north India, were the same language written in two scripts; Hindi was written in Devanagari script and therefore had a greater sprinkling of Sanskrit words, while Urdu was written in Persian script and thus had more Persian and Arabic words in it. At the more colloquial level, however, the two languages were mutually intelligible." After the partition of India, political forces within India tried to further Sanskritize Hindi, while political forces in Pakistan campaigned to remove Prakit/Sanksrit derived words from Urdu and supplant them with Persian and Arabic words. Despite these government efforts, the film industry, Bollywood continues to release its films in the original Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) language, easily understood and enjoyed by speakers of both registers; in addition many of the same television channels are viewed across the border. |
Which artist did Anthony Toby "Tony" Hiller appear with that liked showering himself (and others) with confetti? | Tony Hiller Anthony Toby "Tony" Hiller (born 30 July 1927) is a British songwriter. He began his musical career as a member of the song and dance duo The Hiller Brothers, sharing the stage with his brother Irving. The Hiller Brothers appeared with many artists of the time including Alma Cogan, Tommy Cooper, Val Doonican, Matt Monro, The Shadows, Bernard Manning, Kathy Kirby, Roger Whittaker, Rip Taylor, Gene Vincent, Lance Percival, Tessie O'Shea, Frank Ifield, Deep River Boys, The Dallas Boys, Clark Brothers, Paul Melba and Ray Burns. | Ashley Richardson Ashley C. Richardson (born June 27, 1965), sometimes credited as Ashley Montana, is an American former model. She appeared on the cover of "Elle" a total of seven times and on the cover of "Cosmopolitan" twice. She also appeared six times in the "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue" (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1995). After appearing on the cover of the "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue" in 1991, she was erroneously reported to be the wife of then NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana, however she was actually married to New York nightclub owner Paul Montana. Her marriage ended in annulment in 1993, at which point Richardson went back to using her maiden name. |
Which of the two public figures Gerard Cafesjian or David Hedison is more well known for charity work? | Gerard Cafesjian Gerard Leon Cafesjian (Armenian: Ջերարդ Լեւոն Գաֆէսճեան , 26 April 1925 – 15 September 2013) was a businessman and philanthropist who founded the Cafesjian Family Foundation (CFF), the Cafesjian Museum Foundation (CMF) and the Cafesjian Center for the Arts. | Patrick Devedjian Patrick Devedjian (Armenian: Պատրիկ Դևեջյան ; born 26 August 1944) is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s, he was Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan, a special ministerial post created for two years after the global financial crisis of 2008, since December 2008. He is of Armenian descent. |
Which director is American, Mark L. Lester or Ken Loach? | Mark L. Lester Mark L. Lester (born November 26, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as a prolific director of cult films including the disco musical "Roller Boogie", the vigilante thriller film "Class of 1984", the Stephen King-adaptation "Firestarter" (1984), the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film "Commando" (1985), and the action-comedy "Armed and Dangerous" (1986), starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Meg Ryan. | Lester Orlebeck Lester Orlebeck (June 26, 1907 – August 2, 1970) was an American film editor and director, who worked on more than 100 films and television shows between 1935 and 1970. |
What prize did John R. Fischetti receive for his two-dimensional animated illustrations? | John Fischetti John R. Fischetti (September 27, 1916 – November 18, 1980) was an editorial cartoonist for the "New York Herald Tribune" and the "Chicago Daily News". He received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1969 and numerous awards from the National Cartoonists Society. | John T. McCutcheon John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870 – June 10, 1949) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American newspaper political cartoonist who was known as the "Dean of American Cartoonists". |
Donald Molosi won an award for his performance as the first President of what country in "Blue, Black and White"? | Donald Molosi Donald Leungo Gosego Molosi, (born 11 December, 1985) is an actor, writer and playwright. Molosi debuted off-Broadway in 2010 as Philly Lutaaya in "Today It’s Me" making him the first Motswana to perform off-Broadway. In 2011, Molosi won the Best Short Solo Award at United Solo Theatre Festival for his performance as Seretse Khama in "Blue, Black and White". In 2013, Molosi returned off-Broadway to perform "Motswana: Africa, Dream Again". He played supporting roles in the following historic films; "A United Kingdom" 2016 and "Given" 2009. As a playwright, Molosi has published a collection of his original off-Broadway plays, which include "We Are All Blue", "Blue, Black and White" and "Motswana: Africa, Dream Again" in 2016. | Enrico De Nicola Enrico De Nicola, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'OMRI', '4': "} (] ; 9 November 1877 – 1 October 1959) was an Italian jurist, journalist, politician, and provisional Head of State of republican Italy from 1946 to 1948. Afterwards, he became the first President of Italy on 1 January 1948. |
What professional art school did the brother of Walt Disney guide the merger of the Chouinard Art Institute and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music to establish the California Institute of the Arts? | Chouinard Art Institute The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional art school founded in 1921 by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879–1969) in Los Angeles, California. In 1961, Walt and Roy Disney guided the merger of the Chouinard Art Institute and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music to establish the California Institute of the Arts. | Barry Kooser Barry R. Kooser is an American artist, painter, and documentary filmmaker who worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios between 1992 and 2003 as a background artist on films such as "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Mulan", "Lilo & Stitch", and as background supervisor on "Brother Bear". After leaving Disney, he worked independently as a painter exhibiting and selling fine art in galleries around the US. While teaching animation and story-boarding at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, he met Worker Studio founder Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot, and became a partner at the Colorado animation studio. Barry has since left Worker Studio. He is the Founder, Executive Producer and Director at Many Hoops Productions. |
Irises is part of a series of paintings that Van Gogh completed while he was an inpatient at asylum during what period? | Irises (painting) Irises is one of several paintings of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and one of a series of paintings he executed at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890. | Racine County Insane Asylum The Racine County Insane Asylum was a mental hospital, operated by the County of Racine, Wisconsin, from 1889 to the 1970s. |
Serving from December 1, 1994- November 30, 2000, which Mexican President headed the San Andres Accords? | San Andrés Accords The San Andrés Accords are agreements reached between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and the Mexican government, at that time headed by President Ernesto Zedillo. The accords were signed on February 16, 1996, in San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas, and granted autonomy, recognition, and rights to the indigenous population of Mexico. | Francisco Javier Echeverría Francisco Javier Echeverría (c. 2 July 1797 – 17 September 1852) was a Mexican businessman, conservative and centralist politician. He served as president of Mexico in late 1841 for a few weeks. |
What nationality is Hugh Grant both in real life and as Michael Felgate in Mickey Blue Eyes? | Mickey Blue Eyes Mickey Blue Eyes is a 1999 an Anglo-American romantic comedy crime film directed by Kelly Makin. Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an English auctioneer living in New York City who becomes entangled in his soon-to-be father-in-law's mafia connections. Several of the minor roles are played by actors later featured in "The Sopranos". | Hugh Yancy Hugh Yancy (born October 16, 1949 in Sarasota, Florida) is an American former professional baseball player. He appeared in 7 games spread across 3 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox between 1972 and 1976. He bats and throws right-handed. |
Would you expect The Knot Garden and The Cunning Little Vixen to be played in a movie theater? | The Knot Garden The Knot Garden is the third opera by composer Michael Tippett for which he wrote the original English libretto. The work had its first performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 2 December 1970 conducted by Sir Colin Davis and produced by Sir Peter Hall. There is a recording with the original cast. | Golden Village Golden Village is a movie theatre operator based in Singapore which is a 50:50 joint venture by Golden Harvest of Hong Kong and Village Roadshow of Australia. It operates eleven multiplexes and cineplexes in the country. It joined hands to open a cinema at Great World City, GV Grand. Started in 1992, it opened Asia's first multiplex, the Yishun 10 multiplex. The cinema has the extensive management, operational and marketing skills of Village, as well as broad depth of experience of Golden Harvest in both film distribution and production across Asia. |
An Act of Conscience and McCullin, are films of which genre? | An Act of Conscience An Act of Conscience is a 1997 documentary film by Robbie Leppzer about the war tax resistance of Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner and years-long struggle that ensued after the IRS seized their home in Colrain, Massachusetts in 1989, to recover $27,000 in unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was shown on Cinemax and the Sundance Channel. It is narrated by Martin Sheen and features cameo appearances by activist-priest Daniel Berrigan and political folksinger Pete Seeger. | Robbie McCauley Robbie McCauley is an African American playwright, director, and performer. She is best known for her plays "Sugar" and "Sally's Rape". |
Who received more awards for their works, Paul Celan or Jonathan Kellerman? | Paul Celan Paul Celan ( ; ] ; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsy, Ukraine), and adopted the pseudonym "Paul Celan". He became one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. | Poul Anderson Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career during the Golden Age of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. |
Are the films Summer Wars and My Dog Tulip both animated films? | Summer Wars Summer Wars (Japanese: サマーウォーズ , Hepburn: Samā Wōzu ) is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, animated by Madhouse and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji and Ayumu Saitō. The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a sadistic artificial intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done to it and find a way to stop the rogue computer program from causing any further damage. | Me and My Moulton Me and My Moulton is a 2014 Canadian-Norwegian animated short film written and directed by Torill Kove. It premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards. |
Mount Moor African-American Cemetery, is located in what mall, in West Nyack, New York, is the second-largest shopping mall in New York? | Mount Moor African-American Cemetery Mount Moor African-American Cemetery, also known as Mount Moor Cemetery, is a historic African American cemetery located at Palisades Center, West Nyack in Rockland County, New York. It was established in 1849 and contains approximately 90 known graves. | Walt Whitman Shops Walt Whitman Shops (formerly known as Walt Whitman Mall) is a luxury shopping mall located in Huntington Station, New York on Walt Whitman Road (Route 110) and New York Avenue. It has many stores including main anchors Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue. The mall is owned and managed by Melvin Simon and Associates, one of the largest developers of shopping malls in the United States and owner of Long Island's largest mall, Roosevelt Field in Garden City. Suffolk County Transit, Nassau Inter-County Express and Huntington Area Rapid Transit all have bus routes that service the mall. |
White Noise: A Cautionary Musical was directed by this man who was the recipient of what award in 2015? | White Noise: A Cautionary Musical White Noise: A Cautionary Musical is a musical about a White Supremacy rock duo making their way to the top of the music charts. Created by Ryan J. Davis, The show is directed by Sergio Trujillo, and produced by Whoopi Goldberg. The music and lyrics were written by Robert Morris, Steven Morris, and Joe Shane and the book was written by Matte O'Brien. The musical was inspired by the true story of Neo-Nazi folk duo Prussian Blue who gained a following singing songs with undertones of their racist idealism. A satire, the musical seeks to challenge not only the lyrical content found in today's music industry, but also the responsibility of the individual to critically listen to and evaluate their musical selections. | Matthew Warchus Matthew Warchus (born 24 October 1966) is a British director and dramatist. He has been Artistic Director of London's Old Vic Theatre since September 2015 |
When was the 7th Duke of Westminster which Gerald Grosvenor was his father born | Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, (22 December 1951 – 9 August 2016) was a British landowner, businessman, philanthropist, Territorial Army general and hereditary peer. He was the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster and Viola Grosvenor. He was Chairman of the property company Grosvenor Group. He is succeeded by his son, Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. | James Butler, 7th Marquess of Ormonde James Hubert Theobald Charles Butler, 7th Marquess of Ormonde MBE (19 April 1899 – 25 October 1997) was the son of Reverend Lord James Theobald Bagot John Butler and Lady Annabella Brydon Gordon. He was the 7th and last holder of the title "Marquess of Ormonde" and the 25th holder of the title "Earl of Ormond." The title "Earl of Ormond" is one of the oldest titles in the peerages of Ireland, having first been granted to James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond, who married a granddaughter of Edward I of England. |
What type of band is Fastball and Goo Goo Dolls | Fastball (band) Fastball is an American rock band that formed in Austin, Texas in 1995. The band originally called themselves "Magneto U.S.A." but changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records. | The Fuzztones The Fuzztones are an American garage rock revival band formed in 1980. Founded by singer-guitarist Rudi Protrudi in New York City, the band has gone through several member changes but is currently active in Europe. Dismissed by some critics and listeners as a "bar band" or unoriginal, they maintained a strong fan base in New York, in Europe (with their music being played on Hungarian State Radio), and in Los Angeles. Rudi Protrudi moved to Los Angeles in 1987, after the breakup of the original band, to organize a new Fuzztones, consisting of Jordan Tarlow, (Lead Guitar) John "Speediejohn" Carlucci, (Bass) Jason Savall, (Vox Organ) & "Mad" Mike Czekaj on drums. This lineup bears the distinction of being the only 1980's garage rock revival band to secure a major label record deal , when they signed to RCA. |
Wendy Carlos, an American musican and composer, studied at what University before moving to NewYork in 1962? | Switched-On Bach II Switched-On Bach II is a musical album by Wendy Carlos, produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and released in 1973. | Michael Nicolella Michael Nicolella (born December 31, 1963 in Providence, RI) is an American classical guitarist and composer. Described as an iconoclast, he is known for his versatile, adventurous and eclectic approach to repertoire, including the incorporation of electric guitar into his concert programs and recordings. Nicolella's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present. His most recent recording is his own arrangement of the complete cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach; while his past four recordings focused on contemporary music, including his own compositions, alongside those of Toru Takemitsu, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze and Steve Reich. He has championed music by such emerging composers as Laurence Crane and Jacob ter Veldhuis and has premiered many works written for him by other composers, including: Joshua Kohl, (of the Degenerate Art Ensemble), David Mesler, Christopher DeLaurenti and John Fitz Rogers, who in 2001 wrote the forty-five-minute piece "Transit" for Nicolella, scored for electric guitar and computer generated sound. His own compositions include works for solo guitar, chamber music with guitar, a classical guitar concerto ("Guitar Concerto"), and an electric guitar concerto ("Ten Years Passed"). His most recent major composition for soprano, guitar (electric and classical) and orchestra, "The Flame of the Blue Star of Twilight", was premiered by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and soprano Alexandra Picard in April 2012. He has performed and collaborated with a wide range of groups and artists including: violinist Gil Shaham, rock singer Jon Anderson, best known for his work as lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes, broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Seattle Guitar Trio, jazz singer Johnaye Kendrick, classical music comedians Igudesman and Joo and is a frequent guest with the Seattle Symphony. Nicolella is a graduate of Yale University, Berklee College of Music and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He is currently based in Seattle, where he serves on the music faculty of Cornish College of the Arts. He is married to the painter Ann Gale. |
Are Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and Monsters vs. Aliens both computer-computer animated films? | Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure is a 2009 computer-animated comedy adventure film and the second installment in the "Disney Fairies" franchise. Produced by DisneyToon Studios, it was animated by Prana Studios. It is a sequel to the 2008 film, "Tinker Bell", and revolves around Tinker Bell, a fairy character created by J. M. Barrie in his play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up", and featured in subsequent adaptations, especially in Disney's animated works. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on October 27, 2009. | Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon is a 2014 animated fantasy comedy direct-to-video film starring Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Directed and produced by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone, it premiered on July 27, 2014, at San Diego Comic-Con International. It is the first Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film to be marketed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in Japan. It was originally released digitally on August 19, 2014, to be followed by a DVD release on September 2, 2014. |
Are both Barbie Thumbelina and The Secret of Kells animated films? | Barbie Thumbelina Barbie Thumbelina, or "Barbie Presents: Thumbelina", is a 2009 Barbie film directed by Conrad Helten and Nishpeksh Mehra. It is the 15th in the series of Barbie animated films, and features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Barbie. The story title is like Hans Christian Andersen's "Thumbelina", but the story plot is different. | Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy Hansel and Gretel is a 1954 stop motion animated theatrical feature film released by RKO. |
Which actor with a career spanning 60 years played the role of Grandpa Nicholas in the 1999 Christmas film "Santa and Pete"? | Santa and Pete Santa and Pete is a 1999 American Christmas film directed by Duwayne Dunham. It was written by Greg Taylor, based on the novel by Christopher Moore and Pamela Johnson. It stars Hume Cronyn as Saint Nick, Flex Alexander as Pete, and James Earl Jones as Grandpa Nicholas. It first aired on CBS on December 5, 1999. | Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer and actor who was one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the "King of the Cowboys", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of "The Roy Rogers Show". In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his golden palomino, Trigger; and his German shepherd dog, Bullet. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often Pat Brady, Andy Devine, George "Gabby" Hayes, or Smiley Burnette. In his later years, Rogers lent his name to the franchise chain of Roy Rogers Restaurants. |
What animation division was tasked for production feature length animated film worked with Tor Seidler's books? | Tor Seidler Tor Seidler (born 1952 in Littleton, New Hampshire) is an American author of children's literature. Many of his books feature anthropomorphic animals. "Mean Margaret" was nominated for a National Book Award, "The Wainscott Weasel" was named a Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association, and "A Rat's Tale" was named Best Book of the Year by "Publishers Weekly". In 1998, "A Rat's Tale" was adapted into a puppet film by Augsburger Puppenkiste and distributed by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment. 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios planned to adapt "The Wainscott Weasel" into a movie, which started development in 2003. However, Fox shelved the concept in 2006. | Gnomes (film) Gnomes is an American 1980 animated film, based on the book of the same name by the Dutch Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet. The movie was nominated for an Emmy in 1981 for "Outstanding Animated Program". |
This bar founded by Mickey Gilley the hangout in the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy". | Urban Cowboy Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American romantic drama film about the love-hate relationship between Buford Uan "Bud" Davis (John Travolta) and Sissy (Debra Winger). The movie captured the late 1970s/early 1980s popularity of country music. It was John Travolta's third major acting role after "Saturday Night Fever" and " Grease". Much of the action centers around activities at Gilley's Club, a honky tonk in Pasadena, Texas. | Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre The Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre is a striptease club at 895 O'Farrell Street near San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Opened as an X-rated movie theater by Jim and Artie Mitchell on July 4, 1969, the O'Farrell remains one of America's oldest and most notorious adult-entertainment establishments; by 1980, the nightspot had popularized close-contact lap dancing, which would become the norm in striptease clubs nationwide. Journalist Hunter S. Thompson, a longtime friend of the Mitchells and frequent visitor at the club, claimed to be its night manager in 1985 as part of his research for a book on pornography. He called the O'Farrell "the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America" and "Playboy" magazine praised it as "the place to go in San Francisco!" |
The Tony Award winning director of the musical "Guys and Dolls" co-wrote what movie with Abe Burrow and Howard Teichmann? | The Solid Gold Cadillac The Solid Gold Cadillac is a 1956 film directed by Richard Quine and written by Abe Burrows, Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman. It was adapted from the hit Broadway play of the same name by Teichmann and Kaufman, in which they pillory big business and corrupt businessmen. The film stars Judy Holliday and Paul Douglas. The film is in black-and-white except for the very last scene, which is in Technicolor. | Broadway (1929 film) Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Paul Fejos from the play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E. Jackson. |
The Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg was founded in 739 by which leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the 8th century? | Archbishopric of Salzburg The Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg (German: "Fürsterzbistum Salzburg" ) was an ecclesiastical principality and state of the Holy Roman Empire. It comprised the secular territory ruled by the Archbishops of Salzburg, as distinguished from the much larger Catholic diocese founded in 739 by Saint Boniface in the German stem duchy of Bavaria. The capital of the archbishopric was Salzburg, the former Roman city of "Iuvavum ". | Bruno (bishop of Würzburg) Bruno of Würzburg (c. 1005 – 27 May 1045), also known as Bruno of Carinthia, was imperial chancellor of Italy from 1027 to 1034 for Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, to whom he was related, and from 1034 until his death prince-bishop of Würzburg. |
Who produce the animated film which has Thomson Andrews sing in it? | Thomson Andrews Thomson Andrews (born 25 September 1987 in Mumbai, India) is a singer, songwriter, performer, recording artist, actor and one of the newer contemporary Indian playback singers. He has been certified by Trinity College of Music, London as a Performing Vocalist and has trained briefly in Hindustani classical singing from Pandit Krishna Bhat. Apart from live performances, he also sings on and arranges voicings for film playback songs & background scores. Thomson has sung film songs and ad jingles in several Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu, Marathi, Bengali and has several International ad jingles to his credit for products in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, West Indies and more. He also sings in foreign languages like Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and more. He is known for his associations with music projects such as MTV Coke Studio (India) Season 2, MTV Unplugged (India) Seasons 1 and 2 and his recent indie debut R&B single People Ain't Things from his upcoming R&B album being produced by Candy D'souza, mixed by Chester Misquitta and mastered by Grammy Award winning mastering engineer Reuben Cohen from Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood. He is one of the few Indian indie artists whose music has been featured on national television networks like MTV Indies, VH1 India and 9XO and on the radio station Radio One (India). Thomson lends his voice for Walt Disney's animated film "Hindi Dubbs" and has sung for Disney's cartoon series "The Jungle Book 2", "Winnie The Pooh", "Cars", "Little Mermaid" and more. He is also known as a fashionably trendsetting musician for his quirky style, funky hair-do's and glasses. Thomson performed for "Vogue India"' s Women Empowerment initiative "#VogueEmpower" last year 2014. Besides his solo accolades, projects, Motown, R&B, funk music "tribute concerts" and collaborations, he is part of a popular Indian A cappella ensemble called Raaga Trippin' with whom he creates unique renditions of cover songs as well as originals and does live shows with. | Abby in Wonderland Abby in Wonderland is a "Sesame Street" direct-to-DVD film that adapts Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" with the Muppets of "Sesame Street". Abby Cadabby stars in the "Alice" role. |
Who originally wrote an unproduced script that later became an animated movie in which the song "Chanson Illusionist" was featured? | Chanson Illusionist "Chanson Illusionist" is a song recorded by French animator and musician Sylvain Chomet for the to the 2010 animated film, "The Illusionist". It was distributed digitally on 14 December 2010 through Warner Bros. Records and Milan Records, along with the rest of the parent album. Chomet wrote the piece while Terry Davies conducted and arranged its production. | Plane Crazy Plane Crazy is an American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released in 1929 by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first creation of the character Mickey Mouse. It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, but failed to pick up a distributor. Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound cartoon, "Steamboat Willie", which was an enormous success. Following this, "Plane Crazy" was released as a sound cartoon on March 17, 1929. It was the fourth Mickey film to be released after "Steamboat Willie", "The Gallopin' Gaucho", and "The Barn Dance" (1928). |
What is the name of the advice column that a singer of Worlds Collide wrote | Worlds Collide Worlds Collide is the sixth studio album from Finnish metal band Apocalyptica, released on 14 September 2007. It includes special guests Till Lindemann, Corey Taylor, Adam Gontier, Dave Lombardo, Tomoyasu Hotei, and Cristina Scabbia. For the US release, a new recording of "I Don't Care" and a new mix of "I'm Not Jesus" replaced the original versions. | Andrew L. Erdman Andrew L. Erdman (born 1965) is an American author, journalist, and scholar. He served as a staff reporter at "Fortune" magazine where he wrote a weekly human interest column and profiles of the world’s billionaires. He has written for "National Lampoon", "Diversions", Women.com and LifetimeTV.com. Erdman has worked in television, serving as head writer for the talk/comedy/variety show "Sex, Lives, and Video Clips" (costarring Candace Bushnell) on VH1. Andrew received his doctorate in theater studies from the City University of New York. He has taught writing, media studies, film, and drama at a number of colleges and universities in the New York City area including Hunter College and Brooklyn College. His book, "Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915", was published by McFarland in 2003. His new book, "Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay" is the first-ever biography of legendary performer Eva Tanguay (1878–1947), known as “The ‘I Don’t Care’ Girl.” The book will be published by Cornell University Press. |
Don't Wanna Fall in Love, is a 1990 hit song for Toronto-born singer/songwriter/musician Jane Child, the single went to number two for three weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart, it was kept out of the top spot by which Sinéad O'Connor's ballad, a song written and composed by Prince? | Don't Wanna Fall in Love "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" is a 1990 hit song for Toronto-born singer/songwriter/musician Jane Child. Released as the second single from her self-titled debut album, the single went to number two for three weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart in late April and early May 1990, kept out of the top spot by Sinéad O'Connor's ballad "'Nothing Compares 2 U". In addition, a "new jack swing" remix of the song was produced by Teddy Riley and reached number six on the R&B chart, and number eleven on the dance chart. Shep Pettibone also remixed the single, but was only released to DJ's. When released around Europe it also became successful albeit more modestly. In the UK, the single stalled at #22 after Child refused to appear on the popular British TV program "Top of the Pops" while the single was climbing the charts, considering the program to be a "sellout". | 101 (song) "101" is a 1988 song written by Prince (using his pseudonym Joey Coco) for Sheena Easton. The song appeared on Easton's album "The Lover in Me" and was released as a single in 1989. |
Which style of minimalist furniture and housewares from Denmark associated was Hans J. Wegner, one of the leading figures of its movement | Carl Hansen & Søn Carl Hansen & Søn is a Danish furniture company. It is the company behind many of the classical furniture designs of Hans J. Wegner, one of the leading figures of the Danish modern movement. | Poppe Damave He was born in Groningen, but according to the RKD his parents moved to Haarlem when he was four, where he lived the rest of his life. He was a pupil of Henri Frédéric Boot and A.J. Grootens. He lived for 9 years on Lange Herenstraat 9 near the Haarlem railway station and until his death in 1988, on Donkere Spaarne 54. He was married to Katherina Martin and they had 6 daughters and 4 sons. He was a skilled etcher and graphic artist. During the Second World War, he used his skills to forge papers for Jewish people. He was a member of the Amsterdam artist societies Arti et Amicitiae, Hollandse Aquarellisten Kring, Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars, and Federatie van Verenigingen van Beroeps Beeldende Kunstenaars, and the Haarlem-based Kunst zij ons doel until 1948, when he joined the Teisterbant club of Godfried Bomans. In 1951 he helped start up De Groep and was its chairman for over 15 years. |
The Habbaniya is a part of the Baggara people whose name comes from what Arabic word? | Habbaniya tribe The Habbaniya, or Habbania, (Arabic: الحبانية ) are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the nomadic Bedouin Baggara people in the plains of Sudan's Darfur, North Kurdufan, and South Kurdufan provinces | Kitab Kitab (Arabic: کتاب ), also transcribed as kitaab, kitáb, or kitāb, is the Arabic word for book, from the root K-T-B. The word is also used in the Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Sylheti, Nepalese, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Punjabi, Urdu as ("kitab"), while in Assamese (as "kitap"), Swahili (as "kitabu"), Tatar, Kyrgyz, Turkish (as "kitap"), Bosnian and Serbian (as "ćitap") languages and in some contexts in Greek ("κιτάπι"). The word is also related to katav, the Hebrew word for reporter. It is part of titles of many Arabic language books. Some prominent examples are: |
What is an Italian language weekly women's and fashion magazine based in Milan, Italy, Elle Girl or Donna Moderna? | Elle Girl Elle Girl was the largest older-teen fashion and beauty magazine brand in the world with 12 editions and supplements worldwide. Launched in August 2001, it was the younger sibling to "Elle" magazine, and similarly focused on beauty, health, entertainment and looked at daring fashion—its slogan: ""Dare to be different"". The magazine was published monthly and was based in New York City. | Bottega Veneta Bottega Veneta is an Italian luxury goods and high fashion brand house best known for its leather goods which are sold worldwide and its men's and women's ready-to-wear. Founded in 1966 in Vicenza, Veneto of northeastern Italy, its atelier is located within an 18th-century villa in Montebello Vicentino and its headquarters are in Lugano, Switzerland with offices in Milan and Vicenza, Italy. In 2001, Bottega Veneta was purchased by Gucci Group, and is now a part of the French multinational group Kering. In September 2016, it was announced that Claus-Dietrich Lahrs would be named CEO, replacing Carlo Beretta. |
Which man is credited for working on the team of both Animation Domination High-Def and The Problem Solverz? | Animation Domination High-Def Animation Domination High-Def (also called Animation Domination HD, Fox ADHD, and ADHD) is a late-night programming block broadcast by Fox. Originally premiering on July 21, 2013 as a spin-off of the Fox network's Sunday-night "Animation Domination" block, the block originally focused on new, original adult animation series—similarly in style to Adult Swim. The ninety-minute block and its content were primarily produced by Friends Night, a studio headed by Adult Swim alumni Nick Weidenfeld, Hend Baghdady, and creative director Ben Jones (who also created "The Problem Solverz" for Cartoon Network)—including its programs, along with interstitials and other content featured during its programming. | Jeff Knurek Jeff Knurek is an American cartoonist, industrial designer, and toymaker. He is the current cartoonist for the syndicated Jumble puzzle, working with David L. Hoyt. |
Considered to be not quite up to the caliber of a "contender" or "gatekeeper", what was Azem Maksutaj considered to be after 2001? | Azem Maksutaj Azem Maksutaj (born July 8, 1975) is an Albanian-Swiss former kickboxer who competed in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions. He originates from Kosovo but relocated to Switzerland at an early age where he began training in Muay Thai at fifteen. After capturing the Swiss national title at lightweight during his first year of competition in 1992, he then went on to win European and world honours 1994 while fighting around the 77 kg super middleweight mark. The late 1990s saw Maksutaj move between light heavyweight and cruiserweight, taking five world titles in those divisions, before eventually making the jump to heavyweight in 2001 where he spent the remainder of his career, acting as a journeyman in the K-1 promotion while also winning another four world titles. | Av3k Maciej Krzykowski (born April 1, 1991), who goes by the pseudonym Av3k (), is a professional "Quake" and "ShootMania" player. He has Polish nationality and resides in Ostróda. He actively competes in international Quake competitions and was signed to Razer and Dutch electronic sports team Serious Gaming but is now a part of French organization Millenium. On July 8, 2007 at age 16, he became the youngest "Quake" champion ever after winning the Electronic Sports World Cup 2007 in Paris without losing a single map. |
What instrument did the first generation Lonesome Pine Fiddler, born in 1931, play? | Lonesome Pine Fiddlers The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers (1938- 1966) were an early bluegrass band which included such notable "first generation" bluegrass musicians as Ezra Cline, Bobby Osborne, Paul Williams, Melvin Goins, Charlie Cline, Curly Ray Cline, Larry Richardson and for a short time Jimmy Martin. The group was started by Ezra Cline and Curly Ray Cline and was originally named "Cousin Ezra and the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers". The Clines came from a large family consisting of musically talented people. Ray and Charlie's father, Charlie, was a talented banjo player and the women in the family, Geraldine and Bobbi, were great singers. For reasons unknown, Bobbi and Geraldine never joined the band on the road but often joined in at home, especially when notable Country singers, such as Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and Hank Williams, came visiting. None of them ever had a music lesson yet excelled on every instrument they touched. Natives of the Gilbert Creek region of southern West Virginia, Cousin Ezra, along with brothers Ireland (Lazy Ned) and Curly Ray Cline, were part of the original Lonesome Pine Fiddlers from about 1938, a group that worked on radio at WHIS Bluefield, West Virginia. During World War II, Ned was killed in action. When the Pine Fiddlers resumed regular daily broadcasts, Charlie, who played multiple instruments, joined them on a regular basis. Charlie returned to the Fiddlers briefly before becoming a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. During 1952-1955, Charlie worked off and on with Monroe, recording some 38 songs, all on Decca. It has been said that he played every instrument at one time or another in the Monroe group except mandolin. Charlie spent most of 1953 back with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers working at WJR radio in Detroit. When Ezra brought the band to Pikeville, Kentucky, in November, Charlie rejoined Bill Monroe. In 1954, Charlie did a session, playing lead guitar, with the Stanley Brothers and also another one on RCA with the Fiddlers, although he was not otherwise working with them at the time. He also worked briefly as a sideman with the Osborne Brothers, although he did not record with them. By 1958, Charlie (electric lead guitar) and his wife, Lee (electric bass), had rejoined Ezra and Curly Ray in the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, who were experimenting with a more modern sound and working a TV show in Huntington, West Virginia, in addition to daily radio in Pikeville. In his later years, Charlie was with the Stanley Brothers. Curly Ray also played with the Stanley Brothers at a different time as their fiddler. Curly Ray was one of the best fiddlers in Bluegrass. This most talented family of musicians were the best, surpassed by none. Finally, on October 1, 2009, The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers got their due when they were inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame at the Ryman Theater (the original home of the Grand Ole Opry). Bobby Osborne, Melvin Goins and Paul Williams were there to receive the bands award. In the crowd of a sold out theater was the son of Ezra Cline, Scotty Ireland Cline, who recalled being in that same theater as a child sitting on stage and watching the Fiddlers play. (At the time, the Opry had bleachers for family just off stage). The final act of the evening at the IBMA Awards was the playing of "Pain in my Heart" by Osborne, Goins and Williams along with a Song from the Dillards, who were also inducted the same evening. | René Hall René Joseph Hall (September 26, 1912 ‒ February 11, 1988) was an American musician, performer, and music arranger whose guitar and arrangements can be heard on hundreds of enduring rock and roll and R&B recordings released by many of America's most notable labels including Aladdin, Decca, Motown, and RCA Records. His best-known recording was the instrumental "Twitchy", which featured a single-string guitar ("Unitar") lead played by Willie Joe Duncan, the instrument's inventor. |
Who declared that he would fast unto death and led india to independence against british rule | 1946 Bihar riots Communal riots occurred in Bihar from 24 October to 11 November 1946, in which Hindu mobs targeted Muslim families. The riots were triggered by the Great Calcutta Killings, as well as the Noakhali riots earlier that year. Mahatma Gandhi declared that he would fast unto death if the riots did not stop. The riots were part of a sequence of communal violence that culminated in the partition of India. | Nana Sahib Nana Sahib (born 19 May 1824 – disappeared 1857), born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian Maratha aristocrat and fighter, who led the rebellion in Cawnpore (Kanpur) during the 1857 uprising. As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II, Nana Sahib believed that he was entitled to a pension from the English East India Company, but the underlying contractual issues are rather murky. The Company's refusal to continue the pension after his father's death, as well as what he perceived as high-handed policies, compelled him to revolt and seek independence from company rule in India. He forced the British garrison in Kanpur to surrender, then executed the survivors, gaining control of Cawnpore for a few days. He later disappeared, after his forces were defeated by a British force that recaptured Cawnpore. He was led to the Nepal Hills in 1859, where he is thought to have died. |
Are Race to Witch Mountain and The Gnome-Mobile both in some way related to Disney? | Race to Witch Mountain Race to Witch Mountain is a 2009 American science fiction adventure thriller film and a remake of the 1975 Disney film "Escape to Witch Mountain", which is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Alexander Key. The film is directed by Andy Fickman and stars Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Ciarán Hinds, and Carla Gugino. | Pinocchio's Daring Journey Pinocchio's Daring Journey is a dark ride at Disneyland in California; Tokyo Disneyland; and the Disneyland Park in Paris. Located in the Fantasyland section of each park, this ride is based on Disney's animated film version of the classic story, which was the studio's second animated feature film. Stromboli's marionette show is also featured in the attraction, in which guests are inside a giant cage. The version in Disneyland was the first attraction created by Disney to use holographic material, which appears on hand held mirror, in the scene where the boys turn into donkeys on Pleasure Island. The Pepper's Ghost illusion (used extensively in the Haunted Mansion) is used when the Blue Fairy disappears, leaving a pile of fiber-optic fairy dust on the floor. |
Ben Kingsley won what award for his performance as a cousin of a furniture designer? | Anne Frank: The Whole Story Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a two-part mini-series based on the book "" by Melissa Müller. The mini-series aired on ABC on May 20 and 21, 2001. The series starred Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Lili Taylor. Controversially, but in keeping with the claim made by Melissa Müller, the series asserts that the anonymous betrayer of the Frank family was the office cleaner, when in fact the betrayer's identity has never been established. A disagreement between the producers of the mini-series and the Anne Frank Foundation about validity of this and other details led to the withdrawal of their endorsement of the dramatization, which prevented the use of any quotations from the writings of Anne Frank appearing within the production. Hannah Taylor-Gordon received both Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance as Anne Frank, while Ben Kingsley won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as Otto Frank, Anne's father. It is revealed in the miniseries that the cleaning lady of Opekta betrayed Anne and her family. | Tim Hatley Tim Hatley is a British set and costume designer for theater and film. He is the winner of the Tony Award for Best Set Design and Best Costume Design, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design. |
Among others, what type of 2-seater sports car does Datuk Wira Lee Chong Wei own with quattro permanent all-wheel drive system? | Lee–Lin rivalry The Lee–Lin rivalry is between two legendary badminton players, Datuk Wira Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia and Lin Dan of China. The rivalry is considered to be one of, if not, the greatest rivalry in badminton history. More often than not, the dominance of the two legendary shuttlers have been compared to that of tennis greats Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in tennis. They have played a total of 38 times, and Lin Dan leads their rivalry 26–12. Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan are by far the two of the most dominant players across three generations and many regard Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei as the 2 greatest badminton players of all time. In their homeland, each hold a military rank, with Lee a Commander (Honorary) of the Royal Malaysian Navy Volunteer Reserve Unit and Lin a retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the People's Liberation Army having being promoted from the ranks of Lieutenant-Commander and Major respectively, meaning they have the same seniority in terms of military rank. They have contested in many major tournament finals and are currently the only two badminton singles players who have contested in two Olympic finals where Lin Dan won both of the time. They have also contested two BWF World Championships finals and one Asian Games final where all matches were very close hard fought 3 setters and won by Lin Dan. There 2011 World Badminton Championship match widely touted as one of the greatest badminton matches of all the time. In the semi-finals of the 2016 Rio Olympics, most possibly the last Olympic Games of both athletes' careers, Lee Chong Wei won against Lin Dan, for the first time on the Olympic stage, making Lee the second shuttler in any discipline of the sport in history to reach 3 consecutive finals after Fu Haifeng who had achieved the feat a few hours earlier in the men doubles. The two players exchanged a special moment in their rivalry and exchanged shirts as they exited the court. The 2016 Rio Games marks an end in the badminton era dominated by Lee and Lin. Nevertheless, the pair are good friends off court, having invited one another to each other's wedding and sharing a mutual love for fast cars and watches. Among the cars that Lee owns include a crystal grey Bentley Continental GT, a white Audi R8, a white Ferrari F430, a grey Nissan Skyline GTR, Range Rover Evoque, yellow Lamborghini Aventador and a BMW X6 besides the cars given to him by national automaker Proton. Lin, on the other hand, has a Porsche Panamera, a grey Aston Martin DBS and also a black Nissan Skyline GTR among his vast collection of supercars. | Ferrari F40 The Ferrari F40 is a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive, two-door coupé sports car built from 1987 to 1992, with the LM and GTE race car versions continuing production until 1994 and 1996 respectively. The successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO, it was designed to celebrate Ferrari's 40th anniversary and was the last Ferrari automobile personally approved by Enzo Ferrari. At the time it was Ferrari's fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car for sale. |
On what 2012 film about a Scottish princess did Pixar use its industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface? | Merida (Disney) Princess Merida of DunBroch (Scottish Gaelic: Mèrida) is the main character from the 2012 Disney Pixar film "Brave". Merida was added to the Disney Princess line-up as the 11th Princess and the first Pixar character to receive the honor on May 11, 2013. Merida is also the main character of the games "Brave" and "". Merida also is a playable character in the "Disney Infinity" Franchise, first appearing in "Disney Infinity 2.0." | Disney Infinity Disney Infinity is an action-adventure sandbox video game developed by Avalanche Software and published by Disney Interactive Studios. It was announced on January 15, 2013 and developed for approximately $100 million. The game uses collectible figurines that are then synchronized with the game, unlocking characters from Disney and Pixar properties that interact and go on adventures. The game was released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS in August 2013. A PC version of Toy Box was also released on November 14, 2013. The second edition, "", was released on September 23, 2014. The third edition, "Disney Infinity 3.0", was released on August 30, 2015, and introduced support for the Apple TV. On May 10, 2016, Disney announced on the Disney Interactive website that they were discontinuing production, with three characters from "Alice Through the Looking Glass" and a "Finding Dory" playset being the last releases for the platform. |
When did the colonies founded by members of the Ebenezer Colonies leaving western New York end their communal life? | Ebenezer Colonies The Ebenezer Colonies consisted of settlements of Inspirationists in what is now the town of West Seneca near the city of Buffalo in western New York State. The Inspirationists migrated here from Germany in 1843. In 1855 they began to leave for Iowa, where they established the Amana Colonies. By 1865 they were gone. | Nine Men The council of Nine Men was a citizens board and a form of representational democracy in New Netherland. It replaced the previous councils, the Twelve Men and the Eight Men. Members of the council were elected in 1647, 1649, 1650 and 1652. On July 26, 1649, eleven current and former members of the board signed the "Petition of the Commonality of New Netherland", which requested that the States General take action to encourage economic freedom and force local government like that in the Netherlands, removing the colony from the control of the Dutch West India Company. It became the basis for the municipal government when the city of New Amsterdam received its charter in 1653. |
Which film is older, The Tillman Story or the Mysterious Castles of Clay? | The Tillman Story The Tillman Story is a 2010 American documentary film directed by Amir Bar-Lev. The film is about the death of football player turned U.S. Army Ranger, Pat Tillman, in the war in Afghanistan, the coverup of the true circumstances of his death, and his family's struggle to unearth the truth. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It was named 2010 Best Documentary by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association, and the Florida Film Critics Circle. The film is narrated by Josh Brolin. | Ghost Story (1981 film) Ghost Story is a 1981 American horror film directed by John Irvin and based on the 1979 book of the same name by Peter Straub. It stars Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman and Craig Wasson (in a dual role). It was the last film to feature Astaire, Fairbanks, and Douglas (who died four months before the film's release), and the first film to feature Michael O'Neill. The film was shot in Woodstock, Vermont, Saratoga Springs, New York and at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. |
The TMMTX assembly lines currently produce the Tundra full-size pickup truck and which pickup truck manufactured in the U.S. by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota since 1995? | Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, Inc (TMMTX) is an automobile production subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation based in San Antonio, Texas. It owns and operates a manufacturing and assembly facility for the parent company. The TMMTX assembly lines currently produce the Tundra full-size pickup truck and the Tacoma mid-size pickup truck. | Prince Miler The Prince Miler is a medium-sized pickup truck built by the Prince Motor Company. It remained on the market for four years after the 1966 merger, when Prince dealerships became integrated within Nissan's organization as "Nissan Prince Store". By 1970, however, it was integrated with Nissan's newest generation of their offering in this class, the Junior. |
What 2002 Walt Disney film starring Dennis Quaid features the single "Slow Turning"? | Slow Turning Slow Turning was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's ninth album, released in 1988. It provided Hiatt's only significant radio hit with the title track, which features the memorable line "I'm yelling at the kids in the back, 'cause they're banging like Charlie Watts". The single "Slow Turning" was also featured in the 2002 motion picture drama the "The Rookie" which starred Dennis Quaid. "Feels Like Rain" would later be covered by Buddy Guy on an album of the same name and was featured in the 2004 Kate Hudson movie "Raising Helen". "Drive South" would become a country hit for Suzy Bogguss in the early 1990s. "Icy Blue Heart" was covered by Emmylou Harris in her 1989 album "Bluebird", with backing vocals by Bonnie Raitt. Ilse DeLange recorded "It'll Come To You"" and "Feels Like Rain" on her live album "Dear John". During the barroom scene in the Film "Thelma and Louise", the band is playing "Tennessee Plates" (Charlie Sexton recorded the song for the soundtrack album). | Leroy & Stitch Disney's Leroy & Stitch (stylized as Leroy Lilo & Stitch) is an animated family television film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is the third sequel of the 2002 animated feature film "Lilo & Stitch", and the conclusion to "" and the original run of the "Lilo & Stitch" franchise where Lilo Pelekai is a main character and Hawaii is the main setting. The film debuted on Disney Channel on June 23, 2006 and also aired on Toon Disney on June 26, 2006. |
The Gospel According to the Other Mary, which premiered in 2012 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles was composed by whom? | The Gospel According to the Other Mary The Gospel According to the Other Mary is an opera/oratorio by contemporary American composer John Adams. The world premiere took place on May 31, 2012, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic who also premiered the staged version on March 7, 2013, at the same venue. | Sancta Maria, mater Dei Sancta Maria, mater Dei (Holy Mary, mother of God), K.273, is an act of Consecration to Blessed Virgin Mary in F major, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for SATB choir, first and second violins, violas and basso continuo of violoncello, double bass and organ. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue on 9 September 1777 in Salzburg. |
When was the solid body electric guitar introduced on which the Gibson Robot Guitar was based? | Gibson Robot Guitar The Gibson Robot Guitar (a.k.a. GOR) is a limited-edition self-tuning Gibson guitar, typically a Les Paul. The first run of limited edition Robot Guitars was exclusively made up of Les Paul bodies. Five different Gibson models were available (2008-2011, Robot X-plorer 2008-2012)) with Robot Guitar features: The Robot Les Paul Studio, Robot SG, Robot Flying V, Robot X-plorer, and a Robot Les Paul Junior. Developed by Chris Adams, its most notable feature is that it uses an onboard computer to automatically tune itself. This is not the first guitar to be able to tune itself, but it is regarded as the most modern, unique, and non-invasive self-tuning model available, because it does not employ cams or cantilevers throughout the body of the guitar. The non-limited edition SG and Les Paul Studio are available in a variety of finishes. The Flying V and Explorer are only available in metallic red. The price can range from about $1,000-$3,000 or more for custom options. In the case of the "Original 1st Production" Robot guitar the only finish available was Blue Silverburst nitrocellulose, a color which Gibson has stated will never be used on any other Gibson guitar (see photo to the right). The original Robot guitar also featured headstock and neck binding which are not standard on any current Les Paul Robot as well as a chrome truss rod cover with "Robot Guitar" engraved. The production version featured 22-fret rosewood-bound (standard finishes) or white-bound (metallic finishes) ebony fingerboard with figured acrylic tapezoid inlays, white-bound headstock with MOP Gibson logo and flowerpot inlay (metallic finishes) or unbound headstock with screened logo (standard finishes), three-per-side robotic Powerhead Locking tuners, tune-o-matic Powertune bridge, Powertune stop tailpiece, two chrome covered humbucker pickups (490R, 498T), four knobs (three normal, and one Master Control Knob that controls the robotic actions of the guitar), three-way pickup switch, Neutrik jack on side of guitar, chrome hardware. | Washburn RR-V Tour Series The Washburn RR-V Tour Series is a rare line of solid-bodied electric 'Flying V' shaped guitars produced by Washburn Guitars in Japan between the years of 1985 to 1987. |
Michael W. Punke, is an American writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney, and former Deputy United States Trade Representative and US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, he is best known for writing "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge" (2002), which was adapted into film as "The Revenant" (2015), and starring which American actor, film producer, and environmental activist, he began his career by appearing in television commercials in the late 1980s, after which he had recurring roles in various television series such as the soap opera "Santa Barbara"? | Michael Punke Michael W. Punke (born December 7, 1964) is an American writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney, and former Deputy United States Trade Representative and US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He is currently the Vice President of Public Policy for Amazon Web Services. He is best known for writing "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge" (2002), which was adapted into film as "The Revenant" (2015), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, with a screenplay by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. | Jerry Rector Jerry Andrew Rector (born September 12, 1958) is an American actor, writer, director and producer, known for "The Strain" (2015), "Ghost World" (2001) and "Mean Guns" (1997). He grew up in Detroit and has lived in Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver and Toronto. With over 30 years in the entertainment business, Jerry has worked with renowned actors including Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Patrick Stewart. |
What type of genre do The Bluebells and Monoral have in common? | The Bluebells The Bluebells were a Scottish indie rock band, active between 1981 and 1986 (later briefly reforming in 1993, 2008–2009 and 2011). | Skalary, mieczyki, neonki Skalary, mieczyki, neonki (English: Angelfish, swordtails, neon tetras ) is the seventh studio album by Polish alternative rock band Myslovitz. It was released out-of-schedule on December 4, 2004. The album is startlingly different from Myslovitz's other albums, abandoning the usual alt-rock sound in favour of psychedelic soundscapes and improvisations. |
Frank is a 2014 comedy-drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson, it stars which Irish actor, and his feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic "300" (2007) as a Spartan warrior? | Frank (film) Frank is a 2014 comedy-drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson, produced by David Barron, Ed Guiney and Stevie Lee and written by Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan. It stars Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy, and François Civil. | Ferdia Walsh-Peelo Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (born October 12, 1999) is an Irish singer-songwriter and actor. He is best known for playing Conor 'Cosmo' Lawlor in his debut film "Sing Street" in 2016. |