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May 29 26 by odo5435
In Test cricket, how many batsmen have been dismissed for a duck on the first ball of the opening day?
More than you might think and dating back to the 1894/95 season in Australia.
According to Wikipedia's page titled "Duck (Cricket)" being dismissed off the first ball of an innings is known as either a "Royal Duck" or a "Platinum Duck."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_(cricket)
ESPN Cricinfo has statistics for nearly everything you'd ever want to know about the game of Cricket.
Their list of batsmen "Dismissed by the first ball of a match in Tests" identifies some 35 unfortunate souls (or successful bowlers). The most recent such dismissal was in the 2024/25 season, again in Australia. We can expect this number to grow as the years progress.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/dismissed-by-the-first-ball-of-a-match-283164 (psnz)
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May 29 26 by odo5435
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May 29 26 by odo5435
The never-realized film titled "Whispers Like Thunder", a project by Ben Kingsley, was supposed to tell the story of which Native American woman?
"Whispers Like Thunder" was supposed to tell the story of Eliza "Lyda" Burton Conley of the Wyandot Nation. In 1907, she filed a case to prevent the U.S. government from selling and developing the Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, on the grounds that this project violated treaty protections and her family's burial rights.
In 1910, she personally presented the case before the U.S. Supreme Court as the first Native American woman to do so, but the Court ruled against her and upheld the government's authority to proceed. Nevertheless, she gained significant public and political support, and in 1916, Congress ultimately passed legislation to protect the cemetery from sale and development.
https://wikibin.org/articles/whispers-like-thunder.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyda_Conley (wellenbrecher)
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May 28 26 by pehinhota
What book in the King James Bible is most questioned as to its authenticity?
Discussing "authenticity" doesn't mean it's "untrusted" in a religious sense. It's still part of the canonical New Testament in all major Christian traditions. The debate is about authorship, not necessarily its theological value.
[quote]2 Peter is traditionally attributed to Peter the Apostle, but most critical scholars consider the epistle pseudepigraphical (i.e., authored by one or more of Peter's followers, using Peter as a pseudonym)[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Epistle_of_Peter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Petrine_epistles (wellenbrecher)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Why do most conductors of large musical groups need a stick?
The baton (as it is named) is used to enhance the visibility of the most important conducting information - the beat. Conductors use a large variety of gestures to indicate how they wish passages to be played, but the baton is always indicating the beat, ensuring all musicians play on cue and at the same tempo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_(conducting) (WesleyCrusher)
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May 27 26 by odo5435
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May 27 26 by odo5435
Which NBA player was the first to get an official quintuple double in a game (10 or more in five different categories)?
Not even a career quintuple double has been achieved so far.
[quote]there is no overlap between the 14 players who have recorded 10+ steals in an NBA game and the 36 players who have recorded 10+ blocks in a game; in other words, no NBA player's career-high stat line is a quintuple-double. The best single-game career high in blocks for a player with a game of 10+ steals is 5 by Draymond Green, and the best single-game career high in steals for a player with a game of 10+ blocks is 8 (Andrei Kirilenko and Hakeem Olajuwon).[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-double#Quintuple-double (wellenbrecher)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Who got paid the most to perform at Woodstock in 1969?
Here's a list of 29 artists and their fees:
[quote]1. Jimi Hendrix - $18,000
2. Blood, Sweat and Tears - $15,000
3. Joan Baez - $10,000
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - $10,000
5. The Band - $7,500
6. Janis Joplin - $7,500
7. Jefferson Airplane - $7,500
8. Sly and the Family Stone - $7,000
9. Canned Heat - $6,500
10. The Who - $6,250
11. Richie Havens - $6,000
12. Arlo Guthrie - $5,000
13. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - $5,000
14. Ravi Shankar - $4,500
15. Johnny Winter - $3,750
16. Ten Years After - $3,250
17. Country Joe and the Fish - $2,500
18. Grateful Dead - $2,500
19. The Incredible String Band - $2,250
20. Mountain - $2,000
21. Tim Hardin - $2,000
22. Joe Cocker - $1,375
23. Sweetwater - $1,250
24. John B. Sebastian - $1,000
25. Melanie - $750
26. Santana - $750
27. Sha Na Na - $700
28. Keef Hartley - $500
29. Quill - $375[/quote]
https://crackmagazine.net/2015/03/find-out-how-much-each-band-cost-at-woodstock/
Joe Cocker and Santana earned very little because they were virtually unknown when their contracts were signed in early 1969. In fact, their performances at Woodstock - and their inclusion in the 1970 documentary film - turned them into global superstars overnight. (wellenbrecher)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
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May 23 26 by serpa
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May 23 26 by serpa
Is the Fissure of Rolando in the Carpathian Mountains?
It's not the Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees either, and Luigi Rolondo was an early 19th-century Italian neurologist, not an 8th-century Frankish military hero and literary legend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland (lanfranco)
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May 23 26 by serpa
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May 23 26 by serpa
Is the Fissure of Rolando in the Carpathian Mountains?
The central sulcus (fissure of Rolando) separates the frontal lobe (anterior) from the parietal lobe (posterior).
The location of the central sulcus is made by finding the intersection of the superior frontal sulcus with the precentral sulcus on axial slices near the top.
https://w-radiology.com/central-sulcus/ (pehinhota)
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May 23 26 by serpa
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May 22 26 by GBfan
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May 23 26 by odo5435
Which archipelago was the site of a successful campaign against malaria led by the German physician and microbiologist Robert Koch in 1901?
The Brijuni (Brioni) Archipelago in the northern Adriatic Sea (off Istria, today Croatia) was the site of a successful anti-malaria campaign led by Robert Koch around 1900-1902.
At the time, the islands were heavily affected by malaria due to mosquitoes breeding in marshes and ponds, which had made earlier settlement and tourism projects difficult. Koch implemented a practical control strategy: draining or filling standing water where mosquitoes bred and treating infected people with quinine.
The campaign worked, and malaria was effectively eliminated. This allowed industrialist Paul Kupelwieser's planned luxury health resort to develop on the islands.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9242531/ (wellenbrecher)
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May 22 26 by pehinhota
How many bricks are estimated to make up the Sphinx in Egypt?
it took 2,000 blocks to biuld just the body of the sphynx.
10,000 for the paws and 4,000 for the head. all together it was 16,000 blocks of lime stone.
https://www.answers.com/history-ec/How_many_blocks_did_the_sphinx_take#:~:text=it%20took%202%2C000%20blocks%20to%20biuld%20just%20the,together%20it%20was%2016%2C000%20blocks%20of%20lime%20stone. (pehinhota)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Which Michael Jackson single non-greatest hits album had the longest play time?
Michael Jackson's 1995 album HIStory Continues has a playing time of 77:09. This album was released as the second album of his ninth album release, "HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I", the first album of which contained his greatest hits. In case you are considering this as still being apart of a special release, then the distinction would probably belong to his tenth and final album Invincible which has a playing time of 77:01.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIStory:_Past,_Present_and_Future,_Book_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_(Michael_Jackson_album) (TriviaFan22)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Which NBA player was the first to get an official quintuple double in a game (10 or more in five different categories)?
There has been no officially recorded quintuple-double in the NBA, although Wilt Chamberlain is noted for having unofficially completed a quintuple-double in a game on March 18, 1968. The discrepancy lies in the fact that the NBA didn't record blocks and steals until 1973, according to Under Armour, meaning Chamberlain's achievement is not a matter of the official record books.
https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/t/playbooks/basketball/what-is-a-double-double-in-basketball-and-why-does-it-matter/ (TriviaFan22)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Who got paid the most to perform at Woodstock in 1969?
Jimi Hendrix was the highest paid performer at Woodstock 1969. [quote]Jimi Hendrix might have had to wait several hours to play his 'headline' set - played well after the witching hour at 8am on the Monday - but the fee no doubt calmed any frustrations. He and the Gypsy Suns and Rainbows walked away with $32,000 ($223,300/£184,100 in 2019's money) for their troubles, nearly three times what The Who were paid.[/quote] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190813-50-facts-about-woodstock-at-50-money
(gtho4)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
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May 16 26 by odo5435
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May 18 26 by pehinhota
On March 17, 1945, an SS unit fired eleven V2 rockets from a launch site in the Netherlands — to strike what target?
Wellenbrecher is correct. There were 11 V-2 rockets fired at the Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen (Germany), but all of them missed the bridge. The closest one hit at 270 meters (890 feet) from the bridge and killed 3 American troops. The troops there said that the blast felt like an earthquake.The inaccurate missiles landed as far away as Cologne, 64 kilometers (40 mi) to the north. One struck the town of Oedingen, destroying a number of buildings and killing German citizens and American troops. The Germans tried to bomb the bridge from the air but the Allied forces but up heavy antiaircraft fire everytime the Luftwaffe attacked. About a third of the Luftwaffe aircraft would be shot down as they attacked the bridge.The enemy also tried to hit the bridge with artillery shells and hit it with 2 or 3 shells but the weakened bridge still stood.
After weeks of aircraft bombing, direct artillery hits, near misses, and deliberate demolition attempts, the Ludendorff Bridge finally collapsed on 17 March 1945 at about 3:00 pm. From its capture 10 days before, over 25,000 troops and thousands of vehicles had crossed the bridge and the other two newly built tactical bridges and other temporary bridges. This bridge helped to shorten the war by 2 weeks. Soon the news spread that Hitler had 4 Nazi officers executed because they failed to destroy the bridge before the Allies captured it. (Howardman49)
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May 13 26 by pehinhota
When is it better to use the word 'Irregardless' rather than 'regardless'?
Although irregardless has become fairly common, many sites point out that it is a double negative since the prefix 'ir' and the suffix 'less' mean the same. Using the word changes its meaning from 'without regard' to 'with regard' under strict grammatical rules. In common language it might pass unnoticed but using it in an essay is likely to get your work downgraded.
As my daughter would confirm, I'm pedantic, so would avoid using the word myself.
Grammarly has an interesting article here which debates both sides of the argument: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/vocabulary/irregardless/ (rossian)
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May 16 26 by odo5435
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May 06 26 by pehinhota
Why are roughly 95% of colour blind people men?
This is because the most common type of colour blindness is caused by a gene located on the X chromosome. Since men only have one X chromosome, even one faulty gene is enough to cause colour blindness. However, women have two X chromosomes, so a working copy on the second chromosome usually compensates.
A woman can be colour blind if both of her X chromosomes carry the faulty gene. This usually means that her father is colour blind, and her mother is at least a carrier of the gene. Since this combination is much rarer, colour blindness in women is uncommon.
https://enchroma.com/blogs/beyond-color/can-women-be-color-blind (wellenbrecher)
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May 16 26 by odo5435
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May 16 26 by odo5435
Which street in Tehran is named after a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army?
The reason was "to make a political point against the British government."
[quote]After his death the local government of Tehran decided to rename the street that the British Embassy is on Bobby Sands Street, in honour of the Irish nationalist, and also for some cheap political point scoring against the British government. Winston Churchill Boulevard was the street that was renamed, where the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Tehran is located, to Bobby Sands Street.
In turn, the British Embassy had to make a side entrance on a side street their main entrance so as not to have Bobby Sands Street written on their letter heads and other correspondence. As such the Embassy's main entrance was moved to a side door on Ferdowsi Street.[/quote]
https://www.saigatours.com/article/why-is-there-a-bobby-sands-street-in-tehran (wellenbrecher)
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May 05 26 by pehinhota
In 2004 which was the first US Army ship named after an African American?
[quote]USAV Major General Robert Smalls (LSV-8) is a General Frank S. Besson Jr.-class roll-on/roll-off of the US Army.[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAV_Major_General_Robert_Smalls
[quote]Built by VT Halter Marine in Moss Point, Miss., and christened in April 2004, LSV-8 is named in honor of Robert Smalls. As a 23-year-old slave during the Civil War he commandeered a Confederate transport steamer loaded with armaments and used the vessel to spirit his wife, children and 12 other slaves to freedom.[/quote]
https://www.army.mil/article/4877/latest_army_vessel_honors_american_hero (serpa)
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May 14 26 by pehinhota
In Norse mythology, who was the leader of the Valkyries?
There is no generally accepted answer to this.
The goddess Freyja picks the valkyries, but she is not one herself nor does she typically command them. Their service is to Odin.
Among the valkyries themselves, most sources name no specific leader, but a few, such as the Volsunga Saga, single out Brynhild as such.
https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Valkyries/313973 (WesleyCrusher)
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May 14 26 by playmate1111
In Norse mythology, who was the leader of the Valkyries?
Goddess Freyja
ancientmythology.net/norse-mythology/the-valkyries-in-norse-mythology/#:~:text=According%20to%20Norse%20mythology%2C%20the%20Valkyries%20are%20led,Norse%20mythology%2C%20associated%20with%20love%2C%20beauty%2C%20and%20fertility (pehinhota)
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May 14 26 by playmate1111
On March 17, 1945, an SS unit fired eleven V2 rockets from a launch site in the Netherlands — to strike what target?
The rockets were aimed at the Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen (Germany), which US troops had seized and were using to cross the Rhine. The attack was ordered by Hitler and Himmler, it was the first attempt to use V2 rockets against a specific tactical target. Because the rockets were highly inaccurate, none struck the bridge itself, but detonations nearby still killed and injured American soldiers and German civilians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Remagen#V2_rockets_used
https://www.v2rocket.com/start/deployment/v2s-on-remagen.html (wellenbrecher)
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May 13 26 by pehinhota
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Apr 28 26 by GBfan
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May 07 26 by ozzz2002
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May 06 26 by Philip_Eno
What is the fastest goal in NHL history at the start of game?
The fastest goal at the start of a game (opening faceoff) in NHL history is 5 seconds. The record is shared by four players:
Merlyn Phillips (1926)
Doug Smail (1981)
Bryan Trottier (1984)
Alexander Mogilny (1991)
https://records.nhl.com/records/skater-records/fastest-goals/fastest-goal-game-start
(wellenbrecher)
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May 05 26 by GBfan
We all know the book, 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', but what exactly IS a pimpernel?
Pimpernel are small, low-growing, sprawling wild plants. [quote]The pimpernels, yellow, scarlet, and blue to name a few, although not closely related (actually in the primula family) are very similar in appearance to the chickweeds but with clear differences which is good as several are toxic.[/quote]https://www.wildfooduk.com/wild-plants/pimpernel/
(Philip_Eno)
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May 07 26 by ozzz2002
Which English sportsman claims to be the only person to have achieved a hat-trick consisting of a maximum break, a nine-darter, and a hole-in-one?
The British snooker player Shaun Murphy
https://www.tntsports.co.uk/snooker/former-world-champion-shaun-murphy-claims-he-is-only-person-to-achieve-147-nine-darter-and-hole-in-o_sto8807189/story.shtml
"Scoring a 147 break is one of the rarest achievements in snooker and Shaun Murphy is one of the few players to have achieved such a thing. However, as a keen golfer he also boasts the claim that he has scored a hole-in-one, and went further when it came to darts, also saying that he had a nine-darter too. Murphy believes he may be the only person on the planet to achieve the hat-trick." (Philip_Eno)
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May 06 26 by pehinhota
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