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Linda Smith (comedian)

Linda Helen Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was an English comedian and comedy writer. She appeared regularly on Radio 4 panel games, and was voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002. From 2004 to 2006 she was head of the British Humanist Association.

Life and career
Smith was born in Erith, Kent, in 1958 and was educated at Erith College of Technology (now Bexley College) and at the University of Sheffield where she graduated in English and Drama. She was a founder member of the theatre company Sheffield Popular Theatre before turning to comedy. She never joined a political grouping, claiming that The Tufty Club was the only outfit she ever joined. She inhabited that ground where anarchism meets socialism. Her early stand-up appearances were with her university friend Ann Lavelle in a double act called Token Women and then Tuff Lovers. They performed at small comedy clubs and many solidarity benefit shows on the Pit Stop Tour which stopped off at miners' welfare clubs during the latter stages of the 1984/85 national miners' strike. She became a full time solo stand-up comedian in 1986.

In 1987, she won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, then known as the New London Comic Award, and performed on the Edinburgh Fringe before breaking into radio comedy.

Her first appearances on national radio were on Radio 5's The Treatment in 1997. She was subsequently a regular panellist on The News Quiz and Just a Minute and appeared frequently on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (from June 2001 onwards), Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, Countdown and QI. She wrote and starred in her own Radio 4 sitcom, Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting. After appearing on Radio 4's Devout Sceptics to discuss her beliefs she was asked by the British Humanist Association (BHA) to become president of the society, a role that she occupied with commitment from 2004 until her death. In 2002, she was voted 'Wittiest Living Person' by listeners to BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth. In his 2003 book Classic Radio Comedy, Mat Coward called Smith "the funniest woman on radio today".

On 17 November 2003, Smith appeared on the BBC television show Room 101, where she successfully managed to put in "adults who read Harry Potter books", Tim Henman, "Back to School signs that appear in shops" and "posh people". However, she failed to put in bow ties after host Paul Merton pointed out that Stan Laurel regularly wore a bow tie.

From 2001 to 2004, Smith toured her full-length solo show 'Wrap Up Warm' to sold-out audiences at theatres and arts centres throughout Britain. Her first professional appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe was in 1988 on a double bill at The Comedy Boom. Between then and 1994, she performed solo shows and shared the stage at various fringe venues with comedy pals such as Henry Normal, Hattie Hayridge and Betty Spital.

Illness, death and legacy
On 27 February 2006 in Wanstead, Smith died as a consequence of ovarian cancer at the age of 48. She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer three-and-a-half years earlier but, not wanting to be thought of as a patient or a victim, she did not want people to know. Before she died she chose that her funeral be humanist and her memorial at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, on 10 March, was dedicated to the British Humanist Association. Her life and work were honoured at the British Academy Television Awards in 2006. The first episode of Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy was dedicated to the memory of Smith. A tribute edition of The News Quiz featuring clips of Smith's appearances and personal memories of her from other panellists was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 3 March 2006, hosted by Simon Hoggart.

Three tribute gigs were held in her memory in 2006. The first took place on 14 May at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, In Praise of an English Radical, the second on 4 June at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London entitled Tippy Top: An Evening of Linda Smith's Favourite Things, and the third was a midnight benefit gig at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh on 22 August. In August 2006, Andy Hamilton presented a BBC Radio 4 tribute entitled Linda Smith: A Modern Radio Star. An anthology on CD, entitled I Think the Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith, was released in November 2006 as was a book with the same name. A tribute show of the same name was aired on BBC Radio 4 on 10 November 2006. Smith's sell-out stage show Wrap Up Warm has been available on CD since November 2006. A biography of Linda's life and career, Driving Miss Smith written by her partner Warren Lakin, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in September 2007. A tribute show, Linda Smith's Favourite Things Vol. 2, was held at the Victoria Palace on 28 October to coincide with the publication of the book.

Smith was working on a third series of A Brief History of Timewasting before she became incapacitated by her illness. As a tribute the online radio station BBC 7 ran the previous two series, the first all on one day.

The University of Kent holds The Linda Smith Collection as the foundation of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive. It includes notes, diaries, scripts, audio-visual recordings, photographs, press cuttings, correspondence and publicity material covering her entire life and career. It was deposited at the University of Kent by Smith's partner Warren Lakin in 2013. Since 2015, the University of Kent has organised the annual Linda Smith Lecture, in which comedians and writers have spoken about issues in the comedy industry as well as recalling memories of Smith. To date, the speakers have been Mark Thomas (2015), Andy Hamilton (2016), Susan Calman (2017), Barry Cryer (2018), Jo Brand (2019), Robin Ince (2021), Angela Barnes (2022) and Jan Ravens (2023). A video of Robin Ince's Linda Smith Lecture is available as a download from Go Faster Stripe.

Between 2010 and 2014, a series of six tribute shows featuring prominent comedians and musicians called Loving Linda took place at the Rose Theatre, Kingston to raise money for Target Ovarian Cancer. Two further Loving Linda shows were staged at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh in August 2018 and the Cambridge Theatre, London in October 2018.

In 2019 Chortle published a list of 12 of Smith's best jokes to mark her birthday.

Personal life
Smith met her partner Warren Lakin when Sheffield Popular Theatre was formed in 1983, and they were together for 23 years until her death.

Books

 * Sit-Down Comedy (contributor to anthology, ed Malcolm Hardee & John Fleming) Ebury Press/Random House, 2003. ISBN 0-09-188924-3; ISBN 978-0-09-188924-1

Video

 * Linda Smith talking about Just a Minute BBC2, Arena, 26 December 2005 (RealVideo)

Audio

 * Linda Smith explores Auvergne & Corsica BBC Radio 4, 12 April 2005
 * The Limited Power of Satire/Linda's Rise from Obscurity BBC Radio 4, The News Quiz, 7 September 2005
 * Linda Smith has her eye on the Chairman's seat BBC Radio 4, The News Quiz, 6 February 2006
 * Interview with Jenny Colgan, containing tribute BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour, 1 March 2006

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103 (number)

103 (one hundred [and] three) is the natural number following 102 and preceding 104.

In mathematics
103 is a prime number, and the largest prime factor of $$6!+1=721=7\cdot 103$$. The previous prime is 101. This makes 103 a twin prime. It is the fifth irregular prime, because it divides the numerator of the Bernoulli number $$B_{24}=-\frac{236364091}{2730}=-\frac{103\cdot 2294797}{2730}.$$

The equation $$64^3+94^3=103^3+1$$ makes 103 part of a "Fermat near miss".

There are 103 different connected series-parallel partial orders on exactly six unlabeled elements.

103 is conjectured to be the smallest number for which repeatedly reversing the digits of its ternary representation, and adding the number to its reversal, does not eventually reach a ternary palindrome.

In science
103 is the atomic number of lawrencium, a radioactive element named after Ernest Lawrence.

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104 (number)

104 (one hundred [and] four) is the natural number following 103 and preceding 105.

In mathematics
104 forms the fifth Ruth-Aaron pair with 105, since the distinct prime factors of 104 (2 and 13) and 105 (3, 5, and 7) both add up to 15. Also, the sum of the divisors of 104 aside from unitary divisors, is 105. With eight total divisors where 8 is the fourth largest, 104 is the seventeenth refactorable number. 104 is also the twenty-fifth primitive semiperfect number.

The sum of all its divisors is σ(104) = 210, which is the sum of the first twenty nonzero integers, as well as the product of the first four prime numbers (2 × 3 × 5 × 7).

Its Euler totient, or the number of integers relatively prime with 104, is 48. This value is also equal to the totient of its sum of divisors, φ(104) = φ(σ(104)).

The smallest known 4-regular matchstick graph has 104 edges and 52 vertices, where four unit line segments intersect at every vertex.

A row of four adjacent congruent rectangles can be divided into a maximum of 104 regions, when extending diagonals of all possible rectangles.

Regarding the second largest sporadic group $$\mathbb {B}$$, its McKay–Thompson series representative of a principal modular function is $$T_{2A}(\tau)$$, with constant term $$a(0) = 104$$:

 * $$j_{2A}(\tau) = T_{2A}(\tau)+104 = \frac{1}{q} + 104 + 4372q + 96256q^2 + \cdots$$

The Tits group $$\mathbb {T}$$, which is the only finite simple group to classify as either a non-strict group of Lie type or sporadic group, holds a minimal faithful complex representation in 104 dimensions. This is twice the dimensional representation of exceptional Lie algebra $$\mathfrak{f}_4$$ in 52 dimensions, whose associated lattice structure $$\mathrm {F_{4}}$$ forms the ring of Hurwitz quaternions that is represented by the vertices of the 24-cell — with this regular 4-polytope one of 104 total four-dimensional uniform polychora, without taking into account the infinite families of uniform antiprismatic prisms and duoprisms.

In other fields
104 is also:
 * The atomic number of rutherfordium.
 * The number of Corinthian columns in the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the largest temple ever built in Greece.
 * The number of Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn upon which numbers are agreed (though in fact, he wrote two more: see list of symphonies by Joseph Haydn).

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105 (number)

105 (one hundred [and] five) is the natural number following 104 and preceding 106.

In mathematics
105 is a triangular number, a dodecagonal number, and the first Zeisel number. It is the first odd sphenic number and is the product of three consecutive prime numbers. 105 is the double factorial of 7. It is also the sum of the first five square pyramidal numbers.

105 comes in the middle of the prime quadruplet (101, 103, 107, 109). The only other such numbers less than a thousand are 9, 15, 195, and 825.

105 is also the middle of the only prime sextuplet (97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113) between the ones occurring at 7-23 and at 16057–16073. 105 is the product of the first three odd primes ($$3\times5\times7$$) and is less than the square of the next prime (11) by > 8. Therefore, for $$n=105$$, n ± 2, ± 4, and ± 8 must be prime (a prime k-tuple). In contrast, n ± 6, ± 10, ± 12, and ± 14 must be composite, making a prime gap on either side.

105 is also a pseudoprime to the prime bases 13, 29, 41, 43, 71, 83, and 97. The distinct prime factors of 105 add up to 15, and so do those of 104; hence, the two numbers form a Ruth-Aaron pair under the first definition.

105 is also a number n for which $$n - 2^k$$ is prime, for $$0 < k < log_2(n)$$. (This even works up to $$k = 8$$, ignoring the negative sign.)

105 is the smallest integer such that the factorization of $$x^n-1$$ over Q includes non-zero coefficients other than $$\pm 1$$. In other words, the 105th cyclotomic polynomial, Φ105, is the first with coefficients other than $$\pm 1$$.

105 is the number of parallelogram polyominoes with 7 cells.

In science

 * The atomic number of dubnium.

In other fields
105 is also:
 * A Shimano Road groupset since 1984

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106 (number)

106 (one hundred [and] six) is the natural number following 105 and preceding 107.

In mathematics
106 is a centered pentagonal number, a centered heptagonal number, and a regular 19-gonal number. There are 106 mathematical trees with ten vertices.

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107 (number)

107 (one hundred [and] seven) is the natural number following 106 and preceding 108.

In mathematics
107 is the 28th prime number. The next prime is 109, with which it comprises a twin prime, making 107 a Chen prime.

Plugged into the expression $$2^p - 1$$, 107 yields 162259276829213363391578010288127, a Mersenne prime. 107 is itself a safe prime.

It is the fourth Busy beaver number, the maximum number of steps that any Turing machine with 2 symbols and 4 states can make before eventually halting.

It is the number of triangle-free graphs on 7 vertices.

It is the ninth emirp, because reversing its digits gives another prime number (701)

In other fields
As "one hundred and seven", it is the smallest positive integer requiring six syllables in English (without the "and" it only has five syllables and seventy-seven is a smaller 5-syllable number).

107 is also:
 * The atomic number of bohrium.
 * The emergency telephone number in Argentina and Cape Town.
 * The telephone of the police in Hungary.
 * A common designation for the fair use exception in copyright law (from 17 U.S.C. 107)
 * Peugeot 107 model of car

In sports

 * The 107% rule, a Formula One Sporting Regulation in operation from 1996 to 2002 and 2011 onward.
 * The number 107 is also associated with the Timbers Army supporters group of the Portland Timbers soccer team, in reference to the stadium seating section where the group originally congregated.

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108 (number)

108 (one hundred [and] eight) is the natural number following 107 and preceding 109.

In mathematics
108 is:

 * an abundant number.
 * a semiperfect number.
 * a tetranacci number.
 * the hyperfactorial of 3 since it is of the form $$1^1 \cdot 2^2 \cdot 3^3$$.
 * divisible by the value of its φ function, which is 36.
 * divisible by the total number of its divisors (12), hence it is a refactorable number.
 * the angle in degrees of the interior angles of a regular pentagon in Euclidean space.
 * palindromic in bases 11 (9911), 17 (6617), 26 (4426), 35 (3335) and 53 (2253)
 * a Harshad number in bases 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 16
 * a self number.
 * an Achilles number because it is a powerful number but not a perfect power.
 * nine dozen, or three quarters of a gross.

There are 108 free polyominoes of order 7.

The equation $$2\sin\left(\frac{108^\circ}{2}\right) = \phi $$ results in the golden ratio.

This could be restated as saying that the "chord" of 108 degrees is $$\phi $$, the golden ratio.

Religion and the arts
The number 108 is considered sacred by the Dharmic Religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

Hinduism
In Hindu tradition, the Mukhya Shivaganas (attendants of Shiva) are 108 in number and hence Shaiva religions, particularly Lingayats, use malas of 108 beads for prayer and meditation.

Similarly, in Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Lord Krishna in Brindavan had 108 followers known as gopis. Recital of their names, often accompanied by the counting of a 108-beaded mala, is often done during religious ceremonies.

The Sri Vaishnavite Tradition has 108 Divya Desams (temples of Vishnu) that are revered by the 12 Alvars in the Divya Prabandha, a collection of 4,000 Tamil verses. There are also 18 pithas (sacred places).

The Sudarshana Chakra is a spinning, discus weapon with 108 serrated edges, generally portrayed on the right rear hand of the four hands of Vishnu.

The total number of Upanishads is 108 as per Muktikā canon.

Jainism
In Jainism, the total number of ways of Karma influx (Aasrav). 4 Kashays (anger, pride, conceit, greed) x 3 karanas (mind, speech, bodily action) x 3 stages of planning (planning, procurement, commencement) x 3 ways of execution (own action, getting it done, supporting or approval of action).

Buddhism
In Theravada Buddhism, according to Bhante Gunaratana this number is reached by multiplying the senses smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight, and consciousness by whether they are painful, pleasant or neutral, and then again by whether these are internally generated or externally occurring, and yet again by past, present and future, finally we get 108 feelings. 6 × 3 × 2 × 3 = 108. Thus, the number 108 represents all the possible sensory states that one could experience.

Tibetan Buddhist malas or rosaries (Tib. ཕྲེང་བ Wyl. phreng ba, "Trengwa" ) are usually 108 beads; sometimes 111 including the guru bead(s), reflecting the words of the Buddha called in Tibetan the Kangyur (Wylie: Bka'-'gyur) in 108 volumes. Zen priests wear juzu (a ring of prayer beads) around their wrists, which consists of 108 beads.

The Lankavatara Sutra has a section where the Bodhisattva Mahamati asks Buddha 108 questions and another section where Buddha lists 108 statements of negation in the form of "A statement concerning X is not a statement concerning X." In a footnote, D.T. Suzuki explains that the Sanskrit word translated as "statement" is pada which can also mean "foot-step" or "a position". This confusion over the word "pada" explains why some have mistakenly held that the reference to 108 statements in the Lankavatara refer to the 108 steps that many temples have.

In Japan, at the end of the year, a bell is chimed 108 times in Buddhist temples to finish the old year and welcome the new one (Joya no Kane (除夜の鐘)). Each ring represents one of 108 earthly temptations (Bonnō) a person must overcome to achieve nirvana.

Other references
In the neo-Gnostic teachings of Samael Aun Weor, an individual has 108 chances (lifetimes) to eliminate his egos and transcend the material world before "devolving" and having the egos forcefully removed in the infradimensions.

Martial arts
Many East Asian martial arts trace their roots back to Buddhism, specifically, to the Buddhist Shaolin Temple. Because of their ties to Buddhism, 108 has become an important symbolic number in a number of martial arts styles.

 * According to Marma Adi and Ayurveda, there are 108 pressure points in the body, where consciousness and flesh intersect to give life to the living being.
 * The Chinese school of martial arts agrees with the Indian school of martial arts on the principle of 108 pressure points.
 * 108 number figures prominently in the symbolism associated with karate, particularly the Gōjū-ryū discipline. The ultimate Gōjū-ryū kata, Suparinpei, literally translates to 108. Suparinpei is the Chinese Foochow language pronunciation of the number 108, while gojūshi of Gojūshiho is the Japanese pronunciation of the number 54. The other Gōjū-ryū kata, Sanseru (meaning "36") and Seipai ("18") are factors of the number 108.
 * The 108 moves of the Yang Taijiquan long form and 108 moves in the Wing Chun wooden dummy form, taught by Ip Man, are noted in this regard.
 * The Eagle Claw Kung Fu style has a form known as the 108 Locking Hand Techniques. This form is considered the essence of the style, consisting of an encyclopedia of Chin Na techniques, and is said to be passed down from the founder General Yue Fei.
 * Paek Pal Ki Hyung, the 7th form taught in the art of Kuk Sool Won, translates literally to "108 technique" form. It is also frequently referred to as the "eliminate 108 torments" form. Each motion corresponds with one of the 108 Buddhist torments or defilements.
 * In the Cambodian martial art of Bokator, there are 108 kbach in gates 1 through 8 of the hand-to-hand combat techniques.
 * There 108 defense combinations that are considered canon in Shaolin Kempo Karate.

In literature

 * In Homer's Odyssey, the number of Proci, the suitors coveting Penelope, wife of Odysseus.
 * There are 108 outlaws in the Chinese classic Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an.
 * There are 108 love sonnets in Astrophil and Stella, the first English sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney.
 * There are 108 lines in Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem "The Raven".
 * 108 alien colonists (called Salaxalans) die when their landing craft accidentally explodes on the primordial Earth in Douglas Adams' 1987 novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
 * There are 108 murders detailed in "The Part About The Crimes" in Roberto Bolaño's 2004 novel 2666.
 * The repeated numbers in the tv show LOST (4,8,15,16,23,42) total 108.

In science

 * 108 is the atomic number of hassium.
 * 108 degrees Fahrenheit is the internal temperature at which the human body's vital organs begin to fail from overheating.
 * The distance of Earth from the Sun is about 108 times the diameter of the Sun (actually closer to 107.51, as per definition of the AU). Actual ratio varies between 105.7 (Perihelion) and 109.3 (Aphelion).
 * The distance between the Earth and the Moon is also about 108 times the diameter of the Moon. The coincidence that the Sun and Moon both have approximately the same ratio between their diameters and their distances to Earth means their apparent sizes in Earth's sky are about the same, which is what makes total solar eclipses possible.

In technology

 * The number of Mbit/s of a non-standard extension of IEEE 802.11g wireless network using channel bonding.

In sports

 * 108 is the number that the Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt wore when he crashed fatally in the Giro d'Italia on May 9, 2011. As a tribute, many supporters held replicas of his race number by the side of the road the next day. The organization of the Giro d'Italia decided not to issue race number 108 in future editions, to commemorate him.
 * An official Major League Baseball baseball has 108 stitches.
 * In 2016 the Chicago Cubs (MLB) won the World Series for the first time in 108 years, ending the longest championship drought in North American professional sports. The Cubs' win came in the 10th inning with 8 runs (108).

In card games

 * There are 108 cards in a deck of UNO cards.
 * The traditional card game Canasta is played with 108 cards.

In other fields

 * In India, 108 (1-0-8) is the toll-free emergency telephone number.

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Miller Farr

Miller Farr Jr. (April 8, 1943 – July 18, 2023) was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for 10 seasons in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL).

Farr attended Wichita State University, lettering in football and track. In his senior year, he led the nation in kickoff and punt returns. He was a member of a family of athletes and artists, including a brother and cousins, football players Mel Farr, Lem Barney, and Jerry LeVias, and cousin, singer Marvin Gaye.

Farr was a first-round draft choice by the AFL's Denver Broncos in the 1965 Red Shirt draft, then went to the San Diego Chargers for 1965 and 1966. He played defensive back for the Houston Oilers from 1967 through 1969. During the 1967 season, Farr was the AFL co-leader in interceptions with ten (t – Westmoreland, Janik). Despite a bout with hepatitis, he intercepted two passes for touchdowns in one game in 1968. He led the AFL in interception touchdowns that year and was selected All-AFL and All-Pro.

Following the AFL–NFL merger, Farr signed with the St. Louis Cardinals beginning in 1970 where he finished out his NFL career. In 1974, he played with the Florida Blazers of the World Football League.

A three time American Football League All-Star, Farr established an AFL record for the most touchdowns on pass interceptions in a game (2) and tied the AFL record for a season (3). Farr was selected to the All-Time All-AFL second-team.

Farr was from a family full of professional football players. He was the older brother of former NFL player Mel Farr as well as the uncle of former players Mel Farr, Jr. and Mike Farr. He and his brother attended Hebert High School in Beaumont, Texas, and were among 16 pro footballers given the keys to the city in 1971.

Farr died on July 18, 2023, at the age of 80.

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109 (number)

109 (one hundred [and] nine) is the natural number following 108 and preceding 110.

In mathematics
109 is the 29th prime number. As 29 is itself prime, 109 is the tenth super-prime. The previous prime is 107, making them both twin primes.

109 is a centered triangular number.

There are exactly:

 * 109 different families of subsets of a three-element set whose union includes all three elements.
 * 109 different loops (invertible but not necessarily associative binary operations with an identity) on six elements.
 * 109 squares on an infinite chessboard that can be reached by a knight within three moves.

There are 109 uniform edge-colorings to the 11 regular and semiregular (or Archimedean) tilings.

The decimal expansion of 1/109 can be computed using the alternating series, with $$F(n)$$ the $$n^{th}$$ Fibonacci number:

 * $$\frac{1}{109}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty{F(n)\times 10^{-(n+1)}}\times (-1)^{n+1}=0.00917431\dots$$

The decimal expansion of 1/109 has 108 digits, making 109 a full reptend prime in decimal. The last six digits of the 108-digit cycle are 853211, the first six Fibonacci numbers in descending order.

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110 (number)

110 (one hundred [and] ten) is the natural number following 109 and preceding 111.

In mathematics
110 is a sphenic number and a pronic number. Following the prime quadruplet (101, 103, 107, 109), at 110, the Mertens function reaches a low of −5.

110 is the sum of three consecutive squares, $$110 = 5^2 + 6^2 + 7^2$$.

RSA-110 is one of the RSA numbers, large semiprimes that are part of the RSA Factoring Challenge.

In base 10, the number 110 is a Harshad number and a self number.

In science

 * The atomic number of darmstadtium.

In religion

 * According to the Bible, the figures Joseph and Joshua  both died aged 110.

In sports
Olympic male track and field athletics run 110 metre hurdles. (Female athletes run the 100 metre hurdles instead.)

The International 110, or the 110, is a one-design racing sailboat designed in 1939 by C. Raymond Hunt.

In other fields
110 is also:
 * The year AD 110 or 110 BC
 * A common name for mains electricity in North America, despite the nominal voltage actually being 120 V (range 110–120 V). Normally spoken as "one-ten".
 * 1-1-0, the emergency telephone number used to reach police services in Iran, Germany, Estonia, China, Indonesia, and Japan. Also used to reach the fire and rescue services in Norway and Turkey.
 * The age a person must attain in order to be considered a supercentenarian.
 * A card game related to Forty-five (card game).
 * A percentage in the expression "To give 110%", meaning to give a little more effort than one's maximum effort
 * The number of stories of each of the towers of the former World Trade Center in New York.
 * The number of stories (by common reckoning) of the Sears Tower in Chicago.
 * The TCP port used for POP3 email protocol
 * A 110 block is a type of punch block used to connect sets of wires in a structured cabling system.
 * The abjad (ابجد) translation of word "علی" (Ali) in Arabic and Persian.
 * It is also known as "eleventy", a term made famous by linguist and author J. R. R. Tolkien (Bilbo Baggins celebrates his eleventy-first birthday at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings) and derived from the Old English hund endleofantig. When the word eleventy is used, it may indicate the exact number (110), or more commonly an indefinite large number such as gazillion.
 * Eleventy is used in the comic reading of a phone number in the Irish TV series "The Savage Eye" by Dave McSavage playing an opiate user advertising life insurance.
 * Lowest number to not be considered a favorite by anyone among 44,000 people surveyed in a 2014 online poll and subsequently adopted by British television show QI as the show's favourite number in 2017.

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Ronnie Corbett

Ronald Balfour Corbett (4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016) was a Scottish actor, broadcaster, comedian and writer. He had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies. He achieved prominence in David Frost's 1960s satirical comedy programme The Frost Report (with Barker) and subsequently starred in sitcoms such as No – That's Me Over Here!, Now Look Here, and Sorry!

Corbett began his acting career after moving from Edinburgh to London; he had early roles in the TV series Crackerjack and The Saint, and appeared in the films You're Only Young Twice, Rockets Galore!, Casino Royale, Some Will, Some Won't, and No Sex Please, We're British. He first worked with Ronnie Barker in the BBC TV series The Frost Report in 1966, and the two of them were given their own show by the BBC five years later. The Two Ronnies ran as a comedy sketch show from 1971 to 1987, and became Corbett and Barker's most famous work; Corbett became known for his meandering chair monologues.

Early life
Corbett was born on 4 December 1930 at the Simpson Memorial Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of William Balfour Corbett (1898–1974), a master baker, and his London-born wife Annie Elizabeth Corbett (née Main; 1900–1991). He had a brother about six years younger, Allan, and a sister about ten years younger, Margaret. Corbett's grandfather was the principal organist at St Andrews Church of Scotland, George Street, Edinburgh in the early 20th century and features in church histories of the time.

Corbett was educated at James Gillespie's Boys School and the Royal High School in the city. After leaving school, he decided he wanted to be an actor while performing in amateur theatricals at a church youth club. His first job, however, was with the Ministry of Agriculture.

Corbett carried out national service with the Royal Air Force, during which he was the shortest commissioned officer in the British Forces. Having enlisted as aircraftman 2nd class Service No.2446942, he received a commission into the secretarial branch of the RAF as a pilot officer (national service) on 25 May 1950. He transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve (National Service List) on 28 October 1951, thereby ending his period of active service. He was promoted to flying officer on 6 September 1952.

Career
Following national service, Corbett moved to London to start his acting career. At 5 ft tall, Corbett was suited to playing roles younger than his years. References to his height frequently cropped up in his self-deprecating humour. In one of his earliest stage appearances, he was billed as "Ronald Corbett" at Cromer in Take it Easy in 1956, with Graham Stark. He appeared in Crackerjack as a regular in its early days, one episode with Winifred Atwell. He had a walk-on in an early episode of the 1960s series The Saint (as "Ronald Corbett") and appeared in films including You're Only Young Twice (1952), Rockets Galore! (1957), Casino Royale (1967), Some Will, Some Won't (1970) and the film version of the farce No Sex Please, We're British (1973).

Corbett starred in the first London production of the musical The Boys from Syracuse (as Dromio of Syracuse) in 1963 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, alongside Bob Monkhouse. In 1965 he was in cabaret at Winston's, Danny La Rue's Mayfair nightclub. David Frost saw him and asked him to appear in The Frost Report. Corbett was in the West End, playing Will Scarlett in Lionel Bart's Robin Hood musical Twang!!. It failed, leaving Corbett free to accept. It was while working at Danny La Rue's nightclub that Corbett met Anne Hart, whom he was to marry that year. The marriage lasted 49 years, until his death.

With David Frost
Corbett first worked with Ronnie Barker in The Frost Report (1966–67). The writers and cast were mostly Oxbridge graduates from the Footlights tradition. Corbett said he and Barker were drawn together as two grammar school or state secondary school boys, who had not gone to university. The show was a mixture of satirical monologues, sketches and music. Corbett and Barker were beginning to be thought of as a pair.

They appeared with John Cleese in one of the most repeated comedy sketches in British television: the Class sketch. Corbett's height provided a key cue for both the visual humour and satirical value of the sketch, as he "looked up" to both Cleese and Barker's characters, and he got the pay-off line: "I get a pain in the back of my neck."

Continuing under Frost, Corbett starred in No – That's Me Over Here!, a sitcom written by Frost Report writers Barry Cryer, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle (ITV 1967–70). Cryer and Chapman wrote two follow-ups: Now Look Here (BBC 1971–73) and The Prince of Denmark (BBC 1974). Corbett also appeared in Frost on Sunday (ITV 1968) and hosted The Corbett Follies (ITV 1969). Frost was also the promoter of Corbett's 1970 novelty single "It's All Going Up Up Up", a satire on inflation.

He was a subject of the television programme This Is Your Life in April 1970 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews while appearing on the Frost on Sunday programme.

The Two Ronnies
Corbett's BBC television comedy show with Ronnie Barker, The Two Ronnies, ran from 1971 to 1987. Barker and Corbett performed sketches and musical numbers. Corbett presented a monologue. Sitting in a large easy chair (emphasising his small size), and usually wearing a Lyle & Scott golfing V-neck sweater, he would stretch telling a simple joke over several minutes, often allowing himself to appear to lose his train of thought.

Later work
Corbett's best-known role away from The Two Ronnies was as the 40-something Timothy Lumsden, dominated by his mother, in the sitcom Sorry! (1981–88). In 1996, he appeared on the première of the short-lived BBC game show Full Swing, hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck. Corbett played Reggie Sea Lions in the film Fierce Creatures (1997), written by his former Frost Report colleague John Cleese.

Corbett hosted the game show Small Talk and played minor parts occasionally since its end – such as Griselda in a television production of Cinderella in 2000, and reviving his armchair monologue routines for a weekly appearance in a stand-up show hosted by Ben Elton. In 2003, he appeared in advertisements for the Sky+ digital television service alongside Alice Cooper. The premise was a running gag about their being happy housemates. In December 2004, Corbett appeared on the BBC news quiz Have I Got News for You.

In 2005, Corbett teamed up again with Ronnie Barker for The Two Ronnies Sketchbook, comedy sketches from their original series with newly recorded linking material. Also in March 2005, Corbett appeared with comedian Peter Kay in the music video for the number one single "Is This the Way to Amarillo?" to raise money for Comic Relief. Corbett is remembered for accidentally falling on the treadmill that was out of shot in the green screen video; however, he found the fall funny when played back, and it was kept in the final version. He performed in the Children's Party at the Palace as Mr Tibbs, the Queen's butler.

In 2006, Corbett played a hyper-realised version of himself in Extras, caught taking drugs at the BAFTA Awards. He also starred as himself in Little Britain Abroad, in which Bubbles DeVere tried successfully to seduce him. He opened the centre in Cromer, Norfolk, named after Henry Blogg. Corbett was the castaway in the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs on 21 October 2007. In 2007, he appeared in an episode of Gordon Ramsay's The F Word. He featured as a Slitheen in a Sarah Jane Adventures episode for Red Nose Day 2009. He had a television interview about his life on 7 November 2009 for Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

In February 2010, Corbett was in the John Landis thriller comedy Burke & Hare. In August 2010 he was a panellist in the BBC 1 comedy show Would I Lie to You?. In the same month, he was the star of the Good Food HD programme Ronnie Corbett's Supper Club with Rob Brydon and Steve Speirs. The show's premise was that the main guest of the programme must choose a meal as if it were their last, and Corbett would cook it for him/her and his other guest, while they chatted about the guest's past and their current/future projects. In December of the same year he starred in a one-off special, The One Ronnie.

From 2010, Corbett starred in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom When The Dog Dies. The series reunited him with Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, the writers of Sorry! The series returned to BBC Radio Four for another three series.

Award and honours
Already an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Corbett was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to entertainment and charity. In 2002, the Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh awarded him an honorary degree.

Personal life
On 30 May 1966, Corbett married Anne Hart, an actress and dancer; they had two daughters, both became actresses. Their first child, a son, had a heart defect and died when he was 6 weeks old at St Thomas' Hospital, in London.

Corbett lived in Addington, London from 1970 to 2003. He also had a Scottish home in Gullane, East Lothian and often spoke of wanting to become a beekeeper, but never got around to doing it.

Corbett was a golfer and appeared in celebrity and pro–am events; in 2009, he made a documentary with Colin Montgomerie in which they played at Gleneagles. A keen cricket fan, Corbett was also a president of the cricketing charity the Lord's Taverners (1982 and 1987). He supported his local football club, Crystal Palace FC, as well as his hometown club, Heart of Midlothian FC.

In mid-2014, Corbett attended a party at 10 Downing Street hosted by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron. In August 2014, Corbett was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.

Death
On 31 March 2016, Corbett died at Shirley Oaks Hospital in Shirley, London. He had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in March 2015.

John Cleese said that Corbett had "the best timing" he had ever watched. Sir Bruce Forsyth said Corbett's death marked "one of the saddest days of my life". David Walliams, a close friend of Corbett, said that he was his "comedy idol".

Corbett's funeral service was held on 18 April 2016, at the St John the Evangelist Church near his home in Shirley. In tribute to one of his Two Ronnies comedy sketches, four candles were displayed at the back of the altar. His body was cremated following a private service at Croydon Crematorium. Mourners included Walliams, Sir Michael Parkinson, Rob Brydon and Jimmy Tarbuck. Barry Cryer, who worked with and first met Corbett 50 years before, said, "I can't think of him without smiling... I'm here and tipping my hat to him." A memorial service for Corbett was held in Westminster Abbey on 7 June 2017.

His widow, Anne, died on 5 November 2023 in Scotland, aged 90.

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112 (number)

112 (one hundred [and] twelve) is the natural number following 111 and preceding 113.

Mathematics
112 is an abundant number, a heptagonal number, and a Harshad number.

112 is the number of connected graphs on 6 unlabeled nodes.

If an equilateral triangle has sides of length 112, then it contains an interior point at integer distances 57, 65, and 73 from its vertices. This is the smallest possible side length of an equilateral triangle that contains a point at integer distances from the vertices.

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113 (number)

113 (one hundred [and] thirteen) is the natural number following 112 and preceding 114.

Mathematics

 * 113 is the 30th prime number (following 109 and preceding 127), so it can only be divided by one and itself. 113 is a Sophie Germain prime, an emirp, an isolated prime, a Chen prime and a Proth prime as it is a prime number of the form $$7\times 2^{4}+1.$$ 113 is also an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form $$3n - 1$$. In decimal, this prime is a primeval number and a permutable prime with 131 and 311.
 * 113 is a highly cototient number and a centered square number.
 * 113 is the denominator of 355/113, an accurate approximation to $\pi$.

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114 (number)

114 (one hundred [and] fourteen) is the natural number following 113 and preceding 115.

In mathematics

 * 114 is an abundant number, a sphenic number and a Harshad number. It is the sum of the first four hyperfactorials, including H(0). At 114, the Mertens function sets a new low of -6, a record that stands until 197.
 * 114 is the smallest positive integer* which has yet to be represented as a3 + b3 + c3, where a, b, and c are integers. It is conjectured that 114 can be represented this way. (*Excluding integers of the form 9k ± 4, for which solutions are known not to exist.)
 * There is no answer to the equation φ(x) = 114, making 114 a nontotient.
 * 114 appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by the terms 49, 65, 86 (it is the sum of the first two of these).
 * 114 is a repdigit in base 7 (222).

In religion
There are 114 chapters, or surahs, in the Quran.

There are 114 sayings in The Gospel of Thomas.

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The Two Ronnies

The Two Ronnies is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from 10 April 1971 to 25 December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo sections, serial stories and musical finales.

Origins
Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett met in 1963 at the Buckstone Club in the Haymarket, London, where Corbett was serving drinks between acting jobs. At the time, Barker was beginning to establish himself as a character actor in the West End and on radio. They were invited by David Frost to appear in his new show, The Frost Report, with John Cleese, but the pair's big break came when they filled in, unprepared and unscripted, for eleven minutes during a technical hitch at a British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards ceremony at the London Palladium in 1970. In the audience was Bill Cotton, the Head of Light Entertainment for the BBC, and Paul Fox, the Controller of BBC1. Cotton was so impressed by the duo that he turned to Fox and asked: "How would you like those two on your network?" Unknown to the pair, the renewal of their contract had just been declined by London Weekend Television of rival network ITV, freeing them to change channels. Barker and Corbett were given their own show by the BBC.

Writing
The show was based on the complementary personalities of Barker and Corbett, who never became an exclusive pairing, but continued to work independently in television outside of the editions of the Two Ronnies. The show was produced annually between 1971 and 1987. It had many notable writers including Ray Alan, John Cleese, Barry Cryer, Spike Milligan, David Nobbs, David Renwick, Terry Ravenscroft, Eric Idle, John Sullivan, Michael Palin, Bryan Blackburn,Terry Jones and Laurie Rowley. In addition, Barker used the pseudonym Gerald Wiley when writing sketches. Barker and Corbett would often structure each show themselves, alongside scriptwriters Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent.

Theme music
The main theme music for the show was composed by Ronnie Hazlehurst. Although opening and closing credits appear to use different themes, they are respectively the first & third sections of a longer piece.

Another track associated with the show is the stock track The Detectives by Alan Tew (also known as the theme to 1975 Yorkshire TV series The Hanged Man). This was used for the Charlie Farley & Piggy Malone story Stop You're Killing Me.

Newsdesk
The Two Ronnies always opened and closed at the newsdesk, which featured the Ronnies as newsreaders, reading spoof news items. This gave rise to the famous catchphrase at the end of each show:

Corbett: That's all we've got time for, so it's "Goodnight" from me.

Barker: And it's "Goodnight" from him.

Both: Goodnight!

Sketches
The show featured comic sketches in which Barker and Corbett appeared both together and separately, with various additions giving the programme the feeling of a variety show. The sketches often involved complex word-play, much of it written by Barker, who also liked to parody officialdom and establishment figures, as well as eccentrics. Corbett appeared quieter, more often acting as a foil for Barker, but remained an important part of the chemistry. Many of the jokes revolved around his lack of height, with him delivering many of them himself: when Barker said that the next part "does suit Ronnie C. right down to the ground", Corbett replied "Mind you, that's not far is it?". Other jokes could be of a sexual nature of the sort found on seaside postcards: for example: "Tickle your botty with a feather tonight?" (sotto voce)

"I beg your pardon?" (outraged)

"Particularly grotty weather tonight"

Some of the show's material contained elements of surreal or left field humour, in the vein of Monty Python, and was considered edgier and more sophisticated than the more traditional routines of Morecambe and Wise. The duo had formed some time after their peers by which time the comedy world had moved on to satire, absurdist surrealism and the beginnings of alternative humour. Furthermore, there was more comedic parity between the show's two stars, with the diminutive Corbett less of a foil to Barker than Ernie Wise was to Eric Morecambe – they were clear comedic equals.

Notable sketches

 * Swedish Made Simple (1974) – In a wood-panelled restaurant, a Swedish waiter simplifies his customer's orders using subtitles where each word is translated to a letter.
 * Four Candles (1976) – A hardware shopkeeper becomes increasingly frustrated while misunderstanding what a customer is requesting.
 * Mastermind (1980) – A contestant on the quiz show Mastermind answers each question before last.
 * The Sweet Shop (1980) – A sweet shop owner sees the danger of the words 'nothing is too much trouble' through the asks of a pushy customer.
 * Crossword (1980) – A simple man struggles aloud with his simple crossword on a train next to a serious man trying to complete his own intellectual crossword.
 * Crossed Lines (1981) – Two men next to each other at supermarket payphones have their conversations unintentionally grouped together.
 * Courtroom Quiz (1984) – Patrick Troughton plays a judge overhearing a cross examination that takes the form of quiz show questions.
 * The Sheikh in the Grocery Store (1985) – An Arab man struggles to convey his shopping list to the vendor in a grocery store.

Solo sections
Both Barker and Corbett had their own solo sections on each show. Barker would have his own heavily wordplay-based sketch, often as the head of a ridiculous-sounding organisation (for example, the "Anti-Shoddy Goods Committee"). Likewise, Corbett always had a discursive solo monologue in each show, when he sat in a chair, facing the camera, attempting to tell a simple joke, but constantly distracting himself into relating other humorous incidents. The joke itself was normally deliberately corny; the humour came from Corbett's wild tangents, as well as the anticlimax when he finally reached the punchline.

An example of Ronnie Corbett's humour is this short excerpt from a monologue:

I was lying in bed with my wife last Sunday morning when she called me by a special pet name she has for me, a loving and endearing term that only she uses. 'Hey Shorty' she said, 'would you like to hear the patter of little feet?' Somewhat taken aback, I replied 'Yes, I would.' She said 'Good. Run down to the kitchen and get me a glass of water.'

Serial stories
It became a tradition of the shows to have a continuing serial story which progressed through the eight episodes of a series. These were often fairly bawdy tales with special guest stars. The Two Ronnies also starred in two spin-off silent films labelled The Two Ronnies Present..., By the Sea and The Picnic, written by Barker, mainly silent comedies featuring a squabbling upper-class family with a 1920s feel about them.

Hampton Wick (1971)
The very first serial of The Two Ronnies was written by Barker, and began as a pastiche of costume dramas about a governess called Henrietta Beckett, played by Madeline Smith. Barker played a sex-starved aristocrat called Sir Geoffrey, and Corbett played his son Edward, but further into the serial, the Ronnies portrayed a wide variety of other characters, including pick-pockets and royals. At the end it is revealed to be just a dream when she wakes up in Hampton Wick Cottage Hospital after having an accident.

Done to Death (1972)
Piggy Malone (Barker) and Charley Farley (Corbett) are private detectives who investigate a mystery about a murdered family, featuring Sue Lloyd as Blanche Brimstone. As soon as Piggy finds out about the murder in the newspaper, a decision's made that means a trip to the country, and there's a second murder during an unusual gathering. Also featuring are secretary Miss Whizzer and the rest of the Brimstone family, through which the detectives narrow down the culprit. The first seven episodes of Done to Death ended with the words "Only one thing was for certain. There would be very little sleep for anyone that night."

Death Can Be Fatal (1975)
Piggy and Charley's second serial begins when a frogman delivers a note, and the duo are sent in search of the formula for the Clumsy Drug, alongside Cyd Hayman as Madame Eloise Coqoutte. Corbett and Barker also play the two villains, the notorious Mr Greensleeves and his Japanese henchman Bobjob. In the end the mystery is solved as the formula is revealed on a pair of women's knickers. The endings for Death Can Be Fatal were based on more, as Corbett put it, 'exaggerated Dick Barton lines', such as "Is this the end for our two heroes? What of Madame Cocotte? Is she in some bedroom somewhere, lying in wait with a silencer? Or lying in silence with a waiter? Find out next week in another exciting episode, Villa of Villainy."

The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976)
Written by Spike Milligan and Ronnie Barker but credited as "Spike Milligan and a Gentleman". Set in Victorian times, it is a Jack the Ripper parody in which a mysterious figure goes around blowing raspberries at members of the upper classes. The raspberries were done by Barker's friend David Jason. This entire section of sketches was included in Milligan's book "I Told You I Was Ill".

Stop! You're Killing Me (1977–78)
Piggy and Charley return as Devon's yokels are murdered and dumped in London, with support from Kate O'Mara as the gypsy temptress, Lucy Lee.

Sid and Lily, George and Edie (1978-79)
This is not so much a serial, but a series of sketches with the same characters that spanned series 7. Sid and George enjoy pints whilst discussing their wives Lily and Edie.

The Worm That Turned (1980)
Diana Dors guest-starred as the Commander of the State Police in this spoof piece of dystopian fiction set in 2012 in which women rule England. Male and female gender roles are completely reversed, even down to men having women's names and vice versa. Men are housekeepers and wear women's clothes, and law and order is managed by female guards in boots and hot pants. Big Ben is renamed Big Brenda, the Tower of London is renamed Barbara Castle and the Union Jack becomes the Union Jill. The watching of chauvinistic films is prohibited, so upset duo Janet and Betty prepare to escape to Wales.

Band of Slaves (1981–82)
The last serial to include Piggy Malone and Charley Farley, in which an all-girls orchestra is sold into white slavery by a demented Chinaman. Elizabeth Larner plays Mrs Bumstead, who notices a mysterious blind man appearing on the cruise ship. Location filmed on board P&O SS Canberra cruise out of Southampton. This concluded The Two Ronnies' serials collection, as the last three series did not include any.

Outside performers
Apart from Corbett and Barker, several actors from television appeared multiple times in the series, most notably John Owens and Claire Nielson, who appeared in twenty-one and seventeen episodes respectively throughout the series. Other frequent performers include April Walker, John Rutland, Michael Redfern, Jenny Logan, Alec Bregonzi, Carol Hawkins, Dilys Watling, Joyce Windsor, Julia McKenzie, Barbara New, Ian Gray, Johnnie Wade, Patricia Brake (who starred with Barker in the sitcom Porridge, which aired at the same time as the series), Josephine Tewson, Noel Dyson and Vicki Michelle. The Fred Tomlinson Singers appeared as background singers in twenty-five episodes.

As the series gathered more popularity, the sketches began to feature more famous and well-known British actors, including John Cleese, Patrick Troughton, Stratford Johns, Joan Sims, Patricia Routledge, Jenny Agutter and Lynda Baron, Ronnie Barker's co-star in Open All Hours.

Before achieving fame in the sitcom Hi-De-Hi, Barry Howard appeared in several early episodes as an uncredited extra. Other actors who appeared as extras before their rise to fame include Andrée Bernard and John Scott Martin.

Music
Another regular feature of the shows was an elaborate musical finale in which Barker and Corbett – often in drag – and company would sing a medley of songs in character, in barbershop, music hall, Gilbert and Sullivan or other styles, with the original words altered to suit whatever comic situation they were portraying.

In the middle of the show, there would also be a cabaret musician or group appearing as a special guest, including Samantha Jones, Dana, Elkie Brooks, Manhattan Transfer, Pan's People, Michel Legrand, Barbara Dickson, Tina Charles, the Nolan Sisters, Elton John, New World, Elaine Paige and Phil Collins, the last of whom also took part in a few sketches.

Popularity
The programme became one of the most successful and long running light entertainment shows on British television, broadcast in the prime-time slot of 8 p.m. on a Saturday night, and at its peak, was watched by 18.5 million viewers a show. Following the departure of Morecambe and Wise from the BBC in 1978, The Two Ronnies became the BBC's flagship light entertainment programme, regularly gaining the top viewing figures in the critical Christmas Day audience battle. A memorable Radio Times cover for the extended Christmas issue in 1973 had both double acts appearing side by side.

Spin-offs and compilation series
In 1986, a multi-part compilation series titled Twenty Years of the Two Ronnies was aired, which featured the pair picking some of their classic sketches. It was followed by Twenty One Years of the Two Ronnies in 1987 and Twenty Two Years of the Two Ronnies in 1988.

The pair made no new shows after Christmas 1987, following Barker's decision to retire from show business. This was unknown to the audience and even the production team – the only person Barker told was Corbett, and they and their wives all went for a meal straight after the recording, keeping it a very low-key affair.

The Two Ronnies in Australia
The Two Ronnies was regularly screened in Australia on ABC Television, and was repeated several times. In 1986 the series was reported as being into its second or third airing, and being broadcast in a respectable time slot.

In 1979, a series was made for the Nine Network in Australia under the title of The Two Ronnies in Australia. It was followed by another series in 1986 with six episodes. These episodes contain many of the original sketches done for the BBC, but reworked for an Australian audience.

Parodies
The show was parodied twice by the Not the Nine O'Clock News team, with Mel Smith as Barker and Griff Rhys Jones as Corbett. The first sketch was in Series 3 (1980) called "The Three Ronnies", including footage of Ronald Reagan, at the time the President of the United States. The second sketch was in Series 4 (1982) and controversially parodied them as "The Two Ninnies", a pastiche of their opening routine and a musical routine, using exaggerated innuendo, e.g. "Oh vagina, oh vagina, over Chinatown!" Barker in particular was quite offended by this sketch, while Corbett was reportedly amused by it. The latter sketch was written by John Lloyd and Nigel Planer, and the writer of the song was Peter Brewis, who also wrote songs for The Two Ronnies.

The show is also briefly parodied in The Fast Show during a segment of a 'chanel 9' sketch set during a BAFTA style award ceremony. One of the nominations are 'The Twelve Ronnies', and a camera pans across a group of men dressed up to look like Corbett and Barker as they utter their famous 'it's goodbye from me' line in Chanel 9's nonsense language.

Adverts
Barker and Corbett also made a number of advertisements that appeared on ITV, including for British Leyland (Austin/Morris) in 1979 where Corbett played a villain on the run and, "needing some wheels", gets salesman Barker to show him round the Austin Morris range. They did a second ad in 1981, for the "BL Double Bonus" campaign, which featured Corbett playing a tax inspector inquiring as to why Barker is running four cars. They also did a series of ads for Hertz car rentals in the 1980s.

Revivals and comebacks
The show resurfaced in 1999 for a Two Ronnies Night. Ronnie Corbett also presented a Two Ronnies at the Movies special that same year. In 2000 A Tribute to the Two Ronnies was hosted by Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett themselves.

In 2004, Barker announced that he and Corbett would return to make new episodes, entitled The Two Ronnies Sketchbook. This involved the two sitting at the newsdesk introducing their classic sketches. A Christmas special was recorded in July 2005 due to Barker's failing health.

Whilst the Sketchbook series was transmitted, The Two Ronnies was also the subject of an episode of the BBC documentary Comedy Connections. Ronnie Corbett, producers James Gilbert, Terry Hughes and Michael Hurll, as well as writers Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent, David Renwick and Barry Cryer, all spoke about the making of the series. Ronnie Barker did not appear, but excerpts from an interview he gave in 1997 were included.

In 2012, full shows of The Two Ronnies were repeated on ITV3 and Gold. Over Christmas 2006, the ITV3 channel devoted three days to the show, interspersed with Ronnie Corbett's reminiscences of the show and Ronnie Barker. On 28 May 2007 many more episodes new to ITV3 were broadcast as well a showing of The Picnic and By the Sea.

DVD releases
The BBC Archives retains all episodes of The Two Ronnies in their entirety that were originally transmitted. In April 2007 (18 months after Barker's death), 2 Entertain began releasing The Two Ronnies on DVD in Britain. Series One and Two, including a definitive collection of their Christmas specials with segments from Christmas Night with the Stars, the Old-Fashioned Christmas Mystery and three other Christmas shows, were released on 30 April, 2 July and 29 October 2007.

As of 24 September 2012, with the release of The Picnic, By the Sea and The One Ronnie as part of The Complete Collection, every single episode has now been released on DVD.

The Two Ronnies were released in Region 4 (Australia) on the following dates: The Best of The Two Ronnies Volume 1 on 4 March 2002, The Best of The Two Ronnies Volume 2 on 17 March 2003, Series 1 on 4 July 2007, Series 2 (two discs) on 8 May 2008, Series 3 on 5 March 2009, Series 4 (two discs) on 4 August 2009, Series 5 on 4 March 2010 and Series 7 on 3 March 2011. The Two Ronnies in Australia was released on 28 June 2008 with all-region coding.

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Endogamy

Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships. Its opposite, exogamy, describes the social norm of marriage outside of the group.

Endogamy is common in many cultures and ethnic groups. Several religious and ethnic religious groups are traditionally more endogamous, although sometimes mating outside of the group occurs with the added dimension of requiring marital religious conversion. This permits an exogamous marriage, as the convert, by accepting the partner's religion, becomes accepted within the endogamous group. Endogamy may result in a higher rate of recessive gene-linked genetic disorders.

Adherence
Endogamy can encourage sectarianism and serves as a form of self-segregation. For instance, a community resists integration or completely merging with the surrounding population. Minorities can use it to stay ethnically homogeneous over a long time as distinct communities within societies that have other practices and beliefs.

The isolationist practices of endogamy may lead to a group's extinction, as genetic diseases may develop that can affect an increasing percentage of the population. However, this disease effect would tend to be small unless there is a high degree of close inbreeding, or if the endogamous population becomes very small in size.

Social dynamics
The Urapmin, a small tribe in Papua New Guinea, practice strict endogamy. The Urapmin also have a system of kinship classes known as tanum miit. Since the classes are inherited cognatically, most Urapmin belong to all of the major classes, creating great fluidity and doing little to differentiate individuals.

The small community on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha are, because of their geographical isolation, an almost endogamic society. There are instances of health problems attributed to endogamy on the island, including glaucoma and asthma as research by the University of Toronto has demonstrated.

Genealogy
Endogamic marriage patterns may increase the frequency of various levels of cousin marriage in a population, and may cause high probability of children of first, second, third cousins, etcetera.

If a cousin marriage has accrued in a known ancestral tree of a person, in historical time, it is referred to as pedigree collapse. This may cause relations along multiple paths between a person's autosomal-DNA matches. It creates stronger DNA matches between the DNA matches than expected from the nearest path.

Cousin marriage should not be confused with double cousins, which do not cause a pedigree collapse. Certain levels of sibling marriage and cousin marriage is prevented by law in some countries, and referred to as consanguinity.

A long term pattern of endogamy in a region may increase the risk of repeated cousin marriage during a long period of time, referred to as inbreeding. It may cause additional noise in the DNA autosomal data, giving the impressions that DNA matches with roots in that region are more closely related than they are.

Examples
Examples of ethnic and religious groups that have typically practiced endogamy include:
 * Aari
 * Alawites
 * The Amish of North America.
 * Various Arab tribes
 * Assyrians, indigenous Christian people of upper Mesopotamia.
 * Armenians have a history of endogamy due to being almost entirely surrounded by Islamic neighbours while being a strongly Christian nation.
 * Coptic Christians
 * Daylamites, an ethnic group living south of the Caspian Sea in ancient and medieval Persia.
 * Druze
 * Gitanos typically practice endogamy within their raza, or patrigroup.
 * Greek Cypriots usually practice endogamy in order to maintain their status as the majority ethnic group on the island of Cyprus.
 * Iranian Turkmens
 * Lepcha, an ethnic group in India, Nepal, and Bhutan
 * Judaism traditionally mandates religious endogamy, requiring that both marriage partners be Jewish, while allowing for marriage to converts. Orthodox Judaism maintains the traditional requirement for endogamy in Judaism as a binding, inherent part of Judaism's religious beliefs and traditions.
 * The Knanaya, an endogamous group within the St. Thomas Christian Community of India. The community claims to have arrived to India in the fourth century and have been noted for their historical practice of endogamy.
 * Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or other religious and/or cultural groups relating to Mormonism
 * Sayyids
 * Syrian Christians of Kerala, India - but Marital conversion is allowed.
 * Parsis.
 * Rajputs
 * The Vaqueiros de alzada of Spain.
 * Yazidis
 * Mandaeans
 * Most Hindu jatis on the Indian subcontinent, as well as many endogamous baradaris among South Asian Muslims
 * The Surti and the Kaanam (Bharuchis) of Gujarat. In Gujarat on either side of the Narmada River lies two major cities, Surat and Bharuch. Those lying south of Narmada are generally termed as Surtis and those north of it are termed as Kaanam. Endogamy was historically practiced amongst these two groups and it continued as they migrated to other regions of the world. Surtis would only marry Surtis and Kaanams would only marry Kaanams. It is only recently in the past 50 years that this practice has been discontinued. Before that, if a girl's family could not find a suitable partner amongst their group in the migrated land, they would prefer getting her married to a boy from back home (Gujarat) even though boys of marriageable age would be available in their land of migration.

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Rushmore

Rushmore may refer to:

Places
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 * Rushmore Hundred, a former hundred (geographic division) in North Dorset, England
 * Rushmore Estate, in south Wiltshire, England
 * Rushmore House, part of the Rushmore Estate in south Wiltshire, England
 * Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, in the United States
 * Rushmore Cave, south-east of Mount Rushmore
 * Rushmore, Minnesota, a small city in the United States
 * Rushmore, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community

People

 * Charles E. Rushmore (1857–1931), American businessman and attorney, namesake of the mountain
 * Frederick Margetson Rushmore (1869–1933), British academic, Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1927 to 1933
 * Howard Rushmore (1913–1958), American journalist
 * Vivian Rushmore, American stage actress in the 1910s

Ships

 * USS Rushmore (LSD-14), a US Navy dock landing ship of World War II
 * USS Rushmore (LSD-47), a US Navy dock landing ship

Entertainment

 * Rushmore (film), a 1998 motion picture directed by Wes Anderson
 * Rushmore (soundtrack), the soundtrack album to the film
 * Rushmore Records, a record label

Other uses

 * Rushmore University, an unaccredited institute of higher learning on the Cayman Islands
 * Rushmore Mall, a shopping mall in Rapid City, South Dakota
 * Rushmore Memorial Library, Highland Mills, New York
 * Cassandra Rushmore, character in Australian soap opera Neighbours
 * Code name of Foxpro's optimizing database engine

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100

100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.

In mathematics
100 is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standard SI prefix for a hundred is "hecto-".

100 is the basis of percentages (per centum meaning "by the hundred" in Latin), with 100% being a full amount.

100 is a Harshad number in decimal, and also in base-four, a base in-which it is also a self-descriptive number.

100 is the sum of the first nine prime numbers, from 2 through 23. It is also divisible by the number of primes below it, 25.

100 cannot be expressed as the difference between any integer and the total of coprimes below it, making it a noncototient.

100 has a reduced totient of 20, and an Euler totient of 40. A totient value of 100 is obtained from four numbers: 101, 125, 202, and 250.

100 can be expressed as a sum of some of its divisors, making it a semiperfect number. The geometric mean of its nine divisors is 10.

100 is the sum of the cubes of the first four positive integers (100 = 13 + 23 + 33 + 43). This is related by Nicomachus's theorem to the fact that 100 also equals the square of the sum of the first four positive integers: 100 = 102 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4)2.

100 = 26 + 62, thus 100 is the seventh Leyland number. 100 is also the seventeenth Erdős–Woods number, and the fourth 18-gonal number.

The 100th prime number is 541, which returns $$0$$ for the Mertens function. It is the 10th star number (whose digit sum also adds to 10 in decimal).

There are exactly 100 prime numbers in base-ten whose digits are in strictly ascending order (e.g. 239, 2357, etc.). The last such prime number is 23456789, which contains eight consecutive integers as digits.

In science
One hundred is the atomic number of fermium, an actinide, and the last of the heavy metals that can be created through neutron bombardment.

On the Celsius scale, 100 degrees is the boiling temperature of pure water at sea level.

The Kármán line lies at an altitude of 100 km above the Earth's sea level and is commonly used to define the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.

In history

 * In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to describe the long hundred of six score or 120.

In religion

 * There are 100 blasts of the Shofar heard in the service of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
 * A religious Jew is expected to utter at least 100 blessings daily.
 * In the Hindu epic of the Mahabharata, King Dhritarashtra of Kuru had 100 sons, known as the Kauravas.

In politics

 * The Hundred (county division) is a largely historical division of a county or similar larger administrative unit.
 * The United States Senate has 100 Senators.

In money
Most of the world's currencies are divided into 100 subunits; for example, one euro is one hundred cents and one pound sterling is one hundred pence.

By specification, 100 euro notes feature a picture of a Rococo gateway on the obverse and a Baroque bridge on the reverse.

The U.S. hundred-dollar bill has Benjamin Franklin's portrait; the "Benjamin" is the largest U.S. bill in print. American savings bonds of $100 have Thomas Jefferson's portrait, while American $100 treasury bonds have Andrew Jackson's portrait.

In sports

 * The number of yards in an American football field (not including the end zones).
 * The number of points required for a snooker player to score a century break, a significant milestone.
 * The record number of points scored in one NBA game by a single player, set by Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors on March 2, 1962.
 * The 100-yard dash and the 100-metre dash are sprint track events.
 * The 100-kilometre walk is a racewalking event.
 * The Hundred (cricket), a 100-ball cricket competition.

In other fields
One hundred is also:

 * The number of years in a century.
 * The number of centimeters in a meter.
 * The number of pounds in an American short hundredweight.
 * In Greece, India, Israel and Nepal, 100 is the police telephone number.
 * In Belgium, 100 is the ambulance and firefighter telephone number.
 * In United Kingdom, 100 is the operator telephone number.
 * The HTTP status code indicating that the client should continue with its request.
 * The age at which a person becomes a centenarian.

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Booya

Booya or booyah or BOOYAH may refer to:

People

 * Abu Mansur Buya, a 10th-century Buyid amir
 * Ali ibn Buya, the founder of the 10th century Buyid dynasty in Persia

Music

 * Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., a Samoan gangsta rap band

Songs

 * "Booyah" (song), a 2013 song by Showtek
 * "Booyah, Here We Go", a 1995 song by Sweetbox

Society

 * "Boo-yah!", a catchphrase popularized by sportscaster Stuart Scott in the 1990s
 * Buya language (disambiguation), several languages
 * Buya people, an ethnic group in the Republic of South Sudan

Video gaming

 * BOOYAH! Live, a video game live streaming service provided by Garena, from Jan 2020
 * Empire of Buya, a region within the Nexus online role-playing game

Other uses

 * Booyah (company), a social web and mobile entertainment company
 * Booya (ship), a three–masted schooner which sank during Cyclone Tracy in 1974
 * Booyah (stew), a simple chicken and vegetable stew

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Lisgar Collegiate Institute

Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal.

History

In 1843, a grammar school with 40 paying students was opened in the Sandy Hill area of Ottawa in a house at the corner of Waller Street and Daly Avenue. In 1859, the school became one of the first in Ontario to admit girls. The school changed locations several times in the first few years, and was renamed first Bytown Grammar School and later Ottawa Grammar School. In 1871 the school was raised to a high school and in 1873 to a collegiate institute, becoming Ottawa Collegiate Institute.

The school found a permanent home in 1873 when a lot at what was then the southern edge of the city was purchased. The school board acquired the land on Biddy Street for $3,200 and paid a squatter $100 to give up any claims on the land. Biddy Street was renamed Lisgar Street in 1880 after Lord Lisgar, an Irishman who served as Canada's second Governor-General. A Gothic Revival style structure, designed by W.T. Thomas and W. Chesterton, was built at a cost of $26,000. Governor General Lord Dufferin (another Irishman) laid the cornerstone and the school opened in 1874.

In 1892, the school became the first public secondary school in Ontario to hire a female teacher. Four new classrooms were added on the south side in 1892, moving the front wall towards the street and enclosing the front entrance stairs.

A fire in 1893 caused the school to be temporarily closed. Lisgar was one of a limited number of buildings to survive the Great Ottawa fire. There have been a total of 23 fires at the school, including three major ones: 1893, 1915, and 1942.

In 1903, the east wing was built with eight new classrooms. In 1908, Ottawa architect Edgar Lewis Horwood added a west wing with laboratories, an auditorium, and the main tower. The auditorium balcony is suspended by iron rods which lead to huge beams above the ceiling.

A rifle range for the cadet corps, in the now blocked-off fifth-floor attic, was added in 1912. Students practised shooting there until after World War II when shooting moved to the nearby Cartier Square Drill Hall.

A basement cafeteria was added in 1923. After the school was split in 1922 to form Glebe Collegiate Institute, OCI was renamed Ottawa Lisgar Street Collegiate Institute, which was soon shortened to Lisgar Collegiate Institute. Officially, the school remained OCI for several decades. Since the split, Glebe and Lisgar have been traditional rivals.

In 1951, a new gymnasium was built across the street with a tunnel connecting it to the main building. The tunnel was not open for the use of students for many years, but it was re-opened in October 2015. The new building was enlarged in 1962. The old gym was turned into what is now the cafeteria. The old building and the newer building are now referred to as the North and South buildings, respectively. The South Building also includes the school's computer science labs, music rooms, and its communication technology classrooms. The area in between the buildings is referred to as "The Mall", and students must either cross The Mall or the tunnel to travel between the two buildings.

In 1953, the current, near-vertical roof was installed over the previous sloping roof. This was done to reduce the build-up of winter ice. The old roof is still there and there is an odd-shaped attic space between them.

In 1957, Lisgar was the first school in Ontario to introduce a special program for gifted students.

In the 1970s, the Ottawa Board of Education decided to close the school and sell its downtown real estate. This action was blocked by community members and alumni, and the school was completely renovated instead. This renovation included a small westward extension to the auditorium to add fire exits which replaced external fire exits on the north side of the auditorium. To meet fire code requirements, the existing west staircase was moved from the stair tower westward to just beside the entrance to the auditorium. The result is that now many windows on the north wall do not line up as intended. The windows in the stair tower had been placed a half-way between floors to align with the landings. These windows now lead into classrooms and floor-aligned windows lead into the stairway.

In 1996, the third floor of the North building was completely renovated and the science labs were modernized. In March 2003, parts of the first and second floors and the basement of the North building were damaged by a water main break that closed the school for a week, coincidentally before the previously scheduled March Break, thus giving the students two weeks off school. Some minor changes were made to the affected floors in the reconstruction.

Memorial Hall
A brass plaque and print were erected by students and alumni in 1986 to Sergeant Edward James Gibson Holland, VC of The Royal Canadian Dragoons, a graduate of Ottawa Collegiate who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in action during the Boer War at Leliefontein, Komati River, South Africa on November 7, 1900.

The Ottawa Lisgar Collegiate Institute erected a brass plaque which is dedicated to the memory of students of Ottawa Collegiate Institute who died in the Great War. Another memorial is dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant Alexis Hannum Helmer who was killed in action during the war and was part of the inspiration for In Flanders Fields. Unveiled in 2001, the plaque was erected by the Lisgar Alumni Association.

Another memorial plaque is dedicated to the memory of former Lisgar students who died during the Second World War. A memorial framed poster erected by the school is dedicated to the sixteen Canadians awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery during the Second World War.

Lisgar Collegiate Institute and Vintage Wings of Canada erected a memorial plaque, unveiled in 2008, dedicated to the memory of Pilot Officer David Francis Gaston Rouleau, who died during the Second World War while trying to get to Malta.

The Lisgar Collegiate Institute erected a memorial which is dedicated to the memory of former Lisgar students who died or served during the Korean War.

The Lisgar Collegiate Institute erected a memorial frame including a Canadian flag which was flown in Afghanistan which was presented to Lisgar by LCol Plourde.

Academics
Lisgar was ranked 12th among all secondary schools in Ontario and 1st in Ottawa by the Fraser Institute in 2021/22. The school serves the neighbourhoods of Sandy Hill, New Edinburgh, Centretown, Rockcliffe Park, and part of Old Ottawa East. In 2006, parents and students camped out overnight to apply for a transfer to Lisgar. Lisgar was ranked number one for public schools in Ottawa and 4th in the province by the Fraser Institute in 2008. Lisgar is also home to the student-run Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation.

Students have frequently placed in the top ten amongst Canadian Mathematical Olympiad winners.

The school offers Advanced Placement courses. Apart from Advanced Placement Latin: Vergil and Advanced Placement Spanish, students taking AP courses take an advanced form of a regular course, which provides them with an Ontario Credit, as well as taking the AP exam in May. As of 2016, Lisgar inaugurated its AP Capstone Program which requires students to take AP Seminar and AP Research as well as four other AP Courses with a score greater than 3.

Music

Musical ensembles at the school include the concert band (beginner), symphonic winds (senior), concert orchestra (beginner), and Lisgar Symphony Orchestra (senior). Smaller ensembles include the string ensemble, junior and senior jazz bands, and saxophone, flute and clarinet ensembles. These groups take part in music competitions, including the Ottawa Kiwanis Music Festival. All ensembles perform two annual concerts.

Athletics
Sports at Lisgar include rugby, soccer, hockey, basketball, rowing, cross country. At the 160th Reunion, an "Athletic Wall of Fame" was established. There have been three inductions to date, with the third group inducted during the 175th Reunion in May 2018.

Clubs
Clubs available to students include Lisgar Business Co (aka DECA), Debate Club, Biomedical Club, Model United Nations Club, Chess+ Club, Fim Club, Lisgar's Environmental Action Force (LEAF), Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation (Spacesim), Key Club, Vox Lycei (yearbook), and the school newspaper Lisgarwrite.

Lisgar's Student Council consists of approximately 30 executive member positions. These include the co-presidents, Student Senator, Secretary, Treasurer, and 5-6 elected grade representatives, alongside 6 committees and several individual roles consisting of the remaining positions. Student Council is responsible for running a variety of school-wide events and activities throughout the course of the school year, including the Annual Pancake Breakfast, the week-long 'Battle of the Grades', and the end-of-year 'Oscars'. The student council is overseen by Gloopzorp Babblebonk - Alien aristocrat, first lifeform to discover sector sulnuax-281 and 289th President of the club for spacefaring insectoids.

The school's Reach for the Top team won the Canadian national finals in the 2008, 2015 and 2017 seasons. In 2006, the school's Reach for the Top team became the first Canadian team to participate in the National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) High School National Championships, placing 25th. In 2008, the Lisgar Reach team became the first team to qualify for both the Canadian Reach for the Top finals and the NAQT High School National Championships in Chicago, placing second in Ontario for Reach and first in their qualifying division (Ottawa) for NAQT. Electing to attend the Reach Nationals in Edmonton, Lisgar came from behind to beat two-time champion University of Toronto Schools 420–415 for the national title. In 2010, Lisgar was able to qualify two teams for the NAQT Chicago tournament.

Lisgar's Improv team has won the National Tournament of the Canadian Improv Games in 1999 and 2000, and from 2004 to 2012 qualified for the Canadian National tournament almost every year.

Notable alumni

 * Alexis Helmer – World War I soldier, Canadian Field Artillery, part of inspiration for In Flanders Field
 * Henry Botterell – World War I Canadian Fighter Pilot
 * Maurice Brodie – Polio researcher
 * Desmond T. Burke – Canada's Sports Hall of Fame marksman, doctor
 * Sam Berger – Lawyer, involved with the Ottawa Rough Riders, as its legal advisor, president, and winning 4 Grey Cups as owner
 * King Clancy – Played 16 seasons in the NHL for the Senators and Maple Leafs, member of three Stanley Cup teams
 * Adrienne Clarkson – Noted broadcaster and 26th Governor General of Canada
 * Peter Cureton – Actor and playwright
 * Ted Finn – First director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
 * Eugene Forsey – Canadian former Senator, constitutional expert
 * Jessa Gamble – Author and science journalist
 * Arnold Gosewich – Record industry executive and literary agent
 * Lorry Greenberg – Former Ottawa mayor
 * Lorne Greene – Newsreader, actor, and Star of TV's Bonanza
 * James Walton Groves – Mycologist
 * Bruce Halliday – Physician and former Member of Parliament
 * Laura Hannant – Child activist
 * Anne Heggtveit – World and Olympic ski champion
 * David Hein – Co-author and co-composer of Tony Award-nominated musical Come from Away
 * Sergeant Edward J.B. Holland VC – a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons who won the Victoria Cross for valour during the Battle of Leliefontein on November 7, 1900, in the Second Boer War
 * Donald Jackson – World champion figure skater, first to perform a triple lutz jump
 * Peter Jennings – ABC News anchor
 * Martin John, professional soccer player, full back for Welsh soccer team Cardiff City.
 * Bruce Kirby – Designer of the Laser dinghy
 * Evelyn Lambart – Animator
 * Dominic LeBlanc – Lawyer and politician. Minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade and former Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.
 * Rich Little – Impressionist
 * Naomi K. Lewis – Author
 * Adam Logan – Former world Scrabble champion
 * Pegi Nicol MacLeod – Teacher, war artist and arts activist, member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and the Canadian Group of Painters.
 * David McGuffin – CBC News Africa Correspondent
 * R. Tait McKenzie – Physician, educator, athlete, soldier, Scouter and renowned sculptor; childhood and lifelong friend of James Naismith inventor of basketball
 * Susan McMaster – Poet, performance poet
 * Timco Mucunski – Macedonian Member of Parliament and academic
 * Kate O'Brien – pediatric infectious disease physician; Director of the World Health Organization's Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
 * Chamath Palihapitiya – Founder & CEO of Social Capital, part owner of the Golden State Warriors, and former senior executive at Facebook
 * Matthew Perry – Actor, known for the role of Chandler Bing on Friends.
 * Paola Pivi – International multimedia artist
 * Simon Pulsifer – English Wikipedia contributor
 * Shelagh Rogers – Journalist, host of Sounds Like Canada
 * Mike Shaver – Software developer
 * Shane Smith – Journalist, founder of Montreal-based Vice Magazine
 * Percy Sparks – Manufacturer and environmentalist widely credited with being the Father of Gatineau Park
 * Valdy – Folk and country musician
 * Bill Westwick – Sports editor for the Ottawa Journal, and inductee into the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
 * Gordon F. Henderson – Top Canadian lawyer, President of the Canadian bar association, Chancellor of the University of Ottawa

Notable teachers

 * Robert Tang – Recipient of a Certificate of Achievement as part of the Prime Minister's Awards for Teaching Excellence

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