Q is a fictional character, as well as the name of a race, in Star Trek appearing in the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Lower Decks and Picard series and in related media. The most familiar Q is portrayed by John de Lancie. He is an extra-dimensional being of unknown origin who possesses immeasurable power over time, space, the laws of physics, and reality itself, being capable of altering it to his whim. Despite his vast knowledge and experience spanning untold eons, he is not above practical jokes for his own personal amusement, for a Machiavellian and manipulative purpose, or to prove a point. He is said to be almost omnipotent and he is continually evasive regarding his true motivations.
In motorsports, the pole position is the position at the front at the start of a racing event. This position may be inside or outside of the front row, depending on where the racing line is on the particular circuit, but it will always be ahead of the other vehicle(s) on the front row. This position is typically given to the vehicle and driver with the best qualifying time in the trials before the race. This number-one qualifying driver is referred to as the pole-sitter.
In professional golf, the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season, otherwise known as a "tour card", meaning that they can play in most of the tour's events without having to qualify. They join the leaders on the previous year's money list/order of merit and certain other exempt players as members of the tour.
(Mainland) Chinese Braille is a braille script used for Standard Mandarin in China. Consonants and basic finals conform to international braille, but additional finals form a semi-syllabary, as in zhuyin (bopomofo). Each syllable is written with up to three Braille cells, representing the initial, final, and tone, respectively. In practice tone is generally omitted as it is in pinyin.
The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had been only men's singles until the inauguration of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions, the World Team Cup, were canceled until the relaunch in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years. The competitions are sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and classified as R1 in rating weightings, B2 in bonus weightings in the ITTF world ranking.
The FIA World Rallycross Championship is a rallycross series organised by the FIA in conjunction with series promoter Rallycross Promoter GmbH. From the inaugural season in 2014 to 2020, sanctioning was shared with IMG Motorsport.
Uganda competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Saint Kitts and Nevis competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Guyana competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Mauritania competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Bahrain competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Central African Republic competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Dominica will compete at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Ethiopia competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Guinea-Bissau competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Samoa competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Somalia competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August, 2014.
Sudan competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Android 10 is the tenth major release and the 17th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was first released as a developer preview on March 13, 2019, and was released publicly on September 3, 2019.
The 2021–22 snooker season is an ongoing professional snooker season with tournaments being played from July 2021 to June 2022.
