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Queen's College, Barbados
Queen's College is a government co-educational secondary grammar school in Barbados, established in 1883 as a girls' school, co-educational since 1981, and located at Husbands, St. James.
Queen's Crags Roman Quarry
Queen's Crags Roman Quarry (RIB 3331) is a scheduled sandstone quarry near Housesteads on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, dated by a 1960-discovered inscription naming centurions Saturninus, Rufinus, and optio Henoenus.
Queen's Gambit
Queen's Gambit: chess opening 1.d4 d5 2.c4 (ECO D06), a temporary pawn sacrifice that is not a true gambit. Main replies are QGD 2...e6, Slav 2...c6, and QGA 2...dxc4; recorded since the Göttingen manuscript.
Queen's Gambit Accepted
The Queen's Gambit Accepted, or QGA, is a chess opening after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4, where Black takes the c4 pawn to free his pieces, cataloged as ECO code D20.
Queen's Gambit Declined
Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD), 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6, classical chess opening where Black declines the Queen's Gambit by supporting d5 with the e-pawn; ECO D30–D69, known for the locked-in c8 bishop, the Exchange Variation minority attack, and the 1927 Alekhine–Capablanca match.
Queen's Hall
Queen's Hall (1893–1941) was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, home of the Proms from 1895 and base of the BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras, destroyed by incendiary bomb on 10 May 1941.
Queen's House
Queen's House, Greenwich: Inigo Jones's 1616-1635 Palladian royal villa for Anne of Denmark and Henrietta Maria, first classical building in Britain, now a free National Maritime Museum gallery.
Queen's House (퀸즈 하우스) (TV series)
Queen's House (여왕의 집) is a 2025 KBS2 Korean daily revenge drama, 100 episodes, starring Ham Eun-jung, Seo Jun-young, Park Yoon-jae, and Lee Ga-ryeong; peak Nielsen rating 11.9%, distinct from the 2021 Channel A series Show Window: The Queen's House.
Queen's Landing (House of the Dragon)
Queen's Landing is the second episode of House of the Dragon season 3 (aired June 28, 2026), in which Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen takes King's Landing; directed by Clare Kilner, written by Sara Hess, 64 minutes, IMDb 9.2/10.
Queen's Latin
Queen's Latin: convention giving ancient-setting film and TV characters British (Received Pronunciation) accents, per TV Tropes; commercial rationale, Shakespearean roots, examples like 300 and Chernobyl, and counter-examples like Barbarians.
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (QOR of C): Toronto-based Primary Army Reserve infantry regiment founded 26 April 1860; Canada's only reserve parachute-company tasking, D-Day landings, 7 Victoria Crosses, motto In Pace Paratus.
Queen's Park F.C.
Queen's Park F.C., Glasgow club founded 1867, oldest in Scotland; amateur for 152 years until November 2019, supplied all Scotland players in the 1872 first international, built and sold Hampden Park, now professional in the Scottish Championship.
Queen's Park Oval
Queen's Park Oval is a cricket stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, which has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean.
Queen's Pawn Game
Queen's Pawn Game: the chess opening starting 1.d4 (Queen's Pawn Opening), ECO A40. Second most popular first move after 1.e4; queen-defended d4 pawn gives closed, strategic games with London, Colle, Trompowsky and Queen's Gambit lines.
Queen's performance at Live Aid
Queen's performance at Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, London, 13 July 1985, was a roughly 20-minute six-song set that became one of rock's most celebrated live performances, voted greatest in a 2005 industry poll.
Queen's Quarterly
Queen's Quarterly is a Canadian journal of arts, ideas, and letters published at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, since 1893, and is claimed to be Canada's oldest general interest intellectual journal.
Queen's University at Kingston
Queen's University at Kingston, historically Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, chartered by Queen Victoria in 1841 with about 28,500 students today.
Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast (QUB) is a Russell Group research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, founded 1845, chartered 1908; 24,000+ students, REF 2021 top-20% UK research, Nobel laureates Heaney and Trimble.
Queendom (퀸덤) (TV series)
Queendom (퀸덤) is an Mnet South Korean music competition series in which female K-pop acts face comeback battles. Season 1 (2019) was won by Mamamoo; Queendom 2 (2022), hosted by Taeyeon, was won by WJSN; Queendom Puzzle (2023) is a spinoff.
Queenie McKenzie
Queenie McKenzie, also known as Queenie Nakarra McKenzie, was an Aboriginal Australian painter of the Gija people in the East Kimberley, the first woman to paint at Warmun (Turkey Creek).
Queenmaker (퀸메이커)
Queenmaker (퀸메이커) is a 2023 Netflix Korean political thriller, 11 episodes, directed by Oh Jin-seok and written by Moon Ji-young, starring Kim Hee-ae as corporate fixer Hwang Do-hee and Moon So-ri as lawyer Oh Kyung-sook in a Seoul mayoral race against the Eunsung Group.
Queenpins
Queenpins (2021) is an American crime comedy written and directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, starring Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as housewives running a counterfeit coupon scam inspired by a real $40 million Phoenix case, released by STXfilms and later a Netflix No. 1.
Queens
Queens, a borough of New York City coextensive with Queens County, is the largest by land area (108.72 sq mi), had 2,405,464 residents in 2020, is 47.6% foreign-born, and hosts JFK and LaGuardia airports.
Queens College, City University of New York
Queens College is a public senior college of the City University of New York in Flushing, Queens, founded in 1937 and offering degrees through four schools.
Queens of Mystery
Queens of Mystery: British cozy comedy crime drama by Julian Unthank; DS Matilda Stone and her three crime-writer aunts solve murders in Wildemarsh; Acorn TV original, 2019-2021, two series.
Queens of the Dead
Queens of the Dead is a 2025 queer zombie horror-comedy, the feature directorial debut of Tina Romero, daughter of George A. Romero, about drag queens and club kids fighting an undead outbreak at a Brooklyn drag show; premiered at Tribeca 2025, released October 24, 2025.
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA), American rock band formed in Seattle in 1996 by Josh Homme after Kyuss; known for Songs for the Deaf (2002) with Dave Grohl, rotating lineups, and the ninth album Perfecth due October 30, 2026.
Queens of the Stone Age (album)
Queens of the Stone Age (1998) is the American rock band's self-titled debut album, released on Loosegroove, co-produced by Josh Homme and Joe Barresi, featuring Regular John, Avon, and Mexicola.
Queens of the Stone Age discography
Queens of the Stone Age discography: nine studio albums (1998–2026) by the Josh Homme-led American rock band, from the 1998 Loosegroove debut through Interscope's Rated R and Songs for the Deaf to Matador's ...Like Clockwork and Perfecth.
Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Queens Park Rangers F.C. (QPR) is a West London professional football club founded in 1882, playing at Loftus Road in the EFL Championship; its major honour is the 1967 League Cup.