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Context: In 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several smaller record companies, which, ultimately, transformed into one enterprise known as SME. In the depths of the Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company (founded in 1888) in the U.S. (including its Okeh Records subsidiary) was acquired by ARC in 1934.
Question: In what year did ARC form?
Answer: 1929
Question: In what year did Columbia Phonography Company form?
Answer: 1888
Question: In what year did ARC take over Columbia Phonography Company?
Answer: 1934
Question: ABC was founded through a merger in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Columbia Phonograph Company in China was acquired by ARC in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Columbia Photography Company was founded in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: ARC was founded through a merger of several larger what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Okeh Records had whom as a subsidiary?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The United Nations formulates multiple regional divisions as is convenient for its various operations. But few of them include a Near East, and that poorly defined. UNICEF recognizes the "Middle East and North Africa" region, where the Middle East is bounded by the Red Sea on the west and includes Iran on the east. UNESCO recognizes neither a Near East nor a Middle East, dividing the countries instead among three regions: Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa. Its division "does not forcibly reflect geography" but "refers to the execution of regional activities." The United Nations Statistics Division defines Western Asia to contain the countries included elsewhere in the Middle East. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) describes its entire theatre of operations as the Near East, but then assigns many of its members to other regions as well; for example, Cyprus, Malta and Turkey are in both the European and the Near Eastern regions. Its total area extends further into Central Asia than that of most agencies.
Question: Who formulates multiple regional divisions as is convenient for its various operations?
Answer: The United Nations
Question: Who recognizes the "Middle East and North Africa" region?
Answer: UNICEF
Question: The United Nations Statistics Division defines Western Asia to contain what?
Answer: the countries included elsewhere in the Middle East
Question: The Food and Agriculture Organization describes its entire theater of operations as what?
Answer: the Near East |
Context: In 2006, Jian Li, a Chinese undergraduate at Yale University, filed a civil rights complaint with the Office for Civil Rights against Princeton University, claiming that his race played a role in their decision to reject his application for admission and seeking the suspension of federal financial assistance to the university until it "discontinues discrimination against Asian Americans in all forms" by eliminating race and legacy preferences. Princeton Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye responded to the claims in the November 30, 2006, issue of the Daily Princetonian by stating that "the numbers don't indicate [discrimination]." She said that Li was not admitted because "many others had far better qualifications." Li's extracurricular activities were described as "not all that outstanding". Li countered in an email, saying that his placement on the waitlist undermines Rapelye's claim. "Princeton had initially waitlisted my application," Li said. "So if it were not for a yield which was higher than expected, the admissions office very well may have admitted a candidate whose "outside activities were not all that outstanding".
Question: With which organization did Li file a civil rights complaint?
Answer: Office for Civil Rights
Question: Which university was Li alleging racial discrimination against?
Answer: Princeton University
Question: Who was the Dean of Admissions at Princeton University at the time of the complaint?
Answer: Janet Rapelye
Question: What did Princeton claim the real reasons for the rejection of Li's application was?
Answer: many others had far better qualifications
Question: Even though Li did not get accepted, what was done instead of a straight rejection?
Answer: placement on the waitlist
Question: With which organization did Li not file a civil rights complaint?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which university was Li allegingn non-racial discrimination against?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wasn't the Dean of Admissions at Princeton University at the time of the complaint?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Princeton claim the real reasons for the approval of Li's application was?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Even though Li did not get rejected, what was done instead of a straight rejection?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the development of a tree, the lower limbs often die, but may remain attached for a time, sometimes years. Subsequent layers of growth of the attaching stem are no longer intimately joined with the dead limb, but are grown around it. Hence, dead branches produce knots which are not attached, and likely to drop out after the tree has been sawn into boards.
Question: What will the lower limbs of a tree usually do during development?
Answer: die
Question: For what length of time can a dead lower limb stay attached to a tree?
Answer: years
Question: Rather than being joined to the limb that died, where do subsequent layers grow?
Answer: around it
Question: Are the knots that dead tree limbs form attached or not attached?
Answer: not attached
Question: A detached knot will probably drop out of the wood when someone saws it into what?
Answer: boards |
Context: West is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 32 million albums and 100 million digital downloads worldwide. He has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time and the most Grammy-awarded artist of his age. Three of his albums rank on Rolling Stone's 2012 "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list; two of his albums feature at first and eighth, respectively, in Pitchfork Media's The 100 Best Albums of 2010–2014. He has also been included in a number of Forbes annual lists. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005 and 2015.
Question: How many albums has Kanye sold?
Answer: 32 million
Question: How many downloads do Kanye's tracks have across the globe?
Answer: 100 million
Question: Kanye is known for having the most of what type of award for his age?
Answer: Grammy
Question: How many albums does Kanye have on the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list?
Answer: 3
Question: What popular magazine placed Kanye on their annual list in 2005 and 2015?
Answer: Time
Question: How many CDs has Kanye West sold?
Answer: 32 million
Question: How many Grammy Awards has Kanye West won?
Answer: 21
Question: How many of Kanye West's albums were recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine?
Answer: 3
Question: Which years was Kanye West mentioned in Time Magazine?
Answer: 2005 and 2015 |
Context: The high-speed observation deck elevators accelerate to a world-record certified speed of 1,010 metres per minute (61 km/h) in 16 seconds, and then it slows down for arrival with subtle air pressure sensations. The door opens after 37 seconds from the 5th floor. Special features include aerodynamic car and counterweights, and cabin pressure control to help passengers adapt smoothly to pressure changes. The downwards journey is completed at a reduced speed of 600 meters per minute, with the doors opening at the 52nd second.
Question: How fast do the observation deck elevators travel?
Answer: 1,010 metres per minute (61 km/h) in 16 seconds
Question: This speed holds what record?
Answer: world-record certified speed
Question: What does cabin pressure control do?
Answer: help passengers adapt smoothly to pressure changes
Question: How fast does the elevator drop down?
Answer: 600 meters per minute
Question: At what floor do the doors open on the way down?
Answer: 52nd |
Context: Chopin's music remains very popular and is regularly performed, recorded and broadcast worldwide. The world's oldest monographic music competition, the International Chopin Piano Competition, founded in 1927, is held every five years in Warsaw. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland lists on its website over eighty societies world-wide devoted to the composer and his music. The Institute site also lists nearly 1,500 performances of Chopin works on YouTube as of January 2014.
Question: What is the name of the oldest music essay competition?
Answer: International Chopin Piano Competition
Question: What year was the International Chopin Piano Competition founded?
Answer: 1927
Question: Where is the International Chopin Piano Competition held?
Answer: Warsaw
Question: How often is the International Chopin Piano Competition held?
Answer: every five years
Question: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland includes approximately how many recordings of Chopin's work from Youtube?
Answer: 1,500
Question: What is the world's oldest monographic music competition?
Answer: the International Chopin Piano Competition
Question: When was the International Chopin Piano Competition established?
Answer: 1927
Question: There are over 80 societies throughout the world that have been established because of Chopin and his music according to who?
Answer: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland
Question: How many known works of Chopin's music were on YouTube up to the beginning of 2014?
Answer: nearly 1,500 |
Context: According to Der Spiegel credits given to European governments were disguised as "swaps" and consequently did not get registered as debt. As Eurostat at the time ignored statistics involving financial derivatives, a German derivatives dealer had commented to Der Spiegel that "The Maastricht rules can be circumvented quite legally through swaps," and "In previous years, Italy used a similar trick to mask its true debt with the help of a different US bank." These conditions had enabled Greek as well as many other European governments to spend beyond their means, while meeting the deficit targets of the European Union.
Question: What was used to hide debts?
Answer: swaps
Question: Swaps allow Greece to do what?
Answer: spend beyond their means
Question: What other country hid its debt through swaps?
Answer: Italy
Question: What can legally be overcome with swaps?
Answer: The Maastricht rules |
Context: Arab nationalists led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser refused to recognize Israel, and called for its destruction. By 1966, Israeli-Arab relations had deteriorated to the point of actual battles taking place between Israeli and Arab forces. In May 1967, Egypt massed its army near the border with Israel, expelled UN peacekeepers, stationed in the Sinai Peninsula since 1957, and blocked Israel's access to the Red Sea[citation needed]. Other Arab states mobilized their forces. Israel reiterated that these actions were a casus belli. On 5 June 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt. Jordan, Syria and Iraq responded and attacked Israel. In a Six-Day War, Israel defeated Jordan and captured the West Bank, defeated Egypt and captured the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, and defeated Syria and captured the Golan Heights. Jerusalem's boundaries were enlarged, incorporating East Jerusalem, and the 1949 Green Line became the administrative boundary between Israel and the occupied territories.
Question: Who refused toe recognize Israel?
Answer: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Question: When did Egypt mass it's army near the border with Israel?
Answer: 1967
Question: What became the administrative boundary between Israel and occupied territories?
Answer: Green Line |
Context: These areas contain some spectacular scenery as well, as evidenced by such national parks as Yosemite and Mount Rainier. West of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada is a series of valleys, such as the Central Valley in California and the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Along the coast is a series of low mountain ranges known as the Pacific Coast Ranges. Much of the Pacific Northwest coast is inhabited by some of the densest vegetation outside of the Tropics, and also the tallest trees in the world (the Redwoods).
Question: What are two national parks located in the mountainous regions?
Answer: Yosemite and Mount Rainier
Question: What is the name of the famous valley located in California?
Answer: Central Valley
Question: What is the name of the famous valley located in Oregon?
Answer: Willamette Valley
Question: What are the low mountain ranges that are located along the pacific coast called?
Answer: Pacific Coast Ranges
Question: What are the tallest trees in the world?
Answer: Redwoods
Question: What two national parks are located on the planes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: East of the Cascades Sierra Nevada is a series of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the high mountain range along the coast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the skinniest trees in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Hundreds of movies have been shot or set in part within the city of Santa Monica. One of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica is Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage (1929) which shows much of 2nd Street. The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) included several scenes shot in Santa Monica, including those along the California Incline, which led to the movie's treasure spot, "The Big W". The Sylvester Stallone film Rocky III (1982) shows Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed training to fight Clubber Lang by running on the Santa Monica Beach, and Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) includes Santa Monica settings. Henry Jaglom's indie Someone to Love (1987), the last film in which Orson Welles appeared, takes place in Santa Monica's venerable Mayfair Theatre. Heathers (1989) used Santa Monica's John Adams Middle School for many exterior shots. The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) is set entirely in Santa Monica, particularly the Palisades Park area, and features a radio station that resembles KCRW at Santa Monica College. 17 Again (2009) was shot at Samohi. Other films that show significant exterior shots of Santa Monica include Fletch (1985), Species (1995), Get Shorty (1995), and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Richard Rossi's biopic Aimee Semple McPherson opens and closes at the beach in Santa Monica. Iron Man features the Santa Monica pier and surrounding communities as Tony Stark tests his experimental flight suit.
Question: What is one of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica?
Answer: Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage
Question: What does this iconic exterior shot display?
Answer: much of 2nd Street
Question: What 1982 movie includes Sylvester Stallone running on the Santa Monica Beach?
Answer: Rocky III
Question: What 1996 movie was set completely in Santa Monica?
Answer: The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Question: What movie was shot at Samohi?
Answer: 17 Again
Question: What is one of the Santa Monica streets seen in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who played the role of Apollo Creed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who directed It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did John Adams Middle School first open its doors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who plays the part of Iron Man?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Min Nan texts, all Hokkien, can be dated back to the 16th century. One example is the Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua china, presumably written after 1587 by the Spanish Dominicans in the Philippines. Another is a Ming Dynasty script of a play called Romance of the Lychee Mirror (1566), supposedly the earliest Southern Min colloquial text. Xiamen University has also developed an alphabet based on Pinyin, which has been published in a dictionary called the Minnan Fangyan-Putonghua Cidian (閩南方言普通話詞典) and a language teaching book, which is used to teach the language to foreigners and Chinese non-speakers. It is known as Pumindian.
Question: When can Min Nan texts be dated back to?
Answer: the 16th century
Question: What is an example of the Min Nan Texts?
Answer: Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua china
Question: What year was Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua china written?
Answer: after 1587
Question: Who wrote Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua china?
Answer: Spanish Dominicans in the Philippines
Question: What is the name of the earliest Southern Min colloquial text?
Answer: Romance of the Lychee Mirror
Question: Who has developed an alphabet based on Pumindian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where has the alphabet based on the Ming Dynasty script been published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of the Pumindian texts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After 1587 who wrote the Pumindian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the play Minnan Fangyan-Putonghua Cidian written?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 7 March 1945, the provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavija, DFY) was assembled in Belgrade by Josip Broz Tito, while the provisional name allowed for either a republic or monarchy. This government was headed by Tito as provisional Yugoslav Prime Minister and included representatives from the royalist government-in-exile, among others Ivan Šubašić. In accordance with the agreement between resistance leaders and the government-in-exile, post-war elections were held to determine the form of government. In November 1945, Tito's pro-republican People's Front, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, won the elections with an overwhelming majority, the vote having been boycotted by monarchists. During the period, Tito evidently enjoyed massive popular support due to being generally viewed by the populace as the liberator of Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav administration in the immediate post-war period managed to unite a country that had been severely affected by ultra-nationalist upheavals and war devastation, while successfully suppressing the nationalist sentiments of the various nations in favor of tolerance, and the common Yugoslav goal. After the overwhelming electoral victory, Tito was confirmed as the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DFY. The country was soon renamed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FPRY) (later finally renamed into Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFRY). On 29 November 1945, King Peter II was formally deposed by the Yugoslav Constituent Assembly. The Assembly drafted a new republican constitution soon afterwards.
Question: Where was the provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia assembled?
Answer: Belgrade
Question: When was the provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia assembled?
Answer: 7 March 1945
Question: Who Where assembled the provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia?
Answer: Tito
Question: Who was seen as the liberator of Yugoslavia?
Answer: Tito
Question: Who was formally deposed by the Yugoslav Constitutent Assembly on November 29, 1945?
Answer: King Peter II |
Context: Another form of recordable LaserDisc that is completely playback-compatible with the LaserDisc format (unlike CRVdisc with its caddy enclosure) is the RLV, or Recordable LaserVision disc. It was developed and first marketed by the Optical Disc Corporation (ODC, now ODC Nimbus) in 1984. RLV discs, like CRVdisc, are also a WORM technology, and function exactly like a CD-R disc. RLV discs look almost exactly like standard LaserDiscs, and can play in any standard LaserDisc player after they have been recorded.
Question: What does the acronym RLV stand for?
Answer: Recordable LaserVision disc
Question: Which company originally developed and marketed the RLV?
Answer: Optical Disc Corporation (ODC, now ODC Nimbus)
Question: In what year did ODC develop the Recordable LaserVision Disc?
Answer: 1984. |
Context: Alcatel-Lucent has asserted several MP3 coding and compression patents, allegedly inherited from AT&T-Bell Labs, in litigation of its own. In November 2006, before the companies' merger, Alcatel sued Microsoft for allegedly infringing seven patents. On 23 February 2007, a San Diego jury awarded Alcatel-Lucent US $1.52 billion in damages for infringement of two of them. The court subsequently tossed the award, however, finding that one patent had not been infringed and that the other was not even owned by Alcatel-Lucent; it was co-owned by AT&T and Fraunhofer, who had licensed it to Microsoft, the judge ruled. That defense judgment was upheld on appeal in 2008. See Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft for more information.
Question: Which company allegedly inherited MP3 patents from AT&T-Bell LAbs?
Answer: Alcatel-Lucent
Question: What kind of patents were allegedly inherited?
Answer: MP3 coding and compression
Question: How many patents did Alcatel claim Microsoft infringed on?
Answer: seven
Question: How much money was awarded to Alcatel by a San Diego jury?
Answer: US $1.52 billion
Question: What subsequently happened after Alcatel was awarded damages?
Answer: The court subsequently tossed the award |
Context: As of 2000[update], children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 15.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 65% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.9%.
Question: What percent of the population are 19 years old and under?
Answer: 15.1%
Question: What percent of the population are between 20-64?
Answer: 65%
Question: What percent of the population are over 64 years old?
Answer: 19.9%
Question: What age group has most of the population included?
Answer: adults |
Context: Ripple current is the AC component of an applied source (often a switched-mode power supply) whose frequency may be constant or varying. Ripple current causes heat to be generated within the capacitor due to the dielectric losses caused by the changing field strength together with the current flow across the slightly resistive supply lines or the electrolyte in the capacitor. The equivalent series resistance (ESR) is the amount of internal series resistance one would add to a perfect capacitor to model this. Some types of capacitors, primarily tantalum and aluminum electrolytic capacitors, as well as some film capacitors have a specified rating value for maximum ripple current.
Question: What name is given to the AC component of an applied source having either constant or alternating frequency?
Answer: Ripple current
Question: What is one cause of dielectric losses in a capacitor?
Answer: changing field strength
Question: What is another cause of dielectric losses in a capacitor?
Answer: current flow across the slightly resistive supply lines or the electrolyte
Question: What is the name given to the amount of internal series resistance needed to add to an ideal capacitor model in order to represent the heat generated by dielectric losses?
Answer: equivalent series resistance (ESR)
Question: What is one type of capacitor that has a specified rating value for maximum ripple current?
Answer: aluminum electrolytic capacitors
Question: What name is given to the AC component of an applied source having no constant or alternating frequency?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one cause of dielectric gains in a capacitor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another cause of dielectric gains in a capacitor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does ESS stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one type of capacitor that has no specified rating value for maximum ripple current?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802–1861). He took the habit of a Friar Preacher at Rome (1839), and the province of France was canonically erected in 1850. From this province were detached the province of Lyon, called Occitania (1862), that of Toulouse (1869), and that of Canada (1909). The French restoration likewise furnished many laborers to other provinces, to assist in their organization and progress. From it came the master general who remained longest at the head of the administration during the 19th century, Père Vincent Jandel (1850–1872). Here should be mentioned the province of St. Joseph in the United States. Founded in 1805 by Edward Fenwick, afterwards first Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio (1821–1832), this province has developed slowly, but now ranks among the most flourishing and active provinces of the order. In 1910 it numbered seventeen convents or secondary houses. In 1905, it established a large house of studies at Washington, D.C., called the Dominican House of Studies. There are now four Dominican provinces in the United States.
Question: What country held a prominent place in the revival movement?
Answer: France
Question: What orator was very famous during the revival movement?
Answer: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Question: When was the province of France canonically erected?
Answer: 1850
Question: What title did Pere Vincent Jandel hold during this time?
Answer: master general
Question: What country held a minor place in the revival movement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What orator was not well known during the revival movement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire take the habit of a Friar Preacher in Paris?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the province of England canonically erected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What title did Pere Vincent Jandel not hold during this time?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After just 100 hours of ground combat, and with all of Kuwait and much of southern Iraq under coalition control, US President George H. W. Bush ordered a cease-fire and negotiations began resulting in an agreement for cessation of hostilities. Some US politicians were disappointed by this move, believing Bush should have pressed on to Baghdad and removed Hussein from power; there is little doubt that coalition forces could have accomplished this if they had desired. Still, the political ramifications of removing Hussein would have broadened the scope of the conflict greatly, and many coalition nations refused to participate in such an action, believing it would create a power vacuum and destabilize the region.
Question: How long did ground combat operations last in the Persian Gulf War?
Answer: 100 hours
Question: Who ordered the cease-fire that effectively ended hostilities?
Answer: US President George H. W. Bush
Question: What did some US Politicians think Coalition forces should have been allowed to have done?
Answer: pressed on to Baghdad and removed Hussein from power
Question: Coalition nations did what with regards to invading Northern Iraq to precipitate the cease fire?
Answer: refused to participate
Question: Why did Coalition nations fear the removal of Hussein from power?
Answer: it would create a power vacuum and destabilize the region
Question: How long did ground combat operations last in the Kuwait Gulf War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ordered the cease-fire that effectively began hostilities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did some US Politicians think Coalition forces shouldn't have been allowed to have done?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Coalition nations did what with regards to invading Southern Iraq to precipitate the cease fire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Coalition nations fear the removal of Bush from power?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Classical Antiquity, the inquiry into the workings of the universe took place both in investigations aimed at such practical goals as establishing a reliable calendar or determining how to cure a variety of illnesses and in those abstract investigations known as natural philosophy. The ancient people who are considered the first scientists may have thought of themselves as natural philosophers, as practitioners of a skilled profession (for example, physicians), or as followers of a religious tradition (for example, temple healers).
Question: Which era was marked by investigating the universe?
Answer: Classical Antiquity
Question: What type of science are making a calendar and finding cures for diseases a part of?
Answer: natural philosophy
Question: What is an example of skilled professionals?
Answer: physicians
Question: What is an example of religious devotee?
Answer: temple healers
Question: What would the first scientists have been considered?
Answer: natural philosophers |
Context: During their investigation of Noriega, Kerry's staff found reason to believe that the Pakistan-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) had facilitated Noriega's drug trafficking and money laundering. This led to a separate inquiry into BCCI, and as a result, banking regulators shut down BCCI in 1991. In December 1992, Kerry and Senator Hank Brown, a Republican from Colorado, released The BCCI Affair, a report on the BCCI scandal. The report showed that the bank was crooked and was working with terrorists, including Abu Nidal. It blasted the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, the Customs Service, the Federal Reserve Bank, as well as influential lobbyists and the CIA.
Question: Where is the BCCI based?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: What bank helped Noriega?
Answer: Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Question: When was BCCI shut down?
Answer: 1991
Question: Who collaborated in the report about BCCI?
Answer: Kerry and Senator Hank Brown
Question: What was the BCCI report called?
Answer: The BCCI Affair |
Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Question: What is the Russian Revolution?
Answer: the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.
Question: What happened when Nicholas II was removed from power?
Answer: the Russian Provisional Government was established.
Question: What event happened in October of 1917?
Answer: a red faction revolution
Question: What happened during the red faction revolution?
Answer: armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg |
Context: Since the 19th century, many if not all presidents were assisted by a central figure or "gatekeeper", sometimes described as the President's Private Secretary, sometimes with no official title at all. Eisenhower formalized this role, introducing the office of White House Chief of Staff – an idea he borrowed from the United States Army. Every president after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without a chief of staff, but each eventually appointed one.
Question: From where did Eisenhower get the idea of a White House Chief of Staff?
Answer: United States Army
Question: Who was the last president not to appoint a Chief of Staff?
Answer: Lyndon Johnson
Question: Along with Ford, what president initially didn't appoint a Chief of Staff but later did?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question: What 19th century informal political office did the modern role of White House Chief of Staff correspond to?
Answer: President's Private Secretary |
Context: His biography of Anthony the Great entitled Life of Antony(Βίος καὶ Πολιτεία Πατρὸς Ἀντωνίου, Vita Antonii) became his most widely-read work. Translated into several languages, it played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity. Depicting Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, the biography also resembles the life of his biographer Athanasius. It later served as an inspiration to Christian monastics in both the East and the West. The so-called Athanasian Creed dates from well after Athanasius's death and draws upon the phraseology of Augustine's De trinitate.
Question: Who wrote the biography entitled Life of Antony?
Answer: Athanasius
Question: Life of Antony played an important role in the spreading of ascetic ideals in what religion?
Answer: Eastern and Western Christianity
Question: The biography, Life of Antony, also resembles of the life of who?
Answer: Athanasius
Question: The so-called Athanasian Creed draws upon the phraseology of what?
Answer: Augustine's De trinitate
Question: About whom did he write his most widely-read work?
Answer: Anthony the Great
Question: Why was this work considered to be important?
Answer: spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity
Question: How did he depict Anthony?
Answer: illiterate and holy
Question: Whose life did Anthony's resemble?
Answer: Athanasius
Question: What does the Athanasian Creed draw upon?
Answer: Augustine's De trinitate
Question: Who wrote the autobiography entitled Life of Antony?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Life of Antony played an unimportant role in the spreading of ascetic ideals in what religion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The biography, Life of Antony, also resembles of the life of what religion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: About whom did he write his least widely-read work?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The war's end swung the pendulum back. Farmers continued to dislike DST, and many countries repealed it after the war. Britain was an exception: it retained DST nationwide but over the years adjusted transition dates for several reasons, including special rules during the 1920s and 1930s to avoid clock shifts on Easter mornings. The US was more typical: Congress repealed DST after 1919. President Woodrow Wilson, like Willett an avid golfer, vetoed the repeal twice but his second veto was overridden. Only a few US cities retained DST locally thereafter, including New York so that its financial exchanges could maintain an hour of arbitrage trading with London, and Chicago and Cleveland to keep pace with New York. Wilson's successor Warren G. Harding opposed DST as a "deception". Reasoning that people should instead get up and go to work earlier in the summer, he ordered District of Columbia federal employees to start work at 08:00 rather than 09:00 during summer 1922. Some businesses followed suit though many others did not; the experiment was not repeated.
Question: Which country continued to observe DST nationwide despite the fact that the war had ended?
Answer: Britain
Question: What spring holiday did Britain adjust its DST schedule around?
Answer: Easter
Question: After what year was daylight savings repealed in the U.S.?
Answer: 1919
Question: What sport did President Wilson enjoy that made him not want to give up DST?
Answer: golf
Question: What U.S. city kept observing DST to stay in sync with London, leading Chicago and Cleveland to follow along?
Answer: New York |
Context: In the 1990s, initiatives were taken at an international level (in particular by the European Community, the Council of Europe, the OECD) to put a ban on corruption: in 1996, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, for instance, adopted a comprehensive Programme of Action against Corruption and, subsequently, issued a series of anti-corruption standard-setting instruments:
Question: What decade saw international initiatives to combat corruption?
Answer: 1990s
Question: Who started the Programme of Action?
Answer: Ministers of the Council of Europe
Question: What did the Programme of Action issue?
Answer: a series of anti-corruption standard-setting instruments |
Context: American Idol employs a panel of judges who critique the contestants' performances. The original judges were record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, pop singer and choreographer Paula Abdul and music executive and manager Simon Cowell. The judging panel for the most recent season consisted of country singer Keith Urban, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, and jazz singer Harry Connick, Jr. The show was originally hosted by radio personality Ryan Seacrest and comedian Brian Dunkleman, with Seacrest continuing on for the rest of the seasons.
Question: What record producer was an original judge on American Idol?
Answer: Randy Jackson
Question: What comedian was an original host on American Idol?
Answer: Brian Dunkleman
Question: What actress is a judge on the most current season of American Idol?
Answer: Jennifer Lopez
Question: Who was a host on all seasons of American Idol?
Answer: Ryan Seacrest
Question: What comedian was an original host on American Idol?
Answer: Brian Dunkleman
Question: What pop singer was an original judge on American Idol?
Answer: Paula Abdul
Question: What actress is a judge on the most current season of American Idol?
Answer: Jennifer Lopez
Question: Which original judge was a record producer and music manager?
Answer: Randy Jackson
Question: Which original judge was a choreographer?
Answer: Paula Abdul
Question: Which original judge was a music executive?
Answer: Simon Cowell
Question: Which judge is a country music singer?
Answer: Keith Urban
Question: Which judge is a jazz singer?
Answer: Harry Connick, Jr. |
Context: Making up 16% of the population, Muslims constitute Israel's largest religious minority. About 2% of the population is Christian and 1.5% is Druze. The Christian population primarily comprises Arab Christians, but also includes post-Soviet immigrants, the foreign laborers of multinational origins, and followers of Messianic Judaism, considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity. Members of many other religious groups, including Buddhists and Hindus, maintain a presence in Israel, albeit in small numbers. Out of more than one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, about 300,000 are considered not Jewish by the Orthodox rabbinate.
Question: Muslims make up how much of the Israel's population?
Answer: 16%
Question: 2% of the population in Israel are what?
Answer: Christian
Question: Druze makes up what percent?
Answer: 1.5% |
Context: State schools in Somerset are provided by three local education authorities: Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and the larger Somerset County Council. All state schools are comprehensive. In some areas primary, infant and junior schools cater for ages four to eleven, after which the pupils move on to secondary schools. There is a three-tier system of first, middle and upper schools in the Cheddar Valley, and in West Somerset, while most other schools in the county use the two-tier system. Somerset has 30 state and 17 independent secondary schools; Bath and North East Somerset has 13 state and 5 independent secondary schools; and North Somerset has 10 state and 2 independent secondary schools, excluding sixth form colleges.
Question: What are the state schools in somerset
Answer: Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and the larger Somerset County Council
Question: What are the 3 tiers of school
Answer: a three-tier system of first, middle and upper schools in the Cheddar Valley, and in West Somerset
Question: How many state and independent secondary schools in Somerset
Answer: Somerset has 30 state and 17 independent secondary schools
Question: What is the average class size in Somerset independent secondary schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the average class size in Somerset state secondary schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many schools are in Cheddar Valley?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many state secondary schools are there in Bath?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many private secondary schools are there in North Somerset?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Several certification programs exist to support the professional aspirations of software testers and quality assurance specialists. No certification now offered actually requires the applicant to show their ability to test software. No certification is based on a widely accepted body of knowledge. This has led some to declare that the testing field is not ready for certification. Certification itself cannot measure an individual's productivity, their skill, or practical knowledge, and cannot guarantee their competence, or professionalism as a tester.
Question: With several certifications out there that can be aquired, what is the one trait they all share?
Answer: requires the applicant to show their ability to test software
Question: What has the inability for the applicant to show how well they test led to?
Answer: testing field is not ready for certification
Question: What four traits can a certification not measure?
Answer: individual's productivity, their skill, or practical knowledge
Question: What programs are available to support non-professional aspirations of software testers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What certification requires applicants to demonstrate ability?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Some say the testing field is ready for what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Certification is a measure of what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Paragraph 6 of Article 29 stated that if a petition was successful a referendum should be held within three years. Since the deadline passed on 5 May 1958 without anything happening the Hesse state government filed a constitutional complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court in October 1958. The complaint was dismissed in July 1961 on the grounds that Article 29 had made the new delimitation of the federal territory an exclusively federal matter. At the same time, the Court reaffirmed the requirement for a territorial revision as a binding order to the relevant constitutional bodies.
Question: Paragraph 6 of Article 29 states that a referendum, in the event of a successful petition should be held within how many years?
Answer: three
Question: What did the Hesse state government due when the May 5, 1958 deadline passed?
Answer: filed a constitutional complaint
Question: When was the Hesse state government's complaint dismissed?
Answer: July 1961
Question: On what grounds was the Hesse state government's complaint dismissed
Answer: exclusively federal matter
Question: Which article claimed if a petition was successful there was no need for a referendum?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which government filed a request to change their constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By who was the Hesse state government's complaint heard?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did the constitutional court decide to hear the Hesse State complaint?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the court tell they had a requirement to bind territorial revisions?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Highway Patrol is the primary law enforcement entity that concentrates on highway safety regulations and general non-wildlife state law enforcement and is under the jurisdiction of the Tennessee Department of Safety. The TWRA is an independent agency tasked with enforcing all wildlife, boating, and fisheries regulations outside of state parks. The TBI maintains state-of-the-art investigative facilities and is the primary state-level criminal investigative department. Tennessee State Park Rangers are responsible for all activities and law enforcement inside the Tennessee State Parks system.
Question: Which Tennessee law enforcement agency looks for road safety violations?
Answer: Highway Patrol
Question: Which Tennessee agency enforces state wildlife regulations outside of parks?
Answer: TWRA
Question: What is the acronym for Tennessee's statewide criminal investigation agency?
Answer: TBI
Question: Who provides law enforcement within Tennessee's state parks?
Answer: Tennessee State Park Rangers |
Context: Starting in 2014, ESPN returned to the AFL as broadcast partners, with weekly games being shown on CBS Sports Network, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS along with all games being broadcast on ESPN3 for free live on WatchESPN. ArenaBowl XXVII was also broadcast on ESPN. Most teams also have a local TV station broadcast their games locally and all games are available on local radio.
Question: Who was the Arena Football League's 2014 broadcast partner?
Answer: ESPN
Question: What app were Arena Football League games broadcast on in 2014?
Answer: WatchESPN
Question: Along with the ESPN networks, on what network were 2014 AFL games broadcast?
Answer: CBS Sports Network
Question: On what channel could one watch ArenaBowl XXVII live?
Answer: ESPN |
Context: Three-phase AC railway electrification was used in Italy, Switzerland and the United States in the early twentieth century. Italy was the major user, for lines in the mountainous regions of northern Italy from 1901 until 1976. The first lines were the Burgdorf-Thun line in Switzerland (1899), and the lines of the Ferrovia Alta Valtellina from Colico to Chiavenna and Tirano in Italy, which were electrified in 1901 and 1902. Other lines where the three-phase system were used were the Simplon Tunnel in Switzerland from 1906 to 1930, and the Cascade Tunnel of the Great Northern Railway in the United States from 1909 to 1927.
Question: What countries used three-phase AC system in the the beginning of 20th century?
Answer: Italy, Switzerland and the United States
Question: What country was a bigger user compare to the three of them?
Answer: Italy
Question: Where did Italy start using the AC system?
Answer: in the mountainous regions of northern Italy
Question: How long did the AC system last in northern Italy?
Answer: 1901 until 1976
Question: How long did three-phase system operate in Cascade Tunnel?
Answer: 1909 to 1927
Question: Who was the major user of railway electrification in the nineteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The four-phase system was used in what tunnel in Switzerland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The four-phase system was used in what tunnel in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The first four-way lines were in what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The first four-way lines were created in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: An early non-Christian reference to the crucifixion of Jesus is likely to be Mara Bar-Serapion's letter to his son, written sometime after AD 73 but before the 3rd century AD. The letter includes no Christian themes and the author is presumed to be a pagan. The letter refers to the retributions that followed the unjust treatment of three wise men: Socrates, Pythagoras, and "the wise king" of the Jews. Some scholars see little doubt that the reference to the execution of the "king of the Jews" is about the crucifixion of Jesus, while others place less value in the letter, given the possible ambiguity in the reference.
Question: Where can an early non-Christian reference be found to the Crucifixion?
Answer: Mara Bar-Serapion's letter to his son
Question: What is the author of the letter assumed to be?
Answer: pagan
Question: What does the letter reference?
Answer: retributions that followed the unjust treatment of three wise men
Question: Other than Jesus, who was one of the wisemen?
Answer: Socrates
Question: Does everyone agree with the content of the letter?
Answer: others place less value in the letter
Question: Who did Socrates write a letter to about the crucifixion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Socrates write a letter to his son about the crucifixion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religion is Socrates presumed to follow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Socrates referring to in his letter according to Pythagoras?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much value did Pythagoras place in the crucifixion?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: What's New was announced at Gamescom 2009 and was released on September 1, 2009, with PlayStation 3 system software 3.0. The feature was to replace the existing [Information Board], which displayed news from the PlayStation website associated with the user's region. The concept was developed further into a major PlayStation Network feature, which interacts with the [Status Indicator] to display a ticker of all content, excluding recently played content (currently in North America and Japan only).
Question: What new feature for PS3 was released in September of 2009?
Answer: What's New
Question: At what event did Sony announce What's New?
Answer: Gamescom
Question: What did What's New replace?
Answer: Information Board
Question: What type of information is disseminated through What's New?
Answer: news
Question: What's geographical area does What's New tailor information to for each user?
Answer: region
Question: What new feature for PS3 was released in September of 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what event did Sony cancel What's New?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did What's New get replaced by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of information is disseminated outside of What's New?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's biographical area does What's New tailor information to for each user?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The use of drones by the Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan to carry out operations associated with the Global War on Terror sparks debate over sovereignty and the laws of war. The U.S. Government uses the CIA rather than the U.S. Air Force for strikes in Pakistan in order to avoid breaching sovereignty through military invasion. The United States was criticized by[according to whom?] a report on drone warfare and aerial sovereignty for abusing the term 'Global War on Terror' to carry out military operations through government agencies without formally declaring war.
Question: What controversial technology did the US use in Pakistan?
Answer: drones
Question: Which US agency runs its drones in Pakistan?
Answer: the Central Intelligence Agency
Question: Why did the US use the CIA instead of the Air Force to run drones?
Answer: to avoid breaching sovereignty through military invasion
Question: Abuse of what term allowed a lack of a formal war declaration?
Answer: Global War on Terror
Question: What does the US Government use the Air Force for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the United States criticize?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Pakistan use for airstrikes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term was Pakistan accused of abusing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The term Global War on Terror required formally doing what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In June 2006, Steven Spielberg announced he would direct a scientifically accurate film about "a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension", from a treatment by Kip Thorne and producer Lynda Obst. In January 2007, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan met with them to discuss adapting Obst and Thorne's treatment into a narrative screenplay. The screenwriter suggested the addition of a "time element" to the treatment's basic idea, which was welcomed by Obst and Thorne. In March of that year, Paramount hired Nolan, as well as scientists from Caltech, forming a workshop to adapt the treatment under the title Interstellar. The following July, Kip Thorne said there was a push by people for him to portray himself in the film. Spielberg later abandoned Interstellar, which was eventually directed by Christopher Nolan.
Question: When did Spielberg announce what would become 'Interstellar'?
Answer: June 2006
Question: Who took over directing 'Interstellar'?
Answer: Christopher Nolan
Question: What was the concept for 'Interstellar'?
Answer: a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension
Question: Who wrote the 'Interstellar' script?
Answer: Jonathan Nolan
Question: What university provided scientific consultation for 'Interstellar'?
Answer: Caltech
Question: In what year did Kip Thorne and Lynda Obst do a treatment of Interstellar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Lynda Obst become a producer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Jonathan Nolan become a screenwriter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Christopher Nolan become a director?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following his ascension to power, Gaddafi moved into the Bab al-Azizia barracks, a six-mile long fortified compound located two miles from the center of Tripoli. His home and office at Azizia was a bunker designed by West German engineers, while the rest of his family lived in a large two-story building. Within the compound were also two tennis courts, a soccer field, several gardens, camels, and a Bedouin tent in which he entertained guests. In the 1980s, his lifestyle was considered modest in comparison to those of many other Arab leaders. Gaddafi allegedly worked for years with Swiss banks to launder international banking transactions. In November 2011, The Sunday Times identified property worth £1 billion in the UK that Gaddafi allegedly owned. Gaddafi had an Airbus A340 private jet, which he bought from Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia for $120 million in 2003. Operated by Tripoli-based Afriqiyah Airways and decorated externally in their colours, it had various luxuries including a jacuzzi.
Question: How far is the Bab al-Azizia barracks from Tripoli?
Answer: two miles
Question: Who designed Gaddafi's Azizia home?
Answer: West German engineers
Question: How many tennis courts existed in Gaddafi's compound?
Answer: two
Question: What was the value of Gaddafi's supposed British property holdings as of November 2011?
Answer: £1 billion
Question: How much did Gaddafi pay for his Airbus A340?
Answer: $120 million |
Context: The demographics of the British Isles today are characterised by a generally high density of population in England, which accounts for almost 80% of the total population of the islands. In elsewhere on Great Britain and on Ireland, high density of population is limited to areas around, or close to, a few large cities. The largest urban area by far is the Greater London Urban Area with 9 million inhabitants. Other major populations centres include Greater Manchester Urban Area (2.4 million), West Midlands conurbation (2.4 million), West Yorkshire Urban Area (1.6 million) in England, Greater Glasgow (1.2 million) in Scotland and Greater Dublin Area (1.1 million) in Ireland.[citation needed]
Question: Which area in the British Isles is s the most populated?
Answer: England
Question: What percentage of the population does England have compared to the other areas in the British Isles?
Answer: 80%
Question: How many people live in the area of London?
Answer: 9 million
Question: What are two other major populated cities in England?
Answer: Greater Manchester Urban Area (2.4 million), West Midlands conurbation (2.4 million)
Question: What is the most populated city in Ireland?
Answer: Greater Dublin Area (1.1 million)
Question: England accounts for almost 25% of the total population of where?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which is the smallest urban area with only 9 million people?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which area is the largest urban area, with a population of 27,000 civilians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: There is a low population density in England, which accounts for what percent of the total population?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Marwan was succeeded by his son, Abd al-Malik (685–705), who reconsolidated Umayyad control of the caliphate. The early reign of Abd al-Malik was marked by the revolt of Al-Mukhtar, which was based in Kufa. Al-Mukhtar hoped to elevate Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, another son of Ali, to the caliphate, although Ibn al-Hanafiyyah himself may have had no connection to the revolt. The troops of al-Mukhtar engaged in battles both with the Umayyads in 686, defeating them at the river Khazir near Mosul, and with Ibn al-Zubayr in 687, at which time the revolt of al-Mukhtar was crushed. In 691, Umayyad troops reconquered Iraq, and in 692 the same army captured Mecca. Ibn al-Zubayr was killed in the attack.
Question: Who was the father of Abd al-Malik?
Answer: Marwan
Question: When did Abd al-Malik's rule begin?
Answer: 685
Question: Where was Al-Mukhtar based?
Answer: Kufa
Question: Who was the father of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah?
Answer: Ali
Question: In what year did Ibn al-Zubayr die?
Answer: 692
Question: Who succeeded Abd al-Malik?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What span of years did Marwan rule?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was another son of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Umayyads defeat the troops of al-Mukhtar near Mosul?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The dominant land plant species of the time were gymnosperms, which are vascular, cone-bearing, non-flowering plants such as conifers that produce seeds without a coating. This is opposed to the earth's current flora, in which the dominant land plants in terms of number of species are angiosperms. One particular plant genus, Ginkgo, is thought to have evolved at this time and is represented today by a single species, Ginkgo biloba. As well, the extant genus Sequoia is believed to have evolved in the Mesozoic.
Question: What was the dominant plant species of the Mesozoic?
Answer: gymnosperms
Question: What is an example of a gymnosperm?
Answer: conifers
Question: What are the dominate plant species on Earth now?
Answer: angiosperms
Question: When did the Ginkgo evolve?
Answer: Mesozoic
Question: What famous tree species is believed to have evolved during the Mesozoic?
Answer: Sequoia
Question: What plant species died out in the Mesozoic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Ginkgo species died out in what period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the most at risk species on Earth now?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What land species died out in this period?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The shift in the Cubs' fortunes was characterized June 23 on the "NBC Saturday Game of the Week" contest against the St. Louis Cardinals. it has since been dubbed simply "The Sandberg Game." With the nation watching and Wrigley Field packed, Sandberg emerged as a superstar with not one, but two game-tying home runs against Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter. With his shots in the 9th and 10th innings Wrigley Field erupted and Sandberg set the stage for a comeback win that cemented the Cubs as the team to beat in the East. No one would catch them, except the Padres in the playoffs.
Question: What contest shift the Cubs' Fortunes?
Answer: NBC Saturday Game of the Week
Question: What had the contest between the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals been dubbed as?
Answer: The Sandberg Game
Question: How many game-tying home runs did Sandberg get against the Cardinals at the Sandber Game?
Answer: two |
Context: In 1808, Napoleon and Czar Alexander met at the Congress of Erfurt to preserve the Russo-French alliance. The leaders had a friendly personal relationship after their first meeting at Tilsit in 1807. By 1811, however, tensions had increased and Alexander was under pressure from the Russian nobility to break off the alliance. A major strain on the relationship between the two nations became the regular violations of the Continental System by the Russians, which led Napoleon to threaten Alexander with serious consequences if he formed an alliance with Britain.
Question: What meeting did Napoleon and Czar Alexander participate in in 1808?
Answer: the Congress of Erfurt
Question: In what year did the Congress of Erfurt take place?
Answer: 1808
Question: Where did Napoleon and Czar Alexander first meet?
Answer: Tilsit
Question: In what year did Napoleon and Czar Alexander first meet?
Answer: 1807
Question: Violations of what Napoleonic policy by Russia led to tensions between Russia and France?
Answer: the Continental System |
Context: The National Maritime College of Ireland is also located in Cork and is the only college in Ireland in which Nautical Studies and Marine Engineering can be undertaken. CIT also incorporates the Cork School of Music and Crawford College of Art and Design as constituent schools. The Cork College of Commerce is the largest post-Leaving Certificate college in Ireland and is also the biggest provider of Vocational Preparation and Training courses in the country.[citation needed] Other 3rd level institutions include Griffith College Cork, a private institution, and various other colleges.
Question: Where can one study nautical and marine subjects in Cork?
Answer: The National Maritime College of Ireland
Question: What liberal arts type colleges are in Cork?
Answer: Cork School of Music and Crawford College of Art and Design
Question: Who provides vocational training in Cork?
Answer: The Cork College of Commerce
Question: Who offers post-secondary education in Cork?
Answer: Griffith College Cork
Question: What is the only college in Europe for Nautical Studies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the largest college in Ireland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the biggest provider of Vocational Training in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Griffith College Cork is the only college in Ireland where you can study what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Cork School of Music the largest provider of in the country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What constituent schools are incorporated into Griffith College Cork?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of Certificate does Crawford College of Art and Design offer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What level institution is the Cork School of Music?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the Age of Enlightenment, Freemasons comprised an international network of like-minded men, often meeting in secret in ritualistic programs at their lodges. they promoted the ideals of the Enlightenment, and helped diffuse these values across Britain and France and other places. Freemasonry as a systematic creed with its own myths, values and set of rituals originated in Scotland around 1600 and spread first to England and then across the Continent in the eighteenth century. They fostered new codes of conduct – including a communal understanding of liberty and equality inherited from guild sociability – "liberty, fraternity, and equality" Scottish soldiers and Jacobite Scots brought to the Continent ideals of fraternity which reflected not the local system of Scottish customs but the institutions and ideals originating in the English Revolution against royal absolutism. Freemasonry was particularly prevalent in France – by 1789, there were perhaps as many as 100,000 French Masons, making Freemasonry the most popular of all Enlightenment associations. The Freemasons displayed a passion for secrecy and created new degrees and ceremonies. Similar societies, partially imitating Freemasonry, emerged in France, Germany, Sweden and Russia. One example was the "Illuminati" founded in Bavaria in 1776, which was copied after the Freemasons but was never part of the movement. The Illuminati was an overtly political group, which most Masonic lodges decidedly were not.
Question: Where did Freemasonry originate?
Answer: Scotland
Question: Where did Freemasonry first spread?
Answer: England
Question: In what country was Freemaonry particularly prevalent?
Answer: France
Question: What was the most popular of all Enlightenment associations?
Answer: Freemasonry
Question: Which group was copied from the Freemasons and founded in Bavaria in 1776?
Answer: Illuminati |
Context: Traits valued in women of the samurai class were humility, obedience, self-control, strength, and loyalty. Ideally, a samurai wife would be skilled at managing property, keeping records, dealing with financial matters, educating the children (and perhaps servants, too), and caring for elderly parents or in-laws that may be living under her roof. Confucian law, which helped define personal relationships and the code of ethics of the warrior class required that a woman show subservience to her husband, filial piety to her parents, and care to the children. Too much love and affection was also said to indulge and spoil the youngsters. Thus, a woman was also to exercise discipline.
Question: What characteristics did samurais want their wives to have?
Answer: humility, obedience, self-control, strength, and loyalty
Question: Who did samurai wives have to teach?
Answer: the children (and perhaps servants, too)
Question: Who did samurai wives have to take care of?
Answer: elderly parents or in-laws that may be living under her roof
Question: Who was a woman supposed to be subservient to?
Answer: her husband
Question: What defined the samurais' code?
Answer: Confucian law |
Context: Paleobotanists study ancient plants in the fossil record to provide information about the evolutionary history of plants. Cyanobacteria, the first oxygen-releasing photosynthetic organisms on Earth, are thought to have given rise to the ancestor of plants by entering into an endosymbiotic relationship with an early eukaryote, ultimately becoming the chloroplasts in plant cells. The new photosynthetic plants (along with their algal relatives) accelerated the rise in atmospheric oxygen started by the cyanobacteria, changing the ancient oxygen-free, reducing, atmosphere to one in which free oxygen has been abundant for more than 2 billion years.
Question: What is the study of ancient, fossilized plants?
Answer: Paleobotanists
Question: What organism is credited with starting the oxygen-rich atmosphere on Earth?
Answer: cyanobacteria
Question: What can scientists learn from the fossil record?
Answer: evolutionary history of plants
Question: What was the first organism to produce oxygen through photosynthesis?
Answer: Cyanobacteria |
Context: In the attempt to satisfy Austria at the time, Britain gave their electoral vote in Hanover for the candidacy of Maria Theresa's son, Joseph, as the Holy Roman Emperor, much to the dismay of Frederick and Prussia. Not only that, Britain would soon join the Austro-Russian alliance, but complications arose. Britain's basic framework for the alliance itself was to protect Hanover's interests against France. While at the same time, Kaunitz kept approaching the French in the hope of establishing such alliance with Austria. Not only that, France had no intention to ally with Russia, who meddled with their affairs in Austria's succession war, years earlier, and saw the complete dismemberment of Prussia as unacceptable to the stability of Central Europe.
Question: What country was pleased that Britain used its Hanover vote to elect Joseph as Te Holy Roman Emperor?
Answer: Austria
Question: What country and person were displeased that Britain used it Hanover vote to elect Joseph as the Holy Roman Emporer?
Answer: Frederick and Prussia
Question: What was the French view about the dismemberment of Prussia?
Answer: saw the complete dismemberment of Prussia as unacceptable to the stability of Central Europe.
Question: What was a major objective of Britain in joining the Austro-Russian alliance?
Answer: to protect Hanover's interests against France.
Question: What was Kaunitz's objective with the French?
Answer: Kaunitz kept approaching the French in the hope of establishing such alliance with Austria |
Context: A further complication is that the measurement of γ′p involves the measurement of an electric current: this is invariably measured in conventional amperes rather than in SI amperes, so a conversion factor is required. The symbol Γ′p-90 is used for the measured gyromagnetic ratio using conventional electrical units. In addition, there are two methods of measuring the value, a "low-field" method and a "high-field" method, and the conversion factors are different in the two cases. Only the high-field value Γ′p-90(hi) is of interest in determining the Planck constant.
Question: How many methods of measuring the gyromagnetic ratio are there?
Answer: there are two methods of measuring the value
Question: How do conversion factors compare in "low-field" and "high-field" methods of measuring the gyromagnetic ratio?
Answer: the conversion factors are different in the two cases
Question: Which method is of interest in determining the Planck constant?
Answer: Only the high-field value Γ′p-90(hi) is of interest in determining the Planck constant
Question: Why is the measurement of electric current an issue in the estimate of the gyromagnetic ratio?
Answer: electric current: this is invariably measured in conventional amperes rather than in SI amperes
Question: How many methods of measuring the gyroelectric ratio are there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do conversion factors compare in "low-field" and "high-field" methods of measuring the gyroelectric ratio?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which method is of interest in determining the Planck difference?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is the measurement of gyroelectric current an issue in the estimate of the gyromagnetic ratio?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following Huan's death, Dou Wu and the Grand Tutor Chen Fan (陳蕃) (d. 168 AD) attempted a coup d'état against the eunuchs Hou Lan (d. 172 AD), Cao Jie (d. 181 AD), and Wang Fu (王甫). When the plot was uncovered, the eunuchs arrested Empress Dowager Dou (d. 172 AD) and Chen Fan. General Zhang Huan (張奐) favored the eunuchs. He and his troops confronted Dou Wu and his retainers at the palace gate where each side shouted accusations of treason against the other. When the retainers gradually deserted Dou Wu, he was forced to commit suicide.
Question: Who arrested Chen Fan in a failed plot?
Answer: the eunuchs
Question: Who made accusations of treason against Dou Wu?
Answer: General Zhang Huan
Question: How did Dou Wu pass away?
Answer: he was forced to commit suicide
Question: Which group was favorable to Zhang Huan?
Answer: the eunuchs
Question: What type of action was attempted on the eunuchs?
Answer: coup d'état |
Context: Armenia presently maintains good relations with almost every country in the world, with two major exceptions being its immediate neighbours, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Tensions were running high between Armenians and Azerbaijanis during the final years of the Soviet Union. The Nagorno-Karabakh War dominated the region's politics throughout the 1990s. The border between the two rival countries remains closed up to this day, and a permanent solution for the conflict has not been reached despite the mediation provided by organisations such as the OSCE.
Question: With who does Armenia have bad relations?
Answer: Turkey and Azerbaijan
Question: Is the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan open or closed?
Answer: closed
Question: When was the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
Answer: 1990s |
Context: The annual Southampton Boat Show is held in September each year, with over 600 exhibitors present. It runs for just over a week at Mayflower Park on the city's waterfront, where it has been held since 1968. The Boat Show itself is the climax of Sea City, which runs from April to September each year to celebrate Southampton's links with the sea.
Question: In what month each year is the Southampton Boat Show held?
Answer: September
Question: What waterfront park hosts the Boat Show?
Answer: Mayflower Park
Question: When was the Boat Show first held in Mayflower Park?
Answer: 1968
Question: What Southampton festival culminates in the Boat Show?
Answer: Sea City
Question: Attendees of the Boat Show can expect to see at least how many exhibitors?
Answer: 600 |
Context: East of the Bronx River, the borough is relatively flat and includes four large low peninsulas, or 'necks,' of low-lying land which jut into the waters of the East River and were once saltmarsh: Hunts Point, Clason's Point, Screvin's Neck (Castle Hill Point) and Throgs Neck. The East Bronx has older tenement buildings, low income public housing complexes, and multifamily homes, as well as single family homes. It includes New York City's largest park: Pelham Bay Park along the Westchester-Bronx border.
Question: What is Screvin's Neck also called?
Answer: Castle Hill Point
Question: In what river does the Bronx have 4 peninsulas?
Answer: East River
Question: What is NYC's largest park?
Answer: Pelham Bay Park
Question: Where is Pelham Bay Park?
Answer: along the Westchester-Bronx border |
Context: Madonna's look and style of dressing, her performances, and her music videos influenced young girls and women. Her style became one of the female fashion trends of the 1980s. Created by stylist and jewelry designer Maripol, the look consisted of lace tops, skirts over capri pants, fishnet stockings, jewelry bearing the crucifix, bracelets, and bleached hair. Madonna achieved global recognition after the release of her second studio album, Like a Virgin, in November 1984. It topped the charts in several countries and became her first number one album on the Billboard 200. The title track, "Like a Virgin", topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks. It attracted the attention of organizations who complained that the song and its accompanying video promoted premarital sex and undermined family values, and moralists sought to have the song and video banned.
Question: Who did Madonna's look and style of dressing influence?
Answer: young girls and women
Question: When did Madonna's style become a fashion trend?
Answer: 1980s
Question: Who is the stylist and jewellery designer that created Madonna's look?
Answer: Maripol
Question: When did Madonna achieve global recognition?
Answer: November 1984
Question: How long did "Like a Virgin" stayed on the Billboard 100?
Answer: six consecutive weeks |
Context: Traditionally, Section 1983 was of limited use for a state prisoner under sentence of death because the Supreme Court has held that habeas corpus, not Section 1983, is the only vehicle by which a state prisoner can challenge his judgment of death. In the 2006 Hill v. McDonough case, however, the United States Supreme Court approved the use of Section 1983 as a vehicle for challenging a state's method of execution as cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The theory is that a prisoner bringing such a challenge is not attacking directly his judgment of death, but rather the means by which that the judgment will be carried out. Therefore, the Supreme Court held in the Hill case that a prisoner can use Section 1983 rather than habeas corpus to bring the lawsuit. Yet, as Clarence Hill's own case shows, lower federal courts have often refused to hear suits challenging methods of execution on the ground that the prisoner brought the claim too late and only for the purposes of delay. Further, the Court's decision in Baze v. Rees, upholding a lethal injection method used by many states, has drastically narrowed the opportunity for relief through Section 1983.
Question: In what case did the Supreme Court allow Section 1983 to be used to challenge a method of execution?
Answer: Hill v. McDonough
Question: In what year was Hill v. McDonough decided?
Answer: 2006
Question: What amendment of the Constitution does cruel and unusual punishment violate?
Answer: Eighth
Question: What case notably upheld the use of a method of lethal injection?
Answer: Baze v. Rees
Question: Along with Section 1983, through what means can a convict on death row challenge his execution?
Answer: habeas corpus
Question: n what case did the Supreme Court allow Section 1989 to be used to challenge a method of execution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Hill v. McDonough rejected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What amendment of the Constitution doesn't cruel and unusual punishment violate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What case notably did not uphold the use of a method of lethal injection?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Along with Section 1983, through what means can a convict on death row submit to his execution?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Fortaleza del Cerro overlooks the bay of Montevideo. An observation post at this location was first built by the Spanish in the late 18th century. In 1802, a beacon replaced the observation post; construction of the fortress began in 1809 and was completed in 1839. It has been involved in many historical developments and has been repeatedly taken over by various sides. In 1907, the old beacon was replaced with a stronger electric one. It has been a National Monument since 1931 and has housed a military museum since 1916. Today it is one of the tourist attractions of Montevideo.
Question: What overlooks the bay of Montevideo?
Answer: Fortaleza del Cerro
Question: What replaced the observation post in 1802?
Answer: a beacon
Question: When did construction of the fortress begin?
Answer: 1809
Question: When did construction of the fortress finish?
Answer: 1839 |
Context: This technique of representing simultaneity, multiple viewpoints (or relative motion) is pushed to a high degree of complexity in Gleizes' monumental Le Dépiquage des Moissons (Harvest Threshing), exhibited at the 1912 Salon de la Section d'Or, Le Fauconnier’s Abundance shown at the Indépendants of 1911, and Delaunay's City of Paris, shown at the Indépendants in 1912. These ambitious works are some of the largest paintings in the history of Cubism. Léger’s The Wedding, also shown at the Salon des Indépendants in 1912, gave form to the notion of simultaneity by presenting different motifs as occurring within a single temporal frame, where responses to the past and present interpenetrate with collective force. The conjunction of such subject matter with simultaneity aligns Salon Cubism with early Futurist paintings by Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Carlo Carrà; themselves made in response to early Cubism.
Question: What did the technique in Gliezes' piece Le Depiquage represent?
Answer: relative motion)
Question: Who painted the Wedding, show at Salon des Independants in 1912?
Answer: Léger
Question: Which of Gliezes pieces was featured at Salon de la Section d'Or?
Answer: Le Dépiquage des Moissons (Harvest Threshing)
Question: What did the technique in Gliezes' piece Le Depiquage not represent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who painted the Wedding, show at Salon des Independants in 1913?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which of Gliezes pieces was not featured at Salon de la Section d'Or?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not make a response in early cubism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did not give form to the notion of simultaneity?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Britain, Willett's 1907 proposal used the term daylight saving, but by 1911 the term summer time replaced daylight saving time in draft legislation. Continental Europe uses similar phrases, such as Sommerzeit in Germany, zomertijd in Dutch-speaking regions, kesäaika in Finland, horario de verano or hora de verano in Spain and heure d'été in France, whereas in Italy the term is ora legale, that is, legal time (legally enforced time) as opposed to "ora solare", solar time, in winter.
Question: Which term did Willett use in his 1907 proposal to refer to DST?
Answer: daylight saving
Question: What phrase had replaced daylight saving time by 1911 as Willett's proposal evolved into draft legislation?
Answer: summer time
Question: What word do speakers of Dutch use for DST?
Answer: zomertijd
Question: What term do Italians use for DST that literally translates as "legal time"?
Answer: ora legale
Question: What does the Italian term for their winter time, ora solare, translate to in English?
Answer: solar time |
Context: Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Adams Nicholson, John Buonarotti Papworth, and Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey.
Question: What was Riba's first name?
Answer: Institute of British Architects in London
Question: In what year was the Institute of British Architects founded?
Answer: 1834
Question: In what city was the Institute of British Architects located?
Answer: London
Question: In terms of profession, what were people like Philip Hardwick, William Adams Nicholson and Thomas de Grey?
Answer: Architects
Question: What was Riba's banned name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city was the Institute of British Architects moved to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the Institute of British Architects removed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What profession did people like Philip Hardwick, William Adams Nicholson and Thomas de Grey avoid?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: While videoconferencing technology was initially used primarily within internal corporate communication networks, one of the first community service usages of the technology started in 1992 through a unique partnership with PictureTel and IBM Corporations which at the time were promoting a jointly developed desktop based videoconferencing product known as the PCS/1. Over the next 15 years, Project DIANE (Diversified Information and Assistance Network) grew to utilize a variety of videoconferencing platforms to create a multi-state cooperative public service and distance education network consisting of several hundred schools, neighborhood centers, libraries, science museums, zoos and parks, public assistance centers, and other community oriented organizations.
Question: What year did one the first community service usages of videoconferencing take place?
Answer: 1992
Question: What company helped in the creation of community service videoconferencing?
Answer: IBM
Question: What is the videoconferencing product that both IBM and PictureTel worked on?
Answer: PCS/1
Question: What does DIANE in Project DIANE stand for?
Answer: Diversified Information and Assistance Network
Question: How many years did it take for Project DIANE to grow?
Answer: 15
Question: Where was distance education first used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was first used in neighborhood centers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did a partnership between libraries and science museums promote in 1992?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1992 what are two places that were part of the PictureTel network?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did IBM Corporations grow to create over the next 15 years?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Wood has long been used as an artistic medium. It has been used to make sculptures and carvings for millennia. Examples include the totem poles carved by North American indigenous people from conifer trunks, often Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata), and the Millennium clock tower, now housed in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. It is also used in woodcut printmaking, and for engraving.
Question: Along with sculptures, what type of art have people been making out of wood for centuries?
Answer: carvings
Question: What did indigenous people in North America make out of the trunks of conifers?
Answer: totem poles
Question: What type of tree was often used for totem poles?
Answer: Western Red Cedar
Question: What city in Scotland would you visit to see the Millennium clock tower?
Answer: Edinburgh
Question: What museum exhibits the Millennium clock tower?
Answer: National Museum of Scotland |
Context: The 2011 Human Development Report was released on 2 November 2011, and calculated HDI values based on estimates for 2011. Below is the list of the "very high human development" countries (equal to the top quartile):
Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2012 report?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In a movie theater, steps in the aisles are usually marked with a row of small lights for convenience and safety, when the film has started and the other lights are off. Traditionally made up of small low wattage, low voltage lamps in a track or translucent tube, these are rapidly being replaced with LED based versions.
Question: What do steps in move theater aisles have for safety markings?
Answer: small lights
Question: What are the low wattage lamps being replaced with in movie theaters?
Answer: LED based versions
Question: What kind of tube are the movie theaters lights enclosed in?
Answer: translucent tube |
Context: Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Namik Kemal also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ("Awakening"), while the journalist İbrahim Şinasi is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy "Şair Evlenmesi" ("The Poet's Marriage"). An earlier play, a farce entitled "Vakâyi'-i 'Acibe ve Havâdis-i Garibe-yi Kefşger Ahmed" ("The Strange Events and Bizarre Occurrences of the Cobbler Ahmed"), dates from the beginning of the 19th century, but there remains some doubt about its authenticity. In a similar vein, the novelist Ahmed Midhat Efendi wrote important novels in each of the major movements: Romanticism (Hasan Mellâh yâhud Sırr İçinde Esrâr, 1873; "Hasan the Sailor, or The Mystery Within the Mystery"), Realism (Henüz On Yedi Yaşında, 1881; "Just Seventeen Years Old"), and Naturalism (Müşâhedât, 1891; "Observations"). This diversity was, in part, due to the Tanzimat writers' wish to disseminate as much of the new literature as possible, in the hopes that it would contribute to a revitalization of Ottoman social structures.
Question: What 1876 Novel did Namik Kemal write?
Answer: İntibâh ("Awakening")
Question: What did İbrahim Şinasi write in 1860?
Answer: the one-act comedy "Şair Evlenmesi" ("The Poet's Marriage").
Question: Who wrote Hasan Mellâh yâhud Sırr İçinde Esrâr?
Answer: Ahmed Midhat Efendi
Question: What Realist novel did Ahmed Midhat Efendi write in 1881?
Answer: Henüz On Yedi Yaşında
Question: What did writers of the Tanzimat period hope to accomplish with their publications?
Answer: contribute to a revitalization of Ottoman social structures |
Context: Near New Haven there is the static inverter plant of the HVDC Cross Sound Cable. There are three PureCell Model 400 fuel cells placed in the city of New Haven—one at the New Haven Public Schools and newly constructed Roberto Clemente School, one at the mixed-use 360 State Street building, and one at City Hall. According to Giovanni Zinn of the city's Office of Sustainability, each fuel cell may save the city up to $1 million in energy costs over a decade. The fuel cells were provided by ClearEdge Power, formerly UTC Power.
Question: What static inverter plant lies near New Haven?
Answer: HVDC Cross Sound Cable
Question: How many PureCell Model 400 fuel cells can be found in New Haven?
Answer: three
Question: How much money is each PureCell Model 400 fuel cell projected to save the city of New Haven in energy costs over the course of a decade?
Answer: $1 million
Question: What company provided New Haven with the fuel cells currently in place throughout the city?
Answer: ClearEdge Power
Question: The Cross Sound Cable company has what sort of structure located near New Haven?
Answer: static inverter plant
Question: How many Model 400 fuel cell lies within New Haven?
Answer: three
Question: What was the former name of the company that provided the fuel cells to the city?
Answer: UTC Power
Question: In terms of budget, what is the estimated savings from using the fuel cell system?
Answer: $1 million in energy costs |
Context: The 19th-century English art critic, John Ruskin, in his Seven Lamps of Architecture, published 1849, was much narrower in his view of what constituted architecture. Architecture was the "art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by men ... that the sight of them" contributes "to his mental health, power, and pleasure".
Question: Who wrote Seven Lamps of Architecture?
Answer: John Ruskin
Question: Who was the author of Seven Lamps of Architecture?
Answer: John Ruskin
Question: What was Ruskin's career?
Answer: art critic
Question: When was Seven Lamps of Architecture published?
Answer: 1849
Question: What, according to Ruskin, should looking at architecture contribute to its viewer?
Answer: to his mental health, power, and pleasure
Question: Who wrote Eight Lamps of Architecture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did John Ruskin write the Seven Lamps of Architecture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What book came out in the 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What subject did John Ruskin teach in college?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said "art which never disposes and adorns the edifices"
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1763, Spain traded Florida to the Kingdom of Great Britain for control of Havana, Cuba, which had been captured by the British during the Seven Years' War. It was part of a large expansion of British territory following the country's victory in the Seven Years' War. Almost the entire Spanish population left, taking along most of the remaining indigenous population to Cuba. The British soon constructed the King's Road connecting St. Augustine to Georgia. The road crossed the St. Johns River at a narrow point, which the Seminole called Wacca Pilatka and the British named "Cow Ford", both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there.
Question: What did Spain trade Florida for
Answer: In 1763, Spain traded Florida to the Kingdom of Great Britain for control of Havana, Cuba
Question: Who did the Spanish take from Florida to Cuba
Answer: Almost the entire Spanish population left, taking along most of the remaining indigenous population to Cuba
Question: What road did the British construct
Answer: the King's Road connecting St. Augustine to Georgia
Question: What river does the Kings road cross
Answer: the St. Johns River
Question: What did Germany trade Florida for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who owned Cuba after the Eight Years War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What road did the British destroy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What river does the Kings road not cross?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the river named after a sheep?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The act of using Church of Scientology techniques in a form different than originally described by Hubbard is referred to within Scientology as "squirreling" and is said by Scientologists to be high treason. The Religious Technology Center has prosecuted breakaway groups that have practiced Scientology outside the official Church without authorization.
Question: What term is used for the act of using Church of Scientology techniques in contrast to what Hubbard envisioned?
Answer: squirreling
Question: What institution has prosecuted groups that practice outside the official Church without permission?
Answer: The Religious Technology Center
Question: Who reformed Scientology making splinter groups heretical?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who accuses the Curch of Scientology of squirrelling?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization has started several breakaway groups?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Northwestern's football team has made 73 appearances in the top 10 of the AP poll since 1936 (including 5 at #1) and has won eight Big Ten conference championships since 1903. At one time, Northwestern had the longest losing streak in Division I-A, losing 34 consecutive games between 1979 and 1982. They did not appear in a bowl game after 1949 until the 1996 Rose Bowl. The team did not win a bowl since the 1949 Rose Bowl until the 2013 Gator Bowl. Following the sudden death of football coach Randy Walker in 2006, 31-year-old former All-American Northwestern linebacker Pat Fitzgerald assumed the position, becoming the youngest Division I FBS coach at the time.
Question: How many appearances has Northwestern's football team made in the top 10 AP poll since 1936?
Answer: 73
Question: How many consecutive games did Northwestern lose during it's longest losing streak between 1979 and 1982?
Answer: 34
Question: What was the first bowl game Northwestern appeared in after 1949?
Answer: 1996 Rose Bowl
Question: What was the first bowl won by Northwestern after the 1949 Rose Bowl?
Answer: 2013 Gator Bowl
Question: In 2006, which Northwestern linebacker became the youngest Division/FBS coach at the time?
Answer: Pat Fitzgerald
Question: How many appearances has Southwestern's football team made in the top 10 AP poll since 1936?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many consecutive games did Northwestern lose during it's longest losing streak between 1980 and 1992?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the second bowl game Northwestern appeared in after 1949?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first bowl won by Northwestern after the 1950 Rose Bowl?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first bowl won by Northwestern after the 1990 Rose Bowl?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The example Leibniz uses involves two proposed universes situated in absolute space. The only discernible difference between them is that the latter is positioned five feet to the left of the first. The example is only possible if such a thing as absolute space exists. Such a situation, however, is not possible, according to Leibniz, for if it were, a universe's position in absolute space would have no sufficient reason, as it might very well have been anywhere else. Therefore, it contradicts the principle of sufficient reason, and there could exist two distinct universes that were in all ways indiscernible, thus contradicting the identity of indiscernibles.
Question: Leibniz's example involves how many universes?
Answer: two
Question: Where are Leibniz's universes situated?
Answer: absolute space
Question: How far are Leibniz's universes situated apart?
Answer: five feet
Question: What is the only way Leibniz's example would be possible?
Answer: absolute space exists
Question: Who's example involves one universe in two places?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Leibniz place at two points in deep space?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What proves the existence of absolute space?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2007, the USAF undertook a Reduction-in-Force (RIF). Because of budget constraints, the USAF planned to reduce the service's size from 360,000 active duty personnel to 316,000. The size of the active duty force in 2007 was roughly 64% of that of what the USAF was at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991. However, the reduction was ended at approximately 330,000 personnel in 2008 in order to meet the demand signal of combatant commanders and associated mission requirements. These same constraints have seen a sharp reduction in flight hours for crew training since 2005 and the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Personnel directing Airmen's Time Assessments.
Question: What year did the USAF take a Reduction-in-force?
Answer: 2007
Question: Why did the USAF plan to take a reduction-in-force?
Answer: budget constraints
Question: How many USAF personnel did the reduction end in during 2008?
Answer: 330,000
Question: What has there been a sharp reduction in during the years following 2005 in the USAF?
Answer: flight hours for crew training |
Context: France's blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that is going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were two distinct Jewish populations. One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition and concentrated in the southwest, while the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, and speaking mainly Yiddish. The two communities were so separate and different that the National Assembly emancipated them separately in 1790 and 1791.
Question: When did France expel its original Jewish population?
Answer: the Middle Ages
Question: By the time of the French Revolution there were how many distinct Jewish populations?
Answer: two distinct Jewish populations |
Context: Despite their usurpation of imperial authority, the Fujiwara presided over a period of cultural and artistic flowering at the imperial court and among the aristocracy. There was great interest in graceful poetry and vernacular literature. Two types of phonetic Japanese script: katakana, a simplified script that was developed by using parts of Chinese characters, was abbreviated to hiragana, a cursive syllabary with a distinct writing method that was uniquely Japanese. Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts. Three late tenth century and early eleventh century women presented their views of life and romance at the Heian court in Kagerō Nikki by "the mother of Fujiwara Michitsuna", The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon and The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Indigenous art also flourished under the Fujiwara after centuries of imitating Chinese forms. Vividly colored yamato-e, Japanese style paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid- and late Heian periods, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day.
Question: What script was developed with parts of Chinese characters?
Answer: katakana
Question: What was the name of the cursive script that gave expression to spoken words?
Answer: hiragana
Question: Who is the author of The Pillow Book?
Answer: Sei Shōnagon
Question: Who is the author of The Tale of Genji?
Answer: Murasaki Shikibu
Question: What was the name of the brightly colored paintings depicting court life?
Answer: yamato-e
Question: What declined while the Fujiwara controled the imperial court?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Japan borrow the writting style of hiragana from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What writting style led to a decline in Japan's vernacular literature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was written by court women trained in Chinese?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What still influences Chinese art today?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the Hellenistic period the importance of Greece proper within the Greek-speaking world declined sharply. The great centers of Hellenistic culture were Alexandria and Antioch, capitals of Ptolemaic Egypt and Seleucid Syria respectively. The conquests of Alexander greatly widened the horizons of the Greek world, making the endless conflicts between the cities which had marked the 5th and 4th centuries BC seem petty and unimportant. It led to a steady emigration, particularly of the young and ambitious, to the new Greek empires in the east. Many Greeks migrated to Alexandria, Antioch and the many other new Hellenistic cities founded in Alexander's wake, as far away as modern Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Question: What was the capital of the Ptolemaic Egypt?
Answer: Alexandria
Question: What was the capital of Seleucid Syria?
Answer: Antioch
Question: Alexander and Antioch were centers of what culture?
Answer: Hellenistic
Question: What leaders conquests widened the horizons of the Greek world?
Answer: Alexander
Question: What particular demographic emigrated to the new Greek empires?
Answer: young and ambitious |
Context: The Chinese counterattacked in April 1951, with the Fifth Phase Offensive, also known as the Chinese Spring Offensive, with three field armies (approximately 700,000 men). The offensive's first thrust fell upon I Corps, which fiercely resisted in the Battle of the Imjin River (22–25 April 1951) and the Battle of Kapyong (22–25 April 1951), blunting the impetus of the offensive, which was halted at the "No-name Line" north of Seoul. On 15 May 1951, the Chinese commenced the second impulse of the Spring Offensive and attacked the ROK Army and the U.S. X Corps in the east at the Soyang River. After initial success, they were halted by 20 May. At month's end, the U.S. Eighth Army counterattacked and regained "Line Kansas", just north of the 38th parallel. The UN's "Line Kansas" halt and subsequent offensive action stand-down began the stalemate that lasted until the armistice of 1953.
Question: What was the Fifth Phase of the Chinese counter initiative called?
Answer: Chinese Spring Offensive
Question: What may have began as an effective series of attacks by the Chinese regained what area?
Answer: Line Kansas
Question: What ended with the armistice of 1953?
Answer: the stalemate
Question: How many armies did the Chinese use in the Fifth Phase Offensive?
Answer: three field armies
Question: Where was Line Kansas located?
Answer: just north of the 38th parallel |
Context: Modern separation techniques such as milling, centrifugation, and pressing have enabled concentration of particular components of food, yielding flour, oils, juices, and so on, and even separate fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Inevitably, such large-scale concentration changes the nutritional content of food, saving certain nutrients while removing others. Heating techniques may also reduce food's content of many heat-labile nutrients such as certain vitamins and phytochemicals, and possibly other yet-to-be-discovered substances. Because of reduced nutritional value, processed foods are often 'enriched' or 'fortified' with some of the most critical nutrients (usually certain vitamins) that were lost during processing. Nonetheless, processed foods tend to have an inferior nutritional profile compared to whole, fresh foods, regarding content of both sugar and high GI starches, potassium/sodium, vitamins, fiber, and of intact, unoxidized (essential) fatty acids. In addition, processed foods often contain potentially harmful substances such as oxidized fats and trans fatty acids.
Question: Centrifugation and pressing are prime examples of what?
Answer: Modern separation techniques
Question: An unfortunate side effect of concentrating food components is that it causes what change in the food?
Answer: nutritional content
Question: What kind of nutritional value do the processed foods have in comparison to their fresh variants?
Answer: reduced
Question: What is another term other than 'fortified' that can be used to describe the addition of nutrients to processed food?
Answer: enriched
Question: Outside of oxidized fats, what is another substance that is deemed harmful that can be found in processed foods?
Answer: trans fatty acids |
Context: With the continued miniaturization of computing resources, and advancements in portable battery life, portable computers grew in popularity in the 2000s. The same developments that spurred the growth of laptop computers and other portable computers allowed manufacturers to integrate computing resources into cellular phones. These so-called smartphones and tablets run on a variety of operating systems and have become the dominant computing device on the market, with manufacturers reporting having shipped an estimated 237 million devices in 2Q 2013.
Question: Computing resources that are created in cell phones are called what?
Answer: smartphones
Question: How many tablets were sold in 2Q 2013?
Answer: 237 million devices |
Context: In 1955, von Neumann was diagnosed with what was either bone or pancreatic cancer. His mother, Margaret von Neumann, was diagnosed with cancer in 1956 and died within two weeks. John had eighteen months from diagnosis till death. In this period von Neumann returned to the Roman Catholic faith that had also been significant to his mother after the family's conversion in 1929–1930. John had earlier said to his mother, "There is probably a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't." Von Neumann held on to his exemplary knowledge of Latin and quoted to a deathbed visitor the declamation "Judex ergo cum sedebit," and ends "Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? Quem patronum rogaturus, Cum vix iustus sit securus?" (When the judge His seat hath taken ... What shall wretched I then plead? Who for me shall intercede when the righteous scarce is freed?)
Question: In what year was von Neumann diagnosed with cancer?
Answer: 1955
Question: From when his mother was diagnosed with cancer, how long did she live?
Answer: died within two weeks
Question: How long did von Neumann survive with cancer?
Answer: eighteen months |
Context: The name Shell is linked to The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company. In 1833, the founder's father, Marcus Samuel, founded an import business to sell seashells to London collectors. When collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area in 1892, the younger Samuel realised there was potential in exporting lamp oil from the region and commissioned the world's first purpose-built oil tanker, the Murex (Latin for a type of snail shell), to enter this market; by 1907 the company had a fleet. Although for several decades the company had a refinery at Shell Haven on the Thames, there is no evidence of this having provided the name.
Question: The name Shell is connected to what company?
Answer: The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company
Question: What was the purpose of the created of The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company?
Answer: to sell seashells to London collectors
Question: What did the younger founder of The "Shell" Transport and Trading company discover while collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area?
Answer: there was potential in exporting lamp oil from the region
Question: By what year did the company have a fleet of oil tankers operating in the Caspian Sea region?
Answer: 1907
Question: The company operated a refinery on what river for several decades?
Answer: Thames
Question: Where was the Murex built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the refinery at Shell Haven built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What river did Marcus collect shells from in 1907?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Marcus Samuel born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did the younger Samuel collect specimens from the Caspian Sea?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Reflection of the original signal also occurs when it hits an extended conductive surface, in a fashion similar to a mirror. This effect can also be used to increase signal through the use of a reflector, normally placed behind the active element and spaced so the reflected signal reaches the element in-phase. Generally the reflector will remain highly reflective even if it is not solid; gaps less than 1⁄10 generally have little effect on the outcome. For this reason, reflectors often take the form of wire meshes or rows of passive elements, which makes them lighter and less subject to wind. The parabolic reflector is perhaps the best known example of a reflector-based antenna, which has an effective area far greater than the active element alone.
Question: If you wanted to somehow clone the original signal you could use?
Answer: extended conductive surface
Question: What effect would the use of a reflector have on a signal?
Answer: increase
Question: What allowance can be made for gaps without loss of performance?
Answer: less than 1⁄10
Question: What is the most recognized type of an antenna that has its basis in reflection?
Answer: parabolic reflector |
Context: By August 1805, Napoleon had realized that the strategic situation had changed fundamentally. Facing a potential invasion from his continental enemies, he decided to strike first and turned his army's sights from the English Channel to the Rhine. His basic objective was to destroy the isolated Austrian armies in Southern Germany before their Russian allies could arrive. On 25 September, after great secrecy and feverish marching, 200,000 French troops began to cross the Rhine on a front of 260 km (160 mi). Austrian commander Karl Mack had gathered the greater part of the Austrian army at the fortress of Ulm in Swabia. Napoleon swung his forces to the southeast and the Grande Armée performed an elaborate wheeling movement that outflanked the Austrian positions. The Ulm Maneuver completely surprised General Mack, who belatedly understood that his army had been cut off. After some minor engagements that culminated in the Battle of Ulm, Mack finally surrendered after realizing that there was no way to break out of the French encirclement. For just 2000 French casualties, Napoleon had managed to capture a total of 60,000 Austrian soldiers through his army's rapid marching. The Ulm Campaign is generally regarded as a strategic masterpiece and was influential in the development of the Schlieffen Plan in the late 19th century. For the French, this spectacular victory on land was soured by the decisive victory that the Royal Navy attained at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October. After Trafalgar, Britain had total domination of the seas for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars.
Question: By August 1805, Napoleon changed the primary target of his army's efforts from the English Channel to what area?
Answer: the Rhine
Question: On what date did French troops begin to cross the Rhine?
Answer: 25 September
Question: How many French troops were involved in the crossing of the Rhine?
Answer: 200,000
Question: Who was the Austrian commander who led the army at the fortress of Ulm?
Answer: Karl Mack
Question: How many casualties did the French suffer at the Battle of Ulm?
Answer: 2000 |
Context: An error sometimes made is the confusion of discussion regarding Greece’s Eurozone entry with the controversy regarding usage of derivatives’ deals with U.S. Banks by Greece and other Eurozone countries to artificially reduce their reported budget deficits. A currency swap arranged with Goldman Sachs allowed Greece to "hide" 2.8 billion Euros of debt, however, this affected deficit values after 2001 (when Greece had already been admitted into the Eurozone) and is not related to Greece’s Eurozone entry.
Question: What error is sometimes made by tying Greece's Eurozone entry with?
Answer: controversy regarding usage of derivatives’ deals
Question: What banks did Greece use derivatives' deals with?
Answer: U.S. Banks
Question: What was the result of the deals with the U.S. banks?
Answer: artificially reduce their reported budget deficits
Question: How many Euros was Greece able to "hide" because of an arrangement with Goldman Sachs?
Answer: 2.8 billion
Question: Why aren't the deficit values affected by the currency swap with Goldman Sachs relevant to Greece's Eurozone entry?
Answer: affected deficit values after 2001
Question: What error is never made?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What banks did Greece lose derivatives' deals with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the result of the rejection with the U.S. banks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are the deficit values affected by the currency swap with Goldman Sachs relevant to Greece's Eurozone entry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Euros was Greece able to give away because of an arrangement with Goldman Sachs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The year 2000 brought heightened interest in the AFL. Then-St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner, who was MVP of Super Bowl XXXIV, was first noticed because he played quarterback for the AFL's Iowa Barnstormers. While many sports commentators and fans continued to ridicule the league, Warner's story gave the league positive exposure, and it brought the league a new television deal with TNN, which, unlike ESPN, televised regular season games live. While it was not financially lucrative, it helped set the stage for what the league would become in the new millennium. Also, the year also brought a spin-off league, the AF2, intended to be a developmental league, comparable to the National Football League's NFL Europe. There was a lot of expansion in the 2000s. Expansion teams included the Austin Wranglers, Carolina Cobras, Los Angeles Avengers, Chicago Rush, Detroit Fury, Dallas Desperados, Colorado Crush, New Orleans VooDoo, Philadelphia Soul, Nashville Kats, Kansas City Brigade, New York Dragons and Utah Blaze. Some of these teams, including the Crush, Desperados, Kats, and VooDoo, were owned by the same group which owned the NFL teams in their host cities. The NFL purchased, but never exercised, an option to buy a major interest the AFL. Of all of these teams, only the Soul still compete in the AFL as of now.
Question: What AFL team did Kurt Warner play for?
Answer: Iowa Barnstormers
Question: Kurt Warner was the Most Valuable Player in what Super Bowl?
Answer: Super Bowl XXXIV
Question: What NFL team did Kurt Warner play for?
Answer: St. Louis Rams
Question: What television network did the AFL sign a deal with in 2000?
Answer: TNN
Question: What was the name of the AFL team based in New Orleans?
Answer: VooDoo |
Context: In the Kingdom of Holland, the British launched the Walcheren Campaign to open up a second front in the war and to relieve the pressure on the Austrians. The British army only landed at Walcheren on 30 July, by which point the Austrians had already been defeated. The Walcheren Campaign was characterized by little fighting but heavy casualties thanks to the popularly dubbed "Walcheren Fever." Over 4000 British troops were lost in a bungled campaign, and the rest withdrew in December 1809. The main strategic result from the campaign became the delayed political settlement between the French and the Austrians. Emperor Francis wanted to wait and see how the British performed in their theater before entering into negotiations with Napoleon. Once it became apparent that the British were going nowhere, the Austrians agreed to peace talks.
Question: What was the name of the campaign by the British in Holland that created a second front in the war?
Answer: the Walcheren Campaign
Question: The Walcheren Campaign was intended to relieve the military pressure on whom?
Answer: the Austrians
Question: On what date did the British army arrive on Walcheren?
Answer: 30 July
Question: What was the popular name of the disease that caused many casualties during the Walcheren Campaign?
Answer: "Walcheren Fever."
Question: When did the British withdraw from Walcheren?
Answer: December 1809 |
Context: For temperature studies, subjects must remain awake but calm and semi-reclined in near darkness while their rectal temperatures are taken continuously. Though variation is great among normal chronotypes, the average human adult's temperature reaches its minimum at about 05:00 (5 a.m.), about two hours before habitual wake time. Baehr et al. found that, in young adults, the daily body temperature minimum occurred at about 04:00 (4 a.m.) for morning types but at about 06:00 (6 a.m.) for evening types. This minimum occurred at approximately the middle of the eight hour sleep period for morning types, but closer to waking in evening types.
Question: What physical factor must be continuously monitored during temperature studies>
Answer: temperatures
Question: At what time does the average adult human reach his lowest temperature?
Answer: 05:00
Question: How long before wake time is the lowest temperature reached?
Answer: two hours
Question: When does the temperature of morning type young adults reach its lowest?
Answer: 04:00
Question: What is the time of lowest temperature for evening type young adults?
Answer: 06:00
Question: What physical factor must be periodicly monitored in temperature studies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do evening types reach at 4:00 a.m?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What occurs close to waking for morning types?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who reaches their minimum temperature in the middle of their waking hours?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The plebeians had finally achieved political equality with the patricians. However, the plight of the average plebeian had not changed. A small number of plebeian families achieved the same standing that the old aristocratic patrician families had always had, but the new plebeian aristocrats became as uninterested in the plight of the average plebeian as the old patrician aristocrats had always been. The plebeians rebelled by leaving Rome and refusing to return until they had more rights. The patricians then noticed how much they needed the plebeians and accepted their terms. The plebeians then returned to Rome and continued their work.
Question: Which group of people were now considered to be politically equal with the plebeians?
Answer: patricians
Question: Which group of people rebelled by vacating Rome?
Answer: The plebeians
Question: How many plebeian families had an identical standing as the old aristocratic patrician families?
Answer: A small number
Question: What did the rebelling plebeians want before they returned to Rome?
Answer: more rights |
Context: Agriculture is dominated by the cultivation and sale of food crops such as cassava, peanuts, maize, sorghum, millet, sesame, and plantain. The annual real GDP growth rate is just above 3%. The importance of food crops over exported cash crops is indicated by the fact that the total production of cassava, the staple food of most Central Africans, ranges between 200,000 and 300,000 tonnes a year, while the production of cotton, the principal exported cash crop, ranges from 25,000 to 45,000 tonnes a year. Food crops are not exported in large quantities, but still constitute the principal cash crops of the country, because Central Africans derive far more income from the periodic sale of surplus food crops than from exported cash crops such as cotton or coffee.[citation needed] Much of the country is self-sufficient in food crops; however, livestock development is hindered by the presence of the tsetse fly.[citation needed]
Question: What type of agriculture is popular in the CAR?
Answer: food crops
Question: The economy grows at what rate in the last few years?
Answer: 3%
Question: How many tonnes of Cassave is produced per year?
Answer: 200,000 and 300,000
Question: What product is produced that is exported?
Answer: cotton
Question: Which insect hinders livestock development?
Answer: tsetse fly
Question: What is the real exported cash crop rate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much of the cassava as the principle cash crop is produced in the CAR?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do Central Africans gain more of from selling livestock?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is cassava production hindered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of exported cash crops dominate agriculture?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The opening years of the 1980s saw a number of changes in personnel and direction of established hard rock acts, including the deaths of Bon Scott, the lead singer of AC/DC, and John Bonham, drummer with Led Zeppelin. Whereas Zeppelin broke up almost immediately afterwards, AC/DC pressed on, recording the album Back in Black (1980) with their new lead singer, Brian Johnson. It became the fifth-highest-selling album of all time in the US and the second-highest-selling album in the world. Black Sabbath had split with original singer Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 and replaced him with Ronnie James Dio, formerly of Rainbow, giving the band a new sound and a period of creativity and popularity beginning with Heaven and Hell (1980). Osbourne embarked on a solo career with Blizzard of Ozz (1980), featuring American guitarist Randy Rhoads. Some bands, such as Queen, moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock, while others, including Rush with Moving Pictures (1981), began to return to a hard rock sound. The creation of thrash metal, which mixed heavy metal with elements of hardcore punk from about 1982, particularly by Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer, helped to create extreme metal and further remove the style from hard rock, although a number of these bands or their members would continue to record some songs closer to a hard rock sound. Kiss moved away from their hard rock roots toward pop metal: firstly removing their makeup in 1983 for their Lick It Up album, and then adopting the visual and sound of glam metal for their 1984 release, Animalize, both of which marked a return to commercial success. Pat Benatar was one of the first women to achieve commercial success in hard rock, with three successive Top 5 albums between 1980 and 1982.
Question: Who was the original lead singer of AC/DC who died?
Answer: Bon Scott
Question: Who was the Led Zeppelin drummer who passed away?
Answer: John Bonham
Question: What singer replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath?
Answer: Ronnie James Dio
Question: What was Ozzy Osbourne's first solo album?
Answer: Blizzard of Ozz
Question: What are some thrash metal bands?
Answer: Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer
Question: When was Bon Scott born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What band was lead singer John Bonham from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who quit the band Led Zeppelin to move to another band?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What AC/DC album became the fifth highest selling album in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What solo album did Randy Rhoads release in 1980?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Plymouth has the first known reference to Jews in the South West from Sir Francis Drake's voyages in 1577 to 1580, as his log mentioned "Moses the Jew" – a man from Plymouth. The Plymouth Synagogue is a Listed Grade II* building, built in 1762 and is the oldest Ashkenazi Synagogue in the English speaking world. There are also places of worship for Islam, Bahá'í, Buddhism, Unitarianism, Chinese beliefs and Humanism.
Question: What Plymouth Jew was mentioned by Sir Francis Drake?
Answer: Moses
Question: In what year was Plymouth Synagogue constructed?
Answer: 1762
Question: What is Plymouth Synagogue's listed grade?
Answer: Grade II*
Question: What community of Jews was Plymouth Synagogue built by?
Answer: Ashkenazi |
Context: Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution. Article 95 states, "The State shall actively promote and maintain the welfare of the people by adopting international policies aimed at the following: maintenance of ecosystems, essential ecological processes, and biological diversity of Namibia, and utilisation of living natural resources on a sustainable basis for the benefit of all Namibians, both present and future."
Question: What does Namibia protect in it's constitution?
Answer: natural resources
Question: What article in the Namibia constitution supports natural conservation?
Answer: Article 95
Question: What do Namibians believe sustains them?
Answer: utilisation of living natural resources
Question: What is Article 94 about?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do Namibians believe destroys them?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the biggest country in the world to address conservation in its constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the smallest country in the world to address conservation in its constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Article 93 about?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The law of the Eastern Catholic Churches in full union with Rome was in much the same state as that of the Latin or Western Church before 1917; much more diversity in legislation existed in the various Eastern Catholic Churches. Each had its own special law, in which custom still played an important part. In 1929 Pius XI informed the Eastern Churches of his intention to work out a Code for the whole of the Eastern Church. The publication of these Codes for the Eastern Churches regarding the law of persons was made between 1949 through 1958 but finalized nearly 30 years later.
Question: Prior to 1917, what church was in a similar situation as the Eastern Catholic Churches as regards its legal system?
Answer: the Latin or Western Church
Question: What was different about the Eastern Churches compared with the Western?
Answer: more diversity in legislation
Question: What was still a main factor in the Eastern Church laws?
Answer: custom
Question: When did Pius XI announce his goal of codifying the law of all Eastern Churches?
Answer: 1929
Question: During what time period were the Codes for Eastern Churches made available, prior to the final version?
Answer: 1949 through 1958
Question: Who is in much the same state as the Latin church after 1917?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the same in the Eastern and Western church prior to 1917?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Pius IX announced his goal of codifying the law of all Eastern churches?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was finalized in 1958?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is still waiting to be finalized?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The status of East Jerusalem in any future peace settlement has at times been a difficult issue in negotiations between Israeli governments and representatives of the Palestinians, as Israel views it as its sovereign territory, as well as part of its capital. Most negotiations relating to the territories have been on the basis of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which emphasises "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war", and calls on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories in return for normalization of relations with Arab states, a principle known as "Land for peace".
Question: Israel views East Jerusalem as what?
Answer: sovereign territory
Question: What emphasises the inadmissability of the acquisition of territory by war?
Answer: United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
Question: What is the principle of normalization of relations with Arab states?
Answer: Land for peace |
Context: According to the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, the metropolitan area's economic output grew by 33 percent between 2001 and 2005 due chiefly to economic diversification. Its gross metropolitan product was $43.1 billion in 2005 and grew to $61.1 billion in 2009.
Question: What was Oklahoma cities gross metropolitan product in 2009?
Answer: $61.1 billion |
Context: With the new millennium, Marvel Comics emerged from bankruptcy and again began diversifying its offerings. In 2001, Marvel withdrew from the Comics Code Authority and established its own Marvel Rating System for comics. The first title from this era to not have the code was X-Force #119 (October 2001). Marvel also created new imprints, such as MAX (an explicit-content line) and Marvel Adventures (developed for child audiences). In addition, the company created an alternate universe imprint, Ultimate Marvel, that allowed the company to reboot its major titles by revising and updating its characters to introduce to a new generation.
Question: What was the business state of Marvel by 2000?
Answer: bankruptcy
Question: When did Marvel withdraw from the Comics Code Authority?
Answer: 2001
Question: What in-house standards system did Marvel replace the Comics Code with?
Answer: Marvel Rating System
Question: What was the first book published under this new ratings system?
Answer: X-Force #119
Question: What was the name of the adult themed comics imprint for Marvel with more explicit content?
Answer: MAX
Question: When did Marvel Comics file for bankruptcy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Marvel join the Comics Code Authority?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the first issue of MAX released?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Marvel Comics replace the Marvel Rating System with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What age bracket was Marvel Adventures designed for?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: For the ancient Egyptians, green had very positive associations. The hieroglyph for green represented a growing papyrus sprout, showing the close connection between green, vegetation, vigor and growth. In wall paintings, the ruler of the underworld, Osiris, was typically portrayed with a green face, because green was the symbol of good health and rebirth. Palettes of green facial makeup, made with malachite, were found in tombs. It was worn by both the living and dead, particularly around the eyes, to protect them from evil. Tombs also often contained small green amulets in the shape of scarab beetles made of malachite, which would protect and give vigor to the deceased. It also symbolized the sea, which was called the "Very Green."
Question: What is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for green?
Answer: a growing papyrus sprout
Question: Who was the ruler of the underworld in ancient Egypt?
Answer: Osiris
Question: Why was green facial makeup worn by ancient Egyptians?
Answer: to protect them from evil
Question: What was the underworld called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ruled the ancient Egyptians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What held live scarab beetles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were scarab beetles worn to protect Egyptians from evil?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: One big impetus for the development of the AC radio format was that, when rock and roll music first became popular in the mid-1950s, many more conservative radio stations wanted to continue to play current hit songs while shying away from rock. These middle of the road (or "MOR") stations also frequently included older, pre-rock-era adult standards and big band titles to further appeal to adult listeners who had grown up with those songs.
Question: During what decade did rock and roll music first rise to popularity?
Answer: 1950s
Question: What does the acronym MOR stand for?
Answer: middle of the road
Question: Along with pre-rock standards, what type of older songs did MOR stations play?
Answer: big band titles |
Context: The American professor Robert H. Goddard had worked on developing solid-fuel rockets since 1914, and demonstrated a light battlefield rocket to the US Army Signal Corps only five days before the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. He also started developing liquid-fueled rockets in 1921; yet he had not been taken seriously by the public, and was not sponsored by the government as part of the post-WW II rocket development effort. Von Braun, himself inspired by Goddard's work, was bemused by this when debriefed by his American handlers, asking them, "Why didn't you just ask Dr. Goddard?"[citation needed]
Question: What professor began working on solid-fuel rockets since 1914?
Answer: Robert H. Goddard
Question: Liquid-fueled rockets were developed in what year?
Answer: 1921 |
Context: Because of his ability to motivate nationalistic passions, "men, women, and children wept and wailed in the streets" after hearing of his death, according to Nutting. The general Arab reaction was one of mourning, with thousands of people pouring onto the streets of major cities throughout the Arab world. Over a dozen people were killed in Beirut as a result of the chaos, and in Jerusalem, roughly 75,000 Arabs marched through the Old City chanting, "Nasser will never die." As a testament to his unchallenged leadership of the Arab people, following his death, the headline of the Lebanese Le Jour read, "One hundred million human beings—the Arabs—are orphans." Sherif Hetata, a former political prisoner and later member Nasser's ASU, said that "Nasser's greatest achievement was his funeral. The world will never again see five million people crying together."
Question: How many eople died in Breuit because of unrest caused by Nasser's death?
Answer: Over a dozen
Question: How many people marched in Jerusalem?
Answer: 75,000
Question: Who said, "The world will never again see five million people crying together?"
Answer: Sherif Hetata
Question: What did a Lebanese publication call the Arabs following Nasser's death?
Answer: orphans |
Context: A treaty breach does not automatically suspend or terminate treaty relations, however. It depends on how the other parties regard the breach and how they resolve to respond to it. Sometimes treaties will provide for the seriousness of a breach to be determined by a tribunal or other independent arbiter. An advantage of such an arbiter is that it prevents a party from prematurely and perhaps wrongfully suspending or terminating its own obligations due to another's alleged material breach.
Question: What might a tribunal or an arbiter be asked to determine regarding a breach of a treaty?
Answer: the seriousness of a breach
Question: Using what to determine the seriousness of a breach can prevent a party from prematurely suspending its obligations due to another party's alleged material breach?
Answer: a tribunal or other independent arbiter
Question: Does a material breach necessarily suspend or terminate treaty relations?
Answer: does not
Question: What determines whether a breach automatically suspends or terminates treaty relations?
Answer: how the other parties regard the breach and how they resolve to respond to it
Question: A treaty breach does not necessarily affect treaty relations depending on how serious the other parties view the breach and what other factor?
Answer: how they resolve to respond to it |
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