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Context: Programmes, such as the politically fuelled Give My Head Peace (produced by BBC Northern Ireland) and the soap opera River City (produced by BBC Scotland), have been created specifically to cater for some viewers in their respective nations, who may have found programmes created for English audiences irrelevant. BBC Scotland produces daily programmes for its Gaelic-speaking viewers, including current affairs, political and children's programming such as the popular Eòrpa and Dè a-nis?. BBC Wales also produces a large amount of Welsh language programming for S4C, particularly news, sport and other programmes, especially the soap opera Pobol y Cwm ('People of the Valley'). The UK nations also produce a number of programmes that are shown across the UK, such as BBC Scotland's comedy series Chewin' the Fat, and BBC Northern Ireland's talk show Patrick Kielty Almost Live.
Question: What is the name of a political show shown on BBC in Northern Ireland?
Answer: Give My Head Peace
Question: What is the name of a Scottish soap opera?
Answer: River City
Question: What language does BBC Scotland provide programming for?
Answer: Gaelic
Question: What is a well-known Gaelic program?
Answer: Eòrpa and Dè a-nis?
Question: What is the name of a show from Northern Ireland broadcast all over the United Kingdom?
Answer: Patrick Kielty Almost Live
Question: What type of program is Give My Head Peace, produced by BBC Scotland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type o program is Patrick Kielty Almost Live, shown on BBC Scotland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What popular children's show does BBC Wales produce for its Gaelic-speaking viewers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of program is River City, produced by BBC Northern Ireland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of program is Chewin' the Fat, shown on BBC Northern Ireland?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Evidence of infection in fossil remains is a subject of interest for paleopathologists, scientists who study occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms. Signs of infection have been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs. When present, however, these infections seem to tend to be confined to only small regions of the body. A skull attributed to the early carnivorous dinosaur Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis exhibits pit-like wounds surrounded by swollen and porous bone. The unusual texture of the bone around the wounds suggests they were afflicted by a short-lived, non-lethal infection. Scientists who studied the skull speculated that the bite marks were received in a fight with another Herrerasaurus. Other carnivorous dinosaurs with documented evidence of infection include Acrocanthosaurus, Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus and a tyrannosaur from the Kirtland Formation. The infections from both tyrannosaurs were received by being bitten during a fight, like the Herrerasaurus specimen.
Question: What profession finds evidence of infection in fossil remains to be interesting?
Answer: paleopathologists
Question: What do paleopathologists study?
Answer: occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms
Question: What has been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs?
Answer: Signs of infection
Question: What dinosaur's skull had pit-like wounds surrounded by swollen and porous bone?
Answer: Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis
Question: How did tyrannosaurs become infected?
Answer: being bitten during a fight
Question: What profession finds evidence of infection in fossil remains to be pointless?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do paleopathologists avoid researching?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been discovered in the blood of carnivorous dinosaurs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What dinosaur's femur had pit-like wounds surrounded by swollen and porous bone?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did tyrannosaurs become invincible?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Tanana Valley is another notable agricultural locus, especially the Delta Junction area, about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Fairbanks, with a sizable concentration of farms growing agronomic crops; these farms mostly lie north and east of Fort Greely. This area was largely set aside and developed under a state program spearheaded by Hammond during his second term as governor. Delta-area crops consist predominately of barley and hay. West of Fairbanks lies another concentration of small farms catering to restaurants, the hotel and tourist industry, and community-supported agriculture.
Question: Which crops are produced in the Delta-area?
Answer: barley and hay
Question: Small farms west of Fairbanks cater to whom?
Answer: restaurants, the hotel and tourist industry, and community-supported agriculture
Question: Which area did Hammond develeop during his second term?
Answer: Delta Junction area
Question: Which crops aren't produced in the Delta-area?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Large farms west of Fairbanks cater to whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Small farms east of Fairbanks cater to whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which area didn't Hammond develeop during his second term?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which area did Hammond develeop during his third term?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The concept of emissivity is important in understanding the infrared emissions of objects. This is a property of a surface that describes how its thermal emissions deviate from the ideal of a black body. To further explain, two objects at the same physical temperature will not show the same infrared image if they have differing emissivity. For example, for any pre-set emissivity value, objects with higher emissivity will appear hotter, and those with a lower emissivity will appear cooler. For that reason, incorrect selection of emissivity will give inaccurate results when using infrared cameras and pyrometers.
Question: What is the term for the property that describes how a surface's thermal emissions deviate from the ideal of a black body?
Answer: emissivity
Question: How will the infrared image of an object with a higher emissivity appear in relation to one with lower emissivity?
Answer: hotter
Question: Along with pyrometers, what devices can receive inaccurate results if emissivity is not set correctly?
Answer: infrared cameras
Question: What property describes how a surfaces thermal emissions give inaccurate results when using infrared cameras and pyrometers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What shows the same image of two objects with differing emissivity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ideal shows inaccurate results when using infrared cameras?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does pre-set emissivity help infrared cameras give accurate results?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does comparing two differing objects to a black body give you accurate results?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The "orange peel" effect on vinyl records is caused by worn molds. Rather than having the proper mirror-like finish, the surface of the record will have a texture that looks like orange peel. This introduces noise into the record, particularly in the lower frequency range. With direct metal mastering (DMM), the master disc is cut on a copper-coated disc, which can also have a minor "orange peel" effect on the disc itself. As this "orange peel" originates in the master rather than being introduced in the pressing stage, there is no ill effect as there is no physical distortion of the groove.
Question: What is an effect of using worn molds when casting records?
Answer: The "orange peel" effect
Question: What is the expected finish of a vinyl record?
Answer: mirror-like
Question: What is the effect on a copy if a master as an orange peel effect?
Answer: there is no ill effect
Question: On what frequencies is an orange peel effect most noticeable?
Answer: lower frequency range
Question: What material is on a direct metal mastering disc?
Answer: copper
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Context: Gephardt added that "inclusion and empowerment of the people on the line have to be done to get the best performance" from the minority party. Other techniques for fostering party harmony include the appointment of task forces composed of partisan colleagues with conflicting views to reach consensus on issues; the creation of new leadership positions as a way to reach out and involve a greater diversity of partisans in the leadership structure; and daily meetings in the Leader's office (or at breakfast, lunch, or dinner) to lay out floor strategy or political objectives for the minority party.
Question: What is a good technique to foster party harmony?
Answer: appointment of task forces
Question: What colleagues are best to work with to reach a consensus?
Answer: partisan colleagues with conflicting views
Question: What does the creation of leadership positions allow for?
Answer: way to reach out and involve a greater diversity of partisans in the leadership structure
Question: What public need motivates the President before he has daily meetings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group is the President responsible for the creation of when elected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What positions did task forces want to lay out floor strategy for the creation of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did task forces for the public want to foster in the minority party?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did colleagues with conflicing views lay out for task forces?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The clergy was divided into two types: the secular clergy, who lived out in the world, and the regular clergy, who lived under a religious rule and were usually monks. Throughout the period monks remained a very small proportion of the population, usually less than one per cent. Most of the regular clergy were drawn from the nobility, the same social class that served as the recruiting ground for the upper levels of the secular clergy. The local parish priests were often drawn from the peasant class. Townsmen were in a somewhat unusual position, as they did not fit into the traditional three-fold division of society into nobles, clergy, and peasants. During the 12th and 13th centuries, the ranks of the townsmen expanded greatly as existing towns grew and new population centres were founded. But throughout the Middle Ages the population of the towns probably never exceeded 10 per cent of the total population.
Question: What group constituted the clergy along with the regular clergy?
Answer: the secular clergy
Question: What type of clergy were monks?
Answer: regular clergy
Question: What percentage of the European population consisted of monks?
Answer: less than one per cent
Question: What social class did many members of the regular clergy come from?
Answer: the nobility
Question: From what class were many parish priests?
Answer: the peasant class
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Context: Infrared vibrational spectroscopy (see also near-infrared spectroscopy) is a technique that can be used to identify molecules by analysis of their constituent bonds. Each chemical bond in a molecule vibrates at a frequency characteristic of that bond. A group of atoms in a molecule (e.g., CH2) may have multiple modes of oscillation caused by the stretching and bending motions of the group as a whole. If an oscillation leads to a change in dipole in the molecule then it will absorb a photon that has the same frequency. The vibrational frequencies of most molecules correspond to the frequencies of infrared light. Typically, the technique is used to study organic compounds using light radiation from 4000–400 cm−1, the mid-infrared. A spectrum of all the frequencies of absorption in a sample is recorded. This can be used to gain information about the sample composition in terms of chemical groups present and also its purity (for example, a wet sample will show a broad O-H absorption around 3200 cm−1).
Question: What is the technique that analyzes the constituent bonds of molecules to identify them?
Answer: Infrared vibrational spectroscopy
Question: What happens to a molecule if an oscillation results in a dipole being changed?
Answer: it will absorb a photon that has the same frequency
Question: What do the vibrational frequencies of molecules usually correspond to?
Answer: the frequencies of infrared light
Question: What is the term for light radiation in the 4000–400 cm−1 spectrum?
Answer: the mid-infrared
Question: What technique can be used to identify organic compounds by analysis of their constituent bonds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A group of chemical bonds in a molecule may have how many modes of oscillation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do most vibrations correspond to the frequencies of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are multiple modes of oscillation in a spectrum caused by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the amount of absorption a group of atoms will show in cm?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Ottoman Empire, believed to be about to collapse, was portrayed in the press as the sick man of Europe". The Balkan states, with the partial exception of Bosnia and Albania, were primarily Christian. Starting in 1894 the Ottomans struck at the Armenians on the explicit grounds that they were a non-Muslim people and as such were a potential threat to the Muslim empire within which they resided. The Hamidian Massacres aroused the indignation of the entire Christian world. In the United States the now aging Julia Ward Howe, author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, leaped into the war of words and joined the Red Cross. Relations of minorities within the Ottoman Empire and the disposition of former Ottoman lands became known as the "Eastern Question," as the Ottomans were on the east of Europe.
Question: How was the Ottoman Empire portrayed in the press?
Answer: as the sick man of Europe
Question: The Balkan states were primarily what religion?
Answer: Christian
Question: When did the Ottomans strike at the Armenians?
Answer: 1894
Question: What are the grounds on which the Ottomans struck at the Armenians?
Answer: the explicit grounds that they were a non-Muslim people
Question: What aroused the indignation of the entire Christian world?
Answer: The Hamidian Massacres
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Context: The storage in sensory memory and short-term memory generally has a strictly limited capacity and duration, which means that information is not retained indefinitely. By contrast, long-term memory can store much larger quantities of information for potentially unlimited duration (sometimes a whole life span). Its capacity is immeasurable. For example, given a random seven-digit number we may remember it for only a few seconds before forgetting, suggesting it was stored in our short-term memory. On the other hand, we can remember telephone numbers for many years through repetition; this information is said to be stored in long-term memory.
Question: Why can't some memories be held onto forever?
Answer: The storage in sensory memory and short-term memory generally has a strictly limited capacity and duration
Question: If a memory that is stored in with long term-memories, how long can you possibly rememeber it?
Answer: sometimes a whole life span)
Question: What is the capacity of long term memory?
Answer: capacity is immeasurable
Question: If you knew a telephone number one week ago, but have forgotten it now, where was this memory stored?
Answer: in our short-term memory
Question: By storing smaller quantities of info, long-term memory has this length of duration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Short term memory can remember telephone numbers for many years though what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Repetition allows short-term memory to remember what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many years can short-term memory be stored?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Short-term memory has immeasurable what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Von Neumann's closest friend in the United States was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam. A later friend of Ulam's, Gian-Carlo Rota writes: "They would spend hours on end gossiping and giggling, swapping Jewish jokes, and drifting in and out of mathematical talk." When von Neumann was dying in hospital, every time Ulam would visit he would come prepared with a new collection of jokes to cheer up his friend. He believed that much of his mathematical thought occurred intuitively, and he would often go to sleep with a problem unsolved, and know the answer immediately upon waking up.
Question: What mathematician was Von Nemann's closest friend?
Answer: Stanislaw Ulam
Question: What topics of conversation would Ulam and Von Neumann typically share?
Answer: gossiping and giggling, swapping Jewish jokes, and drifting in and out of mathematical talk
Question: What would Ulam use to cheer up Von Neumann in the hospital?
Answer: a new collection of jokes
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Context: Tito carried on numerous affairs and was married several times. In 1918 he was brought to Omsk, Russia, as a prisoner of war. There he met Pelagija Belousova who was then thirteen; he married her a year later, and she moved with him to Yugoslavia. Pelagija bore him five children but only their son Žarko Leon (born 4 February, 1924) survived. When Tito was jailed in 1928, she returned to Russia. After the divorce in 1936 she later remarried.
Question: Where in Russia was Tito brought as a prisoner of war in 1918?
Answer: Omsk
Question: When was Tito brought to Russia as a prisoner of war?
Answer: 1918
Question: How old was Pelagija Belousava when Tito met her?
Answer: thirteen
Question: How many children did Pelagija bore for Tito?
Answer: five
Question: Who was the only surviving child of Tito's?
Answer: Žarko Leon
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Context: A 2011 study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute showed that 47% of the meat and poultry sold in United States grocery stores was contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus, and 52% of the bacteria concerned showed resistance to at least three groups of antibiotics. Thorough cooking of the product would kill these bacteria, but a risk of cross-contamination from improper handling of the raw product is still present. Also, some risk is present for consumers of poultry meat and eggs to bacterial infections such as Salmonella and Campylobacter. Poultry products may become contaminated by these bacteria during handling, processing, marketing, or storage, resulting in food-borne illness if the product is improperly cooked or handled.
Question: When is it possible for baccteria is enter into poultry before you get it home?
Answer: Translational Genomics Research
Question: What percentage of poultry is tainted with Staphylococcus bacteria?
Answer: 47%
Question: Are the bacteria that is found on poultry easy to get rid of?
Answer: Thorough cooking of the product would kill these bacteria,
Question: What considerations do consumers need when using safe handling procedures with poultry regardless of cooking method used??
Answer: a risk of cross-contamination from improper handling of the raw product is still present
Question: Why can't bacteria enter poultry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of medicine is tainted with Staphylococcus bacteria?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What bacterial infections are not possible as of today?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a common myth about poultry and bacteria?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Children working at a young age has been a consistent theme throughout Africa. Many children began first working in the home to help their parents run the family farm. Children in Africa today are often forced into exploitative labour due to family debt and other financial factors, leading to ongoing poverty. Other types of domestic child labour include working in commercial plantations, begging, and other sales such as boot shining. In total, there is an estimated five million children who are currently working in the field of agriculture which steadily increases during the time of harvest. Along with 30 percent of children who are picking coffee, there are an estimated 25,000 school age children who work year round.
Question: Where do African children find their first jobs?
Answer: home
Question: What do African children do primarily while working at home?
Answer: help their parents run the family farm
Question: How many children in Africa are working in the arigucultural sector?
Answer: estimated five million
Question: How many children in Africa pick coffee?
Answer: 30 percent
Question: How many children work year round in Africa?
Answer: estimated 25,000
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Context: However, the NSA's report was completely disproved by Croatian experts. The report failed to recognize that Tito was a native speaker of the very distinctive local Kajkavian dialect of Zagorje. The acute accent, present only in Croatian dialects, which Tito is perfectly pronouncing, is the strongest proof of Tito's belonging to Kajkavian dialect.
Question: Experts from what country disproved the NSA's report?
Answer: Croatian
Question: What was the distinct local dialect Tito spoke?
Answer: Zagorje
Question: Croatian experts disproved the report from which group concerning Tito's ethnic origins?
Answer: NSA
Question: Tito's acute accent is present only in what type of dialects?
Answer: Croatian
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Context: City and Guilds College was founded in 1876 from a meeting of 16 of the City of London's livery companies for the Advancement of Technical Education (CGLI), which aimed to improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers. The two main objectives were to create a Central Institution in London and to conduct a system of qualifying examinations in technical subjects. Faced with their continuing inability to find a substantial site, the Companies were eventually persuaded by the Secretary of the Science and Art Department, General Sir John Donnelly (who was also a Royal Engineer) to found their institution on the eighty-seven acre (350,000 m²) site at South Kensington bought by the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners (for GBP 342,500) for 'purposes of art and science' in perpetuity. The latter two colleges were incorporated by Royal Charter into the Imperial College of Science and Technology and the CGLI Central Technical College was renamed the City and Guilds College in 1907, but not incorporated into Imperial College until 1910.
Question: When was the City and Guilds College founded?
Answer: 1876
Question: What was the aim of the City and Guilds College when it was founded?
Answer: improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers
Question: What were the main objectives of establishing the City and Guilds College?
Answer: to create a Central Institution in London and to conduct a system of qualifying examinations in technical subjects
Question: How much did the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners pay for the land that became the City and Guilds College?
Answer: GBP 342,500
Question: What was the former name of the City and Guilds College?
Answer: CGLI Central Technical College
Question: Which college was founded in 1876?
Answer: City and Guilds College
Question: How many livery companies were in the meeting that founded the college?
Answer: 16
Question: What does CGLI stand for?
Answer: Advancement of Technical Education
Question: Other than conducting a system of qualifying examinations, what was the other main objective of the meeting of CGLI?
Answer: to create a Central Institution in London
Question: How large was the land (in acres) that the institution was founded on?
Answer: eighty-seven
Question: What college was founded in the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who met to improve workiong conditions for craftsmen?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's main objective was to set work standards for craftsmen, technicins, technologists and engineers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How large was the site in North Kennsington?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two colleges were form from the Imperial College?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: During a 10-day run in Oklahoma City, the State Fair of Oklahoma attracts roughly one million people along with the annual Festival of the Arts. Large national pow-wows, various Latin and Asian heritage festivals, and cultural festivals such as the Juneteenth celebrations are held in Oklahoma City each year. The Tulsa State Fair attracts over one million people during its 10-day run, and the city's Mayfest festival entertained more than 375,000 people in four days during 2007. In 2006, Tulsa's Oktoberfest was named one of the top 10 in the world by USA Today and one of the top German food festivals in the nation by Bon Appetit magazine.
Question: How long is the State Fair of Oklahoma?
Answer: 10-day
Question: Where is the State Fair of Oklahoma?
Answer: Oklahoma City
Question: How many people attend the State Fair of Oklahoma each year?
Answer: roughly one million
Question: How long is the Tulsa State Fair?
Answer: 10-day
Question: How many people attend the Tulsa State Fair each year?
Answer: over one million
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Context: On 28 February 1476, Pope Sixtus IV, authorized those dioceses that wished to introduce the feast to do so, and introduced it to his own diocese of Rome in 1477, with a specially composed Mass and Office of the feast. With his bull Cum praeexcelsa of 28 February 1477, in which he referred to the feast as that of the Conception of Mary, without using the word "Immaculate", he granted indulgences to those who would participate in the specially composed Mass or Office on the feast itself or during its octave, and he used the word "immaculate" of Mary, but applied instead the adjective "miraculous" to her conception. On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of "the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the "glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin" and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that "the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin", since, he said, "up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See." This decree was reaffirmed by the Council of Trent.
Question: What happened on the final day of the month of love that was of significance was authorized by the Holy Roman Church leader ?
Answer: authorized those dioceses that wished to introduce the feast to do so, and introduced it to his own diocese of Rome in 1477
Question: Who was the Holy Roman Church leader that authorized the change ?
Answer: Pope Sixtus IV, authorized those dioceses
Question: What document made the authorization official ?
Answer: with a specially composed Mass and Office of the feast. With his bull Cum praeexcelsa of 28 February 1477
Question: What word substitution did he use in the authorization to appease all of the worshipers and view points when speaking of the inception of Mary ?
Answer: but applied instead the adjective "miraculous" to her conception.
Question: What was the opposite of a sinner who committed a venial type? It would be the most grave type of all .
Answer: mortally sinful
Question: Which Pope authorized dioceses to introduce the feast in the fourteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was introduced to the Roman diocese in 1476?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Pope in 1477 included the word immaculate in the name of the feast
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said it was sinful and heretical to say that the glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term was applied to Mary's conception in 1483?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The point at which chicks fledge varies dramatically. The chicks of the Synthliboramphus murrelets, like the ancient murrelet, leave the nest the night after they hatch, following their parents out to sea, where they are raised away from terrestrial predators. Some other species, such as ducks, move their chicks away from the nest at an early age. In most species, chicks leave the nest just before, or soon after, they are able to fly. The amount of parental care after fledging varies; albatross chicks leave the nest on their own and receive no further help, while other species continue some supplementary feeding after fledging. Chicks may also follow their parents during their first migration.
Question: Which chicks leave the nest the night after they hatch?
Answer: chicks of the Synthliboramphus murrelets
Question: Name a species which move their chicks away from the nest at an early age.
Answer: ducks
Question: When do most species of chicks leave the nest?
Answer: just before, or soon after, they are able to fly
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Context: Lee modeled the character of Dill on her childhood friend, Truman Capote, known then as Truman Persons. Just as Dill lived next door to Scout during the summer, Capote lived next door to Lee with his aunts while his mother visited New York City. Like Dill, Capote had an impressive imagination and a gift for fascinating stories. Both Lee and Capote were atypical children: both loved to read. Lee was a scrappy tomboy who was quick to fight, but Capote was ridiculed for his advanced vocabulary and lisp. She and Capote made up and acted out stories they wrote on an old Underwood typewriter Lee's father gave them. They became good friends when both felt alienated from their peers; Capote called the two of them "apart people". In 1960, Capote and Lee traveled to Kansas together to investigate the multiple murders that were the basis for Capote's nonfiction novel In Cold Blood.
Question: Where did Truman Capote live in relation to Lee?
Answer: next door
Question: What year did Lee and Capote go to Kansas together?
Answer: 1960
Question: Murders were the base for which story that Capote wrote?
Answer: In Cold Blood
Question: Who was the character Dill modeled after?
Answer: Truman Capote
Question: What did Lee and Capote write their childhood stories on?
Answer: old Underwood typewriter
Question: What term did Capote use to describe Lee and himself?
Answer: apart people
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Context: He justified the program in terms of its importance to national security, and its focus of the nation's energies on other scientific and social fields. He rallied popular support for the program in his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech, on September 12, 1962, before a large crowd at Rice University Stadium, in Houston, Texas, near the construction site of the new Manned Spacecraft Center facility. Full text
Question: "We choose to go to the Moon" speech was given at what location in Texas?
Answer: Rice University Stadium
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Context: The most notable difference between both standards is some tonic ⟨e⟩ accentuation, for instance: francès, anglès (IEC) – francés, anglés (AVL). Nevertheless, AVL's standard keeps the grave accent ⟨è⟩, without pronouncing this ⟨e⟩ as /ɛ/, in some words like: què ('what'), or València. Other divergences include the use of ⟨tl⟩ (AVL) in some words instead of ⟨tll⟩ like in ametla/ametlla ('almond'), espatla/espatlla ('back'), the use of elided demonstratives (este 'this', eixe 'that') in the same level as reinforced ones (aquest, aqueix) or the use of many verbal forms common in Valencian, and some of these common in the rest of Western Catalan too, like subjunctive mood or inchoative conjugation in -ix- at the same level as -eix- or the priority use of -e morpheme in 1st person singular in present indicative (-ar verbs): jo compre instead of jo compro ('I buy').
Question: What is jo compro changed to ?
Answer: jo compre
Question: What common Valencian forms are used?
Answer: many verbal forms
Question: What forms are also common in the rest of Western Catalan?
Answer: verbal forms
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Context: In May 2008, the National Archives announced a five-year agreement to digitize selected records including the complete U.S. Federal Census Collection, 1790–1930, passenger lists from 1820–1960 and WWI and WWII draft registration cards. The partnership agreement allows for exclusive use of the digitized records by Ancestry.com for a 5-year embargo period at which point the digital records will be turned over to the National Archives.
Question: What did the National Archives announce in May of 2008?
Answer: digitize selected records including the complete U.S. Federal Census Collection
Question: Which genealogy website benefits by the May 2008 announcement?
Answer: Ancestry.com
Question: What happens after the 5 year embargo that allows Ancestry.com exclusive use of digitized records?
Answer: turned over to the National Archives
Question: What did Ancestry.com announce in May 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How far back does Ancestry.com have records for genealogy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many years has Ancestry.com been prominent online?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the first US census taken?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What month marked the beginning of WWI?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Allied submarines did not adopt a defensive posture and wait for the enemy to attack. Within hours after the Pearl Harbor attack, in retribution against Japan, Roosevelt promulgated a new doctrine: unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan. This meant sinking any warship, commercial vessel, or passenger ship in Axis-controlled waters, without warning and without help to survivors.[nb 13] At the outbreak of the war in the Pacific the Dutch Admiral in charge of the naval defense of the East Indies, Conrad Helfrich, gave instructions to wage war aggressively. His small force of submarines sank more Japanese ships in the first weeks of the war than the entire British and US navies together, an exploit which earned him the nickname "Ship-a-day Helfrich". The Dutch force were in fact the first to sink an enemy warship; On 24 December 1941, HNLMS K XVI torpedoed and sank the Japanese destroyer Sagiri.
Question: What doctrine did Roosevelt give for submarines against Japan?
Answer: unrestricted submarine warfare
Question: Who was the Dutch Admiral in charge of the East Indies?
Answer: Conrad Helfrich
Question: What was the nickname given to the Dutch Admiral in charge of the East Indies?
Answer: "Ship-a-day Helfrich"
Question: What was the first Japanese warship to be sunk by submarine?
Answer: Sagiri
Question: When was the first Japanese warship sunk by a submarine?
Answer: 24 December 1941
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Context: Some of Australia's most prominent and well known schools are based in Melbourne. Of the top twenty high schools in Australia according to the Better Education ranking, six are located in Melbourne. There has also been a rapid increase in the number of International students studying in the city. Furthermore, Melbourne was ranked the world's fourth top university city in 2008 after London, Boston and Tokyo in a poll commissioned by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Melbourne is the home of seven public universities: the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Deakin University, La Trobe University, Swinburne University of Technology and Victoria University.
Question: How many of the top twenty high school sin Australia are located in Mebourne according to the Better Education ranking?
Answer: six
Question: According to the Toyal Melbourne Institute of Technology, how did Melborne rank as a top university city in 2008?
Answer: fourth
Question: How many public universities are located in Melbourne?
Answer: seven
Question: Is the University of Melbourne a public or private institution?
Answer: public
Question: Has there been a recent increase or decrease in international students studying in Melbourne?
Answer: rapid increase
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Context: Theologus Autodidactus, written by the Arabian polymath Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288), is the first example of a science fiction novel. It deals with various science fiction elements such as spontaneous generation, futurology, the end of the world and doomsday, resurrection, and the afterlife. Rather than giving supernatural or mythological explanations for these events, Ibn al-Nafis attempted to explain these plot elements using the scientific knowledge of biology, astronomy, cosmology and geology known in his time. Ibn al-Nafis' fiction explained Islamic religious teachings via science and Islamic philosophy.
Question: What was the life span of Ibn al-Nafis?
Answer: 1213–1288
Question: What type of book is Theologus Autodidactus the first type of?
Answer: science fiction
Question: What did Ibn al-Nafis use to explain the events in Theologus Autodidactus?
Answer: scientific knowledge
Question: What did Ibn al-Nafis write in the 12th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote a science fiction novel in the 12th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What events did Ibn al-Nafis give supernatural or mythological explanations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who used mythology to explain Islamic teachings?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Although the Palaeologi emperors recaptured Constantinople from the Western Europeans in 1261, they were never able to regain control of much of the former imperial lands. They usually controlled only a small section of the Balkan Peninsula near Constantinople, the city itself, and some coastal lands on the Black Sea and around the Aegean Sea. The former Byzantine lands in the Balkans were divided between the new Kingdom of Serbia, the Second Bulgarian Empire and the city-state of Venice. The power of the Byzantine emperors was threatened by a new Turkish tribe, the Ottomans, who established themselves in Anatolia in the 13th century and steadily expanded throughout the 14th century. The Ottomans expanded into Europe, reducing Bulgaria to a vassal state by 1366 and taking over Serbia after its defeat at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. Western Europeans rallied to the plight of the Christians in the Balkans and declared a new crusade in 1396; a great army was sent to the Balkans, where it was defeated at the Battle of Nicopolis. Constantinople was finally captured by the Ottomans in 1453.
Question: Emperors from what dynasty recaptured Constantinople in 1261?
Answer: Palaeologi
Question: Along with the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia, what polity controlled the former Byzantine Balkan lands?
Answer: Venice
Question: What tribe of Turks emerged in 13th century Anatolia?
Answer: Ottomans
Question: In what year did Bulgaria become a vassal of the Ottomans?
Answer: 1366
Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of Kosovo?
Answer: Serbia
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Context: Some of the best examples of later Islamic mosaics were produced in Moorish Spain. The golden mosaics in the mihrab and the central dome of the Great Mosque in Corduba have a decidedly Byzantine character. They were made between 965 and 970 by local craftsmen, supervised by a master mosaicist from Constantinople, who was sent by the Byzantine Emperor to the Umayyad Caliph of Spain. The decoration is composed of colorful floral arabesques and wide bands of Arab calligraphy. The mosaics were purported to evoke the glamour of the Great Mosque in Damascus, which was lost for the Umayyad family.
Question: Where are some of the best examples of islamic mosaic work found?
Answer: Moorish Spain
Question: The mosaics in the Great Mosque in Corduba have what kind of style?
Answer: Byzantine
Question: When were the mosaics in the Great Mosque in Corduba created?
Answer: between 965 and 970
Question: Who created the mosaics in the Great Mosque in Corduba?
Answer: local craftsmen
Question: Who sent the master mosaicist to Spain?
Answer: the Byzantine Emperor
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Context: Two major types of atomic bombs were developed by the United States during World War II: a uranium-based device (codenamed "Little Boy") whose fissile material was highly enriched uranium, and a plutonium-based device (see Trinity test and "Fat Man") whose plutonium was derived from uranium-238. The uranium-based Little Boy device became the first nuclear weapon used in war when it was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Exploding with a yield equivalent to 12,500 tonnes of TNT, the blast and thermal wave of the bomb destroyed nearly 50,000 buildings and killed approximately 75,000 people (see Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Initially it was believed that uranium was relatively rare, and that nuclear proliferation could be avoided by simply buying up all known uranium stocks, but within a decade large deposits of it were discovered in many places around the world.
Question: What was the uranium-based bomb made by the US in World War II called?
Answer: Little Boy
Question: What was the codename of the plutonium-based bomb created in the Second World War?
Answer: Fat Man
Question: On what date was Little Boy detonated?
Answer: 6 August 1945
Question: What was the equivalent yield in TNT of the Little Boy bomb, in tonnes?
Answer: 12,500
Question: Over what city was Little Boy detonated?
Answer: Hiroshima
Question: What was the uranium-based bomb made by the US in World War I called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the codename of the plutonium-based bomb destroyed in the Second World War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date wasn't Little Boy detonated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the equivalent yield in TNT of the Little Boy bomb, in pounds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Over what city wasn't Little Boy detonated?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On 7 February 2007, the French Parliament passed a bill granting COM status to both St. Barthélemy and (separately) to the neighbouring Saint Martin. The new status took effect on 15 July 2007, when the first territorial council was elected, according to the law. The island has a president (elected every five years), a unicameral Territorial Council of nineteen members who are elected by popular vote and serve for five-year terms, and an executive council of seven members. Elections to these councils were first held on 1 July 2007 with the last election in March 2012.
Question: What island besides St. Barts was granted COM status by France in 2007?
Answer: Saint Martin
Question: When did the COM status for St. Barts take effect?
Answer: 15 July 2007
Question: How many years does a president have in office in St. Barts?
Answer: five
Question: How many people are on the Territorial Council?
Answer: nineteen
Question: When was the last election held for the executive council positions?
Answer: in March 2012
Question: What is COM short for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date did the first president begin his term?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is the president elected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are the executive council members elected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What status did St. Barthelemy have prior to 7 February 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Upon his election to the papacy, Montini took the pontifical name Paul VI (the first to take the name "Paul" since 1605) to indicate a renewed worldwide mission to spread the message of Christ, following the example of Apostle St. Paul.[citation needed] He re-convened the Second Vatican Council, which was automatically closed with the death of John XXIII, and gave it priority and direction. After the council had concluded its work, Paul VI took charge of the interpretation and implementation of its mandates, often walking a thin line between the conflicting expectations of various groups within Catholicism. The magnitude and depth of the reforms affecting all fields of Church life during his pontificate exceeded similar reform policies of his predecessors and successors. Paul VI was a Marian devotee, speaking repeatedly to Marian congresses and mariological meetings, visiting Marian shrines and issuing three Marian encyclicals. Following his famous predecessor Saint Ambrose of Milan, he named Mary as the Mother of the Church during the Second Vatican Council. Paul VI sought dialogue with the world, with other Christians, other religions, and atheists, excluding nobody. He saw himself as a humble servant for a suffering humanity and demanded significant changes of the rich in North America and Europe in favour of the poor in the Third World. His positions on birth control, promulgated most famously in the 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae, and other political issues, were often controversial, especially in Western Europe and North America.
Question: What type of devotee was Pope Paul VI?
Answer: Marian
Question: What name had not been used for a Pope since the year 1605?
Answer: "Paul"
Question: In what year was the name "Paul" last used as a pontifical name before Pope Paul VI became Pope?
Answer: 1605
Question: What did Pope Paul VI re-convene when he became Pope?
Answer: the Second Vatican Council
Question: What publication promoted Pope Paul VI's views on abortion?
Answer: encyclical Humanae vitae
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Context: The U.S. military has proposed building a new aircraft carrier berth on Guam and moving 8,600 Marines, and 9,000 of their dependents, to Guam from Okinawa, Japan. Including the required construction workers, this buildup would increase Guam's population by 45%. In a February 2010 letter, the United States Environmental Protection Agency sharply criticized these plans because of a water shortfall, sewage problems and the impact on coral reefs. By 2012, these plans had been cut to only have a maximum of 4,800 Marines stationed on the island, two thirds of which would be there on a rotational basis without their dependents.
Question: What has the U.S military proposed?
Answer: building a new aircraft carrier berth on Guam
Question: How many Marines would the United States move to Guam?
Answer: 8,600 Marines
Question: Because of the EPA, how many Marines would the United States be able to send to Guam to live?
Answer: 4,800 Marines
Question: How many marines are stationed in Okinawa, Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many dependents of Marines are there in Okinawa, Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many dependents of Marines are now allowed in Guam?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of military base does the U.S. military have in Okinawa, Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many construction workers had the U.S. military been planning to have in Guam to build a new aircraft carrier berth?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The motif of the England national football team has three lions passant guardant, the emblem of King Richard I, who reigned from 1189 to 1199. The lions, often blue, have had minor changes to colour and appearance. Initially topped by a crown, this was removed in 1949 when the FA was given an official coat of arms by the College of Arms; this introduced ten Tudor roses, one for each of the regional branches of the FA. Since 2003, England top their logo with a star to recognise their World Cup win in 1966; this was first embroidered onto the left sleeve of the home kit, and a year later was moved to its current position, first on the away shirt.
Question: When did King Richard I begin his reign?
Answer: 1189
Question: Which animal is the main motif of England's national football team?
Answer: lions
Question: What type of headgear originally appeared on the lions' heads on England's national football team motif?
Answer: a crown
Question: In which year was the FA given an official coat of arms by the College of Arms?
Answer: 1949
Question: Since 2003, England has topped their logo with a star to recognize their World Cup win in which year?
Answer: 1966
Question: In what year was King Richard I born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the English logo currently embroidered on their shirts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What colour are the ten Tudor roses on England's shirts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the College of Arms established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who established the College of Arms?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Amensalism is an interaction where an organism inflicts harm to another organism without any costs or benefits received by the other. A clear case of amensalism is where sheep or cattle trample grass. Whilst the presence of the grass causes negligible detrimental effects to the animal's hoof, the grass suffers from being crushed. Amensalism is often used to describe strongly asymmetrical competitive interactions, such as has been observed between the Spanish ibex and weevils of the genus Timarcha which feed upon the same type of shrub. Whilst the presence of the weevil has almost no influence on food availability, the presence of ibex has an enormous detrimental effect on weevil numbers, as they consume significant quantities of plant matter and incidentally ingest the weevils upon it.
Question: What organisms is the ibex in an amensalistic relationship with?
Answer: weevils
Question: What does the Spanish ibex eat?
Answer: shrub
Question: What type of relationship is it when large animals crush small plants?
Answer: Amensalism
Question: What happens if a weevil eats from an ibex?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens when the grass causes damage to an animal's hoof?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ethnicity are the ibex and the weevils?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is altered if the presence of ibex has little detrimental effect on the number of weevil?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What genus are the Spanish ibex?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In the mid-16th century, "botanical gardens" were founded in a number of Italian universities – the Padua botanical garden in 1545 is usually considered to be the first which is still in its original location. These gardens continued the practical value of earlier "physic gardens", often associated with monasteries, in which plants were cultivated for medical use. They supported the growth of botany as an academic subject. Lectures were given about the plants grown in the gardens and their medical uses demonstrated. Botanical gardens came much later to northern Europe; the first in England was the University of Oxford Botanic Garden in 1621. Throughout this period, botany remained firmly subordinate to medicine.
Question: What was the first botanical garden at an Italian university?
Answer: Padua
Question: Where is the Padua garden?
Answer: its original location
Question: Why did monasteries have gardens?
Answer: for medical use
Question: What science was botany considered to be a part of?
Answer: medicine
Question: Where was the first European botany garden at a university?
Answer: University of Oxford
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Context: The 2011 census recorded that 2,998,264 people or 36.7% of London's population are foreign-born making London the city with the second largest immigrant population, behind New York City, in terms of absolute numbers. The table to the right shows the most common countries of birth of London residents. Note that some of the German-born population, in 18th position, are British citizens from birth born to parents serving in the British Armed Forces in Germany. With increasing industrialisation, London's population grew rapidly throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, and it was for some time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the most populous city in the world. Its population peaked at 8,615,245 in 1939 immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, but had declined to 7,192,091 at the 2001 Census. However, the population then grew by just over a million between the 2001 and 2011 Censuses, to reach 8,173,941 in the latter enumeration.
Question: London is second only to what city in terms of its foreign population?
Answer: New York City
Question: What percentage of London residents are foreign-born?
Answer: 36.7%
Question: Many German-born Londoners were British citizens by birth due to what?
Answer: parents serving in the British Armed Forces in Germany
Question: When did London see its highest population numbers?
Answer: 1939 immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War
Question: What was London's estimated population at the time of the 2011 census?
Answer: 8,173,941
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Context: Motorsport racecourses and events were banned in Switzerland following the 1955 Le Mans disaster with exception to events such as Hillclimbing. During this period, the country still produced successful racing drivers such as Clay Regazzoni, Sebastian Buemi, Jo Siffert, Dominique Aegerter, successful World Touring Car Championship driver Alain Menu, 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Marcel Fässler and 2015 24 Hours Nürburgring winner Nico Müller. Switzerland also won the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport in 2007–08 with driver Neel Jani. Swiss motorcycle racer Thomas Lüthi won the 2005 MotoGP World Championship in the 125cc category. In June 2007 the Swiss National Council, one house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, voted to overturn the ban, however the other house, the Swiss Council of States rejected the change and the ban remains in place.
Question: What was banned in Switzerland in 1955 after the Le Mans disaster?
Answer: Motorsport racecourses and events
Question: Who voted to overturn the ban on motorsport events in June 2007?
Answer: Swiss National Council
Question: Who rejected the 2007 vote to overturn the motorsport ban in Switzerland?
Answer: Swiss Council of States
Question: Which successful World Touring Car Championship driver was produced in Switzerland despite the ban on motorsport events?
Answer: Alain Menu
Question: Which Swiss motorcycle racer won the 2005 MotoGP World Championship in the 125cc category?
Answer: Thomas Lüthi
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Context: In 1957, she made a state visit to the United States, where she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the Commonwealth. On the same tour, she opened the 23rd Canadian Parliament, becoming the first monarch of Canada to open a parliamentary session. Two years later, solely in her capacity as Queen of Canada, she revisited the United States and toured Canada. In 1961, she toured Cyprus, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Iran. On a visit to Ghana the same year, she dismissed fears for her safety, even though her host, President Kwame Nkrumah, who had replaced her as head of state, was a target for assassins. Harold Macmillan wrote, "The Queen has been absolutely determined all through ... She is impatient of the attitude towards her to treat her as ... a film star ... She has indeed 'the heart and stomach of a man' ... She loves her duty and means to be a Queen." Before her tour through parts of Quebec in 1964, the press reported that extremists within the Quebec separatist movement were plotting Elizabeth's assassination. No attempt was made, but a riot did break out while she was in Montreal; the Queen's "calmness and courage in the face of the violence" was noted.
Question: When did Elizabeth address the UN General Assembly?
Answer: 1957
Question: What parliamentary session did Elizabeth open in 1957 while on tour?
Answer: 23rd Canadian Parliament
Question: On a tour to Ghana in 1961 what did Elizabeth dismiss as a fear?
Answer: her safety
Question: In 1964 what was reported that Quebec extremists planned ?
Answer: Elizabeth's assassination
Question: In 1961 what was the first country Elizabeth made a state visit to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1961 what was the last country Elizabeth made a state visit to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana replace Elizabeth as the head of state?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what Canadian city is the Canadian Parliament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Harold Macmillan die?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305) split the empire into separately administered eastern and western halves in 286; the empire was not considered divided by its inhabitants or rulers, as legal and administrative promulgations in one division were considered valid in the other.[C] In 330, after a period of civil war, Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) refounded the city of Byzantium as the newly renamed eastern capital, Constantinople. Diocletian's reforms strengthened the governmental bureaucracy, reformed taxation, and strengthened the army, which bought the empire time but did not resolve the problems it was facing: excessive taxation, a declining birthrate, and pressures on its frontiers, among others. Civil war between rival emperors became common in the middle of the 4th century, diverting soldiers from the empire's frontier forces and allowing invaders to encroach. For much of the 4th century, Roman society stabilised in a new form that differed from the earlier classical period, with a widening gulf between the rich and poor, and a decline in the vitality of the smaller towns. Another change was the Christianisation, or conversion of the empire to Christianity, a gradual process that lasted from the 2nd to the 5th centuries.
Question: In what year did Diocletian begin his reign?
Answer: 284
Question: When was the Roman Empire split into western and eastern administrative divisions?
Answer: 286
Question: What was the name of the city previously located on the site of Constantinople?
Answer: Byzantium
Question: During what century was the Roman conversion to Christianity considered complete?
Answer: 5th
Question: When did the rule of Constantine end?
Answer: 337
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Context: From 2004 to 2007, the top five U.S. investment banks each significantly increased their financial leverage (see diagram), which increased their vulnerability to a financial shock. Changes in capital requirements, intended to keep U.S. banks competitive with their European counterparts, allowed lower risk weightings for AAA securities. The shift from first-loss tranches to AAA tranches was seen by regulators as a risk reduction that compensated the higher leverage. These five institutions reported over $4.1 trillion in debt for fiscal year 2007, about 30% of USA nominal GDP for 2007. Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and was liquidated, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch were sold at fire-sale prices, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley became commercial banks, subjecting themselves to more stringent regulation. With the exception of Lehman, these companies required or received government support. Lehman reported that it had been in talks with Bank of America and Barclays for the company's possible sale. However, both Barclays and Bank of America ultimately declined to purchase the entire company.
Question: How many U.S. investment banks significantly increased their financial leverage from 2004 to 2007?
Answer: five
Question: U.S. investment banks Increased their financial leverage and also increased their vulnerability to what?
Answer: financial shock
Question: Changes in what intended to keep U.S. banks competitive with their European counterparts?
Answer: capital requirements
Question: How much debt did the top five U.S. investment banks report in fiscal year 2007?
Answer: over $4.1 trillion
Question: What financial institution went bankrupt and was liquidated in 2007?
Answer: Lehman Brothers
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Context: The symbol $, usually written before the numerical amount, is used for the U.S. dollar (as well as for many other currencies). The sign was the result of a late 18th-century evolution of the scribal abbreviation "ps" for the peso, the common name for the Spanish dollars that were in wide circulation in the New World from the 16th to the 19th centuries. These Spanish pesos or dollars were minted in Spanish America, namely in Mexico City, Potosí, Bolivia; and Lima, Peru. The p and the s eventually came to be written over each other giving rise to $.
Question: Which symbol is used to represent the dollar?
Answer: $
Question: What abbreviation was the dollar sign based off of?
Answer: ps
Question: What was the common name for the Spanish dollar?
Answer: peso
Question: Which century signalled the end of the Spanish dollar?
Answer: 19th
Question: In which region of the world were the Spanish pesos minted?
Answer: Spanish America
Question: Which symbol is used to represent the peso?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What abbreviation was the minted sign based off of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the common name for the Spanish sign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which century signaled the end of the sign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which region of the world were Spanish signs minted?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Elizabeth was born in London to the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and was the elder of their two daughters. She was educated privately at home. Her father acceded to the throne on the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive. She began to undertake public duties during World War II, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947, she married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with whom she has four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.
Question: In what city was Elizabeth born?
Answer: London
Question: At the time of her birth, what was the rank of Elizabeth's parents?
Answer: Duke and Duchess of York
Question: What were Elizabeth's parents' titles after ascending to the throne?
Answer: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Question: How many children did Elizabeth's parents have?
Answer: two daughters
Question: What event caused Elizabeth's father to become King?
Answer: abdication of his brother
Question: In what year was Edward VIII crowned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Elizabeth's sisters name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is Elizabeth's oldest child?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is Elizabeth's youngest child?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Edward born?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: At least 74 species of Iranian wildlife are on the red list of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a sign of serious threats against the country’s biodiversity. The Iranian Parliament has been showing disregard for wildlife by passing laws and regulations such as the act that lets the Ministry of Industries and Mines exploit mines without the involvement of the Department of Environment, and by approving large national development projects without demanding comprehensive study of their impact on wildlife habitats.
Question: How many species of Iranian wildlife are listed by the IUCN as endangered?
Answer: 74 species
Question: The Iranian Parliament lets who exploit mines without guidance from the Department of the Environment?
Answer: Ministry of Industries and Mines
Question: The Iranian Parliament does not demand environmental impact studies before approving what projects?
Answer: large national development projects
Question: The Iranian Parliament passes legislation without the involvement of what department to the detriment of wildlife?
Answer: Department of Environment
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Context: The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the blending of the Indus Valley Civilization and Indo-Aryan culture into the Vedic Civilization; the development of Hinduism as a synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions; the rise of the Śramaṇa movement; the decline of Śrauta sacrifices and the birth of the initiatory traditions of Jainism, Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism; the onset of a succession of powerful dynasties and empires for more than two millennia throughout various geographic areas of the subcontinent, including the growth of Muslim dynasties during the Medieval period intertwined with Hindu powers; the advent of European traders resulting in the establishment of the British rule; and the subsequent independence movement that led to the Partition of India and the creation of the Republic of India.
Question: In what geographic area was the country of India established?
Answer: Indian subcontinent
Question: What did the joining of the Indus Valley and Indo-Aryan cultures produce?
Answer: Vedic Civilization
Question: Of what is Hinduism a combination?
Answer: Indian cultures and traditions
Question: How long was the succession of powerful dynasties in the Indian subcontinent?
Answer: two millennia
Question: What movement lead to the founding of the Republic of India?
Answer: independence movement
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Context: Many large airports are located near railway trunk routes for seamless connection of multimodal transport, for instance Frankfurt Airport, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, London Heathrow Airport, London Gatwick Airport and London Stansted Airport. It is also common to connect an airport and a city with rapid transit, light rail lines or other non-road public transport systems. Some examples of this would include the AirTrain JFK at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Link Light Rail that runs from the heart of downtown Seattle to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, and the Silver Line T at Boston's Logan International Airport by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Such a connection lowers risk of missed flights due to traffic congestion. Large airports usually have access also through controlled-access highways ('freeways' or 'motorways') from which motor vehicles enter either the departure loop or the arrival loop.
Question: For seamless connection of multimodal transport, where are many large airports located?
Answer: near railway trunk routes
Question: What does MBTA stand for?
Answer: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Question: It is also common to connect an airport and a city with what?
Answer: rapid transit, light rail lines or other non-road public transport systems
Question: What are many cities located close to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What commonly connects a city with a departure loop?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of an arrival loop?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a departure loop help do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Seattle allow access to the AirTrain through?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was adopted by the Russian Constitution of 1937, which renamed it the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Question: What was Soviet Russia called as of 1937?
Answer: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Question: What document changed the name of Russia in 1937?
Answer: the Russian Constitution of 1937
Question: What was Soviet Russia not called as of 1937?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Soviet Russia called as of 1973?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What document changed the name of Russia in 1973?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What document kept the name of Russia in 1937?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was rejected by the Russian Constitution of 1937
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Late Middle Ages represented a period of upheaval in Europe. The epidemic known as the Black Death and an associated famine caused demographic catastrophe in Europe as the population plummeted. Dynastic struggles and wars of conquest kept many of the states of Europe at war for much of the period. In the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire, a Turkish state originating in Anatolia, encroached steadily on former Byzantine lands, culminating in the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Question: What era was characterized by turmoil in Europe?
Answer: The Late Middle Ages
Question: What disease plagued Europe during the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: the Black Death
Question: Which new regime appeared in the Balkan region during the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: the Ottoman Empire
Question: When did the Ottoman Empire conquer Constantinople?
Answer: 1453
Question: What era was characterized by the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What disease plagued former Byzatine lands in the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which new regime appeared in the Constantinople region during the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Ottoman Empire liberate Constantinople from the Balkans?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kept states of Europe in a famine?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Buddhism is practiced by an estimated 488 million,[web 1] 495 million, or 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population.
Question: What religion is practiced by an estimated 488 to 535 million people?
Answer: Buddhism
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Context: He also introduced the notion of a 'Universal Machine' (now known as a Universal Turing machine), with the idea that such a machine could perform the tasks of any other machine, or in other words, it is provably capable of computing anything that is computable by executing a program stored on tape, allowing the machine to be programmable. Von Neumann acknowledged that the central concept of the modern computer was due to this paper. Turing machines are to this day a central object of study in theory of computation. Except for the limitations imposed by their finite memory stores, modern computers are said to be Turing-complete, which is to say, they have algorithm execution capability equivalent to a universal Turing machine.
Question: A Universal Machine is known as what today?
Answer: Universal Turing machine
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Context: As advances and specialization have made new scientific research inaccessible to most audiences, the "literary" nature of science writing has become less pronounced over the last two centuries. Now, science appears mostly in journals. Scientific works of Aristotle, Copernicus, and Newton still exhibit great value, but since the science in them has largely become outdated, they no longer serve for scientific instruction. Yet, they remain too technical to sit well in most programmes of literary study. Outside of "history of science" programmes, students rarely read such works.
Question: What two elements have reduced the literary nature of scientific journals?
Answer: advances and specialization
Question: The segregation of science writing means that articles in those subjects primarily appear where?
Answer: journals
Question: The work of what classical scientists is caught between being outdated and of literary importance?
Answer: Aristotle, Copernicus, and Newton
Question: In what coursework is one still likely to encounter the works of these classic scientists?
Answer: "history of science" programmes
Question: The literary nature of science writing has become more pronounced during what time period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The science of Aristotle, Galileo, and Newton no longer serve for scientific instruction why?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Students often read classical scientists outside what programmes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has made new scientific research accessible to most audiences?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do students rarely study outside programmes of literary study?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are too technical to sit well in "history of science" programs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The scientific works of which scientists are still studied regularly?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Admiral Grace Hopper, an American computer scientist and developer of the first compiler, is credited for having first used the term "bugs" in computing after a dead moth was found shorting a relay in the Harvard Mark II computer in September 1947.
Question: Who was the developer of the first compier?
Answer: Admiral Grace Hopper
Question: Who first coined the term "bugs"?
Answer: Admiral Grace Hopper
Question: What type of creature shorted a relay of Grace Hopper's computer?
Answer: moth
Question: What type of computer of Grace Hopper's was shorted by a moth?
Answer: Harvard Mark II
Question: When was Grace Hopper's Hardvard Mark II shorted by a moth?
Answer: September 1947
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Context: The two systems were to run on a trial basis for six months; early television sets supported both resolutions. However, the Baird system, which used a mechanical camera for filmed programming and Farnsworth image dissector cameras for live programming, proved too cumbersome and visually inferior, and ended with closedown (at 22:00) on Saturday 13 February 1937.
Question: For how long did the BBC alternate different broadcasting systems?
Answer: six months
Question: What kind of camera was used to broadcast live shows under the Baird system?
Answer: Farnsworth image dissector
Question: When was the Baird system officially abandoned?
Answer: 13 February 1937
Question: How long did two systems run on a trial basis for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of camera did the Baird image dissector use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ended on Saturday 17 February 1933?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Eisenhower's goal to create improved highways was influenced by difficulties encountered during his involvement in the U.S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy. He was assigned as an observer for the mission, which involved sending a convoy of U.S. Army vehicles coast to coast. His subsequent experience with encountering German autobahn limited-access road systems during the concluding stages of World War II convinced him of the benefits of an Interstate Highway System. Noticing the improved ability to move logistics throughout the country, he thought an Interstate Highway System in the U.S. would not only be beneficial for military operations, but provide a measure of continued economic growth. The legislation initially stalled in the Congress over the issuance of bonds to finance the project, but the legislative effort was renewed and the law was signed by Eisenhower in June 1956.
Question: What event led Eisenhower to want to improve highways in the US?
Answer: the U.S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy
Question: What German transportation project influenced Eisenhower on highways?
Answer: autobahn
Question: When did Eisenhower sign the law to create the Interstate Highway System?
Answer: June 1956
Question: Along with military benefits, what did Eisenhower see as the benefit of the highway project?
Answer: economic growth
Question: Why did Congress hold up the highway bill?
Answer: issuance of bonds to finance the project
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Context: Outside of these genealogies, comics theorists and historians have seen precedents for comics in the Lascaux cave paintings in France (some of which appear to be chronological sequences of images), Egyptian hieroglyphs, Trajan's Column in Rome, the 11th-century Norman Bayeux Tapestry, the 1370 bois Protat woodcut, the 15th-century Ars moriendi and block books, Michelangelo's The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, and William Hogarth's 17th-century sequential engravings, amongst others.[b]
Question: In France, what did historians find that they consider a precedent for comics?
Answer: Lascaux cave paintings
Question: What Michelangelo work do historians consider to be a precedent for comics?
Answer: The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel
Question: In Egypt, historians consider what to be a precedent for comics?
Answer: hieroglyphs
Question: In Rome, what do historians consider to be a precedent for comics?
Answer: Trajan's Column
Question: In France, what did historians find that they consider a irrelevant for comics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Michelangelo work do historians consider to be irrelevant for comics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Donatello work do historians consider to be a precedent for comics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Egypt, historians consider what to be irrelevant for comics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Rome, what do scientists consider to be a precedent for comics?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The marine life found here consists of anemones, urchins, sea cucumbers, and eels, which all live on the reefs along with turtles, conch and many varieties of marine fishes. The marine aquafauna is rich in conch, which has pearly-pink shells. Its meat is a favourite food supplement item and their shells are a collectors item. Other species of fish which are recorded close to the shore line in shallow waters are: sergeant majors, the blue chromis, brown chromis, surgeon fish; blue tangs and trumpet fish. On the shore are ghost crabs, which always live on the beach in small burrowed tunnels made in sand, and the hermit crabs, which live in land but lay eggs in water and which also eat garbage and sewerage. They spend some months in the sea during and after the hatching season.
Question: What color are conch shells?
Answer: pearly-pink
Question: What common sea creature produces a collectable Item?
Answer: conch
Question: Where are surgeonfish found in St. Barts?
Answer: shallow waters
Question: What kind of crabs besides hermit crabs are common on the beach in St. Barts?
Answer: ghost
Question: What do hermit crabs eat?
Answer: garbage and sewerage
Question: What color is are the turtles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color are sergeant majors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color are surgeon fish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do ghost crabs lay their eggs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do ghost crabs eat?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: That year, Queen began The Works Tour, the first tour to feature keyboardist Spike Edney as an extra live musician. The tour featured nine sold-out dates in October in Bophuthatswana, South Africa, at the arena in Sun City. Upon returning to England, they were the subject of outrage, having played in South Africa during the height of apartheid and in violation of worldwide divestment efforts and a United Nations cultural boycott. The band responded to the critics by stating that they were playing music for fans in South Africa, and they also stressed that the concerts were played before integrated audiences. Queen donated to a school for the deaf and blind as a philanthropic gesture but were fined by the British Musicians' Union and placed on the United Nations' blacklisted artists.
Question: Which Queen tour was the first to feature Spike Edney?
Answer: Spike Edney
Question: Queen's Spike Edney plays what instrument?
Answer: keyboardist
Question: Who fined Queen for donating to a school for the deaf and blind?
Answer: British Musicians' Union
Question: Where did Queen play during the height of Apartheid?
Answer: South Africa
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Context: Football is largely considered the Nigeria's national sport and the country has its own Premier League of football. Nigeria's national football team, known as the "Super Eagles", has made the World Cup on five occasions 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010, and most recently in 2014. In April 1994, the Super Eagles ranked 5th in the FIFA World Rankings, the highest ranking achieved by an African football team. They won the African Cup of Nations in 1980, 1994, and 2013, and have also hosted the U-17 & U-20 World Cup. They won the gold medal for football in the 1996 Summer Olympics (in which they beat Argentina) becoming the first African football team to win gold in Olympic Football.
Question: Which years did Nigeria win the African Cup of Nations?
Answer: 1980, 1994, and 2013
Question: When did Nigeria win a Summer Olympics gold medal?
Answer: 1996
Question: What did Nigeria win a Summer Olympics gold medal for?
Answer: football
Question: What country did Nigeria beat to win a Summer Olympics gold medal?
Answer: Argentina
Question: What is Nigeria's national football team called?
Answer: Super Eagles
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Context: In 1992, the First Division clubs resigned from the Football League en masse and on 27 May 1992 the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company working out of an office at the Football Association's then headquarters in Lancaster Gate. This meant a break-up of the 104-year-old Football League that had operated until then with four divisions; the Premier League would operate with a single division and the Football League with three. There was no change in competition format; the same number of teams competed in the top flight, and promotion and relegation between the Premier League and the new First Division remained the same as the old First and Second Divisions with three teams relegated from the league and three promoted.
Question: When did the First Division clubs resign from the Football League?
Answer: In 1992, the First Division clubs resigned from the Football League en masse
Question: When was the FA Premier League formed as a limited company?
Answer: on 27 May 1992 the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company working out of an office at the Football Association's then headquarters in Lancaster Gate.
Question: How many divisions did the Premier League start out with at this time?
Answer: the Premier League would operate with a single division
Question: How many divisions did the Football League after the the Premier League was founded?
Answer: the Football League with three
Question: Was there a change in the competition format after the Premier League was formed?
Answer: There was no change in competition format; the same number of teams competed in the top flight
Question: On which date was the FA Premier League formed legally?
Answer: 27 May 1992
Question: Out of which organization's headquarters did the original FA Premier League staff operate out of?
Answer: Football Association
Question: How old was the Football League when the break-up happened?
Answer: 104
Question: How many divisions were left in the Football League after the split?
Answer: three
Question: How many divisions did the Premier League start with after the split?
Answer: a single division
Question: Where were the Football Association's headquarters located in 1904?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Football League would have a single division and the Premier league would have how many?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Premier league would have three divisions and the Football League would have how many?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For how many years did the Football League operate with five divisions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Football League operated for 105 years with how many divisions?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The contemporary Liberal Party generally advocates economic liberalism (see New Right). Historically, the party has supported a higher degree of economic protectionism and interventionism than it has in recent decades. However, from its foundation the party has identified itself as anti-socialist. Strong opposition to socialism and communism in Australia and abroad was one of its founding principles. The party's founder and longest-serving leader Robert Menzies envisaged that Australia's middle class would form its main constituency.
Question: What is economic liberalism sometimes also referred to?
Answer: New Right
Question: Does the Liberal Party of Australia consider itself socialist or anti-socialist?
Answer: anti-socialist
Question: Who was the Liberal Party of Australia's longest-serving leader?
Answer: Robert Menzies
Question: Who founded Australia's liberal party?
Answer: Robert Menzies
Question: What is communism also referred to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Does the Liberal Party of Australia consider itself liberal or anti-socialist?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the Liberal Party of Australia's longest-serving socialist?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who founded communism in Australia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has Australia's middle class now support more of?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Windows 8 provides heavier integration with online services from Microsoft and others. A user can now log in to Windows with a Microsoft account, which can be used to access services and synchronize applications and settings between devices. Windows 8 also ships with a client app for Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service, which also allows apps to save files directly to SkyDrive. A SkyDrive client for the desktop and File Explorer is not included in Windows 8, and must be downloaded separately. Bundled multimedia apps are provided under the Xbox brand, including Xbox Music, Xbox Video, and the Xbox SmartGlass companion for use with an Xbox 360 console. Games can integrate into an Xbox Live hub app, which also allows users to view their profile and gamerscore. Other bundled apps provide the ability to link Flickr and Facebook. Due to Facebook Connect service changes, Facebook support is disabled in all bundled apps effective June 8, 2015.
Question: What is SkyDrive?
Answer: cloud storage service
Question: What features does Xbox Live hub offer?
Answer: allows users to view their profile and gamerscore
Question: When was Facebook support turned off?
Answer: June 8, 2015
Question: What Xbox apps were bundled together?
Answer: Xbox Music, Xbox Video, and the Xbox SmartGlass
Question: What service options does Windows online now offer?
Answer: can be used to access services and synchronize applications and settings between devices.
Question: What isn't SkyDrive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What features doesn't Xbox Live hub offer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Facebook support turned on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Xbox One apps were bundled together?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What service options does Windows offline now offer?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: 26 March 1991 is the day that marks the clash between military soldiers and peaceful demonstrating students which climaxed in the massacre of dozens under the orders of then President Moussa Traoré. He and three associates were later tried and convicted and received the death sentence for their part in the decision-making of that day. Nowadays, the day is a national holiday in order to remember the tragic events and the people that were killed.[unreliable source?] The coup is remembered as Mali's March Revolution of 1991.
Question: Who was president during the March protests?
Answer: Moussa Traoré
Question: How many people aside from the president received a death sentence?
Answer: three associates
Question: What day is now a National holiday in connection to Moussa Traoré?
Answer: 26 March
Question: All four men were convicted and received what as punishment?
Answer: death sentence
Question: Those that received the death sentence had gotten it for their role in what?
Answer: their part in the decision-making
Question: Who shot soldiers in March 1991?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which president tried to stop the massacre?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is remembered as Mali's March revolution of 1990
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What national holiday celebrates Moussa Traore?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In Montevideo, as throughout the Rio de Plata region, the most popular forms of music are tango, milonga and vals criollo. Many notable songs originated in Montevideo including "El Tango supremo", La Cumparsita", La Milonga", "La Puñalada" and "Desde el Alma", composed by notable Montevideo musicians such as Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Pintín Castellanos and Rosita Melo. Tango is deeply ingrained in the cultural life of the city and is the theme for many of the bars and restaurants in the city. Fun Fun' Bar, established in 1935, is one of the most important places for tango in Uruguay as is El Farolito, located in the old part of the city and Joventango, Café Las Musas, Garufa and Vieja Viola. The city is also home to the Montevideo Jazz Festival and has the Bancaria Jazz Club bar catering for jazz enthusiasts.
Question: Tango, milonga and vals criollo are the most popular forms of music in what region?
Answer: Rio de Plata region
Question: When was Fun Fun Bar established?
Answer: 1935
Question: Where is El Farolito located?
Answer: the old part of the city
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Context: Incandescent lamps are nearly pure resistive loads with a power factor of 1. This means the actual power consumed (in watts) and the apparent power (in volt-amperes) are equal. Incandescent light bulbs are usually marketed according to the electrical power consumed. This is measured in watts and depends mainly on the resistance of the filament, which in turn depends mainly on the filament's length, thickness, and material. For two bulbs of the same voltage, type, color, and clarity, the higher-powered bulb gives more light.
Question: What does a power factor of 1 mean?
Answer: the actual power consumed (in watts) and the apparent power (in volt-amperes) are equal
Question: What principally determines the wattage of an incandescent bulb?
Answer: the resistance of the filament
Question: What determines the resistance of the filament?
Answer: the filament's length, thickness, and material
Question: How close do incandescent lamps come to pure resistive loads?
Answer: Incandescent lamps are nearly pure resistive loads
Question: All other things being equal, how does wattage affect light emitted?
Answer: the higher-powered bulb gives more light
Question: What type of lamp has a power factor of 2?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the power factor of 2 mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are incandescent light typically not marketed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does not principally determine the wattage of an incandescent bulb?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does wattage not affect light emitted?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Church and state are officially separated since 1916 in Uruguay. The religion with most followers in Montevideo is Roman Catholicism and has been so since the foundation of the city. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo was created as the Apostolic Vicariate of Montevideo in 1830. The vicariate was promoted to the Diocese of Montevideo on 13 July 1878. Pope Leo XIII elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on 14 April 1897. The new archdiocese became the Metropolitan of the suffragan sees of Canelones, Florida, Maldonado–Punta del Este, Melo, Mercedes, Minas, Salto, San José de Mayo, Tacuarembó.
Question: Church and state have been officially separated in Uruguay since what year?
Answer: 1916
Question: What religion has the most followers in Montevideo?
Answer: Roman Catholicism
Question: When was the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo created?
Answer: 1830
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Context: The brain contains several motor areas that project directly to the spinal cord. At the lowest level are motor areas in the medulla and pons, which control stereotyped movements such as walking, breathing, or swallowing. At a higher level are areas in the midbrain, such as the red nucleus, which is responsible for coordinating movements of the arms and legs. At a higher level yet is the primary motor cortex, a strip of tissue located at the posterior edge of the frontal lobe. The primary motor cortex sends projections to the subcortical motor areas, but also sends a massive projection directly to the spinal cord, through the pyramidal tract. This direct corticospinal projection allows for precise voluntary control of the fine details of movements. Other motor-related brain areas exert secondary effects by projecting to the primary motor areas. Among the most important secondary areas are the premotor cortex, basal ganglia, and cerebellum.
Question: Which motor areas of the brain control breathing and swallowing?
Answer: the medulla and pons,
Question: At the lowest level of the brain and spinal cord, are what areas?
Answer: the medulla and pons
Question: The red nucleus controls what part(s) of the body?
Answer: coordinating movements of the arms and legs
Question: A strip of tissue found at the edge of the frontal lobe is called what?
Answer: primary motor cortex
Question: The primary motor cortex sends signals to the spinal cord through what?
Answer: pyramidal tract.
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Context: The bureau's first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the "White Slave Traffic Act," or Mann Act, passed on June 25, 1910. In 1932, it was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition and rechristened the Division of Investigation (DOI) before finally becoming an independent service within the Department of Justice in 1935. In the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI.
Question: What was the bureau's first task?
Answer: visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution
Question: What act was the bureau initially tasked with enforcing?
Answer: White Slave Traffic Act
Question: What was the other formal name of the Mann Act?
Answer: White Slave Traffic Act
Question: When was the Mann Act passed?
Answer: June 25, 1910
Question: When was the bureau renamed?
Answer: In 1932,
Question: What did the bureau visit during its last official task?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the last law that the FBI enforced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Mann Act rejected by congress?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the Division of Investigation renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the FBI separated from the Department of Justice?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The first reports of the abbey are based on a late tradition claiming that a young fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site. This seems to be quoted to justify the gifts of salmon from Thames fishermen that the abbey received in later years. In the present era, the Fishmonger's Company still gives a salmon every year. The proven origins are that in the 960s or early 970s, Saint Dunstan, assisted by King Edgar, installed a community of Benedictine monks here.
Question: Who supposedly had a vison of Saint Peter on the River Thames?
Answer: Aldrich
Question: Who first gifted salmon to the abbey?
Answer: Thames fishermen
Question: Who still gives salmon to the abbey today?
Answer: Fishmonger's Company
Question: When was the monk community installed?
Answer: 960s or early 970s
Question: What was the name of the fisherman in lore that saw a vision of Saint Paul near the Abbey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of fish did the Abbey give to Thames fisherman?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of monks died at the Abbey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who, till this day still gives the Abbey a bun?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who along with the Prince Edgar established the monks at the Abbey?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Kolmaš writes that, as the Mongol presence in Tibet increased, culminating in the conquest of Tibet by a Mongol leader in 1642, the Ming emperors "viewed with apparent unconcern these developments in Tibet." He adds that the Ming court's lack of concern for Tibet was one of the reasons why the Mongols pounced on the chance to reclaim their old vassal of Tibet and "fill once more the political vacuum in that country." On the mass Mongol conversion to Tibetan Buddhism under Altan Khan, Laird writes that "the Chinese watched these developments with interest, though few Chinese ever became devout Tibetan Buddhists."
Question: Who's presence increased in Tibet?
Answer: the Mongols
Question: What were the Mongols trying to reclaim?
Answer: their old vassal of Tibet
Question: When did the conquest of Tibet reach its peak?
Answer: 1642
Question: Who's lack of concern helped the Mongols jump at a chance to reclaim their old vassal of Tibet?
Answer: the Ming court
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Context: Panama's first department stores such as Bazaar Francés, La Dalia and La Villa de Paris started as textile retailers at the turn of the nineteenth century. Later on in the twentieth century these eventually gave way to stores such as Felix B. Maduro, Sarah Panamá, Figali, Danté, Sears, Gran Morrison and smaller ones such as Bon Bini, Cocos, El Lider, Piccolo and Clubman among others. Of these only Felix B. Maduro (usually referred to as Felix by locals) and Danté remain strong. All the others have either folded or declined although Cocos has managed to secure a good position in the market.
Question: How did Panama's department stores originally begin?
Answer: as textile retailers
Question: When did Panama's Department stores first start?
Answer: at the turn of the nineteenth century
Question: What department store is often called "Felix" by the local population?
Answer: Felix B. Maduro
Question: What store has managed to survive despite much it's competition going under?
Answer: Cocos
Question: How did Panama's department stores originally end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How didn't Panama's department stores originally begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Panama's Department stores first end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What department store is never called "Felix" by the local population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What store has managed to close despite much it's competition thriving?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Ming court appointed three Princes of Dharma (法王) and five Princes (王), and granted many other titles, such as Grand State Tutors (大國師) and State Tutors (國師), to the important schools of Tibetan Buddhism, including the Karma Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug. According to Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain, leading officials of these organs were all appointed by the central government and were subject to the rule of law. Yet Van Praag describes the distinct and long-lasting Tibetan law code established by the Phagmodru ruler Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen as one of many reforms to revive old Imperial Tibetan traditions.
Question: How many princes of Dharma were assigned by the Ming court?
Answer: three
Question: Who established the Tibetan law code?
Answer: Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen
Question: Who was the Phagmodru ruler?
Answer: Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen
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Context: In the late 14th century, the Songhai gradually gained independence from the Mali Empire and expanded, ultimately subsuming the entire eastern portion of the Mali Empire. The Songhai Empire's eventual collapse was largely the result of a Moroccan invasion in 1591, under the command of Judar Pasha. The fall of the Songhai Empire marked the end of the region's role as a trading crossroads. Following the establishment of sea routes by the European powers, the trans-Saharan trade routes lost significance.
Question: The Sonhgai Empire's demise was due to what invasion?
Answer: Moroccan invasion in 1591
Question: What major impact did the falling of the Songhai Empire have?
Answer: Saharan trade routes lost significance.
Question: What century did Songhai become independent from Mali?
Answer: 14th century
Question: Who was the commander of the Moroccan invasion of 1591?
Answer: Judar Pasha
Question: What type of trading routes did Europeans make that compounded to the profound effect?
Answer: establishment of sea routes
Question: Who gained independence in the 1400s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What invasion caused the collapse of the Mali Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who invaded the Songhai Empire in the fifteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What marked the beginning of the region's role as a trading crossroads?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cause sea routes to lose significance?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Approximately 10,000 years ago, desertification forced hunter-gatherer societies south into the Sahel regions of northern Central Africa, where some groups settled and began farming as part of the Neolithic Revolution. Initial farming of white yam progressed into millet and sorghum, and before 3000 BC the domestication of African oil palm improved the groups' nutrition and allowed for expansion of the local populations. Bananas arrived in the region and added an important source of carbohydrates to the diet; they were also used in the production of alcoholic beverages.[when?] This Agricultural Revolution, combined with a "Fish-stew Revolution", in which fishing began to take place, and the use of boats, allowed for the transportation of goods. Products were often moved in ceramic pots, which are the first known examples of artistic expression from the region's inhabitants.
Question: How long ago did people start living in the area?
Answer: Approximately 10,000 years ago
Question: What agricultural job did people settling in the area perform?
Answer: farming
Question: What vegetation helped populations expand?
Answer: African oil palm
Question: What was an imported food that provided most of the carbohydrates?
Answer: Bananas
Question: What important protein helped with expansion of the inhabitants?
Answer: Fish
Question: How long ago did farming force hunter-gatherer societies south?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did dedertification allow for the expansion of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is production of alcoholic beverages an example of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did a Fish-stew revolution do to the group's eating habits?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did farming of white yam allow for the transportation of?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Graduation rates among district-run schools, meanwhile, have steadily increased in the last ten years. In 2005, Philadelphia had a district graduation rate of 52%. This number has increased to 65% in 2014, still below the national and state averages. Scores on the state's standardized test, the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) have trended upward from 2005 to 2011 but have decreased since. In 2005, the district-run schools scored an average of 37.4% on math and 35.5% on reading. The city's schools reached its peak scores in 2011 with 59.0% on math and 52.3% on reading. In 2014, the scores dropped significantly to 45.2% on math and 42.0% on reading.
Question: Have grad rates fallen or increased in the last years?
Answer: increased
Question: What was the grad rate in 2005?
Answer: 52%
Question: What was it in 2014?
Answer: 65%
Question: Is that the above or below the national average?
Answer: below the national and state averages
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Context: The introduction of new or equivalent deities coincided with Rome's most significant aggressive and defensive military forays. In 206 BC the Sibylline books commended the introduction of cult to the aniconic Magna Mater (Great Mother) from Pessinus, installed on the Palatine in 191 BC. The mystery cult to Bacchus followed; it was suppressed as subversive and unruly by decree of the Senate in 186 BC. Greek deities were brought within the sacred pomerium: temples were dedicated to Juventas (Hebe) in 191 BC, Diana (Artemis) in 179 BC, Mars (Ares) in 138 BC), and to Bona Dea, equivalent to Fauna, the female counterpart of the rural Faunus, supplemented by the Greek goddess Damia. Further Greek influences on cult images and types represented the Roman Penates as forms of the Greek Dioscuri. The military-political adventurers of the Later Republic introduced the Phrygian goddess Ma (identified with Roman Bellona, the Egyptian mystery-goddess Isis and Persian Mithras.)
Question: What cult appeared from Pessinus in 206 BC?
Answer: Magna Mater
Question: What cult was brought in to Rome after the Great Mother cult?
Answer: Bacchus
Question: In what year did the Senate declare the Bacchus subversive?
Answer: 186 BC
Question: In what year was Diana brought into the pomerium?
Answer: 179 BC
Question: What god was introduced in Rome in 138 BC?
Answer: Mars
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Context: John's campaign started well. In November John retook Rochester Castle from rebel baron William d'Aubigny in a sophisticated assault. One chronicler had not seen "a siege so hard pressed or so strongly resisted", whilst historian Reginald Brown describes it as "one of the greatest [siege] operations in England up to that time". Having regained the south-east John split his forces, sending William Longespée to retake the north side of London and East Anglia, whilst John himself headed north via Nottingham to attack the estates of the northern barons. Both operations were successful and the majority of the remaining rebels were pinned down in London. In January 1216 John marched against Alexander II of Scotland, who had allied himself with the rebel cause. John took back Alexander's possessions in northern England in a rapid campaign and pushed up towards Edinburgh over a ten-day period.
Question: When did John retake Rochester Castle?
Answer: November
Question: John marched against who in January 1216?
Answer: Alexander II of Scotland
Question: John sent William Longespee to retake what?
Answer: north side of London and East Anglia
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Context: Nutritional anthropology is a synthetic concept that deals with the interplay between economic systems, nutritional status and food security, and how changes in the former affect the latter. If economic and environmental changes in a community affect access to food, food security, and dietary health, then this interplay between culture and biology is in turn connected to broader historical and economic trends associated with globalization. Nutritional status affects overall health status, work performance potential, and the overall potential for economic development (either in terms of human development or traditional western models) for any given group of people.
Question: What division of anthropology concerns itself with food security?
Answer: Nutritional
Question: Nutritional anthropologists investigate the interplay between economic systems and what?
Answer: food security
Question: If environmental changes in a community affect access to food, then there is an eventual connection to what?
Answer: globalization
Question: What affects overall health status?
Answer: Nutritional status
Question: What can having ready access to food affect the overall potential development of?
Answer: economic
Question: What part of anthropology deals with food production?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What investigates the interplay between culture and food security?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What effects overall Nutritional status>
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can affect acess to food?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: As an example, Santiago de Compostela, the political capital city, has an average of 129 rainy days and 1,362 millimetres (53.6 in) per year (with just 17 rainy days in the three summer months) and 2,101 sunlight hours per year, with just 6 days with frosts per year. But the colder city of Lugo, to the east, has an average of 1,759 sunlight hours per year, 117 days with precipitations (> 1 mm) totalling 901.54 millimetres (35.5 in), and 40 days with frosts per year. The more mountainous parts of the provinces of Ourense and Lugo receive significant snowfall during the winter months. The sunniest city is Pontevedra with 2,223 sunny hours per year.
Question: What is the political capital city?
Answer: Santiago de Compostela
Question: How many rainy days does it typically have?
Answer: 129
Question: How many days with frosts?
Answer: 6
Question: A colder city like Lugo has how many days with frosts?
Answer: 40
Question: Its sunniest city, Pontevedra, gets how may hours of sunlight per year?
Answer: 2,223
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Context: Uranium is used as a colorant in uranium glass producing orange-red to lemon yellow hues. It was also used for tinting and shading in early photography. The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus. Eugène-Melchior Péligot was the first person to isolate the metal and its radioactive properties were discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel. Research by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, Enrico Fermi and others, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer starting in 1934 led to its use as a fuel in the nuclear power industry and in Little Boy, the first nuclear weapon used in war. An ensuing arms race during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union produced tens of thousands of nuclear weapons that used uranium metal and uranium-derived plutonium-239. The security of those weapons and their fissile material following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 is an ongoing concern for public health and safety. See Nuclear proliferation.
Question: Along with lemon yellow, what color is produced in uranium glass?
Answer: orange-red
Question: Who discovered uranium in pitchblende?
Answer: Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Question: Who was responsible for first isolating uranium?
Answer: Eugène-Melchior Péligot
Question: Who discovered that uranium was radioactive?
Answer: Henri Becquerel
Question: What was the first nuclear weapon used in a war called?
Answer: Little Boy
Question: Along with lemon yellow, what color is produced in uranium plastic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who never discovered uranium in pitchblende?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was responsible for last isolating uranium?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who discovered that uranium wasn't radioactive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the last nuclear weapon used in a war called?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Many regions in Russia were affected by the Soviet famine of 1932–1933: Volga; Central Black Soil Region; North Caucasus; the Urals; the Crimea; part of Western Siberia; and the Kazak ASSR. With the adoption of the 1936 Soviet Constitution on December 5, 1936, the size of the RSFSR was significantly reduced. The Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR were transformed into the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics. The Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic was transferred to the Uzbek SSR.
Question: During what span was there a famine in the Soviet Union?
Answer: 1932–1933
Question: What document was ratified on December 5, 1936?
Answer: the 1936 Soviet Constitution
Question: What were the Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR renamed per the 1936 Soviet Constitution?
Answer: the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics
Question: What republic did the Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic become a part of?
Answer: the Uzbek SSR
Question: What effect did the 1936 Soviet Constitution have on the size of the Russia?
Answer: reduced
Question: During what span was there a feast in the Soviet Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What document was rejected on December 5, 1936?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR not named per the 1936 Soviet Constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What republic did the Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic cease being a part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What effect did the 1963 Soviet Constitution have on the size of the Russia?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In May 1967, the Eastern Region declared independence as a state called the Republic of Biafra, under the leadership of Lt. Colonel Emeka Ojukwu. The Nigerian Civil War began as the official Nigerian government side (predominated by soldiers from the North and West) attacked Biafra (Southeastern) on 6 July 1967 at Garkem. The 30 month war, with a long siege of Biafra and its isolation from trade and supplies, ended in January 1970. Estimates of the number of dead in the former Eastern Region are between 1 and 3 million people, from warfare, disease, and starvation, during the 30-month civil war.
Question: What did Eastern Nigeria want to call itself as an independent nation?
Answer: Republic of Biafra
Question: When did Eastern Nigeria declare its independence?
Answer: May 1967
Question: Who led Eastern Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War?
Answer: Lt. Colonel Emeka Ojukwu
Question: How many months did the Nigerian Civil War last?
Answer: 30
Question: How many people died during the Nigerian Civil War?
Answer: between 1 and 3 million
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Context: Energy transformations in the universe over time are characterized by various kinds of potential energy that has been available since the Big Bang later being "released" (transformed to more active types of energy such as kinetic or radiant energy) when a triggering mechanism is available. Familiar examples of such processes include nuclear decay, in which energy is released that was originally "stored" in heavy isotopes (such as uranium and thorium), by nucleosynthesis, a process ultimately using the gravitational potential energy released from the gravitational collapse of supernovae, to store energy in the creation of these heavy elements before they were incorporated into the solar system and the Earth. This energy is triggered and released in nuclear fission bombs or in civil nuclear power generation. Similarly, in the case of a chemical explosion, chemical potential energy is transformed to kinetic energy and thermal energy in a very short time. Yet another example is that of a pendulum. At its highest points the kinetic energy is zero and the gravitational potential energy is at maximum. At its lowest point the kinetic energy is at maximum and is equal to the decrease of potential energy. If one (unrealistically) assumes that there is no friction or other losses, the conversion of energy between these processes would be perfect, and the pendulum would continue swinging forever.
Question: Name an example of a heavy isotope?
Answer: uranium
Question: Name another example of a heavy isotope.
Answer: thorium
Question: What is a process ultimately using the gravitational potential energy in the creation of these heavy elements before they were incorporated into the solar system and the Earth?
Answer: nucleosynthesis
Question: In the case of a chemical explosion, what is transformed to kinetic energy and thermal energy in a short time?
Answer: chemical potential energy
Question: Name an example of a heavy transitope?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Name another example of a heavy transitope.
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a process ultimately using the gravitational potential energy in the creation of these heavy elements before they were incorporated into the lunar system and the Earth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the case of a chemical explosion, what is transformed to kinetic energy and wind energy in a short time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: what active types of energy can be transformed?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Wine and Beerhouse Act 1869 reintroduced the stricter controls of the previous century. The sale of beers, wines or spirits required a licence for the premises from the local magistrates. Further provisions regulated gaming, drunkenness, prostitution and undesirable conduct on licensed premises, enforceable by prosecution or more effectively by the landlord under threat of forfeiting his licence. Licences were only granted, transferred or renewed at special Licensing Sessions courts, and were limited to respectable individuals. Often these were ex-servicemen or ex-policemen; retiring to run a pub was popular amongst military officers at the end of their service. Licence conditions varied widely, according to local practice. They would specify permitted hours, which might require Sunday closing, or conversely permit all-night opening near a market. Typically they might require opening throughout the permitted hours, and the provision of food or lavatories. Once obtained, licences were jealously protected by the licensees (who were expected to be generally present, not an absentee owner or company), and even "Occasional Licences" to serve drinks at temporary premises such as fêtes would usually be granted only to existing licensees. Objections might be made by the police, rival landlords or anyone else on the grounds of infractions such as serving drunks, disorderly or dirty premises, or ignoring permitted hours.
Question: What law mandated a license from the local magistrate to sell beer?
Answer: Wine and Beerhouse Act 1869
Question: At what locations were public house licenses granted?
Answer: special Licensing Sessions courts
Question: Retirees from what two professions often sought licenses for pubs?
Answer: ex-servicemen or ex-policemen
Question: What were licenses called that allowed spirits to be served at temporary premises?
Answer: Occasional Licences
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Context: Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a soil rhizosphere bacterium, can attach to plant cells and infect them with a callus-inducing Ti plasmid by horizontal gene transfer, causing a callus infection called crown gall disease. Schell and Van Montagu (1977) hypothesised that the Ti plasmid could be a natural vector for introducing the Nif gene responsible for nitrogen fixation in the root nodules of legumes and other plant species. Today, genetic modification of the Ti plasmid is one of the main techniques for introduction of transgenes to plants and the creation of genetically modified crops.
Question: How can a bacteria in the soil affect a plant?
Answer: can attach to plant cells
Question: How can scientists use bacteria in the study of plants?
Answer: introducing the Nif gene
Question: How are genes transferred to a plant by scientists?
Answer: in the root nodules
Question: What is this kind of introduction and transfer used for?
Answer: creation of genetically modified crops
Question: Who developed the procedures used in this transfer?
Answer: Schell and Van Montagu
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Context: The geographical regions in which Iranian languages were spoken were pushed back in several areas by newly neighbouring languages. Arabic spread into some parts of Western Iran (Khuzestan), and Turkic languages spread through much of Central Asia, displacing various Iranian languages such as Sogdian and Bactrian in parts of what is today Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In Eastern Europe, mostly comprising the territory of modern-day Ukraine, southern European Russia, and parts of the Balkans, the core region of the native Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans had been decisively been taken over as a result of absorption and assimilation (e.g. Slavicisation) by the various Proto-Slavic population of the region, by the 6th century AD. This resulted in the displacement and extinction of the once predominant Scythian languages of the region. Sogdian's close relative Yaghnobi barely survives in a small area of the Zarafshan valley east of Samarkand, and Saka as Ossetic in the Caucasus, which is the sole remnant of the once predominant Scythian languages in Eastern Europe proper and large parts of the North Caucasus. Various small Iranian languages in the Pamirs survive that are derived from Eastern Iranian.
Question: What is another term for Western Iran?
Answer: Khuzestan
Question: What are two languages that were forced out by the spread of Arabic?
Answer: Sogdian and Bactrian
Question: By what century had the area inhabited by Sarmatians been absorbed by pre-Slavic people?
Answer: 6th century AD
Question: Where can the remnants of Yaghnobi be found?
Answer: Zarafshan valley
Question: Ossetic is a version of which Scythian language?
Answer: Saka
Question: What language writing to some parts of eastern Iran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two languages grew alongside Arabic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By what century had the area inhabited by pre-Slavic people been absorbed by the Sarmations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What small area still speaks Sogdian?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: As early as the late 18th century, black Baptists began to organize separate churches, associations and mission agencies, especially in the northern states. Not only did blacks set up some independent congregations in the South before the American Civil War, freedmen quickly separated from white congregations and associations after the war. They wanted to be free of white supervision. In 1866 the Consolidated American Baptist Convention, formed from black Baptists of the South and West, helped southern associations set up black state conventions, which they did in Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. In 1880 black state conventions united in the national Foreign Mission Convention, to support black Baptist missionary work. Two other national black conventions were formed, and in 1895 they united as the National Baptist Convention. This organization later went through its own changes, spinning off other conventions. It is the largest black religious organization and the second largest Baptist organization in the world. Baptists are numerically most dominant in the Southeast. In 2007, the Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Survey found that 45% of all African-Americans identify with Baptist denominations, with the vast majority of those being within the historically black tradition.
Question: When did black Baptists began to organize separate churches, associations and mission agencies?
Answer: As early as the late 18th century
Question: Who separated from white congregations and associations after the war?
Answer: freedmen
Question: Who wanted to be free from white submission?
Answer: freedmen
Question: What states setup black conventions?
Answer: Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky
Question: What percentage of all African-Americans identify with Baptist denominations?
Answer: 45%
Question: When did black Baptists began to organize combined churches, associations and mission agencies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who separated from black congregations and associations after the war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wanted to be free from black supervision?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What states setup white conventions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of all Americans identify with Baptist denominations?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The state is well known for its handicrafts. The carpets, leather works, shawls, metalware, woodwork and paintings are worth appreciating. Pashmina shawls are a product that is highly in demand in Himachal and all over the country. Himachali caps are famous art work of the people. Extreme cold winters of Himachal necessitated wool weaving. Nearly every household in Himachal owns a pit-loom. Wool is considered as pure and is used as a ritual cloth. The well-known woven object is the shawl, ranging from fine pashmina to the coarse desar. Kullu is famous for its shawls with striking patterns and vibrant colours. Kangra and Dharamshala are famous for Kangra miniature paintings.
Question: What is the state well known for?
Answer: handicrafts
Question: The majority of all households in Himachal own a what?
Answer: pit-loom
Question: What is considered pure and used as a ritual cloth?
Answer: Wool
Question: What is Kullu famous for?
Answer: shawls with striking patterns and vibrant colours
Question: What are Kangra and Dharamshala famous for?
Answer: Kangra miniature paintings
Question: What is Pashmina well known for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What product is in demand in Kangra as well as all over the country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did ritual cloth in Himchali cause?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does every household in Dharamshala own?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is desar considered as when used as ritual cloth?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Ann Arbor's "Tree Town" nickname stems from the dense forestation of its parks and residential areas. The city contains more than 50,000 trees along its streets and an equal number in parks. In recent years, the emerald ash borer has destroyed many of the city's approximately 10,500 ash trees. The city contains 157 municipal parks ranging from small neighborhood green spots to large recreation areas. Several large city parks and a university park border sections of the Huron River. Fuller Recreation Area, near the University Hospital complex, contains sports fields, pedestrian and bike paths, and swimming pools. The Nichols Arboretum, owned by the University of Michigan, is a 123-acre (50 ha) arboretum that contains hundreds of plant and tree species. It is on the city's east side, near the university's Central Campus. Located across the Huron River just beyond the university's North Campus is the university's Matthaei Botanical Gardens, which contains 300 acres of gardens and a large tropical conservatory.
Question: What is the city of Ann arbor nicknamed as?
Answer: Tree Town
Question: How many parks are there in the city of Ann Arbor?
Answer: 157
Question: What is the name of the Arboretum owned by the University of Michigan?
Answer: Nichols Arboretum
Question: How big is the Matthaei botanical garden?
Answer: 300 acres
Question: What pest has destroyed many of the 15,000 ash trees?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What arboretum is situated on 132 acres?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city has 175 municipal parks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What arboretum is owned by the University Hospital?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the gardens that contains 30 acres of gardens?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: A count may be started at any time that a wrestler's shoulders are down (both shoulders touching the mat), back-first and any part of the opponent's body is lying over the wrestler. This often results in pins that can easily be kicked out of, if the defensive wrestler is even slightly conscious. For example, an attacking wrestler who is half-conscious may simply drape an arm over an opponent, or a cocky wrestler may place their foot gently on the opponent's body, prompting a three-count from the referee.
Question: At what point can a count be started?
Answer: any time that a wrestler's shoulders are down (both shoulders touching the mat), back-first and any part of the opponent's body is lying over the wrestler.
Question: What can happen to an arrogant wrestler?
Answer: a cocky wrestler may place their foot gently on the opponent's body, prompting a three-count from the referee.
Question: What might a partially conscious wrestler do?
Answer: wrestler who is half-conscious may simply drape an arm over an opponent
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Context: During the Hungnam evacuation, about 193 shiploads of UN Command forces and matériel (approximately 105,000 soldiers, 98,000 civilians, 17,500 vehicles, and 350,000 tons of supplies) were evacuated to Pusan. The SS Meredith Victory was noted for evacuating 14,000 refugees, the largest rescue operation by a single ship, even though it was designed to hold 12 passengers. Before escaping, the UN Command forces razed most of Hungnam city, especially the port facilities; and on 16 December 1950, President Truman declared a national emergency with Presidential Proclamation No. 2914, 3 C.F.R. 99 (1953), which remained in force until 14 September 1978.[b] The next day (17 December 1950) Kim Il-sung was deprived of the right of command of KPA by China. After that, the leading part of the war became the Chinese army. Following that, on 1 February 1951, United Nations General Assembly adopted a draft resolution condemning China as an aggressor in the Korean War.
Question: What was the name of the ship responsible for undertaking the largest rescue operation by a single ship?
Answer: SS Meredith Victory
Question: What did the Presidential Proclamation No. 2914, 3 1950 do?
Answer: declared a national emergency
Question: What year was the Presidential Proclamation lifted?
Answer: 1978
Question: Who was stripped of their commanding rights by China?
Answer: Kim Il-sung
Question: What country was condemned for their participation in the conflict in Korea?
Answer: China
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Context: In Europe the Wayback Machine could be interpreted as violating copyright laws. Only the content creator can decide where their content is published or duplicated, so the Archive would have to delete pages from its system upon request of the creator. The exclusion policies for the Wayback Machine may be found in the FAQ section of the site. The Wayback Machine also retroactively respects robots.txt files, i.e., pages that currently are blocked to robots on the live web temporarily will be made unavailable from the archives as well.
Question: What kinds of laws could the Wayback Machine be viewed as breaking in Europe?
Answer: copyright laws
Question: What would the Internet Archive have to do if requested by someone whose content is available on Wayback Machine?
Answer: delete pages from its system
Question: In what part of the website are Wayback Machine's rules regarding removing content?
Answer: FAQ
Question: What kinds of laws could the Wayback Machine be viewed as breaking in the FAQ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What would the Internet Archive have to do if requested by someone whose content is available on robots.txt files?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what part of Europe are Wayback Machine's rules regarding removing content?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What may be found in the robots.txt files section of the site?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can decide when pages are deleted from Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Again all proposals, including the request to join NATO, were rejected by UK, US, and French governments shortly after. Emblematic was the position of British General Hastings Ismay, supporter of NATO expansion, who said that NATO "must grow until the whole free world gets under one umbrella." He opposed the request to join NATO made by the USSR in 1954 saying that "the Soviet request to join NATO is like an unrepentant burglar requesting to join the police force".
Question: Who was the general who spoke out against the USSR joining NATO?
Answer: Hastings Ismay
Question: To what did the British general compare the USSR in his opposition to their joining NATO?
Answer: burglar
Question: The USSR's request to join NATO was accepted by which governments?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: French General Hastings Ismay was a supporter of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who supported the USSR's 1954 request to join NATO?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: French General Hastings Ismay compared the USSR joining NATO to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Indonesian Archipelago is split by the Wallace Line. This line runs along what is now known to be a tectonic plate boundary, and separates Asian (Western) species from Australasian (Eastern) species. The islands between Java/Borneo and Papua form a mixed zone, where both types occur, known as Wallacea. As the pace of development accelerates and populations continue to expand in Southeast Asia, concern has increased regarding the impact of human activity on the region's environment. A significant portion of Southeast Asia, however, has not changed greatly and remains an unaltered home to wildlife. The nations of the region, with only few exceptions, have become aware of the need to maintain forest cover not only to prevent soil erosion but to preserve the diversity of flora and fauna. Indonesia, for example, has created an extensive system of national parks and preserves for this purpose. Even so, such species as the Javan rhinoceros face extinction, with only a handful of the animals remaining in western Java.
Question: Name the line that splits the Indonesian Archipelago?
Answer: Wallace Line
Question: What region comprises of the Wallacea?
Answer: The islands between Java/Borneo and Papua
Question: Which country has created a system of national parks & preserves?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Which species in Java face extinction?
Answer: Javan rhinoceros
Question: What is the concern in Southeast Asian region due to development & population expansion?
Answer: impact of human activity on the region's environment.
Question: What seperates Asian andAustralian species?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What islands don't have either Asian or Ausralasian species?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has impacted large regions of Southeast Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of coverage encourages erosian?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In music, popular local bands include The Five Stars, Penina o Tiafau and Punialava'a. The Yandall Sisters' cover of the song Sweet Inspiration reached number one on the New Zealand charts in 1974. King Kapisi was the first hip hop artist to receive the prestigious New Zealand APRA Silver Scroll Award in 1999 for his song Reverse Resistance. The music video for Reverse Resistance was filmed in Savai'i at his villages. Other successful Samoan hip hop artists include rapper Scribe, Dei Hamo, Savage and Tha Feelstyle whose music video Suamalie was filmed in Samoa.
Question: What popular Samoan band has a number in its name?
Answer: The Five Stars
Question: What song covered by a Samoan group was a 1974 number one in New Zealand?
Answer: Sweet Inspiration
Question: What award did King Kapisi win for his song Reverse Resistance?
Answer: New Zealand APRA Silver Scroll Award
Question: Which hip hop artist filmed a music video for his song Suamalie in Samoa?
Answer: Tha Feelstyle
Question: What year did King Kapisi become the first hip hop artist to win an APRA Silver Scroll?
Answer: 1999
Question: When did the band The Five Stars reach number one on the New Zealand charts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What award did Penina o Tiafu recieve in 1999?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What song did Penina o Tiafau win the award for in 1999?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of music style does Penina o Tiafau use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was The Five Stars music video filmed?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In the wake of the discovery, there was much nationalistic rivalry between the French and the British over who deserved credit for the discovery. Eventually, an international consensus emerged that both Le Verrier and Adams jointly deserved credit. Since 1966, Dennis Rawlins has questioned the credibility of Adams's claim to co-discovery, and the issue was re-evaluated by historians with the return in 1998 of the "Neptune papers" (historical documents) to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. After reviewing the documents, they suggest that "Adams does not deserve equal credit with Le Verrier for the discovery of Neptune. That credit belongs only to the person who succeeded both in predicting the planet's place and in convincing astronomers to search for it."
Question: What two countries argued over credit for the discovery of Neptune?
Answer: French and the British
Question: Who ultimately deserved credit for the discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Le Verrier and Adams
Question: Who questioned Adams's claim to co-discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Dennis Rawlins
Question: Who did not deserve credit to co-discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Adams
Question: Who predicted Neptune's place and convinced astronomer's to search for it?
Answer: Le Verrier
Question: What two countries developed friendship after the discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who credited Britian with the discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who questioned the credibility of Adam's claim in the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What papers were written in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who determinded that Adam's was solely reponsible for the discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What three countries argued over credit for the discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ultimately lost credit for the discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who believed Adams's claim to co-discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who bought the credit to co-discovery of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Paul VI did away with much of the regal splendor of the papacy. He was the last pope to date to be crowned; his successor Pope John Paul I replaced the Papal Coronation (which Paul had already substantially modified, but which he left mandatory in his 1975 apostolic constitution Romano Pontifici Eligendo) with a Papal Inauguration. Paul VI donated his own Papal Tiara, a gift from his former Archdiocese of Milan, to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC (where it is on permanent display in the Crypt) as a gift to American Catholics.
Question: What did Paul VI donate to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception ?
Answer: Papal Tiara
Question: What group gave Paul VI his Papal tiara?
Answer: Archdiocese of Milan
Question: Where is the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception located?
Answer: Washington, DC
Question: Who was the last pope to be crowned?
Answer: Paul VI
Question: What ceremony had Paul VI left in place in in the 1975 apostolic constitution?
Answer: Papal Coronation
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Context: Years later, Kaunitz kept trying to establish France's alliance with Austria. He tried as hard as he could for Austria to not get entangled in Hanover's political affairs, and was even willing to trade Austrian Netherlands for France's aid in recapturing Silesia. Frustrated by this decision and by the Dutch Republic's insistence on neutrality, Britain soon turned to Russia. On September 30, 1755, Britain pledged financial aid to Russia in order to station 50,000 troops on the Livonian-Lithunian border, so they could defend Britain's interests in Hanover immediately. Besthuzev, assuming the preparation was directed against Prussia, was more than happy to obey the request of the British. Unbeknownst to the other powers, King George II also made overtures to the Prussian king; Frederick, who began fearing the Austro-Russian intentions, and was excited to welcome a rapprochement with Britain. On January 16, 1756, the Convention of Westminster was signed wherein Britain and Prussia promised to aid one another in order to achieve lasting peace and stability in Europe.
Question: What was Kaunitz of Austria willing to trade for French help in capturing Silesia?
Answer: willing to trade Austrian Netherlands for France's aid
Question: What did Russia use Britain's money for?
Answer: to station 50,000 troops on the Livonian-Lithunian border, so they could defend Britain's interests in Hanover
Question: What countries teamed together at the Convention of Westminster?
Answer: Britain and Prussia
Question: When was the Convention of Westminster signed?
Answer: January 16, 1756
Question: Why was Beshuzev happy to put the troops on the Livonian-Lithunian border?
Answer: Besthuzev, assuming the preparation was directed against Prussia,
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Context: The Scooter is another storm, a white cloud group farther south than the Great Dark Spot. This nickname first arose during the months leading up to the Voyager 2 encounter in 1989, when they were observed moving at speeds faster than the Great Dark Spot (and images acquired later would subsequently reveal the presence of clouds moving even faster than those that had initially been detected by Voyager 2). The Small Dark Spot is a southern cyclonic storm, the second-most-intense storm observed during the 1989 encounter. It was initially completely dark, but as Voyager 2 approached the planet, a bright core developed and can be seen in most of the highest-resolution images.
Question: What white cloud group on Neptune is farther south than the dark great spot?
Answer: The Scooter
Question: When was The Scooter on Neptune observed?
Answer: 1989
Question: What type of storm is The Scooter on Neptune?
Answer: southern cyclonic storm
Question: What detected the storms on Neptune?
Answer: Voyager 2)
Question: What is the second most intense storm on Neptune?
Answer: The Small Dark Spot
Question: What dark cloud group on Neptune is farther south than the light great spot?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was The Pooter on Neptune observed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of storm is The Pooter on Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What didn't detect the storms on Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the third most intense storm on Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: With too low a bit rate, compression artifacts (i.e., sounds that were not present in the original recording) may be audible in the reproduction. Some audio is hard to compress because of its randomness and sharp attacks. When this type of audio is compressed, artifacts such as ringing or pre-echo are usually heard. A sample of applause compressed with a relatively low bit rate provides a good example of compression artifacts.
Question: If the bit rate is too low, what might be audible in the reproduction?
Answer: compression artifacts
Question: Sounds that were not in the original recording are referred to as what?
Answer: compression artifacts
Question: Randomness and sharp attacks are two reasons that may make it harder to to do what to an audio file?
Answer: compress
Question: Other than pre - echo, what is another example of what can happen when audio is compressed?
Answer: ringing
Question: What kind of sample can display a good example of compression artifacts?
Answer: A sample of applause
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Context: In terms of sexual identity, adolescence is when most gay/lesbian and transgender adolescents begin to recognize and make sense of their feelings. Many adolescents may choose to come out during this period of their life once an identity has been formed; many others may go through a period of questioning or denial, which can include experimentation with both homosexual and heterosexual experiences. A study of 194 lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths under the age of 21 found that having an awareness of one's sexual orientation occurred, on average, around age 10, but the process of coming out to peers and adults occurred around age 16 and 17, respectively. Coming to terms with and creating a positive LGBT identity can be difficult for some youth for a variety of reasons. Peer pressure is a large factor when youth who are questioning their sexuality or gender identity are surrounded by heteronormative peers and can cause great distress due to a feeling of being different from everyone else. While coming out can also foster better psychological adjustment, the risks associated are real. Indeed, coming out in the midst of a heteronormative peer environment often comes with the risk of ostracism, hurtful jokes, and even violence. Because of this, statistically the suicide rate amongst LGBT adolescents is up to four times higher than that of their heterosexual peers due to bullying and rejection from peers or family members.
Question: At what age does awareness of one's sexual orientation occur on average?
Answer: 10
Question: At what age does coming out to one's peers occur on average?
Answer: 16
Question: At what age does coming out to adults occur on average?
Answer: 17
Question: How many times higher is the suicide rate amongst LGBT adolescents than their heterosexual peers?
Answer: four
Question: What are factors causing a hightened suicide rate amongst LGBT adolescents?
Answer: bullying and rejection from peers or family members
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Context: Detroit is served by various private schools, as well as parochial Roman Catholic schools operated by the Archdiocese of Detroit. As of 2013[update] there are four Catholic grade schools and three Catholic high schools in the City of Detroit, with all of them in the city's west side. The Archdiocese of Detroit lists a number of primary and secondary schools in the metro area as Catholic education has emigrated to the suburbs. Of the three Catholic high schools in the city, two are operated by the Society of Jesus and the third is co-sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Congregation of St. Basil.
Question: How many Catholic high schools are in Detroit?
Answer: three
Question: How many Catholic grade schools are in Detroit?
Answer: four
Question: On which side of the city of the city are all of the Catholic schools located?
Answer: west
Question: Two of the three Catholic high schools are operated by which religious group?
Answer: Society of Jesus
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