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Context: The Lancashire economy relies strongly on the M6 motorway which runs from north to south, past Lancaster and Preston. The M55 connects Preston to Blackpool and is 11.5 miles (18.3 km) long. The M65 motorway from Colne, connects Burnley, Accrington, Blackburn to Preston. The M61 from Preston via Chorley and the M66 starting 500 metres (0.3 mi) inside the county boundary near Edenfield, provide links between Lancashire and Manchester] and the trans-Pennine M62. The M58 crosses the southernmost part of the county from the M6 near Wigan to Liverpool via Skelmersdale.
Question: What does the Lancashire economy rely on?
Answer: the M6 motorway
Question: Which direction does the M6 motorway run?
Answer: north to south
Question: What road connects Preston to Blackpool?
Answer: The M55
Question: Which road crosses the part of the county furthest south?
Answer: M58
Question: How many miles is it from Lancaster to Preston?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How far is it in miles from Blackburn to Preston?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what geographic region of Lancashire does Blackpool lay?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How far is Chorley away from the nearest county boundary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the length of the M6 motorway?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since incandescent light bulbs use more energy than alternatives such as CFLs and LED lamps, many governments have introduced measures to ban their use, by setting minimum efficacy standards higher than can be achieved by incandescent lamps. Measures to ban light bulbs have been implemented in the European Union, the United States, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Australia, among others. In the Europe the EC has calculated that the ban contributes 5 to 10 billion euros to the economy and saves 40 TWh of electricity every year, translating in CO2 emission reductions of 15 million tonnes.
Question: Do incandescent light bulbs use more or less energy as compared to CFLs and LED lamps?
Answer: more
Question: How much does the incandescent light ban in Europe contribute to the economy each year?
Answer: 5 to 10 billion euros
Question: How much energy does the incandescent light ban in Europe save each year?
Answer: 40 TWh of electricity
Question: How much CO2 emissions does the incandescent light ban in Europe save each year?
Answer: 15 million tonnes
Question: How are laws written that bring about a ban of incandescent light bulbs?
Answer: by setting minimum efficacy standards higher than can be achieved by incandescent lamps
Question: What type of light bulbs use less energy than alternatives?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of light source has had measures introduced for the continued use of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much does the incandescent light ban in Asia contribute to the economy each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much CO2 emissions does the incandescent light ban in Asia save each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are laws written that bring about the continued use of incandescent light bulbs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2011, a report by the International Energy Agency found that solar energy technologies such as photovoltaics, solar hot water and concentrated solar power could provide a third of the world’s energy by 2060 if politicians commit to limiting climate change. The energy from the sun could play a key role in de-carbonizing the global economy alongside improvements in energy efficiency and imposing costs on greenhouse gas emitters. "The strength of solar is the incredible variety and flexibility of applications, from small scale to big scale".
Question: According to a report in 2011, by what year could solar energy provide a third of the world's energy?
Answer: 2060
Question: What could the sun's energy do to help limit climate change?
Answer: could play a key role in de-carbonizing the global economy alongside improvements in energy efficiency and imposing costs on greenhouse gas emitters |
Context: After the Seleucid defeat at the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC, the kings of Sophene and Greater Armenia revolted and declared their independence, with Artaxias becoming the first king of the Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia in 188. During the reign of the Artaxiads, Armenia went through a period of hellenization. Numismatic evidence shows Greek artistic styles and the use of the Greek language. Some coins describe the Armenian kings as "Philhellenes". During the reign of Tigranes the Great (95–55 BC), the kingdom of Armenia reached its greatest extent, containing many Greek cities including the entire Syrian tetrapolis. Cleopatra, the wife of Tigranes the Great, invited Greeks such as the rhetor Amphicrates and the historian Metrodorus of Scepsis to the Armenian court, and - according to Plutarch - when the Roman general Lucullus seized the Armenian capital Tigranocerta, he found a troupe of Greek actors who had arrived to perform plays for Tigranes. Tigranes' successor Artavasdes II even composed Greek tragedies himself.
Question: When did the Seleucid defeat the Battle of Magnesia?
Answer: 190 BC
Question: Who was the first king of Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia?
Answer: Artaxias
Question: Artaxian coins called some Armenian kings what?
Answer: Philhellenes
Question: What years did Tigranes the Great reign?
Answer: 95–55 BC
Question: Which Tigranes successor composed Greek tragedies?
Answer: Artavasdes II |
Context: London has been the setting for many works of literature. The literary centres of London have traditionally been hilly Hampstead and (since the early 20th century) Bloomsbury. Writers closely associated with the city are the diarist Samuel Pepys, noted for his eyewitness account of the Great Fire, Charles Dickens, whose representation of a foggy, snowy, grimy London of street sweepers and pickpockets has been a major influence on people's vision of early Victorian London, and Virginia Woolf, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century.
Question: Who witnessed first-hand and wrote about the Great Fire of 1666?
Answer: Samuel Pepys
Question: What area has historically been the literary hub of London?
Answer: Hampstead
Question: A more current, 20th century center for London's literary set is located where?
Answer: Bloomsbury
Question: Which author's novels painted a dismal portrait of Victorian London?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: What female writer is one of the leading literary minds of the 20th century?
Answer: Virginia Woolf |
Context: Ye Zhiping, the principal of Sangzao Middle School in Sangzao, one of the largest in An County, has been credited with proactive action that spared the lives of all 2,323 pupils in attendance when the earthquake happened. During a three-year period that ended in 2007, he oversaw a major overhaul of his school. During that time he obtained more than 400,000 yuan (US$60,000) from the county education department, money used to widen and strengthen concrete pillars and the balcony railing of all four storeys of his school, as well as secure its concrete floors.
Question: Who was the principal of Sangzao Middle School?
Answer: Ye Zhiping
Question: What was the principal credited with?
Answer: proactive action that spared the lives of all 2,323 pupils in attendance when the earthquake happened
Question: How many students attended the school?
Answer: 2,323
Question: How much money was used to strengthen the construction of the school?
Answer: 400,000 yuan
Question: What school principal strengthened his school?
Answer: Ye Zhiping
Question: Where is the Sangzao Middle School?
Answer: Sangzao
Question: The Sangzao school is one of the biggest in what county?
Answer: An County
Question: How many years was Ye Zhiping involved in the school overhaul?
Answer: three-year period |
Context: Karlheinz Brandenburg used a CD recording of Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner" to assess and refine the MP3 compression algorithm. This song was chosen because of its nearly monophonic nature and wide spectral content, making it easier to hear imperfections in the compression format during playbacks. Some refer to Suzanne Vega as "The mother of MP3". This particular track has an interesting property in that the two channels are almost, but not completely, the same, leading to a case where Binaural Masking Level Depression causes spatial unmasking of noise artifacts unless the encoder properly recognizes the situation and applies corrections similar to those detailed in the MPEG-2 AAC psychoacoustic model. Some more critical audio excerpts (glockenspiel, triangle, accordion, etc.) were taken from the EBU V3/SQAM reference compact disc and have been used by professional sound engineers to assess the subjective quality of the MPEG Audio formats.
Question: What type of recording did Brandenburg use?
Answer: CD
Question: What did Brandenburg use the recording to refine?
Answer: the MP3 compression algorithm
Question: What word describes the nature of the song used?
Answer: monophonic
Question: As a result of her song being used, Suzanne Vega is sometimes referred to as what?
Answer: The mother of MP3
Question: Excerpts were taken from which reference compact disc to assess the subjective quality of the MPEG audio formats?
Answer: EBU V3/SQAM |
Context: By the late Eastern Han period, an early form of semi-cursive script appeared, developing out of a cursively written form of neo-clerical script[c] and simple cursive. This semi-cursive script was traditionally attributed to Liu Desheng c. 147–188 AD,[d] although such attributions refer to early masters of a script rather than to their actual inventors, since the scripts generally evolved into being over time. Qiu gives examples of early semi-cursive script, showing that it had popular origins rather than being purely Liu’s invention.
Question: What appeared at the end of the late Eastern Han period?
Answer: early form of semi-cursive script
Question: What script was traditionally attributed to Liu Desheng?
Answer: semi-cursive
Question: Who showed examples of early semi-cursive script?
Answer: Qiu |
Context: Established in 1988, Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone (Chinese: 成都高新技术产业开发区; pinyin: Chéngdū Gāoxīn Jìshù Chǎnyè Kāifā Qū) was approved as one of the first national hi-tech development zones in 1991. In 2000, it was open to APEC and has been recognized as a national advanced hi-tech development zone in successive assessment activities held by China's Ministry of Science and Technology. It ranks 5th among the 53 national hi-tech development zones in China in terms of comprehensive strength.
Question: When was the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone established?
Answer: 1988
Question: When was the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone approved?
Answer: 1991
Question: The Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone is what rank of 53 in China terms of comprehensive strength?
Answer: 5th
Question: what was approved as a hi-tech development zone in 1988?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Wat development zone was established in 1991?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ranks number 5 in world development zones?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the APEC Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the APEC Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone approved?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Chengdu APEC is what rank of 53 in China terms of comprehensive strength?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been recognized as a pinyin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many national APEC zones are in China?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2012, Rolling Stone journalist Matthew Trammell asserted that the record was ahead of its time and wrote, "Now that popular music has finally caught up to it, 808s & Heartbreak has revealed itself to be Kanye’s most vulnerable work, and perhaps his most brilliant."
Question: What journalist gave "808s and Hearbreak" critical acclimation 4 years after its release?
Answer: Matthew Trammell
Question: What was the name of the journalist that wrote about Kanye's album in 2012?
Answer: Matthew Trammell |
Context: On August 1, 2012, Windows 8 (build 9200) was released to manufacturing with the build number 6.2.9200.16384 . Microsoft planned to hold a launch event on October 25, 2012 and release Windows 8 for general availability on the next day. However, only a day after its release to manufacturing, a copy of the final version of Windows 8 Enterprise N (a version for European markets lacking bundled media players to comply with a court ruling) leaked online, followed by leaks of the final versions of Windows 8 Pro and Enterprise a few days later. On August 15, 2012, Windows 8 was made available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Windows 8 was made available to Software Assurance customers on August 16, 2012. Windows 8 was made available for students with a DreamSpark Premium subscription on August 22, 2012, earlier than advertised.
Question: When did Windows 8 manufacturing begin?
Answer: August 1, 2012
Question: What was the final build Microsoft decided to manufacture?
Answer: 9200
Question: When was Microsoft supposed to officially launch Windows 8?
Answer: October 25, 2012
Question: What version of Windows 8 is Enterprise N?
Answer: a version for European markets lacking bundled media players
Question: When were Software Assurance consumers allowed access to Windows 8?
Answer: August 16, 2012
Question: When did Windows 9 manufacturing begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first build Microsoft decided to manufacture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Microsoft supposed to officially launch Windows 9?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What version of Windows 9 is Enterprise N?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were Software Assurance consumers allowed access to Windows 9?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: For the first several decades of disc record manufacturing, sound was recorded directly on to the "master disc" at the recording studio. From about 1950 on (earlier for some large record companies, later for some small ones) it became usual to have the performance first recorded on audio tape, which could then be processed and/or edited, and then dubbed on to the master disc. A record cutter would engrave the grooves into the master disc. Early versions of these master discs were soft wax, and later a harder lacquer was used. The mastering process was originally something of an art as the operator had to manually allow for the changes in sound which affected how wide the space for the groove needed to be on each rotation.
Question: Who would engrave the master disc of a vinyl record?
Answer: record cutter
Question: What was used in first recordings of vinyl records?
Answer: soft wax
Question: What was used in final recordings of vinyl records?
Answer: harder lacquer
Question: After the 1950s what was a typical recording process?
Answer: first recorded on audio tape, which could then be processed and/or edited, and then dubbed on to the master disc
Question: Where were sound recordings originally made to?
Answer: master disc |
Context: Adolescence is frequently characterized by a transformation of an adolescent's understanding of the world, the rational direction towards a life course, and the active seeking of new ideas rather than the unquestioning acceptance of adult authority. An adolescent begins to develop a unique belief system through his or her interaction with social, familial, and cultural environments. While organized religion is not necessarily a part of every adolescent's life experience, youth are still held responsible for forming a set of beliefs about themselves, the world around them, and whatever higher powers they may or may not believe in. This process is often accompanied or aided by cultural traditions that intend to provide a meaningful transition to adulthood through a ceremony, ritual, confirmation, or rite of passage.
Question: Through what means does an adolescent develop a unique belief system?
Answer: interaction with social, familial, and cultural environments
Question: The active seeking of new ideas rather than the unquestioning acceptance of adult authority is known as what stage of development?
Answer: Adolescence
Question: What things are youth responsible for forming a set of beliefs about during adolescence?
Answer: themselves, the world around them, and whatever higher powers they may or may not believe in
Question: Ceremonies, rituals, and confirmations are examples of what?
Answer: cultural traditions that intend to provide a meaningful transition to adulthood |
Context: During the late 19th century, several Gilded Age mansions reflecting the wealth of industry and shipping magnates were built east and west of the current downtown, along the major avenues of the Woodward plan. Most notable among them was the David Whitney House located at 4421 Woodward Avenue, which became a prime location for mansions. During this period some referred to Detroit as the Paris of the West for its architecture, grand avenues in the Paris style, and for Washington Boulevard, recently electrified by Thomas Edison. The city had grown steadily from the 1830s with the rise of shipping, shipbuilding, and manufacturing industries. Strategically located along the Great Lakes waterway, Detroit emerged as a major port and transportation hub.
Question: What was a nickname for Detroit in the late 19th century?
Answer: Paris of the West
Question: On which waterway is Detroit located?
Answer: Great Lakes
Question: What is the most famous mansion in Detroit?
Answer: David Whitney House
Question: Which street became known for it's mansions?
Answer: Woodward Avenue
Question: Who electrified Detroit?
Answer: Thomas Edison |
Context: In May 2014, the Government of China banned the internal purchase of Windows 8-based products under government contracts requiring "energy-efficient" devices. The Xinhua News Agency claimed that Windows 8 was being banned in protest of Microsoft's support lifecycle policy and the end of support for Windows XP (which, as of January 2014, had a market share of 49% in China), as the government "obviously cannot ignore the risks of running OS [sic] without guaranteed technical support." However, Ni Guangnan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had also previously warned that Windows 8 could allegedly expose users to surveillance by the United States government due to its heavy use of internet-based services.
Question: When did the Chinese government ban the purchase of Windows 8 products?
Answer: May 2014
Question: Why did the Chinese government ban Windows 8 based products?
Answer: in protest of Microsoft's support lifecycle policy and the end of support for Windows XP
Question: What market share did Windows XP have in Chine?
Answer: 49%
Question: Who claimed that the Windows 8 would allow the US Government to spy on its users?
Answer: Ni Guangnan
Question: When did the Chinese government approve the purchase of Windows 8 products?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Chinese government ban the purchase of Windows 9 products?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did the Chinese government ban Windows 9 based products?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What market share did Windows PX have in China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who claimed that the Windows 9 would allow the US Government to spy on its users?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: USAF rank is divided between enlisted airmen, non-commissioned officers, and commissioned officers, and ranges from the enlisted Airman Basic (E-1) to the commissioned officer rank of General (O-10). Enlisted promotions are granted based on a combination of test scores, years of experience, and selection board approval while officer promotions are based on time-in-grade and a promotion selection board. Promotions among enlisted personnel and non-commissioned officers are generally designated by increasing numbers of insignia chevrons. Commissioned officer rank is designated by bars, oak leaves, a silver eagle, and anywhere from one to four stars (one to five stars in war-time).[citation needed]
Question: What groups is the USAF rank divided amoung?
Answer: enlisted airmen, non-commissioned officers, and commissioned officers
Question: How are Enlisted promotions in the USAF decided?
Answer: based on a combination of test scores, years of experience, and selection board approval
Question: How are Officer promotions within the USAF decided?
Answer: based on time-in-grade and a promotion selection board
Question: How is a Commissioned Officer's rank shown?
Answer: designated by bars, oak leaves, a silver eagle, and anywhere from one to four stars |
Context: North Carolina consists of three main geographic sections: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which occupies the eastern 45% of the state; the Piedmont region, which contains the middle 35%; and the Appalachian Mountains and foothills. The extreme eastern section of the state contains the Outer Banks, a string of sandy, narrow barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and two inland waterways or "sounds": Albemarle Sound in the north and Pamlico Sound in the south. They are the two largest landlocked sounds in the United States.
Question: How many main geographical sections make up North Carolina?
Answer: three
Question: What section of North carolina makes up 45% of the state?
Answer: Atlantic Coastal Plain
Question: What is the section in the middle 35% of North Carolina called?
Answer: the Piedmont region
Question: Tha Appalacian mountains and foothills make up a region of what state?
Answer: North Carolina
Question: The extreme eastern section of North Carolina is called what?
Answer: Outer Banks |
Context: In an attempt to curb air pollution in New Delhi, which gets worst during the winter, a temporary alternate-day travel scheme for cars using the odd- and even-numbered license plates system was announced by Delhi government in December 2015. In addition, trucks will be allowed to enter India's capital only after 11 p.m., two hours later than the existing restriction. The driving restriction scheme is planned to be implemented as a trial from January 1, 2016 for an initial period of 15 days. The restriction will be in force between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and traffic will not be restricted on Sundays. Public transportation service will be increased during the restriction period.
Question: In what season does New Delhi's air pollution worsen?
Answer: winter
Question: What method was introduced in December 2015 to reduce New Delhi's air pollution?
Answer: alternate-day travel
Question: New Delhi's alternate-day travel scheme allowed trucks to enter the city after what hour?
Answer: 11 p.m
Question: How long is the initial trial period for New Delhi's driving restriction scheme?
Answer: 15 days
Question: On what day of the week will travel remain unrestricted by New Delhi's alternate day driving scheme?
Answer: Sundays |
Context: Through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, various methods to improve the dynamic range of mass-produced records involved highly advanced disc cutting equipment. These techniques, marketed, to name two, as the CBS DisComputer and Teldec Direct Metal Mastering, were used to reduce inner-groove distortion. RCA Victor introduced another system to reduce dynamic range and achieve a groove with less surface noise under the commercial name of Dynagroove. Two main elements were combined: another disk material with less surface noise in the groove and dynamic compression for masking background noise. Sometimes this was called "diaphragming" the source material and not favoured by some music lovers for its unnatural side effects. Both elements were reflected in the brandname of Dynagroove, described elsewhere in more detail. It also used the earlier advanced method of forward-looking control on groove spacing with respect to volume of sound and position on the disk. Lower recorded volume used closer spacing; higher recorded volume used wider spacing, especially with lower frequencies. Also, the higher track density at lower volumes enabled disk recordings to end farther away from the disk center than usual, helping to reduce endtrack distortion even further.
Question: What technique were used to reduce inner-groove distortion?
Answer: CBS DisComputer and Teldec Direct Metal Mastering
Question: Who developed the Dynagroove format?
Answer: RCA Victor
Question: Why did some music lovers frown upon diaphragming?
Answer: unnatural side effects
Question: What did closer groove spacing result in?
Answer: Lower recorded volume
Question: What would be found with higher recorded volumes?
Answer: wider spacing |
Context: This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end in May 1683 when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683–1687. The final assault being fatally delayed, the Ottoman forces were swept away by allied Habsburg, German and Polish forces spearheaded by the Polish king Jan III Sobieski at the Battle of Vienna. The alliance of the Holy League pressed home the advantage of the defeat at Vienna, culminating in the Treaty of Karlowitz (26 January 1699), which ended the Great Turkish War. The Ottomans surrendered control of significant territories, many permanently. Mustafa II (1695–1703) led the counterattack of 1695–96 against the Habsburgs in Hungary, but was undone at the disastrous defeat at Zenta (in modern Serbia), 11 September 1697.
Question: Which Grand Vizier attempted a siege of Vienna in 1683?
Answer: Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha
Question: What was the war that took place from 1683 to 1687 known as?
Answer: the Great Turkish War
Question: Which polish king led the fight against the Ottoman empire in the Battle of Vienna?
Answer: Jan III Sobieski
Question: What was the alliance against the late 17th century Ottoman empire known as?
Answer: the Holy League
Question: What treaty was signed 26 January 1699?
Answer: Treaty of Karlowitz |
Context: The consolidation of the "hot AC" format contrasted with the near-demise of most other AC formats: Beginning with the 2005-2007 economic downturn and eventual recession most stations went for the more chart-based CHR, along with the top 40, urban and even Latino formats. Diminishing physical record sales also proved a major blow to the AC genre.
Question: Along with the recession, what broad economic trend marked the decline of adult contemporary radio stations?
Answer: the 2005-2007 economic downturn
Question: Along with CHR, Top 40 and Latino, what format have former AC stations transitioned to?
Answer: urban
Question: What AC format is still viable?
Answer: hot AC
Question: Declining sales of what items harmed the adult contemporary genre?
Answer: physical record |
Context: Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the region's primary airport and the second-largest in North Carolina, located northwest of downtown Raleigh via Interstate-40 between Raleigh and Durham, serves the city and greater Research Triangle metropolitan region, as well as much of eastern North Carolina. The airport offers service to more than 35 domestic and international destinations and serves approximately 10 million passengers a year. The airport also offers facilities for cargo and general aviation. The airport authority tripled the size of its Terminal 2 (formerly Terminal C) in January 2011.
Question: What is the area's primary airport?
Answer: Raleigh-Durham International Airport,
Question: Where is Raleigh-Durham International Airport?
Answer: Interstate-40 between Raleigh and Durham
Question: How many destinations does the airport offer internationally?
Answer: 35
Question: What are there 10 million of each year at the airport?
Answer: passengers
Question: What was Terminal 2 formerly called at the airport?
Answer: Terminal C
Question: What is the area's least used airport?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was terminal C formerly known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened at the airport in January 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are there 20 million of each year at the airport?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Contemporaneously with the rise of analytic ethics in Anglo-American thought, in Europe several new lines of philosophy directed at critique of existing societies arose between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of these took elements of Marxist economic analysis, but combined them with a more cultural or ideological emphasis. Out of the Frankfurt School, thinkers like Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Jürgen Habermas combined Marxian and Freudian perspectives. Along somewhat different lines, a number of other continental thinkers—still largely influenced by Marxism—put new emphases on structuralism and on a "return to Hegel". Within the (post-) structuralist line (though mostly not taking that label) are thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Claude Lefort, and Jean Baudrillard. The Situationists were more influenced by Hegel; Guy Debord, in particular, moved a Marxist analysis of commodity fetishism to the realm of consumption, and looked at the relation between consumerism and dominant ideology formation.
Question: Herbert Marcuse was from what school?
Answer: Frankfurt School,
Question: Thinkers out of the Frankfurt School combined Marxian and what other perspective?
Answer: Freudian
Question: Who in particular moved a Marxist analysis of commodity fetishism to the realm of consumption?
Answer: Guy Debord
Question: What thinkers came out of the Foucault School?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What points-of-view did Anglo-Americans combine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were thinkers influenced by when they emphasized consumerism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who took Marxist commodity fetishism to the realm of cultural emphasis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in Europe that led to criticism of Hegel between 1950 and 1980?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many Sanskrit loanwords are also found in Austronesian languages, such as Javanese, particularly the older form in which nearly half the vocabulary is borrowed. Other Austronesian languages, such as traditional Malay and modern Indonesian, also derive much of their vocabulary from Sanskrit, albeit to a lesser extent, with a larger proportion derived from Arabic. Similarly, Philippine languages such as Tagalog have some Sanskrit loanwords, although more are derived from Spanish. A Sanskrit loanword encountered in many Southeast Asian languages is the word bhāṣā, or spoken language, which is used to refer to the names of many languages.
Question: Tagalog is what kind of language?
Answer: Philippine
Question: From what language is a large proportion of Tagalog derived?
Answer: Spanish
Question: What is an example of a Sanskrit loanword used in Southeast Asian languages?
Answer: bhāṣā
Question: What is the meaning of the Sanskrit loanword "bhāṣā?"
Answer: spoken language
Question: What is an example of a traditional language that derives much of its vocabulary from Sanskrit?
Answer: Malay
Question: Where were many Sanskrit words found?
Answer: Austronesian languages
Question: In what older from of which language were more than half the words borrowed from Sanskrit?
Answer: Javanese
Question: What Sanskrit borrowed word is found in many Asian languages?
Answer: bhāṣā
Question: What is the meaning of bhasa?
Answer: spoken language
Question: Where does traditional Malay get many of its loanwords?
Answer: Sanskrit
Question: In what languages are Tagalog loan words found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which language from Indonesia is not derived from Sanskrit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What languages from the Austronesian languages is not derived from Arabic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language loan words does Arabic use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language is Spanish derived from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: This does not mean that samurai women were always powerless. Powerful women both wisely and unwisely wielded power at various occasions. After Ashikaga Yoshimasa, 8th shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, lost interest in politics, his wife Hino Tomiko largely ruled in his place. Nene, wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was known to overrule her husband's decisions at times and Yodo-dono, his concubine, became the de facto master of Osaka castle and the Toyotomi clan after Hideyoshi's death. Tachibana Ginchiyo was chosen to lead the Tachibana clan after her father's death. Chiyo, wife of Yamauchi Kazutoyo, has long been considered the ideal samurai wife. According to legend, she made her kimono out of a quilted patchwork of bits of old cloth and saved pennies to buy her husband a magnificent horse, on which he rode to many victories. The fact that Chiyo (though she is better known as "Wife of Yamauchi Kazutoyo") is held in such high esteem for her economic sense is illuminating in the light of the fact that she never produced an heir and the Yamauchi clan was succeeded by Kazutoyo's younger brother. The source of power for women may have been that samurai left their finances to their wives.
Question: Who was Ashikaga Yoshimasa?
Answer: 8th shogun of the Muromachi shogunate
Question: Who was Ashikaga Yoshimasa's wife?
Answer: Hino Tomiko
Question: Why did Ashikaga let his wife take over?
Answer: lost interest in politics
Question: Who was Nene?
Answer: wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Question: Who was Yodo-dono the concubine of?
Answer: Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
Context: In general, translators have sought to preserve the context itself by reproducing the original order of sememes, and hence word order — when necessary, reinterpreting the actual grammatical structure, for example, by shifting from active to passive voice, or vice versa. The grammatical differences between "fixed-word-order" languages (e.g. English, French, German) and "free-word-order" languages (e.g., Greek, Latin, Polish, Russian) have been no impediment in this regard. The particular syntax (sentence-structure) characteristics of a text's source language are adjusted to the syntactic requirements of the target language.
Question: What have translators tried to preserve?
Answer: context itself
Question: How do translators preserve context?
Answer: reproducing the original order of sememes
Question: What is it sometimes necessary to reinterpret when translating?
Answer: grammatical structure
Question: What is the active voice sometimes shifted to when needed?
Answer: passive
Question: What are the syntax characteristics of a text's source language adjusted to for a target language?
Answer: syntactic requirements
Question: What have translators tried to get rid of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do translators obfuscate context?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is it sometimes unnecessary to reinterpret when translating?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the active voice never shifted to when needed?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Pyx Chamber formed the undercroft of the monks' dormitory. It dates to the late 11th century and was used as a monastic and royal treasury. The outer walls and circular piers are of 11th-century date, several of the capitals were enriched in the 12th century and the stone altar added in the 13th century. The term pyx refers to the boxwood chest in which coins were held and presented to a jury during the Trial of the Pyx, in which newly minted coins were presented to ensure they conformed to the required standards.
Question: What formed the undercroft of the monks' dormitory?
Answer: The Pyx Chamber
Question: When does the Pyx Chamber date to?
Answer: the late 11th century
Question: When were newly minted coins presented to ensure they met standards?
Answer: the Trial of the Pyx
Question: What formed the overcroft of the monks' dormitory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What destroyed the undercroft of the monks' dormitory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When doesn't the Pyx Chamber date to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When does the Styx Chamber date to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were oldly minted coins presented to ensure they met standards?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A bantam is a small variety of domestic chicken, either a miniature version of a member of a standard breed, or a "true bantam" with no larger counterpart. The name derives from the town of Bantam in Java where European sailors bought the local small chickens for their shipboard supplies. Bantams may be a quarter to a third of the size of standard birds and lay similarly small eggs. They are kept by small-holders and hobbyists for egg production, use as broody hens, ornamental purposes, and showing.
Question: What breed of chicken is named after a town in Java ?
Answer: A bantam
Question: How are bantams different from other chickens?
Answer: A bantam is a small variety of domestic chicken, either a miniature version of a member of a standard breed, or a "true bantam" with no larger counterpart
Question: Do bantams lay regular sized eggs ?
Answer: Bantams may be a quarter to a third of the size of standard birds and lay similarly small eggs
Question: Where are bantams kept?
Answer: kept by small-holders and hobbyists for egg production, use as broody hens, ornamental purposes, and showing.
Question: What is the name for a small variety of European chicken?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country is the town of Java located in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Domestic sailors bought small chickens for what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What breed of worm is named after a town in Java?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are bantams not considered an animal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What bird is unable to lay eggs due to the small size?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are bantams usually hidden?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sailors disliked small chickens?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: For the 2001 general election The Times declared its support for Tony Blair's Labour government, which was re-elected by a landslide. It supported Labour again in 2005, when Labour achieved a third successive win, though with a reduced majority. For the 2010 general election, however, the newspaper declared its support for the Tories once again; the election ended in the Tories taking the most votes and seats but having to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to form a government as they had failed to gain an overall majority.
Question: In the 2001 general election, The Times declared support for what political party?
Answer: Labour
Question: What is the name of the political party's leader that The Times supported in the 2001 general election?
Answer: Tony Blair
Question: For the 2010 general election, which political party did The Times support?
Answer: Tories
Question: What political party did the Tories have to form a coalition with in 2010?
Answer: Liberal Democrats
Question: What political party was re-elected by a landslide in 2001?
Answer: Labour |
Context: In contrast to the speed of compression, which is proportional to the number of operations required by the algorithm, here latency refers to the number of samples that must be analysed before a block of audio is processed. In the minimum case, latency is zero samples (e.g., if the coder/decoder simply reduces the number of bits used to quantize the signal). Time domain algorithms such as LPC also often have low latencies, hence their popularity in speech coding for telephony. In algorithms such as MP3, however, a large number of samples have to be analyzed to implement a psychoacoustic model in the frequency domain, and latency is on the order of 23 ms (46 ms for two-way communication)).
Question: What refers to the number of samples that must be analysed before a block of audio is processed?
Answer: latency
Question: What has zero samples in a minimum case?
Answer: latency
Question: What often has low latencies?
Answer: LPC
Question: What refers to the number of samples that must be analyzed before a coding is processed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has zero samples in a minimum audio?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What requires large number of speech coding to be analyzed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the latency for algorithms such as LPC on the order of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What reduces the number of bits used to quantize a block of audio?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The boundaries of Somerset are largely unaltered from medieval times. The River Avon formed much of the border with Gloucestershire, except that the hundred of Bath Forum, which straddles the Avon, formed part of Somerset. Bristol began as a town on the Gloucestershire side of the Avon, however as it grew it extended across the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "that the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate from the counties of Gloucester and Somerset... and that it should be a county by itself".
Question: How long have the boundaries of somerset remained constant
Answer: are largely unaltered from medieval times
Question: What river forms the border of Somerset
Answer: The River Avon formed much of the border with Gloucestershire, except that the hundred of Bath Forum
Question: What did king Edward the 3 do
Answer: Edward III proclaimed "that the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate from the counties of Gloucester and Somerset
Question: In what year was Somerset established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which county was Edward III born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which county lies east of Somerset?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Edward III start his reign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Is Bristol larger on the Gloucester or Somerset side of the River Avon?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In each case, cables are attached to a hitch plate on top of the cab or may be "underslung" below a cab, and then looped over the drive sheave to a counterweight attached to the opposite end of the cables which reduces the amount of power needed to move the cab. The counterweight is located in the hoist-way and rides a separate railway system; as the car goes up, the counterweight goes down, and vice versa. This action is powered by the traction machine which is directed by the controller, typically a relay logic or computerized device that directs starting, acceleration, deceleration and stopping of the elevator cab. The weight of the counterweight is typically equal to the weight of the elevator cab plus 40-50% of the capacity of the elevator. The grooves in the drive sheave are specially designed to prevent the cables from slipping. "Traction" is provided to the ropes by the grip of the grooves in the sheave, thereby the name. As the ropes age and the traction grooves wear, some traction is lost and the ropes must be replaced and the sheave repaired or replaced. Sheave and rope wear may be significantly reduced by ensuring that all ropes have equal tension, thus sharing the load evenly. Rope tension equalization may be achieved using a rope tension gauge, and is a simple way to extend the lifetime of the sheaves and ropes.
Question: What reduces the amount of force needed to propel the cab?
Answer: cables are attached to a hitch plate on top of the cab
Question: Where will the counterweight be found?
Answer: in the hoist-way
Question: What guides the traction machine?
Answer: the controller
Question: The counterweight runs equal to the cab weight plus what percentage of the elevator capacity?
Answer: 40-50%
Question: Maintaining that the ropes all have equal tension may reduce what?
Answer: Sheave and rope wear |
Context: Political color schemes in the United States diverge from international norms. Since 2000, red has become associated with the right-wing Republican Party and blue with the left-wing Democratic Party. However, unlike political color schemes of other countries, the parties did not choose those colors; they were used in news coverage of 2000 election results and ensuing legal battle and caught on in popular usage. Prior to the 2000 election the media typically alternated which color represented which party each presidential election cycle. The color scheme happened to get inordinate attention that year, so the cycle was stopped lest it cause confusion the following election.
Question: What is the color red associated with?
Answer: right-wing Republican Party
Question: What political party is the color blue associated with?
Answer: left-wing Democratic Party
Question: Did the political parties choose those colors?
Answer: unlike political color schemes of other countries, the parties did not choose those colors
Question: In what year did the occurrence of using different color schemes for the parties stop?
Answer: 2000
Question: What color was chosen by the Democratic Party before 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Before 2000 what color did the Republican party choose to be associated with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have international political parties not chosen for themselves since 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened when other countries violated political color scheme norms in 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did parties in other countries alternate to avoid confusion in 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: H2 is a product of some types of anaerobic metabolism and is produced by several microorganisms, usually via reactions catalyzed by iron- or nickel-containing enzymes called hydrogenases. These enzymes catalyze the reversible redox reaction between H2 and its component two protons and two electrons. Creation of hydrogen gas occurs in the transfer of reducing equivalents produced during pyruvate fermentation to water. The natural cycle of hydrogen production and consumption by organisms is called the hydrogen cycle.
Question: What enzymes are used to produce H2?
Answer: hydrogenases
Question: When does hydrogen gas occur?
Answer: in the transfer of reducing equivalents produced during pyruvate fermentation to water
Question: What is the natural cycle of hydrogen production and consumption by organisms called?
Answer: hydrogen cycle |
Context: Bitumen was the nemesis of many artists during the 19th century. Although widely used for a time, it ultimately proved unstable for use in oil painting, especially when mixed with the most common diluents, such as linseed oil, varnish and turpentine. Unless thoroughly diluted, bitumen never fully solidifies and will in time corrupt the other pigments with which it comes into contact. The use of bitumen as a glaze to set in shadow or mixed with other colors to render a darker tone resulted in the eventual deterioration of many paintings, for instance those of Delacroix. Perhaps the most famous example of the destructiveness of bitumen is Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–1819), where his use of bitumen caused the brilliant colors to degenerate into dark greens and blacks and the paint and canvas to buckle.
Question: What pigment did 19th century artists use that was deemed unfavorably?
Answer: Bitumen
Question: What did bitumen when used as a paint not do correctly?
Answer: solidifies
Question: What did even limited use of bitumen do to damage paintings?
Answer: deterioration
Question: What artist's work i considered to be an example of the damaging effects of bitumen?
Answer: Théodore Géricault's
Question: What major problem did bitumen as a pigment show itself to be?
Answer: unstable
Question: What was the nemesis of many singers during the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the nemesis of many artists during the 21th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Bitumen proved stable for use in what type of painting?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Bitumen will always fully solidify when what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of the destructiveness of linseed oil?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Early during the Taiping Rebellion, Qing forces suffered a series of disastrous defeats culminating in the loss of the regional capital city of Nanjing in 1853. Shortly thereafter, a Taiping expeditionary force penetrated as far north as the suburbs of Tianjin, the imperial heartlands. In desperation the Qing court ordered a Chinese official, Zeng Guofan, to organize regional and village militias into an emergency army called tuanlian. Zeng Guofan's strategy was to rely on local gentry to raise a new type of military organization from those provinces that the Taiping rebels directly threatened. This new force became known as the Xiang Army, named after the Hunan region where it was raised. The Xiang Army was a hybrid of local militia and a standing army. It was given professional training, but was paid for out of regional coffers and funds its commanders — mostly members of the Chinese gentry — could muster. The Xiang Army and its successor, the Huai Army, created by Zeng Guofan's colleague and mentee Li Hongzhang, were collectively called the "Yong Ying" (Brave Camp).
Question: What caused the Qing armies to lose many battles?
Answer: Taiping Rebellion
Question: What city did the Qing lose in 1853?
Answer: Nanjing
Question: Who created a new type of army to thwart the Taiping rebels?
Answer: Zeng Guofan
Question: What was Zeng Guofan?
Answer: Xiang Army
Question: What was the Xiang Army named after?
Answer: Hunan region where it was raised |
Context: Although the Israelites were divided into Twelve Tribes, the Jews (being one offshoot of the Israelites, another being the Samaritans) are traditionally said to descend mostly from the Israelite tribes of Judah (from where the Jews derive their ethnonym) and Benjamin, and partially from the tribe of Levi, who had together formed the ancient Kingdom of Judah, and the remnants of the northern Kingdom of Israel who migrated to the Kingdom of Judah and assimilated after the 720s BCE, when the Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Question: What group was divided into Twelve Tribes?
Answer: Israelites
Question: When was the Kingdom of Israel conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
Answer: after the 720s BCE
Question: From where do the Jews derive their ethonynm?
Answer: Israelite tribes of Judah
Question: How many tribes were the Samaritans split into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who do the tribes of Judah descend from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the Southern Kingdom of Israel migrate to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who assimilated before the 720s BCE?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Kingdom of Israel conquer the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Turner Classic Movies is available in many other countries around the world. In Canada, TCM began to be carried on Shaw Cable and satellite provider Shaw Direct in 2005. Rogers Cable started offering TCM in December 2006 as a free preview for subscribers of its digital cable tier, and was added to its analogue tier in February 2007. While the schedule for the Canadian feed is generally the same as that of the U.S. network, some films are replaced for broadcast in Canada due to rights issues and other reasons. Other versions of TCM are available in Australia, France, Middle East, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, Asia, Latin America, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta. The UK version operates two channels, including a spinoff called TCM 2.
Question: What Canadian cable provider first carried Turner Classic Movies?
Answer: Shaw Cable
Question: In what year did Turner Classic Movies appear on Canadian cable television?
Answer: 2005
Question: In what year did Rogers Cable begin to include TCM?
Answer: 2006
Question: What is the name of the TCM spinoff channel operated in the UK?
Answer: TCM 2
Question: In what month and year did Rogers Cable add TCM to its analog broadcasts?
Answer: February 2007
Question: What Australian cable provider first carried Turner Classic Movies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Turner Classic Movies appear on Australian cable television?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Australia begin to include TCM?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the TCM spinoff channel operated in South Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what month and year did France add TCM to its analog broadcasts?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The regions in their inventory were Assyria, Chaldea, Mesopotamia, Persia, Armenia, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Ethiopia, Caucasus, Libya, Anatolia and Abyssinia. Explicitly excluded is India. No mention is made of the Balkans.
Question: What region was explicitly excluded?
Answer: India
Question: What region has no mention?
Answer: the Balkans
Question: Assyria, Chaldea, Mesopotamia, Persia, Armenia, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Ethiopia, Caucasus, Libya, Anatolia, and Abyssinia were all what?
Answer: regions in their inventory |
Context: The Eastern Roman Empire – today conventionally named the Byzantine Empire, a name not in use during its own time – became increasingly influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century, when Emperor Heraclius (AD 575 - 641) decided to make Greek the empire's official language. Certainly from then on, but likely earlier, the Roman and Greek cultures were virtually fused into a single Greco-Roman world. Although the Latin West recognized the Eastern Empire's claim to the Roman legacy for several centuries, after Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor" on 25 December 800, an act which eventually led to the formation of the Holy Roman Empire, the Latin West started to favour the Franks and began to refer to the Eastern Roman Empire largely as the Empire of the Greeks (Imperium Graecorum).
Question: When did the Byzantine Kingdom come under the impact of the Greeks.
Answer: influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century,
Question: Who ruled Rome during this time period ?
Answer: Emperor Heraclius (AD 575 - 641)
Question: What decision did he make that influenced the culture in an attempt to make things more homogeneous ?
Answer: decided to make Greek the empire's official language.
Question: What made the Eastern Empire be known as the Imperium Graecorum ?
Answer: Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor"
Question: Who was favored by those who lived in the west and mainly used another form of well know verbal language ?
Answer: the Latin West started to favour the Franks
Question: When did the Byzantine Kingdom not come under the impact of the Greeks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who didn't rule Rome during this time period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What decision did he make that influenced the culture in an attempt to make things less homogeneous?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What made the Eastern Empire be known as the non-Imperium Graecorum?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was favored by those who lived in the west and mainly used another form of not well known verbal language?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The title of "world's oldest airport" is disputed, but College Park Airport in Maryland, US, established in 1909 by Wilbur Wright, is generally agreed to be the world's oldest continually operating airfield, although it serves only general aviation traffic. Bisbee-Douglas International Airport in Arizona was declared "the first international airport of the Americas" by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. Pearson Field Airport in Vancouver, Washington had a dirigible land in 1905 and planes in 1911 and is still in use. Bremen Airport opened in 1913 and remains in use, although it served as an American military field between 1945 and 1949. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol opened on September 16, 1916 as a military airfield, but only accepted civil aircraft from December 17, 1920, allowing Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia—which started operations in January 1920—to claim to be one of the world's oldest continually operating commercial airports. Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, opened in 1920 and has been in continuous commercial service since. It serves about 35,000,000 passengers each year and continues to expand, recently opening a new 11,000 foot (3,355 meter) runway. Of the airports constructed during this early period in aviation, it is one of the largest and busiest that is still currently operating. Rome Ciampino Airport, opened 1916, is also a contender, as well as the Don Mueang International Airport near Bangkok,Thailand, which opened in 1914. Increased aircraft traffic during World War I led to the construction of landing fields. Aircraft had to approach these from certain directions and this led to the development of aids for directing the approach and landing slope.
Question: What is generally agreed to be the world's oldest continually operating airfield?
Answer: College Park Airport
Question: In what year was the College Park Airport established?
Answer: 1909
Question: Who established the College Park Airport?
Answer: Wilbur Wright
Question: How many passengers does the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport serve each year?
Answer: 35,000,000
Question: In what year did Rome Ciampino Airport open?
Answer: 1916
Question: When was Bisbee-Douglas International Airport founded by Wilbur Wright?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who declared College Park Airport the first international airport of the Americas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was College Park Airport declared the first international airport of the Americas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what period did Pearson Field Airport in Vancouver serve as an American military field?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many passengers does the College Park Airport serve each year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The influence of Nasser's Arab nationalism over the RCC was immediately apparent. The administration was instantly recognized by the neighbouring Arab nationalist regimes in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Sudan, with Egypt sending experts to aid the inexperienced RCC. Gaddafi propounded Pan-Arab ideas, proclaiming the need for a single Arab state stretching across North Africa and the Middle East. In December 1969, Libya founded the Arab Revolutionary Front with Egypt and Sudan as a step towards political unification, and in 1970 Syria stated its intention to join.
Question: What philosophy influenced the RCC?
Answer: Arab nationalism
Question: Along with Egypt, Iraq and Sudan, what country's Arab nationalist government recognized the Libyan revolutionary government?
Answer: Syria
Question: What Arab nationalist thinker was influential with the RCC?
Answer: Nasser
Question: What countries founded the Arab Revolutionary Front with Libya?
Answer: Egypt and Sudan
Question: In what year was the Arab Revolutionary Front founded?
Answer: 1969 |
Context: By the late 20th century, the majority of the world's countries had a prime minister or equivalent minister, holding office under either a constitutional monarchy or a ceremonial president. The main exceptions to this system have been the United States and the presidential republics in Latin America modelled on the U.S. system, in which the president directly exercises executive authority.
Question: In the U.S. and governments modeled on it, who holds executive power?
Answer: president
Question: What did most countries have by the late 2000's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where in the Amaricas has the British system been adopted?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Evidence suggests big-game hunter gatherers crossed the Bering Strait from Asia (Eurasia) into North America over a land bridge (Beringia), that existed between 47,000–14,000 years ago. Around 18,500-15,500 years ago, these hunter-gatherers are believed to have followed herds of now-extinct Pleistocene megafauna along ice-free corridors that stretched between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets. Another route proposed is that, either on foot or using primitive boats, they migrated down the Pacific coast to South America.
Question: These ancient hunter-gathers followed what path in pursuit of game?
Answer: ice-free corridors
Question: Between what ice sheets were the corridors located?
Answer: Laurentide and Cordilleran
Question: What other way could they have crossed on to this continent?
Answer: primitive boats
Question: Small-game hunters crossed which Strait?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Hunter-gatherers traveled along iced corridors how many years ago?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Big-game hunters cam from Asia into South America over what bridge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Using advanced boats, they also could have migrated down the Pacific to where?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A land bridge from Asia into South America existed how many years ago?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Athens retained its position as the most prestigious seat of higher education, especially in the domains of philosophy and rhetoric, with considerable libraries and philosophical schools. Alexandria had the monumental Museum (i.e. research center) and Library of Alexandria which was estimated to have had 700,000 volumes. The city of Pergamon also had a large library and became a major center of book production. The island of Rhodes had a library and also boasted a famous finishing school for politics and diplomacy. Libraries were also present in Antioch, Pella, and Kos. Cicero was educated in Athens and Mark Antony in Rhodes. Antioch was founded as a metropolis and center of Greek learning which retained its status into the era of Christianity. Seleucia replaced Babylon as the metropolis of the lower Tigris.
Question: Which city held the most prestigious seat of higher education?
Answer: Athens
Question: What library was estimated to have 700,000 volumes?
Answer: Library of Alexandria
Question: Which city became a major center of book production?
Answer: Pergamon
Question: What island has a famous finishing school for diplomacy and politics?
Answer: Rhodes
Question: What replaced Babylon as the metropolis of the lower Tigris?
Answer: Seleucia |
Context: A DBMS has evolved into a complex software system and its development typically requires thousands of human years of development effort.[a] Some general-purpose DBMSs such as Adabas, Oracle and DB2 have been undergoing upgrades since the 1970s. General-purpose DBMSs aim to meet the needs of as many applications as possible, which adds to the complexity. However, the fact that their development cost can be spread over a large number of users means that they are often the most cost-effective approach. However, a general-purpose DBMS is not always the optimal solution: in some cases a general-purpose DBMS may introduce unnecessary overhead. Therefore, there are many examples of systems that use special-purpose databases. A common example is an email system that performs many of the functions of a general-purpose DBMS such as the insertion and deletion of messages composed of various items of data or associating messages with a particular email address; but these functions are limited to what is required to handle email and don't provide the user with all of the functionality that would be available using a general-purpose DBMS.
Question: How long can it take to create a DBMS?
Answer: thousands of human years
Question: Name three DBMSs that have been used since the 1970s.
Answer: Adabas, Oracle and DB2
Question: How is the cost to create a DBMS distributed?
Answer: spread over a large number of users
Question: Name an example of a general-purpose DBMS.
Answer: an email system
Question: How long can it take to search for a DBMS?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are three DBMSs that have been used during the 1960s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is the cost to remove a DBMS distributed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is always the optimal solution to manage databases?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from the Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal. The deal was worth £1 billion a year domestically as of 2013–14, with BSkyB and BT Group securing the domestic rights to broadcast 116 and 38 games respectively. The league generates €2.2 billion per year in domestic and international television rights. In 2014/15, teams were apportioned revenues of £1.6 billion.
Question: What date was the Premier League formed?
Answer: The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992
Question: How much was the deal worth?
Answer: The deal was worth £1 billion a year domestically as of 2013–14
Question: Who secured the domestic rights to broadcast games 116 and 38 respectively?
Answer: BSkyB and BT Group securing the domestic rights to broadcast 116 and 38 games respectively.
Question: How much revenue does the league generate in domestic and international television rights?
Answer: The league generates €2.2 billion per year in domestic and international television rights
Question: In 2014/15, how much were the teams apportioned in revenues?
Answer: In 2014/15, teams were apportioned revenues of £1.6 billion.
Question: When was the Premier League originally formed?
Answer: 20 February 1992
Question: When was the Football League originally founded?
Answer: 1888
Question: How many games were secured to broadcast by BSkyB?
Answer: 116
Question: How many games were secured to broadcast by BT Group?
Answer: 38
Question: How much income does the Premier League generate per year in worldwide television rights?
Answer: €2.2 billion
Question: Which club did the Football League decide to break away from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Football League First Division founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On which date was the Football Premier League formed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: As of 2013, how much has the league generated in domestic and international television rights?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much revenue were teams given during 2013/14?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Conventionally, Iranian languages are grouped in "western" and "eastern" branches. These terms have little meaning with respect to Old Avestan as that stage of the language may predate the settling of the Iranian peoples into western and eastern groups. The geographic terms also have little meaning when applied to Younger Avestan since it isn't known where that dialect (or dialects) was spoken either. Certain is only that Avestan (all forms) and Old Persian are distinct, and since Old Persian is "western", and Avestan was not Old Persian, Avestan acquired a default assignment to "eastern". Confusing the issue is the introduction of a western Iranian substrate in later Avestan compositions and redactions undertaken at the centers of imperial power in western Iran (either in the south-west in Persia, or in the north-west in Nisa/Parthia and Ecbatana/Media).
Question: What are the two main divisions of Iranian tongues?
Answer: western and eastern
Question: Which language is associated with the western branch of Iranian?
Answer: Old Persian
Question: Which language is associated with the eastern branch of Iranian?
Answer: Avestan
Question: What languages are grouped into northern and southern branches?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language is associated with the Western branch of old Persian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language is associated with the Eastern branch of Avestan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the centers of imperial power in Persia?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: NARA also maintains the Presidential Library system, a nationwide network of libraries for preserving and making available the documents of U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover. The Presidential Libraries include:
Question: What agency maintains the Presidential Library system?
Answer: NARA
Question: What is the system that preserves the documents of US Presidents?
Answer: Presidential Library system
Question: Who is the earliest President that is represented in the archives of the Presidential Library system?
Answer: Herbert Hoover
Question: In what area of the US can one find the Presidential Library system libraries?
Answer: nationwide
Question: What did Herbert Hoover maintain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the system that Herbert Hoover founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Herbert Hoover spend much of his time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization was started by Hoover for document storage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did NARA create the Presidential Library System?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The stress of the war had taken its toll on the King's health, exacerbated by his heavy smoking and subsequent development of lung cancer among other ailments, including arteriosclerosis and thromboangiitis obliterans. A planned tour of Australia and New Zealand was postponed after the King suffered an arterial blockage in his right leg, which threatened the loss of the leg and was treated with a right lumbar sympathectomy in March 1949. His elder daughter Elizabeth, the heir presumptive, took on more royal duties as her father's health deteriorated. The delayed tour was re-organised, with Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, taking the place of the King and Queen. The King was well enough to open the Festival of Britain in May 1951, but on 23 September 1951, his left lung was removed by Clement Price Thomas after a malignant tumour was found. In October 1951, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh went on a month-long tour of Canada; the trip had been delayed for a week due to the King's illness. At the State Opening of Parliament in November, the King's speech from the throne was read for him by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Simonds. His Christmas broadcast of 1951 was recorded in sections, and then edited together.
Question: What kind of cancer did the King develop?
Answer: lung cancer
Question: What developed in the King's right leg that prevented him from touring Australia?
Answer: arterial blockage
Question: What treatment helped prevent the loss of the King's right leg?
Answer: right lumbar sympathectomy
Question: Who was the King's heir presumptive?
Answer: Elizabeth
Question: Who was Elizabeth's spouse?
Answer: Duke of Edinburgh
Question: Who performed the right lumbar sympathectomy on George?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date in March 1949 did George undergo a right lumbar sympathectomy procedure?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was George's younger daughters name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the Duke of Edinburgh?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Lord Simonds made the Lord Chancellor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Besides its prominence in sports, Notre Dame is also a large, four-year, highly residential research University, and is consistently ranked among the top twenty universities in the United States and as a major global university. The undergraduate component of the university is organized into four colleges (Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering, Business) and the Architecture School. The latter is known for teaching New Classical Architecture and for awarding the globally renowned annual Driehaus Architecture Prize. Notre Dame's graduate program has more than 50 master's, doctoral and professional degree programs offered by the five schools, with the addition of the Notre Dame Law School and a MD-PhD program offered in combination with IU medical School. It maintains a system of libraries, cultural venues, artistic and scientific museums, including Hesburgh Library and the Snite Museum of Art. Over 80% of the university's 8,000 undergraduates live on campus in one of 29 single-sex residence halls, each with its own traditions, legacies, events and intramural sports teams. The university counts approximately 120,000 alumni, considered among the strongest alumni networks among U.S. colleges.
Question: Where among US universities does Notre Dame rank?
Answer: among the top twenty
Question: How many individual colleges are part of Notre Dame?
Answer: four
Question: Which prize does the Architecture School at Notre Dame give out?
Answer: Driehaus Architecture Prize
Question: How many doctorate and masters programs are available at Notre Dame?
Answer: more than 50
Question: Which art museum does Notre Dame administer?
Answer: Snite Museum of Art |
Context: Guinea-Bissau's GDP per capita is one of the lowest in the world, and its Human Development Index is one of the lowest on earth. More than two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line. The economy depends mainly on agriculture; fish, cashew nuts and ground nuts are its major exports.
Question: How much of the population lives below the poverty line?
Answer: More than two-thirds
Question: What are Guinea-Bissau's major exports?
Answer: fish, cashew nuts and ground nuts
Question: What per capita index does Guinea-Bissau rank as one of the lowest in the world?
Answer: GDP
Question: For what index does Guinea-Bissau rank as one of the lowest on earth?
Answer: Human Development Index
Question: What area depends on agriculture in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: The economy |
Context: DC commutating electric motors, if fitted with laminated pole pieces, become universal motors because they can also operate on AC; reversing the current in both stator and rotor does not reverse the motor. But the now-standard AC distribution frequencies of 50 and 60 Hz caused difficulties with inductive reactance and eddy current losses. Many railways chose low AC frequencies to overcome these problems. They must be converted from utility power by motor-generators or static inverters at the feeding substations or generated at dedicated traction powerstations.
Question: How can DC motor turn universal?
Answer: if fitted with laminated pole pieces
Question: What problems did AC distribution cause?
Answer: inductive reactance and eddy current losses
Question: How do railways try to solve the problem of inductive reactance of AC system?
Answer: low AC frequencies
Question: How can low frequencies be obtained?
Answer: converted from utility power
Question: Reversing the current in both stator and rotor also reverses what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Many railways choose high AC frequencies to overcome what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The now-standard DC frequencies are what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The distribution frequencies of 60 and 70 Hz caused what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Many railways choose low DC what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Sanskrit, as defined by Pāṇini, evolved out of the earlier Vedic form. The present form of Vedic Sanskrit can be traced back to as early as the second millennium BCE (for Rig-vedic). Scholars often distinguish Vedic Sanskrit and Classical or "Pāṇinian" Sanskrit as separate dialects. Though they are quite similar, they differ in a number of essential points of phonology, vocabulary, grammar and syntax. Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas, a large collection of hymns, incantations (Samhitas) and theological and religio-philosophical discussions in the Brahmanas and Upanishads. Modern linguists consider the metrical hymns of the Rigveda Samhita to be the earliest, composed by many authors over several centuries of oral tradition. The end of the Vedic period is marked by the composition of the Upanishads, which form the concluding part of the traditional Vedic corpus; however, the early Sutras are Vedic, too, both in language and content.
Question: According to Panini, from where did Sanskrit evolve?
Answer: earlier Vedic
Question: To what time can the present form of Sanskrit be traced?
Answer: second millennium BCE
Question: As what are Classical and Vedic Sanskrit often viewed?
Answer: separate dialects
Question: What is Vedic Sanskrit meant to be used as?
Answer: the Vedas
Question: What hymns are thought to be the earliest?
Answer: Rigveda Samhita
Question: What is described as Vedic and evolved outof earlier Panini?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can be traced back to the second century A.D
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are often considered the same dialects?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two dialects are vastly different?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the begining of the Vedic period marked by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can be traced back to the first millennium?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for Vedic Sanskrit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are considered to be some of the later hymns by modern linguists?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was composed by only one author?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What marked the beginning of Vedic period?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Early humanists saw no conflict between reason and their Christian faith (see Christian Humanism). They inveighed against the abuses of the Church, but not against the Church itself, much less against religion. For them, the word "secular" carried no connotations of disbelief – that would come later, in the nineteenth century. In the Renaissance to be secular meant simply to be in the world rather than in a monastery. Petrarch frequently admitted that his brother Gherardo's life as a Carthusian monk was superior to his own (although Petrarch himself was in Minor Orders and was employed by the Church all his life). He hoped that he could do some good by winning earthly glory and praising virtue, inferior though that might be to a life devoted solely to prayer. By embracing a non-theistic philosophic base, however, the methods of the humanists, combined with their eloquence, would ultimately have a corrosive effect on established authority.
Question: Who was able to reconcile their religious beliefs with those of humanism?
Answer: Early humanists
Question: What phrase that has come to be associated with a lack of faith was not seen as an issue for Christians?
Answer: secular
Question: During what time period did secular have a more neutral connotation?
Answer: Renaissance
Question: Petrarch felt that although he tried to do his own form of good whose life may have more meaning?
Answer: Gherardo
Question: Who was unable to reconcile their religious beliefs with those of humanism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What phrase that has come to be associated with a lack of faith was seen as an issue for Christians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What time period did secular have an ultra-positive connotation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Petrarch feel superior to in every possible way?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What had a positive effect on established authority?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Firmware is the technology which has the combination of both hardware and software such as BIOS chip inside a computer. This chip (hardware) is located on the motherboard and has the BIOS set up (software) stored in it.
Question: A BIOS chip is located where in a computer?
Answer: the motherboard
Question: What type of software is stored in a BIOS chip?
Answer: BIOS set up |
Context: Working with photographer Steven Klein, Madonna completed a 17-minute film called secretprojectrevolution. The BitTorrent company was selected by Madonna to release the film as part of a Madonna bundle. It was released on September 24, 2013, and consisted of the 17-minute film, its stills, a Vice interview, and a message from Madonna. With the film she launched the Art for Freedom initiative, which helped to promote "art and free speech as a means to address persecution and injustice across the globe". The website for the project has had over 3,000 art related submissions since its inception, with Madonna regularly monitoring and enlisting the help of other artists like David Blaine and Katy Perry as guest curators.
Question: What was the name of the 17 minute film called?
Answer: secretprojectrevolution
Question: Which company was selected to release the film?
Answer: The BitTorrent company
Question: When was secretprojectrevolution released?
Answer: September 24, 2013
Question: What initiative did Madonna launched with her film?
Answer: Art for Freedom
Question: How many submissions does the initiative have?
Answer: over 3,000 |
Context: These areas, quartiers sensibles ("sensitive quarters"), are in northern and eastern Paris, namely around its Goutte d'Or and Belleville neighbourhoods. To the north of the city they are grouped mainly in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, and to a lesser extreme to the east in the Val-d'Oise department. Other difficult areas are located in the Seine valley, in Évry et Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne), in Mureaux, Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), and scattered among social housing districts created by Delouvrier's 1961 "ville nouvelle" political initiative.
Question: Where are the quartiers sensibles located?
Answer: northern and eastern Paris
Question: What two neighborhoods are the centers of the quartiers sensibles?
Answer: Goutte d'Or and Belleville
Question: Why were these neighborhoods created?
Answer: Delouvrier's 1961 "ville nouvelle" political initiative |
Context: A countout (alternatively "count-out" or "count out") happens when a wrestler is out of the ring long enough for the referee to count to ten (twenty in some promotions) and thus disqualified. The count is broken and restarted when a wrestler in the ring exits the ring. Playing into this, some wrestlers will "milk" the count by sliding in the ring, and immediately sliding back out. As they were technically inside the ring for a split second before exiting again, it is sufficient to restart the count. This is often referred to by commentators as "breaking the count." Heels often use this tactic in order to buy themselves more time to catch their breath, or to attempt to frustrate their babyface opponents.
Question: What are a couple other ways to write countout?
Answer: "count-out" or "count out"
Question: What happens during a countout?
Answer: when a wrestler is out of the ring long enough for the referee to count to ten
Question: What will some wrestlers do to take advantage of the countout?
Answer: sliding in the ring, and immediately sliding back out
Question: What is the trick of sliding in and then back out of the ring called?
Answer: breaking the count. |
Context: Another potential weapon system for anti-aircraft use is the laser. Although air planners have imagined lasers in combat since the late 1960s, only the most modern laser systems are currently reaching what could be considered "experimental usefulness". In particular the Tactical High Energy Laser can be used in the anti-aircraft and anti-missile role. If current developments continue, some[who?] believe it is reasonable to suggest that lasers will play a major role in air defence starting in the next ten years.
Question: What is another possible weapon for anti-aircraft use?
Answer: the laser
Question: When did personnel first start thinking about using lasers in combat?
Answer: the late 1960s
Question: What laser can currently be used in the type of role that was first thought of in the late 1960s?
Answer: Tactical High Energy Laser
Question: The use of lasers in anti-aircraft warfare is currently considered what?
Answer: experimental usefulness
Question: When do some people believe that lasers can play a more prominent role in air defence?
Answer: in the next ten years |
Context: Being Sicily's administrative capital, Palermo is a centre for much of the region's finance, tourism and commerce. The city currently hosts an international airport, and Palermo's economic growth over the years has brought the opening of many new businesses. The economy mainly relies on tourism and services, but also has commerce, shipbuilding and agriculture. The city, however, still has high unemployment levels, high corruption and a significant black market empire (Palermo being the home of the Sicilian Mafia). Even though the city still suffers from widespread corruption, inefficient bureaucracy and organized crime, the level of crime in Palermo's has gone down dramatically, unemployment has been decreasing and many new, profitable opportunities for growth (especially regarding tourism) have been introduced, making the city safer and better to live in.
Question: On what does Palermo's economy rely?
Answer: tourism and services, but also has commerce, shipbuilding and agriculture
Question: Palermo is the home of what mafia?
Answer: the Sicilian Mafia
Question: Has the level of crime in Palermo risen or declined?
Answer: gone down dramatically
Question: What negative qualities does Palermo carry?
Answer: high unemployment levels, high corruption and a significant black market empire
Question: What is Italy's administrative capital?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mostly depends shipbuilding and agriculture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why has the black market declined in Palermo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has caused crime to go up in Palermo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has made the city more dangerouse to live in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Jerusalem with its many holy places probably had the highest concentration of mosaic-covered churches but very few of them survived the subsequent waves of destructions. The present remains do not do justice to the original richness of the city. The most important is the so-called "Armenian Mosaic" which was discovered in 1894 on the Street of the Prophets near Damascus Gate. It depicts a vine with many branches and grape clusters, which springs from a vase. Populating the vine's branches are peacocks, ducks, storks, pigeons, an eagle, a partridge, and a parrot in a cage. The inscription reads: "For the memory and salvation of all those Armenians whose name the Lord knows." Beneath a corner of the mosaic is a small, natural cave which contained human bones dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. The symbolism of the mosaic and the presence of the burial cave indicates that the room was used as a mortuary chapel.
Question: Which city had the highest percentage of mosaic covered churches?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: Where was the Armenian Mosaic found in Jerusalem?
Answer: near Damascus Gate
Question: When was the Armenian Mosaic re-discovered?
Answer: 1894
Question: What was the room under the Armenian Mosaic used for?
Answer: mortuary chapel
Question: What type of plant is depicted in the Armenian Mosaic?
Answer: a vine with many branches |
Context: With the emergence and growth of several science parks throughout the world that helped create many thousands of scientific, technological and knowledge-based businesses, Portugal started to develop several science parks across the country. These include the Taguspark (in Oeiras), the Coimbra iParque (in Coimbra), the biocant (in Cantanhede), the Madeira Tecnopolo (in Funchal), Sines Tecnopolo (in Sines), Tecmaia (in Maia) and Parkurbis (in Covilhã). Companies locate in the Portuguese science parks to take advantage of a variety of services ranging from financial and legal advice through to marketing and technological support.
Question: What was responsible for creating thousands of scientific, technological, and knowledge-based businesses?
Answer: the emergence and growth of several science parks throughout the world
Question: What are some examples of the science parks being built in Portugal?
Answer: Taguspark (in Oeiras), the Coimbra iParque (in Coimbra), the biocant (in Cantanhede), the Madeira Tecnopolo (in Funchal)
Question: For what reason to companies locate in the Portuguese science parks?
Answer: take advantage of a variety of services ranging from financial and legal advice through to marketing and technological support |
Context: The Canadian constitution determines that the Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces is the country's sovereign, who, since 1904, has authorized his or her viceroy, the governor general, to exercise the duties ascribed to the post of Commander-in-Chief and to hold the associated title since 1905. All troop deployment and disposition orders, including declarations of war, fall within the royal prerogative and are issued as Orders in Council, which must be signed by either the monarch or governor general. Under the Westminster system's parliamentary customs and practices, however, the monarch and viceroy must generally follow the advice of his or her ministers in Cabinet, including the prime minister and minister of national defence, who are accountable to the elected House of Commons.
Question: What determines who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed forces?
Answer: The Canadian constitution
Question: Who does the Commander-in-Chief authorize to make decision regarding the Armed Forces for them?
Answer: the governor general
Question: What orders fall under the royal prerogative?
Answer: troop deployment and disposition orders
Question: Who must sign these orders for them to be valid?
Answer: the monarch or governor general
Question: Who's advice is the monarch supposed to follow regarding these orders?
Answer: the advice of his or her ministers in Cabinet
Question: What determines who is the Secretary-in-Chief of the Armed forces?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does the Secretary-in-Chief authorize to make decision regarding the Armed Forces for them?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What orders fall under the non-royal prerogative?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who must sign these orders for them to be invalid?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although spoken Tibetan varies according to the region, the written language, based on Classical Tibetan, is consistent throughout. This is probably due to the long-standing influence of the Tibetan empire, whose rule embraced (and extended at times far beyond) the present Tibetan linguistic area, which runs from northern Pakistan in the west to Yunnan and Sichuan in the east, and from north of Qinghai Lake south as far as Bhutan. The Tibetan language has its own script which it shares with Ladakhi and Dzongkha, and which is derived from the ancient Indian Brāhmī script.
Question: What is written Tibetan base on?
Answer: Classical Tibetan
Question: What influenced the consistency of the written Tibetan language?
Answer: Tibetan empire
Question: From what was the Tibetan language's script derived?
Answer: ancient Indian Brāhmī script
Question: What runs from northern Pakistan to Ladakhi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Sichuan derived from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the ancient Indian Brahmi script derived from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What languages does the Indian language share script with?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are a number of aids available to pilots, though not all airports are equipped with them. A visual approach slope indicator (VASI) helps pilots fly the approach for landing. Some airports are equipped with a VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) to help pilots find the direction to the airport. VORs are often accompanied by a distance measuring equipment (DME) to determine the distance to the VOR. VORs are also located off airports, where they serve to provide airways for aircraft to navigate upon. In poor weather, pilots will use an instrument landing system (ILS) to find the runway and fly the correct approach, even if they cannot see the ground. The number of instrument approaches based on the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) is rapidly increasing and may eventually be the primary means for instrument landings.
Question: What helps pilots fly the approach for landing?
Answer: visual approach slope indicator
Question: What does VASI stand for?
Answer: visual approach slope indicator
Question: What does VOR stand for?
Answer: VHF omnidirectional range
Question: What helps pilots find the direction to the airport?
Answer: VHF omnidirectional range
Question: What instruments do pilots use to find the runway and fly the correct approach, even if they cannot see the ground?
Answer: instrument landing system
Question: How does distance measuring equipment (DME) help a pilot land?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What also goes along with the VASI?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What determines the distance to the VASI?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are DME's also located to help aircraft naviagte?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is increasing based on the use of VOR?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A similar situation occurs with waders (called shorebirds in North America). Many species, such as dunlin Calidris alpina and western sandpiper Calidris mauri, undertake long movements from their Arctic breeding grounds to warmer locations in the same hemisphere, but others such as semipalmated sandpiper C. pusilla travel longer distances to the tropics in the Southern Hemisphere.
Question: What are waders called in North America?
Answer: shorebirds
Question: Where do dunlin Calidris alpina migrate to?
Answer: warmer locations in the same hemisphere
Question: Where do semiplamated sandpiper C. pusilla migrate to?
Answer: the tropics in the Southern Hemisphere
Question: Where do western sandpiper Calidris migrate from?
Answer: Arctic breeding grounds |
Context: Guinea-Bissau is divided into eight regions (regiões) and one autonomous sector (sector autónomo). These, in turn, are subdivided into 37 Sectors. The regions are:
Question: How many regions does Guinea-Bissau contain?
Answer: eight
Question: How many autonomous sectors does Guinea-Bissau contain?
Answer: one
Question: How many subdivided Sectors does Guinea-Bissau contain?
Answer: 37 |
Context: The city is governed by a mayor and a 9-member city council. In 2006, the city's form of government changed from a council–manager government to a strong mayor government. The change was brought about by a citywide vote in 2004. The mayor is in effect the chief executive officer of the city, while the council is the legislative body. The City of San Diego is responsible for police, public safety, streets, water and sewer service, planning and zoning, and similar services within its borders. San Diego is a sanctuary city, however, San Diego County is a participant of the Secure Communities program. As of 2011[update], the city had one employee for every 137 residents, with a payroll greater than $733 million.
Question: In what year did the city vote to change to a strong mayor government?
Answer: 2004
Question: How many employees are there in San Diego for every 137 residents?
Answer: one
Question: What is the number of members on the city's council?
Answer: 9
Question: Despite being a sanctuary city, what program does San Diego county participate in?
Answer: Secure Communities program
Question: What is the county's payroll?
Answer: greater than $733 million.
Question: In what year did the city vote to change to a weak mayor government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many employees are there in San Diego for every 37 residents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the number of members on the county's council?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Despite being a sanctuary city, what program does San Francisco county participate in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the city's payroll?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The United Healthcare/Pacificare nutrition guideline recommends a whole plant food diet, and recommends using protein only as a condiment with meals. A National Geographic cover article from November 2005, entitled The Secrets of Living Longer, also recommends a whole plant food diet. The article is a lifestyle survey of three populations, Sardinians, Okinawans, and Adventists, who generally display longevity and "suffer a fraction of the diseases that commonly kill people in other parts of the developed world, and enjoy more healthy years of life." In sum, they offer three sets of 'best practices' to emulate. The rest is up to you. In common with all three groups is to "Eat fruits, vegetables, and whole grains."
Question: Who released a guideline that recommends that people follow a whole plant food diet?
Answer: United Healthcare/Pacificare
Question: Which magazine also recommended that people follow a whole plant food diet?
Answer: National Geographic
Question: In which year was there a cover article on the National Geographic regarding diet recommendations?
Answer: 2005
Question: How many populations were studied and surveyed for the cover article?
Answer: three
Question: Other than fruits and vegetables, what other product was highly recommended to be a part of a healthy diet?
Answer: whole grains |
Context: Inflammatory diarrhea occurs when there is damage to the mucosal lining or brush border, which leads to a passive loss of protein-rich fluids and a decreased ability to absorb these lost fluids. Features of all three of the other types of diarrhea[clarification needed] can be found in this type of diarrhea. It can be caused by bacterial infections, viral infections, parasitic infections, or autoimmune problems such as inflammatory bowel diseases. It can also be caused by tuberculosis, colon cancer, and enteritis.[citation needed]
Question: When does inflammatory diarrhea occur?
Answer: when there is damage to the mucosal lining or brush border
Question: What happens with inflammatory diarrhea?
Answer: a passive loss of protein-rich fluids and a decreased ability to absorb these lost fluids
Question: What can cause inflammatory diarrhea?
Answer: bacterial infections, viral infections, parasitic infections, or autoimmune problems
Question: What other causes are there for inflammatory diarrhea?
Answer: tuberculosis, colon cancer, and enteritis.
Question: What causes inflammatory tuberculosis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does enteritis lead to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other causes are there for parasitic infections?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Name other causes of viral infections?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is damaged when color cancer occurs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Areas such as South Street and Old City have a vibrant night life. The Avenue of the Arts in Center City contains many restaurants and theaters, such as the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which is home to the Philadelphia Orchestra, generally considered one of the top five orchestras in the United States, and the Academy of Music, the nation's oldest continually operating opera house, home to the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Ballet. The Wilma Theatre and Philadelphia Theatre Company have new buildings constructed in the last decade on the avenue. They produce a variety of new works. Several blocks to the east are the Walnut Street Theatre, America's oldest theatre and the largest subscription theater in the world; as well as the Lantern Theatre at St. Stephens Church, one of a number of smaller venues.
Question: Name two districts with good night life?
Answer: South Street and Old City
Question: What is the home of the orchestra?
Answer: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Question: What is the countries oldest opera house?
Answer: Academy of Music
Question: Who uses the opera house?
Answer: Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Ballet
Question: What is the oldest theater in the U.S.?
Answer: Walnut Street Theatre |
Context: Since October 2004, the iPod line has dominated digital music player sales in the United States, with over 90% of the market for hard drive-based players and over 70% of the market for all types of players. During the year from January 2004 to January 2005, the high rate of sales caused its U.S. market share to increase from 31% to 65% and in July 2005, this market share was measured at 74%. In January 2007 the iPod market share reached 72.7% according to Bloomberg Online.
Question: What share of the US digital music player market does iPod hold?
Answer: 90%
Question: When did iPod become the leader in digital music device sales?
Answer: 2004
Question: How much of the market did iPod claim as of January 2007?
Answer: 72.7%
Question: Who reported Apple's market share in 2007?
Answer: Bloomberg Online
Question: Approximately what percentage of the hard drive-based music player sales does iPod have since 2004?
Answer: 90%
Question: Approximately what percentage of the overall music player market does the iPod line have?
Answer: 70%
Question: What did the iPod's US market share peak at in 2005?
Answer: 74% |
Context: LED lamps have been advocated as the newest and best environmental lighting method. According to the Energy Saving Trust, LED lamps use only 10% power compared to a standard incandescent bulb, where compact fluorescent lamps use 20% and energy saving halogen lamps 70%. The lifetime is also much longer — up to 50,000 hours. A downside is still the initial cost, which is higher than that of compact fluorescent lamps.
Question: How much more power does a standard incandescent bulb use compared to LED?
Answer: 10%
Question: What is the average lifetime of a CFL?
Answer: 50,000 hours
Question: How much power does a halogen lamp save compared to a standard blub?
Answer: 70% |
Context: Bern was the site of the 1954 Football (Soccer) World Cup Final, a huge upset for the Hungarian Golden Team, who were beaten 3–2 by West Germany. The football team BSC Young Boys is based in Bern at the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf, which also was one of the venues for the European football championship 2008 in which it hosted 3 matches.
Question: What year was the Football World Cup Final in Bern?
Answer: 1954
Question: Who won the game?
Answer: West Germany
Question: What football team is based in Bern?
Answer: BSC Young Boys |
Context: Between 1941 and 1946, the left-wing British historian E.H. Carr was Assistant Editor. Carr was well known for the strongly pro-Soviet tone of his editorials. In December 1944, when fighting broke out in Athens between the Greek Communist ELAS and the British Army, Carr in a Times editorial sided with the Communists, leading Winston Churchill to condemn him and that leader in a speech to the House of Commons. As a result of Carr's editorial, The Times became popularly known during that stage of World War II as the threepenny Daily Worker (the price of the Daily Worker being one penny).
Question: Between 1941 and 1946, which left-wing British historian was Assistant Editor for The Times?
Answer: E.H. Carr
Question: The Assistant Editor of The Times in 1941-1946 strongly supported what stance?
Answer: pro-Soviet
Question: Which side did The Times support in the fighting that broke out in Athens in 1944?
Answer: Communists
Question: Which major political figure condemned The Times in 1944 for not supporting the British Army?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: During World War II, The Times was nicknamed what in 1944?
Answer: the threepenny Daily Worker |
Context: New Haven has a long tradition of urban planning and a purposeful design for the city's layout. The city could be argued to have some of the first preconceived layouts in the country. Upon founding, New Haven was laid out in a grid plan of nine square blocks; the central square was left open, in the tradition of many New England towns, as the city green (a commons area). The city also instituted the first public tree planting program in America. As in other cities, many of the elms that gave New Haven the nickname "Elm City" perished in the mid-20th century due to Dutch Elm disease, although many have since been replanted. The New Haven Green is currently home to three separate historic churches which speak to the original theocratic nature of the city. The Green remains the social center of the city today. It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
Question: On what type of city plan was New Haven laid out upon the founding of the area?
Answer: grid plan of nine square blocks
Question: For what environmental initiative is the city of New Haven known, primarily for instituting the first of its kind in America?
Answer: public tree planting program
Question: What was the nickname given to the city of New Haven due to an indigenous tree which largely perished in the mid-20th century?
Answer: "Elm City"
Question: What was the cause of the sudden extinction of many of the elms in New Haven?
Answer: Dutch Elm disease
Question: What public area in New Haven was named a National Historic Landmark in 1970?
Answer: New Haven Green
Question: What was New Haven's nickname?
Answer: Elm City"
Question: Due to the replanting of trees the center of the city is called what?
Answer: New Haven Green
Question: In what year did it became recognize as a landmark?
Answer: 1970
Question: In the original plans of the city, how many city block were designed?
Answer: nine square blocks
Question: Because of it's trees New Haven is known for being first to implemented what in the US?
Answer: public tree planting program |
Context: In December 2009, then Indian Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma said at his maiden navy week press conference that concepts currently being examined by the Directorate of Naval Design for the second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-2), are for a conventionally powered carrier displacing over 50,000 tons and equipped with steam catapults (rather than the ski-jump on the Gorshkov/Vikramaditya and the IAC) to launch fourth-generation aircraft. Later on in August 2013 Vice Admiral RK Dhowan, while talking about the detailed study underway on the IAC-II project, said that nuclear propulsion was also being considered. The navy also evaluated the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), which is being used by the US Navy in their latest Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. General Atomics, the developer of the EMALS, was cleared by the US government to give a technical demonstration to Indian Navy officers, who were impressed by the new capabilities of the system. The EMALS enables launching varied aircraft including unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV). The aim is to have a total of three aircraft carriers in service, with two fully operational carriers and the third in refit.
Question: What does EMALS stand for?
Answer: Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System
Question: Who developed EMALS?
Answer: General Atomics
Question: What do EMALS enable the launching of?
Answer: varied aircraft including unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV)
Question: Who was impressed by the demonstration of EMALS by General Atomics?
Answer: Indian Navy officers
Question: How many in-service aircraft carriers are aimed for with EMALS?
Answer: three
Question: What does MEALS stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who didn't develop EMALS?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do EMALS disable the launching of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wasn't impressed by the demonstration of EMALS by General Atomics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many out of service aircraft carriers are aimed for with EMALS?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many scripts, including Arabic and Devanagari, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. The rules governing ligature formation can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as ACE (Arabic Calligraphic Engine by DecoType in the 1980s and used to generate all the Arabic examples in the printed editions of the Unicode Standard), which became the proof of concept for OpenType (by Adobe and Microsoft), Graphite (by SIL International), or AAT (by Apple).
Question: What does ACE stand for?
Answer: Arabic Calligraphic Engine
Question: Who created ACE?
Answer: DecoType
Question: When was ACE created?
Answer: 1980s
Question: Who created OpenType?
Answer: Adobe and Microsoft
Question: Who created Graphite?
Answer: SIL International
Question: When was OpenType created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does AAT stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who partnered with SIL International?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which two companies produced DecoType?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are two examples of scripts without orthographic rules?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine. This UN plan specified borders for new Arab and Jewish states and also specified an area of Jerusalem and its environs which was to be administered by the UN under an international regime. The end of the British Mandate for Palestine was set for midnight on 14 May 1948. That day, David Ben-Gurion, the executive head of the Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," which would start to function from the termination of the mandate. The borders of the new state were not specified in the declaration. Neighboring Arab armies invaded the former Palestinian mandate on the next day and fought the Israeli forces. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula (1956–57, 1967–82), part of Southern Lebanon (1982–2000), Gaza Strip (1967–2005; still considered occupied after 2005 disengagement) and the Golan Heights. It extended its laws to the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, but not the West Bank. Efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have not resulted in peace. However, peace treaties between Israel and both Egypt and Jordan have successfully been signed. Israel's occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem is the world's longest military occupation in modern times.[note 2]
Question: When did the UN recommend the Partition Plan?
Answer: 29 November 1947
Question: When was the end of the British Mandate set?
Answer: midnight on 14 May 1948
Question: Who was the executive head of the Zionist Organization?
Answer: David Ben-Gurion |
Context: The FBI has been frequently depicted in popular media since the 1930s. The bureau has participated to varying degrees, which has ranged from direct involvement in the creative process of film or TV series development, to providing consultation on operations and closed cases. A few of the notable portrayals of the FBI on television are the 1993-2002 series The X-Files, which concerned investigations into paranormal phenomena by five fictional Special Agents and the fictional Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agency in the TV drama 24, which is patterned after the FBI Counterterrorism Division. The 1991 movie Point Break is based on the true story of an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated a gang of bank robbers. The 1997 movie Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of undercover FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrating the Mafia.
Question: When did the FBI first appear in popular media?
Answer: 1930s
Question: What notable TV show was concerned with FBI investigations of the paranormal?
Answer: X-Files
Question: What is the TV drama 24 designed on?
Answer: FBI Counterterrorism Division
Question: Who is the movie Point Break Based on?
Answer: undercover FBI agent
Question: Who is the movie Donnie Brasco based on?
Answer: Joseph D. Pistone
Question: What was frequently depicted in popular media before the 1930s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not a notable portrayal of the FBI on television?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has the FBI never done with popular media?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is patterned after the Counter Terrorist Unit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What 1991 movie is not based on a true story?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective γυμνός (gymnos) meaning "naked", by way of the related verb γυμνάζω (gymnazo), whose meaning is to train naked", "train in gymnastic exercise", generally "to train, to exercise". The verb had this meaning, because athletes in ancient times exercised and competed without clothing. It came into use in the 1570s, from Latin gymnasticus, from Greek gymnastikos "fond of or skilled in bodily exercise," from gymnazein "to exercise or train" (see gymnasium).
Question: What Greek word did gymnastics derive from?
Answer: γυμνός (gymnos) meaning "naked"
Question: What does the verb gymnazo mean?
Answer: to train naked", "train in gymnastic exercise", generally "to train, to exercise"
Question: Why was this verb used?
Answer: because athletes in ancient times exercised and competed without clothing
Question: When did the word come into use?
Answer: 1570s
Question: When did gymnasts start competing with clothing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the word gymnoto mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What greek noun means "naked"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language does gymnazein come from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What word means playing in the gymnasium?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Days of working time in Israel are Sunday through Thursday (for a five-day workweek), or Friday (for a six-day workweek). In observance of Shabbat, in places where Friday is a work day and the majority of population is Jewish, Friday is a "short day", usually lasting till 14:00 in the winter, or 16:00 in the summer. Several proposals have been raised to adjust the work week with the majority of the world, and make Sunday a non-working day, while extending working time of other days or replacing Friday with Sunday as a work day.
Question: What are the days of working in Israel?
Answer: Sunday through Thursday
Question: Friday is considered what?
Answer: short day
Question: Several proposals have been raised to do what?
Answer: make Sunday a non-working day |
Context: He was killed on 2 March 2009, possibly by soldiers in retaliation for the assassination of General Batista Tagme Na Waie, the head of the joint chiefs of staff, killed in an explosion. Vieira's death did not trigger widespread violence, but there were signs of turmoil in the country, according to the advocacy group Swisspeace. Malam Bacai Sanhá was elected after a transition. In the 2009 election to replace the assassinated Vieira, Sanhá was the presidential candidate of the PAIGC while Kumba Ialá was the presidential candidate of the PRS.
Question: What was NOT triggered by Vieira's death?
Answer: widespread violence
Question: When was Vieira killed?
Answer: 2 March 2009
Question: In the 2009 election, who was the candidate of the PAIGC?
Answer: Sanhá
Question: In the 2009 election, who was the candidate of the PRS?
Answer: Kumba Ialá
Question: Who won the 2009 election?
Answer: Sanhá |
Context: Clothing can and has in history been made from a very wide variety of materials. Materials have ranged from leather and furs, to woven materials, to elaborate and exotic natural and synthetic fabrics. Not all body coverings are regarded as clothing. Articles carried rather than worn (such as purses), worn on a single part of the body and easily removed (scarves), worn purely for adornment (jewelry), or those that serve a function other than protection (eyeglasses), are normally considered accessories rather than clothing, as are footwear and hats.
Question: What variety has there been in the materials of clothing throughout history?
Answer: very wide
Question: What is an article that is carried rather than worn that isn't regarded as clothing?
Answer: purses
Question: Jewelry isn't considered clothing because it's usually worn purely for what reason?
Answer: adornment
Question: What are footwear and hats both considered?
Answer: accessories
Question: What is an example of something that serves a function other than protection?
Answer: eyeglasses
Question: There has been little variety in materials used for what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: All what is regarded as clothing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What article of clothing is carried rather than worn?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Jewelry is usually consider clothing because his worn for what reason?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Footwear and hats are consider clothing rather than what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MW two reactor nuclear power station. On 18 October 2010, the British government announced that Hinkley Point – already the site of the disused Hinkley Point A and the still operational Hinkley Point B power stations – was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. NNB Generation Company, a subsidiary of EDF, submitted an application for development consent to the Infrastructure Planning Commission on 31 October 2011. A protest group, Stop Hinkley, was formed to campaign for the closure of Hinkley Point B and oppose any expansion at the Hinkley Point site. In December 2013, the European Commission opened an investigation to assess whether the project breaks state-aid rules. On 8 October 2014 it was announced that the European Commission has approved the project, with an overwhelming majority and only four commissioners voting against the decision.
Question: What is Hinkley point C
Answer: Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MW two reactor nuclear power station
Question: What was Stop Hinkley
Answer: Stop Hinkley, was formed to campaign for the closure of Hinkley Point B and oppose any expansion at the Hinkley Point site
Question: What did the European Commission review
Answer: opened an investigation to assess whether the project breaks state-aid rules
Question: How did the Commission vote turn out
Answer: the European Commission has approved the project, with an overwhelming majority and only four commissioners voting against the decision.
Question: How powerful was the Hinkley Point A nuclear power station?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many commissioners are on the European Commission?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How powerful is the Hinkley Point B nuclear power station?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Hinkley Point B finish construction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Hinkley Point A shut down?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Boston's park system is well-reputed nationally. In its 2013 ParkScore ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that Boston was tied with Sacramento and San Francisco for having the third-best park system among the 50 most populous US cities. ParkScore ranks city park systems by a formula that analyzes the city's median park size, park acres as percent of city area, the percent of residents within a half-mile of a park, spending of park services per resident, and the number of playgrounds per 10,000 residents.
Question: What ranking does the Boston park system have?
Answer: third-best
Question: Who ranks city park systems?
Answer: ParkScore
Question: Parkscore ranks the number of resident within what distance of the park?
Answer: a half-mile |
Context: In many situations it is desirable to consider two group elements the same if they differ by an element of a given subgroup. For example, in D4 above, once a reflection is performed, the square never gets back to the r2 configuration by just applying the rotation operations (and no further reflections), i.e. the rotation operations are irrelevant to the question whether a reflection has been performed. Cosets are used to formalize this insight: a subgroup H defines left and right cosets, which can be thought of as translations of H by arbitrary group elements g. In symbolic terms, the left and right cosets of H containing g are
Question: When is it preferable to consider two group elements to be the same?
Answer: irrelevant to the question whether a reflection has been performed
Question: What should not be considered when asking if a reflection has been performed?
Answer: rotation operations
Question: What number sets are used to show how subgroups can be seen as translations of the larger group?
Answer: Cosets
Question: When are two group elements considered different?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In D4 the square can return to the r2 configuration by applying only what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What question are cosets irrelevant to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does group element g define?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When are rotation operations considered?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: American Idol prominent display of its sponsors' logo and products had been noted since the early seasons. By season six, Idol showed 4,349 product placements according to Nielsen Media Research. The branded entertainment integration proved beneficial to its advertisers – promotion of AT&T text-messaging as a means to vote successfully introduced the technology into the wider culture, and Coca-Cola has seen its equity increased during the show.
Question: What service did AT&T promote on American Idol as a way of voting?
Answer: text-messaging
Question: How many product placements had Idol shown by season six?
Answer: 4,349 |
Context: On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent (No. 34541) for a tungsten filament lamp that lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament. Tungsten filament lamps were first marketed by the Hungarian company Tungsram in 1904. This type is often called Tungsram-bulbs in many European countries. Filling a bulb with an inert gas such as argon or nitrogen retards the evaporation of the tungsten filament compared to operating it in a vacuum. This allows for greater temperatures and therefore greater efficacy with less reduction in filament life.
Question: Which inventors patented the tungsten filament lamp?
Answer: Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman
Question: When did Just and Hanaman receive their patent for the tungsten filament lamp?
Answer: 13 December 1904
Question: Which company first marketed the tungsten filament lamp?
Answer: Tungsram
Question: What type of gas fills a tungsten filament bulb?
Answer: argon or nitrogen
Question: What is a common alternate name for the tungsten filament bulb in Europe?
Answer: Tungsram-bulbs
Question: Who was not granted a patent fr the tungsten filament lamp?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was granted patent No. 34540?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who receive their patent in 1905?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of gas does not fill a tungsten filament bulb?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not a common alternate name for the tungsten filament bulb in Europe.
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Another major group, inhabitants who follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity, practised chiefly by the Russian minority, and the Russian Orthodox Church is the second largest denomination with 150,000 members. The Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, under the Greek-Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, claims another 20,000 members. Thus, the number of adherents of Lutheranism and Orthodoxy, without regard to citizenship or ethnicity, is roughly equal. Refer to the Table below. The Catholics have their Latin Apostolic Administration of Estonia.
Question: What is the major group that believes in Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
Answer: Russian minority
Question: Which religious group is the second largest with 150,000 members?
Answer: the Russian Orthodox Church
Question: What religious group do Catholics in Estonia follow?
Answer: Latin Apostolic Administration of Estonia |
Context: According to the United States Geological Survey, an updated analysis of seismic hazard in July 2014 revealed a "slightly lower hazard for tall buildings" in New York City than previously assessed. Scientists estimated this lessened risk based upon a lower likelihood than previously thought of slow shaking near the city, which would be more likely to cause damage to taller structures from an earthquake in the vicinity of the city.
Question: When did the United States Geological Survey released its seismic hazard analysis?
Answer: July 2014 |
Context: In some cases this is done in a more extreme manner, not simply to cancel a small amount of residual reactance, but to resonate an antenna whose resonance frequency is quite different from the intended frequency of operation. For instance, a "whip antenna" can be made significantly shorter than 1/4 wavelength long, for practical reasons, and then resonated using a so-called loading coil. This physically large inductor at the base of the antenna has an inductive reactance which is the opposite of the capacitative reactance that such a vertical antenna has at the desired operating frequency. The result is a pure resistance seen at feedpoint of the loading coil; unfortunately that resistance is somewhat lower than would be desired to match commercial coax.[citation needed]
Question: What can be shorter than 1/4 wavelength long?
Answer: whip antenna
Question: What is the opposite of inductive reactance?
Answer: capacitative reactance
Question: What is at the base of the antenna?
Answer: loading coil
Question: Where is the resistance seen on the loading foil?
Answer: feedpoint |
Context: Electric instruments such as the electric guitar, the electric bass and the ondes Martenot appear occasionally in the classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Both classical and popular musicians have experimented in recent decades with electronic instruments such as the synthesizer, electric and digital techniques such as the use of sampled or computer-generated sounds, and instruments from other cultures such as the gamelan.
Question: What type of instrument appears occasionally in the 20th and 21st century styles of classical music?
Answer: Electric
Question: What type of musicians besides classical have experimented with electronic instruments?
Answer: popular
Question: What type of instrument is the gamelan?
Answer: electronic |
Context: The Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE) was the first empire to unify India into one state, and was the largest on the Indian subcontinent. At its greatest extent, the Mauryan Empire stretched to the north up to the natural boundaries of the Himalayas and to the east into what is now Assam. To the west, it reached beyond modern Pakistan, to the Hindu Kush mountains in what is now Afghanistan. The empire was established by Chandragupta Maurya in Magadha (in modern Bihar) when he overthrew the Nanda Dynasty. Chandragupta's son Bindusara succeeded to the throne around 297 BC. By the time he died in c. 272 BC, a large part of the subcontinent was under Mauryan suzerainty. However, the region of Kalinga (around modern day Odisha) remained outside Mauryan control, perhaps interfering with their trade with the south.
Question: What was the first empire to unify India?
Answer: Maurya Empire
Question: What was the time span of the Mauryan Empire?
Answer: 322–185 BCE
Question: Who formed the Maurya Empire in Magadha?
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
Question: What dynasty did Chandragupta Maurya defeat?
Answer: Nanda Dynasty
Question: In what year did Chandraguta's son come to the throne?
Answer: 297 BC |
Context: Seven clubs have won the FA Cup as part of a League and Cup double, namely Preston North End (1889), Aston Villa (1897), Tottenham Hotspur (1961), Arsenal (1971, 1998, 2002), Liverpool (1986), Manchester United (1994, 1996, 1999) and Chelsea (2010). In 1993, Arsenal became the first side to win both the FA Cup and the League Cup in the same season when they beat Sheffield Wednesday 2–1 in both finals. Liverpool (in 2001) and Chelsea (in 2007) have since repeated this feat. In 2012, Chelsea accomplished a different cup double consisting of the FA Cup and the 2012 Champions League. In 1998–99, Manchester United added the 1999 Champions League title to their league and cup double to complete a unique Treble. Two years later, in 2000–01, Liverpool won the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup to complete a cup treble. An English Treble has never been achieved.
Question: How many clubs have won the fa cup as part of a league cup double?
Answer: Seven clubs have won the FA Cup as part of a League and Cup double
Question: Who was the first clubs have won the fa cup as part of a league cup double?
Answer: Preston North End (1889)
Question: Who was the latest clubs have won the fa cup as part of a league cup double?
Answer: Chelsea (2010)
Question: Has any club won both in a same season?
Answer: Arsenal became the first side to win both the FA Cup and the League Cup in the same season
Question: How many clubs have lost the FA Cup?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What club has never won the FA Cup as part of a League and Cup double?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who lost to Arsenal in 1993?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has never completed a cup treble?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What clubs weren't able to repeat Arsenal's feat?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tidewater glaciers are glaciers that terminate in the sea, including most glaciers flowing from Greenland, Antarctica, Baffin and Ellesmere Islands in Canada, Southeast Alaska, and the Northern and Southern Patagonian Ice Fields. As the ice reaches the sea, pieces break off, or calve, forming icebergs. Most tidewater glaciers calve above sea level, which often results in a tremendous impact as the iceberg strikes the water. Tidewater glaciers undergo centuries-long cycles of advance and retreat that are much less affected by the climate change than those of other glaciers.
Question: What are glaciers called that end in the sea?
Answer: Tidewater glaciers
Question: Most glaciers from Greenland, Antarctica, and Southeast Alaska are of which type?
Answer: Tidewater glaciers
Question: Are tidewater glaciers more or less affected by climate change than other glaciers?
Answer: much less
Question: Do tidewater glaciers calve above or below sea level?
Answer: above
Question: How are icebergs formed?
Answer: As the ice reaches the sea, pieces break off, or calve
Question: What are tidal glaciers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Hetero icebergs form glaciers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What affects tidewater glaciers more than others?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of glaciers have been retreating for centuries?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since over half of GE's revenue is derived from financial services, it is arguably a financial company with a manufacturing arm. It is also one of the largest lenders in countries other than the United States, such as Japan. Even though the first wave of conglomerates (such as ITT Corporation, Ling-Temco-Vought, Tenneco, etc.) fell by the wayside by the mid-1980s, in the late 1990s, another wave (consisting of Westinghouse, Tyco, and others) tried and failed to emulate GE's success.[citation needed]
Question: What is the business source of the majority of GE's revenues?
Answer: financial services
Question: In what other country besides the US does GE provide lending services?
Answer: Japan
Question: How much of GE's revenues is derived from the financial services it provides?
Answer: over half
Question: Besides ITT Corporation, which two companies tried to emulate GE, but failed by the mid-1980's?
Answer: Ling-Temco-Vought, Tenneco
Question: In what decade was GE founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what country was Tenneco headquartered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what decade did ITT Corporation get founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what decade was Westinghouse established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what nation was Ling-Temco-Vought established?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Kievan Rus' begins with the rule (882–912) of Prince Oleg, who extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley in order to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east and moved his capital to the more strategic Kiev. Sviatoslav I (died 972) achieved the first major expansion of Kievan Rus' territorial control, fighting a war of conquest against the Khazar Empire. Vladimir the Great (980–1015) introduced Christianity with his own baptism and, by decree, that of all the inhabitants of Kiev and beyond. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav I (1019–1054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, the Rus' Justice, shortly after his death.
Question: What year was Kievan Rus became a territory?
Answer: 882
Question: Who was the ruler at the begining of Kievan?
Answer: Prince Oleg
Question: Who achieve the first major expansion of Kievan?
Answer: Kiev. Sviatoslav I
Question: Which ruler introduced Christianity in Kievan Rus?
Answer: Vladimir the Great
Question: What did Yaroslav sons achieve during his time in Keivan Rus?
Answer: issued its first written legal code
Question: What years did Prince Oleg reign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which way did Prince Oleg extend his rule?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who achieved the first minor expansion of Kievan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which ruler introduced Islam in Kievan Rus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Yaroslav daughters achieve during his time Keivan Rus?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The neighbourhood of Thamel is Kathmandu's primary "traveller's ghetto", packed with guest houses, restaurants, shops, and bookstores, catering to tourists. Another neighbourhood of growing popularity is Jhamel, a name for Jhamsikhel coined to rhyme with Thamel. Jhochhen Tol, also known as Freak Street, is Kathmandu's original traveler's haunt, made popular by the hippies of the 1960s and 1970s; it remains a popular alternative to Thamel. Asan is a bazaar and ceremonial square on the old trade route to Tibet, and provides a fine example of a traditional neighbourhood.
Question: What Kathmandu neighborhood is noted for its abundance of tourists?
Answer: Thamel
Question: What neighborhood is also known as Jhamel?
Answer: Jhamsikhel
Question: What is the traditional name for Freak Street?
Answer: Jhochhen Tol
Question: What tourists first brought attention to Jhocchen Tol?
Answer: hippies |
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