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Context: The 1990s, along with a rise in object-oriented programming, saw a growth in how data in various databases were handled. Programmers and designers began to treat the data in their databases as objects. That is to say that if a person's data were in a database, that person's attributes, such as their address, phone number, and age, were now considered to belong to that person instead of being extraneous data. This allows for relations between data to be relations to objects and their attributes and not to individual fields. The term "object-relational impedance mismatch" described the inconvenience of translating between programmed objects and database tables. Object databases and object-relational databases attempt to solve this problem by providing an object-oriented language (sometimes as extensions to SQL) that programmers can use as alternative to purely relational SQL. On the programming side, libraries known as object-relational mappings (ORMs) attempt to solve the same problem.
Question: In the 1990s, what type of programming changed the handling of databases?
Answer: object-oriented
Question: What term is used for the difficulty in database table and programmed object translation?
Answer: object-relational impedance mismatch
Question: How is the problem of object-relational impedance mismatch corrected?
Answer: object-oriented language
Question: What is the library programmers use to solve object-relational impedance mismatch?
Answer: object-relational mappings (ORMs)
Question: What type of programming did not influence databases?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term is no longer used for the difficulty in database table and programmed object translation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is the problem of object-relational impedance mismatch started?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the hardware programmers use to solve object-relational impedance mismatch?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Citizens were organized on the basis of centuries and tribes, which would each gather into their own assemblies. The Comitia Centuriata ("Centuriate Assembly") was the assembly of the centuries (i.e. soldiers). The president of the Comitia Centuriata was usually a consul. The centuries would vote, one at a time, until a measure received support from a majority of the centuries. The Comitia Centuriata would elect magistrates who had imperium powers (consuls and praetors). It also elected censors. Only the Comitia Centuriata could declare war, and ratify the results of a census. It also served as the highest court of appeal in certain judicial cases.
Question: What Roman assembly elected both magistrates and censors?
Answer: Comitia Centuriata
Question: What profession of people made up the entireity of the Comitia Centuriata?
Answer: centuries
Question: Would the Comitia Centuriata occasionally be called upon to serve as the highest court of appeal?
Answer: It also served as the highest court of appeal in certain judicial cases
Question: Which elected official had imperium powers?
Answer: magistrates |
Context: In the following months, NATO took a wide range of measures to respond to the threat of terrorism. On 22 November 2002, the member states of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) decided on a Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism, which explicitly states, "EAPC States are committed to the protection and promotion of fundamental freedoms and human rights, as well as the rule of law, in combating terrorism." NATO started naval operations in the Mediterranean Sea designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction as well as to enhance the security of shipping in general called Operation Active Endeavour.
Question: Who declared the Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism?
Answer: member states of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
Question: When was the Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism announced?
Answer: 22 November 2002
Question: Where did NATO begin naval operations after 2002?
Answer: the Mediterranean Sea
Question: What was NATO's operation in the Mediterranean called?
Answer: Operation Active Endeavour
Question: What did terrorism respond to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were NATO's efforts to respond to terrorism called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What council decided to start operations in the mediterranean Sea in November 2002?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the EAPC located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What day did Operation Active Endeavour start?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century" by some historians, around 10,000,000 square miles (26,000,000 km2) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. Victory over Napoleon left Britain without any serious international rival, other than Russia in central Asia. Unchallenged at sea, Britain adopted the role of global policeman, a state of affairs later known as the Pax Britannica, and a foreign policy of "splendid isolation". Alongside the formal control it exerted over its own colonies, Britain's dominant position in world trade meant that it effectively controlled the economies of many countries, such as China, Argentina and Siam, which has been characterised by some historians as "Informal Empire".
Question: How many square miles of territory were added to the British Empire between 1815 and 1914?
Answer: 10,000,000
Question: How many people were added to the British Empire between 1815 and 1914?
Answer: 400 million
Question: Who was Britain's last serious rival after Napoleon?
Answer: Russia
Question: What was the period of Britain acting as the world's police called?
Answer: Britain's dominant position in world trade
Question: Britain's dominant position in world trade over some countries' economies has been called what?
Answer: Informal Empire |
Context: Both the Qing viceroy and the Taiping king resided in buildings that would later be known as the Presidential Palace. When Qing forces led by Zeng Guofan retook the city in 1864, a massive slaughter occurred in the city with over 100,000 estimated to have committed suicide or fought to the death. Since the Taiping Rebellion began, Qing forces allowed no rebels speaking its dialect to surrender. This policy of mass murder of civilians occurred in Nanjing.
Question: Who lived in buildings that would later come to be known as the Presidential Palace?
Answer: the Qing viceroy and the Taiping king
Question: When did Qing troops regain Nanjing?
Answer: 1864
Question: How many people died during the Qing troops retaking of Nanjing?
Answer: over 100,000
Question: Qing troops allowed no rebels who spoke what dialect to surrender?
Answer: Taiping
Question: Who was the leader of the Qing troops?
Answer: Zeng Guofan |
Context: In 1799, English Freemasonry almost came to a halt due to Parliamentary proclamation. In the wake of the French Revolution, the Unlawful Societies Act 1799 banned any meetings of groups that required their members to take an oath or obligation. The Grand Masters of both the Moderns and the Antients Grand Lodges called on Prime Minister William Pitt (who was not a Freemason) and explained to him that Freemasonry was a supporter of the law and lawfully constituted authority and was much involved in charitable work. As a result, Freemasonry was specifically exempted from the terms of the Act, provided that each private lodge's Secretary placed with the local "Clerk of the Peace" a list of the members of his lodge once a year. This continued until 1967 when the obligation of the provision was rescinded by Parliament.
Question: What put English Freemasonry at risk?
Answer: Parliamentary proclamation
Question: What did the Unlawful Socities Act ban?
Answer: meetings of groups that required their members to take an oath or obligation
Question: When was the Unlawful Socities Act implemented?
Answer: 1799
Question: What was each private lodge required to provide to the Clerk of Peace every year?
Answer: a list of the members of his lodge
Question: Who did the Grand Masters call upon to explain that Freemasonry was not an unlawful society?
Answer: Prime Minister William Pitt
Question: English Freemasonry almost came to a halt in what year?
Answer: 1799
Question: Why did English Freemasonry almost come to a halt in 1799?
Answer: Parliamentary proclamation
Question: What act was made in 1799 banning any meeting of groups that had to take an oath or obligation?
Answer: the Unlawful Societies Act 1799
Question: Who gave the Freemasons an exemption of the Act of 1799?
Answer: Prime Minister William Pitt
Question: What year did parliament rescind the exemption of 1799 given to the Freemasons?
Answer: 1967
Question: What put Canadian Freemasonry at risk?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Unlawful Societies Act encourage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Unlawful Societies Act forgotten?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was each private lodge required to provide to the Clerk of Peace every week?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did English Freemasonry almost come to a halt in 1699?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Greek cuisine is characteristic of the healthy Mediterranean diet, which is epitomized by dishes of Crete. Greek cuisine incorporates fresh ingredients into a variety of local dishes such as moussaka, stifado, Greek salad, fasolada, spanakopita and souvlaki. Some dishes can be traced back to ancient Greece like skordalia (a thick purée of walnuts, almonds, crushed garlic and olive oil), lentil soup, retsina (white or rosé wine sealed with pine resin) and pasteli (candy bar with sesame seeds baked with honey). Throughout Greece people often enjoy eating from small dishes such as meze with various dips such as tzatziki, grilled octopus and small fish, feta cheese, dolmades (rice, currants and pine kernels wrapped in vine leaves), various pulses, olives and cheese. Olive oil is added to almost every dish.
Question: What is a characteristic of the Mediterranean diet?
Answer: Greek cuisine
Question: The epitome of the Mediterranean diet are dishes from where?
Answer: Crete
Question: What food can be traced back to ancient Greece?
Answer: skordalia
Question: What is added to almost every dish in Greece?
Answer: Olive oil |
Context: Russian is notable for its distinction based on palatalization of most of the consonants. While /k/, /ɡ/, /x/ do have palatalized allophones [kʲ, ɡʲ, xʲ], only /kʲ/ might be considered a phoneme, though it is marginal and generally not considered distinctive (the only native minimal pair which argues for /kʲ/ to be a separate phoneme is "это ткёт" ([ˈɛtə tkʲɵt], 'it weaves')/"этот кот" ([ˈɛtət kot], 'this cat')). Palatalization means that the center of the tongue is raised during and after the articulation of the consonant. In the case of /tʲ/ and /dʲ/, the tongue is raised enough to produce slight frication (affricate sounds). These sounds: /t, d, ts, s, z, n and rʲ/ are dental, that is pronounced with the tip of the tongue against the teeth rather than against the alveolar ridge.
Question: What might /kʲ/ be considered?
Answer: a phoneme
Question: What is palatalization?
Answer: the center of the tongue is raised during and after the articulation of the consonant
Question: How are 'dental' sounds pronounced?
Answer: with the tip of the tongue against the teeth rather than against the alveolar ridge
Question: What might r be considered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: G is considered marginal but not considered what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only minimal pair that shows g is a separate phoneme?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does allophone mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the tongue produce with g and x?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties, is done under color of law or involves trading in influence.
Question: What is it called when government officials use their power for private gain?
Answer: Political corruption |
Context: Although the etymology of the name has been studied since the 7th century by authors like Isidore of Seville —who wrote that "Galicians are called so, because of their fair skin, as the Gauls", relating the name to the Greek word for milk—, currently scholars derive the name of the ancient Callaeci either from Proto-Indo-European *kal-n-eH2 'hill', through a local relational suffix -aik-, so meaning 'the hill (people)'; or either from Proto-Celtic *kallī- 'forest', so meaning 'the forest (people)'. In any case, Galicia, being per se a derivation of the ethnic name Kallaikói, would mean 'the land of the Galicians'.
Question: Which author wrote that "Galicians are called so, because of their fair skin, as the Gauls"?
Answer: Isidore
Question: Which original ethnic name is "Galicia" derived from?
Answer: Kallaikói
Question: What does Galicia's name mean?
Answer: the land of the Galicians |
Context: As the years went by, the three feudal lords and their extensive territories became increasingly autonomous. Finally, in 1673, Shang Kexi petitioned Kangxi for permission to retire to his hometown in Liaodong province and nominated his son as his successor. The young emperor granted his retirement, but denied the heredity of his fief. In reaction, the two other generals decided to petition for their own retirements to test Kangxi's resolve, thinking that he would not risk offending them. The move backfired as the young emperor called their bluff by accepting their requests and ordering that all three fiefdoms to be reverted to the crown.
Question: When did Kexi retire?
Answer: 1673
Question: Who did Kexi thing should take over for him?
Answer: his son
Question: What happened when Kexi, and the two other generals all retired?
Answer: all three fiefdoms to be reverted to the crown. |
Context: To the north of Africa the Tethys Sea continued to narrow. Broad shallow seas advanced across central North America (the Western Interior Seaway) and Europe, then receded late in the period, leaving thick marine deposits sandwiched between coal beds. At the peak of the Cretaceous transgression, one-third of Earth's present land area was submerged. The Cretaceous is justly famous for its chalk; indeed, more chalk formed in the Cretaceous than in any other period in the Phanerozoic. Mid-ocean ridge activity—or rather, the circulation of seawater through the enlarged ridges—enriched the oceans in calcium; this made the oceans more saturated, as well as increased the bioavailability of the element for calcareous nanoplankton. These widespread carbonates and other sedimentary deposits make the Cretaceous rock record especially fine. Famous formations from North America include the rich marine fossils of Kansas's Smoky Hill Chalk Member and the terrestrial fauna of the late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation. Other important Cretaceous exposures occur in Europe and China. In the area that is now India, massive lava beds called the Deccan Traps were laid down in the very late Cretaceous and early Paleocene.
Question: During the height of the Cretaceous transgression how much of the earths land mass was under water?
Answer: one-third
Question: What type of rock was the Cretaceous notable for forming the most amount of?
Answer: Phanerozoic
Question: The Cretaceous is a part of which geologic era?
Answer: Phanerozoic
Question: Where can one find the Smoky Hill Chalk Member?
Answer: North America
Question: Where are the Deccan Traps?
Answer: India
Question: What sea north of Africa coninued to broaden?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Early in what period did the sea recede across central North America?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Phanerozoic is part of what geological era?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What famouse lava beds are found in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On December 21, 1968, Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first humans to ride the Saturn V rocket into space on Apollo 8. They also became the first to leave low-Earth orbit and go to another celestial body, and entered lunar orbit on December 24. They made ten orbits in twenty hours, and transmitted one of the most watched TV broadcasts in history, with their Christmas Eve program from lunar orbit, that concluded with a reading from the biblical Book of Genesis. Two and a half hours after the broadcast, they fired their engine to perform the first trans-Earth injection to leave lunar orbit and return to the Earth. Apollo 8 safely landed in the Pacific ocean on December 27, in NASA's first dawn splashdown and recovery.
Question: Which three people were the first to ride the Saturn V rocket into space?
Answer: Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders
Question: What date did Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders leave Earth on the Apollo 8 mission?
Answer: December 21, 1968
Question: During what holiday, was the Apollo 8 mission broadcast from orbit?
Answer: Christmas Eve
Question: Which ocean did the Apolo 8 mission land in?
Answer: Pacific |
Context: In the 2010 general election on 6 May that year, Labour with 29.0% of the vote won the second largest number of seats (258). The Conservatives with 36.5% of the vote won the largest number of seats (307), but no party had an overall majority, meaning that Labour could still remain in power if they managed to form a coalition with at least one smaller party. However, the Labour Party would have had to form a coalition with more than one other smaller party to gain an overall majority; anything less would result in a minority government. On 10 May 2010, after talks to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats broke down, Brown announced his intention to stand down as Leader before the Labour Party Conference but a day later resigned as both Prime Minister and party leader.
Question: How many seats did Labour win in 2010?
Answer: 258
Question: How many seats did the Conservatives win?
Answer: 307
Question: WHen did Brown announce his intention to stand down?
Answer: 10 May 2010 |
Context: In the U.S., for example, copyright case law contains a substantial similarity requirement to determine whether the work was copied. Likewise, courts may require computer software to pass an Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test (AFC Test) to determine if it is too abstract to qualify for protection, or too dissimilar to an original work to be considered infringing. Software-related case law has also clarified that the amount of R&D, effort and expense put into a work's creation doesn't affect copyright protection.
Question: Which country needs a similarity requirement to determine if the work was copied?
Answer: U.S.
Question: What test might courts require software to pass to determine if it is protected or infringing?
Answer: Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test
Question: What has software case law determined about R&D, effort and expense put into creation?
Answer: doesn't affect copyright protection
Question: Which country needs a similarity requirement to determine if the work wasn't copied?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which country doesn't need a similarity requirement to determine if the work was copied?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What test might courts require hardware to pass to determine if it is protected or infringing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What test might courts require software to pass to determine if it isn't protected or infringing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has hardware case law determined about R&D, effort and expense put into creation?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Further along these lines, The ethical problems brought up by IP rights are most pertinent when it is socially valuable goods like life-saving medicines are given IP protection. While the application of IP rights can allow companies to charge higher than the marginal cost of production in order to recoup the costs of research and development, the price may exclude from the market anyone who cannot afford the cost of the product, in this case a life-saving drug. "An IPR driven regime is therefore not a regime that is conductive to the investment of R&D of products that are socially valuable to predominately poor populations".:1108–9
Question: For what type of goods are IP's ethical problems most pertinent?
Answer: socially valuable
Question: What is an example of socially valuable goods?
Answer: life-saving medicines
Question: What cost does IP rights allow companies to charge higher than?
Answer: the marginal cost of production
Question: Who might a higher price exclude from the market?
Answer: anyone who cannot afford the cost of the product
Question: What do IP rights keep companies from charging?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does an IRP driven regime encourage production of four poor populations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of goods are exempt from the ethical problems brought on by IP rights?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do IP rights keep companies from recouping?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: 155th Street is a major crosstown street considered to form the boundary between Harlem and Washington Heights. It is the northernmost of the 155 crosstown streets mapped out in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.
Question: How many crosstown streets are mapped in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811?
Answer: 155
Question: Which street is the northernmost of the streets mapped in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811?
Answer: 155th Street
Question: Which street forms the boundary between Harlem and Washington Heights?
Answer: 155th Street
Question: What document established Manhattan's numbered street grid?
Answer: Commissioner's Plan of 1811
Question: 155th Street forms the boundary between Harlem and what other neighborhood?
Answer: Washington Heights |
Context: Restrictions on media censorship were significantly eased in August 2012 following demonstrations by hundreds of protesters who wore shirts demanding that the government "Stop Killing the Press." The most significant change has come in the form that media organisations will no longer have to submit their content to a censorship board before publication. However, as explained by one editorial in the exiled press The Irrawaddy, this new "freedom" has caused some Burmese journalists to simply see the new law as an attempt to create an environment of self-censorship as journalists "are required to follow 16 guidelines towards protecting the three national causes — non-disintegration of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity, perpetuation of sovereignty — and "journalistic ethics" to ensure their stories are accurate and do not jeopardise national security." In July 2014 five journalists were sentenced to 10 years in jail after publishing a report saying the country was planning to build a new chemical weapons plant. Journalists described the jailings as a blow to the recently-won news media freedoms that had followed five decades of censorship and persecution.
Question: Have there been any changes to restrictions placed on the communications networks in Burma ?
Answer: Restrictions on media censorship were significantly eased in August 2012
Question: If communications restrictions have changed how so?
Answer: The most significant change has come in the form that media organisations will no longer have to submit their content to a censorship board before publication.
Question: What is the name of the newspaper that was banished from Burma?
Answer: The Irrawaddy
Question: What is required of commentators before publishing or airing content ?
Answer: journalists "are required to follow 16 guidelines towards protecting the three national causes
Question: What did demonstrators wear during the media rally?
Answer: wore shirts demanding that the government "Stop Killing the Press. |
Context: Other 19th-century critics, following Rousseau have accepted this differentiation between higher and lower culture, but have seen the refinement and sophistication of high culture as corrupting and unnatural developments that obscure and distort people's essential nature. These critics considered folk music (as produced by "the folk", i.e., rural, illiterate, peasants) to honestly express a natural way of life, while classical music seemed superficial and decadent. Equally, this view often portrayed indigenous peoples as "noble savages" living authentic and unblemished lives, uncomplicated and uncorrupted by the highly stratified capitalist systems of the West.
Question: What type of music did critics associate with corrupt high culture?
Answer: folk music
Question: Which type of music seemed superficial and decadent?
Answer: classical music
Question: What was another name used for the corrupted high culture of the indigenous people?
Answer: noble savages
Question: What type of music did critics associate with respected high culture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which type of music is always superficial and decadent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was there no differentiation between higher and lower culture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was another name used for the corrupted high culture of the foreign people?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Public policy and political leadership helps to "level the playing field" and drive the wider acceptance of renewable energy technologies. Countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Spain have led the way in implementing innovative policies which has driven most of the growth over the past decade. As of 2014, Germany has a commitment to the "Energiewende" transition to a sustainable energy economy, and Denmark has a commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2050. There are now 144 countries with renewable energy policy targets.
Question: What drives the wider acceptance of renewable energy technologies?
Answer: Public policy and political leadership
Question: Denmark has a committment to 100 percent renewable energy by what year?
Answer: 2050
Question: How many countries now have renewable energy policies?
Answer: 144
Question: What drives the smaller acceptance of renewable energy technologies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Denmark has a committment to 50 percent renewable energy by what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many countries don't have renewable energy policies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What will Denmark do in 2055?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The 1960 Four Power Paris Summit between President Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle collapsed because of the incident. Eisenhower refused to accede to Khrushchev's demands that he apologize. Therefore, Khrushchev would not take part in the summit. Up until this event, Eisenhower felt he had been making progress towards better relations with the Soviet Union. Nuclear arms reduction and Berlin were to have been discussed at the summit. Eisenhower stated it had all been ruined because of that "stupid U-2 business".
Question: Along with Eisenhower, Macmillan and de Gaulle, what leader attended the Four Powers Paris Summit?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Question: What did Khrushchev demand that Eisenhower do?
Answer: apologize
Question: Along with reducing nuclear weapons, what was to have been the topic of conversation at the Four Power Paris Summit?
Answer: Berlin
Question: What did Eisenhower blame for ruining the summit?
Answer: stupid U-2 business
Question: In what year was the Four Power Paris Summit intended to take place?
Answer: 1960 |
Context: Executive vice governor Wei Hong confirmed on November 21, 2008 that more than 90,000 people in total were dead or missing in the earthquake. He stated that 200,000 homes had been rebuilt, and 685,000 were under reconstruction, but 1.94 million households were still without permanent shelter. 1,300 schools had been reconstructed, with initial relocation of 25 townships, including Beichuan and Wenchuan, two of the most devastated areas. The government spent $441 billion on relief and reconstruction efforts.
Question: Who was the executive vice governor?
Answer: Wei Hong
Question: How many homes were rebuilt?
Answer: 200,000
Question: How many homes were left without permanent shelter?
Answer: 1.94 million
Question: How many schools were reconstructed?
Answer: 1,300
Question: Who spoke about the dead and missing people on November 21, 2008?
Answer: Wei Hong
Question: How many people did Wei Hong say were dead or missing?
Answer: 90,000
Question: How many homes had been rebuilt?
Answer: 200,000
Question: How many houses were still under construction?
Answer: 685,000
Question: How many families were still without permanent homes?
Answer: 1.94 million |
Context: There are also other types of museums in the city. The Museo del Gaucho y de la Moneda, located in the Centro, has distinctive displays of the historical culture of Uruguay's gauchos, their horse gear, silver work and mate (tea), gourds, and bombillas (drinking straws) in odd designs. The Museo Naval, is located on the eastern waterfront in Buceo and offers exhibits depicting the maritime history of Uruguay. The Museo del Automóvil, belonging to the Automobile Club of Uruguay, has a rich collection of vintage cars which includes a 1910 Hupmobile. The Museo y Parque Fernando García in Carrasco, a transport and automobile museum, includes old horse carriages and some early automobiles. The Castillo Pittamiglio, with an unusual façade, highlights the eccentric legacy of Humberto Pittamiglio, local alchemist and architect.
Question: Where is the Museo de Guacho y de la Moneda located?
Answer: the Centro
Question: What are bombillas?
Answer: (drinking straws
Question: Where is the Museo Naval located?
Answer: the eastern waterfront in Buceo
Question: Where is the Museo y Parque Fernando Garcia located?
Answer: Carrasco |
Context: Two contrasting viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe—a dimension independent of events, in which events occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.
Question: According to one of the main viewpoints of time, time is part of the fundamental structure of what?
Answer: the universe
Question: The realist view of time is sometimes referred to as what?
Answer: Newtonian time
Question: What does the opposing view of time believe time is a part of?
Answer: a fundamental intellectual structure
Question: Who is divided about the structure of the universe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what order did Gottfried Leibniz believe events occur?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of time did Gottfried Leibniz believe in, as a supporter of Sir Isaac Newton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How was Immanuel Kant described, since he also believed in Newtonian time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Sir Issac Newton believe that you could not do in time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: According to one of the main viewpoints of time, time is part of the view of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the realest view of time sometimes known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the opposing view of time believe the universe is a part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who subscribed to the opposing view?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who believe time is neither a structure or a view?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: While christian festivals such as corpus christi were church-sanctioned celebrations, Carnival was also a manifestation of European folk culture. In the Christian tradition the fasting is to commemorate the 40 days that Jesus fasted in the desert according to the New Testament and also to reflect on Christian values. As with many other Christian festivals such as Christmas which was originally a pagan midwinter festival, the Christian church has found it easier to turn the pagan Carnaval in a catholic tradition than to eliminate it. Unlike today, carnival in the Middle Ages took not just a few days, but it covered almost the entire period between Christmas and the beginning of Lent. In those two months, several Catholic holidays were seized by the Catholic population as an outlet for their daily frustrations.
Question: What was one of the festivals sanctioned by the church?
Answer: corpus christi
Question: Carnival was also a result of what area's folk culture?
Answer: European
Question: How many days is Jesus traditionally said to have fasted in the desert?
Answer: 40
Question: What pagan midwinter festival did the church find easier to subvert than eliminate?
Answer: Christmas
Question: Why were multiple holidays seized by the Catholic population?
Answer: outlet for their daily frustrations |
Context: According to Sahih al-Bukhari, the Quran was recited among Levantines and Iraqis, and discussed by Christians and Jews, before it was standardized. Its language was similar to the Syriac language.[citation needed] The Quran recounts stories of many of the people and events recounted in Jewish and Christian sacred books (Tanakh, Bible) and devotional literature (Apocrypha, Midrash), although it differs in many details. Adam, Enoch, Noah, Eber, Shelah, Abraham, Lot, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Jethro, David, Solomon, Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Aaron, Moses, Zechariah, John the Baptist and Jesus are mentioned in the Quran as prophets of God (see Prophets of Islam). In fact, Moses is mentioned more in the Quran than any other individual. Jesus is mentioned more often in the Quran than Muhammad, while Mary is mentioned in the Quran more than the New Testament. Muslims believe the common elements or resemblances between the Bible and other Jewish and Christian writings and Islamic dispensations is due to their common divine source,[citation needed] and that the original Christian or Jewish texts were authentic divine revelations given to prophets.
Question: Which Biblical character is the most often mentioned person in the Quran?
Answer: Moses
Question: Who has claimed that Christians and Jews had heard and discussed the Quran before it took on its standardized Arabic form?
Answer: Sahih al-Bukhari
Question: Which older language is thought to strongly resemble that of the Quran?
Answer: Syriac
Question: Which relative of Jesus appears more often in the Quran than the New Testament?
Answer: Mary
Question: What do devout Muslims believe is the reason for the overlap of events and characters in the Bible and Quran?
Answer: common divine source
Question: Which Biblical character is the least often mentioned person in the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who hasn't claimed that Christians and Jews had heard and discussed the Quran before it took on its standardized Arabic form?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which older language is thought to weakly resemble that of the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which relative of Jesus appears less often in the Quran than the New Testament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do devout Muslims believe is the reason for no overlap of events and characters in the Bible and Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Southampton's police service is provided by Hampshire Constabulary. The main base of the Southampton operation is a new, eight storey purpose-built building which cost £30 million to construct. The building, located on Southern Road, opened in 2011 and is near to Southampton Central railway station. Previously, the central Southampton operation was located within the west wing of the Civic Centre, however the ageing facilities and the plans of constructing a new museum in the old police station and magistrates court necessitated the move. There are additional police stations at Portswood, Banister Park, Bitterne, and Shirley as well as a British Transport Police station at Southampton Central railway station.
Question: Who is responsible for policing Southampton?
Answer: Hampshire Constabulary
Question: How much did it cost to build the operations base of Southampton's police service?
Answer: £30 million
Question: On what street in Southampton is the police headquarters for the city?
Answer: Southern Road
Question: What year did the brand new, eight-story police headquarters open?
Answer: 2011
Question: What train station is close to the police force's building?
Answer: Southampton Central |
Context: More than half of the Jews live in the Diaspora (see Population table). Currently, the largest Jewish community outside Israel, and either the largest or second-largest Jewish community in the world, is located in the United States, with 5.2 million to 6.4 million Jews by various estimates. Elsewhere in the Americas, there are also large Jewish populations in Canada (315,000), Argentina (180,000-300,000), and Brazil (196,000-600,000), and smaller populations in Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and several other countries (see History of the Jews in Latin America). Demographers disagree on whether the United States has a larger Jewish population than Israel, with many maintaining that Israel surpassed the United States in Jewish population during the 2000s, while others maintain that the United States still has the largest Jewish population in the world. Currently, a major national Jewish population survey is planned to ascertain whether or not Israel has overtaken the United States in Jewish population.
Question: More than half of the Jews live where?
Answer: Diaspora
Question: How many Jews live in Canada?
Answer: 315,000
Question: How many Jews live in Argentina?
Answer: 180,000-300,000
Question: How many Jews live in Brazil?
Answer: 196,000-600,000
Question: Where do less than half of Jews live?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the smallest Jewish community located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Jews live in Mexico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do demographers agree on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the United States surpass Israel in Jewish population?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: New chemical glass compositions or new treatment techniques can be initially investigated in small-scale laboratory experiments. The raw materials for laboratory-scale glass melts are often different from those used in mass production because the cost factor has a low priority. In the laboratory mostly pure chemicals are used. Care must be taken that the raw materials have not reacted with moisture or other chemicals in the environment (such as alkali or alkaline earth metal oxides and hydroxides, or boron oxide), or that the impurities are quantified (loss on ignition). Evaporation losses during glass melting should be considered during the selection of the raw materials, e.g., sodium selenite may be preferred over easily evaporating SeO2. Also, more readily reacting raw materials may be preferred over relatively inert ones, such as Al(OH)3 over Al2O3. Usually, the melts are carried out in platinum crucibles to reduce contamination from the crucible material. Glass homogeneity is achieved by homogenizing the raw materials mixture (glass batch), by stirring the melt, and by crushing and re-melting the first melt. The obtained glass is usually annealed to prevent breakage during processing.
Question: What material is useful in glassmaking because of its slow evaporation?
Answer: sodium selenite
Question: What containers are used for melting?
Answer: platinum crucibles
Question: Why are different materials used in a lab than are used in factory production?
Answer: the cost factor has a low priority
Question: What is the reason for crushing the glass and melting it again?
Answer: homogeneity
Question: Why is glass annealed?
Answer: to prevent breakage
Question: What meterial is useful in glassmaking because of its hydroxides?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What containers are used for evaporation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are different materials used in a lab than are used in the environment?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the reason for crushing the glass by chemicals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is glass evaporated?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Later genetic studies strongly supported dogs and gray wolves forming two sister monophyletic clades within the one species, and that the common ancestor of dogs and extant wolves is extinct.
Question: What indicated dogs and gray wolves developed as two monophyletic clades?
Answer: genetic studies
Question: The common relative of dogs and existing wolves is now considered what?
Answer: extinct. |
Context: As the century wore on, the factions slowly began to adopt more coherent political tendencies as the interests of their power bases began to diverge. The Whig party's initial base of support from the great aristocratic families, widened to include the emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants. As well as championing constitutional monarchy with strict limits on the monarch's power, the Whigs adamantly opposed a Catholic king as a threat to liberty, and believed in extending toleration to nonconformist Protestants, or dissenters. A major influence on the Whigs were the liberal political ideas of John Locke, and the concepts of universal rights employed by Locke and Algernon Sidney.
Question: Who's liberal political ideas influenced the Whigs?
Answer: John Locke
Question: Name the two people who's concepts of universal rights influenced the Whigs.
Answer: Locke and Algernon Sidney
Question: Did the Whigs want to limit the monarch's power?
Answer: championing constitutional monarchy with strict limits on the monarch's power
Question: Did the Whigs support or oppose the Catholic king?
Answer: the Whigs adamantly opposed a Catholic king as a threat to liberty
Question: What was Algernon Sidney considered a threat to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Algernon Sidney want to be tolerant towards?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's concepts of universal rights influenced wealthy merchants?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did wealthy merchants want to put strict limits on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of political ideas did a Catholic king support?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the same court battle, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over 12 terabytes of data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site. The decision was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which called the court ruling "a setback to privacy rights". In June 2010, Viacom's lawsuit against Google was rejected in a summary judgment, with U.S. federal Judge Louis L. Stanton stating that Google was protected by provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Viacom announced its intention to appeal the ruling.
Question: How much data did youtube have to hand over to Viacom as a result of the lawsuit?
Answer: 12 terabytes
Question: Which organization spoke against the courts ruling?
Answer: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Question: What did Viacom plan to do after the ruling in 2010?
Answer: appeal
Question: What happened to Viacom's lawsuit in 2010?
Answer: rejected in a summary judgment
Question: Who was the residing judge of the lawsuit?
Answer: Louis L. Stanton
Question: Who won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over 10 terabytes of data?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose lawsuit was rejected in June 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose lawsuit was rejected when Judge Stanton L. Louis cited protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company did the Millennium Copyright Digital Act end up protecting?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The assumption of the use of a two-beamed cross does not determine the number of nails used in the crucifixion and some theories suggest three nails while others suggest four nails. However, throughout history larger numbers of nails have been hypothesized, at times as high as 14 nails. These variations are also present in the artistic depictions of the crucifixion. In the Western Church, before the Renaissance usually four nails would be depicted, with the feet side by side. After the Renaissance most depictions use three nails, with one foot placed on the other. Nails are almost always depicted in art, although Romans sometimes just tied the victims to the cross. The tradition also carries to Christian emblems, e.g. the Jesuits use three nails under the IHS monogram and a cross to symbolize the crucifixion.
Question: How many nails were suggested they used for the crucifixion?
Answer: three nails
Question: According to some sources, what is theorized to be the maximum nails used?
Answer: 14 nails
Question: What adds to the confusion of the number of nails used?
Answer: artistic depictions of the crucifixion
Question: What do all artworks have in common regarding the crucifixion?
Answer: Nails are almost always depicted
Question: Jesuits claim how many nails were used?
Answer: three nails
Question: How many paintings have been made about the crucifixion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Before the Renaissance where did Jesuits usually place their art?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What artistic medium was appreciated by Romans?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: There were 14 western churches before what period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are Romans usually depicted in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Baker v. Carr (1962) decision of the US Supreme Court established the principle of "one man, one vote", requiring state legislatures to redistrict to bring Congressional apportionment in line with decennial censuses. It also required both houses of state legislatures to be based on population for representation and not geographic districts such as counties. This case arose out of a lawsuit challenging the longstanding rural bias of apportionment of seats in the Tennessee legislature. After decades in which urban populations had been underrepresented in many state legislatures, this significant ruling led to an increased (and proportional) prominence in state politics by urban and, eventually, suburban, legislators and statewide officeholders in relation to their population within the state. The ruling also applied to numerous other states long controlled by rural minorities, such as Alabama, Vermont, and Montana.
Question: Which 1962 US Supreme Court ruling forced states to realign their voting districts to reflect census findings?
Answer: Baker v. Carr
Question: What phrase expresses the Supreme Court's 1962 decision that population overrules geographic consideration in election districting?
Answer: one man, one vote
Question: A bias in Tennessee politics favoring which type of geographical district gave rise to the Baker v. Carr Supreme Court case?
Answer: rural
Question: Which type of geographical district became more powerful in Tennessee politics following the 1962 Supreme Court decision?
Answer: urban |
Context: Following the adoption of UN Resolution 390A(V) in December 1950, Eritrea was federated with Ethiopia under the prompting of the United States. The resolution called for Eritrea and Ethiopia to be linked through a loose federal structure under the sovereignty of the Emperor. Eritrea was to have its own administrative and judicial structure, its own flag, and control over its domestic affairs, including police, local administration, and taxation. The federal government, which for all intents and purposes was the existing imperial government, was to control foreign affairs (including commerce), defense, finance, and transportation. The resolution ignored the wishes of Eritreans for independence, but guaranteed the population democratic rights and a measure of autonomy.
Question: Who prompted Eritrea to be federated with Ethiopia in 1950?
Answer: United States
Question: Which UN Resolution called for Eritrea and Ethiopia to be linked via a loose federal structure under sovereignty of the Emperor?
Answer: 390A(V)
Question: What would federal government control in Eritrea according to Resolution 390A(V)??
Answer: foreign affairs (including commerce), defense, finance, and transportation
Question: Which Eritrean wishes did Resolution 390A(V) ignore?
Answer: independence
Question: What did Resolution 390A(V) guarantee the population of Eritrea?
Answer: democratic rights and a measure of autonomy
Question: What country was being led by an Emperor in 1950?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Eritrean wishes did UN Resolution 390A(V) fulfill?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What UN Resolution was adopted in November 1950?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What rights did UN Resolution 390A(V) give to Ethiopians?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The pre-Socratics were among the first recorded speculators about the underlying nature of the visible world. Thales (c. 624 BC–c. 546 BC) regarded water as the fundamental material of the world. Anaximander (c. 610 BC–c. 546 BC) posited that the basic material was wholly characterless or limitless: the Infinite (apeiron). Anaximenes (flourished 585 BC, d. 528 BC) posited that the basic stuff was pneuma or air. Heraclitus (c. 535–c. 475 BC) seems to say the basic element is fire, though perhaps he means that all is change. Empedocles (c. 490–430 BC) spoke of four elements of which everything was made: earth, water, air, and fire. Meanwhile, Parmenides argued that change does not exist, and Democritus argued that everything is composed of minuscule, inert bodies of all shapes called atoms, a philosophy called atomism. All of these notions had deep philosophical problems.
Question: When did Socratics live?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Parmenides believe was the fundamental material of the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name for the philosophical problems of understanding the nature of the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many elements did Democritus name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Parmenides say everything was made of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: However, the lifecycles of most living polychaetes, which are almost all marine animals, are unknown, and only about 25% of the 300+ species whose lifecycles are known follow this pattern. About 14% use a similar external fertilization but produce yolk-rich eggs, which reduce the time the larva needs to spend among the plankton, or eggs from which miniature adults emerge rather than larvae. The rest care for the fertilized eggs until they hatch – some by producing jelly-covered masses of eggs which they tend, some by attaching the eggs to their bodies and a few species by keeping the eggs within their bodies until they hatch. These species use a variety of methods for sperm transfer; for example, in some the females collect sperm released into the water, while in others the males have a penis that inject sperm into the female. There is no guarantee that this is a representative sample of polychaetes' reproductive patterns, and it simply reflects scientists' current knowledge.
Question: How many species of polychaetes have known lifecycles?
Answer: about 25%
Question: What percent of polychaetes produce yolk-rich eggs?
Answer: 14%
Question: What is the benefit of yolk-rich eggs?
Answer: reduce the time the larva needs to spend among the plankton
Question: What are most polychaetes' eggs covered in?
Answer: jelly
Question: How many species of polychaetes have impossible lifecycles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of polychaetes produce milk?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the benefit of rotten eggs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are all polychaetes' eggs covered in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Xbox 360's advantage over its competitors was due to the release of high profile titles from both first party and third party developers. The 2007 Game Critics Awards honored the platform with 38 nominations and 12 wins – more than any other platform. By March 2008, the Xbox 360 had reached a software attach rate of 7.5 games per console in the US; the rate was 7.0 in Europe, while its competitors were 3.8 (PS3) and 3.5 (Wii), according to Microsoft. At the 2008 Game Developers Conference, Microsoft announced that it expected over 1,000 games available for Xbox 360 by the end of the year. As well as enjoying exclusives such as additions to the Halo franchise and Gears of War, the Xbox 360 has managed to gain a simultaneous release of titles that were initially planned to be PS3 exclusives, including Devil May Cry, Ace Combat, Virtua Fighter, Grand Theft Auto IV, Final Fantasy XIII, Tekken 6, Metal Gear Solid : Rising, and L.A. Noire. In addition, Xbox 360 versions of cross-platform games were generally considered superior to their PS3 counterparts in 2006 and 2007, due in part to the difficulties of programming for the PS3.
Question: What was the software attach rate in the US for the 360 by March of 2008?
Answer: 7.5 games per console in the US
Question: What are two prominent 360 exclusive franchises?
Answer: the Halo franchise and Gears of War
Question: Why were early multi-platform games considered superior on the 360?
Answer: the difficulties of programming for the PS3
Question: The 360 earned 38 nominations and 12 wins from what organization in 2007?
Answer: Game Critics Awards
Question: Microsoft hoped to have how many titles available for the 360 by the end of 2008?
Answer: over 1,000
Question: How many games were available for the Xbox in 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many nominations did the PS3 receive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many awards did the Wii win?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many games did the average person in Europe have for the PS3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What PS3 exclusives launched in 2006 that the the Xbox 360 did not have access to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With its myriad islands, Alaska has nearly 34,000 miles (54,720 km) of tidal shoreline. The Aleutian Islands chain extends west from the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula. Many active volcanoes are found in the Aleutians and in coastal regions. Unimak Island, for example, is home to Mount Shishaldin, which is an occasionally smoldering volcano that rises to 10,000 feet (3,048 m) above the North Pacific. It is the most perfect volcanic cone on Earth, even more symmetrical than Japan's Mount Fuji. The chain of volcanoes extends to Mount Spurr, west of Anchorage on the mainland. Geologists have identified Alaska as part of Wrangellia, a large region consisting of multiple states and Canadian provinces in the Pacific Northwest, which is actively undergoing continent building.
Question: How much tidal shoreline does Alaska have in miles?
Answer: nearly 34,000 miles
Question: On which island is Mount Shishaldin located?
Answer: Unimak Island
Question: What do geoligists believe is unique about Wrangellia?
Answer: actively undergoing continent building
Question: What is most impressive about Mount Shishaldin in comparison to Mount Fuji?
Answer: most perfect volcanic cone on Earth
Question: How high does Mount Shishaldin rise above sea level?
Answer: 10,000 feet (3,048 m)
Question: How much tidal shoreline doesn't Alaska have in miles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On which island isn't Mount Shishaldin located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do geoligists believe isn't unique about Wrangellia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is least impressive about Mount Shishaldin in comparison to Mount Fuji?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How high does Mount Shishaldin rise below sea level?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From the 8th to the 10th century, three dynasties contested for control of northern India: the Gurjara Pratiharas of Malwa, the Palas of Bengal, and the Rashtrakutas of the Deccan. The Sena dynasty would later assume control of the Pala Empire, and the Gurjara Pratiharas fragmented into various states. These were the first of the Rajput states. The first recorded Rajput kingdoms emerged in Rajasthan in the 6th century, and small Rajput dynasties later ruled much of northern India. One Gurjar Rajput of the Chauhan clan, Prithvi Raj Chauhan, was known for bloody conflicts against the advancing Turkic sultanates. The Chola empire emerged as a major power during the reign of Raja Raja Chola I and Rajendra Chola I who successfully invaded parts of Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka in the 11th century. Lalitaditya Muktapida (r. 724 CE–760 CE) was an emperor of the Kashmiri Karkoṭa dynasty, which exercised influence in northwestern India from 625 CE until 1003, and was followed by Lohara dynasty. He is known primarily for his successful battles against the Muslim and Tibetan advances into Kashmiri-dominated regions. Kalhana in his Rajatarangini credits king Lalitaditya with leading an aggressive military campaign in Northern India and Central Asia. He broke into the Uttarapatha and defeated the rebellious tribes of the Kambojas, Tukharas (Turks in Turkmenistan and Tocharians in Badakhshan), Bhautas (Tibetans in Baltistan and Tibet) and Daradas (Dards). His campaign then led him to subjugate the kingdoms of Pragjyotisha, Strirajya and the Uttarakurus. The Shahi dynasty ruled portions of eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and Kashmir from the mid-7th century to the early 11th century.
Question: How many dynasties fought for control from the 8th to the 10th century?
Answer: three
Question: When did the first Rajput kingdoms emerge in India?
Answer: 6th century
Question: What Rajput ruler was known for his conflicts with the Turkic sultanates?
Answer: Prithvi Raj Chauhan
Question: In what century did the Chola Empire emerge?
Answer: 11th century
Question: Who was emperor of the Kashmiri Karkota dynasty?
Answer: Lalitaditya Muktapida |
Context: The period saw the growth of a distinct and trained architectural profession; before the mid-century "the high-sounding title, 'architect' was adopted by anyone who could get away with it". But most buildings were still designed by builders and landlords together, and the wide spread of Georgian architecture, and the Georgian styles of design more generally, came from dissemination through pattern books and inexpensive suites of engravings. This contrasted with earlier styles, which were primarily disseminated among craftsmen through the direct experience of the apprenticeship system. Authors such as the prolific William Halfpenny (active 1723–1755) received editions in America as well as Britain. From the mid-18th century, Georgian styles were assimilated into an architectural vernacular that became part and parcel of the training of every architect, designer, builder, carpenter, mason and plasterer, from Edinburgh to Maryland.
Question: What high sounding title was adopted by anyone who could get away with it?
Answer: architect
Question: How did most Georgian design styles disseminate?
Answer: pattern books and inexpensive suites of engravings
Question: How did styles disseminate before Georgian architecture?
Answer: the apprenticeship system
Question: Which American author received editions of Georgian architecture?
Answer: William Halfpenny
Question: What years were William Halfpenny active?
Answer: 1723–1755
Question: What high sounding title was reserved for professionals before the mid-century??
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After what time did anybody you could get away with using the title architect do so?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did landowners still design?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What style of architecture disseminated through the new professional architecture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: From what century on the architect's and craftsmen stop learning the Georgian style?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Most beers are cleared of yeast by filtering when packaged in bottles and cans. However, bottle conditioned beers retain some yeast—either by being unfiltered, or by being filtered and then reseeded with fresh yeast. It is usually recommended that the beer be poured slowly, leaving any yeast sediment at the bottom of the bottle. However, some drinkers prefer to pour in the yeast; this practice is customary with wheat beers. Typically, when serving a hefeweizen wheat beer, 90% of the contents are poured, and the remainder is swirled to suspend the sediment before pouring it into the glass. Alternatively, the bottle may be inverted prior to opening. Glass bottles are always used for bottle conditioned beers.
Question: What kind of containers are used for bottle conditioned beers?
Answer: Glass bottles
Question: What do bottle conditioned beers contain that most fears do not?
Answer: yeast
Question: What ingredient is filtered out of most beers when it is packaged in bottles and cans?
Answer: yeast
Question: What are the recommendations for pouring bottle conditioned beers?
Answer: slowly
Question: What type of bottle conditioned beer is customarily poured with the yeast in it?
Answer: wheat beers
Question: Filtering clears all beers of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is yeast left when serving a hefeweizen wheet beer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens to 9% of the contents of a hefeweizen?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: iPod batteries are not designed to be removed or replaced by the user, although some users have been able to open the case themselves, usually following instructions from third-party vendors of iPod replacement batteries. Compounding the problem, Apple initially would not replace worn-out batteries. The official policy was that the customer should buy a refurbished replacement iPod, at a cost almost equivalent to a brand new one. All lithium-ion batteries lose capacity during their lifetime even when not in use (guidelines are available for prolonging life-span) and this situation led to a market for third-party battery replacement kits.
Question: Whose directions can be followed to interact with iPod batteries?
Answer: third-party vendors
Question: What did Apple originally tell consumers to purchase when their iPod batteries no longer worked?
Answer: refurbished replacement iPod
Question: What kind of battery does the iPod use?
Answer: lithium-ion
Question: Which iPod component did Apple somewhat inconveniently made non-replaceable?
Answer: batteries
Question: What type of rechargeable battery does Apple use in its iPods?
Answer: lithium-ion |
Context: Birds fly at varying altitudes during migration. An expedition to Mt. Everest found skeletons of northern pintail Anas acuta and black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa at 5,000 m (16,000 ft) on the Khumbu Glacier. Bar-headed geese Anser indicus have been recorded by GPS flying at up to 6,540 metres (21,460 ft) while crossing the Himalayas, at the same time engaging in the highest rates of climb to altitude for any bird. Anecdotal reports of them flying much higher have yet to be corroborated with any direct evidence. Seabirds fly low over water but gain altitude when crossing land, and the reverse pattern is seen in landbirds. However most bird migration is in the range of 150 to 600 m (490 to 1,970 ft). Bird strike aviation records from the United States show most collisions occur below 600 m (2,000 ft) and almost none above 1,800 m (5,900 ft).
Question: What part of birds was found on an expedition to Mt. Everest?
Answer: skeletons
Question: Which birds have the highest rates of climb to altitude?
Answer: Bar-headed geese Anser indicus
Question: What kind of birds fly low over water?
Answer: Seabirds
Question: What altitude range is most migration recorded?
Answer: 150 to 600 m
Question: Where do most in air collisions occur?
Answer: below 600 m |
Context: Florida i/ˈflɒrɪdə/ (Spanish for "flowery land") is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida and the sovereign state of Cuba. Florida is the 22nd most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 8th most densely populated of the United States. Jacksonville is the most populous city in Florida, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Miami metropolitan area is the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Tallahassee is the state capital.
Question: What does Florida stand for
Answer: Florida i/ˈflɒrɪdə/ (Spanish for "flowery land")
Question: What states border Florida
Answer: to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida
Question: What is the state capital of Florida
Answer: Tallahassee is the state capital
Question: Where does Florida rank in US population
Answer: the 3rd most populous
Question: What city has the most people in Florida
Answer: Jacksonville is the most populous city in Florida
Question: What does Florida mean in French?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What state is located in the Northeastern region of the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not the state capital of Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the fourth most populous state in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city in Florida has the least amount of people?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The etymological equivalent is in use in other languages, e.g., يَهُودِيّ yahūdī (sg.), al-yahūd (pl.), and بَنُو اِسرَائِيل banū isrāʼīl in Arabic, "Jude" in German, "judeu" in Portuguese, "juif" in French, "jøde" in Danish and Norwegian, "judío" in Spanish, "jood" in Dutch, etc., but derivations of the word "Hebrew" are also in use to describe a Jew, e.g., in Italian (Ebreo), in Persian ("Ebri/Ebrani" (Persian: عبری/عبرانی)) and Russian (Еврей, Yevrey). The German word "Jude" is pronounced [ˈjuːdə], the corresponding adjective "jüdisch" [ˈjyːdɪʃ] (Jewish) is the origin of the word "Yiddish". (See Jewish ethnonyms for a full overview.)
Question: What is the origin of the word Yiddish?
Answer: Jude
Question: What is another word to describe a Jew?
Answer: Ebreo
Question: What is a Russian word used to describe a Jew?
Answer: Еврей, Yevrey
Question: Ebreo is an Italian word derivation of what word?
Answer: Hebrew
Question: How do you say Hebrew in German?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do you say Hebrew in Portuguese?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do you say Hebrew in French?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What German word is the origin of the word "Hebrew"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do you say Yiddish in Italian?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States and has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the eastern hemisphere. Alaska is the only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; about 500 miles (800 km) of British Columbia (Canada) separates Alaska from Washington. It is technically part of the continental U.S., but is sometimes not included in colloquial use; Alaska is not part of the contiguous U.S., often called "the Lower 48". The capital city, Juneau, is situated on the mainland of the North American continent but is not connected by road to the rest of the North American highway system.
Question: What are the contiguous states sometimes called?
Answer: "the Lower 48"
Question: What is Alaska's capital city?
Answer: Juneau
Question: How many miles are between Alaska and Washington state?
Answer: 500
Question: Which set of islands extend into the Eastern Hemisphere?
Answer: Aleutian Islands
Question: What are the contiguous states always called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What aren't the contiguous states sometimes called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't Alaska's capital city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many miles are between Alaska and Washington DC?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which set of islands stop before the Eastern Hemisphere?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first legal steps taken to end the occurrence of child labour was enacted more than fifty years ago. In 1966, the nation adopted the UN General Assembly of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This act legally limited the minimum age for when children could start work at the age of 14. But 23 years later in 1989 the Convention on the Rights of Children was adopted and helped to reduce the exploitation of children and demanded safe working environments. They all worked towards the goal of ending the most problematic forms of child labour.
Question: When was the UN General Assembly of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enacted?
Answer: 1966
Question: What did this act due?
Answer: legally limited the minimum age for when children could start work at the age of 14
Question: When were safe working environments legislation adopted for child labourers?
Answer: 1989
Question: What did it help do to?
Answer: helped to reduce the exploitation of children |
Context: Neptune is similar in composition to Uranus, and both have compositions that differ from those of the larger gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. Like Jupiter and Saturn, Neptune's atmosphere is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, along with traces of hydrocarbons and possibly nitrogen, but contains a higher proportion of "ices" such as water, ammonia, and methane. However, its interior, like that of Uranus, is primarily composed of ices and rock, and hence Uranus and Neptune are normally considered "ice giants" to emphasise this distinction. Traces of methane in the outermost regions in part account for the planet's blue appearance.
Question: Which planet is compositionally similar to Neptune?
Answer: Uranus
Question: What is Neptune's atmosphere primarily composed of?
Answer: hydrogen and helium
Question: What is the interior of Neptune composed of?
Answer: ices and rock
Question: What makes Neptune blue?
Answer: methane
Question: What "ices" makes up Neptune?
Answer: water, ammonia, and methane
Question: What other 2 gas Giants is Neptune similar to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What gas besides oxygen makes up the atmosphere of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: what color does helium make neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which planet is compositionally different than Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Neptune's atmosphere never composed of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the exterior of Neptune composed of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What makes Neptune red?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What "rain" makes up Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Long before the exemption is considered by the Endangered Species Committee, the Forest Service, and either the FWS or the NMFS will have consulted on the biological implications of the timber harvest. The consultation can be informal, to determine if harm may occur; and then formal if the harm is believed to be likely. The questions to be answered in these consultations are whether the species will be harmed, whether the habitat will be harmed and if the action will aid or hinder the recovery of the listed species.
Question: Who reviews exemption considerations before the Endangered Species committee?
Answer: the Forest Service, and either the FWS or the NMFS
Question: During informal consultation, what is the goal?
Answer: to determine if harm may occur
Question: What prompts the need for formal consultation?
Answer: if the harm is believed to be likely
Question: What considerations are weighed during the consultations?
Answer: whether the species will be harmed, whether the habitat will be harmed and if the action will aid or hinder the recovery
Question: Who is consulted after the Endangered Species Committee?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What implications does the Endangered Species Committee consider?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of consultation is used if harm is not going to occur?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of consultation does the Endangered Species use when harm is likely?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is consulted before going to the FWS and Forest Service?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Britain's fears of war with Germany were realised in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War. Britain quickly invaded and occupied most of Germany's overseas colonies in Africa. In the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand occupied German New Guinea and Samoa respectively. Plans for a post-war division of the Ottoman Empire, which had joined the war on Germany's side, were secretly drawn up by Britain and France under the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement. This agreement was not divulged to the Sharif of Mecca, who the British had been encouraging to launch an Arab revolt against their Ottoman rulers, giving the impression that Britain was supporting the creation of an independent Arab state.
Question: When did the First World War begin?
Answer: 1914
Question: When WW1 began, Britain took the opportunity to take over most of which country's colonies?
Answer: Germany
Question: Who took over German New Guinea?
Answer: Australia
Question: Who took over Samoa?
Answer: Sykes–Picot Agreement
Question: The Sykes–Picot Agreement was signed in what year?
Answer: 1916 |
Context: The assertions of Chinese philosophy began to integrate concepts of Western philosophy, as steps toward modernization. By the time of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, there were many calls, such as the May Fourth Movement, to completely abolish the old imperial institutions and practices of China. There were attempts to incorporate democracy, republicanism, and industrialism into Chinese philosophy, notably by Sun Yat-Sen (Sūn yì xiān, in one Mandarin form of the name) at the beginning of the 20th century. Mao Zedong (Máo zé dōng) added Marxist-Leninist thought. When the Communist Party of China took over power, previous schools of thought, excepting notably Legalism, were denounced as backward, and later even purged during the Cultural Revolution.
Question: Why did Chinese philosophy begin to mix with western concepts?
Answer: as steps toward modernization
Question: When did the Xinhai Revolution begin?
Answer: 1911
Question: What is the May Forth Movement?
Answer: to completely abolish the old imperial institutions and practices of China
Question: What did Marxist-Leninst add to Chinese philosophy?
Answer: Marxist-Leninist thought
Question: During what event was Legalism abolished?
Answer: the Cultural Revolution |
Context: During the war years Universal did have a co-production arrangement with producer Walter Wanger and his partner, director Fritz Lang, lending the studio some amount of prestige productions. Universal's core audience base was still found in the neighborhood movie theaters, and the studio continued to please the public with low- to medium-budget films. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in new Sherlock Holmes mysteries (1942–46), teenage musicals with Gloria Jean, Donald O'Connor, and Peggy Ryan (1942–43), and screen adaptations of radio's Inner Sanctum Mysteries with Lon Chaney, Jr. (1943–45). Alfred Hitchcock was also borrowed for two films from Selznick International Pictures: Saboteur (1942) and Shadow of a Doubt (1943).
Question: Who was the directorial partner of Walter Wanger?
Answer: Fritz Lang
Question: In what period did Basil Rathbone star in a series of Sherlock Holmes films?
Answer: 1942–46
Question: In what period did film versions of Inner Sanctum Mysteries appear?
Answer: 1943–45
Question: What was the studio that Alfred Hitchcock normally worked for?
Answer: Selznick International Pictures
Question: In what year was Shadow of a Doubt produced?
Answer: 1943
Question: Who partnered with Walter Lang and Fritz Wanger during the war years?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Basil Bruce and Nigel Rathbone star in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of productions did Gloria Ryan and Peggy Jean star in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was borrowed for two films from Selznick Pictures International?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who starred in Inner Mysteries Sanctum?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first road connecting the city to the mainland at Pleasantville was completed in 1870 and charged a 30-cent toll. Albany Avenue was the first road to the mainland that was available without a toll.
Question: The first road connected Atlantic City to which mainland town?
Answer: Pleasantville
Question: The first road that connected Atlantic City to the mainland was completed in what year?
Answer: 1870
Question: How much of a toll was charged on the first road to connect Atlantic City to the mainland?
Answer: 30-cent
Question: What was the name of the first road to the mainland that did not charge a toll?
Answer: Albany Avenue |
Context: Following the Ulm Campaign, French forces managed to capture Vienna in November. The fall of Vienna provided the French a huge bounty as they captured 100,000 muskets, 500 cannons, and the intact bridges across the Danube. At this critical juncture, both Tsar Alexander I and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II decided to engage Napoleon in battle, despite reservations from some of their subordinates. Napoleon sent his army north in pursuit of the Allies, but then ordered his forces to retreat so that he could feign a grave weakness. Desperate to lure the Allies into battle, Napoleon gave every indication in the days preceding the engagement that the French army was in a pitiful state, even abandoning the dominant Pratzen Heights near the village of Austerlitz. At the Battle of Austerlitz, in Moravia on 2 December, he deployed the French army below the Pratzen Heights and deliberately weakened his right flank, enticing the Allies to launch a major assault there in the hopes of rolling up the whole French line. A forced march from Vienna by Marshal Davout and his III Corps plugged the gap left by Napoleon just in time. Meanwhile, the heavy Allied deployment against the French right weakened their center on the Pratzen Heights, which was viciously attacked by the IV Corps of Marshal Soult. With the Allied center demolished, the French swept through both enemy flanks and sent the Allies fleeing chaotically, capturing thousands of prisoners in the process. The battle is often seen as a tactical masterpiece because of the near-perfect execution of a calibrated but dangerous plan — of the same stature as Cannae, the celebrated triumph by Hannibal some 2000 years before.
Question: In November, after the Ulm Campaign, what city was captured by French forces?
Answer: Vienna
Question: How many muskets did the French capture in the fall of Vienna?
Answer: 100,000
Question: How many cannons did the French capture when Vienna fell?
Answer: 500
Question: When was the Battle of Austerlitz fought?
Answer: 2 December
Question: In what country was the Battle of Austerlitz fought?
Answer: Moravia |
Context: The Saharan cheetah (northwest African cheetah) lives in Algeria, Togo, Niger, Mali, Benin, and Burkina Faso. There remain fewer than 250 mature cheetahs, which are very cautious, fleeing any human presence. The cheetah avoids the sun from April to October, seeking the shelter of shrubs such as balanites and acacias. They are unusually pale. The other cheetah subspecies (northeast African cheetah) lives in Chad, Sudan and the eastern region of Niger. However, it is currently extinct in the wild of Egypt and Libya. They are approximately 2,000 mature individuals left in the wild.
Question: How many cheetahs remain in the Northwest Africa area?
Answer: 250
Question: What months do the cheetah's avoid the sun?
Answer: April to October
Question: How many many cheetah's are left in the wild?
Answer: 2,000
Question: How many immature cheetahs are there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What months are cheetahs most active?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many mature cheetahs are in Chad?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the coloring of the northeast subspecies of cheetah?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A major sporting event is the "Independence Day Sports Festival" held annually on 1 October. The most important sports event within the country is arguably the Tuvalu Games, which are held yearly since 2008. Tuvalu first participated in the Pacific Games in 1978 and in the Commonwealth Games in 1998, when a weightlifter attended the games held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Two table tennis players attended the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England; Tuvalu entered competitors in shooting, table tennis and weightlifting at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia; three athletes participated in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, entering the discus, shot put and weightlifting events; and a team of 3 weightlifters and 2 table tennis players attended the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Tuvaluan athletes have also participated in the men's and women's 100 metre sprints at the World Championships in Athletics from 2009.
Question: What is a major annual sports event in Tuvalu?
Answer: Independence Day Sports Festival
Question: What is the most important sports event held on Tuvalu?
Answer: Tuvalu Games
Question: In what year did Tuvalu first appear in the Commonwealth Games?
Answer: 1998
Question: What type of competitor entered the commonwealth Games in 1998?
Answer: weightlifter
Question: What competitions have Tuvalu athletes entered in the World Championships in Athletics?
Answer: 100 metre sprints |
Context: Intel had tried unsuccessfully to push Apple to migrate the Macintosh platform to Intel chips. Apple concluded that Intel's CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) architecture ultimately would not be able to compete against RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) processors. While the Motorola 68040 offered the same features as the Intel 80486 and could on a clock-for-clock basis significantly outperform the Intel chip, the 486 had the ability to be clocked significantly faster without suffering from overheating problems, especially the clock-doubled i486DX2 which ran the CPU logic at twice the external bus speed, giving such equipped IBM compatible systems a significant performance lead over their Macintosh equivalents. Apple's product design and engineering didn't help matters as they restricted the use of the '040 to their expensive Quadras for a time while the 486 was readily available to OEMs as well as enthusiasts who put together their own machines. In late 1991, as the higher-end Macintosh desktop lineup transitioned to the '040, Apple was unable to offer the '040 in their top-of-the-line PowerBooks until early 1994 with the PowerBook 500 series, several years after the first 486-powered IBM compatible laptops hit the market which cost Apple considerable sales. In 1993 Intel rolled out the Pentium processors as the successor to the 486, while the Motorola 68050 was never released, leaving the Macintosh platform a generation behind IBM compatibles in the latest CPU technology. In 1994, Apple abandoned Motorola CPUs for the RISC PowerPC architecture developed by the AIM alliance of Apple Computer, IBM, and Motorola. The Power Macintosh line, the first to use the new chips, proved to be highly successful, with over a million PowerPC units sold in nine months. However, in the long run, spurning Intel for the PowerPC was a mistake as the commoditization of Intel-architecture chips meant Apple couldn't compete on price against "the Dells of the world".
Question: What did Intel unsuccessfully try to push Apple to migrate to?
Answer: Intel chips
Question: Which platform did Apple choose to use?
Answer: Motorola 68040
Question: Who first rolled out Pentium processors in 1993?
Answer: Intel
Question: How far behind was Macintosh set back compared to the new IBM compatibles?
Answer: a generation
Question: When did Apple abandon Motorola CPU's?
Answer: 1994
Question: What did Intel successfully try to push Apple to migrate to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which platform did Apple choose not to use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who first rolled out Pentium processors in 1992?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How far behind was Microsoft set back compared to the new IBM compatibles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Apple abandon AMD CPU's?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: TCM's library of films spans several decades of cinema and includes thousands of film titles. Besides its deals to broadcast film releases from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies also maintains movie licensing rights agreements with Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios (primarily film content from Walt Disney Pictures, as well as most of the Selznick International Pictures library), Sony Pictures Entertainment (primarily film content from Columbia Pictures), StudioCanal, and Janus Films.
Question: Who owns the Selznick International Pictures library?
Answer: Walt Disney Studios
Question: Who is the owner of Columbia Pictures content?
Answer: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Question: How many films are present in the TCM library?
Answer: thousands
Question: Who owns the Seiznick International Pictures film?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the owner of Janus Films?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many films are present in the Janus library?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What spans several decades of agreements?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What includes thousands of Janus Films?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In March 2013, Microsoft also amended its certification requirements to allow tablets to use the 1024×768 resolution as a minimum; this change is expected to allow the production of certified Windows 8 tablets in smaller form factors—a market which is currently dominated by Android-based tablets. Despite the reaction of industry experts, Microsoft reported that they had sold 100 million licenses in the first six months. This matched sales of Windows 7 over a similar period. This statistic includes shipments to channel warehouses which now need to be sold in order to make way for new shipments.
Question: What changes did Microsoft make to its certification requirements in March 2013?
Answer: amended its certification requirements to allow tablets to use the 1024×768 resolution as a minimum
Question: Why did Microsoft change the tablet resolution minimum?
Answer: to allow the production of certified Windows 8 tablets in smaller form factors
Question: How many licenses did Microsoft sell in the first six months?
Answer: 100 million
Question: What controlled the small form tablet market at this time?
Answer: Android-based tablets
Question: What changes did Microsoft make to its recertification requirements in March 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What changes did Microsoft make to its certification requirements in March 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Microsoft change the tablet resolution maximum?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many licenses did Microsoft sell in the first nine months?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What controlled the large form tablet market at this time?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1803, an Act of Parliament, promoted by the East India Company, established the East India Dock Company, with the aim of establishing a new set of docks (the East India Docks) primarily for the use of ships trading with India. The existing Brunswick Dock, part of the Blackwall Yard site, became the Export Dock; while a new Import Dock was built to the north. In 1838 the East India Dock Company merged with the West India Dock Company. The docks were taken over by the Port of London Authority in 1909, and closed in 1967.
Question: in 1803 was act of parliament supported by EIC?
Answer: promoted by the East India Company
Question: the 1803 act created what dock program?
Answer: East India Dock Company
Question: The goal of the East in dock company was first what?
Answer: aim of establishing a new set of docks (the East India Docks) primarily for the use of ships trading with India
Question: What was the name of the export dock of the EIC after the 1803 act?
Answer: Brunswick Dock
Question: in 1838 what company did the East india dock company merge with?
Answer: West India Dock Company
Question: What act of parliament was opposed by EIC in 1803?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What dock company was destroyed by the 1803 Act?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the export dock of the EIC after the 1903 act?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company did the East India Dock Company split off from in 1838?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which dock company was never taken over by the Port of London Authority in 1909?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the NBA's New Orleans Hornets (now the New Orleans Pelicans) temporarily relocated to the Ford Center, playing the majority of its home games there during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. The team became the first NBA franchise to play regular-season games in the state of Oklahoma.[citation needed] The team was known as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets while playing in Oklahoma City. The team ultimately returned to New Orleans full-time for the 2007–08 season. The Hornets played their final home game in Oklahoma City during the exhibition season on October 9, 2007 against the Houston Rockets.
Question: Where did the Hornets play after Hurricane Katrina?
Answer: Ford Center
Question: What team played against the Hornets in their final home game before leave Oklahoma City?
Answer: Houston Rockets |
Context: The rising population has resulted in an increased demand on fish stocks, which are under stress; although the creation of the Funafuti Conservation Area has provided a fishing exclusion area to help sustain the fish population across the Funafuti lagoon. Population pressure on the resources of Funafuti and inadequate sanitation systems have resulted in pollution. The Waste Operations and Services Act of 2009 provides the legal framework for waste management and pollution control projects funded by the European Union directed at organic waste composting in eco-sanitation systems. The Environment Protection (Litter and Waste Control) Regulation 2013 is intended to improve the management of the importation of non-biodegradable materials. In Tuvalu plastic waste is a problem as much imported food and other commodities are supplied in plastic containers or packaging.
Question: What has been formed to protect the fish stocks in Tuvalu Lagoon?
Answer: Funafuti Conservation Area
Question: What factor has caused an increased demand for fish?
Answer: rising population
Question: What has growth in population and poor sanitation caused?
Answer: pollution
Question: What organization has funded a waste management control plan on Tuvalu?
Answer: European Union
Question: What do imports produce on Tuvalu?
Answer: plastic waste |
Context: The New Zealand police attempted to arrest one of the leaders in the demonstration. When he resisted, a struggle developed between the police and the Mau. The officers began to fire randomly into the crowd and a Lewis machine gun, mounted in preparation for this demonstration, was used to disperse the demonstrators. Chief Tamasese was shot from behind and killed while trying to bring calm and order to the Mau demonstrators, screaming "Peace, Samoa". Ten others died that day and approximately 50 were injured by gunshot wounds and police batons. That day would come to be known in Samoa as Black Saturday. The Mau grew, remaining steadfastly non-violent, and expanded to include a highly influential women's branch.
Question: What kind of weapon was used against the Mau demonstrators?
Answer: Lewis machine gun
Question: Was Chief Tamasese wounded or killed during the demonstration?
Answer: killed
Question: What was the phrase the Mau's chief shouted to try to calm his people?
Answer: "Peace, Samoa"
Question: Besides Chief Tamasese, how many Mau died as a result of the violence that erupted on that day?
Answer: Ten
Question: What do Samoans call the historical day of the Mau demonstration?
Answer: Black Saturday
Question: What kind of weapon was used against the New Zeland police?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many New Zeland police were killed during the demonstration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do New Zelanders call the day of the Mau demonstration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many women were injured in the demonstration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the New Zeland police screaming to the crowd?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On December 16, 2015, the Supreme Court of India mandated several restrictions on Delhi's transportation system to curb pollution. Among the measures, the court ordered to stop registrations of diesel cars and sport utility vehicles with an engine capacity of 2,000 cc and over until March 31, 2016. The court also ordered all taxis in the Delhi region to switch to compressed natural gas by March 1, 2016. Transportation vehicles that are more than 10 years old were banned from entering the capital.
Question: On what date did the Supreme Court of India enact restrictions on Delhi's transportation system to reduce pollution?
Answer: December 16, 2015
Question: The Supreme Court restricted registration of some vehicles with engines of 2000 cc and over until what date?
Answer: March 31, 2016
Question: All taxis in Delhi were ordered to switch to what type of fuel by March 1, 2016?
Answer: compressed natural gas
Question: Which transportation vehicles were banned from entering New Delhi?
Answer: vehicles that are more than 10 years old
Question: New restrictions on New Delhi's transportation system were enacted by the Supreme Court to accomplish what goal?
Answer: curb pollution |
Context: Strict separation of powers did not operate in The United Kingdom, the political structure of which served in most instances[citation needed] as a model for the government created by the U.S. Constitution.[citation needed] Under the UK Westminster system, based on parliamentary sovereignty and responsible government, Parliament (consisting of the Sovereign (King-in-Parliament), House of Lords and House of Commons) was the supreme lawmaking authority. The executive branch acted in the name of the King ("His Majesty's Government"), as did the judiciary. The King's Ministers were in most cases members of one of the two Houses of Parliament, and the Government needed to sustain the support of a majority in the House of Commons. One minister, the Lord Chancellor, was at the same time the sole judge in the Court of Chancery and the presiding officer in the House of Lords. Therefore, it may be seen that the three branches of British government often violated the strict principle of separation of powers, even though there were many occasions when the different branches of the government disagreed with each other. Some U.S. states did not observe a strict separation of powers in the 18th century. In New Jersey, the Governor also functioned as a member of the state's highest court and as the presiding officer of one house of the New Jersey Legislature. The President of Delaware was a member of the Court of Appeals; the presiding officers of the two houses of the state legislature also served in the executive department as Vice Presidents. In both Delaware and Pennsylvania, members of the executive council served at the same time as judges. On the other hand, many southern states explicitly required separation of powers. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia all kept the branches of government "separate and distinct."
Question: What country's government, on which the US government was modeled, did not formally implement separation of powers?
Answer: UK
Question: What were the two main principles informing the government of the UK?
Answer: parliamentary sovereignty and responsible government
Question: What term describes the status of the different branches of government in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia?
Answer: separate and distinct
Question: What country's government served as a model for the United States Government?
Answer: United Kingdom
Question: In the 18th century what function, besides President, did the Delaware President serve?
Answer: a member of the Court of Appeals
Question: Which political structure served as a model for the United Kingdom government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What body consisted of the House of Lords and the House of Majesty;s government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the Chancellor's Ministers mos often members of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which state was the Governor a member of the court of appeals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which states did members of the Lord Chancellor's council and judges serve at the same time?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Illustrated magazines for Western expatriates introduced Western-style satirical cartoons to Japan in the late 19th century. New publications in both the Western and Japanese styles became popular, and at the end of the 1890s, American-style newspaper comics supplements began to appear in Japan, as well as some American comic strips. 1900 saw the debut of the Jiji Manga in the Jiji Shinpō newspaper—the first use of the word "manga" in its modern sense, and where, in 1902, Rakuten Kitazawa began the first modern Japanese comic strip. By the 1930s, comic strips were serialized in large-circulation monthly girls' and boys' magazine and collected into hardback volumes.
Question: When did comic supplements start showing up in Japan?
Answer: 1890s
Question: Who introduced satirical strips to Japan?
Answer: Western expatriates
Question: When did Jiji Manga debut?
Answer: 1900
Question: Who started the first Japanese comic strip in modern times?
Answer: Rakuten Kitazawa
Question: When did comic strips start appearing in hardback collection volumes?
Answer: 1930s
Question: When did comic supplements stop showing up in Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did comic supplements start showing up in China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who never introduced satirical strips to Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Jiji Manga end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who started the last Japanese comic strip in modern times?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since the 1980s, as the complexity of buildings began to increase (in terms of structural systems, services, energy and technologies), the field of architecture became multi-disciplinary with specializations for each project type, technological expertise or project delivery methods. In addition, there has been an increased separation of the 'design' architect [Notes 1] from the 'project' architect who ensures that the project meets the required standards and deals with matters of liability.[Notes 2] The preparatory processes for the design of any large building have become increasingly complicated, and require preliminary studies of such matters as durability, sustainability, quality, money, and compliance with local laws. A large structure can no longer be the design of one person but must be the work of many. Modernism and Postmodernism have been criticised by some members of the architectural profession who feel that successful architecture is not a personal, philosophical, or aesthetic pursuit by individualists; rather it has to consider everyday needs of people and use technology to create liveable environments, with the design process being informed by studies of behavioral, environmental, and social sciences.
Question: About when did architecture begin specializing?
Answer: Since the 1980s
Question: Who can no longer design a large structure?
Answer: one person
Question: What two architectural movements have come under criticism for their focus on individuality?
Answer: Modernism and Postmodernism
Question: About when did architecture stop specializing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened before the 1980s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did complexity of buildings began to decrease?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two architectural movements have never faced criticism for their focus on individuality?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: When not celebrating Mass but still serving a liturgical function, such as the semiannual Urbi et Orbi papal blessing, some Papal Masses and some events at Ecumenical Councils, cardinal deacons can be recognized by the dalmatics they would don with the simple white mitre (so called mitra simplex).
Question: What color is the hat?
Answer: white
Question: How are Cardinal deacons recognized at Masses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are Cardinal deacons recognized at Ecumenical Meetings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are Cardinal deacons recognized at quarterly Urbi et Orbi papal blessings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do nuns wear in addition to the simple white mitre?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first post-Reconstruction era Republican elected to Congress from Florida was William C. Cramer in 1954 from Pinellas County on the Gulf Coast, where demographic changes were underway. In this period, African Americans were still disenfranchised by the state's constitution and discriminatory practices; in the 19th century they had made up most of the Republican Party. Cramer built a different Republican Party in Florida, attracting local white conservatives and transplants from northern and midwestern states. In 1966 Claude R. Kirk, Jr. was elected as the first post-Reconstruction Republican governor, in an upset election. In 1968 Edward J. Gurney, also a white conservative, was elected as the state's first post-reconstruction Republican US Senator. In 1970 Democrats took the governorship and the open US Senate seat, and maintained dominance for years.
Question: The first post- reconstruction era republican elected to florida
Answer: William C. Cramer in 1954 from Pinellas County
Question: What is Cramer credited for
Answer: Cramer built a different Republican Party in Florida, attracting local white conservatives and transplants from northern and midwestern states
Question: Who was Claude R Kirk
Answer: 966 Claude R. Kirk, Jr. was elected as the first post-Reconstruction Republican governor, in an upset election
Question: Who was Edward j Gurney
Answer: 968 Edward J. Gurney, also a white conservative, was elected as the state's first post-reconstruction Republican US Senator
Question: What did the Democrat party do in the 1970
Answer: 1970 Democrats took the governorship and the open US Senate seat, and maintained dominance for years
Question: Who was the first pre-reconstruction era republican elected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the mid-reconstruction era republican elected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was elected in 1967?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who took the seat in 1972?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At no more than 200 kilometres (120 mi) north to south and 130 kilometres (81 mi) east to west, Swaziland is one of the smallest countries in Africa. Despite its size, however, its climate and topography is diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld. The population is primarily ethnic Swazis whose language is siSwati. They established their kingdom in the mid-18th century under the leadership of Ngwane III; the present boundaries were drawn up in 1881. After the Anglo-Boer War, Swaziland was a British protectorate from 1903 until 1967. It regained its independence on 6 September 1968.
Question: How wide is Swaziland in miles??
Answer: 81 mi
Question: In terms of size where does Swaziland rank within Africa in terms of country size?
Answer: one of the smallest
Question: What is the primary language spoken by the people in Swaziland?
Answer: siSwati
Question: When did the ethnic Swazis establish a kingdom?
Answer: mid-18th century
Question: Who was the leader of the 18th century Swazi kingdom?
Answer: Ngwane III
Question: What country is measures 200 mi north to south?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one of the smalloest countries in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the official language of Swaziland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who established a kingdom in the 1800's
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the leader of the Swazi kingdom in the 1800's?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Widespread segregation in 19th- and early 20th-century North America made it difficult for African-Americans to join Lodges outside of Prince Hall jurisdictions – and impossible for inter-jurisdiction recognition between the parallel U.S. Masonic authorities. By the 1980s, such discrimination was a thing of the past, and today most U.S. Grand Lodges recognise their Prince Hall counterparts, and the authorities of both traditions are working towards full recognition. The United Grand Lodge of England has no problem with recognising Prince Hall Grand Lodges. While celebrating their heritage as lodges of black Americans, Prince Hall is open to all men regardless of race or religion.
Question: When did North American Masonic lodges recognize members of the Prince Hall Lodge?
Answer: By the 1980s
Question: Who is the Prince Hall Lodge open to?
Answer: Prince Hall is open to all men
Question: Does the United Grand Lodge of England recognize Prince Hall Lodges?
Answer: The United Grand Lodge of England has no problem with recognising Prince Hall Grand Lodges
Question: When did North American Masonic lodges fire members of the Prince Hall Lodge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the Prince Hall Lodge hiding?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What lodges are no longer recognized?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Grand Lodges require members to be black Americans?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Ion gauges are used in ultrahigh vacuum. They come in two types: hot cathode and cold cathode. In the hot cathode version an electrically heated filament produces an electron beam. The electrons travel through the gauge and ionize gas molecules around them. The resulting ions are collected at a negative electrode. The current depends on the number of ions, which depends on the pressure in the gauge. Hot cathode gauges are accurate from 10−3 torr to 10−10 torr. The principle behind cold cathode version is the same, except that electrons are produced in a discharge created by a high voltage electrical discharge. Cold cathode gauges are accurate from 10−2 torr to 10−9 torr. Ionization gauge calibration is very sensitive to construction geometry, chemical composition of gases being measured, corrosion and surface deposits. Their calibration can be invalidated by activation at atmospheric pressure or low vacuum. The composition of gases at high vacuums will usually be unpredictable, so a mass spectrometer must be used in conjunction with the ionization gauge for accurate measurement.
Question: What are the two types of Ion gauges?
Answer: hot cathode and cold cathode.
Question: What affects the number of ions in a gauge?
Answer: the pressure in the gauge
Question: What gauge is accurate from 10-2 torr to 10-9 torr?
Answer: Cold cathode gauges
Question: What must be used for accurate measurement on the composition of gases at a high vacuums?
Answer: mass spectrometer must be used in conjunction with the ionization gauge
Question: Why does a mass spectrometer need to be used with gauge to be accurate at high vacuum gas measurement?
Answer: composition of gases at high vacuums will usually be unpredictable
Question: What are the two types of mass spectrometers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the hot cathode version what does corrosion produce?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is ionized when electrodes travel through a mass spectrometer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the accuracy of a mass spectrometer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the nature of electrically heated filaments at high vacuums?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Commensal relationships may involve one organism using another for transportation (phoresy) or for housing (inquilinism), or it may also involve one organism using something another created, after its death (metabiosis). Examples of metabiosis are hermit crabs using gastropod shells to protect their bodies and spiders building their webs on plants.
Question: What is the term for a relationship where one organism provides a dwelling for the other?
Answer: inquilinism
Question: What type of relationship is it when arachnids attach webs to dead plants?
Answer: metabiosis
Question: In what type of relationship does an organism travel by means of another?
Answer: phoresy
Question: Where do the spiders build their webs on the hermit crabs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the term for a relationship where one organism refuses to provide a dwelling for the other?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What occurs when the spider utilizes phoresy with the hermit crab?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can commensal relationships between plants and hermit crabs be considered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When one organism gives away something another created what is it called?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Isidore of Seville, writing in the 7th century, claimed that the Latin word Maurus was derived from the Greek mauron, μαύρον, which is the Greek word for black. Indeed, by the time Isidore of Seville came to write his Etymologies, the word Maurus or "Moor" had become an adjective in Latin, "for the Greeks call black, mauron". "In Isidore’s day, Moors were black by definition…"
Question: Who claimed that Maurus was derived from the Greek mauron?
Answer: Isidore of Seville
Question: When was this claim made?
Answer: 7th century,
Question: What does mauron mean?
Answer: black
Question: What is the compilation of Isidore of Seville's work called?
Answer: Etymologies
Question: What was "Black by definition"?
Answer: Moors |
Context: General Frossard's II Corps and Marshal Bazaine's III Corps crossed the German border on 2 August, and began to force the Prussian 40th Regiment of the 16th Infantry Division from the town of Saarbrücken with a series of direct attacks. The Chassepot rifle proved its worth against the Dreyse rifle, with French riflemen regularly outdistancing their Prussian counterparts in the skirmishing around Saarbrücken. However the Prussians resisted strongly, and the French suffered 86 casualties to the Prussian 83 casualties. Saarbrücken also proved to be a major obstacle in terms of logistics. Only one railway there led to the German hinterland but could be easily defended by a single force, and the only river systems in the region ran along the border instead of inland. While the French hailed the invasion as the first step towards the Rhineland and later Berlin, General Le Bœuf and Napoleon III were receiving alarming reports from foreign news sources of Prussian and Bavarian armies massing to the southeast in addition to the forces to the north and northeast.
Question: On which date did Frossard's and Bazaines's troops cross the German border?
Answer: 2 August
Question: Which regiment did their respective corps force from the town of Saarbrucken?
Answer: the Prussian 40th Regiment of the 16th Infantry Division
Question: What proved its worth against the Dreyse rifle?
Answer: The Chassepot rifle
Question: How many casualties did the French suffer at Saarbrucken?
Answer: 86 casualties
Question: How many casualties did the Prussians suffer at Saarbrucken?
Answer: 83 casualties |
Context: Providing sufficient base drive current is a key problem in the use of bipolar transistors as switches. The transistor provides current gain, allowing a relatively large current in the collector to be switched by a much smaller current into the base terminal. The ratio of these currents varies depending on the type of transistor, and even for a particular type, varies depending on the collector current. In the example light-switch circuit shown, the resistor is chosen to provide enough base current to ensure the transistor will be saturated.
Question: What is a major problem with using bipolar transistors as switches?
Answer: Providing sufficient base drive current
Question: What does the transistor provide?
Answer: current gain
Question: What determines the current ratio in transistors?
Answer: the type of transistor
Question: If the type of transistor is the same what determines the current ratio?
Answer: collector current
Question: What controls how much gain a transistor provides?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much current is needed to saturate a light-switch?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What determines how much collector current there is?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What fluctuates the most in a transistor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Pope Paul VI left the Vatican to go to the papal summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, on 14 July 1978, visiting on the way the tomb of Cardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo, who had introduced him to the Vatican half a century earlier. Although he was sick, he agreed to see the new Italian President Sandro Pertini for over two hours. In the evening he watched a Western on TV, happy only when he saw "horses, the most beautiful animals that God had created." He had breathing problems and needed oxygen. On Sunday, at the Feast of the Transfiguration, he was tired, but wanted to say the Angelus. He was neither able nor permitted to do so and instead stayed in bed, his temperature rising.
Question: Where was Paul VI headed to on July 14, 1978?
Answer: Castel Gandolfo
Question: What was considered to be the papal summer residence?
Answer: Castel Gandolfo
Question: Who was the Italian Prime Minister in July of 1978?
Answer: Sandro Pertini
Question: For how long did an ailing Paul VI meet with Sandro Pertini in 1978?
Answer: two hours
Question: What animals did Paul VI consider to be "the most beautiful animals God ever created"?
Answer: horses |
Context: Not all of these cultural elements characteristic of the Neolithic appeared everywhere in the same order: the earliest farming societies in the Near East did not use pottery. In other parts of the world, such as Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia, independent domestication events led to their own regionally distinctive Neolithic cultures that arose completely independent of those in Europe and Southwest Asia. Early Japanese societies and other East Asian cultures used pottery before developing agriculture.
Question: What objects were not used by early farm societies in the Near East ?
Answer: pottery
Question: What did the use of pottery help early Japanese societies develop?
Answer: agriculture
Question: What trend led to parts of the world developing their own local Neolithic cultures?
Answer: independent domestication events
Question: What objects were not used by early farm societies in Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the use of pottery help early African societies develop?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What trend led to parts of the world developing their own African cultures?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who used pottery before developing events?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did independent domestication events lead to their own cultures?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Examples of Cyprus in foreign literature, include the works of Shakespeare, with the majority of the play Othello by William Shakespeare set on the island of Cyprus. British writer Lawrence Durrell lived in Cyprus from 1952 until 1956, during his time working for the British colonial government on the island, and wrote the book Bitter Lemons concerning his time in Cyprus which won the second Duff Cooper Prize in 1957. More recently British writer Victoria Hislop used Cyprus as the setting for her 2014 novel The Sunrise.
Question: Where was William Shakespeare's Othello set?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: Where did British writer Lawrence Durrell reside from 1952-1956?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: What book did Lawrence Durrell write while living on Cyprus?
Answer: Bitter Lemons
Question: Which 2014 novel uses Cyprus as its main location?
Answer: The Sunrise |
Context: In The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology (1952), Hayek independently developed a "Hebbian learning" model of learning and memory – an idea which he first conceived in 1920, prior to his study of economics. Hayek's expansion of the "Hebbian synapse" construction into a global brain theory has received continued attention in neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, behavioural science, and evolutionary psychology, by scientists such as Gerald Edelman, and Joaquin Fuster.
Question: In what year was the book published in which Hayek developed Hebbian learning?
Answer: 1952
Question: Before he began studying economics, what concept did Hayek come up with that was later featured in his 1952 book?
Answer: Hebbian learning
Question: What did Hayek present in his 1952 book that affected multiple areas of science?
Answer: "Hebbian synapse"
Question: What is the name of the book in which Hayek presented the Hebbian Synapse?
Answer: The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology |
Context: Iran's climate ranges from arid or semiarid, to subtropical along the Caspian coast and the northern forests. On the northern edge of the country (the Caspian coastal plain) temperatures rarely fall below freezing and the area remains humid for the rest of the year. Summer temperatures rarely exceed 29 °C (84.2 °F). Annual precipitation is 680 mm (26.8 in) in the eastern part of the plain and more than 1,700 mm (66.9 in) in the western part. United Nations Resident Coordinator for Iran Gary Lewis has said that "Water scarcity poses the most severe human security challenge in Iran today".
Question: Iran's climate along its Capsian coast and northen forests is?
Answer: subtropical
Question: During what season does Iran's northern region's temperatures never go higher than 29c?
Answer: Summer
Question: What is the annual precipitation in Iran's eastern plains?
Answer: 680 mm (26.8 in)
Question: What is the annual precipitation in Iran's western plains?
Answer: 1,700 mm (66.9 in)
Question: According to Gary Lewis of the UN, what is the most pressing human security challenge in Iran?
Answer: Water scarcity |
Context: The University of Bern, whose buildings are mainly located in the Länggasse quarter, is located in Bern, as well as the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) and several vocations schools.
Question: Where are the majority of the buildings for the University of Bern?
Answer: Länggasse quarter |
Context: According to author Michael Carrithers, while there are good reasons to doubt the traditional account, "the outline of the life must be true: birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death." In writing her biography of the Buddha, Karen Armstrong noted, "It is obviously difficult, therefore, to write a biography of the Buddha that meets modern criteria, because we have very little information that can be considered historically sound... [but] we can be reasonably confident Siddhatta Gotama did indeed exist and that his disciples preserved the memory of his life and teachings as well as they could."[dubious – discuss]
Question: Who said "the outline of the life must be true: birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death."?
Answer: Michael Carrithers
Question: What are some of the outlines of life?
Answer: birth, maturity, renunciation
Question: Who wrote a biography of Buddha?
Answer: Karen Armstrong
Question: What do some say is Buddha's real name?
Answer: Siddhatta Gotama
Question: What are the helpers called that helped Buddha?
Answer: disciples
Question: Who believes "the outline of the life must be true" in reference to Buddha?
Answer: Michael Carrithers
Question: Karen Armstrong wrote a biography on who?
Answer: the Buddha
Question: Karen Armstrong has said that we can be confident who existed?
Answer: Siddhatta Gotama |
Context: Until the 1980s, the governor of the Federal District was appointed by the Federal Government, and the laws of Brasília were issued by the Brazilian Federal Senate. With the Constitution of 1988 Brasília gained the right to elect its Governor, and a District Assembly (Câmara Legislativa) was elected to exercise legislative power. The Federal District does not have a Judicial Power of its own. The Judicial Power which serves the Federal District also serves federal territories. Currently, Brazil does not have any territories, therefore, for now the courts serve only cases from the Federal District.
Question: When did Brazil pass a new Constitution?
Answer: 1988
Question: What rights did Brasilia gain in 1988?
Answer: to elect its Governor, and a District Assembly
Question: What is Brasilia's District Assembly called?
Answer: Câmara Legislativa
Question: Until 1988 who was the governor of the Federal District appointed by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Federal Government not have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Brazilian Federal Senate also serve besides the Federal District?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the District Assembly not have currently?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For now what kind of cases does the District Assembly serve?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The origin of the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is not clear. Whole genome sequencing indicates that the dog, the gray wolf and the extinct Taymyr wolf diverged at around the same time 27,000–40,000 years ago. These dates imply that the earliest dogs arose in the time of human hunter-gatherers and not agriculturists. Modern dogs are more closely related to ancient wolf fossils that have been found in Europe than they are to modern gray wolves. Nearly all dog breeds' genetic closeness to the gray wolf are due to admixture, except several Arctic dog breeds are close to the Taimyr wolf of North Asia due to admixture.
Question: Modern dogs likely began when human beings were considered to be what?
Answer: hunter-gatherers
Question: Due to admixture, what species are many Arctic dogs related to?
Answer: Taimyr wolf of North Asia
Question: Rather than with agriculturists, dogs seemingly were during the time of who?
Answer: human hunter-gatherers
Question: Most breeds share a genetic likeness to what animal?
Answer: gray wolf
Question: Some Arctic breeds are more like what wolf rather than the gray wolf?
Answer: Taimyr |
Context: Some critics of Stalin's policy, such as the popular writer Viktor Suvorov, claim that Stalin's primary motive for signing the Soviet–German non-aggression treaty was his calculation that such a pact could result in a conflict between the capitalist countries of Western Europe.[citation needed] This idea is supported by Albert L. Weeks.[page needed] Claims by Suvorov that Stalin planned to invade Germany in 1941 are debated by historians with, for example, David Glantz opposing such claims, while Mikhail Meltyukhov supports them.[citation needed] The authors of The Black Book of Communism consider the pact a crime against peace and a "conspiracy to conduct war of aggression."
Question: Who was skeptical of Stalin’s policies?
Answer: Viktor Suvorov
Question: What is the claim the pact promoted, purported by the The Black Book of Communism?
Answer: a "conspiracy to conduct war of aggression."
Question: Who doesn’t believe that Joseph Stalin had plans to invade Germany?
Answer: David Glantz
Question: Who wasn't skeptical of Stalin’s policies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the claim the pact promoted, purported by the The Black Book of Communism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the claim the pact promoted, purported by the The White Book of Communism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who believed that Joseph Stalin had plans to invade Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who doesn’t believe that Joseph Stalin had plans to invade France?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The road to Yorktown and America's independence from Great Britain led through North Carolina. As the British Army moved north from victories in Charleston and Camden, South Carolina, the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia prepared to meet them. Following General Daniel Morgan's victory over the British Cavalry Commander Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781, southern commander Nathanael Greene led British Lord Charles Cornwallis across the heartland of North Carolina, and away from the latter's base of supply in Charleston, South Carolina. This campaign is known as "The Race to the Dan" or "The Race for the River."
Question: Who met the British army as they moved north?
Answer: the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia
Question: Who lost the battle of Cowpens?
Answer: the British Cavalry
Question: Who led the British calvary at Cowpen?
Answer: Commander Banastre Tarleton
Question: What was the date of the battle of Cowpens?
Answer: January 17, 1781
Question: What is another name for the race to the Dan?
Answer: The Race for the River |
Context: Registered dietitian nutritionists (RDs or RDNs) are health professionals qualified to provide safe, evidence-based dietary advice which includes a review of what is eaten, a thorough review of nutritional health, and a personalized nutritional treatment plan. They also provide preventive and therapeutic programs at work places, schools and similar institutions. Certified Clinical Nutritionists or CCNs, are trained health professionals who also offer dietary advice on the role of nutrition in chronic disease, including possible prevention or remediation by addressing nutritional deficiencies before resorting to drugs. Government regulation especially in terms of licensing, is currently less universal for the CCN than that of RD or RDN. Another advanced Nutrition Professional is a Certified Nutrition Specialist or CNS. These Board Certified Nutritionists typically specialize in obesity and chronic disease. In order to become board certified, potential CNS candidate must pass an examination, much like Registered Dieticians. This exam covers specific domains within the health sphere including; Clinical Intervention and Human Health.
Question: What does RDN stand for?
Answer: Registered dietitian nutritionists
Question: Who offers dietary advice on the role of nutrition in chronic diseases?
Answer: Certified Clinical Nutritionists
Question: For which health professional is Governmental regulation more universal?
Answer: RDN
Question: Who typically specializes in obesity and chronic disease?
Answer: Certified Nutrition Specialist |
Context: Book 1 (at the head of the Odyssean section) opens with a storm which Juno, Aeneas' enemy throughout the poem, stirs up against the fleet. The storm drives the hero to the coast of Carthage, which historically was Rome's deadliest foe. The queen, Dido, welcomes the ancestor of the Romans, and under the influence of the gods falls deeply in love with him. At a banquet in Book 2, Aeneas tells the story of the sack of Troy, the death of his wife, and his escape, to the enthralled Carthaginians, while in Book 3 he recounts to them his wanderings over the Mediterranean in search of a suitable new home. Jupiter in Book 4 recalls the lingering Aeneas to his duty to found a new city, and he slips away from Carthage, leaving Dido to commit suicide, cursing Aeneas and calling down revenge in a symbolic anticipation of the fierce wars between Carthage and Rome. In Book 5, Aeneas' father Anchises dies and funeral games are celebrated for him. On reaching Cumae, in Italy in Book 6, Aeneas consults the Cumaean Sibyl, who conducts him through the Underworld where Aeneas meets the dead Anchises who reveals Rome's destiny to his son.
Question: Who is Aeneas' enemy throughout the Aeneid?
Answer: Juno
Question: Which queen committed suicide in Book 4 of the Aeneid?
Answer: Dido
Question: In which book does Aeneas' father die?
Answer: 5
Question: Who reveals Rome's destiny to Aeneas?
Answer: Anchises
Question: Who guides Aeneas through the Underworld?
Answer: Sibyl
Question: Who is Jupiter's enemy in the Aeneid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Aeneas' father die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many days did Aeneas travel through the underworld?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Aeneas' wife die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Anchises say Rome's destiny was?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The end of the Porfiriato came in 1910 with the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Díaz had stated that Mexico was ready for democracy and he would step down to allow other candidates to compete for the presidency, but Díaz decided to run again in 1910 for the last time against Francisco I. Madero. During the campaign Díaz incarcerated Madero on election day in 1910. Díaz was announced the winner of the election by a landslide, triggering the revolution. Madero supporter Toribio Ortega took up arms with a group of followers at Cuchillo Parado, Chihuahua on November 10, 1910.
Question: The Porfiriato ended in which year?
Answer: 1910
Question: The beginning of what ended the Porfiriato?
Answer: Mexican Revolution
Question: Who stated that Mexico was ready for a Democracy and that he would step down?
Answer: Díaz
Question: Who was incarcerated while running against Diaz?
Answer: Madero
Question: Who took up arms in support of Madero?
Answer: Toribio Ortega |
Context: Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science. Medieval physic gardens, often attached to monasteries, contained plants of medical importance. They were forerunners of the first botanical gardens attached to universities, founded from the 1540s onwards. One of the earliest was the Padua botanical garden. These gardens facilitated the academic study of plants. Efforts to catalogue and describe their collections were the beginnings of plant taxonomy, and led in 1753 to the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus that remains in use to this day.
Question: What science led to botany?
Answer: herbalism
Question: What kind of plants did monasteries cultivate?
Answer: plants of medical importance
Question: When did universities start growing gardens?
Answer: 1540s onwards
Question: Why did universities have these gardens?
Answer: facilitated the academic study of plants
Question: Why was plant taxonomy developed?
Answer: to catalogue and describe their collections |
Context: During World War II, Imperial Japan invaded most of the former western colonies. The Shōwa occupation regime committed violent actions against civilians such as the Manila massacre and the implementation of a system of forced labour, such as the one involving 4 to 10 million romusha in Indonesia. A later UN report stated that four million people died in Indonesia as a result of famine and forced labour during the Japanese occupation. The Allied powers who defeated Japan in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II then contended with nationalists to whom the occupation authorities had granted independence.
Question: The western colonies were invaded by whom during World War II?
Answer: Imperial Japan
Question: According to the UN report, what was the count of people who perished due to famine?
Answer: 4 to 10 million
Question: What violent acts did the Showa regime commit?
Answer: Manila massacre and the implementation of a system of forced labour
Question: Who defeated Japan during the World War II?
Answer: The Allied powers
Question: What colonies were attacked during WW I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who invaded the western colonies during WW I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who reported that 4 thousand people died do to famine and forced labour?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Japan defeat in the South-East Asian theater?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Europe, rates of tuberculosis began to rise in the early 1600s to a peak level in the 1800s, when it caused nearly 25% of all deaths. By the 1950s, mortality had decreased nearly 90%. Improvements in public health began significantly reducing rates of tuberculosis even before the arrival of streptomycin and other antibiotics, although the disease remained a significant threat to public health such that when the Medical Research Council was formed in Britain in 1913, its initial focus was tuberculosis research.
Question: When did the incidence of TB in Europe reach its highest point?
Answer: 1800s
Question: When tuberculosis was at its worst in Europe, what percentage of deaths was TB-related?
Answer: 25%
Question: What British health organization made tuberculosis its top priority at its start?
Answer: Medical Research Council
Question: What year was the Medical Research Council created?
Answer: 1913
Question: About how much had the death rate from TB been reduced in Europe by the midpoint of the 20th century?
Answer: 90%
Question: What percentage of deaths were caused by TB in the 1950s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What reduced rates of mortality in the 1950s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization brought antibiotics to Britain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did streptomycin arrive?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York the national capital shortly after the war. New York was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of the United States. In 1789, the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated; the first United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States each assembled for the first time, and the United States Bill of Rights was drafted, all at Federal Hall on Wall Street. By 1790, New York had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States.
Question: In what year did New York become the United States capital?
Answer: 1785
Question: Who was the United States' first President?
Answer: George Washington
Question: In what building did the Supreme Court of the United States first sit?
Answer: Federal Hall
Question: On what street did the writing of the Bill of Rights occur?
Answer: Wall Street
Question: What was the second largest city in the United States in 1790?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: Which organization made New York the national capital in 1785?
Answer: Congress of the Confederation
Question: New York City became the first what under the new Constitution of the United States?
Answer: capital
Question: The first president, George Washington, took office in what year?
Answer: 1789
Question: By which year, did New York City become the largest city in the United States?
Answer: 1790 |
Context: Many flags of the Islamic world are green, as the color is considered sacred in Islam (see below). The flag of Hamas, as well as the flag of Iran, is green, symbolizing their Islamist ideology. The 1977 flag of Libya consisted of a simple green field with no other characteristics. It was the only national flag in the world with just one color and no design, insignia, or other details. Some countries used green in their flags to represent their country's lush vegetation, as in the flag of Jamaica, and hope in the future, as in the flags of Portugal and Nigeria. The green cedar of Lebanon tree on the Flag of Lebanon officially represents steadiness and tolerance.
Question: Which country had a flag in 1977 that was only green?
Answer: Libya
Question: What does the green in Jamaica's flag represent?
Answer: country's lush vegetation
Question: What does the green cedar of Lebanon tree represent on the Flag of Lebanon?
Answer: steadiness and tolerance
Question: Which color is considered sacred in Islam?
Answer: green
Question: When was the flag of Hamas created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Iran is the only flag in the world with just what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many colors does the flag of Iran have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Jamaican flag represents hope using what color?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religion does Lebanon's flag represent?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Broca, being what today would be called a neurosurgeon, had taken an interest in the pathology of speech. He wanted to localize the difference between man and the other animals, which appeared to reside in speech. He discovered the speech center of the human brain, today called Broca's area after him. His interest was mainly in Biological anthropology, but a German philosopher specializing in psychology, Theodor Waitz, took up the theme of general and social anthropology in his six-volume work, entitled Die Anthropologie der Naturvölker, 1859–1864. The title was soon translated as "The Anthropology of Primitive Peoples". The last two volumes were published posthumously.
Question: If Broca were alive today, what would his profession be?
Answer: neurosurgeon
Question: What particularly interested Broca?
Answer: the pathology of speech
Question: What did Broca discover in the human brain?
Answer: speech center
Question: What did the German philosopher Waitz specialize in?
Answer: psychology
Question: How many volumes was Waitz work?
Answer: six
Question: What did Broca leave neurosurgery to study?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Broca think the similarity between man and other animals resided?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote a six-volume work on Biological anthropology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Waitz write in the 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Neoclassicism also influenced city planning; the ancient Romans had used a consolidated scheme for city planning for both defence and civil convenience, however, the roots of this scheme go back to even older civilizations. At its most basic, the grid system of streets, a central forum with city services, two main slightly wider boulevards, and the occasional diagonal street were characteristic of the very logical and orderly Roman design. Ancient façades and building layouts were oriented to these city design patterns and they tended to work in proportion with the importance of public buildings.
Question: What ancient civilization utilized neoclassicism in city planning?
Answer: ancient Romans
Question: What basic civil planning system for streets is rooted in neoclassicism?
Answer: grid system
Question: What are 2 benefits of leveraging neoclassicism for civil planning?
Answer: very logical and orderly
Question: What kind of planning was influenced by classical architecture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Roman use and open ordered scheme for city planning?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of city planning began with the Romans?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of city design frequently used diagonal streets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was oriented towards the importance of public buildings?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context:
China: In China, the torch was first welcomed by Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang and State Councilor Liu Yandong. It was subsequently passed onto CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao. A call to boycott French hypermart Carrefour from May 1 began spreading through mobile text messaging and online chat rooms amongst the Chinese over the weekend from April 12, accusing the company's major shareholder, the LVMH Group, of donating funds to the Dalai Lama. There were also calls to extend the boycott to include French luxury goods and cosmetic products. According to the Washington Times on April 15, however, the Chinese government was attempting to "calm the situation" through censorship: "All comments posted on popular Internet forum Sohu.com relating to a boycott of Carrefour have been deleted." Chinese protesters organized boycotts of the French-owned retail chain Carrefour in major Chinese cities including Kunming, Hefei and Wuhan, accusing the French nation of pro-secessionist conspiracy and anti-Chinese racism. Some burned French flags, some added Nazism's Swastika to the French flag, and spread short online messages calling for large protests in front of French consulates and embassy. The Carrefour boycott was met with anti-boycott demonstrators who insisted on entering one of the Carrefour stores in Kunming, only to be blocked by boycotters wielding large Chinese flags and hit by water bottles. The BBC reported that hundreds of people demonstrated in Beijing, Wuhan, Hefei, Kunming and Qingdao.
Question: Action was taken to boycott which company?
Answer: Carrefour
Question: Who was the biggest shareholder of Carrefour?
Answer: the LVMH Group
Question: What did some protesters burn?
Answer: the French flag
Question: Where were anti-protesters blocked from entering a Carrefour store with Chinese flags?
Answer: Kunming
Question: Who was said to have given money to the Dalai Lama?
Answer: the LVMH Group
Question: What method did the Chinese government use to ease the boycott situation?
Answer: censorship
Question: What French company was being boycotted?
Answer: Carrefour |
Context: As many as five bands were on tour during the 1920s. The Jenkins Orphanage Band played in the inaugural parades of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft and toured the USA and Europe. The band also played on Broadway for the play "Porgy" by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, a stage version of their novel of the same title. The story was based in Charleston and featured the Gullah community. The Heywards insisted on hiring the real Jenkins Orphanage Band to portray themselves on stage. Only a few years later, DuBose Heyward collaborated with George and Ira Gershwin to turn his novel into the now famous opera, Porgy and Bess (so named so as to distinguish it from the play). George Gershwin and Heyward spent the summer of 1934 at Folly Beach outside of Charleston writing this "folk opera", as Gershwin called it. Porgy and Bess is considered the Great American Opera[citation needed] and is widely performed.
Question: What other president did the Jenkins Orphanage play for other than Taft?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Question: What play did the Jenkins Orphanage band play for on Broadway ?
Answer: Porgy
Question: What was the name of the "folk opera" based on 'Porgy'?
Answer: Porgy and Bess
Question: Where did Gershwin and Heyward write their folk opera?
Answer: Folly Beach outside of Charleston
Question: When did Gershwin and Heyward write their folk opera?
Answer: summer of 1934
Question: What other president didn't the Jenkins Orphanage play for other than Taft?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What play didn't the Jenkins Orphanage band play for on Broadway ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What wasn't the name of the "folk opera" based on 'Porgy'?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Gershwin and Heyward read their folk opera?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Gershwin and Heyward read their folk opera?
Answer: Unanswerable |
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