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Context: A literary technique or literary device can be used by authors in order to enhance the written framework of a piece of literature, and produce specific effects. Literary techniques encompass a wide range of approaches to crafting a work: whether a work is narrated in first-person or from another perspective, whether to use a traditional linear narrative or a nonlinear narrative, or the choice of literary genre, are all examples of literary technique. They may indicate to a reader that there is a familiar structure and presentation to a work, such as a conventional murder-mystery novel; or, the author may choose to experiment with their technique to surprise the reader.
Question: Literary devices are employed for what reason?
Answer: produce specific effects
Question: What is one form of narration in literature?
Answer: first-person
Question: What are two types of narrative structure in literature?
Answer: linear narrative or a nonlinear narrative
Question: Why would an author utilize experimental narratives in literature?
Answer: to surprise the reader
Question: In what type of writing would a more familiar, standard literary narrative structure be employed?
Answer: a conventional murder-mystery novel
Question: Literary techniques are used to disenhance the what of a piece of literature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Literary techniques cover a slim range of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are examples of poetic technique?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What might the author do to bore the reader?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do literary techniques specifically accomplish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do all authors experiment with their technique?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a familiar structure is an example of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As of 2015, the government structure of the New Delhi Municipal Council includes a chairperson, three members of New Delhi's Legislative Assembly, two members nominated by the Chief Minister of the NCT of Delhi and five members nominated by the central government.
Question: The government structure of the New Delhi Municipal Council includes three members from what government body?
Answer: New Delhi's Legislative Assembly
Question: What government body is responsible for nominating five members to the New Delhi Municipal Council?
Answer: the central government
Question: What government official is responsible for nominating two members to the New Delhi Municipal Council?
Answer: Chief Minister of the NCT of Delhi
Question: The Chief Minister of what NCT is responsible for nominating two members to the New Delhi Municipal Council?
Answer: NCT of Delhi
Question: What is the name of the government structure created for New Delhi that is comprised of ten representatives?
Answer: New Delhi Municipal Council |
Context: In the 11th century, a turbulent period occurred in the history of Maritime Southeast Asia. The Indian Chola navy crossed the ocean and attacked the Srivijaya kingdom of Sangrama Vijayatungavarman in Kadaram (Kedah), the capital of the powerful maritime kingdom was sacked and the king was taken captive. Along with Kadaram, Pannai in present-day Sumatra and Malaiyur and the Malayan peninsula were attacked too. Soon after that, the king of Kedah Phra Ong Mahawangsa became the first ruler to abandon the traditional Hindu faith, and converted to Islam with the Sultanate of Kedah established in year 1136. Samudera Pasai converted to Islam in the year 1267, the King of Malacca Parameswara married the princess of Pasai, and the son became the first sultan of Malacca. Soon, Malacca became the center of Islamic study and maritime trade, and other rulers followed suit. Indonesian religious leader and Islamic scholar Hamka (1908–1981) wrote in 1961: "The development of Islam in Indonesia and Malaya is intimately related to a Chinese Muslim, Admiral Zheng He."
Question: Which kingdom did the Chola navy attack during the 11th century?
Answer: Srivijaya kingdom
Question: What was the capital of Srivijaya kingdom?
Answer: Sangrama Vijayatungavarman
Question: Which king of Kedah converted to Islam in the year 1267?
Answer: Phra Ong Mahawangsa
Question: Name an Indonesian Islamic scholar who lived from 1908-1981?
Answer: Hamka
Question: Which Chinese admiral was related to the development of Islam in Indonesia & Malaya?
Answer: Admiral Zheng He
Question: What happened in the 1100's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the Srivijaya kingdom attack?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to the king of Chola?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kig converted from Islam in 1267?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Islamic scholar died in 1908?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: New York City's most important economic sector lies in its role as the headquarters for the U.S.financial industry, metonymously known as Wall Street. The city's securities industry, enumerating 163,400 jobs in August 2013, continues to form the largest segment of the city's financial sector and an important economic engine, accounting in 2012 for 5 percent of the city's private sector jobs, 8.5 percent (US$3.8 billion) of its tax revenue, and 22 percent of the city's total wages, including an average salary of US$360,700. Many large financial companies are headquartered in New York City, and the city is also home to a burgeoning number of financial startup companies.
Question: As of 2013, how many people worked for a securities business in New York?
Answer: 163,400
Question: What percentage of New York private sector jobs are in the securities industry?
Answer: 5
Question: How much tax revenue does the securities industry generate?
Answer: US$3.8 billion
Question: What is the average income in the New York securities industry?
Answer: US$360,700
Question: What percentage of the city's wages does the securities industry provide?
Answer: 22
Question: 22 Percent of NYC's total wages are from what industry?
Answer: The city's securities |
Context: Seabird migration is similar in pattern to those of the waders and waterfowl. Some, such as the black guillemot Cepphus grylle and some gulls, are quite sedentary; others, such as most terns and auks breeding in the temperate northern hemisphere, move varying distances south in the northern winter. The Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea has the longest-distance migration of any bird, and sees more daylight than any other, moving from its Arctic breeding grounds to the Antarctic non-breeding areas. One Arctic tern, ringed (banded) as a chick on the Farne Islands off the British east coast, reached Melbourne, Australia in just three months from fledging, a sea journey of over 22,000 km (14,000 mi). Many tubenosed birds breed in the southern hemisphere and migrate north in the southern winter.
Question: Which seabird has the longest-distance migration?
Answer: The Arctic tern
Question: Which bird sees more daylight than any other during migration?
Answer: The Arctic tern
Question: How long did one Arctic tern take to migrate?
Answer: three months
Question: How far did the Arctic tern chick travel?
Answer: 22,000 km
Question: Where do tubenosed birds breed?
Answer: the southern hemisphere |
Context: Punjab witnessed major battles between the armies of India and Pakistan in the wars of 1965 and 1971. Since the 1990s Punjab hosted several key sites of Pakistan's nuclear program such as Kahuta. It also hosts major military bases such as at Sargodha and Rawalpindi. The peace process between India and Pakistan, which began in earnest in 2004, has helped pacify the situation. Trade and people-to-people contacts through the Wagah border are now starting to become common. Indian Sikh pilgrims visit holy sites such as Nankana Sahib.
Question: When did India and Pakistan fight in Punjab?
Answer: 1965 and 1971
Question: What is Kahuta an important location for?
Answer: Pakistan's nuclear program
Question: Where does Punjab have major military bases?
Answer: Sargodha and Rawalpindi
Question: When did India and Pakistan begin serious peace talks?
Answer: 2004
Question: Who visits Nankana Sahib?
Answer: Sikh pilgrims
Question: When did Punjab fight against India?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Sargodha built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Nankana Sahib?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did trade between people become common?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of India's nuclear program?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The other Ancient Greek dialects, Ionic, Doric, Aeolic, and Arcadocypriot, likely had the same three-way distinction at one point, but Doric seems to have had a fricative in place of /tʰ/ in the Classical period, and the Ionic and Aeolic dialects sometimes lost aspiration (psilosis).
Question: Dialects such as Aeolic and Doric had how many distinctions that were the same at one point in time?
Answer: three
Question: Which two dialects lost aspiration at times?
Answer: Ionic and Aeolic
Question: Rather than /tʰ/, what did the Doric dialect have in place during the Classical period?
Answer: fricative
Question: What ancient dialects had the same two-way distinction at one point?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What dialect had a fricative in the Modern period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which four dialects sometimes lost aspiration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which two dialects sometime gained aspiration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was gained aspiration called?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In an interview that Popper gave in 1969 with the condition that it shall be kept secret until after his death, he summarised his position on God as follows: "I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God." He objected to organised religion, saying "it tends to use the name of God in vain", noting the danger of fanaticism because of religious conflicts: "The whole thing goes back to myths which, though they may have a kernel of truth, are untrue. Why then should the Jewish myth be true and the Indian and Egyptian myths not be true?" In a letter unrelated to the interview, he stressed his tolerant attitude: "Although I am not for religion, I do think that we should show respect for anybody who believes honestly."
Question: In which year did Popper give a secret interview concerning his views about God?
Answer: 1969
Question: Which term for his religious outlook did Popper prefer?
Answer: agnosticism
Question: What did Popper believe were at the heart of religious disagreements, and should not be the cause of as much conflict as they are?
Answer: myths
Question: Although he opposed organized religion, what attitude did Popper think should be taken toward it:
Answer: tolerant
Question: When did Popper give an interview on the condition it be published right away?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who thought that atheism was superior to agnosticism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of religion did Popper support?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Popper support organized religion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Popper believe should not be respected?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech, pointed out that the massive damage of properties and houses in the earthquake area was because China did not create an adequate seismic design code until after the devastating 1976 Tangshan earthquake. DesRoches said: "If the buildings were older and built prior to that 1976 earthquake, chances are they weren't built for adequate earthquake forces."
Question: Who was a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech?
Answer: Reginald DesRoches
Question: What is the profession of Reginald DesRoches?
Answer: professor of civil and environmental engineering
Question: When did China create a seismic design code for building?
Answer: 1976
Question: What catastrophe inspired them to make a building design code/
Answer: Tangshan earthquake |
Context: The development of flattop vessels produced the first large fleet ships. In 1918, HMS Argus became the world's first carrier capable of launching and recovering naval aircraft. As a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which limited the construction of new heavy surface combat ships, most early aircraft carriers were conversions of ships that were laid down (or had served) as different ship types: cargo ships, cruisers, battlecruisers, or battleships. These conversions gave rise to the Lexington-class aircraft carriers (1927), Akagi and Courageous class. Specialist carrier evolution was well underway, with several navies ordering and building warships that were purposefully designed to function as aircraft carriers by the mid-1920s, resulting in the commissioning of ships such as Hōshō (1922), HMS Hermes (1924), and Béarn (1927). During World War II, these ships would become known as fleet carriers.[citation needed]
Question: What develpment produced the first large fleet ships?
Answer: flattop vessels
Question: What was the world's first carrier capable of launching and recovering naval aircraft?
Answer: HMS Argus
Question: What did the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 limit?
Answer: the construction of new heavy surface combat ships
Question: What caused early aircraft carriers to be made up of conversions of ships that were previously cargo ships, cruisers or battlecruisers?
Answer: Washington Naval Treaty of 1922
Question: What type of aircraft carriers did these ship conversions give rise to in 1927?
Answer: Lexington-class
Question: What develpment produced the first small fleet ships?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the world's first carrier capable of launching and recovering civilian aircraft?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Washington Naval Treaty of 1920 limit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused modern aircraft carriers to be made up of conversions of ships that were previously cargo ships, cruisers or battlecruisers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of aircraft carriers did these ship conversions give rise to in 1972?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The period between the foundation of the Han dynasty and Wang Mang's reign is known as the Western Han dynasty (simplified Chinese: 西汉; traditional Chinese: 西漢; pinyin: Xī Hàn) or Former Han dynasty (simplified Chinese: 前汉; traditional Chinese: 前漢; pinyin: Qiánhàn) (206 BC – 9 AD). During this period the capital was at Chang'an (modern Xi'an). From the reign of Guangwu the capital was moved eastward to Luoyang. The era from his reign until the fall of Han is known as the Eastern Han dynasty (simplified Chinese: 东汉; traditional Chinese: 東漢; pinyin: Dōng Hàn) or the Later Han dynasty (simplified Chinese: 后汉; traditional Chinese: 後漢; pinyin: Hòu Hàn) (25–220 AD).
Question: Where did the capital move to after the reign of Guangwu?
Answer: Luoyang
Question: What era does the reign of Guangwu fall under?
Answer: Eastern Han dynasty
Question: What can the Eastern Han dynasty also be called?
Answer: Later Han dynasty
Question: Where was the capital located during the Western Han dynasty?
Answer: Chang'an
Question: What can the Western Han dynasty also be called?
Answer: Former Han dynasty |
Context: Oklahoma City lies in the Sandstone Hills region of Oklahoma, known for hills of 250 to 400 feet (120 m) and two species of oak: blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica) and post oak (Q. stellata). The northeastern part of the city and its eastern suburbs fall into an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers.
Question: Which region is Oklahoma city located in?
Answer: Sandstone Hills region |
Context: However, since the 20th century, indigenous peoples in the Americas have been more vocal about the ways they wish to be referred to, pressing for the elimination of terms widely considered to be obsolete, inaccurate, or racist. During the latter half of the 20th century and the rise of the Indian rights movement, the United States government responded by proposing the use of the term "Native American," to recognize the primacy of indigenous peoples' tenure in the nation, but this term was not fully accepted. Other naming conventions have been proposed and used, but none are accepted by all indigenous groups.
Question: What have the peoples in the Americas been more vocal about since the 20th century?
Answer: the ways they wish to be referred to
Question: What terms do the indigenous people press to eliminate?
Answer: obsolete, inaccurate, or racist.
Question: Who initially proposed using the term "Native American" to recognize the primacy of the native population?
Answer: United States government
Question: What naming convention is accepted by all indigenous groups?
Answer: none |
Context: The Canadian Army is headed by the Commander of the Canadian Army and administered through four divisions—the 2nd Canadian Division, the 3rd Canadian Division, the 4th Canadian Division and the 5th Canadian Division—the Canadian Army Doctrine and Training System and the Canadian Army Headquarters.
Question: Who heads the Canadian Army?
Answer: Commander of the Canadian Army
Question: How many divisions are there in the Canadian Army?
Answer: four divisions
Question: What are the four divisions?
Answer: the 2nd Canadian Division, the 3rd Canadian Division, the 4th Canadian Division and the 5th Canadian Division
Question: What division is the Canadian Army Doctrine of?
Answer: the 5th Canadian Division
Question: The Canadian Army Headquarters are located in what division?
Answer: the 5th Canadian Division
Question: Who heads the non-Canadian Army?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many divisions are there in the non-Canadian Army?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the sixth division?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The non-Canadian Army Headquarters are located in what division?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The last regular election of the City Parliament was held on 25 November 2012 for the mandate period (German: Legislatur, French: la législature) from 2013 to 2016. Currently the City Parliament consist of 23 members of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), 11 Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC), 8 Green Alliance of Berne (GB), 8 Grüne Freie Liste (GFL) (Green Free List), 7 The Liberals (FDP/PLR), 7 Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD), 7 Green Liberal Party (GLP/PVL), 2 Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), 2 Evangelical People's Party (EVP/PEV), 1 Junge Alternative (JA!) (or Young Alternatives), 1 Grüne Partei Bern - Demokratische Alternative (GPB-DA) (or Green Party Bern - Democratic Alternative), 1 Swiss Party of Labour (PdA), 1 Alternative Linke Bern (AL) and finally one independent. The following parties combine their parliamentary power in parliamentary groups (German: Fraktion(en)): Independent and AL and GPB-DA and PdA (4), SP (23), GB and JA! (9), GFL and EVP (10), GLP (7), BDP and CVP (9), FDP (7), and SVP (11). This gives the left parties an absolute majority of 46 seats.
Question: Which party has the absolute majority of the seats?
Answer: left parties
Question: How many seats are there?
Answer: 46
Question: Which specific party has the most members in the City Parliament?
Answer: Social Democratic Party |
Context: Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines, and occupy a fraction of the space. Computers are small enough to fit into mobile devices, and mobile computers can be powered by small batteries. Personal computers in their various forms are icons of the Information Age and are generally considered as "computers". However, the embedded computers found in many devices from MP3 players to fighter aircraft and from electronic toys to industrial robots are the most numerous.
Question: Computers in today's age are based on what that make them much faster than earlier computers?
Answer: integrated circuits
Question: How much more powerful are modern computers versus early computers?
Answer: millions to billions of times |
Context: Most analyses place Kerry's voting record on the left within the Senate Democratic caucus. During the 2004 presidential election he was portrayed as a staunch liberal by conservative groups and the Bush campaign, who often noted that in 2003 Kerry was rated the National Journal's top Senate liberal. However, that rating was based only upon voting on legislation within that past year. In fact, in terms of career voting records, the National Journal found that Kerry is the 11th most liberal member of the Senate. Most analyses find that Kerry is at least slightly more liberal than the typical Democratic Senator. Kerry has stated that he opposes privatizing Social Security, supports abortion rights for adult women and minors, supports same-sex marriage, opposes capital punishment except for terrorists, supports most gun control laws, and is generally a supporter of trade agreements. Kerry supported the North American Free Trade Agreement and Most Favored Nation status for China, but opposed the Central American Free Trade Agreement.[citation needed]
Question: Who said Kerry was the 'top Senate liberal'?
Answer: the National Journal
Question: When was Kerry called the 'top Senate liberal'?
Answer: 2003
Question: What was Kerry's actual career voting rank for 'liberalness'?
Answer: 11th most liberal
Question: What trade agreement did Kerry support?
Answer: North American Free Trade Agreement
Question: What trade agreement did Kerry oppose?
Answer: Central American Free Trade Agreement |
Context: Plant physiology encompasses all the internal chemical and physical activities of plants associated with life. Chemicals obtained from the air, soil and water form the basis of all plant metabolism. The energy of sunlight, captured by oxygenic photosynthesis and released by cellular respiration, is the basis of almost all life. Photoautotrophs, including all green plants, algae and cyanobacteria gather energy directly from sunlight by photosynthesis. Heterotrophs including all animals, all fungi, all completely parasitic plants, and non-photosynthetic bacteria take in organic molecules produced by photoautotrophs and respire them or use them in the construction of cells and tissues. Respiration is the oxidation of carbon compounds by breaking them down into simpler structures to release the energy they contain, essentially the opposite of photosynthesis.
Question: What does the plant use for internal processes?
Answer: Chemicals obtained from the air, soil and water
Question: Where do plants get their energy?
Answer: sunlight
Question: How do animals use plants?
Answer: in the construction of cells and tissues
Question: Is respiration in animals similar to photosynthesis in plants?
Answer: opposite of photosynthesis
Question: What is the basis of plant physiology?
Answer: internal chemical and physical activities |
Context: Mosaic art also flourished in Christian Petra where three Byzantine churches were discovered. The most important one was uncovered in 1990. It is known that the walls were also covered with golden glass mosaics but only the floor panels survived as usual. The mosaic of the seasons in the southern aisle is from this first building period from the middle of the 5th century. In the first half of the 6th century the mosaics of the northern aisle and the eastern end of the southern aisle were installed. They depict native as well as exotic or mythological animals, and personifications of the Seasons, Ocean, Earth and Wisdom.
Question: How many Christian churches have been found in the Christian Petra?
Answer: three
Question: When was the most important Byzantine church re-discovered?
Answer: in 1990
Question: What type of mosaics were present in the church discovered in 1990?
Answer: only the floor panels
Question: What century was the oldest known mosaic at the church discovered in 1990?
Answer: the 5th
Question: The scenes depicted on the mosaics were both native and what kind of mythological animals?
Answer: exotic |
Context: The format also became quite popular in Hong Kong during the 1990s before the introduction of VCDs and DVD; although people rarely bought the discs (because each LD was priced around USD100), high rental activity helped the video rental business in the city grow larger than it had ever been previously. Due to integration with the Japanese export market, NTSC LaserDiscs were used in the Hong Kong market, in contrast to the PAL standard used for broadcast (This anomaly also exists for DVD). This created a market for multi-system TVs and multi-system VCRs which could display or play both PAL and NTSC materials in addition to SECAM materials (which were never popular in Hong Kong). Some LD players could convert NTSC signals to PAL so that most TVs used in Hong Kong could display the LD materials.
Question: How much did a LD cost in Hong Kong in the 1990s?
Answer: USD100
Question: Broadcast in Hong Kong used which standard formatting?
Answer: PAL standard
Question: In contrast to broadcast, which format did consumers use in Hong Kong?
Answer: NTSC |
Context: The area's many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education and medicine, and the city is considered to be a world leader in innovation. Boston's economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, and government activities. Households in the city claim the highest average rate of philanthropy in the United States; businesses and institutions rank amongst the top in the country for environmental sustainability and investment. The city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States, though it remains high on world livability rankings.
Question: Households in Boston claim the highest average rate of what in the United States?
Answer: philanthropy
Question: Bostons businesses rank top in the country for what?
Answer: environmental sustainability and investment
Question: Where does Boston rank as far as cost of living in the United States?
Answer: The city has one of the highest costs of living
Question: How does Boston rank on world livability?
Answer: high
Question: Boston is internationally known for education and medicine because of its many what?
Answer: colleges and universities |
Context: The process of morphological derivation in Catalan follows the same principles as the other Romance languages, where agglutination is common. Many times, several affixes are appended to a preexisting lexeme, and some sound alternations can occur, for example elèctric [əˈlɛktrik] ("electrical") vs. electricitat [ələktrisiˈtat]. Prefixes are usually appended to verbs, for as in preveure ("foresee").
Question: What is common in Romance languages?
Answer: agglutination
Question: What kind of derivation in Catalan is similar to other languages?
Answer: morphological
Question: What word additive is usually added to verbs?
Answer: Prefixes
Question: What other word changes can occur in derivations?
Answer: sound alternations
Question: What word supplement can be put on an already existing word base?
Answer: affixes |
Context: The team played its first games in 1876 as a founding member of the National League (NL), eventually becoming known officially as the Chicago Cubs for the 1903 season. Officially, the Cubs are tied for the distinction of being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club, along with the Atlanta Braves, which also began play in the NL in 1876 as the Boston Red Stockings (Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players as a major league.)
Question: When did the Chicago Cubs play their first game?
Answer: 1876
Question: What year did the Chicago Cubs' name become official?
Answer: 1903 season
Question: What other team besides the Chicago Cubs is tied for being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club?
Answer: Atlanta Braves |
Context: Different pieces of wood cut from a large tree may differ decidedly, particularly if the tree is big and mature. In some trees, the wood laid on late in the life of a tree is softer, lighter, weaker, and more even-textured than that produced earlier, but in other trees, the reverse applies. This may or may not correspond to heartwood and sapwood. In a large log the sapwood, because of the time in the life of the tree when it was grown, may be inferior in hardness, strength, and toughness to equally sound heartwood from the same log. In a smaller tree, the reverse may be true.
Question: When a big tree is cut up, will the pieces of wood differ or all be the same?
Answer: differ
Question: In a large log, will the heartwood or sapwood usually be stronger and tougher?
Answer: heartwood
Question: If you need really hard, strong wood from a small tree, would it likely be better to use the heartwood or sapwood?
Answer: sapwood
Question: Besides big trees, what trees are more likely to have a range of different kinds of wood?
Answer: mature |
Context: In 2013, China led the world in renewable energy production, with a total capacity of 378 GW, mainly from hydroelectric and wind power. As of 2014, China leads the world in the production and use of wind power, solar photovoltaic power and smart grid technologies, generating almost as much water, wind and solar energy as all of France and Germany's power plants combined. China's renewable energy sector is growing faster than its fossil fuels and nuclear power capacity. Since 2005, production of solar cells in China has expanded 100-fold. As Chinese renewable manufacturing has grown, the costs of renewable energy technologies have dropped. Innovation has helped, but the main driver of reduced costs has been market expansion.
Question: Who led the world in renewable energy production in 2013?
Answer: China
Question: Since what year has production of solar cells in China expanded 100-fold?
Answer: 2005
Question: What is the main driver of reduced costs?
Answer: market expansion
Question: Who led the world in renewable energy production in 2014?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not lead the world in renewable energy production in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Since what year has production of solar cells in Japan expanded 100-fold?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not the main driver of reduced costs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: It is believed that Nanjing was the largest city in the world from 1358 to 1425 with a population of 487,000 in 1400. Nanjing remained the capital of the Ming Empire until 1421, when the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Yongle Emperor, relocated the capital to Beijing.
Question: When was Nanjing considered to be the biggest city in the world?
Answer: from 1358 to 1425
Question: What was the number of people in Nanjing in 1400?
Answer: 487,000
Question: When did Nanjing cease to be the capital?
Answer: 1421
Question: Where was the capital moved to?
Answer: Beijing
Question: Who was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty?
Answer: the Yongle Emperor |
Context: Agriculture in Portugal is based on small to medium-sized family-owned dispersed units. However, the sector also includes larger scale intensive farming export-oriented agrobusinesses backed by companies (like Grupo RAR's Vitacress, Sovena, Lactogal, Vale da Rosa, Companhia das Lezírias and Valouro). The country produces a wide variety of crops and livestock products, including tomatoes, citrus, green vegetables, rice, corn, barley, olives, oilseeds, nuts, cherries, bilberry, table grapes, edible mushrooms, dairy products, poultry and beef.
Question: Upon what is Portuguese agriculture based?
Answer: small to medium-sized family-owned dispersed units
Question: What types of companies back more large scale, export-oriented agrobusinesses in Portugal?
Answer: Grupo RAR's Vitacress, Sovena, Lactogal, Vale da Rosa, Companhia das Lezírias and Valouro
Question: What types of crops does Portugal produce?
Answer: tomatoes, citrus, green vegetables, rice, corn, barley, olives, oilseeds, nuts, cherries, bilberry, table grapes, edible mushrooms
Question: What types of livestock products does Portugal produce?
Answer: dairy products, poultry and beef |
Context: John was incensed about what he perceived as an abrogation of his customary right as monarch to influence the election. He complained both about the choice of Langton as an individual, as John felt he was overly influenced by the Capetian court in Paris, and about the process as a whole. He barred Langton from entering England and seized the lands of the archbishopric and other papal possessions. Innocent set a commission in place to try to convince John to change his mind, but to no avail. Innocent then placed an interdict on England in March 1208, prohibiting clergy from conducting religious services, with the exception of baptisms for the young, and confessions and absolutions for the dying.
Question: John felt Langton was overly influenced by what?
Answer: the Capetian court in Paris
Question: Who was barred Langton from entering England?
Answer: England
Question: when did Innocent place an interdict on England?
Answer: March 1208 |
Context: Insects were the earliest organisms to produce and sense sounds. Insects make sounds mostly by mechanical action of appendages. In grasshoppers and crickets, this is achieved by stridulation. Cicadas make the loudest sounds among the insects by producing and amplifying sounds with special modifications to their body and musculature. The African cicada Brevisana brevis has been measured at 106.7 decibels at a distance of 50 cm (20 in). Some insects, such as the Helicoverpa zeamoths, hawk moths and Hedylid butterflies, can hear ultrasound and take evasive action when they sense that they have been detected by bats. Some moths produce ultrasonic clicks that were once thought to have a role in jamming bat echolocation. The ultrasonic clicks were subsequently found to be produced mostly by unpalatable moths to warn bats, just as warning colorations are used against predators that hunt by sight. Some otherwise palatable moths have evolved to mimic these calls. More recently, the claim that some moths can jam bat sonar has been revisited. Ultrasonic recording and high-speed infrared videography of bat-moth interactions suggest the palatable tiger moth really does defend against attacking big brown bats using ultrasonic clicks that jam bat sonar.
Question: What were the earliest organisms to produce sound?
Answer: Insects
Question: Insects can sense what?
Answer: sounds
Question: Insect sounds come from what kind of action?
Answer: mechanical
Question: The mechanical action of what allows insects t make sound?
Answer: appendages
Question: Moths create what kind of click sounds?
Answer: ultrasonic |
Context: After the U.S. accused Libya of orchestrating the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, in which two American soldiers died, Reagan decided to retaliate militarily. The Central Intelligence Agency were critical of the move, believing that Syria were a greater threat and that an attack would strengthen Gaddafi's reputation; however Libya was recognised as a "soft target." Reagan was supported by the U.K. but opposed by other European allies, who argued that it would contravene international law. In Operation El Dorado Canyon, orchestrated on 15 April 1986, U.S. military planes launched a series of air-strikes on Libya, bombing military installations in various parts of the country, killing around 100 Libyans, including several civilians. One of the targets had been Gaddafi's home. Himself unharmed, two of Gaddafi's sons were injured, and he claimed that his four-year-old adopted daughter Hanna was killed, although her existence has since been questioned. In the immediate aftermath, Gaddafi retreated to the desert to meditate, while there were sporadic clashes between Gaddafists and army officers who wanted to overthrow the government. Although the U.S. was condemned internationally, Reagan received a popularity boost at home. Publicly lambasting U.S. imperialism, Gaddafi's reputation as an anti-imperialist was strengthened both domestically and across the Arab world, and in June 1986, he ordered the names of the month to be changed in Libya.
Question: About how many Libyans died in Operation El Dorado Canyon?
Answer: 100
Question: What terrorist attack did the United States claim Libya supported?
Answer: 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing
Question: How many Americans died in the Berlin disco bombing of 1986?
Answer: two
Question: What country did the CIA believe Reagan should attack instead of Libya?
Answer: Syria
Question: What was the name of Gaddafi's daughter who may not have existed?
Answer: Hanna |
Context: Upon graduating in September 1785, Bonaparte was commissioned a second lieutenant in La Fère artillery regiment.[note 4] He served in Valence and Auxonne until after the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, and took nearly two years' leave in Corsica and Paris during this period. At this time, he was a fervent Corsican nationalist, and wrote to Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli in May 1789, "As the nation was perishing I was born. Thirty thousand Frenchmen were vomited on to our shores, drowning the throne of liberty in waves of blood. Such was the odious sight which was the first to strike me."
Question: When did Napoleon graduate?
Answer: September 1785
Question: What commission did Napoleon receive upon his graduation?
Answer: second lieutenant
Question: What military unit did Napoleon first serve in after his graduation?
Answer: La Fère artillery regiment
Question: What Corsican leader did Napoleon write in 1789 expressing his nationalist sentiments?
Answer: Pasquale Paoli
Question: When did the Revolution begin?
Answer: 1789 |
Context: The superstructure of a carrier (such as the bridge, flight control tower) are concentrated in a relatively small area called an island, a feature pioneered on the HMS Hermes in 1923. While the island is usually built on the starboard side of the fight deck, the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi and Hiryū had their islands built on the port side. Very few carriers have been designed or built without an island. The flush deck configuration proved to have significant drawbacks, primary of which was management of the exhaust from the power plant. Fumes coming across the deck were a major issue in USS Langley. In addition, lack of an island meant difficulties managing the flight deck, performing air traffic control, a lack of radar housing placements and problems with navigating and controlling the ship itself.
Question: What feature was pioneered on the HMS Hermes in 1923?
Answer: an island
Question: What is concentrated in the small area called an island?
Answer: The superstructure of a carrier
Question: Other than Japanese carriers, which side of the flight deck are islands typically built on?
Answer: starboard
Question: What was the biggest drawback to the flush deck configuration?
Answer: management of the exhaust from the power plant
Question: What was a major issue in the USS Langley?
Answer: Fumes coming across the deck
Question: What feature was pioneered on the HMS Hermes in 1932?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is concentrated in the large area called an island?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Other than Chinese carriers, which side of the flight deck are islands typically built on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the biggest advantage to the flush deck configuration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was a minor issue in the USS Langley?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Pan-Germanism's origins began in the early 19th century following the Napoleonic Wars. The wars launched a new movement that was born in France itself during the French Revolution. Nationalism during the 19th century threatened the old aristocratic regimes. Many ethnic groups of Central and Eastern Europe had been divided for centuries, ruled over by the old Monarchies of the Romanovs and the Habsburgs. Germans, for the most part, had been a loose and disunited people since the Reformation when the Holy Roman Empire was shattered into a patchwork of states. The new German nationalists, mostly young reformers such as Johann Tillmann of East Prussia, sought to unite all the German-speaking and ethnic-German (Volksdeutsche) people.
Question: In what century did the Pan-Germanisms origins begin?
Answer: 19th
Question: What movement came out of the French Revolution?
Answer: Nationalism
Question: Who was threatened by Nationalism?
Answer: aristocratic regimes
Question: Who ruled central and Eastern Europe during the 19th century?
Answer: Romanovs and the Habsburgs
Question: Where was Johann Tillmann from?
Answer: East Prussia
Question: What wars took place in the 1900's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What movement began in Germany in the 1900's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What people had been united since the Reformation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What German wanted to unite all the ethnic-German people?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Four boarders at his parents' apartments became Chopin's intimates: Tytus Woyciechowski, Jan Nepomucen Białobłocki, Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana; the latter two would become part of his Paris milieu. He was friendly with members of Warsaw's young artistic and intellectual world, including Fontana, Józef Bohdan Zaleski and Stefan Witwicki. He was also attracted to the singing student Konstancja Gładkowska. In letters to Woyciechowski, he indicated which of his works, and even which of their passages, were influenced by his fascination with her; his letter of 15 May 1830 revealed that the slow movement (Larghetto) of his Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor) was secretly dedicated to her – "It should be like dreaming in beautiful springtime – by moonlight." His final Conservatory report (July 1829) read: "Chopin F., third-year student, exceptional talent, musical genius."
Question: Of the individuals that became intimate with Frédéric during their stay at the family apartments, which two became part of Frédéric's social environment in Paris?
Answer: Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana
Question: Which singer was cited specifically as someone Frédéric was attracted to?
Answer: Konstancja Gładkowska
Question: What four boys from his family's boarding house became friends with Chopin?
Answer: Tytus Woyciechowski, Jan Nepomucen Białobłocki, Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana
Question: Which singer did Chopin become fascinated with?
Answer: Konstancja Gładkowska
Question: Which of Chopin's works was unknowingly dedicated to Gladkowska?
Answer: Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor)
Question: When did Chopin receive his last Conservatory report?
Answer: July 1829
Question: Which two of Chopin's friends became part of his Paris milieu?
Answer: Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana
Question: What was the name of the singing student Chopin was attracted to?
Answer: Konstancja Gładkowska
Question: To whom did Chopin reveal in letters which parts of his work were about the singing student he was infatuated with?
Answer: Tytus Woyciechowski
Question: What musical piece had a Larghetto dedicated to the female singing student Chopin was infatuated with?
Answer: Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor)
Question: How many boarders of his family's boarding house became intimate friends with Chopin?
Answer: Four |
Context: According to the Crisis Group, since Myanmar transitioned to a new government in August 2011, the country's human rights record has been improving. Previously giving Myanmar its lowest rating of 7, the 2012 Freedom in the World report also notes improvement, giving Myanmar a 6 for improvements in civil liberties and political rights, the release of political prisoners, and a loosening of restrictions. In 2013, Myanmar improved yet again, receiving a score of five in civil liberties and a six in political freedoms
Question: What is the name of the individuals who gave relevant information on the recent events in Burma ?
Answer: the Crisis Group
Question: Have there been any advances in the human rights situation in Myanmar?
Answer: the country's human rights record has been improving
Question: What is the current rating of for Burma from the Freedom in the World report and what caused the current standing ?
Answer: Myanmar improved yet again, receiving a score of five in civil liberties and a six in political freedom
Question: What was the previous rating for Burma?
Answer: lowest rating of 7
Question: What caused Myanmar to receive a rating of 6?
Answer: improvements in civil liberties and political rights, the release of political prisoners, and a loosening of restrictions. |
Context: Alexandra was born days before Kerry began law school. In 1982, Julia asked Kerry for a separation while she was suffering from severe depression. They were divorced on July 25, 1988, and the marriage was formally annulled in 1997. "After 14 years as a political wife, I associated politics only with anger, fear and loneliness" she wrote in A Change of Heart, her book about depression. Thorne later married Richard Charlesworth, an architect, and moved to Bozeman, Montana, where she became active in local environmental groups such as the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Thorne supported Kerry's 2004 presidential run. She died of cancer on April 27, 2006.
Question: When did Kerry and his wife separate?
Answer: 1982
Question: When did Kerry and his wife divorce?
Answer: July 25, 1988
Question: When did Kerry and his wife get an annullment?
Answer: 1997
Question: What book did Kerry's ex-wife write?
Answer: A Change of Heart
Question: Who did Kerry's ex-wife remarry?
Answer: Richard Charlesworth |
Context: After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. According to Jeff Kaplan of the Internet Archive in November 2010, other sites were still being archived, but more recent captures would become visible only after the next major indexing, an infrequent operation.
Question: When did it become a requirement for websites to appear on Open Directory for inclusion in the Archive?
Answer: After August 2008
Question: Who stated that sites not on Open Directory were still being saved but would not be released until the Archive was reindexed?
Answer: Jeff Kaplan
Question: When did Kaplan make comments about the status of non-Open Directory sites?
Answer: November 2010
Question: When did it become a requirement for websites to appear on Open Directory for inclusion in Kaplan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who stated that sites not on Open Directory were still being saved but would not be released until the Kaplan was reindexed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Kaplan make comments about the status of Open Directory sites?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why were sites listed on the Internet Archive after August 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Kaplan make comments about the Open Directory?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Paleozoic spanned from roughly 541 to 252 million years ago (Ma) and is subdivided into six geologic periods; from oldest to youngest they are the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian. Geologically, the Paleozoic starts shortly after the breakup of a supercontinent called Pannotia and at the end of a global ice age. Throughout the early Paleozoic, the Earth's landmass was broken up into a substantial number of relatively small continents. Toward the end of the era the continents gathered together into a supercontinent called Pangaea, which included most of the Earth's land area.
Question: During what period was the Paleozoic era?
Answer: 541 to 252 million years ago
Question: How many periods of geology are within the Paleozoic era?
Answer: six
Question: The Permian is an example of what?
Answer: geologic periods
Question: After what continental event did the Paleozoic begin?
Answer: breakup of a supercontinent called Pannotia
Question: What continent was formed at the end of the Paleozoic?
Answer: Pangaea
Question: What period ended 541 million years ago?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What period started right before the breakup of Pannotia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the scope of the ice age that began at the same time as the Paleozoic period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the superconinent that formed at the begining of the Paleozoic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pangea break into at the end of the Paleozoic?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Examples of Ottoman architecture of the classical period, besides Istanbul and Edirne, can also be seen in Egypt, Eritrea, Tunisia, Algiers, the Balkans and Romania, where mosques, bridges, fountains and schools were built. The art of Ottoman decoration developed with a multitude of influences due to the wide ethnic range of the Ottoman Empire. The greatest of the court artists enriched the Ottoman Empire with many pluralistic artistic influences: such as mixing traditional Byzantine art with elements of Chinese art.
Question: Ottoman artists mixed Chinese art with the art of what else?
Answer: traditional Byzantine art
Question: The ottoman empire built structures in Romania that included Mosques, and Bridges, what else was built?
Answer: fountains and schools
Question: Why did the art of the Ottoman empire develop the way it did?
Answer: the wide ethnic range of the Ottoman Empire
Question: Beside Edirne, Istanbul, and Egypt what other locations can one find the influence of the Ottoman classical period?
Answer: Eritrea, Tunisia, Algiers, the Balkans and Romania |
Context: In April 2013, the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) reported that the weak antibiotic pipeline does not match bacteria's increasing ability to develop resistance. Since 2009, only 2 new antibiotics were approved in the United States. The number of new antibiotics approved for marketing per year declines continuously. The report identified seven antibiotics against the Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) currently in phase 2 or phase 3 clinical trials. However, these drugs do not address the entire spectrum of resistance of GNB. Some of these antibiotics are combination of existent treatments:
Question: How many antibiotics have been created in the last 7 years?
Answer: 2
Question: How many are in the pipelin to fight GNB?
Answer: seven
Question: What year did the Infectious Disease Society of America say that production of new antibiotics does not keep up with resistance?
Answer: 2013
Question: How many bacilli have been created in the last 7 years?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many are in the pipeline to fight IDSA?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did the Infectious Diseases of America say that production of GNB does not keep up with resistance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens to the umber of new resistance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What drugs address teh entire spectrum of resistance of GNB?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In recent years, the nightclubs on West 27th Street have succumbed to stiff competition from Manhattan's Meatpacking District about fifteen blocks south, and other venues in downtown Manhattan.
Question: How many blocks south of 27th Street is Manhattan's Meatpacking District?
Answer: fifteen blocks
Question: Which businesses on 27th Street face competition from other venues in dowtown Manhattan?
Answer: nightclubs
Question: What direction is Manhattan's Meatpacking District from West 27th Street?
Answer: south |
Context: The Polish scholar Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (together with his former student Mikołaj Kruszewski) introduced the concept of the phoneme in 1876, and his work, though often unacknowledged, is considered to be the starting point of modern phonology. He also worked on the theory of phonetic alternations (what is now called allophony and morphophonology), and had a significant influence on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure.
Question: When was the phoneme as a concept introduced?
Answer: 1876
Question: Who was Jan Baudouin de Courtenay's student?
Answer: Mikołaj Kruszewski
Question: What nationality was de Courtenay?
Answer: Polish
Question: What was de Courtenay's profession?
Answer: scholar
Question: Who was influenced by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay?
Answer: Ferdinand de Saussure
Question: When was allophony as a concept introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Jan Baudouin de Courtenay's father?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What nationality was Kruszewski?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Kruszewski's profession?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was influenced by Mikolaj Kruszewski?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context:
Great Britain: The torch relay leg held in London, the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympics, on April 6 began at Wembley Stadium, passed through the City of London, and eventually ended at O2 Arena in the eastern part of the city. The 48 km (30 mi) leg took a total of seven and a half hours to complete, and attracted protests by pro-Tibetan independence and pro-Human Rights supporters, prompting changes to the planned route and an unscheduled move onto a bus, which was then briefly halted by protestors. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has officially complained to Beijing Organising Committee about the conduct of the tracksuit-clad Chinese security guards. The Chinese officials, seen manhandling protesters, were described by both the London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Lord Coe, chairman of the London Olympic Committee as "thugs". A Metropolitan police briefing paper revealed that security for the torch relay cost £750,000 and the participation of the Chinese security team had been agreed in advance, despite the Mayor stating, "We did not know beforehand these thugs were from the security services. Had I known so, we would have said no."
Question: Which city hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: London
Question: When did the torch route begin in London?
Answer: April 6
Question: How much did security cost for the torch relay in London?
Answer: £750,000
Question: What city held the Olympics in 2012?
Answer: London
Question: Where did the torch relay begin in London for the 2008 Olympics?
Answer: Wembley Stadium
Question: Where did the relay end in London?
Answer: O2 Arena
Question: How many miles was the relay in England?
Answer: 30 mi
Question: What word was used by London officials to describe Chinese security guards for their treatment of protesters?
Answer: thugs |
Context: Located in the Laurelhurst neighborhood, Seattle Children's, formerly Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, is the pediatric referral center for Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has a campus in the Eastlake neighborhood. The University District is home to the University of Washington Medical Center which, along with Harborview, is operated by the University of Washington. Seattle is also served by a Veterans Affairs hospital on Beacon Hill, a third campus of Swedish in Ballard, and Northwest Hospital and Medical Center near Northgate Mall.
Question: What kind of hospital is Seattle Children's?
Answer: pediatric referral center
Question: Besides serving Washington, Idaho, and Montana, what northern state uses Seattle Children's?
Answer: Alaska
Question: In what neighborhood is the Fred Hutchington Cancer Research Center located?
Answer: Eastlake
Question: Where is the Veterans Affairs Hospital located?
Answer: Beacon Hill
Question: What entity operates Harborview?
Answer: University of Washington |
Context: From its base in India, the Company had also been engaged in an increasingly profitable opium export trade to China since the 1730s. This trade, illegal since it was outlawed by the Qing dynasty in 1729, helped reverse the trade imbalances resulting from the British imports of tea, which saw large outflows of silver from Britain to China. In 1839, the confiscation by the Chinese authorities at Canton of 20,000 chests of opium led Britain to attack China in the First Opium War, and resulted in the seizure by Britain of Hong Kong Island, at that time a minor settlement.
Question: What illegal trade was the British East India Company involved in?
Answer: opium
Question: How many chests of opium did China confiscate in 1839?
Answer: 20,000
Question: The First Opium War led to Britain seizing what island?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: Which dynasty outlawed opium trade?
Answer: Qing
Question: When did China outlaw opium trade?
Answer: 1729 |
Context: The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
Question: The Stonewall riots are named after what building?
Answer: the Stonewall Inn
Question: In what neighborhood did the Stonewall riots occur?
Answer: Greenwich Village
Question: On what date did the Stonewall riots take place?
Answer: June 28, 1969
Question: In what borough did the Stonewall riots happen?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: What event provoked the Stonewall riots?
Answer: a police raid
Question: Where did the Stonewall riots happen?
Answer: Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan |
Context: New York City is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed. As a result of the watershed's integrity and undisturbed natural water filtration system, New York is one of only four major cities in the United States the majority of whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The Croton Watershed north of the city is undergoing construction of a US$3.2 billion water purification plant to augment New York City's water supply by an estimated 290 million gallons daily, representing a greater than 20% addition to the city's current availability of water. The ongoing expansion of New York City Water Tunnel No. 3, an integral part of the New York City water supply system, is the largest capital construction project in the city's history.
Question: Who supplies NYC with drinkable water?
Answer: Catskill Mountains watershed
Question: From what mountain range does New York's drinking water come from?
Answer: Catskill Mountains
Question: How much is being spent on a water purification plant at the Croton Watershed?
Answer: US$3.2 billion
Question: After the water purification plant at the Croton Watershed is built, how much more water will be added to the city's supply each day?
Answer: 290 million gallons
Question: What percent increase in water supply will the city see after the Croton Watershed plant is finished?
Answer: 20%
Question: In what geographical direction would a New Yorker travel to reach the Croton Watershed?
Answer: north |
Context: His best known wife was Jovanka Broz. Tito was just shy of his 59th birthday, while she was 27, when they finally married in April 1952, with state security chief Aleksandar Ranković as the best man. Their eventual marriage came about somewhat unexpectedly since Tito actually rejected her some years earlier when his confidante Ivan Krajacic brought her in originally. At that time, she was in her early 20s and Tito, objecting to her energetic personality, opted for the more mature opera singer Zinka Kunc instead. Not one to be discouraged easily, Jovanka continued working at Beli Dvor, where she managed the staff and eventually got another chance after Tito's strange relationship with Zinka failed. Since Jovanka was the only female companion he married while in power, she also went down in history as Yugoslavia's first lady. Their relationship was not a happy one, however. It had gone through many, often public, ups and downs with episodes of infidelities and even allegations of preparation for a coup d'état by the latter pair. Certain unofficial reports suggest Tito and Jovanka even formally divorced in the late 1970s, shortly before his death. However, during Tito's funeral she was officially present as his wife, and later claimed rights for inheritance. The couple did not have any children.
Question: Who was Tito's best known wife?
Answer: Jovanka Broz
Question: How old was Jovanka Broz when she married Tito?
Answer: 27
Question: In what year did Tito and Jovanka marry?
Answer: 1952
Question: Who was the best man at the wedding of Jovanka and Tito?
Answer: Aleksandar Ranković
Question: Who went down in history as Yugoslavia's first lady?
Answer: Jovanka |
Context: On April 7, 1989, Soviet troops and armored personnel carriers were sent to Tbilisi after more than 100,000 people protested in front of Communist Party headquarters with banners calling for Georgia to secede from the Soviet Union and for Abkhazia to be fully integrated into Georgia. On April 9, 1989, troops attacked the demonstrators; some 20 people were killed and more than 200 wounded. This event radicalized Georgian politics, prompting many to conclude that independence was preferable to continued Soviet rule. On April 14, Gorbachev removed Jumber Patiashvili as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party and replaced him with former Georgian KGB chief Givi Gumbaridze.
Question: What did the protesters want Georgia to leave?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: What did the protesters hope to see become a part of Georgia?
Answer: Abkhazia
Question: How many people died in the April 9 attack?
Answer: 20
Question: What happened to Georgian politics as a result of the attack?
Answer: radicalized |
Context: Upon being confirmed in 1966, she adopted Veronica as a confirmation name. She was raised in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Avon Township (now Rochester Hills). Months before her mother died of breast cancer, Madonna noticed changes in her behavior and personality, although she did not understand the reason. Her mother was at a loss to explain her medical condition, and often began to cry when Madonna questioned her about it. Madonna later acknowledged that she had not grasped the concept of her mother dying.
Question: Which name did Madonna adopted as her confirmation name?
Answer: Veronica
Question: Which disease did her mother passed away from?
Answer: breast cancer
Question: Where was Madonna raised?
Answer: Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Avon Township
Question: What was Madonna's mother's reaction to her questioning about her illness?
Answer: cry |
Context: The Byzantine Empire ruled the northern shores of the Sahara from the 5th to the 7th centuries. After the Muslim conquest of Arabia (Arabian peninsula) the Muslim conquest of North Africa began in the mid-7th to early 8th centuries, Islamic influence expanded rapidly on the Sahara. By the end of 641 all of Egypt was in Muslim hands. The trade across the desert intensified. A significant slave trade crossed the desert. It has been estimated that from the 10th to 19th centuries some 6,000 to 7,000 slaves were transported north each year.
Question: What group of people ruled the northern shoes of the Sahara?
Answer: Byzantine Empire
Question: What time period did the Muslim conquest of North Africa take place?
Answer: mid-7th to early 8th centuries
Question: What is the estimated number of slaves that were transported each year?
Answer: 6,000 to 7,000 slaves
Question: During what century did the Muslim conquest of Arabia begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many slaves did the Byzantine Empire transport per year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did the Muslims control Egypt?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Egypt liberated from Muslim control?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused trade in the desert to decrease?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2007, the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) reported that music piracy took $12.5 billion from the U.S. economy. According to the study, musicians and those involved in the recording industry are not the only ones who experience losses attributed to music piracy. Retailers have lost over a billion dollars, while piracy has resulted in 46,000 fewer production-level jobs and almost 25,000 retail jobs. The U.S. government was also reported to suffer from music piracy, losing $422 million in tax revenue.
Question: Who reported that piracy took $12.5 billion from the U.S. economy?
Answer: Institute for Policy Innovation
Question: How much money have retailers lost?
Answer: over a billion dollars
Question: How many production-level jobs were lost?
Answer: 46,000
Question: Which government lost $422 million in potential tax money?
Answer: U.S. government
Question: Who reported that piracy gained $12.5 billion for the U.S. economy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much money have retailers made?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many production-level jobs were gained?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many production-level jobs weren't lost?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which government made $422 million in potential tax money?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Though women were protected by late Sumerian law and were able to achieve a higher status in Sumer than in other contemporary civilizations, the culture was male-dominated. The Code of Ur-Nammu, the oldest such codification yet discovered, dating to the Ur-III "Sumerian Renaissance", reveals a glimpse at societal structure in late Sumerian law. Beneath the lu-gal ("great man" or king), all members of society belonged to one of two basic strata: The "lu" or free person, and the slave (male, arad; female geme). The son of a lu was called a dumu-nita until he married. A woman (munus) went from being a daughter (dumu-mi), to a wife (dam), then if she outlived her husband, a widow (numasu) and she could then remarry.
Question: How were women protected in Sumerian society?
Answer: law
Question: What gender dominated Sumerian culture?
Answer: male
Question: Whose code reveals a bit about the societal structure through Sumerian law?
Answer: Ur-Nammu
Question: Who was at the top of the power pyramid in Sumerian society?
Answer: the lu-gal
Question: How many strata existed in Sumerian society?
Answer: two
Question: Who had higher status in other cultures that in Sumeria?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's code protected women above all others?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was able to remarry whenever they chose?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On January 22, 2008, Apple reported the best quarter revenue and earnings in Apple's history so far. Apple posted record revenue of US$9.6 billion and record net quarterly profit of US$1.58 billion. 42% of Apple's revenue for the First fiscal quarter of 2008 came from iPod sales, followed by 21% from notebook sales and 16% from desktop sales.
Question: When did Apple reveal it had achieved its highest quarterly earnings to date?
Answer: January 22, 2008
Question: What was Apple's highest quarterly profit as of Q1 2008?
Answer: $1.58 billion
Question: How much of Apple's revenue resulted from purchases of laptop computers in Q1 2008?
Answer: 21%
Question: What percentage of Apples revenue in 1Q08 came from iPods, more than doubling the percentage of notebook sales?
Answer: 42% |
Context: The BRA subsequently reevaluated its approach to urban renewal in its future projects, including the construction of Government Center. In 1965, the first Community Health Center in the United States opened, the Columbia Point Health Center, in the Dorchester neighborhood. It mostly served the massive Columbia Point public housing complex adjoining it, which was built in 1953. The health center is still in operation and was rededicated in 1990 as the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center. The Columbia Point complex itself was redeveloped and revitalized into a mixed-income community called Harbor Point Apartments from 1984 to 1990. By the 1970s, the city's economy boomed after 30 years of economic downturn. A large number of high rises were constructed in the Financial District and in Boston's Back Bay during this time period. This boom continued into the mid-1980s and later began again. Hospitals such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Brigham and Women's Hospital lead the nation in medical innovation and patient care. Schools such as Boston College, Boston University, the Harvard Medical School, Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory attract students to the area. Nevertheless, the city experienced conflict starting in 1974 over desegregation busing, which resulted in unrest and violence around public schools throughout the mid-1970s.
Question: What year did the first community health center in the US open?
Answer: 1965
Question: Where was Colombia Point Health Center located?
Answer: the Dorchester neighborhood
Question: In 1990, the Colombia Point Health Center was renamed what?
Answer: Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center |
Context: Just as artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci – partaking of the zeitgeist though not himself a humanist – advocated study of human anatomy, nature, and weather to enrich Renaissance works of art, so Spanish-born humanist Juan Luis Vives (c. 1493–1540) advocated observation, craft, and practical techniques to improve the formal teaching of Aristotelian philosophy at the universities, helping to free them from the grip of Medieval Scholasticism. Thus, the stage was set for the adoption of an approach to natural philosophy, based on empirical observations and experimentation of the physical universe, making possible the advent of the age of scientific inquiry that followed the Renaissance.
Question: Who felt that the further examination and knowledge of studies in the arena of humanism could further art?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Question: Who helped to further the movement away from Scholasticism of the time?
Answer: Juan Luis Vives
Question: Where did this initiate?
Answer: universities
Question: What type of philosophy was essential to this forwarding of thought?
Answer: Aristotelian
Question: Who felt that the further examination and knowledge of studies in the arena of humanism could limit art?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who helped to further the movement closer to Scholasticism of the time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of philosophy was unessential to this forwarding of thought?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the most famous humanist?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Current manager, Roberto Martínez, is the fourteenth permanent holder of the position since it was established in 1939. There have also been four caretaker managers, and before 1939 the team was selected by either the club secretary or by committee. The club's longest-serving manager has been Harry Catterick, who was in charge of the team from 1961–73, taking in 594 first team matches. The Everton manager to win most domestic and international trophies is Howard Kendall, who won two Division One championships, the 1984 FA Cup, the 1984 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and three Charity Shields.
Question: Who is the current manager of the Everton Football Club?
Answer: Roberto Martínez
Question: How many caretaker managers have their been in the Everton FC's history?
Answer: four
Question: Who was the Everton FC team's longest serving manager?
Answer: Harry Catterick
Question: When did Harry Catterick manage the Everton Football Club?
Answer: 1961–73
Question: Which Everton manager won the most domestic and international trophies during his time?
Answer: Howard Kendall
Question: In what year did Roberto Martinez become the current manager of Everton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Everton have its first caretaker manager?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has been Everton's shortest serving manager?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Howard Kendall win his first Division One Championship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Howard Kendall earn his first Charity Shield?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A servomotor is a motor, very often sold as a complete module, which is used within a position-control or speed-control feedback control system mainly control valves, such as motor-operated control valves. Servomotors are used in applications such as machine tools, pen plotters, and other process systems. Motors intended for use in a servomechanism must have well-documented characteristics for speed, torque, and power. The speed vs. torque curve is quite important and is high ratio for a servo motor. Dynamic response characteristics such as winding inductance and rotor inertia are also important; these factors limit the overall performance of the servomechanism loop. Large, powerful, but slow-responding servo loops may use conventional AC or DC motors and drive systems with position or speed feedback on the motor. As dynamic response requirements increase, more specialized motor designs such as coreless motors are used. AC motors' superior power density and acceleration characteristics compared to that of DC motors tends to favor PM synchronous, BLDC, induction, and SRM drive applications.
Question: What may servo motors be used for?
Answer: machine tools, pen plotters, and other process systems
Question: What must be well understood when applying a servo motor for use?
Answer: speed, torque, and power
Question: What factors limit performance of servo motors?
Answer: winding inductance and rotor inertia
Question: Large, slow servos can use what types of motors?
Answer: conventional AC or DC motors
Question: When might coreless motors be used in servo applications?
Answer: As dynamic response requirements increase
Question: What may servo motors never be used for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must not be well understood when applying a servo motor for use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What factors don't limit performance of servo motors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Small, fast servos can use what types of motors?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Aboriginal peoples in Canada comprise the First Nations, Inuit and Métis; the descriptors "Indian" and "Eskimo" are falling into disuse, and other than in neighboring Alaska. "Eskimo" is considered derogatory in many other places because it was given by non-Inuit people and was said to mean "eater of raw meat." Hundreds of Aboriginal nations evolved trade, spiritual and social hierarchies. The Métis culture of mixed blood originated in the mid-17th century when First Nation and native Inuit married European settlers. The Inuit had more limited interaction with European settlers during that early period. Various laws, treaties, and legislation have been enacted between European immigrants and First Nations across Canada. Aboriginal Right to Self-Government provides opportunity to manage historical, cultural, political, health care and economic control aspects within first people's communities.
Question: What is the term Eskimo said to mean?
Answer: "eater of raw meat."
Question: First Nations and Inuit are labels for what peoples in Canada?
Answer: Aboriginal
Question: How many Aboriginal nations evolved trade, as well as spiritual and social hierarchies?
Answer: Hundreds
Question: What resulted from First Nation and Inuit people marrying European settlers?
Answer: The Métis culture
Question: What has been enacted between European immigrants and First Nations across Canada?
Answer: Various laws, treaties, and legislation |
Context: In August 2007, an increase in the price of diesel and petrol led to Saffron Revolution led by Buddhist monks that were dealt with harshly by the government. The government cracked down on them on 26 September 2007. The crackdown was harsh, with reports of barricades at the Shwedagon Pagoda and monks killed. There were also rumours of disagreement within the Burmese armed forces, but none was confirmed. The military crackdown against unarmed protesters was widely condemned as part of the International reactions to the Saffron Revolution and led to an increase in economic sanctions against the Burmese Government.
Question: What was the cause of the insurrection in the summer of 2007 ?
Answer: an increase in the price of diesel and petrol
Question: What was the name of the insurgency lead by Buddhist Monks?
Answer: Saffron Revolution
Question: Did the insurgency lead to any economic changes in Burma ?
Answer: an increase in economic sanctions against the Burmese Government.
Question: How did the world respond to the reported acts of military violence during the Burmese revolution of 2007?
Answer: The military crackdown against unarmed protesters was widely condemned as part of the International reactions |
Context: Once food leaves the crop, it passes to the midgut (element 13 in numbered diagram), also known as the mesenteron, where the majority of digestion takes place. Microscopic projections from the midgut wall, called microvilli, increase the surface area of the wall and allow more nutrients to be absorbed; they tend to be close to the origin of the midgut. In some insects, the role of the microvilli and where they are located may vary. For example, specialized microvilli producing digestive enzymes may more likely be near the end of the midgut, and absorption near the origin or beginning of the midgut.:32
Question: What is another name for mesenteron?
Answer: midgut
Question: Food goes in to the midgut after leaving where?
Answer: the crop
Question: The majority of an insects digestion happens where?
Answer: the mesenteron
Question: What kind of projections are in the midgut wall?
Answer: Microscopic
Question: What are microscopic projections called?
Answer: microvilli |
Context: Like much of the southeastern United States, Raleigh has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with four distinct seasons. Winters are short and generally cool, with a January daily average of 41.0 °F (5.0 °C). On average, there are 69 nights per year that drop to or below freezing, and only 2.7 days that fail to rise above freezing. April is the driest month, with an average of 2.91 inches (73.9 mm) of precipitation. Precipitation is well distributed around the year, with a slight maximum between July and September; on average, July is the wettest month, owing to generally frequent, sometimes heavy, showers and thunderstorms. Summers are hot and humid, with a daily average in July of 80.0 °F (26.7 °C). There are 48 days per year with highs at or above 90 °F (32 °C). Autumn is similar to spring overall but has fewer days of rainfall. Extremes in temperature have ranged from −9 °F (−23 °C) on January 21, 1985 up to 105 °F (41 °C), most recently on July 8, 2012.
Question: What is the climate of Raleigh?
Answer: humid subtropical climate
Question: How many seasons are there in Raleigh?
Answer: four
Question: How many nights in a year are there in Raleigh that are freezing?
Answer: 69 nights per year
Question: What month has the most precipitation?
Answer: July
Question: What is the hottest temperature in Raleigh?
Answer: 105
Question: How many nights in a year are there in Raleigh that are above freezing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did it get 110 degrees F?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was it as cold as -15 F?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many days go under 90 F?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Madaris were largely centred on the study of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). The ijāzat al-tadrīs wa-al-iftāʼ ("licence to teach and issue legal opinions") in the medieval Islamic legal education system had its origins in the 9th century after the formation of the madhāhib (schools of jurisprudence). George Makdisi considers the ijāzah to be the origin of the European doctorate. However, in an earlier article, he considered the ijāzah to be of "fundamental difference" to the medieval doctorate, since the former was awarded by an individual teacher-scholar not obliged to follow any formal criteria, whereas the latter was conferred on the student by the collective authority of the faculty. To obtain an ijāzah, a student "had to study in a guild school of law, usually four years for the basic undergraduate course" and ten or more years for a post-graduate course. The "doctorate was obtained after an oral examination to determine the originality of the candidate's theses", and to test the student's "ability to defend them against all objections, in disputations set up for the purpose." These were scholarly exercises practised throughout the student's "career as a graduate student of law." After students completed their post-graduate education, they were awarded ijazas giving them the status of faqīh 'scholar of jurisprudence', muftī 'scholar competent in issuing fatwās', and mudarris 'teacher'.
Question: What term refers to Islamic law?
Answer: fiqh
Question: When did Islamic law school begin?
Answer: 9th century
Question: How long did a student have to study law, in early Islamic law graduate schools, in order to graduate?
Answer: ten or more years
Question: What traditional schooling has been considered modeled after the traditional Islamic graduate schools?
Answer: European doctorate
Question: What term refers to non-Islamic law?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Islamic law school end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did a student have to study law in order to drop out?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What modern schooling has been considered modeled after the non-Islamic graduate schools?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The scientific revolution is a convenient boundary between ancient thought and classical physics. Nicolaus Copernicus revived the heliocentric model of the solar system described by Aristarchus of Samos. This was followed by the first known model of planetary motion given by Johannes Kepler in the early 17th century, which proposed that the planets follow elliptical orbits, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse. Galileo ("Father of Modern Physics") also made use of experiments to validate physical theories, a key element of the scientific method.
Question: Which movement is considered to be a dividing line between ancient thought and classical physics?
Answer: The scientific revolution
Question: Who made the heliocentric model popular?
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus
Question: Johannes Kepler created a model of what?
Answer: planetary motion
Question: What did Johannes Kepler's model suggest about the planets?
Answer: the planets follow elliptical orbits
Question: What was Galileo's nickname?
Answer: Father of Modern Physics |
Context: The Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire (BNU) is, with its collection of more than 3,000,000 titles, the second largest library in France after the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It was founded by the German administration after the complete destruction of the previous municipal library in 1871 and holds the unique status of being simultaneously a students' and a national library. The Strasbourg municipal library had been marked erroneously as "City Hall" in a French commercial map, which had been captured and used by the German artillery to lay their guns. A librarian from Munich later pointed out "...that the destruction of the precious collection was not the fault of a German artillery officer, who used the French map, but of the slovenly and inaccurate scholarship of a Frenchman."
Question: What is the second largest library in France?
Answer: Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire
Question: How many titles does the library have?
Answer: 3,000,000
Question: Who founded the library?
Answer: German administration
Question: When was the previous library destroyed?
Answer: 1871
Question: What was the library marked as on the map?
Answer: City Hall
Question: How many books does the Bibliotheque nationale de France hold?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the previous municipal library completely destroyed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did a French map maker accidentally mark the library as "City Hall"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the German artillery bomb the library?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who founded the Bibliotheque nationale de France?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Polytechnics in Malaysia has been operated for almost 44 years. The institutions provide courses for bachelor's degree & Bachelor of Science (BSc) (offer at Premier Polytechnics for September 2013 intake & 2014 intake), Advanced Diploma, Diploma and Special Skills Certificate. It was established by the Ministry of Education with the help of UNESCO in 1969. The amount of RM24.5 million is used to fund the pioneer of Politeknik Ungku Omar located in Ipoh, Perak from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Question: What country has operated polytechnic institutes for nearly 44 years?
Answer: Malaysia
Question: What international organization partnered with Malaysia's Ministry of Education in 1969?
Answer: UNESCO
Question: In what city in the state of Perak is the Politeknik Ungku Omar located?
Answer: Ipoh |
Context: In 1808 Bavarian educational commissioner Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer coined the term Humanismus to describe the new classical curriculum he planned to offer in German secondary schools, and by 1836 the word "humanism" had been absorbed into the English language in this sense. The coinage gained universal acceptance in 1856, when German historian and philologist Georg Voigt used humanism to describe Renaissance humanism, the movement that flourished in the Italian Renaissance to revive classical learning, a use which won wide acceptance among historians in many nations, especially Italy.
Question: In what year did the term humanism gain yet another layer of meaning?
Answer: 1808
Question: Who can be credited with assisting the word humanism with finding a home in the English language?
Answer: Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer
Question: Who was responsible for yet another definition of the philosophy in 1856?
Answer: Georg Voigt
Question: What nation was highly receptive to the new definition of this concept?
Answer: Italy
Question: What year did the term humanism remove yet another layer of meaning?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can be credited with assisting the word humanism with finding a barrier from the English language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was responsible for yet another definition of the philosophy in 1854?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What nation was not receptive to the new definition of this concept?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who destroyed the term Humanismus?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The largest plaza in Valencia is the Plaza del Ayuntamiento; it is home to the City Hall (Ayuntamiento) on its western side and the central post office (Edificio de Correos) on its eastern side, a cinema that shows classic movies, and many restaurants and bars. The plaza is triangular in shape, with a large cement lot at the southern end, normally surrounded by flower vendors. It serves as ground zero during the Les Falles when the fireworks of the Mascletà can be heard every afternoon. There is a large fountain at the northern end.
Question: Where is Valencia's City Hall located?
Answer: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
Question: What is on the eastern side of Valencia's largest plaza?
Answer: the central post office
Question: What shape is the Plaza del Ayuntamiento?
Answer: triangular
Question: What is in the north part of the plaza?
Answer: a large fountain
Question: When are firewords heard every day?
Answer: during the Les Falles |
Context: Internationally, Sassou's regime has been hit by corruption revelations despite attempts to censor them. One French investigation found over 110 bank accounts and dozens of lavish properties in France; Sassou denounced embezzlement investigations as "racist" and "colonial".
Question: What has Sassou's regime attempted to censor?
Answer: corruption revelations
Question: What country found bank accounts and real estate owned by the Sassou regime?
Answer: France
Question: What did Sassou's regime not attempt to censor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has Sassou's regime been hit by nationally?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did one German investigation find?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did France denounce embezzlement investigations as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country were no lavish properties found in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Gradually, the predetermined nature of professional wrestling became an open secret, as prominent figures in the wrestling business (including WWE owner Vince McMahon) began to publicly admit that wrestling was entertainment, not competition. This public reveal has garnered mixed reactions from the wrestling community, as some feel that exposure ruins the experience to the spectators as does exposure in illusionism. Despite the public admission of the theatrical nature of professional wrestling, many U.S. states still regulate professional wrestling as they do other professional competitive sports. For example, New York State still regulates "professional wrestling" through the New York State Athletic Commission (SAC).
Question: Who confessed that wrestling was not competition?
Answer: prominent figures in the wrestling business (including WWE owner Vince McMahon)
Question: How have people reacted to the revelation that wrestling is purely entertainment?
Answer: This public reveal has garnered mixed reactions from the wrestling community
Question: How do many U.S. states handle wrestling?
Answer: many U.S. states still regulate professional wrestling as they do other professional competitive sports |
Context: Besides singing Madonna has the ability to play several musical instruments. She learned to play drum and guitar from her then-boyfriend Dan Gilroy in the late 1970s before joining the Breakfast Club line-up as the drummer. This helped her to form the band Emmy, where she performed as the guitarist and lead vocalist. Madonna later played guitar on her demo recordings. On the liner notes of Pre-Madonna, Stephen Bray wrote: "I've always thought she passed up a brilliant career as a rhythm guitarist." After her career breakthrough, Madonna focused mainly in singing but was also credited for playing cowbell on Madonna (1983) and synthesizer on Like a Prayer (1989). In 1999, Madonna had studied for three months to play the violin for the role as a violin teacher in the film Music of the Heart, before eventually leaving the project. After two decades, Madonna decided to perform with guitar again during the promotion of Music (2000). She took further lessons from guitarist Monte Pittman to improve her guitar skill. Since then Madonna has played guitar on every tour, as well as her studio albums. At the 2002 Orville H. Gibson Guitar Awards, she received nomination for Les Paul Horizon Award, which honors the most promising up-and-coming guitarist.
Question: Which instruments can Madonna play?
Answer: drum and guitar
Question: Who taught Madonna how to play the drum and guitar?
Answer: Dan Gilroy
Question: What instrument does Madonna play on her demo recordings?
Answer: guitar
Question: How long did Madonna spent learning to play the violin?
Answer: three months
Question: Who was the guitarist that Madonna learnt from to improve on her skills?
Answer: Monte Pittman |
Context: Mosaic has a long history, starting in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC. Pebble mosaics were made in Tiryns in Mycenean Greece; mosaics with patterns and pictures became widespread in classical times, both in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Early Christian basilicas from the 4th century onwards were decorated with wall and ceiling mosaics. Mosaic art flourished in the Byzantine Empire from the 6th to the 15th centuries; that tradition was adopted by the Norman kingdom in Sicily in the 12th century, by eastern-influenced Venice, and among the Rus in Ukraine. Mosaic fell out of fashion in the Renaissance, though artists like Raphael continued to practise the old technique. Roman and Byzantine influence led Jews to decorate 5th and 6th century synagogues in the Middle East with floor mosaics.
Question: What millennium did Mosaic start?
Answer: the 3rd millennium BC
Question: What kind of mosaic were made in Tiryns?
Answer: Pebble mosaics
Question: Who besides the Romans did the Jewish people get influenced by?
Answer: Byzantine
Question: The Norman kingdomwas in what italian city state?
Answer: Sicily
Question: When did mosaic fall out of fashion?
Answer: the Renaissance |
Context: Concerning the early Polish tribes, geography contributed to long-standing traditions. The Polish tribes were internalized and organized around a unifying religious cult, governed by the wiec, an assembly of free tribesmen. Later, when safety required power to be consolidated, an elected prince was chosen to govern. The election privilege was usually limited to elites.
Question: What contributed to the long standing traditions?
Answer: geography
Question: What was governing the polish tribes?
Answer: wiec
Question: What was the wiec?
Answer: an assembly of free tribesmen
Question: When power needed to be consolidated what was chosen to govern?
Answer: an elected prince
Question: What was the governing position limited to?
Answer: elites |
Context: Tourism contributes billions of dollars each year to the state's economy and Tennessee is ranked among the Top 10 destinations in the US. In 2014 a record 100 million people visited the state resulting in $17.7 billion in tourism related spending within the state, an increase of 6.3% over 2013; tax revenue from tourism equaled $1.5 billion. Each county in Tennessee saw at least $1 million from tourism while 19 counties received at least $100 million (Davidson, Shelby, and Sevier counties were the top three). Tourism-generated jobs for the state reached 152,900, a 2.8% increase. International travelers to Tennessee accounted for $533 million in spending.
Question: In which year did Tennessee tourism first exceed 100 million visitors?
Answer: 2014
Question: How many billions of dollars were spend by tourists in Tennessee in 2014?
Answer: 17.7
Question: How much tax revenue did tourism generate for Tennessee in 2014?
Answer: $1.5 billion
Question: In 2014, which three Tennessee counties took in the most money from tourism?
Answer: Davidson, Shelby, and Sevier
Question: What was the percentage increase in Tennessee's tourism-based jobs in 2014?
Answer: 2.8% |
Context: Health care and emergency medical service in the city of Paris and its suburbs are provided by the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), a public hospital system that employs more than 90,000 people (including practitioners, support personnel, and administrators) in 44 hospitals. It is the largest hospital system in Europe. It provides health care, teaching, research, prevention, education and emergency medical service in 52 branches of medicine. The hospitals receive more than 5.8 million annual patient visits.
Question: Who provides emergency care in the city of Paris?
Answer: Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Question: How many people are employed at AP-HP?
Answer: 90,000
Question: How many hospitals are in Paris?
Answer: 44
Question: How many patients visit the hospitals annually?
Answer: 5.8 million |
Context: The standard specifies how speed ratings should be reported by the camera. If the noise-based speed (40:1) is higher than the saturation-based speed, the noise-based speed should be reported, rounded downwards to a standard value (e.g. 200, 250, 320, or 400). The rationale is that exposure according to the lower saturation-based speed would not result in a visibly better image. In addition, an exposure latitude can be specified, ranging from the saturation-based speed to the 10:1 noise-based speed. If the noise-based speed (40:1) is lower than the saturation-based speed, or undefined because of high noise, the saturation-based speed is specified, rounded upwards to a standard value, because using the noise-based speed would lead to overexposed images. The camera may also report the SOS-based speed (explicitly as being an SOS speed), rounded to the nearest standard speed rating.
Question: When should the noise-based speed be used?
Answer: the noise-based speed (40:1) is higher than the saturation-based speed
Question: What is the range for exposure latitude?
Answer: from the saturation-based speed to the 10:1 noise-based speed
Question: What is another speed that can also be reported by the camera?
Answer: SOS-based speed
Question: Why should noise-based speed be rounded down to a lower standard?
Answer: exposure according to the lower saturation-based speed would not result in a visibly better image
Question: What does the standard specify?
Answer: how speed ratings should be reported by the camera
Question: A lower saturation-based speed would create a better what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the ratio for the saturation-based speed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Is the SOS rounded up or down?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are underexposed images created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are saturation-based speeds rounded down?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2004, the United States passed an amendment to the Fair Labour Standards Act of 1938. The amendment allows certain children aged 14–18 to work in or outside a business where machinery is used to process wood. The law aims to respect the religious and cultural needs of the Amish community of the United States. The Amish believe that one effective way to educate children is on the job. The new law allows Amish children the ability to work with their families, once they are passed eighth grade in school.
Question: What did the United States pass in 2004?
Answer: amendment to the Fair Labour Standards Act of 1938
Question: What is the age of US children allowed to work outside of the home?
Answer: aged 14–18
Question: What culture in the US benefits from this Act?
Answer: Amish
Question: What grade do Amish children need to pass in order to be able to work for their families?
Answer: eighth grade |
Context: The word ale comes from Old English ealu (plural ealoþ), in turn from Proto-Germanic *alu (plural *aluþ), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European base *h₂elut-, which holds connotations of "sorcery, magic, possession, intoxication". The word beer comes from Old English bēor, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeusóm, originally "brewer's yeast, beer dregs", although other theories have been provided connecting the word with Old English bēow, "barley", or Latin bibere, "to drink". On the currency of two words for the same thing in the Germanic languages, the 12th-century Old Icelandic poem Alvíssmál says, "Ale it is called among men, but among the gods, beer."
Question: What is the origin of the word ale?
Answer: Old English ealu
Question: What is the origin of the word beer?
Answer: Old English bēor
Question: What word means to drink in Latin?
Answer: bibere
Question: What 12th century poet once wrote "Ale it is called among men, but among the gods, beer."?
Answer: Alvíssmál
Question: What is the plural of the word ale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the word alu hold connotations of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the 12th-Century Old Germanic poem Alvissmal say?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Latin word for barley?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As part of the transition to democracy upon the death of Franco in 1975, Galicia regained its status as an autonomous region within Spain with the Statute of Autonomy of 1981, which begins, "Galicia, historical nationality, is constituted as an Autonomous Community to access to its self-government, in agreement with the Spanish Constitution and with the present Statute (...)". Varying degrees of nationalist or independentist sentiment are evident at the political level. The Bloque Nacionalista Galego or BNG, is a conglomerate of left-wing parties and individuals that claims Galician political status as a nation.
Question: Which form of government did Galicia start using in 1975
Answer: democracy
Question: Which modern group now works to attain Galicia status as a nation?
Answer: Bloque Nacionalista Galego |
Context: The nature of government under the Angevin monarchs was ill-defined and uncertain. John's predecessors had ruled using the principle of vis et voluntas, or "force and will", taking executive and sometimes arbitrary decisions, often justified on the basis that a king was above the law. Both Henry II and Richard had argued that kings possessed a quality of "divine majesty"; John continued this trend and claimed an "almost imperial status" for himself as ruler. During the 12th century, there were contrary opinions expressed about the nature of kingship, and many contemporary writers believed that monarchs should rule in accordance with the custom and the law, and take counsel of the leading members of the realm. There was as yet no model for what should happen if a king refused to do so. Despite his claim to unique authority within England, John would sometimes justify his actions on the basis that he had taken council with the barons. Modern historians remain divided as to whether John suffered from a case of "royal schizophrenia" in his approach to government, or if his actions merely reflected the complex model of Angevin kingship in the early 13th century.
Question: What principle did John's predecessors use?
Answer: vis et voluntas
Question: What quality did Henry II and Richard possess?
Answer: divine majesty
Question: What century were there contrary opinions expressed about the nature of kingship?
Answer: 12th century
Question: What did John suffer from?
Answer: royal schizophrenia |
Context: The United States recovered from the Apollo 1 fire, fixing the fatal flaws in an improved version of the Block II command module. The US proceeded with unpiloted test launches of the Saturn V launch vehicle (Apollo 4 and Apollo 6) and the Lunar Module (Apollo 5) during the latter half of 1967 and early 1968. Apollo 1's mission to check out the Apollo Command/Service Module in Earth orbit was accomplished by Grissom's backup crew commanded by Walter Schirra on Apollo 7, launched on October 11, 1968. The eleven-day mission was a total success, as the spacecraft performed a virtually flawless mission, paving the way for the United States to continue with its lunar mission schedule.
Question: Apollo 7 launched from Earth on what date?
Answer: October 11, 1968
Question: Who was in charge of the Apollo 7 mission on board?
Answer: Walter Schirra |
Context: In May 1845, the Baptist congregations in the United States split over slavery and missions. The Home Mission Society prevented slaveholders from being appointed as missionaries. The split created the Southern Baptist Convention, while the northern congregations formed their own umbrella organization now called the American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA). The Methodist Episcopal Church, South had recently separated over the issue of slavery, and southern Presbyterians would do so shortly thereafter.
Question: When did Baptist congregations split over slavery?
Answer: May 1845
Question: Why did American Baptist congregations split?
Answer: over slavery and missions
Question: Slaveholders were prevented from being appointed as what?
Answer: missionaries
Question: Who prevented slaveholders from being appointed missionaries?
Answer: Home Mission Society
Question: Northern congregations formed what organization?
Answer: American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA)
Question: When did Baptist congregations combine efforts over slavery?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did American Baptist congregations work together?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Slaveholders were typically appointed as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who encouraged slaveholders to be appointed missionaries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Southern congregations formed what organization?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At its press conference at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show, Sony announced DualShock 3 (trademarked DUALSHOCK 3), a PlayStation 3 controller with the same function and design as Sixaxis, but with vibration capability included. Hands-on accounts describe the controller as being noticeably heavier than the standard Sixaxis controller and capable of vibration forces comparable to DualShock 2. It was released in Japan on November 11, 2007; in North America on April 5, 2008; in Australia on April 24, 2008; in New Zealand on May 9, 2008; in mainland Europe on July 2, 2008, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on July 4, 2008.
Question: What did Sony name their vibrating PS3 controller?
Answer: DualShock 3
Question: At what event at the Tokyo Game Show was the DualShock 3 first announced?
Answer: press conference
Question: What did many people who handled the DualShock 3 say it was compared to the Sixaxis?
Answer: heavier
Question: What was the first country to be able to buy the new DualShock 3 in stores?
Answer: Japan
Question: On what date was the DualShock three released in Australia?
Answer: April 24, 2008
Question: Sony announced DualShock 4 at what game show?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Sony announced a vibrating PS4 controller at what game show?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The PS4 controller was lighter than what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: DualShock 4 was released in Japan on what date?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Sony name their vibrating PS2 controller?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what event at the Tokyo Game Show was the DualShock 2 first announced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did many people who handled the DualShock 2 say it was compared to the Sixaxis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the last country to be able to buy the new DualShock 3 in stores?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date was the DualShock three unreleased in Australia?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Neoclassical architecture was introduced in Malta in the late 18th century, during the final years of Hospitaller rule. Early examples include the Bibliotheca (1786), the De Rohan Arch (1798) and the Hompesch Gate (1801). However, neoclassical architecture only became popular in Malta following the establishment of British rule in the early 19th century. In 1814, a neoclassical portico decorated with the British coat of arms was added to the Main Guard building so as to serve as a symbol of British Malta. Other 19th century neoclassical buildings include RNH Bighi (1832), St Paul's Pro-Cathedral (1844), the Rotunda of Mosta (1860) and the now destroyed Royal Opera House (1866).
Question: When was Malta introduced to neoclassical architecture?
Answer: late 18th century
Question: What was the ruler at the time of neoclassical introduction?
Answer: Hospitaller
Question: When was RNH Bighi built?
Answer: 1832
Question: In what year did the St Paul's Pro-Cathedral get built?
Answer: 1844
Question: What was introduced in Malta in the late 1800s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What became unpopular in Malta following the establishment of British rule?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the ruler of Malta following the neoclassical period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ruled Malta in the 1900s?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In a FET, the drain-to-source current flows via a conducting channel that connects the source region to the drain region. The conductivity is varied by the electric field that is produced when a voltage is applied between the gate and source terminals; hence the current flowing between the drain and source is controlled by the voltage applied between the gate and source. As the gate–source voltage (VGS) is increased, the drain–source current (IDS) increases exponentially for VGS below threshold, and then at a roughly quadratic rate (IGS ∝ (VGS − VT)2) (where VT is the threshold voltage at which drain current begins) in the "space-charge-limited" region above threshold. A quadratic behavior is not observed in modern devices, for example, at the 65 nm technology node.
Question: What determines the conductivity in a FET?
Answer: electric field that is produced when a voltage is applied between the gate and source terminals
Question: What controls the current between the drain and source?
Answer: the voltage applied between the gate and source
Question: At what rate is the drain-source current increased when the gate-source current is increased?
Answer: a roughly quadratic rate
Question: Where is a quadratic behavior not observed?
Answer: in modern devices
Question: What controls the voltage applied between the gate and the source terminals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is quadratic behavior not observed in modern devices?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does current fluctuate the most?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How quickly does the voltage increase?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Sporadic epigraphic evidence in grave site excavations, particularly in Brigetio (Szőny), Aquincum (Óbuda), Intercisa (Dunaújváros), Triccinae (Sárvár), Savaria (Szombathely), Sopianae (Pécs), and Osijek in Croatia, attest to the presence of Jews after the 2nd and 3rd centuries where Roman garrisons were established, There was a sufficient number of Jews in Pannonia to form communities and build a synagogue. Jewish troops were among the Syrian soldiers transferred there, and replenished from the Middle East, after 175 C.E. Jews and especially Syrians came from Antioch, Tarsus and Cappadocia. Others came from Italy and the Hellenized parts of the Roman empire. The excavations suggest they first lived in isolated enclaves attached to Roman legion camps, and intermarried among other similar oriental families within the military orders of the region.Raphael Patai states that later Roman writers remarked that they differed little in either customs, manner of writing, or names from the people among whom they dwelt; and it was especially difficult to differentiate Jews from the Syrians. After Pannonia was ceded to the Huns in 433, the garrison populations were withdrawn to Italy, and only a few, enigmatic traces remain of a possible Jewish presence in the area some centuries later.
Question: Grave site excavations near where Roman garrisons were established attest to the presence of Jews after what centuries?
Answer: the 2nd and 3rd centuries
Question: The large number of Jews in Pannonia formed communities and built what?
Answer: a synagogue
Question: In what year were the Roman garrison populations withdrawn to Italy?
Answer: 433 |
Context: Depopulation, deurbanisation, invasion, and movement of peoples, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early Middle Ages. The barbarian invaders, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—once part of the Eastern Roman Empire—came under the rule of the Caliphate, an Islamic empire, after conquest by Muhammad's successors. Although there were substantial changes in society and political structures, the break with Antiquity was not complete. The still-sizeable Byzantine Empire survived in the east and remained a major power. The empire's law code, the Code of Justinian, was rediscovered in Northern Italy in 1070 and became widely admired later in the Middle Ages. In the West, most kingdoms incorporated the few extant Roman institutions. Monasteries were founded as campaigns to Christianise pagan Europe continued. The Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, briefly established the Carolingian Empire during the later 8th and early 9th century. It covered much of Western Europe, but later succumbed to the pressures of internal civil wars combined with external invasions—Vikings from the north, Magyars from the east, and Saracens from the south.
Question: Along with the movement of peoples, invasion and depopulation, what event started in Late Antiquity and continued into the Middle Ages?
Answer: deurbanisation
Question: In what state did barbarian invaders establish kingdoms?
Answer: the Western Roman Empire
Question: What empire was North Africa previously a part of?
Answer: the Eastern Roman Empire
Question: In what century did the Caliphate conquer North Africa?
Answer: 7th
Question: In what year did Italians discover the Code of Justinian?
Answer: 1070 |
Context: The German higher education system comprises two forms of academic institutions: universities and polytechnics (Fachhochschule). The University of Jena is the biggest amongst Thuringia's four universities and offers nearly every discipline. It was founded in 1558, and today has 21,000 students. The second-largest is the Technische Universität Ilmenau with 7,000 students, founded in 1894, which offers many technical disciplines such as engineering and mathematics. The University of Erfurt, founded in 1392, has 5,000 students today and an emphasis on humanities and teacher training. The Bauhaus University Weimar with 4,000 students is Thuringia's smallest university, specialising in creative subjects such as architecture and arts. It was founded in 1860 and came to prominence as Germany's leading art school during the inter-war period, the Bauhaus.
Question: What is the biggest school in Thuringia?
Answer: The University of Jena
Question: How many universities are there in Thuringia?
Answer: four
Question: How many students attend The University of Erfurt?
Answer: 5,000
Question: What is Germany's leading art school in Thuringia?
Answer: The Bauhaus University Weimar
Question: When was The Bauhaus University Weimar founded?
Answer: 1860
Question: What is the worst school in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many universities are missing in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many students boycott The University of Erfurt?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Germany's unknown art school in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was The Bauhaus University Weimar remodeled?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Salyut 1's orbit was increased to prevent premature reentry, but further piloted flights were delayed while the Soyuz was redesigned to fix the new safety problem. The station re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on October 11, after 175 days in orbit. The USSR attempted to launch a second Salyut-class station designated Durable Orbital Station-2 (DOS-2) on July 29, 1972, but a rocket failure caused it to fail to achieve orbit. After the DOS-2 failure, the USSR attempted to launch four more Salyut-class stations through 1975, with another failure due to an explosion of the final rocket stage, which punctured the station with shrapnel so that it wouldn't hold pressure. While all of the Salyuts were presented to the public as non-military scientific laboratories, some of them were actually covers for the military Almaz reconnaissance stations.
Question: The station, Salyut 1, came back to Earth on which date?
Answer: October 11
Question: How long did the station, Salyut 1, stay in orbit?
Answer: 175 days
Question: Why did The Durable Orbital Station-2 not reach orbit?
Answer: rocket failure |
Context: According to the Omnipotence paradox or 'Paradox of the Stone', can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? Either he can or he can’t. If he can’t, the argument goes, then there is something that he cannot do, namely create the stone, and therefore he is not omnipotent. If he can, it continues, then there is also something that he cannot do, namely lift the stone, and therefore he is not omnipotent. Either way, then, God is not omnipotent. A being that is not omnipotent, though, is not God, according to many theological models. Such a God, therefore, does not exist. Several answers to this paradox have been proposed.
Question: What is the Omnipotence paradox?
Answer: can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it
Question: What is another term for the Omnipotence paradox?
Answer: Paradox of the Stone
Question: Does either outcome of the Paradox of the Stone prove the existence of God?
Answer: God is not omnipotent. A being that is not omnipotent, though, is not God
Question: What shows God is not omnipotent if he creates a stone that he cannot lift?
Answer: there is something that he cannot do
Question: What must God be, in order to be a Supreme Being?
Answer: omnipotent
Question: What paradox states that if a god can't create a stone so heavy he can't lift it?
Answer: Paradox of the Stone
Question: What does the Paradox of the Stone posit?
Answer: he is not omnipotent
Question: What does it mean if a God is not omnipotent?
Answer: is not God
Question: Are there any answers to the Pradox of the Stone?
Answer: Several
Question: What question does the theological model paradox ask?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many arguments about God's power prove he exists?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a term for the existence of God?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What model proves that God can lift a stone he creates?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: If God can create a stone he can't lift, what proves he exists?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2015, the system began its transition towards global coverage with the first launch of a new-generation of satellites, and the 17th one within the new system.
Question: When did the BeiDou system begin transitioning to global coverage?
Answer: 2015
Question: How did the BeiDou system begin transitioning to global coverage?
Answer: with the first launch of a new-generation of satellites
Question: During what year did the system begin transformation towards serving China only?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the system first launch in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2007, the system began transforming towards providing what type of coverage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The system began its transition towards national coverage during which year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Public expenditure of the GDP was less in 2002–05 than in 1991. Public education is theoretically free and mandatory for under-16-year-olds, but in practice, expenses exist. Net primary enrollment rate was 44% in 2005, much less than the 79% in 1991. The country has universities. Education between ages six and sixteen is compulsory. Pupils who complete six years of primary school and seven years of secondary school obtain a baccalaureate. At the university, students can obtain a bachelor's degree in three years and a master's after four. Marien Ngouabi University—which offers courses in medicine, law and several other fields—is the country's only public university. Instruction at all levels is in French, and the educational system as a whole models the French system. The educational infrastructure has been seriously degraded as a result of political and economic crises. There are no seats in most classrooms, forcing children to sit on the floor. Enterprising individuals have set up private schools, but they often lack the technical knowledge and familiarity with the national curriculum to teach effectively. Families frequently enroll their children in private schools only to find they cannot make the payments.
Question: Public schooling is required for people under what age?
Answer: 16
Question: What was the school enrollment rate in 2005?
Answer: 44%
Question: What do students who finish 13 years of schooling receive?
Answer: baccalaureate
Question: What language is used in Congolese schools?
Answer: French
Question: What was higher in 2002 than in 1991?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is theoretically free for people over 16?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When is education not compulsory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the country's only private university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What courses are not offered at Marien Ngouabi University?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Advaita literally means "not two, sole, unity". It is a sub-school of Vedanta, and asserts spiritual and universal non-dualism. Its metaphysics is a form of absolute monism, that is all ultimate reality is interconnected oneness. This is the oldest and most widely acknowledged Vedantic school. The foundational texts of this school are the Brahma Sutras and the early Upanishads from the 1st millennium BCE. Its first great consolidator was the 8th century scholar Adi Shankara, who continued the line of thought of the Upanishadic teachers, and that of his teacher's teacher Gaudapada. He wrote extensive commentaries on the major Vedantic scriptures and is celebrated as one of the major Hindu philosophers from whose doctrines the main currents of modern Indian thought are derived.
Question: What means
Answer: Advaita
Question: What means two?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the youngest Vedantic School?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who coined the term Advaita?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Gaudapada's teacher?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the author of the Vedantic scriptures?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The highest portion of the range is divided by the glacial trough of the Rhone valley, with the Pennine Alps from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa on the southern side, and the Bernese Alps on the northern. The peaks in the easterly portion of the range, in Austria and Slovenia, are smaller than those in the central and western portions.
Question: The highest portion of the Alp's range is divided by what?
Answer: the glacial trough of the Rhone valley
Question: Where are the peaks smaller in the range?
Answer: the easterly portion
Question: The Bernese Alps are located in what part of the range?
Answer: northern |
Context: Samkhya school espouses dualism between consciousness and matter. It regards the universe as consisting of two realities; Puruṣa (consciousness) and prakriti (matter). Jiva (a living being) is that state in which puruṣa is bonded to prakriti in some form. This fusion, state the Samkhya scholars, led to the emergence of buddhi (awareness, intellect) and ahankara (individualized ego consciousness, “I-maker”). The universe is described by this school as one created by Purusa-Prakriti entities infused with various permutations and combinations of variously enumerated elements, senses, feelings, activity and mind.
Question: Which Hindu school stresses dualism between consciousness and matter?
Answer: Samkhya
Question: How does Samkhya view the universe?
Answer: two realities
Question: What is the Samkhya name for consciousness?
Answer: Puruṣa
Question: What is the Samkhya school word for matter?
Answer: prakriti
Question: What does the joining of Purusa and Prakriti produce?
Answer: buddhi
Question: What school rejects dualism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the state of prakriti splitting from purusa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the emergence of buddhi create?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who created the Purusa-Prakriti entities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Samkhya mean?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: 181st Street is a major thoroughfare running through the Washington Heights neighborhood. It runs from the Washington Bridge in the east, to the Henry Hudson Parkway in the west, near the George Washington Bridge and the Hudson River. The west end is called Plaza Lafayette.
Question: 181st Street runs through what neighborhood?
Answer: Washington Heights
Question: What is the west end of 181st Street called?
Answer: Plaza Lafayette
Question: Does Plaza Lafayette refer to the east or west end of 181st Street?
Answer: west
Question: Which river does 181st Street run near?
Answer: Hudson River
Question: Which road runs from the Washington Bridge to the Henry Hudson Parkway?
Answer: 181st Street |
Context: Von Braun and his team were sent to the United States Army's White Sands Proving Ground, located in New Mexico, in 1945. They set about assembling the captured V2s and began a program of launching them and instructing American engineers in their operation. These tests led to the first rocket to take photos from outer space, and the first two-stage rocket, the WAC Corporal-V2 combination, in 1949. The German rocket team was moved from Fort Bliss to the Army's new Redstone Arsenal, located in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1950. From here, von Braun and his team would develop the Army's first operational medium-range ballistic missile, the Redstone rocket, that would, in slightly modified versions, launch both America's first satellite, and the first piloted Mercury space missions. It became the basis for both the Jupiter and Saturn family of rockets.
Question: The United States Army's White Sands Proving Ground is located where?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: Von Braun and his associates were sent to United States Army's White Sands Proving Ground in what year?
Answer: 1945
Question: The first two-stage rocket was developed in what year?
Answer: 1949
Question: The Army's new Redstone Arsenal is located in what city and state?
Answer: Huntsville, Alabama
Question: What year was the German rocket team moved to Alabama?
Answer: 1950 |
Context: By this point Frederick was increasingly concerned by the Russian advance from the east and marched to counter it. Just east of the Oder in Brandenburg-Neumark, at the Battle of Zorndorf (now Sarbinowo, Poland), a Prussian army of 35,000 men under Frederick on Aug. 25, 1758, fought a Russian army of 43,000 commanded by Count William Fermor. Both sides suffered heavy casualties – the Prussians 12,800, the Russians 18,000 – but the Russians withdrew, and Frederick claimed victory. In the undecided Battle of Tornow on 25 September, a Swedish army repulsed six assaults by a Prussian army but did not push on Berlin following the Battle of Fehrbellin.
Question: How did Frederick respond to the Russian occupation of east Prussia?
Answer: marched to counter it.
Question: How large a force did Frederick send against the occupying Russians?
Answer: 35,000 men
Question: How many Russians were in defense?
Answer: Russian army of 43,000
Question: Which army withdrew?
Answer: the Russians withdrew
Question: What country was Prussia fighting on another front?
Answer: Swedish |
Context: The phase of reflection of electromagnetic waves depends on the polarization of the incident wave. Given the larger refractive index of the ground (typically n=2) compared to air (n=1), the phase of horizontally polarized radiation is reversed upon reflection (a phase shift of radians or 180°). On the other hand, the vertical component of the wave's electric field is reflected at grazing angles of incidence approximately in phase. These phase shifts apply as well to a ground modelled as a good electrical conductor.
Question: What is the refractive index of the ground?
Answer: n=2
Question: What is the refractive index of air?
Answer: n=1
Question: When is polarized radiation reversed?
Answer: reflection
Question: Besides a ground, what has these phases apply well to?
Answer: electrical conductor |
Context: Pub names are used to identify and differentiate each pub. Modern names are sometimes a marketing ploy or attempt to create "brand awareness", frequently using a comic theme thought to be memorable, Slug and Lettuce for a pub chain being an example. Interesting origins are not confined to old or traditional names, however. Names and their origins can be broken up into a relatively small number of categories.
Question: What is an example of a memorable name for a pub chain?
Answer: Slug and Lettuce
Question: What sort of theme is thought memorable for modern pub names?
Answer: comic
Question: What is the purpose of a pub name?
Answer: to identify and differentiate each pub |
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