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Context: KU football dates from 1890, and has played in the Orange Bowl three times: 1948, 1968, and 2008. They are currently coached by David Beaty, who was hired in 2014. In 2008, under the leadership of Mark Mangino, the #7 Jayhawks emerged victorious in their first BCS bowl game, the FedEx Orange Bowl, with a 24–21 victory over the #3 Virginia Tech Hokies. This capstone victory marked the end of the most successful season in school history, in which the Jayhawks went 12–1 (.923). The team plays at Memorial Stadium, which recently underwent a $31 million renovation to add the Anderson Family Football Complex, adding a football practice facility adjacent to the stadium complete with indoor partial practice field, weight room, and new locker room.
Question: When did KU start fielding a football team?
Answer: 1890
Question: How many times has the team from the University of Kansas appeared in the Orange Bowl?
Answer: three
Question: Who is the current head of KU's football program?
Answer: David Beaty
Question: Who did KU defeat in the 2008 Orange Bowl?
Answer: Virginia Tech Hokies
Question: What is the name of the facility that the KU football team plays in?
Answer: Memorial Stadium
Question: When did KU stop fielding a football team?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times has the team from the University of Kansas appeared in the Rose Bowl?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the former coach of KU's football program?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did KU lose to in the 2008 Orange Bowl?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the faculty that the KU football team plays in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: John met the rebel leaders at Runnymede, near Windsor Castle, on 15 June 1215. Langton's efforts at mediation created a charter capturing the proposed peace agreement; it was later renamed Magna Carta, or "Great Charter". The charter went beyond simply addressing specific baronial complaints, and formed a wider proposal for political reform, albeit one focusing on the rights of free men, not serfs and unfree labour. It promised the protection of church rights, protection from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, new taxation only with baronial consent and limitations on scutage and other feudal payments. A council of twenty-five barons would be created to monitor and ensure John's future adherence to the charter, whilst the rebel army would stand down and London would be surrendered to the king.
Question: When did John meet the rebel leaders at Runnymede?
Answer: 15 June 1215
Question: A council of how many barons was created to monitor John's future adherence to the charter?
Answer: twenty-five
Question: The peace agreement was renamed what?
Answer: Magna Carta |
Context: The most important river in Thuringia is the Saale (a tributary of the Elbe) with its tributaries Unstrut, Ilm and Weiße Elster, draining the most parts of Thuringia and the Werra (the headwater of the Weser), draining the south-west and west of the Land. Furthermore, some small parts on the southern border are drained by tributaries of the Main (a tributary of the Rhine). There are no large natural lakes in Thuringia, but it does have some of Germany's biggest dams including the Bleiloch Dam and the Hohenwarte Dam at Saale river same as the Leibis-Lichte Dam and the Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station within the Highland. Thuringia is Germany's only state without connection to navigable waterways.
Question: Which river in Thuringia is the most important?
Answer: the Saale
Question: Are there any large lakes in Thuringia?
Answer: There are no large natural lakes in Thuringia
Question: What are some of the large dams located in Thuringia?
Answer: the Bleiloch Dam and the Hohenwarte Dam
Question: Which tributary is located on the southern border?
Answer: the Main (a tributary of the Rhine)
Question: Which river in Thuringia is the least important?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some of the broken dams located in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which tributary is located on the northern border?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has some of Spain's biggest dams?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Yale's residential college system was established in 1933 by Edward S. Harkness, who admired the social intimacy of Oxford and Cambridge and donated significant funds to found similar colleges at Yale and Harvard. Though Yale's colleges resemble their English precursors organizationally and architecturally, they are dependent entities of Yale College and have limited autonomy. The colleges are led by a master and an academic dean, who reside in the college, and university faculty and affiliates comprise each college's fellowship. Colleges offer their own seminars, social events, and speaking engagements known as "Master's Teas," but do not contain programs of study or academic departments. Instead, all undergraduate courses are taught by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and are open to members of any college.
Question: When was Yale's residential college system established?
Answer: 1933
Question: Who established Yale's residential college system?
Answer: Edward S. Harkness
Question: Who runs Yale's residential colleges?
Answer: The colleges are led by a master and an academic dean
Question: Are there academic programs in Yale's residential colleges?
Answer: do not contain programs of study or academic departments
Question: Who teaches Yale's residential college's undergraduate classes?
Answer: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Question: When was Yale's residential college system unestablished?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who established Yale's commercial college system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who runs Yale's industrial colleges?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Are there unacademic programs in Yale's residential colleges?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who teaches Yale's residential college's graduate classes?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: PlayStation Plus (commonly abbreviated PS+ and occasionally referred to as PSN Plus) is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service that was officially unveiled at E3 2010 by Jack Tretton, President and CEO of SCEA. Rumors of such service had been in speculation since Kaz Hirai's announcement at TGS 2009 of a possible paid service for PSN but with the current PSN service still available. Launched alongside PS3 firmware 3.40 and PSP firmware 6.30 on June 29, 2010, the paid-for subscription service provides users with enhanced services on the PlayStation Network, on top of the current PSN service which is still available with all of its features. These enhancements include the ability to have demos, game and system software updates download automatically to PlayStation 3. Subscribers also get early or exclusive access to some betas, game demos, premium downloadable content and other PlayStation Store items. North American users also get a free subscription to Qore. Users may choose to purchase either a one-year or a three-month subscription to PlayStation Plus.
Question: What's the name of Sony's exclusive PlayStation Network subscription service?
Answer: PlayStation Plus
Question: How is PlayStation Plus often abbreviated?
Answer: PS+
Question: Who was the President and CEO of SCEA in the year 2010?
Answer: Jack Tretton
Question: On what date did the PlayStation Plus service officially launch?
Answer: June 29, 2010
Question: Duration options for subscription to PS+ are either three months or what period of time?
Answer: one-year
Question: What's the name of Microsoft's exclusive PlayStation Network subscription service?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is PlayStation Plus never abbreviated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the President and CEO of SCEA in the year 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date did the PlayStation Plus service officially get cancelled?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Duration options for subscription to PS+ are either four months or what period of time?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Parisians tend to share the same movie-going trends as many of the world's global cities, with cinemas primarily dominated by Hollywood-generated film entertainment. French cinema comes a close second, with major directors (réalisateurs) such as Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, and Luc Besson, and the more slapstick/popular genre with director Claude Zidi as an example. European and Asian films are also widely shown and appreciated. On 2 February 2000, Philippe Binant realised the first digital cinema projection in Europe, with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments, in Paris.
Question: Who realied the first digital cinema projection in Europe?
Answer: Philippe Binant
Question: Who developed the technology for the digital cinema projection?
Answer: Texas Instruments
Question: What types of films are most popular in Paris?
Answer: Hollywood-generated
Question: When was the first digital cinema projection in Europe?
Answer: 2 February 2000 |
Context: "First of all, a samurai who dislikes battle and has not put his heart in the right place even though he has been born in the house of the warrior, should not be reckoned among one's retainers....It is forbidden to forget the great debt of kindness one owes to his master and ancestors and thereby make light of the virtues of loyalty and filial piety....It is forbidden that one should...attach little importance to his duties to his master...There is a primary need to distinguish loyalty from disloyalty and to establish rewards and punishments."
Question: What does a samurai has his heart in the wrong place dislike?
Answer: battle
Question: What debt should samurai not forget?
Answer: the great debt of kindness one owes to his master and ancestors
Question: What virtues should samurai not be dismissive of?
Answer: loyalty and filial piety |
Context: After Morsi was ousted by the military, the judiciary system aligned itself with the new government, actively suopporting the repression of Muslim Brotherhood members. This resulted in a sharp increase in mass death sentences that arose criticism from the US president Barack Obama and the General Secretary of the UN, Ban Ki Moon. In April 2013, one judge of the Minya governatorate of Upper Egypt, sentenced 1,212 people to death. In December 2014 the judge Mohammed Nagi Shahata, notorious for his fierceness in passing on death sentences, condemened to the capital penalty 188 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, for assaulting a police station. Various Egyptian and international human rights organisations have already pointed out the lack of fair trials, that often last only a few minutes and do not take into consideration the procedural standards of fair trials.
Question: What US president was critical of Egypt's repression of Muslim Brotherhood?
Answer: US president Barack Obama
Question: How many individuals did one judge in Minya governatorate court sentence to death in April 2013?
Answer: 1,212
Question: What was the criticism of judge Mohammad NAgi Shatata sentence of 188 member of Muslim Brotherhood for assaulting police station?
Answer: lack of fair trials, that often last only a few minutes |
Context: According to 16th-century mystic Rabbi Elijah of Chelm, Ashkenazi Jews lived in Jerusalem during the 11th century. The story is told that a German-speaking Palestinian Jew saved the life of a young German man surnamed Dolberger. So when the knights of the First Crusade came to siege Jerusalem, one of Dolberger's family members who was among them rescued Jews in Palestine and carried them back to Worms to repay the favor. Further evidence of German communities in the holy city comes in the form of halakhic questions sent from Germany to Jerusalem during the second half of the 11th century.
Question: Who noted that Ashkenazi Jews lived in Jerusalem during the 11th century?
Answer: Rabbi Elijah of Chelm
Question: Another piece of evidence of German communities in the holy city in the second half of the 11th century is due to what items being sent from Germany to Jerusalem?
Answer: halakhic questions
Question: Mystic Rabbi Elijah of Chelm is from what century?
Answer: 16th-century
Question: In the story told by mystic Rabbi Elijah of Chelm, one of the German's family members rescued Jews in Palestine and carried them back to where in order to repay a previous favor?
Answer: Worms |
Context: Assuming the player's optical pickup is in proper working order, crosstalk distortion normally does not occur during playback of CAV format LaserDiscs, as the rotational speed never varies. However, if the player calibration is out of order or if the CAV disc is faulty or damaged, other problems affecting tracking accuracy can occur. One such problem is "laser lock", where the player reads the same two fields for a given frame over and over again, causing the picture to look frozen as if the movie were paused.
Question: In which format does crosstalk generally not occur?
Answer: CAV
Question: Why does the CAV format prevent crosstalk?
Answer: the rotational speed never varies
Question: What happens during "laser lock"?
Answer: the player reads the same two fields for a given frame over and over again, causing the picture to look frozen |
Context: The internal working language of the ECB is generally English, and press conferences are usually held in English. External communications are handled flexibly: English is preferred (though not exclusively) for communication within the ESCB (i.e. with other central banks) and with financial markets; communication with other national bodies and with EU citizens is normally in their respective language, but the ECB website is predominantly English; official documents such as the Annual Report are in the official languages of the EU.
Question: What language does the ECB generally use?
Answer: English
Question: When in communication with other nationalities, what language is generally used?
Answer: normally in their respective language
Question: What language is the ECB website run in?
Answer: English
Question: How are the languages of official documents handled?
Answer: the official languages of the EU
Question: What language does the ECB generally forbid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When in communication with other nationalities, what language is never used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language is the ECB website banned in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are the languages of official documents avoided?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The term "Moors" has been used in Europe in a broader, somewhat derogatory sense to refer to Muslims, especially those of Arab or Berber descent, whether living in North Africa or Iberia. Moors were not a distinct or self-defined people. Medieval and early modern Europeans applied the name to Muslim Arabs, Berbers, Black Africans and Europeans alike.
Question: What does the term "Moors" refer to?
Answer: Muslims
Question: What descent of Muslims does "Moors" refer to?
Answer: Arab or Berber descent
Question: In Medieval and early Modern Europe what ethnicity were lumped together?
Answer: Muslim Arabs, Berbers, Black Africans and Europeans
Question: Where did "Moors" migrate from?
Answer: North Africa or Iberia
Question: What kind of term is "Moors"?
Answer: derogatory |
Context: Economic anthropology attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It has a complex relationship with the discipline of economics, of which it is highly critical. Its origins as a sub-field of anthropology begin with the Polish-British founder of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski, and his French compatriot, Marcel Mauss, on the nature of gift-giving exchange (or reciprocity) as an alternative to market exchange. Economic Anthropology remains, for the most part, focused upon exchange. The school of thought derived from Marx and known as Political Economy focuses on production, in contrast. Economic Anthropologists have abandoned the primitivist niche they were relegated to by economists, and have now turned to examine corporations, banks, and the global financial system from an anthropological perspective.
Question: Which branch of anthropology attempts to explain human economic behavior?
Answer: Economic
Question: Economic anthropology covers what scope of human economic behavior?
Answer: historic, geographic and cultural
Question: What is economic anthropology highly critical of?
Answer: discipline of economics
Question: Who was the Polish-British founder of Anthropology?
Answer: Bronislaw Malinowski
Question: What is Economic Anthropology mostly focused upon?
Answer: exchange
Question: What type of anthropology attempts explain human finances?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What study focuses on the history of human economics rather than culural?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What alternative to gift-giving exchange did Mauss study?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What school of thought did Marx found?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Throughout the following month, the Yongle Emperor and his court showered the Karmapa with presents. At Linggu Temple in Nanjing, he presided over the religious ceremonies for the Yongle Emperor's deceased parents, while twenty-two days of his stay were marked by religious miracles that were recorded in five languages on a gigantic scroll that bore the Emperor's seal. During his stay in Nanjing, Deshin Shekpa was bestowed the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma" by the Yongle Emperor. Elliot Sperling asserts that the Yongle Emperor, in bestowing Deshin Shekpa with the title of "King" and praising his mystical abilities and miracles, was trying to build an alliance with the Karmapa as the Mongols had with the Sakya lamas, but Deshin Shekpa rejected the Yongle Emperor's offer. In fact, this was the same title that Kublai Khan had offered the Sakya Phagpa lama, but Deshin Shekpa persuaded the Yongle Emperor to grant the title to religious leaders of other Tibetan Buddhist sects.
Question: At what temple did the ceremonies for the Yongle Emperor's deceased parents take place?
Answer: Linggu Temple
Question: Where was the Linggu Temple located?
Answer: Nanjing
Question: What title was Deshin Shekpa given at Nanjing?
Answer: Great Treasure Prince of Dharma
Question: Who did Deshin Shekpa persuade the Yongle Emperor to give the title to?
Answer: religious leaders of other Tibetan Buddhist sects |
Context: Norman plays host to the Norman Music Festival, a festival that highlights native Oklahoma bands and musicians. Norman is also host to the Medieval Fair of Norman, which has been held annually since 1976 and was Oklahoma's first medieval fair. The Fair was held first on the south oval of the University of Oklahoma campus and in the third year moved to the Duck Pond in Norman until the Fair became too big and moved to Reaves Park in 2003. The Medieval Fair of Norman is Oklahoma's "largest weekend event and the third largest event in Oklahoma, and was selected by Events Media Network as one of the top 100 events in the nation".
Question: When did the Medieval Fair of Norman begin?
Answer: 1976
Question: Where was Oklahoma's first medieval fair?
Answer: Norman
Question: Where was the Medieval Fair of Norman held for its first 2 years?
Answer: the south oval of the University of Oklahoma campus
Question: Where was the Medieval Fair of Norman held from 1978 to 2002?
Answer: Duck Pond in Norman
Question: Where has the Medieval Fair of Norman been held since 2003?
Answer: Reaves Park |
Context: Cardinals have in canon law a "privilege of forum" (i.e., exemption from being judged by ecclesiastical tribunals of ordinary rank): only the pope is competent to judge them in matters subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction (cases that refer to matters that are spiritual or linked with the spiritual, or with regard to infringement of ecclesiastical laws and whatever contains an element of sin, where culpability must be determined and the appropriate ecclesiastical penalty imposed). The pope either decides the case himself or delegates the decision to a tribunal, usually one of the tribunals or congregations of the Roman Curia. Without such delegation, no ecclesiastical court, even the Roman Rota, is competent to judge a canon law case against a cardinal. Cardinals are, however, subject to the civil and criminal law like everybody else.
Question: Who is the only person who can judge a Cardinal in regards to laws of the church?
Answer: the pope
Question: What does the privilege of democracy guarantee cardinals and popes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is forbidden to judge cardinals in matters subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the pope either decide or delegates the decision to the the College of Cardinals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are cardinals not subject to like everybody else?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Platyzoa include the phylum Platyhelminthes, the flatworms. These were originally considered some of the most primitive Bilateria, but it now appears they developed from more complex ancestors. A number of parasites are included in this group, such as the flukes and tapeworms. Flatworms are acoelomates, lacking a body cavity, as are their closest relatives, the microscopic Gastrotricha. The other platyzoan phyla are mostly microscopic and pseudocoelomate. The most prominent are the Rotifera or rotifers, which are common in aqueous environments. They also include the Acanthocephala or spiny-headed worms, the Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa, and possibly the Cycliophora. These groups share the presence of complex jaws, from which they are called the Gnathifera.
Question: What is another name for flatworm?
Answer: Platyhelminthes
Question: What are some parasites included in the Platyhelminthes group?
Answer: flukes and tapeworms
Question: What does acoelomates mean?
Answer: lacking a body cavity
Question: What are the flatworms closest relative?
Answer: Gastrotricha
Question: Where are the rotifera most prominent?
Answer: in aqueous environments |
Context: Just as their customers pay them for Internet access, ISPs themselves pay upstream ISPs for Internet access. An upstream ISP usually has a larger network than the contracting ISP or is able to provide the contracting ISP with access to parts of the Internet the contracting ISP by itself has no access to.
Question: Who does an ISP pay for internet access?
Answer: upstream ISPs
Question: Why does an ISP need to pay an upstream ISP?
Answer: An upstream ISP usually has a larger network than the contracting ISP
Question: What does an upstream ISP provide for an ISP?
Answer: access to parts of the Internet the contracting ISP by itself has no access to
Question: what usually has a larger network, the ISP of the customer or the upstream ISP?
Answer: upstream ISPs
Question: What do ISPs pay customers for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What usually has a small network than a contracting ISP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does an upstream ISP provide for customers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the contracting ISP have access to that the upstream ISP does not?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: For a brief period in the 1790s, the British tried to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama. But by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory, also up north in part of present South Senegal.
Question: Who tried to establish a rival foothold at Bolama?
Answer: the British
Question: When was a rival foothold attempted at Bolama?
Answer: the 1790s
Question: Who regarded Bolama as their own in the 19th century?
Answer: the Portuguese
Question: What other area did the Portuguese regard as their special territory?
Answer: part of present South Senegal
Question: What rival did the Portuguese fend off in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: the British |
Context: The classification of birds is a contentious issue. Sibley and Ahlquist's Phylogeny and Classification of Birds (1990) is a landmark work on the classification of birds, although it is frequently debated and constantly revised. Most evidence seems to suggest the assignment of orders is accurate, but scientists disagree about the relationships between the orders themselves; evidence from modern bird anatomy, fossils and DNA have all been brought to bear on the problem, but no strong consensus has emerged. More recently, new fossil and molecular evidence is providing an increasingly clear picture of the evolution of modern bird orders. The most recent effort is drawn above and is based on whole genome sequencing of 48 representative species.
Question: Sibley and Ahlquist' Phylogeny and Classification of Birds is a landmark work on the classification of what animals?
Answer: birds
Question: What do scientists disagree about?
Answer: relationships between the orders themselves
Question: What do scientists tend to agree on?
Answer: the assignment of orders is accurate |
Context: Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been identified. Second, an infectious agent must grow within the human body to cause disease; essentially it must amplify its own nucleic acids in order to cause a disease. This amplification of nucleic acid in infected tissue offers an opportunity to detect the infectious agent by using PCR. Third, the essential tools for directing PCR, primers, are derived from the genomes of infectious agents, and with time those genomes will be known, if they are not already.
Question: What does the acronym PCR expand to?
Answer: polymerase chain reaction
Question: What will be the ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics in the near future?
Answer: PCR
Question: What has the catalog of infectious agents grown to the point of?
Answer: virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been identified
Question: What must an infectious agent do to cause disease?
Answer: grow within the human body
Question: What are primers derived from the genomes of?
Answer: infectious agents
Question: What does the acronym PCR abbreviate to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What be the silver standards of diagnostics in the distant future?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has the catalog of infectious agents decreased to the point of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must an infectious agent prevent to cause disease?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are primers excluded by gnomes?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Other educational institutions in Armenia include the American University of Armenia and the QSI International School of Yerevan. The American University of Armenia has graduate programs in Business and Law, among others. The institution owes its existence to the combined efforts of the Government of Armenia, the Armenian General Benevolent Union, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the University of California. The extension programs and the library at AUA form a new focal point for English-language intellectual life in the city. Armenia also hosts a deployment of OLPC – One Laptopschool Per child XO laptop-tablet schools.
Question: What does OLPC stand for?
Answer: One Laptopschool Per child
Question: What are the names of some of the other higher education organizations in Armenia?
Answer: American University of Armenia and the QSI International School of Yerevan
Question: What are some of the graduate programs available at AUA?
Answer: Business and Law |
Context: On June 16, 1911, their four companies were consolidated in New York State by Charles Ranlett Flint to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR). CTR's business office was in Endicott. The individual companies owned by CTR continued to operate using their established names until the businesses were integrated in 1933 and the holding company eliminated. The four companies had 1,300 employees and offices and plants in Endicott and Binghamton, New York; Dayton, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Washington, D.C.; and Toronto. They manufactured machinery for sale and lease, ranging from commercial scales and industrial time recorders, meat and cheese slicers, to tabulators and punched cards.
Question: On what date did the companies that became the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company get consolidated?
Answer: June 16, 1911
Question: Name the individual that consolidated the companies that were to become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
Answer: Charles Ranlett Flint
Question: In what year did the companies owned by Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company finally integrate?
Answer: 1933
Question: Where was the CTR Business office?
Answer: Endicott
Question: In 1933 the four companies owned by CTR had how many employees?
Answer: 1,300 employees
Question: Where was Charles Ranlett Flint originally from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Endicott created by Charles Ranlett Flint?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what state was Endicott consolidated into one company?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many employees worked at the holding company in 1911?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the original name of the Endicott company?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Chinese word is 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú), literally "Christ follower." The two characters now pronounced Jīdū in Mandarin Chinese, were originally pronounced Ki-To in Cantonese as representation of Latin "Cristo".[citation needed] In Vietnam, the same two characters read Cơ đốc, and a "follower of Christianity" is a tín đồ Cơ đốc giáo.
Question: What is the Chinese word for Christian?
Answer: 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú)
Question: What does 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú) mean?
Answer: Christ follower
Question: What was the original pronunciation of Jīdū?
Answer: Ki-To in Cantonese
Question: What did the two characters read in Vietnamese?
Answer: Cơ đốc
Question: Which Chinese term means Christ leader?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Japanese word means Christ follower?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Mandarin term means Christian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Now pronounced Ki-To in Mandarin, how were the characters originally pronounced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Now pronounced Jidu in Cantonese, how were the characters originally pronounced?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Duchy administers bona vacantia within the County Palatine, receiving the property of persons who die intestate and where the legal ownership cannot be ascertained. There is no separate Duke of Lancaster, the title merged into the Crown many centuries ago – but the Duchy is administered by the Queen in Right of the Duchy of Lancaster. A separate court system for the county palatine was abolished by Courts Act 1971. A particular form of The Loyal Toast, 'The Queen, Duke of Lancaster' is in regular use in the county palatine. Lancaster serves as the county town of the county palatine.
Question: What does the Duchy administer within the County Palatine?
Answer: bona vacantia
Question: What serves as the county town of the county palatine?
Answer: Lancaster
Question: When did the title of Duke of Lancaster merge into the Crown?
Answer: many centuries ago
Question: Who is the Duchy administered by?
Answer: the Queen
Question: In what year did the title of Duke of Lancaster get merged into the Crown?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Loyal Toast first used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's the term for when legal ownership can be ascertained?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does the Queen primarily live?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long has there been a Queen in the UK?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Classical statistical mechanics requires the existence of h (but does not define its value). Eventually, following upon Planck's discovery, it was recognized that physical action cannot take on an arbitrary value. Instead, it must be some multiple of a very small quantity, the "quantum of action", now called the Planck constant. Classical physics cannot explain this fact. In many cases, such as for monochromatic light or for atoms, this quantum of action also implies that only certain energy levels are allowed, and values in between are forbidden.
Question: Classical statistical mechanics requires the existence of what?
Answer: h
Question: What was realized after Planck's discovery?
Answer: that physical action cannot take on an arbitrary value
Question: What is the Planck constant formerly known as?
Answer: quantum of action
Question: Regarding atoms, what does the Planck constant imply?
Answer: that only certain energy levels are allowed
Question: Regarding atoms, what are values in between certain energy levels considered by the Planck constant?
Answer: forbidden
Question: Following Planck's discovery, what was realized about values of physical action?
Answer: physical action cannot take on an arbitrary value
Question: The Planck constant initially was given what name?
Answer: the "quantum of action"
Question: How is the proportional nature of the Planck constant explained?
Answer: Classical physics cannot explain this fact
Question: For certain cases of light or atoms, what does the quantum of action yield?
Answer: only certain energy levels are allowed, and values in between are forbidden.
Question: What does modern statistics mechanics not define the value of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not required to exist in modern statistics mechanics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Planck Constant negate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Planck constant incorrectly known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which science is the proportional nature of the Planck constant fact?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Muslim sects regarded as heretical, such as the Druze, Ismailis, Alevis, and Alawites, ranked below Jews and Christians. In 1514, Sultan Selim I, nicknamed "the Grim" because of his cruelty, ordered the massacre of 40,000 Anatolian Alevis (Qizilbash), whom he considered heretics, reportedly proclaiming that "the killing of one Alevi had as much otherworldly reward as killing 70 Christians."[page needed] Selim was also responsible for an unprecedented and rapid expansion of the Ottoman Empire into the Middle East, especially through his conquest of the entire Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, which included much of the region. With these conquests, Selim further solidified the Ottoman claim for being an Islamic caliphate, although Ottoman sultans had been claiming the title of caliph since the 14th century starting with Murad I (reigned 1362 to 1389). The caliphate would remain held by Ottoman sultans for the rest of the office's duration, which ended with its abolition on 3 March 1924 by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the exile of the last caliph, Abdülmecid II, to France.
Question: The Muslim sect known as the Druze is considered what?
Answer: heretical
Question: What was Sultan Selim I's nickname?
Answer: the Grim
Question: In what year did Sultan Selim I order the massacre of 40,000 people whom he considered heretics?
Answer: 1514
Question: What group did Sultan Selim I consider heretics and subsequently slaughter?
Answer: Anatolian Alevis (Qizilbash)
Question: Under Sultan Selim I the empire swallowed what sultanate in Egypt?
Answer: Mamluk Sultanate |
Context: On 17 March 1883, she fell down some stairs at Windsor, which left her lame until July; she never fully recovered and was plagued with rheumatism thereafter. Brown died 10 days after her accident, and to the consternation of her private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, Victoria began work on a eulogistic biography of Brown. Ponsonby and Randall Davidson, Dean of Windsor, who had both seen early drafts, advised Victoria against publication, on the grounds that it would stoke the rumours of a love affair. The manuscript was destroyed. In early 1884, Victoria did publish More Leaves from a Journal of a Life in the Highlands, a sequel to her earlier book, which she dedicated to her "devoted personal attendant and faithful friend John Brown". On the day after the first anniversary of Brown's death, Victoria was informed by telegram that her youngest son, Leopold, had died in Cannes. He was "the dearest of my dear sons", she lamented. The following month, Victoria's youngest child, Beatrice, met and fell in love with Prince Henry of Battenberg at the wedding of Victoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine to Henry's brother Prince Louis of Battenberg. Beatrice and Henry planned to marry, but Victoria opposed the match at first, wishing to keep Beatrice at home to act as her companion. After a year, she was won around to the marriage by Henry and Beatrice's promise to remain living with and attending her.
Question: What year did Victoria fall down the stairs at Windsor?
Answer: 1883
Question: After her fall down the stairs, what health issue was Victoria plaged with thereafter?
Answer: rheumatism thereafter
Question: Who died 10 days after Victorias fall down the stairs?
Answer: Brown
Question: Who was Victorias private secretary during the years following her accident at Windsor?
Answer: Sir Henry Ponsonby
Question: How was Victoria notified of her youngest son leopolds death?
Answer: by telegram
Question: When was Queen Victoria get injured after taking a fall down some stairs?
Answer: 17 March 1883
Question: Who did Queen Victoria write a biography about that was never published?
Answer: John Brown
Question: Where did Victoria's youngest son, Leopold die?
Answer: Cannes
Question: Victoria initially opposed Beatrice's marriage to what man?
Answer: Prince Henry of Battenberg
Question: Where did Beatrice meet and fall in love with Prince Henry?
Answer: at the wedding of Victoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria of Hesse
Question: What caused Victoria's rheumatism?
Answer: she fell down some stairs at Windsor
Question: Who died 10 days after Victoria's accident?
Answer: Brown
Question: What did Victoria begin working on after Brown's death?
Answer: a eulogistic biography
Question: Who was opposed to Victoria writing a biography of Brown?
Answer: Sir Henry Ponsonby
Question: What happened in Victoria's life on the day after the one year anniversary of Brown's death?
Answer: her youngest son, Leopold, had died in Cannes
Question: What year didn't Victoria fall down the stairs at Windsor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After her fall up the stairs, what health issue was Victoria plaged with thereafter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who lived 10 days after Victorias fall down the stairs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Attestations of Old Dutch sentences are extremely rare. The oldest one first recorded has been found in the Salic law. From this Frankish document written around 510 the oldest sentence has been identified as Dutch: Maltho thi afrio lito (I say to you, I free you, serf) used to free a serf. Another old fragment of Dutch is Visc flot aftar themo uuatare (A fish was swimming in the water). The oldest conserved larger Dutch text is the Utrecht baptismal vow (776-800) starting with Forsachistu diobolae [...] ec forsacho diabolae (Do you forsake the devil? [...] I forsake the devil). Probably the most famous sentence Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan, hinase hic enda tu, wat unbidan we nu (All birds have started making nests, except me and you, what are we waiting for), is dated around the year 1100, written by a Flemish monk in a convent in Rochester, England.
Question: Are written records of Old Dutch rare or common?
Answer: rare
Question: What Frankish document contains the oldest recorded instance of Dutch?
Answer: the Salic law
Question: What creature is swimming in the Dutch phrase "Visc flot aftar themo uuatare"?
Answer: fish
Question: Where did the monk who wrote the most famous Old Dutch sentence live?
Answer: Rochester, England
Question: What historically significant Dutch document begins with the phrase "Forsachistu diobolae"?
Answer: the Utrecht baptismal vow |
Context: Baptism is a requirement for being considered a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses do not practice infant baptism, and previous baptisms performed by other denominations are not considered valid. Individuals undergoing baptism must affirm publicly that dedication and baptism identify them "as one of Jehovah's Witnesses in association with God's spirit-directed organization," though Witness publications say baptism symbolizes personal dedication to God and not "to a man, work or organization." Their literature emphasizes the need for members to be obedient and loyal to Jehovah and to "his organization,"[note 2] stating that individuals must remain part of it to receive God's favor and to survive Armageddon.
Question: What is a requirement for being considered a member of Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: Baptism
Question: What aren't considered valid when performed by other denominations?
Answer: previous baptisms
Question: What do Witness publications say baptism symbolizes a person's personal dedication to?
Answer: God
Question: Jehovah Witnesses' literature puts emphasis on the obedience to not only Jehovah but also to his what?
Answer: organization
Question: Individuals must remain Jehovah Witnesses if they wish to receive what from God?
Answer: favor
Question: At what age does a Jehovah's Witness do baptism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of one of the Jehovah's Witnesses publications?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do people undergoing baptism affirm privately?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Will an unbaptized infant survive or not if a sudden Armageddon were to occur?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Zen Buddhism is divided into two main schools: Rinzai (臨済宗) and Sōtō (曹洞宗), the former greatly favouring the use in meditation on the koan (公案, a meditative riddle or puzzle) as a device for spiritual break-through, and the latter (while certainly employing koans) focusing more on shikantaza or "just sitting".[note 13]
Question: Zen Buddhism is divided into how many main schools?
Answer: two
Question: Which schools of Zen likes the use of meditation on the koan for spiritual breakthroughs?
Answer: Rinzai |
Context: Some street trams (streetcars) used conduit third-rail current collection. The third rail was below street level. The tram picked up the current through a plough (U.S. "plow") accessed through a narrow slot in the road. In the United States, much (though not all) of the former streetcar system in Washington, D.C. (discontinued in 1962) was operated in this manner to avoid the unsightly wires and poles associated with electric traction. The same was true with Manhattan's former streetcar system. The evidence of this mode of running can still be seen on the track down the slope on the northern access to the abandoned Kingsway Tramway Subway in central London, United Kingdom, where the slot between the running rails is clearly visible, and on P and Q Streets west of Wisconsin Avenue in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC, where the abandoned tracks have not been paved over. The slot can easily be confused with the similar looking slot for cable trams/cars (in some cases, the conduit slot was originally a cable slot). The disadvantage of conduit collection included much higher initial installation costs, higher maintenance costs, and problems with leaves and snow getting in the slot. For this reason, in Washington, D.C. cars on some lines converted to overhead wire on leaving the city center, a worker in a "plough pit" disconnecting the plough while another raised the trolley pole (hitherto hooked down to the roof) to the overhead wire. In New York City for the same reasons of cost and operating efficiency outside of Manhattan overhead wire was used. A similar system of changeover from conduit to overhead wire was also used on the London tramways, notably on the southern side; a typical changeover point was at Norwood, where the conduit snaked sideways from between the running rails, to provide a park for detached shoes or ploughs.
Question: What is the other name for the street trams?
Answer: streetcars
Question: Where is third rail situated in the street trams system?
Answer: below street level
Question: What area in US discontinued using overhead wires for streetcars in 1962?
Answer: Washington, D.C.
Question: What external and weather factors can effect conduit slot?
Answer: leaves and snow
Question: What are the main reasons the conduit lines were converted to overhead wire system?
Answer: cost and operating efficiency
Question: All street trams use conduit what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is accessed through a wide slot in the road?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what neighborhood in New York have the abandoned tracks not been paved over?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: An advantage of conduit collection is much high what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Cars on all lines have been converted to overhead wire in what city?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Another debate developed around the (distinct) criticisms of liberal political theory made by Michael Walzer, Michael Sandel and Charles Taylor. The liberal-communitarian debate is often considered valuable for generating a new set of philosophical problems, rather than a profound and illuminating clash of perspective.These and other communitarians (such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Daniel A. Bell) argue that, contra liberalism, communities are prior to individuals and therefore should be the center of political focus. Communitarians tend to support greater local control as well as economic and social policies which encourage the growth of social capital.
Question: What is often considered valuable for generating a new set of philosophical problems?
Answer: The liberal-communitarian debate
Question: What type of control do communitarians tend to support?
Answer: greater local control
Question: What type of economic and social policies do Communitarians tend to support?
Answer: policies which encourage the growth of social capital
Question: What is valuable for creating greater local control?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does political theory tend to support in communities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of policies do individuals support?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did a clash of perspective develop around?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who argues that individuals should have political focus?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1610, all but three of the survivors of the Sea Venture sailed on to Jamestown. Among them was John Rolfe, whose wife and child died and were buried in Bermuda. Later in Jamestown he married Pocahontas, a daughter of the powerful Powhatan, leader of a large confederation of about 30 Algonquian-speaking tribes in coastal Virginia. In 1612, the English began intentional settlement of Bermuda with the arrival of the ship Plough. St. George's was settled that year and designated as Bermuda's first capital. It is the oldest continually inhabited English town in the New World.
Question: Who was one of the original survivor's to sail on to Jamestown.
Answer: John Rolfe
Question: What is one of the main things John Rolfe is known for?
Answer: married Pocahontas
Question: When did the English begin their intentional settlement of Bermuda?
Answer: 1612,
Question: What is St. George credited with?
Answer: oldest continually inhabited English town in the New World.
Question: What happened in 1601?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who sailed to Jamestown in 1601?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Rolfe John marry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in 1621?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who began intentional settlement of Bermuda in 1621?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Protestantism has had an important influence on science. According to the Merton Thesis, there was a positive correlation between the rise of English Puritanism and German Pietism on the one hand and early experimental science on the other. The Merton Thesis has two separate parts: Firstly, it presents a theory that science changes due to an accumulation of observations and improvement in experimental technique and methodology; secondly, it puts forward the argument that the popularity of science in 17th-century England and the religious demography of the Royal Society (English scientists of that time were predominantly Puritans or other Protestants) can be explained by a correlation between Protestantism and the scientific values. Merton focused on English Puritanism and German Pietism as having been responsible for the development of the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries. He explained that the connection between religious affiliation and interest in science was the result of a significant synergy between the ascetic Protestant values and those of modern science. Protestant values encouraged scientific research by allowing science to identify God's influence on the world—his creation—and thus providing a religious justification for scientific research.
Question: The rise of English Puritanism and German Pietism resulted in a corresponding rise in what?
Answer: early experimental science
Question: What religions did Merton think caused the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries?
Answer: English Puritanism and German Pietism
Question: What other reason did Merton believe causes science to advance?
Answer: an accumulation of observations and improvement in experimental technique and methodology
Question: What religions were English scientists in the 17th century?
Answer: Puritans or other Protestants
Question: What values were thought to have a significant synergy?
Answer: ascetic Protestant values and those of modern science |
Context: The general effect of the water content upon the wood substance is to render it softer and more pliable. A similar effect of common observation is in the softening action of water on rawhide, paper, or cloth. Within certain limits, the greater the water content, the greater its softening effect.
Question: Often the water in wood makes it more pliable and what else?
Answer: softer
Question: What material sometimes used for dog chews reacts similarly to wood because of its water content?
Answer: rawhide
Question: What material we use to write or print on, like wood, becomes softer and more pliable when wet?
Answer: paper
Question: When water content increases within certain limits in wood, does is have a less or greater softening effect?
Answer: greater
Question: What type of action does water create in cloth?
Answer: softening |
Context: Internationally, the torch and its accompanying party traveled in a chartered Air China Airbus A330 (registered B-6075), painted in the red and yellow colors of the Olympic Games. Air China was chosen by the Beijing Committees of the Olympic Game as the designated Olympic torch carrier in March 2008 for its long-standing participation in the Olympic cause. The plane traveled a total of 137,000 km (85,000 mi) for a duration of 130 days through 21 countries and regions.
Question: When it was necessary for the Olympic Torch to be on an airplane, which one was used?
Answer: a chartered Air China Airbus A330
Question: What color was the chartered plane?
Answer: red and yellow
Question: When was it decided that Air China would be the official torch carrier?
Answer: March 2008
Question: How many days did the plane travel?
Answer: 130 days
Question: What type of aircraft did the Torch team travel in?
Answer: Airbus A330
Question: What colors was the aircraft painted?
Answer: red and yellow
Question: What was the name of the airline that transported the Olympic Torch?
Answer: Air China
Question: How many days did the plane travel with the Torch team?
Answer: 130
Question: How many different places were visited by the aircraft taking the Torch team?
Answer: 21 |
Context: As of August 2015, Jehovah's Witnesses report an average of 8.2 million publishers—the term they use for members actively involved in preaching—in 118,016 congregations. In 2015, these reports indicated over 1.93 billion hours spent in preaching and "Bible study" activity. Since the mid-1990s, the number of peak publishers has increased from 4.5 million to 8.2 million. In the same year, they conducted "Bible studies" with over 9.7 million individuals, including those conducted by Witness parents with their children. Jehovah's Witnesses estimate their current worldwide growth rate to be 1.5% per year.
Question: What term do Jehovah's Witnesses use for members actively involved in preaching?
Answer: publishers
Question: How many publishers did the Jehovah's Witnesses have as of August 2015?
Answer: 8.2 million
Question: How many congregations did the Jehovah's Witnesses have in 2015?
Answer: 118,016
Question: Over how many hours had Jehovah's Witnesses spent preaching and in "Bible study" activity in 2015?
Answer: 1.93 billion
Question: What do Jehovah's Witnesses their worldwide growth rate to be?
Answer: 1.5% per year
Question: How many preaching members of the Witnesses are there in the United States?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many children were involved in "Bible studies" in 2015?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How fast was Jehovah's Witnesses growing in the mid-1990s per year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much time was spent in just preaching time since 2015?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much time was spent in just "Bible study" since 2015?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 17 April 1861, five days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, the legislature voted to secede from the United States and joined the Confederacy. Official action came in May, after the Confederacy promised to move its national capital to Richmond. The city was at the end of a long supply line, which made it somewhat difficult to defend, although supplies continued to reach the city by canal and wagon for years, since it was protected by the Army of Northern Virginia and arguably the Confederacy's best troops and commanders. It became the main target of Union armies, especially in the campaigns of 1862 and 1864-5.
Question: On what date was Virginia's secession from the Union?
Answer: 17 April 1861
Question: After leaving the Union, what nation did Virginia join?
Answer: Confederacy
Question: Along with 1864-5, what year notably saw US campaigns directed at Richmond?
Answer: 1862 |
Context: Following the glass batch preparation and mixing, the raw materials are transported to the furnace. Soda-lime glass for mass production is melted in gas fired units. Smaller scale furnaces for specialty glasses include electric melters, pot furnaces, and day tanks. After melting, homogenization and refining (removal of bubbles), the glass is formed. Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity. The top surface of the glass is subjected to nitrogen under pressure to obtain a polished finish. Container glass for common bottles and jars is formed by blowing and pressing methods. This glass is often slightly modified chemically (with more alumina and calcium oxide) for greater water resistance. Further glass forming techniques are summarized in the table Glass forming techniques.
Question: What happens during refining?
Answer: removal of bubbles
Question: What method is used for making windows?
Answer: float glass process
Question: What is used on the surface of window glass to make it smooth?
Answer: nitrogen
Question: What is added to the glass of jars to improve water resistance?
Answer: alumina and calcium oxide
Question: Who were the inventors of the float glass process?
Answer: Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff
Question: What happens during forming techniques?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What method is used for making raw materials?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is used on the surface of jar glasses to make them smooth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is added to the glass of windows to improve water resistance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who were the inventors of molten glass flows?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Bell Telephone Company was created in 1877, and by 1886, more than 150,000 people in the U.S. owned telephones. Bell Company engineers made numerous other improvements to the telephone, which emerged as one of the most successful products ever. In 1879, the Bell company acquired Edison's patents for the carbon microphone from Western Union. This made the telephone practical for longer distances, and it was no longer necessary to shout to be heard at the receiving telephone.
Question: In what year was the Bell Telephone Company founded?
Answer: 1877
Question: How many people in the United States had a telephone by 1886?
Answer: 150,000
Question: In what year did Bell get some of Edison's patents?
Answer: 1879
Question: What addition let people stop yelling into the telephone?
Answer: carbon microphone
Question: What company did Bell acquire the carbon microphone from?
Answer: Western Union |
Context: The end of a treaty, the eschatocol (or closing protocol), is often signaled by a clause like "in witness whereof" or "in faith whereof," the parties have affixed their signatures, followed by the words "DONE at," then the site(s) of the treaty's execution and the date(s) of its execution. The date is typically written in its most formal, longest possible form. For example, the Charter of the United Nations was "DONE at the city of San Francisco the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five." If the treaty is executed in multiple copies in different languages, that fact is always noted, and is followed by a stipulation that the versions in different languages are equally authentic.
Question: What is the formal name for the closing protocol of a treaty?
Answer: the eschatocol
Question: What typically follows the signatures in a treaty?
Answer: the site(s) of the treaty's execution and the date(s)
Question: How is the date typically written in a treaty?
Answer: its most formal, longest possible form
Question: What is the nature of the different versions of a treaty executed in multiple languages?
Answer: equally authentic
Question: A clause like "in witness whereof" or "in faith whereof" typically signals what in a treaty?
Answer: The end |
Context: At the heart of the city is the magnificent Rashtrapati Bhavan (formerly known as Viceroy's House) which sits atop Raisina Hill. The Secretariat, which houses ministries of the Government of India, flanks out of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Parliament House, designed by Herbert Baker, is located at the Sansad Marg, which runs parallel to the Rajpath. Connaught Place is a large, circular commercial area in New Delhi, modelled after the Royal Crescent in England. Twelve separate roads lead out of the outer ring of Connaught Place, one of them being the Janpath.
Question: Formerly known as the Viceroy's House, which large building is located at the heart of New Delhi?
Answer: Rashtrapati Bhavan
Question: The Rashtrapati Bhavan was formerly known by what name?
Answer: Viceroy's House
Question: Connaught Place in New Delhi is modeled after what area of England?
Answer: the Royal Crescent
Question: How many roads lead out of the outer ring of Connaught Place?
Answer: Twelve |
Context: Luke's gospel also describes an interaction between Jesus and the women among the crowd of mourners following him, quoting Jesus as saying "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!' Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.' For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"[Lk. 23:28-31]
Question: Who described an interaction between Jesus on the cross and women?
Answer: Luke's gospel
Question: What did Jesus say to women in the crowd?
Answer: do not weep for me
Question: Where are the words found in the Gospel?
Answer: Lk. 23:28-31
Question: What followed Jesus around?
Answer: crowd of mourners
Question: What was the ground like where Jesus was crucified?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the women gather to keep themselves warm?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color did some women in Jerusalem like to wear?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Jesus do when he felt sorrow for Jerusalem?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What high area is usually green when new grass grows?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Beginning in mid-2007, four major airlines, United, Continental, Delta, and Emirates, reached agreements to install iPod seat connections. The free service will allow passengers to power and charge an iPod, and view video and music libraries on individual seat-back displays. Originally KLM and Air France were reported to be part of the deal with Apple, but they later released statements explaining that they were only contemplating the possibility of incorporating such systems.
Question: In 2007, which airlines made deals to include iPod connections on their planes?
Answer: United, Continental, Delta, and Emirates
Question: Where can people using iPods on planes view the device's interface?
Answer: individual seat-back displays
Question: What are two airlines that considered implementing iPod connections but did not join the 2007 agreement?
Answer: KLM and Air France
Question: Which airlines first agreed to install seat connections for iPods?
Answer: United, Continental, Delta, and Emirates
Question: In what year did airlines first start to accommodate the iPod?
Answer: 2007 |
Context: In his role as god of prophecy and truth, Apollo had the epithets Manticus (/ˈmæntᵻkəs/ MAN-ti-kəs; Μαντικός, Mantikos, literally "prophetic"), Leschenorius (/ˌlɛskᵻˈnɔəriəs/ LES-ki-NOHR-ee-əs; Λεσχηνόριος, Leskhēnorios, from λεσχήνωρ, "converser"), and Loxias (/ˈlɒksiəs/ LOK-see-əs; Λοξίας, Loxias, from λέγειν, "to say"). The epithet "Loxias" has historically been associated with λοξός, "ambiguous". In this respect, the Romans called him Coelispex (/ˈsɛlᵻspɛks/ SEL-i-speks; from Latin coelum, "sky", and specere, "to look at"). The epithet Iatromantis (/aɪˌætrəˈmæntɪs/ eye-AT-rə-MAN-tis; Ἰατρομάντις, Iātromantis, from ἰατρός, "physician", and μάντις, "prophet") refers to both his role as a god of healing and of prophecy. As god of music and arts, Apollo had the epithet Musagetes (/mjuːˈsædʒᵻtiːz/ mew-SAJ-i-teez; Doric Μουσαγέτας, Mousāgetās) or Musegetes (/mjuːˈsɛdʒᵻtiːz/ mew-SEJ-i-teez; Μουσηγέτης, Mousēgetēs, from Μούσα, "Muse", and ἡγέτης, "leader").
Question: Which epithet has historically been associated with ambiguous?
Answer: Loxias
Question: Which epithet did Apollo have as god of music and arts?
Answer: Musagetes
Question: Which epithet did Apollo have as god of prophecy and truth?
Answer: Manticus
Question: Which epithet did Apollo have as god of healing and of prophecy?
Answer: Iatromantis |
Context: The Suez Crisis very publicly exposed Britain's limitations to the world and confirmed Britain's decline on the world stage, demonstrating that henceforth it could no longer act without at least the acquiescence, if not the full support, of the United States. The events at Suez wounded British national pride, leading one MP to describe it as "Britain's Waterloo" and another to suggest that the country had become an "American satellite". Margaret Thatcher later described the mindset she believed had befallen the British political establishment as "Suez syndrome", from which Britain did not recover until the successful recapture of the Falkland Islands from Argentina in 1982.
Question: Where did 'Britain's Waterloo' occur?
Answer: Suez
Question: Who referred to 'Suez Syndrome'?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: When did Britain retake the Falkland Islands?
Answer: 1982
Question: From whom did Britain retake the Falkland Islands?
Answer: Argentina
Question: A British minister thought which country was becoming an 'American satellite'?
Answer: Britain |
Context: Sho-1 called for V. Adm. Jisaburo Ozawa's force to use an apparently vulnerable carrier force to lure the U.S. 3rd Fleet away from Leyte and remove air cover from the Allied landing forces, which would then be attacked from the west by three Japanese forces: V. Adm. Takeo Kurita's force would enter Leyte Gulf and attack the landing forces; R. Adm. Shoji Nishimura's force and V. Adm. Kiyohide Shima's force would act as mobile strike forces. The plan was likely to result in the destruction of one or more of the Japanese forces, but Toyoda justified it by saying that there would be no sense in saving the fleet and losing the Philippines.
Question: What was the namee of the plan where Ozawa's force would lure the U.S. 3rd Fleet away from Leyte?
Answer: Sho-1
Question: Who would enter Leyte Gulf to attack the Allied landing forces?
Answer: V. Adm. Takeo Kurita
Question: How many Japanese forces were likely to be destroyed?
Answer: one or more |
Context: At the Battle of Mars-la-Tours, the Prussian 12th Cavalry Brigade, commanded by General Adalbert von Bredow, conducted a charge against a French artillery battery. The attack was a costly success and came to be known as "von Bredow's Death Ride", which was held to prove that cavalry charges could still prevail on the battlefield. Use of traditional cavalry on the battlefields of 1914 proved to be disastrous, due to accurate, long-range rifle fire, machine-guns and artillery. Von Bredow's attack had succeeded only because of an unusually effective artillery bombardment just before the charge, along with favorable terrain that masked his approach.
Question: Who commanded the Prussian 12 Cavalry Brigade?
Answer: General Adalbert von Bredow
Question: What did General von Bredow lead a charge against at the Battle of Mars-la-Tour?
Answer: a French artillery battery
Question: What did von Bredow's Pyrrhic victory become known as?
Answer: von Bredow's Death Ride
Question: What military tactic proved to be unsuccessful on the 1914 battlefields?
Answer: Use of traditional cavalry
Question: What was one of two factors that led von Bredow's narrow success on the battlefield?
Answer: favorable terrain that masked his approach |
Context: Marshall's words and future court decisions gave Congress much latitude in delegating powers. It was not until the 1930s that the Supreme Court held a delegation of authority unconstitutional. In a case involving the creation of the National Recovery Administration called A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), Congress could not authorize the president to formulate codes of "fair competition." It was held that Congress must set some standards governing the actions of executive officers. The Court, however, has deemed that phrases such as "just and reasonable," "public interest" and "public convenience" suffice.
Question: When was the first time that a Congressional attempt at delegating lawmaking responsibility was found to be in violation of the Constitution?
Answer: the 1930s
Question: The establishment of what body was the subject of A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?
Answer: National Recovery Administration
Question: In what year was A.L.A. Schechter v. United States tried before the Supreme Court?
Answer: 1935
Question: In what year did the supreme court determine that delegating powers by congress was unconstitutional?
Answer: 1935
Question: What was the supreme court case that was determined that congress could not allow the President to determine fair competition?
Answer: Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
Question: What gave Congress less latitude in delegating powers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During which decade did the Supreme Court hold a delegation of authority as constitutional?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Congress make the decision that a delegation of authority is unconstitutional?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which case was Congress able to authorize the president to formulate codes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During which year did Congress authorize the presidential formulation of fair competition codes?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College is a private, co-educational, not-for-profit Catholic school located in the wealthy residential southeastern neighbourhood of Carrasco. Established in 1955, it is regarded as one of the best high schools in the country, blending a rigorous curriculum with strong extracurricular activities. The school's headmaster, history professor Juan Pedro Toni, is a member of the Stella Maris Board of Governors and the school is a member of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). Its long list of distinguished former pupils includes economists, engineers, architects, lawyers, politicians and even F1 champions. The school has also played an important part in the development of rugby union in Uruguay, with the creation of Old Christians Club, the school's alumni club.
Question: Where is the Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College located?
Answer: Carrasco
Question: When was the Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College established?
Answer: 1955
Question: What is regarded as one of the best high schools in the country?
Answer: The Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College
Question: Who is the headmaster of the Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College?
Answer: professor Juan Pedro Toni |
Context: Although the Adventist churches hold much in common, their theologies differ on whether the intermediate state is unconscious sleep or consciousness, whether the ultimate punishment of the wicked is annihilation or eternal torment, the nature of immortality, whether or not the wicked are resurrected after the millennium, and whether the sanctuary of Daniel 8 refers to the one in heaven or one on earth. The movement has encouraged the examination of the whole Bible, leading Seventh-day Adventists and some smaller Adventist groups to observe the Sabbath. The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has compiled that church's core beliefs in the 28 Fundamental Beliefs (1980 and 2005), which use Biblical references as justification.
Question: The Adventist movement has encouraged examining what in full?
Answer: the whole Bible
Question: What Adventist groups observe the Sabbath?
Answer: Seventh-day Adventists and some smaller Adventist groups
Question: What is the name of the Seventh-day Adventist's core beliefs?
Answer: the 28 Fundamental Beliefs
Question: What is used for justification of the 28 Fundamental Beliefs?
Answer: Biblical references
Question: What belief about ultimate punishment do Adventists disagree on?
Answer: annihilation or eternal torment |
Context: Russian is a Slavic language of the Indo-European family. It is a lineal descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus'. From the point of view of the spoken language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn, the other three languages in the East Slavic group. In many places in eastern and southern Ukraine and throughout Belarus, these languages are spoken interchangeably, and in certain areas traditional bilingualism resulted in language mixtures, e.g. Surzhyk in eastern Ukraine and Trasianka in Belarus. An East Slavic Old Novgorod dialect, although vanished during the 15th or 16th century, is sometimes considered to have played a significant role in the formation of modern Russian. Also Russian has notable lexical similarities with Bulgarian due to a common Church Slavonic influence on both languages, as well as because of later interaction in the 19th–20th centuries, although Bulgarian grammar differs markedly from Russian. In the 19th century, the language was often called "Great Russian" to distinguish it from Belarusian, then called "White Russian" and Ukrainian, then called "Little Russian".
Question: What language does Russian descend from?
Answer: the language used in Kievan Rus'
Question: What are Russian's closest relatives?
Answer: Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn
Question: Where is Surzhyk used?
Answer: eastern Ukraine
Question: Where is Trasianka used?
Answer: Belarus
Question: What was 'Little Russian'?
Answer: Ukrainian
Question: What is Ukranian a descendant of that is used in Kievan Rus'?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what countries are Surzhyk and Trasianka spoken interchangeably?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what centuries is it thought that the Surzhyk language disappeared?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Ukrainian thought to have played a role in forming?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language does Trasianka have similar words with?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The French were equipped with bronze, rifled muzzle-loading artillery, while the Prussians used new steel breech-loading guns, which had a far longer range and a faster rate of fire. Prussian gunners strove for a high rate of fire, which was discouraged in the French army in the belief that it wasted ammunition. In addition, the Prussian artillery batteries had 30% more guns than their French counterparts. The Prussian guns typically opened fire at a range of 2–3 kilometres (1.2–1.9 mi), beyond the range of French artillery or the Chassepot rifle. The Prussian batteries could thus destroy French artillery with impunity, before being moved forward to directly support infantry attacks.
Question: What type of artillery were the French equipped with?
Answer: bronze, rifled muzzle-loading
Question: What newer artillery were Prussians using?
Answer: steel breech-loading guns
Question: What did the French believe was overly wasted in artillery with a higher rate of fire?
Answer: ammunition
Question: The Prussian artillery batteries had what percentage more of guns than the French?
Answer: 30% more
Question: What was the typical range that Prussian guns could fire?
Answer: 2–3 kilometres |
Context: Fear of advances by the nationalist parties, particularly in Scotland, led to the suppression of a report from Scottish Office economist Gavin McCrone that suggested that an independent Scotland would be 'chronically in surplus'. By 1977 by-election losses and defections to the breakaway Scottish Labour Party left Callaghan heading a minority government, forced to trade with smaller parties in order to govern. An arrangement negotiated in 1977 with Liberal leader David Steel, known as the Lib-Lab Pact, ended after one year. Deals were then forged with various small parties including the Scottish National Party and the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru, prolonging the life of the government.
Question: What led to the promotion of a report from the Scottish Office?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What left Callaghan leading a majority government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Callaghan trade with the larger parties?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What arrangement lasted longer than one year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What shortened the life of the government?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: War work again brought local prosperity during World War II, this time centered on Boeing aircraft. The war dispersed the city's numerous Japanese-American businessmen due to the Japanese American internment. After the war, the local economy dipped. It rose again with Boeing's growing dominance in the commercial airliner market. Seattle celebrated its restored prosperity and made a bid for world recognition with the Century 21 Exposition, the 1962 World's Fair. Another major local economic downturn was in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at a time when Boeing was heavily affected by the oil crises, loss of Government contracts, and costs and delays associated with the Boeing 747. Many people left the area to look for work elsewhere, and two local real estate agents put up a billboard reading "Will the last person leaving Seattle – Turn out the lights."
Question: During WWII what company added substantially to Seattle's economy?
Answer: Boeing aircraft
Question: What national event during WWII left Seattle without Japanese businessmen?
Answer: Japanese American internment
Question: In what facet of the economy did Boeing excel?
Answer: commercial airliner market
Question: How did Seattle celebrate its economic rise in 1962?
Answer: 1962 World's Fair
Question: What company's downturn drastically effected Seattle's economy?
Answer: Boeing |
Context: A standard dialect (also known as a standardized dialect or "standard language") is a dialect that is supported by institutions. Such institutional support may include government recognition or designation; presentation as being the "correct" form of a language in schools; published grammars, dictionaries, and textbooks that set forth a correct spoken and written form; and an extensive formal literature that employs that dialect (prose, poetry, non-fiction, etc.). There may be multiple standard dialects associated with a single language. For example, Standard American English, Standard British English, Standard Canadian English, Standard Indian English, Standard Australian English, and Standard Philippine English may all be said to be standard dialects of the English language.
Question: What is another term for a standard or standardized dialect?
Answer: standard language
Question: The support of what groups results in a dialect being standardized?
Answer: institutions
Question: Along with grammars and dictionaries, what publications help a dialect to become standardized?
Answer: textbooks
Question: Standard Philippine English is a standard dialect of of what language?
Answer: English
Question: Recognition from what body may help a dialect to become standardized?
Answer: government
Question: What is the term for a dialect that remains unsupported by institutions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: There may be only one what associated with multiple languages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Standard British Canadian is an example of a dialect of which language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Australian Standard English is an example of a dialect of which language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Standard British Philippines is an example of a dialect of which language?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The incentive to use 100% renewable energy, for electricity, transport, or even total primary energy supply globally, has been motivated by global warming and other ecological as well as economic concerns. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that there are few fundamental technological limits to integrating a portfolio of renewable energy technologies to meet most of total global energy demand. In reviewing 164 recent scenarios of future renewable energy growth, the report noted that the majority expected renewable sources to supply more than 17% of total energy by 2030, and 27% by 2050; the highest forecast projected 43% supplied by renewables by 2030 and 77% by 2050. Renewable energy use has grown much faster than even advocates anticipated. At the national level, at least 30 nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20% of energy supply. Also, Professors S. Pacala and Robert H. Socolow have developed a series of "stabilization wedges" that can allow us to maintain our quality of life while avoiding catastrophic climate change, and "renewable energy sources," in aggregate, constitute the largest number of their "wedges."
Question: What motivated the incentive to use 100 percent renewable energy?
Answer: global warming
Question: How many nations already have renewable energy contributing to more than 20 percent of energy supply?
Answer: at least 30 nations
Question: Who developed a series of stabilization wedges?
Answer: Professors S. Pacala and Robert H. Socolow
Question: What motivated the incentive to use 10 percent renewable energy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many nations already have renewable energy contributing to more than 40 percent of energy supply?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who rejected a series of stabilization wedges?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Mark Twain provided humorously telling evidence for the frequent unreliability of back-translation when he issued his own back-translation of a French translation of his short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". He published his back-translation in a 1903 volume together with his English-language original, the French translation, and a "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story". The latter included a synopsized adaptation of his story that Twain stated had appeared, unattributed to Twain, in a Professor Sidgwick’s Greek Prose Composition (p. 116) under the title, "The Athenian and the Frog"; the adaptation had for a time been taken for an independent ancient Greek precursor to Twain's "Jumping Frog" story.
Question: Who provided a humorous example of the unreliability of back-translation?
Answer: Mark Twain
Question: For what language did Twain create a back-translation?
Answer: French
Question: When was Twain's back-translation published?
Answer: 1903
Question: What include a synopsized adaptation of Twain's story?
Answer: "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story"
Question: What had been thought for a while to be an independent ancient Greek precursor to Twain's story?
Answer: "The Athenian and the Frog"
Question: Who provided a boring example of the unreliability of back-translation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language did Twain remove a back-translation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Twain's back-translation rejected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What lacked a synopsized adaptation of Twain's story?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What had been thought for a while to be a dependent ancient Roman precursor to Twain's story?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By 1878, because of the growing popularity of the city, one railroad line could no longer keep up with demand. Soon, the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway was also constructed to transport tourists to Atlantic City. At this point massive hotels like The United States and Surf House, as well as smaller rooming houses, had sprung up all over town. The United States Hotel took up a full city block between Atlantic, Pacific, Delaware, and Maryland Avenues. These hotels were not only impressive in size, but featured the most updated amenities, and were considered quite luxurious for their time.
Question: By what year was demand so great that one railroad line could no longer keep up with the demand?
Answer: 1878
Question: What was the name of the new railway that was constructed to transport tourists to Atlantic City after 1878?
Answer: Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway
Question: What was the name of the hotel that took up a full city block?
Answer: The United States Hotel
Question: Besides massive hotels, what else was appearing all over Atlantic City during this period?
Answer: rooming houses
Question: What were the names of the four avenues that surrounded The United States Hotel?
Answer: Atlantic, Pacific, Delaware, and Maryland Avenues |
Context: T. Gilmartin, (Professor of History, Maynooth, 1890), writes in Church History, Vol. 1, Ch XVII: By Constantius's order, the sole ruler of The Roman Empire at the death of his brother Constans, the Council of Arles in 353, was held, which was presided over by Vincent, Bishop of Capua, in the name of Pope Liberius. The fathers terrified of the threats of the Emperor, an avowed Arian, they consented to the condemnation of Athanasius. The Pope refused to accept their decision, and requested the Emperor to hold another Council, in which the charges against Athanasius could be freely investigated. To this Constantius consented, for he felt able to control it, at Milan. Milan was named as the place, here three hundred bishops assembled, most from the West, only a few from the East, in 355. They met in the Church of Milan. Shortly, the Emperor ordered them to a hall in the Imperial Palace, thus ending any free debate. He presented an Arian formula of faith for their acceptance. He threatened any who refused with exile and death. All, with the exception of Dionysius (bishop of Milan), and the two Papal Legates, viz., Eusebius of Vercelli and Lucifer of Cagliari, consented to the Arian Creed and the condemnation of Athanasius. Those who refused were sent into exile. The decrees were forwarded to the Pope for approval, but were rejected, because of the violence to which the bishops were subjected.
Question: Why did the Bishops condemn Athanasius?
Answer: threats of the Emperor
Question: Did the Pope agree with this order?
Answer: Pope refused to accept
Question: Did the Emperor agree to a new trial for Athanasius?
Answer: Constantius consented
Question: What oath did the Bishops have to take at the trial?
Answer: Arian formula of faith
Question: What happened to the Bishops who did not take the oath?
Answer: sent into exile
Question: Why didn't the Bishops condemn Athanasius?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who agreed with the order?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not consent to a new trial?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What oath was not taken at the trial?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Modern chemistry emerged from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries through the material practices and theories promoted by alchemy, medicine, manufacturing and mining. A decisive moment came when 'chymistry' was distinguished from alchemy by Robert Boyle in his work The Sceptical Chymist, in 1661; although the alchemical tradition continued for some time after his work. Other important steps included the gravimetric experimental practices of medical chemists like William Cullen, Joseph Black, Torbern Bergman and Pierre Macquer and through the work of Antoine Lavoisier (Father of Modern Chemistry) on oxygen and the law of conservation of mass, which refuted phlogiston theory. The theory that all matter is made of atoms, which are the smallest constituents of matter that cannot be broken down without losing the basic chemical and physical properties of that matter, was provided by John Dalton in 1803, although the question took a hundred years to settle as proven. Dalton also formulated the law of mass relationships. In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev composed his periodic table of elements on the basis of Dalton's discoveries.
Question: When did modern chemistry come into existence?
Answer: the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries
Question: Who decided that chemistry and alchemy were different?
Answer: Robert Boyle
Question: What book was written by Robert Boyle in 1661?
Answer: The Sceptical Chymist
Question: What was Antoine Lavoisier's nickname?
Answer: Father of Modern Chemistry
Question: Which theory did the law of conservation of mass disagree with?
Answer: phlogiston theory |
Context: The governors of the taifas each proclaimed themselves Emir of their provinces and established diplomatic relations with the Christian kingdoms of the north. Most of Portugal fell into the hands of the Taifa of Badajoz of the Aftasid Dynasty, and after a short spell of an ephemeral Taifa of Lisbon in 1022, fell under the dominion of the Taifa of Seville of the Abbadids poets. The Taifa period ended with the conquest of the Almoravids who came from Morocco in 1086 winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Sagrajas, followed a century later in 1147, after the second period of Taifa, by the Almohads, also from Marrakesh.
Question: What were the governors of the taifas called?
Answer: Emir
Question: Which which kingdoms did the taifas establish diplomatic relations?
Answer: the Christian kingdoms of the north
Question: To which taifa did most of Portugal fall into?
Answer: Taifa of Badajoz
Question: In which year did the taifa period end?
Answer: 1086
Question: Which battle took place in 1147?
Answer: Battle of Sagrajas |
Context: In an interrogative main clause the usual word order is: conjugated verb followed by subject; other verbs in final position: "Kun jij je pen niet vinden?" (literally "Can you your pen not find?") "Can't you find your pen?"
In the Dutch equivalent of a wh-question the word order is: interrogative pronoun (or expression) + conjugated verb + subject; other verbs in final position: "Waarom kun jij je pen niet vinden?" ("Why can you your pen not find?") "Why can't you find your pen?""
In a tag question the word order is the same as in a declarative clause: "Jij kunt je pen niet vinden?" ("You can your pen not find?") "You can't find your pen?""
A subordinate clause does not change its word order: "Kun jij je pen niet vinden omdat het veel te donker is?" ("Can you your pen not find because it far too dark is?") "Can you not find your pen because it's too dark?""
Question: In what type of Dutch clause does the subject usually follow the conjugated verb?
Answer: interrogative main clause
Question: What's the English type equivalent for the Dutch word order that is an interrogative pronoun/expression, then a verb followed by a subject?
Answer: a wh-question
Question: What type of clause has the same word order in Dutch as a tag question?
Answer: declarative clause
Question: What never changes in a subordinate clause in Dutch?
Answer: word order
Question: What is the literal translation of the Dutch phrase, "Kun jij je pen niet vinden?"
Answer: "Can you your pen not find?" |
Context: From around 750, during the Abbasid Caliphate, women “became renowned for their brains as well as their beauty”. In particular, many well known women of the time were trained from childhood in music, dancing and poetry. Mahbuba was one of these. Another feminine figure to be remembered for her achievements was Tawaddud, "a slave girl who was said to have been bought at great cost by Hārūn al-Rashīd because she had passed her examinations by the most eminent scholars in astronomy, medicine, law, philosophy, music, history, Arabic grammar, literature, theology and chess". Moreover, among the most prominent feminine figures was Shuhda who was known as "the Scholar" or "the Pride of Women" during the 12th century in Baghdad. Despite the recognition of women's aptitudes during the Abbasid dynasty, all these came to an end in Iraq with the sack of Baghdad in 1258.
Question: What disciplines were women trained in during the first century?
Answer: music, dancing and poetry
Question: Who was the most well known female scholar in Islamic schools?
Answer: Shuhda
Question: Where did Shuhda attend school?
Answer: Baghdad
Question: When was formal education for Islamic women halted?
Answer: 1258
Question: During which Caliphate did Islamic women begin attending formal school?
Answer: Abbasid
Question: What disciplines were women trained in during the second century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the least well known female scholar in Islamic schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Shuhda work?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was formal education for Islamic women encouraged?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During which Caliphate did Islamic women stop going to formal school?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Due to historically close ties with France, French literature came to constitute the major Western influence on Ottoman literature throughout the latter half of the 19th century. As a result, many of the same movements prevalent in France during this period also had their Ottoman equivalents: in the developing Ottoman prose tradition, for instance, the influence of Romanticism can be seen during the Tanzimat period, and that of the Realist and Naturalist movements in subsequent periods; in the poetic tradition, on the other hand, it was the influence of the Symbolist and Parnassian movements that became paramount.
Question: What was the biggest influence from the west on Ottoman literature?
Answer: French literature
Question: During what time period was Ottoman literate most influenced by the west?
Answer: the latter half of the 19th century
Question: During the Tanzimat what western influence could be seen?
Answer: the influence of Romanticism
Question: The poetic tradition had its biggest influence on what Ottoman literary movements?
Answer: the Symbolist and Parnassian movements
Question: Romanticism, and Realism were two movements from the west that influenced the Ottoman literary scene, what was the third?
Answer: Naturalist |
Context: The Cambrian is a major division of the geologic timescale that begins about 541.0 ± 1.0 Ma. Cambrian continents are thought to have resulted from the breakup of a Neoproterozoic supercontinent called Pannotia. The waters of the Cambrian period appear to have been widespread and shallow. Continental drift rates may have been anomalously high. Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia remained independent continents following the break-up of the supercontinent of Pannotia. Gondwana started to drift toward the South Pole. Panthalassa covered most of the southern hemisphere, and minor oceans included the Proto-Tethys Ocean, Iapetus Ocean and Khanty Ocean.
Question: At what rough time did the Cambrian era start?
Answer: 541.0 ± 1.0 Ma.
Question: What were the continents of the Cambrian area believed to have formerly been a part of?
Answer: Pannotia
Question: What continent moved to the southern-most part of the earth in the Cambrian era?
Answer: Gondwana
Question: What continent ranged over the majority of the southern hemisphere of earth in the Cambrian?
Answer: Panthalassa
Question: Baltica and Sibera are examples of what thing, during the Cambrian era?
Answer: independent continents
Question: What period is a minor division in the geologic timescale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What supercontinent was formed from the coninents of the Cambrian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what period were the oceans widespread and deep?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What drift rates were high during the Cambrian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Pannotia begin to drift towards the South Pole?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As a Cardinal, Montini journeyed to Africa (1962), where he visited Ghana, Sudan, Kenya, Congo, Rhodesia, South Africa, and Nigeria. After his journey, John XXIII gave him a private audience on his trip which lasted for several hours. In fifteen other trips he visited Brazil (1960) and the USA (1960), including New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. While a cardinal, he usually vacationed in Engelberg Abbey, a secluded Benedictine monastery in Switzerland.
Question: What country did Montini visit as Cardinal?
Answer: Africa
Question: In what year did Montini travel to visit Africa as a cardinal?
Answer: 1962
Question: How many foreign trips did Montini make as Cardinal?
Answer: fifteen
Question: In what year did Montini visit the United States?
Answer: 1960
Question: Where did Montini like to use as a retreat as a cardinal?
Answer: Engelberg Abbey |
Context: The motor centers of reptiles react to sensory cues of vision, sound, touch, chemical, gravity, and motion with pre-set body movements and programmed postures. With the arrival of night-active mammals, smell replaced vision as the dominant sense, and a different way of responding arose from the olfactory sense, which is proposed to have developed into mammalian emotion and emotional memory. The mammalian brain invested heavily in olfaction to succeed at night as reptiles slept—one explanation for why olfactory lobes in mammalian brains are proportionally larger than in the reptiles. These odor pathways gradually formed the neural blueprint for what was later to become our limbic brain.
Question: What parts of reptiles respond to sensory cues?
Answer: motor centers
Question: What is the principal sense of night-active mammals?
Answer: smell
Question: Why were early mammals active at night?
Answer: reptiles slept
Question: What developed from the mammalian odor pathways?
Answer: limbic brain
Question: How do the olfactory lobes of mammals compare in size to those of reptiles?
Answer: larger
Question: What parts of reptiles don't respond to sensory cues?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the principal sense of morning-active mammals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why were early mammals active in the morning?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What developed from the mammalian sonic pathways?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do the olfactory lobes of mammals not compare in size to those of reptiles?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The earthquake left at least 5 million people without housing, although the number could be as high as 11 million. Millions of livestock and a significant amount of agriculture were also destroyed, including 12.5 million animals, mainly birds. In the Sichuan province a million pigs died out of 60 million total. Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide reported official estimates of insurers' losses at US$1 billion from the earthquake; estimated total damages exceed US$20 billion. It values Chengdu, at the time having an urban population of 4.5 million people, at around US$115 billion, with only a small portion covered by insurance.
Question: How many people were left without housing?
Answer: 5 million
Question: How many people could be potentially without housing?
Answer: 11 million
Question: How many animals were killed?
Answer: 12.5 million
Question: How many pigs died in Sichuan?
Answer: 1 million
Question: Because of the earthquake, how many people did not have housing?
Answer: at least 5 million
Question: How many people might actually be homeless?
Answer: 11 million
Question: How much livestock was lost?
Answer: 12.5 million animals
Question: How many pigs died from the earthquake in Sichuan ?
Answer: a million |
Context: The small woolen dolls called Maniae, hung on the Compitalia shrines, were thought a symbolic replacement for child-sacrifice to Mania, as Mother of the Lares. The Junii took credit for its abolition by their ancestor L. Junius Brutus, traditionally Rome's Republican founder and first consul. Political or military executions were sometimes conducted in such a way that they evoked human sacrifice, whether deliberately or in the perception of witnesses; Marcus Marius Gratidianus was a gruesome example.
Question: Who was the founder of the Roman Republic?
Answer: L. Junius Brutus
Question: What were stand-ins for child sacrifices to Mania?
Answer: woolen dolls
Question: Who was Mania in Roman religion?
Answer: Mother of the Lares
Question: What leader was the first consul of the Roman Republic?
Answer: L. Junius Brutus
Question: What acts were sometimes arranged so as to be sacrifices?
Answer: executions |
Context: The forces converged in the largest sea battle of World War II up to that point. Over the previous month American destroyers had destroyed 17 of 25 submarines out of Ozawa's screening force. Repeated U.S. raids destroyed the Japanese land-based planes. Ozawa's main attack lacked coordination, with the Japanese planes arriving at their targets in a staggered sequence. Following a directive from Nimitz, the U.S. carriers all had combat information centers, which interpreted the flow of radar data and radioed interception orders to the Hellcats. The result was later dubbed the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. The few attackers to reach the U.S. fleet encountered massive AA fire with proximity fuzes. Only one American warship was slightly damaged.
Question: How many of Ozawa's submarines were sunk by American destroyers?
Answer: 17
Question: How many American warships were damaged during the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot?
Answer: one
Question: In what sequence did Japanese planes arrive at their targets?
Answer: staggered
Question: Where did the radio interception orders to U.S> Hellcat fighters come from?
Answer: combat information centers
Question: Who gave the directive for all carriers in the US Navy to have combat information centers?
Answer: Nimitz |
Context: In central and northern Italy and in Flanders, the rise of towns that were to a degree self-governing stimulated economic growth and created an environment for new types of trade associations. Commercial cities on the shores of the Baltic entered into agreements known as the Hanseatic League, and the Italian Maritime republics such as Venice, Genoa, and Pisa expanded their trade throughout the Mediterranean.[V] Great trading fairs were established and flourished in northern France during the period, allowing Italian and German merchants to trade with each other as well as local merchants. In the late 13th century new land and sea routes to the Far East were pioneered, famously described in The Travels of Marco Polo written by one of the traders, Marco Polo (d. 1324). Besides new trading opportunities, agricultural and technological improvements enabled an increase in crop yields, which in turn allowed the trade networks to expand. Rising trade brought new methods of dealing with money, and gold coinage was again minted in Europe, first in Italy and later in France and other countries. New forms of commercial contracts emerged, allowing risk to be shared among merchants. Accounting methods improved, partly through the use of double-entry bookkeeping; letters of credit also appeared, allowing easy transmission of money.
Question: What sea were the Hanseatic cities located on?
Answer: Baltic
Question: Along with Venice and Pisa, what was a notable Italian maritime republic?
Answer: Genoa
Question: Who wrote The Travels of Marco Polo?
Answer: Marco Polo
Question: What accounting method was utilized in this period?
Answer: double-entry bookkeeping
Question: In what region was gold coinage first reintroduced?
Answer: Italy |
Context: This idea was later developed in ancient philosophy by the Stoic school. Stoic epistemology generally emphasized that the mind starts blank, but acquires knowledge as the outside world is impressed upon it. The doxographer Aetius summarizes this view as "When a man is born, the Stoics say, he has the commanding part of his soul like a sheet of paper ready for writing upon." Later stoics, such as Sextus of Chaeronea, would continue this idea of empiricism in later Stoic writings as well. As Sextus contends "For every thought comes from sense-perception or not without sense-perception and either from direct experience or not without direct experience" (Against the Professors, 8.56-8).
Question: What is the Stoic view?
Answer: the mind starts blank, but acquires knowledge as the outside world is impressed upon it
Question: What was Aetius's career?
Answer: doxographer
Question: Where was Sextus from?
Answer: Chaeronea
Question: Who wrote 'Against the Professors'?
Answer: Sextus
Question: Whose ideas did Sextus build on?
Answer: Aetius
Question: Where was Aetius from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What book did Aetius write?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Sextus' career?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What innate thoughts is a man born with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who invented stoicism?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Carboniferous was a time of active mountain building, as the supercontinent Pangea came together. The southern continents remained tied together in the supercontinent Gondwana, which collided with North America-Europe (Laurussia) along the present line of eastern North America. This continental collision resulted in the Hercynian orogeny in Europe, and the Alleghenian orogeny in North America; it also extended the newly uplifted Appalachians southwestward as the Ouachita Mountains. In the same time frame, much of present eastern Eurasian plate welded itself to Europe along the line of the Ural mountains. There were two major oceans in the Carboniferous the Panthalassa and Paleo-Tethys. Other minor oceans were shrinking and eventually closed the Rheic Ocean (closed by the assembly of South and North America), the small, shallow Ural Ocean (which was closed by the collision of Baltica, and Siberia continents, creating the Ural Mountains) and Proto-Tethys Ocean.
Question: What geologic events took place when Pangea combined during the Carboniferous?
Answer: mountain building
Question: What was the continent that came to be North America and Europe called during the Carboniferous?
Answer: Laurussia
Question: What was the effect of Laurussia impacting Gondwana in North America?
Answer: the Alleghenian orogeny
Question: The mountains forming to the southwest of the Appalachians in the Carboniferous are known as what?
Answer: the Ouachita Mountains
Question: Which two large oceans existed during the Carboniferous period?
Answer: the Panthalassa and Paleo-Tethys
Question: What was formed as the southern coninents came together?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pangea collide with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the collision of Pangea cause to mountains in North America?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the collision with Pangea create in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What major oceans were shrinking in the Carboniferous?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Montevideo Cabildo was the seat of government during the colonial times of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. It is located in front of Constitution Square, in Ciudad Vieja. Built between 1804 and 1869 in Neoclassical style, with a series of Doric and Ionic columns, it became a National Heritage Site in 1975. In 1958, the Municipal Historic Museum and Archive was inaugurated here. It features three permanent city museum exhibitions, as well as temporary art exhibitions, cultural events, seminars, symposiums and forums.
Question: What was the seat of government during the colonial times of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata?
Answer: The Montevideo Cabildo
Question: Where is the Montevideo Cabildo located?
Answer: front of Constitution Square
Question: Between what years was the Montevideo Cabildo built?
Answer: between 1804 and 1869
Question: What style was the Montevideo Cabildo?
Answer: Neoclassical style
Question: When did the Montevideo Cabildo become a National Heritage Site?
Answer: 1975. |
Context: Infrared radiation is popularly known as "heat radiation"[citation needed], but light and electromagnetic waves of any frequency will heat surfaces that absorb them. Infrared light from the Sun accounts for 49% of the heating of Earth, with the rest being caused by visible light that is absorbed then re-radiated at longer wavelengths. Visible light or ultraviolet-emitting lasers can char paper and incandescently hot objects emit visible radiation. Objects at room temperature will emit radiation concentrated mostly in the 8 to 25 µm band, but this is not distinct from the emission of visible light by incandescent objects and ultraviolet by even hotter objects (see black body and Wien's displacement law).
Question: What is a commonly used term for infrared radiation?
Answer: heat radiation
Question: What percentage of the Earth's heat is derived from the Sun's infrared light?
Answer: 49%
Question: What is the common range of emitted radiation of room temperature objects, in micrometers?
Answer: 8 to 25
Question: Other than infrared light, what type of light is responsible for heating the Earth?
Answer: visible
Question: What radiation is responsible for 49% of the heating of the Earth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Other than infrared light, what type of light is responsible for emitting visible radiation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of light or laser will emit radiation concentrated mostly in the 8 to 25 um band?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of waves will char paper?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: New York City's public bus fleet is the largest in North America, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the main intercity bus terminal of the city, serves 7,000 buses and 200,000 commuters daily, making it the busiest bus station in the world.
Question: The busiest bus station in the world in the world is called what?
Answer: Port Authority Bus Terminal
Question: How many buses visit the Port Authority Bus Terminal each day?
Answer: 7,000
Question: How many New Yorkers ride the bus on a daily basis?
Answer: 200,000
Question: What is New York's primary bus terminal?
Answer: Port Authority Bus Terminal |
Context: Double fertilization refers to a process in which two sperm cells fertilize cells in the ovary. This process begins when a pollen grain adheres to the stigma of the pistil (female reproductive structure), germinates, and grows a long pollen tube. While this pollen tube is growing, a haploid generative cell travels down the tube behind the tube nucleus. The generative cell divides by mitosis to produce two haploid (n) sperm cells. As the pollen tube grows, it makes its way from the stigma, down the style and into the ovary. Here the pollen tube reaches the micropyle of the ovule and digests its way into one of the synergids, releasing its contents (which include the sperm cells). The synergid that the cells were released into degenerates and one sperm makes its way to fertilize the egg cell, producing a diploid (2n) zygote. The second sperm cell fuses with both central cell nuclei, producing a triploid (3n) cell. As the zygote develops into an embryo, the triploid cell develops into the endosperm, which serves as the embryo's food supply. The ovary now will develop into fruit and the ovule will develop into seed.
Question: What process does double fertilization refer to?
Answer: two sperm cells fertilize cells in the ovary
Question: What does a pollen grain adhere to, to start the process of double fertilization?
Answer: the stigma of the pistil
Question: What type of cell travels down the pollen tube while it's growing?
Answer: haploid generative
Question: Where does the pollen tube release its sperm cells?
Answer: one of the synergids
Question: What serves as the embryo's food supply?
Answer: endosperm
Question: When a pollen tube fertilizes cells in the ovary, what is it called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What begins the process of synergid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a sperm cell adhere to to start double fertilization?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What degenerates as a pollen grain adheres to the stigma?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the zygote fuse with to produce a triploid?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The High Middle Ages was a period of great religious movements. Besides the Crusades and monastic reforms, people sought to participate in new forms of religious life. New monastic orders were founded, including the Carthusians and the Cistercians. The latter especially expanded rapidly in their early years under the guidance of Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153). These new orders were formed in response to the feeling of the laity that Benedictine monasticism no longer met the needs of the laymen, who along with those wishing to enter the religious life wanted a return to the simpler hermetical monasticism of early Christianity, or to live an Apostolic life. Religious pilgrimages were also encouraged. Old pilgrimage sites such as Rome, Jerusalem, and Compostela received increasing numbers of visitors, and new sites such as Monte Gargano and Bari rose to prominence.
Question: What monastic order did Bernard of Clairvaux belong to?
Answer: Cistercians
Question: When did Bernard of Clairvaux die?
Answer: 1153
Question: Along with Bari, what was a notable new pilgrimage site in this era?
Answer: Monte Gargano
Question: Along with Rome and Jerusalem, what traditional pilgrimage site saw a greater number of visitors in the High Middle Ages?
Answer: Compostela
Question: Along with the Cistercians, what new monastic order was founded in the High Middle Ages?
Answer: Carthusians |
Context: The target audience of natural history was French polite society, evidenced more by the specific discourse of the genre than by the generally high prices of its works. Naturalists catered to polite society's desire for erudition – many texts had an explicit instructive purpose. However, natural history was often a political affair. As E. C. Spary writes, the classifications used by naturalists "slipped between the natural world and the social ... to establish not only the expertise of the naturalists over the natural, but also the dominance of the natural over the social". The idea of taste (le goût) was a social indicator: to truly be able to categorize nature, one had to have the proper taste, an ability of discretion shared by all members of polite society. In this way natural history spread many of the scientific developments of the time, but also provided a new source of legitimacy for the dominant class. From this basis, naturalists could then develop their own social ideals based on their scientific works.
Question: Who was the target audience of natural history?
Answer: French polite society
Question: Many texts had explicit instructive purposes as Naturalists catered to polite society's desire for what?
Answer: erudition
Question: The idea of what quality was a social indicator that provided a new source of legitimacy for the dominant class?
Answer: taste (le goût)
Question: Was the target audience of natural history evidenced more by the price of publications or its specific discourse of the genre?
Answer: specific discourse of the genre |
Context: Bruce Matthews notes that there is no cohesive presentation of karma in the Sutta Pitaka, which may mean that the doctrine was incidental to the main perspective of early Buddhist soteriology. Schmithausen is a notable scholar who has questioned whether karma already played a role in the theory of rebirth of earliest Buddhism.[page needed][note 32] According to Vetter, "the Buddha at first sought "the deathless" (amata/amrta), which is concerned with the here and now. According to Vetter, only after this realization did he become acquainted with the doctrine of rebirth." Bronkhorst disagrees, and concludes that the Buddha "introduced a concept of karma that differed considerably from the commonly held views of his time." According to Bronkhorst, not physical and mental activities as such were seen as responsible for rebirth, but intentions and desire.
Question: According the Bronkhorst, intentions and desire are responsible for what?
Answer: rebirth
Question: Bronkhurst says that Buddha had a view of 'what' much different then current day?
Answer: karma |
Context: Prior to the Reformation, the Polish nobility were mostly either Roman Catholic or Orthodox with a small group of Muslims. Many families, however, soon adopted the Reformed faiths. After the Counter-Reformation, when the Roman Catholic Church regained power in Poland, the nobility became almost exclusively Catholic, despite the fact that Roman Catholicism was not the majority religion in Commonwealth (the Catholic and Orthodox churches each accounted for some 40% of all citizens population, with the remaining 20% being Jews or members of Protestant denominations). In the 18th century, many followers of Jacob Frank joined the ranks of Jewish-descended Polish gentry. Although Jewish religion wasn't usually a pretext to block or deprive of noble status, some laws favoured religious conversion from Judaism to Christianity (see: Neophyte) by rewarding it with ennoblement.
Question: What two religions were most common?
Answer: Roman Catholic or Orthodox
Question: What was the minority group in the polish nobility?
Answer: Muslims
Question: What was rewarding for switching judiasm to christianity?
Answer: ennoblement
Question: What happened after the roman catholic church regained power in Poland?
Answer: the nobility became almost exclusively Catholic
Question: What was the smallest amount of religion in the noble?
Answer: Jews |
Context: In its 2011 report, conducted in partnership with IDC and Ipsos Public Affairs, the BSA stated: "Over half of the world's personal computer users – 57 percent – admit to pirating software." The ninth annual "BSA Global Software Piracy Study" claims that the "commercial value of this shadow market of pirated software" was worth US$63.4 billion in 2011, with the highest commercial value of pirated PC software existent in the U.S. during that time period (US$9,773,000). According to the 2011 study, Zimbabwe was the nation with the highest piracy rate, at 92%, while the lowest piracy rate was present in the U.S., at 19%.
Question: Who else did the BSA issues a report in 2011 with?
Answer: IDC and Ipsos Public Affairs
Question: What percentage of people admit to pirating software?
Answer: 57 percent
Question: What was the commercial value of pirated software in 2011?
Answer: US$63.4 billion
Question: What nation had the higest piracy rate?
Answer: Zimbabwe
Question: What was the U.S.'s piracy rate?
Answer: 19%
Question: Who else did the BSA issues a report in 2001 with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of people admit to pirating hardware?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the commercial value of pirated hardware in 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What nation had the lowest nonpiracy rate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the U.N.'s piracy rate?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the mid-1980s Lucasfilm pioneered the EditDroid non-linear editing system for film and television based on computer-controlled LaserDisc players. Instead of printing dailies out on film, processed negatives from the day's shoot would be sent to a mastering plant to be assembled from their 10-minute camera elements into 20-minute film segments. These were then mastered onto single-sided blank LaserDiscs, just as a DVD would be burnt at home today, allowing for much easier selection and preparation of an Edit Decision List. In the days before video assist was available in cinematography, this was the only other way a film crew could see their work. The EDL went to the negative cutter who then cut the camera negative accordingly and assembled the finished film. Only 24 EditDroid systems were ever built, even though the ideas and technology are still in use today. Later EditDroid experiments borrowed from hard-drive technology of having multiple discs on the same spindle and added numerous playback heads and numerous electronics to the basic jukebox design so that any point on each of the discs would be accessible within seconds. This eliminated the need for racks and racks of industrial LaserDisc players since EditDroid discs were only single-sided.
Question: How many EditDroid systems were ever built?
Answer: 24
Question: Were EditDroid discs single or multi-sided?
Answer: single-sided
Question: Which production company engineered the EditDroid machines in the 1980s?
Answer: Lucasfilm |
Context: In modern times Cypriot art history begins with the painter Vassilis Vryonides (1883–1958) who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Arguably the two founding fathers of modern Cypriot art were Adamantios Diamantis (1900–1994) who studied at London's Royal College of Art and Christopheros Savva (1924–1968) who also studied in London, at Saint Martin's School of Art. In many ways these two artists set the template for subsequent Cypriot art and both their artistic styles and the patterns of their education remain influential to this day. In particular the majority of Cypriot artists still train in England while others train at art schools in Greece and local art institutions such as the Cyprus College of Art, University of Nicosia and the Frederick Institute of Technology.
Question: Who was the first important Cyprus painter of modern times?
Answer: Vassilis Vryonides
Question: Where did Vassilis Vryonides study?
Answer: Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
Question: Name one of the individuals considered the founding fathers of modern Cypriot art.
Answer: Adamantios Diamantis
Question: Name the other individual considered the founding fathers of modern Cypriot art.
Answer: Christopheros Savva
Question: Where do many Cypriot artists train?
Answer: England |
Context: More recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932- Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937-, Bury),John McCabe (1939-2015, Huyton), Roger Smalley (1943-2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948-, Manchester), Steve Martland (1954-2013, Liverpool), Simon Holt (1958-, Bolton) and Philip Cashian (1963-, Manchester). The Royal Manchester College of Music was founded in 1893 to provide a northern counterpart to the London musical colleges. It merged with the Northern College of Music (formed in 1920) to form the Royal Northern College of Music in 1972.
Question: In what year was Hugh Wood born?
Answer: 1932
Question: Where was Sir Peter Maxwell Davies born?
Answer: Salford
Question: When was the Royal Manchester College of Music founded?
Answer: 1893
Question: When was the Royal Northern College of Music formed?
Answer: 1972
Question: What did the Royal Manchester College of Music merge with?
Answer: the Northern College of Music
Question: Who founded the Royal Manchester College of Music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who founded the Northern College of Music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the first head of the Royal Northern College of Music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Harrison Birtwistle receive the Sir title?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Peter Maxwell Davies attain the title of Sir?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Kingdom of Pontus was a Hellenistic kingdom on the southern coast of the Black Sea. It was founded by Mithridates I in 291 BC and lasted until its conquest by the Roman Republic in 63 BC. Despite being ruled by a dynasty which was a descendant of the Persian Achaemenid Empire it became hellenized due to the influence of the Greek cities on the Black Sea and its neighboring kingdoms. Pontic culture was a mix of Greek and Iranian elements, the most hellenized parts of the kingdom were on the coast, populated by Greek colonies such as Trapezus and Sinope, which became the capital of the kingdom. Epigraphic evidence also shows extensive Hellenistic influence in the interior. During the reign of Mithridates II, Pontus was allied with the Seleucids through dynastic marriages. By the time of Mithridates VI Eupator, Greek was the official language of the kingdom though Anatolian languages continued to be spoken.
Question: What kingdom was Hellenistic and on the southern coast of the Black Sea?
Answer: Pontus
Question: Who founded the Kingdom of Pontus?
Answer: Mithridates I
Question: When was the Kingdom of Pontus founded?
Answer: 291 BC
Question: When was the Kingdom of Pontus taken over by the Roman Republic?
Answer: 63 BC
Question: What was the official language of the Kingdom of Pontus during the reign of Mithridates VI Eupator?
Answer: Greek |
Context: Early on, American courts, even after the Revolution, often did cite contemporary English cases. This was because appellate decisions from many American courts were not regularly reported until the mid-19th century; lawyers and judges, as creatures of habit, used English legal materials to fill the gap. But citations to English decisions gradually disappeared during the 19th century as American courts developed their own principles to resolve the legal problems of the American people. The number of published volumes of American reports soared from eighteen in 1810 to over 8,000 by 1910. By 1879 one of the delegates to the California constitutional convention was already complaining: "Now, when we require them to state the reasons for a decision, we do not mean they shall write a hundred pages of detail. We [do] not mean that they shall include the small cases, and impose on the country all this fine judicial literature, for the Lord knows we have got enough of that already."
Question: early on American courts cited what cases?
Answer: contemporary English
Question: What century were apellate decisions regularly reported?
Answer: 19th century
Question: When did cotations to English decisions gradually disappear?
Answer: 19th century
Question: How many published reports of American volumes existed in 1810?
Answer: eighteen
Question: How many published reports of American volumes existed in 1910?
Answer: over 8,000
Question: When did Americans really begin to establish their own laws independent of the English?
Answer: mid-19th century
Question: How many published volumes of American reports were released in 1810?
Answer: eighteen
Question: By 1910, how many volumes of American reports were there?
Answer: 8,000
Question: What did the lawmakers think of the increase in reports?
Answer: By 1879 one of the delegates to the California constitutional convention was already complaining
Question: What were the lawmakers beginning to drown in?
Answer: judicial literature
Question: Whose cases did English courts cite early on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did decisions from English courts begin to be reported?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many published volumes of American reports were there in 1879?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the delegate who praised the American judicial literature from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many English law volumes were there in 1810?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Longmen Shan Fault System is situated in the eastern border of the Tibetan Plateau and contains several faults. This earthquake ruptured at least two imbricate structures in Longmen Shan Fault System, i.e. the Beichuan Fault and the Guanxian–Anxian Fault. In the epicentral area, the average slip in Beichuan Fault was about 3.5 metres (11 ft) vertical, 3.5 metres (11 ft) horizontal-parallel to the fault, and 4.8 metres (16 ft) horizontal-perpendicular to the fault. In the area about 30 kilometres (19 mi) northeast of the epicenter, the surface slip on Beichuan Fault was almost purely dextral strike-slip up to about 3 metres (9.8 ft), while the average slip in Guanxian–Anxian Fault was about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) vertical and 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in) horizontal.
Question: Where is the Longmenshan Fault located?
Answer: the eastern border of the Tibetan Plateau
Question: What is the average slip in the Beichuan Fault?
Answer: 3.5 metres
Question: How large was the slip 30 km northeast of the fault?
Answer: 3 metres
Question: What was the vertical average slip on the Guanxian-Anxian fault?
Answer: 2 metres
Question: What was the horizontal average slip on the Guanxian-Anxian fault?
Answer: 2.3 metres
Question: Where is the Longmen shan fault located?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau
Question: Where are the Beichuan and Guanxian-Anxian Faults?
Answer: Longmen Shan Fault System
Question: What was the average vertical slip in the Beichaun Fault?
Answer: 3.5 metres
Question: What was the horizontal slippage in the Beichuan Fault at the epicenter?
Answer: 3.5 metres
Question: What was the horizontal slippage perpendicular to the fault?
Answer: 4.8 metres |
Context: ASCII itself was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange) network. TWX originally used the earlier five-bit ITA2, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system. Bob Bemer introduced features such as the escape sequence. His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work – according to Bemer, "so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe". Because of his extensive work on ASCII, Bemer has been called "the father of ASCII."
Question: When was ASCII first commercially used?
Answer: 1963
Question: What was it used for?
Answer: a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange) network
Question: What did TWX use before ASCII?
Answer: five-bit ITA2
Question: Who is the father of ASCII?
Answer: Bob Bemer
Question: What was the code first called in Europe?
Answer: Bemer-Ross Code
Question: When was ASCII first used by Berner-Ross?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did TWX use because to counter slow loading times of ASCII?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who competed against ASCII?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the TWX first called in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who competed against eight-bit teleprinter code?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Offensive Counterair (OCA) is defined as "offensive operations to destroy, disrupt, or neutralize enemy aircraft, missiles, launch platforms, and their supporting structures and systems both before and after launch, but as close to their source as possible" (JP 1-02). OCA is the preferred method of countering air and missile threats, since it attempts to defeat the enemy closer to its source and typically enjoys the initiative. OCA comprises attack operations, sweep, escort, and suppression/destruction of enemy air defense.
Question: What does the abbreviation OCA stand for?
Answer: Offensive Counterair
Question: What is the function or definition of the OCA according to JP 1-02?
Answer: offensive operations to destroy, disrupt, or neutralize enemy aircraft, missiles, launch platforms
Question: OCA is the preferred method of defeating what kind of attacks?
Answer: air and missile threats
Question: What is one of the important functions of the OCA in dealing with attacks?
Answer: suppression/destruction of enemy air defense |
Context: By summer of 2003, Howard Dean had become the apparent front runner for the Democratic nomination, performing strongly in most polls and leading the pack with the largest campaign war chest. Dean's strength as a fund raiser was attributed mainly to his embrace of the Internet for campaigning. The majority of his donations came from individual supporters, who became known as Deanites, or, more commonly, Deaniacs. Generally regarded as a pragmatic centrist during his time as governor, Dean emerged during his presidential campaign as a left-wing populist, denouncing the policies of the Bush administration (especially the 2003 invasion of Iraq) as well as fellow Democrats, who, in his view, failed to strongly oppose them. Senator Lieberman, a liberal on domestic issues but a hawk on the War on Terror, failed to gain traction with liberal Democratic primary voters.
Question: Who became the Democratic nominee, half way through 2003?
Answer: Howard Dean
Question: Dean's admiration for internet campaigning accredited his strength as what?
Answer: a fund raiser
Question: What did Dean's backers become known as?
Answer: Deaniacs
Question: What government position has Howard Dean previously held?
Answer: governor
Question: Which of Bush's policies did Dean criticize most notably?
Answer: the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Question: What status had Senator Lieberman gained in 2003?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How well did Senator Lieberman perform in the polls in 2003?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Senator Lieberman have that helped him further his campaign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What method did Senator Lieberman use that helped him successfully raise funds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did most of Senator Lieberman's donations come from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A Japanese force was sent north to attack the Aleutian Islands. The next stage of the plan called for the capture of Midway, which would give him an opportunity to destroy Nimitz's remaining carriers. In May, Allied codebreakers discovered his intentions. Nagumo was again in tactical command but was focused on the invasion of Midway; Yamamoto's complex plan had no provision for intervention by Nimitz before the Japanese expected him. Planned surveillance of the U.S. fleet by long range seaplane did not happen (as a result of an abortive identical operation in March), so Fletcher's carriers were able to proceed to a flanking position without being detected. Nagumo had 272 planes operating from his four carriers, the U.S. 348 (115 land-based).
Question: In Yamamoto's plan, what northern islands were to be attacked?
Answer: Aleutian Islands
Question: What was the second stage objective of Yamaoto's plan?
Answer: capture of Midway
Question: How many planes did Nagumo have for the Midway invasion?
Answer: 272
Question: How many planes did the United States have in the Battle of Midway?
Answer: 348
Question: How many U.S. planes were land-based?
Answer: 115 |
Context: However, early Christian writers who speak of the shape of the particular gibbet on which Jesus died invariably describe it as having a cross-beam. For instance, the Epistle of Barnabas, which was certainly earlier than 135, and may have been of the 1st century AD, the time when the gospel accounts of the death of Jesus were written, likened it to the letter T (the Greek letter tau, which had the numeric value of 300), and to the position assumed by Moses in Exodus 17:11–12. Justin Martyr (100–165) explicitly says the cross of Christ was of two-beam shape: "That lamb which was commanded to be wholly roasted was a symbol of the suffering of the cross which Christ would undergo. For the lamb, which is roasted, is roasted and dressed up in the form of the cross. For one spit is transfixed right through from the lower parts up to the head, and one across the back, to which are attached the legs of the lamb." Irenaeus, who died around the end of the 2nd century, speaks of the cross as having "five extremities, two in length, two in breadth, and one in the middle, on which [last] the person rests who is fixed by the nails."
Question: What Epistle described the cross?
Answer: Epistle of Barnabas
Question: Who says with certainty that the cross was made out of two beams?
Answer: Justin Martyr
Question: Why was that type of cross important?
Answer: a symbol of the suffering
Question: How many ends did the cross supposedly have?
Answer: five extremities
Question: How is one attached to the cross?
Answer: fixed by the nails
Question: In what year was Barnabas born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What numeric value did the significance of the lamb have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For how long was the Greek alphabet used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Barnabas use to build a cross with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times had Irenaeus seen a roasted lamb?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Time has historically been closely related with space, the two together merging into spacetime in Einstein's special relativity and general relativity. According to these theories, the concept of time depends on the spatial reference frame of the observer, and the human perception as well as the measurement by instruments such as clocks are different for observers in relative motion. For example, if a spaceship carrying a clock flies through space at (very nearly) the speed of light, its crew does not notice a change in the speed of time on board their vessel because everything traveling at the same speed slows down at the same rate (including the clock, the crew's thought processes, and the functions of their bodies). However, to a stationary observer watching the spaceship fly by, the spaceship appears flattened in the direction it is traveling and the clock on board the spaceship appears to move very slowly.
Question: Historically, time has been closely related with what?
Answer: space
Question: In which of Einstein's two theories do time and space merge into spacetime?
Answer: special relativity and general relativity
Question: According to Einsteins two relativity theories, the concept of time depends on what?
Answer: the spatial reference frame of the observer, and the human perception
Question: A crew in a spaceship travelling nearly the speed of light will not notice the change in what?
Answer: in the speed of time on board their vessel
Question: How will the above mentioned spaceship appear to a stationary observer?
Answer: the spaceship appears flattened in the direction it is traveling
Question: What have a crew's thought processes usually been related to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is it called when a spaceship flies though space?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a space crew's thought processes depend on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Flying through what makes the crew appear flattened out to each other?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What will an observer not notice the change of when watching a spaceship fly by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Historically, what has been related to clocks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which of Einstein's two theories do time and clocks merge into spacetime?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: According to Einstein's two relativity theories, what depends on the concept of clocks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A crew in a spaceship traveling nearly the speed of sound will not notice the change in what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How will the spaceship appear to an observer traveling at the same speed?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With the redevelopment of Las Vegas and the opening of two casinos in Connecticut in the early 1990s, along with newly built casinos in the nearby Philadelphia metro area in the 2000s, Atlantic City's tourism began to decline due to its failure to diversify away from gaming. Determined to expand, in 1999 the Atlantic City Redevelopment Authority partnered with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn to develop a new roadway to a barren section of the city near the Marina. Nicknamed "The Tunnel Project", Steve Wynn planned the proposed 'Mirage Atlantic City' around the idea that he would connect the $330 million tunnel stretching 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the Atlantic City Expressway to his new resort. The roadway was later officially named the Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector, and funnels incoming traffic off of the expressway into the city's marina district and Brigantine, New Jersey.
Question: Atlantic City's tourism began to decline due to what failure?
Answer: to diversify away from gaming
Question: Who did the Atlantic City Redevelopment Authority partner with in 1999?
Answer: Steve Wynn
Question: Why did the Atlantic City Redevelopment Authority partner with Steve Wynn?
Answer: to develop a new roadway
Question: What was the project involving Steve Wynn nicknamed?
Answer: The Tunnel Project
Question: "The Tunnel Project" was later officially named what?
Answer: Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector |
Context: After Charles II of England (1630–1685) was restored to the English throne in 1660 following Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, he granted the chartered Province of Carolina to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietors, on March 24, 1663. It took seven years before the group arranged for settlement expeditions. The first of these founded Charles Town, in 1670. Governance, settlement, and development were to follow a visionary plan known as the Grand Model prepared for the Lords Proprietors by John Locke.
Question: What year was Charles Town founded?
Answer: 1670
Question: How long did it take to establish settlement expeditions for the Province of Carolina?
Answer: seven years
Question: What was the plan to settle and develop the Province of Carolina?
Answer: the Grand Model
Question: Who prepared the plan known as "the Grand Model"?
Answer: John Locke
Question: When was Charles II of England restored to the throne?
Answer: 1660
Question: What year was Charles Town abandoned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did it take to establish settlement expeditions for the Province of South Carolina?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who rejected the plan known as "the Grand Model"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the plan to settle and develop the State of Carolina?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Charles I of England restored to the throne?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The FAA gradually assumed additional functions. The hijacking epidemic of the 1960s had already brought the agency into the field of civil aviation security. In response to the hijackings on September 11, 2001, this responsibility is now primarily taken by the Department of Homeland Security. The FAA became more involved with the environmental aspects of aviation in 1968 when it received the power to set aircraft noise standards. Legislation in 1970 gave the agency management of a new airport aid program and certain added responsibilities for airport safety. During the 1960s and 1970s, the FAA also started to regulate high altitude (over 500 feet) kite and balloon flying.
Question: What epidemic did the FAA have to handle in the 1960s?
Answer: hijacking
Question: Who now takes responsibility for aviation security?
Answer: Department of Homeland Security
Question: When did the FAA become more involved with the environmental aspects of aviation?
Answer: 1968
Question: When was legislation passed that gave the agency management of a new airport aide program?
Answer: 1970
Question: What is the altitude which the FAA regulates over?
Answer: 500 feet
Question: When did the FAA start to regulate low altitude kite and balloon flying?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What epidemic in the 60's cause aviation security to be taken over by Homeland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whne did Homeland become more involved with the environmental aspects of aviation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Faa receive the power to set watercraft noise standards?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The cellular phone carrier group Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) in 2007 endorsed micro-USB as the standard connector for data and power on mobile devices In addition, on 22 October 2009 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has also announced that it had embraced micro-USB as the Universal Charging Solution its "energy-efficient one-charger-fits-all new mobile phone solution," and added: "Based on the Micro-USB interface, UCS chargers also include a 4-star or higher efficiency rating—up to three times more energy-efficient than an unrated charger."
Question: In 2007 who endorsed micro-USB as the standard connector for data and power on mobile devices?
Answer: The cellular phone carrier group Open Mobile Terminal Platform
Question: When did the ITU announce that it had embraced micro-USB as the Universal Charging Solution?
Answer: 22 October 2009
Question: What has energy-efficient one-charger-fits-all new mobile phone solution?
Answer: micro-USB |
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