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Context: Adolescence is also a time for rapid cognitive development. Piaget describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual's thoughts start taking more of an abstract form and the egocentric thoughts decrease. This allows the individual to think and reason in a wider perspective. A combination of behavioural and fMRI studies have demonstrated development of executive functions, that is, cognitive skills that enable the control and coordination of thoughts and behaviour, which are generally associated with the prefrontal cortex. The thoughts, ideas and concepts developed at this period of life greatly influence one's future life, playing a major role in character and personality formation.
Question: Who describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual's thoughts start taking more of an abstract form?
Answer: Piaget
Question: What is another term for congitive skills that enable the control and coordination of thoughts and behavior?
Answer: executive functions
Question: Which cortex is commonly associated with the coordination of thoughts and behavior?
Answer: prefrontal cortex
Question: Does Piaget believe that egocentric thoughts decrease or increase during adolescence?
Answer: decrease |
Context: The rainfall inhibition and the dissipation of cloud cover are most accentuated over the eastern section of the Sahara rather than the western. The prevailing air mass lying above the Sahara is the continental tropical (cT) air mass which is hot and dry. Hot, dry air masses primarily form over the North-African desert from the heating of the vast continental land area, and it affects the whole desert during most of the year. Because of this extreme heating process, a thermal low is usually noticed near the surface, and is the strongest and the most developed during the summertime. The Sahara High represents the eastern continental extension of the Azores High, centered over the North Atlantic Ocean. The subsidence of the Sahara High nearly reaches the ground during the coolest part of the year while it limits to the upper troposphere during the hottest periods.
Question: What section of the Sahara's cloud cover are the most accentuated?
Answer: eastern
Question: What is the air mass lying above the Sahara?
Answer: hot and dry
Question: What part of the country does the air masses primarily form over?
Answer: North-African desert
Question: over what region is there the most cloud coverage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the prevailing air mass to the North of the Sahara?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: whattype of air masses form over Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of low forms high above the desert?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of high is strongest in the summer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is most accentuated over the western section of the Sahara?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When is the air mass at its weakest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the North Atlantic Ocean an extension of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When does the Azores High nearly reach the ground?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the extreme heating process prevent?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From 1932, it was taught that the "little flock" of 144,000 would not be the only people to survive Armageddon. Rutherford explained that in addition to the 144,000 "anointed" who would be resurrected—or transferred at death—to live in heaven to rule over earth with Christ, a separate class of members, the "great multitude," would live in a paradise restored on earth; from 1935, new converts to the movement were considered part of that class. By the mid-1930s, the timing of the beginning of Christ's presence (Greek: parousía), his enthronement as king, and the start of the "last days" were each moved to 1914.
Question: From when was it taught that the little flock would not be the only people to survive Armageddon?
Answer: 1932
Question: What was the number of the little flock set at?
Answer: 144,000
Question: Where would the great multitude live?
Answer: a paradise restored on earth
Question: All new converts to the movmeent since 1935 were considered part of what class?
Answer: great multitude
Question: When was the start of the last days moved to in the mid-1930s?
Answer: 1914
Question: In what year was Armageddon to occur according to Rutherford?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses were there as of 1935?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses had there been in 1914?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Rutherford die?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Chopin's music was used in the 1909 ballet Chopiniana, choreographed by Michel Fokine and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Sergei Diaghilev commissioned additional orchestrations—from Stravinsky, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergei Taneyev and Nikolai Tcherepnin—for later productions, which used the title Les Sylphides.
Question: What is the name of the ballet that included Chopin's work?
Answer: Chopiniana
Question: Who choreographed a ballet which included Chopin's work?
Answer: Michel Fokine
Question: Chopiniana later went by a different name, what is that name?
Answer: Les Sylphides
Question: Who orchestrated Chopiniana?
Answer: Alexander Glazunov
Question: What year was the Chopiniana released?
Answer: 1909
Question: Which 1909 ballet used Chopin's music?
Answer: Chopiniana
Question: Who choreographed Chopiniana?
Answer: Michel Fokine
Question: Who orchestrated Chopiniana?
Answer: Alexander Glazunov.
Question: Sergei Diaghilev obtained additional orchestrations for subsequent productions, using which title?
Answer: Les Sylphides. |
Context: In July 2013, there were 41,000 non-Germans by citizenship living in Thuringia (1.9% of the population − among the smallest proportions of any state in Germany). Nevertheless, the number rose from 33,000 in July 2011, an increase of 24% in only two years. About 4% of the population are migrants (including persons that already received the German citizenship). The biggest groups of foreigners by citizenship are (as of 2012): Russians (3,100), Poles (3,000), Vietnamese (2,800), Turks (2,100) and Ukrainians (2,000). The amount of foreigners varies between regions: the college towns Erfurt, Jena, Weimar and Ilmenau have the highest rates, whereas there are almost no migrants living in the most rural smaller municipalities.
Question: How many non-Germans lived in Thuringia in 2013?
Answer: 41,000
Question: What was the increase in non-German population between 2011 and 2013?
Answer: 24%
Question: How much of the Thuringian population are migrants?
Answer: 4%
Question: What is the largest group of foreigners?
Answer: Russians
Question: Which towns have the highest immigrant population?
Answer: Erfurt, Jena, Weimar and Ilmenau
Question: How many non-Americans lived in Thuringia in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the decrease in non-German population between 2011 and 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much of the Thuringian population are against migrants?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the smallest group of foreigners?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which towns have the smallest immigrant population?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Critical and commercial reception to PS3 improved over time, after a series of price revisions, Blu-ray's victory over HD DVD, and the release of several well received titles. Ars Technica's original launch review gave PS3 only a 6/10, but second review of the console in June 2008 rated it a 9/10. In September 2009, IGN named PlayStation 3 the 15th best gaming console of all time, behind both of its competitors: Wii (10th) and Xbox 360 (6th). However, PS3 has won IGN's "Console Showdown"—based on which console offers the best selection of games released during each year—in three of the four years since it began (2008, 2009 and 2011, with Xbox winning in 2010). IGN judged PlayStation 3 to have the best game line-up of 2008, based on their review scores in comparison to those of Wii and Xbox 360. In a comparison piece by PC mag's Will Greenwald in June 2012, PS3 was selected as an overall better console compared to Xbox 360. Pocket-lint said of the console "The PS3 has always been a brilliant games console," and that "For now, this is just about the best media device for the money."
Question: What rating did Ars Technica initially give PlayStation 3?
Answer: 6/10
Question: What PS3 competitor won IGN's "Console Showdown" in 2010?
Answer: Xbox
Question: What PC Mag. staffer picked PS3 over Xbox in June, 2012?
Answer: Will Greenwald
Question: Which publication called the PlayStation 3 "a brilliant games console"?
Answer: Pocket-lint
Question: Where did IGN place the PS3 on their 2009 list of the best video game consoles ever?
Answer: 15th
Question: What rating did Ars Technica initially give PlayStation 4?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What PS3 competitor won IGN's "Console Showdown" in 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What PC Mag. staffer picked PS3 over Xbox in June, 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which publication called the PlayStation 2 "a brilliant games console"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did IGN place the PS3 on their 2011 list of the best video game consoles ever?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Traditional morphological and modern molecular phylogenetic analysis have both recognized a major evolutionary transition from "non-bilaterian" animals, which are those lacking a bilaterally symmetric body plan (Porifera, Ctenophora, Cnidaria and Placozoa), to "bilaterian" animals (Bilateria) whose body plans display bilateral symmetry. The latter are further classified based on a major division between Deuterostomes and Protostomes. The relationships among non-bilaterian animals are disputed, but all bilaterian animals are thought to form a monophyletic group. Current understanding of the relationships among the major groups of animals is summarized by the following cladogram:
Question: What are some examples of non-bilaterian animals?
Answer: Porifera, Ctenophora, Cnidaria and Placozoa
Question: What are animals whose body plans display bilateral symmetry called?
Answer: bilaterian
Question: Animals in what group are thought to form a monophyletic group?
Answer: bilaterian |
Context: Slow progress has led to frustration, expressed by executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – Mark Dybul: "we have the tools to end TB as a pandemic and public health threat on the planet, but we are not doing it." Several international organizations are pushing for more transparency in treatment, and more countries are implementing mandatory reporting of cases to the government, although adherence is often sketchy. Commercial treatment-providers may at times overprescribe second-line drugs as well as supplementary treatment, promoting demands for further regulations. The government of Brazil provides universal TB-care, which reduces this problem. Conversely, falling rates of TB-infection may not relate to the number of programs directed at reducing infection rates, but may be tied to increased level of education, income and health of the population. Costs of the disease, as calculated by the World Bank in 2009 may exceed 150 billion USD per year in "high burden" countries. Lack of progress eradicating the disease may also be due to lack of patient follow-up – as among the 250M rural migrants in China.
Question: What member of leadership at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria called TB a "pandemic"?
Answer: Mark Dybul
Question: What country covers treatment for tuberculosis for its citizens?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What organization said some countries might be spending as much as $150 billion each year on TB?
Answer: World Bank
Question: What population segment in China struggles to get follow-up care for TB infection?
Answer: rural migrants
Question: What do some people think we need more of to prevent for-profit providers of TB treatment from over-prescribing?
Answer: regulations |
Context: Windows 8 also incorporates improved support for mobile broadband; the operating system can now detect the insertion of a SIM card and automatically configure connection settings (including APNs and carrier branding), and reduce its internet usage in order to conserve bandwidth on metered networks. Windows 8 also adds an integrated airplane mode setting to globally disable all wireless connectivity as well. Carriers can also offer account management systems through Windows Store apps, which can be automatically installed as a part of the connection process and offer usage statistics on their respective tile.
Question: What does airplone mode do?
Answer: disable all wireless connectivity
Question: Where can Carrier account management systems be found?
Answer: Windows Store apps
Question: What registers the insertion of a SIM card?
Answer: the operating system
Question: What are some connection settings in Windows 8?
Answer: APNs and carrier branding
Question: What doesn't airplane mode do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where can't Carrier account management systems be found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What never registers the insertion of a SIM card?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What registers the insertion of a SMI card?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some connection settings in Windows 9?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) standard and published as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 120,000 characters covering 129 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. The standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). As of June 2015[update], the most recent version is Unicode 8.0. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium.
Question: What was Unicode published as?
Answer: The Unicode Standard
Question: What was unicode developed in conjunction with?
Answer: Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)
Question: What is the most recent version of Unicode?
Answer: Unicode 8.0
Question: Who maintains the Unicode Standard?
Answer: Unicode Consortium
Question: Unicode contains how many thousands of characters in its repertoire?
Answer: 120,000 characters
Question: What is the Universal Coded Character set published as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many characters does Arabic have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many scripts does UCS cover?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the acronym for Unicode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of a left-to-right script?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1949, the city was chosen to be the seat of the Council of Europe with its European Court of Human Rights and European Pharmacopoeia. Since 1952, the European Parliament has met in Strasbourg, which was formally designated its official 'seat' at the Edinburgh meeting of the European Council of EU heads of state and government in December 1992. (This position was reconfirmed and given treaty status in the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam). However, only the (four-day) plenary sessions of the Parliament are held in Strasbourg each month, with all other business being conducted in Brussels and Luxembourg. Those sessions take place in the Immeuble Louise Weiss, inaugurated in 1999, which houses the largest parliamentary assembly room in Europe and of any democratic institution in the world. Before that, the EP sessions had to take place in the main Council of Europe building, the Palace of Europe, whose unusual inner architecture had become a familiar sight to European TV audiences. In 1992, Strasbourg became the seat of the Franco-German TV channel and movie-production society Arte.
Question: What council was the city given a seat for in 1949?
Answer: Council of Europe
Question: When did the European Parliament begin meeting in Strasbourg?
Answer: 1952
Question: When was Louise Weiss inaugurated?
Answer: 1999
Question: In what year was the Council of Europe formed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did nations start negotiating the Treaty of Amsterdam?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many days each month is Council of Europe business conducted in Brussels and Luxembourg?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the construction begin of the Immeuble Louise Weiss?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Palace of Europe built?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The reason for this is that in this definition, electromagnetic radiation (such as light) as well as the energy of electromagnetic fields contributes to the mass of systems, and therefore appears to add matter to them. For example, light radiation (or thermal radiation) trapped inside a box would contribute to the mass of the box, as would any kind of energy inside the box, including the kinetic energy of particles held by the box. Nevertheless, isolated individual particles of light (photons) and the isolated kinetic energy of massive particles, are normally not considered to be matter.[citation needed]
Question: What type of radiation does not contribute mass?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for electromagnetic radiation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for isolated kinetic energy of massive particles?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first half of the 20th century in Russia and the Soviet Union was marked by a succession of wars, famines and other disasters, each accompanied by large-scale population losses. Stephen J. Lee estimates that, by the end of World War II in 1945, the Russian population was about 90 million fewer than it could have been otherwise.
Question: The first half of the 20th century was marked by what in Russia and the Soviet Union?
Answer: succession of wars, famines and other disasters
Question: Who estimated the Russian population was 90 million fewer than it could have been in 1945?
Answer: Stephen J. Lee
Question: When was the Russian population estimated to be about 90 million fewer than it could have been?
Answer: 1945
Question: What was marked by succession of wars, famines, and other disasters in the 20th century?
Answer: Russia and the Soviet Union
Question: When did Stephen J. Lee make his estimate about the Russian population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people did famine kill in Russia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Russia fight with in the first half of the 20th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ended the war in 1945?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Stephen J. Lee's nationality?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the 20th century, many artists immigrated to Mexico City from different regions of Mexico, such as Leopoldo Méndez, an engraver from Veracruz, who supported the creation of the socialist Taller de la Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphics Workshop), designed to help blue-collar workers find a venue to express their art. Other painters came from abroad, such as Catalan painter Remedios Varo and other Spanish and Jewish exiles. It was in the second half of the 20th century that the artistic movement began to drift apart from the Revolutionary theme. José Luis Cuevas opted for a modernist style in contrast to the muralist movement associated with social politics.
Question: Who was a big proponent of modernism in art?
Answer: José Luis Cuevas
Question: When did artists start to immigrate to Mexico City?
Answer: 20th century
Question: Who was a famous engraver that migrated to Mexico City?
Answer: Leopoldo Méndez
Question: What was the Popular Graphics Workshop mission?
Answer: help blue-collar workers find a venue to express their art
Question: What nationality was Remedios Varas?
Answer: Catalan |
Context: Apollo and his sister Artemis can bring death with their arrows. The conception that diseases and death come from invisible shots sent by supernatural beings, or magicians is common in Germanic and Norse mythology. In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader (ἡγεμών, "hegemon") of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves. The "elf-shot" originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting stone arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.
Question: Who is Apollo's sister?
Answer: Artemis
Question: It was believed that this woman could bring death with her arrows.
Answer: Artemis
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the leader of the nymphs?
Answer: Artemis |
Context: In 1664, Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of the colony of New Netherland, surrendered New Amsterdam to the English without bloodshed. The English promptly renamed the fledgling city "New York" after the Duke of York (later King James II).
Question: What did the English call New Amsterdam after its capture?
Answer: New York
Question: What was the regnal name of the Duke of York?
Answer: James II
Question: What person gave up New Amsterdam to the English?
Answer: Peter Stuyvesant
Question: What was Peter Stuyvesant's title?
Answer: Director-General
Question: In what year did the English take over New Amsterdam?
Answer: 1664
Question: Who gave up New Amsterdam to the English without a fight in 1664?
Answer: Peter Stuyvesant |
Context: In the medieval Islamic world, an elementary school was known as a maktab, which dates back to at least the 10th century. Like madaris (which referred to higher education), a maktab was often attached to an endowed mosque. In the 11th century, the famous Persian Islamic philosopher and teacher Ibn Sīnā (known as Avicenna in the West), in one of his books, wrote a chapter about the maktab entitled "The Role of the Teacher in the Training and Upbringing of Children," as a guide to teachers working at maktab schools. He wrote that children can learn better if taught in classes instead of individual tuition from private tutors, and he gave a number of reasons for why this is the case, citing the value of competition and emulation among pupils, as well as the usefulness of group discussions and debates. Ibn Sīnā described the curriculum of a maktab school in some detail, describing the curricula for two stages of education in a maktab school.
Question: When were the first recorded Islamic elementary schools?
Answer: 10th century
Question: What term refers to Islamic elementary schools?
Answer: maktab
Question: Who wrote a training guide for Islamic maktab teachers?
Answer: Ibn Sīnā
Question: What did Ibn Sina prefer over private tutors?
Answer: classes
Question: How many component of education did Ibn Sina describe in their teachings?
Answer: two
Question: When were the last recorded Islamic elementary schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term refers to non-Islamic elementary schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote a training guide for Islamic maktab students?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Ibn Sina prefer over public schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's the third component of education from Ibn Sina?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Legislative powers are exercised by a 300-member elective unicameral Parliament. Statutes passed by the Parliament are promulgated by the President of the Republic. Parliamentary elections are held every four years, but the President of the Republic is obliged to dissolve the Parliament earlier on the proposal of the Cabinet, in view of dealing with a national issue of exceptional importance. The President is also obliged to dissolve the Parliament earlier, if the opposition manages to pass a motion of no confidence.
Question: How many members are in Greece's parliament?
Answer: 300
Question: How often are elections help for parliament?
Answer: every four years
Question: Parliamentary statutes are put into effect by who?
Answer: President of the Republic |
Context: In eukaryotes such as plants, protozoa and animals, however, "genome" carries the typical connotation of only information on chromosomal DNA. So although these organisms contain chloroplasts or mitochondria that have their own DNA, the genetic information contained by DNA within these organelles is not considered part of the genome. In fact, mitochondria are sometimes said to have their own genome often referred to as the "mitochondrial genome". The DNA found within the chloroplast may be referred to as the "plastome".
Question: What are examples of classes of eukaryotes where genome only refers to the information found in chromosomes?
Answer: plants, protozoa and animals
Question: What is a name for the genetic material found within chloroplasts?
Answer: plastome
Question: What is a name for the genetic makeup of mitochondria?
Answer: mitochondrial genome
Question: What are the eukaryotes found in the mitochondria called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are examples of chloroplasts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does genome mean when referring to eukaryotes such as mitochondria?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not considered as part of the plastome?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do chloroplasts have that is referred to as the mitochondrial genome?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Having attended art college, Mercury also designed Queen's logo, called the Queen crest, shortly before the release of the band's first album. The logo combines the zodiac signs of all four members: two lions for Leo (Deacon and Taylor), a crab for Cancer (May), and two fairies for Virgo (Mercury). The lions embrace a stylised letter Q, the crab rests atop the letter with flames rising directly above it, and the fairies are each sheltering below a lion. There is also a crown inside the Q and the whole logo is over-shadowed by an enormous phoenix. The whole symbol bears a passing resemblance to the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, particularly with the lion supporters. The original logo, as found on the reverse-side of the first album cover, was a simple line drawing but more intricate colour versions were used on later sleeves.
Question: Who designed Queen's logo?
Answer: Mercury
Question: What was Freddie Mercury's zodiac sign?
Answer: Virgo
Question: Which zodiac sign did Deacon and Taylor share?
Answer: Leo
Question: What was Brian May's zodiac sign?
Answer: Cancer
Question: The early Queen logo resembled the coat of arms of what country?
Answer: United Kingdom |
Context: The similarities between Czech and Slovak led to the languages being considered a single language by a group of 19th-century scholars who called themselves "Czechoslavs" (Čechoslováci), believing that the peoples were connected in a way which excluded German Bohemians and (to a lesser extent) Hungarians and other Slavs. During the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938), although "Czechoslovak" was designated as the republic's official language both Czech and Slovak written standards were used. Standard written Slovak was partially modeled on literary Czech, and Czech was preferred for some official functions in the Slovak half of the republic. Czech influence on Slovak was protested by Slovak scholars, and when Slovakia broke off from Czechoslovakia in 1938 as the Slovak State (which then aligned with Nazi Germany in World War II) literary Slovak was deliberately distanced from Czech. When the Axis powers lost the war and Czechoslovakia reformed, Slovak developed somewhat on its own (with Czech influence); during the Prague Spring of 1968, Slovak gained independence from (and equality with) Czech. Since then, "Czechoslovak" refers to improvised pidgins of the languages which have arisen from the decrease in mutual intelligibility.
Question: Who called themselves "Czechoslavs"?
Answer: a group of 19th-century scholars
Question: Why did the Czechoslavs consider Czech and Slovak to be a single language?
Answer: The similarities
Question: When was the first Czechoslovak Republic?
Answer: 1918–1938
Question: What was standard written Slovak partially modeled on?
Answer: literary Czech
Question: When was the Prague Spring?
Answer: 1968
Question: What did 19th century German Bohemians call themselves?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What languages were only used by Hungarians from 1918-1938?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Hungarians consider Czech and Slovak to be?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Prague align itself with Nazi Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Hungary gain independence?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The community of Casas Adobes is also on the Northwest Side, with the distinction of being Tucson's first suburb, established in the late 1940s. Casas Adobes is centered on the historic Casas Adobes Plaza (built in 1948). Casas Adobes is also home to Tohono Chul Park (a nature preserve) near the intersection of North Oracle Road and West Ina Road. The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and the murders of chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, John Roll and five other people on January 8, 2011, occurred at the La Toscana Village in Casas Adobes. The Foothills Mall is also located on the northwest side in Casas Adobes.
Question: What is considered Tuscon's first suburb?
Answer: Casas Adobes
Question: When was the Casas Adobes Plaza established?
Answer: 1948
Question: What nature preserve is in Casas Adobes?
Answer: Tohono Chul Park
Question: What representative was almost assassinated at the La Toscana Village?
Answer: Gabrielle Giffords
Question: What mall is located in Casas Adobes?
Answer: Foothills Mall
Question: When was the Casas Adobes Plaza built?
Answer: 1948
Question: What was Tucson's first suburb?
Answer: Casas Adobes
Question: Where is Tohono Chul Park?
Answer: near the intersection of North Oracle Road and West Ina Road
Question: Who was nearly assassinated in Casas Adobes?
Answer: Representative Gabrielle Giffords
Question: What was John Roll's job title?
Answer: chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona |
Context: Currently, the Regular Force component of the Army consists of three field-ready brigade groups: 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Edmonton and CFB Shilo; 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Petawawa and CFB Gagetown; and 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Valcartier and Quebec City. Each contains one regiment each of artillery, armour, and combat engineers, three battalions of infantry (all scaled in the British fashion), one battalion for logistics, a squadron for headquarters/signals, and several smaller support organizations. A tactical helicopter squadron and a field ambulance are co-located with each brigade, but do not form part of the brigade's command structure.
Question: How many brigades does the Army consist of?
Answer: three
Question: Each Brigade contains how many regiments?
Answer: one
Question: What squadron is present but not an official part of the Brigade?
Answer: tactical helicopter squadron
Question: What medical group is present at all Brigades but not part of it?
Answer: a field ambulance
Question: How many brigades does the non-Army consist of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Each non-Brigade contains how many regiments?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What squadron is present but is an official part of the Brigade?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What medical group is not present at all Brigades but not part of it?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: China Daily, a CCP-controlled news organization since 1981, states in a 2008 article that although there were dynastic changes after Tibet was incorporated into the territory of Yuan dynasty's China in the 13th century, "Tibet has remained under the jurisdiction of the central government of China." It also states that the Ming dynasty "inherited the right to rule Tibet" from the Yuan dynasty, and repeats the claims in the Mingshi about the Ming establishing two itinerant high commands over Tibet. China Daily states that the Ming handled Tibet's civil administration, appointed all leading officials of these administrative organs, and punished Tibetans who broke the law. The party-controlled People's Daily, the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency, and the state-controlled national television network China Central Television posted the same article that China Daily had, the only difference being their headlines and some additional text.
Question: When was Tibet included into the territory of Yuan dynasty's China?
Answer: the 13th century
Question: Who was said to have gained the right to rule Tibet?
Answer: the Ming dynasty
Question: When was China Daily started?
Answer: 1981
Question: Who does the article claim had two itinerant high commands over Tibet?
Answer: the Ming
Question: According to article Tibet has remained under what jurisdiction?
Answer: the central government of China |
Context: Following the '69 season, the club posted winning records for the next few seasons, but no playoff action. After the core players of those teams started to move on, the 70s got worse for the team, and they became known as "The Loveable Losers." In 1977, the team found some life, but ultimately experienced one of its biggest collapses. The Cubs hit a high-water mark on June 28 at 47–22, boasting an 8 1⁄2 game NL East lead, as they were led by Bobby Murcer (27 Hr/89 RBI), and Rick Reuschel (20–10). However, the Philadelphia Phillies cut the lead to two by the All-star break, as the Cubs sat 19 games over .500, but they swooned late in the season, going 20–40 after July 31. The Cubs finished in 4th place at 81–81, while Philadelphia surged, finishing with 101 wins. The following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above .500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity. This trait became known as the "June Swoon." Again, the Cubs' unusually high number of day games is often pointed to as one reason for the team's inconsistent late season play.
Question: During what decade did the Cubs become known as "The Loveable Losers"?
Answer: the 70s
Question: What is often pointed to as the one reason for the Cubs' inconsistent late season play?
Answer: unusually high number of day games
Question: What year did the Cubs experience one of their biggest collapses?
Answer: 1977 |
Context: During periods of unemployment, there has been a long pattern of emigration from the island since the post-Napoleonic period. The majority of "Saints" emigrated to the UK, South Africa and in the early years, Australia. The population has steadily declined since the late 1980s and has dropped from 5,157 at the 1998 census to 4,255 in 2008. In the past emigration was characterised by young unaccompanied persons leaving to work on long-term contracts on Ascension and the Falkland Islands, but since "Saints" were re-awarded UK citizenship in 2002, emigration to the UK by a wider range of wage-earners has accelerated due to the prospect of higher wages and better progression prospects.
Question: What was there a long pattern of from the island starting during the post Napoleonic period?
Answer: emigration
Question: When did the population of the island start to steadily decline?
Answer: late 1980s
Question: What was a big factor in emmigration to the UK?
Answer: prospect of higher wages |
Context: The Yale Report of 1828 was a dogmatic defense of the Latin and Greek curriculum against critics who wanted more courses in modern languages, mathematics, and science. Unlike higher education in Europe, there was no national curriculum for colleges and universities in the United States. In the competition for students and financial support, college leaders strove to keep current with demands for innovation. At the same time, they realized that a significant portion of their students and prospective students demanded a classical background. The Yale report meant the classics would not be abandoned. All institutions experimented with changes in the curriculum, often resulting in a dual track. In the decentralized environment of higher education in the United States, balancing change with tradition was a common challenge because no one could afford to be completely modern or completely classical. A group of professors at Yale and New Haven Congregationalist ministers articulated a conservative response to the changes brought about by the Victorian culture. They concentrated on developing a whole man possessed of religious values sufficiently strong to resist temptations from within, yet flexible enough to adjust to the 'isms' (professionalism, materialism, individualism, and consumerism) tempting him from without. William Graham Sumner, professor from 1872 to 1909, taught in the emerging disciplines of economics and sociology to overflowing classrooms. He bested President Noah Porter, who disliked social science and wanted Yale to lock into its traditions of classical education. Porter objected to Sumner's use of a textbook by Herbert Spencer that espoused agnostic materialism because it might harm students.
Question: When did William Graham Sumner teach?
Answer: 1872 to 1909
Question: What did William Graham Sumner teach?
Answer: economics and sociology
Question: Why was The Yale Report established?
Answer: the classics would not be abandoned
Question: What were the group of Yale professors and ministers attempting to achieve?
Answer: developing a whole man possessed of religious values sufficiently strong to resist temptations
Question: What changes were the professors and ministers responding to?
Answer: Victorian culture
Question: When did William Graham Winter teach?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What didn't William Graham Sumner teach?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was The Yale Report closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What weren't the group of Yale professors and ministers attempting to achieve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What changes weren't the professors and ministers responding to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following Garreth Mallory's promotion to M, on a mission in Mexico City unofficially ordered by a posthumous message from the previous M, 007 James Bond kills three men plotting a terrorist bombing during the Day of the Dead and gives chase to Marco Sciarra, an assassin who survived the attack. In the ensuing struggle, Bond steals his ring, which is emblazoned with a stylised octopus, and then kills Sciarra by kicking him out of a helicopter. Upon returning to London, Bond is indefinitely suspended from field duty by M, who is in the midst of a power struggle with C, the head of the privately-backed Joint Intelligence Service, consisting of the recently merged MI5 and MI6. C campaigns for Britain to form alongside 8 other countries "Nine Eyes ", a global surveillance and intelligence co-operation initiative between nine member states, and uses his influence to close down the '00' section, believing it to be outdated.
Question: On what holiday do insurgents plan to detonate a bomb?
Answer: Day of the Dead
Question: Who removed James Bond from active service?
Answer: M
Question: Who is M's rival?
Answer: C
Question: What group does C support England joining?
Answer: Nine Eyes
Question: Which character is promoted to M?
Answer: Garreth Mallory
Question: Which holiday was the terrorist bombing planned for?
Answer: Day of the Dead
Question: Which two intelligence groups merged to form Joint Intelligence Service?
Answer: MI5 and MI6
Question: What does Bond take from Marco Sciarra?
Answer: his ring
Question: 007 James Bond kills four men in a mission in which city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Bond steals which assassin's necklace?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Marco Scciarra's necklace has what animal on it?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Q suspends whom from field duty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What consists of the recently merged MI55 and MI66?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Paleoptera and Neoptera are the winged orders of insects differentiated by the presence of hardened body parts called sclerites, and in the Neoptera, muscles that allow their wings to fold flatly over the abdomen. Neoptera can further be divided into incomplete metamorphosis-based (Polyneoptera and Paraneoptera) and complete metamorphosis-based groups. It has proved difficult to clarify the relationships between the orders in Polyneoptera because of constant new findings calling for revision of the taxa. For example, the Paraneoptera have turned out to be more closely related to the Endopterygota than to the rest of the Exopterygota. The recent molecular finding that the traditional louse orders Mallophaga and Anoplura are derived from within Psocoptera has led to the new taxon Psocodea. Phasmatodea and Embiidina have been suggested to form the Eukinolabia. Mantodea, Blattodea, and Isoptera are thought to form a monophyletic group termed Dictyoptera.
Question: Paleoptera and Neoptera are what kind of insect orders?
Answer: winged
Question: An insects hard body parts are called what?
Answer: sclerites
Question: Insect's wings fold flat over their what?
Answer: abdomen
Question: Neoptera can be divided into what kind of "based" group?
Answer: metamorphosis-based
Question: Paraneopter and Endopterygota are closely what?
Answer: related |
Context: The book value of the company nearly doubled from $8.19 a share in 1999 to $15 a share in 2009. Revenues grew sixfold from 1999's $6 billion to almost $36 billion in 2009. Net profit margin rose from 4.2% in 1999 to 8.4% in 2009, with operating margins improving 31 percent and return on equity doubling to 6.7 percent in the same time span. Between 1999 and 2009, return on capital nearly tripled to 7 percent. Comcast reported first quarter 2012 profit increases of 30% due to increase in high-speed internet customers. In February 2014, Comcast generated 1.1 billion in revenue during the first quarter due to the Sochi Olympics,.
Question: What was Comcast's share value in 1999?
Answer: $8.19
Question: What was Comcast's share value in 2009?
Answer: $15
Question: Comcast's revenues in 2009 were how much?
Answer: $36 billion
Question: What was Comcast's profit margin in 2009?
Answer: 8.4%
Question: What caused a 2012 spike in Comcast profits?
Answer: increase in high-speed internet customers
Question: What were shares worth in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were the Olympics in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much revenue (in billions) did Comcast generate due to high-speed internet customers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of new customers did Comcast increase by in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sports event caused revenues to double from 1999 to 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The initial near-complete MPEG-1 standard (parts 1, 2 and 3) was publicly available on 6 December 1991 as ISO CD 11172. In most countries, patents cannot be filed after prior art has been made public, and patents expire 20 years after the initial filing date, which can be up to 12 months later for filings in other countries. As a result, patents required to implement MP3 expired in most countries by December 2012, 21 years after the publication of ISO CD 11172.
Question: What became publicly available on 6 December 1991?
Answer: MPEG-1 standard
Question: When can patents not be filed in most countries?
Answer: after prior art has been made public
Question: How long does it take for patents to expire after being filed?
Answer: 20 years
Question: How long can it take for patents to be approved after initially being filed?
Answer: 12 months
Question: When did patents required to implement MP3 expire in most countries?
Answer: December 2012 |
Context: Genocide has become an official term used in international relations. The word genocide was not in use before 1944. Before this, in 1941, Winston Churchill described the mass killing of Russian prisoners of war and civilians as "a crime without a name". In that year, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin, described the policies of systematic murder founded by the Nazis as genocide. The word genocide is the combination of the Greek prefix geno- (meaning tribe or race) and caedere (the Latin word for to kill). The word is defined as a specific set of violent crimes that are committed against a certain group with the attempt to remove the entire group from existence or to destroy them.
Question: The word "genocide" was unknown until what year?
Answer: 1944
Question: In 1941, how did Winston Churchill refer to the mass killings of Russian prisoners of war?
Answer: as "a crime without a name"
Question: What was the name of the Polish-Jewish lawyer who first described Nazi atrocities as "genocide?"
Answer: Raphael Lemkin
Question: What is the etymological basis of the word "genocide?"
Answer: Greek prefix geno- (meaning tribe or race) and caedere (the Latin word for to kill)
Question: As it pertains to violent crimes against targeted groups, what is the ultimate motivation within the actions of genocide?
Answer: to remove the entire group from existence or to destroy them
Question: When was the word "genocide" last used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who never used the term "genocide"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who referred to acts of genocide in 1945?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the word "genocide" known until?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is defined as a specific set of violent crimes that are committed against a certain group with the attempt to remove the entire group from existence or to increase them?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the phrase "prisoners of war" first used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the definition of "prisoners of war"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who coined the phrase "prisoners of war"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The phrase "prisoners of war" was unknown until what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1941, how did Raphael Lemkin refer to the mass killings of Russian prisoners of war?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Signal Hill is a hill which overlooks the city of St. John's. It is the location of Cabot Tower which was built in 1897 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland, and Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The first transatlantic wireless transmission was received here by Guglielmo Marconi on 12 December 1901. Today, Signal Hill is a National Historic Site of Canada and remains incredibly popular amongst tourists and locals alike; 97% of all tourists to St. John's visit Signal Hill. Amongst its popular attractions are the Signal Hill Tattoo, showcasing the Royal Newfoundland Regiment of foot, c. 1795, and the North Head Trail which grants an impressive view of the Atlantic Ocean and the surrounding coast.
Question: What city does Signal Hill overlook?
Answer: St. John's
Question: Where exactly is Cabot Tower located in St. John' ?
Answer: Signal Hill
Question: What year was Cabot Tower built?
Answer: 1897
Question: In what year was Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee?
Answer: 1897
Question: Who recieved the first transatlantic wireless transmission?
Answer: Guglielmo Marconi
Question: What hill is St. John's located on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What tower was built in the late 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two events were celebrated in the late 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who received the first transatlantic wireless transmission in the early 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some linguists restrict the double-dot subscript ⟨◌̤⟩ to murmured sonorants, such as vowels and nasals, which are murmured throughout their duration, and use the superscript hook-aitch ⟨◌ʱ⟩ for the breathy-voiced release of obstruents.
Question: What do some linguists restrict the double-dot subscript ⟨◌̤⟩ to?
Answer: murmured sonorants
Question: What are, according to the text, murmured for their duration?
Answer: vowels and nasals
Question: What uses the ⟨◌ʱ⟩?
Answer: breathy-voiced release of obstruents.
Question: Some linguists restrict what to loud sonorants?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are murmured thought part of their duration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What represents the double-dot hook-aitch?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is used for the loud-voiced release of obstruents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: All linguists restrict the double-dot subscript to what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Town Quay is the original public quay, and dates from the 13th century. Today's Eastern Docks were created in the 1830s by land reclamation of the mud flats between the Itchen & Test estuaries. The Western Docks date from the 1930s when the Southern Railway Company commissioned a major land reclamation and dredging programme. Most of the material used for reclamation came from dredging of Southampton Water, to ensure that the port can continue to handle large ships.
Question: What's the name of the public quay that's been in Southampton since the 13th century?
Answer: Town Quay
Question: In what decade were the Eastern Docks that can be seen today created?
Answer: 1830s
Question: What company commissioned the program that created the Western Docks?
Answer: Southern Railway Company
Question: What body of water was dredged for the material used for reclamation?
Answer: Southampton Water
Question: In what decade did the Southern Railway Company commission the program that created the Western Docks?
Answer: 1930s |
Context: The use of lossy compression is designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent the audio recording and still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio for most listeners. An MP3 file that is created using the setting of 128 kbit/s will result in a file that is about 1/11 the size of the CD file created from the original audio source (44,100 samples per second × 16 bits per sample × 2 channels = 1,411,200 bit/s; MP3 compressed at 128 kbit/s: 128,000 bit/s [1 k = 1,000, not 1024, because it is a bit rate]. Ratio: 1,411,200/128,000 = 11.025). An MP3 file can also be constructed at higher or lower bit rates, with higher or lower resulting quality.
Question: What is the main goal aside from reducing the amount of data required to store the audio?
Answer: sound like a faithful reproduction
Question: What kind of compression is used?
Answer: created
Question: If a file is created using 128 kbit/s, what size is the file going to be compared to a CD?
Answer: 1/11
Question: How many total bit/s would a CD have?
Answer: 1,411,200
Question: How many total bit/s would an MP3 compressed at 128 kbit/s have?
Answer: 128,000 |
Context: The most commonly used forms of medium distance transport in Hyderabad include government owned services such as light railways and buses, as well as privately operated taxis and auto rickshaws. Bus services operate from the Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station in the city centre and carry over 130 million passengers daily across the entire network.:76 Hyderabad's light rail transportation system, the Multi-Modal Transport System (MMTS), is a three line suburban rail service used by over 160,000 passengers daily. Complementing these government services are minibus routes operated by Setwin (Society for Employment Promotion & Training in Twin Cities). Intercity rail services also operate from Hyderabad; the main, and largest, station is Secunderabad Railway Station, which serves as Indian Railways' South Central Railway zone headquarters and a hub for both buses and MMTS light rail services connecting Secunderabad and Hyderabad. Other major railway stations in Hyderabad are Hyderabad Deccan Station, Kachiguda Railway Station, Begumpet Railway Station, Malkajgiri Railway Station and Lingampally Railway Station. The Hyderabad Metro, a new rapid transit system, is to be added to the existing public transport infrastructure and is scheduled to operate three lines by 2015.
Question: What type of transport that is not government owned is commonly used in Hyderabad?
Answer: taxis and auto rickshaws
Question: How many people are carried each day by the bus service network in Hyderabad?
Answer: 130 million
Question: What is the light rail system in Hyderabad known as?
Answer: Multi-Modal Transport System (MMTS)
Question: How many passengers use the Hyderabad light rail system each day?
Answer: 160,000
Question: What is Setwin otherwise known as?
Answer: Society for Employment Promotion & Training in Twin Cities |
Context: Popular music in Cyprus is generally influenced by the Greek Laïka scene; artists who play in this genre include international platinum star Anna Vissi, Evridiki, and Sarbel. Hip Hop, R&B and reggae have been supported by the emergence of Cypriot rap and the urban music scene at Ayia Napa. Cypriot rock music and Éntekhno rock is often associated with artists such as Michalis Hatzigiannis and Alkinoos Ioannidis. Metal also has a small following in Cyprus represented by bands such as Armageddon (rev.16:16), Blynd, Winter's Verge and Quadraphonic.
Question: What influences popular music in Cyprus?
Answer: Greek Laïka scene
Question: What are some famous Cypriot artists?
Answer: Anna Vissi, Evridiki, and Sarbel
Question: What other genres of music are enjoyed in Cyprus?
Answer: Hip Hop, R&B and reggae
Question: Which artists are associated with Cypriot rock music?
Answer: Michalis Hatzigiannis and Alkinoos Ioannidis
Question: What are some famous metal Cypriot bands?
Answer: Armageddon (rev.16:16), Blynd, Winter's Verge and Quadraphonic |
Context: Seattle is home to the University of Washington, as well as the institution's professional and continuing education unit, the University of Washington Educational Outreach. A study by Newsweek International in 2006 cited the University of Washington as the twenty-second best university in the world. Seattle also has a number of smaller private universities including Seattle University and Seattle Pacific University, the former a Jesuit Catholic institution, the latter Free Methodist; universities aimed at the working adult, like City University and Antioch University; colleges within the Seattle Colleges District system, comprising North, Central, and South; seminaries, including Western Seminary and a number of arts colleges, such as Cornish College of the Arts, Pratt Fine Arts Center, and The Art Institute of Seattle. In 2001, Time magazine selected Seattle Central Community College as community college of the year, stating the school "pushes diverse students to work together in small teams".
Question: What educational institution is at home in Seattle?
Answer: University of Washington
Question: What is the purpose of the University of Washington Outreach?
Answer: continuing education
Question: In what year did Time magazine choose Seattle Central Community College as community college of the year?
Answer: 2001
Question: Beside the public universities, what other type of institutions provide education in Seattle?
Answer: private universities
Question: Where can a student find to study art in Seattle?
Answer: arts colleges |
Context: The pulp papermaking process is said to have been developed in China during the early 2nd century AD, possibly as early as the year 105 A.D., by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun, although the earliest archaeological fragments of paper derive from the 2nd century BC in China. The modern pulp and paper industry is global, with China leading its production and the United States right behind it.
Question: When was the pulp papermaking process developed?
Answer: 2nd century AD
Question: What country was the process developed in?
Answer: China
Question: What country is leading in production of paper?
Answer: China
Question: What country is the second largest produced of paper?
Answer: United States
Question: Which court eunuch was associated with the papermaking process?
Answer: Cai Lun
Question: When is the pulp papermaking process said to have been developed by Han court?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The United States is the leader of which industry, which China following right behind it?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the Han court process said to have been developed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: From where do the earliest Han court fragments derive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the pulp wood making process developed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country was the process not developed in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country is not leading in production of paper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country is the fifth largest produced of paper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which court non-eunuch was associated with the papermaking process?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills such as the Blackdown Hills, Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels. There is evidence of human occupation from Paleolithic times, and of subsequent settlement in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The county played a significant part in the consolidation of power and rise of King Alfred the Great, and later in the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion. The city of Bath is famous for its substantial Georgian architecture and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Question: What type of region is somerset
Answer: Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills
Question: What are some areas of Somerset county
Answer: Blackdown Hills, Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels
Question: How far back was the county populated
Answer: There is evidence of human occupation from Paleolithic times, and of subsequent settlement in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods
Question: What Kings rise did the county play part in
Answer: a significant part in the consolidation of power and rise of King Alfred the Great, and later in the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion
Question: What is the city of Bath famous for
Answer: substantial Georgian architecture and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Question: In which county was the English Civil War primarily fought?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which county of England was King Alfred the Great born in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the Monmouth Rebellion get its start?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which county of England is an urban one on a flat plain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: King Alfred the Great ruled over which civilization?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Virgin birth of Jesus was an almost universally held belief among Christians from the 2nd until the 19th century. It is included in the two most widely used Christian creeds, which state that Jesus "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary" (the Nicene Creed in what is now its familiar form) and the Apostles' Creed. The Gospel of Matthew describes Mary as a virgin who fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14, mistranslating the Hebrew word alma ("young woman") in Isaiah 7:14 as "virgin", though.[citation needed] The authors of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke consider Jesus' conception not the result of intercourse and assert that Mary had "no relations with man" before Jesus' birth.[Mt 1:18] [Mt 1:25] [Lk 1:34] This alludes to the belief that Mary conceived Jesus through the action of God the Holy Spirit, and not through intercourse with Joseph or anyone else.
Question: Which Gospel says that Mary fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah?
Answer: Matthew
Question: Until which century was the Virgin birth of Jesus held almost universally among Christians?
Answer: 19th
Question: What Hebrew word is used to describe Mary in Isaiah 7:14?
Answer: alma
Question: Which verse in Luke states that Mary had "no relations with man" before Jesus' birth?
Answer: 1:34
Question: Along with the Nicene Creed, which other Christian creed asserts the Virgin birth of Jesus?
Answer: the Apostles' Creed
Question: What century was the Apostles' Creed written in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When Isaiah spoke to Mary he called her by what Hebrew word?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what century did Mary fulfill the prophecy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which creed was written by Isaiah?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Meanwhile, the Industrial Revolution laid open the door for mass production and consumption. Aesthetics became a criterion for the middle class as ornamented products, once within the province of expensive craftsmanship, became cheaper under machine production.
Question: What started with the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: mass production and consumption
Question: What became cheap enough for the middle class to buy?
Answer: ornamented products
Question: As products came within their financial reach what concept began to interest the middle class?
Answer: Aesthetics
Question: What ended with the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What became cheap enough for the lower class to buy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: As products came within their financial reach what concept began to interest the upper class?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: As products came within their financial reach what concept began to interest the lower class?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Investitures, which include the conferring of knighthoods by dubbing with a sword, and other awards take place in the palace's Ballroom, built in 1854. At 36.6 m (120 ft) long, 18 m (59 ft) wide and 13.5 m (44 ft) high, it is the largest room in the palace. It has replaced the throne room in importance and use. During investitures, the Queen stands on the throne dais beneath a giant, domed velvet canopy, known as a shamiana or a baldachin, that was used at the Delhi Durbar in 1911. A military band plays in the musicians' gallery as award recipients approach the Queen and receive their honours, watched by their families and friends.
Question: Where do Investitures take place?
Answer: in the palace's Ballroom
Question: What year was The Ballroom built?
Answer: 1854
Question: Which room has The Ballroom replaced in terms of both use and importance?
Answer: the throne room
Question: What does the Queen stand on during Investitures?
Answer: the throne dais
Question: Knighthood is given by being dubbed with what object?
Answer: a sword
Question: What is the largest room in the palace?
Answer: Ballroom
Question: The Ballroom replaced which other room in terms of importance and use?
Answer: the throne room
Question: Where do Investitures never take place?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was The Ballroom blown up?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which room has The Ballroom never changed in terms of both use and importance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the smallest room in the palace?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Queen sit on during Investitures?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The thermionic triode, a vacuum tube invented in 1907, enabled amplified radio technology and long-distance telephony. The triode, however, was a fragile device that consumed a lot of power. Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a field-effect transistor (FET) in Canada in 1925, which was intended to be a solid-state replacement for the triode. Lilienfeld also filed identical patents in the United States in 1926 and 1928. However, Lilienfeld did not publish any research articles about his devices nor did his patents cite any specific examples of a working prototype. Because the production of high-quality semiconductor materials was still decades away, Lilienfeld's solid-state amplifier ideas would not have found practical use in the 1920s and 1930s, even if such a device had been built. In 1934, German inventor Oskar Heil patented a similar device.
Question: When was the thermionic triode invented?
Answer: 1907
Question: What was the purpose of the thermionic triode?
Answer: amplified radio technology and long-distance telephony
Question: Who filed a patent for the field-effect transistor?
Answer: Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Question: Where did Lilienfeld file his patent?
Answer: Canada
Question: What year did Lilienfeld file his patent?
Answer: 1925
Question: Where did Oskar Heil file a patent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long would it take for a practical field-effect transistor be built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Oskar Heil invent a device similar to Lilienfeld's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why were field-effect transistors not practical without high quality semiconductor materials?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the thermionic triode invented?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: While Nintendo never released an adapter for playing NES games on the SNES (though the instructions included a way to connect both consoles to the same TV by either daisy chaining the RF switches or using AV outputs for one or both systems), the Super Game Boy adapter cartridge allows games designed for Nintendo's portable Game Boy system to be played on the SNES. The Super Game Boy touted several feature enhancements over the Game Boy, including palette substitution, custom screen borders, and (for specially enhanced games) access to the SNES console. Japan also saw the release of the Super Game Boy 2, which added a communication port to enable a second Game Boy to connect for multiplayer games.
Question: How did Nintendo say an NES and SNES could be used on the same TV?
Answer: either daisy chaining the RF switches or using AV outputs for one or both systems
Question: Which other game system's cartridges could be adapted to the SNES?
Answer: Game Boy
Question: What improvements did the Super Game Boy have over the Game Boy?
Answer: palette substitution, custom screen borders, and (for specially enhanced games) access to the SNES console
Question: Where was the Super Game Boy 2 released?
Answer: Japan
Question: What did the Super Game Boy 2 add?
Answer: a communication port to enable a second Game Boy to connect for multiplayer games
Question: In what country was the SNES released?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Game Boy add for multiplayer games?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What enhancements did the Game Boy have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What allows Game Boy games to be played in Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Super Game Boy never release for playing NES games on the SNES?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Compaq, who had previously held the third place spot among PC manufacturers during the 1980s and early-mid 1990s, initiated a successful price war in 1994 that vaulted them to the biggest by the year end, overtaking a struggling IBM and relegating Apple to third place. Apple's market share further struggled due to the release of the Windows 95 operating system, which unified Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products. Windows 95 significantly enhanced the multimedia capability and performance of IBM PC compatible computers, and brought the capabilities of Windows to parity with the Mac OS GUI.
Question: Who initiated a successful price war among PC manufacturers in 1994?
Answer: Compaq
Question: Who did Compaq overtake in the price war of 1994?
Answer: IBM
Question: What happened to Apple's market share with the release of Windows 95?
Answer: struggled
Question: What unified Microsoft's MS-DOS and Windows products?
Answer: Windows 95
Question: What significantly enhanced the multimedia capability of IBM PC compatible computers?
Answer: Windows 95
Question: Who initiated a successful price war among PC manufacturers in 1995
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Compaq overtake in the price war of 1993?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to Apple's market share with the release of Windows 98?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What unified Apple's MS-DOS and Windows products?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What significantly enhanced the multimedia capability of IBM PC incompatible computers?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A national university is generally a university created or run by a national state but at the same time represents a state autonomic institution which functions as a completely independent body inside of the same state. Some national universities are closely associated with national cultural or political aspirations, for instance the National University of Ireland in the early days of Irish independence collected a large amount of information on the Irish language and Irish culture. Reforms in Argentina were the result of the University Revolution of 1918 and its posterior reforms by incorporating values that sought for a more equal and laic higher education system.
Question: What was a focus of the National University of Ireland during the beginning of Irish Independence?
Answer: Irish language and Irish culture
Question: In what nation did the University Revolution occur?
Answer: Argentina
Question: In what year did Argentina's University Revolution occur?
Answer: 1918
Question: What was the result of the University Revolution in Argentina?
Answer: Reforms
Question: What was a focus of Argentina during the beginning of Irish independence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Ireland's University Revolution occur?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the result of the University Revolution in Ireland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is generally a university created or run by private donors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who collected a large amount of information on the Argentina language?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Capacitors may retain a charge long after power is removed from a circuit; this charge can cause dangerous or even potentially fatal shocks or damage connected equipment. For example, even a seemingly innocuous device such as a disposable-camera flash unit, powered by a 1.5 volt AA battery, has a capacitor which may contain over 15 joules of energy and be charged to over 300 volts. This is easily capable of delivering a shock. Service procedures for electronic devices usually include instructions to discharge large or high-voltage capacitors, for instance using a Brinkley stick. Capacitors may also have built-in discharge resistors to dissipate stored energy to a safe level within a few seconds after power is removed. High-voltage capacitors are stored with the terminals shorted, as protection from potentially dangerous voltages due to dielectric absorption or from transient voltages the capacitor may pick up from static charges or passing weather events.
Question: How much energy could a capacitor in a disposable camera contain?
Answer: over 15 joules of energy
Question: To what voltage could a capacitor from a disposable camera be charged to?
Answer: over 300 volts
Question: What device can be used to discharge large voltage capacitors?
Answer: a Brinkley stick
Question: How are the terminals of high voltage capacitors stored?
Answer: with the terminals shorted
Question: What type of charge could a capacitor pick up a transient charge from?
Answer: from static charges
Question: How much energy could a capacitor in a disposable camera release?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: To what voltage could a capacitor from a disposable camera be never charged to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What device can't be used to discharge large voltage capacitors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How aren't the terminals of high voltage capacitors stored?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of charge couldn't a capacitor pick up a transient charge from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Enlisted members of the USAF have pay grades from E-1 (entry level) to E-9 (senior enlisted). While all USAF military personnel are referred to as Airmen, the term also refers to the pay grades of E-1 through E-4, which are below the level of non-commissioned officers (NCOs). Above the pay grade of E-4 (i.e., pay grades E-5 through E-9) all ranks fall into the category of NCO and are further subdivided into "NCOs" (pay grades E-5 and E-6) and "Senior NCOs" (pay grades E-7 through E-9); the term "Junior NCO" is sometimes used to refer to staff sergeants and technical sergeants (pay grades E-5 and E-6).
Question: What is the lowest pay grade in the USAF?
Answer: E-1 (entry level)
Question: What is the highest pay grade in the USAF?
Answer: E-9 (senior enlisted)
Question: What pay grades are included in the USAF for Senior NCOs?
Answer: pay grades E-7 through E-9
Question: What does junior NCO refer to in the USAF pay grade system?
Answer: staff sergeants and technical sergeants |
Context: The Rohingya people have consistently faced human rights abuses by the Burmese regime that has refused to acknowledge them as Burmese citizens (despite some of them having lived in Burma for over three generations)—the Rohingya have been denied Burmese citizenship since the enactment of a 1982 citizenship law. The law created three categories of citizenship: citizenship, associate citizenship, and naturalised citizenship. Citizenship is given to those who belong to one of the national races such as Kachin, Kayah (Karenni), Karen, Chin, Burman, Mon, Rakhine, Shan, Kaman, or Zerbadee. Associate citizenship is given to those who cannot prove their ancestors settled in Myanmar before 1823, but can prove they have one grandparent, or pre-1823 ancestor, who was a citizen of another country, as well as people who applied for citizenship in 1948 and qualified then by those laws. Naturalized citizenship is only given to those who have at least one parent with one of these types of Burmese citizenship or can provide "conclusive evidence" that their parents entered and resided in Burma prior to independence in 1948. The Burmese regime has attempted to forcibly expel Rohingya and bring in non-Rohingyas to replace them—this policy has resulted in the expulsion of approximately half of the 800,000 Rohingya from Burma, while the Rohingya people have been described as "among the world's least wanted" and "one of the world's most persecuted minorities." But the origin of ‘most persecuted minority’ statement is unclear.
Question: What section of the Burmese population is routinely discriminated against ?
Answer: The Rohingya people
Question: When was the citizenship laws placed into effect in Burma ?
Answer: 1982
Question: How does one become a full citizen in Burma ?
Answer: Citizenship is given to those who belong to one of the national races
Question: What races are considered for full citizenship in Burma?
Answer: national races such as Kachin, Kayah (Karenni), Karen, Chin, Burman, Mon, Rakhine, Shan, Kaman, or Zerbadee
Question: What happens if one is not able to prove ancestral claim on full citizenship ?
Answer: Associate citizenship is given to those who cannot prove their ancestors settled in Myanmar before 1823
Question: When did the Rohingya lose citizenship rights in Burma?
Answer: the Rohingya have been denied Burmese citizenship since the enactment of a 1982 citizenship law
Question: How is the decision made on who gets full citizenship rights in Burma?
Answer: Citizenship is given to those who belong to one of the national races
Question: What races are considered to be the of the the national races in Burma ?
Answer: national races such as Kachin, Kayah (Karenni), Karen, Chin, Burman, Mon, Rakhine, Shan, Kaman, or Zerbadee.
Question: How can one prove their race in Burma ?
Answer: prove their ancestors settled in Myanmar before 1823
Question: How many of the Rohingya people have new changes in citizenship caused to become refugees ?
Answer: expulsion of approximately half of the 800,000 Rohingya from Burma, |
Context: On the other hand, classical (analog) television transmissions are usually horizontally polarized, because in urban areas buildings can reflect the electromagnetic waves and create ghost images due to multipath propagation. Using horizontal polarization, ghosting is reduced because the amount of reflection of electromagnetic waves in the p polarization (horizontal polarization off the side of a building) is generally less than s (vertical, in this case) polarization. Vertically polarized analog television has nevertheless been used in some rural areas. In digital terrestrial television such reflections are less problematic, due to robustness of binary transmissions and error correction.
Question: What is another name for classical television transmissions?
Answer: analog
Question: Buildings can create ghost images because of what?
Answer: multipath propagation
Question: When is ghosting reduced?
Answer: horizontal polarization
Question: What cause less problems in digital terrestrial television?
Answer: Vertically polarized analog television |
Context: The Greeks of classical antiquity idealized their Mycenaean ancestors and the Mycenaean period as a glorious era of heroes, closeness of the gods and material wealth. The Homeric Epics (i.e. Iliad and Odyssey) were especially and generally accepted as part of the Greek past and it was not until the 19th century that scholars began to question Homer's historicity. As part of the Mycenaean heritage that survived, the names of the gods and goddesses of Mycenaean Greece (e.g. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades) became major figures of the Olympian Pantheon of later antiquity.
Question: How did the Greeks look upon their forebears ?
Answer: Greeks of classical antiquity idealized their Mycenaean ancestors
Question: How did they believe their forebears lived ?
Answer: Mycenaean period as a glorious era of heroes, closeness of the gods and material wealth
Question: What literary events were believed to be a fact of truth ?
Answer: The Homeric Epics (i.e. Iliad and Odyssey) were especially and generally accepted as part of the Greek past
Question: Who was the author of these tales ?
Answer: Homer
Question: What were the names of some of the figures for the established religion that are based on ancestral ties ?
Answer: Zeus, Poseidon and Hades
Question: How did the Mycenaeans view their relationship to the Greeks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two epics were written to honor Zeus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what century were the Homeric Epics first discovered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What name is usually associated with the underworld?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What god is the most powerful in the Olympian Panthenon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did the Greeks not look upon their forebears ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did they believe their forebears died ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What literary events were believed to be a fact of lies ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wasn't the author of these tales ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the names of some of the figures for the established religion that aren't based on ancestral ties ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did the Greeks reject their forebears?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did they not believe their forebears lived?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What literary events were believed to not be a fact of truth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the author of these poems?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the names of some of the figures for the established religion that aren't based on ancestral ties?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: All YouTube users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration. Users who have a good track record of complying with the site's Community Guidelines may be offered the ability to upload videos up to 12 hours in length, which requires verifying the account, normally through a mobile phone. When YouTube was launched in 2005, it was possible to upload long videos, but a ten-minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films. The 10-minute limit was increased to 15 minutes in July 2010. If an up-to-date browser version is used, videos greater than 20 GB can be uploaded.
Question: What is the maximum length of a video on youtube?
Answer: 12 hours
Question: When a user with a new account posts a video, what is the maximum length allowed?
Answer: 15 minutes
Question: When was the time limit on video length first enacted on youtube?
Answer: March 2006
Question: in 2006 Youtube found that the majority of longer videos were what?
Answer: unauthorized uploads
Question: What is the upload file size limit on out of date browsers?
Answer: 20 GB
Question: What is the minimum length of a video on youtube?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did they do away with the limit for the maximum length allowed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in August 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the upload file size limit on up to date browsers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can upload videos of 12 minutes in duration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can upload videos of 15 hours in duration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What time limit was introduced in March 2005?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was increased from 10 to 15 in July 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc., defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots.txt file on its web site that was causing the Wayback Machine to retroactively remove access to previous versions of pages it had archived from Nebula's site, pages that Chordiant believed would support its case.
Question: What 2009 court battle involved the Wayback Machine?
Answer: Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc.
Question: Which company thought that Wayback Machine data was important for its argument?
Answer: Chordiant
Question: What did Chordiant request that the court deactivate on Netbula's website?
Answer: the robots.txt file
Question: What 2009 court battle involved Netbula's robots?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which company thought that Wayback Machine data was important for robots?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Wayback Machine request that the court deactivate on Netbulas website?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Wayback Machine believe would support its case?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who filed a motion to compel the Wayback Machine to disable the robots.txt file?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are several sources of the seedlessness trait, and essentially all commercial cultivators get it from one of three sources: Thompson Seedless, Russian Seedless, and Black Monukka, all being cultivars of Vitis vinifera. There are currently more than a dozen varieties of seedless grapes. Several, such as Einset Seedless, Benjamin Gunnels's Prime seedless grapes, Reliance, and Venus, have been specifically cultivated for hardiness and quality in the relatively cold climates of northeastern United States and southern Ontario.
Question: How many seedless grape sources are there for commercial cultivators?
Answer: three
Question: How many varieties of seedless grapes are there?
Answer: more than a dozen
Question: What species of grape are grown by Thompson Seedless?
Answer: Vitis vinifera
Question: What type of climate are Benjamin Gunnels's Prime seedless grapes specifically cultivated for?
Answer: cold
Question: What species of grape are grown by Black Monukka?
Answer: Vitis vinifera |
Context: Many Swiss also follow ice hockey and support one of the 12 clubs in the League A, which is the most attended league in Europe. In 2009, Switzerland hosted the IIHF World Championship for the 10th time. It also became World Vice-Champion in 2013. The numerous lakes make Switzerland an attractive place for sailing. The largest, Lake Geneva, is the home of the sailing team Alinghi which was the first European team to win the America's Cup in 2003 and which successfully defended the title in 2007. Tennis has become an increasingly popular sport, and Swiss players such as Martina Hingis, Roger Federer, and most recently, Stanislas Wawrinka have won multiple Grand Slams. Swiss professional wrestler Claudio Castagnoli is currently signed with WWE, and is a former United States champion.
Question: What was hosted for the 10th time by Switzerland in 2009?
Answer: IIHF World Championship
Question: What was the name of the 1st European sailing team to win America's cup in 2013?
Answer: Alinghi
Question: Which Swiss professional wrestler is currently signed with WWE?
Answer: Claudio Castagnoli
Question: Which Swiss sailing team was the 1st to win America's Cup in 2003?
Answer: Alinghi |
Context: Estadio Centenario, the national football stadium in Parque Batlle, was opened in 1930 for the first World Cup, as well as to commemorate the centennial of Uruguay's first constitution. In this World Cup, Uruguay won the title game against Argentina by 4 goals to 2. The stadium has 70,000 seats. It is listed by FIFA as one of the football world's classic stadiums, along with Maracanã, Wembley Stadium, San Siro, Estadio Azteca, and Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. A museum located within the football stadium has exhibits of memorabilia from Uruguay's 1930 and 1950 World Cup championships. Museum tickets give access to the stadium, stands, locker rooms and playing field.
Question: What is the national football stadium in Parque Batlle?
Answer: Estadio Centenario
Question: When was Estadio Centenario opened?
Answer: 1930
Question: How many seats does the Estadio Centenario have?
Answer: 70,000 |
Context: Modern botany is a broad, multidisciplinary subject with inputs from most other areas of science and technology. Research topics include the study of plant structure, growth and differentiation, reproduction, biochemistry and primary metabolism, chemical products, development, diseases, evolutionary relationships, systematics, and plant taxonomy. Dominant themes in 21st century plant science are molecular genetics and epigenetics, which are the mechanisms and control of gene expression during differentiation of plant cells and tissues. Botanical research has diverse applications in providing staple foods, materials such as timber, oil, rubber, fibre and drugs, in modern horticulture, agriculture and forestry, plant propagation, breeding and genetic modification, in the synthesis of chemicals and raw materials for construction and energy production, in environmental management, and the maintenance of biodiversity.
Question: What is are the main themes of present-day botany?
Answer: molecular genetics and epigenetics
Question: How can botany be applied to combating world hunger?
Answer: providing staple foods
Question: How can botany be applied to the construction industry?
Answer: synthesis of chemicals and raw materials
Question: Is botany a narrow science?
Answer: a broad, multidisciplinary subject |
Context: Close to Richmond Park is Kew Gardens which has the world's largest collection of living plants. In 2003, the gardens were put on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. There are also numerous parks administered by London's borough Councils, including Victoria Park in the East End and Battersea Park in the centre. Some more informal, semi-natural open spaces also exist, including the 320-hectare (790-acre) Hampstead Heath of North London, and Epping Forest, which covers 2,476 hectares (6,118.32 acres) in the east. Both are controlled by the City of London Corporation. Hampstead Heath incorporates Kenwood House, the former stately home and a popular location in the summer months where classical musical concerts are held by the lake, attracting thousands of people every weekend to enjoy the music, scenery and fireworks. Epping Forest is a popular venue for various outdoor activities, including mountain biking, walking, horse riding, golf, angling, and orienteering.
Question: What famous London gardens were named as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003?
Answer: Kew Gardens
Question: Victoria Park is located in what London district?
Answer: the East End
Question: What entity oversees both Hampstead Heath of North London and Epping Forest?
Answer: the City of London Corporation
Question: What former private home hosts lake-side classical music concerts ever summer?
Answer: Kenwood House
Question: People frequently engage in physical activities such as walking, biking, and golf, in what forest?
Answer: Epping Forest |
Context: To the north of China proper, the nomadic Xiongnu chieftain Modu Chanyu (r. 209–174 BC) conquered various tribes inhabiting the eastern portion of the Eurasian Steppe. By the end of his reign, he controlled Manchuria, Mongolia, and the Tarim Basin, subjugating over twenty states east of Samarkand. Emperor Gaozu was troubled about the abundant Han-manufactured iron weapons traded to the Xiongnu along the northern borders, and he established a trade embargo against the group. Although the embargo was in place, the Xiongnu found traders willing to supply their needs. Chinese forces also mounted surprise attacks against Xiongnu who traded at the border markets. In retaliation, the Xiongnu invaded what is now Shanxi province, where they defeated the Han forces at Baideng in 200 BC. After negotiations, the heqin agreement in 198 BC nominally held the leaders of the Xiongnu and the Han as equal partners in a royal marriage alliance, but the Han were forced to send large amounts of tribute items such as silk clothes, food, and wine to the Xiongnu.
Question: Who was the chieftain of the Xiongnu?
Answer: Modu Chanyu
Question: What group had a trade embargo created against them?
Answer: the Xiongnu
Question: In what year were Han forces defeated in Baideng?
Answer: 200 BC
Question: What agreement established equality between the Xiongnu and the Han?
Answer: heqin
Question: What type of clothing were sent as a tribute to the Xiongnu?
Answer: silk clothes |
Context: In 1914, Claridge's Company entered into a joint venture to produce tar-bound macadam, with materials manufactured through a subsidiary company called Clarmac Roads Ltd. Two products resulted, namely Clarmac, and Clarphalte, with the former being manufactured by Clarmac Roads and the latter by Claridge's Patent Asphalte Co., although Clarmac was more widely used.[note 1] However, the First World War impacted financially on the Clarmac Company, which entered into liquidation in 1915. The failure of Clarmac Roads Ltd had a flow-on effect to Claridge's Company, which was itself compulsorily wound up, ceasing operations in 1917, having invested a substantial amount of funds into the new venture, both at the outset, and in a subsequent attempt to save the Clarmac Company.
Question: Which of Claridge's two tar macadams was the more successful?
Answer: Clarmac
Question: When did Claridge's company liquidate?
Answer: 1915
Question: What world event caused the end of Claridge's company?
Answer: First World War
Question: What was the subsidiary company that lead Claridge into ruin?
Answer: Clarmac Roads Ltd
Question: What kind of money did Claridge invest in attempting to save his companies?
Answer: substantial amount
Question: In what year was the liquidation of the Patent Clarmac Company?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which company's failure had a flow-over effect on the First World War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Second World War do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to the Clarmac Company in 1917?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to Claridge's Company in 1915?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Because of its limited land area, Bermuda has had difficulty with over-population. In the first two centuries of settlement, it relied on steady human emigration to keep the population manageable.[citation needed] Before the American Revolution more than ten thousand Bermudians (over half of the total population through the years) gradually emigrated, primarily to the Southern United States. As Great Britain displaced Spain as the dominant European imperial power, it opened up more land for colonial development. A steady trickle of outward migration continued. With seafaring the only real industry in the early decades, by the end of the 18th century, at least a third of the island's manpower was at sea at any one time.
Question: What is a major reason that Bermuda has problems with overpopulation?
Answer: limited land area,
Question: What does Bermuda rely on to counteract overpopulation?
Answer: steady human emigration
Question: Where did a large number of Bermudians emigrate to before the American Revolution?
Answer: the Southern United States
Question: Why does a third of the population spend time at sea?
Answer: seafaring the only real industry
Question: How many Bermudians emigrated during the American Revolution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area of Great Britain did more than ten thousand Bermudians emigrate to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Spain displace as the dominant European imperial power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the main industry in the 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Czech continued to evolve and gain in regional importance for hundreds of years, and has been a literary language in the Slovak lands since the early fifteenth century. A biblical translation, the Kralice Bible, was published during the late sixteenth century (around the time of the King James and Luther versions) which was more linguistically conservative than either. The publication of the Kralice Bible spawned widespread nationalism, and in 1615 the government of Bohemia ruled that only Czech-speaking residents would be allowed to become full citizens or inherit goods or land. This, and the conversion of the Czech upper classes from the Habsburg Empire's Catholicism to Protestantism, angered the Habsburgs and helped trigger the Thirty Years' War (where the Czechs were defeated at the Battle of White Mountain). The Czechs became serfs; Bohemia's printing industry (and its linguistic and political rights) were dismembered, removing official regulation and support from its language. German quickly became the dominant language in Bohemia.
Question: How many years as Czech continued to evolve and gain in regional importance?
Answer: hundreds
Question: When was the Kralice Bible published?
Answer: late sixteenth century
Question: What did the publication of the Kralice Bible spawn?
Answer: widespread nationalism
Question: In what war were the Czechs defeated at the Battle of White Mountain?
Answer: Thirty Years' War
Question: What language became dominant in Bohemia after the Czech's defeat?
Answer: German
Question: At what battle were the Germans defeated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What war was Germany involved in the longest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What change did the publishing of the King James Bible cause?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Germans become serfs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the government of Bohemia only allow Germans do do?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Despite her editors' warnings that the book might not sell well, it quickly became a sensation, bringing acclaim to Lee in literary circles, in her hometown of Monroeville, and throughout Alabama. The book went through numerous subsequent printings and became widely available through its inclusion in the Book of the Month Club and editions released by Reader's Digest Condensed Books.
Question: Reader's Digest included To Kill a Mockingbird in what program of theirs?
Answer: Book of the Month Club
Question: The book's availablity increased through inclusion in what book service?
Answer: Book of the Month Club |
Context: Ectosymbiosis, also referred to as exosymbiosis, is any symbiotic relationship in which the symbiont lives on the body surface of the host, including the inner surface of the digestive tract or the ducts of exocrine glands. Examples of this include ectoparasites such as lice, commensal ectosymbionts such as the barnacles that attach themselves to the jaw of baleen whales, and mutualist ectosymbionts such as cleaner fish.
Question: What organisms are described as living on the surface of whales?
Answer: barnacles
Question: Name a parasitic ectosymbiont.
Answer: lice
Question: What is another name for ectosymbiosis?
Answer: exosymbiosis
Question: What mutualist ectosymbionts clean the barnacles that attach themselves to the jaw of baleen whales?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ectoparasites are also considered commensal ectosymbionts and mutualist ectosymbionts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the animal in which barnacles join to the jaw and inner surface of the digestive tract?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ectoparasites live on the body surface of cleaner fish?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: This season also saw the launch of the American Idol Songwriter contest which allows fans to vote for the "coronation song". Thousands of recordings of original songs were submitted by songwriters, and 20 entries selected for the public vote. The winning song, "This Is My Now", was performed by both finalists during the finale and released by Sparks on May 24, 2007.
Question: In what year did American Idol begin a contest to decide the winners single?
Answer: 2007
Question: What is the first song released by Jordin Sparks after winning American Idol?
Answer: This Is My Now
Question: How was "This is My Now" decided as the first single for the American Idol winner in 2007?
Answer: public vote
Question: Which contest started during this season?
Answer: American Idol Songwriter contest
Question: Fans could vote for what during this contest?
Answer: coronation song
Question: Of the thousands of songs entered, how many were the public able to vote for?
Answer: 20
Question: What song won the contest?
Answer: This Is My Now
Question: When did Sparks release her version of the song?
Answer: May 24, 2007 |
Context: Most of an annelid's body consists of segments that are practically identical, having the same sets of internal organs and external chaetae (Greek χαιτη, meaning "hair") and, in some species, appendages. However, the frontmost and rearmost sections are not regarded as true segments as they do not contain the standard sets of organs and do not develop in the same way as the true segments. The frontmost section, called the prostomium (Greek προ- meaning "in front of" and στομα meaning "mouth") contains the brain and sense organs, while the rearmost, called the pygidium (Greek πυγιδιον, meaning "little tail") or periproct contains the anus, generally on the underside. The first section behind the prostomium, called the peristomium (Greek περι- meaning "around" and στομα meaning "mouth"), is regarded by some zoologists as not a true segment, but in some polychaetes the peristomium has chetae and appendages like those of other segments.
Question: What language does the term 'chaetae' come from?
Answer: Greek
Question: What does 'chaetae' mean?
Answer: hair
Question: Which parts of annelids are different from true segments?
Answer: the frontmost and rearmost sections
Question: What language does 'prostomium' come from?
Answer: Greek
Question: What does 'pygidium' mean?
Answer: little tail
Question: What language is the term 'chaetae' banned in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does 'chaetae' no longer mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which parts of annelids are different from fake segments?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of annelid has four true segments?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tito's estrangement from the USSR enabled Yugoslavia to obtain US aid via the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), the same US aid institution which administered the Marshall Plan. Still, he did not agree to align with the West, which was a common consequence of accepting American aid at the time. After Stalin's death in 1953, relations with the USSR were relaxed and he began to receive aid as well from the COMECON. In this way, Tito played East-West antagonism to his advantage. Instead of choosing sides, he was instrumental in kick-starting the Non-Aligned Movement, which would function as a 'third way' for countries interested in staying outside of the East-West divide.
Question: Which country gave Yugoslavia aid when Tito became estranged from the USSR?
Answer: US
Question: What agency distributed aid to Yugoslavia?
Answer: ECA
Question: What plan was also administered by the ECA?
Answer: Marshall Plan
Question: Which leader feared that accepting American aid meant aligning with the West?
Answer: Tito
Question: In what year did Stalin die?
Answer: 1953 |
Context: The "Mittelschule" is a school in some States of Germany that offers regular classes and remedial classes but no college preparatory classes. In some States of Germany, the Hauptschule does not exist, and any student who has not been accepted by another school has to attend the Mittelschule. Students may be awarded the Hauptschulabschluss or the Mittlere Reife but not the Abitur.
Question: What kind of classes are not offered in Mittelschule?
Answer: college preparatory classes
Question: What certificate is not available to Mittelschule students?
Answer: Abitur
Question: What kind of school is not available in some parts of Germany?
Answer: Hauptschule
Question: What kind of classes are offered in Mittelschule?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of meetings are not offered in Mittelschule?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What certificate is available to Mittelschule students?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What certificate is not available to Mittelschule teachers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of school is available in some parts of Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: "4 Minutes" was released as the album's lead single and peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Madonna's 37th top-ten hit on the chart—it pushed Madonna past Elvis Presley as the artist with the most top-ten hits. In the UK she retained her record for the most number-one singles for a female artist; "4 Minutes" becoming her thirteenth. At the 23rd Japan Gold Disc Awards, Madonna received her fifth Artist of the Year trophy from Recording Industry Association of Japan, the most for any artist. To further promote the album, Madonna embarked on the Sticky & Sweet Tour; her first major venture with Live Nation. With a gross of $280 million, it became the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist then, surpassing the previous record Madonna set with the Confessions Tour; it was later surpassed by Roger Waters' The Wall Live. It was extended to the next year, adding new European dates, and after it ended, the total gross was $408 million.
Question: Which single was released as the album's lead single?
Answer: 4 Minutes
Question: Madonna surpassed which artist with the most top-ten hits?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: 4 minutes became Madonna's which number one single in the UK?
Answer: thirteenth
Question: What is the name of the first tour with Live Nation?
Answer: Sticky & Sweet Tour
Question: How much did Stick and Sweet Tour grossed?
Answer: $280 million, |
Context: At the end of the Rigvedic period, the Aryan society began to expand from the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, into the western Ganges plain. It became increasingly agricultural and was socially organised around the hierarchy of the four varnas, or social classes. This social structure was characterized both by syncretising with the native cultures of northern India, but also eventually by the excluding of indigenous peoples by labelling their occupations impure. During this period, many of the previous small tribal units and chiefdoms began to coalesce into monarchical, state-level polities.
Question: When did the Aryan culture begin its expansion?
Answer: Rigvedic period
Question: Into what area did the Aryan culture expand?
Answer: western Ganges plain
Question: What were the Aryan social classes called?
Answer: varnas
Question: What did the Aryans label as impure in the indigenous peoples in order to exclude them from certain social classes?
Answer: occupations
Question: What groupings formed up into larger monarchical groups?
Answer: small tribal units |
Context: A trend in the late 20th century was for breweries to run their pubs directly, using managers rather than tenants. Most such breweries, such as the regional brewery Shepherd Neame in Kent and Young's and Fuller's in London, control hundreds of pubs in a particular region of the UK, while a few, such as Greene King, are spread nationally. The landlord of a tied pub may be an employee of the brewery—in which case he/she would be a manager of a managed house, or a self-employed tenant who has entered into a lease agreement with a brewery, a condition of which is the legal obligation (trade tie) only to purchase that brewery's beer. The beer selection is mainly limited to beers brewed by that particular company. The Beer Orders, passed in 1989, were aimed at getting tied houses to offer at least one alternative beer, known as a guest beer, from another brewery. This law has now been repealed but while in force it dramatically altered the industry. Some pubs still offer a regularly changing selection of guest beers.
Question: What is a notable brewery in Kent that owns hundreds of pubs?
Answer: Shepherd Neame
Question: What London breweries each own many pubs?
Answer: Young's and Fuller's
Question: What is an example of a brewer that owns pubs throughout Britain?
Answer: Greene King
Question: What law required that a pub offer at least one beer from a brewery it wasn't tied to?
Answer: The Beer Orders
Question: In what year were the Beer Orders passed?
Answer: 1989 |
Context: Adult insects typically move about by walking, flying, or sometimes swimming (see below, Locomotion). As it allows for rapid yet stable movement, many insects adopt a tripedal gait in which they walk with their legs touching the ground in alternating triangles. Insects are the only invertebrates to have evolved flight. Many insects spend at least part of their lives under water, with larval adaptations that include gills, and some adult insects are aquatic and have adaptations for swimming. Some species, such as water striders, are capable of walking on the surface of water. Insects are mostly solitary, but some, such as certain bees, ants and termites, are social and live in large, well-organized colonies. Some insects, such as earwigs, show maternal care, guarding their eggs and young. Insects can communicate with each other in a variety of ways. Male moths can sense the pheromones of female moths over great distances. Other species communicate with sounds: crickets stridulate, or rub their wings together, to attract a mate and repel other males. Lampyridae in the beetle order Coleoptera communicate with light.
Question: What is the term for the gait of an insect characterized by walking in alternating triangles?
Answer: tripedal
Question: What larval adaptation is common to underwater insects?
Answer: gills
Question: What species of insect has the capability to walk on the surface of water?
Answer: water striders
Question: What do crickets do in order to attract or repel a mate?
Answer: stridulate
Question: What variation of beetle in the Coleoptera order communicate by way of light?
Answer: Lampyridae
Question: Insects move by walking, flying, and what else?
Answer: swimming
Question: Which insects walk, fly, and swim?
Answer: Adult
Question: Insects walk the ground in alternating what?
Answer: triangles
Question: Insects walking in an alternating triangle is called a what?
Answer: tripedal gait
Question: What can insects do with each other in a variety of ways?
Answer: communicate |
Context: The Syriac term Nasrani (Nazarene) has also been attached to the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, India. In the Indian subcontinent, Christians call themselves Isaai (Hindi: ईसाई, Urdu: عیسائی), and are also known by this term to adherents of other religions. This is related to the name they call Jesus, 'Isa Masih, and literally means 'the followers of 'Isa'.
Question: Which word has been connected to Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, India?
Answer: Nasrani
Question: What do followers of Jesus call themselves in the Indian subcontinent?
Answer: Isaai
Question: What do the people in the Indian subcontinent call Jesus?
Answer: Isa Masih
Question: Which term has been associated with Saint Jesus of Isa Masih?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do Indians call themselves Isaai?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which term means followers of Jesus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Christian term is attached to Saint Thomas Christians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do people in Nasrani call Jesus?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Developers also found the machine difficult to program for. In 2007, Gabe Newell of Valve said "The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted". He continued "I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'". Doug Lombardi VP of Marketing for Valve has since stated that they are interested in developing for the console and are looking to hire talented PS3 programmers for future projects. He later restated Valve's position, "Until we have the ability to get a PS3 team together, until we find the people who want to come to Valve or who are at Valve who want to work on that, I don't really see us moving to that platform". At Sony's E3 2010 press conference, Newell made a live appearance to recant his previous statements, citing Sony's move to make the system more developer friendly, and to announce that Valve would be developing Portal 2 for the system. He also claimed that the inclusion of Steamworks (Valve's system to automatically update their software independently) would help to make the PS3 version of Portal 2 the best console version on the market.
Question: In what year did Gabe Newell call the PS3 "a total disaster"?
Answer: 2007
Question: Who is Valve's VP of Marketing who says they want to hire programmers for a PS3 team?
Answer: Doug Lombardi
Question: What year did Newell show up at Sony's EC3 press conference to take back what he said about PS3?
Answer: 2010
Question: What game did Valve develop for the PlayStation 3 console?
Answer: Portal 2
Question: What's the name of Valve's software update system?
Answer: Steamworks
Question: In what year did Gabe Newell call the PS2 "a total disaster"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is Valve's VP of Marketing who says they want to hire programmers for a PS4 team?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Newell show up at Sony's EC4 press conference to take back what he said about PS3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What game did Valve develop for the PlayStation 2 console?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's the name of Valve's hardware update system?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Inside each of these parts are thousands to trillions of small electrical circuits which can be turned off or on by means of an electronic switch. Each circuit represents a bit (binary digit) of information so that when the circuit is on it represents a "1", and when off it represents a "0" (in positive logic representation). The circuits are arranged in logic gates so that one or more of the circuits may control the state of one or more of the other circuits.
Question: A circuit in a computer part represents what?
Answer: a bit (binary digit) of information
Question: In positive logic representation a "1" represents when a circuit is what?
Answer: on
Question: In positive logic representation a "0" represents when a circuit is what?
Answer: off |
Context: Seattle's economy is driven by a mix of older industrial companies, and "new economy" Internet and technology companies, service, design and clean technology companies. The city's gross metropolitan product was $231 billion in 2010, making it the 11th largest metropolitan economy in the United States. The Port of Seattle, which also operates Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, is a major gateway for trade with Asia and cruises to Alaska, and is the 8th largest port in the United States in terms of container capacity. Though it was affected by the Great Recession, Seattle has retained a comparatively strong economy, and remains a hotbed for start-up businesses, especially in green building and clean technologies: it was ranked as America's No. 1 "smarter city" based on its government policies and green economy. In February 2010, the city government committed Seattle to becoming North America's first "climate neutral" city, with a goal of reaching zero net per capita greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Question: What was Seattle's gross product in 2010?
Answer: $231 billion
Question: Where does Seattle rank in size of economy in 2010?
Answer: 11th largest
Question: How does the Port of Seattle container capability rank as compared to others in the US?
Answer: 8th largest port
Question: When does Seattle want to be rated as a climate neutral city?
Answer: 2030
Question: What type of industry thrives in Settle?
Answer: start-up businesses |
Context: By 6000 BCE predynastic Egyptians in the southwestern corner of Egypt were herding cattle and constructing large buildings. Subsistence in organized and permanent settlements in predynastic Egypt by the middle of the 6th millennium BCE centered predominantly on cereal and animal agriculture: cattle, goats, pigs and sheep. Metal objects replaced prior ones of stone. Tanning of animal skins, pottery and weaving were commonplace in this era also. There are indications of seasonal or only temporary occupation of the Al Fayyum in the 6th millennium BCE, with food activities centering on fishing, hunting and food-gathering. Stone arrowheads, knives and scrapers from the era are commonly found. Burial items included pottery, jewelry, farming and hunting equipment, and assorted foods including dried meat and fruit. Burial in desert environments appears to enhance Egyptian preservation rites, and dead were buried facing due west.
Question: What were Egyptians herding in the early BCE period?
Answer: cattle
Question: By what time period were the Egyptians constructing large buildings?
Answer: 6000 BCE
Question: What items replaced previously items made of stone?
Answer: Metal objects
Question: In which direction were the dead facing when they were buried?
Answer: due west
Question: What replaced metal objects?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which direction were large buildings built to face?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By what era did occupation of the Al Fayyum end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What made Egyptian preservation rites difficult?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What diet did Egyptians begin to move away from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Iranian scientists outside Iran have also made some major contributions to science. In 1960, Ali Javan co-invented the first gas laser, and fuzzy set theory was introduced by Lotfi Zadeh. Iranian cardiologist, Tofy Mussivand invented and developed the first artificial cardiac pump, the precursor of the artificial heart. Furthering research and treatment of diabetes, HbA1c was discovered by Samuel Rahbar. Iranian physics is especially strong in string theory, with many papers being published in Iran. Iranian-American string theorist Kamran Vafa proposed the Vafa-Witten theorem together with Edward Witten. In August 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first-ever woman, as well as the first-ever Iranian, to receive the Fields Medal, the highest prize in mathematics.
Question: Which Iranian scientist co-invented the first gas laser?
Answer: Ali Javan
Question: When did Ali Javan, an Iranian scientist, co-invent the first gas laser?
Answer: 1960
Question: Which Iranian cardiologist developed and invented the first artificial cardiac pump?
Answer: Tofy Mussivand
Question: Which Iranian scientist discovered HbA1c to further treatment and research of diabetes?
Answer: Samuel Rahbar
Question: In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first women ever and first Iranian to win what prestigious mathematics award?
Answer: the Fields Medal |
Context: The Aksumites erected a number of large stelae, which served a religious purpose in pre-Christian times. One of these granite columns, the obelisk of Aksum, is the largest such structure in the world, standing at 90 feet. Under Ezana (fl. 320–360), Aksum later adopted Christianity. In the 7th century, early Muslims from Mecca also sought refuge from Quraysh persecution by travelling to the kingdom, a journey known in Islamic history as the First Hijra. It is also the alleged resting place of the Ark of the Covenant and the purported home of the Queen of Sheba.
Question: What purpose did stelae serve?
Answer: religious
Question: Who erected a number of large stelae in pre-Christian times?
Answer: The Aksumites
Question: Which stelae is considered the largest in the world, standing at 90 feet?
Answer: the obelisk of Aksum
Question: Who eventually adopted Christianity under Ezana?
Answer: Aksum
Question: Where is the Ark of the Covenant believed to be resting?
Answer: Aksum
Question: In what year was the obelisk of Aksum carved?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Aksum become Christians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Mecca founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How far above sea level is Mecca?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Muslims build in the 7th century for religious purposes?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the 1760s and early 1770s, relations between the Thirteen Colonies and Britain became increasingly strained, primarily because of resentment of the British Parliament's attempts to govern and tax American colonists without their consent. This was summarised at the time by the slogan "No taxation without representation", a perceived violation of the guaranteed Rights of Englishmen. The American Revolution began with rejection of Parliamentary authority and moves towards self-government. In response Britain sent troops to reimpose direct rule, leading to the outbreak of war in 1775. The following year, in 1776, the United States declared independence. The entry of France to the war in 1778 tipped the military balance in the Americans' favour and after a decisive defeat at Yorktown in 1781, Britain began negotiating peace terms. American independence was acknowledged at the Peace of Paris in 1783.
Question: British relations with which area became strained in the 1760s-1770s?
Answer: the Thirteen Colonies
Question: What was the American colonists' anti-tax slogan?
Answer: "No taxation without representation"
Question: When did the US declare independence?
Answer: 1776
Question: When did France enter the American Revolution war?
Answer: 1778
Question: When did Britain recognize American independence?
Answer: 1783 |
Context: Everton have had many other nicknames over the years. When the black kit was worn Everton were nicknamed "The Black Watch", after the famous army regiment. Since going blue in 1901, Everton have been given the simple nickname "The Blues". Everton's attractive style of play led to Steve Bloomer calling the team "scientific" in 1928, which is thought to have inspired the nickname "The School of Science". The battling 1995 FA Cup winning side were known as "The Dogs of War". When David Moyes arrived as manager he proclaimed Everton as "The People's Club", which has been adopted as a semi-official club nickname.
Question: What year did the Everton Football Club "go blue"?
Answer: 1901
Question: How did Steve Bloomer describe Everton's style of play in 1928?
Answer: scientific
Question: What is Everton Football Club's semi-official club nickname?
Answer: The People's Club
Question: What was Everton's nickname when they wore black before 1901?
Answer: The Black Watch
Question: What was Everton Football Club called after winning the 1995 FA Cup?
Answer: The Dogs of War
Question: Who did Steve Bloomer play for during his career?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did David Moyes arrive as manager of Everton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who came up with the nickname "The Blues"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What team did Steve Bloomer manage later in his career?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On January 13, 1887, the U,S. Government moved to annul the patent issued to Bell on the grounds of fraud and misrepresentation. After a series of decisions and reversals, the Bell company won a decision in the Supreme Court, though a couple of the original claims from the lower court cases were left undecided. By the time that the trial wound its way through nine years of legal battles, the U.S. prosecuting attorney had died and the two Bell patents (No. 174,465 dated March 7, 1876 and No. 186,787 dated January 30, 1877) were no longer in effect, although the presiding judges agreed to continue the proceedings due to the case's importance as a "precedent". With a change in administration and charges of conflict of interest (on both sides) arising from the original trial, the US Attorney General dropped the lawsuit on November 30, 1897 leaving several issues undecided on the merits.
Question: In 1887 the US Government wanted to undo Bell's patent due to fraud and what?
Answer: misrepresentation
Question: The US Government lost the bid to overturn Bell's patent in what court?
Answer: Supreme Court
Question: How many years did Bell and the US Government fight in court?
Answer: 9
Question: What excuse did the judges have for the trial despite the fact that the patents had expired?
Answer: precedent
Question: On what date did the US Government stop legal action?
Answer: November 30, 1897 |
Context: During the period from 1993 to 2011, FBI agents fired their weapons on 289 occasions; FBI internal reviews found the shots justified in all but 5 cases, in none of the 5 cases were people wounded. Samuel Walker, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha said the number of shots found to be unjustified was "suspiciously low." In the same time period, the FBI wounded 150 people, 70 of whom died; the FBI found all 150 shootings to be justified. Likewise, during the period from 2011 to the present, all shootings by FBI agents have been found to be justified by internal investigation. In a 2002 case in Maryland, an innocent man was shot, and later paid $1.3 million by the FBI after agents mistook him for a bank robber; the internal investigation found that the shooting was justified, based on the man's actions.
Question: How many times did FBI agents first their weapons from 1993 to 2011?
Answer: 289
Question: How many times were FBI shots not justified?
Answer: 5 cases
Question: How many people were wounded in the cases where FBI shooting was not justified?
Answer: none
Question: How did Samuel Walker describe the number of unjustified shots fired?
Answer: suspiciously low
Question: On what was the shooting of an innocent Maryland man deemed justified?
Answer: the man's actions
Question: How often did FBI agents fire their weapons before 1993?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What professor said the number of shots found to be unjustified was suspiciously high?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people did the FBI wound before 1993?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what period did the FBI find all shooting by FBI agents to be unjustified?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did the CIA pay out to an innocent man that was shot?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Linda Woodhead attempts to provide a common belief thread for Christians by noting that "Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance." Philosopher Michael Martin, in his book The Case Against Christianity, evaluated three historical Christian creeds (the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed) to establish a set of basic assumptions which include belief in theism, the historicity of Jesus, the Incarnation, salvation through faith in Jesus, and Jesus as an ethical role model.
Question: Who states that Christian believers agree that Jesus has a unique significance?
Answer: Linda Woodhead
Question: Who wrote The Case Against Christianity?
Answer: Michael Martin
Question: How many historical Christian creeds did Martin write about?
Answer: three
Question: What do Christians believe is the way to salvation?
Answer: faith in Jesus
Question: What are the three creeds Martin studied?
Answer: the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed
Question: According to Nicene Creed, what can Christians be united in believing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who do Christians believe has a unique insignificance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote The Case Against Creed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the author of The Apostles Creed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the author of The Nicene Creed?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Universal's multi-year film financing deal with Elliott Management expired in 2013. In July 2013, Universal made an agreement with Legendary Pictures to market, co-finance, and distribute Legendary's films for five years starting in 2014, the year that Legendary's similar agreement with Warner Bros. expires.
Question: Universal's deal with what company ended in 2013?
Answer: Elliott Management
Question: With whom did Universal sign a marketing and distribution deal in July 2013?
Answer: Legendary Pictures
Question: How many years is the deal with Legendary Pictures intended to run?
Answer: five years
Question: In what year did Universal's deal with Legendary Pictures begin?
Answer: 2014
Question: When did Elliott Management's financing deal expire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company made an agreement with Legendary Pictures in July 2014?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two companies had a deal that expired in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The casualties were horrible, especially for the attacking Prussian forces. A grand total of 20,163 German troops were killed, wounded or missing in action during the August 18 battle. The French losses were 7,855 killed and wounded along with 4,420 prisoners of war (half of them were wounded) for a total of 12,275. While most of the Prussians fell under the French Chassepot rifles, most French fell under the Prussian Krupp shells. In a breakdown of the casualties, Frossard's II Corps of the Army of the Rhine suffered 621 casualties while inflicting 4,300 casualties on the Prussian First Army under Steinmetz before the Pointe du Jour. The Prussian Guards Infantry Divisions losses were even more staggering with 8,000 casualties out of 18,000 men. The Special Guards Jäger lost 19 officers, a surgeon and 431 men out of a total of 700. The 2nd Guards Infantry Brigade lost 39 officers and 1,076 men. The 3rd Guards Infantry Brigade lost 36 officers and 1,060 men. On the French side, the units holding St. Privat lost more than half their number in the village.
Question: Who were the casualties especially terrible for?
Answer: the attacking Prussian forces
Question: What was the grand total of German casualties and those missing in action?
Answer: 20,163
Question: What were the number of French killed and wounded?
Answer: 7,855
Question: What was the number of French prisoners?
Answer: 4,420
Question: What did most Prussians fall under?
Answer: French Chassepot rifles |
Context: Victoria was pleased when Gladstone resigned in 1885 after his budget was defeated. She thought his government was "the worst I have ever had", and blamed him for the death of General Gordon at Khartoum. Gladstone was replaced by Lord Salisbury. Salisbury's government only lasted a few months, however, and Victoria was forced to recall Gladstone, whom she referred to as a "half crazy & really in many ways ridiculous old man". Gladstone attempted to pass a bill granting Ireland home rule, but to Victoria's glee it was defeated. In the ensuing election, Gladstone's party lost to Salisbury's and the government switched hands again.
Question: What year did Gladstone resign?
Answer: 1885
Question: Gladstone resigned after what was defeted?
Answer: his budget
Question: Victoria blamed Gladstone for the death of who?
Answer: General Gordon at Khartoum.
Question: Who replaced Gladstone after he resigned?
Answer: Lord Salisbury
Question: How long did Lord Salisburys government last?
Answer: a few months
Question: What man was Gladstone blamed for after his death at Khartoum?
Answer: General Gordon
Question: Who replaced Gladstone for only a few short months?
Answer: Lord Salisbury
Question: What did the bill Gladstone failed to pass state, much to Queen Victoria's pleasure?
Answer: granting Ireland home rule
Question: Who defeated Gladstone yet again in the general elction?
Answer: Salisbury
Question: Why did Gladstone resign in 1885?
Answer: his budget was defeated
Question: When did Gladstone resign?
Answer: 1885
Question: Why did Gladstone resign?
Answer: his budget was defeated
Question: How did Victoria feel about the resignation of Gladstone?
Answer: pleased
Question: Who's death did Victoria blame on Gladstone?
Answer: General Gordon
Question: Who replaced Gladstone?
Answer: Lord Salisbury
Question: What year didn't Gladstone resign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Gladstone resigned after what wasn't defeted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Victoria blamed Gladstone for the life of who?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who replaced Gladstone after he was fired?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did Lord Salisburys government not last?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old. The earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates at least from 3.5 billion years ago, during the Eoarchean Era after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean Eon. There are microbial mat fossils found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered in Western Australia. Other early physical evidence of a biogenic substance is graphite in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks discovered in Western Greenland. More recently, in 2015, "remains of biotic life" were found in 4.1 billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia. According to one of the researchers, "If life arose relatively quickly on Earth ... then it could be common in the universe."
Question: What is the estimate age of the Earth?
Answer: about 4.54 billion years old
Question: What era contains the earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth?
Answer: the Eoarchean Era
Question: What is the name of the era that predated life on Earth?
Answer: Hadean Eon
Question: Where were the billion year old microbial mat fossils found?
Answer: Western Australia
Question: Where were the 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks discovered?
Answer: Western Greenland
Question: What is the estimate age of rocks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What era contains the earliest undisputed evidence of rocks on Earth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the era that predated rocks on Earth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the 4.54 billion year old graphite found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were the 3.7 billion year old fossils found?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Finite symmetry groups such as the Mathieu groups are used in coding theory, which is in turn applied in error correction of transmitted data, and in CD players. Another application is differential Galois theory, which characterizes functions having antiderivatives of a prescribed form, giving group-theoretic criteria for when solutions of certain differential equations are well-behaved.u[›] Geometric properties that remain stable under group actions are investigated in (geometric) invariant theory.
Question: What are examples of finite symmetry groups used in coding theory?
Answer: Mathieu groups
Question: What is used for error correction of transferred data?
Answer: coding theory
Question: What describes functions having antiderivatives of a prescribed form?
Answer: differential Galois theory
Question: What concept investigates geometric elements that stay stable under group action?
Answer: invariant theory
Question: What theory is error correction applied to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which form of finite symmetry groups are useless in coding theory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Mathieu groups have what kind of prescribed form?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What stable properties does the Galois theory study?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Geometric Invariant theory studies what kind of equations?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Infractions of the rules are punished with penalties, typically a loss of yardage of 5, 10 or 15 yards against the penalized team. Minor violations such as offside (a player from either side encroaching into scrimmage zone before the play starts) are penalized five yards, more serious penalties (such as holding) are penalized 10 yards, and severe violations of the rules (such as face-masking) are typically penalized 15 yards. Depending on the penalty, the penalty yardage may be assessed from the original line of scrimmage, from where the violation occurred (for example, for a pass interference infraction), or from where the ball ended after the play. Penalties on the offence may, or may not, result in a loss of down; penalties on the defence may result in a first down being automatically awarded to the offence. For particularly severe conduct, the game official(s) may eject players (ejected players may be substituted for), or in exceptional cases, declare the game over and award victory to one side or the other. Penalties do not affect the yard line which the offence must reach to gain a first down (unless the penalty results in a first down being awarded); if a penalty against the defence results in the first down yardage being attained, then the offence is awarded a first down.
Question: What is the usual penalty when the rules of play are violated?
Answer: loss of yardage
Question: How many yards does a team lose when they commit a minor penalty?
Answer: five
Question: How many yards does a team lose for face-masking?
Answer: 15
Question: What other than yardage is sometimes awarded the offence on a defensive penalty?
Answer: first down
Question: What is the usual penalty when first downs are violated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many loss of downs does a team have when they have a more serious penalty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many downs are automatically awarded to the offense when a team commits a minor penalty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens when a team commits minor penalty such as face masking?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other than yardage can be awarded to the offence on the line of scrimmage?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As President, Johnson steadfastly pursued the Gemini and Apollo programs, promoting them as Kennedy's legacy to the American public. One week after Kennedy's death, he issued an executive order renaming the Cape Canaveral and Apollo launch facilities after Kennedy.
Question: What two locations in Florida were renamed after Kennedy by President Johnson?
Answer: Cape Canaveral and Apollo launch facilities
Question: Which two space programs were heavily worked on by President Johnson?
Answer: Gemini and Apollo |
Context: In 2001, a voluntary agreement called the Harkin-Engel Protocol, was accepted by the international cocoa and chocolate industry to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, as defined by ILO's Convention 182, in West Africa. This agreement created a foundation named International Cocoa Initiative in 2002. The foundation claims it has, as of 2011, active programs in 290 cocoa growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, reaching a total population of 689,000 people to help eliminate the worst forms of child labour in cocoa industry. Other organisations claim progress has been made, but the protocol's 2005 deadlines have not yet been met.
Question: What type of agreement was the 2001 Harkin-Engel Protocol?
Answer: voluntary
Question: What was the foundation that was the direct result of the agreement?
Answer: International Cocoa Initiative
Question: How many active programs does the foundation have?
Answer: 290
Question: What happened to the 2005 deadlines?
Answer: have not yet been met |
Context: The first Jewish congregation in Richmond was Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalom. Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalom was the sixth congregation in the United States. By 1822 K.K. Beth Shalom members worshipped in the first synagogue building in Virginia. They eventually merged with Congregation Beth Ahabah, an offshoot of Beth Shalom. There are two Orthodox Synagogues, Keneseth Beth Israel and Chabad of Virginia. There is an Orthodox Yeshivah K–12 school system known as Rudlin Torah academy, which also includes a post high-school program. There are two Conservative synagogues, Beth El and Or Atid. There are three Reform synagogues, Bonay Kodesh, Beth Ahabah and Or Ami. Along with such religious congregations, there are a variety of other Jewish charitable, educational and social service institutions, each serving the Jewish and general communities. These include the Weinstein Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Services, Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and Richmond Jewish Foundation.
Question: Along with Chabad of Virginia, what is the other Orthodox synagogue in Richmond?
Answer: Keneseth Beth Israel
Question: What grades does the Rudlin Torah academy serve?
Answer: K–12
Question: What sect of Judaism is Rudlin Torah affiliated with?
Answer: Orthodox
Question: What are the names of the Conservative synagogues in Richmond?
Answer: Beth El and Or Atid
Question: How many synagogues in the Reform tradition are present in Richmond?
Answer: three |
Context: Some bird species undertake shorter migrations, travelling only as far as is required to avoid bad weather or obtain food. Irruptive species such as the boreal finches are one such group and can commonly be found at a location in one year and absent the next. This type of migration is normally associated with food availability. Species may also travel shorter distances over part of their range, with individuals from higher latitudes travelling into the existing range of conspecifics; others undertake partial migrations, where only a fraction of the population, usually females and subdominant males, migrates. Partial migration can form a large percentage of the migration behaviour of birds in some regions; in Australia, surveys found that 44% of non-passerine birds and 32% of passerines were partially migratory. Altitudinal migration is a form of short distance migration in which birds spend the breeding season at higher altitudes elevations and move to lower ones during suboptimal conditions. It is most often triggered by temperature changes and usually occurs when the normal territories also become inhospitable due to lack of food. Some species may also be nomadic, holding no fixed territory and moving according to weather and food availability. Parrots as a family are overwhelmingly neither migratory nor sedentary but considered to either be dispersive, irruptive, nomadic or undertake small and irregular migrations.
Question: In Australia, what percentage of non-passerine birds were partially migratory
Answer: 44%
Question: In Australia, what percentage of passerine birds were partially migratory
Answer: 32%
Question: What is most often triggered by temperature changes?
Answer: Altitudinal migration
Question: Which family of birds are neither migratory or sedentary but considered to be dispersive, irruptive or nomadic?
Answer: Parrots |
Context: On 23 October 1954 – only nine years after Allies (UK, USA and USSR) defeated Nazi Germany ending World War II in Europe – the admission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the North Atlantic Pact was finally decided. The incorporation of West Germany into the organization on 9 May 1955 was described as "a decisive turning point in the history of our continent" by Halvard Lange, Foreign Affairs Minister of Norway at the time. In November 1954, the USSR requested a new European Security Treaty, in order to make a final attempt to not have a remilitarized West Germany potentially opposed to the Soviet Union, with no success.
Question: In which year was West Germany admitted to NATO?
Answer: 1954
Question: Halvard Lange was a minister of which NATO member?
Answer: Norway
Question: Who ended WWII in Europe by defeating the Allies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was decided on 13 October 1954?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: East Germany was accepted to the North Atlantic Pact on what date?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Foreign Affairs Minister of Germany in 1955?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who requested a new European Security Treaty in April 1954?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The discovery and isolation of radium in uranium ore (pitchblende) by Marie Curie sparked the development of uranium mining to extract the radium, which was used to make glow-in-the-dark paints for clock and aircraft dials. This left a prodigious quantity of uranium as a waste product, since it takes three tonnes of uranium to extract one gram of radium. This waste product was diverted to the glazing industry, making uranium glazes very inexpensive and abundant. Besides the pottery glazes, uranium tile glazes accounted for the bulk of the use, including common bathroom and kitchen tiles which can be produced in green, yellow, mauve, black, blue, red and other colors.
Question: What is another term for uranium ore?
Answer: pitchblende
Question: Who isolated radium in uranium ore?
Answer: Marie Curie
Question: In what types of paints was radium first used?
Answer: glow-in-the-dark
Question: What devices were painted with radium paint?
Answer: clock and aircraft dials
Question: Along with red, blue, black, yellow and green, what was a notable color of uranium tile glaze?
Answer: mauve
Question: What isn't another term for uranium ore?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who isolated radium in uranium core?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what types of paints was radium last used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What devices weren't painted with radium paint?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Along with red, blue, black, yellow and green, what wasn't a notable color of uranium tile glaze?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tito has also been named as responsible for systematic eradication of the ethnic German (Danube Swabian) population in Vojvodina by expulsions and mass executions following the collapse of the German occupation of Yugoslavia at the end of World War II, in contrast to his inclusive attitude towards other Yugoslav nationalities.
Question: What is the ethnic origin of the Danube Swabian people?
Answer: German
Question: Where is the location of the Danube Swabian population?
Answer: Vojvodina
Question: There were mass executions of Danube Swabian populations in what city?
Answer: Vojvodina
Question: Which group of people occupied Yugoslavia at the end of World War II?
Answer: German
Question: At the end of what World War did the Germans occupy Yugoslavia?
Answer: World War II, |
Context: Located in Jacksonville, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, combined with nearby bases Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, MCAS New River, Camp Geiger, Camp Johnson, Stone Bay and Courthouse Bay, makes up the largest concentration of Marines and sailors in the world. MCAS Cherry Point is home of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. Located in Goldsboro, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is home of the 4th Fighter Wing and 916th Air Refueling Wing. One of the busiest air stations in the United States Coast Guard is located at the Coast Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City. Also stationed in North Carolina is the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point in Southport.
Question: Where is Camp Lejeune located?
Answer: Jacksonville
Question: What is Camp Lejeune?
Answer: Marine Corps Base Camp
Question: Bases making up the larges concentration of marines and sailors in the world is located in what NC city?
Answer: Jacksonville
Question: Where is Seymour johnson air force base located?
Answer: Goldsboro
Question: Where is the military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point stationed?
Answer: Southport |
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