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Context: During the 1960s, the ceremony of assenting by commission was discontinued and is now only employed once a year, at the end of the annual parliamentary session. In 1960, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod arrived to summon the House of Commons during a heated debate and several members protested against the disruption by refusing to attend the ceremony. The debacle was repeated in 1965; this time, when the Speaker left the chair to go to the House of Lords, some members continued to make speeches. As a result, the Royal Assent Act 1967 was passed, creating an additional form for the granting of royal assent. As the attorney-general explained, "there has been a good deal of resentment not only at the loss of Parliamentary time that has been involved but at the breaking of the thread of a possibly eloquent speech and the disruption of a debate that may be caused." The granting of assent by the monarch in person, or by commission, is still possible, but this third form is used on a day-to-day basis.
Question: During which decade was assention by commission discontinued?
Answer: the 1960s
Question: When does assention by commission occur today?
Answer: once a year, at the end of the annual parliamentary session
Question: In whatear did several members refuse to attend the assention ceremony after a heated debate?
Answer: 1960
Question: What was passed in reference to the discord in 1960 and 1965 during assention cremonies?
Answer: Royal Assent Act 1967
Question: The ceremony of assenting by commission was continued in what decade?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The German Usher of the Black Rod summoned whom in 1960?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Royal Assent Act 1968 was passed why?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The granting of what by the monarch in person is no longer possible?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The 5th Regiment was sent to intercept him and made contact just south of Grenoble on March 7, 1815. Napoleon approached the regiment alone, dismounted his horse and, when he was within gunshot range, shouted to the soldiers, "Here I am. Kill your Emperor, if you wish." The soldiers quickly responded with, "Vive L'Empereur!" Ney, who had boasted to the restored Bourbon king, Louis XVIII, that he would bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage, affectionately kissed his former emperor and forgot his oath of allegiance to the Bourbon monarch. The two then marched together towards Paris with a growing army. The unpopular Louis XVIII fled to Belgium after realizing he had little political support. On March 13, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared Napoleon an outlaw. Four days later, Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia each pledged to put 150,000 men into the field to end his rule.
Question: What military unit was charged with intercepting Napoleon?
Answer: The 5th Regiment
Question: On what date was Napoleon contacted by the 5th Regiment?
Answer: March 7, 1815
Question: When Napoleon suggested to the 5th Regiment that they kill him, how did they respond?
Answer: "Vive L'Empereur!"
Question: Ney had told Louis XVIII that he would carry Napoleon to Paris in what kind of container?
Answer: an iron cage
Question: After fleeing France, where did Louis XVIII go?
Answer: Belgium |
Context: Hydrogen poses a number of hazards to human safety, from potential detonations and fires when mixed with air to being an asphyxiant in its pure, oxygen-free form. In addition, liquid hydrogen is a cryogen and presents dangers (such as frostbite) associated with very cold liquids. Hydrogen dissolves in many metals, and, in addition to leaking out, may have adverse effects on them, such as hydrogen embrittlement, leading to cracks and explosions. Hydrogen gas leaking into external air may spontaneously ignite. Moreover, hydrogen fire, while being extremely hot, is almost invisible, and thus can lead to accidental burns.
Question: What threats can hydrogen cause to human saftey?
Answer: potential detonations and fires when mixed with air to being an asphyxiant in its pure, oxygen-free form
Question: What can hydrogen embrittlement lead to?
Answer: cracks and explosions |
Context: On 1 September, Germany invaded Poland from the west. Within the first few days of the invasion, Germany began conducting massacres of Polish and Jewish civilians and POWs. These executions took place in over 30 towns and villages in the first month of German occupation. The Luftwaffe also took part by strafing fleeing civilian refugees on roads and carrying out a bombing campaign. The Soviet Union assisted German air forces by allowing them to use signals broadcast by the Soviet radio station at Minsk allegedly "for urgent aeronautical experiments".
Question: How did the Russians communicate to the Germans in regards to bombing civilians trying to flee cities?
Answer: signals broadcast by the Soviet radio
Question: What day did German invade Poland?
Answer: 1 September
Question: How long did the Germans massacre Polish and Jewish civilians?
Answer: month
Question: How didn't the Russians communicate to the Germans in regards to bombing civilians trying to flee cities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did the Russians communicate to the Germans in regards to bombing soldiers trying to flee cities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What day did German leave Poland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What day did German invade France?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long didn't the Germans massacre Polish and Jewish civilians?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The post-Imperial nature of Russian subdivision of government changed towards a generally autonomous model which began with the establishment of the USSR (of which Russia was governed as part). It was liberalized in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, with the reforms under Boris Yeltsin preserving much of the Soviet structure while applying increasingly liberal reforms to the governance of the constituent republics and subjects (while also coming into conflict with Chechen secessionist rebels during the Chechen War). Some of the reforms under Yeltsin were scaled back by Vladimir Putin.
Question: What happened to Russia's subdivision of government?
Answer: changed towards a generally autonomous model
Question: When was Russia's subdivision liberalized?
Answer: in the aftermath of the Soviet Union
Question: Who was in charge when the reforms was going on?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
Question: Who scaled back some reforms from Yeltsin?
Answer: Vladimir Putin
Question: What happened to Prussia's subdivision of government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When wasn't Russia's subdivision liberalized?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wasn't in charge when the reform was going on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was in charge when the reforms was scrapped?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who escalted some reforms from Yeltsin?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Solar concentrating technologies such as parabolic dish, trough and Scheffler reflectors can provide process heat for commercial and industrial applications. The first commercial system was the Solar Total Energy Project (STEP) in Shenandoah, Georgia, USA where a field of 114 parabolic dishes provided 50% of the process heating, air conditioning and electrical requirements for a clothing factory. This grid-connected cogeneration system provided 400 kW of electricity plus thermal energy in the form of 401 kW steam and 468 kW chilled water, and had a one-hour peak load thermal storage. Evaporation ponds are shallow pools that concentrate dissolved solids through evaporation. The use of evaporation ponds to obtain salt from sea water is one of the oldest applications of solar energy. Modern uses include concentrating brine solutions used in leach mining and removing dissolved solids from waste streams. Clothes lines, clotheshorses, and clothes racks dry clothes through evaporation by wind and sunlight without consuming electricity or gas. In some states of the United States legislation protects the "right to dry" clothes. Unglazed transpired collectors (UTC) are perforated sun-facing walls used for preheating ventilation air. UTCs can raise the incoming air temperature up to 22 °C (40 °F) and deliver outlet temperatures of 45–60 °C (113–140 °F). The short payback period of transpired collectors (3 to 12 years) makes them a more cost-effective alternative than glazed collection systems. As of 2003, over 80 systems with a combined collector area of 35,000 square metres (380,000 sq ft) had been installed worldwide, including an 860 m2 (9,300 sq ft) collector in Costa Rica used for drying coffee beans and a 1,300 m2 (14,000 sq ft) collector in Coimbatore, India, used for drying marigolds.
Question: The Solar Total Energy Project had a field of how many parabolic dishes?
Answer: 114
Question: Are transpired collectors more or less cost-effective than glazed collection systems?
Answer: more
Question: What are some examples of solar concentrating technologies?
Answer: parabolic dish, trough and Scheffler reflectors
Question: What was the first commercial solar concentrating system?
Answer: Solar Total Energy Project (STEP) in Shenandoah, Georgia, USA
Question: What is one of the oldest uses of solar energy?
Answer: use of evaporation ponds to obtain salt from sea water
Question: What are some items used to dry clothes without the use of electricity?
Answer: Clothes lines, clotheshorses, and clothes racks
Question: What are Unglazed transpired collectors?
Answer: perforated sun-facing walls used for preheating ventilation air |
Context: As early as 1794, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales Francis Grose suggested its closure as a penal settlement, as it was too remote and difficult for shipping and too costly to maintain. The first group of people left in February 1805, and by 1808 only about 200 remained, forming a small settlement until the remnants were removed in 1813. A small party remained to slaughter stock and destroy all buildings, so that there would be no inducement for anyone, especially from other European powers, to visit and lay claim to the place. From 15 February 1814 to 6 June 1825 the island was abandoned.
Question: When did Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales Francis Grose start suggesting Norfolk Island be closed as a penal settlement?
Answer: 1794
Question: Why did Francis Grose think that Norfolk Island should be closed as a penal settlement?
Answer: it was too remote and difficult for shipping and too costly to maintain
Question: When did the first group of people leave Norfolk Island?
Answer: February 1805
Question: By 1808, how many people remained on Norfolk Island?
Answer: 200
Question: Why did a small group of people remain on Norfolk Island, after others had already left?
Answer: to slaughter stock and destroy all buildings
Question: When did Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales Francis Grose start suggesting Norfolk Island be permanently opened as a penal settlement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Francis Grose think that Norfolk Island should be kept as a penal settlement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the first group of people save Norfolk Island?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people died on Norfolk Island by 1808?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did one person remain on Norfolk Island, after others had already left?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With the abatement of persecution, St. Jerome acknowledged the Empire as a bulwark against evil but insisted that "imperial honours" were contrary to Christian teaching. His was an authoritative but minority voice: most Christians showed no qualms in the veneration of even "pagan" emperors. The peace of the emperors was the peace of God; as far as the Church was concerned, internal dissent and doctrinal schism were a far greater problem. The solution came from a hitherto unlikely source: as pontifex maximus Constantine I favoured the "Catholic Church of the Christians" against the Donatists because:
Question: Who said the imperial honors were against Christian teachings?
Answer: St. Jerome
Question: With what veneration did most Christians have little trouble?
Answer: "pagan" emperors
Question: To what did the Christian church equate the peace of the emperors?
Answer: peace of God
Question: What pontifax maximus favored the Catholic church?
Answer: Constantine I
Question: What Christian group did Constantine I disapprove?
Answer: Donatists |
Context: In the following century Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, became the center of late Roman mosaic art (see details in Ravenna section). Milan also served as the capital of the western empire in the 4th century. In the St Aquilinus Chapel of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, mosaics executed in the late 4th and early 5th centuries depict Christ with the Apostles and the Abduction of Elijah; these mosaics are outstanding for their bright colors, naturalism and adherence to the classical canons of order and proportion. The surviving apse mosaic of the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, which shows Christ enthroned between Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius and angels before a golden background date back to the 5th and to the 8th century, although it was restored many times later. The baptistery of the basilica, which was demolished in the 15th century, had a vault covered with gold-leaf tesserae, large quantities of which were found when the site was excavated. In the small shrine of San Vittore in ciel d'oro, now a chapel of Sant'Ambrogio, every surface is covered with mosaics from the second half of the 5th century. Saint Victor is depicted in the center of the golden dome, while figures of saints are shown on the walls before a blue background. The low spandrels give space for the symbols of the four Evangelists.
Question: Which city besides Ravenna served as the capital of the Western Roman Empire?
Answer: Milan
Question: What is the name of the mosaic in the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio?
Answer: apse
Question: The shrine of San Vittore in ciel d'oro had mosaics from which century?
Answer: the 5th century
Question: Who do the mosaics at the the basilica of San Lorenzo depict as being abducted?
Answer: Elijah
Question: When was the baptistry at the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio demolished?
Answer: the 15th century |
Context: A major battleground, Burma was devastated during World War II. By March 1942, within months after they entered the war, Japanese troops had advanced on Rangoon and the British administration had collapsed. A Burmese Executive Administration headed by Ba Maw was established by the Japanese in August 1942. Wingate's British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines. A similar American unit, Merrill's Marauders, followed the Chindits into the Burmese jungle in 1943. Beginning in late 1944, allied troops launched a series of offensives that led to the end of Japanese rule in July 1945. The battles were intense with much of Burma laid waste by the fighting. Overall, the Japanese lost some 150,000 men in Burma. Only 1,700 prisoners were taken.
Question: Was Burma effected by the world wars?
Answer: Burma was devastated during World War II
Question: Did the British protect Burma as its colony during WWII?
Answer: the British administration had collapsed
Question: Where groups from Burma an advantage to the Allies during WWII?
Answer: British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines. A similar American unit, Merrill's Marauders
Question: How many soldiers were lost by the Japanese in Burma during WWII ?
Answer: the Japanese lost some 150,000 men in Burma
Question: When did the temporary Japanese rule end in Burma?
Answer: the end of Japanese rule in July 1945 |
Context: Although reptiles are less abundant and diverse than amphibians, a number of snakes are conspicuous members of the fauna. One of the largest is the non-venomous black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta), while the common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is among the smallest but most abundant. The American copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) and the timber rattler (Crotalus horridus) are venomous pit vipers. There are few lizards, but the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps), at up to 13 in (33 cm) in length, and an excellent climber and swimmer, is one of the largest and most spectacular in appearance and action. The most common turtle is the eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina), which is found in both upland and lowland forests in the central and southern Appalachians. Prominent among aquatic species is the large common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina), which occurs throughout the Appalachians.
Question: What are found more often than amphibians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the largest venomous snake in the Appalachians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How large can the black rat snake grow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which kind of turtle is only found in the eastern Appalachians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of snake is a good climber?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Consequently, Molotov, fearing that EDC would be directed in the future against the USSR therefore "seeking to prevent the formation of groups of European States directed against other European States", made a proposal for a General European Treaty on Collective Security in Europe "open to all European States without regard as to their social systems" which would have included the unified Germany (thus making the EDC – perceived by the USSR as a threat – unusable). But Eden, Dulles and Bidault opposed the proposal.
Question: Who made a proposal for a General European Treaty on Collective Identity in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What treaty would make the EDC usable?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which treaty would be open to only some European states?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who feared the EDC would work with the USSR?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: About 150,000 East African and black people live in Israel, amounting to just over 2% of the nation's population. The vast majority of these, some 120,000, are Beta Israel, most of whom are recent immigrants who came during the 1980s and 1990s from Ethiopia. In addition, Israel is home to over 5,000 members of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem movement that are descendants of African Americans who emigrated to Israel in the 20th century, and who reside mainly in a distinct neighborhood in the Negev town of Dimona. Unknown numbers of black converts to Judaism reside in Israel, most of them converts from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.
Question: How many East African and black people live in Israel?
Answer: About 150,000
Question: What percent of Israel's population is black?
Answer: just over 2%
Question: When did they migrate to Israel?
Answer: during the 1980s and 1990s
Question: Where did they migrate from?
Answer: Ethiopia.
Question: Where are most of the black converts from?
Answer: the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. |
Context: According to most scholars, the ancient Land of Punt and its inhabitants formed part of the ethnogenesis of the Somali people. The ancient Puntites were a nation of people that had close relations with Pharaonic Egypt during the times of Pharaoh Sahure and Queen Hatshepsut. The pyramidal structures, temples and ancient houses of dressed stone littered around Somalia are said to date from this period.
Question: What ancient land was connected to the modern Somali people?
Answer: Land of Punt
Question: What nation did the Land of Put have a close relationship with?
Answer: Pharaonic Egypt
Question: Who was a Queen of Egypt during the time when Punt and Egypt were close?
Answer: Hatshepsut
Question: Along with houses of dressed stone, what ancient architecture may have been influenced by Egypt?
Answer: pyramidal structures |
Context: The interceptor aircraft (or simply interceptor) is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft, particularly bombers, usually relying on high speed and altitude capabilities. A number of jet interceptors such as the F-102 Delta Dagger, the F-106 Delta Dart, and the MiG-25 were built in the period starting after the end of World War II and ending in the late 1960s, when they became less important due to the shifting of the strategic bombing role to ICBMs. Invariably the type is differentiated from other fighter aircraft designs by higher speeds and shorter operating ranges, as well as much reduced ordnance payloads.
Question: What kind of aircraft is used to intercept and destroy other aircraft?
Answer: The interceptor aircraft
Question: What particular aircraft did the interceptor target most?
Answer: bombers
Question: When were interceptors like the F-102 Delta Dagger first built?
Answer: after the end of World War II
Question: When were interceptors like the F-106 Delta Dart not being built anymore?
Answer: the late 1960s
Question: The interceptors were no longer built because of the shift of the bombing role to what?
Answer: ICBMs |
Context: Other religions that form a small percentage are Buddhism and Sikhism. The Lahaulis of Lahaul and Spiti region are mainly Buddhists. Sikhs mostly live in towns and cities and constitute 1.16% of the state population. For example, they form 10% of the population in Una District adjoining the state of Punjab and 17% in Shimla, the state capital. The Buddhists constitute 1.15% are mainly natives and tribals from Lahaul and Spiti, where they form majority of 60% and Kinnaur where they form 40%, however the bulk are refugees from Tibet. The Muslims constitute slightly 2.18% of the population of Himachal Pradesh.
Question: What other religions form a small percentage?
Answer: Buddhism and Sikhism
Question: Who are mainly Buddhists?
Answer: Lahaulis of Lahaul and Spiti
Question: What is the Muslim population in Himachal Pradesh?
Answer: slightly 2.18%
Question: Where do Sikhs mostly live?
Answer: towns and cities
Question: HOw much of the population do Sikh's make up?
Answer: 1.16%
Question: What percentage of the Una District is Buddhist?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Sikh population of Himachal Pradesh?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are most Sikh refugees from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do Muslims mainly live in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Muslims are in Shimla, the state capital?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Usually a Presbyterian church will not have statues of saints, nor the ornate altar more typical of a Roman Catholic church. Instead, one will find a "communion table," usually on the same level as the congregation. There may be a rail between the communion table and the "Chancel" behind it, which may contain a more decorative altar-type table, choir loft, or choir stalls, lectern and clergy area. The altar is called the communion table and the altar area is called the Chancel by Presbyterians. In a Presbyterian (Reformed Church) there may be an altar cross, either on the communion table or on a table in the chancel. By using the "empty" cross, or cross of the resurrection, Presbyterians emphasize the resurrection and that Christ is not continually dying, but died once and is alive for all eternity. Some Presbyterian church buildings are often decorated with a cross that has a circle around the center, or Celtic cross. This not only emphasized the resurrection, but also acknowledges historical aspects of Presbyterianism. A baptismal font will be located either at the entrance or near the chancel area. Presbyterian architecture generally makes significant use of symbolism. You may also find decorative and ornate stained glass windows depicting scenes from the bible. Some Presbyterian churches will also have ornate statues of Christ or Graven Scenes from the Last Supper located behind the Chancel. St. Giles Cathedral ( Church Of Scotland- The Mother Church of Presbyterians) does have a Crucifix next to one of the Pulpits that hangs alongside. The image of Christ is more of faint image and more modern design.
Question: What did Presbyterian churches have in them?
Answer: communion table
Question: What is the alter called in the Presbyterian church?
Answer: communion table
Question: What is the alter area refered to as in the Presbyterian church?
Answer: Chancel
Question: What is a decorated cross called in a Presbyterian church?
Answer: Celtic cross
Question: What did the Celtic Cross represent?
Answer: the resurrection
Question: What do Presbyterian churches usually have statues of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of altar does the Presbyterian church usually have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is located on a different level than the congregation in a Presbyterian church?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In a Presbyterian church there may be a rail located between the choir and what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The altar area is called the communion table and the altar is called what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: For his second album, Late Registration (2005), he collaborated with film score composer Jon Brion and drew influence from non-rap influences such as English trip hop group Portishead. Blending West's primary soulful hip hop production with Brion's elaborate chamber pop orchestration, the album experimentally incorporated a wide array of different genres and prominent orchestral elements, including string arrangements, piano chords, brass flecks, and horn riffs among other symphonic instrumentation. It also incorporated a myriad of foreign and vintage instruments not typical in popular music, let alone hip hop, such as a celesta, harpsichord, Chamberlin, CS-80 analog synthesizer, Chinese bells and berimbau, vibraphones, and marimba. Rolling Stone described Late Registration as West claiming "the whole world of music as hip-hop turf" chronicling the album as "his mad quest to explode every cliché about hip-hop identity." Critic Robert Christgau wrote that "there's never been hip-hop so complex and subtle musically." For a period of time, Kanye West stood as the sole current pop star to tour with a string section, as audible on his 2006 live album Late Orchestration.
Question: What composer did Kanye collaborate with for his second record?
Answer: Jon Brion
Question: What classical elements did Brion bring to the production of Kanye's album?
Answer: orchestral elements, including string arrangements, piano chords, brass flecks, and horn riffs among other symphonic instrumentation
Question: What sort of orchestra did Kanye tour with while promoting his second album?
Answer: a string section
Question: What composer did Kanye West work with for his second album?
Answer: Jon Brion
Question: What English trip-hop group helped influence Kanye on his second album?
Answer: Portishead |
Context: Television has played a major role in the history of the Premier League. The League's decision to assign broadcasting rights to BSkyB in 1992 was at the time a radical decision, but one that has paid off. At the time pay television was an almost untested proposition in the UK market, as was charging fans to watch live televised football. However, a combination of Sky's strategy, the quality of Premier League football and the public's appetite for the game has seen the value of the Premier League's TV rights soar.
Question: Who received broadcasting rights to the Premier League in 1992?
Answer: The League's decision to assign broadcasting rights to BSkyB in 1992
Question: Why was this a unique decision?
Answer: pay television was an almost untested proposition in the UK market,
Question: What happened to the Premier League's televsion rights after this decision?
Answer: the value of the Premier League's TV rights soar.
Question: What was the cause of this?
Answer: a combination of Sky's strategy, the quality of Premier League football and the public's appetite for the game
Question: In which year did the Premier League decide to give BSkyB broadcasting rights?
Answer: 1992
Question: What sort of television was BSkyB that made it such a radical broadcaster to choose for the Premier League?
Answer: pay television
Question: In which league has television played a minor role?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which year did BSkyB assign broadcasting rights to the League?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which year did The Premier League give the UK market broadcasting rights?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has played a minor role in the history of the Premier League?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has played a major role in BSkyB?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tito was notable for pursuing a foreign policy of neutrality during the Cold War and for establishing close ties with developing countries. Tito's strong belief in self-determination caused early rift with Stalin and consequently, the Eastern Bloc. His public speeches often reiterated that policy of neutrality and cooperation with all countries would be natural as long as these countries did not use their influence to pressure Yugoslavia to take sides. Relations with the United States and Western European nations were generally cordial.
Question: During what period did Tito pursue a policy of neutrality?
Answer: Cold War
Question: With whom did Tito's belief in self-determination cause a rift?
Answer: Stalin
Question: What type of countries did Tito develop relations with?
Answer: developing
Question: Who had a strong belief in self-determination and was opposed to Stalin because of this?
Answer: Tito
Question: Tito had cordial relations with the United States and what other Western area?
Answer: Western European nations |
Context: The first six presidents of the United States did not make extensive use of the veto power: George Washington only vetoed two bills, James Monroe one, and John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams none. James Madison, a firm believer in a strong executive, vetoed seven bills. None of the first six Presidents, however, used the veto to direct national policy. It was Andrew Jackson, the seventh President, who was the first to use the veto as a political weapon. During his two terms in office, he vetoed twelve bills—more than all of his predecessors combined. Furthermore, he defied the Supreme Court in enforcing the policy of ethnically cleansing Native American tribes ("Indian Removal"); he stated (perhaps apocryphally), "John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it!"
Question: How many bills did George Washington veto?
Answer: two
Question: How many bills did James Monroe veto?
Answer: one
Question: How many bills did Andrew Jackson veto
Answer: twelve
Question: Who was the seventh President of the United States?
Answer: Andrew Jackson
Question: Which president vetoed six bills?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the last president to use veto as a political weapon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many bills did Andrew Jackson veto to make him the least likely president to veto a bill?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who stated "Andrew Jackson has made his decision. Now let him enforce it!"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who defied the Supreme Court by enforcing Supreme Court Removal?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since 2006, $9 billion has been invested in downtown and surrounding neighborhoods; $5.2 billion of that in has come in 2013 and 2014. Construction activity, particularly rehabilitation of historic downtown buildings, has increased markedly. The number of vacant downtown buildings has dropped from nearly 50 to around 13.[when?] Among the most notable redevelopment projects are the Book Cadillac Hotel and the Fort Shelby Hotel; the David Broderick Tower; and the David Whitney Building. Meanwhile, work is underway or set to begin on the historic, vacant Wurlitzer Building and Strathmore Hotel.[citation needed]
Question: How much has been invested in Detroit since 2006?
Answer: $9 billion
Question: Which hotel is set to be renovated?
Answer: Strathmore
Question: How much money has been invested in Detroit in 2013-2014?
Answer: $5.2 billion
Question: How many vacant downtown buildings are there in Detroit?
Answer: 13 |
Context: Beyoncé's lighter skin color and costuming has drawn criticism from some in the African-American community. Emmett Price, a professor of music at Northeastern University, wrote in 2007, that he thinks race plays a role in many of these criticisms, saying white celebrities who dress similarly do not attract as many comments. In 2008, L'Oréal was accused of whitening her skin in their Feria hair color advertisements, responding that "it is categorically untrue", and in 2013, Beyoncé herself criticized H&M for their proposed "retouching" of promotional images of her, and according to Vogue requested that only "natural pictures be used".
Question: Which racial community gave criticism to Beyonce?
Answer: African-American
Question: Which professor from Northeastern University wrote about how race correlates with these criticisms of Beyonce?
Answer: Emmett Price
Question: Which company was accused of coloring Beyonce's hair?
Answer: L'Oréal
Question: What did Vogue request?
Answer: natural pictures be used
Question: How did L'Oreal respond to accusations of changing pictures?
Answer: it is categorically untrue
Question: In addition to her light skin color, what else has made part of the African American community criticize Beyoncé?
Answer: costuming
Question: In 2007, which music professor said he believes this criticism does involve race as well?
Answer: Emmett Price
Question: Who was accused of lightening Beyoncé's skin for an advertisement?
Answer: L'Oréal
Question: What advertisement was Beyoncé's skin supposedly lightened in?
Answer: Feria hair color advertisements
Question: Who did Beyoncé tell in 2013 to only use natural pictures of her rather than retouched images?
Answer: H&M |
Context: Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the capital of India during the British Raj until December 1911. However, Delhi had served as the political and financial centre of several empires of ancient India and the Delhi Sultanate, most notably of the Mughal Empire from 1649 to 1857. During the early 1900s, a proposal was made to the British administration to shift the capital of the British Indian Empire (as it was officially called) from Calcutta to Delhi. Unlike Calcutta, which was located on the eastern coast of India, Delhi was at the centre of northern India and the Government of British India felt that it would be logistically easier to administer India from the latter rather than the former.
Question: What city was the capital of India until December 1911?
Answer: Calcutta
Question: What is the name of the city formerly known as Calcutta?
Answer: Kolkata
Question: What is the name of the empire for which Delhi served as the political and financial capital from 1649 to 1857?
Answer: Mughal Empire
Question: In the early 1900s, the capital of the British Indian Empire was shifted from Calcutta to what city?
Answer: Delhi
Question: In what part of India is Delhi located?
Answer: the centre of northern India |
Context: In the early morning of 10 April, leading elements of the Austrian army crossed the Inn River and invaded Bavaria. The early Austrian attack surprised the French; Napoleon himself was still in Paris when he heard about the invasion. He arrived at Donauwörth on the 17th to find the Grande Armée in a dangerous position, with its two wings separated by 75 miles (121 km) and joined together by a thin cordon of Bavarian troops. Charles pressed the left wing of the French army and hurled his men towards the III Corps of Marshal Davout. In response, Napoleon came up with a plan to cut off the Austrians in the celebrated Landshut Maneuver. He realigned the axis of his army and marched his soldiers towards the town of Eckmühl. The French scored a convincing win in the resulting Battle of Eckmühl, forcing Charles to withdraw his forces over the Danube and into Bohemia. On 13 May, Vienna fell for the second time in four years, although the war continued since most of the Austrian army had survived the initial engagements in Southern Germany.
Question: On what date did the Austrian army first cross the Inn River?
Answer: 10 April
Question: Where was Napoleon when he received news of an Austrian invasion?
Answer: Paris
Question: When Napoleon reached Donauwörth, how much distance were the wings of the Grande Armée separated by?
Answer: 75 miles (121 km)
Question: What was the name of the plan Napoleon devised to cut off the Austrians during battle?
Answer: Landshut Maneuver
Question: What was the name of the conflict where the French defeated Austrian forces and forced them to withdraw to Bohemia?
Answer: Battle of Eckmühl |
Context: When their migratory movements ended, there appeared among the Slavs the first rudiments of state organizations, each headed by a prince with a treasury and a defense force. Moreover, it was the beginnings of class differentiation, and nobles pledged allegiance either to the Frankish/ Holy Roman Emperors or the Byzantine Emperors.
Question: What appeared among the Slavs when their migratory movements ended?
Answer: the first rudiments of state organizations
Question: When did the first rudiments of state organizations appear among the Slavs?
Answer: When their migratory movements ended
Question: Early state organizations where headed by what?
Answer: a prince with a treasury and a defense force
Question: Noble Slavs pledged allegiance to whom?
Answer: the Frankish/ Holy Roman Emperors or the Byzantine Emperors
Question: Who did the Byzantine Emperors pledge allegiance to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for the Byzantine Emperors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the beginnings of class differentiation end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who headed the Frankish Emperors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two things did each noble have?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The just-noticeable difference (jnd) (the threshold at which a change is perceived) depends on the tone's frequency content. Below 500 Hz, the jnd is about 3 Hz for sine waves, and 1 Hz for complex tones; above 1000 Hz, the jnd for sine waves is about 0.6% (about 10 cents). The jnd is typically tested by playing two tones in quick succession with the listener asked if there was a difference in their pitches. The jnd becomes smaller if the two tones are played simultaneously as the listener is then able to discern beat frequencies. The total number of perceptible pitch steps in the range of human hearing is about 1,400; the total number of notes in the equal-tempered scale, from 16 to 16,000 Hz, is 120.
Question: The just-noticeable difference, at which a change is perceived depends on what?
Answer: the tone's frequency content
Question: The jnd is typically tested by?
Answer: playing two tones in quick succession
Question: What is the range of perceptible pitch steps to human hearing?
Answer: 1,400 |
Context: Although the eastern image of farm life in the prairies emphasized the isolation of the lonely farmer and wife, plains residents created busy social lives for themselves. They often sponsored activities that combined work, food and entertainment such as barn raisings, corn huskings, quilting bees, Grange meetings, church activities and school functions. Women organized shared meals and potluck events, as well as extended visits between families. The Grange was a nationwide farmers' organization, they reserved high offices for women, and gave them a voice in public affairs.
Question: who usually organized shared meals and potluck events?
Answer: Women
Question: Who presided over church activities in the Great Plains?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did barn raisings at farm on the Great Plains?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Was it men or women that primarily engaged in corn huskings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Between men and women, who handled most school functions?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: World Trade Center Montevideo officially opened in 1998, although work is still ongoing as of 2010[update]. The complex is composed of three towers, two three-story buildings called World Trade Center Plaza and World Trade Center Avenue and a large central square called Towers Square. World Trade Center 1 was the first building to be inaugurated, in 1998.[citation needed] It has 22 floors and 17,100 square metres of space. That same year the avenue and the auditorium were raised. World Trade Center 2 was inaugurated in 2002, a twin tower of World Trade Center 1. Finally, in 2009, World Trade Center 3 and the World Trade Center Plaza and the Towers Square were inaugurated. It is located between the avenues Luis Alberto de Herrera and 26 de Marzo and has 19 floors and 27,000 square metres (290,000 sq ft) of space. The 6,300-square-metre (68,000 sq ft)[citation needed] World Trade Center Plaza is designed to be a centre of gastronomy opposite Towers Square and Bonavita St. Among the establishments on the plaza are Burger King, Walrus, Bamboo, Asia de Cuba, Gardenia Mvd, and La Claraboya Cafe.
Question: When did World Trade Center Montevideo officially open?
Answer: 1998
Question: What was the first building to be inaugurated?
Answer: World Trade Center 1
Question: When was World Trade Center 2 inaugurated?
Answer: 2002
Question: When was World Trade Center 3 inaugurated?
Answer: 2009 |
Context: The name of the metal was probably first documented by Paracelsus, a Swiss-born German alchemist, who referred to the metal as "zincum" or "zinken" in his book Liber Mineralium II, in the 16th century. The word is probably derived from the German zinke, and supposedly meant "tooth-like, pointed or jagged" (metallic zinc crystals have a needle-like appearance). Zink could also imply "tin-like" because of its relation to German zinn meaning tin. Yet another possibility is that the word is derived from the Persian word سنگ seng meaning stone. The metal was also called Indian tin, tutanego, calamine, and spinter.
Question: Who is attributed as first documenting zinc?
Answer: Paracelsus
Question: Why would zinc possibly be derived from the German word zinke?
Answer: metallic zinc crystals have a needle-like appearance
Question: Why is it possible that the name zinc could be derived from the German zinn?
Answer: imply "tin-like"
Question: What are some of the other terms for zinc?
Answer: Indian tin, tutanego, calamine, and spinter.
Question: Who is attributed as the only person to document zinc?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why would zinc possibly be derived from the imaginary word zinke?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some of the other outlawed words for zinc?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What alchemist that first documented zinc was born in India?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A 2013 study in Nature reported that DNA found in the 24,000-year-old remains of a young boy from the archaeological Mal'ta-Buret' culture suggest that up to one-third of the indigenous Americans may have ancestry that can be traced back to western Eurasians, who may have "had a more north-easterly distribution 24,000 years ago than commonly thought". "We estimate that 14 to 38 percent of Native American ancestry may originate through gene flow from this ancient population," the authors wrote. Professor Kelly Graf said,
Question: When was a study about the DNA of a young boy published in Nature?
Answer: 2013
Question: How old was the young boy's remains?
Answer: 24,000-year-old
Question: What culture was the boy from?
Answer: Mal'ta-Buret'
Question: What may one-third of the indigenous Americans ancestry be traced back to?
Answer: western Eurasians
Question: What percent of Native American ancestry may originate through gene flow from the Mal'ta-Buret' population?
Answer: 14 to 38 percent |
Context: The New Kingdom c. 1550–1070 BC began with the Eighteenth Dynasty, marking the rise of Egypt as an international power that expanded during its greatest extension to an empire as far south as Tombos in Nubia, and included parts of the Levant in the east. This period is noted for some of the most well known Pharaohs, including Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. The first historically attested expression of monotheism came during this period as Atenism. Frequent contacts with other nations brought new ideas to the New Kingdom. The country was later invaded and conquered by Libyans, Nubians and Assyrians, but native Egyptians eventually drove them out and regained control of their country.
Question: What year were the New Kingdom in control?
Answer: 1550–1070 BC
Question: What dynasty maked the rise of Egypt as international power?
Answer: Eighteenth Dynasty
Question: Who were some well known Pharaohs of the New Kindom?
Answer: Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and Ramesses II
Question: Who were some of the invaders to Egypt during the New Kingdom?
Answer: Libyans, Nubians and Assyrians |
Context: Temporal measurement has occupied scientists and technologists, and was a prime motivation in navigation and astronomy. Periodic events and periodic motion have long served as standards for units of time. Examples include the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, the swing of a pendulum, and the beat of a heart. Currently, the international unit of time, the second, is defined by measuring the electronic transition frequency of caesium atoms (see below). Time is also of significant social importance, having economic value ("time is money") as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in human life spans.
Question: What has been a prime motivation in astronomy and navigation?
Answer: Temporal measurement
Question: Periodic events and periodic motion have served as standards for what?
Answer: Periodic events and periodic motion
Question: What is the current international unit of time?
Answer: the second
Question: The electronic transition frequency of which element defines the second?
Answer: caesium atoms
Question: Time has personal value due to awareness of it's limited nature in what?
Answer: each day and in human life spans
Question: What groups have been occupied by understanding the life span of humans?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How important is a strong economy considered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do you define the method used for tracking heartbeats?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do caesium atoms affect to make them shorter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do scientists want to study caesium atoms?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been a prime motivation in units of time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have periodic events and transition frequency have served as standards for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the current national unit of time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why does time have international value?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of a technologist?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: IBM's employee management practices can be traced back to its roots. In 1914, CEO Thomas J. Watson boosted company spirit by creating employee sports teams, hosting family outings, and furnishing a company band. IBM sports teams still continue in the present day; the IBM Big Blue continue to exist as semi-professional company rugby and American football teams. In 1924 the Quarter Century Club, which recognizes employees with 25 years of service, was organized and the first issue of Business Machines, IBM's internal publication, was published. In 1925, the first meeting of the Hundred Percent Club, composed of IBM salesmen who meet their quotas, convened in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Question: Who was the CEO in 1914?
Answer: Thomas J. Watson
Question: The Quarter Century Club began in this year.
Answer: 1924
Question: What is the name of IBM's internal magazine?
Answer: Business Machines
Question: In 1925 the first meeting of this group occurred.
Answer: Hundred Percent Club
Question: What is the Hundred Percent Club composed of?
Answer: IBM salesmen who meet their quotas
Question: What employee management practices were first introduced in New Jersey in 1924?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the first Atlantic City publication made?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the Hundred Percent Club created to boost in 1914?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Starting in 1914, for how many years was the IBM internal publication made?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the first IBM sports team play in Atlantic City?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Intended torchbearer Lin Hatfield Dodds withdrew from the event, explaining that she wished to express concern about China's human rights record. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said her decision was "a very good example of peacefully making a point".
Question: Who withdrew as a torchbearer because of her concerns about human rights?
Answer: Lin Hatfield Dodds
Question: Who said Dodds' withdrawal was a good example of peacefully protesting?
Answer: Foreign Minister Stephen Smith
Question: Who withdrew from the torch event?
Answer: Lin Hatfield Dodds
Question: Who was the foreign minister that said her decision was a good example of peacefully making a point?
Answer: Stephen Smith |
Context: Based on experience with German strategic bombing during World War I against the United Kingdom, the British government estimated after the war that 50 casualties— with about one third killed— would result for every tonne of bombs dropped on London. The estimate of tonnes of bombs an enemy could drop per day grew as aircraft technology advanced, from 75 in 1922, to 150 in 1934, to 644 in 1937. That year the Committee on Imperial Defence estimated that an attack of 60 days would result in 600,000 dead and 1,200,000 wounded. News reports of the Spanish Civil War, such as the bombing of Barcelona, supported the 50-casualties-per-tonne estimate. By 1938 experts generally expected that Germany would attempt to drop as much as 3,500 tonnes in the first 24 hours of war and average 700 tonnes a day for several weeks. In addition to high explosive and incendiary bombs the enemy would possibly use poison gas and even bacteriological warfare, all with a high degree of accuracy. In 1939 military theorist Basil Liddell-Hart predicted that 250,000 deaths and injuries in Britain could occur in the first week of war.
Question: How many casualties did the British government estimate for every ton of bombs dropped?
Answer: 50
Question: As technology increased what was the amount of bombs that could be dropped in 1937 per day?
Answer: 644
Question: What committee estimated that 60 days of attacks would result in 600,000 deaths?
Answer: Imperial Defence
Question: How many tons did experts expect Germany to drop in the first 24 hours of the war?
Answer: 3,500
Question: Who was the military theorist in 1939 who said 250,000 deaths and injury could occur in the first week of war in Britian?
Answer: Basil Liddell-Hart |
Context: "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: "And upon her forehead was a name written a mystery: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of all the abominations of the earth: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
Question: How many heads did the scarlet beast which a woman sat on have?
Answer: seven heads
Question: The horned scarlet beast that a woman sat on had how many horns?
Answer: ten
Question: What kind of cup did the woman on the scarlet horned beast have?
Answer: golden
Question: What was on the forehead of the woman on the scarlet horned beast?
Answer: a name
Question: Outside of the blood of the saints, on what did the woman on the scarlet horned beast become drunken?
Answer: the blood of the martyrs of Jesus
Question: What had seven horns?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What had ten heads?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was "Mother the Great, Babylon of Harlots" written on the woman?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Unsure of his future, he first contemplated returning to London to complete his studies, but decided to return to Boston as a teacher. His father helped him set up his private practice by contacting Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the president of the Clarke School for the Deaf for a recommendation. Teaching his father's system, in October 1872, Alexander Bell opened his "School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech" in Boston, which attracted a large number of deaf pupils, with his first class numbering 30 students. While he was working as a private tutor, one of his most famous pupils was Helen Keller, who came to him as a young child unable to see, hear, or speak. She was later to say that Bell dedicated his life to the penetration of that "inhuman silence which separates and estranges." In 1893, Keller performed the sod-breaking ceremony for the construction of the new Bell's new Volta Bureau, dedicated to "the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf".
Question: What city did Bell decide to return to?
Answer: Boston
Question: In what year did Bell open his own school?
Answer: 1872
Question: How many people were in Bell's first class?
Answer: 30
Question: Which of Bell's students is the most well known?
Answer: Helen Keller |
Context: Standard Catalan, virtually accepted by all speakers, is mostly based on Eastern Catalan, which is the most widely used dialect. Nevertheless, the standards of Valencia and the Balearics admit alternative forms, mostly traditional ones, which are not current in eastern Catalonia.
Question: What is Standard based on?
Answer: Eastern Catalan
Question: What form is excepted by most speakers?
Answer: Standard Catalan
Question: What language forms are not now used in eastern Catalonia?
Answer: traditional ones |
Context: Emperor Meiji abolished the samurai's right to be the only armed force in favor of a more modern, western-style, conscripted army in 1873. Samurai became Shizoku (士族) who retained some of their salaries, but the right to wear a katana in public was eventually abolished along with the right to execute commoners who paid them disrespect. The samurai finally came to an end after hundreds of years of enjoyment of their status, their powers, and their ability to shape the government of Japan. However, the rule of the state by the military class was not yet over. In defining how a modern Japan should be, members of the Meiji government decided to follow the footsteps of the United Kingdom and Germany, basing the country on the concept of noblesse oblige. Samurai were not a political force under the new order. With the Meiji reforms in the late 19th century, the samurai class was abolished, and a western-style national army was established. The Imperial Japanese Armies were conscripted, but many samurai volunteered as soldiers, and many advanced to be trained as officers. Much of the Imperial Army officer class was of samurai origin, and were highly motivated, disciplined, and exceptionally trained.
Question: Who established a western-style army in Japan?
Answer: Emperor Meiji
Question: When was a western-style army established in Japan?
Answer: 1873
Question: What did samurai become in 1873?
Answer: Shizoku
Question: Who had samurai been allowed to kill?
Answer: commoners who paid them disrespect
Question: In what century were the Meiji reforms?
Answer: 19th |
Context: In December 1547, Francis was in Malacca (Malaysia) waiting to return to Goa (India) when he met a low-ranked samurai named Anjiro (possibly spelled "Yajiro"). Anjiro was not an intellectual, but he impressed Xavier because he took careful notes of everything he said in church. Xavier made the decision to go to Japan in part because this low-ranking samurai convinced him in Portuguese that the Japanese people were highly educated and eager to learn. They were hard workers and respectful of authority. In their laws and customs they were led by reason, and, should the Christian faith convince them of its truth, they would accept it en masse.
Question: Where was Malacca?
Answer: Malaysia
Question: Where was Goa?
Answer: India
Question: Who impressed Xavier by taking notes in church?
Answer: Anjiro
Question: In what language did Anjiro speak to Xavier?
Answer: Portuguese
Question: How did Anjiro think the Japanese would accept Christianity?
Answer: en masse |
Context: Most food in Alaska is transported into the state from "Outside", and shipping costs make food in the cities relatively expensive. In rural areas, subsistence hunting and gathering is an essential activity because imported food is prohibitively expensive. Though most small towns and villages in Alaska lie along the coastline, the cost of importing food to remote villages can be high, because of the terrain and difficult road conditions, which change dramatically, due to varying climate and precipitation changes. The cost of transport can reach as high as 50¢ per pound ($1.10/kg) or more in some remote areas, during the most difficult times, if these locations can be reached at all during such inclement weather and terrain conditions. The cost of delivering a 1 US gallon (3.8 L) of milk is about $3.50 in many villages where per capita income can be $20,000 or less. Fuel cost per gallon is routinely 20–30¢ higher than the continental United States average, with only Hawaii having higher prices.
Question: What causes food in Alaskan cities to be relatively expensive?
Answer: shipping costs
Question: How high can the cost of transport be in some remote areas?
Answer: 50¢ per pound ($1.10/kg)
Question: Which state in the US is the only to have higher fuel prices than Alaska?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: How much does it cost to transport a gallon of milk in some rural areas of Alaska?
Answer: $3.50
Question: What causes food in Alaskan cities to be relatively inexpensive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How low can the cost of transport be in some remote areas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How high can the cost of transport be in some urban areas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which state in the US is the only to have lower fuel prices than Alaska?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much does it cost to transport a gallon of milk in some urban areas of Alaska?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Federalism is one of the entrenched constitutional principles of Germany. According to the German constitution (called Grundgesetz or in English Basic Law), some topics, such as foreign affairs and defense, are the exclusive responsibility of the federation (i.e., the federal level), while others fall under the shared authority of the states and the federation; the states retain residual legislative authority for all other areas, including "culture", which in Germany includes not only topics such as financial promotion of arts and sciences, but also most forms of education and job training. Though international relations including international treaties are primarily the responsibility of the federal level, the constituent states have certain limited powers in this area: in matters that affect them directly, the states defend their interests at the federal level through the Bundesrat (literally Federal Council, the upper house of the German Federal Parliament) and in areas where they have legislative authority they have limited powers to conclude international treaties "with the consent of the federal government".
Question: What is an entrenched constitutional principle in Germany?
Answer: Federalism
Question: In Germany, foreign affairs is under the exclusive purvey of what?
Answer: the federation
Question: What is an example of what states retain authority over?
Answer: culture
Question: The states defend their interests at the federal level through what?
Answer: the Bundesrat
Question: Whose consent do the states need to make international treaties?
Answer: the federal government
Question: What is one of the entrenched legislative authorities of Bundesrat?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another word for foreign affairs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do the states have exclusive responsibility of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does German culture use to defend its interests at the federal level?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What areas do international relations also include?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which political system is not used in Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a topic that is the exclusive responsibility of the state?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the federal system is defended through?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sole power do the states hold that require no consent of the federal government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do the states hold the exclusive power to negotiate?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Whites (mainly of Afrikaner, German, British and Portuguese origin) make up between 4.0 and 7.0% of the population. Although their percentage of population is decreasing due to emigration and lower birth rates they still form the second-largest population of European ancestry, both in terms of percentage and actual numbers, in Sub-Saharan Africa (after South Africa). The majority of Namibian whites and nearly all those who are mixed race speak Afrikaans and share similar origins, culture, and religion as the white and coloured populations of South Africa. A large minority of whites (around 30,000) trace their family origins back to the German settlers who colonized Namibia prior to the British confiscation of German lands after World War One, and they maintain German cultural and educational institutions. Nearly all Portuguese settlers came to the country from the former Portuguese colony of Angola. The 1960 census reported 526,004 persons in what was then South-West Africa, including 73,464 whites (14%).
Question: Whites make up how much of Namibia's population?
Answer: 4.0 and 7.0%
Question: What is the language of Namibia?
Answer: Afrikaans
Question: Where do a large minority of whites trace their Namibian roots to?
Answer: German settlers
Question: What was the population in South-West Africa in 1960?
Answer: 526,004
Question: How much of the population was white in South-West Africa in 1960?
Answer: 73,464
Question: How many people of British descent make up the population of Namibia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of the Namibia population is German?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the most spoken language in Namibia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many white people were there in Namibia in the 2000 census?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people in total was there in Namibia in the 2000 census?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Guinea-Bissau is a member of the United Nations, African Union, Economic Community of West African States, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Latin Union, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, La Francophonie and the South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone.
Question: What Islamic organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Question: What Portuguese organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: Community of Portuguese Language Countries
Question: What West African organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: Economic Community of West African States
Question: What South Atlantic organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone
Question: What Latin organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: the Latin Union |
Context: At about this same time, Burke was introduced to William Gerard Hamilton (known as "Single-speech Hamilton"). When Hamilton was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, Burke accompanied him to Dublin as his private secretary, a position he held for three years. In 1765 Burke became private secretary to the liberal Whig statesman, Charles, Marquess of Rockingham, then Prime Minister of Great Britain, who remained Burke's close friend and associate until his untimely death in 1782. Rockingham also introduced Burke as a Freemason.
Question: What was William Gerard Hamilton's nickname?
Answer: Single-speech Hamilton
Question: Who was William Gerard Hamilton's private secretary?
Answer: Burke
Question: When did Burke become the Prime Minister's private secretary?
Answer: 1765
Question: Who invited Burke to join the Freemasons?
Answer: Charles, Marquess of Rockingham
Question: What political party was Charles, Marquess of Rockingham in?
Answer: Whig
Question: What was Burke's nickname?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Burke's secretary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country was Burke the Chief Secretary for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Burke go with Hamilton to Dublin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Hamilton die?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Towards the center, at the end of the groove, there is another wide-pitched section known as the lead-out. At the very end of this section the groove joins itself to form a complete circle, called the lock groove; when the stylus reaches this point, it circles repeatedly until lifted from the record. On some recordings (for example Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, Super Trouper by Abba and Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd), the sound continues on the lock groove, which gives a strange repeating effect. Automatic turntables rely on the position or angular velocity of the arm, as it reaches the wider spacing in the groove, to trigger a mechanism that lifts the arm off the record. Precisely because of this mechanism, most automatic turntables are incapable of playing any audio in the lock groove, since they will lift the arm before it reaches that groove.
Question: What is a 'lead out'?
Answer: wide-pitched section
Question: What is the center where the data joins to complete a circle?
Answer: lock groove
Question: Do turntables play music on lock grooves?
Answer: most automatic turntables are incapable
Question: What do most automatic turn tables do when they meet a lock groove?
Answer: lift the arm
Question: Where do you find a lead out?
Answer: Towards the center, at the end of the groove |
Context: Further distinctions in self-concept, called "differentiation," occur as the adolescent recognizes the contextual influences on their own behavior and the perceptions of others, and begin to qualify their traits when asked to describe themselves. Differentiation appears fully developed by mid-adolescence. Peaking in the 7th-9th grades, the personality traits adolescents use to describe themselves refer to specific contexts, and therefore may contradict one another. The recognition of inconsistent content in the self-concept is a common source of distress in these years (see Cognitive dissonance), but this distress may benefit adolescents by encouraging structural development.
Question: When does differentiation appear fully developed?
Answer: by mid-adolescence
Question: When adolescents begin to qualify their traits, what are they demonstrating?
Answer: differentiation
Question: Does the recognition of inconsistent content in one's self-concept typically bring distress or peace to an adolescent?
Answer: distress |
Context: Warfare in Normandy at the time was shaped by the defensive potential of castles and the increasing costs of conducting campaigns. The Norman frontiers had limited natural defences but were heavily reinforced with castles, such as Château Gaillard, at strategic points, built and maintained at considerable expense. It was difficult for a commander to advance far into fresh territory without having secured his lines of communication by capturing these fortifications, which slowed the progress of any attack. Armies of the period could be formed from either feudal or mercenary forces. Feudal levies could only be raised for a fixed length of time before they returned home, forcing an end to a campaign; mercenary forces, often called Brabançons after the Duchy of Brabant but actually recruited from across northern Europe, could operate all year long and provide a commander with more strategic options to pursue a campaign, but cost much more than equivalent feudal forces. As a result, commanders of the period were increasingly drawing on larger numbers of mercenaries.
Question: Warfare in Normandy was shaped by what?
Answer: defensive potential of castles
Question: What were mercenary forces called?
Answer: Brabançons
Question: What castle was built at a strategic point?
Answer: Château Gaillard |
Context: The constitution for independent Swaziland was promulgated by Britain in November 1963 under the terms of which legislative and executive councils were established. This development was opposed by the Swazi National Council (liqoqo). Despite such opposition, elections took place and the first Legislative Council of Swaziland was constituted on 9 September 1964. Changes to the original constitution proposed by the Legislative Council were accepted by Britain and a new constitution providing for a House of Assembly and Senate was drawn up. Elections under this constitution were held in 1967.
Question: When did the Swaziland constitution come to be?
Answer: November 1963
Question: What is another way to refer to the Swazi National Council?
Answer: liqoqo
Question: When was the Legislative Council of Swaziland first created?
Answer: 9 September 1964
Question: When did elections that provided for a House of Assembly for Swaziland occur?
Answer: 1967
Question: What constitution did Britian put into effect in the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What established a judicial and executive council in Swaziland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who supported the legislative council?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What provided for a House Assembly in 1964?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The state of California was admitted to the United States in 1850. That same year San Diego was designated the seat of the newly established San Diego County and was incorporated as a city. Joshua H. Bean, the last alcalde of San Diego, was elected the first mayor. Two years later the city was bankrupt; the California legislature revoked the city's charter and placed it under control of a board of trustees, where it remained until 1889. A city charter was re-established in 1889 and today's city charter was adopted in 1931.
Question: In what year did San Diego officially become a city?
Answer: 1850
Question: Who was San Diego's first mayor?
Answer: Joshua H. Bean
Question: What happened two years after San Diego elected it's first mayor?
Answer: the city was bankrupt
Question: Who controlled San Diego's charter for 2 years after it was revoked by California legislature?
Answer: a board of trustees
Question: When was San Diego's current charter adopted?
Answer: 1931
Question: In what year did San Francisco officially become a city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was San Diego's last mayor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened two years after San Diego elected it's last mayor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who controlled San Diego's charter for 4 years after it was revoked by California legislature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was San Francisco's current charter adopted?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 17 April 2015, The Sun's columnist Katie Hopkins called migrants to Britain "cockroaches" and "feral humans" and said they were "spreading like the norovirus". Her remarks were condemned by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. In a statement released on 24 April 2015, High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein stated that Hopkins' used "language very similar to that employed by Rwanda's Kangura newspaper and Radio Mille Collines during the run up to the 1994 genocide", and noted that both media organizations were subsequently convicted by an international tribunal of public incitement to commit genocide.
Question: Which Sun columnist made controversial remarks about migrants to Britain in April 2015?
Answer: Katie Hopkins
Question: What terms did Katie Hopkins use to describe migrants to Britain?
Answer: "cockroaches" and "feral humans" and said they were "spreading like the norovirus"
Question: Which organization sharply rebuked Hopkins' comments?
Answer: the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights
Question: Who was the High Commissioner of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights?
Answer: Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
Question: What did Hussein compare Hopkins' remarks to?
Answer: that employed by Rwanda's Kangura newspaper and Radio Mille Collines during the run up to the 1994 genocide |
Context: Note: The green arrows (), red arrows (), and blue dashes () represent changes in rank. The changes in rank are not relative to the HDI list above, but are according to the source (p. 168) calculated with the exclusion of countries which are missing IHDI data.
Question: What represents not changing rank?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is relative to the HDI list?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In addition, recording and reproducing an HDTV signal was a significant technical challenge in the early years of HDTV (Sony HDVS). Japan remained the only country with successful public broadcasting of analog HDTV, with seven broadcasters sharing a single channel.
Question: How many broadcasters did Japan have sharing a single channel?
Answer: seven
Question: Which country had successful public analog HDTV broadcasting?
Answer: Japan
Question: What was particularly challenging in the early years of HDTV?
Answer: recording and reproducing an HDTV signal
Question: What accomplishment in early HDTV did Japan have?
Answer: the only country with successful public broadcasting of analog HDTV
Question: How many broadcasters did Japan have sharing a multi channel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which country had successful public analog SDTV broadcasting?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was particularly challenging in the early years of SDTV?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What accomplishment in early SDTV did Japan have?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department offers a wide variety of leisure opportunities at more than 150 sites throughout the city, which include: 8,100 acres (33 km2) of park land, 78 miles (126 km) of greenway, 22 community centers, a BMX championship-caliber race track, 112 tennis courts among 25 locations, 5 public lakes, and 8 public aquatic facilities. The J. C. Raulston Arboretum, an 8-acre (32,000 m²) arboretum and botanical garden in west Raleigh administered by North Carolina State University, maintains a year-round collection that is open daily to the public without charge.
Question: How many sites are throughout Raleigh?
Answer: 150
Question: What are there 8,100 acres of in Raleigh?
Answer: park land,
Question: What type of race track is in Raleigh?
Answer: BMX championship-caliber
Question: How many public lakes are in Raleigh?
Answer: 5 public lakes,
Question: What is the name of the arboretum?
Answer: J. C. Raulston Arboretum
Question: What has more than 200 sites throughout the city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many parks were new this year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the 10-acre arboretum called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many football stadiums are there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many ponds are there?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: While Nasser was in Syria, King Saud planned to have him assassinated on his return flight to Cairo. On 4 March, Nasser addressed the masses in Damascus and waved before them the Saudi check given to Syrian security chief and Nasser supporter Abdel Hamid Sarraj to shoot down Nasser's plane. As a consequence of Saud's scheme, he was forced by senior members of the Saudi royal family to informally cede most of his powers to his brother, King Faisal, a major opponent of Nasser and advocate for pan-Islamic unity over pan-Arabism.
Question: Who tried to assassinate Nasser?
Answer: King Saud
Question: How was the assassination supposed to have been carried out?
Answer: shoot down Nasser's plane
Question: Who assumed power in Saudi Arabia after the failed assassination attempt?
Answer: King Faisal
Question: What was King Faisal's position toward Nasser?
Answer: opponent |
Context: Their endowment by a prince or monarch and their role in training government officials made these Mediterranean universities similar to Islamic madrasas, although madrasas were generally smaller and individual teachers, rather than the madrasa itself, granted the license or degree. Scholars like Arnold H. Green and Hossein Nasr have argued that starting in the 10th century, some medieval Islamic madrasahs became universities. George Makdisi and others, however, argue that the European university has no parallel in the medieval Islamic world. Other scholars regard the university as uniquely European in origin and characteristics.
Question: What type of university was an Islamic madrasa akin to?
Answer: Mediterranean universities
Question: What type of individual funded a Mediterranean university?
Answer: prince or monarch
Question: In which century did Islamic madrasas start to transform into universities?
Answer: 10th
Question: From where did a degree come in a madrasa?
Answer: individual teachers
Question: What did many towns establish in the Islamic world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did madrasa grant to students?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said madrasahs developed from universities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Islamic schools developed from universities in the 10th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to madrasa in the 10000's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of university was an a European university akin to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of individual funded a European university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which century did Islamic madrasas start to transform into Hossein?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: From where did a degree come in a university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did some monarchs become in the 10th centurty?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Football is also popular in Armenia. The most successful team was the FC Ararat Yerevan team of the 1970s who won the Soviet Cup in 1973 and 1975 and the Soviet Top League in 1973. The latter achievement saw FC Ararat gain entry to the European Cup where – despite a home victory in the second leg – they lost on aggregate at the quarter final stage to eventual winner FC Bayern Munich. Armenia competed internationally as part of the USSR national football team until the Armenian national football team was formed in 1992 after the split of the Soviet Union. Armenia have never qualified for a major tournament although recent improvements saw the team to achieve 44th position in the FIFA World Rankings in September 2011. The national team is controlled by the Football Federation of Armenia. The Armenian Premier League is the highest level football competition in Armenia, and has been dominated by FC Pyunik in recent seasons. The league currently consists of eight teams and relegates to the Armenian First League.
Question: What team won the Soviet football Cup in 1973 and 1975?
Answer: FC Ararat Yerevan team
Question: Which team did the FC Ararat lose to in the European Cup?
Answer: FC Bayern Munich
Question: What FIFA ranking did Armenia hold in 2011?
Answer: 44th
Question: How many teams does the Armenian Premier League have?
Answer: eight teams |
Context: Napoleon institutionalised plunder of conquered territories: French museums contain art stolen by Napoleon's forces from across Europe. Artefacts were brought to the Musée du Louvre for a grand central museum; his example would later serve as inspiration for more notorious imitators. He was compared to Adolf Hitler most famously by the historian Pieter Geyl in 1947 and Claude Ribbe in 2005. David G. Chandler, a foremost historian of Napoleonic warfare, wrote in 1973 that, "Nothing could be more degrading to the former [Napoleon] and more flattering to the latter [Hitler]. The comparison is odious. On the whole Napoleon was inspired by a noble dream, wholly dissimilar from Hitler's... Napoleon left great and lasting testimonies to his genius—in codes of law and national identities which survive to the present day. Adolf Hitler left nothing but destruction."
Question: What practice in defeated territories became institutionalized under Napoleon?
Answer: plunder
Question: Where in France were plundered artifacts brought in an effort to create a great central museum?
Answer: the Musée du Louvre
Question: Who compared Napoleon to Hitler in 1947?
Answer: Pieter Geyl
Question: Who compared Napoleon to Hitler in 2005?
Answer: Claude Ribbe
Question: In 1973, which historian objected to comparisons between Napoleon and Hitler?
Answer: David G. Chandler |
Context: In 1956, following the declaration of the Imre Nagy government of withdrawal of Hungary from the Warsaw Pact, Soviet troops entered the country and removed the government. Soviet forces crushed the nationwide revolt, leading to the death of an estimated 2,500 Hungarian citizens.
Question: In which year did Hungary attempt to leave the Warsaw Pact?
Answer: 1956
Question: Who was the head of the Hungarian government at the time of the revolt?
Answer: Imre Nagy
Question: Which country withdrew from the Warsaw Pact in 1966?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose troops entered Hungary and supported thier government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose forces supported the nationwide revolt?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: 250,000 of whose citizens dies after withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A German ethnicity emerged in the course of the Middle Ages, ultimately as a result of the formation of the kingdom of Germany within East Francia and later the Holy Roman Empire, beginning in the 9th century. The process was gradual and lacked any clear definition, and the use of exonyms designating "the Germans" develops only during the High Middle Ages. The title of rex teutonicum "King of the Germans" is first used in the late 11th century, by the chancery of Pope Gregory VII, to describe the future Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation Henry IV. Natively, the term ein diutscher ("a German") is used for the people of Germany from the 12th century.
Question: What period in history do we see the emergence of German culture?
Answer: High Middle Ages
Question: The kingdom of Germany formed within what outer established empires?
Answer: East Francia
Question: When was the Title King of the Germans first used?
Answer: late 11th century
Question: Who coined the phrase "king of the Germans"
Answer: chancery of Pope Gregory VII,
Question: Who was given the prilavage of being called the first King of the Germans?
Answer: Henry IV
Question: When did a German ethnicity emerge?
Answer: the Middle Ages
Question: When is the title of rex teutonicum first used?
Answer: the late 11th century
Question: Who first used rex teutonicum?
Answer: Pope Gregory VII
Question: When is ein diutscher first used?
Answer: 12th century
Question: What does ein diutscher mean?
Answer: a German
Question: What ethnicity emerged following the Middle Ages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kingdom was formed in the 900's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two empires formed the kingdom of Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What title is first used in the 1100's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term has been used to refer to the people of the region since the 1200's?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to the Sichuan Department of Commerce, the province's total foreign trade was US$22.04 billion in 2008, with an annual increase of 53.3 percent. Exports were US$13.1 billion, an annual increase of 52.3 percent, while imports were US$8.93 billion, an annual increase of 54.7 percent. These achievements were accomplished because of significant changes in China's foreign trade policy, acceleration of the yuan's appreciation, increase of commercial incentives and increase in production costs. The 18 cities and counties witnessed a steady rate of increase. Chengdu, Suining, Nanchong, Dazhou, Ya'an, Abazhou, and Liangshan all saw an increase of more than 40 percent while Leshan, Neijiang, Luzhou, Meishan, Ziyang, and Yibin saw an increase of more than 20 percent. Foreign trade in Zigong, Panzhihua, Guang'an, Bazhong and Ganzi remained constant.
Question: By how much did foreign trade increase in Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: 53.3 percent
Question: What was the export level of Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: US$13.1 billion
Question: What was the import level of Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: US$8.93 billion
Question: What cities saw an increase in foreign trade of more than 40% in 2008?
Answer: Chengdu, Suining, Nanchong, Dazhou, Ya'an, Abazhou, and Liangshan
Question: Who says Sichuans total forign trade is 22.04 billion CNY
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was equal to 13.1 billion CNY?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was equal to 8.93 billion CNY?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has a decrease in production costs contributed to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By how much did production costs increase in Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the commercial incentives for of Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What production costs of Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cities saw an increase in imports of more than 40% in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused the increase in foreign counties?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint, operating 60 Legal Attache (LEGAT) offices and 15 sub-offices in U.S. embassies and consulates across the globe. These overseas offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a limited domestic function; these activities generally require coordination across government agencies.
Question: What kind of work was the FBI focused on?
Answer: domestic
Question: How many LEGAT offices does the FBI operate?
Answer: 60
Question: Why does the FBI operate LEGAT offices?
Answer: coordination with foreign security services
Question: Do LEGAT offices conduct unilateral operations in host countries?
Answer: not usually
Question: What do oversea operations require?
Answer: coordination
Question: How many LEGAT offices does the CIA operate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many sub-offices in U.S. embassies does the CIA have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why does the CIA operate LEGAT offices?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What intelligence agency conducts unilateral operations in host countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not important in overseas operations?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Around 3.8 million people work in Switzerland; about 25% of employees belonged to a trade union in 2004. Switzerland has a more flexible job market than neighbouring countries and the unemployment rate is very low. The unemployment rate increased from a low of 1.7% in June 2000 to a peak of 4.4% in December 2009. The unemployment rate is 3.2% in 2014. Population growth from net immigration is quite high, at 0.52% of population in 2004. The foreign citizen population was 21.8% in 2004, about the same as in Australia. GDP per hour worked is the world's 16th highest, at 49.46 international dollars in 2012.
Question: What percentage of employees belonged to a trade union in 2004?
Answer: about 25%
Question: How many people work in Switzerland?
Answer: Around 3.8 million
Question: What was the unemployment rate in Switzerland in 2014?
Answer: 3.2%
Question: What was the foreign citizen population percentage in Switzerland in 2014?
Answer: 21.8%
Question: What was the peak unemployment rate reached in December, 2009?
Answer: 4.4% |
Context: There are both practical and theoretical difficulties in determining h. The practical difficulties can be illustrated by the fact that the two most accurate methods, the watt balance and the X-ray crystal density method, do not appear to agree with one another. The most likely reason is that the measurement uncertainty for one (or both) of the methods has been estimated too low – it is (or they are) not as precise as is currently believed – but for the time being there is no indication which method is at fault.
Question: What is a main practical difficulty in determining n?
Answer: the two most accurate methods, the watt balance and the X-ray crystal density method, do not appear to agree with one another
Question: Why does this difficulty occur?
Answer: it is (or they are) not as precise as is currently believed
Question: Which method is at fault or the discrepancy?
Answer: there is no indication which method is at fault
Question: What is a main practical difficulty in determining x?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is there no difficulty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which method is required for the discrepancy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What difficulties are not involved with determining h?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Native Mahayana Buddhism is practiced today in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, parts of Russia and most of Vietnam (also commonly referred to as "Eastern Buddhism"). The Buddhism practiced in Tibet, the Himalayan regions, and Mongolia is also Mahayana in origin, but is discussed below under the heading of Vajrayana (also commonly referred to as "Northern Buddhism"). There are a variety of strands in Eastern Buddhism, of which "the Pure Land school of Mahayana is the most widely practised today.". In most of this area however, they are fused into a single unified form of Buddhism. In Japan in particular, they form separate denominations with the five major ones being: Nichiren, peculiar to Japan; Pure Land; Shingon, a form of Vajrayana; Tendai, and Zen. In Korea, nearly all Buddhists belong to the Chogye school, which is officially Son (Zen), but with substantial elements from other traditions.
Question: Native Mahayana buddhism is also called what?
Answer: Eastern Buddhism
Question: The Buddhism practiced in Tibet, the Himalayan regions and Mongolia are often referred to as?
Answer: Northern Buddhism
Question: What is the most widely practised Eastern Buddhism?
Answer: the Pure Land school of Mahayana |
Context: Some succeeded their fathers as rulers, such as Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, who ruled Morocco from 1578 to 1608. He was not technically considered as a mixed-race child of a slave; his mother was Fulani and a concubine of his father. Such tolerance for black persons, even when technically "free", was not so common in Morocco. The long association of sub-Saharan peoples as slaves is shown in the term abd (Arabic: عبد,) (meaning "slave"); it is still frequently used in the Arabic-speaking world as a term for black people.
Question: Who was the ruler in Morocco?
Answer: Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur
Question: When did Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur rule?
Answer: from 1578 to 1608
Question: What ethnicity was his mother?
Answer: Fulani
Question: What Arabic term is still used for black people?
Answer: (Arabic: عبد,) (meaning "slave")
Question: Who still had the term "slave" used in reference to them?
Answer: sub-Saharan peoples |
Context: After 14 years as editor, William Rees-Mogg resigned the post upon completion of the change of ownership. Murdoch began to make his mark on the paper by appointing Harold Evans as his replacement. One of his most important changes was the introduction of new technology and efficiency measures. In March–May 1982, following agreement with print unions, the hot-metal Linotype printing process used to print The Times since the 19th century was phased out and replaced by computer input and photo-composition. This allowed print room staff at The Times and The Sunday Times to be reduced by half. However, direct input of text by journalists ("single stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the Wapping dispute of 1986, when The Times moved from New Printing House Square in Gray's Inn Road (near Fleet Street) to new offices in Wapping.
Question: When The Times was bought in 1982, who resigned as editor?
Answer: William Rees-Mogg
Question: How many years as an editor was editor who resigned from The Times in 1982?
Answer: 14 years
Question: In 1982, what is the name of the editor who replaced the previous editor of The Times?
Answer: Harold Evans
Question: What printing process for The Times was replaced by computers in 1982?
Answer: hot-metal Linotype printing process
Question: In 1982, the allowed print room staff at The Times and The Sunday Times was reduced by how much?
Answer: half |
Context: The lateral cut NAB curve was remarkably similar to the NBC Orthacoustic curve that evolved from practices within the National Broadcasting Company since the mid-1930s. Empirically, and not by any formula, it was learned that the bass end of the audio spectrum below 100 Hz could be boosted somewhat to override system hum and turntable rumble noises. Likewise at the treble end beginning at 1,000 Hz, if audio frequencies were boosted by 16 dB at 10,000 Hz the delicate sibilant sounds of speech and high overtones of musical instruments could survive the noise level of cellulose acetate, lacquer/aluminum, and vinyl disc media. When the record was played back using a complementary inverse curve, signal-to-noise ratio was improved and the programming sounded more lifelike.
Question: What was a benefit to broadcasters of recording standards?
Answer: programming sounded more lifelike.
Question: How did the NBC Othacoustic curve relate to the NAB curve?
Answer: remarkably similar
Question: What bass settings were needed to eliminate hum?
Answer: below 100 Hz
Question: What helped cause the most life like sound?
Answer: using a complementary inverse curve |
Context: The world's first Institute of Technology the Berg-Schola (Bergschule) established in Selmecbánya, Kingdom of Hungary by the Court Chamber of Vienna in 1735 providing Further education to train specialists of precious metal and copper mining. In 1762 the institute ranked up to be Academia providing Higher Education courses. After the Treaty of Trianon the institute had to be moved to Sopron.
Question: What kind of mining did the world's first institute of technology prepare students for?
Answer: copper
Question: What's the founding year of the first institute of technology ever?
Answer: 1735
Question: Who established the Berg-Schola?
Answer: Court Chamber of Vienna |
Context: The city of Nanjing was razed after the Sui dynasty took over it. It renamed Shengzhou (昇州) in Tang dynasty and resuscitated during the late Tang. It was chosen as the capital and called Jinling (金陵) during the Southern Tang (937–976), a state that succeeded Wu state. It renamed Jiangning (江寧) in Northern Song dynasty and renamed Jiankang in Southern Song dynasty. Jiankang's textile industry burgeoned and thrived during the Song dynasty despite the constant threat of foreign invasions from the north by the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty. The court of Da Chu, a short-lived puppet state established by the Jurchens, and the court of Song were once in the city. Song was eventually exterminated by the Mongol empire under the name Yuan and in Yuan dynasty the city's status as a hub of the textile industry was further consolidated.
Question: When was Nanjing made a capital again?
Answer: during the Southern Tang (937–976)
Question: During what dynasty did Nanjing become a thriving textile city?
Answer: the Song dynasty
Question: What was the name of the short-lived puppet court created by the Jurchens?
Answer: The court of Da Chu
Question: Who defeated the court of Song?
Answer: the Mongol empire |
Context: Prince Hall Freemasonry exists because of the refusal of early American lodges to admit African-Americans. In 1775, an African-American named Prince Hall, along with fourteen other African-Americans, was initiated into a British military lodge with a warrant from the Grand Lodge of Ireland, having failed to obtain admission from the other lodges in Boston. When the military Lodge left North America, those fifteen men were given the authority to meet as a Lodge, but not to initiate Masons. In 1784, these individuals obtained a Warrant from the Premier Grand Lodge of England (GLE) and formed African Lodge, Number 459. When the UGLE was formed in 1813, all U.S.-based Lodges were stricken from their rolls – due largely to the War of 1812. Thus, separated from both UGLE and any concordantly recognised U.S. Grand Lodge, African Lodge re-titled itself as the African Lodge, Number 1 – and became a de facto "Grand Lodge" (this Lodge is not to be confused with the various Grand Lodges on the Continent of Africa). As with the rest of U.S. Freemasonry, Prince Hall Freemasonry soon grew and organised on a Grand Lodge system for each state.
Question: Why was Prince Hall Freemasonry formed?
Answer: refusal of early American lodges to admit African-Americans
Question: When was Prince Hall Freemasonry formed?
Answer: 1775
Question: What happened when the UGLE was formed in 1813?
Answer: U.S.-based Lodges were stricken from their rolls
Question: What did Africian Lodge, Number 459 become after they were removed from the UGLE?
Answer: African Lodge, Number 1
Question: What was Africian Lodge, Number 1 considered after they changed from Africian Lodge, Number 459?
Answer: became a de facto "Grand Lodge"
Question: What exists today because of the refusal of early American lodges to admit African Americans?
Answer: Prince Hall Freemasonry
Question: In what year was Prince Hall admitted into the British military lodge?
Answer: 1775
Question: When was the African Lodge, number 459, formed?
Answer: 1784
Question: When was the UGLE formed?
Answer: 1813
Question: The African Lodge re-titled itself what?
Answer: the African Lodge, Number 1
Question: Why was Prince Hall Freemasonry outlawed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Prince Hall Freemasonry forgotten?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened when the UGLE was formed in 1913?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was African Lodge, Number 3 considered after they changed from African Lodge, Number 456?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What no longer exists today because of the refusal of early American lodges to admit African Americans?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At various times, there have been cardinals who had only received first tonsure and minor orders but not yet been ordained as deacons or priests. Though clerics, they were inaccurately called "lay cardinals" and were permitted to marry. Teodolfo Mertel was among the last of the lay cardinals. When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest. With the revision of the Code of Canon Law promulgated in 1917 by Pope Benedict XV, only those who are already priests or bishops may be appointed cardinals. Since the time of Pope John XXIII a priest who is appointed a cardinal must be consecrated a bishop, unless he obtains a dispensation.
Question: What was a "lay cardinal" allowed to do that is not considered a normal status of a Cardinal?
Answer: marry
Question: In what year did Pope Benedict XV revise the Code of Canon Law?
Answer: 1917
Question: What did the Code of Canon Law state in regards to Cardinals?
Answer: only those who are already priests or bishops may be appointed cardinals
Question: What was a lay cardinal not allowed to do that is not considered a normal status of a Cardinal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was among the first lay cardinal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Pope Benedict X revise the Code of Canon Law?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who may not be appointed cardinals according the revision of Code of Cannon Law?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first non-stop transatlantic crossing was made by the British airship R34 in 1919. Regular passenger service resumed in the 1920s and the discovery of helium reserves in the United States promised increased safety, but the U.S. government refused to sell the gas for this purpose. Therefore, H2 was used in the Hindenburg airship, which was destroyed in a midair fire over New Jersey on 6 May 1937. The incident was broadcast live on radio and filmed. Ignition of leaking hydrogen is widely assumed to be the cause, but later investigations pointed to the ignition of the aluminized fabric coating by static electricity. But the damage to hydrogen's reputation as a lifting gas was already done.
Question: Who made the first non stop transatlantic crossing?
Answer: the British
Question: What year was this done?
Answer: 1919
Question: What year did the airship get destroyed?
Answer: 1937
Question: What city was the ship over when it caught fire?
Answer: New Jersey |
Context: Southampton became a spa town in 1740. It had also become a popular site for sea bathing by the 1760s, despite the lack of a good quality beach. Innovative buildings specifically for this purpose were built at West Quay, with baths that were filled and emptied by the flow of the tide.
Question: When did Southampton turn into a spa town?
Answer: 1740
Question: Despite not having a good beach, what decade saw Southampton become popular for sea bathing?
Answer: 1760s
Question: Where in Southampton were special baths filled by seawater constructed?
Answer: West Quay
Question: What change in flow of the sea controlled the innovative baths at West Quay?
Answer: the tide |
Context: The Zhengde Emperor (r. 1505–1521), who enjoyed the company of lamas at court despite protests from the censorate, had heard tales of a "living Buddha" which he desired to host at the Ming capital; this was none other than the Rinpung-supported Mikyö Dorje, 8th Karmapa Lama then occupying Lhasa. Zhengde's top advisors made every attempt to dissuade him from inviting this lama to court, arguing that Tibetan Buddhism was wildly heterodox and unorthodox. Despite protests by the Grand Secretary Liang Chu, in 1515 the Zhengde Emperor sent his eunuch official Liu Yun of the Palace Chancellery on a mission to invite this Karmapa to Beijing. Liu commanded a fleet of hundreds of ships requisitioned along the Yangtze, consuming 2,835 g (100 oz) of silver a day in food expenses while stationed for a year in Chengdu of Sichuan. After procurring necessary gifts for the mission, he departed with a cavalry force of about 1,000 troops. When the request was delivered, the Karmapa lama refused to leave Tibet despite the Ming force brought to coerce him. The Karmapa launched a surprise ambush on Liu Yun's camp, seizing all the goods and valuables while killing or wounding half of Liu Yun's entire escort. After this fiasco, Liu fled for his life, but only returned to Chengdu several years later to find that the Zhengde Emperor had died.
Question: When did the Zhengde Emperor rule?
Answer: 1505–1521
Question: Who's company did the Zhengde Emperor enjoy?
Answer: the company of lamas
Question: Who was the 8th Karmapa Lama?
Answer: Mikyö Dorje |
Context: In humans and many other mammals, new neurons are created mainly before birth, and the infant brain contains substantially more neurons than the adult brain. There are, however, a few areas where new neurons continue to be generated throughout life. The two areas for which adult neurogenesis is well established are the olfactory bulb, which is involved in the sense of smell, and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus, where there is evidence that the new neurons play a role in storing newly acquired memories. With these exceptions, however, the set of neurons that is present in early childhood is the set that is present for life. Glial cells are different: as with most types of cells in the body, they are generated throughout the lifespan.
Question: The infant brain contains more of what type of cells in the brain than the adult brain?
Answer: neurons
Question: The olfactory bulb is related to what sense?
Answer: sense of smell
Question: What area of the hippocampus plays a role in storing new memories?
Answer: dentate gyrus of the hippocampus
Question: Which type of cells in the brain are generated throughout your lifetime?
Answer: Glial cells
Question: Neurogenesis is the process of what?
Answer: neurons continue to be generated throughout life |
Context: It was during this decade that vocal house became firmly established, both in the underground and as part of the pop market, and labels such as Defected Records, Roule and Om were at the forefront of championing the emerging sound. In the mid-2000s, fusion genres such as electro house and fidget house emerged.[citation needed] This fusion is apparent in the crossover of musical styles by artists such as Dennis Ferrer and Booka Shade, with the former's production style having evolved from the New York soulful house scene and the latter's roots in techno.
Question: Defected Records was at the forefront of what type of house music?
Answer: vocal house
Question: Roule and Om was at the forefront of what type of house music?
Answer: vocal house
Question: Dennis Ferrer produced what type of house fusion?
Answer: electro house and fidget house
Question: in what time period did fusion genres of house emerge?
Answer: mid-2000s
Question: Defected Records was at the forefront of what type of Roule music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Roule and Om was at the forefront of what type of Shade music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of Shade fusion did Dennis Ferrer produce?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what time period did Shade genres of house emerge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is apparent in the crossover of market styles?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Saint Helena Constitution took effect in 1989 and provided that the island would be governed by a Governor and Commander-in-Chief, and an elected Executive and Legislative Council. In 2002, the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 granted full British citizenship to the islanders, and renamed the Dependent Territories (including Saint Helena) the British Overseas Territories. In 2009, Saint Helena and its two territories received equal status under a new constitution, and the British Overseas Territory was renamed Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
Question: What year did the Saint Helena Constitution officially take effect?
Answer: 1989
Question: In 2002 what act granted full British citizenship to the citizens of the islands?
Answer: British Overseas Territories Act 2002
Question: What were the dependent territories renamed to?
Answer: British Overseas Territories |
Context: BeiDou-1 is an experimental regional navigation system, which consists of four satellites (three working satellites and one backup satellite). The satellites themselves were based on the Chinese DFH-3 geostationary communications satellite and had a launch weight of 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) each.
Question: What is the BeiDou-1?
Answer: an experimental regional navigation system
Question: The BeiDou-1 is made up of how may satellites?
Answer: four
Question: How many satellites in the BeiDou-1 system is used for back up?
Answer: one
Question: What were the BeiDou-1 system satellites based on?
Answer: the Chinese DFH-3 geostationary communications satellite
Question: How much did each satellite for the BeiDou-1 system weigh?
Answer: 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) each
Question: Which navigational system is regional and consists of five satellites?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The launch weight of what was over 3,000 pounds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: BeiDou-1 consists of four working satellites and how many backups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: BeiDou-1 consists of four backup satellites and how many working satellites?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which navigational system is national and consists of four satellites?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, publisher of the old English proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST; 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.
Question: Who first published the proverb about waking up early and going to bed early to be "healthy, wealthy, and wise"?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Question: Which group of people did Franklin say would save candles by waking up earlier?
Answer: Parisians
Question: In what year did Ben Franklin write a satire suggesting firing cannons at sunrise to wake people up?
Answer: 1784
Question: What kind of transportation network helped encourage keeping more exact schedules?
Answer: rail
Question: In addition to cannon fire, what did Franklin suggest to act as Parisians' alarm clock?
Answer: ringing church bells |
Context: On June 25, 2006, Warren Buffett (then the world's richest person, estimated worth of US$62 billion as of April 16, 2008) pledged to give the foundation approximately 10 million Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares spread over multiple years through annual contributions, with the first year's donation of 500,000 shares being worth approximately US$1.5 billion. Buffett set conditions so that these contributions do not simply increase the foundation's endowment, but effectively work as a matching contribution, doubling the Foundation's annual giving: "Buffett's gift came with three conditions for the Gates foundation: Bill or Melinda Gates must be alive and active in its administration; it must continue to qualify as a charity; and each year it must give away an amount equal to the previous year's Berkshire gift, plus an additional amount equal to 5 percent of net assets. Buffett gave the foundation two years to abide by the third requirement." The Gates Foundation received 5% (500,000) of the shares in July 2006 and will receive 5% of the remaining earmarked shares in the July of each following year (475,000 in 2007, 451,250 in 2008). In July 2013, Buffet announced another donation of his company's Class B, this time in the amount worth $2 billion, is going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Question: What was warren Buffett's estimated net worth in 2008
Answer: Warren Buffett (then the world's richest person, estimated worth of US$62 billion as of April 16, 2008)
Question: How many shares of berkshire hathway was pledged as a donation
Answer: pledged to give the foundation approximately 10 million Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares
Question: In 2013 Buffett announced another donation to the foundation for how much
Answer: In July 2013, Buffet announced another donation of his company's Class B, this time in the amount worth $2 billion
Question: What was Warren Buffet's net worth in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many shares did Bill Gates pledge to donate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Melinda Gates set so the contributions work as a matching contribution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must Bill and Melinda earmark shares to qualify for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2013 Buffet donated what amount to Class B?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The site where the Saint Petersburg Passage sprawls had been devoted to trade since the city's foundation in the early 18th century. It had been occupied by various shops and warehouses (Maly Gostiny Dvor, Schukin Dvor, Apraksin Dvor) until 1846, when Count Essen-Stenbock-Fermor acquired the grounds to build an elite shopping mall for the Russian nobility and wealthy bourgeoisie. Stenbock-Fermor conceived of the Passage as more than a mere shopping mall, but also as a cultural and social centre for the people of St Petersburg. The edifice contained coffee-houses, confectioneries, panorama installations, an anatomical museum, a wax museum, and even a small zoo, described by Dostoyevsky in his extravaganza "Crocodile, or Passage through the Passage". The concert hall became renowned as a setting for literary readings attended by the likes of Dostoevsky and Turgenev. Parenthetically, the Passage premises have long been associated with the entertainment industry and still remains home to the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre.
Question: When was Saint Petersburg established?
Answer: early 18th century
Question: Who founded a shopping mall reserved for the most elites of society?
Answer: Count Essen-Stenbock-Fermor
Question: What famous author described parts of the mall in his books?
Answer: Dostoyevsky
Question: What historical site still operates within the mall?
Answer: Komissarzhevskaya Theatre
Question: When was Saint Petersburg demolished?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who founded a shopping mall reserved for the poorest of society?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What unknown author described parts of the mall in his books?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What historical site no longer operates within the mall?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What historical site still operates outside of the mall?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Houston was incorporated in 1837 under the ward system of representation. The ward designation is the progenitor of the eleven current-day geographically oriented Houston City Council districts. Locations in Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside the Interstate 610 Loop. The inside encompasses the central business district and many residential neighborhoods that predate World War II. More recently, high-density residential areas have been developed within the loop. The city's outlying areas, suburbs and enclaves are located outside of the loop. Beltway 8 encircles the city another 5 miles (8.0 km) farther out.
Question: What system of incorporation was used in 1837 by Houston?
Answer: ward system
Question: What is the present day system being used by Houston for representation?
Answer: Houston City Council districts
Question: What highway is used to designate locations in Houston?
Answer: Interstate 610 Loop
Question: Beside older pre-World War II residences, what is found inside the Loop?
Answer: central business district
Question: What highway circles the outer areas of Houston?
Answer: Beltway 8
Question: What system of incorporation was used in 1937 by Houston?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the present day system being used by Texas for representation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What highway is used to designate locations in Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Beside older pre-Civil war residences, what is found inside the Loop?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What highway circles the outer areas of Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Sugar, starch, cotton, linen, hemp, some types of rope, wood and particle boards, papyrus and paper, vegetable oils, wax, and natural rubber are examples of commercially important materials made from plant tissues or their secondary products. Charcoal, a pure form of carbon made by pyrolysis of wood, has a long history as a metal-smelting fuel, as a filter material and adsorbent and as an artist's material and is one of the three ingredients of gunpowder. Cellulose, the world's most abundant organic polymer, can be converted into energy, fuels, materials and chemical feedstock. Products made from cellulose include rayon and cellophane, wallpaper paste, biobutanol and gun cotton. Sugarcane, rapeseed and soy are some of the plants with a highly fermentable sugar or oil content that are used as sources of biofuels, important alternatives to fossil fuels, such as biodiesel.
Question: How is charcoal made?
Answer: pyrolysis of wood
Question: Besides fire, what else is charcoal used for?
Answer: one of the three ingredients of gunpowder
Question: Plant oil is used for what kind of fuel?
Answer: biodiesel
Question: Rayon comes from what plant product?
Answer: cellulose |
Context: The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, a line which marks the elevation at which waterfalls first appear on streams and rivers. The Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the state's most urbanized and densely populated section. It consists of gently rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. Small, isolated, and deeply eroded mountain ranges and peaks are located in the Piedmont, including the Sauratown Mountains, Pilot Mountain, the Uwharrie Mountains, Crowder's Mountain, King's Pinnacle, the Brushy Mountains, and the South Mountains. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) in elevation in the east to over 1,000 feet (300 m) in the west. Because of the rapid population growth in the Piedmont, a significant part of the rural area in this region is being transformed into suburbs with shopping centers, housing, and corporate offices. Agriculture is steadily declining in importance. The major rivers of the Piedmont, such as the Yadkin and Catawba, tend to be fast-flowing, shallow, and narrow.
Question: What do you call the line that marks the elevation that waterfalls first appear on rivers?
Answer: Atlantic Seaboard fall line
Question: At what point does the coastal plin transition to the Piedmont region?
Answer: along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line
Question: What section of Central North Carolina has the most dense population?
Answer: The Piedmont region
Question: Pilot Mountain and South Mountains are located in what region of North Carolina?
Answer: Piedmont
Question: What is the average elevation in the west Piedmont region?
Answer: 1,000 feet |
Context: As the 20th century came to a close, Gaddafi increasingly rejected Arab nationalism, frustrated by the failure of his Pan-Arab ideals; instead he turned to Pan-Africanism, emphasising Libya's African identity. From 1997 to 2000, Libya initiated cooperative agreements or bilateral aid arrangements with 10 African states, and in 1999 joined the Community of Sahel-Saharan States. In June 1999, Gaddafi visited Mandela in South Africa, and the following month attended the OAU summit in Algiers, calling for greater political and economic integration across the continent and advocating the foundation of a United States of Africa. He became one of the founders of the African Union (AU), initiated in July 2002 to replace the OAU; at the opening ceremonies, he proclaimed that African states should reject conditional aid from the developed world, a direct contrast to the message of South African President Thabo Mbeki. At the third AU summit, held in Libya in July 2005, he called for a greater level of integration, advocating a single AU passport, a common defence system and a single currency, utilising the slogan: "The United States of Africa is the hope." In June 2005, Libya joined the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and in August 2008 Gaddafi was proclaimed "King of Kings" by an assembled committee of traditional African leaders. On 1 February 2009, his "coronation ceremony" was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, coinciding with Gaddafi's election as AU chairman for a year.
Question: What organization did Libya join in 1999?
Answer: Community of Sahel-Saharan States
Question: Where did the OAU summit in July 1999 occur?
Answer: Algiers
Question: What organization was founded in July of 2002?
Answer: African Union
Question: What is COMESA?
Answer: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
Question: Who was the president of South Africa circa 2002?
Answer: Thabo Mbeki |
Context: Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech. After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it is easy and convenient to think of people and objects as remaining fundamentally the same things, rather than constantly keeping in mind that each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago. Yet the limitations of everyday living and everyday speech should not prevent people from realizing that "material substances" or "essences" are a convenient generalized description of a continuum of particular, concrete processes. No one questions that a ten-year-old person is quite different by the time he or she turns thirty years old, and in many ways is not the same person at all; Whitehead points out that it is not philosophically or ontologically sound to think that a person is the same from one second to the next.
Question: What did Whitehead believe was a culprit in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking?
Answer: limitations of language
Question: Why couldn't each moment of each person's life be given a different proper name?
Answer: limitations of language
Question: Whitehead's main philosophy on humans changing is what?
Answer: each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago
Question: What did Whitehead believe was one of the biggest reasons materialistic thinking endured?
Answer: limitations of language
Question: Why did Whitehead think people continued to subscribe to materialistic thinking?
Answer: it is easy and convenient to think of people and objects as remaining fundamentally the same things
Question: What did Whitehead believe regarding factors that limit people's understanding of his concepts?
Answer: should not prevent people from realizing that "material substances" or "essences" are a convenient generalized description of a continuum
Question: What did Whitehead state about the belief that a person is exactly the same from moment to moment?
Answer: it is not philosophically or ontologically sound
Question: Why did Whitehead think people continued to subscribe to nonmaterialistic thinking?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Whitehead believe regarding factors that don't limit people's understanding of his concepts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Whitehead believe was one of the biggest reasons materialistic thinking did not endure?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Relatively few changes were made from the Release Preview to the final version; these included updated versions of its pre-loaded apps, the renaming of Windows Explorer to File Explorer, the replacement of the Aero Glass theme from Windows Vista and 7 with a new flat and solid-colored theme, and the addition of new background options for the Start screen, lock screen, and desktop. Prior to its general availability on October 26, 2012, updates were released for some of Windows 8's bundled apps, and a "General Availability Cumulative Update" (which included fixes to improve performance, compatibility, and battery life) was released on Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Microsoft indicated that due to improvements to its testing infrastructure, general improvements of this nature are to be released more frequently through Windows Update instead of being relegated to OEMs and service packs only.
Question: How many things did Microsoft alter after Release Preview?
Answer: Relatively few
Question: When was the General Availablity Cumulative Update provided?
Answer: October 9, 2012
Question: How are system improvements released through Windows 8?
Answer: through Windows Update
Question: What name did Windows Explorer change to?
Answer: File Explorer
Question: How many things did Microsoft alter before Release Preview?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When wasn't the General Availablity Cumulative Update provided?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How aren't system improvements released through Windows 8?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are system improvements released through Windows 9?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What name did Windows Explorer stay as?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By the end of the 17th century, the Chinese economy had recovered from the devastation caused by the wars in which the Ming dynasty were overthrown, and the resulting breakdown of order. In the following century, markets continued to expand as in the late Ming period, but with more trade between regions, a greater dependence on overseas markets and a greatly increased population. After the re-opening of the southeast coast, which had been closed in the late 17th century, foreign trade was quickly re-established, and was expanding at 4% per annum throughout the latter part of the 18th century. China continued to export tea, silk and manufactures, creating a large, favorable trade balance with the West. The resulting inflow of silver expanded the money supply, facilitating the growth of competitive and stable markets.
Question: What did China export?
Answer: tea, silk and manufactures
Question: What did the Chinese get paid for their goods?
Answer: silver
Question: When did the Chinese economy finally recover after the wars with the Mings?
Answer: end of the 17th century |
Context: The U.S. recession that began in December 2007 ended in June 2009, according to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the financial crisis appears to have ended about the same time. In April 2009 TIME magazine declared "More Quickly Than It Began, The Banking Crisis Is Over." The United States Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission dates the crisis to 2008. President Barack Obama declared on January 27, 2010, "the markets are now stabilized, and we've recovered most of the money we spent on the banks."
Question: When did the U.S. recession that began in December 2007 end?
Answer: June 2009
Question: When did the financial crisis appear to have ended?
Answer: June 2009
Question: What was the name of the article that appeared in TIME magazine in April 2009 declaring the crisis over?
Answer: More Quickly Than It Began, The Banking Crisis Is Over."
Question: On what date did President Barack Obama declare that the markets are stabilized?
Answer: January 27, 2010
Question: When does the United States Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission date the crisis to?
Answer: 2008 |
Context: The club also owned and operated a professional basketball team, by the name of Everton Tigers, who compete in the elite British Basketball League. The team was launched in the summer of 2007 as part of the clubs' Community programme, and play their home games at the Greenbank Sports Academy. The team was an amalgam of the Toxteth Tigers community youth programme which started in 1968. The team quickly became one of the most successful in the league winning the BBL Cup in 2009 and the play-offs in 2010. However Everton withdrew funding before the 2010–11 season and the team was re launched as the Mersey Tigers.
Question: What was the name of Everton's professional basketball team?
Answer: Tigers
Question: In which league do the Everton Tigers compete?
Answer: British Basketball League
Question: When was the Everton Tigers team launched?
Answer: 2007
Question: Where do the Everton Tigers play their home games?
Answer: Greenbank Sports Academy
Question: When did the Everton Tigers win the BBL Cup?
Answer: 2009
Question: In what year was Everton F.C. launched?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What league does Everton F.C. play in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won the first BBL Cup?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does Everton play its football games?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Among the giant planets in the Solar System, Neptune is the most dense. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth and slightly larger than Neptune.[c] Neptune orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years at an average distance of 30.1 astronomical units (4.50×109 km). Named after the Roman god of the sea, its astronomical symbol is ♆, a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident.
Question: What planet is Neptune's near-twin?
Answer: Uranus
Question: How much more dense is Neptune compared to Earth?
Answer: 17 times
Question: What is Neptune named after?
Answer: Roman god of the sea
Question: What does the astronomical sign of Neptune represent?
Answer: god Neptune's trident
Question: How many Earth years does Neptune orbit the sun?
Answer: 164.8 years
Question: What is the third largest planet by diameter
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the eighth planet from the earth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is neptune the least dense of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is neptune 17 times smaller than?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Greek god was neptune named for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What planet is Neptune's opposite?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much lighter is Neptune compared to Earth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the astronomical sign of Uranus represent?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Bronx underwent rapid urban growth after World War I. Extensions of the New York City Subway contributed to the increase in population as thousands of immigrants came to the Bronx, resulting in a major boom in residential construction. Among these groups, many Irish Americans, Italian Americans and especially Jewish Americans settled here. In addition, French, German, Polish and other immigrants moved into the borough. The Jewish population also increased notably during this time. In 1937, according to Jewish organizations, 592,185 Jews lived in The Bronx (43.9% of the borough's population), while only 54,000 Jews lived in the borough in 2011. Many synagogues still stand in the Bronx, but most have been converted to other uses.
Question: How many Jews lived in the Bronx in 1937?
Answer: 592,185
Question: How many Jews lived in the Bronx in 2011?
Answer: 54,000
Question: What led to the Bronx's population growth?
Answer: Extensions of the New York City Subway
Question: What immigrant groups were the most prevalent in the Bronx?
Answer: Irish Americans, Italian Americans and especially Jewish Americans
Question: How much of the Bronx was Jewish in 1937?
Answer: 43.9% |
Context: The domination of Estonia after the Northern Crusades, from the 13th century to 1918 by Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Russia delayed indigenous literacy in Estonia.[citation needed]
Question: When did the Northern Crusades happen?
Answer: 13th century to 1918
Question: Which countries took part in the Northern Crusades?
Answer: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Russia
Question: Following the crusades which country was dominated?
Answer: Estonia
Question: What did the aftermath of the crusades end up delaying in Estonia?
Answer: indigenous literacy
Question: When didn't the Northern Crusades happen?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which countries didn't take part in the Northern Crusades?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Following the crusades which country was not dominated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the aftermath of the crusades end up beginning in Estonia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country was involved in the Eastern Crusades?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Only Umayyad ruler (Caliphs of Damascus), Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, is unanimously praised by Sunni sources for his devout piety and justice. In his efforts to spread Islam he established liberties for the Mawali by abolishing the jizya tax for converts to Islam. Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam stated that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz also stopped the personal allowance offered to his relatives stating that he could only give them an allowance if he gave an allowance to everyone else in the empire. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz was later poisoned in the year 720. When successive governments tried to reverse Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's tax policies it created rebellion.
Question: What Umayyad ruler is regarded as especially just and pious by Sunni scholars?
Answer: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
Question: For whom did Umar end the jizya?
Answer: converts to Islam
Question: In what year did Umar ibn Ad Al-Aziz die?
Answer: 720
Question: What was Umar ibn Ad al-Aziz's cause of death?
Answer: poisoned
Question: What group did Umar ibn Ad Al-Aziz grant liberties to?
Answer: Mawali
Question: What Umayyad ruler is hated by Sunni sources?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened when later governments tried to continue Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's tax policies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What unanimously praised most of the Umayyad rulers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who established the jizya tax?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Besides the obligation, many children had to help support their families financially; another factor that influenced child labour was the demographic changes that occurred in the eighteenth century. By the end of the eighteenth century, 20 percent of the population was made up of children between the ages of 5 and 14. Due to this substantial shift in available workers, and the development of the industrial revolution, children began to work earlier in life in companies outside of the home. Yet, even though there was an increase of child labour in factories such as cotton textiles, there consistently was large numbers of children working in the field of agriculture and domestic production.
Question: What type of support did child give to their families by working?
Answer: financially
Question: What type of factories saw an increased need for child labour?
Answer: cotton textiles
Question: Was there an increase or decrease in the field of agriculture?
Answer: large numbers of children working in the field of agriculture |
Context: In most nations with constitutions modelled after the Soviet Union, the legislature was given the power of being the court of last resort. In the People's Republic of China, the final power to interpret the law is vested in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC). This power includes the power to interpret the basic laws of Hong Kong and Macau, the constitutional documents of the two special administrative regions which are common law and Portuguese-based legal system jurisdictions respectively. This power is a legislative power and not a judicial one in that an interpretation by the NPCSC does not affect cases which have already been decided.
Question: What nation's model gives the power of the high court to the legistlature?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: What is the name of China's high court which sits as a legislative committee?
Answer: Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC)
Question: Current decisions by the NPCSC do not affect what?
Answer: cases which have already been decided
Question: Hong Kong's legal system was traditionally based on what?
Answer: common law
Question: Macau's legal system comes from what tradition?
Answer: Portuguese-based legal system
Question: What is the NCPSC also known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country can interpret the laws of Macau and China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country is the Chinese legal system based on?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first 256 code points were made identical to the content of ISO-8859-1 so as to make it trivial to convert existing western text. Many essentially identical characters were encoded multiple times at different code points to preserve distinctions used by legacy encodings and therefore, allow conversion from those encodings to Unicode (and back) without losing any information. For example, the "fullwidth forms" section of code points encompasses a full Latin alphabet that is separate from the main Latin alphabet section because in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) fonts, these Latin characters are rendered at the same width as CJK ideographs, rather than at half the width. For other examples, see Duplicate characters in Unicode.
Question: What were the first 256 code points of Unicode made identical to?
Answer: ISO-8859-1
Question: Why were the first 256 code points made identical to ISO-8859-1?
Answer: to make it trivial to convert existing western text
Question: What does the "fullwidth forms" section of code points encompass?
Answer: a full Latin alphabet that is separate from the main Latin alphabet
Question: What are the CJK languages referenced?
Answer: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
Question: What did ISO-8859-1 copy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Latin is what kind of language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are Latin characters called when they are half width?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do coders avoid duplicate characters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The 256 initial points make it difficult to translate what kind of text?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The massive amount of data storage required to archive uncompressed streams meant that inexpensive uncompressed storage options were not available to the consumer. In 2008, the Hauppauge 1212 Personal Video Recorder was introduced. This device accepts HD content through component video inputs and stores the content in MPEG-2 format in a .ts file or in a Blu-ray compatible format .m2ts file on the hard drive or DVD burner of a computer connected to the PVR through a USB 2.0 interface. More recent systems are able to record a broadcast high definition program in its 'as broadcast' format or transcode to a format more compatible with Blu-ray.
Question: When was the Hauppauge 1212 Personal Video Recorder introduced?
Answer: 2008
Question: How does the Personal Video Recorder store content?
Answer: in MPEG-2 format in a .ts file or in a Blu-ray compatible format .m2ts file
Question: Recent systems can record a broadcast HD program in what format?
Answer: 'as broadcast' format or transcode to a format more compatible with Blu-ray
Question: What uncompressed storage option was introduced in 2008?
Answer: the Hauppauge 1212 Personal Video Recorder
Question: When was the Hauppauge 1212 NonPersonal Video Recorder introduced?
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Question: How doesn't the Personal Video Recorder store content?
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Question: Recent systems can record a broadcast SD program in what format?
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Question: What uncompressed storage option wasn't introduced in 2008?
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