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Context: The translator's role as a bridge for "carrying across" values between cultures has been discussed at least since Terence, the 2nd-century-BCE Roman adapter of Greek comedies. The translator's role is, however, by no means a passive, mechanical one, and so has also been compared to that of an artist. The main ground seems to be the concept of parallel creation found in critics such as Cicero. Dryden observed that "Translation is a type of drawing after life..." Comparison of the translator with a musician or actor goes back at least to Samuel Johnson’s remark about Alexander Pope playing Homer on a flageolet, while Homer himself used a bassoon.
Question: How long has a translator's part in bridging values between cultures been discussed?
Answer: at least since Terence
Question: What did Terence adapt from the Greek's?
Answer: comedies
Question: A translator's role is less like a robot and more like a what?
Answer: artist
Question: Where was the concept of parallel creation found?
Answer: Cicero
Question: Who remarked about Alexander Pope playing Homer on a flageolet?
Answer: Samuel Johnson
Question: How long has a translator's part in bridging values between cultures been avoided?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Terence destroy from the Greek's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a translator's role never like?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the concept of parallel creation lost?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who remained silent about Alexander Pope playing Homer on a flageolet?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some clock-shift problems could be avoided by adjusting clocks continuously or at least more gradually—for example, Willett at first suggested weekly 20-minute transitions—but this would add complexity and has never been implemented.
Question: Willett's first suggestion was to change clocks by 20 minutes how often?
Answer: weekly
Question: What drawback would changing clocks gradually add to the process?
Answer: complexity
Question: What could be avoided by changing clocks more gradually more often?
Answer: Some clock-shift problems |
Context: The noted Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kiran Bedi refused to participate saying "she doesn’t want to run in the event as ‘caged woman’." On April 15, Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan pulled out of the Olympic torch relay, citing “very strong personal reasons”. On April 16, a protest was organised in Delhi "against Chinese repression in Tibet", and was broken up by the police.
Question: Who did not want to participate in the relay as 'caged woman'?
Answer: Kiran Bedi
Question: Where was Bedi retired from?
Answer: Indian Police Service
Question: Which actress decided to not participate on April 15?
Answer: Soha Ali Khan
Question: When did a protest in Delhi occur to protest against Chinese repression in Tibet?
Answer: April 16
Question: What retired police officer refused to carry the torch in India?
Answer: Kiran Bedi
Question: What actress removed herself from participation in the relay?
Answer: Soha Ali Khan
Question: Where was a protest organized about the Olympic relay in India?
Answer: Delhi
Question: Who disbanded the protest in Delhi?
Answer: police.
Question: The retired police officer said she would not run as what?
Answer: caged woman |
Context: In the United Kingdom, sociologists and other scholars influenced by Marxism, such as Stuart Hall (1932–2014) and Raymond Williams (1921–1988), developed cultural studies. Following nineteenth-century Romantics, they identified "culture" with consumption goods and leisure activities (such as art, music, film, food, sports, and clothing). Nevertheless, they saw patterns of consumption and leisure as determined by relations of production, which led them to focus on class relations and the organization of production.
Question: Which scientist was influenced by Marxism in the United Kingdom?
Answer: Stuart Hall (1932–2014) and Raymond Williams (1921–1988)
Question: What did Marxist like Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams they identify culture as?
Answer: consumption goods and leisure activities
Question: What made up Leisure activities and goods as viewed by Marxist?
Answer: art, music, film, food, sports, and clothing
Question: What led sociologist like Stuart and Raymond to focus on class relations and the organization of production?
Answer: saw patterns of consumption and leisure
Question: Which scientist created Marxism in the United Kingdom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Marxist like Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams discount culture as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What led sociologist like Stuart and Raymond to focus on individuals and the organization of destruction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Marxism begin?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Drawing from his own experiences in Scouting, Spielberg helped the Boy Scouts of America develop a merit badge in cinematography in order to help promote filmmaking as a marketable skill. The badge was launched at the 1989 National Scout Jamboree, which Spielberg attended, and where he personally counseled many boys in their work on requirements. That same year, 1989, saw the release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The opening scene shows a teenage Indiana Jones in scout uniform bearing the rank of a Life Scout. Spielberg stated he made Indiana Jones a Boy Scout in honor of his experience in Scouting. For his career accomplishments, service to others, and dedication to a new merit badge Spielberg was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
Question: What Boy Scout merit badge did Spielberg help develop?
Answer: cinematography
Question: When was Spielberg's merit badge launched?
Answer: 1989
Question: Which major Spielberg movie character was a Boy Scout?
Answer: Indiana Jones
Question: Which Spielberg movie showed its main character was a Boy Scout?
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Question: What was Indy's rank in Boy Scouts when shown in a movie?
Answer: Life Scout
Question: What was the highest rank Indiana Jones made in his youth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Spielberg start helping the Boy Scouts of America out?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Boy Scouts give Spielberg their Distinguished Eagle Scout Award?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the second Indiana Jones movie come out?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Tennessee income tax does not apply to salaries and wages, but most income from stock, bonds and notes receivable is taxable. All taxable dividends and interest which exceed the $1,250 single exemption or the $2,500 joint exemption are taxable at the rate of 6%. The state's sales and use tax rate for most items is 7%. Food is taxed at a lower rate of 5.25%, but candy, dietary supplements and prepared food are taxed at the full 7% rate. Local sales taxes are collected in most jurisdictions, at rates varying from 1.5% to 2.75%, bringing the total sales tax to between 8.5% and 9.75%, one of the highest levels in the nation. Intangible property is assessed on the shares of stock of stockholders of any loan company, investment company, insurance company or for-profit cemetery companies. The assessment ratio is 40% of the value multiplied by the tax rate for the jurisdiction. Tennessee imposes an inheritance tax on decedents' estates that exceed maximum single exemption limits ($1,000,000 for deaths in 2006 and thereafter).
Question: What types of income are exempt from Tennessee state income tax?
Answer: salaries and wages
Question: At what rate is Tennessee state sales and use tax usually applied?
Answer: 7%
Question: Above which amount is inheritance tax applied in Tennessee?
Answer: $1,000,000
Question: What is the sales tax on foodstuffs in Tennessee?
Answer: 5.25%
Question: Which edible items are taxed at the higher non-food sales and use tax rate in Tennessee?
Answer: candy, dietary supplements and prepared food |
Context: In many ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesopotamia, architecture and urbanism reflected the constant engagement with the divine and the supernatural, and many ancient cultures resorted to monumentality in architecture to represent symbolically the political power of the ruler, the ruling elite, or the state itself.
Question: What civilizations used the divine and supernatural in their architecture?
Answer: Egypt and Mesopotamia
Question: What are two examples of past civilizations?
Answer: Egypt and Mesopotamia
Question: To what did these civilizations have ties that to were shown off by their architecture?
Answer: the divine and the supernatural
Question: What does architectural monumentality often represent?
Answer: political power
Question: What civilizations didn't use the divine and supernatural in their architecture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are three examples of past civilizations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: To what did these civilizations have ties that to weren't shown off by their architecture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does architectural monumentality never represent?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1925, 78.26 rpm was chosen as the standard because of the introduction of the electrically powered synchronous turntable motor. This motor ran at 3600 rpm, such that a 46:1 gear ratio would produce 78.26 rpm. In parts of the world that used 50 Hz current, the standard was 77.92 rpm (3,000 rpm with a 77:2 ratio), which was also the speed at which a strobe disc with 77 lines would "stand still" in 50 Hz light (92 lines for 60 Hz). After World War II these records were retroactively known as 78s, to distinguish them from other newer disc record formats. Earlier they were just called records, or when there was a need to distinguish them from cylinders, disc records.
Question: What gear ration creates 78.26 rpm?
Answer: 46:1
Question: In what year was 78.26 rpm chosen as standard?
Answer: 1925
Question: How many rpm did the electrically powered synchronous turanable motor run at?
Answer: 3600 rpm
Question: Why are these records known as '78s'?
Answer: to distinguish them from other newer disc record formats |
Context: According to Ethnologue, the lexical similarity between Catalan and other Romance languages is: 87% with Italian; 85% with Portuguese; 80% with Spanish; 76% with Ladin; 75% with Sardinian; and 73% with Romanian.
Question: What is the similarity between Catalan and Italian?
Answer: 87%
Question: Hoe similar is Catalan to Portuguese?
Answer: 85%
Question: What is the percent relationship of Catalan to Spanish?
Answer: 80%
Question: What is the relationship similarity to Ladin?
Answer: 76%
Question: How related is Sardinian to Catalan?
Answer: 75% |
Context: In the new commercial climate glam metal bands like Europe, Ratt, White Lion and Cinderella broke up, Whitesnake went on hiatus in 1991, and while many of these bands would re-unite again in the late 1990s or early 2000s, they never reached the commercial success they saw in the 1980s or early 1990s. Other bands such as Mötley Crüe and Poison saw personnel changes which impacted those bands' commercial viability during the decade. In 1995 Van Halen released Balance, a multi-platinum seller that would be the band's last with Sammy Hagar on vocals. In 1996 David Lee Roth returned briefly and his replacement, former Extreme singer Gary Cherone, was fired soon after the release of the commercially unsuccessful 1998 album Van Halen III and Van Halen would not tour or record again until 2004. Guns N' Roses' original lineup was whittled away throughout the decade. Drummer Steven Adler was fired in 1990, guitarist Izzy Stradlin left in late 1991 after recording Use Your Illusion I and II with the band. Tensions between the other band members and lead singer Axl Rose continued after the release of the 1993 covers album The Spaghetti Incident? Guitarist Slash left in 1996, followed by bassist Duff McKagan in 1997. Axl Rose, the only original member, worked with a constantly changing lineup in recording an album that would take over fifteen years to complete.
Question: What was Van Halen's last album with Sammy Hagar?
Answer: Balance
Question: Who was the Guns N Roses drummer who was fired by the band?
Answer: Steven Adler
Question: What former member of Extreme briefly served as the lead singer for Van Halen?
Answer: Gary Cherone
Question: Who was the only original member left in Guns N Roses?
Answer: Axl Rose
Question: Slash left Guns N Roses in what year?
Answer: 1996
Question: Which band found their commercial success much greater after they re-united?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What album by Van Halen released in 1995 did not include Sammy Hagar on vocals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who replaced was the replacement for David Lee Roth after he was fired?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What 2004 Van Halen album caused Van Halen to go on tour?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the release of Axl Rose's The Spaghetti Incident cause among the band?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Saxophones appear in some scores from the late 19th century onwards. While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2 and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble. The euphonium is featured in a few late Romantic and 20th-century works, usually playing parts marked "tenor tuba", including Gustav Holst's The Planets, and Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.
Question: When do saxophones first appear in scores?
Answer: the late 19th century
Question: Saxophone was featured as a solo instrument in what Sergei Rachmaninoff piece?
Answer: Symphonic Dances
Question: How is the saxophone features in Ravel's Bolero?
Answer: as a member of the orchestral ensemble
Question: The euphonium usually played parts marked as what?
Answer: "tenor tuba"
Question: Who wrote The Planets?
Answer: Gustav Holst |
Context: Like other settled, agrarian societies in history, those in the Indian subcontinent have been attacked by nomadic tribes throughout its long history. In evaluating the impact of Islam on the sub-continent, one must note that the northwestern sub-continent was a frequent target of tribes raiding from Central Asia. In that sense, the Muslim intrusions and later Muslim invasions were not dissimilar to those of the earlier invasions during the 1st millennium. What does however, make the Muslim intrusions and later Muslim invasions different is that unlike the preceding invaders who assimilated into the prevalent social system, the successful Muslim conquerors retained their Islamic identity and created new legal and administrative systems that challenged and usually in many cases superseded the existing systems of social conduct and ethics, even influencing the non-Muslim rivals and common masses to a large extent, though non-Muslim population was left to their own laws and customs. They also introduced new cultural codes that in some ways were very different from the existing cultural codes. This led to the rise of a new Indian culture which was mixed in nature, though different from both the ancient Indian culture and later westernized modern Indian culture. At the same time it must be noted that overwhelming majority of Muslims in India are Indian natives converted to Islam. This factor also played an important role in the synthesis of cultures.
Question: From where did raiders come to attack the agrarian Indians?
Answer: Central Asia
Question: After a history of raiding groups, what is not remarkable in the history of the subcontinent?
Answer: Muslim intrusions
Question: Before the Muslim invasions, what did previous invaders do in the local cultures?
Answer: assimilated
Question: What did the Muslim invaders staunchly keep after invading?
Answer: Islamic identity
Question: What type of new Indian culture was formed from this mixture of cultures?
Answer: mixed |
Context: Since the end of the Second World War, France has become an ethnically diverse country. Today, approximately five percent of the French population is non-European and non-white. This does not approach the number of non-white citizens in the United States (roughly 28–37%, depending on how Latinos are classified; see Demographics of the United States). Nevertheless, it amounts to at least three million people, and has forced the issues of ethnic diversity onto the French policy agenda. France has developed an approach to dealing with ethnic problems that stands in contrast to that of many advanced, industrialized countries. Unlike the United States, Britain, or even the Netherlands, France maintains a "color-blind" model of public policy. This means that it targets virtually no policies directly at racial or ethnic groups. Instead, it uses geographic or class criteria to address issues of social inequalities. It has, however, developed an extensive anti-racist policy repertoire since the early 1970s. Until recently, French policies focused primarily on issues of hate speech—going much further than their American counterparts—and relatively less on issues of discrimination in jobs, housing, and in provision of goods and services.
Question: France has become a more ethnically diverse country since the end of which war?
Answer: Second World War
Question: What percentage of the French population today is non-European?
Answer: approximately five percent
Question: What is the number of non-white citizens in the United States?
Answer: roughly 28–37%
Question: What issue has the existence of three million non-European people in France forced onto French policy agendas?
Answer: ethnic diversity
Question: What type of model of public policy does France maintain?
Answer: color-blind |
Context: At the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Consumer Electronics Shows, Microsoft had announced that IPTV services would soon be made available to use through the Xbox 360. In 2007, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stated that IPTV on Xbox 360 was expected to be available to consumers by the holiday season, using the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition platform. In 2008, Gates and president of Entertainment & Devices Robbie Bach announced a partnership with BT in the United Kingdom, in which the BT Vision advanced TV service, using the newer Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform, would be accessible via Xbox 360, planned for the middle of the year. BT Vision's DVR-based features would not be available on Xbox 360 due to limited hard drive capacity. In 2010, while announcing version 2.0 of Microsoft Mediaroom, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned that AT&T's U-verse IPTV service would enable Xbox 360s to be used as set-top boxes later in the year. As of January 2010, IPTV on Xbox 360 has yet to be deployed beyond limited trials.
Question: At what conventions did Microsoft announce IPTV support through the 360?
Answer: Consumer Electronics Shows
Question: Which Microsoft executive announced IPTV as "soon" in 2007?
Answer: Bill Gates
Question: Who was Microsoft's president of Entertainment & Devices in 2008?
Answer: Robbie Bach
Question: What UK company did Microsoft partner with to bring IPTV to the 360?
Answer: BT
Question: What Microsoft executive announced the launch of version 2.0 of Mediaroom?
Answer: Steve Ballmer
Question: Who was the president of Microsoft in 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the CEO of BT?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the Entertainment & Devices branch located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were the DVR features made available?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did IPTV launch beyond its initial beta testers?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The majority of the citizens of the Marshall Islands are of Marshallese descent, though there are small numbers of immigrants from the United States, China, Philippines and other Pacific islands. The two official languages are Marshallese, which is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, and English. Almost the entire population of the islands practises some religion, with three-quarters of the country either following the United Church of Christ – Congregational in the Marshall Islands (UCCCMI) or the Assemblies of God.
Question: What is the ethnicity of most people living in the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Marshallese
Question: What family of languages does Marshallese belong to?
Answer: Malayo-Polynesian
Question: What does UCCCMI stand for?
Answer: United Church of Christ – Congregational in the Marshall Islands
Question: Aside from UCCCMI, what is the other major religious denomination of the Marshall Islands?
Answer: the Assemblies of God
Question: From what non-Asian nation do some people living in the Marshall Islands come?
Answer: the United States
Question: Of what ancestry are most Marshall Islands citizens?
Answer: Marshallese
Question: Along with Marshallese, what is the official language of the Marshall Islands?
Answer: English
Question: Of what language group is the Marshallese language?
Answer: Malayo-Polynesian
Question: What fraction of Marshall Islands residents are religious?
Answer: three-quarters
Question: Along with the United Church of Christ and the UCCCMI, what is a main religion of the Marshall Islands?
Answer: the Assemblies of God |
Context: Jefferson and Madison's approach was not the only one taken in the eighteenth century. Jefferson's Statute of Religious Freedom was drafted in opposition to a bill, chiefly supported by Patrick Henry, which would permit any Virginian to belong to any denomination, but which would require him to belong to some denomination and pay taxes to support it. Similarly, the Constitution of Massachusetts originally provided that "no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience... provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship," (Article II) but also that:
Question: What approach was not the only one taken in the 18th century?
Answer: Jefferson and Madison's
Question: What did Jefferson draft his Statute of Religious Freedom in opposition to?
Answer: a bill
Question: Who was the chief supporter of the bill that got Jefferson motivated to draft his Statute?
Answer: Patrick Henry
Question: What did Patrick Henry want to require Virginians to pay taxes to support?
Answer: some denomination
Question: What did the Constitution of Massachusetts express no one would be restrained from doing?
Answer: worshipping God
Question: What approach was the only one taken in the 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Jefferson draft his Statute of Religious Freedom in support of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the chief opposition of the bill that got Jefferson motivated to draft his Statute?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Patrick Henry not want to require Virginians to pay taxes to support?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Constitution of Massachusetts express everyone would be restrained from doing?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: For example, a horse eats grass: the horse changes the grass into itself; the grass as such does not persist in the horse, but some aspect of it—its matter—does. The matter is not specifically described (e.g., as atoms), but consists of whatever persists in the change of substance from grass to horse. Matter in this understanding does not exist independently (i.e., as a substance), but exists interdependently (i.e., as a "principle") with form and only insofar as it underlies change. It can be helpful to conceive of the relationship of matter and form as very similar to that between parts and whole. For Aristotle, matter as such can only receive actuality from form; it has no activity or actuality in itself, similar to the way that parts as such only have their existence in a whole (otherwise they would be independent wholes).
Question: What exists independently?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said matter had actuality in and of itself?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Aristotle said parts have existence outside of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does grass turn the horse into?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Myanmar (myan-MAR i/miɑːnˈmɑːr/ mee-ahn-MAR, /miˈɛnmɑːr/ mee-EN-mar or /maɪˈænmɑːr/ my-AN-mar (also with the stress on first syllable); Burmese pronunciation: [mjəmà]),[nb 1] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos and Thailand. One-third of Myanmar's total perimeter of 1,930 km (1,200 miles) forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The country's 2014 census revealed a much lower population than expected, with 51 million people recorded. Myanmar is 676,578 square kilometres (261,227 sq mi) in size. Its capital city is Naypyidaw and its largest city is Yangon (Rangoon).
Question: How much a Myanmar's boundaries are encompassed by beachfront lands?
Answer: (1,200 miles) forms an uninterrupted coastline
Question: How many people dwell in Myanmar ?
Answer: 51 million people recorded
Question: What is the land mass of Myanmar ?
Answer: Myanmar is 676,578 square kilometres (261,227 sq mi) in size
Question: Is the capital city the holder of the largest amount of the population in Myanmar ?
Answer: largest city is Yangon (Rangoon)
Question: What is the name of the capital city of Myanmar?
Answer: capital city is Naypyidaw |
Context: I Love New York (stylized I ❤ NY) is both a logo and a song that are the basis of an advertising campaign and have been used since 1977 to promote tourism in New York City, and later to promote New York State as well. The trademarked logo, owned by New York State Empire State Development, appears in souvenir shops and brochures throughout the city and state, some licensed, many not. The song is the state song of New York.
Question: What English phrase does I ❤ NY represent?
Answer: I Love New York
Question: When was I ❤ NY first used in advertisements?
Answer: 1977
Question: Who owns the trademark to I ❤ NY?
Answer: New York State Empire State Development
Question: What is the state song of New York?
Answer: I Love New York
Question: I Love New York was established as advertising in what year?
Answer: 1977
Question: What is the state song of New York?
Answer: I Love New York |
Context: New York City has been described as the cultural capital of the world by the diplomatic consulates of Iceland and Latvia and by New York's Baruch College. A book containing a series of essays titled New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 has also been published as showcased by the National Library of Australia. In describing New York, author Tom Wolfe said, "Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather."
Question: Who commented on New York that "culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather"?
Answer: Tom Wolfe
Question: In what library can the book New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 be found?
Answer: the National Library of Australia
Question: What institution of higher education has described New York as the cultural capital of the world?
Answer: Baruch College
Question: Along with Latvia, the consulate of what country has called New York the cultural capital of the world?
Answer: Iceland |
Context: Chinese officials canceled the torch relay ceremony amidst disruptions, including a Tibetan flag flown from a window in the City Hall by Green Party officials. The third torchbearer in the Paris leg, Jin Jing, who was disabled and carried the torch on a wheelchair, was assaulted several times by unidentified protestors seemingly from the pro-Tibet independent camp. In interviews, Jin Jing said that she was "tugged at, scratched" and "kicked", but that she "did not feel the pain at the time." She received praise from ethnic Chinese worldwide as "Angel in Wheelchair". The Chinese government gave the comment that "the Chinese respect France a lot" but "Paris [has slapped] its own face."
Question: Who threw a a Tibetan flag from a City Hall window?
Answer: Green Party officials.
Question: Which torchbearer was in a wheelchair?
Answer: Jin Jing
Question: What was Jin Jing called by ethnic Chinese?
Answer: Angel in Wheelchair
Question: What was stopped due to protest interruptions?
Answer: torch relay ceremony
Question: What is the name of the handicapped bearer of the torch?
Answer: Jin Jing
Question: What did the ethnic Chinese call the disabled torch bearer?
Answer: Angel in Wheelchair
Question: Who put a flag of Tibet out of the window at City Hall?
Answer: Green Party officials. |
Context: Broadly speaking, Daylight Saving Time was abandoned in the years after the war (with some notable exceptions including Canada, the UK, France, and Ireland for example). However, it was brought back for periods of time in many different places during the following decades, and commonly during the Second World War. It became widely adopted, particularly in North America and Europe starting in the 1970s as a result of the 1970s energy crisis.
Question: What event in the 1970s led more regions of North America to use DST?
Answer: energy crisis
Question: What country joined Canada, the UK, and Ireland in continuing to observe Daylight Saving Time after the war?
Answer: Ireland
Question: Daylight Saving Time was used commonly during what war?
Answer: Second World War
Question: Along with North America, what continent was affected heavily by the 1970s energy crisis?
Answer: Europe |
Context: 14th Street is a main numbered street in Manhattan. It begins at Avenue C and ends at West Street. Its length is 3.4 km (2.1 mi). It has six subway stations:
Question: Where does 14th Street begin?
Answer: Avenue C
Question: Where does 14th Street end?
Answer: West Street
Question: How many subway stations are on 14th Street?
Answer: six
Question: What is the length of 14th Street in miles?
Answer: 2.1 |
Context: Atlantic City is considered as the "Gambling Capital of the East Coast," and currently has eight large casinos and several smaller ones. In 2011, New Jersey's casinos employed approximately 33,000 employees, had 28.5 million visitors, made $3.3 billion in gaming revenue, and paid $278 million in taxes. They are regulated by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.
Question: What is Atlantic City known for?
Answer: Gambling Capital of the East Coast
Question: How many large casinos are located in Atlantic City?
Answer: eight
Question: Approximately how many people did New Jersey casinos employ in 2011?
Answer: 33,000
Question: Approximately how many people visited New Jersey's casinos in 2011?
Answer: 28.5 million
Question: What two entities regulate New Jersey's casino?
Answer: New Jersey Casino Control Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement |
Context: In 1977, Gaddafi dissolved the Republic and created a new socialist state, the Jamahiriya ("state of the masses"). Officially adopting a symbolic role in governance, he retained power as military commander-in-chief and head of the Revolutionary Committees responsible for policing and suppressing opponents. Overseeing unsuccessful border conflicts with Egypt and Chad, Gaddafi's support for foreign militants and alleged responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing led to Libya's label of "international pariah". A particularly hostile relationship developed with the United States and United Kingdom, resulting in the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya and United Nations-imposed economic sanctions. Rejecting his earlier ideological commitments, from 1999 Gaddafi encouraged economic privatization and sought rapprochement with Western nations, also embracing Pan-Africanism and helping to establish the African Union. Amid the Arab Spring, in 2011 an anti-Gaddafist uprising led by the National Transitional Council (NTC) broke out, resulting in the Libyan Civil War. NATO intervened militarily on the side of the NTC, bringing about the government's downfall. Retreating to Sirte, Gaddafi was captured and killed by NTC militants.
Question: What does "Jamahiriya" mean?
Answer: state of the masses
Question: What was Gaddafi's role in jamahiriya?
Answer: he retained power as military commander-in-chief and head of the Revolutionary Committees responsible for policing and suppressing opponents
Question: List two reasons why Libya become an "international pariah."
Answer: Overseeing unsuccessful border conflicts with Egypt and Chad, Gaddafi's support for foreign militants and alleged responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing
Question: Name two significant events in 1986 that demonstrated the world's view of Libya.
Answer: U.S. bombing of Libya and United Nations-imposed economic sanctions
Question: What was Libya's socialist government called?
Answer: Jamahiriya ("state of the masses")
Question: Why did Libya become an "international pariah"?
Answer: Gaddafi's support for foreign militants and alleged responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing
Question: How did the world respond to Libya in 1986?
Answer: U.S. bombing of Libya and United Nations-imposed economic sanctions.
Question: How did Gaddafi lose power?
Answer: an anti-Gaddafist uprising led by the National Transitional Council (NTC) broke out, resulting in the Libyan Civil War
Question: How did Gaddafi die?
Answer: Retreating to Sirte, Gaddafi was captured and killed by NTC militants.
Question: What does the term Jamahiriya mean in English?
Answer: state of the masses
Question: In what year did Gaddafi found the Jamahiriya?
Answer: 1977
Question: Along with Egypt, what nation did Libya have border issues with in this era?
Answer: Chad
Question: What terrorist bombing was Gaddafi's Libya supposedly involved in?
Answer: Lockerbie
Question: In what year did the United states bomb Libya?
Answer: 1986 |
Context: The Taragaon Museum presents the modern history of the Kathmandu Valley. It seeks to document 50 years of research and cultural heritage conservation of the Kathmandu Valley, documenting what artists photographers architects anthropologists from abroad had contributed in the second half of the 20th century. The actual structure of the Museum showcases restoration and rehabilitation efforts to preserve the built heritage of Kathmandu. It was designed by Carl Pruscha (master-planner of the Kathmandy Valley ) in 1970 and constructed in 1971. Restoration works began in 2010 to rehabilitate the Taragaon hostel into the Taragaon Museum. The design uses local brick along with modern architectural design elements, as well as the use of circle, triangles and squares. The Museum is within a short walk from the Boudhnath stupa, which itself can be seen from the Museum tower.
Question: What is the Taragaon Museum dedicated to?
Answer: modern history of the Kathmandu Valley
Question: Who is the designer of the Taragaon Museum?
Answer: Carl Pruscha
Question: In what year was the Taragaon Museum built?
Answer: 1971
Question: What stupa is located close to the Taragaon Museum?
Answer: Boudhnath
Question: What was the Taragaon Museum prior to being a museum?
Answer: hostel |
Context: All assets of the Arena Football League were put up for auction. On November 11, 2009, the new league announced its intention to purchase the entire assets of the former AFL; the assets included the team names and logos of all but one of the former AFL and af2 teams. The lone exception was that of the Dallas Desperados; Desperados owner Jerry Jones had purposely designed the Desperados' properties around those of the Dallas Cowboys, making the two inseparable. The auction occurred on November 25, 2009. The assets were awarded to Arena Football 1 on December 7, 2009, with a winning bid of $6.1 million.
Question: Who owned the Dallas Desperados?
Answer: Jerry Jones
Question: When was an auction announced for the Arena Football League's assets?
Answer: November 11, 2009
Question: When did the auction for the Arena Football League's assets take place?
Answer: November 25, 2009
Question: Who won the auction for the AFL's assets?
Answer: Arena Football 1
Question: What was the purchase price for the Arena Football League's assets?
Answer: $6.1 million |
Context: Addition of lead(II) oxide lowers melting point, lowers viscosity of the melt, and increases refractive index. Lead oxide also facilitates solubility of other metal oxides and is used in colored glasses. The viscosity decrease of lead glass melt is very significant (roughly 100 times in comparison with soda glasses); this allows easier removal of bubbles and working at lower temperatures, hence its frequent use as an additive in vitreous enamels and glass solders. The high ionic radius of the Pb2+ ion renders it highly immobile in the matrix and hinders the movement of other ions; lead glasses therefore have high electrical resistance, about two orders of magnitude higher than soda-lime glass (108.5 vs 106.5 Ohm·cm, DC at 250 °C). For more details, see lead glass.
Question: What makes glass melt at a lower temperature?
Answer: lead(II) oxide
Question: How much less viscous is lead glass compared with soda glass?
Answer: 100 times
Question: Pb2+ causes lead glass to have what?
Answer: high electrical resistance
Question: Lead oxide makes it easier to dissolve what?
Answer: other metal oxides
Question: What makes glass melt higher than soda?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much less viscous is lead glass compared with lead?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Pb2+ causes bubbles to have what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Lead oxide makes it easier to decrease viscosity in what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What makes the Pb2+ ion vitreous?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Germany, groups such as Einstürzende Neubauten developed a unique style of industrial music, utilizing avant-garde noise, homemade instruments and found objects. Members of that group would later go on to collaborate with members of the Birthday Party. In Brazil, the post-punk scene grew after the generation of Brasilia rock with bands such as Legião Urbana, Capital Inicial and Plebe Rude and then the opening of the music club Madame Satã in São Paulo, with acts like Cabine C, Titãs, Patife Band, Fellini and Mercenárias, as documented on compilations like The Sexual Life of the Savages and the Não Wave/Não São Paulo series, released in the UK, Germany and Brazil, respectively.[citation needed]
Question: Where did some groups develop a unique style of industrial music?
Answer: Germany
Question: What type of music included noise, homemade instruments, and randomly found objects?
Answer: industrial
Question: What country had a post-punk scene after a generation of rock?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What type of album was The Sexual Life of the Savages?
Answer: compilations
Question: What countries other than Brazil was Brazil's no wave music exported to?
Answer: UK, Germany
Question: What type of music was associated with Einstürzende Neubauten?
Answer: industrial
Question: Where was Einstürzende Neubauten from?
Answer: Germany
Question: Where was Madame Satã?
Answer: Brazil
Question: How did Einstürzende Neubauten come up with their new industrial sound?
Answer: avant-garde noise, homemade instruments and found objects
Question: Who did members of Einstürzende Neubauten also collaborate with?
Answer: the Birthday Party
Question: Which country disliked utilization of avant-garde noise?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups never collaborated with members of the Birthday Party?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the post-punk scene shrink?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was industrial music never released?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Y DNA studies tend to imply a small number of founders in an old population whose members parted and followed different migration paths. In most Jewish populations, these male line ancestors appear to have been mainly Middle Eastern. For example, Ashkenazi Jews share more common paternal lineages with other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than with non-Jewish populations in areas where Jews lived in Eastern Europe, Germany and the French Rhine Valley. This is consistent with Jewish traditions in placing most Jewish paternal origins in the region of the Middle East. Conversely, the maternal lineages of Jewish populations, studied by looking at mitochondrial DNA, are generally more heterogeneous. Scholars such as Harry Ostrer and Raphael Falk believe this indicates that many Jewish males found new mates from European and other communities in the places where they migrated in the diaspora after fleeing ancient Israel. In contrast, Behar has found evidence that about 40% of Ashkenazi Jews originate maternally from just four female founders, who were of Middle Eastern origin. The populations of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish communities "showed no evidence for a narrow founder effect." Subsequent studies carried out by Feder et al. confirmed the large portion of non-local maternal origin among Ashkenazi Jews. Reflecting on their findings related to the maternal origin of Ashkenazi Jews, the authors conclude "Clearly, the differences between Jews and non-Jews are far larger than those observed among the Jewish communities. Hence, differences between the Jewish communities can be overlooked when non-Jews are included in the comparisons."
Question: Ashkenazi Jews share more common paternal lineages with what group?
Answer: Jewish and Middle Eastern groups
Question: Jewish traditions place most Jewish paternal origins in which region?
Answer: Middle East
Question: Which lineages are generally more heterogeneous?
Answer: maternal lineages
Question: What tends to imply a large number of founders in an old population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do male line ancestors appear to be outside of Jewish populations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who believes many Jewish males did not find new mates from European communities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of Ashkenazi Jews originate from four male founders?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did studies carried out by Feder not confirm?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the later Roman Empire, the principal military developments were attempts to create an effective cavalry force as well as the continued development of highly specialised types of troops. The creation of heavily armoured cataphract-type soldiers as cavalry was an important feature of the 5th-century Roman military. The various invading tribes had differing emphasis on types of soldiers—ranging from the primarily infantry Anglo-Saxon invaders of Britain to the Vandals and Visigoths, who had a high proportion of cavalry in their armies. During the early invasion period, the stirrup had not been introduced into warfare, which limited the usefulness of cavalry as shock troops because it was not possible to put the full force of the horse and rider behind blows struck by the rider. The greatest change in military affairs during the invasion period was the adoption of the Hunnic composite bow in place of the earlier, and weaker, Scythian composite bow. Another development was the increasing use of longswords and the progressive replacement of scale armour by mail armour and lamellar armour.
Question: What was the primary military arm of Anglo-Saxon armies?
Answer: infantry
Question: What military arm did the Visigoths have a large amount of?
Answer: cavalry
Question: What Scythian weapon was used during this era?
Answer: composite bow
Question: What weapon replaced the Scythian composite bow?
Answer: Hunnic composite bow
Question: Along with lamellar armor, what armor replaced scale armor?
Answer: mail |
Context: Melatonin is absent from the system or undetectably low during daytime. Its onset in dim light, dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO), at roughly 21:00 (9 p.m.) can be measured in the blood or the saliva. Its major metabolite can also be measured in morning urine. Both DLMO and the midpoint (in time) of the presence of the hormone in the blood or saliva have been used as circadian markers. However, newer research indicates that the melatonin offset may be the more reliable marker. Benloucif et al. found that melatonin phase markers were more stable and more highly correlated with the timing of sleep than the core temperature minimum. They found that both sleep offset and melatonin offset are more strongly correlated with phase markers than the onset of sleep. In addition, the declining phase of the melatonin levels is more reliable and stable than the termination of melatonin synthesis.
Question: What chemical is absent or low during daylight?
Answer: Melatonin
Question: When is the melatonin onset?
Answer: 9 p.m
Question: At its onset, what can be measured in blood or saliva?
Answer: Melatonin
Question: The presence of what is a circadian marker?
Answer: hormone
Question: What are the more reliable markers in determining sleep timing?
Answer: melatonin phase
Question: When is Meletonin found in the system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What starts to decrease at 9 p.m.
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is more stable than the melatonin offset?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is melatonin phase not a reliable marker for?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Croatian Latin alphabet (Gajica) followed suit shortly afterwards, when Ljudevit Gaj defined it as standard Latin with five extra letters that had diacritics, apparently borrowing much from Czech, but also from Polish, and inventing the unique digraphs "lj", "nj" and "dž". These digraphs are represented as "ļ, ń and ǵ" respectively in the "Rječnik hrvatskog ili srpskog jezika", published by the former Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. The latter digraphs, however, are unused in the literary standard of the language. All in all, this makes Serbo-Croatian the only Slavic language to officially use both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, albeit the Latin version is more commonly used.
Question: Serbo-Croatian is the only Slavic language to use what two scripts together?
Answer: Latin and Cyrillic
Question: Which version, Latin or Cyrillic, is most commonly used?
Answer: Latin
Question: How many extra letters does the Croatian Latin alphabet have?
Answer: five
Question: How did Ljudevit Gaj define the Cyrillic alphabet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How often is the Zagreb script used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is standard Latin represented as in the Rjecnik hrvatskog ili srpskog jezika?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group published the Latin and Cyrillic scripts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is Polish used in the literary standard?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Book 11 of St. Augustine's Confessions, he ruminates on the nature of time, asking, "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not." He goes on to comment on the difficulty of thinking about time, pointing out the inaccuracy of common speech: "For but few things are there of which we speak properly; of most things we speak improperly, still the things intended are understood." But Augustine presented the first philosophical argument for the reality of Creation (against Aristotle) in the context of his discussion of time, saying that knowledge of time depends on the knowledge of the movement of things, and therefore time cannot be where there are no creatures to measure its passing (Confessions Book XI ¶30; City of God Book XI ch.6).
Question: Which christian philosopher ruminated on time?
Answer: St. Augustine
Question: What did St. Augustine comment on in Book 11, regarding thinking about time?
Answer: the difficulty
Question: Who presented the first philosophical argument for the reality of Creation?
Answer: Augustine
Question: What did Augustine say that the knowledge of time depended on?
Answer: the knowledge of the movement of things
Question: Where did Augustine say time could not appear?
Answer: where there are no creatures to measure its passing
Question: Who deiscusses the nature of time in his first book?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does St Augustine think common speech adiquetly describes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Aristotle present the first philisophical argument for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said time exists everywhere?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 16 August 1960, Cyprus attained independence after the Zürich and London Agreement between the United Kingdom, Greece and Turkey. Cyprus had a total population of 573,566; of whom 442,138 (77.1%) were Greeks, 104,320 (18.2%) Turks, and 27,108 (4.7%) others The UK retained the two Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, while government posts and public offices were allocated by ethnic quotas, giving the minority Turkish Cypriots a permanent veto, 30% in parliament and administration, and granting the three mother-states guarantor rights.
Question: What is the date that Cyrpus attained independence?
Answer: 16 August 1960
Question: Which countries were part of the Zurich and London Agreement?
Answer: United Kingdom, Greece and Turkey
Question: What was Cyprus' total population when it gained independence?
Answer: 573,566
Question: What was the percentage of Greeks in the Cyprus population?
Answer: (77.1%
Question: What was the percentage of Turks in the Cyprus population?
Answer: 18.2% |
Context: The AVL, created by the Valencian parliament, is in charge of dictating the official rules governing the use of Valencian, and its standard is based on the Norms of Castelló (Normes de Castelló). Currently, everyone who writes in Valencian uses this standard, except the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture (Acadèmia de Cultura Valenciana, RACV), which uses for Valencian an independent standard.
Question: Who established the AVL?
Answer: Valencian parliament
Question: Over what does the AVL make rules governing?
Answer: use of Valencian
Question: What is the AVL standard based on?
Answer: Norms of Castelló
Question: Who uses this standard?
Answer: everyone who writes
Question: Who is exempt from the standard and uses their own?
Answer: Royal Academy of Valencian Culture |
Context: Rather than just using a thick tube, there are similar techniques used to the same effect such as replacing thin wire elements with cages to simulate a thicker element. This widens the bandwidth of the resonance. On the other hand, amateur radio antennas need to operate over several bands which are widely separated from each other. This can often be accomplished simply by connecting resonant elements for the different bands in parallel. Most of the transmitter's power will flow into the resonant element while the others present a high (reactive) impedance and draw little current from the same voltage. A popular solution uses so-called traps consisting of parallel resonant circuits which are strategically placed in breaks along each antenna element. When used at one particular frequency band the trap presents a very high impedance (parallel resonance) effectively truncating the element at that length, making it a proper resonant antenna. At a lower frequency the trap allows the full length of the element to be employed, albeit with a shifted resonant frequency due to the inclusion of the trap's net reactance at that lower frequency.
Question: What type of tubes are generally used for sturdier always of antennas?
Answer: cages
Question: What effect do cages have on the spectrum of usable frequencies?
Answer: widens
Question: How could one achieve the task of creating an antenna that can be Used over various bands?
Answer: connecting resonant elements
Question: What is an essential for dealing with directing the flow of power?
Answer: trap's |
Context: On the interior of the building attached shafts often sweep unbroken from floor to ceiling and meet the ribs of the vault, like a tall tree spreading into branches. The verticals are generally repeated in the treatment of the windows and wall surfaces. In many Gothic churches, particularly in France, and in the Perpendicular period of English Gothic architecture, the treatment of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery creates a strongly unifying feature that counteracts the horizontal divisions of the interior structure.
Question: What is often found sweeping unbroken from floor to ceiling on the interior of Gothic buildings?
Answer: attached shafts
Question: Where are the verticals found repeated in the interior of Gothic buildings?
Answer: the treatment of the windows and wall surfaces
Question: What sort of feature is created by the use of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery?
Answer: a strongly unifying feature
Question: What does the use of vertical elements help to counteract?
Answer: horizontal divisions of the interior structure
Question: What is often found completely broken from floor to ceiling on the interior of Gothic buildings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are the verticals never repeated in the interior of Gothic buildings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sort of feature is ruined by the use of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the use of vertical elements harm the most?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At E3 2007, Sony was able to show a number of their upcoming video games for PlayStation 3, including Heavenly Sword, Lair, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Warhawk and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune; all of which were released in the third and fourth quarters of 2007. They also showed off a number of titles that were set for release in 2008 and 2009; most notably Killzone 2, Infamous, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, LittleBigPlanet and SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation. A number of third-party exclusives were also shown, including the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, alongside other high-profile third-party titles such as Grand Theft Auto IV, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Assassin's Creed, Devil May Cry 4 and Resident Evil 5. Two other important titles for PlayStation 3, Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII, were shown at TGS 2007 in order to appease the Japanese market.
Question: Which Ratchet & Clank title debuted at E3 2007?
Answer: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Question: What year was Warhawk released for the PlayStation 3?
Answer: 2007
Question: At what event were two new Final Fantasy games for PS3 first shown to the Japanese market?
Answer: TGS 2007
Question: What Gran Turismo game was shown in 2007 but not released until after 2007?
Answer: Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
Question: Which much anticipated third-party game with the name of a month of the year in it did Sony show at E3 2007?
Answer: Devil May Cry 4
Question: Which Uncharted title debuted at E3 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was Uncharted:Tools of Destruction released for PS3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What titles were shown at the TAS 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was shown at TGS 2007 to appease the French market?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Ratchet & Clank title debuted at E2 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was Jayhawk released for the PlayStation 3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what event were two new Final Fantasy games for PS3 last shown to the Japanese market?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Gran Turismo game was shown in 2007 but not released until after 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which much anticipated third-party game with the name of a month of the year in it did Sony show at E4 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Montana schoolchildren played a significant role in selecting several state symbols. The state tree, the ponderosa pine, was selected by Montana schoolchildren as the preferred state tree by an overwhelming majority in a referendum held in 1908. However, the legislature did not designate a state tree until 1949, when the Montana Federation of Garden Clubs, with the support of the state forester, lobbied for formal recognition. Schoolchildren also chose the western meadowlark as the state bird, in a 1930 vote, and the legislature acted to endorse this decision in 1931. Similarly, the secretary of state sponsored a children's vote in 1981 to choose a state animal, and after 74 animals were nominated, the grizzly bear won over the elk by a 2–1 margin. The students of Livingston started a statewide school petition drive plus lobbied the governor and the state legislature to name the Maiasaura as the state fossil in 1985.
Question: What year was the state tree selected?
Answer: 1908
Question: When was the state tree actually assigned?
Answer: 1949
Question: What year was the state animal selected?
Answer: 1981
Question: What is the state animal of Montana?
Answer: grizzly bear
Question: What is the state fossil
Answer: Maiasaura |
Context: The University of Houston System's annual impact on the Houston area's economy equates to that of a major corporation: $1.1 billion in new funds attracted annually to the Houston area, $3.13 billion in total economic benefit and 24,000 local jobs generated. This is in addition to the 12,500 new graduates the U.H. System produces every year who enter the workforce in Houston and throughout the state of Texas. These degree-holders tend to stay in Houston. After five years, 80.5% of graduates are still living and working in the region.
Question: How much money does the University of Houston attract to Houston a year?
Answer: $1.1 billion
Question: How many local jobs are produced by the University of Houston?
Answer: 24,000
Question: How many student graduate from the University of Houston per year?
Answer: 12,500
Question: Where do most university graduates stay after acquiring a degree?
Answer: in Houston
Question: Even after five years, how many graduates remain in Houston?
Answer: 80.5%
Question: How much money does the University of Texas attract to Texas a year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many local jobs are produced by the University of Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many student graduate from the University of Texas per year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do most university graduates go to after acquiring a degree?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Even after five years, how many graduates remain in Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Somali architecture is a rich and diverse tradition of engineering and designing. It involves multiple different construction types, such as stone cities, castles, citadels, fortresses, mosques, mausoleums, towers, tombs, tumuli, cairns, megaliths, menhirs, stelae, dolmens, stone circles, monuments, temples, enclosures, cisterns, aqueducts, and lighthouses. Spanning the ancient, medieval and early modern periods in Greater Somalia, it also includes the fusion of Somalo-Islamic architecture with Western designs in contemporary times.
Question: Along with Somalo-Islamic architecture, what influences modern Somali architecture?
Answer: Western designs
Question: Along with the early modern and ancient, during what period did Somali architecture exist?
Answer: medieval
Question: What material was used to make Somali cities?
Answer: stone |
Context: The Mīmāṃsā school has several subschools defined by epistemology. The Prābhākara subschool of Mīmāṃsā considered five epistemically reliable means to gaining knowledge: pratyakṣa (perception), anumāṇa (inference), upamāṇa (comparison and analogy), arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), and śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts). The Kumārila Bhaṭṭa sub-school of Mīmāṃsā added sixth to its canon of reliable epistemology - anupalabdi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof).
Question: How many ways does the Mimamsa separate into subschools?
Answer: several
Question: How many ways does the Prabhakara subschool of Mimamsa say there are to gain knowledge?
Answer: five
Question: How is pratyaksa defined in the Prabhakara subschool?
Answer: perception
Question: What is the word for inference in the Prabhakara subschool?
Answer: anumāṇa
Question: What is comparison and analogy in the Prabhakara school?
Answer: upamāṇa
Question: Which school has no subschools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What means did the Kumarila Bhatta remove from its canon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What subschool only uses four reliable means?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Mimamsa mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Mimamsa subschools are not defined by epistemology?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Radio stations played Top 40 hits regardless of genre; although, most were in the same genre until the mid-1970s when different forms of popular music started to target different demographic groups, such as disco vs. hard rock. This evolved into specialized radio stations that played specific genres of music, and generally followed the evolution of artists in those genres.
Question: What genre of music was was listening to by a different demographic than hard rock?
Answer: disco
Question: In what decade did genres begin to diverge on the basis of demographic groups?
Answer: 1970s |
Context: In Mark 15:25 crucifixion takes place at the third hour (9 a.m.) and Jesus' death at the ninth hour (3 p.m.). However, in John 19:14 Jesus is still before Pilate at the sixth hour. Scholars have presented a number of arguments to deal with the issue, some suggesting a reconciliation, e.g., based on the use of Roman timekeeping in John but not in Mark, yet others have rejected the arguments. Several notable scholars have argued that the modern precision of marking the time of day should not be read back into the gospel accounts, written at a time when no standardization of timepieces, or exact recording of hours and minutes was available, and time was often approximated to the closest three-hour period.
Question: What time was the crucifiction per Mark?
Answer: 9 a.m.
Question: What time did Jesus die per Mark?
Answer: 3 p.m.
Question: Why do scholars say the times are different depending on the gospel it's written in?
Answer: based on the use of Roman timekeeping in John but not in Mark
Question: What is another reason the times differ so much?
Answer: no standardization of timepieces, or exact recording of hours and minutes was available
Question: How close was time guessed in the day of the Gospels?
Answer: approximated to the closest three-hour period
Question: What time did Pilate hold court in the morning?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pilate call for to make it easier to tell time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what time period was Pilate avaliable to be seen?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pilate want with the Roman empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was rejected by Rome when Pilate brought reconciliation to the table?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Bohr also introduced the quantity , now known as the reduced Planck constant, as the quantum of angular momentum. At first, Bohr thought that this was the angular momentum of each electron in an atom: this proved incorrect and, despite developments by Sommerfeld and others, an accurate description of the electron angular momentum proved beyond the Bohr model. The correct quantization rules for electrons – in which the energy reduces to the Bohr model equation in the case of the hydrogen atom – were given by Heisenberg's matrix mechanics in 1925 and the Schrödinger wave equation in 1926: the reduced Planck constant remains the fundamental quantum of angular momentum. In modern terms, if J is the total angular momentum of a system with rotational invariance, and Jz the angular momentum measured along any given direction, these quantities can only take on the values
Question: Who introduced the reduced Planck constant?
Answer: Bohr
Question: What is the reduced Planck constant also known as?
Answer: the quantity
Question: Who helped to give the correct quantization rules for electrons in 1925?
Answer: Heisenberg
Question: Who helped to give the correct quantization rules for electrons in 1926?
Answer: Schrödinger
Question: According to Heisenberg and Schrödinger, the reduced Planck constant remains what?
Answer: the fundamental quantum of angular momentum
Question: Bohr introduced what value as the quantum of angular momentum?
Answer: the reduced Planck constant
Question: What incorrect belief did Bohr hold about the reduced Planck constant?
Answer: Bohr thought that this was the angular momentum of each electron in an atom
Question: What scientist used matrix mechanics to bring electron behavior in line with the Bohr model?
Answer: Heisenberg
Question: When was the Schrödinger wave equation proposed?
Answer: 1926
Question: Who reduced the increased Planck constant?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the extended Planck constant also known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who helped to give the correct quantization rules for electrons in 1945?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who helped to give the incorrect quantization rules for electrons in 1946?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What scientist used matrix mechanics to bring wave behavior against the Bohr model?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Several days after the referendum, the Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, Governor Luis Fortuño, and Governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla wrote separate letters to the President of the United States Barack Obama addressing the results of the voting. Pierluisi urged Obama to begin legislation in favor of the statehood of Puerto Rico, in light of its win in the referendum. Fortuño urged him to move the process forward. García Padilla asked him to reject the results because of their ambiguity. The White House stance related to the November 2012 plebiscite was that the results were clear, the people of Puerto Rico want the issue of status resolved, and a majority chose statehood in the second question. Former White House director of Hispanic media stated, "Now it is time for Congress to act and the administration will work with them on that effort, so that the people of Puerto Rico can determine their own future."
Question: What politicians pushed for statehood for Puerto Rico?
Answer: Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, Governor Luis Fortuño
Question: What politician fought against statehood for Puerto Rico?
Answer: Governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla
Question: How did these politicians voice their concerns?
Answer: wrote separate letters to the President of the United States Barack Obama
Question: What was the White House stance?
Answer: the results were clear, the people of Puerto Rico want the issue of status resolved
Question: What politicians pushed for statehood for Padilla?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What politician fought against statehood for Pierluisi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Congress voice their concerns?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the Congress stance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who stated "Now it is time for Puerto Rico to act"?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The settlement of Plympton, further up the River Plym than the current Plymouth, was also an early trading port, but the river silted up in the early 11th century and forced the mariners and merchants to settle at the current day Barbican near the river mouth. At the time this village was called Sutton, meaning south town in Old English. The name Plym Mouth, meaning "mouth of the River Plym" was first mentioned in a Pipe Roll of 1211. The name Plymouth first officially replaced Sutton in a charter of King Henry VI in 1440. See Plympton for the derivation of the name Plym.
Question: In what century were sailors obligated to relocate from Plympton due to silting?
Answer: 11th
Question: What did Sutton mean in the Old English language?
Answer: south town
Question: In what year was the first written reference to Plymouth made?
Answer: 1211
Question: During whose reign was the former town of Sutton referred to as Plymouth?
Answer: King Henry VI
Question: What did 'Plym Mouth' mean?
Answer: mouth of the River Plym |
Context: Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people. Native copper, however, was found worldwide, along with silver, gold and platinum, which were also used to make tools, jewelry, and other objects since Neolithic times. Copper was the hardest of these metals, and the most widely distributed. It became one of the most important metals to the ancients. Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients. Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain. In the Middle East, people began alloying copper with zinc to form brass. Ancient civilizations took into account the mixture and the various properties it produced, such as hardness, toughness and melting point, under various conditions of temperature and work hardening, developing much of the information contained in modern alloy phase diagrams. Arrowheads from the Chinese Qin dynasty (around 200 BC) were often constructed with a hard bronze-head, but a softer bronze-tang, combining the alloys to prevent both dulling and breaking during use.
Question: Where is the only iron deposit on earth?
Answer: Greenland
Question: Around what time did bronze start being formed?
Answer: 2500 BC
Question: What does copper and zinc form to make?
Answer: brass
Question: Where is tin mostly found?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: Which metal important to the ancients is the hardest one?
Answer: Copper
Question: What is usually found his iron ore in Greenland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of copper is rare on earth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was used to make tools in jewelry before Neolithic times?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did humans began alloying around 2500 A.D.?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was rare in Great Britain?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Jantar Mantar located in Connaught Place was built by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur. It consists of 13 architectural astronomy instruments. The primary purpose of the observatory was to compile astronomical tables, and to predict the times and movements of the sun, moon and planets.
Question: Who was responsible for constructing the Jantar Mantar?
Answer: Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur
Question: In what area of New Delhi is the Jantar Mantar observatory located?
Answer: Connaught Place
Question: The Jantar Mantar consists of how many architectural astronomy instruments?
Answer: 13
Question: What is one of the primary purposes of the Jantar Mantar observatory?
Answer: compile astronomical tables
Question: What is the name of the observatory built in Connaught Place by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur?
Answer: Jantar Mantar |
Context: Almost all of the composers who are described in music textbooks on classical music and whose works are widely performed as part of the standard concert repertoire are male composers, even though there has been a large number of women composers throughout the classical music period. Musicologist Marcia Citron has asked "[w]hy is music composed by women so marginal to the standard 'classical' repertoire?" Citron "examines the practices and attitudes that have led to the exclusion of women composers from the received 'canon' of performed musical works." She argues that in the 1800s, women composers typically wrote art songs for performance in small recitals rather than symphonies intended for performance with an orchestra in a large hall, with the latter works being seen as the most important genre for composers; since women composers did not write many symphonies, they were deemed to be not notable as composers. In the "...Concise Oxford History of Music, Clara Shumann [sic] is one of the only [sic] female composers mentioned." Abbey Philips states that "[d]uring the 20th century the women who were composing/playing gained far less attention than their male counterparts."
Question: What gender are most composers described in music textbooks?
Answer: male
Question: Who asked why is music composed by women so marginal to the standard 'classical' repertoire?
Answer: Musicologist Marcia Citron
Question: Why were women composers deemed not notable?
Answer: did not write many symphonies
Question: Who is one of the only female composers mentioned?
Answer: Clara Shumann
Question: What type of music did women composers typically write?
Answer: art songs |
Context: Human settlement of the New World occurred in stages from the Bering sea coast line, with an initial 15,000 to 20,000-year layover on Beringia for the small founding population. The micro-satellite diversity and distributions of the Y lineage specific to South America indicates that certain indigenous peoples of the Americas populations have been isolated since the initial colonization of the region. The Na-Dené, Inuit and Indigenous Alaskan populations exhibit haplogroup Q (Y-DNA) mutations, however are distinct from other indigenous peoples of the Americas with various mtDNA and atDNA mutations. This suggests that the earliest migrants into the northern extremes of North America and Greenland derived from later migrant populations.
Question: What did human settlement of the New World occur in?
Answer: stages
Question: How long of a layover did the human nomads have in Beringia?
Answer: 15,000 to 20,000-year
Question: What do the diversity and distributions of Y lineage specific to South America indicate about certain peoples there?
Answer: isolated since the initial colonization of the region
Question: What population has mtDNA and atDNA mutations, making them distinct from other indigenous peoples of the Americas?
Answer: Alaskan
Question: What does the DNA evidence suggest about the migrants into the northern extremes of North America?
Answer: later migrant populations |
Context: Describing his sixth studio album Yeezus (2013) as "a protest to music," West embraced an abrasive style that incorporated industrial music, acid house, dancehall, punk, electro, and Chicago drill. Inspired by the minimalist design of Le Corbusier and primarily electronic in nature, the album features distorted drum machines and "synthesizers that sound like they're malfunctioning, low-resolution samplers that add a pixelated digital aura to the most analog sounds." To this end, the album incorporates glitches reminiscent of CD skips or corrupted MP3's, and Auto-Tuned vocals are modulated to a point in which they are difficult to decipher. It also continues West's practice of eclectic samples: he employs a sample of Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit," an obscure Hindi sample on "I Am a God", and a sample of 1970s Hungarian rock group Omega on "New Slaves". "On Sight" interpolates a melody from "Sermon (He'll Give Us What We Really Need)" by the Holy Name of Mary Choral Family. Rolling Stone called the album a "brilliant, obsessive-compulsive career auto-correct".
Question: What did Kanye state that Yeezus was?
Answer: a protest to music
Question: What artist did Kanye draw inspiration from when crafting Yeezus?
Answer: Le Corbusier
Question: In what year was Kanye West's sixth album released?
Answer: 2013
Question: What was the title of Kanye's sixth album?
Answer: Yeezus |
Context: Cooler climates can be found in certain parts of Southern European countries, for example within the mountain ranges of Spain and Italy. Additionally, the north coast of Spain experiences a wetter Atlantic climate.
Question: Where do colder areas occur within southern Europe?
Answer: mountain ranges of Spain and Italy
Question: Where are more moist areas found in southern Europe?
Answer: north coast of Spain
Question: What term can be used to describe the wet area of North Spain?
Answer: Atlantic climate
Question: Where do colder areas occur within northern Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are dry areas found in southern Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term can be used to describe the wet area of Northern Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The east coast of Spain experiences what kind of climate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where have cooler climates recently began to warm up?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: When war broke out between France and its rivals, Russian and Austrian forces invaded Switzerland. The Swiss refused to fight alongside the French in the name of the Helvetic Republic. In 1803 Napoleon organised a meeting of the leading Swiss politicians from both sides in Paris. The result was the Act of Mediation which largely restored Swiss autonomy and introduced a Confederation of 19 cantons. Henceforth, much of Swiss politics would concern balancing the cantons' tradition of self-rule with the need for a central government.
Question: During the Helvetic Republic, which forces invaded Switzerland when war broke out between France and its rivals?
Answer: Russian and Austrian
Question: Who refused to fight alongside the Helvetic Republic when it was invaded by the Russians and Austrians?
Answer: The Swiss
Question: What Act was the result of a meeting of Swiss politicians organized by Napolean?
Answer: Act of Mediation
Question: What was the Act of Mediation responsible for restoring?
Answer: Swiss autonomy
Question: How many cantons were introduced as a Confederation by the Act of Mediation?
Answer: 19 |
Context: Infrared is used in night vision equipment when there is insufficient visible light to see. Night vision devices operate through a process involving the conversion of ambient light photons into electrons that are then amplified by a chemical and electrical process and then converted back into visible light. Infrared light sources can be used to augment the available ambient light for conversion by night vision devices, increasing in-the-dark visibility without actually using a visible light source.
Question: What sort of equipment uses the infrared spectrum in the absence of sufficient visible light?
Answer: night vision
Question: What do night vision devices convert ambient light photons into?
Answer: electrons
Question: Along with a chemical process, what type of process is used by night vision devices to convert infrared into visible light?
Answer: electrical
Question: What equipment uses the infrared spectrum with visible light?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do night vision devices convert electrons into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By what process do night vision devices convert infrared into photons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What process uses a chemical source to augment ambient light?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a visible light source increase for a night vision device?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In contrast with other Romance languages, Catalan has many monosyllabic words; and those ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters. Also, Catalan has final obstruent devoicing, thus featuring many couplets like amic "(male friend") vs. amiga ("female friend").
Question: How is Catalan different from other Romance languages?
Answer: many monosyllabic words
Question: What other type of endings do Catalan words have?
Answer: consonant clusters
Question: What kind of final devoicing does the language have?
Answer: obstruent
Question: What do many words feature?
Answer: couplets |
Context: Prior to Einstein's paper, electromagnetic radiation such as visible light was considered to behave as a wave: hence the use of the terms "frequency" and "wavelength" to characterise different types of radiation. The energy transferred by a wave in a given time is called its intensity. The light from a theatre spotlight is more intense than the light from a domestic lightbulb; that is to say that the spotlight gives out more energy per unit time and per unit space(and hence consumes more electricity) than the ordinary bulb, even though the colour of the light might be very similar. Other waves, such as sound or the waves crashing against a seafront, also have their own intensity. However, the energy account of the photoelectric effect didn't seem to agree with the wave description of light.
Question: Before Einstein, electromagnetic radiation was considered to behave as what?
Answer: a wave
Question: What terms describe different types of radiation?
Answer: "frequency" and "wavelength"
Question: What is the energy transferred by a wave in a given time called?
Answer: intensity
Question: What other types of wave besides light has its own intensity?
Answer: sound
Question: Prior to Einstein's work, light behavior was modeled as what?
Answer: a wave
Question: What is the name for the amount of energy transfered by a wave in a given time?
Answer: intensity
Question: What portion of the photoelectric effect was in disagreement with the believed description of light behavior?
Answer: the energy account
Question: What does it mean for a light source to be more intense than another?
Answer: gives out more energy per unit time and per unit space
Question: What terms describe the same types of radiation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the energy lost by a wave in a long time called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other types of wave besides light doesn't have its own intensity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name for the amount of energy disappearing by a wave in a given time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does it mean for a light source to be equally intense?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2006, Dell acknowledged that it had problems with customer service. Issues included call transfers of more than 45% of calls and long wait times. Dell's blog detailed the response: "We're spending more than a $100 million — and a lot of blood, sweat and tears of talented people — to fix this." Later in the year, the company increased its spending on customer service to $150 million. Despite significant investment in this space, Dell continues to face public scrutiny with even the company's own website littered with complaints regarding the issue escalation process.[original research?]
Question: What percentage of Dell support calls were transferred?
Answer: 45%
Question: How much did Dell originally spend to fix their customer service?
Answer: $100 million
Question: What amount did Dell increase its customer service budget to?
Answer: $150 million
Question: What percentage of Dell support calls weren't transferred?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of IBM support calls were transferred?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did Dell originally spend to end their customer service?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did IBM originally spend to fix their customer service?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What amount did Dell decrease its customer service budget to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 25 January 1952, a confrontation between British forces and police at Ismailia resulted in the deaths of 40 Egyptian policemen, provoking riots in Cairo the next day which left 76 people dead. Afterwards, Nasser published a simple six-point program in Rose al-Yūsuf to dismantle feudalism and British influence in Egypt. In May, Nasser received word that Farouk knew the names of the Free Officers and intended to arrest them; he immediately entrusted Free Officer Zakaria Mohieddin with the task of planning the government takeover by army units loyal to the association.
Question: In what year did riots cause the political situation in Egypt to rapidly deteriorate?
Answer: 1952
Question: Where did British forces and Egyptian police clash?
Answer: Ismailia
Question: How many people were killed in the Cairo riots?
Answer: 76
Question: Who did Nasser enlist to plan the Free Officer's coup?
Answer: Zakaria Mohieddin
Question: What did Nasser want to end in Egypt?
Answer: feudalism |
Context: The term "alloy" is sometimes used in everyday speech as a synonym for a particular alloy. For example, automobile wheels made of an aluminium alloy are commonly referred to as simply "alloy wheels", although in point of fact steels and most other metals in practical use are also alloys. Steel is such a common alloy that many items made from it, like wheels, barrels, or girders, are simply referred to by the name of the item, assuming it is made of steel. When made from other materials, they are typically specified as such, (i.e.: "bronze wheel," "plastic barrel," or "wood girder").
Question: What is the name of a common alloy?
Answer: Steel
Question: What is something on a car that sometimes is made of alloy?
Answer: automobile wheels
Question: Steel and other very practical metals are also named what?
Answer: alloys
Question: Aluminum alloy is sometimes used as a synonym for what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are some items made of iron only referred to by name?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The development of a three-field rotation system for planting crops[AA] increased the usage of land from one half in use each year under the old two-field system to two-thirds under the new system, with a consequent increase in production. The development of the heavy plough allowed heavier soils to be farmed more efficiently, aided by the spread of the horse collar, which led to the use of draught horses in place of oxen. Horses are faster than oxen and require less pasture, factors that aided the implementation of the three-field system.
Question: What fraction of land was under cultivation using the two-field system?
Answer: one half
Question: What fraction of land was under cultivate using the three-field system?
Answer: two-thirds
Question: What invention allowed horses rather than oxen to be used to plow?
Answer: the horse collar
Question: What invention led to an increase in efficiency in the farming of heavy soils?
Answer: the heavy plough
Question: In addition to requiring less pasture, what distinguishes horses from oxen?
Answer: faster |
Context: As cellular metabolism/energy production requires oxygen, potentially damaging (e.g., mutation causing) compounds known as free radicals can form. Most of these are oxidizers (i.e., acceptors of electrons) and some react very strongly. For the continued normal cellular maintenance, growth, and division, these free radicals must be sufficiently neutralized by antioxidant compounds. Recently, some researchers suggested an interesting theory of evolution of dietary antioxidants. Some are produced by the human body with adequate precursors (glutathione, Vitamin C), and those the body cannot produce may only be obtained in the diet via direct sources (Vitamin C in humans, Vitamin A, Vitamin K) or produced by the body from other compounds (Beta-carotene converted to Vitamin A by the body, Vitamin D synthesized from cholesterol by sunlight). Phytochemicals (Section Below) and their subgroup, polyphenols, make up the majority of antioxidants; about 4,000 are known. Different antioxidants are now known to function in a cooperative network. For example, Vitamin C can reactivate free radical-containing glutathione or Vitamin E by accepting the free radical itself. Some antioxidants are more effective than others at neutralizing different free radicals. Some cannot neutralize certain free radicals. Some cannot be present in certain areas of free radical development (Vitamin A is fat-soluble and protects fat areas, Vitamin C is water-soluble and protects those areas). When interacting with a free radical, some antioxidants produce a different free radical compound that is less dangerous or more dangerous than the previous compound. Having a variety of antioxidants allows any byproducts to be safely dealt with by more efficient antioxidants in neutralizing a free radical's butterfly effect.
Question: What is another term that can be used to describe "potentially damaging" compounds?
Answer: mutation causing
Question: What are oxidizers?
Answer: acceptors of electrons
Question: In order for the body to function normally, what must be used to neutralize free radicals?
Answer: antioxidant compounds
Question: What subgroup of phytochemicals helps make up the majority of the body's antioxidants?
Answer: polyphenols
Question: Which area of the body does vitamin A protect?
Answer: fat areas |
Context: During the Hundred Years' War, the army of the Duke of Burgundy and a force of about two hundred English soldiers occupied Paris from May 1420 until 1436. They repelled an attempt by Joan of Arc to liberate the city in 1429. A century later, during the French Wars of Religion, Paris was a stronghold of the Catholic League. On 24 August 1572, Paris was the site of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, when thousands of French Protestants were killed. The last of these wars, the eighth one, ended in 1594, after Henri IV had converted to Catholicism and was finally able to enter Paris as he supposedly declared Paris vaut bien une messe ("Paris is well worth a Mass"). The city had been neglected for decades; by the time of his assassination in 1610, Henry IV had rebuilt the Pont Neuf, the first Paris bridge with sidewalks and not lined with buildings, linked with a new wing the Louvre to the Tuileries Palace, and created the first Paris residential square, the Place Royale, now Place des Vosges.
Question: In what years did the English soldiers occupy Paris during the Hundred Years War?
Answer: 1420 until 1436
Question: Who tried to liberate the city in 1429?
Answer: Joan of Arc
Question: What was the date of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre?
Answer: 24 August 1572
Question: In what year was Henri IV assassinated?
Answer: 1610
Question: Who was responsible for rebuilding Paris in the 1600's
Answer: Henry IV |
Context: During the Gorbachev era of the 1980s, with the reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika, Armenians began to demand better environmental care for their country, opposing the pollution that Soviet-built factories brought. Tensions also developed between Soviet Azerbaijan and its autonomous district of Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian region separated by Stalin from Armenia in 1923. About 484,000 Armenians lived in Azerbaijan in 1970. The Armenians of Karabakh demanded unification with Soviet Armenia. Peaceful protests in Yerevan supporting the Karabakh Armenians were met with anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait. Compounding Armenia's problems was a devastating earthquake in 1988 with a moment magnitude of 7.2.
Question: How man Armenians resided in Azerbaijan in 1970?
Answer: 484,000
Question: In what year did Armenia suffer from a catastrophic earthquake?
Answer: 1988
Question: When was Nagorno-Karabakh removed from Armenia?
Answer: 1923
Question: Who partitioned Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia?
Answer: Stalin |
Context: While some teams have enjoyed considerable on-field and even financial success, many teams in the history of the league have enjoyed little success either on or off of the field of play. There are a number of franchises which existed in the form of a number of largely-unrelated teams under numerous management groups until they folded (an example is the New York CityHawks whose owners transferred the team from New York to Hartford to become the New England Sea Wolves after two seasons, then after another two seasons were sold and became the Toronto Phantoms, who lasted another two seasons until folding). There are a number of reasons why these teams failed, including financially weak ownership groups, lack of deep financial support from some owners otherwise capable of providing it, lack of media exposure, and the host city's evident lack of interest in its team or the sport as a whole.
Question: What team did the New York CityHawks become after moving to Hartford?
Answer: New England Sea Wolves
Question: What city did the Sea Wolves move to?
Answer: Toronto
Question: How many seasons were the CityHawks in New York?
Answer: two
Question: How long did the Sea Wolves stay in Hartford?
Answer: two seasons
Question: How many seasons did the Toronto Phantoms last?
Answer: two |
Context: As of November 2008, there is only one person on death row facing capital punishment who has not been convicted of murder. Demarcus Sears remains under a death sentence in Georgia for the crime of "kidnapping with bodily injury." Sears was convicted in 1986 for the kidnapping and bodily injury of victim Gloria Ann Wilbur. Wilbur was kidnapped and beaten in Georgia, raped in Tennessee, and murdered in Kentucky. Sears was never charged with the murder of Wilbur in Kentucky, but was sentenced to death by a jury in Georgia for "kidnapping with bodily injury."
Question: In November 2008, who was on death penalty without a murder conviction?
Answer: Demarcus Sears
Question: Who did Demarcus Sears kidnap?
Answer: Gloria Ann Wilbur
Question: In what state was Gloria Ann Wilbur murdered?
Answer: Kentucky
Question: In what year was Demarcus Sears convicted of kidnapping?
Answer: 1986
Question: A jury in what state sentenced Demarcus Sears to death?
Answer: Georgia
Question: In November 2018, who was on death penalty without a murder conviction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Demarcus Sears let go free?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what state was Gloria Ann Wilbur born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Demarcus Sears freed of kidnapping?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A jury in what state sentenced Demarcus Sears to freedom?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Arsenal have appeared in a number of media "firsts". On 22 January 1927, their match at Highbury against Sheffield United was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio. A decade later, on 16 September 1937, an exhibition match between Arsenal's first team and the reserves was the first football match in the world to be televised live. Arsenal also featured in the first edition of the BBC's Match of the Day, which screened highlights of their match against Liverpool at Anfield on 22 August 1964. BSkyB's coverage of Arsenal's January 2010 match against Manchester United was the first live public broadcast of a sports event on 3D television.
Question: Why was Arsenal's match on 22 Jan. 1927 at Highbury a first?
Answer: broadcast live on radio
Question: What team did Arsenal play at the time of the radio broadcast in 1927?
Answer: Sheffield United
Question: When was Arsenal's match the first to be televised live?
Answer: 16 September 1937
Question: To what first broadcast did Arsenal provide match highlights?
Answer: BBC's Match of the Day
Question: In what form was Arsenal's broadcast of a 2010 match against Manchester United?
Answer: 3D television
Question: In what stadium was Arsenal playing in for the first televised game?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what tv channel was the 16 September 1937 Arsenal exhibition game shown?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won the match between Arsenal and Liverpool on 22 August 1964?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won the match between Arsenal and Sheffield United on 22 January 1927?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did BskyB televise their first Arsenal game?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the Franco-Prussian War and the Siege of Strasbourg, the city was heavily bombarded by the Prussian army. The bombardment of the city was meant to break the morale of the people of Strasbourg. On 24 and 26 August 1870, the Museum of Fine Arts was destroyed by fire, as was the Municipal Library housed in the Gothic former Dominican church, with its unique collection of medieval manuscripts (most famously the Hortus deliciarum), rare Renaissance books, archeological finds and historical artifacts. The gothic cathedral was damaged as well as the medieval church of Temple Neuf, the theatre, the city hall, the court of justice and many houses. At the end of the siege 10,000 inhabitants were left without shelter; over 600 died, including 261 civilians, and 3200 were injured, including 1,100 civilians.
Question: Who bombarded the city of Strasbourg?
Answer: Prussian army
Question: What date was the Museum of Fine Arts destroyed by fire?
Answer: 24 and 26 August 1870
Question: What cathedral was damaged along with the medieval church of Temple Neuf?
Answer: gothic
Question: How many inhabitants were left without shelter after the siege?
Answer: 10,000
Question: How many civilians died during the siege?
Answer: 261
Question: How many people lived in the city before the Siege of Strasbourg?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Hortus deliciarum written?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many soldiers were injured during the Siege of Strasbourg?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what style was the Museum of Fine Arts built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: To what era did the Museum of Fine Arts date?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile) and was the first reactor designed and built for continuous operation. Argonne National Laboratory's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, located at the Atomic Energy Commission's National Reactor Testing Station near Arco, Idaho, became the first nuclear reactor to create electricity on 20 December 1951. Initially, four 150-watt light bulbs were lit by the reactor, but improvements eventually enabled it to power the whole facility (later, the town of Arco became the first in the world to have all its electricity come from nuclear power generated by BORAX-III, another reactor designed and operated by Argonne National Laboratory). The world's first commercial scale nuclear power station, Obninsk in the Soviet Union, began generation with its reactor AM-1 on 27 June 1954. Other early nuclear power plants were Calder Hall in England, which began generation on 17 October 1956, and the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, which began on 26 May 1958. Nuclear power was used for the first time for propulsion by a submarine, the USS Nautilus, in 1954.
Question: What was the world's first artificial nuclear reactor?
Answer: Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile
Question: In what state is the X-10 Graphite Reactor located?
Answer: Tennessee
Question: Along with the X-10 Pile, what was the X-10 Graphite Reactor previously known as?
Answer: the Clinton Pile
Question: In what state is Argonne National Laboratory's Experimental Breeder Reactor I located?
Answer: Idaho
Question: On what date did Breeder Reactor I first make electricity?
Answer: 20 December 1951
Question: What was the world's last artificial nuclear reactor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what state is the X-01 Graphite Reactor located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Along with the X-10 Pile, what was the X-10 Graphite Reactor never known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what state is Argonne National Laboratory's Experimental Breeder Reactor II located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date did Breeder Reactor II first make electricity?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The city's Greektown and three downtown casino resort hotels serve as part of an entertainment hub. The Eastern Market farmer's distribution center is the largest open-air flowerbed market in the United States and has more than 150 foods and specialty businesses. On Saturdays, about 45,000 people shop the city's historic Eastern Market. The Midtown and the New Center area are centered on Wayne State University and Henry Ford Hospital. Midtown has about 50,000 residents and attracts millions of visitors each year to its museums and cultural centers; for example, the Detroit Festival of the Arts in Midtown draws about 350,000 people.
Question: Which market has the largest open air flowerbed in the US?
Answer: Eastern Market
Question: How big is Midtown's population?
Answer: 50,000
Question: Which festival attracts over a quarter million visitors?
Answer: Detroit Festival of the Arts
Question: How many casino resorts ore in downtown?
Answer: three
Question: On which day does Eastern Market attract the most visitors?
Answer: Saturdays |
Context: After the early 20th century revolutions, shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government. Despite the fact that various warlords gained control of the government in Beijing during the warlord era, this did not constitute a new era of control or governance, because other warlords did not acknowledge the transitory governments in this period and were a law unto themselves. These military-dominated governments were collectively known as the Beiyang government. The warlord era ended around 1927.
Question: What happened to China after the 20th century revolutions?
Answer: shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government.
Question: Who ultimately gained control of the Beijing government?
Answer: various warlords
Question: Why was there not a new era of governance in Beijing?
Answer: because other warlords did not acknowledge the transitory governments in this period and were a law unto themselves.
Question: What were the military dominated governments known as?
Answer: the Beiyang government
Question: When did the warlord era end?
Answer: around 1927 |
Context: Pesticide use raises a number of environmental concerns. Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. Pesticide drift occurs when pesticides suspended in the air as particles are carried by wind to other areas, potentially contaminating them. Pesticides are one of the causes of water pollution, and some pesticides are persistent organic pollutants and contribute to soil contamination.
Question: What pecentage of sprayed pesticides affect the wrong species?
Answer: Over 98%
Question: What is affected when pesticides don't reach their target?
Answer: non-target species, air, water and soil
Question: What is it called when pesticides are caught in the wind and carried to unintended areas?
Answer: Pesticide drift
Question: Pesticides contribute to what sort of pollution?
Answer: water pollution
Question: What is the effect of pesticide drift?
Answer: potentially contaminating
Question: What are contaminated bugs living in water one of the causes of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of species are able to live in polluted water?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do animals digging in the soil for food contribute to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What concerns are raised when thinking about animals digging in the soil for food?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of people want to eat organic food?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Clock shifts were found to increase the risk of heart attack by 10 percent, and to disrupt sleep and reduce its efficiency. Effects on seasonal adaptation of the circadian rhythm can be severe and last for weeks. A 2008 study found that although male suicide rates rise in the weeks after the spring transition, the relationship weakened greatly after adjusting for season. A 2008 Swedish study found that heart attacks were significantly more common the first three weekdays after the spring transition, and significantly less common the first weekday after the autumn transition. The government of Kazakhstan cited health complications due to clock shifts as a reason for abolishing DST in 2005. In March 2011, Dmitri Medvedev, president of Russia, claimed that "stress of changing clocks" was the motivation for Russia to stay in DST all year long. Officials at the time talked about an annual increase in suicides.
Question: What natural rhythm is disrupted by seasonal changes?
Answer: circadian rhythm
Question: In 2005, what country used increased health risks as rationalization for getting rid of DST?
Answer: Kazakhstan
Question: Which Russian president argued that the country should stay in DST year-round because of the stresses of time shifts?
Answer: Dmitri Medvedev
Question: According to the Swedish study in 2008, for how many weekdays following the "spring forward" do you have a higher risk of heart attack?
Answer: three |
Context: In June 1718 Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach, ran his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, aground at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, in present-day Carteret County. After the grounding her crew and supplies were transferred to smaller ships. In 1996 Intersal, Inc., a private firm, discovered the remains of a vessel likely to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, which was added to the US National Register of Historic Places. In November, after losing his ship and appealing to the governor of North Carolina who promised safe-haven and a pardon, the notorious pirate, Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was killed in an ambush by troops from Virginia.
Question: What was another name for Blackbeard?
Answer: Edward Teach
Question: What was the name of blackbeards ship?
Answer: the Queen Anne's Revenge
Question: Where in North Carolina did Blackbeards ship crash?
Answer: Beaufort Inlet
Question: What year did Blackbeard run his ship aground in North Carolina?
Answer: 1718
Question: What year were the remains of the Queen Anne's Revenge discovered?
Answer: 1996 |
Context: European higher education took place for hundreds of years in Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools (scholae monasticae), in which monks and nuns taught classes; evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places dates back to the 6th century. The earliest universities were developed under the aegis of the Latin Church by papal bull as studia generalia and perhaps from cathedral schools. It is possible, however, that the development of cathedral schools into universities was quite rare, with the University of Paris being an exception. Later they were also founded by Kings (University of Naples Federico II, Charles University in Prague, Jagiellonian University in Kraków) or municipal administrations (University of Cologne, University of Erfurt). In the early medieval period, most new universities were founded from pre-existing schools, usually when these schools were deemed to have become primarily sites of higher education. Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries.
Question: What is a scholae monasticae?
Answer: monastic schools
Question: Who presided over classes at a scholae monasticae?
Answer: monks and nuns
Question: In the chronology of academic institutions, where are Christian cathedral schools compared to universities?
Answer: immediate forerunners
Question: What church is said to be responsible for the formation of universities?
Answer: Latin Church
Question: During which era did universities grow out of already extant schools?
Answer: early medieval period
Question: Where did education originally take place across the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of schools forbid women to teach?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What began in the 600's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What church encouraged but did not get directly involved in forming universities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused most existing schools to decline?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who presided over universities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During which era did universities grow out of monasteries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the earliest monasteries developed under?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are three monasteries started by Kings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were most new universities funded from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to two researchers, Nesse and Williams, diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism. As a result, if it is stopped, there might be a delay in recovery. They cite in support of this argument research published in 1973 that found that treating Shigella with the anti-diarrhea drug (Co-phenotrope, Lomotil) caused people to stay feverish twice as long as those not so treated. The researchers indeed themselves observed that: "Lomotil may be contraindicated in shigellosis. Diarrhea may represent a defense mechanism".
Question: What did Nesse and Williams learn?
Answer: diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism
Question: If diarrhea is stopped, would could happen?
Answer: there might be a delay in recovery.
Question: What happened with people with Shigella were treated with anti-diarrheal medication?
Answer: caused people to stay feverish twice as long as those not so treated.
Question: What is the function of Shigella?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: If research is stopped, what could happen?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to people with Lomotil when treated with anti diarrheal medication?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is contraindicated in support of the argument?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the researchers discover about shigellosis?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As an electro-magnetic wave travels through the different parts of the antenna system (radio, feed line, antenna, free space) it may encounter differences in impedance (E/H, V/I, etc.). At each interface, depending on the impedance match, some fraction of the wave's energy will reflect back to the source, forming a standing wave in the feed line. The ratio of maximum power to minimum power in the wave can be measured and is called the standing wave ratio (SWR). A SWR of 1:1 is ideal. A SWR of 1.5:1 is considered to be marginally acceptable in low power applications where power loss is more critical, although an SWR as high as 6:1 may still be usable with the right equipment. Minimizing impedance differences at each interface (impedance matching) will reduce SWR and maximize power transfer through each part of the antenna system.
Question: What is one piece that makes up an antenna system?
Answer: radio
Question: What is created by a portion of a radio waves energy reversing?
Answer: standing wave
Question: A term that refers to the highs and lows of power in electro magnetic waves is?
Answer: standing wave ratio
Question: Impedance matching makes an important difference in what antenna function?
Answer: power transfer |
Context: The 1910 election saw 42 Labour MPs elected to the House of Commons, a significant victory since, a year before the election, the House of Lords had passed the Osborne judgment ruling that Trades Unions in the United Kingdom could no longer donate money to fund the election campaigns and wages of Labour MPs. The governing Liberals were unwilling to repeal this judicial decision with primary legislation. The height of Liberal compromise was to introduce a wage for Members of Parliament to remove the need to involve the Trade Unions. By 1913, faced with the opposition of the largest Trades Unions, the Liberal government passed the Trade Disputes Act to allow Trade Unions to fund Labour MPs once more.
Question: How many MP were elected in the 1910 election?
Answer: 42
Question: Who passed the Osborne judgment?
Answer: Trade Disputes Act
Question: When was the Trade Disputes Act passed?
Answer: 1913
Question: What year saw 42 Labour MPs face defeat?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the House of Lords pass a year after the election?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who could no longer fund the wages of Liberal MPs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the nadir of Liberal compromise?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Labour government pass the Trades Disputes Act?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the Mexican War of Independence from Spain also, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, western Colorado and southwestern Wyoming became part of the Mexican territory of Alta California and most of New Mexico, western Texas, southern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and Oklahoma panhandle were part of the territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. The geographical isolation and unique political history of this territory led to New Mexican Spanish differing notably from both Spanish spoken in other parts of the United States of America and Spanish spoken in the present-day United Mexican States.
Question: When did other states become part of Mexico?
Answer: After the Mexican War of Independence from Spain
Question: What states made up of Alta California
Answer: California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, western Colorado and southwestern Wyoming became part of the Mexican territory of Alta California
Question: What states were part of Santa Fe de Nuevo
Answer: most of New Mexico, western Texas, southern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and Oklahoma panhandle were part of the territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
Question: Why is there still Bilingual spoken in these states?
Answer: The geographical isolation and unique political history of this territory
Question: When did other states become part of Colorado?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is there still bilingual spoken in Mexico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Spanish in Spain differ from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was North Dakota a part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Nebraska a part of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to some estimates about 20% of the population lives on less than US$1.25 per day. Migration from Tajikistan and the consequent remittances have been unprecedented in their magnitude and economic impact. In 2010, remittances from Tajik labour migrants totaled an estimated $2.1 billion US dollars, an increase from 2009. Tajikistan has achieved transition from a planned to a market economy without substantial and protracted recourse to aid (of which it by now receives only negligible amounts), and by purely market-based means, simply by exporting its main commodity of comparative advantage — cheap labor. The World Bank Tajikistan Policy Note 2006 concludes that remittances have played an important role as one of the drivers of Tajikistan's robust economic growth during the past several years, have increased incomes, and as a result helped significantly reduce poverty.
Question: What is the average amount lived on per day?
Answer: US$1.25 per day
Question: What was the total for the remittances from Tajik migrans?
Answer: estimated $2.1 billion US dollars
Question: How did Tajikistan change their economy?
Answer: by purely market-based means, simply by exporting its main commodity of comparative advantage — cheap labor
Question: What has been one of the drivers of Tajikistan's robust economic growth?
Answer: remittances
Question: Ninety percent of the population lives on less then what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Migration from Turkey has been unprecedented in what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has achieved a transition from a market to a planned economy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Remittances have not played an important role as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has not helped reduce poverty?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Windows 8 introduces a new style of application, Windows Store apps. According to Microsoft developer Jensen Harris, these apps are to be optimized for touchscreen environments and are more specialized than current desktop applications. Apps can run either in a full-screen mode, or be snapped to the side of a screen. Apps can provide toast notifications on screen or animate their tiles on the Start screen with dynamic content. Apps can use "contracts"; a collection of hooks to provide common functionality that can integrate with other apps, including search and sharing. Apps can also provide integration with other services; for example, the People app can connect to a variety of different social networks and services (such as Facebook, Skype, and People service), while the Photos app can aggregate photos from services such as Facebook and Flickr.
Question: Who is Jensen Harris?
Answer: Microsoft developer
Question: What apps can one expect the People app to match with?
Answer: Facebook, Skype, and People service
Question: What apps can one expect the Photos app to match with?
Answer: Facebook and Flickr
Question: What makes Windows Store apps unique?
Answer: apps are to be optimized for touchscreen environments and are more specialized than current desktop applications.
Question: What are contracts?
Answer: collection of hooks to provide common functionality that can integrate with other apps
Question: Who isn't Jensen Harris?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What apps can't one expect the People app to match with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What apps can't one expect the Photos app to match with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What makes Windows Store apps un-unique?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What aren't contracts?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The setae ("hairs") of annelids project out from the epidermis to provide traction and other capabilities. The simplest are unjointed and form paired bundles near the top and bottom of each side of each segment. The parapodia ("limbs") of annelids that have them often bear more complex chetae at their tips – for example jointed, comb-like or hooked. Chetae are made of moderately flexible β-chitin and are formed by follicles, each of which has a chetoblast ("hair-forming") cell at the bottom and muscles that can extend or retract the cheta. The chetoblasts produce chetae by forming microvilli, fine hair-like extensions that increase the area available for secreting the cheta. When the cheta is complete, the microvilli withdraw into the chetoblast, leaving parallel tunnels that run almost the full length of the cheta. Hence annelids' chetae are structurally different from the setae ("bristles") of arthropods, which are made of the more rigid α-chitin, have a single internal cavity, and are mounted on flexible joints in shallow pits in the cuticle.
Question: What do chetoblast cells do?
Answer: hair-forming
Question: What hair-like extensions do chetoblasts make?
Answer: microvilli
Question: What are setae?
Answer: bristles
Question: What are parapodia against?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do chetoblast cells destroy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What hair-like extensions do chetoblasts eat?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are setae never considered?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In many cities along the North American and European route, the torch relay was protested by advocates of Tibetan independence, animal rights, and legal online gambling, and people protesting against China's human rights record, resulting in confrontations at a few of the relay locations. These protests, which ranged from hundreds of people in San Francisco, to effectively none in Pyongyang, forced the path of the torch relay to be changed or shortened on a number of occasions. The torch was extinguished by Chinese security officials several times during the Paris leg for security reasons, and once in protest in Paris.
Question: How many people protested on the San Francisco torch route?
Answer: hundreds
Question: How many people protested at the Pyongyang torch route?
Answer: effectively none
Question: What were some groups doing along the torch route that was not supportive of the Olympics?
Answer: protesting
Question: Who put out the torch along the route for protection?
Answer: Chinese security officials |
Context: The earliest disc records (1889–1894) were made of various materials including hard rubber. Around 1895, a shellac-based compound was introduced and became standard. Exact formulas for this compound varied by manufacturer and over the course of time, but it was typically composed of about one-third shellac and about two-thirds mineral filler, which meant finely pulverized rock, usually slate and limestone, with an admixture of cotton fibers to add tensile strength, carbon black for color (without this, it tended to be a "dirty" gray or brown color that most record companies considered unattractive), and a very small amount of a lubricant to facilitate mold release during manufacture. Some makers, notably Columbia Records, used a laminated construction with a core disc of coarser material or fiber. The production of shellac records continued until the end of the 78 rpm format (i.e., the late 1950s in most developed countries, but well into the 1960s in some other places), but increasingly less abrasive formulations were used during its declining years and very late examples in truly like-new condition can have as low noise levels as vinyl.
Question: What materials were discs made of in 1889-1894?
Answer: hard rubber
Question: What was the standard material for discs around 1895?
Answer: a shellac-based compound
Question: What company was known for laminate construction of discs?
Answer: Columbia Records
Question: What material give the vinyl records their known black color?
Answer: carbon
Question: What material is used in order to release the vinyl records from their molds?
Answer: lubricant |
Context: Detroit, like many places in the United States, developed racial conflict and discrimination in the 20th century following rapid demographic changes as hundreds of thousands of new workers were attracted to the industrial city; in a short period it became the 4th-largest city in the nation. The Great Migration brought rural blacks from the South; they were outnumbered by southern whites who also migrated to the city. Immigration brought southern and eastern Europeans of Catholic and Jewish faith; these new groups competed with native-born whites for jobs and housing in the booming city. Detroit was one of the major Midwest cities that was a site for the dramatic urban revival of the Ku Klux Klan beginning in 1915. "By the 1920s the city had become a stronghold of the KKK," whose members opposed Catholic and Jewish immigrants, as well as black Americans. The Black Legion, a secret vigilante group, was active in the Detroit area in the 1930s, when one-third of its estimated 20,000 to 30,000 members in Michigan were based in the city. It was defeated after numerous prosecutions following the kidnapping and murder in 1936 of Charles Poole, a Catholic Works Progress Administration organizer. A total of 49 men of the Black Legion were convicted of numerous crimes, with many sentenced to life in prison for murder.
Question: What was the name of a vigilante group in Detroit?
Answer: The Black Legion
Question: How many people of The Black Legion were convicted of crimes?
Answer: 49
Question: By which decade had the KKK become very active in Detroit?
Answer: 1920s
Question: What is the name of the movement of rural blacks in the early 20th century called?
Answer: The Great Migration |
Context: The feminism and female empowerment themes on Beyoncé's second solo album B'Day were inspired by her role in Dreamgirls and by singer Josephine Baker. Beyoncé paid homage to Baker by performing "Déjà Vu" at the 2006 Fashion Rocks concert wearing Baker's trademark mini-hula skirt embellished with fake bananas. Beyoncé's third solo album I Am... Sasha Fierce was inspired by Jay Z and especially by Etta James, whose "boldness" inspired Beyoncé to explore other musical genres and styles. Her fourth solo album, 4, was inspired by Fela Kuti, 1990s R&B, Earth, Wind & Fire, DeBarge, Lionel Richie, Teena Marie with additional influences by The Jackson 5, New Edition, Adele, Florence and the Machine, and Prince.
Question: What themes were influenced by her acting role in Dreamgirls?
Answer: feminism and female empowerment
Question: Which singer did Beyonce honor by entertaining with her song "Deja Vu"?
Answer: Josephine Baker
Question: Who motivated Beyonce to explore other areas of music?
Answer: Etta James
Question: What movie influenced Beyonce towards empowerment themes?
Answer: Dreamgirls
Question: How did Etta James influence her?
Answer: boldness
Question: Where did she perform wearing Baker's hula skirt?
Answer: 2006 Fashion Rocks concert
Question: What singer inspired Beyoncé's B'Day album?
Answer: Josephine Baker.
Question: What song did Beyoncé sing at a 2006 concert to honor Josephine Baker?
Answer: Déjà Vu |
Context: The tribes were ruled by clans (ród) consisting of people related by blood or marriage and theoretically descending from a common ancestor, giving the ród/clan a highly developed sense of solidarity. (See gens.) The starosta (or starszyna) had judicial and military power over the ród/clan, although this power was often exercised with an assembly of elders. Strongholds called grόd were built where the religious cult was powerful, where trials were conducted, and where clans gathered in the face of danger. The opole was the territory occupied by a single tribe. (Manteuffel 1982, p. 44)
Question: What ruled over the tribes?
Answer: clans (ród)
Question: What did the clans people all have in common?
Answer: theoretically descending from a common ancestor
Question: What gave them a sense of solidarity?
Answer: related by blood or marriage
Question: What were stronghold called?
Answer: grόd
Question: What was the territory occupied by a single tribe?
Answer: opole |
Context: The NES can be emulated on many other systems, most notably the PC. The first emulator was the Japanese-only Pasofami. It was soon followed by iNES, which was available in English and was cross-platform, in 1996. It was described as being the first NES emulation software that could be used by a non-expert. NESticle, a popular MS-DOS emulator, was released on April 3, 1997. There have since been many other emulators. The Virtual Console for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U also offers emulation of many NES games.
Question: What was the first NES emulator?
Answer: Pasofami
Question: What was the first English available emulator?
Answer: iNES
Question: When was NESticle released?
Answer: April 3, 1997
Question: What platform was NESticle available for use?
Answer: MS-DOS
Question: What wasn't the first NES emulator?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first Spanish available emulator?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was NESticle halted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What platform was NESticle unavailable for use?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Feynman traveled to Brazil, where he gave courses at the BCPF (Brazilian Center for Physics Research) and near the end of his life schemed to visit the Russian land of Tuva, a dream that, because of Cold War bureaucratic problems, never became reality. The day after he died, a letter arrived for him from the Soviet government, giving him authorization to travel to Tuva. Later Feynman's daughter Michelle would realize this journey. Out of his enthusiastic interest in reaching Tuva came the phrase "Tuva or Bust" (also the title of a book about his efforts to get there), which was tossed about frequently amongst his circle of friends in hope that they, one day, could see it firsthand. The documentary movie, Genghis Blues, mentions some of his attempts to communicate with Tuva and chronicles the successful journey there by his friends. Responding to Hubert Humphrey's congratulation for his Nobel Prize, Feynman admitted to a long admiration for the then vice president.
Question: Where did Feynman work at in Brazil?
Answer: Brazilian Center for Physics Research
Question: Which place in Russia could Feynman not visit, but wished to do so?
Answer: Tuva
Question: When was Feynman allowed to go to Tuva?
Answer: The day after he died
Question: Who went to Tuva in Feynman's stead?
Answer: Feynman's daughter Michelle
Question: What is the name of the film that discusses Feynman's attempt to get to Tuva?
Answer: Genghis Blues
Question: Where did Feynman work at in Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which place in Germany could Feynman not visit but wished to do so?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Feynman found visiting Tuva?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who avoided Tuva in Feynman's stead?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the film that discusses Feynman's attempt to escape from Tuva?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As the Laws were formulated in England, and were initially administered solely by the four British football associations within IFAB, the standard dimensions of a football pitch were originally expressed in imperial units. The Laws now express dimensions with approximate metric equivalents (followed by traditional units in brackets), though use of imperial units remains popular in English-speaking countries with a relatively recent history of metrication (or only partial metrication), such as Britain.
Question: Imperial units where once used to express the dimensions of a what?
Answer: football pitch
Question: Laws were formulated in what country?
Answer: England
Question: What unit of measurement is now expressed by the Laws?
Answer: metric
Question: The use of imperial units is still popular in what kind of countries?
Answer: English-speaking
Question: What have imperial units never been used to express the dimensions of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country never formulated laws?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What unit of measurement can't be expressed by the Laws?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of countries are imperial units not considered popular?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Slavery and slaves were part of the social order; there were slave markets where they could be bought and sold. Many slaves were freed by the masters for services rendered; some slaves could save money to buy their freedom. Generally, mutilation and murder of slaves was prohibited by legislation. However, Rome did not have a law enforcement arm. All actions were treated as "torts," which were brought by an accuser who was forced to prove the entire case himself. If the accused were a noble and the victim, not a noble, the likelihood of finding for the accused was small. At most, the accused might have to pay a fine for killing a slave. It is estimated that over 25% of the Roman population was enslaved.
Question: Around what percentage of the Roman populace were thought to be slaves?
Answer: over 25%
Question: Where in the Roman Republic could slaves be acquired?
Answer: slave markets
Question: Were slave masters allowed to free their slaves in the Roman Republic?
Answer: Many slaves were freed by the masters for services rendered
Question: What branch of law did Rome lack?
Answer: law enforcement
Question: Who was responsible for seeking justice in the Roman courts?
Answer: an accuser who was forced to prove the entire case himself |
Context: In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: cos, cotis whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism". First among these he listed the peripatetic-thomist observation mentioned above, but he further observed that this link between sensory perception and intellectual conception is a two-way street. That is, it can be taken to say that whatever we find in the intellect is also incipiently in the senses. Hence, if theories are theory-laden then so are the senses, and perception itself can be seen as a species of abductive inference, its difference being that it is beyond control and hence beyond critique – in a word, incorrigible. This in no way conflicts with the fallibility and revisability of scientific concepts, since it is only the immediate percept in its unique individuality or "thisness" – what the Scholastics called its haecceity – that stands beyond control and correction. Scientific concepts, on the other hand, are general in nature, and transient sensations do in another sense find correction within them. This notion of perception as abduction has received periodic revivals in artificial intelligence and cognitive science research, most recently for instance with the work of Irvin Rock on indirect perception.
Question: Who wrote 'Lectures on Pragmatism'?
Answer: Peirce
Question: When was 'Lectures on Pragmatism' published?
Answer: 1903
Question: What is 'haecceity'?
Answer: unique individuality or "thisness"
Question: What did Irvin Rock write about?
Answer: indirect perception
Question: Where has 'perception as abduction' come up repeatedly?
Answer: in artificial intelligence and cognitive science research
Question: In what essay was haecceity defined?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Irvin Rock publish his essay?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What school did Irvin Rock attend?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the inverse relation between theories and senses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who subverted the peripatetic-thomist observation?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On January 21, 2014 IBM announced that company executives would forgo bonuses for fiscal year 2013. The move came as the firm reported a 5% drop in sales and 1% decline in net profit over 2012. It also committed to a $1.2bn plus expansion of its data center and cloud-storage business, including the development of 15 new data centers. After ten successive quarters of flat or sliding sales under Chief Executive Virginia Rometty IBM is being forced to look at new approaches. Said Rometty, “We’ve got to reinvent ourselves like we’ve done in prior generations.”
Question: How large of a drop in sales did IBM report for fiscal year 2013?
Answer: 5% drop
Question: What date did IBM announce that its executives would forgo bonuses for fiscal year 2013?
Answer: January 21, 2014
Question: IBM committed to an expansion totaling this dollar amount in 2014?
Answer: $1.2bn
Question: How many new data centers did IBM commit to building?
Answer: 15
Question: Who is the chief executive of IBM?
Answer: Virginia Rometty
Question: What did CE Virginia Rometty want to do with IBM's cloud storage business in 2014?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much profit did the cloud storage business net in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What benefit was Rometty the only one willing to forego in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one type of storage that has been more popular with youger generations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times did IBM have to reinvent itself in the past?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the war, Feynman declined an offer from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, despite the presence there of such distinguished faculty members as Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel and John von Neumann. Feynman followed Hans Bethe, instead, to Cornell University, where Feynman taught theoretical physics from 1945 to 1950. During a temporary depression following the destruction of Hiroshima by the bomb produced by the Manhattan Project, he focused on complex physics problems, not for utility, but for self-satisfaction. One of these was analyzing the physics of a twirling, nutating dish as it is moving through the air. His work during this period, which used equations of rotation to express various spinning speeds, proved important to his Nobel Prize–winning work, yet because he felt burned out and had turned his attention to less immediately practical problems, he was surprised by the offers of professorships from other renowned universities.
Question: At which college did Feyman turn down a job?
Answer: Institute for Advanced Study
Question: Where did Feyman accept a job after the war?
Answer: Cornell University
Question: Which colleague did Feynman follow to Cornell?
Answer: Hans Bethe
Question: Why did Feynman go through a depression?
Answer: destruction of Hiroshima by the bomb
Question: His work at Cornell helped contribute to his what?
Answer: Nobel Prize–winning work
Question: Which college did Feynman always have a job in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Feynman turn down a job after the war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which colleague did Feynman avoid at Cornell?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was Feynman immune to depression?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Feynman's work make him hated for?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Active in the early 1920s, F.C.S. Schiller labelled his work "humanism" but for Schiller the term referred to the pragmatist philosophy he shared with William James. In 1929, Charles Francis Potter founded the First Humanist Society of New York whose advisory board included Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann. Potter was a minister from the Unitarian tradition and in 1930 he and his wife, Clara Cook Potter, published Humanism: A New Religion. Throughout the 1930s, Potter was an advocate of such liberal causes as, women’s rights, access to birth control, "civil divorce laws", and an end to capital punishment.
Question: What 19th century author associated his works with humanism?
Answer: F.C.S. Schiller
Question: When was the first public group for Humanist founded?
Answer: 1929
Question: Who created this group?
Answer: Charles Francis Potter
Question: When did Charles Potter and Clara Potter publish their first writings on Humanism?
Answer: 1930
Question: What 15th century author associated his works with humanism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the worst public group for Humanists founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who destroyed the First Humanist Society of New York?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Charles Potter and Clara Potter hide their first writings on Humanism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who burned every copy of the book Humanism: A New Religion?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is one whose ancestry can be traced to the Jews who settled in Central Europe. For roughly a thousand years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe, despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Human geneticists have argued that genetic variations have been identified that show high frequencies among Ashkenazi Jews, but not in the general European population, be they for patrilineal markers (Y-chromosome haplotypes) and for matrilineal markers (mitotypes). However, a 2013 study of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA, from the University of Huddersfield in England, suggests that at least 80 percent of the Ashkenazi maternal lineages derive from the assimilation of mtDNAs indigenous to Europe, probably as a consequence of conversion. Since the middle of the 20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities and with people of other nations and faiths.
Question: For what period of time were the Ashkenazim a reproductively isolated population in Europe?
Answer: For roughly a thousand years
Question: In an ethnic sense, Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to Jews who settled where?
Answer: Central Europe
Question: In the last 50-60 years, have more or less Ashkenazi Jews intermarried with people outside of their community?
Answer: many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities and with people of other nations and faiths
Question: Human geneticists argue that genetic variations have been identified that show high or low frequencies among Ashkenazi Jews?
Answer: high frequencies
Question: A 2013 study of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA was conducted by what university?
Answer: University of Huddersfield in England |
Context: Before the formation of the Third Coalition, Napoleon had assembled an invasion force, the Armée d'Angleterre, around six camps at Boulogne in Northern France. He intended to use this invasion force to strike at England. They never invaded, but Napoleon's troops received careful and invaluable training for future military operations. The men at Boulogne formed the core for what Napoleon later called La Grande Armée. At the start, this French army had about 200,000 men organized into seven corps, which were large field units that contained 36 to 40 cannons each and were capable of independent action until other corps could come to the rescue. A single corps properly situated in a strong defensive position could survive at least a day without support, giving the Grande Armée countless strategic and tactical options on every campaign. On top of these forces, Napoleon created a cavalry reserve of 22,000 organized into two cuirassier divisions, four mounted dragoon divisions, one division of dismounted dragoons, and one of light cavalry, all supported by 24 artillery pieces. By 1805, the Grande Armée had grown to a force of 350,000 men, who were well equipped, well trained, and led by competent officers.
Question: What was the name of the invasion force Napoleon assembled before the creation of the Third Coalition?
Answer: the Armée d'Angleterre
Question: Where in Northern France were the camps of the Armée d'Angleterre located?
Answer: Boulogne
Question: What country was the Armée d'Angleterre intended to strike at?
Answer: England
Question: What was the name of the later military organization that the Armée d'Angleterre formed the foundation of?
Answer: La Grande Armée.
Question: How many men were in the Grande Armée by 1805?
Answer: 350,000 |
Context: These symmetries are represented by functions. Each of these functions sends a point in the square to the corresponding point under the symmetry. For example, r1 sends a point to its rotation 90° clockwise around the square's center, and fh sends a point to its reflection across the square's vertical middle line. Composing two of these symmetry functions gives another symmetry function. These symmetries determine a group called the dihedral group of degree 4 and denoted D4. The underlying set of the group is the above set of symmetry functions, and the group operation is function composition. Two symmetries are combined by composing them as functions, that is, applying the first one to the square, and the second one to the result of the first application. The result of performing first a and then b is written symbolically from right to left as
Question: What sends a point in the square to the relating point under the symmetry?
Answer: functions
Question: What gives another symmetry function?
Answer: Composing two of these symmetry functions
Question: What group includes the symmetries of degree 4 and denoted D4?
Answer: the dihedral group
Question: What are represented by symmetries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: r1 is part of what group?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Both symmetries are applied to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is written from left to right?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many degrees is fh rotated?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Process theology typically stresses God's relational nature. Rather than seeing God as impassive or emotionless, process theologians view God as "the fellow sufferer who understands", and as the being who is supremely affected by temporal events. Hartshorne points out that people would not praise a human ruler who was unaffected by either the joys or sorrows of his followers – so why would this be a praise-worthy quality in God? Instead, as the being who is most affected by the world, God is the being who can most appropriately respond to the world. However, process theology has been formulated in a wide variety of ways. C. Robert Mesle, for instance, advocates a "process naturalism", i.e. a process theology without God.
Question: What aspect of God is usually emphasized in process theology?
Answer: God's relational nature
Question: How is God usually perceived by process theologians?
Answer: "the fellow sufferer who understands", and as the being who is supremely affected by temporal events
Question: Why did Hartshorne feel that God must be affected by people?
Answer: people would not praise a human ruler who was unaffected by either the joys or sorrows of his followers – so why would this be a praise-worthy quality in God?
Question: Why would God being substantially affected by the world be beneficial?
Answer: as the being who is most affected by the world, God is the being who can most appropriately respond to the world
Question: What type of process theology does C. Robert Mesle promote?
Answer: "process naturalism", i.e. a process theology without God.
Question: What aspect of God is not emphasized in process theology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is God usually never perceived by process theologians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Hartshorne feel that God must not be affected by people?
Answer: Unanswerable |
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